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The installation of bricks and benches for the POW/MIA monument at Rolla's Veterans Memorial Park has been completed. The monument has bricks displayed along both sides of the path, from the entrance to the circular pad. The South Central Regional Veterans Group has received orders for 14 more bricks for the park and will prepare a site near the pentagon for installation later in the summer. Future sales and donations will be coordinated after the site construction is approved and permitted.
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By Jeff Kurrus
Colorado waterfowl hunters are facing tough conditions this season due to low water levels. With more ducks and geese moving south with each cold front, some migrants may pass by traditional areas that are currently dry.
"If you can find water, you can find birds," says Greg Kernohan, DU's manager of conservation programs in Colorado. "We've had a historically dry year with little precipitation or runoff from the mountains, and many of our state wildlife areas are completely dry."
Fortunately, irrigation companies near Fort Collins are beginning to pump water into local reservoirs including Jackson Lake, Riverside, North Sterling, and Prewitt, giving migrating ducks and geese a reason to stay in the area. "We are starting to see some birds on these reservoirs," Kernohan says, "and hunting has been good for some people."
With current temperatures in the 60s and 70s and no significant precipitation in the forecast, these reservoirs will likely hold the largest concentrations of waterfowl in the region this fall. Another option is the South Platte River. This shallow, meandering river provides vital habitat for waterfowl, and DU projects along the Platte will be especially important to waterfowl this year. "Restored wetlands along the river will be oases for migrating and wintering birds," Kernohan says.
While dry years are challenging for waterfowl hunters, drought is not necessarily a bad thing for wetlands. "Periodic drought allows wetland basins to dry out, which helps maintain their productivity and gives wetland managers the opportunity to perform important maintenance work," Kernohan says. "In the meantime, we can always hope for more precipitation."
Until then, Colorado waterfowl hunters should do everything they can to find water.
Jeff Kurrus is a writer/photographer whose work has appeared in In-Fisherman, Field & Stream, Buckmasters, Ducks Unlimited, and others. He is currently a staffer for Nebraskaland Magazine.
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1A long, hollow cylinder of metal, plastic, glass, etc. for holding or transporting something, chiefly liquids or gases: a plastic tube is connected to the tap and the beer is ready to be pulled
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- A straw itself will not hold up well to this experiment, so see if you can get a tube of glass or plastic.
- The idea is to use the plasma coating to line catheters - plastic tubes surgically inserted into the body so patients can rid themselves of waste products from the blood through a dialysis machine.
- Catheters - small plastic tubes - are inserted into veins in the arm or leg to access the heart for procedures such as angioplasties and stent placements.
1.1The inner tube of a bicycle tyre.
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- He had also had many requests for new tyres and tubes and other bicycle parts.
- The shape can be chubbier - more like a truck tire than a bicycle tube - which lowers the cost for a given plasma volume.
- They specialize in refurbishing tubular tires with new tubes.
1.2 [mass noun] Material in a tubular form; tubing: the firm manufactures steel tube for a wide variety of applications
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- By mid-1931, Stanley launched a line of garden tools manufactured with all steel tube handles and stampings.
- The fuselage was built out of welded chrome-molybdenum steel tube with rod bracing and fabric covering.
- Two wide wing bracing struts were built from steel tube and balsa wood and fabric covered.
2A thing in the form of or resembling a tube, in particular:
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- Three works could be manipulated; the massed tubes formed a square or circle mounted on a base that allowed a segment or the whole piece to be rotated by hand.
- Like threads twisted together to form a rope, the possible flight paths formed tubes in space.
- Usually, either spheres or tubes form, but not both.
2.1A flexible metal or plastic container sealed at one end and having a screw cap at the other, for holding a semi-liquid substance ready for use: a tube of toothpaste
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- There is a new tube of toothpaste ready and waiting.
- He remembers collecting toothpaste tubes, newspapers, pots and pans.
- In their other hands were new toothbrushes, a tube of toothpaste and container of dental floss they received from their dentists.
2.2A rigid cylindrical container: a tube of Smarties
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- A home-made lunch is delivered in cylindrical tubes with four compartments each.
- A shiny black purse, a tube of dark red lipstick, eyeshadow, white chub stick, eyeliner, and a weightless garment, fluttering to the ground.
- As he walked away, Han took out a lipstick tube from her purse and began applying it to her lips.
2.3Australian informal A can of beer: a tube of lager
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- Jerry smelled the familiar stench of beer as the tube neared his lips.
- His Australian colleagues can sit in their armchairs swiggering on a "tube" of Fosters with total immunity smiling that he has taken the rap for the decisions they were responsible in making.
- Have an ice-cold tube of Fosters on us.
2.4 [usually with adjective or noun modifier] Anatomy , Zoology , & Botany A hollow cylindrical organ or structure in an animal body or in a plant (e.g. a Eustachian tube, a sieve tube).
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- The bladder and rectum originate from a single hollow tube, the endodermal cloaca.
- The trachea is unbranched, and is formed by the division of the foregut by a longitudinal septum into two tubes - the trachea and the esophagus.
- The endothelial tube everywhere remains intact and continuous.
2.5 (tubes) informal A woman's fallopian tubes: women with blocked tubes
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- For example, it is unclear how these superficial peritoneal lesions would give rise to infertility, especially if they were distant from the fimbria of the tubes or ovaries.
- Mucus hostility means that the secretion from the neck of the womb is abnormal, and kills the sperm so that they cannot travel through the uterus to the tubes.
- She will have an ultrasound scan of the womb, tubes and ovaries.
2.6A woman's close-fitting garment, typically without darts or other tailoring and made from a single piece of stretch fabric: [as modifier]: a tube skirt
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- For a more classic look, there's a square-necked jacket with lateral buttons worn with a tube skirt hemmed at just below the knees.
- Or it can be a rip off because in the end it is just a piece of long stretch tube.
- The lightweight tube dress goes straight from the beach to the bar.
2.7(In surfing) the hollow curve under the crest of a breaking wave: he angled his board to get in the tube
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- At Shipsterns, I think he got the best wave, the biggest tube, although they said mine was bigger.
- Formal elements include a foreground or apron of foaming wash, and beyond that a wall of wave as it forms a tube, then crests and crashes.
- Just as with ocean waves, as the wave breaks it forms a tube.
3 (the Tube) British trademark The underground railway system in London: a cross-London trek on the Tube
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- Today's hot topic was the Tube lines of the London Underground.
- First of all in London we have the Tube which is still owned by the Government, so comparisons can be made there.
- So we have various views of the world map but drawn as a London Underground Tube map.
3.1A train running on the Tube: I caught the tube home
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- The use of tube trains has gone down by 40% at the weekends, and between 5 and 15% on week days.
- However, on the train and tube, I heard lots of northern accents.
- Instead I will be spending two hours a day on buses, trains and the tube.
4A sealed container, typically of glass and either evacuated or filled with gas, containing two electrodes between which an electric current can be made to flow.
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- Early diodes in electronics were made from metal plates sealed inside evacuated glass tubes, which could be seen glowing in the innards of old radio sets.
- Such lamps have two electrodes in a ceramic tube that contains small amounts of mercury and metal-halide salts.
- Fluorescent lamps generate light by passing electricity through a tube filled with inert gas and a small amount of mercury.
4.1A cathode ray tube, especially in a television set: colour tubes for portables
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- Simply connect the inverter to an available molex connector, and then connect both cold cathode tubes to the inverter on the opposing side.
- Look out for early signs of in-car computing, and the erosion of cathode-ray tubes by cheaper liquid-crystal displays.
- Cathode ray tubes will shrink slightly over that period, from 171 million units to 145 million.
4.2 (the tube) North American informal Television: watching the tube in a country bar
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- A really bad skiing day is still better than a day spent running or sitting in front of the tube.
- Sally spent countless hours in front of the tube last season watching the games she was unable to attend in person.
- The online crowd cut back on television time, watching the tube 4.5 fewer hours per week than the no-Net group did.
4.3North American A thermionic valve.
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- The conduction of electricity in thin gases in vacuum tubes was the key to the discovery of the electron in 1897.
- A vacuum tube (also called an electron tube or, in the UK, a valve) is a device sometimes used to amplify electronic signals.
- This work contains the principles of operation of The Thermionic Vacuum Tube, and coordinates the phenomena encountered in a study of this field.
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1 (usually as adjective tubed) Provide with a tube or tubes: [in combination]: a giant eight-tubed hookah
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- They are believed to produce sound by moving air through tubed extensions of the larynx to nasal plugs located near the blowholes.
- That said, the feedback I've heard from our testers indicate seating and inflating our tubeless road tires should be as easier, or even easier in some cases, than a tubed tire.
- The precipitate was spread homogeneously over the entire surface of the tubed medium using a serologic pipette.
2 informal Fit (a person or animal) with a tube to assist breathing, especially after a laryngotomy.
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- The charge stemmed from his failure to properly record how he treated Hip Wolf on the day she was allegedly tubed, a practice of pumping medication through a tube inserted into the horse's nostril directly into its stomach.
- He also did not receive a license in New York, and he received separate fines for tubing a horse and misusing lasix within the last three years of his practice.
3 [with adverbial] Convey in a tube: the wells were flooded, and this water, tubed off, yielded a supply of 38,000 gallons per hour
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- It has an eight inch bore, and is tubed through ninety feet of earth and ten feet into the rock; the remaining three hundred and fifty feet is without tube, being all in red sandstone.
- It is tubed through part of the City.
go down the tube (or tubes)
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- Seeing my career go down the tubes always shakes me…
- They know full well that unless they come up with a constant stream of big sellers their career will go down the tube.
- Markets are collapsing and manufacturing is going down the tubes, but the people in the malls spend regardless.
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- Esophageal manometry generally is used to accurately place ambulatory pH monitoring probes, although adequate placement recently has been reported with a tubeless system.
- That said, the feedback I've heard from our testers indicate seating and inflating our tubeless road tires should be as easier, or even easier in some cases, than a tubed tire.
tube-like adjective
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- Native bluebells are true blue in colour, the blooms are tube-like and elongated, with a delicate droop Spanish bluebells are more upright, the blooms are more of a shorter, open bell-shape.
- The oesophagus (food pipe) is a tube-like structure, about 25 cm long, lying in the chest.
- Tearing a piece from a large lump of kneaded dough on the metal table, the master baker swiftly rolled it out into a long, tube-like form.
Mid 17th century: from French tube or Latin tubus.
Words that rhyme with tubeboob, cube, droob, j'adoube, jube, lube, rube
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Portland Maine show interview/promotion opportunity
Sage, I'm the hip hop director and host of the show "Hip Hop Is Alive" on WMPG out of Portland, Maine. I'll be doing a ticket giveaway on my show which is Friday 11pm-1am. I interviewed B. Dolan a while ago on the show when he was promoting one of his shows and thought you might go for the opportunity to do a quick call in if you have a chance when you are in Brooklyn and not on stage. If that doesn't work for you but you want to do something I might be able to record something with a call tomorrow if the practice studio isn't booked. In any case I look forward to seeing you in Portland!
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I know I won't be able to do that while in NYC. There's no way. But email me if you have the ability to record the conversation. We can do that tonight or tomorrow if you want. Thanks.
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I won't be able to make the show in NYC tonight. Thankfully I have had the pleasure of seeing all of you artists on Strange Famous Records perform live before. I think if you've never experienced it you should. Best wishes with the East Coast tour.
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Sorry you weren't able to make it out! Definitely the best NYC show I can remember. We had a lot of new stuff on stage last night. ha. Including a performance by Seez Mics, Juan Deuce & Falside, and a couple girls who I discovered on youtube covering one of my songs. The show was 100% bonkers and I'm hoping the same for RI and Maine.
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I didn't know where else to post this question, and this seemed like the best place. So I was wondering if the B. Dolan DVD was still in the works? If so, will there be some footage from the video interview you did in Phoenix a few years back? I know you used some of that footage in one of the Church of Love and Ruin promos awhile back, but I'd like to see more of it surface.
Shameless self-aggrandizing: I actually had the honor of writing all the questions from that interview and did a lot of work combing through all your interviews I could find to see what questions you had already answered and how you answered them. I wasn't the person who interviewed you, but I spent a lot of time giving him some background info and giving him a rough outline of the importance, or lack there-of, of each question. I remember spending a lot of time debating asking the "Who is B. Dolan?" one because it was so cliche, but you always seemed to give such great answers to it that I couldn't help myself, and you didn't disappoint with it that time around either. The project we were working on that parts of that interview were supposed to air in never panned out, due to circumstances out of my control, but I've always hoped that more of that footage would leak out because there were some real gems in your answers.
Anyways, I'm done tooting my own horn, but I really do want to know if that DVD is still in the works. Also, if it is, can you say whether or not more of that interview will appear in there or somewhere else in the future? Do you guys still even have that footage?
Mon Jul 08, 2013 2:35 am
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I know that B is still working on the DVD. It won't surface until next year at the soonest. I can't speak on what will make it into the DVD, but you'd probably have a better chance of getting a response by pasting this question onto his FB page (as I don't believe he checks here too often):
In other news, July's "Church of Providence" show has been announced:
Announcing our July 25th lineup! We're proud to be joined by The Silks, one of our favorite new rock acts in Providence. Metermaids are also ready to set it off w/ a new live setup, and singer/songwriter Sara Azriel Music will attempt to soothe the raging testosterone with her soulful, haunting tunes. All this as well as the return of our 16ft. Wrestling Ring, live bouts and a cash prize rap battle hosted by Sage Francis. We've got new games in store and surprise collaborations during the show, and all of that for $10/12!
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Thank you, SFR Announcement, whoever you may be. And yeah, as long as it is still in the works maybe I will just wait till it drops and see for myself. Also, shows like the one you just posted about are one of the few reasons that I wish I lived out in the north east. The one Church of Love and Ruin show I did make it to in Boston a few years back was probably the most fun I've ever had at a show, and I'm pretty bummed I haven't been able to make one since.
Wed Jul 10, 2013 1:34 am
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8/22 - CHURCH OF PROVIDENCE at Fete Ballroom
This month's headliner is Akrobatik.
Other performers include Choppa Tha Beatboxxa, ESH the Monolith & Dox, Eyenine, Brown Girls Burlesque and the ANIMALS at Beyond Wrestling, who will be providing our ringside programming from now on.
We're still doing the cash prize rap battles, so if you're interested in that please send an email over to benjamin(at)strangefamous.com
Sat Aug 10, 2013 8:42 pm
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10/24 - Minneapolis, MN
Sage Francis at Pourhouse with Mixed Blood Majority and Kristoff Krane.
$13 pre-sale tix:
Doors: 8pm,18+
10/25 - Sioux Falls, SD
Sage Francis at Bigs
$12 pre-sale tix
18+ / GENERAL ADMISSION event
Bigs, 3110 w 12th st
Tue Aug 13, 2013 1:21 pm
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Prolyphic and Buddy Peace will be joining Dan le sac Vs. Scroobius Pip on their UK tour this October. It is already SOLD OUT! But here are the dates:
Oct 10th Dublin @ Workmans
Oct 11th Dublin @ Workmans
Oct 12th Cork @ Cyprus Avenue
Oct 14th Edinburgh @ Sneaky Petes
Oct 15th Leeds @ Brudenell Social Club
Oct 16th Manchester @ Ruby Lounge
Oct 17th Brighton @ Komedia
Oct 19th Bristol @ Exchange
Oct 21st London @ Garage
Dan Vs. Pips new album drops on Oct 7:
Prolyphic & Buddy Peace's new album is available NOW:
Sun Aug 18, 2013 4:47 pm
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DULUTH has been added to my mini-midwest excursion.
10/24 - Minneapolis, MN
Sage Francis at Pourhouse with Mixed Blood Majority and Kristoff Krane.
$13 pre-sale tix:
Doors: 8pm,18+
10/25 - Sioux Falls, SD
Sage Francis at Bigs
$12 pre-sale tix
18+ / GENERAL ADMISSION event
Bigs, 3110 w 12th st
Sage Francis at Pizza Luce
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Tickets are also available at Pizza Luce.
This is a 21+. Doors at 9pm, show at 10pm.
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8.1-14 Illegal Sale or Possession of Prescription Drugs -- § 21a-108 (2)
Revised to April 23, 2010
Note: This statute has other subsections that are limited to the regulatory scheme applicable to practitioners, such as medical doctors and pharmacists. If the defendant is being charged as a practitioner tailor the instruction accordingly. See also Obtaining Prescription Drugs by Fraud, Instruction 8.1-13.
The defendant is charged [in count __] with the illegal (sale / possession) of prescription drugs. The statute defining this offense reads in pertinent part as follows:
no person shall (sell / possess) any drug covered by said subsection, except as authorized by law.
For you to find the defendant guilty of this charge, the state must prove the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
Element 1 - Sold or possessed
The first element is that the defendant (sold / possessed) a drug, specifically <identify drug>. <Insert appropriate definition(s):>
"Sale" is any form of delivery, which includes barter, exchange or gift, or offer therefor, and each such transaction made by any person whether as principal, proprietor, agent, servant or employee.
"Possession" means either actual possession or constructive possession. Actual possession means actual physical possession, such as having the object on one's person. Constructive possession means having the object in a place under one's dominion and control.
Possession also requires that the defendant knew that (he/she) was in possession of the <insert type of substance>. That is, that (he/she) was aware that (he/she) was in possession of it and was aware of its nature. The state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knew that (he/she) was in possession of <insert type of substance>. <See Knowledge, Instruction 2.3-3.>
<If some form of constructive possession is alleged, see Possession, Instruction 2.11-1.>1
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Element 3 - Not
The third element is that such conduct of the defendant was not legally authorized. The term "legally authorized" means that the drugs were not dispensed pursuant to a lawful prescription or by a prescribing practitioner.
In summary, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that 1) the defendant (sold / possessed) <identify drug>, 2) <identify drug> can only legally be obtained through a legitimate prescription, and 3) the defendant's (sale / possession) of the drug was not authorized by law.
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A South Carolina man remains behind bars after police say he was found with the makings of a "shake and bake" meth lab during a traffic stop on Interstate 26 Jan. 4.
Columbus police officers arrested George McKendre Haynes III, 32, of Central, S.C., after they spotted the "components and substances to manufacture methamphetamine" during a search of the suspect's car.
Haynes was charged with felony manufacturing methamphetamine, felony possession of methamphetamine precursor chemicals, felony possession with intent to sell and deliver methamphetamine, felony possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, felony maintaining a vehicle for controlled substances, felony possession of a counterfeit instrument, possession of drug paraphernalia and carrying a concealed weapon.
Haynes is being held in the Polk County Jail in lieu of $130,000 secured bond. He is set to appear in court on Feb. 6.
The Columbus Police Department was assisted in the stop by Deputy Russell and a K9, Trixie, of the Polk County Sheriff's Office.
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These little pimple-like bumps that form over hair follicles from time to time are the suck. Instead of growing out of the follicle, your hair got snagged and trapped underneath the skin. Oils and bacteria can still seep through the pore, which is what causes that pretty pus-like sac inside. Yeah, sick.
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"Great talent, great imagination, and real been-there done-that authenticity make this one of the year's best thriller debuts."
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"Not since Fleming charged Bond with the safety of the world has the international secret agent mystique been so anchored with an insider's reality."
—Noah Boyd, New York Times bestselling author of Agent X and The Bricklayer
"A real spy proves he is a real writer—and a truly deft and inventive one. Spycatcher is a stunning debut."
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A real life former field officer, Matthew Dunn makes an extraordinary debut with Spycatcher, a masterwork of international espionage fiction that crackles with electrifying authenticity. Fans of Daniel Silva, Robert Ludlum, Brad Thor, and Vince Flynn will be on the edge of their seats as intelligence agent Will Cochrane—working on a joint covert mission for the CIA and MI6—sets out to capture a brilliant and ruthless Iranian spy. Timely and gripping, Spycatcher rockets the reader into a shadowy world of terrorism and counter-terrorism, and holds them in an iron grip until the last pulse-pounding page is turned.
Will Cochrane is the CIA's and MI6's most prized asset ... and their deadliest weapon. Since childhood, the only world he has ever known is a clandestine realm of elaborate lies and unholy alliances—where trust is rare, betrayal comes cheap, and a violent death is often the penalty for being outplayed by an opponent. Cochrane has never been outplayed ... so far.
Now his controllers have a new game: neutralize one of the world's most wanted terrorists, believed to be a general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Cochrane's unpredictability makes him the one agent capable of catching his adversary off guard, and he believes he has the perfect plan. But on a breakneck race through the capitals of Europe and into America's northeast, the spycatcher will discover that his prey knows the game all too well ... and his agenda is more terrifying than anyone could have imagined.
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Wilby jumps on Sacred Heart in first quarter en route to big win
WATERBURY — For most teams, the Thanksgiving football game is the one circled on the calendar before the season begins. You never want to end with a loss and a win only makes the turkey taste better.
The Wilby High football team blitzed Sacred Heart, racing out to a 22-0 first-quarter lead en route to a 52-28 victory at Municipal Stadium in Waterbury on Wednesday night.
The opening quarter belonged to Wildcat junior wide receiver Kasseme Smith, who hauled in two catches for 63 yards, including a 31-yard touchdown on the first drive of the game for Wilby (5-5).
Smith wasn't done yet. After the Wildcats recovered an onside kick and scored another touchdown, the Hearts' first play of the night didn't work out the way it wass drawn up.
Sacred Heart quarterback Javon Martin attempted a screen pass to David Coggins when Smith jumped the route, intercepted the pass and returned it 13 yards for a touchdown to give Wilby a 22-0 lead.
That interception was one of five forced turnovers by the Wildcat defense. Smith credited his entire defense for the big-game effort.
"I try to put this effort in every game, you know," Smith said. "My teammates all put that same effort in and help me out. It's a real team effort."
The Hearts (3-7) woke up from their temporary nap and scored on a 21-yard touchdown pass from Javon Martin to Shyquan Thompson. A two-point conversion pass from Martin to David Whitney made the score 22-8.
On the following possession, the Wildcats were faced with a second-and-10 from their own 41-yard line when quarterback Brandon Sierra fumbled. The Hearts' Martin picked up the ball at midfield, returned it 50 yards, and just like that it was 22-14.
A Wilby drive stalled deep in Sacred Heart territory toward the end of the second quarter. On Sacred Heart's first play from its own 8, Martin was gang-tackled in the end zone for a safety.
A 15-yard touchdown scamper by Jacob Thomas gave Wilby a 30-14 edge at the half. The Wildcats ran a total of 40 offensive plays to Sacred Heart's nine in the first half.
Wilby defensive lineman Damon Atkinson, who had a stellar game with an interception and scored a touchdown as a fullback, noted that the big difference in time of possession in the first half was something his team wanted to accomplish.
"We wanted to keep their offense off the field," Atkinson explained. "They have a very good offensive attack, and we wanted to take up as much clock as possible."
Atkinson had the play of the game late in the third quarter. With Wilby protecting a 30-20 lead and Sacred Heart deep in Wildcat territory,
Javon Martin's pass was deflected and Atkinson made a huge leap for the interception.
"Damon has been here since day one," Smith said. "He works harder than anybody I know. I love the kid like a brother. That was a big play he made for us."
Wilby outscored Sacred Heart, 22-14, in the second half, highlighted by Jacob Thomas' pair of touchdown runs to put the game out of reach.
Thomas finished with 15 carries for 152 yards and two touchdowns while Sierra at quarterback added 20 carries for 118 yards and was 9-for-14 for 127 yards and a touchdown.
Wilby coach Geno Capuano said it best with his final words to his team: "The turkey is going to taste great tomorrow!"
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Move Carts
Published: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 12:10 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 12:10 a.m.
Most every large store that has an equally large parking lot and utilizes grocery carts has corrals or some type of holding station for used carts. Nothing is worse than locating an empty parking space only to find it occupied by a used cart that a previous shopper was too lazy to walk across the aisle to put it in the corral. What's worse are half-empty corrals with carts scattered all around the outside where shoppers are too lazy to push them just a little farther.
Publix even offers no-tipping assistance, which shoppers decline but don't put the carts up when they empty them. Obviously these people have never had their cars hit by one of these abandoned carts that decides to roll or had to park on the other side of the parking lot because convenient spaces are full of carts.
Yes, many times I've been to Walmart where the corrals are busting at the seams with carts and the management isn't keeping up with retrieval, but if the carts are at least pushed up to the full corrals instead of scattered the unusable parking spaces are in one location, not all over the parking lot.
A little understanding can be given to parents who have small children in the car and don't want to leave them unattended, but, in most cases, they could unload the groceries and take the child out of the cart at the corral and secure them in the car on their return.
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Senate Bill No. 653
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[Passed March 19, 2000; in effect ninety days from passage.]
18B-2A-4. Powers and duties of governing boards generally.
Effective the first day of July, two thousand one, each governing board shall separately have the following powers and duties:
(a) Determine, control, supervise and manage the financial, business and education policies and affairs of the state institutions of higher education under its jurisdiction;
(b) Develop a master plan for the institutions under its jurisdiction; except the administratively linked community and technical colleges shall develop their master plans subject to the provisions of section one, article six of this chapter. The ultimate responsibility for developing and updating the master plans at the institutional level resides with the institutional board of governors or board of advisors, as applicable, but the ultimate responsibility for approving the final version of the institutional master plans, including periodic updates, resides with the commission. Each master plan shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
- A detailed demonstration of how the master plan will be used to meet the goals and objectives of the institutional compact;
- A well-developed set of goals outlining missions, degree offerings, resource requirements, physical plant needs, personnel needs, enrollment levels and other planning determinates and projections necessary in such a plan to assure that the needs of the institution&Mac226;s area of responsibility for a quality system of higher education are addressed;
- Documentation of the involvement of the commission, institutional constituency groups, clientele of the institution and the general public in the development of all segments of the institutional master plan.
The plan shall be established for periods of not less than three nor more than six years and shall be revised periodically as necessary, including the addition or deletion of degree programs as, in the discretion of the appropriate governing board, may be necessary.
(c) Prescribe for the state institutions of higher education under its jurisdiction, in accordance with its master plan and the compact for each institution, specific functions and responsibilities to meet the higher education needs of its area of responsibility and to avoid unnecessary duplication;
(d) Direct the preparation of a budget request for the state institutions of higher education under its jurisdiction, such request to relate directly to missions, goals and projections as found in the institutional master plans and the institutional compacts;
(e) Consider, revise and submit to the commission a budget request on behalf of the state institutions of higher education under its jurisdiction;
(f) Review, at least every five years, all academic programs offered at the state institutions of higher education under its jurisdiction. The review shall address the viability, adequacy and necessity of the programs in relation to its institutional master plan, the institutional compact and the education and workforce needs of its responsibility district. As a part of the review, each governing board shall require the institutions under its jurisdiction to conduct periodic studies of its graduates and their employers to determine placement patterns and the effectiveness of the education experience. Where appropriate, these studies should coincide with the studies required of many academic disciplines by their accrediting bodies.
(g) The governing boards also shall ensure that the sequence and availability of academic programs and courses offered by the institutions under their jurisdiction is such that students have the maximum opportunity to complete programs in the time frame normally associated with program completion. Each governing board also is responsible to see that the needs of nontraditional college-age students are appropriately addressed and, to the extent it is possible for the individual governing board to control, to assure core coursework completed at state institutions of higher education under its jurisdiction is transferable to any other state institution of higher education for credit with the grade earned.
(h) Subject to the provisions of article one-b of this chapter, the appropriate governing board has the exclusive authority to approve the teacher education programs offered in the institution under its control. In order to permit graduates of teacher education programs to receive a degree from a nationally accredited program and in order to prevent expensive duplication of program accreditation, the chancellor may select and utilize one nationally recognized teacher education program accreditation standard as the appropriate standard for program evaluation.
(i) Utilize faculty, students and classified staff in institutional-level planning and decision making when those groups are affected.
(j) Administer a system for the management of personnel matters, including, but not limited to, personnel classification, compensation, and discipline for employees of the institutions under their jurisdiction, subject to the provisions of state and federal law: Provided, That the chancellor may promulgate a new uniform rule for the purpose of standardizing, as much as possible, the administration of personnel matters among the institutions of higher education;
(k) Administer a system for the hearing of employee grievances and appeals therefrom as prescribed by article twenty-nine, chapter eighteen of this code so that aggrieved parties may be assured of timely and objective review: Provided, That after the first day of July, two thousand, the procedure established in article twenty-nine, chapter eighteen of this code shall be the exclusive mechanism for hearing employee grievances and appeals.
(l) Solicit and utilize or expend voluntary support, including financial contributions and support services, for the state institutions of higher education under its jurisdiction;
(m) Appoint a president or other administrative head for the institutions of higher education under its jurisdiction subject to the provisions of section six, article one-b of this chapter.
(n) Conduct written performance evaluations of each institution's president pursuant to section six, article one-b of this chapter;
(o) Submit to the commission no later than the first day of November of each year an annual report of the performance of the institutions of higher education under its jurisdiction during the previous fiscal year as compared to stated goals in its master plan and institutional compact.
(p) Enter into contracts or consortium agreements with the public schools, private schools or private industry to provide technical, vocational, college preparatory, remedial and customized training courses at locations either on campuses of the public institution of higher education or at off-campus locations in the institution&Mac226;s responsibility district. To accomplish this goal, the boards are permitted to share resources among the various groups in the community.
(q) Delegate, with prescribed standards and limitations, the part of its power and control over the business affairs of a particular state institution of higher education under its jurisdiction to the president or other administrative head of the state institution of higher education in any case where it considers the delegation necessary and prudent in order to enable the institution to function in a proper and expeditious manner and to meet the requirements of its institutional compact. If a governing board elects to delegate any of its power and control under the provisions of this subsection, it shall notify the chancellor. Any such delegation of power and control may be rescinded by the appropriate governing board or the chancellor at any time, in whole or in part.
(r) Unless changed by the interim governing board or the chancellor, the governing boards shall continue to abide by existing rules setting forth standards for acceptance of advanced placement credit for their respective institutions. Individual departments at institutions of higher education may, upon approval of the institutional faculty senate, require higher scores on the advanced placement test than scores designated by the appropriate governing board when the credit is to be used toward meeting a requirement of the core curriculum for a major in that department.
(s) Each governing board, or its designee, shall consult, cooperate and work with the state treasurer and the state auditor to update as necessary and maintain an efficient and cost-effective system for the financial management and expenditure of special revenue and appropriated state funds at the institutions under its jurisdiction that ensures that properly submitted requests for payment be paid on or before due date, but in any event, within fifteen days of receipt in the state auditor's office.
(t) The governing boards in consultation with the chancellor and the secretary of the department of administration shall develop, update as necessary and maintain a plan to administer a consistent method of conducting personnel transactions, including, but not limited to, hiring, dismissal, promotions and transfers at the institutions under their jurisdiction. Each such personnel transaction shall be accompanied by the appropriate standardized system or forms which will be submitted to the respective governing board and the department of finance and administration.
(u) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, the governing boards shall have the authority to transfer funds from any account specifically appropriated for their use to any corresponding line item in a general revenue account at any agency or institution under their jurisdiction as long as such transferred funds are used for the purposes appropriated. The governing boards also shall have the authority to transfer funds from appropriated special revenue accounts for capital improvements under their jurisdiction to special revenue accounts at agencies or institutions under their jurisdiction as long as such transferred funds are used for the purposes appropriated; and
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Fat Cats or Best Athletes?
A Congressional Budget Office report released in October reports that the majority of wealth created between 1979 and 2007 was captured by the top 1 percent of all earners. Their income grew by 275 percent, with far more modest gains of 18 to 65 percent garnered by all other households. The report comes at a time when Occupy Wall Street demonstrators have positioned themselves as representatives of the "99 percent" — that segment that has not shared in the largess enjoyed by the top 1 percent.
One proposed explanation is that the high salaries of star athletes and entertainers skew these figures. But a recent analysis of tax data by economists at Williams College shows that of the top 1 percent, close to 60 percent are managers or executives, not athletes or superstars. "That is strong evidence that much of the inequality over that last few decades really is driven by top executives at these firms," Professor Jerry Kim says.
"Salaries rose much faster than the market value of companies in the past decade," Professor Bruce Kogut says. "The puzzle, then, is why has pay for performance rewarded executives so much more handsomely in the last decade than ever before?" Kim and Kogut, working with Jae-Suk Yang, research fellow at the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics, address this question precisely, inspired by a recent study suggesting that friends of obese people have a significantly greater likelihood of themselves becoming obese than people with fewer obese friends. Just as in studies on obesity that measure whether people weigh more or less than a body mass index, the researchers calculated high and low pay by noting if CEOs were paid more or less than a long-term trend line that relates pay to market value. "If obesity could spread through a social network then one could ask: does high pay — or in our term, being fat cats — spread through networks of CEOs?" Kim asks. "More specifically," explained Kim, "could friendship or other ties at high-paying firms serve as a channel for high compensation?"
The researchers anchored the baseline pay on firms' market values, labeling those CEOs paid above what is predicted by the market value of the firm as overpaid and those paid below predicted market value as underpaid. They then identified which factors increased the likelihood of a CEO going from an underpaid state to an overpaid state.
The researchers noted that the Internet boom, when pay skyrocketed because options became much more valuable, created far larger compensation differences among CEOs than before, unleashing a contagion over the next decade. The boom inflated expectations and norms about pay, which spread through social networks. Firms outside the dot.com realm started benchmarking pay through their connections to the dot.com, so executive pay rose, and benchmarking continued — and continues — to drive pay up and up. (The researchers' simulation suggests there are some constraining forces that keep pay from spiraling completely out of control, as when CEOs get fired or move to other jobs.)
To reach this conclusion, Kim, Kogut, and Yang investigated three kinds of social connections that could influence pay:
Board interlocks: When firms share board members, information passes between those boards. "A member sitting on two or three boards sees one firm hand out raises; it is natural for her to convey to the other firms that raises represent fair pay," Kim explains. Would highly interlocked boards reveal patterns of spreading of high pay?
Compensation peer groups: Firms have a comparison set of firms they view as similar to them that serve as a reference for CEO pay. If one bank suddenly gave its CEO a pay raise, would that influence other banks to raise the pay of their CEOs?
Education networks: Alumni of the same school may think of themselves as similar to each other. If one sees a fellow alumnus receive a large pay increase, could that change what she believes her value to be?
Using data from Compustat's ExecuComp database to analyze compensation since 1992 and simulate future compensation patterns, the researchers found evidence that peer connections matter most: when a peer moved from an underpaid state to an overpaid state, the likelihood of their connections moving from an underpaid to an overpaid state also increased. Education connections were the second strongest, while the much vaunted power of board interlocks were negligible.
Taken together, these findings challenge the idea that CEOs' outsize pay is primarily a function of outsize talent and suggest that growing income inequality even at the very top of the distribution deserves attention as a driver of the increased share of income going to CEOs. "It's very difficult to determine the value of any single individual's contributions to firm performance. Industry-wide and firm-level norms for fair pay are driven by looking around and saying, if so-and-so person is worth X then I'm worth Y," Kogut says. "CEO pay appears to be determined through norms and social comparisons rather than just market-determined."
Jerry Kim is assistant professor of management at Columbia Business School.
Bruce Kogut is the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ethics in the Management Division and director of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School.
Jerry Kim
Jerry Kim was a Columbia Business School faculty member from 2006 to 2016.
Bruce Kogut
Bruce Kogut is the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ethics and Director of the Sanford C. Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School. He teaches the core courses in strategy and in governance and an elective on "The Future of Finance" for the MBAs and EMBA and has taught in executive programs in the US...
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'Serve to Win': Following the Novak Djokovic Diet
Novak Djokovic enters the U.S. Open as the No. 1 tennis player in the world. He credits his rise to the top on a gluten-free, dairy-free, idiosyncratic lifestyle that he details in his new book "Serve to Win." Sara Germano and Jeremy Gordon are following Djokovic's decrees to see if they have what it takes.
Sara's Day 1 notes:
Djokovic recommends a 14-day plan to achieve physical and mental excellence, but for budgetary reasons, I was limited to three days (8.8 ounces of manuka honey—a key component of the diet—costs about $25). Like Djokovic, I learned I was gluten intolerant several years ago and haven't purposefully eaten a single crumb of wheat, barley, or rye products for nearly five years. But Djokovic's diet plan presented several other critical challenges for me: I am hopelessly addicted to caffeine, and love cheese, both forbidden. Unfortunately, I also don't have a personal chef.
I bought enough groceries to make four distinct recipes from "Serve to Win," most of which provide multiple servings. Djokovic recommends waking each morning with a glass of warm water (never cold!) and two spoonfuls of ($25!) manuka honey. For those unfamiliar with manuka honey, it's not the honey glaze you find on pastries. It is bitter and tastes like a cough drop, with a stinging aftertaste. To say I elegantly swallowed two spoonfuls on my first morning would be…incorrect.
Djokovic doesn't provide calorie counts for his recipes and instead recommends eating according to how your body feels. I think this could be challenging for some, especially because I noticed what constitutes a serving size for someone who spends his day playing tennis is much larger than for someone who spends 12 hours a day at a desk. Breakfast was slices of gluten-free toast with almond butter, lunch was two servings of his Vanilla Almond Smoothie, and dinner was the Spicy Soba Noodle Salad (recommended for lunch, but hearty enough for evening). The salad was surprisingly delicious, and it only took 20 minutes to prepare, and it keeps well in the fridge.
My first day without caffeine was agonizing. By lunchtime I was sluggish and cranky. I had a mid-afternoon "coffee" meeting with a colleague, during which I had to supplant my usual cup of joe with fresh fruit. Like many an addict forced to give up her vice, I discovered that I replaced my craving with more food—I remembered that Djokovic permits some dark chocolate with his morning oatmeal and snuck a few bites to get me through the rest of my day. This isn't going to bode well for the end of bikini season.
Despite my caffeine withdrawal, I could immediately feel one of the stated purposes for the Djokovic lifestyle: to be more aware of our bodies' natural rhythms. Usually I have trouble falling asleep, but I collapsed into bed as soon as my day ended.
ACE: Recipe for Spicy Soba Noodle Salad: quick, effective, tasty.
UNFORCED ERROR: Cutting caffeine cold turkey.
Jeremy's Day 1 notes:
In my escalating battle against serious exercise, I've slowly adjusted my diet over the last year to resemble something healthy, to the point where I'm not wholly embarrassed to tell my mother what I've been eating. Going gluten-free, even for a few days, seemed like an extension of that growing health consciousness, though I did have to consider that nearly 100% of my meals before going into this have some sort of gluten in them. But if I'd feel the energy benefits after just a day, as Djokovic claims in his book, it would be totally worth it.
As someone who works from home, it's usually too easy to forego breakfast upon waking up in favor of going right to my laptop, which offers all the sustenance through email, Facebook and Twitter that a millennial could possibly need. Compared to Sara's reluctant honey consumption, starting the day off with a spoonful of manuka honey and a glass of room temperature water provided the temporary boost I needed to ignore the gremlin in my stomach; I actually found the slightly medicinal manuka taste to be oddly alluring, though the price tag reminded me to not indulge in a few more gulps (more on that in a minute). I was a little less excited about Djokovic's power muesli, which I'd compiled from a few health store offerings and doused in almond milk to—the tactile sensation of oats sliding down my throat made me feel like a horse, and the jarring juxtaposition between soft and hard elements forced me to be hyper-aware regarding the risk of crunching down onto an almond and cracking a tooth. (Which actually happened with a particularly rude tortilla chip a few months ago, alas.)
But fueled by seeds and oats and active biotic ingredients, I feel somewhat phenomenal. There's none of my typical pre-morning slump, despite the absence of coffee, and as I gather my belongings to meet a friend and go grocery shopping I sense this signals the beginning of a brave, new era of gluten-free productivity. This feeling abates the instant I begin collecting foodstuffs to prepare the rest of my meals, and begin to understand the benefit of being a multiple Grand Slam champion. Djokovic's tennis earnings mean he doesn't feel the financial sting of those gluten-free ingredients as much as I, a freelancer combing through several overpriced organic food stores while weighing the cost-benefit between a $12 jar of almond butter and a $30 tin of manuka honey. Surely a teaspoon of almond butter can't make that much of a difference in my smoothie, can it? Still, I'm able to make some smart decisions to give myself plenty to work with. Here's one revelation I find pretty amusing: the same brandmaker of one type of rice pasta sells a pound of shells for $4.59, while 12 ounces of penne comes in at $5.59. Apparently, the sense of shame that comes with eating pasta shapes made for children is worth a full dollar's discount and four more ounces of food, though I clearly lack the pride to care.
Djokovic's other big advantage comes from having a professional team to prepare this stuff for him. It takes 20 minutes to prepare all the elements for the strawberry-banana smoothie (verdict: not bad!) and, when lunch rolls around a while later, a full hour to go from slicing squash and zucchini to the finished product of a slightly mushy plate of gluten-free pasta primavera. It's also not bad, though all of the flavor comes from the vegetables—the sun-dried tomatoes should certainly not be optional—given Nole's no-no against sugar-soaked tomato sauces and fatty cheeses. After a little work, a friend and I head to the grocery store to pick up the materials for dinner. And just like that, whatever energy advantage I'd felt from the morning is instantaneously sapped away with the force of a four whiskey hangover, my body begging for the caffeine I've sworn off. We get back and I head for my friend's mattress almost immediately, keeping in mind Djokovic's advice to take a 20-minute nap in the middle of the day. I wake up a little while later, fully rejuvenated, only to find that she's taken a photo of my prone, lumpen body splayed on the floor and put it on the Internet. "Hey, you're supposed to be giving me positive reinforcement." (Indeed, Djokovic claims part of his success is from being surrounded by his loved ones all day, all of whom remind him regularly of what he's playing for, which is delineated in the winsomely titled chapter, "My Secret Weapon—Friendships.") "Oh, right. Yeah, you're great," my friend monotonously intones.
No matter. Dinner comes in the form of a herb-marinated steak, which tastes as delicious as any herb-marinated steak ever does. At the cost of a cut of sirloin and the spices in my friend's cabinet, it's the cheapest meal of the day. I'm reminded of my senior year, when I dragged my somewhat bourgeois college best friend into a Taco Bell at his protest and made him watch me devour some small pile of meat, cheese and beans. "How can you eat that?" he asked me with mild disgust. "Because I was hungry and needed to pay no more than 88 cents to not be hungry," I responded. That type of utilitarian price-to-hunger reduction isn't so easy with going gluten-free, not until Taco Bell starts using corn tortillas.
Sara's Day 2 notes:
Novak Djokovic provides a blueprint for "physical and mental excellence" in his new book "Serve to Win." Journal reporter Sara Germano has been testing Djokovic's gluten-free diet plan and details her progress. After forcing herself to swallow two spoonfuls of makuna honey on day one, here's how she fared on day two.
The following morning, I overslept by an hour, and awoke feeling like I was crawling through quicksand. I could barely coerce myself into another two spoonfuls of manuka honey. Warm water gave me cottonmouth, but Djokovic wrote that cold water inhibits digestion. "Hey, Novak, you know what also inhibits digestion? Being a mouth-breather." (For those keeping score: extra chocolate + mouth breathing = my aesthetic is rapidly declining.)
My slow start to the day meant I didn't have time to prepare a new recipe for dinner, and had to sub a breakfast recipe and smoothie for my other meals. Fortunately, the gluten-free oats with almond butter and banana were hearty enough to get me through midday. I elected to make another smoothie for dinner–filled with spinach, almond butter, almond milk, and bananas–this was no "diet" drink. I disturbed a few coworkers on deadline while using the blender in the kitchen, which started to leak everywhere.
Djokovic makes no mention in 'Serve to Win' of his infamous napping pod, but he recommends taking time out during the day for mindful meditation and stretching. No problem for a world-class athlete, but tough to do in a typical-midtown-Manhattan office building. The only private space available at the Journal's office is a tiny closet-like room for nursing mothers. I snuck in during the midafternoon for some downward-dog yoga poses and then laid out on the counter space to decompress. [Note to coworkers: I used disinfectant wipes on the counter before leaving!] The light was off, but my colleagues had lined the room with photos of their newborns, and I could feel their eyes staring down at me. I began to kick myself for disturbing the space and after 20 minutes I begrudgingly returned to my desk questioning my minuscule worth in the universe.
ACE: Gluten free oats with almond butter and banana–filling enough for a midday meal, if non-traditional.
UNFORCED ERRORS: Mouth breathing, oversleeping, feminist guilt.
Jeremy's Day 2 Diary:
In Djokovic's book, he talks about the importance of slow, considerate eating, contrasted to the lightspeed hovel of stuff in hole that informs the modern approach to dining. (I once hosted an Australian guest who could clean his plate in the time it took me to put my napkin on my lap.) As much as I tried to keep this tenet in mind, I found it near impossible when put against the more pressing need to get full so I could keep working—and I work from home, which means there was no one to even keep tabs on my productivity. I can only imagine how Sara must've felt in the Journal office, surreptitiously shuffling a tupperware of greyed Soba noodles to and from her bag before any of her co-workers could judge.
On the second day of the diet, I prepared and ate every meal by myself, which made it even harder to slow down. The basics were the same: manuka honey and water, check; strawberry-banana shake, check; gluten-free pasta primavera, the preparation of which was quickened because I'd saved some vegetable trimmings from the day before, check; lovingly herb-encrusted steak, check. I'd begin each meal as I normally would, shoveling down two or three spoonfuls within ten seconds before reluctantly remembering to slow down—to enjoy life as Djokovic must, and remember the psychic benefits of concentrating on each bite like it was both my first and last. This squash was delivered from the Earth to my body, I'd mock-narrate in my head. I am thankful to it and every piece of squash that follows. I couldn't tell if it really made much difference, but even a day in I felt like my body was adjusting—I didn't have any faux hangover as the afternoon went on, and a steady stream of fruit left over from the smoothie helped ameliorate the hunger that would've been normally sated with a slice from my local pizza joint.
That kind of culinary convenience is easily afforded to the gluten-eating, or rather, anyone who's fine with eating anything, whenever. Vegetarians know the difficulty of trying to find a vegetarian snack when you're in the middle of nowhere, as do vegans. Things were even more trying when I attended a friend's birthday party later that night, bottle of gluten-free red wine in hand, and found a table filled with party snacks roped off from my perusal. I enjoyed some of the broccoli and carrots, but could only stare at the boxes of pizza so close and yet so far away. ("Just break gluten edge," my friend from the day before cooed at me. "This is the best pizza I've ever had." "You're supposed to be encouraging me!" "Oh right. Yeah, you're great.") This explanation also annoyed one friend who doubted that I could accomplish anything in three days, despite Djokovic's written insistence. "This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard and you should apologize to all of us for even bringing it up," said she, the bossy drunk. But how could she understand my social burden? I'm happy to say I didn't eat any of the pizza, even though no one would've noticed. For that and other reasons, I'll hopefully feel better than ever in the morning.
Sara's Day 3 Diary:
With all the sacrifices Djokovic has made for the betterment of his game–gluten, dairy, cold water, caffeine–none amount to the sacrifices of those closest to him. In what he credits in "Serve to Win" as his "secret weapon;" Djokovic says his family and friends devote their days to surrounding him with positive energy. He writes, "I'm very careful about the people I have around me. I spend almost every waking moment with my physiotherapist, my manager, and my coaches. My girlfriend is with me most of the time, and my parents often are as well."
Hey, if a professional tennis player based in Monaco with an estimated $20.6 million income in 2011 should have no problem finding an entourage–why can't I do the same?
I called my mother—a public-school teacher currently on summer break—at the start of this project, and asked if she wouldn't mind being my spiritual reinforcement for a day.
"Oh, honey, you know I'd love to," she said (unfortunately inviting a gag reflex on my part with her use of the H-word) "but, um, I'm visiting your aunt in Syracuse this week."
Ugh, okay. See you on Thanksgiving, Mom.
I turned to two college friends instead, who agreed to shadow me, perhaps because I promised them a full home-cooked dinner a la Djoko: Smoky Sirloin Steak, Crispy Sweet Potato Fries, leftover Spicy Soba Noodle Salad and a nice bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon (yep, red wine is permissible in moderation).
Only one problem: I've never cooked a steak before. In my first attempt, I accidentally charred the sides too much, but in my obsession with perfecting it, I forgot the sweet potato fries in the oven, and burned them to mostly-black crisps.
To my friends' credit, and perhaps because they were taking their spiritual-reinforcement role seriously, they emphasized how great the food was.
One of my guests said that he even preferred blackened fries to regular fries. But when pressed for any criticism, the most he would offer was, "I had little faith this meal would turn out well, but it was fine."
ACES: Red wine and friends (breaking news, eh?)
UNFORCED ERRORS: Burning my food, lack of parental support
The Djokovic diet is not for the faint of heart–for someone who is already gluten-free, I found it a huge imposition to give up dairy and caffeine. Furthermore, taking time for stretching, meditation, and facilitating positive reinforcement are no small tasks. Also, if you are the type of person who needs a diet plan with precise calorie counts and serving sizes, this is not for you. World-class tennis is often an endurance sport, and Djokovic eats like an endurance athlete—I was taking in multiple servings of nuts and nut-butters each day, which can be extremely fattening.
To Djokovic's credit, his recipes are easy to follow and quick to prepare, which is saying a lot considering he has a personal chef, and most of us do not. More to the point, through his other habitual recommendations, I began to be more aware of my body's acute desires and needs. Introspection is a natural byproduct of his lifestyle, both from reinforcing daily meditation and from asking friends to hang out and support you (and maybe cranking up Whitney Houston's "Greatest Love of All").
Lastly, a few quirks and inconsistencies I noticed: why is cold water verboten, but ice is okay for smoothies? For someone who cautions against taking in too much sugar, Djokovic doesn't mention that many gluten-free products tend to be quite high in sugar content. Gluten-free bread is still a carbohydrate product—it just doesn't have wheat, barley, or rye grains.
And as for the manuka honey? Save your money. I would have rather spent it on Djoko's fabled donkey cheese.
Jeremy's Day 3 Diary:
As fortune would have it, I've timed the third day of this diet to come on a Saturday when I'm celebrating my birthday—please, hold your applause—at MoMA PS1's Warm Up, an all-day event where lightly intoxicated youngsters like myself congregate to celebrate the waning days of summer by dancing to live music and pretending to think about the exhibitions of modern art being showcased for our distraction. That raises a problem which Djokovic, who claims that more than half of his day, every day, is dedicated to the pursuit of getting better at tennis, never has to face: social obligations, and being caught in the wild with no bowl of gluten-free pasta primavera to be found. If I'm to remain devout, I'll have to time my meals so I don't get too achingly hungry in the middle of the day.
Thankfully, I've gotten an early start, and whether it's because of the diet or the ten hours of sleep I don't feel a trace of the previous night's red wine, though my friend's attempted shaming is still ringing in my ear. What does she know? She isn't here to see my stretching as I read The Economist and prepare a bowl of muesli, reveling in my agency as a rapidly matured adult. San Antonio is experimenting with tax-funded pre-kindergarten, I'm warming to the taste of oats, and I feel as clear-headed as I ever will at 10 a.m. on a weekend.
Of course, the muesli goes through my system almost right away, and as the afternoon creeps up I'm beginning to take liberties with Djokovic's slow eating scheme. My digestive pace is controlled, yes, but I'm also digesting food every thirty minutes to load up on calories before my intended flirtation with culture. There's some more pasta primavera, another shake, and some gluten-free tortilla chips and salsa I've picked up from the grocer which might be cheating a little bit because there's no recipe for them in the book, but they're specifically mentioned as an approved snack food and anyways who makes their own tortilla chips? I feel fully loaded and ready to get fully loaded, which my friends are eager to indulge. The weather is sunny and breezy, the music is on point, and my pre-emptive snacking is doing the trick.
And then… it hits. A hunger that starts small and grows outward, taking up the lower half of my torso as I scan the on-site menu for appropriate options. The only thing that seems appropriate is the "Mexican corn," or elotes, which provide a temporary boost to the system lest I keel over from exhaustion into one of the wading pools.
But I realize pretty soon that I've got to ingest something stronger, and quickly beckon my posse to head toward any source of food. We pack into a nearby diner and I order the least gross-sounding steak on the menu, now disregarding Djokovic's slow eating rule with complete zeal. The conclusion of my dietary road stop without incident seems to be a foregone conclusion, but then my friends have the total indecency to surprise me with birthday cake, putting me on the spot.
Do I abandon my principles? Do I live a little and indulge in the moment? If Djokovic was in this position, what would he do? Probably have the waitress fired for offering such temptation.
But I'm all too human, and my instinct is that three hours before the three-day period is over is an alright time to make this exception. With that lack of devotion I'd never make No. 1 in the world, but who cares? The cake is delicious, and if I feel any worse after the reintroduction of gluten to my body after its brief but noticeable absence, it's masked by the wine. The rest of the night goes swimmingly, and though my first meal of the next day is a gluten-packed sandwich from my local bodega, it's only because of convenience. I liked being temporarily gluten-free. I liked the energy benefits I imagined it gave me, and the unjustified sense of moral righteousness that came from announcing to the world that my hands would never again touch a piece of bread.
But the convenience is a big problem, as is the price. Going gluten-free takes more time and requires more money than I'm able to afford, which Djokovic admits as an advantage in his book (as well as being a genetic superfreak who's better at hitting a ball than I'll ever be at anything in my life, but let's keep it simple). It's something to aspire toward when I'm older, but for now I'll have to accept that being a culinary hoodrat is a temporary but unavoidable part of my identity. That means bodega sandwiches, birthday cake, and yes, the occasional trip to Taco Bell. But if nothing else, I'll have Djokovic's voice in my head reminding me that I can do better.


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Thursday September 20, 2012
Augusta, Ga--There's only a little over a week until this year's ESI Ironman 70.3. For many participants, it will be the toughest thing they ever do. For Nikki Boudreaux, not even close.
Sometimes life is like jumping off the dock. You never quite know what's waiting for you beneath the surface.
"They didn't think I was going to make it, just from the gym to Doctor's Hospital." said Nikki Bourdreaux
September 25th of last year, Nikki Boudreaux finished her first half Ironman here in Augusta. Four days later, she was in the hospital after blood vessels ruptured in her brain.
"We were coming off the Ironman 70.3 last year and finishing that race happy and feeling good. Then this hit, and it was really surreal."
added Todd Bourdreaux
It was a bleed that can easily kill so it was no less than a miracle that after just two weeks and a brain surgery, she was headed home with plenty of support and some lofty goals.
"She said from the start, 'I want to do the Ironman again. That's my goal.' To her, that's the mark that she's back." added husband Todd
Then the pieces started to fall into place. She's not allowed to ride a bike yet, so she and husband Todd will complete the event as a team ,and time is the last thing on their minds.
"I just want to finish it. I'm not worried about running the whole time. I'll run and walk and run and walk. It's just more of a personal goal." added Nikki
Race day will be remarkable for much more than the event itself. That day marks the one year anniversary of the incident that nearly took her life.
"...It's funny because it's going to be a year to the day." said Nikki "It was very difficult at points where I didn't think that I wasn't going to be able to make it at that point, but then I'd tell myself, yes I will. I will be back."
So when Nikki climbs out of the water one year later, she won't know exactly what's ahead. But whatever it is, she plans to reach that finish line.
Nikki's not completely recovered from her incident. She still has times when she can't quite come up with the word she wants to use, but overall, an amazing recovery and an even better story.


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Britt Festivals will move this weekend's 2013 Classical Festival opener indoors to keep performers and attendees out of the thick smoke from nearby wildfires that has blanketed the area.
Britt officials said the concerts will be held at the South Medford High School gymnasium, 1551 Cunningham Ave., instead of outdoors in Jacksonville.
The concerts will be held at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. They feature Mei-Ann Chen — a Britt music director finalist — and pianist Jon Kimura Parker on Friday and pianist Ian Parker on Saturday.
People who have purchased tickets can use them at the new site. Britt officials said they will email ticket holders with more details. Additional tickets will be available at the door.
For more information, call Britt at 541-773-6077 or visit the Britt box office at 216 W. Main St., Medford. The box office is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Britt officials were still sorting out details Thursday but said food and drinks will not be offered.
Festival staff said they will continue to monitor air quality and notify patrons about future concert locations as the dates get closer.
A full program of the Classical Festival concerts is available online at www.brittfest.org.
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