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Defending champion Brendan Teer and double European winner Fionnuala Britton were the stars of the 22nd Albertville Harriers 5 Miles Road Race at Duncrue Industrial Estate.
Teer was quickly at the front as the 120-strong field headed out on the first circuit.
Darryl Blair was just behind with Paul Rowan, Jim Brown and Conor Curran all prominent along with Britton who was clear of Kerry O'Flaherty in the Ladies.
Next time round it was Teer by 100 metres from Rowan with Blair next of Curran and Brown with Fionnuala still alongside.
Teer was now safe and came home to retain his title ahead of Rowan who closed slightly on the last lap. Brown was a good third with Curran, Blair, Eddie Cooke and Andrew Considine following.
Britton had only four men in front of her as she moved smoothly round to take Ladies success. Kerry O'Flaherty was equally isolated in second.
Meanwhile, Paul Pollock set a new half marathon best of 63 minutes 52 when placing third in the Bath event. The race was won by Nicholas Kirui from Kenya.
Elsewhere, Alan Bogle scored his second victory in the final round of the Sperrin Harriers Winter Trail Series at Lough Fea near Cookstown.
Karen Alexander had won the first four rounds and continued her domination by winning the Ladies race by almost eight minutes from Jacqueline Mulligan, Sharon Harvey and Pauline Bayliss.
Mark McKinstry took the overall league title from Michael Crawley, Aaron Meharg and Michael Kerr with Karen Alexander leading Jacqueline Mulligan and Cheryl Cardwell to a Sperrin clean sweep in the Ladies.
Breege Connolly just lost out to Fiona Stack in the Bundoran 10 Miles.
The North Belfast girl clocked 59:46, just 12 seconds behind the winner.
The Men's race went to Keith Shiels of Foyle Valley in 51:31 with Annadale's Glen Phair in third.
Seamus Lynch had a good win in the Mountain Racing Season Opener at Slieve Gullion. Diane Wilson from Dromore ran very strongly in the Ladies from Shileen O'Kane of Lagan Valley and Sarah Graham from Mourne Runners.


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Wildcats 4th at section meet
Eagan won two events on its way to fourth place at the Section 3AA True Team boys swimming and diving meet Saturday in Prior Lake.
The Wildcats had a particularly good day in diving, with Keith Krawza, Justin Wollin and Toby Heller finishing first, third and fifth at Hidden Oaks Middle School. Eagan also picked up a first place in the 200-yard medley relay.
Eagan scored 1,102 points, trailing Rosemount (1,341.5), Lakeville South (1,188.5) and Prior Lake (1,168.5). Rosemount earned the section's automatic bid to the state finals at 6 p.m. Jan. 26 at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center.
Krawza, a senior, scored 390.75 points in diving and finished about 16 points ahead of the runner-up. Wollin's third-place score was 362.05 and Heller scored 313.40 to place fifth. Ninth-grader Nic Lemieux was ninth as the Wildcats scored 114 points in diving.
Sam Zenner, Max Griesgraber, Eli Broman and Bill Leighton were winners in the 200 medley relay in 1 minute, 41.03 seconds, almost a full second ahead of the runner-up.
Broman, a sophomore, also placed second in the 200 freestyle in 1:48.93 and third in the 100 butterfly in 54.44. Leighton had a second place in the 100 freestyle (49.57) and a third in the 50 freestyle (22.37). Ninth-grader Parker Lemke was second in the 500 freestyle in 5:01.50. Zenner placed fifth in the 100 backstroke in 59.38 and Griesgraber took fourth in the 100 breaststroke in 1:05.02.
Zenner, Tal Shub, Griesgraber and Leighton were runners-up to Rosemount in the 200 freestyle relay in 1:31.32.
Other top-10 finishers for Eagan at the section True Team meet were Lemke in the 200 freestyle (sixth), Shub in the 200 individual medley (eighth) and 100 breaststroke (eighth), Griesgraber in the 200 IM (10th), Zenner in the 50 freestyle (eighth), Andrew Wehman in the 500 freestyle (10th) and the "A" 400 freestyle relay team (10th).
The Lightning finished sixth of eight teams at the Section 3AA True Team meet with 701.5 points.
Eighth-grader Sam Pekarek had the team's highest finish at the meet, a fourth place in the 500 freestyle in 5:06.21.
Drew Reinhardt, another eighth-grader, was ninth in the 100 butterfly. Tom Schutte finished ninth in the 500 freestyle, Erik Nelson placed eighth in the 100 backstroke and Noah DeSutter was ninth in the 100 breaststroke.
Eastview's top relay finish was 10th in the 200 medley race.
Apple Valley
Andrew France's second place in the 50 freestyle was the highlight of the Section 3AA True Team meet for Apple Valley, which finished seventh of eight teams.
France's time of 22.19 was 17 hundredths of a second behind Rosemount's Sheldon Hatlen. Apple Valley's Seth Berry finished 10th in the event.
Eagles junior Carson Scholberg finished 10th in diving. Apple Valley's highest relay place was fourth in the 200 freestyle with France, Berry, Jackson Scholberg and Alex Perkins finishing in 1:32.35.
Saturday's Section 3AA True Team meet showed that Burnsville's Ben Albert and Charlie Kollasch are among the elite swimmers in the South Suburban Conference. It also showed that as a team the Blaze is not yet at the level of its conference rivals.
Burnsville coach Andrew Michelson said earlier last week that no matter where the Blaze finished in True Team sections, it would be good for its young swimmers to face strong competition. Burnsville finished eighth in a section consisting of eight South Suburban Conference teams.
Albert, a senior, won two events, both by convincing margins. His first-place time of 2:02.37 in the 200 individual medley was almost four seconds ahead of his closest competition. He swam 1:02.06 in the 100 breaststroke, winning by 1.63 seconds.
Kollasch took first in the 100 backstroke in 55.14. The senior also finished seventh in the 200 freestyle in 1:51.97.
Kollasch, Albert, Izaak Davison-Kerwood and Adam Jarnagin were fourth in the 200 medley relay in 1:43.54. Davison-Kerwood, Ryan Dobrzynski, Albert and Kollasch took sixth in the 400 freestyle relay in 3:30.32.
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Budget $55 USD
Go to this website. Research each venue and provide a spreadsheet for all of the venues that are listed here with all of the normal contact info and website links.
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Kettering, OH
South Florida State College Alan J Wildstein Center for the Performing Arts
Avon Park, FL
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Tempe Center for the Arts
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If want to limit your options and survivability by using 2 century old technology...
The technology you speak of is 30yrs behind the DA and about as much behind the automatic. It's all old technology, not much new under the sun in the last 100yrs.
Like I said, I don't carry a reload anyway, no matter what I'm carrying.
I understand where you're coming from, I really do. But I'm not a cop and a civilian doesn't carry for the same purposes as law enforcement. Like you said, we move away from the gunfire, not towards it. If I was a cop, I guaran-damn-tee you I wouldn't be carrying a single action revolver. Different tools for different purposes, especially if you don't have to conceal it.
For the record, I don't carry an SA all the time anyway. My primary carry weapons are an Officer's length Kimber .45 and a S&W Bodyguard .380, because they're easier to conceal. I only carry my sixguns in cool weather, when the mood strikes.
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I'm not going to say that there are a lot of dumb people out there. Because that would be unkind.I'm just saying that sometimes? When I look at Twitter streams or Facebook comments? Yikes. Yikes! I suppose we can call it technology for the masses, and that includes, well, how do I put this delicately? OK, I am not going to draw conclusions. Mostly because I may or may not incorporate some dumb indicators into my status updates. And I don't like to be called dumb; I like to be called "pretty." And sometimes I act very, very "pretty." And what I am saying is that there are many "pretty" people out there, respondin' to the Twitter feeds.
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When I eat spicy food can you explain why mt eyes water?
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BREAKING DOWN THE STARTING FIVEThe Blue Devils hope to create a balanced attack after being too reliant on jump-shooting last season. Mason Plumlee passed on the chance to be a first-round NBA draft pick to return for his senior year and improve his game. Aiding Plumlee will be small forward Amile Jefferson, who should give the frontcourt much-needed athleticism, while roving big man Ryan Kelly has three-point skills (40.8 percent last season) and can help with rebounding and defense inside.
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Seth Curry should be Duke's most consistent perimeter scorer. An accomplished three-point shooter, Curry has become better at driving and dishing as his career has progressed. His scoring will be needed even more with Andre Dawkins sitting out the 2012-13 season as a redshirt. Point guard will be an area of intense focus. Junior Tyler Thornton and sophomore Quinn Cook both started last season but neither was consistently effective. Thornton is adept on the defensive end, but shot only 37.9 percent last season and lacks scoring punch to keep opponents honest. Cook struggled early last season with a lingering knee issue that carried over from high school. He's healthy now and possesses the playmaking skills to emerge as a top-flight ACC point guard.
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Van Wynsberghe's Paper Named a "Must Read"
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Adam Van Wynsberghe was a contributing author of a paper published in the June issue of the journal Chemical Biology and Drug Design. The paper, titled "Applying Molecular Dynamics Simulations to Identify Rarely Sampled Ligand bound Conformational States of Undecaprenyl Pyrophosphate Synthase, an Antibacterial Target," presents the results of research conducted in collaboration with researchers at the University of California-San Diego, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The authors used molecular dynamics and docking studies to explore the conformational flexibility and drug-binding properties of a bacterial protein used in cell-wall synthesis, Undecaprenyl Pyrophosphate Synthase (UPPS). Since human cells do not contain cell walls, UPPS is an attractive target for antimicrobial drugs. The work described in the paper provides evidence that when designing inhibitors, multiple conformations of the protein target must be considered. The simulations reproduced, on average, the experimental volume of the binding pocket when no inhibitor was bound. However, the conformation that permitted strong binding of small molecule inhibitors had a much larger binding pocket volume and was only rarely sampled. This suggests that identifying these rare active conformations is essential to effective rational drug design.
The paper was cited by the Faculty of 1000 (F1000) service as a "must-read." F1000 is a post-publication peer review service that identifies important articles in biomedical research and recommends them to their users. F1000 reviews approximately 1,500 articles each month, representing the top 2% of all articles published across 40 areas of biology and medicine.
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A former Portadown woman and renowned artist has added her voice to the campaign to have life-extending cancer drugs made available in Northern Ireland.
Nicola Russell (50), who attended Portadown Prep, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 and after treatment, thought she had beaten it.
But the disease returned and she was told last summer that it had spread to her leg and lungs and was incurable via conventional treatment.
The Belfast-based artist specialises in portraits, equine and nature scenes, and her clients include the Queen, and US president Bill Clinton.
Nicola has been told that the best hope of extending her life is by taking a drug called Everolimus, but it is not available in Northern Ireland.
She said, "It's shattering to be told that there is a treatment that will help you and prolong your life, but you can't have it."
Nicola and her long-term partner Kenny Boyd are even considering moving to England so she can be prescribed the drug, although it is the last thing they want to do.
"To be forced to consider living in a place you don't want to be in, to sustain your life, and then to have the energy and the ability to finance it is just a nightmare," she said.
"I'm back painting again. I think when you give up, you stop living. It's vital that people are told and are made aware of the fact that there are other, life-extending treatments available and there is hope."
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WASHINGTON — It's far from comforting to hear that, according to a new study, the new H7N9 strain of bird flu has been passed from person to person for the first time. The finding has sparked some scary headlines. "First study of human transmission of new bird flu raises worries," Reuters reports. "Chinese bird flu may be spreading between people," adds the Guardian. But before you buy surgical masks in bulk and retreat to your sanitized basement evacuation shelter, consider that the authors of the scientific study, published this week in the British Medical Journal, went out of their way to point out that the finding is not cause for too much alarm . . . yet.
H7N9, the new strain of avian influenza, or "bird flu," was first reported on April 1 in China. So far, 134 people are confirmed to have caught it, and 43 have died. Severe pneumonia and other respiratory problems are common symptoms.
To determine whether the virus had spread from person to person, the British Medical Journal study examined a 60-year-old man in Wuxi, China, near Shanghai, who contracted the virus after shopping at live poultry markets. His daughter, 32, had no exposure to poultry, but caught the virus after caring for her father in the hospital. Analysis of the strains found in both the father and the daughter showed they were genetically almost identical, further indicating that H7N9 had passed between the two.
A deadly virus, in other words, appears to have spread between humans. But it might not be as bad as it sounds. Delve deeper into the study, and you'll find that the daughter was by her sick father's side for six to eight hours a day for a week, and had the rather unpleasant task of cleaning up his "oral secretions" without any protective equipment. The researchers tested all 43 other people who came into close contact with the father at least once a day — many of them hospital workers — and none of them had gotten sick. And it wasn't just because they were extra-careful medical professionals. The subjects stayed bird flu-free despite taking protective measures the authors call "relatively weak" such as using common surgical masks rather than special filtering masks. Even the son-in-law, who, like the daughter, provided bedside care without any protection, did not get sick. That situation suggests that having a genetic connection, as the father and daughter did but not the son-in-law, is an important factor in the virus' spread.


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Lending an Automated Helping Hand
The value of laboratory automation solutions is proven, and these technologies are improving a variety of common research laboratory tools.
Laboratory automation techniques are commonplace, as they improve the accuracy and repeatability of laboratory operations, reduce human error in these operations and reduce cost of these operations. Defined as the use of technology to streamline or substitute manual manipulation of equipment and processes, laboratory automation offers solutions for enhancing workflows in various research laboratory environments. The techniques are finding applications in laboratory tasks ranging from capping and de-capping of sample bottles to high-throughput screening of test samples. And, according to recent data from Research and Markets, the global market for laboratory automation solutions was valued at $3.1 billion in 2012 and is poised to reach $4.2 billion by 2017, with the strongest markets in life sciences and academia.
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Manual sample preparation can often be inefficient, complex and time consuming, leading to increased training requirements, preparation time, procedural errors and operational costs. Today, many companies, such as Gilson, Integra Biosciences and Hamilton Robotics, are looking to reduce the time, error and cost in manual efforts by manufacturing automated liquid handling platforms and sample preparation solutions.
Often done incorrectly, pipetting can be tedious, complex and error prone, leading to variability, repeat experiments and poor results. Launched in August 2013, Gilson's PIPETMAX, an easy-to-use automated liquid handling platform, is a solution to the inconsistencies caused by manual pipetting and sample preparation. Based on Middleton, Wis.-based Gilson's PIPETMAN pipettor, the platform performs applications targeted to life sciences laboratory applications. The platform features a small footprint that can fit easily on a laboratory bench or in a fume hood, and weighs less than 40 lbs for easy laboratory-to-laboratory or bench-to-bench transfer. Also featuring pre-configured or customizable protocols, the platform allows users to select their desired protocol, edit variables, set up trays and run the targeted operations from a tablet. Hardware for the platform can be customized to a user's needs and pipetting heads can be calibrated like a PIPETMAN pipettor.
Handheld pipetting requires practice to achieve steady reproducible pipetting results. Oftentimes, laboratories don't have time for training their personnel as many samples are going through their doors on a daily basis. Integra Biosciences AG, Switzerland, has recently introduced the VIAFLO ASSIST, an innovative device that, in combination with a VIAFLO II electronic handheld pipette, enables the pipette's protocols to be performed automatically. The automated instrument keeps the need for traditional handheld pipetting to a minimum, relieving laboratory personnel from activities that may cause repetitive stress injuries or time-consuming training.
Typical parameters influencing performance of pipetting are tip immersion depth and pipetting angle. The automated pipetting capability of VIAFLO ASSIST ensures these parameters are consistent, resulting in increased reproducibility and better results. To operate the instrument, users simply mount a VIAFLO II electronic pipette onto the pipette adapter, choose a protocol and press the run button. The instrument will then obtain the protocol via Bluetooth from the VIAFLO II electronic pipette and automatically execute it.
Hamilton Robotics, Reno, Nev., also manufactures automation platforms to aid in sample preparation and liquid handling laboratory tasks. Their recently introduced VANTAGE is a flexible, multi-purpose pipetting platform that features an enhanced linear motor design and contact-free NanoPulse pipetting technology covering a volume range from 100 nL to 1 mL. The platform features a space-saving, expandable design that can meet various laboratory environment's growing needs.
Laboratories requiring increased walk-away time, high throughputs or large capacities are able to upgrade their benchtop VANTAGE pipettor with a Logistics Cabinet, which offers tip and plate shuttling from below the pipetting deck and customizable, smart waste solutions. A telescopic, vertical Track Gripper can also be added to the platform for the transport of samples from below- or off-deck third-party devices. The system provides simple assay programming and detailed 3-D simulations and works with INSTINCT V, a dynamic scheduler optimized for short runtimes. INSTINCT V also provides remote system monitoring via smartphones, tablets or any Web-enabled device, increasing walk-away time for overnight and weekend runs.
Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is a solvent widely used for storage and transfer of small-molecular compounds during high-throughput screening campaigns in drug discovery. Because of its unique physical properties, DMSO behaves differently than water when handled by air-displacement pipettors and acoustic droplet ejectors. Artel, Westbrook, Maine, has recently introduced two new reagent solutions that expand the volume range measureable with the company's line of DMSO products. For use with the company's MVS Multichannel Verification System and Liquid Handler Performance Verification Service, the reagents enable users to accurately calibrate and verify their liquid handlers when dispensing DMSO-based solutions. The MVS is an easy-to-use, universal system that verifies the volume-transfer performance of automated liquid handling systems and multi-channel handheld pipettes. It consists of equipment, software, sample solutions and highly characterized microtiter plates.
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Autosamplers are another type of laboratory instrumentation used to automatically introduce a sample into gas or liquid chromatographs, titrators, density meters and refractometers for testing. Mettler Toledo, Columbus, Ohio, recently introduced the InMotion autosampler, a flexible and efficient automated sample changer for titrators, density meters and refractometers. Designed for maximum throughput without sacrificing space, the autosamplers improve the productivity of various laboratory tasks. The Flex and Pro series are 42 cm wide, and the Max series can handle more than 300 samples on a 57-cm-wide sample rack.
InMotion autosamplers perform a variety of testing, cleaning and conditioning processes. Users can eliminate sample carry over with the PowerShower rinse system. Subsequent simultaneous titrations can be performed with the T90 Excellence titrator and a second tower for enhanced efficiency. LED status lights on the top of the tower allow for quick status confirmation from across a laboratory. In addition to automatically adding and removing reagents with a wide range of pumps and functions, the autosampler offers tailoring to sample processing. The CoverUp protects operators from volatile solvents and reagents, and waterbath racks temperate the sample rack.
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Even simple laboratory tasks such as capping and de-capping bottles and de-lidding and re-lidding plates, as well as plate stacking, can be strenuous to laboratory personnel. When done for long periods of time manually, the actions can also cause stress and injury to personnel. For routine microplate-based processes including cell-based assays and applications requiring automated plate de-lidding and re-lidding, BioTek, Winooski, Vt., has recently introduced the BioStack 4 microplate stacker. Providing walk-away automation, BioStack 4's plate carrier provides fast plate exchange speeds of less than 10 sec to increase throughput and enhance productivity. The microplate stacker is compatible with 24- to 1,536-well lidded and low-volume microplates up to 22 mm high, and interchangeable 10-, 30- or 50-plate stacks are available for individual throughput needs. The small footprint allows operation within a biosafety enclosure or fume hood, and conserves valuable bench space. An optional barcode scanner increases workflow efficiency, while limiting potential user errors. The microplate stacker is controlled via the instrument's interface, Liquid Handling Control software or Gen5 data analysis software.
For everyday capping and de-capping of bottles, Dispense Works, McHenry, Ill., has introduced the Ring Dex filling and capping system. Compact to save bench space, the system features a true file-based control system requiring no PC for operation. Setup of fill volumes, capping torques and check weights is done with pre-programmed graphical interface screens. Production dates for each container are time and date stamped with each container's fill weight. The history file may be uploaded for documentation and reporting requirements. The system also features an on-board calibration routine.


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Use the Create Self-Signed Certificate dialog box to create certificates to use in server testing environments and for troubleshooting third-party certificates.
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Indie Minn. radio station celebrates 50th birthday
HASTINGS, Minn. (AP) — The phone rang off the hook one recent morning at KDWA-AM 1460.
It wasn't breaking news or the upcoming school levy renewal that had people burning up the phone lines at the Hastings radio station. They wanted a German dinner for two from the Bierstube and other deals offered up on the station's live "Super Saver Radio Shopping Show."
"I like to say this show was Groupon before Groupon knew who they were," said Dan Massman, the station's owner and general manager who also gets behind the microphone. "It can get pretty busy around here."
Whether it is the shopping show or daily birth and death announcements, KDWA's hyper-local format works. In October, the independent station marked its 50th year on the air.
"Local is our bread and butter— always has been," said Massman, who grew up in Hastings and bought the station in 1991. "Our listeners tune to us to find out what's going on."
KDWA is a family-run business that operates in a small brick building along Vermillion Street, the city's main drag. Massman and his wife, Barb, manage the station's 16 staffers, half of whom work part time or seasonally.
The Massmans' 21-year-old grandson, Zach Hodgson, is the news director at the 1,000-watt station, which ratchets down to about 100 watts at night.
"There's plenty of news here in Hastings," said Hodgson, who first went on the air with his grandfather at age 8.
Locally owned independent stations are few and far between across the country.
After deregulation in 1996, media conglomerates such as Clear Channel Communications, which now owns six Twin Cities stations, started buying up radio frequencies.
"There still are a few standalone stations like KDWA in the metro area, but they are a rarity," said Jim du Bois, president and CEO of the Minnesota Broadcasters Association.
Two such stations, he said, are KLBB-AM 1220 in Stillwater and KRWC-AM 1360 in Buffalo.
"If you're running a station like KDWA," du Bois said, "everyone is doing multiple jobs to keep that radio station on the air."
Although consolidation stabilized as values increased and the economy tanked, radio stations are still targeted. One of the industry's latest big deals came in early 2011 when locally owned Hubbard Broadcasting paid $505 million to acquire 17 major radio stations from Salt Lake City-based Bonneville International Corp.
Massman told the St. Paul Pioneer Press he frequently gets offers for KDWA. But the station, which Massman says is profitable, is not for sale.
Two years ago, he said, he turned away two suitors who arrived wearing Armani suits in a limousine. They badly wanted the station.
"They weren't happy that we said no," he said. "But my wife and I personally know many of the people who tune in and rely on us to bring them their church services and sports. What would we do? I'm afraid we'd have to leave town."
KDWA went on the air Oct. 24, 1963, founded by John McKane, a former editor of the Hastings Star Gazette weekly newspaper and a lifelong resident.
The station's local news format was born out of necessity, said Dave Baudoin, who was hired as its first news director at age 23.
"We had to compete with 20 radio stations in the Twin Cities, so we had to really, really hustle and do our best to supply as much local flavor as we could," said Baudoin, 72, of Hastings. "Local was all we had going for us."
But the station had its limits. Because there are other stations on the same 1460 frequency— one in Des Moines, Iowa, and another in Montevideo, Minn. — KDWA wasn't allowed to sign on the air each day until sunrise. It signed off at sunset.
"That was tough," said Baudoin, who became a co-owner in 1968 after buying McKane's 51 percent share of the station. "Even some of the advertisers would say most people are at work then, so why would we advertise on your station?"
In 1971, the Federal Communications Commission allowed KDWA to broadcast at night at 43 watts — basically within city limits. But it opened the station to high school sports, which remains its biggest draw.
"I told the FCC that we can't let the kids know if there's no school in bad winter weather or what the driving is like," Baudoin said.
"They agreed. Looking back, I don't think we'd be here today if we had to keep signing on at 7:45 a.m. and off at 4:30 p.m."
After 18 years owning and running KDWA, Baudoin sold the station to a St. Paul businessman who had no previous broadcast experience. Two years later, it was sold to a Wisconsin group that owned three other radio stations. They soon failed.
"The first thing they did was raise advertising rates by about five times what they were, and the advertisers didn't really go along with that too much," Baudoin said.
Massman, working in the circulation department at the Pioneer Press, swooped in and bought the bankrupt KDWA for $150,000.
"I had to borrow the money from my parents," he said.
It was a lifelong dream for Massman, whose first peek into the broadcast business came at age 9 when his Cub Scout troop toured KDWA's studio. After high school, he returned to the radio station as a disc jockey to spin records.
"I knew radio was something I wanted to do," Massman, 58, said. "This doesn't feel like work to me. I've been blessed."
Sports director Nick Tuckner believes the same. Tuckner has been doing play-by-play for his hometown Hastings Raiders the past 12 years.
"I was delivering pizzas when Dan gave me a chance," Tuckner, 33, said. "People ask why I stay around and keep covering high school kids and don't move on to another media job. That's easy. I love it."
KDWA also airs Park (Cottage Grove) and Prescott (Wis.) high school games, as well as Miesville Mudhens games in the summer. It is also a Minnesota Wild affiliate.
Other popular draws include the "Hastings Coach's Show," which has been broadcast live from Perkins Restaurant in Hastings for 44 years, and the "New Generation Radio Show," where kids are the disc jockeys.
"That show gets the kids away from our little sister station — KDWB," Massman joked, adding that he once took heat from a KDWB station host for saying that KDWA was "one letter better."
Catering to the other end of its listenership, the station airs five church services either live or tape-delayed each Sunday.
"They're very popular with our older listeners," he said. "Boy, if one of those doesn't go on for some reason, our phones light up."
Doug Erickson, owner of Hastings Ford and Hastings Chrysler, said KDWA's local connection has kept him backing the radio station with his advertising dollars the past 25 years.
"They do a good service to the community," Erickson said. "I think people from Hastings feel like it is our own station — our own voice — and that means a lot to a small town."
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.


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I am very excited to welcome guest blogger Tami Stout. She is currently studying political science and women and gender studies and has kindly offered to give us her insight about Margaret Sanger. Thank you Tami!
Margaret Louise Higgins Sanger (1879 – 1966) was an American activist born in 1879 in Corning, New York. Sanger was one of eleven children born to an Irish-Catholic immigrant working class family. Her mother, Anne Purcell Higgins died of tuberculosis and cervical cancer at the age of 50 having born the strain of 11 pregnancies and seven stillbirths. As the story goes, Margaret lashed out at her father over her mother's coffin that he was responsible for Anne's death due to so many pregnancies.
Margaret was determined to have a different future. She left Corning to attend nursing school in the Catskills. Margaret married William Sanger in 1902 and had three children of her own. In 1910, the Sangers moved to New York City and settled in Greenwich Village. The area was known as being bohemian and supported the more radical politics of the time.
Margaret returned to New York City to work as a visiting nurse on the Lower East side. Here was where she saw the lives of poor immigrant women. Without effective contraceptives many of these women, when faced with another unwanted pregnancy, resorted to five-dollar back-alley abortions or attempted to self-terminate their pregnancies. After botched abortions Margaret was called in to care for the women. After watching the suffering and trauma so many women experienced, Sanger began to shift her attention away from nursing to the need for better contraceptives. Sanger objected to the suffering and fought to make birth control information and contraceptives available. She began dreaming of a "magic pill" to be used to control pregnancy. "No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother," Sanger said.
Indicted under Comstock Laws for sending diaphragms through the mail and arrested in 1916 for opening the first birth control clinic in the country, which was only open for nine days before she was arrested, Margaret Sanger would not take no for an answer. In 1921 she founded the American Birth Control League, the forerunner to Planned Parenthood and she spent the next thirty years trying to bring safe and effective birth control to the American woman.
By the 1950's, although Sanger had many victories, she was far from finished. Frustrated with limited birth control options on the market, Margaret still was in search of the "magic pill". No longer a young woman and in failing health, she was not ready to give up and made it her mission to find someone to complete her vision of a contraceptive pill as easy to take as an aspirin, inexpensive, safe, and effective. In 1951 Sanger met Gregory Pincus, an expert in human reproduction. Now all she needed was the money to make her vision happen and she found that in heiress Katherine McCormick. Pincus partnered with Dr. John Rock and the collaboration led to the FDA approval of Enovid, the first oral contraceptive in 1960.
There were of course bumps in the road on the way to an effective contraceptive available to the masses. Pill trials in Puerto Rico did cause health problems and deaths due to extremely high levels of hormones. Sanger also faced controversy over her association with eugenics. Sanger's grandson, Alexander Sanger, chair of the International Planned Parenthood stated that his grandmother "believed that women wanted their children to be free of poverty and disease, that women were natural eugenicists, and that birth control was the panacea to accomplish this."
With the invention of the "magic pill" Margaret Sanger accomplished her life-long goal of bringing safe, affordable, and effective contraception to the masses. Not only did she see the pill realized, but four years later, at the age of 81, Margaret Sanger witnessed the undoing of Comstock Laws. In the 1965 Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut, the court ruled that the private use of contraceptives was a constitutional right. When Sanger passed away a year later, after more than half a century of fighting for the rights of women to control their own fertility, she died knowing she had done what she set out to do.
Margaret Sanger was a champion of women and by giving women the right to control their own fertility, she gave them the right to control their lives. No longer held hostage by your body, you have the right to seek education, employment, and a rich and fulfilled life whether that involves children or not.


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A new grant for planning productive forestry is being piloted this year. The grant is paid at £100/hectare for planting proposals which are greater than 30 hectares. It's designed to help cover the costs of undertaking special assessments when preparing planting proposals such as landscape design assessments, historic and cultural assessments and establishing stakeholder interests. The grant will be focused on productive conifers, but can also be used for productive broadleaves and Foresetry Commission Scotland hope it will help to encourage more productive forestry.
You can read more about the grant here.
Elsewhere, the Woodland Expansion Advisory Group are holding a series of meetings to gather people's views on how to take forward woodland expansion. The meetings take place across the country in February and March and you can find a full list of dates and venues here.


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He cost a reported £700,000 ($1.28 million) in transfer fees plus goodness knows how much of the team's salary cap.
Now for Sam Tomkins the time has come for him to deliver on all the hype, expectation and optimism surrounding his move to the New Zealand Warriors.
All the signs since his arrival in New Zealand are that he'll live up to that hype. He was sensational in the Auckland Nines and against the Broncos in a trial game a week after that.
But the real acid test will come on Sunday night against Parramatta and that's when Warriors fans will really discover if the biggest name in the English game can handle the NRL.
For Tomkins' part, he has handled himself well since moving Down Under at the end of last year and doesn't appear nervous. ''I'm really excited about it, it seems like I've been waiting a while for it,'' Tomkins, 24, said.
''It was a while ago that I decided that I wanted to play in the NRL and I'm happy that it's now come around. I've prepared as best as I possibly can, the training has been pretty intense and I've really enjoyed it, so I think I'll be as ready as I'll ever be.''
As Greg Inglis showed in his performance for the Rabbitohs on Thursday night, fullbacks are the stars of league these days and a team can only go so far without a decent one. It's no coincidence that the Storm, Rabbitohs, Roosters and Sea Eagles all have world-class No.1s and also no surprise that the Bulldogs are panicking about not having a replacement for Ben Barba.
With Tomkins at the club, the Warriors believe they can make that jump from a team that's failed to finish above 10th in the past two seasons.
But it will be Tomkins that so much will be reliant on, his combination with Shaun Johnson is vital, not just because it can lead to him scoring tries for himself (he scored 144 tries in 151 games for Wigan), but he also has a great skill in sucking in the opposition winger before offloading to a teammate. ''I want to play my part in this side and if that means it's me or someone else in the side scoring the tries that really doesn't matter,'' Tomkins said.
''It looks nice to get your name in the paper, but it's not what we play for, we don't play to score tries, we play to win games and competitions.''
It isn't just in New Zealand where there will be plenty of interest in how Tomkins performs, the British media has been excited about how he'll go. It's as if they're hoping Tomkins is a success so that their Super League can be regarded as being on a par with the NRL.
''I have had plenty of nice messages from people back in England wishing me well and it's good to know about that,'' Tomkins said.
''I'm still doing some work with Sky Sports on their Boots 'n' All program, so it's good that I've still got that connection back to the UK and I appreciate the support I'm getting from back home.''
Five times in the past nine years the Warriors have lost their opening game by six points and they have won just two of their past 10 games to begin the season, but they are favourites to knock over the Eels.
The story Sam Tomkins faces his acid test for New Zealand Warriors first appeared on The Age.


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We investigated a precursor of superlensing: regenerating evanescent waves by excitation of a surface plasmon. Because the permittivity of a silver slab approaches -1, we experimentally observed a broadening of surface-plasmon bandwidth. Our study identifies a means to access deep subwavelength features by use of a metamaterial superlens.
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A potential Alzheimer's drug actually restores synapses destroyed by the disease, says a Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute scientist who led development of the compound.
A study of the drug's effectiveness in mice was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (The study itself is available here).
The compound is ready for human clinical trials, said Stuart A. Lipton, the Sanford-Burnham researcher leading the study. Instead of focusing on the amyloid beta pathway, which has resulted in repeated flops in drug development, the compound, called NitroMemantine, works on a downstream target.
Lipton and colleagues created NitroMemantine combining two existing drugs, nitroglycerin, used for angina; and memantine, sold under the brand name Namenda, which slows the progression of Alzheimer's.
Adding a portion of the nitroglycerin molecule to memantine boosts its effectiveness, Lipton said. In studies of Alzheimer's model mice, the drug produced synaptic repair. That's critical, he said, because the condition of the synapses correlates with cognitive function, and the presence or absence of amyloid beta plaques does not. Attempts to develop drugs on that hypothesis have crashed in a string of failures.
"All the big pharmas have lost sight of that," Lipton said. "They're so focused on amyloid beta or tau. They've even developed neuro-theological terms for themselves. They call the people the people working on amyloid beta 'baptists,' and people working on tau 'tauists.' It's almost become a religion, and yet those drugs have just been failing."
Other dissenters from the Salk Institute have come up with their own compound that reverses symptoms of Alzheimer's in mouse models. This compound is derived from turmeric, a component of curry.Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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Thread Pooling (C# and Visual Basic)
A thread pool is a collection of threads that can be used to perform several tasks in the background. (See Threading (C# and Visual Basic) for background information.) This leaves the primary thread free to perform other tasks asynchronously.
Thread pools are often employed in server applications. Each incoming request is assigned to a thread from the thread pool, so that the request can be processed asynchronously, without tying up the primary thread or delaying the processing of subsequent requests.
Once a thread in the pool completes its task, it is returned to a queue of waiting threads, where it can be reused. This reuse enables applications to avoid the cost of creating a new thread for each task.
Thread pools typically have a maximum number of threads. If all the threads are busy, additional tasks are put in queue until they can be serviced as threads become available.
You can implement your own thread pool, but it is easier to use the thread pool provided by the .NET Framework through the ThreadPool class.
With thread pooling, you call the ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem method with a delegate for the procedure you want to run, and Visual Basic or C# creates the thread and runs your procedure.
The following example shows how you can use thread pooling to start several tasks.
public void DoWork() { // Queue a task. System.Threading.ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem( new System.Threading.WaitCallback(SomeLongTask)); // Queue another task. System.Threading.ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem( new System.Threading.WaitCallback(AnotherLongTask)); } private void SomeLongTask(Object state) { // Insert code to perform a long task. } private void AnotherLongTask(Object state) { // Insert code to perform a long task. }
One advantage of thread pooling is that you can pass arguments in a state object to the task procedure. If the procedure you are calling requires more than one argument, you can cast a structure or an instance of a class into an Object data type.
Returning values from a thread-pool thread is not straightforward. The standard way of returning values from a function call is not allowed because Sub procedures are the only type of procedure that can be queued to a thread pool. One way you can provide parameters and return values is by wrapping the parameters, return values, and methods in a wrapper class as described in Parameters and Return Values for Multithreaded Procedures (C# and Visual Basic).
An easer way to provide parameters and return values is by using the optional ByVal state object variable of the QueueUserWorkItem method. If you use this variable to pass a reference to an instance of a class, the members of the instance can be modified by the thread-pool thread and used as return values.
At first it may not be obvious that you can modify an object referred to by a variable that is passed by value. You can do this because only the object reference is passed by value. When you make changes to members of the object referred to by the object reference, the changes apply to the actual class instance.
Structures cannot be used to return values inside state objects. Because structures are value types, changes that the asynchronous process makes do not change the members of the original structure. Use structures to provide parameters when return values are not needed.


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New York, NY, United States, 2011/11/02 - Harpers Bazaar launches an edition of its iconic fashion magazine in Brazil, today announced Duncan Edwards, president & CEO of Hearst Magazines International (HMI) - Hearst.com.
Published in partnership with Carta Editorial, Harpers Bazaar Brazil premieres with the November issue, featuring supermodel Gisele Bündchen on the cover, on newsstands November 3.
For nearly 150 years, Harper's Bazaar has been the style resource for women who are the first to buy the best, from casual to couture. With authority, insight and imagination, Harper's Bazaar showcases the work of world-class designers and photographers and the most talked about pop culture, political and celebrity icons of the day. The magazine is published in 16 languages and distributed in 43 countries.
We believe that Harpers Bazaar is a brand with great global relevance, Edwards said. Over the past few years, weve launched editions in Vietnam, Argentina, Spain, India and Ukraine. Brazil is an important market for the global fashion and luxury industries and were very pleased to be partnering with Carta Editorial to bring the magazine to stylish, sophisticated Brazilian women.
Harpers Bazaar Brazil launches with an initial print run of 50,000 copies. Maria Prata has been named editor in chief and the magazine is published in Portuguese with a cover price of 14.90 reais.
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As the largest U.S. publisher of magazines worldwide, Hearst Magazines International, a unit of Hearst Corporation, publishes more than 300 editions for distribution in more than 100 countries. Major titles include powerful brand equities like Cosmopolitan and ELLE, both international super-brands with more editions than any other womens magazines in the world; ELLE DÉCOR, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, Popular Mechanics and Seventeen. In addition, Hearst Magazines International publishes other titles through joint ventures, including Mens Health and Runners World in the U.K., Grazia and Madison in Australia, and The Robb Report in Russia and China. In Great Britain, a wholly-owned subsidiary, Hearst Magazines UK, publishes 23 magazines and 22 digital assets. Hearst Magazines publishes 20 titles in the U.S.
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Resident Evil 5
Review by ArkhanBladewind
"Yay. RE with Hamster Trails and "run here" blips. If it aint broke, DONT FIX IT"
I grabbed RE5 and it sat on my shelf while I was beating a few other games....
I finally got around to it yesterday. I was extremely excited.
I also beat it yesterday. Needless to say, I am disappointed and want my cash back.
Where to begin?
I put the disc in expecting a great survival horror experience. Replace horror with boredom, and that is what I actually received from this game.
The story is alright. You run around Africa chasing a crazy goon around. Bioweapon stuff ensues. What were you expecting? It has all of the Resident Evil story elements one would expect. Sadly, thats about all it has related to Resident Evil. Though, if you take out all of the RE names and characters, it's not really as interesting as I'd like from a brand new PS3 game.
There are some twists, some interesting stuff, and all in all, the story is the only reason I finished the game. Even this was mediocre at best.
Wowwwwww. The first semi thought provoking puzzle happens over halfway into the game. It was 2nd grade difficulty. I had more problems trying to figure out which control scheme I was most comfortable with. The new "strafe" related ones are garbage.
The weapons are fun. You get to upgrade them and pick and choose what you like. I ran around with the rifle and shot everyone in the head for the majority of the game. All in all, there is a weapon for any kind of shooter.
...and a stun rod. Probably the most amusing weapon in the game. It is an electrified baseball bat.
Sometimes though, it seems like the aiming lazer is just being idiotic. Youll be aimed at something and it will go through it. I blame the strange over the shoulder camera angle. It causes problems frequently in the game. They should have stuck to the usual setup...it worked every other time, so why change it?
the action is fun, but that is kind of the problem. Gone are the problem solving and exploring aspects of the game. All you do is run around hamster trail style levels, and shoot stuff, then get to the radar blip, repeat, boss battle (The bosses are all ridiculously easy. I defeated most of them with the SNIPER RIFLE), repeat. It is monotonous. They throw in some minigames like "use the machine gun to kill the rabid African motorcyclists" and "get to the dock before you blow up", but that along with the now-standard "press R1+L1 or some other button combination" action scenes make this game no different than any other action game. It has essentially lost its Resident Evil-ness. What a shame. Alot of times it felt like a certain other spelunking game with a certain gloriously-developed female acrobatic babe toting 2 pistols....only youre looking at a big bulky dude with a funny shaped head, so it is not nearly as pleasing.
OH, and you have the worlds most useless partner, Sheva. All she does is get in your way, waste all the ammo she finds, and use healing items like theyre candy. I let the Chainsaw-Men kill her a few times just to laugh at the scene of her head being removed. She was only useful one time, and that was when I flung her up a ladder and she was out of my way for ~5 minutes.
I considered giving her empty guns, and ammo for a different gun type so incase I needed machine gun bullets, I didnt have to realize she spent 150 bullets shooting 2 people.
Music...and sound
I can't remember any of the music or anything at all actually. Mostly just the yelling African rabid-folk wielding garden equipment and wrenches......., and the gore sounds. They were nice though... The music is/was pretty stale.... It didn't even have that ominous and creepy stuff you hear in other RE games.
I traded it in already. It was such a disappointing game. I guess you could go back and find more treasures and get better rankings, but I myself was content with one completion. I wasn't driven to get more endings or mess around in it like I was with RE 1 , 2, 3 and Code Veronica. Maybe someone will post a 100% save and I'll rebuy the game when its in the bargain bin. It should already be there now.
All in all, I'd say rent the game. You could probably rent it from a 1 night place and sit and beat it in <6 hours and save yourself from wasting 59.99 like I did. Resident Evil 5 is a hamster trail mess that is starting to move towards being just like every other run of the mill, cliche, shallow action game on 360 , ps3 and PC.
Sad, really.
Reviewer's Rating: 3.0 - Fair
Originally Posted: 05/26/09
Game Release: Resident Evil 5 (US, 03/13/09)
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Game Time Start: 8:00 PM ET
Where: The Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, IN
Officials: D. Stafford, D. Collins, H. Workman
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Season Records: (W-L) 21-14 Home: 13-3
East: 11-6
23-11 Away: 10-7
East: 14-4
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George Hill - bronchitis-itis (probabable)
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Eight Points Nine Seconds: Tim Donahue: Paul George Scary Good in Statement Win Over the Heat
Indiana defeated the Miami Heat 87-77 Tuesday night in Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Its a
regular season game in early January, so the effects are little more than palliative, but
there are still some things that shone through tonight.
First, the Pacers defense is as serious as a heart attack. Coming into the night, Indy
was #1 in the Association in defensive efficiency, allowing fewer than 96 points per
100 possessions overall. They were also the best at home, allowing fewer than 94
points per 100. Miamis 109 points per 100 was third in the NBA, and their 105/100
was fifth best away from home.
The Pacers held the Heat to a season-low 77 points, and only 93 points per 100. After
falling behind 51-44 with 8:23 left in the third, Indy allowed only 26 points over the
final 20 minutes.
Second, Paul George is not kidding around.
In a contest against the two best wings arguably best players in the game today,
Paul George took a turn as the best player in the building.
In a 12-minute stretch from the 8-minute mark in the third to the 8-minute mark in
the fourth, the Pacers hung a 33-9 drubbing on the defending champs. Paul George
by himself outscored Miami 17-9 and almost matched their six rebounds with
five of his own.
Its difficult to tell what the crowning moment of the night was for the third year
player out of Fresno State. Was it the pull up three to extend the lead back after
Miami started to dig back in? Was it the post up on James, where he stuck a
turnaround 15-footer in his mug? Was it the game long defensive effort on James
and Wade?
Doesnt matter...CONTINUE READING AT 8p9s
Ball Dont Lie Preview: Dan Divine: Paul George outduels LeBron as Pacers serve notice that theyre still here
Last year, the Indiana Pacers didn't get much national attention until late in the season,
when they'd already cemented themselves as one of the league's best, most balanced
teams. After winning a playoff series and giving the Miami Heat all they could handle
in the second round, the Pacers didn't catch anyone by surprise this year; most
observers (us included) picked the Pacers to win the Central Division and again
challenge for the conference crown.
But then Danny Granger hurt his left knee, taking away the Pacers' leading scorer.
Center Roy Hibbert and point guard George Hill struggled to live up to their big new
contracts, and offseason acquisitions D.J. Augustin, Gerald Green and Ian Mahinmi
were awful for the season's first month. The biggest thing, though? Paul George the
team's first-round pick in 2010, a long, skilled and super-athletic two-way player who
took a big step in his second season and looked poised to become a matchup
nightmare in Year 3 stumbled, too.
The 22-year-old swingman struggled when asked to assume Granger's offensive role,
shooting less than 40 percent from the floor over the season's first month and looking
less than stellar in his first crack at being a primary NBA scoring threat. As a result,
last season's top-10 offense plummeted to the league's third worst after 16 games
(and would've been worse if not for metronome-steady power forward David West)
and only the NBA's stingiest defense kept the Pacers at .500. Indy already suffered
nationally from a lack of stars; now they were a starless team with underperforming
pieces that couldn't score and turned most games into grind-it-out rockfights. And so,
folks haven't talked about them much.
That might change after Tuesday's home win over the Heat, though. Because while
the underlying story is the Pacer D holding Miami's No. 3-ranked offense to a season
-low 77 points and less than one point per possession for just the fourth time this
season (thanks, Kevin Pelton), the overarching one is that, while the rest of us
weren't watching, George has started playing like a star. A 29-point, 11-rebound,
one-turnover performance turned in primarily against LeBron James tends to make
folks stand up and take notice of that.
Twenty-two of George's team-high 29 came after halftime, including 12 (on 5 for 9
shooting) in a critical third quarter in which he nearly outscored the clamped-down
Heat himself by himself, tilting the game in Indy's favor and putting the Pacers in
position for a statement win to celebrate coach Frank Vogel's recently signed
contract extension.
After the game, George made no attempt to downplay how important it was for him
to perform well against the reigning regular-season and NBA Finals MVP, according
to Cliff Brunt of The Associated Press:
"It's a chance to for me to see where I'm at, going against one of the best, if not,
the best in the league," George said. "Another challenge to myself to go at LeBron.
I definitely wanted to battle him."
And he did, using his 6-foot-10 frame to harass James into a 4-for-10 first half
before shaking off his own early offensive struggles to get loose in the second half.
He didn't hold the MVP down entirely James finished with 22 points, 10 rebounds,
four assists and two blocks, though he also turned the ball over an uncharacteristic
seven times but on Tuesday night he gave the Pacers an edge in a matchup that
Miami certainly isn't accustomed to losing, or even having in question.
It was a pretty monstrous role reversal from the last time the two players met, in
the second round of the 2012 Eastern Conference playoffs, which the Pacers lost
four games to two as George shot just 36.5 percent from the floor and frequently
seemed tentative in his attempts to defend James and running buddy Dwyane
Wade. As Vogel sees it, for George to turn the tables at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on
Tuesday was just another big step in an ongoing series of them, according to Mike
Wells of the Indianapolis Star:
It was huge for him, Vogel said. He took it very, very personal, not just what he
did last year in the regular season, but he did not have a good series. He took a lot
of criticism. It was very important to him to be assertive and to prove hes growing.
Hes really blossoming in front of our eyes.
The growth has been evident over the past five weeks, which have seen George
average 18.8 points, 8.2 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 1.6 steals per game and shoot 44
percent from the floor, 37 percent from 3-point range and 81 percent on free throws.
This includes a pair of down performances in Indy's recent back-to-back against the
Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks; before that, as SB Nation's Paul Flannery noted,
George had averaged 21/8/4/2 on 47 percent from the field and 41 percent from 3
over his previous 15 games.
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Childhood obesity work moves from the clinic to the White House
Earlier this month, First Lady Michelle Obama launched her "Let's Move" initiative, which focuses on improving the health and fitness of children across the country, to try to cut down on the staggering rates of childhood obesity. A crucial facet of her plan — access to healthy foods in underserved communities — is what brought the First Lady to Philadelphia on Feb. 19, to tour the new Fresh Grocer supermarket at Broad and Oxford streets, and also to talk to local school children about how they choose healthy snacks.
Improving access to healthier food options is something that Gary Foster, director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education, and his research team have been studying since Foster's arrival at Temple in 2006.
They first started in the schools. In spring 2008, a study led by CORE and The Food Trust found that by replacing snacks in local schools with healthier options such as water, 100 percent fruit juice, low-fat milk, fresh fruit and low- calorie snacks, the rate of obesity in children from the underserved areas surrounding the schools was reduced by half.
Next, they moved into the neighborhoods. In fall 2009, CORE and The Food Trust produced another study that highlighted the need for neighborhood corner stores to offer more healthy options. These stores were frequent stops for elementary students going to and from school, the researchers said, and as a result, the children tended to pick up almost 360 extra empty calories per day.
Between January and June 2008, the researchers looked at more than 800 purchases made by students in grades 4-6 at 10 Philadelphia schools who frequented one of 24 area corner stores before and after school. During each visit, children spent about $1.07, and most frequently bought chips, candy and sugar-sweetened beverages. Calories from each purchase came mainly from carbohydrates (65.6%), followed by fat (29.2%), and protein (5.2%).
"Students are stopping at these stores sometimes twice a day, every day," said Kelley Borradaile, an assistant research professor of public health at CORE and lead author of that study. "It is important for us to be aware of students' snack preferences, so that we may substitute healthier options in the future," she said.
For example, the study authors said switching from regular chips to the baked variety would reduce calorie intake by about 14 percent, and replacing sugar-sweetened beverages with water would reduce calorie intake by about 60 calories per purchase.
With many underserved areas lacking a large supermarket that would offer healthier options than local corner stores, Foster and his team said it becomes imperative to find alternate ways for children to get access to healthy foods.
"The increasing prevalence and serious consequences of childhood obesity have pushed us to find solutions that go beyond the clinic and reach greater numbers of children," he said.


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An original mecha anime by the team that made Star Driver. One night right before summer vacation, Daichi Manatsu, a second-year in high school, sees a weird round rainbow floating in the sky above Seed Island (Shuushi/Tane Island) and ventures there alone. He has seen this rainbow before. With the memories of his father's mysterious death and an encounter of a mysterious boy and girl, Daiji arrives on the island while the alarm of a building labeled "Earth Engine" is going off. Someone asks him "Are you a captain?" just as robotic intruders from Uranus called "Kiltgang" arrive. The battle around the shining stars is about to begin.
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Developed by Ubisoft Montreal with assistance from Ubisoft Toronto and Red Storm, Rainbow 6 Patriots will follow the counterterrorism Team Rainbow squad as it tries to put down a group of American insurgents known as the True Patriots. As players look to suppress the True Patriots' budding revolution, they will be faced with "tough ethical decisions," according to Ubisoft.
"Terrorism has evolved and so has Rainbow 6. In Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6 Patriots, all the team play, tactics, and realism that fans of the series love have been coupled with an exciting new narrative direction," Ubisoft creative director David Sears said in announcing the title. "This adds an unprecedented level of humanity that will make Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6 Patriots an extremely tense and immersive experience."
The game will also include cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes that aim to encourage communication and teamwork.


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