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Karyopharm Therapeutics raised $20 million in a Series A financing round to support the development of a first clinical oncology candidate and expand its R&D platform. Established in 2009, Karyopharm is using a technology platform that combines computational and in silico rational drug design with chemical optimization to identify and develop small molecule drugs that inhibit the transport of key proteins out of the cell nucleus. Initially focused on anticancer indications, these SINE (selective inhibitors of nuclear export) molecules act by forcing the nuclear localization of major tumor suppressor and growth regulatory proteins, causing selective death of cancer cells, the firm claims.
Karyopharm says its initial anticancer target, Crm1, is the main exporter of key tumor suppressor proteins, and has been shown to correlate with poor prognosis in cervical, ovarian, and liver cancers, as well as osteosarcoma and gliomas.
The firm's genomic analyses have identified genetic alterations in Crm1 in specific cancers, a feature that is being exploited to design and develop Crm1 inhibitors. Karyotype says preclinical studies with the most advanced SINE candidates have already found the molecules exhibit both single agent activity and synergy in combination with specific anticancer drugs.
"The targeting of single molecules has provided marginal advances in cancer," comments co-founder Ronald A. DePinho, M.D. "By blocking the export of multiple tumor suppressor proteins, this strategic point of intervention can impact on multiple pathways that cooperate to maintain tumors. As normal cells want to keep these proteins in the nucleus, these SINEs should also exhibit an excellent safety profile in patients."
Karyotype hopes that using this same approach of inhibiting the export or indeed import of specific nuclear proteins could ultimately lead to new drugs targeting a range of other diseases, including autoimmune disorders and viral infections such as HIV.
In June the firm announced a deal with discovery services firm O2h, under which the latter is providing relevant expertise to accelerate Karyopharm's small molecule program toward the selection of a development candidate. O2h is a discovery services company co-located in Cambridge, U.K. and Ahmedabad, India. The Indian operations provide a chemistry expertise while the U.K. office provides project-management support.
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Antispyware wrecked some test systems. Design problems in antispyware. URL logging endangers privacy. Slows system performance. [After retesting, we have removed a previous con stating that the product did not provide inbound protection by default]
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I've never seen a security suite with as many distinct security tools. Antivirus is stellar and antispam good, but many other tools are flawed. Wait for the next version. If you're already a McAfee security subscriber, continue allowing automatic updates, but until things improve, consider ignoring alerts to install the latest version.
The McAfee Total Protection security service (originally code-named "Falcon") includes everything but the kitchen sinkand if the kitchen sink could protect your computer's security, they'd probably have thrown that in too. Naturally, it has the firewall, antivirus, antispyware, and spam protection we expect to see in any suite. But it adds network management, wireless network protection, backup/restore, parental control, and much, much more. Unfortunately, more is only better if it works, and far too much of the former Falcon either doesn't work or may actively harm your system.
The McAfee Security Center that holds the suite together has a brand new design. Its overriding theme is simplicityquite a challenge for such a feature-filled product. At the top is a big status banner that shows a green check, a yellow exclamation, or a scary red X, meaning the security configuration is, respectively, okay, marginal, or compromised. Clicking the Fix button should correct any problems and get you back to green status. A big Scan button launches a full system scan; a big Update button checks for updates. Yes, updates are automatic, but McAfee's designers have found that users also like to be able to check manually.
The suite's elements are organized into four general categories: Computer & Files, Internet & Network, E-mail & IM, and Parental Controls. Clicking one of these shows the status of corresponding features with a link to a simple on/off configuration page. For some features, an Advanced button leads to further configuration. Experts can switch to the Advanced menuit's not as pretty, but it offers more information and more control.

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On Tap Today: The power of prints
Hundreds of printmakers from around the world are making Our Town their temporary home. "Print:MKE" teams intricate art and technology to spotlight everything from the Latino experience to T-shirt imagery. In Friday's Cue, Art Critic Mary Louise Schumacher explores the conference offerings around town.
If "Print!" makes you think of movie directors, then you may be headed to the theaters this weekend. But does Tina Fey's "Admission" make the grade? Find out what our reviewer thinks. »Read Full Blog Post
Skylight Music Theatre finds heart, hope with 'In the Heights'
In the Act 1 finale for "In the Heights" — which opened Friday night at Skylight Music Theatre, under the direction of Ragnar Conde (stage) and Jeff Schaetzke (music) — a nighttime power blackout sends a careening Washington Heights barrio toward the brink.
It's the beginning of the Fourth of July weekend, but freedom and independence seem further than ever for the barrio's residents, each of whose All-American dreams have curdled faster than the soured milk in the local bodega — where the refrigerator is on the fritz and the owner is in a funk. »Read Full Article
MSO program blends different sounds with shared roots
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra held a musical reunion of sorts Friday evening at the Marcus Center, performing music of Leonard Bernstein, Lukas Foss and Samuel Barber.
The three composers, who were trained within a relatively small window of time at the Curtis Institute of Music, wrote with distinct and disparate voices. Their music — programmed for a single concert and conducted by another Curtis alum, MSO associate conductor Francesco Lecce-Chong — was a fascinating look at the variety of style in American orchestral music of the 20th century. »Read Full Article
Aaron Rodgers makes brief appearance on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon'
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers got a little revenge Friday night on Jimmy Fallon's writing staff.
In an earlier episode of "Late Night Superlatives," Rodgers was labeled "Most Likely To Be Ellen DeGeneres Dressed Like A Football Player For Halloween." »Read Full Blog Post
Weekend Activities: Antiques show, winter carnival and Duck Decoy Day
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Johnny Football could've chugged as much Dom Perignon as he wanted to on Saturday night and it wouldn't have mattered to police ... 'cause his MOTHER was right there next to him ... TMZ has learned. As we previously reported, 20-year-old college football phenom Johnny Manziel hit up Avenu Lounge nightclub on both Friday and Saturday night after leading Texas A&M to a victory in the Cotton Bowl.
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Mays Business School dean inducted into Ph.D. Project Hall of Fame
Kelli R. Levey, August 11th, 2016
Eli Jones, dean of Mays Business School at Texas A&M University and holder of the Peggy Pitman Mays Eminent Scholar Chair in Business, joined an elite group when he was inducted into the Hall of Fame for the Ph.D. Project, a national group that works to increase the diversity of business school faculty members.
The award came during the Ph.D. Project's annual Faculty Dinner, held in conjunction with the American Marketing Association (AMA)'s conference Aug. 5-6 in Atlanta. The AMA is a sponsor of the Ph.D. Project. About 100 of the Ph.D. project's 200 Marketing Doctoral Students Association members attended.
The Ph.D. Project's annual recognition of faculty members started in 2011 to honor commitment, involvement and inspiration, and to recognize "a select few who have greatly inspired many," organizers said.
When presenting the Hall of Fame honor to Jones, KPMG Foundation and Ph.D. Project President Bernard Milano said: "You have been a wonderful role model and mentor to many, many people."
In his acceptance speech, Jones said the Ph.D. Project stemmed from a need to increase the supply of underrepresented minority college graduates.
"One significant way to do so is to increase the minority representation at the front of the classroom," he said. "In organizing the Ph.D. Project, what may not have been anticipated is the greater impact that this wonderful initiative would have on society."
Jones added, "We are the light. Let's focus on our calling and keep pressing on to make a difference. Be still. Be the light."
Jones also was presented with the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the AMA's Sales and Sales Management Special Interest Group (SIG), which provides programs designed to enhance selling and sales management scholarship, teaching and practice in an inclusive and collegial environment. The Lifetime Achievement Award honors the outstanding scholar who has made meaningful contributions to the field of sales through publications in top journals, teaching excellence, fostering professional development among others, and generally contributing to scholarship in the area of sales.
This year was the first time a charity component was added to the awards program to raise funds for the Ph.D. Project. Members of the AMA's Sales SIG, as well as some of his friends and colleagues, gave personally to a charity in Jones' name, and raised more than $14,000 – the highest raised by a single individual. The fund-raising component was a surprise to Jones until the afternoon he received the Lifetime Achievement Award.
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CLOVIS, N.M. - Sisters Judy Tindell and Beverly Williams squealed like schoolgirls holding out their tickets signed by first lady Laura Bush and showing off their digital camera photo display of the three of them.
"It's the first lady of the United States of America," said Tindell of Clovis. "It's exciting. What an honor. I feel like a little kid really."
Bush stumped for her husband President Bush in Clovis on Wednesday, connecting to the people of Eastern New Mexico and the nearby Texas towns on issues of education, health care and the war on terror.
"Clovis, Curry County, is so close to where we grew up in West Texas, I feel like I'm home," she said, standing in front of a wall of hay bales decorated with an American flag, flanked by saddles and with cowboys atop a combine looking on.
Nearly 2,000 people filled the dirt floor arena on the Curry County Fairgrounds with about half standing near the platform stage and half seated in the back on bleachers.
"I grew up in the same area where the sky seems endless and so do the possibilities," she said. "My husband brings that optimism ... to the job every day. And with your help, he'll do it for four more years."
Amarilloan Jane Juett was invited by Bush's people to sit on the stage behind Bush during the event.
"Her first speech was to the Amarillo Republican Women," Juett said. "That's what she said. She was nervous. She's definitely improved. We're real proud of her."
After addressing briefly each issue, Bush landed on the third anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001.
"What's most important is my husband's work to protect this country and defeat terrorism around the world," she said.
She then thanked all those serving in the military and named some local military people and a few whose husbands are serving now.
"There is more hard work to do, but remember that building democracy takes time," she said.
People lined up outside the fairgrounds, some hours before the afternoon event.
Amarilloans Pattilou Dawkins, Paula Camp and Mike Isley were among the early birds.
"We came to see the first lady and offer her our support," Dawkins said. "She needs everybody's support. We've got to win in November."
Camp, whose daughter works in the White House, said she just got off the phone with her.
"To tell her we'll be there for the inauguration," she said.
"We're thinking positively, aren't we?" Isley said, holding a Bush/Cheney sign he picked up during their first campaign four years ago.
Texas Tech University sophomore Kaycee Cornelison showed her support with a glittery "I (heart) Laura" T-shirt.
"Because I love Laura Bush," she said. "I like what she stands for. I agree with her education stance. Everything does start with education, and that's really important."
Clifford Baker of Canyon, wearing his white dress shirt and suspenders, worried he was a bit overdressed for the nearly outdoor event - the arena did have a ceiling but no walls. He and his wife, Linda, said they tried to get close enough to see whether Bush remembered Clifford. He was a teacher at Bush's high school in Midland. Both said she got her message across.
"I liked what she said about education, about making sure all children have the opportunity to learn and health care for all," she said. "It seems to be, the administration wants to be on track. We'll just wait to see how much it will be funded."
Not everyone at the fairgrounds was a Bush supporter. Four students from Eastern New Mexico University in Portales stood outside the gates with pro-Kerry signs.
"We don't have to love Bush to love our country," one sign read.
"We've gotten lots of 'Go homes,"' Scott Swagerty said of their reception.
Before Bush took the stage for her 15-minute speech, candidates for local elections and city officials rallied the crowd.
Ray Mondragon, former Clovis police chief and now city manager, was booed when he said he was a Democrat, but he said he expected that response.
"Let me take that a bit further," he said. "I'm proud to support George W. Bush for president."
He then gave this message to his fellow Democrats: "Relax. Just relax, and remember it's OK to vote for George W. Bush for president," he said to loud applause and whistling.
Bush also asked that people reach out to liberals, independents and Democrats, tell them about the president's accomplishments and plans, make sure they are registered to vote, and tell them to tune into the upcoming debates.
"And they'll see the strong man I've known for 27 years - a man who says what he means and does what he says," she said.
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'I KNOW that guy," Vincent Thomas screeched as Charles Tillman appeared on the 60-inch television he and dorm mates at Eastern University had gathered around on Super Bowl weekend.
"Sure you do," was the predictable response. Thomas grew up in Camden. Tillman, honored that weekend as the NFL's Man of the Year, has played his entire 11-year career as a cornerback with the Chicago Bears and before that, lived just about everywhere else in the world but Camden as the son of a military man.
But Thomas didn't just know him. It is largely because of Tillman that Thomas became the first in his family to attend college. As involved sponsors of Camden's acclaimed UrbanPromise program, Tillman and his wife Jackie are covering whatever remains of Thomas' education costs after grants and scholarships, and are taking an active role in the junior's pursuit of a degree in business marketing.


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Cubs reward Theo Epstein for turnaround with 5-year extension
Cubs reward Theo Epstein for turnaround with 5-year extension
CHICAGO -- Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts had dinner with president of baseball operations Theo Epstein in Arizona around the start of spring training.
If Epstein had any doubt about a contract extension, it ended right there. And on Wednesday, it became official.
Chicago announced a five-year extension, rewarding Epstein for an overhaul that has the long-suffering franchise eyeing its first championship since 1908.
"He started it off by saying some really nice things about me that might have hurt his leverage a little bit, and then I returned the favor by telling him that even if we couldn't work out a contract it would get awkward because I would just keep showing up to work," Epstein said. "As an employee, I will. I kept ruining my leverage."
The deal comes with the Cubs wrapping up one of the greatest seasons in franchise history and their fans believing this just might be the team to end the 108-year World Series title drought.
Chicago reached 100 wins for the first time since 1935 and was a major league-leading 101-56 heading into Wednesday's game at Pittsburgh. The Cubs clinched the best record in the majors with more than a week left in the regular season.
"In the five years under Theo's leadership, he has brought in a strong executive team and acquired and developed some of the best players in the game," Ricketts said. "Now, the results are on the field."
Terms were not disclosed.
It looks like Epstein isn't the only Cubs executive with a new deal. He said contract extensions for general manager Jed Hoyer and senior vice president of scouting and player development Jason McLeod will probably be announced in the next day or two.
Epstein, who was in the final season of a five-year deal when he left Boston in October 2011, had repeatedly said a new contract was a formality, that there were more immediate priorities. Ricketts had echoed that and indicated in the spring that he was prepared to make him one of the highest-paid executives in baseball.
"There was never any real drama throughout the summer," said Ricketts, adding the agreement was finalized a few days ago.
What took so long?
"We sat down at spring training, had a nice dinner, talked about getting an extension done," Ricketts said. "Basically, I told him I thought he was the best in the game at what he did. He told me no matter what I paid him he wasn't going to leave Chicago, so we were off to a good start. We checked back in on it a couple times during the summer. There was no real time pressure."
The new deal is a reward for a striking transformation that began with the arrivals of Epstein along with Hoyer and McLeod -- his friends from Boston -- following the 2011 season.
The Cubs tested some fans' patience by taking the long approach rather than going for a quick fix, but they have seen the benefits the past two years. Chicago is eyeing even bigger things after breaking out with 97 wins and reaching the NL Championship Series last season.
"When you have great leadership at the top, it usually filters through the rest of the group," manager Joe Maddon said. "A successful organization has that. We have that. I was very happy to hear the news. I'm very happy for Theo and his family and of course, us. It is great. It's a feel-good story. He deserves it. He's earned it. I'm very happy for him."
High draft picks such as 2015 NL Rookie of the Year Kris Bryant made big impacts, as did a number of trade acquisitions, including last season's NL Cy Young Award winner Jake Arrieta, All-Star first baseman Anthony Rizzo and potential Gold Glove shortstop Addison Russell.
The hiring of NL Manager of the Year Joe Maddon and signing of starter Jon Lester before the 2015 season showed just how serious the Cubs were about jumping into contention. And the additions of three-time Gold Glove outfielder Jason Heyward, pitcher John Lackey and veteran infielder Ben Zobrist along with the re-signing of outfielder Dexter Fowler this past offseason added to an already deep roster.
Throw in the emergence of Kyle Hendricks as a Cy Young candidate, and the Cubs are widely considered a postseason favorite.
There were missteps along the way, but the Cubs are in a far different and far better place than they were five years ago. And if they win it all under Epstein, it won't be the first time he helped end a long championship drought.
Before he took aim at the Billy goat curse, he took down the Bambino.
Epstein oversaw two World Series winners in nine seasons as Boston's general manager.
In Chicago, Epstein parted with high-priced veterans and loaded up the minor league system while expanding the team's scouting and analytics operation as part of an overhaul that saw the organization get stripped to its studs.
The Ricketts family also invested heavily in infrastructure in recent years, including new training facilities in the baseball-rich Dominican Republic and the spring training home in Arizona. They are also overhauling Wrigley Field and the surrounding neighborhood.
"There really wasn't anything important to me besides finding common ground, making sure that we could stay and see this thing through," Epstein said. "Our mission has not been accomplished yet."
Roman Quinn likely done for season; Aaron Nola is throwing in Fla.
Roman Quinn likely done for season; Aaron Nola is throwing in Fla.
ATLANTA – Roman Quinn spent Wednesday getting treatment on his freshly strained left oblique. The rookie outfielder will try to gauge his condition by doing some jogging and light throwing on Thursday, but all signs point to his being shut down for the remaining days of the season and continuing his bid to make the opening day 2017 roster in spring training.
"He'll let me know tomorrow and be honest with me if he still feels it," manager Pete Mackanin said Wednesday. "There's no sense in him getting hurt with only four or five games left in the season."
Quinn injured himself taking a swing in the fifth inning Tuesday. He blew out the same oblique at Double A Reading this summer and missed six weeks.
"I think he's more scared than anything that it's going to recur and he's going to make it worse," Mackanin said.
That should be enough to shut down Quinn right there.
"It's definitely frustrating," Quinn said.
Quinn was 15 for 57 (.263) with four doubles, six RBIs, eight walks and five stolen bases in 15 games before going down. He struck out 19 times but had a .373 on-base percentage on a team that struggles to get on base.
Mackanin sees Quinn as a player who could make the jump to full-time duty in the Phillies' outfield as soon as April, but first Quinn must clear the injury hurdle that has cost him so much time since he was picked in the second round of the 2011 draft. Quinn has missed time with a ruptured Achilles tendon, a torn quad muscle, a broken wrist and oblique issues.
"He mentioned to me that because he's so lean and doesn't have a lot of body fat that might be part of the issue," said Mackanin, referring to Quinn's oblique issues. "They have so much health food available for the players that this could be a good way to make a change, so we can have a pizza and a burger once in a while."
Mackanin got serious.
"With him, his big question mark is staying on the field," the manager said. "That's always going to be in the back of everybody's mind because he doesn't seem to stay on the field as much as you'd like him to. Resilience and reliability are important. So that's going to be a big test for him next year. It's obvious what he brings to the table as far as making things happen. He's a catalyst for a lot of things, the least of which is coverage in the outfield, so it's a matter of whether he can stay on the field or not."
In other health matters ...
Reliever Edubray Ramos has a sore elbow and is day to day, and day to day at this time of the year might mean he's done for the season. Mackanin said the elbow issue is not serious and could be a result of Ramos' pitching longer than he ever has in a season.
Also, Aaron Nola has begun to test his ailing elbow by throwing on flat ground in Florida. He will progress to a mound and eventually face hitters in the coming weeks as the club gauges whether he is fully recovered from his elbow strain or will require surgery that could cost him the 2017 season.


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It's time for some light relief, so I hereby present you with a round-up of some of the madness affecting our region, starting with the crazy carousel called Israeli pre-election politics. After Ehud Barak announced he was quitting politics, and … Continue reading
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So excited that it is Friday! Tomorrow is my first half marathon.
Although Mother Nature has not been on my side this week. It has been raining all week and I received an email last night that part of the course is flooded but they will re-route us. The weather forecast for tomorrow is flurries and rain. I am still excited for the race but I am now a little nervous about the weather.
I will be running the Running Fit/Chocolate milk Martian Half Marathon tomorrow. I have been taking it easy on workouts this week to prep myself.
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Where to begin? Referee Martin Atkinson needs glasses or laser surgery for his eyes. Fans who deem the tackle to be fair need to have their heads examined. Above all, Nigel de Jong should be banned from the EPL for as long as Hatem Ben Arfa is out with a broken leg.
How the Butcher of Manchester got away with this horror tackle on Ben Arfa without so much as a foul called is farcical. The tackle was nothing short of reckless. And spare me the argument that football is a contact sport, a man's sport, where you stick in the boot. If you want to see thugs trying to detach limbs and break bones, tune in to MMA. Or the NFL. Too many fans of that sport celebrate the bone-crushing brutality with a disturbing bloodlust.
Just as we should have been outraged at Tomas Ujfalusi's thuggish hacking down of Lionel Messi a few weeks ago, we should be similarly aggrieved over this. Ben Arfa is no superstar, but he deserved better than what he got at Manchester City on Sunday.
Ian Horrocks/Newcastle United/Getty ImagesHatem Ben Arfa holds his injured leg after a horror tackle by Nigel de Jong.
De Jong's record is starting to read like a rap sheet for a common street criminal: broken leg (Stuart Holden), impaling by way of cleats to the chest (Xabi Alonso). Of course, we're not even counting all the vicious little bruising tackles that don't end with a player on oxygen in a triage unit.
De Jong is a reckless player at best, a dirty player at worst. Amazingly, he has been booked for only 13 fouls and two yellow cards this season, with zero reds. This past weekend's tackle should have been a straight sending-off. Just because you play the ball doesn't mean a tackle can't be irresponsible. And spare me the argument that it was his trailing leg that broke Ben Arfa's, as if that somehow makes the tackle acceptable. Besides, it's the trailing leg that often ends up doing the brunt of the damage on bad tackles.
Netherlands coach Bert van Marwijk has cut de Jong from his country's two upcoming Euro 2012 qualifiers, saying that de Jong has a problem wanting to go to extremes. You don't say? Johan Cruyff said that de Jong has "crossed the line two or three times now."
But it's not enough. If nothing else, the Premier League should suspend him for the equivalent of a red-card ban of three games.
It would be little solace to Ben Arfa, of course, who has two broken bones in his left leg. For now, he'll be watching the games from his couch while the Butcher of Manchester is allowed to wreak more havoc on the pitch.


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ANAHEIM, Calif. - The first time Stacy Maloney saw Paul Hamm, he knew the gymnast was going to be something special.
Hamm was 7, and taking one of his first tumbling classes. The rest of the boys and girls bobbled their way through in that cute, clumsy way most people would expect. But not Hamm. Within two weeks, he'd mastered every skill so well, he had to be put in an advanced program.
Thirteen years later, he's still outclassing the field. Hamm became the first American man ever to win the all-around gold medal at the World Gymnastics Championships on Thursday night, sealing the title with a high bar routine even a trapeze artist wouldn't dare.
"It feels incredible," he said after edging Yang Wei of China. "It was obviously a dream of mine since I was a little kid. World champion is as high as you can get, except for maybe Olympic champion.
"To be that for the rest of your life is such an incredible thing."
And there's likely to be more glory in his future. With the Athens Olympics just a year away, he's firmly established himself as the one to beat. The two-time U.S. champion has already won two medals here - he has a silver from the team competition - and he has a chance to add a third in Saturday's floor exercise final.
"It could put a little more pressure on me going into Athens," Hamm said. "It's good for me. It'll keep me working hard. It's not a negative thing in my opinion."
After all, this is what he's been working for all of these years.
In a sport where most men don't reach their peak until their mid-20s, Hamm and his twin brother Morgan are prodigies. They made the 2000 Olympic team at just 17, and handled the pressure better than most of the veterans.
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Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 came out and I was so excited. I love brawlers, Co-op and Super heroes and MUA2 had all that in spades. So I was pretty hyped up because a few people in my social circle were gonna get this and I had these grand visions of a 4 player team up that would shake the skies of Heaven. I was gonna be Spider Man and tear shit up. It doesn't get off to a great start because the developers really built the game up to played and grinded in single player mode when they excluded the ability to earn experience points in Co-Op and the only way to play this after your 1st play through is on Legendary and trying to stay alive kind of takes away from the fun of being a bad ass super hero.
Still I think that even if I don't get a game that had the Left 4 Dead type following that I was expecting, my Homies the Sofa Kings would have my back and I could grind it with them. And on the off chance that didn't happen, my buddy Mike was pretty hyped about the game and at the very least I'd get a couple sessions with him in and we'd have a few laughs while we grinded this bad boy to death. I had this shit all planned out to the T.......And now I can safely say that my plans were laid to waste. I played this game in Co-Op all of one time. The Kings moved on and Mike disappeared like dust in the wind. It sounds like I'm crying over spilled milk and I kind of am but it's just because The shock how bad this MUA2 experience has failed has not worn off on me.
I picked up ODST to play with Bannen for his "1UP Utimate Halo Alliance" and I have to say it was a pretty good investment. I got to play Halo3 with Cody, Loosh, Fumes, Hawaiian Gamer, and Blaque Essence. This is the kind of thing that I joined 1Up for to meet people who share my interest and to hopefully game with them from time to time. As a side bonus I got to play Halo3 with Bannen and his Nephews and that was real interesting. The funny thing about Halo3 MP is it gets in your skin and you keep coming back no matter how many times I've been teabagged, Teamkilled, get called a "Faggot Nigger", and have all my random teammates drop out on me. I keep coming back, because when everything goes just right and Lady Luck shines on me....Kicking ass Halo style in fun as hell! Another good thing about Halo3 MP is I've connected with Choo Lose...This has been a great experience as Matt is real cool and a great wingman. I see lots of good times coming out of this new friendship.
Wow! I take blogs like Cody's, Big Mex's, Lady Death's, Bannen's and Xcite79's for granted. These are people who write well thought out blogs that focus on things I can relate to. While I may not agree with everything they say, I come out of their pages far more entertained than when I went in. This is what new users of 1up should take into consideration, because if the stuff that littered the front page is where 1up is going than we are not gonna get far. I don't need no one to force their political ideology, views on racism, corporate loyalty or how they hate other users on me. That is low class, doesn't grow any food for thought and worst of all it does nothing to foster goodwill among one and another in our community. I'm not gonna sit here and play holier than thou but I really just want to read blogs about video games not the kind we were suppose to leave behind in high school.
Anyway I was really frustrated by the lack of well thought out interesting blogs on this site so I figured I'd just add to the noise take it for what you will.
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PLAYER POST-GAME following Saturday's victory over Fresno State (Mansa Habeeb, Djim Bandoumel):
Mansa, what happened on that last play? It looked like he was going up. Did he actually shoot or was it you contested it and he tried to go back down?
MH: He had a shot and I contested it enough that I was going to block it if he got the shot off; so he just came down with it and got the turnover."
Did you actually tip it?
MH: "No, I didn't tip it. He just hung onto the ball."
It was a pretty exciting finish obviously. To be even in that situation obviously, to be on the court there to make a key play…that's obviously a big moment.
MH: "Yeah, that is big. I'm proud that coach has the trust in me to be out there to finish the games and defend the opposing players as well as I do. Give a lot of credit to Fresno State. They played a hell of a game."
Djim, the energy level seemed to be a lot higher today than Thursday. Was there a strong message from the coaches that you guys needed to play with a little more.."
DB: "Yeah. He kinda gave us a reminder from last year when we lost against New Mexico the first game of the year, and we bounced back and won huge that second game. We just tried to do the same thing today. We watched film right after the Nevada game, and it was the first time we did that. It was a message for everybody; so we stayed here until midnight that day. We tried to work hard on that video tape and tried to send a message today."
Do you practice taking a shot in the corner at the end of the shot clock?
DB (laughing) "Well, that's not my work to do right now. I'm playing inside, but if I have to shoot it and it goes in ... luck is a part of the game."
You guys, free throws obviously came up big and I think you only missed a couple the entire game. Djim, I think you were 6-6…you guys have struggled as a team with that this year. That was really big, right?
MH: "In practice coach has been on us about making our free throws, because we shoot free throws; so he's just been on us to get in practice and be better at shooting free throws."
Was there anything in your game plan coming into this one that maybe you didn't execute as well as you would like, looking at one or two things? They outscored you guys 26-22 in the paint. You guys should have had the advantage out there. Is that one thing you guys targeted coming into this game?
DB: "We knew right away that we had the advantage inside with our height and tried to send a message right out of the gate and force the referees to make some calls. We thought after the Nevada game that we were not running our system fast enough and hard enough; so the next day we went through all the motion offense, and I think the result came through today."
That full-court press near the end of the game seemed to give you guys a little bit of trouble. Any explanation for that? Are you guys just not used to playing against it?
DB: "Well, I was on the bench and I was going crazy (laughs). I think we're capable of breaking any press. It's just (we need) to stay poised and make the right decisions. If somebody pressures you with two guys, somebody is open. You just have to stay poised and make that pass. Obviously a couple of our teammates … we found a way today."
Idaho HEAD COACH Don Verlin:
"We needed that one. Holy cow."
Coach, pretty exciting finish at the end there. Talk about what was going through your mind, especially on that final quasi-blocked shot if you will.
"It wasn't perfect at the end by any means, and when you've lost four in a row, you've lost a ton of close games in a year, sometimes getting that first one is really, really difficult, and it was difficult tonight. Like I told the guys in the locker room, we'll figure out how to fix some of those mistakes, but enjoy this one because we deserved it. I thought our team showed a lot of character tonight. We got our tails kicked on Thursday, they came back with a lot of energy. I thought they played hard. Rodney (coach Rodney Terry) is doing a great job with Fresno State. They're really hard to guard. They play small a lot. I was really happy with the outcome of the game."
What did you see on that last play? Mansa says that he didn't actually tip the ball but it looked like the guy was going up, saw Mansa coming, then tried to go back down…
"It looked like…Mansa was right there to contest it. We talked about not fouling obviously at the end and it looked like he went up and down. When you're a kid playing you set up-downs. Up-downs was his travel. That's what it looked like to me. Shoot, I don't know exactly what happened. We'll watch it on tape. It did look like a travel to me."
It looked like Mansa skied, once on the rebound and then once on that shot. He got up. He outfought Djim?
"Yes on that big rebound there at the end. That was a heck of a rebound. He's a good athlete and played at a very good junior college and was a very good player there. I like the way he played tonight. I thought Deremy Geiger and Mansa Habeeb did a great job on (Kevin) Olekaibe…15 points below his average. Those guys had the assignment all night long. They were trying to deny him the ball, make it tough on him. I thought they did a good job in the second half. We defended him a little bit better than we did in the first half, and I thought our post guys did a better job in the second half than they did in the first half. Our defensive effort was pretty good. I thought we executed okay offensively. I just don't think we made our shots, but we did make our free throws, and that was nice to see."
Talk about Djim for a second. He just exploded in this game, came out with a fire and didn't stop.
"I tell you what. It was great to have him play as energetically, and that's what I've been on him about for the last 48 hours. Djim Bandoumel can bring energy to this team. He can make energy-type plays, and he made 'em tonight. I've been on him really hard about his rebounding. He had three offensive rebounds. We need to get him a few more defensive rebounds, but his ability to change the game around the basket can really help our team. I thought he played with a lot of energy and a lot of passion, a lot of emotion tonight, and you're exactly right. He gave us a spark all night long with Kyle (Barone) was in foul trouble."
You just talked about offensive rebounds. Stephen Madison had 5 offensive boards for you guys, and then that shot at the end there. He's only a sophomore. How much leadership does he bring? It seems like it's quite a bit.
"Yeah, he does. Stephen plays hard, and he kinda leads by example. He really plays hard. He's a very good rebounder. He's not the highest jumper on our team, he not the biggest, strongest, but he's got a great knack for the ball and good hands, and he leads by example. When Kyle was in foul trouble and they were playing small all night long, it was really hard for our matchups. Basically they were playing (Jonathan) Wills or (Larry) McGaughey. Both those guys are guards and we basically had to have a guard on him I thought; so they caused some tough matchup problems, and I thought Stephen played a lot of minutes, but I thought he did a very good job."
The full court press seemed to give you guys a little bit of trouble. Talk about why and what you can do to fix that.
"Well, we've gotta clean it up. We weren't executing very well. When our guy got trapped we didn't have a guy break in the middle like we should have. We've just got to do better. I think we panicked a little bit. I'm not gonna tell you we didn't. I guess if we'd lost you would have called it 'choked,' (chuckles). We panicked a little bit. There's no question about it. You can talk about not letting pressure get to you and all that stuff, but it does, and that's the way it is. There's no one that wants to win the ball games more than the guys in that locker room because they come out and work their tail off every day. When you get close like that and have as many close calls … this was a great I hope for us to get over the hump."
Djim said that you guys were here until midnight on Thursday watching film.
"Yeah, we might have been here that late."
Obviously kind of an unusual circumstance but he said you wanted to remind them of what happened last year when you guys lost to New Mexico State, came back…
"We didn't play quite as well as we did against Louisiana Tech (last year), but I thought it was time for our team to see a game in its entirety after the game the other night…I like to call those 'prayer meetings;" so we just had a little 'prayer meeting.'"
So you what did you see in this game specifically that you guys are going to focus on. You've got a few days before you've head down to Ruston.
"We've got to shoot the ball better, and we're a good shooting team; maybe our execution offensively, but obviously we've go to clean up some press breaker things. New Mexico State has always pressed up; so we've got work like crazy in that area of the game. We've just got to continue to fight together. I think that's the biggest thing for this team and get our swagger back. We lost our swagger a little bit. That's mainly going to be it. Not any different than what we ever do, but just continue to fight and get better and try to get better and better and better so we can play our best basketball in March."
You guys cut down the turnovers. It says 16, but at least five turnovers in the first half were offensive fouls.
"Uh, you know I don't want to say anything about the officiating. I will tell you what I did say to 'em, though, is…'I've been around basketball for 30-plus years and I've never seen that many offensive fouls called.' That was wild. Both ways. Not just for us…We had seven on us and we probably took four…I bet there were over 10 or 11 offensive fouls called in the game, and that was wild. I don't think I've ever been involved in a game like that."
Matt Borton's status?
"Day to day (knee injury). We thought we were gonna have him back today…We're hoping that we will have him back Monday for practice or at latest Tuesday. He did it on the play before he got the elbow (Thursday against Nevada). We think it's just a day-to-day situation…"
We haven't seen a whole lot of Wendell Faines or Dazmond Starke recently. Any reason for that?
"Starke has decided to transfer. For whatever reason Wendell has lost his confidence and struggled when he's been in there. It's getting that time of year where you've got to shorten the bench a little bit. Joe Kammerer has been here a long time, doesn't make a lot of mistakes; so I felt like that was the way I wanted to go."
Is Starke going to finish out the year?
"No, he's going to leave at semester."
That was his decision?
DON VERLIN, UI MEN vs. NEVADA:
Tell us about the game, Don. Obviously the first half, turnovers…
"Yeah. I thought they dominated us in every phase of the game tonight. (Coach) David (Carter) did a good job getting 'em ready to play. I thought they played harder than us. I thought they played with more energy than us. They're obviously a very good team that came in on a roll. They took us out of everything we wanted to do in the first half, and … we turned it over 13 times. We turned it over 2 in the second half and played 'em even, but against a good basketball team you can't them the ball 13 times whether it was their pressure or us not being strong with the ball. Whatever the case may be, that's unacceptable. If we expect, which we do, to play at the top of this league we have to play better with more energy, more intensity and we've got to execute a whole lot better."
Do you feel like the team came out a little flat?
"I don't know if they did or not. Obviously (Deonte) Burton had a lot to do with that early. He comes out on fire making the threes against us. I like to think not. I've got some good senior leaders. I thought we worked really hard as coaches trying to get 'em ready to play, explaining to them what they're in for, and Nevada jumped us and we were never really in it. I'll tell you, they dominated us really from start to finish."
They extended their pressure and a couple of times you had a tough time getting it past half court. What was going on there?
"It was exactly what we expected. We for some reason were confused. The plays that you were talking about we were confused in a press breaker that we had put in a couple games ago, and for whatever reason we really struggle with the execution of the that press breaker. That falls on my shoulders, nobody else's. They have to be able to execute at a higher level and a better level. Give the credit to Nevada. They did a good job in the first half of changing their defenses, extending their pressure, and the Vandals didn't do a good job of attacking they way they needed to."
Burton has had five games where he scores more than 26 or he's under 10. Is that a product of the defense or does he is just kind of a streaky shooter and when he's going there's not a lot you can do?
"You know what? He can really get it going. He's gotten it going against us every time it seems like, and most definitely he's a guy that can get it going. I think it's a little bit of both to answer your question. First and foremost you have to do a good job on him. You can't allow him to go to his right hand. You can't allow him to step into his jumper. You've got to slow him down off the ball screen. There are things you've got to do to slow him down, and we didn't do any of 'em; so you allow a good player to get going and the result is 26 points, 6 assists, 2 turnovers. He's a good player. He's a guy in our league that's probably the best candidate to play at the next level, and he showed why he's that guy tonight."
You had 13 turnovers first half, only two second. What did you say to the guys or what happened different? Was it maybe a lack of press?
"I don't know. I guess they changed their defenses a little bit. I thought we just really, really sloppy with the ball in all aspects of. I mean for whatever reason, I don't know if our guys were shocked about how hard they came at us. It's exactly what I expected, exactly what I told 'em was coming. I thought we just weren't very good with the ball. Kyle (Barone) turned it over four times. Landon (Tatum) turned it over a couple times. Djim (Bandoumel) turned it over. I mean it wasn't just one guy. It was a bunch of guys. I think Nevada had 10 or 11 steals in the first half; so they had something to do it, but we've got to execute better. That's what we do, and we didn't do that tonight."
Is there something you can do differently that you're going to focus on differently against Fresno State or like you said is this kind of an anomaly game because Nevada puts pressure on the ball the way they do?
"So does Fresno. We're gonna work hard. We're gonna do a lot better job competing. I don't think we competed hard enough. That's the bottom line. You've got to come out in WAC games and you've got to fight every possession. They know what you're gonna do. There are good coaches there. They scout just like we do. They know what you're gonna do. They're going to take your sets away. They're going to take your things away. You've got to be able to adjust and execute the things that you've got to do. It's a game of wills, and tonight their will was a lot better than ours."
Four straight losses, three on the road…and then one here and we don't have 1,000 people. How big to this team are the fans and fan support?
"I think always its huge, but we knew this was going to be a tough spot in our schedule. You look at what Wright State is doing lately and what Green Bay has done, and Boise is a good team. We all know about that game. This game, we knew this was the toughest part of our schedule. The one thing obviously we didn't think we were going to go 0-4, but you know what? I'm a firm believer in you can't worry about the things you can't control. What I can control is the guys in this locker room. I tell our guys all the time the most important guys are the guys in the locker room, and we play first and foremost for the guys in the locker room, then we play for everybody else and everything else, but the most important thing is the guys in the locker room. Tonight we didn't play that way."
How is Matt (Borton) feeling (after taking an elbow to the face)?
"I haven't talked to him yet. I'm sure the trainer is checking him out. I didn't see the shot.
Is the rule on a "Flagrant 2 Foul" that he (Deveonte Elliott) is suspended for the next game?
"I don't know that for sure. I think it's just an ejection for this game because it was not fighting. It was a flagrant 2; so I'm 99% sure it's just for this game."
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This place is a biomedical laboratory formerly run by the nonprofit Coulston Foundation in Alamogordo, N.Mex., that Noon and her 45-person staff there took over 3½ years ago. "Let's hope," she muses, watching the trailer embark on its 37-hour trek, "they can burn it out of their memories."
It's unlikely that Noon, 56, ever will. Since the '60s the lab had bred generations of chimps to be subjects for numerous medical experiments. Its founder, Dr. Frederick Coulston, a noted infectious disease researcher who ran the facility until a year before his death in 2003 at 89, had come under fire after several chimps in his care died. USDA investigators then forced him to give up 300 of the animals. But it was the squalid conditions the remaining chimps were kept in that spurred Noon's fight to better their lives.
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Still, "what Carole has accomplished is phenomenal," says Jane Goodall, the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees. Goodall was also an inspiration for Noon, a Portland, Ore., native, who heard Goodall give a lecture in 1984 when Noon was studying for her B.S. in biology at Florida Atlantic University. Goodall later invited Noon (by then a primatologist) to a Zambian wildlife orphanage to study a rescued chimp named Milla. Back in the States in 1997, Noon started her Florida sanctuary after acquiring 21 chimps previously owned by the U.S. Air Force. In 2002 Dr. Coulston donated his chimps to her. Since then, Noon has relocated only 37 of them, due to a shortage of trained caregivers in Fort Pierce. But she hopes to move the rest by next year and shut down the Coulston facility for good.
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I'll start this one off. This is going to be possible FOTN. Taylor has the some of the best hands in the UFC, concerning boxing, speed and accuracy ... as good as Silva in my opinion. He's also fearless and will engage like a wild man. Problem is ...no ground game. If lights out decides to stand and trade with this guy then he'll live out his nicknam thats for sure. CL needs to take him to the matt to win in my view.
I remember when paul kelly and paul taylor banged for 30 seconds or so in the first round...kelly changed his mind very quickly about standing and trading. That was also one of the best starts i've seen to a fight!
Lytle takes this one via a guillotine in the 2nd.
i think this will be a great fight i hope paul taylor wins....not sure yet how but i think its gonna be a good one
I hope Taylor wins but I doubt it.
I'm pumped for this fight, more then Bisping/Leben even. If they stand, Taylor KO's Lytle....no one stands with Taylor and wins. Ask Paul Kelly or Marcus Davis, they felt the wrath and changed gameplans quickly.
Lytle wins this on the ground though, too much experience and Taylor is known for this being his weakness. Again, ask Kelly/Davis.
They're both fun as hell to watch though but ill predict Taylor by KO round 2.
Don't read if you don't want to know who won yet....
I wouldn't disagree with the decision, but I really hate that Chris gassed so early. He landed a lot of shots standing and held Tayler up against the cage a lot and got some takedowns, so I think thats why he got the decsion. I hope he gets that fight with Davis like he wants. I will have to go with Davis if it happens
Great fight, FOTN in my mind.
I actually scored it 29-28 for Taylor but it was pretty close.
I thought Lytle scored way too many points just for controlling Taylor against the fence but I'm a bit of a big Taylor fan so I'm probably a bit bias.
Even with the loss Taylor comes out of that fight looking pretty good IMO. His ground game and wrestling are pretty bad but he's got the best standup at 170 IMO and great conditioning.
I'm intrigued by Lytle - Davis aswell TBH
Definitely FOTN!
That was a war I feel bad taylor lost because he put up a hell of a fight and got some awesome shots in
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