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Beware the Hurricanes
Jacques Demers, a two-time Jack Adams Award winner as
NHL coach of the year, will analyze the 2002 Stanley Cup playoffs for USATODAY.com.
Demers, who spent 14 seasons behind the bench with Quebec, St. Louis, Detroit,
Montreal and Tampa Bay, knows just what it takes to craft a strong playoff run
and win the Stanley Cup, having led the Canadiens to an improbable championship
in 1993. His team was the last one to finish third in its division and go on
to win the Stanley Cup. In this week's column, Demers says Carolina will be
no pushover in the finals.
Conference final
When the Stanley Cup Finals start Tuesday,
I know the predictions will be "4-0 Colorado" or "4-0 Detroit." Well, it's not
going to happen that way. As a former coach looking at the Carolina Hurricanes,
I say, "Watch out for this team." They're well-rounded. I really believe they're
going to give the Western Conference winner one tough series and who knows who
will prevail? Detroit or Colorado should, but Carolina isn't going to be easy
Yes, the Hurricanes will be underdogs. But when you're
the underdog, it's a source of motivation for your team. Throughout the whole
playoffs, Carolina has been the underdog. It seems to push them. It's like,
"We'll show you that we can play this game."
When you go into a series that you're not supposed to win,
the pressure is off. For Carolina now, everything is a bonus. They're in the
Finals. Yeah, they want to win the Cup, but the pressure will be on either Detroit
or Colorado. The Red Wings had 116 points, but if they don't win the Cup, it
won't be a good season. The Colorado Avalanche, with all the talented players
that they have, are supposed to win the Cup.
I have coached the underdog in early rounds before and
came out on top three times. When we won the Cup in 1993, the Montreal Canadiens
were underdogs to the Quebec Nordiques in the first round. They had Mats Sundin,
Joe Sakic, Adam Foote and company. I also did it in 1986 with St. Louis against
Minnesota and the following year with Detroit against Toronto.
So what does a coach say in those cases? Well, you don't
want to put any more pressure on your team than it already has. You tell the
team to have some fun. That's what Paul Maurice is probably doing in Carolina,
saying, "Let's get some rest and let's just make sure we enjoy every bit of
this. We weren't supposed to be here. Now, we're here. There's no pressure.
If we win the Cup, that's a bonus, but this team has accomplished more than
anyone in hockey had thought it would accomplish."
Paul Maurice, in reality, has very little to do. A coach
has a system that has been in place since September and he makes some adjustments.
Maurice's system is very effective at taking away scoring chances and taking
away the ice from the other team's good players. It is what got them here. Now
that they're in the Finals, they're not here to put on a show. They're here
to try to win hockey games and more important, to frustrate the other team.
What would it take for Carolina to knock off a Detroit
or Colorado? You would need great goaltending. Arturs Irbe will inevitably be
compared to Dominik Hasek or Patrick Roy, and he won't even be seen as close
to those guys. But you have to remember what he did with San Jose in 1994, when
he upset the Red Wings in the first round. Irbe knows he's going to be the underdog,
but he also knows that he has pulled off upsets before.
Carolina also will try to win one of the first two games
on the road and steal away home-ice advantage. Again, this is possible. They
won three games in Toronto. They have no problem being on the road. Sure, the
opponent will be tougher this time an elite team but this point
will be an easy sell for Maurice.
We've seen surprise teams reach the Finals before. In 1996,
the Florida Panthers were essentially an expansion team. They were loaded with
character guys. Goalie John Vanbiesbrouck got on a roll and nobody could stop
him. It took everything for Colorado to win that series. Though it was a sweep,
Game 4 went to triple overtime. There are no gimmes anymore. Once you're there,
you have the fans behind you.
I don't think that Detroit or Colorado will take Carolina
lightly. What Carolina did to get to the Stanley Cup Finals was no fluke. It
was done methodically and with hard work and with good coaching by Maurice.
They're not a great team, but they're a very sound team. They have team toughness.
They have a captain in Ron Francis who has won two Cups. His presence is going
to be huge.
On the other hand, Carolina knows that their opponent has
been there before. Detroit or Colorado knows what it takes to win. They don't
panic. They have loads of guys who have won the Cup. You would have to favor
a bunch of guys who have won it in recent years. Carolina, except for Francis,
Martin Gelinas and for Sean Hill, who played for me on our Cup team in 1993,
has very few guys who have been there. But be careful for Carolina, they're
going to be a tough team until the end.
It's tougher to play a team like Carolina that doesn't
have a bunch of superstars. Everybody knows that if they don't play their best
every night, they're not going to look good on the ice. Every plays the system,
everybody plays the same way. I think Carolina could take it to six or seven
games, and if Irbe gets hot, you never know. Yes, they'll have their work cut
out for them, but they're also going to be loose.
Being the underdog isn't all that bad.


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Tonya Jone Miller, who describes herself as an "aural courtesan," has run the Bay City Blues sex-line for nine years.
That night in Bay City, when you took me in, I heard it very dim.
Up at Bay City, you see, we don't amount to much except in the summer time.
A 15-ton Bay City locomotive crane was also used along part of the open-cut work on 32d Street.
She invited Enid to accompany her, but the latter declined, saying that the trip to Bay City had tired her.
Bay City suffered a loss of nearly all of its buildings and three were killed there.
The towns of Bay City and Saginaw alone in 1878 supported over fourteen hundred tough characters.
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Metroid Prime: Hunters
Review by NDS_Master
"Slaying Samus the Slayer"
As the DS flew into the worldwide spotlight back in 2004, Nintendo knew that it needed something to demonstrate how worthwhile the system could be. It had to be something with not only eye-popping graphics, but also mind-boggling gameplay. Without hesitation, Nintendo determined that the utterly popular Metroid series would do the trick, so they jammed a tiny Metroid Prime Hunters demo cartridge into every single DS box. All who purchased the system received a nice piece of hardware and an equally nice demo game to go along with it.
Obviously, such a strategy was appealing to the gamers; within weeks of the system's release everyone was talking about how sweet the new Metroid game would be and how stupendous the DS's graphics were. Even those who normally did not give Samus a chance tried out the demo and took notice of the huge game series. Once the demo was out, the long wait began.
At first, most thought Metroid Prime Hunters would be released in a couple months. However, a couple months stretched into a few months, a few months stretched into numerous months, and numerous months stretched into well over a year. By that time, fanatics were becoming both anxious and excited. They knew that the game had dwelled in development because its creators were perfecting its knockout graphics, and they also knew that online multiplayer would make the game massively alluring.
Finally, Nintendo gave the release date. Players went wild, uniting together to discuss how awesome the game would be and await its launch. When the game stormed shelves, hundreds of thousand of gamers snatched their copies and headed off, ready to play. But after they inserted the game and experienced it firsthand, suddenly everything changed. The game had problems. The single player was short. Its graphics sometimes lagged. Its controls were not super easy to use. Its user friendly features were basically nonexistent. Having witnessed these issues, the world stood back, stunned.
Had Nintendo really done this? Had they actually hyped up a game that failed miserably? Although this may have been the initial reaction of some, once they reassessed the game they discovered that it might not be as bad as they had first thought. While it missed perfection, the extreme boundaries that Metroid Prime Hunters pushed were more than enough to offset any minor nuisances.
So, what happens to Samus this time around to warrant such uproar? Well, it turns out that an ancient race of creatures known as the Alimbics used to reside in an area known as the Alimbic Cluster. Everything was all fine and dandy, but then one day the Alimbics suddenly disappeared into nothingness.
Thousands of years later, though, a telepathic message was sent across the universe saying: The key to Ultimate Power lies in the Alimbic Cluster. Since the Alimbics were such an advanced race and ultimate power is not something to be taken lightly, the Galactic Federation quickly dispatched Samus Aran, their most brilliant bounty hunter, to head out and explore the validness of the mysterious message. However, six other bounty hunters also heard the message; desiring this power for themselves, they to ventured off to the cluster as well. With so many hunters working against each other for the same goal, tension is bound to happen -- maybe even tension in the form of missiles and power bombs.
Despite the potential adversaries, Samus was still ordered to venture to the various planets in the Alimbic Cluster to search for this esoteric power. Unlike in her previous adventures, though, Samus does not lose all of her abilities and weapons as soon as she first lands. Nor does she merely spend her time searching a single planet; the Ultimate Power is protected by eight special crystal objects known as Octoliths. Since the Octoliths are scattered amongst various planets in the system, Samus has to tactfully steal an Octolith and then retreat back to her ship so that she can go search for another one.
But, that is only a minor part of the game's single player adventure. Inside each and every level, which Samus traverses in first person mode, are numerous obstacles, enemies, and puzzles. While the gameplay focuses much more on being a first person shooter than a first person adventure, many of the adventure elements from previous Metroid titles remain intact. Dozens of puzzles abound in each mission, and players will have to use wit and intellect to overcome them.
Along with the puzzles, though, a mob of antagonizing creatures will also keep the journey interesting. Not only will Samus have to carefully blast her way through deadly weapons and creatures once used by the Alimbics for security purposes, but she will also have to duel Guardians, mysterious aliens dedicated to preventing any of the Octoliths from being stolen. And of course, the six bounty hunters are in the mix. Many times during the journey will Samus be ambushed by a rival, who will attempt to defeat her. Should she lose, the opposing bounty hunter will steal one of her precious Octoliths, forcing her take the place of the hunter -- a job that will often require her to track down the thieving bounty hunter as it travels to another planet.
Once Samus survives through the precarious challenges each mission presents, her final task will be to engage the boss head-to-head. Each boss has specific strengths and weaknesses, and Samus must identify those through careful observation to determine how to decimate the monstrosity. Bosses merit just as much thinking as they do skill, providing tidbits from two of the best gaming worlds. When the boss dies, however, the action still is not over. With the Octolith in her control, Samus must then escape from the planet quickly so that she does not get killed. It is a harrying predicament.
As Samus visits more planets and earns more Octoliths, she will also locate special new weapons. Some shoot supercooled plasma, other shoot magma, and still others shoot electricity. No matter what their specialty, every weapon will permit Samus to fight certain enemies better and even advance to new areas on planets. This is where much of the classic Metroid backtracking comes in: Samus will have to return to previous landing sites in order for her to use the new weapons to unlock new areas. These new areas contain new challenges, and beyond these challenges are additional bosses and Octoliths.
During the journey, the trusty scan visor will also allow Samus to scan items, enemies, and objects into her logbook. While there is nothing particularly important about scanning (though it often provides nifty tips), one requirement to completing the game one hundred percent is scanning every single object. In fact, most of the replay value exists because scanning will force steadfast players to play through the game additional times to earn one time scans that they may have missed.
The Rumble Pak is compatible with this game, but it is highly underutilized. While the developer's could have used it in dozens of areas to make the game feel more realistic, most of Rumble Pak's usage comes during movie scenes, where the pak often is more of a nuisance then a benefit. About the only time it is used in game is when players take damage; it works well but it is severely underutilized.
For the most part, Metroid Prime Hunters sports solid gameplay. However, several problems do exist. One of the biggest issues is the lack of variety in some of the levels; many of the enemies, bosses, and areas, are simply slightly modified and then once again presented later on in the game. There are only two different bosses protecting all eight of the Octoliths; players simply encounter rehashed versions as they progress into further regions. Also, the escape the follows each Octolith capture is exciting at first, but as the routine becomes more and more familiar the task becomes more and more mundane.
Beyond that, the single player struggles with terrible interface issues. None of them ruin the game, but they all are annoying aspects that detract from the overall value. For example, gamers can only check the logbook, adjust control settings, or save if they trek all the way back to their ship and enter it, yet they can only exit the game or glance at the map outside of the gunship. It is minor inconveniences like these that hinder the overall quality.
Then, there are the controls. The controls are indeed well created, but they do take some getting used to and a few control modes have disadvantages. Dual Mode, which allows gamers to move and aim using the D-Pad and buttons, works efficiently; however, it is difficult to precisely aim and switching weapons is difficult because it requires use of the touch screen. Stylus Mode is typically considered the easiest to use since it provides accurate aiming with the touch screen, though even it has downfalls when it comes to weapon switching and boosting.
Finally, the other problem with Hunters is that it is short in comparison with other Metroid games. A single run through should occupy about fifteen hours, and afterwards all additional times through will take no more than five hours. That is around twenty to twenty-five hours of gameplay when the scans are factored in, which is fairly decent. However, once the single player is done it is done; nothing else exists to keep the game fun to play.
Fortunately, the single player is the weakest portion of the game. Multiplayer is where it truly dominates. Using the convenience of online play, gamers from all across the world can hook up and play against each other. Each match lasts seven minutes long, so the battles are not too short but also not too time consuming.
When preparing to duel, all of the up-to-four players decide which of the seven bounty hunters they want to be. Every single one of the bounty hunters has an affinity weapon, which is basically one of the regular weapons that they gain special powers with. Noxus can use the Judicator to freeze adversaries in a block of ice, while Spire can set enemies on fire with the Magmaul. These are just a few examples; players must weigh carefully the abilities of each hunter when choosing whom to play as.
Speaking of abilities, there are still the hunters' alternate forms to consider. Similar to Samus's Morph Ball form, every hunter can change to an alternate form that is faster and small than the biped form. Often times these alternate forms are crucial to winning a match; so they add another layer to the multiplayer.
After everything is ready and the level is chosen, competitors will be able to battle it out with their opponents. The multiplayer action is very interactive and entertaining, so it will provide hours upon hours of fun. Also, if players encounter someone that they enjoyed murdering (or getting murdered by), they can add them to their Rival's list to play against them in Rivals mode. Rivals mode permits gamers the ability to customize their games, providing an even more fun ways to play. Download play and multi-card play are also available, but Wi-Fi is the true heart of Metroid Prime Hunters.
Although the gameplay is main strength of Hunters, the graphics and sound by no means suffer as a result of it. Nintendo spent much time working on the graphics in particular, and the finished product is impressive. The 3-d First Person Shooter contains dozens of detailed maps, each with impeccably rendered objects and lush scenery. None of it looks like it is lacking in polygon count, evidenced by the fact that the developers had to stretch the abilities of the DS through much hard work in order to make it all turn out.
Beside the maps, all of the characters and enemies are displayed with excellence. Each hunter appears realistic, as do the majority of the enemies. Despite the limitations of the Nintendo DS, Metroid Prime Hunters has graphics that rival those of even home console systems. Of course the graphics are not perfect -- sometimes the graphics will become choppy and occasionally the frame rate will slow -- but the bulk of the time the graphics will be absolutely stunning.
And when it comes to sound, Hunters dominate unlike any other. The hundreds of sound effects alone are more than enough to start any gamers salivating, as they beautifully exemplify all of the actions they accompany. Nothing makes the game feel more genuine than the quality sound effects, and they are not even the best part of the sound.
Where the sound truly takes over is in the music. Metroid Prime Hunters has the best music on the Nintendo DS. There are songs for action places, songs for calmer settings, songs for specific bounty hunters -- it is all there. Some of the livelier music will initiate high adrenaline levels, while some of the more relaxed melodies will leave players susceptible to states of utopian drowsiness. None of the songs are too repetitious or dull to listen to; every single one displays the perfection of the composers behind the sound.
When everything is combined together, Metroid Prime Hunters is one of the best games that gamers can get their hands on. It has awesome single player, explosive multiplayer, noteworthy graphics, and gratifying sound. However, as much as I would love to command everyone to pick up a copy, I simply cannot.
Everything must be combined together to display the excellent of Hunters, so if you lack Wi-Fi, then you are going to be missing a huge portion of this game. Sure, the single player is great and will offer around twenty hours of playing time, but if you do not have easy access to the online multiplayer then I am certain you could find a better game to spend your money on. But, if you can play online frequently, then Metroid Prime Hunters is probably the best DS game you can get.
Storyline: 9.5
Controls: 8.0
Gameplay: 9.6
Graphics: 9.8
Sound: 10.0
Replay Value: 7.0
Multiplayer: 9.7
Overall: 9.7
Reviewer's Rating: 5.0 - Flawless
Originally Posted: 05/08/06
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The Eighteenth Amual Convention of the Order Sons of Zion opened here yesterday at the Carteret Hotel, in the presence of 200 delegates.
Mr. Sol. Friedland, Nassi of the Order, in his annual report, stated that the difference of opinion which had arisen last year between the Order and the Zionist Organization of America concerning the latter's adoption of the Revisionist platform, was settled. The Zionist Organization admitted that in matters pertaining to Zionist program, the jurisdiction lies not with the American Federation, but with the World Zionist Organization, he stated.
The Order has a deficit of $19,000, the report shows, and the president in his message asked the delegates to find means to wipe out this deficit.
Six new eamps were organized doting the past year, the secretary's report showed.
Judge Jacob Strahl reported on the progress of the Judea Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of the Judea Life Insurance, Ltd., of Palestine, both companies being owned by the Judea Industrial Corporation, an offspring of the Order. The new company has obtained licenses to operate in Maryland. Long Island. District of Columbia. New Jersey and New York.


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Gleevec is approved to treat a rare cancer called Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML), which affects between 5,000 and 8,000 patients each year.
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In the early stage, patients may only be diagnosed through routine blood tests that show an increase in white blood cells. In later stages, patients experience infections, bleeding, fever, chills, sweats, weakness, fatigue and headaches.
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Commonly reported side effects include nausea, vomiting, muscle and joint pains, skin rash, diarrhea, heartburn, headache, and water retention (edema.) Although some of the serious side effects occur less frequently, severe side effects include severe fluid retention (edema) liver toxicity, and the potential for bleeding (hemorrhage) especially in the elderly.
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What other treatments have been used to treat CML?
Several drugs have been used to treat CML including cancer drugs such as busulfan, hydroxyurea, and cytosine arabinoside (ara-C). Current therapy for the chronic phase of CML generally includes alpha-interferon with or without other drugs. Bone marrow transplant may be an option for some patients.
Who can be treated with this new drug?
Patients who are diagnosed with CML in the three phases of disease are eligible for treatment. The diagnosis is established by blood and bone marrow examination and by physical examination to detect possible involvement of the liver and spleen. When the bone marrow is examined, special tests are performed to demonstrate the Philadelphia chromosome (the specific marker of CML)
Is this the first example of a drug that targets an intracellular signaling molecule in cancer therapy approved by FDA?
How is Gleevec be taken?
Dosage and administration recommendations: Therapy should be initiated by a doctor experienced in the treatment of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia.
Gleevec should be taken with food and a large glass of water to minimize the risk of stomach gastrointestinal irritation.
The recommended dosage of Gleevec is 400 mg per day for patients in chronic phase CML and 600 mg per day for patients in accelerated phase or blast crisis. The prescribed dose should be administered orally, once daily with a meal and a large glass of water.
Treatment should be continued as long as the patient continues to benefit.
I've heard that this drug was called STI571? What does that mean?
Gleevec was given the name STI571 when it was under early development. STI stands for Signal Transduction Inhibitor and represents the action of the drug to inhibit enzymes called tyrosine kinase inhibitors. This targeted kinase is the protein produced by a DNA translocation (the "Philadelphia chromosome") that appears central to the CML disease process.
What if I am taking other drugs?
Gleevec interacts with many other drugs. In some cases Gleevec increases blood levels of these drugs which may increase side effects. In other cases Gleevec decreases blood levels of the drugs which may decrease effectiveness of treatment. Similarly, Gleevec blood levels may be increased or decreased by other drugs. This might increase Gleevec side effects or decrease effectiveness. Because of these potential drug-drug interactions the patient must discuss all of their medications with their doctor.


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why are sawed off shotguns illegal
I just need an answer to the above question
Because they're cool. Honestly, I don't know.
My Understanding
My Understanding is they weren't untill the 1950's or '60's.
When they were filming the TV series "Wanted Dead Or Alive" they had problems with the BATF about Steve Mcqueen's "sawed off" rifle.
I remeber reading about a LEO who carried a sawed off double barell 10 gauge shotgun it was said that he never had to fire it in anger.
The BATF forced him to not use it.
I don't know why they are illegal, maybe because they are so effective?
You have to go back to the End of Prohibition and the National Firearms Act of 1934.
The US Attorney at the time, some guy named Homer something or other, wanted to put an end to the ability of "Gangster's & other criminals" to securely hide and carry powerful weapons to commit crimes with in their travels.
Essentially, if the weapon was not a pistol or revolver, and it could be concealed easily under modern clothing, it was to be legislated, required to have a Federal Approval in the way of the infamous $200 tax Stamp ( a ton of money at the time ) and would be regulated to only the few.
Originally asshat wanted to include pistols & revolvers and thus make every firearm strictly regulated by the government, but it was quickly learned that would be in violation of 2A, so the sneaky effer, who was probably a kid toucher to boot :rolleyes:, snuck the 18 inch requirement through without much of a hitch.
It's been "modified" a couple of times, but the requirement has stuck for 76 stupid years. :mad:
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I would argue they are not illegal, just regulated. Yes, the States declare short barrelled shotguns unlawful, but they cannot ilegallize what the feds have licensed. In Texas, a shotgun with a barrel shorter than 18" is a Prohibited Weapon, but if it is properly registered (taxed) through the Feds, the Federal law trumps the State law. This is a concept foreign to many police officers who cannot understand the concept of Federal preemption.
Why are automatic knives (switchblades) banned in many places where fixed-blade knives are legal?
Answer: because legislators are morons.
Nine times out of ten, the arguments legislators present to ban this or that is based entirely on emotion and not fact.
Clearly those were illegal enough, or illegally modified enough, to warrant way too much attention over what was a very minor infraction. :eek:
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Dakota Hawkins, 14, of Cabot, is recovering in Arkansas Childrens Hospital in Little Rock, after being taken to the emergency room on Monday. He woke up vomiting and complaining of abdominal pain. He is being treated for high liver enzymes.
On Tuesday, Dakotas mother, Sharon Hawkins, wrote in the familys online journal
that he seems to be feeling better. He woke up hungry Tuesday morning after a day of not eating.
We need your continued prayers and appreciate your praises of giving the deserved glory to God for our many answered prayers, wrote Sharon.
The Hawkins family returned to Little Rock National Airport last Thursday after living in Jerusalem for three months for Dakota to undergo leukemia treatment at Hadassah Medical Center.
After receiving a cell transplant from his mother, Sharon, and brother, Riley, 12, Dakota is now leukemia-free, but is still recovering from the transplants and fungal lung infection. The family is calling Dakotas battle with leukemia a Journey of Faith.
The journey began when the youth was diagnosed with leukemia in December 2002. Dakota underwent five months of intense chemotherapy at Arkansas Childrens Hospital in Little Rock and went into remission, but relapsed in October 2003.
He received a bone-marrow-transplant from his younger brother Riley in February 2004, but his leukemia returned in late November.
In February 2005, while at the M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston for additional treatments and therapy, the Hawkins family learned of Dr. Shimon Slavin, who offered the family innovative new approaches in cell therapy and leukemia treatment not available in America.
Community fundraising efforts helped the family raise $127,000 within two weeks to cover treatment costs and the family flew to Israel.
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No. 11 LOUISVILLE 81, No. 19 UCONN 48
• Where do you start?: The numbers told an ugly story for the Huskies. They hit just 3 of 22 3-pointers and shot 29.4 percent from the floor. Shabazz Napier was 2-for-13, Ryan Boatright was 2-for-11 and they combined to shoot 1-for-14 from 3-point land and turn the ball over nine times. The Huskies had 22 turnovers as a team, and Louisville scored 34 points off of those turnovers.
"It's a tough matchup because they play zone," Napier explained. "That's the biggest thing, we always have trouble playing (teams) that play zone. And they understand that. Connecticut's guard-oriented, and if you can stop the guards and make the forwards and centers be the reason why you lost, you're going to have an easier battle with (us). It's just the zone, that's the biggest thing."
DeAndre Daniels had 17 points and eight boards for the Huskies, but that was about it.
The Cardinals, meanwhile, knocked down 10 3-pointers and shot 45 percent from the floor. They scored 15 fast-break points; UConn had zero.
• Montrezl's a monster: Louisville sophomore Montrezl Harrell, likely playing in his final home game for the Cards, continued to treat the Huskies like his personal plaything this season. Harrell finished with a game-high 20 points along with 11 rebounds and six dunks. There was a monstrous putback slam that ended a 5-0 UConn mini-run midway through the second half, followed shortly thereafter by a two-handed backwards slam.
"When we've got Harrell dunking backwards, hanging on the rim," Ollie said. "We've got (Luke) Hancock shooting open 3s. Yeah, lack of effort. Lack of effort."
Added Napier: "He's a man. Him and (Stephen) Van Treese (13 rebounds) played like men today."
• Advantage, Russ Smith: In a showdown between two AAC player of the year candidates, Louisville senior Russ Smith outplayed Napier. Smith attempted just two shots and scored a mere three points but doled out a whopping 13 assists.
"Russ is a great player," said Ollie. "He let the game play him. If everybody is loading up, he passes. That's what great players do, that's what All-Americans do. He's an All-American. I told my guys to pass. They don't pass. And that's why we ended up with a defeat like this."
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. >> After UConn beat Syracuse in an emotional battle in Hartford a little over a year ago in what was the last time the teams would meet as conference foes, Ryan Boatright proudly noted the Orange were heading off to the ACC "with the bad taste of UConn in their mouths."
Louisville will join Syracuse in the ACC next season, but the Cardinals leave with a decidedly better taste of the Huskies in their mouths. A particularly yummy taste, you might say.
On Saturday at the KFC Yum! Center, UConn's newest house of horrors, Louisville laid out an 81-48 beatdown on the Huskies that was thorough, decisive and, for UConn, ugly and embarrassing. In fact, it was the Huskies' worst loss in 22 years, dating back to a 90-57 defeat at the hands of St. John's on Feb. 1, 1992.
The only talk of mouths that came out of Boatright's mouth afterwards had to do with the Huskies' being bruised.
"They come out and they're the aggressor, they punch us in the mouth from the beginning, and we're always trying to fight back," the junior guard explained. "We're always trying to fight uphill instead of getting them first."
Indeed, Louisville has truly had the Huskies' number over the past four years, winning four straight and eight of the last nine meetings. And most of them weren't pretty: the average margin of defeat for UConn in its last four games against the Cards has been 20.2 points.
And it's even worse inside the KFC Yum! Center. The Cardinals have now defeated UConn by 33 and 21 points in their last two meetings inside the building. Including a 77-64 loss in an NCAA tournament first-round game with Iowa State in 2012 (Jim Calhoun's final game as head coach), the Huskies are 0-4 at the Yum! Center, with an average margin of defeat of exactly 20 points.
At least the Huskies don't have to worry about Louisville or the three-year-old arena again anytime soon, as the Cardinals fly south to the ACC next season.
"They took advantage of everything we did," UConn coach Kevin Ollie rued afterwards. "It was a bad-coached team. I'm on the front line. We weren't ready to play, they took advantage of everything, coach (Rick) Pitino coached a helluva team. And their players played. That's why they're the defending champions. They played like champions, and we didn't. I told the guys if we play like that, we've got two games left in this season. And that's it."
No. 19 UConn (24-7, 12-6 AAC) will face No. 20 Memphis in its inaugural AAC championship tournament game on Thursday at around 9:30 p.m. at Memphis's FedExForum. That gives the Huskies a few days to lick their wounds and try to recover.
"We've been playing good basketball," Ollie noted. "We've got faith in ourselves. We're at the bottom right now. That's the worst we can ever play. But guess what? Just as bad as we played, we can turn it around. I'm not giving up on the season. But at this right moment, we didn't play together. But I told them, if we play like this, we've got two games (left) and everybody can go to spring break."
And let's face it, spring break wasn't very good for UConn last year. But we digress.
The Huskies had won three straight and seven of their last eight.
"I didn't see anything like this coming," Ollie added. "I'm glad it came. Because now, we know how tough we've got to be to be a champion. That team's a champion over there, and we weren't tough enough or together enough. And they took advantage of it."
Beyond the atrocious numbers, the Huskies looked disjointed, at times uninterested, on Saturday. In UConn's 69-63 win over Rutgers a few days earlier, Boatright and Shabazz Napier could be seen shouting at each other at the bench during a couple of timeouts. Though all parties involved have pooh-poohed the incident, it raises the question of whether or not the Huskies are on the same page right now, or if there's some dissension in the ranks.
"We're on the same page," Boatright insisted. "It's just a bad night, man."
Asked the same question, Napier more or less changed the subject.
"We're just not making shots," the senior guard said. "That's going to affect us on the defensive end. We don't make shots, Louisville gets the ball in transition, they're hard to stop."
DeAndre Daniels at least acknowledged that some sort of rift within the team has, at one point, existed.
"It's over with," he said. "We've just got to keep moving forward. We've got two games left, basically. We've got to come back in practice and bounce back, forget about this game and just keep moving forward and get ready for the conference tournament."
The Huskies did get some good news after the game. Louisville (26-5) and Cincinnati finished tied atop the league standings at 15-3 apiece, and since all other tiebreaking formulas were exhausted, a coin toss was used to determine the top seed in the AAC tourney. Cincinnati won the toss, giving it the No. 1 seed and making the Cardinals No. 2. That means that if UConn can get by Memphis (on its home floor) Thursday night, it would face Cincinnati (not Louisville) in a semifinal game the following night. Assuming Cincy wins its first game, of course.
Considering the Huskies' results against Louisville in recent years, that would be considered good news on a day where everything else was bad. UConn wouldn't have to worry about facing Louisville again until the AAC tourney championship game on March 16.
And if that doesn't end up happening, Louisville will head off to the ACC with the particularly yummy taste of UConn in its mouth.


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I was messing around the other day — fishing, of course — when I ran into a fellow who reminded me about the Sunday tournaments on a local lake near my house, Deer Creek Reservoir. I'd fished them a time or two in the past and had a good time so I thought why not.
Out of courtesy I made sure they didn't mind fishing against an Elite pro. They didn't. (And they shouldn't have, either. The last time I competed in one of their tournaments I blanked. That takes the fear out of almost anybody.)
Anyway, when I arrived at the ramp there were only three boats entered, mine made four. We fished anyway. The lake is down for the winter, and isn't very big anyway, so the fishing was a little crowded. There was just enough bank for the four of us. I finished second but didn't get a check. They only paid for first place.
The guy that runs it does one every Sunday from when the ice melts in the spring until it covers over in the winter. I suppose some years they fish all the way through December and maybe into January.
The thing that struck me about it was the way our sport is adapted by anglers to meet their needs and wishes. This is a small event by any standard. And yet, the guys out there fishing were having the time of their life.
It reminded me that we don't all have to fish in the big-time to be successful. If you measure success by having fun and doing what you want to do these guys were some of the most successful men on the planet. That's a real tribute to our sport.
The fruit jar circuits matter. They might not get the press that some other trails get but they form a base for competitive bass fishing. Without that base the Elite Series would mean nothing. In truth, it probably wouldn't exist at all.
I've mentioned this before but it's worth repeating: Fishing for most anglers is about having a hobby, good natured competition and spending time with family and friends. That's every bit as important as what we do at the top professional level. If we forget that we'll pay a heavy price someday.
That's enough preaching for now. I need to finish my work at Signcom so I can help Tracey put together Thanksgiving. I'm not sure what we're going to do but I am sure I'll have some responsibility for doing something to help make it happen.
Friday morning I'll leave early for the Thanksgiving tournament on Lake Cumberland. After that I might do the right thing and go back to Columbus, or I might go the other way and slip over to Dale Hollow and see if I can catch one of those giant Obey River smallies. I'll let you know next week which side won.


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Tom Ellis's Official, and Old Web Page can be found at
Cybermind was founded by Alan Sondheim and Michael Current in mid 1994 to explore, exemplify and discuss the sociology and psychology of cyberspace. The discussion has resulted in books, articles, conferences and community. It has easily been one of the most successful Internet groupings that I am aware of.
However, it is true to say that at any one time people may find the amount of off-topic conversation somewhat overwhelming, but my advice is to persist and to bring up relevant topics that you are interested in and see what happens. If you get no response, just bring them up again somewhat later - eventually you are bound to get some useful ideas back.
If you want to explore the group further, then there are extensive, though occasionally incomplete archives .
You could also view the information on how to join, which includes the official manifesto of the list and some loose expectations about behaviour.
There is also a list of some members web sites which I hope will continue to expand.
There is also a bibliography of articles written by people who are, or have been, members of Cybermind, or which are about Cybermind.
The list has also written The Great Cybermind Novel. This could be described as cyberpunk-fantasy-new age-airport-trash meets the Cthulhu mythos and Internet theory.
The book is purchasable from Lulu.com, and can also be read on that website.
this is a list of the papers I have written based on this research
There are also files of some of the emails I have written to Cybermind and some other lists.
I have recently finished a project which explored the use of gender on the Internet, and particularly on this List. Most of the project papers can be found off the papers page


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Excited about the imminent return of AMC's Mad Men, which begins its final season this Sunday, April 13, but concerned that the show is so white that it threatens to disappear on snowy days? The Leroy & Clarkson ad agency has got you covered, baby, with "Don-O-Mite," a clever Grindhouse-style fake trailer that reimagines the acclaimed cable drama as a 1970s blaxploitation film. The clip comes complete with African-American counterparts for many of the show's main characters, including Don Draper (the titular Don-O-Mite), a wrongly convicted man whose mission is to "save the worst agency on Madison Avenue or go back to the joint!" During the four-minute trailer, viewers also encounter other employees from the firm of "Jackson, Johnson, Washington, and White," like Black Peggy ("She's got the brains and the money to make that money!") and Slim Sterling ("the silver-tongued cat at the top of the stack.") With its loving recreations of the split-screen editing, funky "wocka-chicka" music, gratuitous violence, and the slangy voiceover narration so common in real 1970s blaxploitation trailers, "Don-O-Mite" is worth viewing even for those who aren't Mad Men experts. And, perhaps not coincidentally, the trailer harks back to the groundbreaking advertising satire Putney Swope (1969), directed by Robert Downey, Sr. You know, Iron Man's dad. [via Laughing Squid]
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As we get ever closer to sectionals, it seems like all the players in the area have raised their game. There were plenty of impressive performances last week.
While Ardsley's Fallon Sheridan's streak of league hat tricks came to close, she still managed seven points (five goals, two assists) in two games. Olivia Szeker-Cortes posted a goal and an assist in Clarkstown South's wins against Albertus Magnus and Suffern. Tuckahoe's Jessica Letizia averaged four points in two wins for the Tigers.
Still, one seems to always rise above the rest.
Samantha Mueller, Hackley—
Although the top Section 1 teams seem to get a lot of the attention, three local private schools are currently undefeated more than halfway through their seasons. Rye Country Day (9-0-1), Holy Child (7-0-4) and Hackley (6-0-3) all have yet to lose a game.
While its been the Wildcats' offense that has excelled, averaging 2.9 goals a game, the defense has been the difference maker for the Hornets.
Hackley has posted five shut outs this season and allowed more than one goal only once this season.
One of the focal point of the Hornets' suffocating defense has been goalie Samantha Mueller. Mueller has made double-digit saves three times this season.
Last week proved to be another efficient one for the keeper. Mueller averaged seven saves while posting two shut outs in wins against Poly Prep and Dalton School.
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Jenna DeSilva, Panas
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Briana Jean-Charles, Clarsktown South
September 22—
Monica DiDonato, Eastchester
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Coke bottler flies Citation Excel
CLT-based Coca-Cola flight dept provides company air travel and civic good will.
Av Dir Mark Chaney has a background in business management and maintenance.
A stable employment history is also preferred. Ron Griffin serves as the department's training and standards captain. He joined CCBCC in 2001 after flying for the Olan Mills flight department for 28 years. Griffin schedules pilot training activities and maintains the records. CCBCC pilots attend FSI every 9 months for Excel recurrent training.
In addition, they receive international ops training annually, including RVSM procedures, and train in a wide range of work-related subjects including dealing with blood-borne pathogens, CPR and defibrillator application, driving company vehicles, and US Customs & Border Protection's latest directives on international garbage disposal.
Daniel Johnson is the safety captain. He joined CCBCC 8 1/2 years ago, just before the Sep 11 terrorist attacks. He had previously been a Boeing 727 captain for Express 1, a DFW-based freight carrier.
Johnson sees his job as trying to find creative ways to focus on safety that can expand beyond the department's organized safety management system (SMS). He says he likes to discuss safety issues with colleagues in an environment that encourages healthy dialog in order to explore all sides of an issue.
High-tech tools
Building on its SMS and a culture of continuous improvement, the department also employs a number of high-tech tools to reduce workload and improve safety and efficiency. It uses the JeppView electronic database and maintains a paper subscription of Jepp charts for the US and Latin America.
Trip kits are ordered for destinations further afield, which are less common. The pilots also carry Fujitso electronic flight bags. An American Aeronautics iFly electronic weight-and-balance system has aircraft-specific data for CCBCC's Excel, and is used to calculate accurate weight-and-balance data using actual passenger weights for every trip.
The Excel's interior layout is somewhat unusual, with no APU and the 4-seat club located further aft than in most Cessna 560XLs. This configuration makes the aircraft slightly prone to being loaded outside the forward limits of the cg envelope, but using iFly ensures that this won't actually occur.
The department uses Jeppesen for international flight planning and handling services. A recent international trip to visit the facilities of the Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company provided a vivid demonstration of the advantages of corporate aviation.
The Excel was flown to Europe to pick up CCBCC executives at ZRH (Zürich, Switzerland) and, over a 6-day period, flew them to business meetings in BEG, VIE (Vienna, Austria) CIA (Ciampino, Rome, Italy), ATH (Spata, Athens, Greece) and BBU (Baneasa, Bucharest, Romania).
As CCBCC's maintenance director, some days find Chaney in the hangar turning a wrench to lend a hand—however, most hands-on maintenance is performed by Senior Maintenance Technician Dan Canfield.
Chief Pilot Mike Garrett (L) and Standards Capt Ron Griffin each have more than 10,000 flight hours.
Canfield joined CCBCC in 1989 when his somewhat unusual résumé proved a match for the company's out-of-the-ordinary requirement—they wanted a mechanic with experience on both JetStars and Jetstreams. After obtaining his A&P at Piedmont Bible College in 1982, Canfield began working for Sunbird Airlines and Mountain Air Cargo, where he maintained Jetstreams and other types.
Then, in 1987, he began working for recording artist Kenny Rogers, who had both a JetStar and a BAC 1-11. So in 1989, when CCBCC was looking for a mechanic, Canfield was a perfect match. Before the 2006 cutbacks, the department did all its own maintenance except for engine changes and 72-month checks on the GIII. In 18 years of operation, the S76 was sent out for maintenance just once.
With a reduced staff, the department now handles routine maintenance in-house, but larger jobs are normally sent to the Cessna Citation Service Center at GSO (Greensboro NC). The Excel is maintained on Cessna's Pro Parts program using CAMPS, Cessna's computer assisted maintenance program, and the CessCom online system.
Canfield says Cessna's mobile maintenance service has also been valuable, providing support assistance that allowed him to perform a windshield change in-house that would otherwise have had to be done at a service center. CCBCC's maintenance training is done annually through FSI.
Flights to help others
The company's purpose statement, "To honor God in all we do," provides a strong moral code and translates into flight activity to support charitable causes. When Haiti was shattered by an earthquake in January, Chaney knew his company and his department needed to be a part of the relief effort.
He contacted NBAA and Corporate Aviation Responding in Emergencies (CARE), the lead civilian organization coordinating Haitian relief efforts, and had CCBCC's airplane put on a list of corporate aircraft available for missions to Haiti. In the following weeks, CCBCC's Excel made 4 round-trip flights from FXE (Exec, Fort Lauderdale FL) to PAP (Port-au-Prince, Haiti).
Senior Maint Tech Dan Canfield has been with the department for 22 years.
On one trip they carried a girl who had lost both legs and been trapped for 6 days in the rubble of her collapsed home. Traveling with her mother, she was able to get life-saving surgery in the US. Relief missions to Haiti are not the only charitable flights made by the CCBCC flight department.
The department's Excel carries athletes in the Citation Air Lift to the Special Olympics, and in the past has transported children for the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Catch-a-Dream's Special Youth Challenge Hunt at Legend's Ranch in Bitely MI. Not every charitable effort involves the aircraft.
Last fall, members of the flight department pitched in to help Jackson Park Ministries in Charlotte build a handicapped ramp for its building. "The company's policy," Chaney says, "is that if you have a project that helps the community, we will give you time off and pay you to do it." The CCBCC flight department reports to Vice Chairman Henry "Hank" Flint. Chaney says high-level reporting is important in maintaining the department's credibility with senior management.
Chaney continues, "[Flint] tells me, 'You seem to be doing everything right, but your job is to figure out how to do it better.' That sets the tone for an environment of continuous improvement. For any flight department, that's a very good goal."
Mike Potts is an aviation consultant and freelance writer. He worked in corporate communications for Beech and Raytheon Aircraft between 1979 and 1997.
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Filmography happens every 3rd Friday at 8 PM on Film Row at 21c Museum Hotel. FREE and open to the public, this is one to put on your calendar every month!
Beauty is Embarrassing
Part biography, part live performance, BEAUTY IS EMBARRASSING tells the irreverent and inspiring story of the one-of-a-kind visual artist and raconteur, Wayne White. The film traces White's career from an underground cartoonist in New York's East Village to his big break as a designer, puppeteer and voice-over actor on Pee-wee's Playhouse for which he won three Emmy's. It follows Wayne's success designing and animating for other children's shows like Beakman's World and music videos for The Smashing Pumpkins ("Tonight, Tonight") and Peter Gabriel ("Big Time") through a dark period of struggle and self-reflection before emerging in his present-day incarnation as a respected painter and performer. The film, like White, embraces the ragged edges and messy contradictions of life, art, and family with rabid humor and honesty. Winner of the 2012 Best Documentary Feature at deadCenter Film Festival.
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The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that the Australian Federal Government is aiming to raise approximately AUD2 billion (USD1.83 billion) from the sale of spectrum freed up following the switch-off of analogue television signals.
The government has announced that after the switch-off has been completed, which is expected to occur by end-2013, it will make available around 126MHz of spectrum. While existing mobile network operators such as Telstra, Optus and Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) are all expected to make a play for the extra frequencies, analysts have suggested other companies including Google and Woolworths have been mentioned as possible contenders for the spectrum. It has been claimed however that each of the cellcos will require approximately 40MHz each in order to provide 4G services, potentially leaving little for other companies.Telstra meanwhile may face an uphill battle to take part in any auction that the government does hold, with the incumbent still facing possible restrictions on the allocation of any new spectrum in the absence of an agreement between it and the state over structural separation.
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Earlier on Sunday, Brooks Laich said he was nearing a return from the groin injury that has sidelined him this entire shortened season. It's possible that the Capitals could also regain the services of Mike Green on their upcoming four-game road trip.
Coach Adam Oates said Green, who has missed the past nine games and 11 of the last 13 with a groin injury, will travel with the Capitals and he's hopeful the No. 1 defenseman will be able to play.
"We need to get where we feel that he can go in and not play three games," Oates said. "We need him to play."
Oates said the team hasn't decided whether Tomas Kundratek, who suffered an apparent right leg/knee injury March 14 at Carolina, will make the trip as well but he believed it was an positive sign that the 23-year-old skated briefly Sunday morning.
"Encouraged that he could skate," Oates said. "He's had that injury before so I'm sure that he was a little nervous. Skating today obviously helps a little bit so we'll see how it goes."
Meanwhile, there remains no timeline for John Erskine's return. Erskine suffered an apparent injury to his left hand/wrist on March 9 at the Islanders and hasn't taken part in a skate with the team in a week. Oates said Erskine "hasn't healed enough to skate".
Faceoff: 7 p.m. Verizon Center | TV: CSN /NBC Sports Network | Radio: 106.7
Discuss the game in the comment section below and based on warmups here's what the lineup should look like:
Goal: Holtby, Neuvirth.
Scratches: Tomas Kundratek (right leg/knee), Aaron Volpatti and Wojtek Wolski.
IR: John Erskine (left hand/wrist), Mike Green (groin) and Brooks Laich (groin, non-roster).


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