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WASHINGTON — In its inaugural meeting Monday, the College Football Playoff selection committee did not debate the merits of Baylor vs. Stanford.
"That's not in the purview of this committee," said Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long, the committee chairman.
It soon will be, though. Which is why former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she hasn't necessarily watched more football this season, but she has watched "more closely."
"I think it's impossible, having been appointed to the committee, not to view football games differently," Rice said.
Her comments came during a photo opportunity open to reporters during the meeting at the Wardman Park Marriott. Bill Hancock, the executive director of the College Football Playoff, called the committee "a group of all-stars" and said the occasion, though essentially an orientation session, was "truly a historic day for college football, a signature moment for our game." But the committee's signature won't come until next season, when it wrestles with issues like whether one-loss Stanford, fourth in the current BCS standings, is currently more deserving of a spot in the four-team playoff than unbeaten Baylor, which is fifth.
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"I try to watch more games – which in my case is almost impossible, since I already watch a lot of football," said Rice, a former provost and current professor at Stanford who has long had a reputation as a devout football fan. "It's not so much to say how I would be ranking but, 'What ought I to be looking for? What am I really seeing in this game that will help me when we get together for discussion? How am I thinking about what this team is showing on the field and what I see another team show on the field?'
"It's more like that for me than, 'This team I would be thinking of as stronger than that team.' "
How they'll make those assessments remains uncertain. Although they'll meet several times during the season, issuing four sets of interim rankings before the final decision, committee members won't be attending games in an official capacity. "We couldn't decide on which color jacket," Long said, a joking reference to the colorful blazers worn by bowl representatives. Instead, they're expected to be provided with condensed versions of game broadcasts.
The committee will be expected to consider factors including conference championships, strength of schedule, head-to-head competition, common opponents and the effects of injuries. Part of the task of the committee, beginning now, is to develop metrics to compare and contrast teams. Also to be determined the next few months is the committee's protocol on recusal. Long noted that several members have been associated with more than one school.
Eleven of 13 members were present. Archie Manning, the College Football Hall of Fame quarterback and chairman of the board of the National Football Foundation, was unable to attend because of other obligations. Tom Osborne, the former Nebraska coach, athletic director and United States congressman, is scheduled to attend Tuesday's meeting.
"We're excited to begin the process," Long said. "We know we have more work to do in the first year. … This meeting is really more to get the issues on the table."
Baylor vs. Stanford wasn't one of them. Not yet – but they know the debate, or one like it, is coming.
"I think there is going to be a lot of times where there is more than one right answer," said Steve Wieberg, the former college football reporter for USA TODAY Sports, who is on the committee as a former media member. "It will be up to us to come up with the best right answer. And it will be defensible."
George Schroeder, a national college football reporter for USA TODAY Sports, is on Twitter @GeorgeSchroeder.


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John Peters was directly involved in almost continuous combat, all over the world, for nearly forty years, so he was fluent in several languages. In Africa, however, hundreds of different languages are spoken, and nobody understands all of them.
In the Congo, a country that the mercenaries conquered under Johns command, the most common European language is French, and all of the natives speak it fluently, together with many different native languages. But John did not speak French, his vocabulary in that language was limited to only three words: yes, pineapple and gorilla, which inhibited his ability to communicate with the natives more than somewhat.
When I asked him how he got around that problem, he said . . . "When you pull up to the bank of the river, next to a village, get off of your boat looking like a pirate, walk into the village and fire a burst from your machinegun into the huts, they understand exactly what you mean."
John was in command of the Nigerian army during the last part of the Biafran war, led an army to victory that had been losing the war before he took command. I had friends fighting on both sides during that war; Hank Warton supplied everything that was needed by the Ibos during the war, and Chuck Tellechea, who also fought at the Bay of Pigs fiasco, piloted one of the airplanes that carried supplies into Biafra, landing a big airplane, at night with no lights, on a very narrow dirt road hacked out of the jungle, with tall trees so close to the landing strip on both sides that there was barely enough clearance for the planes wings.
Then had to unload the airplane within a matter of a very few minutes and take off for a return, nonstop flight back to Lisbon, Portugal; and had to carry enough fuel to permit a round trip without refueling, which meant that the planes were always grossly overloaded when they left Lisbon for the trip south. Had to make a round trip of several thousand miles with nothing in the way of either maps or navigational aids, at night, hoping that they would not be spotted by Nigerian fighters.
Another pilot that I flew with in South America several years earlier stole an airliner from an airport, flew it to Lagos, Nigeria, and sold it to the Nigerian government, telling them that it was one of Hank Wartons planes, which they were offering rewards for.
I almost got involved in the Biafran war after things fell apart in Rhodesia in 1968, because at that point I was almost dead broke and badly needed to make some money quickly; but the war was almost over by then so I came back to this country instead.
Relocating to Florida
When we got to Miami, Florida, I had no slightest idea of what I was going to do next, and had very little in the way of choices; so we stayed with a friend of mine, Ralph Demers, for a few days, made one quick trip to Hollywood in an unsuccessful attempt to get a filming job there, went back to Miami to pick up my children and started to look for a place to settle; still believing that all of my equipment would be arriving from Africa in about two months by ship, but unable to do much until it did arrive.
Eliza Steffee had gone to school briefly at Stetson University, in DeLand, Florida, and her parents lived in Kissimmee, Florida, about sixty miles south of DeLand; so we rented one very large house in DeLand that I planned to convert to a film studio when my equipment arrived from Africa and another house in the village of Lake Helen, about eight miles away from DeLand. Inge followed us to this country, so there were then only six of us including my three children. I bought a used car for $2,000.00 and paid deposits on both of the rented houses and was then down to only a few dollars in cash, with no source of income.
A few months later I was able to sell one of my African films to ABC Television network, but practically had to give it to them in order to make the sale, got only $50,000.00 for a film that would have cost them at least a million dollars to make; this was shown on network television, during prime time, in the fall of 1970, and was called "Operation Elephant." The ratings for that show, a one-hour special, were very high, because it was a damned good film.
Howard Hughes, after he sold TWA Airlines, had so much money that he decided to buy one of the three big television networks, but was unable to do so; then decided to start his own network, and started looking for film producers who could supply the programs that he would need. He contacted me and wanted me to go to New York for a meeting with some of his people, in order to negotiate a contract for my services; but at the last minute something happened to change his plans, so the meeting was never held and I never heard from him again, although I was staying in the Acapulco Princess hotel in Mexico when he died there a few years later. He did not die on the plane in route to Houston, as was reported at the time, he died in the hotel, but they removed his body and flew it back to this country as if he was still alive because getting bodies out of Mexico is very difficult to do.
Howard Hughess Influence
I talked with Hughes on the phone only twice, and never met him face to face, but did see him on the day that he flew the airplane that he called the Hercules and that other people called the Spruce Goose. But I knew a lot of people that did know him very well, and I know that most of the stories that have been printed about him are not true. He was nearly killed in an airplane crash in California shortly after the war, was dragged out of a burning fighter that he had designed and built by an enlisted man in the army; but had inhaled flames that almost destroyed his lungs.
The doctors all believed that he would die, so figured that they had nothing to lose by trying to treat him with a very dangerous drug that nobody knew much about; and the drug saved his life, but also destroyed his immune system, so that in a sense he was then the first victim of AIDS, the only difference being that we was not infectious. He should have lived out the rest of his life enclosed in a sterile environment, but refused to do so; but later stories about his living habits and avoidance of people failed to mention the fact that he had to do what he was doing just to stay alive. The doctors also gave him massive doses of morphine, because he was badly burned and in great pain; but doing so addicted him to morphine, a habit that he was never able to break.
He was, in my opinion, a Hell of a man, accomplished far more that he has been given credit for; one film that he produced, Hells Angels, still ranks as one of the best films of all time. Another of his films, Scarface, supposedly about Al Capone, was probably the best gangster movie ever made, starred Paul Muni and Boris Karloff and gave George Raft his start in movies.
So what if he liked girls, fucked everybody in Hollywood between the ages of about thirteen and twenty? Didnt we all? Apart from the fact that he had a lot more money than I ever did, we had a lot in common, I even looked like him at one time, although he was a lot taller than I am, and quite a few people thought I was him.
In 1970, having called two men in Louisiana and told them to come to Florida immediately, because I wanted to investigate some rumors that I had been hearing, I first gave them the riot act for nearly twelve straight hours, then sent them into a motel room that we had bugged. I wanted to hear what they would say after I left.
On the tape you could hear the door opening, and could hear their steps as they entered the room, then one of them said . . . "The son of a bitch thinks hes Howard Hughes."
And the other guy said . . . "Damned, maybe he is."
Interest in Strength
I have been far stronger than average since the age of about ten, got interested in exercise, weightlifting and gymnastics, when I was twelve, and was powerfully built by the age of fourteen. I quickly learned that a barbell was by far the best tool available for exercise, that most other exercises then being used were utterly worthless; but I also learned that a barbell had certain limitations, had problems that I was aware of but did not understand.
So I started modifying barbells in an attempt to improve them; in 1939 I welded hooks to a barbell so that I could add the weight of heavy chains to the weight of the barbell, chains that would thus vary the resistance as the barbell was lifted.
That first attempt was very crude, and did not provide what I was looking for, but it was a start. Nine years later, in 1948, I was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, being recruited by both sides in the ongoing Jewish/Arabian war; I wanted to fly Messerschmitt ME 109 fighters in combat, and having almost nothing in the way of political opinions at the time I would have been willing to fight on either side.
While talking with recruiters from both sides of that war, I was training in the weight room of the YMCA, and I was then in very good condition, lean as a race horse, strong as an ox and nearly as big as a gorilla. All of the other men training there were very impressed by my size and strength, and one of these men, Percy Cunningham, asked me to teach him everything possible about proper exercise.
Percy was in his early thirties so was a bit older than I was then, was a captain flying for American Airlines, was earning a very high salary for that time and place, had a new Cadillac convertible and more young, attractive stewardesses than he knew what to do with; to my personal knowledge he fucked fourteen of these girls within a period of only three days; in those days the captain got whatever he wanted, and the stewardesses clearly understood the rules.
So I helped Percy and he helped me, and we both nearly fucked ourselves to death. He was American Airlines test pilot for the then brand new DC 6, the best airliner of its day, and still my favorite airplane nearly fifty years later. He took me along on a night test flight in one of their DC 6s, which was illegal as Hell. But Percy paid very little attention to rules. And I paid none.
Building Crude Machines
Then, working together, Percy and I designed and built an exercise machine and installed it in the gym of the YMCA. This machine included several unique features that I designed in an attempt to improve barbell exercises, and they did provide some degree of improvement, but still were not good enough to satisfy me.
Twenty years later, then in Rhodesia, I still wasnt satisfied; in the meantime having designed and built literally dozens of other exercise machines all over the world. I built them in about a dozen states in this country, in two different countries in South America, in Singapore, and later in Africa. No two were exactly alike; each model incorporated changes that I hoped would provide improvements.
I was still trying to solve problems that I did not yet understand, problems that nobody else seemed to be even aware of; but, then, I did not know something that I learned about twenty years later: in the 1850s, in Sweden, a doctor named Gustav Zander designed and built a very sophisticated line of exercise machines. He understood the problems that I was trying to solve, and provided practical solutions for many of these problems; some of his machines, built about 140 years ago, were as good as most of the exercise machines now on the market.
But I was unaware of the good doctors much earlier discoveries, so had to solve the problems myself, and eventually I did. The first breakthrough came to me in the middle of the night, at 2:15 in the morning; I suddenly understood one of the problems, and believed that I knew the solution. So I called Graham Hall, carefully described exactly what I wanted him to build and told him to build it immediately and to bring it to my house by eight Oclock in the morning. And he did.
We added the new part to the machine that I already had, but it failed to work at I had expected it to; however, it failed in such a dramatic fashion that I immediately understood just what would be required to make it work properly. But doing so would have required a totally new machine, and I left Rhodesia before I had time to build one.
1969 Lake Helen, Florida
Once settled in to a rented house in Lake Helen, Florida, I started building another machine, incorporating the ideas that I got from my experience with the machine in Rhodesia. And it worked like a charm. It had never entered my mind that a market for such machines might exist; I built these machines only for my personal use. I had no respect for most bodybuilders, then considered them to be the dumbest people on the planet, did not associate with them, did not read the bodybuilding magazines and usually trained by myself. Nobody that I ever met could stay up with me during a workout, and the ones that tried to ended up puking their guts out about ten minutes into the workout, because I trained at a literally brutal pace, a pace that would kill most people. And did kill one man, a guy who dropped dead in that YMCA gym while trying to exercise like I did.
The only bodybuilding magazine that I ever did read was one published by an old man named Perry Rader, in Nebraska; most of the things published in that magazine, which he called IRONMAN, were pure bullshit, but a few of the articles made some sense, while all of the other such magazines contained nothing apart from pure bullshit.
So, for lack of anything better to do at the time, I sat down in the dining room of my house and pounded out an article on my typewriter and then mailed it to the editor of IRONMAN; but I did not believe that it would ever by published, because I insulted practically everybody in the field of exercise, took many of their most cherished opinions and ripped them to shreds in such a simple manner that the article would probably have been perfectly clear to a cat. Knowing full well just how most people react when faced with the truth; particularly when the truth makes them look like the fools that they really are.
But, as usual, I was wrong; a few days later, the editor of the magazine tried to call me on the phone, did not reach me because I was away from home when he called, but he was so excited that he insisted that he had to speak with somebody there, and ended up talking with Inge. When I got back, she told me about the call, and mentioned how excited he was. So I called him back, and then one thing led to another, and I started writing more articles for his magazine, meanwhile expecting nothing apart from slings and arrows of outrage from readers.
And again I was wrong; because within a matter of a few weeks I was getting dozens of letters almost daily, then hundreds of letters, then thousands. Primarily letters from people anxious to purchase machines that did not exist outside my mind, machines I had not even started to design yet.
A Man Named Feather
Then a man named Jack Feather called me from California and asked me if I was the inventor of the revolutionary exercise machines that he had been hearing about. And when I told him that I was, he said ... "Ship me one of each, immediately."
When I asked him if he was concerned about the price, he said
"It doesnt matter; tell me how much they are and I will mail you a check tomorrow." So I then decided that this must be some sort of a gag, and told him that I had to leave the phone for a couple of minutes but would be right back, and he said that he would wait.
Then I went over to the wastebasket and searched through the discarded papers that I had thrown into it, looking for a list of machines that I had written down a day or so earlier. Found what I was looking for, returned to the phone, and read him the names of the machines, together with the prices, machines that did not exist, prices that were simply SWAGS, or Scientific Wild Ass Guesses.
So he said, fine, the check will go out tomorrow. And it did, and it was as good as gold. So I suddenly found myself in the exercise machine business, totally by accident. I got Jack Feathers check a long time before he got the machines, but he eventually did get them, and loved them; later gave me a standing order for two of each type of machine that I ever built, one to be air shipped to California and another to go by air to his home outside London, England.
A few weeks later he offered me $500,000.00, up front, in cash, plus what extra sum might be required to start a magazine on the subject of exercise, and said that I would also be given half ownership of the magazine. I was certainly interested in the proposition; but when I suggested that I fly out to California to discuss it with him, he started being hesitant for the first time; by then I had talked with him on the phone for dozens of hours; he would sometimes call me and then talk nonstop for as much as eight hours. And I had discovered that he was by far the best-educated person that I had ever talked to in my life up to that point. He seemed to know literally everything.
But he was also a crook; which is why he did not want me to come to California; because, at that time, he was on trial in the Federal courthouse charged with mail fraud, a Federal felony. He was afraid that if I went to California I would read about it in the newspapers there.
The criminal charges brought against him involved his sale of a so-called Sauna Belt, which supposedly removed body fat in a near miraculous manner. But he beat the rap, was acquitted; largely as a result of testimony from a scientist who he hired to perjure himself on his behalf.
I not only designed the machines but built them with my own hands, which was no problem because I had been building things since I was about five years old, built a functional machinegun when I was twelve, an airplane that would fly when I was fourteen, and somewhat later a submarine that did half of what I expected it to do, went down like a rock, but would not then come back up; is still sitting on the bottom of the lake where we tested it. Fortunately, the guy who took that first, and last, test ride was good at holding his breath, was strong enough to kick himself out of the submarine, and a good enough swimmer to get himself back to the surface of the lake. Me test it? No way, Jose, I aint that dumb.
Working Around the Clock
While waiting to pick up my children at the DeLand high school one afternoon I met a man named Larry Gilmore, who we later called Turkey; I could tell, by looking at him, that he was a weightlifter, and said something about it, something that he considered to be an insult. He said he was going to stuff me into the trunk of my car, but changed his mind when I asked him if he was bullet proof.
I later conducted some research using the high school football team as research subjects, with very good results; Turkey heard about that and sought me out, started training with me and my oldest son and eventually we became close friends. He later went to Africa in my big jet when we picked up the elephants, and made another trip in a different big jet of mine to Australia.
At one time I owned three big jets, one designed only for hauling cargo, one in a normal airline configuration with seats for about 200 passengers and one that we modified so that it provided first class seats only and thus could haul only 132 passengers; I used the fanciest of these planes to haul doctors to medical seminars that I conducted in Merida, Yucatan, in cooperation with the School of Medicine of the University of Florida, Gainesville.
Having already gotten orders for quite a few machines in spite of the fact that I could not tell prospective customers when delivery would be made, or even what the machines looked like, I decided to build a machine for the purpose of displaying it at the annual Mr. America Contest and National Weightlifting Championships that was going to be held in Los Angeles in the spring of 1970.
So I worked almost nonstop for several months, sleeping an average of less than two hours a night during that period; and Turkey worked with me, even though he was working full time for the telephone company at hard manual labor, digging holes, climbing poles and stringing wire. He would arrive at the shop I had rented in Lake Helen about five every afternoon, then work until about three in the morning, go home to sleep for a few hours, get up early and go back to his regular job. But on weekends he worked nonstop from five on Friday afternoon until about three on Monday morning, with no sleep and with very little to eat. And I was paying him nothing for all of this work.
Inge painted the machine and Eliza made all of the required upholstered parts for it. And it was finally ready only three days before we needed it to be on display in California. And I had no way to get it to California.
When I told Turkey about my transportation problem he told me that I could use his car, a large Cadillac, to haul the machine in; and when I pointed out the fact that the machine was far too big to fit inside the car he then said that we could cut the top off his car with a burning torch and then load the machine with most of it sticking up into the air above the car.
But I didnt want to destroy his car, so declined his offer. One of the local banks had been stupid enough to mail me a credit card, unsolicited by me; but it had a credit limit of only $300.00 and I had already exceeded that. So using that card at night, so that they could not call the bank to check my credit, I rented a car and a trailer, put the machine in the trailer and pulled the trailer with the car. Then we drove straight through to Los Angeles, stopping only for fuel or food; Inge and I took turns driving, while she drove I would sleep in the back seat, and vice versa. All three of my children went with us, but Eliza stayed in Lake Helen in an attempt to fight off my creditors.
When we left Lake Helen I had only six dollars in cash, and the already overextended credit card. So we had to make only small purchases in route to California, keeping the sums charged to the card low enough that they would not provoke a call to the bank.
Mr. America
The machine that we exhibited in California created a sensation, and one guy tried to buy it from me, an offer that I refused because I realized that the machine still had a few problems. I also met an eighteen-year-old boy named Casey Viator who had the potential for literally enormous muscular size, and I knew that if I trained him that he would win the annual Mr. America Contest in 1971; so he returned to Florida with us, and I started training him. And, a year later, he won the Mr. America Contest in the most spectacular fashion in history, before or since.
He won six of the seven possible awards, Mr. America, Most Muscular Man in America, best arms, best back, best chest and best legs. The only thing he did not win was best abdominals, and he should have won that; but I guess the judges decided that they had to give at least one award to somebody else and so gave it to another young man that I trained.
My older sister, Jean, loaned me $2,500.00 and that helped us to survive during a very low period; but by November of 1970 things were starting to look better and some money was coming in. The first Nautilus exercise machines were picked up by a customer on November 30, 1970, and after that we were off and running.
Fourteen years later, Forbes magazine listed me among the four hundred wealthiest people in America, with an estimated net worth of $125,000,000.00. Which was their estimate, not mine, I have always refused to discuss my net worth with anybody.
More Problems and Battles
But my problems and battles were far from over, I was the new cat on the block in the exercise business and all of my competitors except one immediately set out to destroy me. They spread malicious rumors about me all over the country; according to them I was a member of the Mafia, a drug smuggler, a professional killer and a long list of other things. One of my later associates was the son of a man who at one time was the head of the Mafia in this country, but the son had no such associations, although he at least knew many members of the Mafia.
Randy Agnew, the son of Vice-president Agnew, lived with us for a while, and his father, Spiro (or Ted, as he liked to be called) visited me for a few days after he was forced to resign. G. Gordon Liddy was, and is, a good friend of mine. Liddy and Jack Martin, an F.B.I. agent who was a close friend, went with me on several long trips in one of my smaller jets, and Liddy made one trip in one of my big jets. I also made it possible for Liddy to fly a fifty-year-old German transport plane owned by a friend of mine.
Robin Moore, the author of the book The Green Berets, and several other books, went to Rhodesia about the time that I left there and opened an unofficial American Consulate in order to help the Americans who were fighting there on the side of Ian Smiths government, then later wrote a book about it called The Crippled Eagles, which he asked me to proof read for him since I knew many of the people and all of the places mentioned in the book. I found only two minor mistakes, but told him that he would never be able to get it published; and, as far as I know, it never was published; it was a very good book, but was not "politically correct."
I continued to write articles in every issue of IRONMAN for several years, and later published hundreds of articles in other magazines, most of them in the Athletic Journal and a few in another journal called the Scholastic Coach. Eventually wrote and published four books on the subjects of exercise, physical rehabilitation and specific testing of human functional ability.
As of the moment, June of 1994, I have been continuously involved in large-scale medical research for more than twenty-two years, in cooperation with several medical schools in four states, Florida, California, Colorado and New York, and recently provided training for eleven physical therapists and two medical doctors from Holland who will conduct research with our equipment in Europe, funded by the Dutch government. My investment in medical research now exceeds $90,000,000.00 and so far I have never received a cent in return.
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The study of Tanakh is central to Judaism. At Yeshiva College, this is a multidimensional discipline.
It begins with an effort to understand the Bible in its historical context, as illuminated by the history of the Ancient Near East and its linguistic and physical culture. It continues, however, with the study of the Bible as it has been read and interpreted throughout Jewish history, from second temple texts to the rabbis of the Talmud to the classical medieval commentators, down to the present.
The Bible and its interpretative afterlife have much to contribute to our understanding of the many ways in which Jews and Jewish texts have interacted with the rest of the world, from biblical through modern times.
Yeshiva College students are uniquely suited and uniquely challenged to explore these issues, to study Tanakh intensively while bringing to bear the breadth of knowledge gained from liberal arts education. The Yeshiva College Bible faculty, immersed in traditional approaches and trained in contemporary scholarship, brings these mutually enriching aspects of the study of Tanakh together in a fashion rarely available elsewhere.


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I recently read an article in Wired which points out in passing that our personas on online networks are projections of who we want to be - an avatar. When answering SO questions, I usually spend some time considering the wording of my responses to ensure that they are consistent with who I want to be. (Unless I'm rushing to be frist!)
Yesterday, I noticed that several of my questions had been changed by several editors.
Some of the edits were welcome, like spelling fixes, or capitalizing the first word of a question.
And some were understandable, like capitalizing Unix, or adding more descriptive text to a link.
There were the more questionable ones, like capitalizing Google when it is used as a verb: "what to google". (Sorry trademark lawyers, you lose this round) (If someone changes it to read "Bing it", I'm outta here).
But then there are the ones that don't add any value, but do change how I "sound"
- "Here's a starting point - please add..." --> "Here's a starting point. Please add.."
- "Has someone done a port" --> "is there a port"
And the worst are the ones that erase my personality altogether:
- teh "interweb" became "internet".
- "Do you know those movies where...." is apparently not a good title.
- I have to admit, I knew that one was not going to stand...
Maybe I am choosing not to capitalize windows, and believe "VC 2005" is a better description then "Visual Studio 8". (The start menu says '2005'.) What right do the editors have to take those quirks from me?
The real question: Can and should I re-edit my questions to restore my personality?


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Caught On Tape: Vince Young (NFL Quarterback) Giving An Employee A Busted Lip At A Strip Club In Dallas!
" The Dallas Police Department issued Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young a Class C assault citation for his role in a Sunday morning altercation at a Dallas strip club that left one person injured. Officials said they reviewed a tape of the incident and interviewed witnesses before issuing the citation, which is punishable by a fine of up to $500. The altercation broke out "after words were exchanged" at Club Onyx, with the first call to police at 3:38 a.m. Club security made a second call to police at 4:06 a.m., and an ambulance was called at about 5:30 a.m. Police believe Young left the scene before officers arrived, a DPD official said. Holly Yan of the KDAF-TV in Dallas has more details of the altercation - and it sounds like "words" had nothing to do with what caused the fight. A Dallas police source told The 33 News the current Tennessee Titans quarterback was attempting to exchange cash, possibly for single dollar bills, at Club Onyx when someone started making disparaging remarks about the Texas Longhorns. Police say one person made an upside-down "Hook 'em, Horns" hand gesture, and a physical altercation ensued. Young is accused of busting an employee's lip. Titans spokesman Robbie Bohren: "We are aware of the report about Vince Young. The organization has been in touch with Vince and we will continue to gather addition information."" - SPB
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The roughly 305 walkers who came out to participate in the 32nd annual CROP Walk on Sunday afternoon all had one focus: Ending hunger one step at a time.
The roughly 305 walkers who came out to participate in the 32nd annual CROP Walk on Sunday afternoon all had one focus: Ending hunger one step at a time.
The CROP Walk is a national program by Church World Services, which raises money to provide food for the hungry. Twenty five percent of the money raised in New Bern�s CROP Walk will go to Religious Community Services (RCS), a local non-profit that provides food and other resources for the needy in Craven, Jones and Pamlico counties.
There was no set fee to participate in the walk; however, individuals and groups who chose to participate raised money either through sponsorships or donations for the cause.
Music was provided by Reggie Griffin of Audiolicious as walkers registered for the event and waited for the opening ceremony.
The money raised from each individual or group ranged from $20 up to thousands of dollars.
Lee Ann Fordyce, a local Realtor, formed a team of about 30 members from Christ Episcopal Church. They raised more than $5,000 for this year�s walk.
She also formed �Neuse River Region Association of Realtors,� a team that raised an additional $1,000.
Fordyce attributes the online registration option as the primary reason they were able to raise more this year than last.
With a group of mostly older women, Fordyce was pleased to hear that the one youth member on the team, Alex Linton, chose to cancel a movie date in order to participate in the walk.
�Now that is a young person with her heart in the right place,� Fordyce said. �I�m excited. I�m very emotional about the generosity of my team.�
Holly Mason, 16, and Molly Crum, 14, participated in the walk as part of a group effort with First Presbyterian Church.
�I�m happy that we�re trying to do something for the community,� Crum said.
Just before the horn was sounded signifying the start of the walk, Mary Catherine Hinds, managing regional director at Church World Services, and Bob Howe, operations manager at RCS, thanked everyone for their participation.
�We have a very serious hunger problem that you are not aware of,� Howe told the crowd of walkers during the opening ceremony. If the goal of $30,000 was met this year, RCS can feed 170 families for an entire week, according to Howe.
At final count, this year�s walk raised $22,800, according to Jennifer Butler, planning committee chairman for the event.
�We are very grateful for the community support this year� she said.
Donations will be accepted for the next few weeks, according to Butler.
After the walk was brought to an end, the leftover fruit and water was taken to RCS to be used immediately.
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The celebration began at approximately 9:30 p.m. on Friday when the Havelock Rams punched their ticket to a third-straight 3A state championship game.
The celebration began at approximately 9:30 p.m. on Friday when the Havelock Rams punched their ticket to a third-straight 3A state championship game.
The two-time defending state winners breezed through the postseason by outscoring its opposition 149-36.
The undefeated Rams crushed Eastern Wayne, 44-20, in the 3A Eastern Regional Finals on Friday, setting up a rematch with Concord at 11 a.m. next Saturday at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh.
The Rams are looking to become the 12th prep football team, since the state championship game was initiated in 1972, to claim at least three-straight titles.
The last to do it was Northern Guilford (2010-12), and before that Tarboro (2008-10), West Rowan and Reidsville (2007-09).
Only three teams � Charlotte Independence (2000-06), J.H. Rose (2003-06) and Robinsville (1979-83) � have won more than three-consecutive state titles since 1972.
Havelock, with an unblemished 15-0 record, has been the dominant team in the state the past two seasons with just one loss in a two-year span. It owns 29-straight victories.
The Rams won the championship in 2011 with a 38-6 win over West Rowan � snapping the Falcons� three-consecutive state title streak � in Chapel Hill.
Then last year, they coasted to a 55-21 victory over Concord in Winston-Salem.
�We set the standard of having a state championship as our limit,� said senior linebacker Andrew Ramirez. �We work hard in practice. We watch film, the coaches get us prepared and we do our job.�
It�s miraculous what this program has accomplished since Jim Bob Bryant took over as head coach in 2008.
That first year, the Rams won eight games, following a three-win season. Since then, Havelock has advanced to the state semifinals five years in a row.
The Rams went 13-2 in 2009 (lost to Eastern Alamance in state semifinals). They went 11-4 in 2010 (again falling to Eastern Alamance in the state semifinals).
Havelock finally broke through in 2011 with a 16-0 record and a championship, and then added another one in 2012.
Over the past six seasons, the Rams have an impressive record of 78 wins and 11 losses.
�You could say we set a really high standard,� senior running back Derrell Scott said. �The other kids have big show to fill, but that�s how it needs to be at Havelock.
�Havelock is a football town and Havelock is always going to have high expectations in football.�
They�ve done it with dedicated coaching, discipline and unselfish student-athletes. Of course, having talent doesn�t hurt.
The Rams shined with former greats like Danny Webster, Garrett Crowe, Pharoh Cooper, Corey Robinson, Zack LaHaie, A.J. Coplon, Derek Nelson, Kendal Vickers, Deshone Godette, Malcom Ashley, and many others.
This year, they are continuing the trend with star running back Derrell Scott, along with an offensive that includes quarterback Travis Sabdo, running back Taylor Woods, wide receivers Micheal Bowman, Matthew Boykin, Kyran Bowman, Jordan Cuthbertson a Julian Cuthbertson, and a skilled line with just one starting senior.
�I might be biased, but I�d say we have one of the best football programs in the state of North Carolina,� Bryant said. �Our JV hasn�t lost a game in three years, our varsity has lost one game in the last three years. Hopefully after next Saturday, we will still say we only lost one game in three years.�
While the offense is racking up more than 44 points per game, the defense is limiting opponents to an astounding five points per game.
The Rams� defense is spearheaded by star sophomore Keion Joyner, along with Andrew Ramirez, Maurice Harris, Akenno Godette and Andrew Vanover.
For the sixth time in the past seven seasons, Craven County will be represented in the state championship game.
New Bern beat Charlotte Independence, 28-17, in 2007; West Craven lost to West Rowan, 35-7, in 2008; Havelock topped West Rowan, 38-6, in 2011; New Bern edged out Porter Ridge, 39-38, in 2012; Havelock knocked off Concord, 55-21, in 2012.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - Champ Bailey and Chris Harris Jr. are reversing roles down the stretch.
Bailey is playing in the slot. Harris is playing outside. And the protege is giving tips to his mentor.
Bailey has missed 11 games this season with a nagging sprained left foot. When he returned to action Sunday at Houston for the first time in five weeks, defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio kept Harris at left cornerback and used Bailey in the specialty packages as the nickel and dime cornerback.
Although Bailey has lined up in the slot at times throughout his illustrious career when shadowing a top-flight receiver, playing it full-time is a new experience for the perennial Pro Bowl cornerback who's in his 15th NFL season.
So, Bailey found himself seeking advice from Harris, an undrafted third-year pro he's taken under his wing.
"You know, it's funny because I find myself asking him little things about coverages, mostly. Just what is he looking at, this and that," Bailey said. "He's had so much time in there and he's been so good at it, I'd be a fool not to look at him and ask him a few things."
Harris certainly isn't shy about sharing tips.
"Oh, yeah, I mean, I know the position so well and I consider myself the best at it, so I definitely can give him some of my little tips at it," Harris said.
Even to a man many consider the pre-eminent cornerback in the game's history.
"Yeah, that is kind of funny now that I think about it," Harris said. "But it's a new position. He's always been outside. I've always been playing it in Jack's system so I know it the best out of anybody. That's the reason why he comes to me."
With Dominique
Rodgers-Cromartie on the right side and Harris on the left, the slot seems the perfect role to ease Bailey back into action. He played 35 of 67 snaps against the Texans, last week, enough to give him some confidence in his foot but not enough wear him down.
"I didn't play as many snaps as I have in the past, so it felt pretty good to get my feet wet a little bit," said Bailey, who has played just 12 quarters this season.
The Broncos aren't saying whether they'll switch Bailey and Harris for the playoffs, but this certainly is giving them the flexibility to do so based on matchups they'll see in January.
"Right now it's what we do," Bailey said. "Moving forward we'll do what's best for our team that week. The good thing is it creates some versatility across the board because now I can go in, Chris can go back in there at any moment. It just depends on matchups and things like that, if we want to switch it up we could."
Bailey might get even fewer snaps Sunday when the Broncos (12-3) try to wrap up the top seed in the AFC playoffs with a win at Oakland (4-11) because rookie cornerback Kayvon Webster figures to play in the dime packages even though he'll have a cast on his right thumb following surgery on Dec. 13 in which six screws, five pins and nine stitches were needed in an operation to repair two fractures.
Harris has started 10 games at left cornerback for Bailey this season and another on the right side when Dominique
Rodgers-Cromartie was out with a shoulder injury, and he's taken a liking for playing outside.
"On the inside, you have a lot more responsibility. They can run 1,000 routes compared to outside, you have kind of the sideline help," Harris said. "It's a lot easier for me just playing outside, not having to play inside and communicate with safeties and linebackers. Outside I'm just on my own."
Except when he's giving advice to his mentor on the inside.


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Lipscomb's Lady Bisons closed out their road trip to North Carolina with a 58-43 loss Saturday afternoon to Campbell University at Carter Gymnasium Saturday afternoon in Buies Creek, N.C.
Campbell never trailed in the game. The Lady Bisons did tie the score at 9-9 at 15:03 of the first half after a 5-0 scoring run. Campbell answered with an 13-2 run to take a 22-11 lead.
With 1:29 left in the first half the Lady Bisons pulled to within five at 31-26, but Campbell rallied to make it 35-26 at intermission.
Sophomore guard Dana Carrigan led the Lady Bisons in scoring with a game-high 14 points. It was the second game in a row Carrigan has led the team in scoring and her eighth time this season.
In the second half the Lady Bisons rallied to get within five points at 40-35 with 12:37 on the clock thanks to a 3-pointer by Katie Rollins.
Campbell outscored the Lady Bisons 18-5 to close out the game.
The Lady Bisons shot 27.5 percent from the field. Campbell was 41.7 from the field.
Campbell held a 41-37 advantage in rebounding.
Carrigan also grabbed five rebounds and made three steals.
Freshman forward Miriam McAlister also finished in double figures with 10 points. She also added six rebounds and four steals. She tied with Kaleigh Gossman for the team rebounds lead with six.
Letitia Dickson scored 13 points to lead Campbell. Adrienne Rieley added 12.
Campbell is 9-14, overall, 8-7 in the conference.
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Liamar Duran Almarza is a new faculty member in Humanistic Studies and Spanish. We thought you might like to know a little more about your professor and colleague, so we asked her a few questions about herself.
Where did you go to college?
I studied at the University of Leon (Spain) for my B.A./M.A. in English Philology and M.A. in Linguistics. Then I moved to the University of Oviedo (Spain) to do the coursework for the Doctorate in Women's Studies. I also spent one year with an European grant studying English and Irish Literature and Culture at Trinity College, Dublin.
Who was your favorite professor and why?
My favorite professor was Marina Maquiera who taught an introductory course to General Linguistics in my first college year. She was not a very popular teacher because she was very demanding, but I appreciated the fact that she was one of the few professors that would ask us students for our own perspectives and opinions. This is not very common in Spain where most classes are on a lecture format and the professor is the only one to talk for the whole hour….
You have a PhD in what field?
Women's Studies.
What did you do your research on?
I focused on the works of two Dominican-American women writers and performers who share the experience of migration to the city of New York. In their work they explore issues of identity formation from two different but complementary perspectives: one gives voice to the experiences of a young Dominican migrant who struggles to adapt to the urban environment of New York City while the other depicts the difficulties faced by a returned migrant in the Dominican Republic.
What are your current research interests?
I am interested in Latino/a Cultures in the US, Caribbean Diaspora communities in the world and female narratives of displacement across cultures.
What courses do you teach?
This semester I am teaching Span 201-Intermediate Spanish I (2 sections) and Span 225-Intermediate Conversation and Composition. How would you describe your teaching style?
In teaching, my primary goal is to develop a learner-centered environment in which students get involved and take ownership in the process of learning. In my classes I try to encourage active learning with every activity and project that students have to complete both inside and outside the classroom, so that my students become knowledgeable not only of the Spanish language but also of the diverse cultures and communities in which Spanish is a means of communication. In my quest to develop critical and independent thinkers, I also endeavor to promote cross-cultural awareness and appreciation, and generate insightful learners who are enthusiastic observers of global cultures, informed and knowledgeable across the disciplines and active participants in their communities.
What do you like to do for fun (hobbies)?
I enjoy reading, watching movies, hiking, practicing yoga and downhill skiing.
What was the last good book you read?
Maridos (Husbands) by Angeles Mastretta.
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R.E.M., Maná, Bebe, Chambao, Amy Winehouse, Latin Jazz, and, of course, The Beatles.


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Comet LINEAR's Violent Outburst
These three photographs taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope chronicle a violent outburst in the life of comet LINEAR, also known as C/1999 S4. The orbiting observatory's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph tracked the streaking comet for two days, July 5 to 7, capturing a dramatic leap in its brightness [left image]; followed by seeing a wave of newly created dust from the outburst flowing into the coma, a shell of dust surrounding the core [middle image]; and culminating in the discovery of a castoff chunk of material from the nucleus sailing along its tail [the bright dot trailing behind the comet in the picture at right]. The white region represents the brightest part of the coma. The nucleus cannot be seen in these images because it is about a mile or so across, which is too small for the Hubble telescope to see.
When the Hubble telescope snapped these visible-light images, comet LINEAR was 74 million miles (120 million km) from Earth. At 6:32 p.m. EDT July 5 [left image], Hubble watched as the light within a 50-mile-wide region surrounding the core brightened by about 50 percent in less than four hours. By 5:20 p.m. EDT the next day [middle image], that region was a third less luminous than at its peak the previous day, as the dust expelled from the core during the outburst moved farther out in the coma. By 7:04 p.m. EDT on the final day [right image], the comet's brightness was back to normal – about one-seventh less luminous than at peak level.
The chunk of material seen in the final picture is roughly 290 miles (470 km) from the nucleus and appears to be moving down the tail at about 6 miles per hour. The fragment's slow pace indicates that it could be quite large (possibly house-size), but accurate estimates for the sizes of the chunk and of the core require further analyses of the Hubble images and data from other observatories.
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CHICAGO – Gonnella Baking Co., a Chicago-area baking company, will pay $350,000 to settle a national origin harassment and retaliation suit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The company will also be subject to a four-year consent decree, under which it will be required to report any further complaints of discrimination or retaliation to the EEOC and to provide training about employment discrimination law to its managers and other employees.
In its suit, the EEOC charged that Gonnella tolerated harassment of employees of Mexican national origin by a manager at its Aurora, Ill., facility and, when a number of those employees complained about the harassment, the manager retaliated against them by subjecting them to further verbal harassment, longer hours, and harsher working conditions. The EEOC sought relief for a class of seven employees, four of whom intervened in the suit as plaintiffs.
John Rowe, EEOC district director in Chicago, said that the EEOC's investigation revealed that the Gonnella manager routinely made derogatory anti-Mexican comments to several sanitation employees of Mexican national origin. After some of these employees complained about the mistreatment, the manager required the employees to work longer hours, with a number of shifts exceeding 12 hours and on one occasion reaching as much as 19 hours, according to Rowe. According to the employees, the manager warned them against making further complaints, telling one employee that if the employee complained to the company's human resources department, she was "going to pay for it."
The EEOC's lawsuit was brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits national origin discrimination and retaliation in employment. Harassment of employees or alteration of the conditions of their employment is unlawful if it is motivated by the employees' national origin or race or if it is done in retaliation for complaints about discrimination.
"The derogatory language and other harassment directed at the employees in this case are entirely inappropriate in the workplace," said John Hendrickson, the EEOC's regional attorney in Chicago. "Gonnella failed to take action to address this conduct, despite numerous complaints about this manager from several different employees. As this case illustrates, employers who do not live up to their obligation to put a stop to employment discrimination expose themselves to substantial financial consequences and ongoing scrutiny."
The EEOC's lawsuit was filed on September 15, 2008, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (EEOC v. Gonnella Baking Co., Case No 08-cv-5240). The consent decree resolving the case was approved today by U.S. District Judge John W. Darrah. The case had been set to go to trial on April 12, 2010. In addition to requiring Gonnella to pay damages to seven individuals and to pay attorney fees to intervening plaintiffs, the decree contains an injunction prohibiting Gonnella from engaging in further discrimination on the basis of national origin, race, or retaliation.
The government's litigation effort was led by EEOC Trial Attorneys Justin Mulaire and Brad Fiorito and EEOC Supervisory Trial Attorney Gregory Gochanour.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. The EEOC's Chicago District Office is responsible for processing charges of discrimination, administrative enforcement, and the conduct of agency litigation in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and North and South Dakota, with Area Offices in Milwaukee and Minneapolis. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Thursday, July 25
• St. Elmo Home and Community Education will go to Tuscola to the Flesor's Candy Kitchen. They will leave no later than 9 a.m., because their appointment is 10:30 p.m. They also will eat lunch there.
• Exxon/Mobil annuitants will eat lunch at noon at the Litchfield Chinese Restaurant.
Saturday, July 27
Betsy Longhorn at Bedtime
Betsy, the Longhorn, is the head of the Homestead herd.
Thursday, July 18
• Vit-Em-In Sunday school class potluck, 6 p.m., First United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall.
The Vandalia Lions Club recently installed its officers for the coming year.
In front, from left to right, are: Kevin Budny, director; Bill Brown, treasurer; Bill Haselhorst, president; Bette Stolte, secretary; Tony Flowers, director; and Rich Walker, director. In back are: Robert Weidenhoeft, installing officer; Jerry Schukar, vice president; John Dotray, vice president; Les Smith, tail twister; and Bobby Kissiar, director.
The Herman Dothager family reunion was held on Thursday, July 4, at Vandalia City Park.
In Response to Several Inquiries
No, we haven't figured out what kind of critter chewed the end of the spout off our good gas can.
Recovering from Surgery
Larry Urban of St. Peter underwent double knee replacement surgery on July 2 at St. Luke's Hospital in Chesterfield, Mo.
Dane and Belinda Harpster, and Mahala Harpster and fiancé Nathan Jacquin visited him on July 4.
Sue Urban spent a few nights with Mahala Harpster of Villa Ridge, Mo., while awaiting his release. Larry is now recovering at home.
Birthday Celebration
Belinda Harpster of St. Peter celebrated her birthday on Sunday by attending the Cardinals game at St. Louis.
The ExxonMobil Annuitants Club met on June 27 at Ponderosa Steakhouse in Vandalia, with 30 members and four guests present.
Vice President Mike Mulhern welcomed all members and guests, followed by the pledge to the flag. Brock Fisher gave the blessing before the meal.
After the meal, Mulhern called the meeting to order. The secretary and treasurer reports were read and approved. Birthdays and anniversaries for June were also read.
A Critter Riddle
What kind of critter would chew the plastic nozzle off of a new, but used, 5-gallon gas container? Answer: We just don't know.
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There have been 22 cases in the past three years of a deadly new strain of meningitis that has spread in New York's gay, bisexual and MSM (men who have sex with men) communities.
Seven of the men who contracted the illness died.
Meningitis can be spread by sneezing, coughing, sharing utensils or kissing. Often, there are reports of meningitis outbreaks in college dorms or army barracks.
But this particular strain has circulated exclusively among men who have sex with men.
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, an HIV specialist who is administering meningitis shots through the community health organization Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), said the community of "men who have sex with men are effectively a dorm or an army barracks without walls."
New York's health department has partnered with gay community organizations to launch an aggressive campaign to get men who have sex with men access to meningitis vaccinations. The health department has advised "men who have regular and intimate contact with men" — whether through websites, gay bars and clubs, or hook up apps like Grindr — to get the vaccination.
When reports of the first deaths from meningitis began, comparisons to the early years of the AIDS epidemic were made in the mainstream press and within the gay community.
Like the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, a moral color became attached to the behaviors of men who engaged in anonymous, sexual activity with multiple partners, even though meningitis is not a sexually transmitted disease.
"When you uncouple judgment of behavior and just look at bare cold science and fact, if you vaccinate people at risk, you will prevent infection," Daskalakis said. "The judgment of whether they are having anonymous sex is less important than the fact that we've protected such a large number of them from this infection."
The most susceptible men are those who are highly social in the gay community but don't want to be identified as gay or bisexual. They are disconnected from community news, and are the hardest to reach through public service announcements.
For this reason, Daskalakis goes to gay bars and after hours clubs to administer shots, where men often go to have some degree of anonymity.
"Meningitis has made a big splash in the gay press, but if you're not looking at the gay press because you're afraid someone is going to look over your shoulder … putting [the vaccinations] in an environment you feel safe is the right thing to do," he said.
- Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, an HIV specialist who is administering meningitis shots through the community health organization Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC). He tweets @DrDemetre.
It's HERE AND NOW. And we have a conversation, now, that may not be for young ears. It's about a deadly strain of meningitis that's been causing concern in New York's community of gay and bisexual men since 2010. Twenty-two men have contracted the virulent strain of meningitis, and seven have died. Now, meningitis is spread by droplets, like when you sneeze or cough or kiss. It's exchanged between people in close contact but not by sex. So why has the infection just stayed within this particular community of men?
Demetre Daskalakis is an HIV and infectious disease specialist at the NYU School of Medicine and the Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. But late at night, he gives out meningitis shots at gay bars and clubs on behalf of the Gay Men's Health Crisis, a community organization that was founded during the AIDS crisis. So, Dr. Daskalakis, is this particular strain of meningitis targeting anyone else in New York? Is it just gay men?
DR. DEMETRE DASKALAKIS: This outbreak, very specifically, is focused on men who have sex with men in the city. The reason for that has to do with the fact that it's an enclosed social network in some ways. So the population of men who have sex with men in New York are, in effect, a dorm or an Army barrack without walls. So I likened it to the idea of there being a measles outbreak in a Hasidic community. The measles don't know that they're infecting a Hasid, it just knows that this is an efficient way to spread.
YOUNG: So you're saying that it's more about a group of people that tends to hang together because these organisms love to spread within a close-knit group of people. How do you know you have it?
DASKALAKIS: The classic symptoms of meningitis are headaches, neck stiffness, fevers, rashes and what's called photophobia, which means that bright light is uncomfortable to look at. Those constellations of symptoms together should really trigger an evaluation by a physician. So the time from onset of illness to collapse of someone's cardiovascular system because of overwhelming infection and death, can be very, very quick. It's pretty critical to get to care because antibiotics in that setting can be lifesaving.
YOUNG: Yeah. And you talk about wanting to create a herd immunity. By what, vaccinating not everybody but enough people that the meningitis realizes that it's not as cozy a community anymore?
DASKALAKIS: Exactly. This bacterium likes to spread in a social network. If you create immunologic roadblocks by making people resistant to getting the infection because they have an immune response against vaccine, you can really isolate the outbreak, and ultimately, it will then peter out.
YOUNG: Well - and just a question. You've made clear that you're more likely to get this from a sneeze, you know, than anything else. But still, The New York Times did a piece in which you are in after-hours sex club...
DASKALAKIS: Yeah.
YOUNG: ...and it describes, you know, bare-chested young men and some sort of trapeze. And there you are - your table, you know, giving out shots.
DASKALAKIS: Yup.
YOUNG: Well, how do you counter the thinking that this is a community that has anonymous sex, why should I care?
DASKALAKIS: We've learned what judging people's behavior does from the perspective of spreading disease, so that's how we landed with an overwhelming HIV epidemic in the country and in the world, frankly. So when you uncouple judgment of behavior and just look at bare cold science and facts, if you vaccinate people who are at risk, you'll prevent infection. The judgment of whether they're having anonymous sex is less important than the fact that we protected such a large number of them from this infection that we're averting, potentially, a way bigger outbreak that can spread right outside of the gay community.
So after-hours nightclubs are important because not that you'd be surprised by this, but many people who go to after-hours nightclubs are running to clinics to get vaccines and are often disconnected from care, because they have other issues that may sort of, you know, be barriers. And so, you know, bringing things to the street and being a medical activist is really what HIV and infectious disease medicine is all about.
YOUNG: Well, it also should be noted that a couple of things - not everyone who goes to an after-hours club has perhaps told their friends that they are going to those after-hours clubs so they're going off into other communities. You have tourists coming in from other parts of the country.
DASKALAKIS: Sure.
YOUNG: And the article also showed a very straight-laced, buttoned-up, literally, gay couple who came in to get the shot who were appalled at the after-hours club.
DASKALAKIS: Yup. It's just a way to, sort of, create community outreach that's a bit different. And so, you know, the GMHC model which was the Gay Men's Health Crisis model which was putting vaccines in the setting of an AIDS service organization and making them available for free and an easy signup process to get them without a lot of the, sort of, garbage that you get in a medical environment, is one great model. And then the supplement to that, is you take it to the street.
The after-hours clubs are a great place to go if you also don't want to disclose that you're gay. And very often, those undisclosed folks are disconnected from the news in the communities. That meningitis has made a big splash in the gay press, but if you're not looking at the gay press because you're scared someone's going to look over your shoulder on the Internet or see what newspaper you're reading, putting it sort of in the environment where you feel safe is the right thing.
YOUNG: Staying somewhat on this theme, the Health Department has put out an advisory to men who regularly have intimate contact with other men through websites, digital application apps...
DASKALAKIS: Right.
YOUNG: ...or at a bar or party. And we know about the app, Grindr, where...
DASKALAKIS: Yeah.
YOUNG: ...people can meet anonymously, sort of like a GPS for people...
DASKALAKIS: Yeah.
YOUNG: ...who want to meet anonymously. Is there more of that anonymous contact within the gay community, therefore, making it more of a problem for health care?
DASKALAKIS: I think from the perspective of the meningitis outbreak and other diseases, looking at the apps as being a driver is interesting. I actually think that the apps are more likely a marker for people who are in the social network. They are highly social and are interacting in close proximity to a lot of folks.
YOUNG: It sounds like you're also saying it's not the app. It's, you know, whatever, you know, safe behavior you participate in once you use the app. I mean you can...
DASKALAKIS: Yeah.
YOUNG: ...use the apps safely. So...
DASKALAKIS: Yeah.
YOUNG: But just conversely, how has the AIDS epidemic helped when it comes to the gay community addressing a health issue that springs up?
DASKALAKIS: We've learned lessons from HIV, and I think that HIV has created an infrastructure such as GMHC. It's a great example that has sort of poised to respond to health threat. So medicine is never sexy. It doesn't cause a lot of hearts to race except for maybe mine and a couple of other folks.
DASKALAKIS: But this has been interesting to see a community of gay men. And men who have sex with men, rise up and say, we want this vaccine. We want to get it in a way that is appropriate for our community. This one's not one that we're going to lose.
YOUNG: Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, an HIV specialist at NYU and Bellevue Hospital with the gay men's health crisis. He's been administering these meningitis vaccinations to gay men in New York. Dr. Daskalakis, thanks so much for speaking with us.
DASKALAKIS: My pleasure. Thanks for having me.
YOUNG: OK. We'll take a break. And when we come back, I tweeted that we were going to meet house jackers in New Jersey. And Lon Seidman tweeted back, are they stealing the houses?
YOUNG: No. They're raising them up as we hear in one minute.
And by the way, if you've got anything like that to tell us, you can tweet us at HERE AND NOW at @hereandnowrobin, @jeremyhobson. We are back in a minute, HERE AND NOW. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Luisana Lopilato's pregnancy cravings are making her husband Michael Buble lose his appetite. The singer and first-time father-to-be spoke about his wife's new diet during an appearance on Entertainment Tonight Canada on Tuesday, Feb. 19.
"Some women crave pickles or ice cream. My wife wants blood sausages. Sausage made of congealed blood," Buble said. "And I promise you, she hated it her whole life and now she said, 'Mike, I want some blood sausage,' and it's like, 'What the hell?'"
Despite the 25-year-old Argentinean actress' unusual food request, Buble said he's "more in love with my wife than I ever was." (The spouses revealed their baby news in a video message Jan. 24.)
As he preps for fatherhood, the 37-year-old singer is already beginning to adjust his career commitments so he can spend more time at home. "I used to go for a month and a half or a month and then I would take a week off. And now the schedule is three weeks on, two weeks off," Buble said. "I just don't want to look back and say, 'God, I should have been there more,' because I have a feeling that I'll never look back and say, 'Jeez, I should have worked more.'"
Buble married Lopilato in a small civil ceremony in Buenos Aires on March 31, 2011. Days later, the couple tied the knot in front of 300 friends and family in their second set of nuptials. The pair's third wedding ceremony took place in May 2011 at Vancouver's Pan Pacific Hotel.
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DMA 286 Special Topics in Video • V1-10 Cr.
Covers supplementary or self-supporting courses offered for college credit. Topics are announced in the class schedule. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Advanced Certificate in Video Production program and permission of the instructor. DMA 286 replaces VIDEO 296. Either DMA 286 or VIDEO 296 may be taken for credit, but not both.
After completing this class, students should be able to:
Special topics course. Outcomes will vary.


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Official app of singer/songwriter, Alyssa Bernal, a relatable girl with an unforgettable voice. Alyssa was your everyday American teenager, when her heartfelt, acoustic YouTube clips caught the eye of superstar producer Pharrell Williams. Fast forward a few years and an amazing journey later, Alyssa is settled in LA and writing the rest of her story. And this time, as an independent artist. "This business is tough. I was very young, and I'm not sure I was ready for that world although I'm very grateful for that chapter in my life. I've had to do a bit of soul searching, learning, and growing up. And now, here I am 4 years later. A whole new person." Alyssa is focused on reintroducing herself to her fans as an artist. As she has changed and grown as a person, so has her music. Currently, she has been writing and recording new music almost every day while of course staying true to her roots, her YouTube channel. "I've grown obsessed with hard drums, long synths, and haunting pop melodies. I'd say that's the formula for my new stuff. Then again, I don't know! I'm in such an experimental phase. But if I had to categorize it, I'd call it 'dark pop'." There are butterflies as Alyssa gears up for the release of her first single in years. Expectations may be high, but not as high as the support and demand from her "Lysseners" for new music. With her new creative control, Alyssa's ready to show her supporters a side of her that they've never seen before and write the rest of her story as her own recreated artist.
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