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Feb. 18, 2004
The Team: Johns Hopkins improved 19-2 overall and 14-1 in the Centennial Conference with three wins last week. The Blue Jays knocked off McDaniel (59-52), Dickinson (80-55) and Haverford (65-62). The Blue Jays clinched a spot in the upcoming Centennial Conference Tournament with the win over Dickinson.
This Week: Hopkins plays a pair of league games this week as the Blue Jays play at Gettysburg on Wednesday (2/18) and host Ursinus on Saturday (2/21).
The Coach: Nancy Funk (Messiah '77) is in her 18th season as head coach of the Blue Jays. Funk, who is the all-time winningest women's basketball coach in JHU history, sports a 313-141 (.689) record at Hopkins. She picked up her 300th win at JHU with a 65-59 win over Gettysburg earlier this season. Under Funk's guidance, Hopkins posted six straight trips to the NCAA Tournament from 1995-2000, and advanced to the NCAA Second Round last season. Funk, who has a 439-230 (.656) career record in 27 seasons, has also led the Blue Jays to two NCAA Elite Eight appearances and four Centennial Conference Championships.
Last Week: Johns Hopkins ran its winning streak to seven games with league wins over McDaniel, Dickinson and Haverford. McDaniel entered the game against the Blue Jays with a 14-0 league record, but the Blue Jays build a double-figure lead early in the second half and held off a late rally. Senior Trista Snyder (West Chester, PA/Unionville) scored a game-high 16 points and freshman Julie Miller (Annandale, VA/Thomas Jefferson) added 15 points and 11 rebounds to fuel the victory. The double-double was the team-high fourth of the season for Miller. She has accounted for four of JHU's eight double-doubles on the year. Hopkins secured a spot in the Centennial Tournament with an 80-55 road victory at Dickinson. Senior Maureen Myers (Waverly, PA/Abington Heights) led four Blue Jays in double figures as she scored 15 points, while Miller added 11 points and eight rebounds. Juniors Ashanna Randall (Media, PA/Penncrest) and Alissa Burkholder (Allentown, PA/Salisbury) both added 10 points as the Blue Jays broke open a 10-point game at the half to lead by as many as 36 in the second half. Hopkins ran its winning streak to seven games with a narrow, 65-62 win at Haverford on Saturday. The Blue Jays led by as many as 23 in the second half before holding off a furious rally by the Fords. Myers scored a team-high 14 points and freshmen Haley Wojdowski (Mars, PA/Mars) added career-highs of 12 points and seven rebounds to lead the way.
Myers Named To Centennial Honor Roll: Maureen Myers was named to the Centennial Conference Honor Roll on Monday for her efforts in last week's wins over McDaniel, Dickinson and Haverford. She averaged 14.0 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.0 assists in the three victories. With three regular season games remaining Myers currently leads the team in scoring (10.0 points/game) and three-pointers (24) and ranks second in assists (49) and steals (48). Myers' recent efforts have also pushed her higher on several of JHU's career statistical lists. She currently ranks 12th on JHU's career scoring list (83), fourth on the career three-pointers made list (97) and 10th on the career assists (199) and steals (164) lists. She will also become just the 17th player in school history to play in 100 career games if she plays in two more games.
Randall Inching Up in Record Book: Junior Ashanna Randall leads the team in rebounding (6.8), ranks second in scoring (9.9), third in steals (36) and tied for third in blocks (15). She also leads the team in field goal percentage (90-of-184/.489). With no fewer than four games remaining this season, Randall ranks 10th on JHU's career rebounding list (468) 18th on the career scoring list (697) and 13th on the career steals list (118).
Felix Reaches Milestone: Junior Ashley Felix (Pittsburgh, PA/North Catholic) continues to be one of the most disruptive defensive players in the nation from her point guard position. Felix, who averages a team-high 28.0 minutes per game, is averaging 5.4 points and 2.8 rebounds, while leading the team with 66 assists and 89 steals. She is on pace to shatter Leslie Ritter's single-season record of 100 steals. In addition, Felix recently became just the fifth player in school history to amass 200 career assists and steals as she now has 201 assists and 211 steals in her career. She is currently ranked fifth on JHU's career steals list and ninth on the career assists list.
Kimball Leads Block Party: Junior Katie Kimball (Garden City, NY/Garden City) has emerged this season as a solid contributor off the bench for the Blue Jays. She is averaging 4.2 points and 3.9 rebounds in just under 14 minutes per game. She has also been a key part of a Blue Jay defense that is limiting the opposition to just 55.0 points per game and 32.8% shooting from the floor. Kimball has a team-high 32 blocked shots (8th-highest) single-season total in school history) and ranks fifth on the team with 23 steals to her credit. She has had three or more blocks six times this season, including three times in the last six games. Earlier this season she scored a career-high 17 points in a 65-52 win over Springfield in the championship game of the Blue Jay Invitational. With Kimball leading the way the Blue Jays have 125 blocked shots on the year. Last season they blocked 87 in 28 games.
Balancing Act: The Blue Jays are 19-2 overall and 14-1 in the Centennial Conference. A quick look at the stat sheet reveals the Blue Jays are winning with balance. Through 21 games, the Blue Jays have five players averaging 7.9 points per game or more, but none is averaging more than 10.0 points. Eight different players have led the team in scoring at least once this season and seven different players have scored 15 or more points in a game as the Blue Jays average 71.7 points per game. The following are the Blue Jay scoring leaders through games of February 14:
Player Points/Game Hometown/High School Maureen Myers 10.0 Waverly, PA/Abington Heights Ashanna Randall 9.9 Media, PA/Penncrest Trista Snyder 8.9 West Chester, PA/Unionville Julie Miller 8.3 Annandale, VA/Thomas Jefferson Amanda Leese 7.9 Amherst, NH/Bishop GuertinMore Balancing: In addition to the balanced scoring attack that has helped the Blue Jays average 71.7 points through 21 games, Hopkins has also used strong team rebounding to build an impressive 6.1 rebounding advantage thus far. The Blue Jays have six players averaging at least 3.9 rebounds per game, but not one player is averaging more than 6.8. JHU is averaging an impressive 18.6 offensive rebounds per game among its 47.2 overall rebounds per outing. The following are the Blue Jay rebounding leaders through games of February 14:
Player Rebounds/Game Hometown/High School Ashanna Randall 6.8 Media, PA/Penncrest Julie Miller 6.7 Annandale, VA/Thomas Jefferson Amanda Leese 5.9 Amherst, NH/Bishop Guertin Kelly Rumsey 5.5 Atlanta, GA/Marist Trista Snyder 4.0 West Chester, PA/Unionville Katie Kimball 3.9 Garden City, NY/Garden CityStreaks-n-Stuff: The Blue Jays have won 22 of their last 23 regular season Centennial Conference games and are 29-2 against the CC since the beginning of the 2002-03 season (includes two wins in the 2003 CC Tournament). This season, the Blue Jays' average margin of victory in league games is 20.4 points. The Blue Jays enter this week's games having won 17 straight games at home and 13 straight games in the month of February. The Blue Jays have won 16 straight CC regular-season games at home and 18 straight at home against CC opponents (includes two wins in last season's CC Tournament).
Blue Jays in NCAA Stats: Through games of February 15, Ashley Felix ranked fourth in Division III with 4.5 steals per game, while as a team Hopkins was 14th with a 32.8 field goal percentage defense. The Blue Jays were also 28th with a +16.7 scoring margin and 44th with a +6.0 rebounding margin.
Blue Jays in the Centennial: Ashley Felix leads the Centennial Conference with 4.45 steals per game, is fifth with 3.30 assists per game and ranks sixth with a 1.35 assist/turnover ratio. Julie Miller is third with a 76.8 free throw percentage and eighth with 1.05 blocks per game, while Katie Kimball ranks fourth with 1.52 blocks per game. Maureen Myers is eighth with 2.29 steals per game, while Ashanna Randall is fourth with a 48.9 field goal percentage and Amanda Leese is eighth by shooting 45.4 percent from the floor.
CC Tournament on the Horizon: Johns Hopkins clinched its 10th straight trip to the Centennial Conference Tournament. The Blue Jays missed the inaugural CC Tournament after the 1993-94 season, but have qualified every year since. The Centennial moved from a two-division alignment to a one-division alignment this season with the top four teams qualifying for the tournament, which will take place on the campus of the number-one seed on February 28-29. The Blue Jays split their two games against McDaniel this season and the top seed in the tournament will be based on the tie-breaking procedure set forth by the Centennial Conference (see the CC web site - www.centennial.org - for the breakdown) if the two teams remained tied. Only Hopkins and McDaniel can still finish as the top seed in the tournament.
Taking Down No. 1: The Blue Jays' win over top-ranked Washington University on November 30 was the first win by a Hopkins team over an opponent ranked number one in the nation in any sport except men's lacrosse. The loss was just the fourth regular season defeat for the Bears since the beginning of the 1998-99 season.


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Once upon a time, there was a car company that designed a car they thought would revolutionize the car industry. Through heavy marketing and great PR rumor mongering, the American public waited on the edge of their seats for this earth-shattering new car to roll off the assembly line and take the highways and byways of the American republic by storm.
The car did roll off the assembly line and American collectively stared in shock and disbelief. The car was called the Edsel.
Now, the car was very stylish in many respects and had a push-button transmission and other interesting features, but, in the end, it was ugly. Sadly, the Edsel was off the Ford Motor Company list of products in a couple of years and the only thing people really remember about them was the front grill that looked like someone's face as they ate a lemon.
It was, for all intents and purposes, a great concept that went horribly wrong.
After my restaurant gulag experience at The Burger Place That Shall Not Be Named, I decided to go on the hunt for a new and creative luncheon experience. So, I got into my non-Edsel car and drove around before remembering that there was a new place near 16th Street and Indian School that took over the old Turk's Fish and Chips location. That location was a tiny building built many decades ago and was a biker bar before it because a fish and chips eatery.
I drove over and noticed the place had a new, bright orange paint job that really made the building stand out. I pulled in the back and parked and entered into darkness. The lights were fairly low, so my eyes had to adjust. I entered to find stanchions separating the ordering area from the seven tables that are there for the patrons. I stood on the far side of the stanchions to allow my eyes to adjust and to review the menu that was posted on the wall over the ceiling.
Memphx Cafe has been mentioned around town as of late because of its Southwestern/Southern fusion attempt. Basically, we are talking beef brisket tacos and fried chicken enchiladas. Since I had been to Chino Bandito and seen how fusion attempts can be successful, I was hopeful that I would find something interesting on the menu.
After a few minutes, I had made up my mind and placed my order with the pleasant cashier. I decided to have two tacos. The first was the Memphis Taco ($1.99), which featured shredded smoked pork, and the Phoenix Taco ($1.99) which contained smoked beef brisket. I also threw in an order of Beef Brisket Enchiladas ($2.99 for 2) and a side of Macaroni & Cheese ($1.65). Seeing a cold case harboring cans of Diet Coke ($1.50), I had one of those as well.
I paid my bill and the total was $10.94 which included tax. I then took a seat and waited for my meal. The interior of the place was nice with a mix of normal and high-top tables with various art on the walls. The place is tiny, however. It is also quite dark because the place doesn't really have much in the way of windows, which would have brought in some sunlight and opened up the place so it didn't feel so stuffy.
About 10 minutes passed and my meal arrived. I decided to go with the tacos first. I grabbed the Phoenix Taco and was immediately turned off by the fact that the flour tortilla was not fresh. I knew these were soft tacos from the description on the menu, but the outer edges were stale and hard, creating a terrible texture on my teeth. The brisket was pretty good and I liked the taste of the onions and cilantro that were liberally used. Still, the temperature of the taco could have been much hotter. Overall, this missed the mark.
The next item I tried was the Memphis Taco, which featured a soft flour tortilla, shredded smoked pork, BBQ sauce and jalapeno coleslaw. Like the first taco, the tortilla was lacking freshness. While the pork and BBQ sauce were palatable (thankfully, the sauce wasn't sickeningly sweet), the coleslaw was devoid of spiciness and was overly dressed. I like the dressing on coleslaw just as much as the next person, but I hate it when cabbage is drowned by it. The wet slaw had the unfortunate effect of bringing the entire taco to below room temperature.
I then proceeded to the Macaroni & Cheese. I had to take multiple bites of this because the first one had no taste. I figured I got something on the fringe, but sure enough, the entire side dish was awful. It wasn't Macaroni & Cheese at all. It was pasta in hot water with some cheese shreds on top. Blech. The pasta was still sitting in water that was murky from the flour in the pasta. There was a smattering of melted cheese on top. And that was it. No seasoning. No creaminess. No gooeyness. How this even got out of the kitchen an onto a plate is beyond me.
So, I turned to the two Beef Brisket Enchiladas as my last hope of making this meal shine. Inside the ubiquitous Styrofoam container were two enchiladas, perfect twins sitting side by side. They smelled decent and I was hopeful that the tortillas for the enchiladas were going to be different from the tacos. Unfortunately, they were not. I just didn't know what to make of a kitchen that doesn't know how to keep tortillas from drying around the edges. This shouldn't take a culinary science degree.
I took a bite and was turned off instantly by the enchilada sauce. It was a simple mixture of tomato sauce and chili powder. I love chili powder as much as the next person, but there is much more to an enchilada sauce than two ingredients. About the only thing decent within the Styrofoam was the beef brisket that was savory, tender and hot. Too bad it found its way into a lousy tortilla and a boring sauce.
I finished my drink and then bid my goodbyes to the cashier. The service was friendly and the people seemed very nice and eager. However, that doesn't make up for what I thought were little things that turned a potentially good lunch into a disappointment.
I had such high hopes for Memphx Cafe. I would like to chalk it up to grand opening jitters, but they have been open for several months and things like dried out tortillas and oceans of slaw dressing are a bit over the top. I liked the concept and a beef brisket taco could have been really good, in theory.
But like the Edsel, it was a great concept that has gone wrong.
I guess I should be lucky there weren't any big, red velvet hand chairs in the place.
Memphx Cafe
1650 East Indian School Road
Phoenix, AZ 85016
Dress: Casual
Notes: Parking is in back. Closed Mondays. Fish Fry on Fridays (5-9 PM).
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11 AM - 3 PM (and Fish Fry)
Additional photos can be seen at www.feastinginphoenix.com

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Posted by Brian from Shawnee on November 01, 2010 at 01:34
In Reply to: Brownie Moment posted by Baceseras on October 30, 2010 at 14:25:
: : What the heck is a Brownie Moment? Dana Milbank used it in his column in the Washington Post today, saying that a politician had a "Brownie moment" on a TV show. I gather that it's not good for politicians to have Brownie moments on TV shows. When I google the phrase I just get a bunch of hits from political blogs and columns that also use the phrase but nothing that defines it!
: [Milbank must have been comparing the politician to Mike Brown, disgraced head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in 2005, or to Pres. George W. Bush, who said on television, "You're doing a heck of a job, Brownie," just when public revulsion at the mismanagement of the Katrina disaster was at its highest. - Baceseras.]
Yeah, that makes perfect sense, except that Milbank must have been comparing him (ironically) to Bush. The politician in question was praising an appointee of his, using the phrase "heck of a job".


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Whistle-blower says UNC created 'hostile' work environment
Posted July 1, 2014
Raleigh, N.C. — Mary Willingham, the whistle-blower academic adviser at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who claims that the university put player eligibility above academic integrity for years, has filed a civil suit against the school claiming that UNC retaliated against her for speaking about the academic performance of revenue-sport athletes.
In the lawsuit filed Monday, Willingham said she was informed in July 2013 that there would be several changes regarding the terms of her employment with the university, including a demoted rank and title and additional job duties that would require "extensive training."
Willingham's claims of retaliation also stated that she was told by the university that she would no longer be advising undergraduate students, but would only provide academic advising to graduate students who were seniors. Willingham was also forced to move her existing office to another space with working conditions her suit describes as "poor."
"Defendants (UNC) retaliated against Plantiff (Willingham) by providing her with a hostile work environment and purposefully failing or refusing to take prompt and effective remedial action to eradicate Plantiff's hostile work environment," the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit claimed that Willingham has "incurred and sustained harms, losses and other damages" as a "direct and proximate result of UNC's acts of reprisal" against her. Willingham, who resigned her position at the end of the 2014 spring semester, is seeking damages in excess of $10,000 and court costs.
Joel Curran, vice chancellor of communications and public affairs at UNC, said the university has not yet been served with the lawsuit.
"We have no comment at this time," Curran said.
In a public appearance Tuesday afternoon, UNC Chancellor Carol Folt admitted that a series of investigations and allegations about the university's balance of academics and athletics have been challenges.
"We must take the opportunity to get things right," she said. "I didn't come here thinking that everyday would not include issues of great consequence."
Folt said she respected the right of Willingham, or any employee, to question her work environment and that the university will follow through as appropriate.
Willingham jumped into the national spotlight in January, telling CNN that that 60 percent of the 183 athletes she studied at UNC read at a level more common in elementary school and up to 10 percent had the reading skills of a third grader.
Since that time, she has affiliated herself with student-athletes suing the NCAA and has advocated for NCAA reform.
"(I was) waiting for the university to do the right thing, and they still haven't done the right thing," Willingham said of UNC leaders.
She said Tuesday that she'd be in Washington, D.C., again Wednesday to urge lawmakers to take a closer look at the NCAA.
"The NCAA will need some serious help from our historians at UNC (so many years have passed)," Willingham said in a statement. "The NCAA cartel has lost credibility as a regulatory body. Meting out punishment should not be the purpose of any inquiry at this point. Instead, they should focus on how to use the UNC example to reform the entire system."
The NCAA notified UNC-Chapel Hill on Monday that it is reopening its 2011 investigation into academic irregularities at the school because, according to a statement by Director of Athletics Bubba Cunningham, "additional people with information and others who were previously uncooperative might now be willing to speak with the enforcement staff."
A statement from the NCAA on Monday said its enforcement staff is exploring new information to ensure that "an exhaustive investigation is conducted based on all available information."
Dr. Julius Nyang'oro, who faces a fraud charge for collecting payment for a class that never met, is cooperating with both school and judicial investigations, Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall said last week. That cooperation has Woodall considering dropping the charge against Nyang'oro, the former head of the UNC Department of African and Afro-American Studies.
Woodall said Nyang'oro has provided "invaluable information" to Ken Wainstein, the former federal prosecutor hired by the university in February to conduct the latest in a series of probes into the relationship between the Af-Am department and student-athletes. Cunningham said the university instructed Wainstein to share relevant information directly and confidentially with the NCAA.
"My colleague Joseph Jay and I have since held meetings with the Enforcement Staff and have briefed them on our findings to date," Wainstein said in a statement Tuesday. "We will continue to provide the NCAA with any relevant information that we learn during the remainder of our investigation."
Earlier this month, former UNC basketball player Rashad McCants, a member of the 2005 National Championship team, told ESPN's "Outside the Lines" that he took classes that required nothing more than a paper and that tutors wrote papers for student-athletes. McCants said he rarely went to class yet remained eligible to play.
Head basketball coach Roy Williams denied McCants' claims that Williams knew about the classes, and McCants' 16 teammates signed a statement that said, "With conviction, each one of us is proud to say that we attended class and did our own academic work."
According to Willingham, so-called no-show classes were prevalent in the African and Afro-American Studies Department for more than two decades.
A 2012 investigation led by former Gov. Jim Martin found problems in that department dating to the mid-1990s. The investigation revealed hundreds of bogus classes and altered and forged grades, but Martin determined that the discrepancies benefited non-athletes who took the classes as well as student-athletes.
Investigations into academic misconduct at North Carolina began in 2009 after allegations of improper benefits within the football program. The NCAA sanctioned the football program for both improper benefits and academic misconduct involving a tutor, leading to a postseason ban and the loss of 16 scholarships.


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Once a young boy was trying to smooth out the dirt area behind his house so he could play there with his toy cars. There was a large rock blocking his work. The boy pushed and pulled with all his might. But no matter how hard he tried, the rock wouldn't budge.
His father watched for a while. Then he came to his son and said, "You need to use all your strength to move a rock this large."
The boy answered, "I have used all my strength!"
His father corrected him: "No, you haven't. You haven't had my help yet!"
They then bent down together and moved the rock easily.
The Lord wants us to rely on Him in solving our problems. Then we can feel His love more constantly, more powerfully, more clearly, and more personally. We become united with Him, and we can become like Him.
Ask Yourself …
What are some things that are very hard for you to do?
How can you ask for Heavenly Father's help in doing hard things?
Who else can you ask for help?


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From train rides and hayrides to the butterfly valley and corn maze, we have a ton of fun in store for your family!
We have great family entertainment all month long. Check our schedule for a list of artists, dates, and times.
Looking to have that "dream" party for your kids? We can make it happen with so many options.
Pumpkin Weigh-Off
Does your pumpkin have what it takes to be the biggest? Come down and take the challenge.
Updates: World Record Pumpkin!
On Saturday, 10/12, we weighed the World Record pumpkin at our Annual Giant Pumpkin Weigh Off. It weighed 2,032 lbs. and was grown by Tim Mathison of Napa, CA. I'd like to congratulate the top five winners: 1st place: Tim Mathison - 2,032 lbs. - Current world record heaviest weight pumpkin Napa, CA 2nd place: Pete & Cindi Glasier - 1,784 lbs. - Napa, CA 3rd place: Russ Pingrey - 1,564 lbs. - Santa Rosa, CA 4th place & Heaviest Local Pumpkin (Santa Clara County): Vincent Zunio - 1,514 lbs. - Los Altos Hills, CA 5th place: Leonardo Urena - 1,503 lbs. - Napa, CA Best Looking Pumpkin: - Vernon Blaziek - Napa, CA Check us out on the Kelly Ripa & Michael Strahan show on Thursday 10/17. The pumpkin will be featured at The New York Botanical Garden's Haunted Pumpkin Garden exhibition through Halloween. It will be carved by Ray Villafane on October 19-20. The master carver, featured on the Food Network, will transform humongous pumpkins into zombies and other unearthly creatures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbcBl35hUf0


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ABC Digital
Political News
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(WASHINGTON) — Rick Santorum played off of the Mitt Romney campaign's Etch A Sketch gaffe Thursday when he told an audience that the country might be better off with President Obama than with a candidate who will shift his positions with ease and who he believes is not very different from the president.
"You win by giving people a choice. You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone who's just going to be a little different than the person in there. If you're going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk with what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate of the future," Santorum told a crowd at United Services Automobile Association (USAA).
Following the event, Santorum, who carried the Etch A Sketch during his speech, told the press that Romney knows he can't win in the general election.
"All the things that allow Romney to win the primary are unavailable to him to win the general and that's why you see these Etch A Sketch comments because he knows he can't win," said Santorum.
As he spoke to the crowd, Santorum stressed the weight the Texas primary will carry on the overall race, saying the race will continue through Texas, whose large delegate count of 155 offers him the "opportunity to reset this race."
"You have a very important role to play in this election, here in the state of Texas. It's the second-biggest delegate prize, and you're going to have an important role. This race will not be over when Texas is coming around. And you're going to have a choice, an opportunity to really, and I think we'll have again this Saturday, to reset the race. We have Louisiana coming up and another opportunity to reset this race. And you'll have that same opportunity here in the state of Texas."
Santorum has repeatedly referenced the "two-man race" evolving in the campaign, but has yet to ask Newt Gingrich, who attracts many of the same type of voters, to drop out of the race. Asked if he has spoken to the Gingrich campaign, Santorum said he himself has had no contact with the candidate or his campaign.
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You don't have to look at unemployment figures to know job security is fleeting in the NFL. The Bucs have added nearly three dozen players to their 80-man roster this offseason, and they figure to have at least seven new starters. Who will be this year's Antonio Bryant, a new veteran who bursts back onto the scene? Who will be Clifton Smith, a relative unknown who made history by returning two kicks for touchdowns last season and was named to the Pro Bowl? Part of the fun of Bucs training camp, which opens Friday, is trying to identify the new difference-makers. We've done the work for you.
KELLEN WINSLOW: The Bucs have invested heavily in the tight end. In addition to the second- and fifth-round draft picks they sent to Cleveland for the two-time Pro Bowl player, they also signed him to a six-year contract with $20 million in guarantees.
Three of Winslow's five NFL seasons have been interrupted by injury. So there's some risk. But there's also the possibility of a big reward. In 2006 and 2007, the only two years Winslow, 26, has played all 16 regular-season games, he averaged 85.5 receptions for 990.5 yards.
New offensive coordinator Jeff Jagodzinski has always made good use of tight ends. Winslow will be a devastating play-action target, particularly in the red zone, where the Bucs scored only 22 touchdowns in 56 trips last season.
JOSH FREEMAN: Raheem Morris' coaching future is tethered to the success of Freeman, this year's 17th overall draft pick and anointed as the team's next franchise quarterback. Ergo, the sooner Freeman gets tossed in the fire, the faster he can develop and start winning games.
Freeman, 21, has all the physical tools: He is 6 feet 6, 248 pounds, and has a rocket arm. But junior quarterbacks who enter the draft don't historically fare well when they're forced to start as rookies.
That said, unless Luke McCown or Byron Leftwich lights it up, why would Morris walk on eggshells with Freeman? Answer: He won't.
Don't be surprised if you see Freeman make his first start before Thanksgiving. Or will it be Halloween?
DERRICK WARD: This may be one of the league's most underrated offseason moves. The running back has averaged 5.29 yards per carry over the past two seasons. He had a breakout year for the Giants in 2008, rushing for 1,025 yards and two touchdowns platooning with Brandon Jacobs.
Ward, 28, will complement Earnest Graham, giving the Bucs another downhill runner for offensive coordinator Jeff Jagodzinski's zone-blocking scheme.
"We're going to be a one-cut, downhill, physical football team," Jagodzinski said. "I feel very, very fortunate about the type of line that we have here. I think that's one of the strengths. If you have a strong running game, you're going to have eight up in the box, and you're going to have your opportunities to take some shots."
ROY MILLER: The defensive tackle, the Bucs' third-round draft pick from Texas, is the son of a retired Army sergeant. Discipline and work ethic, particularly in the weight room, are what Miller, 22, is known for.
At 6 feet 1, 315 pounds, Miller lacks ideal size at his position for defensive coordinator Jim Bates' system, but he makes up for it in strength. He has added 25 pounds since his last game for the Longhorns.
Miller will be a valuable run-stuffer to put in the rotation with Chris Hovan and Ryan Sims. He's going to play a lot this year. And Miller has a chance to develop into a pass rusher. He had 5½ sacks and 30 quarterback hits last season.
SAMMIE STROUGHTER: It's not often a seventh-round draft pick makes a splash as a rookie, but the wide receiver is this year's sleeper.
At 5 feet 9, 189 pounds, he is the perfect slot receiver. Behind Antonio Bryant and Michael Clayton, the third receiver spot is wide open, and Stroughter can return kicks, which gives him an advantage.
Stroughter, 23, created a buzz in the offseason with his playmaking ability. He was highly productive with Oregon State in the Pac-10, with two 1,000-yard receiving seasons. For a small guy, he is a natural pass catcher and snatches the football away from his body.


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Ready-To-Go Digital Tire GaugeTG102
Will it fit my motorcycle? It has large disc brake rotors! Yes. This gauge design is optimized for motorcycle applications. The 90° valve fits even in the tightest spots.
Is the battery replaceable?
No. The gauge has a lifetime lithium battery.
How high will it read?
It will read as high as 99.5 PSI.
Do I have to wait for the display to go off before taking another reading?
No you do not have to wait. The gauge resets itself automatically as soon as you take another reading.
Can I use it on my bicycle, car or truck?
Yes. Although it is optimized for motorcycles, it is easily useable on bicycles, car and truck or any other applications where a standard size valve stem is used.
How long is the warranty?
Five years.


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Sunday on NBC's "Meet The Press," Wall Street Journal editorial board member Jason Riley criticized Al Sharpton for exploiting the racially charged protests in Ferguson instead of addressing places like Chicago where crime is an epidemic destroying the lives of it's inner city minority residents.
Riley said, "Let's not pretend our morgues and cemeteries are a full of young black men because cops are shooting them. The reality is that it's because other black people are shooting them, and we need to talk about black criminality. Blacks are only 13 percent of the population. but they're 50 percent of homicide victims in this had country 90 percent of these victims are killed by other black people."
"A the same time, the same weekend with that this went down in Ferguson, we had 26 shootings in Chicago. but Al Sharpton didn't head to Chicago. He headed to St. Louis because he has an entirely different agenda, which is to continue to blame whites," he continued.
Sharpton's MSNBC colleague Andrea Mitchell interrupted Riley to shut him down by calling Sharpton's Ferguson visits "a peace mission."
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We believe that engaging the public with the science that we do is an important part of our work. We visit schools several times a year to explain what viruses are and how we investigate the biology of virus infection. We discuss how viruses spread using props such as hair gel with glitter "snot" and talcum powder "sneezes". We show how influenza re-assorts using bags of coloured tubes.
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With the children wearing real lab coats, we use microscopes to show them the cells we work with and how they look when they are infected with Green Fluorescent Protein encoding viruses. They can see blood smear slides and have a go at precipitating DNA. They also try cell culture (water and red food dye) and finish off by designing their own pathogen using plasticine. Fun is had by all.
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He was everywhere. He did everything. He ran through everybody. He made the renovated stadium reverberate.
Yeah, you could say Toby Gerhart had quite a night in Stanford's breathless 45-38 victory over Notre Dame on Saturday.
Gerhart for the Heisman? Why not?
He closed out this victory, he closed out the Stanford regular season, he closed out the final home game of his college career, and now he has to be considered the pre-eminent late-closing contender for the big trophy.
"It's a team game," Gerhart said, once he emerged from a sea of fans who wanted to touch his shoulder pads and yell his name. "It was a high-scoring game, that's what people wanted to see.
"I played well enough to win the game. (The Heisman is) not up to me. It's up to the voters."
Really, there's no need for a campaign spiel. Not if any plurality of award voters watched Gerhart carry 29 times for 205 yards and three touchdowns, through various splayed Irish defenders.
Or just heard the crash impact when Gerhart pummeled Notre Dame cornerback Gary Gray on a 13-yard gain during Stanford's go-ahead drive.
Or when he ran over the next Notre Dame defender. Or the one who tried to tackle him on the next play. Or the play after that.
And, a series earlier, on the game's key fourth-down play, Gerhart also casually threw an 18-yard TD to Ryan Whalen, who caught it with a roll to the ground.
"We practice that once a week," Gerhart said. "I kinda threw up a prayer."
Granted, it came against an Irish team that has been poor defensively all season and surely was playing its final game for doomed Charlie Weis.
And Gerhart picked up the go-ahead score with 59 seconds left when it seemed clear that the Irish were intentionally surrendering the TD in order to get the ball back with time left.
But still, this was a nationally televised stage, with a Heisman race that is far from settled, and Gerhart delivered his own November Surprise.
Precisely when Stanford needed a game of all games out of its star senior tailback.
Gerhart held the Cardinal together in this game, as he has all season.
Saturday, Gerhart was the essential piece when the Stanford defense was overmatched by Irish receiver Golden Tate (three TD catches, 201 yards), when quarterback Andrew Luck found only moderate success, and when a series of penalties threatened to completely throttle Stanford.
When the Cardinal was eminently beatable. Except for No. 7, who was not stoppable.
The big-picture stats: Gerhart finished the regular season with 26 rushing TDs, which leads the nation and is a conference record, breaking the mark held by Corey Dillon and LenDale White with 24.
Gerhart also became the nation's leading rusher, raising his season total to 1,736 yards.
The other stats: Stanford raised its record to 8-4, its best mark since 2001, and ended Notre Dame's seven-game winning streak against the Cardinal.
So argue all you want about Florida's Tim Tebow, Texas' Colt McCoy and Alabama's Mark Ingram. They've had tremendous seasons. Each still has a bead on the national title.
But there was something tangible — percussive and persuasive — about what Gerhart did Saturday.
At the very least, Gerhart has earned Heisman finalist status, which would get him a trip to New York for the ceremony.
"How can you not at least invite him?" Luck said logically.
They have to invite Gerhart. If a few hundred voters saw this game, and I'm sure most of them did, he will get invited.
If enough of them saw it — and felt it — Gerhart might even win it. You do not want to get in his way when there's a goal in sight and the crowd is roaring.
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I'd be interested in seeing actual figures on revolver repair by brand, though I have no idea how they might be obtained. Smith and Ruger are built with wider tolerances that aren't present in Colt, so that might be a source of longevity, that's true, but it also might be a source of problems.
The only revolver I ever had just flat freeze up into inop status was a Smith K-frame. I could not open the cylinder and had to take it to a gunsmith instead. I also had a K-frame's hammer spur just break off during dry-firing (I had never dropped it), and while that didn't take it out of action, it left a sour taste regarding robustness.
I think Ruger is plenty robust and bought one for my daughter when she left home. I hope it doesn't need Ruger's attention (ever) because I have more action-smoothing money in it than in the purchase price, and Ruger will set it back to factory specs. While that's not a comment on longevity, it might be a disadvantage that's seldom mentioned.
So, I wonder what the Colt DS will be like after a few years with its fitted parts being wear items. For now they're fixable, and I don't think I'll be shooting mine much more than you did yours.
(BTW, I believe you're right about the smaller frames and wartime service. I probably misread something somewhere or was thinking about my first revolver, the Colt 1917 - similar lockwork, I suppose, but not identical to the D-frame.)
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What is a Sobaloopsian? According to the Duultian Theory of Sensual Microfauna, incredibly small animals live deep in our eyes, our ears, our nose, in the fey swampland of our tongue, and all across our skin (what Van Duult termed 'our endless dermal desert'). But the aural zoo is not populated with Sobaloopsians. They are even smaller than the animals, like the Sonivertillia, who call our inner ear their home. Van Duult submits that just as we have Sensual Creatures living in our Sense-Centers, so must those microscopic beasts have even smaller Living Creatures in their own Sense-Centers, and so on, ad infinitum. In fact, one of Van Duult's last theories ever published promulgated the belief that Humans, and every living beast of this planet, resides in a Cosmic Ear, or a Cosmic Nostril, or a Cosmic Retina, and that our quotidian appointments and every-day actions help produce in some unimaginably large and complex being the sensation of, say, yellow, or the the scent of cinnamon, or the taste of mellon rind.
Of course, Maximilian Van Duult's theories passed with the Wonderful Plague. Reference to his whimsical and ill-built syllogisms reside only in the fantastick Journals of Contemporaries, such as Samuel Pepys, Sir Ebenezer Ullian, and others.


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I guess four years in Washington was enough for Craig Manson, who will resign his Interior Department post at year's end to return to California to teach law.
Not many environmentalists will miss Manson, the assistant secretary of fish, wildlife and parks, as he has been a key proponent of overhauling the National Park Service's Management Policies and reworking the Endangered Species Act.
What strikes me, though, is the timing of his resignation. The Interior Department is grappling with a basketful of contentious issues, and for Mr. Manson to simply turn his back on them and walk away seems peculiar.
Earlier this fall Mr. Manson, who often is referred to as "Judge Manson," as he was a judge on the California Superior Court before joining the Interior Department staff in 2001, granted me an interview to discuss the changes proposed to the Management Policies by Paul Hoffman, who works under Manson in the Interior Department.
At the time he and I differed on whether Mr. Hoffman's proposed changes would allow more motorized recreation into the national parks. That's largely history now, as the Park Service has produced a toned-down version of the revisions, although there's still great concern over the impact they would have on the integrity of the park system.
Along with his interest in the Management Policies, Mr. Manson has had a strong say in the decision by the Interior Department to recommend that grizzly bears in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem have their "threatened" status under the Endangered Species Act removed.
And he's been a proponent of what environmentalists would term a "softening" of the Endangered Species Act.
I'm very surprised by the timing of Mr. Manson's resignation. It comes as the Interior Department is trying to ram through the revision of the NPS' Management Policies, trying to delist grizzly bears, trying to rewrite the book on sponsorships for the parks, and as Rep. Richard Pombo of California is trying to overhaul the Endangered Species Act, open up more public lands to mining and development, and even consider changes to the National Environmental Policy Act.
In other words, there's a lot going on with environmental issues, and to have Mr. Manson abandon ship at this time seems a bit odd.
Still, he's leaving Washington for more comfortable surroundings. After he leaves the Interior Department, Mr. Manson will take up residence at the University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento.


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Bellevue, NY -- In a survey released Wednesday by thrift retailer Savers Inc., the average family is expected to spend $300 on Halloween costumes, décor and celebrations this year.
According to the Halloween Shopping Survey, 90% of adults are planning to create a brand new look this season rather than repurpose old costumes, and another 81% will purchase new decorations for their home.
However, more than half (54%) of people planning to dress up this year will either combine new and secondhand items or make their costume by hand in order to find value.
Among the Halloween trends revealed in the survey, which polled 1,000 adults, Savers found that, on average, people dressing up for Halloween spend 61 days planning and preparing their costumes. In fact, 13% will plan for Halloween a year or more ahead. Conversely, 20% wait until the very last minute to plan their costume.
Pet owners will spend $59 on average outfitting their pets this year. And parents on average will spend $32 on a child's costume.


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Same As It Never Was
By Claire LaZebnik
St Martin's Press (US); Piatkus/Hodder Headline (AU)
May 2003, 352 pages, $24.95 (US)
November 2003, 359 pages, $22.95 (Australia)
Fed up with women's literature creating heroes out of lazy women who lie, cheat and steal to reach the top, Los Angeles-based writer and mother of four, Claire LaZebnik, decided it was time to take a look at the other side of the coin. And so Olivia Martin was born. Fiesty, ambitious and wicked smart, the 21-year-old narrator of LaZebnik's fiction debut Same as it Never Was (published in the UK and Australia as Olivia's Sister) always does the right thing.
When her wealthy father and stepmother are killed in a car accident on their way to Big Sur, Olivia's life flips when she learns she's been named sole guardian of a four-year-old stepsister she hardly knows. Suddenly, her world shifts and she's forced to exchange late night study and New Year's dates for kindergartens and the Powerpuff Girls—she's raising a kid while still trying to raise herself.
With Olivia, LaZebnik achieves her goal and then some, presenting readers with a believable and engrossing young woman who gets what she wants through her desire to make the right choices for herself and those around her. This isn't to say that she makes these choices without a fight—she has a tendency to scream, bitch, swear and bite, but it's a battle she's raging with herself, sometimes fighting against those right choices, but knowing all the while the path she must take.
LaZebnik spoke to PopMatters about Olivia, the book, the horrors of Shopaholic and life as a writer and a mum.
PopMatters: How did you find the process of writing the book? Have you always wanted to write fiction?
Claire LaZebnik: I always wanted to write fiction and did write several novels that never got published. I had two previous agents; my current agent, Kim Witherspoon, is spectacular. I wrote personal essays for a few magazines to make some money and stay busy, but then I had four kids in less than ten years and that kept me really busy. For some reason, after my fourth and last, I felt a real hunger to write a real novel and so I wrote Same as it Never Was during Will's naps, when the other three were in school. I enjoyed it hugely. Honestly. I drove my husband nuts—he's a TV writer, and he has to write to keep working and support his large family, so he'd be in one room, sweating through a script, and I'd be typing away blithely in the bedroom. For me, my work was taking care of the kids, so writing felt like a vacation. For him, it was just work, of course.
PM: Did you find it difficult to find a publisher?
CL: Getting published was hard. It's always hard. Kim did a great job of getting the book out there and there were some close calls, but it all ended in rejections until Diane Reverand—my editor at St Martin's—liked it and made an offer. So I adore her.
PM: The reviews of Same As It Never Was more often than not slot it into the "chick-lit" category. Did you set out to write a "chick-lit" book or has it just been packaged that way to appeal to the genre's buyers?
CL: I think the book gets put into the chick-lit slot because it's a quick read and it appeals to women and it has a romantic ending. I'm fine with that. What I find is that a lot of people say to me, "Your book is a lot more serious than it seems at first"—for all that it's funny and has a lot about Olivia's love life, I was also genuinely trying to say something both about the importance of doing the right thing as opposed to saying the right thing. There's a lot in the book about the distinction between those two actions, and about what it's like to be a parent. I think it's kind of a metaphor for women my age, who aren't young like Olivia, but who still feel like they could be in college and sometimes look around and think, "My god, where did these kids come from? Why am I leading this life?" So I feel like I'm sneaking the viewpoint of a 40-year-old into a book that's being marketed for very young women. I just hope some of them pass it on to their mothers!
PM: Did you have much input in the cover design? The Barbie imagery is gorgeous, but I think Olivia would be very pissed to know she was being portrayed that way!
CL: The cover was a long and laborious process. The first few versions were God-awful. I mean, truly unbearable—photos of hands clasping and things like that. They looked like young adult novels. And not good ones. So Diane brought me into a meeting with one of their designers and I actually suggested Barbies. I had been suggesting Barbie from the beginning, but not like this. My sister bought a series of photos years ago of close-ups of different parts of a Barbie doll and they're fascinating—I loved the way they were so sexual and yet about childhood at the same time—so I felt something like that would be right for this novel. We batted around the Barbie idea and agreed that there might be a way to capture a bit of the story line with Barbie, if we used a grown-up Barbie and her little sister. We actually used generic dolls. I don't think you can use an actual Barbie for something like this—trademark issues. We came up with a bunch of ideas, and then the designers went off and fooled around and ended up with this. I had some concerns. Obviously, no man will pick this book up on his own, and it does have a little kid vibe, but it's strong and humorous and people remember it, so that was better than anything we'd had before. It got mentioned in some design website as being a cover that's "so bad it's good," which I think sums it up. I think Olivia would appreciate the pained _expression on Barbie's face, if nothing else.
PM: Were you this closely involved in the website design?
CL: I had a lot of input into the website. The guy who designed it is the boyfriend of our former babysitter, so he and I discussed it a lot. But almost all of it was his idea. I think it looks great. I love the way he took the Barbie imagery, but roughed it up to make it harsher and more sophisticated. I wanted them to borrow some of his design for the American paperback (which is coming out this spring) but I don't think they will.
PM: You said on your website that you found the characters featured in many books aimed at women behaved in "petty and demeaning" ways and created Olivia as a reaction that. Where do you think this behavior comes from? How do you feel having the UK edition of the book compared to the work of Allison Pearson, very much a culprit of passing off stereotypical, often shallow characters as the everywoman?
CL: I'm embarrassed to admit that I haven't read I Don't Know How She Does It, but I'm all in favor of being compared to a bestselling book. How's that for shallow? Since I chose to stay at home full-time with my kids, I didn't think I'd relate to the juggling of kids and work theme of that book. My main problem with the heroines of most popular fiction these days is that the authors don't make them good people; there's this tendency to do the opposite, to make them selfish and dishonest and then have them succeed beyond their wildest dreams. I guess the idea is that the reader can identify with the heroine and feel like she, too, could have the man/job of her dreams without having to improve in any way. Bridget Jones's Diary is the good example. I think Helen Fielding did a great job of making her an everywoman. You root for her and identify with her. But since then, a lot of writers have made their characters unappealing, as far as I'm concerned, and then just thrown success at them. I honestly hate characters who lie. I read a novel recently—the first Shopaholic book—and was horrified at how the main character lied on almost every page. She never even feels bad about lying. And then she gets everything she wants. I wasn't rooting for her. I thought she was a horrible human being. So I worked really hard to make Olivia scrupulously honest. I actually said to my editor, "While you're rereading it, please look for any moments where she doesn't tell the truth, because I want her to be one hundred percent honest." She's not always kind and she's not always gentle, but Olivia is honest and in the end, she always does the right thing. I felt like she was a better person than I am and I loved her for that.
PM: Do you think [Olivia's first boyfriend] Joe's a rat? I know I've known so many guys who are totally and completely infatuated with their girlfriends yet still cheat on them, flirt behind their backs. Was that the kind of character you were going for with Joe?
CL: Yeah, that's basically Joe. The thing about him is that it's not the fact that he cheats that damns him with Olivia. It's the fact that he lies. And I felt that way about him as a character. He was actually much more broad originally—total Lothario—and my husband wisely said, "You have to pull him back, he's not believable, why would she like him?" so I made him more appealing and less overtly on the prowl. I think it improved the book immensely. Olivia's not an idiot. She wouldn't like someone who was truly awful. Joe is a great companion. He's smart and funny and sexy. And he does genuinely love her, I think. But he's the kind of guy who can justify anything to himself, even dishonesty, and for Olivia, who's so honest, that's just unacceptable. But I like Joe. I can't help it. I'd hang out with him, but I wouldn't give my heart to him.
PM: Was it a conscious decision to have Olivia sexually inexperienced prior to meeting Joe?
CL: Yeah, I liked the fact that she's kept herself inviolate all these years—I do believe there are people so cautious and so disgusted by the relationships of their parents that they'd rather keep themselves apart than risk getting hurt. Olivia also says that she really likes sex once she tries it and suspects that she knew she would and that was one reason she was careful not to let herself get carried away too early on. So I don't see her as the virginal type—she's actually quite sexy, I think—she's just careful. And when Joe something says, "You needed a guy like me to break down those walls and get you into bed," I think he's absolutely right. A shyer guy would never have gotten anywhere with Olivia. In fact, I imagine quite a few shyer guys did try and she never even noticed.
I was also very careful to make it clear [that whenever sex took place in the book, the characters] always used condoms. I think people should have sex as freely as they like, so long as they use condoms and I wanted to make that point.
PM: I found myself, when I had finished the book, wondering if Olivia's inexperience would hinder her future with Dennis, that maybe she was too young to get involved with him, not because of her age, but because of her inexperience. Were you ever conflicted as to the direction Olivia would take with Dennis?
CL: My sense about Dennis is that he's not all that much more experienced than Olivia. He's the kind of guy who would only sleep with a girl if he really felt he loved her. That probably meant his late wife and maybe a couple of other women in his whole life. In his own way, he's kind of an innocent. So even though he has a couple of decades on her, he's not that much more experienced romantically.
I stole the romance from Emma—the older guy with strong morals watching out for the young woman who's making some errors as she's learning her way, all the while falling in love with her. So I always intended for them to end up together.
PM: I read a review that criticised the convenience of Olivia's father's wealth. How do you respond to that, to the idea that she had it relatively easy—new house, new car, paid help? Does it come down to the story the book is based on?
CL: It was absolutely a deliberate decision. I wasn't interested in a story about someone who has to pay bills. I wanted it to be purely about her emotional journey and not about hardship. There were other reasons, too—I wanted it to be a humorous novel, not a sad one, so I wanted to make sure that Celia had some emotional support of her own, which is why I liked the idea of her having a caring nanny, who's really been her main caregiver all her life. The death of her parents became much less tragic that way. Plus, the existence of a nanny meant that Olivia can make a bit of a choice—does she want to be an important part of Celia's life or not? Without a nanny, she'd have no choice, but this way, she really had to want to become her family. Finally, I live on the west side of LA and I'm fascinated by the rich people here who have kids and then don't want to spend any time with them. I wanted to capture that with Celia's parents.
PM: Your husband wrote the "prank monkey" episode of The Simpsons and produced a whole season of Blossom—are you as in awe of him as I am?
CL: Yes, I'm completely in awe of him. He's had an amazing writing career, but, more importantly, he is—as my friends frequently tell me—the best dad in town. He works long hours, but races home to spend as much time with the kids as he can. He's very Dennis-like—very kind and decent through and through. This year he's on staff on a show called Less Than Perfect and is writing an animation pilot for Fox.
PM: How does having a family influence your writing?
CL: Having a family makes it hard to write regularly—I'm a mom first and the writing is just a side thing, something to indulge in when I get a free minute. The kids are proud of me, though—I had a book party here when Same as it Never Was first came out, and they signed books at my side, right where their names are on the dedication.
PM: Your next book is very different from this one—tell me a little about that one, and how it came about.
CL: I co-wrote a book on autism (Overcoming Autism: Finding the Answers, Strategies and Hope That Can Transform a Child's Life from Viking Press) and it's coming out this spring. My oldest son was diagnosed with autism at the age of two and a half. Several years later, I met a woman named Lynn Koegel. She and her husband run an autism clinic out of the University of California at Santa Barbara. They're doing absolutely amazing behavioral work, and she really helped my son a lot. He's now at the head of his class, in a regular classroom, and if you didn't know his history, you wouldn't know he had autism. Lynn asked me to write a book with her, and so we did. It describes the behavioral interventions she and her husband have developed from years of research, so people can actually learn to work with their own kids, but it's all very user-friendly and meant to be integrated into your normal family routines. I wrote a companion personal narrative, talking about how we dealt with various issues in our own family and describing how my son really emerged from the worst symptoms of his autism.
PM: Are you planning another work of fiction?
CL: I also have a fictional short story coming out some time this summer in a collection called American Girls About Town—there were two previous collections, Scottish Girls and Irish Girls. I'm trying desperately to find time to work on my next novel, which I have started, but it's been hard. I feel like I either have a kid home from school every day (sick or with a day off) or I'm working in their classroom for some reason. Plus I got a puppy—temporary insanity—so even when I'm home I'm spending most of my time cleaning up his messes. Still, I hope to have a rough draft written in the next few months. Emphasis on the "hope."
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Eclipse Aviation has placed a second Eclipse 500 very light jet, S/N 082, on the auction block. The online eBay auction began yesterday at 11 a.m. EST and will conclude at 8 p.m. on November 29. Bidding began at 95 percent of the aircraft's retail value of $1,844,804.30, and bidders must pre-qualify with a $5,000 refundable deposit. The aircraft will be ready for customer delivery early next month. A company spokesman wouldn't say how many aircraft Eclipse plans to auction, but the manufacturer previously said it would auction 40 of the first 200 aircraft produced. By the end of the third quarter, 49 Eclipse 500s had rolled off the production line. The first auction ended in August with a winning bid of $1,833,945 for S/N 038 by Morten Wagner, a 35-year-old Danish Internet entrepreneur. Meanwhile, Eclipse president and CEO Vern Raburn told AIN that the Avio NG avionics system is going through final certification tests. In addition, per-seat, on-demand air-taxi operator DayJet is scheduled to receive 10 more Eclipse 500s this month, bringing its fleet to 28 of the VLJs.
Another Eclipse 500 Auctioned on eBay
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It is oh so tempting to ignore former Hillsborough Commissioner Brian Blair's latest headline, to say thanks but no thanks, we've happily moved on from the days of Blair-related news.
But, darn it, like the professional wrestler he once was, Blair keeps picking himself up off the mat and coming back with a new move.
If you are familiar with Blair, maybe you weren't surprised to hear he filed a libel suit this week against Kevin Beckner, the financial planner who soundly ousted him in the November election, promising a new day in the wake of Blair's controversial tenure.
Blair claims he was wronged, defamed, wounded, everything short of pile-driven, by the content of some of Beckner's campaign mailers and ads attacking his record.
Now you might think a guy who spent time running around a ring in yellow-and-black striped wrestler britches as a "Killer Bee" and finishing off opponents with a signature double drop kick would be a little tougher than that. You might also detect a whiff of sour grapes. The ex-wrestler, defeated by the openly-gay candidate?
Blair's suit says Beckner's characterization of several issues — among them, a commission pay raise, funding for a women's shelter, flying the Confederate flag and using taxpayer money to clean up lakes, including one behind his house — were all-out falsities.
Assuming the case makes it that far, jurors will not only have to separate fact from fallacy, but spend some time parsing the boiled-down, sound-bite language of campaign ads.
Such as: Is the lake behind your house shared by neighbors your "personal" lake? Is supporting a proclamation recognizing Robert E. Lee's birthday different from being a "sponsor" of Robert E. Lee Day? Is opposing a pay freeze the same as giving yourself a raise?
Here's one for the rest of us: Does Blair truly feel so truly wronged that he's willing to rehash details of news stories that dogged his tenure? Apparently so.
To win his case, he will have a high burden to meet, as the lawyers like to say. He'll have to show Beckner's words were defamatory and made with "reckless disregard" for the truth.
Beckner's campaign manager, Mitch Kates, stands by those words. "You know how they say the truth will set you free? Sometimes it'll lead you to unemployment, too," Kates says.
All in all, you can expect a bloody battle, with big-name lawyer Barry Cohen defending Beckner and already dismissing Blair as a "crybaby."
But about the gloves-off business of running for office.
No, no one should be able to call you a pedophile or a puppy-kicker, unless this is so. But smart lawyers will tell you we have long had broad privileges regarding what's called fair comment and the right of candidates to speak harshly, critically and hyperbolically about each other. Vigorous political debate should be protected.
At a press conference at his lawyer's high-rise office, Blair would not say what gig he might be eying next. But the fact that nearly three pages of his seven-page lawsuit are spent enumerating his proud accomplishments as county commissioner leads you to believe he sees politics in his future.
If there is one truth here, it's this: You haven't heard the last of Brian Blair, even if you hoped you had.


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Birmingham, Alabama – April 27, 2010 – Vaxin Inc., an emerging vaccine company today announced that it has received The Birmingham Business Journal's (BBJ) Pacesetters Award, as the "Fastest Growing Emerging Company" in the Birmingham area. The award recognizes Vaxin's outstanding growth rate over the last three years, as well as the company's continued innovations in vaccine discovery and development.
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RATIONALE: Studying samples of blood and tissue in the laboratory from patients with a high risk of developing ovarian cancer may help doctors identify and learn more about biomarkers related to cancer. It may also help doctors learn more about the effects of flutamide on biomarkers.
PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying the effect of flutamide on biomarkers in blood and tissue samples from patients at high risk of ovarian cancer.
|Ovarian Cancer
|Drug: flutamide
|Phase 2
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|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|A Prospective, Phase IIA Study of the Effect of Flutamide (125 MG/DAY) Taken for 6 Weeks on Expression of Potential Biomarkers of Flutamide Action in the Ovaries of Women at Increased Risk for Ovarian Cancer
- Effect of of flutamide in ovarian tissue [ Time Frame: at time ovaries are removed and testing is done on specimens ]
- Comparison of the results of this pilot study in patients at high risk for ovarian cancer who are undergoing prophylactic oophorectomy and are interested in taking flutamide vs patients at high risk for ovarian cancer who are undergoing prophylactic ... [ Time Frame: at time ovarian specimens are processed ]
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|Study Completion Date:
|November 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Arm I
Patients receive oral flutamide once daily for 6 weeks in the absence of unacceptable toxicity. Patients then undergo prophylactic oophorectomy.
Drug: flutamide
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Detailed Description:
- Identify biomarkers of flutamide action in ovarian epithelial cells after 6 weeks of treatment with flutamide in patients at high risk for ovarian cancer.
- Examine the effect of flutamide in these patients.
- Compare the results of this pilot study in patients at high risk for ovarian cancer who are undergoing prophylactic oophorectomy and are interested in taking flutamide vs patients at high risk for ovarian cancer who are undergoing prophylactic oophorectomy and are not interested in taking flutamide (control) vs patients who are undergoing oophorectomy for a medical indication (control).
OUTLINE: Patients who elect not to receive flutamide undergo prophylactic oophorectomy or oophorectomy for a medical indication. Patients who elect to receive flutamide are randomized to 125mg/day.
Interested patients who elect to receive flutamide receive oral flutamide once daily for 6 weeks in the absence of unacceptable toxicity. Patients then undergo prophylactic oophorectomy.
All patients undergo blood and ovarian tissue sample collection at the time of surgery for biomarker laboratory studies. Proteomic, microarray, and polymorphism analysis are performed on the blood and tissue samples.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
At high risk for developing ovarian cancer, as defined by any of the following:
- Known inherited BRCA-1 or -2 mutation
- Recognized familial breast/ovarian or ovarian cancer syndrome
- Has at least one first-degree relative with ovarian cancer
Has a family history of breast cancer meeting 1 of the following criteria:
- More than one relative with breast cancer AND < 50 years of age
- Relative(s) with male breast cancer
- One relative with breast cancer AND < 40 years of age
Meets 1 of the following criteria:
- Planning to undergo prophylactic oophorectomy AND is willing to receive flutamide
- Planning to undergo prophylactic oophorectomy AND is not willing to receive flutamide (control)
- Planning to undergo oophorectomy for a medical indication (control)
- No breast cancer within the past 5 years
- Granulocyte count ≥ 1,500/µL
- Platelet count ≥ 75,000/µL
- Hemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dL
- Serum bilirubin normal
- AST and ALT ≤ 2.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Alkaline phosphatase ≤ 2.5 times ULN
- Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 times ULN
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Fertile patients must use effective non-hormonal contraception
- Able to comply with study and follow-up requirements
- No liver disease, including cirrhosis or viral or other hepatitis
- No current alcohol abuse
- No significant traumatic injury within the past 6 months
- No disease, metabolic dysfunction, physical examination findings, or clinical laboratory findings giving reasonable suspicion of a disease or condition that contraindicates the continued use of an investigational drug or that may render the patient at high risk from treatment complication
- More than 6 months since prior major surgery
- No other concurrent hormonal therapy
- No concurrent participation in another experimental drug study
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00699907
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|Arizona Cancer Center at University of Arizona Health Sciences Center
|Tucson, Arizona, United States, 85724-5024
|Principal Investigator:
|Setsuko K. Chambers, MD
|University of Arizona
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
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|University of Arizona
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|NCT00699907 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
P30CA023074 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|June 17, 2008
|Last Updated:
|December 11, 2014
Keywords provided by University of Arizona:
ovarian epithelial cancer
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Ovarian Neoplasms
Endocrine Gland Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Ovarian Diseases
Adnexal Diseases
Genital Diseases, Female
Genital Neoplasms, Female
Urogenital Neoplasms
Endocrine System Diseases
Gonadal Disorders
Androgen Antagonists
Hormone Antagonists
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal
Antineoplastic Agents
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I am sorry but at least in my jurisdiction it takes more than a CI to authorize a No Knock warrant. A CI gets you a target that needs to be watched. Everyone who goes in and out is IDed for a period of time. Licenses are run. Ownership is verified.
So it is not the fast and loose cowboy nonsense you and the Leftist Cato institute are purporting.
I am still troubled by the animus.
I also disagree with the notion of the Police becoming militarized. If SWAT was patrolling or answering Police calls on a regular basis you MIGHT have a point.
The Police are outgunned out there, I have been involved in several recoveries of AKs and ARs---I don't carry one. We also have had a rash of shootings with the 5.7 cartridge.
The reason for the 3am go time is there are not many bystanders milling about not for some rush. The rush is just a welcome byproduct.
The process for getting them is also stupidly easy. It often consists of nothing more than claiming an anonymous source said there are drugs being delt at address xxxxx. That's it. I could call in your address to the police and they could have a no knock warrant issued within the hour and be at your house tonight. Scary thought isn't it?
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I was actually surprised by the number of folks who were interested in the Phenom II X4 910e. It's a voltage binned Phenom II X4 running at 2.6GHz that falls in a 65W TDP envelope.
The performance is no different than the regular 95W Phenom II X4 910, it just uses a lot less power since it runs at a much lower voltage. Some of you wanted to know exactly what that voltage was. The table below gives you more detail on our CPU as well as a standard 125W Phenom II X4 965 BE (unfortunately I don't have any 95W X4s to compare it to):
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It's a pretty significant difference in voltage (and power consumption) but you do pay handsomely for the privilege. The 910e costs as much as a Phenom II X4 955: $169.
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Perhaps not quite common knowledge, but it is no secret that the Founder, and Aikikai Foundation, the organization developed by the late Doshu Kisshomaru Ueshiba, remained committed to maintaining appropriate and lasting relationships with most of the Founder's students, past and current. Organizations such as the Yoshinkan (Gozo Shioda), Yoseikan (Minoru Mochizuki), Takemusu Aikido (Morihiro Saito), Nishio Aikido (Shoji Nishio), amongst others, retained positive and respectful ties to Aikikai Foundation, and still appear to do so. In terms of legitimacy and genuineness of purpose, there never was, nor should there ever be, any need to "rank", or otherwise categorize any individual or organization by any standard other than the unconditional allegiance to the principles of the Founder's Aikido.
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