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If you ever question the Bay Area's appetite for football television . . . well, then you must be new around this here sports cafeteria.
I present for your consideration the events of last Thursday night. The 49ers opened their preseason schedule. Starters played one series against Denver. The rest of the evening was a largely miserable slog, ending in a meaningless 10-6 victory by the Broncos.
And the Bay Area scarfed it up the way Joey Chestnut inhales hot dogs on the Fourth of July.
The game drew a 12.9 overnight rating on Channel 5 (KPIX), according to a station representative. One ratings point equals approximately 25,020 households, so that 12.9 rating translates to 322,822 homes.
For perspective, that's more local households than watched the NCAA basketball championship game last April -- or watched any of the A's playoff baseball games last October.
Among those not shocked by this news was Ted Griggs, president of Comcast SportsNet Bay Area (CSN), the market's major carrier of sports programming. Griggs' cable operation is on a tremendous roll, with soaring prime-time ratings. Many Giants game broadcasts on given nights this season ranked No. 1 among all competition -- including the entertainment programming on other networks.
However, there are no NFL game broadcasts on CSN. Griggs knows what that means for the next six months.
"Football as a single event is always going to be a ratings blockbuster," Griggs said. "Baseball is kind of a long thread that runs through your life, more of a marathon runner. Football is like a sprinter, a Usain Bolt. It draws that burst of attention."
Yes, but even for an exhibition game? The play-by-play man for Thursday's broadcast, KPIX sports director Dennis O'Donnell, admits he blinked twice Friday morning when he saw the overnight rating -- highest for a local exhibition game in seven years.
"But I think there were a few factors at work," O'Donnell said. "The Giants had played a day game Thursday, so there was no on-air sports competition with them. Another factor was, the team's coming off the Super Bowl. And lastly . . . it's NFL football."
Translation: No matter what the other local franchises do, the NFL will always be king in NorCal. Yet I strongly sense that the Bay Area is eager to diversify its sports interests -- and I recently decided to check out my theory. With assistance from Nielson Media Research, I assembled the top ratings for all sports events broadcast in the Bay Area between July 1, 2012, and July 1 this year. (See accompanying charts.)
The findings were fascinating, if not stunning. Among the revelations:
Griggs: "Basketball has always been kind of a sleeping giant. We can see what happens when the Warriors are good. Lord knows what they'll do, ratings wise, when they get great."
The most watched college game in the Bay Area was Stanford's Rose Bowl victory over Wisconsin (12.34 and 308,838).
Do we currently live in a golden age of Bay Area sports viewing? Based on these ratings numbers, I won't argue otherwise. The Bay Area has a reputation as a mellow sports region without as much rabid fan intensity as, say, Boston or Chicago. Griggs doesn't necessarily buy that concept, if local franchises are winning.
"I don't think we'll ever embrace a 'lovable losers' team, the way that Chicago fans do with the Cubs," Griggs said. "We live in a place with the most expensive houses, the highest taxes . . . We expect our teams to be good and entertaining."
And watchable. Mostly, watchable
(Full disclosure: I appear as a compensated guest on some CSN programming, receiving a three-figure monthly paycheck. I promptly spend it on my cable package to watch still more sports.)
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A'dia Mathies scored 23 points and No. 6 Kentucky overcame a sluggish first half to rally past No. 20 Texas A&M 65-62 Thursday night.
Jennifer O'Neill added 15 points as the Wildcats (15-1, 3-0 SEC) extended school-record winning streaks of 14 games overall and 31 in a row at home.
Texas A&M shot 59 percent (17 of 29) in the first half behind a slew of layups from Kelsey Bone and Kristi Bellock for a 37-31 halftime lead. But Kentucky's improved defense wore down the Aggies and limited them to just 32 percent shooting (10 of 31) after that.
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PALO ALTO -- The FBI has opened a criminal investigation into claims by Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) that it was tricked by "serious accounting improprieties" into overpaying billions of dollars for a British software firm
Sources familiar with the investigation said the Federal Bureau of Investigation's San Francisco office opened a probe into the $11 billion deal Tuesday at the request of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The bureau investigates complex financial crimes and has legal attachés at overseas offices that can cooperate with local agencies.
While investigators examine whether and how HP was fleeced, others are raising questions about the company's description of the Autonomy deal.
"What they've said to date about the fraud doesn't correspond to why half the value in the company disappeared," said Lynn Turner, a managing director at the accounting firm LitiNomics, based in Mountain View, and a former chief accountant for the SEC.
Hewlett-Packard, a venerable Palo Alto computer giant, stunned investors and Wall Street on Tuesday with the sensational allegations and a massive $8.8 billion write-down.
HP said that $5 billion of that was attributable to "misrepresentations" by unnamed Autonomy employees about the value of the company.
It referred the results of its internal investigation to the SEC and the United Kingdom's Serious Fraud Office for civil and criminal investigation.
HP acquired Autonomy in 2011 under then CEO Léo Apotheker. A few months later Apotheker was out and Whitman was the new CEO with the job of integrating the acquisition, which was made when she was an HP board member. She publicly supported the deal despite criticism from some quarters about its rich price.
Whitman said during a Tuesday conference call that HP discovered problems with Autonomy's books only after Autonomy founder Michael Lynch left the company and an Autonomy executive revealed details of the misrepresented finances. The consulting firm Deloitte audited Autonomy and KPMG advised HP on the deal.
Lynch has denied any improprieties. Lynch told The Wall Street Journal that HP's "figures are just mad. You are talking about handing them an asset worth $12 billion and they are saying $9 billion of that they are taking off. That would be such an obvious massive thing with 300 people and all these firms doing due diligence, how could you possibly not spot it?"
According to a story in the May Fortune magazine, HP's chief financial officer, Cathie Lesjak, vigorously objected to the Autonomy deal, telling the board that the company was paying too much for the company, whose software helps customers sort through massive amounts of data. Lesjak had no comment on the article.
Much commentary Wednesday centered around the role of HP's board.
"They have a well established track record now of doing acquisitions that have cost their shareholders dearly," said Turner of LitiNomics.
Turner said HP's board "got fleeced and didn't even realize it at the time."
He said the company's claim that Autonomy mischaracterized about $200 million in hardware sales as software sales doesn't account for a $5 billion write-down.
Another allegation, that some sales were booked without having any customer, "takes it to a new level. If you can't have an audit detect that, why pay for an audit in first place?"
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Eating too much red meat, which raises brain levels of iron, may heighten the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, researchers from the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA reported in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.
As background information, the authors explained that iron can accelerate the damaging reactions of free radicals. Over time, iron builds up in brain gray matter regions and appears to contribute to the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and other age-related illnesses.
Alzheimer's disease has been an exceptionally challenging enemy to defeat. Its number 1 risk factor is aging – something none of us can prevent.
Most scientists and specialists agree that Alzheimer's is caused by one of two proteins: Tau and Beta-amyloid.
As we get older, these two proteins either disrupt signaling between neurons or kill them off. Team leader, Dr. George Bartzokis and colleagues believe there is a third likely cause of Alzheimer's – iron accumulation.
Professor Bartzokis and team compared the hippocampus and the thalamus using sophisticated brain-imaging high- and low-field strength MRI instruments. The hippocampus is a brain region that is damaged early on in Alzheimer's, while the thalamus is only affected during the late stages. The MRI scans showed that iron builds up over time in the hippocampus but not the thalamus. They also saw an association between iron accumulation levels in the hippocampus and tissue damage in that area.
Most scientists concentrate on the accumulation of beta-amyloid or tau that cause the hallmark plaques associated with Alzheimer's, Bartzokis explained. For a long time, Bartzokis had been saying that the breakdown starts off much further "upstream".
Communication between neurons is disrupted when myelin, a fatty tissue that coats nerve fibers, is destroyed, promoting the accumulation of plaques. These amyloid plaques then destroy more myelin – a self-perpetuating cascade of destruction. The more the signaling is disrupted, the more the nerve cells die, and the classic signs of Alzheimer's appear.
"Circumstantial evidence has long supported the possibility that brain iron levels might be a risk factor for age-related diseases like Alzheimer's," says Bartzokis.
Iron is vital for cell function. However, too much of it encourages oxidative damage, something to which the brain is particularly susceptible. Bartzokis and team set out to determine whether high tissue iron might cause the tissue breakdown associated with Alzheimer's. They focused on the hippocampus, an area of the brain that is involved in the formation of memories. They compared the hippocampus to the thalamus, which is relatively unaffected until the very late stages of the disease.
Their MRI technique was able to measure how much brain iron there was in a protein that stores iron – ferritin. The study included 31 Alzheimer's patients and 68 healthy individuals of the same age.
Measuring iron in the brain is not easy if the patient has Alzheimer's, because the amount of water in the brain increases as the disease progresses. The more water there is in the brain, the harder it is to detect iron, Bartzokis explained. Bartzokis said "It is difficult to measure iron in tissue when the tissue is already damaged. But the MRI technology we used in this study allowed us to determine that the increase in iron is occurring together with the tissue damage. We found that the amount of iron is increased in the hippocampus and is associated with tissue damage in patients with Alzheimer's but not in the healthy older individuals – or in the thalamus. So the results suggest that iron accumulation may indeed contribute to the cause of Alzheimer's disease." Because the consumption of red meat raises brain levels of iron, the researchers note that too much red meat may, in fact, raise the risk of developing Alzheimer's.
FoodFacts.com knows that everyone in our community is aware that our healthiest dietary choices equate to a balanced diet rich in fresh fruits, vegetables and lean protein. We know that conscious eating habits can help us avoid a whole host of health problems, regardless of age. It's certainly worth noting our consumption of red meat for many reasons. This latest information points to the idea that there can always be "too much of a good thing" – even if you are choosing the leanest cuts of red meat available. Choosing a variety of lean protein sources is an important part of our approach to healthy eating. Awareness and balance are always significant components of our conscious dietary choices to achieve and maintain good health as we age.


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ATLANTA (AP) -- Georgia Tech's football team could be headed for its second losing record in three years.
The men's basketball team, which opens a new arena on campus next month, won just 11 games last season and went 4-12 in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Some fans might be displeased that athletic director Dan Radakovich has decided to leave and take the same job at Clemson while the Yellow Jackets endure these growing pains.
But interim athletic director Paul Griffin says the school's two biggest revenue programs -- football and men's basketball -- will not be neglected during the search for Radakovich's replacement.
Football coach Paul Johnson and basketball coach Brian Gregory both say that Radakovich's work in helping improve facilities will give their teams a chance to succeed more consistently.
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Senior Lawmakers Skeptical of Obama Phone-Data Proposal
Obama Outlines Major Changes to NSA Surveillance
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Congressional leaders said Sunday they were skeptical of President Barack Obama's plan to move the National Security Agency's database of American phone calls out of government hands, an early indication of the coming debate as the U.S. wrestles with how to implement the White House proposals.
"I think that's a very difficult thing," Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) told NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday. "The whole purpose of this program is to provide instantaneous information to be able to disrupt any plot that may be taking place."
Ms. Feinstein chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, and her concerns were shared by her counterpart in the House, Rep. Mike Rogers, who called moving the phone record data out of government hands "a huge problem."
Mr. Rogers (R., Mich.) said the president's speech left key issues unresolved. "We really did need a decision on this but what we got was lots of uncertainty,'' he said.
Those concerns were echoed on ABC's "This Week'' by Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. "I think that's going to be a real issue in terms of who has the capability, other than the NSA, to handle this information – particularly given the fact the phone companies don't want to,'' said Mr. McCaul (R., Texas).
On Friday, Mr. Obama laid out a series of changes to the U.S.'s extensive system of intelligence-gathering, prompted by the cascade of revelations contained in leaked NSA documents. That included shifting the control of a controversial program that gathers records of nearly every American phone call.
Currently, the NSA gathers those records from the major phone companies and assembles it in a giant database. The president said that data should no longer be held by the government, and ordered Attorney General Eric Holder to propose a new arrangement.
Like many of the ideas contained in his speech, moving the phone data could require passage of new legislation by Congress. What happens there in coming weeks will more than any executive actions determine how far-reaching the NSA revamp will be. The early reaction shows how much remains subject to the political process.
The phone companies are opposed to taking responsibility for such a database, and even if they did some intelligence officials have warned there could be technical challenges to them doing so.
Gen. Michael Hayden, former director of both the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, expressed overall comfort with the direction President Obama appears to be taking the government's intelligence gathering. In essence, Gen. Hayden said he believes the administration will keep the "metadata" phone record gathering going, with slight changes around the edges.
"There's an awful lot to like around the President's speech," Gen. Hayden said on "Fox News Sunday." Gen. Hayden described the Friday address as a "robust" defense of the vast majority of current NSA intelligence methods. Those include the maintenance of vast reams of data on phone calls, including those to and from U.S. citizens.
The primary issue, raised in part by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, has been whether this data gathering tramples on citizens' privacy rights. Mr. Snowden has been granted asylum in Russia, and faces criminal charges if he returns to the United States.
The president is going to "cut back at some capacities," said Mr. Hayden. "He's willing to do that to preserve the program."
To a great degree, the general agreed with Sen. Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.), also on the show, except perhaps on the question of going to a court before inspecting the phone data. Gen. Hayden posited a case where the NSA has "a reasonable suspicion" that a phone number in Yemen is tied to U.S. activity. In such an instance, he said, "I'm a little bit more concerned about going to a court" before taking action.
Sen. Leahy said, though, "I just think there should be oversight."


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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi men's basketball team has signed Zane Knowles (Nassau, Bahamas/Pearl River CC) to a National Letter of Intent, Head Coach Willis Wilson announced today. Knowles will have two years of eligibility remaining when he arrives at the Island University for the 2012-13 season.
"Zane is a physical big man that will help add depth to our front line," Wilson said. "He will help our low post game from day one and his physical presence should help open things up for the rest of our team. He will also improve physically once he arrives, and we think he can become an impact player for the Islanders."
The 6-foot-9, 240-pound center averaged 12.6 points and 8.4 rebounds under Richard Mathis at Pearl River (Miss.) last year, as he shot 61 percent from the field. He also tallied 37 blocks in 27 games, and added 11 steals on the defensive end. He posted nine double-doubles on the year and 10 games with double-digit rebounds, helping PRCC to a 15-12 record.
Knowles tallied a season-high 16 rebounds against Mississippi Delta CC on Jan. 12, and his finest game came against Hinds CC, when he scored 28 points on 11-of-12 shooting and also snared 11 boards. He also had a standout game with 23 points against Copiah-Lincoln CC on Feb. 6.
The native Bahamian spent his freshman year at Grambling, where he played sparingly due to injury, appearing in 15 games and averaging 1.7 points and 2.0 rebounds in 7.8 minutes per contest. He attended high school at Champagnat Catholic School in Miami, where he was named a South Florida All-Star and earned a spot in the Miami Dade/Broward County All-Star Game.
Knowles is the fifth signee for the Islanders for the 2012-13 season, joining high schoolers Jelani Currie (Albany, N.Y.) and Brandon Pye (Mansfield, Texas) along with junior college players William Nelson (Baton Rouge, La.) and Joy Williamson (Oklahoma City, Okla.).


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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi volleyball team has signed Kristyn Nicholson (Lewisville, Texas/Lewisville HS) and Brittany Gilpin (Houston, Texas/Westside HS) to National Letters of Intent, head coach Tony Graystone announced today.
"We're really happy with the 2014 class and excited about the impact they'll have on our program," Graystone said.
Nicholson, a setter from Lewisville, Texas was on the AVCA High School All-American watch list and will look to fill the void of Logen Bourque, who is completing her final year of eligibility. Nicholson was named to the District 5-5A First Team as a junior and earned All-Texas Team Honorable Mention honors in 2012.
"Kristyn has great hands, understands how to run an offense and will give us a physical presence at the net," Graystone said. "She has received great training at the high school and club level, and set for the 18 Open Division National Championship team last summer. I anticipate a very short learning curve with her and we should see her compete for our setter position right away."
Gilpin, a 5-foot-11 middle blocker from Westside High School was the District 20-5A Player of the Year. She was also named to the PrepVolleyball.com senior aces top 250 list and will add depth to the middle blocker position with the departure of Sarah Sanchez at the end of this season.
"Brittany is pretty much everything we look for in a middle blocker," Graystone said. "She's very fast, can attack anywhere on the net and is also an excellent blocker. Brittany will give us a lot more offensive balance and be a perfect fit in our system."
The Islanders will host the Southland Conference Tournament on Nov. 22-24 in the Dugan Wellness Center. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi received the No. 5 seed and will open the first round against No. 4 Sam Houston Sate on Friday at 6:30 p.m. in the Dugan Wellness Center. The team makes its third appearance into the tournament since the start of the program. Tickets can be purchased by calling the Islanders ticket office at (361) 825-BALL (2255) or online HERE.
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USC Upstate drops opener to Western Kentucky at NCAA softball regional
Published: Friday, May 17, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — It was a pitcher's duel in USC Upstate's first appearance in the NCAA Regional in Tuscaloosa, but Western Kentucky's ace Emily Rousseau got the best of the Spartans, giving up just two hits and no walks in the Hilltoppers' 3-0 win.
Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Regional
Game 1 — Western Kentucky 3, South Carolina Upstate 0
Game 2 — Alabama 4, Jacksonville State 0
Game 3 — Western Kentucky (42-16) vs. Alabama (43-13), 2 p.m.
Game 4 — South Carolina Upstate (41-11) vs. Jacksonville State (30-26), 4:30 p.m.
Game 5 — Game 3 loser vs. Game 4 winner, 7 p.m.
Head coach Chris Hawkins said nerves were a factor at the beginning of the game, but attributed Rousseau's performance for the loss.
"I think we were a little jittery at the beginning," he said. "We settled down and played a little bit. That was a very good pitcher. She mixed it up well. Kept us off balance. We had a few opportunities. It was good to come out in this atmosphere and hopefully learn from what we didn't do today and hopefully get it done (today)."
Hawkins said the Spartans knew what was coming from Rousseau, but her motions were unexpected.
"Usually after she goes in she throws the changeup away," he said. "We kind of knew what was going on. Her motion is the same exact for the changeup and the ball that was in. It threw us off a little bit. We would definitely like another crack at it. Not saying we would do any better."
Western Kentucky struck first in the first inning. Leadoff batter Preslie Cruce took four pitches before blasting one out of right field to put the Toppers up 1-0.
But, Spartan pitcher Jamie Ujvari (19-4) didn't let the early lead affect her. After walking the next batter, Ujvari retired seven batters before giving up another walk.
"To be able to be a good pitcher, you have to move on from that hit and have confidence in your hitters and your team itself and that's what I try to do," Ujvari said. "I try to hit every spot and hope the best came out of it."
Ujvari allowed just that one hit until the fifth inning, when Shawna Sadler hit a single to left. Two batters later, Cruce stepped up to the plate and cashed in again with a two-run homer, pushing the lead to three.
The Spartans tried to put something together in the third when Ujvari singled and Maddison Kieffer reached on an error, putting runners in scoring position for the only time in the game. But, Upstate popped up and struck out to end the threat.
Hawkins said the team needs to adjust and put together better at-bats for the next game.
"We need to see more pitches," he said. "Take more pitches. Be more aggressive later in the count than just hacking right off and taking whatever she throws. Leading us off with a changeup, knowing its coming and making bad attempts is something we just have to make that adjustment on. She's a very good pitcher. Can throw it in all locations. They had a good game plan. I told our girls, when you get to this level, all of them are going to be this way and you have to make those adjustments."
Most importantly, the Spartans aren't hanging their heads after the loss.
"I'm just proud of how they handled it after the game," he said. "They look more determined now. It wasn't like, failure. It was like, let me get back out there and play and I felt like that was a good statement for our team."
USC Upstate (41-11) plays Jacksonville State at 4:30 p.m. Saturday
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CORPUS CHRISTI – Myron Dempsey's layup with 7.1 seconds remaining sent the game to overtime, and a clutch Hameed Ali three-pointer in the extra session gave the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi basketball team (1-2) a lead it would not relinquish in a 58-55 win over Utah State (2-2) on Tuesday night at the American Bank Center. Dempsey posted a double-double with 16 points and 15 rebounds in the victory.
The win was the first in Willis Wilson's tenure as head coach of the Islanders program.
Terence Jones added 14 points for the Islanders, including a 5-for-6 effort from the line, in the victory. Texas A&M – Corpus Christi had a season-low 12 turnovers on the game, just five after halftime. The Islanders improved to 13-5 all-time in overtime contests with the victory. Morgan Grim added a double-double for the Aggies with 20 points and 12 boards, while Brockeith Pane scored 15 in the loss.
With the score tied at 49-49 in the extra session, Pane got the scoring started with a jumper from the foul-line extended for a 49-47 lead. But Jordan went to the line at the other end and hit 2-of-2 to tie the game at 49 apiece. Both teams went empty on their next possession, but Grim went to the line and delivered a pair of shots for a 51-49 advantage. Dempsey followed with 1-of-2, then after a turnover Jones hit both shots at the stripe to make it 52-51 Islanders with 1:56 remaining in OT.
Pane drew a foul while cutting to the basket on the other end, and the veteran found the bottom of the net with both attempts for a 53-52 Aggie advantage. Ali then knocked down the pivotal three from the corner, and after a Dempsey defensive board, Jones buried a pair of shots from the stripe to make it 57-53. A Grim layup trimmed it to 57-55, but Jones hit 1-of-2 with five seconds left to result in the final score.
Texas A&M – Corpus Christi was helped by 16 offensive rebounds that led to 22 second-chance points and scored 16 points of 16 USU turnovers. The back-and-forth affair saw 12 ties and 15 lead changes.
Early on, both defenses kept their opponents in check, with the score tied at 4-4 until the 13:45 mark. Dempsey scored the first four points for the Islanders. The Aggies scored four straight to build a lead, but that was countered by a 6-0 run, culminating with a Chris Hawkins-Mast layin to make it 10-8. The Aggies responded with a 6-2 run, but Nate Maxey tossed in a brilliant layup inside to make it a 16-14 deficit with just 4:50 to go until halftime.
The Islanders trimmed it to one on a Hawkins-Mast free throw, then regained the lead on a Johnathan Jordan layup that found its way home to make it 17-16. But USU got ahead again on the first three of the game for either team, a triple from the left wing by Adam Thoseby, that put the score at 19-17 Aggies. The Islanders scored four straight on a Pope-Didier layup and a putback from Myron Dempsey, but Mitch Bruneel got the lead back for the visitors on a three from the right corner to give the Aggies a 22-21 lead at the break.
The two teams continued their back-and-forth out of the locker room, with a Jones jumper giving the Islanders a 25-24 lead. After the Aggies regained the lead on a Morgan Grim putback, Jones buried a three, the Islanders' first of the contest, to make it 28-26 in favor of the home squad. After the score moved to 29-28, Maxey slammed home an alley-oop from Jordan to make it a three-point lead for A&M – Corpus Christi.
Utah State rallied to tie the score, but Jones came through with the big basket again, hitting a running jumper to make it 34-32 Islanders. The Aggies struck with a left-wing triple from Thoseby, but Jordan countered with an impressive layup in traffic to regain the lead. After a Dempsey bucket in the lane, another Thoseby trey tied the game for the eighth time at 38-all with 6:45 to play.
The Aggies got four straight points from Brockeith Pane to pull ahead 42-38, then Jordan hit 1-of-2 from the stripe to trim it back to three. A Kyisean Reed putback and a Pane free throw pushed the lead to 45-39, the largest of the game for USU, with 3:12 remaining. But the Islanders bounced back, getting a layup from Hawkins-Mast and a back-door layup from Ali to trim the deficit to 45-43.
Utah State responded with a Grim layup to push the lead back to four, but again the Islanders responded, getting another back-door bucket, this one from Hawkins-Mast, to make it 47-45 Aggies. Preston Medlin was fouled on the ensuing possession, but missed the front end of the 1-and-1 to give the Islanders the ball with 20.9 seconds left. Dempsey delivered the heroics by finding the bottom of the net from inside to tie the score at 47.
The Islanders return to action on Saturday, Nov. 26, as they head to College Station for a matchup with No. 25 Texas A&M. Tipoff is slated for 3 p.m. at Reed Arena. Live audio will be available on GoIslanders.com.


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— Ticket sales have begun for the Wayne County Public Library's "In Good Taste" wine-tasting event, which will once again be hosted by Wayne County Ford.
This year, the library's premier fundraising event will be held on Friday, April 26.
Tickets are on sale now for $30 each at the Library at 1406 Main Street in Honesdale.
New library director Tracy Schwarz said six local restaurants will be preparing special finger foods that are paired with six different wines. Participating Restaurants include The Alpine Wurst & Meat House, Camp Umpy's Bagles & Stuff, Ehrhardt's Waterfront Restaurant, Fiesta on Main, Glass Wine Bar & Kitchen and Hotel Wayne.
Enjoy of evening of good company, good wine and great food at Wayne County Ford, Friday, April 26, from 6 to 9:30 p.m. A silent auction features works by local artists and art students, some of whom have given old books from the book sale room a new life. Also, 50-50 raffles will liven up the evening.
For the 2012 event, more than 300 people sipped, tasted and mingled in the transformed Wayne County Ford show room on Route 6 east of Honesdale.
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Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield is a working farm located along the banks of Deer Creek in southern Jefferson County, CO. Chatfield is a beautiful and expansive property that includes the historic Hildebrand Ranch, a restored 1918 dairy barn and silo, an 1874 Deer Creek Schoolhouse, miles of nature trails, and the Deer Creek Discovery where children can play and discover nature in the wildflower gardens, for example. Five acres of the land is dedicated to a CSA program that provides fresh local produce to Colorado families and organizations that serve communities in need from the Rocky Mountain region. The demand at Chatfield is enormous and the staff makes an extraordinary effort to meet the needs of the community. Just this past year, Chatfield's CSA grew more than 97,000 pounds of vegetable produce. About 4 tons of the farm's yields are donated to local homeless shelters in Littleton, CO. The Denver Botanic Gardens is the first botanic garden in the country to operate a CSA program of this scale.
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One person is dead following a wreck early Saturday morning on McMillan Boulevard.
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According to the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the wreck happened just before 2 a.m. and involved just one vehicle. Lance Cpl. Bill Rhyne said a 2011 Honda was traveling north on McMillan Boulevard when it ran off the right side of the road and hit a tree.
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LIVNGSTON | West Alabama gave up five runs in the top of the ninth inning to lose its home opener, 9-4, to Saint Leo on Saturday.
The loss snaps a two-game win streak for West Alabama (2-6), while Saint Leo (7-2) improves its win streak to six.
Matthew Hewitt closed out the game for Saint Leo without giving up a hit in the final two innings. UWA's starting pitcher, Barry Meeks, had a season high of eight strikeouts in six innings. Relief pitcher Brett Ivey suffered his third loss on the season after giving up five runs.
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BERKELEY -- The roots of the coaching tree that spawned new Cal football coach Sonny Dykes reach down to Darrell Royal and LaVell Edwards. But his approach to the game was shaped more directly by less traditional influences.
Perhaps none was more profound than the time he spent with Hal Mumme at Kentucky.
"I hired him twice," Mumme said of Dykes. "He was that good."
In his first stint at Kentucky, as a graduate assistant in 1997, Dykes was charged with finding a solution a year after the Wildcats had five punts blocked. The new coach decided he had to try something different.
"I called Sonny in and said that's your job this summer," Mumme recalled.
Dykes, now 43, devised a scheme where the Wildcats used primarily offensive players on their punt team, which traditionally is manned by players with tackling skills. The change gave Dykes the freedom to smoothly execute offensive plays out of punt formation.
Kentucky ran 11 fake punts that season, Dykes said, and was 3 for 3 against defending national champion Florida.
"We did it from our 8-yard line -- that's how we got famous," Mumme said.
The lesson for Dykes -- under Mumme at Kentucky and later at Texas Tech under Mike Leach -- was to challenge the status quo. Mumme and Dykes are the two coaches credited with borrowing from Edwards' BYU passing attack and creating the prolific "Air-Raid" offense. Already some Cal fans have labeled their new offense the "Bear-Raid."
"What I value most about Hal and Mike is they are out-of-the-box thinkers," Dykes said.
And that's what Cal fans can expect beginning next Aug. 31 against Northwestern at Memorial Stadium -- just about anything.
Dykes' team at Louisiana Tech led the nation in scoring this season at 51.5 points per game, running a fast-tempo, no-huddle spread offense. At times he would flood the secondary with five wide receivers. Other times he'd line up with three running backs.
His quarterback passed for 31 touchdowns and more than 4,000 yards, but it was his center who took the signals from the sideline, set the blocking schemes and called the snap count.
"I was really blessed to work with contrasting styles, contrasting personalities," Dykes said. "I think they all prepared me for this position that I'm in today."
It started with his father, Spike Dykes, who spent time working for the late legendary coach Royal at Texas, then took over at Texas Tech, where he became the Red Raiders' first coach to beat the Longhorns six times.
Both Mumme and Leach believe Sonny Dykes is ready for the challenge ahead at Cal.
"His dad coached for years, so he understands football. He sees the big picture," said Leach, now Dykes' Pac-12 rival as coach at Washington State. "He's an easy guy for the players to talk to and he's one of those active-in-the-community fellas."
Dykes and his wife, Kate, have two young daughters. Mumme, 60, now coaching at Division II McMurry University in Abilene, Texas, said Cal fans "are going to love him. It's impossible not to like Sonny Dykes. He's really a lot like Spike."
Spike Dykes, a 74-year-old West Texas legend, said there are differences.
"I'm an optimist," Spike said. "I think he's more of a realist."
Spike watches all of his son's games, either in person or on TV. He marvels at what he sees. "They throw more passes in one quarter than I threw in one season," said Spike, exaggerating but making his point about a team that averaged 44 pass attempts per game this season.
But Spike said his son has his priorities in order. "He understands the educational process of a college football player. I know graduation and class attendance and those things are really, really important to him and not just something that sounds good."
Those issues are critical for the Cal football program as it tries to get its academics in order after a fall report from the NCAA that showed it ranks last among Pac-12 schools in graduation rate.
Born Daniel Dykes in Big Spring, Texas, Sonny spent much of his childhood in Lubbock, where his dad coached at Texas Tech. "He was a fun kid to have around. He played everything, but he was a hard loser," Spike said. "He loved to win, hated to lose."
A two-sport athlete through high school, Dykes gave up football when he got to college. He gave up baseball, his dad recalled, "when those curveballs just got too hard to hit."
Throughout, Sonny was a typical coach's son, a gym rat who attended practices from a young age and sketched out plays in his free time. Even so, he did not initially expect to follow his dad's career path.
"I was kind of like most young guys," he said. "I wanted to do just the opposite of what my dad was doing until I got to that point where I started to say, 'Boy, can I really see my life without football?' "
So he began coaching in high school and junior college before Mumme got a call from Spike Dykes, asking him to give Sonny a job at Kentucky. "I don't care if you pay him," Spike said.
After the 1997 season in which Kentucky beat Alabama for the first time in 75 years, Dykes took a job as receivers coach at Northeast Louisiana. The staff there was ousted after one year, and Dykes was back at Kentucky as receivers coach.
He joined Leach at Texas Tech in 2000 for a seven-year stretch, the final two seasons as co-offensive coordinator. In 2006, Dykes was named the nation's top assistant coach by the All-American Football Foundation. As offensive coordinator at Arizona under Mike Stoops, Dykes helped the Wildcats to back-to-back bowl appearances after a 10-year absence. Then it was on to Ruston, La., where his teams continued to play fast and furious, winning the Western Athletic Conference title in 2011, then going 9-3 this fall.
Now, Dykes and Leach will be reunited as Pac-12 North rivals.
"Cal is going to be good," Leach said. "Of the teams I saw this season, they're easily in the top three as far as being most athletic."
The Bears and Cougars will square off in Berkeley next fall at a date yet to be determined -- and in a high-scoring game sure to exceed four hours.
"It'll be fun," Dykes said.
Cal fans are counting on it.
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Dr. Peter Janes walks quietly into the room and sits. A tall, slender man with blue eyes and slightly graying hair, he maintains an air of easy confidence and tranquility. When he speaks, his voice is calm, steady, even as he describes poor conditions in rural African clinics and scenes of chaos in a post-earthquake Haiti. Janes is the type of man you would want by your side in a pinch, and he spends much of his time working and volunteering in Summit County.
Janes, the senior surgeon with Vail-Summit Orthopaedics, has been living and practicing orthopedic sports medicine in Summit and Eagle counties since 1987. About eight years ago he and his wife moved to Summit, where they now live between Frisco and Breckenridge. Janes has been involved with the community for many years, including 12 on the board of The Summit Foundation and in various volunteer positions.
Janes donates physicals to student athletes and has acted as the on-the-field physician at high school ice hockey games for 11 years and at football games for 15 years. He fondly remembers his time as an athlete in younger years and says he still plays the occasional game of ice hockey.
Once a month, Janes volunteers his time at the Summit Community Care Clinic, takeing care of patients who can not otherwise afford to be seen by an orthopedic surgeon.
"Having specialists who are willing to see those patients, it's like a miracle for them," said care clinic CEO Sarah Vaine.
One of Janes' biggest contributions to the clinic is Community Surgery Day, an annual event that provides free surgery to needy clinic patients. This year marks the fourth year for the event, which came about when Janes got wind of a hospital doing something similar in Pueblo.
While meaning to call Pueblo to learn more, Janes was soon swept up in a trip to Haiti with his wife and several other physicians from Summit County to lend assistance to earthquake victims two weeks after it happened.
"We were assigned to a hospital and there's an anesthesiologist from Pueblo. We start talking, and he was involved with this (surgery day) in Pueblo," Janes said. "Here we are in this chaos of earthquake in Haiti and I meet the guy that I wanted to call. So we talked for hours when we weren't working and he helped me."
When he returned, Janes brought the idea to Vaines at the clinic. She was enthusiastic and he helped to recruit fellow physicians to donate their time to the surgery day.
"He's going to his peers and saying, 'I'm willing to do this, I want you to step up,' so they have been incredible and nobody said no," Vaines said. "They've all participated, but I think it has been Dr. Janes' enthusiasm for the project and his leadership and just his acting as an ambassador for the uninsured that has really made it successful."
It was for this and many other reasons that the clinic nominated Janes for the prestigious Harold E. Williamson Award from the COPIC Medical Foundation. The award, given annually to a Colorado physician who volunteers his or her medical services and contributes to the community, includes a $10,000 grant to be given to a nonprofit of their choice. Janes won, and chose the Summit Community Care Clinic as beneficiary of the grant.
Vaine said the money will go toward expenses incurred while expanding the clinic's hours to include two evenings a week and all day on Saturdays. For this and the help with the surgery day, the clinic is "very, very grateful," she said.
"Having somebody like Dr. Janes who is so consistent and has been for so many years, just opening up a whole huge new door of resources for those patients, it's incredible," she said.
While Janes is committed to volunteering and helping throughout the Summit County community, he has also found himself drawn to other places in the world needing help, especially Africa.
Janes attributes his first trip to Africa to his then-14-year-old daughter. She had found a program in Uganda and Janes and his wife accompanied her.
"We dug ditches on a water project and quickly learned that we were probably better off doing medical care," he said with a laugh, describing the blisters that project earned him. While there, he and his wife did some research on the medical resources nearby and decided that they wanted to come back.
That was in 2005. Two years later, he and his wife, Patricia, traveled to Tanzania. Next they spent time at a hospital in Rwanda, which they have re-visited for the past three summers. This is all in addition to the trip to Haiti in 2010.
The biggest challenge in Africa is the lack of modern medical equipment, Janes said.
"(It's) just trying to do things differently. We don't have the equipment that we have here. You just ... have to do it differently. You still do it well," he said. "It's very challenging, which is why I keep going, because it makes me better here, I think, to think differently over there."
One of the difficulties of this challenge, he continued, is realizing his limitations and the limitations of the equipment and resources available.
"You have to learn to say no. In those austere environments, as they call them, you can't help everyone. You know you could do this if you were back here, but over there I just have to say no, we could make this worse if we try this here."
Despite this, Janes has had success with his African patients. He has a handful whom he continues to check up on, through email while he's away, and in coming back to the same hospital each time to monitor their progress. Janes met one of those patients, a Rwandan named Joseph, when the boy was 10 years old. The child had fractured his arm an entire year earlier and received no treatment. The arm was disfigured and infected, leaving Joseph's hand completely unusable. Janes operated on the boy several times over the course of two trips, speaking with colleagues in the United States as well. Janes worried about him, as the boy's arm had not recovered when he left Rwanda the second time. On the next trip in 2012, Janes met with Joseph again.
"Joseph returned today, now 12 years old and in primary school grade 3," Janes wrote in his blog. "His fingers have full range of motion and his sensation is normal. He has some functional wrist motion, not normal perhaps, but he is pain free, the infection has cleared, no open wounds, he has a strong grip, and the bone has healed on XR. I was unable to speak for a moment, seemed like minutes to me, actually. Then the translator said that he would like to become a doctor and 'operate on bones.' "
Janes plans to continue to visit his patients in Africa and said that next year he's going to try visiting the Congo as well. He said he is drawn to the continent and has little interest in traveling anywhere else.
"There's a saying in Tanzania," he said, "where they keep a piece of your heart."
Janes cites his parents as the reason that he became a doctor. His mother was a nurse and his father a surgeon, working with the Royal Air Force in World War II .
"I distinctly remember in eighth grade, standing at his O.R. table, watching him, exhausted, standing all day long," Janes said, of one of the moments when he decided to be a doctor. "He was working."
Another significant life moment happened for Janes in an operating room - meeting his wife for the first time.
"We met over a gallbladder," he said, smiling. She was a nurse, assisting on the procedure. "All I could see were her eyes."
Although she turned him down at first, he didn't give up.
"I'm a persistent person," he said with a smile.
His favorite part about being a doctor? Fixing people.
"(It's) the satisfaction of getting a good result and helping someone get better and be able to work or get back to their life," he said. "We're actually functionally getting them back into their life, and I like that a lot."


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Today: A secondary offering from red-hot Milpitas security software company FireEye and initial public offering from Mountain View's Coupons.com transfer more than $1 billion from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Also: Job growth looks good in U.S., Bay Area.
The Lead: FireEye, Coupons.com show Wall Street enthusiasm for Silicon Valley
Wall Street's thirst for Silicon Valley technology companies has not died down despite a lull in IPOs during the first two months of this year, with a huge secondary offering from FireEye and an initial public offering from Coupons.com generating gigantic paydays Friday for Silicon Valley.
FireEye raked in about $1.15 billion by selling 14 million shares less than six months after the Milpitas security software company executed an IPO that sold shares at less than a quarter of that cost. Since its IPO, FireEye has seriously beefed up its offering with the $1 billion acquisition of Mandiant while the types of data breaches the company focuses on detecting and preventing have generated waves of headlines, thanks to a


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Creativity, passion, vigor, these are words that describe Coach Curtis Lewis who is now entering his third season as head of the Master's College women's soccer team.
The visionary young coach has made quick work of turning the Lady Mustang program into something special. He is constantly finding ways to improve and expand his program with vibrant, unique, and effective means that have caught the attention of his players, new recruits, opponents, and his coaching peers. He inspires those around him to see the game of soccer as a tool to be used for The Master. The results, from an athletic standpoint, speak for themselves. Lewis was able to bring in a recruiting class in 2008 that produced two All-GSAC and NCCAA 1st team All American selections. He was able to draw in another top notch recruiting class for 2009 and saw three of his players selected as All-GSAC, one NAIA All American Honorable Mention, and four NCCAA Fist Team All Americans. With another wave of impressive recruits, 2010 is looking to be a good year.
The great coach and great recruit combination has worked well for the Mustangs. In 2008 Lewis' team went 5-5 in a very tough GSAC Conference. Three of his players earned all conference honors and Lewis himself was recognized as the GSAC Coach of the Year after taking a program that was once an afterthought and making it a legitimate contender in arguably the most talented conference in the NAIA.
In 2009 the Mustangs continued to flourish under Lewis' leadership. Improving their record to 15-5-2, the team was able to capture the NCCAA National championship. Lewis was recognized as the 2009 NCCAA Coach of the year.
The results off the field, can not be nailed down to statistics, but are certainly farther reaching and worth more to Lewis than titles and honors ever will.
Lewis is the kind of coach players love to play for. He's personable, yet competitive and demanding. He's the kind of guy who takes good players and makes them great, who molds young people into leaders, who directs people to excellence in every area of their lives as an act of worship. His own life has been a testimony of what he preaches to his players daily.
A 2002 graduate (Biblical Studies) of The Master's College, Lewis was a four-year starter at center midfield for Coach Jim Rickard from 1998-2001, captaining the Mustangs to their fourth NCCAA national title in his senior campaign. He earned All-GSAC honors in 2001 and was named to the NCCAA All-American squad.
For the past seven years he has worked with the youth at Faith Community Church in Palmdale where he met his wife, Deann(Matteson). They were married in June of 2004 and have lived in Lancaster since her graduation from TMC a year later.
Lewis' upward move to college coaching came after spending four years with the Santa Clarita United Extreme girls' team, leading the club squad to several tournament championships, including a first-place finish in the U-18 (Under 18 years old) Gold League this past year.
Lewis has always had a passion for the game and a desire to serve the Lord on and off the field. He hopes to instill that same enthusiasm in women's soccer at The Master's College.


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Washing tzitzis has forever challenged me. So challenging that sometimes they get so gross that i wonder if they can walk themselves to Shul. Putting them in the washer usually equals a ball of strings. I've tried delicate bags and putting them in a sock. Ive even tried putting them all together in one loose knot. I've used Woolite and Oxiclean , but nothing works.
I recently starting soaking them in Tide, and it actually works! I take a bucket of warm water and a cupful Tide and let them soak overnight. I rinse and hang dry stretching the strings straight and in the end i have beautiful not free tzitzis for my guys to wear. Good Shabbos everyone!
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UMass women's soccer alumna Briana Scurry '95 (political science) has been chosen for the national women's team all-time best XI as a part of U.S. Soccer's commemoration of its centennial. A committee of 56 former soccer players and administrators, as well as media members, voted for the team.
Scurry played for the Minutewomen from 1990-93 before going on to a storied U.S. National Team career, which included Olympic Gold Medals in 1996 and 2004 and a Silver Medal in 2000. In her career, she made a total of 173 international appearances, which are the most among female soccer goalkeepers and the 10th most among any American female player.
She started 159 of her 173 games played for Team USA with a record of 133-12-14 with 71 shutouts. Along with her Olympic Gold and Silver medal performances, Scurry also helped the United States win the 1999 World Cup and finish third in 1995 and 2003. In three World Cup tournaments and two Olympic games, Scurry was an amazing 22-2-5 overall. Her 19 matches in World Cup play are by far the most ever for a U.S. goalkeeper.
The goalkeeper played professionally for the Atlanta Beat (2001-03) and the Washington Freedom (2009-10). She was an All-WUSA selection four times and named the WUSA Goalkeeper of the Year in 2003. That same year she was inducted into the UMass Athletic Hall of Fame.
During her time at UMass, Scurry backstopped the Minutewomen to an NCAA Final Four appearance and the program's first Atlantic 10 title as a senior in 1993 en route to Missouri Athletic Club/adidas Goalkeeper of the Year, All-America and Atlantic 10 Player of the Year honors. The squad also made NCAA appearances in her two previous seasons in Amherst, reaching the quarterfinal round in 1992.
Over four seasons at UMass, Scurry posted a 0.56 goals-against average in 6,073 career minutes, spanning 65 career games with 37 shutouts and a .906 save percentage.


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14th Annual New Years Day Charity Event.
$15 + 2 Cans of Food. Bring extra food if you got it! Prize from Iron Lion for the person who brings the most!
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|On the Shelf:
Books in Review
Visiting a bookstore these days can be confusing, especially if it has a well-stocked knitting section. Where once there were few titles, now there are almost too many.
Nothing beats plunking yourself down in a chair and checking out all the books for yourself, but you can't always do this. Allow me to guide you through 18 notable literary moments from 2002 and earlier.
|Best New Duo
If you read Interweave Knits, you may already be familiar with Ann Budd. The managing editor of the magazine, she's also responsible for the encyclopedic "Grand Plan" patterns.
Each pattern in the series contains instructions for knitting a simple garment type in nearly any size or gauge of yarn.
In the Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns, Ann expands on the "Grand Pattern" concept to cover a total of eight types of garments: mittens, gloves, hats, scarves, tams, sweaters, vests, and socks. She puts more than 350 pattern combinations at your disposal.
If charts and lists don't intimidate you, then this book will be your new best friend. Pair it with a stitch pattern guide and a good technique book and you'll be set for life.
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Hello, did somebody say stitch pattern guide? I have just the ticket.
Many beginners find Barbara Walker's classic stitch books dense and overwhelming. Maria Parry-Jones' compact and colorful Knitting Stitch Bible is much more user-friendly, with most of the essentials to get any knitter started in the right direction.
Two nice touches: A visual pattern index at the front of the book lets you browse patterns by image rather than by name; and a brief description of the yarn used in each pattern swatch helps you understand exactly what you see in the picture.
The only potential drawbacks: Each stitch pattern is provided in chart form rather than through step-by-step instructions.
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|Self-Published Sock Gems
If you publish it, they will come. That was Cat Bordi's philosophy when she wrote, edited, published, and promoted her book, Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles.
Several follow-up books by other authors have emerged since then detailing this same technique, but Bordi's remains a classic. Her writing is a joy to follow, and the designs -- although somewhat limited -- cover a good range of aesthetic styles.
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Finally, sock knitters have their own answer to Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac! My second self-published gem of note is a brand new knitting calendar from Catherine Wingate and editor/designer/publisher/shop owner Jackie Erickson-Schweitzer.
Consider this beautiful little booklet a map by which to chart your creative processes throughout the coming year. Each of the 12 sock patterns is thoughtfully matched to its month (hearts for February, red white and blue for July, etc.). The writing is clear and encouraging, and the crisp photographs show you every detail you need to see.
The patterns span techniques from ribs to lace, cables, slipped stitches, and even beads, not to mention Kool Aid-dyed yarn. And if you fail to complete each sock in the first year, don't fret -- the calendar runs through 2006.
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|Most Unfortunate Titles
Here we have a tie between Pam Allen's Knitting for Dummies and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Knitting and Crocheting by Gail Diven.
Pam Allen in particular is a wonderful designer who Melanie Falick profiled in Knitting in America. Her pearls of prose deserved more prominent treatment than this. Unfortunately most readers weren't able to get beyond the "dummy" and "complete idiot" references.
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|Biggest Brouhaha
The source of the term "Hip Young Urban Knitter" (or HYUK), this book was written by Lily Chin with the creative collaboration of so-called HYUKs from across North America. Unfortunately, in focusing so much on youth and hipness, the book alienated a lot of people.
Lifelong knitters felt dismissed as passé simply because of their age. And even those who technically did qualify as HYUKs didn't feel welcome at the party.
The book includes the now-infamous knitted bra pattern, as well as socks, shoes, a halter top, dress, and other items. The black-and-white paperback has just a few full-color glossy pages in the center depicting each garment pinned against a flat surface, rather like butterflies in a display case.
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|Biggest Newcomer Who Wasn't
This year Nordic designer Vivian Høxbro became the international poster-child for domino knitting. The term "domino knitting" was dubbed by the Danish Guild of Handknitters in response to Horst Schultz's mid-1990s designs.
But what many people don't realize is that this style represents only one of Vivian Høxbro's many design "oeuvres." Høxbro has also worked extensively with an innovative "shade-knitting" technique that plays on the innate texture of garter stitch.
She used contrasting colors on right-side and wrong-side rows to create the illusion of added depth and shifting colors. It's a deceptively simple technique with stunning visual results. You can view many examples of it on her Web site.
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Notable Imports
Most people either love or hate Nordic-inspired designs. But if you love them, start saving up for either of these books. They're sophisticated, inspiring, visually exquisite, and, alas, pricey.
Norsk Strikkedesign
Poetry in Stitches
|Best Back-to-Basics
If I were trapped on a desert island with one other knitter, I'd want it to be Sally Melville. This special book reflects Sally's heart on every single page.
The idea behind the book's series is simple: Reduce knitting to its most fundamental ingredients and dedicate an entire book to each one. In this book, the first in the series, Melville has managed to revive what many consider the most boring stitch pattern on the planet, the garter stitch.
At the KR retreat, one of the attendees was wearing a sweater that was so visually sophisticated and elegant I was sure it had come from Norway, but no, it was from Melville's book.
The book's success may be hindered by its late timing, just as readers are beginning to tire of the "Wow, I'm knitting!" titles. But do give it a second look, because there's great stuff under the covers.
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|Most Misleading Title
I do wish they hadn't included the word "hip" in this book's title, because Hip to Knit is far more than just another "golly, knitting is so cool and trendy" book.
Inside, it features solid foundation patterns for nearly everything you'll want to knit at the beginning: hats, caps, socks, mittens, purses and bags, tanktops, pullovers, and -- yes -- even the potentially jinxed boyfriend sweater. Each pattern assumes that you already know how to knit.
The book is written by Judith Swartz, a professional knitwear designer who previously wrote Dogs in Knits. In her introduction, Swartz tells how she learned to knit from her mother and grandmother, and how knitting helps her keep that connection alive.
"I still incorporate some of my mother's and grandmother's idiosyncracies into the way I knit - my method of purling and the way I wind a little ball of extra cast-on yarn," she explains. "I love the romantic idea of a craft passed down through generations much like an oral -- or perhaps tactile -- history. Whenever I'm knitting, my mother and grandmother are with me." So true.
The book contains fewer patterns than the Yarn Girls' Guide to Simple Knits (18 versus 30), but with a proportionately lower cover price and no name-dropping in sight.
Swartz's loving and honest voice is a pleasure to read.
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|Most Accurate Title
"Easy" is quickly becoming a four-letter word in knitting books these days, and this one -- a recent release from San Francisco's Chronicle Books -- teeters dangerously on the edge but never quite falls in. (The only questionable case is the rectangular garter-stitch bookmark but I'll let you decide about that one.)
Knitting Pretty has two crowning elements: First, Percival's fresh perspective and genuine enthusiasm; and second, France Ruffenach's delicious, decadent photography.
The designs are all capital-e Easy, with some that may be considered odd or even unconventional. In a few cases the book would have benefited from more instructive -- rather than artful -- photographs. But overall, even if you only knit one or two items from the book, it'll make a handsome addition to your coffee table.
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|New East Coast Knitting Celebs
The self-dubbed Yarn Girls are Julie Carles and Jordana Jacobs, and their pulpit is The Yarn Company, a high-end store they co-own in New York City.
This book contains 30 of their favorite patterns for six of the most common sweater shapes: funnel-neck, crewneck, and v-neck pullovers; cardigans; tank tops; and ponchos. Also included are patterns for scarves, hats, and throws.
All are extremely easy and basic, and most of them will knit up within a week or two. Depending on how much you invest in yarn for the sweater (and many of these patterns will run you over $200), you might want the knitting experience to last a little longer than that.
Some readers complain about the abundance of name-dropping that goes on in this book. The irony is that the authors manage to do it all without ever revealing any names.
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New West Coast Knitting Celeb
Not to be confused with Bill Gibb's 1987 book by the same title, Suss Cousins' book is the Hollywood cousin to the Yarn Girls' book.
Only in this case, Cousins drops real names of celebrity students and customers, and has such people as Julianne Moore, Steven Weber, and Regina King model her creations.
The patterns are fresh and interesting, similar in concept to the Yarn Girls' and Hip to Knit but with noticeably tighter fitting.
My only wish is that the book's marketing team hadn't used the following clichés to describe knitting: "not just for grandmothers anymore" and "as hip and trendy as Jennifer Anniston's hairstyle." With all due respect to Ms. Anniston's hair stylist, I do hope my love of knitting lasts a little longer than her latest coiffe.
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|Best Bulletproof Book
Finally, 20 years of Rowan under one cover! You'll find 80 patterns total from designers Kim Hargreaves, Louisa Harding, Kaffe Fassett, Debbie Bliss, Helen Dawson, Brandon Mably, Fiona McTague, Zoe Mellor, Sharon Peake, and Martin Storey.
The book doesn't cover some of Rowan's most recent developments -- for example, you don't find any Rowanspun or Cork patterns here. But even so, Rowan fans may benefit from having so many patterns under one roof in the thickest, heaviest, most substantial stop-a-bullet-mid-air textbook-style collection I've yet to see.
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|Biggest Blooper
A recent controversial KnitNet editorial discredited most online knitting resources, instead urging people to stick with established book publishers "whose credibility and financial well-being are linked to the quality of the information."
Yet as we discover in Vintage Knits, everyone makes mistakes, even the big guys. An excellent and long-needed book for anybody who appreciates vintage knitwear patterns, Vintage Knits has only one minor problem: The editors forgot to fill in the Fair Isle color charts. Instead, all you get are blank grids.
This notwithstanding, you'll find a great number of designs (30 in all) to keep you occupied. You won't find huge bulky garments here. In keeping with the tradition of vintage patterns, most are DK weight or lighter.
All patterns call for Rowan yarns.
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|Best Connection with Knitters Past
Many of us enjoy the feeling of connectedness with our past that we experience when knitting. We watch our fingers make their knitting motions and - in them - we can see the hands of our foremothers. Some of us enjoy collecting old needles for this same reason.
If this sounds like you, then you'll have a heyday with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's book. In it, she attempts to trace the provenance of several ordinary household items from Colonial American times. Among the items are a spinning wheel, niddy noddy, and unfinished knitted stocking.
I encourage you to read this exceptional book. Besides the fact that it's a great read and makes history come alive, it tells the seldom-told story of how the fiber arts evolved as a distinctly women's industry, and, for once, shows how fundamental they were to the nation's development.
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Where would us college students be without coffee? It has been there for us through rough mornings, late nights, and our sweet cravings!
It is there for us in more ways than you may think – some of which are positive, among all the negative buzz. So sip down these facts with your next cup!
1. Health Advantages
- Free Radicals – Free radicals are molecules in our body responsible for tissue damage, aging, and some diseases. They end up bonding with and damaging other molecules in our body. Antioxidants end up preventing free radicals from harming healthy tissue. Coffee beans contain more than 1,000 antioxidants called phytochemicals to help keep those free radicals tamed!
- Prevents Muscle Pain – About two cups of coffee may actually cut post-gym muscle aches to those who are not casual drinkers.
- Weight Balance– Drinking after a meal causes your body to slowly digest the meal you just ate, making you feel full for a longer period of time. It also increases your overall metabolism to help you burn off calories.
2. Intellectual Improvement
- Memory – Sustained attention and memory have been proven to increase with consumption of caffeinated coffee.
- Grammar – It can also help you proofread with increasing your odds at finding grammar errors.
3. Sex Life Boost
- Sex Drive – Coffee may enhance sex drive among those that do not drink coffee habitually.
- Fertility – It has also been claimed to increase fertility in men by increasing sperm mobility.
4. Reduce Cancer Risk
- Skin Cancer – Women who drink more than three cups of coffee a day have a 20% lower risk of skin cancer, while men have 9% lower risk.
- Prostate Cancer – Drinking 1-3 cups a day could reduce the risk of prostate cancer for men by 30%.
5. Disease Decrease
- Alzheimer's – Coffee boosts the levels of GCSF (granulocyte colony stimulating factor) that fights off Alzheimer's.
About 4-5 cups can remove the beta-amyloid plaques associated with the disease in the brain.
- Parkinson's – A few cups a day can also lower the risk of Parkinson's Disease by 25%.
- Diabetes – Also, the more coffee you drink (caffeinated or decaffeinated), the lower your risk is at developing Type 2 Diabetes.
6. Make You Happy!
- Mood Boost– Regular coffee drinkers have a 20% lower risk of depression than non-coffee drinkers. Caffeine is known to affect the brain since it modulates mood transmitters.


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