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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Jacksonville Jaguars will play the San Francisco 49ers in a "home game" in London on Oct. 27, 2013.
The announcement came Thursday morning at a news conference in London with Jaguars owner Shad Khan and some players.
In August, the Jaguars agreed to play a yearly game in London, beginning next season.
The game will kick off at 5 p.m. U.K. time (1 p.m. ET) at Wembley Stadium and will mark the first in London for the Jaguars.
"By committing to play a regular-season home game in London in each of the next four years, the Jaguars will play a major role in helping grow our sport in the U.K. and beyond," said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. "We think Jaguars-49ers is a match-up our fans will really enjoy and a great way to start a new era in the international development of our game."
The NFL had been seeking a replacement for the St. Louis Rams, who pulled out of the final two years of a three-year commitment to playing a home game in London beginning this season.
Jacksonville will take over that role beginning in 2013 through 2016, with the annual game typically played in late October. Khan said he doesn't yet know who the team will face in future years.
Khan confirmed the Jaguars' 2013 International Series opponent while speaking at the Leaders in Sport conference in London on Thursday morning.
"This is a unique and important opportunity for the Jaguars franchise, as well as for our fans and community," Khan said. "To share this stage in our first year at Wembley with a rising power like the 49ers will bring additional attention and respect to what we're trying to achieve as a franchise. We can't wait to see our global vision for the Jaguars become reality next season."
Former Jaguars owner Wayne Weaver resisted requests to play in London for fear of sparking rumors the franchise would move, but Khan expressed an interest in the yearly overseas game upon purchasing the team last November.
Khan has stated his intention to keep the Jaguars in Jacksonville, while also trying to increase the franchise's profile. He emphasized the same Thursday, saying, "Make no mistake, we are the Jacksonville Jaguars."
"My message is, you're not going to lose a home game," he told the Florida Times-Union in July. "The home game is just going to be a little further away, across the water, across the pond."
So far, the series of NFL home games in London has contributed to increased NFL fan interest in the U.K., with a current fan base of 11 million, including more than 2 million avid fans, a 32 percent increase in the last two years.
Another area seeing substantial growth is television ratings.
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BWW Interviews: Actor and Author Arthur Wooten
There are times when artists cross over onto different artistic paths. Actors become authors. Dancers become directors. That has occurred with New York actor Arthur Wooten who began authoring novels seven years ago. With several under his belt, his latest DIZZY: A FICTIONAL MEMOIR shares stories of the New York acting world along with a truly inspirational story based on the author's actual life. BroadwayWorld talked to the actor turned author about his latest work that uses Broadway as the backdrop for the book.
BWW: Arthur, I'm so glad to talk to you about this book that I absolutely loved! First, tell the readers a little about your background as an actor.
Arthur Wooten: I was a child actor and describe a bit more of that later on. But while attending UMass at Amherst and majoring in pre-veterinarian medicine, I was cast in Dames At Sea. And I didn't catch the acting bug; I was knocked out by the virus. This had to be my life. So I switched my major to theatre and communications and was cast in several other musicals while studying there. Some were comedies/satires like Adaptation/Next others quite dramatic like playing Queenie in Fortune In Men's Eyes.
On weekend evenings I was a singing waiter at the Jolly Bull restaurant. Thank GOD I could sing and entertain because I was the world's worst waiter. We did concert style versions of shows like Cabaret, Godspell and Brigadoon. And each summer while still in college I went off and did summer stock. In DIZZY there is a flashback where Angie talks about her summer stock gig at the Off-Broadway Theatre in Ogunquit, Maine. And I really did survive doing thirteen musicals in repertory within a ten-week period. It was mind-boggling. Honestly, if it was Tuesday, it was Call Me Madam. But what a learning experience. I also spent a summer at Penn State with the American Theatre Festival doing Wonderful Town and Girl Crazy. Not only were they great productions but I met two of my longtime, best friends – Broadway press agent Sam Rudy and actress Mia Dillon.
Once moving to New York City I was first cast in the children's musical Dirty Ferdie Comes Clean playing Lester The Laundry Bag down at the Provincetown Playhouse and then a slew of dinner theatre jobs came my way. I also worked in regional theatre and of course, the infamous bus and truck tours. One of those productions, The Sound of Music, ended up in the book. Then I segued into commercials, soap operas and small bits of film work. Then I retired from acting back in 1985. I never did make it to Broadway but am proud that I never stopped working. Then I discovered a love for writing and my first TV pilot, A New Leash on Life – about a NYC dogwalker, was optioned by Dick Cavett of all people. Next, I found myself at William Morris – and the rest is, as they say, history.
You have such a knack for translating some wonderful backstage stories into your novel. Did you have to change names to protect the innocent?
I hope I did. Minor changes. Some people will clearly pick up on whom I'm really dishing about. But some things like the schools and theatres – like HB Studios, the Off-Broadway Theatre or Production-Center Studios are real places. Like in my novel ON PICKING FRUIT and its sequel FRUIT COCKTAIL, my lawyer suggested I change the names and the dates I "fictionally" wrote about. Actually, I wanted to keep their real names in and convict the guilty. Just kidding. Kinda.
Smart that you did! Did you know you always wanted to be a performer?
I'm not quite sure I knew I wanted to be a performer – I just performed! The first show I remember doing I must have been about eight and it was Rumpelstiltskin. Staged in my garage, I produced, directed, and acted in it demanding that everyone involved, including myself, perform the show on roller skates. I guess I was thinking outside of the box even then. (I also charged kids in the neighborhood to watch me ride my unicycle.) But growing up in Andover, MA, we had a fantastic theatre department in school, which also did full scale productions in the summer. I was cast in quite a few shows where they did lavish productions with full orchestras and exact replicas of the Broadway sets. I remember doing Mame, Funny Girl, The King And I, The Music Man, to name a few. They were really top-notch productions.
As a writer and theater person myself, I've always said that writing novels is just another way in which I can tell stories: same as if I'm on stage performing or directing a show. Do you agree?
Oh totally. And as writers we get to wear all the hats. We're the director, casting agent, costume designer, set designer, etc. I studied at HB Studios and worked with Bob Elston and Uta Hagen. It was her book, RESPECT FOR ACTING that strongly influenced not only my acting but eventually my writing too. When I write a character, I know everything about them. Often mannerisms or habits they have never make it into the books. But when I know my characters that well, I can put them into any scene and the material almost writes itself. And because you and I are actors, Gregory, I think it's easier to slip ourselves into other people's shoes. I owe so much of my writing success to my acting background.
Why did you choose to fictionalize this book instead of creating it as a real memoir about yourself?
Simple answer – my life is too boring. I say that half-seriously. I love my life and some exciting things have happened but when I was diagnosed with the same disease that Angie, our lead character has, I had a writing career that I could continue doing. Granted, I have to take breaks from the computer because it makes my symptoms pretty scary but I didn't have to give it up. In the book, the lead character is an actress, singer, and dancer. You can't do that when you have symptoms as extreme as mine. I think it makes for a much more exciting if not heartbreaking story. Angie has to completely reinvent herself.
You've alluded to it now, but in a nutshell, can you tell the readers a little about the book?
DIZZY is the story about Angie Styles, a beloved Broadway actress, singer, dancer who at the height of her career is struck down by a mysterious disease and is forced to reevaluate her life and the people in it as she struggles to survive.
So this mysterious disease in the book is something that you actually deal with it. Something very few people know about. Tell us about it.
It's called bilateral vestibulopathy with oscillopsia. I know, it's a mouthful. Basically, in 2005, a virus went to my brain without me feeling a thing and it destroyed the workings of both of my inner ears. One of the jobs the inner ear does is to relay information to your brain, letting it know where you are in space. Well, I've lost that ability. I have no sense of balance. Ironic for a former dancer and gymnast. Every step I take in life, actually every movement of my head, feels like I'm bouncing on a trampoline. And it never goes away. On bad days it feels like I'm dropping in an elevator or walking through life on a waterbed. That's the vestibular part.
The oscillopsia is my brain forcing my eyes to look onto objects to get a reading as to where I am in the world. It needs to know whether I'm upright or upside down or sideways. Whether I'm turning, standing up or sitting down, it has to get a reading or I just fall over. My brain has no idea where I am. And it's stubborn. It makes my eyes stick on objects and then they will jump to another very quickly. So I see life through an erratic handheld camera. Think bad indie film. Speaking of films and TV, while watching movies or shows, my brain thinks I'm in them. Action pictures are real tough for me and afterwards it's almost impossible to walk for awhile. But I have exercises I do to teach my brain to stop locking my eyes onto things. It's exhausting and sometimes painful but my eyes are tracking smoother. But stress, adrenaline and change in barometric pressure wreak havoc with my symptoms. Even word retrieval can be affected. Not a good thing for a writer.
So fascinating to hear about something that we simply do not know exists. Did you think in terms of the awareness you would bring to Vestibular Disorders when writing the book or was it more a cathartic experience?
Both. Writing the book was extremely cathartic. So much so, that I put off writing it for several years. Every time I thought about it, I'd breakdown into an emotional puddle. The process of getting DIZZY out of me was so emotional; it made my symptoms incredibly severe. There is a very dramatic scene, what we would call the denouement (that I don't want to spoil) but once I wrote that chapter, I felt better. It was like the calm after the storm. Once the book was done, I clearly realized that this was an opportunity to come out of the vestibular closet. Many people had no idea I was dealing with this syndrome but DIZZY now offers me a platform to inform, educate and help others suffering from this disease, help them find support and let them know they are not alone out there.
Did this have anything to do with you stopping your performance career and switching gears to that of a writer?
No, not at all. As I mentioned earlier, I segued into writing before the vestibular disease appeared. But honestly, the book signings I do are very much my performance pieces. And in many ways I am acting again, every day of my life. I try to blend in as well as possible so that people don't notice my symptoms. A constant sensation is that internally I feel drunk. And if I'm not careful, I'll look that way too. One day not too long ago I laughed and said to myself, "Just go with the drunkenness. Enjoy it. Hell, there's no hangover!" In truth, my life now is the biggest acting job I've ever had.
You have had some wonderful feedback on much of your work in the past from Phylicia Rashad to Debbie Allen as well as productions of plays you've written performed in the states and internationally. Knowing you as I do, I think it's because you are so approachable and write such believable work. How has it been turning to some of those people from your past as you approached a book about the theater community?
It's been fantastic and therapeutic. Everyone has been so supportive. Phylicia and Debbie have been friends of mine since 1987. I love them dearly and over the years we've worked on projects together. And I've reconnected with old friends like Peter Gregus who's starring in Jersey Boys. We worked together – gosh – maybe back in 1980 at Nanuet Dinner Theatre. He was just a kid then! And I've met new friends like Donna McKechnie who's shared with me that my scenario is very close to what she's experienced in her life. And who knows, maybe DIZZY will become a Broadway musical one day. Wouldn't that be a great way to say thank you to my theatre colleagues, by offering them all jobs?
I know that readers of BroadwayWorld love the theater community and I believe they will absolutely love DIZZY. Thanks for sharing it with us today. The book launches December 10 from Galaxias Productions and information can be found at www.arthurwooten.com
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During meditation I start focus or re-focus on the breath at my nosetip. However this also lead me to breathing 'manually', in and out. It just seems difficult to reach a e.g. state where I notice there is breathing going on outside my nosetip. And when I try let go of the manual breathing, my breath seems to be shorter and shorter until I reach a state where I have to take a manual deep breath.
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Developing economies are driving recovery but serious risks to the global economic outlook are still in place.
The World Economic Situation and Prospects 2011 emphasizes that the risks of high unemployment rates, premature withdrawal of policy stimulus, currency wars and a renewed widening of global imbalances darken the global outlook.
After a year of fragile and uneven recovery, global economic growth started to decelerate on a broad front in mid-2010, and this slower growth is expected to continue into 2011 and 2012.
The United Nations baseline forecast for the growth of world gross product (WGP) is 3.1 per cent for 2011 and 3.5 per cent for 2012, which is below the 3.6 per cent estimated for 2010 and the pre-crisis pace of global growth.
This is highlighted in the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2011 - a report jointly prepared by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), UNCTAD and United Nations Regional Commissions.
Developing countries continue to drive the global recovery, but their output growth is also expected to moderate to 6 per cent during 2011-2012, down from 7 per cent in 2010, because of the slowdown in the advanced countries and phasing out of stimulus measures.
The report points to high unemployment rates, premature withdrawal of policy stimulus, increased exchange rate volatility and renewed widening of global imbalances as the main challenges for the global economy.
Against this background, several policy challenges are discussed in greater detail, including the optimal design of fiscal policies as well as the coordination between fiscal and monetary policies, the provision of sufficient support to developing countries in addressing the fallout from the crisis and the coordination of policy measures at the international level.
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An age-exclusive housing provider for the over 55s based in Bumpers Way, Chippenham has taken resident satisfaction to a new level with the launch of a one-stage complaints process.
Hanover Housing Association made this move in response to feedback about its existing complaints service. Concerns ranged from how a complaint was handled to the time take to reach a decision.
Under the old system a complaint could span three stages, have three separate complaint handlers and take up to six months to go through the process.
With the introduction of the new one stage system, 80 per cent of new complaints are now resolved in a just over two weeks.
The results of this change show a 26 per cent increase in resident satisfaction and a 39 per cent increase in complaints being logged and resolved as residents and staff start to see the real benefits of the process.
The move has resulted in Hanover achieving 'compliance plus' in its most recent Customer Service Excellence (CSE) assessment. Furthermore, Hanover achieved overall satisfaction levels of 93 per cent in its most recent customer satisfaction (STAR) survey of residents.
A great deal of work went into making the change to Hanover's complaints process. However, perhaps the most important aspect has involved changing the culture of the organisation to view complaints positively and as an opportunity to improve services.
Mark Lake, assistant director for Hanover, said: "The new process has been very successful. By cutting out the red tape we have trained and empowered our staff to manage complaints more efficiently and effectively.
"In addition we have updated our internal systems and also assisted residents to set up their own tenants' review panel that can help any residents who may remain dissatisfied with Hanover's response."
Hanover resident 72-year-old Robert Sherriff said: "I am very pleased that Hanover has implemented this new process. This demonstrates its commitment to improving services whilst listening to its residents."


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So...my other addiction is going fishing. Ice/Fly/Top Water/Bobber&Worm/etc...it doesn't matter. Loves me some fishing. So, I wanted to start a thread to talk about fishing in general.
The spawn bed's are pretty hopping right now in central Iowa. Went fishing a few days ago and slaughtered 6-8 in. gills and 12-14 in. crappies. Even snagged a couple of little bass. The neighbor was catching quite a few Catish last weekend as well.
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It's time to cut back your red meat consumption
Eating red meat increases your chances of dying prematurely. That's the stark finding of a very large and very well done clinical study just published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The study found that eating red and processed meat was associated with increases in total mortality, cancer mortality, and cardiovascular disease mortality. They found that eating just 4 ounces of red meat a day raises your overall risk of dying prematurely, raises your risk of dying from cancer and raises your risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. I'd say that means it's time to decrease your consumption of red meat, which includes beef, pork and processed meats like sausage, bacon and cold cuts.
There are a number of reasons why eating red meat might be bad for your health. Red meat is loaded with cholesterol and saturated fat. The cooking of red meat produces cancer-causing compounds. Red meat contains a lot of iron, which is believed to promote cancer growth. Processed meats contain a variety of cancer-causing chemicals. Eating red meat is associated with high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol, which in turn increase the risk of heart and cardiovascular disease.
You don't have to eliminate red meat entirely. Instead, you should avoid eating it every day. According to Dr. Walter Willet, chairman of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, who was quoted in The Washington Post,"You can be very healthy being a vegetarian, but you can be very healthy being a non-vegetarian if you keep your red-meat intake low," Willett said. "If you are eating meat twice a day and can cut back to once a day there's a big benefit. If you cut back to two or three times a week there's even more benefit. If you eliminate it entirely, there's a little more benefit, but the big benefit is getting away from everyday red-meat consumption."
Writing in an accompanying editorial in the Archives of Internal Medicine, Dr. Barry Popkin, of the University of North Carolina, agreed with Dr. Willett's assessment that you don't necessarily need to become a vegetarian, "Rather, the need is for a major reduction in total meat intake, an even larger reduction in processed meat and other highly processed and salted animal source food products, and a reduction in total saturated fat." He did note, however, that "there are many scholars who would argue for the strong nutritional benefits of [a vegetarian diet] or at least a major shift toward more of a Mediterranean diet with minimal red meat intake."
Not only would cutting back on red meat consumption be good for your personal health, it would also be good for the health of the planet. That's because the industrial production of meat uses a lot of natural resources (far more than growing fruits and vegetables), uses a tremendous amount of water, creates a lot of pollution (including water pollution from runoff of waste and chemicals, and increased greenhouse gases from all the methane gas excreted by the animals), requires huge amounts of pesticides on the plants (such as corn) grown to feed the animals, and requires the use of all sorts of antibiotics to keep disease down (with the resulting increase in bacterial resistance). Dr. Popkin was further quoted in The Washington Post as saying ""There's a big interplay between the global increase in animal food intake and the effects on climate change. If we cut by a few ounces a day our red-meat intake, we would have big impact on emissions and environmental degradation."
Bad for your health, bad for the environment. It's time to reduce your consumption of red meat.


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Melksham-based manufacturer Knorr-Bremse is so confident for the future it is taking on 20 people, creating new hi-tech jobs in the town.
The firm exports braking systems across the UK and abroad and currently employs around 360 people at Bowerhill.
It is recruiting accountants, project managers and engineers.
Head of marketing Nick Brailey said: "It's really because of the volume of work we have here. It's a similar type of work we are doing, but we have just got so much of it, we need more people.
"The jobs are spread across the board, to complete existing teams. If we can we would look to recruit locally, but the jobs are open to people with the right skills we need.
"We have done very well through the tough times. We have been aware of the change in the economy recently, and we see an improvement in the business.
"The rail industry is very dynamic and very busy, both in the UK and abroad. There is a lot of growth, and we see that continuing. We export products made here overseas, especially to China, which is a big market to us.
"All these jobs are based in Melksham, but we are recruiting elsewhere as well.
"We've also got a production machining facility in Corsham. It's a very highly-skilled workforce, making high-precision parts."
For more details about the jobs, visit www.knorr-bremse.co.uk/en/careers Last September Knorr-Bremse bought the ailing maintenance firm Railcare, saving more than 200 at-risk jobs in the UK.


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I clamped my teeth around my Fuente Fuente OpusX Lancero, puffed a cloud of spicy smoke across the table and flipped over a ten and an eight, both of them clubs.
"Flush," I said with a crooked smile.
Tim threw down his hole cards, skipping the flourish of cigar smoke.
"To the jack," he said, and reached for the pile of chips.
Getting outflushed in Texas Hold 'Em isn't fun, but I didn't sweat the loss. It was only a couple of bucks, plus it was Friday night after a busy work week, and six friends and I were tossing back adult beverages and smoking great cigars. Who could be upset?
Poker night is nearly always at my house because I have the only cigar-friendly home in the group. My basement is my smoking room, and I have the green light to fire up there at will thanks to my very understanding wife. Her father is a cigar smoker, so when I light a Churchill the aroma reminds her of her childhood. When most of my buddy's wives smell cigar smoke they get ballistic, rather than nostalgic.
The cards are almost an afterthought. The stakes are modest, with each man kicking in $20 to the start. A few unlucky ones put in a second Jackson to replenish. Take away the poker and we'd still have had a good time. But remove the beer, whiskey and cigars? That would be a problem.
I began the night with cold Pilsner Urquells. My friend Mark, always an adventurer, brought some Costa Rican beer called Imperial. Russ didn't bring any Scotch, but no one could blame him: a few years ago there was a rather famous game where he came with a bottle of expensive whiskey that had been aged in France. It didn't last long, and Russ soon looked like a farmer who had lost a bumper crop to uninvited locusts.
Scott, who was new to the table, brought Chivas 12-year-old, which was much appreciated. Kurt, another rookie, brought a full bottle of Booker's Bourbon, which brought an immediate smile to my face.
Turns out Kurt enjoys strong cigars, so I started him with a Tatuaje Havana Cazadore. I thought it might be too much for him, but he smoked it and smiled. He followed that up with an Ashton VSG. He really does like his cigars strong. (Get this: he's in training to do an Ironman triathalon--more than two miles of swimming, a 112-mile bike ride and 26 miles of running. Maybe the power cigars will help?)
For the guys in the group who prefer their smokes on the mild side, I started them with Maxx cigars by Alec Bradley. Scott was in the mood for a second, so I gave him a Partagas 160.
My luck turned after the flush incident, and with a wee dram of Booker's in my glass and a second cigar in my mouth (a Padilla 1932) I soon had a sizeable stack of chips in front of me. But the poker wasn't nearly as important as the camaraderie. We laughed into the night and let the worries of the workweek fade away.
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Frank Levatino Club Perfecto, USA March 26, 2007 2:31pm ET
Hey Dave,Good to see you've got the Hold 'Em bug.... so when will you join us @ Club Perfecto for our regular Thursday Night Members game?? You are so right when you mention it is all about the camaraderie - the poker - the great cigars - the chatter and chiding - a tremendous fraternal experience that I look forward to sharing with the fellas @ Club Perfecto each week, and that I miss terribly when I am unable to attend. Noting quite like Bourbon, Bad Beats, Ball Bustin' and BS to cap off the work week! I expect that your Rowayton Rougues provide much the same experience (among this collection are a number of former FP colleagues of mine, so I am confident that the laughs abound). Hope to see you down @ Club Perfecto soon.Big Smoke Rings.....ooo000OOOOBig Frank
DAVE Savona New York March 26, 2007 4:15pm ET
I don't know Frank, I hear you guys are pretty good at cards down there...but I'll try to make it sometime soon.
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Always a good dame over at Fume in Montclair if you ever in New Jersey. There is action there every night.
Matthew Caruso Jersey March 28, 2007 3:59pm ET
oops, I meant a good game. They aren't involved in that sort of business.
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The Barge Inn at Honeystreet that was saved from possible closure by a community buyout with the help of more than £400,000 lottery funding has closed and staff were devastated to be told last night that they are redundant.
Sources told the Gazette this morning there were rumours the pub owed as much as £100,00 in unpaid VAT to Revenue and Customs because it had not registered for VAT since villagers took over running the pub.
No reason has been given for the closure and John Brewin, chairman of the community buy-out committee, said this morning: "I cannot say anything until later on today; I can't make any comment until late afternoon because there are procedures to be followed."
Mr Brewin would neither confirm or deny that the popular 200-year-old canal-side pub at Honeystreet had closed but the Gazette was told by friends of staff working there that they were told last night that the pub was closing.
One caller who asked not to be identified said: "I have a friend who has been working there since the pub re-opened and all the staff were told last night that the pub was closing and that they have lost their jobs. They told me that everyone there was gutted because the news came completely out of the blue.
"They have not been able to find out exactly why it's closing but apparently it's something to do with the property owner and the lease."
The Barge Inn Community Project took over the pub in August 2010 after its previous landlords, June and Adrian Potts, retired after running the pub for 17 years.
It closed for six weeks from February last year and re-opened in April after a major refit financed by the Big Lottery's Village SOS fund with more than £430,000 being poured into refurbishing the building and with plans to eventually have a village shop – the last one closed 20 years ago – as part of the project. The shop has never materialised.
With the BBC filming every aspect of the refurbishment for a documentary it became high profile with people like Aggie MacKenzie, co-presenter of How Clean is Your House, being brought in to help with the spring clean before work could start including a brand new oak bar. The village buy-out of the pub's lease featured in a one hour BBC documentary coinciding with the completion of the refurbishment.
Sandra Bhatia, who was appointed by Village SOS to head the project, told the Gazette this morning she was unaware the pub had closed altogether and she said: "I am in shock. I was told on Friday there were problems there but I was unaware it was going to close."
Ms Bhatia said she would be contacting the National Lottery to let it know that the pub was closed so they could investigate what was going on.
The property owner Ian McIvor, whose business Honeystreet Ales leases the pub to the community committee, said he was surprised to hear the pub had closed and he said: "I have no issues with the pub or management committee and this is the first I have heard that it has closed."
Mr McIvor said the rent was paid up to date.
When the Gazette called at the pub at 11.30am today it was closed with no sign of it opening and there was a sign on the door saying: "We regret that the Barge Inn will be closed on Monday 22nd October."


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Fasting Study of Quinapril Hydrochloride Tablets 40 mg and Accupril® Tablets 40 mg
This study has been completed.
Mylan Pharmaceuticals
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First received: March 30, 2008
Last updated: March 31, 2008
Last verified: March 2008
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The objective of this study was to investigate the bioequivalence of Mylan quinapril hydrochloride 40 mg tablets compared to Parke-Davis Accupril® 40 mg tablets following a single, oral 40 mg (1 x 40 mg) dose under fasting conditions.
|Drug: Quinapril Hydrochloride Tablets 40 mg Drug: Accupril® Tablets 40 mg
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
|Official Title:
|Single-Dose Fasting In Vivo Bioequivalence Study of Quinapril Hydrochloride Tablets (40 mg; Mylan) and Accupril® Tablets (40 mg; Parke-Davis) in Healthy Volunteers
Resource links provided by NLM:
Drug Information available for: Quinapril hydrochloride QuinaprilU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Mylan Pharmaceuticals:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Bioequivalence [ Time Frame: within 30 days ]
|Study Start Date:
|December 2002
|Study Completion Date:
|January 2003
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2002 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 1
Quinapril Hydrochloride Tablets 40 mg
Drug: Quinapril Hydrochloride Tablets 40 mg
40mg, single dose fasting
Active Comparator: 2
Accupril® Tablets 40 mg
Drug: Accupril® Tablets 40 mg
40mg, single dose fasting
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age: 18 years and older.
Sex: Male and/or non-pregnant, non-lactating female
- Women of childbearing potential must have negative serum beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) pregnancy tests performed within 14 days prior to of the study and on the evening prior to each dose administration. If dosing is scheduled on Sunday or Monday, the beta-HCG pregnancy test should be given within 48 hours prior to dosing of each study period. An additional serum (beta-HCG) pregnancy test will be performed upon completion of the study.
Women of childbearing potential must practice abstinence or be using an acceptable form of contraception throughout the duration of the study. Acceptable forms of contraception include the following:
- oral contraceptives initiated at least 3 months prior to the start of the study and continued during the study, or
- intrauterine device in place for at least 3 months prior to the start of the study and remaining in place during the study period, or
- barrier methods containing or used in conjunction with a spermicidal agent, or
- surgical sterility (tubal ligation, oophorectomy or hysterectomy) or postmenopausal accompanied with a documented postmenopausal course of at least one year .
- During the course of the study, from study screen until study exit - including the washout period, women of childbearing potential must use a spermicide containing barrier method of contraception in addition to their current contraceptive method. This advice should be documented in the informed consent form.
- Weight: At least 60 kg (132 lbs) for man and 48 kg (106 lbs) for women and within 15% of Ideal Body Weight (IBW), as referenced by the Table of "Desirable Weights of Adults" Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1999 (See Part II ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS OF BIOEQUIVALENCE PROTOCOLS).
- All subjects should be judged normal and healthy during a pre-study medical evaluation (physical examination, laboratory evaluation, 12-lead ECG, hepatitis B and hepatitis C tests, HIV test, and urine drug screen including amphetamine, barbiturates, benzodiazepine, cannabinoid, cocaine, opiate screen, phencyclidine, and methadone) performed within 14 days of the initial dose of study medication.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Institutionalized subjects will not be used.
Social Habits:
- Use of any tobacco products within 1 year of the start of the study.
- Ingestion of any alcoholic, caffeine- or xanthine-containing food or beverage within the 48 hours prior to the initial dose of study medication.
- Ingestion of any vitamins or herbal products within the 48 hours prior to the initial dose of the study medication.
- Any recent, significant change in dietary or exercise habits.
- A positive test for any drug included in the urine drug screen.
- Use of any medication within the last 14 days prior to the initial dose of study medication, excluding hormonal contraceptives and hormonal replacement therapy initiated at least 3 months prior to study medication dosing.
- Use of any medication known to alter hepatic enzyme activity within 28 days prior to the initial dose of study medication, excluding hormonal contraceptives and hormonal replacement therapy initiated at least 3 months prior to study medication dosing.
- History of any significant chronic disease and/or hepatitis.
- History of drug and/or alcohol abuse.
- Acute illness at the time of either the prestudy medical evaluation or dosing.
- A positive HIV, hepatitis B or Hepatitis C test.
Abnormal and clinically significant laboratory test results:
- Clinically significant deviation from the Guide to Clinically Relevant Abnormalities (See Part II ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS OF BIOEQUIVALENCE PROTOCOLS).
- Abnormal and clinically relevant ECG tracing.
- Donation or loss of a significant volume of blood or plasma (> 450 mL) within 28 days prior to the initial dose of study medication.
- Subjects who have received an investigational drug within 30 days prior to the initial dose of study medication.
- Allergy or hypersensitivity to quinapril or other related products.
- History of difficulties in swallowing, or any gastrointestinal disease which could affect the drug absorption.
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00649103
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00649103
|United States, North Dakota
|PRACS Institute, Ltd.
|Fargo, North Dakota, United States, 58104
Sponsors and Collaborators
Mylan Pharmaceuticals
|Principal Investigator:
|James D Carlson, Pharm. D.
|PRACS Institute Ltd.
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 18, 2017
Additional Information:
Daily Med - posting of most recent submitted labelling to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and currently in use
|Responsible Party:
|Will Sullvan, Global Head of Product Risk and Safety Management, Mylan Inc.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00649103 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|March 30, 2008
|Last Updated:
|March 31, 2008
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antihypertensive Agents
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Keep kids learning
Worried your kid forgets everything they've learnt when not at school? Here's how to keep their brain sharp. more
Guillain-Barré syndrome is a condition in which the body's immune system attacks the nerves. Most of the time, the coating of the nerves, called the myelin sheath, is most effected, but sometimes the inside of the nerves, the axon, is also affected. Recovery from Guillain-Barré syndrome may take years.
In most cases, an individual who develops Guillain-Barré syndrome suffered from a bacterial or viral infection several weeks prior to the onset of symptoms. The most common infection appears to be a gastro infection caused by the bacteria Campylobacter jejuni. Doctors aren't really sure what the connection is between Guillain-Barré syndrome and these infections.
Guillain-Barré syndrome can be serious. Although up to 90% of people who suffer Guillain-Barré syndrome recover completely, some are left with lasting disabilities. At its most severe, Guillain-Barré syndrome may require life support due to total paralysis.
There are so many indistinct causes for Guillain-Barré syndrome that it's hard to know how to prevent, or even avoid, it. Potential triggers include illness, surgery, insect bites, and vaccinations.
Most symptoms of the syndrome develop gradually rather than all at once. Kids with Guillain-Barré syndrome may display the following symptoms:
Treatment almost always involves hospitalisation to ensure swift reaction in case of complications. Treatment may include removing immune cells from the blood and intravenous delivery of gamma globulin containing healthy antibodies.
Call your doctor immediately if you suspect your child has Guillain-Barré syndrome. The condition may be life-threatening.
Written by Rebecca Stigall for Kidspot, Australia's parenting resource for family health. Sources include Better Health Channel, NSW Health and Health Insite.
Last revised: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
This article contains general information only and is not intended to replace advice from a qualified health professional.


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Dairy farmers in Chenango County, N.Y., have a new source of funding available -- thanks to local economic development officials and Greek yogurt manufacturer Chobani.
The loan program could open doors for many Chenango County dairy farmers, such as John Marshman, enabling them to help purchase new equipment, expand their herds, and invest in new properties, WBNG Action News reports
"Between our equipment, our land base, and our animals, we have a lot of capital invested," said John Marshman, co-owner of Marshman Farms, "And so the ability to get capital in different ways is important."
When Chobani was getting started years ago, it requested and received economic development grants and loans from various governmental entities. So far, it has paid $250,000 back, and that is the reason the new loan fund is starting at $250,000.
"We're starting with $250,000," but it could go higher than that, depending on demand, says Steve Craig, of Commerce Chenango.
Last week, Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya announced it was time to "loan back" to keep the dairy industry expanding.
Chobani is a multi-million dollar yogurt producer currently dominating the Greek yogurt industry. The company's Chenango County yogurt plant uses more than 3 million pounds of milk each day to produce the protein-packed yogurt. Eighty-five percent of this milk is produced by the state's dairy herds. Read more about Chobani here.
Those interested in applying for the loan fund can contact Development Chenango at (607) 334-5532.


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A's Release LHP Garrett Olson
The Oakland A's released left-handed pitcher Garrett Olson, a non-roster invitee, so that he can pursue an opportunity to pitch in Korea, the club announced today.
The A's now have 45 players in camp. That includes 37 players on the 40-man roster and eight non-roster invitees. The breakdown includes 20 pitchers, four catchers, 13 infielders and eight outfielders.


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I hear ya on looking at DG forums. I look at DIY HiFi forums, motorcycles, etc etc. , I also never thought to look at DG forums until last Fall. I've been playing since 2000 . Amazing how much I've learned since reading the forums and looking at Videos on Youtube !
Good luck, hope you continue to enjoy the game. Lots to learn , lots of good info here.


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CHIEF fire officer Mark Yates has decided to repay his £3,000 private back operation money in full - saying it was never his intention to spark the fury it caused.
After more than a week of intense pressure, Mr Yates has finally issued a public statement in the last few minutes over the furore by revealing a u-turn on the fund.
Your Worcester News can also reveal:
- Mr Yates had his operation on October 1 last year, 20 days before a behind-closed-doors decision was made to pay him the cash
- He was suffering a ruptured disc in his lower back at the time, which he says slowly made it "impossible to function" over a period of time
- He says the saga could "potentially harm the great reputation of the fire service" and has given that as one reason for his decision
The move has led to fresh calls for Councillor Derek Prodger to quit as fire authority chairman, led by the Labour group
The full statement from Mr Yates says: "Over the course of the last week, a great deal of media coverage and public debate has been given to the fire authority's decision to contribute towards an operation I required last year.
"Up until now I have refrained from making any comment on this matter because to do so would require me to reveal confidential details of my personal health and because I did not think it appropriate to comment on a decision taken by my employer relating to me.
"However, the best interests of the service are always at the forefront of my mind and actions, and I believe that the issue is now detracting from the great work the service and all its staff do on a daily basis.
"For these reasons I have decided to make this statement.
"Last September as a result of a prolapsed and ruptured disc in my lower back, and over a period of time, it became impossible for me to function from a professional and personal perspective.
"On advice of a consultant orthopaedic surgeon the best option available to me was to have corrective surgery, the removal of part of one of my vertebral discs.
"At that time the service was in the middle of some difficult issues, including periods of strike action, possible collaborative working with Warwickshire and consulting on the service's community risk management plan including a fire cover review.
"I chose to have the operation undertaken privately because I was in severe pain but the authority also benefitted from this as it minimised the time I was away from my duties leading the service and advising the authority.
"Following my operation I had three days sick leave and then a further 17 days on modified duties working from home.
"I returned to my full duties on Monday, 21 October.
"As permitted by the conditions of service for alI uniformed staff I asked whether the authority would consider making a contribution towards these medical costs.
"My operation went ahead on 1 October and members of the authority subsequently decided to make a £3,000 contribution to the cost of my operation.
"However, it has become apparent that the payment I received has left some staff and members of the public disappointed.
"It was never my intention to cause such feelings and I do not wish for this matter to cause further controversy and potentially harm the great reputation of the service - I have therefore repaid the £3,000.
"I hope this statement helps bring this matter to an end so the service can continue to focus on its valuable work in the challenging times ahead."
The saga came to light after a Freedom of Information request from your Worcester News.
It revealed he decided to go private, paying £5,090, and asked for the money back from taxpayers.
The decision to give him the £3,000 was taken by four fire authority members, who met in private, with no minutes taken.
After it was revealed, Cllr Prodger said if Mr Yates went with the NHS there was a 12-week waiting list, and he would have required time off work.
The service has argued that would have led to other staff being paid extra to cover his duties, potentially costing £8,500 had he been off for the whole 12 weeks.
* More on this story will follow in your Worcester News tomorrow.


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Home run bug sidetracks Dickey in loss to Rangers
Ex-Blue Jay Arencibia's three-run shot breaks game open
TORONTO -- After battling Yu Darvish through four innings, R.A Dickey couldn't hold his solid start together on Friday night against the Rangers.
The long ball, which Dickey had eluded in his previous three starts, reared its ugly head at the most inopportune times as the Blue Jays lost for the ninth time in the past 11 games.
The 39-year-old knuckleballer allowed a homer to lead off the fifth and a three-run shot to former Blue Jay J.P. Arencibia in the seventh as the Rangers topped the Blue Jays, 5-1, at Rogers Centre in the series opener.
"That's kinda become the motif, unfortunately," said Dickey, who has lost six of his last seven starts. "I'll be cruising along and then in that seventh inning I threw a couple of really good knuckleballs they got singles on and then J.P. timed one up right ... and he hit a home run. Next thing you know we're down five runs to one of the best pitchers in the league."
Through four innings, it was a pitchers' duel. Darvish and Dickey combined to allow three hits, one walk and 10 strikeouts as the game motored along without any meaningful offensive sparks.
But in the fifth, just as it's happened several times over the course of the season, Dickey caught a snag. Adrian Beltre led off the frame with a home run to put the visitors on the board. After Dickey hit Arencibia with a pitch, Rougned Odor cracked an RBI triple to right field and it was 2-0 Texas.
As Dickey stumbled, Darvish continued to cruise. The two-run lead was enough padding for the right-hander, who improved to 9-5 as he cut through the Blue Jays offense with 12 strikeouts over 6 2/3 innings.
Several times Darvish nullified Blue Jay threats, registering back-to-back strikeouts of Juan Francisco and Josh Thole with one out and two runners on in the second and fanning Jose Bautista with a runner in scoring position to end the third. Darvish gave up one earned run on five hits while walking three.
"Guys like Darvish, I don't care what your lineup is, they're gonna cut you up good and limit your opportunities," said Blue Jays manager John Gibbons. "We had a couple tonight and we didn't cash in. We've been in a offensive drought for a while now."
The Blue Jays offense, which was so prolific earlier this season, has indeed dried up as of late. Injuries to Adam Lind and Edwin Encarnacion have severely hampered production, and the team that led the Major Leagues in runs scored in May has scored three runs or fewer in eight of its last 11 games.
Colby Rasmus snapped a team homerless streak of 42 innings with a home run in the seventh, the lone spark from an otherwise docile showing at the plate from the Toronto offense.
The Rangers, on the other hand, benefited from timely hitting, and it was Arencibia's shot that put the game out of reach. The former Blue Jays catcher got ahold of a knuckleball with two on and sent Dickey's offering over the left-field wall for a 5-0 Rangers lead. Dickey pitched seven innings and allowed five earned runs on six hits with seven strikeouts and two homers.
Arencibia, who had a turbulent season with the Blue Jays in 2013, was met with boos in each of his four plate appearances, but silenced his critics with one swing.
"It's definitely better as an opposing player if you get booed," said Arencibia, who was non-tendered by the Blue Jays last December. "I have a lot of great memories here and that's definitely not going to do anything to take it away. It's kind of flattering when they boo you, it gives you a little bit more fire."
The struggling Blue Jays find themselves tied with the Yankees for second place in the American League East, four games back of the division-leading Orioles as the second half of the season got underway.
Jamie Ross is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The bacteria were first detected in 2010 by researchers perplexed at chemical fluctuations in sediments from the bottom of Aarhus Bay in Denmark. Almost instantaneously linking changing oxygen levels in water with reactions in mud nearly an inch below, the fluctuations occurred too fast to be explained by chemistry.
Only an electrical signal made sense -- but no known bacteria could transmit electricity across such comparatively vast distances. Were bacteria the size of humans, the signals would be making a journey 12 miles long.
Now the mysterious bacteria have been identified. They belong to a microbial family called Desulfobulbaceae, though they share just 92 percent of their genes with any previously known member of that family. They deserve to be considered a new genus, the study of which could open a new scientific frontier for understanding the interface of biology, geology and chemistry across the undersea world.
The bacteria are described Oct. 24 in Nature by researchers led by microbiologists Christian Pfeffer, Nils Risgaard-Petersen and Lars Peter Nielsen of Aarhus University. On the following pages, Wired takes a look at these marvelous microbes.Above:
Microbial Wires
Seen through an electron microscope, the Desulfobulbaceae -- the researchers haven't yet given them a genus or species name -- appear in blue. They link end-to-end, forming filaments nearly an inch in length.
Image: Nils Risgaard-Petersen
Wiring Diagram
In the photo above, orange strands of the new Desulfobulbaceae stretch in a laboratory beaker between a reddish, oxygen-rich sediment layer and a dark, sulfurous, oxygen-depleted layer. This is the essential structure of much of the world's seafloor, and one that the new Desulfobulbaceae evolved to exploit: One end feeds on hydrogen sulfide below, pulling out an electron that's sent up the chain and, at the other end, is used to pull in oxygen. (See diagram below.) It's a simple form of breathing. Water is generated as a byproduct.
Images: 1) Nils Risgaard-Petersen 2) Nature
Live Wire
The new Desulfobulbaceae, seen in cross-section above, has a shape seemingly adapted to conducting electricity. Down each bacterium run deep channels, which are aligned continuously as the bacteria join into one long filament. It's through these channels that electrons likely course. (This is still speculation, albeit informed -- the bacteria clearly transfer electrons, but the exact route hasn't been mapped.) The walls of the channels and a surrounding membrane may have insulating properties, like sheathing around a wire.
Image: Karen E. Thomsen
A Single Organism
Each filament of the new Desulfobulbaceae doesn't merely represent the end-to-end alignment of many individual microbes, but should be a considered a single multicellular organism, said Nielsen.
Image: Mingdong Dong
Electric Ecology
In just one teaspoon of mud, the researchers found a full half-mile of Desulfobulbaceae cable, and it's not just a Danish phenomenon. Nielsen said other researchers have sent him samples from seafloors around the world, including Tokyo Bay. It's possible that, at the microbial level, the deep seafloor is humming with current.
With so much electricity being transferred, are other organisms tapping the lines? Might the Desulfobulbaceae be a power source for entire as-yet-unappreciated deep-sea microbial ecologies, which in turn shape some of the planet's fundamental biogeochemical processes? That's "an interesting possibility," said Nielsen, but it's still speculation.
Less speculatively, the Desulfobulbaceae are definitely breaking down iron sulfides and carbonates in deeper sediment, while generating iron oxide and magnesium calcite at the surface, Nielsen said. The latter are important compounds for life in the oceans above, and ultimately on land. If the new Desulfobulbaceae are as widespread and populous as they seem, they could be an important component of life's deep-time cycles.
Image: Nils Risgaard-Petersen
What Next?
In addition to ecological questions, the researchers next want to learn more about the new Desulfobulbaceae's structure and physiology.
"These are exciting times for microbiologists," wrote microbiologist Gemma Reguera of Michigan State University in a commentary accompanying the new study. "The present work reminds us -- one more time -- just how much more awaits discovery."
Image: Study co-author Christian Pfeffer pulls a thin wire through the seabed, severing the electrical connections. (Nils Risgaard-Petersen)
Citations: "Filamentous bacteria transport electrons over centimetre distances." Christian Pfeffer, Steffen Larsen, Jie Song, Mingdong Dong, Flemming Besenbacher, Rikke Louise Meyer, Kasper Urup Kjeldsen, Lars Schreiber, Yuri A. Gorby, Mohamed Y. El-Naggar, Kar Man Leung, Andreas Schramm, Nils Risgaard-Petersen & Lars Peter Nielsen. Nature, Vol. 490, No. 7421, 25 Oct. 2012
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February 18, 2012 marks 10/11's 60th Anniversary. This week we're celebrating by taking you on a journey through each decade.
2000 - 2010
In the early 2000s 1011 News embraced change and adapted to the growing use of the internet and social media.
The year 2000 changed everything as the computer age had officially begun. The internet was taking off.
Jon Vanderford joined the anchor desk right in the thick of the boom.
10/11 was no longer just a television station with half hour news broadcasts, it adapted to the new media putting the information where the consumer wanted to view it.
The internet didn't just affect news. The weather department also had to adjust to the new world. Equipment also upgraded and gone were the days of video tape as digital editing took over.
In the middle of the decade there was another big switch at the desk as Deb Collins said goodbye and Serese Cole made the switch from the morning show to the evening desk.
10/11 kept up with the times, continuing to push the boundaries and stay on the cutting edge. It's a commitment that will lead the station into this decade and beyond.
The 1990s
In the 90's, there was a renewed emphasis on breaking news and live coverage at 10/11 News.
The more things change the more they stay the same. The 90's were proof of that at 10/11. News took the forefront for programming.
The addition of Deb Collins to the anchor desk strengthened an already strong team that had decades of experience by that time.
The real push in the 90's was to be on the scene as the news happened.
Reporters and viewers alike were getting used to being live. Change is always around the corner and in 1995 Mel Mains stepped away from the desk after a lifetime of service.
Bill Robertson took over for Mel, and Randy Lynn helped 10//11 move into the new century where more change awaited, this time in the form of news gathering and social media.
The 1980s
In 1980's 10/11 already had a number or household names. Mel Mains had taken over as a staple on the evening news, Leta Powell Drake was a fixture waking the state up in the mornings and was famous as a children's host.
Most on-air personalities were thought of as friends to the viewer.
In 1981 another friend was introduced who would become a fixture in living rooms across the state. Ken Siemek started as a producer on the morning show in the 80's
His big break into weather came in 1982 when a weekend spot opened up. The focus on weather and keeping viewers safe was just as strong in the 80's but the technology was completely different.
More changes defined the decade as Leta Powell Drake said goodbye and the station introduced its first female evening anchor, Deb Collins.
This news team would lead 10/11 through countless stories and major events and provide the backbone to station heading into the 90's.
The 1970s
The 1970's was a decade of change for the nation and for 10/11.
The station had already made the big jump from black and white to color, but technology kept changing rapidly and the station made the commitment to be on the cutting edge.
In 1971, 10/11 unveiled its first remote vehicle, allowing for the possibility to go live outside of the studio. By 1974 computers were making themselves more and more valuable. Computers were especially helpful during big events like election nights.
The newsroom was still pretty small both in staff and space back then, but commitment to quality was as strong as ever.
As the 70's ended and the 80's began there was a changing of the guard as Bob Taylor handed the reigns to Mel Mains. Another familiar face would emerge as the 80's rolled in.
The 1960s
By the time the 1960's began, KOLN was rolling. As a CBS affiliate, the station had strong national content and in 1961 a transmitter was added in Grand Island creating KGIN and making 10/11 what it is today. The real focus remained on live, local programming. No one knew that better than Leta Powell Drake.
"It was important that we serve the community and that involved community service, getting as many local people in, letting everybody know what was going, as our audience was growing and growing and growing," said Powell Drake. "We did a lot of live programming in those days and it was very fun. A commitment to local programming was the starting point."
Leta would kick off everyone's day with the morning show alongside Sarah Murdock on the piano, John Ludwick with the guitar, and singing Joe Kinney with weather Lloyd Oliver with farm markets, and Sherry Prochaska as another singer.
"It was a combination of everything. Of course we had news, weather and farm market reports. We had the standard. We had many guests. I used to call it a public service junk pile. We wanted to focus on Nebraska since we covered the majority of the state.
CBS chipped in with Captain Kangaroo but then it was back to Lincoln for Romper Room.
It was in the 60's that Leta also made her claim to fame taking the reins of the Cartoon Corral as Kalamity Kate in the afternoons.
The station celebrated it's 10th anniversary in 1963. Lincoln mayor D.L. Tyrrell proclaimed it Television Week.
By the end of the decade 10/11 was a staple in living rooms across the state. As the audience continued to grow so did the station. In order to serve the viewers 10/11 stayed on the cutting edge adding color in 1967.
The 1950s
On February 18, 1953 Nebraska was introduced to KOLN. Originally part of the Dumont Network, 10/11 actually got it's start on Channel 12.
Just getting on the air was a battle back then. The owners wanted to be up and running in 1950, but the FCC said there were already too many television stations. KOLN would have to wait three years to get approval.
Programming started at 5 a.m. that first day. There were 56 hours of shows a week including 20 minutes of news, weather and sports per day.
The Dumont Network provided another 90 minutes of programming a week leaving local programming to fill out the rest. That was an emphasis from the start. KOLN hosted a variety of shows from children's programming like Merry and Mr. Bill to talk shows like Woman's World.
1954 was a big year. The state's largest broadcast tower was built in Beaver Crossing. The coverage area expanded and became known as Lincolnland. That same year KOLN officially became a CBS affiliate and moved to Channel 10.
Owner John Fetzer gave up Channel 12 through a partnership with the University of Nebraska to air educational programming.
Local news aired twice a day at 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. Even though there were fewer shows and people, the mission to bring the latest breaking news as well as the big stories could be seen clearly throughout the first decade.
KOLN was there for president appearances, fires and accidents and in 1958 the station covered it's biggest story to date, the killing spree and capture of Charles Starkweather.
The early years laid a foundation to build on. And it introduced the state to television personalities they would grow to love.


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Crystal Palace boss Tony Pulis has revealed a soft spot for Cardiff City, admitting he would be disappointed to see them relegated from the Premier League.
The Welshman, who presided over a 1-0 win over Chelsea on Saturday to open a five-point gap between the Eagles and the Bluebirds.
Pulis said: "I watched Cardiff when I was a young boy and that was when John Toshack was playing with Ian Gibson in midfield.
"My dad once took me to Cardiff on a Tuesday evening to watch Real Madrid with 50 odd thousand people in the stadium."
He added: "I don't want to see them go down at all. It was lovely to see Cardiff get promoted into the Premier League with Swansea last season.
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Verizon 'Cloud' Marks Broad IT Change, Says Raymond James; FBR Cheers AMD Win
A couple of Street analysts today weighed in on Verizon Communications's (VZ) announcement of its new "Verizon Cloud" cloud computing service, which is intended to go up against offerings such as Amazon.com's (AMZN) Amazon Web Services.
Verizon last week made the main announcement, saying it is going into a beta release with the service in its Culpeper, Virginia data center, and will roll out to six additional facilities in the U.S., Europe, and South America by the middle of next year.
Additionally, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) today announced it is a key supplier for the Verizon facilities. Not only is AMD's "Opteron" chip being used for Verizon's computers, but the compute itself is a so-called micro-server, a product of the startup SeaMicro that AMD bought back in February of 2012.
I had a chance last week to talk with both Verizon's chief technology officer of the cloud, John Considine, formerly with startup CloudSwitch, who is now overseeing what has become of the Terremark acquisition two years ago; and also Andrew Feldman, who was the founder of SeaMicro and now runs AMD's server chip business.
Considine explained that much of the Verizon Cloud follows a pattern that is emerging of data centers being built from computing bricks rather than traditional name-brand gear, tied together with a lot of innovative software: for the rack switching, Verizon developed its own in-house switch software that runs on the SeaMicro boxes. It also developed its own storage software that coordinates the operation of solid-state drives installed inside of each server. Compute and storage can both be made accessible to a ny node in the network. It's all tied together with an aggregation switch from startup Arista Networks.
Raymond James's Michael Turits and colleagues covering tech, media and telecom, write that going up against Amazon's AWS, Verizon "has significant capabilities in this regard, and we believe its formal entry next year has significant implications for the TMT sectors."
Verizon's new offering is targeting much bigger contracts from enterprise customers in the cloud, they write: "Verizon's existing product and price point work for a specific audience, but the bigger dollars are in mass market appeal."
"Thus Verizon is taking its offerings for IaaS and storage to larger-scale customers as it seeks to take share."
The authors note VMware (VMW) loses out by not being the virtualization platform of choice here:
Verizon Cloud will move away from branded hardware and software and toward white box servers and community (not commercial) open source software. We expect Verizon to deploy opensource Xen hypervisors rather than either proprietary software like VMware, or commercial versions of Xen (Citrix, Oracle) or KVM (RedHat). This suggests VMware, Citrix, and RedHat cloud/virtualization software will be bought by smaller, niche IaaS vendors, and in the enterprise private cloud. We believe Open Stack will continue to have a mid to large cloud vendor opportunity, plus private companies with strong IP could be cloud targets, as was CloudSwitch for Verizon.
There are still opportunities for software vendors, though equipment names could feel some pressure:
We do see a compelling opportunity for VMware, RedHat (RHT), and Citrix (CTXS) as well as Microsoft, Oracle and others to help enterprises automate and drive labor costs out of the enterprise "private cloud." The investment will be driven by the need for the enterprise data center to compete on a cost and convenience basis with the public cloud that is already pulling "rogue IT" off site […] Verizon appears to be increasingly embracing non-branded infrastructure solutions as customers are more comfortable running applications on "white box" hardware to reduce costs. While Verizon was not specific about which brands were being displaced, it was clear that this trend would grow over time. This is not good news for key server and storage vendors, particularly as enterprises move more applications to the public cloud. While Verizon suggested that mission critical workloads were still generally residing on premise, it believes this will change as customers gain more comfort with security and service levels […] The trend towards software-centric networks has already pressured network equipment multiples as investors worry about commoditization, margin pressure and disruption. Verizon's announcement, along with AT&T's recent Domain 2.0 initiative, is likely to fuel these existing concerns. Although we believe network equipment suppliers will participate in the evolution, the added risk could pressure companies such as Cisco, Juniper, and F5 Networks in our coverage universe.
And FBR Capital's Christopher Rolland reiterates an Outperform rating on shares of Advanced Micro Devices, and raised his price target to $6 from $5.50, writing that the deal may "provide AMD as much as $50M in incremental annual revenues":
Verizon cloud CTO John Considine revealed that the company has built this new platform on a non-traditional 10U server, with 64 CPUs and integrated fabric, that we believe matches the description of SeaMicro's SM15000. An AMD announcement may follow. While details are scarce, we have done our best to size the Verizon opportunity. We believe Verizon's datacenters may host as many as 30,000 servers in total. Assuming a 3.5-year replacement rate, Verizon may purchase 8,500 servers per year (and perhaps more in the future if the Verizon Cloud program is successful). Each SeaMicro microserver appliance employs 64 CPUs and provides the equivalent of 32 two-socket commodity servers. Therefore, if Verizon were to switch to SeaMicro exclusively for all new servers, this could account for as many as ~268 SeaMicro server appliances annually. While the base cost of the box is approximately $150,000, we believe an average configuration is closer to $185,000. This could result in annual sales of ~$50 million. For perspective, we estimated SeaMicro's total company revenues of $75 million in 2012. As the full product carries at or above company margins, the SeaMicro story is fast becoming a more meaningful part of the AMD story.
Rolland thinks sales of SeaMicro servers could rise form $56 million last year to as much as $500 million by 2016.
Rolland raises his 2013 estimate to an 11-cent loss from a 19-cent loss, with Q3 coming in at perhaps 3 cents and Q4 at 7 cents per share, which is up from his prior estimates for break-even and 4 cents, respectively.
Rolland writes that the outlook for the console gaming business is improving (AMD's chip is in both Microsoft's (MSFT) Xbox One and Sony's (SNE) PlayStation 4), while the company must continue to deal with a weak personal computer market:
Today, we are increasing our gaming console estimates for 2013 (combined 500,000-unit increase) to reflect a greater-than-expected channel build and more meaningfully for 2015 (combined 1 million units) to reflect the Chinese gaming console band lift. We also raised the console APUs' ASPs by $5 to better reflect the prices that we believe they receive for the parts […] Outside of consoles, AMD's core business is muddling through a difficult PC environment and may have stabilized for now.


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The standard features of the Hyundai Santa Fe Sport 2.4L include Theta II 2.4L I-4 185hp engine, 6-speed automatic transmission with overdrive, 4-wheel anti-lock brakes (ABS), side seat mounted airbags, curtain 1st and 2nd row overhead airbags, driver knee airbag, airbag occupancy sensor, air conditioning, 17" aluminum wheels, cruise control, ABS and driveline traction control, electronic stability.
Starting at: $25,350
Lease a 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport 4dr CUV Sport for $249 per month for 24 months with $2,249 due at lease signing.
Closed end lease for 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport 4dr CUV Sport (Model # 63402F45) available from September 6, 2017 through October 2, 2017, to well-qualified lessees approved by Hyundai Motor Finance. Not all lessees will qualify. Higher lease rates apply for lessees with lower credit ratings. Offer shown based on $2,249 due at lease signing (includes $249 first payment and $2,000 capitalized cost reduction). No security deposit required. MSRP $26,245 (includes destination, excludes tax, license, title, registration, documentation fees, options, insurance and the like). Actual net capitalized cost $20,571.63. Net capitalized cost includes $595 acquisition fee. Dealer contribution may vary and could affect actual lease payment. Total monthly payments $5,976.00. Option to purchase at lease end $14,697.20. Lessee is responsible for third-party fees. Third-party fees vary by state or locality. Lessee is also responsible for insurance, maintenance, repairs, $.20 per mile over 12,000 miles/year, excess wear, and a $400 disposition fee. Disposition fee of $400 applies in all states except in CO, IN, IA, KS, ME, OK, SC, WI, WV, & WY, where disposition fee is subject to state law limitations.
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|2.0L Turbo Ultimate Search New
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We found the standard 2.4-liter engine short on fervor, and recommend the 2.0-liter turbo.
Equipped with the turbo, a Santa Fe Sport can acceleration to 60 mph in around seven seconds, a respectable performance, and tow up to 3,500 pounds. While imparting greater confidence for highway passing/merging, the turbo exacts only a slight penalty in fuel economy.
With either engine, shift points for the 6-speed automatic transmission are logical and effective, helping to deliver smooth operation. A manual-shift mode may be actuated at the gearshift lever.
Optional all-wheel drive uses an open center differential to distribute power from the front wheels to the rears, to increase traction when necessary. The AWD system isn't intended for off-roading by any means, but provides all-weather capability on paved surfaces. AWD models incorporate torque vectoring control, which can aid cornering. Ground clearance is 7.3 inches, which is taller than a Sonata sedan, but short of what you get in a Subaru Outback.
Gas mileage is about average, less than impressive with the base 2.4-liter engine, but almost the same with the turbo. With front-wheel drive, the naturally aspirated 2.4-liter engine is EPA-rated at 21/27 mpg City/Highway, or 24 mpg Combined. With all-wheel drive, the EPA estimate for the 2.4-liter drops to 20/26 mpg City/Highway, or 22 mpg Combined. The turbocharged Sport is EPA-rated at 20/28 mpg City/Highway or 23 mpg Combined with front-wheel drive, and 19/26 mpg City/Highway, or 22 mpg Combined, with all-wheel drive.
Santa Fe Sport Ultimate rounds down to slightly less thrifty EPA ratings due to its greater weight.
Hyundai has managed to blend its styling themes quite expertly for the latest Santa Fe Sport, resulting in an appealing compact crossover, sharply styled all-around. Up front, the hexagonal grille is flanked by foglamps and LED-accented headlights. Side sills dominate the rear wheel wells. At the tailgate is a simply balanced layout of glass and taillights.
Dual tailpipes exit at the right rear, enhancing what might be considered the Sport's masculine aura. Dimensionally, the Santa Fe Sport occupies the middle of its category, close in size to the Honda CR-V, Toyota RAV4, and Chevrolet Equinox.
Blending practical features with high-quality materials, the cabin provides more space than most competitors. Leg and knee room are good up front. In a Sport with the available panoramic sunroof, tall drivers might have just enough head clearance. Bottom cushions are sufficiently bolstered, and backrests nicely-shaped.
Centered below the undulating-surface dashboard is a shield-shaped set of controls, flanked by large air vents. Big knobs adjust audio volume and fan speed.
The back seat not only splits and folds, but if leather-upholstered, it slides 5.2 inches fore/aft to accommodate passengers or cargo. Seatbacks recline, too.
With back seats upright, the Sport can hold 35.4 cubic feet of cargo. Fold them down, and volume grows to 71.5 cubic feet (10 more than Hyundai Tucson). Shallow under-the-floor storage can hold a laptop bag. A cargo cover is standard. The front passenger seat folds flat, when space is needed to carry long objects.
With its sizable standard-features lists, the Santa Fe Sport comes across as good value, even in upper turbo trim levels, though the price differential is significant. Gas mileage doesn't excel, and the less-costly base engine is somewhat lifeless, making the turbo a better choice, especially when you consider the additional features that are included.
Driving impressions by Aaron Cole, The Car Connection. James M. Flammang contributed to this report.
The 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport ($25,350) comes with the 2.4-liter engine, cruise control, remote keyless entry, daytime running lights, LED-accented projector headlights, cargo cover, and 17-inch alloy wheels. The AM/FM/SiriusXM/CD player has auxiliary and USB ports, Bluetooth with audio streaming, and six speakers. (All prices are MSRP and do not include destination charge.) Optional Premium and Tech Packages add features.
Santa Fe Sport 2.0T ($31,700) upgrades to the 2.0-liter turbocharged engine and leather seating surfaces, heated power front seats, a leather-wrapped steering wheel; dual-zone automatic climate control; hands-free power liftgate; keyless ignition; blind-spot monitoring with rear cross-traffic alert and lane-change assist; 7.0-inch display audio, Blue Link telematics, and 18-inch wheels.
Santa Fe Sport 2.0T Ultimate ($36,500) adds a panoramic sunroof, Infinity premium audio with 8.0-inch touchscreen, heated steering wheel, ventilated front seats, heated rear seats, 19-inch wheels, HID headlights, rear parking sensors, and surround-view cameras.
All-wheel drive ($1,750) is available on all models. Front-wheel drive is standard.
Seven airbags are standard, including a driver's knee airbag.
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I've tried a lot of variations of mashed cauliflower through the years, and it's the creamy goat cheese that makes this The Best Pureed Cauliflower (in my humble opinion!) and this is the one I make over and over. But I realize that goat cheese is an acquired taste, so if you don't like goat cheese, try it with another type of creamy cheese.
(The Best Pureed Cauliflower with Garlic, Parmesan, and Goat Cheese was updated with new photos and better instructions, November 2012.)
Pureed (or Mashed) Cauliflower with Garlic, Parmesan, and Goat Cheese
1 large head cauliflower, cut into small same-size flowerets
1 tsp. minced garlic or 2-3 garlic cloves
1 T half and half or cream (if needed)
2-3 T grated Parmesan cheese (depending on size of cauliflower)
2-3 T goat cheese (depending on size of cauliflower)
salt/pepper to taste
Put cauliflower back into the pan you cooked it in and turn heat on very low. Add Parmesan, goat cheese, and season with salt and pepper. Heat 2-3 minutes, stirring constantly so it does not stick to the bottom. Serve hot, with a little freshly grated Parmesan on top if desired.
Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
This would be a perfect side dish for any phase of The South Beach Diet and other types of low-carb eating plans. It does have two types of cheese, so I'd serve it with something that's low in fat if you're following South Beach.
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More Special Occasion Cauliflower Ideas You Might Like:
Instant Pot (or Stovetop) Loaded Cauliflower Mash ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Cheesy Cauliflower "Tater Tots" ~ I Breathe, I'm Hungry
Low-Carb Twice-Baked Cauliflower ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Cauliflower with Pine Nuts and Bacon ~ Simply Recipes
Roasted Cauliflower with Red Bell Pepper, Green Olives, and Pine Nuts ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Low-Carb Ham and Cheese Cauliflower Fritters ~ All Day I Dream About Food
Instant Pot (or Stovetop) Low-Carb Loaded Cauliflower Soup ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Cheesy Broccoli Cauiliflower Casserole ~ Spend with Pennies
Cauliflower Gratin with Sharp Cheddar and Parmesan ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Creamy Cauliflower Sauce ~ Barefeet in the Kitchen
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Dislikes: Bevel adjustment requires an Allen wrench; a $328 saw should cut more on a single charge.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Jurors in West Palm Beach have awarded a mentally challenged girl $1.7 million for the trauma suffered when she was raped on a school bus in 2007.
The jury deliberated a little more than two hours Wednesday. But the Palm Beach Post reports the girl's attorneys must now persuade the Florida Legislature to lift a cap on jury awards. That's because under state law, government agencies in 2007 could only be forced to pay $100,000 for injuries resulting in their wrongdoing.
Jurors rejected the school district's argument that the girl was too young and too mentally disabled to understand what a 15-year-old disabled student did to her.
After the incident, the school district decided that younger students could no longer ride on buses with older children.
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Ted Williams is honored at the 1999 All-Star Game
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Multisport training, like any other type of athletic endurance training, requires commitment to a plan. If you're married, it also means scheduling your training to keep your relationship from suffering neglect. When you have both children and spouse in the picture, balance becomes even more critical to everyone's well being.
If you're treading in these waters for the first time, it's important to share your plan with those who'll be affected by "your new found passion" for training in multiple sports. What follows are my suggestions for keeping the peace in the household, while still maintaining a training schedule that helps you meet your goals. Since I'm male, I will use the word "she" in this case as if I'm referring to a female spouse. Hey, I gotta go with what I know, right?
Let Her Know!!
Let her know what you're training will entail and what the goal will be. When you start spending more time at the gym, pool, on the bike or running, it's a definite time to have her on your side. Just saying you want to do a triathlon for example, may not be enough. When she says, "Tri-ath-a-what?" you know you've got some "splaining" to do, Lucy. If it's something you've been curious about for some time, and she knows this, then your approach might be that you think the time is right to test the waters. On the other hand, if you've just found out "we're pregnant" as the saying goes, you could be in for more than you bargained for and might want to reevaluate your timing. I'm just saying…
Be Transparent With Your Schedule
Our family uses a whiteboard calendar to keep track of everybody's commitments throughout the month. If you can simply jot down your schedule for the week, everyone will know why you're not at the dinner table. I put morning workouts towards the top of the day, and evening towards the bottom. Simple words like swim, bike or run in the appropriate areas will do wonders at keeping things from becoming a surprise, when you're expected to be at that violin recital everyone else is heading to.
If you can involve her willingly, in some way, she'll feel like she's a part of your new found lifestyle, and resentment towards your training will be lessened. Maybe you can solicit her help in planning weekly meals to ensure you're getting enough energy, then offer to do the grocery shopping. Depending on what length of event you're training for, food can play a bigger part in how you feel on a daily basis. Nobody wants to hang out with someone who's continually cranky due to a lack of energy. If you feel there's something in your nutrition that needs tweaking, the "I'd like to try…" approach works ten times better than the "Why didn't you put xxx on the list?"
Is There A Common Interest Of Participation?
Does she participate in any of the sports you're training in? I'm very fortunate in that my wife is a triathlete, too, who's been working her way up the distance ranks. She found a passion in swimming, learning only a few years back, and is now pretty fearless in the water. One thing she'd always do is treat her goggles with Baby Shampoo after each use. I'd never heard of this, and just suffered with fogging goggles as a fact of life. One day I asked her if she'd do the same thing to my goggles. Soon enough she was asking me to hand them over so she could get them ready for their next session. It was this little thing she did, that solved such an annoyance, and made me think about her when I'd swim "fog-free". Let her know it's appreciated too.
Do Your Share
Training does not give you a pass on things like dirty dishes, toilets or laundry. You have to continue to pitch in and do your share. Since the chances are that your pile of dirty laundry and water bottles will be growing, expect to do what needs to be done to keep them taken care of, and then some. You're tired, that's a given, but life goes on. No one is going to automatically clean your favorite training jersey, water bottle or bike shorts. Step up as you usually do and do what needs to be done.
Rest Days Are Not The Same As Recovery Days
Rest days are total "off" days from training. They are typically built into the schedule preceding high volume or high intensity days. These are the days to plan for activities within your other life, that of husband, father, gardener etc. They might not always happen on the same day, so this is where being transparent becomes important. Is there something she's been wanting to do with you? Is there a movie she wants you to see? Maybe she just wants to go for a walk and enjoy some time with you? This is the time to do it, and do so without fuss or bother. You might be tired out, but you have an opportunity to spend time with her and make her feel important. And unless she asks, she's not going to want to hear a play-by-play rundown of the last training week. Give it a break, reconnect if only for a little while, and enjoy the off day.
Keep The Peace
You may find that your training requires some pretty early morning wake-ups. If you plan ahead and have your gear ready the night before, you can avoid having to turn lights on to find that missing piece of gear. Up and out the door at 5:00 a.m. can be an un-Godly hour for a swim or run, much less getting up period, for the rest of the family. Minimizing their sleep disturbance is the goal. They will be much happier with you. I put my gear bag in another room that minimizes light pollution into their bedrooms.
At The Race
Asking for help from other family members can pay big dividends in your sanity too. If you're traveling to a big race that includes some family-vacation time, have them search local attractions that might be of interest to them. Being able to tune out of your schedule leading up to race day is healthy for them and for you, as well. In the case of an Ironman event, the athletes have certain responsibilities and commitments (check-ins, briefings, test-swims etc.) that pull you in different directions and can eat up a fair amount of time while standing in line. Make sure they have something to occupy their time and catch their breath as well.
Your most supportive fans are usually the ones living under the same roof as you. Be good to them and life as a multisport athlete will be good to you.