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Cost-efficacy of Silver Diammine Fluoride in Erupting Molars
This study is currently recruiting participants.
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Last updated: May 25, 2016
Last verified: May 2016
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Detailed Description:
This study aims to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of 30% silver diammine fluoride in the treatment of clinically caries lesions in enamel, on occlusal surfaces in first permanent molars compared to a control group that performs only the cross-toothbrushing technique and evaluate the acceptability and satisfaction of patients and responsible for the application of the solution cariostatic.
|Dental Caries
|Other: 30% silver diammine fluoride Behavioral: Oral hygiene
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Cost-efficacy of Silver Diammine Fluoride to Control Caries Lesions in Erupting Permanent First Molars - Randomized Clinical Trial.
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MedlinePlus related topics: Tooth Decay
Drug Information available for: Fluorine FluorideU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Mariana Minatel Braga, University of Sao Paulo:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Caries progression [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- cost [ Time Frame: 24 months ]
- patient's satisfaction [ Time Frame: 24 months ]
- patient's discomfort [ Time Frame: 24 months ]
- duration [ Time Frame: 24 months ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|February 2015
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|August 2018
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|August 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: 30% silver diammine fluoride
The 30% silver diamine fluoride (Cariestop, Biodinamica) will be applied in erupting molars with a disposable microbrush for 3m. Then the surface will be washed for 30s.
Other: 30% silver diammine fluoride
The 30% silver diamine fluoride (Cariestop, Biodinamica) will be applied with a disposable microbrush for 3m. Then the surface will be washed for 30s.
Anteroposterior toothbrushing technique will be explained to the children.
Other Names:
Active Comparator: cross-toothbrushing
Children will be oriented to proceed cross-toothbrushing in erupting molars
Behavioral: Oral hygiene
With the patient's own brush, supervised brushing the erupting molar with fluoridated toothpaste will be guided using the cross-toothbrushing technique
Other Name: Toothbrush
Detailed Description:
The sample will be comprised of 183 patients between 4 to 7 year-old, who present at least occlusal surface with initial caries lesion (ICDAS 1, 2, 3). Patients will be randomly allocated to treatments, according to the technique to be employed: (I) 30% diamine silver fluoride, (II) cross-toothbrushing technique. Will also be guided and motivated individual, where these children will be taught the technique of brushing conventional. It will be given to all patients a toothbrush. In times of reassessment, the degree of wear of the bristles of these brushes will be evaluated in order to infer the use of the same. The teeth will be evaluated by clinical and exams at baseline and after 3, 6, 12, 18 and 24 months.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|4 Years to 7 Years (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- erupting permanent molars (that are not in full occlusion)
- not special children
- children who present at least occlusal surface with initial caries lesion (ICDAS 1, 2, 3)
Exclusion Criteria:
- presence of cavitated caries lesions
- presence of enamel defects (hypoplasias)
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01508611
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01508611
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|Contact: Luciana P Antonio, DDS
|Universidade de Sao Paulo
|Sao Paulo, Brazil, 55
|Contact: Mariana M Braga, PhD 55 11 30917835 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Mariana M Braga, PhD
|Sub-Investigator: Andrezza M Matthiesen, DDS
|Sub-Investigator: Luciana P Antonio, DDS
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Braga MM, Mendes FM, De Benedetto MS, Imparato JC. Effect of silver diammine fluoride on incipient caries lesions in erupting permanent first molars: a pilot study. J Dent Child (Chic). 2009 Jan-Apr;76(1):28-33.
Chu CH, Lo EC, Lin HC. Effectiveness of silver diamine fluoride and sodium fluoride varnish in arresting dentin caries in Chinese pre-school children. J Dent Res. 2002 Nov;81(11):767-70.
Ekstrand KR, Martignon S, Ricketts DJ, Qvist V. Detection and activity assessment of primary coronal caries lesions: a methodologic study. Oper Dent. 2007 May-Jun;32(3):225-35.
Ekstrand KR, Ricketts DN, Kidd EA, Qvist V, Schou S. Detection, diagnosing, monitoring and logical treatment of occlusal caries in relation to lesion activity and severity: an in vivo examination with histological validation. Caries Res. 1998;32(4):247-54.
Ismail AI, Sohn W, Tellez M, Amaya A, Sen A, Hasson H, Pitts NB. The International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS): an integrated system for measuring dental caries. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2007 Jun;35(3):170-8.
Llodra JC, Rodriguez A, Ferrer B, Menardia V, Ramos T, Morato M. Efficacy of silver diamine fluoride for caries reduction in primary teeth and first permanent molars of schoolchildren: 36-month clinical trial. J Dent Res. 2005 Aug;84(8):721-4.
|Responsible Party:
|Mariana Minatel Braga, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Sao Paulo
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01508611 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|December 20, 2011
|Last Updated:
|May 25, 2016
Keywords provided by Mariana Minatel Braga, University of Sao Paulo:
dental caries
permanent teeth
silver diamine fluoride
tooth eruption
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Dental Caries
Tooth Demineralization
Tooth Diseases
Stomatognathic Diseases
Cariostatic Agents
Protective Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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NEW ORLEANS e_SEnDClassic-rock act Fleetwood Mac, singer-pianist Billy Joel, major contemporary pop group Maroon 5 and Frank Ocean, a New Orleans native whose major-label debut, "Channel ORANGE," has six Grammy nominations, are among the hundreds of acts announced for this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
The festival takes place April 26 through April 28 and May 2 through May 5 at the Fair Grounds Race Course.
Other national acts announced include John Mayer, the singer-guitarist who canceled his appearance at last year's festival because of a throat ailment; the Black Keys, featuring singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach, producer of Dr. John's Grammy-nominated 2012 album, "Locked Down"; veteran pop duo Daryl Hall and John Oates; jam-band favorite Widespread Panic; 66-year-old punk-rock poet Patti Smith; returning classic country act Willie Nelson; and, another act that has made multiple Jazz Fest appearances, the Dave Matthews Band.
The 44th annual Jazz Fest also features its signature array of Louisiana talent. New Orleans staples Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas and 82-year-old traditional jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain are on the bill, as well as such young talent as Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, singer-fiddler Amanda Shaw, Cajun bands the Pine Leaf Boys and Red Stick Ramblers and, the 24-year-old singer-guitarist from Baton Rouge who won Guitar Center's 2011 King of the Blues competition, Jonathon "Boogie" Long.
Marquee name Fleetwood Mac, featuring four of five members from the group's most famous lineup — Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie — topped Thursday's Jazz Fest's announcement list of acts.
"We're not only getting them together to play, we're getting them to play at an outdoor festival," Quint Davis, Jazz Fest's longtime producer-director, said Thursday. "There was a lot of convincing to get them here, but we have an advantage because people know our festival and like it."
Those people include Fleetwood Mac's managers, Howard Kaufman and Irving Azoff. Kaufman manages Jimmy Buffett, a Jazz Fest performer and fan. Azoff manages the Eagles, one of last year's headliners.
"Both of them have first-hand experience doing the festival," Davis said. "So when they went to Fleetwood Mac, they said, 'Look, I know you don't normally do this, but we really want you to play Jazz Fest. It's gonna be great.'
"When the acts come here," Davis added, "we know they're going to have a great experience, but if they haven't been here before, maybe they don't know."
After years of trying to book the Black Keys, Davis said, the group is playing this year. Auerbach wanted to join Dr. John on stage at the festival last year but his touring schedule didn't allow it.
"The Black Keys, that's a perfect Jazz Fest band, rootsy, bluesy, a real musical act," Davis said.
All four of the Neville Brothers, the New Orleans band of brothers who traditionally closed Jazz Fest's final Sunday, will return this year, but in new configurations.
A Neville group without Aaron Neville — the Nevilles, featuring Art, Charles and Cyril Neville and more Neville family members — will perform Sunday, April 28.
Aaron Neville, who's releasing his new solo album next week, will play a solo set Sunday, May 5.
"This is his moment to be Aaron Neville, where he started," Davis said. "He's kind of slipped off from the brothers, but now there's a group called the Nevilles, with actually has even more Nevilles in it. The Nevilles are doing their hard-core R&B thing, and Aaron is doing his crooning, doo-wop thing. So they're all going forward and, of course, we jumped at the chance to put all of them on."
Other fresh combinations of veteran Jazz Fest performers include the Meter Men, featuring original Meters George Porter Jr., Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste and Leo Nocentelli with Phish singer-keyboardist Page McConnell.
Although Ocean isn't currently performing or touring, his memories of attending Jazz Fest while he was growing up in New Orleans inspired him to join this year's lineup.
Davis, whose association with Jazz Fest dates to its 1970 start, is particularly proud of such nuts-and-bolts but essential accomplishments as getting some 5,000 New Orleans musicians to perform on time year after year.
"There's no such thing as that in the real world," he said. "We have 65 concerts a day that start and stop on time. So that's a whole team doing ground transportation and staging and sound and catering and dressing rooms."
Advanced single-day tickets for Jazz Fest are $45 through Jan. 29, and $50 thereafter. The gate price ticket is $65. Children's tickets (ages 2-10) are $5 and are available at the gate only.
Single-day tickets to Jazz Fest are on sale for specific weekends, with each ticket valid for a single day's attendance. Tickets are available at http://www.nojazzfest.com and http://www.ticketmaster.com, at all Ticketmaster outlets or by calling (800) 745-3000.


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OPPOSITION Tories on Southend Council claim they would have grilled a waste firm instead of just dumping them.
The Independent, Labour, and Lib Dem administration in charge of Southend Council announced it was binning Cory Environmental, which has collected rubbish in Southend for 20 years, in August, when their contract expires in 2015.
The opposition Tories, kicked out by the new administration in May, claim the decision should have been open to more scrutiny.
Cory failed at the first hurdle of the tender process, where companies are invited to bid for the new contract.
Mark Flewitt, Conservative councillor representing St Laurence ward, said: "We would have immediately referred this perverse decision to the Waste Management Working Party with the likely outcome that Cory remain in the process to ensure this is a safe decision."


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With a voice calm and steady, barely a trace of an accent, BlackBerry at his hip and shirt sleeves rolled up just enough to reveal the tattoo on his left forearm from Auschwitz-Brikenau, Holocaust survivor Nate Leipciger, 83, spoke to some 20 adults and about 50 Grade 8 students at Deer Park Library in Toronto recently. He gave a detailed account of unimaginable strength, bravery, heartbreak and sorrow. And the group of 13-year-olds, not a single Jewish child among them, listened with reverence. He made everyone, even the adults, feel at ease. "I was just your age," he said, looking at the teenagers, "that is where my story begins." The children had many questions, and when Leipciger answered, he spoke gently and chose his words carefully. He also referred to Armenia, Rwanda and Darfur. This is what happens when people hate, he cautioned.
My friend's grandmother died last week. At the funeral, I sat with my mother, and a row of old women sat behind us speaking Yiddish. "Listen," mother said, "you don't hear that much anymore. Soon you won't hear it at all. Who will tell their stories when they go?"
Leipciger spoke on the 73rd anniversary of Kristallnacht. I didn't realize until he had finished speaking that it had been raining the whole time. And, just for a moment, the rain looked like glass.
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Prof. Cameron Johnston does not owe anyone an apology ("Professor's comment raises tensions at York," Sept. 22). Cameron was alluding to the opinion that all Jews should be sterilized to illustrate his point that "opinion" was not relevant to his course and that everyone is not entitled to his own opinion. Many people once held the opinion that Jews should be sterilized: perhaps some still do. If professors are to be expected to shelter students from the unpleasant facts about genocides and other mass atrocities on the grounds that they might be "offended" by reality, we might as well all pack up all our texts and read fairy tales to them instead.
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
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Thank you to columnist Avrum Rosensweig for his praise of the warmth of Shabbat services at Toronto's Congregation Darchei Noam ("Yom Kippur: staring at your own eyes," Oct. 6). CJN readers are invited to join us any Shabbat to share Rosensweig's feeling of being "so welcomed, more than at any other shul we've visited." And should you wish to be hosted by a congregant during your visit to our beautiful synagogue, please contact our office.
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Election victory ignored
I was disappointed not to see any coverage of Jonah Schein's election victory as the New Democratic Party MPP for Davenport riding in The CJN last month. Among other aspects, this is another good news story about the renewal of the Jewish community of downtown Toronto.
David Orenstein
Editor's note: The CJN has been trying to arrange an interview with Jonah Schein since his election. We hope to publish one in the near future.
What purpose in the signs?
For weeks I have observed and pondered about the purpose and value of blue-and-white signs scattered throughout the area with the words "Jewish Toronto Lives Here." At first I thought, cynically, it would give antisemite's direction on where to write their hateful graffiti. But then that made no sense, since the signs were deliberately placed by a Jewish organization. Then I wondered if other religious groups followed suit and placed signs such as "Christian Torontonians and Muslim Torontonians Live Here," if that would then create an eyesore throughout the area, again with no obvious discernible purpose for the presence of the signs in the first place. As a result, I have concluded that the signs are a colossal waste of money and serve no useful purpose and should immediately be removed by the organization that spread them in the first place.
Bert Raphael
Thornhill, Ont.
Antisemitism in Lithuania
That the swastika is still part of the Lithuanian culture is not really surprising ("The swastika is a 'historical legacy' in Lithuania," Nov. 10). During World War II, even the Nazis were taken aback at the bestial cruelty of their Lithuanian guards toward their Jewish prisoners. They were the "guards of choice" to man the freight cars transporting Jews to the death camps and were even referred to by their German overlords as "mad dogs." Random firing of their guns into the crowded cars was an amusing pastime. This kind of psychopathic hatred of Jews is, as you pointed out, historical in nature. The obvious reason why it has not been rooted out after so many years can only be explained by the fact that both the government and the clergy of Lithuania do not consider it a problem but merely a fact of life that's too unimportant to criticize or even address.
Mortimer Levy
Mount Sinai Hospital board election
Running to be one of the public representatives on the board of directors of Mount Sinai Hospital was an exhilarating, but draining experience (New Mount Sinai board members seek change," Nov. 10). On election day, the hospital administration took the unusual step of changing the legally prescribed registration form to require voters to agree in writing that they could not vote if they had or intended to cast a ballot at any other health-care institution on the island of Montreal. This was in direct contradiction to guidelines issued by the Agence. No other health and social service institution – not the McGill University Health Centre, nor the Jewish General Hospital, nor Batshaw Youth and Family Centres, nor Miriam Home and Services – attempted to impose such a requirement.
In my frustration over what I considered to have been improper conduct by the administration, my comments on election night to The CJN went too far. Mount Sinai has an excellent and well-deserved reputation for quality care provided by a dedicated team of health-care professionals. In no way were my remarks intended to detract or imply criticism of the excellent group of health-care professionals who work so hard to serve our community. I presented my candidacy for election because Mount Sinai is important and because I believe it is time for renewal. As a member of the board, I will dedicate myself to working with my colleagues to ensuring Mount Sinai remains a leader in its field and a vital part of our health and social services network. I look forward to collaborating with and supporting the professional team at Mount Sinai as we strive to preserve and enhance this critical institution's reputation and performance.
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I am really new to disc golf and as much as I am enjoying it I am not clear with the terminology, obviously being a lefty skews my view but here is my Q -
Are disc flight characteristics named because of disc rotation or flight path? If I, a lefty, throw a backhand, ccw spin, and it curves to the right is that still a hyzer? I throw sidearm, cw spin, opposite of my backhand spin, but it is the same spin as a righty backhand - is a lefty hyzer the same flight path as a righty or is it opposite.
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Wieland to play catch on mound next Monday
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Pitcher Joe Wieland, who is recovering from reconstructive elbow surgery last year, will finally get to stand atop a mound on Monday.
"It's not going to be a bullpen and it's playing catch from 45 feet," Wieland said Tuesday. "It's not going to be that big of a deal; but at the same time it is."
Wieland, who had Tommy John surgery on his right elbow last July, was recently moved to the 60-day disabled list to create room on the 40-man roster.
He's currently throwing at 150 feet and will have two more sessions from that length before getting on a mound for the first time since May 6, his last start with the Padres before he began to experience discomfort in the elbow.
In terms of his rehabilitation, Wieland couldn't be happier with his progress.
"I think it's gone as planned if not better," said Wieland, who was 0-4 with a 4.55 ERA in five starts. "I've had no pain, nothing that's even questionable. I feel great, feel strong."
Wieland has no doubt that he'll pitch in a game this season, even if it's September.
"The training staff has been great. They're keeping me on the right track," he said. "So as long as I keep listening to them, I should be ready to go."
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The Twin Platte Natural Resources District will hold two information sessions on the "water farm" project on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The first session will be from 1:30–3:30 p.m. MT at the Lake McConaughy Visitor Center, 1475 Hwy 61, Ogallala.
The second session will be from 1:30–3:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Holiday Inn Express, 300 Holiday Frontage Rd, North Platte.
The public is invited to both meetings.
The Twin Platte Natural Resources District has partnered with three Natural Resources Districts along the Republican River basin in Nebraska to develop the water farm -- the largest stream flow enhancement project of its kind in the state.
Supporters say the landmark project is the most cost-effective way to aid and protect the Republican and Platte Rivers and ensure long-term compliance with interstate water agreements.
Supporters also say the "water farm" will protect the agricultural economy in west central Nebraska -- one of the most productive agricultural areas in the region.
The water from the farm will be enough for the Twin Platte NRD to fully meet its required efforts to return Platte River conditions to 1997 levels and meet the state of Nebraska's obligations under the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program, according to a statement from the Twin Platte NRD.
Along the Platte, NRDs are responsible for returning the basin to water supply-and-demand conditions that existed in 1997. That will ultimately reverse a state designation of "over-appropriated" groundwater to "fully-appropriated" under state law.
The water from the farm would also be enough to close most of the gap between supplies and demand in the Republican River, under a three-state compact that guarantees Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas a fair share of river water.
Nebraska has trouble meeting its compact obligations during exceptionally dry years, officials say.
The four NRDs partnering on the project are -- Upper Republican NRD based in Imperial; Middle Republican NRD based in Curtis; Lower Republican NRD based in Alm; and the Twin Platte NRD based in North Platte.
Like other NRDs across the state, the four NRDs are charged with managing groundwater use by balancing environmental, economic, and legal requirements for water, according to the Twin Platte NRD statement.
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Although arts and crafts remains one of the top categories year after year, tests such as the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking show that kids are becoming less and less creative. Last month at Toy Fair, I had the opportunity to meet with Creativity for Kids, who, in an effort to get kids back on track and do some good at the same time, has created the Creativity Can.
The Creativity Can is a small, cardboard container featuring a variety of traditional craft materials—such as pipe cleaners, yarn, googly eyes, and scraps of paper—and no instructions. The can encourages people of all ages to dream, imagine, and create whatever comes to mind.
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D'Qwell Jackson, knocked out of the game against the Giants in the first half last week with a concussion, plans to play against the Bengals on Sunday.
Jackson returned to practice Thursday after being rested Wednesday. He had to receive clearance from doctors and pass baseline tests before taking the field.
"I'm full go," Jackson said. "I passed all the tests. I'm rested. I feel fine."
Jackson said he felt fine about five minutes after getting sandwiched between two Giants offensive linemen with 2:31 left in the second quarter. He did not want to be a super hero and try to return to the game, however. He has learned enough about the long-term effects of head trauma to listen to the doctors and trainers that ordered him to sit. He did not have a choice.
"I want to be more informed about it," Jackson said. "You have to protect the player from himself. That was my first one. I thought I was fine, but the people were tending to me said I wasn't.
"You never know what kind of damage you can do in the long term. Once you affect your head, it's about long term. This is about me having a family one day. I can't jeopardize myself like that."
The Giants ran wild after Jackson was knocked out. Ahmad Bradshaw rushed for 135 yards on 17 carries and David Wilson 40 yards on one carry when Jackson wasn't playing. That's an average of 9.7 yards a carry.
"I don't think I was the big piece to hold that together," Jackson said modestly. "We couldn't stop the bleeding once it started. Me coming back, hopefully we can cut that down. We haven't done a great job stopping the run. It's no secret.
"Last week was last week. This is a new week to show we can play a solid game. That's every phase of the game -- offense, special teams and defense."
The Browns gave up an 81-yard punt return for a touchdown plus three passing touchdowns and 375 yards the last time they faced the Bengals. They also churned out 439 yards offensively.
Injury update
Linebacker Scott Fujita did not practice Thursday because of neck and shoulder injuries. He was limited in practice Wednesday.
Defensive tackle Ahtyba Rubin had to miss practice again because of a calf injury, increasing the possibility rookies John Hughes and Billy Winn will start at defensive tackle.
"You don't want to lose Rube," defensive coordinator Dick Jauron said. "It's another one of those situations where a starter leaves the lineup and it's just not good. Rube is a quiet leader for us so we don't want him off the field.
"We don't really have any problems nor choices with John and Billy, but they've played at a high level and they're getting better."
Cornerback Dimitri Patterson (ankle) and safety Tashaun Gipson (knee) also missed practice.
Lewis waived
Third quarterback Thad Lewis was waived Thursday. The move creates a roster spot for Joe Haden. Haden is practicing with a roster exemption after returning from his four-week suspension for violating the league's performance enhancement policy.
Another roster move is expected to create a spot for practice squad wide receiver Josh Cooper.
Taylor time
Defensive tackle Phil Taylor can come off the Physically Unable to Perform list and start practicing Monday.
"He looks great," Coach Pat Shurmur said. "We're hopeful he'll be back soon. Let's just say this: I think he'll be right on schedule."
Taylor has been cautious since undergoing surgery in May to repair a turn pectoral and he is not changing that stance.
"The P.U.P. is Monday, but that doesn't mean I'm coming back," Taylor said. "I'm just waiting and taking it day by day.
"I feel good. I'm taking it slow. I'm not trying to overwork it. I'm just taking it one day at a time."
Taylor was injured lifting weights in the offseason. Starting Monday, the Browns have three weeks to decide whether to put him on the active roster.


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8 people have to be seated at a round banquet table. The seats are number 1-8. For this teaser, 5 is opposite 1, 6 is opposite 2 and so on. Likewise, "next to" means one of the neighboring seats only. i.e., 8 is next to 1 and 7.
A and H are the only French speaking people on the table. They need to be seated together.
B and F should sit opposite each other.
C, F, and G all know Russian, but don't necessarily need to sit next to each other. In fact, G wants to sit next to someone who knows French.
D is English and insists on sitting next to at least one other English speaking person, and pat opposite the good looking H. E is the only other English speaker in the group, but he wants to sit next to someone who knows Russian.
G agrees to sit next to F only on condition that the other side must have a French speaker. C does not sit next to either of them.
C however, agrees to sit next to B, who is the only Bavarian in the group.
A will not sit next to a Russian or an English speaker.
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Giving the guy life is completely ridiculous. He was working at his job, and he had two guys come in and threaten his and his co-worker's lives. He shoots the guy and now we're sending him to prison for life. Let's protect the criminals even more should we?
Was he wrong in going back a second time to shoot him? Probably. But I don't know how I would act in that situation, and we really don't know what shape the kid was in on the floor. Maybe he was still alive but barely. What if he was packing heat in his pocket or something? Oh snap, now we are talking about a dead pharmacist! Bottom line is when these guys decided to rob a store and point guns at people, they should realize that a very real consequence is that they are going to die. From what we know about this pharmacist he was an upstanding citizen in our society, not hurting anyone until someone
Even if he used a coup de grace defense, I wouldn't buy it. He wasn't the alpha male for all of 5 seconds.
The losing stops later.
And for all we know, the 16 year old was an honor student who needed the money to pay for his mother's surgery. Point is we don't know, so it's useless to make assumptions.
In Oklahoma, like most states, teenagers charged with first degree murder are tried as adults. In Oklahoma 13 year olds are required to be tried as adults if charged with 1st degree murder:
Thus the kid's age would have made zero difference in a legal sense.
Without getting into legal definitions though, JayStubbs brought up his age to point out that this "punk" was someone who would not be held to the same standards in many cases as someone who was an adult.
I will say that if Oklahoma has a law that makes anyone involved in an armed robbery in which someone was killed, eligible to be tried for first degree murder, than it might be possible for these kids would be tried as adults, even if they never fired a shot. Regardless, SeaRay has a good point.
But you are correct about my main point. The owner clearly saw that this was a teenage kid, and shot him five times in cold blood. That is more heinous than shooting someone who was in their 20's or older, imo.
The kid that attempted to rob that store, though young, still made that decision to commit a felony. I don't know that the pharmacist needed to shoot the kid over and over, but if he felt threatened, then he acted in self defense. If that kid had gotten his hands on all of those pharmaceutical products, he could have sold them on the streets and those who purchased the illegal substances from him could have killed several more people. Who is to say that if the kid gets away with all those drugs that the person he sells them to doesn't get behind the wheel of a car under the influence of said substances and cause an accident, killing themselves or others?
Everything you mentioned in the 1st paragraph was well within the pharmacists rights.
It's the racing out of the store, coming back into the store, grabbing a second gun and shooting a barely conscious human being 5 times that was illegal. Once the pharmacist came back in, he was in no danger of being killed. Even if he could make the argument that he didn't know if the kid had a gun, or would attack him, when he went to the back room and grabbed a 2nd gun, he clearly became the aggressor. Once he does that, he goes from defending himself to killing a person.
I think the big question here is this:
Does this pharmacist deserve a life sentence? That's what the jury came back with. I say no way although I do think he should serve about 5 yrs .
Please chime in. Is a life sentence appropriate?
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Pastornicky glad to be back with Braves
DENVER -- Tyler Pastornicky's return to the Braves roster came on less than ideal conditions. He got a late night call Monday night and flew into cold and snowy Denver early Tuesday morning in time for a split doubleheader, with temperatures ranging from 23 to 30 degrees. He also pinch-hit on Wednesday, flying out to lead off the 12th inning.
It's not the best situation to come off the bench for the first time of the season, but the infielder, up from Triple-A after Jason Heyward was placed on the disabled list, was happy to be back with the club he played 76 games for in 2012, starting as the Opening Day shortstop.
"I was born and raised in Florida, so I never had to deal with any kind of temperature like that," Pastornicky said of his pinch-hit fly out in Game 2. "It was definitely an experience. I put a good swing on the ball. It was fun to get up there and get an at-bat the first day I was here. I'm ready to help the team."
Pastornicky's performance at Triple-A Gwinnett confirms his readiness. In 18 games to start the season, he hit .351 (26-for-74) with six doubles, one homer, and seven RBIs.
"I had a great spring, and it just kind of carried over from there with my confidence," Pastornicky said, noting that he's made no changes in his approach or mechanics at the plate. "The biggest thing that I've changed is the confidence thing, knowing that I can play here and going through what I did last year, and having fun -- not putting so much pressure on myself. Last year, I put too much pressure on myself. It kind of limited what I could do when I was out there, rather than going out there and having fun. That's what I tried to do in spring, and it worked, and it's working in Triple-A."
During Spring Training and at Triple-A, Pastornicky has been making a transition from shortstop to second base, starting 14 games at second, two at short, and two as a designated hitter.
"Second's come pretty easy to me," Pastornicky said. "Especially coming from short. Short's a tough position. Any time you move to a position coming from short it's going to seem a little easier. It's definitely been good. I think I've made the transition pretty well."
The biggest challenge has been working with a variety of double-play partners through Grapefruit League and Triple-A, staying flexible and being ready to adapt in situations that have been consistently changing.
"You have to get used to it," Pastornicky said. "Everyone likes a different feed. Everyone likes the ball thrown to a different spot. You just kind of feel each other out and learn each other's tendencies and go from there."
What was new in Spring Training was getting some game experience in the outfield.
"It was actually my first inning I've ever played ever, my whole life, in the outfield," Pastonicky said. "I think I ended up playing maybe seven or eight innings. It went well. I made a couple plays. I did a lot of early work last year, and I continue to do a lot of early work, so I felt prepared. If I need to get out there, I will. It's not an issue.
"If you can play a lot of positions, hopefully they'll find a place for you."
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The Biggest Bet in Vegas
Impresario Steve Wynn has broken ground on a $1.95 billion hotel, Le Reve
Steve Wynn is back. Steve Wynn is back. This is the hopeful drumbeat that echoes from one end of the Las Vegas Strip to the other. Nervous competitors -- hotel executives who've seen their fortunes take a post-9/11 tumble, initiated massive job cuts, and watched seemingly unbridled construction grind to a halt -- have good reason to pin their hopes on Wynn.
If history is an indicator, his return augurs well for the renewed growth of Vegas -- especially since Wynn (no bluffer when it comes to these sorts of things) vows that his next project, a $1.95 billion mega-resort called Le Reve, or The Dream, will be his greatest accomplishment yet. It's three years away from completion, and already Vegas is in a tizzy. The buzz on Wall Street isn't far behind. Wynn will use proceeds from a recent $450 million initial public offering, loans from private investors, and some of his own money to finance his newest, innovative twenty-first-century concept for Las Vegas.
The comeback mega-deal isn't bad for the son of a gambler who owned a chain of bingo parlors and died thousands of dollars in debt. It's doubly not-bad when you consider that the 60-year-old Wynn, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in English and married his one-and-only at age 21, originally came to Vegas in 1967 through a fluke offer to own a small piece of the Frontier Hotel.
Less than a year later, however -- following some messy business when it came to light that the Frontier's main backers were Detroit mobsters -- Wynn pleaded ignorance, cashed out and parlayed the Frontier stake into a parcel of property near Caesars Palace. He flipped the land for a cool $1 million profit and used his cut of that money to buy a 5 percent share of the Golden Nugget. By age 31, in 1973, Steve Wynn was the majority shareholder of the Nugget and the youngest casino owner in Las Vegas.
Despite years of success that followed, in 1989 -- just before Wynn's completion of the Mirage kicked off Vegas's decade-long boom of building and prosperity -- he had plenty of detractors. They mocked his ambition to open a world-class resort at a time when Las Vegas was dead, when it was little more than a city dominated by grind-joints where a high-end hotel seemed an ill-fated nightmare. "Everybody was skeptical," remembers George Maloof, owner of the recently opened Palms Casino Resort and a longtime student of Wynn. "He was spending $600 million on a resort that would need to do $1 million a day in business. Nobody had ever come close to that. People thought he wouldn't make it. But he opened his doors and never looked back."
More importantly, for the bigger picture of Vegas as a whole, Wynn tilted the playing field in an intense way. "Once Steve opened the Mirage, he put pressure on other companies to open mega-theme resorts," says Maloof.
Seemingly overnight, Vegas went from bust to boom. Wynn was the match that lit a powder keg of growth in a city that, just a year earlier, seemed hopelessly dated and written off. "People had to grow to compete with the Mirage," adds Maloof, "and suddenly Vegas became cool again."
By 1998, when he launched the greatest gambling hall of the twentieth century, the Bellagio, Wynn was a certified Vegas big shot and the head of the hottest gaming stock on Wall Street. He was lauded as a pioneer, viewed as the Nevada equivalent of his boyhood hero Harry Mufson, the man who built the Eden Rock -- a lavishly stylized, wedding cake of a hotel in Miami Beach, where Wynn and his parents spent their winters. His $1.67 billion Bellagio was as cool and idiosyncratic and stylish as Mufson's masterpiece. It also raised the bar on what a Vegas resort could provide and spawned other luxurious palaces like The Venetian and Mandalay Bay. In short, Wynn inspired the transformation of Las Vegas into America's greatest destination.
Then, in March 2000, Kirk Kerkorian smelled weakness. With Mirage Resorts' stock price declining, he swooped in and forced a purchase of the company for $4.4 billion. In one of his first moves, Kerkorian replaced Wynn with J. Terrence Lanni as chairman and chief executive officer. Edged out of his own company, Wynn cashed in his stock for $500 million, took $11.3 million in a severance package, and, suddenly, the most influential man on the Strip was without his landmarks of high-rolling hospitality.
Just one month later, however, clearly unable to stay out of the game, Wynn laid down $270 million and bought Vegas's beloved Desert Inn, a classic property that boasted the city's only remaining public 18-hole golf course, and a place where Howard Hughes had slept and Frank Sinatra had performed. Cagey about what he'd do with it, Wynn holed up with a coterie of advisers, designers and architects. He brought in Japanese pachinko king Kazuo Okada and Baron Asset Fund as investors.
Shrouded in mystery, Wynn spent two years plotting his next move. This past October, he put together the $1.95 billion stake for his hotly anticipated Le Reve, to be built on the Desert Inn property. It is named after a painting by Picasso and translates to mean "The Dream." But the bigger dream, the one that is likely to resonate for decades, bundles the fortunes of Steve Wynn with those of his adopted city.
One week after breaking ground on Le Reve, nine floors above the Strip, Wynn sits behind a big desk in his airplane hangar of an office. The walls are adorned with vintage Warhol prints, the plasma-screen TV plays muted CNBC, and a pair of German shepherds lie at Wynn's feet. Backed by picture-windowed views of the Strip and the Desert Inn's fabled golf course, he sips coffee and munches freshly made popcorn out of a silver bowl.
Following a chew and a sip, Wynn begins to verbally unfurl his new dream for Las Vegas, the city that he himself has made into a place with more sophisticated entertainment, fine art, top cuisine and spa amenities than anyone could have imagined 20 years ago. "Now, Le Reve has to come up with a package that people will perceive as newer and better than whatever the best of Las Vegas currently is," begins Wynn, dressed in a blue sport jacket, gray pants and French cuffed shirt. "People come here for excitement. That is no secret. So the resort has to be exciting -- but not in a noisy or clangy way. Not with a lot of strobe lights. It has to be exciting in a deeper way."
That deepness became Wynn's grail when plans for Le Reve began incubating. Right from the start, it went beyond simply outdoing the dancing waters that front the Bellagio or the volcano that explodes every 15 minutes in the evening at the Mirage. He didn't want to outdo himself -- he wanted to reinvent himself. "I realized that I couldn't do Bellagio again," says Wynn, jutting forward his neatly coiffed head.
His eyes squint, his face radiates the kind of intensity that makes people finance his dreams, and he suddenly transforms into the world's greatest salesman. "If I had to build another Bellagio, it wouldn't be as good as the original. Bellagio is the ultimate expression of a particular idea. I swear I took that one as far as it could go. It is exquisitely executed. Our goal with Le Reve is to give the guest an experience that cannot be gotten anywhere else. The word here is experience. Not a look, but an experience. You won't be able to bear to leave Le Reve, because the experiences here will all be so exquisite."
For starters, Wynn and his crew critically deconstructed the Mirage and Bellagio, both of which have generally been acknowledged as the best Vegas has to offer. Gazing at those two citadels of chance, they all agreed that things had gotten too big, too anonymous, too sprawling for anybody's good. Le Reve would be built high rather than wide. That decision was easy. The trickier decision involved a revolutionized perspective: "We decided to design the hotel strictly from the guest's point of view. It will be designed from the inside looking out -- the opposite of how every hotel is designed, including all of mine."
Wynn explains that in Las Vegas, the front of the hotel, facing the Strip, has always been considered the most important element. Whether it's laced with neon or an Eiffel Tower or a grand canal, it is the thing that draws people into the casino. Wynn likens the front of a casino to the barker on a carnival midway (symbolized by the Vegas Strip). "I've designed my hotels from the outside looking in," he says, sounding pained. "Everything is aimed outside. If you are in the Bellagio, you're behind the fountains, not looking in on them. Big mistake. But that's where my head was at back then."
Where is his head at these days? "I still recognize the importance of having a great invitation on the carnival midway, but I've turned it around: what's more provocative than dancing waters or erupting volcanos? Mystery. For Le Reve, I'll have a mountain on the Strip that you can't see in. It's 120 feet tall and there is no intrusion from the people across the street into my environment. It's a beautiful, complex structure that looks like hills with ridges and waterfalls cascading down."
Wynn's mountain will be a $60 million feat of special-effects engineering, magnificently lit, spelling out Le Reve behind the flowing currents, agitated by a sheer drop waterfall modeled after Angel Falls in Venezuela, and ensconcing Le Reve in a way that no hotel has ever been. "See that incredible mountain and you'll wonder what's behind it," continues Wynn. "There's the invitational dynamic. It's as strong as dancing water. But here the payoff is on the inside rather than the outside. It works -- as long as the payoff is really there. You cannot bluff."
Robert G. Goldstein, president and chief operating officer of The Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino, has little doubt about Wynn's ability to deliver. "You are talking about a guy who's a visionary," says Goldstein, adding that the Venetian's close proximity to Le Reve -- they share a corner of Las Vegas Boulevard -- can only be a plus. "My guess is that whatever Steve does, it will be a spectacular, must-see attraction. You can never discount anything he does."
Even Lanni, the man who replaced Wynn at the Mirage and Bellagio, is voicing support. "It'll be tough for Steve to outdo the Bellagio, but when it comes to building hotel-casinos, he is a creative genius," says Lanni, insisting that what's good for Wynn is good for Vegas. "He'll build a showstopper that will bring new people to Las Vegas. They'll visit our properties as well as his."
Pressed to tip his hand, Wynn explains that Le Reve's interior will be broken up into seven distinct and unique environments -- or, as he calls them, "theaters" -- that will play off the mountain.
He describes one of those stages: a Japanese restaurant built around a garden and lagoon, alongside a small, cloistered Shinto temple, complete with wind chimes and lanterns. "Now," he says, his voice building in intensity, "what did we do with that? The sidewalk is cool enough. It's beautiful." His voice momentarily drops to a whisper: "But the show's not out there."
Reverting to a normal voice, he continues, "To see anything like what's in that Japanese restaurant, you'll need to go 5,800 miles to Kyoto. This is about your experience. You feel like sushi? Goddamn it, I'm taking you to a place you haven't been before, not in this country. And that is just one moment. The hotel is a series of those layers, one on top of the other, catering to the full range of your emotions. This environment is about giving you a bigger kick when you are inside than out. We are not giving a payoff to the guy on the sidewalk. We hook him with an attraction outside, but the best is yet to come. That's a different generation from Mirage and Bellagio." He hesitates dramatically, then considers it all, as if he's thinking about this for the first time. "Who won't want to look behind the wall and see Le Reve? To paraphrase George S. Kaufman, it's the way God would do it if he had money."
That said, Wynn is quick to point out that he is not abandoning Vegas tradition altogether. He acknowledges that Le Reve couldn't exist if he had not already done the Bellagio -- and taken a type of hotel concept to the end of its limits. Certain elements of the Bellagio echo in Le Reve. The gaming floor will be heavily draped and laid with fabric, with funky light fixtures hanging from the ceilings. The rooms have a sense of modern sleekness, but the overall design effect is soft and curvy and almost feminine (at least as feminine as a richly earth-toned color scheme can be). He recently recruited his first celebrity chef -- Daniel Boulud, who will transport a copy of his Manhattan landmark to Las Vegas -- and has commissioned Cirque du Soleil creator Franco Dragone to produce a signature show, centering around a Himalayan tribe with flying children, that is designed to outdo Dragone's Mystére and "O" (which play at Treasure Island and Bellagio, respectively). Not to be outdone, Lanni recently commissioned Dragone to create two new shows for his hotels: one will be in the MGM Grand, the other in New York, New York. "Franco is a smart guy, and he'll create a successful show for Steve," Lanni coolly says. "But the people who see Steve's show will also want to see Mystére and 'O' and our two new shows."
Shopping -- which is a big lure in Vegas -- will center at Le Reve around the presence of a Ferrari/Maserati car dealership. Wynn's not yet sure what other blue-chip retailers will be at the resort, but the Ferrari/Maserati showroom is a good way to set the pace. It'll make money as a retail operation (like most dealerships of the elite automobiles, Le Reve's will sell about 30 new cars per year and traffic in secondhand vehicles as well), but Wynn is taking the showroom to the next level, employing it as an attraction that will drive business through Le Reve. "Ferraris are great to look at, but here they'll be more than that," Wynn explains, pointing out that the operation's theme will revolve around the glamour of Formula 1 racing.
"We'll sell clothing, have a Formula 1 restaurant, show racing videos, hang a damned car from the ceiling, let people sit in the cars," Wynn says. "It'll be an attraction just like sharks behind the front desk [at the Mirage] are an attraction. And the Ferrari people are completely behind it. This was an easy sell to Gianni Agnelli. In two seconds flat, he told me that he wants to do it."
Nevertheless, even as Wynn aims to redefine the Vegas resort -- and the hotel as we know it -- he still marvels over what his city has accomplished and what it has become. While he acknowledges that "some things done here are hideous and horrible beyond endurance, almost punishingly ugly," he quickly counters that Vegas at its best is equally astonishing. "The Mansion at MGM represents 29 of the most exquisitely presented accommodations in the country," he gushes (albeit, a few breaths later, Wynn describes it as "a jewel on the corner of a vast, middle-range hotel; it belonged at the Bellagio"). "Parts of the Bellagio are noteworthy: the millwork, the stone, the ceramic; they're all the best of everything and nothing there is faux" -- another swipe at some of the very faux newer hotels -- "and the Mandalay Bay has tasteful design work in some of its restaurants."
After putting down the Mandalay for having a South Pacific theme that could have been lifted from the Mirage, Wynn genuinely says, "The Hermitage and Guggenheim at the Venetian are great. The 40 canvases on display there, stretching from Velázquez and El Greco to Van Gogh and Rothko represent a history of the arts, going from the fifteenth century to the twentieth century. Any art professor could use it for a complete survey course on painting. Not bad for Las Vegas."
Wynn, the first hotelier to exhibit art, will have a gallery of his own at Le Reve -- it features a triptych of portraits that Andy Warhol had done of him -- but the hotel will contain some touches that he has copped from competitors. "Nobody does anything from scratch," acknowledges Wynn. "We all stand on each other's shoulders. Sheldon Adelson built a bigger room at Venetian and people loved it. Sheldon was the first guy to go over 600 feet with a standard room. Bellagio is 494 square feet and that's a five-star room. What's with 620 feet? Six hundred fifty? Isn't that gilding the lily? Isn't that unnecessary? I thought it was when Adelson did it. I was wrong."
Standard rooms at Le Reve (boasting high-speed computer ports and plasma-screen TVs) will outsize the Venetian's. Then, Wynn will really push the envelope with a significant upgrade for the high-roller suites. They are anything-but-standard rooms that will benefit from the exclusivity that so successfully overrides MGM's Mansion. Still in their model stages, the big, sprawling suites, with mirrored ceilings and separate massage rooms, already look as if they'll be
big-money-player magnets -- augmented by private entrances and exclusive check-in desks. Wynn describes the high-roller rooms as a 300-suite hotel within an already grand hotel, and they'll be strategically positioned to feed directly into Le Reve's baccarat pit.
big-money-player magnets -- augmented by private entrances and exclusive check-in desks. Wynn describes the high-roller rooms as a 300-suite hotel within an already grand hotel, and they'll be strategically positioned to feed directly into Le Reve's baccarat pit.
But the real prize for free-spending gamblers will most likely be 18 villas lining Le Reve's new 18-hole championship golf course, which will be an additional expense on top of the $1.95 billion project. The course is situated along the Strip, directly adjacent to the hotel. While Wynn knows better than to try outdoing, or even replicating, his fabulously infamous Shadow Creek layout (with its 15,000 North Carolina pine trees in the middle of the desert), he assures that the new course, laying on 140 acres of land as compared to Shadow Creek's 250, will have plenty going for it. "We are in the middle of the city, we have surprise, we have convenience, we have tremendous elevation changes that will delight everyone," Wynn says. "It's great to be able to walk out of your room and tee up right here and now, without taking a limo for 30 minutes. Then you can finish playing and go back to your room for a drink on the patio, where you can sit and watch other guys putting out. Golfers will be able to live in the environment. You can't do that in Shadow Creek. The only one who lives in the environment of Shadow Creek is me. My house is there and nobody else lives there."
Maybe Wynn got lonely out there, all alone on the golf course, because he has immersed himself in another highly collaborative project. He is striving to be the first American to build a casino on the island of Macau, the former Portuguese colony near Hong Kong that was transferred back to the Chinese three years ago (Sheldon Adelson, the only other Westerner with a Macau license, will be building a casino there as well). Wynn plans on breaking ground in February and expects to build a Euro-themed operation that will blend in with the island's existing architecture and exude the Chinese definition of old-money class. Most importantly, it will be a synergistic dream. "Marketing will be huge," declares Wynn. "Having access to all those Chinese players will be the biggest thing that ever happened to Las Vegas. And it'll affect the other hotels as well. They'll stay with us, but find their way to the MGM and Bellagio."
That may sound like an uncharacteristically generous prediction, but it reflects the way Wynn seems to be thinking these days. He acknowledges that Wall Street's financing for his resort, even though he raised less than he had initially hoped for, is not only a positive sign for him but also a positive sign for Vegas, especially since Wynn's last parting with the Street wasn't so smooth. After the share price of his Mirage Resorts had violently dipped from $26 in the spring of 1999 to $10.88 the following February -- Wynn's casinos had failed to hit their numbers in the latest quarter -- the stage was set for Kerkorian to launch the takeover, which has generously been described as only semi-hostile. Kerkorian snatched up Mirage Resorts when it was at its most vulnerable, ultimately offering to pay $21 per share, nearly twice what the stock was trading for. He sweetened the deal for Wynn -- offering him the $11.3 million severance package -- and wound up with an unbeatable high-rolling trident: the Mirage, the Bellagio and the Mansion (at the MGM), which allows MGM/Mirage to cater to top-flight gamblers at every level.
At the time, Wynn stacked his chips and declared that he would never again head a publicly traded company. However, he now insists that the takeover was something he wanted. "When I saw a company like Palm go public, and in one day it had a bigger valuation than General Motors, I began looking for an exit," he maintains. "I wanted to opt out of the system and Kirk Kerkorian came forward with six and a half billion dollars in his jeans. [Kerkorkian took on $2 billion in debt.] I got the chance of a lifetime to jump off a train as I felt it was about to go over a cliff."
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R&B singer Chris Brown is back only a few years after what could have been a career-ending incident.
In 2009, just before that year's Grammy Awards show, Brown violently beat his superstar girlfriend Rihanna. He was 19. Brown later plead guilty to felony assault and was sentenced to 5 years of labor-intensive probation and a year of domestic violence prevention classes.
Then he virtually disappeared from Top 40 radio, after being a staple there since his 2005 breakout hit, "Run It." After what many simply refer to as "the incident," Brown struggled to regain his footing. He released an album that didn't sell, record stores stopped promoting his material and pop radio, at least for a while, wanted nothing to do with him.
But fast-forward to 2011 when he may have just had his best year ever, at least musically. Keith Caulfield, a chart expert at Billboard, says Brown has had a banner year.
"Chris Brown got his first number album on the Billboard 200 chart this year. It just makes sense that he would be one of the top artists this year," Caulfied says.
He notes that Chris has been a force on both the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart as well the R&B Hip-Hop singles chart, where he's had five top tens just in the past year. "He's had hits on the dance chart, and rhythmic and hip-hop charts," Caufield says. "He's had a lot of success in the past year."
In spite of this success, a cloud still hovers over Brown's career. While it has had quite the turnaround, views on an issue that he brought to the forefront two years ago haven't changed much.
'They Were Blaming Her'
Just after he beat Rihanna in 2009, the Boston Public Health Commission's "Start Strong Initiative" polled teens in Boston to see how they felt about the incident.
"Close to 50 percent of the young people we surveyed thought Rihanna was actually responsible for the incident," says Casey Corcoran, former director of Start Strong who led the poll. "They were blaming her."
And more than two years later, they still are.
Outside of a Chris Brown concert in Baltimore this past fall, almost a dozen teens interviewed still held some troubling views about "The Incident."
"Obviously she played a part in getting beat or whatever," said 19-year-old Kristina Coleman. "However you wanna put it."
And she wasn't alone in her opinion. Francies Stephenson, 17, recalls her reaction to the incident.
"I was like show me some pictures, I don't believe it," she said.
Several other teenagers in the crowd outside 1st Mariner Arena made similar remarks, forgiving Brown and blaming Rihanna, but they were too young to be named or quoted in this story.
Two things make these young women's views surprising. First, Brown has apologized for the incident, denouncing his behavior on national television and in a widely-viewed YouTube video.
"What I did was unacceptable, one hundred percent," Brown said in that video. "I can only ask and pray that you forgive me, please. I hope that others learn from my mistake. I intend to live my life so that I am truly worthy of the term 'role model.'"
High Risk Of Domestic Abuse
Secondly, many of these young women are at a high risk of experiencing domestic abuse themselves.
"We know that nationally, close to one in five teens experience some form of dating violence before they exit their teen years," said Casey Corcoran. That number's even higher if you count things like emotional abuse and cyberstalking, she says.
Information provided by the Family Violence Prevention Fund, which has since changed its name to Futures Without Violence, says the violence starts young. One online survey cited by the group found that one in five "tweens" (children between the ages of 11 and 14) say their friends are victims of dating violence.
But outside of that Chris Brown concert, these things weren't on fans minds. Alicia Robinson, 17, was among the fans who go beyond just forgiving Brown and blaming Rihanna.
"He's kind of what we would like our boyfriends to model after, in a way," Robinson said.
Corcoran says some of Brown's current songs aren't exactly role model material.
"While he hasn't been involved in any dating violence incidences since this one with Rihanna, he's put out a number of songs that have really challenging lyrics," she says. "He may have addressed his behaviors, but we have to question whether he's really addressed his thoughts and beliefs that underlie those behaviors."
The teens Corcoran works with make a list each year of the 10 songs that most promote unhealthy young relationships. Chris Brown made that list in 2010 with his comeback single, "Deuces." He may make it again with his biggest 2011 hit, "Look At Me Now," which features several graphic and sexually explicit lyrics. Many other songs on his album touch on the same themes.
Confronting A Vulnerability
Gina McCauley, who writes the blog, "What About Our Daughters," says Chris Brown may be benefitting from a certain mindset that's prevalent in the black community. She thinks black men can get away with almost anything, but black women?
"We always blame black women when something goes wrong," McCauley says. "And we hold them to a completely different standard than we hold black men and boys to. And so while Chris Brown isn't responsible for any actions, at his own hands, the girl — in this case, Rihanna — is always held responsible. And it doesn't matter if it's a poor black girl in the middle of the hood, or one of the most famous and probably commercially successful artists on the planet. She's still a black girl and she's still responsible for every single thing that may happen to her in life."
And so she says, young black women tell themselves they're invincible, in spite of the data on domestic abuse. It's a bit of a contradiction — or, to McCauly, a coping mechanism. If they admit that a young black woman like Rihanna at the top of her game can be abused, they have to admit it can happen to them.
"To not blame Rihanna is to acknowledge that they, as young girls, are vulnerable, too," she says.
McCauley says admitting they're at risk would shatter the myth of the strong black woman so many of these girls have come to internalize. But, McCauley says, it's not all their fault.
"We don't have conversations with girls about violence," she says. "We don't say, well how do you navigate interpersonal relationships with boys? I think the only message that young girls get consistently about relationships is don't get pregnant, don't get pregnant, don't get pregnant."
For her part, Rihanna, in a recent Esquire interview, said she's a Chris Brown fan and has put the incident behind her. And Brown, as well as his team, no longer speak about "The Incident." He declined to be interviewed for this story.
Gina McCauly says she isn't surprised that neither Brown nor Rihanna have made more of an effort to change the dialogue about domestic abuse among teens and tweens.
"I don't expect celebrities to be anything but what they are, which is famous," she says.
Brown's recent success proves he's having no problem doing just that. And for his young fans, that seems to be enough for now.


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NEW YORK -- The lack of innings being thrown by the rotation has led to a lot of headaches for manager John Gibbons when it comes to deciding how to properly use his bullpen.
Toronto has received only two outings from its starters that have lasted at least seven innings. The rotation entered play on Friday night having thrown 126 1/3 innings, seventh in the American League.
The by-product of that is the bullpen being forced to throw 81 2/3 innings, which trails only the Astros for the most in the AL. That has Gibbons and the front office debating about whether to go with an eight-man bullpen.
"It's something we might have to do," Gibbons said. "It definitely hasn't gone as planned, put it that way. We've had to use that 'pen a lot, we'll see how everything goes.
"Some of the guys on the team, it's tough to just discard guys, too, you know? We'll be fine. With that day off Monday, if R.A. pitches Sunday, we'll be in good shape."
The transition to an eight-man bullpen will be easier said than done. Designated hitter Adam Lind is set to rejoin the club on Sunday after taking a brief leave of absence following the birth of his second child.
That will require another transaction after the promotion of right-hander Brad Lincoln from Triple-A to fill Lind's spot on the 25-man roster. When Lind does return, that would give the Blue Jays a four-man bench with Mark DeRosa, Emilio Bonifacio, Rajai Davis and backup catcher Henry Blanco.
There aren't a lot of suitable options there -- unless right-hander Josh Johnson needs to go on the disabled list -- and Gibbons may be forced into sticking with the status quo despite the stress it has caused the pitching staff.
"There's a lot of games where we're using guys just to use them. There's really no strategy or anything like that, we've got to cover some innings here," he said. "That takes its toll. Ideally, you use certain guys when you're winning, certain guys when you're even, that kind of thing."
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