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The new musical Kinky Boots, from four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein (book), Grammy Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper (Music & Lyrics), Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell (Director & Choreographer), will begin preview performances on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre (302 West 45th Street) on March 3 prior to an April 4 opening night.
Tony Award nominee Stark Sands (Journey's End; American Idiot) and Billy Porter (Angels in America; Smokey Joe's Café) lead a cast of thirty-two that also includes Annaleigh Ashford (Rent; Legally Blonde), Celina Carvajal (The Toxic Avenger), Daniel Sherman (Desire Under the Elms), Marcus Neville (The Full Monty), Paul Canaan (Legally Blonde), Kevin Smith Kirkwood (How to Save the World...), Kyle Taylor Parker (In the Heights National Tour), Kyle Post (Rent), Charlie Sutton (How To Succeed...), Joey Taranto (Rock of Ages), Andy Kelso (Mamma Mia), Tory Ross (Cry-Baby), Jennifer Perry (Mamma Mia), Adinah Alexander (The Wedding Singer), Eric Anderson (South Pacific), Eugene Barry-Hill (The Lion King), Stephen Berger (The Pajama Game), Caroline Bowman (Wicked), Sandra DeNise (Shrek the Musical National Tour), Eric Leviton (Seussical National Tour), Ellyn Marie Marsh (Priscilla Queen of the Desert), John Jeffrey Martin (Hairspray), Nathan Peck (La Cage aux Folles), Robert Pendilla (Wicked), Lucia Spina (South Pacific), Sebastian Hedges Thomas (Priscilla Queen of the Desert) and Timothy Ware (Dreamgirls).
Meet the cast with videos from past productions and roles!
Stark Sands in AMERICAN IDIOT
Stark Sands (Charlie Price). Stark Sands has appeared on Broadway in American Idiot and Journey's End (Tony Award nomination, Theatre World Award). Off-Broadway: Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park), The Tempest (Classic Stage Company, St. Clair Bayfield Award). Film includes Die, Mommie, Die!; Flags Of Our Fathers; Pretty Persuasion; Shall We Dance; Chasing Liberty; 11:14; Catch That Kid. Television includes "Generation Kill," "Nip/Tuck," "Six Feet Under." BFA: USC.
Billy Porter in GREASE
Billy Porter (Lola). Billy Porter's Broadway credits include Miss Saigon, Five Guys..., Grease, Smokey Joe's..., Dreamgirls. Off-Broadway/ Regional: Angels In America, Merchant of Venice, Radiant Baby, Birdie Blue, Songs For a New World, Ghetto Superstar (One-Man Show), Topdog/Underdog, King Lear, The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler. Film/ Television: The Broken Hearts Club, Shake Rattle & Roll, Noel, "Law & Order," "The Big C." Recording: Untitled, At The Corner Of Broadway & Soul.
Annaleigh Ashford performs from WICKED
Annaleigh Ashford (Lauren). Annaleigh Ashford has performed on Broadway in Hair (Jeannie), Wicked (Glinda); Legally Blonde - original cast (Margot). Off-Broadway: Dogfight (Marcy), RENT (Maureen). Chicago: Wicked (Glinda). Film: Sex & the City, Rachel Getting Married. TV: "Made In Jersey," "Masters of Sex," "Smash," "The Big C," "Nurse Jackie," "Law & Order," "Legally Blonde." Nominated for Drama League & Clive Barnes Awards for RENT. Graduate: Marymount Manhattan College.
Celina Carvajal in BEDBUGS!!!
Celina Carvajal (Nicola). Celina Carvajal's Broadway credits include Tarzan, Dracula, 42nd Street, Cats. Off-Broadway: The Toxic Avenger, Rooms (New World Stages), Radiant Baby (Public Theater), Empire (Spiegelworld). Other theatre: Prometheus Bound (ART), The Last Goodbye (WTF), Bedbugs!!! (NYMF Outstanding Actor Award). Film and TV credits include Sex And The City and "All My Children." Lead singer of the NY rock band The Deafening.
Marcus Neville in THE FULL MONTY
Marcus Neville (George). B'way: originated the role of Harold Nichols in The Full Monty (also London's West End), Li'l Abner, City of Angels (original company). Off-B'way: 20. Regional: 30. TV/Film: "The Good Wife," "Law & Order(s)," "Thanks For Sharing, By Clem!" Member Weston Playhouse Theatre Co, Weston, VT. Proud Member AEA.
Daniel Stewart Sherman (Don). Broadway: Desire Under the Elms, Cyrano De Bergerac, A Touch of the Poet, Henry IV, The Full Monty. Film: Mr. Popper's Penguins, Boy Wonder, The Taking of Pelham 123, Gigantic, Redacted, Capers, Pretty Bird, Wendigo. TV: "Gun Hill," "The Good Wife," "Mercy," "Justified," "Rubicon," "Life on Mars," "Law & Order." B.F.A. from N.C.S.A.
Paul Canaan (Angel/Ensemble/Asst. Dance Captain). Broadway: Legally Blonde, Miss Saigon, Thoroughly Modern Millie, La Cage Aux Folles and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Also, the MTV series "Legally Blonde: The Search For Elle Woods" where he served as a judge. Love to BDF, my besties, and fam!
Kevin Smith Kirkwood (Angel/Ensemble). Broadway: ...Spelling Bee. Off-Bway: It's Karate, Kid! The Musical (N.Y. IT Award nomination - Outstanding Lead Actor), Dial 'N' for Negress, How to Save the World... Tours: ...Spelling Bee (1st Nat.), Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar(Europe), Grease. Art is power!
Kyle Taylor Parker (Angel/Ensemble). Kyle is beyond thrilled and grateful to be pumping it up in Kinky Boots! National Tour: In the Heights. Regional : I Left My Heart..., Hair, Harlem. Kyle would like to thank God, family and friends for continued love and support!
Kyle Post (Angel/Ensemble). Broadway: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (OBC), RENT (closing cast). Regional:JC Superstar, Falsettoland, HAIR. Graduate of Baldwin-Wallace University. To everyone who's helped me be able to live a life beyond my wildest dreams... Thank you. www.kylepost.com
Charlie Sutton (Angel/Ensemble). Broadway: Lysistrata Jones, How To Succeed, Catch Me If You Can, Women On the Verge, The Addams Family, Crybaby, La Cage Aux Folles, Wicked. Encores!:Merrily We Roll Along, Pipe Dream, On The Town. Love to my Family, Parker and Mark.
Joey Taranto (Angel). Joey is ecstatic to be getting kinky with this amazing cast! Broadway: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Rock of Ages. Regional: RENT, Tommy, and more! Love to family, friends, Jerry, and Sam. For my sister, Jessica - my first audience.
Andy Kelso (Harry/Ensemble). Broadway: Mamma Mia! (Sky); National Tour: Wicked (Fiyero); Regional: RENT,Two Rooms, Jacques Brel..., The Drawer Boy. Film: The Producers. University of Northern Colorado. Proud member of AEA. Thanks to family, teachers, Sheila, and the Kinky team! www.andykelso.com
Tory Ross (Pat/Ensemble). Broadway: Cry-Baby (Hatchet-Face), 9 to 5 (Daphne). National tours: Wicked(Midwife), White Christmas (Mrs. Snoring-Man), Producers (Shirley Markowitz),Radio City Christmas Spectacular (Mrs Claus). Other: Jerry Springer the Opera(Carnegie Hall), Silence! (London), Producers movie, Sex & the City 2.
Jennifer Perry (Trish/Ensemble). Broadway: Rosie in Mamma Mia! Other credits: Mamma Mia! (Las Vegas),Nunsense, Idaho the Musical, Hairspray, The MUNY, Annie, Music Theater Wichita, Chicago, Riverside Theater, Blown Sideways Thru Life, ATF. Bistro Award Winner. TV: "The Big C," "True Blood," "Late Night with David Letterman."
Adinah Alexander (Mrs. Cobb/SM/Ensemble). Broadway: Original cast: Wicked, Wedding Singer, Parade, Urban Cowboy. Off-Broadway: Adding Machine, Two Rooms, Love Janis (Janis). TV: "Lights Out," "Nurse Jackie," "Law and Order." Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, McCarter, NSMT and more. Many national tours including Sound of Music.
Eric Anderson (Ensemble). Broadway: South Pacific at Lincoln Center (Stewpot). Off-Broadway: Soul Doctor,The Shlomo Musical at NY Theatre Workshop (Shlomo Carlebach). LA Premiere:The Wild Party (Burrs), Troubadour Theater Company member. Television: "The Good Wife," "Law & Order" and "Alias." www.eanderson.com.
EuGene Barry-Hill (Simon Sr./Ensemble). EuGene Barry-Hill appeared on Broadway in The Lion King. National Tours: The Pointer Sisters - Ain't Misbehavin' (Andre) Miss Saigon (John), Jesus Christ Superstar w/ Carl Anderson. Off-Broadway: The Magdelene (Pilatus). All my love to Timothy and my family.
Stephen Berger (Mr. Price/Ensemble). Seven Broadway shows including The Pajama Game. Seven Off-Broadway shows including Desperate Writers. Three national tours and a zillion regional and stock productions. Proud member of AEA since 1976 and proud husband of actress Jan Leigh Herndon since 1997!
Caroline Bowman (Ensemble). Broadway: Wicked. Tours: Spamalot (Lady of the Lake). Penn State: BFA Musical Theatre. Endless love and thanks to Mom, Dad, Bobby and the rest of her family and friends. Soffer/Namoff Ent: Thank you for changing my life. God is good!www.CarolineBowman.net
Sandra DeNise (Swing). First National Equity OTC's of Parade, Saturday Night Fever, Hairspray (Penny),Jersey Boys, and Shrek. Also RENT (2nd Nat'l) and Happy Days. Film/TV: "That 70's Show," "ER," "Gilmore Girls," and "Georgia Rule." Love and gratitude to Dad and Jenny. For Mom.
Eric Leviton (Ensemble). National tours: Chicago, The Full Monty, Seussical the Musical with Cathy Rigby, & Damn Yankees with Jerry Lewis. TV: "Blue Bloods," "Law & Order," "Desperate Housewives," "Scrubs," and others. Host of podcast, "How We Talk About Sex" (available on iTunes).
Ellyn Marie Marsh (Ensemble). I only have 40 words to say everything I want! Shoot, now only 30. Thank you to this hilarious and talented cast and creative team. Everything made possible by my husband Travas and daughter Lola. Thanks: Telsey & Company. Twitter: @ellynmarsh
John Jeffrey Martin (Richard Bailey/Ensemble). Troy Bolton in the national tour of Disney's High School Musical. Broadway:Rocky Horror Show, Hairspray, Good Vibrations. Regional: Ren (Footloose), The Cape Playhouse/NSMT, Kenickie (Grease), Papermill Playhouse. A songwriter and painter. johnjeffreymartin.com
Nathan Peck (Dance Captain/Swing). Nathan Peck is happy to be working with Jerry Mitchell again on this amazing project. Broadway: Wicked, La Cage aux Folles (2004, Dance Captain), The Boy from Oz, Taboo, Dance of the Vampires (Asst. Dance Captain). Tour/Regional:Wicked (2nd Natl. & Chicago), Footloose (1st Natl.)
Robert Pendilla (Swing). Broadway/National Tours: Wicked (Swing/Boq u/s), Mamma Mia! (Pepper). Regional: Flower Drum Song, Mame, My Fair Lady, Aida, Dorian, Aladdin. Love to you, Mom, Dad, Bro (Mario) and everyone at The Mine. Album available on iTunes.
Lucia Spina (Swing). Broadway: Legally Blonde (Enid), ...Spelling Bee (Rona), Les Miserables, South Pacific. Off-Broadway: Silence! The Musical (Catherine Martin, original cast),Fugitive Songs (original cast). Chicago: ...Spelling Bee (Rona), The Full Monty(Vicki), Lucky Stiff (Rita LaPorta). Graduate North Central College.
SEBASTIAN HEDGES THOMAS (Young Charlie Standby). Sebastian is so excited to be a part of the Kinky Boots cast! Broadway: Priscilla Queen of the Desert as Benji. National Tour: Beauty and the Beast as Chip. Thanks to Lesley, John, Marcia and especially Mom, Dad, and Satchel.


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Chances are your web browser is open all day, every day. Whether it's Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Chrome or Safari, the browser is the single most important piece of software most of us use. Given its central place in our lives, some history seems in order. If you've ever stopped browsing long enough to wonder why Safari is named Safari or where in the world the word "Mozilla" comes from, we have some answers for you.
Martin Beeby, a developer evangelist at Microsoft, has put together a nice little history of web browser names. Some are obvious — Internet Explorer came about because it was "a name that gave people a clear idea of what the product did" — some are less so, like Opera, which was apparently chosen because, among other things, "the Opera is fun."
With the exception of Opera and IE, none of Beeby's name origin stories come directly from the companies behind the browsers, so take all of these with a grain of salt. For instance, no one seems to know the exact origins of "Safari", though the Beach Boys' album seems like a reasonable guess — surfing the web, Surfin' Safari… get it? The WebKit blog is named Surfin' Safari, which might lend some credence to that story, but the name also nicely ties in with the notion of exploring the wild and connotes some of the same images as "explorer" and "navigator".
Perhaps the least obvious name in the bunch is Firefox's parent company Mozilla. Beeby cites a well-known story that the name that was derived by combining the words that were its original goal — "Mosaic Killer." Webmonkey has heard another version of that story that claims the word "Godzilla" was the inspiration for "Mozilla," a Godzilla-like force that would destroy Mosaic.
Beeby doesn't offer any stories for less well-known browsers, like Konqueror, which, as the story goes, was going to "conquer" what IE and Netscape had "explored" and "navigated" respectively. The allusion didn't really pan out, but, when Apple came along and ported KHTML to form WebKit, the developers did name their early efforts after a famous conqueror — Alexander.
For more details, and to learn where the names Firefox and Chrome come from, be sure to read through Beeby's post.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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THE SAMUEL GOLDWYN THEATER, HOLLYWOOD — The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced its nominations for the 2011 Oscars this morning, and most of the major predicted contenders ended up on the finals list, with Hugo leading the pack with 11 and The Artist a close second with10 nominations.
Among the nominees with gay-interest are The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for best actress Rooney Mara as a bisexual hacker, Midnight in Paris for Woody Allen and Beginners (supporting actor nominee Christopher Plummer seems a lock to win).
Some surprises included a best picture nomination for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Demian Bichir for A Better Life and to a lesser extent Nick Nolte in Warrior and Melissa McCarthy in Bridesmaids, which also got a best screenplay nod. Other surprises were among the omissions, including no noms for Shame or The Descendants' Shailene Woodley.
Here are the nominees in the major categories.
Picture: The Artist; The Descendants; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; The Help; Hugo; Midnight in Paris; Moneyball; The Tree of Life; War Horse.
Director: Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist; Alexander Payne, The Descendants; Martin Scorsese, Hugo; Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris; Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life.
Actor: Demian Bichir, A Better Life; George Clooney, The Descendants; Jean Dujardin, The Artist; Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; Brad Pitt, Moneyball.
Actress: Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs; Viola Davis, The Help; Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady; Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn.
Supporting Actor: Kenneth Branagh, My Week with Marilyn; Jonah Hill, Moneyball; Nick Nolte, Warrior; Christopher Plummer, Beginners; Max von Sydow, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
Supporting Actress: Berenice Bejo, The Artist; Jessica Chastain, The Help; Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids; Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs; Octavia Spencer, The Help.


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Quentin's Cactus League debut cut short by rain
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- It was a very brief Cactus League debut for Padres outfielder Carlos Quentin on Friday, as he had two plate appearances before rain canceled the game after three innings.
Quentin, starting as the designated hitter against the White Sox, was hit by a pitch in the first inning and later lined out to center field in a game played at Camelback Ranch.
"Strong, barrel contact on the sweet spot," Quentin said.
Quentin, who had minor surgery on his right knee in October, has been brought along slowly this spring, though he has been able to participate in nearly every drill. With a longer Spring Training, the team saw no need to rush him into games in February.
He would have liked to have gotten a few more at-bats Friday, but this was a start, he said.
"It was good, got some adrenaline going, there were butterflies," he said. "[I'm] just kind of getting going. I tracked some pitches, I hit my pitch."
San Diego manager Bud Black said last week that it's possible that Quentin, who will start in left field, could get upwards of 60 at-bats before Opening Day on April 1.
Quentin will likely play every other day for a while, getting time in left field and also getting starts as the designated hitter.
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Keep track of @FollowThePadres on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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ALL-ROUND strength by Acomb dented the York & District Senior Cricket League division one promotion hopes of Bridlington.
Acomb posted 232-5, which proved considerably superior to Bridlington's unimpressive 91 all out.
Four Acomb batsmen made similar scores with Joe Dale's unbeaten 46 being marginally the best.
He was closely followed by Paul Hemingway's 44, Andy Tute's 43 and Matt Dale's 37 as Acomb (30) beat Bridlington by 141 runs.
Simon Leeson took 4-43 for the Seasiders, then Andy Leeson made 28no when his side replied. But Mark Bell's 3-30 played a good part in bowling Brid out.
Pickering travelled to Malton for a derby and emerged with a comfortable eight-wicket win.
Malton were rolled over for only 89 as Tim Whincup took 4-12 in seven overs and Mike Brown 3-25.
Chris Nicholls (37) and Dave Greenlay (33) were the only two wickets to fall in the second innings but their contributions were decisive.
Struggling Selby claimed a valuable 27 points when they had the better of a draw at Bolton Percy.
Matt Clarke hit an unbeaten 77 and Lee Wild 56 as Selby reached 205-8. Andrew Brewster took 4-55 then saw team-mates Buddhi Mirando make 28 and Joe White 32. But Mike Smales claimed 4-31 as Bolton hung on to draw at 169-9 and bag 12 points.
The clash between the top two ended in a draw with leaders Heworth taking 26 points and Sessay 19.
Neil Johnson was Heworth's top scorer with 52 and he had good support from Steve Baxter 31 and Rich Walton, who struck 29 of the 194 total. Matt Till took 3-30.
After the break Jamie Spencer made 28 and Tim Hall 58, but Sessay were reduced to 176-9 as three Heworth bowlers each grabbed a trio of victims.
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ARLINGTON, TEXAS—Fifteen minutes into Florida Gulf Coast's Sweet 16 game against Florida, Cowboys Stadium was the perfect venue for the Eagles.
This behemoth of a building was the only stadium in the country capable of containing the growing legend of the team that claims to hail from Dunk City. The Eagles had a 10-point lead on the third-seeded Florida Gators, and they were following the fun-loving blueprint that had lifted them past Georgetown and San Diego State.
"It was a little surprising that we were able to jump on them that much," said senior Eddie Murray, who had a dunk during the quick start. "They're an amazing defensive team, and the fact that we were able to get some easy buckets and were really hitting shots early on—and it didn't hurt that they couldn't get anything to go."
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There were highlight-reel dunks—especially the alley-oop from Brett Comer to Sherwood Brown—and there were fastbreak layups and there were no-fear 3-pointers knocked down without regard for the actual location of the 3-point arc. The crowd, which was still amped from the crazy overtime finish to the Michigan-Kansas game, was fully behind the 15th-seeded upstarts playing with Texas-sized confidence.
"We were playing team ball, moving the ball around and getting open shots for one another," Bernard Thompson said. "We were playing great defense, and that kinda led to our offense because we were able to get into transition some."
And then, Florida took control of the game, winning 62-50 to advance to the Elite Eight for the third straight season.
"We wanted this. We've been waiting for four days, preparing for this game," Florida big man Patric Young said. "We've heard so much about this game, and finally we get there and it's game time and we just got a little nervous when it started off."
The Gators started dominating on the glass. They forced turnovers. They finally scored on a somewhat regular basis, and they closed the first half on a 16-2 run to grab a 30-26 halftime lead. In those first 20 minutes, the Gators had 10 offensive rebounds, 11 second-chance points and 11 points off 12 FGC turnovers.
"Our energy fell off a bit and that's when they started making their run," Murray said. "We couldn't get our energy going again, and that's what we kind of run off around here."
Florida extended its lead to a dozen points with 7:25 left in the second half, but the Eagles wouldn't allow their dream to expire quietly. Chase Fieler followed a Brown missed layup with a powerful follow dunk—what else, right?—to trim the Gators' lead to seven points, and they still trailed by seven after a jumper from Brown with 2:56 left in the game.
At that point, it was understandable for Florida fans to get nervous. The Gators haven't exactly been good in close-and-late situations; they're 28-1 in games decided by 10 points or more and 0-6 in games decided by fewer than 10 points.
This time, though, Florida held on.
It seems fitting that FGC's final points of this unforgettable run—the Eagles were the first 15 seed ever to reach the Sweet 16—came on a dunk, courtesy of Fieler, with a dozen seconds left in the game. Aside from another victory or two, the storybook run couldn't have finished any other way.
"It was great for me to see the excitement across the country with the underdog," Florida Gulf Coast coach Andy Enfield said. "And it's a surreal feeling when you're the underdog and you're the talk of the nation."
They might not be the talk of the nation in a day or two, but their run will live forever in the annals of March history. That's the way the NCAA Tournament works.


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As his career comes to a close, the lack of playing time stings but is soothed by one fact.
Dion LeCorn signed with South Carolina to play for a championship. The Gamecocks went to Florida on Nov. 13 and won one, although the next championship try didn't turn out nearly as nice.
"Coming in, I was like, 'We've got to win us a championship sometime,'" LeCorn said the week before the game. "This is it, right here."
A career that started with such promise has turned into a player trying to re-discover that lost road to stardom. Injuries and switches between offense and defense shifted LeCorn off the path; he has been trying to find it since.
LeCorn still looked fit and trim, his undershirt peeled off a cobblestone street of abdominal muscles, and the 22-year-old was winded but still bright-eyed. One had to really know the litany of medical ailments, most of them frightening, to really appreciate how comfortable LeCorn looked.
A broken leg on the last play of the 2009 Garnet & Black Spring Game cost him valuable conditioning time, just when he had made the switch back to receiver. He returned in the second game of the 2009 season, only to break an ankle in the seventh game and be lost for the rest of the year.
As he was recovering from that, he lacerated his kidney during 2010 spring drills and again missed a lot of time, time that he wanted to spend turning himself into the Gamecocks' best slot receiver. LeCorn knew that USC was stocked with high-jumping sideline streakers but needed a go-to short-route guy following Moe Brown's departure; he wanted to be that guy.
This year, the position was taken by Ace Sanders at first, then by Tori Gurley and/or D.L. Moore. LeCorn recognized early that he probably wouldn't be called on, so he asked to switch back to defense for a second time.
He is a backup safety and spur, and is ready to go if need be. LeCorn has played on special teams and has recorded just one tackle this year, but has played in 12 of the No. 19 Gamecocks' 13 games.
"It's always good, being a part of a big-time program," he said. "Especially through the years, when you can contribute to a big-time program. It makes you feel good."
A quiet first four games of his career became two catches for 12 yards in his fifth, against Mississippi State in 2007. He caught his first touchdown two games later at North Carolina, then entrenched himself with 109 yards and a TD against Arkansas.
Twenty-seven grabs for 315 yards and three TDs earned LeCorn a freshman All-SEC selection from The Sporting News and he began 2008 with a touchdown in the season-opener. But as USC became dependent on Kenny McKinley, Brown, Jason Barnes and Jared Cook for its passing game, LeCorn became less and less of an option.
He switched to defensive back, hoping to get on the field a bit more, and responded with six tackles over the final six games of 2008. LeCorn discussed moving back to receiver over the offseason, was given permission, then began his list of maladies.
With one season left, LeCorn recovered, began the season at receiver and then moved to defensive back. He never got significant time during 2010, but played in all but one game.
"If they need me, I'm ready," he said.
LeCorn isn't taking it easy on his repaired body, pushing himself to its limits and sometimes beyond. There is no other way to win a spot on the field.
And truly get back to where he was.
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Are Early Extensions Still Club Friendly?
It's not always easy finding something to say about a fresh new contract extension. Most of them appear to be basically club-friendly, and follow a template set by previous players. Furthermore, they generally cover so much time that it's even more impossible than usual to predict just what the player is likely to do that far out, and just what the team is likely to need that far out. Shoot, a lot of times they don't even kick in until a time far enough into the future that our predictive powers go poof.
But we're a few years into the extension era, and a lot of these moves are starting to have actual histories to judge. At the very least, we can look at the extensions signed two years ago and decide anew whether the teams should be happy or disappointed with the extensions they've signed. We can see whether these turn out as universally club-friendly as I tend to expect.
From Nov. 30, 2010 through the end of 2011, nearly 30 pre-free agency players signed extensions that bought out free agency years. Fourteen of those players were signed at least three years before their teams had to act—players with three or fewer years of service time, or players who had already signed extensions that were at least three years from culminating. In each case, the team forfeited their right to wait and see in exchange for future cost certainty and, presumably, a discount. Let's look at the 14.
Troy Tulowitzki: Seven years, $134 million, signed three years before his previous deal expired.
Jay Bruce: Six years, $51 million, with a club option, signed four years before free agency.
Carlos Gonzalez: Seven years, $80 million, signed four years before free agency.
Johnny Cueto: Four years, $27 million, with a club option. Signed three years before free agency.
Billy Butler: Four years, $30 million plus a club option, signed three years before free agency.
Alexei Ramirez: Four years, $32.5 million plus a club option, signed three years before free agency. (He signed two contract years before free agency, as he had previously agreed to a one-year deal for 2011.)
Wade Davis: Four years, $10.1 million with three team options, signed five years before free agency.
Clay Buchholz: Four years, $29.9 million plus two options, signed four years before free agency.
Trevor Cahill: Four years, $30.5 million, plus two options, signed four years before free agency.
Ryan Braun: Five years, $105 million, signed five years before his previous deal expired.
Jaime Garcia: Four years, $27.5 million, plus two options, signed four years before free agency.
Jose Tabata: Six years, $15 million, plus three options, signed four-plus years before free agency.
Sergio Santos: Three years, $8.2 million, plus three options, signed four years before free agency.
Matt Moore: Five years, $14 million, plus three options, signed six years before free agency.
So that's 14 extensions, six or seven of which I figure still look great and seven or eight that are either on the fence or outright bad contracts. Other than the Braun deal—an outlier in all respects—the downside of the bad ones has been light, a few million bucks here and there, while some of the successes have shown a ton of upside. Excepting the Braun deal, then, we can conclude that these sorts of deals are as variable as any other but skew to the club's benefit.
During the same time period, a bunch of teams signed players to extensions closer to their free agencies, extensions that are still in effect. Somewhat counterintuitively, these contracts collectively look less attractive today, though some are bargains: Dan Uggla, Ricky Nolasco, Chad Billingsley, Carlos Marmol, Rickie Weeks, Jose Bautista, Adrian Gonzalez, Yunel Escobar, Jered Weaver, Matt Kemp, and John Danks. So, based on this particular 13-month period, we might conclude this: clubs are indeed smart to leverage their superior negotiating position before players have made their first fortune, and these sorts of early extensions are as club-friendly as we all thought—if not automatic wins. We might also conclude that, once clubs lose that leverage, they should be hesitant about giving up their right to wait. Without a clear discount at play, clubs are better off waiting.
Sam Miller is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @SamMillerBB
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Aug 02, 2013 03:16 AM
I believe fraud in the inducement may apply. Faulty stats bolstered by PEDs maybe?
Aug 02, 2013 09:01 AM
Pat Folz
Honestly, what are the odds that teams don't know, or at least have a very good idea about, what PED users are taking? 10%?
Aug 02, 2013 09:50 AM
No. The CBA is clear about punishment for drug-related acts, and Braun has been punished. Any effort by the club to void the contract would result in a lawsuit and potentially a work stoppage, and of course, Braun on the open market next season would get a fat contract because he's a great baseball player.
Aug 02, 2013 11:48 AM
Interesting analysis. I liked what you did with the contracts you evaluated. It felt like you rushed through the second half of the analysis (players closer to free agency). Has that portion been covered in a separate article? If so, could you add a hyperlink?
Aug 02, 2013 06:28 AM
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Is this baseball prospectus or espn.com. Are you Buster Onley?
Aug 02, 2013 08:22 AM
Pat Folz
Thanks for doing this analysis, even though they're generally very good bargains, fewer of these deals were clear wins than I'd have thought.
Aug 02, 2013 09:52 AM
Hoping a Braves Exec reads this. Seems like every day an extension isn't reached with Heyward/Freeman/Simmons/Kimbrel/Minor is a day wasted.
Aug 02, 2013 10:08 AM
Wouldn't Longoria's first extension fall into this category?
Aug 02, 2013 11:26 AM
I would have liked to see a bit more of the value of team options considered. For example the Buckholtz deal is a good one for the Red Sox because of these options. If he's consistently hurt between now and the options, they don't exercise them. If he's consistently good, they've got a bargain contract. So even to the extent that the club is "overpaying" relative to what he'd be getting in arbitration this year, the option to "underpay" him for several years in the future (and potentially to underpay him by far more than they are "overpaying" him now) strikes me as extremely valuable, particularly in a game where free agency is less and less a bonanza.
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An indicator of the incoming House Republican majority's seriousness about cutting spending will be which members the party selects to head the various committees.
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Disability Benefits Unsustainable
The disability insurance component of Social Security was created in 1956 to provide income support to individuals aged 50 to 64 who were permanently disabled. As is typical with government programs, eligibility and benefits were greatly expanded over the subsequent decades.
Obama Adopts Cato Pay Proposal
The Obama administration is supporting a two-year freeze on federal pay. I haven't seen the details yet, but this appears to be a good start at getting excessive government pay under control.
High-Speed Federalism Fight
In October, I speculated that the upcoming elections could be the nail in the coffin for the Obama administration's plan for a nationwide system of high-speed rail. Indeed, some notable gubernatorial candidates who ran, in part, on opposition to federal subsidies for HSR in their states proceeded to win. However, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood made it clear in a recent speech to HSR supporters that the administration intends to push ahead.
$125 Billion in Improper Payments
The Office of Management and Budget was recently pleased to announce that the rate of improper payments made by federal agencies decreased from 5.65 percent to 5.49 percent last year. There's just one problem: the total price tag increased by $15 billion to $125 billion.
Plan to Balance the Federal Budget
Chris Edwards has released a Plan to Cut Federal Spending and Balance the Federal Budget.
Earmark Ban is Only Round One
The ban on spending earmarks adopted this past week by Republicans in the House and Senate represents a Round One victory for the tea party over a GOP establishment that took pork-barrel spending to a new high (or perhaps low) during the Bush years. Congressional Democrats – still reeling from their electoral pummeling – are about to find themselves largely alone in maintaining a practice that represents corruptive policymaking at its worst.
Happy National Entrepreneurs' Day?
President Obama has proclaimed today to be National Entrepreneurs' Day. The president who has brought us regime uncertainty, more regulations, more government intrusion into the economy, more debt, and is proposing to raise taxes on productive businesses and individuals wants to celebrate entrepreneurship?
Corruption Hits HOME
Benjamin Franklin wrote that "in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." Were he alive today, Franklin might add to the list corruption in federal housing programs.
The Case for Privatizing Transit
A new policy analysis from Randal O'Toole eviscerates the "one industry [that] has unquestionably been socialistic for decades: urban transit."


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Should Jackson be Starting?
Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2004
Conrad Brunner
Q. I'm sure my question is much easier to ask than it is to answer, but it really is the question on nearly every Pacers fan's mind in my neck of the woods (there are so few of us in L.A.), so here goes:
The triple offensive threat of (Jermaine) O'Neal, (Ron) Artest and (Stephen) Jackson all on the floor at the same time is an exciting proposition for any Pacers fan. Based on their performances so far in camp and in the first few preseason games, will Jackson be seriously considered to replace (Reggie) Miller in the starting lineup?
While I'm at it, here's a follow up: Would a reduction in Miller's role on the floor hurt his role as a team leader, and therefore hurt the team's chemistry? (From Kent in Venice, CA)
A. The more Pacers fans see of Stephen Jackson, the more this question comes up. It seems the newest acquisition has opened quite a few eyes as to his all-around abilities. It was fairly well known that Jackson was a solid threat from the perimeter and off the dribble, but even Coach Rick Carlisle has been surprised by his ability to get things done from the low post. That doesn't mean, however, the team would be better off with Jackson starting and Miller coming off the bench.
With the second unit, Jackson is the go-to guy. The offense can run through him, which in fact offers him more scoring opportunities than he'd likely get with the first unit, which runs through O'Neal and Artest. In Tuesday night's game, for example, Jackson took over in the second half after O'Neal had left the game with a back injury, and when it was obvious Artest was struggling.
As the team is presently constructed, chemistry would be best served by the status quo. Miller has been a starter for 16 seasons. It's a role he has earned and in which he is the most comfortable and productive. Jackson is perfectly willing to come off the bench. He's done it before and done it well. It's also important to understand that, though O'Neal, Artest and Jackson aren't on the floor together at the start of a game, that doesn't mean they won't be on the floor together at the finish, as needed. If Miller is happy, Jackson is happy and the team is thriving, there is no need to fix what isn't broken.


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Slater rolls at Quik Pro
If there's one heat during the ASP World Tour season that means everything while at the same time meaning nothing, it would be the first heat of the first event. Enter round one of the Quiksilver Pro Australia.
It's only been three months since last we saw the world's elite surfers compete, a brief offseason when compared to other professional sports, but the beginning of another season is a chance to start fresh, to begin anew. It's a clean slate, and pundits, critics, fans, and sponsors are all keenly tuned in to how the guys are looking in the water.
"It's a new year and everyone is excited to be here," noted John John Florence, who most people have pegged to be a world title contender this year. "I've had a pretty good off season. It was short, but I was able to do some different things like travel to New York and recharge and get ready for the year."
But, as most of the top 34 surfers will attest, it's only one heat, and a loss in round one simply translates into being relegated to round two while the winner moves on to round three. Besides making a statement like Matty Wilkinson did when he crushed defending world champ Joel Parkinson, there's little consequence for stumbling out of the gates. Parkinson will now face local wildcard Brent Dorrington.
"It feels good to post a win over someone like Joel," Wilkinson said in his post-heat interview. "He obviously knows the banks here better than everyone, but I feel like I've been surfing well the last couple years -- things just haven't been going my way."
One person that's never stumbled out of the gates and would probably dispute the assertion that round one at the Quik Pro doesn't mean much is Kelly Slater. Boasting a perfect record, the 11-time world champ's never lost his opening heat at Snapper Rocks. That almost changed this time around when he found himself pitted against Kolohe Andino and Dane Reynolds. On paper it was easily the most exciting heat of the day. Andino held firm to the lead in the dying minutes of the heat, but as we've learned time and again, Slater has a penchant for the impossible. Locking in a late nine-point ride he kept his round one record flawless and advanced on.
"It's really about picking the waves out there, and Kolohe was picking the good ones ... They don't have to be the big ones, but they have to double up and bend back down the bar," told Slater afterwards.
Other perceived title contenders to win their heats were Florence, Mick Fanning and Gabriel Medina. And while Florence and Fanning breezed through, Medina hurt his left ankle halfway through the heat, causing him to return to the beach to get it checked out. Undeterred, he paddled back out, dropped a 9.5 and won the heat before heading off to a local hospital to get it checked out. There's no report yet on the severity of his injury or if it will hamper the rest of his run at the Quik Pro.
Heat 1: Bede Durbidge (AUS) 14.50, Raoni Monteiro (BRA) 12.70, Taj Burrow (AUS) 11.94
Heat 2: Travis Logie (ZAF) 18.20, Adriano de Souza (BRA) 17.10, Dusty Payne (HAW) 12.07
Heat 3: John John Florence (HAW) 15.00, Kai Otton (AUS) 14.80, Patrick Gudauskas (USA) 12.40
Heat 4: Mick Fanning (AUS) 17.24, Willian Cardoso (BRA) 14.57, Sebastian Zietz (HAW) 12.10
Heat 5: Kelly Slater (USA) 16.04, Kolohe Andino (USA) 15.73, Dane Reynolds (USA) 12.34
Heat 6: Matt Wilkinson (AUS) 17.76, Joel Parkinson (AUS) 17.73, Brent Dorrington (AUS) 15.37
Heat 7: Gabriel Medina (BRA) 15.67, Kieren Perrow (AUS) 14.97, Tiago Pires (PRT) 13.20
Heat 8: Alejo Muniz (BRA) 15.60, Nat Young (USA) 11.90, Josh Kerr (AUS) 10.13
Heat 9: Julian Wilson (AUS) 12.15, Adam Melling (AUS) 11.63, Damien Hobgood (USA) 11.40
Heat 10: Michel Bourez (PYF) 16.43, Owen Wright (AUS) 15.67, Filipe Toledo (BRA) 14.50
Heat 11: Brett Simpson (USA) 15.13, Jeremy Flores (FRA) 14.76, Adrian Buchan (AUS) 13.23
Heat 12: Jordy Smith (ZAF) 17.93, C.J. Hobgood (USA) 16.63, Glenn Hall (IRL) 15.07
Heat 1: Joel Parkinson (AUS) vs. Brent Dorrington (AUS)
Heat 2: Adriano de Souza (BRA) vs. Dane Reynolds (USA)
Heat 3: Taj Burrow (AUS) vs. Willian Cardoso (BRA)
Heat 4: Josh Kerr (AUS) vs. Patrick Gudauskas (USA)
Heat 5: Owen Wright (AUS) vs. Dusty Payne (HAW)
Heat 6: Jeremy Flores (FRA) vs. Raoni Monteiro (BRA)
Heat 7: C.J. Hobgood (USA) vs. Tiago Pires (PRT)
Heat 8: Adrian Buchan (AUS) vs. Nat Young (USA)
Heat 9: Damien Hobgood (USA) vs. Adam Melling (AUS)
Heat 10: Kieren Perrow (AUS) vs. Filipe Toledo (BRA)
Heat 11: Kai Otton (AUS) vs. Glenn Hall (IRL)
Heat 12: Sebastian Zietz (HAW) vs. Kolohe Andino (USA)
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Kate Hudson
Following in the footsteps of her Oscar-winning mom, Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson was Oscar-nominated for her role in Almost Famous and has enjoyed enough subsequent success in films like The Skeleton Key and You, Me, and Dupree to dispel any suggestions that she's only a one-hit wonder. While her biggest hits have appealed primarily to the female demographic (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days isn't the manliest of movies), Kate Hudson's perky nature and ample cuteness make her consistently watchable. Now with the help of Daniel Day-Lewis and Nicole Kidman, she's poised to break out again and return to almost-Oscar form.
AppealLike her famous mom, Kate Hudson brings an aura of happiness and earthy sexiness to her performances, which makes her a popular with audience members of both genders. Women can relate to her because her personality feels real and men like her because she's naturally beautiful. It extends to the media where Maxim, Stuff and People have all recognized her hotness, as well. Genes play a part in her beauty, but Kate Hudson also credits her interest in pole dancing for helping her stay in shape. While we're not so sure about her devoted interest in reality television, we still adore her, poles and all.
Kate Hudson and her Almost Famous character Penny Lane also have a few things in common, starting with the fact that they both chased rock stars, only to have things end badly. The same year that the film was released, Kate Hudson met and married Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes, but they would be divorced seven years later. Since then, she's traded rock stars for baseball stars and entered into a relationship with Yankees star, Alex Rodriguez. Word on the street is that A-Rod's numbers have increased since their relationship went public. Yours would too if you had Kate Hudson as part of your cheering section.
In 2016, Kate earned a spot on AskMen's Crush List.
SuccessAs rock "band-aid" Penny Lane in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous, Kate Hudson gave garage bands more reasons to strive for success and reminded everyone else why the 1970s have never gone out of style. Once concerned that her famous momma, Goldie Hawn, might impede her from developing her own honest acting career, Kate Hudson now stands firmly as her own person from hits like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Skeleton Key and Bride Wars. Her upcoming roles in Nine and The Killer Inside Me will also go a long way toward establishing her as an actress who can play serious just as well as she can play funny.
From an awards standpoint, Kate Hudson hasn't repeated the Oscar-nominated success of her breakout role in Almost Famous, but she always looks like she's having a good time in her movies. Her endearing ways make audiences happy to see her, but interestingly enough, Kate Hudson actually loathes watching herself in movies. When she's forced to observe, she's been known to sweat and get the shakes, but so far her anxiety is only restricted to her shaky seat and not her performances.
Kate Hudson BiographyThe divorce of Kate Hudson's parents a few months before her second birthday meant that she got to spend her childhood with an Oscar winner for a mom and an action hero as a step-dad. Naturally, she wanted to follow in their footsteps, but Goldie Hawn discouraged entering the industry right away, out of concern for her daughter's well being. Instead, Kate Hudson kept her artistic ambitions inside the class room through dance instruction and acting at the Santa Monica Playhouse. One of her early highlights was winning a school talent show by energetically bopping to the sounds of Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation."
Kate Hudson's enthusiasm for performing finally got the better of her mom when she was allowed to audition for a show featuring Howie Mandel. She won the part, but Goldie Hawn turned it down without telling her, but ultimately encouraged her daughter to take non-acting jobs on her movie sets. As such, she often helped the crew with make-up and costuming for films like Overboard (which starred both Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell), but still secretly hoped for a future in front of the camera.
kate hudson stars in almost famous and how to lose a guy in 10 daysAfter graduating from Crossroads Performing Arts High School and a busy summer performing in the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Kate Hudson made her television debut as Cory on 1996 episode of Jennifer Love Hewitt's launching pad, Party of Five. Kate Hudson's confidence that she could make it in the industry led her to shun an invitation to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and after playing a klutz on a horrible New Year's date in 1998's 200 Cigarettes, she landed a small role as Patrick Fugit's sister in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous. When Sarah Polley dropped out of the lead female role of the free-living, musician-chasing Penny Lane, Kate Hudson stepped into the part and walked away with an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Before the year was out, she would make two other films, the dark teen drama Gossip with James Marsden and Joshua Jackson and Dr. T and the Women with Richard Gere and Helen Hunt.
The warm reception by critics to her performance in Almost Famous caused a lot of scripts to be sent her way -- including some like Spider-Man that she turned down. Instead of going the comic book route, she hit her stride in romantic comedies, with her biggest hit coming from 2003's How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, in which she played a journalist matching bets and sharing beds with Matthew McConaughey. Alex & Emma was also a female-friendly date movie but gave her the added challenge of playing five roles opposite her co-star, Luke Wilson. In 2005, Kate Hudson top-lined her first horror hit, The Skeleton Key, as a nurse spooked by the happenings inside a New Orleans house. Making her performance even more impressive was the fact that she shed 60 post-pregnancy pounds in a mere 12 weeks to do the role.
kate hudson stars in bride wars and nineNow recognized by the movie industry as Kate Hudson and not just Goldie Hawn's daughter, Kate Hudson continues to find success in films that are lighter in nature. She teamed up with Matt Dillon and Owen Wilson for the 2006 summer hit, You, Me and Dupree. Though Owen Wilson played an obnoxious houseguest in the film, he wasn't unwelcome in Kate Hudson's life, and the two enjoyed a romance as a result of working together. Her next two films, Fool's Gold and My Best Friend's Girl, earned her a dubious Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress, but the former film proved to be an audience favorite, no doubt due to her reunion with Matthew McConaughey.
Unfazed by her Razzie nomination, Kate Hudson fought it out on the big screen with fellow beauty Anne Hathaway in Bride Wars before moving on to surefire Oscar fare with the musical drama Nine alongside screen legend Sophia Loren and acting all-stars Nicole Kidman and Daniel Day-Lewis. Kate Hudson will continue her genre-hopping as real-life painter Margaret Keane in Big Eyes and the wife of lawman-turned-murderer with Casey Affleck in The Killer Inside Me.
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Nicollette Sheridan has filed a suit against her former employer, Marc Cherry, claiming he physically abused her on the set of the hit TV show.
In the lawsuit obtained by Usmagazine.com and filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Sheridan, 46, alleges assault and battery, gender violence and wrongful termination. She is asking for $20 million in damages.
Sheridan claims that during a dispute over the script on September 24, 2008, Cherry, "took her aside and forcefully hit her with his hand across her face and head."
The suit asserts that Sheridan, who played sexy Edie Britt for nearly 5 years, reported the incident to ABC and the network did nothing to halt Cherry's "extremely abusive and aggressive manner toward the individuals who work on the show." The suit also contends that when Cherry discovered Teri Hatcher had complained to ABC about him as well, he said, "I hope Teri Hatcher gets hit by a car and dies."
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A rep for ABC Studios tells Us, "While we have yet to see the actual complaint, we investigated similar claims made by Ms. Sheridan last year and found them to be without merit."


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BOSTON ( TheStreet) -- Do Americans prefer lovemaking in the living room or getting frisky in the foyer? Property-listing site Movoto.com, which specializes in applying real research methods to offbeat housing topics, recently polled some 300 people to ask: "Where is the best place to have sex in a house?" "We were throwing out ideas of what kind of surveys we wanted to do and we realized this was the kind of thing that you'd want to talk about if you were going to a dinner party," Movoto's Chris Kolmar says. The site surveyed 345 Americans via Amazon's Mechanical Turk, an Amazon ( AMZN) service that connects companies to the public for simple "crowdsourcing" efforts such as conducting polls. Respondents remained anonymous, but did give their ages, genders and other demographic information. Kolmar, who holds a bachelor's degree in mathematical economics, says the survey's sample group ranged in age from 18 to 69 and had a few more males and educated people than the U.S. average. (Men made up 63% of those taking the poll vs. 48.5% of all Americans, while an above-average 98% of those polled had graduated high school and 38% held at least bachelor's degrees.) "Our data set skewed younger and probably more tech-savvy, but the results were so amazingly consistent among all ages and demographics of respondents that I wouldn't be afraid to go to an academic conference and tell people about them," Kolmar says. Click below to check out which rooms survey participants told Movoto are the best places in a home to have sex. (Total results equal more than 100% due to rounding.)
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Sexual harassment is "unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature…[and]…can include unwelcome sexual advances, request for sexual favors, and other verbal, nonverbal, or physical conduct of a sexual nature. Federal law prohibits sexual harassment of college students whether the harasser is an employee or another student.
Sexual assault is a term that includes rape and other forms of sexual abuse like forcible fondling. It is an extreme form of sexual harassment. It is "unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature," and more specifically, "unwelcome sexual advances," and "unwelcome physical conduct of a sexual nature."
Please utilize the information contained in the following power point as a resource in managing risk for these areas.


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The Exercises.
- Creates an elegant, defined chest by working your pectoral muscles.
- Carves your arm muscles, specifically your deltoids, biceps, triceps and deep upper stabilizers.
- Tones your abdominals and glutes, thereby strengthening your core.
- Increases stamina.
- Serves as an intense interval for spiking caloric burn.
- Elongates the muscles in your upper legs, making them appear slimmer.
- Protects your knees by making the muscles that extend across them more elastic and balanced.
- Increases range of motion, minimizing stress on your lower back when you walk and run creating a more comfortable stride and vertical carriage.


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A Plague and a Blessing in My Empty Nest
September 25, 2017,
Diphtheria is an acute infection caused by the bacteria Corynebacterium diphtheriae .
Recent findings and perspectives on medical research.
Vaccinations have been one of the most important health advances in history.
Diphtheria spreads through respiratory droplets (such as from a cough or sneeze) of an infected person or someone who carries the bacteria but has no symptoms.
The bacteria most commonly infects your nose and throat. The throat infection causes a gray to black, tough, fiber-like covering, which can block your airways. In some cases, diphtheria infects your skin first and causes skin lesions.
Once infected, the bacteria make dangerous substances called toxins. The toxins spread through your bloodstream to other organs, such as the heart and brain, and cause damage.
Because of widespread immunization (vaccination) of children, diphtheria is now rare in many parts of the world.
Risk factors for diphtheria include crowded environments, poor hygiene, and lack of immunization.
Symptoms usually occur 1 to 7 days after the bacteria enter your body:
Note: There may be no symptoms.
The health care provider will perform a physical exam and look inside your mouth. This may reveal a gray to black covering (pseudomembrane) in the throat, enlarged lymph glands, and swelling of the neck or larynx.
Tests used may include:
If the health care provider thinks you have diphtheria, treatment will likely be started right away, even before test results come back.
Diphtheria antitoxin is given as a shot into a muscle or through an IV (intravenous line). The infection is then treated with antibiotics, such as penicillin and erythromycin.
You may need to stay in the hospital while getting the antitoxin is being received. Other treatments may include:
Persons without symptoms who carry diphtheria should be treated with antibiotics.
Diphtheria may be mild or severe. Some people may not have symptoms. In others, the disease can slowly get worse. Recovery from the illness is slow.
People may die, especially when the disease affects the heart.
The most common complication is inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditis). The nervous system is also frequently and severely affected, which may result in temporary paralysis.
The diphtheria toxin can also damage the kidneys.
Contact your health care provider right away if you have come in contact with a person who has diphtheria.
Diphtheria is a rare disease. It is also a reportable disease, and any cases are often publicized in the newspaper or on television. This helps you to know if diphtheria is present in your area.
If you have been in close contact with a person who has diphtheria, contact your health care provider right away. Ask whether you need antibiotics to prevent getting diphtheria.
Routine childhood immunizations and adult boosters prevent the disease.
Anyone who has come into contact with an infected person should get an immunization or booster shot against diphtheria, if they have not already received it. Protection from the vaccine lasts only 10 years. So it is important for adults to get a booster vaccine every 10 years. The booster is called tetanus-diphtheria (Td). (The shot also has vaccine medicine for an infection called tetanus.)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) Recommended Immunization Schedules for Persons Aged 0 Through 18 Years and Adults Aged 19 Years and Older — United States, 2013. MMWR. 2013;62(Suppl 1):1-19.
MacGregor RR. Corynebacterium diphtheriae . In: Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolan R, eds. Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases . 7th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2009:chap 205.
Sutter R. Diphtheria and other corynebacteria infections. In: Goldman's Cecil Medicine . 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 300.


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NEW YORK - More than a week after falling and hitting her head during inauguration weekend, Barbara Walters is now recovering from chicken pox.
Here's an update on her condition from ABC News:
"We want to give you an update on Barbara. You all know that she fell and cut her head 10 days ago, and then was running a temperature, but it turns out it is all the result of a delayed childhood. Barbara has the chicken pox. She'd never had it as a child. So now she's been told to rest, she's not allowed any visitors. and we're telling you, Barbara, no scratching," Whoopi Goldberg said on "The View" today.
Walters was transferred to a New York hospital last week after falling down the stairs during dinner at the British ambassador's home in Washington. She ran a fever and was admitted as a precaution.
In a statement last week, Walters said she wanted to "thank all the people who have called, written and been concerned about me"
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Editor's Note: Weekend Baking Project serves up popular existing recipes from our archives.
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I first made these as part of a Key West-themed dinner party menu, but since then, I've made them a million times.
Why? First there is the shortbread cookie base, which succeeds in being buttery without being greasy and also has a nice snap at the edges while also having a little give that your teeth can sink into. (I hate bar cookies that shatter or crumble on first bite.)
The real star, though, is the key lime topping. I love the tart flavor of the key limes and how its perky citrus flavor seems made for the layer of airy, crackly meringue. Depending on how big you cut them, these bars can be both light one-bite treats or more substantial bar cookies. Perfect for a spring that's bound to be filled with warm weather picnics and parties.
About the author: Carrie Vasios Mullins is the editor of Serious Eats: Sweets. She likes to peruse her large collection of cookbooks while eating jam from the jar. You can follow her on Twitter @carrievasios