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June 27, 2016
Piero Donini, a scientist working in the late 1940s for the Italian pharmaceutical company that would later be known as Serono, was the first to extract and purify FSH and LH, the hormones that stimulate ovulation. The hormones are found in women's urine, which is why pregnancy tests can be conducted on urine samples. After experimenting with urine from pregnant women, Donini discovered the highest levels of the hormone actually were in post-menopausal women. After menopause, when ovaries stop producing eggs, FHS and LS shoot up as the body tries to stimulate their production.
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
June 24, 2016
The founder of a San Diego-based business has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he stole more than $2 million from infertile clients who sought his help in finding surrogacy services.
When children learn at an early age that their parents used an egg donor, the disclosure process is easier than when the kids don't hear the facts until they're older, a recent study suggests.
Our mitochondrial DNA accounts for a small portion of our total DNA. It contains just 37 of the 20,000 to 25,000 protein-coding genes in our body. But it is notably distinct from DNA in the nucleus. Unlike nuclear DNA, which comes from both parents, mitochondrial DNA comes only from the mother. Nobody fully understands why or how fathers' mitochondrial DNA gets wiped from cells. An international team of scientists recently studied mitochondria in the sperm of a roundworm called C. elegans to find answers.
The House of Representatives on Thursday passed an appropriations bill that includes a provision to pay for assisted reproductive technology for veterans who suffered injuries that prevent them from having a child naturally.
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June 23, 2016
At 3:00 am this morning and in the midst of a dramatic and hours long contentious sit-in on the House floor over the gun control debate, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would allow the Department of Veterans Affairs to begin to offer IVF services to wounded veterans. HR 2577, is a conference report to fund Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and related agencies and is a compromise between versions of the bill passed in both the House and Senate in the previous weeks. ASRM, working with RESOLVE and a coalition of veterans organizations, successfully lobbied those Members of Congress working to draft the compromise bill and urged them to retain the IVF provision, despite opposition from conservative groups with moral objections to assisted reproductive technologies.
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
June 23, 2016
The first and only published papers to describe genome modification in human embryos have come from Chinese laboratories. For some, this is another signal of China's successful transformation from a closed society focused on farming and the manufacturing of commodities to a world leader in innovation. For others, these studies are the latest in a list of feats reported over the past decade that reflect the country's lax regulation or cultural indifference to fundamental ethical tensions.
Twins born after fertility treatments may be susceptible to different -- and fewer -- birth defects than other twins, new research suggests. The study confirms that twins have a higher risk of birth defects than singletons, but it questions the notion that fertility treatments contribute to those abnormalities.
Headlines in Reproductive Medicine
June 22, 2016
Infertile women could be implanted with new wombs grown from their own stem cells within 10 years, the doctor who achieved the first uterus transplant has predicted.
A prominent conservative group hopes to derail a congressional effort to give wounded veterans access to fertility services through the VA, saying it could lead to human cloning and three-parent embryos.
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BOX SCORES: Columbia 9, Princeton 6 l Columbia 13, Princeton 3
A consistent offensive attack from the Columbia baseball team, which began on the final pitch of the weekend's first game, left the Princeton baseball team in a sizable hole in the Ivy League race. The Lions capped a four-game sweep of Princeton in New York City with Sunday wins of 9-6 and 13-3.
Game One
Leftfielder Paul Tupper went 2-for-4 with two runs and three RBIs for Princeton in the opener, but Columbia fought out of an early 3-0 deficit to earn a 9-6 win. The Lions scored three runs in both the third and fourth innings to grab a lead, and they held Princeton to only one run in the final four innings.
Princeton couldn't have asked for a better start, as Danny Hoy opened the game with a solo home run, and Tupper followed later that inning with a two-run home run.
Starter Cameron Mingo limited the Lions to only a pair of runs in the first two innings, but it was the third when Columbia started to make noise. The Lions had triples in both innings, including an RBI by Will Savage in the third that got the scoring started.
Both Hoy and Peter Owens had multiple-hit games for the Tigers, and Hoy added a pair of runs scored.
Game Two
Columbia starter Kevin Roy got more than enough offensive help to complete the sweep, as he allowed only one hit in seven innings and struck out six batters during the 13-3 win.
The Lions scored two runs in the first inning, but added 10 more between the third and fifth innings to break open the game. Ironically, the only two home runs in the game belonged to Princeton, as Tyler Servais and Billy Arendt drove home all three Princeton runs with a pair of late home runs.
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The University of Colorado Road Cycling Team won the Rocky Mountain Cycling Conference Championships this past weekend at Mesa State in Grand Junction, CO. The Conference title is a culmination of a season long points competition compromised of Men's and Women's A, B, & C Teams. Over 30 CU cyclists competed and earned points for the team title.
From the Women's A Team, senior Abby Mickey (Aspen, CO) won the season long Individual Omnium Competition and Men's A Team senior, Bill Golembieski (Cicero, New York) also won the Individual Omnium. At Mesa State, Junior Camilo Zambrano (Columbia) won the Men's Road Race while Abby Mickey won the Women's road race. Senior Christa Ghent (Edwards, CO) won the women's criterium the night before while senior Brett Peters (Highlands Ranch, CO) placed 2nd in the criterium. Additionally the Men's B Team swept their team time trial, criterium and road races under the leadership of Coach Jeff Winkler (FasCat Coaching) and CU sophomore Alex Ranum (San Diego, CA).
The Team now has 6 days to prepare for the National Collegiate Cycling Champions in Ogden, UT beginning May 3rd. "We're taking a strong and deep roster to Ogden to improve upon our 2nd place last year. We've been training hard all season and all the guys are on form as evidenced by our teamwork & results this past weekend," reports head coach Frank Overton. Representing CU will be seniors Will Buick (New Hampshire), Brett Peters, Bill Golembieski, junior Camilo Zambrano (Columbia), and freshman Jackson Long (Sun Valley, ID) and Oliver Flautt (Atlanta, GA). On the women's side Christa Ghent and Abby Mickey will lead the charge with Nicole Bruderer (Guatemala) and Jessica Bobeck (Buffalo, New York).


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Gay Lawmakers Disappear Before Our Very Eyes!
Break out the ass-less leather pants. The look might not go well with covered wagons and prairie skirts, but the crowds and entry numbers in Salt Lake's Pride Parade are right up there with the Days of '47. Clearly–if counter intuitively–the gay community is a strong and thriving one in the Beehive. Just two years ago, it looked like the Lege might actually emerge from the 1950s, with three gay members serving. But, one by one, they've given up their work at the Capitol.
State Sen. Scott McCoy resigned his seat to focus on his law practice. Then, Rep. Christine Johnson left office a few months before giving birth as a surrogate mother for two gay friends. And, after 12 years of banging her head against the wall, Jackie Biskupski moved into a house outside her district with her adopted son. Is this because of a constituency that helped defeat California's pro-gay marriage proposition or the Eagle Forum's goal of "thwarting the passage of hate crime legislation," not to mention all the kindhearted "pig sex" comments flying around?
But the suspense isn't over yet. Brian Doughty, openly gay and a former Equality Utah board member, replaced Biskupski in the Liberty Park district. But in the state redistricting deal, Democrats agreed to allow the district to be collapsed, which will put freshman Doughty up against fellow Dem and Minority Leader David Litvack, forcing a battle between two non-GOPers. Doughty says he will decide whether to challenge Litvack during the 2011 session. It seems likely that faster than a magician can say, "Tah-DAH!," there will be zero gay representatives on Utah's Capitol Hill. That's right. Orientation without representation.


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*hugs everyone then twirls in a circle flinging pink heart shaped confetti everywhere*
Nothin' much!
I went to the zoo today.
The lion rawred and I jumped.
The gator chuffed and I squealed and jumped.
The goat sneezed while standing just behind me and I about fell over I leapt so hard to get away.
It was great fun!
I petted a goat and a pony
*flying tackle hug!*
Why aren't you ever on AIM anymore?
I've been making many trainer cards. Also yesterday I won a battle with an UU team, and today I'm making a NU one :3
There is indeed a zoo near London, called London Zoo, in fact. However, I don't want to go outside because it's very hot and that doesn't suit me >_<
I've been trying to get better at OU. I'm going to try out the tutoring program at Smogon when they next have an opening, just because I think it will help, even if their judgment on what's Uber and what's not isn't always perfect...
I'm also working on an analysis of Eliot's The Waste Land which will tie into my paper on how America around the 1900s failed to become the "city upon the hill" that they had hoped for.
omae wa mou shindeiru
In London the very air is aflame! O_O
*huggles Keke*
If we're talking about burrowing animals, I have woodchucks in my lawn, and the little baby ones are really cute.
I hear they taste good with BBQ sauce.
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I know, but they're really hard to shoot. I jes don't know when its body begins, and its head ends!
"Quick! Aim for the head-body-thing!"
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You could just use semtex.
What's with the sudden change from the hug thread to a kill-your-backyard-burrowing-thingy thread?
Anyway, Keke, still accepting huggles?
Aww, cute.
My backyard's just grass, grass, grass, and grass.
And the white fence.
Maybe I should buy some animals to liven it up?
Maybe a lion would do.
Even me?
Yay, moar huggles!
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First off, Jacque Jones is back (to a minor league deal, of course)! Talk about hedging the bet with Delmon Young.
Greg Gagne was recently inducted into the Twins Hall of Fame. I know he was around for two World Series titles (of course, so were Dan Gladden, Randy Bush, and Allan Anderson, for that matter), but this seems like a pretty big reach to me. Perhaps the lack of a steady SS presence since Gags was a factor, but I'd like to hear from some Twins fans who remember him "in his prime".


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She begins season five as Detective Lydia Adams on TNT's Southland February 13. I like that Lydia is complex. It seems as though we still have a lot more to learn about her.
Copping out. I have no desire to be an officer. This show made that clear for me. I'd much rather act like a cop than be a cop.
Moving forward I just completed directing Let the Church Say Amen, a movie of the week for BET. I'd like to add that to my list of things that make up Regina: mom [she has a 16-year-old son], actress, director.
Mother love Being a mom is probably the most gratifying thing I've experienced. The hard part is just watching him grow up, letting go and knowing when. There's no science to motherhood. It's tough navigating what's best for your child.
Listen up I've learned how much more you get out of life when you listen. When you take the time to really listen, you realize that sometimes what someone is saying is not necessarily what they're feeling. Listen with more than your ears.
You have written about the lack of Emmy nominations for people of color I'm glad I wrote that piece. It's tough not being recognized as a black actor. Actors of other colors agree—Lucy Liu and George Lopez said something to me. I feel like it's my responsibility to speak up. It came from a really honest place. But I don't want that to be the focal point of my career or who I am.
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- Date submitted: 31 Oct 2011
- Stakeholder type: Major Group
- Name: Stockholm Environment Institute
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Full SubmissionPosition paper ? Sustainable Energy for All SEI and FBDS Position paper ?A Global Assessment on Sustainable Energy for All? Submitted to UNCSD2012 by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and Brazilian Foundation for Sustainable Development (FBDS) on behalf of the assessment partnership. Stockholm and Rio de Janeiro, October 30th, 2011 Supporting the political preparations for Rio2012, the UNDESA secretariat?s analytical preparations, and the high level group appointed to the official UN year of Sustainable Energy for All, leading research institutes have joined forces to produce a global assessment on sustainable energy for all. The assessment is supported by the Governments of Sweden and Brazil. The assessment builds on and integrates existing efforts in among partners such as the Global Energy Assessment (IIASA, PBL and SEI), Planetary Boundaries (SEI and PBL), Low carbon development (ACPC), energy access and clean energy (TERI), Electricity Governance (WRI), Brazilian Biofuels Programs from the water, energy and land nexus perspective? (COPPE), Guidelines for a Green Economy in Brazil (FBDS) and Integrated Sustainability Scenarios (PBL). The assessment can be followed at www.sei-international.org/Rio20. The final report will be published in March 2012. Contact: M�ns Nilsson, Research Director, SEI, firstname.lastname@example.com . The global energy predicament Energy is fundamental to human and economic development. Without reliable energy services, development is not possible. However, the debate about energy for all must go beyond current debates about basic access for poverty alleviation. Since the industrial revolution, people have relied on affordable energy to meet economic development aspirations. It is time to consider what energy services need to be available to enable all countries to reach an economic development equivalent to at least today?s middle income segment. Our planet is currently inhabited by 7 billion people, yet some three billion people still lack access to basic energy services. With the global population projected to reach ~9 billion people by 2050, an additional two billion people will require energy services by 2050. At the same time, energy is one key driver behind some of the troubling global environmental trends we are now experiencing. The combined pressures on the Earth system have now reached a point where we increasingly risk crossing a number of thresholds that could cause serious disruption and harm on societies across the world. We have entered a new era ? the Anthropocene ? where humans are now a dominant driving force of change at the planetary scale; we may be approaching, or in some instances have actually reached, an upper limit in terms of human pressures on the planet (Stockholm Memorandum, 2011). This means that meeting energy demands of a growing world economy and population must occur in a world that on aggregate bends the curves of current global environmental change. Thus, human development will not be possible without an energy transition that responds to the demands of development and poverty alleviation as well as the constraints imposed by climate change. This energy transition needs to unfold in a new geopolitical and global economic context, with structural and geographical shifts in both economic and political power. On top of that, the global financial crisis brings into play additional challenges in terms of availability of resources but also can open new opportunities if used to implement anti-cyclic measures. The need for a new sustainable energy based development strategy Humanity thus faces a triple global energy challenge; (1) the urgent need for affordable energy services for all ? both covering basic needs and income-generating productive activities, (2) the need for a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels (the cheap energy sources that have been key to historical wealth creation) to stabilize the global climate system, and (3) the necessity to meet this need within the ?safe operating space? of Earth systems boundaries such as biodiversity, land use and freshwater use. All these are impacted by the energy choices we make. Resolving this triple challenge will require an unprecedented energy transition over the coming 3-4 decades, backed up by strong political endorsement and financial resources. In order to assess the scope of such a global energy transition, our partnership is carrying out a scenario based global energy assessment on sustainable energy for all as a contribution to the Rio + 20 Earth Summit ( summary in Annex below). Our assessment urges nations in the world to recognize: a) the fundamental importance of increasing energy demand in poor and emerging economies, from basic needs to energy services for income generation, as a precondition for attaining sustainable development. Energy is not only a fundamental building block for human development but the key to unleashing economic development. Securing energy for development is therefore a primary concern ? and point of shared interest ? across developing, emerging and developed countries. b) that energy is a driver in the ?Anthropoce? but also that a global energy transition within planetary boundaries is within reach, despite massive growth in energy demand, to meet basic energy needs and growing energy demands from economic development. The transition will require substantial investments but will generate co-benefits such as employment opportunities, enhanced security from diversification of supply, and better resource efficiency. c) the urgent need to accelerate the energy transition. Key transformation pathways have been set in motion but must be accelerated at national and regional levels. Carbon pricing is necessary but not sufficient for driving the transition. Beyond this, governance responses need to be explored across levels to induce transitions through scaling up a diversity of supply and demand options. The overarching recommendation for the world?s nations to consider is the adoption of a set of strategic principles, translated into practical action in order to enable a global energy transition in time to avoid large scale crises for nations of the world: 1. Accelerate the Implementation of national and international energy policies that drive efficiency enhancements and provide incentives for innovation and support scale-up of renewable energy sources (e.g., white and green certificates, feed-in tariffs, technology standards, and removal of subsidies for fossil energy sources). 2. Develop a transparent global investment fund for renewable energy systems for poor and emerging economies and couple this with technology sharing and learning platforms for sustainable energy. Investments and accelerated adoption of renewable energy technologies by developed countries can bring down the costs thereby reducing the size of the fund needed. Position paper ? Sustainable Energy for All SEI and FBDS 3. Develop policy assessment frameworks for economic development policies and strategies that enable the management of Earth systems risks and vulnerabilities in relation to renewable and non-renewable energy expansion worldwide, and its linkages to other sectors such as water and agriculture. The planetary boundaries framework can be a basis for an integrated and systemic assessment framework for the world?s energy systems, with due regard to issues of equity and justice. 4. Adopt sustainable energy supply and demand measures as a ?currency? for measuring progress in development endeavors (e.g., for reaching the Millennium Development Goals) and for policy action on meeting global environmental goals. This means that sustainable energy provision or demand improvements are accounted for and credited within the global negotiating frameworks including UNFCCC and CBD. ANNEX: A global assessment of a sustainable energy for all (Summary) Our assessment complements the range of energy pathways previously examined in the recently launched Global Energy Assessment (GEA, 2011). Our assessment develops two key scenarios; (1) basic levels of energy access are met within a carbon constrained world (based on GEA pathways), and (2) an energy pathway is developed, which is consistent with much greater levels of development in the developing world and higher levels of convergence to the levels of well-being currently enjoyed in OECD nations, whilst still keeping within the planetary boundaries. Energy for all: from basic access to pathways in a new development model Worldwide, approximately 2,7 billion people today rely on traditional biomass for cooking and heating and about 1.3 billion have no access to electricity (IEA, 2011). Up to a billion more have access only to unreliable electricity networks (AGECC, 2010). Access of the poor to energy is a central concern for governments around the world. Providing clean and affordable energy reliably for poor households is an important prerequisite in the fight against poverty and to improve wellbeing, and widely regarded as a key to make advancements on the Millennium Development Goals (Ekholm, Krey et al. 2010). However, there is an increasing consensus in the developing world that ?energy for all? must go beyond basic access and should be understood as energy system development through electricity and modern fuels for productive and industrial uses everywhere in the world, compatible with income generation and economic development, in for instance agriculture, industrial processes, and fuel for transport. Our assessment therefore looks at the implications of a new global development model in energy terms, which in income terms shows a more rapid convergence over time in GDP per capita than is usually considered, and examines what energy end uses are required at these levels of GDP, taking into account potentials for efficiency improvements. In the ?new model? scenario, annual GDP per capita growth trajectories will average 0.5-1% for EU and US, 4-5% for emerging economic powers such as China, and 7-8% for the less developed countries (preliminary estimates). This means that by 2050, all countries in the world will have a GDP per capita which is at least at the level of current middle-income countries (ca 20,000 USD per capita). Extrapolating the trends would imply converging income levels globally before 2100. The converging GDP trajectories is a development that has normative connotations, but it is also one that is already underway in several places. For example, while the EU has experienced growth rates of about 0-2% annually over the last decade, many countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa have registered growth rates of about 10% annually. Achieving the three sets of objectives that we included in our operationalization of sustainable energy for all requires transformations in several energy subsystems, including, for instance: reorganization and modal shifts of urban and regional transport and infrastructure, enhancing energy efficiency in buildings and industry; expanding wind, solar and agro-bioenergy production, enabling consumption reductions and lifestyle change, expanding off grid solar energy, and new cooking and heating technologies and developing smart transmission networks and distribution grids. Such transformations and systems changes will unfold with specific patterns in each of the world regions, depending on demographic and income trajectories, natural resource constraints, and technical feasibility. They are examined in in-depth case studies from a socio-technical systems and innovation perspective. Planetary boundaries: sustainable energy within a safe operating space The growing scientific insights that we may have entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, where humanity constitutes a global geological force through the aggregate human pressures on the Earth system, triggered the scientific development of a new framework for global sustainability ? ?the planetary boundaries concept? - building on recent advancements in Earth system science (Rockstr�m et al., 2009). The planetary boundaries framework identifies Earth system processes that require active stewardship in order to avoid unwanted non-linear changes in the biophysical systems on Earth that in turn are likely to generate deleterious or even catastrophic outcomes for regions of nations or the world at large. Nine planetary boundaries have been identified, of which 7 have received proposed quantifications for safe boundary levels of key control variables (Table 1). Table 1. Planetary boundaries (source: Rockstr�m et al, 2009) [Rio+20 Secretariat: Please refer to full submission document for graph] Energy systems are dependent, and impact upon, essentially all of the planetary boundaries. Energy systems based on fossil energy sources impact on the planetary boundaries for climate change, ozone depletion, aerosol loading, and chemical pollution. Hydropower affects the boundaries on freshwater use, rate of biodiversity loss, and land use change. Nuclear power affects the boundaries on chemical pollution risks and biodiversity. Renewable energy systems based on biomass systems impact the boundaries on land use change, freshwater use, interference with the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, the rate of biodiversity loss, aerosol loading and climate change. Energy access to service basic human needs will have a limited impact on our ability to stay within the planetary boundaries. According to the IEA (2011) basic universal electricity access would add around 1.3 per cent of total GHG emissions in 2030. However, more ambitious targets associated with productive uses of energy provide more of a challenge. On the climate change boundary, as an example, our assessment looks at the global energy pathways up to 2050 compatible with a 2 degrees target, based on the most recent review of the global climate science (eg Rummukainen, Johansson et al. 2011 and GEA, 2011). The 2 degree target requires global emissions reductions of 50-60% from 2000 to 2050 (and close to 100% by 2100). At the same time, to enable the provision of energy for development requires a convergence in per capita emissions around the world. Preliminary estimates point to emissions reductions in the EU and US in the range of 75-90% compared with 2000 levels by 2050. Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and many parts of Asia can instead increase emissions for a few decades more, but will ultimately have to bend the curves on emissions well before 2050. Assessment Partners: Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Brazilian Foundation for Sustainable Development (FBDS), African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC), Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, (IIASA), Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), World Resources Institute (WRI).


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2012 - Appeared in 10 games with three starts (Houston, Oregon State, USC) ... Third on the team with 262 rushing yards and had two rushing touchdowns ... Caught 18 passes for 211 yards and two scores ... Made two tackles on special teams ... Had 14 kickoff returns for 376 yards, a 26.9-yard average ... Third on the team with 849 all-purpose yards ... Ran for 25 yards and caught four balls for 42 yards in the opener at Rice ... Rushed for 37 yards and caught two passes (47) vs. Nebraska ... Ran for 89 yards on nine carries and returned a kickoff for 55 yards vs. Houston ... Two kickoff returns for 46 yards vs. Oregon State ... Ran for 47 yards (23-yard touchdown) and returned a kickoff (24) at Colorado ... Returned six kickoffs at Cal for 141 yards, long of 39 ... Had two kickoff returns vs. Utah (49, long 34) ... Ran for a score vs. Arizona (1) ... Caught two scoring passes at Arizona State (65, 20) ... Injured against USC and missed the balance of the season.
2011 - Did not see game action.
2010 - Appeared in eight games, contributing as a special teams performer and f-back ... Also practiced in the secondary on defense ... Caught one pass for nine yards against Houston ... Had one rush for 22 yards against Houston ... Returned nine kickoffs for a 21.3 average ... Credited with five tackles on special teams, with a best of two stops in the game at Cal ... Injured his shoulder against Arizona (game eight) and sat out the remainder of the season.
2009 - Appeared in all 13 games ... Saw special teams duty in 13 contests and was credited with 11 tackles and one forced fumble ... Had 62 yards net rushing on 26 carries ... Caught seven passes for 41 yards ... Returned four kickoffs for an 18.0 average ... Carried six times in the opener against San Diego St. for four yards ... Had two kickoff returns against Kansas St. for 45 yards, one of 28 ... Carried three times for 28 yards at Stanford, including a 13-yard burst ... Had six rushes for 14 yards against Oregon and caught two passes(12) ... Ran three times for 10 yards against Cal and made two catches(10) ... Carried once for four yards at Arizona ... Carried once and made a special teams tackle at Oregon St. ... Netted six yards on three carries versus Washington ... Carried twice for one yard at Washington St. ... Caused a fumble on special teams against Arizona St. that led to a field goal ... Made two special teams tackles at USC ... Had one carry and one tackle in the bowl win over Temple.
HIGH SCHOOL - Earned four letters for football at Stonewall Jackson HS in Manassas, VA for coach Loren Johnson ... Ranked No. 24 nationally among "athletes" by ESPNU ... Rated No. 25 athlete by rivals.com ... Rated No. 33 running back by scout.com ... Rated No. 13 prospect in Virginia by rivals.com ... Rated No. 2 running back in the state of Virginia by scout.com ... Earned four stars from scout.com and rivals.com ... SuperPrep All-Mid Atlantic Region and rated No. 29 prospect in Virginia ... PrepStar All-Atlantic Region as a defensive back ... Played just five games as a senior due to a shoulder injury ... Rushed for 806 yards and 16 touchdowns on 123 carries ... Two-year team captain and four-year varsity starter ... Named All-District and All-Region for four years ... Carried 79 times for 632 yards as a junior and scored seven touchdowns in the six games he played ... As a sophomore, he rushed 60 times for 600 yards and seven touchdowns in 10 games ... Also earned four letters in track and field for coach Deon Taylor ... Served as team captain for four seasons ... Earned All-State, All-Region and All-District for all four years in the 55 meter dash, 200 meter dash and 300 meter hurdles ... Named a track All-American in the 300m hurdles ... Had best times of 6.33 in 55 meters and 34.54 in the 300m.
PERSONAL - Full Name: Damien Hunter Thigpen ... Born: July 9, 1991 in Mississippi ... Parents: Douglas and Tracy Thigpen ... Has one brother, Dylan ... Dad played football at Southern Mississippi (1987-89) ... His uncle, Gene Lang, played football for LSU and for seven seasons in the NFL with the Denver Broncos and Atlanta Falcons ... Lists his biggest athletic thrill to date as winning the Virginia State Championship in the 300 meter hurdles as both a sophomore and junior ... Former NFL standout Walter Payton is the athlete he admires the most ... He lists drawing as a hobby. ... Sociology major.
Career Highs
Rushing Yards: 89 vs. Houston, 2012
Rush Attempts: 9, last time vs. Utah, 2012
Receptions: 4 at Rice, 2012
Receiving Yards: 92 at Arizona State, 2012
Kickoff Returns: 8 at Oregon, 2010
Kickoff Return Yards: 147 at Oregon, 2010
Long Kickoff Return: 55 vs. Houston, 2012


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Photographer/filmmaker Gail Mooney and her 23-year-old daughter went on a 99-day journey around the world to shoot Opening Our Eyes, a documentary that follows nine people who are creating change across the globe. One of the subjects (and the inspiration for this project) Maggie Doyne, 23, is helping impoverished kids in Nepal through her BlinkNow Foundation. Another, Dr. David Marnaw, founded a volunteer non-profit medical organization in Thailand. Mooney, who is now busy editing 150 hours of footage, is raising money to help fund the film's final cut. Her goal: $7,500 by January 5 (donate at Kickstarter). We asked the visionary globetrotter:
What are you hoping to achieve with this documentary?
Our whole goal is to motivate and inspire others as to what an individual can do. Even the smallest act can make a positive difference in somebody's life, or anywhere in the world, so the more people that see that, the more power it has.
How did you discover the men and women you profile in your documentary?
The people that have been interviewed and filmed were all found either via someone we knew or someone we knew who passed that along to someone they knew. It was all pretty close connections.
Whose story most deeply impacted you?
They all did for their own reasons. Certainly Maggie because she was the inspiration for the notion that if she's doing what she's doing at 23 years old, there must be hundreds, thousands like her. But every person for their own reason because they were all so passionate and dedicated to what they were doing. It was pretty much their calling. That in itself was nice to be around. It was inspirational.
How did the trip impact your relationship with your daughter?
Well we got to know each other as people and you usually don't get to do that until your kids have kids or when you become a mother. Then, all of a sudden, you have a different relationship with your parents, with your mother. She saw me 24/7, and likewise. We saw how we reacted to different situations, good and bad. Certainly it was much more broad a look at who we are rather than just related.
What lessons have you yourself taken away from this project?
Oh gosh, so many. I think that even though I probably have known this for as long as I've been a photojournalist, I can use my craft—my images, my films—to make a difference. To create awareness. And it's even more powerful now than when I started in the business over 30 years ago because of the Internet. But so many little things too. Learn to be more patient, everything has its time. There's a time for everything and you just kind of have to go with that.
What lessons are you hoping to leave other people with?
That even the littlest thing that they can do can be a very powerful thing because that usually pays it forward. You tutor a child. That child grows up to be a different person because you help them and then they affect other lives. So when people say, "Oh, I can't do that"—it doesn't need to be an overwhelming thing. It can be a very simple, simple act, and you never know how profound the consequences can be from that.
What advice would you give someone that does want to make a big difference in other people's lives but doesn't know where to start?
They should look at what they're interested in themselves. What they're passionate about, because then they'll want to share that. So if they love theater, great. If they love painting, fabulous. Whatever they're passionate about because that's how so many of these people got into it. A tango therapist was our subject in Buenos Aires and she loved dance so now she helps people with tango therapy. So that would be my advice. Start small and see where it goes.


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Concussions Can Be Deadly
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From Dr. Tabitha Price, HealthONE's Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital
Performance has no bounds. Persevere through the pain. Reaching the goal is the only option.
Do you remember when professional cyclist Chris Horner of Team RadioShack crashed and was knocked unconscious in Stage 7 of the 2011 Tour De France? According to New York Sports, Horner insisted on finishing the next 35 km, none of which he remembers: the crash, whether or not he finished, or even that he was riding in the Tour de France. There are numerous stories such as Horner's and ones that are more significant like hockey sensation, HYPERLINK "http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/teams/players/?name=sidney+crosby" Sidney Crosby from the Pittsburgh Penguins who has been sidelined indefinitely because of lingering concussion symptoms or Colorado high school football player, Jake Snakenberg, who died from sustaining a second concussion.
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These three young men have two definite commonalities: they were wearing helmets and were physically capable to continue with their sport. Just because you can get up and put a helmet on does not mean everything is ok.
A concussion is "a traumatically-induced alteration in mental status that may or may not involve a loss of consciousness," according to the American Academy of Neurology.
Cycling is not one of the most talked about sports when it comes to head injuries, but it should be. There were an estimated 446,788 sports-related head injuries treated at U.S. hospital emergency rooms in 2009, but from 2008-2009, cycling had the highest increase and most reported incidences of head injury when compared to 20 other sports, according to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. This includes both road and mountain biking.
Physically capable or not, a concussion is a serious matter. This type of head injury is considered "mild" in most cases, but despite the "mildness", this injury can often cause significant and sustained neuropsychological impairments in
- information-processing speed
- problem solving
- planning
- memory
These impairments worsen with multiple concussions. The challenge with concussions is they may not be noticed in routine neurological examinations or the athlete may not exhibit symptoms until minutes, hours, even days later. As seen with Jake, his initial symptoms were so slight they went unnoticed with the outcome of return to play too soon resulting in death from a second sustained concussion within a week.
An athlete who sustains a concussion is at a higher risk for a repeat concussion. If left unmanaged, a concussion could lead to a life-threatening condition or permanent brain injury.
The State of Colorado is working very diligently to provide education on concussions. The Colorado Department of Education has developed Concussion Management Guidelines for youth ages five to 18, which was signed into Senate Bill 11-040. This bill is also known as "The Jake Snakenberg Youth Concussion Act." The Medicine of Cycling Concussion Task Force is also making strides in setting guidelines for cyclists.
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Submitted by crispi (not verified) on
who knew the brain was so important?
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Submitted by ski (not verified) on
i was attempting a triple d/h jump when i burried my front wheel after the second jump i landed on my right shoulder and planted my right side of my head on hard pack dirt.3-4 days later i developed a mild concussion.i was back on te bike in june a month later.since then i have one bad crash and three lite ones,post concussion syndrome has plauged after every one of these incidences,mostly mild to moderate headache.my point here is ,is that once you sustain a concussion you will always be susceptable to one.BE SMART!
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This needs to be talked about more
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Thanks for the story.
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FYI, your "Medicine of
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
FYI, your "Medicine of Cycling" link goes to usacycling.org.
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Totally agree. Last year a
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Totally agree. Last year a teammate suffered a significant concussion in a crash and it was funny/sad seeing others tell him later they were glad he wasn't hurt. Duh.
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Great Discussion about concussion
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Thank you for continuing the discussion about this very important issue. Medicine of Cycling just published the 2012 Concussion Statement and Evaluation Chart at http://www.medicineofcycling.com/guidelines/. Furthermore, concussion and TBI will be discussed again in depth at the conference.
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Wow Dr. Price, very impressive!
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Kimberly Easson and Karen Cebreros
Cofounders, International Women's Coffee Alliance (IWCA)
What's brewing
They launched a nonprofit that helps women in coffee-growing countries through training and financial aid. Women do the majority of coffee planting and harvesting, but most own no land and earn little. The IWCA aims to get them a fair share.
Making change
Cebreros, 59, founder of Elan Organic Coffees, began taking Americans in the coffee business to Central America in 1992. She wanted them to understand organic cultivation and see the harsh conditions in countries of origin: "The first trips were all men. They'd say, 'The poverty is terrible!' but nothing changed." She discussed it with Easson, now 47, president of Java Ventures, which organizes educational tours for industry professionals. "Kim and I thought women would act," Cebreros says. In 2003 they made the trip with 17 other women.
The big jolt
"We visited a women-led cooperative in Nicaragua, where they were organizing despite poverty and domestic violence," Easson recalls. "They'd built a one-room schoolhouse that had walls but no roof. They told us, 'We're just like you—we want to do business with dignity and feed our families.' That was the real connection."
The commitment
Later on, the visitors passed a hat and raised $500 to finish the school. Then Easson, Cebreros and four other industry women created the IWCA (womenincoffee.org). Funded by businesses, foundations and individuals, it will have 23 chapters next year.
Robust returns
IWCA training has helped more than 500 women. In Uganda, for example, 40 small farmers, most single moms or widows, formed the Chebonet Women Coffee Development Association and upped their income. A new Women's Harvest brand in Costa Rica has increased revenues for 25 growers; some of the profits are used to support the education of girls. Cebreros now works with the German-based Neumann Foundation, which is partnering with the IWCA, among others, to train families in sustainable agriculture and gender equity.
Personal payoff
"When you visit women in remote areas, sit on a dirt floor, share a meal and conversation, you really get that you're the same," Easson says. "For these women to feel that there's someone on the other side of the planet who's their partner and friend is the best part."
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Not every weekend of the year leaves a musical omnivore this undecided as to what they need to be doing. And there's so much to do, it's actually intimidating - because you don't want to miss anything, do you?
Let's look at the highlights. And Thursday offers the first, but hardly the last, tough choice.
Hey, it's always one of the big nights of the year when the Twilight Concert Series officially kicks off. And the 2011 edition is no different Thursday as Austin, Texas's hyper-creative Explosions In The Sky get their instrumental groove on for a crowd that could number around 30,000. How they'll go over with that big of an audience is anyone's guess. Get a sample of their sound from their Bonnaroo appearance last month:
Over at Red Butte Garden, veteran reggae-soul jammers Michael Franti and Spearhead will play a sold-old concert, that will likely be quite the dance party. This will not be your all-too typical seated RBG show. If you still want to go, there are routinely a small number of tickets for sale outside the gates.
Here's Michael and Spearhead playing "East to the West" at an Ireland gig:
On Friday, a couple of really solid options await - noticing a theme? - when Black Francis AKA Frank Black of The Pixies plays a solo acoustic concert at The State Room. If you're a fan of the seminal punk songwriter, this isn't a tough call.
And in a relatively unique doublebill, The Rosebuds and Other Lives play down at The Urban Lounge on Friday. What makes it odd, is that both bands are opening for indie-rock's hottest act - Bon Iver. The two bands will be on different legs of Bon Iver's tour, but you can see them together in Salt Lake. Go figure. Tickets are on sale at 24tix.com.
Here's a clip from both bands: First up, it's Other Lives playing "Tamer Animals," the title track from their second album. The clip below features The Rosebuds playing "Box Car."
On Saturday, the choices get tougher still as there are three fine options for music lovers.
Chuck Mead, who usually fronts country rockers BR-549, will be in The State Room for a solo gig. Mead was in fine form last September when he opened for Willie Nelson. This will be a good night of real country music. You can still get tickets at thestateroomslc.com.
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals bring their Vermont hippy-rock to the Gallivan Center for what should be a fun show - and hopefully a drier night than last Sunday's Gallivan gig. Tickets start at $20 and remain on sale at smithstix. Rayland Baxter, fresh off his gig last month opening for The Civil Wars, opens this show.
Another option - and a free one - is to see Colorado troubadours, Great American Taxi at The Canyons in Park City. The Taxi are one of the hardest working acts out there - about 160 shows a year - and are well worth the drive. And they're imminently danceable. The music starts at 6 p.m.
Here's a clip of the Taxi in action recently.
And speaking of dancing, Sunday night offers a full-fledged dance party when Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings roll into Red Butte Garden. An added bonus is that zydeco legend Buckwheat Zydeco is the opening act. No tough decision on Sunday because this will be a slam-dunk blast. If you're on the fence about this, I feel it's my job to pull you off that fence. By all accounts, Sharon Jones ripped apart Pioneer Park last summer and her rock-solid band and horn section rock. Also, I can personally vouch for Buckwheat's unbridled enthusiasm and high-energy vibes. OK. Rant over. Tickets remain on sale.
Here's Sharon and the boys playing "Let Them Knock" on French TV.
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Pallet–and no, it's not misspelled; the name is a tribute to the building's warehouse past–is the new kid on SLC's restaurant block. Right next door to The Rose Establishment, it shares that cafe's fantastically funky old building, and Pallet's owners, Rocky Derrick and Drew Estman, have made the most out of its "good bones." Rocky's brother, Cody Derrick of City Home Collective, led the design.
Reclaimed wood floors and tables, a custom-built curlicue banquette, original oil paintings (including a wonderful portrait of Porter Rockwell) by Rocky's wife, Courtney, all add up to a perfect rendition of today's favorite esthetic–that Kinfolk-looking, Rembrandt-lit, Seattle/Portland-feeling of carefully edited rustic elegance. Nothing is overstated, nothing is a focal point. Instead, the place is made up of a seemingly infinite series of vignettes. Here's what I mean
A pillowy windowseat banquette lines the front side of the room, facing tables of reclaimed wood.
Profile of an industrial-style barstool against the concrete bar, formerly the building's loading dock.
See what I mean by vignette?
Even the sign is muted, with a carefully chosen typeface.
And here is Pallet at night, all chiaroscuro.
I'll talk about the food later–I've only eaten there once (one word:gnocchi). Right now Pallet is only open for dinner, but they start lunch next week. I saw the menu today and since it's recipe Tuesday, thought I'd share a spinach salad recipe. Pallet does theirs with salmon; mine is a riff on an old Silver Palate (anyone remember SP?) recipe.
2 bunches baby spinach, washed and stemmed (5-6 cups)
1 big bunch basil leaves, washed and stemmed (2 cups)
1/2 cup olive oil
4 oz. prosciutto, diced small
1/2 cup pine nuts, toasted
3 cloves garlic, mashed and chopped
1/2 cup freshly grated parmesan
4 Tbsp. balsamic vinegar
Saute the garlic and prosciutto in the olive until prosciutto is crispy and garlic is soft. Pour the oil in a jar with the balsamic and shake to mix. Season to taste. Gently toss the leaves together in a bowl, pour the warm dressing over and toss again. Sprinkle with pine nuts and grated cheese. Add croutons or tiny cherry tomatoes or roast chicken. Or, following Pallet's lead, grilled or poached salmon.


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Avant garde artistic talents abounded at a private hangar at Dekalb Peachtree Airport for the annual Living Art America, formerly known as Bodies as a Work of Art. This year's body painting competition brought contestants from all over the world as they partnered with international artists for the first time. The event benefited The Chelko Foundation, which aims to empower ladies by ending gender bias and violence against women and girls. A showstopping extravaganza at every turn, the evening blended live music, aerial performances, gallery art offerings and an exciting, interactive audience vote component. Photography by Cory Mitchell


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Aperture and Paris Photo Announce First PhotoBook Prize, PhotoBook of the Year
Paris Photo and the Aperture Foundation announced the winners of the first annual Paris Photo Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards today.
The First PhotoBook Award went to Dutch photographer David Galjaard for his self-published book Concresco, about the remaining cold-war-era bunkers that dot the Albanian landscape. Open to all new bookmakers, the award includes a $10,000 prize.
The PhotoBook of the Year award went to Anders Peterson for his City Diary (Volumes 1-3), which were designed by Greger Ulf Nilson and published by Steidl, and which depict the gritty sides of St. Petersburg, Stockholm and Tokyo.
In the fall edition of Aperture's Photobook Review, which announced the shortlisted books, the descriptions of the two eventual winners highlighted not only the content of the images, but the quality of the bookmaking.
"Concresco is a consistently and elegantly rendered physical object," the short review pointed out. "This three-volume set of soft-cover paperbacks with gatefold-like flaps is densely printed on every surface," a review noted of Petersen's City Diary. "The ink fumes that emanate from the rough-cardboard envelope that acts as packaging are fittingly as strong and musky as the photographs themselves."
The prizes were awarded by a jury that included Roxana Marcoci, curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Thomas Seelig, curator and curator of collections at the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland; Britt Salvesen, curator and head of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography and the department of prints and drawings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Els Barents, director of the Huis Marseille Museum for Photography; and Timothy Prus, curator of AMC Books, selected the winners for both prizes.
All of the 30 books shortlisted for these prizes will be exhibited at Aperture in New York and will then tour to colleges, libraries and public exhibition space. To review the full shortlist visit The PhotoBook Review site here.


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My youngest daughter is a fun loving silly girl, so I was not too surprised when she asked for a "meatball party" for her 4th birthday. She loves meatballs and the song "On top of Spaghetti". But when she asked it to be a very FANCY and pink party, I had to put my thinking cap on! I decided to take my cue from the fact that in the song, the meatball rolls into the garden. I went with a meatball garden party using lots of pink and gold to make it fancy!
Kori Clark of Paper & Pigtails designed the perfect invite that captured my idea beautifully! She also designed the signs that hung above the sweets and snacks table. I made a buttercream rosette cake which was topped with a darling peg doll replica of my daughter made by the talented Jenny Dixon of Craft that Party.
In addition to the cake, I also made macarons and meatball cake pops. Tara of Bambella Cookie Boutique made beautiful vintage rose cookies along with some fabulous spaghetti and meatball ones.
My husband dressed up and played waiter for our beautiful little guests. They adored their personal waiter and it kept things "fancy" ;) For food we served fruit, finger sandwiches and of course...meatballs!
Party activities were kept simple and classic: pin the meatball on the fork, hot "meatball" and musical chairs. Party favors included fabulous rose lollipop boxes made by the talented duo of J & Do Driver of Piggy Pank Parties! I also gave each girl a pink paperbag topped with a gold doiley. Inside were rose notebooks, pencils and a light up rose stamp. I also made mini tophats for each girl which they took home as well.
My daughter definitely loved her fancy meatball party and I had a such a fun time planning it!


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Friends We Love spent 120 seconds with Femi Kuti following his incredible show on May 12th at El Rey in Los Angeles, and captured this passionate message. Make sure to check out the video to hear what Femi has to say about the importance of African unity and awareness, and check out photos of that night's show.
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A 35-year-old Ellendale man had to be freed from the box truck he was driving, after the vehicle struck a tractor-trailer and a concrete median near St. Georges on Thusday.
Joseph B. Shreves was flown to the Christiana Hospital Trauma Center, where he was treated and released for injuries to his lower extremities, police said.
A Delaware State Police spokesman said the crash occurred on northbound Del. Route 1, just south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Bridge, about 9:17 p.m. when Shreves' 2006 Chevrolet box truck rear-ended a tractor-trailer that had just merged onto the highway.
The impact caused the box truck to cross the center and left lanes of the highway before striking the concrete median of the bridge, also known as Sen. William V. Roth Jr. Bridge.
It took emergency responders from the Delaware City Fire Company about 40 minutes to extricate Shreves from the truck, according to a spokesman for the New Castle County Paramedics.
The driver of the tractor-trailer, 60-year-old Virginia resident Elving A. Hinojosa, was not injured and managed to safely stop his vehicle on the right shoulder of the bridge.
Shreves later was cited for inattentive driving.
Several lanes of northbound Route 1 were closed for about three hours as police investigated the crash and cleared the scene.
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Isaiah 1:18 -- Come now, and let us reason together
Any habitual action, such as eating or dressing, may be performed on the appropriate occasion, without any need of thought, and the same seems to be true of a painfully large proportion of our talk. -- Bertrand Russell
"I will say, almost everything. And I didnt bring it every night. But I think most everything was a frustration."
I am a huge fan of Paul, but the practical side of me says he does not fit. It will be tough to demote him back to the bench. He is a lower tier starter, but would dominate off the bench IF he could accept that.
From another angle, if Koufus can go from a 3rd/4th big to a starter/rotation guy, what do Kanter and Favors do with a legitimate chance to start with no associated drama? I remember thinking Koufus would be out of the league soon after he left.
I wonder what Jefferson would say to a bench role? Not immediately, but as Kanter and Favors progress?
If a championship is the goal, either Paul or Al works off the bench, otherwise a change in direction is needed.
Chop it!!!
I would love to get Bledsoe....
If we trade them Pual, we would have to take back Odom to get Bledsoe to make money work!
If we could convince them to take our picks and Watson for Bledsoe that would be awesome!!
Think about this more immediately. If the Clips had Millsap in there instead of ****ing Turiaf, then they'd seriously be real contenders. When an org has the opportunity that get that extra oomph, then the good ones take it and worry about the long-term later. They're going to lose Bledsoe anyway, so if they can use him to get over the top, then they should seriously consider it.
(yes, I know Turiaf plays C. They'd put Odom at C and Millsap at 4. They've shown willingness to go small this year. And, they know the Heat will go small.)
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--Senior Carrick Felix notched his sixth double-double in Pac-12 games and his ninth on the year. He has posted a double-double in four of the past six games. He played 40 minutes for the fourth time on the year.
--Freshman Jahii Carson is averaging 17.9 points and 5.1 assists after today's 15 points and four assists.


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The Circus is in Town!
Have you ever wanted to run away and join the circus? I haven't. Ever. But I am fascinated by the circus lifestyle: the animals, the costumes, the travel—the entire spectacle.
One more question. Are you familiar with the fauvist movement? The fauvists were a short-lived and loose group of modern artists in the early twentieth-century, who painted with strong colors and contours as opposed to their impressionist predecessors.
The UMFA is currently exhibiting George Rouault: Circus of the Shooting Star. Rouault, a fauvist painter, depicted the circus with those energetic strokes and strong colors. And since the real circus isn't coming to town for a while, so get your fix up at the museum.
And if you're expecting a routine, quiet and static visit, think again. Just read this excerpt from Lewis Crawford's preview of the exhibit in this month's issue of 15 Bytes:
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the traditional circus was one of the most loved forms of family entertainment. Since then, the fascination with clowns, acrobats and lion tamers has paraded its way out of the mainstream, only to be replaced by movies, television and video games. The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is hoping to bring a bit of the classic circus magic back into family entertainment with the exhibition, Georges Rouault: Cirque de l'Etoile Filante (Circus of the Shooting Star).
Our collective western subconscious somehow dictates that we experience fine art museums the same way we experience church; walk in, calm ourselves, slowly and pensively walk around, and then leave. It is quiet and meditative. The circus, in contrast, is a loud experience, filled with excitement and fun. The UMFA seems to understand this dichotomy and resolves this by showcasing the exhibit in the Emma Eccles Jones Education Center. It is a larger, open space designed for interactivity. When walking into the room, a viewer notices three things: the large red wall hung with monochromatic prints; color images hanging on facing walls flanking the red one; and a love seat, chair and coffee table strategically placed in front of a puppet theater near the middle of the room. Behind the little theater is a table where kids can color their own Rouault circus performer puppets. The museum also provides an interactive guide for kids if coloring and puppetry is not on their minds. Jenny Woods, UMFA Museum Services Liaison, organized the exhibition stating she wanted the experience to be a great opportunity for families to engage in artwork by an important artist, but more important to have a good time.
One of Rouault's passions in life was the circus and the images for this exhibition are from his book, Cirque de l'Etoile Filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), an homage to circus performers. He started work on it in 1926, publishing it 12 years later.
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Laura Durham is assistant editor at 15 Bytes, Utah's Art magazine, and is a contributor for Salt Lake magazine.


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Cathy Immordino grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis where she was exposed to the arts at an early age. Around the age of five, she was gifted a Polaroid instant camera to help occupy her time as her bones healed from a destructive car accident. That was when Cathy developed a keen eye for the arts and noticed the world around her differently. It wasn't until after a career as an entertainer that Cathy considered her photography as more than just a hobby. In 2008, her first assignments were to photograph the nightlife of Los Angeles at places like the Playboy Mansion and stadiums turned into massive raves. Cathy grew out of photographing the nightlife as soon as she discovered fine art and the possibilities of digital manipulation. In 2009, Cathy began exhibiting her work in galleries and online exhibitions. Shortly after, she gained recognition from the International Photography Awards. As an emerging photographer, she is one of 160 L. A. photographers to be featured in MOPLA.
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O'Donnell Makes BCHL DebutSubmitted by chad on September 13, 2010 - 13:46
North American Juniors (NAJ) Game Night
Penticton Vees 1 @ Westside Warriors 0 (9/10/2010)
F Brendan O'Donnell, PEN: 0-1-1, E, 0 PIM
O'Donnell's BCHL debut was a good one as he registered a point in his first game when he set up Joey Holka, a St. Cloud State commit, in the second period for what ended up being the game's only goal. O'Donnell had 29 goals and 32 assists for 61 points in 53 games last year for the Winnipeg South Blues of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League. The 2010 6th round draft pick of the Lightning and North Dakota commit was acquired by Penticton in the offseason.
Westside Warriors 2 @ Penticton Vees 4 (9/11/2010)
F Brendan O'Donnell, PEN: 1-0-1, E, 0 PIM
Season Totals: 2 GP, 1-1-2, E, 0 PIM
Wearing No.91 for the Vees, O'Donnell scored his first BCHL goal on the power play in the first period to tie the game at 1 for Penticton. The Vees would later go down 2-1 but storm back in the third period with 3 goals.
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Prospect Camp Preliminary RosterSubmitted by chad on July 6, 2010 - 18:24
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- Gudas, Radko
- Hutchings, Alex
- Janosik, Adam
- Janus, Jaroslav
- Mullin, James
- O'Donnell, Brendan
- Panik, Richard
- Schemitsch, Geoffrey
- Zador, Michael
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The Lightning have assembled a preliminary roster for the upcoming prospects camp July 10-14 at the St. Pete Times Forum. The following roster, courtesy of Erik Erlendsson of the Tampa Tribune, includes at least three goaltenders, 12 defensemen and 17 forwards. All 2010 draft choices will be participating.
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Sixth Round, One-Hundred and Fifty-Sixth OverallSubmitted by pete on June 26, 2010 - 15:01
Name: Brendan O'Donnell
Position: Center
Shoots: Left
Height: 6.00
Weight: 185 lbs
Born: 6/25/1992, Winnipeg, MN
Last Team: Winnipeg South (MJHL)
Rankings: CSS NR (North American Skaters), RLR NR (Overall), THN NR (Overall)
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Winnipeg (MJHL), 53 GP, 29-32-61, 55 PIM
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The Lightning take a penny stock in the form of O'Donnell, who is a skilled player committed to North Dakota of the WCHA.
O'Donnell was one of the top twenty scorers in the MJHL as a rookie and has a solid skating stride and good vision. He's also shown a well-rounded two-way game.
Level of competition. O'Donnell hasn't played at nearly the level of many of his draft day contemporaries. He'll really need to elevate his game to make an impact with North Dakota.
The Lightning will have a good four or five years, depending on when O'Donnell enrolls at North Dakota, to allow the centerman to develop and improve. He's a prime example of a sixth round flier the team hopes pays off.
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RS, as you've probably seen on radio/online/blogs, is currently holding a acover contest with Atlantic Records. 16 bands are competing for the cover spot in a March-madness tournament style competition based on public online voting. The two finalists will preform at the Bonnaroo music festival in June and the winning band will be signed by Atlantic and go on national tour . Oh, and they'll also be featured on Jimmy Fallon's late night show.
So, what does this all mean to you? Local Utah band, FICTIONIST, selected as one of the 16 competing bands. The five-man band from Provo has been making waves with their single 'Blue-eyed' and recently won an Independent Music Award for Best Pop/Rock song for their single "Invisible Hand."
FICTIONIST is already in Round 2 of the Rolling Stone Cover Competition, but they need your votes to keep going. Head on over here to give them some love and boost them to cover fame!
Oh, and if you were wondering, FICTIONISTS will be preforming April 8th at Riverwoods with Sugar Ray, so you can certainly go catch them live.