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In 2011, the Press Club of New Orleans honored him with its Lifetime Achievement Award. His stories on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil spill were among The Times-Picayune work honored with the 2010 Edward J. Meeman Award for environmental reporting from the Scripps-Howard Foundation National Journalism Awards program, and with a second place award in the 2011 John B. Oakes Awards program. His reporting during and after Hurricane Katrina was among the newspaper's stories honored with 2006 Pulitzer Prizes for Public Service and Breaking News Reporting and the George Polk Award for Metropolitan Reporting. He is the co-author with John McQuaid of "Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms," published by Little, Brown & Co., in August 2006. Stories written with McQuaid prior to Katrina on coastal science issues were honored in 2006 with a special award from the American Geophysical Union.
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A Lexington, Kentucky police officer is in trouble after shooting a dog, Lexington Herald-Leader reported March 11.
Jeff Brangers, 39, who joined the Scott County Sheriff's Office in 2012, may be charged later this week with animal cruelty, pending results from an internal investigation.
Deputies with the department asked the Scott County Attorney's Officer to investigate the case, where Brangers shot and killed his neighbors black lab on March 9.
Brangers shot the dog as it was walking away from his property after Brangers had observed the dog crouched and staring at his chickens.
State law reads a livestock owner can exercise his rights, without liability, to kill any dog who is pursuing or injuring the livestock. The trouble in this case is the dog was leaving the property, and was no longer a danger to the chickens.
Scott County Sheriff Tony Hampton stated
"When the dog's walking away, that changes that."
Brian Geary, owner of the murdered dog, will first have to file a complaint, which will then have to be signed by a judge. Once that happens, Brangers will be served a court summons for Scott District Court.
Geary has already stated his intent to press charges. In Kentucky, second degree animal cruelty is a misdemeanor and is punishable by up to a year in jail and a $500 fine.
Geary also raises chickens on his property, and said in an interview March 10 that his dog had never showed an interest in chasing or harming chickens. Brangers spoke with Geary after the incident, where he told him
"I have a right as a property owner to protect my property from threats, and I perceived her as a threat. ... Your dog was on my property. I eliminated the threat."
This should be an interesting case to follow, as deputies with the department aren't standing behind one of their own on this matter. Perhaps good officer's are sick of the publicity that bad officer's bring to their respective departments.
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A teen survived a barracuda attack over the weekend, and he is now recovering from his injuries. The Florida teenager was out fishing with his father when the attack happened. The father and son were out on their boat fishing when they thought they caught the fish. However, the duo had a fight on their hands with this fish. It jumped in the boat and attacked the teenager near Port Orange. The Spread It shared the teen's story on July 25.
Parker King is the name of this 13-year-old teen. He went out fishing with his father last Sunday, and they were trying to reel in the 50-pound barracuda. The fish measured five feet long, and it was not willing to give up its life without a fight. The fish jumped into the boat and attacked the teen. At the end of the attack, Parker had two huge bites on him. The fish took a bite out of his right arm, and a second bite was on his chest.
After the attack, Irwin, Parker's dad, headed back to shore as fast as the boat could take them. He could not call for help because phone reception was horrible in the area. As he got closer to shore, the boy's father was able to reach his wife, and she waited for them to arrive. He reached shore, and he managed to get his son to the hospital. Once there, the boy was treated. It took 27 staples and 17 stitches to fix the damage left by the barracuda.
Irwin revealed that the fish tried to jump onto his boat a second time while he was speeding back toward shore. Shirley King, the boy's grandmother, also spoke out about the incident on Wednesday. She said the following:
"He's sore. His arm is just a mess. He's just very lucky. The thing could have [bit] across his neck."
Parker's biggest concern after the incident was the ability to play baseball again. He is passionate about the sport, and he was concerned that the injuries he received would stop him from holding a bat. Doctors assured him that he would be back on the field in a couple of weeks. Parker returned home on Tuesday. The teen revealed in an interview following the incident that he has no intention to give up fishing. It is his favorite thing to do. However, the teen will never fish for barracuda again. The attack definitely changed the teen's mind about that.
Barracuda attacks like this one are not uncommon at all. Ed Matheson with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spoke out about the fish and their desire to attack after this incident. He said the following:
"It's just like bringing a shark into the boat with you. If you get anywhere near their mouth, you're going to get cut up. There's a lot of bite force there in a fish that big. Most of them aren't as severe as this one. I have heard of bad incidents [in Florida], but they've been few and far between."
Parker King is definitely one lucky teen. This boy's grandmother had that right. The father's quick thinking saved his son as well. This story just shows that anything can happen when you are on the ocean. This incident happened in just one split second. Parker now has a story to share with everyone.
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This year I turn 50.
Having effectively run out the clock on any possibility of a mid-life crisis, I have opted rather to mark this milestone with an equally cathartic, yet infinitely more dignified hardback book.
While these photographs were captured in recent months, they nevertheless reflect a sense of life a half-a-hundred years in the making.
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You have an amazing gift. And your images of kids on your website are wonderful too.
Are you from Austin or transplanted? I have never been but it came up on our radar when we were checking out places to move to as a great place to live. We landed in Portland but I hope to check out Austin one day.
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Flows have been high into developing-markets debt ETFs as investors seek more yield, but several funds are apt to manage the credit risks. This is not a new story, but the basic premise is the idea that the emerging world has very low debt/GDP ratios, their economies have very low debt levels in relation to their GDP, and their GDP growth rates are much higher than developed world. So, if you are looking at who is the better credit risk, a country with low debts and high growth rates or a country like the U.S. or some of the countries in Europe with very high debt rates and very low GDP growth. Well, it's obvious you will then chose emerging world. So that's really the main story.
Now, the reason that there have still been higher yields and you still can get higher yields in the emerging world versus say very low yields in the U.S. and Europe, is that there is still risk of default because some of these governments are not as stable as the developed world, so that risk is still out there. But in general they are very good credit risks right now.
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text: Aug 1, 2014 13:02 Study traces dinosaur evolution into early birds Study traces dinosaur evolution into early birds This undated artist rendering provided by the journal Science shows the dinosaur lineage which evolved into birds shrank in body size continuously for 50 million years. From left are, the ancestral neotheropod, the ancestral tetanuran, the ancestral coelurosaur, the ancestral paravian and Archaeopteryx. Scientists have mapped how one group of dinosaurs evolved from the likes of the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex and primitive Herrerasaurus to the welcome robin and cute hummingbird. The surprisingly steady shrinking and elegant evolution of some Triassic dinosaurs is detailed in the journal Science on Thursday. Comparing fossils of 120 different species and 1,500 skeletal features, especially leg bones, researchers constructed a detailed family tree of theropod dinosaurs. That suborder of dinos survives to this day as birds, however unrecognizable and improbable it sounds. (AP Photo/Davide Bonnadonna, Science) SETH BORENSTEIN| AP Science Writer July 31, 2014; 2:13 p.m. Comments WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have mapped how a group of fearsome, massive dinosaurs evolved and shrank to the likes of robins and hummingbirds. Comparing fossils of 120 different species and 1,500 skeletal features, especially thigh bones, researchers constructed a detailed family tree for the class of two-legged meat-eaters called theropods. That suborder of dinos survives to this day as birds, however unrecognizable and improbable it sounds. The steady downsizing and elegant evolution of the theropods is detailed in the journal Science on Thursday. "They just kept on shrinking and shrinking and shrinking for about 50 million years," said study author Michael S. Y. Lee of the University of Adelaide in Australia. He called them "shape-shifters." Lee and colleagues created a dinosaur version of the iconic ape-to-man drawing of human evolution. In this version, the lumbering large dinos shrink, getting more feathery and big-chested, until they are the earliest version of birds. For a couple decades scientists have linked birds to this family of dinosaurs because they shared hollow bones, wishbones, feathers and other characteristics. But the Lee study gives the best picture of how steady and unusual theropod evolution was. The skeletons of theropods changed four times faster than other types of dinosaurs, the study said. A few members of that dino family did not shrink, including T. rex, which is more of a distant cousin to birds than a direct ancestor, Lee said. He said he and colleagues were surprised by just how consistently the theropods shrank over evolutionary time, while other types of dinosaurs showed ups and downs in body size. The first theropods were large, weighing around 600 pounds. They roamed about 220 million to 230 million years ago. Then about 200 million years ago, when some of the creatures weighed about 360 pounds, the shrinking became faster and more prolonged, the study said. In just 25 million years, the beasts were slimmed down to barely 100 pounds. By 167 million years ago, 6-pound paravians, more direct ancestor of birds, were around. And 163 million years ago the first birds, weighing less than two pounds, probably came on the scene, the study said Paul Sereno, a dinosaur researcher at the University of Chicago who wasn't part of this study, praised Lee's work as innovative. The steady size reduction shows "something very strange going on," Sereno said. "This is key to what went on at the origin of birds." People may think bigger is better, but sometimes when it comes to evolution smaller can be better because bigger creatures are more likely to go extinct, Sereno said. And when the theropods started shrinking there weren't many other small species that would compete with them, Lee said. "The dinosaur ancestors of birds found a new niche and a new way of life," Lee said. Sereno added, "When you are small, it's a totally different ball game. You can fly and glide and I think that's what drove it." Get The Advocate in your inbox Subscribe


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Because the elevation in Red Rock Canyon can be as much as 5,000 feet higher than Las Vegas, it has double the annual rainfall and a wider variety of plants and animals. Most of the wildlife works the night shift, and is visible during the cooler, early morning or late evening hours. This includes mule deer, coyotes, mountain lions, badgers, and bobcats. You might have better luck spotting bighorn sheep, wild horses and wild burros. Be careful with the Jacks (male burros) and Jennies (female burros). They sometimes wander into the road and can be hit by fast-moving cars. Also be mindful of snakes. There are three poisonous varieties here: the sidewinder, Mojave green, and Mojave speckled. When the temperatures get above 70 degrees, snakes like to come out and play.
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On Sunday, in Lowell, Scott Brown held a
rally. (Actually, it was more like a really?) But that can happen when you use such flawed surrogates, like Kelly Ayotte:
"I absolutely support and believe in marriage as between a man and a woman, and I do think it's unfortunate that our state has made a different decision on that. And I know that many of you who are out there working at the state level, running for state office, I commend your efforts to repeal that law here in the state of New Hampshire. And I think that's very important.
On Sunday, Kelly Ayotte helped Scott Brown diss on Elizabeth Warren and Federal Student Loan programs:
"Don't let her fool you on that one," Ayotte said, as more than 100 supporters cheered.
Brown said bills like the student-loan proposal backed by Warren are "not jobs bills, they're tax bills."
Yikes! 100+? The Brown clique should have kept it at the SAC club, like the last two times.
Elizabeth Warren held, what I would call, a RALLY. This rally was out in Northampton, on Sunday afternoon.
Elizabeth Warren draws 1,000 supporters in Northampton
If an anemic ground game wasn't enough to depress Scott Brown's spirits, imagine trying to spin this faux pas -
Chaulk this up to a foregone conclusion:
The superior officer's union's nine-member executive board voted to support Brown, President Tom Fleming said.
Fleming said the full membership did not have a chance to meet to vote as an entire union.
You can figure the NEPBA's support for Brown will fall in line, just after Gail Huff. Why do I say that?
This screen grab is from the first time, for the Special Election, they endorsed Scott Brown.
I'd like to know more details on this half of the Lowell cops endorsement.
The 165-member patrolmen's union gave unanimous support to Brown, President Dennis Moriarty said.
ALL 165 members voted for Brown? On the first vote? Or, did they have one of those "kum-bah-ya votes" after the endorsement was hammered out? Most likely, they held a meeting and stacked the deck with Brown supporters to get the quorum they needed to do the Brown endorsement. It just seems off that 165 street savvy cops would all think the same way. But, the Blog of Record is clear.
Fairly bold for, what? 40+/- cops to speak on behalf of all 165 members, for such a contested Senate seat.
I know not all cops think the same way. First off, it's statistically impossible. Plus, we know Democrats support public safety over political poses. Scott Brown adores posing. How can I say that? Because I was there when Supt. Lavallee said this:
From The Column, Sept. 23rd (Archive not linkable):
LAVALLEE prefaced his comments by saying he was in no way trying to make a political statement.
He then proceeded to make a cutting political statement.
Lavallee pointed out that Democrats such as President Barack Obama and especially Bill Clinton, have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into federal grant programs, such as COPS, which have helped police across the country hire more officers.
Lavallee said Republicans have offered police virtually no money at all.
He even recounted a meeting he attended in 2007 with representatives of then-nominee Obama, and Republican nominee John McCain.
Lavallee said Obama's people said they would provide millions to programs that help hire police officers, while McCain's people said they would provide nothing, but that they hoped police would vote for McCain because police tend to side with Republicans on more philosophical issues.
Lavallee closed his remarks by once again saying he wasn't making a political statement.
Then he smirked.
For those wondering, Lavallee said he is unenrolled.
Admit 100 is a bad crowd but 11am on a Sunday is a terrible time to have a rally. Have it in the afternoon or 11am on a Saturday.
Bad time? Bad decision.
Especially when a lot of your peeps are of the church-goin' crowd…but 11am or 2pm, I doubt he'd draw many more. First, I don't think Brown elicits "excitement" in his voter base. Second, I think his campaign is very shoddily run, and disorganized, which means that pulling people in for a rally is tougher - either not enough notice, or not enough word spread wide enough around. Even at the last minute, the Warren peeps can pull in a lot of folk…of course, there's a LOT of enthusiasm for her, to begin with. Tough to compete with that on all levels.
When Warren was in Lowell last, for the roundtable event (not a rally and not intended to be a big crowd) I got at least two invites to the event. Personal invites from people I know, who are not Warren campaign people. THAT is how you get attendance.
RE the union comments…and the Republicans accuse other unions of being lockstep or (unfounded) accuse them of paying members or threatening them to show up at rallies? Really??
Last night I got a robo-invite to a Scott Brown town-hall meeting later this week; I keep getting Scott Brown mailers, too.
If *that* doesn't speak to a disorganized campaign, I don't know what does.
Heh. Yeah, I got some of the state Republican Party mailers…I mean, two registered Dems who show up and pull Dem ballots at every partisan primary…okay.
Maybe they thought there really were a lot of peal-aways…but you are better of focusing on indys since R's really need to pull in a large percentage of them to actually win statewide.
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Paul Malignaggi has been campaigning for a rematch against Adrien Broner in the weeks following his split decision loss to the former Mr. HBO at Barclays Center in Brooklyn on June 22.
I asked Malignaggi for an update on the status of that campaign on Monday, during a lunch at his advisor's pizza shop in lower Manhattan, Portobello's.
"I don't think my next fight is going to be a Broner rematch," the 32-year-old said at Anthony Catanzaro's lunch hub, in between bites of pie and chomps on some Dunkin Donuts Munchkins. "I don't think he's going to do it. But we'll see where it goes. But if that l'il spoiled brat Broner to man up, and gives the public and more so me what they and I want to see..."
Malignaggi pointed out that Floyd Mayweather made it his mission to clear controversy after many folks thought Jose Luis Castillo got the better of him in their first encounter, in 2002, so he agreed to a sequel eight months later. Paulie said that's the sort of competitor Floyd is and that contrasts with Broner ( seen on right, after June 22 decision, in Hogan photo), who he said has run from three sequel situations where he could have engaged in a rematch to stave off controversy.
The luxuriating experience of eating what his heart desired didn't dim the Brooklyn-bred boxer's fire, though. "Let's call a spade a spade, Broner is severly overhyped, severly overrated, and he continues to show that every time he steps up to real, quality opposition. We can all show it against the pizza guys in the kitchen," he said, pointing to a man with a sauce-smeared apron putting pepperonis on a pie. "Floyd Mayweather dominated very good fighters, Adrien Broner dominates garbage. When he steps up against very good fighters, he has trouble winning cleanly."
He went on to say, with the weeks having passed, that he doesn't think he "exposed" Broner but rather that it was already there to be seen, but wasn't, because most of the boxing media is easily fooled. "I never thought much of the kid to begin with. Talents like him are a dime a dozen. And he's not a hard puncher, maybe because he knocked out 22 laundry workers people think so."
I brought up Broner's outside-the-ring behavior. His Twitter timeline has had people raising eyebrows of late. Just last night, he Tweeted, "I be feeling like I'm go die soon!!" and before that, "Yeah I love them strippers!!!" He's been on the Americas Most Wanted festival rap tour, topped by L'il Wayne, he says, and partying in Miami, tearing it up.
Hand it to the kid, he's got some performance chops beyond the ring, as on display in a July 13 YouTube video, titled "Adrien Broner takes a (number two) in Popeyes." The boxer, who these days seems to be having a slight identity crisis, in his desire to be a rapper, wipes his tuchus, and turns the camera on the bowl, which is full of five dollar bills. He even poops money, he declares.
(Note: This video had blown up a bit by Tuesday night, with Deadspin running a story on it, and a Twitter beef erupting when a reporter took offense to the "dirty money" act, and said that he informed authorities of the possible transgression. I have to guess the Feds have better things to do than track that money, and see if it isn't play money, so, my guess is, Broner gets himself a nice little flurry of buzz...which I think correlates with what Malignaggi says in a couple paragraphs down.)
OK, "performance chops" might not be the proper term for it, but that sort of humor does have its appeal in some circles, if not in mine...
I asked Paulie if he felt any sort of sympathy or empathy for a kid who seems to be struggling with the "good life," if you take Tweets like, "I'm bout to play Russia roulette with a fully loaded pistol maybe all my problems will go away!!!" from July 11 even partially seriously.
Because as a fellow human being, looking at someone with such potential EVEN JOKING about suicidal tendencies, I feel for Broner, even if he doesn't care that I do or want me to, or maintains he's just messing....
"I look at it like this, he's a spoiled brat who's looking for attention, and doesn't know what to do or say to get attention, the kid is not suicidal, the kid is not looking to kill himself, the kid does not have any problems," Malignaggi said. "A suicidal person doesn't behave like this (flushing money). Killing yourself people are going to talk about you. He's like a 12 year old. The problem is people enable him. He acts out like a little kid. In the end you gonna enable him or make him man up and actually do something?"
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Broner is a child, uncle Al better get in his ear and tell him to get his act together. Suicidal posts coupled with arrogance is just going to make you look like a "spoiled brat" seeking attention, it's not promotable. The kid needs a smack upside his head and an arse whoopin in the ring.
Broner has 5 kids if he was HALF the parent he SHOULD be he wouldn't have time to feel suicidal or post to twitter all day. The guy is a poor human being.
He's an extreme product of America's superficial society, I can only imagine what his kids are going to look like
Paulie eating pizza and Dunkin Doughnuts? Who is his next fight, Andre Ward?
I'm not sure how much of Paulie's commentary is valid ....coming from Broner's #1 enemy. A man who also has emotional issues..
And quite frankly I don't even want to know the details of Broners' latest folly.
Paulie knocked the shine off Broners rising star. He should do the rematch and shut Paulie up permanently with a convincing performance...Floyd had his Castillo....Floyd Lyte has his Malignacci
hopefully he's smart enough to feel dumb about this when he's 37 with 8 or 9 losses, busted -*** broke.
Did you ever see how sickening these rehearsed and prepared encounters the New York Yankees have with the press! Did you ever really appreciate what a joker that idiot "Cashmin" is with his clean cut standard answers knowing he probably is a real prick out of character! The Yankees arnt even allowed to have facial hair! What the fuh! Of course its more than baseball, it is even more than revenue! These guys are pushing their agenda on everyone, it leads into the work force for you and me, and into society! No spontaneity, everything unrealistic politically correct, no mistakes. A lot to live up to, especially when its against your politics! We have freedom of speech in this country, people died for that right for the American public! Adrian Broner is a maverick, whether youd like to believe it or not! He plays with the media and big brother! People are trying to discredit his character! But the friscoe is a true freedom fighter! Big Brother has too much to say about our lives, they try to tell us what we should do and for the most part people follow like a herd of Buffaloes! Kudos to Adrian Broner
Bernie, Bernie, Bernie...
As it pertains to Adrien Broner, no. You talk about him like he's an American Original, which he certainly is not. What he does have is million dollar ability but it's powered by a ten cent brain. Kid's never had an original thought in his life.
Ddv, hehehehehehehehehehehe! And you call me cruel and in need of a governor. "A ten-cent brain!" Hahaha! Danggit! Now that was COLDHEARTED to the infinite power. Is it comedy season up in this Universe?
Now you, B-Camp, A-Seng and D-Water are killing it with the witty, cold-to-the heart, but-might-be true smashing comedic remarks. Hahaha! I luv this place! Holla!
Adrian Broner keeps the powers in check! Trust me if it wasn't for a guy like Broner, these guys in power would take the ball and run with it bigger than they have already! An American Original? No, hes not the American Mesiah! But our system allows for a guy to throw it out there as a voice of reason! You big birds don't get it do you! The Idiots that run professional sports are really not nice people! How do you think they got ahead in the first place! They protect their turf no matter whether right wrong or otherwise! I really believe their pp's wouldn't work if they didn't! Just look at all the bogus sh... in this sport, and howabout other sports! How bout that cat that got his freakin head cut off in Brazil! Where there is money, there is corruption! And then Adrian Broner comes along!
Adrian Broner keeps the powers in check! Trust me if it wasn't for a guy like Broner, these guys in power would take the ball and run with it bigger than they have already! An American Original? No, hes not the American Mesiah! But our system allows for a guy to throw it out there as a voice of reason! You big birds don't get it do you! The Idiots that run professional sports are really not nice people! How do you think they got ahead in the first place! They protect their turf no matter whether right wrong or otherwise! I really believe their pp' wouldn't work if they didn't! Just look at all the bogus sh... in this sport, and howabout other sports! How bout that cat that got his freakin head cut off in Brazil! Where there is money, there is corruption! And then Adrian Broner comes along!
Baseball is so ZZZzzzzzzzz, it's one of the strongest examples of corruption in sports, IMO. Broner is no maverick, he's merely following the path his idol already late but in much less refined fashion. IMO he teeters on the fence of people so disgusted by him they want see him knocked out and they just flat out will not watch him. I think it's a combination of his brash childish persona coupled with his strategy that make him so obnoxious, either way it's overkill. I don't think he'll give Malignaggi a rematch unless the money is right
Hey Carmine, Is somebody giving you free tickets? How do you know Broner's got an idol? Mayweather didn't do half the sh.. that Broners done already? This guy WILL be an issue! And power to him! Letum shake up the apple cart! Boxing is too fcn predictable! Gotta keep im guessing! Too much phoney bravado and bullsh...! Have you ever listened to Floyd Patterson talk? Give Broner a friggun Medal!
Well Bernie it's like this...
It's believed Broner's has an idol because it's all he talks about.
Let's agree to disagree, this guy won't be an issue.
Boxing is indeed somewhat predictable, with guys being coached on what to say and what not to say. Remember Oscar's "He's a great champion" speech after every outing? As for Floyd Patterson, yes, he was reserved, always a gentleman, but of course that's how he was raised. AB is not deserving of any medals.
Broner is a poor human being and a worse parent.
I'm glad he can fight and enjoy watching him fight.
I don't need to be entertained outside the ring I'm 35 and busy enough.
Briber get off of twitter tweeting about suicide or complaining like a high school girl.
Grow up you are a parent.
Dude is bitch made , no real man and parent looks up to another man.
That **** is for kids
If everyone led by example like Floyd Patterson and Jermaine Taylor their wouldn't be a need for this dialogue! But guys like Broner are the point men! The fcn idiots that run the show are the source of dysfunction! Women Boxing? he he he he! 4 champions in each division! Questionable sponsors! Arum and his boys downplayin Marijuana use! Racial exploitation! Homer's in the broadcast booth, questionable and I mean questionable decisions, Bogus titles that no one defends! Chris Fcn John! Intentional non-coverage of European Boxers! Matches that should happen but never do! Sportswriters that are getting both sides of their bread buttered! Corupt Casino linkages to the fight game! Pornographic associations! You go Adrian!
Whats Floyd and his public gonna do if he comes into an Arena with pressed hair and a peace medallion and hes on the level!
If you've actually paid attention to Floyd's latest comments regarding Broner its evident Floyd is putting some distance between himself and the flamboyant boxer..
Broners response to Floyd's advice to tone down the circus act......."If it ain't broke ...don't fix it".
If anyone is interested in hitting on Floyds trophy chick, Ms Jackson .. she's a free woman after receiving her walking papers from her former p4p boyfriend... apparently Floyd is just as shrewd in his personal life as he is in the squared circle .... Floyd allegedly hired a private eye to tail his former girlfriend and discovered the sexy diva was cheating on him with a well known Los Angeles Club owner. I only mention this because of its possible psychological impact on Floyd's performance in the up coming super fight. In the famous words of Paulie Malignacci "Golddiggers do Matter".
For real ms J was cheating?
No surprise in this society.
I think it makes Floyd fight harder. Meh doesn't like the embarrassment.
You puppys sound like some old crusty women! Who gives a flying sh. about the gossip! Does that make you or me better people! The truth shall set you free! Broner keeps up this pace a couple of more miles he will be a threat! Is he gonna accept it and do his thing or his he gonna be somebodys boy and apologize and promise to be good! As soon as he does that somebody like Mathysse is gonna lay his *** flat! If he takes on the mantle of a real warrior well it is what it is!
You guys are -issing in the wind! Go read the tabloids!
Double standards of man. Ms Jackson clearly hollered on HBO 24/7and Showtime's Access that she and "Floyd have an open relationship."
Floyd and she are just bulljiving to increas interest in the fight. It is just as that fake jive fight between pops and son a couple of fights ago. Money May is a He Ho who always on the hunt and go. Ms. Jackson is a temp-booty high-prize opportunist ho. And that is not a put down, but Hip-Hop lingo.
GBP, Showtime and the Shadow and TMT are pulling every optical illusion and gimmick to increase buying of PPVs. The ladder is shaking and baking. And to get maximum buys and eyeballs watching, STRAIGHT faking. Holla!
Ms J is nice to look at but other than that her time on all access was a waste. She's boring.
It's becoming the same ol same ol.
All access needs to get gritty with the training and intensity. Truly show what dedication these guys have day in and day out.
Hey wonder if Liev will be narrating the show time all access this time. He is working for show time now.
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11:27, UK, Monday 28 July 2014
A student arrested on suspicion of secretly filming hundreds of women while they used toilets at the University of Delaware has been charged with 21 privacy offences.
Javier Mendiola-Soto, 38, a doctoral student from Mexico, was detained on July 1 after covert cameras were found in tampon dispensers around the University of Delaware, Wilmington, according to court documents.
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Then, on a conference call with the New England media spoke about that, saying all the PC things about how it came down him coming home to his family and he's happy. But then he added - to paraphrase - my contract is up at the end of this year, and you never know what might happen next year, I don't burn bridges.
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Importing Drugs Is Out; Mining Docs' Prescriptions Is (Still) In
In the U.S. Senate, where a slim majority does not rule, a provision that would have made it legal to import prescription drugs went down to defeat last night. The vote was 51-48 in favor of the amendment, but the magic number in the Senate is 60 votes.
Supporters, drawn from both parties, argued that the measure would lower drug prices, which are higher in the U.S. than in many other countries. But the FDA said allowing the sale of imported drugs could be unsafe. And the drug industry fought the measure, which was introduced as an amendment to the big health-care bill.
Meanwhile, an amendment that would have banned the sale of doctors' prescription data for marketing purposes has been shelved for now, according to Reuters. The amendment followed the lead taken by a few states, which have clamped down on companies such as IMS Health that buy doctors' prescription data from pharmacies, crunch it, and sell it to drug makers.
The amendment isn't likely to come up for a vote or be included in a package of changes that will be offered later by Majority Leader Harry Reid, according to an unnamed Senate staffer quoted by Reuters.
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April 16, 2014
Hardwood floors are a perennial favorite among home decorators and are sought after by prospective homeowners when they're making the rounds of open houses. In addition to the rich tones in different woods, one of the trends in recent years has been painted wood floors like Anderson's Vintage Coastal Art collection.
Like hardwoods with natural finishes, the planks used are often painted, sanded and sometimes distressed to recreate the look of flooring from previous eras. The Coastal Art red oak floors in a sand dollar finish complement contemporary room design as well as traditional decor, while the dappled look of the pickle barrel finish evokes country and cottage styles.
The unique look of painted floors open up a new realm of decorating ideas, and the floors don't have to be restricted in terms of where they're used in a home. According to the National Wood Flooring Association, tough floor finishes on wood stand up to heavy traffic in rooms like kitchens and have been developed to resist wear and stains without the need for buffing and waxing.
When NWFA did a nationwide survey of real estate agents, the association found that homes with wood floors sold faster at higher prices than comparable residences with non-wood flooring. Hardwood are also easy to maintain with either a soft-bristle broom or attachment on a vacuum cleaner.
New colors with painted floors
Painted floors with subdued tones are a great complement to neutral wall colors that have become prominent in recent years. Various derivatives of gray and taupe in both light and deeper shades have replaced off-white as the base colors in many home designs.
Interior designers also add these colors to soften brighter hues. In this way, homeowners can have a neutral for walls that will have an underlying touch of color. Design writer Cindy Bergersen describes the process as "browning" or "graying" a hue that may be a homeowner's favorite. The lightened version of the color then becomes a neutral shade for walls, ceilings or architectural trim.
Using this method, home decorators can have their favorite colors into their home decor without feeling overpowered by them. The new hues give a room more depth in the color scheme and allow homeowners to create combinations with brighter accents and finishes.
By adding painted floors to the mix, homeowners may experiment with color ideas for their homes that they may never have considered with natural wood tones.
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Anti-Abortionists Search For a Strategy
It drew considerable attention last week when President Barack Obama waited until a day after the annual anti-abortion March for Life in Washington to reverse the so-called "Mexico City" or "gag-rule" executive order that banned U.S. funding for any groups that promote or provide abortion services overseas. Even among intense right-to-lifers, this was regarded as a shrewd move by Obama that denied to the January 22 marchers a much-needed focal point for their protests.
I think they'd better get used to it. While there's no reason to think that Obama has or will changed his strongly pro-choice views, he's also made it clear that he doesn't want his presidency, and particularly the first phases of his presidency, to become overshadowed by culture-war issues like abortion. Indeed, some observers, like Peter Beinart, believe the Obama presidency will signal the end of this latest, sexuality-centered phase of the culture wars.
Whether or not that happy development materalizes, the Cultural Right has some real problems. On the gay rights/gay marriage front, generational change virtually guarantees an eventual defeat for the Right. And on abortion, serious right-to-lifers know their window of opportunity to overturn abortion rights via the Supreme Court closed, perhaps for a long time, with Obama's election.
Given the impossibility of a constitutional amendment to restrict abortion, that leaves them with the bleak prospect of going back to the long-term drawing board, and gnawing away at the right to choose through narrow and symbolic statutes and/or harrassment (legislative and otherwise) of abortion providers.
Not surprisingly, anti-abortionists are trying to keep morale up by rattling hobgoblins--conjuring up threats of radical "pro-abortion" activity that must be fought immediately, which is more satisfying than the thankless and almost certainly futile task of trying to convince a majority of Americans that abortions should be outlawed. (It's the same impulse that leads conservatives generally to manufacture the bizarre "fairness doctrine" conspiracy theory.) The preferred hobgoblin of the right-to-life movement is the Freedom of Choice Act, a bill that President Obama cosponsored as a senator, and that doesn't appear to be very high on the administration's list of initatives.
The basic idea of FOCA has always been to codify Roe v. Wade as a federal statute, so that if Roe is ever overturned there will be a national pro-choice policy instead of a crazy-quilt of 50 state laws, some of them highly restrictive or even prohibitory. Activists on both side of the abortion barricades, of course, naturally tend to dramatize more immediate, short-term developments, so FOCA has gradually come to be viewed through the prism of its possible impact on non-fundamental but symbolic issues like so-called "partial-birth" abortion bans, and the variety of harrassing techniques states have devised over the years, such as waiting periods and parental or spousal notification laws. (Any FOCA provisions that actually conflict with current law would, of course, almost certainly be eliminated before it could pass both Houses of Congress). Accordingly, anti-abortion leaders disengenously talk about FOCA as though it represented a vast expansion of abortion rights, and use Obama's cosponsorship of the bill as Exhibit A in their scare-the-troops case that the new President wakes up every morning wondering what more he can do to promote what the National Right To Life Committee calls "Obama's Abortion Agenda."
The latest skirmish in the abortion cold war involves the inclusion of language in the House version of the economic stimulus package that allows states to provide contraceptive services to Medicaid beneficiaries. Republicans are complaining that it illustrates Democratic efforts to toss stuff into the package that has nothing to do with the economy, but there's no question they are also trying to get the Cultural Right (some of whose shock troops oppose contraception generally, while others think many contraceptives are actually abortifacients) engaged in the stimulus battle.
But like Lucy removing the football each year as Charlie Brown approaches it, it looks like Obama will deny conservatives a clear target, by urging House Democrats to remove the family planning language from the stimulus bill and moving it as separate legislation.
In the absence of an realistic strategy for achieving their real goals, anti-abortionists can be expected to continue efforts to paint Obama, Democrats, and pro-choice Americans as aggressive radicals who won't stop til infanticide and euthanasia are legal and widely practiced. But it's beginning to look like Barack Obama won't be an easy president to invidiously stereotype.


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Police pull over Google self-driving car
An officer pulled over a Google self-driving car because of its speed.
An officer pulled over a Google self-driving car because of its speed.
Two suspects started running from the officers after they went to investigate, police say.
The shop's owner told officers that a man entered the business displaying a hunting knife and demanded money.
Harold Lee threatened to kill his girlfriend and burn her apartment hours after the couple had broken up.
Stihl says the products' gasoline tank vents can become dislodged and cause fuel to leak, posing a fire hazard.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, boys hockey ranks second for concussions, right under football.
The company says the cans are being recalled due to a potential choking hazard.
The theater is undergoing a complete makeover and will reopen on November 19th.
Marius Mitchell was found not guilty of felony charges that stemmed from an incident in January of 2013.
Amtrak says a one of its trains heading to Newport News had to suspend service due to mechanical issues Thursday evening.
Virginia Tech rallied from a 14-point deficit to defeat Georgia Tech 23-21 on Thursday night in Atlanta.
Crews were called to the 400 block of Fort Worth Avenue around at 10:32 p.m.
Jaquan Yulee is one of the top linebackers in the country and next season will play for one of the top defenses in college football.
Dispatchers say it happened at the store in the 3700 block of Indian River Road.
The Pentagon says U.S. forces have conducted an airstrike in Syria targeting the British man known as "Jihadi John" who participated in the …
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When Sony announced plans to turn hundreds of hours of rehearsal footage from Michael Jackson's This Is It concerts into a concert film, Peter Travers was concerned that the limited amount editing time would hurt the final product. However, "I'm kind of shocked at how good this movie is," Travers says in his video review of This Is It.
Read Peter Travers' review of This Is It.
Like the King of Pop himself, This Is It is flawed, spending too much time interviewing Jackson's backup singers and dancers and not enough time showing the entirety of some of the This Is It performances. However, when the film clicks, it provides an incredibly intimate look at one of the greatest performers the world has ever seen, especially in scenes like the one featuring Thriller's "Human Nature." Jackson appears frail in the footage, but once he starts dancing, you're reminded why he was the King of Pop.
For more on This Is It, read Rolling Stone's opening night report on the film. And visit our Essential Michael Jackson Coverage.


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Reggie McKinnon gives a heartbreaking message to parents
Reggie McKinnon gives a heartbreaking message to parents
Heartbreaking message to parents - March 8th, 2010 is a day Reggie McKinnon won't ever forget.
It was a warm day in Lee County and he accidentally left his young daughter in his car all afternoon.
Payton Lynn passed away.
McKinnon doesn't ever want that tragedy to happen to anyone else. So he's using his heartbreaking story as an example. He's urging parents not to leave children in cars.
McKinnon is partnering with local and federal groups asking parents to pledge not to leave their child in a car alone.
"I made a promise to my sweet Payton Lynn that I would do everything I could to prevent this horror from ever happening to another innocent child," McKinnon said.
On Tuesday police and first responders illustrated how they respond to incidents of children left in hot vehicles.
They urge you to always call 911 if you see a child alone in the car.
Safercar.gov offers these tips:
Never leave a child alone in a car.
Don't let your kids play in an unattended vehicle. Teach them that a vehicle is not a play area.
Never leave infants or children in a parked vehicle, even if the windows are partially open.
Keep a large teddy bear or other stuffed animal in the car seat when it's empty. Move the teddy bear to the front seat when you place the child in the seat as a visual reminder.
If you are dropping your children off at childcare, but normally your spouse or partner drops them off, have your spouse or partner call you to make sure they were not left in the car.
Become vigilant about looking in the vehicle before locking the door. Always look front and back before walking away — always!


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Photos: Womens Marathon
Posted by Galen Nathanson on 08/05/2012 7:37pm MDT tags: Photo
Tiki Gelana felt the marathon slipping away when she tumbled on the rain-slickened street.
Around the halfway point of the race, the Ethiopian was knocked down by another runner as she reached for her water bottle, a hard fall that bloodied her right elbow. Already aching, Gelana thought about pulling out. Instead, she found new motivation, and headed on down the road.
Gelana recovered from the fall to win the Olympic marathon on Sunday in a race that began in a downpour, was briefly brightened by sunshine and ended in another drenching rain.
She was soaked as she crossed the finish line, but she didn't seem to mind, raising her hands high to celebrate after navigating the rainy course in 2 hours, 23 minutes, 7 seconds to hold off Priscah Jeptoo of Kenya by five seconds. Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova of Russia won the bronze in the typical London weather.
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text: We still are in wait-and-see mode when it comes to whether the Miami Dolphins will retain GM Jeff Ireland. Whoever is working in that general manager role in 2014 will have to decide what to do with a pair of underachieving linebackers in Dannell Ellerbe and Philip Wheeler, both of whom were signed last offseason. Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald suggests that it's possible that the Fins could release them, though doing so could be tough.


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Chapter Home
Urothelial carcinoma - invasive
Nested variant
Reviewer: Rugvedita Parakh, M.D. (see Reviewers page)
Revised: 9 February 2013, last major update June 2010
Copyright: (c) 2003-2013, PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.
● Rare tumor of irregular and confluent small nests and abortive tubules composed of urothelial cells infiltrating the lamina propria or muscularis propria, usually without surface involvement
● First described in 1989 (Am J Surg Pathol 1989;13:374)
● Usually men > 60 years, similar to classic urothelial carcinoma
Clinical features
● Either rare or underreported; estimated incidence is less than 0.3% of invasive bladder tumors
● Aggressive behavior despite bland cytologic features (Mod Pathol 2003;16:1289)
● Similar clinical outcome if pure or mixed with usual urothelial carcinoma (Hum Pathol 2010;41:163)
● Often advanced stage at presentation
● Tumor often at ureteral orifices
● Neoplasm resembles proliferation of Brunn's nests (Mod Pathol 1992;5:240); may be misinterpreted as benign (Am J Surg Pathol 1996;20:1448)
Case reports
● 71 year old man with recurrent tumor
(Actas Urol Esp 2009;33:90)
● Two cases with aggressive behavior (Pathol Oncol Res 2006;12:105)
● Radical surgical resection
Gross description
● Often no clearly defined tumor
Micro description
● Irregular and confluent small nests and abortive tubules composed of urothelial cells infiltrating the lamina propria or muscularis propria, usually without surface involvement (Arch Pathol Lab Med 2007;131:1725)
● Tumor cells have only mild atypia (mild pleomorphism, slightly increased N/C ratios, occasional prominent nucleoli, rare mitotic figures) and resemble cystitis glandularis et cystica
● Deep tumor-stroma interface is jagged and infiltrative
● Often more atypia and focal anaplasia with increasing depth of invasion
● Typical urothelial carcinoma is often present (Mod Pathol 1996;9:989)
● Retraction artifact may be seen
● By definition, these tumors cannot be high grade or have overlying surface carcinoma in situ
Micro images
Nests of bland urothelial cells in lamina propria
Fig 1: Lamina propria infiltrated by neoplastic proliferation of fairly homogeneous nests
Fig. 2: Tumor cells are small/medium and uniform, with a low N/C ratio and a low mitotic index; nuclei are slightly irregular with occasional prominent nucleoli
Fig. 3: Tumor cells infiltrate muscularis propria
Confluent small nests and abortive tubules
Various images
Various images
Histological appearance of the urinary bladder
|AFIP 2-30: The tumor usually presents as multiple, deceptively benign appearing nests in the lamina propria. In contrast to cystitis glandularis, the nests lack cellular organization around lumina, and appear to infiltrate rather than cluster. At high power, the cellular disorganization and atypia are prominent. AFIP images courtesy of Dr. Daniel M. Lundblad, Parkersburg, West Virginia
Cytology description
● Subtle features are not diagnostic by themselves; include medium sized round/polygonal cells with abundant, dense, slightly granular basophilic cytoplasm and well defined cell borders; irregular nuclear contours, increased N/C ratio, coarse chromatin, occasional prominent nucleoli
(Cancer 2003;99:23)
Positive stains
● CK7, CK20, p63, Ki-67, CK903
(Arch Pathol Lab Med 2003;127:e333)
● Variable p53
Negative stains
● bcl2, EGFR, PSA
Differential diagnosis
● Adenocarcinoma:
colonic differentiation; more prominent atypia
● Cystitis cystica / glandularis: no atypia, no invasion
● Inverted papilloma: no deep invasion
● Nephrogenic metaplasia / adenoma: usually has papillary component, prominent tubular or cystic structures lined by single layer of cuboidal cells, no atypia, no invasion
● Prostatic adenocarcinoma: centered in prostate, PSA+, PSAP+
● Urothelial carcinoma with small tubules: invasive carcinoma with small gland-like spaces lined by urothelial cells without intracellular mucin or columnar lining; some consider this part of nested variant (Hum Pathol 2004;35:769)
● von Brunn's nests: no invasion, no prominent atypia; no focal anaplasia (Am J Surg Pathol 2003;27:1243)
End of Bladder > Urothelial carcinoma - invasive > Nested variant
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A mixed-up meme
A while ago tony at milkriverblog tagged me with a meme, a fiver, and a few days ago afarensis tagged me with another one, also a fiver. So I decided to mix the two and answer only those I feel like answering. Here they are.
5 creatures I'd like to see before I go. [This one is from milkriverblog]
Metafruticola oerstani. My namesake for crying out loud. And I have only seen pictures of it.
Trichoplax adhaerens. The simplest of all animals and one of the only 2 members of the phylum Placozoa. It is a multicellular microscopic creature that lives in the sea.
Anatolian Leopard (Panthera pardus tulliana). Once common on the mountains of Anatolia, these big cats are probably extinct now, but then again a few may still be lingering.
A gorilla in the jungle (I have seen them in zoos, but that doesn't count).
Dodo! The legend has it that a man cannot die before he sees the beast he is dying to see. That means I will be immortal.
A great song I wouldn't mind never hearing again. [This one is from afarensis]
I happen to be listening to Dylan's Blonde on Blonde as I am writing these. So I will put down Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.
Five movies that are my life. [From milkriverblog]
There isn't any. But I would like to have had a part—a small one—in Casablanca.
The book that took me the longest to finish. [From afarensis]
Darwin's On the Origin of Species. I have it on my bedside table and been reading it for about 2 years now and am not finishing it anytime soon. It's a fine book and I enjoy it, but there are so many other things to read that it always gets a low priority.
5 moments in my life that have changed everything I've done since. [From milkriverblog]
In my recent history there is only one such moment. It was on 11 August 1997 around 2 o'clock in the afternoon (details from my fieldbook). My cousin's family and I had been yachting along the southwestern coast of Turkey. We anchored at a small bay and I went ashore to look for suitable places where I could find bdelloid rotifers. Instead, on the side of a steep hill above the sea, I found 6 land snail shells in a hole under a rock. A few months later, I switched to studying snails. It was all because of those shells.
I am not tagging anyone. I'll let this meme die.