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Yes, it's as bad as we expected. This particular paragraph illustrates everything that is wrong with what Microsoft is doing: "Xbox One is designed so game publishers can enable you to give your disc-based games to your friends. There are no fees charged as part of these transfers. There are two requirements: you can only give them to people who have been on your friends list for at least 30 days and each game can only be given once." Yes, with this, Microsoft and publishers are destroying the ability to sell your games on Ebay or similar sites (because of the 30-day requirement). To make matters worse, the ability to sell or even loan games to your friends can be disabled by publishers. Asinine.

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VALHALLA, N.Y., -- New York Medical College and the Westchester Medical Center Health Network announced Wednesday a 12-year agreement that they hope will strengthen medical research and clinical care.
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Niagara Falls flows along the border between New York and Canada, and it's essentially consensus that Canada has the best panoramic view of the cascades. But where the Canadian side features fun houses, high-rise hotels, and sprawling commercial sites, Niagara Falls, New York, taps more into the rough-hewn wilderness of the area. You can sense the raw power of the rapids in the winter, when attractions close, ice bridges form over the Niagara River, and chills crystallize the surging mist onto the surfaces of trees and railings.
Situated right along the river, Four Points by Sheraton Niagara Falls is about 5 miles east of Niagara Falls State Park. After you explore the natural wonderland, the hotel is a comfortable home base: there's a fireplace in the lounge, and the heated pool is housed in a glass atrium overlooking the river.
Upon arrival at Four Points by Sheraton Niagara Falls, you'll get a bottle of wine and an appetizer at the onsite Bella Vista Ristorante. The Italian eatery's menu was crafted by celebrated chef Jason Chmiel and features hand-rolled pastas and housemade pizzas. All the wines hail from CK Mondavi Family Vineyards—a third-generation family winery that uses cold fermentation and sterile filtration techniques to create bold, crisp varietals. Feel free to enjoy a meal on a seasonal patio overlooking the Niagara River or in a casual dining room, where you can catch sports on large flat-screen TVs.
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Jillian Rose Reed Packs Teens For Jeans; Brett Davern Celebrates W Mag
Brett Davern steps out at the "30 Years Of Fashion And Film And The Next Generation Of Style Icons" with W Magazine and GUESS at Laurel Hardware on Tuesday night (January 8) in West Hollywood, Calif.
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Two of the issue's more unusual presentations of graphic literature include David and Petra Press' "Postcards from the Hecatomb," a labyrinth of narrative and complex imagery presented as a series of postcards and Billy Simms' "The Clown Genocide," a series of woodcuts represented well by its title. In another work, "My Life In Gadgets," Nathan Holic offers a healthy and scathing dose of media critique, while addressing the ways in which new technologies shape our identities.
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More insurers to join NH exchangeBy DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
June 02. 2014 8:52PM
CONCORD — New Hampshire residents shopping for health insurance at the Obamacare exchange on healthcare.gov will have at least five companies to choose from for coverage in 2015, compared to only one company this year.
Anthem was the sole company to offer health insurance packages on the exchange when it opened in October for coverage starting in January 2014.Since then, Minuteman Health and Harvard-Pilgrim Health Care, both based in Massachusetts, have indicated that they will be offering products for coverage starting in January 2015.
The state Insurance Department announced on Monday that two other companies plan to offer products to New Hampshire consumers — Maine Community Health Options and Assurant Health.Both announced plans to offer the broadest possible provider network. Anthem's narrow network has been criticized for excluding too many of the state's hospitals.Maine Community Health Options, established in 2011 in Lewiston, Maine, plans to introduce its products in four New Hampshire counties at first — Rockingham, Strafford, Carroll and Coos — with plans to expand later in the year.
Assurant Health, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., has been in business since 1892. The company was already licensed in 41 states, including New Hampshire, but did not offer plans on the New Hampshire exchange this year.
"New Hampshire residents have asked for options," said New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny. "In 2015, they will have five insurance companies to choose from, as well as a variety of plans and networks. It's all about choice — choice of carriers, choice of plans, and choice of provider networks. Choice is good for consumers and good for competition."
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Minuteman and Maine Community Health Options are both set up as co-operative insurance companies, meaning they will be owned by the policyholders.According to the Portland Press Herald, Maine Community Health Options has captured 80 percent of the Maine market for individual health insurance on the exchange, and has been lauded nationally as a success story by industry experts.
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BEAVER FALLS, Pa. (AP) - May 24, 2013 --Police in one western Pennsylvania community are searching for Bigfoot - but this quest has a better chance of success than most.
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Fabian tells the Beaver County Times she bought the statue online four years ago and named him Harry after the 1987 film, "Harry and the Hendersons," in which a family befriends a Sasquatch.
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Azienda Trasporti dell'Area Fiorentina (ATAF, the public transport authority in Florence, Italy) today launched its Mobile Ticketing service in partnership with Ericsson and mobile operators TIM, Vodafone, Wind and 3 Italia. The service allows customers of these operators to buy public transport tickets by text message, charging the cost to their mobile account.
Through this initiative, the Italian operators are strengthening their commitment to Mobile Pay, a platform launched in May 2011 to expand the use of mobile technology as a payment method.
ATAF is the first public transport administration in Italy to implement mobile payment services. The system is convenient for passengers because a mobile phone is all they need to make a payment, and the cost is charged to their existing mobile account, so no registration or credit system is necessary.
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In a study on preferred mobile services conducted by the Politecnico di Milano (Polytechnic University of Milan) in Italy, 65 percent of respondents said they were interested in mobile ticketing.
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Kevin Kolb is back and ready to return to his position as the Eagles starting quarterback.
Of course, there are some that believe Kolb isn't the man for that job after Michael Vick filled in for the last game and a half, and helped guide the Eagles to their first victory Sunday.
Kolb said he's fine with that thinking.
"I know I didn't play well that first half," Kolb said, referring to his first-half outing against Green Bay before he left with a concussion. "We didn't play well. Mike's done a great job. I'm really proud of him, the way he came in and ... led us to the victory yesterday. ... All I can do is handle what's on the field and that's me getting out there."
Eagles coach Andy Reid has steadfastly said that Kolb is still his No. 1 quarterback. Following the Eagles' 35-32 win over Detroit, Vick said that the team was still "Kevin's."
"I appreciate it, but I got to prove it, too," Kolb said. "That's the competitive nature of everybody. ... Andy's loyal to everybody and he's a trustworthy guy. He does what's right for the team always. And I appreciate the words that Mike has said."
At the time he said those exact words, Vick was walking outside the NovaCare Complex office where Kolb was giving an interview to a handful of reporters. (He didn't get out of his seat and give Vick a big hug, in case you were wondering.)
"Listen, I know I'm in the business where I can't please everybody," Reid said. "I know that. That's not what I'm here to do. I'm here to make he decision that it right for the team. I will tell you that I think it's a beautiful situation. I look at it a lot different than other people. I got two quarterbacks that can play."
Kolb said that the quarterback controversy that has sprung from the first two games and that has occupied the city and talk radio has not affected him nor the Eagles.
"It's different when you're in-house," Kolb said.
However, asked if the first game was about as bad as he could have expected, Kolb laughed and said, "It wasn't exactly how I planned it out and played it in my head. But I'm big believer in things happen for a reason. The thing in this sport is you go through highs and lows."
Kolb once again said that he had no problem with Vick coming in under center for the occasional change-of-pace play.
"I don't think Mike's packages affect us at all," Kolb said.
Kolb was cleared Friday to return to practice and will start Sunday at Jacksonville, Reid said. Kolb said he started feeling better on Wednesday. The Eagles decided, however, to hold the quarterback out.
Kolb said that "memory wasn't a big issue" after the concussion. He said that he didn't have a lot of symptoms of a concussion when he originally came out. But when he was inserted for the Eagles next offensive series he said he forgot the snap count a couple of times.
He said his teammates then told Eagles head trainer Rick Bukholder that something was wrong.
But what about before the concussion, what was wrong with the offense and his effectiveness?
"I could have made it a little easier. I wasn't going through my reads thoroughly," Kolb said. "We just made a lot of mistakes across the board."
Kolb said that he watched Sunday's game from his Cherry Hill home with his family.


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STOCKTON - A firm that worked on Stockton's $220 million Delta Water Supply Project wants to take Stockton to court, accusing the city of failing to pay for extra work that the city caused.
STOCKTON - A firm that worked on Stockton's $220 million Delta Water Supply Project wants to take Stockton to court, accusing the city of failing to pay for extra work that the city caused.
Preston Pipelines Inc. seeks $4.7 million from the city and Carollo Engineers, Inc., alleging, among other things, that both failed to say up front that the ground under a pump station Preston built might shift, causing more work and higher costs.
But dragging Stockton, a city in the throes of bankruptcy, into court isn't easy. Preston first has to get permission from the judge overseeing Stockton's Chapter 9 case.
When Stockton filed bankruptcy last year, most lawsuits were automatically frozen. This provision of bankruptcy law gives the cash-strapped party seeking protection some breathing space to focus on its ailing finances.
With one notable exception, litigants have had little success bringing their complaints against Stockton to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein asking him to lift the stay.
Preston officials want the judge to let them proceed in the San Joaquin County Superior Court, and their attorneys have scheduled a Sacramento hearing next month.
The potential lawsuit stems from the Delta Water Supply Project, the city's largest and most expensive undertaking that started pumping water from the San Joaquin River last summer to a purification plant 13 miles away and into the homes of Stockton residents for drinking.
The Record reported in October that Preston in internal communications told the city and Carollo that a pump station built atop a Delta levee had already sunk, putting the levee in "catastrophic danger."
The draft lawsuit lists seven points where Preston accuses the city and Carollo of breach of contract. Neither addressed the shifting ground or inaccurate and incomplete plans, Preston's draft suit says.
Based in Milpitas, Preston signed a $16 million contract with the city in 2009 to build the pump station. Preston seeks payment for extra work and money the city has withheld.
Ron Bianchini, Preston's chief operating officer, in a declaration filed with the bankruptcy court, made a preliminary argument to persuade the judge to allow the litigation to go ahead, despite the pending bankruptcy.
He notes that the city built the massive water project using restricted funds that are separate from the city's ailing general fund - the subject of Stockton's bankruptcy.
Judge Klein has largely denied requests to initiate new lawsuits or allow existing cases to play out.
Late last year, he told former Stockton Fire Chief Ron Hittle to wait until after the city came out of bankruptcy before proceeding with his suit accusing City Manager Bob Deis of using religious discrimination to fire him.
Salvador Benavides, 26, also was not allowed to pursue his lawsuit, blaming the city for the April 2011 motorcycle accident that left him permanently disabled and with crushing medical bills.
One exception was Ralph Lee White, a mayoral candidate last year who appeared in person before the judge, asking for approval to proceed on his lawsuit.
White accused the city and past-Mayor Ann Johnston of violating the charter's term limits. The judge lifted the stay for White on condition that he not collect attorneys fees without the bankruptcy court's approval.
White returned to San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Lesley Holland, who ruled against White. White said Wednesday that he took his case to the state's 3rd District Court of Appeal and has yet to receive a decision.
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For the sake of discussion, let's say that enzyme biochemistry is like football. You can represent an enzyme's reaction mechanism with diagrams that resemble the Xs and Os of a football play. For both football and enzymes, there's a series of steps that have to happen for things to work. A ball carrier has to get the handoff just in time to hit the hole, for instance, and the hole has to open when he gets there.
Within a living cell, the atoms of an enzyme are like superfast, supersmall players. Enzyme reactions often occur in timeframes approaching a nanosecond (a billionth of a second) and distances of an angstrom (a hundred-millionth of a centimeter) or less. And if something isn't working as it should, the result can be disease or death.
Researchers can't see enzyme reactions within a living cell, but with help from powerful supercomputing systems they can simulate them and see what happens in minute detail. They can make animations from the simulation and look at the reactions as if watching a movie. Using these sophisticated and powerful tools, PSC scientist Troy Wymore and University of Pittsburgh biochemist John Hempel have simulated reactions in an important enzyme family called ALDH (aldehyde dehydrogenase).
Genetic malfunctions in human ALDH lead to a variety of debilitating disorders. ALDHs also affect the cancer-fighting activity of one of the most-used chemotherapy drugs. In 2002, with better understanding of ALDH reactions as the goal, Wymore, Hempel and their PSC colleagues David Deerfield and Hugh Nicholas focused on a particular ALDH in humans, ALDH3. Their detailed quantum-mechanical simulations identified a novel mechanism for a step in the enzyme reaction that had been generally disregarded but which their work showed to be crucial.
The mechanism they found — a proton transfer from the "backbone" of the enzyme's structure — may be a key to understanding ALDH-related disease. "We think these diseases occur because something interrupts this proton transfer," says Wymore. "What we think we've done is give an atomic rationale for ALDH-related metabolic diseases. It opens the door to possible intervention strategies."
To further explore their hypothesis, in 2006 they used PSC's newest system, the Cray XT3, for more simulations. This time they focused on another ALDH, ALDH2, and the simulations showed an unexpected intermediate reaction step, one never seen experimentally and completely unexpected — to such an extent that the researchers had to pause and think about the validity of the ALDH2 model they used. It seemed like a back-to-the-drawing-board moment.
Not long after, however, Hempel learned of a laboratory study that showed the same never-before-observed reaction step. This not only confirmed their surprising simulation result, it also suggested they had flipped a page in ALDH chemistry to uncover a more complex and more complete description of ALDH's reaction mechanism.
"This shows," says Hempel, "that simulations of enzyme chemistry have to be taken seriously. They reveal details you can't otherwise see, and as a result we find that now we have to look closely at things nobody thought needed to be considered."
Zooming-In on the Active Site
This closeup of the active site of human ALDH2, shows the region of Wymore's QM/MM simulation in which the enzyme reaction was simulated quantum-mechanically, to capture the breaking and making of bonds as the reaction proceeds from products to reactants. The stick-figure closeup shows the NAD co-enzyme (upper right) and the aldehyde substrate (center), held in the active site by a carbon-sulfur bond and with hydrogen bonds (dotted lines) before this stage of the reaction begins. Colors represent atoms: N (dark blue), S (yellow), H (white), C (light blue), O (red).
At least 18 different versions of ALDH are known in plants and animals, and they all do essentially the same thing. They take a toxic molecule called an aldehyde, produced during metabolism, and change it (oxidize it) into a form (carboxylic acid) that can pass safely out of the cell and into the bloodstream. In humans, malfunctioning ALDH is involved in two known diseases, one of which, an inherited disorder called Sjögren-Larsson syndrome, leads to skin scaling and mental retardation.
ALDHs are also involved in cancer therapy. A widely used chemotherapy drug breaks down in the body to an aldehyde, and the normal action of ALDHs interferes with the drug's ability to destroy cancer cells, requiring higher doses with hard-to-tolerate side effects. In this context, researchers would like to be able to create drugs that reduce ALDH's ability to react with aldehydes, at least in the local area of a tumor under treatment.
In both cases, what's needed is deeper understanding of how ALDH works. With the promising clue of their work on ALDH3, a complicated proton-relay mechanism in the enzyme's "active site" — where the reactions occur, Wymore decided to look at ALDH2 for similar results. Again, as with ALDH3, he employed a powerful approach called quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) — a hybrid approach that tracks the movement of electrons and protons with quantum theory in the active site and uses a less computationally demanding method to keep track of the atoms in neighboring parts of the enzyme.
Wymore used a precise structure of ALDH2 obtained recently with x-ray crystallography. He worked closely with PSC scientist Shawn Brown, who modified software called DYNAMO to run QM/MM efficiently (with linear scaling) on the XT3. To take advantage of the XT3's parallelism, Brown divided the simulation — a total of 36,738 atoms — among 900 XT3 processors.
The new simulations included a "substrate" molecule — an aldehyde — and also included a co-enzyme, a molecule that sits in the active site and must be present for the reaction to occur. The co-enzyme, NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide), was expected to react with a hydrogen ion (hydride) to form NADH.
The calculation ran for 9,450 XT3 processor hours. The surprising result showed a sulfur atom from ALDH2 reacting with NAD to form NAD-S, a reaction that, as far as Wymore and Hempel knew, had never been seen experimentally. Their first thought was that the ALDH2 structure from x-ray crystallography may have been flawed for their purposes, slightly shifted from its living-cell configuration in which the reaction would proceed as expected.
It was at this point, however, that Hempel saw a manuscript about a related ALDH by Sergey Krupenko's group at the University of South Carolina Medical School. These scientists reported a laboratory study of an ALDH reaction that also produced NAD-S, as the XT3 simulations predicted.
Free Energy
This graphic is a "free-energy profile" that represents by vertical height the amount of energy required for a reaction to occur. (Colors correspond to energy, increasing blue-to-green-yellow-orange-red.) This profile shows results of Wymore's simulations of the proton transfer from ALDH's backbone (right side of plot) to an oxygen atom on the aldehyde substrate (left side of the plot), an intermediate step in the overall ALDH reaction mechanism. The front-to-back dimension corresponds to distance between a carbon atom in the aldehyde substrate and the active-site sulfur (in a cysteine amino-acid residue) to which it binds. The profile shows that the C-S bond becomes stronger (increased slope in the low energy valley) as the proton moves from the nitrogen to the oxygen atom.
Although this laboratory work showed that NAD-S forms only in small amounts, it confirmed what Hempel and Wymore had seen in simulations. And it forced new thinking about ALDH's enzyme mechanism. In what cases did NAD-S form instead of NADH?
Using PSC's Jonas system, Wymore mounted further simulations with the aim of answering this question. The researchers turned to Jonas because of its large memory. "We ran on Jonas," says Wymore says, "because we need 40-60 gigabytes of memory." They used 64 Jonas processors, and with data from many of these runs, four to five years of processor time, a new picture of the ALDH mechanism emerged.
"It looks like a more ordered mechanism," says Wymore, meaning that it requires a greater number of sequenced steps. "Until our work on this, the accepted thinking was that the initial reaction always happens with NAD in position to receive the hydride." Based on their new simulations, their working hypothesis is that a staged process must occur, starting with the proton transfer they found previously, for the reaction to form NADH.
NAD is located slightly away from the active site most of the time and when it sweeps in at the correct instant — after the proton transfer from the backbone stabilizes the aldehyde (which then binds with the sulfur atom) — it is converted to NADH. When this sequence of events plays out, the average ALDH enzyme does its job and converts a molecule of aldehyde into carboxylic acid.
Occasional missteps in the mechanism, however, block the proton transfer, and this accounts for formation of small amounts of NAD-S, as both the simulation and experiment show. "Basically," says Wymore, "it comes down to whether or not a proton moves half an angstrom." In rare cases, mutations in ALDHs block the proton transfer and render the enzyme useless. People with Sjögren-Larsson syndrome have structural changes (mutations) in their ALDH that disrupt this transfer entirely.
Along with the therapeutic gains that can result from deepened knowledge of the enzyme mechanism, the work by Wymore, Hempel and Brown contributes to enzyme modeling and simulation science. A goal of this research, supported by NIH's National Center for Research Resources, is to develop tools that other researchers can use to advance from simpler simulations to QM/MM studies that uncover the transient, hard-to-observe details of enzyme reactions. "It's really hard to set up these systems," says Wymore. "We're trying to develop tools to make these simulations more accurate and easier for other researchers to use. We're a long way from thorough understanding of how enzymes function."


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NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market is struggling for direction with just hours to go before sweeping tax increases and government spending cuts kick in.
Negotiators from the White House and congressional Republicans were trying to narrow their differences Monday to reach a budget compromise ahead of a midnight deadline.
The Dow Jones industrial average hopped between small gains and losses. Shortly before noon it was up two points at 12,940.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index was up three points at 1,406 and the Nasdaq composite was up 18 at 2,978.
The Dow Jones industrial average is set to close about 6 percent higher for the year, slightly better than last year's gain of 5.5 percent.


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When I was younger, I used my vivid imagination to put myself into all sorts of fantastical places, whether it be flying an X-Wing in Star Wars, or fighting off an invading army. No matter what I was doing, I was sure to make some great explosion sound affect, for which my parents and siblings still poke fun at me today.
I mention this because the explosion noises were the only way to describe what was happening at 1 Center Court in Portland Thursday - fwooooosh."
In one cataclysmic day, the franchise burned away the final links to the team which was supposed to take it to the promised land.
Of the key players which set the course for the franchise over the last five years - Brandon Roy, LaMarcus Aldridge, Greg Oden, Nate McMillan and Kevin Pritchard - only Aldridge remains.
Even former GM Rich Cho - who lasted less than a year after replacing Prichard - had his signature move erased when Gerald Wallace was traded to New Jersey.
Roy retired before the season, Oden was hardly ever on the court and both Pritchard and McMillan were fired.
Say what you want about Paul Allen as an owner, but the man apparently has learned how to quickly cauterize a wound. After leaving Maurice Cheeks - McMillan's predecessor - to twist in the wind for months before being canned, a mistake he later repeated with Pritchard, Allen was swift and decisive Thursday.
It was clear a change had to be made in the coaching staff. NBA coaches have become like major league baseball managers - they don't have much to do other than keeping order in the locker room and penciling in a lineup which makes sense. McMillan lost the ability to do either, and got the axe after one of the more embarrassing losses in recent franchise history.
Oden, Roy and Aldridge were supposed to become the Blazers' Big Three. Instead, by the time Oden was waived Thursday to clear room for a flood of new players, an era ended with a whimper.
Instead of dragging the process out over months, like things are prone to do with the Blazers, in a matter of hours two key players in the last two playoff runs were gone, the coach hired to turn around the franchise was gone and the center who was supposed to be the cornerstone of the team for years was waived.
I doubt any of the players the Blazers acquired in shipping out Wallace and Marcus Camby have any long-term impact for the franchise, but it was clear that Marcus Camby, Wallace and McMillan had worn out their welcome.
At least clear to everyone but the marketing department, who had been running season ticket renewal commercials for weeks featuring Camby and Wallace.
I would hate to be selling season tickets this morning, when the team is now in full-blown tank for the draft mode. It's a little hard to convince someone to invest thousands of dollars for a ticket package when they have no idea what the team will look like next year.
For some reason, I doubt Hasheem Thabeet will be getting a commercial. Point guard Raymond Felton wore out his welcome long before any of the others, but reportedly he was so bad no team was willing to trade anything to get him.
But regardless of whether he plays another minute this season, Blazer fans should picture him as a moneybag with a -$7 million sign on it - the amount that comes off when his contract expires at the end of the season.
Albeit an expiring contract who routinely passes the ball to the other team, but an expiring contract nonetheless.
Thursday's slash and burn was a start, but the real decisiveness will come as soon as the Blazers stumble across the finish line.
The Blazers will have somewhere around $25 million in cap space this summer. They will be heading into the offseason with an interim coach and interim general manager. Aldridge is unquestionably the center of any rebuild. The team must decide if Wesley Matthews and Nic Batum also should be part of that future. If they are, the team still needs to find a starting point guard and a center or power forward to work with Aldridge, and decide if they can be had on the free agent market or through the draft.
The Blazers will need people in place to answer those questions.
But first Allen must decide who is the right type of person to guide them. He's tried the lap dog in Steve Patterson, and independent thinkers in Kevin Pritchard and Rich Cho. All of them have fallen short of giving him an NBA title.
Back when the Blazers hired Pritchard and then went on to draft Roy, Aldridge and then Oden a year later, I wrote that those drafts would change the course of the franchise. And it did. The Blazers got back on track after years as the JailBlazers and gave fans a team to cheer for.
This offseason is just as important, with two first-round draft picks, tons of money to spend and a new coach and general manager to hire.
After watching the team try to splurge on high-priced, low-character free agents, then setting a new course of rebuilding through the draft, Blazer fans will have to hope whatever the new course the Blazers set after steering out of Thursday's wreckage is a smart one.
Those free agents who led to the JailBlazer era were supposed to take the team to the championship; so were Oden, Roy and Aldridge.
Blazer fans can only hope that this time, the team gets it right.
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PHOENIX, July 30 (UPI) -- An Arizona law forbidding doctors from aborting fetuses after 20 weeks will result in more babies with health issues to be carried to term, agencies say.
House Bill 2036 takes effect Thursday and although more babies with fatal fetal defects will be born and likely die within minutes or hours, more counseling will be offered to families experiencing the trauma of losing a child, The (Phoenix) Arizona Republic said Monday.
The law defines the gestational age of the fetus as beginning on the first day of the woman's last period, meaning abortions are effectively banned at about 18 weeks of the pregnancy, typically the same time most abnormalities are detected in ultrasound procedures. While eight other states ban abortions after 20 weeks, Arizona's is the only law that pushes the ban back to 18 weeks, the newspaper said.
Organizations that offer perinatal hospice services in Arizona are not funded by the bill, and fear they will be overwhelmed when the law takes effect.
"This law may have intended to do good, but it can really adversely affect non-profit organizations that desperately want to help people," said Joanne Cacciatore, chief executive officer of the MISS Foundation, adding one or two families facing a pregnancy with a fatal prognosis contact her group monthly.
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Activist investor Carl Icahn raised his stake in Chesapeake Energy to 7.65 percent, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and hammered its leadership in a letter accusing the company of "woefully inadequate" corporate governance.
"The basic function of a board is to oversee management and to hold it accountable," Icahn wrote in a letter to the Chesapeake board attached to the filing. "We believe the board has failed this duty in a dramatic fashion. Rather than act as a source of stability and provide assurance to shareholders, this board has led the company through a highly publicized spate of corporate governance breakdowns while amassing an astounding $16 billion funding gap, which we believe has contributed to the share-price decline of over 55% from the 52-week high."
Icahn argued adamantly for shareholder representation on the board and expressed disappointment that, after broaching that idea at a recent dinner meeting with Aubrey McClendon, Chesapeake's founder, CEO and chairman, the company subsequently refused to consider the idea until it had named a successor chairman.
He demanded that Chesapeake remove four directors from its board. He would have them replaced with two directors he selects and two directors selected by another large shareholder.
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The Trinity School Enrichment Center is a modest, 5,200 sq ft expansion to an independent K-5 school located in Menlo Park, California. The project provided the opportunity to create a stronger entry to and identity for the school. The addition, which includes music, science and arts classrooms as well as administrative offices, was sited to establish a new heart for the campus and to bring definition to the previously unclear entry experience.
Beyond providing much-desired program space, the project provides two covered terraces that knit the addition into the existing campus. The terraces and a monumental stair create a new formal gathering space for the community of students and teachers that spend their days on the campus. Between classes and during lunch the terraces and the stair are also used as places for casual gathering. Additionally, the main stair greatly improves the circulation between the two levels of the school and provides direct access to the coveted lush lower yard and play areas.
The new and remarkably flexible classrooms offer glazing and natural light from three sides and provide panoramic views of the hilly and picturesque landscape surrounding the school. Overhangs and building orientation minimise solar gains while optimising the benefits of daylighting, and the abundance of controlled natural light contributes to a comfortable and healthy learning environment for the students. Other green design elements include natural cooling through cross ventilation and high thermal mass construction, and radiant floor heating, which efficiently improves the indoor comfort and air quality. The project was completed in August 2008.
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Barbara Walters ended months of rumors and speculation this morning with her announcement that, after 17 appearances on ABC's "The View," eight as a guest co-host, Jenny McCarthy will join the popular talk show as a co-host this fall. The comedian/actress/host and best-selling author officially starts on Monday, Sept. 9 (11 a.m.), the kick-off to season 17.
"We are delighted that Jenny will be joining us as a permanent co-host on 'The View' starting in September. Jenny brings us intelligence as well as warmth and humor. She can be serious and outrageous. She has connected with our audience and offers a fresh point of view. Jenny will be a great addition to the show as we usher in an exciting new chapter for 'The View,'" Walters said.
"I'm beyond thrilled to be joining Barbara and the other amazing women at the table. I'd like to thank ABC for this great opportunity. I'd also like to give a big thank you to VH1 for their support and for allowing me to fulfill this lifelong dream. I look forward to helping make hot topics a little bit hotter, and showing my mom that my interrupting skills have finally paid off," McCarthy said.
This year, McCarthy brought her over-the-top comedic sensibilities to VH1 with her late-night talk show, "The Jenny McCarthy Show." She writes a blog and advice column, "Ask Jenny," for her hometown paper, the Chicago Sun-Times, answering reader questions about love, relationships, single parenting and fitness. Playing recurring guest roles on such major network television shows as "Two and a Half Men," "Just Shoot Me," and "The Drew Carey Show," she continues to be a sought-after comedic actress. In December 2009, she reprised her starring role in "Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe," a sequel to ABC Family's successful holiday movie. She appeared on "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest," reporting live from Times Square in 2011 and 2012.
"The View," a live, one-hour daily talk show from ABC, features Daytime Emmy Award-winning hosts Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and Sherri Shepherd.


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HBC Publications
Assessing President Obama's Fiscal Record
Early in his Administration, President Obama promised to cut the deficit in half. While he clearly did not keep that promise, he has gone on to assert that his budget achieves $4 trillion in deficit reduction, and recently he claimed, "Since I've been President, Federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in 60 years." Many were left wondering how this could be possible with President Obama presiding over unprecedented trillion-dollar deficits for four consecutive years, adding over $5 trillion in new debt since his inauguration, and piling on a slew of new government initiatives including a near-trillion dollar stimulus and a massive new healthcare entitlement. Indeed, a closer look at the evidence shows the President's claim of spending restraint does not hold up against the facts, and his overall fiscal record doesn't fare any better.
The President and his allies have offered many excuses for why his fiscal record has been a disappointment. Some of the most prominent are "inheriting a trillion dollar deficit," experiencing a "deeper recession than anyone anticipated," and disagreement about who was responsible for actions taken in fiscal 2009 – a transition year when both Presidents Bush and Obama held office.
This paper examines the President's fiscal record from various perspectives in comparison to his numerous assertions of fiscal responsibility. The analysis addresses both the President's actual fiscal record and his budget proposals going forward. Additional context is provided by exploring the President's fiscal record under unified Democratic control of government during 2009-2010 and what happened afterward under divided government with a Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
As will be made clear throughout, the President's fiscal record has been a failure regardless of the yardstick chosen to measure it. His assertions to the contrary are misleading at best, and his budget proposals for the future would perpetuate and aggravate an already dangerous fiscal situation.
Key Points:
• Spending surged 18% in 2009 reaching 25% of GDP – the highest since World War II
• Deficits exceeded $1 trillion in each of the four years of the President's term
• Gross debt has increased over $5 trillion since the President was inaugurated
• Even adjusting for a weak economy and Bush-era policies, President Obama has signed legislation increasing deficits by $1.6 trillion over his term
• Republicans in the 112th Congress have stopped the spending spree and have forced the President to accept over $2.3 trillion in future deficit reduction
Read the full report HERE


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A typical meal at the breast would be 2 or 3 oz, maybe 4, maybe 1 - depending on the feeding. But definitely not 6 oz! Keep in mind that the pattern of meals for breastfeeding is very different from formula feeding. Babies have a tendency to chug away at the bottle, so a formula-fed baby will often evolve into a pattern of larger, less frequent meals. Whereas a breastfed baby at the breast will have frequent, small meals; and you want to mimic that with the bottle as well to stay on track. Just because baby WILL drink a big bottle, does not mean she NEEDS a big bottle.
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BOSTON – There's been so much focus on Jordan Caron's ability to play a third-line energy role with last winter's Canadian World Junior team – and potentially with this season's Bruins squad – that it's easy to forget he's a guy who produced 53 points in 43 games last season in the QMJHL.
Well, the 2009 25th overall draft pick sent everyone in TD Garden a reminder that there's a lot of skill still in his 6-foot-3, 204-pound frame that might make him an even more dynamic threat to challenge for an NHL job this fall with a hat trick in Boston's 5-2 rookie game win over the New York Islanders.
"For sure, I think everybody wishes it would happen to them," Caron said scoring his first hat trick since Jan. 6, 2009 with Rimouski. "It's a dream come true and even though it's just a rookie game, it's an unbelievable feeling."
Caron, who averaged better than a point per game over the last two seasons, started the scoring on the night by redirecting a Matt Delahey shot into the back of the net 1:01 into the second period. In the third period he buried a Tyler Seguin seam pass, and then later in the last stanza won a race to the puck and flipped in an empty-netter to spark the rainstorm of hats.
As the team that finished last in goals scored last season, the Bruins were searching for offense all summer. They believe they've found the necessary additions with the trade for Nathan Horton and the drafting of Seguin. But if players like Michael Ryder and Blake Wheeler don't hit their strides, or Marco Sturm can't fully recover from knee surgery, the club will need even more firepower from others.
While one rookie game does not a training camp or first NHL season make, Caron can at least take solace in his making an early statement that he truly could be a difference-maker in whatever role Boston uses him. His ability to protect the puck just might be ahead of the likes of Wheeler and Milan Lucic at similar stages in their careers, and if he can reproduce the nose for the net he showed against the Isles during games against NHL vets, he might be able to win over head coach Claude Julien's heart.
Caron is ready to do whatever it takes to make the next step.
"I think all my juniors I was more of an offensive player. But I think at the World Juniors, we had so many talented players out there, I think it was just normal for me to go in a third-line role and I was happy to do it for the team," he said. "I think that's just something that was new for me when I went there and that was a good experience to play that kind of role. Now I know I can play an offensive role or a more energy role."
There's nothing wrong with combining both roles. That not only would earn him an NHL career, but also plenty of NHL cash. When it was pointed out to Caron that first-line play is where the money is, he just smiled and answered the only way a humble rookie can – by just saying 'we'll see.'
And we'll be seeing plenty more of Caron as training camp 2010 unfolds.


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So what are you going to do with those iTunes gift cards you got in your Christmas stocking this past week?
If you have some young Disney fans with iOS devices, there were a lot of fun Disney apps for kids released this year. And they will continue to entertain for the rest of the winter break from school and longer into 2014, so now's the perfect time to download a few for the young Disney fans on your sync list.
Here's a look at some.
Just this month, Disney Publishing released a fun iOS app that will help youngsters draw objects from the world of Mickey Mouse. "Mickey Mash-Up" lets kids follow along with Disney's main mouse in an adventure across the map. Along the...


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Matthew David McConaughey ( /məˈkɒnəheɪ/; born November 4, 1969) is an American actor.
After a series of minor roles in the early 1990s, McConaughey gained notice for his breakout role in Dazed and Confused (1993). He then appeared in films such as A Time to Kill, Contact, U-571, Tiptoes, Sahara, and We Are Marshall. McConaughey is best known more recently for his performances as a leading man in the romantic comedies The Wedding Planner, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Failure to Launch, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and Fool's Gold.
McConaughey, the youngest of three boys, was born in Uvalde, Texas, the son of Mary Kathleen "Kay" (née McCabe), a kindergarten teacher, and James Donald McConaughey, a gas-station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business and once played football for the Green Bay Packers. McConaughey has Irish ancestry and had a Methodist upbringing. McConaughey's mother and late father divorced and re-married each other several times.


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Azerbaijan Official News Agency, August 14-2008
Adnan Oktar: The truth is that Turkey is the greatest state in the world. I am not exaggerating, it is the greatest state. This is how it will be; Turkey will join the European Union as the leader of the Turkish-Islamic Union. It will then nourish and strengthen all of Europe. Russia will be able to stand up straight, Armenia and Israel will be able to relax and the Palestinian question will be resolved. In other words, Turkey is a state that can save the whole world. Turkey is like an insurance policy for the whole world. It is a vital state. The whole world will begin to see that in 10-20 years, and Turkey will make the whole world brothers. This is the law of Allah, His destiny, insha'Allah.
Azernews, October 23-2008
Adnan Oktar: Turkey will be a great Turkey. I underline that. I am not 99% certain but 100%. It will be the leader of the Turkish-Islamic world. The whole world will see this in the next 10-20 years. I am here and you are here and everyone is here, and by Allah's leave this is completely clear. There is no other alternative. This is the destiny of mankind, insha'Allah. This is how it will be... Therefore, Turkey will be the leader of Muslims and Christians and Jews, insha'Allah. It is and will be the leader. And it will bring them all peace and justice. Turkey is in effect doing that now. It is doing it in Bosnia, and Iraq, and Afghanistan and everywhere. The Turkish Army is met with rejoicing wherever it goes. But the scope of this will be further expanded. Because our nation are very affectionate and delight in love and friendship. They feed others rather than eat themselves, and give them water rather than drinking themselves. If they have a good bed they give it to their guests rather than seeking it for themselves.
"There can be no peace in the world without peace with Turkey"President Gül and Serbian President Boris Tadiich visited Petrovaradin Castle and the Peace Chapel, where the Karlofcha Treaty was signed. Gül expressed his determination to improve Turkey's relations with Serbia and said, "I believe that we will make great achievements within a friendship and partnership that will be a model for all." Tadich said, "Turkey is a great state. There can be no peace anywhere in the world without peace with Turkey."


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And to think a few short months ago, Darren McFadden was a potential draft bust and Richard Seymour was an example of Bill Belichick picking the pocket of Al Davis.
Raiders coach Tom Cable has gone to great lengths to preach the team aspect, the "brotherhood" forged in training camp and a willingness of the 53-man roster to scratch, claw and fight.
Based on the Raiders 5-4 record at the bye, who is to doubt him?
But none of those qualities would mean a lot if McFadden hadn't energized the offense and Seymour wasn't the physical and emotional lynch pin of the defense.
Cable is fond of saying the Raiders always knew what they had in McFadden and that health was the lone issue with his performance. He immediately shot down any and all off-season and draft time trade rumors.
You never heard McFadden called a bust in this space, but I've openly wondered about whether his running style was a fit for the NFL and if maybe he was strictly a perimeter guy and a runner-receiver.
All the talk about McFadden's skinny legs and inability to break tackles seems ridiculous every time he lowers his shoulder and drives into a defender to pick up an extra yard or three and finish off a run.
In one season, McFadden has gone from the guy who goes down too easy to their best and most explosive running back since Bo Jackson.
With the 49ers having a week to prepare and fairly secure in the knowledge that McFadden wouldn't be in the lineup, Hue Jackson didn't have nearly the versatility at his disposal as the Raiders gained 179 yards of total offense in a 17-9 defeat at Candlestick Park.
With McFadden back against Denver . . . you know the story.
The most important thing about the Raiders offense over the last seven games isn't whether Jason Campbell or Bruce Gradkowski is at quarterback or who made the decision, it's keeping McFadden upright and explosive.
As for Seymour, his impact on the psyche of the team is illustrated in this CNN-SI story by Jim Trotter. Cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha recounted a conversation he had with Seymour at Rangers-Giants World Series game that spoke volumes.
Seymour is a big reason Matt Shaughnessy is coming into his own and learning how to be a terrific defensive end. Seymour has caused Tommy Kelly to step his game up inside, a player who is finally playing up to contract he signed following the 2007 season. Lamarr Houston has played through some rough patches and is holding the edge of late, with plenty of help from his own skill and line coach Mike Waufle, but also because of Seymour's presence.
But make no mistake, Seymour is doing more than being a leader. He's been absolutely dominant inside and at his present pace could wind up with at least a third more tackles than he's ever had and something approaching 10 sacks.
The Raiders haven't had this kind of play from an individual on the defensive line since Howie Long, and if the Raiders continue to play as they have, Seymour is a viable Defensive Player of the Year candidate.
The better the Raiders play, the lower the first-round pick New England gets in return in 2011. New England is still a good team, they're 6-2 and probably playoff bound, but that draft pick didn't co much to help them stop Peyton Hills (29 carries, 184 yards) in a 34-14 loss to Cleveland last week.
Asked earlier this week if Davis was pleased with the way things were going, Seymour laughed and said, "Oh yean, I think he (whipped) the Patriots on that trade."


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December 25, 2012
Merry Christmas!
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Hi sorry you have sickies. when my children were young there were lot of allergies and tonsillitis and it did not stay away from Christmas and birthdays. So, we developed heart days since the celebrations are things of the heart.That way we stillReplyDelete
could take pix etc for the visual memories. Interestingly this was a great preparation for his having a broken family that we have to be content with having heart days since the other parent likes to throw wrenches in plans.
I hope the New Year will bring some relief to your 24/7 sickness.
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Salmon, Brown say they will apply for Durfee job; Kogler says he will not; Marcia Brady is unstable in Brady Bunch first season
If all goes smoothly, Durfee could have its next football coach in place by late next month.
The job is being posted online – including on the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association website. From there, Principal Marshall said he and Victor Pereira, Director of Athletics, will handle the interviews in hopes of sending a recommendation or recommendations to Supt. of Schools Meg Mayo-Brown the week before spring vacation week.
Mayo-Brown has the final say.
"A couple interested people have already reached out to us," Marshall said, adding he cannot disclose who they are.
Durfee football has not won a game since 2011 and is riding a 27-game losing streak. Lajhon Jones, coach for the last three years, resigned earlier this month, citing a desire to be able to watch his young son play football at LaSalle Academy in Providence.
Asked why Durfee football struggles so much, Marshall said there is no one, simple answer. He said he'd love to see a middle school football program with the three city schools playing each other and teams from other communities. But establishing such a program is no simple task, especially when money is tight. "Football is an incredibly expensive sport," he said. "You might have to decide do I keep a math teacher or fund an eighth-grade football team. Of course, I'd keep the math teacher."
Durfee alumni Nick Salmon, Taylor Brown, Justin Kogler, and former Durfee head coach Steve Winarski are names that have inevitably surface in next-coach speculation circles.
A former longtime assistant coach at New Bedford High where he teaches social sciences, Salmon said he plans to apply. He has applied before. Salmon said he considers it extremely important for the program's head football coach to be working in the building, so the Fall River resident would need a teaching job, with some security. "I've got a nice position in New Bedford," he said.
Salmon said he thinks hiring a Fall River guy with a passion for Durfee football could help the program. He said being Durfee head football coach "is a big job, an important job."
A vice-principal at Kuss Middle School , Brown, 31, said he, too, will pursue the job. "It's always been my goal to be head coach at Durfee High School," he said. "I've worked with all the kids. They want to win. They're hungry and I'm hungry."
Brown last fall was an assistant at Bishop Connolly. The year before, he was an assistant coach at Portsmouth High School.
The head coach at Bishop Connolly High School and a past applicant for the Durfee job, Kogler said he will not be applying.
"I'm happy in my current situation," he said. "I have two young kids at home. I'm comfortable at this point."
Attempts to reach Winarski were unsuccessful.
----- It's always (yes, always) interesting to check out recently completed high school tournaments and see how some of the teams which vanquished our local teams ended up doing.
Cardinal Spellman boys' basketball (scrapped to beat Westport in the Division 3 South boys' hoop final) won the whole shebang. Spurred by their cool student fans, the Cardinals downed Watertown 51-44 in overtime in the state semis at the Garden and then beat Tyngsboro 61-51 at the state final.
St. Clement boys' basketball (beat Bishop Connolly in state Division 4 semifinals) also rules in the Bay State. The Anchormen beat Quaboag 45-42 in the state final.
Hanover hockey (beat Bishop Stang in Division 3 South final). Hanover beat Wayland 3-0 in the state semifinals before losing to Shrewsbury 7-1 in the state final.
Needham boys' basketball (beat Durfee in first round Division 1 South). Needham promptly lost to Newton North in the quarterfinals.
Dedham boys' basketball (beat Case in double overtime in Division 3 South first round). Dedham was next drubbed 68-39 by Spellman in the quarters.
Needham girls' basketball (beat Durfee in first round Division 1 South). Needham promptly lost to eventual South finalist Newton North 66-41 in the quarterfinals.
West Bridgewater girls' basketball (beat Westport by seven in Division 4 first round). The Wildcats of WB went to the South final before losing to Greater New Bedford by one point in overtime.
Old friend Mike O'Brien took his Coyle & Cassidy girls' basketball team to the Division 3 South final where it lost to Archbishop Williams.
And the Braintree High girls' basketball team, whose senior center Molly Reagan is the daughter of the late Pat Reagan (Durfee baseball), won the state Division 1 championship.
----- Looking to the future, among the athletes to watch in the spring season is Case High's 6-foot-6 righthanded pitcher Zach Correll. He is definitely on the pro scouts' radar.
----- As time goes on, I come to like and appreciate Joe Frazier more and more and resent Muhammad Ali for the nasty, very public verbal abuse he fired at Smokin' Joe.
----- Watching The Brady Bunch on DVD continues to be a big hit at chez Sullivan. Come to realize how volcanic Marcia was in that first season.
"These braces make me ugly!"
"You stole my diary!"
"You took my campaign notes."
And they say Jan was unstable.
----- Higgins!
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