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2012 & 2011 Santa Clara Team co-Captain
2012 & 2010 All-WCC Honorable Mention
RS SENIOR (2012): Overcame injury to once again be recognized as of the best players in the WCC ... named an All-WCC Honorable Mention performer for the second time in his collegiate career ... anchored the Broncos in the center-midfield ... started 15 games and appeared in 18 of the team's 19 matches on the season ... helped SCU post an 11-6-2 record and an 8-2-2 mark in WCC play ... totaled seven shots and had an assist in SCU's 2-1 home victory over rival USF (Oct. 7).
(2011): Team captain, who had to utilize a redshirt season after being sidelined with injury following a season-opening win over Stanford (Aug. 27).
JUNIOR (2010): Named as an All-WCC midfielder after starting in 20 of 21 games to help Santa Clara win the league championship in 2010 ... one of just five SCU players to start at least 20 games ... played 1,663 minutes, which ranked third on the team ... started in each of the final 17 games of the regular season and helped SCU go on a 12-game unbeaten streak from Sept. 19 through Nov. 5 ... had an assist in the season-opener vs. Wisconsin (Sept. 4) ... scored the tying goal in unassisted fashion at Portland (Oct. 3) ... had a season-high three shots in that match at Portland (Oct. 3) ... played in every minute of every game in each of the last 15 matches, inclduing all 90 minutes of SCU's NCAA tournament first round game against Sacramento State (Nov. 18).
SOPHOMORE (2009): Starting center midfielder in a number of matches as a sophomore ... played in all 20 matches, making 14 starts ... his 1,283 minutes was four-most among any Santa Clara player in 2009 ... distributed an assist at San Diego (Oct. 18) ... started and shot three times at San Jose State (Sep. 27) ... got a shot off vs. Long Island (Sep. 7), at California (Sep. 20), vs. Portland (Oct. 2), at Saint Mary's (Oct. 25) and at Gonzaga (Oct. 30).
FRESHMAN (2008): Saw action in 16 of 20 contests ... recorded one point on one assist ... made his first collegiate appearance against Loyola Chicago (Aug. 30) ... appeared again as a sub against UIC (Sept. 1), taking one shot on goal ... started against Wisconsin (Sept. 5) and UW-Milwaukee (Sept. 7) ... dished out his first collegiate assist on Kellen Wantulok's goal against Portland (Oct. 3) ... made his sixth collegiate start at USF (Oct. 26) ... started against Gonzaga (Oct. 31), Portland (Nov. 2) and Loyola Marymount (Nov. 14).
HIGH SCHOOL: 2008 graduate of Federal Way High School in Federal Way, Wash., where he played soccer and ran track and cross country ... soccer coaches were Jason Baumgart and Paul Lombard ... team was state runner-up in 2007 ... was second-team all-district in 2005, all-district first-team in 2006 and '07 ... all-city and team captain in 2006 and '07 ...club team went on a soccer tour to Ireland and Sweden ... played on the US developmental soccer academy team - Crossfire U18 ... lead HPFC club team in goals and was the No. 1 runner for high school cross country team ... member of the honor roll and NHS, USSF Level 8 soccer referee, soccer trainer, volunteer pre-school and Sunday school teacher.
PERSONAL: Born in Federal Way, Wash. ... parents are Chris and Lorilee Campbell ... dad went to Montana State and mom went to San Diego State ... has two sisters: Molly and Madison ... grandfather ran track at Nebraska and cousin Zachary Bumgarner was a four-time national champion on the football team at Carroll College ... hobbies include being creative ... studio art major.


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HOUSTON -- Raiders linebacker Kevin Burnett conceded he could have done with a little less drama.
"You'd prefer for it not to be close, let's be honest,'' Burnett said following a 28-23 win over the Houston Texans on Sunday at Reliant Stadium. "But if it is, you'd like the game to be on your shoulders when it comes down to winning a game.''
After setting up two touchdowns with takeaways in the first quarter, the Raiders held the Texans to two field goals --30 and 26 yards -- by Randy Bullock despite Houston possessions in the fourth quarter that reached the 8-, 12- and 2-yard lines.
On the Texans' last possession, reinstated starting quarterback Matt Schaub and his team faced third-and-1 at the 2-yard line only to have Burnett throw Ben Tate for a 1-yard loss. A false start by Brandon Brooks pushed the ball to the 8, and Schaub threw incomplete to Andre Johnson, allowing the Raiders to kill the clock with 1:15 remaining.
"The third-down play was huge to get it to fourth down,'' Raiders coach Dennis Allen said. "I'm proud of those guys in there. I'm proud of the way they kept their head up.''
Schaub, the deposed starter who entered for Case Keenum in the third quarter, said, "We had a few shots at it and then the penalty backed us up. We took a shot in the end zone for a chance to make a play and they made the play.''
With the Raiders offense getting season highs in points and touchdowns, free safety Charles Woodson said it was imperative for the defense to hold up its end.
"Defensively, that's our job, to go there and finish it if it's our opportunity to win the game,'' Woodson said. "I mean, we did a great, great job down there in the red zone, getting off the field with a win.''
"He was able to scramble, and you're looking at the quarterback then thinking, 'Oh (no). There's a guy still running (free),' '' Woodson said. "You put that on me. I've got to stay as deep as the deepest man, and they made a play.''
Houston return specialist Keshawn Martin had an 87-yard punt return after he lost the ball briefly, which may have altered the approach of Phillip Adams and Taiwan Jones in coverage.
Lechler also had a 49.1 gross average with a long of 60 yards, with a 41.1 net and two punts inside the 20-yard line.
"I felt like I had it, but it doesn't really matter because we got the win,'' Holmes said. "It felt good to get those opportunities to catch the ball down the field. Whenever that opportunity comes, you just grasp it and take it.''
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Are There Medals For Wardrobe Malfunctions? (Olympic Poetry)
Throughout the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games, Guggenheim fellowship-winning poet Kwame Dawes will be writing verses that capture the spirit of the day's action.
There have been a number of wardrobe malfunctions at the 2014 Winter Games–from Russian speedskater Olga Graf unzipping her suit and not realizing she had nothing underneath, to the U.S. skating team going back to their old Under Armour suits and ditching their newer ones in an apparent effort to jump-start their times.
Our Olympic poet weighs in.
The air pockets caught in the webbing
are making microscopic drafts,
tiny storms on the slicked down suits,
and the sprinters are slowing.
It has occurred to the thoughtful
(Plato's philosophers, each one of them)
that whale fat rubbed onto flesh
to make slick these gleaming skins,
would make them slip through
the pressing air–knife blades,
thin as hairlines–around the rink.
But, of course, the chill is all,
frostbite on nether parts does give
them pause, these softy latter
day gladiators. The Greeks,
we know, reserved the sleet
on Mount Olympus for the gutting
of ritual doves, for the blood-letting
to the gods, there were ice and snow
staunched out the stench of rotting
flesh, leaving the aroma of priests,
a clean alpine purity. The blood sports
they kept where sweat could coat
the bodies of athletes, and heat
was good. Here in Sochi, the Americans
calculate the cost of innovation,
the advantage that turns to a burden,
while the skater bent in two and panting
among the entanglement of finished
sprinters, was not built for such
fanciful philosophizing, instead, while
blood pulsing a in their temples,
they cannot silence the goading
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STOCKTON - Two men were arrested after a woman was kidnapped by her ex-husband and son Saturday morning because they believed she was possessed by demons and needed to undergo an exorcism, authorities said.
San Joaquin County Sheriff's deputies were called to a residence near the 5000 block of Highway 99 about 10:40 a.m. when a woman reported that her 40-year-old roommate had been kidnapped, officials said. Deputies learned the woman had been forcibly removed from her residence by Jose Magana-Farias, 42, her ex-husband, and their son, 20-year-old Victor Farias.
"Apparently they thought she was possessed because her attitude and everything about her changed, so they wanted to get her un-possessed," Lt. James Cannon said. "They took her to another location and attempted to perform some type of religious ritual. She was later found to be OK, but of course she wasn't very happy with their actions. It's kind of strange - something you don't hear about every day."
Deputies located Magana-Farias and Farias about 3:45 p.m. in the 1700 block of South Harrison Street, Cannon said. Both were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, false imprisonment by violence and conspiracy to commit a crime, authorities said. They are being held at San Joaquin County Jail in lieu of $535,000 bail.
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An exhibit that opened Thursday at Mount Eden High School in Hayward uses art to look at the problem of bullying.
The new student show, "Artists are Allies," is an extension of the district's emphasis on addressing bullying, said art teacher Geoff Landreau.
"We thought that, as a fine arts department, we could do a good job of bringing visual images to the theme of anti-bullying," he said.
The exhibit has more than 75 pieces in a variety of media, including ceramics, drawings, paintings, collage, origami, photographs, metalwork and jewelry. The artwork is on display at the school's gallery in Classroom L4 through Feb. 12. The exhibit is open to the public after school until 5 p.m. on Thursdays.
The exhibit is just one of the ways students in visual and performing arts classes are addressing bullying.
On Thursday, Mt. Eden High drama students will stage scenes from "The Laramie Project," a play about the reaction to the 1998 killing of University of Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepard. The 2:30 p.m. performance, also in Classroom L4, is open to the public, but seating is limited.
Performing arts students will be putting on anti-bullying concerts at 7 p.m. April 4 and April 5.
"Because of all the bullying that's going on in the schools, it's become important for us as teachers to talk about it and to bring more attention to what happens to students who are bullied," Landreau said.
"What are some ways we can become allies to eliminate or diminish bullying in schools?"
Mt. Eden High is at 2300 Panama St., off Hesperian Boulevard. For more information, call 510-723-3180.
Newark organization holding essay contest
All Tri-City-area students 18 and younger are invited to enter the annual Newark Optimist Club Essay Contest.
Contest entry is free, said Denise Fullerton, the club's contest chairwoman.
This year's essay topic is "How Dreams Lead to Success." Each essay must be between 700 and 800 words, Fullerton said.
The contest's winner will receive a cash prize of $200, the second-place contestant will be awarded $125, and $75 will go to the student finishing third.
The first-place finisher will advance to the Optimist International's Pacific Central District competition, where the winner will receive a $2,500 college scholarship.
The deadline to apply is Feb. 18. Winners will be announced by Feb. 22. Contest application forms can be found at www.optimist.org. Completed essays can be submitted by emailing email@example.com.
For details, call 510-793-6074.
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|Relative Retention Times of Nematode Sterols
Sterols are important biomolecules within nematodes because sterols function as membrane components and serve as metabolic precursors to steroid hormones. From the perspective of a nematode, sterols are nutritionally important because nematodes lack the ability to biosynthesize sterols, unlike plants or higher animals. Therefore, nematodes possess a nutritional requirement for sterols, which parasitic nematodes must obtain from their animal or plant hosts. This nutritional requirement can be exploited in the design of novel strategies for controlling agriculturally important plant-parasitic nematodes.
Consequently, a large part of David Chitwood's research has focused on the biochemistry of sterols in nematodes. A large number of structurally diverse sterols have been isolated by us from nematodes or their hosts or their diets; these sterols have been identified via gas chromatography and mass spectrometry.
As a courtesy to the scientific community, we present a table containing the gas chromatographic relative retention times of sterols isolated by us from nematodes or their hosts or diets. This table is based upon a similar table in Lipids, volume 26, pages 619-627, 1991, "Metabolism of plant sterols by nematodes", by D. J. Chitwood and W. R. Lusby. The U.S. Government has the right to retain a nonexclusive, royalty-free license in and to any copyright covering this paper.


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Abstract: DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a small lipophillic molecule composed of a benzoquinone ring and a hydrophobic isoprenoid tail and is present in virtually all cell membranes. In the mitochondrial respiratory chain, CoQ10 is vital for the transport of electrons from complex I (NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase) and complex II (succinate-ubiquinone oxidoreductase) to complex III (ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase). It is also an antioxidant, membrane stabilizer, and modulator of apoptosis. Human CoQ10-deficiency has been associated with four clinical phenotypes: an encephalomyopathy, infantile encephalomyopathy with renal dysfunction, cerebellar ataxia, and pure myopathy. We have identified 38 patients from 33 families with CoQ10-deficiency. Patients with all forms of CoQ10-deficiency have improved with oral supplementation, therefore recognition of this treatable genetic condition is important. Last year, we reported the first mutations responsible for primary CoQ10-deficiency; in two siblings with the infantile form of CoQ10 deficiency, we identified a homozygous missense mutation in the COQ2 gene which encodes para-hydroxybenzoate-polyprenyl transferase, the enzyme responsible for the condensation of the isoprenoid side chains to the benzoquinone ring. In another infant with fatal Leigh syndrome and nephropathy, we identified compound heterozygous mutations in the PDSS2 gene encoding subunit 2 of decaprenyl diphosphate synthase. In addition, in a family with four individuals with cerebellar ataxia and CoQ10 deficiency, we identified a pathogenic mutation in the APTX gene, which encodes a protein involved in single-strand break repair. Thus, our studies have revealed mutations in CoQ10 biosynthetic genes causing primary CoQ10 deficiency and an APTX mutation as a cause of secondary CoQ10 deficiency. Not surprisingly, CoQ10 deficiency causes defects of respiratory chain activities (reduced activities of complexes I+III and II+III). The relative importance of respiratory chain defects, ROS production, and apoptosis in the pathogenesis of CoQ10-deficiency is unknown. Based on our preliminary studies, we hypothesize that: 1) genotypic heterogenity contributes to the phenotypic variability of CoQ10-deficiency; 2) levels of oxidative stress, respiratory chain deficiency, and apoptosis differ depending on the genetic cause and severity of CoQ10-deficiency; and 3) CoQ10 and its analogs have variable efficacy in CoQ10-deficiency. To test these hypotheses, we propose the following four specific aims. Aim 1: To identify novel genetic causes of CoQ10 deficiency. Aim 2: To characterize the pathogenic mechanisms of CoQ10-deficiency in cultured cells and rescue cellular dysfunction in CoQ10-deficient cells using CoQ10 and its analogs. Aim 3: To generate and assess a mouse model of CoQ deficiency. Aim 4: In collaboration with Professor Placido Navas, University of Sevilla, Spain, we will characterize CoQ10 biosynthetic genes and mutations in yeast.Narrative Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a vital molecule required for cells to generate energy and to prevent damage from toxic oxygen radicals. The proposed studies will define the causes and treatments of severe genetic diseases associated with CoQ10 deficiency. Furthermore, the studies may provide important information relevant to ongoing human treatment trials of CoQ10 and related anti-oxidants in more common neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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Statement by Aerospace Industries Association President and CEO Marion C. Blakey on passage of the House Defense Appropriations Bill.
Arlington, Va. — The Aerospace Industries Association applauds the passage of the House Defense Appropriations Bill, which provides $512.5 billion in base funding and $85.8 billion for overseas contingency operations. However, while the bill is more than $28 billion above the levels mandated under the Budget Control Act of 2011, it still represents a reduction of nearly $3.4 billion from the Defense Department's 2014 request for its base budget, which includes a reduction of $1.1 billion in the critical research and development accounts. More importantly, the bill – similar to President Obama's submission of a proposed budget for fiscal year 2014 – ignores the cuts that would be imposed under sequestration.
Just a few weeks ago on July 10, Defense Secretary Hagel, in his letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee, outlined what the $52 billion sequestration impact will bring to the Department's budget if nothing is done. This cut comes on top of $487 billion dollars of reductions already being implemented across the next decade from the Budget Control Act as well as $37 billion lost from the fiscal year 2013 budget in the first round of sequestration.
"The size, readiness and technological superiority of our military will be reduced, placing at much greater risk the country's ability to meet our current national security commitments," Secretary Hagel said. "This outcome is unacceptable as it would limit the country's options in the event of a major new national security contingency."
Last week, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that sequestration through fiscal year 2014 would cost up to 1.6 million jobs. In addition to the lost jobs, an even greater consequence will be the impact to the defense industrial base. Sequestration will worsen the impacts already occurring to small businesses in the supply chain and will contribute to the loss of critical skills and experience from our unique workforce spread across the country.
These cuts constitute an unacceptable risk to our national security and economy. We urge Congress and President Obama to repeal sequestration and work together with industry to find bipartisan strategic solutions that yield cost savings and operational efficiencies that can exceed the deficit reduction achieved through the Budget Control Act.


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What Is Contemporary Art?
Boris Groys, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Zdenka Badovinac, Carol Yinghua Lu, Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Raqs Media Collective, Dieter Roelstraete, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hu Fang, Martha Rosler, Hal Foster, Jan Verwoert.
What is contemporary art? First, and most obviously: why is this question not asked? That is to say, why do we simply leave it to hover in the shadow... continue reading


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I rus PS3MS from always-on PC.
It's set to go to sleep in 30 minutes.
I comes so that in 30 min it tries to go to sleep, I see error 80710092 on PS3, playback pauses, then (in about 3 sec) PC wakes and playback resumes.
So, when serving files, PS3MS lets PC go to sleep mode.
Think it's easy to fix, many programs have an option "prevent PC sleep".
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Gov. Chris Christie Addresses Bridge Scandal at Town Hall Meeting
By Heather Haddon and E. Assala Wright
FLEMINGTON, N.J.—Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday he would have fired the former aide who helped orchestrate the lane closures leading to the George Washington Bridge even if she hadn't covered up her role, and emphasized that he had no involvement in the lane closures.
Mr. Christie again said he first learned that staff members lied about their involvement in the lane closures on Jan. 8. That day, Democrats released subpoenaed records that showed the Republican governor's aides planning to close local lanes to the bridge to intentionally cause traffic in Fort Lee, N.J. Originally, those involved had said the lane closures were part of a traffic study. That idea has now been discredited.
Mr. Christie's chief of staff, Bridget Kelly, sent an email to a Port Authority of New York and New Jersey official—who has since resigned—saying it was "time for traffic problems in Fort Lee," the records showed.
Mr. Christie fired Ms. Kelly and cut ties to his former campaign manager, Bill Stepien, after the communications were released.
"If she'd told me the truth, she would've gotten fired too because of what she did," said Mr. Christie about Ms. Kelly, when asked about the scandal during a town-hall meeting Thursday. "You have to be able to trust the people that work for you and if you don't, they have to go."
Mr. Christie faced several questions from the public on the scandal Thursday, the first time such inquiries have been raised in the six town halls he's held since the bridge issue came to light. The questions came in Hunterdon County, which leans Republican.
During a lengthy response to one question, Mr. Christie declined to comment on whether the closures were illegal, but said that he doesn't approve of them and he had taken steps to remove people who were involved.
"What happened in that circumstance is unacceptable, not approved by me, would never be approved by me, and the folks who were involved in that absolutely would have lost their jobs, whether they told the truth or lied about it," he said.
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether laws were broken in the bridge affair. Mr. Christie previously said that other staff members could be fired if they were found to be involved.
Two of Mr. Christie's allies on the Port Authority who helped orchestrate the closures or helped cover them up—David Wildstein and Bill Baroni—stepped down from the agency in December.


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Due to the large number of entries, the location of the Chillicothe Area Arts Council's Youth Talent Contest has been changed to the United Methodist Church of Chillicothe, 1414 Walnut Street.
The contest is from 9 a.m. until noon, this Saturday, Feb. 23.
The deadline to enter the contest has passed. About 50 vocal and instrumental contestants between the ages of 6 and 18 will compete. Spectators may watch all or part of this juried (professionally judged) contest. There is no admission fee.
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POSITION: Goaltender
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BIRTHPLACE: Winthrop, MA, USA
DRAFTED: NYI: 2000-1 overall
Became the first goaltender to be selected first overall since the Universal Draft began in 1970, when chosen by the Islanders in the 2000 National Hockey League Entry Draft. Signed a 15-year contract with the Islanders on September 12, 2006.
Was limited to eight games during his 12th professional season with the Islanders, posting a 3-2-3 record...Suffered a concussion on Oct. 12 at practice and missed four games...Made his first appearance of the season, relieving Evgeni Nabokov in a shootout on Oct. 27 at Pittsburgh. He became the fifth goalie in NHL history to appear in a shootout during a game in which he had not played...Made his first start of the season on Oct. 29 vs. San Jose...Recorded an assist in his first win of the season on Nov. 6 vs. Washington, extending his streak to eight consecutive seasons with an assist...Earned his first career relief victory on Nov. 17 vs. Montreal...Suffered a groin injury on Dec. 3 at Dallas...Was placed on Injured Reserve with a sports hernia, which required surgery, and experienced knee swelling on Dec. 15 and missed the final 58 games of the season.
2010-11: Posted an 8-14-4 record with a 3.44 goals against average and a .886 save percentage in 26 appearances…Led Islanders goalies in games played and saves (685), while finishing second on the team in wins...Went 2-0-2 to earn points in his first four starts…Placed on Injured Reserve with right knee swelling on Dec. 22 and missed three games…Posted 37 saves, stopped a penalty shot (K. Letang) and denied 2-of-4 shootout attempts to top Pittsburgh on Dec. 29…Suffered an adductor injury on Jan. 3 at Calgary and missed five games…Returned to action on Jan. 15 vs. Buffalo and posted his fourth straight victory…Played in his 300th NHL/Islanders game on Jan. 23 vs. Buffalo…Recorded his first NHL fighting major (B. Johnson) on Feb. 2 vs. Pittsburgh and suffered facial fractures…Missed 20 games due to injury and returned to the lineup on Mar. 18 at Carolina, making his first start on Mar. 19 at Florida…Recorded his first assist of the season on Apr. 9 at Boston, extending his streak to seven straight seasons with an assist.
2009-10: Was limited to eight NHL games in his sixth full season with the Islanders...Missed the first 27 games of the season (Oct. 3 - Nov. 28) recovering from knee surgery...Played in four games for Bridgeport (American Hockey League) on a rehab assignment, posting a 1-2-0 record with a 3.31 GAA and a .883 save percentage...Made 31 saves to earn his first victory of the season, a 3-2 shootout victory over Buffalo on Jan. 16. It was his 10th consecutive home shootout win, which set an NHL record...Made 20 saves to earn a 4-0 shutout victory over New Jersey on Jan. 18...Missed the final 12 games of the season (Mar. 6 - Apr. 11) with swelling in his knee.
2008-09: Moved into sole possession of first place on the Islanders all-time franchise list for points by a goaltender with an assist (14th of his career) on Dec. 26 vs. Toronto...Missed 27 games from Oct. 27-Dec. 23 recovering from knee surgery...Missed the final 41 games of the season with swelling in the knee.
2007-08: Recorded his 100th career victory on Nov. 19 at NY Rangers...Tied a career high by starting 18 consecutive games from Nov. 13-29 (9-7-1)...Recorded three shutouts: Nov. 1 vs. Tampa Bay (28 saves); Nov. 16 at New Jersey (26 saves); Feb. 21 vs. Tampa Bay (32 saves)...Named to and started his first NHL All-Star game on Jan. 27 in Atlanta, stopping 15-of-16 shots in the first period and helping the East claim an 8-7 victory...Recorded his sixth assist of the season on Mar. 12 at Tampa Bay, setting a new team record for points and assists in a single season by a goaltender. His sixth assist was also the 13th of his career, besting Bill Smith's previous Islanders record of 12...Missed 12 games due to injury: three due to a knee sprain and nine because of season-ending hip surgery on Mar. 19.
2006-07: Finished sixth in the NHL with a .919 save percentage and tied for sixth with five shutouts...Tied his career high in shutouts (5)...Ranked first in the NHL by making 28.4 saves per game (minimum 1,650 total saves)...Recorded his seventh career shutout with 35 saves on Nov. 15 at Dallas, which is his career high in saves in a shutout...Recorded back-to-back shutouts for the second time in his career (Dec. 23 vs. Columbus and Dec. 26 vs. NY Rangers)...Recorded a career-best shutout streak of 156:30 [Dec. 22 at Carolina (S. Walker - 1:42/3rd period) through Dec. 27 at Ottawa (M. Fischer - 18:12/1st period)]...Recorded a career-best home shutout streak of 191:04 [Dec. 9 vs. Florida (R. Salei - 19:17/3rd period, game went through overtime) through Dec. 30 vs. New Jersey (B. Rafalski - 5:21/1st period)]...Named the NHL's Second Star of the Month for February...Made a career-high and franchise-record 56 saves on Mar. 5 at NY Rangers...Became the first Islanders goaltender to record two 30-win seasons on Mar. 10 vs. Washington...Started a career-high 18 consecutive games (2.09 GAA, .934 save percentage, a record of 10-7) starting on Feb. 3 at Montreal and running through Mar. 13 at Montreal. Did not finish the last game due to concussion...Played in his 200th NHL/Islanders game on Mar. 10 vs. Washington...Set a new career high with his 31st victory of the season on Mar. 22 vs. Pittsburgh...Tied the franchise single-season record with his 32nd victory of season on Mar. 24 at Philadelphia...Missed the last seven games of the season with a concussion.
2005-06: Ranked seventh in the NHL in saves with 1,617, games played by a goaltender with 63, and minutes played with 3,571:35 in his second full season with the Islanders...Tied for the league lead in penalty minutes for a goaltender with 28...Co-led the NHL in shootout wins with eight...Became the third Islanders goaltender and youngest in franchise history to reach 30 wins in a single season vs. Pittsburgh on Apr. 15...Recorded his only assist of the season at Buffalo on Oct. 5...Stopped all three shooters for his and the franchise's first shootout win at NY Rangers on Oct. 19...Played in his 100th NHL/Islanders game vs. Ottawa on Nov. 25...Recorded his 50th career win on Mar. 7 vs. New Jersey...Named Defensive Player of the Week for the period ending Mar. 12...Set personal winning and unbeaten streak of six games from Mar. 2-14 (6-0-0).
2003-04: In his first full NHL season, posted a 23-18-5 record with a 2.36 GAA in 50 games...Notched his first career shutout, recording 13 saves on Oct. 11 at Buffalo....Named runner-up for Defensive Player of the Week for the week of Jan. 26...Made a then career-high 45 saves in a 3-1 win at Anaheim on Mar. 12...Recorded back-to-back shutouts on Mar. 21 vs. Tampa Bay and Mar. 23 vs. Washington, tying the team record for consecutive shutouts.
2002-03: Ranked third in the AHL with a 2.14 GAA in his second professional season with Bridgeport...Started on the PlanetUSA AHL All-Star Team...Went 9-0-5 for a 14-game unbeaten streak with Bridgeport...Ranked sixth in the AHL with a 2.01 postseason GAA.
2001-02: Led the AHL with 30 wins for Bridgeport...Named Bridgeport's "Fan Favorite" award recipient...Started for the PlanetUSA AHL All-Star Team.
2000-01: Made his NHL debut on Jan. 27 vs. Buffalo, stopping 29 shots and recording an assist in a 2-1 loss...Became the youngest goaltender to make his NHL debut with the Islanders and the seventh youngest in NHL history to record a point in his NHL debut...Recorded his first win on Feb. 16 at Edmonton, stopping 24-of-26 shots.


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Appalachian Fire to perform Sunday
Bluegrass band Appalachian Fire will perform from 6-7 p.m. Sunday in the fellowship hall at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 2101 Kanuga Road.
The band will play bluegrass standards, originals, instrumentals and bluegrass gospel. Appalachian Fire embraces both its mountain and Christian heritage.
Admission is free, with a love offering collected.
Refreshments will be available at 5:30 p.m.
For more information, call 693-8651.
Art show to benefit Namaste Center
The Namaste Center at 416 S. King St. will host a benefit art show from 4-7 p.m. today.
The show will feature both art and music. Wine and refreshments will be served at the event.
For more information, call The Namaste Center at 561-386-5963 or visit www.thenamastecenter.
Choir to present Lent and Easter cantata
Themes from Handel and Mozart will be the music of the Lenten and Easter cantata "My Redeemer Liveth" at 10:55 a.m. Sunday, presented by the Adult Choir of First Presbyterian Church, Hendersonville.
The event will take place in the sanctuary at 699 N. Grove St.
The choir will be directed and accompanied by Gayle Stepp.
Soloists will be Ralph Polk and Cathey Ridings. Ridings will be accompanied by pianist Mary Lib McLeod.
Glenn Richardson, president of Habitat for Humanity, will narrate the 10:55 a.m. service.
The 8:30 a.m. chapel service will feature soloist Margie Capell. David Garrison, director of ministries, will narrate the 8:30 a.m. chapel service.
A homily will be delivered by the pastor, the Rev. Dr. William Campbell, at the 8:30 a.m. and 10:55 a.m. services.
David Garrison will deliver the homily at King Street's regular worship service in the chapel at 10:45 a.m.
Elevator access is available at the Sixth Avenue entrance. For more information, call 692- 3211.
Pavel Wlosk to play
Pianist, composer and educator Pavel Wlosok will perform at 4 p.m. today at Cummings Memorial United Methodist Church, 3 Banner Farm Road, Mills River.
The event will bring attention to The BEAR Closet program at the church, which provides baby items for local families in need.
Donations of baby items are appreciated. A love offering will also be taken.
There will be a short reception with refreshments after the performance. Wlosok will then join Elise Pratt and Mike Holstein as a jazz trio celebrating Wlosok's birthday at The Green Room, 536 N. Main St., Hendersonville.
For information, call 891-9433.
Items needed for BEAR Closet
Cummings Memorial United Methodist Church on Banner Farm Road will hold a fifth Sunday shower to stock its BEAR Closet from 12:05-1 p.m. Sunday.
The supplies will help prepare families for Easter and summer. A few of the items needed are diapers, baby wipes, strollers, high chairs, walkers, towels and washcloths, books and toys. Please bring unwrapped items to the church.
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OK. Around 14:40 in the lovely SBD/AUD matrix recording floating out there (ahem), listen now to Trey's *totally out-of-place* insertion of 'Eastern' scalar runs in an otherwise conventional major-chords-all-over jam. Page tries to integrate Trey's statement into the texture of the jam but it's a weird fit, and what should've been a best-ever Hood weirdly kind of limps to the finish line.
What we didn't (couldn't!) know in 2009 was that THAT kind of playing - Trey's uncharacteristic (and clumsy, back then) harmonic experimentation, Page's instant responsiveness, the sheer density of the jam's texture, the awesome possibilities for tension/release latent in that kind of harmonic superposition - all that stuff was gonna blossom, in 2011, into the most interesting new Phish music since at least 1999, maybe even 1997. After the stunning ambient music the chaotichromatic stuff sounded like a flub...but *it*, not the free-floating bliss-space, was the future of Phish's jamming.
Part 2 of our experiment: grab your copy of the 8/15/11 UIC Light and fast-forward to the 4:10 mark (in the SBD). Check out how Trey's playing, over just a handful of choruses, swings from the majestic blues-inflected I-IV movement of the main Light jam, through some tense minor-scale passages, past a series of choppy figures, into a lightning-quick run beneath which PAGE MCCONNELL DOES THE COOLEST THING HE'S EVER DONE.
OK it's a small thing but let's take a breath, then a beat, and see what's happening here. Trey is playing a gnarly run that sounds like IIb or even a whole-tone scale a half-step offset from the usual Light key; Page responds by switching from I-IV-IV (the basic Light pattern) to I-IIb-Vb7, launching off from Trey's bluesy sustained third and chord-climbing even as Trey rockets skyward. It's not earth-shaking music, but the fact is, *Phish don't play like this* - or they didn't used to - and even if Page is secretly giving Trey a modulated I-IV to play with, it sounds so perfectly strange (and vice versa) that for a second it seems they can all of a sudden do anything they want to, again.
The whole thing takes four seconds. In just that much time Page and Trey blow open the sound of the whole jam. As if in celebration, Page hops onto the Hammond organ to fill the sky with Soaring! Technicolor! Noise! Mike, Fish, Trey, and Page get more and more noisy and tense and dissonant and FURIOUS - the light growing brighter, darker, deeper, more present, past and future in painful proximity like matched magnetic poles, the field strengthening...
At 5:40 or so the jam enters its next phase, a loping decrescendo above Fish's clanging cymbal pattern, and we can put down the phone at this point, moving on to 9/4/11. We just had to seed our listening first - to see how Trey's clumsy Jones Beach '09 maneuvers had mutated and matured in two years, how his bandmates were responding in new ways, how the off-kilter chromaticism Trey was reaching for had at last *fully integrated* into a Phish sound that had been, dare I say, a little predictable...
...and so OK here comes 9/4/11 Denver. But I'm not gonna talk about the patient Twist, the frightening 'storage shed' psychedelia in Piper, completely integrated 'plinko' section in this instant-classic Hood, thrilling Beatles/Guy Forget bustouts emerging from solid R'n'R and Ghost jams, funky Gin, or even how happy I am to hear this melodramatic but awesome version of Page's Halfway to the Moon. Nah, the hell with the usual happyhappy stuff. Let's just for a second talk about the Chalkdust that closes Set One.
OK. Preliminaries end at 2:40, at which point Trey begins his usual blues soloing, which stays 'inside the box' for just 30 seconds before he brings the volume down and starts a Stash-style tension/release routine. Nothing out of the ordinary for Chalkdust, really, and after a moment it's back to the usual stuff...but by 4:20 Page is rumbling low on the piano, throwing out new chords, Mike is acting a little silly down low, Trey starts with his minimalist patterns, Page is doing chromatic whoopsy-daysies up and down the keys...at 5:30 it's a lightning-quick 'Night in Tunisia' pattern from Trey and we're firmly into the Nü Tonalitas or Le Petit Dissonance whatever we pretentious jackasses want to call it...
Then SHIT at 6:30 the band pulls together for one of its patented 'Let Us All Climax Together Now' downbeats, only Cactus is NOT PLAYING BALL. And for a couple of choruses everything seems to hang together only barely, if at all, with Trey signaling Return and Mike responding with Maintain, Fishman bashing out Release, Page happily spraying Why Not over everything within reach of his (ahem) organ...
The end of the jam is such a colossal group orgasm that Trey manages to totally flub his entrance after the break, before nailing the final written lines. And instead of the grand set-ending major chord the song usually provides in this spot, Trey gives us a short, nasty dissonant minor-chord *rogering* at the outro, all industrial noises and weirdness, before a *perfect* unison hit to close things out.
It's not groundbreaking music; heck, no one aspect of this jam is unprecedented for Phish. It does come back periodically, as it must, to the bluesy peacocking that comprises 99% of all Chalkdust jams. But I'm not sure Phish have ever been able to integrate their melodic, harmonic, atmospheric, and stylistic ideas this well, this consistently, this *effortlessly*.
Yeah - I said 'ever,' as in, as perfect as Fall 1997 is in my mind, the density and well-roundedness of this music has no equal in Phish's gigantic live catalogue. How can I put this? I think they're playing now with a really unprecedented *density of musical information*, by which I mean that while they may still be drawing on templates they established a while back - particularly mid-90's spacy/spacious psychedelia, post-1996 funk, post-1997 ambient textures - the individual components are richer and more complex than they've ever been. The individual players' lines are certainly at peak intricacy and facility (excepting only Trey, *arguably*), but that's not all of it: there's just a palpable spirit of generosity and even bravery, which really brings up the level of all the music.
As if all four players trust themselves and one another so deeply, now, that they can throw out just not Weird and Stupid Ideas, nor Silly ones, nor deliberately Oppositional notions, but finally really Complex ideas...the obvious showcase in 2009-11 has been Light, with its involuted musical snarls and crosshatched tonalities, but jams like this Chalkdust show off just how much each player is offering the other four at all times.
I suspect it's a function of Mike's remarkable move to frontline prominence, but also Page's enormous gains in confidence and assertiveness (think of his leadership role in the Albany '09 Seven > Ghost!), and Trey's newfound directness and solo experimentalism. Not to mention Fish's restored chops, which are as good as they've ever been. (And by the late-90's he was one of the most skilled drummers anywhere.) But it's also a matter of the band having nothing to prove and no one to please but themselves. More and more, their best jams are starting to resemble their freewheeling soundchecks, where they've long experimented with sounds they were too reserved (in a weird way) to bring before the paying audience.
I imagine the (sometimes boring) Superball IX late-nite 'storage shed' jam was a turning point as well - a much-needed reminder of just how far we, the obsessives, are willing to follow Phish's experiments. They're *bolder* now then they've been in a long time...but their instincts for stage performance keep their experiments from the perversity of (say) their pre-1997 music.
My point here is that Phish have always been a fast-moving band, a *brainy* band, but having exhausted musical algebra they've moved into a realm where they can really PLAY with their many musical ideas: a deep ambient jam in Hood, a thunderous 'Endtroducing...' groove emerging from R'n'R, a self-devouring noise groove in Sneakin' Sally, chiming children's soundtrack music in Disease, dark rock'n'roll beats in the Waves outro, eerie chiming chords beneath Undermind, pure industrial noise drowning a funk jam in Light. And the crucial bit, the point I'm desperately trying to make, is that these deep experiments don't sound like experiments, nor accidents, nor exceptions...they're flowing seamlessly and joyfully from the textures of the songs themselves.
Every idea now seems copresent in a way it's simply never been. Phish 1997 could seemingly do anything they wanted do; Phish 2011 seem prepared to do *everything*, to allow all these musical possibilities not just to alternate or succeed one another (One Idea Per Minute) but to intermingle and cross-pollinate.
I'm so goddamn happy about this music right now. So excited to hear these men make such joyful and *adult* music. Maybe past the formalism and mere information I've been repeating these last N paragraphs, maybe THAT is the whole point of the thing. I wish most of all to tell you that it gives me joy, and I hope the same for you. In and through and with this music we've loved for such a long time, the ridiculous lot of us...to live so close to so rich and true a thing as this ever-growing music is a blessing, if that word means anything. This afternoon, at least, I'd like to believe that it does.
Or not, whatever. I mean it's just a concert review. Hey here's a summary DOWNLOAD THE SHOW ITS AWESOME U WILL LOVE IT THEY EVEN PLAYED A SOLID A- VERSION OF PIPER:)


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POSITION: Right Wing
SHOOTS: Left
BIRTHPLACE: Nizhny Tagil, RUS
DRAFTED: NSH: 2004-15 overall
* Has eight points (5g-3a) in nine career playoff games.
* Tied for the team lead in points through four games (2g-2a).
* Had points in three consecutive game from Game Two to Game Four (1g-3a)..
* Notched the third multi-point game of his playoff career in Game Three (1g-1a). His goal was the Predators first of five in the win.
* Scored his fourth career playoff goal in Game Two.
* Set a franchise playoff record for shots in a period with four in the first period of Game Two. Also tied for the team lead in shots on goal in the game with five.
CAREER NOTES: Winner of the KHL's 2010 "Golden Hockey Stick" as most valuable player of the regular season… Named a 2009-10 first-team KHL All-Star… Finished the 2009-10 KHL regular season tied for second in assists (39), second in plus/minus (+44), fifth in points (63) and tied for ninth in goals (27)… Led Salavat Yulaev Ufa to its second consecutive Kontinental Hockey League regular season title in 2009-10… Paced Ufa in points and assists, and tied for the team lead in goals… Participated in the 2010 KHL All-Star Game… Named KHL Player of the Month for March 2010… Led the 2010 KHL Playoffs in points (19), assists (11) and plus/minus rating (+7), in addition to tying for second in goals (8), despite bowing out in the conference finals… Represented Russia in the 2010 Olympics, posting two points (1g-1a) while playing in all four of the nation's contests… Played 10 games for Russia in the 2009-10 European Hockey Tour… Ranked third on 2008-09 regular-season champion Ufa squad, and 13th in the League, in both points (48) and goals (22)… Finished third on Ufa, and tied for eighth in the KHL, in plus/minus rating (+26)… Also led the team in penalty minutes (92), and ranked third on Salavat Yulaev in assists (26)… Scored on a penalty shot and posted an assist for Team Jagr at the 2009 KHL All-Star Game… Tied for second on Ufa in points (1g-4a) during 2009 Champions League play… Also ranked second on the club in assists (4) and tied for ninth overall in six Champions League games… Scored the game-winning goal for Russia in the Gold Medal Game at the 2009 World Championships in Switzerland… Tied for seventh at the World Championships and ranked second on Russia in scoring (4g-6a-10pts)… Also tied for ninth in the tournament and ranked second on the Russian Team in both goals and assists… Established NHL career highs in games played (81), goals (26), assists (32) and points (58), finishing third on the Predators in goals and points in 2007-08… Was one of just two Predators to appear in a team-high 81 games in 2007-08, and finished third in the NHL among second-year players in goal scoring…Tied a franchise record with goals in six consecutive contests Jan. 21 – Feb. 2, 2008 (7g)… Tied for the team lead in both goals (2) and points (4), appearing in all six of the club's postseason games in 2008… Won a gold medal while representing Russia at the 2008 World Championships… Established single-season franchise records for goals (18) and points (18g-19a-37pts) by a Nashville rookie in 2006-07… Also led Nashville, ranked second among league rookies and ranked fifth in the NHL with an 18.8% shooting percentage in 2006-07… Ranked among 2006-07 rookie leaders in several other categories, including: game-winning goals (tied for fourth, 4), goals (seventh), power-play goals (tied for eighth, 5), points (ninth) and assists (tied for 10th)… Scored a goal in the 2007 NHL YoungStars Game on Jan. 24, 2006 in Dallas… Scored his first NHL goal in his second NHL game on Oct. 26 vs. San Jose… Opened the 2006-07 season with Milwaukee (AHL), and posted 18 points (6g-12a) in 10 AHL games… Won a bronze medal with tournament-host Russia at the 2007 World Championships... Ranked second on the club in goals (3) and tied for second in points (3g-1a) for Nashville during the 2008 playoffs… Had his number retired by Quebec (QMJHL) on Nov. 28, 2007… Finished the 2005-06 season as the top scorer (61g-91a-152pts) in the QMJHL and the entire CHL… Received the QMJHL's Jean-Beliveau Trophy (top scorer), the Telus Trophy (offensive player of the year), the Michel-Briere Trophy as the League's Most Valuable Player and was named the Canadian Major Junior Player of the Year. He was also named a First-Team QMJHL All-Star and a First Team Canadian Major Junior All-Star… Led the QMJHL in assists and shorthanded goals (10) in 2005-06, finished second in goals and tied for second with a +53 rating… Posted the second-longest point-scoring streak (45g-75a-120pts in 50gp) in league history from Oct. 26, 2005-March 17, 2006… Led the CHL in scoring in the 2006 playoffs (21g-34a-55pts in 23gp)… Won the 2006 Memorial Cup with Quebec and was awarded the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy as the tournament's Most Valuable Player. Was also selected to the tournament's all-star team… Earned a silver medal with Russia at the 2006 World Junior Championships… Finished third on the Quebec Remparts (QMJHL) in goals (32), assists (43) and points (75) in his first North American season (2004-05) and was named to the 2004-05 QMJHL All-Rookie Team… Also led Quebec in playoff goals (6) and tied for the team lead in playoff points (6g-5a-11pts) in 2005… Tied for first among QMJHL rookies in 2004-05 in goals and also ranked among rookie leaders in: assists (third), points (third) and power-play goals (tied for second with 10)… Won a silver medal with Russia at the 2005 World Junior Championships… Won a gold medal with Russia at the 2004 U-18 World Championships, ranking third on his team with seven points (2g-5a)… Coached by and lived with Hockey Hall-of-Famer Patrick Roy while playing for the QMJHL's Quebec Remparts.


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Norway, 2012, 75 Minute Running Time
Genre/Subjects: Art/Filmmaking, Biographical, Documentary, Romance
Program: DocumentaryLanguage: English
Even those unfamiliar with director Ingmar Bergman's acclaimed body of work are likely to find Liv & Ingmar enthralling. It's the five-decade story of two friends and artistic collaborators: legendary actress and master filmmaker. Dheeraj Akolkar's documentary is divided into chapters: "Love," "Rage," "Pain," "Longing," "Friendship."
The relationship began as a love affair when Ullmann appeared in Bergman's 1966 Persona. She was 20 years his junior. Both were married at the time, but the passion between them couldn't be contained—at least for the moment. "Our love originated from the loneliness we both felt," Ullmann says. "We bound ourselves emotionally, not only sexually." But things changed when they moved in together. Bergman became very controlling, and the house became a prison. They had a child together, but to Ullmann, "my daughter's father needed to live his own life."
She struggled to maintain their romantic relationship, which lasted a little more than three years. Only when it ended did they become true friends, remaining so over the course of many more films until Bergman's death in 2007.
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John Paul II is considered a conservative on doctrine and issues relating to reproduction and the ordination of women. His collected writings on human sexuality, called the Theology of the Body, are an extended meditation on the nature of masculinity and femininity and the resulting implications for love and sex. These teachings represent a significant development of the Catholic teaching about sexuality. This development has origins in the Song of Songs, and the church's teaching on Sacraments.
He has been critical of Liberation Theology for over-emphasizing political liberation at the expense of spiritual liberation. In the 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) he reasserted the Church's high value on human life and by extension its condemnation of abortion, euthanasia, and capital punishment, calling them all a part of the "culture of death" that is pervasive in the modern world. His stands on capital punishment, world debt forgiveness, and poverty issues are considered politically liberal, showing that 'conservative' and 'liberal' political labels are not easily assigned to religious leaders.
In 2000, he publicly endorsed the Jubilee 2000 campaign on African debt relief fronted by Irish rock stars Bob Geldof and Bono. Indeed, the nature of the relationship between the pope and Bono was revealed when someone working at the Dublin recording studio for Bono's band U2 stated that a recording session was interrupted on at least one occasion by a phone call from the Pope, who wanted to talk to Bono about the campaign.
In 2003, John Paul II also became a prominent critic of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. He sent his Peace Minister, Pío Cardinal Laghi, to talk with US President George W. Bush to express opposition to the war. John Paul II says that it is up to the United Nations to solve the international conflict through diplomacy and that a unilateral aggression is a crime against peace and a violation of international law.
In European Union negotiations for a new constitution in 2003 and 2004, the Vatican's representatives failed to secure any mention of Europe's "Christian Heritage", one of the Pope's cherished goals.
The Pope has also been a leading critic of same-sex marriage. In his latest book, "Memory and Identity", John Paul II describes same-sex marriage as part of "a new ideology of evil" that is insidiously menacing society. In a chapter dealing with the role of lawmakers, the pope refers to the "pressures" on the European Parliament to permit same-sex marriage. Reuters quotes the pope as writing, "It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man."
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So, another day, another visit to the giggling bizzaroworld which is Welsh rugby. Today, Roger Lewis, Chief Executive of the Welsh Rugby Union, appeared on the channel he used to run. His aim, it would appear, was to secure the higher moral ground as a man of honour, of integrity and of dignity.
"With respect, we have not been playing this out in the public domain. The Welsh Rugby Union has kept its counsel, we've retained our dignity and only now this week are we discussing these matters with yourselves," he said.
"We've not been issuing press releases. We've not been going to the press discussing these matters.
"We have always wanted to have our negotiations behind closed doors but we are where we are, and we now have to look to the future."
And he is, of course, quite right. While Regional Rugby Wales have released some statements and taken advantage of high-profile derby games over Christmas to push their case, the Honourable Roger has resisted the temptation to get involved in a slanging match.
For instance, this is Roger not writing to all 320 member clubs on January 4th this year in response to RRWs decision not to sign a new Partnership Agreement which would have meant the same terms for 2018 as 2009 . In this non-communication, he does not criticise the Regions business model, nor does he rather weirdly suggest that they should "improve their structures and commercial synergies to build support and stability."
He has form for this sort of non-intervention, of course. On 11th December 2013 the WRU did not issue a statement after a meeting with RRW ended without the signing of a new Participation Agreement.
Nor did Roger Lewis tell BBC Wales, on 18th November 2013, that he expected that RRW and the WRU would sign a new deal before Christmas.
On 24th October 2013 the WRU emphatically did not announce that it had offered to employ 'leading Welsh players' who are out of contract at the end of the 2013/14 season.
And those who thought they'd stumbled upon an extensive interview given by Roger Lewis to Scrum V on October 6th last year were mistaken . They'd actually tuned in to Rob Brydon's new comedy vehicle "The Secret Life of Uncle Bryn Mitty".
Uncle Bryn talked about negotiations between the WRU and RRW and warned of an uncertain future for the regions. In fact, he went as far as to suggest that, should the regions refuse to agree to roll on the then existing Partnership Agreement,
"They would not be playing in Rabo [Pro12]. They'd not be receiving the monies off the Welsh Rugby Union, they would not have insurance off the Welsh Rugby Union for their players and they would not have any referees." Good job that these aren't the words of Roger Lewis, isn't it?
This dearly held principle of conducting negotiations behind closed doors and not playing this out in the media goes back a long way. On 31st March 2013 the WRU issued a wide-ranging statement, disclosing private information and private conversations, and making direct criticism of the regions, specifically in connection with George North's transfer from the Llanelli Scarlets.
The November before that, in 2012, he gave his solemn word to The Independent that, "We are where we are largely through past managerial incompetence at regional level," before going on to add in the very same sentence, "I've kept my counsel on this until now. Why? Because a year ago, when we saw the regions heading towards the rocks, we commissioned PricewaterhouseCoopers to produce a detailed report."
A fair bit of keeping his own counsel has been going on for quite a while. Glad we cleared that one up.
So, either the man in charge of Welsh rugby is deranged, or he's a compulsive liar who thinks that he's dealing with a bunch of idiots with the memories of some particularly forgetful goldfish.
Can we really do no better than this? It's time for him to go.


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Rapha Cyclocross 2015
Cyclocross is a sport that seems chaotic from the outside yet makes perfect sense to anyone who dares give it a try. Few other disciplines will force riders down perilous descents at breakneck speeds, then take them on snail-paced trudges across muddy fields. For racers and spectators, the Rapha Super Cross series returns, with races across Europe and Japan. Racing in Rapha colours for a fifth season will be U.S. national champion, Jeremy Powers. We'll follow Jeremy with race reports and interviews throughout the season.


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Lawyer in NH Exxon Mobil case has string of wins
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — At age 11, Jessica Grant used to turn her bedroom into a courtroom and play at being a lawyer. She's not playing anymore.
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Definition of bipolar in English:
1Having or relating to two poles or extremities: a sharply bipolar division of affluent and underclass
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- The breakdown of the Soviet Union, which formed one of the two poles in the former bipolar world order brought to an end the set of rules that had governed international relations since the end of World War II.
- Indeed, when communism constituted one of the two poles in the previous bipolar world order, terrorist acts were few and far between.
- At its heart lie the contention that 'Bedouin society never changes' and the bipolar division of history into pre-modern and modern communities.
1.1Relating to or occurring in both North and South polar regions: bipolar species
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- When our final Guggenheim on this planet opens in 2015 at the North Pole, we will at last have accomplished our goal of being not only global but bipolar.
- Recent research on the Antarctic ice core points to the fact that both hemispheres are bound by a 'bipolar seesaw.'
- The millennial-scale asynchrony of Antarctic and Greenland climate records during the last glacial period implies that the global climate system acts as a bipolar see-saw driven by either high-latitudinal and/or near-equatorial sea-surface perturbations.
2(Of psychiatric illness) characterized by both manic and depressive episodes, or manic ones only.
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- Mania is a component of manic depressive or bipolar disease.
- I'm mentally ill with bipolar manic depression illness.
- It has become reasonably well accepted in the psychiatric literature that bipolar patients treated with an antidepressant for a depressive episode can be at risk to 'switch' into a manic episode.
2.1(Of a person) suffering from bipolar disorder.
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- She even gave him a short trial of lithium upon deciding he was bipolar.
- She spent little time on psychiatric inpatient units working, for example, with bipolar patients in their active manic phases.
- Keck et al were the first to attempt to utilize a loading dose strategy for valproate in bipolar manic patients.
3(Of a nerve cell) having two axons, one either side of the cell body.
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- These cells appeared mainly as thin and bipolar cells closely related to the hypertrophic nerve trunks.
- Active movement is largely confined to each end of these elongated bipolar cells, enabling them to exert traction on the underlying substratum and to shuffle in between each other, always along the medio-lateral axis.
- At goldfish retinal bipolar cells, the calcium requirement for physiological release rates is reported to be >100 M.
4 Electronics (Of a transistor or other device) using both positive and negative charge carriers.
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- Thus, positive feedback between two bipolar junction transistors is reduced and then latch-up is eliminated.
- A bipolar junction transistor is provided that includes an intrinsic collector region of first conductivity type in a semiconductor substrate.
- The differential amplifier further includes a lateral bipolar transistor.
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- The war on terrorism has been marked by a strange cultural bipolarity; the hemisphere of policy is a place of relentless tragedy, while the hemisphere of culture and communication stays sane by walling off the other hemisphere.
- His only supporters are the old media (eastern newspapers and the three TV networks), determined to elect him despite his bipolarity.
- The bipolarity of the Cold War had gone, Russia should have been encouraged into the European structures and not structures like NATO built against it, and extended against it.
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Quote: Since no one at Whole Foods Market Inc., can tell CEO and co-founder John Mackey just how bad he screwed up, I will. Mr. Mackey, your extremist views on employee benefits and unionization have, lucky for you, mostly flown under the progressive radar to date. Which is why pushing that luck with this screed on healthcare suggests you are either out of your flippin mind or have suffered a lapse in business acumen not seen since New Coke. And in the WSJ no less:
Quote: While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite directiontoward less government control and more individual empowerment.
Confidential wrote: I stopped after I saw the Margaret Thatcher quote. This isn't the least bit surprising.
Quote: Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must cover. These mandates have increased the cost of health insurance by billions of dollars. What is insured and what is not insured should be determined by individual customer preferences and not through special-interest lobbying.
note1 wrote: That Op-ed was just full of horrible ideas.