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Rebecca Romijn
- 1970s
A Model Childhood
Romijn's father Jaap, a furniture maker, and mother Elizabeth, an English teacher, divorce when she is seven years old. Her parents live across the street from one another and raise Rebecca and younger sister Tamara to value hard work and humility. "I'm a diligent person, and that came directly from having hardworking parents," she tells In Style in 2006. "They also gave me a certain amount of humility."
- 1991
An American in Paris
Romijn enrolls at the University of California at Santa Cruz to study singing. After her freshman year, a friend who models takes Romijn to an agency in San Francisco and the 19-year-old is offered a contract to model in Paris. "In retrospect it was scary," she tells In Style in 2006. "I didn't have any money, I didn't know where I would live." But the gutsy move pays off when she lands the cover of Elle. "I became more confident, and I polished up. Living in Paris was a crash course in chic."
- 1994
Becca the Babe
After three years of modeling in Europe, Romijn returns to the U.S. where she is chosen to model for lingerie giant Victoria's Secret. "I don't mind doing sort of sexy, raunchy pictures if there's a sense of humor about it," she admits to Detour. That year, she also poses for Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue, eventually landing the cover in 1999.
Meanwhile, Backstage . . .
Romijn, 21, meets Full House star John Stamos, 31, (right) while backstage at a Victoria's Secret fashion show in New York City. "He took my breath away," Romijn tells In Style in 2001. "I just went, 'Oh my God. That's the most beautiful human being I've ever seen!'" The relationship blossoms from a friendly first date at Disneyland to their engagement on Christmas Eve 1997 when Stamos presents Romijn with a 1930s platinum four-carat Boucheron diamond ring.
- 1997
Hello, Beautiful
PEOPLE picks Romijn for its annual 50 Most Beautiful issue. Among fellow models, Romijn is known for her wacky sense of humor. "She's so funny," fellow catwalker and pal Tyra Banks (left) tells PEOPLE. "I get a cramp in my side from laughing at her jokes." In 1999, Romijn makes the list again.
A Friendly Revelation
Romijn plays David Schwimmer's (right) perfect scientist-girlfriend with a freakishly messy apartment on Friends. "You know that old joke about a person hearing music when they have a major revelation," she tells the Orange County Register. "That's what I had on the set of Friends...I realized I wanted to be an actress. I realized I loved performing." In 1999, she returns to TV as David Spade's wife on Just Shoot Me.
House of Style
Romijn replaces Daisy Fuentes as host of MTV's fashion TV show, House of Style. "She has a root-for-her beauty," MTV president Judy McGrath tells PEOPLE. "Women don't resent her. She's real." The gig lasts until 1998. "I was getting very antsy and restless just modeling," she confesses to the Dallas Morning News in 1998. "I was bored off my ass, basically. It's not a very stimulating job."
- 1998
Going Against Type
Determined not to be typecast in roles that focus on her looks, Romijn makes her film debut as a drunken, bearded lady in the 1998's Dirty Work. Though the comedy, which stars Norm MacDonald, is a dud (less than $10 million at the box office), Romijn enjoys the work. "Making people laugh is the greatest experience," she tells the Chicago Tribune. "You really feel like you're doing your job right: communicating. That immediate reaction is so satisfying."
Becoming Romijn-Stamos
Wearing a low-cut, empire-waist Badley Mischka gown, Romijn marries John Stamos (left) at the Beverly Hills Hotel in front of 400 guests, including Tyra Banks, David Spade and Rob Schneider. An hour before the ceremony, Stamos sends Romijn chocolate-covered strawberries and a box with a note that says, in part, "I'll see you at the altar, and will know it's you because you'll be wearing this pin." She wears the antique heart pin in her hair and becomes Rebecca Romijn-Stamos.
- 2000
Paintstaking role
In the first film installment of the comic-book-inspired X-Men trilogy, Romijn-Stamos dons blue body paint to play the evil mutant Mystique (right). Though the film grosses more than $157 million at the box office, it had its drawbacks – including the eight hours it takes to get into character. "It was a drag to sit through eight hours of makeup and then be expected to act and be evil, when I was ready to pull my hair out," she tells the Chicago Tribune. She reprises her role in the 2003 and 2006 sequels with Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry.
Photo Credits
BIOGRAPHY (top to bottom): Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic; Ron Galella/Wireimage; Everett Collection; Everett Collection; Landov
- Name
- Rebecca Romijn
- Date of Birth
- November 06, 1972
- Birth Place
- Berkeley, Calif.
- Relationships
Jerry O'Connell, husband (2004 to present)
John Stamos, ex-husband (1994 to 2005)
- Children
Dolly Rebecca Rose, twin daughter (12/28/2008)
Charlie Tamara Tulip, twin daughter (12/28/2008)


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Vast amounts of genomic discovery research have yet to be translated into routine clinical use. In the meantime, scientists continue to advance molecular diagnostics, building evidence to support its use in predicting the best therapeutic approaches.
Each tumor is a unique evolutionary process with an individual genealogy. Comparing the DNA sequences of tumors with those of normal tissues typically gives little information about disease-process dynamics. RNA profiling can be enlightening, but this technique, like DNA sequencing, is complicated by enormous signal-to-noise problems.
"Signal to noise is a major issue. Most diagnostic approaches do not even think about it or how to deal with it," explained Lee Hood, M.D., Ph.D., co-founder and board member of Integrated Diagnostics and co-founder and president of the Institute for Systems Biology.
"Blood illustrates disease dynamics in a way that diseased tissue cannot, for you can follow disease progression and therapeutic response," added Dr. Hood. "That is an enormous benefit in evaluating disease onset and progression. In cases where a clean phenotype separates disease from normal, blood proteins will be the disease diagnostic of the future. In the end, proteins are the biomarkers closest to the biological action."
Three million lung nodules are identified annually, 600,000 of which fall into an intermediate category. Surgical results indicate that 50–60% of intermediate-category tumors are benign nodules, creating unnecessary system costs.
Integrated Diagnostics' Xpresys Lung molecular-blood test provides noninvasive, objective information for assessing pulmonary nodules. The test is intended to measure the relative abundance of 13 proteins across multiple lung cancer disease pathways. These proteins, selected from almost 400 candidates, constitute a panel that can identify 60–70% of benign nodules, eliminating unnecessary surgical intervention.
The 13 proteins map into three major disease-perturbed networks for small cell lung cancer. These pathways reflect the biological disease process. After additional optimization and validation, these biomarkers may allow observation of disease progression and therapeutic response.
"I believe that in five years, blood diagnostics are going to be the key disease diagnostics," asserted Dr. Hood. "Furthermore, these diagnostics have the ability to stratify complex diseases into subgroups to better gauge therapeutic reactions."
Dr. Hood predicted that a new medicine is coming: "In 10 years, every patient will be surrounded by a virtual data cloud with billions of data points. We will learn how to reduce that data dimensionality for each individual to discover their internal, external, and environmental stimuli to optimize their health. In the beginning it will be crude, but with time it will become more powerful."
According to Dr. Hood, the new medicine will be predictive, personalized, preventive, and participatory—or "P4," to be succinct. "Molecular diagnostics will provide the tools to identify and predict disease. Systems approaches will generate preventive drugs or vaccines, plus the focus on wellness will be a powerful preventive. 'Participatory' is the largest challenge. All stakeholders have to accept this new transformation of medicine."
"It is a very exciting time in diagnostics. We are right at the beginning of a revolution and it is going to be really transformational," concluded Dr. Hood.
Lung cancer is particularly amenable to genomic-based therapies. Work substantiating this observation has been carried out by Trever Bivona, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of medicine/hematology-oncology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). According to Dr. Bivona, UCSF's Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center has been using whole exome and transcriptome deep sequencing for nearly a year to systematically identify molecular biomarkers of response and resistance to specific targeted therapies in lung cancers.
Data are synthesized in a clinical time frame and used to direct the mechanism-based treatment of lung cancer patients, after the research-grade test results are validated in a CLIA setting.
The approach provides a comprehensive and unbiased view of the genetic architecture of each individual patient's tumor, and can unlock the genetic secrets of tumor initiation and progression. This enables a context-specific understanding of the molecular pathogenesis along with biologically precise, individualized therapies that improve patient outcomes.
Barriers slow the translation of discovery work into clinical application. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms present bioinformatics challenges that the modern pathology laboratory is not equipped to deal with. And with the exception of the large teaching hospitals, there are very few community physicians that have a great degree of facility with genomics.
"If you do not understand the tests underlying the diagnostic, it is not going to be part of the evidence base that you use to make therapeutic choices. We have a huge job in front of us to train physicians so they understand the value of 'omics in the context of clinical care," explained Elaine R. Mardis, Ph.D., professor of genetics and molecular microbiology at the Washington University School of Medicine and co-director of the university's Genome Institute.
Reimbursement remains a confusing landscape. Some single-gene tests—for example, EGFR mutations for lung cancer—are standard-of-care and covered under insurance. Larger tests that look at multiple, hundreds, or all genes need to demonstrate clinical efficacy, and to be packaged into a palatable bite for payers. All of these parameters need to be satisfied for the successful introduction of genomics as an element for routine cancer patient care.
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Greeley-area women are blogging about their lives as moms, wives, sisters (dads!), friends and women. Meet them. And follow their stories at www.greeleytribune.com/greeleymoms.
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Age: 40
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Occupation: My most important one is stay-at-home dad. I'm also an author (my first novel is going nationwide this summer), a contributing writer for a national news-commentary website and a part-time software developer and website designer.
About: I grew up in Lakewood, Colo., and came to Greeley in 1992 to attend UNC. After graduating from their business school, I became a permanent Greeley resident, going to work for a local software company and later starting a family. My passion is writing, which you can learn more about at johndalybooks.com.
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About: My time is spent volunteering in classrooms, taking kids to activities and all of the other things moms do. For the last six years, I have helped my husband run his optometry practice by doing the bookkeeping, payroll and staff management. I have a BA in English/Creative Writing from Metropolitan State University in Denver. After completing requirements for a CO teaching license, I began teaching in 1997. I continued on to complete my MA in Curriculum and Instruction in Elementary Ed from CU Denver in 1998. I was an elementary classroom teacher in Ft. Morgan, CO until my daughter was born in 2002. I have maintained my teaching license, though I am not currently in the classroom. I also spend time writing and am currently working on my own project. I consider myself to be a student of life who believes acceptance is the best gift we can give one another.
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All Quiet on the Cubs Front
These few weeks before spring training starts is about as dull as it gets around these parts. We're all still waiting on Cespedes, but with Jedstein and their cone of silence, it's not like we can expect many leaks. There's also the case of the musical 40-man roster chairs with the Cubs having to drop someone once they add Gerardo Concepcion. Vegas money should be on Andy Sonnastine with Marcus Mateo and his lack of options a strong second. And the issue of compensation for both Theo and Jed still looms with no foreseeable end in sight.
I've got my annual prospect list-mania post coming up for Monday which always includes my delusional top 16 which should be good for laugh. It doesn't appear our pal Arizona Phil put up a list this year unfortunately, so you'll have to get your prospect fix from the national guys.
Speaking of Arizona, I'm sure most of you know about "Boys of Spring", the site run by the spring training P.A. announcer Tim Sheridan. While we anxiously await Arizona Phil's wonderfully detailed posts from camp, that can hold you over with pretty pictures. From what I can encode from his posts so far, the following have showed up at Arizona: Justin Bour, Zeke DeVoss, Dustin Geiger, Josh Vitters, Jim Adduci, Matt Cerda, Tony Campana, Dave Sappelt, Jeff Samardzija, David DeJesus, Darwin Barney, Matt Garza, Dale Sveum and Dave McKay. I'm sure there are others, but those seem to be the ones mentioned. He did a little paraphrasing from a pep talk Sveum was giving the kids earlier last week.
- There will be no excuses for not doing something the right way.
- Theo Epstein is one of the smartest people he's ever been around, and that Theo will not accept mediocrity, not from himself, not from anyone.
- Making excuses is caused by your own insecurities and lack of preparation.
- So many games are won by one run and the Cubs will prepare and do all the little things the right way in order to be the team that wins those close games.
He also told the guys they are being given the greatest opportunity in all of sports, to be the players who win it all after 103 years.
The words sound nice, let's see if he backs it up with some Soriano benching when he glides into 2nd base after a drive to right center that he gawked at.
Back to Cespedes, George Ofman whom rivals Phil Rogers in bad scoops, did tweet that someone has made a bigger offer for the Cuban outfielder than the Marlins and we obviously know the Cubs interest. Time will tell...
I leave you with these words from the Cubs Ivy League leader.
"I don't agree with the word 'rebuilding' ever," he said. "Because, for one thing, it denotes that you're building something that already existed, but that's not how baseball works. You're constantly growing and moving onto the next iteration of the club, so I think building is the appropriate [word] -- sure we're building in Chicago, but we went through some building phases here. The art of it is trying to do it in a way where nobody notices. When you're winning 95 games a year and getting into the playoffs, then people don't notice that we've integrated a lot of this talent and we've made a lot of short-term sacrifices for long-term stability. I think there were a lot of times when we were able to pull that off here [in Boston], there were a lot of times that we failed as well."
Until Monday...
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Yahoo fantasy baseball is open.
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I listened to the interview live locally in the car. It was nice to hear one of the new suits. What Hoy also stated about Sori was that not only was it unlikely that he would NOT be with the team - he was "working hard" during the off-season to try to get on base more apparently. How does one do that at his age exactly?
As it stands, we all know that there ain't a lot of run producers on the current roster. So if he has another .276 obp year, its gonna be interesting to find out if the team can achieve 70 wins.
To their credit, the hosts on WMVP (one a lifetime season tix holder) asked some decent questions I think, if you check ROB G's links.
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"he was "working hard" during the off-season to try to get on base more apparently. How does one do that at his age exactly?"
if people knew how to do that at any age you'd have a highly paid batting coach with a job for decades.
i imagine he'll take 2 foot widths off the top of the box rather than 1... =p
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Was he still using that 10 ton bat last year? I can't remember. If so, wouldn't it help a bit to go a little lighter? I guess it won't help his on base ratio but, come on, dude, you're 36. Let it go. And maybe you won't think you have to start your swing as soon as the pitcher begins his windup.
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yeah, still using a huge bat.
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Lighter bat could absolutely help, if he'd actually make adjustments. Lighter bat means quicker swing means a longer time to assess the quality of the pitch.
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If he's still using the heavy bat, he's beyond help.
Re: heavy bat???
The Soriano bats for sale on EBay are 35" and only 33 ounces.
Rangers: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Alfonso-Soriano-Game-...
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Yeah, but those are the giveaway bats for kids on bat day.
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Did he put the dog on the top of his car?
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Probably failed a physical or a drug test. Why else?
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Bad breath?
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Steven Maxwell was the Cubs 37th round selection in the 2011 Rule 4 Draft (First-Year Player Draft). and because he was a college senior with no eligibility left, he remained on the Cubs Negotiation List past the 8/15 deadline, and would have remained on the list through May 27, 2012 (one week prior to the 2012 Rule 4 Draft) if he had not signed.
In true Bluto Animal House fashion, Maxwell actually spent six years at TCU, getting an academic redshirt in his freshman season (2006) and a medical redshirt in 2008 when he underwent TJS. (He is now 24 years old).
He had an outstanding year in 2010 while a member of the Horned Frogs College World Series squad, and was named Mountain West Conference Pitcher of the Year and a 2nd team All-American. He was selected by the Minnesota Twins in the 12th round of the 2010 Rule 4 Draft but did not sign.
He opted to return to school and pitched for the Frogs again this past season (2011), but struggled off & on with a sore arm, causing his draft value to plummet. So I suspect he failed his physical and had his contract voided.
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Would you guys consider using coke, pot, booze etc....would you consider those PED's?
Saw this discussion on boo-yah.com....just can't believe that these are considered PED's.
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I am always amazed at those guys that can show up and play when they're either still drunk or hungover.
Those soft tossers and splitfinger guys always throw better when they're hungover because they aren't overthrowing. Aside from that, I cannot understand how anybody, especially a hitter, can play when he's drunk. Does not make sense to me.
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"Party tonight, gym tomorrow."
rinse and repeat. it'd be nice to be 20-something and invincible again.
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Oil Can Boyd, Doc Gooden, and Stawberry did alright with the nose candy. I can't see booze being very helpful. I could see weed being advantageous for a DH, but little else.
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Booze was good for David Wells. I can see all those things being good for one player or another
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There's still a lot of guys in the show older than me and I can't remember how my appliances work when I'm hungover. Forget trying to figure out what some guy is looking for on a 2-2 pitch.
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Jon Heyman obviously paying attention to Theo this offseason-
JonHeymanCBS #brewers, #cubs, #astros are all good fits for edgar renteria, who has something left and will play in 2012
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renteria is still a FA? damn.
fukudome, dlee, damon, j.vazquez, ibanez, jd drew (rumored to be considering retirement), m.gonzalez, j.izzy, m.ordonez still looking a job.
j.vazquez kinda surprised me...up/down how people feel about him, but he finished very strong.
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Vazquez may be retiring, I would imagine that might limit interest.
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J.D. Drew recovering from injury, asking for too much money, or just tired of the game?
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sam fuld story on mlb network about his diabetes (t1 since age 10).
he said one of the first things he did when he was called up to the cubs was talk to santo. santo was ecstatic and excited about another player with t1 diabetes playing the majors.
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baker catches a lot of hell for aggregating pitchers and treating them like they're all the same.
the surgery toll doesn't add up because the list is both short and debated who actually is his "fault."
plus it'd be neat if they'd take russ ortiz (who b.cox worked even harder) and livan hernandez out of these discussions...or at least discounted them...because they could throw 130 pitches in a game if it came down to it and do it again 5 days later.
too many articles about who he's ruined that don't even name names...except everyone's favorite fallback OMFG PRIOR 03. late september 03 with prior was the worst mistake dustbag ever made pertaining to pitching management if not for anything else than he became a scapegoat (or an evil dunce).
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can someone explain humor writing that's based on an assumed fact to RobG.
what makes your comment funny is the assumption of truth.
what i'm commenting on has nothing to do with you and everything to do with the view that makes it "funny."
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check out what f.alou did with schmidt.
...and russ ortiz has gone way out of his way to deflect away from dusty...and bobby cox has some explaining to do if dusty is somehow part of the problem. ortiz, zambrano, and l.hernandez were horses.
people aggregate his average pitches per year on a staff, it comes out 5-ish more than league average, and people flip.
criticism, yah, jab, yah...villainous hate and posterboy of pitcher abuse (thanks BBProspectus and the church of travis hafner), nah. there's defiantly smoke and perhaps fire, but some people are going around claiming arson.
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Definitely, not defiantly. Unless the smoke was defiant.
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I was actually was following your lead with our favorite TCR curmudgeon.
/I keed, crunch
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I agree.
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Great read. I didn't realize Williams hit .400 in his age 22 season. I do wonder how well this translates to players with a lower peak? I guess it would probably look the same with the overall numbers depressed slightly for the 5-6 or 4-5 WAR seasons.
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I can't imagine why anyone would try to sign Renteria. He played in one of the best hitter's parks in the majors last year and had an ops under 700.
Barney is a better player at an extremely low cost.
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SS at a decent cost, mostly...and it seems he's willing to be a part-time player at this point.
you could probably get the guy for 1-2m...3m in a screwed up bidding war that probably don't exist.
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If Geoff Blum could be a Playoff hero, there is hope still...
Giants scare me. I think you're wrong about Bumgarner, he would pitch on short rest for Game 2 and then full rest for Game 5. Cueto would go Game 1, then short rest in game 4. Add in some really tough outs in that lineup and I want nothing to do with them. With that rotation they can easily steal a series.
Cards are a tough matchup. The rivalry evens out their comparable lack of talent. And like someone said, they love HRs, which is how to beat the Cubs. The upside is that I would feel really good about Lester twice against STL.
j.buchanan with a nice start...5ip 2h 1bb 3k, 0r/er
zobrist with 2HR and a double through 8
heyward 0-4 :(
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Right now, I'd like to see the Mets first, Giants 2nd.
I believe that since most of the team from last years' NLCS is on the squad this year, they will really amp their game up even more to kick their ass in payback for 2015.
The Giants just do not have the depth in years past, and I think all things equal - and at Wrigley - they could handle them.
I do not want to see the Cards, period. Or their fans, media, or Joe Buck.
I don't want to play Braves in the first round. Any friggin team in the league can win 3 of 5..I hate the first round. Furthermore, I wanted to play the Marlins in 2003 and the Mets over Dodgers last year.
With that said in reverse order:
3. Cardinals: It will be devastating to lose in the first round, but even worse to their main rival. It is increased incentive for the Cardinals, especially after last year. Cards would have nothing to lose, Cubs have everything to lose.
2. Giants: Rotation in the playoffs scare me a bit, but what a lousy team.
1. Mets--because of the losses in the rotation
2. Giants--because they're not the team they were BUT they maybe have bullshit even-year magic?
3. Cardinals--because rivalry and not making the playoffs hurts them more than losing in the NLDS plus getting eliminated by them in the playoffs would make for horrible sports commentary next throughout next season.
Who's asking?
CLE/DET rained out last night already, possible rain-outs in New York (vs. Baltimore), Boston(vs. Toronto) and Philly(vs. Mets) this weekend too.
Not only games involving playoff spots that would need to be played, but any that involve home field advantage.
I got the first one! Second one I'm not even sure what even/odd betting is.
any opponent preference for NLDS?
Mets are down to 1 great pitcher instead of 4. Syndegaard may pitch Sunday which means if Mets win the WC game, he'd be set up for Game 1. There's a chance they clinch a spot by Sunday so he'd pitch the WC and then we'd probably get Colon for Game 1. They've certainly had the hottest bats over the last week and month out of the WC options.
A couple of Cub related puzzles.
Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.
j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.
Wow. I didn't know they could do that.
Nice for Willson, not so much for Addy.


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A rise in salmonella illnesses in 2012 linked to chicken in Oregon and Washington is a reminder that all poultry products carry the risk of contamination, but proper handling and preparation of chicken will help people avoid illness, officials said Wednesday.
Last year, Oregon saw 56 cases of Salmonella Heidelberg, a marked increase over previous years. All of the people reportedly have recovered from their illnesses; there have been no deaths associated with the outbreak, officials said. During 2007-2011, there was an average of 27 annual reported cases in our state.
"The 2012 salmonellosis outbreak is a wake-up call," says Paul Cieslak, M.D., of the Oregon Public Health Division. "While these outbreaks are unfortunate, they're also preventable if people take the proper steps when storing, handling and preparing raw poultry products."
Salmonellosis, a common foodborne illness, is an infection with the Salmonella bacteria, which can cause diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps. But salmonellosis can be avoided by handling chicken with care and cooking it to the right temperature.
In 2012, 43 of the 56 confirmed human cases of infection by Salmonella Heidelberg bacteria in Oregon were caused by a particular strain linked to chicken processed by Foster Farms, according to patient reports and laboratory testing of randomly purchased chicken. There has been no recall issued.
"Chicken is safe when it's prepared and cooked correctly," Cieslak says. "Although these cases are linked to a specific brand, there is also some risk of salmonellosis from uncooked poultry products of any brand. Poultry is routinely contaminated with Salmonella and other illness-causing bacteria. If people clean, separate, cook and chill poultry properly, they can avoid illness."
To keep food safe from harmful bacteria:
1. Clean. People should wash their hands thoroughly before and after handling meat. Clean all food preparation surfaces, cooking utensils and cookware after they come in contact with raw poultry.
2. Separate. When handling poultry, keep it and its juices away from ready-to-eat foods. Use one cutting board for fresh produce and a separate one for raw meat, poultry and seafood.
3. Cook. Always cook poultry to an internal temperature of 165 degrees Fahrenheit as measured with a food thermometer. Check the internal temperature in the innermost part of the thigh and wing and the thickest part of the breast.
4. Chill. Uncooked poultry should be refrigerated no longer than two days and kept in the freezer no more than four months. Cooked poultry can be refrigerated for three to four days and frozen for two to three months.
OHA's Public Health Division is working with Washington State Department of Health and the U.S. Centers for the Disease Control and Prevention to track cases of salmonellosis and to promote food safety.
Symptoms usually develop within one to five days of exposure to the contaminated product. Some people with salmonellosis develop serious illness that can lead to hospitalization and even death, Cieslak says, although many people who get the infection have mild symptoms that resolve on their own.
More information:
* Oregon Public Health's salmonellosis information page: http://public.health.oregon.gov/HEALTHYENVIRONMENTS/FOODSAFETY/Pages/tips.aspx
* OPHD's county-by-county salmonellosis illness data http://public.health.oregon.gov/DiseasesConditions/DiseasesAZ/salmonellosis/Documents/salmonella-h-outbreak2012.pdf
* Washington State Public Health: http://www.doh.wa.gov/
* USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service's poultry preparation tips: www.fsis.usda.gov/Fact_Sheets/Chicken_from_Farm_to_Table/index.asp#12
* CDC's food safety website: www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/
Foster Farms issued the following statement in response:
February 14, 2013
The safety and quality of our poultry products is Foster Farms' utmost priority. There is no recall in effect for any brand of chicken related to the Oregon Health Authority announcement as it is widely known that all raw chicken must be responsibly handled and properly prepared to ensure safety and quality. All raw chicken, like all raw meats, can contain bacteria that can be harmful to human health. For this reason, all raw chicken must be fully cooked to ensure safety and quality. Bacteria on food, including salmonella, are fully eliminated and present no risk with proper storage, handling and preparation.
Foster Farms does everything it can to ensure the safety of our poultry products within our facilities and our testing results demonstrate excellence. However, there is always room to provide more education and awareness about food safety practices. We want all consumers to have a safe and satisfying experience with chicken products.
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Bux's Place, Challis, Idaho
This Idaho Town Vol. I
PHOTOGRAPHY Craig Wolfrom
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In the grit of a mountain town, the saloon is more than just a bar. It's a community watering hole, and the regulars are family. Challis is less than eighty miles, but a world apart, from Sun Valley. Here in the high heart of central Idaho, Bux's Place is keeper of the town spirit.
Bill Yacomella, the 53-year-old-manager of Bux's Place, sat at the bar, pulled softly on a nearly expired Pall Mall and scanned his comfortably dim establishment and its midday clientele. His battered hat, virtually shapeless, rested lightly on his head with chaotic shafts of hair poking from beneath it. His eyes are a light, clear blue, and his face is surprisingly soft given his years of work on ranches, construction sites and in a deep mine ("I decided I didn't want to stay in that hole the rest of my life")—and now Bux's.
The Yacomella family has been in Challis for nearly a century, and among its diversified interests are ranches, a commercial tax return company and Bux's Place, Yacomella's main responsibility. When he talks about construction, one senses his true passion is masonry, but small towns bristle with reality, and Coors Light has more economic traction in Custer County than a glowering stone gargoyle.
And this is a small town.
Main Street, Challis, Idaho, pop. 909, lies just outside the rectangular front window of Bux's Place and near the junction of four mountain chains—the Lost River, White Cloud, Salmon River and Lemhi mountains—and on the great Salmon River itself. This is mining and ranching country and, aside from the occasional surge of invading hunters and fishermen, it is populated mainly by people who embrace the rhythms and demands of small-town life, close to the ground, in the majesty of a real Idaho.
They form a legacy that flows, or sloshes, from one year to the next, one decade to the next.
Sun Valley is different. The best thing about the historic resort town, the saying goes, is how close it is to Idaho. In Sun Valley, I have witnessed a dinner party conversation lurch inexplicably and irretrievably out of control as the topics of real life were abandoned for some grave discourse on hot yoga and baby turnips. One listlessly moves the apricot-ginger-pear-parfait around a delicate plate and looks out soaring dining room windows to a vague moonlit profile of Bald Mountain. The honeyed life of Sun Valley? Presumably.
But where is the West? The dust and the drink? One pines for a worn leather stool in a small-town barroom, its windows festooned with sizzling neon signs, shouting onto empty windswept streets: Coors! Budweiser! And in the background, the crisp clicks from a contested pool table and the raucous laughter bouncing off a back bar as weathered as any patron saddled up to it.
"Our motto here in the bar," Yacomella declared from his taproom, "is that we have an open heart, an open mind and a warm stove. That's our philosophy of business."
The late William Buxton, the founder of Bux's, was partial to the phrase, "Where good friends meet," so much that he put it on his swizzle sticks. Yacomella put it on his matches. One senses that matches have a broader reach in the local clientele than swizzle sticks. Bux's Place is redolent with the rich aroma of smoke, strong enough to traumatize the fetishistic clean-air crowd, but just mellow enough to provoke a wave of nostalgia for those who gave up smokes years ago.
The Yacomellas bought out Buxton about the time a mining firm began extracting molybdenum (known to the locals as "molly") from the vast, open-pit Thompson Creek Mine, about thirty miles from town. Molly has an array of industrial uses, such as improving the strength of steel at high temperatures, which makes it critical for missile and aircraft parts. The firm employs nearly 300 people, and the company recently estimated there was, at a minimum, about ten years of molly left in the site.
It is not uncommon for an isolated Western town to depend on a single-source economy, and not a lot of people want to dwell on an image of Challis without molly. But towns like Challis reek of resiliency. There is here a powerful survival instinct, a belief in continuity. >>>
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This is a very wonderful article on the history, both past and present, of Bux's Place. As a person who was born and raised in Challis, I think you did a fantastic job relaying to the public what it's all about up here...aside from the bar itself, what life is like up here. There is no place on Earth like Challis, for those of us who love it...and no place on Earth worse than Challis for those who do not. My husband and I own and operate the Y-Inn Cafe, est. sometime in the early 40's, homemade lovely foods from my family to yours. There is nothing more wonderful than to have the old guys, older guys and some not as old converge on the "round table" in our cafe and talk about life; each and every day they do not miss one. We do have such a lovely community, and are so lucky to live here! Again, wonderful article, I enjoyed reading it and seeing the Yacomella's published in your magazine...they deserve it and you did a great job covering their establishment. Bux's place...history for us all :) Gotta love it!
Why are there no pictures of the actual bar tenders that actually work there? That's sad, and you (as a magazine) did a really good job with the history, but you did a bad job of capturing the true essence of Bux's.
Do you know of a stagecoach stop between Blackfoot and Challis Idaho called Nose Bleed? My Great Great Grandfather and Great Great Grandmother ran it in the early 1900s. Joe Triplett and Louise Virginia Tyndle-Triplett and my Great Grandmother Ida Triplett- Eastman. Do you have any information where this stop is or any ideas as to how I can find out more- Thank You Redgey Pedersen
Molly is Moly (short for molybdenum). Festooned with sizzling neon signs? Really? It is an old bar with a lot of personality. A quiet place to have a beer where nobody bothers you unless you want to be bothered. The original owner, Willis Buxton, was one of the nicest people I have ever known and I miss him...he should have been featured in your article (pictures and all). Your article is so colorful it almost made my brain explode.


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CHARLESTON - Cutting out violent media and entertainment and placing armed guards at schools could help make them safer, a violence expert told school and law enforcement officials on Wednesday.
Speaking at a summit on school safety, retired Army Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, an expert on human aggression and the roots of violence, pushed simple, inexpensive solutions, such as implementing lockdown plans, locking doors and shatter-proofing windows. He also called for more controversial tactics like placing armed guards in schools and imposing strict dress codes that ban baggy pants.
He said violent movies and video games teach children from an early age to associate violence and killing with pleasure and rewards. He called for the creation of no media-violence zones in schools, with a moratorium on violence in art and writing.
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Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, author of 'Stop Teaching Our Kids To Kill,' speaks at The Summit on West Virginia Safe Schools at the Culture Center in Charleston Wednesday. (AP photo)
Grossman spoke in harsh, ominous terms to a packed auditorium to try to encourage action to prevent school violence.
"Sandy Hook is just the beginning," Grossman said, referring to the December shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in which a gunman killed 26 students and faculty. "They're coming to our daycare centers, they're coming to our buses, they're coming to our Little League games."
Grossman said that no American child has died in a school fire in 50 years because school officials have prepared for fires, but that they have failed to do the same to prevent school violence.
"We prepare, prepare, prepare for fire," Grossman said, mentioning the ubiquity of fire alarms, fire drills, extinguishers and sprinklers. "But what have we done to prepare for violence? Our children are more likely to die by violence in school than every other cause put together."
He urged communities to decide for themselves whether their schools need more security, but said that unarmed security is not a viable option.
"Never call an unarmed man security," he said. "Call him a Walmart greeter if you want, but don't fool yourself into thinking you're safe because you find an unarmed man and call him security."
Sheri Hoff, the director of attendance for Jefferson County's schools, said they already were practicing a number of school safety policies. She said that they have had school lockdown codes for eight years and that they continue to work on ways, like shoving desks in front of doors, for teachers to secure classrooms. Hoff also said it was important to distinguish between trained, armed law enforcement officers at schools, and more generic armed guards.
"An armed guard is the rent-a-cop that you get who walks around, the law enforcement officer is trained not only in laws but also to work with children specifically in their environment," Hoff said.
Over the last few years, the West Virginia School Building Authority has given county school systems $30 million to improve safety equipment at schools such as electronic locks and security cameras. As a stipulation of that grant, every school system must have a specific crisis response plan in place by August 2013.
Notably absent from Grossman's recommendations was any mention of gun control legislation, which became a hot topic after the Sandy Hook shootings. Among other proposals, President Barack Obama has said he will push for universal background checks and a ban on assault weapons.
Obama's plan doesn't sit well with Bob Perrine, the director of the Charleston Emergency Patrol Center. Perrine wants changes to be made to make schools safer, but is wary of any effort to make it more difficult to buy a gun.
"Once a fox gets a foothold into the henhouse, that fox won't be satisfied until it's got its belly full, and I believe this gun control thing could be the same way," Perrine said. "The NRA is stopping Obama right at the henhouse door."


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And thanks as always to Mrs. P as well. Love that you keep pulling out new hats for us : Suze Orman + Entertainment Weekly + Nate Silver ... can't wait to see what's next. (I hope that my general idea of Suze Orman's turf is semi-accurate; the truth is that I don't know much about her.)
I am not a financial whiz, but I guess I was wishing that Weir had likened planned elements to "projected earnings," if anything. Especially because I got the impression that the score tracker on-screen display seemed to start at zero for each skater, and then to add points along the way -- as opposed to giving initial credit for the total value of all planned elements and then subtracting as the skate proceeded. (I glanced at the score tracker only a few times, so I hope I am not mistaken.)
Another quibble of mine is that IIRC, Weir implied that reputation judging is an official part of the scoring system for components. During Takahashi's FS, I could swear that Weir said (I'm paraphrasing) something about DT's polish and superior presentation also giving him a bigger pre-skate bank account.
But again, my overall reaction to Weir was positive. I like Lipinski too.
Yeah, I agree the projected earnings would be the right equivalent to base value, i.e if everything goes to plan, this is what he expected to earned.
But I agree with MM. The simplest way to explain it is look at past TES. Javier has the capacity to score 90+ in technical elements while Adam at his best has only earned 82, therefore has a slimmer margin for error.
I also think that it is quite inevitable that the judges, as well as avid skating fans, have higher expectations of skaters who have proved themselves in the past. It only gets problematic when that skater performs below expectations, but the lower-than-usual quality is not reflected in the PCS scores (and sometimes in GOE).
Personally, I think Johnny is doing a great job. I feel like he would prefer to let the audience enjoy a good performance without commentary and comment before the skate and during the replays. I like Terry, but he definitely prompts Johnny to speak during the performance (maybe he has orders to do so?). I loved to hear that Akiko is as lovely off-ice as she is on-ice
Referring to golden411's 'quibble'....it's entirely possible he was referring to reputation judging; but I didn't hear it that way. I thought he was trying to say how Dai's superior skills mean he can get those higher component scores. Obviously, he didn't say it clearly enough and perhaps he also was implying or thinking about reputation inflation. Or implying that many of the components seem to track together closely without the kind of variation some of us wish to see based on the component parts and the skate that day. Anyway, I'm just saying I'm not sure what he meant but I didn't hear it quite the way you did.
But saying that, I think that there are things for Weir to work through or improve on in his commentating; But, I just can't hide how much I'm liking the commentary, liking it enough that I"m not even complaining about how they didn't show dance (well, guess I am complaining about that a little, but you know what I mean!).


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SeaWorld caring for rescued manatee
Animal suffering from cold stress
A young female manatee is being cared for by SeaWorld Orlando.
The manatee was rescued by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and Jacksonville Zoo Team from the Trout River, just off the St. Johns River, and then transported to SeaWorld on Sunday.
Officials said the manatee is about 6 and 1/2 feet long and weighs about 355 pounds.
The animal was rescued because of cold stress and other secondary infections.
SeaWorld Orlando is treating the manatee with antibiotics and has placed a wetsuit-like floatation device around the animal to help with buoyancy and surface breathing.
Officials said they will monitor the manatee's condition over the next few days.
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quote: As for Microsoft, last time I checked they were in the PC Gaming market for quite some time. Argue all you want that the console market is different, but the Xbox is basically just a PC with a controller, and Microsoft has been making the Sidewinder for years.
quote: More recently it even planned to use its iPhone smartphone and iPad tablet as controllers, taking advantage of the devices' built-in Bluetooth capabilities.
quote: ....YouTube. And those services are also offered via TiVos and Rokus.


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EDITOR'S NOTE: Marvella Ford is a breast cancer survivor and public health professor and researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina Hollings Cancer Center, where she oversees the effort to address disparities in cancer treatment in South Carolina.
Health initiatives
Here are some of the efforts that MUSC Hollings Cancer Center is taking to help reduce health disparities in South Carolina:
A statewide cancer education training program done in collaboration with community partners. The program employs a "Train the Trainer" approach in which the trained program participants conduct additional programs with other community members. So far, 315 trained community members have conducted the program with an additional 3,200 other community members.
Research training programs for the "next generation" of cancer disparities researchers. These researchers are undergraduate students from S.C.'s historically black colleges and universities and graduate students and junior faculty at MUSC. The programs have been conducted since 2007 and most of the participants have subsequently enrolled in graduate or professional schools. More than 10 of the students have been included as co-authors on peer-reviewed scientific publications.
A study to evaluate patient navigation as a method to increase rates of surgery among African Americans in the Southeastern U.S. with early stage lung cancer
A study to identify genetic variations associated with triple negative breast cancer, a more aggressive form of breast cancer that disproportionately affects African-American women. Genetic analysis results are forthcoming but preliminary data show high rates of overweight/obesity and low rates of physical activity in this sample of breast cancer survivors, which increases the risk of breast cancer recurrence.
A study identifying factors associated with surveillance care colorectal cancer survivors.
An international Student Research Forum as part of the annual National Conference on Health Disparities.
By David Quick
Q: For those who may not understand the concept of health disparities, can you explain it in a nutshell?
A: The National Institutes of Health defines health disparities as differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality and burden of diseases and other adverse health conditions that exist among specific populations in the United States.
Q: As I understand, you have survived breast cancer twice. How has that affected your approach to research? Do you think those journeys have brought you new insights?
A: I was first diagnosed with Stage 0 breast cancer in 2008 and was treated with lumpectomy surgery followed by radiation therapy. I was diagnosed with Stage 0 breast cancer for a second time in April 2013 and underwent a mastectomy immediately followed by breast reconstruction surgery.
I appreciate these experiences because they have helped me to view my research from the perspective of a patient as well as a researcher. Every data point represents a person who is part of a family and a community.
Q: You recently received a grant to study why African-American lung cancer patients have surgery less often for certain diagnoses. Tell me about that grant and study.
A: My colleague, Dr. Nestor Esnaola, and I reviewed data from the S.C. Central Cancer Registry and S.C. Inpatient/Outpatient surgery files from 1996-2002. We discovered that among patients with early stage lung cancer, African Americans were almost 50 percent less likely than European Americans to receive surgery.
We developed, and are testing, a patient navigation intervention to help to overcome barriers to care, to try to close this gap in access to appropriate health care.
Q: What motivated you to choose disparities research? Did personal experiences play into it?
A: I never knew any of my grandparents. They all died before I was born. My mother passed away in 2000 and my father passed away in 2004 after living with me for a year.
My family is not unique. Too many other families have lost generations of family members due to premature death.
My motivation in going to work every day is to try to find solutions to reduce health disparities so that other families will have a chance to enjoy each other's company for as long as possible.
Q: I've heard you talk about the need for individuals to take care of their bodies the same way they take of their cars. Why do you think there is such a disconnection — you know, taking care of your body so it runs better and lasts longer — and is that disconnection apparent any more or less in African-American and Hispanic populations?
A: Given the obesity epidemic that is plaguing most populations in the U.S., this issue does not seem to be unique to any particular population.
What exacerbates health disparities are the inequities in access to health care, high-quality food, housing and health care, educational opportunities that will lead to jobs that can sustain families, and access to environments where physical activity can safely take place.
Q: What is the future for some of the classic disparity issues such as barriers in access to care, disparities in treatment and disparities in outcomes? Are you hoping that gaps will narrow anytime in the near future?
A: Every day represents an opportunity to engage in actions on the individual level, health care provider level, and health care systems level that could help to reduce these disparities.
Reach David Quick at 937-5516.


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STATE COLLEGE - For as much as Bill O'Brien talks about complementary football, Penn State has had a very tough time playing it this season.
Saturday had to be especially frustrating to watch for the coach, along with everyone else who follows the Nittany Lions.
The defense played well enough to beat Nebraska.
The offense played well enough to beat Nebraska.
That's complementary football.
But there are three aspects of the game, and the Lions were an absolute disaster in one of them.
Penn State's special teams gave up a kickoff return for a touchdown. And missed an extra point. And missed a field goal in overtime. And had a punt blocked. And fumbled, but recovered, a punt and a kickoff.
In many ways it's remarkable that the Lions not only were in the game late against a quality team, but had a chance to win despite all the mistakes. The special teams issues ultimately did them in, though, as Nebraska spoiled senior day with a 23-20 win in overtime before 98,517 fans at Beaver Stadium.
"Not real good," O'Brien said when asked about the mood in the locker room after the game.
The Cornhuskers tied things at 20 on a 19-yard field goal by Pat Smith with 4:30 left to play, then won when Smith drilled a 42-yarder in overtime. Sam Ficken had missed from 37 yards on Penn State's overtime possession.
"There wasn't a lot of talking in the locker room afterwards, but a lot of hugs and a lot of pats on the backs," PSU senior linebacker Glenn Carson said after Saturday's bitter defeat on a bitterly cold, windy day. "I think that a lot of people played their hearts out today."
O'Brien, who badly wanted his seniors to enjoy the reward of a victory in their final home game, has always avoided being overly critical of his players and followed suit Saturday.
"[We] gave up a kickoff return for a touchdown, which is not good," he said. "Kids were trying hard, though. Good kids, trying hard. You just got to continue to work on it and fix it."
The reality for Penn State is that a lot of backups and walk-ons have to play on special teams because the program doesn't have much depth. That explains some of the reasons for why Nebraska had a 99-yard kickoff return for a TD one week after Purdue returned one 100 yards.
The Lions had taken a 13-7 lead early in the third quarter when Kenny Bell burned them for the 99-yard score on the ensuing kickoff.
"Kenny stepped up and made a play," Nebraska coach Bo Pelini said. "Kenny played really well today, and that was a big play. That was pretty sweet when he got over the kicker [Ficken, who missed a diving tackle trying to save a touchdown]."
The Lions have some understandable holes on the return teams, but they do have an experienced place-kicker in Ficken. Unfortunately for them, he had a bad day.
Ficken missed a PAT in the first quarter when his kick hit the right upright. That point haunted the Lions the rest of the day because, with it, they would have been at 21 instead of 20 and Nebraska would have been forced to try for a touchdown instead of a tying field goal in the closing minutes.
Penn State (6-5, 3-4) got the ball first in overtime but managed only 5 yards on three plays. On third-and-5 from the 20, quarterback Christian Hackenberg rolled to his left and might have had enough room to run for the first down, but instead he threw a pass to Allen Robinson along the sideline that fell short.
"I saw Allen sort of give [the defender] a shake, I thought he could get out of it," Hackenberg said. "I just didn't get my hips around. It was tough. Looking back at it, I'm pretty sure going back watching it on film I'm going to think I could have done some other things."
He then was asked specifically if he should have run for it.
Hindisght's 20-20, so looking back at it, maybe, maybe not," the freshman said. "Just another experience under my belt."
Ficken came in on fourth down for a 37-yard attempt, but his kick stayed right and barely missed by a few feet.
Ficken had a brutal day kicking at Virginia last season in a one-point loss, but he rebounded and earlier this season set a school record with 15 consecutive made field goals.
Tight end Jesse James, who caught a 46-yard TD pass to give PSU a 20-17 lead with 14:50 to go, said Ficken will "keep his head up."
"He already knows how it works," James said. "He's had tough games before, and he's had great games. He knows he has to stay level-headed throughout everything. He's a real level-headed kid, and he'll come back next week ready to go."
Nebraska (8-3, 5-2) needed only a field goal on its overtime possession to win, and Smith made a 37-yarder that was negated because of a false start penalty. He kicked again from 42 yards and nailed it, making him 10-of-11 on the season.
Smith said afterward about Ficken, "My heart goes out to that guy. He's a good kicker."
Penn State had a chance to clinch a winning season with a victory, as well as give the seniors the victory that O'Brien and everyone on the team wanted to achieve.
"Everybody wanted to get this win, especially for the senior class," Carson said. "We're truly a family. We all play for each other, we all have each other's backs, and that's just the characteristics of Penn State football and the kind of guys that we have here."
Penn State played with only 50 players who were recruited to be on scholarship, yet it still played toe to toe in an evenly matched game against one of the nation's most storied programs.
Many of the final statistics showed just how even the teams are:
Both offenses ran 77 plays.
Nebraska had 19 first downs, PSU 18.
The time of possession was 30:44 for the Lions and 29:16 for the Cornhuskers.
Penn State rushed for 170 yards, Nebraska 168.
Zach Zwinak had 149 yards rushing for the Lions, while Nebraska standout Ameer Abdullah had 147.
Hackenberg threw for 217 yards, while Ron Kellogg III had 191 after starter Tommy Armstrong Jr. had 1 yard and was removed because of an ankle injury.
The game essentially came down to special teams, and that's why Nebraska won.
Now, if the Lions want to finish with a winning record, they will have to pull off an upset in next week's season finale at No. 16 Wisconsin, which is 9-2 and riding a six-game winning streak after Saturday's 20-7 win at Minnesota.
"It's been a roller coaster this year, and we've just fought through it," Carson said. "We've taken our hits and we've always come back from it. I don't expect anything else this upcoming week."


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Wednesday, August 14, 2013
There are always issues with moving, aren't there? I filled myself with coffee, encouragement and positive attitudes in the mornings, but between the torrential rain showers and 40-minute calls to service technicians to cut this on or this off, all my goodness and mercy oozed out by lunchtime.
The clamor of the week had me leaving notes everywhere and I still missed the birthdays of two friends.
The data usage on our phones was almost over the limit, so Don and I were conversing as speed talkers. We had no internet and limited phone service. The earliest install date for internet was 12 days out.
Then, the car decided to die. It was truly a fair-weather car, moody as all get out. The wiper motor on the passenger side quit working months ago. It failed slowly, causing the timing of the sweep to be off, which had the blades literally fighting in mid air during a torrential rain while I was crossing the Daniel Island bridge. Wiper motors cost $200. So, I quit driving in the rain.
Shortly afterwards, it would only change gear speeds on cool days. Car menopause. Finally, at any given moment, it would max out in first gear at a top speed of 20 mph.
At this point, let's just say that I didn't affectionately call her the "old girl" anymore. As if she/it sensed it, she gave up the ghost on the hottest day of the year, humidity levels were at 140 percent. I had a carload of things to take to new place in the move. It was the beginning of evening traffic on Highway 17 North. She/it hiccupped, her way of saying she wasn't going to drive. I pulled into the Laser car wash and let it cool off. I decided to use the oval car wash drive as a speed test before pulling out, like a seasoned short tract driver I punched it and took a few left turns. After a few laps, it caught second gear and I pulled out onto the highway and then with a slew of traffic behind me and in the middle lane of Highway 17: Nothing. She/it and I limped into a retail parking lot. I waited for a tow truck with my leg stuck out the door, fanning myself with an unopened bill.
I kept feeling like I had forgotten to do something else. I pondered my various lists while I pulled the under wire out of my bra that has decided to poke through at this inopportune moment as well.
Don picked me up before the tow truck came. I was just about ripe by this time. Hotter than Hannah, if you will. I could hardly wait for a shower. When we walked in the door, Don cut on the faucet to rinse out something. I heard the spit of air and I remembered what I hadn't done: Transfer the water to our name when we moved. I made a few desperate calls at 5 p.m. to see what I could do. Nothing, but wait until tomorrow unless we had a plumbers tool. Well, we didn't know what that was, but we were outside on the ground removing a man hole cover to see if we had anything to resemble it. Nope. I had two back tanks of clean toilet water that I could boil for a bird bath, and ice cubes for tomorrow morning's coffee. Don't eat a soft ripened South Carolina peach. I needed another bird bath.
I get Eric on the line, same guy from last night. What are the odds? "Eric, what's the ETA on the field worker this morning?" Eric told me that it could be anytime between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. I called back at lunch and got Eric again. Really? "Mrs. Brabham, we will have someone there as soon as they are in the area," he said kindly. "Thanks Eric," I reply sheepishly.
At 2 p.m. I called back. Yes, that's right. Eric again. I tried to disguise my voice, obviously a fail because Eric says "Hello Mrs. Brabham," while laughing. "Eric, all of my ice has melted. I know, I know, but I'm just saying don't you have a CB radio (Lord help me, CB radio? I can't take it back now) so you could call him?" I plead. "It won't be long now. Hold on." he says. One hour later, all the faucets spat and hissed and I was counting the minutes to a shower and was ready to cook. With a clean kitchen, shower and full stomach I pull the cork from a bottle of wine. There are days when I allow the wine to breathe, and there are days that I consider the pop of the cork breath enough.
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COLUMBIANA - City Council members weighed in on a planning commission suggestion that site plans have term limits. Mayor David Spatholt, who serves on the commission, brought the matter before council Tuesday night.
He explained the commission was considering term limits because there have been cases where a site plan was approved for a property, but the plan never materialized.
Council members and City Manager Keith Chamberlin recalled instances in which a property was targeted for a specific purpose but never moved forward.
Chamberlin said a term limit would be beneficial because it would allow someone else to use a property if the original plan falls through.
"If a deal falls through with a landlord, you don't want to keep somebody else from stepping up to the plate," he said.
Planning Commission member Ron LaLonde had suggested the term limit be set at six months, but Councilman James King felt that wasn't long enough since some plans can be delayed as a result of weather.
LaLonde made the suggestion because without a term limit, a property can be sitting vacant "forever."
Dick Simpson, who previously served on the commission, told council that in the past the commission would call a property owner after one year if nothing had been done and request an update.
"That worked well. That's a simple way to handle it," he said.
Municipal Attorney Daniel Blasdell, in response to council's request for his suggestion, said that was a "reasonable way to handle it."
Council members were in agreement that one year seemed fair, although no action was taken on the matter.
Council then approved a second reading of the following:
- Making temporary appropriations for the first three months of 2013.
- Establishing dates of regularly scheduled meetings for 2013.
- Establishing the wage scheduled for certain full-time and part-time city employees and rates of pay for part-time Firestone Pool employees.
In new business, council approved appointing King and Councilman Tom Ferguson to the volunteer firefighters' dependents fund board and requests from Crystal Siembida-Boggs for three benefit races next year, which are the Visions for Veterans 5K race on May 17, the Twas the Night Before 5K race on Dec. 14, and the new Halloween half-marathon on Oct. 27. Proceeds from the half-marathon will be donated to the city police department.


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Studying English in college, one of the things I loved most about literature of all kinds was how it connected me so deeply to the humanity of people living in other centuries and other countries. Now I love reading old publications down in the American Friends Service Committee's (ASFC) archives for the same reasons—to marvel at how language has changed while our core beliefs have remained the same.
In December 1967, AFSC placed an advertisement in The New York Times with the headline, "What days are holy?" It read, "At this time of the holy days of four world faiths—Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and Islam—when men's thoughts turn to peace, the American Friends Service Committee calls once again for the United States to take the lead in ending the war in Vietnam."
AFSC has been in the business of advertising peace for almost 100 years now, and has been doggedly committed to using nonviolence and grassroots organizing as viable and achievable means of creating a more peaceful world. As the U.S. has sustained almost constant war during the 20th and now 21st century, the message has been the same—militarism is no way to ensure more security or more freedom.
This vision is grounded in religious convictions, though the religious foundation was sometimes more clearly articulated during AFSC's earliest days, particularly in the publications I find in the archives. Throughout each one, it is clear that AFSC is based profoundly on a deep faith, unshaken by the actions of the American empire.
Wouldn't it be easier if AFSC just let go of this whole "faith" concept altogether? It is a concept most easily dismissed or ignored, and makes many people these days, myself included, very uncomfortable. So often it is used as an excuse for inaction in the face of injustice, or, worse, an excuse for outright oppression.
What this faith perspective lends, I learned when reading this article, is a larger commitment to live into our ideals. "America must turn about," the advertisement goes on to say. "Whatever others do, our country must stop hating and killing…It does no good for America to profess faith in moral conduct unless American policy exhibits it."
In this context, I read that faith means taking actions based on a deep belief in the potential for humans to do good, and is only valid if that belief is followed through fully and authentically. Faith seems to imply consistency in actions that are sustained through a deep trust of the righteousness of humanity. To live without faith is to live in fear—and to live in fear is to ensure annihilation.
During the Cold War, when annihilation seemed right on the horizon, AFSC became actively involved in the movement for nuclear disarmament. In the age of a threatened nuclear holocaust, faith must have seemed a fragile instrument for ensuring security. Sometimes, all we can do is trust and be humble.
Looking back to 1947, when AFSC published what might be called a religious "tract," I found language about faith that I was, honestly, surprised to discover. In a pamphlet called "A Summons to Faith and Repentance," AFSC calls for an American "turn about," as phrased in that later article in The New York Times. The only way to avoid further war and catastrophe, it said, "requires of us that we individually and as a nation repent, that we literally turn about… not only from our use of mass violence but from what is worse—our readiness to use this violence whenever it suits our purpose, regardless of its cost to others." To "turn about" requires faith, a deep faith in the ability of humans to trust one another and live in harmony together.
In my lifetime it seems as though faith has gotten a bad rap, and is often understood as the blind acceptance of an abstract "good" that cannot be proven. Henry J. Cadbury, one of the founders of AFSC, responds to this criticism in his 1957 article "Religious Pacifism, A Realistic View," by asserting that faith is in fact an action, a "decision to practice and exemplify the good instead of the evil…."
Perhaps the only real difference, then, between a religious approach to peace and a nonreligious one is a willingness to admit that we can only "prove" so much; the rest—the world we seek—must be built upon faith that it is possible, that it is good, and with the knowledge that we must work for it however we can.
Faith is essentially human. For we are all acting on faith, every day—faith that our decisions will be the right ones; faith that we will be loved, cared for; faith that when we express ourselves honestly, we will have positive responses in return.
According to Cadbury, faith is "obedience to what seems to us a categorical demand, and it is by faith and faith alone that in the storms and stresses, in the arguments and debates, we can be expected as individuals and to any degree as a Society of Friends to maintain this testimony—not blindly, not untested, not against evidence, but by faith in its validity on moral grounds."
During our time, like any other, remaining faithful to peace is a willingness to honestly engage with the world. It is a willingness to find meaning through our inherent desire to live and live well. To be faithful is to claim the connection that tugs at our souls, generation after generation.


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