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Dr Weiss is a superb doctor. Very knowledgable, attentive, responsive and personable. Dr Weiss receives my highest ratings. I am a MD myself and would be most comfortable referring anyone of my patients to her as well as family members, which I have already. Dr Weiss's staff is equally outstanding and Malia deserves every star there is.
I saw Dr Weiss for a hip problem of over a year. I had been to two doctors without much relief when a friend recommended her She reviewed my history, assessed my running style and diagnosed me with a labral tear. She gave me a few interventional options and directed me to a manual therapist and trainer. Ultimately, I underwent 2 platelet rich plasma injections with continued and complete relief months later. I'm working with the trainer she recommended to correct the imbalances that led to the problem. Here is to NYC marathon 2013
Dr. Weiss did not explain the treatment at all for my son's back problem. She gave him several injections, including Botox, but had not explanation as to how it works or the potential side effects. Her billing practices are dubious. She collected $375 cash upfront and then billed the insurance company far more. Three months later, he has no relief from the pain.
I am just going to agree with all of the other responders when I say what a fantastic, caring and brilliant doctor. She took time to listen and after having seen many doctors feel confident in saying that she is the best. I am feeling better and am finally confident in making a full recovery. She doesn't take my insurance but I must say, she was worth going out of network for.
I had spent 5 years going to different doctors and getting told different things. I never got better until I met Dr. Weiss. She listened, took the time to diagnose correctly and I am finally beginning to feel better after years of suffering. Honestly, the best Doctor I have seen regardless of specialty. The office staff can be a bit abrupt and definitely not the most friendly but I would say it is well worth it when you get through the door and get to speak/meet with Dr. Weiss. Highly recommended.
Dr. Weiss is a brilliant, compassionate, hilarious doctor who is by far one of my favorite people. She is incredibly intuitive and sensitive, yet upbeat and ambitiously efficient. She is basically the epitome of perfection, so as long as you don't mind encountering a seminal sweet heart who will enchant your medical experience, all will be smooth sailing. Dr.Weiss can brilliantly make light of your physical condition, being sedated during physical therapy, and her apparent fondness of dolphins and yet remain a constant, unwavering source of urgency to heal and live a life of great happiness. I strongly agree with the person who wrote, the only way someone could think poorly of our dear doctor Weiss would be if they asked her out and she professionally refused, but who wouldn't want to marry Dr. Weiss? She is just that special. She is not like other doctors or even other people, I love her dearly. If you want somebody nice, who's gonna change your life, call Dr. Weiss = life motto
I was fortunate to get off the waiting list to see her for a last-minute, urgent appt as a first-time patient. I feel so lucky! She is incredible. Kind, down-to-earth, extremely knowledgeable, and thorough. As someone who is sometimes cautious about putting a lot of faith in doctors, I have to say that I feel very much in good hands with her. We have a plan to deal with my back pain, which she worked out with me, not for me. In other words, she listened to me and my concerns while planning treatment. Highly recommended!
She is simply said, fantastic. Listens fully, understands all the causes of pain and helped me get better after years of suffering. After seeing so many doctors, I finally found one I want to stick with.
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My Dad will be coming home tomorrow with hospice care. So far getting hospice in place has been the less stressful part of this whole horrible experience! I would like to get any information from others who have gone through home hospice with their loved ones. I think it will be very good for Dad to be home, although I'm not sure how much time he has left.
Dad's percutaneous bile drain seems to be filling up with the exact thing that he drank (the other day it looked and smelled like the orange sherbert he had, and then apple juice). He's not voiding as much anymore, and BMs are only possible with a suppository. He sleeps most of the time and rarely even sits up and hasn't gotten out of bed even to sit in his wheelchair for quite a few days. I'm wondering, or perhaps I already know, that these are signs that we don't have much more time.
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A geologist at Washington University in St. Louis and his collaborator at Oxford University have interpreted data that Lewis and Clark collected during their famous expedition and found that the Missouri River has markedly narrowed and its water levels have become more variable over the past two hundred years.
This narrowing, or channeling, created by wing dikes and levees constructed mainly in the 20th century, has put the Missouri River at an increased risk of more damaging floods, the authors say. They blame the fact that the river cannot spread out as it did naturally at the turn of the 19th century, thus forcing water levels higher. River narrowing also leads to greater fluctuation in day-to-day and seasonal water level height which may be partly to blame for declines in river wildlife, especially shallow-water spawning fish, birds nesting on sandbars, and wetland vegetation.
"The contrast is amazing if you compare graphs of river height against time taken in the 19th century vs. the 20th century. You'd think you were looking at two different rivers. The river today is 'flashy' with rapid up and down jumps in river height." said Bethany Ehlmann, the study's lead author and a Washington University graduate and Rhodes Scholar, who completed the study for her master's degree at Oxford University. "But if you look at data collected by Lewis and Clark in 1804 it matches almost perfectly with the second oldest data we have from the 1860s."
The quantitative data that Lewis and Clark collected is solid science that has been overlooked these two hundred years, according to coauthor Robert Criss, Ph.D., Washington University professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences.
"Little attention has been paid to the remarkable measurements that these explorers made," said Criss, who in 2003 interpreted Lewis and Clark measurements to provide the oldest determinations of the magnetic declination of America's interior. "These men were gifted quantitative scientists. They gathered lots of valuable, accurate data that has not been evaluated. Lewis and Clark's scientific legacy has been almost completely overshadowed by emphasis on the heroic and patriotic aspects of manifest destiny and westward expansion.
They killed a bear; they measured a river
"Now, that's a wonderful story, told repeatedly many times over. It's very fun and inspiring reading, but it's all this' We killed a bear' stuff. The neglected story is the value of the day-to-day quantitative measurements that Lewis and Clark made. Every page of their journals is full of numbers and scientific experiments. "They did a very fine job of measuring the river," he said.
Criss said that Lewis and Clark at their Dubois and Fort Mandan river camps put sticks in the river each day and recorded in inches how much the river rose or fell each day. To get river width the Lewis and Clark explorers used surveying equipment, chains and compasses.
Criss and Ehlmann, now a doctoral candidate in geological sciences at Brown University, show many applications of Lewis and Clark's data in their paper published in the Nov. 2006 issue of Geology. For example, Lewis and Clark measured the Missouri River at St. Charles as 720 yards wide. Contemporary U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and United States Geological Services records show that the width now is just 470 yards across. Similarly, at the confluence of the Osage River and at Kansas City, Lewis and Clark measured the width of the Missouri River as 875 and 500 yards, respectively, which compare with contemporary readings of 400 and 330 yards, respectively.
Human changes to the Missouri River for irrigation, flood control, and navigation began in the early 19th century, just shortly after the voyage of Lewis and Clark. However, river discharge volume was not regularly recorded until the 1930s, long after denuding the shore of forests and river channeling with wing dikes had severely impacted the character and ecology of the river.
"What was the river like before we changed it?" Ehlmann asked rhetorically. "No one had looked at records before the 20th century. So we took Lewis and Clark's data, stage [water level] data from government records published in the late 1800s, and modern electronic stage files and did the simplest thing possible to look at the 200 -year record." Because stage data was always recorded relative to something--"and we didn't know always what that something was," said Ehlmann--the authors measured change in height from day to day and change in maximum and minimum annual heights relative to the annual mean. The authors found the increased variability in both measures began around 1900, just as intensive channelization began.
"We now have a composite record for the Missouri river that's almost three times as long as the previous one," Criss said. "The Lewis and Clark data give us a benchmark for the natural condition, which is so important in ecological studies. Whether you're studying rivers, as I do, or global warming, you have to know what's 'normal' to understand the history of the natural world. We now have a pre-development baseline for the Missouri River."
"As policy makers balance different needs in deciding how to manage the river, we hope that this new record will aid in establishing better flood control techniques and promoting ecosystem restoration," Ehlmann added. "Making room for the river, at least in some stretches, seems to solve both goals at the same time."
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text: 5-3 mark not that shocking for WVU By Dave Hickman November 5, 2012 Story Share MORGANTOWN - Odds and ends and a few things I think I think as yet another college football season winds down without West Virginia as a major player:Say what you will about Top 25 rankings and the potential for BCS bowl berths, but the bottom line is that the last time the Mountaineers were relevant to the national discussion after the first weekend of November was 2007. Before that it was 1993 and before that 1988. That's three times in 25 years.Actually, it's three times in 119 years, which is the number of seasons the school has played football.By being relevant we mean in the discussion for a national championship. There have been a couple of other times WVU has been unbeaten and highly ranked late in the season, but those blew up quickly. In 2006 it happened when the No. 3 Mountaineers lost at No. 5 Louisville the first weekend in November. If you'd like to go back to 1955, Pappy Lewis' team was 7-0 and No. 6 before losing to Pitt and Syracuse back-to-back.We bring this up not to denigrate or belittle, but as a reality check. West Virginia is now playing harder games in a tougher conference than at any time in those 119 years. Did you really think that a second-year coach was going to take a team he didn't recruit through the most difficult schedule (by a mile) in school history without some glitches?Granted, some of those glitches are embarrassing and almost inexplicable, but really now. In 119 years West Virginia has had three late-season shots at the summit, every one of them while playing a suspect schedule. The way the Mountaineers have gotten to 5-3 might be shocking, but that they are there is certainly not.This just in: If you haven't gone to the polls yet, we have the endorsement you've been waiting for. My 6-year-old, Annie, can't vote, of course, but if she could she would vote for "Rocco Bama.'' The most interesting thing she's learned about the candidates in her first-grade class is that one's hobby is playing basketball and the other's is riding horses. I'm thinking that's her basis for the vote.Just a guess, but that's probably deeper than a lot of partisan voters go before marking their ballot.I understand that there are long-standing contracts and a system in place. And just as a point of note, I don't believe that the four unbeaten college football teams at the top of the current BCS standings will all remain unscathed. But just for kicks and giggles, imagine that Alabama, Kansas State, Oregon and Notre Dame finish 12-0 or 13-0. Why can't the BCS powers that be get together and just decide to accelerate the four-team playoff scheduled for 2014 to now?Really? Who would oppose it? The contracts that are in place involve the television networks and the major conferences acting as the BCS, right? Is ABC/ESPN going to balk at televising what everyone wants to see? Would the SEC, the Pac-12, the Big 12 or Notre Dame oppose an immediate expansion given that by refusing to do so they are gambling that two of them are going to be left out?And what of the four major bowls? If the standings remain as they are now, the Sugar (Alabama) and Fiesta (Kansas State) will lose their anchor teams to a one-game national title matchup. The Rose will get a very ticked off Oregon and the Orange probably gets Notre Dame against a weak ACC team. The only game that makes out is the title game.Put Alabama and Notre Dame in the Sugar and Oregon-Kansas State in the Fiesta. The Rose Bowl gets its traditional Pac-12-Big Ten, which is what it professes to hold dearest. And while the Orange is perhaps a dud - Florida State-Louisville? - no one cares because it's merely the opening act to the national title game, which it is now anyway.Again, who objects? What is standing in the way? As it stands now the bowl matchups are probably Notre Dame-ACC in the Orange, Oregon-Big Ten in the Rose, the SEC runner-up vs. a wild card in the Sugar, the Big 12 runner-up against the Big East in the Fiesta and Alabama-Kansas State in the title game. Sorry, but not many of those quicken the pulse.By the way, anyone who doesn't want to see Alabama vs. Oregon raise your hand.I'm not saying it should be the title game and unless Kansas State loses it might not be. That's for others to decide.But don't try to tell me you don't want to see that game.Reach Dave Hickman at 304-348-1734 or firstname.lastname@example.com or follow him at Twitter.com/dphickman1. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Teen pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Oakes Field shooting 2 Facebook founder visits Cabin Creek Health Systems 3 Toyota announces new $115 million project for WV plant 4 Man allegedly cuts father in Rand over argument about a sandwich 5 'Report for America' pilot project begins in Appalachia WVU basketball starting lineup still a work in progress Previous Story The scheme looks familiar Next Story


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TWO Australian friends travelling in the southeast Asian nation of Laos died within days of each other, reportedly from drug overdoses.
Kane Scriven, 40, and Nick Parkin, 39, both from Darwin, who had worked as ship crewmen, were found dead in the Laotian capital Vientiane early in January.
Mr Scriven's body was found in his hotel room on January 1, while Mr Parkin was found dead three days later, also in his hotel room.
The men had been travelling together but it is not certain whether the deaths were linked.
ABC radio reports both men died from drug overdoses, possibly from the same batch of drugs, although this had not been confirmed by Laotian or Australian authorities.
Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) said two Australian men had died in Vientiane but would not reveal their names, citing privacy laws.
Family and friends of the dead men left messages on Facebook to remember the pair.
"My brother Nick died in Laos on the 4(th)," said Timothy Parkin.
Jaimie Hildebrand, a friend of Mr Parkin, said she was hoping to hear the news was a prank.
"Love you with all my heart," she said on her page.
Another friend, Luke Martin, said Mr Parkin was a great man and friend.
"Having known you has been an absolute pleasure and I'm sad to hear your (sic) gone, but so thankful for the fantastic memories," he said.
On Tuesday a friend of Mr Scriven, Joel Kowalski, who had worked with the two men at Workboats Northern Australia said Mr Scriven would be missed.
"He was definitely a larrikin. He had a kind heart and was always there for everyone," Mr Kowalski said.
The Australian government's smartraveller website warns of the dangers of drug use in Laos.
"Some restaurants in popular tourist locations offer drug-laced food and drink which may contain harmful and unknown substances," the website said.
"The unknown additives in these foods and drinks can be dangerous and may result in serious illness and death."
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Burger King, Costco, Markon Cooperative and Pro*Act joined other foodservice and retail buyers and distributors on recent food safety tours of lettuce and tomato operations in California.
California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement and the California Tomato Farmers cooperative gave the tours Aug. 15-17. Both organizations offer one annually, but this marked the first time the events were combined, said Ed Beckman, president of the cooperative.
The 14 participants also included representatives of Jack in the Box, Del Taco, Carl's Jr., In-N-Out Burger, DineEquity and Yum! Brands.
They spent a day at Santa Maria, Calif., leafy greens grower Rancho Guadalupe LLC before heading to a Gargiulo Inc. packinghouse in Somis and tomato fields in Camarillo.
Tour members participated in mock audits and met with U.S. Department of Agriculture and California Department of Food and Agriculture auditors at the end of each day.
"We heard loud and clear that our customers have confidence in this," Beckman said. "It's the only audit required of tomato growers. A lot of growers are hoping to get off the audit treadmill. That was a goal when CTF was created in the winter of 2006-07. We've been running the audit since it went national in 2010."
"We always find that people are familiar with our program but don't truly understand all the workings of it," said April Ward, communications director for the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement. "Farmers and harvest crews are inputting food safety every day, so it goes beyond just auditing."
It was LGMA's third annual tour. Buyers can schedule smaller tours separately.
"Both (organizations) were founded on the belief that mandatory government inspections are an essential component to improve food safety, build consumer confidence and protect public health, so it was natural for us to partner on this tour," Scott Horsfall, LGMA chief executive officer, said in a news release.
"For many who were involved in the development of the tomato metrics over several years, this (tour) was their opportunity to see that in practice," Beckman said.
"I was not aware of all that goes into the program, such as the extensive training … of the USDA auditors," Scott Brooks, director of quality assurance at Yum! Brands, said in the release.
Beckman said auditors' commodity-specific training provides consistency.
"They are in tune with a standard so that as you move from one auditor to the next there is the same interpretation," he said. "Along with the tomato metrics there was a program designed to provide additional training beyond what you'd get for a GAP or GMP audit."
California Tomato Farmers members represent almost 80% of the fresh tomatoes produced in the state. LGMA members handle about 99% of the state's leafy greens.
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Missed opportunities define rough night vs. Mariners
Gonzalez allows four runs over five innings; O's go 1-for-13 with RISP
BALTIMORE -- The Orioles had runners on first and second during the opening frame on Saturday night, and Adam Jones stood at the plate. Perhaps the O's offense, which has been among the worst in baseball since the All-Star break, was ready to return to form.
Jones hit a grounder over to second base to drive in Nick Markakis and move Manny Machado to third. A groundout alone couldn't doom this inning.
But after two strikeouts, the O's squandered the best chance they'd get all night and fell to the Mariners, 6-3, in front of 36,508 at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
"There's an ebb and flow to all parts of the season," manager Buck Showalter said. "It's not a flat line. Some people who are not doing well now will do so as the season goes on, and some who are might cool off some."
Miguel Gonzalez allowed four runs and Robinson Cano broke a 1-1 tie with a three-run home run in the fifth inning.
Gonzalez (5-6) had given Cano fits with his splitter in the past, and he tried to beat him with it again. Gonzalez left the pitch up and the All-Star cranked his third hit in 27 at-bats against the O's starter over the right-field wall.
The home run was Cano's 29th against Baltimore (61-48) in his career, but with first base open, Showalter trusted Gonzalez and his starting pitcher's history against the second baseman.
"I thought it was good just trying to go after him," Gonzalez said. "I've had really good success against him. You just tip your hat. I left the ball up and he was able to get a piece of it."
Gonzalez allowed seven hits and only struck out one batter in five frames during his worst outing since June 29, when he allowed three runs on eight hits and didn't make it out of the fifth inning in a loss to the Rays.
Catcher Caleb Joseph answered Cano's homer with a solo shot of his own in the bottom half of the inning, and Mariners starting pitcher James Paxton left one out later. In his first Major League appearance since April 8, Paxton held the Orioles to just four hits before exiting for relief pitcher Dominic Leone (4-2).
The O's collected six hits all night, three of which went for extra bases. The Orioles didn't manage a hit with a runner in scoring position until after Seattle (57-53) stretched the lead to four runs in the ninth inning.
"We're swinging the bats, putting the barrel on the ball," Joseph said. "Sometimes they don't fall, sometimes they do. We're just going to stay within ourselves. We believe in our offense, and we'll continue to go out and do our work and keep swinging."
Baltimore has posted the lowest batting average (.203) and on-base percentage (.267) in the American League since the break, and the club ranks ahead of only the Mariners and last-place Rangers in slugging percentage.
The O's managed to win games despite that because of an excellent string of starting pitching -- they delivered 12 straight quality starts with a 2.12 ERA during that stretch -- but that run ended on Saturday.
"We've just got to go out there and try to do our best," Gonzalez said. "We've been doing a pretty good job. Everyone's been going deep in ballgames except for tonight's game, but it's going to happen. We can't be perfect all of the time."
Seven innings after his first chance, Jones again stood at the plate as the tying run with a runner on second. He fought off a handful of pitches and took a ball in the dirt, but he eventually struck out on a two-seam fastball tailing in toward his hands. The next two batters went down in order and the heart of the Orioles' order wasted another chance.
There was a minor rally in the ninth, as Steve Pearce walked with one out. Two batters later, pinch-hitter Ryan Flaherty hit an RBI single off Fernando Rodney. By then, Baltimore was just slicing into a four-run deficit and left with a three-run loss.
"As the season goes on, it gets a little harder to hit because guys are playing every day and pitchers are once every fifth or sixth day," Showalter said. "It's pretty normal this time of year, unfortunately, that the season becomes more of a challenge."
David Wilson is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The Future of Process Manufacturing
What Are You Going to Do When Your Most Experienced Operator Retires?
For years, we've been watching it happen. We have been saying we need to fix the problems. And by and large, the problems haven't gotten fixed, and they've just gotten bigger. These problems include many things that keep plant management up at night:
How can I ensure that my control system is secure? Should I use ASM style graphics for my new HMI? What would happen to my process if we had an incident? Could the operators cope with the alarms? And what on earth am I going to do when, Joe, my most experienced operator retires next year? How will I be able to train the new guys to the level of skills he has? I am sure to lose production in the learning process.
These problems are real, and they are looming over manufacturing in the process industries like storm clouds. The recession gave us a little borrowed time, but we're running out of that now too.
We are losing experienced operations and maintenance people much faster than we can replace them. And when they go, they take with them the wealth of detailed understanding and situational awareness that makes the plant run. Process plants are aging in North America and Europe. The newest oil refinery in the United States is close to 40 years old. These plants were not designed for modern production or productivity, and the control systems are often patched up, band-aided and cobbled together without much thought other than keeping the plant running. Instruction manuals are often filled with scribbled notes and sticky labels that are difficult to decipher, much less understand. This situation has already killed people (at BP in Texas City in 2005, for example) and it's just getting worse.
Control systems were never designed to be secure, and now that they run on Windows operating systems. They all have access to the Internet, and they are difficult to secure. What do I do first? Patch the system? Put in firewalls? What?
We have been searching for a new HMI metaphor for years, ever since we realized that the use of computer terminal displays had robbed the operator of the easily-gained, whole-process situational awareness of the panel wall. So we've started to recreate those old panel walls on huge video screen displays, but isn't that just "back to the 1960s"? How do we train new, young operators who have grown up with video game consoles and joysticks and want to just jump right in and start "playing?"
And what happens if we have an accident—an "abnormal situation?" Do the operators know enough and have enough experience and situational awareness to know how to shut down the plant in an orderly fashion? Or will they have to think through the process of shutdown on the fly in an emergency, like the operators at BP Texas City did, and will they fail as dismally?
How about the "as-built" drawings and manuals? They are at least 40 years old, in most cases, and very often bear no real relationship to what's really installed and operating now.
We are trying to produce products optimized for the 2010s with devices and control systems optimized for the 1980s and 1990s. Is it any wonder that we're having problems?
Clearly, we need a way to learn how to handle those issues, and help make our plants operational over the next decades.
We need a targeted way to discuss and learn how to solve these problems. We need a place where our peers can gather and share best practices and benchmarks with each other.
We are happy to report that such a conference exists and will take place this May. The conference is called "Automation Technology in Process Manufacturing (ATPM, www.atpm2012.org).
ATPM 2012 is a new conference that will focus on these issues in applying automation and control technology in process manufacturing. The conference, to be held May 21-23 at The Woodlands, Texas, will bring together industry thought leaders to discuss recent developments and best practices affecting process manufacturing.
Industry experts will show how the application of some of the newer standards such as ISA101 (HMI), ISA18.2 (Alarm Management), ISA99 (Control System Cybersecurity) and ISA106 (Procedural Automation for Continuous Processes) can help manufacturing companies to look to the future in a positive way and address some of the hottest industry issues created by the loss of skills due to the retiring "Baby Boomer" generation and the growth in cyber attacks on process manufacturing.
They will also address such issues as whether the power and flexibility of modern control systems is a help or a hindrance. It's possible to alarm absolutely anything—but is that necessary? Maybe the system itself can decide which alarms the operator can see and under what conditions. Then there is the question of gray-scale graphics. Is that what operators want? Again, a modern control system can present 3D graphics of any color, with animation included, but maybe it's better to use the power of the control system to manage the graphics based on process conditions. Come and see for yourself what the experts have to say about these questions and find out what some of your peers are doing to address them.
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The rise of Biden
Yes, President Obama's second term is just barely getting underway.
Yes, the next election is still nearly four years away.
But that isn't stopping speculation in political circles about the future of long time Delaware Senator and now two-term Vice President.
After a long career in the Senate, Biden has made it to the pinnacle of American politics...almost. And while Biden may be a heartbeat away from the Oval Office, his aspirations to be elected President can't be denied.
Former Delaware Congressman Mike Castle served beside Biden in Congress for nearly two decades. He says Biden has wanted to be president for a very long time, "It is said that he came out of the womb thinking about being President of the United States. There may be some truth to that."
Speculation time
While it may be obscenely early to speculate about Biden's future prospects, here we go.
After a dreadful performance by President Obama in his first debate with Mitt Romney, it was Biden stepped up to the plate against Paul Ryan in the only VP debate. Some people credit Biden's performance in that debate with providing some much needed momentum for the Obama campaign to bring home a win.
Then in November, the early buzz on Election Day centered around comments Biden after voting at his polling place in Wilmington. Far from squelching the speculation, Biden fanned the flames by hinting that he hadn't voted for himself for the final time.
"This is the 8th time that I've run statewide in the state of Delaware and it's always a kick," said Biden. When asked if he had just voted for himself for the last time, Biden replied, "No, I don't think so." Later in the day, Biden backpedaled, sarcastically suggesting that he would consider a run for a seat on New Castle County Council after leaving the White House.
Fiscal cliff and guns
It seems that Biden's role in the Obama administration's second term has been a bit higher profile than the first four years. Over the past few weeks, the President has given Biden the lead role on negotians on a pair of white hot topics: the fiscal cliff and, most recently, gun control. When Obama announced his plans to reduce gun violence, he started with a big nod to Biden. "Let me begin by thanking our Vice President Joe Biden, for your dedication, Joe to this issue, for bringing so many voices to the table."
Delaware State University political science professor Sam Hoff warns against reading too much into Biden's lead role on those issues. He says the second term typically sees an elevation of the Vice President's role. "That's also a pattern not necessarily just unique in the Obama administration of a vice president being used more really goes back to the Carter administration and the role of Walter Mondale."
Grilling Beau
As routine as it may be for the VP to take a bigger role in the second term, it hasn't stopped the speculation. Biden's son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden is asked about the topic nearly everytime he appears in national interviews, so often that he always responds in the same way, almost down to the exact words. "My dad, I know is focused on one thing, and that's being the best Vice President he can be to President Barack Obama, and to this nation," Biden said from memory.
When then-Senator Obama picked Biden to be his running mate in 2008, it was Biden's credentials from his years leading the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that was to be his big asset to the administration. But it's domestic issues, not foreign policy that Biden is being given the lead on. Castle says that's because Biden has much more experience wheeling and dealing in Congress compared to Obama.
"I think he has abilities in those areas, and some relationships which are very important," said Castle. "The Obama administration as a whole does not have those same abilities or relationships, either in the Cabinet secretaries or the President himself. He was only there a couple of years, he doesn't know those people that well. Joe does."
For Castle, there is one "tell" that will tip Biden's hand whether he's considering a run or not. That's Biden's famous (and infamous) gift of gab. "He's not the kind of person who plays cute with it, and hides it. So at some point if he decides to do this, we'll all learn about it at the same time. The tell will be Joe standing in front of TV cameras and saying, 'I'm doing it.'"
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'13 is Janssen's year to recover, not rebuild
TORONTO -- The Blue Jays continue to keep a close eye on right-hander Casey Janssen's workload following offseason surgery on his shoulder.
Toronto's closer has been effective on the mound all year, but his health seems to fluctuate on at least a semi-regular basis. He has good days and bad days, but it is just something Janssen will need to battle through as the season progresses.
Janssen has ruled out needing to have the shoulder examined and says it is just part of the process in what can be considered a recovery year. He expects to get stronger as the season progresses, but until then the Blue Jays will keep tabs on his situation.
"We have to be conscious of it," manager John Gibbons said. "It doesn't make it easy for us, you want to get him steady work, [relievers] all need steady work to really stay sharp; you have to pick your spots."
Janssen pitched one inning against the Rays on Monday afternoon following eight days of rest. He was understandably rusty while allowing his first home run and walk of the season. Beyond the shaky outing in Toronto's 7-5 victory, Janssen's season has been borderline flawless.
The 31-year-old entered play Tuesday night with a 1.93 ERA while striking out 14 in 14 innings of work. He is 10-for-10 in save opportunities and retired 25 consecutive batters during a span of games from April 13 to May 7.
There has not been a save opportunity this year that Janssen has turned down, but when there are days he is not needed the added rest has been welcomed with open arms. Relievers often do not like going very long between outings, but in this case a period of rest was not necessarily a bad thing.
"I don't think it's getting any better," Janssen said. "Hopefully, this layoff helped. (My shoulder's) definitely not worse. It's just that the progress isn't gaining."
As for that outing in which he allowed a run to score for just the second time in 14 games, Janssen did not express concern.
"Just getting the kinks out," Janssen said. "When you haven't had to pitch for a while, your arm hasn't had to work at close to max effort. You can do all the catch you want, and long-toss, but it's tough to re-create the adrenaline (of being) on the mound in a game."
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Takeo Spikes' impact in San Diego did not result in the Chargers making the playoffs either of his two seasons here.
But it may in the future.
When we watch Donald Butler and Melvin Ingram, we'll know where they learned how to make every practice count, every night of sleep matter, every meeting a chance to grow. When we watch Eric Weddle, we'll know who helped him refine how to keep his body and mind right and who helped him grow into his leadership role. If this defense continues to build on its improvement this year, those that are part of it will pay homage in their minds to No. 51.
Said Weddle: "The things he's done and taught us are going to carry on long after he's gone."
We entered Sunday's game knowing it might be the final time we saw Spikes in a Chargers uniform. And that time didn't last very long.
Spikes and Oakland's Mike Goodson were ejected early in the second quarter Sunday after an extended tussle in which they pulled on each other and wouldn't let go at the end of a play.
For a surreal few minutes, a subplot among the myriad farewells quickly became the focal drama.
Sure, it was just a momentary distraction for many of those focused on the same thing they've been frothing over for months, if not years.
But we'll spend all Monday talking about the imminent dismissals of Norv Turner and A.J. Smith.
I choose now to pay tribute to Takeo Spikes and lament the absurd way his time in San Diego may have ended.
Spikes is the 36-year-old linebacker who came here in 2011 to finally get to the playoffs and, through no fault of his own, failed.
He started every game this season, playing through a hamstring injury and other aches and pains we'll never know about nor understand. Even in the face of disappointment he wore heavily around his thick neck, Spikes played these past few weeks as if his life depended on it.
He says he wants to play at least another season. But at his age, he knows there is nothing guaranteed.
And on Sunday, referee John Parry took away Spikes' chance to enjoy one final Chargers victory. And for a reason no one could understand, not even after Parry explained his premature ejection.
"Two players had locked up with grabbing the facemasks, kept pulling, continued to pull after we tried to break it up," Parry explained after the game. "With the continuation of it and the amount of time that took place – that is why we disqualified them."
For clarification, Parry was asked what exactly warranted the ejection.
"Time," Parry said. "Lack of response from what I was trying to get done."
Officials in the NFL have the most difficult job of any in professional sports. I consistently defended these guys well before the replacement official fiasco. But that is a ridiculous justification.
Neither player deserved to be ejected. And, especially, a 15-year veteran deserves a little leeway. Spikes had never been ejected in 218 previous games. In what could be his last in San Diego and perhaps his last one for any team (though I don't think so), a referee lost more control than Spikes ended up doing.
And Spikes definitely lost control.
When Parry made the announcement that the players had been "disqualified," Spikes began to charge the field before being restrained.
Tight end Randy McMichael, perhaps Spikes' closest friend on the team, quickly began trying to calm him. As Spikes ripped off his helmet and went to fling it onto the field, McMichael caught his arm and the helmet only flew a few feet.
As he walked from the stadium after the game, Spikes was not in the talking mood. But he did assess that Parry had made a "horse----" call.
"What happened on the field, that happens every day," Spikes said. "John Parry made the chicken---- call of the year."
Later, on Twitter, Spikes addressed Parry and wrote, "… I hope your pillow is as Soft as u when u sleep 2nyt #waytoendseason #turd"
Before driving from the stadium, Spikes offered that he was grateful his ejection didn't come like former NFL player Steve Tasker.
Said Spikes: "He got thrown out of the final game of his career."
I confirmed with Spikes that meant he still plans to play beyond Sunday.
"Yeah," he said. "No doubt. Why not?"
Due $3 million if he is on the roster at the start of the season on a team with many pieces to fit, Spikes is likely not coming back to San Diego.
"It hurt everyone to see," said McMichael, himself an 11-year veteran considering retirement. "I know he didn't want to go out like that ... Him, of all people. Philip (Rivers) is the most important player, but Takeo is probably the heart and soul of the team."
Spikes was voted a defensive captain by teammates in both his Chargers seasons. In his 15 seasons, teammates on four different teams have voted him a captain 12 times.
"He'll be missed," Weddle said. "You don't replace guys like him."
Well done, John Parry.
Parry will not be pilloried among Chargers fans alongside Ed Hochuli and Jerry Markbreit because of all the things going on around this team and the overall insignificance of Sunday's game.
And because we can remember Spikes for so much more than the way his time here ended.


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