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- LEDs are made of semiconductor chips and emit light when a current passes through them.
- Stockholm is beautiful in the mornings, the golden light glinting off the buildings.
- Dark clothes don't glow because the dark pigments absorb the UV light.
- Everything is brightly lit once the UV lights are turned on.
- Fluorescent lights or special grow lamps also work if left on about 14 to 16 hours per day.
- Hang paper chains or other decorations well away from lights or any other source of heat.
- For the past couple of years, the appearance of Christmas lights and festive decorations has heralded the arrival of a weighty travel anthology.
- Fairy lights were switched on and music played.
- Instead of the usual studio lighting he used the available light sources visible in the shot, such as lamps, Christmas tree lights and so forth.
- Queuing traffic at the numerous lights in and around the High Street creates more congestion.
- I don't want to drive these things wide open on the street, but we'll run them zero to 60 at the next few lights.
- The look, of course, was no big deal, but the preposterous wheelspinning start as the lights went green certainly was.
- She seemed very pale and weak, the light from her eyes, gone.
- She had a very soft beauty to her, but she had a fierce light in her eyes.
- No words could describe that feeling of supreme joy at seeing the light in her eyes.
- On the walls were mirrors which reflected what little natural light came through the portholes around the room.
- I resume my watch but the light is failing so I exchange my camera for my rifle.
- On entering this vast sanctum, one is immediately struck by the quality of space and light.
Visible light is electromagnetic radiation whose wavelength falls within the range to which the human retina responds, i.e., between about 390 nm (violet light) and 740 nm (red). White light consists of a roughly equal mixture of all visible wavelengths, which can be separated to yield the colors of the spectrum, as was first demonstrated conclusively by Newton. In the 20th century it has become apparent that light consists of energy quanta called photons that behave partly like waves and partly like particles. The velocity of light in a vacuum is 299,792 km per second.
- I found you on the net, and hope you may give some light to this mystery for me!
- The light of knowledge characterises John's spiritual development and devotion to God.
- The light of knowledge is necessary to expel this demon of ignorance, he says.
- They believed this to be a natural power of the soul, realized as it gradually opens itself to divine light and truth.
- The light of the divine shines everywhere, and has no gender, and has no single pronoun, and has no one image.
- May God grant new gospel light to this spiritually deprived nation!
- The good of human freedom, by European lights, must be weighed against the risk and cost of actually fighting for it.
- He was, by his lights at least, honest with me.
- I think that the president is a basically decent man who is trying to do the best he can according to his lights.
- The hanging lantern caught the lights in his blond hair.
- Squint your eyes and see the landscape as a series of shapes, lights and darks, as opposed to seeing every detail.
- My uncle turns, glances at me, the sun from behind the clouds casting lights and darks across his lean face.
- I was nervous and when I get nervous I smoke - too bad I didn't have a light.
- The opening casements were also taped along the junction between the casement and the opening light.
- Summer cross-ventilation can be obtained through opening lights in the glass wall and the motorized panes of the clerestory.
- Top lights and side windows flood the building with daylight from unexpected angles.
- Well-lit by a triple-light mullion and transom window with wooden surrounds, the landing was given additional light from a dormer window high up in the central gable.
- The windows also show progress in one particular way: they are still mullioned and transomed, but the individual lights are no longer arched.
- In summer, the glazed frame-light can often be left off altogether and replaced with a slatted frame, the glazed light being put back if there is a likelihood of heavy rain.
- He said Mandisi has always been a shining light and brought understanding and laughter to their lives.
- He had made other mistakes over the years, but he also had been one of the bright and shining lights of college sports.
- New cap Scott MacLeod is one of Scotland's bright young lights, but Gray fails to shine.
verb (past lit /lit/; past participle lit or lighted)[with object]
- We were both watching TV, the pictures brightly lighting the dark living room.
- Sets are very minimalist but lit to good effect.
- It's cramped, poorly stocked and somehow dimly lit.
- It was peaceful, the street lights were lit and the only noise that could be heard was a dog barking in the distance.
- As he flicked the switch to light the brightly coloured bulbs, an enormous cheer went up from onlookers.
- In later years insurance companies forced the removal of the old candelabras and these were replaced with little electric lights, lighted by a button.
- The night sky would light up; there was a bright white glow every time the lightning surged through the clouds.
- I stared blankly at the PC screen, waiting for it to light up.
- They should wear light coloured clothes and reflective armbands and have bicycles properly lit up, front and back.
- He pulled out a cigarette, lit it, and walked away from the fire, through the village, and into the forest.
- We both lit our Bic lighters as if we were at a Grateful Dead concert.
- Almost every month my neighbour has a bonfire: last Friday at 9.15 pm he lit one.
- Mr Griffiths was sucking hopefully at his pipe, which had refused to light properly.
- However, the four managed to overpower the man and retrieve the lighter before it lit.
- It took three goes to get the cigarette to light, as my hands were shaking.
- He fished a pipe out of his pocket, lit it up, and began to smoke.
- She got out her last cigarette and lit it up as she walked away.
- When I see people struggling to light their smokes up in a stinking back alley in the dead of winter, in the rain, I really can't see that is their little pleasure time.
- If it is sufficiently light outside to tell a white thread from a black thread then one should be fasting.
- The closer one is to the North Pole, the longer the dark or light period is.
- The seeds were then grown in vermiculite at 30°C under dark or light conditions.
- The walls were a dark jade color here, the tile a light tan covered with crimson matting.
- The streets of the city were cobble stones, and most of the buildings made of a light gray stone or wood.
- The screen turned light purple and a single folder appeared in the middle of the screen.
bring (or come) to light
- Make (or become) widely known or evident: an investigation to bring to light examples of extravagant expenditureMore example sentences
reveal, disclose, expose, uncover, unearth, dig up/out, bring to notice, identifybe discovered, be uncovered, be unearthed, come out, become known, become apparent, appear, materialize, emerge
- The club also questioned the fact that the controversy had come to light on the eve of a key match against champions AC Milan today.
- We don't know what kind of evidence this prosecutor has brought to light.
- Once all of the facts are brought to light, all judges will of course judge impartially.
go out like a light
- informal Fall asleep or lose consciousness suddenly.Example sentences
asleep, unconscious, comatoseinformal out cold, dead to the world
- Staggering, I turned around to face my attacker but never saw him, a second fist followed the first and I went out like a light.
- I can hear her breathing and going out like a light.
- Something hit the back of the trench and I went out like a light.
in a —— light
- In the way specified; so as to give a specified impression: the audit portrayed the company in a very favorable lightMore example sentences
- Nor does it stop one school being compared with another in an unfair light.
- If the phrase 'traditional marriage' casts one's view on the matter in an unfavourable light, then by all means, use a different one.
- You know, it doesn't even show the military in an unflattering light, it's more warts-and-all kind of thing.
in (the) light of
- Drawing knowledge or information from; taking (something) into consideration: the exorbitant prices are explainable in the light of the factsMore example sentences
taking into consideration, taking into account, considering, bearing in mind, taking note of, in view of
- In the light of what happened at Newcastle, it had been decided that it would not be in the public interest to proceed with the two charges today.
- Our task is to evaluate the ensuing legislation in the light of all these matters.
- In the light of my conclusion it is unnecessary to express an opinion on this argument.
light a fire under someone
- see fire.
light at the end of the tunnel
- A long-awaited indication that a period of hardship or adversity is nearing an end.Example sentences
- There is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel, but it is still a long way off yet.
- It has, at times, been difficult but he can see a light at the end of the tunnel now.
- We are able to work alone for long periods of time, if necessary, with no light at the end of the tunnel.
light the fuse
- see fuse2.
the light of day
- Daylight.Example sentences
- Oddly, since the day was so foggy, parts of the landscape that were completely obscured in the light of day, now shone brightly under a moon brilliant enough to read by.
- These creatures are vulnerable only to sunlight, which makes it pretty weird that there's not one scene in the movie where a single demon is exposed to the light of day.
- As the light of day slowly dimmed, the world was lit by the angry flashes of lightning which crackled across the sky.
- 8.1General public attention: bringing old family secrets into the light of dayMore example sentences
- As soon as that is exposed to the light of day, the public will revolt against it.
- Does Keighley hide some kind of weapons of mass destruction or is there some other secret that cannot bear the light of day?
- A masked killer is stalking the High School where almost all the students have deep, dark and dirty secrets hidden from the light of day.
the light of someone's life
- A much loved person.Example sentences
- JJ has given me a lifetime of love in a short time, and she is the light of my life.
- I lost the light of my life, my buddy, my best friend.
- He had always been the light of my life and I thought he was so brave, moving away from everything he knew to make a fresh start.
the lights are on, but nobody's (or no one's) home
- Used to suggest that a person lacks intelligence or awareness: looking into their eyes, it's a clear case of the lights are on, but nobody's homeMore example sentences
- When it comes to "support" from these folks, as with so many other things, the lights are on but nobody's home.
- What's up with Calvin's vacant "the lights are on but nobody's home" type stare.
- The bland expression on her face just looks like "the lights are on but nobody is at home"!
lights out
- Bedtime in a school dormitory, military barracks, or other institution, when lights should be switched off.Example sentences
- The other night, just before lights out in the barracks, the girl I sleep beside on a regular basis had what I thought was a pretty perceptive thought - for a girl.
- The older children, the over 16's, were allowed forty-five minutes more, before lights out at ten.
- So, he worked, counting down the minutes until lights out.
lit up
- informal, dated Drunk.Example sentences
- She was flushed and sweaty and lit up on something.
see the light
- Understand or realize something after prolonged thought or doubt.Example sentences
understand, grasp, comprehend, follow, take in, realize, appreciate, recognize, work out, get the drift of, perceive, fathominformal get, latch on to, cotton on to, catch on to, savvy, figure out, get a fix on
- Prominent organizations have began to see the light more, and realize what kind of production prospects can give them.
- I wish I could say that the experience helped me see the light and realize that I had misjudged the film.
- Would it suddenly see the light and stop its bullying?
- 13.1Undergo religious conversion.Example sentences
- Paul is in the same world after seeing the light on the road to Damascus as he was before, but everything looks different.
- Saul's traveling companions didn't see the light because the call was not for them.
- It took a roots-up, religious-type conversion - I'd walked in darkness, then I saw the light.
see the light of day
- Be born.Example sentences
- George Headley was a prolific scorer for Jamaica, but he wasn't actually born there - he first saw the light of day in Panama in Central America.
- 14.1Come into existence; be made public, visible, or available: this software first saw the light of day back in 1993More example sentences
- Without that right, important information that should be available to the public would never see the light of day.
- But let me tell you this: if nothing else I write sees the light of day, I won't care.
- And somehow, in all his research, Marshall also missed this astonishing piece of news, which likewise has not seen the light of day before.
shed (or throw or cast) light on
- Help to explain (something) by providing further information about it.Example sentences
- Certainly it would be fascinating to see the results, as they would throw light on exactly how much the public understands about any of this stuff.
- Now a new poll sheds light on whether TV viewers are fed up with all the sex on television.
- He has cast light on so many problem areas that I am moved to nominate him as the first national boxing commissioner - should that post ever be created.
Phrasal verbs
light up (or light something up)
- (With reference to a person's face or eyes) suddenly become or cause to be animated with liveliness or joy: his eyes lit up and he smiled a smile of delight lit up her faceMore example sentences
animate, irradiate, brighten, cheer up, enliven
- Audrey watched the exchange expectantly, a bright smile suddenly lighting up her entire face.
- She grinned suddenly, her face lighting up, her eyes turning to tawny amber-green.
- As for the race itself, Diane breaks into a beaming smile and her eyes light up as she recalls that sunny day at York Racecourse last May.
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- They are small (not bigger than 0.5 cm or 1/5 in), have lightish brown legs, and a round, hard, shiny reddish-brownish shell.
- For the goggles, I was looking at a green camouflage colour, lightish, around the $100 mark.
- He described him as a black male wearing black combat trousers and a lightish or light grey vest.
lightless adjective
- Example sentences
- As an added bonus, the keyboard seems to light up, which I envision will be a boon to struggling typists working in windowless, lightless spaces.
- After midnight the storm finally blew itself out, and the lightless convoy moved out.
- They were not alone in enjoying this subterranean existence because Bermuda's caves support a diverse fauna specially adapted to a lightless existence.
Old English lēoht, līht (noun and adjective), līhtan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch licht and German Licht, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek leukos 'white' and Latin lux 'light'.
The two words spelled light have different sources. The light referring to the rays that stimulate sight shares an ancestor with Greek leukos 'white' (found in leukaemia (mid 19th century) a disease that affects the white blood cells), and Latin lux (source of lucid (late 16th century)). The light referring to weight comes from the same ancient root as lung (Old English)—the lightness of the lungs distinguishes them from other internal organs. This sense of light survives in lights (Middle English), the lungs of sheep, pigs or bullocks, used as food, especially for pets. If someone does something that creates a tense or exciting situation, people might say that they light the blue touch-paper. A touch-paper is a type of fuse that will burn slowly when touched by a spark. It is now only used with fireworks, but in the past would also have been a means for igniting gunpowder. The word lighten (Middle English) 'shed light on' is the source of lightning (Middle English).
Words that rhyme with lightaffright, alight, alright, aright, bedight, bight, bite, blight, bright, byte, cite, dight, Dwight, excite, fight, flight, fright, goodnight, height, ignite, impolite, indict, indite, invite, kite, knight, lite, might, mite, night, nite, outfight, outright, plight, polite, quite, right, rite, sight, site, skintight, skite, sleight, slight, smite, Snow-white, spite, sprite, tight, tonight, trite, twite, underwrite, unite, uptight, white, wight, wright, write
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Syllabification: light
Definition of light in:
light 2
- Wrap the dish in clingfilm and place in the fridge with a light weight on top for an hour or so, to allow the flavours to mingle before serving.
- The large, sixteen-inch light alloy wheels add to the sporty dynamics of the car.
- He worked on light metal alloys and the electrolytic production of potassium and sodium.
- His problem was that the car came up four pounds light at the scales following the run.
- I was 200 kilos too light to be a linebacker, I guess.
- Anthropometric measurements were taken with participants wearing light clothes and no shoes or socks.
- He was walking in light footwear across his base camp on his way to the latrine.
- His trademark is ready to wear dresses that are light and suitable for any occasion.
- We should require auto makers to make cars, SUVs and light trucks that go farther on a gallon of gas.
- They plan to be using it both as a light rail transport system and a tourist attraction.
- They were similar to the horses used for light carts and tradesmen's carts.
- The pace of light infantry is limited to the speed of a soldier on foot.
- Traces of the modus operandi of the light infantry of old still live on amidst special forces such as the SAS.
- Sniper units are similar to the light infantry units but they operate in smaller teams.
- That's because with empty tanks and a light car, you might find you have more grip than you expected.
- This requires an optimized design of the vessel to minimize the light ship weight as much as possible.
- Here, cooks will prepare a light meal of mixed salad, tinned cold fish or meat, bread and cheese and fruit.
- It was light and tasty, but rather deficient in the garlic stakes.
- Prawn risotto with dill and creme fraiche had all the promise of a light but punchy starter.
- It was white, fleshy and not oily, cooked in a light batter and served with a white cream sauce and mushrooms.
- Each doctor that saw her said something different about her diet; food, no food, light diet; no food!
- Adding some light dairy products to a smart diet was first seen as a way to lower blood pressure.
- Pale green in the glass, with golden highlights, this is a soft, light wine with attractive floral notes.
- Schiava grapes are found in most of the non-varietal light red wines of Trentino-Alto Adige.
- I took a seat on a high barstool amongst the quiet and serious four and ordered half a pint of light ale for the golden pound I had had in my right pocket.
- Cream the margarine and sugar until light and fluffy, then add the beaten egg a little at a time while continuing to work.
- The pastry was crisp and light and the salad was the kind where you wanted to eat every scrap.
- The sticky toffee pudding had a light sponge and moreish caramel sauce, all of which disappeared fast.
- Sun is vital, so choose an open site on light soil with good drainage.
- Low rainfall and light soils of moderate fertility help control vine vigour and canopy here.
- It tolerates salty conditions and actually prefers light, sandy soil, since it needs a supply of air to its roots.
- The lighter isotope of helium, helium - 3, is short of one neutron compared to its heavier version.
- His idea was to use the material flux from an exploding fission weapon to compress a container that held the light isotopes.
- He'd walked her home through the light, early summer rain that was falling on the city.
- We had run into pretty light resistance, and we had pushed out a couple of thousand yards.
- It could carry 118,000 barrels of light oil products such as gasoline and heating oil.
- She easily fell into a light sleep, wanting to be able to wake up at the slightest sign of danger.
- She is a light sleeper and sleeping next to me does deprive her of what little sleep she does get.
- I am a fairly light sleeper, and do get woken very easily by sound.
- Are they working to review the light sentence that has been handed out?
- But suggest a bit of light housework and he's all feral snarls and pulling rank.
- Sit up, do light housework, or take a walk until your body has had a chance to digest.
- The knock on the front door was light, and at first I wasn't certain of it.
- Even Levine, looking tired, doesn't approach the podium with a light step these days.
- The therapy is very gentle, using only light touch, but it is amazing in its results.
- The thickness of the font was kind of perfect for our logo, not too bold and not too light.
- Anyone seeking a little light reading had better steer clear of this book.
- None of the inherent whimsy is lost and the film remains an incredibly moving but suitably light piece.
- Wavell had, it seems, an interest both in light fiction and serious history.
- Penn keeps the tone of the film extremely light, as the action effortlessly hops between Florida and Beverly Hills.
- The first part of the story ends at a very natural point in the story, and on a suitably light moment.
- All day, there are thoughts both weighty and light dancing through my head.
- These are people who recognize that to have a light heart frees you to carry great burdens.
- There was absolute darkness in her eyes where they used to be light and cheerful.
- A light heart is the grease that makes uncomfortable situations slide right on by.
- Jude found the room full of soldiers and light women.
be light on
- Be rather short of: light on hard newsMore example sentences
- I've complained before about movies being light on plot, but this one is absolutely plot-free.
- Such civil litigation is labour intensive, and like all capital defence offices, we were light on labour.
- He has been light on policy while exhorting voters to abandon the stale battle between right and left.
be light on one's feet
- (Of a person) be quick or nimble.Example sentences
light-footed, fleet-footed, quick, quick-moving, spry, sprightlyinformal twinkle-toed
- As she dances around the ring, she is light on her feet and moves with the grace and subtle strength of a ballet dancer in a pas de deux.
- She was never exactly a ballerina but she could be light on her feet if she needed to be.
- We hired a swing band, so there was a ton of dancing and I was light on my feet well past midnight.
a (or someone's) light touch
- The ability to deal with something delicately, tactfully, or in an understated way: a novel that handles its tricky subject with a light touchMore example sentences
- Directed with wit and a light touch, the production flew like the wind, but never so quickly that the zany personalities got lost in the rush.
- My clients appreciate my light touch and a cool head when it comes to dividing marital assets, custody agreements and determining child support or spousal support.
- Her directing is right on, and her light touch steers Galloway deftly through some black humor.
make light of
- Treat as unimportant: I didn't mean to make light of your problemsMore example sentences
- Companies that make light of elders are finding a consumer force to reckon with.
- This is the second time Mr Howard has made light of such an incident.
- Unfortunately, the subtlety, range and freshness of her work has too often been ignorantly made light of.
make light work of
- Accomplish (a task) quickly and easily.Example sentences
- Having bowled out their opponents for 170, the home side made light work of knocking off the required runs with more than 18 overs to spare.
- At the end of the day-long meeting, he made light work of summing up the main points.
- High praise is due to our server, who made light work of snaking his way through the thickets of humanity.
travel light
- Travel with a minimum load or minimum luggage.Example sentences
- The commandos and Special Forces traveled light and were trained for this kind of backwoods work.
- We all travelled light, taking with us only what we considered to be the bare essentials of life.
- Frank travelled light around the world, with one small cardboard suitcase and a canvas rucksack.
- Example sentences
- In addition to the eggs, he puts in a little flour, some milk or a little water, and makes a lightish sort of batter.
- It's a lightish drinking wine and a good Pinot for the money.
- Transfixed by a sports agenda of lightish news, the BBC failed to see the real story.
Old English lēocht, līht (noun), lēohte (adverb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch licht and German leicht, from an Indo-European root shared by lung.
The two words spelled light have different sources. The light referring to the rays that stimulate sight shares an ancestor with Greek leukos 'white' (found in leukaemia (mid 19th century) a disease that affects the white blood cells), and Latin lux (source of lucid (late 16th century)). The light referring to weight comes from the same ancient root as lung (Old English)—the lightness of the lungs distinguishes them from other internal organs. This sense of light survives in lights (Middle English), the lungs of sheep, pigs or bullocks, used as food, especially for pets. If someone does something that creates a tense or exciting situation, people might say that they light the blue touch-paper. A touch-paper is a type of fuse that will burn slowly when touched by a spark. It is now only used with fireworks, but in the past would also have been a means for igniting gunpowder. The word lighten (Middle English) 'shed light on' is the source of lightning (Middle English).
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Syllabification: light
Definition of light in:
light 3
verb (past and past participle lit /lit/ or lighted)[no object]
- The sunlight struck upon my face and my eyes lit upon the white and sandy shores of France.
- He turned to go home; but even as he turned, his eye lit upon a figure behind a tree.
- Upon arriving in Sonoma, she lit upon the idea of launching a high-end home store where she could combine both her passions under one roof.
- Gently she handed the little girl to her mother and they lighted from their horses.
- It was said with a grin but that didn't dilute the cloud that lighted on the soldier's face.
- A thrush had lighted on a bough not five meters away, almost at the level of their faces.
Phrasal verbs
light into
- North American informal Criticize severely; attack: he lit into him for his indiscretionMore example sentences
attack, assail, assault, hit, strike, beat, thrash, pummel, wallop, set about, set upon, set on, fall oninformal lay into, lace into, let someone have it, work over, rough up, knock about/around, have a go at, beat up on
- One student said something to the effect of 'everyone calm down' and then Zack lit into that guy.
- He lit into the head of his National Security Forces.
- The magazine gleefully lit into its competitors in its May 14 issue, but it makes its own share of blunders.
light out
- North American informal Depart hurriedly.Example sentences
- Janie then lit out of the house with her shotgun, telling Pa she was off to find Lyddie June.
- MacAdams, a white poet and journalist from Texas who lit out for the cool of New York, is part of it too.
- We are a society of people who light out for the territory when problems come along.
Old English līhtan ( (sense 2); also 'lessen the weight of'), from light2; compare with alight1.
The two words spelled light have different sources. The light referring to the rays that stimulate sight shares an ancestor with Greek leukos 'white' (found in leukaemia (mid 19th century) a disease that affects the white blood cells), and Latin lux (source of lucid (late 16th century)). The light referring to weight comes from the same ancient root as lung (Old English)—the lightness of the lungs distinguishes them from other internal organs. This sense of light survives in lights (Middle English), the lungs of sheep, pigs or bullocks, used as food, especially for pets. If someone does something that creates a tense or exciting situation, people might say that they light the blue touch-paper. A touch-paper is a type of fuse that will burn slowly when touched by a spark. It is now only used with fireworks, but in the past would also have been a means for igniting gunpowder. The word lighten (Middle English) 'shed light on' is the source of lightning (Middle English).
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Amador Valley High senior Conner McKinnon is aiming high in the 800 meters and chasing a Dons legend.
McKinnon's goal is to break Dan Gabor's 27-year-old school record and win a state championship in the two-lap event.
"It's a big, lofty goal," Amador Valley coach Peter Scarpelli said. "But he's got the guts for it and the strength and the mental makeup for it."
McKinnon and Dons sprinter Ja'Maun Charles will be among the school's top contenders at the North Coast Section Meet of Champions on Friday and Saturday at Cal's Edwards Stadium, as Amador Valley looks for a third straight boys team championship.
The top three individuals in each event automatically advance to the California Interscholastic Federation Championships in Clovis on June 6-7.
McKinnon's best 800 time of 1 minute, 54.74 seconds is about four seconds off Gabor's magical mark of 1:50.71. Ellis Newton of Mayfair-Lakewood is the state leader at 1:51.86, according to DyeStatCal.com. Hercules' Antwuin Prowes has the section's best time in the 800 at 1:53.63.
So McKinnon has a little catching up to do, but he likes big challenges.
"Obviously, no one tries to be No. 2," McKinnon said of his gung-ho mindset. "I wouldn't want to be No. 2. It's always best to try and be No. 1 and go out there for the big title."
A year ago, McKinnon and Charles got a taste of state-meet success in Clovis, standing on the podium after helping the 1,600 relay team place third in a school-record 3:13.57.
They're used to finishing the season strongly.
"We weren't ranked to do that in the beginning, and just through all the hard work we put in, we were able accomplish something like that," Charles said. "I'm grateful that something like that happened."
Charles credits McKinnon with setting the standard at Amador.
"Conner's a great team leader," Charles said. "He's more of a leader by example. Just seeing him out there run his hardest makes you want to get out there and run next to him, even if you can't keep up or whatever."
In terms of motivating factors, McKinnon was disqualified from last year's NCS Tri-Valley Championships for coming in too quickly on the third turn and cutting inside the cone. He thought he'd won the 800 race before getting the bad news.
"It was a bummer. I knew what happened almost right away when they said I got DQ'd," McKinnon recalled. "After that, I didn't really think about it that much."
Ledre McCullough and Chris Bayley round out the Dons' 1,600 relay team, which ran a season-best 3:17.44 at the Tri-Valley meet and is ranked 10th in the state. San Ramon Valley is ranked 12th at 3:17.95.
Gabor holds a special place in Amador Valley track and field history. He remains the school's only individual state champion in any sport after winning the 800 title in 1987.
Gabor's life was cut short in 1996, when he was aboard TWA Flight 800, which exploded after takeoff outside of New York City.
The Dan Gabor Memorial Invitational at Amador Valley is one of the early invitationals each track and field season.
McKinnon said he's come to learn that Gabor was a great person and one he'd surely be honored to surpass in the record books.
NCS Meet of Champions
WHERE: Edwards Stadium, Berkeley
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An esophagectomy is surgery to remove part or all of the esophagus. This is the tube that moves food from your throat to your stomach. After it is removed, the esophagus is rebuilt from part of your stomach or part of your large intestine.
Most of the time, esophagectomy is done to treat cancer of the esophagus.
Trans-hiatal esophagectomy; Trans-thoracic esophagectomy; En bloc esophagectomy; Removal of the esophagus - open; Ivor-Lewis operation
There are many ways to do this surgery. Talk with your doctor about which type of surgery is best for you. It will depend on where in your esophagus the cancer is, how much it has spread, and how healthy you are.
Laparoscopy is one way to do this surgery. A laparoscope is a tiny camera that is inserted into your belly through a small surgical cut.
Open surgery is another way to do an esophagectomy. Two ways to do an esophagectomy using open surgery are:
Trans-hiatal esophagectomy:
Trans-thoracic esophagectomy:
The surgeon may also examine and do a biopsy of the lymph nodes in your belly to see if the cancer has spread to them.
En bloc esophagectomy is another type of esophagectomy. It is the most invasive of these procedures.
Most of these operations take about 3 to 6 hours.
The most common reason for removing part, or all, of your esophagus is to treat cancer. You may also have radiation therapy or chemotherapy before or after surgery.
Surgery to remove the lower part of your esophagus may also be done to treat:
Esophagectomy is major surgery and has many possible risks. Some of them are serious. You should discuss these risks with your surgeon.
Risks of this surgery, or for problems after surgery, may be greater than normal if:
Risks of any anesthesia are:
Risks of any surgery are:
Risks of this surgery are:
You will have many doctor visits and medical tests before you have surgery. Some of these are:
If you are a smoker, you should stop smoking several weeks before surgery. Your doctor or nurse can help.
Tell your doctor or nurse:
During the week before surgery:
On the day of surgery:
Most people stay in the hospital for 7 to 14 days after an esophagectomy. How long you stay will depend on what type of surgery you had. You may spend 1 to 3 days in the intensive care unit (ICU) right after surgery.
You will stay in the hospital for 10 to 14 days after en bloc esophagectomy
During your hospital stay, you will:
Many people recover well from this surgery and can eat a fairly normal diet after they recover. Talk with your doctor about the best way to treat cancer.
Maish M. Esophagus. In: Townsend CM, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL, eds. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 19th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 43.
National Cancer Institute: PDQ esophageal cancer treatment. Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute. Date last modified 2/15/2013. Available at:http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/esophageal/HealthProfessional. Accessed February 20, 2013.
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2:00pm @ Westport Branch
Eighteen-sixty-nine was indeed a year of sweeping changes in Kansas City, Missouri. It introduced the arrival of perhaps the most influential of technological additions ever to be made to the area—the Hannibal Bridge. It also marked the year when Annie Chambers arrived, ready to begin a new career in the thriving town. Both signaled the beginning of a new age in the Midwestern cow town. Modernization was the key to success, and the city fathers realized that the only way to achieve their goal of turning their small cattle town into a metropolis was to increase the number of businesses and generate more revenue. Agriculture and livestock were two of the principal sources of economic activity in Kansas City, following the model of Chicago. Like Chicago, Kansas City developed into a transportation hub and processing center on the Missouri River. It was not long before outsiders saw Kansas City as a site with economic potential. Annie Chambers was one aspiring proprietor who believed she could make an honest living for the services she was willing to provide.
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TRAINING: I wake up at 7am, have a glass of milk and go running. Usually I do about 10kms in the morning. When I get back home I rest a bit and at 10am I go to the gym to do strength and conditioning. From there I go back home to have lunch. At 12:40 I leave home again to get to the gym at around 1:30pm to have my boxing training. At around 3:30 I leave the gym and go back home, rest a bit and have dinner. At 7pm I'm back at the gym and I do my 2 night sessions, which are usually Muay Thai, Jiu-Jitsu or MMA. From there it's back home. I take a shower and go to bed.
When and why did you start training for fighting? I used to do judo in school, and when I was finishing high school I was invited to start training jiu-jitsu. Eight months after my first jiu-jitsu class I had my first pro fight, I loved it and had to keep on doing it. That was back in 2011.
What ranks and titles have you held? I'm a blue belt in jiu-jitsu and a light blue rank in Muay Thai.
Do you have any heroes? My family and my master are my heroes.
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? It's a dream come true. There is no way of denying that fighting in the UFC is an objective every MMA fighter must strive to achieve.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? No, I got into MMA straight out of high school.
What was your job before you started fighting? I worked on a few jobs here and there. For five years I worked on a "Pesque e Pague" (a place with lakes where people can catch fish and pay for the fish they catch), I worked in a pharmacy for a few months, and also worked as a truck driver at a farm.
Specific accomplishments in amateur competition? Nothing major, but I do have a few trophies for futsal (five a side) soccer.
Favorite grappling technique: Rear naked choke
Favorite striking technique: Overhand
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Vaginal dryness is present when the tissues of the vagina are no longer well-lubricated and healthy. When these symptoms are caused by a decreased amount of estrogen in a woman's body, this problem is called atrophic vaginitis.
Vaginitis - atrophic; Vaginitis due to reduced estrogen; Atrophic vaginitis
Atrophic vaginitis is caused by a decrease in estrogen.
Estrogen keeps the tissues of the vagina lubricated and healthy. Normally, the lining of the vagina makes a clear, lubricating fluid. This fluid makes sexual intercourse more comfortable. It also helps decrease vaginal dryness.
If estrogen levels drop off, the vaginal tissue shrinks and becomes thinner. This causes dryness and inflammation.
Estrogen levels normally drop after menopause. The following may also cause estrogen levels to drop:
Some women develop this problem right after childbirth or while breastfeeding. Estrogen levels are lower at these times.
The vagina can also become further irritated from soaps, laundry detergents, lotions, perfumes, or douches. Certain medicines, smoking, tampons, and condoms may also cause or worsen vaginal dryness.
A pelvic exam shows that the walls of the vagina are thin, pale or red.
Your vaginal discharge may be tested to rule out other causes for the condition. You may also have hormone level tests to find out if you are in menopause.
There are many treatments for vaginal dryness. Before treating your symptoms on your own, a doctor must determine the cause of the problem.
Prescription estrogen can work well to treat atrophic vaginitis. It is available as a cream, tablet, suppository, or ring. All of these are placed directly into the vagina. These medicines deliver estrogen directly to the vaginal area. Only a little estrogen is absorbed into the bloodstream.
You may take estrogen (hormone therapy)in the form of a skin patch, or in a pill that you take by mouth if you have hot flashes or other symptoms of menopause. See: Hormone replacement therapy
Women should discuss the risks and benefits of estrogen replacement therapy with their health care provider.
Proper treatment will ease symptoms most of the time.
Vaginal dryness can:
Call your health care provider if you have vaginal dryness or soreness, burning, itching, or painful sexual intercourse that does not go away when you use a water-soluble lubricant.
Eckert LO, Lentz G. Infections of the lower and upper genital tracts. In: Lentz GM, Lobo RA, Gershenson DM, Katz VL, eds. Comprehensive Gynecology. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2012:chap 23.
Lobo RA. Menopasue and care of the mature woman. In: Lentz GM, Lobo RA, Gershenson DM, Katz VL, eds. Comprehensive Gynecology. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2012:chap 14.
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Quincy Black Placed on Season-Ending Reserve by Bucs After Neck Injury
Published: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 5:22 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 5:22 a.m.
TAMPA | The season is over for another Tampa Bay Buccaneer starter.
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The team on Tuesday placed linebacker Quincy Black on season-ending injured reserve after he suffered an injury to his neck and head area during Sunday's 34-24 victory over the San Diego Chargers.
The sixth-year pro out of New Mexico was injured late in the third quarter after tackling Chargers running back Ryan Mathews. Black stayed on the ground and was eventually strapped to a stretcher and taken off the field.
While he did give a thumbs-up and waved to the crowd when he was transported off the field, Black had a setback on Monday that affected the left side of the body, according to head coach Greg Schiano. He was then given further tests.
On Tuesday, the Bucs made the move to end his season. Black becomes the seventh player and fourth starter to be placed on injured reserve this season for Tampa Bay.
He played in all nine games for the Bucs in 2012. He made 32 tackles, including two tackles for loss. When he went down Sunday, the Bucs moved Adam Hayward to his position.
During training camp, the team had the linebackers cross train in all three positions (middle, strong and weakside) so the Bucs have options inside their camp. Tampa Bay could stay with Hayward use rookie Najee Goode, Dekoda Watson or Jacob Cutrera to fill the position.
It is unlikely the team would move Lavonte David or Mason Foster from their linebacker positions, considering the success the two are having this season.
While Tampa Bay had not yet signed a player to take Black's spot on the active roster, the team did make some practice-squad moves.
The Bucs signed defensive end Ernest Owusu and receiver Diondre Borel to their practice squad and released tight end LeMark Brown and receiver Dale Moss.
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Difficulties in Forecasting Borrowing Requirements
We've long known that governments have a difficult time forecasting their own borrowing needs, demonstrating–like most of us–an inability to face up to the reality of their financial positions, particularly when it's getting worse.
That's why economists and other interested observers have often looked to international agencies such as the European Commission and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development for a reality check, and less deluded assessments of the spending propensities and revenue-generating potential of various governments.
But recently published research suggests that reliance on international agencies may itself be deluded, since they suffer from many of the same failings as national governments: in seeking "inside" information on how budgets are evolving, EC and OECD economists make themselves susceptible to the "political bias" of the government they are assessing.
In a paper published by the European Journal of Political Economy, Rossana Merola of Ireland's Economic and Social Research Institute, and Javier Perez of the Bank of Spain examined the track record of the EC, the OECD and 15 European governments in forecasting budget deficits over the years 1999-2007.
By choosing that period, they exclude the years of turmoil that followed the financial crisis, when an unprecedented sequence of events meant that almost everyone got everything wrong all of the time. Sure enough, they found that government forecasts were well off the mark, and were wrong in a fairly predictable way: when elections were looming, they tended to be significantly more optimistic than was warranted. What governments appear to do is ignore the implications of slowdowns in economic growth for tax revenues, consistently believing they will be higher than they turn out to be.
But they found that the forecasts produced by international agencies are not immune to political bias, concluding that they also "display correlation with electoral cycles."
It's not clear why that should be so. As the authors note, governments and international bodies produce forecasts in slightly different ways. Because they have more real-time information on spending and revenues, governments tend to forecast from the bottom up, basically adding up all the costs of running various departments, and the revenues produced by specific taxes.
By necessity, the forecasts produced by international agencies tend to be more top down, based largely on forecasts for economic growth, its composition, and the historic relationship between those elements and tax revenues.
It's worth remembering that governments are essentially shareholders in international agencies, and that no such agency produces a forecast for growth or borrowing without first discussing it with the government in question. So there is an opportunity for lobbying and persuasion.
"Governments can influence forecasts prepared by international organizations, as national countries are shareholders of these organizations and thus have the possibility to know those forecasts in advance and discuss them with the staff of the relevant organization," the authors wrote.
There is some potential benefit for international agencies in holding those discussions, since they can gain access to the "private information" governments have about exactly how tax revenues are holding up in the face of economic slowdowns, or other developments. In the process, however, economists at those international agencies can end up adopting some of the unwarranted optimism common among government officials, perhaps unknowingly.
"When preparing fiscal projections, international agencies' staff try to grasp as much private information as possible from government's forecasts, while at the same time face a "signal extraction problem" when trying to disentangle "political biases" from genuine private information," the two economists wrote.
A spokesman for the OECD said it is preparing its own paper on the reliability of economic forecasts, which it hopes to release in coming weeks.
Simon O'Conner, spokesman for Vice-President of the European Commission Olli Rehn, stated "the Commission's economic forecasts are produced independently of national capitals, by teams of experts with in-depth knowledge of the countries concerned. They maintain close contacts with all relevant national authorities, but also independent experts." He added that between 2010 and 2013, the EU's economic governance procedures were substantially overhauled.
So who can we trust? The two economists argue that their findings speak in favor of independent national forecasters, such as the Office for Budget Responsibility in the U.K., which would have access to "private infomration" but be explicitly shielded from political bias. But it will take many years before it is clear whether a new wave of organizations such as the OBR are truly immune from the influence of the electoral cycle.


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- Sandra Coke disappearance: Body identified as the missing Oakland woman
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OAKLAND -- The family of Sandra Coke was anxiously waiting Monday for authorities to identify a woman's body found near a Vacaville park last week during a search for the missing federal investigator from Oakland.
"Our hearts are heavy to think she may not be coming home to us, but we have been sustained through this ordeal by the unbelievable outpouring of love, concern and prayers from all of you," Coke's family said in an online statement they posted during the weekend.
The Alameda County Coroner performed an autopsy Monday on the body, but the identity will not be released until Tuesday at the earliest, authorities said. The body was found Friday near Lagoon Valley Park during a massive search in Solano County that first began near the Solano County Fairgrounds in Vallejo.
The discovery brought the search to a halt but police have not said whether the body is that of Coke.
Coke, 50, was last seen about 8:30 p.m. Aug. 4 by her 15-year-old daughter after leaving their home in the 600 block of Aileen Street in North Oakland, reportedly to meet with someone with information about the family's missing dog.
Coke's car was subsequently located in a West Oakland parking lot and one of her cellphones was found in Richmond last week.
She was reportedly seen the day she went missing with Randy Alana, whom she dated 20 years ago. Alana, 56, is a violent sex offender with a long criminal history. He has prior convictions for rape and other crimes and is registered as a high-risk sex offender.
Alana has been in custody on a parole violation since Aug. 6 and investigators say he is a "person of interest" in Coke's disappearance, but no charges have been made against him in connection with the case.
A spokesman for the Alameda County District Attorneys office said Monday there were not updates on the case and he referred all calls to Oakland police.
As a federal investigator dealing with death penalty appeals, Coke interviews death row inmates, their friends and families, said Joe Schlesinger, chief of the death penalty appeals unit of the Office of the Federal Public Defender in the Eastern District of California.
"She is very tenacious, very good at relating to people who have had all kinds of difficulties in life," said Schlesinger, who has known Coke for more than 20 years. "We're grieving, we're in shock, we are doing everything we can to support each other and support Sandra's family. We are in a field that deals with death everyday, when it touches one of our own it's very difficult."
Coke's family members could not be reached on Monday for comment.
A $100,000 reward was offered by family members last week for information about Coke's whereabouts.
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By Alan Boyle
First there was the Death Star petition, then there was the Starship Enterprise petition, and now there's a petition calling on the White House to build a nuclear rocket for fast interplanetary travel. Unlike the spaceships cited in those first two petitions, this one isn't just science fiction.
There was a time when the federal government tested nuclear thermal rocket technology for the flights that would follow the Apollo moonshots. Back in the 1960s, Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and its industrial partners set up Project NERVA, which stands for Nuclear Energy for Rocket Vehicle Application. The idea was to use a nuclear reactor to heat up liquid hydrogen propellant and blast a rocket out of Earth orbit. A trip to the moon would take just 24 hours. Going to Mars? You could make the voyage in just four months.
The initial plan called for NERVA technology to power the first manned mission to Mars in 1981. More than 20 rocket tests — conducted under names such as KIWI and Phoenix, Peewee-1 and Nuclear Furnace-1 — were carried out at a Nevada test range. But qualms about nuclear power, and about the multibillion-dollar development cost, led to Project NERVA's cancellation in 1973. Instead, the Nixon administration went with the space shuttle program.
Nuclear rocket propulsion briefly returned to the spotlight in 2003, when NASA considered developing a reactor-based system for deep-space missions such as the Jupiter Icy Moon Orbiter, as part of what became known as Project Prometheus. The initial missions would have used a small reactor to generate electricity for an ion drive, rather than implementing the NERVA concept. But like NERVA, Prometheus came to be perceived as too complex and risky. NASA canceled the program in 2005.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – Throughout the summer of 2013, GoIslanders.com will look back at the best moments and athletic performances from the 2012-13 school year.
Every Thursday, we will bring you one of the top 10 individual performances, with Tuesdays bringing the year's top 10 moments. Be sure to keep tabs on GoIslanders.com throughout the summer to celebrate all the great moments.
Top Moment #4: Baseball's Wild Win on Senior Day
It was a tremendous season for the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi baseball team in 2013, with the team posting a second-place finish in the Southland Conference – the best in its time in the league. The Islanders had three players named First Team All-Conference, also a record, and saw eight players in total honored by the league.
Among all the team's 33 wins, though, none was as memorable as an emotional comeback on Senior Day. In a game that featured a total of 32 runs scored and six lead changes, senior Eric Weiss and freshman Kaleb Keith were the key catalysts of a monumental 17-15 victory.
It was evident early on in the contest that it would be a tough day for the pitchers. Lamar scored two in the first to take a quick edge, but the Islanders came right back with three runs over the first two frames to regain the lead. But the Cardinals struck the first big blow, with Sam Bumpers lacing a double to right center to cap off a four-run third that chased Matt Danton from the game and put the visitors up 6-3.
In the bottom of the fourth, though, the Islanders put together an absurd rally. After the first two players were retired, A&M-Corpus Christi saw the next 10 players reach to rally for a nine spot and a 12-6 lead. It started with four straight singles and two walks, the second of which tied the score. A bases-loaded HBP then pushed the Islanders back ahead, and Brad Porras followed that with a bases-clearing double that nearly left the yard to left center. After a walk, Weiss came through with a two-run single to stun the Cardinals.
But Lamar remained calm, and Travis Moore settled in on the mound. The Cardinals tallied a solo run in the sixth, then exploded with an eight-spot in the seventh. Nine of the first 10 batters reached, just three on hits, and Jude Vidrine capped it off later in the frame with an RBI double to make it 15-12 in favor of the visitors.
In the seventh, the Islanders got two runs back on a Russell Vaughan RBI single and a Cody Stephens sac fly to trim it to 15-14. Then in the top of the eighth, Keith walked the first two hitters. But the freshman calmed himself, getting a flyout and a groundout for the first two outs, then finished the deal with a swinging strikeout, and left the mound with a flourish as his teammates in the dugout rushed to congratulate him.
It didn't take long to complete the comeback in the eighth. Johnathan Gonzales started things with a leadoff double to right center, and Weiss followed with an RBI single to center to tie the score. Brandon Tierney added a double to left center, and Jordan Lee pushed the Islanders ahead with a single up the middle. A wild pitch brought Tierney home for the 17th run of the contest.
The Islanders totaled 21 hits in the contest, with every spot in the order posting at least one and seven players tallying at least two hits. Weiss' 4-for-6 day led the way, with his third RBI the most memorable run of the day.
For all the latest on Islanders Athletics throughout the summer, be sure to follow us on Facebook (GoIslanders), Twitter (@Go_Islanders) and Instagram (@go_islanders).
Top Performances:
June 6 – #10: Jasmine Boutte Shines at SLC Indoor and Outdoor Championships
June 13 – #9: Johnathan Jordan's Double-Double at Lamar
June 20 – #8: Vanessa Johnson at Southland Championship
June 27 – #7: Brandi Huff's Second-Half Outburst vs. McNeese State
July 4 – #6: Logen Bourque Posts Second Triple-Double in Islanders History
July 11 – #5: Trevor Foss Mows Down UT-Pan American
July 18 – #4: Jonathan Gonzales Goes Off at Texas State
Top Moments:
June 11 – #10: Dance Places 11th at NDA Collegiate Championships
June 18 – #9: Men's Basketball Shoots Lights Out vs. Southeastern La.
June 25 – #8: Islanders Softball Walk-off Win Over SHSU
July 2 – #7: Women's Golf Takes Second at Harold Funston Invitational
July 9 – #6: Men's Cross Country Clocks School Best at Chile Pepper Festival
July 16 – #5: Women's Tennis Starts 8-0 to Enter Rankings
July 23 – #4: Baseball's Wild Win on Senior Day


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The Gory Medieval Duels That Echo 'Game of Thrones' Trial by Combat
Over the course of four seasons, "Game of Thrones" viewers have gotten used to blood sprays, beheadings and all manner of grisly spectacle. The climactic duel in Sunday's episode seemed to raise the lance on the level of violence depicted in the show.
Historians see parallels to medieval history in the fictional world of Westeros, so how do accounts of violence from the Middle Ages compare to the high-definition gore on screen?
Steven Isaac, a professor of medieval military history at Longwood University in Virginia, came up with some historical duels that echoed the action of last night's showdown, when Oberyn "The Red Viper" Martell fought Ser Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane.
For example, in the 1150s, King Louis VII of France ordered a duel to settle a land dispute between Stephen of Massy and the monks of Saint-Germain-des-Près, outside Paris. The anonymous warrior who fought on behalf of the monks prevailed by snatching out the eye of his opponent. Eye gouging is nothing new for "Game of Thrones," but last night's iteration was especially gory. By comparison, the account from the 12th century reads like a highfalutin police blotter.
"And then, when they had struck each other repeatedly for a long time and had each managed to wound the other gravely by turns, at last our fighter–with the help of God–manfully and audaciously got inside and was able to force out an eye of the other man. By this great effort, he so aggravated the other that that man confessed himself defeat and conceded the victory to our man."
In an interview Monday, Professor Isaac chuckled over the matter-of-fact description, which he translated for us from Latin. "Oh, really? He lost an eye and admitted that he'd been done in?" Isaac had uncovered the scene in a cartulary, a medieval manuscript of legal documents, in Paris. Despite the neutral tone of the account, he said it leapt out from the otherwise numbing collection of lawsuits and countersuits.
But even the official historical narratives of the time rarely got graphic in their descriptions. That's because they were written by monks. "If they were going to take time off from praying, they had to make sure that their writing was an act of godliness. If you went to extremes in the writing, your superior monk would wrap your knuckles for it," Isaac said by phone from France, where he's spending four weeks on research about medieval mercenaries and cities under siege.
However, the grisly facts often spoke for themselves. In his essay comparing the Mountain vs. Viper matchup to some from the Middle Ages, Isaac cited a trial by combat between two men named Iron Herman and Guy of Steenvoorde. Herman lived up to his name with a rope-a-dope maneuver similar to the one that the Mountain pulled on the Viper, though it involved a different part of the body.
Here's a blow-by-blow written around 1127 in the journal of the Flemish cleric Galbert of Bruges (as translated by Jeff Rider at Wesleyan University and sent to us by Isaac):
Iron Herman fell prostrate on the ground, and Guy threw himself on top of him, pounding the knight's mouth and eyes with his iron gauntlets…the prostrate man gathered strength bit by bit from the coolness of the ground and slyly made Guy think he was certain of victory while he rested. Meanwhile, having raised his hand very smoothly to the lower edges of the mail coat, where Guy was unprotected, and having grabbed him by the testicles, he collected his strength for a single effort and threw him from him, breaking open all the lower parts of his body by this grabbing throw so that the prostrate Guy grew weak and cried out that he was defeated and was going to die."
Guy, who had been accused of murder, was executed hours after the battle, in keeping with the trial by combat. "He probably welcomed the hanging," Isaac said.


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SANTA CLARA -- Nvidia said Wednesday it will build a new $300 million headquarters this year in Santa Clara that could accommodate thousands of employees.
Construction is expected to begin in June on a 500,000-square-foot building that will be the first phase of what could eventually be a million-square-foot, two-building campus near San Tomas Expressway and Walsh Avenue.
The project represents an expansion for Nvidia, which makes chips for 3-D graphics, mobile devices and other high-performance uses. It is running out of room at its current million-square-foot campus across the street from the 24-acre site of its new headquarters.
"Our headquarters in Santa Clara, just a few blocks from where we started, barely has a spare desk," Jen-Hsun Huang, founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia, said in a blog post on Wednesday. "We're absolutely bursting at the seams."
Nvidia's expansion signals that the Silicon Valley tech boom that has ushered in two years of dazzling job growth in Santa Clara County is far from running its course.
"We see no slowdown in 2013," said Justin Hedberg, a first vice president with Kidder Mathews, a real estate brokerage. "There is a lot of demand for big blocks of space. There are a lot of companies out there right now looking for large spaces."
Nvidia currently employs about 3,300 people in Santa Clara. The first phase of the new development could accommodate 1,000 to 2,000 additional employees.
"We have been recruiting," said company spokesman Hector Marinez. "This expansion is great news for us and for the Bay Area."
The company expects to occupy the new building by July 2015. "Phase two, the second building, will occur when growth requires it," Marinez said.
Google (GOOG), Apple (AAPL), Facebook, LinkedIn, Samsung, Dell and Amazon unit Lab 126 are among the tech companies that have leased or bought large buildings in the past year or two, or that are planning major new projects for their head offices.
"There is a lot of new construction in Silicon Valley," noted Hedberg. "Rents are higher and they can justify taking an old R&D building, knocking it down, and building a new campus."
Also, technology companies are finding that to compete for top talent they must offer state-of-the-art, sleek new offices for their employees.
"All signs point to the job market in Silicon Valley getting stronger this year, or at least staying stable," Hedberg said.
Contact George Avalos at 408-373-3556 or 925-977-8477. Follow him at Twitter.com/george_avalos.
Headquarters: Santa Clara
CEO: Jen-Hsun Huang
Revenue: $4.28 billion (most recent 12 months)
Profit: $562.5 million (most recent 12 months)
Employees worldwide: 8,000
Employees in Santa Clara: 3,300
Development plans: 1 million-square-foot campus consisting of a pair of 500,000-square-foot buildings
Business: Specialty semiconductors for high-performance graphics and mobile applications
Source: Yahoo Finance


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August 29, 2005
The facts are almost hard to believe. A fourteen-year-old registered sex offender who was recently released is now attending a public school in Aiken County. Monday night, the mother of one of the two children he molested is speaking out only on 12. News 12 is on your side with what happens when a school-age sex offender is released.
The mother of the six-year-old victim did not want to be named or have her face shown on camera. But she does want to warn parents in Aiken County, their kids may go to school with fourteen-year-old Brantley Corey Poston.
This mother of three, we'll call her Karen, had no idea what she'd find when she started doing some research.
"I happened to be doing research for a school project I'm working on and pulled up the Sex Offender Registry where I came face to face with this," Karen said.
Karen's six-year-old daughter was molested by then thirteen-year-old Brantley Corey Poston. Karen had hired Corey's grandmother to take care of her three kids.
"She told me a lot about they didn't have a stable home life, didn't have a mama, no daddy, she tried to do a lot with them," Karen said.
The grandmother brought Corey and his brother to the home. Six months later, Karen's daughter told her what happened the day she was raped.
"She told me she tried to get away from him and she went into the bedroom and then he followed her in the room and locked the door and she couldn't get out," Karen said.
Investigators collected DNA evidence after the attack. Corey went to court, pleaded not guilty and was released to his parents. But, he attacked again. This time it was a three-year-old girl at birthday party in Columbia County.
"To protect other children is my number one concern for other parents to know this child is a danger," Karen said.
Now, the Department of Juvenile Justice tells News 12 he attends the alternative school, Pineview Center in Aiken.
"Typically if they are released from Juvenile custody they can come back into the general population," said Bill Burkhalter, school attorney.
Aiken County Schools Attorney Bill Burkhalter would not comment on Poston's particular case.
"It's changed our family a lot because we don't do anything, we don't go anywhere, we don't want to leave them with anybody," Karen said.
Brantley attended Merriweather Middle School before he was arrested and convicted as a child molester. In South Carolina, it is state law for law enforcement to notify the school district if a sex offender is enrolled. The school district attorney would not tell News 12 if they had even been notified about Corey's record.


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CONCORD -- Although Walnut Creek's "Mac and Cheese" minus the "Mac" was impressive, it was Antioch's charred chicken and stone fruit gazpacho that won the blue ribbon at the sixth annual Contra Costa County Mayors' Healthy Cookoff July 31.
On a day when temperatures and 3-grain tempeh boiled -- even without portable hotplates -- top chefs selected and assisted by city officials from Antioch, Clayton, Concord, Danville, Martinez, Moraga, Pleasant Hill, San Pablo and Walnut Creek competed in an "Iron Chef-style" event.
Graduates of Mt. Diablo High School's Sustainable Hospitality Pathway program served as sous chefs, joining the friendly rivalry at Todos Santos Plaza in Concord and furthering the outreach of Cindy Gershen's Wellness City Challenge.
Gershen, a well-known East Bay restaurateur, teacher and healthy-eating advocate, said each team had been given the same ingredients -- chicken, tofu or tempeh, yogurt, various grains, EVO olive oil and produce and herbs from the Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association.
Going from cooking station to cooking station, Gershen provided colorful commentary ("It's tempeh, instead of pasta, in the Mac and Cheese!") and significance ("Educating children is changing the way the next generation will live") as the teams feverishly baked, grilled and charred to meet the 6 o'clock deadline.
"We're trying to finish. I cut up things," Concord Mayor Tim Grayson said, describing his role. "I was the official stirrer."
Sous chef Hector Medina said the experience was both grand and fleeting, "Learning to cook changed my life, but getting everything done at once was a blur."
Under the Moraga tent, the sous chef was awol, but the atmosphere was cool. Councilman Mike Metcalf downplayed his culinary disabilities and said, "If my wife knew I was cooking anything other than boiled water, she'd lose it." Unperturbed by his assistant's humor, Saint Mary's College Chef Gabriel Kinney of Sodexo Campus Services said his menu featured "flavors that speak to summertime."
Sous Chef Carissa Urbina gave up soda after learning in Gershen's class about the amount of sugar in her daily beverage. She and Walnut Creek Mayor Kristina Lawson assisted Sunol Ridge chef Frank Jordan -- with Urbina deftly stirring the cheese sauce and Lawson offering what she called "quality control."
Judges for the competition included Will Schaub, a biologist who years ago,certified Gershen's first garden for her Sunrise Cafe & Bakery, and Kish Rajan, director of the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development for the State of California and a former Walnut Creek City Council member.
"I've seen tremendous traction in the farm-to-fork movement and awareness of the agricultural corridor with local produce throughout (the county)," Schaub said.
"We're here to improve the economy," Rajan said. "I've followed Cindy for years and it's wonderful to see community and healthy food coming together. The best economic sector for growth in this area centers on agriculture and food production."
Rajan said he had prepared for the judging by restricting his intake earlier in the day. Judges' five-point criteria included healthiness, taste, creativity, presentation and "overall." After an hour of tasting, the Antioch team of chef Jonathan Hork of Lone Tree Golf and Event Center, Councilman Tony Tiscareno and sous chef Esperanza Ramirez were the overall winners, with top scores for presentation and creativity.
"The polenta with poblano chili peppers: that's one I'll remember," Tiscareno said, perhaps explaining the victory.
Danville's team of Esins and Rebels chef Tim Perkins, Mayor Robert Storer and sous chef Diana Aguayo captured healthiness and taste titles for their "Chicken Under a Brick" and "Quinoa Cakes." Pleasant Hill came in third with a cornucopia of produce-laden dishes created by chef Oscar El Aguila of El Aquila Mexican Cuisine, assisted by Mayor Timothy Flaherty and sous chef Christian Torres.
Pamela Singh, Executive Director of Wellness City Challenge, said having city leaders "supporting the model of eating healthy meals made with locally produced or grown ingredients" was vitally important. The three top winners will head for a showdown with three finalists from Alameda County in October.