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May 9, 2000
LOS ANGELES, Ca. - For the third-straight year, the Los Angeles Tennis Center, home of the No. 2 UCLA men's tennis team (21-3), will be the site of first and second-round NCAA Regionals from May 13-14. The No. 2 UCLA men will take on the University of Missouri-Kansas City at Noon on Saturday, May 13. Making up the other two teams at the four-team regional will be Notre Dame and New Mexico State. Those two teams will face off at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday. The men's final will take place on Sunday at Noon.
NCAA Regional Tournament Schedule at LATC
*Listed below is the complete LATC schedule for both the men's and women's
Friday, May 12:
(Women's Round of 64)
Match #1 Georgia Teach vs. Washington 10 am
Match #2 Boston University vs. UCLA 1 pm
Saturday, May 13
(Men's Round of 64) Match #1 New Mexico State vs. Notre Dame 9 am
Match #2 UMKC vs. UCLA 12 pm
(Women's Round of 32) Match #3 Winner of #1 vs. Winner of #2 3 pm
Sunday, May 14
(Men's Round of 32) Match #3 Winner of #1 vs. Winner of #2 12 pm
Bruins in the NCAA Individual Championships:
Three UCLA men's tennis players were selected to participate in the NCAA individual championship tournament, held in Athens, GA from May 24-28. UCLA had three at-large selections in singles as Jean-Noel Grinda, Jong-Min Lee and Brandon Kramer all received bids. In doubles, Kramer and Lee, who are currently ranked No. 2 in the nation, received an automatic doubles selection.
NCAA Championships Selection Process:
The selection of teams and individuals for the Division I Men's Tennis Championships is based on won-lost record, strength of schedule and eligibility and availability of student-athletes. Each region receives automatic entry for four singles players and two doubles teams. The seeds for the individual championships will be available on Tuesday, May 23.
NCAA Championship Structure:
- The NCAA Division I men's tennis championships consist of single-elimination team and individual championships. In NCAA men's tennis
dual matches, the three doubles matches count for one point total and are
played first followed by the six singles matches. Each singles match counts
for one point, with the best of three sets winning the match and a 12-point
tie breaker at six games all. The team winner is determined by the first
team to reach four points.
- This year marks the second straight year that the NCAA Tennis Championships
bracket consists of 64 teams, meaning that all participants will compete in
the first round. Regionals consist of four teams each at 16 sites throughout
the country. The winners of those 16 Regionals will advance to the NCAA Team
Championships at the University of Georgia in Athens, May 20-28.
- The individual championship tournament is comprised of 64-singles and 32-doubles teams which begin play directly following the conclusion of the team championship. The first round of singles and a round of doubles will be played on Wednesday, May 24. Two more rounds of singles and a round of doubles will be played on Thursday, May 25. Quarterfinal action is slated for Friday, May 26, semifinals for the 27th and the individual singles and doubles finals will be on Sunday, May 28.
UCLA's NCAA Tournament History:
UCLA is the only team to compete in every NCAA Championship since 1977 when the team dual-match format began. Since then, the Bruins have reached the championship final nine times, winning three titles and finishing as runner-up five times. Altogether, the Bruins own 15 NCAA men's tennis titles dating back to 1950 and most recently in 1984 and have also finished as runner-up 12 times. In addition, UCLA players have won nine singles and 11 doubles championships. Head coach Billy Martin was the last UCLA player to claim a singles title when he won it in 1975. The team of Justin Gimelstob and Srdjan Muskatirovic claimed the Bruins' most recent title by winning the doubles championship in 1996.
Bruins Retain No. 2 Ranking:
UCLA continues to hold the No. 2 slot in the latest edition of the ITA national team rankings released on May 3. In the individual rankings also released on May 3, the Bruins have four singles players and two doubles teams listed. Leading the way with a No. 27 singles ranking is senior Jong-Min Lee. Senior Brandon Kramer and junior All-American Jean-Noel Grinda are listed in the Top 50 at No. 38 and No. 47, respectively. Rounding out the list of nationally ranked Bruins is freshman Jean-Julien Rojer, who comes in at No. 64. In doubles, the team of Kramer and Lee vaulted to No. 2 in the latest poll after winning the doubles final at the Pac-10 Championships in Ojai on April 30. Also ranked among the nation's top in doubles is the tandem of Grinda and Rojer, which is listed at No. 41.
Last Year
Bruins are NCAA Team Runner-Ups:
Armed with a No. 1 final regular-season national ranking and a top-seed entering the 1999 NCAA Team Championships, the UCLA men's tennis team was a heavy favorite to capture the program's 16th NCAA Title. At the NCAA Regionals, the host Bruins opened with a 4-0 win over Western Michigan and then went on to defeat San Diego State 4-1. After advancing to the NCAA Championships in Athens, Ga., UCLA had no trouble making it to the finals, posting convincing wins over Virginia Tech (4-1), Florida (4-1) and LSU (4-1). But in the championship game, the underdog Georgia, inspired by a home crowd of over 5, 000, shocked the top-ranked Bruins 4-3 in one of the closest and most entertaining NCAA finals ever played.
More Last Year
Bruins' Individual Results:
- Four Bruins qualified to compete in the individual portion of the championships in 1999. Jean-Noel Grinda competed in both the singles and doubles draws along with his partner, Jong-Min Lee. Also competing in the doubles draw was Jason Cook and Brandon Kramer.
- In singles, Grinda fell 7-6(4), 1-6, 4-6 in the first round to Florida's Nathan Overholser. In doubles, Grinda and Lee opened with a 6-3, 6-3 win over UNLV's Skorin and Zivcovic before being eliminated by eventual champions Hippensteel and Wolters. Cook and Kramer ousted Virginia's team of Montgomery and Vahaly 6-4, 6-4 before losing to USC's Gottesleben and Kukal 7-6(6), 6-3 in the second round.
Contacting The Bruins:
UCLA Media Relations Intern Colette Jue will handle all interview requests for the men's tennis team. In addition, media and photography credentials for the NCAA Regional may be obtained by working press by contacting her at 310-206-7870. All requests should be submitted at least 24 hours in advance.
2000 NCAA Championships Results:
Results for the NCAA Regionals and NCAA Championships can be accessed at www.ncaachampionships.com
Bruins are Pac-10 Runner-Ups
Last year's Pac-10 co-Champions, UCLA closed out conference play with a 6-1 record to fall just one game shy of the title. Stanford finished Pac-10 play with a perfect 7-0 mark to capture the title for the third straight year, while USC came in at third with a 5-2 record.
Showing Their Depth
Bruins Shine In Ojai:
- UCLA claimed three titles in Ojai at the Pac-10 Individual Championships as the No. 2 ranked team in the nation demonstrated its depth. For the second straight year, the Bruins claimed both doubles titles and the Invitational division singles crown.The Pac-10 Championships provided a good preview of the upcoming NCAA Championships, as the two top teams in the nation, No. 1 Stanford and No. 2 UCLA dominated the tournament and continually went head-to-head. When it was all said and done, UCLA and Stanford earned a share of the Thatcher Cup after both teams recorded 12 match wins each in Ojai.
- The lower half of the UCLA lineup dominated the field of the Pac-10 Invitational tournament as all four Bruin players battled in the quarterfinals. Although three Stanford players defeated three UCLA players to reach the semifinals, Bruin freshman Erfan Djahangiri came out the winner, defeating Stanford's David Martin 7-5, 7-6(5) in the semis and Stanford's Ali Ansari 6-1, 6-2 in the finals. UCLA continued to dominate the Cardinal as the freshmen duo of Lassi Ketola and Travis Rettenmaier claimed the Invitational doubles title, posting a 6-4, 7-5 victory over Stanford's Ali Ansari and Scotty Scott in the finals.
- In the Pac-10 Championship portion, the Bruins showed their strength in doubles as the team of Brandon Kramer and Jong-Min Lee claimed a 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 victory over Oregon's Carter and Eisinga in the title match. The win marked Lee's second consecutive Pac-10 doubles title. Last year, he and Jean-Noel Grinda earned the title after defeating UCLA's Jason Cook and Kramer in the finals. In singles play, freshman Jean-Julien Rojer reached the semifinals before dropping a 6-4, 6-1 match to Stanford's Alex Kim.
UCLA's Home Court Advantage
UCLA finished the regular-season home portion of the 2000 schedule with only one loss to powerhouse Pepperdine. The loss snapped the LATC's 22-match home win streak. Last year, the Bruins went undefeated at home. Prior to its loss to Pepperdine, UCLA's last loss at home came on April 18, 1998 to then-No. 1 ranked Stanford (1-6) and was its only home setback of the 1998 season.
About the NCAA Regional Opponents:
- The UMKC men's tennis team returns to the NCAA Division I Championships for
the second consecutive year. The Kangaroos earned an automatic bid to the
tournament for the second straight year by virtue of winning the
Mid-Continent Conference post-season championship. In 1999, the Kangaroos
made their first trip to the NCAA tournament and were defeated by Southern
California 4-0 in a first round match at Fresno, Calif. The Kangaroos, 12-10
overall and 6-0 in Mid-Con play, also captured the league's regular season
title for the second straight year.
- The 42nd ranked New Mexico State Aggies are currently 15-5 and finished
second in the Big West Conference after falling 4-0 to Boise State in the
finals of the Big West Championship on April 30. New Mexico State is making
its second NCAA appearance, having lost its first match in the NCAA
Regionals in 1997. The Aggies are expected to start 77th-ranked and
first-team All-Big West selection Marc Legris at the No. 1 position.
Second-team All-Big West honoree Cesar Obieta will play in the No. 2 slot.
Jens Bolleyer will be at No. 3 and Felix Hutt will play in the No. 4
position. Rounding out singles will be Alvaro Dominguez at No. 5 position
and Ben Newcombe at No. 6. The 39th-ranked tandem of Legris and Obieta will
play the No. 1 position for the Aggies. The first-team All-Big West doubles
team posted a 22-6 record on the season. Bolleyer and Newcombe are in the
No. 2 slot and Hutt and Dominguez will handle the No. 3 double position.
- Notre Dame is making its 10th consecutive appearance in the NCAAs. The Irish earned at at-large selection into the NCAA Championships with a 12-10 record. Ninth-ranked Ryan Sachire will lead the Fighting Irish in singles. Sachire currently stands at 30-7 on the season and has been selected to compete in the 64-player NCAA singles championship. The doubles team of Javier Taborga and Aaron Talarico are ranked 29th by the ITA and have been chosen to play in the 32-team doubles championships.


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Three new game developers joined the Game Producer Insiders. Here's the latest information from one of the new members.
Charlie Wiederhold, who works as an associate producer at Gearbox Software, decided to join the insiders. Here's what Charlie has to say:
"Two weeks ago I started at my new role as Associate Producer on a title at Gearbox Software (still near Dallas, Texas like 3D Realms).
While at 3DR I had started as a level designer, then moved into programming after about 4 years on Duke Nukem Forever. After about 2 more years I moved into more of a Producer role. After 2 years of that (8 years total) I opted for a change and started looking around. After a pretty good amount of seeing what was out there Gearbox had the best thing going that matched with my career goals as well as what I'm looking for in a company right now.
Before 3DR I spent 1 year at Ritual Entertainment as a level designer and scripter on Sin. Before that I spent about 6 months full time and 6 months contract with Sunstorm Interactive doing addons for Build Engine games (Duke 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood, Redneck Rampage). There I was a level designer, programmer, and psuedo-project manager/producer.
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On the final day of the Pacific-12 softball season, No. 2 UCLA slammed No. 3 Arizona State, 9-2 Saturday in Tempe, outhitting the Sun Devils 13-4 with home runs from Delaney Spaulding and Alyssa Tiumalu.
The Bruins (48-6, 19-5 Pacific-12) won the final two games to win a three-game series versus ASU (44-10-1, 15-7-1) for the first time since 2009, but finished one game behind No.1 Oregon for the conference title. The Ducks won at No. 8 Arizona 14-3 Saturday.
"They kind of got on a roll early," ASU coach Craig Nicholson said of UCLA. "Obviously it's a lot easier to hit when you have a 5-2 lead rather than when you have a five-run hole, they took advantage. We need to do our job of coming out and being solid defensively."
UCLA opened the scoring in the first, as Spaulding doubled a line drive off the center field fence to put Ally Carda on third, who was driven home on a Mysha Sataraka single.
On her Senior Day, Cheyenne Coyle smacked a two-run home run to center, scoring classmate Bailey Wigness, as the Sun Devils took the lead in the bottom of the first.
"It was a pretty good pitch that I was looking for," said Coyle, who was 2-for-2. "I don't know if she was going out or in, but it was a pretty good pitch for me to hit. I was just trying to be aggressive and not let them get ahead of me, right from the gun I was looking for a good pitch."
Spaulding, who was 3-for-5 on the day, singled in Scottsdale native Gracie Goulder with two outs in the second to wrap the game at 2-2.
UCLA center fielder Allexis Bennett may be the best hitter in the matchup with a .437 batting average, but she made the defensive play of Saturday's game with a diving catch on Chelsea Gonzales for the second out of the second inning.
The Bruins scored three more runs in the top of the third. Sataraka led off with a single and was driven home by Gabrielle Maurice, who went 3-for-4 Saturday. That prompted Dallas Escobedo to replace Mackenzie Popescue at the mound for ASU. Goulder loaded the bases with a hit, Bennett drove in Jessica Hall, and a walk to Carda scored Maurice, before Escobedo retired Spaulding and LaRosa.
UCLA came right back in the fourth with Tiumalu's solo home run, and shortly after, Goulder tripled off the wall to score Maurice to make it 7-2.
ASU had its best chance for a comeback in the bottom of the fifth when Carda walked Haley Steele to load the bases with two outs, but Alix Johnson grounded out to strand the runners.
Spaulding put the icing on the cake with her two-run shot on no outs in the seventh.
Carda, who had the game-tying and winning home runs Friday night, replaced Jessica Hall after the Coyle home run and allowed one hit in four innings
"She just comes out and changes speeds," Nicholson said of Carda, who improved to 29-4. "She's probably the hardest thrower we've seen all year, but it's more than that, she gets good locations, she just kept us off balance all weekend."
Popescue (20-3) recorded the loss after allowing five of the runs, and Escobedo had an off night with three strikeouts and five walks.
"My arm was a little sore, just getting out there and trying to throw hard, that made me focus more on the corners and staying off the plate, but they made adjustments, and I tried my best," Escobedo said.
The NCAA will announce the brackets, seeds, regional sites, and matchups at 7 p.m. Sunday on ESPNU, and both UCLA and ASU expect to be in the top two to four seeds.


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Klish, William J.*; Karavias, Kellie E.‡; White, Katie S.‡; Balch, Angela J.‡; Fraley, J. Kennard*; Mikhail, Carmen*; Abrams, Stephanie H.*; Terrazas, Norma L.†; Smith, E. O'Brian*; Wong, William W.*
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Received 15 June, 2011
Accepted 5 August, 2011
The project was entirely supported by the Houston Independent School District.
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ABSTRACT: The aim of the study was to determine the effectiveness of a school-initiated cognitive and behavioral program to reduce childhood obesity. Height, weight, body mass index (BMI), and BMI z scores were obtained at the beginning and end of the school year at an intervention school (n = 1022) and at a control school (n = 692). The prevalence of overweight and obesity was 18.9% and 30.4% versus 19% and 30.2%, respectively, in the intervention and control schools. The incidence of overweight increased in the control school, but the incidence of obesity, weight, and BMI z scores increased significantly in the intervention school, suggesting that implementation of any school-based obesity intervention programs requires careful planning to achieve goals.
Childhood obesity has increased dramatically in the United States during the last 2 decades (1). School-based initiatives directed at either increasing exercise or mandating a healthy diet have been the most popular approach toward a solution to the problem. These approaches are logical given that most children in America attend school and are in essence a captive audience. The meta-analysis done by Katz et al (2) implies that weight reduction can be achieved through a school-based childhood obesity intervention initiative; however, studies done by Harris et al (3) and Dobbins et al (4) contend that school-based initiatives have no effect on weight or body composition. We report the results of a school-initiated comprehensive initiative at a large elementary school in Houston, Texas, with a huge Hispanic population.
The schools involved in the present study are located in a primarily Hispanic, low-income area of Houston. The intervention school had an enrollment of 1022 students, all of whom lived in densely populated apartment complexes with little or no access to safe play areas. The control school had an enrollment of 692 children with similar demographics and was in the same general area of the intervention school. No interventions related to healthy lifestyle were initiated in the control school during the study period. The intervention school staff recruited the control school for the study and collected all of the outcome data. The faculty at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) provided the stadiometers and digital scales for the measurements and the training on proper measurement techniques. None of the faculty and staff at BCM and Texas Children's Hospital was involved in the recruitment, the implementation, and the measurements. The study was approved by the institutional review board for human studies at BCM.
All of the students in both schools had their height and weight measured in duplicate at the beginning and the end of the school year. Children were classified into the following categories: underweight (body mass index [BMI] <5th percentile), normal weight (5th percentile ≤ BMI ≤85th percentile), overweight (85th percentile < BMI <95th percentile), and obese (BMI ≥95th percentile).
At the intervention school, the program was initiated with a lecture to all of the teaching personnel in the intervention school by one of our team (W.J.K.) about the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity and the medical consequences. This was followed by a presentation of the initial BMI data collected at the intervention school. The data were distributed to the appropriate teachers and shared with the parents. During an open house at the beginning of school, flyers were distributed that discussed, in English and Spanish, healthy snack choices, healthy food suggestions for meals, and physical fitness activities for parents and their children. Obese children were invited with their parents to participate in a 1-hour after-school behavior modification program that offered 30 minutes of dietary instruction and behavioral therapy and 30 minutes of physical activity. The Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health program (5) was introduced through student-generated billboards of large-size foods displayed in each category, as well as classroom sorting games and activities to teach children about healthy eating habits by categorizing foods into 3 groups: GO, SLOW, and WHOA foods. The 5-A-Day Friday, Recapture Recess, and GO-SLOW-WHOA foods were incorporated in an ancillary classroom. Five-A-Day Friday is a schoolwide weekly event in which staff, students, and faculty are encouraged to drop everything at the principal's announcement and enjoy a serving of their favorite fruit or vegetable. Additionally, live announcements and Dole 5-A-Day commercial clips were shown weekly on our in-house broadcasting system. For the Recapture Recess program, Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health fitness equipment was provided at the beginning of the school year for each grade level. The equipment included jump ropes, various outdoor balls, team vests, Frisbees, and cones to promote active recess time. The 4th- and 5th-grade students also had the opportunity to participate in an after-school program, Culinary Classroom and Gourmet Garden for the 21st Century. The goal of this program was to provide students with an understanding of the role of food for life and how the natural world sustains us. It also attempts to help students improve their own nutrition, develop healthy eating habits, and become culinary risk takers by trying and tasting new foods. The 4th-grade students also participated in a chef-in-school program provided by a nonprofit organization, Recipe for Success. In this program, a professional chef comes to the school once per month to teach students during their regular class time how to create healthy meals. This group also has field experiences such as visiting a farm, shopping at a large supermarket, and visiting a restaurant to view the kitchen facilities and preparing a healthy meal. The in-house school broadcast system also promoted schoolwide nutrition messages weekly. All of the third- to fifth-grade students viewed videos that discussed healthy eating and participated in hands-on nutrition label reading exercises. Aramark, the commercial provider of the school lunch program, was petitioned to modify a-la-cart lunchroom items to make them healthier and provide fruits and vegetables at least 2 to 3 times per week in the after-school snack program. The after-school program also provided soccer, cheerleading, dance, and karate as a way to increase physical activity not available during regular school hours.
An independent samples t test was used to compare the means of the continuous variables and χ2 or Fisher exact test to compare proportions of the categorical variables for the baseline characteristics of the participants within the control and intervention schools. Binary logistic regression analysis was used to compare control and intervention groups with respect to proportion (prevalence, incidence, and remission) of overweight children and the proportion of obese children while adjusting for ethnicity and sex. The adjusted odds ratio was calculated to quantify the effect of the intervention relative to the control school. Because the elementary school students represented a heterogeneous group of children from a behavioral and developmental perspective, a hierarchical statistical analysis of BMI outcome by classroom teachers was performed while adjusting for potential differences in grade, sex, race, age, and baseline BMI.
Of the 1022 children in the intervention school, 779 had measurements at the beginning and the end of the school year and were included in the statistical analyses. The control school had a total enrollment of 692, and 510 children had both measurements. Transfers, parents moved, or absenteeism were the reasons for the reduced participants at the end of the school year. The incomplete measurement rates were similar between the intervention school (23.8%) and control school (26.3%). As shown in Table 1, the baseline characteristics of participants within the 2 schools were essentially equivalent. Hispanics, mostly of Mexican descent, were the predominant group at both schools. Weight distribution, BMI, and BMI z scores were also identical between the 2 schools. The difference in the prevalence of underweight between the schools could be ignored because of the small sample size. The prevalence of obesity in both schools at the beginning of the school year was >30%, which is much higher than the national average (6).
Table 2 shows the prevalence, incidence, and remission of overweight and obesity at the beginning and the end of the 9-month-long school year for those students who had paired observations. There was no difference in the prevalence of overweight at the end of the study period in both schools. The same was true with the prevalence of obesity. The total number of overweight and obese children did not change during the course of the school year within the control school starting. The intervention school started at 384 obese and overweight students and ended with 378. The percentage of students who became overweight during the course of the school year was less (P = 0.02) in the intervention group (4.1%) than in the control group (8.9%). Because the sample (n) used to calculate this number only represents those children who were normal at the beginning of the study, however, the children who moved from the obese to the overweight group were not included. This is important because the prevalence of overweight at follow-up was not statistically different. More students became obese in the intervention group than in the control group (7.7% vs 4.2%, respectively, P = 0.04) during the course of the school year. The remission data showed that the intervention school had a slight increase in the number of students going into remission than the control school, but the differences are not statistically significant.
As multiple classroom teachers (caregivers) and various programs were implemented across a varied student body, a hierarchical statistical analysis of BMI outcome by classroom teachers was performed while adjusting for potential differences in grade, sex, race, age, and baseline BMI. The analysis again showed no significant difference in BMI outcome (P = 0.22) between the 2 schools. With the fourth graders receiving an additional chef-in-school program, their BMI outcomes may have distorted the results. A hierarchical statistical analysis of BMI outcome by classroom teachers among the fourth graders while adjusting for potential differences in sex, race, age, and baseline BMI also showed no significant difference in BMI outcome (P = 0.14) between the 2 schools.
In spite of the fact that the teaching staff at the intervention school devoted significant time and effort to design a program to change the environment in the school and offer students every chance possible to develop a healthy lifestyle, there was no change in the average weight at the intervention school. Foster et al (7) described a successful school-based intervention to prevent overweight and obesity. Their program was similar to ours with several exceptions. Participants in their program were selected based on the parent's willingness to sign consent for their child to participate, and the largest segment of their student population was black. The program presented here was initiated by the school, so all of the students participated and most of the students were Hispanic. Perhaps signing consent signals a parent's willingness to participate and help their child make lifestyle changes. If this is true, then mandated school-based initiatives based on political legislation may not be successful unless the parents themselves lobby for the change. It is also possible that the Hispanic population that participated in our study was more resistant to change or was uncomfortable with participation because of language or cultural differences. In any case, the definition of success in the Foster et al study was weak in that the authors only saw a significant difference in the incidence of overweight just as we did. They reported an increase in the number of children who went from normal to overweight in the control schools but no difference in the numbers that went from overweight to normal. Their observations more likely were because they analyzed their data like us, and left out the children who moved between the obese and overweight categories.
There are limitations to the present study. We were able to carry on the study for a period of only 1 school year. It is possible that we could have seen changes in the second or third year; however, doing a longitudinal study that studies individual children in a school such as the 2 studied is extremely difficult. First, the dropout rate in the population studied is high. The fifth-grade students will graduate and move on to other schools, making them difficult to study. All of these changes diminish the power of the study and probably explain why there are few long-term longitudinal school-based obesity intervention studies.
The population studied was primarily of Hispanic origin and underprivileged. Perhaps data from this group cannot be generalized into other racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic groups. We studied this group because these children have some of the highest rates of obesity in the nation (8). Cognitive and behavior changes were not studied. There could well have been positive changes in these areas. The ultimate goal of any obesity prevention or treatment program is to achieve weight loss. For this reason, we believed monitoring weight should be the principal aim of the study.
As elementary school students represent a heterogeneous group of children from a behavioral and developmental perspective and the additional intervention program such as the chef-in-school program being offered to fourth graders may have distorted the outcomes, hierarchical statistical analyses on BMI outcome by classroom teachers while adjusting for potential differences in grade, sex, race, age, and baseline BMI were performed on all of the students and on the fourth graders alone. The results again showed no significant differences in BMI outcomes between the control and intervention schools.
The after-school program being offered to the obese children also attracted few participants (10 morbidly obese children from the third, fourth, and fifth grades) with no parental participants. At the end of the school year, only 5 of these children completed the program. The lack of participation further illustrates the difficulty of implementing after-school programs targeting obese children because they do not want to be singled out. The lack of parental participation is not surprising because both parents may be working to make ends meet or must stay home to take care of the younger siblings.
The possibility that students from the control school may have adopted some of the intervention programs could have distorted the outcomes. Although the 2 schools are approximately 1 mi apart, they are separated by 1 busy major street and another smaller street. Because the families who sent their children to these schools lived in apartment complexes within walking distance to the schools, the chance of cross-contamination was not likely. Furthermore, the teachers who performed the assessments at both schools did not observe any similar intervention programs at the control school.
We concluded from this exploratory study that in this population, a multicomponent school-based behavioral intervention program that incorporated environmental change, curriculum change, and engagement of parents for the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity may require further evaluation.
Hispanics; minority; multicomponent intervention; program; school-initiated obesity intervention
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James Morton, American born, of Scottish parents, has been employed in the wire mill for many years. Mr. Morton is a widower, age approximately sixty, lives since the death of his wife at the home of a brother.
"Business? Terrible. They keep tellin' you it's due to pick up, but it don't look like it. Still the old place runs along pretty good. That's one thing about it, it usually keeps goin', and they don't go in much for big layoffs. Keep you on the payroll.
"I'd like to help you out, but hell, I don't know's I can explain things right. Why don't you go to some of the real old timers over there? You been to see the Whites, and Charley Buckland, and them fellas? They can tell you what makes the wheels go 'round.
"Plenty of changes over there, sure, but they come on kind of gradual and the first thing you know, you're forgettin' there was ever any other way of doin' things.
"Nothin' much ever happens in the mill. You keep workin' day in and day out. They don't even have the fun they used to have after workin' hours any more. Just a bunch of dumb hunkies workin' there these days. And nobody's got a hell of a lot of money to spend. The lads used to get together once in a while and have some real times.
"I mean clambakes and the like of that. Did you go to see Jack Taylor? Did he tell you about the time he got his head cracked at the clambake? No, I don't suppose
"Matt Monahan was the one that done it. You wouldn't want to meet a nicer lad than Matt when he was sober, but when he had a few drinks in him he was a holy terror. He come up in back of Jack and tapped him with a piece of pipe. No reason at all. Lucky thing it just hit Jack a glancin' blow. He turned around and grabbed Matt and gave him a toss. Matt must have sailed about ten feet through the air, but he lit runnin' and kept on goin'. He knew if Jack got hold of him he'd kill him. They took Jack to the doctor's and got his cut sewed up and brought him back again.
"Old Johnny McLaughlin went to work on him, tellin' him about this girl named May. Her old man was supposed to be an engineer on the railroad, see, and they told Fritz how much she liked the boys, but the old man was suspicious and watched her like a hawk, see?
"But the old man had a night run every once in a while, see? And then a fella could get to see her. Well, Fritz fell for it. I don't think he ever see many girls before he come here, and he was such a dumbbell he didn't make much headway with 'em.
"Johnny had it all fixed up for a certain night. He had Ding Dwyer, and some of the other fellas down to the Bridge all set, and myself and Tom Chipman were in on it. He got Fritz to buy some candy for 'may' and a couple of pints of bootleg liquor, and we started out this night in Tom Chapman's
"Well, we got to Johnny's place and Fritz had been helpin' himself to the liquor and he was feelin' fine, and singin' at the top of his voice. There wasn't any lights in the house, of course, and we began to quiet Fritz down, tell him not to make any noise, because we didn't like the way things looked.
"But he was just drunk enough so he was feelin' brave. 'let's go,' he says; 'I want to see May.'
"We got up on the porch, and Johnny knocks on the door. Right away Dink Dwyer starts hollerin' from the inside. 'so you're the so and so who's been comin' to see my wife,' he yells, and he opens the door and fires a revolver. Blank, of course, 'Oh my God,' hollers Johnny: 'I'm shot.' And he falls down on the porch and keeps on yellin'.
"Well Fritz don't wait to see if Johnny dies or not. He dropped the box of candy on the porch and started out and believe me there wasn't any grass grew under his feet. He didn't keep to the road, he went right across country, and came out somewhere on the railroad track and up town that way. He stops in Cuppy Anderson's all out of breath and tells 'em Johnny McLaughlin's been shot. They just gave him the horse laugh.
"I suppose you couldn't get away with that stuff now that they got a cop workin' steady every night. Not unless you went some place 'way out in the country. There was other fellas used to play that trick from time to time—ever hear about when
"One night they turned the tables on him. They got a nice, juicy custard pie from Cuppy Anderson, and when John knocked at the door one of the fellas shoved it right in his face. And by God, he was mad. Did you ever notice how them fellas that like to see somebody else get the dirty end of it get madder'n hell when they get it themselves?"
"Another thing I see one time was a fake hangin'. But that wasn't fellas from the mill that did it. Me and some of the rest of them were there, but all we did was watch the proceedin's. It was a bunch from a carnival that was in town. Just about the time the Ku Klux Klan was
"This carnival bunch had it in for a couple of their own gang. A man and a woman. So they dressed up in sheets one night aid grabbed these two and took 'em up by the Two Mile Bridge, blindfolded, and put ropes around their necks, and pulled on the ropes a little bit. Some said they swung 'em off the ground, but that ain't true. They had to stop when the woman fainted. But they made 'em promise to leave the carnival.
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Incredible Floating Pre-Fab Neighborhood Pops Up in The Netherlands
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- Floating Houses is IjburgAn amazing neighborhood of 75 modern floating homes has popped up in IJburg, Netherlands, paying tribute to close relationship that the Dutch have with water. Using docks as sidewalks and the IJ Lake as a backyard, the flotilla is a large-scale adaptive development in a country that will be disproportionately affected with rising seas due to climate change. The modular homes by Architectenbureau Marlies Rohmer feature a flexible design - wall panels can be swapped for windows to adjust each house to its site. On a hot day residents can jump off the porch for a dip, or in winter they can strap on a pair of ice skates to get around.1
- Floating Houses is IjburgHouseboats have been around for quite a while, and the Dutch have built some extraordinary ones.2
- Floating Houses is Ijburg (7)Building floating neighborhoods is the next obvious step, as development pressure is making terrestrial resources increasingly scarce.3
- Floating Houses is Ijburg (8)The 75 mixed-income units on the Steigereiland (Jetty Island), located on the IJ Lake, are very similar in look, with only subdued colors and various heights distinguishing them from each other.4
- Floating Houses is Ijburg (5)The triangular dock layout and differing distances between rows help keep the development from becoming too uniform.5
- Floating Houses is Ijburg (15)A ring of similar-looking homes on the adjacent dike maintain the clean aesthetic.6
- Floating Houses is Ijburg (2)The homes have an upper deck to the water and a veranda facing the dock to encourage occupants to connect with their surroundings.7
- Floating Houses is Ijburg (3)Each house starts as a concrete tub which is then built up three stories with a metal frame.8
- Floating Houses is Ijburg (9)Colored plastic or glass panels are inserted into the frame to customize each unit.9
- Floating Houses is Ijburg (16)One to three homes are built in a single tub, with the lowest floor situated halfway below the water level.10
- Floating Houses is Ijburg (13)What is so astonishing about the design is how the neighborhood can grow and change according to its needs.11
- Floating Houses is Ijburg (12)While the promise of "mobile" homes never really succeeded on land, it might just be the ticket on the water.12
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An Abu Dhabi-based tycoon is in advanced talks about a takeover of the foreign currency provider Travelex, Sky News can reveal.
13:01, UK, Thursday 22 May 2014
The founder of one of the Middle East's biggest foreign currency providers is in talks to buy Travelex in a deal that would result in the abandonment of a £1bn London initial public offering (IPO).
Sky News can reveal that Travelex is in advanced talks with Dr Bavaguthu Shetty, the boss of UAE Exchange, about a sale that would value the British-based company's equity and debt at between £800m and £1bn.
The discussions could yet falter, but insiders said on Thursday that a deal could be announced within days if they progress as expected.
If the takeover negotiations do collapse, Travelex would move quickly towards formally announcing a stock market listing, a source said.
A sale would crystallise major windfalls for both Apax Partners, the private equity firm which bought a controlling stake in Travelex in 2005, and Lloyd Dorfman, Travelex's founder.
UAE Exchange is a major payments processing business which also operates a money transfer service under the name Money2Anywhere.
People said that Dr Shetty, a billionaire entrepreneur, was keen to acquire Travelex because of the UK company's extensive retail network and broad international corporate client base.
UAE Exchange is understood to employ more than 9000 people in around 40 countries, and remits $36bn (£21bn) to India each year.
It also operates a brand called Xpress Money which has 100,000 locations in 136 countries, according to the company's website.
Sky News revealed in February that Travelex was reaching out to potential buyers as it simultaneously pursued a stock market listing.
The prospect of an imminent sale was reported on Wednesday by Bloomberg News.
Travelex was set up in 1976 by Mr Dorfman, who remains its chairman and second-largest shareholder.
One of Britain's most successful entrepreneurs, he would remain as chairman if the company opts for a listing rather than a sale to Dr Shetty.
Travelex has a network of 1,500 stores and 1,250 ATMs in 27 countries around the world.
Goldman Sachs is understood to have been advising Travelex on sale discussions, with American Express and HNA, a Chinese group, also having expressed an interest.
Rothschild was brought in last autumn to help evaluate options for the business.
A stock market listing would probably have seen Travelex join the FTSE-250 index of the public companies ranked between 101 and 350 by size on the London markets.
Travelex has been reshaped since Peter Jackson, its chief executive, was recruited from Lloyds Banking Group in 2010, with the sale of its card management and global payments operations for an aggregate total of nearly £1bn.
Apax and Travelex declined to comment.
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Movie: burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese morphs into a stiletto shoe every fifteen minutes in a holographic performance that was created by London company Musion for the Design Museum's exhibition on iconic shoe designer Christian Louboutin. More »
London 2012 Olympic Torch by BarberOsgerby
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Dezeen Wire: the London 2012 Olympic Torch by east London designers BarberOsgerby has been awarded as Design of the Year in a ceremony at the Design Museum in London tonight. More »
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Designed in Hackney: Hoxton-based designer Michael Marriott created a landscape of cardboard tubes to display items on show at this year's Designs of the Year exhibition at London's Design Museum. The winning entries for each category will be revealed at an awards ceremony tomorrow evening. More »
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The US-Egypt Advanced Studies Institute (ASI) on "Nanomaterials and Nanocatalysis for Energy, Petrochemicals and Environmental Applications" will be held March 27 – April 5, 2010 in Cairo, Egypt.
The ASI is sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and will be hosted by the National Research Centre (NRC) of Egypt in Cairo. The ASI will provide education and training for both U.S. and Egyptian graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the state-of-the-art, cutting edge research areas of nanomaterials and nanotechnology with specific focus on nanocatalysis research for energy, petrochemicals and environmental applications.
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Goldman's Take On Bernanke's Speech: "No Surprises... Market Expects Easing Action On September 21"
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Until someone/something comes out and credibly shows how jobs will be created (rather than continuing to be lost) and wages will stabilize or rise (rather than continuing to fall), you can safely place your bets that the economy will continue to worsen.
The middle class IS the economy. They spend money on "stuff" when they have money to spend. I'd venture to speculate that the middle class is responsible for 80% of the two thirds of the economy that is driven by private spending.
It's not rocket science as to why every single assumption built into The Bernank's Virtuous Circle Econometric Theory is fatally flawed, nor why The Bernank is an epic failure of an economist, prognosticator and human being.
Plan/Hedge accordingly.
The elite begs to differ. The Gini coefficient has never looked so good (seen from the top).
Yeah, well, when you are used to raping the middle class, breaking every known securities law known to man [but not Mary Schapiro], not to mention every violation of ethics one could possible dream up...well, Lloyd is a little busy with things to understand your non rocket science.
And anyway...there it is...the totally depraved and lubed up USD studman is now loose. And Bernanke is too busy with his useless speech to help Lloyd wrestle him back into the closet and nail the door back up. Bidless is working the hand held digital cam, and those movies should be very interesting
Keynesians sure take a long time to die.
Isn't it time for the BlowHorn [CNBC] to start focusing on shopping stories or something? I mean how many days are left until Christmas?
It's almost as if...he doesn't care about the middle class
When asked what Obama could do, to help increase JOBS, he was told GET OUT OF THE WAY.
Simple, succinct, and to the point, and true.
Well ben didn't hint at qe3 so why the fuck tre they expecting it? They lowered rates til 2013 and Obama is supposed to save the day with his jobs plan.
How tax cuts create jobs is a fucking joke.
Mortgage rates go to 0%, and unemployment (using U6 that was used up until Reagan's time as POTUS) soars to 28% from the now 18.6%, and The Bernank is puzzled as to why banks are reluctant to lend and consumers don't want to borrow.
In the meantime, banks are begging for TARP 2.0, as the Fed moves towards stopping payment of 0.25% interest on the 1.7 trillion in excess reserves they've been plowed with (and the Fed actually thinks of draining this via reverse repos), and the banks keep watching the roughly 4.5 trillion of mark-to-fantasy RMBS and CMBS drop to a real value of somewhere around 500 billion, representing a further 86% drop in value.
Employment (the keys to the economic kingdom; toss every other statistic out the window if this is bad or horrible) is toast.
Banks are toast (so much so that their traditional profit mechanism doesn't even exist anymore).
Housing is toast.
Credit expansion is toast.
Economy is toast.
Governments are indebted (using realistic analysis) anwyehere from 400% to 1800% of their annual GDP.
Good job, Bernank, you imbecile.
The way people feel about halitosis Bernanke is universal, and I don't want to rain on your middle class parade, but how do you create jobs out of thin air? You can't print jobs.
Tonight we will all hear Obama's Job (election) Speech that has been so leaked to death, it'll be like deja vu. Maybe that's why the Republicans are threatening to boycott his speech
1) It will cost at least $300 billion. Real estimate: $370 billion, including extensions on payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits.
2) The Senate is (Also tonight) finalizing a $500 Billion increase to the debt ceiling, part of the $1.3 - $1.5 Trillion deal agreed in July.
3) As with Goldman's expectations of Sept 20th, there's a credible rumour of a mortgage refinancing deal to help 10 million homeowners with Fannie May/FM who are on the verge of default at the eventual cost to the tax payer to the tune of approx. $1.4 Trillion.
4) As seen over the past year, asset purchases by the Fed have been ongoing in the background and will probably continue to bolster up the markets through POMO. Cost? Who knows.
It looks to me as though Obama is going to use up every penny of that debt ceiling increase over the next few months well into 2012. Hence the reason inflation was mentioned no less than 16 times in Bernanke's speech. At this rate, it is not going to matter a jot if jobs are plentiful because the price of breathing will become too high. I don't have a clue how they're going to keep a lid on energy prices, but no doubt they will try to do it in an election year.
Translation: Give us QE on the 21st or we can no longer guarantee your cushy corner office in the Goldman building after you get kicked out as chairman in 2013.
So... the real question is whether to "buy the rumor, sell the news" or flip it around.
Heh, best to be in Physical.
No QE = gold and Treasuries go up on safe haven plays
QE = gold and stocks go up on inflation plays
Wonder what the safest thing to buy is?
If they knew it was coming, think they'd be this obvious about it?
I'll wager their short position in the equity markets, that they would not be, no sirree.
I want the Fed to be run like FIGHT CLUB, not this pussy E-CON-omics club!!!!
Let those bastards duke it out to decide economic policy.
I'll bring pop corn. Hell, I'll bring booze. Really.
Election year will NOT suffer inflation exploding and $4 to $5 a gallon gas, which is what more Bernank fiat diarrhea will accomplish.
Fade Goldman.
They're certainly fading any "valued clients" (e.g. see Abacus, Timberwolf, Hudson, etc. etc. etc.) who are idiotic enough to take their advice.
I tend to agree. All QE2 did was pump up gas and food prices. The last thing Obama wants is $7/gallon gas. Unless Bernanke wants to fuck him over. That is also another possibility.
Either they print and gas goes to $7 or they stop printing and the market implodes. No good solutions here because money printing doesn't create wealth.
Not to mention that even INCUMBENT REPUBLICANS in the House & Senate DO NOT want exploding gas-food prices, given the 15% approval rating of CONgress.
Agree. It's increasingly obvious that Bernanke's actions are really making things worse.
He also runs the risk of becoming a major talking point in the 2012 elections. He was already mentioned in last night's "debate". The Republicans will make a lot of noise about the inflation he caused even though they won't do anything about it. The Democrats will have a hard time defending him, his policies clearly haven't worked and the stock market is now imploding. Even the most ardent statist will have difficulty defending this clown.
The last thing he wants is people paying attention to every move he makes. I think that's why all we've seen is jawboning out of him.
He has to balance his desire to prevent bad debts from imploding (and thus prevent a real economic recovery) and the desire to not get booted out on his ass.
Gold, silver, and other commodities will absolutely explode upward if he tries more money printing. $3000 gold will really unsettle people.
Also, what happens if he tries more money printing and the stock market doesn't really move? Then he'll really look like a fucking asshole.
You are printing money, the stock market really isn't going anywhere, commodities are spiraling out of control, and countries are collapsing into revolution left and right. What the fuck are you doing dude?
QE2 produced some gains, but the losses in purchasing power probably outweighed any gains to 401Ks. You've got a real increase in costs today (gas, food, etc) and paper profits paid off in devalued dollars some time down the road. And remember, most of the stocks are owned by the richest Americans to begin with.
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Well, if they would STOP EXPORTING CRUDE, Our prices would come down..........
Yes, you read it correctly.WE are Exporting OUR crude, as we pay over $3.4/80,per gal.
Now ain't dat some shiuut.
Since Goldman are the market makers they will get more easing. Hello $2000.
I wish I experienced this kind of foreplay at home. Intense stuff.
talking down inflation is a prerequisite for more easing. Bernanke did just that, so no surprise that the market expects easing, as can be seen in the gold price action today.
So, if Ben says stronger growth for the 2nd half and then implements the easing machine 12 days later how does that not give the appearance of a big fat panic?
C'mon Beelzebernanke.....stimulate me. You know you want to.
Goldman's take on Goldman's speech
Who the fuck cares about Goldman's wishful thinking!? Seriously!!!! We got more carrot on a stick today and tonight will be the same! There won;t b shit on the 21st and this "market" will tank badly!
Bottom Line: NO QE3, no compromise on jobs bill, S&P ~1200 is wishful thinking
Every penny of stimulus adds to the risk that the debt ceiling would be busted pre Election Day. 300-400 Billion guarantees the fight resumes in September of next year.
No way in hell they will lift that just to spend more money . . . errr, what am I saying.
anybody else getting fedtigued by all of this qe talk?
Fed up.
There's a Congress person who actually fought against Glass-Steagall repeal in 1999. The vote was 353-57. Now she's running for US Senate;
Is the point here for Goldman to say it is so, and the Fed to not QE so as to discredit the theory that Goldman runs the Fed? Naaah...
Teen mob attacks clerk, robs convenience store
here we go!!
< and will do nothing to dispel market expectations of further easing action at the September FOMC meeting.
Nor will he say HE will ease either.
#OP Wall Street (Sept 17, 2011)
New York Finest are home jerking off thinking about how may of you Peace Freaks they are going to get to abuse!!
Protestors in New York Gettin some LOVE from the FINEST that New York has to offer! LOL!!
dont worry!
when you idiots are tired of being abused and having your Rights forceably taken away from you..
when you are ready to defend your rights with the same amount of force used to take them.. then we will have some real change.. but not before then.
Beam me up another kegger Scottie, the entitlement drunks are getting angry!
Gold's Take: UP 3% so far...
Inflation with be subdued and the transitory factors that led to high consumer prices will moderate.
Unless commodity prices DEFLATE the US consumer is dead.
Consumer spending should have increased once the recession was declared to be over.
Nobody wants to take the jobs that are available because they don't pay enough money to live on and you are better off on welfare.
If I lose my $65k a year job the best I can hope for is $35k. My exact job at another company was just advertised for $35k. I CAN'T EVEN KEEP MY $130k HOME ON $35K!!!!!
I could if natural gas, gasoline, healthcare, and food didn't triple over the past couple years.
Yes let's create a whole bunch of minimum wage jobs, yeah that will fix the country. OH YEAH AND SMALL BUSINESS IS DEAD BECAUSE THE ONLY PLACE LEFT TO SELL TO ARE THE BIG BOX RETAILERS WHO DON'T LET YOU MAKE ANY PROFIT!!!!!!
Or maybe everyone can just open a restaurant and go out of business because of massive inflation in food and nobody left who can afford to eat out.
I can't take the stupidity anymore. I really can't take it. Watching Bernanke again lie though his stupid fuck teeth again is just it. By the way he says he expects the dollar to remain the world's reserve currency for a long time. THAT MEANS IT IS OVER AND THE DOLLAR WILL BE DROPPED BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR.
bernanke expects economic activity to pickup (not employment and he knows it) in the second half and he is puzzled as to why households are not spending. fucking moron.
What they really mean is: "Market DEMANDS easing action..." and at everyone else' expense! They're saying, "We want more inflation, or we're going to soil ourselves and throw a tantrum and cast ourselves off a cliff"! They're trying to hold all of society hostage to their demands. I say, "Go ahead, Wall Street, make my day!" The kleptocracy continues!
QE is welfare for Wall St!
Just started!
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The most powerful thing the Fed could do right now (just once) to justify why it even exists is to show us that market planners like Goldman don't always get what they expect. In my dreams, I would love to see the look on the faces of Goldmans traders as Bernanke announces at the FOMC meeting he is reversing QE1&2 because it didn't work, and he wants to apply the stimulus in a different direction. That's another way of me saying I would like to buy into the stock market at DOW 4000 after it reverts to its true fair value. Go ahead laugh, object, throw hot water on the idea. But, consider this. I bet if Becky Quick's favorite business icon/hero/fantasy father figure/bathtub playmate Warren Buffett were in the business of investing in broad market indices (instead of desperate and near bankrupt companies like BAC) he would never pay a tick above this level either.


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Lord's Fall
Thea Harrison
November 2012, Paranormal Romance
Berkley, $7.99, 304 pages, Amazon ASIN 0425251063Part of a series
It is not often that authors revisit the couples from a previous book. With Lords Fall, Harrison revisits her couple from the first book of the Elder Races series, Dragon Bound. Fans of that book will want to catch up on Dragos and Pia.
Dragos is the leader of the Wyr demesne and a powerful dragon shifter who was created with the birth of the world. After living for millennia as a very solitary creature, he found his Wyr mate in the half breed Pia. After a rather bumpy road that ended in Dragos losing two of his valued Sentinels, Rune and Tiago, a broken treaty with the Elves, and an unexpected pregnancy, Pia and Dragos are trying to get the Wyr demesne back on track and to discover just how it is they are supposed to coexist and lead their people together.
Pias job becomes repairing the relationship between Dragos and the Elven demesne. Because of who her mother was and their affection for her, Pia has a natural connection to them and their interest in her is the best shot for the Elves to forgive Dragos for the rules that he broke while trying to capture Pia. While she works on that in South Carolina, Dragos is running the Sentinel Games in New York as a show of Wyr strength. The games are violent, expensive, and winner-takes-all. At the end of the games, Rune and Tiago will be replaced with two new Wyr. Though the five original Sentinels need to compete to retain their spots, no one doubts they will win. That leaves two spots up for grabs. The two leading contenders are a Pegasus and Pias old boss and friend, Quentin.
When Pias diplomatic mission takes an unexpected turn, and Dragoss pregnant mate is put in danger, the games are put on hold. A power that hasnt been seen in ages is trying to dominate, and possibly annihilate, humanity and the Elder Races. The Wyr, working with the Elves, mobilize to protect not only the Elven demesne, but the world.
First off, I think it is great that Harrison chose to revisit this couple. They are a likeable pair and there was still a lot to work on between the couple once their HEA began. He is still a tyrannical and solitary dragon who is older than dirt, and though Pia is young and inexperienced compared to Dragos she is spunky enough not to be his doormat. So there were still issues with these two even without the added stress that Dragos was handling with the loss of his Sentinels. For that attempt alone, I liked this book. But this is not one of the better books in the Elder Races. For one thing, there seemed to be an awful lot of angst, but it wasnt meaningful angst. It was more like whining. The things they buzzed about were being apart, Dragos being too domineering, the cost of the games, the loss of Rune. Every time I turned around it seemed that the two of them had something to complain about. It became a little tiresome for me. And what about Tiago? Dragos lost two Sentinels through the series so far. Though it is obvious that the loss of Runes friendship was the bigger loss than just as a Sentinel, it still seemed strange that he barely gave the loss of Tiago a second thought and focused only on Runes absence.
The ultimate evil that was the big conflict in the book was a little confusing. I wasnt sure exactly how it tied in with the prophecy from the last book in the series (Oracles Moon). Why did it come through an Oracular prophecy in the first place? Did the prophecy come true or was stopping the evil the prophecy? Was it a prophecy or a message? Those questions werent answered for me in the end, but the story was engaging. The details might not have been completely pinned down, but this was also more of a character-driven plot so it wasnt the priority. Yes, there was conflict and adventure going on, but at its heart this was a story of Dragos and Pia and so that was secondary.
I would not recommend this without first reading Dragon Bound, especially if you want to know what type of Wyr Pia is, since I dont think it was ever said in this installment. Harrison masterfully hinted at it without saying it outright. Even without being the best in the series, the novelty of revisiting a previous couple makes this book a strong addition in my estimation. Harrison remains a solid auto-buy for me.
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