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December 2009 - When she was a master's student in genetic counseling and sitting in on her first-ever patient visit, Maria Johnson watched the genetic counselor she was shadowing inform the patient—a woman with two small children—that she had, indeed, inherited the mutation for Huntington's disease from her mother. The patient's mother, who also was in the room and already was showing signs of the crippling and incurable neurodegenerative disease, started sobbing.
"That experience really ingrained in me many things," said Johnson, "like how sensitive and potentially life-altering genetic counseling sessions can be when genetic test results are shared and how I never want to get to a point in my career where I'm just going through the motions."
Johnson first started working as a full-time genetic counselor at the Johns Hopkins McKusick-Nathans Institute for Genetic Medicine (IGM) in February 2008, seeing patients with a wide range of genetic conditions. Recently the IGM hired a couple of new genetic counselors which allowed Johnson to focus on patients with metabolic disorders such as phenylketonuria (PKU), a condition in which an affected person is unable to break down the amino acid phenylalanine, which is found in certain foods like meat, milk, and eggs.
"One thing I really like about working with metabolism patients is that sometimes you can offer the family something they can do that can prevent a bad outcome," said Johnson. "For example, in an individual with PKU, you can limit protein containing the amino acid phenylalanine in their diet to fully prevent mental retardation and seizures."
When a new patient enters the clinic for the first time, Johnson starts the appointment by answering the patient's questions and taking a medical and family history, back three to four generations if possible. The attending physician performs a physical exam, and together Johnson and the physician sift through the medical and family histories, physical exam, and sometimes the medical literature to figure out which genetic condition, if any, the patient might have. This sifting process may take five to fifteen minutes while the patient waits or, in more complicated cases, it may extend beyond the patient's appointment. Johnson and the physician often order genetic tests—blood tests, for example—to confirm their suspicions.
Test results take anywhere from two weeks to several months to come back, at which point Johnson may call the patient or meet in person, depending on the patient's preference. If Johnson calls and needs to leave a message, she tries to leave a neutral one.
"I try not to say I have good news for you unless I know the patient would think it's good news." Sometimes when there's a family history of a disorder, explains Johnson, a negative test result may bring about negative feelings. For example, as a student, Johnson once saw two sisters whose mother had breast cancer that were tested for a genetic mutation that contributes to the majority of hereditary breast cancer cases. One sister tested positive; the other, negative. The latter felt excluded from what her mother and sister had both experienced and guilty that she had escaped diagnosis.
If a patient is diagnosed with a metabolic condition, Johnson and the physician typically meet with the patient or the patient's parents around the time that the diagnosis is made and also during clinic follow-up appointments. During these first few appointments, Johnson helps patients and their families understand a diagnosis and/or cope emotionally with a diagnosis, depending on their specific needs. For patients who require additional counseling on genetic test results or a diagnosis, Johnson may see them in the absence of a physician for counseling-only sessions.
The counseling Johnson provides to patients varies considerably with their age. For a newborn with PKU, she meets with the newborn's parents to educate them about the condition, direct them to helpful resources about the disorder, and discuss the chances of a future child having PKU. For patients in the adolescent years—when they begin to "become more independent and take more ownership of their care"—Johnson may meet them with their parents or, if there are sensitive issues that need to be addressed, one on one.
Johnson divides her professional time between the Harriet Lane Clinic in the David M. Rubenstein Child Health Building and her office in a building across campus. Approximately four times a month, she spends an entire day in clinic, where she sees, on average, four patients per day. On non-clinic days, she sees patients—usually in the Harriet Lane Clinic—for counseling-only sessions and on hospital inpatient floors when she's on call. Sometimes her patients have heartbreaking stories.
Last fall, one of her ongoing patients, a tiny baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, passed away. "I grieved and then struggled with how appropriate it was for me to grieve since I wasn't family, and I wasn't a friend. I was simply a genetic counselor who had worked with the family."
For emotional support during such distressing cases, Johnson often turns to her fellow genetic counselors. Genetic counselors in the IGM come together voluntarily in a peer group about once a month to share difficult cases— to maintain patient privacy they don't ever reveal any names—as a way to get advice and grow professionally.
"In the beginning, setting work-life boundaries was difficult for me," said Johnson. "I would take all these emotions home with me and continue processing them, which is dangerous because it can lead to burnout and emotional fatigue." Sharing difficult cases with her peers helps her "process them so that they can stay more in the workplace."
While some cases can be emotionally difficult, many of Johnson's experiences as a genetic counselor are positive. She really enjoys establishing ongoing relationships with patients, helping patients leave with a better understanding of a particular disorder, and passing along joyful news to patients.
For example, Johnson recalls seeing a female patient who was a few months away from getting married and thinking ahead to having children. The woman desperately wanted to know if she was a carrier for Adrenoleukodystrophy, a neurodegenerative disorder that had killed her uncle and afflicted her brother. Her genetic test results came back negative.
"I remember calling her, and she screamed out loud with joy. She said, 'This must be the best part of your job, calling people like me and giving us news that we wanted so badly.'" Johnson smiled. "That's very true."
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The author is a 5th year graduate student in the Cellular and Molecular Medicine (CMM) graduate program and works in the Getzenberg lab.
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Eleventh Heaven
As I happily Twittered, I had lunch yesterday at Eleven City Diner, the two-year-old nouveau-Jewish deli in he South Loop. This followed an impromptu dinner last week, when I needed a long walk to work off the stress of my blog migration project and unintendedly meandered to 11th and Wabash. No matter how native I may have gone here in Chicago, it's always gonna be about the NY-style chopped chicken liver for me. And Eleven City Diner has exactly that.
Big Trouble Over Huge Sandwich
Yesterday, the Macy's on State Street signage troubles that I uncovered weren't the only public-relations blunder dogging the Cincinnati-based department store giant, Federated. Full-court press also went to the South Loop's Eleven City Diner for daring to serve a sandwich named after the defunct Marshall Field's–a sandwich that actually earned a cease-and-desist letter from Federated.


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Acton Organizations Teaming Up to Collect Coats for Kids
In this season of giving, there are no shortage of stories about adults and children alike doing their part to help the less fortunate.
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Amy Winehouse – a tribute
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Amongst the graphic horror of the weekend, unfolded a much quieter horror of its own – Amy Winehouse passed away, at just 27. I've been reading/listening to what has been said about her on Twitter, on various internet websites, on Triple J and this great piece by Russell Brand, and just now, as I sat down to write this piece, The 7PM Project have told me that she was both Jewish (I didn't know that) and inspired Adelle, Lady Gaga and Duffy.
I wasn't actually a big fan of Amy Winehouse's in that I didn't have her music and I didn't pay all that much attention to her. I thought her voice was amazing but recently her coverage in the media has been less than complimentary. I wasn't surprised to hear of her passing this weekend and I think that has made me sadder. That really, in a way, we all looked on and watched but she never really got the help she needed.
I was noodling round the internet this evening because I wanted to write this piece on her and it turns out it was really really hard to find Youtube clips of her like the one below where she was performing at her height, where you can see her talent and hear her amazingly rich and timeless voice.
Most of the clips were of her drunk and behaving disorderly on stage, which was what was going on in her life in the last few months. There were a few dedicated to her looks, in the least complimentary way possible. And a few News clips discussing the drunken behaviour that kicked off her last, as it was to be, tour. Rather than reporting her clearly personal distress in presenting in such a way in her shows, these clips of News reporters were mocking, disgusted and appalled and how much she had wasted other people's money by showing up drunk and not giving the performance these people had paid for. I was watching those clips with the hindsight to know how the sad story ends but it has definitely gotten me thinking.
When Princess Diana was killed, everybody blamed the paparazzi and they blamed their readers. And I thought long and hard about this and I decided, that if my reading all those magazines and looking at all those photos had in any way contributed to her death, then I would no longer read them. And I haven't read one since. I take my own books to places like doctors waiting rooms and the hairdressers. I never ever read them. And as an aside, OMG you feel so much better about yourself when you give up that trash. I almost never see what those mags are covering but in the last couple of weeks, I've caught the covers whilst waiting to pay for fuel or in the line at the canteen and they are currently reporting how utterly disgusting some starlets look being uber thin. And I keep thinking – you fucking fucks! Those women can never win. When they look too fat, the covers say "Put on WEIGHT!? Look how FAT she is/ Throwing away the diets!!!" (see the latest reporting on the Kardashians for those stories) and when they heed and try and look better, presumably for the press, they get the shots of them in awkward poses leaning over to get something which shows all their bones poking out so that we can get disgusted at their skeletal thinness. I would not trade for that kind of scrutiny for all the lovely things in the world. Those women are scrutinised to such an extreme that I only hope they don't read that stuff. And I still don't understand the point of those magazine articles which are written by women for women and make this horrible commentary on what women are supposed to care about and what they are really valued for.
Recently, Lady Gaga visited Australia. And here was another woman whose work I am not overly familiar with other than the random headlines I might catch here and there – I don't listen to pop music much anymore and I don't read the mags, see above. So my opinions on her are formed entirely by what might be reported on random news shows I catch in passing (I had kind of liked the sentiment behind her song to do with eating disorders). And then I watched her interview on Channel 9 when she was here and thought, hey she sounds like a really interesting person. I think she has some idea of what it's like to be me. And I heard a bit about what she's done and why. And then the other day, maybe two days ago?, I heard a man describe her and those sitting in her pop niche in the world as "shallow Gaga". I realised something really important, and it comes back to what we are always saying on Galactic Suburbia – both that we are all default conditioned to live in the patriarchy by the patriarchy and that once you see something, you cannot unsee it. And for me, it's still a constant process to remind myself to deconstruct kneejerk reactions or acceptances of value judgements. Because Lady Gaga is not actually shallow at all. (I had a similar realisation about P!nk too a while back). And that man was calling her that because of her performance stunts – except, she is a performer, that's what she's supposed to do AND a lot of her 'stunts' are fashion related and we all know that fashion is shallow because it's a woman's thing and football is deeply esoteric and spiritually meaningful because it's a man's one. Basically, I had allowed myself to be pulled along in the tide of what other people, mainly men, think about women and women's art and women's expression and most importantly, women's messages.
The realisation about Lady Gaga has kind of made me angry. And then to find out that Amy Winehouse is one of her inspirations, it's clicking some interesting pieces into this new puzzle I am solving in my head. But more importantly, having suddenly changed the way I listen to the commentary on Lady Gaga means that I am hearing the commentary about Amy Winehouse and her passing differently too. Because here was a truly gifted woman, with so much potential yet to be realised who we have lost. And we will never hear sing a new song ever again. And that is a a great tragedy. But all everyone wants to say is "I am not surprised" or "Well we all knew this was coming" – yet we didn't do anything about it and more than that, we give no validity or interest in the causes that brought it about. There is no discussion of her illness, of the way the assistance she did seek, and was offered to her, was not helpful. And more than that, there is very little discussion of her addiction, and beyond the substance abuse to the root core. It's just "yet another tragic addition to the 27 club" – a club which, actually probably would welcome her more than we ever did because it's filled with people who understand. There's this glossing over how the rest of the members got to join the club too.
Yes, yes, it's all tragic and tomorrow's weather is …
Here's a clip of her singing her song Rehab:
And these lines jump out at me:
He said, "I just think you're depressed"
This me, "Yeah baby, and all the rest"
The reason she didn't wanna go to rehab was it wouldn't have fixed her problem. And if we as a society don't try and understand that addiction is a symptom of a greater problem, we're never going to be able to offer the help that is needed.
Amy Winehouse wasn't any kind of traditional definition of beautiful. She was eccentric and she didn't conform. She struggled with her demons the only way she knew how. I wish I'd enjoyed her music more when she was alive. I'm immersing myself in it today. But today, with just these recordings left behind, the world is a less shiny place. I'd like to think her story might change the way we think about the glamour of rock and roll and fame but I don't think we will. It certainly doesn't look like we have, judging by the commentary.
So I'll finish with some of what Russell Brand had to say:
Now Amy Winehouse is dead, like many others whose unnecessary deaths have been retrospectively romanticised, at 27 years old. Whether this tragedy was preventable or not is now irrelevant. It is not preventable today. We have lost a beautiful and talented woman to this disease. Not all addicts have Amy's incredible talent. Or Kurt's or Jimi's or Janis's. Some people just get the affliction. All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as a disease that will kill.
We need to review the way society treats addicts, not as criminals but as sick people in need of care.
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I'd like to respectfully disagree about the rehab. For many people – who realise it isn't a quick fix, but the first step on a path, that you can never be 'better', that you have to attend Narcotics Anonymous for the rest of your life, that it will take every scrap of strength you have ever owned – it does work.
And I don't care if she decided it was not helping her, she shouldn't have used her influence to shit on it. If just one person who could have been helped by rehab decided not to go because of that song…well, I just hope that didn't happen.
As for the sexism stuff, you are no doubt right about that.
It is always tragic when someone dies so young. When they are talented as well the loss is not just personal to their family but impacts on us all.
Like you I never read gossip magazines. I've never been able to see the point in reading what is obviously fiction -make that lies -about real people without a consideration of the consequences to those people. You don't have to read any more than the headlines as you stand in the check out queue to work that out.
This makes me look at the current News International scandal slightly differently from many people. While it's indefensible by any standard I don't think that the newspapers are the only ones to blame. If those stories didn't sell newspapers the journalists wouldn't have felt free to do what they did and, to me, this makes everyone who bought and read those newspapers also culpable or, at the least, complicit.-
I find it utterly hilarious how on again and off again Brad and Angelina apparently are according to those magazine headlines. For heavensake, they have a brood of kids and they work really hard – one of them being off travelling for work does not mean they are ending it all. And so it makes me think they think we are stupid that they can fabricate these soapoperas to sell magazines.
Watching what the media has been doing on a variety of issues lately has made me lose all respect for most journos so I wasn't appalled at the behaviour of the NotW but not really surprised. Noone reins them on and demands ethics and moral conduct from journos anymore – the lies they continue to sprout about climate change and the carbon tax and the deliberate misuse of language with asylum seekers have shown most of them no longer are independently reporting facts anymore.
It's a bad time for the newspaper business, sales are going down and they are doing a poor job of illustrating why we should respect the work that they do. To me this phone hacking business shows how desperate they were for a scoop to sell papers. Pity. Because we'd all buy and read intelligent analysis and real in depth commentary on the many current issues that matter today. Instead of this titillation that they think we want.
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Let us draw near! The blood is spiltAuthor: Edith Margaret Clarkson (1936, rev. 1962)Tune: CROSSROADS Published in 1 hymnal |
1 Let us draw near! The blood is spilt,
the Lamb has borne the sinners' guilt;
the sacrifice for sin is made,
we meet our Father unafraid:
then let us draw near!
2 Let us draw near: the holy door
stands open wide forevermore;
no longer flaming angels guard
the gate by Jesus' hand unbarred:
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3 Let us draw near! No more we fear,
our Savior bids us welcome here;
we come as guests of princely grace
to feast in heaven's most holy place:
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in reverent stillness bowing low;
before the throne love's emblems plead--
in simple faith, with all our need:
come, let us draw near!
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First Line: | Let us draw near! The blood is spilt |
Title: | Let Us Draw Near! |
Author: | Edith Margaret Clarkson (1936, rev. 1962) |
Meter: | 126.96.36.199.5 |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Words © 1962 Hope Publishing Company |
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The Worshiping Church #631 | Let us draw near! The blood is spilt | Let Us Draw Near! | Margaret Clarkson | Kurt Kaiser | 22.214.171.124.5 | Hebrews 10:22; Acts 12:12 | CROSSROADS | F Major | English | 1990 |


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Laurent Burdin is Managing Director at SinnerSchrader, Germany's leading interactive agency, and one of the organizers of this year's next conference which is all about the share economy: "We're always trying to choose a theme which is a bit ahead of time. Behind the share economy is the fact that the internet is getting more and more complicated. People or companies want to share things to simplify them. Especially in this moment of crisis sharing things from one consumer to another or sharing platforms from one company to another is a good way to get stronger for the next step after the crisis."
Laurent finds that the culture in Germany is changing slowly but surely: "All the banks are opening up to social media – they are careful about, but they are definitely progressing. The German Sparkasse with its website gut-fuer-deutschland.de is a case which is very well done. We as an agency are helping companies in having a look at what is Twittered and what's happening on Facebook and blogs. By the way, the blog is not always the best solution. When you start blogging, you have to continue doing it – this can be very uninteresting for companies..."
Laurent recommends instead using social media for real time marketing: "The old habit is to do your marketing, put your message to the consumer and have him swallow it. The digital revolution changed all that – once the marketers have understood that, you can do a lot of things. Start with a Facebook group of two persons, ask questions and have people participate - then extend it and make it a regular thing. From that, progress and see what the reaction will be...if the users are not happy, we just let it go – but this is where you can start the pump."
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Khloe & Lamar Join Kim & Kris to Celebrate Khloe's 27th Birthday
Getting the celebrations underway a bit prematurely, Khloe Kardashian celebrated her 27th birthday (she turns 27 on June 27th) in Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday night (June 17).
Joined by hubby Lamar Odom, along with sister Kim and her fiance Kris Humphries, the group kicked things off by dining at Sugar Factory American Brasserie at Paris Las Vegas.
Once finished up with their meals, the Kardashian ladies and their basketball playing beaus headed over to Chateau Nightclub and Gardens for a night of reveling - with Khloe being presented with an intricately designed birthday cake.
Tweeting about the fun-filled evening, Khloe happily wrote, "I love having a pre-bday party!!!!! 10 more days until I'm really an old lady..."
The youngest of the three Kardashian sisters recently said she's planning a bachelorette party for her older sis, who got engaged to fiance Kris Humphries on May 18th.
According to Khloe, Kim threw her a doozy of a party before getting hitched last year, and she's looking for some payback.
"I had the worst bachelorette party," Khloe told E! News. "Like it wasn't sexy at all, so I might just do a payback for Kim... Because Kim [herself] does not like [the raunchy things] she gave me, like penis straws and a little go-go dancer.
"Kim would cringe if I did that for her, so I might do that just to see what happens," she added.
Stepping out for more wedding preparations, Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries were spotted getting the day underway in Los Angeles, CA on Thursday (June 16).
The E! reality star and her New Jersey Nets fiance headed out for some dance lessons in order to look their best during their first dance as husband and wife.
Despite the fact that Kim and Kris have been out prepping everyday this week, Kim confirmed to "Extra" that the rumor suggesting they are getting married this weekend is "not true."
Although Kim is staying mum about when the actual day is going to be, all signs are pointing to a wedding within the next few weeks.
And speaking of wedding preparations, US Magazine recently revealed some of the items found on the couples' wedding registry, and they are nothing short of extravagant.
Among the pricey gifts listed: 24 five-piece silverware sets ($1,600 each), Baccarat Vega champagne flutes (24 at $130), a $1,650 silver-plated coffeepot, and a $7,850 crystal vase.
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By Brandon J. Weichert & Steve Tobiasz
BOSTON—Shockwaves are reverberating through the Romney Campaign after a heated exchange between Mitt Romney and his oldest son, Tagg, ended with the suspension of Tagg Romney from the campaign.
Allegedly, MSNBC revealed a bounty scheme orchestrated by Tagg Romney, in which he would pay Romney staffers "oodles of Mitt Bucks" if they seriously debilitated Obama Campaign staffers. Federal Election Commission (FEC) officials describe the scheme as "pervasive and widespread."
"This has been an ongoing problem since the primaries," explained one FEC official who has been investigating the Romney Campaign for continual election violations involving "heinous physical attacks" on opposition members. After it was revealed that Governor Romney once bullied a homosexual classmate in grade school, Romney staffers began chasing Gingrich staffers with hair trimmers in the parking lots of debate sites. "Clearly, the apple has not fallen far from the tree," said the official when describing Tagg's behavior.
According to reports on top of being inspired by his father's antics as an adolescent, Tagg Romney got the idea for a Bounty System from the NFL team, the New Orleans Saints. Although not naturally a Saints fan, Tagg Romney began following the Saints after he and his father purchased the lower ninth ward of New Orleans shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit the city in 2005.
"We had to do something big," said Josh Romney, another of Mitt's sons who is believed to have collaborated in the Bounty Scheme. "Ever since we stopped injecting steroids because of the Meningitis outbreak, we had to do something to mix it up!"
Apparently just last week, Romney spokesman Chuck Norris roundhouse-kicked David Axelrod and sent him to the hospital for two weeks shortly after the DNC. Norris was awarded 10,000 Mitt Bucks and got to spend one night as a guest of the Romney's at their family compound, sleeping in the stall beside their horse, Alfalca.
Things came to a head when Tagg Romney apparently placed a bounty on young Sasha and Malia Obama, telling his staffers to "go for the legs!" Many on the Campaign claim that Tagg Romney went into a "'Roid Rage" after he thought Sasha and Malia gave him a "funny look" when they met each other on stage at the last debate.
Romney campaign lawyers argue that nothing untoward has been occurring, since no real money has changed hands. "They were tricky with how they went about this = paying their staffers in Mitt Bucks, as opposed to actual money."
Mitt Bucks are one of the great innovations of the campaign, according to several staff members. The conversion rate is especially confusing for the Mitt Bucks; every Mitt Buck y converts to 40 cents in real money, and instead of a $10 bill, one receives a pink slip with a stamp stating, "You've Just Been Outsourced!" When asked to explain this bizarre form of payment, Governor Romney simply said, "It's similar to the Mormon Church's conversion of unicorns to leprechauns!"
Many Democrats have taken to comparing the Mitt Bucks System to the Bain Capital Pay Scale, in which one performs tireless physical work and is paid very little, and once a salary is due to arrive, one's job is conveniently outsourced to China.


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May 16, 2012 by DCEven though I sell properties that swell with lifestyle achievement, I always view the value of the deal as the paramount ingredient. Any lakefront home will boost your weekend enjoyment, but not every lakefront home will prove to be a wise financial purchase. The same can be said about any Lake Geneva vacation home, really, that it can and will help you enjoy life a little better at least from the time to purchase it until the time you decide to sell it. It's in the ultimate selling that the true win is realized. If you enjoy the heck out of something for 20 years and then sell it, the question of the endeavor's success isn't measured just in memories- it's measured in proceeds, too.
This approach to real estate guides my own personal real estate decisions as well, and so it is that I'm in the throws of some personal maneuvering. Again. I have been married for almost 11 years, and in that time I have moved my family into 9 different residences. Some have been short term- a condo while building another home. Others long term- the current house has been home for three years. But all have been temporary in the grand scheme of things. I'm getting tired of temporary.
Late last month, a fairly large piece of property hit the market on a Sunday. I wasn't sure if I had to have it. For a while I thought I did. Then for a while I was over it. And then I hated it. I was hot and cold and then frozen before melting by the heat again and signing the deal. I have bought many bits of real estate, and buyer's remorse accompanies each and every purchase. I wonder why I do the things I do. Why I can't leave well enough alone? Why I must view real estate as an obstacle course that must be navigated by moving forward instead of beaten by sitting still? I continue the pace and each time I question my move. Is all this effort- of packing and painting and renovating and renting- really worth it?
I suppose that depends. I am motivated today on a personal level to purchase a property that I deem worthy of some semblance of permanence. I view the market as it fits my personal circumstances exactly as I project it here to hopefully meet yours- the market is improving. I see a shift coming, and I'm wanting to seize value while it exists instead of torturing myself over what might have been once the recovery is clear. A clear recovery means aware sellers. An uncertain recovery means sellers are still willing to gamble on lower sales prices as they hedge against future what ifs. Uncertain sellers are still commonplace, and these are the ones that we must discover.
I have a buyer to buy the home I'm in now, and the land I'm buying next week is just that- land. Construction will ensue. It might be a fun project, but chances are I will play the role of an unwitting Mr. Blandings, even if I am not constructing my dream house. The motivating factors for me in this process are many, and while they apply uniquely to my circumstance they are anything but unique. I see value, I buy value. I see low interest rates, I look to lock in low interest rates. This is not rocket science.
And what of those low rates? They matter little for someone in a cash position, but alas, I am a Realtor, and cash is only my friend on days immediately following closings and rarely other times. The low interest rates make this transition for me even more attractive, and they put a deadline on my movements. Contrary to current sentiment, these absurdly low interest rates are not going to last forever. So I'll build a home, and it might be a touch more expensive than it would otherwise be if rates had eight handles instead of four. The low rates allow me the opportunity to fix my cost of housing over the long term, and I can't think of anything more delicious than a valuable property bought for a great price financed by ridiculously low fixed term interest rates.
This is what I'm doing personally, and it only matters because I spew advice here and feel it important to practice what it is that I preach. Value still exists, rates are still low, and while both have been commonplace for years they will both end their benevolent ways soon enough. The building process for me, assuming my current home closes as scheduled, will be stressful and fun. I'll provide a few updates of the progress here, that is, if I can find the time between talking about fish and coffee. It might be fun to watch this whole thing unfold, and if it turns out to be a huge embarrassing disaster, then you'll have a front row seat to my personal implosion. It's like watching Kurt Rappaport sell real estate to Katie Holmes, except that it's actually nothing like that at all.
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Classified Conference Executive Board (CCEB)
Meeting Minutes
Friday, July 29th, 2005
ANSCHUTZ 3rd Floor Conf Rm -- 10-11:30am
PRESENT: Rebecca Claassen (FY06Vice-Chair); Jill Becker (Grp 3), Monica Claassen-Wilson (FY06 Chair), Kevin Fussell (Grp 2), Angie Rathmel (Secretary), Denise Swartz (Grp 1), Robert Szabo (Grp 4)
Approval of the minutes of June 12th
Review of previous meetings action items
1. Laura: Email Barbara Gorman re: Monica (as CCEB chair) now member of Management Council (DONE)
2. Robert: Schedule July 26th Meeting at Anschutz 10-11:30 (DONE)
3. Monica: Nail down regular schedule for CCEB (DONE)
Committee Reports
Diversity Committee (DC)
*Diversity Beans – Donna Brewer's daughter has done this event with people of all ages. I won't divulge the secret of this event, but the basic premise is that things aren't always what they seem to be upon the first impression.
*Continuing the Movie Series – We are getting ready to pick a new movie/short documentary film to watch and discuss. Of course, treats will be provided! Attendees are encouraged to continue discussion on the discussion board on the website if they desire. People who are unable to attend the event may get involved via the discussion board as well.
*Diversity Reading Group – Sheryl Williams is heading up a new event where she will find some journal/newspaper articles on a topic of diversity. People interested in this event will read the literature and get together to discuss the topic (possibly over lunch in the Union?) Sherry's first topic of interest is the age/generational gap in the workplace.
*National Diversity in Libraries Conference – It's hard to imagine its been a year and a half since we went to Atlanta for the Diversity Conference, but we're already thinking about the next one in 2006! There has been talk of an interest in a collaborative venture with KSU to hold a breakout session at this event, but nothing has been set in stone.
*Search Committee for new Resident – The time is drawing near for the application process to begin for our new Resident. WE are excited to watch this event unfold and look forward to meeting and introducing KU's first minority Resident.
Diversity Committee meetings are the first Monday of every month at 2-3:00 pm and based off an agreement with the current members, we are now going to rotate between libraries to give new people a change to sit in on the meetings without having to go too far out of their way.
Classified Senate
University Support Staff (USS) Working group's list of suggestions for merit pay criteria:
- Performance
- Conduct
- Compression (how long have you been in the same step, those who have been stuck at the top for longer, etc)
- Taken on more complex duties
- Acquired skills to better perform you job
- Market value of your position (HREO will do this survey)
Longevity continues as it always has for this FY and as of FY07 it will be added to base. Lump sum/paycheck still has not been determined.
Pittsburg State (interested in our USS)
Tuition support for family members:
Fort Hays has set up a very generous system, which is why this issue has come up again. They are trying
to retain faculty. Regents are approving this on a campus-to-campus basis and it will look different
at each.
Exec Board (meets first Wednesday of the month)
Working on new guidelines for the KU version of the Civil Service Review Board (this is for dismissals,
suspensions, demoted, etc – not for disputing your raises). Board to appoint its own Chair.
If Provost goes against the Board, will come to the Board with reasons why. Need to forward names
as part of the pool for the board. If you are chosen the hearing will be public, the Board will private
discuss and then publicly tell each vote. Guidelines are almost finalized (and there is already a
need, has been an appeal), Mary Ann will forward the latest draft to aid in the solicitation of people
who volunteer to have their names submitted to the pool to be possibly chosen for the Board.
Personnel Committee
Looking into tuition assistance for family members. Ideas similar to health insurance (more you earn
the more you pay), waive campus fees as staff do.
Also reviewing inclement weather.
University Support Staff Senate website.
Still need a new logo. Will work with KU art students to design. Great website for information. Minutes
will now be posted in DRAFT form.
Senate (meets third Wednesday of the month)
Salary Bands created (go to HR website to view)
(takes you to the University Support Staff info page)
(takes you directly to the job codes/hiring ranges document)
Also continuing to work on the Handbook.
Review Merit Pay Position Paper
Plans for the merit increase are in process (likely to see something, perhaps September. Supervisors are to turn in info on employees Aug 1) CCEB will ask Donna if there is going to be an announcement to USS when exactly and details.
Discuss interest in/topic for Fall Library Support Staff general meeting
CCEB used to have two or used to have a general meeting in the fall. For the past 4 years it has been moved to Spring. Idea of having it in the Fall, people have a better opportunity to meet representatives, learn about CCEB, etc.
Possible topics
- suggestion box for new name for conference
- meet new reps and officers
- talk about CCEB plans for coming year
- tour website
- invite the hr (Ola Faucher, Kathy Jansen) people and Dean to discuss merit pay and other changes to USS
-spongebob(for the Spring)
Denise will check the calendar for Sep 16th or Sep 23rd 10-11:30AM
Set new time for regular CCEB meeting and for Retreat
Thursday mornings 10-11:30 (Denise will check the time, beginning Aug 11th, 2005)
Retreat (Special Meeting) at Jaybowl December 15th 10-11:30am (Denise will make sure they are open)
Planning and Resources Committee (PRC)
(Joint committee with LFA: Need to appoint new member and set charges)
Our current members are JoNell Proctor (through 2005), Billie Conway, Jeff McAdams (through2006).
Will ask Dean/HR about charges for this committee and ask about recruiting priority
New name for Classified Conference and CCEB
Group Reports
Grp 1
Hired Preservation Librarian, Tyra Grant.
Grp 2
Grp 3
FO wiring in ceiling and waiting for Herman Millers. Tamar and Amy will share an office. Shared
office will change to a staff office.
Grp 4
Social Science Librarian moving in. Engineering will look to rehire as fulltime day position.
Jeff is now a librarian.
Dean/HR Agenda Items for Wed. Aug 24th 2005.
Classified (USS) representation on Assessment Council Do charges need to be given to PRC?
Action Items for next meeting
1. Monica: Send out a link to the salary bands listed on HR website
2. Denise: Check dates/room for Fall general meeting (Sep 16th or Sep 23rd 10-11:30AM)
3. Denise: Make sure Jaybowl is open December 15th 10-11:30am for Retreat (Special Meeting)


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Algeria: Arbitrary arrest and detention of human rights defender Mr Noureddine Belmouhoub
On 23 October 2011, human rights defender and lawyer Mr Noureddine Belmouhoub was arbitrarily arrested by officers of the Intelligence and Security Directorate (DRS) and held in a detention centre in Algiers.
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The human rights defender was interrogated in relation to a judicial complaint he had made against Algerian Army General and former Minster of Defence Khaled Nezar in 2001. He was also intimidated and verbally abused, before being released at approximately 3 am on 26 October in a cemetery. Noureddine Belmouhoub is a prominent human rights defender and the spokesperson of the Comité de Défense des ex-Internés des Camps de Sûreté – CDICS (Committee for the Defense of ex-Detainees of the Security Camps).
On 23 October 2011, at approximately 11 am, Noureddine Belmouhoub was walking with a companion on Hassiba Ben Bouali Street, Algiers, when he was approached by three men in plain clothes who forced him into a waiting vehicle without producing an arrest warrant or identification. It later became evident that his kidnappers were with the DRS. While in detention, Noureddine Belmouhoub was questioned about a judicial complaint he had made against General Khaled Nezar in 2001. As well as being verbally abused and intimidated, he was told to halt his activism and was reprimanded for his human rights work.
On 20 October 2011, it is reported that General Khaled Nezar was arrested in Geneva and held for two days in connection with suspected war crimes. In 2001, Noureddine Belmouhoub had lodged a domestic judicial complaint against General Khaled Nezar in Algeria.
In the days leading up to his abduction, Noureddine Belmouhoub told his friends that he was being followed by a man on a regular basis and expressed concern that he might be abducted. The arbitrary arrest and detention of Noureddine Belmouhoub is the latest in a series of attacks against him, including a knife attack by unknown persons several weeks ago which resulted in serious injuries.
A former detainee in the Camp of Regane, Noureddine Belmouhoub campaigns for truth and justice for some 900 detainees who were held in this and other detention camps operated by the Algerian authorities in the Algerian desert between 1992 and 1995. Noureddine Belmouhoub is in poor health and suffers from a skin condition thought to have been contracted while he was held in detention in the desert camp.
Front Line is concerned for the physical and psychological integrity of Noureddine Belmouhoub, particularly as there appears to be a risk that he could be further targeted as the international scrutiny of General Khaled Nezar continues. Front Line believes that Noureddine Belmouhoub faces the risk of being re-arrested and detained for his human rights work and for his campaign for truth and justice for ex-detainees of the security camps, particularly by members of the Algerian Army and the DRS.
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The Labor Department said the U.S. economy added 151,000 jobs in October. Private sector employers added 159,000 jobs. Government agencies got smaller, shedding 8,000 jobs.
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text: RE: A modest proposal for Harald2004-11-07 13:52:35Dave Crocker wrote: On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 09:53:00 +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:So the death of IPv4 isn't going to happen with a bang. More like a protracted series of whimpersOne of the great dangers of having a history of success is the way it blinds us to new ways to fail. In the case of IP addressing evolution, the blindness is that our community presumes that transition to IPv6 is inevitable. A transition away from IPv4 is inevitable. The next stop in the evolutionary path will be determined by available alternatives. The IETF chose IPv6 from the set of proposals on hand. The market will choose something else if the IETF doesn't get serious about focusing all effort in that direction. Hence, we have done a very poor job of providing compelling benefits for users and admins. Which is why I have been after the Applications Area to wake up and recognize that the wasted effort that goes into the random nat traversal schemes is not leaving time to do the necessary work focused on IPv6. We have a grand promise -- and frankly it often sounds a lot more like religious fervor -- about eventual benefits, but no claim of immediate benefit that grabs operations folks by their gut, driving them to adopt this change. Addressing is plumbing and nobody cares besides the network operator. Applications are the driver that pull technologies along for the ride. Until the apps community decides that continuing to put energy into a dead end technology is a bad idea, we will be stuck on the current path with no compelling driver for change. By way of noting one possible scanario that builds on today's reality and leads down a path that never adopts IPv6, I'll ask: What if users turned all leaf networks into private address space, so that public IPv4 numbers were needed only at the level of roughly 1 per public interface? This is happening due to lack of choice. Network operators are finding that their support costs are going up due to app breakage and that it is impossible to offer service guarantees when someone else owns the nat component of the infrastructure. This is, of course, the ultimate breakage of the end-to-end addressing model, but we tend to forget that the model is something rather esoteric to non-protocol geeks. You say this as if the model were the goal. The goal is simplicity that is a direct output of the model. We already must modify the architecture to deal with a much richer range of border policies than just differential routing. Having it include partitioned address space is a pretty obvious step, given how often we already are faced with that reality. Talk about blindness. Has ten years of nat deployment lead to the perception that it is just a minor annoyance that has to be dealt with? Yes we have to deal with rich border policies, but that is not really a new requirement. The U.S. National Labs were implementing whatever the technology of the day allowed 15 years ago, but their policies at the time were not much different than the Dentist office today. Differing policies was the root of most of the inter-agency discussions about topology before the commercialization phase. At the least, it means we had better have an end-to-end reference (identification) construct that is a) separate from IP Address, and b) works fine over IPv4. To this end, work like Opes and the architectural aspects of multi6 might be rather more strategic than we have been acknowledging. Opes has potential for both mitigating some of the harder problems, and/or being a way to trivially subvert system integrity. Lacking a real global trust infrastructure people have piled the trust issue on the routing system through the address token. The simple act of creating alternative endpoint tokens does not automatically move all the trust assumptions. What basis will people have to trust Opes. Multi6 is a worthwhile strategic effort, but the proposals on the table represent an even greater change to the fundamental architecture than simply changing the address length of IPv6. As such it will not really be deployable before 2020, and that is if the array of research efforts can be focused down to a single proposal soon. The problem is that we failed to evolve IP in a timely manner and in a way that was really convenient for real administrators. Some of us knew and discussed going in that it would be a 10 year effort to make a change of this magnitude. Bickering over attempts to tell the operations community how to run their networks has slowed things down, but deployments are happening around the world and given product availability could easily accelerate with the arrival of compelling applications. Instead we took the approach that this needed to be done as a major system shift and that "we would only get one shot at this change", so we also loaded quite a bit of baggage into the package. And now we try to characterize the minimal deployment of IPv6 as if it represented success. One of the biggest problems is using the current measures of IPv4 deployment to gauge IPv6 success. This is more indicative of the IETF's blindness than anything else. Given the current allocation policies the routing system will never see the massive bloat we see today (those policies are likely to change over time though). 'Demand' for blue-plumbing instead of red-plumbing should never happen because the end user of the network should never see it or care. The measure we should be looking toward is application availability and use. To a large degree the app development community is being misled by the IETF's continued efforts at squeezing the last address out of a system we have long since outgrown. Or perhaps the real problem was that what has been happening with NATs, et al, is fine but we that have preferred to tout our idealized solution and ignored market pragmatics. Market pragmatics of the last few years said the world couldn't wait for the IETF to get its act together and expand the available space. Market pragmatics going forward are more likely to say that nats create an unnecessary expense, both in the cost of the development armies working on traversal hacks and as the source of operational confusion leading to more support calls. Granted I am called in to talk to people already interested in/asking about IPv6, but those are the two points that keep coming up in the market place today. Please forgive me for noting that this kind of error is classic among organizations that have had major successes and, therefore, believe that their internal intelligence is greater than that of the markets. A small variation on this error is when it is from the aggregation of successful companies. The obvious example is OSI. Yes the IETF as a whole is blinded by the success of IPv4. Yes there are participants that want to tell the world how to run their networks. At the same time, there are others who are interested in simply defining the growth path and as Harald said, '... make sure the thing we have defined is well-defined enough to let it work, and then get the hell out of the way.' The plumbing pieces are well defined. The deployment technologies are defined, though several are blocked from publication by those who don't want to 'get out of the way'. The 'internal intelligence' of the collective recent IESG membership has created a road block for deployment technologies that don't fit their model of how people should be running networks. The real pieces that are lacking in the IETF output are in the application space. As Brian noted, work is going on now to address the market perceptions about what nat does and how to accomplish the same tasks in IPv6 without nat. This is nowhere near enough to help the world of application developers understand how to create-in and/or port-to an IPv6 environment. As Harald also said, 'Frankly, folks, IPv4 is what IBM used to call "functionally stabilized".' This means there is no reason for the IETF to focus any effort on standardizing new functionality around it. This was the basis for my comment about closing down IPv4 related discussions during his term. Yes there will be new IPv4 based product and service developments in the market for years to come. That is both due to training of the existing developers and operators as well as the fundamental need to leverage the vast existing environment. Those product and service developers do not need any new output from the IETF to create their wares. At the same time they will need output from somewhere to move beyond the limitations of that existing environment. The IETF has a choice, it can either make its earlier IPv6 choice the default for all current work, or it can become irrelevant when someone else provides a replacement for the 'past its prime' workhorse of IPv4. This is simple market pragmatics, no religion required. Tony _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf


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-- The Free and Strong America federal political action committee, which was organized to mirror the leadership PACs set up by scores of members of Congress. Since 2007, the PAC has raised $14 million, much of which funded Romney's profile-raising travel and political machinery before he became a candidate. The committee also has donated $1.2 million to Republicans holding or seeking congressional seats - $772,000 to 257 recipients in the 2010 election cycle alone.
-- Romney's campaign, a fixture dating to Jan. 3, 2007, when he began his first presidential bid, spent $105 million, including $44.6 million of his own money, in losing the GOP nomination to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. Among the biggest donors to the current campaign, which has raised $62 million so far, have been executives of Goldman Sachs and of Bain Capital, the private equity firm Romney co-founded.
-- Restore Our Future, the independent super PAC run on behalf of Romney that has to date reported raising $36.8 million from a few dozen large donors, including $3 million from Romney's former Bain colleagues and their wives. The committee has become the chief vehicle for bankrolling broadcast ads attacking Romney's rivals in primary states.
Steven Schier, a political science professor at Carleton College in Minnesota, said the record illustrates that "Romney has been aggressively pursuing ... and exploiting" loopholes in federal and state campaign fundraising laws.
Since Texas Gov. Rick Perry dropped out of the race, none of Romney's GOP opponents has been able to compete with his $100 million fundraising machine. Santorum's campaign and main super PAC have raised a combined $9.5 million through Jan. 31. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas and his super PAC have collected $34.3 million. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's campaign and super PAC have raised $31.2 million.
Schier said that without Romney's personal wealth and financial connections, "I don't even think we'd be talking about Mitt Romney today as a candidate. Take it all away and where is he? He's nowhere."
To whom might Romney owe favors? Goldman Sachs not only wrote his 2008 campaign a $2 million loan, but its executives also given more than $1 million to his two presidential campaigns and his federal PAC since 2008, according to a McClatchy analysis of data gathered by the Center for Responsive Politics.
The same committees collected over $650,000 from Bain Capital and its predecessor firm, Bain & Co.
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Those donations, however, are outstripped by those arriving at the super PAC Restore Our Future, which collected $1 million each from at least 10 donors or couples, including New York hedge fund figures John Paulson, Paul Singer and Julian Robertson, Romney's former Bain colleague Edward Conard, and Bain Capital Partner Paul Edgerly and his wife, Sandra.
Romney was in his second year as Massachusetts governor in 2004 when his operatives took what critics call unmistakable steps to lay the groundwork for a presidential run by forming the first of a half dozen so-called "Commonwealth" committees.
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The first donor listed by the Iowa committee in the fall of 2004 was businessman Darrell Crate, a former chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party who is now treasurer of Romney's presidential campaign, state campaign filings show. Crate's $6,500 donation was accompanied, on the same day, by $6,000 from Robert White, a co-founder of Bain Capital and close Romney friend who is a part owner of the Boston Celtics. More than $22,000 soon followed from others at Bain or its affiliates.
Those donations soon would be dwarfed.
A committee formed in Alabama, which places no limits on the size of contributions, reported in 2006 donations of $100,000 each from Goldman Sachs managing director Muneer Satter and B. Wayne Hughes, the chairman and founder of Public Storage, $84,330 from billionaire Cincinnati financier Carl Lindner, who has since died, and more than $124,000 from conservative chief executive J. W. Marriott, Jr. of Marriott International and his brother, Richard Marriott. Marshall Wallach, a Denver-based investment banker, gave $86,500, and Texas real estate magnate Bob Perry contributed $80,000.
The New Hampshire Democratic Party, later joined by Alabama Democrats, complained to the FEC that Romney was illegally using the state PACs to help his presidential campaign. Romney spokeswoman Saul said the Democratic complaint "has no merit," dismissing it as "a political stunt" initially aimed at ruining a Romney visit to New Hampshire.
The FEC has yet to rule on the complaint, but has never penalized a presidential candidate for using state committees. The commission consists of three Republicans and three Democrats and often has been stalled by partisan impasses.
The consumer interest group Public Citizen, after obtaining the records of secret FEC votes through the Freedom of Information Act, recently reported that votes on enforcement matters ended in deadlocks 109 times from 2003 through 2010.
Despite its donations, the pro-Romney's PACs had mixed results in winning endorsements.
From 2004 to 2010, the Iowa PAC gave $541,000 to county Republican committees and GOP candidates for the state Legislature and statewide offices, topped by $130,000 to former Rep. Jim Nussle's 2006 campaign for governor. Romney's PAC and Nussle even worked together to fund five county Republican operations. Nussle lost the election for governor, and then endorsed Rudy Giuliani in the 2008 presidential race.
In 2010, the Iowa PAC gave $30,000 to Terry Branstad's successful bid to return to the governor's office. Branstad, however, declined to endorse anyone before the recent Iowa caucuses, which Romney barely lost.
In South Carolina, where Romney's election prospects were bleaker, his Commonwealth PAC raised less money and donated modestly, except for a $4,000 contribution to Tea Party candidate Nikki Haley before she won the governorship. Haley has endorsed Romney.
In Michigan, Romney won endorsements from seven U.S. House members who got $2,500 in 2010 from his federal PAC, but donations of $4,500 each in 2010 and 2011 to Reps. Candice Miller and Justin Amash went for naught. Miller endorsed Perry and Amash backed Paul.
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For years, the Iron Nation Motorcycle Club has hit the streets for its annual Ride in Remembrance of September 11th, 2001. Saturday morning, they continued that tradition. Nearly eleven years after the September 11 attacks, emotions still run high.
At Cottonwood Park in Sparks, it was about remembering.
"9/11 was just a significant event in American history and it's just great that we can all get together," says rider Stefan Sobkiewicz.
Two thousand riders from across the area came together for the Never Forget 9/11 Memorial Ride. A great turnout for a great cause.
To participate in the memorial, it costs $25 for a single rider and $35 for a double. All the proceeds go directly to Nevada Military Support Alliance.
"Because of the community that comes out for this event, last year we were able to donate $20,000 for them," says Fran Lane, President of Iron Nation Motorcycle Club.
In all, the event has raised more than $140,000 in contributions.
"The community always comes out and finds time to give up their hard-earned dollars to help raise money for this event," says Lane.
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Sendek: Sun Devils to face 'extremely talented' Wildcats squad
It is coming off a good road split in Oregon, and is quickly gaining "surprise team" status.
A win in its next game would go a long way towards making people true believers in what's happening in Tempe, because it would mean taking down the seventh-ranked Arizona Wildcats.
"They're extremely talented," Sendek told Arizona Sports 620's Burns and Gambo about the Wildcats. "They have some guys that just make plays."
Sendek pointed to Mark Lyons, Solomon Hill and Nick Johnson as guys who make plays, and added that the Wildcats are tough up front and solid in the half-court game.
"They're among the top five or 10 teams in the country ranking-wise, very well-deserved, and for good reason."
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Listen: Herb Sendek, Head Coach ASU Basketball Coach talks about his team's first Pac 12 loss to Oregon.
One of those two wins came in the regular season finale last season, when the Devils significantly hurt the Wildcats' NCAA Tournament hopes with an 87-80 upset win in Tempe.
When asked if his teams may play with a bit more of an edge when the Wildcats are the opponent, Sendek said he hopes that's not really the case.
"We hope we take every game and give it our best," he said. "If we're doing that, theoretically, it's hard to do better than that."
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- Stewart Mandel, SI.com college football writer - Tuesday December 3Mandel discusses USC's coaching hire and the Pac-12 Championship game.