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March 8, 2010—
Michigan Tech will host the 2010 NCAA Midwest Women's Basketball Region, NCAA.com has announced. The Huskies are the top seed and will face eighth-seeded Northern Kentucky Friday, March 12, at 6 p.m. in a quarterfinal game.
The other three quarterfinals for Friday are:
No. 3 Drury vs. No. 6 Southern Indiana, noon
No. 2 Indianapolis vs. No. 7 Northern Michigan, 2:30 p.m.
No. 4 Wisconsin-Parkside vs. No. 5 Findlay, 8:30 p.m.
The semifinals are set for Saturday, March 13. The Drury/Southern Indiana winner will face the Indianapolis/Northern Michigan winner at 5 p.m. The Michigan Tech/Northern Kentucky winner will take on the UW-Parkside/Findlay winner at 7:30 p.m.
The 2010 Midwest Regional Championship game will be played Monday, March 15, at 7 p.m. All games will be played at Michigan Tech's Student Development Complex Gymnasium.
General admission tickets for the NCAA Midwest Regional go on sale Monday, March 8, at noon at the SDC Ticket Office or by calling 906-487-2073. Current Michigan Tech season ticket holders will have until Thursday, March 11, at 7 p.m. to purchase reserved tickets.
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Lake sent to Triple-A in effort to regroup
NEW YORK -- It's been a struggle this season for outfielder Junior Lake, who the Cubs are hoping can get back on track playing every day at Triple-A Iowa.
Lake was optioned to Iowa to make room on the 25-man roster for pitcher Dan Straily, who started Saturday against the Mets. The outfielder was batting .216 with 102 strikeouts in 98 games. He hit .114 in July.
"We'll try to get him back on his feet again," manager Rick Renteria said. "It's tough for me to have him here. The window right now is just right" for him to go to the Minors.
Lake was told he would be back with the big league team when rosters expand on Sept. 1.
"Any time you have someone who has been with you as long as he's been with us, and you send him down late, it's obviously disappointing," Renteria said, "but I think he understands he'll get some at-bats and he knows he'll be back."
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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The Tryangle Awards, now in its ninth year, recongises the achievements of volunteers aged between 11 and 19, or up to 24 for those with a disability, who have overcome challanges of health or personal circumstances.
There are six categories in the awards – bravery, citizenship and environment, sport, arts, good friends and carers and personal development – and any young volunteer in the county is eligiable.
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In June 1970, my wife and I got married. We decided to spend our honeymoon week at Paradise Point (then called Vacation Village) because I had vacationed there with my family while I attended high school in La Habra, CA during the early 1960s. I had enjoyed the nice accommodations and all the recreational activities at the resort, as well as the attractions nearby such as SeaWorld and the San Diego Zoo.
So we booked our week-long honeymoon, and as I recall, we got a "honeymoon special" price of about $30 per night! We had a magnificent week dining, golfing, sailing, and just lounging on the sand. Of particular note was our sailing adventure. Neither of us had much experience sailing, so it took us forever just to get away from the dock. Finally, we got the hang of it and actually made it all the way to the north end of Mission bay and back to the dock without needing a rescue party.
We love that Paradise Point and some of the spots we visited back in 1970 still exist (though sadly, some do not), as we have returned occasionally to the San Diego area over the years. Over 40 years later, my wife and I still have very fond memories of our honeymoon week on the island, and whenever we drive down the freeway toward the heart of the city, we point it out to our children and grandchildren as we pass by. It was the start of a very happy marriage and a family of three children, now all grown up!
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felixtibs wrote:yep I throw the full array: timberwolf, Wolverine, Swift Fox, woodchuck, and Beaver.
Love em all, they have replaced all my other discs as my most reliable flyers. Swift Fox is a must have, and the Timberwolf. Woodchuck is a solid flyer as well. I have a few posts around here about them if you do a search.
Jeronimo wrote:Wolverine is a great teebird substitute.
Timberwolf is more like a... beast maybe? Its got a lot of range potential (so does the wolverine) and it can be pretty high speed understable and the fade is pretty late in its flight. My oldest Timberwolf is fairly beat in and I use it for a good hyzer flip. A pretty BIG hyzer flip at that too.
The only mid they have on the market right now is the Caribou and i've never thrown it.
From my own experience, use their flight lines but subtract some stability from them.
Furthur wrote:Either get a lighter one, throw harder, or find a disc with more glide.
Furthur wrote:Either get a lighter one, throw harder, or find a disc with more glide.
Working Stiff wrote:There is a rumor I can neither confirm or deny that the Wolverine, Timberwolf and Swift Fox are all the same mold in different plastics a la the old Gateway trick of calling a Wizard in H a Chief and passing it off as a different disc. That they measure differently is a result of how the different plastics cool, but supposedly it is the same mold. The Beaver, Polar Bear and Woodchuck are also supposed to be the same mold. Using this logic, the as of now unreleased Moose and Grizzly would simply be a Caribou in different plastic.
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Peanut Butter Brownies
Our kitchen designer, S, for our renovation project was AMAZING. Granted, we had to "break up" with two designers before finding her, but boy are we glad we did! She had so much patience with us me and my indecisiveness. And she tackled our kitchen with all it's funky angles and obstacles as a challenge not a burden. It was her last minute idea to put a countertop over our radiator to almost double our counter space in the room. We owe her. Big time. But how do you thank someone for all their hard work and patience? In an attempt to show our gratitude, I did what I do best. I baked for her.
The day we went to deliver these brownies, S said she was so glad we love the kitchen and that this is what makes her day. Happy customers coming in smiling say they love the design she came up with. If anyone in the Boston area is looking for a kitchen designer, let me know, because she was awesome.
And now, on to the brownies. I had some leftover frosting from the Chocolate Peanut Butter cupcakes and I wanted to incorporate that frosting into the treat for S. Then I decided that I'd stick with the chocolate-peanut-butter theme but make brownies. Now ever since I made these Oreo Brownies, an Ina Garten recipe, I've been in love with the brownies. I also made them into Brownie Pops for Hubby's mom's surprise birthday party. The brownies are delicious. But I decided I'd try a new brownie recipe just to mix things up.
I asked around and decided on this recipe from What's Cooking in the Orange Kitchen. These brownies do not disappoint! They've got a great texture. Be sure to follow the tip in the recipe to get the nice shiny top to your brownies. I mixed some chocolate-peanut-butter swirled chips into the brownie batter prior to cooking.
Once the brownies were fully cooled, I spread about a 1/2 cup of the leftover frosting onto the brownies. I also had some leftover ganache in the fridge, so I decided to slather that over the peanut butter frosting.
These brownies are very rich and tasty. The peanut butter flavor was not overwhelming, but more of a subtle flavor mixed with the delicious chocolateness of the brownies. Hubby didn't want to actually deliver these to S because he wanted to eat the entire batch himself.
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Perfect Brownies
Yield: 16 brownies
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
1 cup + 2 Tbsp sugar
1/2 cup + 2 Tbsp Dutch-process cocoa
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp espresso powder, optional
1/2 Tbsp vanilla
2 large eggs
3/4 cups flour
1 cups chocolate chips - I used chocolate-peanut-butter swirl chips
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly grease a 8x8 pan
In a medium-sized microwave-safe bowl, or in a saucepan set over low heat, melt the butter, then add the sugar and stir to combine. Return the mixture to the heat briefly, just until it's hot, but not bubbling; it'll become shiny looking as you stir it. Heating this mixture a second time will dissolve more of the sugar, which will yield a shiny top crust on your brownies.
Transfer the sugar mixture to a medium-sized mixing bowl, if you've heated it in a saucepan. Stir in the cocoa, salt, baking powder, espresso powder, and vanilla.
Whisk in the eggs, stirring until smooth.
Add the flour and chips, again stirring until smooth.
Spoon the batter into a lightly greased 8x8 pan.
Bake the brownies for about 30 minutes, until a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean, or with just a few moist crumbs clinging to it. The brownies should feel set on the edges, and the center should look very moist, but not uncooked. Remove them from the oven and cool on a rack before cutting and serving.
Recipe from What's Cooking in the Orange Kitchen originally from King Arthur Flour
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Peanut butter and chocolate is my most favorite combination ever! I'm so happy you love your kitchen and it's really sweet of you to bake for your designer. Homemade treats are such a delicious way to say thank you:)
Oh wow – these look like the best brownies ever. Beautiful!
Amazing looking brownies!
Does your designer sign on for small projects? We're looking to add some backsplash. The area behind the sink and stove is just so plain.
Megan, Our designer works at Home Depot in the kitchen department. So I think she only does projects where you order cabinets/countertops from Home Depot…
We start kitchen destruction at the end of the week! I'm so excited!! Great idea about the counter on top of the radiator!! I'd be totally excited is someone showed up to my work with those brownies 🙂
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!! those look sooooooo good!!
Oddly enough I don't like chocolate or PB on their own but together it's a whole other story! LOVE it so this is right up my alley.
Yours look great! I am glad you liked them. I was very pleasantly surprised when I tried this for the first time. (And fantastic pictures!)
Can't wait to try the recipe- thanks! When do we get to see pics of the new (finished) kitchen? 🙂
Peanut butter and brownies! What could be better?
These look phenomenal, what an awesome way to spice up some brownies!
Yum, these look fabulous!
Those look Heavenly!
MMMMM I could seriously go for a whole plate full of those right now!!


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A 37 YEAR-old Pensnett father who stabbed his former girlfriend's husband with a holiday souvenir has been jailed for 16 months.
Carl Brookes used the knife – which he bought as a memento from a monk's shrine in Thailand - to stab Adam Willis in the stomach, said Mohammed Hafeez prosecuting.
He told Wolverhampton Crown Court that Mr Willis' wife felt text messages she had been sent by Brookes were offensive and as a result her husband went round to Brookes' Chapel Street home.
There was a heated argument between the two men, threats were made and they got into a fight but Brookes then went into the house to pick up the knife the court heard.
Mr Willis also suffered two wounds to a hand was was detained in hospital overnight due with his stab injury, but was discharged the following day after escaping serious injury.
Brookes admitted wounding and was told by Judge Michael Challinor it was an aggravating feature of the case that he had gone into his home to arm himself with the knife.
The judge said: "I accept what you did was spontaneous and impulsive but this was an element of premeditation. Anyone who arms himself with a knife and uses it in a physical confrontation must know they run the grave risk of causing serious injury."
Simon Rippon defending described Brookes as a man of positive good character and maintained there had been some provocation in the incident.
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Red Velvet Cheesecake Cake
Have you ever had a cake that is just downright amazing? So good that you instantly want another piece even though you really shouldn't? This cake is one of those cakes.
How could it not be? It's got two layers of tangy moist red velvet cake. Sandwiched between those vibrant red layers is a layer of creamy fluffy cheesecake. And of course the entire thing is enrobed in a layer of frosting.
I set out to make this cake because my sister B and her boyfriend Z were coming to visit. Turns out that Z really really likes cheesecake. Since I always like to bake something special for out of town guests, I wanted to make something with cheesecake. (And, today just happens to be Z's birthday. So Happy Birthday Z!)
I had been eying this cake ever since I saw it in my Google Reader. The effort was well worth it. This cake is everything you could ever imagine. Z even had a piece around 4am before heading to the airport to head back home!
I love the festive colors of the slice of cake. The red and white makes me think of peppermint even though there isn't any peppermint in the recipe. You could definitely add peppermint to the cheesecake recipe and the frosting if you wanted to.
I did have an issue with my cheesecake being a little bit wider than the cake layers. I just let the cheesecake layer warm up a bit and then used a sarated knife to even it out.
And while I didn't frost between the layers of cake and cheesecake, I did pipe an edge just to make the sides flush.
I left the decorating pretty simple. I just topped the cake with some shaved white and bittersweet chocolate.
If you're looking for an impressive dessert to make for the holidays, look no further!
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Red Velvet Cheesecake Cake
Two layers of red velvet cake are sandwiched around a layer of cheesecake. The whole thing is covered in cream cheese frosting and chocolate shavings.
Yield: Serves 12-16
For The Cheesecake
1 1/4 pounds bar cream cheese (20 oz), room temperature
3/4 cups sugar
1/2 tsp finely grated lemon zest, plus 1/2 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1/4 tsp coarse salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup sour cream
For The Cake
2 1/2 cup cake flour
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. baking soda
1 Tbsp cocoa powder
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup buttermilk
2 Tbsp (1 oz.) red food coloring
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp white distilled vinegar
For The Frosting
12 oz. cream cheese, softened
12 oz. butter, softened
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
3 cup confectioners' sugar
1 bar white or dark chocolate (Optional for decoration)
Make the cheesecake
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Set a kettle of water to boil. Using an electric mixer, beat cream cheese on medium until fluffy, scraping down side of bowl. Gradually add sugar, beating until fluffy. Beat in lemon zest and juice, and salt. Beat in eggs, one at a time, scraping down side of bowl after each addition. Beat in sour cream.
Cut parchment paper in a circle and line the bottom of the cheesecake pan. Wrap bottom half of pan in foil. Pour in filling; place in a roasting pan. Pour in boiling water to come halfway up side of springform. Bake until just set in center, about 45 minutes. Remove pan from water; let cool 20 minutes. Run a paring knife around edge; let cool completely. Cover; chill overnight, then wrap in plastic wrap and freeze.
Make the cake
Preheat oven to 350°. Sift together flour, sugar, baking soda, cocoa, and salt into a medium bowl.
Beat eggs, oil, buttermilk, food coloring, vanilla, and vinegar in a large bowl with an electric mixer until well combined. Add dry ingredients and beat until smooth, about 2 minutes.
Divide batter evenly between 2 greased and floured 9" round cake pans and bake 25-30 minutes, rotating halfway through, until a toothpick inserted in the center of each cake comes out clean. Let cakes cool 5 minutes, then invert each onto a plate, then invert again onto a cooling rack. Let cakes cool completely, then level.
Make the Frosting
Beat cream cheese, butter, and vanilla together in a large bowl with an electric mixer until combined. Add sugar and beat until frosting is light and fluffy, 5–7 minutes.
Place bottom layer on cake stand. Remove cheesecake from freezer, unwrap, and remove from metal bottom, then peel off parchment paper. Place cheesecake layer on top of the bottom layer of the red velvet cake.
If the cheesecake is wider than the cake, and it is necessary to to trim it, wait approximately 10 minutes for the cheesecake to soften, then trim it with a knife. Place top layer of cake on top of the cheesecake, and coat with a generous layer of the cream cheese frosting to act as the crumb coat. Be careful not to get any red velvet crumbs in the bowl of frosting!
Refrigerate approximately 30 minutes, then frost with as much of the remaining frosting as necessary.
Top with shaved white chocolate and/or shaved dark chocolate. Refrigerate until ready to serve. (This cake doesn't have to stay in the fridge until IMMEDIATELY before serving, so don't worry if you have a 30 minute lapse between the refrigerator and serving.)
Recipe from Erin's Food Files, cake and frosting adapted from Apple A Day, originally adapted from Saveur
cheesecake adapted from Martha Stewart
33 Responses to "Red Velvet Cheesecake Cake"
that cake is so beautiful, and sounds delicious!
Wow! Your pictures are amazing! I would love to sink my teeth into that cake right now!
Well…. you've done it again! Now, I simply have to add this to my Christmas Eve repetoire. It is fabulous! So many recipes….not enough time!
wow! this look unbelievable. I might have to conquer my fear of baking just for this.
Wow, that is stunning! Nice job!
Whoa..this looks beyond incredible…I dont think my sweet tooth will be satisfied ever without this!
I have to do this for Christmas dessert! Thanks for sharing!
C'est magnifique! Great job!!
Seriously, that looks downright sinful and gorgeous!!! Just amazing Jen!
wow, this is over the top 🙂 but totally worth it!! looks awesome!
What a great combination of flavors! I can almost smell the cake. Yum!!
STUNNING! Good job on this, I want a piece!
…great cake!!! and happy bday to Z!!! Hugs, ciao Flavia
What am amazing cake! I love the bright red and contrasting white, simmply beautiful!
What a beautiful cake! My family would love this. Cheesecake and red velvet are my hubby's favorites. Maybe I will make it for his birthday!
Talk about impressive! You go!
And just when I think you can't keep coming up with brilliant ideas and delicious photos…this looks/sounds utterly amazing!
Cheesecake in between the cake layers… OMG. You so outdid yourself. That is amazing!
Wow. I saw a similar cheesecake but couldn't fint a recipe so resolved to just make "plain ole red velvet cupcakes." This looks so much better!
Oh My – this looks so amazing!
that looks awesome! I saw something similar in the Sam's club add that I've been wanting to try but homemade would be even better
This cake looks so beautiful and I bet it tastes INCREDIBLE! I couldn't print it out fast enough – I'm definitely trying it in the new year! Wow!
this has been on my 'want to try' list for a while! Maybe this will be the push i need to give it a try!
That cake looks gorgeous and delicious!
This is so cool! The only reason I like red velvet is the cream cheese frosting and this just takes it to a whole new level!
Wow, where to begin?! That bright red is gorgeous! The cheesecake hiding in the center sounds ridiculously delicious! Gorgeous photos too:)
this is a perfect holiday cake! great idea.
What a great idea! I love how the cheesecake layer looks so impressive sandwiched between the shockingly red red velvet layers!
Ok this looks amazing!
Hey girl, I am 100% sure I am going to make this for Christmas…it looks amazing! Just wondering…you used a 9″ springform pan for the cheesecake, right?
Joanne, Sorry for the delay, but yet, I used a springform pan for the cheesecake. I think that's why it came out a tad bigger than the cake layers. Did you make it for Christmas? How did it turn out?
I made this for Christmas and it was absolutely AMAZING! My family really enjoyed it and I already have thoughts of the other cakes that would be incredible with a layer of cheesecake inbetween. What a great idea!
This looks amazing! I am making 60 red velvet cupcakes for my cousin's homecoming. I used the red velvet recipe without the cheesecake…AMAZING! The best recipe I have found yet. Thanks, keep it up!


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Rockford, Mich. -- Wolverine Worldwide said Tuesday it will complete its previously announced acquisition of Collective Brands' Performance + Lifestyle Group, which consists of the Sperry Top-Sider, Saucony, Stride Rite and Keds brands, for $1.24 billion.
The banners will become Wolverine's largest operating group, adding more than $1 billion in revenue to Wolverine's existing stable of brands such as Merrell and Hush Puppies.
"Today marks a transformational event for our company," said Blake W. Krueger, Wolverine Worldwide chairman and CEO. "The PLG team, under the leadership of Gregg Ribatt, has done an exceptional job of building a world-class organization, and we are incredibly pleased to welcome more than 3,800 PLG associates to the Wolverine Worldwide team."
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SANTA CRUZ >> Two Santa Cruz men were arrested Saturday morning after allegedly assaulting and stabbing a 28-year-old Hayward man in San Lorenzo Park, Santa Cruz police said.
About 2:30 a.m., officers responded to Dominican Hospital's emergency room for a report of a man who had been stabbed in the abdomen, Santa Cruz Lt. Dan Flippo said.
The victim underwent surgery for the wound but the injury was not life threatening, Flippo said.
Witnesses to the stabbing told officers the victim was walking through the park when three men made contact with him, Flippo said. The suspects questioned whether the victim was in a gang because of his red flannel clothing, Flippo said. Though the victim and witnesses denied gang affiliation, the victim was still assaulted and stabbed.
As officers searched the area shortly after the stabbing, they found two men on Dakota Avenue identified by witnesses as being involved in the assault.
Alex Reyes, 23, and Juan Cruz, 30, both of Santa Cruz, were identified as the attackers by witnesses.
The weapon involved was not immediately found, but a park ranger later found a bloody knife believed to have been used in the attack, Flippo said.
Both were arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and booked into Santa Cruz County Jail. Their bail amounts were not available.
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text: Ralph Hensley looks back with few regrets By Rick Ryan November 20, 2012 Story Share Chip Ellis Ralph Hensley, who stepped down as Riverside coach earlier this month, stands second in all-time Kanawha County coaching wins with 176. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- RALPH HENSLEY spent one of the first few days of his official retirement enjoying himself.He and members of his extended family were in the Myrtle Beach, S.C., area Tuesday on a 65-degree, sunny day. Hensley took a 3-mile jog on the beach in the morning and later played with his grandchildren.The 61-year-old Hensley was miles away, literally and figuratively, from his home in Kanawha County and his former job as football coach at Riverside High School - a position he recently relinquished after six seasons.Hensley didn't get to enjoy himself very much in recent years as the Warriors coach. After making the playoffs in 2007, his first season as the head coach, Riverside has now missed the postseason the last five times - including a 2-8 mark this year.Certainly the losing, combined with changing circumstances, helped Hensley make the call to step down, thus ending a 26-year run as a head coach in Eastern Kanawha County. He led East Bank to four Class AA state titles from 1979-98 before that school and DuPont merged into Riverside in the fall of 1999.Hensley, with a career record of 176-110, resigned just five victories away from Dick Whitman as Kanawha County's all-time leader in coaching wins.He doesn't leave with many regrets, however, other than not being able to sustain the success Riverside enjoyed at its outset."I'll miss working with the young athletes,'' Hensley said, "and seeing them develop from when they're freshmen through their senior year. When they do that, it's really pleasing."I felt like I could still coach. I'm in pretty decent shape and I like working with them. But I wasn't getting the job done. I'm not blaming anyone else. I'm the guy in charge and the responsibility falls in my place. I guess that's why I'm the one making the exit.''There are misconceptions about Hensley's tenure at Riverside, chief among them that he somehow let a proud program slip when he took over for Whitman after the 2006 season. The Warriors had made the AAA playoffs in each of their first six years, including a trip to the championship game in 1999.Actually, that's not true at all.Whitman's final two teams at Riverside failed to make the playoffs (going 5-5 in 2005 and 2-8 in 2006), while Hensley's first Warriors squad did reach the postseason.But Hensley doesn't let that kind of talk bother him, and he knows that if people judge his career by his final few years at Riverside - and ignore the overwhelming success at East Bank - then they're missing the point."It's part of the game,'' Hensley said. "When I took the job [at Riverside], I realized I had to work harder - and I think I did work hard. I'd get home late at night and my wife would say, 'What have you been doing?' And I'd tell her to come on over and see what I do and help me a little bit and I can get home faster. "I know when I was at East Bank, we didn't win right at the start. We were 4-6, 2-8 and 5-5 before we went 9-1, and then it kind of took off from there. Sometimes it takes time.'' Hensley points to a couple factors that most likely helped caused Riverside's slow tumble downward - the phasing out of the freshman team and then the lack of commitment to the school's weight program."I'm not sure why we got away from the ninth-grade program,'' Hensley said. "We moved it in with the varsity program and the ninth-grade program dwindled down. I'd say it was probably a lack of coaches to work with them. I don't know whether that was a factor or not, but we didn't get a chance to work with the ninth-graders as much as we wanted."I think Dick [Whitman] saw the writing on the wall. We had that little discipline program there in 2005 [eight players were suspended for allegedly drinking on the bus returning from a game in Parkersburg]. I'm not sure, but I think that kind of got to him a little bit.''Lately, Hensley admits he's had trouble getting some of the school's better athletes out for football, and also hasn't been able to sell the benefits of a year-round lifting program for his players."I couldn't get the kids to show up and lift,'' Hensley said. "I don't know whether they wanted to or not. I was there four days a week, and I was frustrated when the kids wouldn't show up. In order to win in this conference, you've got to be strong and able to run and have agility to block and make tackles."I didn't feel like we were getting it done, and I'm not blaming anyone besides myself. It's not like I'm forcing them to get into the weight room. They have to want to. Hopefully the new coach will be able to motivate them to do what he asks them to do.'' Still, there are a lot of things Hensley looks back on fondly during his coaching career.From 2000-02, he got to coach his son Justin, who turned into an all-state linebacker for Riverside. He tutored players like Raheem Waiters, a sophomore who has started this year at linebacker for Marshall, and Chris Massey, a fullback on his 1996 state title team at East Bank who later played 10 seasons in the NFL, most of them as a long snapper for the St. Louis Rams.Even this year, with a 2-8 team, there were some highlights.Hensley watched the development of receiver Marcus Reed, a senior playing his first year of football, who finished third in the MSAC with 45 catches for 880 yards. New quarterback Trevor Rumberg, who previously had played mostly defense, blossomed into the No. 3 passer in the league and set a school record with 1,672 yards in the air.Even his final game this year, in which a last-second field goal missed and the Warriors earned a win over Nitro, brings a smile to Hensley's face."There are so many kids here - good, talented kids,'' Hensley said. "This school could realize [success] and they could be a big help in what we could do. I'm really going to miss that. All my teams we had, most of them played hard and we never gave up. Sometimes we just didn't get the job done."I gave my all to Riverside. Sometimes I feel like I've done as much as I could have. I know when I got home at night, I was tired.''Reach Rick Ryan at 304-348-5175 or firstname.lastname@example.com County high school football career coaching victoriesPos-Coach, School(s) Seasons Record1. Dick Whitman, DuPont (1983-98), Riverside (1999-2006) 24 181-96-12. 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Week 5 was very interesting.
I had two lousy runs.
Then I let myself get away with skipping two workouts.
Then I threw myself a pity party…
then yelled at myself…
then I reflected a bit….
then I went for a run and it wasn't so bad….
then I went out for 5 miles…
and I did it!!
Week 5 was full of ups and downs but I must admit, I learned a few things.
Not all runs are going to be great. or even good. Just today I realized it's the bad runs where real progress is made. Running is very physical and sometimes it hurts. I am convinced it is supposed to hurt. All that and running is still way more mental than physical. I am beginning to wonder if some of the twinges I feel are my body/brain/heart fighting with each other.
But, I will always listen to my body. Running is teaching me what it really means to listen to my body. Sometimes aches or twinges are my mind playing tricks, but sometimes those aches and twinges could be so much more. I have knee issues. I have ankle weakness. I have arch issues. I have piriformis pain. I have a strong desire to do this. I have a strong desire to heal my body at the same time as I push it to the limits. I am not doing anything I am not capable of doing. But this body is not used to all that I am asking it to do.
There is nothing better than a hot bath with Epsom Salt to soak all my leg and lower back muscles. Sunday is officially my soaking day. Oh, I woke up with relaxed legs. I am listening to my body and I am asking it to go above and beyond. I am going to treat my body well. Epsom soaks are almost heaven….I have a tiny tub, meh.
Even on the worst of runs, I feel better for having run. I need to remember!! Even when I feel like I just don't want to run, I have to suck it up and run because I always feel better when it is over. pssst…if I say it enough I just might remember!
I took this picture this week after my run on Friday. After I had skipped two workouts. I convinced myself I needed to just get out and run. So, I did. I made it happen. This is me, post run. I wore my bondi (the only one I own) and I needed the words on it.


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Wise men, do your thing. Follow the star and bear gifts.
Because this is sometimes a political column of sorts, allow me to riff off the wise-men symbolism as it applies to the latest unedifying development in the national debate, before I return to the thorny business of Christmas giving and receiving.
For wisdom in politics now seems to be about as elusive as principle - or a Coalition policy, or Bill Shorten's ability to find a fitting metaphorical means by which to highlight this.
Last week Bill said: ''… the opposition don't seem to get it at any point and I hope that at some point in 2013 they'll reveal their workplace relations policy, because it's a better-kept secret than [insert veeeeeery long pause here and a futile search of heavens with eyes for comparison while grinning sheepishly] … no it's probably the best kept secret I can think of.'' Hello, Bill! Among the options here were: Bob Carr's humility; Joe Hockey's kitchen skills; the NSW Right's conscience; Kevin Rudd's capacity for forgiveness; or the career prospects of James Ashby and Peter Slipper.
The only wise head to prevail in the Slipper-Ashby mess was that of Judge Steven Rares of the Federal Court, who dismissed Ashby's sexual harassment claims as part of a plot to undo Slipper.
The government was predictably quick to claim high moral ground (somewhere near Jericho, 260 metres below sea level, which is very handy because it fits neatly with today's biblical theme)*. But they've been terribly slow to understand that out in voter land it all just seemed like a bundle of sleaze, and ministers and shadow ministers pre-empting legal outcomes.
Among the most interesting things to emerge from Ashby-Slipper, though, was an ABC report that some bloke who apparently manages Ashby's media strategy** charges $500 an hour. Gotcha. I've heard of neurosurgeons and plumbers gouging that for an Australia Day call-out but I hope it came with a warranty, James.
No happy Christmas, then, for Ashby or Slipper, whose end as speaker seemed fatally predetermined from the moment he was dragged to the chair in November last year.
Meanwhile, I'm planning on being on an aeroplane this Christmas Day. Which might mean my younger children receive fewer gifts that by New Year's Day end up all over the floor as small, jagged pieces of hardened plastic that make me yelp like a manager of opposition business in the house when I step on them on the way to the bathroom at 2am.
Hopefully, too, it will mean my mother-in-law can't give me the same monogrammed polo shirt for the fourth consecutive year. I have tried, delicately, to make it known I'm not a monogrammed polo shirt kind of guy and that green-and-purple horizontal stripes do not much flatter the middle-aged male torso.
There's one rule in my household, designed to minimise the amount of Christmas spending, that I routinely break. My beloved and I have a pact that we won't buy for each other. But come Christmas Eve I usually find myself reflexively making a last-minute dash to the mall for earrings or perfume, a book or something.
Once my mother would scrutinise the un-openings and remark in general earshot hours later, in what I'm led to believe was her way: ''Oh, so you mean she didn't buy you a present at all?'' These days her mum asks pointedly: ''Why didn't you get him just a little something?'' (Me: wry smile.) Potential answers to this question include: a) because he buys me a present only so you don't think he's a crap husband; b) because he doesn't deserve anything; and c) because he's already got three of those lovely monogrammed green-and-purple horizontally striped shirts that make him look like a dachshund jammed into a tea cosy.
The interesting thing about boarding a plane on Christmas Day this year to avoid Christmas Day is that, despite myself, I'm going to get two Christmas days.
One in Canberra and one in New York.
I'll take New York.
* Jericho is also the only place in the world where you can have lunch at Jericho Fried Chicken (JFC), a dining experience paralleled only, perhaps, by the first shawarma shop on the right, across from the church, when you enter Nazareth (a great place to buy a nativity set) from the Jenin end.
** The term ''strategy'' used as loosely as … (help, Bill).
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If all goes according to plan, Midwestern farmers will be spreading urea produced from biomass gasification starting in the spring of 2014.
A structural agreement between BioNitrogen and United Suppliers, Inc., an Iowa cooperative, ensures that urea produced from the "to-be-opened" Florida plant will find its way to the co-op and its customers. That's a good thing for them, said Bryan Kornegay, chief financial officer, BioNitrogen, Inc.
"Urea imported from the Black Sea region, China and other areas picks up moisture and often arrives in clumps that have to be reprocessed or cause problems at application," said Kornegay. "We will be providing a clean, high quality product to the farmer without the $75 per ton shipping margin they have to pay with imported product."
BioNitrogen production will also be a good thing for Hardee County, Fla., where the plant will be built. Plans are to use biomass that now ends up in landfills to produce urea. The plant can utilize sugar cane bagasse, palm fronds, rice and peanut hulls, cotton by-products, corn leaves and stalks and virtually any other carbon-based feedstock.
Gasification is a well-established method for co-generation. Traditionally, however, it has required significant subsidization. The founders of BioNitrogen have chosen instead to produce a value added product in high demand throughout the country. The gasifier-based process (to be provided by PRM Energy Systems) uses waste material as its main feedstock and produces only urea, a small amount of fly ash and some sulfur.
The modular plant design utilizes the biomass in its first stage gasifier to produce syngas. The syngas is piped to the second module where it is converted to ammonia. This feedstock is then piped to the third module for the final step in urea production. Kornegay said it is the modular nature of the plant design, and in particular the gasification module, that makes the plant singularly different from conventional urea plants dependent on natural gas.
The process design was put together by four Texas Tech researchers looking for ways to utilize cotton gin waste. After looking at biodiesel, ethanol and co-generation, they settled on urea production. The final design is environmentally friendly as well as projecting profitability. It has a low carbon footprint with no emissions, and water is constantly recycled within the plant.
"We can build our plants anywhere we have sufficient biomass and then transport it to farmers who can utilize it," said Kornegay. "If natural gas did fall to a price that was competitive with our syngas, we could shut down the first module and utilize natural gas in the second and third modules."
Korengay noted that swings in the natural gas cycle have in the past encouraged development of nitrogen production facilities, only to see them fail when prices recover. He suggested the biomass gasification module in BioNitrogen's plants ensures they will remain profitable.
Ensuring profitability is inherent in both the 124,000 ton per year sizing and location of the Hardee County plant and future plants. At an estimated cost of $120 million to build, the company projects a three-year payback once operation starts and a price per ton significantly less than current market rates of $180 to $230 per ton for produced urea. Plants can be built and maintained for a tenth that of traditional urea plants and built in a fifth the time.
"While the plant could be built larger or smaller, we found this offered the optimum energy balance," said Kornegay. "As for location, we could build anywhere. However, Florida and other southern tier states like Louisiana offer the most stable sources of biomass."
He pointed out that potential wide-area natural disasters in the Midwest include drought, late spring frosts and flooding that can reduce biomass production. However, wide-area natural disasters in the South are more likely to include hurricanes or tropical storms, which serve only to increase available biomass for gasification.
If their feedstock is ensured, so apparently is the market. United Suppliers has told BioNitrogen it will take all the urea they can produce from this first plant and any future plants. While 124,000 tons represents a drop in the nitrogen import market, it is a start, suggested Kornegay.
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The Delta Produce bankruptcy story and $100 million lawsuit charging H.E. Butt Co. with unethical business practices makes for some scintilating reading.
But it's a sad look at a supplier-retailer partnership gone wrong.
The lawsuit and bankruptcy will play themselves out, and we're not in a position to determine whose set of facts is correct, but it seems pretty clear that Delta and H-E-B, both of San Antonio, didn't view their relationship as a partnership.
That's not to say that method is always the best way or only way to do business.
But it's a good way in fresh produce.
The produce industry goes back a long time and prides itself on being the kind of business where competitors can help each other and sit on the same commodity or association boards, and deals are done over dinner and drinks and handshakes.
Indeed, much business is still done that way, and it makes the produce industry the kind that pulls people in for their career.
But there are still situations like these, where bankruptcies shut companies down and scandalous accusations are made in nine-figure lawsuits.
Suppliers and buyers should recognize signs that a relationship isn't going in a healthy direction.
If the lawsuit is accurate, that H-E-B forbade Delta from selling to H-E-B competitors, resulting in as much as 95% of Delta's business going to H-E-B, it's not a stretch to say that's not a healthy business position.
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I don't know Mark, do you assume new players are stupid? I don't.
I do, however, assume they are people! Riddled by impatience, wishful thinking, confirmation bias, etc. I know I am, and I hardly consider myself stupid
Most people watch good players and, like you say, see something that looks easy - and they want the results fast, with minimal practice. They look for shortcuts, like most of us. Weren't you the one advocating unrealistic expectations? Well, the problem with having unrealistic expectations in this case (not unrealistic goals and dreams, mind you) is you will get frustrated and unrealistic expectations can increase the frustrration.
Since new players commonly over-emphasize driving length, they search for the quickest route to improvement in this aspect of the game. They get the discs that says Maximum distance, they unsurprisingly expect these drivers to go further than their other discs, and when they fail to consistently do so they assume, correctly, that there's something wrong with their technique.
But then (here comes the point at last) they don't try to throw flat and with control, they try to throw harder - and once in a while this actually works! Being human, we remember these throws the best, so we think we're on to something, and... fast forward some months, they're still throwing 250/300, with no more control than before and they've developed a set of nasty habits - OAT/wobbles, more speed than spin, always throwing flex shots because their only other option is having the disc hyzer out, etc etc.
Disclaimer: this is, obviously, less likely to happen if you have good players with the ability to give good advice around you or if you come from a technical sports background (so you have a better understanding of how acquiring skill takes time).
The theory of discing down (from "Clubbing down" in that most traditional sport of ball golf, btw), is the best way I've seen to realistically enable people to be able to execute those controlled shots, at a distance they quite rapidly can be proud of, and get constant improvement that keeps the fun level up!
It's not training wheels, it's realizing that you don't put a toddler on Lance Armstrong's bike. Or, to quote a wise man I once argued with; "How many Little Leaguers would do well using Babe Ruth's bat?"


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Karen Lloyd, of Freshbrook, was a force of nature who, even through a taxing battle with breast cancer, continued to spread her infectious love of life and laughter wherever she went.
Karen, or Moosie, as she was lovingly nicknamed by her husband Alan, died at Prospect Hospice on Tuesday – just six months after being diagnosed with stage three cancer. She was just 51.
But through the months of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and the doctors' terminal prognosis, the mother-of-two, who was notorious for her obsession with Costa Coffee and passion for shopping, never allowed herself to abandon hope or shed tears.
Her close friend Lynzi Barrett, who supported her over the last six months, remembered Karen as the life of the party "She was such a popular girl and her personality was infectious," said Lynzi, 53, of Rod-bourne Cheney.
"She was so funny and she would come up with any excuse for a coffee or a party.
"She loved her bling and if you could have seen all the jewellery and clothes she possessed, she would have put Debenhams to shame. But mostly she was a devoted mother."
In June last year, Karen was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer after a mass half the size of her breast was spotted by specialists at the Great Western Hospital.
She immediately received a course of chemotherapy.
Always the optimist, she treated her diagnosis as an opportunity to raise funds for the hospital's breast cancer unit.
As she began to lose her hair, she opted to shave it all off and went on to raise £2,000 for the ward. In November she started experiencing debilitating headaches and uncontrollable bouts of sickness.
This forced surgeons to cancel an operation to remove the mass on her breast and Karen to postpone the post-surgery 'boob' party she had planned.
On December 12, just days after her wedding anniversary and her birthday, she discovered the cancer had spread to her spinal fluid and was given between two weeks and two months to live.
A week later, she was admitted to Prospect Hospice where she died on February 4.
Until the very end she was supported by her friends, including Dawn Stephens, who she called her "rock", her husband and relatives.
"On December 12, I went to see her after she found out the cancer was incurable," said Lynzi.
"She cried for five seconds and stopped instantly. I told her a few jokes and she laughed.
"Throughout, I saw her cry about four times. She would always stop immediately and say something funny.
"She didn't feel sorry for herself, and she took it in her stride. She was so selfless and brave. All her thoughts were for her boys.
"She called her breast tumour Tilly, that's just the kind of person she was."
Her funeral at Christ Church in Old Town on Valentine's Day, at 11am, will mirror her quirky personality and eccentricity, with a customised coffin sporting Costa Coffee's logo and an image of her favourite hot drink.
"The Costa logo was Alan's idea," said Lynzi. "She would have loved it. She would crack up if she saw this at a funeral."
Karen leaves two sons Harry, 19, and Eddie, 15, and her widower Alan. The family is encouraging those who knew her to make a donation to Prospect in her memory.
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Will Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe Stand Up to Big Banks and Stand With Consumers?
Gut Check Time: Senators Collins and Snowe: Don't Block Richard Cordray as Head of the Consumer Financial Protect Bureau, Key to Protecting Consumers
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Washington, DC – Tomorrow the U.S. Senate will vote on confirming former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray as the new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe will have the opportunity to show their true stripes – stand with consumers just trying to keep our heads above water or stand with those big banks which are doing everything to avoid being held accountable for crashing the economy and costing millions of jobs.
Republican have done everything in their power to delay, defund, repeal, or weaken the new Wall Street reforms that created the new watchdog, and Wall Street companies and their well-paid lobbyists have spent as many millions to undermine the new law as they did to block it.
Tom McMahon, Executive Director, Americans United for Change: "Let's be clear – this isn't about the overwhelming qualified Richard Cordray. This about the Republicans doing the banks bidding by standing with them and against the 99%. It's about the students and members of our Armed Forces who are preyed upon. It's about the nearly $5 million that Senators Snowe and Collins have received from the financial sector to do their bidding. We can't afford any more delays in putting in place a strong consumer watchdog looking out for all of us. It's unconscionable for Senators Snowe and Collins to block Cordray from heading this agency – an agency that is finally standing up for our interests."


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- Riddel Viper
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- Katsucon 2013
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- Construction Details:
I heavily modified a Butterick wedding dress pattern for the base dress, which is fully lined and made with matte casa fabric. The sleeves were designed freehand and all of the appliqué "petals" were done with four layers of fabric fused together and painstakingly satin stitched along the edge of each alternating color and finally topstitched to the base dress and sleeves. The headband is handmade from leftover dress fabric and matching blue ribbon, and the viper is made from Sculpty, painted, and screwed on to the headband base. The Rainbow Rod staff is a PVC pipe base spray painted silver and accented with black electrical tape, topped with a red ball from the home decor section of Target and the top shape carved from insulation foam, primed and spray painted. The hardest part of the project was fitting the mermaid shape base dress; I fitted it and took the seams in at least half a dozen times.
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- My friends were doing a Chrono Cross group and I decided to be Riddel. I love the colors in her design and had never made anything with the mermaid dress shape before so I was interested in that challenge. I'm pretty happy with how this came out; I love the appliqué petals a lot!
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DETROIT - UPDATE: 3:30 p.m.
Final tally on the day: 5 jurors excused, 11 have been accepted into the poll of 66. Fifty-five more potential jurors are needed.
Of the jurors who were questioned today:
2 black females
1 Asian male
5 white males
7 white females
1 excused due to illness
UPDATE: 2:00 p.m.
After lunch, Victor Mercado was sitting alone in the courtroom. Bernard Kilpatrick came in next. Bobby Ferguson and Kwame Kilpatrick came into the courtroom last - laughing and chatting with one another.
Three potential jurors were questioned. The first was a white female in her 30s who made it into the pool of 66. The next woman was a white female - late 20s or early 30s - she also made it through. The third was a white male in his 40s. He was questioned in length by all of the attorneys involved. During the questioning of this potential juror, Kwame Kilpatrick and Bobby Ferguson could be seen whispering to one another.
UPDATE: 12:30 p.m.
Judge Edmunds breaks for lunch. Court to reconvene again at 1:30PM. Can't be late!
Kwame Kilpatrick elicited an obvious eye roll when one of the potential jurors declared he had never heard of any racial terms being ascribed to the case.
After 9 potential jurors, the number of those who have passed is 6 and those excused is 3.
60 more to go.
Thursday 9/6/12 9 a.m.
So here we are on day one of the Kwame Kilpatrick federal corruption trial.
Last to arrive in Judge Nancy Edmunds's court room this morning was defendant Victor Mercado, who made a point of sitting somewhat apart from the other defendants, sandwiched between his two lawyers. Bernard Kilpatrick, sat quietly, listening to his counsel. Kwame Kilpatrick, sleek and confident in a dark pinstripe suit, looked confident as he chatted and laughed with longtime friend and co-defendant Bobby Ferguson. Every once in a while, Kwame would look back at the media, scanning the room for familiar faces.
Judge Edmunds entered the court promptly at 9 a.m. and right off the bat informed the court that one potential juror had been excused for health reasons.
Over the next two hours, four potential jurors were questioned by Judge Edmunds, prosecutors and defense counsel. Judge Edmunds outlined to all jurors that they would be referred by number to ensure anonymity and asked about media exposure to the case since they had all last been in court.
All four potential jurors were very different but all seemed keen to prove that they could be impartial and fair.
Interestingly, with all four jurors, Victor Mercado's lawyer John Minock seemed interested in really only two things. Had they ever heard of Victor Mercado previous to the trial- a unanimous no- and would they be able to separate the defendants and establish their guilt or innocence individually. Again a resounding no. Seems like Minock has definitely decided on his strategy of alienating Mercado from the rest of his co-defendants as much as possible
Judge Edmunds called first recess of the day at 10:45am. At this rate, with over 200 potential jurors, it looks like jury selection might be a long slog indeed.
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University researchers in Florida who work with animals are now lobbying the state legislature for the right to shelter personal information from animal activists intent on intimidating them.
A bill currently moving through the Florida House of Representatives would exempt the personal contact information of animal researchers at state-funded research facilities from being part of the public record.
Officials with the University of Florida, along with several other state universities — including the University of Central Florida, Florida International University and the University of South Florida — are supporting the bill as a necessary protection for researchers from threats and harassment dished out by animal activists.
If approved, the bill would exempt the personal identification of researchers in animal records on treatment and care, research protocols and approvals, purchase or billing records, animal care and use committee records and facility and lab records.
In Gainesville, Fla., where the main campus of the university is located, a radical animal rights group has vowed to continue to harass UF scientists.
The activists, who are nominally aligned with the innocuous Eleventh Hour for Animals, a nonprofit promoting the adoption of rescue dogs and cats, proclaim that they intend to expose "the taxpayer-funded animal torture industry inside the University of Florida."
After a three-year lawsuit, Eleventh Hour for Animals, which is connected to the activist organization Negotiation is Over (which maintains the virulent website www.negotiationisover.net), obtained the university's public veterinary records in April 2013, according to a report published by The Independent Florida Alligator news service, and the activists posted personal phone numbers, addresses and photos of UF animal researchers.
"The university wants to be very open and honest about its research," Janine Sikes, a UF spokeswoman, told IFA. "[But] it wants to stop these personal attacks against our researchers."
Sikes said the animal activists have made harassing phone calls, targeted researchers' children and family members and even made death threats. As a result, Eleventh Hour for Animals is under surveillance from local law enforcement, as well as the FBI.
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Of course, Camille A. Marino, the founder of Negotiation Is Over and now director of Eleventh Hour for Animals, claimed that the group never threatened anyone or committed any violent acts against the researchers at UF.
"The only violence that is happening is the violence [the researchers] commit against animals for money," Marion said. "My intent is never to threaten anyone, only to provide information that the community has a right to know."
However, here's a sample of Marino's "intentions," straight from her online posts. Judge for yourself how non-threatening her intentions are:
"While many above-ground strategies remain ineffective, the MDA (militant direct action) campaigns of the animal liberation underground — liberating animals from captivity, inflicting economic damage through sabotage, and creative intimidation tactics — have yielded quantifiable gains. But even tougher means may be necessary to end the billion-dollar animal holocaust industry by bringing the war home to the vivisectors, professors, academic departments and administrators and the entire staff of private research facilities.
"Every time a vivisector's car or home — and eventually, the abuser him/herself — blows up, flames of liberation light up the sky. And now we have a golden opportunity to begin to destroy the foundations upon which Bogus Big Pharma and the academic-industrial complex rest — the vivisection research model can be made unworkable and obsolete."
Does that sound like someone who (allegedly) espouses non-violence?
Like virtually every other aspect of the animal activist agenda — the world can easily survive on nothing but plants, medical research can be done solely on computers and indigenous people in harsh climates who dependent on animal foods for survival can switch to imported soy products — their extremist convictions are a toxic stew of false assertions, misguided perspectives and amoral existentialism that supports a twisted "ends justify the means" approach to changing social and economic institutions with which they disapprove.
Camille Marino is merely one of a legion of self-proclaimed "reformers" whose agenda consists of anything but.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Dan Murphy, a veteran food-industry journalist and commentator.


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All of us can choose from among dozens of brands of automobiles. But when it comes to something more precious, parents generally have little choice in their children's public schools. The educational bureaucracy makes the decision.
The outlook is improving, as we're reminded during National School Choice Week, which runs through Saturday, Feb. 2. Programs continue advancing that give parents and students alternatives to remaining in underperforming or unsafe schools.
School choice first was advanced in 1955 by one of our favorite economists, the late Milton Friedman, a Nobel laureate who long was associated with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His work now is carried forward by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice in Indianapolis.
It its purest form, school choice involves providing a "voucher" or "tax credit scholarship" to parents, who then can "spend" it at any school, public or private.
"It puts the focus of public education on those who matter most: the students," Jeff Reed told us; he's the communications director at the foundation. "Friedman said we should fund education, not schools. Parents should choose schools, not the other way." Mr. Reed said school choice motivates schools to compete for students.
The first school choice experiments began two decades ago, prompted by the often-horrible situation for inner-city children in Milwaukee and Cleveland. The results have been impressive. Of 11 studies that used a random assignment of students, Mr. Reed said, 10 showed improvements; one study showed no effect. None found a decline in achievement.
He added that traditional public schools also improved their performance as they were forced to do better to avoid losing students to private schools.
About 255,000 children in the United States are using school-choice vouchers. Unfortunately, none is in California. In 1993, voters defeated a school voucher initiative, Proposition 174, by 70 percent to 30 percent. In 2000, a similar initiative, Prop. 38, lost 71 percent to 29 percent. In both cases, the well-funded opposition of the teachers' unions was just too powerful. If anything, those unions are even more powerful today, as their clout at last November's polls showed.
However, California does have limited school choice through charter schools, which work within the public-school system but enjoy more autonomy. And the state's recent "parent trigger" law, in which parents can force reforms, even replace the administration at an underperforming school, is just being implemented.
So the fight to expand educational options in California isn't over. Friedman's school choice idea remains a beacon of reform.


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This past summer at the annual gathering of Big 12 coaches, top players from each school and the media who cover them, Mack Brown called Bill Snyder the best coach in college football.
"He's been the master at finding out what his kids can do and building around it," Brown said.
Earlier this week, Brown lavished Kansas State's universally-respected coach with praise again.
"Bill Snyder has done the best job—hands down—of anybody in the country, from his starting date at Kansas State until today."
Nice comments, wouldn't you say? There can't be many folks out there who'd disagree outright with them. Snyder may or may not be the best coach in the game, but certainly there's no one else quite like him.
But there was a time when those compliments—coming from Brown—would've meant more than they do now. It was only three years ago when many would've counted Brown among the best program leaders in college football. He was the CEO to end all CEOs. He was a superstar, headed for a chance to win his second national championship in four years.
Now? Brown's still paid like the best in the game—over $5.3 million a year (second only to Nick Saban) through 2020—but the man is fading faster than the late-afternoon sun.
As the Wildcats and Longhorns prepare to do battle on Saturday night in
Manhattan, Kan., with a Big 12 title and Fiesta Bowl berth at stake for the home team (presuming that Oklahoma beats TCU earlier Saturday), the view of Snyder and Brown and how they relate to each other couldn't be starker.
One man's in position to win some more coach of the year awards. The other's trying to get to 22-16 overall and 12-14 in the Big 12 since Alabama DT Marcell Dareus' hit on Colt McCoy in the opening minutes of the 2009 season finale.
Saban and the Crimson Tide have gone on to rule the world. Brown and the Longhorns have gone on to become the third-best program in their own state.
Yes, the differences between those two coaches are pretty stark, too.
Transport yourself back in time to the moments before kickoff of that 2009 title game. Would you have believed then that, three years later, the Longhorns would possibly be double-digit underdogs to Kansas State?
That's just another indignity for Texas football, which is used to it by now.
The Longhorns are back under the boot of Oklahoma, having lost three straight to the Sooners—the past two by a combined 80 points.
Brown's talented defense can't—won't—tackle, a problem that has frustrated and flummoxed the 61-year-old coach all season. (One guess: bad coaching?)
Offensively, Texas has much better talent in 2012 than it did the past two seasons, but this is still just the sixth-best offense in the Big 12. Take a guess how many offensive players from this program were selected in the previous two NFL drafts. Ready? The answer is zero.
"They're loaded," one coach said of another's team this week.
It wasn't Snyder talking about Texas, which, despite the Wildcats' great success and the Longhorns' struggles, still would've sounded right.
It was Brown talking about K-State. They're loaded? That's debatable.
That they're as well-coached as any team in college football—and far better-coached than Texas—is not.
Here's a crazy thought: How 'bout Texas wins this game?
Or maybe that's just too crazy.
Have the performances of Brown and his program slipped so far that you can't even hint at a Longhorns win over K-State without sounding like a loon?


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Unknown Fells helps Patriots from tight spot
FOXBOROUGH — Patriots fans know all about tight end Rob Gronkowski: Larger-than-life man-child, record-setting Pro Bowler, spike master, magazine cover boy (in the nude, no less), signed through 2019.
Patriots fans know all about tight end Aaron Hernandez: Versatile, vital, productive, fond of tattoos, first-round talent who slipped to the fourth round, signed through 2018.
Patriots fans even knew about tight end Kellen Winslow Jr., who spent a week with the team and appeared in one game before being released.
Patriots fans know . . . what, exactly, about tight end Daniel Fells?
A 29-year-old who has drawn paychecks from six teams over seven NFL seasons, Fells has career totals of 89 catches for 1,019 yards and eight touchdowns — numbers eclipsed by Gronkowski last season.
But with Hernandez having missed the last two-plus games with an ankle injury, and Gronkowski sitting out a practice here and there with a hip injury, Fells has been handed an opportunity to find a role with the Patriots — and introduce himself to the team's fans.
"Everyone looks for an opportunity, no matter when it comes or how it comes. You just always have to make sure you're ready,'' Fells said. "I go out there every single day making sure I'm prepared, make sure that I'm getting better, so that way if opportunity does knock, I'm ready to answer.''
Signed by the Patriots in March, Fells spent part of training camp on the physically unable to perform list and was inactive for the first two regular-season games. He made his Patriots debut two weeks ago at Baltimore (no catches), then had his first — and only — reception of the season on Sunday, an 18-yarder in the 52-28 win at Buffalo.
With Hernandez's availability for this Sunday's home game against Denver uncertain — he's listed as questionable by the Patriots, as are Gronkowski and another tight end, Michael Hoomanawanui — Fells could see increased playing time, and have a ball or two thrown his way.
The way the Patriots utilize the tight end, it's one of the factors that drew him to Foxborough.
"Let's see, 90, 70? I'm good for 50 catches, right?'' Fells said, noting the 2011 regular-season receptions for Gronkowski (90 for 1,327 yards and 17 touchdowns) and Hernandez (actually 79, for 910 yards and seven scores). "The production the two guys had last year, it was obvious they leaned on those guys. I knew they liked to utilize their tight ends.''
It's a position Fells had to be talked into playing. Basketball was his first love (specifically the Los Angeles Lakers, since he grew up in Orange County), then baseball. Football, though, provided a scholarship to California-Davis, where he assumed he'd be playing receiver, his position in high school.
But his parents, and UC-Davis coach Bob Biggs, thought his size (Fells is 6 feet 4 inches, 265 pounds) might be better served at tight end. So Fells, rather reluctantly, agreed to the position change, then earned all-conference honors and the attention of NFL scouts. It was a move that has definitely paid off.
Fells always wanted to be in front of the camera (he earned a communications degree from UC-Davis). Almost every Sunday during football season, he is.
"It's funny how things work out,'' Fells said.
Now he's here in New England, after stints with Atlanta (he signed with the Falcons in 2006 as an undrafted free agent), Oakland, Tampa Bay, St. Louis, and Denver. His most productive season came two years ago with the Rams, when he caught 41 passes for 391 yards and two touchdowns. Last season with the Broncos, he had 19 receptions for 256 yards and three scores. The Patriots held Fells without a catch in two games, including their playoff meeting, last season, both Broncos losses.
"Dan's had good experience and production in the league,'' coach Bill Belichick said. "We've seen him do a lot of different things — block, catch, play in the kicking game, pass protect; you know, all the things you see a tight end do. Dan knows what to do. He's an experienced player, very professional in his attitude, his preparation, his film study, all of that.
"I wouldn't classify him as a one-dimensional guy.''
Neither would Fells.
"I pride myself on being an all-around tight end, an all-around athlete, just being able to do whatever this team needs me to do,'' Fells said. "Everyone tries to pigeonhole tight ends as a straight blocker, or straight route-runner, or H-back. I feel like me, as well as the other guys here, we can do all that. We're not just in one spot, we don't just line up and put our hand in the dirt. We can be flex-style like a wide receiver, we're in the backfield lead-blocking. We do a lot of different things.''
Fells had the luxury of learning from Alge Crumpler in Atlanta, and now shares meeting rooms, practice fields, and locker space with Gronkowski and Hernandez. He'll see plenty of familiar faces on Sunday with the Broncos in town, hoping that his number gets called, confident he'll be able to produce if and when it does.
He might never be as well known as the Patriots' two star tight ends, but Fells thinks he can fill a role on this team. He's just not exactly sure what it might be, or what it might become.
"Coming here, I didn't really consider myself having a role just yet. I think they were waiting to see where I could fit,'' Fells said. "That's one of the great things about this team. It's continually evolving, and I'm excited to see what the future holds.''


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- Golden Oldies Motor Club meeting at Annette's Country Cooking & Seafood Cafe, 2804 W. Church St. Ext. in Hammond, at 7:30 p.m. For more information visit the Web site at www.goldenoldiesmotorclub.com.
- Cajun Classic Chevy Club meeting at Gerry Lane Cadillac dealership, 10945 Reiger Road, at 7 p.m. Dinner is at 6 p.m. Please bring chairs. For more information call Pat at (225) 241-4886.
Send your car club information to: Cruisin', WHEELS, The Advocate, P.O. Box 588, Baton Rouge, LA 70821, or email to firstname.lastname@example.com or fax to (225) 388-0129.