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LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) -- Desmond Rice rushed for 97 yards and three touchdowns to help Liberty dominate Morgan State 38-10 Saturday night.
Liberty QB Josh Woodrum was 9 of 15 for 101 yards and one interception. But it was the running game that gave the Flames (2-1) the winning advantage with 330 total yards rushing. Rice was joined in the backfield by Clifton Richardson who had 86 yards and two touchdowns on 14 carries.
The Flames were up 28-3 at halftime and never looked back, adding to their lead in the second half with a Rice rushing touchdown and a John Lunsford field goal.
Morgan State's (0-3) passing game was almost non-existent. Moses Skillon held to just 3 completions and 28 yards. Skillon rushed for 90 yards. Freshman running back Herb Walker, Jr. scored the Bears lone touchdown in the fourth quarter after a 14-play, 75-yard drive.
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LYNCHBURG, Va. - Liberty rushed for a season-best five touchdowns and 330 yards en route to a 38-10 victory over Morgan State, Saturday night, at Williams Stadium, capping off Hall of Fame weekend on Liberty Mountain.
Liberty, now 2-1 on the year, won its second-straight home game and opens a home schedule with a pair of wins for the first time since 2010. Morgan State falls to 0-3 on the year.
Liberty's defense was quickly able to get the ball in the hands of its offense, forcing the Bears into a three-and-out series on the game's opening drive.
Six plays later, Liberty jumped out to quick 7-0 lead at the 9:41 mark on a 14-yard touchdown run by Desmond Rice to the far side of the field. The junior's fourth career rushing touchdown capped off a six-play, 66-yard scoring push by the home team.
The drive marked the third time the Flames have scored the first time they have touched the football in a game under head coach Turner Gill. The six-play drive was spotlighted by completions from Josh Woodrum to Dante Shells (11 yards) and Brandon Apon (23 yards).
Liberty's run game continued to manifest itself the next time the Flames had possession of the football, this time with Clifton Richardson carrying the rushing load.
The Virginia transfer was called upon six times during the 10-play, 71-yard scoring drive to carry the ball. On the sixth and final time, Richardson followed a similar play pattern as Rice, scoring from seven yards out on the far side of the field to extend Liberty's lead to 14-0 with 1:06 left to play in the first quarter.
Morgan State followed the Flames' offensive success on the next drive, keeping the ball on the ground seven times on the 10-play, 53-yard scoring drive that finished with a Chris Moller 35-yard field.
Quarterback Moses Skillon picked up 38 of the team's 53 yards on the drive, calling his own number twice, including a 30-yard gain to get into Liberty territory. Eight plays later, Moller's 35-yard kick trimmed Liberty's lead to 11, 14-3, with 12:06 left to play until halftime.
Liberty looked like it might have to answer with its own three-point score, as Morgan State had the Flames in a third-and-18 situation on the Bears' 26-yard line. However, Woodrum was able to scramble and pick up 16 yards, his longest career carry, to get the 10-yard line.
Gill kept his offense on the field for the fourth down play and Liberty's offensive line was able to open a hole on the left side of the field for Rice to score from 10 yards out and push Liberty's lead to 21-3 with 6:24 left in the first half. Rice's second score of the game capped off an 11-play, 96-yard drive for the Flames.
Following the Bears' second three-and-out series of the first half, Liberty's passing attack set up the Flames' final scoring drive of the opening 30 minutes of play.
Liberty continued to keep the ball on the ground until Woodrum found Gabe Henderson open over the middle of the field to get into the red zone on a 28-yard passing play.
On the next play, Richardson took the pitch left and was just able to get the nose of the football over the pylon to score from three yards out and give Liberty a 28-3 edge heading into the locker room at halftime.
The Flames dominated the first half stat sheet, outgaining the Bears, 287 yards to 87. Liberty finished the first half with 35 offensive plays and 24 times offensive coordinator Aaron Stamn called for Liberty to keep it on the ground, resulting in 193 rushing yards.
Morgan State's 87 team yards were came mostly on the ground, as well, as the Bears finished with 84 rushing yards.
Rice and Richardson led Liberty's ground attack with Rice finishing the first half with six carries for 66 yards, while Richardson rushed 11 times for 64 yards. Both running backs found the end zone twice.
Skillon was Morgan State's top offensive weapon during the first half, carrying the ball eight times for 67 yards. He completed 1-of-6 passing attempts for three yards, while Woodrum was 7-of-11 for 94 yards.
During halftime, Liberty honored the five members of its 2013 Hall of Fame class, who were officially inducted at a banquet last night. Liberty Athletics Hall of Fame class included Anthonia (Akpama) Oyedele (volleyball), Bailey Alston (men's basketball), Brenda Bonheim (volleyball and women's basketball coach/SWA), Nancy (Davis) White (women's soccer) and Robby Justino (football).
The Flames punctuated their potent rushing attack after taking advantage of a Morgan State special teams miscue.
Liberty's Grant Bowden's punt from his own three-yard line was touched by Morgan State's Andrew King and recovered by D.J. Abnar.
Five plays later, Rice capped off his career night when the junior took a handoff from Woodrum and found the end zone from 20 yards out, pushing Liberty's lead to 35-3 with 6:02 left to play in the third quarter.
Both teams managed to dent the scoreboard one last time during the remainder of the game, piecing together lengthy scoring efforts.
Lunsford capped off Liberty 38-point scoring night when the sophomore lifted a 40-yard field goal through the uprights at 7:20 left to play in the third quarter to finish off a 13-play, 64-yard drive.
The final points of the night were scored when Herb Walker crossed the goal line on a four-yard run with 7:44 left to play in the ball game. The 14-play, 75-yard drive, which took 7:44 off the game clock, marking the first rushing touchdown the Flames had allowed since the fourth quarter of its matchup with Stony Brook on Nov. 10, 2012.
The Flames nearly tripled Morgan State's offensive numbers, finished the game with 431 total offensive yards to the Bears 171 offensive yards.
Liberty has its second-most successful rushing effort under Gill, rushing for 330 yards and five touchdowns.
Both Rice and Richardson had career nights, with Rice leading the way with 97 rushing yards on nine carries. He doubled his career rushing touchdown total with three scoring runs. Richardson followed with 14 carries for 86 yards and two rushing touchdowns.
Woodrum finished the night 9-of-15 for 101 yards and failed to throw a touchdown pass for just the second time as the Flames starting quarterback. Henderson led the Flames with two receptions for 34 yards.
Skillon accounted for 118 of Morgan State's 171 total offensive yards. He completed 3-of-12 passing attempts for 28 yards and carried the ball 16 times for 90 yards. Walker added 10 carries for 34 yards and the fourth quarter rushing touchdown.
Liberty's defensive effort was evenly spread out among 29 different players who finished with tackles on the night. Three players led the team with four tackles each (defensive back Jacob Hagen, linebacker Andrew Jauch and defensive lineman Jibrille Fewell).
Morgan State middle linebacker Cody Acker led all defenders on the night, finishing the game with 12 tackles (nine solo, three assisted). Free safety Darien Irby followed with six stops (four solo, two assisted).
The Flames hit the road for the second time this year when the travel to the Commonwealth's capital for their first-ever matchup with Richmond next Saturday.
The Spiders, ranked No. 15 by the Sports Network and No. 11 in the FCS Coaches polls this week, are coming off a 12-10 road loss at Big South foe Gardner-Webb earlier today.
Kickoff at Robbins Stadium is 6 p.m. and the game will be carried live on the Liberty Flames Sports Network (TV) and ESPN3.


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Bergstrom Wines is one of the Willamette Valley's biggest names, and their Shea Vineyard release is consistently one of their best wines (average Parker score over last 5 vintages is 93.6pts). This wine perfectly exemplifies Bergstrom's style of rich, yet balanced and elegant Pinot Noir. Cherries, dark fruits, spice, oak, and toasted herbs are packed inside this dense, yet somehow graceful pinot.
This delicious wine is also the closer at the upcoming Bergstrom Wine Dinner at Murphy's Restaurant where you can meet the winemaker...
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Featuring Winemaker Josh Bergstrom and 5 Bergstrom wines paired with 5 incredible courses from Chef Ian Winslade.
Get a chance to taste Bergstrom wines with their winemaker! Try the not-often seen Sigrid Chardonnay with an Asian-inspired scallop dish, and the Cumberland Reserve Pinot with a Foie Gras Brulée. There will also be single-vineyard Pinot Noirs served with Lamb and Spinalis steak courses. It's going to be a great dinner!
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Hyde Fundraisers' display and Virtual Photo Studio proved a great success at the Cambridge Science Festival raising over £4000 for their nominated charities. Colin Baker was on hand to sign photos and meet the crowds whilst Galaxy Four was pleased to attend with a great selection of Doctor Who goodies. A great day was had by all. Well done to Hyde Fundraisers for giving so freely of their time for such worthy causes.


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Hantavirus Transmission in Households in Chile
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|Hantavirus Infections
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case-Only
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Prospective Follow Up of Household Contacts and Hantavirus Transmission Study Among Index and Additional Cases in Chile
- Estimate the secondary attack rate among close household contacts of index cases with hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome in Chile [ Time Frame: 35 days ]
- Determine the quantity of hantavirus in bodily fluids in persons with hantavirus infection [ Time Frame: 35 days ]
|Study Start Date:
|July 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|February 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS) has a case fatality rate of 40-50 percent. Andes virus (ANDV) is the primary pathogen in Chile and Argentina. This is a prospective observational study to access the incidence of and risk factors associated with transmission of HCPS to close household contacts from HCPS index cases including examination of the shedding of virus in various body fluids as a factor in transmissibility. The study will enroll 76 cardiopulmonary syndrome HCPS index cases and 140 of their close household contacts, age 2 and older, at risk for contracting HCPS.
The index cases will participate for the initial visit; the household contact participants will be followed for 35 days. The primary objectives of this study are: to estimate the secondary attack rate of hantavirus infection among close household contacts of an HCPS case after one incubation period of follow up; to use personal interviews and questionnaires to assess and compare risk activities and demographic factors in close household contacts who develop HCPS with those contacts who do not identify specific high-risk activities such as exposure to saliva or respiratory secretions; to use personal interviews and questionnaires to assess and compare risk activities and demographic factors in index cases (the first case in the household) versus household contacts who do not develop HCPS; and to determine the prevalence of hantavirus in various body fluids in index patients with HCPS and in household contacts who acquire infection and consequently determine any association of presence of virus in a body fluid with phase of infection.
Both infectious virus (culture) and viral genomic RNA (quantitative RT-PCR) will be measured. The secondary objectives of this study will be: to determine the quantity of hantavirus in various body fluids in index patients with HCPS and in household contacts that acquire infection and consequently determine any association of presence of virus in a body fluid with phase of infection. Both infectious virus (culture) and viral genomic RNA (quantitative RT-PCR) will be measured; to develop a predictive statistical model where the epidemiological and the virological variables (cultures, ANDV antibodies, PCR, neutralizing antibodies, HSV 1 and 2 antibodies) could be scored and used to predict a new case within a household group; to determine the feasibility of rapid viral diagnostic testing to determine whether virologic results can be obtained sufficiently in advance of the onset of illness to permit more effective triage of patients who are indeed about to develop HCPS; and to determine the sequences of ANDV from index and additional cases to establish the extent of sequence identity from viruses within and outside of family clusters.
The primary endpoints of this study are: to determine the incidence of additional cases of hantavirus (ANDV) among close household contacts of a confirmed index case during a complete incubation period of follow up; evaluate risk activities and demographic factors associated with increased risk of transmission of ANDV between index cases and members of households and their respective index cases; measure risk activities and demographic factors associated with increased risk of acquisition of ANDV from environmental sources by comparing index cases with household contacts that do and do not develop HCPS; and determine the presence of virus and measure of viral RNA in body fluids over time in index cases and in additional cases in household contacts.
The secondary endpoints will be: to determine the most sensitive culture approach for detection of ANDV in body fluids at different stages of infection; identify the best model to predict the occurrence of an additional case within a family group; evaluate nucleotide similarity as ancillary marker to enrich or de-enrich the probability of person to person transmission of AND virus. The duration of this study is expected to be 3 years.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|2 Years and older (Child, Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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|Sampling Method:
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Index Cases:
- Confirmed diagnosis, positive hantavirus IgM assay or detection of hantavirus in plasma or serum by RT-PCR.
- Signed informed consent form.
- Less than 96 hours have transpired since the diagnosis was confirmed.
Household Contact
- Any person, 2 years of age or older, who has been in close contact with the index case at any point from 30 days before to 7 days after the onset of symptoms in the index case.
- Close contact must include: sexual contact and/or deep kissing and/or slept in same bed and/or provided direct care to index case.
Exclusion Criteria:
Index Cases
- Index case does not have or agree to give the names of his/her close contacts.
- Not a suitable candidate in the opinion of the investigator.
Household Contact
- Confirmed current or previous infection with Andes virus.
- Younger than 2 years of age.
- Unavailable for follow up or not a suitable candidate in the opinion of the investigator.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00533767
|Universidad Catolica de Chile
|Santiago, Chile
|Principal Investigator:
|Gregory Mertz, MD
|University of New Mexico
|Responsible Party:
|University of New Mexico
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00533767 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|September 20, 2007
|Last Updated:
|December 5, 2014
Keywords provided by University of New Mexico:
Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome, Andes virus, Chile
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
Hantavirus Infections
Bunyaviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Respiratory Insufficiency
Respiration Disorders
Respiratory Tract Diseases
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This is basically just bookkeeping as the Pacers have announced they have signed their first-round pick (#26 overall), center Miles Plumlee of Duke.
We dont technically know the terms, but all first-round picks get the first two years of guaranteed salary with team options for years three and four. And the amount of the annual salary is defined by a predetermined rookie scale that hands out cash based upon where you were picked. Last years #26 pick, Jordan Hamilton of the Denver Nuggets, made $1.1 million his rookie season and will get another $1.1 million guaranteed in year two.
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A PILOT scheme which will see charity workers give crime victims legal guidance and emotional support inside a police station for the first time was launched by Gwent police yesterday.
Pontypool Police Station will offer victims of crime the chance to speak to representatives from the Victim Support charity at drop-in surgeries every Thursday between noon and 2pm.
Award-winning Victim Support volunteer Warren Lewis, 67, will give counselling and advice to people who have been at the receiving end of crime.
Mr Lewis received the Victim Support volunteer of the year award from Princess Anne in 2009.
He said: "I have dealt with everything from ASBOs to murder.
He added: "The project breaks down barriers between the police and the community."
Pontypool Police station, off Glantorvaen Road, was one of several police bases Gwent Police and Crime Commissioner Ian Johnston reopened last month.
His deputy Paul Harris said yesterday: "We want police stations to be at the centre of the communities they're in."
Protecting people from serious harm is one of the key priorities outlined in Ian Johnston's police and crime plan for Gwent.
Mr Johnston added: "I want to ensure a victim-centred focus to the services being delivered by Gwent Police and our other partners."
The effectiveness of the surgeries will be evaluated this year and, dependant on their success, could be rolled out to other Gwent police stations.


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Solano County's biggest conservation group is cheering a bipartisan push to continue a tax deduction for landowners who chose not to develop their property.
The current federal tax incentive for preserving farmlands and open spaces is set to expire at year's end, creating uncertainty for ranchers considering establishing a conservation easement.
"This tax incentive will help landowners permanently conserve farmland, wildlife habitat and open space in Solano County," said Nicole Byrd, executive director of the Solano Land Trust, which holds more than
8,400 acres in conservation
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, announced Tuesday he's teamed up with Pennsylvania Republican Jim Gerlach to co-author the Conservation Easement Incentive Act of 2013.
"Conservation easements work," Thompson said. "By making this important conservation tool permanent, our bill will give landowners the certainty they need to preserve and protect even more land and natural resources for future generations."
The legislation would raise the maximum tax deduction for landowners who donate their property's development rights from 30 percent to 50 percent of adjusted gross income. It would also allow qualified ranchers to deduct up to 100 percent of their adjusted gross income and increase the number of years over which a donor can take the deduction from 5 to 15 years.
The bill, which has broad bipartisan support, has been endorsed by the Land Trust Alliance, Ducks Unlimited, National Wildlife Foundation, National Cattleman's Beef Association, American Forest Foundation, Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation and more than 50 other groups.
It will be referred to the House Ways and Means Committee, on which Thompson and Gerlach serve, for further consideration.
Contact staff writer Tony Burchyns at tburchyns@timesherald
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Then the Blessed One, having encompassed the awareness of the entire assembly with his awareness, asked himself, "Now who here is capable of understanding the Dhamma?" He saw Suppabuddha the leper sitting in the assembly, and on seeing him the thought occurred to him, "This person here is capable of understanding the Dhamma." So, aiming at Suppabuddha the leper, he gave a step-by-step talk, i.e., he proclaimed a talk on generosity, on virtue, on heaven; he declared the drawbacks, degradation, & corruption of sensuality, and the rewards of renunciation. Then when the Blessed One knew that Suppabuddha the leper's mind was ready, malleable, free from hindrances, elevated, & clear, he then gave the Dhamma-talk peculiar to Awakened Ones, i.e., stress, origination, cessation, & path. And just as a clean cloth, free of stains, would properly absorb a dye, in the same way, as Suppabuddha the leper was sitting in that very seat, the dustless, stainless Dhamma eye arose within him, "Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation."
How does one attain a mind that is "ready, malleable, free from hindrances, elevated, & clear"?


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This game was classified by the community with the following category scores - Violence=1/3, Sex=0/3, Mature Content=0/3. An awesome multiplayer shooter, featuring 4-player deathmatch and randomly-generated fully-destructible terrain! It's great fun, you have to try it! Avoid the black holes, collect the crazy powerups and drive your friends INSANE! (friends sold separately.) You'll keep coming back for more insanity!
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A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution, 1891-1924
Book review by by Edna Boardman, Bismarck, North Dakota
Figes, Orlando. A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution, 1891-1924. New York: Penguin Books, 1996.
This is a whopper of a book--824 pages of text, several inserts of black and white photographs, plus almost 100 pages of notes, bibliography, and index, but it is well worth the work of wading through it. It is the story of the 1905 and 1917 revolutions that shook Russia to its core. It begins with the reign of Nicholas II, the czar who, with his family, was murdered in a farmhouse basement and ends at the time that Joseph Stalin became the communist dictator.
This book has the expected military campaigns of World War I and the Civil War, fought in part simultaneously. But Figes sees very clearly that Russia, in addition to experiencing a change of government, also endured a social/cultural revolution of mythic proportions. He tells about what was going on with Lenin, Trotsky, Gorky, and a huge number of others in St. Petersburg and Moscow. The revolutionaries hated the czars and their determinedly autocratic government even while they emulated them in many ways, and sought to implement high-sounding but untried socialist ideas.
Figes comments that, during the revolution's formative period under the czars, censorship was so tight that only ideas here and there filtered in from the west (like Karl Marx's Das Capital). The result was that the intelligentsia, who mulled revolution for years, were not exposed to the ferment and discussion which softened rigid opinion in the west. They'd grab onto something and embrace it as if it were the absolute truth. They rarely saw many sides of an issue and it never occurred to them that something that sounded marvelous in theory might not work in practice. The result was that they moved the country from one hard-line system to another.
The author also considers the people in the countryside and what their experiences were, and this is what makes it an excellent choice for German Russian readers. He takes the reader into the Russian peasant villages for a look around. The peasants, many of them serfs freed only in 1861, had for centuries been terribly abused and, yes, exploited by the wealthy classes. They weren't too unhappy when Lenin proclaimed "loot the looters," and gave them license to kill, destroy, and take whatever they wanted from their neighbors. Though there was not a sharp division of classes within the villages (communist theory notwithstanding), they took glee in destroying the nobility and kulaks, those they saw as wealthy and privileged, for the sheer pleasure of bringing them down to their level. They did this whether or not they received any benefit from it. The soldiers in the armies, most of them also peasants, misinterpreted the idea of liberty and pillaged both their officer corps and the villages through which they passed. Poorly trained, led and equipped, they died by the thousands in the battles and of disease.
Figes humanizes the movements covered by the book by focusing in a storytelling fashion on a number of real individuals--revolutionaries, a writer, workers, a man of the gentry who adjusted to the new realities, and several peasants who broke the mold (and some who didn't).
This was a terrible time to be alive in Russia; some ten million persons died across the revolutionary period, and there was great suffering. Lenin's Cheka, the secret police, ran rampant, torturing and killing those they saw as counterrevolutionaries. Prisons overflowed. Again and again, villages were attacked. Jews, pegged as scapegoats for shortages and things that went wrong, were the victims of pogroms that involved horrible suffering. Peasants, forced to give up produce without pay, struck back in the way they had always dealt with their oppressors. They dragged their feet, reduced production to subsistence levels, kept to their old beliefs and superstitions, and held to their conviction that the land belonged to the people who labored on it. Lenin and his co-rulers didn't understand them and applied the blunt tool of force to try to get them to do what they wanted.
Somehow, simultaneously, elementary schools were established in the villages and more people than ever learned to read and to raise their expectations. Soldiers (those who survived) returning from European campaigns had seen a better way of life and sought to abandon the land for jobs in the cities. People survived through primitive trading even when it was totally forbidden, as per communist theory.
An interesting element in the book is that Figes notes many points at which the worst aspects of the revolution could have been averted across the whole period. Several of the czars, including Nicholas II, could have instituted a constitutional monarchy, with a constituent assembly, as did countries in western Europe, and they could have relinquished power to the zemstvos, and soviets, the regional and local governing bodies that existed in the countryside. They could have moderated policies and treated their people with more respect. The Bolsheviks could have paid the peasants for their grain instead of requisitioning it, and they could have reined back their secret police. It was almost as if the leadership of the country under both systems had a death wish, time and time again choosing the most destructive options in defense of some abstract principle.
Figes often inserts a note indicating that other historians interpret events in ways other than his and gives his reasons for saying what he does. The pictures, black and white photographs, are excellent, taken during the events treated in the book. A weakness of the book is that Figes does not bring the Orthodox Church into very sharp focus. While he refers to it often, and it is clear that it was always around having a say, one feels that, somewhere in the background, it must have been a stronger player in what was going on.
So where do the German colonies fit into all this? The author frequently mentions non-Russian nationalities, not including Germans in the lists. Only once does Figes mention Germans specifically, and then he makes just an incidental reference to the people in the Volga colonies. The reader feels that he always knows that they were there, wanting to govern themselves, pressing to retain their culture and language, the target of attacks because they were relatively wealthy, and "sitting on" supplies of grain. It almost seems that he doesn¹t want to call attention to colonial Germans because readers might not readily differentiate between them and the Germans attacking during World War II. The reader with some background in the history of the Germans in Russia will readily know where and when they were affected by what was going on.
So, get this book from your library, put a bigger bulb in your light fixture, grab a couple of sofa pillows to brace it up on your lap, and get some cooling gel to treat the strain in your shoulders (we're talking commitment). But do not be put off by its size and length because, at the end, you will have an excellent feeling for the "buzz" behind some significant experiences of the Germans in Russia; you¹ll understand many things better.


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The wild weather is not over yet, as the Met Office warns of gales and downpours , combined with huge surf on Wednesday, and even bigger waves on Saturday.
The "largest waves" ever headlines refer to the size of Wednesday's expected swell, which is forecast to be 28feet at 18 seconds at Wednesday's high tide (8.10am). The wind will be a roaring 40+ mph from the S/SW.
Tides will be high, within the spring tide range, but not as high as recent days, which may be the bar's saviour.
While huge, these are not the biggest waves ever to have hit Cornwall, rather this is set to be the biggest nearshore swell size anywhere in the world on that date.
The thunderous waves are set to return on Saturday, with the forecast for and even bigger inshore swell of 29.5 feet at 19 seconds.
In terms of weather, another spell of wet and windy weather is set to cross the county from the west today, with outbreaks of heavy rain accompanied by strengthening southerly winds.
These combining with high tides mean the risk of coastal flooding in exposed locations remains.
The public should be aware of the risk of further disruption.
Heavy rain and very strong winds will move northwards across the UK from Tuesday evening onwards through much of Wednesday. This could bring widespread rainfall accumulations of 20-30 mm across many southern and some central parts, with an excess of 40 mm in some spots.
Accompanying this, very strong winds are likely with gusts of 60-70 mph likely, mainly along exposed coasts, and perhaps even 80 mph along some coastlines in the southwest.
The 'Yellow Warning' says: "The public should be aware of the risk of disruption from flooding given the rain falling onto saturated ground. Strong winds may cause some damage, with disruption due to fallen trees particularly likely. With large waves and high tides, there is a further risk of flooding in some coastal areas.
The foul weather is due to a low pressure system developing in the Western Atlantic on Monday, deepening rapidly before moving northeast across the UK late on Tuesday through Wednesday.
Another 20 mm of rain, perhaps with 30 mm or more locally in Cornwall, is likely, much of it within 3 hours or so. Whilst totals will be less (5-10 mm) further east, pre-existing saturation brings the risk of flooding here too.
Winds will also strengthen to give gusts of 50 to 60 mph around exposed coasts and headlands. Gales coupled with high tides brings the risk of waves overtopping coastlines.
Impacts are expected to be more severe on the South Coast compared to recent days. Overtopping of coastal defences is likely with high energy large waves and spray, combined with high spring tides and strong south to south easterly winds. Beaches, coastal promenades, roads and footpaths will be extremely dangerous.
Wind is forecast to be force 8 to 9, with a tidal surge of around 400 mm. The recent storms have caused damage at coastal locations. There may be an increased risk at Stonehouse, Plympton, Lamorna, Penzance, Porthleven, Mullion, Pentewan, Seaton and Kingsand. Coastal areas will be extremely dangerous, people are advised to avoid these areas.


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On Wednesday, April 24, 2013, at 1:00 P.M., the Committee on Small Business held a hearing titled, The Budget Outlook for the Small Business Administration. The hearing was held in Room 2360 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
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The owner is not supposed to be happy when his team gives up 51 points, especially at home.
Titans owner Bud Adams is not happy. In fact, he sounds livid. Everyone in the organization should consider themselves on the hot seat, after Adams' tirade to The Tennessean following the Titans' 51-20 loss to the Bears.
"In my 50 years of owning an NFL franchise, I am at a loss to recall a regular season home game that was such a disappointment for myself, and the fans of the Titans," Adams, 89, told The Tennessean. "We were grossly out-coached and out-played from start to finish today.
"At this time, all aspects of the organization will be closely evaluated, including front office, coaches, and players over the next seven games. If performance and competitiveness does not improve, I will look at all alternatives to get back to having the Titans become a playoff and championship football team."
With the Titans at 3-6, it won't be easy for coach Mike Munchak, general manager Ruston Webster, and team president Mike Reinfeldt to get the team pointed in a different direction. In most games, the Titans haven't been competitive. They have lost five games by at least 21 points. That's hard to do in today's parity-driven NFL.
Adams has made his unhappiness known. If the Titans don't respond, plenty of pink slips could be handed out in Tennessee once the season ends.


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I know that many people like to go camping because they enjoy roughing it. I'm not one of those people. I despise camping, but if I must rough it, I'm expecting some pretty delicious and comforting food. Grilled pineapple is sophisticated enough to make you feel like you're on a luxurious, relaxing vacation but simple enough to make in your campground. Accompanied by a sweet, honey syrup this pineapple is a wonderful, light finish to any meal. For the recipe,
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1/2 cup honey
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
1 tablespoon grated lime peel
1 large ripe pineapple
1/4 cup minced fresh mint
- Whisk first 3 ingredients in large glass baking dish.
- Peel pineapple; cut crosswise into 6 rounds. Remove core; discard. Add pineapple to dish; turn to coat.
- Cover with plastic wrap; let stand at room temperature at least 1 hour and up to 2 hours.
- Prepare barbecue (medium heat). Remove pineapple from marinade (reserve marinade). Grill until golden brown, about 3 minutes per side. Transfer to serving dish.
- Pour reserved marinade over. Sprinkle with mint. Serve warm or chilled.
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As nine separate fires burned across San Diego County on Thursday, firefighters from Long Beach to San Bernardino County streamed south to bolster the ranks of their colleagues on the front lines.
By day's end as many 300 firefighters from Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties responded to a request for mutual aid.
"Our ability to access these large numbers of resources ensures we're able to reduce structure damage and prevent loss of life," Cal Fire spokesman Nick Schuler said as more than 700 firefighters battled the Cocos Fire outside of San Marcos.
The first fire sprung up Tuesday morning in Rancho Bernardo, but by Thursday, others appeared circling the 15 and 5 freeways in Oceanside, Fallbrook, San Marcos, Carlsbad and Camp Pendleton. The fires prompted the evacuation of tens of thousands across the county.
Roughly 15 miles away from Cocos Fire, strike teams from San Bernardino County deployed Wednesday evening to keep flames from burning a community off Skimmer Court in Carlsbad, where at least one home was completely destroyed by the Poinsettia Fire.
Battalion Chief Mike Snow could see the exhaustion of the firefighters who fought all day yesterday and overnight.
"We were immediately deployed to a division off Poinsettia Lane," Snow said. "We put in about 2,000 feet of hose and mopped up the fire behind a structure on Skimmer Court."
Snow's crews cut through the fire to lay lines to help keep flames at bay through the evening, he said. The cool temperature overnight and weaker winds allowed firefighters to make a dent without injury.
By morning, acres of scorched earth surrounded Skimmer Court.
The San Bernardino County firefighters rested at the Carlsbad safety center Thursday afternoon after being relieved. As they ate lunch and sat in the shade, smoke from the Cocos Fire filled the horizon.
Snow said he and his men felt an itch to get back out, but they needed to wait. Cal Fire assumed unified command of the legions of firefighters from across the state by noon and recalled some strike teams to Escondido to plan for their next assault.
The Verdugo Unified Fire Authority — made up of personnel from several San Gabriel Valley agencies — provided reconnaissance at the Cocos Fire on Thursday but did not take on the fire directly.
Pasadena Battalion Chief Jon Trautwein led a mixed strike team of firefighters from departments like Alhambra, South Pasadena and Monrovia.
The group staged in San Marcos for much of the day but got called away as the unified command took over.
"It takes a while sometimes, it's a very large mobilization," Trautwein said while relocating to the new command in Escondido.
Southern California relies on mutual aid when wildfires break out, he said. Few agencies have the manpower to handle a fire of this scale on their own.
"For California, it is critical," he said. "Here, we're all helping, so there is enough resources to go around when there are so many fires."
Los Angeles County Fire Department spread six teams of five engines across three fires in San Diego, the Cocos, Poinsettia and Highway fires. About half of those numbers were made up of inmates who ran hose lines, according to Inspector Tony Akins. At the Coco Fire, Los Angeles County firefighters deployed early Thursday morning for a 24-hour shift protecting residential areas near Harmony Grove in the hills of San Marcos.
Both the Los Angeles Fire Department and the Long Beach Fire Department sent a strike team — which has five engines and usually one battalion chief — to the fires.
The mutual aid and the changes in weather helped San Diego County's firefighters get most of the nine blazes under control by midday, though the Cocos Fire still posed a significant danger, according to officials.
Rob Lane, San Diego County's Deputy Chief Administrative Officer, warned that while the team effort showed early success, the fire season in California has only just begun.
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Jenkins, Ortiz to start first two games against Rays
NEW YORK -- The Blue Jays have announced their starting pitchers for Monday and Tuesday's games against the Rays.
Right-hander Chad Jenkins will get the call on Monday and will be followed the next day by veteran hurler Ramon Ortiz. The decision previously had been on hold in case Toronto needed to use Jenkins out of the bullpen earlier in the week.
A pair of off-days on Monday and Thursday afforded Toronto the luxury of taking a wait-and-see approach while keeping Mark Buehrle and R.A. Dickey on normal rest. After Buehrle was able to pitch into the seventh inning on Friday night, there was no longer a need to keep Jenkins available out of the 'pen.
"We're good, we're fresh down there," manager John Gibbons said of his bullpen. "[Jenkins] was in case something happened to Buehrle really early or something."
Jenkins made his season debut on May 12 in Boston. He allowed just a pair of runs on seven hits while striking out two. The 25-year-old will still need to have his workload monitored after coming back from a right shoulder injury earlier this season.
Ortiz has been one of the surprise stories in the past couple of weeks after joining Toronto's starting staff. The 39-year-old has allowed just two runs on 10 hits in 12 innings for the Blue Jays after beginning the year with Triple-A Buffalo.
Gregor Chisholm is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, North of the Border, and follow him on Twitter @gregorMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Process Analyzers. Analyze This!
Fewer Analyzer Specialists Are Left Working at the Plant Floor, Could It Be Because Newer Anaylyzer Systems Come Available as Complete Packages?
Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner bring their wits and more than 66 years of process control experience to bear on your questions, comments, and problems. Write to them at email@example.com.
By Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner
Greg: What we ultimately want to know and control is the composition of a stream. The lack of analyzers to tell us this is the primary limitation to more advanced process control and optimization (See my blog post, "Top Ten Limitations – Analyzers"). I have connections with a strong ISA analysis division through my pH expertise. I recently interviewed Jim Tatera, the analyzer track chair. Jim retired from a long career as an analyzer specialist at a very large chemical company and is now the Senior Process Consultant at Tatera & Associates, Inc. Jim started out in analytical research labs and moved into online applications after developing an appreciation of the opportunities in production from discussions with operations and process support personnel. We are fortunate to have Jim and his colleagues help us appreciate the rich history and future of process analyzers over the next several months.
Stan: We had quite a strong group of analyzer specialists in the 1960s and 1970s in our large chemical intermediates plants with continuous processes for monomers and polymers. The batch processes had fewer analyzer applications. Newer agricultural batch processes with higher value-added products had slightly more analyzers than specialty chemical batch processes. Mature batch processes relied almost entirely on lab analysis.
Greg: I just talked to an analyzer specialist at a nylon plant I supported in Florida and found that there was only one analyzer specialist left. I asked why. The remaining specialist said the number of applications has stayed about the same, but they are adequately supported by four technicians. The peak in analyzer specialists in the 1970s was the result of the need to develop, design and build analyzer systems including circuit boards. Now these analyzers are available as complete packages from analyzer suppliers with integrated smart microprocessors. Were we a special case?
Jim: Most of the mature technology today for analyzers was developed at chemical plants and refineries by the 1970s. End users designed, constructed and assembled the components, enclosures, sample systems, circuits and interfaces. The analyzer technology was subsequently licensed to today's analyzer suppliers when the process industries in the 1980s decided oil, gas and chemical production, not analyzer manufacturing was their core competency. In some cases the licensing of technology included a 50% ownership of shares in the original analyzer companies. Many of these companies were then bought by large automation system suppliers. The numbers of analyzer specialists have dramatically declined since complete packages can be purchased that are capable of being supported by technicians. One concern is that the few specialists left onsite or as retired consultants may not be around in 10 years, stifling new analyzer applications.
Stan: How did you find new analyzer opportunities?
Jim: We had temporary relocate-able process analyzers (TRPA) that we got donated to the analyzer group from both process and pilot plants. They had been deemed not needed for the production unit after sufficient process knowledge was gained. We could trial an analyzer application for only the installation and maintenance cost. Some production units would donate an analyzer if they found they could control the process with a more common and less costly measurement, such as pressure or temperature. Some production units refused to give them up even if the information was not being used. Another source of opportunities came from process engineers who saw a need or opportunity to better control their processes and came to us for assistance.
Greg: Where were analyzers essential for control?
Jim: Analyzers were needed on high-purity columns because temperature was not sensitive to the parts per million of impurities that needed to be controlled. In some cases, we were able to have several optional sample points installed that proved valuable because steady-state process simulations were not accurate enough to show the best tray for composition control. Another common application was fluidized bed reactors to optimize turnarounds for catalyst replacement. Before the analyzers were installed, the catalyst was changed out based on a time schedule, regardless of the degree of poisoning or decrease in activity of the catalyst. The result was the cost of the loss of yield and capacity when beds had unexpectedly deteriorated or the cost of catalyst and the loss of production when beds were still productive. In one case a $250K analyzer installation paid for itself in six months in cost savings.
Stan: What was your favorite analyzer?
Jim: If a sample was vaporizable, my first choice was usually the gas chromatograph (GC) because the fundamentals and maintenance were relatively simple. The optional detector and column configurations allowed us to frequently provide the process with a reliable, maintainable, specific and appropriate measurement. A technician could understand and maintain the GC. Often maintenance consisted of timing adjustments or simply replacing sample valves.
Greg: When did you have to pursue other analyzers?
Jim: When the sample wasn't vaporizable, had solids and bubbles, or required special sample preparation that would add excessive cost and time delay, we went for spectroscopic techniques. IR, UV and Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) had strong enough signals to use selective optical detectors. The weak signal from near-infrared (NIR) and Raman spectroscopy required chemometrics (data-driven multivariate statistical models), such as partial least squares or projection to latent structures (PLS) models. NIR and Raman analyzers have been developed for many applications and have the attractive feature of in situ probes advertised as eliminating the need for a sample system.
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Your little baby's skin is so soft and perfect – it's understandable of you're worried about you put on it.
Parabens, often found in baby skincare products, are a chemical which has recently come under fire – but do we need to be worried?
Parabens are the most widely used preservatives in cosmetic products. The most common parabens you're likely to see listed in cosmetic products are methylparaben, propylparaben, and butylparaben.
These chemicals protect cosmetics against microbial growth and bacterial contamination for the benefit of users and to maintain product integrity. Without parabens, our cosmetics and toiletries would have a very short shelf life.
In 2004, a small study found traces of parabens in some samples of breast cancer tumours. This caused a panic, particularly as parabens are said to vaguely mimic oestrogen, the female hormone known to cause breast cells (both normal and cancerous) to grow and divide.
But many scientists and cancer experts are quick to point out that this study did not show that parabens caused or contributed to breast cancer development in these tumours – it only showed that they were there.
Cancer researchers also stress that although parabens have weak oestrogen-like properties, the oestrogens that are made in the body are hundreds to many thousands of times stronger.
Parabens in cosmetic products are considered safe to use when the products are used as directed, says the Government organisation, National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme (NICNAS).
There are a lot of websites and organic baby product manufacturers that say that parabens are dangerous to babies.
But parabens are considered safe at the levels used to preserve cosmetic products such as baby bath products and shampoos.
If you are worried at all, look out for the growing number of infant and general cosmetic products that say "paraben-free".
For a small proportion of the population, parabens can cause an allergic skin irritation such as contact dermatitis and rosacea. But for the vast majority there will be no reaction to parabens.
This article was written by Fiona Baker for Kidspot, Australia's best family health resource. Sources include National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme (NICNAS)
Last revised: Saturday, 28 April 2012
This article contains general information only and is not intended to replace advice from a qualified health professional.


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The hit show "Entourage" enters its sixth season in 2009 with more stories of male bonding and outrageous fun.
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Now that's serious.
Here's the most popular president in recent memory—and he's given his seal of approval to a sometimes-edgy, inside-Hollywood comedy series about a rising movie star and the childhood friends who keep him grounded.
According to an April article on the Web site Politico.com, Obama regularly rearranged his campaign schedule in 2008 to make sure he didn't miss any episodes. As White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told Politico, "We would talk about 'Entourage' all the time."
Adrian Grenier, who plays actor Vincent Chase, the central character in "Entourage," says, "When Obama said he enjoys the show, I thought that's absolutely perfect—because he embodies the spirit the show represents. A lot of people dismissed it as a show about the superficial nature of a movie star's life. But it's a show about how to navigate in that superficial world, how to be loyal and true to your friends."
Kevin Connolly, who plays Eric Murphy, Vince's best friend and manager, says, "I thought, 'Holy shit'—the Obama thing is huge. I mean, we still wait to see if the show will get picked up each season—and here's the president, giving us a shout-out."
Not bad for a show that many observers initially considered too esoteric to have a future. When "Entourage" went on the air in 2004, even its network wasn't sure audiences were interested in the behind-the-scenes story of Vincent Chase, a young actor from Queens, New York, and his lifelong friends (including a half-brother), who comes along for the ride when Vince's career takes off in Hollywood.
"When we looked at it, we wondered whether it was too inside," says Michael Lombardo, president of HBO's programming group. "But that was part of the fun. Over the past six years, things like box-office grosses and ratings have become the fodder of popular culture. Everybody touches show business in some way—even if only as a consumer, a user, a fan. So pulling the curtain back on that has become of interest to a wide spectrum of people."
Actor Jerry Ferrara, who plays Turtle, Vince's driver, gofer and all-around fixer, says, "One thing that did surprise me was that the interest in the inside-showbiz stuff was so universal. People in Middle America love to hear inside jokes about people like (filmmakers) Kevin Smith and James Cameron." Says Jeremy Piven, who plays Ari Gold, Vince's turbocharged agent, "This is a celebrity-driven culture. The writers work as hard as they can to make it as real as possible."
Lombardo concludes, "It's evolved into one of the signature programs in terms of defining HBO. It's continued to grow and develop. This season, we'll explore them going from their 20s to their 30s and the challenge of remaining friends as men."
The show has never been a ratings bonanza—nowhere near the tens of millions of viewers "The Sopranos" drew—but its audience has grown steadily, particularly in a demographic HBO is eager to reach: young men. It's averaged about six million viewers a show since Season 3a (which ran in 2006), hitting a high of about 7.4 million during Season 3b (which had the final season of "The Sopranos" as its lead-in).
Anecdotal evidence suggests that ratings don't reflect audience size, since groups of men—whether frat brothers or stockbrokers—gather to watch Vince Chase and his boys navigate the showbiz sharks and aren't counted individually. "It speaks to an audience—young males—that some of our other shows don't," Lombardo says. "And yet it is quintessentially HBO."
HBO doesn't release figures for the sales from DVDs of their series. But the Season 5 DVD, which wasn't released until the end of June, was No. 7 on the comedy TV show best-seller list (based on preorders) at Amazon.com in mid-May and No. 162 among all movies and TV shows.
About to launch its sixth season on July 12, "Entourage" has become a benchmark in another way: a place where movie stars and other celebrities pop up in cameo roles playing themselves—often as part of a joke at their own expense. Everyone from golfer Phil Mickelson to rapper Snoop Dogg, from actor Gary Busey to director Martin Scorsese, have made appearances. New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and "West Wing" writer-producer Aaron Sorkin have scenes in the can for the coming season.
"Season 1, we couldn't find anyone willing to be on," says Kevin Dillon, who plays Johnny "Drama" Chase, Vincent's half-brother, an actor who struggles in the shadow of his younger sibling's success. "Now, every year when we go to the Golden Globes or the Screen Actors Guild awards, all these other actors seem to be into it—they're all offering to do the show."
But the show's success and popularity come from something deeper than the Hollywood plots and movie-star walk-ons. Says Doug Ellin, the show's creator and executive producer, "At the end of the day, it's a show that's about friendship more than Hollywood."
It's a bright morning in City of Industry, east of Los Angeles, but the tee box of the driving range at Pacific Palms resort is still being lavishly lit for a TV shoot.
As the crew arranges lights around one specific tee, Jerry Ferrara practices with his driver a few stalls away, taking the opportunity to sharpen his swing. "I didn't play golf before this show," says Ferrara, 29. In Season 4, the Vincent Chase crew is riding high, living in a mansion outfitted with a golf simulator. Dillon, a long-time golfer with a 7 handicap, taught Ferrara to play, first on the simulator, then on the golf course. "He's, like, my coach," Ferrara says.
"Your caddy," Connolly jokes.
"Never my caddy," Ferrara says solemnly.
As director Mark Mylod, one of several different directors for the 2009 season, settles into a chair in front of two small video monitors taking feeds from two cameras, two golf carts are readied for the scene. Assistant directors place extras—mostly golfers and good-looking women—around the set, giving them bits of business to do as part of the background action.
The scene itself is a key moment in the new season's third episode: a meeting between Connolly's Eric Murphy and guest star George Segal, as Murray Berenson, a Hollywood business legend who runs a major management firm. When Vincent Chase's career flourishes in Season 6, Murphy—known to all simply as E—will find that he needs to devote his energies to his primary client and will fold his fledgling Murphy Group management business.
As the scene begins, E is hitting golf balls with Turtle on the driving range, warming up for a celebrity pro-am tournament. Turtle complains that he's not playing in a foursome with a celebrity, and E chides Turtle, a die-hard New York Giants fan, on his rudeness when they met Tom Brady. When Murray Berenson rolls up in his cart and introduces himself, he asks E to ride with him. "I heard you closed down your little shop," Murray says as they roll away to end the scene. "And I wanted to talk to you about coming to work at my big shop." Mylod watches a rehearsal, gives some final words of direction to the actors, then dons headphones and sits down to watch the multi-camera take on the video monitors.
"This is actually the second part of a scene we shot a month ago," Mylod admits. "Normally, we're more organized."
Mylod, who is also a co-executive producer for the show, says, "I've had a real sense of the show maturing for this season. That keeps it relevant and gives it direction. It keeps evolving."
Over the first five seasons, Ellin and his writers have populated their version of Hollywood with characters who do battle at all levels of the film industry. As Vincent Chase and his friends struggle, hustle, score, flop and, occasionally, retreat, they inhabit a world that is at once highly specific and completely universal. The showbiz plotlines are funny—but so are the stories that focus on their individual quirks.
Yes, there's comic tension over whether Vince will get a part he wants. But episodes can be built around something as simple as E's denial that he tends to become emotionally involved with every woman he sleeps with (which generates a contest between E and Turtle to see who can talk his way into a one-night stand first). Or Ari's struggle to get his son into an exclusive private school. Or a movie deal that has to be completed in a single day, that day being Yom Kippur, when most of the deal's participants, theoretically, would be worshipping—and forbidden from doing business.
That's a long way from the original "Entourage" vision: a barely fictionalized version of actor Mark Wahlberg's Hollywood experience. The former teen rapper came to Hollywood as a music heartthrob, surrounded by a crew of pals from his Boston boyhood, hoping to break into films. Wahlberg made shrewd choices of movie projects and, in short order, became an actor whose résumé includes films by Martin Scorsese (The Departed), Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights), Tim Burton (Planet of the Apes) and David O. Russell (Three Kings).
"When we started, this was going to be about an A-list star and his crew," Ellin says. "Well, Vince is almost A-list—but not quite. I'm sure that nobody expected us to spend five years keeping him down."
In fact, Ellin never plotted out a long-term outline for the show. Though he spent several years developing "Entourage" before HBO finally bought the pilot, he hadn't really thought beyond that first episode.
"When we made the pilot, I had no idea what Episode 2 was going to be," he says. "I make it up as I go along. The show has grown in ways I never would have anticipated. If you had told me that Turtle would wind up dating a hot actress [Jamie-Lynn Sigler of "Sopranos" fame], I'd have said you were out of your mind."
Vince Chase gets the rising-star treatment in the show's first episode, with the impending release of his first major film, Head On. But instead of tracing Wahlberg's upward trajectory, Vince charts an unsteady, obstacle-strewn course, never seeming able to do anything the easy way.
Vince remains the group's calm, cool nucleus, though he does give in to momentary panic near the end of the last season, when his career seems to hit bottom. But in the closing moments of the final episode, Martin Scorsese calls to cast Vince as the title character in a Great Gatsby remake.
"Vince's Zen approach to life really expresses how best to navigate this world, because it is a fleeting experience," says Grenier, 32. "It's easy to get lost, to feel inadequate.
"Vince has had some difficult times. This season, he's actually able to appreciate the fun he's had in the past because he's been through moments of difficulty. This year, he's got a new joy and relish, which comes with the perspective of having gone through difficult times. It makes him enjoy the good times more."
Over the first five seasons, the winds of Vince's fortune buffet the other characters—even as they try to create careers for themselves. As Vince's best friend, Eric starts out as the one person Vince could trust, becomes Vince's manager (much to the consternation of Vince's agent, Ari) and now has spread his wings to become a talent manager with other clients as well.
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