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Morgan Freeman has earned his stellar reputation with some of the most compelling movie roles of the last 25 years.
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Less than 10 days later, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences agreed with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the overseer of the Golden Globes, that Freeman's performance as Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris in Million Dollar Baby ranked among the best of 2004. The Academy nominated him for a Best Supporting Actor award, a prize that was handed out in late February. Freeman did not win the Golden Globe, as Swank and Eastwood did, but there was widespread speculation, as this issue went to press, that he would take the Oscar this year for the first time in his career.
Freeman's role as the down-on-his-luck pragmatist and faded-to-gray boxer in Million Dollar Baby has cemented his reputation as one of Hollywood's most compelling and gifted thespians. His film career includes Best Actor nominations for the 1989 film Driving Miss Daisy and the 1994 release The Shawshank Redemption. He also garnered his first Best Supporting Actor nomination from the Academy in 1988 for the small, largely unheralded movie Street Smart.
That early film prompted the two-fisted New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael to pose a question that's not only worth pondering today, but predates Eastwood's pronouncement by 18 years: "Is Morgan Freeman the greatest American actor?" In Street Smart, Freeman had animated what could have been a stereotype by juxtaposing the violence of the role—a pimp named Fast Black, who comes to figure in the life of a mendacious journalist—with an amiable ruthlessness.
Today, his observations of the role provide a small window into how he approaches being an actor, and perhaps explain why he has become such a heralded one.
"I remember being out one night and seeing this guy—he was obviously a pimp—walking casually down the street with a woman in a headlock while he was punching her in the head. And he did it as easy as you please, never raising his voice. He could've been carrying groceries home," Freeman remarks, and the precision in his voice pulls the observer right into the street-theater scene that he used to bring the character alive. But then he quickly goes on to reveal a keen awareness of how fleeting praise like Kael's can be.
"It's always great when someone sings your praises, but there's a danger zone in believing your own press. I was thrilled when Pauline Kael wrote that. But then, what happens when someone turns around and writes, 'This motherfucker ain't shit!' And," Freeman roars with laughter, "That has happened."
Kael and Eastwood did agree on their judgment of Freeman, although they truly never agreed about much of anything else (Kael was notoriously critical of Eastwood's iconic status). It is in his collaboration with Eastwood that Freeman has found the freedom, and the comfort, to explore the outer reaches of his own acting ability. His first work with Eastwood was in the 1992 dark western Unforgiven, in which he played Ned Logan, a retired gunslinger hired to do one last job. The film earned Eastwood his first Oscar for directing.
"One of my favorite movies was the first western Clint directed, The Outlaw Josey Wales. I loved Clint's work, because there's always that hint of darkness in the middle of something seemingly normal, like in Tightrope. Did you see that one? But seeing him in those Sergio Leone westerns, I felt like, 'Man, I'd love to do one of those.' "
There was an immediate rapport on the set of Unforgiven between Eastwood and Freeman that continues to this day. "What I like most about Clint is the great feeling on the set. Because he trusts the material, and he trusts you. The shooting of [Million Dollar Baby] went like a dream because of that. He hires you because he believes you can do it. He spends his time on other things, like getting the film made. He doesn't direct the actors. He directs the film."
The Directors Guild of America agreed with Freeman's assessment of his costar, and boss; Eastwood won the DGA Award for Baby, upsetting another sentimental favorite, filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Often seen as a predictor of how Hollywood's notoriously fickle Academy thinks, the DGA vote also could mean that Freeman stands a much stronger chance of winning the Oscar for Baby.
The last time Freeman received Oscar recognition was for his portrayal of Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, opposite Tim Robbins's Andy Dufresne, in The Shawshank Redemption. The prison buddy movie, which is considered a modern classic by many, explores the relationship between the two men, and then, Andy's eventual escape. That year, Freeman lost the Best Actor award to Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump, which also beat out The Shawshank Redemption for Best Picture.
"That was such a great part that I thought I was never going to get it," he says. "It's the role that people come up to me and say it's their favorite most often. I think in that one, people ended up feeling I was standing in for them. I was representing their point of view, because the movie wasn't just something about heroes. But I don't like to intellectualize about this too much—acting—because it's not an intellectual enterprise. It's an undertaking."
Before Shawshank, the movie that catapulted him to stardom was Driving Miss Daisy, which won the Best Picture Oscar in 1989. That year, Freeman lost the Best Actor award to Dustin Hoffman for his turn as an autistic man in Rain Man. It was evident his acting talent was no longer unheralded. He became a hot property.
The role of Hoke Colburn in Driving Miss Daisy was not without some controversy, however. Some people were not happy with Freeman playing a black manservant and driver to the elderly and white Daisy Werthan, played by Jessica Tandy. Freeman was comfortable in the role, because he had been onstage in playwright Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize—winning play of the same name.
"I know a lot of people thought Hoke was an Uncle Tom, but he wasn't," Freeman says solemnly. He remembers the assaults the character endured, and says, simply, "Hoke survived, and it took a lot of wisdom and patience to get by in those days down South. Anybody who's spent time down there knows what a complicated place it is."
In that soft acknowledgement of his background, you also begin to catch glimpses of Freeman, the man. The South runs through his nervous system. The savory meatiness of his upbringing allowed him to thicken the tepid broth of many films into a dense, rich stew—as such, it's a place close to Freeman's heart. He keeps a home in Mississippi, near the small town he grew up in, and he owns a thriving restaurant/blues club there. When he's asked about the South, he asks warily, "Why? What do you know about Mississippi?" before learning the questioner has roots in Hattiesburg. In his mind, one has to have a rightful claim on the place to understand.
"People who don't know [the South] are fast to judge it, like they do Hoke. He kept his head up under that cap he wore. I based a lot of Hoke on my father. Guys like him were pretty sly, and spoke a different language around white people. Maybe it's why I was so happy it got the attention. All of those people like that, I knew them very well."
His manner suggests that he was raised in a place—and time—where waiting was the order of the day, luxuriating in the breadth of stories detailed on front porches while screen doors creaked open and slammed shut and the air was so dense and muggy, it seemed to add another five or six seconds to every minute. If you've spent any time in the Deep South, the region engenders a tranquil gentility in its natives, which Freeman embodies.
"You can exist down there without having to hear your neighbor break wind or, for that matter, hear your neighbor. I love it down there, that humidity," he says with a grin, conjuring up the places of his youth. "All that moisture can wear some people down, but I live for it."
He recalls the support he received from his family and the community during his childhood. "[I remember] my mother giving me the impression I was special when I was growing up. And then my teachers gave me the impression I was special. And then the townsfolk gave me the feeling I was special. And I get out here into the world and think, 'I'm special.'
"Yeah...right!" he says, laughing. "But if you keep plugging away, things can bear out. It wasn't like I was a big fish in a dry pond—it gave me the encouragement to do what I had to in this business. [My mother] made me feel like I was a star growing up, and I remember the first time I was in Los Angeles in the late '50s, standing on Sunset Boulevard, thinking I was gonna prove her right. It took a while, though.
In his quiet assessment of the struggles he went through, Freeman can't help but address the issue of racism. But it's not a topic he dwells on.
"Sure, I dealt with that getting started. New York was a better place than Los Angeles, but not much better," Freeman says, recalling the prejudices that prevailed in his early working days. "I had those viciously sad and discouraging—distraught—moments when I thought, 'There's no place in this world for me. How am I gonna get along?' But I tried to always think about the next step in the evolution, because that's the cheap out. You can fall back on that one. You gotta want it, and you gotta keep at it."
Freeman's journey began in Memphis, Tennessee, on June 1, 1937. His parents, who were hospital workers, struggled to raise a family of six, and finally, in hopes of finding steady, more lucrative work, moved to Chicago. But Freeman stayed behind, moving in with his grandparents in Charleston, Mississippi. It was there he began his acting career in junior high school, where, according to published interviews, he won an acting competition.
His love of acting continued throughout his high school career. During the summers, he would travel to Chicago to visit his parents, and there, he has recalled, he would collect bottles for deposit refunds, using the money to hit the movie houses. His favorites were almost always war movies, and he was particularly drawn to the airplanes. In the end, that seemed like a better avenue to pursue a life, so he joined the Air Force at 18. But he never realized his dream of becoming a fighter pilot, and finally, after more than three years, he resigned from the military and moved to Los Angeles. He worked days at City College, which gave him access to acting and dancing classes for free.
Late blooming, or long suffering, probably understates the long years of Freeman's wait for a big break. He arrived in New York in the late 1950s from Los Angeles and began doing odd jobs around the Big Apple. "I moved to New York because I was running away from here, Los Angeles," Freeman says, laughing. "I met a woman, got in trouble, and I had to get out of here. It was a great theater scene in New York. Ivan Dixon was there, Lou Gossett was there, and of course, Sidney Poitier was the biggest thing going. New York was just more hospitable to black actors then. Hell, it was more hospitable to any kind of actor.
"I can't remember my first movie audition, but I do remember my first movie job [in the 1964 film The Pawnbroker, starring Rod Steiger]. It was as an extra. It was so easy." There were other roles as an extra, too, including one in A Man Called Adam, a 1966 movie with Sammy Davis Jr. Freeman also began gravitating toward the stage, taking bit parts and looking for any kind of work as an actor. He made his Off-Broadway debut in 1967.
What followed was 20 years of near misses, and lots of odd jobs. By the mid-'60s, he'd already been through plenty of ups and downs, trying to put food on the table.
Freeman has no compunction about enumerating those ups and downs during that period. "I got a job as a dancer. I remember I went to this audition being run by Michael Kidd, and it was a cattle call. The kind of thing where they go, 'OK, I pick you… you… and you. The rest of you, thank you very much.' And it was for Water World, for the 1964 World's Fair in New York. And it was great. And after that, when the money ran out, and it did pretty quickly, I had to get a job."
Work was his way of coming to an understanding about Manhattan and himself. "I went to work for Nedicks, the equivalent of fast food. And," he says grimly, "I hated it, and then I got a better job as an office temp. I worked as a telegrapher in the telegraph office in New York, the first time I came here, in 1960. I learned to type in the Air Force, and could type at least 65 words a minute. What we did at the telegraph office was called press wireless, sort of a central clearing house for foreign correspondents. Guys from around the world would send us their news stories and we would send them out. That was one of the office jobs I had, and I was very good at them because I was so handy."
But the office job was almost scary. Freeman recalls that he began to think it might just be his calling. "One of my bosses, who really loved me, told me why she couldn't bring me on the regular staff. She said, 'You're gonna go off and audition for parts, and you need that flexibility, and that's fine with me. But if you get a job, you'd be out of here and never look back.' "
After a deep laugh, he continues. "I said, 'That's true.' But she also said, 'You're bored to death when there's nothing to do.' And that's because I just can't make work if there's nothing to do. If there's nothing to do, I believe in doing nothing. Now, if there's work to do, I'm on it. I'm all over it, because there is no bad job."
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HOUSTON - For thousands of Catholics in the Houston area, Pope Benedict XVI's announcement to resign came as a complete shock Monday.
"I can only imagine how much courage and how much prayer it took for him to come to this decision. We as Catholics can only pray that he's at peace with the decision," parishioner Jolynn Zann said. "It's been on my mind all morning since the special report came on TV."
KPRC Local 2 spoke to Catholics as they walked into morning mass at Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in downtown.
"He's been a big influence. He had a big impact on my faith journey and I'm just shocked. I am in awe. I am just shocked. I don't know what to say. I'm lost for words," parishioner Alison Weber said.
"I'm sad he's resigning but I'm also hopeful that we'll get another great pope -- the third in my lifetime," parishioner Scott Norgaard said.
Parishioners at St. Vincent De Paul were stunned by the news.
"It really came as a shock," Deann Ennis said. "I love Pope Benedict. I'm praying for him and for the outcome of our church. We love the church."
The Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston said Cardinal Daniel DiNardo was in Rome Monday and will help chose the next pope.
"I understand he would like to have someone before Easter," parishioner Maria Castillo Valle said. "That's understandable, to let us have a new pope to celebrate that time with him."
"Different Catholics want different things," said Father Anthony Giampietro of the University of St. Thomas. "I want someone who can really articulate the depth of the Catholic wisdom for the world. It's not limited to cardinals who can be chosen. All the cardinals will be there and they will try to find a human being who can live into this role.
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After Dinner Car TroublesSituation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.
This teaser is based on a weird but true story from a few years ago.
A complaint was received by the president of a major car company:
"This is the fourth time I have written you, and I don't blame you for not answering me because I must sound crazy, but it is a
fact that we have a tradition in our family of having ice cream for dessert after dinner each night. Every night after we've eaten, the family votes on which flavor of ice cream we should have and I drive down to the store to get it. I recently purchased a new Pantsmobile from your company and since then my trips to the store have created a problem. You see, every time I buy vanilla ice cream my car won't
start. If I get any other kind of ice cream the car starts just fine. I want you to know I'm serious about this question, no matter
how silly it sounds: 'What is there about a Pantsmobile that makes it not start when I get vanilla ice cream, and easy to start whenever I get any other kind?'"
The Pantsmobile company President was understandably skeptical about the letter, but he sent an engineer to check it out anyway. He had arranged to meet the man just after dinner time, so the two hopped into the car and drove to the grocery store. The man bought vanilla ice cream that night and, sure enough, after they came back to the car it wouldn't start for several minutes.
The engineer returned for three more nights. The first night, the man got chocolate. The car started right away. The second night, he got strawberry and again the car started right up. The third night he bought vanilla and the car failed to start.
There was a logical reason why the man's car wouldn't start when he bought vanilla ice cream. What was it?
(The hint may prove helpful)
HintThe man lived in an extremely hot city, and this took place during the summer. Also, the layout of the grocery store was such that it took the man less time to buy vanilla ice cream.
AnswerVanilla ice cream was the most popular flavor and was on display in a little case near the express check out, while the other flavors were in the back of the store and took more time to select and check out. This mattered because the man's car was experiencing vapor lock, which is excess heat boiling the fuel in the fuel line and the resulting air bubbles blocking the flow of fuel until the car has enough time to cool. When the car was running there was enough pressure to move the bubbles along, but not when the car was trying to start.
Moral of the story: Sometimes even insane sounding problems are real. A better moral: Chocolate ice cream cures vapor lock.
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Her hair was the topic of much debate during the 2008 presidential campaign, and now, the salon responsible for Sarah Palin's signature styles is the subject of a new TLC reality show, Big Hair Alaska. Premiering this fall, the two-part special on the Beehive Beauty Shop "goes inside a busy hair salon in Wasilla, AK, where the personalities of the owner and her staff are as big as the hairstyles they create," according to TLC.
The 1,400-sq.-ft., bright pink salon was featured in a 2008 profile in the
New York Times
, which delved into Palin's hairstyle evolution. "She's very involved in her look and how she's perceived," Beehive owner Jessica J. Steele told the paper. "We would talk a lot about how if she looked too pretty or too sexy, people wouldn't listen to her. How important it was for people to see her as an intelligent, smart woman. It was comical when her hair was down, how big a difference that would make, especially when she was running for governor."
In fact, when Palin did announce her bid for governor, Steele called her into the salon, where the pals tried side-swept bangs, curls and even blonde streaks. "We just kept polishing her look," Steele said. "We would try more warm, red and coppery highlights or more of a contrast with pale highlights, not to be severe but just more striking."
But as Palin's star began to rise, so did her hair. Updos helped give the petite politico some extra height, and according to Steele, "Sarah wanted to look more professional and ready to work and not come across as high maintenance and fussy." Tell us: Will you tune into Big Hair Alaska?
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YORKSHIRE'S NatWest T20 Blast quarter-final hopes were dented by Birmingham Bears as they failed to combat a Jeetan Patel hat-trick and a Laurie Evans blitz at Headingley.
Ex-New Zealand off-spinner Patel left Yorkshire tottering at 62-5 in the ninth over after Andrew Gale had won the toss for the first time in nine matches in all competitions, and Patel finished with a career-best 4-19 from his four overs.
But the hosts were boosted to a competitive 147-6 by a seventh-wicket partnership of 68 unbroken between Tim Bresnan and Adil Rashid, who underpinned a recovery from 79-6 in the 13th.
They united for 7.2 overs, and hit 45 off 36 balls and 29 off 20 respectively. Bresnan's effort, including six fours, was a career best.
Ryan Sidebottom struck twice with the new ball as Birmingham slipped to 29-3 in the fifth over of their reply, and they later fell to 83-5 in the 13th.
But Evans hit a sensational unbeaten 69 off 43 to help seal a five-wicket win with two balls to spare, and Yorkshire are likely to have to beat Nottinghamshire here next Friday in their final North Division match to seal a last-eight place.
Evans hit nine fours and two sixes, playing the scoop to third-man particularly well. He hit a four through the covers off Bresnan to seal a win which keeps Birmingham's quarter-final hopes alive.
Patel, having got Alex Lees stumped midway through the seventh over, started his hat-trick by getting compatriot Kane Williamson lbw with the third ball of the ninth, leaving Yorkshire at 62-3. He then bowled Gale and Adam Lyth.
It was the first hat-trick in English T20 since Northamptonshire's David Willey took one in last August's final against Surrey at Edgbaston.
It was also the third to be taken against Yorkshire since the start of the competition in 2003. Leicestershire's Jeremy Snape took one against them in 2007 and Birmingham's (Warwickshire's) Keith Barker did likewise in 2010.
After Jonny Bairstow had holed out to long-off against Ateeq Javid's part-time spin, Bresnan and Rashid were able to rebuild the innings, including 25 runs coming off the last two overs.
Will Porterfield to Bresnan, Jon Webb and Tim Ambrose all departed as Birmingham also stuttered in reply. Webb was superbly caught by Aaron Finch at mid-wicket after a top-edged pull went very high.
And when captain Varun Chopra chipped Azeem Rafiq to short mid-on, they were 40-4 in the eighth and still 108 away. Rikki Clarke fell to Rashid, leaving the score at 83-5, before the target became 50 off five overs.
Evans and sixth-wicket partner Javid took that target to 46 off four, 36 off three and 23 off two. Right-handed Evans scooped Sidebottom for six with the last ball of the penultimate over to take the target from 13 off seven balls to seven off six.
Yorkshire face Middlesex in the LV= County Championship at Scarborough, starting on Saturday.
They have named a 12-man squad for their 12th match of the season as they look to overhaul a 16-point gap between themselves in third and leaders Notts.
Yorkshire: Gale, Bairstow, Bresnan, Brooks, Leaning, Lees, Lyth, Patterson, Pyrah, Rashid, Sidebottom, Williamson.
NatWest T20 Blast North Group
Yorkshire Vikings v Birmingham Bears
at Headingley Carnegie
(Yorkshire won toss)
Yorkshire Innings
A J Finch c Javid b Clarke 13
K S Williamson lbw b Patel 24
A Z Lees st Ambrose b Patel 15
J M Bairstow c Best b Javid 12
A W Gale b Patel 0
A Lyth b Patel 0
T T Bresnan not out 45
A U Rashid not out 29
Extras (lb7 w2) 9
Total 6 wkts (20 overs) 147
Fall: 1-16 2-47 3-62 4-62 5-62 6-79.
Bowling: Clarke 3-0-16-1, Hannon-Dalby 4-0-35-0, Gordon 2-0-23-0, Patel 4-0-19-4, Best 4-0-29-0, Javid 3-0-18-1.
Birmingham Bears Innings
W T S Porterfield c Gale b Bresnan 4
J P Webb c Finch b Sidebottom 15
V Chopra c Pyrah b Rafiq 9
T R Ambrose c Lees b Sidebottom 6
R Clarke c Rafiq b A U Rashid 23
L J Evans not out 69
Javid not out 18
Extras (b1 lb1 w2) 4
Total 5 wkts (19.4 overs) 148
Fall: 1-10 2-22 3-29 4-40 5-83.
Bowling: Williamson 1-0-8-0, Bresnan 3.4-0-18-1, Sidebottom 4-0-38-2, A U Rashid 4-0-28-1, Rafiq 3-0-24-1, Pyrah 4-0-30-0.
Birmingham Bears beat Yorkshire by 5 wkts
North Group table
P W L T NR Pts
Lancashire 12 8 2 0 2 18
Nottinghamshire 11 6 3 0 2 14
Worcestershire 12 6 4 0 2 14
Warwickshire 13 6 5 0 2 14
Northants 11 4 4 0 3 11
Durham 12 4 6 0 2 10
Leicestershire 12 4 7 0 1 9
Derbyshire 12 1 10 0 1 3


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WATSONVILLE -- Crews scrambled Thursday to repair a greenhouse and save hundreds of gerbera daisy plants after a tornado ripped through the Kitayama Bros. nursery on San Andreas Road.
Saturday morning, the tornado crushed one greenhouse and left three others a mess of twisted metal and shredded fiberglass. A fifth greenhouse, filled with red and yellow gerberas, was heavily damaged, putting the festive flowers at risk from rain and chilly temperatures.
Robert Kitayama, president of the company, said damages would exceed $100,000.
"Every farmer will tell you, it's always something," Kitayama said, shrugging off the loss. "It's the well. It's the weather. It's something."
A tornado, though, is unusual here.
"It's definitely a pretty rare occurrence," said Logan Johnson, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Monterey. "It's something that can go several years between happenings."
Johnson confirmed the incident after visiting the nursery Wednesday and evaluating radar data. He described it as a weak tornado with winds of about 75 mph. It emerged as a water spout on the Monterey Bay and then headed inland about a mile on a path 20 yards wide.
The nursery is about a quarter mile from the coast.
Kitayama said the greenhouses were hit about 7 a.m. A few minutes later, he said, crews would have been inside clipping flowers, and the consequences could have been worse.
As it is, the nursery lost as much as 25 percent of its lisianthus, a delicate, hard-to-grow flower that's a company specialty.
The nursery also lost part of its gerbera crop, though so far not the plants that typically produce for three years.
Kitayama said 3,000 no longer marketable gerbera blooms were sent south Thursday, a donation to Cal Poly's float in the annual Tournament of Roses Parade.
While he'll likely be short blooms for the big floral holidays of Valentine's Day and Mother's Day, "it's not a make or break" situation, he said.
The nursery lost about 40,000 square feet of its 1.8 million square feet of greenhouse space. He's also waiting to see how much of the loss insurance will cover.
Johnson said the last record of a tornado touching down in Watsonville was 10 years ago, though they aren't always reported.
If the nursery hadn't been hit and the greenhouses damaged, the twister may have whipped through the surrounding fallow agricultural fields unnoticed, Johnson said. His office only learned of the tornado because Kitayama called.
"People think we know about everything with all the computers, satellites and radar, but we don't. That's why the human element is so important to what we do," he said.
Follow Sentinel reporter Donna Jones on Twitter at Twitter.com/DonnaJonesSCS


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The Weekly Health Quiz: Migraines, Drinking and Belly Fat
September 22, 2017,
A balanced diet means getting the right types and amounts of foods and drinks to supply nutrition and energy for maintaining body cells, tissues, and organs, and for supporting normal growth and development.
Well-balanced diet
A well-balanced diet provides enough energy and nutrition for optimal growth and development.
Milk group (dairy products)
Meat and beans group
Fruit group
Vegetable group
Grain group (breads and cereals)
An unbalanced diet can cause problems with maintenance of:
It can also cause problems with bone and muscle systems.
The term "balanced" simply means that a diet meets your nutritional needs while not providing too much of any nutrients. To achieve a balanced diet, you must eat a variety of foods from each of the food groups. You will need to know:
There are several guidelines available to help you plan your balanced diet. They include:
General Guidelines
The most important step to eating a balanced diet is to educate yourself about what your body needs, and to read the nutrition label and ingredients of all the food you eat.
New dietary guidelines from the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Agriculture (USDA) recommend fewer calories and smarter food choices. Some of the key recommendations:
Dietary Guidelines for Americans - 2005 . Washington, DC. US Dept of Health and Human Services and US Dept of Agriculture; 2005.
American Heart Association Nutrition Committee: Lichtenstein AH, Appel LJ, Brands M, Carnetho M, Daniels S, et al. Diet and lifestyle recommendations revision 2006: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Nutrition Committee. Circulation . 2006;114(1):82-96.


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How does Medicare Advantage work?
Medicare Advantage permits Medicare beneficiaries to receive health care through managed care plans (e.g., HMOs) and private fee-for-service plans. When you join a Medicare Advantage plan (also known as Medicare Part C), you may be able to save money on your health-care costs, and you may get additional benefits not found in original Medicare. To enroll in Medicare Advantage, you must be covered under both Medicare Part A and Medicare Part B.
Unfortunately, not all plans are available in all areas. To learn about what options are available in your region, call (800) MEDICARE or visit the Medicare website at www.medicare.gov.
Note: Under the health-care reform laws passed in 2010, government payments to Medicare Advantage plans will be significantly cut over the next 10 years. It is possible that because of this budget squeeze, those plans may stop offering certain benefits or stop offering the plan altogether.


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Yasiel Puig knows how to dazzle in eccentric fashion. Everything he does, he does big.
There was the crash into the right-field wall Thursday and the crush as he delivered another clutch hit that rocked Dodger Stadium.
After slamming into the right-field wall in the top of the seventh inning on Chase Utley's homer that gave the Philadelphia Phillies a one-run lead, Puig jogged to the dugout. He went into the clubhouse with a trainer but emerged seemingly unscathed.
Clearly, there was nothing wrong with his flair for the dramatic.
With two outs in the bottom of the seventh, and an 0-and-2 count, Puig singled to left center field to score two runs - to tie and then take a lead. The pitch was low and outside. But as you know, Puig can do just about everything.
Puig had the game-winner for the Dodgers in their 6-4 victory over the Phillies that extended their winning streak to six games.
"I feel really happy," Puig said through an interpreter. "We ended up winning the game."
Ho-hum. Just another day in the world of Puig.
After the game, Puig sprayed cologne on a reporter, told him he wanted the reporter to take him to dinner, put on his sunglasses and said he was ready. He showed no ill effects from his contact with the wall.
"I feel good," Puig said. "My shoulder feels good It's gotten me twice."
Puig wasn't concerned, but Dodger Nation sure was holding its breath.
Kenley Jansen - who appears to be in the driver's seat to regain his closer's role - got Utley to line out to first to end the game.
And it was all Matt Kemp on an insurance run for the Dodgers. He singled to left-center field off reliever Antonio Bastardo to lead off the eighth.
Then stole second base. Then stole third base. He scored via an A.J. Ellis sacrifice fly to center field. Then Kemp got a big hug from Puig in the dugout.
Kemp joked he must have "Puig legs."
Puig knew he came through for the Dodgers immediately after making contact in the seventh, this after chasing two earlier pitches that were low in the strike zone. Just after contact with a low pitch from Justin De Fratus, he raised both arms as he left the batter's box as Dodgers fans collectively rose to their feet in the unbridled joy the 22-year-old Cuban star has given them.
Puig already had his uniform dirty in the first inning, further endearing himself to fans who already are in love. He got on base via a fielder's choice, then ran from first to third - and slid - on Adrian Gonzalez's single to right. Kemp's double to left field scored Puig, then Ethier doubled to center to score Gonzalez and Kemp.
Puig was dancing mightily in the dugout after the Dodgers took a 3-0 lead in the first inning. They got to Phillies starter Jonathan Pettibone early, but then Pettibone held the Dodgers scoreless the next five innings.
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HAZEL PARK - Cheryl Taylor recalled how she enjoyed the "good old days" when her two children were students in Hazel Parks Schools.
But with the Hazel Park Schools district operating on a deficit since 2007 and now facing a $3.3 million budget shortfall, Taylor said she is concerned about it the district's immediate future.
"I think it's sad, especially when we used to be one of the best school districts around," said Taylor, who had two kids graduate from Hazel Park High School. "A lot of people have moved out of Hazel Park."
Superintendent of Schools James D. Meisinger blames shrinking enrollment, but Michigan Superintendent of Public Instruction Mike Flanagan said those dwindling numbers could result in the district filing for bankruptcy or installing an emergency manager at the district faces a budget deficit.
Administration offices were closed on Friday, but Meisinger issued a letter to the school community saying there's been "confusion and misinformation" concerning Hazel Park's financial condition.
"Our Deficit Elimination Plan (DEP) has been approved," Meisinger said in a letter. "That approval includes an extension of an additional, sixth year."
Meisinger said the district had a $41.1 million budget for 2012-13, noting a "sudden drop in enrollment triggered our current status."
"The administration is confident that, with this additional time coupled with the down-sizing and reductions we have implemented, the Hazel Park Schools will emerge with a positive fund balance," Meisinger said.
Flanagan, meanwhile, said he sent an interim report to school district officials on Monday regarding the district's finances.
According to The Associated Press, Flanagan ordered a preliminary review of the finances of the district on June 19 as the school district faced a $3.3-million deficit by June 30.
Flanagan said the district has shown "unsatisfactory progress in eliminating the deficit" and previously gave the district until June 30, 2014 to eliminate the deficit.
But Meisinger said the district is unable to eliminate the deficit by that extended due date and requested an additional year to June 30, 2015,
Discussion on the deficit is scheduled to take place at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the regular meeting of the Hazel Park Board of Education to be held at Ford Administration Office, 1620 E. Elza, in Hazel Park.
In a letter to the school district dated June 26, Meisinger said the approval of a DEP came with a number of contingencies, including following through with the reductions outlined in the plan; getting from the state the anticipated cost offset for the retirement system; posting the DEP on the district web site; to name a few.
Meisinger said Flanagan initiated a preliminary review of the district's finances and operations to assess the district's level of financial stress, but noted the review "does not automatically mean that the end result would be for the Governor to declare a financial emergency in the district."
Meisinger said results of the preliminary review were scheduled to be reported to the school district on Monday.
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Meisinger was unavailable for comment on Friday, but in his letter he said Flanagan will submit a final report to an emergency financial assistance loan board.
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Should both the review team and the governor determine that a financial emergency exists in Hazel Park Schools, the local school board will be required to choose one of the following options to address the emergency: consent agreement; emergency manager; neutral evaluation process; or Chapter 9 bankruptcy?
But maintaining enrollment projections and even "increasing our enrollment" is at the forefront of Meisinger's message.
"I am confident that, with the additional time we have been given to retire our debt and with the additional steps we have taken, we will emerge with a positive fund balance," he said.
Meisinger said the district is planning an "aggressive recruitment effort within the county," as well as outside the county in accordance with the Hazel Park Board of Education.
School board President Bob Love was unavailable for comment on Friday, but at least one resident was in his corner.
�"I like to think it's going to come back," Taylor said of Hazel Park Schools' financial deficit "I have two who graduated from Hazel Park - I hope it comes back."


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ALDS Game Five Preview: Tigers at A's
Oakland went cuckoo for Coco Crisp on Wednesday night after the center fielder's walk-off single capped a thrilling three-run rally in the bottom of the ninth. Oakland's reward? A date with the Tigers' ace. Who will go home, and who will advance? Here are the PECOTA odds and projected starting lineups for Game Five:
Tigers (Justin Verlander) vs. Athletics (Jarrod Parker) – 9:30 p.m. ET
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PECOTA loves it some Verlander—but can you blame it? The 2011 American League MVP allowed only three hits and whiffed 11 Oakland batters in Game One, and the model expects this Division Series to end precisely how it started: with Verlander doing what he does best.
Here is the 29-year-old righty's pitch breakdown from the opener:
The most telling line in that table is for the four-seam fastball: Oakland hitters saw 61 of them from Verlander, flailed helplessly 11 times, and only put four in play. If that rate does not tick down tonight, the A's won't be any more successful at scoring runs than they were on Saturday, even if Verlander once again doles out four walks.
Crisp has figured prominently in every game during this series—kicking things off with a homer in Game One, costing the A's dearly with a defensive blunder in Game Two, robbing Fielder of a big fly in Game Three, and then delivering the winning hit last night—so he gets the nod in the Match-up of the Game. He and Verlander have now locked horns 27 times, and Crisp has more than held his own, going 9-for-26 (.346 average) with two doubles in addition to the long-ball on Saturday.
After serving up the home run on the fourth pitch of the game, a 96-mph fastball, Verlander served Crisp a steady diet of soft stuff in Game One. Of the 11 pitches Crisp saw in his three ensuing plate appearances, eight were non-fastballs—five changeups and three curveballs—including each of the last four. It will be interesting to see how Verlander maintains that approach to begin the bottom of the first tonight.
Parker pitched well at Comerica Park in Game One but was done in partly by his own fielding error on a dribbler by Berry. He compiled a 2.61 ERA over 100 innings at the Coliseum this year and allowed only five home runs at home all season. Take a look at his pitch breakdown from the series opener.
Parker was essentially a two-pitch pitcher in Game One, using 64 total fastballs and 24 changeups—a strategy in line with his regular-season mix. The 23-year-old has shown only a modest platoon split in 2012, giving up a 616 OPS to lefties and a 584 mark to righties, using his changeup and living in the outside third of the zone to contain opposite-handed batters, as he did on Saturday. A grudge match with Verlander for all the marbles is an unenviable task, but there's no one the A's would rather have toeing the rubber tonight.
Daniel Rathman is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @danielrathman
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we sat directly behind home plate on the final day of the 2011 season at the O.Co in our Diamond Level season ticket holder location behind the umps head and watched Verlander kill the A's for the crowning glory final start of his MVP campaign
Oct 11, 2012 14:56 PM
That wasn't the final day of the season, greendrummer, but your point is taken. As a Tigers fan I too remember it well. I wasn't more than about two sections away from you, and Verlander was dominant.
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Stick with Under-Promise and Over-Deliver: Lowe's vs. Home Depot
Yes, we know housing is moving in the right direction. Another rosy data point: the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index rose 0.9 percent in December, topping expectations of a 0.5% gain. If you played the "It can't get any worse" housing trade a year ago with Home Depot (HD) or Lowe's (LOW), you would be up 35% or more as HD has outperformed.
However, execution at both companies continues to have a wider gap than their similar stock returns imply. Fourth-quarter results mark 12 of 14 quarters that HD same-store sales have outperformed LOW. This quarter, HD's same-store sales outperformed LOW's by 500 basis points compared with an average of 280 bps for the past three quarters. If you believe the housing trade still has legs, HD has provided conservative guidance for 2013 (3% same-store sales for 2013 after 7% comps in the fourth-quarter 2012). On the other hand, LOW issued same-store sales guidance of 3.5%. With a slew of overly aggressive guides behind the company, I would continue to play the under-promise and over-deliver name, HD, not to mention a company with superior real estate and larger exposure to the important pro business.
More on the Tax Refund Blame Game: AutoZone
AutoZone (AZO) took a page from Wal-Mart's (WMT) playbook, calling out delays in tax refunds. It seems sales of auto parts in the last two weeks of the quarter decreased 8% vs. a typical increase for the last two weeks. Only time will tell whether this is the blame game or something worse. Note that Wal-Mart did say trends improved after refund checks started flowing. It sounds like we don't need to worry about the savings rate rising this year.
Online Disclosure Bites the Dust: Macy's
First retailers pull the plug on monthly same-store sales and now Macy's (M) tells us it will stop breaking out online sales growth. I'm a big supporter of companies that are investing in omnichannel (integration of in-store and online sales), even when it comes at the expense of short-term margins; however, I like to be reassured the investment is still paying off on the sales line. Saks (SKS) stopped disclosing online a while back. Your move Nordstrom (JWN).


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At the beginning of this year, I unveiled what is now dubbed a Winning Value Portfolio for 2012 , which consists of 10 stocks making up an equally-weighted portfolio that I believed would outperform the S&P 500. As of the end of the second quarter, the last time I checked the performance standings, the portfolio was up 13.3% compared with an 8% return for the S&P 500.
Since then, I have waited to provide an update because I wanted the market to experience a pullback in order to see how the portfolio would hold up. After all, a rising market creates a nice tailwind for outperformance but it's against market declines that an investor earns his spurs. To be sure, these numbers only represent an 11-month holding period. While that's a reasonable amount of time to start judging performance numbers, this portfolio was created for a multi-year holding period.
As of Tuesday, the Winning Value Portfolio for 2012 is up by 1.4% against the S&P 500. My benchmark was an outperformance by at least 3 percentage points. Sterling Construction (STRL) continues to significantly underperform. After reporting earnings last week, its shares have declined by another 15% and now change hands for around $7.80. The last time the shares traded at this level was back in 2005. At the height of the recession, the shares didn't breach $9. Gross margins have declined significantly and, if that continues, STRL will have generated increasing revenue growth to ensure profitability. But what keeps me interested is the balance sheet, which shows a net cash balance of more than $40 million or almost $3 per share and tangible book value of more than $14 a share. Given the market's current disdain for Sterling, it bears keeping a close watch on this one -- especially if shares fall below $6.
My top pick for 2012, Bank of America (BAC), is clearly the security that is carrying the portfolio. But both BAC and Goldman Sachs (GS) are doing exceptionally well after a huge decline in 2011 made their valuations very compelling going into 2012. A couple of weeks ago, Premier Exhibitions (PRXI) announced that it had entered into a non-binding letter or intent to sell its Titanic assets for $189 million. Today, the company has a market cap of less than $130 million. It's simply a matter of patience at this point although there are no certainties with respect to a non-binding Letter of Interest (LOI).
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Candidates in two local races -- including the currently tied race for the Ferndale mayor seat -- are waiting to see which way the final results will swing with more than 7,000 ballots from across Humboldt County remaining to be counted.
Meanwhile, Arcata made national news after voters there overwhelmingly approved Measure I, an excessive electricity tax directed at grow houses.
The Humboldt County Election's Office final report Wednesday morning showed incumbent Councilwoman Linda Atkins edging ahead of challenger Joe Bonino in the race for Eureka's 2nd Ward seat by 208 votes, but Humboldt County Registrar of Voters Carolyn Crnich said a clear victor likely won't emerge this week.
The Ferndale results are also undecided, with mayoral candidates Stuart Titus and Ken Weller locked in a dead heat with 287 votes each.
"The odds of this happening are not something that crosses your mind," Titus said. "This is a bit of an anomaly -- it's pretty remarkable." Titus has served on the Ferndale City Council for eight years. He said he's heard the elections office could take several weeks to get the results sorted out.
"They'll have an answer to us by Thanksgiving," he said. "We'll have to wait and see."
In a raw count taken Tuesday night, Crnich said roughly 4,800 vote-by-mail ballots and 2,500 provisional ballots from across the county remain outstanding. An additional 700 more vote-by-mail ballots that came in damaged or with identifying marks will have to be examined and remade before they are tallied.
In addition to confirming the voter registration status of each individual who submitted a vote-by-mail ballot, election workers must verify each voter's signature on the envelope and ensure each person did not vote elsewhere in the same election. That is a process that takes time, Crnich said.
California county officials technically have until Dec. 4 to finish processing ballots, and until Dec. 7 to submit results to the California Secretary of State Office.
In the Eureka race, Crnich said 200 votes is a lot for any candidate to overcome, but it is still possible Bonino could pull ahead if the vote-by-mail ballots continue in his favor. The first report released by the elections office Tuesday night -- made up only of vote-by-mail ballot results -- showed Bonino ahead of Atkins by fewer than 100 votes.
"If the vote-by-mail ballots that remain to be counted continue on the same trend as the early vote-by-mail ballots we received -- who knows what could happen," she said. "I certainly don't."
Crnich said her office's priority is getting all of the ballots counted accurately and fairly.
Atkins said she did not share Crnich's hesitancy to call the Eureka election.
"I am optimistic that we won," she said. "It would be highly unusual for a 200-vote lead to disappear."
Bonino could not be reached for comment by the Times-Standard's deadline Wednesday.
Over in Arcata, the city made national news with its voting choices.
In addition to two school district measures and a "Corps Ain't Peeps" initiative, voters in Arcata overwhelmingly approved Measure I, which will impose a 45 percent tax on excessively high residential electricity use in the city. The tax will be placed on homes that use more than 600 percent of the baseline allowance, or average amount of electricity, typically used by residential households.
Arcata Mayor Michael Winkler said the tax is aimed at eliminating large marijuana growing operations.
"The hope is for these very large-scale growers to shut down and leave Arcata," Winkler said.
He said it will likely take about six months to implement the tax, as Pacific Gas and Electric Company needs to make changes to its accounting and computer systems. The changes will be paid for by the city. Revenues from the tax will go to the city's general fund, and Winkler said he hopes it will eventually help pay for more police enforcement and energy efficiency upgrade rebates.
If the tax isn't an incentive for marijuana growers to shut down, Winkler said the city has options.
"One alternative would be to bring it back to voters in two years and increase the tax rate," Winkler said.
The tax is scheduled to sunset in 12 years.
Crnich said she visited a number of the more than 400 poll workers out in the field Tuesday evening, and was happy to report that Election Day appeared to run smoothly.
Humboldt County reported a higher voter turnout, at 59 percent as of Wednesday morning, compared to statewide results which showed a 52 percent voter turnout.
"It sounds like traffic to the polls was brisk, but not overwhelming," Crnich said, adding that a higher voter turnout is expected during presidential elections.
At a Glance: Election Night Final Report
Linda Atkins: 3,935 votes, 50.75 percent
Joe Bonino: 3,727 votes, 48.07 percent
Charlie Bean: 35 votes, 0.45 percent
Ken Weller: 287 votes, 48.15 percent
Stuart Titus: 287 votes, 48.15 percent
Unresolved write-ins: 22 votes, 3.70 percent
Humboldt County
Voter turnout: 46,968 of 80,153 eligible voters, 58.62 percent
On the Web: Election results
Updated results will continue to be posted on the Secretary of State's website at vote.sos.ca.gov, and the Humboldt County Election's Office website at co.humboldt.ca.us/election/content/content.asp?pg=election_results.htm.
Megan Hansen and Luke Ramseth contributed to this article.
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Your friend offers to play a game of dice with you. He explains the game to you.
"We each get one die, the highest die wins. If we tie, I win, but since you always lose when you roll a one, if you roll a one you can roll again. If you get a one the second time you have to keep it."
What is each person's probability of winning?
What are the probabilities of winning if you can keep rolling until you get something besides a one?
AnswerIn the first game the probabilities of winning are 37/72 for your friend and 35/72 for you. In the second game each player has a 50% probability of winning.
There are 36 combinations (6 x 6) for your die and your friend's die on the first roll. In the first game if you don't roll a one on the first roll then that roll is equally likely to be a 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6, which can beat 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 different numbers, respectively. That gives a
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The scheme began unfolding in July as Cabrera and his representatives scrambled to explain a spike in the former Yankees testosterone levels.
By Teri Thompson , Bill Madden , Christian Red , Michael Okeeffe AND Nathaniel Vinton / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
In a bizarre attempt to avoid a 50-game drug suspension, San Francisco Giants star Melky Cabrera created a fictitious website and a nonexistent product designed to prove he inadvertently took the banned substance that caused a positive test under Major League Baseballs drug program.
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Amid the information-gathering phase of his doping case last month, his cover story unraveled quickly, and what might have been a simple suspension has attracted further attention from federal investigators and MLB, the Daily News has learned.
Famed steroid cop Jeff Novitzky, a criminal investigative agent for the Food & Drug Administration, and agents from MLBs Department of Investigation have begun looking into Cabreras associates and his entourage, including trainers, handlers and agents, as they search for the source of the synthetic testosterone that appeared in a sample of the All-Star Game MVPs urine.
The scheme began unfolding in July as Cabrera and his representatives scrambled to explain a spike in the former Yankees testosterone levels. Cabrera associate Juan Nunez, described by the players agents, Seth and Sam Levinson, as a paid consultant of their firm but not an employee, is alleged to have paid $10,000 to acquire the phony website. The idea, apparently, was to lay a trail of digital breadcrumbs suggesting Cabrera had ordered a supplement that ended up causing the positive test, and to rely on a clause in the collectively bargained drug program that allows a player who has tested positive to attempt to prove he ingested a banned substance through no fault of his own.
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|A Phase I Safety and Immunogenicity Trial of a Combination Vaccine (NefTat and gp120w61d) Formulated With AS02A (GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals) Given Intramuscularly in HIV-1 Uninfected Adult Participants
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2003
Despite recent advances in the treatment and prevention of HIV disease, the epidemic is worsening throughout most of the world. HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa and the leading infectious cause of death in the world. An effective and inexpensive vaccine to prevent HIV disease remains as the best option to try to deal with this expanding epidemic. A number of vaccine products have been tested; however, only 2 have progressed to a Phase III trial, underscoring the need for new vaccine strategies.
Prior to study entry, participants have their risk status for HIV infection determined by a series of questions. Further eligibility is determined by results of physical exam, laboratory tests, and further questions. Blood is drawn on each study visit. Participants are assigned randomly to 1 of 4 study groups:
Group I: NefTat or placebo. Groups II, III, and IV: NefTat and gp120 or placebo. Each group receives a different concentration of gp120.
All immunizations are admixed with AS02A adjuvant. Vaccinations are administered intramuscularly at 3 time points (entry, 1 month, and 3 months). Product safety and immunogenicity are performed at designated time points; participants have about 11 clinic visits.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 60 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria
Participants may be eligible for this study if they:
- Are between 18 and 60 years of age.
- Are in good general health and meet laboratory test requirements.
- Have a CD4 count of 400 or more cells/mm3.
- Agree to use at least 1 of the following methods of contraception for at least 21 days before enrollment until the last protocol visit: condoms (male or female) with or without a spermicide, diaphragm or cervical cap with spermicide, IUD, or hormonal-based therapy (applies to women who are able to have children).
- Have access to a participating site and are willing to have follow-up for the entire study (12 months).
- Answer questions about their understanding of the study.
- Do not have hepatitis B or C.
- Are HIV-uninfected.
Exclusion Criteria
Participants may not be eligible for this study if they:
- Are pregnant or breast-feeding.
- Have recently received a vaccine.
- Have used experimental agents within 30 days before enrollment.
- Have received HIV vaccines or placebo in a previous HIV vaccine study.
- Have received blood products 120 days before HIV screening.
- Have received immunoglobulin (antibodies) 60 days before HIV screening.
- Have serious reactions to vaccines.
- Have problems with their immune system.
- Have cancer.
- Have used drugs that affect the immune system within the past 6 months.
- Have diabetes.
- Have a thyroid disease.
- Have unstable asthma.
- Are taking anti-tuberculosis drugs.
- Have seizures.
- Have a bleeding disorder.
- Have had their spleen removed.
- Have angioedema (a certain type of body tissue swelling).
- Have active syphilis.
- Have high blood pressure (unless controlled by medication).
- Have mental or emotional problems that make them unsuitable for the study.
- Have any medical, mental, or social condition; job responsibilities; or other responsibility that, in the opinion of the doctor, would interfere with the study.
- Have reactions to components of the vaccines.
- Are at high risk for contracting HIV.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00027365
|United States, Alabama
|Alabama Vaccine CRS
|Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35294
|United States, California
|San Francisco Vaccine and Prevention CRS
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94102
|United States, Maryland
|Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,Ctr for Immunization Research, Project SAVE-Baltimore
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21205
|Project Brave HIV Vaccine CRS
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States
|United States, Massachusetts
|Brigham and Women's Hosp. CRS
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
|Fenway Community Health Clinical Research Site (FCHCRS)
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
|United States, Missouri
|Saint Louis Univ. School of Medicine, HVTU
|Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
|United States, New York
|NY Blood Ctr./Bronx CRS
|Bronx, New York, United States, 10456
|NY Blood Ctr./Union Square CRS
|New York, New York, United States, 10021
|HIV Prevention & Treatment CRS
|New York, New York, United States
|Univ. of Rochester HVTN CRS
|Rochester, New York, United States, 14642
|United States, Rhode Island
|Miriam Hospital's HVTU
|Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02906
|United States, Tennessee
|Vanderbilt Vaccine CRS
|Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37232
|United States, Virginia
|Infectious Diseases Physicians, Inc.
|Annandale, Virginia, United States
|United States, Washington
|FHCRC/UW Vaccine CRS
|Seattle, Washington, United States
|Study Chair:
|Tom Evans
|Responsible Party:
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00027365 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
10196 ( Registry Identifier: DAIDS ES Registry Number )
|Study First Received:
|December 4, 2001
|Last Updated:
|May 3, 2012
Keywords provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):
HIV Seronegativity
HIV Preventive Vaccine
Injections, Intramuscular
HIV Antibodies
HIV Envelope Protein gp120
Gene Products, tat
AIDS Vaccines
Neutralization Tests
Vaccines, Combined
AIDS Seronegativity
Gene Products, nef
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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Curated by artists' artist Keith Mayerson, the neo-NeoIntegrity (or post-NeoIntegrity) migrates from Chelsea to SoHo, where, 15-20 years ago, it would have been in the capitol of the art world. The first incarnation at Derek Eller Gallery in 2007 felt like the Justice League Satellite, a zero-gravity chamber of unimpeachable art that surely anticipated Reporta Smith's recent summoning for "art that seems made by one person out of intense personal necessity, often by hand." And this show does, too.
Inside the gallery at MoCCA (the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art), the show seems as far from Chelsea as Narnia, Gotham City, or Krypton, despite the presence of the Chelsea canonized Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, Ellen Berkenblitt, Carroll Dunham, and Peter Halley. And has the Whitney been by to see the Ad Reinhardt collages?
Visitors to NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition might recall recent "visitations" in Chelsea from this alien planet: Basil Wolverton at Gladstone Gallery (2009), R. Crumb at David Zwirner (now), Thomas Woodruff at P.P.O.W. (2008), David Shrigley at Anton Kern (2008) and many other shows of artists working in sequential imagery, grotesque countenance and figuration, and mostly pencil and ink. Keith Mayerson's own mini-retrospective and end-of-empire narrative Both Sides Now at Paul Kasmin Gallery (2009) shuttled back and forth between these worlds.
Generously funded by School of Visual Arts, a longtime fount of cartooning and illustration talent, Keith's massive project includes over 200 artists and four or five times as many drawings, paintings, sculptures, and videos. Hot! The tiny gallery is packed from floor to ceiling, and you really have to watch your step, too.
The bifocals crowd might struggle with the abundance of 10-pt handwritten text extruded throughout the paneled pages, and there is enough black-and-white action to make any newspaper's editorial page see red. But that just means that it's even more of a knockout to see full-color from chromo sapiens such as Dana Schutz, David Sandlin, and John Wesley. An "Adults Only" section designed by artist TM Davy includes grown-up material ranging from suggestive homoeroticism and explicit T&A to downright obscenity – more, please! Here, you'll find a really beautiful and moody package from James Siena and a multivalent Shel Silverstein that gazes inward, outward, and downward, all at once.
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Eugene, OR - The Marshfield boys and the Marist girls won the Midwestern League district cross country championships Wednesday at Alton Baker Park.
Marist junior J.P. Kiefer hung around with Marshfield's Connor Devereux for the majority of the race. Kiefer, who also plays soccer for the Spartans, out-kicked Devereux to claim the boys individual title in 16:28.
Devereux led a 2-3-4 finish by the Pirates who finished with 35 team points. Marist was second with 39 points. Both teams qualify for the 5A state meet Saturday, November 3rd at Lane Community College.
Qualifying as an individual was Springfield senior Brennan Holmes who finished fifth in 16:48.
In the girls varsity race, 2011 champion Monica Anderson of Marist defended her crown by winning in 18:59. The Spartans top five went 1-3-4-9-22 to garner 39 team points.
Marshfield's Shaylen Crook placed second in 19:08. The Pirates finished with 62 points to take second, just two point ahead of Churchill.
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Board balks at liquor licence for Oliver restaurant
One of the region's staunchest defenders of agriculture has taken issue with a South Okanagan winery's bid to expand its drink menu.
The owners of Tinhorn Creek Vineyards near Oliver are seeking a new food-primary liquor licence for their Miradoro Restaurant that would allow them to serve alcoholic beverages other than B.C. wine.
To get the new licence, however, Tinhorn requires a non-farm use exemption from the Agricultural Land Commission, which must first gain approval from the board of the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen.
Allan Patton, the RDOS director for rural Oliver, said at a meeting in December that winery restaurants in the Agricultural Land Reserve are generally restricted to selling beverages produced on site so the business remains "related to agriculture."
"Now when you take that off, it's just like every other restaurant," he said.
"Do we want to have every agricultural zone in our regional district allow restaurants, full-service restaurants, that have really nothing to do with agriculture?"
But West Bench Director Michael Brydon suggested that rather than undermining agriculture, a fuller drink menu might actually help people make a living from the industry.
"We're not saving agriculture by denying (customers) a vodka-soda," Brydon said.
"Let business people run their businesses."
Tinhorn Creek president and CEO Sandra Oldfield said the new licence is being sought to allow for the addition of locally produced beer and spirits to Miradoro's menu.
"Tinhorn has no desire to be serving Budweiser. That's not what we're here for. But we would like to be able to serve the local brew (made) here in Oliver and the local spirit maker's (products) as well."
Oldfield said the restaurant is currently required to suspend its liquor licence and obtain a special occasion permit in order to serve beer or liquor at private events like wedding receptions. She also noted it wouldn't make business sense for Miradoro to push anything Tinhorn doesn't produce.
"But that being said, there are certain people who don't drink wine and we'd like to offer them a locally made product as well," she said.
"I fully support the ALC because I like what they do. The difference for me for this one is they've already allowed us to have this restaurant on our property. This is (about) how we're running the inside (of the restaurant), and that to me is where it's so strange."
Although RDOS planning staff recommended the board deny Tinhorn's non-farm use application, directors agreed to Patton's motion to instead send the matter to the Area C advisory planning commission for consideration. The committee will then recommend a course of action to the board.
The RDOS board in 2009 approved a similar non-farm use application for the restaurant at Burrowing Owl Estate Winery near Oliver, but the application was later denied by the ALC in 2010.
According to that decision, the ALC was concerned that a food-primary liquor licence "moves away from the original intent of the winery lounge being linked to the growing, processing, marketing and sale of grapes as an agricultural business and moves towards a more commercial operation in the ALR."
The ALC in 2012 studied the issue more fully but decided to leave the current regulations in place and continue to deal with food-primary liquor licences at winery restaurants on a case-by-case basis.


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The first three weeks of the 2013 season were expected to be the most worrisome for Danica Patrick as she attempts to qualify for Sprint Cup races as a rookie driver.
NASCAR switched back to traditional qualifying this year, with the 36 fastest drivers making the race on speed. Provisionals for the first three races are based on 2012 owner points, and Patrick ran just 10 Cup races last year.
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Her Stewart-Haas Racing team acquired the 2012 owner points from Robinson-Blakeney Racing to give her protection for the first three races, but those points ranked just 42nd last year.
So with few owner points, Patrick knew that earning a provisional under the new qualifying format this year would be tough and she would have to perform during time trials to make the first three races.
The 30-year-old Patrick made sure she had no worries in the qualifying races at Daytona when she won the pole for the Daytona 500.
Then last week, she had no worries as only 43 cars were in the field at Phoenix.
But this week, Patrick must earn her spot as 44 cars are entered for the Kobalt Tools 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
The top 36 cars from qualifying Friday (6:40 p.m. Eastern) will make the 43-car field. Six spots are available to those remaining based on owner points, with one spot left for a past champion or another based on owner points.
With 2012 owner points being used for one more week, Patrick is in a precarious position.
With Leavine Family Racing's Scott Speed and Humphrey-Smith Motorsports' Mike Bliss both behind her in the 2012 owner standings, if those two drivers qualify in the top 36 Friday, Patrick also must qualify in the top 36 or she will miss the race.
Last week at Phoenix, both Speed and Bliss qualified in the top 36 while Patrick did not (she was 40th), although they all knew they would make the field.
Theoretically, a team could purchase the ride of a competitor if its driver misses the race. But with Patrick being a rookie, NASCAR would have to give her an exception to the rule that forbids another driver to qualify a car for a rookie to start the race.
While she has shown signs of potential at non-restrictor-plate Cup races, it typically has taken Patrick longer than other drivers to get up to speed. Part of that is inexperience in a Cup car, and part is inexperience in stock cars in general as Patrick began her transition from Indy cars in 2010 and has racing stock cars full time only since 2012.
"Things like being able to get up to speed quickly, knowing what I want in the car, how to push it to its limit and what its limit is, are things that are going to begin to be tested now," Patrick said last week at Phoenix. "That's something that you don't really face at Daytona."
Patrick and all the Sprint Cup teams will get a full day of testing Thursday to get accustomed to the new Sprint Cup car on the track.
"We know qualifying is something we have to work on (in) getting her up to speed quicker, and that's what we need to work on in the first part of the year," crew chief Tony Gibson said last week.
Patrick should have good vibes about Vegas. Although she started 37th and finished 36th in her first Nationwide race there in 2010, she started 22nd and finished fourth in 2011 for the best finish ever by a woman in a Nationwide Series event. She started 12th and finished 12th in the Nationwide race there last March.
Despite a wreck last week at Phoenix, Patrick is 23rd in the current owner standings, which will be used to determine provisionals starting next week. As long as she makes the field Sunday, she should be high enough in owner points that it would take a rare number of top drivers not to qualify in the top 36 for her to miss a race the rest of the season.
"It would have been nice to get these points (at Phoenix), especially off of our eighth (at Daytona) and then have a decent run in Vegas — then when they re-establish the pits and the garage area, we would have been in better shape," Patrick said after her wreck last week. "These points in the beginning of the year are so important."
Patrick also hated destroying a car.
"Obviously, Phoenix was tough all around. It was a bad finish, we took a hit in the points, and our car was destroyed," she said. "You always hate to destroy a car, but especially with the new ones, it really hurts the team because everyone is trying to build new cars as quickly as possible. So I really feel bad for all the guys because it's just more work for them. So, hopefully we'll have a better outing at Las Vegas."
Gibson is optimistic about Las Vegas. He says the team will focus on qualifying during the test Thursday.
"She likes Vegas, and I like Vegas. We've run well there in the past with (Ryan) Newman," Gibson said. "Our company has been real strong there the past two or three years. We have a test on Thursday, and we're going to focus a lot on qualifying trim on Thursday and even on Friday just to make sure we qualify better. That's what we think is our weak point.
"With these cars being aero-sensitive like they are, you have to focus on qualifying. I talked to Danica about it, and we're going to spend the second half of Thursday strictly on qualifying runs and then all of Friday on qualifying runs. We're going to try that approach and see if that benefits us. I think the more runs she makes, we can get the balance closer for her. That's our plan."
Patrick likes that plan and is excited about getting extra track time on Thursday.
"We've had good results in the Nationwide Series (there), and I think the test day on Thursday will be beneficial," she said. "Any track time at a place we race is helpful for me as the learning process continues. It gives us a chance to learn more about the car and helps Tony Gibson and I build a notebook. The more track time, the better."


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Don't know if Seattle likes Swift or Sene more. Either would make the trade work.
Ok, they may like it.. But why would we???
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Swift was just to make the trade work.
Would think that Ridnour would be a good fit for JOB's system. Ridnour is a good passer and shooter. Helps get away from Tinsley's contract and his Rucker Park attitude. Overall improves team chemistry.
I wouldn't mind getting Sam I Am, but he wants to go to a playoff team, which I think we would become if we got him, but his contract expires and isn't a long term building block... we would need to resign him this summer and/or draft a stud PG or sign one in FA (Yeah, I know: good luck on that one).
Cassell, if he has any power over anything, would not accept this trade. I have a feeling since he is a vet LAC would heed his will.
This trade would cause the Pacers to go over the luxury tax line. The way I see it, it would cost them $6.3 million.
Not viable.