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The University of Colorado Technology Transfer Office is presenting awards April 1 to university researchers and companies representing best practices in the commercialization of university technologies.
The TTO will present the Boulder campus awards to four researchers and one startup company during its annual Entrepreneurship Under the Microscope event, a celebration of campus entrepreneurship co-hosted with CU-Boulder's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship.
In the last two decades, inventions by researchers from CU's four campuses have led to the formation of 124 new companies. Of those, 88 have operations in Colorado, seven have become publicly traded companies — either through an initial public offering or via a "reverse merger" — and 18 have been acquired by public companies. In total, companies created based on CU technology have attracted over $6.1 billion in financing.
"This year's award winners represent groundbreaking research from different corners of CU-Boulder," said Kate Tallman, the senior director of technology transfer for CU-Boulder. "What these inventors have in common is an ability to work effectively with the local business community to explore and realize the commercial value of their research findings."
The researchers and companies recognized this year are developing technologies ranging from cancer therapies and energy efficiency to dramatically improved computer networking. This year's award winners include:
Xuedong Liu, Inventor of the Year, CU-Boulder. Liu, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry, is creating novel, less-toxic kinase inhibitor drugs to treat cancer. Liu has founded two companies based on his inventions, most recently OnKure, which is commercializing a new cancer therapy developed by Liu and his colleagues.
Moncef Krarti, New Inventor of the Year, CU-Boulder. Krarti is a professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering and his work focuses on improving building energy management. He is collaborating with CU Cleantech and the TTO to commercialize building assessment technology through a Boulder company.
Douglas Seals, New Inventor of the Year, CU-Boulder. Seals, a professor of integrative physiology, is exploring promising research into dietary supplements that could enhance heart health. He is working with the TTO to optimize the intellectual property and Innovation Center of the Rockies to optimize the commercial opportunity.
LineRate Systems, Company of the Year. LineRate Systems of Louisville, Colo., is developing technologies around software-defined networking, a computer networking approach that allows network behavior to be governed by high-level software programming rather than by the low-level configurations of the network's devices, making networks easier to configure, manage, troubleshoot and debug. The company was acquired by F5 Networks in February 2013.
Additionally, the TTO will induct Professor Emeritus Tom Cathey of electrical, computer and energy engineering into the Pinnacles of Inventorship, an "all-stars" group recognizing continuous commitment to best practices in technology transfer. Cathey was a co-founder of CU startup CDM Optics, which was acquired by OmniVision in 2005.
Awards to CU researchers, startups and advisors at other CU campuses will be presented at separate campus events in April and May.
The CU TTO pursues, protects, packages and licenses to business the intellectual property generated from research at CU. The TTO provides assistance to faculty, staff and students, as well as to businesses looking to license or invest in CU technology. For more information about technology transfer at CU, visit www.cu.edu/techtransfer.


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Don't be alarmed if a boxy orange vehicle sporting a "mean" looking hot dog decal passes you on the road sometime soon.
Sitting inside that vintage truck are Chris Matthews and Tracy Antenucci, a Rochester couple who recently entered Southeast Michigan's growing food truck market as proprietors of the Mean Weenie -- their gourmet spin on the hot dog.
And they're having the time of their life so far.
"It's been nice with (other) food trucks embracing us in the community," Antenucci, 44, said.
The couple recently celebrated their one-year anniversary, nearly 35 years after first meeting.
Their story actually began 1,000 miles away: Arlington, Texas, where the two first met when both were 9 years old and living in the Lone Star State. It wasn't hard to come across one another, either -- they grew up in homes separated by only a property line.
"I was literally the girl next door," Antenucci said.
They kept in touch, even after Antenucci moved to Michigan two decades ago. Eventually, things just sort of panned out. Last year, Matthews, also 44, headed north and reconnected with his lifelong acquaintance. As he put it: "I came and got the girl."
Both were intrigued by the growing national response to food trucks, from television shows on the Food Network to morning show anchors highlighting the dining experience.�
The noticeable presence of food trucks in southeast Michigan has only occurred within the past couple of years.
Thanks to a growing number of food truck rallies and municipalities being more receptive to the concept, the number of restaurants on wheels has exponentially grown.
Rochester first experienced food trucks this May when the 2013 Deck Art event invited a half-dozen merchants to sell food at the intersection of Fourth and Main streets.
In March, the couple began to transition away from their jobs -- Antenucci in marketing, Matthews at the Rochester Chop House -- and purchased their vintage 1978 Grumman Kurbmaster vehicle, in preparation to enter the world of curbside dining full-time.
"I really wanted to go back into doing food," Antennuci said.
She said she designed the menu, which runs the gamut of hot dog possibilities with catchy, memorable titles.
There's "The Keen Weenie," a hot dog with apple cider-braised leeks and bourbon mustard; the "Wasabi-ach?" a hoisin-glazed hot dog with wasabi ginger cole slaw; and a Greek-themed hot dog that includes black olive relish, feta cheese, red onions and cucumbers.
Matthews said he conjured up the memorable name of their business.
They used contacts from friends to put together the design of the vehicle and the logo.
The couple wake up each morning and head to their commissary in Madison Heights to purchase products to sell and ingredients for their dogs. They proudly boast mostly Michigan-made staples, including Faygo pop and Better Made potato chips.
Creating a specialized spin on a classic food served two purposes. In particular, the Mean Weenie fills a niche. And, Antennuci said, "People have much more discriminating tastes than they've had before."
Vegetarians have reason to be interested, too. A meatless hot dog can be purchased with any ingredients, 90 percent of which Antennuci said is vegetarian friendly.�
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The 2012 Toyota Prius v, the minivan version of the Prius hatchback, serves as an excellent object lesson in the effects of drag on fuel economy. The Prius v, with its enhanced cargo space, weighs only 200 pounds more than the hatchback, but the drag coefficient changes from .25 to .29. And that means the Prius v ends up with 10 mpg less in fuel economy than its hatchback counterpart, even while using the same engine and hybrid system.
Maybe Toyota did not intend the Prius v to be a physics lesson, but the Prius has always appealed to the scientifically minded. Engineers would buy the car just for the power flow animation, which shows in real time when the engine or electric motor is driving the front wheels. Hypermilers learned just how to optimize fuel economy, while a cottage industry of modders made it possible to recharge the battery from the grid.
But the fact that the Prius v does not equal its sibling's fuel economy is no failure, as the car still averages over 40 mpg in real-world driving. And that is impressive when it can also seat five comfortably and fit a decent amount of cargo. Many nonhybrid cars boast 40 mpg on the highway these days, but that is not their average fuel economy and they don't have as much cabin space as the Prius v.
With the rear seats down, the Prius v boasts enough cargo space for a typical Costco run.
Placed side by side, the Prius v does not look much bigger than the Prius hatchback. Its roofline holds its height to the back of the car, which is where the extra cargo space comes in. But Toyota managed to create a more airy feeling in the cabin. A freestanding center console made the Prius v feel like a minivan. I wanted to take the very cushiony seats with me and install them in my living room.
CNET's review car was loaded, the top Five trim with the Advanced Technology package. Over the front and rear seats it had glass roof panes that unfortunately did not open. Options included adaptive cruise control and automatic parking. With the former, I drove for miles down the freeway without the need to touch gas pedal or brake, just steering and enjoying the scenery.
The automatic parking was not nearly as successful. This is the same system Toyota originally launched in the Lexus LS 460. It didn't work then and it doesn't work now. Each time I tried it, the parking frame overlaid on the rearview camera showed red, no matter how much I tried to adjust it. It needs to turn blue for the system to work. Ford deployed a much better version of this system, which requires no onscreen tinkering, in the Focus.
Using the same 1.8-liter engine with electric motor assist as the hatchback, the Prius v did not feel underpowered. The drive systems in each car produce a net 134 horsepower, and Toyota notes a 0-to-60-mph time of 10.4 seconds, almost a second slower than the hatchback. Most of my starts were on the slow side, the hybrid system encouraging moderate driving.
But when faced with a series of steep hills in San Francisco or coastal mountains immediately to the south, I put it in power mode and the increased throttle sensitivity whipped up all its horses with a half push on the accelerator. It is no muscle car, but the readiness of the power inspired confidence. Jamming down the accelerator for a passing maneuver made the engine emit an eerie moan, in counterpoint to the pleasant turbine whir of the generator when braking.
Toyota places the drive-mode buttons on the console, within easy reach of the driver.
The power mode, activated from a button on the console, made a big performance difference, but it was less so for the Eco mode. The throttle already felt very detuned in normal drive mode, and Eco did not make it much worse. However, I could definitely feel the air from the climate control system go from gust to breath when I hit the Eco button.
There is also a button for EV mode, but as soon as the car got to 30 mph, it deactivated of its own accord. It is kind of like a more innocuous version of the bus from the movie "Speed." What impressed me was the Prius v's ability to shut down its engine at higher speeds. While cruising at 40 mph, the car would switch to electric drive as long as I went extremely light on the accelerator.
The ride quality of the Prius v is similar to that of the hatchback Prius. I wouldn't call it bad, but it felt like the car was designed more to optimize efficiency than to coddle the passengers. I wouldn't want to drive it over 20 miles of bad road, but it is perfectly suitable for the typical byways of city and suburb.
Like the 2012 Toyota Camry I reviewed recently, the Prius v gets JBL's new GreenEdge audio system. Designed for efficiency, this system is supposed to use less power but still deliver robust sound, making it more appropriate for the Prius v than for the Camry. But the version in the Prius v only has eight speakers, two less than in the Camry.


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MIAMI -- This season figured to be a rebuilding year for the Marlins with a lot of young players receiving regular playing time.
Injuries to Giancarlo Stanton and Logan Morrison have made their lineup even more anonymous and that presents the D-backs with some added challenges in this weekend's series.
"We don't know them as well, haven't had as much information on exactly how to play them, how to pitch them. It's a little more challenging," manager Kirk Gibson said. "You have to make quicker adjustments, kind of read their swings early."
Additionally, the Marlins have a first-year manager in Mike Redmond, so Gibson does not have a real good feel for how Redmond runs a game or his tendencies.
The part of the Marlins' game that the D-backs are most familiar with, Gibson said, is bullpen usage. The rest will have to be learned over the next couple of days.
"I just think these guys play hard," Gibson said. "They're young, Giancarlo's out, Morrison is out, but they play hard, they work hard and our advance report says that. We know we have to get after them."
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If demography is destiny, the California Republican Party may be destined to become nothing more than an asterisk in the history books - unless it can alter its hostile relationship with the state's fast-growing Latino population.
That's not exactly a new conclusion, but its accuracy is confirmed by new demographic projections from the state Department of Finance.
By the middle of this year, demographers believe, Latinos will achieve numerical parity with whites in California's population, at about 39 percent each. Thereafter, the gap between the state's two largest ethnic blocs will widen steadily.
By midcentury, Latinos will be nearing 50 percent of California's population while whites will have declined to near 30 percent.
Putting it another way, the state's population is expected to grow by 15.4 million between 2010 and 2060, and Latinos will account for 11.3 million of that growth.
Or still another way: Overall growth over the 50-year period will be 41 percent, but the Latino population will grow by 80 percent, while that of whites by a minuscule 4 percent.
The generational differential, which benefited the GOP in the 1980s and 1990s as white baby boomers dominated the electorate, also will work against Republicans as whites retire, or die off, in large numbers while much-younger Latinos become the dominant worker bloc and their children fill the schools.
Concurrently, an ever-greater portion of the Latino population will be U.S.-born citizens who will be legally entitled to vote as the role of immigration, legal and illegal, in population growth shrinks.
Finally, there is geography. While California's coastal counties have, for the most part, been strongly Democratic, Republican legislative and congressional candidates have fared relatively well in inland areas, such as Southern California's Inland Empire and the Central Valley.
However, the Latino population surge heavily affects what have been GOP-leaning inland areas. We saw hints of that in the redrawing of legislative and congressional districts after the 2010 census. We'll see more of it in the decades ahead.
For instance, Riverside is expected to be the state's fastest-growing county during the next half-century, expanding by over 2 million persons, or 92 percent, between 2010 and 2060. Two-thirds of that growth is projected to be Latino. Likewise, Latinos are expected to account for three-quarters of Fresno County's growth and two-thirds of Kern County's expansion.
Those numbers bode ill for Republicans, who have already shrunk to less than 30 percent of the state's registered voters, in part because of their perceived hostility to Latinos, especially immigrants.
They'll either do something to repair the relationship, if they can, or become even more irrelevant.
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LONG BEACH ? Detectives spent more than seven hours Tuesday investigating a possible shooting that blew out the front driver's side window of a police vehicle.
The window was shattered about 10:30 a.m. when the vehicle, which was heading west on Ocean Boulevard, was stopped at a red light at Chestnut Place.
The female officer who was driving the vehicle was able to leave the area before stopping just north of Ocean Boulevard on Magnolia Avenue.
Police Sgt. Aaron Eaton said the officer was not injured.
"We're investigating if this was a shooting or if the incident was targeted," Eaton said. "The officer didn't hear gunshots ... just her window shattering."
Dozens of police officers and Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies responded to the scene and a police helicopter circled the area, which was right near Long Beach Superior Court.
"Wow, right in front of the courthouse and a cop?" said a man near the courthouse, who only wanted to be identified as John. "You just aren't safe anywhere anymore."
During the investigation, police learned a window on the fourth floor of the nearby The Sovereign apartment building had also been shattered.
Investigators, including a K-9 unit, searched the building.
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BRADENTON, Fla. -- A.J. Burnett threw his second bullpen session Thursday -- starting his long warmup for Opening Day.
Manager Clint Hurdle isn't yet ready to name his starter for Opening Day, still 45 days away, preferring to extend the suspense.
Not that there is much suspense about who eventually will get the nod.
Last year, the Pirates had planned for Burnett to pitch the opener, making that decision even before Burnett fouled a bunt off his eye only a few days following the finalization of his trade from the Yankees. Hurdle made that admission soon after Burnett was able to hook up with the rotation in late April.
So the 2012 honor trickled down to Erik Bedard -- who did pitch exceptionally in a 1-0 loss to the Phillies in PNC Park.
Add the fact that Burnett went on to emerge as the Bucs' ace, and there's little doubt he will get the ball against the Cubs on April 1 in The Bank. The only suspense is when Hurdle will make it official.
It will be the 15-year veteran's first Opening Day assignment, surprising for someone with his track record. But on his original team, the Marlins, he ranked behind Josh Beckett. With the 2007-08 Blue Jays, he was trumped by Roy Halladay. And he shared the 2009-11 Bombers rotation with CC Sabathia.


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Fans of murder mysteries will appreciate the many nods and pokes at the genre with Hudson Players' production of "Something's Afoot," which opened Feb. 1.
There are the two servants, Lettie and Flint (played by Jennifer Matas and Fig Jankowski respectively), who work at the beck and call of the guests at the country estate of Lord Dudley Rancour. Lettie especially is put upon for requests of tea and harder drinks as the mysteries deepen and the body count increases. There is the stuffy, punctual butler Clive (played by Jerry Schaber), who tries to keep things running smoothly. There's the innocent ingenue Hope Langdorn (played by Martha Kriley), who has a mysterious past. There's the distinguished Dr. Grayburn (played by Gary Maher). There's Nigel Rancour (played by Mike Guffey), the scheming nephew of Lord Dudley. There's Lady Grace Manley-Prowe (played by Kathy Steiner), the proper woman with a few skeletons in her closet. There's Colonel Gillweather (played by Mark Levigne), who has a distinguished military career and never hesitates to bring it up. There's the unexpected guest, Geoffrey (played by Kirk Worcester). Finally, there's Miss Tweed (played by Holly Reimer), an artist who turns amateur detective as the household occupants proceed to get dispatched in creative and macabre fashion. They have all been assembled at the estate for some unknown reason (Agatha Christie fans will see a lot of nods to "And Then There Were None,") and it's up to Miss Tweed to try to piece together the clues.
"That's what we try to maintain, is the stuffy English characters you find in the shows," said director Dave Stebbins. "The sleuth, the colonel, the butler, the maid, they are all here."
Stebbins said a challenge with this production was with the special effects required.
"Our set designers deserve a lot of credit," Stebbins said. "We spent a lot of time on the moving parts of the effects of the show. This cast has been a blast to work with. Everyone contributed to the ideas. It really was a group effort."
Maher said he was a fan of the mystery genre.
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I can just imagine Pritchard and Walsh (probably on a hover round with pritchard on the back) racing through the airport, dodging people left and right and screaming " ROY! ROY! WE STILL LOVE YOU!"
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I can just imagine Pritchard and Walsh (probably on a hover round with pritchard on the back) racing through the airport, dodging people left and right and screaming " ROY! ROY! WE STILL LOVE YOU!"
The biggest thing wasn't that Kstat and xbulletproof denied that there was a circumstance where Roy might not sign POR's offer sheet, but I know at least kstat said that negotiating with Pacers was absolutely done.
I thought it was at least possible that the Pacers could swoop in and make a separate deal and I was made to look like a pie in the sky idiot.
No big deal being wrong, the important thing is hopefully this really is the scenario we want and it really helps the team.
I don't understand why the Pacers just didn't just let the market dictate both Hibbs and Hill. Does anyone think Hill would have gotten close to $8M from another team? I don't mean to sound like I'm *****ing about it, but I just don't think another team would have offered that. His agent may say he won the starting job, but if it weren't for DC going down with an injury, I am not so sure that would have happened. And he didn't even start that many game. For a small market team that needs to maximize it's dollars the best way possible, overpaying just to overpay for Hill doesn't seem very smart....especially in the long run.
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
It was like the Season Finale of Friends. The Pacers were Ross and Roy was Rachel.
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
The short answer is no. It appears that Roy will sign an agreement with the Pacers that was the same at the one he was going to sign in Portland.
That said, anything is possible until an agreement is signed.
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Probably like me buying something for a penny that dude is so loaded.
Yes, I watch to many reruns of Friends.
Glad he's back, but he'd better improve is all I'm saying. Live up to the contract, get to work and gain a ton of muscle. No more getting pushed around by Big Baby and Joel Anthony.
Roy, welcome to the world of no longer being a pleasant surprise.
Welcome to the world of expectations. Let's hope you man up and act as one of the true team cornerstones, because now the entire fan base will expect nothing less then that.
Granger had a hard time of making that transition within the fan community, and it'll be very interesting to see how Hibbert handles it.
Fingers crossed, but he's going to need some more mental toughness... quickly.
That's all I got, and it's probably more than it deserves.
I was wrong that he was going to sign it, sure. Even if the end result is going to be exactly the same. However nobody ever presented any scenario other than Hibbert just changing his mind and going back to the negotiating table. So no, "for any reason" never presented itself when only 1 reason was given.
The negotiating is/was done. Aldridge said we are giving him the same terms that were in the offer sheet. We're just doing Portland the favor of not tying up their resources in a lost cause.
So wait, this means that, since he's not signing Portland's offer sheet, that it is possible to hold off a few days on signing Roy to the deal in order to make another move or two before finalizing his contract and eating the rest of the space?
Yes, and infact, I would say likely... This was not by accident...
Well then this was actually managed fantastically by the Pacers!
1. We avoid paying Roy our bloated 5 year Max offer (with the huge raises each season).
2.Retain flexibility to improve the team before signing Roy.
This is pretty much the best possible scenario short of Roy agreeing to a less than the max deal is it not? MAX is a misnomer here, it really isn't that bad for a top 5 center who improves every season.
Let's get some good backup players and i'm ready to go to war next season, if Paul George takes a big step that many believe he's capable of then we can make some noise!
You understand that we never had to do that under any circumstance?
53 pages on the thread about Portland offering Roy the max only 13 when the Pacers say they are matching. Come on guys let's get excited!
The majority of Blazers fans, at least on BlazersEdge, seem to just be in denial. Basically Wells is just lying.
So you know for a fact the deal is the exact same? Front loaded and all?
The Pacers did exactly what I said was possible, they told Roy they would give him a contract without Roy signing POR's offer sheet.
I don't why this is difficult, I wasn't even giving you a hard time about being wrong. You were wrong to say that negotiating was done, in the very least Hibbert could of just signed POR's offer like you said would happen and let everything play out. Instead he chose to work with the Pacers.
I realize that if we're just talking about this summer, but it was a potential move we could have made during the season if we were signing him to an extension, hence, a potential outcome at one point regarding retaining Roy's services. What happened is also preferable to Roy signing the offer sheet and putting a stricter time limit on our chances to sign some more talent before inking Roy.
Now that our biggest hurdle is over and done with hopefully we'll make a few moves soon. I can understand the FO's reasoning for what they are doing, our starting lineup was already, statistically one of the most dominate unites int he NBA last season, by +- and pretty much every other metric, West will be in his late season/ playoff form all year, paul george and roy hibbert are likely to take steps too, you can see why keeping that unit together was seen as important. Looking at results our bench was the thing that needed to be improved, hence the people that we have been targeting.
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They look crushed. Guess Pritchard Pritch-slapped em after all.
"Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel
"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "
Not exactly. We committed to the same money and years as Portland (i.e. 4 years/$58m). Definitely won't be the same terms - Portland would have poison-pilled the contract to make it difficult to match, their usual trick being to set the schedule of payments so that a huge chunk of money gets paid up front (this usually gets reported in the media as "front loading" though it often gets confused with signing bonuses). This wouldn't affect the cap hit of the contract but could have created cash flow problems for Simon.
That said, with 4 years/$58m as the baseline for a deal, I don't see why Pacers and Hibbert won't negotiate up to a 5 year deal if they can find a compromise they're both happy with. I still think 5 years/$68m would be a good end game for both parties.
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by, 03-12-2013 at 10:02 PM (7020 Views)
Yesterday's edition of Monday Night Raw really left a lot of people such as my self asking questions and high points and very low points. Without further ado, Monday Night Raw evaluated in no particular order.
Paul Bearer Tribute/Undertaker CM Punk Segment:
-Appropriately enough, the night started with a tribute to Undertaker and Kane's long time manager, Paul Bearer. A great compilation of his best moments were shown and he deserves the up most amount of respect. Rest In Peace Paul. They should really consider inducting him into the Hall of Fame this year. With Undertaker slowly approaching the ring with the urn single in the ring, Undertaker bows and does his signature pose with Paul Bearer's face on the Tron. That is until a familiar face by the name of CM Punk showed and interrupted this. Originally, I may have thought it was crossing the line but then again, Punk always brings edgy TV and did a fantastic job in creating heel heat and saying that Paul will remember him as perfect but to everyone living he will lose to him at The Big Dance. A great opening segment.
-During the commercial break we saw Kane attempt to chokeslam Punk to hell but he got away and escaped. Why does the WWE cut out these segments on live TV? I have no idea whatsoever. This would set the stage for the Punk-Kane NO DQ match later in the night.
-Kane is furious and is looking for Punk backstage. But GUESS WHAT? We had an Alex Riley sighting as he was thrown to the floor. Its good to see him back isn't it?
Seth Rollins (w/Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns) vs. Big Show
-As soon as this match was announced, everybody knew that the Shield would eventually attack them as a group. I have wanted to see each individual in single matches and this is not what I had in mind. They barely lasted a minute with each other. Soon, The Shield would land an impressive Triple Powerbomb on Big Show. This segment was pretty average but WWE needs to realize that they have 3 talented men here and that they need to utilize them more in singles competition. Its great to know they are dangerous as a group, but just how dangerous can they be when they are by themselves?
Dolph Ziggler (w/Big E. Langston and AJ) vs. Daniel Bryan
-Never get up for a bathroom break when these two are in a match. Dolph would get the win here and it was very needed as he consistently found himself losing to Alberto Del Rio and Ryback in recent weeks. These two put on a PPV quality match as they would hit their signatures. I still don't like the idea of having Big E. interfere in every match Ziggler is in. It makes him look weak and that he can't get the job done on his own. Nonetheless, the live Indiana crowd got a huge treat tonight.
Sweet T (Lord Tensai) vs. Fandango
-It pains me to even put the phrase (vs) because there was no action whatsoever. Just a hot mess of a segment. From the looks of it, Fandango looks like he is talented but seriously, why waste time in Monday Night Raw of all shows, just to have Fandango complain that his name isn't pronounced right. Kofi Kingston got the same treatment last week and was more of an insult because KOfi is a dedicated worker and a very established mid-carder. No one is gonna care about this dude, or his female counterpart if we don't see any action. This segment was mores suited for a show like Superstars or Saturday Morning Slam. They gotta fix this, and fix it now because this was painful by every stretch of the means. Just horrible.
Team Rhodes Scholars vs The New Age Outlaws/Brock Lesnar comes out
-God you gotta love that Damien Sandow. But i have a question. Is this group back together officially because not too long ago they announced a split-up for single career pursuits but now are apparently on this reunion tour. Make up your mind, WWE. They mocked the NAO and it was so entertaining and funny. Just marvelous. I hope Sandow gets proper treatment in the future. The NAO comes out and shows them how its done. After about 2 minutes of action, Brock comes out with a fury. Where's Tazz when you need him? Brock eliminates Road Dogg and Jesse James with Paul Heyman masterfully controlled the mic. He can do nothing wrong. HE announces that Brock will fight Triple H at mania barring that he can make the stipulation. My guess is that its going to be something to the sort of an MMA fight but WWE can throw us a huge swerve as they have done before. Tune in the next couple of weeks as this feud picks up steam.
Kofi Kingston vs Mark Henry'
-So apparently a former Intercontinental and United States champion is not good enough for a televised entrance. Another talent being used the wrong way. You could just tell who was gonna win when this match started. With the exception of some action outside, it took all of about 4 minutes to eliminate Kingston, maybe less. Typical squash match. We get Mark can squash people. That's wonderful. But get him some real competition. Cause after these matches he keeps screaming, THATS WHAT I DOOOOOO! and he acts like he just had an incredible feat of strength. The World's Strongest Man needs more of a challenge.
Ryback vs Heath Slater
-Another match that you knew how it was gonna end. Heath got maybe 1 percent offense in this game and thats it. With Henry staring from afar, he approaches Ryback after the match and they both take turns executing their finishing move on Drew Mcyintyre after the match who looked to be really hurt. Seriously tho, WWE, why treat Drew like this? This is Vince Mcmahon's "Chosen one"? Really? The former Intercontinental and Tag Team Champion is now subjected to this? No wonder why the mid-card is so weak. Its garbage like this that makes you wonder why the creative team is allowed to make such decisions. Mark Henry vs Ryback is announced for Smackdown. If they are planning this match for Wrestlemania, which I can tell is already gonna be bad, then why put it on Smackdown? Really gives fans an idea of what their match may be like in an ecounter. Another filler segment, how nice.
The Highlight Reel featuring The Miz and Wade Barrett.
-Now here comes the worst part of the night, the Highlight Reel. This is about as bad as it can get for these three men. Jericho comes out and introduces Miz and we get ANOTHER movie preview. For goodness sakes, WWE, this is getting really annoying. Its not like we haven't seen it a million times. WWE Superstars should be in matches, NOT PROMOTING MOVIES. Then we have the IC Champion, Wade Barrett come out to promote HIS MOVIE. More time being wasted on endless upon endless movie promos. This is getting redundant putting this on live TV. Miz and Barrett go back and forth with the annoying "Really?" thing and Jericho comes in with his rock version of the saying, which was probbably the best part. Otherwise, this segment was horrible, rushed, annoying and just disrespectful. Especially to Barrett. He is the IC Champ and he's in segments like this? Then, Brad Maddox comes out. WHOOPIE! He announces Jericho vs Miz in a number one's contender match. He just made the segment even more horrible. He looked uncomfortable and just did not get over with the crowd. Triple H is high on this guy but his performance last night was a disgrace to the live crowd. This segment could not have ended quicker enough. Heck, you could even hear Cole and Lawler speak through the headsets of how horrible it was. Then you know it sucks.
Chris Jericho vs The Miz
-We miss part of the action but there is some good back and forth but when Jericho throws Miz into Barrett we have both of them team up to his both their finishers om Barrett in the ring. Expect a triple threat for the IC title next week on Raw. Lets hope their match next week is superb to make up for their horrible performance this week.
Alberto Del Rio vs Antonio Cesaro
-I guess the United States Champion is not good enough to have a televised entrance as well. Such great treatment. We already knew Del Rio would win via submission but the WWE actually allowed us to believe Cesaro would win due to a well executed uppercut. The WWE needs to treat Cesaro better. Miz is in the Intercontinental Title hunt now. Where does that leave Cesaro? Whats the point in giving these mid-carders the titles if they are going to job to main event caliber stars like Del Rio and Orton? They both have taken turns beating Barrett and Cesaro and as a result, the titles lose their prestige. Really, WWE, you better not drop the ball on these two stars.
Sin Cara vs Jack Swagger.
-Yea, Sin Cara never had a chance in this match. He was just, there. Colter comes out and in his usual controversial fashion discusses why he is one of the problems in America. Great speech and he is a perfect mouthpiece for Swagger. Swagger wins. A squash match. But then Del Rio comes in and shows some agressiveness coming to the aid of who was once a rival of his.
Randy Orton and Sheamus vs Team Rhodes Scholars
-Rhodes Scholars gets more TV time this episode due to their match being, well, interrupted by a certain someone. There is some decent back and forth. I swear that Orton gives the best super plexes in the business. Orton and Sheamus would pick up the win here but would be attacked by the Shield. Another segment that should be aired on live television. Honestly, why does WWE feel the need to have Del Rio and Swagger get over with the crowd by puttingthe WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE on the line? A heel Orton and Sheamus would be much more suited for Mania. Since i know for a fact that The Shield will win their match at Mania, i guess it benefits them but one can only hope that an Orton heel turn is coming soon. Lets all hope.
CM Punk vs Kane - No DQ
-The match of the night by far. Punk was able to handle Kane on his own pretty impressively on his own for most of the match. When a big gong sounds and Undertaker distracts Punk it gives Kane the pinfall via a chokeslam. At the end of the match we have a perfectly executed tribute by both Kane and Taker by bowing in respect to Bearer. I thought the match would have ended like this but was surprised when Punk struck Kane with the urn and ran off with it at the top with Taker tending to Kane. Punk then mocks Undertaker's pose with the urn in his hand with the Wrestlemania sign looming over them. This is great heel heat gained by Punk and this also gives Undertaker a good reason to fight for Taker. I was worried at first as to how the storyline would play out but this is going to be a great build-up which should be the main event, not Cena-Rock II.
All in all, a pretty average Raw. The endless movie promos for The Rock, who was notably absent along with promos for Halle Berry's movie (i did like the commercial with Kane), the Highlight Reel, Brad Maddox, and Fandango all killed it tonight not to mention the endless filler matches. The Ziggler-Bryan Match, the No DQ match, along with Rhodes Scholars along with Paul Heyman saved the night from what would have been a great disaster. The night was really lacking without its WWE Champion (at leas Punk would not have missed it, but then again The Rock is a movie star now so i guess he's too good) and his challenger John Cena. It managed well without them, but boy they sure could have used them tonight. Rate: 6/10


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A Second Wind
Every professional athlete faces retirement. But after these four bowed out, they found success in new careers, applying the same talent and work ethic that made them sports stars.
"It was only after he had sped over the goal line and slowed to a trot that he saw the boy and girl sitting together on the turf, looking at him wonderingly. He stopped short, dropping his arms. "I…" he said, gasping a little though his condition was fine and the run hadn't winded him. "I…Once I played here."—Irwin Shaw, The Eighty-Yard Run
Our fantasies have made it the ideal existence, a dream made real beneath the bright lights. Imagine a decade or more spent playing professional sports at the highest level. A city cheering, America knowing your name, money and adulation everywhere you turn. "There are few people in this country who wouldn't trade places with me, right now, for the life I've lived," says National Football League Hall of Fame wide receiver Steve Largent. But when the career of a professional athlete ends, half a lifespan and more usually remains. What kind of life will it be? Nothing most of these former heroes will ever accomplish will compare to that last-second shot, that clutch hit or that 80-yard run. Not in the minds of others. And, all too often, not in their own minds.
Some are content to spend the years signing autographs at card shows, commentating on television or trading on their names and glories even as their achievements fade. Or they live off investments, stay out of the public eye and golf in the sunshine. Others accept new challenges and start again. They take the same ambition and competitive drive that led to Super Bowl stardom and World Series rings and carry them over into life after sports. "All those lessons learned as an athlete were transferrable," says National Basketball Association Hall of Famer Dave Bing. "I just had to find a way to transfer them."
A few former athletes even manage to become better known for their second—or even third—careers than they were for their first. Will history remember Arnold Schwarzenegger the competitive bodybuilder, or the action hero, or the California governor? Byron White the football star, or the Supreme Court justice?
Here are four sports achievers—three Hall of Famers and a world heavyweight champion—who created second acts for themselves after the cheering stopped.
Larry Holmes
Former heavyweight champion/Real estate investor
Former heavyweight champion/Real estate investor
"I didn't get into boxing because I wanted to become heavyweight champion of the world," Larry Holmes says. He sits in his office at his Easton, Pennsylvania, business compound, nibbling at a fast-food french fry and waiting for the surprise to register. "I didn't get into boxing because I wanted to beat people up. I got into boxing to make money."
The walls around Holmes are covered with souvenirs of a career that included victories over Muhammad Ali, Leon Spinks and Ken Norton, and 20 successful defenses of the world heavyweight championship during his seven-year reign, history's second longest. But the real souvenirs, the ones that matter to Holmes, were real-estate investments spread throughout his hometown of Easton, located an hour's drive north of Philadelphia, just west of the New Jersey border.
The most noticeable among them is this two-building complex overlooking a waterfall at the confluence of the Lehigh and Delaware rivers, the most picturesque spot in a downtrodden town. Holmes has his headquarters, a five-story office tower with rent-paying tenants, and his restaurant there. At one point, he was rumored to have owned half of Easton. "You came in on I-78?" he asks. "I used to own that land. I bought 35 acres for $75,000. Then the highway came through. Sold it for about three million."
Now 55, Holmes is beyond comfortable. He lives in a $2 million house in Easton with an indoor pool and an outdoor pool, "a gazebo and a cabana and steam rooms and saunas and everything else," that he bought as another $75,000 investment in the late 1970s, right about the time he whipped Norton to win the WBC heavyweight championship. For each fight that followed, he helped motivate himself by earmarking the cash he would earn for a specific purpose. Occasionally it was a reward—a new car or diamonds for his wife—but often it was an investment for the future.
"I bought a hotel after I fought Randy Cobb," he says, referring to a property over the New Jersey line that he renovated and sold at a large profit. "They wanted a million and a half for the hotel, so I fought Cobb, got the million and a half, bought the hotel." The five-story building? Holmes considers for a moment. "Mike Tyson," he says. The two-story building he's sitting in? "Oliver McCall." Other investments came from fights against Gerry Cooney, Carl "The Truth" Williams and Evander Holyfield.
It added up. Along with a 69-6 career record, he amassed a sporting goods store, two nightclubs, a restaurant, a parking lot, two gyms, a hotel and two office buildings. "I set an example for young people," he says. "If Larry Holmes can do that with a seventh-grade education, what could you do?"
Boxing made Holmes rich, just as he'd hoped, but a surprising thing happened along the way. He grew to love the sport—continuing to fight deep into his forties—but he grew tired of hustling to succeed as a businessman. People would approach with one deal after another, but he liked nothing better than holding court at his restaurant, moving his sizable frame around its dance floor and swapping stories. It wasn't so different from what past ex-champions had done, trading on their fame because they were left with little else. The difference was that Holmes had the money to foot the bill at the end of the night.
So he started selling his investments. He sold the hotel several years ago, the vacant land and everything that wasn't within sight of his office complex. He took some of the money for fun, threw parties for friends and brought some to the gaming tables at Atlantic City. He saved the rest, adding to a retirement account that should keep him living well for decades to come. "Business don't mean shit to me," he says now. "How much money do I need to live on? I have no new ventures or investments lined up. Any money I make is to stay where I'm at."
What's left of his empire is this two-building complex that holds his office suite, his restaurant, a bingo hall, a Bank of America branch, lawyers' offices, a judge's chambers, a Smith Barney outlet and other rent-paying clients. He collects $60,000 in monthly rent from the office tower alone. "Sometimes I go over there just to look at it," he says. "It's mine."
He heads off now to pay a visit. First he stops at the restaurant, on the ground floor of the smaller building, overlooking the river. On the walls are framed magazine covers featuring Holmes. Sports Illustrated. Ebony. The Ring. "This is my hangout," he says.
He walks back outside and crosses the parking lot to the other side of Larry Holmes Drive, to the shiny, five-story building with his initials etched into the wall. He steps inside the Bank of America branch and is greeted warmly. He's a celebrity, a local hero and the landlord, all in one. He walks into Smith Barney wearing a huge grin. "I need some help, Christmas is coming!" he says. Everyone laughs.
A message is sent in to Mike Glovas, the senior vice president, that Holmes is visiting. Glovas is occupied with a client, but comes dashing out. He remembers seeing Holmes during morning runs along Route 611—the Easton Road, which extends all the way to Philadelphia—when they were both young, out there day after day, chugging along. "Now he owns the building," Glovas says, widening his eyes and throwing a thumb in Holmes's direction. "It's amazing. He has basically put Easton on the map. He's very outgoing. You can go to his restaurant and meet him. It's no accident how well he's done. We all start with nothing, and look what he has achieved." Holmes breaks into another grin. "You don't have to pay the rent next month," he says.
But as he's walking back across the parking lot, Holmes talks of selling the real estate and putting the money in the bank. "You don't get calls in the middle of the night from an interest check," he explains. "My dad died at 52, my brother died at 55, another died at 5, my mom just died. I'm 55. I want to enjoy my life, whatever time I've got."
He has thought about moving to Florida and enjoying the good life, he says, but he knows he'd miss the camaraderie. All those people he has known for years, laughing and talking with him, letting him know how much they appreciate him. He stops and stands under the street sign that bears his name, looking out past the Easton Road to the water roaring over the dam. It's as if he is trying to picture himself in Florida: starting over beneath the palm trees, living off those interest checks. "At one time, I was thinking of Jacksonville...." he says. He doesn't finish the thought.
Darkness is falling. Soon the familiar crowd will start coming by, along with any tourists hoping for a glimpse of the champ. He emerges from his reverie. "Go down to the restaurant, say hello, have a party, have fun, buy everybody a drink," he says, announcing his plan for the evening. You almost hear him thinking, "What could be better than that?"
Steve Largent
NFL Hall of Famer/U.S. congressman/President and CEO
NFL Hall of Famer/U.S. congressman/President and CEO
The president and chief executive officer of CTIA—The Wireless Association strides into a conference room. He seems trim and boyish in a lime-green tie, his blond hair swept to one side of his forehead.
Don't be fooled. Steve Largent is 50 now. His football career spanned two eras. When he arrived in the Seattle Seahawks' training camp in 1976, playing wide receiver in the NFL was a part-time profession. "My first three years, I made $28,000, $35,000 and $42,000," he says. "My last year in the league, I made a million. I got to experience what it was like to have to work in the off-season because I needed to. But I also got to experience making some money."
Largent left football at 34. He came home to Tulsa, Oklahoma, with six NFL records for pass receiving, including most career receptions (819) and touchdown receptions (100), and more than enough money to be comfortable. He played golf and tennis, gave speeches and nearly drove himself crazy. All that competitiveness he'd stoked since childhood now had nowhere to manifest itself.
"A lot of guys think, 'I just want to find something I can dabble in,' but you really can't," he says. "That's why Dan Marino considered taking the general manager's job with the Dolphins. You see, a guy like that, he's really not satisfied playing a lot of golf, taking some photos, talking on television. At the end of the day, he's still an ex-football player."
Largent couldn't handle that. He refused to let himself be defined by the past. Inspired to do something that would lift him out of the realm of ex-athletes on the motivational speaking circuit, Largent ran for Congress as a Republican in 1994.
He doesn't deny that his football career gave him a tremendous lift, allowing him to bypass the local and state levels. His near-total name recognition among the voters saved him millions of dollars and jump-started the fund-raising process. Who wouldn't want to take a breakfast meeting with an NFL Hall of Famer?
But he also had a stigma to overcome. "Being a professional athlete is a two-edged sword," he says. "Every year you're playing in the NFL, you're not gaining the kind of experience that your competitors and colleagues are. They're into the marketplace, they're adding to their business résumés, they're moving up the corporate ladder, while you're stuck at ground zero. And when you come out, your résumé shows that you've done nothing but catch passes. You can do that very well, but how does that translate? People say, 'What do you know about Medicaid and Social Security? What do you know about diplomacy and world leaders? Zero.' "
His football career translated well enough for the voters, at least those in Oklahoma. He won election in November 1994, with 63 percent of the vote, and amassed margins of more than 20 percent in his three subsequent congressional campaigns. He served from 1995 to 2002, then resigned to run for governor of Oklahoma. By then, he'd become as recognizable as a legislator as he ever was as an athlete, a frequent guest on the cable shows and a spokesman for his party. When his gubernatorial bid failed, it had more to do with ideology than any stigma remaining from football.
As head of the cellular phone trade organization, he spends much of his time racing around the country, meeting with member companies or lobbying legislators. His meetings often begin with football chatter. "Maybe only half the people I see know that I used to play football, but I usually meet with a few people at a time, and one has invariably told the others," he says. He gets on the phone and spreads the word among clients and constituents: "If we all pull together, get on the same team, we can get something accomplished." As a former athlete, he has credibility. "Sometimes, they even listen," he says.
Largent insists he'd still be working just as hard even if he'd made a huge salary his whole career and had millions in the bank. His morality has always been tinged with a Puritan ethic, and now he applies it to himself. "It's not about the money for me, it's about having a focus in my life, something bigger than myself. I don't think it sets a good example for the kids to have Dad just laying around the house or the yard."
Not everyone agrees. When he meets with groups of athletes, he tells them that the skills that made them successful—drive, competitive spirit, self-discipline—are exactly what businesses are seeking these days. Many of them look at him as if he's insane. They can't fathom showing up somewhere at nine every morning in a coat and tie, not even if they own the company. Not with $10 million homes and portfolios stuffed with investments.
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The Australian is notorious for its attacks on climate science and its hypersensitivity to criticism, so this segment on the Science Show on the psychology of the rejection of climate science where this Maurice Newman opinion piece in the Australian was (correctly) described as "drivel" was pretty well guaranteed to draw lots of responses. So far there have been eight published. On the front page of Tuesday's paper we had the headline "It's OK to link climate denial to pedophilia, ABC tells ex-chairman Maurice Newman" (search for it if you wish to read the article). You have to read right to the end of the article to find out that the headline is completely false:
In its direct response to Mr Newman, the ABC maintained it did "not equate climate change sceptics to pedophiles".
So they didn't say it was OK, but rather denied doing it. Because they didn't. Here's what Robin Williams said on the Science Show:
What if I told you that paedophilia is good for children, or that asbestos is an excellent inhalant for those with asthma? Or that smoking crack is a normal part and a healthy one of teenage life, to be encouraged? You'd rightly find it outrageous. But there have been similar statements coming out of inexpert mouths again and again in recent times, distorting the science.
The example of a similar statement that Williams gives is Todd Akin's claim that rape cannot cause pregnancy. Williams did not equate Akin with a pedophile, but rather said that Akin made an outrageously false and unscientific claim, A statement equating a group with pedophiles would look like this:
"The wind-farm business is bloody well near a pedophile ring. They're f . . king our families and knowingly doing so."
Of course, that wasn't published by the ABC, but by The Australian (search for "Wind farm scam a huge cover-up" by James Delingpole) and yesterday The Australian was forced to publish this:
Third, it has concluded that the report of the anonymous remarks concerning paedophilia, a very serious and odious crime, were highly offensive. The Council's principles relate, of course, to whether something is acceptable journalistic practice, not whether it is unlawful. They are breached where, as in this case, the level of offensiveness is so high that it outweighs the very strong public interest in freedom of speech
As you might expect, rather than admit that the two cases were different, The Australian's Nick Leys complained that the ABC was being held to a different standard. As did The Australian in an editorial. And they also published a ridiculous rant from Delingpole making the same complaint ("Where free speech is as dead as the dodo"). Also saying the same thing was a column by Christopher Pearson ("Climate lunacy rules at Aunty"). I imagine there will be many more over the next few weeks.
The Australian also used this as an excuse to publish more drivel from Newman ("ABC clique in control of climate"):
We have seen the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change discredited. We know the science is less robust. And, for the past 16 years, mother nature has been kind to the sceptics. Because Williams says the entire globe is threatened in a way that is pretty dire doesn't make it so. Yet the "weight of evidence" argument is often used as a licence to vilify holders of alternative views. As a taxpayer-funded organisation, the ABC shouldn't even have a view on global warming. What it does have is a duty to all Australians to broadcast honestly the best available evidence on both sides of the argument so that we can make up our own minds. This is not happening.
You could make up your mind as to whether Newman's claim that there has been no global warming for 16 years by looking at the data. Here, from woodfortrees.org, is a graph showing the temperature trend from 1980 to 1996 (the green line) and global temperatures since 1980. The data shows that in the last 16 years temperatures have been mostly above the trend line.
Newman also claims:
In March 2010 as chairman, I addressed an in-house conference of 250 ABC leaders. In a speech titled "Trust is the future of the ABC", I asked, "how might we ensure in our newsrooms we celebrate those who interrogate every truth?" I lamented the mainstream media's role as an effective gatekeeper. It was too conformist and had missed the warning signs of financial failure. I blamed group think and used climate change as an example. My mistake was to mention climate change.
Actually, Newman's mistake was to smear scientists, accusing them of lacking in moral and scientific integrity and basing all this on a some blog posts.
Update: The Australian refused to print a letter from the ABC correcting the record.


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The volume of non-real-estate agricultural loans, including those to livestock operations, increased significantly during the second and third quarters of 2012 according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. The volume of non-real estate farm loans jumped more than 5.0 percent during the second quarter compared to last year, while average interest rates on most types of agricultural loans were lower, as were delinquency rates.
During the second quarter, farm operating loans rose at their fastest pace in five years according to the report. That trend continued into the third quarter, as data from the first full week of August show the volume of short-term operating loans up 36 percent compared to the same time last year, reaching a new survey high.
Short-term lending for feeder livestock reached a two-year high and exceeded 2011 levels by 60 percent during the third quarter, largely due to drought conditions pushing calves and feeder cattle onto the market earlier than usual.
Lending activity helped drive stronger profits and at agricultural banks, as return on assets rose to a four-year high. Nationally, agricultural banks continued to outperform their peers in the second quarter, with an average rate of return on assets of 0.6 percent at the end of the second quarter, compared with 0.4 percent return at other small banks. The average rate of return on equity at agricultural banks was 5.3 percent in the second quarter compared to 3.6 percent at other small banks.
After adjusting for seasonal trends, delinquency rates on non-real estate farm loans fell to 1.5 percent during the second quarter, their lowest level in four years according to the report. Farm real estate loan performance also improved during the second quarter as delinquency rates declined.
Farmland values continued upward across the nation's mid-section, with non-irrigated cropland in Nebraska and South Dakota more than 30 percent above year-ago levels. In the eastern Corn Belt, farmland values rose between 10 and 15 percent, while continuing drought in Texas kept farmland values relatively flat.
Although the drought reduced crop yields, record high crop prices and widespread crop insurance coverage supported farm incomes and loan demand, according to the authors. Profits in the livestock sector, however, suffered due to high feed costs and lower feeder-cattle prices as producers were forced to liquidate herds.
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The White House says it's extremely disappointed by Russia's decision to give Edward Snowden asylum.
This story is based on a radio interview. Listen to the full interview.
Russian authorities granted the former intelligence analyst temporary asylum, for one year.
He left Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport for an undisclosed location Thursday.
The Obama Administration has accused Snowden of espionage, after his leaks revealed the NSA's far-reaching secret surveillance of phone and Internet traffic.
For his part, Snowden now accuses the administration of not respecting the law.
The BBC's Tara McKelvey in Washington says however that the response from the administration is largely theater.


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'Drew Stafford scored two goals and added an assist to reach 45 points for the season, tying the career-high he set in 2008-09. He now has a team-leading 28 goals on the season. Stafford's first goal of the game was also his first since March 6 and broke a 1-1 tie in the second period as he was somehow able to get his stick on a pass from Brad Boyes in front of the crease. His second goal came in the third period when he knocked in a Tyler Ennis rebound, and occurred just 13 seconds after Jordan Leopold had scored a power play goal to put Buffalo ahead, 3-1.'
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Hi everyone. My name is Tanya and my husband, John, 57, was diagnosed with Hilar cholangiocarcinoma, also known as a Klatskin tumor on July 19, 2013. His tumour is located in the Y of the common bile duct and is around 2 1/2 cm. So far there is no spread (PET scan, CT scans, MRI, and needle biopsy of lymph nodes. He is currently on the Mayo protocol for a liver transplant.
He has had internal/external drains placed on both sides of his liver and this has helped reduce his bilirubin from 499 to 37 so that he can finally start the chemo/radiation regime. He will need to have the drains replaced this week with metal stents before radiation begins, (hopefully in 10 days.)
We live in Toronto and are extremely pleased with the team of doctors that are working with us, but it's all rather overwhelming.
It frightens me that the tumour was found in July but no chemo or radiation has taken place (because of the high bilirubin). He's also had two infections since the placement of the drains but has managed to fight them off after time in the hospital on iv antibiotics. Unfortunately he also developed C dificile during the last infection but that now also seems to be gone.
Other than the cancer John has been the picture of perfect health and takes no medications for anything. I guess he has that going for him.
We have been married for 27 years and have three children 24, 21 and 16. I am so thankful to have found this space to share thoughts and concerns. As a caregiver I feel so overwhelmed at times and generally anxious about what lay ahead for John. We are working hard to remain hopeful that he'll be able to get a liver transplant but in the back of my mind I am so afraid that it will spread. I can't imagine life with out John, but I'm also incredibly grateful that we are together here and now. Our entire world changed in the blink of an eye.


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Mother's survival against the odds
It is one of the little-known miracles of the Christchurch earthquake. A mother and her young daughter were buried alive in the rubble of City Mall. The child was carried to hospital in the arms of strangers as her mother lay lifeless. For the first time, they tell their story to reporter Olivia Carville.
Left for dead beneath a grey blanket, she lay face down amid the ruins of City Mall.
She lay silent and still as the sirens roared and the people screamed.
Her face was lifeless as her 6-year-old daughter's limp body was pulled from beneath her.
Over two hours, three men separately searched in vain for a pulse or a sign of life from the woman. She gave them nothing.
Olivia Cruickshank's story of survival defies belief.
In one of the most chilling photographs captured on February 22, 2011, a white-sneakered foot protrudes from a dirty blanket nestled in a mountain of rubble.
The foot belongs to Cruickshank.
Now, two years on, she wants the world to know that, against tremendous odds, she and her daughter are alive.
The 35-year-old mother does not often talk about how she came back from the dead, nor does she like to discuss how her Abigail Walls nearly died beneath her.
She has little explanation for their survival - to her, it is truly a miracle.
"I didn't believe in miracles to the extent that I do now. A miracle to me now is something that cannot be explained easily. There are some things in this world that you just can't get your head around. Maybe there were guardian angels or maybe it just wasn't my time."
Looking at Cruickshank and Abbie now, there is barely a sign of their ordeal.
Their physical scars are hidden and they laugh often.
To outsiders, they are just another mother and daughter, giggling as they cuddle on the couch.
But, seeing the pair together, knowing what they have had to overcome, makes their survival all the more wondrous.
From the comfort of their north Christchurch home, Cruickshank begins to relive the horror of February 22.
"All those people thought I was dead and yet here I am, drinking a cup of coffee, sitting on the couch."
She explains how she suffers from post traumatic amnesia and still has no recollection from a week before the quake to a month after it.
Her mind has mercifully wiped it from her memory and her account of what happened on the day is based on a jigsaw of second-hand information from her rescuers, hospital notes and appointment cards.
She starts with what she knows: On Tuesday, February 22, Abbie had a routine dental check-up at Christchurch Hospital at 2pm.
At 12.50 they were wandering through City Mall hand-in-hand looking for somewhere to have lunch.
A minute later, the magnitude-6.3 quake tore the mall to pieces. It ripped up paving, smashed glass windows and shook buildings to the ground.
Debris and rubble rained down on the mother and daughter, hurling them to the pavement.
As the dust began to settle, people started to comb through the ruins for any signs of life.
Joe Roy, 29, one of the first to find the pair, has remained a close family friend ever since and he has helped to fill in the blanks.
Roy recalls seeing Cruickshank's legs coming out from beneath a colossal brick and concrete column.
A group of 10 men, some in work suits, tried to lift the column, which was the "size of a two-seater couch", he says.
It was too heavy to lift and they resorted to a steel rod to lever it up.
As they pulled Cruickshank's "twisted and bent" body out from beneath the column, Roy saw her arm was draped protectively over a small child, hidden beneath the debris.
Both mother and daughter were bloodied and purple, starved of oxygen.
"Once we lifted that thing it looked like they were gone. They were purple, their eyes were open, they weren't breathing at all. They didn't look alive," Roy says.
Abbie's tiny, limp body was quickly plucked from the carnage.
Roy and an Ashburton farmer put their hands together to form a human stretcher and ran to Christchurch Hospital.
Two young boys cleared a path for the men, using their skateboards to separate the gathering crowds and stop traffic.
Abbie was the first person with earthquake injuries to reach the hospital.
The Ashburton farmer sat in the carpark for hours waiting to hear if she had survived, while Roy ran back to City Mall to try and help her mother.
By the time he returned, Cruickshank was covered by a blanket, already pronounced dead by a dentist and a St John medic.
Believing she had passed away, Roy was helping someone else when he saw her blanket move.
He ripped it off, tried to clear her airway and yelled for help.
Another St John medic checked for a pulse and placed the blanket back over her body, telling Roy she was dead and her body was only twitching from the trauma.
Again, Cruickshank was left to die.
She lay in the rubble for two hours and it wasn't until a young construction worker saw her uncovered foot twitch that she was finally given the help she desperately needed.
A territorial army medic found a faint pulse and together they lifted her out of the rubble.
She arrived at Christchurch Hospital almost three hours after the quake, despite being injured less than one kilometre away.
According to hospital reports, neither mother nor daughter were opening their eyes, verbally responding or moving any of their limbs when they arrived.
Abbie had suffered crush injuries, a traumatic brain injury, liver lacerations, a broken jaw, cuts to her face and scalp and had a limited response to resuscitation.
Cruickshank had a collapsed lung, broken neck, shattered jaw, ripped ear lobe and a severe traumatic brain injury.
Reinforcing the miracle of their survival, Cruickshank says: "At one point the doctors considered stopping treatment on Abbie and I have been told that I would have died if I arrived at the hospital 20 minutes later."
Shortly after 5pm that day, her partner of 13 years, Tristan Walls received the worst phone call of his life.
Walls, who had been trying to get hold of Cruickshank for hours, was ecstatic to see a call come through from her cellphone.
But nothing could have prepared him for what the stranger's voice said when he answered the phone.
She told him his partner and daughter had been critically injured and that he needed to hurry because "things weren't looking good".
Up to that point, Walls had been feeling lucky as earlier in the day he had been working in the CTV building (later to collapse, killing 115) and he had also stopped by Joe's Garage on Hereford St, which also crumbled, claiming a life.
He recalls nearly falling over when he first saw his daughter and partner.
"I couldn't breathe. Abbie was all purple and Liv was just so bashed up. It was like somebody had just ripped my heart out," he says.
Abbie flew to Auckland's Starship Hospital the following morning and Cruickshank was flown to Auckland Hospital later that same night.
Abbie is now known as Starship Hospital's 'miracle kid'.
Doctors initially warned Walls that if Abbie survived it was unlikely she would ever fully recover or be the child she used to be.
When she woke for the first time three days after the quake, he was there.
She told her father her birthday, her cat's name and that she loved him before slipping back into unconsciousness.
She did not fully wake from her coma for another two days.
The six-year-old was disoriented and extremely distressed when she came to and Walls was woken at 4am and came running.
Doctors pulled a chair up to Abbie's bed, carefully picked the child up to avoid further damage to her spine and placed her on Wall's lap for comfort.
It was the first time he had been able to hold her.
"It was the most amazing feeling. It was the first time I felt like we were going to make it out of all this," he says.
The extent of her crush injuries left Abbie with blood-red eyes for weeks after the quake and initially she spoke like a baby and couldn't walk at all.
Occupational therapists used an array of different methods to help her recover, including fingerpaint, play dough and whiteboards.
But true to her 'miracle' title, the six-year-old was discharged from hospital after only three weeks and has since made a full recovery.
Now, aged eight, she is one of the top pupils in her Cotswold Primary School class and her weeks are full of dancing lessons, swimming classes and touch rugby games.
Her mother's road to recovery has not been as smooth.
Cruickshank underwent a nine-and-a-half hour surgery for her injuries and can only recall bizarre fragments of her stay at Auckland Hospital.
She remembers vivid hallucinations in which she felt she was being held captive in a foreign country and had to be restrained.
Every time she regained consciousness someone would tell her she had been injured in the quake, but her mind was unable to process the trauma.
After three-and-a-half weeks, she was transferred down to Burwood Hospital's brain injury rehabilitation unit.
In late March, when her neurologist told her Prime Minister John Key was coming to the hospital to meet quake survivors, Cruickshank panicked.
"I was upset all day because I thought they were going to ask me to lie to the Prime Minister and say I was hurt in the earthquake, when I actually believed I had been hit by a bus."
It took weeks before she began to understand she had been injured in a second quake and her family did not tell her how close to death she had come until the end of her five-week stay.
"Everyone told me and I understood what they said, but I still thought it was so unbelievable."
It wasn't until she watched The Press quake DVD in April, which includes graphic footage from City Mall, that it finally sunk in.
"I remember watching the DVD thinking I must have been somewhere in the area and then I saw my foot. I recognised my shoe. I rewinded it, paused it on my body and just went into absolute shock," she says.
"It cemented everything I had been told. I believed what people had said but didn't think it had actually happened. It was just utter disbelief, there were so many people around me and yet there I was."
Cruickshank does not feel any bitterness toward the people who mistakenly left her for dead.
If anything, she feels empathy for the rescuers and wants to tell them how "bloody grateful" she is.
"I feel for them because of the trauma they have gone through and the guilt they have felt knowing that I was alive and that I am alive. The guilt people feel is huge," she says, crying for the only time in the interview.
"They need to know that Abbie and I wouldn't be here if they hadn't lifted that stuff off us. She would have suffocated and the weight would have been too heavy for me."
It has taken two years for Cruickshank to share her incredible story and even now the after-effects of her injuries still linger.
She suffers from extreme fatigue, severe headaches and her memory is still hazy at times, but she has returned to part-time work and life is slowly easing into normality.
A few positives include an unshakeable bond with her daughter and a strengthened relationship with her partner.
"If we can get through what we got through, nothing can stop us," she says.
"I think we are the luckiest people alive," Walls says, looking at his partner.
The battered city of Christchurch remains home for the family, perhaps because of Cruickshank's "pig-headed stubbornness" or because the city's recovery is linked to her own. She still does not know.
"I believe it is a miracle that we both survived that day. We have been given a second chance and I want to make the most of it.
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D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier to lay wreath at Arlington tomb
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - District of Columbia Police Chief Cathy Lanier is participating in a wreath ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.
The chief is scheduled to lay a wreath Wednesday morning at the cemetery's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
She'll be joined at the ceremony by Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan, commander of the Joint Force Headquarters National Capital Region and the U.S. Army Military District of Washington.


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Can I change my business from a C corporation to an S corporation?
Yes. A C corporation may elect S corporation status if it satisfies certain requirements:
- It must be incorporated in the United States
- It must have no more than 100 shareholders (members of a family may be treated as one shareholder)
- Shareholders must be U.S. citizens, resident aliens, estates, other S corporations, or certain qualified trusts
- It can have only one class of stock, although both voting and nonvoting shares of the same class are allowed
- All shareholders must consent to the election in writing
The principal advantage of electing S corporation status is that it allows corporate income to pass through to you and other shareholders and be reported only once as personal income. This avoids the double taxation of C corporation earnings, which are taxed once as corporate profits, and then again as personal income when dividends are distributed to shareholders. In addition, once S corporation status has been elected, you can deduct the corporation's losses against your own personal income up to certain limits.
When a corporation elects S corporation status, it retains that status for all future years unless it revokes or terminates that status. To convert from a C corporation to an S corporation, you must file Form 2553 with the IRS. It should be signed by the person authorized by the corporation to do so and by the shareholders, then filed on or before the 15th day of the 3rd month of the corporation's tax year.
Because of the tax implications of this decision, consult an experienced tax professional before you elect to change from a C corporation to an S corporation.


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