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In an otherwise mundane day of testimony in the Jeffrey Pyne trial, an Oakland County Sheriff's detective testified Tuesday that, in his opinion, Pyne killed his mother.
Thus far, defense lawyer James Champion has ended his cross examination of each witness by asking whether the witness knows who killed Ruth Pyne.
"I know who killed Ruth Pyne," Detective Steven Zdravkowski said when asked that question Tuesday afternoon.
"Your client, Jeffrey Pyne, killed Ruth Pyne. I'm basing my opinion on the evidence that I've seen and my own observations."
Zdravkowski stated several reasons for his opinion after stating he has "been a part of the investigation since day one."
"He was (at the home) at 1:30 (p.m. May 27, 2011) according to what he told investigators," Zdravkowski said.
Ruth Pyne's body was found in the garage of the family's Highland Township home around 2:30 p.m. that day. She was severely beaten and stabbed several times.
"Between that timeline and the injuries he can't explain on his hands, the lack of cooperation with investigators (and) his lack of emotion, none of it made sense," Zdravkowski said.
"Part of the scene that really didn't make sense is how could there be so much trauma to Ruth's body, and you walk into the house and everything was pristine? Clear. Not a drop of blood. He had time to clean it.
"It's my opinion, but the only reason there was no emotional change (when Jeffrey Pyne learned that his mother was a homicide victim) is because he already knew that."
Zdravkowski, who was one of three people to testify Monday about Jeffrey Pyne's perceived lack of emotion upon being told of his mother's death, said the reaction "terrified" him.
During testimony in front of Oakland County Circuit Judge Leo Bowman, Zdravkowski was also asked about items that Jeffrey Pyne's father, Bernie Pyne, said were missing from the home in the days following Ruth Pyne's death.
Missing items, which were reported June 8, 2011, included two boards, which may have been one-by-fours or two-by-fours, a screwdriver and black box cutters. A pipe wrench was moved but was not missing.
Jurors also heard testimony about forensic evidence collected from the scene. Investigators took blood samples, hairs and fingernail clippings from Ruth Pyne. They also submitted sink handles and a drain collected from the laundry tub at the home and multiple towels for forensic testing.
Following Zdravkowski's testimony, Oakland County Sheriff's detective Kenneth Hiller took the stand.
Hiller's description of the crime scene matched previous testimony from others.
"The house was neat and orderly," Hiller said.
Hiller said Ruth Pyne's head had "a lot of damage," and multiple puncture wounds were found on her neck. Her hands were also bruised.
The injuries "indicated to me that she had been killed," Hiller said.
"It appeared to me that the hands had been struck by something that caused serious injuries to the hands."
After Oakland County Assistant Prosecutor John Skrzynski finished initial questioning, court was adjourned for the day. The trial will resume at 8:30 a.m. Monday, and testimony will be heard each day next week.
Contact staff writer Dave Phillips at 248-745-4631 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @dave_phillips1.


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Nebraska dental museum opens wide with history
Dr. Stan Harn glances over his spread of primitive dental tools and grabs a T-shaped metal instrument with a hook on one end.Full story
Dr. Stan Harn glances over his spread of primitive dental tools and grabs a T-shaped metal instrument with a hook on one end.Full story
A rare letter is for sale that President Abraham Lincoln wrote to one of his top generals at a turning point of the Civil War. Full story
The state psychiatric hospital in Lincoln has received accreditation from a national organization that evaluates health care entities based on quality standards. Full story
A memorial dedicated to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. opened to the public Monday in Washington, D.C. Reverend Jesse Jackson, who knew and worked with King in the civil rights movement, discusses the memorial with msnbc's Thomas Roberts and says King still has "unfinished business."
Discussing the automaker's Q2 earnings and overall U.S. sales forescast, with Alan Mulally, Ford Motor Company president & CEO, and CNBC's Phil LeBeau.
Mo' Joe: The Lincoln Center is the world's largest performing arts center. The Lincoln Center's President Reynold Levy joins Morning Joe to discuss how arts organizations can thrive in a tough economy, and how they've managed to balance their budget every year.
Ford Motor Company's Mark Fields joins Morning Joe to discuss developing new fuel-efficient cars, and the New York International Auto Show.
Insight on whether Ford should raise its sales estimates for the year, with George Pipas, Forf chief sales analyst and CNBC's Phil LeBeau.
LINCOLN, NE - SEPTEMBER 17: Aaron Green #2 of the Nebraska Cornhuskers scores a touchdown during first half action of their game against the Washington Huskies at Memorial Stadium September 17, 2011 in Lincoln, Nebraska.
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 11: Actress Victoria Justice and singer Omarion attend the TEEN VOGUE Declare Your Denim Fashion Show At Lincoln Center During Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week on September 11, 2011 in New York City.
Danielle Bacus checks her cell phone for messages as she waits with her sons, Izaiah Smith, 2, left, and Kaiden Bacus, 9, at an evacuation center in Lincoln, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. Bacus and her family were among the thousands of Lincoln resident who were forced to evacuate their homes,

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Say what you want about their news channel and their leadership, but Sunday night on the Fox broadcast network was about as gay as TV gets.
It started, of course, with The Simpsons, one of the most gay-friendly shows on TV (though Sunday night's was only gayish — it dealt with foodies). Also on deck was Family Guy — again, a tres gay series with a queer little baby who wants to take over the world and characters who break out into Broadway production numbers at the drop of a hat. We're used to that.
But it reached new heights of homophilia with Allen Gregory and American Dad.
Allen Gregory is the new series from Jonah Hill. The premise of the show is already inherently queer: Two gay dads, pictured, rear their pretentious little 7-year-old Allen Gregory. There have been, in the previous few outings, several jokes per episode about gay sex between the pompous dad Richard (voiced by French Stewart) and his butch, derided partner Jeremy. But last night, not only were the dads central characters, the plot was all about a school dance where all the students in the elementary school were expected to ask same-sex partners to the dance. This is edgy stuff for established cable shows, but for "family night" on a freshman series?! Wow. The episode was not only funny (I'm already a huge fan of the series), but also witheringly insightful about perceptions of gay people. And the attempted seduction of Jeremy by Richard (including dropped towel) was hilarious.
That was followed by American Dad — again, well-established with a gay history, from the out couple across the street to the fey alien Roger who lives in the attic. But Roger finally met someone romantic … and it turned out the be Ricky Martin. The episode included Ricky and Roger kissing on a couch (and they were really going at it). You gotta love that!
I hope the ratings for both shows are good, and they are certainly worth a Hulu.com (here for American Dad, here for Allen Gregory) visit. Enjoy!


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Opel Strengthens Its Position in Russia
MOSCOW, RUSSIA - October 21, 2013: The General Motors (GM) business in Russia will be integrated into GM Europe, the European group of GM, effective January 1st, 2014. So far the business in Russia is run by GM International Operations (GMIO) based in Shanghai. It is an important step to strengthen the position of Opel on the Russian market.
"This is the right decision at the right time. Russia is an important part of the European market and for Opel it is the third biggest market in Europe," says Dr. Karl-Thomas Neumann, Chairman of Opel/Vauxhall and President, GM Europe. "All forecasts point out that Russia will become the biggest market in Europe in the next years. Opel enjoys high reputation in Russia. With our strong model portfolio we want to clearly increase our market share." GM brands in Russia are Opel, Chevrolet and Cadillac.
Andy Dunstan, until now Executive Director Sales Central & Eastern Europe and International Operations will take over the management of the business in Russia effective November 1st, 2013. Dunstan, who brings in valuable experiences from Product Planning, Marketing, Business Development and Sales, will report to Dr. Karl-Thomas Neumann. Dunstan follows Jim Bovenzi, who will move to Detroit as Executive Director Global Localization Strategy.


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Stars & Stripes Festival, Michigan's largest free summer festival, has announced today that Halestorm has been added as one of the featured headliners this year, presented by WRIF 101FM. Halestorm will take the stage on Sunday, June 30th at the 7th Annual Stars & Stripes Festival (June 28 - 29) at its new location, Freedom Hill County Park in Sterling Heights. VIP tickets are $30 and go on sale Friday, May 24th at 10 am.
After scoring two top 10 singles ("I Get Off" and "It's Not You") from their self-titled debut and touring steadily for two years with acts as diverse as Shinedown, Stone Sour, Disturbed, Megadeth, Papa Roach, Godsmack and countless others, Pennsylvania quartet Halestorm are back with their second full-length, The Strange Case of.... Their track "Love Bites...(So Do I)" from that album earned the band a Grammy award this year in the Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance category, the first female-fronted band to both be nominated and win in that category.
Music takes center stage at the Stars & Stripes Festival, bringing together world-class recording artists each night as well as the hottest regional and local acts performing on five different stages throughout the festival - over 100 bands in all.
Stars & Stripes Festival Dates/Hours:
Friday, June 28 (2 pm - Midnight)
- Scheduled performances by: Collective Soul, Randy Travis and King's X
Saturday, June 29 (Noon - Midnight)
- Scheduled performances by: CAKE, Puddle of Mudd, Drowning Pool and Saliva
Sunday, June 30 (Noon - 11:00 pm):
- Scheduled performances by: Halestorm, Kool & the Gang and Everlast
All concerts are free. VIP tickets available for purchase at www.starsandstripesfest.com or charge by phone by calling AXS at 888-929-7849.
"We're very excited to include Halestorm in the Stars & Stripes music lineup this year," said Joe Nieporte of Funfest Productions which produces the annual festival. "This band is quickly taking off and I know they will be a crowd favorite."
There will be plenty of other fun activities and attractions including a huge carnival midway, "Fearless Flores" circus show, Shell Camino monster truck rides, an Arts & Crafts Village, a brilliant laser light show on Saturday and dazzling fireworks on Sunday. The always popular, Family Fun Zone, will feature camel rides, a petting zoo, Banana Derby, Classic K-9 Dog Show and a White Tiger Discovery Exhibit.
Freedom Hill is located at 14900 Metropolitan Parkway in Sterling Heights. Admission to Stars & Stripes Festival is FREE and all music performances are free. VIP concert seating, carnival rides and food are available for purchase. For more information, visit www.starsandstripesfest.com or call 586-493-4344.


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Topic: New Member - Wife of newly diagnosed
Hi All - I am Carrie and my husband was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma in the last few weeks. He actually found out that he had cancer the day after his 38th bday, April 22nd and then days later we found out it was CC. He was diagnosed in Atlanta but then we went to MD Anderson last week and received confirmation on the diagnosis. We are back in ATL and he starts chemo on Thursday. We have 3 kids who are 5, 3 and 2. I just wanted to introduce myself. We are looking into going to Mayo in JAX. I don't know if that would be a waste after already going to MD Anderson. I am sure that my husband Travis will be introducing himself soon as well. We are finding our peace and hope in God. We are happy to have found this group. Carrie


text: Hamrick: MU media deal not 'underperforming' By Doug Smock January 28, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Marshall University's athletic director was taken aback by speculation that multimedia firm IMG College was overpaying West Virginia University on its impending deal in order to "squeeze" advertisers into subsidizing Thundering Herd programming.Mike Hamrick said Monday he is further baffled by a characterization of MU as one of IMG's "underperforming" properties. He took issue with a MetroNews report Thursday on the subject."That is irresponsible reporting. That is wrong," Hamrick said. "Our number of clients that have worked with us in the last three years has significantly increased. We've been probably, from the first day IMG and us have been working together, one of their best properties."The MetroNews report by Allan Taylor cited an anonymous "industry source" that said IMG College was not only bidding high to land the WVU contract, but willing to overpay with an eye toward subsidizing "underperforming" properties at the University of Pittsburgh and Marshall.In turn, the source told MetroNews that could "squeeze" WVU sponsors into bundling ad packages to help out Pitt and MU."IMG could say, 'You want the Mountaineers? Then you're going to have to buy Marshall as well,' " the source was quoted as saying. "I promise you, IMG will hold some people hostage to get more money for Marshall."That particular theory, and the quote, was repeated in Monday's Charleston Daily Mail, and it's being disputed by Marshall supporters, starting with Hamrick.Two sources confirmed that two years ago, MU was the most profitable non-BCS school under the IMG umbrella. One source said the school even outperformed UCLA and Illinois at the time.Essentially, the model is something like this: IMG and other like entities pay athletic departments a set fee in exchange for near-complete advertising, marketing and multimedia rights, and make their profit by exceeding those rights fees in marketing revenue. IMG produces the radio network programming, including the weekly coaches' shows, and the coaches' television shows. Where possible, the company takes advantage of advertising opportunities on telecasts by Conference USA's partners, including CBS Sports and Comcast.Also, IMG is responsible for attracting revenue from in-stadium signage, the school's official website and other avenues.MU's relationship with IMG's predecessor, International Sports Properties, began in the mid-1990s, in ISP's infancy. In fact, Marshall was ISP's third client, after Wake Forest and Virginia Tech.IMG, which purchased ISP in 2010, and Marshall reached a new 11-year deal beginning in 2010-11, which bumped up rights fees from $750,000 per year to $1.43 million per year. As part of the agreement, IMG and MU will split money that exceeds a higher, unspecified threshold.As part of the deal, IMG bucked up for several improvements at Joan C. Edwards Stadium and the Cam Henderson Center, including new video boards, LED ribbon boards and improved speaker systems, among other things.IMG serves more than 70 schools, and its website says it serves 67 of the 70 bowl participants from the 2012 season, plus the NCAA and its 89 championships, plus a few conferences in general. There are several competitors in the field, led by Learfield Sports. West Virginia Radio Corporation, owner of the MetroNews network and a number of stations in Charleston, Morgantown and other state cities, has bid on WVU's contract and appears to be losing out. The company reportedly stands to lose considerable revenue, and has laid off several well-known personalities - long-time employee Rick Johnson and former sports director Frank Giardina have left the local airwaves, for example.Also, Marshall switched its Charleston affiliation this academic year from West Virginia Radio's WKAZ-FM to Bristol Broadcasting's WVTS, 94.5-FM and 1240-AM.Reach Doug Smock at 304-348-5130 or email@example.com or follow him at twitter.com/dougsmock. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Deer in 8 WV counties found dead from EHD 2 WVU law professor announces run for Congress 3 New company planning $73M synthetic fuel plant in Greenbrier County 4 Richwood mayor on leave amid investigation of purchases 5 West Virginia high school football scores, local box scores -- Week 5 SC, Bluefield, Catholic boys keep No. 1 ranks Previous Story Girls basketball standings, statistics Next Story


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Okay, I´m kinda new to this whole bag making thingie. I´ve been pretty much playing with what I have ran across in stores.
But for this season I´ve been starting to put some more effort to it. And for that I would need some advice. This is what I´ve gotten together so far:
Stable Control Drivers:
C-PD 168g (new, orange) For tunnel shots, and control drives.
Distance Drivers:
EchoStar Destroyer 172g (new, yellow) For distance.
Understable Drivers:
Star Valkyrie 170g (new, blue) For right turners and standing still shots.
Star Valkyrie 166g (very beat, light blue) For annies, and rollers.
Moderately Overstable Drivers:
S-PD Freak 175g (new, yellow) For moderate wind, and hyzers.
Very Overstable Drivers:
ChampyStar Boss 174g (new, red) For really windy conditions.
Dx Classic Roc 175g (new, white) for approach, and short tunnel shots.
DX Coyote 177g (very beat, white) for annies.
P-MD2 173g (new, orange) for straight shots.
D-GM 175g (new, red) for hyzers, and longer midrange shots.
SSS Magic 175g (new, red) Just for putting.
SSS Wiz 173g (beat, grippy, pink) Rainy day putter, and for some anny approach shots.
I have 2 or more identical copies of each disc, (except for Coyote and Anny-Valk) and I switch them between days, so the wear and tear is slower.
Also I´m thinking of getting a Latitude 64 Opto Pain for windy midarange duties.
Feedback would be nice, since I´m still a total beginner...And I havent really been able to test this setting out, due to all the snow.
If you have some suggestions of what the bag is lacking, or has too much of, please let me know.
Thanks in advance.


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Ok, since we didn't get together prior to the game to make a wager (thank God or I would be broke) I thought I'd still own up to this and give Seth credit for calling the win here.
Beating Portland was a good win, they are a really bad team right now but it still was a good win.
Beating the 76ers tonight was not a good win. This was an outstanding win and maybe even a little bit of a statement win. Does anybody believe that it was a coincidence that when the 76ers beat us in Philly at the beginning of the year that George Hill & Danny Granger didn't play. Then tonight not only do they play but Danny leads us in scoring and George just plucked their souls right from their chest in the 4th with sharpshooting that would make a Marine Sniper jealous. Not to mention that both of them were second on our club in rebounding with 7.
I will always give them credit for beating us in Philly but in my heart I've always put a caveat on that win & tonight was vindication for that.
What makes the win even better was that it was on a national broadcast & for a short while the NBA whether they wanted to or not had to pay attention to both of our teams. Hey we beat Philly but I have no hate for them, they are really a mirror image of our club & more than anything I want a team like one of us (preferably us) to actually get to the finals. Show the world that you don't have to have the MVP or a big market or a superstar.
However since I was at the game I didn't get to watch the broadcast so I have no idea if they paid attention to the game or talked about Dwight Howard or Mike D'Antoni all night. I came home from the game and watched NBAtv for two and a half solid hours before they even mentioned our game. They showed highlights of the Bulls/Heat game while it was still in progress mind you & they spent a good hour talking about Howard (which I understand) but when they went and did two segments on the Lakers beating the Hornets in O.T. I about lost my mind. Finally they got to our highlights only to have to hear Shaq spend ¾ of the segment talking about Mark Madsen of all people. Sometimes I just hate the NBA's marketing. I know they aim for big markets and promote big names but for the love of God until we blew the game open late this was a very good basketball game.
That is really what I want to stress to everyone tonight if you get nothing else from my post. This was an outstanding basketball game between two very evenly matched teams.
We won and we won going away but we are not going to shoot that well from the floor every game. The next game between these two teams will be a war on the court and I expect it to go down to the wire.
Interesting fact of the night, after being slaughtered by the officiating crew in the Blazers game the Indiana Pacers tied the franchise low of 8 personal fouls, yes that is eight. We hit more free throws than the 76ers attempted. What makes this even more remarkable was the fact that we were very active on the defensive end, we just defended without fouling very often. The Granger block on Young was probably a foul though, I haven't been able to see a replay with a good angle yet, but from the fieldhouse I thought he got him on the body. But it did happen right in front of the ref and he didn't call it and Young didn't complain much about it either, so maybe it just looked like a foul and wasn't.
It goes without saying that George Hill was outstanding and obviously we are a totally different team when he plays, we are in another tier of teams when he plays well.
But his contributions should not completely overshadow the rest of the outstanding play by the bench. Slowly but surely Tyler Hansbrough has now put together a string of decent games. I'll deal more with him in a moment but I just want to make sure to point out that this is the second game in a row that he has played solid outstanding defense. His rebounding was a little lax but honestly there were not a lot of boards to go around tonight as both teams were shooting lights out.
Lou, A.J. & Dahntay all contributed big when they played as well.
However while I am thrilled with the win and even more thrilled that we beat a good team there were a couple of trouble spots tonight and one that may become a lingering problem that the team will ultimately have to deal with.
Darren Collison was just bad tonight, there is no other way to say it. Every minute he was on the floor was a min. that should have gone to someone else. Not only was he inept at the offensive end but he was just flat out destroyed by Holiday on the defensive end. He is not normally this bad, but he has been in a funk now for a little bit of time and tonight it could have cost us. I don't believe in the +/- stat but every single pacer had a + rating with the exception of one player, Darren Collison was a 0 on the +/- stat. Again I don't use that myself but I do point it out tonight just to illustrate that he had a bad game.
His bad game caused Frank to extend A.J. Price's minutes which was fine because A.J., while once again not being able to hit the ocean from a boat, did play great defense and ran a smooth offense. So why was this a problem you might ask? Well for whatever reason we are now only playing Hill as the backup 2 and not making him a combo guard.
Again, why is this a problem you are going to ask? Well the repercussion of this is that Paul George get's his min. limited which I'm not sure is good for the franchise in either the long term or the short term to be honest with you.
Paul only played 19 min. tonight and only had 1 foul. Frankly I just don't see how we can continue this going forward. He is not the franchises future, he is a huge part of the franchise right now. We either need to go back to using Hill as a combo guard or well frankly D.C. needs to go to the bench and sadly although he doesn't deserve it A.J. needs to go back to the deep rotation. I would not argue against putting D.C. in the deep rotation but I don't think you can justify taking a starter and doing that to him.
We won and now have won two in a row so all is going to be harmonious in the world but we all know we are not going to go undefeated the rest of the way so I don't think Paul is going to be very happy playing less than 20 min. a game very often.
Let's do tonight's odd thoughts in long form, yea I know we already have.
Danny Granger: I'll open with a quote from Danny over at Pacers.com "I thought we shot well tonight. I came out on a little bit more of a mission". I think that mission was that Andre Iguodala made the all-star team while Danny got to have a vacation. Not only did he shoot very well from the floor but Danny was playing defense all night and hitting the glass. Andre hit two three's but they were both with Danny running in his face. But the main thing for Danny was that he followed the game plan and never once forced it. Early in the game he made it a point to get Roy involved in the early offense posting him and then re posting him for shots. When he blocked that shot he ran down to the other end and was hit in the corner for a three, but instead he dribbled in two steps and hit Hill who hit a three point shot that actually caused the net to burst into flames. Ok so it didn't burst into flames but it should have. Even though the building erupted, the team on the bench went crazy and other players on the floor were overjoyed there was no happier person in that building that Danny Granger. He pumped his fist and ran back as though he had just hit that shot and while he didn't he sure created everything that led up to it. Just a great overall game from Danny on a night when we really needed it.
David West: Neutralized Elton Brand and that is no small task. Tonight he was stepping back and hitting the 15-18' jumper and did combine a few layups in there as well as he and Roy Hibbert combined for an absolutely brilliant play where West cut to the basket and Roy found him from the other side for the reverse hoop. He also did some passing of his own as he had 4 assists for the game. But I think his value tonight was that he knew exactly how to make Brand ineffective by taking him outside of his comfort zone and not allowing him to hang around and block shots.
Roy Hibbert: The team's goal early on was to establish Roy and while he only hit 3 field goals he was huge in drawing fouls on the 76er big men. Roy had 10 free throw attempts which is a huge number and even better that he hit 8 of them. He also was a factor in making Philly take a few more outside shots than they probably wanted as he blocked 3 of their shots. The one foul that he got was pretty bogus from my angle because I though he got all ball and Iguodala initiated the body contact. Anyway once we had him established Roy then spent a great deal of the game playing point center and actually led our team with 5 assists. That is a testament to how good of a passer he is and how bad our point guard play can be when our starter can't even get 5 (he got 2).
Paul George: Ok I talked about this above but I'll address it again. I just don't see how you can limit him to 19 min. without him either being in foul trouble or struggling. To the best of my knowledge he was doing neither. I know that he had a jumper blocked by Evan Turner but I can't think that would be enough to merit the benching. When he was on the floor I thought he played very well and once again had a highlight dunk when he fought through a lose ball and a couple of 76ers for it. He missed his free throw shot but we got the rebound. I'll chalk it up to Hill just having an outstanding game but if they are going to only use him as a two then sadly Dahntay Jones may have to have his min. cut to get Paul more time on the floor.
Darren Collison: The less said the better.
Tyler Hansbrough: I never thought I would live long enough to see Tyler chase Thad Young on the baseline to the middle and rise up and cause Young to alter and take a bad shot. This is the second game in a row that he has stepped up on the defensive end. The fact that he was hitting his shots helped a lot but he can still help the team if he always focuses on defense and rebounding. His shot will come and go but those should remain constant. When both Tyler & George play at this level it puts us right back up into the upper tier of teams because then we legitimately have no let down when our starters go to the bench, which is what was happening early in the year.
George Hill: You can't say enough about the game he played. He was like Zeus firing lighting bolts down from Mount Olympus with his three point shooting but not to be overlooked was the lock down defense that he put on Lou Williams. In fact Tyler & George outplayed their dynamic duo of Thad & Lou. Anyway as much as we missed Danny in that first game with Philly it can be argued that we missed George more because he has the ability to not only guard Lou he can really bother Lou with his very long arms and right in your jersey defense. For a kid who grew up in Indiana when Reggie Miller was in his prime it had to be surreal to have the fieldhouse blowup for him when he hit those three point shots.
Lou Amundson: This guy packs so much into every min. that he is on the floor that it often seems like he plays more min. than he does. Tonight he only got 11 min. but was still 100% from the floor including about a 13' jump shot that hit nothing but net and probably made Doug Collins want to jump off of the jumbo tron head first. Honestly as well as Tyler, David & Roy played tonight it would have been hard to justify more min. from Lou but to me that is why he is so valuable to our club. He isn't going to cause a problem because he didn't get big min. and will still come in and give you solid production whenever his number is called. Also 3 boards and a block in that short time as well.
A.J. Price: I'll just say it, if the Pacers don't want to start Hill because they like his production from the bench they may need to consider giving the nod to Price if Darren can not pull out of this nosedive he is in. His defense was outstanding again tonight and I have no doubt that this is why he played so much, it sure wasn't his shooting. But Holiday became human when Price was defending him compared to Supreme Galactic Ruler that he was when Collison was (I don't really want to use the word guarding him because that would imply that he was attempting to stop him from scoring) on the court with him. Also some nice passing into the post, which on our team can always be an adventure.
Dahntay Jones: Solid fundamentally sound basketball. Stifling defense and smart offense. Having said that I am not sure that if the Pacers continue to play Hill exclusively at the two he can continue to get the majority of the backup 3 min. Not his fault, he doesn't deserve any demotion but Paul George is just too good to play less than 25 min. (minimum IMO) a game.
Ok finally the monkey is off of our backs, we beat a good team. We not only beat them we actually turned up the heat and throttled them at the end of the game. We played physical and once again we outrebounded a good rebounding team. I'll go ahead and say that this was the most smash mouth basketball that we have played in over a month.
Does this mean all is well? Does it mean that we should all feel much better about the club?
Well the answer to those are no & yes. No, we still have to work on a way to beat Atlanta, Orlando, Miami & Chicago but at the very least beating a good team on national TV might give our club the confidence to start being able to at least beat some of the second tier clubs again.
Now we get to have a back to back with the Knicks. As is always our luck D'Antoni quits just before our games, I think of him about what I thought of O'Brien. I was hoping he would get a lifetime contract with the Knicks. However with Woodson as the coach we will see lots of iso ball, so let's hope that they got the "win one for the new coach" win out of their system against the ghost of the Portland Trailblazers.
Let's end this with the teams theme song for the year.


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PSA Post Surgery - Tissue Left Behind
Upon my first follow-up visit 4 months after my robotic RP in Sept. 2009, a PSA level of .19 was detected. Prior to surgery, one of 8 biopsy "samples" contained disease and only to a degree of 6%. My pre-surgery PSA was 4.6, with a Gleason score of 3+3. I am 59 yrs old and had bladder surgery twice, at ages 8 and 10, to correct a congenital stricture in my right ureter. My surgeon thinks there`s a possibility that prostate tissue was left behind amid the significant amount of scar tissue from the bladder surgeries. Is that possible?
It is possible that a PSA of 0.19 could be due to prostate tissue being left behind, which could be either non cancerous tissue (less common) or cancer cells. You have not provided details about the final pathology report after surgery, though your initial biopsy did seem to favor a low grade, low volume disease.
If the final pathology also showed a similar low grade disease with negative surgical margins, then the likelihood of microscopic cancer being left behind would be very low. However, it would be important to monitor the PSA carefully to see whether it increases over time, the next PSA could be done after 3 months. If the PSA continues to increase then that would be more concerning for residual cancer cells and would need to be addressed accordingly.
I have attempted to interpret your situation based on the limited information available, but it is important to look at these PSA levels in the context of your particular clinical situation and the final stage/grade of your cancer, which your urologist would be able to do.
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PARISH councillors in Colden Common have decided to take over the maintenance of a public footpath in order to have it restored.
The footpath, located between Spring Lane and the village green, is owned by Taylor Woodrow.
The firm has offered to bring it up to scratch and pass onto the council for future maintenance.
Parish clerk, Debbie Harding, said: "We're having a lot more mobility scooters round the village and we need to make it more friendly for people to pass. It's such an important footpath used by so many people."
Councillors agreed the footpath served a significant function to members of the community but cited issues with repair works carried out in the past.
Cllr Josephine Anstey said: "Over the years we have spent a lot of money on the path with not a lot of results."
A member of the public said: "It's used a high amount each day by elderly people and parents with push chairs. It really needs to be resurfaced and tarmaced."
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|DYT-1 Dystonia
|Drug: Ampicillin Drug: Sugar pill
|Phase 1
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|A Pilot, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase I Study to Determine the Safety and Efficacy of Ampicillin in Treating Primary Dystonia Symptoms
- Safety and tolerability of Ampicillin in treating DYT-1 dystonia [ Time Frame: 70 days ]The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of treating DYT-1 dystonia with the use of ampicillin as compared to placebo.
- Burke-Fahn Marsden Dystonia Rating Scale (BFM-DRS) [ Time Frame: 70 days ]We will determine if there is a reduction in Burke-Fahn Marsden Dystonia Rating Scale motor scores at the end of the study period and compare with the placebo treated group.
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|September 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2017
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|June 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Active Comparator: Ampicillin
Patients who are randomly selected to receive the active drug will receive Ampicillin (2mg daily for adults and 1 mg daily for children).
Drug: Ampicillin
Ampicillin will be given in capsule form. Dosage will be 2 mg daily for adults and 1 mg daily for children. One capsule will be taken each day for 28 consecutive days. After the first 28 days, there will be a 7 day 'washout' period during which no capsules are taken. Following the 'washout' period, another 28-day supply of Ampicillin will be given to the patient, to be taken in the same manner as described above.
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Patients who are randomly selected to receive the placebo will be given a sugar pill that resembles the active drug.
Drug: Sugar pill
The sugar pill will be given in capsule form. Dosage will be 2 mg daily for adults and 1 mg daily for children. One capsule will be taken each day for 28 consecutive days. After the first 28 days, there will be a 7 day 'washout' period during which no capsules are taken. Following the 'washout' period, another 28-day supply of the sugar pill will be given to the patient, to be taken in the same manner as described above.
Detailed Description:
This is a double-blinded and randomized drug study: neither the patient nor the investigator know if patients are taking study drug (Ampicillin) or placebo.
Three study visits will include neurological exams, review of medical history, genetic test results and video-taped BFM-DRS motor scales. Patients will receive medication during baseline visit, consisting of either Ampicillin drug or placebo, which will be consumed twice daily for 28 days. Following a washout period (no drugs) of 7 days, patient will return to clinic for second study visit and receive second set of medication (placebo -vs- Ampicillin). Medication will be consumed twice daily for 28 days, with patient returning to clinic after a washout period of 7 days for final study visit in clinic.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|7 Years to 80 Years (Child, Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- DYT-1 dystonia, confirmed by genetic testing
- Between ages of 7 and 80 years
- BFM-DRS score greater than 6
Exclusion Criteria:
- Negative DYT-1 dystonia gene test
- Allergy to penicillins or cephalosporins
- Concurrent bacterial, viral or fungal infection at time of enrollment
- Pregnancy
- Inability to follow study protocol
- Lactose intolerance (placebo contains lactose powder)
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01433757
|United States, Florida
|UF Center for Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration
|Gainesville, Florida, United States, 32607
|Principal Investigator:
|Irene Malaty, M.D.
|University of Florida
|Responsible Party:
|University of Florida
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01433757 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|August 5, 2011
|Last Updated:
|July 3, 2017
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Dystonic Disorders
Neurologic Manifestations
Nervous System Diseases
Signs and Symptoms
Movement Disorders
Central Nervous System Diseases
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
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Hurdle tries to keep injury-riddled Bucs on path
PITTSBURGH -- Though he was relegated to just holding the piece of lumber, Andrew McCutchen had a bat in his hand as he and manager Clint Hurdle watched some of the Pirates' batting practice on Wednesday.
"It was kind of like when our starting pitchers go out to the bullpen and watch the guy throw his bullpen [session] that day. I think he's just there for support," Hurdle said. "And I think he's more comfortable with a bat in his hand than standing still."
While last season's National League MVP sits -- though not on the disabled list for now, as the team waits to see if he could be in playing shape before 15 days are up -- the team will try to maintain its spot in the thick of races for both the National League Central and the NL Wild Card.
McCutchen is not the only prominent Pirates player missing time, either. Neil Walker sat Wednesday night for the third time in four games with back tightness; Gerrit Cole is going to make at least one more rehab start and Pedro Alvarez is on the bereavement list. Given the circumstances, Hurdle had a message for his team with the help from another coach.
"Every team in our division has lost key members. We're no different than anybody else," Hurdle said. "I shared a quote with the team yesterday that Lou Holtz made famous: 'Don't tell people your problems. Eighty percent of them don't care, and the other 20 are happy you have them.' It makes sense. Go play. At the end of the day, you have to put nine on the field and go play."
Part of those nine includes the No. 3 spot in the order, which McCutchen owns when healthy. Josh Harrison was penciled there Tuesday against Marlins lefty Brad Hand, and catcher Russell Martin was in the slot Wednesday night against right-hander Tom Koehler.
Hurdle said he "doesn't feel the need to lock in" a permanent three-hole hitter with McCutchen out, and he said it will depend on what the matchups are from game to game.
Stephen Pianovich 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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Grunge survivors return
With what seems like every band you ever loved and lost re-forming in recent years - and quickly cashing in on a lucrative reunion tour playing their hits - it has become entirely reasonable for music fans to have grown cynical of late.
In January, it seemed as though even '90s alt-rock heroes Soundgarden had sold out in such fashion, when they offered no new songs in nonetheless blistering sets on the Big Day Out main stage and at their own arena side shows.
Yet now, as if to prove they haven't merely been riding the Superannuation Tour Express, the four-piece from Seattle, Washington, is back with King Animal, led by aptly titled first single Been Away Too Long. It's the band's first studio collection in 16 years and finds them approaching their satisfyingly heavy yet melodic best, in a new phase of a career that yielded the classic albums Badmotorfinger and Superunknown (the latter featuring their biggest hit single, Black Hole Sun) before they called it quits in 1997.
Was it tense, then, when Soundgarden - screecher-guitarist Chris Cornell, chief shredder Kim Thayil, maestro of the low-slung bass Ben Shepherd and drummer genius Matt Cameron - finally got back in a room together a couple of years ago?
"No, man, nothing like that," Cornell says. "We never had any more tension inside of a rock band than anybody. I mean, we toured with Guns N' Roses, so we knew what destructive tension inside of a band really is.
"I think that there's a limit to how long people can continue [in bands] before they start making mistakes or doing things they're not proud of. We didn't do that, fortunately. We don't have a part of our history where we made records we weren't proud of, or rushed things out because we had to pay bills or anything like that."
Even when it seemed as though all of their contemporaries were eclipsing them, in terms of everything from sales to critical acclaim, Soundgarden remained unfazed.
"We were just doing what we were doing," Cornell says. "We had sort of a long, steady cycle of growth - but growth was always there ... We were also well aware, for example, in '92, when Pearl Jam had its tremendous success, or Nirvana, we were aware of the difference between our songs and their songs."
These three particular bands made very distinct hybrids of rock, metal and/or punk yet all wound up under the catch-all umbrella of "grunge". Was that a term with which Cornell was comfortable?
"Well, I wouldn't complain about it now, you know? I think it's something that we definitely were instrumental in starting ... If you look over the course of rock history, there are only a handful of kind of benchmark, formative cultural shifts in rock music and that's one of 'em - so it'd be stupid to say that I'm upset that I'm in one and that we were pioneers!
"But at the time, yeah ... we sort of felt this autonomy. We were doing something that nobody else was doing, a lot of people loved it, a lot of people hated it - and that seemed like probably a good thing, y'know?"
King Animal may have the same effect, possibly because Soundgarden still take pride making albums in an age of tracks.
"We really know how to make an album experience from beginning to end," Cornell says. "It's a longer process.
"Having a hit single, though, lasts only as long as a hit single."
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Roberts doing 'good,' but still dealing with health issues
"I wouldn't be completely honest if I said that [he hasn't had any health issues]," manager Buck Showalter said Thursday of Roberts, who has dealt with a concussion and hip surgery the past few seasons.
"He feels really good right now and he's working out. He will be here in a day or two. You all can ask him that same question."
Roberts is expected to be at Saturday's Fanfest event, which he missed last year because he was still dealing with post-concussion symptoms. The 35-year-old is entering the final year of a four-year, $40 million deal and hasn't played more than 60 games since 2009.
If healthy, Roberts is projected to be the team's Opening Day second baseman, although the Orioles have contingency plans in place if he ends up on the disabled list again. The team's 40-man roster also includes three players -- Ryan Flaherty, Alexi Casilla and Yamaico Navarro -- who can man second base.


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Homer A. Anderson Lecture includes student research findings, four award winners
More than 30 Muskingum University Science Division students presented their research findings as a part of the Homer A. Anderson lecture, held annually on the campus in New Concord, Ohio.
Each student presented their research in the form of a poster, and those presentations were then judged on a variety of criteria. The display and judging of the posters was preceded by the Anderson Lecture, which this year was given by Muskingum University alumnus Dr. Wayne Likavec who graduated in 1990 and today is the new product development and quality control manager for DayGlo, Incorporated, a world leader in the manufacture of highly specialized colors and color applications.
The following students were recognized by their faculty judges:
Troy Gessner '10 and Trevor Lutz '10 received first place, representing molecular biology
Katie Stewart '10 received second place, representing biology
Erin Lycans '11 and Erik Nesbit '11 earned third place, representing biology
David Shahbodaghi '10 earned an honorable mention, representing neuroscience
The following students made poster presentations:
Ross Barr '10 presented Personality's influence on memory.
Seth Barrett '11 presented The making of and electroforming copper metal onto ceramic ovenware and Determination of the extraction coefficient of a ru(bpy)32+ redox probe through nafiontm using UV-visible spectroscopy.
R. Adam Barry '10 presented Trip tracker: A GPS application for Google's Android mobile OS.
Kelley Crater '11 and with Instructor of Biology Shelley Amstutz-Szalay presented The presence of baylisascaris procyonis (raccoon roundworm) in southeastern Ohio.
Zachary Elliston '11 presented Geostatistical modeling of a local water table, Byesville Ohio.
Jennifer Fletcher '10 presented The effects of personality, interests and stereotypes on career choice.
Ashley Fraser '10 presented Expectancy effects in subliminal messaging.
Troy Gessner '10 presented Synthesis and analysis of a novel charge-transfer complex from1,2,3,6,7,8-hexahydropyrene and p-chloranil and Kinetic and stability studies of wild-type and mutant adenylate kinase from gram positive and gram negative bacteria, which he presented with Trevor Lutz '10.
Thomas Hammond '11 presented Reducing the own-race bias through shifting attention.
Emily Hart '10 presented Athlete burnout among college basketball players.
Ashley Hill '10 presented The influence of weight loss methods on the perceptions of a female target.
Jessica Lade '10 presented Vegetation analysis of the impact of wildlife grazing on pastures at The Wilds.
Ryan Loe '11 presented The effect of alkali metal ion size in the synthesis of Bengard salts for charge transfer complexes.
Trevor Lutz '11 presented Fluorescence study of modified lignin compounds.
Erin Lycans '11 presented A study on the viability of semen collected from wild snakes to further the conservation effort of threatened and endangered species.
Amy Miller '10 presented Input state transitions and bipartite pauli channels with memory.
Erik Nesbit '11 presented Relationship between body mass index and ankle injury.
Lauren O'Keefe '11 presented Parental involvement and its relationship with self-esteem and coping mechanisms.
Benjamin Pasley '11 presented Modulated X-ray source study.
John Rawson, Jr. '11 presented Differences in visuo-spatial ability among art, music and theater majors.
Andrea Richard '11 presented Stellar surface imaging of lo pegasi via light curve inversion.
David Shahbodaghi '10, Kristen Fuller '10 and Associate Professor of Biology Dr. Brian Bergstrom presented Neuroprotective effects of minocycline and melatonin: a possible putative treatment for Parkinson's disease.
Kayla Sherman '10 presented The prevalence of traditional bullying and cyber bullying in middle school and high school students.
Ben Skelley '11 and Associate Professor of Biology Dr. Jim Dooley presented White-tailed deer (odocoileus virginianus) population size estimation among habitats at The Wilds.
Ryan Sparks '11 presented Addition of boronated-naphthalene probe to brominated lignin.
Katie Stewart '10 presented Effect of ion size and ion charge on mass transport of redox probes through Nafion.
Traci Watts '10, Professor of Biology Dr. Danny Ingold and Dan Beetem presented An ethogram of dholes (cuon alpinus) in large enclosures at The Wilds.
Tom Williams '10 presented Can two weeks of exercise enhance endurance: The effects of acute exercise on rat endurance.
Courtney Zink '10 presented The factors influencing individual performance in group therapy.
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AS FEW as seven Newport schools could be fully open during September's two-day Nato summit at Celtic Manor, as fears over "major disruption" along the M4 corridor cause head teachers and governors to close schools and take inset days instead.
As the President of the United States and other heads of state gather in the city, Bridge Achievement Centre, Duffryn Infants, Junior and High Schools, Pill Primary, and St Julian's High School will remain fully open on September 4 and 5, while St Joseph's RC Primary and High Schools will only close on the Friday.
Newport High, Lliswerry and Llanwern High Schools will each be partly open, closing at various times between 1pm and 2.30pm on both days. Llanwern will be closed on September 5.
According to a list provided by Newport council, Milton Junior School will be open 8.55am to 2pm Thursday and closed Friday; Lliswerry Primary will be open from 8.30am to 1.30pm both days; Somerton and St Andrew's will both be open from 8.30am to 1.30pm both days;
The majority of Newport's schools have elected to have an inset day on Thursday and Friday that week, although Crindau Primary, Marshfield Primary, Milton Infants, Monnow Primary, Pentrepoeth Primary, Pill Primary and Ysgol Gymraeg Casnewydd had not yet declared their intentions as the Argus went to press.
Schools as far afield as Chepstow and Penarth have declared their intentions to close entirely or to shut early during the gathering of world leaders at the Caerleon golf resort.
The schools have taken advice from their respective councils.
This will be the first Nato Summit since Chicago in 2012, and the first in the UK since it came to London in 1990, with thousands of delegates and journalists from all over the world congregating in Newport as well as a sizeable contigent of anti-Nato protesters.
Meanwhile, during working sessions at the Celtic Manor and more informal events in Cardiff, world leaders will look to address issues which threaten Nato countries' national security, including piracy, terrorism and cyber attacks.
Around 9,000 police officers will be deployed to South Wales as part of the biggest security operation the UK has ever seen, allowing Gwent Police to continue responding to emergencies and other incidents as all their leave is cancelled.
At a meeting of Caerleon residents last week Gwent Insp Mike Richards said they had conducted a "dry run" on the M4 on a Monday during the evening rush without experiencing "excessive" disruption.


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Above: A Niner Bikes employee opens the "kegerator" in the company's Fort Collins, Colorado office.
Below: Product manager Barrett James talks with another employee in the kitchen of the Niner Bikes Fort Collins office. The office was previously the headquarters for the Rio Grande restaurant chain and came with a fully equipped test kitchen.
Photos: Ben Rasmussen/Wired
Left: Niner Bikes engineering tech Eric Riley feels a 29-inch tire on a bike frame in the company's Fort Collins, Colorado workshop. Right: Niner Bikes frames hang on the wall in their Colorado space. Photos: Ben Rasmussen/Wired
Above: Niner Bikes CEO Chris Sugai, who is based in the company's California office, talks to the Fort Collins management staff during a Skype meeting. Photo: Ben Rasmussen/Wired
Below: Chris Sugai, left, and his employees talk with Niner team members in Fort Collins via Skype. Niner launched its virtual office in 2007 and has primarily used Skype, Google Docs and other online communication tools to coordinate building mountain bikes. Photo: Mae Ryan/Wired
Left: Bike frames hang on the wall in the Niner Bikes Fort Collins, Colorado office. Right: Niner Bikes engineering tech Eric Riley tests a frame in the company's Fort Collins, Colorado workshop. Photos: Ben Rasmussen/Wired
Above: Chris Sugai bikes in Portuguese Bend in Southern California. Photo: Mae Ryan/Wired
Below: In Fort Collins, Colorado, Niner Bikes product manager Barrett James returns from picking up his lunch at a nearby Whole Foods on a bike that was customized in the company's workshop. Photo: Ben Rasmussen/Wired
Above: Niner Bikes CEO Chris Sugai walks through the Niner workshop in Torrance, California. Only three full-time employees work out of the Southern California office. Photo: Mae Ryan/Wired
Below: Niner Bikes chief operating officer Mike Gann talks to a fellow employee in the company's Fort Collins, Colorado office. Photo: Ben Rasmussen/Wired
Left: Tools hang on the wall of the Niner Bikes Fort Collins, Colorado workshop. Right: Metal shavings fill a bucket underneath a metal lathe in the Colorado workshop. Photos: Ben Rasmussen/Wired
TORRANCE, California — When Chris Sugai decided to ditch his window-tinting business in favor of something more fun, he considered his passions and reached two key conclusions: He wasn't rich enough for Formula 1 or lucky enough for professional poker.
That left mountain biking.
There's an old joke that the best way to make a small fortune in the bike business is to start with a big one. But Sugai and the crew at Niner Bikes have done well for themselves since founding the company in 2005, and they've done it by creating what Sugai calls an employee-driven, cloud-based business of the future.
Niner staked its entire existence on the 29-inch wheel, a radical idea in 2005. There were a few companies offering a few models with the oversized hoops, but Sugai was the first to go all-in on what was a risky gamble. "Everyone thought we were crazy," he said. "Like, good luck buddy."
It's paid off handsomely, as the 29-inch wheel is now the industry standard. Niner will never threaten the likes of Trek or Specialized, but it's doing very well, thank you very much.
"They're definitely a niche company," said Nicole Formosa, international editor of Bicycle Retailer and Industry News. "But they built themselves up at such a good time. They were ahead of their time."
Before Niner's big bet, everyone rolled on 26-inch wheels. Mountain biking guru Gary Fisher often gets credit for introducing the 29er in 2002, but the tech dates to the early 1980s when British mountain biking pioneer Geoff Apps experimented with 700c tires. He was followed by American framebuilder Wes Williams, who has been building 29ers since the 1990s, and Mark Slate of WTB.
The argument behind the bikes was that larger-diameter wheels would steamroll over obstacles while providing greater speed and stability. People were skeptical. They're too big, they argued, and a bear to maneuver. The 29er remained a fringe bike for years. But Sugai rode one in 2004 and saw the light.
"It was like a slap in the face how much better the bike was as far as climbing, cornering, braking, descending. I was sold," he said. "I wanted a higher-end bike, and I noticed that no one was really making that, so I thought, 'Oh, I'll do this.'"
Niner Bikes was born.
The first thing you notice about Niner HQ in Torrance, California is Rudy, Sugai's dog. The second is it's really big, and mostly empty. The third is the place is thick with F1 and poker memorabilia. The bookshelves in Sugai's office are stacked with audio books detailing the latest business theories and mantras (one example: Good to Great, Flat World by Jack Welch). Sugai reads a lot of stuff like that, because he wants to create the company of the future.
It starts with the staff. Everyone is "an A player" driven to deliver excellence. Anyone who isn't is politely given 90 days to get with the program or told they'd be better off somewhere else. And if you want to work at Niner, you'd better be serious about riding. Joining the team is a grueling, almost Darwinian affair — three or four interviews is the norm — which ensures only the best make the cut.
"The passion and professionalism within our organization is unbelievable," said Sugai. "It's one of the reasons we've been so successful. Great products come from great people."
Niner is all over the place, geographically. Beyond the home office in Torrance, there are outposts in Fort Collins, Colorado; Whittier, CA; Salt Lake City and Taiwan, and will likely open a small office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam within the next eight months. Eight of the twenty-two or so employees work remotely, including two guys who were told in no uncertain terms to work from home after their wives gave birth.
"I said, 'Here's your laptop. Don't come in to work, your wife needs your help,'" Sugai said. "I'm very much for freedom and allowing people to work how they work best."
This is possible because Niner does almost everything online. The company is so cloud dependent that it chose office locations based on the availability of 250 MB/s internet speeds. The company's connection is so fast employees download movies from iTunes in eight minutes.
Everything starts with a Google Doc. Projects typically begin with a brainstorming wish list — the new bike will be made of this material, with this much suspension travel, used for this particular purpose. Niner gathers ideas from customers via chatrooms. A smaller team considers the doc, decides what's realistic and outlines the specs in a shared spreadsheet.
The engineering and design team get this information via Dropbox. They design the bike with Solidworks 3D design, do virtual testing and simulation with Catia 3D design and virtual strength and stress analysis, then loop in the product and marketing teams to design the graphics. It's all done via Skype, e-mail and Dropbox. Manufacturing, done in Asia, is just about the only thing done in the physical realm.
The somewhat cavalier corporate attitude is working. Niner Bikes has 360 dealers nationwide, and its bikes are sold in 40 countries. Sugai said Niner expects to see $14 to $15 million in revenue this year.
"Due to their strong image and strong name here in the States, they are growing," Formosa said. The company hasn't had any trouble accessing capital, she said, and almost certainly will hit "the next level" within five years. But it takes more than boatloads of capital to grow. It takes a quality product, and Niner enjoys a solid reputation among cyclists.
"It's known throughout the mountain biking world as making bikes for hardcore riders," said Paul Morse, a Washington, D.C. photographer who recently bought a Niner after renting one from time to time. "The bike is fantastic, one of the best I've ever ridden."
The most passionate riders, called "Ninerds," often posts pics of their bikes online and sing their praises to anyone who will listen. They're solid, they'll tell you. Balanced. Compliant, yet rigid. And gorgeous.
"You cannot help but notice that they also make really beautiful-looking bikes," said Rhys Newman, a longtime mountain bike racer and co-creator of the bike-art project 18 Miles Per Hour. He's on his third Niner. "It's obviously a pride thing, but out on the trail, people notice and regularly comment on a Niner."
Niner builds a bike for almost any purpose, from weekend rides to hardcore racing, in aluminum, steel or carbon fiber. The frames run anywhere from $549 to almost three grand, making them fairly pricey. "They are never going to be the least expensive option," said Reed Wycoff, who works at Contender Bicycles in Salt Lake City.
Niner's next big move is building complete bikes. It recently revamped its website to allow customers to design exactly what they want and order it online. Beyond that, the company is developing a downhill racing bike, something that's drawn skepticism from riders who say it will never work, due to a lack of product to support the counter argument. Sugai isn't worried.
"We aren't shy about confronting doubters," he said. "It is something we have done since our founding. As long as we stay true to what we know is the right answer, we will prove the skeptics wrong."
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Har Bowl. Super Baugh. Bro Bowl. The nicknames for next Sunday's Super Bowl XLVII between Jim Harbaugh's San Francisco 49ers and John Harbaugh's Baltimore Ravens -- the first to pit two brothers against each other -- seem limitless.
Not so for the number of NFL players who can empathize with what the brothers will be going through when they square off across the field of New Orleans' Superdome. According to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, 348 sets of brothers have played in the NFL. Of those, only 22 sets have sent both brothers to the Super Bowl.
Yet, if Baltimore coach John Harbaugh was looking for advice on how to handle the competitive upwelling and the angst that goes along with such a sibling showdown, he need look no farther than the Ravens' own locker room.
Brendon Ayanbadejo, a linebacker and special teams player for Baltimore, has been there. Twice in his NFL career he played against older brother Obafemi, a running back and special teams player. Just 18 months apart, they both grew up in Santa Cruz and graduated from Santa Cruz High.
"You are not any more competitive with anybody than you are with your brother," Brendon said. "Of course want to one-up your brother."
That doesn't change if the siblings are calling the plays instead of making them, he said.
"They're coaching and they may have just one Super Bowl each and, if you lose it, you have to live with that the rest of your life," Brendon said of the Harbaugh brothers. "It's going to be intense for them."
It will be nearly as pressure-packed for Brendon. He was one-upped, in a way, by Femi when he won a Super Bowl with the Ravens in 2000. And at age 36, Brendon knows there might not be another chance to pull even.
The Ayanbadejos never met on as extravagant a stage as the Super Bowl. They did, however play against each other on a nationally televised Monday Night Football matchup between Brendon's Chicago Bears and Femi's Arizona Cardinals in 2006. After trailing 20-0 at the half, the Bears rallied for the win, prompting Cardinals coach Dennis Green to famously exclaim in a post-game press conference, "They are who we thought they were!"
Brendon said former Bears coach Lovie Smith tried to position him so he wouldn't be directly lined up against his brother. That wasn't the case in their first NFL meeting, when Femi's Cardinals went to visit Brendon's Miami Dolphins in 2004. That time they actually came into contact.
Femi, whose team won, said he felt determined to not let his brother get the best of him.
"I felt very motivated that we went in there and won that game and that I didn't do anything to let him embarrass me on tape," said Femi, 37, who has since retired and begun working in San Diego as a personal fitness trainer. "We actually did have to hit each other couple of times. At end of day, we had fun with it, but we still had a job to do. It doesn't really change how I do my job. Sometimes someone gets the better of you -- I just didn't want it to be him to do it because I'd never hear the end of it."
By that time, Femi had already won his Super Bowl ring with the Ravens, who won the program's only Super Bowl title in 2000. Baltimore linebacker Ray Lewis played on that team as well, and the Ravens' drive to get him another Super Bowl championship before his impending retirement has been a major storyline for Super Bowl XLVII.
But even it has been overshadowed by the impending civil war between the Harbaughs.
"These are difficult times in football when you are playing against your own brother, and a lot of brothers in the NFL have experienced that," Jackie Harbaugh, mother to John and Jim, said Thursday. "But at the end of the day, it is still about family and your feelings for one another."
Femi, who said he still spends quite a bit of time with the Ravens in the locker room and on the sidelines, said he knows John Harbaugh believes that too. He and the coach have shared a few conversations about being older brothers. And while John Harbaugh hasn't sought his or Brendon's counsel specifically about the brothers' Super Bowl predicament, the Ayanbadejos know what they're going through.
"There's always a heightened sense of intensity and a heightened sense of alertness," he said. "They're brothers, they're 15 months apart; we're 18 months apart. I don't care if it's flipping quarters or throwing darts, no one wants to lose.
"Also there's a sense of 'No one else can beat your sibling, only you can do that'. No matter what happens, they'll both be happy and both be sad. ... If I'm going to lose, at least let me lose to my brother because it keeps it in the family."
Speaking of keeping it in the family, New Orleans could be the site of another rare brotherly feat.
Only one pair of siblings, the 49ers' Keith and Jim Fahnhorst, has won Super Bowl rings with the same team in different years. Keith won rings with San Francisco in 1982 and 1985 and Jim won rings with the 49ers in 1985 (though he was inactive) and 1989.
If the Ravens win Sunday, the Ayanbadejos will be pair No. 2. So maybe it should be called the Bro Bowl after all.
"It's a vicarious thing I'm able to do through him," said Femi, who said he will be on the Ravens sideline Sunday. "I hope he gets it."
Sets of brothers who have played in the Super Bowl
Willie Richardson, Colts, SBIII AND Gloster Richardson, Chiefs, SBIV
Bubba Smith, Colts, SBIII and SBV AND Tody Smith, Cowboys, SBVI
Loren Toews, Steelers, SBIX, SBX, SBXIII, and SBXIV AND Jeff Toews, Dolphins, SBXVII and SBXIX
Matt Bahr, Steelers, SBXIV and Giants, SBXXV AND Chris Bahr, Raiders, SBXV and SBXVIII
Wilbert Montgomery, Eagles, SBXV AND Cle Montgomery, Raiders, SBXVIII
Keith Fahnhorst, 49ers, SBXVI and SBXIX AND Jim Fahnhorst, 49ers, SBXIX (inactive), SBXXIII
Glen and Lyle Blackwood, Dolphins, SBXVII and SBXIX
Charlie Hannah, Raiders, SBXVIII AND John Hannah, Patriots, SBXX
Derrick Harmon, 49ers, SBXIX AND Ronnie Harmon, Chargers, SBXXIX
Pete Brock, Patriots, SBXX AND Stan Brock, Chargers, SBXXIX
Darren Sharper, Packers, SBXXXII AND Jamie Sharper, Ravens, SBXXXV
Henri Crockett, Falcons, SBXXXIII AND Zack Crockett, Raiders, SBXXXVII
Tiki Barber, Giants, SBXXXV AND Ronde Barber, Buccaneers, SBXXXVII
Peter Boulware, Ravens, SBXXXV AND Michael Boulware, Seahawks, SBXL
Obafemi Ayanbadejo, Ravens, SBXXXV AND Brendon Ayanbadejo, Bears, SBXLI and Ravens, SBXLVII
Kevin Dyson, Titans, SBXXXIV AND Andre Dyson, Seahawks, SBXL
Cornell Brown, Ravens, SBXXXV AND Ruben Brown, Bears, SBXLI
Peyton Manning, Colts, SBXLI AND Eli Manning, Giants, SBXLII
Archie Griffin, Bengals, SBXVI AND Ray Griffin, Bengals, SBXVI AND Keith Griffin, Redskins, SBXXII
John Stinchcomb, Saints, SBXLIV AND Matt Stinchcomb, Raiders, SBXXXVII
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text: WVU hooks 'Horns again By Dave Hickman February 4, 2013 Story Share MORGANTOWN - A month after rallying to beat Texas in overtime in Austin, West Virginia fell behind the Longhorns again Monday night at the Coliseum. This time, though, no real dramatic rally was needed, nor was overtime.The Mountaineers blew every bit of an 11-point lead in the second half, but recovered in plenty of time to surge past Texas and win, 60-58, in front of a Coliseum crowd of just 4,966 kept down by a snowstorm.Denis Kilicli scored 14 points and made what ultimately was the decisive three-point play with 31/2 minutes to play to give WVU a 58-54 lead. Texas then had five straight empty possessions against the Mountaineer defense and never had the ball with a chance to tie or take the lead.Kilicli's last basket wasn't the only clutch one he made. In fact, when the Mountaineers needed points, he was usually involved. He made six of his eight shots and for the second straight game was a force on both ends of the floor. In fact, most of his last five games have been quality performances."I thought he was terrific,'' coach Bob Huggins said of the 6-foot-8, 260-pound senior. "He's been so much more active. I thought his last two games were the best all-round games he's played.''Trailing 54-53 with about four minutes to play, the Mountaineers took the lead for good on freshman Eron Harris 20-footer. Bigger than that one, though, was the three-point play by Kilicli 30 seconds later. Kilicli was fouled and threw up a fall-away prayer that dropped in and his free throw made it 58-54."He's a forced down there,'' guard Jabarie Hinds said of Kilicli. "When he's playing well down there, everything works better.''Texas never had much of a chance after that thanks to West Virginia's defense. Neither team scored at all from Kilicli's play at 3:35 until Harris made another free throw with 25 seconds left to make it 59-54. The Longhorns first struggled to get off a couple of 3-pointers, then Aaric Murray had two huge plays in a row, stealing the ball and blocking a shot on consecutive possessions to keep the Longhorns from scoring.Sheldon McClelland managed to cut it to 59-56 with a couple of free throws with 11.4 seconds to play, but Murray made one free throw to make it a safe 60-56 lead with 9.3 seconds to play. McClelland, who seconds before had managed to draw a three-shot foul by leaning into Kilicli on a desperation shot, did the same thing with less than a second to play against Murray. He made two shots, then missed the third on purpose and Murray grabbed the rebound to end the game.The win was West Virginia's second in a row and brings the record for the Mountaineers (11-11, 4-5 Big 12) back to .500 overall and nearing the break-even point in league play. With a game Saturday at last-place TCU, continuing the run seems quite possible. And at this point in the season that's all the Mountaineers can ask for."You take them one at a time,'' said Huggins. "There have been other times when I thought we'd turned a corner and had things going and we didn't keep it going. But I think we've still got a chance. It helps that we're guarding. It helps that Deniz is playing the way he's playing.''Indeed, Kilicli's play figures to be a key. In very few of the games that he's played well this season have the Mountaineers lost. And being a go-to guy doesn't bother him at all."As long as I make my shots, I'm a go-to guy,'' Kilicli said. Texas had won two of its last three, but like West Virginia they were against league doormats TCU and Texas Tech. The Longhorns (10-12, 2-7) have yet to win a road game this season and lost to the Mountaineers for the second time this season. WVU wiped out a 12-point deficit to win in overtime in Austin on. Jan. 9. Kilicli and Hinds led West Virginia with 14 points each, while Harris had 13.Leading by seven at halftime, West Virginia was shooting the lights out, at one point hitting 12 of 16 shots after a slow start. That gave the Mountaineers leads of as many as 11 points, the last one 44-33 at the 14-minute mark.Texas got WVU out of its offense with halfcourt pressure, though, and went on a 16-3 run to take the lead. But the Longhorns could never get ahead by more than a basket and West Virginia finally surged ahead late.For at the least the first 10 to 12 minutes of the game, the teams played precisely the type of game one might expect from groups with identical 10-11 records -- sloppy and inefficient. Fortunately for the Mountaineers, they revived themselves in time to make that late run and grab the lead at halftime, 32-25.West Virginia began the game ice cold, missing 10 of 11 shots at one point and fell behind by as many as seven points, 15-8. At one point the Mountaineers went 7:45 without a field goal.It was still a 20-15 Texas lead after WVU snapped that long scoring drought and that's when the Mountaineers went to work. Over a 51/2-minute stretch West Virginia outscored Texas 12-0, getting four points each from Terry Henderson and Hinds. That made it 27-20 and the Mountaineers extended the lead to nine points, 32-23, before Texas got two free throws just before the halftime buzzer.Kilicli led West Virginia with eight points in the first half. After starting the game 2-for-12 from the field, WVU made eight of its final 10 shots before the break. Texas was shooting 31 percent.The crowd of 4,966 was the smallest of the season, just a handful less than the 4,982 who saw the Mountaineers beat Radford just before Christmas. It was the smallest crowd for a conference game since the end of Gale Catlett's final season in 2002. That year, 4,279 showed up for the final home game against Georgetown, two weeks after just 3,942 saw a game here against Virginia Tech. In fact, four of the final six home crowds that season were smaller than Monday's.Still, Huggins was actually pleased that there were that many in the stands."I thought getting [almost 5,000] people here tonight with the conditions that we had was really good,'' said Huggins. "Probably most of them were from Suncrest.''Reach Dave Hickman at 304-348-1734 or email@example.com or follow him at Twitter.com/dphickman1. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 WVU notebook: Holgorsen says injured players 'close' 2 WV Gov. 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Alex123 wrote:TMingyur wrote:Alex123 wrote:My understanding is that phenomena are anicca, dukkha and anatta regardless of whether one knows about it or believes in wrong views (nicca, sukha, atta).
If this were so how could there ever be liberation from dukkha? It would be utterly impossible.
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Nibbāna is not a thing and not dukkha, so liberation is possible. Also in that phrase I was careful to use "whether one knows about it or believes in wrong views".
"you should train yourself thus: In reference to the known, there will be only the known. In reference to the believed, only the believed."
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boooooooo. I was going to this game.
There is already a thread on this.
Also, I noticed the Milwaukee game is still on for tonight in Milwaukee did they really not get any snow there or are we just pansies? Minny is still having their game too.
Minny and Milwaukee didn't get hit. Storm came from the south I thought.
"Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel
"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "
Bummed, was hoping to watch this tonight. How much snow did you guys get in Indy?
"We've got to be very clear about this. We don't want our players hanging around with murderers," said Larry Bird, Pacers president.
I am thinking the state told them what to do. PG tweeted like a minute before hand that it was game day and then boom Pacers tweet postponed. Don't think this was the franchise's decision solely.
This is weird, it's snowy outside, but not THAT bad. It's not like this is the blizzard of '78 or something. There's 6 inches at the most, probably less. Maybe the Bulls were extremely delayed or something.
What crap.. This game was in our favor due to scheduling and injuries. Do we still get that advantage with a reschedule.
Pacers get almost a week off now.
"We've got to be very clear about this. We don't want our players hanging around with murderers," said Larry Bird, Pacers president.
Great way to throw off rhythm....
"They want to be famous. We want to be champions. They want to be rappers and backup dancers. We want to play football." - T.J. Ward, Denver Broncos
I am going to sound like a cranky old man, but I am shocked they cancelled this game. I have gone to a half dozen games over the years when the weather was worse than this. Also they must have lowered the standard of what is a blizzard. This is not a blizzard, it is a decent snow storm with some wind. '78 that was a blizzard
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I traveled from Nashville TN to Indiana to see this game, what a bunch of BS. I love how on the news this afternoon it was clearly stated "game is still on for tonight" then they cancel hours before??? What a crock of ****. I paid 600 dollars for five tickets (2 for me and my girl, 3 for my family in Indiana), when the next game is rescheduled i'm certain I won't be able to go due to my work schedule. So i'm now out 600 bones, plus 100 in gas....and nothing to show for it. What a freaking joke, this was not a blizzard as others have said. Ridiculous.
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*removed* Just keep politics and religion completely out of it, please.
I was in castleton OMW to Scottys for a little pregame action when I got the news, roads were fine to drive on...not great, but not worth cancelling the game. Literally ruined my Christmas.
*removed* Just keep politics and religion completely out of it, please.
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This WAS a blizzard, just not a bad one. Blizzards are about wind gusts and visibility, not amount of snowfall.
Yeh, and driving in this **** this morning was awful. 35mph+ winds, and 1/4 or less of visibility implies a blizzard. I'd say gusts were about 40mph, and whilst driving home, I couldn't see farther than 10-20 feet ahead of me. This WAS a blizzard, and it still sucked, regardless of its intensity. Brown County gets this **** the worst. You Naptownians have it so much better.
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Croshere was in a full suit heading to the game and found out it was postponed during an interview with JMV. He was upset lol.
My brother lives in Milwaukee and said they have already had a **** ton of snow but their road crews know how to handle it properly.
For all you people that went downtown and paid parking, it could be worse. You could be a Bulls fan that made the drive through this crap just to find out the game was cancelled.
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I saved one from paying for parking. He had apparently been calling all afternoon and kept getting told that the game was on.
I feel dirty.
Plus not only did I pay for parking, I had to dig out my parking spot!
"Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel
"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "
Try being TRAPPED in "your own home" with a half dozen visiting rug rats yelling and screaming all freaking day!!! The days of children should be seen and not heard is long past. GRRR!
Bah humbug, no Pacers game tonight to help relieve a stressful day.
I did a google search, and the national weather service changed the definition of what's a blizzard. Now it is 35 mph winds and visibility of less than .25 of a mile for at least 3 hours.
It used to be 50 miles an hour winds and temps below 20 degrees. And at least 10 inches of snow.
so it is a huge difference. I used to think of a blizzard as almost once in a lifetime type thing. Now it is a once a year type event


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TEMPE, Ariz. – Left-hander Sean Burnett, who had offseason elbow surgery, had insisted all along that his elbow would not be an issue when he got to camp with his new team.
His back? That's another story.
Burnett left camp early Monday morning to have an MRI on his lower back. Results were negative, but Burnett is still listed as day to day.
"This is something Sean has had flare up in the spring in the past," General Manager Jerry Dipoto said. "This being his first spring with us, we wanted to have a complete baseline medical record. It's something that drifts on for a couple days in spring training. That's what spring training is for, to make sure everyone is healthy."
When he was with the Washington Nationals last spring, Burnett was out for about 10 days with a sore lower back. He also had back trouble in April and did not pitch for four days.
Burnett is one of the two key relievers the Angels added in the offseason in an effort to bolster a bullpen that needed help. The other one, Ryan Madson, made some progress in his rehab from Tommy John surgery.
Madson played catch for about six minutes, the first time he'd thrown since he felt some discomfort in his elbow on Feb. 1. Madson had thrown four bullpen sessions before the 17-day layoff, but now he's almost starting over.
"He got knocked back a little bit," Scioscia said. "He's going to start from the beginning of a throwing program, just activating his arm. He won't be throwing a bullpen for a while, till he gets out there and can stretch his arm out. How long it takes I don't know. But it won't be a situation where he's going to throw a bullpen in a couple days."
Madson estimated it would take him about two weeks of playing catch to get back to the mound, but added that it's difficult to predict.
"I can't put a time schedule on it," he said. "Hopefully a couple weeks of stretching it out and hopefully by the third week get on the mound again, and then have a good couple weeks of off the mound stuff. But that's just a guess."
Madson, who is rehabbing from Tommy John surgery, is expected to start the season on the disabled list. The Angels are still hoping he can be back sometime in mid- to late-April.
Josh Hamilton told a Texas TV station that Dallas is "not a true baseball town," comments that he stuck by when asked to elaborate after Monday's workout.
"I said there are true baseball fans and then there are others that are not," Hamilton said. "I said the ones that are true baseball fans won't boo when I come back, and the ones that are not, will. It's just like last year, when I got booed after going 2-for-4 in a game, driving in a couple runs, and I struck out the other two times. You understand the Yankees, Boston, Cubs, Phillies — baseball towns. If they were doing that, that's one thing."
Hamilton also said in the television interview that Rangers fans have gotten "spoiled," and he said Monday he meant they were spoiled by the success of the team, not him personally.
Hamilton, who won an MVP and made the All-Star team all five years with the Rangers, will return to Arlington with the Angels on April 5, which is Texas' home opener.
Albert Pujols has begun light jogging and he participated in defensive bunt drills. Pujols is still limited from offseason knee surgery. … Hamilton smashed a car windshield with a long drive during batting practice. It was Angels' PR man Eric Kay's rental car.


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DeGeneres on her way, with 400 fans
THE American talk show host Ellen DeGeneres is coming to Australia and so are 400 of her excited audience members.
On a show taped in the US on Friday, DeGeneres, pictured, announced the audience would be going on a holiday to Australia. But it will not be like the Oprah trip, when the star and the audience travelled here together and became part of the show.
The Ellen show will not be recorded in Australia. Instead, DeGeneres will film segments in Sydney and Melbourne to be played on her program at a later date. The audience each received an airline ticket to travel to Sydney or Melbourne with six nights' accommodation at a four-star hotel.
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Surrey's first LV= County Championship match since their relegation to Division Two last season ended in defeat by 10 wickets after they suffered a dramatic collapse on the final day against Glamorgan at The Oval.
The hosts, 50 for two overnight in their second innings and with a lead of 121 runs, slumped to 81 all out before lunch, Graham Wagg ripping through them with four for 10 to finish with career-best figures of six for 29.
Michael Hogan took the other four wickets for 31 and Glamorgan were left needing 153 runs to win, which they secured without loss as openers Gareth Rees and Will Bragg claimed a half-century apiece.
Australian Steve Magoffin blew away Middlesex's lower order to ease Sussex to victory by an innings and 127 runs at Hove in Division One .
Beginning the final day on 57 for one the visitors, who were skittled for 105 in their first innings, would have hoped to have made their opponents at least work for their win.
However, they crashed to a miserable defeat after failing to even reach the sanctuary of the lunch interval as they lost all nine remaining wickets in the morning session to be bowled out for 154.
Elsewhere in Division One, Nottinghamshire claimed a 45-run win over Lancashire at Trent Bridge.
Lancashire made 303 in their second innings with Ashwell Prince weighing in with 100 from 181 balls before he was the last man out, bowled by Harry Gurney (four for 81), but the visitors were always struggling after losing opener Luis Reece for six with wickets falling at regular intervals.
Worcestershire captain Daryl Mitchell lit up the final day of the clash against Hampshire with a superb century before the teams settled for an expected draw at the Ageas Bowl.
Mitchell notched the first ton of the new Division Two season as he scored a magnificent 172 not out at the top of the order, helping his side pick up four batting bonus points before declaring on 350 for seven.
That gave the visitors a first-innings lead of 87 over Hampshire, but with less than a session to go in a match badly hit by the weather, a draw was always the most likely outcome.