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LAKEWOOD - He's a successful Lakewood businessman and an active philanthropist. Now Ron Piazza will embark on a new role - Lakewood City Council member.
"I love this city. I grew up in Lakewood. I went to Lakewood schools and I graduated from Lakewood High School," he said in an interview last week after his appointment to the council. "Lakewood has been good to me and I've enjoyed it to the degree I have to give back to the community."
The council unanimously selected Piazza on Thursday night during a special meeting to fill the vacancy left by the death of longtime Councilman Larry Van Nostran.
Although new to the council, Piazza, 61, is no stranger to working in Lakewood, a bedroom community of about 80,000 people.
He got his first job at McDonald's in Lakewood more than 40 years ago. Today, he owns 11 McDonald's restaurants and is active in the community - a trait that played a major role in his selection, said the council members.
"We had many great candidates with qualities that would have made them good council members. I was looking for the single best candidate with the most experience who could serve the remainder of Larry (Van Nostran's) term," said Councilman Jeff Wood, who sat on the two-man committee that narrowed a list of 20 applicants to five finalists, including Piazza. "In my mind, Ron's deep civic and business experience provided a great combination of qualities that would immediately allow him to work well with our current council."
Piazza's experiences includes serving as chairman of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California, a position he will relinquish at the end of the year. This year he turned over his chairmanship of the Long Beach Ronald McDonald's House.
He has also been active with the Lakewood Youth Hall of Fame and the YMCA.
"I believe he's going to be phenomenal. He's got a great amount of affection for Lakewood and a lot of history, and I think he'll bring a lot to the council," said Councilman Todd Rogers. "The one thing I expect him to bring is a lack of an agenda outside of what's best for the city - his only agenda is doing what he thinks is best for Lakewood."
Over the years, Piazza has been instrumental in city issues like serving on the committee that worked to successfully pass Measure L, the Lakewood Utility User Tax modernization measure in 2008.
By state law, the council had to either appoint a Lakewood resident to the council vacancy by Jan. 8 or schedule a special June 4 election. The council chose to fill the seat to avoid the cost of a special election, which the city clerk estimates would cost Lakewood between $80,000 and $100,000.
"I didn't favor the special election, and the expense is one issue, but the other issue is, whoever is elected in the special election is going to have to turn around and run again in a year and a half," said Rogers. "That's kind of a burden to put on somebody in terms of mounting a campaign, the finances and the stress."
Another option the council explored was to appoint a caretaker, a person who would serve out the remainder of Van Nostran's term, and in two years the city would have regular general elections with an open seat, allowing residents to vote for a new council member, said Rogers.
"The caretaker idea would give (candidates) an equal opportunity to state their case to the voters, and then they weigh-in on who they want to be the council member," he said. "I was intrigued by the idea. We had a guy who had no desire to run for the four-year seat, (who) was going to serve out the term, had a lot of familiarity with the city, and I thought that was a good option."
Ultimately, the council voted unanimously to appoint Piazza, thus saving the city money, officials said.
"We are getting hammered by the state - constantly they keep asking us for more money," Rogers said. "So, even though we had budgeted for the election this year, which was canceled, that money is still important to us. (It's) general fund money that can be used for other things."
The overall process was no easy task, officials said.
"I believed that we had a strong pool of qualified applicants to chose from, and that by appointing someone to the seat it would ensure continuity without the cost and disruption of holding a special election," said Councilman Steve Croft, the other member of the two-man committee.
"It was a very difficult decision because of the quality of candidates," Rogers said. "We had 20 people apply and almost every single one of them was viable. There were some who stood out as having more community history and involvement, but there's no doubt he's going to be a very effective council member."
As a businessman, Piazza plans to use his experience to foster good business practices within the city, he said.
While he will continue to actively run his restaurants, there will always be time dedicated to council responsibilities, said Piazza, who also uses the little free time he has for boating, gardening and traveling with his wife, Nancy.
"I wouldn't have put my hat in the ring, but for my friend Larry Van Nostran's passing," Piazza said. "Larry and I were close. I worked on all of his campaigns and we were co-chairs of the Lakewood Youth Hall of Fame.
"I respected him tremendously and I thought this would be something I could do - something good for the city and to honor Larry as well."
Van Nostran served on the council from 1975 until his death Nov. 9 at the age of 79, making him the longest-serving council member in Lakewood history.
Piazza will complete the remainder of Van Nostran's term, which ends March 24, 2015. He will be sworn in before Jan. 8 by the city clerk, and there will be a public swearing-in at the next regular council meeting Jan. 22, according to city spokesman Bill Grady.
Though humbled by his appointment, Piazza knows he has an awesome responsibility to fulfill the needs of the residents, he said.
"I want the residents to understand that I will work very hard to prove to them that I will do all I can to make myself worthy of this honorable appointment," he said. "This could (possibly) be one of the best run cities in the state of California, and the council members I am joining are high quality folks who have done a wonderful job managing this city, so I come into a council that has no immediate issues."
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UNH Professor's Book Provides New Understanding of the American Revolution
For most Americans, the Revolution's main achievement is summed up by the phrase "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." But according to Eliga Gould, a history professor at the University of New Hampshire, the American founding was also a bid for inclusion in the community of nations as it existed in 1776 -- America aspired to diplomatic recognition under international law and the authority to become a colonizing power itself.
In his new book "Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire" (Harvard University Press, 2012), Gould shows how the American Revolution was an international transformation of the first importance. To conform to the public law of Europe's imperial powers, Americans crafted a union nearly as centralized as the one they had overthrown, endured taxes heavier than any they had faced as British colonists, and remained entangled with European Atlantic empires long after the Revolution ended.
"There is a sense in America that, as a democratic people, we made our own history," as opposed to "a history that was shaped by others," Gould says. "That view greatly exaggerates the power and capacity of the early American union. In fact, Americans were entering a world where there where all sorts of other groups that were in a position to help shape the history that they were going to be able to make."
Those groups included not only Native Americans and African Americans but Europe's other colonial powers and Britain, all of whom decisively intervened in American history.
"We think of the American Revolution as the moment when Americans began to make their own history. It actually would be more accurate to say it's the moment when we began to make the history that others were prepared to let us make," he says. "When Americans said they wanted independence, what they really wanted was independence under the authority of the law of nations."
As a result, Americans had to conform to international legal norms, from defense and enforcement of treaties to a readiness to extend those rights to other nations. Americans found this a challenge due, in part, to the weakness of the early American union.
"Although today we tend to think of the U.S. Constitution primarily for the rights and liberties it secured for American people, for the framers who met in Philadelphia in 1787, their primary goal was to secure the United States international recognition in Europe," Gould says.
To Gould, the history of the founding of America provides an important lesson – none of us are fully masters of our own destiny.
"Even as a nation, we find ourselves having to steer through difficult shoals and recognizing that we may not have complete independence to do exactly what we might like to do. It's comforting to know that the founders faced a very similar set of problems. Even though there were moments when they made missteps, they came through it. The hope is that we, too, today will find our way through it as they did then," he says.

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BySteven Russolillo
No, the halving of Google Inc.'s stock price Thursday and a new ticker symbol aren't mistakes on your screens.
Google's long-awaited two-for-one stock split, announced nearly two years ago, has finally arrived, a development that will help cement founders Larry Page's and Sergey Brin's control over the Internet search giant.
In a stock split, a company increases the number of shares outstanding while lowering the price accordingly. In this instance, Google's "Class "A" shares now trade under the GOOGL ticker symbol, while the newly created "Class C" shares trade under the GOOG symbol.
WSJ's Rolfe Winkler explained the implications of the split:
"By holding super-voting Class B shares, Page and Brin controlled 56% of Google as of last April's proxy filing. The founders have seen their grip erode over the years as Google continued to issue Class A shares to finance acquisitions and pay employees with stock. Each Class A share carries one vote, while each Class B share carries 10 votes.
"To solve the problem, Google created "Class C" shares that are being issued at the beginning of April to shareholders of record March 27. These have no voting rights and, going forward, are the shares Google intends to issue for compensation and acquisitions. That will end the slow-motion dilution for Class B shareholders."
Google's Class A shares recently rose 1% to $572.75 following the split.
Here's the math behind the move, which Mr. Winkler wrote about last week:
"Say you hold 100 Class A shares today. At one vote per share, that entitles you to 100 votes. After the stock split next week, you will hold 100 Class A and 100 Class C shares. Class A shares keep their one vote, while Class C shares have none. So while your number of shares doubles to 200, you still have 100 votes. The same thing is happening for those holding super-voting Class B shares. And since it is much less likely Class A shares will be issued in the future, Brin and Page effectively put a floor under their voting control.
"One more question. Will the stock split affect the bottom line? No. Per-share earnings, as usual, will be cut in half to reflect the doubling of outstanding shares, but investors' overall share of profits don't change. (Twice as many shares multiplied by half the per-share earnings equals the same proportional share of profits.)"
The move comes as stock splits have largely gone by the wayside in recent years. Only 11 companies in the S&P 500 "split" their shares in 2013, the fourth-lowest number on record and down from an average of nearly 65 a year in the 1990s, according to Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices.
In the past, such a move could've had a much bigger impact on the stock price, even though a split doesn't fundamentally change anything about a company or its valuation. As WSJ's Jason Zweig previously wrote, Xerox shares jumped 10% on Jan. 25, 1999, when the company said it would split two-for-one. The next day, eBay went one better with a 3-for-1 announcement that sent its stock up 37.4%.
But the muted market response to Google doubling its shares outstanding suggests investors these days appear to be acting more rationally than they did in the 1990s.
Google originally announced the split in April 2012 as a way for the founders to preserve control over the company. "We have protected Google from outside pressures and the temptation to sacrifice future opportunities to meet short-term demands," Mr. Page wrote in a letter to shareholders two years ago, explaining the stock-split proposal.
He said that routine, stock-based compensation given to employees as well as stock-based acquisitions "will likely undermine" Google's current ownership system. "So we want to ensure that our corporate structure can sustain these efforts and our desire to improve the world," the letter said.
Mr. Page acknowledged that some investors—particularly those who have opposed its dual-class voting structure—won't support the change. But he said Google's board, which spent more than a year considering the move, decided the structure is in the best interest of the company and shareholders.
Related: MarketWatch's Ben Pimentel explains the implications of Google's stock split on WSJ's Digits show.


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U.S. corn futures advanced Tuesday as Mexico made a rare purchase nearly two years out, sparking concerns that tight supplies are here to stay.
Corn for July delivery, the most actively traded contract, rose 4 1/2 cents, or 0.6%, to $7.36 1/2 a bushel at the Chicago Board of Trade. Corn for December delivery, which represents the crop that will be harvested this autumn, jumped 9 1/2 cents, or 1.4%, to $6.76 1/2 a bushel. Soybean futures advanced as well, while wheat tumbled.
Mexico's purchases of 822,960 metric tons of corn surprised traders because two-thirds was for delivery in the 2011-12 marketing year, which begins in September, and one-third was for delivery in the 2012-13 marketing year, which begins in September 2012. It is unusual for buyers to book corn more than a year ahead of time, as the outlook for the next crop is unknown.
The deals indicate Mexico is protecting itself against the potential for a disappointing harvest this autumn, analysts said. There is little room for error with the crop because inventories from the last harvest are expected to reach a 15-year low this year.
"They're trying to secure inventory," said Larry Glenn, broker and analyst at Frontier Ag, a brokerage firm in Kansas.
Traders are keeping a close eye on demand after corn futures reached a record high in April on strong sales to foreign buyers and to domestic ethanol and livestock producers. Prices have since pulled back about 6%.
Mexico's purchases came after corn prices tumbled 2.9% Monday under pressure from forecasts for favorable crop weather. Tuesday's sales underscore the fact that it will be difficult for farmers to rebuild inventories in the coming year because grain users will buy aggressively when prices decline, said Jim Gerlach, president of A/C Trading, a brokerage in Indiana.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is expected to tighten its outlook for old-crop and new-crop inventories in its monthly crop report Thursday. The agency will forecast corn inventories at 800 million bushels for the end of the next crop marketing year Aug. 31, 2012, down 11% from last month's estimate, according to the average prediction of 19 analysts surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires.
In other news, soybean futures felt support from uncertainties surrounding the upcoming crop as well. Planting in the eastern Midwest continued to lag due to wetness, encouraging traders to maintain risk premium in the market, analysts said. Soybeans for July delivery rose 10 3/4 cents, or 0.8%, to $13.94 a bushel.
Wheat futures bucked the trend and tumbled as beneficial rains fell in dry areas of Western Europe and the U.S. harvest accelerated. Soft red winter wheat for July delivery ended down 10 1/4 cents, or 1.4%, at $7.33 3/4 a bushel.
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July soymeal settled up 2.4% at $368 per short ton, while July soyoil slipped 0.2% to 57.93 cents a pound. July oats dropped 0.3% to $3.71 a bushel, and July ethanol gained 0.8% to $2.622 per gallon. July rice rose 0.2% to $14.77 per hundredweight.
At the Kansas City Board of Trade, hard red winter wheat for July delivery fell 1.7% to $8.74 1/2 a bushel. At the MGEX in Minneapolis, hard red spring wheat for July delivery sank 5.5% to $9.84 3/4 a bushel in a setback from a nearly three-year high. Prices pulled back after surging on concerns farmers wouldn't plant as much spring wheat as expected due to wet weather delaying field work.


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Baylor researchers play a part in Nobel Prize-winning discovery
Even if the words "Nobel Prize" is the only familiar phrase in this article, you're bound to be impressed by the work of two Baylor physics professors and their students.
Since 2010, Baylor has been involved in "high-energy research" with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) that led to a major scientific breakthrough — and a major honor. Dr. Peter Higgs and Dr. Francois Englert were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics earlier this month for proving the existence of the Higgs boson particle. Research conducted here at Baylor aided them in their achievement.
Scientists have been pursuing the Higgs boson since the 1960s, when Dr. Higgs first theorized that it could exist. The breakthrough discovery explains why particles have mass, but scientists had not actually been able to observe the boson until now, filling a major gap in the Standard Model of physics. Dr. Jay Dittman, associate physics professor, and Dr. Kenichi Hatakeyama, assistant physics professor, lead the High Energy Physics group at Baylor, which has contributed to research on the Higgs boson particle since 2010. Under the two professors' guidance, Baylor graduate and undergraduate students conducted experiments and analyzed data that enhanced the research.
Among Baylor's contributions, researchers helped improve the measurement of "missing transverse energy" and worked with data and software related to the hadron calorimeter. Dittman and Hatakeyama also conducted experiments with the Compact Muon Solenoid, a particle physics detector.
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Visit Your Ancestral Village--Without Leaving Home
Come enjoy the company of other Germanic researchers as they gather for the February meeting on Tuesday 7 February 2012. GGSC will meet at its regular time from 10am until 12noon in the Gates Meeting Room on the Fifth level of the Central Denver Public Library.
Come listen to Ann Lisa Pearson as she talks about her 'Visit to My Ancestral Villages--Without Leaving Colorado.'
Using a local researcher, Ann Lisa was able to see her ancestral villages without buying a plane ticket. She hired Jim Derheim who will visit your villages and towns, talk with your relatives and sniff out church records. Dick and Jane Speilman of the Colorado Chapter of Palatines to America hired Jim to drive them around Germany where they met relatives, he translated records and interviewed local officials for them as they explored the places where their ancestors came from.
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MILWAUKEE -- The work of relievers is generally only glaring when they don't do their jobs perfectly, so most of the seven red-hot Giants in the bullpen have flown under the radar in the second half.
The bullpen entered this series with a 1.21 ERA since the All-Star break and 222/3 consecutive scoreless innings, but one mistake by Jean Machi led to the decisive run in a 4-3 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday. With the teams tied in the seventh, Machi hung a two-out changeup to Gerardo Parra that was skied over the right-field wall.
"He just left that pitch up," manager Bruce Bochy said. "Shoot, it's hard to do what they've been doing. They've been really good, and today Machi gave up a run. He's been as good as anybody down there. With two outs, none on, that hurt."
The first three Brewers runs came off the bat of Carlos Gomez, the gifted All-Star center fielder who can hurt you any number of ways. Starter Tim Lincecum struck out four in the first two innings, but he gave up a two-out single to opposing pitcher Jimmy Nelson in the third and then hung a first-pitch slider to Gomez. He unloaded, hitting a two-run homer.
Rickie Weeks hit a leadoff double in the fifth before Lincecum got two more strikeouts. A wild pitch sent Weeks to third, and Gomez bunted the next pitch down the third-base line, reaching first easily as Weeks scored.
"That caught both of us by surprise," Lincecum said of himself and Pablo Sandoval, neither of whom was in a spot to make a throw to first. "It was a nice bunt."
The Giants struck back in the top of the sixth with a rally that started with Joe Panik's fifth hit in two games. Brandon Belt doubled off the wall in left-center, putting two runners in scoring position for Sandoval, who had 13 hits in his previous 25 at-bats, with a runner on second or third. He blasted a 0-2 fastball out to right, tying the game.
After Parra's homer, Bochy pushed all his chips to the middle in the top of the eighth. Sandoval walked and Michael Morse did as well while hitting for center fielder Gregor Blanco. With two outs, Bochy replaced left fielder Juan Perez with Buster Posey, who had been given a day off.
"I don't think I've ever hit for two center fielders in one inning before," Bochy said, smiling.
With no outfielders remaining on the bench, Bochy knew he would have to get creative in the bottom of the inning. But he took his chances.
"We're down, so I'm going to put my bats up there," he said. "I'll worry about the other part later."
Later came too soon. Posey worked the count to 3-2 before whiffing on a filthy curveball from Jeremy Jeffress. Posey went to first in the bottom of the inning with Belt shifting to right field for the first time since 2011. Hunter Pence moved over to center field for the first time since 2007, his rookie year. The Brewers didn't hit a ball in the air.
The Giants threatened again in the top of the ninth. Pence drewa a two-out walk, and Panik hit a slow roller to second and beat the throw to first, according to first base umpire Hal Gibson. The Brewers challenged the play, and after three minutes and 17 seconds, Panik was called out.
"I didn't think they were going to overturn it," Bochy said. "I just don't see how that got overturned. It was so close. You always hear the word 'conclusive.' But they did, and that's the game."
"It came down to, really my body wouldn't let me do it," he said. "I lost too much range of motion in my arm. It would have hurt to throw. I would have lost stuff, too. It was just time. They've been in there a long time."
Cain said his body adapted to the diminished range of motion. He pitched well for years, but his ERA went up to 4.00 last season and 4.18 this season. Did the bone chips lead to the below-average numbers?
"No, I don't believe that," Cain said firmly. "A lot of it was making bad pitches and not executing."
Cain said that even after the fragments are removed, he won't be able to fully straighten his right arm. That kind of range of motion has been gone for too many years, but Cain is still looking forward to being healthier for the 2015 season.
"It's nice knowing I'll go into next year with everything good to go," he said. "I won't be worrying."
For more on the Giants, see Alex Pavlovic's Giants Extra blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/Giants. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/AlexPavlovic.
Giants hopeful outfielder Pagan will return Wednesday. PAGE 3
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Just in time for the launch of BioShock 2 February 9th, NECA releases two new prop replicas.
The first is a cute, if it can be called that, Big Daddy Bouncer Plush Doll. The rag doll, as seen carried by a Little Sister in the BioShock2 trailer, mimics the real Big Daddy with rotocast baseball head, corkscrew for a drill arm, wire mesh cage, and more. It stands almost 7" tall.
The second item we already revealed to you back in November: the EVE Hypo replica. The good news is this former UK exclusive is now available in the States. Full of the life blood of Rapture, the EVE hypo has LED lights that come on when you press the button at the top of the syringe. It measures over 8" tall and comes in window box packaging so you can see right away all the detail and weathering, just like in the game.
Both the Big Daddy Bouncer Plush Doll and EVE Hypo replica re in stores now.


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'Satan has gotten a handful of prime scoring chances lately, but due to good goaltending, bad bounces and whatever more ethereal forces might be at work, he has put the puck on net just four times in the last three games. Coach Lindy Ruff has expended considerable effort trying to change Satan's luck, juggling lines to put Satan alongside two-way center Curtis Brown and high-scoring newcomer Steve Heinze.'
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Eric Stults was a one-man show Friday night at Chase Field.
On the mound, the left-handed Stults shut out Arizona on three hits and a walk over seven innings. He struck out four and had streaks of 11 and nine straight Diamondbacks retired.
But Stults was equally dangerous at the plate with a two-run single and a RBI double in addition to a sacrifice bunt that led directly to the Padres final run in a 5-0 victory.
Both of Stults run-scoring hits came with two out.
The only Padres run that Stults didn't have a hand in was Chris Denorfia's third-inning, opposite-field homer off Arizona starter Patrick Corbin. Denorfia also drove in the final run with a sacrifice fly in the seventh.
The win was the Padres fifth straight overall and their fourth straight win at Chase Field, which had been a House of Horrors for San Diego. The Padres entered the season with a 36-76 record at Chase Field since the Diamondbacks came into the National League in 1998.
"Winning's the best part," Stults said when asked which was the better part of his game Friday night.
Padres manager Bud Black, as expected, tipped the balance toward Stults' pitching.
"How he pitched was the key," said Black of Stults' eighth start as a Padre and his fourth since he was reinserted into the rotation on Aug. 6.
"He had command on all four of his pitches and did a great job changing speeds on his fastball. He had the Diamondbacks off balance. They hit some balls hard, but we were there to make plays."
The range on his velocity ranged from 66 to 91 mph, the pattern being much the same that it was in Atlanta two starts ago when he held the Braves to one run on five hits over 7 2/3 innings.
Stults is 3-0 with a 2.08 ERA in his four starts since he returned to the rotation. Overall, Stults is 4-2 as a starter with a 3.22 earned run average. The Padres are 5-3 in the games he has started.
After giving up a game-opening single to Chris Young – on a vicious one-hopper that ricocheted off the forearm of a leaping Chase Headley – Stults retired 11 straight Diamondbacks, the streak ending on a two-out walk to Paul Goldschmidt in the fourth.
Arizona opened the fifth with a pair of singles against Stults while the Padres were defending a 3-0 lead. But a grounder and a sacrifice bunt resulted in two outs and Stults struck out Young on a full-count breaking ball.
Stults retired Arizona in order in the final two innings he worked.
Nick Vincent and Tommy Layne each worked an inning to complete the Padres 10th shutout. Vincent gave up a fourth hit.
"Tonight I was able to establish the bottom part of the zone and that was key," said Stults, the pitcher.
Stults the hitter was 2-for-2 with three RBI and a perfectly placed sacrifice bunt.
He drove in the Padres first two runs and three of their first four on two-out hits.
The Padres loaded the bases in the second on one-out singles by Yasmani Grandal and Yonder Alonso and a two-out walk to No. 8 hitter Everth Cabrera. Stults then lined a single to center scoring Grandal and Alonso to give the Padres a 2-0 lead.
Denorfia made it 3-0 in the third. Cameron Maybin doubled with one out and stole third. After Cabrera struck out, Stults doubled to left center for his third RBI. Cabrera doubled to open the seventh, moved to third on Stults' bunt and scored on Denorfia's fly to right.
The Padres had 13 hits Friday night, their fifth double-digit hits game over their last six games.
They are hitting .338 (70-for-207) over the last six games while averaging 5 ½ runs a game.


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NEW YORK — Donald Trump was sued by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman over claims the billionaire operated a fraudulent online educational institute that swindled students out of $40 million.
Trump University, now known as the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative, operated as an unlicensed educational institution and misled students with promises that they would gain real estate investing expertise, according a copy of the petition provided by Schneiderman's office. Saturday's filing wasn't immediately available from New York Supreme Court in Manhattan.
Students paid as much as $35,000 for the institute's programs, purportedly taught by experts "handpicked" by Trump, according to the petition. Trump didn't select the instructors, many of whom didn't have real-estate backgrounds or had recently sought bankruptcy because of their real estate investing failures, Schneiderman's office alleged.
After being told that they would recoup the cost of the programs within a few months, many students were unable to conclude even one real estate deal, according to the petition.
"Mr. Trump used his celebrity status and personally appeared in commercials making false promises to convince people to spend tens of thousands of dollars they couldn't afford for lessons they never got," Schneiderman said today in a statement.
Trump, the New York-based Trump Organization Inc. and a former president of the institute are accused of running an unlicensed educational institution from 2005 through 2011. More than 5,000 students, including 600 in New York, paid for the educational programs, according to the petition.
Amanda Miller, a Trump Organization spokeswoman, referred questions to www.98percentapproval.com, a website devoted to criticism of the attorney general.
Surveys show that "98 percent of Trump University students rated the program 'excellent' while only 4 percent of New York State registered voters rated Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's performance as 'excellent'," according to the site. "Schneiderman thinks he could be the next governor? He must be joking."
The case is Schneiderman v. The Trump Entrepreneur Initiative LLC, 400965-2012, Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York (Manhattan).


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- It makes intuitive sense.When insiders sell stock, there must be something wrong. When they buy, they're sending bullish signals because they know something we don't. I subscribe to the Seinfeld perspective on intuition: The little man inside of you doesn't know all; in fact, there's a better-than-zero chance that your little man is an idiot. >>Also see: SEC Should Keep Close Eye on HP, Whitman Everybody likes to dog IPOs. Take Facebook ( FB) for example. Every hysterical non-visionary and his buy-and-hold grandmother warned the stock would tank on lockup expiration. Didn't really happen. In fact, FB went on one hell of a run over the last two weeks -- up roughly 25%. Lockup-associated or not, you have to understand how insider selling on these stocks rolls. If you look up insider transactions for just about every big name company (and many small), you'll find selling. Tons of it. And it tends to happen without regard for the direction the stock is headed or the prospects of the company that floats the paper. Most insiders sell as part of their compensation packages, particularly at relatively young and/or tech companies. Look at Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg -- like any other insider, the SEC makes her moves public. She's executing regular automatic sales that she probably doesn't even pay much attention to. It's not like Sandberg logs in to ETrade hemming and hawing over the price she gets for her 169,000 share lot of Facebook. There's nothing nefarious about her selling. Forget that she still owns like two million shares. That doesn't even matter. She's selling because that's part of the game. Good company, bad company, good IPO, bad IPO -- insiders sell to get rich or, in Sandberg's case, richer. Don't read into it. By contrast, man a-freaking-live, I hope you didn't take cues from recent insider buying at Hewlett Packard ( HPQ). Over the last six months, a couple of insiders on HP's board gobbled up shares at prices ranging from approximately $21 to $23. According to SEC filings, it appears that HP's executive chairman of the board, Raymond Lane picked up nearly 250,000 shares of HPQ in that ballpark over multiple buys.
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February 23 2013 12:44PM
The Oilers play the Coyotes today in your classic garden variety matinee. This is great news for the Oilers who are a mind shattering 0-2346 in franchise history in afternoon matches.
Fortunately the NHL schedule makers in their infinite wisdom have decided that the Oil need to get over this en route to their eventual domination of the NHL and have put a good many afternoon games on their lockout shortened 2013 schedule.
The good news: Ryan Michael Stewart Jones (actual name) is back in the lineup for the Oilers after missing the first 16 games of the season with an injury sustained when a stick? skate? meteor? smashed him near his eye hole. The Return of the Flow can only be considered good news for an Oilers lineup that needs a bit of sand paper these days. The fact Jones potted 17 tucks last year is also good news for the team too which is inexplainably lacking offense in the past couple of weeks.
The bad news: Taylor Hall is serving the first game of a two game suspension for his hit on Cal Clutterbuck. Apparently "what goes around comes around" wasn't a sufficient defense strategy for the Oilers in defending #4 so he will be sitting somewhere in the building wearing a snazzy suit and will get the obligatory camera time where he looks remorseful whilst watching his team compete.
Per warmup:
Eager - L'il Nuge - Eberle
Hartikainen - Gagner - Hemsky
Eager - Belanger - Jones
Yakupov - Vande Velde-Paajarvi (not confirmed)
It's unclear who the fourth line will be as of the time this article went to press and has not been released by the Oilers for this early game. Petrell is slated as good to go on the Oilers website but a tweet from the official Oilers account said that he has been placed on the injured reserve list. Confusing times these!
We can't find any mention of the D-pairings being released either yet either but you can probably count on:
Fistric - Potter
Khabibulin gets the start between the pipes
GAME DAY PREDICTION: Despite the fact that logic and experience states this will be a snoozer we will go out on a limb and say that the youthful Oilers catch the flat lining Coyotes napping and win 5-2. Goals by Eberle (clearly) Smyth, Nuge and J. Schultz. Ryan Jones will also pot a marker in his first game back.
OBVIOUS GAME DAY PREDICTION: Gene Principe will have some hilarious insight into the return of Ryan Jones. This could involve a wig of some variety or a pun involving "keeping up with the Jones." In either case half the Oilers fans watching will groan with pain and the other half will cheer with delight.
NOT-SO-OBVIOUS GAME DAY PREDICTION: In the post game interviews Ryan Jones will let it slip that his eye injury was self inflicted and his time out of the lineup was unnecessary. "I heard about the Hair Massacre and wanted nothing to do with chopping of my signature flow. So I faked it. So what? There was a lockout and I wasn't going to play that many games anyways." In an adjoining room, Steve Tambellini asks for a chair so that he can sit down and properly assess the situation.
NATION 5th BIRTHDAY PARTY UPDATE
See this here beauty? That's UFC Ring Girl and Maxim Model Arianny Celeste. She is in Edmonton for an event on March 1st and the kind folks at the Rack are going to bring her by Pint on Whyte to pose for pictures and say hello at some point during the birthday party.
"We can't imagine too many girls are going to the party Wanye," we were told by text "so we thought we would bring in an all world hottie to say hello. Maybe it will inspire you to talk to a girl yourself later in the night."
Tickets can be bought for only $20 and come with a limited edition 5th Birthday T-Shirt, a $25 Oodle Noodle GC, a $20 Pint GC, and Labatt swag. And all the proceeds go to the Inner City Children's Fund. You should come - there is going to be at least one mega babe in attendance!
February 23 2013, 07:12PM
Anyone see Erik Condra's goal in the Ottawa-Toronto game tonight? I'd love to see our wingers simply go to the net on a consistent basis and start scoring some flukey ones like that.
February 23 2013, 07:13PM
Why would we trade away our 22 year centre who's leading the only team that he has always played for, for another team's contract holdout?
Better question is Why would Colorado do it?
They wouldn't they know to win a cup you need a 2 way center on your top 2 lines.
The House that Bettman Bought
The House the *Q-Tips are paying for.
* White hair, white shoes
February 23 2013, 07:49PM
First of all this is a business, second O'Reilly would make this team better.
maybe he would make this team better, but like I said he reminds me of Lindros way to much right now. The guy id ask about if Im talkin to the Avs is Dueshene(sp?.) He would make this team better for sure!


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Self assembly and pore formation of HIV GP160 revealed at molecular resolution
Force spectra taken on raised terraces and lower features. Rupture force distribution of self assembled gp160 unfolding on terraced and lower regions. Rupture forces were measured as 79.6 ± 3.9 pN and 81.3 ± 3.8 pN for the terraces and lower regions, respectively. These forces are much lower than those measured for unfolding of isolated proteins on mica, which were above 160 pN. The lower unfolding forces suggest that GP160 is considerably easier to unfold when aggregated than isolated.
Revealing the selective interactions of fibronectin with lipid bilayer.
Sawtooth pattern on the retraction force curve indicating the unfolding of fibronectin. The average rupture force distribution of the protein on mica surface was 85.1 ± 2.7 pN.


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A bouncer at a downtown Charleston bar was shot 12 times early Saturday by two men who had been kicked out of the bar earlier that night, according to Charleston police.
Police arrested one man shortly after the shooting occurred and were looking for another man. Saturday afternoon, state government officials revoked the bar's liquor license while police investigate the shooting.
Richard "Jimmy" Beasley, who is a bouncer at The Cellar, located at 8 Capitol St., was shot on Kanawha Boulevard near Capitol Street around 2:20 a.m. Beasley was shot while he was escorting two women to their vehicle, Charleston Police Chief Brent Webster and Chief of Detectives Lt. Steve Cooper said at a news conference Saturday morning.
Beasley was in critical condition as of 4:45 p.m. Saturday and is awaiting additional surgeries, Cooper said. Earlier Saturday, he described Beasley's condition as "grave" and said he is on a ventilator.
George Sawyer, 29, of 5th Avenue, Charleston, was arrested by police moments after the shooting. Sawyer tried to evade arrest by jumping into the Kanawha River, Cooper said, but he came back out.
Beasley was found on Kanawha Boulevard, around the corner from Capitol Street. Police arrived almost immediately after the shooting, Cooper said, and were directed by witnesses toward Sawyer.
Police believe Sawyer got rid of his weapon in the river. Charleston police divers will try to retrieve it Sunday, Cooper said.
Police are looking for Tasheem Collins, of Charleston, in connection with the shooting. Police believe Sawyer and Collins might be brothers.
Beasley apparently has worked at The Cellar for several years.
"Jimmy has been a bouncer downtown for quite a few years; he's always been a great friend and a good guy," Paul Greco, owner of nearby Sam's Uptown Cafe and the Boulevard Tavern, said Saturday afternoon.
According to Greco, Beasley had kicked the two suspects out of the bar earlier in the night. That matched up with what Webster and Cooper said.
"He was basically just walking a couple of girls to their car, and had apparently kicked out a couple of guys at The Cellar," Greco said. "From what we've gathered, this was just a vengeful act."
One of the women who Beasley was escorting was grazed by a bullet but was not seriously wounded, Cooper said.
When Sawyer was arrested, he had what police believed to be a gunshot wound to his forearm. Police were still determining how he got it. Webster and Cooper said no officers fired their service weapons at the arrest scene.
Late Saturday afternoon, the state Alcohol Beverage Control Administration suspended The Cellar's liquor license for 10 days. ABCA spokesman Gig Robinson said Commissioner Ronald Moats made the decision on his own, and not at the request of Charleston Mayor Danny Jones or other city officials.
"Upon becoming aware of the situation, [Moats] took swift action," Robinson said.
Last year, city officials took steps to shut down the Impluse nightclub on Capitol Street —about a block away from The Cellar — after a series of violent incidents there. The last straw was the stabbing of a University of Charleston football player outside the bar in January 2013, following an altercation inside Impulse. The ABCA pulled Impulse's liquor license, as well, during that investigation.
Robinson said Saturday he didn't know of any history of incidents regarding The Cellar. "That's going to be one of the things that goes into the equation," he said.
The Cellar's owner could not be reached for comment Saturday evening.
Late-night police patrols have increased in the downtown area since the stabbing outside Impulse last year, and Jones, Webster and Cooper said Saturday that the city's plan is working.
"I think the police deserve some credit here," Jones said. On both Beasley's shooting and the shooting of a teenager on the West Side earlier in the week, "they were right around the corner," he said.
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Get an overview of this hotelStylish, convenient hotel close to the terminals
Popular property highlights
Opposite Cascade Station
The hotel is a free 7-minute shuttle ride from the airport, and only 10 miles (16 km) from downtown Portland. There's a cinema and tax-free shopping right across the street at Cascade Station. Guests can walk 5 minutes to Cascades MAX Light Rail Station for easy access to Portland attractions.
Free hot breakfast
Guests can unwind before or after a long flight with a workout at the fitness center, a dip in the indoor pool, and a soak in the hot tub. The free breakfast buffet includes hot egg-white sandwiches, pastries, juices, and fresh Starbucks Coffee®.
Free WiFi, 42-inch TV
Guests can check their flight details with free WiFi, and stretch out to watch a favorite cable show on the 42-inch flat-screen TV. Every spacious room is designed and furnished for home-from-home comfort and convenience, with a handy sofa bed and a mini-fridge for drinks and snacks.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to an indoor pool, Hyatt Place Portland Airport provides a spa tub and a 24-hour fitness center. Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wired and wireless Internet access.
This 3-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center and 4 meeting rooms. Event facilities measure 2100 square feet (195 square meters). This business-friendly hotel also offers multilingual staff, coffee/tea in the lobby, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary to guests (available 24 hours). Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Hyatt Place Portland Airport is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- 24-hour front desk
- Free airport transportation
- Total number of rooms - 136
- Number of floors - 4
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Free breakfast
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Laundry facilities
- Meeting rooms 4
- Multilingual staff
- Luggage storage
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Long-term parking (surcharge)
- Year Built 2009
- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 2100
- Free self parking
- Conference space size (meters) - 195
- Number of meeting rooms - 3
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Spa tub
- Indoor pool
- Television in common areas
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Indoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Soundproofed rooms
- Laundry facilities
- Sofa bed
- Refrigerator
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Long-term parking (surcharge), Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Sofa bed size
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Soundproofed rooms
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Designer toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Sofa bed
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Digital TV service
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Free dial-up Internet access
- Pillowtop mattress
- Pillow menu
Where to Eat
A complimentary buffet breakfast is served each morning between 6 AM and 9:30 AM.
24/7 Guest Kitchen - Onsite restaurant. Open 24 hours.
Nearby Things to Do
An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a 24-hour fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Downhill skiing nearby
- Cross-country skiing nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Ecotours nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at 6 AM
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 21
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 18 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 75 per accommodation, per stay (maximum USD 175 per stay), plus a one-time cleaning fee of USD 100
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- 2 per room (up to 50 lb)
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- Pet fee: USD 75 per accommodation, per stay (maximum USD 175 per stay) plus USD 100 one-time cleaning fee
Hotel Name
- Hyatt Place Hotel Portland Airport
- Hyatt Place Portland Airport
- Hyatt Place Portland Airport / Cascade Station Hotel Portland
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This is such fun to serve and so easy to prepare. When bringing the "bowls" to the table it just looks like bread.
Hello, Thank you the opportunity to enter the Build a Better Burger contest. This recipe was inspired by my sesame slaw. Everyone loves it so I thought I would incorporate it in my burger recipe.
Living in the Keys was a wonderful time for us.
I threw some stuff together i had at home and after i tried it, I knew I had a great burger.
I wanted to do a different type of burger with a fresh summer taste since I was using King's Hawaiian sandwhich buns I decided to add pineaple to it.
I grew up in upstate Ny and never considered Italian as ethnic until I moved away. Italian food was a staple, and most of the rest's there were Italian too.
My husband loves when I cook, or at least he tells me he does. He really loves a dish I make that has a fruit compote. He also really, really loves burgers.


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WKU GIS student awarded Connected Nation scholarship
|Date: Thursday, May 15th, 2014
Connected Nation awarded Tiffanee Lang of Las Vegas, Nev., a geographic information systems (GIS) scholarship last week during the WKU Department of Geography and Geology's Honors Night ceremony.
The scholarship is specific to WKU's GIS program and marks the inaugural year of the scholarship by Connected Nation for WKU's GIS program students. Applicants had to answer questions describing their area of interest in GIS and discuss how GIS can expedite the decision-making process in a variety of fields specific to spatial problems and geographic challenges.
"I was very excited to hear about Connected Nation providing a yearly scholarship opportunity for our GIS students at WKU," said Kevin Cary, GIS Director at WKU. "This complements our GIS program in WKU's Department of Geography and Geology and we look forward to future GIS endeavors with Connected Nation."
Connected Nation began in Bowling Green in 2001 as The Center for Information Technology Enterprise at WKU and quickly became ConnectKentucky in 2004. ConnectKentucky primarily focused on mapping broadband accessibility in Kentucky in an effort to identify areas that lacked Internet access as part of the "No Child Left Behind" initiative. Due to its success, neighboring states in 2007 were quick to follow and ConnectKentucky transitioned into Connected Nation as the parent organization.
Six graduates from WKU's GIS program are working as part of the GIS team at Connected Nation. In 2009, WKU's GIS program was awarded the Exemplary Systems Award by the Kentucky Association of Mapping Professionals.
"As part of our corporate mission, we are always looking to give back to our community," said Connected Nation President and COO Tom Ferree. "We use GIS every day in our efforts to bridge the digital divide and enhance lives, so it's appropriate that we do what we can to support future GIS professionals."
Dr. David Keeling, head of the Department of Geography and Geology, noted: "GIS is transforming our ability to map and understand human activity and interaction from the most basic patterns to the most complex locally and globally. Connected Nation's support of our students' endeavors is vital to our goal of preparing citizens for the 21st century workforce, where geo-technologies are playing an ever-growing role."
For information about applying for next year's Connected Nation GIS scholarship, or about GIS, WKU's GIS programs and GIS applications in business and industry, contact Kevin Cary in WKU's Center for GIS at (270) 745-2981 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Contact: Kevin Cary, (270) 745-2981.
The first speaker in the Far Away Places series is Ricardo Marin Ruiz, presenting "Cycling in Spain" Thursday, September 21 at Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
"Finding Your Way Around the Autumn Sky" will be presented Sept. 19-Oct. 22 at WKU's Hardin Planetarium.
WKU senior Geographic Information Science (GIScience) major Terry Bearb of Lafayette, Louisiana was awarded a $1000 scholarship by the Kentucky Association of Mapping Professionals (KAMP).
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More often than not, when I create a new file, I know what I want to call it and where it's going to be saved. I got tired of creating a new file and then immediately saving it, so I created this (admittedly) very simple plugin to prompt for saving right when you create a new file. It works when you use the key combination SUPER+N or when you right click in the side bar and choose New File, but it does not work when you use the File -> New File menu item (haven't been able to find a way to totally replace a menu item). I've been using this for a number months (6+) and wasn't planning on releasing it until recently when a coworker expressed a desire to have the same functionality. It's available in Package Control or on GitHub [1]. It has not been tested with any plugins that enhance the side bar. Please file any problems or suggestions on GitHub [2].
[1] [github.com/phillipkoebbe/NewFileWithSave](https://github.com/phillipkoebbe/NewFileWithSave)[2] [github.com/phillipkoebbe/NewFileWithSave/issues](https://github.com/phillipkoebbe/NewFileWithSave/issues)
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Family ReunionLogic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
The following statements were made by each of five people at a family reunion. They are each referring to one of the other four people (in other words the person being referred to in the first statement, Claire, is making one of the other statements). Can you determine who made each statement? Assume that all parents are married and that all married couples are heterosexual, married only once, still married, and attending together.
1. "Claire is my sister-in-law."
2. "Susan is my wife."
3. "Roger is my father."
4. "Melissa is my niece."
5. "Danielle is my only sibling."
Answer1. Susan
2. Roger
3. Danielle
4. Claire
5. Melissa
Statement 2 has to be spoken by Roger, since he is the only man.
Since there is only one marriage implied here, Statement 1 must be made by Susan, Roger's wife, making Claire Roger's sister.
Claire must be the one referring to her niece Melissa in Statement 4. Melissa could say Statement 3, but that would leave Danielle referring to herself in Statement 5. Therefore Melissa says Statement 5 and Danielle says Statement 3.
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A MALVERN business has helped mark the launch of a new social enterprise in the town by entering its photographs in a local competition.
The images have been put on display by Waller and Waller Opticians in Edith Walk as part of the Malvern in Bloom shop front competition.
The prints, which show a number of famous Malvern views, were captured and created by Shuttersphere, a new social enterprise established by local amateur photographer, John Wynn. The company is aiming to raise money and awareness for a number of charities in the UK and further afield.
All profits from the sale of Shuttersphere's Worcestershire photographs will go to St Richard's Hospice, which provides free specialist palliative care for patients living with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.
Deborah Croxford, co-owner of Waller and Waller, explained: "We wanted to help John show his wonderful photos and when the Malvern in Bloom competition came up we thought, 'Let's put them in the window and show them off'. We think it's wonderful the profits are going to support St Richards."
Mr Wynn, who founded Shuttersphere, added: "We really appreciate the support from such a highly regarded local business. The display is in a busy area of town and has been a great place to showcase our photos. We've been really happy with the feedback we have had."


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After 16 years, the final installment of the Bowl Championship Series will feature a school that played in the BCS' very first national title game in 1998: Florida State.
The BCS committee announced Sunday night that the No. 1 Seminoles (13-0) -- the last remaining unbeaten program in the FBS -- will face No. 2 Auburn (12-1) in the final BCS National Championship game on Jan. 6 in Pasadena, Calif., before college football moves to a four-team playoff in 2014.
"We're very honored to be here and representing the ACC," Seminoles coach Jimbo Fisher said Sunday evening during a national teleconference shortly after the BCS released its final standings. "Once you heard it on TV that you're No. 1 and you're going to the national championship, the reality sets in. It's really exciting."
Florida State also finished No. 1 in the Associated Press Top 25 poll released earlier Sunday in front of Auburn at No. 2, although the AP poll is not a component in determining the BCS standings.
It will be the fourth BCS title game for the Seminoles, who won the Atlantic Coast Conference title and are 1-2 in title games. It is second BCS national championship game for the SEC champion Tigers.
Florida State, which played in three straight BCS National Championship games from 1998-2000, won its last title in 1999 when it beat Virginia Tech, while Auburn took home its lone BCS crown by beating Oregon in 2010.
First-year Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn was the offensive coordinator during the Tigers' championship run that year, and he said Sunday it felt great to be back.
"It has been a very fun year, really proud of teams and coaches, and we're playing our best football at the right time at the end of the season," Malzahn said Sunday evening. "And we're looking forward to playing a great program in a Florida State. It will be a tremendous challenge."
Florida State, which ascended to No. 1 last week after Auburn's upset win against then-top-ranked Alabama in the Iron Bowl, secured its position by crushing Duke 45-7 in Saturday's ACC title game. Behind redshirt freshman quarterback and Heisman Trophy front-runner Jameis Winston, who will turn 20 the day of the national title game, the Seminoles have beaten every opponent in their path by 14 points or more points this season.
Auburn, meanwhile, smacked Missouri, 59-42, in the Southeastern Conference finale in Atlanta on Saturday afternoon, then watched with elation as Michigan State handed No. 2 Ohio State its first loss in two years when the Spartans upset the Buckeyes 34-24 in the Big Ten Championship late Saturday evening.
Auburn's invitation also means the SEC will have a chance to end the BCS' term with eight straight national titles by teams from the conference. With that in mind, some feel Fisher has been trying to build an SEC-caliber team in a Tallahassee to challenge that streak ever since taking over for legendary coach and NCAA all-time wins leader Bobby Bowden.
Fisher says he's just tried to build a winner. And Sunday's announcement that the Seminoles will go to Pasadena affirms he has.
"I built our program like I thought we needed to build it to win a championship," said Fisher, who was reportedly rewarded with a new five-year, multi-million dollar contract just before the ACC title game Saturday. "We don't model ourselves after nobody. We're Florida State, we do things the way we do them and the way I think we have to play to win a championship. That's the way I think we tried to build this team."
The Seminoles, who are going to a bowl game for a record 32nd consecutive season, rank No. 1 in the nation in yards per play on offense and second on yards given up per play on defense. With no obvious chinks in its armor, oddsmakers have already installed Florida State as 7-point favorites.
This year's BCS title game pits the only unbeaten team against the hottest team.
FSU, which began the season 11th in the nation, has slowly risen in the rankings week after week, knocking off four Top 25 teams on its way.
Auburn, however, took a far more difficult path, going from unranked in the opening preseason Top 25 polls to playing for it all. The Tigers' lone loss came in Week 4 to then-No. 6 LSU 35-21. Since then, Auburn has won nine straight, including comeback wins against Georgia and Alabama in back-to-back games, both of which ended in exciting fashion in the Tigers' favor.
Even more improbable is how far Auburn had come since last year, when the Tigers experienced one of their worst seasons in school history, finishing 3-9 and going winless in SEC play. With one game left, Auburn (12-1) could complete the greatest single-season turnaround in NCAA major-college history. Auburn has matched the 1999 Hawaii team, which went from 0-12 in 1998 to 9-4 the following year to establish the FBS record for greatest turnaround. Auburn could break the record by beating Florida State.


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Filth flies are a pain, especially stable flies that will travel several miles just to bite livestock, pets and people. They often attack the ankles and lower legs, inflicting sharp, stabbing bites.
For cattle producers, these attacks can be costly, resulting in lower milk production in dairy cows, less weight gain in beef cattle, and reduced feed efficiency.
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are developing improved methods to locate stable fly habitats, finding easier and more efficient ways to control them, and using innovative techniques to stop flies from reproducing.
Staking Out Sites
In the past, stable flies have mainly been associated with stables and barnyards, but over the past three decades, they've become a significant pest in pastures as well and are now the most damaging arthropod pest of U.S. cattle.
Large bales of hay, placed in fields and used as supplemental cattle feed, are partly to blame. Scientists at the ARS Agroecosystem Management Research Unit (AMRU) in Lincoln, Neb., determined that hay-feeding sites are the primary sources of peak fly populations during summer months in the state.
The accumulation of wasted hay, manure and urine at these feeding sites creates an ideal habitat in the pasture for stable fly larval development, says AMRU entomologist David Taylor. For 100 years, the primary method used to control stable flies has been to clean up sites where they dwell. However, infested hay-feeding sites are often in remote locations.
"Producers need to know if the time it takes to clean up a site is worth their time and expense," Taylor says. "We developed a model to assess the economic impact of stable flies and to provide a cost-benefit analysis to producers."
The model was based on four classes of production: dairy; cow/calf; pastured and range stocker; and animals on feed. The analysis showed that stable flies cost the U.S. cattle industry more than $2.4 billion each year.
Preventing Flies from Growing
Insecticides used to control flies at hay-feeding sites usually wear off in two or three days, according to Taylor. An insect growth regulator that prevents stable flies from developing can be more effective.
Taylor and his team used a commercial product called cyromazine to control immature stable flies. The product, which has been used to manage other species of flies, inhibits flies from developing into adults.
In the study, one application of granular cyromazine sprinkled on a hay-feeding site reduced the number of adult stable flies emerging by 97 percent. Treatments took only 10 minutes, cost $10 per site, and remained effective for two to five months.
"We wanted to develop a method where the producer could apply a single treatment and be done," Taylor says. "They can quickly treat sites while doing other chores or checking on cattle."
Luring Flies to Drive Them Away
Another technique for controlling stable flies involves identifying natural compounds that drive them away and developing attractants to lure them into traps.
AMRU entomologist Jerry Zhu calls this his "push and pull" strategy. The "push" forces stable and other filth flies away from host animals, and the "pull" entices flies into traps—baited with low-toxic insecticides, sticky substances or a combination—to kill them.
Zhu is experimenting with plant-based chemicals like catnip to drive filth flies away from livestock.
"Catnip oil and its active compounds—nepetalactones—are powerful repellents against stable flies," Zhu says. "To date, it's probably the best repellent identified for flies that bite. It's also good at reducing larval development."
Several sprayable catnip oil formulations that decrease stable fly field populations have been developed by Zhu and his colleagues. They have also worked with Microtek Laboratories, Inc. of Dayton, Ohio, to test a new granular catnip product that prevents flies from laying eggs.
Killing Flies with a Virus
At the ARS Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology (CMAVE) in Gainesville, Fla., scientists have found that a potential biological control agent—salivary gland hypertrophy virus (SGHV)—that's been experimentally successful in controlling house flies also kills stable flies.
Collaborating with scientists at the University of Florida and Denmark's Aarhus University, entomologist Chris Geden in the Mosquito and Fly Research Unit at CMAVE studied the distribution and host range of the virus, and the effectiveness of different SGHV application methods.
SGHV is one of three viruses known to occur in pests they infect, Geden says. The virus replicates in the salivary gland and multiplies in female flies. The salivary glands increase in size, while ovaries remain small. Female flies infected with the virus never produce eggs again, and male flies do not mate.
Healthy house flies are believed to contract the virus after feeding on contaminated food particles left by infected flies. The virus, which was successful at stunting the growth of house flies, also severely affected stable flies in an experiment.
"When we injected stable flies, not only did they become infected, but they died very quickly. Of those that didn't die, many did not have developed ovaries," Geden says. "Also, infected stable flies produced 50 percent to 75 percent less feces, suggesting that they weren't feeding on blood or biting as often as healthy flies."
Stable flies that had the virus did not lay eggs, did not bite as much and had a significantly shorter lifespan than uninfected pests, Geden says.


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Glossy cabinets reflect more light.
This dramatic kitchen by New York designer Miles Redd dares to be different. "I'm sick to death of all-white kitchens," says Toronto blogger Jen Selk. "You know the ones I mean — vast expanse of white marble, tiled backsplash, bowl of citrus on the counter. It's boring. I hope kitchens like this signal a shift back to cooking spaces with a little more interest and personality."
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Old shelving offers country charm.
Toronto blogger Jen Selk loves the raw style of ceramicist Laura Zindel's home from Country Living. As she says, "This pantry really demonstrates how pretty you can make even the most rustic nooks, crannies and secret corners of your home with little more than careful organizing."
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Dark walls layer in drama and warmth.
This cosy dining room inspired Toronto blogger Jen Selk to experiment with dark paint and rustic wood. "A lot of celebrity homes leave something to be desired design-wise — so many pool tables, big screen televisions and hideous leather sofas — but Private Practice's Kate Walsh is one of those celebrities who seems to care about style as much as cost," notes Jen. "I love those coral-like sconces — they're such a great detail. And the details matter."
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Mixed styles and bold colours add personality.
"This is a great space by designer Miles Redd," says Toronto blogger Jen Selk. "This New York apartment from House Beautiful really inspired me to be brave with colour. That purple sofa is wonderfully unique. Many people would balk at a big coloured sofa like this one, but I think it's important to live with furniture that has personality. While I'm sure nearly every piece in this room was expensive, I love that you could achieve a similar look with thrift store finds."
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"I first saw this project a couple of years ago when I was considering making my own sofa," says Toronto blogger Jen Selk. "Unlike Desire to Inspire's Kim Johnson, I didn't have it in me to DIY such a big piece. But I think this is one of the most inspiring projects I've ever seen. I mean, she made that sofa herself! It's quite incredible. That huge forest photograph wallpaper is so bright and realistic, and the mishmash of pillows make the space feel comfortable."
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Trendy patterns complement traditional elements for a current look.
This loaded living room appeared in an issue of Southern Living, and proves that eclectic and formal can combine to great effect. "There's nothing about this Charleston living room that I don't like," insists Toronto blogger Jen Selk. "It's a mash-up of all of my traditional tastes in modern colours with lots of pop. The bright green chinoiserie wallpaper is amazing and bold, but what I think really makes the room is accessories. The pendant light fixture, red flowers, antlers, pink glass bowl, graphic pillows and of-the-moment rug add a casual spin to the formal parts of the room like the silk drapes, fireplace and mirrored tables. These are inspiring — and easy to find — details that really bring the space to life," she says.
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Collected items and books should be displayed proudly.
Photographer Melanie Acevedo captured the casual feel of this space perfectly. "I love this room because of how undone it is," says Toronto blogger Jen Selk. "There's something crowded and shabby about it, but there's beauty in that. It's real life. I believe in keeping things that you love — books, knickknacks, worn-out furniture. If you love something, you can make it look good simply through sheer will and a refusal to let it go."
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Bright colours evoke global style.
Designer Moises Esquenazi's own living room is an example of how stylish rooms can also be livable. "This is a room I can imagine relaxing in," notes Toronto blogger Jen Selk. "There's nothing precious about it. It makes the most of the light streaming in, which is a great feature we don't all get to enjoy. Let the sun shine in. Bright light makes almost any room look happy," she says. A boho throw on the sofa, casual roller blind and oversized plant all add to the casual feel of the space.
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Competing patterns keep the eye interested.
The elegant home of Anderson Cooper's mother, featured in New York Magazine's Fall 2010 issue, has the most beautiful details. "It's intensely opulent and over-the-top," observes Toronto blogger Jen Selk. "It's beyond what I could ever imagine doing in my own home, but I like how bold it is. The name Vanderbilt screams money, and so does this apartment. I like how she layers pattern over pattern over pattern and somehow, it works."
For more of blogger Jen Selk's favourite rooms, see our photo gallery.
Fake a fireplace with symmetry and layered objets.
"This is my own bedroom, as seen on Apartment Therapy, that illustrates how I take elements from inspiring rooms and apply them in my rental space," says Toronto blogger Jen Selk. "Painting the walls blue was a major step, and I felt a lot of anxiety about it, but I couldn't be happier with the decision. Every piece clustered on top of the wardrobe is from Goodwill, but I think the effect is pretty posh. When in doubt, go overboard. Crowd things together. That's my motto."
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text: Medical community grapples with prescription drug abuse epidemic By Alison Knezevich January 16, 2011 Story Share Click here for a chart showing the state's increase in painkiller consumption over the past decade. Read related story: Rural clinic strives to balance pain management with drug abuse dangers For more stories in this series click here. This is the second in a four-part series examining prescription drug abuse in West Virginia.HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- In the emergency room at Cabell Huntington Hospital, Dr. Allen Holmes sees patients jump off the bed at the lightest touch to their backs. He hears bizarre excuses."My doctor is out of the country for two years," they say. "My dog ate my pain medication."They check in to the ER for one reason: They want pills.As head of the hospital's emergency department, Holmes finds himself on the front lines of West Virginia's prescription drug abuse epidemic. In the four years since he's been doing this work, he's watched it get worse.He sees people in their early 20s whose doctors have prescribed them the highest possible doses of narcotic painkillers. He sees old people trying to play the system. He suspects some are addicted, while others want to sell the pills to make ends meet.Holmes thinks he's too skeptical sometimes."And I feel bad about that," he said. "But on the other hand, I feel like I would be contributing to the problem if I leaned too far the other way."Some West Virginia doctors have been accused of running alleged "pill mills" where people get addictive medications without proper exams.Well-meaning providers are grappling with a host of challenges in prescribing powerful prescription drugs."It's really a complicated issue because we need to have balance," said Dr. Alvin Moss, director of the Center for Health Ethics and Law at West Virginia University and the West Virginia Center for End-of-Life Care.These medicines help cancer patients suffer less, he said. They help elderly people die with their pain controlled.The drug abuse epidemic, though, has made some doctors afraid to prescribe them. "I talk to a lot of doctors now who say, 'I just don't prescribe opioids in my practice," Moss said.There's no question, though, that West Virginia's consumption of the most abused opiate painkillers has skyrocketed over the past decade.A Gazette review of data from the federal Drug Enforcement Agency, combined with Census figures, shows that between 1999 and 2009, West Virginia's per capita consumption of these drugs has soared:* Oxycodone: 294 percent increase* Hydromorphone: 319 percent increase* Hydrocodone: 296 percent increase * Fentanyl: 348 percent increase* Morphine: 199 percent increase* Methadone: 462 percent increaseConsumption of two opiate drugs -- codeine and meperidine -- declined by about 50 percent each during the time period. Many hospitals have stopped using those drugs because of side effects, Moss said. Data for every state could not be obtained from the DEA for this time period. But West Virginia's not the only place with a growing demand for pain medicine.Nationwide, Americans' use of opiate painkillers -- synthetic versions of opium that include OxyContin and Vicodin -- has increased at least 10-fold in the past 20 years because of a shift toward more aggressive pain treatment, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."If only the people that needed pain medication had it available to them, there wouldn't be a [black] market," said state Chief Deputy Attorney General Fran Hughes, whose office sued the makers of OxyContin in 2001 and received a $10 million settlement three years later. "There's obviously a supply that exceeds the legitimate demand."Evan Jenkins, a Democratic state senator from Cabell County and director of the West Virginia State Medical Association, calls prescription drug abuse "one of our most challenging health and criminal issues.""If we squeeze this so much and make it too restrictive, we are going to have people suffering unnecessarily," he said. "This is a delicate balance between being able to maintain its availability and its uses in an appropriate manner, and to also go after, strongly, the dark side."Dr. M. Khalid Hasan, a Beckley psychiatrist and member of the state Board of Medicine, puts it more bluntly.Some of his colleagues' careless prescription practices frustrate him. "They're writing [prescriptions for] too many damn narcotics."'The fifth vital sign'Every room in Holmes' department has the same sign: How do you rate your pain?Many physicians used to be leery of prescribing narcotic painkillers. Things changed in the 1990s.Both the American Pain Society and the American Society of Anesthesiologists released guidelines encouraging expanded use of opiates to manage chronic pain.West Virginia and other states passed laws saying doctors could not be disciplined or criminally punished for treating intractable pain with controlled substances, even if the dosage exceeded the average dosage, as long as they practice within accepted medical guidelines. The Veterans Health Administration launched a campaign called "Pain is the fifth vital sign." The agency told its doctors to ask patients to describe their pain on a scale from 0 to 10. Later, the Joint Commission, which accredits health-care organizations, issued guidelines requiring hospitals and nursing homes to regularly measure patients' pain.During the same period, pharmaceutical companies aggressively marketed opiate painkillers such as OxyContin.In a typical 10-hour shift, Holmes sees about 25 patients. Between two and four are so-called "drug seekers." Some want anti-anxiety medications like Xanax. Most want opiate painkillers.Many drug seekers say they're allergic to all non-narcotic painkillers, Holmes said. They ask for a specific drug, like Lortab or Vicodin. They exaggerate symptoms of pain. They relax on the bed, chatting on a cell phone, and then writhe when the nurse walks in.Holmes can't measure his patients' pain with a thermometer or stethoscope.When someone complains of excruciating abdominal pain, Holmes must rule out any possible emergencies, even if he suspects they're faking. He must order expensive tests. A CT scan costs $5,000. He and his patient could wait hours to get the results.With doctors stretched thin, some doctors think writing prescriptions is the easy way out, Holmes and others say.Dr. Carol Foster, a Charleston neurologist specializing in headaches, calls it "express lane" medicine. She practiced in Arizona for 25 years before she returned to her native West Virginia nearly two years ago. She was stunned by the state's prescription drug abuse problem."I was so excited about coming home. And within a month of coming home I thought, 'oh my lands, it's a war zone,'" said Foster, who works at Charleston Area Medical Center's Neurological Services. "I don't have any other words than a medical war zone."She can't believe how many medications some patients take: Painkillers, anti-anxiety medications, sleeping pills, muscle relaxants."I can't imagine swallowing that many pills a day," she said.Pain pills can make headaches worse, she said."Giving pain pills to headache patients is like giving Oreos to diabetics," she said. "They feel better for a few minutes and then they get sicker."Foster works to determine the cause of her patients' headaches. She encourages behavioral changes, like eating a healthy diet and exercising."People are just medicating pain without figuring out why" they hurt, Foster said.Foster works as an on-call neurologist for the emergency room at night. Like Holmes, she sees drug-seekers of all ages."The thing that breaks my heart is the grannies," she said.Some live with grandchildren who abuse or sell their pills, she said.Many hospitals survey patients and tie some doctors' salaries to "patient satisfaction scores," Holmes said."So if I don't prescribe a patient a medication that they want and they were the patient that gets the survey, " he explained, "they're going to say that I'm a terrible doctor, that we're a terrible hospital, that they didn't get good care."Physicians need to learn more about the nature of addiction, said Dr. Louis Baxter, president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine."Pain pills do not cause addiction," Baxter said.Research shows that many factors can increase risk for addiction, including genetics and a person's family environment.Doctors who prescribe pain medications should pay more attention to patients' predisposition to addiction with substance-abuse screenings, Baxter said. "If physicians start to pay more attention to a person's susceptibility, then right there you can begin to be more careful about to whom you are writing prescriptions."Drug monitoring program could do moreBoth doctors and police in West Virginia say that certain policies have helped cut down on "doctor shopping," where patients visit multiple providers for prescriptions.The state Board of Pharmacy runs a database where doctors can check where their patients have been filling prescriptions. The system has limitations:* Doctors don't have to check it before writing prescriptions. About 81 percent of doctors surveyed say they do, but only 18 percent do it every time they write a prescription, according to an article Moss co-authored last year for the West Virginia Medical Journal.* The system isn't linked to surrounding states' databases, though there is talk of doing so.* By law, police and the state medical and pharmacy boards can only access data during an open investigation. A new report from the state Legislative Auditor's office recommends that lawmakers change this so that investigators can "red flag" unusual prescription practices and potential doctor shopping."People who are bent on abusing drugs are very clever, and as hard as we try, they're going to always find a way to get around the system," said Moss, who is a kidney doctor and palliative care specialist.He remembers one patient who came in complaining of kidney stones. "She had blood in her urine. I gave her a prescription."A nurse noticed that the woman didn't have a Band-aid on her finger before she slipped into the restroom for her urine sample. When she emerged, she did.She had cut her finger to let it bleed it into the cup."Somewhere along the line, she learned what she should do," Moss said. "She fooled me."Coming Sunday in the Gazette-Mail: Why are pill mills so hard to shut down?Reach Alison Knezevich at email@example.com or 304-348-1240.This series was conceived and produced as a project for The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships, a program of the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Police seek car driven by woman found dead in Kanawha River 2 Teen pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Oakes Field shooting 3 Facebook founder visits Cabin Creek Health Systems 4 Man allegedly cuts father in Rand over argument about sandwich 5 $115M project for WV Toyota plant to start in 2020 Clinic strives to balance pain care, abuse danger Previous Story Today's Sports on TV, Radio & Area Prep Schedule Next Story


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My research seeks to critically examine the relationship between cultural heritage and photography. I focus on site and archive specific collections to help explore wider issues around the contemporaneous development of photography and heritage as a means of relating to past-worlds. My point of departure for my thesis is the photographic archive of Victorian explorer John Thomson, held by The Wellcome Collection in London. This includes images from Thomson's time in China, Singapore and Hong Kong, although I will be focusing on his photographs of Cambodia and Cyprus. The sites documented by Thomson (including Angkor and Famagusta) represent some of the earliest photographic records of these locations. I will question what role such images have played in the subsequent construction of the sites as heritage, asking how photography impacts on the management, conservation and interpretation of sites, what power asymmetries are revealed or subverted through these processes, and how the collecting, archiving, digitisation and distribution of such imagery contributes to a sense of the past as heritage. In recognition of the continuing power of photographs to help define what we value as heritage, my research will involve interrogating recent photographic work surrounding the sites, namely the Our Place World Heritage Project, and community archives related to the diaspora group The Famagusta Association of Great Britain.
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Temporary contract until 31st August 2017 with possible extension subject to funding.
Providing high quality support, advice and information for homeless young people, the successful candidate will need to have relevant experience of supporting vulnerable young people as well as possessing patience and resilience. We are looking for candidates with a positive "can do" attitude, who are able to demonstrate experience of developing effective working relationships with a range of clients and staff. You will have the ability to communicate effectively across settings and to work as part of a team. You will need to be an effective problem solver and be able to work on your own initiative with a caseload of up to 10-12 young people.
Candidates will need to work flexibly demonstrating experience of working in a young person centred environment.
For an application pack please visit: http://www.thezoneplymouth.co.uk/opportunities/vacancies.
Closing date: 5pm, 13th January 2017
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Shanti Villa has roof top reasturant serve all kind of foods from 07:00 AM till midnight .
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Baker manages to get Phillips two days off
CHICAGO -- Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips was not in Friday's lineup vs. the Cubs. Cesar Izturis started at second base while Todd Frazier moved up two spots to bat in Phillips' usual No. 4 spot.
Reds manager Dusty Baker likes to give veterans a day off before or after a scheduled day off for the team.
"He's playing his butt off. I told him before the series started in St. Louis that I was going to try and get him two days in a row," Baker said. "I hate to [rest him with] the way he's playing."
Phillips entered the day batting .289 with five home runs and a team-leading 26 RBIs. He had a homer and an RBI double during Wednesday's loss at St. Louis.
"The last game he was responsible for both of our runs. But you've got to do what's best for the long run," Baker said. "It's going to keep him strong, productive."
Frazier had an RBI double and walked, and Izturis walked twice.
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Peter Møller at the Australian Museum with a Barathrites sp. (AMS I.28746-002), November 2005.
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Peter Møller is the Assistant Professor/Curator at the Zoological Museum University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Peter, who visited in January/February 2003, has been working for some years on bythitid fishes. Since August 2005 he has been working on the molecular phylogeny of ophidiiform fishes at the South Australian Museum.
He paid a quick visit to the Australian Museum on 28 November 2005, to check a few voucher specimens, before traveling to the National Museum New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa to work for two weeks with Dr Clive Roberts.
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Rainout puts Johnson on Coors Light Pole
June 07, 2013, Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service, NASCAR.com
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LONG POND, Pa. -- With practice and time trials at Pocono Raceway rained out on Friday, Jimmie Johnson will start on the Coors Light Pole for Sunday's Party in the Poconos 400.
Johnson, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series leader, will bring the field to the green flag with second-place Carl Edwards beside him on the front row. With the starting order set by the rule book, the top cars in owner points will be at the front of the field at the outset.
Only 43 cars are entered for Sunday's race, so no cars are eliminated from competition by the rainout.
Clint Bowyer will start third beside fourth-place Matt Kenseth, followed by Kevin Harvick, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kasey Kahne, Kyle Busch, Paul Menard and reigning Spring Cup champion Brad Keselowski. Twenty of the last 30 Pocono winners have started from positions one through six, with eight of those starting on the pole.
"There are a lot of good benefits from starting on the pole, from track position to pit road picks," Johnson said. "We'll take it. The great season that we've had so far and the quick start, it's nice to have that.
"It's one of the benefits (as the point leader) when things rain out. So we certainly earned this first starting spot, and we'll try to take advantage of it on Sunday."
Four-time Pocono winner Denny Hamlin, who missed four races with a compression fracture of his first lumbar vertebra, will start 17th, the No. 11 Toyota's position in owner points. Hamlin himself is 26th in the drivers' standings, hoping to regain the top 20 and consequent eligibility for a Wild Card spot in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.
With Saturday's forecast also in question, and practice time in danger of being curtailed, teams may have to rely on computer simulations to determine the setups with which they'll start the race.
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Topic: Surgery and Transplant
My mother has just been diagnosed on Christmas of 2007. She is extremely healthy and we have, as a blessing, discovered this cancer as a result of a routine cholesterol test.
Her tumor is a large one however.
We are told that surgery is not an option (size is large, plus the tumor is compressing or occluding the vessels, not allowing for the blood flow needed). We are also told that a liver transplant would be very dangerous, as the immunosuppressant drugs would inhibit her body's immunity from fighting the cancer after the transplant.
Can anyone please help us with any information? I have seen on Johns Hopkins website where there are successful transplants. How does this happen if it is seen as a failure to other doctors? How could these transplants ever be successful if you have to receive immunosupressant drugs??
Thank you so much for your help in advance.