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(2) The vehicle is out of service for repair for a total of 30 or more business days during the express warranty term or the one-year period referred to in (1) of this section, whichever period terminates first;
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A Study of AST-120 for Evaluating Prevention of Progression In Chronic Kidney Disease (EPPIC-1)
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Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation
Kureha Corporation
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First received: July 11, 2007
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1) To evaluate the effectiveness of AST-120 (spherical carbon adsorbent) added to standard-of-care therapy in moderate to severe Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), on time to first occurrence of any event of the triple composite outcome of initiation of dialysis, kidney transplant or doubling of serum creatinine (sCr) when compared with placebo; 2) To evaluate the safety and tolerability of long-term AST-120 therapy in patients with CKD; 3) To evaluate the effects of AST-120 versus placebo, on other measures of renal function.
|Chronic Kidney Disease
|Drug: Placebo Drug: AST-120
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase III, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of AST-120 for Prevention of Chronic Kidney Disease Progression in Patients With Moderate to Severe Chronic Kidney Disease
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Composite of Dialysis Initiation, Kidney Transplantation, and Serum Creatinine Doubling. Number of Participants Meeting the Criteria Are Reported. [ Time Frame: Beyond Week 48, a 12-week visit cycle continued until the end of the study or until individual patients reached an endpoint ]
- Safety and Tolerability [ Time Frame: approximately 42 months ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- The Development of a Component of a Quadruple Composite Endpoint (Initiation of Dialysis, Kidney Transplant, Doubling of sCr, or Death), Other Measures of Renal Function [ Time Frame: approximately 42 months ]
- Vitamins and Folate Levels [ Time Frame: approximately 42 months ]
|Study Start Date:
|July 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|October 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|October 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Drug: Placebo
9g /day (3 times a day)
|Experimental: AST-120
Drug: AST-120
9g /day (3 times a day)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 18 years or older
- Moderate to severe CKD, not anticipated to require dialysis or renal transplant within the next 6 months
- Patient survival expected to be no less than one year
- Serum creatinine in men >= 2.0 mg/dL (>= 177 µmol/L) and <= 5.0 mg/dL (<= 442 µmol/L), and in women >= 1.5 mg/dL (>= 133 µmol/L) and <= 5.0 mg/dL (<= 442 µmol/L) at Screening
- Urinary total protein to urinary total creatinine ratio must be >= 0.5 on a spot void at Screening
- Blood pressure <= 160/90 mmHg at both Screening and Baseline. In addition, blood pressure, if measured, must have been stable in hypertensive patients over the 3 months prior to Screening, with no more than 1 blood pressure reading > 160/90 mmHg
- In patients being treated for hypertension, they should be on a stable anti-hypertensive regimen
Exclusion Criteria:
- Obstructive or reversible cause of kidney disease
- Nephrotic syndrome defined as a ratio of urinary total protein to urinary creatinine of > 6.0 as measured on a spot void
- Adult polycystic kidney disease
- History of previous kidney transplant
- History of recent (within the past 6 months) accelerated or malignant hypertension
- Uncontrolled arrhythmia or severe cardiac disease within the past 6 months
- History of malabsorption, inflammatory bowel disease, hiatal hernia, active peptic ulcer, or severe GI dysmotility, not attributable to the use of a phosphate binder
- Received any investigational agent or participated in a clinical study within the previous 3 months
- Presence of any significant medical condition that might create an undue risk with study participation, or significantly confound the collection of safety and efficacy data in this study
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|February 15, 2015
|Last Updated:
|March 2, 2015
Keywords provided by Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation:
Kidney Diseases
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Kidney Diseases
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic
Urologic Diseases
Renal Insufficiency
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AJ Allmendinger's failed drug test already resulted in a NASCAR suspension, and it now has officially cost him his ride at Penske Racing.
Penske Racing released Allmendinger on Wednesday, eight days after NASCAR confirmed the results of a June 29 random drug test, which Allmendinger's business manager said showed a positive for amphetamines.
"Penske Racing fully supports NASCAR's substance abuse policy and we are disappointed with AJ's positive drug test results," said team owner Roger Penske in a statement. "AJ is a terrific driver, a good person, and it is very unfortunate that we have to separate at this time. We have invested greatly in AJ and we were confident in his success with our team.
"The decision to dismiss him is consistent with how we would treat any other Penske Racing team member under similar circumstances."
The 30-year-old Allmendinger, who has missed the last three races since NASCAR learned the initial results of the drug test, has said he didn't knowingly take a banned substance.
While he is using an independent lab to analyze his supplements and medications to determine what caused the result, Allmendinger also has entered NASCAR's recovery program to get reinstated.
"I wish to thank Mr. Penske, Penske Racing, their sponsors, and especially all the of the No. 22 team for the opportunity they provided me and for their support in this difficult time," Allmedinger said in a statement. "I also, again, would like to thank all the fans that really have been awesome through this.
"I apologize for the distraction, embarrassment, and difficulties that my current suspension from NASCAR has provided. As I stated last week, I have begun NASCAR's Road to Recovery program and look forward to using those resources and its completion to compete again in NASCAR in the near future."
Sam Hornish Jr. was named the driver of the No. 22 car "for the foreseeable future" while the team evaluates who will drive the car in 2013.
There was no guarantee before the suspension that the driver for 2013 would have been Allmendinger, who had signed a 1-year deal with Penske Racing in December to replace Kurt Busch as driver of the No. 22 car. Penske held an option for 2013, and Allmendinger was 23rd in the Sprint Cup standings at the time of his suspension. With a rookie crew chief and signs of potential, no decision had been announced whether Penske would pick up the option prior to the drug test.
The failed test apparently sealed Allmendinger's fate and now opens the No. 22 ride for 2013. Penske said last Sunday that he had been out of the country since the confirmation of the B sample July 24 and wanted to meet with Allmendinger face-to-face before determining his future.
"He realizes this is a serious situation," Penske said Sunday. "I said to him, 'There are people a lot bigger than you are that have had issues, that have bounced back and taken it as a speed bump.' … I want to see him land on his feet."
Shell/Pennzoil, which sponsors Penske Racing's No. 22 car, also weighed in on Allmendinger's dismissal.
"Shell and Pennzoil fully support NASCAR's substance abuse policy and Penske Racing's decision to release AJ Allmendinger. … We wish AJ the best as he participates in NASCAR's Road to Recovery program," the statement said. "Shell and Pennzoil will continue to work closely with Penske Racing to determine plans for the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup season."
NASCAR does not announce the length of its recovery program, which is specifically designed for the individual after an analysis by a substance abuse professional. The program includes additional drug testing and possible counseling and rehabilitation.
Allmendinger has five top-five finishes in 169 Cup starts with a career best of second earlier this year at Martinsville Speedway.
"We continue to be extremely grateful by the breadth and scope of support for AJ from his fans and partners," Allmendinger business manager Tara Ragan said last week.
Hornish, who drove in Cup for Penske from 2008-2010 and is fourth in the Nationwide Series standings, has driven the No. 22 car in Allmendinger's absence.
But he's not a lock for the No. 22 ride as several drivers have not signed for next season, including Joey Logano, Ryan Newman, Brian Vickers, Martin Truex Jr. and Regan Smith.


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Oglethorpe's Athletics department is looking for sports enthusiasts to join the Petrel Sports Network team. The Network has openings to call the play-by-play or provide color commentary for home soccer, volleyball, basketball, baseball and lacrosse events. Both athlete and non-athlete students are welcome and—good news for those students who are looking to build their resumes—no experience is necessary. Interested candidates need only to be motivated and enthusiastic about sports.
The Petrel Sports Network was founded in 2007 by Hoyt Young, Oglethorpe's associate athletics director for media relations. The program is one of only a few to host live stream of home sport match-ups and takes pride in its ability to enhance the experiences of both sports fans as well as the students behind the program.
"Ideally, the Petrel Sports Network … provides an opportunity for students to fast-track a career in sports broadcasting," says Young. Although it is still developing, the Petrel Sports Network has an increasing number of followers and would make a great addition to any aspiring sports broadcaster's resume.
Contact Hoyt Young at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information, and visit www.gopetrels.com to find out more about Oglethorpe's Athletics department and to view archived broadcasts.
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Pictured right: The original OU student-broadcaster, Brian Chimiklis '08, went on to work for several sports radio stations. Read more about Brian and the Petrel Sports Network in the Fall 2010 edition of the Carillon.


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Even before the accident, Mike Grainger wasn't quite right. "We called him 'Mike Grainger, Mike Grainger, Mike Grainger,'" remembers Barb Thomsen, one of his former co-workers at the Burlington Northern railyards in Alliance, Nebraska. "He always repeated everything. He was kind of slow in the head."
But everybody liked Mike. He always volunteered to inspect the trains whenever they stopped. He read his orders over and over to make sure he got them right. He was slow, his family says, because he'd been injured at the age of twelve, hit in the back of the head by a ceremonial log at a Boy Scout meeting. Life had been a challenge ever since. But Mike made the best of it.
Mike had come to Alliance in 1977 looking to make a clean start. There he found a good job and a girlfriend, Sonia Kunes, who also worked at the railyard. They were a strange pair, say co-workers. She was heavy, he was skinny. She was witty and intelligent, he had trouble remembering the simplest things. Yet they were happy together.
The happiness went away on Valentine's Day, 1990. Standing brakeman-style at the front of a string of locomotives being driven by Sonia, Mike was pinned against a metal bar when one of the engines swung toward another engine on a curve. He took a crushing blow to the head before being rolled between the giant locomotives like paper through a press. Every one of his ribs was broken. He was still conscious when he hit the frozen soil.
Mike spent the next six weeks in a drug-induced coma in a Scottsbluff hospital. "They revived him eight times on the emergency table, which they shouldn't have done," says his brother-in-law, Richard Wade. "Mike never fully recovered. He was never the same. The Mike we know is dead."
In the ten years leading up to the accident, Mike and Sonia enjoyed a quiet, comfortable life together in Alliance. But from that day on, their lives became joined in a tightening knot of co-dependence and guilt. They moved to Boulder, where Mike, who suffered brain damage in the accident, toiled to relearn basic tasks. Sonia, who blamed herself for the accident, was tormented by the idea that she had taken away the personality of the man she loved. She sank into a deep depression and began overeating. She got so big she couldn't get out of bed.
Mike continually assured Sonia that he wasn't angry, that he didn't blame her for his condition. But according to Boulder police, his powers of forgiveness were limited. In February 1995, they say, he hit Sonia over the head with a blunt object while she slept in their Boulder townhome, killing her. He now stands charged with second-degree murder.
Mike Grainger says he's innocent. According to him, he found his 44-year-old wife dead after taking his dogs for a walk. And his attorney notes several anomalies that could raise doubts in the mind of a jury. For one thing, Boulder prosecutors waited a full two and a half years before filing charges against Grainger. And Boulder County Coroner John Meyer has ruled that while the "manner of death" in the case was homicide, the actual cause of death was "morbid obesity." The coroner based that uncommon finding on his belief that while the blow to Sonia's head was not a lethal one, it may have been enough to push a woman in her condition--he estimated her weight at 325 pounds--over the edge.
There are no signs that anyone other than Mike was in the home the night of Sonia's death. But any evidence linking him to her death was, and is, circumstantial. The weapon that allegedly delivered the blow has never been found. The case is further complicated by another of Meyer's findings: Even without the blow to the head, the coroner said, Sonia was in such poor physical condition that she may well have died from natural causes within a few days.
The Boulder District Attorney's Office cited insufficient evidence when it declined to file charges against Grainger in 1995. But last September, DA Alex Hunter, whose controversial handling of the JonBenet Ramsey case had already earned him a place in the national spotlight, acted. Peter Maguire, the deputy district attorney assigned to prosecute the case, refuses to comment on the reason for the delay. But given the laborious and so far inconclusive investigation into the Ramsey murder, some have suggested that the Boulder police and the DA's office are using Grainger as a scapegoat, a man who can present them with a very public conviction to combat the deluge of bad press both have received in the last year.
"I just don't know if it's political," says Grainger's attorney, Peter Schild. "I have no proof of anything. The DA says they have more evidence, but I don't think they do."
"You can draw your own conclusions," says Neal S. Cohen, a former attorney of Grainger's. "One has to wonder what took them so long. One has to wonder why they reversed their position on what appears to be very thin evidence. Because of his disability, you can play him, like the DA did, like the investigators."
But the cops aren't the only ones who've accused Grainger of causing Sonia's death. In 1996, before any criminal charges were filed against him, Tonia Kucera, Sonia's daughter from a previous marriage, filed a wrongful-death suit in Boulder District Court accusing Mike of killing her mother. She asked for a portion of the seven-figure settlement Mike had received from the railroad and got it when the suit was settled out of court.
Police reportedly charged Grainger with murder in part because they believe he incriminated himself during depositions he gave as part of the civil suit. But Cohen, who was present for those depositions, says they include nothing remotely incriminating.
Mike Grainger, now 43, has yet to enter a plea as he awaits the results of a psychiatric evaluation to determine his sanity. Schild says he expects his client will plead not guilty.
For Mike, little remains of the life he once knew. "The old Mike died in 1990," he says, echoing his brother-in-law. "I want him back today." Mike's conversation is marked by stuttering, disjointed trains of thought and constant repetition. When he is bothered, as he always is this time of year, he has an even tougher time expressing himself. His entire left side remains numb.
Mike lives alone with a toy poodle and three Pomeranians, surviving off what's left of his settlement with the railroad. His townhome smells slightly of urine but is furnished with a new Sony TV. He has time to contemplate where he stands, and his future--the prospect of a lengthy trial and possible imprisonment--may prove to be as bleak as the wreckage of his and Sonia's lives.
"If people think that I'm guilty, fine," he says of his accusers. "I'm not trying to sway any votes. I'm not an idiot. I'm a lot smarter than people think."
Right now Mike is more interested in the question of Sonia's guilt. "She blamed herself for the accident," he says. "She thought I blamed her for the accident. She took that guilt to her grave. I could never convince her otherwise."
To call Mike and Sonia's relationship symbiotic is an understatement. Sonia took care of Mike in the years after his head injury. In the years before her death, as her weight mushroomed to life-threatening proportions, it was Mike who kept watch over her.
"Both of them felt they were unloved by other people," Tonia Kucera testified during a preliminary hearing on Mike's murder charge. Both were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
"I still miss her," Mike says. "I never will forget her. Nobody'll ever replace her." From all accounts, even Mike's, he and Sonia were miserable together. But there was no other place for them to go.
Sonia Kunes grew up in Ravenna, a farming community of 1,300 in south-central Nebraska. She wasn't always so fat. When she was young, remembers her friend Joyce Nason, Sonia was "very thin. She was absolutely beautiful." Sonia was shy but popular in high school. She even joined the cheerleading squad. But she used to smoke up to three packs of cigarettes a day, and when she quit, remembers Barb Thomsen, "let me tell you, she started eating."
Sonia married a local boy named Terry Kucera and had her only child with him. Tonia was born in 1966. Nason remembers little about Sonia's first husband. "I think he was a partyer; she wasn't as much," she says. (Terry Kucera now lives in Grand Island, Nebraska, and declined comment for this story.) After the couple divorced, in the early '70s, Tonia lived with her mother for a while, but she spent most of her formative years with her dad.
Robert M. "Mike" Grainger grew up in Tennessee and came to Alliance to live with his sister, Elaine Wade, and her husband, Richard. Alliance was a railroad town of about 16,000, and Richard Wade helped Mike get on at the Burlington Northern, the town's main employer. "Back then they were looking for anyone that was a warm body and could give a good day's work," says Elaine.
Mike had no prior railroad experience, but he quickly took to the job of guiding the train engines that lumbered in and out of the switching yards.
His nickname was "three-times Mike" because he learned things by repeating them. His sister says Mike was not retarded but suffered from learning disabilities. According to Richard Wade, Mike's slowness stemmed from the injury he suffered at the Boy Scout meeting. The Wades think the phenobarbital Mike was given for his injuries may also have affected his development.
Mike grew up relatively normal, playing football when he was in high school. "A better friend you would never want to have," Elaine says. "He'd give you the shirt off his back if you were cold."
Sonia had also found a job at BN in the late 1970s and eventually worked her way up to engineer. Her co-workers remember her for her sharp wit. She had expensive taste in clothes and jewelry, particularly diamonds. She and Mike also collected Mickey Mouse paraphernalia.
In most ways, though, they lived simply. They shared an inexpensive trailer. They had the same rest days, grew a garden together and traveled to Aspen in the fall to watch the leaves change. She wore the pants, he doted on her, and they kept largely to themselves.
But their relationship didn't sit well with Mike's family. "She had the right key at the right time to completely dominate his life," says Richard Wade. "The only people he was allowed to see were people she knew and liked."
"She was dishonest," says Elaine. "I felt she used Mike, in every sense that a man and woman can use and be used by one another."
According to Richard Wade, after Sonia moved in with Mike, he paid the bills for his trailer and for hers. Meanwhile, "she was taking her checks to buy raw diamonds and put money in the bank." Wade adds that he once snooped through some of Sonia's documents and discovered that she had $31,000 in her savings account.
Sonia certainly was financially savvy, and Mary Rachetts, chair of the local branch of the transportation union, estimates that Sonia and Mike earned almost $100,000 a year. "Money was her god," says co-worker Elenor Kohler. "Sonia was not a giver."
But if Mike was bothered by this, he kept it to himself. Marriage was a far-off thought. "To us, we were married," Mike says. And the couple didn't want any kids: "She was too big; we didn't think it was good."
Mike used to be heavy himself, but before the accident he had lost eighty pounds and was "pumped up, in really, really good shape," says Rachetts. "He'd go and work out every day after work."
That's probably what saved his life.
On February 14, 1990, Sonia was running three light engines west toward the roundhouse to be serviced. She was stationed in the trailing engine, riding in the cab on the left-hand side. Mike was standing on the steps of the lead engine, leaning off the grab irons on the right. It was noon. It was cold out, and snow had started to fall.
The curve where the two trains met is deceptive, and gauging clearance was difficult. Mike thought things were fine, and he leaned out to signal Sonia around the curve.
The first engines passed each other. The grab irons on the sides of the engines barely missed each other--by no more than six inches, says Wade.
"I thought I was in the clear," Mike says. He had only a few seconds to react when he realized that the trains were too close. The first engine on the stationary train "cleared the lead, didn't clear me," he says. "I was riding on the steps. I thought we had plenty of room to get by. I tried to return up the steps and fell off the engine."
A bolt holding the grab iron on the other engine hit him in the head. Then the grab iron itself hit him in the chest and spun him around. For a few seconds his body was rolled between the two consists. The tracks veered apart, and he fell to the ground.
The ambulance took him into Alliance, where one of his lungs collapsed. Doctors put Mike into a coma, and his memories are hazy. What he does know is this: "We shouldn't have been out there when we was, but we was."
The chopper stationed at the trauma center in Scottsbluff, one hour away, was grounded because of the weather. But a railroad worker offered to drive Mike to Scottsbluff, despite the dicey weather. After they got there, Mike's other lung collapsed. A priest was summoned to administer the last rites.
"They were pumping quarts of blood through me as fast as can be, like there was a hole in me," Mike says. His head was badly swollen. He caught a case of pneumonia that almost killed him. His kidneys threatened to fail. "They told Sonia that any little thing that happens, he's a goner," he remembers.
Few colleagues from the railyard visited. Friends say that Sonia's daughter, Tonia, never stopped by. Mike's father, Lloyd, came to visit from Tennessee, but the Grainger family's bad luck held: Lloyd had to be hospitalized for gallbladder surgery while he was there.
Sonia kept Mike going. "She told me she'd sing for me the whole time--'Hold On,' by Wilson Phillips," Mike says. "Every night in the ICU, every night she'd pat my hand...'Hold on, one more day,' she'd sing. She sang every day."
"If it wasn't for her, he'd have never made it," Rachetts says.
Mike thrashed around so much in his coma that doctors tied him down. Richard Wade says his brother-in-law was confused, disoriented and upset when he finally woke up. "He looked at me with those pitiful dog eyes and said, 'Untie me,'" he recalls. "So later that afternoon they took them off."
But after Mike emerged from his coma, cracks began to show in his even-tempered demeanor. "If you rattled him, he'd want to swear and say things he didn't mean," Rachetts says. Doctors put Mike "in a room on the fifth floor, strapped him down, made him very angry," Rachetts adds. "It was real difficult--he'd lost so much weight, he was so angry. He'd try to pull away from the bed. They had a terrible time getting him to eat."
Barb Thomsen's memories of seeing Mike, post-coma, still haunt her. "They had him tied down," she says. "He was wild, kicking around. He didn't know me at all. He was cussing Sonia out, called her a 'fucking bitch.' He was not himself. If he could have gotten hold of her, he'd have killed her."
When Mike was better, he and Sonia sued the railroad. Though the terms of the 1992 settlement are sealed, Rachetts says the couple received $2.4 million. The bulk of the money went to an annuity that eventually became worth $4 million. According to Rachetts, $150,000 of the settlement went directly to Sonia, who was named conservator of the settlement trust.
Some observers, including attorney Cohen, think the idea of Sonia getting money for an accident that she may have caused is ridiculous. "Really, it was her fault," Thomsen says. "How she ever got anything, I don't know. It's really crazy. She probably should have got fired."
After Mike was released from the hospital, Sonia and Mike's family arranged to have Mike transferred to the Mapleton Rehab Center in Boulder. Mike and Sonia got a townhome on Joslyn Place and cut their ties with Nebraska. "Maybe she wanted a clean break," Rachetts says. "She was always morbidly afraid he'd never get back to the point where they could have a normal life."
In April 1990, not long after their arrival in Colorado, Mike and Sonia were married. But a normal life proved too much to ask for. Mike was too busy learning how to live again at Mapleton. "I couldn't do nothing," he says. "I couldn't swallow. It took three or four months to learn to dress."
While he struggled to cope, Sonia grew depressed and gained more weight. During the first six months after the accident, Rachetts says, she put on 100 pounds. "She's always been big, ever since I knew her," remembers Mike. "She got bigger. We couldn't go in a lot of places. She wouldn't fit in chairs. It got really bad here--people in Boulder were rude and nasty."
But Mike still managed to make friends. He couldn't work a full-time job, so he turned toward volunteer work. His neighbors on Joslyn Place say he was always doing favors for them: He shoveled snow from their driveways and sidewalks, trimmed their hedges and left their papers on their front porches. He brought pies one Thanksgiving, and fruit and candy for Christmas. He asked for nothing in return.
One neighbor, Benny Classetti, remembers stuffing forty dollars in Mike's pocket as compensation for some job Mike had done. When Classetti returned to his home, the forty dollars was tied to his doorknob.
At the behest of his therapists at Mapleton, Mike also began to volunteer at the Community Food Share food bank in Boulder. While most volunteers manage to squeeze in a few hours in between their other jobs, Grainger became a well-liked regular.
The work was unglamorous--loading and unloading food--but "he made it look like a spit-and-polish, elegant job," says Sue Ericson, the food bank's volunteer coordinator. Mike even received a Volunteer of the Year award. Officials at the food bank say that Sonia drove him to work. They describe her as friendly and supportive.
But there was trouble at home. "We never had sex," Mike says. "She changed. I changed. The chemistry was over. I still don't accept it. Before the accident, she had a sense of humor. She laughed about it. Then she just gave up, dug her heels in, like quicksand."
Sonia became trapped by her own body. She couldn't get up the stairs, so Mike set up a mattress and box springs in the living room. Mike says he tried to get her to walk and exercise, but she wouldn't. "Take three or four steps, people thought she'd have a heart attack," he says. "She had to have a place to sit down."
Mike did the cooking, cleaning and laundry; Sonia kept the finances, spent the money, and drove the car. However, when they went grocery shopping, she'd stay in the car while he went inside to shop.
When Sonia grew too fat to make it to the bathroom, Mike put towels and plastic sheets under her and cleaned up after her.
Benny Classetti and his wife were invited over to the Grainger home on Christmas Eve 1994, less than two months before Sonia's death. Though they had lived next door for four years, it was the first time Classetti had met Sonia. "She was a very pretty woman," he recalls, "but oh, so fat."
Shortly before Sonia's death, she arranged to see a psychotherapist named Diane Rudine. Rudine made four visits to the Grainger home in the weeks before Sonia's death. She stayed for an hour and charged $50 each time.
"The first time I saw her, she was lying on a double bed--it could have been a queen-sized--and she took up most of the bed," Rudine told the court at the October preliminary hearing. "I would have guessed her at 400 pounds or so."
Rudine said that Sonia suffered from agoraphobia, the fear of open spaces, as well as low self-esteem. Sonia wanted to attend her daughter's marriage, a modest Catholic ceremony being planned in Omaha, but was afraid people would stare at her. Rudine also testified that Sonia was being treated for depression by Dr. Jed Shapiro at the Boulder County Mental Health Center.
Grainger never sat in during Sonia's meetings with Rudine, and the therapist described him in testimony as gruff and unfriendly. "He made me fairly nervous," Rudine said. "He seemed fairly hostile to my being there."
Sonia was usually lying on the bed, propped up on an elbow, a sheet covering her. Rudine said that Sonia had scrapes on her face and sores on her mouth. Sonia told her she had fallen and suffered carpet burns. Rudine said she was lucid and intelligent and had a sense of humor.
The pair discussed her relationship with Mike, and Rudine testified that Sonia felt that "he was against her now--[that she was] lazy and had given up."
Mike was elsewhere in the house during these sessions. When they were over, Sonia would call for him to bring the checkbook, and she would write a check to Rudine.
By Rudine's third visit, the therapist told the court, Sonia was much worse. Wearing an oversized T-shirt and leggings, she was "sitting up in a chair. One ankle was very purple, both feet were swollen, one quite reddish." Sonia told Rudine that she had fallen. Rudine thought her ankle might be sprained or broken and told her to see a doctor.
Rudine testified that she and Sonia talked about domestic violence. According to Rudine's testimony, Sonia said that her first husband, Terry Kucera, had beaten her but that Mike did not. However, she said, he did verbally abuse her.
Mike admits that the two argued: "You could cut it with a knife, the tension, the stress." But there were no "knock-down-drag-out fights," he says. "I had no weight; she was the boss."
The Monday before her death, Sonia had a long phone conversation with her daughter, Tonia. The two had rarely seen each other after Tonia had gone to live with Terry Kucera, but they had been talking by phone more often.
Friends of Sonia's are dubious of the last-minute rapprochement with Tonia and of Tonia's decision to sue for part of the railroad settlement. They say that Sonia never had anything good to say about her daughter and was convinced she didn't deserve any of her money. "Suddenly she's a caring daughter?" Rachetts asks. "Guess who wasn't ever there? Sonia once told me, 'Make sure Tonia never gets her hands on my jewelry. She'll hawk it all.'"
Tonia Kucera declines to comment about her relationship with her mother. But at the preliminary hearing in October, she told the court that the last time she and her mother talked, Sonia was out of breath getting to the phone. Sonia blamed it on an anxiety attack, not her weight. However, she also told her daughter that she had recently fallen off the toilet and had to wait for Mike's return to get back up.
Tonia testified that Sonia also told her Mike was spending more time at home to care for her, but that he actually spent little time with her. More often, Tonia quoted her mother as saying Mike was out walking his four dogs.
"She told me she didn't want to live anymore," Tonia said. "I told her I didn't want to hear that kind of talk. She told me that she had no one to love her. Not me, not Mike. She said that if she died, people would think of her in passing, but she wouldn't be remembered, it wouldn't be a big thing to us."
By Rudine's fourth visit on January 31, 1995, Sonia was worse. Rudine says her breath came in gasps, her lips were purple and she had a large bruise on her arm. "She seemed shaky," Rudine said. "I asked how she was doing. She gasped, 'Not good at all.' She looked to me like she needed to be hospitalized."
Rudine later testified that she didn't think Sonia was in imminent danger but asked her if she would go to a hospital. Sonia told her that she didn't believe in doctors and would allow only Dr. Shapiro to pay her a house call.
Rudine asked again about Mike. "Things were getting much worse," Rudine testified. Sonia, she said, told her "he had been yelling at her and insulting her a lot." The couple had gone through marriage counseling before and had had some success with it; Sonia wanted to try again, but Mike didn't. "Part of her really wanted help," Rudine said, "but she was afraid of going out."
But Rudine said nothing to Mike, figuring that he "knew what was going on; he lived with her." A week before Sonia's death, says Schild, Mike put in a call to a local hospital seeking medical attention for Sonia because she was falling down more regularly. But she called the hospital afterward and declined treatment.
The next day, Wednesday, February 1, Rudine tried calling the Graingers to confirm that Shapiro would visit that Thursday. Rudine says the line was busy for an hour and a half and she couldn't get through. She tried one last time at around 9:30 p.m.
The Boulder Fire Department got Mike Grainger's 911 call at 8:01 a.m. on February 2. Paramedics could do nothing to revive Sonia. Police were dispatched a few minutes later.
Boulder police officers spoke with Mike at the scene. According to the officers' reports, his statements about when he last spoke with Sonia were contradictory. He originally said he'd last spoken with her on the afternoon of February 1. Later he said the last time they talked was later that night, after watching the television show Northern Exposure, which went off the air at 10 p.m.
Mike tells Westword he slept next to his wife on Wednesday night. The next morning he got up and walked the dogs. At that point, he says, she was in the same position she had been the night before. He assumed she was still asleep. When he returned, he couldn't wake her and called for help.
Police officers spent the next day and a half investigating the scene. There was blood on the floor and on the pillow near Sonia, but nowhere else. There was no sign of forced entry or of a struggle. A blood splatter analyst later concluded that she had been struck in the head while lying in the same position in which Mike found her.
In his autopsy report and in later court testimony, coroner Meyer estimated a time of death between 1:30 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. Meyer said the blow to the head was "nonlethal"; there was no skull fracture or brain injury. But he said blood loss or unconsciousness stemming from the blow probably hastened Sonia's death.
Sonia Grainger was "sick enough that she could have died at any time," Meyer testified during Grainger's preliminary hearing in October. The coroner explained that Sonia's weight made it difficult for her to draw air into her lungs. That led to less oxygen in her blood and put stress on her heart. A period of unconsciousness would have only restricted oxygen intake further, he said. Under questioning from Schild, Meyer admitted that Sonia could have hit herself in the head. But he added that "nothing around the scene of her death would indicate that."
According to police reports, Mike was visibly upset but not crying when officers arrived at his home. He was casually dressed and his hair was combed. He didn't want to go to the station, wondering who would watch over the dogs, but eventually left with police about 45 minutes later.
Though Grainger doesn't raise the issue himself, attorney Schild says police browbeat his client during his interrogation. "They used every trick in the book short of unlawful force," Schild says of investigators. "I feel that some of their techniques, while not physically heavy-handed, were probably legally inappropriate. They kept saying he wasn't under arrest, but they didn't give him his keys so he could go."
Schild adds that he hasn't filed a motion attacking the legality of the interrogation, but he says he hasn't ruled out the possibility.
Sue Ericson says she and another food-bank worker went to Mike's home after he'd been released by police. "He was pretty much a basket case," she says. "We offered to stay in the house, but he was frustrated. He had to deal with his wife dying and had to deal with idiots who think he did it. Any one of those things would blow you away if you were normal."
Kathy Coyne, the head of the Boulder food bank, adds: "I think that first interrogation was like, 'Tell me you did it, tell me you did it.' Because he was in such intense therapy, somebody from rehab should have been there. He had no money or credit cards when they released him. He was very upset, and he was in a state of grief to begin with."
(Boulder police did not return phone calls seeking comment about Mike's interrogation.)
Within days of his release, Mike was making arrangements for Sonia's funeral. The Saturday after Sonia died, says Tonia Kucera, Mike called her in Grand Island and chewed her out. "He told me that I hated my mother, that I was not going to be happy with the arrangements that he made and neither was any of my family," she testified. "He said that he saw hatred in my eyes every time they were here to visit, that I was no daughter to my mother. He thought I was after her money."
Ironically, it was Mike who advised Tonia to get a lawyer to figure out what her obligations were in settling her mother's estate. That led to the filing of a probate suit. And those same lawyers later filed a separate wrongful-death suit against Mike, accusing him of killing Sonia with the blow to the head. The attorneys argued that if Grainger contributed to Sonia's death, he wasn't entitled to inherit from her--which would have put Tonia next in line.
That lawsuit led to a settlement in the early summer of 1996. Cohen, who represented Mike in that case, says he can't discuss the settlement, which is sealed, but Schild says it was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Mike gave six depositions in the 1995 probate case brought by Tonia. Those interviews took place over a period of ten months, starting in August 1995, and continuing through June 1996. According to Cohen, Tonia's attorneys knew they couldn't depose Mike if he was being investigated in a criminal matter. When the probate judge pressured the DA's office to either charge Mike or drop the case, the DA pulled out. That gave the green light for the depositions, which apparently have put Mike Grainger on the hotseat again.
But Cohen doesn't think there was anything in those depositions that could be used against his client. The depositions, he says, were filled with "tiny little bullshit things, nothing of any substance."
Since charges were filed against him in September, Mike Grainger hasn't done much to further his own cause. He's had several run-ins with the law, including a blowup in court at the preliminary hearing in October. The flash point came during Tonia's testimony, when she told the court that her mother told her Mike treated her "twice as bad as my dad ever did."
At that point Mike exploded, standing up in the courtroom and calling Tonia a "fucking bitch" several times.
The judge told him to stay seated. Sheriff's officers restrained him. "Let me go!" he shouted.
"Will you relax?"
"Get off my chest!"
"No, sir."
"Get off my fucking chest, you hear me?" On the audio transcript, Grainger sounds desperate.
The judge finally had Mike removed from the courtroom.
Looking back at the incident, Mike says the "anger has been building for a long time. I don't deal with it. I just put the anger in my gut. It just comes out sometimes."
This past November, Boulder police were summoned to Mike's house after he allegedly called a social worker and threatened suicide. Police set up a perimeter around his home, but Mike wouldn't talk to them except to call them "fucking pigs," according to police reports.
The cops left but returned the next evening after a neighbor phoned in a complaint about a gun being fired. Police never recovered a gun from the house, and other neighbors say they never heard a gunshot.
However, Mike was arrested the next day in Lafayette and charged with resisting arrest and reckless discharge of a firearm. He spent a week in jail. Mike says the police are harassing him. "Their minds were made up from day one," he says. "If I'd done that [killed Sonia], I'm not gonna make no damn story up. What they say happened didn't happen. I think it will go to a murder trial, but I hope it don't go that far."
These days Mike Grainger takes care of his dogs. He goes to the Grizzly Rose on Saturday nights sometimes and dances to country music. The dancing "works for a week," he says. "Then I feel like I'm back, trying to get by the pain."
He says he'll never remarry, that he's looking for "just somebody to talk with, someone to be friends." Mostly he waits for his arraignment, which is scheduled for February 5. If convicted on the murder charge, he could be sentenced to anywhere from 16 to 48 years in prison.
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Elaine and Richard Wade say they don't believe Mike killed Sonia, but the future they paint for him is grim nonetheless. "I know he has money from his settlement, but after all this, [the lawyers] will strip him of every dime," says Richard. "He's gonna end up in an institution. I just know it."
For now, it's that time of year again for Mike Grainger: February, the month of his wife's death, the month of the accident that sent his and Sonia's lives into a downward spiral.
"I have enough pain down there to last a lifetime," Mike says. "Enough anger to last a hundred lifetimes. Just keep it to myself.


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The Dumbbell Squat - Build Mass & Avoid Injury
Before we get on to the dumbbell squat, I wanna first talk about squats and why you should be doing them.
As Im sure you already know, squatting is often referred to as the king of exercises for building mass. Many assume that this title is earned in reference to the squats ability to build huge leg muscles.
However, as well as being the #1 exercise for building the quads & glutes, squats also help stimulate growth in all the major muscle groups.
I could go on about the numerous reasons why every bodybuilder should include squats in their routine but hopefully you dont need convincing.
If you wanna get big - squat- its as simple as that.
The Dangers Of Barbell Squatting
However, for some, loading a heavy bar onto the shoulders and squatting till you feel dizzy can present a bit of a safety issue. For those that train at home or indeed without a training partner then squatting can be viewed as somewhat dangerous.
Theres significant risk of running out of steam and struggling to rerack the bar.
For the lone trainer, heavy barbell squats are something that should only be attempted with a good quality power rack with safety bars. Too many times in the gym Ive witnessed some poor guy struggling to get the bar back onto the rack after completing one rep too many.
Even with suitable equipment, if you fail to make the squat and drop the bar, theres still a risk it could go wrong and you end up inuring yourself. At the very least, youre gonna have to unload, lift the bar back onto the rack and reload. If thats ever happened to you then youll know how much this can knock the steam out of the preceding squats sets.
The Dumbbell Squat - The Safer Alternative
A fantastic and much underrated alternative to the barbell squat is the dumbbell squat. Its often seen as the poor cousin to the barbell king but for some, it can actually be the superior exercise.
For the newbie, home trainer or the experienced trainer without access to a spotter or suitable power rack, the dumbbell squat makes a superb alternative to the barbell squat.
With the dumbbell squat, you have pretty much all of the mass building aspects of the barbell squat minus the safety issues. The exercise begins and ends with the weights on the floor, a far safer alternative to the top loaded barbell squat.
With the dumbbell squat, if you find yourself struggling to make the final rep then its far easier and safer to simply end the rep and return the weights to the floor.
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My Tips For Performing The Dumbbell Squat
Given the similarity with the deadlift, you may feel a tendency to lean back slightly at the top of the movement as many people deadlifitng do. Please dont do this. Arching backwards places unnecessary stress on the lower back. Arching back is performed by power lifters in competition to satisfy the judges that a full standing position was reached. Unless youre a competitive power lifter, please dont lean back.
I hope this article has revealed to you the many safety advantages of the dumbbell squat over the traditional barbell squat, especially for lone trainers.
Remember, when it comes to weight lifting, your ability to avoid injury is one of the biggest factors in determining your progress.
Fantastic article here about squatting. To add to what you said about squatting raising testosterone and growth hormone levels, the best way to do so is 3 sets, 10 reps each set, with 1 minute breaks between sets. This setup has been proven through studies to produce the highest amount of testosterone and growth hormone levels from squatting.
Too many trainees religiously stick to something that isn't working for them cos some study\bloke down the gym\forum post told them it should.
Whatever some bods have proven in a study can never apply to everyone and is irrelevant if it doesn't work for you.
Nothing works for everyone and everything works for someone.
Hi ya,
Just wanna add something about doing squat - the secret squatting technique.
The secret to performing a perfect squat requires a heavy heel. Prior to performing a body weight squat (or back squat, overhead squat, front squat, sumo squat, squat with weights etc), slightly lift your toes up in your shoes. This should place about 75% of your weight on your heels. When this shift of weight occurs, the hips will naturally unlock, applying the weight being lifted (body weight, barbell, dumbbell etc) directly to the gluteus muscles. Squatting heavy on your toes applies pressure directly to the knee joint and overloads the quadriceps and that can lead to arthritis, over-developed quadriceps or ligament damage.
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To be honest with u... WWE can make it a big thing but only if they want .... If you follow NXT.. their divas match are better than the main shows.. but i dont know will the divas division be ever back to the same level as it used to be..
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Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by kgibsonuk, Oct 7, 2012.
Well I think it is fair to say, that this board isn't as busy as it was back in the mid noughties.
Nope, not even close. When I joined up and during the era of Enterprise this place was one of the most happening boards on the Internet. And all our most skilled and glorious trolls are long gone, replaced by fools and idiots who probably couldn't argue with a bag of kettle chips without getting their butts whooped and being banned within the first couple of days.
Yeah, It was still fairly..active to the point where Misc was still kinda fun my first couple years after signing on. Honestly, TNZ kind of reminds me of Misc from few years back.
That's partly because this place isn't as fun as it was back then. I certainly don't post anywhere near as much as I used to. And whenever I do, I'm usually ignored, or shouted down for whatever reason, so I'm mostly in lurk mode these days.
One of the things I don't like about Message Boards in general is the sense of "Talking to yourself". There are times when I feel that here, and there's another board where I feel that all the time. I've been lurking more too.
I have to admit scrolling through the Misc thread I thought WTF? Post last thing you ate, what your watching/reading/brought et cetera? That is like old Lounge shit, not the fun Misc I remember where random topics if all sorts just bounced here and there and everywhere.
None of these threads make me anyway inclined to enter them. And they're certainly not fun. Dead boring I say. I really don't give a shit if somebody just ate a Little Debbie Cupcake or brought a Blu-Ray!
I have no access to TNZ so I have no knowledge what is behind that wall.
Be glad.
There be dragons there.
TNZ has been the "new misc" for so long now that it's really just the old misc.
Sorry. I shall endeavor to do better.
Perhaps I should start a new thread with a poll to see the make-up of the current user vis-á-vis how long they've been here.
Less than a year
1-2 years
2-3 years
and so
Though i think the last option would be 10+ years.
I somehow suspect that it might lean towards people towards long serving members.
Just remember: more gratuitous nudity and diatribes against the Bilderbergers and Council on Foreign Relations, with a heavy emphasis on the nudity.
Consider yourself lucky. The stupidest thing I ever did here was access that "forum".
If I had the ability, I'd ban myself from it.
For several lifetimes.
If there's one thing I noticed about the TNZ forum (And it goes well with the "Old Misc" feel), it's how cliequy it's become. I go in there and notice if you have an ounce of conservativism in you, you will be blasted as a troll or something. Heaven forbid anyone post anything in there that talked good about Romney (And I thought there were good aspects about him). Also, there was one time when that Troll thread actually pissed me off. I had a thread in here (Misc) and got blasted for it in the troll thread. I didn't say it at the time, but if you're going to blast me for something, do it to me, not go run off to your "safe" forum like a coward.
There are things I miss about this forum but there are some good threads that pop up every now and then. I noticed for me now it's if I'm in the mood to post, I will really post. Most times I just lurk though.
Not necessarily. I've mentioned several times in there that I am a Republican and I have never been blasted for it.
You do have to be good at arguing your point, but that's true anywhere, really.
Well, I didn't get that sense, but I'll take your word for it. Of course just popping in there from time to time I can only go by observation, and I'm willing to admit that it might be a little harsh.
I have a workshop if he'd like to attend.
I wouldn't have understood what you meant by "Noughties" if it hadn't been for Weebl's Stuff.
While it's true, there is a much more liberal bent in TNZ, I don't think you're exactly being fair to everyone who posts in there.
Mitt Romney was a liar and a scumbag. It wasn't that you weren't allowed to go to TNZ and post about him. It was that the majority of the people in there already knew enough about Romney to have formed their opinions on him and in an election season as contentious as the last one, of course the vultures would start circling. If you want an actual, fair, academic discussion about issues or politics, it can be had in TNZ if the stars align, but it's by no means a guarantee, and certainly not when it comes to such hot topics as the last election.
Is this about that time I complained in the Troll thread about how whiny you sometimes are? I thought we reached an accord privately about that?
Putting that aside for the moment, the fact that you're not supposed to talk about what happens in TNZ out side of TNZ, and putting aside for the moment that you're completely ignoring the entire purpose of the Troll thread, you might have a point but here you are, whining again.
Well, not that I agree with you at all that it is cowardly to use a thread in a secured forum for precisely what that thread is designed to do, I'm responding to you here because that's what you seem to want. Hopefully you'll take that in to consideration with whatever reply you choose to offer to this post.
TNZ is the Misc of old, but with the practice mitts removed. Mr. Laser Beam nailed it on the head when he said that you really just need to know how to argue your point well in TNZ. That's all. If you can't do that, then of course you're going to dislike it because it is, by design, no-holds barred in there. What was it Q said in "Q-Who?"
Just my two cents. Your mileage may, of course, vary.
No it wasn't about that. It was about something else, and yes we did clear the air about what you brought up.
In terms of going to talk about it in that one thread, isn't that the equivilant of talking behind someone's back? I admit I lurk mostly in TNZ but when I post something and then it get's criticized without me knowing about it, I had a problem with that. However, that was in the past and I was replying to the idea that TNZ was like the Old Misc.
You are right about one thing though. I do have a tendency to complain and it is something I really do need to work on. Sorry if I came off as harsh.
This. These days TNZ is like a S&M club with dozens of doms punishing the same couple of subs again and again.
And the subs love it.
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The Monster Jam truck competition attracts thousands of spectators every year in Jacksonville.
Crews began setting up Wednesday afternoon for the action-packed event. One by one, dump trucks filed into EverBank Field, bringing in thousands of pounds of dirt.
Long before the dirt was brought in, the field had to be covered to protect the grass. It starts with tarps covering the entire field, then covering that with half-inch thick polyurethane sheets before the dirt can be dumped.
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On Wednesday night against Northern Kentucky, USD somehow found a way to win against a team playing its first game as a Division I program. On Thursday night, against the youngest college basketball team in the land, USD found too many ways to lose.
Cal State Northridge, with a roster loaded with freshmen and sophomores, beat USD 74-71 to give the Toreros (2-1) their first loss of the season. Northridge (3-0) plays Siena (1-1) this afternoon at 4:30, followed by USD's third game in three nights against Tulsa at 7 p.m. in the National Urea Cycle Disorders Foundation Challenge at Jenny Craig Pavilion. Tulsa beat Northern Kentucky 76-56 in the early game.
USD was out-rebounded, out-hustled, out-shot and flat-out out-played by a young and athletic hoop team from Northridge.
"I'm extremely disappointed with the way we lacked toughness in this game between the ears and physically out there," USD head coach Bill Grier said. "We just have to get tougher and better. We have some tough kids, but as a whole I'm concerned about the toughness of this group."
To their credit, the Toreros clawed back into a game they never seemed to be in from the beginning when junior Dennis Kramer committed the first of the team's 20 turnovers on the first possession. USD was killed on the glass, with the Matadors out-rebounding the Toreros, 40-24, including 14 offensive boards to the Toreros' seven.
But when Northridge head coach Bobby Braswell was called for a questionable technical foul with 59.6 seconds to play, USD sophomore Johnny Dee made two free throws (part of his team-high 16 points) to get USD to within 67-65.
Against Northern Kentucky, Dee and fellow sophomore guard Chris Anderson sparked the comeback win, but on this night, when Anderson, who had 15 points and eight assists, missed a jumper with 39 seconds to go, the game went the other way. Junior Josh Green hit two free throws with 2 seconds left to put Northridge up 74-68 before Anderson hit a 3-pointer to finish the scoring.
"We missed seven or eight layups tonight," Grier said. "This team just needs to learn how to compete and battle. They dug a hole and dug themselves out and were battling, but they're not doing it consistently for 40 minutes."
With Toreros big man, senior 6-9 forward Chris Manresa missing his second game with a sore back, it was up to USD's other big men, Kramer and Simi Fajemisin to work the post. But Kramer had an off night with just two points and two rebounds, and Fajemisin got into foul trouble and played just nine minutes. Freshman forward Jito Kok had 10 points and four rebounds and sophomore forward John Sinis finished with 10 points as bright spots for USD.
Northridge made 22 of 27 free throws (81.5 percent) to the Toreros' 10-for-14 (71.4 percent) at the line. After starting the game making 56 percent of their shots from the field in the first half, the Toreros cooled off in the second half, finishing with 26 of 55 shots for 47.3 percent.
Cal State Northridge's sophomore guard Stephan Hicks led all scorers with 25 points. Sophomore forward Stephen Maxwell had 14 points, and junior Josh Green and freshman Tre Hale-Edmerson each had 11 points. Hale-Edmerson had a game-high 11 rebounds, including five on the offensive end.
Signing: Brett Bailey, a 6-foot-6, 205-pound wing from Spokane, Wash., signed a national letter of intent and scholarship agreement Thursday with USD. Bailey is in his senior year at University High in Spokane, Wash. As a junior he averaged 16.2 ppg and 6.5 rpg and led his school to the state tournament playoffs for the first time since 1985.


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Quenton Nelson never saw much need in dragging out the recruiting process should the right choice present itself.
Turns out the Rivals100 offensive tackle from Red Bank, N.J., came face to face with that option during a visit to Notre Dame earlier this spring. Nelson named the Irish his leader shortly thereafter and committed Wednesday, releasing the news via Twitter.
"Officially committed to Notre Dame," Nelson announced, later confirming it in a text message.
Nelson chose Notre Dame over finalists Boston College, Ohio State, Penn State and Rutgers. Other scholarship offers on the table included Alabama, Cal, Miami, Ole Miss, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, Stanford, Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Virginia Tech, among others.
Nelson is the ninth commitment for Notre Dame in the Class of 2014 and third on the offensive line. He joins four-star prospects Sam Mustipher and Jimmy Byrne in the position group.
Earlier this spring Nelson visited South Bend and scored an offer with the visit leaving such an impression the Irish emerged as a clear favorite.
"The campus there is awesome," Nelson told Irish Illustrated at the Rivals Camp Series presented by Under Armour in New Jersey last weekend. "They have the No. 1 business school, which I wanna major in business. And they have a very good offensive line coach that has been in the NFL, that has been everywhere, coach Hiestand."
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A couple that owned a mansion came home from church to find that their safe had been robbed. They gathered all of their hired services for questioning. The cook was questioned first and she said that she was busy preparing the Sunday dinner.
Next was the butler but he said that he was setting the table for the Sunday dinner. Then they questioned the maid and her excuse was that she had been cleaning the dining room along with the butler. So they moved on and asked the groundskeeper and he stated that after finishing the pruning he went out to get the mail. The couple, stumped by the reasonable alibis soon found that they had the answer. Who was it?
HintThe butler always does it.....but not in this case.
AnswerThe cook's alibi is reasonable because usually the Sunday dinner is eaten early and if you're a churchgoer then you should know that church lets out on Sunday about noon. The butler and maid are innocent because they mention working together in the same room yet they are questioned separately so they are truthful. If you know your stuff then you should know that the mail doesn't come on Sunday. The groundskeeper is guilty.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Don't tell the rest of the country, but people in the Pacific Northwest are feeling the heat.
While the South roasted under triple-digit temperatures, Portland residents sweated through their tank tops Tuesday, the city's hottest day so far this year at 98 degrees.
That may not sound like much to hot-weather warriors in Arizona, where it was a dry 108 degrees Tuesday.
But people in swimming holes on Oregon's Sandy River and on rocky beaches in Washington state had a message for their skeptical countrymen: If you turn up the heat, do we not burn?
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Clay Boggess was hoping for a shot at redemption.
After missing the front of end of a one-and-one in the final minute, and seeing Austin LBJ gain a one-point edge, the last thing the Alamo Heights senior guard wanted was for the Mules' season to end in heartbreak.
Boggess got his wish, nailing a 3-pointer with 10 seconds left to help the Mules to a 48-45 Class 4A area playoff victory Thursday night at Littleton Gym.
Alamo Heights advances to face Boerne Champion or Marble Falls in the third round Tuesday.
"I felt bad after I missed that free throw," Boggess said. "I could have at least put us up by three. We just kept at it.
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"Our goal since August was to play in March and that's what happened. Everyone played huge."
The way both teams battled, it appeared the contest would go down to the wire as neither Alamo Heights (31-4) or LBJ (22-6), which went into the playoffs as the top team in Region IV, could gain control.
Andrew King's defensive rebound set up Jeffery Rodewald's bucket for a 44-43 lead with 1:31 left. Rodewald was fouled on the play, but missed the free-throw attempt. Although the Jaguars worked the ball downcourt, Boggess came up with a steal and was fouled.
After his shot missed, LBJ sped downcourt with Robert Lee feeding to DeAndre Boyd for a layup and a 45-44 advantage with 35.9 seconds left.
Heights worked patiently for an open shot. When Brandon Garcia found Boggess open on the left side, he dished off the ball and the guard hit nothing but net for a 47-45 lead.
"I don't know, it worked," said Boggess, who hit three 3-point goals for nine points. "It just happened. Once I saw the ball going up, I knew it was going in. I can't explain it."
LBJ drove the paint for a game-tying bucket, but failed to connect. Shelby Lane, who led the Mules with 21 points, got the rebound and was immediately fouled.
He sank the second of two free throws with 1.5 seconds left, and LBJ's final attempt at a miracle shot didn't come close.
"This is big for us," Garcia said. "It proved to us we can compete with anyone."


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The Duke of Marlborough School Storm volleyball team traveled six days by van and plane to compete in the Manitoba Provincials Thursday. Going into the opening matches of the Manitoba High Schools Athletic Association boys A-level provincials, the tiny Churchill school had competed in only eight matches over two weekends all year. Getting to the zones cost the boys and their families a total of $2,300, but that's for 933 kilometres each way...1,866 kilometres round trip. See Nick Martin's story - http://wfp.to/churchill


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Fingerlab the makers of one of the best iOS drum machines the DM-1 has released Musyc. I love pretty object and physics based touch sequencers. Others include synthPond, Soundrop, Aura Flux, Reactable and SoundyThingie to name a few. Musyc is really slick and if you're into music at all a real joy! It's free with in app purchases.
"Musyc is a fun and innovative music application where touch turns into music. No use of piano keyboard or partitions, draw shapes and listen to your piece of music while viewing sounds bouncing on the screen." – fingerlab.net
For more info: fingerlab.net