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To understand the real nature of the allegations made against South Bay city manager Corey Alston, you need to visit that town on the southern edge of Lake Okeechobee.
I did that last week for a report on a criminal grand theft charge filed by the Palm Beach State Attorney's Office against Alston which accuses him of stealing $25,000 from the city by inflating sick and vacation leave. Alston lives in Broward County and is well-known here, where he serves as president of the Democratic Black Caucus and runs a charter school in downtown Fort Lauderdale called the Urban Academy. He once ran for State Senate and his brother Torey is the "chief of staff" for Broward County Commissioner Barbara Sharief. Both Corey and Torey are former student members of the Broward County School Board and Torey lost his race for the seat in November to Rosalind Osgood.
The brothers have seen some public controversy before, but the criminal charge against Corey Alston, 35, still shocked folks both in Broward and South Bay. The town of about 4,500 is as poverty-stricken as any you will ever see. The median household income there is about $23,000, less than half of the national average. The population is two-thirds black, 20 percent Hispanic, and about 12 percent white. About half the children in the town live in poverty.
Those are the dismal statistics, but as one upset resident told me, to grasp the sorry state of affairs in South Bay, you have to drive the neighborhood roads. I've never seen such pathetic city streets and it's not just potholes -- it's long gullies and slopes, a lack of any kind of uniformity of width, stretches that look as if the concrete was poured over the ground in the crudest fashion.
It's startling to see. Residents say they've been shortchanged for decades by their government and there's plenty of evidence in plain sight that they're right. Now South Bay has little government to speak of -- along with the suspension of city manager Alston, three commissioners, including the mayor and vice mayor, have also been suspended for allegedly violating the Sunshine Law when they agreed to allow Alston's illegal payout in secretive talks. That leaves just two commissioners.
"We don't have a government," said former Commissioner Willie Marshall.
What makes the Alston's actions so despicable, if the charge is true, is that he has taken advantage of those with so very little. But Marshall told me that it's not just the allegation of stolen money that has him upset, but that he noticed Alston was rarely at work to earn his $105,000 annual salary.
"I would never have approved that salary," said Marshall. "Corey's not there … we need somebody who is going to be in the city of South Bay."
One of those two remaining commissioners in South Bay, Joe Kyles, said he's been complaining for months that Alston is rarely in the city to earn his salary. He lists his address in Lauderhill, more than an hour's drive from city hall. But when I went to that address to try to speak with Alston, the woman who owns the house said she doesn't know anyone named Corey Alston. And she said she's been living in the house for five years.
Soon after the video above aired, I heard from others who had dealings with Alston. The ensuing report will come to the blog soon.


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CHICAGO -- Lyle Overbay has seen his playing time decrease as the first-base platoon swings more toward Mark Reynolds, but doesn't plan to make a stink about it.
"I told [manager Ron Roenicke] from the beginning, I'll be ready whenever," Overbay said. "We're winning. I know I don't have anything else to prove; I just want to win a World Series."
Overbay has been effective as a pinch-hitter, batting .412 in that role entering Monday's series opener at Wrigley Field, but was limited to three at-bats during the Brewers' recent six-game homestand. He's been limited to 27 plate appearances since the All-Star break.
Reynolds entered Monday with 61 plate appearances since the break, and with his solo homer in the second inning, sealed his seventh consecutive season of 20-plus home runs.
"We envisioned coming into the season that [Reynolds] would get most of the [playing time], but I did leave it open to who was swinging better and try to get them in," Roenicke said. "Lyle was swinging better for a while, and I played him more. But it's been both matchups, plus [Reynolds] is outstanding defensively, which makes it easier.
"We put a bunch of guys [at first base] last year that never even played the position, and we suffered for it defensively. This year we're saving runs at that position. I think it's really important to have a good defensive first baseman. I think what it does to your pitching staff, to your infielders, giving them confidence -- it's really important. Usually, your big basher goes to first because he can't play somewhere else. I don't agree with that."
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MS-275 and GM-CSF in Treating Patients With Myelodysplastic Syndrome and/or Relapsed or Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia or Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
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|Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Remission Adult Acute Megakaryoblastic Leukemia (M7) Adult Acute Minimally Differentiated Myeloid Leukemia (M0) Adult Acute Monoblastic Leukemia (M5a) Adult Acute Monocytic Leukemia (M5b) Adult Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia With Maturation (M2) Adult Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia Without Maturation (M1) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With 11q23 (MLL) Abnormalities Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Inv(16)(p13;q22) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(16;16)(p13;q22) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(8;21)(q22;q22) Adult Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia (M4) Adult Erythroleukemia (M6a) Adult Pure Erythroid Leukemia (M6b) Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia de Novo Myelodysplastic Syndromes Myelodysplastic/Myeloproliferative Neoplasm, Unclassifiable Previously Treated Myelodysplastic Syndromes Recurrent Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Recurrent Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia Refractory Anemia Refractory Anemia With Excess Blasts Refractory Anemia With Ringed Sideroblasts Refractory Cytopenia With Multilineage Dysplasia Secondary Acute Myeloid Leukemia Secondary Myelodysplastic Syndromes Untreated Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Untreated Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia
|Drug: entinostat Drug: sargramostim
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase II Study of and Oral Histone Deacytylase Inhibitor, MS-275 (NSC 706995), in Combination With Sargramostim (GM-CSF, Berlex, Inc.) Treating Relapsed and Refractory Myeloid Malignancies
- Response (Complete and Partial Response) in Patients With Myeloid Disorders [ Time Frame: Up to 2 years ]Response to treatment was assessed after two cycles, according to International Working Group (IWG) criteria. Cytogenetic responses were monitored in patients with abnormalities at baseline.
- Clinical Activity Assessed by Change in Peripheral Blood Counts [ Time Frame: Baseline and after 2 cycles ]
- Clinical Activity Assessed by Change in Transfusion Requirements [ Time Frame: Baseline and after 2 cycles ]
- Changes in Detectable Chromosomal Abnormalities Measured by Fluorescent in Situ Hybridization (FISH) [ Time Frame: Baseline and 6, 12, 24, and 36 weeks ]
- Change in the Percentage of Cells With Normal and Abnormal Myeloid Phenotype Measured by Flow Cytometry [ Time Frame: Baseline and 6, 12, 24, and 36 weeks ]
|Study Start Date:
|April 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|March 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|March 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Arm I
Patients receive oral MS-275 on days 1, 8, 15, and 22. Patients also receive sargramostim (GM-CSF) subcutaneously once daily on days 1-42 in courses 3 and 5 and on days 1-35 in courses 1, 2, 4, and 6. Treatment repeats every 6 weeks for 2-6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. After completion of 2 courses of study therapy, patients who achieve a complete or partial response may receive an additional 4 courses. Patients who maintain stable disease for more than 2 months after completion of 6 courses of study therapy may receive an additional 6 courses at the time of disease progression, provided they meet original eligibility criteria.
Drug: entinostat
Given PO
Other Names:Drug: sargramostim
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Detailed Description:
I. Determine clinical response in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes and/or relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia or acute lymphocytic leukemia treated with MS-275 in combination with sargramostim (GM-CSF).
I. Determine the clinical activity of this regimen, in terms of changes in peripheral blood counts and changes in individual patient transfusion requirements, in these patients.
II. Determine the biologic activity of this regimen, in terms of changes in the peripheral blood and bone marrow phenotype (i.e., induction of markers of myeloid differentiation or lymphoid differentiation) and changes in detectable cytogenetic abnormalities in the blood and marrow compartments, in these patients.
III. Determine the toxicity profile of this regimen in these patients.
Patients receive oral MS-275 on days 1, 8, 15, and 22. Patients also receive sargramostim (GM-CSF) subcutaneously once daily on days 1-42 in courses 3 and 5 and on days 1-35 in courses 1, 2, 4, and 6. Treatment repeats every 6 weeks for 2-6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
After completion of 2 courses of study therapy, patients who achieve a complete or partial response may receive an additional 4 courses. Patients who maintain stable disease for more than 2 months after completion of 6 courses of study therapy may receive an additional 6 courses at the time of disease progression, provided they meet original eligibility criteria.
Patients undergo blood and bone marrow (BM) collection at baseline and periodically during study for biologic correlative studies. Peripheral blood and bone marrow samples are assessed for changes in progenitor phenotype and clonogenic growth by flow cytometry and for changes in cytogenetics (i.e., malignant:nonmalignant cell ratio in BM CD34-positive cells, peripheral blood monocytes, peripheral blood neutrophils, and bone marrow and peripheral blood lymphoblasts) by FISH. Terminal differentiation of CD34-positive progenitor cells is studied in vitro in long-term cultures.
After completion of study therapy, patients are followed periodically for up to 2 years.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
Diagnosis of 1 of the following diseases by bone marrow aspiration and/or biopsy:
- Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) meeting the following criteria:
- Must have 1 of the following subtypes:
- Refractory anemia (RA) (no RA with 5q-syndrome),
- RA with ringed sideroblasts or
- Refractory cytopenia with multilineage dysplasia
- Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) meeting the following criteria:
Must have 1 of the following subtypes:
- Refractory cytopenia with multilineage dysplasia and ringed sideroblasts,
- RA with excess blasts (RAEB)-1, RAEB-2,
- Myelodysplastic syndromes, unclassified or
Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia
- International Prognostic Scoring System score of intermediate-2 or high-risk
- Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) meeting 1 of the following criteria:
- Relapsed or refractory AML, including any of the following subtypes:
- * AML with recurrent cytogenetic abnormalities (i.e., AML with 11q23 [MLL] abnormalities)
- AML with multilineage dysplasia
- AML that is therapy-related
AML, not otherwise categorized (M0 [minimally differentiated], M1 [without maturation], M2 [with maturation], M4 [myelomonocytic leukemia], M5 [monoblastic/monocytic leukemia], M6 [erythroid leukemia], and M7 [megakaryoblastic leukemia])
- Untreated AML
Newly diagnosed patients are eligible provided they do not qualify for potentially curative intensive chemotherapeutic regimens
- Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) meeting 1 of the following criteria:
- Relapsed or refractory ALL
Patients with any measurable residual disease are eligible, including cytogenetic abnormalities
- Untreated ALL
- Newly diagnosed patients are eligible provided they do not qualify for potentially curative intensive chemotherapeutic regimens, including any of the following:
- Patients who have refused chemotherapy for untreated ALL
Patients who are deemed to be poor candidates medically for ALL induction chemotherapy
- Relatively stable bone marrow function for > 7 days prior to study entry
- WBC count that has not doubled within the past 7 days
WBC =<10,000/mm³
- No uncontrolled peripheral leukemia (i.e., blast count > 30,000/mm³)
- No active CNS disease
Lumbar puncture with negative cytology required for patients with clinical symptoms of active CNS disease
- Not a candidate for a potentially curative allogeneic stem cell transplantation OR considered a poor candidate for such a procedure due to age, medical comorbidities, or lack of a suitable donor
- Hemoglobin >= 8 g/dL (transfusions allowed)
- Creatinine =< 2.0 mg/dL
- Bilirubin =< 1.6 mg/dL (unless secondary to hemolysis)
- AST or ALT =< 3 times upper limit of normal (unless disease-related)
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
- No untreated or progressive infections
- No history of intolerance to sargramostim (GM-CSF)
- Recovered from all treatment-related toxicities
- More than 2 weeks since prior therapy for AML, ALL, or MDS, including chemotherapy, hematopoietic growth factors, or biologic therapy such as monoclonal antibodies
- Concurrent hydroxyurea allowed during course 1 for control of leukocytosis if WBC > 30,000/mm³
- ECOG performance status 0-2
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00462605
|United States, Maryland
|Johns Hopkins University
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287-8936
|Principal Investigator:
|B. Smith
|Johns Hopkins University
|Responsible Party:
|National Cancer Institute (NCI)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00462605 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
U01CA070095 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|April 18, 2007
|Results First Received:
|March 6, 2017
|Last Updated:
|June 16, 2017
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Leukemia, Myeloid
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Neoplasm Metastasis
Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma
Leukemia, Lymphoid
Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Acute
Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Chronic
Anemia, Refractory
Myeloproliferative Disorders
Anemia, Refractory, with Excess of Blasts
Myelodysplastic-Myeloproliferative Diseases
Leukemia, Monocytic, Acute
Leukemia, Megakaryoblastic, Acute
Leukemia, Erythroblastic, Acute
Pathologic Processes
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Hematologic Diseases
Bone Marrow Diseases
Precancerous Conditions
Neoplastic Processes
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
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SEATTLE - While Felix Hernandez certainly has dealt with lack of offensive help at times during his Mariners tenure, Seattle's ace has by far the highest run support of any of the club's pitchers at 4.84 runs per game.
The Mariners came through again in Monday's 11-1 victory over the Blue Jays, which was the fifth time Seattle has scored 10 or more runs in one of Hernandez's 25 starts this season. Seattle has only scored in double digits eight times, so Hernandez has been the beneficiary of most of the club's breakout efforts.
Of course, those five games skew Hernandez's run support total and he's endured a number of lackluster offensive outings as well. In the 20 games that weren't double-digit, the Mariners scored 64 runs (3.2 per game).
What most fans remember is the string of games in July when Hernandez received three no-decisions in games he allowed just a total of four runs, as well as a 2-0 loss to the Indians as he completed the month with just a 1-1 record in five starts despite a 1.70 ERA.
Clearly Hernandez could have an even better record than his current 13-3 mark if he'd received better run support in some of those outings. But overall, it's hard to argue that The King hasn't received pretty fair support this year.
Of the six Seattle pitchers who've started more than five games this year, here is the run support average per start: Hernandez 4.84, Roenis Elias 3.87, Hisashi Iwakuma 3.84, Brandon Maurer 3.71, Erasmo Ramirez 3.61 and Chris Young 3.50.
Before this season, the Mariners had scored 10 or more runs in only 12 of Hernandez's 269 starts.
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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For three days now I have been trying to meditate and follow the five precepts.
I think correct speech is going to give me trouble.
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I have a big problem with judging and criticizing people. I am a very severe person with myself and others.
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The Branson School gym is going to start running out of room for championship pennants if its volleyball team keeps this pace up.
The No. 1 seeded Bulls re-tooled after dropping Game 2 and regained their identity in Games 3 and 4 to finish off No. 3 St. Joe's of Alameda (25-10, 20-25, 25-17, 25-12) at College of Marin on Saturday night for its fourth consecutive North Coast Section Division V title.
Both teams have qualified for the NorCal tournament and will find out where they're playing after the brackets are announced on Sunday.
"They got a lot better (in Game 2), we did not come out with as much fire," said Branson outside hitter Jordan Winters, who had 12 kills and five blocks on the night.
"In order to take control of the match we had to win the first game and I think the second game was a great wake-up call," added middle blocker McKenna Becker, who had six blocks. "It reminded us that we can't take anything for granted, we have to work for every single point."
In Game 1 the Bulls (38-3) looked like a team that had won the previous three section titles, while the Pilots were fighting off championship jitters. As Branson may have taken the foot off the gas pedal in Game 2, St. Joe's found its rhythm.
"We just went into it like we have nothing to lose, they're expected to win, we just need to go out there and play our very best," said Phoebe Grunt, who had team-highs with 11 kills and six blocks for the Pilots (26-11). "Everyone wanted to give it their all, it wasn't forced or anything. Everyone just went out there to have fun and play."
The Bulls got back to playing their style of volleyball in Game 3 and re-took control of the match. Setter Gaby Steiner served 11 points in a row, including three aces to give Branson a decisive 15-4 advantage. The Pilots battled back with some nice serving from Allie Oilar, who had three aces of her own to cut the deficit to 19-14. That was as close as they could get as the Bulls clinched Game 3 to take a 2-1 lead.
"We were like 'We can't mess around with this team,' at this point it was do or die," said Branson outside hitter Michelle Pereira, who had 12 kills and 15 digs. "If you don't, your season's over. Gotta get it done."
"Whenever you're in playoffs your true character comes out," Branson coach Michelle Brazil said. "For us, the reason we could come back in Games 3 and 4 was because we knew we had control. We had confidence in our abilities and we were able to kind of just jump back."
After seizing momentum in Game 3, the Bulls kept the pressure on in Game 4, racing out to an early 7-1 lead. The Pilots got back to 12-8, but ultimately ran out of gas as Branson finished them off for the championship.
The Pilots got key contributions from Rebecca Langowski (10 kills, two assists) Emma Doud (three kills, six blocks) and Oilar (11 assists, four aces.) In spite of the loss, St. Joes coach Edwin Chen was pleased that his team was able to give the four-time champs a battle.
"I don't think anyone is taking games off of them, I don't think anyone is taking timeouts off of them," Chen said. "So we're pretty happy about that. We're chipping away, we gotta just keep working."
Branson was led by Sarah Wallace with 20 kills and 18 digs. Steiner (48 assists, 10 digs, six aces), Whitney Hansen (32 digs) and Cassie Chuljian (16 digs) also had noteworthy nights for the Bulls. Branson has another title to defend when it takes the court on Tuesday in NorCals when it begins its pursuit of its fourth state title in as many years.
"As a senior, I couldn't wish for anything better than this, winning the section title," Becker said. "I definitely want to take it one game at a time because, best-case scenario, I only have two more weeks in the season. Every single practice, every single game, every single win adds to my confidence, adds to my drive to finish out the season with our expectations."
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Low-Sugar (or Sugar-Free) Layered Pumpkin Cheesecake
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This is definitely one of my favorite low-sugar Thanksgiving treats!
Low-Sugar (or Sugar-Free) Layered Pumpkin Cheesecake
2 packages (8 oz. each) light cream cheese (not fat free cream cheese which has added sugar)
1/4 cup Stevia in the Raw Granulated Sweetener, Splenda, Swerve Sweetener, or another non-sugar sweetener of your choice (Sometimes a blend of sweeteners will give the best flavor.)
1/4 cup sugar (or use another 1/4 cup sweetener for sugar-free version)
2 tsp. Vanilla extract
2 eggs
1/2 cup canned pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling)
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. apple or pumpkin pie spice
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1 (9-inch) purchased graham cracker crust (get the lowest sugar crust you can find)
whipped cream (good, but I didn't think it needed it)
Allow the cheesecake to cool; then chill several hours or overnight. Cut into eight pieces and serve with whipped cream if desired. This will keep for a few days in the fridge, but you probably won't have any leftovers.
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Policy Brief - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Global Oil Production is Surging: Implications for Prices, Geopolitics, and the Environment
This policy brief is based on the discussion paper "Oil: The Next Revolution" by Leonardo Maugeri, which was published by the Belfer Center in June 2012.
- Oil Production Growth is Global. Global oil output capacity is likely to grow from 93 million barrels per day today to 110 million barrels per day by 2020—the largest increase in a single decade since the 1980s. The surge in oil production capacity will occur almost everywhere, with the largest increases in Iraq, the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Venezuela.
- United States Will Experience Unprecedented Output. Technological advances will increase the production of "unconventional" oil in the United States, which is in the midst of a shale boom. The Bakken/Three Forks formation in North Dakota alone has as much untapped shale/tight oil as a Persian Gulf country.
- Oil Prices May Collapse. If oil prices remain at or above $70 per barrel, investments will sustain the 20 percent increase in oil production capacity by 2020. However, world demand is sluggish due to the lagging economy and focus on energy efficiency. If these trends continue, we could see a significant dip—or even a temporary collapse—of oil prices.
- Shifting Market Has Geopolitical Consequences. While the Western Hemisphere could become oil self-sufficient by 2020, Iraq's oil output will also substantially increase as it stabilizes. China may escalate its competitive and political influence in the Persian Gulf and other oil-producing hotspots, including Canada, Venezuela, and possibly the United States.
- Oil Boom Must Trigger Environmental Action. Enforcement of environmental regulation and major investment in emission-reducing technologies must accompany the development of unconventional oil. Without this balance between industry and environmental interests, new oil production projects will be stymied or delayed.
Oil Production Growth is Global. Leonardo Maugeri's original bottom-up, global field-by-field study of oil investments indicates that by 2020 the world's oil production capacity could be more than 110 barrels per day, an increase of almost 20 percent. An analysis of most of the oil exploration and development projects around the world shows that more than 49 million barrels per day of oil in additional production (unadjusted for risk) could come on line by 2020, or more than half the current world production capacity of 93 mbd. After carefully considering the risk factors for each project and country, and factoring in depletion rates, net additional production capacity is likely to increase by more than 17 mbd by 2020 – growth not seen since the 1980s.
Oil supplies could increase all over the world. The four countries that show the highest potential in terms of effective production capacity growth are – in order – Iraq, the United States, Canada, and Brazil. Much of this increased capacity comes from "unconventional sources" such as U.S. shale/tight oils, Canadian tar sands, Venezuela's extra-heavy oils, and Brazil's pre-salt oils. Only four of the current major oil producing countries (more than 1 mbd of production capacity) face a net reduction of their production capacity by 2020: Norway, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Iran. In Iran and Mexico, the loss of production is primarily due to political factors. All other producers are capable of increasing or preserving their production capacity.
United States Will Experience Unprecedented Output. There are enormous volumes of un-conventional oil under development in the United States. Thanks to the technological revolution brought about by the combined use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, the United States is currently exploiting huge and virtually untouched shale and tight oil fields, and production – although still in its infancy – is skyrocketing in these North Dakota and Texas fields.
The extraction technologies are not new, but the combination of technologies used to exploit shale and tight oils has evolved. The technology can also be used to reopen and recover more oil from conventional, established oilfields. Taking into consideration limitation in transportation infrastructure and refining capacity, and environmental barriers to development, the United States could still increase oil production by 3.5 million barrels per day and conceivably produce a total of 11.6 mbd of crude oil and natural gas liquids per year by 2020, making it the second largest oil producer in the world, after Saudi Arabia.
Oil Prices May Collapse. Contrary to prevailing wisdom that increasing global demand for oil will increase prices, the report finds oil production capacity is growing at such an unprecedented level that supply might outpace consumption. When the glut of oil hits the market, it could trigger a collapse in oil prices.
While the age of "cheap oil" may be ending, it is still uncertain what the future level of oil prices might be. Technology may turn today's expensive oil into tomorrow's cheap oil. The oil market will remain highly volatile until 2015 and prone to extreme movements in opposite directions, representing a challenge for investors. After 2015, however, most of the oil exploration and development projects analyzed in the report will advance significantly and contribute to a shoring up of the world's production capacity. This could provoke overproduction and lead to a significant, steady dip of oil prices, unless oil demand were to grow at a sustained yearly rate of at least 1.6 percent trough 2020.
Shifting Market Has Geopolitical Consequences. The United States could conceivably produce up to 65 percent of its oil consumption needs domestically, and import the remainder from North American sources and thus dramatically affect the debate around dependence on foreign oil. However the reality will not change much, since there is one global oil market in which all countries are interdependent. A global oil market tempers the meaningfulness of self-sufficiency, and Canada, Venezuela, and Brazil may decide to export their oil and gas production to non-U.S. markets purely for commercial reasons. However, considering the recent political focus on U.S. energy security, even the spirit of oil self-sufficiency could have profound implications for domestic energy policy and foreign policy.
While the unique conditions for the shale boom in the United States cannot be easily replicated in other parts of the world in the short-term, there are unknown and untapped resources around the globe and the results of future exploration development could be surprising. This combined with China's increasing influence in the Middle East oil realm will continue to alter the geopolitics of energy landscape for many decades.
Oil Boom Must Trigger Environmental Action. Unprecedented unconventional oil development comes with environmental protection and regulation challenges. Hydraulic fracturing is increasingly perceived as contributing to water and land contamination, causing natural gas infiltration into fresh water aquifers, and even triggering earthquakes. After more than one million hydraulic fracturing operations in the United States since 1947 (hydraulic fracturing is not a new technology) and comparatively few accidents, shale oil and gas recovery activity can be managed with appropriate best practices and adequate enforcement. Industry needs to develop technological solutions to minimize water use, minimize and report chemical use, and carefully monitor production sites. However, if such a collective effort by industry does not materialize, government may respond with more onerous regulation in the near future that could impact U.S. shale oil production.
Current climate policy conversations will certainly be influenced by the unexpected surge in oil production capacity. Policymakers will have to address the potential environmental and climate impacts of a substantial increase in oil supply. Industry should also be prepared to make appropriately large investments in developing technologies that will reduce the environmental footprint of oil production and use.
Leonardo Maugeri is currently a research fellow with the Belfer Center's Geopolitics of Energy Project and is a former senior executive of Eni.
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Windows 8 will be here in a little over two weeks, and Lenovo is prepared to show off its new spread of devices that will run Microsoft's newest operating system.
Today, Lenovo unveiled its IdeaPad Yoga 11, IdeaPad Yoga 13, ThinkPad Twist and IdeaTab Lynx -- all
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IdeaPad Yoga 11
The IdeaPad Yoga 11 is an 11.6-inch Windows RT device with a display that flips 360 degrees backwards, transforming the laptop into a tablet with a stand, if needed. Under the hood, the Yoga 11 is packing a NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, 2GB of RAM, up to 64GB of storage, a 1366x768 display resolution, a 720p webcam, two USB 2.0 ports, an HDMI port, a card reader, 802.11n and Bluetooth 4.0.
You can pick up a Yoga 11 starting at $799. It's available in Silver Gray and Clementine Orange.
IdeaPad Yoga 13
The IdeaPad Yoga 13, like the Yoga 11, flips 360 backwards to turn the laptop into a tablet-like device. It also comes in Silver Gray and Clementine Orange, but most other specs are completely different. For starters, the Yoga 13 has a 13.3-inch display and runs Windows 8. It also has Intel Core i5 and i7 processors with Intel HD 4000 integrated graphics, up to 8GB of RAM, up to 256GB of solid-state storage, a 1600x900 resolution, a 720p webcam, USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports, an HDMI port, a card reader, 802.11n and Bluetooth 4.0.
The Yoga 13's price will start at $1,099.
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Twist does exactly what the name indicates -- the display flips down and twists to cover the keyboard, turning the laptop into a tablet. It has a 12.5-inch display, 1366x768 resolution, Intel Core i3/i5/i7 processors with Intel HD 4000 integrated graphics, up to 8GB of RAM, a 720p webcam, two USB 3.0 ports, 802.11n, Bluetooth 4.0, Gigabit Ethernet, Mini DisplayPort, Mini HDMI port and three storage options: 320GB HDD, 500GB HDD or 128GB SDD.
The Twist starts at $849.
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The IdeaTab Lynx is basically a tablet with optional keyboard dock, turning the device into a laptop. The display is 11.6 inches and it features a Clover Trail-based Intel Atom Z2760 processor, 2GB of DDR2, 32GB/64GB storage options, 2 MP front-facing camera, a 1366x768 resolution, Micro USB 2.0 port, Micro HDMI port, microSD card slot, 802.11n and Bluetooth 4.0.
The starting price for the Lynx is $599 for the tablet alone, but adding the keyboard dock will cost an additional $149.
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St David's Day fight not confirmed, says Nathan Cleverly
11:21am Monday 13th January 2014
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By Andrew Penman
NATHAN Cleverly's future plans are up in the air once again today after he cast doubt on his latest comeback date.
The Cefn Fforest ace has not fought since losing his WBO world light-heavyweight title in a disastrous knockout defeat to Sergey Kovalev in August.
Cleverly announced his intention to fight on at cruiserweight but his scheduled bouts against Daniel Ammann in November and Junior Makubu in Monte Carlo on February 1 both failed to materialise due to injuries.
Promoter Frank Warren revealed last week that his fighter was finally set to make his long-awaited return to the ring at Aintree on March 1.
The fight, against an unnamed opponent, was set for the bill featuring Merseyside stars Paul Butler, Joe Selkirk and Kevin Satchell.
But Cleverly has now claimed that the announcement was premature and also suggested that he may be about to part company with Warren and his trainer and father Vince.
The 26-year-old posted a message on Twitter this morning, which reads: "It's been announced that I'm scheduled to fight at Aintree on 1st March. This is yet to be confirmed. I'm currently finalising my training team and promotional agreement. I will update when everything is all confirmed!"
Cleverly has missed out on a crack at the vacant Commonwealth cruiserweight championship against Ammann.
The Aussie will now take on Romford's Tony Conquest for the belt at York Hall on Saturday, February 22.
"Me against Ammann will be a cracking fight for the fans at the York Hall and for the BoxNation viewers," said Conquest.
"He's big and rough, likes a tear-up, and will be coming over here to win. He was confident enough to fly around the world to fight Cleverly and he'll be thinking that he's got the beating of me as well.
"I've got my career back on track now and I'm looking to end the year with the British and Commonwealth belts around my waist. That's what's motivating me to beat Ammann, win the Commonwealth title then it could be Dickinson for the British later this year.
"It's down to me to do a good job on the night against Ammann and show that I'm back and mean business."
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PS122 Adds BodyCartography Project to COIL, Jan 14-17
As part of the eighth edition of the COIL festival and the fourth edition of the American Realness, Performance Space 122 (PS122) and tbspMGMT present the New York premiere of Super Nature, from Minneapolis-based BodyCartography Project and Bessie Award–winning composer and musician Zeena Parkins. Super Nature is a radical, ecological melodrama fraught with animal appetites born from the restless imaginations of the BodyCartography Project's Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad.
Performances of Super Nature will take place January 14–17 at 8:30pm at Abrons Arts Center. The running time is 75 minutes with no intermission. Abrons is located at 466 Grand Street at Pitt Street in Manhattan. Tickets, which are $20, are available online at ps122.org/coil and via phone at 212-352-3101.
In a quest for empathy, Super Nature engages the wild and civilized aspects of human nature with idiosyncratic movements drawn from bodily impulses and social interactions. Composer Zeena Parkins performs her live score within an elaborate scenic installation by visual artist Emmett Ramstad. Joining Parkins in performance are dancers Justin Jones, Timmy Wagner, Emily Johnson, Francesca Mattavelli, Otto Ramstad, Eneka Bordato Riano and Anna Shogren.
As co-directors of the BodyCartography Project Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad investigate the physicality of space in urban, domestic, wild and social landscapes through dance, performance, video and installation work. Their works range from intimate solos for the street or stage, to large community dance works in train stations, short experimental films in national parks, to complex works for site or stage amidst installations of video and sound. They have created over 125 performance works, ten short films and five installations and have been presented across the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Europe, Russia and South America.
As co-directors of the BodyCartography Project, Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad have created numerous performance works, short films and installations which have been presented in theaters and site specific locations across the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Europe, Russia and South America. Presenters include Performance Space 122, Dance Theater Workshop, Movement Research, Dance on Camera Festival, NYC; Philadelphia Dance Project; Anti-Festival, Finland; Stromereien Festival, Zurich; Lyon Opera Ballet, Les Subsistances, Lyon; South East Dance, Cheshire Dance, UK; NZ International Film Festival; Cinedans, Amsterdam; Polish Public Television; Bryant Lake Bowl, Walker Art Center, Southern Theater, Minneapolis International Film Festival, and Minnesota Public Television. Their work has been supported by residencies at the Walker Art Center, Bell Museum of Natural History, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, Headlands Center for the Arts, K3 in Hamburg and Les Subsistances, amongst others. As dance makers and certified teachers of Body-Mind Centering® they teach internationally at festivals such as Impulstanz International Dance Festival in Vienna. They are featured artists in the first book about site dance in the USA published by University of Florida Press entitled Site Dance, the Lure of Alternative Spaces. They are recipients of Sage, New Zealand Fringe Festival, Kerry Film Festival, ADF's International Screendance Festival and the Perlorous Trust Creativity Awards for previous works.
Bieringa and Ramstad curated the Walker's Choreographers' Evening in 2009, performed in Dan Graham's Walker hosted exhibition Beyond. They were participants of National Dance Project's Minnesota Regional Dance Development Initiative, SCUBA touring roster, and Momentum. They were McKnight Fellows and Sustainable Arts Fellows for Public Art St. Paul. Ramstad was a Bush Artist Fellowship in 2006. Bieringa is currently co-curator for Public Art St Pauls' science and art initiative City Art Collaboratory.
Multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser and sound artist Zeena Parkins is well-known as a pioneer of the electric harp and has also extended the language of the acoustic harp with the inventive use of unusual playing techniques, preparations, and layers of digital and analog processing. Parkins has received commissions to provide scores for film, video, chamber orchestras, theater and dance. She has long-term creative relationships with Neil Greenberg, John Jasperse, Jennifer Monson, Jennifer Lacey, DD Dorvillier, and Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh, and has also appeared with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, who commissioned a new work for Experiments in the Studio. She has appeared in festivals worldwide and on countless recordings. Some collaborators include: Kim Gordon, John Zorn, Bjork, Yoko Ono, Christian Marclay, Fred Frith, Elliott Sharp, Thurston Moore and filmmakers Cynthia Madansky, Mandy McIntosh and Daria Martin. Zeena has received three Bessies for her extraordinary work in music within the dance and performance field in the United States and abroad for over two decades.
The Abrons Arts Center brings innovative artistic excellence to Manhattan's Lower East Side through diverse, cutting-edge performances; exhibitions/artist residencies; classes and workshops for all ages, including pre-professional training for youth; and arts-in-education programming at public schools.
Performance Space 122 (PS122) provides incomparable experiences for audiences by presenting and commissioning artists whose work challenges boundaries of live performance. PS122 is dedicated to supporting the creative risks taken by artists from diverse genres, cultures and perspectives. We are an innovative local, national and international leader in contemporary performance.
Beginning in 2011, PS122 embarked on one of the most unusual and potentially radical shifts in its history, including a re-structuring of artist support, a business model overhaul, and the renovation of our building. As PS122's East Village home undergoes a much-needed interior renovation supported primarily by the City of New York, DCA and DDC, PS122's core activity continues to be providing audiences with contemporary live performance.
For over 3 decades, Performance Space 122 has been a hub for contemporary performance and an active member of the cultural community. Under the curatorial vision of Vallejo Gantner (Artistic Director 2005 – present) PS122 has developed a set of programs designed to re-establish the value of live performance, provide singular experiences for audiences that inspire critical thinking, and sustain the creative process for artists throughout their career. Largely in partnership with peer organizations, PS122 currently presents artists in all disciplines in spaces all over the city during an annual fall & spring season and COIL festival in January.
In addition to the commissioning and presenting of artists from NYC across the US, and around the globe, PS122 has increased our activity off the stage to provide audiences with a variety of access points and context for the work on stage. These activities include both talkbacks with the artists as well as in depth conversations that bring together luminaries from non-arts disciplines to discuss a variety of topics including everything from religion, to migration, to queer real estate and cultural diplomacy. PS122 encourages the asking of questions and debate of contemporary society's issues in both artistic practice and audience experience.


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Why should we give two injection mesially in the upper first molar?
Dear NetWellness Reader,Your question is not clearly written, but I'll try to answer what I think you might want to know. I presume you are a dental student or dentist because you know the term "mesial". The type of injection in your question is not specified so I'll cover some possibilities.The periodontal ligament injection is typically given into the periodontal ligament between the tooth root and alveolar bone on both the mesial and distal aspects of a molar tooth in order to allow the spread of the anesthetic to surround the tooth. The intraosseous local anesthetic injection can also be placed into a small hole drilled into the buccal bone near the mesial aspect of the tooth. Both of these injections can be used as primary local anesthetic techniques but are also useful as supplemental injections whenever a simple infiltration injection technique or a nerve block might provide pretty good anesthesia but does not provide complete anesthesia. Thus one could infiltrate local anesthetic on the buccal aspect of the molar and if that did not provide complete pulpal anesthesia of the tooth, a second injection via one of the above supplemental techniques might provide profound pulpal anesthesia.However, I suspect that what you may be referring to in your question may have to do with the enervation of the upper first molar. You should know that typically the distal root and the palatal root contain nerve fibers from the posterior superior alveolar nerve (PSA). If you were to do a PSA nerve block by placing the needle through the greater palatine canal and injecting 2 to 4 ml of local anesthetic solution, both the distal and palatal nerve fibers to the tooth pulp should be anesthetized, but the fibers from the mesial root portion of the tooth should be unaffected because it receives enervation from the middle superior alveolar nerve. Thus an infiltration of the middle superior alveolar nerve (MSA) on the mesial aspect of the tooth is needed for complete pulpal anesthesia of the tooth.Finally, if the planned anesthetic technique did not involve a PSA nerve block but rather a simple buccal infiltration above the upper first molar, the local anesthetic would be expected to diffuse through the periosteum and the buccal bone and into the nerve fibers of both the MSA and PSA nerves that supply the pulp. One would expect that one injection on the buccal of the tooth would be sufficient to do this. However, the zygomatic buttress is in that area, and its extra thickness may prevent the anesthetic from diffusing forward to catch the MSA fibers if the injection is given more distally or prevent the anesthetic from diffusing distally if the anesthetic is injected on the mesial side of the "hump". Thus one my decide to inject on both the mesial and distal aspects to improve the chances of successful pulpal anesthesia.I presume you are interested in pulpal anesthesia for doing typical restorative procedures. If you are interested in extracting the upper first molar, not only do you need pulpal anesthesia, but also palatal soft tissue anesthesia because you will be tearing that palatal soft tissue in the tooth extraction process. So even if you were to extract a broken-down endodontically-treated tooth with no pulpal enervation, you still would need to infiltrate both the buccal and palatal soft tissue so avoid causing pain.
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DURHAM, N.C. - Baylor's Josh Ludy and Josh Turley were added to the 60-member midseason Golden Spikes Award Watch List, which was announced Tuesday by USA Baseball. The award is given annually to the nation's top amateur baseball player.
Turley and Ludy give Baylor two of the Big 12 Conference's seven representatives on the list, which will be narrowed to 30 semifinalists on May 29. Three finalists for the award will be announced on June 5.
Ludy has started behind the plate in 42 of Baylor's 46 games this season. He leads the team with a .371 batting average, 51 RBI, seven home runs, 59 hits and a .579 slugging percentage, and he ranks second with 12 doubles and a .450 on-base percentage.
A senior from Portland, Ind., Ludy was named Big 12 Conference Player of the Week on April 16 and April 23, becoming just the sixth player in league history to win the award in consecutive weeks. He also had the seventh three-home run game in program history to help the Bears wrap up a three-game sweep at Kansas State on April 15.
Turley, a junior from Texarkana, Texas, has been the Bears' No. 1 starter all season and has led Baylor to wins in all 11 of his starts. He has compiled a 7-0 record and thrown a team-leading 72.1 innings, while posting a 1.74 ERA that ranks third in the Big 12.
Turley has allowed one earned run or fewer in eight of his 11 starts this season and pitched at least 5.2 innings in 18 of his last 20 starts dating back to last season. He has a 2.13 ERA in six Big 12 starts this year and is the only pitcher to post five wins in conference play this season.
The Baylor duo is joined by fellow Big 12 players Andrew Heaney (Oklahoma State), Cory Knebel (Texas) and Tyler Naquin, Ross Stripling and Michael Wacha (Texas A&M).


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A hint of burning firewood filled the air near the hot tub at Tickle Pink Inn's outside terrace Wednesday.
In the distance, past the cypress trees, waves from the Monterey Bay crashed on shore.
The sound of a man-made waterfall trickled through an elaborate garden of native plants, often home to hummingbirds.
If the romantic scene is too much to handle, no one told the patrons. Based on thousands of reviews, Tickle Pink Inn in Carmel Highlands was named one of the "Most Romantic" hotels in the country by TripAdvisor.com earlier this month.
Also on the list was Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur.
"It was recognized before," Tickle Pink general manager Krysty Parker said of the hotel's romantic appeal, "just not in the news."
Romance is part of the allure of the county, said Tammy Blount, president of the Monterey County Convention and Visitors Bureau.
In context, she said, the selection adds to the county's status as a premier destination. In November, the county was voted the top North American Golf Destination by the International Association of Golf Tour Operators. Last month, the county was named one of the top 10 wine travel destinations in the world by Wine Enthusiast magazine.
"We've been so lucky lately," Blount said.
Parker, who has worked at Tickle Pink Inn for more than 20 years, said guests often head into the community for wine tastings, hikes at Point Lobos State Natural Reserve and other sightseeing adventures.
The "small, intimate charm" of the inn is what brings people back, Parker said.
She said about half its customers come from California, but it has recently seen an increase in European patrons.
The inn has 56 rooms and roughly 25 employees. It is currently undergoing a light renovation of its balconies, to be completed in March.
Rooms can range from $289 to $459 a night, with the ocean view suites costing up to $559.
Parker advises making reservations two months in advance. She said the inn is booked until Feb. 21 and typically sells out in March.
The hotel was opened 57 years ago on the original homestead of state Sen. Edward Tickle. It is owned by the Gurries family.
The Post Ranch Inn, a young upstart by comparison, opened in 1992 and also features panoramic ocean views.
In the comparatively shorter time it has been open, the inn has won dozens of major awards, including the top hotel in California from Travel + Leisure magazine.
There are 39 rooms and 200 employees at the inn, according to General Manager Dan Priano.
The modern-style structure, owned by Post Ranch LP, features a variety of small buildings costing from $625 to $2,500 a night.
Priano said couples find the inn romantic because it is secluded and has terrific views of the ocean.
"I think it is the privacy they can attain here," he said.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo formally signed legislation Monday to create a New York Racing Association Reorganization Board, but still hasn't named any members.
Over the summer, Cuomo pledged to name a new publicly controlled NYRA board charged with selecting a long-term private operator within three years.
The new board will have 12 state appointees, five choices by current NYRA board members and two ex-officio members representing horsemen and the thoroughbred breeding industry.
"New York state's racing industry is a major economic driver in the state, supporting thousands of jobs and attracting tourists from around the world," Cuomo said. "New York taxpayers and the betting public deserve a racing industry that is managed competently and does not neglect the health and safety of the horses."
On Friday, a state task force issued a lengthy report with recommendations for improving equine and rider safety. The study came in the wake of an unprecedented 21 equine fatalities at Aqueduct Racetrack last winter.
"The NYRA Reorganization Board will restore public trust, accountability and transparency to the racing industry in our state, so New York can continue to offer one of the most exciting, enjoyable, safe horse racing experiences in the nation," Cuomo said.
A statement said new board members would be named in the "near future," without specifying a time frame.
NYRA has been without a chief executive officer since Charles Hayward was let go last spring in the wake of a wagering scandal. Chief Operating Officer Ellen McClain has filled his shoes as NYRA president, however.
Cuomo is expected to name a new board chairman as one of his eight picks for the board. The state Senate and Assembly will each have two choices.
The NYRA Reorganization Board will go into effect when a majority of the new public directors is appointed. At that point, the current NYRA board will be dissolved.
Once appointed, the new board will conduct a national search for a new CEO and general counsel for NYRA.
The current board is 25 directors, with 14 elected by NYRA and 11 appointed by public officials.
NYRA has operated Saratoga Race Course, Belmont Park and Aqueduct Racetrack since 1955.


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TriRig's exclusive gallery of Andreas Raelert's BMC TM01 race bike. Andreas was exceptionally kind, and let us in on his final pre-race ride just before checking his bike into transition. Most athletes don't want to be bothered at all on race day, let alone interviewed a pesky journalist. But Raelert, who broke the Iron-distance all-time World Record earlier this year, is of the kindest, most down-to-earth people you'll ever meet. But on race day, watch for the gloves to come off - he will give no quarter when tearing up the course in Kona, looking for a World Championship title in Hawaii.
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Kyle Flood complained last week that Rutgers tried to schedule an SEC team for a non-conference game, but found no takers.
The cynic sees this: what's the SEC afraid of?
The realist sees this: It's a no-win situation with nothing to gain when playing a team from the American Athletic (formerly Big East) Conference. If you win, you're supposed to win; if you lose, it's a major upset.
A year from now, when Rutgers moves to the Big Ten, a non-con game with the Scarlet Knights suddenly becomes more attractive. Until then, Rutgers and Louisville—which moves to the ACC next year—enter this season with the understanding that their non-conference schedule will do nothing but hurt their cause in the polls/BCS race.
A breakdown of the AAC non-conference schedules:
First to worst
1. SMU: Texas Tech, Montana State, at Texas A&M, at TCU
2. UCF: Akron, at FIU, at Penn State, South Carolina
3. USF: McNeese State, at Michigan State, FAU, Miami
4. Rutgers: at Fresno State, Norfolk State, Eastern Michigan, Arkansas
5. UConn: Towson, Maryland, Michigan, at Buffalo
6. Cincinnati: Purdue, at Illinois, Northwestern State, at Miami (OH)
7. Temple: at Notre Dame, Fordham, at Idaho, Army
8. Houston: Southern, Rice, Texas-San Antonio, BYU
9. Memphis: Duke, at Middle Tennessee, Arkansas State, Tennessee-Martin
10. Louisville: Ohio, Eastern Kentucky, at Kentucky, FIU
Games against BCS teams: 15 out of 40 (38 percent)
Games against non-BCS teams: 16 out of 40 (40 percent)
Games against FCS teams: 9 out of 40 (22 percent)
Keeping score (6 of 6 BCS conferences evaluated)
Games against BCS teams: Big Ten (38 percent); AAC (38 percent); SEC (30 percent); Pac-12 (30 percent); ACC (29 percent); Big 12 (27 percent).
Games against non-BCS teams: Pac-12 (46 percent); Big 12 (46 percent); SEC (45 percent); Big Ten (44 percent); ACC (42 percent); AAC (40 percent).
Games against FCS teams: ACC (29 percent); Big 12 (27 percent); SEC (25 percent); Pac-12 (24 percent); AAC (22 percent); Big Ten (18 percent).
Five best games
USF at Michigan State, Sept. 7
SMU at Texas A&M, Sept. 21
South Carolina at UCF, Sept. 28
Michigan at UConn, Sept. 21
Temple at Notre Dame, Aug. 31
Five worst games
Eastern Kentucky at Louisville, Sept. 7
Norfolk State at Rutgers, Sept. 7
Tennessee-Martin at Memphis, Nov. 9
Towson at UConn, Aug. 29
Northwestern State at Cincinnati, Sept. 14
Quick hits
— You've heard the scenarios by now. Louisville, everyone's offseason darling, plays a non-conference schedule that could keep them from playing in the BCS National Championship Game.
To this I say: people, it's not the non-conference games, it's the conference games. It's bad enough that Louisville plays four nobodies (and the includes Kentucky, until further notice) in non-con games; it's worse that Louisville plays in the AAC for one final season.
Understand this: Louisville's best win this season will be Rutgers—and if we think about all those years of BCS busters, the narrative eventually turned to strength of conference. No matter what Boise State or TCU or Utah did in non-conference games, it was always about playing in the WAC or Mountain West. It will be the same this fall with Louisville, because no poll voter (that includes the "computer" polls) sees the AAC as a BCS league—no matter what the leaders of the sport try to feed us.
— SMU may as well be back in the old Southwest Conference, playing non-con games against at Texas A&M, at TCU and Texas Tech. Throw in a regular season game against Houston, that's one-third of the schedule vs. old SWC teams.
So the Mustangs move up in conference play—in theory, anyway—and play three state rivals in non-con games that will do more for recruiting than anything else.
— There's an interesting dynamic brewing the AAC, one that could lead to some intriguing conference race drama. Both UCF and USF have the talent to win big in the AAC this fall, and possibly win the conference (that's right, Louisville; it won't be a cakewalk).
About 100 miles separate the two schools along the Interstate-4 corridor, but they haven't played since 2008 because USF of the Big East believed it had nothing to gain by playing UCF of Conference USA. Now they're conference rivals, and now a bitter rivalry that was ended because USF thought it was better than UCF, is set to get full-blown nasty. That last game in 2008? USF won 31-24 in overtime.


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The numbers are in: 2012, the year of a surreal March heat wave, a severe drought in the corn belt and a massive storm that caused broad devastation in the mid-Atlantic states, turns out to have been the hottest year recorded in the contiguous United States.
How hot was it? The temperature differences between years are usually measured in fractions of a degree but last year blew away the previous record, set in 1998, by a full degree Fahrenheit.
If that does not sound sufficiently impressive, consider that 34,008 daily high records were set at U.S. weather stations, compared with only 6,664 record lows, according to a count maintained by Weather Channel meteorologist Guy Walton, using federal temperature records. That ratio, which was roughly in balance as recently as the 1970s, has been out of whack for decades as the country has warmed, but never by as much as it was last year.
"The heat was remarkable," said Jake Crouch, a scientist with the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., which released the official climate compilation Tuesday. "It was prolonged. That we beat the record by one degree is quite a big deal."
But as so much of the country baked, the Bay Area avoided the off-the-charts heat. In fact, local meteorologist Jan Null calculates that San Francisco was 0.6 of a degree below average for 2012 while San Jose's average temperature was 0.2 under the normal.
Nationally, scientists said, natural variations almost certainly played a role in last year's extreme heat and drought. But many of them expressed doubt that such a striking record would have been set without the backdrop of global warming caused by the human release of greenhouse gases. And they warned that 2012 was likely a taste of things to come, as continuing warming makes heat extremes more likely.
Even so, the last year's U.S. record is not expected to translate into a global temperature record when figures are released in coming weeks. The year featured a La Niña weather pattern, which tends to cool the global climate overall, and scientists expect it to be the world's eighth- or ninth-warmest year on record.
Assuming that prediction holds up, it will mean that the 10 warmest years on record all fell within the past 15 years, a measure of how much the planet has warmed.
Last year's weather in the United States began with an unusually warm winter, with relatively little snow across much of the country, followed by a March that was so hot that trees burst into bloom and swimming pools opened early. The soil dried out in the March heat, helping to set the stage for a drought that peaked during the warmest July on record.
The drought engulfed 61 percent of the nation, killed corn and soybean crops and sent prices spiraling. It was comparable to a severe drought in the 1950s, Crouch said, but not quite as severe as the Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s.
Meanwhile, California experienced its fourth-warmest year on record. But some coastal regions of the state were affected by "the trough of the West," as Null called it. He notes that the jet stream looks much like ocean waves. As America's heartland cooked beneath a persistent high-pressure ridge, we were experiencing a cooling low-pressure trough.
"Our weather was a by-product of the high-pressure ridge throughout the entire middle of the country," said Null, of Golden Gate Weather Services. "That kept us relatively cool. It's like I tell my college students: Weather is complicated."
In fact, San Francisco had 219 days of below-average temperatures and only 133 days of above-average temps, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Bob Benjamin, observation program leader at the National Weather Service, added that it makes sense that the Bay Area would be slightly cooler than normal even as the state as a whole state suffered through such a hot year.
"It's a repercussion of the warm weather in the Central Valley because it makes the cooling effects of the sea breezes much more prevalent," Benjamin said. "It acts almost exactly like an air conditioning system."
Crouch pointed out that until last year, the coldest year in the historical record for the lower 48 states, 1917, was separated from the warmest year, 1998, by only 4.2 degrees Fahrenheit. That is why the 2012 record, and its one degree increase over 1998, strikes climatologists as so unusual.
"We're taking quite a large step above what the period of record has shown for the contiguous United States," he said.
Among the cities that set temperature records in 2012 were Nashville; Athens, Ga.; and Cairo, Ill., all of which hit 109 degrees June 29.
Our region also set records. San Jose's high of 84 degrees on Nov. 5 broke a record set in 1901 by two degrees. Records also were broken that day in Gilroy (90), San Francisco (79), Oakland (84) and Redwood City (84).
Crouch pointed out that at the beginning of January, 61 percent of the country still was in moderate to severe drought conditions.
"I foresee that it's going to be a big story moving forward in 2013," he said.
Staff writer Mark Emmons contributed to this report.


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According to DGCR Grand Woods looks like the best in the area. I'm going to be up near clio one day, has anyone played goldenrod over there?


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PATIENTS suffering with dementia at Broomfield Hospital will soon be able to enjoy a "calm and elegant"
garden thanks to the award-winning design of a Writtle College student.
The imaginative garden, designed by Michael Ekers, 33, from Brentwood, a garden design student at Writtle, won favour with managers and clinical leads at the hospital.
His was one of five submitted by students on his course as part of a competition, launched by the Mid-Essex NHS Trust, to design a garden for those with dementia.
Michael's triangular courtyard design, bounded on all sides by the three-storey hospital buildings, met the trust's specifiations.
Work on creating it will start next month.
Elmarie Swanepoel, head of sustainable development and strategic projects at the Trust, said: "Michael's design was thought to be elegant, capturing the elements of calm open spaces that is so valued by patients in a hospital setting."
Michael said the idea to include a lifesize bronze sculpture of a child and dog playing on the lawn was "integral" as it embraces reminisence therapy - the comfort we derive from memories.
He said: "We can all relate to this - it evokes a strong positive emotion."


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BILLY VUNIPOLA made more carries than any other playing during last weekend's Six Nations matches.
The former Castle School pupil and Thornbury Broncos player helped England get their campaign back on track with a 20-0 win in Scotland.
Saracens No 8 Vunipola continued his impressive form from the opening game against France as he carried the ball 16 times.
He was part of an unchanged England team and played 70 minutes before being replaced by former Dursley player Ben Morgan.
His brother Mako Vunipola played the final 15 minutes after replacing Joe Marler at prop with former Frampton Cotterell youth player Dave Attwood coming on for Joe Launchbury at lock on 63 minutes.


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