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Eve Riskin
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Signal and Image Processing
230 EE/CSE Bldg.
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|Phone: (206) 685-2313
Stanford University, Electrical Engineering 1990 Ph.D.
Stanford University, Operations Research 1986 M.S.
Stanford University, Electrical Engineering 1985 M.S.
M.I.T., Electrical Engineering 1984 B.S.
BiosketchEve A. Riskin is the Associate Dean of Diversity and Access, Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Director of the ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change and has been on the faculty since 1990. Her research group is working in image and video compression. In collaboration with Professor Richard Ladner of Computer Science and
Engineering and Jake Wobbrock of the Information School, they are compressing video of American Sign Language using H.264 in their MobileASL project. They are also conducting a field study with MobileASL in the Seattle area.
IEEE Fellow, 2009
University of Washington David B. Thorud Leadership Award 2007
Hewlett Packard/Harriet B. Rigas Award, 2006
Women in Engineering Programs & Advocates Network University Change Agent Award, 2006
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship 1994
National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award 1992
National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award 1991
Research InterestsVideo compression, Human-Computer Interaction, Higher Education, Diversity in STEM
Data Compression Lab: http://dcl.ee.washington.edu/
MobileASL: http://mobileasl.cs.washington.edu/
Selected Publications
Alexander E. Mohr, Eve A. Riskin, and Richard E. Ladner, "Unequal Loss
Protection: Graceful Degradation of Image Quality Over Packet Erasure
Channels through Forward Error Correction.'' IEEE Journal of Selected
Areas in Communications Special Issue on Error-Resilient Image and
Video Transmission, 18(6): 819-828, June 2000.
Neva Cherniavsky, Gidon Shavit, Michael F. Ringenburg, Richard E. Ladner, and Eve A. Riskin, MultiStage: A MINMAX Bit Allocation Algorithm for Video." IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, January 2007, pp. 59-67.
Anna Cavender, Dane K. Barney, Rahul Vanam, Richard E. Ladner, and Eve A. Riskin. MobileASL: Intelligibility of sign language video over mobile phones." Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technologies, June 2007, pages 1-13.
Kate Quinn, Joyce W. Yen, Eve A. Riskin, and Sheila Edwards Lange, A National Leadership Development Workshop for Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Department Chairs." Change, Volume 39 Number 4, July/August, pages 42-47.
Joyce Yen, Kate Quinn, Coleen Carrigan, Elizabeth Litzler, and Eve A. Riskin, The ADVANCE Mentoring-for-Leadership Lunch Series for Women Faculty in STEM at the University of Washing- ton. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, Volume 13, Number 3, 2007, pages 191-206.
C. Phillips, J. Parr, and E. A. Riskin, "Signals, Systems, and Transforms," Prentice-Hall, 2008.
Recent Conference Papers
R. Vanam, E. Riskin, S. Hemami, R. Ladner, "Distortion-Complexity
Optimization of the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Encoder using the GBFOS
Algorithm," Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference,
Snowbird, UT, March 2007, pp. 303-312.
R. Vanam, E. Riskin, R. Ladner, "H.264/MPEG-4 AVC encoder parameter selection algorithms for complexity distortion tradeoff," IEEE Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, March 2009.
R. Vanam, F. Ciaramello, E. Riskin, S. Hemami and R. Ladner, "Joint Rate-Intelligibility-Complexity Optimization of an H.264 Video Encoder for American Sign Language," Western New York Image Processing Workshop (WNYIP), Rochester, NY, September 2009. Awarded Best Student Paper.
N. Cherniavsky, J. Chon, J. Wobbrock, R. Ladner, and E. Riskin, "Activity Analysis Enabling Real-Time Video Communication on Mobile Phones for Deaf Users," Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '09), Victoria, British Columbia, October 2009.
J. Chon, N. Cherniavsky, E. Riskin, and R. Ladner, "Enabling Access Through Real-Time Sign Language Communication Over Cell Phones," 43rd Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 2009. (Invited)
F. Ciaramello, R. Vanam, J. Chon, S. Hemami, E. Riskin, and R. Ladner," Rate-distortion-complexity optimization of an H.264/AVC encoder for real-time videoconferencing on a mobile device," 5th International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics (VPQM 2010), Scottsdale, AZ, January 2010.
PatentsVaughn Iverson and Eve A. Riskin, "Method and Apparatus for Combining Palettes of Color Quantized Images.'' OTT Disclosure No. 05-93-78, May 1993. US patent #5,459,486, issued October 17, 1995.
Active Grants
National Science Foundation S-STEM, "Engineering the Husky Promise" (with Scott Winter, Ed Lazowska, and Jennifer Turns). September 2010 - August 2014.
National Science Foundation, HCC-Small: Mobile ASL: Providing Mobile Video Communications to the Deaf Community Through User-Centered Design and Deployment" (with Richard Ladner and Jake Wobbrock). September 2008 - August 2011.
National Science Foundation ADVANCE program, On Ramps into Academia" (with Ana Mari Cauce, Joyce Yen, Suzanne Brainard, and Matt O'Donnell). September 2008 - August 2011.
National Science Foundation, Transforming Engineering Through PEERS: Building a Better Experience for Underrepresented Students" (with Phyllis Wise, Joyce Yen, Sapna Cheryan, and Sheryl Burgstahler). April 2009 - March 2014.
Graduate Students
Ren-Yuh Wang, Ph.D. in EE, July 1994. "Organization of Vector Quantization Codebooks."
M. Y. Jaisimha, Ph.D. in EE, December 1996. "Compound Document Retrieval in Noisy Environments."
B. S. Srinivas, Ph.D. in EE, February 1997. "Progressive Image Transmission with Error Concealment on Burst Error Channels and Lossy Packet Networks."
Jill Goldschneider, Ph.D. in EE, May, 1997. "Lossy Compression of Scientific Data."
Mary Holland Johnson, Ph.D. in EE, June 1999. "Data Compression for Low Bit Rate Transmission of Marine Imagery."
Agnieszka C. Miguel, Ph.D. in EE, December 2001. "Image Compression Using Overcomplete Wavelet Representations for Multiple Description Coding."
Jue Wang, Electrical Engineering. Ph.D. in EE, December 2007. "Foreground Segmentation in Images and Video: Methods, Systems and Applications."
Neva Cherniavsky (with Richard Ladner), Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, March 2009. "Activity Analysis of Sign Language Video."
Rahul Vanam (with Richard Ladner), Ph.D. in EE June 2010. "Rate-Distortion-Complexity Optimization of Video Encoders with Applications to Sign Language Video Compression."
Jaehong Chon, Ph.D. in EE expected in 2011 (with Richard Ladner)
Jessica Tran, Ph.D. in EE expected in 2013 (with Jake Wobbrock and Richard Ladner)

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Today, The Catalyst features a guest post from Parkinson's Action Network CEO Amy Comstock Rick who, in light of the conclusion of Brain Awareness Week, discusses the results of two studies published in Movement Disorders, titled "The Current and Projected Economic Burden of Parkinson's Disease in the United States" [1] and "An Economic Model of Parkinson's Disease: Implications for Slowing Progression in the United States." [2]
We've reached the end of Brain Awareness Week, but there is still much to be done to address the challenges facing patients suffering from neurological conditions. The lives of patients with diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are affected 365 days a year and we must find ways to continue to support research that will help find a cure.
Parkinson's is the second most common neurological condition after Alzheimer's, and two recently released studies in Movement Disorders emphasize the importance of increased research funding because it saves patients' lives and helps relieve some of the cost burden. Treatment currently costs approximately $14.4 billion a year, averaging $22,800 per patient, and there is an additional $6.3 billion in costs associated with missed work for the patient or family member who is helping with care. If costs continue to increase steadily, they will eventually double in 2040.
Funding for Parkinson's disease in 2011 was just $151 million – only 1.05% of the $14.4 billion in costs associated with it, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). With nearly half (48%) of the medical expenses evaluated in the study Medicare and Medicaid-related, slowing the progression of the disease would provide a cost-savings.
To achieve this, we need academic and industry research groups to collaborate and share knowledge to facilitate the discovery of new treatments that will slow the advancement of Parkinson's and decrease the monetary burden for patients, while increasing quality of life. We also need strong federal, state and local policies and programs that support advances in research and development that helps lower future costs and provides needed relief to patients and their families.
Reducing the impact of Parkinson's must be a priority in federal budget decisions. This disease is expensive for patients, their families and the broader healthcare system, and costs are projected to rise. Both studies note that their findings are conservative estimates due to limits in data. The prevalence and economic burden of Parkinson's will grow exponentially over the next few decades with the aging of the baby boomers. We must take action now so that families affected by this disease and already stretched too thin do not see a significantly higher cost burden. This is doable if we put our collective minds to it.


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Two days ago, I bought myself a DSLR camera; a Nikon D50. It's a nice piece of hardware, and since it can do USB Mass Storage, there are no issues in using it with Linux. Well, not from the camera's side, anyway.
When you work with a digital camera, there are a few things you usually want to do with the photos. First, you want to get them off the camera and onto your hard disk. Second, you want to manage them with some application that will store some metadata in a database and allow you to search this metadata for photos and catalogue them. You want something to edit photos. And, you may want to put some of them online.
There are applications for all of these available for GNU/Linux. And I'm not Bruce Perens, so when I find that something doesn't work the way I think it should, I won't shout that it's impossible. But while looking around for an application to manage my pictures, I was reminded of something:
Managing pictures
On IRC, I was pointed towards f-spot, a Gnome application for picture management with a whole slew of features. With this application, I can:
- import pictures into a sort of database directly from the camera, either using PTP (through gphoto2) or via USB Mass Storage, and turn them in the right direction, using the EXIF data in the pictures; alternatively, I can import any random picture from anywhere, provided I put it in some directory somewhere.
- tag them; that is, tack a number of tags onto them from either a set of predefined tags that come with the application or with my own tags which I can add in a hierarchical fashion
- search for them on a timeline or based on the tags that have been applied
- view them full-screen or in a slideshow
- export them to web applications such as Gallery, Flickr, Picasa, and others
- export files to a CD using nautilus-cdburner. (It's not clear to me whether this is going to be a Photo-CD; if I'm correct and it is, I should be able to view it in my DVD player)
- edit them with a few builtin functions or with external applications such as The GIMP
...and a whole bunch of other interesting things. On the whole, a very nice and flexible application, really; there were only two things that I didn't like about it:
- The application stores pictures in a directory
~/Photos. I don't like that; I have a directory
data/imageswhere all my graphic files are today, and I would like my pictures to be stored in, say,
- When in slideshow mode, it switches to the next picture in about one or two seconds, whereas I would prefer a more relaxed five seconds.
De gustibus et coloribus non disputandum
Obviously, anyone even remotely familiar with computer software will feel that these are things nobody feels the same about. So, it should be possible to change these values in the preferences. And, while that's true, this is a Gnome application...
The preferences dialog shows me that the application has a feature which I hadn't even thought about (using my pictures for a screensaver); but the two basic options I was looking for were glaring in their absense. Worse; if I want to modify these basic things, I have to download the source, edit it, and recompile the application, for they don't even provide
gconf hooks. I doubt anyone not familiar with the source code could accomplish that.
Of course, since the Debian package of this application is currently at version 0.2.1, it's not unlikely that more recent versions will turn this into configurable settings; in fact, a quick check shows that the most recent version now reads the first, but not the second, from a preferences variable rather than a string. Still, it's striking that it's Gnome applications that have these types of problems; and it always makes me wonder what their developers are thinking, and how they can defend non-configurability as "usability".
Some things just cannot have sensible defaults. I don't mind if my holiday pictures scroll by at a high rate, but I don't feel the same about pictures I took just because I felt like taking pictures.
Accordingly, some things should be configurable. It's okay if that makes the application slightly harder to use—computers are intrinsically complex and, as a result, hard to use.
Linus was right.
With all due respect...
And I'm not Bruce Perens, so when I find that something doesn't work the way I think it should, I won't shout that it's impossible.
I'm not this Bruce Perens person, but I can certainly relate to his issue. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to install software on Linux, even with Debian's apt-get package manager, and it STILL doesn't work. I won't even go into the tarball hell I've had to wade through. It seems kind of foolish to have to spend hours upon hours just getting the software to run. Just last night I spend about 1 hour trying to get a Beryl plug in to compile. I just had to give up realizing life's too short.
I don't think installing software/plug-ins is "impossible", just something I'm not "elite" enough to do, I guess. It looks like we're going back to the old days of computing, when only geeks/hackers could use software and the rest of us would have to sit idly by.
I'm sure some people are gonna pull their hair out at this, but I can't remember the last time I double clicked on a "setup.exe" or "install.exe" file and had it abort saying I was missing some off-the-beaten-path library.
GNOME dominates nonetheless?
Interesting that the poll being run on the front page of FSM still shows GNOME with a comfortable lead over KDE and the rest. Maybe there are lots of people who don't agree with you?
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Yes, that's for sure, and it shows. But that doesn't have to mean I'm wrong.
A "kool" fix
You should really give digiKam a serious look, it has configurability if you want it, and if you don't, no problem, they're out of your way and no harm done.
Not saying digiKam, or KDE itself for that matter, is perfect or anything. KDE does need to organize a few things a little better (KControl comes to mind), that I will agree with. But at least they treat the user like an intelligent being by kind of saying "Hey, if you wanna configure things, here's the options of you want them".
If both my mom and aunt can use KDE without any problem, it's not too complicated to use, and please note that none of them have a degree in computer science. My mom sometimes forgets how to attach a file to a freaking email (She uses GMail), even though it's right in front of her nose, and despite me having shown her how to do that about a zillion times.
If a car followed GNOME idea of "usability", I think you'd barely have a steering wheel, because "we don't want to confuse the user with too many options", sure, but how do I adjust the freaking radio!!!
KDE is where?
Probably the biggest problem preventing me from using KDE is the fact that I cannot find one *decent* distro with a large friendly community where KDE doesn't take a back seat to GNOME (ie Kubuntu) that uses KDE set up with nice defaults as its default desktop. What we need is for there to be a KDE version of Ubuntu, ie where GNOME takes the back seat and all development is centred on KDE.
Kubuntu is the basted child of Ubuntu and it shows.


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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi men's basketball team rallied from a 10-point deficit to have a shot to send the game to overtime, but Hameed Ali's jumper fell just short in the closing seconds, as Tennessee Tech topped the Islanders, 62-60. The game marked the second day of the Holiday Inn Downtown Marina Islanders Basketball Tournament at the American Bank Center.
John Jordan and Jeff Beverly each poured in 18 points for the home squad in a losing effort. Jordan also snared nine rebounds, and Ali added 12 points as well for the Islanders.
Dwan Caldwell led the Golden Eagles with 12 points, while Javon McKay and Josiah Moore posted 10 apiece. TTU's bench outscored the Islanders 27-5.
Tennessee Tech came out of the gates with a Ty Allen three-ball off the bat, but the Islanders responded with a 7-0 run, with Beverly doing much of the damage with two free throws and a three-pointer. The Golden Eagles, though, came right back with a 5-0 rally of their own, as Jordan Johnson's triple put them ahead 8-7. A back-and-forth ensued over the next several possessions, with TTU able to push the lead to 15-11 following a pair of McKay free throws.
The Golden Eagles pushed the lead to 20-15 on a Johnson three, but the Islanders responded with a 6-1 run to tie the score, as Knowles' soft layup in the lane rolled in to make it 21 apiece. Tennessee Tech pulled back ahead by five, and held a lead in that range for much of the rest of the half. But the Islanders closed the stanza on a 6-0 run, with four points coming from Beverly and the other two from Jordan, making it a 32-31 Islanders advantage at the break.
Out of the locker room, the teams traded baskets, with a Joy Williamson jumper putting the home squad ahead 34-33. But the Islanders then embarked on a cold stretch on the offensive end. A&M-Corpus Christi went 0-for-9 from the field over the next 11:02, allowing the Golden Eagles to go on a 17-5 run and build a 50-39 advantage. Jordan made three free throws and Ali had two to represent the Islanders' only points during the stretch.
Jordan broke the cold streak with a three from the left wing to cut the deficit back to eight, and after a Tennessee Tech free throw, Cole Martinez buried a trey to cut the lead to 51-45. TTU was able to push the lead back to 10 with 4:28 to play, and at that point the Islanders began to chip away.
A Jordan layup started a 5-0 Islanders run to get it back to a five-point game, and the teams traded points until it was 62-57 with 16 seconds left. Then Ali buried a huge three-pointer from the right wing to make it 62-60. Dennis Ogbe missed both free throws after getting fouled, giving the Islanders a shot to tie or win. But Ali's runner in the final seconds came up short and TTU emerged victorious.
The Islanders shot just 23.8 percent from the field in the second half, but had a chance at the victory due to a 15-for-20 performance at the line in the stanza.
The Islanders will wrap up the Holiday Inn Downtown Marina Islanders Basketball Tournament on Sunday against Texas-Pan American. Tipoff is slated for 3:30 p.m. at the American Bank Center. Tickets are available by calling 825-BALL (2255) or visiting GoIslanders.com.
For all the latest on Islanders Basketball, be sure to follow the team on Twitter and Instagram (@IslandersMBB) and like the team's official Facebook page.


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Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Augusta, GA -- Strong, driving, in control.
Those words described Jerel Stephenson's game when he was a Glenn Hills senior in 2008 and as a Paine junior today. The only difference...after a journey that took him to three programs in four years, now they represent his life too.
"I got a lot of playing time, but you could say I was kind of homesick," Stephenson said. "And it kind of didn't fit what I was looking to."
Jerel was one of the most valued prospects in Augusta coming out of high school, being a major piece of Glenn Hills' 2008 state championship team.
UNC Wilmington offered him a scholarship, and he was off to North Carolina. Not long after, though, he felt the need to come back home, enrolling at Aiken Tech.
It didn't take long for a new challenge to come along.
"I ended up breaking my jaw so I sat out all of last year. I didn't watch college basketball at all because I felt like I was supposed to be out there playing."
One major surgery and another life experience later, that brings us to today where the new goal is to revive his own dream and bring the Lions basketball program with him.
He said, "They were basically the only team that was very interested in me coming, and you know, it's my hometown. My family gets to come see me play so you can't beat that."
Nine months ago, his family grew by one when his daughter, Kennedi, was born, and that's been the biggest step of all in his rapid growth.
"It makes you grow up, and it also humbled me more than anything just because I know I have to stay on the right track because I've got somebody who looks up to me."
And it's not just the responsibility of being a dad. It's the perspective that comes with it.
"I come home to her, and she doesn't know if I win or lose so even if we lose I come home to her, and it just makes me happy."
Jerel just got back on the court once the first semester ended because of transfer rules.
He added that because Head Coach Jimmy Link has a one-year-old of his own, the two have bonded over not just basketball, but their kids.


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DENTON – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi Volleyball team picked up another win on Saturday, closing out the Mean Green Volleyball Classic with a 3-0 (25-22, 25-19, 26-24) sweep of host North Texas. The team finished with a 2-1 record with sweeps over Hofstra and UNT in the final preconference match of the season. Shannon Hullum and Ivy Baresh were named to the All-Tournament Team for their performances during the weekend.
The Islanders are now 7-4 on the season with the win, and will begin Southland Conference play on Thursday, Sept. 13 at the Dugan Wellness Center against Central Arkansas. North Texas moves to 8-4 with the loss.
Hullum had a match-high 12 kills while Baresh had a double-double with 11 kills and 10 digs and Logen Bourque contributed a match-high 35 assists.
The opening set featured 17 ties and five lead changes as neither team could get any breathing room against the other until the final points. UNT took an 8-6 lead, the first time either team led by more than one, but kills by Courtney Hall and Hullum evened the score once again at 8-8. The teams traded points back and forth until late in the set.
The final tie came at 18-18 and was followed by a kill by Brooke Alverson and an ace by Baresh to make it 20-18 as UNT called a timeout. An attack error by the Mean Green after the break made it 21-18 before they were finally able to get on the board again. Brianna Brink and Baresh had kills to make it 23-20 and an attack error brought up set point at 24-21. UNT scored once more, but Baresh put away her fourth kill of the set for the deciding point at 25-22 and a 1-0 Islanders lead.
In set two, the Islanders gained an early 6-3 lead on two kills from Hullum and one from Bourque, but the Mean Green rallied with a 4-1 run to even the score at 7-7. The teams traded points to 18-18 before Texas A&M – Corpus Christi got a Baresh kill and Micah Nolan service ace gave the team a 20-18 advantage and saw UNT call a timeout.
After the break Alverson and Baresh combined for a block and Hall put away a kill to make it 22-18. The run was broken on an attack error, but two straight errors by the Mean Green ended the set at 25-19 for a 2-0 Islanders lead.
The Islanders raced out to a 7-2 lead in the third set before three straight points by UNT after a timeout made it 7-5. Baresh broke the momentum with a kill, but the Mean Green answered right back and worked to a 9-9 tie that forced the Islanders to call a timeout of their own.
In similar fashion to the previous two sets, the teams traded points the majority of the set until back-to-back kills by Alverson and a Baresh service ace made it an 18-15 lead heading into a Mean Green timeout. After the break Bourque and Alverson extended the advantage to four on a block, but three straight from UNT closed the gap to 20-18. An attack error extended the lead before Hall picked up two kills and Brink picked one to bring up match point at 24-20.
UNT scored three straight to force an Islanders timeout, and then added another after the break to even the score at 24-24. It did not rattle Texas A&M – Corpus Christi though, as Hullum picked up a kill to make it match point once again, and Hall and Hullum combined for a block to end the match with a 26-24 third-set victory.
Next up for the Islanders will be the home opener on Thursday against Central Arkansas. It will also be the "Wash Out" game, with fans encouraged to wear blue as Texas A&M – Corpus Christi tries to open Southland Conference play with a victory.
Live stats and video will be available through www.GoIslanders.com.
For all the latest on Islanders Volleyball, like the team on Facebook (IslandersVolleyball) and follow them on Twitter (@IslandersVB).


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I had my answer from the moment we entered the parking garage: Joe Louis Arena, at 12:30 on a Sunday afternoon against the Hawks, was as electric as a night playoff game.
I would obviously rather see the Wings at 48-0-0 right now, or at least have us back to the point where we're bitching about how the 2nd seed in the West feels like an underachievement. (That sound you hear is a Maple Leafs fan somewhere lighting himself on fire.) But the extra jolt of excitement for regular season games now is awesome. It was January 17th and the place felt the same as it did for the Wings/Ducks game we went to last May.
It was a great game, albeit heartbreaking. The Wings had a handful of opportunities to blow the roof off the place and fell short. A weekend that nearly saw them capture four huge points turned into only two.
... Recap ...
- I think it's Ozzie's turn now. He's been stewing long enough and Jimmy has been on one helluva run that nobody outside of maybe Kyle at BDS thought was possible. I hadn't read anything about who was supposed to start either Saturday's game or this one, so I was shocked (SHOCKED, I say) to see Jimmy starting this game, especially considering the Dallas game ended like 25 minutes before this one started.
- Brad May: 4:47 TOI; 6 shifts; minus-2. I'm beginning to think that Ville Leino got caught in bed with Babcock's wife.
- Lidstrom is so great to watch in person, when you can see what he's doing at all times. There's nothing original that I can add here, but you know what I'm talking about. Is there a better word for "crafty" that I'm blanking on? Because Nick is that. Crafty to the n-th degree. He's too smart for other humans to compete with.
- Of course I'm biased because I was there and saw it live and had a complete out-of-body meltdown when it happened -- but dammit, Datsyuk pulled off the ballsiest, most awesomest shootout/penalty shot goal in the history of the National Hockey League. I'm going to have children for the sole purpose of telling them I saw this shit.
It was all in slow motion. I thought he was going for his signature Turco-undressing move (which previous to this was the coolest goal I had ever seen), and as it happened I thought Niemi out-waited him and was there for the stop. Then it happened. The "Pimp Chip". He not only had to manipulate a goalie into moving the direction he wanted to while maintaining forward motion and absolute control of the puck -- but to top it, he put an impossibly delicate, arching, floating touch over him while skating by. I was honestly so bat-shit after it happened that I didn't even see the Hawks score on their first shootout attempt. Then #44 had an OK goal.
(I'm kidding, it was awesome too.)
- I'm envisioning a world where Patrick Eaves re-signs in Detroit next year. They'll give him a couple more seasons to kill penalties and hustle over every inch of the ice. He'll continue to play his ass off. He will continue to block shots that look painful enough to break bones, then somehow suck it up and kneel down for another block three seconds later. He will score a few big goals as more sneaky-good shots continue to come out of his stick. He will be endeared by Detroit for many years to come.
This changed how the game felt. Eaves was bloodied and Versteeg scored the takedown but the Wings got more out of this fight than the Hawks did.
- I'll leave you with a little story. We sat in the 2nd to last row of the lower bowl in 103. I was on the aisle. During the 1st period, I hear some murmuring going on behind me.
I turn around. It's Ted fuggin' Lindsay. He's watching the game, as he often does, standing where the ushers do on the concourse level. Like 6 feet behind me, smiling, just chillin' like he's common folk. Terrible Ted looks like he's about 5'1"/95 lbs, yet one glance at him and I can tell that he could kill me with his bare hands. I was flipping out a tad.
"OHMIGODDUDE .... TED LINDSAY IS RIGHT BEHIND US" (I'm Mikael Samuelsson when I'm nervous.)
"WOW, go shake his hand or something!"
"Come on, you're a huge Red Wings fan ... It's TED LINDSAY"
A few minutes of hockey passes before us. I'm hardly paying attention as I say say the words "THAT'S TED LINDSAY" seven more times. Then play stops for a whistle. I turn around again.
Me: "Uh.... hey Ted ..." /waves hand.
Ted Lindsay: "Hey."
And that, my friends, is the story of how Ted Lindsay and I became best friends.


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Inter have confirmed the signing of Gary Medel from Cardiff City for an undisclosed fee.
The Chile midfielder had already been training with his new team-mates, but the Italian club did not officially announce his arrival until Saturday.
Medel, who made 34 Premier League appearances for Cardiff in the top flight last season, has signed a four-year contract at San Siro.
Speaking to the Serie A outfit's official website earlier this week, Medel said: "Yes, I'm finally at Inter and I'm thrilled to be at this great club.
"I'm working hard and hopefully I'll be ready to play for Inter soon. I'm really happy to have joined a great club where there are lots of great players.
"Hopefully my team-mates and I will be very successful this season."
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|Konoplyanka joins Schalke on loan
|Mustafi finalises Arsenal move
|Chambers loaned to Middlesbrough by Arsenal
|Ajax snap up Ziyech from Twente
|Kenedy joins Watford on loan from Chelsea
|Cuca backs ´golden boy´ Gabriel Jesus to take off at Man City
|Aguero´s brother joins Cadiz on loan
|Leicester made €30m bid for Adrien Silva, father reveals
|Schweinsteiger feels ´deep gratitude´ for Germany career
|Swansea complete deal for Barnsley defender Mawson
|Perez delight at Arsenal signing
|Inter complete Gabriel capture
|Mariappa returns to Watford
|Aguero charged over Reid elbow
|Hart pictured with Torino shirt ahead of loan switch
|Albrighton pens fresh Leicester deal
|Hull seal club-record Mason swoop
|Pjanic confident Juve debut is on the horizon
|Lucescu confirms Juventus interest in Witsel after Everton snub
|Messi trains ahead of Argentina return
|Villa sign Kodjia in a deal worth up to £15m
|Marshall leaves Cardiff and heads to Hull
|Rosicky returns to Sparta Prague
|Gnabry close to Werder Bremen switch
|Arsenal complete Perez deal
|Celtic sign Gamboa from West Brom
|Remy joins Palace on season-long loan
|Kante like a rat - Hazard
|Rooney proud to break England outfield caps record
|Rooney to quit international football after World Cup
|Barcelona sign €30m Valencia striker Alcacer
|Koke and Vazquez welcome Laporte to Spain fold
|Schweinsteiger has no ´personal problems´ with Mourinho
|Alcacer, Hart, Wilshere and the deadline-beating deals still to come
|Antonio thought first England call-up was banter
|Premier League a completely different market - Heidel
|Lens completes Fenerbahce loan move
|Pescara awarded points after Sassuolo field ineligible player
|Lyon calm Lacazette injury fears
|Bamford joins Burnley on loan
|Van Basten to leave Netherlands´ backroom staff for FIFA role
|Ventura perfect for Italy - Verratti
|Martial needs to be more consistent - Deschamps
|Verratti not happy at PSG - Ventura
|Ventura: I´ll probably manage Chelsea when Conte leaves
|Bartomeu: Barca discussing new contract with Messi
|Bauza: No doubts over Messi motivation
|Schmeichel targets quick return after surgery
|Giovinco to help aid earthquake victims in Italy
|Ancelotti backs Madrid for LaLiga and Ronaldo to be top goalscorer
|Gomes: Portugal can deal with Ronaldo absence
|Sterling reveals Guardiola impact
|Fiorentina deny approach for Chelsea target Alonso
|Allardyce confirms Rooney retains England captaincy
|Hart to join Torino – agent
|Sanches withdrawn from Portugal squad
|Sporting CP issue Adrien Silva clarification amid Leicester links
|Watford confirm Okaka signing
|Manchester City outcast Zuculini seals Rayo Vallecano loan switch
|Dembele offers something different - Deschamps
|Sunderland would just love to get rid of me - Lens
|No Casillas in Spain squad represents a ´new era´, says Ramos
|Zenit defender Criscito could return to Italy, claims agent
|Barcelona reveal Messi hamstring injury
|Modric named new Croatia captain
|Napoli announce Rog signing
|De Boer is building something at Inter - Morratti
|Keane eyes coaching career after international retirement
|Bravo left out of Chile squad for family reasons
|West Brom announce Chadli signing
|Former Dodgers owner set for Marseille purchase
|Ferdinand: I reached out to Wenger
|Holgate has big quality for a young player - Koeman
|Manchester United want to keep Rojo, says agent
|Low not concerned by captaincy as Germany bid farewell to greats
|Aguero pulls out of Argentina squad
|Howedes: Germany must prove themselves all over again
|Ventura close to tears on first day of Italy training
|Torino interested in City outcast Hart
|Adrien Silva hoping to seal ´exceptional´ Leicester switch
|Boufal joins Southampton from Lille for club-record fee
|Villa outcast Lescott joins AEK Athens
|Milner: I´m learning left-back role as fast as I can
|Allardyce ready for Hart transfer disruption
|´Door always open´ for Barkley - Allardyce
|Xhaka like Petit, claims Wenger
|Coric: I was a medical away from joining Liverpool
|Pasalic keen to put injury troubles behind him at Milan
|Guardiola delighted with Sterling form
|Rooney should retire from England duty - Shearer
|Hazard can ´decide´ the title - Ivanovic
|Allardyce hails ´outstanding´ Antonio
|Belgium can make history - Henry
|Nice president: Call Balotelli and tell him we need a striker
|Modric would like to see out career in Madrid
|Geromel replaces Caio in Brazil squad
|Mustafi: Ozil convinced me to join Arsenal
|Pardew confirms ´one or two´ more signings
|MLS Review: Kaka brace denies NYC top spot, Timbers beat Sounders
|Mihajlovic: I won´t waste anymore breath on Maksimovic
|Okon named Central Coast Mariners coach
|´Special´ Rashford will get chance - Rooney
|Injury forces Schurrle out of Germany squad
|Burke snubs Premier League interest to join RB Leipzig
|Guardiola: Nasri has a future at City, if he wants it
|Klopp confident ´all will be good´ with Sturridge
|Emery confident PSG will bounce back
|Athletic may strengthen squad - Valverde
|Fabregas dismisses exit rumours, committed to Conte and Chelsea
|De Boer encouraged as Inter´s wait continues
|Barca ´strengthened´ by Luis Enrique´s 100th win
|Fekir to undergo knee operation
|Monaco 3 Paris Saint-Germain 1: Ligue 1 champions suffer early loss
|Aguero facing possible Manchester derby ban
|Athletic Bilbao 0 Barcelona 1: Rakitic strike extends Barca´s strong start
|West Ham´s Antonio handed first England call-up
|Guardiola ´so optimistic´ after Man City´s perfect start
|Inter 1 Palermo 1: Icardi gets De Boer´s men off the mark
|Credit Guardiola for boost in form, says Sterling
|Manchester City 3 West Ham 1: Hosts stay perfect under Guardiola
|Cavani won´t return to Napoli - De Laurentiis
|Pulis puts 48-hour deadline on Berahino future
|Zaza awaits ´new adventure´ at West Ham
|Karanka open to transfer ´surprises´ after strong Middlesbrough start
|Dost completes Sporting move
|Allardyce wanted N´Zonzi for England
|World Cup could be expanded - Infantino
|West Brom 0 Middlesbrough 0: Booed Berahino benched for dour draw
|Gyan´s ´destiny´ in England, Sunderland return an option
|Zidane wanted Pogba and Madrid are weaker without him - Raiola
|Juventus end Matuidi pursuit
|´He´s freaking amazing!´ - Balogun hails Dortmund´s Dembele
|Thohir thrilled as Inter confirm Joao Mario signing
|Fabinho expects Monaco stay despite Manchester United links
|Infantino has Blatter wine cellar removed as part of FIFA reform commitment
|West Ham seal Zaza loan
|Joao Mario posts heartfelt thanks to Sporting after record-breaking Inter move
|Aguero: I´m not competing with Ibrahimovic
|Mihajlovic: Maksimovic is dead to me
|Risdon replaces Wright for Socceroos
|MLS Review: DC United in goal-fest, Impact stun Toronto
|Schmeichel to undergo surgery
|Milik revels in ´dream´ brace as he ignores Higuain shadow
|Rossi to join Celta Vigo
|Ayestaran: Barcelona target Alcacer unable to compete
|Simeone: Winless Atletico must remain calm
|Griezmann: Atletico must improve or face relegation fight
|Sterling ´feels the love´ at City - Guardiola
|Stones glad he did not end up at Chelsea
|James impact earns Zidane´s praise
|Montella bemoans AC Milan´s indiscipline
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The Backstreet Boys are heading back to the Bay Area.
The multiplatinum act, which ranks as one of the most successful "boy bands" of all time, performs Sunday at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View.
The Boys are touring in support of a fairly new album -- last year's "In a World Like This" -- but that surely won't stop them from finding time to play all the old hits. Avril Lavigne opens the concert.
Show time is 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $23-$150, www.livenation.com.
House calls: Most people know him as Dr. Gregory House from "House," the Golden Globe-winning drama that ran on Fox-TV from 2004 to 2012.
Yet, Hugh Laurie is more than just an acclaimed actor -- he's also a fine singer and multi-instrumentalist.
He is currently on the road supporting his second studio album -- 2013's bluesy, jazzy "Didn't It Rain" -- and performs with the Copper Bottom Band on Tuesday at Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga. Show time is 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $30-$99.50, www.ticketmaster.com.
He also plays Wednesday at the Fillmore in San Francisco. Show time is 8 p.m. and tickets are $49.50, www.livenation.com.
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Texas A&M – Corpus Christi women's tennis players Sandra Burges and Stefania Nicolae spoke to Mathis High School students on Friday as part of the Ambassador's Suitcase program at the University.
The Ambassador's Suitcase is a citizen diplomacy project that strives to establish a better cultural understanding among South Texas middle and high school students. The program allows Texas A&M – Corpus Christi international students to present their country to South Texas students and retirees at Trinity Towers.
Nicolae is a native of Pitesti, Romania while Burges calls Zaragoza, Spain her home. The Islanders duo visited the students to discuss their experiences as international students and to talk about the differences between European and United States education systems. They also shared the culture from their homeland with the high schoolers.
The participation in the program is just one of the ways that the tennis program and all of Islanders Athletics are helping give back to the Corpus Christi community.
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6.2-3 Threatening in the Second Degree -- § 53a-62
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§ 53a-62 (a) (1): that person, by physical threat, intentionally places or attempts to place another person in fear of imminent serious physical injury.
§ 53a-62 (a) (2): that person threatens to commit any crime of violence with the intent to terrorize another person.
§ 53a-62 (a) (3): that person threatens to commit any crime of violence in reckless disregard of the risk of terrorizing another person.
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§ 53a-62 (a) (1): made a physical threat to another person. A threat is the expression of an intention to injure another person. A physical threat is a threat accompanied by some action, such as words accompanied by a threatening gesture. A physical threat may also occur if the defendant expresses the threat in the person's presence and has the apparent ability to carry out (his/her) threat. Mere words are insufficient to constitute a physical threat; the defendant must also indicate by (his/her) actions an intent or an ability physically to carry out that threat. The conduct of a person, even without words, may be sufficient to cause fear in another person.
§ 53a-62 (a) (2) or § 53a-62 (a) (3): threatened to commit a crime of violence. A crime of violence is one in which physical force is exerted for the purpose of violating, injuring, damaging, or abusing another person. The state must prove that the defendant behaved in a manner that indicated (his/her) intent to commit such a crime.


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Landrum man accused of kicking in door remains in critical condition after self-defense shooting
Published: Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 1:08 p.m.
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A man accused of kicking in the door to a home Friday night and then being shot by the homeowner remained in critical condition at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center on Saturday.
According to an incident report from the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office, Dakota Shad Hester drove to a home on Highway 14 in Landrum at about 6:20 p.m. Friday. Hester's wife was inside the residence with the homeowner, according to the report.
Hester, 35, of 116 Edgewood Ave. in Landrum, is accused of kicking in the locked back door to the home. His wife met him inside the door and tried to "calm him down," according to the report. She told deputies her husband grabbed her around the throat and pushed her against a wall.
Hester then went upstairs, where the homeowner had locked himself in his bedroom. When Hester kicked in the bedroom door, the homeowner shot him multiple times, authorities said. The homeowner then used his fire department issued radio to call 911 and went to the road to wave down first responders, according to the report.
Hester was airlifted to Spartanburg Regional, where he had surgery Friday night.
If Hester survives and his condition improves enough to be released from the hospital, Master Deputy Kevin Bobo said he will be charged with criminal domestic violence and burglary.
The 7th Circuit Solicitor was consulted on this case, and the homeowner does not face any charges because he acted within his rights of self defense, Bobo said.
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Glamour magazine called Come Back, the first nonfiction collaboration by Claire and Mia Fontaine, the "best mother-daughter memoir," while the New York Times Book Review praised it as, "a testament to the power of the love."
The Fontaines are back with Have Mother, Will Travel, a beautiful, thoughtful, insightful, inspiring book that brilliantly captures the changing relationship between a mother and her adult daughter. Seen within the context of an unforgettable round-the-world adventure, the emotional milestones reached and the new understandings and appreciations achieved will warm the heart and nourish the soul—an extraordinary journey that should not be missed by armchair travelers and by mothers and daughters everywhere.
Their bestselling memoir, Come Back, inspired readers with the story of Mia Fontaine's harrowing drug addiction and her mother, Claire's, desperate and ultimately successful attempts to save her. Now, a decade later, as Mia finds that adult life isn't all it's cracked up to be, Claire realizes that she forgot to plan for life after motherhood. Determined to transform themselves and a relationship that has frayed around the edges, the pair sets off on a five-month adventure through twenty cities and twelve countries: an extraordinary, often hilarious journey that includes mishaps, mayhem, and unexpected joys, from a passport-eating elephant in Malaysia to the lavender fields of France, where they finally make peace with their tumultuous past. Wiser for what they've learned from women in other cultures, and from each other, they return with a deepened sense of who they are and where they want to go.
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"Have Mother, Will Travel is filled with what I would have given anything to experience and treasure with my own mother—the inner workings of our hearts and thoughts. I love these women!" — Leah Komaiko, author of Am I Old Yet?
"A beautiful, funny, and oh-so-representative peek into how complicated—and wonderful—a mother-daughter relationship can be…. I could feel, as a mother and a daughter, every struggle and bump in the road…the love between a mother and daughter, while not always sunshine and daisies, will never end." — Ree Drummond, author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks
"Finally, a book that celebrates the complexities of the mother-daughter bond with humor and depth. Both authors come to terms with who they are as women—together and apart—as they traverse twenty countries. Their relationship is an inspiration; you'll want to travel every step of the journey with them." — Maureen Murdock, author of The Heroine's Journey and Unreliable Truth
"Nobody writes with as much honesty, bravery, and humor as Claire and Mia Fontaine when it comes to the dynamic of the complex, baffling, nurturing, infuriating, comforting labyrinth known as the mother/daughter relationship. No matter how far we travel or what we do, we will always be one." — Tracey Jackson, author of Between a Rock and a Hot Place: Why Fifty Is Not the New Thirty
"An extremely insightful and inspiring look at how we relate, with our loved ones, with ourselves, and the world….Their courage in examining themselves, and their relationship, reminds us how important it is to stay mindful and proactive in all of our relationships, especially with our family." — Janice Croze, founder, 5minutesformom.com
"As a mother of young daughters, I finished this book with such anticipation for the future, inspired by the relationship that Claire and Mia have formed through challenges and triumphs…. I found myself falling deeper in love with the soul–transforming journey of both loving a mother and raising a child." — Kelle Hampton, author of Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected
"If you like Eat Pray Love then check out Have Mother, Will Travel...Written in alternating voices, the book humorously documents the power of travel to test and deepen relationships." — National Geographic Traveler
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Back in the late 1990s, a stock analyst on a TV money show was asked if he thought it was a good time to buy Microsoft stock. Digging deep into his reservoir of pomposity, he said, "The stock market is open 250 days of the year and any one of those days would be a good time to buy Microsoft stock." So, here is Microsoft, years later, at roughly the same price it was then. What did he know?
The same might be true of Apple (AAPL) when it comes to professionals getting it wrong. The New York Times recently cited that virtually all of the 52 analysts who ranked Apple termed it a buy throughout last year and all but two of them still think it's great after having watched the stock drop by over 30 percent. If there's a point to be learned from this, it's that analysts don't know any more than we do when it comes to predicting the future value of a stock. The world's largest company has become an obsession -- more like a source of wonderment -- for today's investors.
Unbeknown to many, those of us with 401(k) plans and IRAs invested in mutual funds are heavily invested in Apple, even if we have been unaware that our funds had purchased lots of the stock. The greater fool theory combined with the wisdom of crowds prompted most fund managers at the helm of large-cap funds to invest in Apple shares because everyone else was doing it. It helps to remember that fund managers don't get fired if they keep pace with their peers -- only when they fall below the pack for sustained periods. Like a chapter from the "Left Behind" series of religious books, managers tend to invest in many of the same companies. If they're going to go over the cliff, they want the company of the rest of the lemmings.
Ultimately, the current price of a stock is based on the collective wisdom of what people feel will be its future stream of profits. With Apple, which is sitting on more than $100 billion of cash right now, the mind is free to wander when it comes to speculation as to how that money will be deployed into the future. Everything from computers in eyeglasses to automobile manufacturing has been considered as a possibility or generating future revenues. At the same time, whatever fantasies they bring to fruition are expected to be as profitable as their current phenomenal product mix.
It hasn't always been this way. Apple went public in 1980 at $22 a share and had dropped to $3 by 1984. It reached $32 at the height of the dot-com boom in 2000, but that reflected two 2-for-1 stock splits in 1987 and 2000, so a pre-'87 share by then had morphed into 4 shares worth $128. Yet another split in 2005 brings that share count to 8 shares. Imagine how ecstatic an original buy-and-hold investor might have been a few months ago when their 8 shares hit $700 each. And think about the person who waited until after the IPO to buy their shares at just $3 each a few years later. For every three 1984 bucks, they had $5,600.
But, when we fall in love with a stock, it's important to recall that the stock doesn't love us. It's like the attraction of a "bad boy" or "bad girl." Apple's amazing trajectory started with having been the largest public offering after Ford Motor, but its history since has been a roller coaster in an industry that, itself, is fraught with volatility. By comparison, the price of Berkshire Hathaway stock in 1980 was $380. Today, it's flirting with $150,000. That's about a 400 times increase in value, but the steady rise in value over the years, investing in staid insurance companies, banks and railroads, has allowed investors to sleep at night. No Berkshire Hathaway investor ever stared at a statement showing that their stock had lost more than 90 percent of its value. Trying to guess where Apple stock might go next is just a form of entertainment. John Spooner's book, "Do You Want to Make Money or Would You Rather Fool Around?" says it all for those with illusions regarding a single stock's future performance. In the end, there's no substitute for diversification. Put your eggs in a bunch of baskets, and rebalance those baskets from time to time.
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Concord — Five New Hampshire faith-based and social groups are planning a "week of action" to protest the detention and deportation of immigrants who have not committed serious crimes.
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CONCORD -- De La Salle's Bob Ladouceur is two wins shy of becoming the first California high school football coach to reach 400 career victories.
He'll go for No. 399 on Saturday when the Spartans try for a fourth consecutive California Interscholastic Federation Open Division state title against Centennial-Corona. But there's a chance he won't reach 400.
The Spartans' season will end Saturday night, and Ladouceur, 58, has said this year or next could be his last before retirement.
To be fair, Ladouceur makes this claim every year, says De La Salle defensive coordinator Terry Eidson. But this season Ladouceur mentioned it to a television reporter before the North Coast Section championship win.
Since then speculation has accelerated, but Ladouceur prefers not to talk about it right now.
"It'll be sooner rather than later, that's the reality of it," said Eidson, who has coached alongside Ladouceur for 30 years. "It's not way down the road. He says it every year, but he's getting more near that point."
Four hundred wins probably is one of the last things on Ladouceur's mind.
"Do you think he even knows?" Eidson quipped.
One of the most celebrated high school coaches in any sport, Ladouceur has always been far more concerned about getting the most out of his players than any personal achievements.
"I thought it was a milestone to get 300, but I don't really count them," Ladouceur said earlier this week. "I feel good about what I've done. I don't need a record to validate anything."
Ladouceur's accomplishments at De La Salle are unparalleled.
His 398 wins come along with just 25 losses and three ties for a .934 winning percentage.
Since taking over at De La Salle as a 25-year-old in 1979, Ladouceur has guided the Spartans to 28 NCS titles, including a current stretch of 21 straight. They have won four state titles in the state event's six years, including three consecutive, and haven't lost to a Northern California team since 1991.
Amani Toomer, Maurice Jones-Drew and D.J. Williams are among his former players that have gone on to the NFL. Dozens more have gone on to successful college careers.
De La Salle vaulted into the national spotlight when it won a national-record 151 straight games from 1992-2004.
Eidson says Ladouceur has the same approach to coaching as he did 10 years ago when the Spartans were in the middle of that streak.
"He's unrelenting in pushing kids to reach their potential and that has never changed," Eidson said. "That is one of his greatest strengths, knowing the ability of his players and pushing buttons until he gets it out of them. It's a special skill set, understanding where a kid can find success on the field and his unwillingness to let them be mediocre. Lad will push the right buttons until it happens."
De La Salle's major games are often on television, and Ladouceur gives off the impression that he is quiet and stoic as he paces the sidelines.
Not so, say senior captains Michael Hutchings and Austin Hooper. He's still intense, he's just not throwing headsets.
"Coach Lad is a character as you get to know him, but he's also about business," Hutchings said. "All the coaches are. ... He'll get on you. His words are powerful. He may not say much, but his words are extremely powerful."
Hutchings, Hooper and the rest of the senior class will play their final game as Spartans on Saturday. A win would cap a fourth straight season without a loss to a California team. That could be a pretty nice way to go out if Ladouceur decides he's ready. But so could getting win No. 400 next year.
"Ten years ago I don't think he was looking for any of those things -- this many wins or that many," Eidson said. "As you get older and realize you're not going to coach forever, you start looking at how things have gone. Four hundred wins is a big milestone for any coach in any sport, and I would think that's something he would be very proud of, no doubt."
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Number of victories for the all-time winningest high school football coaches in California:
398 -- Bob Ladouceur*, De La Salle
360 -- Marijon Ancich, St. Paul-Santa Fe Springs/Tustin
338 -- Herb Meyer, Oceanside/El Camino-Oceanside
301 -- John Barnes*, Magnolia-Anaheim/Los Alamitos
292 -- Dick Bruich, Fontana/Kaiser-Fontana
290 -- Leo Robinson, Woodlake
289 -- Gene Vollnogle, Banning-Wilmington/Carson
289 -- Lou Farrar*, Charter Oak-Covina/Royal Oak-Covina
288 -- Bob Johnson*, El Toro/Mission Viejo
279 -- Gary Campbell, Banning/Norco
Other local coaches
269 -- Benny Pierce, Saratoga
264 -- Butch Cattolico, Los Gatos
248 -- Dan Shaughnessy, St. Mary's-Berkeley/Salesian-Richmond/Albany
240 -- Mike Janda*, Bellarmine College Prep-San Jose
233 -- Ron Calcagno, St. Francis-Mountain View
* -- Active
Source: Cal-Hi Sports
Saturday's game
CIF Championship, Open: De La Salle (14-0) vs. Centennial-Corona (14-1), 8 p.m., CSNCA


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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Judgment: Electronic Edition, by Charles GrayTable of Contents
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13.53 Irving having accepted that Hitler was profoundly anti-semitic until he came to power, the question is whether, as Irving claimed, he lost interest in anti-semitism from about 1933 onwards because it was no longer politically advantageous for him.
13.54 In his comprehensive and scholarly report, Longerich analysed the evidence of Hitler's anti-semitism both before and after 1933. He examined in particular Hitler's public pronouncements on the Jewish question. I have already set out in this judgment many of those statements. Ignoring for the moment the question whether Hitler was advocating the deportation of the Jews or their extermination, the argument appears to me to hopeless that after 1933 Hitler lost interest in anti-semitism or that he ceased to be anti-semitic when he came to power. Despite his increasing preoccupation with other matters, Hitler reverted time and again to the topic of the Jews and what was to be done with them. He continued to speak of them in terms which were both vitriolic and menacing. For the reasons which I have already expressed in the earlier paragraphs of this section of the judgment, I am satisfied on the evidence of his public statements that Hitler's anti-semitism continued unabated after 1933.
13.55 But account must also be taken not only of what Hitler said but also of what he did or authorised to be done or at least knew was being done in relation to the Jews. In the following paragraphs of this judgment I will summarise what appears to me to be the evidence of Hitler's involvement in the successive programmes of shooting, deporting and gassing Jews in large numbers. This evidence (which is in large part accepted by Irving) would in my view convince a dispassionate historian of Hitler's persistent anti-semitism. Even if (which I do not accept) the evidence supported the proposition that Hitler's policy towards the Jews remained throughout that they should be deported, it cannot in my view sensibly be argued that uprooting Jewish men, women and children from their homes and dumping them in often appalling conditions many miles away to the East was other than anti-semitic. I therefore reject as being contrary to the evidence Irving's claim that Hitler ceased to be anti-semitic from 1933 onwards.
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Law enforcement shortage not helped by gas industry boom
AUSTIN — A lack of law enforcement personnel in Texas isn't being helped by the natural gas boom, and the Department of Public Safety is concerned more drugs are flowing into the country with fewer people watching the border.
The Senate Finance Committee meeting with the DPS unearthed issues with trooper retention and pay that contribute to shortages on the highways and along the border.
"We don't have enough people, we don't have the resources that we need throughout the state," DPS Director Steven McCraw said.
In many cases, troopers aren't paid enough and many cannot juggle the long hours and small pay.
McCraw said they're also now competing with the oil and gas industry boom. He said DPS has lost many troopers with 10 or more years of experience to South Texas oil and gas facilities, which pay more.
The problem with retaining troopers extends into the Board of Pardons and Paroles, which is experiencing a shortage of prison guards and has been offering signing bonuses to recruit more guards.
The Department has asked for a one-time funding shift of $11.2 million in general revenue to beef up border security with the purchase a $6.3 million surveillance airplane, $1.1 million motorized river patrol boat and a $3.8 million for other surveillance measures.
"The border doesn't stop at the border," McCraw said. "If you've got a drug problem in New York," it started in Texas.
In a brief moment on levity, the committee laughed about narcotics found inside a chicken — allegedly used to put the scent off for a dog.
"They haven't interviewed the chicken yet," one lawmaker joked.
DPS will release a comprehensive state intelligence assessment on public security threats in the coming weeks that could deal with drug trafficking and other threats.


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DARTMOUTH — A regional economy based in the life and marine sciences, alternative energy and advanced manufacturing is poised for growth, but now "we need to close some deals," a top state economic development official said Friday at a breakfast hosted by the SouthCoast Development Partnership.
The breakfast focused on two major state investments — New Bedford's offshore wind port terminal and Fall River's BioPark — which require business tenants in order to bring jobs to SouthCoast.
"The next step in our trajectory is really to go out and get some companies," said Greg Bialecki, the secretary of the Executive Office of Housing & Economic Development. "I think the time is right. Even though we're still getting over the downtown, we're seeing more and more companies with an interest in expanding and they're looking for opportunities."
The BioPark, which does not yet have a commercial tenant, is in a position over the next four years to seize on business from pharmaceutical companies feeling pressure from investors to outsource their research and development processes, said Paul Marshall, senior vice president of operations for Amylin Pharmaceuticals.
The park, built to be versatile, will also benefit from its ties to UMass Dartmouth and its location in a region that is already a world leader when it comes to bioprocessing, he said.
"To think small about this facility is thinking wrong," said Marshall, whose father managed Carter's clothing for 42 years and who graduated from UMass Dartmouth. "I really believe this facility can go far in meeting the needs of the industry, especially with the way shareholders are pressuring companies today to use their money.
"You have a tiger by the tail in opening up this center."
Cape Wind President Jim Gordon, who has been trying to build the first offshore wind farm in North America for 12 years, said he hoped to start his project in earnest in the next year to take advantage of a federal tax credit.
Cape Wind, now fully permitted and in the procurement stage, is currently tied up in two lawsuits, which are in the appeals stage, Gordon said.
"Somebody should ask why this is being delayed after this has gone through all this scrutiny," he said. "If we can break through this logjam, Massachusetts will be the North American leader in offshore wind."
About 140 people attended the breakfast, which was held at UMass Dartmouth and which officials said repeatedly is crucial to the region's economic progress. "We're not going to go anywhere as a region unless we have a really solid partnership with the university. ... UMass and BCC have to be at the center of those efforts," said New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell.
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Finnish Nuclear Reactor 'May be Seven Years Late'
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Finnish electricity company TVO said on Monday that an EPR nuclear reactor being built by Areva and Siemens may not be ready until 2016, contradicting Areva's claims that it would be completed in 2014.
"Based on the recent progress reports received from the plant supplier … TVO is preparing for the possibility that the start of the regular electricity production of Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant unit may be postponed until the year 2016," the company said in a statement.
In August, TVO said that the reactor being built in southwestern Finland would not be ready to produce electricity in 2014, but declined to give a new completion date.
Areva president Luc Oursel told a Finnish business daily in September that the group was on track to complete the project in 2014.
TVO lacked "an adequate schedule update", but about 75 percent of the installation works had been completed, the Finnish company's project manager, Jouni Silvennoinen, said Monday.
"Although TVO is not pleased with the situation and repeated challenges with the project scheduling, the works are proceeding," he said.
Monday's announcement marked only the latest in a string of setbacks for the construction project, which began in 2005, with the reactor initially supposed to begin producing electricity in 2009.
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OM3N wrote: Wow, this is quite a development. He could have been dead for a long time and we would never know.
If anybody hasn't seen this "Vice Guide to North Korea" Please do watch it. It is quite an insight, probably the best you can hope to see as a North American.
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Sniper26 wrote:Watch it there rookie. Some guys have more than their share of winter rounds in and just don't care to do it much anymore. We know your like a kid with a new toy but watch out who your calling a sally for not getting out every day in the winter.
Well said, Although I do stick with it. lol.