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They're in Orinda, which is close, and I highly recommend any of the doctors at Summit Pediatrics. 4 Country Club Plaza, Orinda 94563. 925 254 9500. Linda
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Summit Pediatrics in Orinda has been just great for us for 18 years. We like all their docs a lot, and they have men and women of older and younger ages. The doc we started with has retired (Dr. Chamberlain), but everyone else we've met has been great. 4 Country Club Plaza, Orinda 94563; 925 254 9500. Good luck. Linda
We've been with Summit for 18 years now! We love them. All the docs are super-competent and confidence-inspiring. We had Dr. Chamberlain most of the time, but I think he's only part-time now. The women docs there are great. I can't say enough about the practice. They've been there for us at every turn, and we'll be sad when we finally have to let them go for an ''adult'' doc. My son, who has always new people and new situations was comfortable there. They seem good at every age. Linda
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We've used Summit Peds in Orinda, just through the tunnel and easy to get to. 925 254 9500. Any of the docs there would be great. They take BC PPO. Linda F
Hello, Does anyone have any feedback on Summit Pediatrics in Orinda and on the Pediatricians at this practice, particularly Jennifer Dovinchi and Pelen Wu. They seem to be rather new in the practice. I'm seeking trustworthy, reliable, and helpful pediatricians for my 1 year old daughter. Thank you. Parent Seeking Reliable Pediatrician
My daughter has a heart defect and is therefore monitored more than kids with no chronic health problems, so we see more of them than most families would. Our kids are recognized by the staff. The waits are never very long, and they get you to a room as soon as possible to eliminate cross-contamination from sick kids.
While I do wish they were closer (we live in Berkeley), we are very happy with the practice and are willing to travel to get the care we can expect from Summit Pediatrics. Laurel C
I really like all three, Dr. Dovichi, Dr. Wu and Dr. Kudlu. They all have different styles so I would recommend meeting with them before making a decision. My husband and I are very conservative on most issues and so we prefer to have a pediatrician who is similar and have found Dr. Kudlu to be our best match. However, as with all children, we have had things come up or minor ''emergencies'' when I have seen the other two docs and think highly of them both -- and am comfortable talking with both of them. They all have stellar education backgrounds. I think there is a lot of value in a pediatrician who is newer to practice in that they know more about recent research and practice and they aren't ''set in their ways''. All three of these women are moms so they have plenty of first hand knowledge to boot.
I find the practice to be very good. I have always been able to get in same day if needed. I always get a call back from a doc on call within about 10 minutes. The receptionist and nurses are all very pleasant and helpful. I would recommend the practice to any parent with young children. Good luck! Mom from Oakland
Our pediatrician is Kimberly Mar at Summit Pediatrics in Orinda. Dr. Mar is great - fun with the kids, highly professional, smart, willing to listen and she takes the parent seriously. She's quite young (which I think is a plus - my son and she can grow old together) and she's awfully cute (in the best possible sense; no insult at all intended); her colleagues at Summit Ped. are older (to varying degrees - Harris and Chamberlain are getting up there, while Takao is somewhere in his 40s) and provide any necessary "gravitas" a parent might require. I like them, too. And the nurses are uniformly swell. Wendy
I highly recommend our pediatrician, Dr. Kimberly Mar of Summit
Pediatrics in Orinda. She is fairly new to the practice which is also the
practice of Dr. Loyd Takao and Dr. Chamberlain. I think Dr. Chamberlain
writes for the Parents' Press from time to time.
Dr. Mar is young and enthusiastic about her profession. I find
her to be very honest, caring, and easy to talk with. If I have
questions, she takes the time to answer them carefully. The benefit to
her being a recent graduate of med. school (I believe she completed her
residency within the last three to four years) is that she is well versed
in the latest findings and practices. The benefit to her being part of a
well established practice is that she can draw on her colleagues for sage
advice if needed. I highly recommend her. I'm sure if you were to call
and set up an interview she would be more than happy to discuss your
Here's the info for her:
Dr. Kimberly Mar
Summit Pediatrics
4 Country Club Plaza, Orinda
925 254-9500
My 9 month old son has been seeing Dr. Kimberly Mar at Summit Pediatrics in Orinda. The telephone number is 925-254-9500. We really like her and the office staff. Since we only have one car, driving over the hill from Berkeley is really inconvenient, so we had to switch to a local pediatrician. We've never had a problem getting an appointment with Summit Pediatrics and the waits are pretty much non-existent. Dr. Mar is young -- she just finished her residency at UCSF, I think -- so I am pretty sure she'll be accepting new patients. Good luck,
I would like to second Jeannette 's endorsement of Kimberly Mar (in fact, I think we are living parallel lives; I think we also have the same OB/Gyn). At any rate, my 6-month old has been seeing Dr. Mar since birth, and we have been very happy with the care she provides him. We have always had our questions fully and satisfactorily answered; we never feel rushed, she has a very loving and caring manner as well as good credentials, and Sam always seems delighted to see her. She is young, as Jeannette mentioned, but her partners are not, and can provide the "experience," if necessary.
I would also like to suggest the Summit Pediatric Medical Group (in Orinda) to those folks who have Bay Physicians/Alta Bates group and can't find any pediatricians accepting patients. I had the same problem in January. I would recommend both Drs. Philip Chamberlain and Kimberly Mar. My husband and I have been extremely pleased with their medical care.
I just wanted to put in a plug for Dr. Mar, who was recommended last digest. She is our son's pediatrician and we are very satisfied with her. She's pretty young, which means she doesn't have loads of experience to back her up, but this also means she is familiar with recent studies re: child vaccinations, breastfeeding, family bed, etc. We saw another doctor in the same practice and he was a bit behind the times. Summit Pediatrics is also affiliated with Hill Physicians Medical Group.
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"Stress Hunger"--The Cause Of Obesity
Most people never experience the healthy sensation of feeling hungry. In fact, most people desire to avoid feeling hungry. I think feeling hunger is good to experience periodically. Hunger is important to aid in our enjoyment of food and get the precise signals from our body to know the amount of calories we need to maintain our lean body mass. When we eat when we are hungry food tastes much better and we are physiologically primed for proper digestion. Hunger, in the true sense of the word, indicates to us that it is time to eat again.
Consider that real hunger is not often experienced in our modern, overfed population. Most people no longer even remember or are aware what hunger even feels like. Most people are surprised to find that true hunger is felt in the throat and not in the head or stomach.
Instead of true hunger, people get detoxification or withdrawal symptoms that they mistakenly consider hunger. They feel shaky, head-achy, weak, get abdominal cramps or spasms, which are believed to be hunger symptoms because they are relieved by eating. I call this "stress hunger." Stress hunger is the symptoms a person experiences that are due to toxic wastes being mobilized for elimination. It occurs after a meal is digested and the digestive track is empty, and it could make us feel very uncomfortable.
Generally, we eat to get rid of these withdrawal symptoms and it works. In fact, this is one of the most important contributors to our population's overweight condition. We eat the wrong foods and just a few hours later we feel ill, stressed out, shaky, weak, mentally dull, and we are driven to eat again to relieve the discomfort. Did you ever hear someone saying they needed to eat because they feel so shaky? The question is, are these symptoms "true hunger," "hypoglycemia" or something else? I claim that these symptoms occur simultaneous to our blood sugar decreasing but they are not caused "hypoglycemia." Rather, they result from tissue sensitivity to mobilization of waste products which occurs when most active digestion is finished.
Let me reassure you here that I do not want you to go hungry and deny yourself food to achieve an ideal weight. However, there is another answer. When we eat a nutrient-dense diet, rich with lots of colorful vegetables we will better meet the nutrient needs of our body and the better nutritional quality of the diet will reduce and eliminate the uncomfortable "withdrawal" symptoms. High nutrient eating enables us to deal better with all types of stress, but in this case I am claiming that eating more high-nutrient foods will enable us to avoid "stress hunger" and not have the cravings and drive to overeat.
When our diet is low in nutrients, we build up intra-cellular waste products. So when digestion stops, our body goes through a period of "cleaning," meaning that our tissues release toxic substances into circulation for removal. Our cells can harbor toxic products that build up in the body when our diet is relatively nutrient-poor. Phytonutrients are required for the body to properly detoxify metabolic waste products, they enable cellular detoxification machinery. When we don't eat sufficient phytochemical-rich-vegetation and consume excess animal proteins (creating excess nitrogenous wastes) we often exacerbate the build up of metabolic waste products in our body.
The confusion is compounded because when we eat the same heavy foods that are causing the problem to begin with, we feel so much better. This makes becoming overweight inevitable, because if we stop digesting food, even for a short time, our bodies will begin to experience symptoms of detoxification or withdrawal from our unhealthful diet. To counter this we eat heavy meals, eat too often and keep our digestive track overfed to lessen the discomfort from our stressful diet-style.
When our bodies have acclimated to noxious agents it is called addiction. Try to stop taking the heroin and we will feel ill. In fact, we must have it or we will become terribly sick. This is called withdrawal. When we stop doing something harmful to ourselves we feel ill as the body mobilizes cellular wastes and attempts to repair the damage caused by the exposure.
If we drank 3 cups of coffee or caffeinated soda a day, we would get a withdrawal headache when our caffeine level dipped too low. We could take more caffeine again (or other drugs) or we could eat food more frequently which can make us feel a little better as it retards detoxification or withdrawal. In other words, the caffeine withdrawal symptoms can contribute to our drinking more caffeine products or eating more frequently as a means of managing the symptoms from caffeine withdrawal.
Likewise, a few hours after eating the standard low-nutrient diet most people begin to feel "hungry". They feel weak, headachy, tired, mentally dull, and have stomach spasms. I call it "stress or toxic hunger" because these symptoms only occur in those who have been eating a toxic diet. True hunger would not have occurred so early after the meal.
True hunger signals when our body needs calories to maintain our lean body mass. If we ate food demanded by true hunger and true hunger only, people would not become overweight to begin with. In our present toxic food environment, we have lost the ability to connect with the body signals that tell us how much food we actually need. We have become slaves to withdrawal symptoms and eat all day long, even when there is no biological need for calories.
Fortunately, this cycle of eating, and then avoiding the symptoms of detoxification by eating again, does not have to continue. There is a way out. When you restore the nutritional integrity and relative cleanliness to your tissues, you simply will not have the desire to eat to get rid of the toxin-induced symptoms.
In an environment of healthy food choices, we would not feel any symptoms after a meal until the hormonal and neurological messengers indicated the glycogen reserves in the liver were running low. Nature has made it so that our body has the beautifully orchestrated ability to give us the precise signals to tell us exactly how much to eat to maintain an ideal weight for our long term health. This signal I call "true hunger" to differentiate it from the "stress hunger" or "toxic hunger" everyone else calls hunger.
Feeding ourselves to satisfy true hunger does not cause weight gain and if people were better connected with these normal signals it would be almost impossible for anyone to become overweight. True hunger is felt in the throat, neck and mouth, not in the stomach or head. It is a drawing sensation. It is not very uncomfortable to feel real hunger, it makes food taste much better when you eat, and it makes eating an intense pleasure.
True hunger requires no special food to satisfy it. It is relieved by eating almost anything. We can't crave some particular food and call it hunger; a craving by definition is an addictive drive, not something felt by a person who is not an addict. Remember almost all Americans are addicted to their toxic habits. A disease-causing diet is addicting. A health-supporting diet is not.
In order to achieve an ideal weight and consume the exact amount of calories to maintain a lean body mass we do not have to carry around a calculator and a scale to figure out how much to eat. A healthy body will give us the correct signals. So in order to achieve superior health, maximize our longevity potential, and achieve our ideal weight, we have to eat healthy enough to get back in touch with true hunger and rid ourselves of this "stress hunger".
Every cell is like a little factory, it makes products, produces waste and then must compact, detoxify and remove waste. If we don't ingest sufficient antioxidants and phytonutrients from our food choices, our cells are unable to effectively remove self-produced waste. If we let waste metabolites build up, the body will attempt to mobilize them (discomfort) when it can; but it only can do that effectively if not actively digesting food. Eating makes one feel better because it halts or delays the detoxification process.
My book, Eat To Live explains how eating for health is the most effective way to reach our ideal weight and stay there permanently when you get there. There are lots of ways to lose weight, but only by eating lots of nutrient-rich foods as a method of choice for weight loss will we not have to fight off cravings and ill feelings.
In a portion controlled (calorie counting) diet it is likely that the body will not get adequate fiber or nutrients. The body will have a compounded sensation of hunger and craving which for most is simply overwhelming. It invariably results in people losing weight then gaining back their weight. Calorie counting simply doesn't work in the long run. Diets based on portion control and calorie counting generally permit the eating of highly toxic, low nutrient foods and then requires us to fight our addictive drives and attempt to eat less. This combination under nourishes the body resulting in uncontrollable and frequent food cravings.
Without an adequate education in superior nutrition and solid principles to stick to; these individuals are forced to flounder and fail bouncing from one diet to another, always losing a little and regaining. Frequently regaining more than they lost.
We must prioritize our food intake around nutrient dense, high fiber, high water content foods, which means fruits, vegetables and beans. For superior health and our ideal weight we must have the knowledge to know how to seek nutritional excellence in spite of our misinformed and confused population.
This is all about knowledge, not willpower. With the right knowledge base, we can get more pleasure from eating, not be on some diet, and protect ourselves.


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But the snakes' hearts balloon in size as they're digesting — and scientists are studying them for clues about human heart health.
The expanded python heart appears remarkably similar to the larger-than-normal hearts of athletes. Colorado researchers report they've figured out how the snakes make it happen.
"It's this amazing biology," said Leslie Leinwand, a molecular biologist at the University of Colorado Boulder, whose team reports the findings in Friday's edition of the journal Science. "They're not swelling up. They're building (heart) muscle."
Leinwand, who studies human heart disease, stumbled across that description and saw implications for people. An enlarged human heart usually is caused by chronic high blood pressure or other ailments that leave it flabby and unable to pump well. But months and years of vigorous exercise give some well-conditioned athletes larger, muscular hearts, similar to how python hearts are during digestion.
So Leinwand's team — led by a graduate student who initially was frightened of snakes — ordered a box of pythons and began testing what happens to their hearts.
The first surprise: A digesting python's blood gets so full of fat it looks milky. A type of fat called triglycerides increased 50-fold within a day. In people, high triglyceride levels are very dangerous. But the python heart was burning those fats so rapidly for fuel that they didn't have time to clog anything up, Leinwand said.
The second surprise: A key enzyme that protects the heart from damage increased in python blood right after it ate, while a heart-damaging compound was repressed.
Then the team found that a specific combination of three fatty acids in the blood helped promote the healthy heart growth. If they injected fasting pythons with that mixture, those snakes' hearts grew the same way a fed python's does.
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LOS ANGELES – UCLA (10-9, 4-3) heads to Northern California this weekend for a pair of Pac-12 matchups with nationally-ranked teams. The Bruins open with #4 Stanford (17-1, 6-0) on Friday, Jan. 24 on the Pac-12 Networks at 8:06 p.m. UCLA will then face #16/19 California (13-4, 5-1) on Sunday, Jan. 26 at 6:06 p.m. on the Pac-12 Networks.
Venue: Maples Pavilion
Arena Capacity: 7,233
Date: Jan. 24, 2014
Times: 8:06 p.m. (PT)
TV: Pac-12 Networks
Talent: Anne Marie Anderson (play-by-play), Tammy Blackburn (analyst)
Listen Online: www.uclabruins.com
Internet Audio: Dave Marcus (play-by-play)
This is the 77th meeting between UCLA and Stanford with the Cardinal leading the series 54-22. Stanford has won the last 16 meetings overall and the last 14 at Stanford. The Cardinal won all three meetings a year ago, including 51-49 in the title game of the Pac-12 Tournament (Mar. 10, 2013).
UCLA erased a 13-point second-half (6:27) deficit to beat Oregon 88-83 on Jan. 17, 2014. It marked the third time this season that the Bruins have come back to win after trailing by double digits (down 14 to No. 10 Oklahoma in the first half and 12 to Grand Canyon in the second half).
Close encounters are becoming the norm this season. UCLA has won by single digits in nine of its 10 victories on the year while 10 of the last 11 games have been decided by single digits. Additionally, the Bruins are 6-3 in 2013-14 in games decided by five or fewer points.
With the Bruins' 67-61 win at Arizona on Jan. 10, UCLA extended its winning streak against unranked opponents on the road to 12 games (descending chronological order): Arizona, Minnesota, San Diego State, Arizona, Arizona State, USC, Washington State, Washington, Oregon State, Oregon, Pepperdine and St. John's.
UCLA has lost three key players for the season as the Bruins will be without redshirt freshman Lauren Holiday (3.9 ppg, 4.4 rpg) for the remainder of the year, as announced by Head Coach Cori Close last week. Holiday sustained a head injury at the end of the first half of the USC game (Dec. 30). She joins sophomore guard Kari Korver (4.7 ppg, 1.5 rpg) and junior forward Kacy Swain (3.1 ppg, 3.0 rpg) as players lost for the year. Both of them suffered torn anterior cruciate ligaments (ACL) within a week of each other. Korver also had a tear in her lateral meniscus. Freshman forward Paulina Hersler has yet to play this season due to a knee injury she sustained in Sweden before arriving in the United States.
UCLA sixth-year senior Atonye Nyingifa is currently 6th on the Bruins' career list for most games played with 126. That mark also ranks tied for third on the NCAA active career list. She is currently 15th on the Bruins' career scoring list with 1,347 points (behind Anne Dean - 1983-86 - 1,364), which ranks 59th on the NCAA active career list and sixth in the Pac-12. She is 5th in career rebounds (827, ranks 4th on the Pac-12 active career list). She needs 109 to pass Maylana Martin (935, 1997-2000) for 4th. She is 8th in free throws made (324), which ranks 40th on the NCAA active career charts and 7th in free throws attempted (465), which ranks 42nd on the NCAA active career chart.
This year UCLA has the distinction of having the first televised conference game when they hosted USC (Dec. 30) and the last televised conference game on March 2, 2014 when they visit Utah (1:00 p.m.). The Bruins will be making a total of 18 television appearances, the most in school history, during the 2013-14 regular season.
UCLA was selected to finish fifth in both the Pac-12 conference's preseason coaches and media polls. Stanford was picked to finish first, followed by California, Colorado and Washington. After the Bruins, USC was selected to finish sixth, followed by Utah and Oregon State.
The Bruins can boast of having one of the toughest schedules in the country as four of its nonconference games were against teams ranked in the top 12 (at #12/17 Nebraska, vs. #12/14 North Carolina, vs. #10/13 Oklahoma and at #4/5 Notre Dame). The Bruins' nonconference strength of schedule ranked No. 3 in the country (tops in the Pac-12) and helped the Bruins to a No. 26 overall ranking in the RPI. Ten of the Bruins' 12 nonconference opponents have a winning record and UCLA's nonconference opponents are a combined 142-70 for a .667 winning percentage (Nebraska 13-4; Pepperdine 5-13; North Carolina 16-3; Oklahoma 12-7; James Madison 13-4; Grand Canyon 13-4; NC State 16-3; Notre Dame 17-0; San Diego State 5-10; Minnesota 12-7; Auburn 11-7 and Cal Poly 9-8).
UCLA forward Atonye Nyingifa (Torrance, Calif.) established or tied six career-highs in leading the Bruins to an 82-76 upset win over No. 10/13 Oklahoma at Pauley Pavilion on Nov. 24 and was named Pac-12 Player of the Week. Nyingifa tied her career-best with a game-high 28 points and career-bests in free throws made (12) and free throws attempted (15). She completed her second straight double-double against a ranked team with a career-high 16 rebounds, including six on the offensive glass. The sixth-year senior also handed out a career-high six assists against the Sooners. The win over Oklahoma was UCLA's 700th victory in program history.
In the Bruins' 78-68 setback to No. 12 North Carolina, UCLA had three players record double-doubles (Atonye Nyingifa - 18 pts., 11 rebs.; Nirra Fields - 12 pts., 10 rebs.; Lauren Holiday - 10 pts., 11 rebs.). They became the first trio of Bruins to record a double-double in the same game in over 23 years. In a 79-65 home win over Oregon on Feb. 23, 1990, Sandra VanEmbricqs (22 pts., 14 rebs.), Michele Wooton (17 pts., 10 rebs.) and Rehema Stephens (12 pts., 10 rebs.) were the last to pull off that feat.
In UCLA's 82-78 home win over Pepperdine (Nov. 11), the Bruins had three players score 20 or more points in the same game (Thea Lemberger 25 pts., Atonye Nyingifa 24 pts., Nirra Fields 20 pts.). It marked the first time since a 91-58 home win over Oregon State on Jan. 31, 2004 (Noelle Quinn 24 pts., Nikki Blue 23 pts., Lisa Willis 21 pts.) that that feat has been matched.
The Bruins duplicated that feat in the 96-89 win over Cal Poly (Dec. 28) when Nirra Fields (36 points), Thea Lemberger (23 points) and Atonye Nyingifa (23 points), combined to score 82 of UCLA's 96 points.
In the win over Cal Poly, the Bruins had several great individual and team performances. The 96 points scored by UCLA in the win were the most in nearly four years or 125 games (defeated Oregon at home, 104-80, on Jan. 28, 2010). Senior forward Atonye Nyingifa was 11-for-18 from the free throw line. The 18 attempted free throws were a career-high and the second-most in school history (20, Necie Thompson, 2/18/83 vs. CS Fullerton, 11-for-20). Nirra Fields' career-high of 36 points vs. the Mustangs were the most since Nikki Blue scored 36 against Arizona State on Mar. 5, 2005. The total is tied for the 11th-highest single game performance in UCLA history. Fields also made a career-high five three-pointers against Cal Poly.
In the 66-60 loss to Auburn (Dec. 21, 2013), the Bruins had two individual standout performances. Corinne Costa, who has the UCLA single-game record for blocks with seven, tied it for the third time against the Tigers. Nirra Fields also had a career-high eight steals, which was the most since Markel Walker had eight in a win over Hawai'i (Nov. 19, 2009).
UCLA ranks in the Top 100 in the country (out of 343 D-I teams) in three statistical categories, coming in at No. 28 in turnovers per game (13.5), No. 56 in turnover margin (3.00) and No. 71 in personal fouls per game (17.5). Two players rank in the Top 100 in the country as senior forward Atonye Nyingifa ranks No. 20 in double-doubles with 10 on the year (ranks third in the Pac-12), No. 43 in total points (342), No. 64 in steals per game (2.42 spg) and No. 77 in rebounds per game (9.1 rpg). Sophomore guard Nirra Fields ranks No. 49 in total points (335) and No. 69 in steals per game (2.37 spg).
Head Coach Cori Close enters her third year with the Bruins after guiding UCLA to the second round of the NCAA Tournament last year and a Pac-12 Tournament runner-up finish. She sports an overall record of 50-33 (.602).


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All the hurdles of the health care bill were cleared with the final vote on the Reconciliation bill in the House on Thursday. Since Scott Brown was elected, there was a nagging doubt whether health care reform would be able to pass after all. Now that it's done, those doubts are a faint memory deserving only a footnote mention in history books. However, a more disturbing trend has arose from the passage of this bill. The total abandonment of decorum of elected officials and protesters opposing the bill. Though the mainstream Republican leadership has condemned these outbursts of violence and appalling behavior, many feel that it's not vociferous enough.
There are many comparisons of the health care reform bill to the Civil Rights Act in 1964, which morally speaking, was the most important piece of legislation in the 20th century, but I beg to differ. These premise and predicate of these 2 pieces of legislation are different on so many levels. The Civil Rights Act was about morality and ending segregation in the South and invalidating the Jim Crow Laws that kept many African Americans away from the ballot box. The Civil Rights Act, for all its intents and purposes, was ending a way of life for Southerners, telling states who practice segregation and abide by the Jim Crow Laws that their way of life is immoral and it stops now. Segregation and disenfranchisement of a whole race is heinous, illegal and most of all, unconstitutional, but up until that point, it was the only way of life the Southerner's have known. It was like legislating a new world order for which Southerners have to abide by while many were still fighting the war of Northern Aggression in their heads. To this present day, there are still people re-enacting the Civil War in actual battlefield locations, in full Confederate and Yankee uniform. It would be like the Parliament of India passing legislation that says their caste and segregation system according to social and ethnic background is illegal, they will have a billion people up in arms in no time. A government cannot not legislate away a social mentality that has existed in a culture since the beginning of that culture's history and that's what the Civil Rights Act effectively did. It may have legislated away the physical segregation in society but it could not legislate away the mental segregation.
Strictly speaking, access to health care is not a social issue that deals with morality when compared to segregation and disenfranchisement, which has a very clear moral boundary. It's more of an economic issue, wealthier people have access to better health care, which is not exactly a surprise, wealthier people have access to better everything. Health care is a service rendered when there is a need, namely when someone gets sick or gets in an accident and this is where it gets murky. How should health care service be delivered and distributed? There is limited amount of resources in health care services and this includes doctors, clinics, hospitals, nurses, medical equipment etc. How should those services be distributed and by what criteria should they be distributed? The wealthy people take care of themselves with the best policies and the government already provides health care for the indigent and vulnerable, in the form of Medicaid and Medicare. But what of the people in between, which is the majority of people? It's a known fact that in order for a country to be prosperous a strong middle class is needed. To have a strong middle class the following criteria must first exist: good education system where a reasonable number of people achieve higher degrees, low unemployment rate and the health and well being of the population.
With the current recession, what's left of the middle class is hanging on by its fingernails and it cannot be burdened by the rising cost of health care. With the rising cost of insurance premiums, access to higher education is now uncertain with college tuition increases and national unemployment rate is still at 9.7% and will likely stay in that range for awhile coupled with the fact that you can be considered middle class one day and then get in an accident with the possibility of losing everything you own to medical cost the next day is unacceptable and unsustainable.
The president along with members of Congress have touched briefly on the moral side of having affordable quality health care coverage for all, but they have mainly focused their argument on the economic side of it. The current health care system as it stands is economically unsustainable for families and society at large. Families will be bankrupted by insurance premiums and out of pocket costs. Younger and healthier people are foregoing health insurance coverage thereby throwing caution to the wind and not getting their routine preventative care, which can contribute to chronic, perhaps incurable illnesses later on in life. All of this can slowly cripple and bring down the middle class.
So why are people so angry about this? Why the "mass hysteria" outside the Capitol building on the day of voting? Why are members of Congress getting death threats and windows blown through? Is it really just about health care reform? The Republicans had control of both houses of Congress from 2000 to 2006 and they did nothing with regards to health care reform, they passed an expensive prescription drug plan for senior citizens that is equally unsustainable and this current health care bill is going to fix the crater that contributed to national deficit. It makes one wonder just what are Republicans and their supporters so angry about? Is it because they couldn't do in 6 years what an 'inexperienced' president could do in less than 2 years? And the brains of the Obama administration are well informed people who are familiar with parliamentary rules and were able to get the votes and get the bills passed? It is unseemly and unsightly to see our elected officials holding up protest signs from the Capitol building balcony inciting the masses below. In the hallowed halls of Congress, where historical legislations were made, a certain amount decorum is expected from the elected members of this country.
The president and the people of his administration have been accused of being too intellectual by some of the more populist leaders of the Right and said that we need a Commander-in-Chief and not a "law professor lecturing at the lectern." This administration, including the president, mostly consist of ivy-leaguers, erudite intellectuals who see politics and the world at large in shades of gray, which is a stark contrast to the previous administration that saw everything in black or white, good or evil, you are either with us or against us. It appears that this administration's approach to governance and its world view have really drawn the anti-government, anti-intellectualism, anti-establishment and anti-Washington folks out of the woodwork. Perhaps the name William Jennings Bryan should ring a bell to them? He was the first national populist leader, a Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson and was a nominee for presidential candidate three times in 1896, 1900 and 1908 and yet there is no President Bryan in the history books. William Jennings Bryan had a Tea Party "mass hysteria" like following during his heyday but when it came time to vote for their populist leader who fought for the little people into office...well, we already know the ending to that story.


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TEMPE, Ariz.- Anthony Brown scored a team-high 21 points but Stanford fell short in a 76-64 loss at Arizona State on Thursday night.
The Cardinal (18-9, 9-6 Pac-12) missed a chance to take over sole possession of third place in the conference, as the Sun Devils (20-8, 9-6 Pac-12) salvaged a split of the season series. Instead, both teams joined California and Colorado in a four-way tie in the Pac-12 standings.
Chasson Randle added 17 points and Dwight Powell chipped in with 11 for Stanford, which shot 39.6 percent and was hindered by 15 turnovers.
Jahii Carson's game-high 26 points led Arizona State, which built an early lead and connected on 10-19 from three-point territory.
The Cardinal never got closer than nine in the second half.
Stanford missed 11 of its first 15 shots and trailed 34-19 with 3:17 left in the first half, as Arizona State led 39-29 at the break.
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Breaking news has come about on the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, that a suspect is in custody after a shooting on the campus of Purdue University. USA Today has reported that not much is known at this time.
CNN reported that the school's official Twitter account posted around 12:30 p.m. EST that there was a "shelter in place" active for the campus after a reported shooting.
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text: "Israel prefers the diplomatic option over any other option. But we want a genuine diplomatic solution that dismantles Iran's military nuclear capabilities. The proposal that was put on the table, the details of which we are familiar with, is a bad deal. It leaves Iran with nuclear capabilities for military objectives, and provides it with a significant easing of sanctions. The additional danger is that it gives Iran legitimacy to be a nuclear threshold state. That goes against the interest of the international community.With every passing day, Iran is under growing economic pressure. One need not be hasty to conclude a bad deal. The time that has been achieved must be utilized for a good deal which dismantles Iran's military nuclear capabilities. The date for achieving such a deal is the date on which such a deal will be achieved."PM Netanyahu at the Knesset (11 Nov 2013):"Israel is united in opposition to the deal being offered to Iran. We are speaking in a clear and unequivocal voice. The time that was achieved over the weekend must be utilized to achieve a much better deal. The target date for this deal is – the date on which a good deal will be achieved that will deny Iran a military nuclear capability. This is important not just for Israel but for the entire world. We will continue to say this simple truth in a clear voice because this is what needs to be done. When it comes to things that are so essential and fateful for the future and security of Israel, and for the peace of the world, one must speak clearly and thus we are doing in order to prevent a bad deal."PM Netanyahu addresses Jewish Federations of North America (10 Nov 2013):"The international community has placed demands on Iran to cease and desist the building of capabilities to produce atomic bombs that will threaten us and threaten the peace of the world. They put together a sanctions regime that has brought Iran to its knees, crippling sanctions. The purpose of those sanctions was to get Iran to dismantle – dismantle – its nuclear enrichment capabilities, which are used for atomic bombs and its heavy water plutonium reactor, which is used for atomic bombs...Now there's a deal. Why the Iranians came to deal is obvious: because the sanctions are biting their economy, crippling that regime. So they came to the table because they have to. And what is being offered now, and I'm continuously updated in detail, I know what I'm talking about. What is being proposed now is a deal in which Iran retains all of that capacity. Not one centrifuge is dismantled. Not one. Iran gets to keep tons of low enriched uranium, and they can take these centrifuges, which are not dismantled, in the halls, underground – using advanced centrifuges that they've already installed, some of them, that are not dismantled – and they can rush within a few weeks, maybe a couple of months, that's all, and create at the time of their choosing, the fissile material for a bomb.Iran does not give up anything of that. It makes a minor concession that is meaningless in today's technology and in their current capacities. In other words, none of the demands of the Security Council resolutions, which the P5+1 powers passed are met. None of them! But what is given to them is the beginning of the rollback of sanctions. This means that the sanctions that took years to put in place are beginning to roll back with several billions of dollars of assets that are freed up; the automotive industry contracts that is central to Iran's economy freed up; petrochemical industry freed up; matters that involved gold and even petroleum revenues freed up some...This is the deal that is proposed now. Iran does not roll back its nuclear weapons-making capacities at all, but the P5+1 are rolling back sanctions. That's a bad deal. It's a dangerous deal because it keeps Iran as a nuclear threshold nation and it may very well bring about a situation where the sanctions are dissolved or collapsed. It's a bad and dangerous deal that deals with the thing that affects our survival...We shall continue to work with the rest of the world, and it's good that we have now a few days because this is not only in the interest of Israel; this is in the interest of the entire world. Yes, we speak up, but I think there are other nations in this region and perhaps beyond who can now unite and say: we do not want a nuclear Iran and we stand together to make sure that Iran dismantles its enrichment capacities, its heavy water plutonium reactor, all the things that they need to make nuclear weapons. They're not entitled to it and it is possible right now, given the precariousness and vulnerability of the Iranian economy, to press forward the demand for Iran to dismantle its nuclear bomb-making capacity...."President Peres at state memorial to David Ben-Gurion in Sde Boker (10 Nov 2013):"Yesterday the P5+1 did not come to an agreement, and rightly so. A deal which does not prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power must not be signed. The wording at hand does not answer this requirement. Preventing a nuclear Iran was the P5+1's very purpose and I hope that it remains so. This is also the unyielding position of the State of Israel. We are not opposed to diplomacy to achieve this goal. But there is no point in a deal which would not prevent Iran from becoming nuclear. I believe that our government's position, expressed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is right."PM Netanayhu at Cabinet meeting (10 Nov 2013):"Over the weekend I spoke with US President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron. I told them that according to the information reaching Israel, the apparent deal is bad and dangerous. It is dangerous not just for us, it is also dangerous for them. It is dangerous for world peace because it lowers the pressure of sanctions that took years to build while on the other hand, Iran, in practice, retains its nuclear enrichment capability as well as the ability to advance along the plutonium track. I emphasize that the proffered deal does not include the dismantling of even one centrifuge. I asked all the leaders – why the haste? I proposed that they wait, that they consider the matter seriously. This is an historic process and these are historic decisions. I asked to wait. It is good that this is what was decided in the end but I am not deluding myself – there is a strong desire to reach an agreement, I hope not an agreement at any price, and if there is to be an agreement then it needs to be a good agreement and not a bad agreement. I hope that they will reach a good agreement and we will do our utmost to convince the major powers and the leaders to avoid a bad agreement."PM Netanyahu after meeting with US Secretary Kerry (8 Nov 2013):"I met Secretary Kerry right before he leaves to Geneva. I reminded him that he said that no deal is better than a bad deal. And the deal that is being discussed in Geneva right now is a bad deal. It's a very bad deal. Iran is not required to take apart even one centrifuge. But the international community is relieving sanctions on Iran for the first time after many years. Iran gets everything that it wanted at this stage and pays nothing. And this is when Iran is under severe pressure.I urge Secretary Kerry not to rush to sign, to wait, to reconsider, to get a good deal. But this is a bad deal, a very, very, bad deal. It's the deal of a century for Iran; it's a very dangerous and bad deal for peace and the international community."PM Netanyahu prior to meeting with US Secretary Kerry (8 Nov 2013):"I understand that the Iranians are walking around very satisfied in Geneva, as well they should be, because they got everything, and paid nothing, they wanted. They wanted relief from sanctions after years of a grueling sanctions regime. They got that. They are paying nothing because they are not reducing in any way their nuclear enrichment capability. So Iran got the deal of the century and the international community got a bad deal. This is a very bad deal.Israel utterly rejects it and what I am saying is shared by many, many in the region whether or not they express it publicly. Israel is not obliged by this agreement and Israel will do everything it needs to defend itself, to defend the security of its people."PM Netanyahu at the conference on joint strategic dialogue between the Government of Israel and world Jewish communities (7 Nov 2013):"Israel understands that there are proposals on the table in Geneva today that ease the pressure on Iran for concessions that are not concessions at all. The proposal would allow Iran to retain the capabilities to make nuclear weapons. Israel totally opposes these proposals. I believe that adopting them is a mistake of historic proportions. They must be rejected outright.The sanctions regime has brought the Iranian economy to the edge of the abyss. And the P5+1 can compel Iran to fully dismantle its nuclear weapons program. This means ending all enrichment, stopping all work on the heavy water plutonium reactor. Anything else will make a peaceful solution less likely. Israel always reserves the right to defend itself, by itself, against any threat."PM Netanyahu to delegation of US members of Congress (7 Nov 2013):"If the news that I am receiving of the impending proposal by the P5+1 is true, this is the deal of the century, for Iran. Because Iran is essentially giving nothing and it's getting all the air taken out, the air begins to be taken out of the pressure cooker that it took years to build in the sanctions regime. What we're having today is a situation that Iran is giving up, at best, a few days of enrichment time, but the whole international regime's sanctions policy has the air taken out of it. That's a big mistake, it will relieve all the pressure inside Iran, it is a historic mistake, a grievous historic error."PM Netanyahu after meeting with US Secretary Kerry (6 Nov 2013):"I believe that as long as they continue their goal to enrich uranium, to get nuclear weapons, the pressure should be maintained and even increased because they're increasing enrichment, and I believe that it's possible with intense pressure because of the sanctions regime led in large part by the United States to get Iran to fully dismantle its nuclear weapons program, and that's really what we're seeking.A full, peaceful, complete dismantling of Iran's nuclear weapons capability, end of all enrichment, end of all centrifuges, end of the plutonium reactor. If this is achieved, I'd welcome it. I'd be very worried with any partial deals that enable Iran to maintain those capabilities but begin to reduce sanctions because I think this could undermine the longevity and durability of the sanctions regime."


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As a team Baker shot its lowest team score and Thompson shot the lowest individual round of any player since head coach Karen Exon took over the program in 2005.
The Wildcats won the tournament over seven other teams with a first round score of 297, a second round score of 286 for a total round of 583. They out shot every team by at least 11 strokes.
The team that finished just behind Baker, as strange as it sounds, was Baker. The BU JV squad took second overall with a first round score of 299, second round of 295 for a total score of 594.
Thompson shot the lowest round of any player at Baker since 2005 with a first round -5 66 and then shot a par 71 on day two. He shot the lowest two-day round of any golfer in the tournament with a score of 137.
Two varsity golfers finished in the top five, as Andy Kelley tied for second with a two-day score of 141, Grant Grego tied for fourth with his final score of 145.
Another JV golfer that had a stellar performance was junior Zach Pickett who shot a first round 76 and then followed that up with a 69 on day two to tie for fourth.
Baker finished ahead of defending Heart of America Athletic Conference tournament champion and tournament host Central Methodist and finished ahead of fellow HAAC opponents Missouri Valley and Evangel.
Place Team Total Score
1st Place Baker 583
2nd Place Baker JV 594
3rd Place Missouri Valley 597
4th Place Central Methodist 599
5th Place Evangel 606
6th Place Missouri Valley JV 607
7th Place William Woods 608
8th Place Central Methodist JV 639


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Kanye West has found success by working hard and collaborating with the right people. However, Kim Kardashian has gained fame by being on a reality show and being famous for nothing in particular. And Kanye wants his relationship to be as popular as his friend Jay-Z. He is married to Beyonce, and both of them have worked hard to get to where they are. According to a new Wetpaint Entertainment report published on Jan. 14, Kanye West is now accusing his best friend's wife of stealing from him.
Apparently, Kanye is upset that Beyonce is getting so much attention and success with her new album, because he thinks that he may have had the idea before her. "Kanye is feeling really defeated over Beyonce's album doing so well," says a source close to the rapper. "He wanted to do a visual album for his [My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy] album, but everyone around him convinced him it wouldn't work. That's why he ended up doing one long movie to go with it [the 35-minute short film, 'Runaway']."
One could argue that Kanye's credibility has taken a hit after he started dating Kim, because many see her as being desperate for attention and the spotlight. Beyonce and Jay-Z are often private people, so it seems like an odd thing to criticize. "He's kind of annoyed, but he doesn't want to talk about how he came up with the idea first because of how he got slammed for saying he invented leather jogging pants a few years ago. Plus, he needs to stay on good terms with Jay Z," a source adds.
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The cinderella grape from France is showing its potential in Argentinian wine. The cool nights, intense sunlight filled days and long arid growing season in the Mendoza growing area are drawing doubting tasters to declare Malbec a varietal worth seeking out.
Malbec has suffered. Known as a red blending grape for wines in Bordeaux, Loire, Cahors and California, Malbec lights seemed dim. It is susceptible to frost, rot and downy mildew, making it a temperamental grape for growing. In a normal French growing season, it requires frequent nurturing intervention by man. This increase cost, without added finesse to the final wine, made for it being pulled up and replaced.
The Malbec plant in France and North America, like most of the world's grape plants used for fine wine are grafted onto the root stock of native American grape plants (vitis labrusca). This grafting was developed because of a nasty little louse that has caused major destruction of fine wine grapes in the past. First in France in 1860s, and more recently in California in 1980s, the phylloxera louse is a hungry menace, munching rootstock at record pace and devastating vineyards. Native American rootstock is resistant. Hence most of the worlds' fine wine grapes grow on roots from a different grape plant.
Not so in South America. Argentinian Malbec, brought to Argentina in 1852 by French viticulturist Miguel Pouget, is planted on its own root stock. The nasty louse has not penetrated South America. Can grafting change fruit flavor composition? Can part of Argentina's Malbec success be because it is superior on its own rootstock? For most of the world, the answer to this question does not matter. In order to grow fine wine grapes, there was no choice but to graft.
It is clear that in Argentina, Malbec has found its perfect home. Now, it is the belle of the ball. And Argentina has found a perfect vehicle to present its terroir. This high altitude viticulture with intense sunlight at the foot of the Andes produces liquid pleasure.
And the price is just as excellent as the taste. Here are three affordable Malbec's from Argentina that you can find in Denver liquor and wine stores. These show the Argentinian expression of Malbec to be an aroma of raspberry, cherry, cedar and tobacco with a mouthful of intense flavor, balanced between sweet and acid, with a zingy finish.
Trivento Select Malbec 2008, Argentina 750 ml $10.99 (Keg Liquors)
Trapiche Oak Cask Malbec 2007, Argentina 750 ml $9.99 (Argonaut Liquors)
Alamos Malbec 2008, Argentina 750 ml $7.99 (Heritage Discount Wine and Liquor) $8.99 (Keg Liquors)
Prices and availability as of January 23, 2010.
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Aug. 19, 2011
Box Score | Postgame Video Highlights
Northridge, Calif. - B.J. Snow's debut as head coach of the UCLA women's soccer team went off without a hitch on Friday evening, as the ninth-ranked Bruins opened the season with a 2-0 shutout over Cal State Northridge before 1,376 fans at the Matador Soccer Field.
The Bruins (1-0) struck once each half, moving out to a 1-0 lead when senior Sydney Leroux scored in the 29th minute. The goal occurred when freshman Caprice Dydasco played a ball to Leroux, who was making a run toward the top of the box. Leroux took a touch before finishing with a right-footed shot to the bottom right corner, just beating a diving Matador goalkeeper Cynthia Jacobo.
Freshman Rosie White got in on the scoring in the 73rd minute following a corner kick from fellow newcomer Chelsea Stewart. Stewart's ball into the box was punched up into the air by Jacobo. White got under it, heading the ball into the goal from close range.
Leroux led all players with six shots on the evening. Sophomore Jenna Richmond, who tore her ACL in last year's NCAA Tournament, made a successful return to the Bruin lineup as a reserve. UCLA out-shot Northridge, 20-6 on the night. The Bruins had six newcomers in Friday's starting lineup.
Next up for the Bruins is a showdown with Tennessee at the 2011 Lady Vol Classic in Knoxville next Friday.


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It's never too early to start your Christmas card making and these gorgeous dies from Marianne in the Creatables range will make loads of cards. They can be used alone or together to create wonderful die cut Christmas scenes.
There are 7 new Creatables to choose from: Village 1, Village 2, Tree 1, Tree 3, Sleigh, Reindeer, and Icicle. Here are the sleigh and reindeer.
Madeleine made this card using Marianne CreatablesVillage 1, Village 2 and Icicles.
The card will be appearing in the Gallery soon with full step by step instructions.
All the Marianne Creatables can be used in the Big Shot, Cuttlebug and Grand Calibur die cutting machines and most of the dies not only cut but emboss as well. To emboss the Marianne Creatables use with the Kars Cut and Emboss Mat in the Cuttlebug and Big Shot and with the tan mat in the Grand Calibur.


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We're rapidly approaching the halfway point of Jack Bauer's return, and so far 24: Live Another Day has been as turbulent for the audience as it has for Jack. The show's been up, it's been down, and now it's starting to get crazy with drones everywhere and Benjamin Bratt finally getting out from his office. Just when you think you know 24, then an episode like this happens.
Picking up where we left off, the smoke is literally still clearing after the U.S. Embassy shootout, and Jack is being taken into custody while his new quasi-ally Kate Morgan is playing dumb beside him. She leaves him to struggle with the Marines, while she gets in touch with Chloe and reveals to partner Erik that she has the all-important flight key. "This is crazy," Erik says, because somebody has to say something like that at least once during every season of 24.
Once they're driving away from the Embassy, Kate finishes uploading the flight key's data to Open Cell, where Adrian redeems himself by spotting the drone-control override code amongst the programming. Kate then forwards screen grabs of the override code back to the CIA office, so that Jordan and Navarro can see it for themselves. "I'm putting my ass on the line. You can't have any doubts about this," Navarro tells Jordan, who agrees with Kate that the original drone was hacked, leading Navarro to phone President Heller - and have Kate explain everything we know to the White House contingent.
Back at Terrorist House, Margot apologizes to Simone - we don't think they make "sorry I had my henchman chop off your finger" cards - before going downstairs to see how Simone's husband and her brother are coming along with the drones. Allegedly, they will have drone control within five minutes. But she's not happy, because Heller has begrudgingly ordered all drones grounded. Forced to activate the override code sooner rather than later, the terrorists are only able to seize control of a half-dozen drones, which is still a half-dozen more than anyone else would like.
Everyone goes into panic mode, except for maybe Colin Salmon's General Coburn, because nothing ever bothers Colin Salmon. Kate and Erik arrive back at their office just as Navarro is debriefing all the other CIA agents whose names we will probably never learn; he then brings Kate into the nearest empty room and tells her that the Marines have filed a complaint against her, which means now she's really off the case. We know that really means next to nothing in the 24 world. And then everyone is promptly distracted by Margot's manifesto: she wants Heller to surrender himself to her in three hours, or else.
Of course, like every good terrorist plot on this show, this is personal. Near the halfway point and General Coburn is giving the White House team - and by extension, us - the briefing on the drone strike that killed Margot's husband and several children. The President then goes to see Jack and formally asks for his help in stopping the impending attack. Jack mentions an arms dealer that has worked with Margot in the past, and insists that the best way to get to him is for Jack himself to take care of business. "You've been in exile for four years, Jack," Heller retorts. "Haven't you learned anything?" Uh, haven't you learned never to doubt Jack Bauer?
Simone's husband gains some points when he reveals that he ensured Margot's manifesto was traceable, which allows Navarro to take a CIA team to Terrorist House. However, these points are immediately lost, because Simone's husband decides to impart this information to his wife. Not to belabor the point, Navid, but the last time you told your wife something, she squealed on you to her mother. Clearly you don't learn either.
Next comes the moment some of us have been waiting for: Audrey comes face-to-face with Jack for the first time in years. She has no real need to be there, but it had to happen, otherwise why bring her back to the show in the first place? Awkward lines are said, Audrey starts crying, and then there's a Moment with a capital M. While she composes herself, her father and husband break the bad news to the British Prime Minister, and Kate calls Chloe to express her concern that Navarro and company may be walking into a trap. Indeed, Margot then immediately tells Navid "They're not coming," and has him beaten unconscious.
As everyone looks on, the CIA team gets blown up in a fantastic explosion, leaving us to wonder about the fates of Navarro and Erik. One person we don't need to worry about anymore is Navid, who gets a bullet in the head just as he realizes that his wife never really gave a damn about him.
24 always gets an extra jolt when we get to the point in the season when characters start mentioning times and countdowns and ultimatums; because it's a real-time show, that gives the audience something to look forward to or worry about. We had those five minutes to cringe at Margot getting control of the drones, and we've got two more hours to go on her three-hour deadline, during which we can bite our nails and hope that Heller doesn't end up like Ryan Chappelle. There's a certain palpable tension that comes from a known threat rather than just a perceived one, and this show knows how to get us counting every second.
The question is - and we've raised this with previous episodes - are those moments still as enjoyable when we can see them coming? There's no doubt that the show has lost some of its unpredictability, in part because TV audiences are getting smarter; common sense told us that the CIA was never actually going to find Margot, not this early on, anyway. We knew there was a 'but' coming. Yet even without the element of surprise, there was still a certain amount of dread, because we then also knew the characters were walking into a trap, and all of those characters were relatively expendable. We don't necessarily need to be surprised, as long as we're made to give a damn about what happens next.
There are still moments that require a suspension of disbelief at best, or at worst prompt a little laughter. They don't make people much more naive than Simone's husband Navid, for example. But there have been those little contrivances throughout the run of 24, like how Jack never managed to find himself stuck in Los Angeles traffic, or the infamous "mountain lion" subplot that was best known for giving us a pre-Entourage Kevin Dillon. But there are less of those moments as the season goes on, and that's a good sign. As is one of the great explosions 24 loves to bring us, which provide the entertainment value.
If there's one complaint we have, it's this: we've finally spotted former Spooks star Miranda Raison - and it took us three episodes to find her because she's lurking in the background as a political aide. This is an actress who spent several seasons on an equally challenging show, holding her own alongside the likes of Rupert Penry-Jones, and we can't give her anything to do? Somebody please change that, and pronto. Having the former Jo Portman join Kiefer Sutherland and Yvonne Strahovski, that would be one heck of a team-up.
24: Live Another Day continues next Monday at 9 PM ET/PT on FOX.
(c)2014 Brittany Frederick. Appears at Examiner with permission. All rights reserved. No reproduction permitted. Visit my official website and follow me on Twitter at @tvbrittanyf.


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Animated Playstation And X-Box Controller Evolutions
These are two animated GIFs of the Playstation and X-Box's controllers evolving created by the folks at GadgetLove (I love eating). What will the look like next? Your guess is as good as mine! "Penises." Well damn, your guess was even better (mine was bicycle handlebars).
Keep going for the X-Box one.
Thanks to Marc, who heard the next generation of consoles aren't even going to have controllers and games will be controlled entirely WITH THE MIND. But my brain sucks :(


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