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The Aussie tennis great's guns have their own Twitter account, @Sam'sBiceps.
"I'm gifted in that way, I guess you could say," Stosur said this week.
But on Wednesday at the Family Circle Cup, the focus was on Stosur's heavily wrapped right calf. A calf strain caused her to pull out before the quarterfinals at Indian Wells last month, and limited her practice time heading into the Family Circle Cup.
Would the injury slow down the 29-year-old Stosur, who just celebrated her birthday with a night out at Charleston restaurant FIG? Would it prevent her from adding another Family Circle Cup title to her 2010 crown?
Stosur answered those questions, at least for the moment, with a 6-1, 6-2 clubbing of New Zealand's Marina Erakovic before an appreciative crowd at Billie Jean King Court on Daniel Island.
Though she was not pushed to any extreme, Stosur showed no ill effects from the injury, slamming five aces at up to 118 mph and winning in just 73 minutes.
"So far, so good," Stosur said of the offending calf. "I already iced it, and I'll go back to see the trainers. But it felt good out there. Couldn't really complain."
Stosur's fearsome forehand was on fine display, and she might have even turned it up a notch in an effort to keep the match short.
"I think for sure I probably had maybe a bit more of an aggressive mindset," she said. "It helps, in that that's the way I like to play anyway. But I
certainly went for my serve a lot,and whenever I had the opportunity I really tried to get the ball off the court. It probably helped me kind of think, OK, this is going well and I've got to keep at it."
Earlier this week, Stosur called her 6-0, 6-3 win over Vera Zvonareva in the 2010 Family Circle Cup finals "the best nine games of my life." She won the first nine games of that match, taking the first set in just 18 minutes in a jaw-dropping display.
"It'd be nice if you could wake up every day and play like that," she said.
In many ways, Stosur has spent the last two years trying to get back to that level. She peaked at the 2011 U.S. Open, defeating Serena Williams in the finals, becoming the first Australian woman to win the Open since Margaret Court in 1973.
But she failed to win a tournament in 2012, went out early in two majors, and then after ankle surgery last December lost in the second round at the Australian Open in January.
"I think it was just tricky," she said. "It was a totally different experience for me. It was the best moment of my life, career-wise and I enjoyed every single second of it.
"... You kind of want to click your fingers and and pick up from where you left off, and it didn't happen. So then, you feel like there is a major letdown."
With her head back together, Stosur's biggest concern this week is that calf. She will get a 19-year-old qualifier, Eugenie Bouchard of Canada, in the third round and is on track to face No. 2 seed Caroline Wozniacki in the semifinals.
"I'll take it day by day," she said. "I mean, it's all great, but I don't want to get ahead of myself and think, 'Now you can go out and do what you would normally do.'
"So I certainly want to keep doing the right things as far as getting treatment and then wake up (today) and hopefully it will all be fine."


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Second only to finding that perfect location with lots of color contrasts, lighting is a very important place to start when composing that perfect fall shot. It is generally agreed that when shooting at this time of year, there are two kinds of lighting that make the most of the atmosphere. The first is to shoot on an overcast day because it allows for soft, even lighting. Lighting may be cool and bluish, and therefore require some white balance adjusting, but the shadows are still softer on overcast days and the sun isn't washing out the colors.
The second is during the half hour before sunset, when everything is painted in a golden light, because it creates warm, saturated colors. In this setting, your main goal is to preserve the color of the light, which can be done by making sure you position your white balance at a daytime setting. Alternately, you may want to slightly turn up the color temperature.
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SAN FRANCISCO Security in airports and other sensitive areas may get a huge boost, thanks to a technology under development that is straight out of science fiction, said to be capable of looking through clothing to detect weapons and other dangerous items. But privacy advocatesand shy peoplemay have cause for alarm.
Millimeter-wave technology researchers at Northrop-Grumman Space Technology are developing a technology said to enable small cameras to look through clothing and other inert materials to detect weapons or other contraband. This technology, known as passive millimeter-wave (PMMW) technology, can also see through heavy clouds in order to perform aerial surveillance on bad weather days, according materials provided by the organizers of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). Northrop-Grumman researchers plan to present a paper on PMMW at ISSCC here in February 2007.
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Always have their favorite shirt-pants-socks-skirt washed for a zero-meltdown/tearfree morning.
Keep a hard book and pencil in the car for when they need to finish their homework on the way to school.
(You're taking them to school because they don't want to ride the bus anymore and you're not going to make them. Everyone is happier because of it. You see more morning sun and rainbows over the ocean this way.)
Answer the phone when the school calls to bring a change of clothes because there was a spill in the lunchroom. Get there right away and don't make a big deal about it. Hide the spare underwear inside the pants so that nobody sees.
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4 Awful Tips for Keeping New Year's Resolutions
#2. Quitting Smoking with Mushrooms
Like ending a bad relationship, quitting smoking is complicated and messy, and it temporarily turns nice people into terrible human beings. It's also filled with relapses, secret rekindlings, and late night indulgences that just make the process harder in the long run. But unlike a relationship, you can't just move to a new city and leave the problem behind, because addiction is part of you. To get over smoking in a week, you need something more effective than gum or a patch; you need to fight fire with fire. Or more specifically, you need to overcome your drug addiction by doing harder drugs.
Within the last three years at Johns Hopkins University, they have experimented with feeding concentrated psilocybin (the hallucinogen in mushrooms) to smokers to see if it can cure their addiction to nicotine, and it's been working. Incidentally, Johns Hopkins is also testing psilocybin on cancer patients, because apparently throwing mushrooms at problems is their answer to everything.
"The bad news is that you have asthma, the good news is that where you're going, you don't even need lungs.
There have only been four patients in the nicotine study so far, and all of them have quit smoking completely, although the sample size isn't big enough for Johns Hopkins to feel comfortable revealing their methods yet. But that certainly can't stop a diet-pill-popping, positive-thinking miracle of personal success like you from trying to replicate it.
Once you're properly dosed up, there's no harm in giving yourself a little extra insurance by participating in one of the many online hypnosis sessions for smoking cessation. Now, there's a good chance your trip will last for a long time, since the closest thing to actual nutrients in your body is vegetable broth, so you may want to have a couple other videos lined up as well. I recommend this completely normal, not at all mind melting animated short film about the effects of smoking played on repeat:
With any luck, you won't even need a full week to quit smoking -- it should happen in just a few hours.
#1. Trying Something That Scares You
One of the benefits of charging through your resolutions all at once is that you'll find along the way that many of them overlap and complement one another. As you branch out of your normal life into near starvation, mind control, and hallucinogens, you will also discover a vast new landscape of horrors previously unknown to you. Horrors you can then overcome.
Silence, death, time, and umbrellas (depending on where you are in your psilocybin adventure) will all appear to you in new hideous gradients and textures, a new relevance you never understood before because you refused to look closely. Suddenly you'll realize that you unconsciously reached a point long ago when you stopped saying hello to the world and started saying goodbye to it. Just existing from breath to breath will feel terrifying and heroic under the new looming shade of death as it spreads those hideous, dark wings above you. Your only weapon is, itself, part of the hovering nightmare; that single rod of metal or plastic polymer and a stylishly curved handle that is specific to umbrellas. Wrap your fingers tightly around it, you are in control. My god, you're brave. The new year is lucky to have you.
There is no turning back.
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Gone With the Wind turns 75
I ran across an article this morning that mentioned that Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind turns 75 this month. In June of 1936, Mitchell published this now classic saga while recovering from a broken ankle. It was an instant hit, and brought immediate fame to the Atlanta journalist.
What is it about? Well....er...I haven't actually read it. "I'll never go hungry again!", right? But I only know that from the movie. It is high time to put this book on my to-read list.
But in the course of reading the article, I was reminded of two of my favorite civil war novels, both of which feature complex and interesting female characters.
Cold Mountain is a book that is hard to describe and the simple plot elements don't seem like they would add up to much. Warning! For the most part, not much happens. Inman walks. Ada grows. Ruby softens. Despite the action at the end, that is about it for plot details. But the combination of those three unforgettable characters is enough to fill more than the written 400 pages. The movie starring Nicole Kidman and Jude Law follows the book very closely, but the language and writing of the book make it a fantastic read.
Widow of the South by Robert Hickman is based on a true story of Carrie McGavock and the bloodiest battle of the Civil War - the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee. Carrie's plantation is requisitioned for a Confederate hospital, and the ghosts of the past and future change Carrie's life forever. The real Carnton Plantation is now the location for the largest privately held Confederate cemetery, and was originally carefully arranged and documented by Carrie.
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Should the trial of the football players charged with rape in Steubenville be moved?
rpmwwe, as long as the move consists of them...outta of State. I can't even fathom what it is like in Stuebenville right now. That circus is out of control. Rumors have it, every thing is in disarray, from the schools to business to public opinion, embarrassment to shame. The biggest laugh I got was now their infamous leadership is gulping air with the fact over money...how are we going to pay for all this damage? Duh!
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December 9, 2011
Stephanie J. Kline, senior elementary and early childhood education major of Derry has been named to the 2011 edition of Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges and was recognized as an outstanding campus leader during the annual Saint Vincent College Founders' Day Vespers and Honors Convocation Thursday, November 17 in the Archabbey Basilica. Ms. Kline, daughter of Jay and Thelma Kline, is a member of Kappa Delta Pi and the Dean's List. She serves as president of the Service Corp for Exceptional Children and secretary of the Early Childhood Education Club. Ms. Kline is a lunch buddy at Latrobe Elementary School for Big Brothers Big Sisters. She is a 2008 graduate of Derry Area High School. The Who's Who students are selected by campus nominating committees and editors of the annual directory on the basis of their academic achievement, service to the community, leadership in extracurricular activities and potential for continued success. They join an elite group of students selected from more than 2,300 institutions of higher learning in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and several foreign nations. Outstanding students have been honored in the annual directory since it was first published in 1934.
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NEGLEY - A Negley man will never know what caused his home to burn to the ground on Tuesday.
Fire Chief Gary Banicki said a state fire marshal inspected the damage on Wednesday and ruled the cause as undetermined.
The fire marshal was called in because Banicki was also unable to determine the cause, although he said it looked like it originated near where the electric was connected to the home.
"There was so much damage there is no way you could pinpoint (the cause)," he said.
The Negley Fire Department and East Palestine and New Waterford department and EMS responded to the Gorby Lake Road home owned by D. Scott Wallace around 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
The Darlington Township fire crew was called shortly after.
Banicki said 25 firefighters battled the first blaze at the home. The Negley, New Waterford and East Palestine crews were called back a second time around 6:30 p.m. for a rekindle that burned up the rest of the one-story wood frame home.
"It was cooking the second time we went up there," he said.
Firefighters spent more than four hours putting out that fire.
The home's location on the rural one-lane, no outlet road made it impossible for more than one tanker truck to get close enough at a time, Banicki said.
"We had to use one tanker at a time backing all the way in," he said.
He added it would have been helpful if crews could have accessed water from the two lakes nearby, but with no roads leading there the trucks would have gotten stuck in the soft ground.
Despite the difficulty, there was enough water available between the trucks that were there, he said.
No injuries were reported on both calls and although the insured home was a total loss the fire didn't spread to a nearby barn or detached garage, he added.
"We didn't really have an exposure problem on that one," he said.
The Negley crew was back at the station only minutes before 11 p.m. Tuesday.
Although located on Gorby Lake Road, the home's address is actually 6607 Carbon Hill Road.


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"A Free, Libre and Open Glossary" is released to the public
New glossary helps break down common open source related terms
A couple of months ago, I wrote the first draft of "A Free, Libre and Open Glossary." I am often frustrated by people using terms like "open source" and "free software" loosely, even though they have fixed and clear definitions. There is a web of terms, many of them using ambiguous terms like "open" or "crowd," that frequently confuse and blur the issue.
The glossary is over 5,000 words, which I appreciate is a slog. My hope is that anyone who makes it to the end will never again confuse "crowdsourcing" and "open source" or assume that "free software" costs no money. (For more on the difference between crowdsourcing and open source, see pages 17 and 18 of the PDF).
Although I wrote the original draft, it has been improved by many contributors who either gave me feedback on discussion lists or were bold and edited the live document directly. Some of the changes made the document more political, as free software advocates refused to accept my brushing off of "free software" and "open source" as synonyms. (For more on the divide between free and open, see page 11 of the PDF).
The discussion of the draft glossary also sparked broader reflections on how we should describe our community and the works and licenses that we use. If "free" implies gratis and "open" could mean anything, what do we have left? Some suggestions were for everyone to get behind "libre" or to use the acronym "FLO." Terms of art, like "open source" and "free culture," are also less prone to bastardization than the broader "free" or "open."
Although the PDF/ODT download fixes the glossary in a stable form (which I consider important for referencing and reliability), the living document on which the glossary was drafted and redrafted is still available and I encourage you to make any changes that you like.
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Very interesting and a good reference for licence virgins like myself.
.....but cant help wonder at any surprise why many big corporates avoid involvement, can get quite confusing:
I wonder why neither document opens. I am on Fedora 19 using Okular and LibreOffice.
David, are you getting any kind of error message? I had no problems opening either document with the same setup you have. I even re-downloaded the files to double check.
Doing a "save link as" did not work for me. I just got some error indicating that the document could not open. I did open the PDF in a new tab in my browser and saved it from there which did work.
Thanks for your response and it is a very helpful document.
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The Stetson men's basketball team looks to snap a three-game losing streak when the Hatters play host to visiting Jacksonville on Saturday. The Hatters and the Dolphins are scheduled to tip-off at 1:00 p.m. from the Edmunds Center.
Stetson is coming off of another tight game at home, falling to North Florida 54-52 on Thursday. That is nothing new to the Hatters, who have played eight of their nine games in DeLand within six points of their opponent.
Jacksonville comes to DeLand with just a half of a game lead on Stetson in the Atlantic Sun Conference standings. The Dolphins are 5-7 during league play after losing to Florida Gulf Coast on Thursday, while the Hatters are now 4-7 following the loss to the Ospreys.
The Dolphins one the first matchup between these two teams this season, winning 88-75 in Jacksonville back on Jan. 9. Redshirt-freshman Brian Pegg was the bright spot for the Hatters in that loss, earning A-Sun Newcomer of the Week honors for his 18-point, 15-rebound career night against the Dolphins.
Stetson trails Jacksonville 45-33 in the storied history between these two teams, which dates back all the way to 1958. JU has won three out of the last four meetings, but the Hatters have come out victorious in the last three held in DeLand.
Saturday's game can be watched on HatterVision, or listened to on WSBB AM 1230, WTJV AM 1490, and online at MyAM1230.com with Robbie Aaron on the call. Live Stats, the @StetsonMBB Twitter feed, and Hat-Alerts are also available for in-game updates.
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"I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system."
- President George W. Bush, Dec. 16, 2008.
It's generally assumed that the Tea Party movement is a response to the fiscal policies of liberal Democrats. That's wrong. The Tea Party movement is a response to the fiscal policies of liberal Democrats and Republicans.
Members of both parties have abandoned free market principles repeatedly, and instead of saving the system, they've gutted it. Thus, today, there are millions and millions of Americans beholden to Washington for just about everything, including food, shelter, clothing and now even health care.
Enter Patrick "Pat" McGeehan and an army of citizens who have had enough. They're usually called Tea Party Conservatives, and they're marching on Washington. Their objective: Freedom.
McGeehan, 34, of Chester in Hancock County, is running to succeed Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., who is retiring after 30 years in office. McGeehan's first hurdle will be the Republican primary in May, and if he clears it, he'll face the Democratic nominee in the fall.
McGeehan is first and foremost a fiscal conservative, and he views high taxes, loose spending and the national deficit ($17.4 trillion) as a witch's brew.
On taxes, he's taken the pledge from Americans for Tax Reform. Bottom line, he promises to oppose new taxes for individuals and businesses.
On spending, he's taken another pledge, this one from the Coalition to Reduce Spending: He will (1) "consider all spending open for reduction and vote only for budgets that present a path to balance," and (2) "vote against any appropriations bill that increases total spending and against the authorization or funding of new programs without offsetting cuts in other programs."
He wants across-the-board budget cuts, back to 2006 levels. Bush's budget that year was $2.7 trillion; President Barack Obama's budget for 2014 is $3.7 trillion.
McGeehan is rock-ribbed. Entitlements programs? Reform 'em. Foreign aid appropriations? Eliminate 'em. Bailouts? Absolutely not. They're "morally and economically wrong in a free-market system." They "reward inefficient and corrupt management while robbing taxpayers and increasing the national debt."
His campaign reaches out to other issues, too:
- Obamacare: Repeal it. It was approved by people with "good hearts but small brains." There are free market solutions out there; we just have to look. He adds that he has signed the "Obamacare Repeal Pledge" sponsored by the Senate Conservatives Fund.
- The Military: We can't afford to be the world's policeman. Deploy troops only to protect our vital national interests. And no military action without a declaration from Congress. Pull the troops out of Afghanistan. Now.
- Gun Control: "The Second Amendment must be kept sacred and protected at all levels."
- Abortion: Life begins at conception. He supports the Life at Conception Act and favors legislation restricting taxpayer support of organizations such as Planned Parenthood. He says "56 million unborn have fallen victim to abortion, and it must be stopped today."
- Immigration: "We must secure our borders first." He also opposes a path to citizenship for people who are in the country illegally.
- The EPA: Dump it. The Obama administration, working through the EPA and around Congress, has declared a war on coal. McGeehan: The agency is "out of control and unconstitutional" and "must be defunded and abolished."
- NSA spying on us and the IRS targeting conservatives: Stop it. "When we, as Americans, permit our federal government to dismiss the Bill of Rights and cast aside Constitutional safeguards, we are setting a stage for the wide scale abuse of power and further corruption."
What makes Patrick run? "I look around and see the special interests, and I'm sick and tired of it. The republic is collapsing. We need to reverse course. I'll uphold the oath of office and support and defend the Constitution of the United States."
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The show features work from more than 60 students from all elementary schools within the county. Examples of artwork include prints, paintings, weaves, masks and 3-D sculptures. The elementary art teachers responsible for bringing out the enormous creative talents of the young children are Joe Merrifield (Union, Hodgesville and Tennerton elementary schools), Heidi Thompson (Rock Cave, French Creek and Washington District elementary schools) and Virginia Hicks (Buckhannon Academy Elementary School).
Families and friends may visit the gallery to view the artwork during regular gallery hours, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, throughout month of May. The show will be judged by the Board of Directors for the Main Street Gallery. Ribbons will be issued to first, second and third place and an honorable mention, at each grade level, kindergarten through five.
A winner's reception will take place from 3 to 5 p.m. May 25. The art teachers said they would like to thank Tom Lynch and all persons involved with the Main Street Art Cooperative for generously hosting the art show. They also wanted to congratulate all the students to took part.


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With volumes ranging from the low tens of milliliters to nanoliters, microbioreactors (MBRs) have become one of the more interesting engineering stories in biotech. At the high-end, MBRs serve as versatile scaledown systems for process development, whose utility is limited only by control capabilities. Capabilities vary significantly below 30 mL or so, but this is where much of the exciting work is going on.
Bioprocessors use MBRs below about 15 mL for cell-line stability studies, strain or clone screening, cell culture medium development (including raw material testing), limited process development (pH, temperature, and dissolved-oxygen optimization), and process characterization/validation studies.
How closely the scaledown model resembles production-scale bioreactors depends on which parameters are identified as critical, how well they are controlled in the MBR, and generally how scale-sensitive the process is to begin with.
According to data from Dasgip, the number of parameters monitored during cell culture or fermentation has expanded from 12, a decade ago, to more than 40 today. Not every process tracks all these variables, but bioprocessors have come to believe that the tighter the control over critical parameters, the more reliable and robust the process, which will be reflected in product quality and consistency.
Dasgip's BioLector, one of a small group of highly controllable MBRs, runs between 6 and 96 individualized fermentations or cell cultures in a microtiter plate format. "The 48- and 96-well plates are the workhorses," says Karl Rix, Ph.D., CEO of Dasgip BioTools. Each well, containing between 100 µL and 1 mL, provides a mass transfer co-efficient (kLa) of as high as 1,000/hr. Wells are covered with a gas-permeable membrane to allow exchange of headspace gas.
The BioLector's claim to fame is its ability to monitor critical process parameters, for example pH, dissolved oxygen, biomass, fluorescence, and others, through noninvasive optical sensors. "The BioLector provides not just an endpoint measurement of any of these parameters, but monitors each well over the course of a fermentation," Dr. Rix adds. "It measures how pH and DO change over time and how quickly nutrients are depleted, for both microbial and mammalian processes."
BioLector monitors wells through fiberoptic probes positioned below each optically transparent well, so any parameter measurable in that fashion is fair game. Turnaround time per measurement for all wells is about two minutes.
Another interesting feature of BioLector is the patented flower-shaped footprint of each well of the 48-well plate, which serves as a baffle to promote mass transfer. "It is this feature," says Dr. Rix, "that provides results that are comparable to large-scale bioreactors."
MBRs always involve some trade-off compared with large-scale reactors, and the BioLector is no exception. Automated liquid additions and pH control are impossible due to the membrane stretching across each well, so the device is not 100% comparable with larger reactors. "But that is not the point," Dr. Rix observes. "Our strength is the ability to screen strains and clones, and to pick ones you'll use at the next level rapidly and efficiently."
The BioLector is based on technology that was developed at the RWTH Aachen University and m2p-labs. Dasgip holds marketing and distribution rights for the device for Europe and North America.
To aid the reproducibility and consistency of cell sampling or the addition of inducer substrates, m2p-labs developed RoboLector™, an automated microfermentation platform. Designed to communicate directly with BioLector software, the RoboLector combines the BioLector platform with a robotic liquid-handling device that can be programmed to manipulate individual cultures at specific time points, cell concentrations, pH, or other parameters.
Seahorse Bioscience's SimCell™ 200 MBR features working volumes (0.7 mL) similar to those of the BioLector. Seahorse claims the product is suitable for screening, media and process optimization, and late-stage process optimization. The SimCell Micro Bioreactor holds up to 200 MBR "cards" of six wells each and provides agitation, feeds, pH balance, and gas exchange. "There are, of course, sampling challenges with this device," says Ashraf Amanullah, Ph.D., a director at Genentech, "but this company has run hundreds of tests and shown good scalability and reproducibility with bioreactors of up to a couple of hundred liters."
MBRs in the next-higher size category include Applikon Bio's family of devices. The company's µ-24 Bioreactor, designed to replace shake flasks and microtiter plates for bioprocess development, consists of 24 vials, each with a working volume of 5 mL. Operators have full control over dissolved oxygen, temperature, pH, and gas exchange within the fully closed containers. The system offers three cassette formats and four different closure options.
"As you would customize a stirred-tank bioreactor, you can customize the µ-24 cassette closure to suit your applications," says David Laidlaw, small scale products manager.
Applikon has another product, the µ-Flask, which works in 24- or 96-well plate formats; it allows reading of pH and DO but does not provide the same level of control as the µ-24.
"There are ways to monitor small cultures, but controls become complicated with really small volumes," Laidlaw says. Another issue with small working volumes is restricted ability to assay or sample the process in ways that provide meaningful data. "If you can't sample, it's very difficult to understand what's going on in there."
Dr. Amanullah has used the µ-24 system for optimizing fermentations of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Escherichia coli, and Pichia pastoris. According to a 2007 study authored by Dr. Amanullah with S. cerevisiae, he observed "high inter-well reproducibility" and runs "demonstrated comparable growth to a 20 L stirred tank bioreactor fermentation by off-line metabolite and biomass analyses."
The E. coli and P. pastoris runs were conducted with rapidly increasing oxygen uptake rates and high cell densities, which required gas blending for DO and pH control. Dissolved oxygen and pH control were challenged in the case of E. coli batch fermentations but not for P. pastoris. "The equipment may be the same for microbial and cell cultures, but the latter have much higher oxygen demands," Dr. Amanullah explains.
When it comes to controlled MBRs, users most often purchase off-the-shelf equipment like the µ-24 system, but it is possible to modify or add on to such systems for high-throughput applications. While he was at his previous company, Dr. Amanullah had Hudson Controls modify the µ-24 with liquid-handling capabilities to automate sampling, reagent addition, and pH control. "The other option is to choose components from various vendors and put them together yourself. It depends on how much know-how exists in your company."
His group at Genentech uses a different, home-brewed system that employs 50 mL conical centrifuge tubes that are manually manipulated, although the liquid handling is automated.
Dr. Amanullah agrees that sampling is a problem with small MBRs used to model larger reactors (vs. screening cells and media). The 50 mL tubes he currently uses model the 2 L bioreactors that are the workhorse volumes at Genentech and permit sampling over 14-day cultures. "You don't want to just sample frequently, but to use the same equipment that was used to sample larger bioreactors. Removing even half an mL [from a 5 or 10 mL tube] to do cell counts and metabolite analysis is difficult. You have to sacrifice tubes, which is not ideal. That's why we decided to operate at slightly larger volumes."
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KINGSTON, R.I. – Eric Mosley hit a clutch three-pointer and accuracy at the foul line brought St. Bonaventure a 67-61 victory over Rhode Island on Saturday in their Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball game.
The last of 13 ties in the closely-contested game, 58-all, came with 2:18 left. Demitrius Conger of the Bonnies put his team ahead to stay with a pair of free throws with 1:57 left.
Rhody had chances to tie the game again, but misses at the line kept Bona in front. It was 62-61 before Mosley hit his three with 22 seconds left. Chris Johnson sealed the victory with a pair of foul shots with 6 seconds left.
The Bonnies rallied from a 51-46 deficit for ties at 53, 55 and 58.
Mosley, who made 5 of 11 three-point tries, led the Bonnies with 21 points while Johnson had 18. Conger played all 40 minutes but scored only five.
Bona made 19 of 22 free throws to 18 of 26 for the Rams, who had a 36-28 advantage on the boards.
The win gave the Bonnies (11-11 overall, 4-5 A-10) a split of their two-game road trip to Butler and here.
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During an anonymous midseason poll of NFL players conducted by the Sporting News, one of the questions asked them to identify what they felt was the worst franchise in the league.
Of the 103 players polled, 19 picked the Jacksonville Jaguars, second only to 20 responses for the Cleveland Browns.
"They've got the tarp over the seats, don't they? It's just not working down there. They need to bring in [Tim] Tebow or something to get people excited, but the NFL hasn't worked there," said one AFC defensive player.
The perception of the Jaguars is that of a floundering franchise, one that can't sell out its stadium and is consistently at the top of the list when the subject of relocation is brought up. That's of particular interest here in Western New York, where the Bills are the "1A" to the Jaguars' "1" when it comes to teams rumored to be on the move to Los Angeles or elsewhere.
The reality, however, appears to be much different under new owner Shahid Khan. For starters, he has repeatedly stated he has no interest in moving the team he acquired almost a year ago to the day from former owner Wayne Weaver for $760 million.
Even if Khan did an about-face and wanted to move the team, the Jaguars' lease with Jacksonville to play at EverBank Field is difficult, if not impossible, to break. That's because of a strong lease agreement, from Jacksonville's perspective, that was negotiated by former mayor John Delaney.
The agreement requires the Jaguars to repay millions of dollars to the city if they were to break the lease, which doesn't run out until the 2029-30 season. The Florida Times-Union reported a year ago that figure was estimated to be $100 million, along with another $1 million per year in ticket surcharge and parking fees.
Khan and the team could get out of about 40 percent of that payout, according to the Times-Union, if the club can show it lost money for a year and had below-average revenue for the following two years.
"The Jaguars weren't looking for a way out," Delaney, who worked on the deal as chief of staff for Mayor Ed Austin, told the Times-Union last year. "But one of the lessons Ed Austin taught me is whenever you go into a partnership, always arrange for the divorce."
Proving the Jaguars met those criteria would require them to open their books, something the NFL is opposed to its teams doing.
That appears to be a long way off. Khan has instead taken on the task of rebuilding the Jaguars to become a success in North Florida.
"Just the presence he brings, as an individual and as a person, he's so powerful. When you hear his story, and when he speaks to you, you're completely confident in everything that he says and everything that he does," said Jaguars linebacker Paul Posluszny, the former Bill. "We have all the belief in his abilities that what he was able to do in the business world, and the success that he's had, he's going to find a way to transfer that to the NFL and to this organization."
Khan, 62, came to the United States at age 16 from his native Pakistan. After getting an engineering degree from the University of Illinois, he went into the auto parts business, working as the engineering director for the manufacturing company Flex-N-Gate. He eventually took over the company, turning into it a billion-dollar enterprise.
Forbes estimated Khan's wealth at $2.5 billion in September, 179th on its list of the 400 richest Americans.
"He's new to the business and is constantly gathering information on how it all works," said current Jaguars and former Bills coach Mike Mularkey. "He's very easy to communicate with. I don't know how he does what he does.
"He has so many businesses all over the world, and he's all over the world. You can call him anywhere – and sometimes I do – and I have no idea what time it is wherever he's at, and he either answers or he calls right back. I mean, the guy, I don't know how he stays so fresh."
Khan has designs on turning the Jaguars into a global brand. The team will play one "home" game each of the next four seasons in London's Wembley Stadium – not unlike the Bills' agreement to play in Toronto's Rogers Centre.
"We want to create an identity, a bold, ambitious franchise that is aggressive and forward-thinking on the field and away from the field," Khan said at the time of the London agreement. "We want to be the kind of franchise players want to belong to, sponsors want to be part of, and Jacksonville is proud of. … The key point is to sell Jacksonville to the world. We are a well-kept secret, but after today, that's not going to be the case."
The Jaguars announced before the season that each of their home games will be aired on local television. The franchise also introduced several initiatives designed to increase ticket sales. Fans are allowed to bring food into the stadium, for example, to avoid paying high concession costs. They can also buy a certificate for up to four tickets the day before a game and then redeem it for unused tickets, some in prime locations, an hour before kickoff.
The results are starting to show. In six home games, the Jags have drawn 382,594. That's an average of 63,765 per game in 67,000-seat EverBank Field, a 95 percent capacity.
"It's a transition period. A new owner, some new faces around, things are going to change a little bit," said Bills linebacker Kirk Morrison, who spent the 2010 season with the Jaguars. "One thing I've noticed since being down there is the fan base. It's a good fan base, but one thing about it since it's an expansion team. The fan base is really 17 years old. It's not the fan base of people who grew up being a lifelong Steelers fan or a lifelong Cowboys fan. Or the Western New York people who have known the Bills for 40, 50 years.
"Their team is starting to expand, get more and more fans, but at the same time, it all comes with wins and losses. … It's an organization that needs to win in order to get the fans to come out. It's a hard-working city. They just want to see a good product on the field."
At least on the field this season, however, success has been fleeting. The Jaguars will enter Ralph Wilson Stadium with a 2-9 record Sunday. Posluszny, however, is confident better days are ahead.
"Now, we've got all the proper guys and everything that we need in place to have success here," he said.
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Robert Pattinson
- early 2000s
Stage Presence
Pattinson attends Harrodian School, a noted institution for drama, and joins the Barnes Theater Club after befriending a group of female drama students while out to dinner with his father. In 2003, Pattinson meets with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire director Mike Newell before flying to South Africa to film the TV movie Ring of the Nibelungs. Upon arriving home, he lands the role of Hogwarts hunk Cedric Diggory.
- 2005
How Harry Met Cedric
Pattinson skyrockets to international fame as ill-fated Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. "The day before I was just sitting in Leicester Square, happily being ignored by everyone," he says at the film's London premiere. "Then suddenly strangers are screaming your name. Amazing!" Director Newell says, "Pattinson was born to play the role; he's quintessentially English with chiseled public-schoolboy good looks."
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Bloody Gorgeous
From handsome wizard to dashing vampire, Pattinson covers EW as Edward Cullen, the immortal hero of Twilight, with costar Kristen Stewart. Portraying the brooding vampire, described as "devastatingly inhumanly beautiful" in author Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series, came with daunting expectations for Pattinson. "I stopped reading [blogs] after I saw the signatures saying 'Please, anyone else,'" the actor says of "Twilighters" initially protesting his casting.
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As the film's highly-anticipated release draws nearer, EW publishes a second Twilight issue with three collectible covers in response to the first cover's polarizing feedback. The ever-increasing buzz surrounding Twilight thrusts little-known Pattinson further into the spotlight. "I asked the producer, 'Is Rob ready for this? Have you guys prepped him? Is he ready to be the It Guy?'" Twilight author Meyer tells the magazine. "I don't think he really is. I don't think he sees himself that way. And I think the transition is going to be a little rocky."
Twilight Takes Bite Out of Box Office
"Twilighters" come out in droves for the film's release, making it the weekend's No. 1 film with $69.6 million. The movie's monumental success leads Summit Entertainment to green light the onscreen adaptation of Meyer's second Twilight novel, New Moon, with Pattinson and Kristen Stewart returning to star. "Props to Stewart and Pattinson for playing this uncool-girl-meets-undead-boy story with genuine romantic ardor," raves Rolling Stone. "You buy the fantasy because Pattinson goes beyond dreamboat duty to create a character you believe in."
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A swoon-worthy Pattinson covers GQ's April issue, but the magazine reveals Hollywood's reigning heartthrob didn't always render people so smitten. "There was a call from the head of the studio," Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke says about execs questioning Pattinson's casting as Edward Cullen. "'Are you sure you can make this guy handsome?'" Fortunately for fans, Hardwicke won out, and says of the star, "He's obviously ridiculously photogenic, but he's also so talented…I see him creating stylized, odd, wild, fantastical characters."
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The highly anticipated sequel, New Moon, opens, pulling in a record $258 million worldwide to become the third-largest debut on record – behind The Dark Knight and Spider-Man 3. "I think very few human beings will ever get to experience the same feelings and love we feel at Twilight events," Pattinson says at the movie's premiere.
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Although they've been coy about their relationship, Pattinson and Stewart privately step out to welcome 2010 together on an island off the south coast of England. But Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke spills the beans to Time about their romance: "I think it took a long time for Kristen to realize, 'OK, I've got to give this a go and really try to be with this person.'"
'Remember' Rob, Not Edward
In Remember Me, Pattinson leaves Edward Cullen behind to play a rebel without a cause, opposite Pierce Brosnan and Emilie de Ravin. "It was the most ridiculous experience," he says of shooting the movie as fans looked on. "You're trying to stay in character and you're trying to walk down the street, but all those people keep reminding you that you're not this character."
Eclipsing the Competition
The third Twilight film, Eclipse, rakes in more than $150 million during its first week at the box office, making way for two more sequels based on the final book, Breaking Dawn. "I can barely remember the last two years," Pattinson tells Details. "Not like a haze of partying or anything like that. Just it's been crazy."
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My ILs will be visiting this weekend for the first time since my son was born. He will be 6 weeks old on Saturday. They have only called once to see how he's doing. They've never asked for pictures, although DH has texted them a few to be nice. They have showed NO interest in my precious baby, so of course, I don't care at all that they are coming to see him. I know they will try to play GPOTY while they are here, and it's going to piss me off royally.
I know that they will try to undermine me and DH & tell us everything they think we are doing wrong. I will shut it all down immediately. I have learned so much from all of you, and I thank you all so much for helping me grow a spine and getting us into counseling so that DH could grow one as well.
I need encouragement from you now. I don't know how I'm going to get through the few days they are here. They will NOT be staying in my home. As wonderful as DH is, I'm sure he will go into self-preservation mode and have a really hard time shutting them down. I have NO problem shutting them down myself (baby steps for him, he will definitely back me up, just might not be able to be assertive himself).
Any last-minute tips for surviving this visit? I hate these people with a passion, and I don't say that lightly.
*Note: DH recently lost his job (last thursday, actually), and has not told them. He was just hired at a new job today, but won't start until next weekend. They don't know any of this yet, and we're planning on bean dipping them about it.*


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Each year in the United States, more than 700,000 new cases of stroke are diagnosed and ?more than one million people suffer heart attacks. Avoid becoming part of those statistics ?by understanding how you can lower your risk and learning where you can find support.
Some heart attack or stroke risk factors—such as age, family history and gender—are beyond your control. However, these tips can help lower your risk.
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Cigarette smokers are two to four times more likely to develop coronary heart disease and have an almost doubled risk for stroke.
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Below, we've defined three main kinds of squirrel-resistant feeders:
Baffles & Baffle-style Feeders
A baffle is a very effective way to keep squirrels from accessing your bird feeders. The baffle is usually shaped like a large dome or cylinder, and the idea behind it is this: a squirrel will try to climb to the feeder from the hanging wire (from above) or from the mounting pole (from below). When the squirrel encounters the baffle, he is hindered from accessing the feeder because he cannot crawl around it or stay on top of it long enough to get at the seed. You can buy a standard baffle to use with an existing feeder, or choose a baffle-style feeder that has a baffle built in. Some squirrels, however, find ways to get to the seed in spite of a baffle. They simply find a launch point from which to jump on top of the baffle. On some feeders, the motion created by the jump, even though the squirrel is bounced off immediately, is enough to spill out seeds onto the ground, which squirrels then devour. This technique does not work when the baffle is below the feeder, provided the feeder is located far enough away from tree branches or other launch points. The following feeders are examples of baffle-style feeders, along with their noteworthy features:
Two-Way Squirrel Baffle: This versatile baffle hangs above or mounts below feeder to frustrate thieving squirrels.
Jagunda Feeder with Auger System: This deluxe model is baffled on the top and the bottom and has a steel auger-end pole for ground installation.
Dome Baffles: Turn any feeder into a squirrel-proof feeder AND protect it from the elements.
Squirrel Baffles: For almost any pole feeder, wobbly and slippery to discourage squirrels.
Triple Tube Feeder: Includes a lifetime warranty. You can offer three types of seed. Slick copper top deters squirrels. Simple to fill, saves seed.
Squirrel Buster Classic: Weight-sensitive perches close when squirrels and larger birds try to feed. Patented ventilation system prevents mold and seed spoilage. Protective wire mesh cage.
Tension or Weight Balancing Feeders
A more sophisticated approach to squirrel deterrence is achieved through tension or weight balancing feeders. These are usually a little more expensive, and they are designed to prevent access using counterbalanced baffles or spring mechanisms that cause the seed ports to close when any animal as heavy as a squirrel comes to feed. Simply put, when a squirrel steps onto the feeder, the seed ports close, and they get no meal. On some of these feeders, you can adjust the tension of the mechanism to the weight that fits your needs. Some owners want only the smallest of birds to feed, so they set the tension very light. The following feeders are examples of tension or weight balancing feeders, along with their noteworthy features:
Squirrel Be-Gone: Protective mesh barrier plus spring that causes weight of squirrel on any portion of feeder to close off food access.
Squirrel-Be-Gone II Country Feeder: Four-position, adjustable spring allows for custom settings of the weight-activated perch
Squirrel Be-Gone III Triple Tube Feeder: Three separate seed tubes. Adorned with brushed copper oak and maple leaves. Nine, sturdy, staggered feeding ports.
Magnet Squirrel Resistant Feeder: Four weight-activated magnetic perches collapse under the weight of squirrels and starlings.
Original Absolute Feeder: Weight-activated baffle and locking lid keep squirrels out. Spring tension perch allows you to adjust the amount of tension needed to close the baffle.
Reflective Red Bird's Choice Feeder: Hopper feeder features weight-sensing perch that locks down seed when larger animals try to raid seed.
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Barrier feeders work a couple of different ways to deter squirrels. They either help prevent a squirrel from accessing the seed, or they have special features that protect the feeder from damage when a squirrel uses his typical rough antics to try to get at the seed. The best barrier feeders include both these features. For instance, some barrier feeders feature an external metal cage around the feeder unit. The cage has bar spacing that is too small to allow squirrels to pass through, yet not too small for the likes of backyard songbirds to get at the inner seed ports. Barrier feeders can also include features like locking roofs, thick PVC walls, and steel ports, which squirrels cannot chew through. The following feeders are examples of barrier feeders, along with their noteworthy features:
No/No Series Feeders: Squirrels can't damage or chew through their all-metal construction. Built to last for years. Easy to clean, just use dishwasher. No assembly required and multiple styles to choose from.
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WASHINGTON – Federal law enforcement officials are sharpening their focus on the widow of the dead suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings after finding al-Qaida's Inspire magazine and other radical Islamist material on her computer, according to law enforcement officials.
The probe of the computer belonging to Katherine Russell, 24, the widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, is part of the effort by investigators to determine whether Russell knew anything about the April 15 bombing plot or helped the Tsarnaev brothers hide from authorities, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, the surviving suspect, has told investigators that he and his brother learned to build the pressure-cooker bombs from English-language Inspire magazine and that they were partly influenced by the online sermons of Anwar al-Awlaki, the al-Qaida propagandist who was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in 2011.
According to officials, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev also told investigators that he and his brother built the bombs in Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Cambridge apartment, where the elder brother lived with Russell and their daughter. Officials said Russell called her husband when she saw his photograph on television, following the FBI's release of photos of the suspects after the bombings, but did not notify authorities.
Meanwhile, Newsday reported that a bathtub and kitchen sink in the apartment tested positive for residue from explosives. The testing was performed by federal explosives experts, and the results suggest bombs were either built in the bathroom and kitchen or stored there at some point, a law enforcement source told Newsday. One of the key questions for investigators is whether the radical Islamist materials on Russell's computer belonged to her or were downloaded by her husband or someone else.
Russell's attorney did not return phone calls seeking comment. The attorney, Amato DeLuca, has previously said his client played no role in the plot and was shocked to learn of the involvement of the Tsarnaev brothers.
Monday, FBI special agents spent about 90 minutes inside the North Kingstown, R.I., home of Russell's parents. The agents left with bags of material and a sample of Russell's DNA.
Two law enforcement officials said that investigators found fingerprints and female DNA on fragments of the pressure-cooker bombs that exploded at the marathon.
The DNA could have come from a woman who helped the suspects make the bombs or from a person who handled the materials at a store where the suspects bought them, said the officials. The DNA may have also come from someone in the crowd at the marathon, one of the officials said.
In another development, a funeral director in Worcester, Mass., said Tamerlan Tsaernav died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso. Peter Stefan has Tsarnaev's body and read details from his death certificate. The certificate cites Tsarnaev's "gunshot wounds of torso and extremities" and lists the time of his death as 1:35 a.m. on April 19, Stefan said.
Tsarnaev died after a gunfight with authorities who had launched a massive manhunt for him and his brother. Police have said he ran out of ammunition before his younger brother dragged his body under a vehicle while fleeing,
Meanwhile, federal agents, state troopers and local law enforcement officers scoured a wooded area near Dartmouth, Mass., where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev attended college. Investigators are looking for possible evidence that might indicate the brothers tested explosives there, according to a law enforcement official. Residents in the vicinity had reported hearing loud noises coming from the woods March 30.
FBI spokesman Jason J. Pack said that the Dartmouth search by law enforcement and explosive-sniffing dogs is part of the continuing investigation into the bombings.
Law enforcement officials said several "persons of interest" in the United States and Russia are being investigated in connection with the brothers. One subject of primary focus remains the seven months that Tamerlan Tsarnaev spent in strife-torn regions of southern Russia in 2012.
During 16 hours of questioning in the hospital by the FBI, the younger Tsarnaev told agents that he and his brother initially considered carrying out suicide bombings and executing their plot on the Fourth of July at Boston's large celebration along the Charles River, two law enforcement officials said.
But Tsarnaev said that he and his brother decided to launch their attack earlier because they were able to assemble the bombs in three or four days, more quickly than they had expected, according to the officials.
Officials have expressed skepticism about Tsarnaev's account, saying that the complexity of the bombs makes it unlikely that the brothers could have completed assembling them as fast as he claimed.
According to a government document obtained by NBC News, a detailed analysis of the bombs used at the Boston Marathon – and the pipe bombs allegedly thrown at police from the Tsarnaevs' car during a gunfight four days later – show striking similarities to instructions from Inspire magazine.
The report from the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center said that the design of the pressure cooker bombs and the pipe bombs resembled the instructions provided in an article in the first issue of Inspire headlined "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom."
The Boston pressure-cooker bombs use different triggers and power sources than the Inspire designs, but they match the instructions in the use of several components, including gunpowder from fireworks, according to the TEDAC analysis.
In another development, the administrator of a fund created to help the more than 260 people injured in the bombings and the families of the three who died in the attack plans to meet with victims next week with hopes of cutting the first checks by the end of June. Kenneth Feinberg is overseeing One Fund Boston, which has taken in more than $28 million as of Friday. The Boston Globe said the families of those who died and survivors who lost more than one limb in the attack could be in line to receive more than $1 million, while people who lost a single limb could get up to $1 million.
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Watching film of Louisville demolishing Colorado State is going to be scary enough for anyone who has to face the Cardinals over the next two weeks.
Hearing what coach Rick Pitino said afterward is going to be downright terrifying.
�We can play much better,� Pitino said. �This is the best we have played so far at both ends of the floor. ... But we can definitely get better and improve.�
It�s tough to see how.
Russ Smith scored 27 on 7-for-15 shooting, three other Cardinals reached double figures, and top-seeded Louisville put on a defensive clinic in dismantling Colorado State 82-56 on Saturday.
Louisville forced the eighth-seeded Rams into a season-high 20 turnovers and outrebounded Colorado State 29-24 � no small thing considering the Rams came in with a nation-best plus-12 margin. Colton Iverson and Pierce Hornung, the country�s best rebounding tandem, managed just eight.
Greg Smith led Colorado State (26-9) with 14 points, while Dorian Green, who�d scored 26 against Missouri, was held to just six on 2-for-13 shooting.
�I don�t want to put the pressure on Rick and his guys, but they�re special,� Colorado State coach Larry Eustachy said. �They need a little luck like everybody does to win it all, but that�s as impressive team as I�ve been against, certainly.�
Louisville (31-5) will play 12th-seeded Oregon on Friday in Indianapolis. The Cardinals have won 12 in a row since a five-overtime loss to Notre Dame.
�Our preparation coming into every game has to be sky-high,� Kevin Ware said. �Coach P doesn�t allow any letdowns.�
Playing Louisville and its relentless press is about as much fun as facing a really angry octopus. The Cardinals look as if they have eight players on the floor, what with all the arms waving and bodies smothering whoever has the bad luck to have the ball, and when one guy sits down, there�s one just as physical right there to take his place.
Few teams have had much success against Louisville � there�s a reason the Cardinals are the overall No. 1 seed � but Colorado State seemed as if it might have a shot. The Rams run a motion offense that�s tough to defend, grab rebounds by the dozens and are a savvy, veteran team that doesn�t turn the ball over. In fact, when Pitino made out his �dangerous� list before the tournament began, Colorado State was on it.
�We were sick about this game,� Pitino said. �We really were.�
So much for that.
Colorado State actually shot the ball well � 47.5 percent. The Cardinals just wouldn�t let them do it very often, limiting the Rams to 18 shots in the first half and 40 total.
They hounded Colorado State when it was inbounding the ball; the Rams had back-to-back possessions in the first half when they couldn�t even get the ball in play. They circled Colorado State when the Rams brought it up, with more than one turnover coming on a desperation heave across midcourt to beat the whistle. And, of course, they clogged up every inch of the court where the Rams might have a view of their basket, repeatedly slapping the ball away or stepping in front of passes.
The Rams reached their season average in turnovers (11) by halftime, and topped their previous worst for the season (16) with 15 minutes, 33 seconds still to play.
�We�ve seen them against North Carolina A&T and some other teams and kind of get prepared for it. But you see the bodies out there flying around and doing what they do, it�s a lot different,� Greg Smith said. �It�s just total chaos. Some of those guys are just so fast, and you may think that you have an open lane, or you think the pass is coming, and they close it down so quick.�
Meanwhile, the Cardinals were scoring at will.
Two days after matching the NCAA Tournament record with eight steals, Smith�s well-rounded scoring line had Louisville fans chanting �Russ Arena� � sure to go over well with the Kentucky fans. Even LeBron James took note, saying on Twitter: �The lil homie Russ Smith putting on a show right now! (hasthtag)onfire�
After Daniel Berajano�s 3 pulled Colorado State within 21-19 with 9:12 left in the first half, Russ Smith went off. His 3-pointer sparked a 22-7 run that effectively put the game out of reach. Though five Cardinals scored during the spurt, Russ Smith did most of the damage with 13 points in about six minutes.
He finished the day 4-of-7 from long range, and missed only one of his 10 free throws. He also had three rebounds, two assists and two steals.
�Just give him the ball. It�s as simple as that,� Peyton Siva said of his backcourt mate�s hot streak. �He�s a scoring machine. He makes my job a lot easier. I just have to feed him the ball, get my assists up and get back on defense.�


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