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Tyrann Mathieu takes center stage on Tuesday at the 2013 NFL Scouting Combine. After not playing last season at LSU, Mathieu posted an unofficial 4.43 in his first attempt for the 40-yard dash.
Mathieu, 5-9, 186 lbs., is a former Heisman Trophy finalist. He ran an unofficial 4.50 in his second attempt. Former SEC rival Dee Milliner of Alabama ran a blistering 4.31 in his first attempt, the top time for any defensive back on Tuesday.
On Monday, Mathieu addressed his time in drug rehab and his life since an arrest for marijuana possession in October.
"I thought my bottom was when I got kicked out of school," Mathieu said. "I think when I got arrested in October, that was a different bottom. So I decided to go to rehab. But this time, rehab was for Tyrann. I just wasted going to do it for publicity or because my school told me to go. I actually wanted to get my problem corrected."
While his first 40-yard dash time was strong, his weak performance in the bench press -- just four reps at 225 lbs. -- raised questions for at least one NFL defensive coordinator.
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Fire MacT? No chance
Robin Brownlee
February 02 2009 10:10PM
While there's plenty of sentiment out there, some of it well-founded, that Craig MacTavish should be fired forthwith by the Edmonton Oilers, it isn't going to happen. At least not right now.
Aside from having the Oilers in a tenuous playoff position at 25-21-3 and owner Darryl Katz and president of hockey operations Kevin Lowe firmly in his corner, MacTavish got what was essentially a vote of confidence from GM Steve Tambellini today.
While votes of confidence often come just before the GM walks into his coach's office with a blindfold and a cigarette, I'd be willing to wager that's not the case when it comes to the embattled MacT.
That's not to say a case can't be made for a pink slip, because it can, but the reality of the situation, given the personalities and alliances involved, is that MacTavish isn't going anywhere, yet.
The boss says
Tambellini talked to assembled media at Millennium Place today, taking a variety of questions. Dave Mitchell of CTV cut to the chase when he asked Tambellini if a coaching change might "get this team going."
"We're right in the middle of a playoff hunt here," said Tambellini, eyeballing his bald inquisitor. "We're in fifth place a couple of days ago.
"This coaching staff is working hard. Craig is one of the top coaches in this business and we're right there. So, you're asking me a question when we're fighting for a playoff spot right now, like many teams.
"Our job is to get better from within first, not to look on the outside. If that happens, like I said, we look daily. If we can upgrade our hockey club, we will. If we can upgrade on the last day possible of the trade deadline, we will.
"The most important thing here is to maximize what we have here, be a good team every night. This coaching staff is doing a good job."
Moves pending?
Tambellini was also queried about the possibility of making a deal to bolster the team, maybe shake things up, before the trade deadline.
"To look on the outside, to say there's always something greener on the other side to get better, that's an easy way," Tambellini said. "Every team is saying that.
"You have to get better from the inside. We have to get better as a group (and) individually. That's the only way you'll be able to sustain something... it's difficult. Teams are looking for energy players. Teams are looking for defencemen. They're looking for top-six forwards.
"It's difficult to move players. It's not the only way you get better. We have to look not only on the outside, we have to look from the inside out sometimes. How do we get better as a group?"
The bottom line
So, like it or not, that's Tambellini's take, as of today. In the end, while some Oilers fans might see things differently, the reality is Tambellini, along with Lowe and Katz, have the only votes that really matter. And those votes won't be cast until this season is done and the Oilers miss the playoffs, if they're cast at all.
MacT isn't going anywhere, yet.
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February 03 2009, 04:42PM
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@ Deep Oil: Wow, that site is fantastic, thanks for pointing that out. Now I can watch midweek soccer games at work!
And everyone thinks I out to lunch.
The way some people talk, you'd think players spend a lot of time reading fan sites and losing sleep over what people say about them.
Some people? Like who, Allan Watt?
Didn't Stauffer (I'm paraphrasing but I'm pretty sure I have the gist of it) always used to go about how what he and other reporters had to say was more valid because he had to back it up by facing the guy at practice the next day? Do players only lose sleep about what's written or said about them in the real media?
Just curious about how it works, that's all. You can usually tell the real loons online or the people who don't know how to spell or write coherent English but it seems to me that Stauffer's whole point was predicated on players a) reading the stuff that's written about them and b) caring about it.
I can't imagine wading into the morass if I were a player - too many people way out to lunch, and too many people who passionately support their guy over me.
I don't know how many of these guys are tech savvy, although I'd assume that a lot of the younger ones are, and maybe it's different for guys at the NHL level, but a lot of the guys I know who played college would read discussion forums and such. People are, by and large, like Ed Koch - they're interested in their reviews.
There are so many great options for a new coaching staff on the open market right now, it's a shame that most of them will be scooped up before we get rid of this "no better than .500 staff of old buddies" we have right now.
I am curious as to what on god's earth Mac T, Huddy, or Bucky could ever teach a guy like Ales Hemsky? Could you imagine that conversation? Bucky telling Hemmer to block all incomming shots with his face. Know wonder 3rd and 4th line plug bangers make it on this team. Thats all the coaching staff know's.
I'm throwing this out there, but how about bringing back a great winner and non ex oiler Rob Daum as an assistant. Dennis Savard, another winner and offensive teacher as the other assistant. At head coach i'm thinking maybe a guy like Marc Crawford. He's at the very least a change. A new vision,voice and system.
I think it's pretty clear we will never be better than .500 with the plug's behind our bench now. I also think it would be great to not have to always push for that 8th playoff spot, rather dare I say contend for the division.
February 03 2009, 06:08PM
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At head coach i'm thinking maybe a guy like Marc Crawford. He's at the very least a change. A new vision,voice and system.
Have you heard Crawford do colour commentary?
If not, do you recall what happened to the last team he was in charge of?
February 03 2009, 06:22PM
@ Tyler:
I totally agree dude. Anybody that thinks that these guys don't follow whats written on the net about them is pretty naive.
February 03 2009, 06:26PM
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At head coach i'm thinking maybe a guy like Marc Crawford. He's at the very least a change. A new vision,voice and system.
Anybody that would send out Ray Bourque in a shootout over the most prolific goal scorer in NHL history in St. Wayne Gretzky should never even be allowed inside an NHL arena ever again. Not even to watch. Nothing he can say or do will ever fix that mistake.
February 03 2009, 06:56PM
Ty: I really wouldn't worry too much about what Stauffer thinks. There seems to be an old guard sentiment by the Edm media - and in other cities as well - that fans are know-nothings and that you only get real insight by asking, "talk about that shift in the second period."
The new truth is that the truth is out there given you can buy these things called satellite dishes that allow you to watch every game and also this series of tubes called the internet where you can check stats and compare them against players on other teams.
February 03 2009, 07:05PM
@ Travis Dakin: Are you calling me naive? Many of the players, the vast majority, do read the daily papers, be it the hard copy or the internet version of what's written.
Yes, players generally do care what an identifiable mainstream writer, particularly the beat guys and columnists, say about them. You see copies of the newspaper passed around on the team flight and bus all the time.
Players don't, however, spend time surfing from fansite to fansite and blog to blog to see what fans are on about. And they're not the least bit concerned whether "PuckBunny 89" or "Gretzky Rules" thinks they suck or belong in the hall of fame.
To Shakey and RobinB I'm not saying that we shouldn't pressure these players who are being paid millions to play hockey for our entertainment. What I am saying is that we should focus on developing talent from within the organization. Players that are succeeding here are ones that have come through the system or have come here in a trade before our standards for them have been set.
I've heard or read several people say now is not the time to get rid of MacT. I disagree. It's been the same thing year after year. Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't the Oilers made the playoffs only three times in 8 years of MacT coaching. And those three times they made the playoffs, they barely squeezed in. Oilers need a change. Letting him go now would really shake this team up, and that is what needs to happen. I don't belive that MacT has lost the room, but there is something to be said about the players not responding to their coach. I understand if the Oilers miss the playoffs this year then MacT has to go. But, what if they make the playoffs this year? Then does MacT keep his job, and the Oilers repeat this cyle of underachieving for another decade? Now is the time to let him go.

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A former Vallejo woman's ex-boyfriend testified Tuesday the drug-using couple casually agreed to kill two unsuspecting victims during a 2007 methamphetamine bender.
In less than 24 hours, two women -- both strangers to heavy meth addicts Mario Moreno and Paige Linville -- had been shot to death in Cordelia and Dixon.
"I asked Paige if she ever thought about killing anybody," Moreno said. "She said 'yes.' I asked her if she wanted to kill that lady? She said 'yes.' "
Moreno, 32, was referring to 34-year-old Amber Lee Chappel, a Vallejo transient and also a meth user.
Linville's defense attorney, however, is building an argument that Moreno was responsible for both slayings, and that a traumatized Linville -- who may or may not have pulled the trigger -- was under his power throughout the ordeal.
Questioned by Solano County Deputy District Attorney Krishna Abrams, a shackled Moreno said he and Linville, 29, had dropped off dope to a friend's wife in a Broadway Street shopping center about 2 a.m. on Nov. 16, 2007.
Chappel had approached their car and asked if they had any dope to sell. After a brief discussion, Moreno said he and Linville drove back and picked her up "to kill her."
Moreno said Chappel seemed like an "easy target."
"She had already asked to come along with us," he explained.
Linville and Moreno were arrested in December 2007, and Linville pleaded no contest to charges of being an accessory after the fact as well as possession of methamphetamine.
Moreno, meanwhile, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
However, things changed in April 2010, when Linville -- who had been released from prison -- was re-arrested and charged with two counts of murder and one count of conspiracy.
Moreno, who has two prior felony convictions, agreed to plead guilty to two counts of voluntary manslaughter in exchange for testifying against Linville. The deal will allow him to avoid a life sentence; he's likely to face a minimum of 20 years in prison.
Linville cried at times as Moreno detailed the killings.
Moreno, whose voice trembled at times, testified that they picked up Chappel and drove around for some time, possibly "one or two hours," and wound up on rural Ramsey Road, in the Cordelia area, off Interstate 680. He said Chappel had been touching his shoulder and "it was getting on my nerves."
After turning onto secluded Ramsey Road from Lake Herman Road, "I decided this is as likely a spot as any," Moreno said.
Further questioned by Abrams, Moreno said Linville pulled Chappel out of the car. He then stepped around the front of the car and emptied his .380 semi-automatic handgun into the unsuspecting victim at close range.
Moreno said he and Linville later stopped to clean up Linville's Infiniti SUV and went to a sporting goods store in Vallejo to buy more ammunition and paper targets.
From there, he said they drove to Moreno's uncle's property in rural Dixon for some target practice.
On the way there, he said he and Linville took turns shooting at stop signs.
At one point, he said Linville told him she wanted to shoot someone.
"She said, 'Aren't you worried I'm going to tell on you?' " Moreno said. "I said 'Not really.' Then Paige said, "I think I should shoot someone, too, so that you won't have to worry about it.' "
Moreno said they then drove into Dixon.
"We saw a lady at a bus stop. Paige said 'I'll shoot that lady right there.' " They continued down the street, he said, smoked some more meth, exited the Infiniti and taped over the rear license plate. After Linville, who has dark hair, donned a dirty-blond wig, he said they drove back down Valley Glen Drive to the bus stop -- but by that time the lady was gone.
A short time later, they saw a second woman -- 41-year-old Christine Baxley of Dixon -- walking her dog.
Moreno said Linville decided she was going to kill her. So he stopped the car, gave Linville the gun and waited as she hesitated, then left the car and began shooting.
Baxley, a single mother on her lunch break from her job at the Dixon Tribune, died in the hail of bullets.
The couple returned to Vallejo, but not before stopping at a mini mart to buy drinks and snacks. Moreno then dropped Linville off at her parents' veterinary business on Benicia Road, where police say she searched the Internet for information about the homicides.
Linville's attorney, Amy Morton, however, noted discrepancies in Moreno's testimony and raised questions about his character. In 2001, Moreno was convicted of three counts of arson and served a five-year, eight-month prison sentence.
In 2006, he was convicted of grand theft.
Initially, Moreno told investigators Linville had killed both victims. Later, after Linville pleaded no contest in 2008, he wrote to her parents demanding money for his silence about her involvement in the double murder.
Linville's parents never paid.
In a follow-up letter of apology, he told her parents that most of the developing case "stems from a jealous ex-girlfriend who is jealous of Paige and wove a tangled web of lies to the police."
The trial is set to resume today in the Vallejo courtroom of Solano County Superior Court Judge Allan Carter.


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PHILADELPHIA -- Hopes of getting Henderson Alvarez back in Miami's rotation this month have been dashed.
Marlins manager Mike Redmond said on Thursday that the 23-year-old has been shut down due to right shoulder discomfort.
Alvarez, who started the season on the disabled list with right shoulder inflammation, has been building up for game action. Recently, he was facing batters, and the next step was going to be rehab-assignment games.
Now, there is no telling when Alvarez will begin throwing.
"He's going to be down," Redmond said. "He's taking a break."
Alvarez's setback comes at a time the Marlins welcomed shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria back from the 15-day disabled list.
Redmond added that catcher Jeff Mathis, who fractured his right collarbone early in Spring Training, began his rehab-assignment stint on Thursday. He was scheduled to play five innings for Class A Jupiter.
Alvarez, Hechavarria and Mathis were part of the blockbuster 12-player trade between the Marlins and Blue Jays in November.
Actually, both teams have dealt with injuries in the trade. Josh Johnson and Jose Reyes are on the DL for Toronto.
On the Marlins' end, Alvarez, Mathis and Hechavarria have spent time on the DL. So has Minor League outfielder Jake Marisnick (broken left hand). Marisnick currently is playing for Double-A Jacksonville.
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never tried the TD2, but it's the same inside rim depth, 1.1 cm. Same as TD, Predator, JLS, leopard, CE Teebird etc...
I realize the PDGA specs are neither that precise nor the only relevant factor, but I admit to being pretty surprised when I discovered the Pred and the TD were the same rim depth (had to double check my own), I was so sure the Pred was much higher. However, when actually comparing the discs I can feel them hitting my fingers in just the same spots (except for the concave/convex wing of course), the Pred is just sharper and more defined.
What I'm getting at here, is I'm pretty skeptical of these "sooo shallow" comments, as I just pointed out the feel is different, but needing another grip??? That's all in your head IMO
(in fact, I'm about as skeptical as I am to Mike's general defense of anything MVP - I've stopped thinking about it as reviews, sorry... you would be a better ambassador if you turned the praise a bit down from eleven, just sayin'...)
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A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) calls for better tracking of antibiotic use and resistance, along with other measures, to slow the emergence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens.
The report, titled "Antimicrobial resistance: Global report on surveillance," says resistance is occurring across many different infectious agents in every region of the world. This report focuses on seven different bacteria responsible for common, serious diseases such as bloodstream infections (sepsis), diarrhea, pneumonia, urinary tract infections and gonorrhoea.
Key findings from the report include:
- A common intestinal bacteria, Klebsiella pneumonia, has developed resistance to the treatment of last resort, carbapenem antibiotics, in all regions of the world. The pathogen is a major cause of hospital-acquired infections such as pneumonia, bloodstream infections, infections in newborns and intensive-care unit patients.
- E. coli bacteria involved in urinary-tract infections have developed resistance to fluoroquinolones, a class of antibiotics that were effective in the past but are now ineffective in more than half of patients in some countries.
- The bacteria causing gonorrhea has developed resistance to third-generation cephalosporins, the last-resort treatment, in several nations.
The report's authors note that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health security threat that requires action across government sectors and society as a whole. Surveillance that generates reliable data is the essential foundation of global strategies and public-health actions to contain AMR. WHO is developing a global action plan for AMR that will include:
- Development of tools and standards for harmonized surveillance of ABR in humans, and for integrated surveillance in food-producing animals and the food chain.
- Elaboration of strategies for population-based surveillance of AMR and its health and economic impact.
- Collaboration between AMR surveillance networks and centers to create or strengthen coordinated regional and global surveillance.
In addition to better surveillance, the authors stress a need for more prudent use of antibiotics in human medicine, along with better sanitation around the world and increased use of vaccinations to prevent disease and reduce the need for antibiotic treatments.
As for animal agriculture and the food chain, the authors say major gaps exist in surveillance and data sharing related to the emergence of ABR in food-borne bacteria and its potential impact on both animal and human health. "The multi-sectoral approach needed to contain ABR includes improved integrated surveillance of ABR in bacteria carried by food-producing animals and in the food chain, and prompt sharing of data," they say. "Integrated surveillance systems would enable comparison of data from food-producing animals, food products and humans."
"Effective antibiotics have been one of the pillars allowing us to live longer, live healthier, and benefit from modern medicine," says Dr. Keiji Fukuda, WHO's Assistant Director-General for Health Security. "Unless we take significant actions to improve efforts to prevent infections and also change how we produce, prescribe and use antibiotics, the world will lose more and more of these global public health goods and the implications will be devastating."
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The distinguished British name expert Julia Cresswell is the author of several books on the subject, the most recent of which is Name Your Baby.
The British Prime Minister recently chose the Cornish name Endellion as the middle name for his new daughter. The baby was premature, and born while the family was on holiday in Cornwall, and Endellion was chosen because the family regularly holidayed at the little village of St Endellion, so strictly speaking the name belongs with the growing trend to use place names (such as Dakota, Savannah) as first names. However, it is also a traditional Cornish name.
But first a bit of background. Cornwall is a popular holiday place because of its unspoilt beauty. Its unspoilt beauty comes from the fact that its position at the extreme south west of England makes it isolated. This isolation protected it in the past, and led to the preservation of a uniquely Cornish culture.
1500 years ago, when the rest of England was being taken over by the Anglo-Saxons, Cornwall remained independent and retained its own language, descended from the language of the ancient British and closely related to Welsh, into the 18th century. This language is the source of many of the specially Cornish names, while the distinctive West-Country way of pronouncing English has been another source.


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For the first time in what seems to be forever, cameras caught UCLA players smiling. For the first time in what seems to be forever, the Bruins have something to smile about.
After the upset of seventh-ranked Missouri Friday in overtime — yes, the same team that lost to California Polytechnic State University just five weeks previous beat the No. 7 team in the country — the much maligned Bruins have now won five in a row.
"This is one of the biggest wins we could possibly get," budding star forward Shabazz Muhammad told reporters after the game. "They are a top-10 team.
"We're right back where we want to be to start Pac-12 play."
Winning soothes many wounds, so the team that has seen to key players Josh Smith and Tyler Lamb quit in recent weeks and Tony Parker threatening to follow suit, is now riding on high as it heads into Pac-12 play Thursday against Cal.
"I think our play definitely answered a lot of those questions," UCLA forward Kyle Anderson said. "This is such a big win for us, and we can't go back to those losses from before. We certainly showed the country what we have right now.
"It gives us tons of confidence. We have a group of guys who are mentally tough. We never stopped believing we were a good team and we kept fighting every day, and that's exactly what we did, and we showed it tonight."
Despite all the dysfunction, the Bruins, as they proved against Missouri, still have the talent to challenge Arizona for the Pac-12 title and make a deep run in the NCAA Tournament.
Muhammad, who missed the first three games of the season as the NCAA investigated his eligibility, is becoming the elite scorer expected when he signed with UCLA. He's averaging 25 points over the last four games and is more efficient (54.5 percent shooting, including 50 percent from 3-point range) than anyone this side of Doug McDermott.
Anderson is a great box-score filler—a triple-double threat on any given night—and Jordan Adams is a good complementary scorer. The Wear twins are showing more willingness to be role players, and Larry Drew II continues to play under control.
"They practiced really well the last three days; it's an attitude," UCLA coach Ben Howland said. "I'm really happy with how our guys kept fighting."
There is one big problem.
"We've got to get better defensively," Howland said.
The Wear twins and Parker lack the quickness to defend on the perimeter. Drew struggles to keep point guards in front of him; Missouri's Phil Pressey had 19 points and 19 assists Friday. And Muhammad and Adams have yet to commit to playing high-level defense.
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WAXAHACHIE, Texas -- New Head Coach Jason Covarrubias has added another member to Southwestern Assemblies of God University's first Men's Cross Country team.
Jose L. Campos, Jr., from Luling High School, has signed a binding National Letter of Intent to join the team when they report for camp in August.
Luling is a Class 2A public school has won four state titles in Cross Country, including 1999, 2010, 2011 and 2012. In his freshman year the Eagles were in Class 3A, where they finished 10th at the state meet.
The Eagles have also won the crown in both boys and girls track.
Luling (pop. 5,467), home of the annual Watermelon Thump, is 58 miles east of San Antonio.
Campos has a glowing resume while donning the green and white threads for Luling Head Coach, Mike Barnett.
He was a four-time qualifier for the State XC meet as well as having earned a place on the Academic All-District team. He added All-Region Academic and All-State Academic three years running.
Campos made the grade as a First Team All-Region selection three times, and then garnered First Team All-State honors in each of those three seasons.
Individually, he was a regional runner-up on three occasions. Plus, his prowess in distance running helped Luling win the UIL Class 2A state championship during his sophomore, junior and senior years.
While wearing the winged heels for the Eagles' track team, Campos twice qualified for the state meet in the 1600 meters and the 3200 meter runs. During those two years he also finished second in the 1600m and 3200m events.
As a sophomore and again as a senior he was a district champ in the 1600m and took first in the 3200m as a sophomore and as a junior.
He was as steady as a sentry at Buckingham Palace and as fluid as a pendulum throughout his prep career.
Some of his personal bests included a 15:54.4 in the 5K and a 9:38 in the 3000m. In track, Campos turned in a 4:29.3 in the 1600m and a 9:47 in the 3200m.
New SAGU Head Coach Jason Covarrubias, speaking about the recruiting process, admitted that "all coaches at this level really ever do is recruit athletes on potential. With most athletes, one can look at their high school accomplishments and project where they could be in a few years. But no one ever truly knows."
"Then there are those athletes who you just know are leaps and bounds ahead of the pack," he pointed out. "That is Jose Campos! This young man is the real deal!"
"We are looking forward to seeing Jose's transition from a multi-year, multi-sport and most importantly academic All-State student-athlete into a possible NAIA and NCCAA All-American!"
SAGU will compete in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) in the 11-team Sooner Athletic Conference. Oklahoma Baptist University won the SAC championship on November 3. Wayland Baptist University was second.
OBU was ranked No. 4 in the NAIA at the end of the season, with two other SAC team making it into the Top 12.
The Lions are dual members in the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA), which has 125 member schools from the NAIA up through Division II in the NCAA. SAGU will compete in Division 1.
Oklahoma Christian University (NCAA D2) won the NCCAA's D1 championship. Arlington Baptist College took the NCCAA D2 title under current SAGU Coach Covarrubias. The Patriots were national champs in their second year of existence.
Born in Austin, Texas, Campos hopes to study Physical Education or a Math related major. He finished in the Top 10 of his graduating class at Luling.
Alma Campos is Jose's mother. He has a 12-year old sister in Alexandria.
He served at his home church in their Vacation Bible School, a community outreach to elementary age children. He was also active in their Wednesday night youth group services.
Contact: Mark "Link" Warde, SAGU Sports Information Director, at firstname.lastname@example.com or at 469-658-2847.


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The above headline, created by an online Daily Mail random headline generator, has finally been trumped by the real thing. Today's Mail carries a story headlined 'Average Briton drinks 84 times their bodyweight in alcohol'.
Monday, 30 November 2009
The above headline, created by an online Daily Mail random headline generator, has finally been trumped by the real thing. Today's Mail carries a story headlined 'Average Briton drinks 84 times their bodyweight in alcohol'.
Sunday, 29 November 2009
Beer Tickers - A Loquacious Film Review
Sometimes I just enjoy them, other times I'm deeply envious of them. I can savour the wonderful lyricism of, say, Arundhati Roy without even thinking about my writing because it's so different from anything I would ever do. But one writer I wish I could simply be is George Orwell. I will never, in all my days, be one hundredth of the writer he was, but he shared many of my ideas and beliefs about the world at large and about how to write in particular.
I quote him several times in Man Walks into a Pub because it's a book I wish he had written before me. But then, he didn't need to - being Orwell, he said everything worth saying about the pub in a short essay, The Moon Under Water. (Arguably the only truly unforgivable thing Wetherspoons have ever done is appropriate that name.) As a piece of writing it is simple perfection. If I'm feeling sentimental and it's one of those evenings where I've made the fatal transition from beer to whisky, I can literally read it and weep.
But I'm wandering off the point - something Orwell would never do. And going on too much. Ditto.
The reason I brought up Orwell was that he also once wrote:
We are a nation of flower-lovers, but also a nation of stamp-collectors, pigeon-fanciers, amateur carpenters, coupon-snippers, darts-players, crossword-puzzle fans. All the culture that is most truly native centres around things which even when they are communal are not official – the pub, the football match, the back garden, the fireside and the "nice cup of tea"... It is the liberty to have a home of your own, to do what you like in your spare time, to choose your own amusements instead of having them chosen for you from above.
But one hobbyist Orwell never had the dubious pleasure of encountering was the beer ticker.
Hobbyists today are nerdy, and the only areas it's socially acceptable for blokes to be nerdy about are cars and football. If you can name every player in England's unsuccessful 1970 World Cup side, or talk knowledgably about the engineering perfection of a Maserati, you'll get admiring nods from other blokes, and even women will roll their eyes with an affectionate "ah, you guys" shrug.
But thanks to the hoary CAMRA socks-and-sandals stereotype, claim an interest in beer and blokes and women alike will start to edge away and make excuses.
It's fascinating how contextual this stereotype is. For about two years now I've worn a beard and long hair. If I'm working in an ad agency, people think this makes me look cool – they simply assume I'm one of the creatives.
But in the beer world, the exact same look is increasingly uncool – people tell me I'm "starting to look like a CAMRA member". With CAMRA's membership having doubled in the last ten years, the average CAMRA member increasingly looks no different from anyone else. But they don't mean that. They mean I look like the stereotypical CAMRA member.The beer ticker. And whatever your views on that, it's not meant as a compliment.
Within the beer world, tickers are the people even the saddest geeks can look down on. Adult life is merely the school playground writ large, and tickers are the snivelling, emphysemic, half-blind larvae that the most bullied kids in the school – the fat kids and the ones with sellotaped national health glasses and Oxfam clothes – turn on with joy when they realise there is in fact someone one rung below them.
We all recognize that part of our interest in beer is driven by a nerdish tendency, and that's not something we like in ourselves. And when we find that someone is inarguably more nerdish than we, they become an outlet for all the pisstaking and antipathy we've ever received. It was the tickers those people were suspicious of, or bored of, or regarded with pity and condescension – not us. We merely channel their disdain to its rightful target.
Except now someone has gone and made a film about them.
Surely that's just not fair. It should be a film about the broader appreciation of beer. It should be a film about how great beer is and why more people should take an interest in it. Surely if you focus on the tickers no one will go and see it? And those who do will simply have their prejudices about beer nerds reinforced?
The thing is, if you're a filmmaker who's keen to shine a light on little-known, entertaining and intriguing corners of the British psyche, tickers are – say it – pretty interesting.
Phil Parkin is an independent filmmaker who lives in Sheffield. One day he was drinking in the wonderful Hillsborough Hotel. There's a brewery in the cellar, where the phenomenally talented and hugely underrated brewer Stuart Ross pretty much does as he pleases and makes it up as he goes along, continually creating new beers. And every week, the tickers descend. Sheffield competes with Derby for the title of ticker centre of the universe – some of the biggest names in ticking are regulars at the Hillsborough and the nearby Fat Cat and Kelham Island Tavern. As soon as Phil had asked what they were doing and had it explained to him, he had his next project.
Phil's method of filmmaking is what social anthropologists call 'participant observation'. He lived among them, like that woman out of Gorillas in the Mist, becoming accepted by the tribe.
What emerges is a warm, funny, and amazingly non-judgmental portrait of a hobby Orwell would have been quite proud of – perhaps even indulged in. The principles are explained with disarming simplicity 'you find a beer, you drink it, you tick it'. What could be easier?
And rather than coming across as unbearable nerds, the characters do make fascinating viewing. Mick the Tick – the man who allegedly invented the hobby and gave it its name thanks to its easy alliteration – is a deeply likeable character, like a cuddly, benign bear. The Beer Widow has a special designation for people she has fallen in love with and wants to protect from the world and care for. She talks about keeping them in a special luxurious room in the cellar wrapped in cotton wool and feeding them biscuits and soup. So far we've got Bill Bailey, the band Lamb, and psychologist and thinker Eckhart Tolle down there. Mick the Tick is the latest recruit.
Dave Unpronouncable is deeply fascinating – a natural in front of the camera, articulate, intelligent and surprisingly normal looking – at least for the first half of the film – but there are clearly kinks and complications to his character.There's a story going on with him through the making of the film that we never quite get to the bottom of.
Brian the Champ – the king of the tickers – is probably the closest to what we would imagine a ticker to be, but he has a wife who indulges him and a pleasant suburban house, and you share his excitement as he sets off for the Great British Beer Festival to mark a momentous tick in his book.
I have to declare an interest in that I met Phil several times while the film was being made, and he's become a mate. I provided him with a lot of the historical context, and pop up in the film showing him round the Museum in Burton.
One time we met in the Rake, and he seemed to be taking a long time sending a text message. I became suspicious."You're ticking aren't you? You've gone native. You've become one of them." This was ticking 2.0, ticking invisibly, with minimal risk of losing your social status.
This brings me to my only criticism of the film - the definition of its narrative. Phil spends as much time in front of the camera as behind it, and very charming he is too. The film is his personal journey into the world of ticking (which I was fortunate to witness). That's a great construct, but the arc of Phil's journey doesn't quite make it on film. It's as if he can't really decide whether this is a story about him or about the tickers he meets. There's no real exploration of his motivation for doing it, or what he was trying to discover or prove, other than that it's a great topic to make a film about.
But as I said to Phil after watching an early cut – it made me thirsty, and it made me want to spend more time in Sheffield, and it made me proud of my involvement in the beer world.
And it made me think differently about tickers. I won't be starting any time soon – despite the fact that, apparently, I'm starting to look like one – but the tickers featured in this film at least are not the Aspergers stereotypes other beer enthusiasts enjoy looking down on.
You can find out more about the film and watch a trailer here. I'm not sure whether or not it will recruit more people to the cause of great beer, and some will see it as a missed opportunity for that. But that's not what it's about. It's not about beer – not really – it's about people. And in that respect, it is a very successful film indeed.
And anyway – it's got a bright, young, ambitious filmmaker all passionate about the beer world. Who knows what he'll do next?
There's a public screening of the film at the Showroom in Sheffield at 8pm on 15th December. Tickets are available through the Showroom box office.
Friday, 27 November 2009
The Great Christmas Beer Hunt
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Brew Dog creates world's strongest beer - can we talk about the beer?
A warning on the label states: This is an extremely strong beer, it should be enjoyed in small servings and with an air of aristocratic nonchalance. In exactly the same manner that you would enjoy a fine whisky, a Frank Zappa album or a visit from a friendly yet anxious ghost.
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
More goings on down at the Red Hand
But what strikes me about the Bedford - and what makes this worth publishing here - is just how un-gay this newly refurbished pub looks in any sense of the word. Here are the six - count 'em - meanings of the word 'gay' according to Dictionary.com:
|having or showing a merry, lively mood: gay spirits; gay music.
|bright or showy: gay colors; gay ornaments.
|given to or abounding in social or other pleasures: a gay social season.
|licentious; dissipated; wanton: The baron is a gay old rogue
|of, indicating, or supporting homosexual interests or issues
Monday, 23 November 2009
Burton gets its brewing museum back – along with a brand new brewery
It used to be the Bass Museum, then it was the Coors Visitors Centre, and for the last 18 months its been an abandoned, heartbreaking relic of the world's greatest brewing town's former glories.
But tomorrow sees the official announcement of the opening of The National Brewery Centre.
Coors have done a deal with a company called Planning Solutions to reopen the museum by Easter 2010. Planning Solutions run a host of leisure and tourism attractions across the country. According to Coors and Planning Solutions, "it will retain key elements of the existing facilities, updating and reorganising the site to create a unique visitor attraction that will ensure its success well into the 21st Century."
This comes after widespread protest from the town and the wider beer community. But I always felt that Coors were looking for ways to make it work – the PR mess that would have resulted from permanent closure would have been very damaging, and the people I've spoken to up there show a genuine enthusiasm for the chunk of brewing industry they now own.
Planning Soluitons aims to introduce animatronics and 'live' actors to help entertain and inform visitors in full historical character. "The public's expectation is ever-greater and we will make sure that all of the exhibits fully-engage with people of all ages," says CEO John Lowther, "Having live actors fulfil roles previously held by plastic dummies, the visitor experience will be completely transformed. It will be a lot more interactive and immerse visitors into an historical setting."
Bars and restaurants will be incorporated in the plans for the new centre and these will be open to the general public and available for private bookings and live performances.
The move has been welcomed by the town, its MP and the volunteers who have kept the exhibits in good condition while the museum has been closed.
This enthusiasm stretches from the past to the future – the museum will feature a new 30-barrel brewery, overseen by Steve Wellington, legendary brewer of Worthington White Shield. This will be the hub for the full national launch of Red Shield, a new cask ale from the Worthington brand, and will also allow more brewing of legendary beers such as P2 Stout and No.1 barley wine. I spent two days in Burton a couple of weeks ago brewing with Steve and hearing about the future plans, and my fuller account of it will be in February's edition of CAMRA's Beer magazine.


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I'll use this thread to post officially completed trades.
First day for trading and we have 1 in the books already - actually I think they had it done a week ago.
Amsterdam trades:
Antonio Daniels
2008 2nd rd pick
2009 2nd rd pick
to Nash City for:
Marco Bellinelli
Thaddeus Young
2008 1st rd pick
Make the appropriate adjustments to your summer roster lists.
EDIT: and don't forget your draft orders


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PLEASANTON — The city of Pleasanton will have four names on a special election ballot in May to decide who will fill the city council seat left vacant by former council member Jerry Thorne's election as mayor in November.
Businessman Mark Hamilton, Silicon Valley executive David Miller, businesswoman and current planning commissioner Kathy Narum and market research analyst Olivia Sanwong will vie for the seat on a mail-in only election ballot due May 7.
Pleasanton adopted an ordinance in 1996 that calls for a special election to fill the vacancy of either a council or the mayoral seat under these circmstances.
Thorne's seat runs through November 2014 and the cost of the election is expected to be $250,000 charged by Alameda County to coordinate the election.


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HOUSTON - A woman died after she was pulled from a fire at her east Houston home.
Houston firefighters battled flames at a home on Orleans near Uvalde Road about 10:45 a.m. Monday.
A woman, believed to be in her 70s, was rushed to a hospital and later died. Her name has not been released.
Neighbors said the woman lived alone.
"She was a very nice person," neighbor Ida Gonzalez said. "I used to pick her up and take her to McDonald's and drink coffee with her."
"She liked birds, flowers and her cats," neighbor Charlie Van Ness said. "She had two cats that stayed inside. What's going to become of her cats?"
Houston City Council member Mike Sullivan stopped by the home after the fire. He said he goes out to the scene of any fatal fire in the district he represents to speak with relatives, neighbors and firefighters.
Sullivan said he understands the heartbreak felt by the victim's family and friends. His great-grandmother lived alone and died in a house fire.
"When I hear about those things and see them, it brings back that memory," Sullivan said.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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Until Kobe signs a contract worth $50M the argument is moot. Another poster, foreign, talked about how very few teams have the financial ability to sign players to such high contracts. The situation in Europe is going to get worse before it gets better, so there's going to be even less money available in the future.
But regardless, if the Indiana Pacers struggle to sign FA because of location, eventhough they can over pay, do you REALLY think that players are going to move to Europe? Uh, no.
Let's not forget that LeBron took a pay cut in order to go play somewhere outside of Cleveland. Let's also not forget that all 3 of them took a pay cut to play in Miami, had they decided to go play somewhere else.
The NBA is the NBA for a reason. It's the top of the mountain, and players aren't going to move to Europe and thousands and thousands of miles away from their friends and family in order to play for less money, in some pretty dicey situations. (I mean take a look at all the riots happening in Greece)
Until NBA players actually start signing contracts for multi-year deals worth big time money, the argument is pointless. Hypothetical situations aren't going to drastically change the course of the CBA discussions.


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Brillouin Energy Corp. is a clean-technology company located in Berkeley California, which is developing ultra-clean, low-cost, renewable energy technologies capable of producing commercially useful amounts of thermal energy (heat). Brillouin's technologies are based on low energy nuclear reactions ("LENR"), which it generates on a controlled basis in its uniquely designed reactors. There is no (zero) pollution of any kind, generated in Brillouin's LENR system of outputting its heat.
Brillouin Energy has assembled an experienced team with the scientific, engineering, and business development skills needed to achieve its goal of developing commercial LENR reactors.
In addition to this team, Brillouin Energy operates under a formal Research Agreement with the highly regarded Energy Research Center laboratory at SRI International in Menlo Park, California, under which the Company and SRI scientists with long experience in the LENR field work together to advance its commercial reactor technologies.
The question of whether the phenomenon known as 'cold fusion' has been proven has captivated scientists ever since claims made by Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons at the University of Utah in 1989. Their observation of heat effects in electro-chemically driven palladium–deuterium experiments were consistent with nuclear but not chemical or stored energy sources. The importance of their discovery cannot be understated when the need for energy innovation has never been greater.
A growing number of scientists and engineers worldwide today have worked on various approaches to achieving heat effects that are consistent with low energy nuclear reactions (LENR). Most however, have not been able to achieve the combination of reproducibility, controllability, continuity of operation, integrity of the materials involved and net energy output that Brillouin has achieved.
Brillouin Energy's Q-Pulse™ can stimulate a Controlled Electron Capture Reaction (CECR) to create a safe, controllable, and continuous thermal energy source, leading to the potential unattended operation of low and high temperature boiler system devices capable of producing an inexhaustible supply of safe, reliable clean energy. The CECR reaction consumes hydrogen in a solid nickel reactor core producing a large amount of heat and a negligible amount of harmless helium. The amount of hydrogen used in BEC's reactor is very small, relative to the final heat output, and for all practical purposes, the supply is inexhaustible.
Brillouin Energy's technology is based on Low Energy Nuclear Reactions ("LENR"), which it generates in its uniquely designed reactor core unit that converts ordinary hydrogen into helium through a sequence of continuous and controlled nuclear reactions. The mass of helium is slightly less than the mass of the four hydrogen nuclei that are consumed; that mass difference is converted into a relatively large amount of thermal energy in accordance with Einstein's famous formula: E = mc2.
In essence, hydrogen is the "fuel" for the reactions and no hydrocarbon energy sources are required for continuous operation of the system.
Brillouin Energy has developed and engineered two prototype reactor systems:
- A low temperature system operating at up to 150ºC based on an electrolytic (wet) process. Brillouin Energy's WET™ Boiler systems can supply low temperature thermal energy for space and water heating, and other common low temperature industrial purposes such as for food processing or healthcare applications.
- A high temperature system operating at 500ºC to 700ºC based on applying high-pressure hydrogen gas to the core. Brillouin Energy's HYDROGEN HOT TUBE (HHT™) Boiler systems can supply high temperature process heat and can also be used to generate electricity in much the same way as fossil or nuclear fuels generate electricity.
The ability to turn the reactions on and off at will is a critical advantage of Brillouin Energy's proprietary CECR process technologies and one that is essential for a commercial reactor. In addition, Brillouin Energy's approach has the advantage that it minimizes transmutations within the structural materials making up the core and thereby eliminates the production of any hazardous wastes.
Ever since the claims made by Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons in 1989, there have been many reliable observations of LENR reactions. But no one system has been able to achieve the combination of reproducibility, controllability, continuity of operation, integrity of the materials involved and net energy output that Brillouin Energy's proprietary CECR process technologies have achieved. To date, Brillouin Energy has demonstrated:
- Ratios of thermal energy out to electromagnetic pulse power energy in of greater than 4:1
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In simple terms, the amount of hydrogen in an average glass of water contains enough energy density, when applied to Brillouin Energy's unique boiler systems, to power 30,000 homes for a year.
Brillouin Energy has been able to demonstrate that it can reliably initiate LENR in its reactors by applying electronic pulses to the metal rod and stopped by ceasing the pulsing and achieve net energy output ratios exceeding four ("4X" or 'four times excess heat').
Brillouin Energy is not aware of any other group that has been able to achieve the combination of the level of reproducibility, continuity of operations, control of reactions, and a net energy output ratio significantly exceeding 1X, which has been achieved by Brillouin Energy. Coupled with the tritium tests – which confirmed that the excess heat generation can confidently be ascribed to nuclear reactions – Brillouin Energy's research results demonstrate that LENR can realistically be considered a potential future energy source.
Brillouin Energy is engaged with leading scientists and national labs, including Drs. Michael McKubre and Francis Tanzella from SRI International, to help in its efforts to advance the development of CECR heat generation process technologies, systems and industrial prototypes.
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The book, Adjudicating Climate Change: State, National, and International Approaches, was co-edited by William C.G. Burns and is available now from Cambridge University Press.
Over the past several years, tribunals at every level of government around the world have seen claims regarding greenhouse gas emissions and impacts. These cases rely on diverse legal theories, but all focus on government regulation of climate change or the actions of major corporate emitters.
Delving into these cases, the book demonstrates the role that these cases play in broader debates over climate policy and argues that they serve as an important force in pressuring governments and emitters to address this problem. But Osofsky emphasizes that these cases are not only important because they lead to greater or lesser regulation or push major emitters to reduce their emissions.
"These cases become part of a dialog about how we should regulate this problem," says Osofsky. "What level of government is appropriate for regulating the problem? How should each level of government participate in the regulatory scheme?"
Osofsky herself became interested in climate change litigation while working in the area of international environmental rights and assisting the Center for International Environmental Law and Earthjustice with a petition to the Inter-American Commission claiming that U.S. climate change policy violated the Inuit's human rights.
"At the time, almost all of the discussion surrounding climate change focused on the outcome of the Kyoto Protocol and post-Kyoto treaty negotiations," says Osofsky. "But I realized that the Inuit case was just one of many actions already ongoing in national and state courts and international tribunals, and that these cases would have an impact on climate change regulation as these negotiations took place."
Osofsky's work continues to focus on, as she says, the "multi-scalar problem" climate policy creates for government.
"Our legal system is tied to specific levels of government and specific kinds of institutions," notes Osofsky. "But climate change regulation cuts across every level of governance we have, from the most individual to the most international."
In addition to her new book, Osofsky has a casebook on climate change law and policy forthcoming from Aspen Publishers. Her recent articles on climate change litigation have been awarded the Daniel B. Luten Award for the best paper by a professional geographer by the Energy and Environment Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers and have twice been runner-up for inclusion in Land Use and Environment Law Review's annual compilation of the top land use and environmental law articles.
This year Osofsky will serve as co-chair of the American Society of International Law's 2010 Annual Meeting. She also is a member of the Climate Legacy Initiative's Consultants Working Group and the International Law Association's Committee on the Legal Principles of Climate Change, and teaches classes in which students assist the Southern Environmental Law Center with its work on climate change.
Prof. Osofsky received her B.A. and J.D. from Yale University. After clerking for Judge Dorothy Nelson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, she worked as a Fellow at the Center for the Law in the Public Interest, with a focus on environmental justice advocacy.


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Fairfax County Sells Bonds Including $136.4 Million for Schools
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May 15, 2003
Fairfax County Sells Bonds
Including $136.4 Million for Schools
On Thursday, May 15, Fairfax County sold $206.4 million in
Aaa/AAA/AAA-rated tax-free general obligation one-to-20-year bonds for
public improvements at the lowest rate achieved by the county in 28 years
since the AAA rating was first awarded. The new public improvement bonds
were sold at a savings of $9.954 million to county taxpayers over the
life of the bonds compared to the Bond Buyer Index as a direct result of
the county's triple Triple-A bond rating.
The bonds were sold to Merrill Lynch at a true interest rate of 3.626 percent. This interest rate is the lowest interest rate achieved by Fairfax County since the first AAA was awarded by Moody's in 1975. The lowest rate the county received for 20-year bonds prior to this sale was 4.264 percent in June 2001. The interest rate represents a differential of 87.4 basis points under the Bond Buyer Index which stood at 4.50 percent on May 9, 2002. General obligation bonds maturing in one-to-20 years which were sold during the previous week are used in compiling this index. The total net interest cost on the new public improvement bonds will be approximately $82.57 million.
The county received four bids for the bonds with a high bid of 3.709 percent. Proceeds from the sale of the new public improvement bonds will provide funds for schools ($136.40 million), public safety facilities ($37.6 million), parks and park facilities ($24.45 million), commercial revitalization ($3.3 million), detention facilities ($2.15 million), neighborhood improvements ($1.0 million), transportation improvements and facilities ($0.8 million) and storm drainage facilities ($0.7 million). Voter authorization for the sale of these bonds was given by referenda in elections held from 1989 to 2002.
With this bond issue, Fairfax County maintains its status as a top rated issuer of tax-free securities from Moody's Investor Services, Standard and Poor's Corporation and Fitch Ratings. Fairfax County has the highest credit rating possible for a local government - Aaa from Moody's Investors Service Inc., AAA from Standard and Poor's Corporation and AAA from Fitch Ratings. Only nine states, 19 counties and 10 cities have Triple-A ratings from all three investor services. The credit ratings enable Fairfax County to sell bonds at favorable interest rates compared to those of municipalities not so rated, resulting in substantial savings for county taxpayers over the life of the bonds.
Since 1978, including this sale, Fairfax County has saved approximately $182.9 million in reduced interest costs as a result of the AAA rating when compared to the Bond Buyers index at the time of the sales. The county has refunded more than $1.2 billion of the outstanding general obligation debt since 1989 for a cumulative net present value savings of approximately $60 million. All together the county has saved over $242.9 million through county bond and refunding sales as a result of the AAA rating.


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Fernbank Science Center - History
Fernbank Science Center
Fernbank Science Center was constructed on 4 acres of land on the edge of the 65-acre Fernbank Forest. The land was deeded to the DeKalb County Board of Education from Fernbank, Inc. for that purpose. Fernbank Forest was purchased from Col. Z. D. Harrison in 1937 by a group of citizens who were interested in conservation and the preservation of this forest area for science education.
In 1964 the Fernbank Trustees developed a 48-year lease which was accepted by the DeKalb County Board of Education. This lease provides for the forest to be used by all citizens of the state and southeast and stipulates that it be protected and maintained by the Board of Education in as near its natural state as possible. This lease required that the forest be fenced and all entry and use controlled and stipulated that no plants or animals be removed. While the lease is for a 48-year period, it is reviewed each year and renewed at 8-year intervals.
The Science Center building was completed and dedicated in December 1967. The cost was approximately one million dollars which was provided for in a school bond issue. The original equipment in the Science Center cost approximately 1½ million dollars and was purchased for the most part with NDEA matching funds (half federal and half local). The operational budget for the first three years, which ended on June 30, 1969, was supplied from funds under a grant from Title III, ESEA from the US Office of Education. The Science Center now operates on a budget from the DeKalb County School System.
For more information please read
Fernbank: A Short History
James A. Mackay
Trustee Emeritus Fernbank, Inc.


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There's a lot of talk on here about what Rush is, or what we could realistically fetch for our expiring contracts, but my question here is this, Roy is a 23 year old legit seven foot center averaging 11 ppg 6 rpg 1.5 bpg and shooting roughly 50% from the field and he is doing it in 25 mpg. What kind of value would the other NBA front offices place on him? That is the simple question. If the Pacers put Roy on the block and said, what will you give us? What sort of offeres would we receive?
Not saying we should trade him, just wanting to have an honest discussion about the big fella. IMO, he's already worth the 17th pick we spent on him even if he never progressed past this point, but I don't see that being the case.


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Understanding the Sleep Apnea/Insomnia Interaction
This study has been completed.
University of Pennsylvania
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
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University of Pennsylvania
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: April 1, 2013
Last updated: May 3, 2017
Last verified: May 2017
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Nearly half of all patients with obstructive sleep apnea have insomnia symptoms, and in some, but not all cases, these insomnia symptoms are caused by the obstructive sleep apnea. The purpose of this study is to find out what type of insomnia symptoms are caused by obstructive sleep apnea and therefore most likely to respond to obstructive sleep apnea treatment with continuous positive airway pressure (also known as CPAP) and if additional treatment with cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia is beneficial.
|Sleep Apnea Syndromes Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
|Device: CPAP Behavioral: CBT Device: sham CPAP Behavioral: CC
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single (Participant)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Understanding the Sleep Apnea/Insomnia Interaction: a CPAP/Sham-CPAP Trial
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MedlinePlus related topics: Sleep ApneaU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by University of Pennsylvania:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Insomnia Severity Index Score [ Time Frame: Day 42 ]
|Actual Study Start Date:
|March 2013
|Study Completion Date:
|March 2017
|Primary Completion Date:
|March 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: CPAP+CC
CPAP therapy for sleep apnea and contact control (placebo/sham for cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia)
Device: CPAP
Treatment for sleep apnea
Other Name: Continuous positive airway pressure therapyBehavioral: CC
Placebo (sham) for insomnia
Other Name: Contact control
Sham Comparator: sham CPAP+CC
sham CPAP (ineffective CPAP--placebo/sham for sleep apnea) and contact control (placebo/sham for cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia)
Device: sham CPAP
Placebo for sleep apnea
Other Name: Sham (placebo) continuous positive airway pressureBehavioral: CC
Placebo (sham) for insomnia
Other Name: Contact control
Active Comparator: CPAP+CBT
CPAP therapy for sleep apnea and cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia
Device: CPAP
Treatment for sleep apnea
Other Name: Continuous positive airway pressure therapyBehavioral: CBT
Treatment for insomnia
Other Name: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Sleep Apnea
- Insomnia
- Age >18
Exclusion Criteria:
- Sedative/psychoactive drug use recently
- Other clinically significant sleep disorders
- Previous treatment for OSA
- Requires oxygen or bilevel PAP therapy
- Clinically unstable medical condition
- Recent shift work
- Significant alcohol use
- Other clinically significant causes of insomnia
- Illicit drug use
- Prescription stimulants
- Safety restrictions
- Unable to treat sleep apnea with positive airway pressure therapy
- Communication barriers
- Cognitive impairment
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01824472
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01824472
|United States, Pennsylvania
|University of Pennsylvania Health System
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
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University of Pennsylvania
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
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|University of Pennsylvania
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01824472 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R34HL109462 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|April 1, 2013
|Last Updated:
|May 3, 2017
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Sleep Apnea Syndromes
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
Respiration Disorders
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Signs and Symptoms, Respiratory
Signs and Symptoms
Sleep Disorders, Intrinsic
Sleep Wake Disorders
Nervous System Diseases
Mental Disorders
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Even more mind numbing, the idea that we could even "get one over" on Utah by selecting George as if we picked him over Hayward. Hayward was GONE. We didn't pass on him, and I do not think under any circumstances Hayward will be significantly enough superior to George to warrant us trading up to get him and giving up extra assets. Yet Gordon fans end up so butt hurt like we passed on him and he's going to turn into the next Larry Bird.
Look the kid has some great basketball skills that will keep him in this league for many years, his ceiling though is probably like a Mike Dunleavy. George has gotten comparisons to T-Mac. (I think that's maybe a little over board but whatever...) Point being they might both be good, and hey if we were getting weekly updates on John Wall, Eric Bledsoe, Evan Turner, and other members of the draft class maybe the Hayward threads and comments wouldn't seem so trollish. But all we ever get is Hayward threads and Hayward comments...why is that? Seems like it's to troll or to try and run down George. We even had the you tube video of Gordon dunking on Paul. (Which Paul even congratulated Gordon on via twitter after the game, that jackass)


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"We sometimes misunderstand technology, but we do not misexperience it."
— Quote inspired by Vine Deloria, Jr.
Dave Forrester has been developing K-12 online learning environments and providing training since the mid-1990s. He specializes in website development and authoring and focuses on increasing the use of communication and collaboration technology tools in schools and organizations that support K-12 education.
Forrester serves on the district's technology advisory board and, in 2007, led the Olympia High School Counseling Department's successful website development effort. He consults with the district's new Online Learning Academy and expects to facilitate the integration of Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ Professional software into the Academy's future learning management system. Forrester collaborates with the Adobe education team to bring new training opportunities, online meetings, and web presentations to large groups working with Washington state K-12 education. His leadership skills and enthusiasm help promote the use of numerous Adobe applications to improve education.
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"Shop local." We hear it all the time. " Help your local economy by shopping at locally owned stores." This November we have the chance to vote local. Sean Morgan is a product of the city he's willing to help lead. He is a product of the Chico Unified School District and the Chico State College of Business. Sean understands the issues facing our city. Now running his businesses and raising his children in the city he grew up in, there's no one better positioned to ensure Chico is a safe place to raise a family and an ideal location for business. I shop local, and I'm voting local. Sean Morgan for Chico City Council makes sense.
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On the verge of opening the doors for gay Scout leaders in the United States, the Boy Scout executive board balked.
Currently, BSA policy bans homosexuals from leadership roles.
Groups on both sides mobilized on Jan. 28, when word leaked out that the national board would consider a change.
It has been a hot topic, said Dave Plond, the executive director of four Boy Scout councils that cover 44 central and western Nebraska counties.
Plond received hundreds of emails and phone calls in recent days.
"This is a very strong, conservative value-based area," Plond told the Bulletin. "Most, 90 percent or so, of the comments are echoing those sentiments."
If the national board changed the rules, it would have put the decision in the hands of local charter organizations. Therefore, a local church could still have prohibited gays, which means a lot, because churches and other religious organizations sponsor nearly 70 percent of all Scout units, according to a report by World magazine.
At this point, neither side is happy. The pro-homosexual group Scouts for Equality called the postponed decision an abdication of responsibility.
On the other hand, the Family Research Council, a religious based group, said the BSA board should re-affirm the current non-gay standards.
According to reports, the BSA has experienced financial stress for at least five years because of the recession, membership declines and the withdrawal of corporate support.
Pro-homosexual groups blame the problems on the anti-homosexual policy, but church groups say otherwise.
After the Boy Scouts of Canada allowed homosexual leaders in 1999, membership there dropped by 36 percent over the next five years, from about 200,000 to about 122,000, World reported.
The number of Boy Scouts in Canada has continued to fall to less than 100,000, World said.
Next, the BSA executive board said it will spend three months listening to members perspectives and concerns before crafting a resolution for the 1,400 voting members of the national council to consider in May.
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