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December 28, 2006
Gov. Blagojevich reminds public about new laws that takes effect January 1st
New laws will protect seniors and homeowners, strengthen monitoring of sex offenders, help children and benefit hardworking citizens all around the state
SPRINGFIELD – As the new year approaches, Governor Rod R. Blagojevich today promoted a number of important new laws that he signed earlier this year and will take effect January 1, 2007.
"2006 was a very productive year for state government. We worked hard to pass new laws to help our seniors, children, and the hardworking citizens of our state. A number of those new laws will go into effect on Monday, so now is the time for the public to learn about new protections and programs we enacted," Gov. Blagojevich said.
• House Bill 4121 punishes individuals who falsely claim to be decorated war heroes. The new law creates criminal charges and imposes penalties on individuals falsely representing themselves as recipients of various military honors.
• House Bill 4125 helps autistic children get access to new treatments by requiring all state and local insurance plans, as well as private insurance plans offered by many employers, to pay for the treatment of pervasive developmental disorders. It also requires group health benefit plans to provide coverage for 20 additional outpatient visits for speech therapy.
• House Bills 4222 and 4606 and Senate Bills 0859, 2873, 2962 and 3016 give law enforcement agencies more tools to protect Illinois families and communities from sex offenders. The comprehensive package authorizes Global Positioning System (GPS) monitoring of paroled sexual predators, includes stricter guidelines for sex offenders who are near child care facilities, prohibits custody or visitation by a father of a child who is convicted of sex crimes that resulted in the conception of the child, and requires clarification of disclosure of sex offenses in teacher endorsement or certification.
• House Bill 4300 makes it illegal to sell or buy the pure form of dextromethorphan (DXM) – a drug commonly used in cough syrups such as Triaminic or Robitussin. The legislation will help counter the availability of highly concentrated DXM on the internet. The level of DXM in prescription and over-the-counter medications is safe in correct doses, but when taken incorrectly it can have hallucinogenic effects similar to PCP and ketamine.
• House Bill 4676 helps prevent cases of self-abuse and -neglect by senior citizens by requiring the Illinois Department on Aging (IDoA) to respond to reports of self-abuse and -neglect.
• House Bill 4986 requires districts that offer a secondary agricultural education program to provide instructional courses approved by the Illinois State Board of Education and requires a state and nationally affiliated FFA chapter to be a part of the curriculum. The legislation also requires hands on instruction through formal, supervised agricultural experience activities/programs (SAE).
• House Bill 5284 requires carbon monoxide detectors in homes and apartments that use fossil fuel for heating or cooking. All buildings that use fossil fuel and have sleeping rooms or have an attached garage must have an approved, operating carbon monoxide detector installed within 15 feet of any sleeping area. Homes that have all electric appliances and do not have a fireplace or an attached garage will be exempt from the requirements.
• Senate Bill 1001 creates the Illinois African American HIV/AIDS Response Fund to address the disproportionate rate of HIV/AIDS in the African-American community. The Fund will be used for HIV/AIDS prevention efforts and to establish a system for delivering HIV/AIDS services to reduce transmission among African Americans. The approved budget for fiscal year 2007 includes $3 million for the Fund.
• Senate Bill 2165 guarantees condo owners can freely observe the doctrines of their religion at home, including being able to display objects on their front door. The legislation was prompted by several cases in Chicago where co-op boards and condo associations have attempted to pass rules that would ban the display of religious symbols in hallways.
• Senate Bills 2303 and 2968 protect people trained in first aid or medical response from being sued for trying to help injured people. The new laws aim to alleviate worries by "Good Samaritans" that they could be sued for helping someone who is seriously injured.
• Senate Bill 2310 allows Illinois residents to place a security freeze on their credit reports. The legislation also requires a password to remove the freeze. The Illinois Attorney General Office's Identity Theft Hotline has information on how to do that and other measures one can take to prevent identity theft. That number is (866) 999-5630.
• Senate Bill 2349 protects vulnerable homeowners from unscrupulous mortgage 'rescue' firms that purport to help avoid foreclosure, but instead profit at the homeowners' expense by taking over the property and not alleviating the debt. The law gives homeowners new rights when dealing with companies that offer financial assistance to help them save their homes from foreclosure. It also guarantees that homeowners will receive a substantial portion of their equity in the home from the companies. Additionally, the new law creates new disclosure requirements for mortgage rescue companies.
• Senate Bill 2865 makes Illinois' railroad crossings safer by giving local governments the ability to use photo enforcement at rail crossings to crackdown on drivers who go around lowered crossing gates. The legislation comes in response to an accident during Thanksgiving eve in 2005, when a Metra express train crashed into several cars trapped in rush-hour traffic at the Grand Avenue railroad crossing in Elmwood Park, injuring 16 people.
• Senate Bill 2885 helps make sure that Illinois working families, seniors and people with disabilities continue having access to affordable housing through the coordination of state government resources. Specifically, the legislation will encourage businesses to locate closer to public transportation and to the areas where their workforce lives.
• Senate Bill 3086 requires clear and convincing evidence that private land is necessary for a public use before it can be seized. The new law also requires governments to reimburse property owners for relocation expenses and, in some cases, legal fees. Additionally, the new legislation allows trial courts to reset the valuation date of the property if the trial begins more than two years after the filing. Currently, Illinois law only requires "just compensation" for property owners, which is the fair market value of the property plus any damage to associated property not taken through eminent domain.
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You guys doing this are something. I have a Lawnboy mower that needs oil in the fuel and it has had E10 since the early 1990's. Pioneer Hybrid Seed uses 25 or so horse power Honda engines on the belt conveyors at their seed processing plant and my cousin said a year ago they had like 4 to 6 thousand hours on E10 without problems. You guys must have relatives in the militay that need a job guarding the Middle East oil industry.
That's fantastic for you. I, however, have had nothing but carb problems on my mowers, running fresh E10.
Rob Gleason, service manager of Bee Line Yamaha Super Store in St. Joseph, said 70 to 75 percent of the boats they see at the beginning of the boating season are coming in for a carburetor cleaning due to buildup from oxygenated fuels. Oxygenated fuels include substances such as ethanol and biodiesel and contain oxygen, usually intended to reduce carbon emissions.
You'll notice they actually point out that small engines running ethanol are different from typical car engines in that we tend to drive our cars daily, whereas mowers and the like sit idle for a week or more at a time. The article is specifically about boats, which can sit idle for weeks or months, but some power equipment engines sometimes also do (tillers, etc.)
This is just the first example I found. Try Google, there are hundreds more.
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I don't want to be 'that guy', and I hope for you it is otherwise, but my rough idle has always come back. Every time I have thrown something new at the car it reacts with no rough idle, but after a few hundred mile it returns.
After running 93 through your tank a couple of times, if you so desire, switch back to 87 for a tank (or less, go less). You will notice the decrease much more easily than the increase...
Yep I have to concur. I just noticed this morning, about 400 miles into running 93 octane, that my rough idle is back.
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Hi Sam, Good afternoon I was born brought up in India but I moved to the UK for job mobility in 2006 and became British Citizen in 2013. Back in Dec 2005, I had purchased my first property in India with the intention of having it for residential purposes, during the entire period I have been the owner and have not let it out for rent. The property became vacant since I relocated to UK for job (company job transfer) and used it only when I visited India. Now I want to sell the property and transfer the money proceeds back to UK, am I liable for capital gains tax in UK ?
Since last 6 months I have been staying in India with my family and plan to return to UK in Apr next year. Since my arrival in India in April 13, I helped my father in selling his property and purchasing a new property where I gave up my own savings and also took a home loan, this has made me a third joint holder in the second property.
Can I claim Principal Private Residence (PPR) for my overseas owned property which I plan to sell ? Your help will be much appreciated. Thanks Rahul
Thanks for your question and for asking for me.
I am afraid there will be capital gains tax arising, as there was a period of more than 36 months when this has not been your home.
The fact that you contributed to the purchase of your fathers property has no bearing, nor the fact that there is no capital gains tax in India.
You will fall under UK tax jurisdiction as you have UK citizenship, and there will be a period of less than 5 years (during which the sale takes place) that you have been absent from the UK.
Also the gain will be £100,000 less the purchase price of £20,000 (there is no indexation permitted) so the gain will be £80,000 and not £62,000
But you will be a reduction for the time this was your home, and also have the first £10,600 exempt (as this your annual exemption allowance for capital gains)
Do feel to ask any follow up questions on the information I have provided.
Hi Sam
Thanks so much
in regards to your below input, I have not left the UK, I am staying over in india since Apr '13 and working locally. I plan to leave India and relocate to UK.
Why I am not able to claim PPR on the grounds that I was working away from home. Since it is my own home and the intention was not make any profit and also did not give the flat for any renting, why can i not claim? Is it because the property is outside UK?
Thanks for your response
The answer still remains the same in terms of capital gains arising on the sale - and the fact you are merely working/staying in India for 6 months.
You cannot be considered within the job relocation position as this works when leaving the UK to work abroad, with remaining property in the UK, not the other way around (which would fall under India's tax jurisdiction, if capital gains arose)
Thanks Sam for the clarification
Since I earn locally (Inida) what tax band will apply for me 18% or 28% for this financial year?
Also can i deduct any maintainance cost that I spent in the last few years and do i need to provide any supporting documents to support the claim?
Thanks for your further questions
Whether you have income from India or in the UK, it will all be liable to UK tax , as you will be treated as resident throughout this and following tax years (based on what you have advised me) so remain liable to tax on worldwide income.
The tax position for capital gain purposes, are as follows -
If your annual income is in excess of £42,475 a year, then the gain will all be liable to 28%.
If you annual income is more than £9440 and less than £42,475, then any unused basic rate band, can be used to allow the equivalent amount of gain at 18% and any further gain at 28%
So for example your annual income is £30,000 then you have £12,475 unused basic rate band (£42474 less £30,000) so the first £12,475 of the gain will be at 18% and the remaining gain at 28% (of course these rates are applied, after costs, capital improvements, reliefs and annual exemption allowance have been applied)
Maintenance, if general repairs are not deductible, they can only be allowed as a deduction against the gain IF capital improvement such as total new kitchen, bathroom and so on and yes you would need to have evidence of these costs, should HMRC ask for them.


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Two more American soldiers were recently killed by an Afghani wearing a local police uniform. Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has accused the U.S. of colluding with Taliban terrorists.
We are spilling American blood on the sands of a nation that only wants what material goods and money we provide. The Afghans' historic enmity toward any intruders into their desert domain has been part of their culture for millennia.
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Green Bay Women Take Down Rivals From Milwaukee
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - The Green Bay men's and women's swimming and diving teams played host to their in-state Horizon League rivals from Milwaukee on Saturday afternoon in a highly-anticipated regular season finale at the Dorschel Natatorium. The Phoenix prevailed on the women's side, earning a 132-111 victory over the Panthers, while Milwaukee took the men's competition 170-73.
With the win, the Phoenix women finish the year with an 11-2 record in dual meets. The men's squad enters the Horizon League Championship meet with an 8-4 mark in head-to-head competition.
Senior Shannon Demrow (Algonquin, Ill.) had an outstanding day for the Phoenix women, breaking a pool record in the 200-yard butterfly. Demrow cruised to a first-place finish with a time of 2:06.86 - the fastest ever recorded at the Dorschel Natatorium. Demrow also picked up a second-place finish in the 200 freestyle (1:54.49), following junior teammate Amy Burback (Waunakee, Wis.), who won in 1:54.27.
Senior Deanna DeGrand (Green Bay, Wis.) and freshman Kendra Rottier (Green Bay, Wis.) dominated the distance races on Saturday, as the hometown duo went 1-2 in the 1000 and 500 freestyles. DeGrand earned a win in the 1000 (10:21.22), while Rottier placed second in 10:24.33. The two switched places in the 500, as Rottier won with a time of 5:06.77, narrowly edging DeGrand (5:06.81).
Two of the league's best female divers faced off in the meet as Green Bay's Kayla Deters (Sauk Rapids, Minn.) and Milwaukee's Kelsey George each earned wins Saturday. Deters won the 1-meter competition with a score of 255.75, while George finished second with a score of 243.30. On the 3-meter board, George picked up the win (278.55) with Deters coming in second at 240.23.
Senior Alyssa Danielson (Rogers, Minn.) also notched a win for the Phoenix women, taking the 100 free with a time of 53.02.
On the men's side, junior Daniel Pogue (Chisholm, Minn.) had yet another career day on the diving boards. The two-time defending Horizon League Diver of the Week swept the diving events on Saturday, posting the highest scores ever recorded in the 1-meter and 3-meter events in a six-dive format at the Dorschel Natatorium.
Pogue accumulated 337.80 points in the 1-meter competition, followed by a score of 342.45 on the 3-meter board to dominate the rest of the field. Sophomore teammate Mitchell Spaeth (Fredonia, Wis.) also had a career day on the boards, posting a personal best score of 300.38 to place second in the 3-meter competition.
Senior Ryan Loy (New London, Wis.) had a strong day for the Green Bay men's squad, earning a second-place finish in the 50 free (21.63) and a third-place finish in the 200 butterfly (1:56.81).
The Green Bay swimming and diving teams are next in action at the 2011 Horizon League Championships, held Feb. 23-26 in Cleveland, Ohio, with the Phoenix women aiming for their seventh consecutive conference crown.


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Media and Information
Media and Information in today's digital world
In their private lives and as citizens or professionals, people constantly produce and use information. Contemporary life is shaped by ever more complex information technologies and an intensifiying information economy. Information has become central to the arts, humanities, journalism, government and administration and the creative industries. Media and Information gives you advanced conceptual and practical tools to understand the shifts in culture and society brought about by the constant transformation of the media which organise and distribute information.
Is Media and Information right for you?
Media and Information is the ideal programme if you:
- Want to understand how social media platforms, mobile devices, organisations, and their institutional and political frameworks shape our culture through the production, distribution, and use of information.
- Have a broad interest in the relationship between culture and technology.
- Want to learn the latest tools and methodologies which enable you to explore how information travels.
- Have a qualified pre-university diploma, with a background in history, humanities, social sciences or technology.
- Can demonstrate a good command of the English language.
Why study Media and Information at the UvA?
Media and Information at the University of Amsterdam offers you:
- A cutting-edge, tailor-made programme that combines a broad overview of the most recent developments in the field, while also offering students the freedom to choose their own area of specialisation.
- A hands-on and practical education: in addition to conceptual and critical capabilities the programme also teaches you applied research skills. In our state-of-the-art media-lab you will conduct research about digital media, and employ the most advanced digital research methods, information systems, and software tools.
- An ambitious international environment: You will discuss the global media landscape with leading experts from all over the world and a student community composed of more than 30 nationalities.
- The Media and Information programme has strong ties with the thriving Amsterdam community of new media companies, digital art institutions, creative industries, game and app developers, archives, and museums.
- Impressive career prospects: Graduates go on to work in journalism, advertising, and media sectors, and hold positions as project managers, data analysts, and developers in museums, libraries, archives, the creative industry, and other commercial companies.
- After completing your Bachelor's, you can apply to one of UvA's many Master's programmes.
Sophie Hutten – A first year student
'I study Media and Information, which is all about online research, business intelligence, digital marketing, and varying forms of journalism, communication and production in the creative industry. I'm being trained to understand and work with new media and the ever-present stream of information.'
Rankings and reputation
The University of Amsterdam (UvA) offers a world-class education.
- UvA is ranked 52nd in the world and 1st in the Netherlands in the Arts and Humanities category of the QS World University Rankings 2015.
- UvA is ranked 45th in the THE Top 100 sub-ranking for the Arts and Humanities (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015)
- UvA is a member of LERU (League of European Research Universities), an exclusive network of renowned research universities.
- UvA is a member of Universitas 21, the network of leading research-intensive universities in the 21st century in 13 countries.
Accreditation and degree
The Bachelor's programme Media and Information can be classified under the broad field of Media Studies. The quality of this programme has been positively accredited by the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO). This means that after successful completion of the programme you will receive a recognised Bachelor's degree in Media and Information and the title Bachelor of Arts (BA).
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Canadian Stage Presents Hofesh Shechter's Dance Spectacle POLITICAL MOTHER, Oct 24-28
Hofesh Shechter's electrifying dance and rock spectacle, Political Mother, stops in Toronto for six performances as part of an international tour that has captivated audiences around the world. Presented by Canadian Stage and performed by Hofesh Shechter Company, this dance-performance-meets-rock-concert is a full-throttle, immersive experience that has taken the dance world by storm.
Political Mother will be on stage from Wednesday, October 24 to Sunday, October 28 (opening and media night: October 24) at the Bluma Appel Theatre in the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts (27 Front St. E). Tickets from $24 to $99 are available by phone at 416.368.3110, online at www.canadianstage.com, or in person at the box office.
"To finally share the brilliance of Hofesh Shechter's choreography with Toronto audiences is very exciting for Canadian Stage," said Matthew Jocelyn, Artistic & General Director. "Our mandate is to present the most groundbreaking and powerful productions from Canada and around the world. Political Mother exemplifies this in a storm of dynamic and beautiful dance moments combined with live rock music and electrifying lighting. This show is one of the most sumptuous visual presentations - and at the same time - one of the most riveting and gripping emotional experiences that I've had in a long time."
Shechter, who choreographed and composed this "howling beast of a dance show" in 2010, draws on his training and career as a musician and dancer to create both the music and movement for his work. For Political Mother he assembled a band of seven musicians, including guitarists and percussionists to bring a big sound to the stage, inviting audiences to ride an emotional roller coaster that confuses one's values and challenges perceptions of what is "normal".
The ensemble features 12 dancers from Hofesh Shechter Company and includes Maëva Berthelot, Chien-Ming Chang, Sam Coren, Frédéric Despierre, Karima El Amrani, James Finnemore, Bruno Karim Guilloré, Yeji Kim, Kim Kohlmann, Philip Hulford, Erion Kruja and Hannah Shepherd. The score, composed by Shechter, was created in collaboration with Nell Catchpole and Yaron Engler. The dancers are accompanied on stage by a live metal rock band alongside a group of military drummers.
Canadian Stage has also partnered with Dancemakers to offer a special workshop for professional dancers and choreographers. Taught by company rehearsal director and performer Bruno Karim Guilloré, the workshop will run at Dancemakers (9 Trinity St., Toronto) on Thursday, October 25 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The exclusive, 15 participant workshop also includes the option of including a ticket to the 8 p.m. performance of Political Mother on Saturday, October 27. Prior to the performance, there will also be a free, pre-show chat with Shechter beginning at 7:15 p.m.


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Yet most families feel that it is very important for families to eat together frequently. Children benefit emotionally and physically from eating meals together as a family. Mealtimes create and support family identity.
A large national study of American teenagers found a strong link between regular family meals, academic success and positive psychological adjustment. In addition, rates of alcohol use, drug use, early sexual behavior and suicidal risks are lower when families eat meals together.
When parents and children eat together, they tend to eat healthier foods. Children eat more fruits, vegetables and dairy foods and less high fat, high sugar foods.
Mealtimes may provide a time and place for communication, relaxation and catching up on family news. Whether children are toddlers or teens, communication with parents is important.
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We nurture learning through child-centred approaches, technology and a variety of learning styles. We also endeavour to develop within our children thinking skills and strong personal characteristics. In the Primary School we strive to deliver creative and interactive programmes of study that are further enhanced and enriched by a comprehensive programme of extra-curricular activities which add breadth and depth to our students' learning.
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Specialist teachers of Music, Art, PE, ICT, Thai culture and Modern Foreign Languages work alongside the class teachers to provide a broad and well-structured programme.
Our students benefit from excellent infrastructure and facilities which include individual libraries for each Year group as well as the Primary Library, several playing fields, three swimming pools, tennis courts, several playgrounds and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) laboratories for each Year group. (For a full map of the school click here)
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By Hannah Means-Shannon
I sit with all the requisite equipment and I seem to go around in circles. Every line is wrong. Retracing them several times, I go back and erase all but the least wrong ones, making everything look sketchy and faded. It's a far cry from what's in my head, and after enough of this shambles, I ask myself again, "Why I'm doing this?" I write comics, and I know more artists than I can easily count who are so astonishingly talented that it blows my mind. With a little encouragement they'd draw my stories for me. But, that seems like the easy way out.
I have typical teen angst stories of why I stopped drawing, despite showing some ability in childhood and focused on writing instead. Though I made that decision, I was never able to fully move on because I knew I had taken a wrong turn back then, or at least an oblique one. It left me with a kind of "block" in my twenties when I occasionally tried to start drawing again; a feeling of fatigue would hit me holding the pencil until I'd just stop trying and go write a story at breakneck speed. It was so much easier for me to write.
Taking Danny Fingeroth's comics writing class last spring, I was thrown for a loop when I was asked to do thumbnailed layouts to go with my script. The fact that everyone else in the class was a talented artist and actually drawing the comics they were writing made me feel like the odd one out. I convinced myself I needed to do the thumbnails just to prove I could. I did. They were terrible but no worse than Harvey Pekar's stick figure men. Shortly thereafter, I coaxed myself into going to a comics "storytelling" workshop that Dean Haspiel taught, knowing there would be some drawing involved. Suddenly something changed when we students were put on a clock. Ten minutes to do a page. The pressure knocked down reservations and I jumped in without thinking. The outcomes were pretty indecipherable by objective standards, but for me this was a massive shift. I had drawn some comics pages. This was really happening.
I took a bigger leap. I signed up for an anatomy of cartooning class with Kriota Willberg and R. Sikoryak. I warned the instructors that I was only at a "prison art" level, but I dutifully put myself in a chair each week to see what would happen. This took working on the clock to a new level. Two minutes, five minutes, ten – if we were lucky – to hammer out sketches. It was perfect for my situation. There was no time to get neurotic about anything and I couldn't believe how much improvement I saw. To anyone else it probably looked like chicken scratch but knowing my own history, the outcome was astonishing.
When the class ended, I was on a high about drawing. The following week I sat down and: nothing. Or, nearly nothing. Disjointed lines that resembled my first attempts at sketching again. I couldn't figure it out. I showed other people the drawings from my class and the new sketches. They thought the new ones were more interesting. A possibility dawned on me, one which I have yet to fully confirm: I was seeing things differently now. I was seeing everything that wasn't on the page. The frustration wasn't going away, it was amplifying in an intense way, despite the possibility that I actually had made progress but just couldn't see it. Exhausted, fed up, I asked myself, again, "Why am I doing this?"
Helpful friends had recently made comments like, "So that must have been your plan all along. Very smart. You're taking all these classes so you can draw your own comics." My honest answer to them was "No", which only confused them. That wasn't why I was doing it. I was doing it because I had given up on myself at a time when I shouldn't have. Even my vague attempts at making that right had set off a kind of chain reaction. I was starting to get shocking impulses to draw all the time. It was a monstrous transformation because I wasn't producing gold, just page after page of chaotic graphic static. I may never draw my own comics. If I know that a story can be told better visually by someone else, my impulse is going to be to hand it off to them but I am signing up for another art class. Everyone works differently, and for me I've seen some glimmers of hope when I'm under the gun and getting feedback from knowledgeable people. I'm willing to pursue glimmers.
It's the current wave of internet-induced self-production to draw your own comics. A vast number of the people doing that have highly skilled training from art schools and mentors. Some spend years self-teaching until they find their own style and then break out of that into seemingly limitless possibilities. Some spend years breaking down their art school training until they can fully exercise the freedom they need. But talking to cartoonists in the past year has taught me something very important: everyone deals with frustration of some kind or another. Everyone has their blocks and hang-ups and moments when even a beautiful page is simply not good enough, somehow lacking in something they want to convey. Even the most nuanced and visually dazzling artist has long struggles with him or herself because they simply don't want to sit down in that chair again and take up that battle for another night. And, I think everyone who attempts to make comics asks themselves, repeatedly: do I draw or not draw? Thankfully, for many people, time and again the answer is "Draw!"
–Hannah Means-Shannon
Hannah Means-Shannon is a contributing editor at the Comics Beat and writes chronicles for TripCity.net. She is currently working on books about Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore for Sequart and is @hannahmenzies on Twitter and hannahmenziesblog on WordPress.


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Epic Meal Time Creates Giant Pork Cheetos
Just in time for Game Day, the crew at Epic Meal Time have created more culinary affronts to nature called Pork Cheetos. And they look delicious.
Just in time for Game Day, the crew at Epic Meal Time have created more culinary affronts to nature called Pork Cheetos. And they look delicious.
'Epic Meal Time' turned one year old this week. Host Harley Morenstein and the rest of the EMT crew celebrated by reconfiguring their first epic meal, the "Fast Food Pizza," into an even more epic stomach puncher dubbed the "Fast Food Pizza Cake" — a mountain of White Castle burgers, bacon strips and a monsoon of Jack Daniels.
Epic Meal Time, a group of YouTubers notorious for cooking comically high-calorie food, have taken cheese-filled pasta to new artery-clogging heights.
In an episode dubbed "Masta Pasta," a hacked manicotti dish features a tasty bacon weave, "trifecta liquor meat sauce" and multiple types of ravioli.
The last seven days was a lively week for viral videos. From creative (and colorful) marriage proposals to Bradley Cooper's impressive and surprisingly fluent French interview, this week's virals had something for everyone.
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Lercanidipine is a vasoselective dihydropyridine calcium antagonist which causes systemic vasodilation by blocking the influx of calcium ions through L-type calcium channels in cell membranes. It is a highly lipophilic drug and as such has a slower onset and longer duration of action than a number of other calcium antagonists. Preclinical evidence suggests that lercanidipine has anti-atherogenic potential and it may also protect against end-organ damage.
In well controlled clinical studies, once daily administration of lercanidipine 10 or 20mg effectively reduced blood pressure (BP) compared with placebo in patients with mild to moderate hypertension without affecting heart rate. Response rate (percentage of patients with diastolic BP ≤90mm Hg or reduced by ≥10mm Hg from baseline) ranged from 50 to 66% with lercanidipine 10 mg/day and up to 86% with lercanidipine 20 mg/day. The drug had a long duration of action: clinical measurements for diastolic BP yielded a trough/peak ratio of ≥0.8 for both lercanidipine dosages in 1 study. Comparative trials, either published in full or as abstracts, found lercanidipine 10mg once daily for ≥4 weeks to be at least as effective as atenolol 50mg once daily, candesartan cilexetil 16 mg/day, captopril 25mg twice daily, enalapril 20 mg/day, hydrochlorothiazide 12.5mg once daily, irbesartan 150 mg/day and slow release nifedipine 20mg twice daily in patients with mild to moderate hypertension. In addition, lercanidipine 20 mg/day was as effective as amlodipine 10 mg/day.
Lercanidipine is effective in the treatment of elderly patients (aged 60 to 85 years) with mild to moderate essential hypertension and in those with isolated systolic hypertension. In addition, monotherapy with lercanidipine 20 or 40 mg/day has shown efficacy in patients with severe hypertension, and add-on therapy helped control BP in a large proportion of patients with severe hypertension not responding sufficiently to β-blockers, diuretics or ACE inhibitors. Unpublisheddata indicate that the drug reduces blood pressure in patients with type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus, without adversely affecting glucose homeostasis.
Lercanidipine was well tolerated in clinical trials, with most treatment-related adverse events typical of dihydropyridine calcium antagonists, namely headache, flushing, dizziness and ankle oedema.
Conclusions: Lercanidipine is an effective and well tolerated once daily antihypertensive agent in patients with mild to moderate hypertension. In addition, the drug may reduce BP when used as monotherapy in patients with severe hypertension or when used adjunctively in patients with resistant hypertension. Importantly, lercanidipine appears to be at least as effective and well tolerated as other commonly used antihypertensive agents. The drug therefore represents a useful therapeutic option in the management of patients with hypertension and will be particularly useful in patients not responding to, or intolerant of, anti-hypertensive agents from other drug classes.
Pharmacodynamic Properties
Lercanidipine is a third generation dihydropyridine calcium antagonist with a bulky bis-phenylalkylamine side chain. The drug reversibly blocks voltage-dependent Ca2+ influx through L-type channels in cell membranes, and the subsequent peripheral vasodilation leads to a reduction in blood pressure (BP).
Lercanidipine is highly lipophilic, and as such has a slower onset and longer duration of action than a number of other drugs in its class. Furthermore, the drug is vasoselective and has shown less in vitro and in vivo negative inotropic activity than some other dihydropyridines, including nitrendipine and felodipine.
Results from preclinical studies indicate that lercanidipine has antiatherogenic potential independent of its BP-lowering effects, and may protect against end-organ damage. Importantly, the drug does not interfere with normal cardiac excitation and conduction when used at therapeutic dosages in patients with hypertension.
Pharmacokinetic Properties
Maximum plasma concentrations (Cmax) of S-lercanidipine, the enantiomer responsible for the activity of racemic lercanidipine were reached ≈2 to 3 hours after oral administration of lercanidipine 10 or 20mg in 12 patients with mild to moderate hypertension. Plasma levels and the area under the plasma concentration-time curve (AUC) were not linearly related to dose, indicating saturable metabolism.
The presence of food increases lercanidipine absorption, hence the recommendation that lercanidipine be taken before meals.
Once absorbed, the drug readily accumulates in the lipid bilayer of cell membranes in the arterial wall because of its bulky bis-phenyl side chain. The drug is highly (>98%) bound to plasma proteins.
After oral administration lercanidipine undergoes extensive first-pass metabolism (primarily by cytochrome P450 3A4) to largely inactive metabolites. =50% of an oral dose of [14C]lercanidipine was eliminated in faeces and 44% in urine (mostly as metabolites). The drug appears to have a biphasic elimination profile, with terminal elimination half-lives of 2.8 to 3.7 hours (first phase) and 10.5 hours.
The bioavailability of S-lercanidipine after oral lercanidipine is not affected by age or cirrhosis but accumulation has been reported in patients with severe renal dysfunction. Dosage reduction is therefore recommended in this patient group.
No significant pharmacokinetic interactions have been reported between lercanidipine and midazolam, metoprolol, cimetidine or metildigoxin.
Therapeutic Efficacy
Lercanidipine 5 to 20mg once daily for 4 weeks dose-dependently and significantly reduced trough diastolic blood pressure (DBP) compared with placebo in patients with mild to moderate hypertension, without affecting heart rate. Response rates (percentage of patients with DBP ≤90mm Hg or reduced from baseline by ≥10mm Hg) ranged from 50 to 66% with lercanidipine 10 mg/day and up to 86% with lercanidipine 20 mg/day. The effects of lercanidipine 10 and 20mg were sustained throughout the 24-hour dosage interval; 1 study found that both dosages yielded a DBP trough/peak ratio >0.8.
Published studies (or abstracts) have shown that lercanidipine 10mg once daily for ≥4 weeks is at least as effective in patients with mild to moderate essential hypertension as a number of other antihypertensive drugs, including atenolol 50mg once daily, candesartan cilexetil 16 mg/day, captopril 25mg twice daily, enalapril 20 mg/day, hydrochlorothiazide 12.5mg once daily, irbesartan 150 mg/day and slow release nifedipine 20mg twice daily. A higher dosage (lercanidipine 20 mg/day) had antihypertensive efficacy similar to that of amlodipine 10 mg/day. Studies of lercanidipine 10mg once daily which permitted dosage titration to lercanidipine 20mg once daily after 4 weeks in nonresponders found that normalisation rates were higher at week 8 than week 4.
Monotherapy with lercanidipine 20 or 40 mg/day effectively reduced BP in the majority of patients with severe hypertension in 1 study. Furthermore, lercanidipine 10 to 30 mg/day was effective add-on therapy in patients with hypertension not responding sufficiently to β-blockers, diuretics or ACE inhibitors.
Lercanidipine is effective in the treatment of mild to moderate essential hypertension or isolated systolic hypertension in elderly patients (aged 60 to 85 years). The drug also demonstrated antihypertensive efficacy in patients with type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus but these data have yet to be published.
Lercanidipine was well tolerated in clinical trials, with most treatment-emergent adverse events related to vasodilation. A pooled analysis of data from 20 clinical trials involving almost 1800 patients with hypertension found that 11.8% of lercanidipine 10 or 20mg once daily recipients compared with 7.0% of placebo recipients reported adverse events, the most common being headache, flushing, asthenia, vertigo, palpitations and ankle oedema. Approximately 5 and 3% of patients in the respective groups withdrew because of poor tolerability.
Two postmarketing surveillance studies involving a total of 9605 patients with hypertension have confirmed that lercanidipine is well tolerated in clinical practice.
Evidence suggests that the drug is well tolerated in the elderly, and when administered long term (1 year). In addition, the drug was well tolerated with regard to ECG parameters in clinical trials.
Comparative trials have shown that lercanidipine 10 or 20 mg/day is as well tolerated as captopril 50 to 100 mg/day and atenolol 50 or 100 mg/day, although the tolerability profiles of these agents differed slightly.
An abstract report of a study in patients who had reported adverse vasodilatory effects while taking amlodipine, nifedipine GITS (gastrointestinal therapeutic system), felodipine or nitrendipine showed that, after switching to lercanidipine 10 to 20 mg/day for 1 month, the prevalence of calf oedema (from 94.8 to 51.4%), headache (from 38 to 18%), flushing (from 35 to 17%) and skin rash (from 38 to 18%) decreased significantly.
Dosage and Administration
Oral lercanidipine is indicated in Europe for the treatment of mild to moderate hypertension for which the recommended initial dosage is 10mg once daily at least 15 minutes before meals. In patients with an initial unsatisfactory response, dosage titration to 20 mg/day should be done gradually.
Special care should be exercised when initiating treatment with lercanidipine in the elderly or patients with mild to moderate renal or hepatic dysfunction, although dosage adjustments are not required in such patients. Use of lercanidipine is contraindicated in patients with severe hepatic or renal (creatinine clearance <10 ml/min).


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It's been a decade since Brian Blanchfield's last book, Not Even Then, but his newest collection, A Several World, feels like a long-awaited poetic grail. The poet, essayist and former University of Montana poetry professor has a remarkable talent for connecting language and ideas in mercurial ways. With signature verve and an impeccable ear, Blanchfield's newest lyrics are just as daring and robust as before, but with greater sensitivity and reach. One other big difference: Not Even Then was a city poet's book, while A Several World is a book of playfully sculpted eclogues and town-and-country ruminations tethered to a more tactile world. It's a book of pastoral poems. We can start there.
An eclogue is, traditionally, a poem in which two shepherds converse. Although only four poems in A Several World are eclogues by name, all of the poems in the book seem to encounter or reveal a shepherd of some kind (or several): each idea, figure or allegory is shepherded by something else. Blanchfield's poetry plays with a flirtatious call-and-response between subject and object, an erotic come again between lover and beloved, and a constant, elaborate sensing between landscape and inhabitant. These poems bob, dart and skid on the surface of this provisional tension between whatever's underway and whoever's expressing it. The relationship between the pair is propositional, and proposition is playful. In the beginning of "Pterytium," for example, he proposes a cheeky postcard view of rural conditions and outlook:
"Hallmark meteorology: a little what-if weather/ sworn over time to the ridgeline conditions/ the basiners downvalley to the lucky look/ of trouble. In an updraft apprehension/ replenishes the cloud, a steady sort of borrowing/ against promise. Welling at bottom, a slow spring fills/ centrally where it plummets, a sump and font that fills/ convexity out to its inky meniscus..."
Whichever subject each poem takes on—ducks enraptured by a goose, modernist Italian art in down-home Charlotte, chat-dating websites, Reformation-theologians Calvin and Luther as lovers, teenagers getting stoned in Missoula—they offer lavish studies of language overheard in everyday life.
The third section of A Several World, "The History of Ideas," departs from the rest of the book, like a sort of outpost or mini-collection within the larger framework. This section contains some of the most acrobatic poems, and is Blanchfield at his most versed and virtuosic, ironic and bedeviling. The other three sections are composed mostly of the sorts of pastoral eclogues that make the collection the ambulatory and conversational book it is. These are poems chiefly about place and situation, excited by encounter and incident. "No place is dangerous" as Blanchfield notes in "Edge of Water, Nimrod Falls, Montana," because, "The situation arrives/ as we do." They are poems that dip into the pastoral's long history of eroticism (particularly homosexual eroticism) with theatrical invention and an attentiveness to the natural world. In "The Inversion," a poem reeking of Missoula, Blanchfield invents a suspenseful situation in a familiar natural landscape:
Through the truckstop fudge of mascara,
threat or ecstasy having subsided, through
either diner window, time
to decide, while he's in the men's,
the dead, tall tangle of mallow in cheat grass
and common tansy
barely stirs in the opposite lot,
and beyond, farther still from the overpass
the steers like gurus
move despair around.
This enchanting mix of naturalism and muscular musicality—his alliteration and well-crafted asides—brings to life a landscape in which several realities coexist. In the last poem of the book, "Edge of Water, Moiese, Montana," the lived and the created not only overlap but multiply: "…Rake your face cheek to jaw/ with broken mica, and the moth traffic/ triples at your back. Is that a fact?"
In Brian Blanchfield's world it is.
Brian Blanchfield reads from A Several World at Shakespeare & Co. tonight, Wed. April 16, at 7 PM along with Alice Bolin who reads from her book Motel Diary. Free.


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Dr Rudin truly cares for his patients and it shows with his work ethic, and his knowledge of the heart is unparalleled.
Simply the best doctor in his field (and pretty darn good outside of his field). For those of us lucky enough to be among his patients, we are in excellent hands. He... Read more
White heated, thorough, expert, dedicated.
Dr. Khadra is absolutely one of the best cardiologists in Chicago. Would recommend.
I had a great mitral repair and outcome 1 year ago by Dr, McCarthy. I was very fortunate and proud to have him as my surgeon.
Dr. Akrami was extremely caring and I found him to be very knowledgable.
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Lesson 2: Distinguish Fact from Opinion in Book
Lesson Plan
Penguins | 630L
- Learning Goal
- Distinguish fact from opinion in a book.
- Duration
- Approximately 50 minutes
- Necessary Materials
- Provided: Guided Practice, Independent Practice Worksheet
Not Provided: Penguins by Lynn M. Stone, chart paper, markers
Teacher Modeling
will review what we learned in Lesson 1 about identifying fact and opinion statements from a passage. I will give several examples of facts and several examples of opinions to remind students of the differences. For example, "Boats float in the water." is a fact. It can be proven true. "Boats are fun to ride." is an opinion because not everyone agrees and it can not be proven true. I will explain that today we will read a nonfiction text and distinguish facts from opinions. I will read Chapter 1 of "Penguins are Special Birds" in Penguins by Lynn M. Stone.
Think Check
Ask: How did I distinguish a fact from an opinion? Students should respond that you read the text and thought about if the information was something that can be proven to be true or if it was someone's thoughts or feelings.
Guided Practice
will read the sentences on chart paper (see Guided Practice Worksheet in Teacher and Student Materials below) from the chapter and determine if each statement is a fact or an opinion. We will discuss how we know each sentence is a fact or an opinion. Facts can be proven true. Opinions usually contain some kind of adjective or descriptive word.
TIP: You may choose to organize the Guided Practice as a whole class sorting activity. Before teaching the lesson write out the sentences on sentence strips. During the lesson, have students place each sentence under the correct heading— "fact" or "opinion".
Independent Practice
will read (or listen as I read) Chapter 5, "Penguin Parents," and determine if sentences from the chapter are facts or opinions. You will explain how you know these are facts or opinions (Student Independent Practice is provided below). Note: You will need to copy Chapter 5 for each student before the lesson begins so the students can use it for Independent Practice.
Build Student Vocabulary upright
|Tier 2 Word: upright
|Contextualize the word as it is used in the story
|"On land, they (penguins) walk upright on stubbly legs."
|Explain the meaning student-friendly definition)
|Upright means a standing or straight position. When the author says that penguins walk upright, she means that penguins walk in a standing position, similar to humans.
|Students repeat the word
|Say the word upright with me: upright.
|Teacher gives examples of the word in other contexts
|A dog does not walk upright. A dog walks using all four legs. The walls of the house are no longer upright because of the earthquake. They all fell down.
|Students provide examples
|When do you stand upright? Start by saying, "I stand upright when ____________."
|Students repeat the word again.
|What word are we talking about? upright
|Additional Vocabulary Words
|down, waddles
Build Student Background Knowledge
Introduce the book by explaining that you are going to read about penguins. Even though they do not fly, penguins are considered birds. They share characteristics of flying birds, like being born with feathers, beaks, and laying eggs. The only difference is that penguins do not fly, they swim. They are not alone—ostriches, emus, and kiwis also do not fly. Share some pictures of these flightless birds.
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Standards Alignment
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Monday, March 4, 2013
Video duration: 22:00Video has closed captioning.
Heather Burgiss continues her series on Rural Health in NC with a look at what they're doing in Johnston County. Kelly McCullen talks with Sen. Thom Goolsby about legislation aimed at cracking down on sex trafficking in NC. And Our State Magazine publisher Bernie Mann has received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine.


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The first thing I would do is take her to the vet for a complete exam, just to rule out any medical problems.
Some cats, especially older ones don't adapt to major changes well, some older people are the same way when you think about it. Maybe shes just having a hard time adjusting to her new home?
If she has been with you for 13 years in the other home, she has probably become overwhelmed by the changes in the new home. Cats are very sensetive to scents or odors, it make take her a while to adjust to the smells of the new home. Have you painted things in the new home? The odor from the paint may be part of it. Carpets can hold odors that cats and dogs smell that we humans don't. If there were other pets in the new home before you moved in, they odors they left behind might be part of the problem. Try cleaning the carpet with the same products you used in the old home to bring the scent back to what she is familar with.
Do talk with your vet about the changes in her mood and behavior, he or she may have some other ideas as well.


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OK, I think I just set a Mecklenburg county record.
Last Friday, January 19th, I went down to the Sheriff's department in person and put in my handgun permit application. On Monday, January 22, they sent me a letter telling me that I have been approved. The clerk told me that it would take 3-4 weeks, but the approval letter was dated and post marked Jan 22.
The gun stores tell me that 4 weeks is about minimum, and that I should expect to wait 6 weeks. They also go on to mention that other counties can issue the permit in as little as a day or two, sometimes 3 if they are busy...but my county (Mecklenburg) usually takes over 4 weeks.
Well, I checked the mail today, and my letter of approval was inside. I do not check the mail daily...more like 2-3 times weekly. That letter had been in there since Tuesday afternoon.
I am still in shock...I live in the largest county in NC, and everyone kept telling me that it would take 4 weeks or so...I am quite shocked that it took only 1 day!!!
I was not ready for the permit to be honest...I am still in the shopping mode, but you better belive that I am going down there tomorrow to get the permit...I may drop the Mastercard at my local gun store on Saturday if my impulse buying urge kicks in...
There are two gun shows in February coming around, and my goal was to have the permits by then...now, I may not wiat until then.


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Under the National Education Blueprint
2013-2025 launched last week, Malaysia will equip 10,000 national
schools nationwide with 4G Internet access and a virtual
learning platform.
Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak unveiled
the plan to embed ICT in teaching and learning for teachers,
students, and parents through the expansion of 1BestariNet (Wi-Fi)
programme to all schools.
Also, the government will increase the
number of ICT devices until the ratio of student-to-device reaches
10:1. He added that the ratio can continue to be lowered further
subjected to the availability of funds and impact assessment.
Between 1999 and 2010, Malaysian
government has invested up to RM6 billion (US$ 1.97 billion) on the
initiative ICT for education projects. Most of the funds went for
additional computer labs especially to support the PPSMI schemethe
governments education policy aimed at improving the proficiency in
English among pupils at primary and secondary schools.
In the blueprint, the effective use of
ICT is required to foster students to learn how to leverage ICT
efficiently to scale up quality learning across the country. It will
also further strengthen the foundation of ICT-enabled schools as well
as introducing proven ICT solutions into the education system.
The government will also pilot a
distance-learning and self-paced learning before scaling
up nationwide.
Under shift 9 in the same blueprint, a
system called School Examination Analysis System (SAPS)an online
system to monitor students progress, will be set up at some 500
trust schools as part of encouraging the partnership among parents,
community and private sector to monitor learning performance of
the students.
The government will also invest in ICT
solutions for groups with specific needs such as rural schools,
under-enrolled schools, and gifted students to enable cost-efficient
access to high-quality teaching and learning resources.
(Source: FutureGov)
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Monday July 23rd, 2012 4:49pm
As part of a whirlwind week of live fall lacrosse coverage, I visited Rip Miller Field in Annapolis to see Villanova take on Navy in each of the teams' first scrimmages of the fall.
There was the usual fall rust and cycling in of substitute players in the game, but also some good moments and high quality lacrosse. The Wildcats ended up pulling out a 7-6 win with a last-minute goal in the fourth quarter. The teams also played a fifth period of bonus lacrosse to let some more players get time.
Rip Miller Field has recently undergone a facelift on the Academy and is a beautiful place to watch a lacrosse game. It was a clear, mild fall night with the backdrop of sailboats on the water. Check back to InsideLacrosse.com this week for video from Zach Babo to see what I'm talking about. The stands were full, with a few hundred taking in a good Friday night of lacrosse. As always with fall, there are no official stats or instant replay, so please bear with some of the vague numbers.
Some general takeaways from the game before some more detailed quarter-by-quarter stuff:
1. Villanova looks small, but they are fast. The Wildcats scored a lot of goals on the run, getting a step on Navy midfielders and just enough room to get a clear shot.
2. Navy had a lot of extended possessions, but at times the Midshipmen struggled to really get any penetration on the Wildcats' defense. But on the other hand...
3. The Wildcats could have been better in the six-on-six, but their quickness made them difficult to deal with in transition.
4. I'll be talking with new Navy coach Rick Sowell this week to do a more detailed check-in with the Midshipmen, but the new coach was quiet and observant during the game. It looked as if he was taking in every detail with his new players and would from time to time high-five his players.
Navy struck first with a goal by senior midfielder Nikk Davis, assisted by sophomore attackman Sam Jones. Davis was a highlight for the Mids. Whenever Navy got something going offensively, he seemed to be involved and was constantly a threat with and without the ball at the top. I had him down for a hat trick in the game. On this goal, he cut down to the crease from the point for a quick, close shot. Villanova's goal came in transition, with junior midfielder Max Hart ripping a shot upper-90 from the point. Navy's RJ Wickham looked pretty solid in goal
Villanova started to separate a little in this quarter, scoring four goals to Navy's one to take a 5-1 lead going into halftime. Kevin Cunningham had a goal off a broken clear where he wound up alone with the ball near the crease. Cunningham would have had another goal after he bullied through a few Navy defenders, but the bench called a timeout just as he shot.
Will Casertano had one, as did Nick Doherty, a junior. Doherty was impressive with speed all day, and scored on the run by getting just a step on his defender. I had Hart with 'Nova's other goal, making him the only multi-goal scorer for the Wildcats. Davis again scored for Navy. He took a feed from Harrison Chaires. I was on the opposite end of the field so it was difficult to see what happened with the defense, but Davis ended up with time to step into his shot about 10 yards from the goal.
Impressive on defense for Villanova was No. 19 Chris Creighton, a senior defenseman. He was solid guarding Chaires at X all night. I didn't see the big takeaway threat that Brian Karalunas offered from anyone on Villanova's defense, but the unit was solid.
The second quarter featured some tough rides by both sides. Navy had to temper its enthusiasm a bit throughout the game, getting two fouls ( a slash and a high hit) in the quarter. The hit really got the Navy bench pumped until it realized it was an illegal check.
Billy Hurley replaced Dan Gutierrez in net for Villanova in the third quarter. In the third, Navy went on a run of its own, scoring three unanswered goals (two of them within a minute apart). The Mids were dominating face-offs, and Villanova was giving some subs some work. Sophomore midfielder Pat Durkin had a goal, and Jones had what I counted as the only goal from Navy's attack all day. He beat Creighton with a roll dodge to the goal. Midfielder Bryce Dabbs scored a minute later. Villanova's goal came from senior Matt Bell off a pass from C.J. Small. Small again used speed to get just enough separation to get off a good pass to Bell.
Again, Davis proved for the Mids that he is a big threat from the midfield, taking a good pass from Jones for a goal with less than 30 seconds. Davis consistently found good times to cut. Navy goalie Nolan Hickey got some work in during the quarter and made a big save right on the crease, prompting someone on the Navy bench to yell "Way to get big." Hurley had a big save of his own, stopping Tucker Hull right on the crease at the end of the quarter.
Kevin O'Neil, a sophomore, scored the winner for Villanova with a minute left. It capped a long possession and an EMO for 'Nova that saw the Wildcats pestering Navy goalie Paul Zimmerman with shots. The Wildcats' shooting could have been better, and they missed the net a few times with time and room (a few times, hitting IL writer Zach Babo's car while he watched from behind a camera). O'Neil is a few inches taller than most of the other 'Nova players, and it looked it from the stands.


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Anyone else seen the October issue of Car magazine ? If so, what do you think of the car ? Not sold here yet obviously, but looks like Ford is taking aim at the WRX.
Cover story is the Focus RS and plenty of ink about it inside. Turbo, 213 hp / 227 ft.lbs. torque, Brembos, pulls .94g on the skidpad, etc. This is the car Ford should have built as the SVT Focus in the first place, IMO.
Press release link (no US release plans mentioned)