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There had been a lot of speculation as to who the Governor might appoint as the new Lieutenant Governor well, he surprised all of us this week with his announcement of former Sen. Lavon Heidemann, who was just elected to the University's Board of Regents.
Last week the Revenue Committee held public hearings on Governor Heineman's tax reform plan.
The hearing on LB 405 lasted late into the evening and testimony was accepted by anyone who wished to testify. Many people from across Nebraska had the opportunity to express their views on the proposals.
LB 405 eliminates individual and corporate incomes taxes and pays for it by reinstating $2.4 billion in existing sales tax exemptions; and LB 406 eliminates approximately $395 million in sales tax exemptions, eliminates the corporate income tax and exempts the first $12,000 of retirement income for married couples and $6,000 for single individuals. Both bills exempt food from taxation.
(The Committee later killed both bills.)
This week's list of public hearings included:
LB 10 and LB 189 both deal with seat belts. LB 10, introduced by Sen. Bob Krist of Omaha, requires all occupants in the motor vehicle to use a seatbelt. LB 189, introduced by Sen. John Harms of Scottbluff, makes not using a seatbelt a primary offense and increases penalties.
LB 118 makes texting while operating a motor vehicle a primary offense instead of what is currently a secondary offense.
LB 351 establishes that a cognitive test be used at the Department of Motor Vehicles as a screening tool for persons 80 and above.
LB 437 (my bill) proposes to transfer safety inspection programs for boilers, elevators and amusement rides from the Department of Labor to the State Fire Marshall's office.
LB 530 adopts the Foster Care Reimbursement Rate Committee's recommended rates for foster care reimbursement. As written, the bill has a fiscal note of $2.1 million.
LB 556 requires the provision of telehealth medical and behavioral health services for children in public schools.
LB 590 allows betting machines for historic horse races at Nebraska's thoroughbred race tracks.
LR41CA is a constitutional amendment that places allowing betting machines for historic horse races on the ballot for voter approval.
LB 605 requires the Department of Health and Human Services to create a Telehealth Behavioral Health Services Program.
The Education Committee held public hearings on several measures dealing with the state aid formula. LB 505 changes the elementary class size allowance. LB 604 changes computation of the cost growth factor relating to state aid to schools. LB 357 changes a budget limitation exemption under the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act.
The Agriculture Committee will have public hearings on bills related to the Livestock Brand Act.
LB 654 provides that the brand inspection area encompasses the entire state; LB 647 changes cattle identification provisions of the Animal Importation Act; LB 435 (my bill) provides for out-of-state brand permits; and LB 587 changes the Livestock Brand Act by listing what a brand inspector can accept as evidence of ownership.
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Exordium and TerminusTrivia brain teasers have some element of trivia in them, but they are not just pure trivia questions.
What would you say is the next entry in this series?
2525, 3535, 4545, 5555, 6565, ...
It looks like the next entry SHOULD be 7575, doesn't it? Just add 1010, right?
Well, the next entry WOULD be 7575 - if this were a mathematical series. But that wouldn't be much of a challenge, would it?
The next entry is actually less than 7575, because this is not about arithmetic, and the pattern changes after 6565.
Can you figure out what the next entry is?
HintI hope it doesn't take you YEARS to find it. Sing out when you do!
The numbers are the years mentioned in the song "In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)", by Zager and Evans.
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, or say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to do
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs not nothing to do
Some machine is doing that for you
In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long black tube
In the year 7510
If God's a-comin' he ought to make it by then
Maybe he'll look around himself and say
Guess it's time for the Judgement day
In the year 8510
God's gonna shake his mighty head
He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been
Or tear it down and start again
In the year 9595
I'm kinda wondering if man's gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing
Now it's been 10,000 years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through
But through the eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do or say
Is in the pill you took today ....
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Beatles Classic Used for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's 'Hey St. Jude' Campaign
Since its founding in 1962, the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has helped save countless lives affected by catastrophic juvenile diseases — and they're marking their 50th anniversary by deepening their commitment to the cause with a new donation campaign, dubbed 'Hey St. Jude.'
Promoted with a heartwarming video set to the strains of the Beatles classic 'Hey Jude,' the campaign — which has its own Twitter hashtag, #heystjude — seeks to drum up donations for the hospital by offering a #heystjude t-shirt to anyone who contributes $35 or more.
You can see the shirt on Betty White in the still from the video at the top of this post — as well as on a dizzying array of celebrities who turned out to sing 'Hey Jude' in the clip, including Keith Urban, Darius Rucker, Robin Williams, and Jennifer Aniston. No matter how many times you've listened to the song, you've never heard it like this.
Dedicated to the belief that "no child should die in the dawn of life," the hospital has consistently provided treatment to patients regardless of "race, religion or a family's ability to pay," as well as dedicating a substantial portion of its funds to medical research. Visit the Hey St. Jude website for more information.
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GROVE CITY, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio woman walking her dog is the third to come across a check from a tornado-devastated town in Indiana.
WBNS-TV reports Tuesday (http://bit.ly/HK8jsf ) that Donna Stevens of Grove City in suburban Columbus found the check from Henryville, Ind., about 170 miles away. She thinks it may have been carried by March tornadoes that destroyed Henryville and other southern Indiana communities and killed 13 people.
The $10 check, dated 1982, is made out to cash and signed. After an Internet search, Stevens says, "I knew then that I had something that had traveled a long distance to Grove City."
A check from the same family, dated 1980, was found in Jamestown and one dated 1984 was found outside Cincinnati.
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HUGE WIN. Definitely a game the old Pacers would have lost.
JO and Tin-Man continue to lead the way with authority.
Maybe now Ike can start gettng more PT. Murph's broken nose was a blessing in disguise for this team. Ike is just a better player right now.
My one concern is poor FT shooting is starting to become a trend for this team. Gotta fix this for the stretch run.


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And I don't think guys like Wooden or Knight would tolerate stuff like Danny getting in Lebron's face. I mean as a fan I can get fired up and take that emotional ride with him, but at the same time if Danny just gave Lebron the Jordan, took the play to the other end of the court and just beat him, that would say "tough" a lot more than some barking.
Barking back is the ground floor of standing up for yourself. Ignoring the bark and then biting when it counts is the penthouse.


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Advanced stats show upside to McCarthy's slow start
PHOENIX -- Throughout Brandon McCarthy's winless stretch over his first five outings of the season, the right-hander has maintained that he is pitching well but getting unlucky at inopportune times and then letting the damage snowball.
In addition to the bloop or fluky hits that prove his point, McCarthy has some numbers to back it up when examining a couple of complex sabermetrics statistics.
The 29-year-old's batting average on balls in play (BABIP), which measures how many balls in play against a pitcher go for hits, is a sky-high .396, the third highest of any pitcher in baseball. The league average for the stat, over which pitchers have little control, is around .300.
Another stat in McCarthy's favor is fielding independent pitching (FIP), a number used to show what a player's ERA should look like, assuming that defense on balls in play and timing were league average. While the righty's real ERA is 7.48, his FIP is a much lower 3.64. In comparison, Trevor Cahill has a 3.66 FIP and Ian Kennedy is at 3.94.
The league average for FIP is around 4.00, so McCarthy actually ranks well in the category despite his poor traditional pitching numbers.
D-backs manager Kirk Gibson also believes McCarthy has been unfortunate at times and has actually performed well this season.
"He is throwing well, he had the best stuff [Friday] he has had since joining us," Gibson said. "But if you look at the difference a few plays make, it's huge. But it's part of baseball and he has to deal with it."
Because of some of the plays that have gone against the right-hander, Gibson won't ask McCarthy to make any changes moving forward, he just hopes the unlucky streak begins to even out.
"In my mind, he understands what's going on," Gibson said. "It's not like he's hurt, mechanically screwed up or he can't throw ball where he wants, it's none of that. It just hasn't gone our way. I'm very comfortable with where he is at."
Tyler Emerick is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Batch to the Future
Pigment Dispersions Manufacturer Plasticolors Uses Predictive-Adaptive Material Transfer Control to Continuously Tighten the Accuracy of Its Filling Batches on the Fly
By Jim Montague, Executive Editor
What if you were the hero in the new Prince of Persia movie and had the magic dagger that could take you back in time just a minute or two so you could correct any problems? Well, besides being a fantasy warrior, you'd also make a heckuva plant engineer—assuming you had the right data to fix your problems and knew how to apply it. So, while it's too bad time travel isn't possible outside of Hollywood or other fictions, having lightning-fast access to more useful information can get you pretty danged close—especially in batch applications.
For instance, Plasticolors (www.plasticolors.com) in Ashtabula, Ohio, is a specialty color house that creates all kinds of colorant and chemical dispersions that plastics, coatings, inks and other producers use to help their manufacturing clients create an endless variety of products. Plasticolors uses high-speed-energy mineral mills to grind dry pigments, such as metal oxides and other dry chemicals, into resins to reduce particle size, and then adds dispersants to balance and stabilize the mixture. These are delivered in 1-lb. to 5000-lb. containers to its plastics customers and indirectly their clients, who make automotive parts, ladders, flooring, colored urethanes and other products.
Of course, the primary focus of all these coloring efforts is accuracy. So Plasticolors operates an extensive lab to match specified color requirements and maintain consistent product quality down the line. Because these processes weren't very high-volume historically, Plasticolors' staff usually did them manually over the years. However, that situation changed about five years ago, when one of Plasticolors largest customers requested larger shipments of colors in its smaller containers of just a few pounds each. These colors typically go to high-volume makers of fiberglass and epoxy-based flooring.
"There's a lot of pressure on us because we have to find and buy good raw materials in volume. Since the recent economic downturn and recession, our customers and their clients are stocking less on their shelves, working much more lean, but then also needing to make money as soon as they can," says Rick Georgia, Plasticolors' plant engineer.
Adapting to Automation
Because of this heightened demand, Plasticolors decided to automate the machine it built and operates to fill its SoluPak pre-weighed tubs of liquid pigment (Figure 1). Georgia designed and built the pinch valve on the machine. He reports that it meters material out of a funnel and into the pre-weighed, 1-quart-size packages, and these need to maintain consistent weights of ±1% at minimum. "Operators used to manually open and shut the machine's valve all day by hand, but it was an ergonomic hazard because of the repetitive stress, and most operators could only get close to 1%," says Georgia. "We used to have one operator, who worked here for more than 20 years, and she alone could get to within 1% manually. But even she acknowledged that she couldn't do it consistently. Even so, we were able to meet our customers' needs for years, and yet we still wanted to get better. So when we read an article about P&G and Mettler-Toledo's (www.mt.com) Q.impact (Q.i) system, we thought it might work here too." Plasticolors was acquainted with Mettler-Toledo's lab scales because it used them for many years to handle intricate weighing of scaled-up batches.
Michael McCormick, Plasticolors' coatings industry manager, adds that, "Our company has always made custom solutions, but Q.i enables our SoluPak packaging to meet the needs of our customers while exceeding their expectations. We have operators with a good feel for the process and a vast amount of experience who can target 1% accuracy, but the Q.i software lets any operator of any experience level run this filling operation. This means we don't have to rely on any one person, and it lets us be more consistent."
Limits of Dribbling
To better understand what makes predictive-adaptive material transfer control quicker and more accurate than traditional filling, weighing and reacting, it's first important to understand how the traditional way works. Typical material transfer in most batching applications uses some type of dribbler procedure that fully opens the valve and then begins to close and slow the flow before the target weight and final cutoff is reached. Some filling machines use a second, smaller valve to do this dribbling task. However, Georgia explains that the problem with dribbling is that it takes more time to achieve sufficient accuracy—about 12 to 15 seconds in most cases.
Dribblers also can't account for material added after the cutoff is reached and the order is given to shut off flow, but before the valve actually closes, and these amounts can add up to inaccuracy, poorer quality product and lost profit.
"Most filling machines just read from the scale, OK the cutoff and shut off the valve almost completely to dribble the rest of the fill. Or they choke off the main flow and then open another little internal valve to dribble the rest of the fill," says Georgia. This traditional, multi-speed method also means more lines, pumps and equipment than Q.i's single-speed control (Figure 2). Likewise, because they only seek to meet assigned weights, most filling devices can't account for changes in flow caused by changes in ambient temperature, humidity or other environmental shifts.
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Apple (AAPL) is redefining the way Wall Street hates a stock. The fall from grace has been swift and incredibly painful. It seemed like not too long ago, the discussion focused around $700 per share and the march toward a $1 trillion market cap, or as Bob Byrne would say, a "Trilly."
Now AAPL is actually closer to zero than to a trillion and the defense of the stock by a dozen analysts today is being ignored. It is as if they are trying to defend a castle from two counties away. Not only is the action brutal today, I would call it irrational. The weekly and monthly charts are tilting toward a strong buy point based on history, but we may not get there until around $420-$425. Psychologically, $450 could be a buy point for traders looking to play the bounce, so I am watching that level this afternoon....242 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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Sylasearch 2Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
In a sylasearch I give you a syllable-starter, which is the first syllable in the words you are to find. I will also give you a listing of the other syllables
(in which each may only be used once) which you must use to figure out the 9 words.
Syllable List - a, a, a, al, don, en, graph, ic, ka, keet, lel, ly, med, ses, the, tial, ty
Syllable-starter: par
How many syllables, each word has:
1. (2)
2. (2)
3. (2)
4. (3)
5. (3)
6. (3)
7. (3)
8. (4)
9. (4)
Answer1. Parka (par ka)
2. Pardon (par don)
3. Party (par ty)
4. Paragraph (par a graph)
5. Parallel (par al lel)
6. Parakeet (par a keet)
7. Partially (par tial ly)
8. Parentheses (par en the ses)
9. Paramedic (par a med ic)
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The event is a partnership between the Keck Graduate Institute, which focuses on the development of business leaders in bioscience and Smith College's Executive Education for Women, which specializes in the strategic leadership development of women.
"The goal of the program is to enhance management skills of women who have been working in a narrow area of a life sciences company," said Diana Bartlett, Director of Corporate Partnerships at Keck Graduate Institute.
Bartlett developed the curriculum for the forum along with partners at Smith College. She also recruited prominent guest speakers to lead specialized workshops which are designed to give women grounding in the important functional areas of a life science company such as finance, marketing, supply chain, research and development, commercialization, and more.
"Women are generally very narrowly trained and experienced," Bartlett said. "I think they tend to stick to their area of expertise because they are very good at it and they need support in order to step outside their comfort zone."
To Bartlett, the most important aspect of the NGBL forum is that it allows women to learn from and network with veteran women executives from leading pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies. "They are able to interact with them freely, and in many cases enter into mentoring relationships with the executive instructors," she said.
Jennifer Marcum, CEO of Sentry Logistic will be co-presenting a session on supply chain management with Rebecca Lyons from Johnson and Johnson.
Marcum says the challenges of rising to leadership positions aren't specifically for women. As a first time CEO, she says it's primarily gaining the experience, and demonstrating an ability to deliver that is most important for those who want to be leaders. She encourages women to have knowledge about the moving parts of an organization, seek diversity in their skills, and have accountability for the results of others.
Marcum says many women leaders have paved the way for women in the last 10-20 years. "Our kudos to them for banging their heads against the proverbial glass ceiling," Marcum said. She says women have as much, if not more opportunity today then maybe decades ago. Marcum doesn't believe there is an intentional glass ceiling. "I don't think companies are putting in mechanisms to prevent women from rising," she said. "I think organizations are looking for individuals that can rise and break through any barrier."
Vivian Liu, CEO of NexMed (NEXM) says in spite of the opportunities, there still aren't very many women in senior, executive, or board room positions. "I think gender may still play a role; the glass ceiling may still exist and prevent women from reaching the top," she said. Still, Liu is optimistic the day will come when being a man or woman won't be an issue.
Liu herself stepped into her position from being the CFO when the founding CEO of the company stepped down. "Under normal circumstances, I probably wouldn't have gotten the position, but because of my knowledge I was considered the best candidate going forward," she said.
Liu would like to see more women in leadership positions. "We are good leaders, rational decision makers, and we have a collaborative leadership style," she said. "We tend to appreciate differences."
Balancing family with work may be one of the greatest challenges facing working women, and may contribute to the number of women entering high powered leadership positions. Women may opt for less challenging positions because they feel like they have to choose between raising a family and pursuing a career.
Liu said balancing work and family challenges women more than men workers. "Women tend to have to juggle more responsibilities, which might ultimately be a glass ceiling of sorts," she said. But she says the work place is changing favorably for women and some employers are promoting telecommuting and permitting flexibility in hours as long as the job gets done.
Liu says she knows how hard it can be for working women because at one point, she balanced her own career and family. As part of the juggling act, she was married to her job early on and decided to have a child later in life. Still, she is one of the lucky women with strong family support. When she has to travel or work long hours, she knows her daughter is in good hands.
Liu stresses that as employers become more responsive to the needs of their female workers by creating day care on site, permitting telecommuting, and focusing more on results instead of clocking hours, women will advance in their careers faster.
Dr. Elizabeth Posillico, CEO of Elusys Therapeutics, Inc. agrees there aren't as many women as men in leadership positions, and while the opportunities have increased, a lot of women just don't choose those positions.
Posillico worked her way up the ladder after working in the life sciences for over 20 years. Starting out as a R&D manager, and gaining broad experience in other facets of the company including marketing and sales, she eventually became Vice President at Genzyme after about 10 years. She has been in senior management positions ever since.
Posillico pursued her PhD before having kids, but when she ultimately did start a family, she took a lot of time. "I didn't think I was sacrificing my family and I didn't think I was sacrificing my career," she said. "Once you get into it, there is a way to find balance and find it rewarding," she said.
Posillico says if women feel they are being pigeon-holed, they have to take the initiative to "try something new or take an opportunity that someone else doesn't want—that's a way to get a promotion," she says. "Build friendships with people and show you can be counted on, get out and keep going. If you want it enough, you will get it."
Posillico says there is often a compensation difference between men and women and suggests women work their way through that by demonstrating they do qualify for higher compensation. A lot of it has to do with women starting off by accepting lower salaries. She says women should negotiate for a slightly higher salary when they first join a company.
In the end, Posillico says women have to be able to work with men, "You have to show you can compete, do what you can do, and show people what you are good at, get along with people, make friendships, go the extra distance, don't whine, and don't think about the gender thing," she advises.
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The scouting I did on him are long forgotten, but I wanted no part of him coming out of UCLA because...he was all about his own dribble and not about running the court.
He's better, yes, but his strongest passing is still working out of the PnR where he's leaning on his quickness with the ball to create a lane. If he has to spot a lane or make a tough feed with a clever pass, that's just not his thing.
PnR with DC and West/Hans should be pretty reliable though.
Hill isn't just rusty either, I think he's also still trying to feel out the roster and how he fits. He's younger than West and is coming off the bench with a less clear directive. West is the post scorer and stays out of the way on plays for Roy. Hill is being asked to be a PG dribble/attacker but also a true SG shooter and sometimes just a defender. He's got the classic "jack of all trades" type of bench role that can be tough for some players.
As he learns the team and can identify what he needs to be on any given night I think we will see his game really step up. Right now it often feels like he's trying to stay out of the way.


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July 24, 2013 — A while ago, a teenager asked me what I do for work. "I study the career paths of men and women, and the role organizations play in that journey," I replied.
"Career paths? Like Google maps for work and stuff?" she asked.
I smiled. "Something like that!"
And that set me thinking about whether, indeed, we can create road maps for success and routes for advancement, marking detours and land mines along the way so that men and women may follow their career paths with time-tested guides. By reviewing the milestones marking the career trajectories of a few successful Indian women, I went looking for an "Indian Woman's Map to Career Success."
- Does success breed success? Do only "privileged" women make it to the top in India?
Although it is rare for children from truly impoverished backgrounds to climb corporate or political ladders, India Inc. is by no means just for the moneyed or privileged few. So while Rajshree Pathy (MD/Chairperson of Rajshree Group of Companies), the daughter of an industrialist and politician, comes from an affluent background, Vinita Bali (MD of Britannia Industries Ltd.) hails from a "typical educated middle-class family," with a well-read mother whose family had moved to India after Partition. In fact, a lot of successful women come from middle-class backgrounds; they are raised to be thrifty and mindful of their roots—and to grab opportunities for learning and advancement wherever they find them.
- Power by inheritance or by creation?
An assumption that is common enough to warrant examination is that successful women owe their success to their family connections—or, to put it more crudely, because their daddies helped provide them with a career! There are certainly cases of inherited wealth and power amongst men and women alike, including but not limited to people like Dr. Preetha Reddy (MD of Apollo Hospitals), who is the daughter of Dr. Prathap Reddy, the pioneer of corporatized health care in India. Yet while the younger Dr. Reddy comes from a powerful family, she certainly wouldn't have gotten the job if it weren't for her hard work and impressive credentials! Other titans of business in India are entirely self-made, one remarkable example being Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, founder and chairman of Biocon and one of India's wealthiest and most successful women. Mazumdar-Shaw trained as a brewer, but ended up running one of the country's most successful biotechnology firms.
- "We don't need no education?" Sorry, ma'am, looks like you do!
Ah, finally a stop on the "Success Roadmap" that is frequented by most successful women (and men). Almost all of the women whose profiles I looked at had a post-graduate (Masters or higher) degree. It may be that in a journey chock full of barriers (stereotypes, lack of inclusive and flexible workplaces, lack of sponsors and role models, lack of developmental opportunities), successful women must make sure they don't add "lack of educational qualifications" to the list.
- Supportive family ecosystems
In a context where work-life issues seem to take a serious toll on women's aspirations and chances to advance, it is not surprising to hear frequent references to a supportive husband or family when women discuss their journeys to the top. Whether it is encouraging their wives, mothers, or daughters to take up higher positions, rearranging their own careers, or just being by their sides through ups and downs, supportive husbands and families go a long way towards ensuring Indian women's success at work.
- The virtuous cycle
Once women have reached their destinations they don't stop; they keep on giving. Whether it's donating their fortunes to philanthropic causes, becoming involved in government/policy efforts and NGO-run initiatives to help the underprivileged, or supporting other CSR initiatives, most successful women leave a legacy outside of their careers—thus reinforcing Catalyst research on a key aspect of the business case for diversity.
After taking a careful look at many of India's top businesswomen, I concluded that there is no single, surefire route to success for women in India. Each successful woman blazes her own unique path, and brings along thousands with her. She makes it easier for those who want to follow in her footsteps, while also showing others that it's all right to go where no one has gone before. It's a new day for women in India, and there are many new maps waiting to be drawn.


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Look out for a Spanish reign this summer in the Bay Area. Real Madrid, one of the most storied soccer clubs in history, was looking to play a game in a local football stadium at the end of July, this newspaper reported last week.
Now Cal officials have called a news conference Friday to announce a major international event coming to Memorial Stadium. A source familiar with the event said Real's appearance is one of the options.
Atletico Madrid, Real's rival club, will face the Earthquakes on July 27 at Candlestick Park. The two Spanish teams will play for the Champions League title May 24 in Lisbon.
Real plans to train at UCLA while participating in the Guinness International Champions Cup on July 24-Aug. 4.
Figure skating
San Jose's Polina Edmunds will make her pro debut Sunday at SAP Center with the Stars on Ice. She'll perform a week before her 16th birthday. The Archbishop Mitty High sophomore plans to perform on other tour stops but not during the school week, coach David Glynn said. Edmunds finished ninth at the Sochi Olympics in February and eighth at the world championships in March.
The Cal women's golf team shared first at the NCAA Central Regional, shooting a 295 at a windy Karsten Creek in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Also at 7 over was Alabama. Cal's Hannah Suh was tied for sixth with an even-par 72. Kent State's Wad Phaewchimplee was the No. 1 individual at 65.
Stanford opened the NCAA East Regional with a 3-over 291 and was tied for 11th in Tallahassee, Florida. Vanderbilt led at 11-under 277. Tulane's Emily Penttila was the individual leader at 7-under 65 at Southwood Golf Club. Stanford's Mariah Stackhouse shared third at 68.
San Jose State's Regan De Guzman, playing as an individual, shot a 4-over 76 at the NCAA West Regional in Cle Elum, Washington. She was tied for 45th. USC led the team event at 4-under 284. The Trojans' Kyung Kim was the individual leader at 66.
Water polo
The U.S. men's team will play Serbia in exhibition games at Cal and Stanford on June 7 and June 8. The Americans have five current Stanford players on the roster as well as two Cardinal graduates. Cal alum John Mann and Matt DeTrane, a Campolindo High alum, also are on the team.
Horse racing
G. G. Ryder, victorious in four of his past five races, makes his stakes debut Sunday at Golden Gate Fields. The Jerry Hollendorfer-trained 3-year-old colt will be ridden by Russell Baze in the Altcatraz Stakes.
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Boston Noirby Dennis Lehane
"Dennis Lehane advises us not to judge the genre by its Hollywood images of sharp men in fedoras lighting cigarettes for femmes fatales standing in the dark alleys. . . . [Lehane] writes persuasively of the gentrification that has . . . left people feeling crushed."-New York Times Book ReviewBrand-new stories by: Dennis Lehane, Stewart O'Nan, Patricia Powell, John Dufresne, Lynne Heitman, Don Lee, Russ Aborn, Itabari Njeri, Jim Fusilli, Brendan DuBois, and Dana Cameron.Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, The Given Day) has proven himself to be a master of both crime fiction and literary fiction. Here, he extends his literary prowess to that of master curator. In keeping with the Akashic Noir series tradition, each story in Boston Noir is set in a different neighborhood of the city-the impressively diverse collection extends from Roxbury to Cambridge, from Southie to the Boston Harbor, and all stops in between.Lehane's own contribution-the longest story in the volume-is set in his beloved home neighborhood of Dorchester and showcases his phenomenal ability to grip the heart, soul, and throat of the reader.In 2003, Lehane's novel Mystic River was adapted into film and quickly garnered six Academy Award nominations (with Sean Penn and Tim Robbins each winning Academy Awards). Boston Noir launches in November 2009 just as Shutter Island, the film based on Lehane's best-selling 2003 novel of the same title, hits the big screen.Dennis Lehane is the author of The New York Times bestseller Mystic River (also an Academy Award-winning major motion picture); Prayers for Rain; Gone, Baby, Gone (also a major motion picture); Sacred; Darkness, Take My Hand; A Drink Before the War, which won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel; and, most recently, The Given Day. A native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, he splits his time between the Boston area and Florida.
Boston Noir 2by Mary Cotton Dennis Lehane Jaime Clarke
Boston Noir 2: The Classics is now a Boston Globe best seller!"The contributor list is delightfully quirky...The collection's unifying element is a deep understanding of Boston's Byzantine worlds of race and class--as seen terrifyingly in Andre Dubus's tale of milltown resentment and pampered preppies."--The Boston Globe"14 superior selections in this 'classics' volume in Akashic's series of regional dark crime short stories, the works of established writers that have stood the test of time."--Publishers Weekly"This collection features crime stories that have already been published. But that's OK when you have the likes of Chuck Hogan, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert B. Parker, Linda Barnes, George V. Higgins, Dennis Lehane, and David Foster Wallace all under the same roof...Followers of Akashic's long-running Noir series--not to mention, of course, fans of Boston-set crime fiction--should eagerly devour this one."--Booklist"Boston Noir 2: The Classics is a thorough representation of what noir has been, is, and continues to become . . . The shadows over Boston are those of Bogart, leaning into the spotlight with that complexity of soul, that derisive navigation of morality and deviance. . . The shadows on this cover prepare the tone, that these thin darknesses can be willed into corruption with little effort, and the reader will learn the ease of giving into it."--HTML Giant"There are few gifts I enjoy more than a box of chocolates. The very best surprise me, each candy layered with unexpected delights that leave me hungry for more. The same may be said of Boston Noir 2. It's a collection of dark short stories by names you know, set in places familiar to Bostonians. Edited by Dorchester's crime fiction king and Hollywood darling, Dennis Lehane...Boston Noir 2 overflows with stories from some of the best writers of our time...This is the perfect book to open after a long day...The danger, of course, is that at the end of each story, you'll go for just one more and stay up well past your bedtime. My advice? Indulge."--Patriot LedgerClassic reprints from: Linda Barnes, Jason Brown, Andre Dubus, Chuck Hogan, George Harrar, George V. Higgins, Dennis Lehane, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert B. Parker, David Ryan, Kenneth Abel, Barbara Neely, Hannah Tinti, and David Foster Wallace.Dennis Lehane is the author of the Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro mystery series (A Drink Before the War; Darkness, Take My Hand; Sacred; Gone, Baby, Gone; Prayers for Rain; and Moonlight Mile), as well as Coronado (five stories and a play) and the award-winning novels Mystic River, Shutter Island, and The Given Day. Mystic River, Shutter Island, and Gone, Baby, Gone have been made into award-winning films. In 2009 he edited the best-selling anthology Boston Noir for Akashic Books.Mary Cotton is the pseudonymous author of nine novels for young adults, six of them New York Times bestsellers. She is also a fiction editor for the literary magazine Post Road, and is co-editor of No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road. She is co-owner of Newtonville Books in Boston, Massachusetts.Jaime Clarke is the author of the novel We're So Famous, editor of Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, and Conversations with Jonathan Lethem, and co-editor of No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road. He is a founding editor of Post Road and has taught creative writing at University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Emerson College. He is co-owner of Newtonville Books in Boston, Massachusetts.
Boston Noir & Boston Noir 2: The Complete Setby Dennis Lehane
"Dennis Lehane advises us not to judge the genre by its Hollywood images of sharp men in fedoras lighting cigarettes for femmes fatales standing in the dark alleys...[Lehane] writes persuasively of the gentrification that has...left people feeling crushed."--New York Times, on Boston Noir"The contributor list is delightfully quirky...The collection's unifying element is a deep understanding of Boston's Byzantine worlds of race and class--as seen terrifyingly in Andre Dubus's tale of milltown resentment and pampered preppies."--Boston Globe, on Boston Noir 2: The ClassicsBoston Noir & Boston Noir 2: The Complete Set combines all twenty-five stories from best seller Boston Noir, edited by Dennis Lehane, and its sequel, Boston Noir 2: The Classics, edited by Lehane, Mary Cotton, & Jaime Clarke; featuring Lehane's own "Animal Rescue," the basis for the motion picture The Drop, and twenty-four classic noir stories set throughout Boston.
Coronadoby Dennis Lehane
Along with completely original material, this new collection is a compilation of the best of Dennis Lehane's previously published short fiction, including "Until Gwen," which was adapted for the stage in 2005 and appears in this book as the play Coronado. By turns suspenseful, surreal, romantic, and tragically comic, these powerful tales journey headlong into the heart of our national myths--and reveal that the truth awaiting us there is not what we would expect.
Darkness, Take My Handby Dennis Lehane
The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in this terrifying tale of darkness and redemption. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro's latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist running scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The private investigators know something about cold-blooded retribution. Born and bred on the mean streets of blue-collar Dorchester, they've seen the darkness that lives in the hearts of the unfortunate. But an evil for which even they are unprepared is about to strike as secrets long-dormant erupt, setting off a chain of violent murders that will stain everything--including the truth.
The Death of Sweet Misterby Daniel Woodrell Dennis Lehane
Shug Akins is a lonely, overweight thirteen-year-old boy. His mother, Glenda, is the one person who loves him--she calls him Sweet Mister and attempts to boost his confidence and give him hope for his future. Shuggie's purported father, Red, is a brutal man with a short fuse who mocks and despises the boy. Into this small-town Ozarks mix comes Jimmy Vin Pearce, with his shiny green T-bird and his smart city clothes. When he and Glenda begin a torrid affair, a series of violent events is inevitably set in motion. The outcome will break your heart. "This is Daniel Woodrell's third book set in the Ozarks and, like the other two, Give Us a Kiss and Tomato Red, it peels back the layers from lives already made bare by poverty and petty crime." --Otto Penzler, "Penzler Pick, 2001"
A Drink Before the Warby Dennis Lehane
As richly complex and brutal as the terrain it depicts, here is the mesmerizing, darkly original novel that heralded the arrival of Dennis Lehane, the master of the new noir -- and introduced Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, his smart and tough private investigators weaned on the blue-collar streets of Dorchester. A cabal of powerful Boston politicians is willing to pay Kenzie and Gennaro big money for a seemingly small job: to find the missing cleaning woman who stole some secret documents. As Kenzie and Gennaro learn, however, this crime is no ordinary theft. It's about justice. About right and wrong. But in Boston, finding the truth isn't just a dirty business ... it's deadly.
The Dropby Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of his acclaimed New York Times bestseller Mystic River with The Drop - A love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith. Three days after Christmas, Bob, a lonely bartender looking for a reason to live, hears a whimper coming from inside a trash can. The abused puppy he finds there will change his life forever, as will Nadia, the damaged woman he meets that night. Like him, she's desperately searching for something to believe in.Bound together by their decision to rescue the puppy, Bob and Nadia's relationship grows. But just as they've found something to live for, they cross paths with the Chechen mafia; a man grown dangerous with age and thwarted hopes; two hapless stick-up artists; a very curious cop; and the original owner of the puppy, who wants his dog back. . . .From New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane, a new novel that's the basis of the major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures directed by Michaël r. Roskam, screenplay by Dennis Lehane, and starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini
FaceOffby Linda Fairstein John Sandford Lincoln Child Steve Martini Jeffery Deaver F. Paul Wilson M. J. Rose Lee Child Steve Berry R. L. Stine David Baldacci Joseph Finder Linwood Barclay Douglas Preston Michael Connelly Peter James Heather Graham Dennis Lehane James Rollins T. Jefferson Parker Lisa Gardner Raymond Khoury Ian Rankin John Lescroart
A New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller! Edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci and including stories by Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, and more, this one-of-a-kind anthology pulls together the most beloved characters from the best and most popular thriller series today. Worlds collide!In an unprecedented collaboration, twenty-three of the world's bestselling and critically acclaimed thriller writers have paired their series characters--such as Harry Bosch, Jack Reacher, and Lincoln Rhyme--in an eleven-story anthology curated by the International Thriller Writers (ITW). All of the contributors to FaceOff are ITW members and the stories feature these dynamic duos:· Patrick Kenzie vs. Harry Bosch in "Red Eye," by Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly· John Rebus vs. Roy Grace in "In the Nick of Time," by Ian Rankin and Peter James· Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy vs. Aloysius Pendergast in "Gaslighted," by R.L. Stine, Douglas Preston, and Lincoln Child· Malachai Samuels vs. D.D. Warren in "The Laughing Buddha," by M.J. Rose and Lisa Gardner· Paul Madriani vs. Alexandra Cooper in "Surfing the Panther," by Steve Martini and Linda Fairstein· Lincoln Rhyme vs. Lucas Davenport in "Rhymes With Prey," by Jeffery Deaver and John Sandford· Michael Quinn vs. Repairman Jack in "Infernal Night," by Heather Graham and F. Paul Wilson· Sean Reilly vs. Glen Garber in "Pit Stop," by Raymond Khoury and Linwood Barclay· Wyatt Hunt vs. Joe Trona in "Silent Hunt," by John Lescroart and T. Jefferson Parker· Cotton Malone vs. Gray Pierce in "The Devil's Bones," by Steve Berry and James Rollins· Jack Reacher vs. Nick Heller in "Good and Valuable Consideration," by Lee Child and Joseph Finder So sit back and prepare for a rollicking ride as your favorite characters go head-to-head with some worthy opponents in FaceOff--it's a thrill-a-minute read.
The Given Dayby Dennis Lehane
Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, bestselling author Dennis Lehane's extraordinary eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads where past meets future. Filled with a cast of richly drawn, unforgettable characters, The Given Day tells the story of two families--one black, one white--swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power. Coursing through the pivotal events of a turbulent epoch, it explores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country at war with, and in the thrall of, itself.
Gone, Baby, Goneby Dennis Lehane
The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, dreams. Now, one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don't want the case. But after pleas from the child's aunt, they open an investigation that will ultimately risk everything--their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives--to find a little girl-lost.
In Pursuit of Spenserby Lawrence Block Max Allan Collins Ed Gorman Jeremiah Healy S. J. Rozan Otto Penzler Dennis Lehane Brendan Dubois Ace Atkins Parnell Hall Lyndsay Faye Reed Farrel Coleman Gary Phillips Matthew Clemens Loren D Estleman
When Robert B. Parker passed in early 2010, the world lost two great men: Parker himself, iconic American crime writer whose books have sold more than 6 million copies worldwide, and his best-known creation, Spenser. Parker's Spenser series not only influenced the work of countless of today's writers, but is also credited with reviving and forever changing the genre.In Pursuit of Spenser offers a look at Parker and to Spenser through the eyes of the writers he influenced. Editor Otto Penzler-- proprietor of one of the oldest and largest mystery specialist bookstores in the country, New York's The Mysterious Bookshop, and renowned mystery fiction editor whose credits include series editor for the Best American Crime Writing and Best American Mystery Stories, among many others (and about whom Parker himself once wrote, "Otto Penzler knows more about crime fiction than most people know about anything")-- collects some of today's bestselling mystery authors to discuss Parker, his characters, the series, and their impact on the world.From Hawk to Susan Silverman to Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall, from the series' Boston milieu to Parker's own take on his character, In Pursuit of Spenser pays tribute to Spenser, and Parker, with affection, humor, and a deep appreciation for what both have left behind.
Live by Nightby Dennis Lehane
A New York Times best-selling author with multiple awards to his name, Lehane sets his latest in Roaring Twenties Boston, Florida, and Cuba; its no surprise that the promotion brings up HBOs Boardwalk Empire. Youngest son of an upright Boston police sergeant, Joe Coughlin opts for the dark side, working his way to the top of organized crime but also setting himself up, inevitably, for betrayal and revenge.
Moonlight Mileby Dennis Lehane
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane delivers an explosive tale of integrity and vengeance-heralding the long-awaited return of private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl-only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home. Now Amanda is sixteen-and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing. Yet Amanda's aunt is once more knocking on Patrick Kenzie's door, fearing the worst for the little girl who has blossomed into a striking, clever young woman-a woman who hasn't been seen in weeks. Haunted by their consciences, Kenzie and Gennaro revisit the case that troubled them the most. Their search leads them into a world of identity thieves, methamphetamine dealers, a mentally unstable crime boss and his equally demented wife, a priceless, thousand-year-old cross, and a happily homicidal Russian gangster. It's a world in which motives and allegiances constantly shift and mistakes are fatal. In their desperate fight to confront the past and find Amanda McCready, Kenzie and Gennaro will be forced to question if it's possible to do the wrong thing and still be right or to do the right thing and still be wrong. As they face an evil that goes beyond broken families and broken dreams, they discover that the sins of yesterday don't always stay buried and the crimes of today could end their lives.
Mystic Riverby Dennis Lehane
"There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected." When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled tip to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever.Twenty-five years later, Sean Devine is a homicide detective. Jimmy Marcus is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave Boyle is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -- demons that urge him to do terrible things.When Jimmy Marcus's daughter is found murdered, Sean Devine is assigned to the case. His personal life unraveling, he must go back into a world he thought he'd left behind to confront not only the violence, of the present but the nightmares of his past. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy Marcus, who finds that his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave Boyle, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter died covered with someone else's blood.While Sean Devine attempts to use the law to return peace and order to the neighborhood, Jimmy Marcus finds his need for vengeance pushing him ever closer to a moral abyss from which lie wont be able to return, and Dave's wife, Celeste, sleeps at night with a man she fears may very well be a monster. a monster who fathered her child and hides his true nature from everyone, possibly even himself.A tense and unnerving psychological thriller, Mystic River is also an epic novel of love and loyalty, faith and family, in which people irrevocably marked by the past find themselves on a collision course with the darkest truths of their own hidden selves.
Prayers for Rainby Dennis Lehane
The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane delivers a shattering tale of evil, depravity, and justice that captures the dark realism of Boston's gritty blue-collar streets. Private Investigator Patrick Kenzie wants to know why a former client, a perky woman in love with life, could, within six months, jump naked from a Boston landmark--the final fall in a spiral of self-destruction. What he finds is a sadistic stalker who targeted the young woman and methodically drove her to her death. A monster the law can't touch. But Kenzie can. He and his former partner, Angela Gennaro, will fight a mind-twisting battle against this psychopath even as he turns his tricks on them.
Red Eyeby Michael Connelly Dennis Lehane
In this short story from the thrilling anthology FaceOff, bestselling authors Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly--along with their popular series characters Patrick Kenzie and Harry Bosch--team up for the first time ever.Harry Bosch finds himself on unfamiliar territory when he arrives at Boston's Logan airport, on the trail of a fifteen-year-old unsolved murder. Meanwhile, local P.I. Patrick Kenzie is sniffing around the same suspect that Bosch is tracking--but for a totally different reason: the recent disappearance of a seventh grade girl labeled as a runaway by the lead detective in charge of the case. Kenzie isn't so sure the girl went willingly out of her bedroom window in the middle of the night. When the two veterans meet outside the suspect's house, each man plays a vital part in solving the other's crime.For more exciting pairs, check out all eleven short stories in FaceOff!
Sacredby Dennis Lehane
Dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaroto find his missing daughter. Grief-stricken over the death of her mother and the impending death of her father, Desiree Stone has been missing for three weeks. So has the first investigator Stone hired to find her: Jay Becker, Patrick's mentor. Patrick and Angie are led down a trail of half-truths and corruption into a world in which a therapeutic organization may be fronting for a dangerous and seductive cult, a high-tech private investigation firm may be covering up lethal crimes, and a stolen cache of millions in illegal funds may be tied to both disappearances and a tanker full of heroin. Nothing is what it seems as the detectives travel from the windblown streets of Boston to the rum-punch sunsets of Florida's Gulf Coast. And the more Patrick and Angie discover, the more they realize that on this case any wrong step will certainly be their last . . . Snappy dialogue, explosive action scenes, and original characters have become Dennis Lehane's trademarks. With Sacred, Lehane confirms his status as today's hottest young author of first-rate mysteries that are also smartly written literary novels.
Shutter Islandby Dennis Lehane
Summer, 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. And neither is Teddy Daniels. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe's radical approach to psychiatry? An approach that may include drug experimentation, hideous surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing. . . . Or is there another, more personal reason why he has come there? As the investigation deepens, the questions only mount: How has a barefoot woman escaped the island from a locked room? Who is leaving clues in the form of cryptic codes? Why is there no record of a patient committed there just one year before? What really goes on in Ward C? Why is an empty lighthouse surrounded by an electrified fence and armed guards? The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they may never leave Shutter Island. Because someone is trying to drive them insane. . . .
Since We Fell: A Novelby Dennis Lehane
The new novel from New York Times bestseller Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island"Lehane is the master of complex human characters thrust into suspenseful, page-turning situations." —Gillian FlynnSince We Fell follows Rachel Childs, a former journalist who, after an on-air mental breakdown, now lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray. As does Rachel's marriage. As does Rachel herself. Sucked into a conspiracy thick with deception, violence, and possibly madness, Rachel must find the strength within herself to conquer unimaginable fears and mind-altering truths. By turns heart- breaking, suspenseful, romantic, and sophisticated, Since We Fell is a novel of profound psychological insight and tension. It is Dennis Lehane at his very best.
World Gone Byby Dennis Lehane
Late spring, 1943. The world is at war but the American mob is in its heyday. Former crime boss Joe Coughlin now works as a consigliere to the infamous Bartolo Crime Family, effortlessly handling its interests in Tampa, Boston, and Cuba. In the decade since he lost his wife in a cascade of bullets, Joe has made a home for himself and his son, and once again forged everything out of nothing: money, power, a relationship with a beautiful woman, and a privileged place in Tampa's shadowy underworld.But a rumor surfaces that someone wants Joe dead. And he has only days to figure out who, or he will die. And then there's the ghost--a young boy who appears on the fringes of Joe's vision and seems to be trying to tell him something. Racing against time and fate, Joe hurtles through a violent yet intoxicating world on the brink of total collapse or epic triumph, a world on the cusp of reinvention and rebirth--where the old codes, the old sins, and the old dreams may soon be swept away once and for all.ltimately, the wages of a lifetime of sin will finally be paid in full.Dennis Lehane vividly recreates the rise of the mob during a world at war, from a masterfully choreographed Ash Wednesday gun battle in the streets of Ybor City to a chilling, heartbreaking climax in a Cuban sugar cane field. Told with verve and skill, World Gone By is a superb work of historical fiction from one of "the most interesting and accomplished American novelists" (Washington Post) writing today.
World Gone By (Joe Coughlin #2)by Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of The Given Day and Live by Night, returns with a psychologically and morally complex novel of blood, crime, passion, and vengeance, set in Cuba and Ybor City, Florida, during World War II, in which Joe Coughlin must confront the cost of his criminal past and present.<P> Ten years have passed since Joe Coughlin's enemies killed his wife and destroyed his empire, and much has changed. Prohibition is dead, the world is at war again, and Joe's son, Tomás, is growing up. Now, the former crime kingpin works as a consigliore to the Bartolo crime family, traveling between Tampa and Cuba, his wife's homeland.<P> A master who moves in and out of the black, white, and Cuban underworlds, Joe effortlessly mixes with Tampa's social elite, U.S. Naval intelligence, the Lansky-Luciano mob, and the mob-financed government of Fulgencio Batista. He has everything—money, power, a beautiful mistress, and anonymity.<P> But success cannot protect him from the dark truth of his past—and ultimately, the wages of a lifetime of sin will finally be paid in full.<P> Dennis Lehane vividly recreates the rise of the mob during a world at war, from a masterfully choreographed Ash Wednesday gun battle in the streets of Ybor City to a chilling, heartbreaking climax in a Cuban sugar cane field.
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Florida's citrus industry suffered a major setback during the fiscal cliff crisis that plagued the nation's lawmakers.
During the political standoff that marked the opening of the new year, legislation important to the U.S. citrus industry overall — establishment of a national citrus research trust fund — died and was a victim of the political infighting.
The trust fund bill, pushed by Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., would have established a fund dedicated to finding cures for citrus diseases and other threats to the industry.
Money sourced from tariffs importers already pay would fund research to fight citrus greening, a disease that has struck the major citrus producing states.
Citrus industry leaders, however, say that temporary defeat isn't stopping them from trying to advance the legislation.
While growers and leaders from California, Florida and Texas furiously compete in marketing, they plan to hold hands and walk the floors of Congress to move the bill forward during a Feb. 14 Washington, D.C., "fly-in," said Mike Sparks, executive vice president and chief executive officer of Lakeland-based Florida Citrus Mutual.
"We clearly have more work to do, but we're up to the challenge," Sparks said.
"We've pursued this a long time. We've pushed this football 95 yards. We have to get it that last 5 yards and push it over the goal line."
If the industry-appointed board of directors administering the trust fund, which would focus solely on research, determines funding needs to be invested to help one state fight a future disease, the money will be shifted there, he said.
Doug Bournique, executive vice president of the Indian River Citrus League, Vero Beach, Fla., said researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences are getting close to discovering some disease resistance.
He said it's good that growers have Nelson, a ranking Democratic budget committee member, fighting for them, particularly when the Democrats control the U.S. Senate and the White House.
However, Bournique said even if Jeb Bush and George W. Bush were in elected office, it wouldn't have been a sure bet that the bill would pass.
"Any other time, it probably would have happened, but with the environment that's there now, there's no way it would happen," Bournique said. "It's a tough task in this fiscal environment."
Peter Chaires, executive vice president of Florida Citrus Packers Inc., Lakeland, Fla., said so many people from different state industry organizations spent time fighting for the bill.
"Not everything was pinned on it, but its passage would have been a substantial boost to the program," Chaires said.
"I can't say it only slowed us down from finding an answer by two to three years. All we know is the more powder we have in our keg, the better we'll be especially when we see the disease making inroads in many cases despite our best efforts to combat it."
He said the cumulative stress from greening, which first affected sweet oranges and then grapefruit, has now moved to some of the specialty fruit, including tangerines, whose burdened trees are producing smaller fruit.
Florida is down to dedicated growers who possess a strong desire to remain in the business and are experimenting with many remedies.
Florida growers and industry leaders continue feverishly working to keep the disease's advance in check and are investing heavily in solutions to stop it in its tracks.
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They are a perfect fit. There is a strong vinyl smell, but we let them air out in the garage for a couple of days before putting them in the car.


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What is this medicine?BORTEZOMIB (bor TEZ oh mib) is a chemotherapy drug. It slows the growth of cancer cells. This medicine is used to treat multiple myeloma, lymphoma, and other cancers.
What should I tell my health care provider before I take this medicine?They need to know if you have any of these conditions:
How should I use this medicine?This medicine is for injection into a vein or for injection under the skin. It is given by a health care professional in a hospital or clinic setting.
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What should I watch for while using this medicine?Visit your doctor for checks on your progress. This drug may make you feel generally unwell. This is not uncommon, as chemotherapy can affect healthy cells as well as cancer cells. Report any side effects. Continue your course of treatment even though you feel ill unless your doctor tells you to stop.
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Anti-arrhythmic Medication v. MRI-Merge Ablation in the Treatment of Ventricular Tachycardia
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Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is a morbid arrhythmia responsible for many sudden deaths and ICD shocks. Despite much progress in the treatment of arrhythmia, VT remains a therapeutic challenge. Most patients with VT have an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) for secondary prevention of sudden cardiac death, however, an ICD merely treats VT, it does not prevent VT. In patients with recurrent VT and ICD shocks, two strategies are available to decrease the burden of VT. The first is antiarrhythmic drugs, and the second is VT ablation. The aim of this study is to compare the efficacy of antiarrhythmic drugs and VT ablation guided by MRI. VT can sometimes be suppressed with antiarrhythmic medications, however, these are often ineffective, and carry a high burden of side effects. Many forms of VT can be cured by selective destruction of critical electrical pathways with catheter ablation. A major limitation in the ablation of VT, however, is the time required to localize scar tissue and important pathways for targeting of lesions. Magnetic resonance imaging can now obtain reliable images of scar location within the ventricles. Recent advances in electroanatomical mapping systems allow operators to import pre-acquired images into the mapping system. The aim of this study is to examine the feasibility of importing historic MRI scar maps of the ventricles into the electroanatomical system and using such images to guide catheter ablation, as compared to antiarrhythmic drug suppression of VT. We suspect that MRI guidance will be especially useful in patients with "unstable" VT, i.e. VT that causes an abrupt drop in blood pressure, and thus cannot be maintained in the electrophysiology (EP) lab for mapping and entertainment purposes. Patients referred for VT ablation have ICDs. Through previously completed animal work (Circulation 2004; 110(5): 475-82) and a human trial (2006 Sep 19;114(12):1277-84) we have demonstrated the safety of MRI in the setting of pacemakers and implantable defibrillators using appropriate precautions. Through careful device programming and using MRI sequences with limited energy exposure (specific absorption rate < 2 W/kg) we will study the pre procedural myocardial anatomy of patients enrolled into this study.
The primary endpoint will be lack of VT documented by implantable defibrillator (when present) interrogation or Holter monitoring 6 months post ablation. The secondary endpoints will be comparison of inducible arrhythmia at the end of the procedure, procedure time, comparison of endocardial voltage mapping to scar on delayed enhancement MRI images, and complications in each study arm.
|Ventricular Tachycardia
|Procedure: MRI guided VT ablation Drug: Increased dose of amiodarone
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Anti-arrhythmic Medication v. MRI-Merge Ablation in the Treatment of Ventricular Tachycardia
- Freedom from ventricular tachycardia documented by implantable defibrillator cardioverter 6 months post ablation. [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
- inducible arrhythmia at the end of the procedure, [ Time Frame: During procedure ]
- Procedure time [ Time Frame: During procedure ]
- Comparison of endocardial voltage mapping to scar on delayed enhancement MRI images [ Time Frame: During procedure ]
- Complications of the procedure [ Time Frame: 30 days following procedure ]
|Study Start Date:
|June 2012
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|August 2015
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|August 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 1
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided ablation of ventricular tachycardia.
Procedure: MRI guided VT ablation
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided ablation of ventricular tachycardia (VT)
Active Comparator: 2
Anti-arrhythmic group.
Drug: Increased dose of amiodarone
Increase the dose of amiodarone according to the following scheme:
current dose -> new dose 100 once daily (QD) -> 200 QD; 200 QD -> 400 QD; 300 QD -> 600 QD; 400 QD -> 600 QD
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 99 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- Current treatment with amiodarone
- Ischemic or non-ischemic cardiomyopathy
- Monomorphic ventricular tachycardia at any cycle length, with > 1 occurrence of the same cycle length and morphology, at least one episode needs to be of sufficient duration to result in a shock.
- No contraindication to up titration of meds or to VT radiofrequency ablation (RFA)
- Primary antiarrhythmic medication other than amiodarone
- Amiodarone at dose of 600 mg daily or higher
- Polymorphic VT as culprit rhythm
- History of metal exposure (welding)
- Pregnant women
- Recent myocardial infarction
- Planned coronary revascularization
- Implantable cardiac devices not previously tested for safety in the setting of MRI
- Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) < 30 ml/min
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00721032
|United States, Oregon
|Oregon Health & Science University
|Portland, Oregon, United States, 97239
|Responsible Party:
|Johns Hopkins University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00721032 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|July 21, 2008
|Last Updated:
|May 9, 2017
Keywords provided by Johns Hopkins University:
Ventricular tachycardia (VT)
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD)
Electrophysiology study
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Tachycardia, Ventricular
Arrhythmias, Cardiac
Heart Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Pathologic Processes
Anti-Arrhythmia Agents
Vasodilator Agents
Potassium Channel Blockers
Membrane Transport Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Sodium Channel Blockers
Cytochrome P-450 CYP1A2 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C9 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2D6 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inhibitors
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Tony Stewart took the blame for the big wreck in the Sprint Unlimited Saturday night as an attempted move for the lead went awry and sent six cars to the garage at Daytona International Speedway.
Just 15 laps into the 75-lap preseason race, Stewart was trying to move down the track to make a move on leader Matt Kenseth, but he clipped Marcos Ambrose's car, causing the field to check up behind them.
"I made a move for the lead and was probably a little anxious too early," Stewart said. "I was kind of stagnant where I was at and I was having fun moving forward and felt (like) racing."
Stewart and Ambrose were able to collect their cars, but the upper line checked up, with Denny Hamlin running into the back of Jimmie Johnson, sending cars spinning all around the track.
Hamlin, Johnson, Mark Martin, Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch and Kurt Busch all suffered too much damage to return to the 19-car field.
"I got a big run on the 20 (of Kenseth) and I went to the bottom — I thought I was clear," Stewart said. "(My) spotter did not clear me. I went on my own. I thought I had enough of a run to be clear of the third-place guy and I'm pretty sure I clipped whoever was in third."
Drivers viewed the accident as avoidable but also attributed it to the nature of restrictor-plate racing, especially one with a new car. The 2013 cars feature new bodies, which include more curved front bumpers that don't allow drivers to push each other easily and small rear spoilers that make the cars more unstable with less rear downforce.
There is still a learning curve as far as racing in two or three lanes in the draft.
"We're all trying to figure out what you can or cannot do with this car, and what you have to do to make moves and pass and everything," Busch said.
"(That was) a little overzealous right now. It's 15 laps into the race. We don't need to be crashing yet."
Hamlin said cars began getting a little bit loose just before the accident.
"Once someone bobbles, we're all on top of each other so everyone's braking point and reaction time is going to be different," Hamlin said.
"And then guys start getting run over. … I knew Jimmie was in front of me or beside me and we kind of checked up at the same time, but we got plowed from behind."
Martin said he isn't sure why all the cars on the high line got so bunched up.
"The cars up higher on the racetrack tangled for some reason," Martin said. "We were going to get through there and I got squeezed. … We didn't get very far along there, did we?"


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Walks a concern to White Sox pitching coach
CHICAGO -- The White Sox entered Tuesday's Interleague contest against the Giants leading the Major Leagues with 271 walks issued by their pitchers.
They also sit 27th with 488 strikeouts from their hurlers. Add in a defense that has made the third-most errors in the Majors, and it becomes a little easier to understand why the pitching staff has a 4.37 ERA that ranks 26th overall.
White Sox pitching coach Don Cooper doesn't seem too worried about the defense behind his staff or the fact that Chris Sale stands as the team's only strikeout pitcher. But the walks are unacceptable in Cooper's mind.
"Walks [stink] no matter if we are catching every single ball," Cooper said. "It's something we've never led in and I don't like leading in. If you don't throw it over sooner or later, you can't be here.
"You have to throw it over. You can't be putting guys on base, especially in this park. We've known that for 100 years."
Cooper contends that walks stand out as more of an individual statistic than a team-wide problem. For example, Erik Johnson walked 15 over 23 2/3 innings before being optioned to Triple-A Charlotte, and Felipe Paulino walked 12 in 18 1/3 innings before being placed on the disabled list. John Danks leads the team with 32 walks in 82 innings but has issued just six free passes in his last 29 1/3 innings entering Tuesday, while Andre Rienzo has had location issues with 25 walks in 54 innings.
Both Daniel Webb (22 walks) and Jake Petricka (19) have had trouble with free passes in relief, but Cooper doesn't want these young and talented relievers backing off their stuff.
"I want them throwing their best stuff and we'll continue to work on more and more strikes with all of their pitches," Cooper said. "It's not a column I'm happy with, but that's more an individual thing and not a team thing."
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.