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- March 12, 2013 at 6:28 PM
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- March 12, 2013 at 8:05 PM
- angel said...
I just found you (after falling in love with you on Jenks), so pardon my ignorance, but have you tried any alternative treatments? Gerson therapy, or whatever Kris Carr does in her CrazySexyCancer regimen? The Gerson movie on Netflix seems pretty convincing, though I admit I don't know personally know if it works. If another reader can answer or point me to where she's discussed it, appreciated too. You're a beautiful inspiration, and I'm happy I didn't cancel MTV before you showed up on my screen. Fight, rest, cry, laugh... you are pure love.
- March 12, 2013 at 9:13 PM
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ROFL!! Especially the ad issued with MAX Cigarettes!!
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I just want to say thank you for keeping up with this blog even with everything you are going through. I myself have Ewing's Sarcoma. I'm getting ready to have a full knee/ upper tibia replacement then 10 more rounds of chemo. Reading your blog helps me feel like I'm not alone and for that, I thank you.
- March 14, 2013 at 6:21 AM
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Gerson therapy is fittingly mentioned in a post about cancer quacks!
And... I started this blog to be the anti- Kris Carr, basically. The woman's disease has never been life-threatening and she's never NEEDED traditional therapies to save her life. It's not the juice that keeps her cancer at bay, though if you can afford it, healthy raw foods are optimal. Not always an option on chemo. Her public image is that of a cancer fraud in my book.
but if she or gerson therapy helps you, more power to you.
- March 14, 2013 at 7:42 AM
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Wow, ok. I honestly never delved deeper than the surface of her claims, so I just assumed it was legit. I meant no harm at all. I know it must be annoying having strangers act like experts. Sincerest apologies, and I wish you well.
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Reading the menu vs. eating it
Transitory Gaslamp means you have to straddle tastes
Patrick Henderson 8:03 p.m., Nov. 24
2215 India Street, Little Italy
I'd heard Ballast Point was open. (See Brandon Hernández' extensive pre-opening report.) Loved the idea that this bunch of guys who started as a home brew outfit in a tiny uncool strip-mall got voted small brewery champion at the World Beer Cup in 2010. Best small brewery in da woild!
Boy, have they come a long way. Here, up at India and Ivy in Little Italy, I come across this brand-new and totally crowded tasting room.
Inside is a big U-shaped bar with hanging blue lights, black tables stocked with really cool customers, and actual working brew vats.
So I head for the line at the food section in back.
Fish is a big deal here. Ballast Point is named after the place sailors in the 19th century used to come to to pick up ballast rocks at to weigh their sailing ships down before they returned empty around the dreaded Cape Horn. (So you can bet that bits of San Diego remain scattered around the ports of the world to this day.)
Big blackboard says ono is the catch of the day. And that you can add protein to any dish for $4, like short ribs, pork belly, fish, or chicken breast.
The actual menu is divided into "land," "sea," and "garden." "Land" has things like sausage roll with apple sauerkraut, in puff pastry with Ballast Point beer mustards. Costs $9. It recommends you drink their Sculpin IPA or Piper Down Scottish Ale with that. Or burger and fries for $12, with choice of cheeses like brie and blue. They say you should swig their Calico amber ale with it.
"Sea" has calamari for $9, surf and turf (albacore and pork belly) for $14, or 6 oysters for $12, and "local fish tacos" for $11.
The "Garden" section has plates like pickled beet salad ($9), grilled veggie sandwich on ciabatta with goat cheese for $10.
I end up asking Sasha, the guy taking food orders, for ideas. "The gnocchi ($8)," he says. "That light potato mix plus the sweetness of pear..."
I've always thought of gnocchi as one of the boring pasta line-up in Italian cooking that don't interest me one bit. Dough, period.
But I order it, mainly because of the pear presence. Plus I go for a $4 add of short ribs, and then a sample size of a pumpkin beer special. Couple of bucks.
Sasha's right about the gnocchi. Honestly I've never been sure what da heck they are. But these are potato mixed with dough, fried, and tossed around with poached pear, butternut squash, bacon, and "brown butter." Which turns out to be white, like cottage cheese.
So it may be boring gnocchi, but have to say that sweet pear taste along with the bacon makes it beautiful.
The chunks of short rib are tender, but have no real taste to them. I see that they're also a dish on their own ("braised short rib lettuce cups") where they come with pear chutney, feta cheese, and a chipotle vinaigrette. That would bring you the taste I'm missing here.
Actually, what's just as interesting is the beers. I try a "Victory at Sea" porter loaded with coffee and vanilla, an Indra Kunindra with - believe it! - curry, cumin, cayenne and kaffir lime leaf and coconut crammed in, and a Piper Down, a Scottish-style ale that's all malt and no hops. Good, but I guess I've gotten too hop-kick-addicted. It just lacks the punch of, say, their Tongue Buckler über-hoppy red.
"Ballast changed my life," this guy Sean with handlebar mustaches is saying. "My dad was a smoker, a Miller Lite guy. I hated beer. Then I came into the Ballast Point home brew store and tried their Indra Kunindra. I never knew beer could have crazy things like curry, coconut, kaffir limes in it. Now I'm a total beer nerd."
Sean says he had the short ribs on the lettuce wrap and it was great. His Russian girlfriend Lana says her chicken sandwich with brie was fine. But Herman, a guy further down the bar, says his fish in the $14 fish sandwich felt overcooked, hard.
"But I'd still order it again," he says, "because the tartar sauce was so great."
This is when Jess, one of the bartenders...
...gives me a bite of a house-made pretzel she's been eating. (They cost $7, come with House-made mustard and a little pot of beer cheese.) Ooh. Delish. Caraway seeds in there, I swear. Maybe it's in the cheese dip.
By the time I get up, an entire Jackson has blown out of my pocket. But have to say, atmosphere, company, food and da beer, good deal, good atmosphere, good feel.
For a place that's only been up and running for three weeks, they're doing pretty good.
Long as you can put up with droves of Ballast Point groupies.
Also: Guess I'm going to have to stop telling gnocchi gnocchi jokes.


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Bottle bitterness
After recently trying a new beer on draft at a local bar, I liked it so much that I decided to buy a 6-pack at the grocery store. I noticed that the bottled version tasted considerably different. There was much more bitterness and I've noticed this with other brands of beer. Why is it that draft beer seems smoother and less bitter than bottled beer? For a homebrewer, is it better to go with a kegging system to achieve this same smoothness or are there some tricks to the bottling process to help the beer keep a smoother finish?
Dan Schipman
Greensboro, North Carolina
I think there are a few reasons why draft and bottled beer taste different and some of the reasons may recolor your view of draft beer. Some breweries actually have different variations of their beers for draft and bottle. I do not have real good information on how prevalent this is, but the examples I am aware of have two commonalities: the draft beer has a lower bitterness and lower carbonation compared to the bottled beer. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale draft beer is different from its bottled cousin in that the draft form is a little darker and has a lower original gravity compared to the bottled version. Both beers are excellent. I assume that their draft Pale Ale is intended to be more of a session beer and the difference in the recipe makes it more quaffable. So this could explain your observation.
Other factors that make draft beer taste different from the bottled can make a brewer an unhappy camper. Some bars put their beers on "beer gas," also called mixed gas, to "smooth" out beer flavor. An unintended outcome of this practice is that these beers lose their carbonation and deviate from the brewery specification. This really irks me because if a brewer decides they want to serve their draft hefeweizen at three volumes of carbon dioxide, the bar owner or distributor has no business doing something that changes the character of the beer.
In an effort to lower operating costs, some bars use dreadful contraptions called air blenders. This cheap way of making mixed gas creates a mixture of carbon dioxide and air, which replaces nitrogen with the more affordable compressed air. The use of air blenders flatten kegs over time. They also pump oxygen into the keg to oxidize the beer. Sometimes the air compressor hooked to the blender introduces a bit of microbiological wildlife and whatever funky smells are next to its intake into the mix of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, oxygen. In short, air blenders can change the flavor of kegged beer in a variety of different and disappointing ways.
The use of mixed gas and air blenders make bar owners really happy because they reduce beer carbonation, making the beer easier to pour. This practice reduces beer loss caused by the sloppy bartenders slinging pints behind bars scattered across this great land. If I sound a bit harsh towards bar owners and bartenders it's because that is my intent! The reason that beer advocacy and travel magazines make such a big deal about great draft beer bars is because of the astounding number of really awful draft bars.
Another interesting factoid about draft beer is the flexible line linking the keg to the tap. These little buggers can turn into veritable small intestines. In other words, with their relatively large surface to volume ratio and their tendency to become covered in a microbiological film when neglected, draft lines can turn into long, thin bioreactors that change the flavor of beer as it flows from keg to tap. Neglected taps can also become totally funkified with microbiological growth. This can become especially pronounced with unfiltered beers as the nooks and crannies of the beer tap can quite literally become coated with a visible film of living yeast.
The key to draft beer is really quite simple. Carbon dioxide pressure and beer storage temperature should be matched to the carbonation level of the typical draft beer (usually somewhere around 2.5 volumes of carbon dioxide), and draft lines need to be routinely cleaned. In well-run draft bars, the flavor of draft beer should be within the expectations of the brewery and any difference between a draft and bottled beer should be minimal unless the beer has different draft and bottle specifications.
You mention that you perceive draft beer to taste smoother than bottled beer. This may come from the difference in pouring techniques between the two. It is often the case with draft beer that a noticeable amount of carbon dioxide is "knocked" out of the beer during pouring. In contrast, bottles are easier to gently pour and the amount of carbon dioxide loss is much less. Since carbonation level influences perceived bitterness, any differences in carbon dioxide content between draft and bottle may also lead to apparent differences in bitterness.
As a brewer I prefer draft beer because it is less labor intensive to produce than bottled beer. Recognizing the factors that influence flavor you can adjust your recipe, carbonation level and serving temperature to produce the beer that you want, which is really what homebrewing is all about. And with the proper care and maintenance of your draft system you can avoid many of the problems that readily arise when draft neglect occurs!
Oxygen safety
A few batches ago I switched from using my aquarium pump aeration method to pure oxygen. Thirty seconds with pure oxygen versus 30 minutes with the aquarium pump has been a welcome time saver. I am using a stainless steel wand with an air stone connected to a red 1.4 oz. metal canister of welding oxygen I purchased at a hardware store. In my research before going to this pure oxygen system, I found very little information about the safety of using these welding oxygen canisters. I found one posting on the Web saying that using this, "non food grade," oxygen is safe because concentrated oxygen kills any possible contamination. Could you tell me if these welding oxygen canisters are safe to use for wort aeration and/or is there a better alternative for pure oxygen?
Bruce Wilder
Brattleboro, Vermont
The short answer to your question is that welding grade oxygen is probably OK for homebrewing. I know that the only difference between medical grade and welding grade oxygen at my local industrial gas supply is the container the gas goes in. Medical grade oxygen must go into containers that are only used for that grade and there are probably some special inspections and filling procedures used for the medical grade stuff. The actual oxygen gas comes from the same bulk tank. My guess is that most gas suppliers use a similar procedure. As far as contaminants from oxygen go, microorganisms are not a concern because, as you mention in your question, pure oxygen is not a very hospitable environment.
I do suggest using caution when using pure oxygen to oxygenate wort. The problem you face is that the solubility of oxygen in wort is much higher when pure oxygen is used instead of air. Most brewing texts cite the ideal level of oxygen in wort prior to fermentation at around 8 ppm or 8 mg/L. Levels higher than this can cause oxidative damage to yeast cells. When using pure oxygen, wort oxygen levels of about 30 ppm are possible, making over-aerating a legitimate concern. One way to meter the flow of oxygen into wort is to use a gas flow meter. Gas rotameters are common and relatively inexpensive devices that measure the flow of gas.
If you have a flow meter, you can use it to meter gas flow and determine the amount of gas required given a few assumptions. Let's say you want to add 8 mg/L of oxygen to your 20-liter batch, you can see that you will need 160 mg of oxygen (Note to metricphobes: get over it! The metric system is so much easier than our units when doing these types of calculations. No metric to English conversion is offered because chemistry simply cannot be addressed without using the metric system). 160 mg is equivalent to 0.005 moles of oxygen (0.16 grams/32 grams of oxygen per mole = 0.005 moles). If you multiply 0.005 moles by 22.4 l/mole you see that 0.112 liters of oxygen are required to supply the 160 mg required to yield a concentration of 8 ppm in your 20 liters of wort.
I said there are a few assumptions required for this calculation. The first assumption is that all of the oxygen injected in the wort goes into solution. This is not a bad assumption if the oxygen is bubbled from the bottom of the fermenter and the bubbles are really small. A wand with drilled holes (rather than a gas stone) would produce larger gas bubbles which have a reduced tendency to dissolve into the wort. This would be evident as bubbles break the surface of the wort. Assuming 100% transfer is not a bad assumption as long as you use a stone and keep the oxygen flow slow during aeration. The second assumption is that the ideal gas law is valid enough for brewing and that one mole of oxygen is similar enough to an ideal gas that the 22.4 liters/mole (at atmospheric pressure) conversion is believable. In my opinion, the ideal gas law is certainly good enough for brewing. If you are a chemistry guru fell free to use your favorite equation of state.
If you want to buy a gas rotameter look for one that is scaled in liters per minutes (not cubic feet per minute) with a range between 0-1 Liter/minute (lpm) and 0.1 subdivisions. In this example, running the gas flow at 0.2 liters per minute for 30 seconds will introduce about 0.1 liters of oxygen.
Some brewers attempt to replace a gas flow meter with a gas pressure gauge. Without getting into details, I do not recommend using pressure as an indication of flow because it simply does not work well. Unless you know that 10 psi gas pressure delivered to your stone gives some known flow rate you are guessing. The bottom line is that to use oxygen for brewing you really should have a flow meter.
Once you get some experience in introducing oxygen into your wort you can begin making adjustments. If you believe that less than 100% of the gas is going into solution, you can make small adjustments to compensate for the loss. Without measuring the oxygen concentration in your wort this is certainly a guess, but it can be a reasonable one. If you approximate that you are getting 90% of the oxygen injected into your wort, simply divide 0.112 by 0.90 and increase the oxygen volume to 0.124 liters. By using a flow meter you can make small changes with the confidence that accompanies knowing your flow.
We use air for aeration at Springfield Brewing Company. Dry compressed air comes into our aeration panel, flows through a sterile filter, then to a rotameter flow meter before the in-line injection point. Whether using oxygen or air, gas flow meters are handy gizmos to have around the brewery!
Brew Your Own Technical Editor Ashton Lewis has been answering homebrew questions as his alter ego Mr. Wizard for the last 12 years. A selection of his Wizard columns have been collected in "The Homebrewer's Answer Book," just released, available online at brewyourownstore.com.


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Fez Developer: "3D Games Are Mostly about Dudes Walking on a 2D Plane"
Fez has been fascinating gamers for awhile now. Its hook, aside from looking gorgeous, is that you can rotate the game's 2D world. Although the game generally looks 2D, you're tasked with visualizing the world as a 3D space. For that, Fez is shaping up to be one of the most exciting and innovative releases since Portal.
In an interview with GameSetWatch, Phil Fish of Polytron Corporation spoke about Fez, the third dimension, and how developers aren't doing enough with their games. "Most 3D games that use 3D graphics and 3D worlds have a kind of 2D gameplay," he explained. "There's not enough verticality in most 3D games; you don't usually use all three directions in 3D games. 3D games are mostly about dudes walking on a 2D plane. Most 3D games could be downgraded to a 2D, top down perspective and wouldn't lose much of the gameplay."
He has a point. Consider a game like Black Ops: You spend most of your time fighting enemies that are generally at the same elevation as you. Even if they're up on a roof, they're usually far enough away that the verticality is irrelevant. While the view is 3D, the gameplay of Black Ops is mostly 2D.
"Some of my favorite 'vertical' games in recent times would include Crackdown (or the identical Crackdown 2), Assassin's Creed 2 and Just Cause 2," said Fish. "It's not complicated, they're just games that let you move 'up' very easily. They present you with a 3D space, and let you approach it from many different perspectives, not just one of a guy walking on a floor."
"I'm rarely playing an avatar-based game and not wishing that dude had a jet pack. [There are] not enough games about people flying," he concluded. While the rest of the interview is worth checking out, Fish reveals a weakness of 3D games. Whether working through a puzzle, moving to higher ground in a shooter, or jumping off skyscrapers in an open-world game, the third dimension is a tool that developers can use to make their games more dynamic, strategic, and intelligent. And yeah, every game should have a jet pack.


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Governor Andrew Cuomo didn't exactly say it when he called the message he left on our answering machine had a sort of rote, campaigny feel about it but I got the impression that he gives my family a lot of credit for helping to push marriage equality to passage in New York.
For years, my partner Erika and I wanted to tie the knot in New York the state where we live, where we met, where we first got to know each others' families, where we spent summers on Fire Island, where our sons, now 7, were born. But we had given up on that option being available anytime soon. We were embarrassed by the political dysfunction in Albany. In the meantime, our parents were becoming octogenarians, our sons were getting old enough to appreciate the festivities surrounding weddings and we were approaching our 10th anniversary. So, like other couples we had read about in the New York Times Style section, we decided to bring our party to Greenwich, Conn., which has had marriage equality since November 2008.
Despite the town's reputation for exclusivity, the good folks of Greenwich seemed delighted to have a pair of excited-yet-visibly-sleep-deprived parents marry in their town. The new gay-wedding mecca was breezily familiar with staging same-sex galas. Our shyness as 40-something brides did nothing to deter our perky, enthusiastic restaurant hosts. What we originally envisioned as a tiny affair turned bigger as we grew emboldened by the excitement of our friends and family. We sent invitations, then realized the enormity of the task ahead. We shopped for rings and dresses, hired "vendors," filed for a marriage license, consulted Martha Stewart Weddings online, worried about writing vows and wondered if we could bring ourselves to call each other wife. And then on June 24, after yet another dinner at which my mother offered her rules of seating arrangements just two weeks before our big day two formerly anti-gay-marriage Republican New York state senators came off the fence and eloquently explained why they were voting in support of the bill.
Cynical as I may have been about state politics, watching the vote at the end of New York's legislative session was a glimpse into something momentous, not just because the issue was so important to me but also because of the light it cast on politicians who seemed genuinely to have struggled and voted their consciences despite potential political risk. Especially moving was the testimony of devout Catholic Mark Grisanti of Buffalo, who declared his position even after it was clear that his vote was not necessary to pass the legislation. (He said that as a lawyer, he could not find a legal rationale for denying the rights he and his wife enjoy to other tax-paying New Yorkers.) The windier senator Stephen Saland also provided beauty amid the laborious proceedings. After describing the provisions that allowed him to adopt his stance, he said he had wrestled with gay marriage morally, but in the end believed his conservative parents would have thought he was doing the right thing. Marriage equality still has a long way to go, most strikingly on the federal level. But in an era of birthers and Tea Party extremists, this spare, unpolished glimpse of politicians as real people, moved by other real people, was deeply heartening.
So was the success of New York's Marriage Equality Act due to a remarkably effective governor and newly impassioned leadership in Albany? Perhaps. But Erika and I like to think that the thought of losing the Ineson/Barovick clan to a town across the border was an intolerable last straw. During and after the vote, friends called to ask if we were changing our plans. We're not. (I don't think I can withstand another effort at seating.) But we are indescribably proud and happy that we have the option to do so.


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Summoning stood at a crossroads with this album, as the 'Nightshade Forests'-MCD had been the first one that was not able to top its predecessor. Could they once again record a marvellous album and make another step forward or would they suffer the same fate that Abigor suffered, never again to reach the level of 'Orkblut' and 'Nachthymnen' ? Well, Protector and Silenius chose the first opportunity. 'Stronghold' is exactly the album that I had hoped for. Perhaps not as intense as 'Dol Guldur', nevertheless a masterpiece, and not to forget (except for the copy-gays of Enid), still in its very own style. Marching computerdrums, haunting but always 'nice' synthsmelodies, great vocals (maybe its even a bit easier to understand them this time). But the main difference is obviously that for the first time the guitarlines are clearly available, you can clearly distinguish Protector´s art of playing, maybe it was a good choice to change the studio and record in Nachtschatten Studios this time? The production at least is great! But, of course, there's one point that I have to criticize, why the hell do as well Summoning use female vocals now ? Okay, she's not that bad, and she does fit to the atmosphere the song 'Where Hope And Daylight Die' creates, nevertheless I am convinced that there's no need of using female background vocals on Black Metal-albums. Alright, but I think you already know what to do, this is again a fantastic Summoning-album, and this band just gives us what we expect from them, no negative surprise, no negative experiments, just more than an hour of intense art, just pure Summoning !
Favourite Tracks: Long Lost To Where No Pathway Goes, The Glory Disappears, The Rotting Horse On The Deadly Ground
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Bills sign Williams to fill need at guard
Chris Williams is a big-bodied, former first-round talent who's in the prime of his career and was not going to break the bank as a free-agent.
The Buffalo Bills decided those attributes were a good fit for their left-guard position and signed him Wednesday to a four-year contract worth a total of $13.5 million.
The move addressed the weak link on the Bills' offensive line. The Bills struggled with Colin Brown, Doug Legursky and Sam Young (briefly) at that spot last season.
Williams, 6-foot-6 and 320 pounds, looks like an upgrade. He can be used to pull, something the Bills didn't do with the immobile Brown, and he's far stouter against the bull rush than Legursky.
Is Williams good enough to make the position a strength?
Obviously, Bills coach Doug Marrone, a former offensive lineman and line coach, believes the answer is "yes." Williams' deal averages $3.37 million a year, just a shade under the average for Bills right guard Kraig Urbik ($3.65 million).
"With the signing of Chris Williams, I am particularly excited about the direction our offensive line is moving in," said Bills General Manager Doug Whaley, in a statement. "Because we wanted to address this position, and we feel like we filled the need with a very good player."
The top guard on the market, Zane Beadles, got $6 million a year from the Jacksonville Jaguars. The next best deal went to Jon Asamoah, who got $4.5 million from Atlanta. On the lower tier, San Diego gave ex-Bill Chad Rinehart $3 million a year. Williams is a better athlete than Rinehart.
However, Williams is unheralded, to say the least. He was a bust as a 2008 first-round pick out of Vanderbilt by the Chicago Bears. After starting for 2½ seasons, he was cut and picked up by the St. Louis Rams.
He rehabilitated himself to a degree by starting 16 games at left guard with the Rams in 2013.
The Rams expressed no dissatisfaction with him, and St. Louis coach Jeff Fisher said the team had "serious interest" in re-signing him.
"He played good, he was solid," said Fisher. "When you don't hear his name, you don't talk about him."
Not everyone was impressed. ESPN analyst Bill Polian had a low rating on Williams. The website ProFootballFocus.com had Williams as the Rams' lowest-rated player.
Former Bears scouting chief Greg Gabriel, now an analyst for Bleacher Report and National Football Post, likes Williams.
"He's a solid player, and a quality kid," Gabriel said. "When he stays low, he's darn good coming off the ball."
Run blocking is considered Williams' strongest suit.
"I definitely enjoy run blocking more," Williams said. "I think I'm capable in both areas. But as an offensive lineman being real close to 330 pounds, going forward is a lot better than going backward. But you have to be able to do both to win in this league and compete. It's all about balance offensively."
Williams said he viewed his season in St. Louis as a good step forward for his career. He credited Rams line coach Paul Boudreau with helping him.
"I think it helped a lot, working with my coach, coach Boudreau down there, he helped me develop my game as a guard," he said. "Coming here … I'm just really excited about it and to continue to develop my game. I'm always trying to work to get better. I think it's a great opportunity here to do that."
Williams said the winter storm that hit Wednesday did not deter him.
"It's an opportunity," he said. "I would go to Antarctica to play for an opportunity. Buffalo is a lot better than Antarctica and I'm just excited to be here."
"I spent 4½ years in Chicago," Williams said. "I like the cold weather. I think it's a true home-field advantage with the fans here and the weather here. Come playoff time, hosting home games, that's what you want in the cold and snow. It's hard for teams to come up here and win games. The weather definitely didn't scare me off."
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"His work at MIT in the 1960s on group behavior foreshadowed -- and helped bring about -- today's headlong plunge into less hierarchical, more democratic and adaptive institutions, private and public," management expert Tom Peters wrote in 1993 in the foreword to Bennis An Invented Life: Reflections on Leadership and Change.
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PARIS - French President Francois Hollande is holding an emergency meeting with top government ministers on Monday, after the far right National Front emerged as France's most popular party in voting for the European Parliament.
Hollande's Socialist Party finished a distant third in Sunday's voting. He summoned a special meeting to address the results, which Prime Minister Manuel Valls called an "earthquake."
The National Front led sweeping gains for far right and Euroskeptic parties in the European Parliament elections Sunday. Many voters, however, cast ballots for domestic reasons, to express disappointment in mainstream national parties. (AP)


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