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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Downtown Tuley: Hip to be square on Second Street?
Address: 517 2nd St. NE
Neighborhood: North Downtown
Asking: $995,000
Assessment: $664,800
Year Built: 1990
Size: 2,414 Sq. ft.
Land: 0.09 acres
Agent: Robert Headrick, Summit Realty Company, (434) 817-4040
Curb Appeal: 8 out of 10
So you've pushed out the 2.5 kids and finally sent them on to that American bankruptcy factory we call college. Some parents will leave Junior's baseball trophies and Missy's blue ribbons forever enshrined in their childhood bedrooms, dusted occasionally but otherwise left intact. Other parents are looking to pack up and drive away from the picket fence forever.
If you're an empty-nester looking for a new perch, it couldn't hurt to check out the house at 517 2nd St. At worst, you'll spend half an hour after Sunday brunch touring a home that could pass for an art gallery with gorgeous paintings on the walls. At best, you could find that the house is its own work of art, filled with light and oozing with livable modernity.
This North Downtown neighborhood is so popular among the well-heeled that a couple recently won permission from City Council to put an approximately 6,000-square-foot house next door.
The façade of this place may set some house-hunters aback. If you're used to the comfortably stolid brick houses of Charlottesville's suburbs, a narrow, boxy stucco and glass exterior could be off-putting and might look more like a condo than a house. But that's all part of the plan.
Designed in the International, or DeStijl, style by James Tuley in 1990, the house is surprisingly warm and livable for all of its slickster appeal.
The door of #517 opens up to a small entryway with a coat closet and a side room off to the left. It's currently being used as an upscale storage facility, but is plumbed, heated and cooled, which means that it could be renovated into a third bedroom and bathroom if the buyer wanted extra space for guests.
A glistening maple staircase leads you up to the main floor, with six skylights creating a corridor of light. The main living space has an open floor plan perfect for entertaining, with the kitchen, dining room, and living room flawlessly flowing into one another, illuminated by large windows looking out onto this floor's two terraces. There's a small (very) half bath tucked into the corner of the kitchen, and the current owners have created an office out of the living room alcove that overlooks the staircase.
The upstairs living space is not quite as felicitous. The den, while it does have a wood-burning fireplace, feels a little cramped compared to the expansive downstairs. The den's large windows showcase a small, gem-like garden and a long hallway leads to a small bedroom and bathroom and the master bed and bath.
The master bathroom has a big built-in tub, and the bedroom has a private terrace and the big windows that are ubiquitous in this house. But the bedroom feels a little odd due to the storage system that's currently in place— big bookshelves (which the owners plan to take with them) and an 18-foot-long series of cabinets in lieu of a closet. So there's plenty of space to stash Junior's trophies, but the system is a little dowdy for such a sophisticated space.
Aside from these gripes, #517 could be a perfect staging site for empty-nesters itching to reinvent themselves (or a swinging singles pad for any hipster with a cool million lying around).
The downtown location makes it easy to pick up a library book, a cup of joe, and a bouquet of flowers from Charlottesville's City Market. But at what price?
The sellers are currently asking for over $300,000 more than the house's assessed worth. Granted, the house has only been on the market for a few weeks, so the price may drop. But the agent says that the price is fair and was developed after comparison with recently sold downtown properties of similar square-footage.
One downtown property is the colorful modernist concoction at 615 Kelly Avenue, complete with koi pond, (reviewed in this column in August, The mostest: Steel and glass create energy downtown), which is the reason the owners of #517 are selling the house they've owned for10 years. But the Kelly Avenue place, while farther away from the Mudhouse, is nearly twice the square footage of this one and has a bit more yard (0.3 acres versus 0.09).
The Kelly Avenue asking price is $995,000, exactly the same price tag as #517. Looks like the owners of #517 are looking to get more house for their money.
I can't say I blame them, but I can't say I'll bite.
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Lower Inventories
The measure of orders waiting to be filled climbed to 53 from 51. The inventory index decreased to 46.5 from 49.5, while a gauge of customer stockpiles dropped to 44.5 from 47.5. A figure higher than 50 means manufacturers are building stockpiles.
The index of prices paid for materials decreased to 50 from 54.5.
The economy's inability to maintain a faster pace of growth and bigger employment gains explain why Federal Reserve policy makers, who conclude their two-day meeting today, will probably reiterate the need to continue record monetary stimulus. The officials have said they'll maintain that policy until the outlook for the labor market improves "substantially."
At the same time, consumer spending led by demand for automobiles may help keep manufacturing from faltering. Cars and light trucks sold at an average 15.3 million annualized rate in the first quarter, the most since the same period in 2008, according to figures from Ward's Automotive Group.
Motor Vehicles
Tenneco, a maker of diesel-exhaust filters and mufflers, is seeing a "mixed global industry environment," according to Chief Executive Officer Gregg Sherrill. The Lake Forest, Illinois-based company expects to benefit later this year from improving light-vehicle production in North America and overseas markets including China.
"With a continued weak global market and the significant inventory destocking taking place, we anticipate production to remain at low levels in the second quarter," Sherrill said in an earnings conference call on April 29. "However, as inventory issues are worked through, we expect to see some volume improvements in the second half of the year."
Regional reports signaled factories pulled back in April. The MNI Chicago Report's business barometer fell to 49, the weakest since September 2009, from 52.4 in March, according to figures yesterday. A reading less than 50 signals contraction.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's so-called Empire State measure showed manufacturing in the region expanded in April at the slowest pace in three months, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's index showed factory activity barely grew.
First Quarter
The 2.5% annualized pace of economic expansion in the first three months of the year may give way to weaker growth this quarter amid the lagged effect from a two percentage-point increase in the payroll tax at the start of 2013 and $85 billion in automatic budget cuts that began on March 1.
Growth will slow to a 1.5% pace from April through June, then reaccelerate to an average 2.4% rate in the last six months of the year, according to an April survey by Bloomberg.
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Title: The Lucy Variations
Author: Sara Zarr
May Contain Spoilers
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Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. The right people knew her name, her performances were booked months in advance, and her future seemed certain.
That was all before she turned fourteen.
Now, at sixteen, it's over. A death, and a betrayal, led her to walk away. That leaves her talented ten-year-old brother, Gus, to shoulder the full weight of the Beck-Moreau family expectations. Then Gus gets a new piano teacher who is young, kind, and interested in helping Lucy rekindle her love of piano — on her own terms. But when you're used to performing for sold-out audiences and world-famous critics, can you ever learn to play just for yourself?
National Book Award finalist Sara Zarr takes readers inside the exclusive world of privileged San Francisco families, top junior music competitions, and intense mentorships. The Lucy Variations is a story of one girl's struggle to reclaim her love of music and herself. It's about finding joy again, even when things don't go according to plan. Because life isn't a performance, and everyone deserves the chance to make a few mistakes along the way.
I love books set in highly competitive settings, and musical competitions are a favorite. Lucy's competitive days are over, though. At the start of The Lucy Variations, she's been in retirement for eight months. Eight months since she quit, since she walked out of a concert hall in Prague. She has been lost to herself for all of this time; longer, actually, because she lost her love for music and for her piano well before then. Her journey to find herself is not without mistakes and heartbreak, but when she does find herself again, will she have the courage to stand up to her family and take herself back?
After destructing in Prague, Lucy is happy with her new, stress free life. That's what she keeps telling herself, anyway. After her grandmother's death, nothing mattered anymore; not her music, not her family, not her schoolwork. Walking off the stage in Prague was intended as a protest to her grandfather, a message that she didn't appreciate how he had made the decision that she would be competing instead of with her dying grandmother. Betrayed, Lucy still hasn't forgiven her family for lying to her, and she hasn't forgiven herself for not standing up to her grandfather. When she walked off the stage, he took her protest to be permanent. He called her a quitter, and told her her career was over. Now, the attention is on her talented younger brother, also a gifted pianist. Now, without the pressure of competition and practice, Lucy can be a teenager. She can have crushes and make friends and be a normal kid. Only, truthfully, she will never be a normal kid because she misses being someone, though she can't even admit that to herself.
Lucy is a compelling character. She's confused and angry. She can't get past that day in Prague, when she gave everything up, only she didn't realize at the time that her actions would last forever. She never thought that her grandfather, a harsh taskmaster, would be so uncompromising, and that he would deny her the chance to apologize and get back on with her piano practice. Instead, he dumped her faster than a garbage truck emptying a load at the local landfill. Lucy has no one to stand up for her against her grandfather, and as the months go by, she is more and more resentful of how she has been judged and left wanting.
When her brother, Gus, needs a new piano instructor, Will and his beautiful wife enter their lives. Will is so alive and so passionate about music. He makes Lucy remember all of the things she loved about it. He makes her want to try new things and play just for herself. As she gets to know him better and work through her issues with her family, Lucy develops a monumental crush on Will. This is the part of the story that I liked the least. Lucy jumps from an inappropriate crush on her English teacher to a crush on Will, but none of the moral dilemmas were adequately explored. There are no consequences explored, no significant examination of how their friendship is hurting Will's wife. I was very disappointed with this aspect of the story.
Overall, I did enjoy The Lucy Variations. It's an engaging story about a girl longing to find herself again, and to reestablish her voice in her demanding, controlling family.
Grade: B/B-
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ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) - February 15, 2014 --A New Jersey man who arranged to have eight pounds of marijuana sent to him from California has been sentenced to six years in prison.
Acting Union County Prosecutor Grace Park said 24-year-old Zachary Cohen of Edison Township must serve at least three years of the term imposed Friday before he becomes eligible for parole. He also will have to serve five years of probation once he's freed from prison.
Cohen was arrested last August, after he and a woman went to the Linden post office to pick up the package. The arrest culminated a joint investigation by the Postal Service and Linden police.
Cohen pleaded guilty last October to a second-degree drug possession charges.
Authorities have not said from where in California the package was mailed.


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BleuLineLady wrote:Scratch Malkin. Sounds crazy, but nothing else is working. I made a point about this before the playoffs start. Here is the Pens record with and without Malkin this year: With Malkin 23-12, Without Malkin, 15-2. In the 35 games played with him in the lineup this year, in 22 of them the opposing team scored more than 2 goals. In the 17 games without him, opposing teams scored more than 2 goals in 5 of those games. Team defense becomes worse with him in the lineup. Obviously, they are still winning many of these games but the stats show not as convincingly or as securely and in the playoffs, when team defense does matter, this could be the difference.
His defense and lack of responsibility has been severely hurting this team for a long while now. The numbers dont lie and it should be evident.


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The Siren Song of the Moderate Republican Presidential Candidate
The recent government shutdown once again raised the idea of a Republican Civil War between moderates and conservatives within the party. This idea is carried forward in a profile of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie written by MSNBC's Joe Scarborough for Time Magazine. He argues that Christie's cake-walk re-election this week came about because he "dominated the middle of a Democratic electorate."
To win again—to make America great and growing again—requires a return to the spirit and substance of Eisenhower and Reagan. We Republicans will not win national elections if we do not broaden our appeal in the way these giants did. Nor will we govern well if we refuse to make principled compromises when necessary, the kinds of compromises that led Ike and Reagan to historical greatness.
Daniel Greenfield at Frontpage Mag disagrees with this approach, writing, "The Republican Party has allowed its enemies to define it. Its moderation has convinced voters that it's crazy and dangerous because without raising its voice and fighting back, the only things they know about it comes from its enemies."
Who is right? Should the Republican Party abandon its conservative Tea Party base and embrace moderation, by supporting a liberal Republican like Christie, or should the Party ignore the calls for moderation and follow a more ideological path by selecting a Rand Paul or Ted Cruz to bear the party's standard in 2016?
Let me begin by stating I like Chris Christie. I disagree with him on many issues, in particularly his stance on guns, but if he's the nominee I will support him, and not because I'm a good little Republican. I like his willingness, eagerness really, to bait his opponents in a fight. His aggression is something we have lacked in candidates with a few flashes from Michelle Bachmann, and the exception of Newt Gingrich, who catapulted himself to front-runner status after taking on CNN's Anderson Cooper in a debate Cooper was moderating. The GOP base feels that the Republican Party establishment has been playing by Marquess of Queensberry rules in a street fight. Somewhere along the line, I'd guess the death of Lee Atwater, the Republican Party lost the stomach to do anything and everything to win an election. This spirit is not lacking in their Democratic opponents. The Democrats will do anything to attain and keep power. It's like a football game between the New England Patriots and your local high school's JV team. You can show all the heart on the field you want, but you're still going to lose. Christie has that heart but he also knows the sport and plays it like a professional. He doesn't just respond, he eviscerates. He uses both his size and his New Jersey accent as weapons, and he would shred just about any Democratic candidate in the debates.
But I am not convinced picking Christie as the nominee will win the GOP the White House.
The problem as I see it is that while he might may have dominated a Democratic electorate in New Jersey in his 2013 re-election, he likely won't do the same nationally in 2016. The Democrats knew he had a lock on the governorship, which is why they didn't put up much of a fight or waste money supporting his challenger. This will not be the case in 2016. Then he will face a Democratic electorate unified in its quest to control the White House for another 8 years. Liberal interest groups will open their checkbooks, as will billionaires like George Soros and Michael Bloomberg. And unless the Republican party and its allies mount an effective campaign to neutralize the air cover provided by the mainstream media for the Democratic candidate as Bill Whittle at Bamboo Spears warns, the Democratic Party will control the public perception of the Republican nominee. Whittle writes, "If you are fighting a conventional war and you do not own the skies, you are going to lose." Picking Christie would be fighting a conventional war.
Today Christie is perceived by the media as a tough talking leader of a tough state, able to twist arms and get things done. Come election day 2016, he will be a "racist, 1% supporting, woman hating, gay bashing, right wing extremist. Did we mention he was fat? Gross…" Can't happen? It already has. The Democrats and their allies in the media took a popular liberal Republican governor of a Blue State with the same "bipartisan" getting things done record and turned him into a caricature that Romney himself didn't recognize. In fact, it's the same playbook used against John McCain in 2008 except that McCain's bipartisan record and legislative successes occurred in the Senate and not the state house. There's already proof it's happening as John Nolte at Breitbart.com noticed with the "Elephant in the Room" Time cover, concerns about his health, and weight jokes. "The media love Christie when he is hugging Barack Obama and trashing conservatives. But the media also know that he is about to threaten Hillary Clinton's ascension to the White House. By laying the groundwork with the weight issue now, the media hope to turn Christie into a national fat joke as a way to undermine his candidacy."
And before I go much further let's stop the pretense. No more "Democratic candidate;" everyone knows that the Democratic candidate will be Hillary Clinton. The time has finally come for the Democratic Party to wield that old battle axe in battle that it has been itching to do since 2000.
The Democratic Party Lesson
The success of Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 began on January 19, 2004 in West Des Moines Iowa with a concession speech by Howard Dean. Dean, recovering from a severe bout of the flu, was shouting over the cheers of his audience using a uni-directional microphone that filtered out the sound of the audience. In the speech Dean sounded possessed, his voice cracking when he screamed "Yeah!" at the end became known as the "Dean Scream." Howard Dean, who had run an insurgent, grass-roots campaign against the Democratic establishment candidates of John Kerry and John Edwards, was left vulnerable.
Dean had raised millions through small internet donations, a first in a presidential election in the United States. He energized the liberal base of the party who had always opposed the Iraq War that both Kerry and Edwards had voted for in 2002. His supporters and volunteers were young and enthusiastic, striking some in the establishment as almost "cult-like". Deans meteoric rise in the fall of 2003 scared the Democratic establishment. They saw Dean as unelectable in the general election, an extremist that President Bush would turn into a George McGovern surrogate in a re-run of the 1972 election. Dean had to be stopped, so the establishment began leaking unflattering stories to the press, blunting Dean's candidacy around the holiday season. But the Deaniacs remained devoted, distrusting the Democratic Party establishment just as much as the Tea Partiers dislike the GOP establishment today.
When Dean screamed, the Democratic establishment pounced, and within days Howard Dean had flamed out. With Howard Dean gone, so was the enthusiasm for the Democratic candidate, culminating in the awkward "Reporting for duty" quip by John Kerry at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. The establishment ran an establishment-designed and executed campaign, and the base never got behind it. Kerry lost.
But Howard Dean wasn't done. Within weeks of the inauguration of President George W. Bush to a second term, Dean focused on becoming the chairman of the DNC. Again the Democratic establishment opposed him in his effort; rumors are both Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi fought his candidacy. But Dean had the votes this time, and he won. Suddenly the candidate of the liberal grassroots, the outsiders arrayed against the establishment, became the establishment.
Dean took the party's apparatus and immediately put it to work. He focused on the grassroots, ironically using a strategy first employed by the Republican Party regrouping after Vietnam and the Nixon resignation in the 1970s known as the "50 State Strategy." This channeled the energy of the grassroots to the benefit of all political levels within each state. A feature of this strategy was to replace moderates and conservatives within the party who tended towards compromise or bi-partisan solutions with dogmatic liberals dedicated to pushing the liberal agenda beloved by the grassroots. The result was a party purged of its pro-life, pro-2nd amendment, free-trade and middle-class supporting, environmentally-agnostic members. Losing conservative and members of the party shifted its balance ideologically from center-left to the hard left, leaving the Democratic Party today more liberal than at any time in its history.
It worked. Not only did Dean's strategy net the party the White House in 2008, it also gained them both houses of Congress. The Democratic Party did not gain control of two of the three branches of American government by running the most moderate or conservative candidates: it won by running the most liberal politicians dedicated to the principles of the Party. For the presidency the extremists who had lost in 2004 had backed Barack Obama by almost 2-1 versus the more moderate John Edwards and Hillary Clinton. Obama's election, engineered by Howard Dean's amazing rebound after his early 2004 collapse, stands as one of the greatest examples of a grassroots movement outwitting the establishment and achieving victory in recent history.
Republicans would be stupid not to heed it, but we all know who the stupid party is in American politics.
The Game Changer
Charles Krauthammer believes soul searching by the Republican Party isn't necessary. Its principles are sound; there is no need to kick the Tea Party caucus out of the party and reinvent itself.
The country doesn't need two liberal parties. Yes, Republicans need to weed out candidates who talk like morons about rape. But this doesn't mean the country needs two pro-choice parties either. In fact, more women are pro-life than are pro-choice. The problem here for Republicans is not policy but delicacy — speaking about culturally sensitive and philosophically complex issues with reflection and prudence.
Additionally, warn the doomsayers, Republicans must change not just ethnically but ideologically. Back to the center. Moderation above all!
More nonsense. Tuesday's exit polls showed that by an eight-point margin (51-43), Americans believe that government does too much. And Republicans are the party of smaller government. Moreover, onrushing economic exigencies — crushing debt, unsustainable entitlements — will make the argument for smaller government increasingly unassailable.
Krauthammer recommends a single policy change. Embrace amnesty for illegal immigrants but do so after securing the border. Announce complete amnesty; anyone here will become citizen no fine print, no qualifiers. The only string is that the border must be secured first and it has to be secured properly. The Israelis have done it on a smaller scale using walls, electronic sensors and drones. We could do the same, and once that is done if you are here that's it: You're a citizen.
Living with Hispanics as I do in rural North Carolina I'm amazed the Democratic Party thinks they are natural Democrats. Hispanics are culturally conservative, more conservative in some respects than red-necks and the NASCAR crowd the liberal elite likes to make fun of. They are religious and family-centric. They are industrious and have an innate distrust of the government after having experienced the ineffectual, corrupt and oppressive governments in Central America. In short they are natural Republicans. But they have voted Democratic because of the Republican stance on illegal immigration and because the GOP has bought the Democrat's narrative that they own that minority.
So change the political dynamic using the Secure-Amnesty approach. It would be a classic bit of political jujitsu; all the effort the Democratic Party has put into securing Hispanic votes suddenly is used against them. It would change the dynamic between the parties for generations. And that's what a living party does: it evolves and grows while remaining true to its core beliefs. Immigration policy isn't a core Republican belief; fix it and move on.
Let the Democrats Drink Kool-aid, the GOP Should Stick to Tea
Those who advise the GOP to select a moderate candidate with a record of "reaching across the aisle" is either a Democratic consultant or a self-hating Republican like Mr. Scarborough who probably needs to change his party affiliation (I think he's been breathing the air at MSNBC too long.) Anyone the GOP nominates will be portrayed as racist, xenophobic, homophobic right wing zealot guilty of waging a war on women. It could put up the Pillsbury Dough Boy and the party would be accused by the Democrats and their lapdog press of being in the pocket of agribusiness and guilty of poisoning the food supply with gluten.
The only solution is to simply ignore the other side. Sure it's great if the GOP can bring back some of the Reagan Democrats who haven't died or converted into Republicans already, but the deciding factors should all be internal.
Does the nominee excite the base? The GOP primaries of 2011-12 seem like happening so long ago, but it's worth remembering who got Republicans excited. First there was Michelle Bachmann, then Rick Perry, Herman Cain and finally, almost in desperation, there was Newt Gingrich. None of these four had the ability to maintain interest, and as a result the love affairs with each were intense but brief. When all these suitors were dropped, there was only Mitt Romney, and honestly the base just wasn't into him. Choosing Romney was a chore for the base, and no matter how much the establishment promised he had what it took to beat Obama, it never warmed to him. As a result Romney got 2 million few votes than McCain in a contest decided by 3 million votes.
Did the nominee get wealthy through means other than finance? I doubt paupers will be serious primary candidates, but there is wealth achieved by what most Americans consider to be hard work, and there's wealth that's perceived to be ill-gotten. Getting wealthy in the financial industry makes one immediately suspect. Romney never escaped Bain Capital, and if the GOP picks Christie everyone will soon discover that he made his wealth at Goldman Sachs, known as the "Vampire Squid" in a 2009 article by Rolling Stones writer Matt Taibbi, by stealing old people's pensions and drinking the carbonated tears of orphans. Christie has so many skeletons in his closet that Romney slammed the door in terror, and he selected Paul Ryan as his running mate instead. Rest assured that somewhere one of Hillary Clinton's staff is devouring and the book behind the accusations, and the more likely Christie will become the GOP standard-bearer the more the public will find them on public display.
Does the nominee really want the job and have "fire in the belly" to prove it? McCain really wanted to be president in 2000, but by the time it was his turn in 2008 his candidacy lacked the fire of his days in the "Straight-talk Express," and obviously so did his belly. Had Bush had less luck and McCain more I'm convinced he would have won in 2000 against Gore by a wide margin. Romney seemed to have it in the primaries when he was fighting for the nomination, but seemed exhausted of both ideas, spirit and worse, fight by the Labor Day 2012 rolled around the partisan battle started in earnest. Running for president takes a level of courage, stamina, egotism and even insanity that normal people do not have. Their past should reflect a constant striving for the ultimate job, their decisions made at all levels of their career with the knowledge that someday they would have to justify them. They don't need to be perfect, just justifiable, and the more honest the answers the better.
All candidates in the mix currently meet these criteria with the exception of Christie (missing 1, 2) and Rubio (missing 1). Three years out it's impossible to say who will win the primaries in 2016 and become the GOP nominee, but here's my take. Ted Cruz: Too inexperienced. Rand Paul: The sane Ron Paul, but can't we nominate a governor please after suffering a crappy senator for 8 years? Rick Perry: An early favorite as long as his wooden demeanor comes across as presidential timber. It didn't in 2012. Sarah Palin: Worth nominating just to see liberal heads explode. Cat-fight for the Presidency would make a WWF cage-match look like tea at Downton Abbey. Someone else? As the year ends and 2014 begins, it will increasingly look unlikely for another player to appear. I'd give the odds at 60-40 in favor today, declining to 50-50 in Feb 2014 (two years ahead of New Hampshire Primary) and 40-60 against in Summer 2014.


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Mary Heneberry is in her fourth year as an assistant women's lacrosse coach at Washington and Lee. In her first season, the Generals recovered from a 2-5 start in a rebuilding season to post a 10-10 overall record and claim the ODAC title. Along the way, W&L knocked off the tournament's top two seeds on the road to advance to the NCAA Tournament.
In 2014, Heneberry helped lead the Generals to their fifth-consecutive ODAC title and a berth to the NCAA second round. W&L took down Denison at home, 13-5, but fell to TCNJ, 13-7, in the regional round. The Blue and White finished the season with a 17-3 overall mark, which tied the program's record for wins in a season, and a perfect 10-0 in conference play for the fourth time in the past five seasons.
In her third season, W&L claimed the program's 16th conference championship and advanced to the regional round of the NCAA Tournament. The Generals defeated Sewanee, 18-4, in the second round, but lost to Fredonia, 9-5, to end the season with a 16-3 overall record.
Heneberry came to W&L after serving as the assistant director of the Diamonds Lacrosse Club in Baltimore, Md., and also serving as a contributing writer for Inside Lacrosse Magazine.
With Diamonds Lacrosse, she was responsible for assisting with the coaching for each of the club's six teams, in addition to advising players and their families on the collegiate recruiting process. At Inside Lacrosse, she wrote weekly features on women's lacrosse and provided game coverage for the website ILWomen.com.
Heneberry also held an assistant coaching post at St. Andrew's School and assisted with development and coaching at Casey Powell Lacrosse in Boca Raton, Fla., this spring.
A 2011 graduate of Loyola College with bachelor of arts degrees in writing and philosophy, Heneberry was a four-year letterwinner for the Greyhounds' lacrosse team, earning Second Team All-Big East honors as a senior. That year, she helped lead Loyola to the Big East Championship and a trip to the NCAA Quarterfinals, finishing as the team's fourth-leading scorer with 38 points. Heneberry completed her collegiate career with 86 goals and 32 assists.
At Dulaney High School, Heneberry was a two-time All-American and a finalist for the 2007 Tewaaraton High School Award.


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Pinus nigra (European black pine)
Black Pines
Pinus nigra
Pinaceae (Pine family)
The Main Walk consists only of statuesque conifers. Here there is a grouping of the Black or Austrian Pine with subspecies that display distinctive features. These large, mature trees date from the earliest plantings in the 1840s. The most extreme contrast is the pairing of
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ssp nigra with
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ssp salzmannii. They are planted directly opposite each other on the Main Walk.
The former, from snowy regions of Austria, has downward-sloping, relatively unbranched, slender limbs with short, stiff needles, while
Pinus nigra
from Spain has immense upwardly-spreading branches and an open canopy of long needles. The positioning of such different growth forms in this high-profile spot, where more usually symmetry would be called for, has a didactic purpose. Nearby are found two further subspecies, the Crimean Pine,
Pinus nigra
, and the Corsican Pine,
Pinus nigra
. These all remind us of the profound influence that Professor John Stevens Henslow had on the original conception, layout and planting of the 'new' Botanic Garden.
From 1825 onwards, Henslow was studying the nature of species. There were three major strands to his research: establishing patterns of continuous variation; studies of sudden changes of form, which Henslow referred to as 'monstrosities', in order to understand the process of development; and studies of hybridisation to test species identity. Into this rich research programme came the young Charles Darwin. He spent such a lot of time in the company of his teacher and mentor that he became known amongst the dons as 'the man who walks with Henslow'. This close relationship led to Henslow recommending Darwin for the position of naturalist on the voyage of the Beagle. The five-year journey played a pivotal role in the genesis of Darwin's revolutionary thinking, which led to 'On the Origin of Species', published in 1859.
Thus, Henslow's research legacy became Darwin's inheritance, one that we can still see in the trees at the Botanic Garden. Other early groupings of trees dating from 1840s illustrate Henslow's concern with species. These include the pair of Cedars at the junction of the Main Walk and Henslow Walk, the group of Beech trees on Middle Walk near the Custodian's Hut, and groups of Yew at the western and eastern ends of the Glasshouses.
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"Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" – Movie Review
- Holly McClure Movie Reviewer
- 2003 3 Jul
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Rating: R (for strong sci-fi violence and action, language, brief nudity)
Release Date: July 2, 2003
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Kristanna Loken, Claire Danes, Alana Curry, Timothy Dowling, Mark Famiglietti, Mark Hicks, Jerry Katell, Brian Sites
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Special Notes: The ''Terminator'' franchise may be old, but much like Schwarzenegger's titular cyborg, it's still unstoppable. Fans have been waiting more than 10 years for a follow-up to 1991's ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day.'' And considering that "T3" was made on a $150 million budget, with more than 600 F/X shots, the filmmakers (including 'U-571' director Jonathan Mostow) are pulling out the big guns to give the people what they want. One cause for the long delay is that the company that owned the franchise, Carolco Pictures, went bankrupt shortly after the release of "T2." A long, tortured development followed, culminating in Schwarzenegger signing on for a record $30 mil. Danes was not the original actress picked for her role, but when she got a last minute call before shooting to replace the other actress who was deemed to young Danes accepted and was rushed to join the rest of the crew. Arnold flew to Iraq to show the troops a private screening of "T3."
Plot: A decade after John Connor (Stahl) helped prevent Judgment Day and save mankind from mass destruction, he now spends his days living on the run (so he can't be traced by Skynet), searching for the destiny he was born for. On the night that he wrecks his motorcycle and breaks into a veterinary clinic for medicine, John meets Kate Brewster (Danes) and immediately the two are threatened by a sophisticated android killing machine (that looks like an anatomically correct woman) the T-X (Loken). The highly developed killing machine was sent from Skynet to kill Connor and various other future lieutenants, including veterinarian Brewster. This time around the T-X is relentless and proves to be an unstoppable deadly force – far more powerful than the obsolete Terminator model. She can assume the shape of anyone she touches, control any machine, survive any crash and destroy any weapon that goes against her. The same night T-X comes to Earth, the Terminator (Schwarzenegger) is also sent to search for and protect not only John, but Kate as well. When Connor meets his only hope for survival, their mission is to find Skynet and destroy it before Judgment Day.
Good: I find it rather amusing that in a day and age in Hollywood when (for the most part) the youth dominate the television and movie screens, two famous baby boomers, Demi Moore and Arnold Schwarzenegger, are kicking box office bucks to record numbers. They're proving to the younger movie-going audience that age has no boundaries when it comes to playing heroes or tough guys. In fact, these days, action stars seem to be getting better looking and staying in better shape as they get older (let's not forget Sean Connery as an action hero in the soon to be released "The League of Extraordinary Gentleman"). Most anyone and everyone who enjoys sci-fi and/or action movies has seen or heard of Schwarzenegger's roles in the "Terminator" movies. So it should come as no surprise that this time around, "T3" continues the theme of machines pitted against man in a war for survival and yes … this one is just as intense, violent and filled with action as the other two. I knew the story would be interesting and the special effects amazing, but what I wasn't prepared for was how good Arnold looks and acts in this movie. For a man of 56 (this month is his birthday) Arnold proves that he's popular with his fans and knows what it takes to have longevity in this business … and quite possibly in the political arena as well. In short, his fans love him as much as the camera does. Many fans will recognize (and appreciate) the trademark lines that have become legendary for Schwarzenegger – lines like "I'll be back", "She'll be back", and his new one, "Talk to the hand". Most of his character's familiar mannerisms, dry humor and passion to protect John Connor are likewise back in full force which make the hero even more relatable and likeable. I was amazed at how much Stahl looks and sound like the original adult John Connor and was impressed with the job Danes did as well. Even though much of the special effects and stunts are done for Loken, she still turns in an amazing performance as the machine you love to hate. I have to admit, when I saw the trailer I wondered if a female machine would be as intense or scary as "T2" was … and let me tell you, she is. With a tag line like, "Anything he can do she can do better", you can expect a competitive battle. The stunt work is absolutely amazing and several of the action-packed scenes will leave you scratching your head in disbelief – they're that good! I have to admit I liked the film for the sci-fi story but could have enjoyed it more without all of the language and amount of violence it had in it.
Bad: Aside from the obvious reasons why you might like this movie, there's an abundance of reasons why you might not. Numerous profanities and obscenities are overused in this movie with everything from mild language to religious profanities and exclamations. Violence is in almost every scene of this movie which consists of a tremendous amount of brutal action and sci-fi oriented fighting. The T-X machine kills an army of people, but perhaps the most disturbing deaths are the several high school students she executes because they will become future leaders in John's resistance. Although no bloody hits are shown or bodies seen, it's still implied. I was amazed at how much property is damaged in this movie! I'm talking huge buildings ripped apart, tons of car crashes, lots of explosions and of course, a gazillion rounds of ammunition fired. Then there's the special effects with Skynet killer machines wreaking havoc on a whole building. Several scenes showing bloody characters are unsettling. Loken is the most intense character dishing out her own brand of violence. There's a scene where Conner takes drugs to stop the pain from an accident injury. There are numerous sexual references (the T-X spots a Victoria's Secret billboard and makes her bra get bigger under her clothes). The T-X unit arrives nude at night, (like Arnold does) bent over and briefly shown from the side. There are a couple of shots of the Terminator's bare backside when he arrives (fully nude). We then see his nude backside in the shadows as he walks toward a bar and tells a male stripper to take off his outfit (all in leather) and give it to him for clothing. There are numerous bloody scenes involving people being shot or cut with a blade. Arnold performs surgery on his android chest. The T-X drives her fist and arm through the back seat of a car (also killing the passenger), and sticks her fist through the driver's chest to ultimately steer the car. The T-X kicks the Terminator's head and nearly decapitates him (two times we see the head hanging backwards from his body). A driver is rear-ended by John and threatens his life and much, much more. There are so many scenes of violence (including a scene of nuclear destruction), that I can't possible list them all. I do need to point out that this movie also had excessive violence between a man and woman fighting. Sure they are both supposed to be robots, but there are still several scenes that show a man and woman hitting, punching and smashing each other to bits … literally. There are a couple of memorable scenes with unusual action that people will probably talk about: one takes place in a bathroom that completely gets destroyed by the two androids and another takes place with a large crane truck in pursuit of John who's in a small truck. Both result in a great deal of property being damaged or destroyed. Those scenes are kind of like the ones in "The Matrix Reloaded" – people will talk about them. In truth, the war between man and machine is depicted as brutal and cold – exactly what a war between man and machines would end up being.
Bottom Line: This is clearly an R rated movie for the adult sci-fi fans and in no way should be seen by underage kids or adolescents. Parents, it's up to you to be discerning for what is appropriate even for your teenager. Although I enjoyed this sci-fi fantasy for the storyline, the abundance of profanity was too much, along with the excessive violence. I also had to chuckle at the line, "your fate is what you make it" because as a Christian, aren't we glad that our eternal "fate" is NOT defined by what we "make it"?


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Group of Seven policy makers roiled the currency markets they sought to calm amid conflicting messages on how much of an economic threat is posed by the weakening yen.
The yen whipsawed as the G-7 appeared at first to signal joint acceptance of the Japanese currency's recent decline, only to see its members offer contradictory interpretations of the group's stance. One G-7 official said there is concern about excessive moves in the yen, while the U.K. said the group wasn't singling out an individual country or exchange rate.
The confusion will keep the spotlight on the threat of a so-called international currency war and Japan's push for monetary stimulus when finance ministers from the Group of 20 gather this weekend in Moscow.
"The world wants a clear, coherent message from the leaders of the developed world," said Mike Moran, senior currency strategist at Standard Chartered Plc in New York. "The G-20 is now going to be the key focus. Clearly the onus is on Japan."
The G-7 broke into the European trading morning with its first statement on exchange rates since September 2011, in which it pledged to keep economic policies directed at domestic needs and disavowed targeting currencies.
The yen pared gains against the dollar as investors concluded the statement meant the G-7 accepts a cheaper yen so long as it is only a by-product of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's two-month effort to revive his economy through easier monetary policy.
Aso's Argument
That message was underscored by Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso's argument that the G-7 has acknowledged Japan isn't driving a devaluation and that its monetary policy is aimed at ending 15 years of deflation.
"Each nation understands that Japan's policies to tackle deflation are not aimed at influencing foreign exchange rates," Aso told reporters in Tokyo. "This was discussed by everyone."
This position was then challenged when an official from a G-7 nation issued a clarification saying investors had misread the statement and that the G-7 was concerned about excessive moves in the yen and Japan's practice of giving guidance on its value.
The yen jumped on the rebuttal before falling anew as an official from the U.K., which negotiated the statement as this year's chair of the G-7, said it wasn't directed at a particular economy or currency.
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This morning, after learning that the Supreme Court had deemed unconstitutional the display of the Ten Commandments inside two Kentucky courthouses but had upheld a similar display on the state capitol grounds in Texas, I surmised that some absurd hair-splitting had occurred. It turns to be worse than I thought.
As one might expect, eight of the nine Justices thought that the outcome in the two cases should be the same. Because one Justice disagreed, the cases had different outcomes. In this instance, the one Justice was Breyer. That's a bit of a surprise; usually it's O'Connor or Kennedy. It's refreshing to see both of them marginalized for a change.
So what made the difference for Breyer? As Ed Whelan noted earlier today, it was the fact that no one had complained about the Texas display for 40 years, whereas the Kentucky displays had caused agitation from the beginning. Breyer finds this fact "determinative" (see pages 5-6 of his concurring opinion, which I'm not able to link to, but can be accessed through Whelan's post at NRO's Bench Memos).
The reasonable man test (what a reasonable person would do in a particular situation) is a staple of the law. So too, the objective observer standard, invoked with some skill by Justice Souter (though deconstructed in Justice Scalia's dissent) in the Kentucky Ten Commandments case. But Justice Breyer rests everything on the jackass test — the government can display the Ten Commandments on public property in your town unless one jackass decides, within an unspecified time period, to get sufficiently worked up about it. I suspect that this is all the invitation the jackasses of America will need to get worked up en masse.
In the end, the two decisions are unified by the common thread in these kind of cases. Basically, the Supreme Court has decided to "grandfather" religion. In this context, that means leaving references to it on the coins and the old buildings but beating back new references. Perhaps some of the Justices hope that religious belief will wither away as it has in Europe, thus putting an end to what Justice Souter calls "the divisiveness of religion."
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so you just send Fax the LOR and the form? is there anything special you need with the fax
hmph i just have really bad luck i guess. my first lor was processed fine (sent through usps), then my second recommender faxed his letter ONE FULL WEEK AGO! it makes me really paranoid that y'all have ones processed in 1 day and this is over 1 week for a dang fax. i called lsac and the guy was really snippy about it, saying that i need to give them "2 full weeks" to process lor's. time is getting really close here and my 3rd recommender hasn't even sent hers yet (another frustration), so i really need the faxed one to go through pronto!!


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Man who confronts burglar in Nashua gets bit
May 22. 2013 10:57AM
NASHUA – A 43-year-old man is accused of breaking into a downtown apartment and biting a man on his arm.
David Coutu, 43, no fixed address, is charged with burglary, domestic violence-related, simple assault and resisting detention.
Lt. Michael Moushegian said Coutu went to a Kinsley Street apartment of a woman he knows with the intent of assaulting a man. Once inside, however, Coutu encountered another man, who tried to intervene in the incident, and Coutu bit him on the arm, according to police.
Coutu was arrested about 2:45 a.m. Wednesday.
What's next: Coutu refused bail. He is to be arraigned Wednesday in 9th Circuit Court, Nashua District Division.


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As the busy parents of two small children, Niki Taylor and her husband Burney Lamar love to sneak in romantic days out near their seven-acre Nashville farm.
After son Rex Harrison was born last November, joining big sister Ciel, 3, Taylor has been acting as a stay-at-home mom. But that doesn't mean the love affair with the retired NASCAR driver has ended.
"We're busy with the kids but we make time for each other by going out on day dates," Taylor, 37, tells PEOPLE at the March of Dimes March for Babies on April 28 in Miami, where she participated in the three-mile trek with thousands of other supporters.
"We either go to the movies or to different breakfast and lunch diners. We are so tired, we like to be home at night to sleep!"
Taylor, who is also mom to 17-year-old twin sons Hunter and Jake, is at work nonstop raising Rex and Ciel. And she is lucky that Lamar, 31, has changed professions and can be home to share the workload.
"Burney is a flight instructor putting in his time to become a pilot so he has good hours and gets home by 3 p.m. each day," she notes. "He's great about sharing baby duties. We have no set plan, we both do everything, including cooking. I am blessed to have a husband like him. We are a great team."
Since Ciel is in preschool now, Taylor has ample time to play with Rex, who is already showing signs that he will be like his "sissy." Natural allies, both children are goofy, curious, personality-driven, and into everything in plain sight.
"Ciel is wild and rough and always waving things in Rex's face," Taylor tells PEOPLE. "Already I can see Rex could be the same way. He loves the attention and is very animated around her. He absolutely loves her."
Rex knows what time of day Ciel returns from school to their one-floor farmhouse and starts looking for her. Once Ciel has arrived, she helps her mom take care of him.
"Ciel helps me change his diapers," continues Taylor. "Both of my babies are kind and caring towards others."
A fun day for the family is sitting outside by the swing set with their three cats and two dogs, Jesse, a Maltese, and Ace, a terrier mix. Rex plays with his activity center, which is placed under a tree, while Ciel rides her tricycle.
On days they go out in Nashville, Taylor takes the kids to a country petting zoo and a variety of indoor and outdoor water parks, including Nashville Shores on Percy Priest Lake.
She also tries to visit her parents' home in Fort Lauderdale at least once a month so the kids can enjoy their grandparents. And they take frequent trips to Sacramento to see the Lamar family.
"I am blessed with four healthy children and am definitely not walking down European runways right now," Taylor tells PEOPLE. "I feel mothering is my most important job. And in doing so, Burney and I get to spend a lot of time together. We are all very happy."
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Janet's extreme addiction to the much-lauded Design*Sponge is evident in Episode 19 with DS founder Grace Bonney, who pontificates on her erstwhile love of Phish, the satisfaction of abandoning Laura Ashley, and the glory of My So Called Life.
The JV Club #19: Grace Bonney
Who knew Grace Bonney was punk as f*ck? I really identified with her because while I did have a group of friends, I never felt — and still kind of feel like I don't have a group of friends with my weirdo set of interests. And I love that she is only a year younger than me, so she referenced a lot of music and when she liked that music. Great, great choice for an interview. I don't have suggestions, but I love that you chose a woman who isn't on TV or in movies. There aren't a lot of venues for excellent interviews of women in other industries.
Great comments, y'all! Thank you so much! I will pass these along to Grace as well!
I can sympathise with business guys who fight feel like they'd be floundering if they couldn't hold onto their weird, abstract metrics, but it made my blood boil to hear about Grace being flat-out told that they'd rather talk to a Man.
Stop making us look bad in front of the other genders, dudes.
This is my first comment on this show but I had to for this episode.
Grace Bonney was an inspiring guest. I can completely relate to teens who hate High School wanting to go to NYU since i am one of those teenagers. I was also really inspired by her thoughts on success in life.
This was an awesome episode! Can you believe I had never heard of Design Sponge? Well I checked it out, and it's great, and beautiful and inspiring. The show, as usual, was awesome and inspiring. (how many times can I say inspiring?) Well thanks Janet for another wonderful episode! Love this podcast 🙂
What a great episode! I love Design*Sponge and it was wonderful to hear Grace's story. I can definitely relate to the two first names thing (although my name also works reversed and people often think I'm a guy!) Grace's artistic drive is so inspiring. Thank you Janet – I absolutely adore the podcast!


text: I could not help notice that all discussions in this forum never talk about Wipika. Well I am a wipika owner and I thaught that they where the best kites in the world. Honestly this is true observation. My freind has an X2, it is quite impressive but I am sure that the new Airblast is. So What is the reason for forgetting about Wipika? is it a commercial one or other?


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Advocates Push for HIV Criminalization Reform in the Heartland
February 17, 2012
Advocates are fighting back against an Iowa HIV criminalization law that could land anyone found guilty a prison term of up to 25 years and a lifetime label of sex offender.
According to The Daily Iowan, Catherine Hanssens, director of the HIV Center for Law and Policy, "calls the policies underlying most HIV transmission laws 'decades out of date,' and says a much more nuanced approach is needed. 'Most laws treat HIV like it is transmitted with ease,' she said. 'With modern medical knowledge, we understand that this is just not the case.'"
But Iowa requires people living with HIV to inform partners of their status prior to having sex. Failure to disclose is considered a class B felony.
According to Iowa Code 709C, it is a crime if an HIV-positive person "engages in intimate contact with another person," or "transfers, donates, or provides the person's blood, tissue, semen, organs, or other potentially infectious bodily fluids for transfusion, transplantation, insemination, or other administration to another person," without disclosing their status first. The code defines "intimate contact" as "the intentional exposure of the body of one person to a bodily fluid of another person in a manner that could result in the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus."
In fact, even on HIV meds and with an undetectable viral load, people can be found guilty if they have consensual sex without disclosing their HIV status, as was the case recently for two HIV-positive Iowa residents.
Donald Bogardus, whose next hearing is in early March, faces up to 25 years in prison for not informing his partner that he was positive before they agreed to have sex. Nicholas Rhoades, who also engaged in consensual sex without disclosing his status, used a condom, but was still found guilty and sentenced to 25 years in prison, though WCFCourier.com reported the sentence was reduced to five years probation.
Neither of the accusers in these cases contracted HIV.
But transmission isn't necessary for prosecution, according to the Iowa Code: "This section shall not be construed to require that an infection with the human immunodeficiency virus has occurred for a person to have committed criminal transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus."
Now advocates are pushing for Iowa to revise the Code.
Furthermore, laws like these assume that individuals living with HIV are the only ones responsible for preventing transmission. The Daily Iowan further reported:
Ultimately, whether the laws are revised or not, The Daily Iowan points out "the difficulty of proving that somebody said or didn't say something when courts must rely on assertions about private acts."
Meanwhile, an HIV-positive man in Missouri faces up to 15 years in prison for biting a police officer last June. In Missouri, simply biting a person is considered acting "in a reckless manner by exposing another person to HIV without the knowledge and consent of that person to be exposed to HIV," and is a felony punishable by up to 30 years in prison depending on transmission, according to Missouri Statute 191.677.
Oscar Mairena, senior associate for Viral Hepatitis/Policy and Legislative Affairs at the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), told the Center for HIV Law and Policy, "Persistent misinformation about how HIV is transmitted, and what it means to have HIV in 2012, is a major cause of these laws and can create a major barrier to convincing people that it is safe and necessary to get tested. These cases and these laws are based on stigma, not science, and pose a major threat to our nation's public health."
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By Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Monday said it would shift its strategy for winning Senate confirmation of its choice for the next U.S. surgeon general after President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats helped sink another of his nominees this month.
White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters the administration expects Vivek Hallegere Murthy, the head of a doctors group, to eventually be confirmed by the U.S. Senate and is not reconsidering withdrawing Murthy's nomination for the top health post.
Earlier this month, seven Democrats broke ranks and joined Republicans to block the nomination of lawyer Debo Adegbile to head the Justice Department's civil rights division.
The administration's defeat came eight months before congressional elections and as some of Obama's Democrats in Congress did not want to be seen as soft on crime by supporting Adegbile amid objections from police groups.
Obama nominated Murthy in November to serve as the nation's top public health advocate. Murthy's appointment passed a key Senate panel with bipartisan support. But the full Senate must still vote to back him.
"After the confirmation vote of Debo Adegbile, we are recalibrating the strategy around Dr. Murthy's floor vote. We expect him to get confirmed ultimately and be one of the country's most powerful messengers on health and wellness," Carney told reporters in a briefing.
Carney did not offer any details about the new strategy but said that "recalibrate" did not mean choosing another nominee.
The White House's pause signals potential trouble for Obama's latest nomination and points to fraying ties between the president and members of his own party in the Senate, many of whom are up for reelection in November and want to distance themselves from the administration.
Republicans are hoping to wrest control of the Senate from Democrats in November's voting.
The administration's reassessment of Murthy also comes amid opposition from the National Rifle Association, the nation's leading gun advocacy group. The NRA, in a letter to Senate leaders last month, said it "strongly opposes" Murthy for supporting various proposals aimed at tightening gun regulations.
Asked about the effect of the NRA's opposition, Carney reiterated the administration's strategy shift and said it would decide "how and when to move forward."
Murthy is president of Doctors for America, a group of more than 16,000 physicians and medical students promoting Obama's signature healthcare law, also known as Obamacare. An internist by training, Murthy practices medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School.
If approved, he would replace Rear Admiral Boris Lushniak, who has been acting as the surgeon general since July and overseeing public health endeavors around the country.
(Reporting by Susan Heavey; Additional reporting by Steve Holland and Richard Cowan; Editing by James Dalgleish)


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Dr. Paul Eubel
Organizer of the "Kunstdrachen, Bilder fur den Himmel" (Art Kites, Pictures for the Sky), exhibit, which debuted in 1988, Eubel married the art of world-class artists with that of Japanese kite makers. The results were kites like no others, before or since. The exhibit toured in Europe and Asia for over ten years, had a temporary home in Detmold, Germany, and had grown wot well over 200 kites and is now stored in Sicily. Upon the death of Dr. Eubel in 2010, the future of the collection is unknown.


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Metabolic risk factors cluster similarly in children and adults, according to a study carried out at the University of Eastern Finland. Furthermore, in adults, the clustering of these risk factors increases the risk of premature death caused by type 2 diabetes, myocardial infarction and cardiovascular diseases. The results indicate that lifestyle interventions aiming at the prevention of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases should be invested in already in childhood. The results of the study were recently published in Diabetologia.
Metabolic syndrome refers to a condition in which a person carries several risk factors associated with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Traditionally, these risk factors have included overweight and abdominal obesity, reduced muscle, adipose tissue and liver insulin sensitivity and related glucose metabolism disorders, increased levels of plasma triglyceride, decreased levels of plasma HDL cholesterol, and increased blood pressure. As overweight has become increasingly widespread, the clustering of metabolic risk factors has become increasingly common also in children. If no improvement in exercise and nutrition habits takes place in childhood, metabolic syndrome is likely to persist into adulthood, increasing the risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and premature death. Up until recently, the definition of metabolic syndrome has been a controversial topic especially in children, although the components of metabolic syndrome have been known for a long time. It has also been unclear whether the components of metabolic syndrome are the same in children and adults.
The study showed that the components of metabolic syndrome cluster similarly in children and adults of different ages irrespective of sex. However, abdominal obesity was relatively less emphasised in children than in adults, and increased blood pressure was relatively more emphasised in middle-aged men than in children and older men and women. As expected, the risk factor score was higher in adults than in children. The observed cumulation of metabolic risk factors in all age groups increased the risk of premature death due to type 2 diabetes, myocardial infarction and cardiovascular diseases in adults.
The results indicate that also metabolic risk factor scores lower than those generally accepted in the field of medicine are detrimental especially in cases where several risk factors are present. The results suggest that risk assessment of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases should increasingly pay attention to the scores of several risk factors. Furthermore, lifestyle interventions begun in childhood and continuing into adulthood, combined with drug treatment when necessary, should constitute the primary method of reducing the overall risk.
The data comprised three population samples from the Kuopio region in eastern Finland: 491 healthy 6-8 year old girls and boys participating in the Physical Activity and Nutrition in Children (PANIC) Study, 1,900 middle-aged men participating in the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study (KIHD), and 1,170 older women and men participating in DR's EXTRA Study. The PANIC Study is an on-going lifestyle intervention study, which produces valuable information on children's lifestyle factors, health and well-being all the way into adulthood. Collaboration between the three different studies involving people of different ages made it possible to study the development of metabolic syndrome and its risk factors extensively.
For further information, please contact: Anna Viitasalo, Lic. Med., Institute of Biomedicine, tel. +358 40 419 4017 Timo A. Lakka, Professor of Medical Physiology, Specialist in Internal Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine, tel. +358 40 770 7329 The Physical Activity and Nutrition in Children (PANIC)
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Queer studies is an emerging interdisciplinary field which goal is to analyze antinormative sexual identities, performances, discourses and representations in order ultimately to destabilize the notion of normative sexuality and gender. Queer studies comes out of a critique of identity politics. It rejects essentialized conceptualizations of sexuality, gender and sexual identity as innate or fixed. It represents a deconstruction of hegemonic conceptions of sexual and gender categories within straight, gay and lesbian communities.
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Mass killings, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detentions and sexual violence are some of the other violations seen in the country, said U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic.
"Quite a number of child soldiers have been recruited in the so-called White Army," he said, referring to the Nuer tribe's militia fighting in Jonglei state. "We are thoroughly investigating these allegations."
South Sudan's conflict broke out Dec. 15 as a political dispute but quickly broke down along ethnic lines between followers of the president, an ethnic Dinka, and the former vice president, a Nuer.
The city of Bentiu — one of the cities that have traded hands between government and rebel forces — "simply did not exist anymore," the U.N. official said. "It was completely burnt down."
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Simonovic would not describe the month-long fighting as a civil war but an "internal armed conflict" with ethnic dimensions between the Dinka and Nuer tribes.
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The Coppergate Eb Trumpet is ideal for the all-round orchestral trumpet player. Featuring a lacquered yellow brass bell, rose leadpipe and Cupronickel slides, this well built and reliable instrument is ideal for trumpet players who need to reach the higher range. With really stable intonation throughout the range, this instrument is suitable for ensemble as well as solo performance. The trumpet also includes a case and mouthpiece to get going straight away.
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Trumpet in D and Eb
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Do you want to see Stefan & Elena back together, or are you enjoying her time with Damon?
Things may seem hopeless for Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Stefan (Paul Wesley) on The Vampire Diaries — especially after she caught him nomming on a human last week — but Paul promises TVLine that the good ship "Stelena" will set sail once again. "I think they needed to break up," he tells the site. "And I think, eventually, they'll need to get back together."
In fact, Paul believes the couple's Ross-and-Rachel-style break has been a good thing, because he doesn't want fans "to get sick of any one relationship."
And believe it or not, Paul is actually enjoying Elena's gradual progression towards Damon (Ian Somerhalder)! "In the most bizarre, twisted way, it's brought the brothers to a place of camaraderie," Paul says, "[because] they're both in love with the same girl."
Paul's thoughts about the Elena-Salvatore love triangle are definitely unique, and I actually really admire that he thinks beyond the very basic "Team Stefan vs. Team Damon" shipping war — especially since this love triangle isn't going away anytime soon.
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When Bryce Hager was a child, he wanted to be just like his father, Britt Hager. He knew that wasn't an easy task, but he wanted it more than anything.
"Ever since he could walk, Bryce has wanted to be fast," Britt Hager recalls. "He loved soccer and hockey as a child, but was always looking forward to football."
The elder Hager, an All-American linebacker for the University of Texas, is UT's all-time leading tackler with 499 career stops. Britt was drafted in the third round of the 1989 NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles and played nine seasons in the league.
Bryce grew up in Austin and attended Westlake High School, where he was an all-state linebacker for the Chaparrals. Hager made 158 tackles, had eight sacks and one interception as a senior, leading Westlake to the 5A state title game.
After choosing to continue his football career at Baylor, Bryce took a redshirt year as a true freshman and worked with the practice squad. In 2011, he played in all 13 games on special teams and as a reserve linebacker.
In the spring of 2012, Hager earned the starting nod at middle linebacker as a redshirt sophomore.
"It's a good feeling, but you have a lot pressure on you because you don't really know what to expect," Hager said. "I was definitely nervous, but after the first couple of games, it goes away and you just expect to be the starter and you have to play like it."
It wasn't all easy for Hager though. He had to make great improvements in order for defensive coordinator Phil Bennett to be confident in him. He especially struggled with tackling in 2011 and went into spring camp knowing that his playing time would not increase if he did not step up.
"I had to improve on all the little things, different kinds of coverage and back pedaling," Hager said. "The biggest thing I had to correct was my tackling. I went into the spring and really focused on tackling."
One of the most exciting things for a coach is having a chance to watch players grow and improve from the very beginning. Baylor linebackers coach Jim Gush is no different.
"I have seen Bryce grow from the first time he stepped on campus until now, and he has really shown that he can be a leader," Gush said. "I have seen that our defensive players have really started to gravitate toward him. He makes all the calls on defense and it is very important to him to make sure everyone is doing the right thing."
Even though Bryce has started off extremely strong this season, Gush doesn't believe that he has reached his potential yet.
"He has a ways to go, and he has a pretty high ceiling," Gush said. "My goal every day is to push him and get him one rung higher towards his ceiling."
It is hard to imagine that Bryce's ceiling could be any higher after accumulating 54 tackles (13.5 per game) through four games, ranking him number one in the nation, but Gush insists that Hager will be even better.
"I don't think that he handled the pressure of a conference road game like he should have, and he knows that," Gush said. "It is all a learning process and even though there weren't a lot of positives from the West Virginia game, the experience can be a positive in itself. He will learn and improve before it is all said and done."
Bryce isn't sure what he wants to do once he graduates, but he knows how important getting a Baylor degree is.
"I haven't really decided what I want to do if football doesn't work out, but I am a communications major and plan on using that however I can," Hager said.
Britt knows the linebacker position as well as anyone in football and is very pleased with the way his son has started the season.
"I told Bryce before the season started to go out and have fun," Britt said. "Work hard in school and work hard on the field. I told him, 'have fun, play fast and hit hard.'"
The middle linebacker position is a very complicated position and Bryce knows that he has to be very precise throughout a game.
"There is so much speed on the field. You are thinking about a million things before the snap, you have to line up everyone and you have to be ready for anything," Bryce explained.
Bryce has a long way to go this season and for the rest of his career at Baylor, but Gush feels like he has taken a huge step toward being like his father.
"Bryce is moving towards the level of intensity and physicality that his father played with," Gush said. "If he plays as well as his dad did, we will have a great, great player."


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Comedian, actor and permanent resident on 'QI'.
Following the sellout success of his long-awaited return to stand up, Alan Davies' previews his highly anticipated follow-up show, Little Victories. Much lauded as resident dunderhead on QI or the charming but reticent crime solver Jonathan Creek, Davies virtuosic story-telling and whip-smart funny bones combine to make this a show not to be missed. Age 15+