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Uncle Reggie is turning 41!
Happy Birthday, Reggie!
Have a wonderful birthday
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Happy early Birthday, Reggie!
41 and going strong.
Super Bowl XLI Champions
2000 Eastern Conference Champions
I bet he could score 41 against, say, the Atlanta Hawks.
happy birthday former pacer reggie miller
happy birthday 31
You, Never? Did the Kenosha Kid?
OMG i cant believe i forgot.. i even have this in my cellphone
happy birthday
im sorry reggie plz forgive me
What we need is a bushido style suicide smiley face


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Insuring a Teenage Driver
Teenage drivers are the highest-risk drivers on the road. So it goes without saying that auto insurance for teens doesn't come cheap. If you're wondering how to insure your teen without breaking the bank, here are some questions and answers that may help you.
Should you add your teen to your policy when he or she gets a learner's permit?
The answer to this question depends on the insurance company. A learner's permit allows your teen to operate a vehicle under certain conditions (e.g., when a licensed driver is also in the vehicle; during daylight hours only) and is typically issued for the time period (e.g., 60 days, 90 days) before your teen gets a permanent driver's license.
Some companies don't charge insurance premiums for teens with learner's permits. Others simply ask that you notify them once your teen reaches driving age. Still, there are companies that require you to add your teen to your policy as soon as he or she gets a learner's permit. So, you'll need to check with your insurance company.
If at all possible, you'll want to put off adding your teen to your policy when he or she has a learner's permit. That way, you won't have to pay additional premiums during this time period. Keep in mind, however, that if you do have to add your teen to your policy, companies usually charge a nominal or reduced premium while your teen operates under a learner's permit.
What should you do once your teen gets a driver's license?
Most insurance companies require you to add your teen to your policy once he or she gets a driver's license. If you haven't already done so, it's generally advisable to add your teen to your auto policy at this point.
What happens if you forget to add your teen to your auto insurance policy?
Depending on how your policy defines insured, your teen may be considered an insured under your policy. So if your teen has an accident, your insurer may cover the claim. However, your insurer may charge you premiums retroactively for coverage on your teen from the date that your teen became a licensed driver. In some states, a claim for collision damage may be denied if the car involved was driven by a licensed teenager you haven't told the company about.
Would it be cheaper for your teen to have an individual auto insurance policy on his or her own car?
It depends. It may be less expensive to add your teen to your own policy to take advantage of safe-driver and multiple-car discounts. However, if you drive an expensive car, it may end up being too costly to add your teen to your policy--the more expensive the car, the more costly it is to fix, resulting in higher insurance premiums. If this is the case, you may want to consider buying your teen his or her own car (an older, less expensive model) and insuring it under an individual policy in your teen's name. You can save even more on premiums by not buying physical damage (collision and other-than-collision) coverage.

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It's here. BACK TO SCHOOL! Some celebrate, others are sad, but no matter which way you feel, you're probably going to need to do some back to school shopping. It's one of my favorite things to do, shopping is. I mean, back to school shopping. (Or let's be really honest, I love shopping. I said it). I used to shop for me, and now that I have kids, I shop for them. I like to find clothes that are well fitting, built to last, and comfortable for the kids. I'm a big fan of matching thing, or coordinating, so they can mix and match. The kids have so far been fairly agreeable to my suggestions. The Children's Place is always one of the first stops on the list.
This year, I've tried something new. I let the kids just choose. I didn't guide them, or only show them things I liked. I let them choose. This was a big step for me and I wasn't sure what the results would be. I assumed someone would be crying in the corner (me) that no one wanted matchy stuff.
My little guy loves the athletic pants, and would wear his beloved 'noisy pants' every day, if he was allowed. Paired with a bright orange long sleeved tshirt, I think the outfit kind of works for him, don't you? Please excuse his expression, there's not much he hates less than having to model clothes for pictures. I love this outfit because he looks great, and he'll be comfortable in it- so no fidgeting (at least from clothes) during school!
As you can see, my littlest one is all ready for preschool in her cute little top and skirt. The ruffly purse applique on the top looks just darling with the ruffled skirt, and she's as happy as can be that it's all in shades of her beloved purple.
Big sister is starting to look like a "big kid" and not a little girl anymore, and is all about shiny things and apparently, any color BUT pink.
I think we have 4 pairs now of these brightly colored jeggings- all with these adorable elbow-length sleeves and a vibrant shiny design on the front. Yes, we've hit big kid styles, but I think she works it, don't you?
My girls can't wait to show off their new style at school!
The Children's Place offers so many great styles, quality construction, and affordable prices. I've been so happy with our purchases over the years! The latest looks, the hottest styles, the basics…all affordable and can make parents AND kids happy.
One reader will win a $50 gift card to The Children's Place!
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text: Show Hide image Politics 27 February 2013 It's hard to see how Balls and Osborne can both survive the next Budget. Who will fall? If the Chancellor wriggles free again, Balls's detractors inside Labour will be howling for blood. Sign up for our weekly email * There is no fixed degree of contempt that the public feels towards politicians. If one day a candidate is despised a little more, it doesn't follow that his rival is hated any less. Proof of this principle is found in the mutually debasing grudge match between George Osborne and Ed Balls. The Chancellor's credentials as a reliable steward of the economy are shot. He has missed the deadlines he set himself to fix the deficit and failed the tests he said would measure his credibility. The loss of Britain's AAA credit rating with Moody's is momentous chiefly because Osborne flaunted its preservation as evidence that his way works. It doesn't. The economy has behaved much more as Balls predicted it would than as Osborne insists it should. The shadow chancellor's warnings of double-dip recession were vindicated. He said an aggressive lurch into austerity would suffocate growth and sabotage deficit reduction. It did. If one man's reputation were boosted by the other's mistakes, Balls would be a tower of popular acclaim. Opinion polls show Labour inching ahead of the Tories on the question of which party can be more trusted on the economy, but not by much. When the question is made personal, Balls and Ed Miliband invariably lag behind Osborne and David Cameron. People remember who was in charge when the bubble burst. The Tories have managed to portray indebtedness as both a moral outrage and the lodestar of Labour policy. When Nobel laureates and Financial Times columnists point out that low interest rates invite short-term borrowing to stimulate growth, it is called macroeconomics. Yet somehow, when shadow ministers say the same thing, it is seen as the deathly spectre of Brownism. It is no secret that a Conservative election campaign will urge voters not to hand the keys back to the party that drove the car into a ditch and other such menacing metaphors. Tory strategists think they need only a modest recovery to make that message resonate. The light at the end of the tunnel doesn't need to be all that bright if Labour's offer can be depicted as a U-turn into the darkness. Despite knowing two years in advance what the attack lines against the opposition will be, Labour has made little progress in rebutting them. Even MPs who swear fealty to the shadow chancellor worry that he isn't getting his message across. "He couldn't be proved more right and he still keeps losing the argument," says a despairing ally. Balls's friends were dismayed by his failure to wound Osborne in the parliamentary debate after the Autumn Statement last December, when the Chancellor abandoned his debt consolidation target. That flop encouraged those on the Labour side who hate Balls's style of politics, resent his lofty independence from Miliband's office and think he is generally a liability to turn up the volume of their complaints from casual murmur to noisy chatter. It is a sound that never quite goes away. In the run-up to the Budget on 20 March the dial is set on low whispers. If Osborne wriggles free again, Balls's detractors inside Labour will be howling for blood. There is still time for the tide of public opinion to rise in Labour's favour. In April, a clutch of cuts and tax changes will take effect, transforming austerity from an abstract noun to a household emergency. Tax credits will shrink, benefits will be stopped, changes to council tax will punish low-income families. Meanwhile, the highest earners will get a juicy tax cut – a favour from last year's Budget that smears plutocratic contaminant all over the Tory brand. Fear of repeating the errors of the 2012 "omnishambles" package has made Osborne ultra-cautious ahead of his next Budget. He will deploy no extravagant gestures that might signal capitulation to the calls for a change of direction: no easing of austerity to gratify Labour; no drastic tax cuts as urged by Tory backbenchers. There is more than stubborn pride to Osborne's craving for consistency. His team has not stopped believing that the measures taken since 2010 are the right ones. Team members insist a normal recovery has been delayed by foreign turbulence and will arrive later this year. That optimism looks eccentric, verging on the delusional, and the Conservative Party is losing patience with it. The background hum of Tory frustration with Osborne is on the same wavelength and has the same frequency as Labour's drone of dislike for Balls. The most plausible economic prognosis is more stagnation and falling living standards. Balls's calculation is that Britain will find that intolerable, finally pin the blame on Osborne and turn to Labour for salvation. The Chancellor's calculation is that Balls has no comfort to give when there is no money to spend and Labour has no notion of how to save. They are both right. Osborne will look increasingly ridiculous blaming the failure of his budgets on Labour, while no amount of finger-jabbing outrage will turn Balls into a prophet of national renaissance. That poses an obvious challenge to Cameron and Miliband. Their Treasury generals have fought each other to a bloody standstill, unloved by their parties and scorned by voters. Yet there are two more years of combat to come with the economy as the main battleground. This year's Budget won't resolve that argument, but for the sake of a better debate it should still be the endgame for Balls and Osborne. Rafael Behr is political columnist at the Guardian and former political editor of the New Statesman Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 04 March 2013 issue of the New Statesman, The fall of Pistorius More


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About all I would do is give the players a max of 30 minutes per game.
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About all I would do is give the players a max of 30 minutes per game.
Anyone remember Dahntay making his rep in Denver by embracing the enforcer role vs Chris Paul in the playoffs? Seems to me that it would make a whole lot of sense for us to sic him on Derrick Rose this time around. Assuming of course the Bulls hold on to the top seed. No one else on the team seems like a suitable defensive matchup for Rose.
The problem there is that Collison would be forced to cover the bigger SG. Fortunately, SG is a weak spot for the Bulls (Bogans/Korver/Brewer) so maybe we can get away with it, some of the time anyway.
We shouldn't throw in the towel and risk continuity nor should we play balls out and risk injury. Overall I would equate these last 3 games to really intense practices.
Good point wintermute
Now is the time for DJ to back up that reputation
Really Rose is going to destroy whoever we put on him, but DJ might be the best option, or Rush
Sittin on top of the world!
I really want to win at least one more game just to say we've improved from our highest 36 win total since not being in the playoffs.
Hopefully we finally beat the Hawks and win the series against the Knicks.
It was Kobe he is really know for they called him the Kobe Stopper the year they went to the ECF. Kobe had a terrible series vs DJ.
In doing so, do you risk showing the Bulls too much?
Sittin on top of the world!
P.S. The Pacers are NOT in the same position as the Colts. They really can't afford to upset ticket holders. I say, the starters should play no more than 28 minutes. It gives everyone what they want.


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HOUSTON - A new report called "Total Food Recall: Unsafe Foods Putting American Lives at Risk" by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group states more must be done on a federal level to keep our food safe.
Despite beefed up food safety laws, tainted food has sickened more than 48 million people each year.
Seven-hundred-eighteen were sickened last year and between January and September 2012, there have been 1,035 illnesses. That's a 44 percent increase.
E. coli, salmonella and listeria are the most common culprits. Last years recalls included, cantaloupes, ground turkey, papaya and ground beef. This year, mangos, raw tuna, peanut butter and bagged salad were among the growing list.
USPIRG researchers stated in the report, "More needs to be done to identify the contaminants that are making us sick and to protect Americans from the risk of unsafe food."
In response to the report, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a statement, "The rule-making process can take time, and we are working diligently to get this right. We are confident the end result will be a solid framework to strengthen and modernize our nation's food safety system."
University of Houston Assistant Professor of Food Microbiology Jay Neal told Local 2, food safety awareness is on everyone's radar right now.
He explained, "Years ago, if someone got sick, they were uncomfortable. You never could trace it back to the food. But now, with bar codes and chips, we have better traceability. Is it perfect? No. We've got a lot more to go, but we're moving in that direction."
But he said, proper handling of food at home can greatly reduce our risk.
He explained that in the case of produce, "If you're bringing it in, it grew in a farm, wash it. So even if it says triple washed for your protection, wash it again."
When it comes to meat, invest in a thermometer.
Neal said, "As long as you cook it, it's going to be fine. So with a ground product, we're not going to eat rare burgers anymore. You need to cook it well done."
As for chicken, no need to wash it which can spread salmonella.
Neal said, "When you wash chicken in the sink, the water may splash up. It splashes on the counters. It gets all over the sink and there's a pretty good chance that salmonella's going to be on the chicken, so you've got it spread all over the kitchen now."
He said you can take chicken out of the package, "Pat it dry with paper towels. Throw it away. Wash you hands and prepare it."
Another common mistake people make is cross contaminating our utensils.
Don't use the same ones for cooked and uncooked food without washing.
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Sports Com Students Intern at the Super Bowl
January 26, 2012
Peoria, IL (January 24, 2012) Two Bradley University Sports Communication students have been selected by NBC/Universal as interns for the Super Bowl in Indianapolis on February 5.
Seniors Zach Keesee of Ransom, Illinois, and Josh Koebert of Germantown, Wisconsin, were selected earlier this month and will begin work on Monday at NBC offices in Indianapolis. They will have writing and public relations assignments in the days leading up to the game.
Keesee also is one of 10 Bradley students who will intern with NBC during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. NBC officials were so impressed with Bradley students when they interviewed them for the Olympic internships last summer that they returned to Bradley for the Super Bowl opportunity.
"This extends a wonderful partnership between Bradley's Department of Communication and NBC/Universal, and speaks volumes about the high opinion NBC has of our students," said Dr. Paul Gullifor, chair of the Bradley Department of Communication. "Our students are now participating in the world's largest sporting event in the Olympics, and America's greatest sporting event in the Super Bowl."
NBC was attracted to Bradley after University President Joanne Glasser and Gullifor met with network officials in New York last year to discuss the University's top-notch academic program and its high-quality students. Bradley offers a one-of-a-kind sports communication curriculum and has a long tradition of educating world-class sports announcers and broadcasting professionals. Among the university's notable alumni are Charley Steiner, Andy Masur, Jack Brickhouse, Ralph Lawler, and Chick Hearn. The selection process for the Olympic internships involved rigorous preparation for Bradley students before they met with NBC officials, including mock interviews with alumni, advice on resume writing, and an overview of Olympic and NBC history.
Bradley is a private, independent university in Peoria, Illinois, offering 6,000 students the choice of more than 100 academic programs. Bradley links academic excellence, experiential learning and leadership development with an entrepreneurial spirit for a world-class education. Our size provides students extensive resources not available at most private colleges and the personal attention not commonly found at large universities.
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Fox Cities Book Festival: W.H. Beck
Saturday, April 20, 2013 - 11:30am - 12:30pm
Little Chute Public Library
W.H. Beck is an elementary school librarian from northwestern Wisconsin who writes books for kids by night (and early mornings and in between kids' sports practices). Her current book, MALCOLM AT MIDNIGHT, is a funny mystery that stars classroom pets at midnight. Her previous books include DR. KATE, ANGEL ON SNOWSHOES and the Follow That Food Chain animal series. Her visit to our library is part of the 2013 Fox Cities Book Festival.


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Migratory bird seasons top evening public hearing agenda in Pratt
The Kansas Wildlife and Parks Commission will conduct a public meeting and hearing at Pratt Community College Auditorium Thursday, August 17th. The afternoon session will begin at 1:30 p.m.; the evening public hearing will begin at 7 p.m.
The public is invited to attend all sessions. Topics on the afternoon session agenda include the following:
- Review of a recent study of potential development around federal reservoirs in Kansas;
- a review of the department's fiscal year 2008 budget;
- status of the department's Deer Task Force , which is conducting a series of public meetings around the state in August;
- a report on the department's hunter, bowhunter, and furharvester education programs;
- a report on the department's Community Fisheries Assistance Program (CFAP) and Fishing Impoundments and Stream Habitats (FISH) program;
- an overview of development of the department's website;
- discussion of big game regulations, although no changes are being recommended until the Deer Task Force completes its review and public input on the state's deer management program;
- a report on the department's plans for monitoring of chronic wasting disease in deer and elk;
- a review of the department's role in monitoring migratory birds for avian influenza ;
- plans for development of State Park 24; and
- a report on efforts underway by the Playa Lakes Joint Venture , the department, and other partners to conserve playa wetlands in western Kansas.
The Commission will recess at 5 p.m., then reconvene at the same location at 7 p.m. for workshop session discussion, in preparation for potential future regulatory action, on the following topics:
- Fishing regulations, fees, and Secretary's Orders for 2007;
- 2007 spring turkey season regulations;
- nuisance animal damage control operations;
- caging and handler requirements for operators of confinement facilities holding large cats, bears, and non-native venomous snakes; and
- development of half-price state park entrance fees for calendar year 2007.
The evening session will conclude with a public hearing on 2006 late migratory bird seasons. Recommended duck seasons are Oct. 7 – Jan. 2 and Jan. 20 – 28 in the High Plains Zone, Oct. 14 – Dec. 10 and Dec. 16 – 31 in the Early Zone, and Oct. 28 – Dec. 31 and Jan. 20 – 28 in the Late Zone. The daily bag limit of 5 ducks may include no more than 2 scaup, 2 redhead, 2 wood ducks, and one duck from the following group: hen mallard, pintail, canvasback, mottled duck.
Recommended Youth Waterfowl Hunt Days are Sept. 30 – Oct. 1 in the High Plains Zone, Oct. 7 – 8 in the Early Zone, and Oct. 21 -22 in the Late Zone.
Canada Goose recommended season is Oct. 28 – 29 and Nov. 8 – Feb. 18. White-fronted goose recommended season is Oct. 28 – 29 and Nov. 8 – Jan. 7 and Feb. 10 – 18. Light goose recommended season is Oct. 28 – 29 and Nov. 8 – Feb. 18. Recommended seasons for dark goose management units include Dec. 23 – Feb. 18 in the Marais des Cygnes Valley Unit, and Oct. 28 – 29 and Nov. 8 – Feb. 18 in the Southeast Unit. Migratory bird falconry seasons would run concurrently with regular seasons, plus extended seasons of Feb. 24 - March 10 in the Early Zone and in the Late Zone.
If necessary, the Commission will recess on Aug. 17, to reconvene Aug. 18 at 9 a.m. at the same location to complete its business. Time will be set aside in all sessions for public comment on items which are not on the agenda.
If notified in advance, the department will have an interpreter available for the hearing impaired. To request an interpreter call the Kansas Commission of Deaf and Hard of Hearing at 1-800-432-0698. Any individual with a disability may request other accommodations by contacting the Commission secretary at 620/672-5911.


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SAN JOSE — The family of a 15-year-old Saratoga girl plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit today against the three boys allegedly involved in the assault and the family who owns the house where the party occurred.
Robert Allard, the attorney for Audrie's family, said the "despicable" actions of the three teenagers, the alleged assault and then sharing at least one photo of the assault around school, "broke" Audrie and caused her to kill herself. Audrie's family did not realize what the young girl was going through until after her memorial service, when they began combing through her Facebook posts and text messages.
"In Audrie's Facebook messages we find writings of a young girl who felt traumatized, humiliated and shamed by what had been done to her," Allard said.
During a press conference this morning, Lisa Pott, Audrie's stepmother, quoted what Audrie wrote on her Facebook page in the days after the alleged assault.
"I'm in hell. Everyone knows about that night. My life is ruined."
Court documents obtained by the Mercury News indicate Audrie had sexually explicit messages and markings scrawled over her body.
Audrie Pott went to sleep after drinking alcohol at an unsupervised party on Sept. 2. When she woke up, she discovered her body was covered with "derogatory and sexual messages," according to court documents.
Audrie, a 15-year-old Saratoga sophomore killed herself at home on Sept. 10, eight days after the party. Thursday, three 16-year-old boys were arrested — two at Saratoga High and one at Christopher High School in Gilroy — in connection with the alleged assault and each booked into juvenile hall on two felony counts and one misdemeanor count.
Audrie felt betrayed by the three boys, who were her friends since middle school, according to family members.
During the party Audrie reportedly drank alcohol mixed with Gatorade, became intoxicated and unconscious, Allard said. Allard said she woke up to an "absolute nightmare." She had been sexually assaulted, according to her family. Larry Pott, her father, said the three boys were sober at the time, based on witness statements obtained by two former San Jose police detectives hired by Allard.
"These types of crimes are not juvenile," said Audrie's mother, Sheila Pott. "Sexual assault is an adult crime. These boys distributed pictures to humiliate and further bully my daughter."
The owners of the house where the party occurred will also be named as defendants in the suit.
Allard said after the party, at least one photo of the assault was distributed by the boys in person or via text messages. At school, Audrie saw groups of students looking at cell phones. Family members said the entire football team knew.
Larry Pott urged students to "do the right thing" and tell authorities what they know about what happened.
"These kids are good kids, but they are scared," he said of the students who saw the photo.
Allard and his investigative team of former San Jose detectives Ted Marfia and Mike Leininger interviewed some of the 13 teens who attended the party and were told none of the three boys in custody were drinking that night.
Reports filed by the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office and obtained by the Mercury News indicate the boys told investigators they had been drinking
The Potts said they plan on attending a detention hearing Tuesday for the three boys, who reportedly remain in juvenile hall, Allard said. The family believes the hearing will determine whether the boys will be released.
Allard said filing a civil lawsuit will aid in his investigative efforts, which "have been hampered by individuals not wanting to talk."
"We are now able to interview witnesses under the penalty of perjury," Allard said.
"It is the family's goal that the community is made safer by holding the suspects accountable, by sending a message that the behavior that left Audrie feeling hopeless and without a way out, such as harassment and bullying of any kind, electronically or not, will not be tolerated," Allard said."
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Hellickson's rocky fifth proves costly in finale
Offense comes up short against dominant Kuroda, Yankees bullpen
ST. PETERSBURG -- Jeremy Hellickson had the magic going. There were 4 2/3 innings of no-hit, no-run baseball in the rearview mirror when a single walk changed the texture of his outing.
That walk led to a three-run fifth inning and the Yankees came away with a 4-2 victory over the Rays on Sunday at Tropicana Field, taking the rubber game of their three-game weekend series. In the process, the Rays ended their club-record streak of 12 straight games allowing three runs or fewer.
The Rays started the series on a high note Friday night by moving to .500 with a 5-0 win over the Yankees, but the Yankees fought back to take the next two.
The Rays got busy early Sunday afternoon when Evan Longoria grounded out in the first against Yankees starter Hiroki Kuroda to drive home Ben Zobrist, giving Hellickson a 1-0 lead. And the Rays starter ran with it, posting 4 2/3 scoreless innings in which the Yankees did not get a hit.
But the bottom fell out for Hellickson with two outs in the fifth. Stephen Drew walked on a 3-2 pitch then Martin Prado doubled down the left-field line to give the Yankees runners in scoring position. Brett Gardner then singled through the middle to give the Yankees a 2-1 lead. A Derek Jeter single moved Gardner to third before Jacoby Ellsbury singled him home to give the Yankees a two-run cushion.
"The walk, the walk to Drew was huge," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "... He was in great shape. Walked him, Prado had a great series against us offensively and defensively, that was a big knock right there. ... It really came down to the walk to Drew that really set the game the other way."
Yankees manager Joe Girardi liked what he saw in the fifth.
"You get an excellent at-bat from Stephen Drew, a long at-bat, along with Prado, a long at-bat, as well," Girardi said. "Gardy gets the big hit there, as well as Jeter's, so to be able to put those together when it looks like you have nothing going and he's rolling along with the no-hitter, it's big."
Hellickson used 38 pitches to escape the fifth and did not return to pitch the sixth.
When asked what he would do differently in the same situation against Drew, Hellickson replied: "Throw a strike."
Maddon observed that Hellickson "was totally within his abilities to finish that inning off and have nothing happen" because he was throwing the ball so well.
"And that's what happened," Maddon said. "And again, when you don't score any runs, you're going to dwell on this even more."
Meanwhile, Kuroda continued to cruise, using just 71 pitches to go through six innings.
"Sharp, velocity was up," said Maddon of Kuroda. "The splitter was really good and the slider was located. That's as good as I've seen him in a while. He pitched really, really well."
The Yankees right-hander retired 17 straight Rays after Longoria's RBI before Matt Joyce opened the seventh with a double to right. Given the opportunity, the Rays capitalized.
Joyce advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored when Longoria singled to left. The Rays continued to threaten when Longoria advanced to third on two groundouts before Vince Belnome drew a two-out walk to finally chase Kuroda.
Brandon Guyer was announced as the Rays pinch-hitter before the Yankees called to the bullpen for Shawn Kelley and the hard-throwing right-hander got the job done, striking out Guyer swinging to end the inning.
Mark Teixeira answered for the Yankees in the eighth with his 20th home run of the season, a solo shot to right on an 0-1 pitch from Joel Peralta, putting the Yankees up, 4-2. The homer was the 361st of Teixeira's career, tying Joe DiMaggio for 80th all-time.
"It's a good bounce-back," said Teixeira of the Yankees win. We hadn't played well the first few games of the road trip, so it's really good to bounce back the way we did the last two games."
Monday will be an off-day for the Rays before they host the Tigers in a three-game series.
"Little hiccup here with the Yankees," Maddon said. "Take the day off. I think this day off is pretty much well timed right now. We kind of need it. A day and a half off and then we'll be able to come back Tuesday."
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Bothell football season comes to an end in Tacoma, second time in three season | Prep football
Two years ago the Bothell High School football team traveled to Tahoma High School in Tacoma to take on Bellermine Prep for a state playoff game. The No. 5 ranked Cougars' season came to an abrupt end. So when Bothell drew Bellermine Prep Saturday during the second round of the state playoffs it seemed as if karma was coming back around.
But the Cougars fell behind early, making critical mistakes and giving up three second-quarter touchdowns from which they could not recover.
The Lions held off a fourth quarter rally to beat Bothell 35-30, ending the Cougars' tumultuous season.
Crucial mistakes hurt Bothell, like a 91-yard interception return for a touchdown by Bellermine Prep to start the game. But the Cougars came storming back, first scoring on a two-yard touchdown run by Danny Wilson to tie the game and a 14-yard touchdown pass from Ross Bowers to Jared Berry to take a 14-7 lead to start the second quarter. Wilson finished the game with over 100 yards on the ground.
But another big mistake by the Cougars gave the Lions the momentum back. A short run play became a huge 44-yard scamper for Prep running back Lou Millie, as he broke free for the touchdown.
The Lions continued to add to the pressure, scoring again on a shorter three-yard touchdown run to reclaim the lead 21-14.
Bothell got three points back with a long 38-yard field goal by Alec Yarno, but Bellermine extended the lead again just before half time with its third touchdown of the quarter. The score pushed the advantage to a 28-17 lead heading into the locker room.
Prep pushed its advantage to 35-17 during fourth quarter but the Cougars never gave up. Bowers and Berry hooked up for a 57-yard touchdown pass to cut into the lead. Bowers then found Wilson for touchdown pass during the waning minutes of the game. But a failed two-point conversion left the Cougars needing a third touchdown to win and not enough time on the clock.
The Cougars' committed three turnovers and a big penalty on a kickoff return that negated a touchdown. The mistakes hurt the team's chance to advance to the state quarter finals.
For Bothell, this season has been full of highs and lows. The team entered the season ranked in most top 10 polls for the state but then lost its first three games of the season.
The league schedule helped the Cougars get over the hump, as they went undefeated, including a mammoth 66-21 Spaghetti-Bowl victory against rival Inglemoor.
Bothell finishes the season with a 6-5 overall record and the Crest Division title.
The loss was toughest on the team's seniors, as it was the last time they will step foot on a prep football field as a player.
Those seniors include: Derek Pedersen, Jared Berry, Darrin Laufasa, Jeremy Ruef, Spencer Curtright, Aaron Wilks, Zachary Alvis, Devin Fife-aebischer, Jed Aboulhosn, Jeff Hansen, Jared Markewicz, Will McIntyre, Riley Brohaugh, Dakota Warner, Alec Yarno, Joshua Dibenedetto, Reshon Watson, Camden McLeod, Brad Joyner, Connor Lobe, Davidson, Drew Williams, Kizhan Proctor, Mitch Wells, Danny Wilson, Tristen Bartsch, Anthony Thelen, Sean Hutcheson and Scott Williams.


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A greedy building society employee from Keighley abused her position of trust to play a central role in a fraud conspiracy which targeted more than £100,000 from customers' accounts.
Sarah Naheed, 25, a customer advisor at the Cross Hills branch of Skipton Building Society, knew how to access accounts containing large sums of money and how to transfer funds to bogus accounts, Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday.
The court heard the conspiracy netted £23,000 from one man's account and a concerted effort had been made to get at £97,000 in another account, which had failed. Five other customer accounts had been targeted unsuccessfully.
Jailing Naheed for 25 months, Judge John Potter said she was central to the operation of the conspiracy and acted in breach of a high degree of trust.
He said that at the time she had paid a £1,000 deposit for a BMW and was interested in buying a villa in Dubai.
The judge told her: "Your behaviour was inspired by greed. You have tried to portray yourself in this case as a victim. The reality is you are a victim of your own greed and selfishness."
Judge Potter said Naheed, of Springfield Road, may have fallen under the influence of someone more sophisticated. But he added: "You knew what you were doing and you were happy to do it for what you hoped would be significant personal gain."
Co-conspirators Khalid Malik, 26, of Hammond Street, Halifax, and Naser Butt, 36, of Moins Close, Mixenden, Halifax, were jailed for 20 months and 19 months respectively. Waqas Azhar, 29, of Hammond Street, Halifax, was given a 12-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months. All four defendants had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud.
Judge Potter said it was a conspiracy to defraud the building society of significant sums of money in the latter part of 2011. The criminal enterprise only obtained £23,000 but substantially larger sums were targeted.
The court heard that confidential details of customer accounts were obtained. The accounts would then be attacked with the use of forged documentation to request sums of money. A company was set up to receive the fraudulently obtained sums. Mobile phones and e-mail accounts were also used in the fraud. At one stage another conspirator, who had not been apprehended, went to the Cross Hills branch and pretended to be a customer in a "determined and planned" attempt to obtain £97,000, but the money transfer did not take place.
Prosecutor Gurdial Singh said the society's regulation department was alerted to the fraud by irregularities over that transfer.
Judge Potter said Butt allowed computers at his home to be used for the fraud and he had played an important organisational role, and Malik was a key organiser, but Azhar was involved to a lesser extent.
Naheed's barrister, Stephen Wood, said that she had been an impressionable, immature young girl at the time of the offence and had succumbed to pressure applied to her.
Mr Wood said she was a decent, hardworking girl from a law abiding family which she had brought shame upon. She was loyal and would help others less fortunate than herself.
After she had been sentenced, Naheed's mother collapsed in the public gallery and had to be given first aid.


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- BSO Case Number: 04-1308-03210
- PIO Number: 13-8-9A
- Date: August 6, 2013
- Time: 2:51 p.m.
- Place of Occurrence: St. Croix Apartments, 4150 NW 34 St., Lauderdale Lakes
- Jurisdiction: Lauderdale Lakes
- David Herr, 36, male, 1/17/1977, 5840 Atlanta St., Hollywood (DECEASED)
- Triston Johnson, male, 31, 2/13/82, 4200 N.W. 34 St., Apt. 402, Lauderdale Lakes (HOSPITALIZED)
Description of Incident:
The 31-year-old man who killed a tow truck driver Tuesday as the driver was trying to tow his illegally-parked Jaguar has been charged in his death and for firing shots at a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy.
Triston Johnson has been charged with murder and attempted murder of a law enforcement officer. He was shot by BSO Deputy Michael Ryan during the incident but is expected to recover. Ryan was not injured and, as per BSO policy, has been placed on administrative leave.
At the request of the St. Croix apartment complex, All County Towing had been removing vehicles that were illegally parked. Employee David Herr was in the process of towing Johnson's 2001 Jaguar S-Type just before 3 p.m. when Johnson confronted him. Johnson shot Herr twice. Deputies and Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue personnel tried to save Herr, but their efforts were futile and he died at the scene.
When Deputy Ryan arrived at the apartment complex, he encountered Johnson. They exchanged gunfire, and Johnson was hit once. He was airlifted to Broward Health Medical Center in critical condition. BSO Homicide and Internal Affairs detectives are investigating the incident.
- INVESTIGATORS: Det. Tutler, Sgt. Feeley, CID Homicide; Lauderdale Lakes, Crime Scene, BSFR
- THIS REPORT BY: Dani Moschella/PIO 8/7/13 1140
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"I don't feel like there is any pressure [to play in the NCAA tournament]. We play in the Pac-10, so that's pressure enough every night."
- Wazzu senior defensive specialist, Kelly Hyder, commenting on the Cougars' first appearance in the NCAA tournament since 2002.
The 2009-10 championship season continues at the Creek and the conference continues to display its strength in autumn sports as
Meanwhile, at NCAA HQ, a recently concluded study indicates that collegiate men's basketball officials have a tendency to call fouls on teams with fewer fouls or teams who are leading.
In football, sophomore kicker Alex Zendejas was named as the conference's special teams player of the week.
In volleyball, Wazzu was invited to the NCAA Women's Volleyball Tournament where they will play Northern Iowa in a first round match in Lincoln, Nebraska and head coach Andrew Palileo was named as the conference's Coach of the Year.
In football, the Cougars lost to rival Washington and finished the season 1-11 overall and winless in conference play at 0-9.
In women's hoop, the Cougars lost to Boise State but defeated Bradley to move to 2-3 overall on the season.
In men's hoop, Wazzu defeated Alaska-Anchorage, Nicholls State and San Diego at the Great Alaska Shootout to remain undefeated on the year at 6-0 and sophomore guard Klay Thompson was named as the conference's player of the week.
In women's soccer, the Cardinal defeated Boston College to advance to the Final Four of the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship.
In men's hoop, center Drew Gordon has left the team and indicated he intends to transfer.
In football, junior linebacker Malcolm Smith was named as the conference's defensive players of the week.
In women's volleyball, senior outside hitter Hana Cutura was named as the player of the year.
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In men's hoop, the Sun Devils defeated Arkansas-Pine Bluff to improve to 6-1 overall on the year.
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In women's hoop, the Beavers Northern Arizona to improve to 4-1 overall on the year.
In women's volleyball, Washington will play Northern Colorado in a first round match in the NCAA tournament.
In women's volleyball, senior outside hitter Sonja Newcombe was named as the conference's player of the week.
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Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by an irrational fear of weight gain. People with anorexia nervosa believe that they are overweight even when they are extremely thin.
Individuals with anorexia become obsessed with food and severely restrict their dietary intake. The disease is associated with several health problems and, in rare cases, even death. The disorder may begin as early as the onset of puberty. The first menstrual period is typically delayed in girls who have anorexia when they reach puberty. For girls who have already reached puberty when they develop anorexia, menstrual periods are often infrequent or absent.
Osteoporosis is a condition in which the bones become less dense and more likely to fracture. Fractures from osteoporosis can result in significant pain and disability. In the United States, more than 53 million people either already have osteoporosis or are at high risk due to low bone mass.
Risk factors for developing osteoporosis include:
Osteoporosis often can be prevented. It is known as a silent disease because, if undetected, bone loss can progress for many years without symptoms until a fracture occurs. Osteoporosis has been called a childhood disease with old age consequences because building healthy bones in youth helps prevent osteoporosis and fractures later in life. However, it is never too late to adopt new habits for healthy bones.
Anorexia nervosa has significant physical consequences. Affected individuals can experience nutritional and hormonal problems that negatively impact bone density. Low body weight in females can cause the body to stop producing estrogen, resulting in a condition known as amenorrhea, or absent menstrual periods. Low estrogen levels contribute to significant losses in bone density.
In addition, individuals with anorexia often produce excessive amounts of the adrenal hormone cortisol, which is known to trigger bone loss. Other problems, such as a decrease in the production of growth hormone and other growth factors, low body weight (apart from the estrogen loss it causes), calcium deficiency, and malnutrition, may contribute to bone loss in girls and women with anorexia. Weight loss, restricted dietary intake, and testosterone deficiency may be responsible for the low bone density found in males with the disorder.
Studies suggest that low bone mass is common in people with anorexia and that it occurs early in the course of the disease. Girls with anorexia may be less likely to reach their peak bone density and therefore may be at increased risk for osteoporosis and fracture throughout life.
Up to one-third of peak bone density is achieved during puberty. Anorexia is often identified during mid to late adolescence, a critical period for bone development. The longer the duration of the disorder, the greater the bone loss and the less likely it is that bone mineral density will ever return to normal. The primary goal of medical therapy for individuals with anorexia is weight gain and, in females, the return of normal menstrual periods. However, attention to other aspects of bone health is also important.
Nutrition: A well-balanced diet rich in calcium and vitamin D is important for healthy bones. Good sources of calcium include low-fat dairy products; dark green, leafy vegetables; and calcium-fortified foods and beverages. Supplements can help ensure that people get adequate amounts of calcium each day, especially in people with a proven milk allergy. The Institute of Medicine recommends a daily calcium intake of 1,000 mg (milligrams) for men and women up to age 50. Women over age 50 and men over age 70 should increase their intake to 1,200 mg daily.
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Although walking and other types of regular exercise can help prevent bone loss and provide many other health benefits, these potential benefits need to be weighed against the risk of fractures, delayed weight gain, and exercise-induced amenorrhea in people with anorexia and those recovering from the disorder.
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Bone density test: A bone mineral density (BMD) test measures bone density in various parts of the body. This safe and painless test can detect osteoporosis before a fracture occurs and can predict one's chances of fracturing in the future. The BMD test can help determine whether medication should be considered.
Medication: There is no cure for osteoporosis. However, medications are available to prevent and treat the disease in postmenopausal women, men, and both women and men taking glucocorticoid medication.
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Maciek Ciesielski
Date of birth: March 17, 1980
Current Residence: Poland/ Chamonix, France
Website/Blog: //www.goryonline.com/Blog,0,0,735,0,B,blog.html
Recent Media Coverage:
- 100 porad Gór: featured coverage in this book
- Taternik (Polish edition of American Alpine Journal): feature on ascents in Nepal and climbing in Yosemite with disabled persons
- radio interview on Polish national radio—Program One
Career accomplishments:
- Speed ascents on El Cap: Zodiak, 8.5h, Nose 10h,Lurking Fear 11.25h
- Second ascent of Central Scrutinizer
- Greenland: White Stupid Man, Nalumasortoq first free ascent, second in total; War and Poetry, Ulamertorsuaq
- Patagonia: Iper Mermoz, Aguja Mermoz first free ascent and second ascent in total; Franco-Argentina, Fitz Roy free ascent
- Alaska: 4 ascents in four weeks
Athlete Bio:
Poland is mainly flat and Maciek was born in the flattest area; the only mountain around was the garbage pile behind the house. Lucky for him, his physics teacher, a great alpinist and person, inspired Maciek to climb. Since then he has always been lucky with partners, often climbing with more experienced colleagues and learning from them as much as he could. This luck even followed him into marriage, although the lessons there aren't as easy to absorb.
In climbing, Maciek is attracted to the commonality between disciplines, which is why he does almost every type of climbing and looks for solutions in equipment and clothing based on his year-round experiences.
2002 was a breakthrough year—Maciek left his career as sewage engineer and flew to Alaska where he made four ascents in four weeks. A move to Yosemite followed and thus began his climbing rhythm: winter in Patagonia, the US or Canada, spring in Yosemite, summer in Pakistan or Greenland. Life following the sun and the snow.
After trying to make his living collecting pine cones (a very profitable job in Poland) he decided to go pro and began the IFMGA guide course. Any spare time beyond that goes to his family— a new born son, beautiful daughter and the best partner he has ever had, his wife.


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City make no case for Mancini defence
Change is the name of the game, and England's three leading clubs will be under new management next season.
The new FA Cup winners are also unlikely to have Roberto Martinez in charge. The next week will feature a series of last hurrahs, but the dampest of all will be Roberto Mancini's.
The Italian's Manchester City team showed why he is no longer being entrusted with the keys to a sheikh's fortune. His goodbye game against Norwich at the Etihad will be tinged with the haunting afterglow of this wholly deserved humiliation at the hands of Wigan.
"If we couldn't win, I am happy for Martinez to win this trophy," Mancini said. "We didn't run a lot to win this game."
While it was accepted that the passage of time would always get Sir Alex Ferguson at some point, Mancini's imminent departure would once have seemed the most surprising of all.
The idea of it was not coming with the blessing of many City fans. They recall him as the manager who brought silverware back to the club after 35 years, following his breaking of that trophy duck with a first league title in 44 years.
This embarrassment may change opinions.
Mancini was hardly expected to preside over a dynasty spanning two decades like Ferguson, but the manner of his impending ejection seems a little sudden -- even though it echoes his arrival.
Then, Mark Hughes was usurped by a behind-closed-doors deal done with the Italian in December 2009. Now, Mancini is set to be supplanted by a Chilean, Manuel Pellegrini, delivered by the same methods. "This is football," to use a regular Mancini refrain.
The logic seems sound enough. City have the greatest resources in the English game yet could not win the Premier League or FA Cup. They never looked like doing the latter against a team staring down the barrel of relegation.
For the moment, Mancini is pleading ignorance, but he was hardly convincing in a stormy postmatch grilling. City not issuing a statement to deny the talk that Pellegrini will replace him left him short of a credible defence.
"We have people in charge for the newspapers, and I don't know if it is true or not," Mancini said. "In football, everything can happen. In one or two weeks, you will know if it is true or not. I don't know why the club didn't stop this."
As their great rivals in red face the flux of regime change, City are abandoning stability. The so-far shadowy figures of Txiki Begiristain and Ferran Soriano have bared their teeth for the first time. It seems the Etihad Campus will be run like a common-or-garden European superpower from now on.
In such a setup, impatience is a commodity traded at the expense of stability and sentiment. This is your City, whether you like it or not -- though after Wembley, you might now accept this is a results business. Red ridicule is going to continue for the summer too.
City fans initially made clear their continuing loyalty to Mancini with "He comes from Italy, to manage Man City," a well-meant, if ill-rhyming, anthem.
That continuing popularity is reminiscent of Claudio Ranieri's in his final days at Chelsea -- a dead man walking but smiling too and, in contrast to his compatriot Ranieri, with trophies to his name. Football irony dictates that Mancini, further enriched by a considerable compensation payment, is heavily tipped to replace Ranieri in the tax haven of Monaco.
At Wembley, the signs were soon of a troubled swan song to prove the Spanish axe men correct in their actions. An early Yaya Toure shot resulting from a Carlos Tevez free kick off the wall had keeper Joel Robles scrambling, but Wigan swiftly began dominating possession and causing problems.
The roots of Mancini's plight lie in his failings in the Champions League. Pellegrini's exploits with Villarreal and Malaga lead the reasons for his candidacy. City's power game has looked predictable against continental opposition too often, and Wigan's Spain-via-Lancashire tiki-taka game similarly picked the former champions apart as Callum McManaman's early effort delivered a warning shot of the Wigan danger that was sustained right up until Ben Watson's winner.
James McCarthy twinkled through midfield, and Shaun Maloney created angles for Arouna Kone to work with. Gareth Barry and Toure always looked flat-footed, while David Silva and Samir Nasri were negligible presences, with the Frenchman's eventual withdrawal for Milner coming as little surprise even though Silva had perhaps been even more ineffective.
McManaman was the clear man of the match. Should Wigan be relegated, he is set to be a leading name in the summer transfer morass. Mancini never found an answer to him and could not get a performance in any way approaching that of the Scouse firebrand from any of his players.
A twisting, turning first-half run took him past four defenders, and back again, only for him to eventually run out of space. A second-period burst caused Pablo Zabaleta to commit his second yellow card offence and become only the third player dismissed in an FA Cup final. When your most dependable player is so reckless, it becomes clear that ideas have been expended. It is time for a change after all.
"I am sure that we did a good job in these three years," Mancini said in defence of a trophy haul that has not been augmented this season, even if he counts the Community Shield. "I have four years' contract, not one. How many clubs did better than us this year? If it is true, I am stupid, but I am sure I work with serious people."
The artistic impression always lay with the Latics, yet good chances still fell to City. Tevez thought he had scored on the half-hour only for Robles' foot to deflect the ball over, defying geometry to do so. After the break, Sergio Aguero swept narrowly wide.
Wigan simply refused to accept the role of plucky losers. Watson's winner, confirmation of City's shame, followed minutes of mounting momentum. City remained listless and predictable, with an air of disinterested entitlement.
Their main achievement had been to suggest that the decision to axe Mancini would be the right one. They offered no evidence for unfair dismissal.
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The Scripps Institution of Oceanography seeks a new generation of brilliant researchers to maintain its place in the upper echelon of marine science.
1892: The University of California gives biologist William Ritter $200 to start a lab near Monterey.
1903: E.W. Scripps and Ellen Browning Scripps donate a combined $600 to help start a research station after requests from Ritter and San Diego physician Fred Baker. A laboratory is established in a boathouse at the Hotel del Coronado, and the Marine Biological Association of San Diego is formed.
1905: The association builds a small wooden laboratory in La Jolla.
1906: Ellen Browning Scripps pledges $50,000 to the association, and E.W. Scripps donates his yacht for research.
1909: Ellen Browning Scripps bequeaths $150,000 in her will to the UC system for marine research in La Jolla.
1912: The Marine Biological Association folds after deeding its property to UC regents. The Scripps Institution for Biological Research is founded.
1925: The research outpost is renamed Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
1941: Scripps announces plans to train military officers in meteorology and tide forecasting. The UC Division of War Research is formed and eventually becomes the largest lab in the nation working on issues of underwater sounds and submarine warfare.
1942: The first comprehensive oceanography textbook is written by Scripps faculty members, but it isn't distributed until after World War II because the military deemed it too valuable for public release.
1946: The Division of War Research is closed, and Scripps signs a cooperative research agreement with the newly formed Office of Naval Research.
1950: Scripps makes its first scientific foray into the deep Pacific Ocean.
1951: Roger Revelle becomes director of Scripps, his alma mater.
1955: UC regents ask Revelle to look at establishing a campus in San Diego, which is officially founded in 1960.
1957: Revelle co-writes an article warning about the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
1965: SeaLab II, a manned underwater station, operates for 45 days at 205 feet beneath the surface in Scripps Canyon.
1978: Scripps accepts its first state-funded research vessel, the R/V New Horizon.
1987: More than 70 members of the Scripps family attend the groundbreaking ceremony for the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier.
1992: The Birch Aquarium at Scripps opens, becoming the public face of the institution. Scripps announces its first undergraduate degree program.
1995: The National Research Council ranks Scripps first in faculty quality among U.S. doctoral oceanography programs.
2006: Tony Haymet, an acclaimed researcher from Australia, is named the 10th director of Scripps.
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Big dreamers and deep pockets built the Scripps Institution of Oceanography into the powerhouse that it is today, and top scientists say those ingredients are needed for it to keep shining.
The legacy started in the late 1800s with the vision of a San Diego physician fascinated by the ocean, followed by the largesse of the Scripps family.
Then came the Navy, which spent millions of dollars to understand the oceans where it was fighting World War II, and visionary scientists who started to figure out global warming and other mysteries.
Wizards such as Charles David Keeling, Roger Revelle and Walter Munk propelled a sea, shore and sky program that currently runs on more than $160 million a year and helps set the nation's scientific agenda.
But the future is foreboding, given the state's deep budget cuts and the aging faculty at Scripps, which is part of the University of California San Diego. Most of the researchers who forged the institution's reputation are retired or nearing retirement age, leaving Scripps at a precarious point when it already has to contend with growing international competition for bright minds.
"Scripps is definitely at a crossroads," said Tim Barnett, an emeritus researcher who received his master's and doctoral degrees there. "We can only hope that the replacements do as well as their predecessors."
The institution "has entered undoubtedly the most challenging and potentially threatening phase of its century-long history," said a July review of Scripps done by a national panel of scientists. Scripps commissioned the study as part of a broad re-evaluation process.
The good news is that "the institution has had to keep reinventing itself" over the decades to stay viable — and can still do so, said Deborah Day, who retired as Scripps' archivist last year.
Like most people with ties to this seaside enclave in La Jolla, Barnett and Day cherish its hard-won place in the annals of oceanography.
"It seems like professors here are very keen on making students aware of the history of Scripps," said Andy Nosal, a doctoral student who specializes in sharks. "They are very careful to point out the lineage — that 'this person advised this person, who advised this person, who advised me, and now I am advising you.' "
That chain started in June 1891, when biologist William Ritter honeymooned at the Hotel del Coronado and took walks along the beach in search of marine specimens. He bumped into Fred Baker, a physician, shell collector and San Diego booster.
Ritter went on to establish a seaside laboratory near Monterey, but Baker wouldn't let him forget about San Diego. By 1903, Baker and Ritter started asking San Diego's elite to finance a local marine research station. Such facilities were the rage in Europe as Charles Darwin's theories of evolution captured the imaginations of young scientists.
Newspaper mogul and yachtsman E.W. Scripps — who frequently played poker with Baker — gave $500 for the San Diego startup that year.
Scripps also suggested that Baker solicit money from his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps, who was so intrigued by the ocean that she collected seaweed and identified varieties by their scientific names. She pitched in $100.
"Both of them felt very strongly that if America was to be big in the world, it had to build a scientific infrastructure," Day said.
So arose the Marine Biological Association of San Diego. It was initially housed at the Hotel del Coronado, where scientists used a boathouse during the summer.
Within a few years, Ellen Browning Scripps donated $50,000 to help the group advance.
Her brother offered his yacht for research and orchestrated a public auction of 170 oceanfront acres of city-owned land in La Jolla. The property was valued at roughly $50,000, but E.W. Scripps bought it for $1,000 by persuading his capitalist friends not to bid.
"At this point, the Scrippses started going to the UC system and saying, 'If you want us to give a big amount of money, you are going to have to take over this lab,' " Day said.
In 1912, the marine association joined the UC system, giving rise to the Scripps Institution for Biological Research. It was renamed the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1925.
The Scripps family continued its patronage, particularly during the Great Depression, when state money was as scarce as it is today. The facility's staff members had to take pay cuts and delay maintenance on their laboratories and on-campus homes in the 1930s.
"Things started looking pretty shabby," Day said. "When I see the financial position that the institution is in now, I see there are things similar to the Great Depression."
After enduring lean times, Scripps hit the jackpot during World War II. The UC system harnessed the brainpower at Scripps to form a Division of War Research in Point Loma. The scientists commuted to their top-secret jobs developing sonar, mine-detection technologies and other aspects of marine warfare.
They included Walter Munk, who received his doctorate from Scripps in 1947 and went on to become one of the world's most esteemed oceanographers and geophysicists.
During World War II, Munk helped create a system for predicting breakers and surf on beaches. The method proved invaluable to U.S. forces planning amphibious landings.
"Scripps scientists made the institution famous — and I am talking famous — because of the things they did" for the war effort, Day said.
The Division of War Research folded in 1946, but by then, commanders had realized that they needed more knowledge about oceans.
Roger Revelle, another Scripps graduate, got the federal government to provide surplus ships and other resources for Scripps, allowing him and his colleagues to travel farther out to sea.
Revelle called it the golden age of oceanography, said his former colleague Robert Fisher, an emeritus geologist at Scripps. Fisher started at Scripps in 1950 and still works in his office regularly.
"The excitement was there, so we would be at sea for maybe two, three or four months a year making discoveries," he said.
That era also marked the start of a series of atmospheric measurements by Charles David Keeling. Eventually, his record of carbon-dioxide levels became known as the Keeling Curve — a breakthrough in understanding climate change. His achievement is engraved on the lobby walls of the National Academies building in Washington, D.C., next to depictions of Darwin, Galileo Galilei and Thomas Edison.
During the past two decades, Scripps has opened more labs, erected more buildings, published boatloads of peer-reviewed papers, pioneered remote-sensing technologies and won grants to send scientists around the globe. It also has expanded into virtually every corner of earth science — so much so that its name belies the breadth of its expertise.
In 1995, the National Research Council ranked Scripps as first in faculty quality among U.S. doctoral programs for oceanography. The agency is working on its next list, and Scripps probably will face a heavy dose of competition.
Across the country, oceanography has matured into a major branch of science as more institutions opened or expanded marine programs. Universities in Florida, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Washington and elsewhere boast research groups that challenge Scripps for students, professors and money.
Along with the rivalries, California's rapidly declining financial support for its universities makes veteran Scripps scientists such as Veerabhadran Ramanathan worried about the institution's ability to thrive.
"I am sort of discouraged about what is happening to education in this state," said Ramanathan, who advises the federal government and United Nations on climate matters. "If I were a bright young academic looking for a job, I wouldn't come here."
He said Scripps must evolve — again — to maintain its hallowed history.
"I am hoping that we have hit rock bottom," Ramanathan said. "We have to emerge with new ideas for building the institution."Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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If you were Andy Enfield, you'd look like the happiest guy on Earth, too. His team is way cooler than Erik Spoelstra's. His career is exploding before everyone's eyes. That supermodel in the stands? Yeah, she's with him.
America loves Enfield—and can't get enough these days of Gregg Marshall, either. Why hasn't Marshall landed at a bigger program than Wichita State by now? And which big-league school will be lucky enough this offseason to get to do something about it?
If these two coaches are the new "in" crowd at the Big Dance, John Giannini is the aloof, mysterious, countercultural-cool guy who doesn't seem to need or desire anyone's acceptance.
We know what you're thinking. John who?
"What people label us, we really try not to acknowledge it," the La Salle coach said the other day, between his second and third victories in this NCAA Tournament. "Winning games matters a lot. What someone writes or says doesn't mean a lot, quite frankly."
Sheesh. Excuse us for living.
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You're not going to see video of Giannini launching himself Brad Stevens-style into locker-room revelry. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) You won't see him break into a Larranaga-esque jig. (Ditto.) Fact is, you can't even get the leader of the West Region's 13-seeded Explorers to play along in the role of Cinderella.
Aren't there laws about this sort of thing?
"It's normal. It's rational," Giannini said of his tendency to behave as though La Salle's NCAA Tournament success is anything less than cause to utterly flip out.
Indeed, the audacity of the man.
But he wasn't finished: "We have no self-esteem issues."
Well, we never!
Some know Giannini as Dr. John, and the basic story behind that is worth knowing heading into La Salle's Sweet 16 matchup with Wichita State on Thursday night in Los Angeles. Frankly, it's interesting and impressive, even if the 50-year-old Chicago native doesn't care if you're interested or impressed.
Giannini made education—his own education—a priority during his early years in coaching. After earning his bachelor's degree in psychology from Chicago-area North Central College (where he was a standout player), Giannini got a master's in phys ed from North Texas and, six years later, a doctorate in kinesiology from Illinois. But he studied sports psychology extensively at both North Texas and Illinois. He was at once a serious student and a patient coach—attributes that, together, provide a window into Giannini's approach to his profession and disposition this March.
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He stayed in his first head coaching job, at Division III Rowan University in New Jersey, for seven years—the payoff being a national championship that led him to the University of Maine, where he became that school's all-time leader in wins. Nine seasons into his time at La Salle, Giannini is who he is: Studious and patient.
He's not going to put on a March Madness hat just for show, let alone change for real.
The result has been a series of comments during the NCAA Tournament that have kind of let the air out of the balloon a little.
Late Sunday night in Kansas City, Mo., after the Explorers knocked off Ole Miss, a young reporter asked Giannini a pair of perfectly fine, if unoriginal, questions. To paraphrase the questioner:
If someone had told you at the beginning of the season not only that you'd have a chance to reach the Elite Eight but that Wichita State would be in your way, what would you have said?
"That it could happen," was Giannini's answer.
OK, then. What does that say about the parity in college basketball?
"There is no parity. Parity makes it sound like everyone is average. Everyone's good."
No, really, there's serious psychology in everything Giannini says. If not a whole lot of giddy fun.
But it's working. In the locker room after Sunday's win, one of Giannini's players, Sam Mills, was asked a similar question—if he'd expected to be standing there, in that position, two wins from the Final Four.
The reply was a real conversation-ender:
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Limited inventories of homegrown forages and higher prices for both hay and grain have created a double whammy for dairy producers. Lee Kilmer, Iowa State University Extension dairy specialist, provides these tips for dealing with the myriad of challenges left behind by the drought of 2012.
- Take a feed inventory.
- Feed less. "This can be accomplished by changing your traditional ration to include less forage or concentrate, depending on your situation, or by reducing the number of cows or replacement heifers that you feed," Kilmer says.
- Reduce animal numbers.
- Limit feed heifers.
- Determine a "good" feed buy. "Determining a 'good' feed buy means identifying feedstuffs that provide the needed or required nutrients at the most economical price," Kilmer says.
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BANGOR, Maine (AP) � Maine law enforcement officials are seeking the public's help in finding a 15-year-old girl who was last seen over the weekend outside her Glenburn home.
Officials said Friday that they want anyone who may have seen a black Ford Ranger pickup or similar truck near Nichole Cable's home between 8 p.m. Sunday and 2 a.m. Monday to contact police. The area of interest is Route 221 between the intersections of Pushaw Road and Route 43.
Cable was last seen by her parents Sunday night. They say she was seeing someone she'd met over the Internet.
Penobscot County Chief Deputy Troy Morton said Friday that the search will continue through the weekend. Wardens are using dog teams, and airplanes have been used as well.


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HERCULES — The family of Susie Ko, with shock and grief visible in their eyes, said Sunday they haven't slept much since the 55-year-old was mysteriously found dead in her home on Friday.
The homicide, a rarity for this suburb, remained under investigation Sunday afternoon with neither a motive nor a suspect but with one key piece of evidence still missing: the family's 2011 sky blue Subaru Outback.
Authorities say the car and a set of keys vanished the night Ko was found with an injury to her head and what appeared to be blood on the floor next to her body.
Ko's adult children have spent the first 36 hours since their mother's death spreading information about the car and the case to thousands of people miles away from the family's tidy cul-de-sac home.
The Ko children have created a website and Facebook event page with pictures of the Subaru Outback and its Idaho license plate — 1A1F680 — which by Sunday had been read by more than 5,500 users and sent to more than 120,000.
Tips began pouring in from the greater Bay Area, Oregon and Southern California, according to the site.
"We want people to pay attention and know that we need them," said Diana Ko, 27, who along with her brother, Simon, 29, and sister Sophia, 24, flew in from Los Angeles over the weekend. Sandy Ko, 32, who works for Google in London, was on her way home Sunday.
From a relative's house just blocks from their home, the family on Sunday remembered Susie Ko as a creative spirit quick to crack a joke and always juggling projects, especially in the home's front yard. Ko taught for nearly a decade at St. Patrick School in Rodeo where her children also attended.
"She was one of the kindest people I've known," wrote Kristin Mitra, who identified herself as a former student, on the Facebook event page. "I was shocked. I'm still trying to wrap my head around all this."
Ko and her husband, Kelvin Ko, 60, moved to Idaho for his new job after the children were grown. They kept the house in Hercules and she commuted between the two, returning here to keep the yard tidy, her children said.
Police believe she was killed between 7 p.m. — the last time neighbors saw Ko alive — and 10 p.m. Her husband called neighbors to check on his wife after she did not pick him up from the Oakland International Airport at 11 p.m.
Simon Ko believes his mother may have been a target of robbery by someone who realized the house is often vacant or that she was home alone.¿ He asked for anyone involved in her death to turn themselves in to police.
"I know if my mom ever felt threatened she'd defend the house. Hopefully, they'll make a mistake and pay for what they've done," he said.
The family said the FBI is expected to arrive Monday. Anyone with information can call the Hercules Police Department at 510-724-1111.
To visit the family's website go to welovesusieko.com. To join the family's Facebook event page, go to on.fb.me/QWZEU1. There will be a vigil for Susie Ko at 8:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 8, on Ash Court, Hercules.
Contact David DeBolt at 925-943-8048. Follow him at Twitter.com/daviddebolt.


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A Bright World: Stocks End Week Higher as Payroll Surprise Spurs Taper Talk
Investors these days are a lot like Thor, who reappears in the Cineplex this weekend in Thor: the Dark World.
In the movie, which could earn $90 million at the box office this weekend, the mighty Norse god is forced to battle not only his evil half-brother Loki but dark elves intent on conquering the universe, while disobeying his father Odin to get the job done. Investors, too, are battling to keep the forces of evil--in this case weak inflation, a sluggish economy and their own fears--while wondering what their own Odin--Ben Bernanke--is going to do to and whether it will cause more harm than good.
That problem was put in stark relief this week. Friday's payroll number came in at 204,000, well above forecasts for 120,000--and investors didn't quite know how to react. Did it mean that the Federal Reserve might begin to cut back on its bond buying sooner than expected--that decision is, after all, data dependent--and if it did, is that good news or bad news for stocks?
Futures fell this morning, but the market ultimately decided the payrolls number was good news and finished the week with a Friday rally, while bonds dropped. The S&P 500 gained 0.5% to 1,770.61 this week, while the Dow Jones Industrials rose 0.9% to 15,761.78, a new record high.
Bank, perceived beneficiaries of tapering, had a big day Friday, helping to boost the S&P 500. JPMorgan Chase (JPM), for instance, rose 4,5% to $53.86, while Goldman Sachs (GS) rose 2.2% to $163.17. This week's big winners included the Gap (GPS), which gained 13% to $41.43 after beating same-store-sales forecasts, and Transocean (RIG), which rose 12% to $53.45 after beating earnings predictions on Nov. 6. The S&P 500's biggest loser this week: WPX Energy (WPX), which plunged 15% after its earnings were hit by lower natural gas prices.
The fact that stocks are still rising has caused some to raise concerns that the market has become a bubble. JPMorgan's Thomas Lee disagrees:
First, we do not agree with those who say equities are "bubbly" (based on the fact we are at all-time highs). There are multiple arguments against this view, and three among these are: (i) price recovery has trailed the EPS recovery; (ii) P/E is not as extended as HY markets are, which argues for equity P/E above 16.7x ; (iii) how could we be bubbly if individual investors have pulled a cumulative $377b from equities?
And Fed tapering? Not a problem, Lee says. "...we are less concerned if the US economy gains momentum," he writes. "While that may hasten Fed tapering, it also augurs faster EPS growth via inflation or via real growth."
Barclays' Barry Knapp expected a selloff when the Fed's tapering begins but calls it a buying opportunity. "Our plan is to reduce exposure to bond-like stocks and increased market correlation risk, while increasing exposure to economically sensitive sectors during the correction," he writes. But investors shouldn't expect a repeat of 2013, Knapp says. He writes:
Following the SeptNoTaper decision, we significantly boosted our 2013 forecast for the year end S&P 500 terminal value to 1800 from 1600. This was not a function of a fundamental reassessment of the trajectory of the business cycle – we already increased our earnings forecast – instead it was a result of the delayed start to a correction and consolidation in equity markets that occurs each business cycle when the Fed reaches a conclusion already discounted in share prices; growth no longer requires exceptional policy accommodation. We expect that process to begin in 1Q14. In essence, returns were pulled forward from 2014 to 2013; so next year, the piper will likely need to be paid.
Knapp says stocks should hit 1,900 by the end of 2014, a 7.3% gain from today's close. Will that be enough for investors spoiled by this year's massive rally?
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- Date: October 18, 2013 PIO Number: 13-10-18
10 a.m. Tuesday, October 22, 2013
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Broward Sheriff Scott Israel will honor the outstanding contributions of employees and private citizens at the Broward Sheriff's Office Semi-Annual Awards Ceremony on Tuesday. The award recipients were selected from dozens of nominees who serve in the areas of law enforcement, fire rescue, detention and support services, as well as private citizens.
Among the many being recognized is Deputy Chief Joseph Fernandez. He will receive the Life Saving Award for his actions. While returning home on a flight, a four-year-old boy became unresponsive in respiratory distress when Chief Fernandez stepped in and provided medical lifesaving aid. The Sheriff's Special Recognition Award will go to Marilynn Lindsey, a student at Cypress Bay High School, for raising money to purchase bulletproof vests to protect BSO's canines from harm's way. Deputy Osvaldo Petitfrere will be honored with the National Sheriff's Association Medal of Valor Award for his heroic efforts to save the life of Key Biscayne Police Officer Nelia Real during the tragic turnpike shooting that occurred in May of last year. Sgt. John Kelly and Deputy John Rodriguez will receive the Medal of Honor along with Miami-Dade Police Officer Jonathan Dweck to receive the Sheriff's Special Recognition Award for their heroic actions in assisting a victim ejected from her vehicle after a horrific crash caused by a suspect fleeing from Miami-Dade County. While the armed suspect was a short distance away, they worked in unison and extracted the victim from the crash scene and transported her to an awaiting ambulance.
"It is my privilege to recognize these exceptional members of our community," Sheriff Scott Israel said. "I honor them for their actions and for stepping up unselfishly to look out for another."
The complete list of award recipients is as follows:
Exceptional Service Award: Sergeant Glenn Bukata, Pompano Beach.
Sheriff's Special Recognition Award: Joseph Sparks, Allstate Insurance Company; Marilynn Lindsey, City of Weston resident; James Clark, Lauderdale Lakes resident; Office of Homeland Security, Strategic Investigations Division; Code Enforcement Unit, Deerfield Beach; OSSI Implementation Team; Cox Media Group; Officer Jonathan Dweck, Miami-Dade Police Department.
Meritorious Service Award: Deputy James Claburn, Central Broward; Deputy Gregory Small, Central Broward; Lieutenant Brad Ostroff, Oakland Park; Lieutenant Kevin McNamara, Air Rescue; Firefighter/Paramedic Tia Urella, Lauderdale Lakes; James Hasselman, Aviation Unit.
Grand Cordon Unit Achievement Award: Crime Suppression Team, Pompano Beach Area 2; Career Criminal Unit, Criminal Investigations Division; Explosive Detection Canine Unit, International Airport; Criminal Investigations Unit, Oakland Park; Main Jail Program Unit.
Communications Training Officer of the Year: Julie Otten, Communications Operator III.
Communications Operator of the Year: George Garron, Communications Operator III; Brandon Folks, Communications Operator III.
Life Saving Award: Deputy Albert Smith, Port Everglades; Deputy Jason Fitzsimons, Pompano Beach; Deputy Clint Williams, Pompano Beach; Deputy Justin Eramo, Pompano Beach; Deputy Timothy Moran, Port Everglades; Sergeant Christopher McCoy, Dania Beach; Deputy Alberto Rivera, Joseph V. Conte Facility; Sergeant Laurice Melvin, North Broward Bureau; Deputy Patrika Dawkins, North Broward Bureau; Sergeant Stephen Edwards, North Broward Bureau; Deputy Robert O'Neil, Pompano Beach; Deputy Matthew Perricone, Oakland Park; Deputy Kevin Kennison, Civil Division; Deputy Chief Joseph Fernandez, Fire Rescue Administration; Vidal Mendez, Mo Quality Car Wash; Moses Francois, Mo Quality Car Wash; Wilkenson Francois, Mo Quality Car Wash; Michael Moncrieffe, Mo Quality Car Wash; Salison Louis, Mo Quality Car Wash; Robert Evans, Behavioral Health Transport.
Silver Cross Award: Deputy Joseph Bialczak, Oakland Park.
Gold Cross Award: Sergeant Richard LaCerra, Oakland Park; Deputy Peter Peraza, Oakland Park; Sergeant Christopher Hickox, SWAT; Detective Jason Rotella, SWAT; Detective Gerardo Lopez, SWAT; Deputy Carlos Gomez, SWAT.
National Sheriff's Association Medal of Valor Award: Deputy Osvaldo Petitfrere, Dania Beach.
Medal of Honor: Deputy Michael Ryan, Central Broward; Sergeant John Kelly, Weston; Deputy John Rodriguez, Weston.
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