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My brain is broken. Some people can watch a movie and, when the credits roll, say, "Oh, fine movie, I wonder what else I can do with my life now that the movie is over" (or however humans talk). I, on the other hand, say, "OK, fine movie, but what happened later? What happened to Spider-Man the next day? And the day after that? Hey, after Danny Ocean performed his third giant heist, was it hard for him to go back to a life that was comparatively very mundane? That must have been like Michael Jordan retiring. Was it? Ask Danny Ocean if it was. How does the little girl from E.T. eventually die? What about everyone else in every other movie? How does everyone die? I need closure on everything."
Don't get me wrong. I can understand and appreciate ambiguity in movies. I don't need to know whether or not the top in Inception falls for the same reason I don't need to know the ending to The Lady, or the Tiger: The uncertainty is the answer. There's an art and a beauty to that, and it's fine.
But I'm also a lunatic who lives for pop culture, so whenever a movie ends in a way that isn't intentionally ambiguous for the purpose of making a statement, I want an epilogue. I want to know where all the characters ended up, because I just spent two hours turning those fictional characters into my friends and I want to make sure they're OK. I want every non-Inception movie to end with a Sandlot-style voice-over, where the narrator goes through every character one by one and tells us their life stories.
I'm saying I won't be able to sleep at night until I know how every character in every movie I've ever loved died.
3 Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Paramount Pictures
The Movie
Three high school friends -- Ferris (the exciting and bold extrovert), Cameron (the shy and repressed introvert), and Sloane (the Girl One) -- all play hooky and spend an entire day going on a wild adventure all over Chicago. They go to a baseball game, a museum, and a fancy restaurant, and they even drive around town in a fancy car that belongs to Cameron's cold father.
Anyway, blah blah blah, after Cameron crashes the car (whoops!), Ferris has to run through town to beat his parents home because they still think he's sick in bed! He's on a race against time while he runs to a soundtrack of wacky fun music, and even though he'll be DOGMEAT if his mom and dad catch him playing hooky, he still has time to flirt with a couple of chicks who are sunbathing in their clearly wooded, clearly shady Illinois neighborhood.
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Maybe Ferris was imaginary, but we believe these two were real.
Ferris makes it home right in the nick of time, fooling both his parents and that silly school principal who was chasing him throughout the whole movie. Good job, Ferris, you're the best!
The Missing Epilogue
Five more minutes. That's all I need. Just five more minutes to see what happens when Cameron's dad gets home. His oppressive father, the guy who is so cold and distant that he's turned Cameron into a socially broken train wreck. That guy.
The most interesting thing about Ferris Bueller's Day Off is that it isn't about Ferris Bueller. His best friend Cameron is the hero in this story. Cameron is the one who goes through a journey. Cameron is the one whose story has an arc, the one who grows and changes by the end of the film, the character who actually learns something. Let's compare character arcs for Ferris and Cameron using this fancy chart I had a scientist friend of mine work up:
I guess "arc" isn't the word for what Ferris goes through.
Ferris is obviously the more inherently dynamic character, and he's lots of fun to watch, but Cameron's path is infinitely more interesting. Ferris is silly and superhuman; Cameron is real.
Now what the hell happens to him??
The fact that this movie ends with Ferris dispensing some stupid life lesson about stopping to smell the roses always felt like a slap in the face to me. I'm not going to take Ferris' life advice because he's magic, and magic people have different problems from me. That might be an OK takeaway moral for you, Mr. Silly Man, Mr. Clownshoes, Mr. I-Shit-Gold-and-Everything-Works-Out-for-Me-Always, but the truth is, at the end of the day, there are more Camerons in this world than there are Ferrises. The last time we saw Cameron, he crashed an incredibly expensive car through an incredibly expensive window, both of which belonged to a stern-bordering-on-abusive father who terrifies Cameron. Cameron's father is going to come home, and maybe Cameron will finally become the hero of his own story, or maybe he and his dad will bond and finally become friends, or maybe his dad will straight murder him -- we'll never know, because John Hughes decided to drop the thread of this amazing and heavy moment and instead focus on Ferris sprinting home so his mommy and daddy don't find out he was faking being sick.
2 Fight Club
Twentieth Century Fox
The Movie
Fight Club is about a club where men fight one another with their hands and feet.
It's also about consumerism and conformity and addiction and identity, but mostly it's about fighting. The movie follows our unnamed narrator and his new friend Tyler Durden, the co-founders of the first-ever fight club. The club grows in membership and cause, and under Tyler's guidance it eventually becomes a continent-spanning terrorist organization bent on spreading chaos and overthrowing ... khakis? Something. When the neighborhood fight club evolves into Project Mayhem, our narrator decides he needs to stop the out-of-control Tyler before things go too far.
Twentieth Century Fox
For example, Tyler was implementing radical reforms to the health care system.
By the end, we learn that (SPOILERS) there is no Tyler Durden; both the narrator and Tyler are dissociated personalities in the same body. The narrator tries to thwart "Tyler's" plans to erase global debt (by blowing up a bunch of buildings), but he is too late. He shoots himself in the cheek, which somehow kills the Tyler part of his brain while keeping the narrator part safe and in control, then his new girlfriend Marla shows up and they both watch on as all of the buildings that contain debt information explode and collapse around them.
The Missing Epilogue
I really love the ending of this movie a lot. The narrator says, "Everything's going to be fine," a second later everything blows up, and the last thing we hear is the narrator admitting, "You met me at a really strange time in my life." It's pretty beautiful.
But holy crap what happens next?! Will Project Mayhem continue, but without leadership? Is the narrator going to get arrested forever? Did "Tyler" successfully erase all debt, or was that always a really stupid plan?
Twentieth Century Fox
Shoulda also bombed Visa's garage, where they keep their floppies.
I want an epilogue not just because fictional characters are my best friends and I'm obsessed with finding out how they're all doing even when the movie's over, but because I see Fight Club as a super compelling origin story for our narrator. He starts off dull and directionless and numb, and by the end it's like he's finally realized something deep and important, he's finally found his purpose. In my head, the epilogue to Fight Club would be all about the aftermath. Without a central leader, Project Mayhem splits into a bunch of smaller fascist/terrorist/anti-khaki organizations, and it's up to our narrator to travel all over the world thwarting and shutting down these mini Mayhem clans. That's his purpose. He and Marla need to slay the monster that Tyler created and introduce order to the chaos, making our narrator both Batman and the Joker.
Or maybe he and Marla just lie low for a while and live happily ever after. That'd be fine too, I guess.


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By Mickey Winfield: Freedom Newspapers
ELIDA — The Fort Sumner Vixens led nearly the entire game Friday night, but needed clutch free-throw shooting to beat Elida 60-58 in overtime in the District 3-1A tournament championship.
"Any time you play Elida and a Dan Howard team, and you come out of an Elida gym (with a win), you've been blessed," Fort Sumner coach Joel Wood said.
The third-seeded Vixens were 25-of-32 from the free-throw line, including 18-of-21 in the fourth period and in overtime.
"We practice the free throws an awful lot," Wood said. "It hadn't shown a bunch during the season. A lot of the games we lost in the season were because we couldn't hit free throws down the stretch."
The loss was Elida's first at home this season.
"It's a punch in the gut," Elida senior Alicia Cross-Smith said. "We put in a lot of hours in the gym and tonight we didn't really come with our heads together and it showed."
Fort Sumner (17-8) led from the opening moments of the first quarter until the last 25 seconds of regulation. The Vixens' largest lead of the game was 25-16 in the third period, but the top-seeded Lady Tigers (21-4) went on a 12-5 run to cut the deficit to two points going into the fourth period.
Eighth-grader Reavis Best sparked an Elida comeback that sent the game into overtime. Best scored 10 of her 12 points in the fourth quarter. Cross-Smith hit one of two free throws to tie the game for the first time with 25 seconds left.
Senior Laurel Herrera gave the Vixens a four-point advantage in overtime, hitting two free throws with 10 seconds remaining.
"We dug ourselves a big hole there in the first half," Howard said. "We mounted a great comeback and we had our chances but we just couldn't put it away."
Alex Owens led Fort Sumner with 19 points, including eight points in the fourth quarter followed by senior Kaylynn Johnson's 13 points.
Sophomore Lindsey Smith led Elida with 14 points followed by Best's 12. Freshman Shanna Anthony added 10 points.
"I just told (the girls) that they still have a shot to play for a state championship," Howard said. "They've got to get their heads together and get ready to play."


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And the other way around also, if he stays a few more years-and we make a move that gets us to the finals and lose-the talk would be-we could have won if it wasnt for marbury killing our chemistry-when they dont notice some retarted shot that zach takes or whatever the case.


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Greener pastures for Brea
Brea has a shimmering new park, just in time for Independence Day.
Wildcatters Park, a 16-acre open space with a football field and baseball diamond, sprawling lawns and barbecues officially opened Monday with a dedication by city officials and the park's developers, Shea Homes and Standard Pacific Homes. More than 200 residents and city employees attended the ceremony.
Wildcatters, named in honor of Brea's oil-drilling past, is a community park mandated by the city and Orange County as a condition for allowing the Blackstone development - a massive, nearly 800-unit housing project in the Brea Canyon area.
The park is pristine. Composed of active and passive features, the park has athletic-grade turf on its sports fields (tougher than regular grass) and dozens of plant and tree species on the west end. It also has a children's play area designed to incorporate the look of the former oil fields.
"This is a great community benefit," Brea's Community Services Director Chris Emeterio said. "This is going to be a wonderful park."
Shea and Standard Pacific invested about $3million in the project, according to Shea's community development manager, Jim Holas. The developer worked with the city to ensure that the park contained all the amenities the community needed and wanted, according to Holas and city officials. The park went through multiple iterations, Emeterio said, including reducing the number of baseball fields and adding the football field, and adding parking - despite the plans already being approved.
"They didn't really need to make any changes," Emeterio said. "The developers pumped in a lot of money into this park, more than most developers."
Brea, in fact, did not spend a cent on the project. Shea and Standard Pacific, financial partners in the Blackstone development, agreed to pay for the park - and an impending dog park across the street - and sign over the land to the city.
"The park is helpful from a community standpoint to sell homes," Holas said. "The tremendous cooperation with the city and the county was significant."
This park was several years in the making, Emeterio said. The city has long known that it needed more park space for its youth athletic groups and families. But it lacked both space and money. But then Blackstone came along and the city knew it had an opportunity to get the park it desired.
As of the dedication Monday, the start to the fiscal year, Brea controls the park, which is open to the public on a first-come-first-served basis, and it will now pick up the maintenance costs for the park. The upkeep is estimated to cost $167,000 a year, according to Bill Gallardo, the city's head of finances. But because the Blackstone development is a community-facility district — which allows the city to place an extra tax on property owners within a specific neighborhood — 100 percent of the cost is paid for by residents of Blackstone, meaning there is no impact on the general fund, Gallardo said.
The work that has gone into developing Wildcatters, though - and the continual maintenance that all parks require - should be immediately worth it, said Sean Matlock, the city's community services manager.
"We truly got what the community needed," he said. "We're expecting a big summer."
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In case you missed me on the Hot Talk panel on "The Wendy Williams Show" a few weeks ago… heeeeeeeere's the clip!
I had sooooo much fun talking Rihanna, Chris Brown, Oprah Winfrey, bisexuality and handfulls more with a FIERY HOT panel of peeps. Now, that's an understatement! Shout out to the amaaaazzzing Wendy Williams Hot Talk panel, including Wendy's niece Alex and television personalities Jeanine Pirro (a former prosecutor/judge) and Chelsea Lately comedienne Loni Love. Shout out to "mai" friend Jeannie Mai who was also in the house for a special shoe segment! Special thanks to Moods of Norway (suit) and Carlo Pazolini (shoes) for styling me (and Urban Outfitters for my "fancy socks").


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For Immediate Release
May 1, 2013
School Wellness Conference stresses the connection between healthy students and academic success
Educators come from across the state for annual event
SPRINGFIELD— The research is clear: Healthy kids learn better. Educators, administrators, school nurses, food service staff and others from across Illinois will convene Friday, May 3, to discuss healthy school policies and practices during the sixth annual School Wellness Conference in Springfield. Sponsored by the Illinois State Board of Education and Action for Healthy Kids, the conference will highlight the academic benefits of a healthy school environment.
"Proper nutrition and physical fitness are essential for optimal learning," said State Board of Education Chairman Gery J. Chico. "Good school nutrition and healthy practices are more important than ever as schools feed more children through the National School Lunch Program and we all work to help reverse the tide of childhood obesity. With the help of conferences like this one, we can develop a new generation of students who understand the importance of exercising both their minds and bodies."
In the keynote presentation "The Learning Connection: Enhancing Academic Success Through Healthy School Environments," speakers Rob Bisceglie, chief executive officer of Action for Healthy Kids, and Connie Mueller, former Director of Food and Nutrition Services for Bloomington District 87, will discuss the new The Learning Connection report, which is available online at http://www.actionforhealthykids.org/storage/documents/pdfs/afhk_thelearningconnection_digitaledition.pdf.
"There's so much research showing that kids who get regular physical activity and consume nutritious foods and beverages do better in the classroom and on standardized tests," says Bisceglie of Action for Healthy Kids. "Instilling healthy behaviors in schools and homes is not just about students' overall health, which is obviously critical. It's also about students' long-term academic performance and everyone — parents, teachers, school administrators, the nation as a whole — has a stake in that."
- Research findings shared in The Learning Connection report include:
- Students who eat breakfast have better attention and memory.
- After just 20 minutes of physical activity, brain activity improves.
- Students who were more active during school performed better on standardized tests.
Other sessions at the day-long conference will include an update on the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, and presentations on school health initiatives, new national nutrition education standards, free health and wellness programs, and employee staff wellness.
Wellness Advocates Honored
At the conference, the Illinois State Board of Education also will honor four Illinois School Wellness Advocates from across the state:
- Dawn Davis of Washington (Ill.) Community High School recently received the Teacher of the Year Award from the Illinois Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (IAHPERD). Davis has been teaching and coaching for 23 years, including the last 17 years at WHS, where she serves as the department chair.
- Sandy Noel is a former physical education teacher from Hatch Elementary School in Oak Park District 97. She is a member of the Illinois Enhanced Physical Education Taskforce and has been an active member of the Illinois Action for Healthy Kids Steering Committee since 2003. Noel is chair of the Governor's Council on Health and Physical Fitness and previously served as chair of IAHPERD.
- Kathryn Olson of Roselle was recently named the 2012-13 Illinois School Nurse Administrator of the Year by the Illinois Association of School Nurses. She serves as the district nurse for Bensenville School District 2 in DuPage County.
- Mary Anne Wesoloski was named the Illinois School Nurse of the Year by the Illinois Association of School Nurses. Wesoloski, who has practiced as a nurse in Illinois schools for 13 years, works for Barrington School District 220, where she serves general and special education students in three elementary schools.
Sixth Annual Wellness Conference
What: The School Wellness Conference
When: 9 a.m. to 3:15 p.m., Friday, May 3
Where: The Springfield Hilton, 700 E. Adams St., Springfield
Visit these web resources on student nutrition and wellness for additional information:
- ISBE Nutrition and Wellness Programs Division: http://www.isbe.net/nutrition/default.htm
- Action for Healthy Kids: http://www.actionforhealthykids.org/
- Fuel Up to Play 60: http://www.fueluptoplay60.com/
- Choose MyPlate: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/
- HealthierUS School Challenge: http://teamnutrition.usda.gov/healthierUS/index.html
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UPDATE 6:05 PM: Ding. Another ex-Infinity Ward developer has landed at Respawn Entertainment. This time, it's former lead designer Mackey McCandlish, who I'm informed announced his news over Facebook.
UPDATE 5:25 PM: One more. Programmer Jon Shiring has confirmed he's joined the studio over Twitter. "I have accepted a job with Respawn Entertainment," said Shiring. "I can't wait for May 1st!"
UPDATE 4:13 PM: And then there were five. Former Infinity Ward software engineer Rayme C. Vinson has also joined Respawn Entertainment, according to a Facebook status update. Vinson's update says he starts work at Respawn Entertainment on May 1 and will perform the same development role at the new startup from West and Zampella.
UPDATE 4:04 PM: Todd Alderman is not alone; we have three more Respawn Entertainment recruits to add to the list. Former Infinity Ward lead animator Mark Grigsby, lead environmental artist Chris Cherubini and lead animator John Paul Messerly have all joined Respawn Entertainment under the same roles, according to updated Linkedin profiles.
ORIGINAL STORY: After Activision fired former Infinity Ward leadership Jason West and Vince Zampella, a steady stream of senior designers, programmers, artists and other employees have turned in letters of resignation. All of them have been quiet about their future plans. It's been widely speculated that some would follow their former studio heads to their new company, Respawn Entertainment.
Now, it's official.
Former Infinity Ward lead designer Todd Alderman has joined Respawn Entertainment as a lead game designer, according to his Linkedin profile.
Respawn Enertainment was only announced earlier this month by West and Zampella. The studio has already inked a publishing deal with Electronic Arts, but unlike Call of Duty with Activision, West and Zampella maintain complete creative control over the new game. EA said it would fund the new game, however, and it's expected the deal would cover multiple games. But Respawn controls their destiny.
The new developer has not announced a new project because it doesn't actually have one yet.
"It's all about focusing and making sure our premiere title is huge and something that the fans and the gaming community really are gonna love," said West in an interview with G4 following the announcement of Respawn Entertainment. "That's what we're all about right now."
When I spoke with West and Zampella, their company didn't even have an office yet.
With the addition of Alderman to their lineup, however, it's starting to come together.
Thanks to reader Jow for the tip!
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Dordt College News
Softball Opens GPAC Season
April 1, 2013
GAMETIME…Dordt will travel to Seward, Nebraska to face the Concordia Bulldogs on Tuesday, April 2 and will face Mount Marty in Yankton, South Dakota on Wednesday, April 3. Both doubleheaders begin at 4:00 and are GPAC contests.
SCOUTING REPORT… Concordia is 1-1 in the GPAC and 7-10 overall with a split against Doane in league play. The Bulldogs have won five of their last six games and took a pair of games on March 29 against Dakota State and Mayville State.
Opponents have outscored the Bulldogs 80-79 and Concordia is batting .281 as a team. Natalie Svoboda has 14 hits and two doubles with a .246 batting average. Angela Harstad and Danielle Harstad both have 13 hits while Molly Madsen and Nicole Mapes each have 12 hits with Madsen clubbing a pair of doubles and Amber Topil has four doubles as well.
Amanda Beeson is 3-5 on the mound with a 3.52 earned run average and she has struck out 64 batters. Julia Tyree is 4-5 with a 4.89 earned run average and has 20 strikeouts.
Mount Marty is 0-0 in the GPAC and 0-8 overall. The Lancers haven't played since March 15 when they lost to Dickinson State 10-0.
The Lancers are batting .176 this season and have been outscored 66-18 so far. Opponents are batting .355 this season against Mount Marty pitching. Jamie Gregory has seven hits with a .368 batting average while Michaela Bunde has a team high four runs batted in.
Courtney Hansen has logged the most innings on the mound with 19 1/3 and she has a 5.79 earned run average. Hansen has struck out four batters and Jessica Finch has a team high eight strikeouts in 15 2 /3 innings.
DEFENDER NOTES… Dordt is 4-13 overall and this will be the first GPAC action of the year for the Defenders. The Defenders are batting .199 this season and have been outscored 124-64 this season.
The Defenders are led by Ashley Van Kooten with 13 hits and she has knocked in a team high 11 runs. Ashton Beaird has 12 hits and has three homeruns and ten runs batted in with four doubles. Shantelle Gritters, Brittany Kooiker and Haley Huisman all have ten hits each. Sidney Larsen is 3-7 with a 4.58 earned run average and has 30 strikeouts in 76 2/3 innings.
THE SERIES…The Bulldogs lead the series 24-14 and swept a pair of games in Sioux Center last year on March 24 by scores of 2-0 and 4-2.
The Defenders swept Mount Marty on April 4, 2012 by scores of 7-6 and 7-2 to take a 28-10 series lead.
GPAC STANDINGS…(April 1)
Concordia 1-1/7-10
Doane 1-1/6-14
Dordt 0-0/4-13
Hastings 0-0/8-4
Morningside 0-0/9-6
Nebraska Wesleyan 0-0/5-6
Northwestern 0-0/10-13
Midland 0-0/6-11
Briar Cliff 0-0/2-6
Mount Marty 0-0/0-8
Dakota Wesleyan 0-0/0-12
NEXT UP… Dordt will host Hastings on Saturday, April 6 at 1:00 in a GPAC doubleheader. Concordia will host Peru State on April 4 in non-conference action while the Lancers are hosting Midland on April 6
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Our man at the Tulsa Arms Show said things looked pretty good on the ammo front, but seemed slower than expected on the sales of run-of-the-mill shooting irons. Apparently some high-priced collector guns were selling, as they always do, but maybe the incredible pace of gun sales has slowed a bit.
We'll have to look into that for next edition.
Right now, I'm going to tell you that things continue to change and grow here at Gun Digest the Magazine and our brother publication Tactical Gear Magazine.
No doubt you saw Dave Morelli's outstanding column last edition. We've shifted the direction of Morelli's writing for Gun Digest from a look at tactical gear to the newly anointed "Precision Shooting" column. It will run once a month and focus on everything that goes into shooting teeny-tiny little groups at whatever range you consider appropriate. Morelli will talk about everything from reloading components to shooting skills, doping the wind and finding the best glass.
I'm learning, as we get into this, that precise shooting is not a bargain basement proposition. Going from passable accuracy to incredible accuracy means you will have to part with some more of your hard-earned dollars. You get what you pay for and sometimes, more expensive material is quantifiably better.
Another new face, making his debut in this edition is Jerry Ahern. If you have been around the gun business a while you have heard the name. Ahern is taking on a new column we'll call "Ahern: Always Armed." I think you get the idea.
This new Triple A endeavor will give readers a close-up look at CCW gear, home defense weapons, maybe even some knives, flashlights and holsters. The column will be about keeping yourself and your family safe. Ahern will tell you what works, how it stands up to daily use and why you might need it.
I'm looking forward to this one.
Over on the other side of the aisle we have Tactical Gear Magazine. That's pretty much my baby. My work with the local sheriff's department keeps me in touch with lots of guys who count on their gear every day. It has to perform, because there is no telling when the next traffic stop is a carload of drug runners heading from Minneapolis to Green Bay through the lonely county backroads of Wisconsin.
We have expanded Tactical Gear to four newsstand issues and an additional four interactive digital issues. We also launched a nice little website. You can find it at http://tacticalgear.ning.com.
I'm on that site blogging just about every day. We post items of interest for people who use guns and gear for self-defense. Yes there is a professional police slant to it, but we are keeping the CCW crowd in mind, too. I think all good guys with guns deserve the best gear and that's what we aim to tell people about.
We hope you will go to that site and raise issues about things that matter to you. The more input we get, the more tools we all have in our toolboxes.
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Illness and autonomySeptember 19,2013
We pride ourselves as being a state that leads the nation in understanding that mental illness should not be a basis for discrimination. There is discussion afoot that ignores that principle when it comes to medical treatment.
The issue: long hospital stays by a few people in the states custody who have refused to take medications that could help address the illness.
Existing law allows for involuntary administration of drugs by court order when such a person lacks the capacity for informed consent in a process that can take a number of weeks.
That timeline begins only after an involuntary commitment, which rarely occurs before 30 days. (During that time, a patient doesnt even get an automatic preliminary review by a judge to determine whether he or she is being held legally.)
The Shumlin administration suggests that Vermont law is too lenient when it comes to laws that protect the right of a person with a mental illness to make his or her own medical decision. Thats barking up the wrong tree.
No one has suggested God forbid that a person with legal capacity should not be able to make his or her own medical decisions. That deeply embedded constitutional right is enshrined in our law: The state of Vermont recognizes the fundamental right of an adult with capacity to determine the extent of health care the individual will receive.
Whats being lost in the public discussion is the fact that most people with a mental illness still have the capacity to make an informed decision about different types of treatment, including the option of medication.
Vermonts Supreme Court has explicitly ruled that a persons refusal to take psychotropic medication is not, in and of itself, grounds to determine that he or she lacks capacity. There are some valid concerns about the risks of these psychotropic medications, and medication is not the only treatment option.
It is for the few individuals who cannot provide legal consent that we struggle to resolve how to address substitute decision-making, particularly in the emotionally wrought situation when an aware individual is objecting to and actively resisting use of a drug that will affect his or her thinking and sense of self.
It is worth looking at how the process differs for people with other than a psychiatric illness.
First, there is an assessment of capacity. If a person is found to lack the ability to make the specific medical decision, a substitute decision-maker is identified.
Typically, if there is no conflict of interest, a family member is involved. If the person has an advance directive, an agent is the decision-maker. If necessary, a court can appoint a guardian.
Secondly, we recognize the right of the patient to have a decision made that is based on what he or she would have wanted. The law says that when a court-ordered guardian makes a medical decision, consent shall be given or withheld consistent with the manner in which the person under guardianship would have given or withheld consent, provided there is sufficient information concerning the persons wishes.
Third, it is the substitute decision-maker, not the court or the physician, who considers the alternatives and provides the consent or not. A patient who objects to the guardians decision has a right to a court review.
Finally, our guardianship laws allow for more rapid action in urgent medical situations. That isnt available under the court process for people with a mental illness.
If we treated people with a mental illness as people worthy of the same legal rights and protections as everyone else, we would enable those who lack capacity to get access to the treatment they would have wanted, as rapidly as needed.
It would be called parity.
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#217432 - 07/02/14 10:44 AM For snob effect use your nasals [Re: Bazr]
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(BAHN vee-VIHNT, BON* vee-VYAN*)
[* these syllables are nasal]
1) a happy non-human
2) a party animal
3) a good human being who is now dead
#217436 - 07/02/14 03:01 PM Re: For snob effect use your nasals [Re: jenny jenny]
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CON VIVANT - jailhouse slang for a life sentence
#217445 - 07/03/14 09:13 AM Teach yourself or be the self of other men [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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MEANING: noun: A self-taught person.
From Greek autodidaktos (self-taught), from autos (self) + didaktos (taught). Earliest documented use: 1534.
"Tom didn't do particularly well in school because of problems with attention disorder, hyperactivity, and even a streak of mischievousness. Instead, he became an autodidact, using his intense interest in reading to educate himself."
Sharon Salyer; He Was the Love of Her Life; The Herald (Everett, Washington); May 7, 2014.
NUTODIDACT - a nut-o self-taught.
#217448 - 07/03/14 01:12 PM Re: Teach yourself or be the self of other men [Re: jenny jenny]
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AUTODODECT - a twelve-wheeled car
#217451 - 07/03/14 04:35 PM Re: Teach yourself or be the self of other men [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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ALTODIDACT someone educated in the art of getting high.
#217452 - 07/03/14 05:30 PM Teach yourself to blame inanimates for you err. [Re: Tromboniator]
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AUTODIDDAT - what to tell the cops after your car crashes into a liquor store.
#217457 - 07/04/14 03:21 AM a dog's life [Re: jenny jenny]
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noun: A person of high rank or position.
Earlier magnifico was an honorary title applied to Venetian noblemen. From Italian magnifico (magnificent), from Latin magnus (great). Ultimately from the Indo-European root meg- (great), which is also the source of magnificent, maharajah, master, mayor, maestro, magnate, magistrate, maximum, magnify, mickle, mahatma, magnanimous, and hermetic. Earliest documented use: 1573.
"All the magnificos emerge looking banally ordinary."
Peter Schjeldahl; Beasts: The Art World; The New Yorker; May 17, 2010.
MAGNIFIDO - A pampered dog._________________________
live in the moment
#217463 - 07/04/14 11:32 AM Re: a dog's life [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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MAGNIFICIO - Big Labor
NAGNIFICO - Seabiscuit
MUGNIFICO - one handsome dude
and, stepping outsite the Roolz briefly -
MAGNIFIASCO - (plenty of eligibles; you pick it!)
#217469 - 07/04/14 02:34 PM Because THEY are THEM and we are wee. [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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(1) government doublespeak for the " Federal Insurance Contributions Act" which is not a contribution but a tax on all American workers (Federal government employees exempted) .
(2) any scam of a similiar magnitude.
#217503 - 07/07/14 01:12 AM If it is from MAD it can't be bad. (yes it can). [Re: jenny jenny]
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Guaranteed Effective All-Occasion Non-Slanderous Political Smear Speech" from Mad magazine (WebCite). It has gems such as:
"His female relatives put on a constant pose of purity and innocence, and claim they are inscrutable, yet every one of them has taken part in hortatory activities."
Well, election season is coming up and so we give you a fresh set of words to help you write your own non-slanderous smear speech. Even if you don't plan on contesting an election, why not sprinkle these words in your office memos, research reports, or term papers?
This week we'll see five words that sound dirty, but aren't.
MEANING: adjective: Strongly urging.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin hortari (to urge). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gher- (to like or want), which also gave us yearn, charisma, greedy, and exhort. Earliest documented use: 1586.
USAGE:"Of course, the book has its morals, just not hortatory ones."
More Than Just a Phunny Phellow; The Economist (London, UK); Apr 15, 2010.
"There are hortatory slogans painted along the architrave."
Will Self; Real Meals; New Statesman (London, UK); Oct 25, 2013.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. -Robert A. Heinlein, science-fiction author (1907-1988)
HORTATOR - a whore; nice to visit but chancy to marry.
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In concert with the launch of SeedSmart, the Library's Seed Lending Library, we present a convergence between art and science as speakers from four different disciplines engage in a lively, multifaceted conversation on the exotic world of plants. Using grape, heartsease, chamise, maple and sunfower as starting points, poet Amy Glynn (A Modern Herbal), ethnobotanist Jolie Lonner Egert (Go Wild Consulting), watershed consultant Apryl Uncapher (Creating Rain Gardens), and seed company founder and formal ecological interior designer N. Astrid Hoffman (Living Seed Company) will explore everything from literary references to medicinal uses, seed dispersal to cultivation strategies, water use to odd facts, and more.
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Amy Glynn's work appears widely in journals and anthologies including the Best American Poetry 2010 and 2012. She has been a recipient of a James Merrill House fellowship, the Mona van Duyn Scolarship at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and Poetry Northwest's Carolyn Kizer award. Her poetry collection "A Modern Herbal" was released by Measure Press in November 2013. She lives in Lafayette CA.
Apryl Uncapher is an ecological designer dedicated to rainwater harvesting modeled on nature's examples. Co-author of the San Francisco Rainwater Harvesting Guide and Creating Rain Gardens, Apryl has consulted on a variety of integrative stormwater management and water recycling projects for more than a decade. With a degree in innovative design engineering from Purdue University and accredited as a LEED professional, Apryl continually sources opportunities to participate in water projects that inspire a sustainable water consciousness.
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Hi everyone - need some mom help. First some quick background:
* baby is 10 week old, only breastmilk, a bottle every now and again (not daily), uses a pacifier to fall asleep sometimes, eats A LOT, is 16 lbs (see??) and is generally happy
* he is apparently not latching well because he does a variety of things: clicking, sputtering, pulling off, choking, sucking LOTS of air
* I have done all the different positions except the football hold b/c that one is ridiculously uncomfortable and awkward for me. I have done side lying, the boppy with crosshold, the regular crosshold, the reclining position.
* I have a pretty awesome let down and spray him in the face at times. I'm thinking he deals with this by only taking the tip of the nipple so he's not choked?
* At night, he nurses pretty well - only occasionally will my let down get him in that choked situation. He'll wake up, we do the crosshold, and he eats and falls right back to sleep.
* He only takes one side at a time most of the time.
So my question is, how do I help him latch on better? I've tried the nipple sandwich, too. Is it too late to reteach him?


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(Bluefield)—A collaborative effort involving Mercer County Schools and Bluefield State College has provided elementary and middle school students opportunities for academic competition within the larger context of a visit to a college campus.
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Just filed to ESPN.com: Nuggets in "serious" discussions on four-way trade w/New Jersey, Utah and Charlotte that would make Melo a Net
Proposed deal, according to sources, would bring Derrick Favors, Andrei Kirilenko and multiple first-rounders to DEN for Melo. Link on way
Other contracts would surely be added to make such a deal work but current proposal also would send Devin Harris to CHA and Diaw to UTAH
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Ok also i would like everyone on this site who is a member of any Religion to start praying now! I forgot to do it before the Decision and look what happened.
I Dont care if your Christian, Catholic, Jewish, Islamic, Scientologest, or Australian, START PRAYING! and if your an Athiest just cross your fingers and do a dance or something.
Sigh.... Really? Knicks don't stand a chance at getting Melo unless we gut our team. At the very least we'll have to trade AR and Gallinari to get the draft picks and trade necessary for Melo.
Its not worth gutting our team for him, and why in the world does Melo want to play for the Nets??
Harris for Billups?
Troy Murphy and Brook Lopez for Kmart and Nene?
The rest is pretty much a wash too.
Its really not much of a change for Melo besides location. He'll probably hate playing under Avery Johnson micromanaging as well.
Oh and can we please stop with the idiotic praying and pleading for Melo? If any trade improves our team its great, but we have a good team now and there is no desperation on our end. Give the Knicks a chance.
The Nuggets are getting back AK47, the #3 pick from this years draft, multiple first rounders, and the Nets are involving Devin Harris in the deal...
For this, comparably, without other teams being involved., we'd need to lose Randolph, Gallinari, Douglas, Chandler and a few first rounders I think to meet or beat the deal.
you forgot to add this part of the article. i just hope the knicks dont trade anothony and gallo out for carmelo! trade gallo or anthony not both!
However, one obstacle is Anthony's willingness to sign a contract extension with the Nets. A source told ESPN.com that the Nets will not go through with the trade -- even if Denver is ready to pull the trigger -- unless Anthony commits to signing a contract extension, as [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] did as part of the mega-trade that sent him from Minnesota to Boston in July 2007
This effectively is Melo's no-trade-clause. He can effectively deny any trade by simply refusing to sign an extension. Melo still has power, but we will see how bad Melo wants to be a Knick sooner rather than later.
So does Anthony want to play for NJ?
We havent Drafted anything special since David Lee, Gallinari and Randolph, untill we see them play are giant Question marks.
Randolph can be a star o he can shatter his leg with that retarded landing he always does after a block or dunk!
Gallinari can be a Star, or he can decide to go back to Italy because of all the Preasure thats on him!
Im not saying I want to trade these guys, im just saying Donnie needs to be on the phone trying to get us Carmelo every secon he possibly can! All he should be doing is Eating ****ing and being on the phone with teams trying to iron out some kind of trade!
Im sick of being the laughiong stock of the Leauge! I want a Ring Damn it! We haven won a Championship in 40 years! I started watching BBall in 03 ajnd ever since then the most importand game I have seen is Starbury lead the Knicks into the playoffs to get swept!
Its sad that the amount of Lakers or Heat jerseys you see in NY compared to Knicks Jerseys in NY is like 10 to 1.
i just hope the knicks dont get desperate and send gallo and randolph out of here! just trade one of them and not both! i really dont see the nets as a competitive team if they send out favors and harris...why would melo want to go? t. williams,brook and melo......
if it pulls through, guess the Knicks will be battling the Nets for that 8th seed
I just can't see Melo signing an extension with the Newark Nets. The Nets will be giving up Favors and Devin Harris. Leaving them with a core of Brook Lopez, Melo, and Terrence Williams.
Giving up Favors and Harris to get Melo makes them an average team... I can't see him playing in Newark for two years to play with a squad that isn't better then his current Nuggets team. Not to mention the fact that they'd be pretty capped out after signing Melo.
Is nothing more then average
Farmer is a role playing PG.
Morrow is an excellent shooter, as well Murphy...they can stretch the floor, plus Murphy can give you 10+ rebounds.
Lopez is an all star center.
Thats not a bad team at all.
This is great news.
I'm happy we get to keep our team, thats important to me.


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Montpelier bike path has a long way to goMay 14,2013
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MONTPELIER — It will be a couple of years and several hundred thousand additional dollars before the widely anticipated next leg of Montpelier's bike path is completed. That's the upshot of a meeting Tuesday morning involving city, state and construction officials involved with the project.
In April, after years of planning, Berlin abruptly removed itself from the joint project between the two communities after railroad tracks went back into service along the stretch of railbed where the path would have traveled through Berlin.
Now, as the city prepares to move forward on its part of the project, it must finish the path realignment, reapply for permits that have expired and obtain right-of-way permissions from landowners whose properties the path would cross.
At its last meeting, the City Council approved a consent agenda increasing the maximum cost for the next leg of the path to $983,854 — that's $384,735 more since the project was first planned and budgeted for a decade ago. Approximately 90 percent of the cost of the path is covered by state and federal funding, which in turn dictates somewhat the speed at which the project can move forward. And there is money in the bike path budget to help defray the additional costs.
"We've surveyed the whole thing," said Evan Detrick of DuBois & King, the engineering consulting firm that's overseeing the project. "In the meantime, we've started to prepare the new plans. We're looking to have a pre-plan ready for use in June.
Because we're using federal money we want to make sure that everything is handled correctly."
This next leg of the path will run from Hunger Mountain Coop toward the roundabout on Route 2. The completed leg runs from Taylor Street in the city past the Peace Park and toward Montpelier Junction. The third part of the path, which will tie the two
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What to expect before, during and after open-heart surgery
It's amazing: While patients lie peacefully during open-heart surgery, all around them a well-orchestrated drama is unfolding. In a matter of hours, their hearts are repaired, renourished or even replaced. In the past few years alone, technical advances have dramatically reduced operating and recovery times to a minimum.
Even so, open-heart surgery is serious business—especially if you happen to be the one facing surgery. No doubt, you're a bit wary about having your heart exposed to the world, and you're bursting with questions. To help put your mind at ease, here's some information about the procedure:
Before surgery
You'll meet with the cardiothoracic surgeon, who will already have reviewed your diagnostic tests such as X-rays and angiography film. The surgeon will explain the test results, what will be done to your heart and the benefits (and risks) of surgery.
This is your chance to voice concerns. What's routine to your surgeon is all quite new to you, so don't shy away from asking basic questions like how long the bandages will remain in place. Find out if having the stitches removed will hurt. How big will the scar be? How long will you be in the hospital? Once you get home, will you have to stay in bed? Can you drive a car? What about making love?
It's a good idea to have a friend accompany you to this initial visit; he or she may recall details you'll forget because of anxiety. About two weeks before surgery, you'll be told to stop all medications that might prevent your blood from clotting, including aspirin, dipyridamole and warfarin. (Make sure your doctor is aware of every medication you're taking.)
If you're admitted the night before
You will be asked to shower to reduce the presence of bacteria on your skin's surface. No food is allowed from around dinnertime on because anesthesia may be dangerous on a full stomach. You can also expect a visit from the anesthesiologist. It's important to discuss any drugs you're taking and tell the anesthesiologist if you're allergic to any medications. Even if you've shared this information with your other doctors, don't assume it's been relayed to the anesthesiologist.
The morning of surgery
A mild tranquilizer will reduce your anxiety before you're taken to the operating room. Monitoring electrodes will be attached to your chest and legs, and a local anesthetic will be given before intravenous (IV) lines are inserted.
Each of these IV lines has a specific purpose: One directs anesthesia into the bloodstream, another maintains the proper balance of electrolytes, another measures pressure and oxygen levels in the arteries and still another administers medication directly to the heart.
You'll feel very drowsy, even detached, while all this is taking place. The first administration of the anesthetic will then render you unconscious.
During surgery
Once you're completely anesthetized, an endotracheal tube is inserted into your windpipe to keep airways open. The tube connects to a ventilator that performs the job of breathing. Another throat tube collects stomach fluids that might interfere with breathing or make you nauseous. Catheters that collect urine and monitor blood pressure are also inserted at this time.
To reach the heart, the surgical team must cut open the chest from top to bottom of the breastbone. The breastbone is then separated and clamped open to reveal the lungs and heart.
Since most open-heart surgery procedures cannot be performed on a beating heart, you may be hooked up to a heart-lung machine that will take over the job of circulating your blood, allowing the team to inject a solution directly into the heart to stop it.
Once the procedure is completed, the above steps are reversed; the breastbone is realigned and held together with tiny wires, and the incision is sewed up.
You'll be taken to the intensive care unit, where specialized nursing care is available round the clock and sophisticated instruments monitor the heart's activity.
The endotracheal tube will be in place until you begin to wake up, making it impossible for you to talk. When you can breathe on your own again, the tube will be removed and you'll be helped into a chair.
Usually, within 48 hours, you'll be moved to a private room or a special unit called open-heart recovery, where you'll remain until you go home.
Cardiac rehabilitation is an integral part of a healthy recovery. It is important to have your surgery at a facility that has a strong cardiac rehab program.
As some cardiothoracic surgeons have said, "Getting open-heart surgery is like going on a business trip. You leave town on Monday and return on Friday." True enough, thanks to medical advances, many patients are home in about five days, their hearts—and spirits—on the mend.
|2010 Deborah Heart and Lung Center


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I will add match ups in singular posts. I f anyone would like to add anything at all; match ups - keys to victory - general knowledge and so on, feel free. A double header threader is a big mission.
Bringing to you, KO.com's gurus of the dirty sanchez, a double header threader of not 1, BUT 2 games in which victory is of the utmost importance.
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Press play NOW for that über 80s blast of heroism.
This game is not only about vengeance, this game is paramount to maintaining what has become a dwindling grasp on the 6th seed, against the rising 76ers.
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What The **** Is A 76er?
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The Thrill - Some say that his tweets are ****ing MENTAL!
- Some say that he can catch bullets - IN HIS GOZZLE!
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The Beard Of Zeus - Some say he has never been to Disneyland. Tragic.
- Some say that if a Jehovah's witness knocks on his door, he laughs at them because they are virgin cultists.
The Regenerate One - Some say that he cut the cocaine that killed Mr Perfect.
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Knick In The Spotlight - The Gov
Тимофей Павлович Мозгов
Vladimir Putin Interviews Timofey Mozgov - Translated By Yours Truly.
VP: So, Timofey, or should I call you KGB 25, how iz yure infiltration of ze bastard yankee swine coming along?
TM: Very farking well, sir. I have just planted a nuclear device in Zarah Palin's znatch as ordered.
VP: Exzellent! Mwa ha haaaaaa. Farking creationists (spits) Were you seen?
TM: No sir. I was dizguized as an albino moose. Nit surprisingly, she felt nothing.
VP: And do you have ze Knick cheerleaders viz ze boobiez chloroformed and in ze potato zkin outfit for me, Timofey?
TM: Yes sir. Have you taken your viagra?
VP: Not yet.
TM: I zuggest you do, sir. They take half an hour to kick in, and I usually find that the girls manage to wriggle free by zen.
VP: Very well. Would you like some wodka and an orphan pie?
TM: Not now sir, thank you. I have to torture some lion cubs.
Riveting stuff.
I know that's 2 games in a row for The Gov, but how can you not love the guy!?
Some good laughs to be had in here. Thx for doin what you do..
I'd like to see us win the pair to start off a nice lil streak.
6her series should be like an interracial gangbang, where we deposit mighty loads into 6women. It will take two separate sessions till our boys have had their fill.
Weekend, so **** and The **** should be on the prowl for insertion, insemination, and the ultimate release of conquest.
31pt, 7rb, 3ast, 2stl, 2blck, 4/7 3pt
Already with this garbage C'mon son have son pride and play D!
Elton Brand
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Gallo with a great 2nd quarter, and Mosgov is making his presence felt. Hopefully these last couple of games keep giving our Russian rookie some confidence. When he plays with tenacity he looks good out there.
Funny s**t Crazy. Two important games for sure, take both and show we are a lock for that 6th seed.
Gallo came to play
Felton not drunk
Mozgov adding size
Knicks 2012
As soon as Douglas came back in we lost the lead. We need a new backup PG bad. Why the hell does O'Antoni pull Felton when he's hot? This team will always fail with that loser as our coach. He is not good at all... His offense really isn't that good either because in order to run the court all game you have to give up on crashing the boards and help D. I hate O'Antoni.
Last edited by KingofNy; Feb 04, 2011 at 21:05.
Another loss I blame totally on O'Antoni's inability to make the proper adjustments on both sides of the ball. I hope to god we fire him at the end of the season... I am so tired of his crappy coaching. Our players don't just suck on D, they just don't play D because their damn coach doesn't give a crap about it.
Got seriously out-coached today guys....why do we live and die by 25-30 ft shots too. And how do other teams drive on us but we can't
This loss was due to smart defensive play by philly. Cutting off the lanes to the basket and taking charges...
BTW... are we still a .500 team. Wish we would get the right owners/coaches to coach the NY Knicks. I cans see if we were a middle of the road team like say New Orleans, but this is NY guys...You don't see the other major cities looking like **** for the most part


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Black ice causes truck accident, ink spill in Vt.The Associated Press | February 12,2013Vermont State Police say one lane is open on Route 78 in Alburgh where a tractor-trailer truck crashed on an icy road, spilling barrels carrying black ink.
Route 78 was closed shortly after the crash, reported about 2 a.m. Tuesday.
Police say one lane was re-opened at about 8:45 a.m., although it will be several hours before the crash is completely cleaned up.
Police say the driver hit black ice, causing the unit to spin, cross the double yellow line and travel off the shoulder. A load of 50-gallon barrels came out of the back of the trailer.
Police say the ink is inflammable.
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Six races remain before the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup cutoff point, meaning time isn't the only thing running short for postseason hopefuls. With increasing urgency to lock in a playoff spot, driver patience is in short supply, too.
Joey Logano may be one of the first in line to claim a much-needed win when the series returns to Pocono Raceway for Sunday's Pennsylvania 400 (1 p.m. ET, ESPN). After all, he was first in line when the checkered flag fell at the 2.5-mile track's most recent race in June.
Logano ranks 17th in Sprint Cup points, but a repeat Pocono victory would thrust the Joe Gibbs Racing driver into the heart of the wild-card conversation. Just two postseason berths are available to drivers in points positions 11-20 with the most wins. Kasey Kahne, a two-time winner this year, and Kyle Busch (one win) are currently 1-2 in the wild-card race. Logano and Ryan Newman are the only other drivers with a victory in spots 11-20.
"The points do matter to be up there, but also the win is more important right now than anything," Logano said. "So obviously points come with the win, so that would also help me move up. But if there's three people with two wins, which I think there's a good chance that could happen, you're going to have to be the guy that is up there with the points, too."
With time of the essence, Logano suggests playing it safe may not be an option.
"You've got to be aggressive with it," Logano said. "If you think about it too much, you're going to not be up front where you need to be. I think that's one thing I've done this year is be more aggressive than I've been in the past. I've made mistakes with that, but trying to limit that. At the same time, you've got to go for it. You've got to risk it to get the biscuit."
As much as the pressure might weigh on Logano, the burden is far greater for Carl Edwards and Jeff Gordon, two drivers who were considered preseason Chase favorites but are still seeking a breakthrough win in 2012. Edwards, who ranks 12th in points, finished 11th in the June race at Pocono; Gordon (15th in points) was an unremarkable 19th in the series' last visit to the Keystone State.
Gordon finished fifth last weekend to gain two spots in the points, but Edwards continues to lose sight of the top 10 drivers, who automatically qualify for the Chase. Edwards struggled with mechanical gremlins in a 29th-place finish last weekend at Indianapolis, making victories must-haves over the home stretch of NASCAR's regular season.
"I think it will involve lots of pushing on the right pedal and turning left and going as fast as possible," Edwards said. "We have to take chances. We have to go race. We can do that, we can race like that. It will actually be a big relief in a way because there is no other choice. We just go race for wins. I wouldn't bet against us. We can do it."
The race will be the second Cup event on Pocono's fresh pavement, which dramatically increased speeds at the sprawling triangular layout. Logano had no problem adjusting to the velocity, winning the pole position at a record 179.598 mph before claiming the main prize.
"Definitely the track's a lot different than what it used to be, but it seems like it's still Pocono," Logano said. "A lot of the things you did before to make your car go fast, or the things you look for in a car to go fast are still the same."


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A few days ago the talented hackers on ZuneBoards created "OpenZDK" that will allow programming of 3D games and applications- something that XNA would not allow on the Zune HD. So what would be the first logial 3D game to port to the Zune HD? …Doom of course.
In other related news, Doom was also ported to the Creative Zii EGG's Plaszma OS. Video below.


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$8M project includes hotel, expansion
MARIETTA – Framed walls have started to spring up for a new 102-room hotel just off Pike Street and County House Lane, and developers still are looking at an early winter opening.
MPH Inc. is developing an $8 million Comfort Suites property to complement its neighboring Fairfield Inn and Suites, which opened April 17, 2012, said Alan Hardway, vice president of MPH Hotels Inc., when it opens in December or January.
Jeff Beaver, a 1976 graduate of Frontier High School, has been working for three years to organize an annual event for his classmates and other alumni. With each passing year, the list of those invited to the event grows to include more classes. This year's annual class reunion for classes 1969-1985 will be June 14-15 at the Comfort Inn on Pike Street.
Beaver said he would welcome a new hotel in the area to help make arrangements for the graduates who travel to town.
"We need more of the facilities to have things like this," Beaver said. "You are few and far between as far as just having the Lafayette, (Shrine Club) and Comfort Inn. You can find small meeting rooms. To hold two to 300, that's all that's available."
"We chose the Comfort Suites brand because it does well with the leisure and corporate business traveler," Hardway said.
For the leisure guest at Comfort Suites, features designed into the hotel include oversized rooms, a pullout sofa in every room and an expanded full hot breakfast. Business travelers might welcome the new hotel's high-speed Internet, business center, printers in select rooms and an oversized desk sitting separate from the rest of the room, Hardway said.
MHP Hotels chose the site on Cherry Tree Lane because it sits off the road and the land was available. Hardway said the two hotels are the beginning phases of a plan to bring more retail and restaurants to that part of Pike Street, although he would not say what other businesses might join the new hotel.
"Another hotel would be nice," said Jeri Knowlton, executive director of the Marietta-Washington County Convention and Visitors Bureau.
"Many of the hotels are running at high occupancy right now because of the oil and gas play in the area. This will give us an opportunity to fill rooms with more leisure travelers."
Oil and gas companies have been sending representatives to southeast Ohio to buy mineral rights and scout sites for possible drilling activities, trying to take advantage of the reserves trapped by the Marcellus Shale.
On a recent afternoon, framers and carpenters were on site and building up studs to start outlining the second floor rooms.
"The end of this month, you are going to see a lot of progress, once we get all the framing in here and the subcontractors, too," said Herb Collins, job superintendent.
Weather permitting, Collins said he also expects to see the structure under roof by the end of June.


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The Best Patio Dining and Cocktails in Tempe - at Harry's Place
October 17, 2012
Tempe Mission Palms is the place to be this fall for outdoor entertainment in Tempe! The cooler weather, inviting patio with fireplace, and friendly staff make Harry's Place a top choice for a relaxing cocktail or a tasty bite to eat.
Enjoy daily happy hour at Harry's from 4PM-6PM which includes $4 domestic beer, well cocktails, and house wine, and ½ off appetizers. It's the perfect time to try our shaved prime rib sliders, or crispy jalapeno chips with an ice cold beer on the patio.
Harry's is also the place to be during football games in the evening hours. Cheer on your favorite team outside, as the game is projected on our patio wall with our state-of-the-art projector and sound system. Harry's offers food and drink specials throughout the game, with outstanding service, which is a definite "score!"
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Like Packers, TV ratings for game start strong, then fade
I went to bed at the start of the fourth quarter of the Green Bay Packers' loss to the New York Giants. And judging from overnight ratings, so did a lot of people.
By the end of the 38-10 blowout, more than 185,000 households had turned off the NBC telecast of the game on WTMJ-TV (Channel 4), according to A.C. Nielsen's overnight ratings. »Read Full Blog Post(10)
Larry Hagman, oilman J.R. Ewing of 'Dallas,' dead at 81
J.R. Ewing was a business cheat, faithless husband and bottomless well of corruption. Yet with his sparkling grin, Larry Hagman masterfully created the charmingly loathsome oil baron and coaxed forth a Texas-size gusher of ratings on television's long-running and hugely successful nighttime soap, "Dallas." »Read Full Article(16)
MSO shows there's a place for orchestra in 'West Side Story'
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra took a timeless film and turned it into an in-the-moment musical event Friday evening.
The film in question is the 1961 "West Side Story," directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins and adapted from the 1957 Broadway show by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim (book by Arthur Laurents). Both are based on "Romeo and Juliet." »Read Full Article
'Collected Stories' collaboration an uneven read
Neatly arranged nesting dolls - appearing on an upstage table in a Greenwich Village apartment - tell us a lot about the theme and structure of Donald Margulies' "Collected Stories." Under C. Michael Wright's direction, the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre and Madison's Forward Theater Company opened a collaborative production of Margulies' play Friday night.
Author Ruth Steiner (Sarah Day) has lived in that apartment for more than 30 years. Star-struck Lisa Morrison (Laura Frye), the young writer who bursts into Ruth's life in the first scene, is Ruth's latest protégée - another nesting doll aspiring to replicate, on a smaller scale, her master's form. »Read Full Article


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Area high school students showed off their artistic skills Friday for professional artists.
West Salem, Cashton, Onalaska, Central, and Logan participated in UW-La Crosse's Visual Arts Classic.
The students showcased a long term project through one of several mediums such as drawing, ceramics, and photography.
There was also an on-site competition with a surprise project which needed to be completed in less than three hours.
Then the students had a chance to sit down with the judges and discuss their work. "Getting their artwork critiqued by a college instructor or a local artists, there are some college students who are also judging, it's just a great activity for kids who enjoy art, it's a good extracurricular thing," said Onalaska H.S. art teacher Angie Hedrikson.
Students who place at the top move on to a state competition.