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Here are NCAA Tournament resumes for two college basketball teams:
One had a No. 26 RPI, one win over teams in the RPI Top 25, seven wins over Top 75 and one loss below 100. Its best win was against No. 18, by two points. Its strength of schedule was 58th, its Sagarin rating 61st, its Pomeroy rating 69th.
The other had a No. 30 RPI, two wins over teams in the Top 25, eight wins over the Top 75 and no losses below 100. Its best win was against No. 2, by 21 points. Its strength of schedule was 19th, its Sagarin rating 31st, its Pomeroy rating 29th.
The resumes belong to the same school, of course: San Diego State, last year and this year.
You can make an argument, at least according to the way the selection committee evaluates teams, that the 2012-13 Aztecs have an equal or better body of wordk than their 2011-12 counterparts. Yet when their name is called Sunday afternoon as the 68-team bracket is unveiled – the watch party this year is closed to the public – they're likely to have a worse seed.
SDSU was a 6 last year.
This year? A 9? Maybe an 8?
The difference is there are no elite teams in college basketball this season and a bunch of merely good ones that will populate the 4th through 12th seeding lines – with the Aztecs expected to fall smack in the middle of that. According to The Bracket Project, which tracks close to 100 bracket projections, the Aztecs have an average seed of 8.52.
The 8-9 line brings advantages and disadvantages. You get a similar opponent, a team that also finished third or fourth in a respected conference, a team that has its flaws, a team that you don't look at and wince. It also means you almost never survive the first weekend of the tournament.
If you win, you get a No. 1 seed in a geographically-favorable venue – Louisville, say, in nearby Lexington, Kent, or Indiana just across the Ohio border in Dayton. A No. 1 seed has never lost its opener to a No. 16, and over the past 10 years No. 1s are 36-4 against the winner of the 8-9 game.
But before you get a crack at a No. 1, you have to win your opener. And for the 22-10 Aztecs, that may be less about their seed than their opponent.
If we learned anything at the Mountain West tournament, or over the last two seasons for that matter, it is that the Aztecs struggle against bigs. In nine games this season against teams that start a beefy post – Syracuse, USC, Arizona, Colorado State and New Mexico – the Aztecs went 3-5 with their starting front line of 6-foot-8 and 6-7. Against everyone else: 19-5.
SDSU coach Steve Fisher was asked Friday night about the prospects for Mountain West teams in the NCAA Tournament.
"I think a lot will have to do with the luck of the draw," Fisher said. "I think New Mexico, in particular, maybe Vegas and Colorado State, have the size that it won't matter who they play. I think we're better served when we play perimeter-driven teams."
A year ago, the No. 6 Aztecs drew No. 11 North Carolina State, which started two traditional posts and outscored them 38-18 on points in the paint en route to an easy 79-65 victory.
The Wolfpack is projected on the 8-9 line as well, and ESPN bracketologist Joe Lunardi even had them meeting SDSU again in a bracket posted Saturday afternoon. That is unlikely, though, since the selection committee traditionally has tried to avoid rematches from the regular season or from the previous tournament.
There are other teams floating around the 8-9 discussion that feature big posts: Oregon, North Carolina, Cincinnati. But there are some that are more guard-oriented: Illinois, Iowa State, Colorado, Memphis.
Or maybe the selection committee is enamored with the Aztecs' resume, takes into account the midseason injury to Xavier Thames, and bumps them to a 7 seed (as CBSsports.com bracketologist Jerry Palm has). Or maybe the convincing fashion that New Mexico and its double-post offense throttled them in Friday's Mountain West semifinals drops them to a 10.
"You got to get fortunate," Alford said of Selection Sunday. "We hope the matchups are good. Coach Fisher was talking about matchups last night. They're not a team that, I think, matches up right now well with big-big. It's why we present some problems."


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VIERA, Fla. (AP) — Rafael Soriano threw a scoreless inning of relief in his debut with Washington and the Nationals beat the Houston Astros 7-1 Tuesday.
Soriano signed a two-year, $28 million contract in January to become the Nationals new closer. The right-hander faced three batters in the seventh and struck out one.
Houston's J.D. Martinez reached base against Soriano, but pinch-runner Brandon Barnes was thrown out trying to steal.
Danny Espinosa had two hits and two RBIs for Washington. Chad Tracy also drove in two runs.
Dan Haren gave up a run in three innings in his second spring start.
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Fathers and Sons, Part 1
The cigar industry owes much of its creativity and longevity to the unique partnerships between father-and-son cigarmakers
Like many father-and-son teams, Julio and Christian Eiroa work together to bring their family's business to life. Thanks to their diligent efforts, their Camacho brand is a fixture in cigar shops across the United States. But it's not the smoothest business relationship. The Eiroas butt heads often. And the arguments go beyond differences of opinion on basic strategy—they don't even like the same cigars. "We disagree all the time," says Julio, Christian's 67-year-old father. He's sporting the type of world-weary gaze worn by exasperated fathers the world over, men who are often flummoxed by the ideas of their sons. Across the desk, Christian smiles, more than a hint of mischief gleaming in his dark eyes.
The relationship between fathers and sons is one of the cornerstones of the cigar industry. The art of crafting great cigars by hand, the secrets of coaxing the impurities out of tobacco and the magic of trying to understand the delicate workings of nature aren't things that can be learned from a textbook. Knowledge is handed down person-to-person, from master to apprentice, and very often the father is the master teaching the lessons he has learned and passing them on to his own blood, most often his son. It's a practice steeped in tradition.
Many of the world's best-known premium cigar brands have a father-son team behind them, including Arturo Fuente, Padrón, Ashton, Davidoff, Camacho, C.A.O., Te-Amo and Cuesta-Rey.
"This industry is divided into two: the big two companies, and the rest are families. And in 90 percent of those families, historically it has been fathers and sons," says Carlos Toraño, who makes Toraño cigars with his son, Charlie. "It is beautiful."
We've profiled many of the great father-and-son teams in the past, but for the first time we've decided to focus not so much on how they make their cigars or grow their tobacco, but how they interact with each other. How does a son handle the pressure of walking in the footsteps of a legend? How does a father pass on what he knows to his son? And how do the two of them work together, day in and day out, often bringing very different perspectives to the same business?
The cigar world is vast, and there were too many people to cover in one story, so we broke it into two parts. The second part will appear in the next issue.
Julio and Christian Eiroa aren't the first father-son team to disagree over how to run the family business. But the main players in Camacho Cigars Inc. and Tabacos Ranchos Jamastran are likely the only cigarmakers in the world rooting against their own products.
"We have a bet," says Christian, over the performance of two selections in the Camacho line. Julio likes the Camacho Select, a cigar made with a Cameroon wrapper that debuted in early May. His son's favorite is the more high-powered Camacho Corojo.
"In the first 12 months, whoever sells more, wins. That's the bet. Camacho Select versus Camacho Corojo," says Christian with a chuckle.
The two won't disclose the terms of the bet, but each is serious about the outcome. Pride is at stake. The elder Eiroa, who lives in Honduras and runs Camacho's tobacco growing and cigar-making operation, known as Tabacos Ranchos Jamastran, made the Camacho Select blend his way, kept the packaging Spartan and closed his ears to input from his son.
"When the old man first made a sample, I said, 'Dad'"—Christian makes a motion in the air, showing how his father cut him off. "He said, 'No. This is my baby.'"
The good-natured ribbing got a bit heated last Christmas. Julio left Miami angry and early, flying back to Honduras.
Julio is not apologetic about being at odds with his son on occasion. "I don't like full-bodied cigars," he says. "They're too strong for me. I always go for the cigar that you can smoke five or 10 cigars a day."
Julio is Camacho's patriarch, a 67-year-old with a stubborn personality honed by decades of doing things his own way. He used to own, a small plane, which he would fly around Honduras, but a crash in 1977 nearly ended his life. It robbed him of some of his freedom, leaving him partially paralyzed.
"When I got in the accident, I was by myself, and then everything went down. There was nobody to follow me," he says. Christian was only five years old. "I got out of tobacco for a few years. When I got back, I started hiring Cubans from Cuba. It was a disaster."
Upset with how others were running his operations, Julio eventually reduced the amount of tobacco he planted and took a greater role in the growing. He now says he is getting nearly the same yield from far fewer plants. And he continues to be a perfectionist when it comes to the quality of the leaf. "Two years ago, I burned $2 million worth of tobacco, bale by bale," says the elder Eiroa. He didn't like it, and wanted to rid himself of the temptation to turn it into cigars. Christian, 34, is stubborn in his own right. When he joined the family business in 1995, his father didn't want him buying tobacco from overseas, but he began buying it anyway, realizing it was the only way the company could grow. "I got lines of credit from the bank, and I just started buying tobacco. He didn't know what was going on," says Christian. "So there was always a difference in perception…there has always been a certain conflict."
Christian didn't want to work with his father. "Family businesses are always hard. It's never easy," he says. The situation proved too difficult for his older brother, Justo, who left the family business to work in the bottled-water industry. "They couldn't get along," says Christian. "Too many arguments."
Christian, a big, outspoken man with a sharp sense of humor, has the personality to match his father's confidence. "There are a lot of silent treatments before the launch of each brand," says Christian. Julio has been known to yank a product or change speed at the 11th hour, often spoiling Christian's distribution plans. He sometimes hides tobacco in Honduras, to throw Christian off when he visits.
"As competitive as our industry has become," says Christian, "speed to market is a big issue, and I think that causes a lot of our problems. He'll say it'll be ready in June, then I have to pull back the reins; everything has to come to a stop again. It drives me crazy."
Each Eiroa is confident he will win the bet. "My cigar is going to be selling 90 percent, and you're going to be 10 percent," says Julio.
Despite the good-natured ribbing, each sees the value of the other in the business. "He's a hell of a salesman," says Julio of his son. "We love the business, we work hard. But I tell him, he sells the first cigar, but then the cigar has to sell itself."
Christian tries to return the favor by describing his father's dedication to the craft of farming tobacco, sharing the story of how Julio was able to grow fine leaves on a patch of rocky, desolate soil that others had abandoned.
"There's this field, this patch of land we have on the farm that basically everybody had given up on. It's a…"
Julio cuts him off. "I always say," says Julio, "you need the climate, No. 1…" Christian smiles as his dad speaks. "Let me finish," he says with a grin.
The many brands that make up the C.A.O. International Inc. portfolio are named for founder Cano A. Ozgener, whose initials grace what has become one of the more familiar cigar brands in the world. Ozgener's son, Tim, is a major contributor to the company's identity, which revolves around hip marketing and a dedication to quality. The two work well together, in a convivial attitude of good humor and respect for the other's opinion, but it's a relationship that doesn't always follow the typical father-son dynamic.
"We have very different backgrounds," says the elder Ozgener, sitting at his luxurious new conference table in his recently renovated offices, which features a Zen garden used for reflection. "I am a mechanical engineer, he is an actor. He comes from an artistic background, I come from a scientific background. That's a very good mix." The 69-year-old smiles, looking like a man who is happy with his life and at ease with his surroundings, despite having recently undergone a stem-cell procedure to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which is now in remission. He is in high spirits.
Tim and his sister, Aylin (pronounced Eileen), started working with their father in a very humble way, helping out with his pipe business when he still worked full-time at DuPont. "My sister and I would come home from school, and [Dad] would say, 'Roll up your sleeves and dunk your hands in the Sweet and Clean,'" says Tim, 36, referring to a blue liquid Cano developed for cleaning pipes. Ozgener, always a pragmatist, found it much quicker to have his children dunk bottles directly into the solution rather than filling up each bottle from the tap at the bottom of the jar. The pipe business was the start of C.A.O., but it was an expansion into cigars that made the company boom. In the mid-1990s, when Tim was out in California trying to get his break in comedy, he needed a second job to pay the bills. "My dad said, 'Instead of waiting on tables, why don't you visit tobacconists?'" California was a major market, and Tim dropped in on shop owners to get feedback on the burgeoning C.A.O. cigar, at the time the company's only cigar brand.
"Back then we had a cigar that wasn't lighting the world on fire," says Tim of the Honduran smokes. "One box would be green, the other brown." As with many companies having cigars made under contract during the cigar boom, C.A.O. had consistency problems.
The Ozgeners built on that early cigar experience. "We don't come from a cigar background. We had to learn the hard way [and] we learned from the best," says Cano.
Key to their success was making themselves the face of their brands and turning their name into one that smokers recognized. "We stumbled into the family aspect for C.A.O.," says Cano. Chicago retailer Diana Silvius-Gits told them they should push the family angle, and the Ozgeners three now adorn the ads for C.A.O.
The ads are not typical. Devoid of factory or field shots, the only cigars shown are being smoked by the family members, and no one stands around tobacco bales. The Ozgeners are the focus, and they look hip. In one ad, Tim, who has a shaved dome and a grizzly goatee, is scowling over a C.A.O. that he is setting alight, his father smirking by his side, his 34-year-old sister decked out in Goth-style makeup. In another, the three are wearing leather jackets.
"I give a lot of credit to my son and daughter, who sometimes kick me in the shin to wake me up and take me in directions I wouldn't always go," says Cano.
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(CNN) -- There's the fantasy of family vacations: happy children playing games, contented parents, doting grandparents, smooth roads, short lines, easy-to-schedule bathroom breaks -- and all reasonably priced, sturdily educational and wonderfully fulfilling.
And then, there's the reality.
Those adorable kids? Fighting in the back seat. Mom is weary, dad upset. The car, loaded down with luggage, electronics, junk food, cheap paperbacks and undisposed trash, feels smaller than an '64 Beetle and smells like a rest-stop bathroom. The airport is an endless hassle. And vacations, to be enjoyed by the whole family, turn into maddeningly hellish experiences.
It was perhaps best captured in the 1983 movie "National Lampoon's Vacation," which follows the all-American Griswolds as they drive the family station wagon on a cross-country trip to visit the Walley World theme park.
At one point, Clark Griswold (played by Chevy Chase) faces a mutiny by his family, who urge an immediate end to the vacation. "What do you think?" the wife asks.
Clark mashes the brakes. "I think you're all f---ed in the head," he says, before declaring they will have fun whether they want to or not. "This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest, it's a quest for fun!"
How can you cope?
As we head into the summer travel season, here are some tricks of the trade.
Planning for children
Even on road trips to Kansas City, a three-hour drive from their Omaha, Nebraska, home, Aaron and Virginia Ripley use strategic planning to mitigate the suffering of their three kids.
"We always plan our leaving times around nap times," says Aaron, a stay-at-home dad who has a 6-year-old, 4-year-old and 22-month-old. "We time it so that we drive for an hour, and they conk out for the rest."
The Ripleys go to Kansas City often for Royals baseball games and to see friends, but they also like to venture farther afield, aspiring to visit all 50 states with their kids by the time they graduate high school.
And on those longer trips, they get even more strategic about maintaining their kids' normal routines.
Instead of staying at hotels, for instance, the Ripleys find a rental house or condo near their vacation destination. They rented on a recent beach trip to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, and plan to do the same for their fall visit to Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
"By avoiding hotels, we don't have to worry about going out to eat with the kids -- we can just stock up at the grocery store," says Aaron, 37. "The kids are able to keep their normal sleep routines because there are separate bedrooms."
Plus, the rental route saves the Ripleys cash. Rather than shelling out $200 a night on a hotel, like they did when it was just the two of them, the Ripleys have grown accustomed to paying around $1,000 for a week for a vacation rental. His wife finds and books the properties through VRBO.com.
Such habits suggest that the Ripleys have mastered what parenting experts say are keys to happy travel with young kids: advance planning and a recognition of children's limits.
"When traveling, you're really at the mercy of your child's pace," says Dana Points, editor-in-chief of Parents magazine. "You can't push them beyond what they can sustain. Adults can go a long time without getting rest or sleep. Kids can't."
Still, parents can help kids push their travel limits by packing plenty of snacks and games for long trips.
Points recommends surprising a child with a new toy on a long flight. "It's a distraction, pure and simple," she says. "People like shiny, new things."
At the same time, any extra baggage -- plus equipment and supplies such as strollers and diapers -- can add up pretty quickly, which is why many parents prefer to buy, borrow or rent as much gear as possible at their vacation destinations.
Or you can take a tip from the Ripleys' playbook and travel exclusively on Southwest Airlines, which doesn't charge passengers for extra bags.
If all that planning can seem overwhelming, Points says it's essential for traveling parents to maintain a sense of humor -- and to surrender some control. Flights will be delayed. Car tires will go flat.
"A lot of problems people associate with traveling with children is really more about the adults' anxiety," says Points, who has two sons, ages 7 and 9. "The kids aren't bothered by running around and screaming in a long security line at the airport. It's the adult that feels uncomfortable."
"You have to let go of thinking that everybody is judging you because you're not able to calm your kid," she says. "As long as everyone's safe, you're fine."
Dealing with teenagers
The spring of 2006 is when vacations "just got mindboggling bad" for Mary Treybig of Texas.
That's when her two sons, 13 and 15, drove her batty. They went for a weeklong skiing trip in Idaho. The summer before, they had a wonderful trip there. Yet this time, it was "no this, no that."
"It was endless. Everything was negative," she says. "They know how to make you miserable."
After that trip, she "wasn't going to take any more vacations with children who didn't want to go." She and her husband would plan trips; the kids would reject them. So, the couple hired a sitter and hit the road without their two sons.
It was cheaper and more enjoyable. Sans kids, she and her husband traveled to Grand Cayman, Belize and twice to Honduras over the next four years.
"We felt really guilty the first time we left them," she says. "Then, we realized, 'Wow, this is so much fun!' "
It was also a lesson for her children, she says, teaching them that actions have consequences.
For any parent going through this experience, Treybig says, there is a "light at the end of that tunnel." Her kids have matured and moved out of that phase. Last summer, they had a wonderful family vacation to Cozumel. They plan to return in a couple weeks.
"We're better now. We're having fun again."
Dr. Arthur Bodin, a past president of the Society for Family Psychology, a division of the American Psychological Association, says it's perfectly common for teens to not want to go on family vacations.
But he suggests four steps that can help:
-- Have a family conference in which everyone participates in planning where to go and what to do.
-- Have some sort of rotation on the vacation decision-making. Some of the time the parents decide, some of the time the kids decide (and within that option, there can be some turn-taking among the children).
-- Cater to the adults for part of the trip, and cater to the children's wishes for another portion of the vacation.
-- Allow each child to invite a friend along.
Still, there are no guarantees, Bodin says.
"The concern of some parents may be heightened by their feeling hurt or rejected by their children not wanting to be part of a family vacation. It may help the parents if they recognize in their children's reluctance an age-appropriate striving toward independence."
For most children, he says, "it's a natural phase that they go through."
"I don't want to imply that it's a disease if your children don't want to come with you," adds Bodin, a psychologist practicing in Palo Alto, California, and a senior research fellow at the Mental Research Institute there.
"For parents to fight it is like trying to hold back the tide. The four suggestions offered here are more like swimming with the tide."
Staying with family
Staying with family can be a big plus, says Kayt Sukel. You save money; you and your kids get to spend quality time with your parents, siblings and in-laws.
It can also be a hassle.
"There has been tension," admits Sukel, a Texas-based freelance writer and contributor to the family travel blog Travelsavvymom.com, of the times she's stayed with relatives while traveling.
When the single mother and her young son have stayed with her sister's family in New Jersey, minor disputes have erupted.
"You've got guests waking up in the morning while some kids are still in school, other kids aren't, and you're saying, 'Do we have any food?' " she laughs.
"She has a three-ring circus going on, which I think any modern family sort of does," she adds. "And inserting guests into that, especially guests who are going to be there for awhile -- I'm amazed she hasn't banned us from the house, because it would make her life a lot easier."
The key, she says, is communicating.
"You have to respect that you're a guest, but I think that you have to be clear that this is a trip with dual purposes -- yes we want to see you, but we're also going to do some of these other things, too," she says. "Communication is a big, big thing."
Indeed, communication is at the heart of any family lodging arrangement, says social psychologist Susan Newman, author of "Under One Roof Again: All Grown Up and (Re)learning to Live Together Happily." Both guest and host should be supportive of one another and not lapse into old roles.
"It's a good idea to talk," she says. "Bringing issues up (in advance) will help immensely. ... You really want to be aware of falling back into parent-child mode" or reliving old sibling rivalries.
"Many parents don't realize they're trying to take control -- it's a pattern from all the years of raising you."
Which doesn't mean that children should flout their parents' authority, she says. Children may have moved away from mom and dad's religious beliefs or changed their eating habits, but when under someone else's roof, they should be considerate of their host.
In the case of Suzette Mack, a San Jose, California-based travel adviser and blogger of Adventures for Families, that meant separate sleeping arrangements before she was married.
"My husband and I would go back and visit family members and we abided by the rules of the house," she says. "We just did it out of respect. It wasn't even a big controversy or anything."
Sometimes family doesn't give you a choice of where to stay, says Sukel, no matter how inconvenient. Indeed, in some cultures it's an insult to look elsewhere; in Germany, Sukel says, it would be unthinkable to stay at a hotel if family or friends are nearby.
Which brings up another piece of advice: Always have an exit strategy.
"Don't rely on other people for your freedom," she says. "You're saving a couple hundred bucks a night on a hotel room? That means get the rental car. Make sure you have your own way of getting around, because that's probably the biggest thing you'll end up fighting about -- and it's the last thing you want to deal with especially with cranky kids or cranky grandparents."
Above all, says Mack, be aware that you're a guest. Pitch in with chores. Include the entire crew on an outing. Buy a tank of gas. If your host turns you down -- you're family, after all -- find a quiet way of doing something nice.
"Think about how much of a burden it is for your host," Mack says.
Traveling with parents
Ilana Glazer is a 24-year-old writer and comedian with a thick New York accent and a habit of sprinkling curse words in every other sentence.
She's also a softie who made an important discovery about her parents when she decided to take a recent vacation with them.
"They're sick," she says jokingly. "They have a sick relationship. They are soooo happy together."
The single adult who is dragged off to vacations with the parents is a stock character in movies and short stories. While Glazer's parents won't allow her to play that part, many adults find themselves slipping back into the parent-child roles they had growing up, psychologist Newman said.
If ancient history rears up, Newman suggests reminding your parents that you've been living on your own for years and you're not the same person anymore. Focus on the positives about your parents and don't have unrealistic expectations for flawless family fun, she says.
Glazer says she doesn't feel awkward or bored when vacationing with her parents. She's inspired.
"They're like each other's first true love," she says.
Glazer's father, Larry, works in insurance and finance. Her mother, Sandi, works with him. Both met in 1976 when her father, then a skinny, bearded college undergrad with curly hair, was introduced to her mother.
When Glazer recently vacationed with her parents at their Long Island, New York, home, she realized she didn't just love them. She also liked them.
Not every family trip is chock full of positive feelings. Steer clear of hot topics or pleasantly say "let's not go there," if a tense subject comes up, Newman advises. And if money is an issue, offer to contribute what you can, she says.
Glazer says her relationship with her parents wasn't always so inspired. She was a tomboy teenager who was socially awkward and depressed.
She turned away from the warmth of her parents' relationship and absorbed her adolescent angst. Glazer says she never liked the idea that parents should be their children's buddies. She wasn't going to open up too much to her parents.
"I didn't want them to be my best friends," she says. "I wanted them to be my mom and dad. They're best at that."
Glazer's brother, Eliot, was so inspired by his parents that he recently wrote a book, "My Parents Were Awesome," based on a blog that he created.
Of course, even Ilene's interactions with her parents aren't all great. While on vacation, she has asked her parents for dating advice about men. Unfortunately for her, their experience with dysfunctional romantic relationships is limited.
She had to tell them something that few parents ever hear:
"You're both so perfect. You don't get it."
CNN's Dan Gilgoff, Wayne Drash, Todd Leopold and John Blake contributed to this article.


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Congress finally got its act together and ended the shutdown and avoided default -- at least for now.
The agreement is a temporary measure that delays the issue rather than fixes it. It's more like a fiscal Band-Aid, but it's better than nothing.
Republicans and Democrats have agreed to fund the government through Jan. 15 and to raise the debt ceiling until Feb. 7.
If lawmakers had allowed the federal government to default on its financial obligations, the economy, the housing market and mortgage borrowers would have taken a big hit, economists and housing advocates say.
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Paul Edelstein, director of financial economics at IHS Global Insight, had expected a rally in the stock market and a slight increase in long-term U.S. Treasury yields after lawmakers reached an agreement. Normally, higher yields result in higher mortgage rates.
But investors don't seem convinced that the federal government has its finances under control yet. U.S. stocks dropped this morning, and yields on the 10-year Treasury note dropped to 2.6 percent. It was about 2.67 on Wednesday.
WTFY? (Why the falling yields?)
"I'm not entirely sure why the bond market is reacting this way," Edelstein says. "Markets may be reacting to initial claims, which fell less than expected. Possibly, relief over the debt ceiling is giving way to the realization that another fiscal showdown is coming in a few months."
Edeslstein is referring to the number of claims for unemployment benefits filed last week, which was released by the Labor Department this morning. Claims fell 15,000 to a seasonally adjusted 358,000, less than economists had expected. The report is the first economic indicator released since the government reopened this morning.
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A series of other economic reports will soon be released, now that the government is functional again. Uncertainty about what these reports will say may be helping keep rates down for now, says Michael Becker, a mortgage banker for WCS Funding Group in Baltimore. Becker also had expected rates to rise after the deal.
"Rates are a lot better today," he says. "I didn't expect this."
This latest government agreement also puts pressure on the Federal Reserve to continue its bond-purchasing economic stimulus, which helps to keep a lid on mortgage rates.
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An inquest into the 1968 death of seven-year-old Linda Stilwell will be reconvened after the Victorian Court of Appeal ruled a certificate of immunity should have been offered to the suspect killer, Derek Percy, to give evidence.
Linda disappeared on August 10, 1968. She was last seen near Luna park in Beaconsfield Parade, St Kilda. Her body has never been found.
At the insistence of Linda's mother, Jean Priest, an inquest began into her death in December 2009.
During the inquest, Mrs Priest sought to rely on numerous statements from police, a forensic pathologist and a psychologist which her lawyers argued tended to demonstrate that child-killer Derek Percy was responsible for her daughter's death.
The statements related to the death of a child whose murder Percy had been acquitted of by reason of insanity, and to the abduction, mutilation and deaths of several other children.
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Percy was called to give evidence at the inquest but he objected on the grounds his evidence might incriminate him.
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It also held that the Coroner was obliged to take into account the most recent medical evidence relevant to the issue of the reliability of Percy's short-term and long-term memory.
In addition, the Court of Appeal held that the coroner was obliged to inform Percy that if he gave evidence willingly he would be given a certificate of immunity and the effect of such a certificate.
The judges directed that the inquest be reconvened and conducted according to law.
Percy, who is Victoria's longest-serving prisoner, is in jail indefinitely for the mutilation killing of Yvonne Tuohy and he is suspected of involvement in up to seven other child murders including Australia's most high-profile cold case, the Beaumont children.
The three siblings, Jane, 9, Arnna, 7 and their brother Grant, 4, disappeared from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia on Australia Day, 1966.
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WASHINGTON -- Now that he's two homers away from 500, Albert Pujols' family will be in New York for the three-game weekend series against the Yankees. But the Angels' first baseman still has three games at Nationals Park, so Pujols' wife, Deidre, told him that if he hits No. 499, they're immediately boarding a flight for Washington, D.C.
"I told her, 'The way I'm hitting, you better get on a jet,'" Pujols joked before Monday's series opener against the Nationals, mainly tongue-in-cheek because he's simply not comfortable talking about his pursuit of 500 homers.
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"There's been [almost 18,000 people] to play this game, and I'd be the 26th [to hit 500 homers]," Pujols said. "I'd have to be an idiot, or stupid, not to appreciate that. I do appreciate that. I don't want people to think, 'Oh, he doesn't care about it.' It's just that when I'm in the season, I don't want to get caught up in it. I don't know, man. The moment's going to determine everything."
Hitting it in New York would have special meaning to Pujols, simply because of all the history in the Bronx. But Nationals Park was where he reached another milestone, when he became the third-youngest player to reach 400 homers, on Aug. 26, 2010.
Cardinals skipper and ex-teammate Mike Matheny recently said Pujols "doesn't allow himself to enjoy much in the game, because he's always pushing."
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DALLAS - Dick Davis, a veteran conservation journalist who spent the last five years as Director of the Texas - Oklahoma Region for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, has been named executive director of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation, effective June 1.
Davis and a current staff of three based in Dallas, will lead efforts to provide private support for the work of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, for which the foundation is the official non-profit partner.
"We're delighted that Dick has come on board," said Pat Oles, Chairman of the TPWF board. "We've been very impressed with his record over many years of conservation efforts and in non-profit work. "We think that he'll be a great fit for our foundation and will be a great leader in helping us achieve our potential."
Davis began his journalistic work on behalf of conservation when still a high school student in Duncanville by writing articles for the Dallas Morning News outdoor page. He later served as sports writer-photographer for the Waco Tribune-Herald, where an article about his personal tryout with the Dallas Cowboys was named "Best Feature Story" by the Texas Sports Writers' Association. In 1975 he began to publish in such magazines as Outdoor Life, Gray's Sporting Journal, Southern Outdoors and Game & Fish Publications.
His award-winning series, "Outdoor Magazine," first appeared on 150 public television stations, then later on cable. It was three times named "Best Television Production" by the Outdoor Writers' Association of America. The series also won the Theodore Roosevelt Award for Conservation from the National Outdoor-Travel Film Festival.
While living in Louisiana serving as Outdoor Editor for a major daily newspaper, his articles won Best News Story, Feature and Column by the Louisiana Press Association. He also helped found the Louisiana Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation. And, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge.
"Everything I've done in my career, from writing about natural resource management for newspapers and magazines to producing television programs to working for other non-profit organizations, has prepared me for this job," Davis said. "The people who work for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department have always been among my heroes. Now to be able to assist them and the department in accomplishing their conservation goals on behalf of the people of Texas is both an honor and dream come true."
During his five years with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, he helped increase the number of grants to Texas organizations from about 8 to about 30 annually and the average federal and private investment rose from $300,000 to $1.5 million a year. He also established the Texas Legends Award recognizing individuals for life-long conservation accomplishments. Recipients have been Tobin Armstrong, Karen & Tim Hixon and Dick Bartlett, all supporters of the TPWF.
"The Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation has a rich history, from the outstanding conservationists who have served on its board to the hundreds of supporters who have contributed to its many efforts and special projects," said Davis. "One of my short-term goals will be to visit with as many of those folks as soon as possible to enlist their continuing support, engage them again in our work and to invite and incorporate their suggestions on how to make the foundation stronger in the future.
"At the same time, we will reach out to new people who may have never supported ours or any other conservation organization, invite them to join our team and help ensure the permanent protection and management of Texas' unique natural resources."
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Maranotha, Maranotha..... The lord is coming the lord is coming!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, I am not even going to pretend to be reasonable, rationale or even sane.
I have waited for this day for 5 fuc@ing years. I can't even begin to tell you how I feel. I feel like I have been led from the wilderness & the weight of the world has been lifted from my shoulders.
I keep waiting for this to fall apart, but it's to late, I'm done I'm in full fan boy mode. If this would fall apart now I have no idea what I would do.
Rejoice my Pacers brothern we are now back in the title hunt. That's right I said it, the title hunt.
Detroit no longer scares me. Shaq still scares me, but not as much. Everybody else just became an after thought.
That doesn't mean I am discounting either Miami or Detroit but we now have a player to put on one of the Wallace's. Before today we did NOT.
The wrongs of the world have been righted.
Jermaine O'Neal just became a better player. That should scare every team in the east.
Reggie will go out with the man who helped take him farther than he's ever been & he now has that chance to go out again maybe even on top.
I said I would no longer criticize Reggie at all because he is retireing.
Donnie Walsh just got a free pass for the rest of this year & maybe even next season.
This took a big man to put what Dale did behind him, but I am happy to say that Donnie did it.
Thank you Donnie Walsh, you have no idea how happy you have made one fan.
I could die happy tonight.
It was always a dream of mine that Dale would come home to retire. At best I thought we might get him to come back next season, but to have him come home now & let Reggie go out with him is more than I could have ever dreamed of.
I apologize to anybody reading this because it's not normally my style to proclaim Pacers greatness, but for tonight I cannot help myself.
As of now I no longer care about Brad Miller. Still was a mistake of a trade, but who cares now that the Franchise (that's what Reggie calls him) has come home.
I officially, for the moment, don't even care about Artest anymore. I would welcome him back & think that he would benefit greatly by playing next to a real true Warrior.
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Nearly a decade after the neighbors started complaining, piles of junk were removed from a home on North Bush Street Thursday morning to the delight of several bystanders.
"It is so exciting," said Lauren McPhaul, standing across the street from Danny Jacques' home in the 1300 block of N. Bush Street with Joy Beeler. "I'll bet the neighbors are thrilled."
McPhaul said she lived a few blocks from Jacques' home and has been bothered by the "eyesore" for years, telling visitors to use to Empire Drive to get to her house so they wouldn't drive by the collection.
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For several years, Taylor said his department wrote letters to Jacques about his property, but it wasn't until earlier this year when an ordinance allowing the city to clean up such properties was adopted that he gained traction.
In August, Taylor served Jacques notice that his property was violating city codes because the build-up of items in his yards was visible to his neighbors and was attracting rodents, among other issues, and needed to be abated.
As allowed in the ordinance, Jacques filed an appeal and was granted a hearing in September before the Hearing Examiner, who declared the property a nuisance and allowed the abatement to continue.
Since then, Taylor said Jacques has been cleaning up the property himself, getting a dumpster and a U-Haul truck for his items.
"He asked for more time and I gave him a couple of extra weeks," Taylor said, explaining that Jacques' work made a two-hour job out of what he was expecting to take all day. "He's been very cooperative. He's been a trooper."
Jacques was equally complimentary of Taylor, but said he was "very frustrated by the process" that culminated with several C&S Waste Solutions employees at his house filling up two dumpsters -- one with wood waste and one with scraps of metal and other materials.
"I'm a great neighbor," he said, explaining that he was always willing to help people and he felt his neighbors had trespassed on and vandalized his property over the years by either trying to get rid of stuff or purposely throwing soccer balls through his fence.
Jacques said he ran a business out of his home providing various services, including selling items at flea markets, and that most of the items in his yards were either tools, equipment or things he was going to sell.
"Some of it was decorations," he said, explaining that not everyone has the same taste when it comes to items displayed outdoors.
He went on to say he did not believe the city's actions were "constitutional," describing them as an "invasion of privacy" and "an abuse of power" because his next-door neighbors are related to a UPD officer.
Since Jacques did not feel most of the stuff outside his home was junk, Taylor said the crew was allowing him to cull through it before it was tossed, and Jacques also filled a large truck with items he said he was taken to a storage unit.
David Guzman's parents have lived next-door to Jacques for 25 years and keep a well-manicured front lawn with a row of tall rose bushes along the fence they share with him. Guzman said he built the fence "so I didn't have to see all the junk he has" and he and his brother have offered to help clean up Jacques' property and landscape it over the years.
"We said we wouldn't charge him, but he said the water (for the upkeep) would be too expensive," Guzman said.
Guzman said they are not the only people who were unhappy with Jacques' house, as he distributed a petition a few years ago that included "50 signatures from the neighbors."
Taylor said he could not use city crews for the clean-up and would likely be charged about $2,000 to $3,000 for the day. The bill will be given to Jacques.
"The city doesn't want to do this -- we want to let people voluntarily comply," said Taylor, explaining that he also noticed a property on Betty Street but the residents cleaned it up themselves.
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A man who is accused of raping a girl aged under twice has been released on bail by a judge.
Kevin Poole, 49, is said to have committed the sex offences on a child under 16 between 2002 and late 2005.
No charges were formally put to Poole and he did not enter any pleas during the brief hearing at Swindon Crown Court on Friday.
Judge Douglas Field adjourned the case to Friday, May 9, and released Poole, of Ramsbury Walk, Trowbridge, on conditional bail.
He told him he must not have contact with anyone under 16, save for two named boys, and must not contact witnesses or go to a specific address in the town.


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Kirsten Scott and Brandon Albright Lead GREASE at Music Circus, Now thru 7/1
Grease, the satirical Broadway hit that launched the movie musical sensation starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, will be at Wells Fargo Pavilion from tonight, June 26 – July 1. With book, music and lyrics by Jim Jacobs and WarRen Casey, Grease will get the 2012 Music Circus season off to a singing, dancing, high energy start.
Playing Sandy in this Music Circus production will be Kirsten Scott, who has appeared on Broadway in the recent revival of Follies and Hairspray. Danny will be played by Brandon Albright, who starred in the recent production of The Buddy Holly Story, directed by Glenn Casale. Playing Betty Rizzo will be 2009 Laurence Olivier Award-winner Lesli Margherita, who was last at Music Circus in the 2010 production of Spamalot. Playing Kenickie will be Michael D. Jablonski, whose Broadway and touring credits include Book of Mormon, West Side Story and Saturday Night Fever. Robert J. Townsend, who will play Vince Fontaine/Teen Angel, has appeared in the touring productions of Mamma Mia!, Camelot and Grease. Beth Malone, who starred in the 2011 Music Circus production of Annie Get Your Gun, and originated the role of June Carter Cash in the Broadway production of Ring of Fire, will play Marty. Playing Sonny LaTierri will be Joe Abraham, whose Broadway credits include The Little Mermaid and Hairspray.
Melissa WolfKlain, who starred in California Musical Theatre productions of Suds, A Grand Night for Singing and Forbidden Broadway at the Cosmopolitan Cabaret, will play Jan. Keven Quillon, who performed in Shrek the Musical and Grease, both on Broadway and on tour, will play Roger. Frenchy will be played by Melissa Fahn, whose credits include Wicked on Broadway and on tour, as well as the 2011 Music Circus production of Anything Goes. John Pinto Jr., who will play Doody, was in The Lincoln Center national tour of South Pacific. Jill Townsend, who performed in the 2011 Music Circus production of Annie Get Your Gun, will play Patty Simcox. Eugene Florczyk will be played by Jeff Skowron, whose Broadway credits include The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and High Society. Cynthia Ferrer, whose Music Circus credits include the 2011 production of Oliver! and the 2010 production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, will play Miss Lynch. Cha-Cha DiGregorio will be played by Dana Solimando, whose Broadway credits include Swing!, Peter Pan and Cats.
Grease opened on Broadway in 1972 and ran for more than eight years. Stage and screen star Adrienne Barbeau, who will star in the Music Circus production of Fiddler on the Roof later this season, originated the role of Rizzo in that production, which was nominated for seven Tony Awards. There were two Broadway revivals of Grease, in 1994 and 2007. This will be the fifth Music Circus production of the show, with the last one in the 2005 season.
In this nostalgic trip to Rydell High in 1959, when school starts in the fall, Sandy is shocked that her summer love Danny would rather hang out with his greaser friends, the Burger Palace Boys, than with her. From slumber parties to sock hops and through hit songs like "Summer Nights," Greased Lightnin'," and "You're the One That I Want," Grease is a Music Circus audience favorite.
Music Circus productions are presented at the Wells Fargo Pavilion, 1419 H Street in Sacramento. Performances are Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday at 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m., and Thursday and Saturday at 2 p.m. Tickets start at $30. Tickets are available by phone at (916) 557-1999, online at www.tickets.com, or in person at the Wells Fargo Pavilion Box Office.
The 62nd Music Circus season continues with Disney's The Little Mermaid (July 10–22), The Music Man (July 31 – August 5), Fiddler on the Roof (August 14 – 19), and Crazy for You (August 28 – September 2). For more information, visit www.SacramentoMusicCircus.com.


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On May 15, the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission voted to grant a protest, lodged by a branch of the federal Department of Energy, that questions whether New Mexico Gas Company is adequately prepared for another weather event like last winter's deep freeze—and whether it could have prevented the major service interruptions that devastated much of the state last year.
In its protest, the DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration lambasts NMGC's newest plan for meeting New Mexico's gas needs over the next four years. NNSA is involved because the Feb. 3, 2011 gas curtailment left Kirtland Air Force Base without service for four hours, costing the federal government $8 million and shutting down "critical facilities." But according to NNSA, NMGC's new Integrated Resource Plan "glosses over" the gas outage—which affected approximately 28,000 customers statewide, some for up to five days—and doesn't offer a plan for preventing a similar future incident.
According to NNSA, the gas company could prevent another crisis by adding compressors that would inject more gas into the lines in case of emergency. NMGC didn't examine this possibility in its plan, and instead cited three other improvements it could make, but without specifics about how it would implement them. And NNSA argues that those improvements are not cost-effective for a company of NMGC's size.
Even more damning is NNSA's assertion that if the gas company had already invested in the extra compressors before February 2011, the crisis wouldn't have happened. NNSA cites PRC testimony given in April 2011 by consultant Robert Winfield, who said that more compressors would have enabled NMGC to provide continuous service during the freeze.
NMGC's new resource plan has another problem: It doesn't state any intention to adjust contracts with out-of-state gas companies, which would allow them to provide more gas to New Mexico in case of an emergency.
Jason Marks was one of three PRC commissioners who voted to grant the protest. But Dist. 3 PRC Commissioner candidate Virginia Vigil (also the outgoing chairwoman of the Santa Fe County Commission) says the PRC should have more carefully vetted NMGC's resource plan the first time around. In an email, Vigil tells SFR that the resource plan "falls short of any beneficial purpose to the citizens of New Mexico."
Although Marks argues that the PRC is only supposed to resolve differences between utility companies such as NMGC and stakeholders such as NNSA, he grants that Vigil may be correct that the compressor issue deserved closer scrutiny. He says the compressor issue is a "significant loose end" lingering from the investigation of the gas curtailment that may have been overlooked because "all the parties and commissioners were anxious to wrap up after the somewhat lengthy hearing process" last year. Marks also says it's strange that NMGC never cross-examined Winfield on his compressor assertions.
NMGC spokeswoman Monica Hussey refutes Winfield's assertions, saying the gas simply wasn't available from the contracted providers, and more compressors wouldn't have changed that. Hussey says NMGC has fully addressed the compressor issue in response to previous requests from the PRC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and other bodies, and didn't do so in the resource plan because it isn't required to under state statute.
Marks does, however, say that NNSA should have proactively addressed the compressor issue while NMGC was still developing its resource plan. Even now, Marks says he hopes the gas company and NNSA's meeting in the next 30 days will help them resolve their differences.
Meanwhile, Vigil and one of her rivals, Dist. 3 PRC Commissioner candidate Danny Maki, both say they would vote in NNSA's favor.
Maki says NMGC's assertion that the freeze was an unforeseen situation is no excuse.
"New Mexico Gas [Company] did not explain exactly how they're going to handle another problem, if we come to it, with a gas outage," Maki says. "They just brushed by it, like NNSA said."
Vigil, who also would support holding a protest hearing, says NNSA's filing makes another valuable point about what's at stake if NMGC can't promise New Mexicans continuous service.
"The protest filed by the [NNSA] highlights the potential national security issue that lack of appropriate backup service can create," Vigil says.
But NMGC is resisting. A protest hearing, Hussey writes SFR in an email, is "redundant" given the other investigations of the gas curtailment done already, though she says the company will cooperate with the PRC's decision.
The compressor issue came up less than three weeks after the gas curtailment—US Rep. Steve Pearce, R-NM, said at a Feb. 21, 2011 congressional hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resource that "supply could have remained steady" with more compression stations—and New Mexicans still don't have an impartial determination on whether that's true. Most parties besides NMGC itself seem to agree that needs to change.


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The Henry County Genealogical Society (HCGS) in Kewanee, Illinois, was organized in 1983 with the purpose collecting and distributing information to its members. An individual membership is $20/year and members receive Genie, the Society's quarterly publication.
Regular meetings of the Society are held the fourth Monday of each month at 1:30 PM in the Kewanee Public Library upper level. Members of the public are invited to attend all meetings. Upcoming programs can be found on their website.
HCGS's reference collection is housed at the Kewanee Public Library, lower level, located at 102 S. Tremont Street, Kewanee. Their collection includes local history books, genealogies, cemetery records, and marriage records.
One of the most popular references is an index created by Chris Ratliff that contains many facts of one large funeral home in Kewanee. The funeral home records contain much information about persons that might have died elsewhere and an obituary may not be found in the local paper.
The Society recently purchased microfilm of the Cambridge Newspaper dating back to the late 1850s. In addition, the HCGS collection includes records of Tumbleson and Schueneman Funeral Home, as well as original copies of records for several churches. A listing of their holdings can be found on their website.
The HCGS website has a few resources and indexes that may be helpful in your research, including the following:
- Civil War Obituaries
- Star Courier Obituaries
- Hillcrest Burial Site
- 1875 Township Maps
- Pioneer Families
The Society does accept research requests for a fee.
In addition, the Society has published several books including indexes for county birth, marriages, deaths, and probate. A complete list of publications can be found on their website.
For additional information about Henry County Genealogical Society, visit their website.


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MASTERPIECES recreated using an artist's beloved cat which have become an internet sensation are having their first UK unveiling this weekend in Abingdon.
Russian artist Svetlana Petrova is exhibiting her show Russian Extremes – from Icons to Icats at Stonehill Barn, Drayton.
Svetlana Petrova.
Gallery owner Anthea Norman-Taylor has known the multi-media artist for more than 10 years and invited her to exhibit.
Ms Petrova began her feline project in 2011 as a way of fulfilling her mother's dying wish to look after Zarathustra the cat.
She told the Oxford Mail: "She told me to look after her kitten and I thought this is the best way I could take care of it – by making it famous."
Her website, Fat Cat Art, described itself as "famous paintings improved by cats".
Diego Velazquez's Venus At Her Mirror.
By digitally infusing the animal into paintings by Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Leonardo da Vinci, Zarathustra shot to fame on the web.
A recreation of Diego Velazquez's Venus At Her Mirror created by Svetlana Petrova.
She said: "This is a new kind of art – internet art – and it gives way to new interpretations of the paintings."
The show will include six paintings that have not been online.
The exhibition begins tomorrow and runs until June 5.
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I decided to sleep in an extra two hours today, because it's Saturday and I didn't really want the post long run hunger to kick in while at my son's soccer game. By sleeping in I was able to run, eat a nice breakfast, and then go to soccer. Oh yeah, I also got to sleep in.
Today's plan was to go for 10 miles at around a 9:15 pace. I'm really not good at running slow so it usually ends up with me just putting out a little less effort and focusing on my form and then just taking what slowness there is. The first mile had me feeling like the tin man again. I felt really tired and labored. The pace was faster than I wanted but as rough as it felt I knew that if I tried to slow down I'd end up with horrible form.
The next three miles still had me feeling off but the pace kept dropping. I guess my body just gets used to a feeling and wants to keep going. By the 5th mile split (8:40) I knew I was finally starting to slow down and things would eventually work themselves out. The next three miles were slower than the first. I was finally reaching the slower pace, although not as slow as I wanted, and was starting to feel better.
Miles 9 and 10 were again a little faster, which confirmed that my body was finally starting to loosen up and feel better. I decided since I was feeling better, just a little tired, that I would add an extra loop to make the day's run 11 miles. Without upping the effort my last mile was the fastest mile. It was also the most relaxed mile. I probably could have gone a couple more miles but I was getting tired and didn't want to push my luck.
I hope everyone has a good run today.


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Trent Richardson said Brandon Weeden had trouble reading defenses last year as a rookie quarterback with the Browns, according to Steve Wyche of NFL Network.
The Browns' second-year running back made the remarks off-camera Tuesday morning before being interviewed on NFL AM at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis, Wyche told his co-host, Mark Kriegel.
Richardson was picked third overall and Weeden 22nd in the 2012 draft. Both started 15 games and both missed the final game with injuries.
"He said as a rookie (Weeden) really had trouble reading defenses from time to time and they really had to skew their offense a little bit, sometimes somewhat predictable," Wyche said. "(Richardson) thinks things are going to open up a little bit, but he really does like Brandon Weeden."
Browns head coach Rob Chudzinski met Friday in Indianapolis with reporters covering the Browns and CEO Joe Banner met with them Saturday. Both talked about wanting to see what kind of work ethic Weeden has. Chudzinski was the Panthers' offensive coordinator last season; Banner moved in as Browns CEO midway through 2012.
"I don't have any idea (why Chudzinski and Banner would question his work ethic)," Weeden said Monday during the Cleveland Auto Show at the I-X Center. "I worked tirelessly every single night, late throughout the night, week in and week out, so I'm not sure really where they're going. I don't know the context of the question. If they said there was something there, but I worked my tail off last year. I busted my butt every single night and tried to get ready to play on Sundays."
Banner was pressed Saturday on whether there was an issue about how hard Weeden worked last year.
"My impression was that he took coaching well," he said. "So, I'm hoping that will be a positive thing."
Richardson was supportive on camera and predicted Weeden will be the Browns starter in 2013.
"I think he'll be my quarterback," Richardson said. "We can't put too much on Brandon, especially as a rookie. We want to make sure he believes, he knows, he's going to be our quarterback. When it comes to stuff like that, we've just all got to be behind him."
Chudzinski told Richardson he wants him to lead the Browns next season, Richardson said during the interview. Richardson sounded eager to take on the role and play for offensive coordinator Norv Turner.
"(Chudzinski) is telling me he's going to put a big bunch on my back, and he expects me to run on with it," Richardson said. "I told him, 'Coach, I'm going to be in the best shape you know I can be and if you want me to be a leader this year, I'll be a team captain, a leader, whatever it takes to be that guy."
Richardson said he had an "OK" rookie season. He rushed for 950 yards and 11 touchdowns. He finished second on the team with 51 catches -- two behind team leader Greg Little -- for 367 yards.
"For most people, they say I had a great season, but I think it was OK," he said. "I probably say it was a C-plus, something like that. But for me man, I expect more than that. I had 950 rushing, but I did have like 450 in receiving. It's different when it comes to receiving and you lead the team in receptions and stuff like that. When you're doing a lot and from playing with broken ribs and having knee surgery before the season, it's big."
Richardson underwent arthroscopic knee surgery Aug. 9 and missed the entire preseason. He suffered two broken ribs in the sixth game and continued playing.
"The time I was getting healthy, I break a rib and that kind of damaged my mind a little bit," he said. "I was like, man, 'I'm just now getting back right and getting my balance on and being able to cut right and stuff like because my first week back (after the knee surgery), I started running Wednesday or Thursday and played on Sunday."
Richardson could not be reached for comment.


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