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SOUTH BEND, Ind. – When the game clock ticked to zero at Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday, all thoughts turned to USC.
Avoid a clunker next weekend in Los Angeles against the scuffling Trojans, who have lost three of their last four games, and the Irish believed everything else – namely, a spot in the BCS Championship game – would work itself out.
Turns out they only needed to wait hours, not days, to be in position to win a national title. Notre Dame entered Saturday sitting at No. 3 in the BCS standings behind Kansas State and Oregon, and the Irish kept their title hopes alive by delivering a 38-0 beatdown against Wake Forest.
But thanks to No. 1 Kansas State's 52-24 loss at Baylor and No. 2 Oregon's 17-14 overtime loss at home to Stanford, the Irish control their fate. Beat USC and a spot in the BCS Championship game is theirs.
"We have one game left on our schedule," Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said. "Our guys know what's at stake. This is about an undefeated season. They cannot do anything but beat USC.
"I voted them No. 1 in the country for a reason because I think they're the best team in the country, and I think they played like that tonight."
The Irish, 11-0 for the first time since 1989, embraced the seasonlong mantra of staying focused and not looking ahead. That philosophy is no longer a concern with just one regular-season game remaining. It's fitting that rival USC is Notre Dame's final obstacle blocking them from perfection – and their first shot at a national title in 24 years. Notre Dame's path to the national title received a boost with the report that USC quarterback Matt Barkley suffered a separated shoulder in Saturday's loss to UCLA, making his status for the rivalry game uncertain.
"There is no next week," senior linebacker Manti Te'o said. "It's USC. There is no game after that. We take care of USC, we'll be fine."
The Irish overwhelmed the Demon Deacons' defense, amassing 584 total yards of offense with 23 first downs. A balanced attack of sophomore quarterback Everett Golson (career-high 346 passing yards) and senior running back Cierre Wood (156 rushing yards on 11 carries) ignited Notre Dame's offense. By the end of the first quarter, the Irish led Wake Forest 21-0. It was the fastest Notre Dame scored three touchdowns in a game since 2008 against Michigan.
Despite the undefeated record and notable wins against Michigan, Stanford and at Oklahoma, there was a perception that the Irish may have failed to earn any style points on the way to tallying 11 wins. They've won five of their games by seven points or less, including two in overtime. But that doesn't matter anymore.
"Where the [heck] do style points come from? I hate that," defensive lineman Louis Nix III said. "I don't believe in style points. I believe in winning and that's what you do in playing football. You don't need style points. I don't think it's good to run up the score on teams and do all that stuff."
Led by a defense that is considered one of the best in the country – they're allowing 10.1 points per game – a dominating performance on both sides of the ball Saturday delivered a reminder that the Irish aren't a one-trick pony.
"We knew coming in we were going to have issues with their defense," Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe said. "They might be the best defensive football team in the country."
• Meghan Montemurro is a sports reporter for Shaw Media. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that Northwestern football players could unionize. Does that mean some players will be able to organize and get better health care and academic support? Or does it spell the end of college sports as we know it? The AP takes a look at all sides of the issue.
Question: Who came up with the idea of unionizing football players at Northwestern and why?
Answer: Outgoing senior quarterback Kain Colter began the process by helping form the College Athletes Players Association, which is also affiliated with the National College Players Association, an advocacy group in California. Colter, who wanted to go into medicine but couldn't because of the time he spent playing football, said the main thing he wanted was to make sure player medical needs were met, even after graduation.
FILE - In this Saturday, Oct 6, 2012, file photo, the Northwestern football team heads to the locker room after warming up before an NCAA college football game against Penn State in State College, Pa. A ruling Wednesday, March 26, 2014, that the Northwestern football team can bargain with the school as employees represented by a union may not by itself change the way amateur sports operate. But it figures to put more pressure on the NCAA and the major conferences to give something back to the players to justify the billions of dollars the players bring in _ and never see. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
"If we are making sacrifices like we are, we should have these basic protections taken care of," Colter told ESPN. "With the sacrifices we make athletically, medically and with our bodies, we need to be taken care of."
The football players are backed by the United Steelworkers, which provided lawyers and other help in seeking the NLRB ruling.
Q: What does winning this decision mean? Will Northwestern players soon be walking a picket line?
A: No, and there's a chance they may not end up unionized at all in the end. The decision by the regional NLRB director is an important one for the athletes to have a chance to move forward, but Northwestern says it will appeal to the full NLRB in Washington, D.C., and there is no timeline on how long a decision from the board would take to come down.
"This is not a final board decision," said NLRB spokesman Gregory King. It's a regional director's decision."
Q: Who does this affect?
A: Northwestern, for now, though there surely will be copycat efforts at other private schools should the full NLRB uphold the ruling that the players can organize as a union. The NLRB does not govern labor matters at public institutions, but it's hard to imagine there wouldn't be wholesale changes at those schools, too, should the union be successful in bargaining for working conditions at Northwestern.
Q: Does this mean college players will be paid?
A: No, though there are other developments in various lawsuits that might in the near future lead to increased stipends for college athletes. Former UCLA basketball star Ed O'Bannon's antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA is due to go to trial on June 9 in California, and a win could change the way college athletics are governed. An effort by NCAA president Mark Emmert to add $2,000 stipends to the scholarships of athletes failed a few years ago because of opposition by smaller schools, but experts say they believe players in the major conferences will in the near future be paid beyond room and board.
Q: If they're not getting paid, what do the players want?
A: A seat at the table when it comes to decisions that might affect their health and future. Players say they want more research into concussions and other traumatic injuries, and reasonable limits on hits taken in practice. They also want insurance to cover medical costs, and guarantees that they will be covered for medical issues that might arise later from their days playing football.
"The key issue at Northwestern is negotiating better protections against concussions and improving medical coverage following graduation," said United Steelworkers president Leo W. Gerard.
Q: What does this mean for the future of the NCAA?
A: Nothing at the moment, though anything that interferes with the organization's model for so-called amateurism in college sports may eventually force some major changes in the way big time college sports are operated. Already there is talk in the major conferences on restructuring the NCAA and giving athletes a larger voice in their affairs. Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said last month that a victory by the players would mean the NCAA would likely seek "guidance from Congress" on how college athletics should be governed.
Combined with the antitrust lawsuits, there seems to be a gathering momentum for change that could alter the college sports landscape.
"This is a colossal victory for student athletes coming on the heels of their recent victories," said Marc Edelman, an associate professor of law at City University of New York who specializes in sports and antitrust law. "It seems not only the tide of public sentiment but also the tide of legal rulings has finally turned in the direction of college athletes and against the NCAA."
Q: How much money are we talking about?
A: Tons. Big-time college programs take in more than $100 million a year from basketball and football, and the big conferences are awash in cash from both television contracts and their own networks. The NCAA has a 14-year, $10.8 billion contract for the basketball tournament, while ESPN and the major conferences signed a 12-year deal for a new college football playoff package that is reportedly worth $7.2 billion. Northwestern's football team generated $30.1 million in revenue last year, with $21.7 million in expenses, and those numbers pale in comparison in its own conference with powerhouses like Michigan and Ohio State.
FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2014, file photo, Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter, right, speaks while College Athletes Players Association President Ramogi Huma listens during a news conference in Chicago. In a Wednesday, March 26, 2014, landmark ruling, a federal agency has given football players at Northwestern University the green light to unionize. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty, File)
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There were rom-coms long before the term became popular. For example, Ferenc Molnar's 1910 play, "The Guardsman," may be considered a farce, but it's chock full of romance and comedy.
"It's the story of a great actor in the vein of an Olivier or Peter O'Toole type, and he's married for the first time, but after six months, he's convinced his wife is looking elsewhere so he decides to test her with the belief that he is a good enough actor he can dress up as another man and seduce her," said Freddy Douglas, the leading man in "The Guardsman," which opens at A Noise Within in Pasadena on Saturday.
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Douglas is a resident artist with A Noise Within and has been in many of its shows, including "The Beaux's Stratagem," "The Doctor's Dilemma" and "Hamlet." He has also worked with several other theaters and in television and film. He sees his character, The Actor, in "The Guardsman" as gifted, yet insecure.
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"It's an enormous role. I have played Hamlet and I think this might actually be a bigger role. He really doesn't leave the stage very often. He's either one character or the other," Douglas said.
"The Guardsman" was written in Hungarian and the performance at A Noise Within is in English.
Douglas grew up in London, England, and will have an Austrian accent when he is playing The Guardsman, but his own when he is The Actor.
"The golden age of theater was when actors were larger than life, and in terms of accents, it would be closer to British than American," Douglas said.
Douglas was 15 when he did his first play, as the Artful Dodger in "Oliver."
"That was my persona in school, so there wasn't much acting required," Douglas said.
He went on to attend drama school and has been an actor since.
Douglas has lived in the United States nine years and has settled with his wife in Silver Lake. The two have a 4-year-old son and a baby daughter. Douglas spends much of his free time as a full-time father, changing diapers and missing sleep.
"Someone said to me that you've got to savor every minute because it goes so quickly, and I said, 'this have been the longest four years of my life, what are you talking about?' It's true," Douglas said. "Most of the time, you're not sleeping, so it makes for very long days."
But his nights are with — and as — "The Guardsman."


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"The variety of applications for conductive inks and printed electronics grew," said Paul Lindquist, business development manager, Methode Electronics, Inc. "I don't know if the actual volume of ink consumed grew due to the loss of government incentives for the photovoltaic industry, which shrunk considerably. Since that was one of the largest consumer of screen printed conductive silver, the loss of that volume may have offset gains in other areas."
Dr. Ian Clark, sales and marketing director, Intrinsiq Materials Ltd., noted that the markets for conductive inks and printed electronics continued to grow during the past year, particularly in screenprinting, with photovoltaics (PV) and RFID being particularly strong opportunities.
NANOGAP-USA is a supplier of conductive particle and nanofiber dispersions to conductive ink companies. Darren Bianchi, president of NANOGAP-USA, said he is seeing growth in the market.
"We are seeing growing interest in our products from ink manufacturers as well as increased commercial uptake, indicating that the market is continuing to grow," Mr. Bianchi said.
"One of our target applications for printed electronics, especially for conductive inks, is touch sensors and their electrodes," said Shunsuke Nomura, Printed Electronics Department, ToyoChem. "Handset applications with touch sensors will keep growing globally to the extent of 15% to 20% annually. Other applications such as RFID and ePaper will also keep growing, so we believe the market will grow steadily."
Expectations for the Future
With products heading into production and new applications emerging, printed electronics is making gains in the market. That is good news indeed for conductive ink manufacturers.
"It is clear that the evolution of electronics devices will continue to demand higher performance and lower costs," Mr. Bjorlin said. "Solutions that include material that can be processed additively and at high speed will continue to be in demand. In addition, there will be a rapid merge of display, communications and security technology in emerging applications such as e-packaging that will drive demand for new and innovative material solutions."
Mr. Gordon said that this is an exciting time for printed electronics.
"We expect continued growth within the newer applications, plus we foresee ongoing design innovations that will bring new cost effective solutions to several markets, including biomedical, automotive and packaging," Mr. Gordon added.
"We see the market continuing to grow," Mr. Bianchi said. "We are a technology-driven company, and we anticipate capitalizing on further new opportunities with new and improved products."
"Printed electronics is the production method that will increasingly benefit environmental and economic dimensions," Mr. Nomura said. "We believe printed electronics will be used in several types of applications."
Mr. Farnsworth said that NovaCentrix is very optimistic about the growth of the market.
"Increasingly we are working with end users who have specific programs with finding and release targets," Mr. Farnsworth said. "Of course the number of exploratory users is also growing. These are signs of a healthy early-term opportunity and are typical of the classic S-curve for the adoption of emerging technologies.
"At NovaCentrix we are committed to continuing to drive the technologies forward, simultaneously supporting the exploratory users as well as the more savvy, experienced users who are already quite knowledgeable in the space and are already in production of printed electronics-based devices," Mr. Farnsworth added.
"Printed electronics will continue to make gains in the market in the niches where the process offers function or value," Mr. Lindquist said. "It will probably never be the largest manufacturing process utilized for electronics, but with increased developments and economies of scale, it will continue to grow as a production method."
"If you are asking for a 'State of the Union' type answer, I can only reply that PE is alive and well and getting healthier every year," Mr. Kaiserman concluded. "Those that have the funding, like in any industry, should be able to weather the challenges and long lead times to revenue. It's not easy pioneering new ground, but all of us in the PE field are changing the world for decades to come."
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A gunman carrying a rifle opened fire and killed a student at Reynolds High School on Tuesday, and Troutdale police confirmed the gunman himself is also dead.
Multiple students told FOX 12 they heard at least two gunshots near the main gym around 8 a.m.
The victim was identified by a family spokesman as Emilio Hoffman. Police then confirmed that the 14-year-old freshman was the shooting victim.
Troutdale Police Chief Scott Anderson said he spoke to the boy's parents.
"I can tell you how devastated they are by this news," Anderson said. "They want you to know Emilio was a great kid and loved by all."
Officials said a teacher, who students and neighbors identified as P.E. teacher Todd Rispler, was grazed by a bullet. He was treated at the scene.
"Despite being injured, he made his way to the office and started the school lockdown procedure," Anderson said of Rispler.
The shooter has not been identified by police and his cause of death has not been revealed. Police said Emilio's body was found in the boys locker room, while the shooter's body was found in a different restroom.
Motive unknown
Law enforcement agencies first responded to reports of an active shooter at the school at 8:07 a.m., and when they arrived, they evacuated the school of all students and staff.
The situation was then "stabilized" and police confirmed the shooter had died. Police said two school resource officers and a tactical team "brought this to a conclusion." Despite the all clear, a school lockdown persisted for hours afterward.
There's no word yet on the gunman's motive, and police haven't said whether he is a student at the school, despite deputies tentatively identifying him. Investigators believe he entered the building that house's the school's gymnasium, which is a detached building from the school.
"This is a tragic day, one I hoped that would never, ever be part of my experience," said Superintendent Linda Florence.
Troutdale Mayor Doug Daoust said it has been "a very unsettling day for our city."
"I really want to say that I'm very impressed with how the police handled this whole operation," he said. "My heart goes out to all the families."
Classes canceled
Wednesday was supposed to be the last day of the school year at Reynolds, and graduation is planned for Thursday. Classes were canceled for Wednesday at Reynolds High School.
Florence said the school would be closed down "until further notice," for the police investigation.
Students and staff were told to pick up personal items left outside the school from the evacuation Tuesday night at Reynolds Middle School from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Items left inside the high school during the evacuation were not yet being returned.
Also, no one was allowed to enter the school to retrieve any items left behind Tuesday night.
People with cars parked on the west side of the school were told to go to the Imagination Station at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Those with cars in the eastern parking lot by the gym were advised to go to the Imagination Station at 7 p.m. Deputies said they would escort a few people at a time to reclaim their vehicles.
Counselors are being made available to students at the following locations:
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Mt Hood Community College Gymnasium (26000 SE Stark Street) from 1 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday.
Multnomah County's Crisis Help Line at (503) 988-4888.
Administrators said counselors would also be available at all schools in the district on Wednesday.
Reaction to shooting
As news of the shooting spread, public figures started sending out statements expressing their condolences.
Gov. John Kitzhaber sent out a tweet that read, "My thoughts and prayers are with students, staff and the Reynolds High School community during this difficult time."
Portland Mayor Charlie Hales issued a statement on Facebook, saying, "There are no words to fully express our sorrow over the shootings at Reynolds High School. We want the students, the parents and the educators -- in fact, the whole community -- to know that they are in our hearts and prayers today."
Reynolds High School is located at 1698 SW Cherry Park Road in Troutdale, which is a suburb of Portland.
Troutdale police are asking anyone with photos taken during the shooting or additional information that might assist in the investigation to call 503-250-7943 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The Battle of the Somme in 1916 has a unique place in British Military History. As Chris McNab points out in his conclusion, it was by no means the only costly battle on the Western Front. But the grievous losses suffered on the first day alone – 57,470 British soldiers dead, wounded or missing – have occuiped the minds of many ever since. The British Army has never been quite the same, for a variety of reasons.
The focus is usually on the first day of the Battle – 1 July 1916 – but in fact the Somme operation lasted well into November, and was only 'closed down' due to the onset of winter weather. It was a battle aimed at breaking the deadlock on the Western Front, and to achieve a breakthrough. History tells us that this did not take place.
This Pitkin guide by Chris McNab gives us a very detailed overall picture of the Somme Campaign – from the outbreak of war, the battles of 1914 and 1915, the nature of Trench Warfare, the Commanders involved, the plans for the Offensive, the First Day and then the subsequent phases launched to try and re-invigorate the advance. The hardest task of any Historian writing about the Somme is to draw any kind of conclusion. The world knows all about the losses, and the small amount of land gained, but what about the more complex task of assessing whether it was a success or a failure?
McNab frequently refers to the deadlock of the Western Front, and this is perhaps the biggest factor that led to the Somme Offensive – a desire to return to mobile warfare and escape from the perils of static Trench Warfare. Mention the Somme, and the name of Douglas Haig is never likely to be far away. History has judged his leadership of the Somme offensive to be rather lacking. His background was as a Cavalry Officer, and he believed in 'the charge' of mobile warfare.
The Somme was planned to be a joint Anglo-French operation, born initially in December 1915. The Somme was chosen for no other reason other than that it was the junction between the two allied armies. When the Germans launched a strong offensive at Verdun, however, in February 1916 the ability of the French Army to co-operate on the Somme was be much reduced – hence the Somme took on a distinctly British character. The offensive also became an attempt to relieve the pressure on the Somme by drawing off German reserves.
A massive artilletu bombardment was planned to prepare the way for the infantry. During the week-long barrage, over 1,500 guns fired 1.7 million shells at the german front lines. Yet this overwhelming weight of fire did not have the intended results. In most cases the shells failed to cut the barbed wire. And secondly, a large proportion of shells simply did not explode – up to 30%, McNab argues. The Germans had also built highly effective deep dug-outs and shelters that largely survived the artillery fire.
After the massive losses on the first day, the British Army slowly and painfully moved forward, but with horrendous casualties. The battle bogged down into attrition. Haig came under increasing pressure from the British Government, who were asking why a few miles were costing tens of thousands of lives. Haig's response was to order further attacks. The battle had been planned with the objective of making a breakthrough, but in hindsight a breakthrough became more and more unlikely. Yet Haig was sure that the German Army was on the verge of buckling.
In the second half of the 20th Century some historians labelled Haig and his Generals as 'monsters'. The picture is rather more complicated, as Chris McNab rightly states. The commanders of the time were fighting at a time when technology – particularly the machine gun – favoured the defender, and innovations such as the Tank had not been developed enough in order to break down defensive positions. The Second World War tells us that even with air power, artillery and tanks, infantry will always have to cross no mans land and take on the enemy. The Somme had caused the Germans 630,000 casualties, and one only has to consider what might have happened at Verdun if the Germans had been able feed more reinforcements into that battle. The Germans eventually retreated from the Somme, but only to the fortified Hindenburg Line.
History has always had a fascination with the Somme. It was the first major battle in which the New Armies fought, and in particular the fate of the Pals Battalions has become imbued in British Culture. Chris McNab has written an insightful and thoughtful account of the Somme Offensive. In particular I found the emphasis that McNab has placed on prior developments and phases after the first day very important, and hopefully will buck the historical trend. It would be all too easy to fall into the trap of labelling Haig a monster, but quite rightly McNab lets the reader draw their own conclusions.
I found it very useful for my own research – looking at the 1st Hants who fought on the first day and at Le Transloy on 23 November, and the 14th and 15th Hants – the Portsmouth Pals Battalions – who fought in the September Battles. Chris McNab has helped put those men who fell in 1916 into context.
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Autumn Fiscus, 16, a member of Zion Lutheran, painted a sign with acrylic paints and candle wax. On the opposite side of the sign, she painted Bible verses she said contradicted the Westboro protesters' anti-homosexual beliefs.
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Quote from: velkyn on February 23, 2009, 03:07:39 PMthanks for being out there, EmilyGo Buffalo!I hope they learned their lesson! Don't Mess With Buffalo!!! We fight back!! Really the key to beating these guys is knowing that you are above them and work in numbers. They aren't a church, they just want to spread hate in gods name. They use god for their own agenda. I guarantee you if you ask them to quote six scriptures from the bible (none being from genesis because to me those are probably the easiest to quote) they couldn't quote two. Fred Phelps has been disbarred from practicing law in Kansas, too bad he can't be dis-(umm)ordained (or dis-lifed). Really this guys are heartless, moral-less, and just want to be heard. Don't give them the voice.


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A giant solar flare hits the Earth and decimates the entire Eastern hemisphere, killing millions of people and mutating others into hideous creatures. Would you run for the hills or start trying to save the world's greatest art treasures? Most people would probably be busy building a seriously badass underground bunker rather than thinking about the fate of the Mona Lisa while avoiding mutants and marauding pirates, but the heroes of the new comic book miniseries Afterburn coming next month from Red 5 Comics. Preview panels after the jump.
The newbie publisher describes this book as "Indiana Jones Meets Mad Max," and it's co-written by Red 5 founders Scott Chitwood and Paul Ens. It reminds us of that scene in Children of Men where Nigel (played by Danny Huston) sits back in the Ministry of Art and eats dinner in front of Picasso's Guernica and sips wine in front of Michaelangelo's David. In a world where the the planet's population is shrinking daily, he's more worried about the world's precious artworks than the human dilemma. Afterburn sounds like it's about the less dainty people who would work for him.
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Contemporary history is seldom as relevant and engaging as Douglas Waller's new biography, "Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage," which is — by turns — fascinatingly instructive and thoroughly entertaining.
Waller, a former Time correspondent and the author of an excellent biography of Gen. Billy Mitchell, has a great ally in his subject, who was a larger-than-life personality in an American Century favored with more than its share of outsized figures. William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan was born in Buffalo, N.Y., to Irish immigrant parents who'd managed to scramble up the ladder from "shanty" to the lower rungs of "lace curtain" status. A fine athlete, though an indifferent student, Donovan nonetheless graduated from Columbia Law School, where one of his classmates was an aristocratic young man with an eminent name — Franklin D. Roosevelt. Back in Buffalo, the young lawyer married the daughter of a wealthy, socially prominent Protestant family, and, though his new in-laws were wary of the brash young man from a tough Irish ward, he soon became their legal and financial advisor.
World War I was the making of Donovan in several ways. He served in New York's storied, mostly Irish "Fighting 69th" Regiment. Its legendary chaplain, Father Francis Duffy, became his closest friend, and the doomed young poet, Joyce Kilmer, was his adjutant. His men — more than half of whom would die in the fighting — admiringly dubbed him "Wild Bill" for his courage under fire, a nom de guerre that one of his commanders, Douglas MacArthur, echoed, though as a less-than-complimentary reference to his tendency to exceed orders.
Donovan would emerge from the Great War with the Medal of Honor and France's Croix de Guerre, though he refused to accept the latter until the French also bestowed it on the Jewish sergeant who had been at his side in the particular engagement for which they were honored. Back in New York, where he finally received his Medal of Honor, he immediately unsnapped the decoration and presented it to his regiment. "It doesn't belong to me," he said. "It belongs to the boys who are not here, the boys who are resting under the white crosses in France or in the cemeteries of New York." He left the medal in the 69th's Manhattan armory and never retrieved it.
After the war, Donovan returned to Buffalo with a new, international perspective, determined to make his law firm a competitor with the big New York City firms and to give it a presence in European business affairs. It was a formula that made him rich. In an era when the majority of Irish Americans were baptized Catholics but born Democrats, Donovan was a conservative Republican who dabbled in GOP politics as a pugnacious but singularly unsuccessful candidate who was intensely critical of Roosevelt and the New Deal. He was, however, one of those instinctive social conservatives, like Winston Churchill, who saw the danger of Adolf Hitler early on; by 1933, Donovan was actively protesting the Nazis' anti-Semitism. Despite his Republican affiliation, Roosevelt asked Donovan to go to London to assess whether U.S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy was correct in his defeatist appraisal that Britain had neither the will nor the capacity to resist a resurgent Germany.
Donovan met with Churchill, toured Europe and came back to tell the president that Britain would fight and that Hitler was every bit as dangerous as the president was inclined to believe. When war arrived, Donovan became a fervent supporter of aid to London and an opponent of U.S. isolationism. Encouraged by Churchill and the British espionage operative William Stephenson, he also became convinced that America required a professional intelligence agency like Britain's MI6, staffed with "men calculatingly reckless with disciplined daring." Donovan proposed such a group to Roosevelt, and, in 1941, the president named the New York lawyer "coordinator of information."
Thus was the legendary Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, born: Its agents — both men and women — generally lived up to Donovan's description throughout the war. Much of Waller's narrative is given over to those years, and rightly so, since they were replete with heroism of all sorts. There were stunningly daring, meticulously prepared operations as well as many — like the plan to drop bats with bombs strapped to their bodies over Germany — that simply were harebrained. Others were problematic, like a generalized collapse of OSS operations in Italy that were saved and put on a productive footing by Donovan, who repeatedly and recklessly exposed himself to enemy fire. His administrative overreaching and lack of even normally protective political instincts earned Donovan the distrust of many, as well as the undying enmity of J. Edgar Hoover. When the former spy chief died, in 1959, from complications of senile dementia, the FBI director spread a rumor that the real cause of death was syphilis.
One of the admirable attributes of Waller's well-written history is its realism regarding the OSS war effort. Along with British intelligence, the office made a significant contribution to equipping and mustering the French Resistance in support of the Normandy invasion. In practical terms, that probably was its finest hour. Nothing else it did ever came close to matching the pivotal role played by code-breakers who decrypted the German and Japanese military and naval communications. Waller is also particularly good in showing how Donovan's own weaknesses and predilections would, in so many respects, become those of the Central Intelligence Agency he worked so hard to see established in the postwar years — though Harry S. Truman denied him the opportunity to lead it.
Donovan had a faith in the efficacy of covert action that he inculcated in the lieutenants who would go on to direct the CIA and a casual approach to predictive analysis that would be echoed over and over in subsequent years. OSS, for example, confidently told Roosevelt that Nazi Germany would collapse within a couple of months of the Normandy landings. Similarly, anyone familiar with the so-called "Curveball" disinformation for which the CIA fell during the run-up to the Iraq war will find an eerie foreshadowing in the way a onetime Italian pornographer conned OSS into accepting a steady stream of concocted intelligence on the axis supposedly leaked by Vatican diplomatic circles.
Waller's realism about these issues combined with an obvious affection for the remarkable charter of Wild Bill Donovan have resulted in a splendid biography.


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On Thanksgiving Day, nine years ago, I stole my father's car.
He was 88 years old and living in a retirement community in Ojai. The previous July, he'd failed his driver's test, but he'd kept driving without a license — and therefore, without insurance. Perhaps he had forgotten that he didn't have a license, or perhaps he didn't care, but something had to be done.
On Thanksgiving morning, I drove up to fetch him for a turkey dinner in Pasadena, and while he finished getting ready, I appropriated his spare car keys. That afternoon we had a convivial dinner with friends, and Dad spent the night at my house. The next day, after a long talk in which he refused to relinquish his keys, I drove him home with a friend in tow — a friend who would drive my father's Camry back to my place. I was so nervous and eager for the whole caper to be over, I got a speeding ticket on the way.
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Due to preeclampsia, I was induced almost 4 weeks ago when the baby was only 34 weeks. Everything was so sudden. I had complications and needed blood transfusions, my blood pressure was going crazy - everything was a mess. I didn't even see the baby for a day. I started pumping at the hospital two days after he was born and then after about a week of pumping 6 to 8 times a day I was getting a total of about two ounces of milk, which we would bring to him in the NICU.
Now he's been home for two weeks and I'm still not getting any more than that. My breasts are the same size as they were before I even got pregnant, I have no sensation of them filling up or letting down. The only way I can even tell that I'm making milk at all is when I can see it in the pump. I've been trying to stimulate more production, so I'm trying to nurse every time he's hungry, but I don't think he's getting anything. He then drinks a full bottle of formula afterwards, and when he's really hungry he refuses to nurse altogether. I'm taking Fenugreek. I really don't know what else to do.
I asked my doctor about it and she said that if it has been this long and nothing has happened that it probably isn't going to. I just feel terrible. I left a message with the lactation center at the hospital but based on past experience I don't think that they are going to be helpful either. I don't know what else to do. I feel terrible. Is there anything I can do?


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IT WAS Christmas Eve, 2008, and the New South Wales government was "putting the garbage out".
"It is hoped that by announcing the decision at that time (on the cusp of the biggest holiday of the year) it will not be afforded any media or other attention," says a leaked cabinet in confidence report on the process prepared by Clayton Utz.
No wonder they wanted to keep it quiet.
The decision had been made by the then Labor government of NSW to award a coal exploration licence to a company in which union boss John Maitland held a stake.
The licence was awarded without a tender. The minister responsible at the time was none other than Ian Macdonald.
A little over a year later, in February 2010, Maitland's company, Doyles Creek, was sold to NuCoal. NuCoal was promptly floated on the sharemarket with a value of $100 million. And Maitland – a former secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union – had made almost $10 million.
He cashed in $1.13 million of his NuCoal shares in April of that year, a further $1.3 million in November and $3.78 million in December.
His private company, Jonca Investments, still appears on the NuCoal register with a 4.4 per cent stake (down from 11 per cent).
The same minister who signed off on the Maitland deal has been at the dead centre of the Independent Commission against Corruption revelations this month, which have been characterised as perhaps the biggest corruption scandal since the Rum Rebellion.
The same year that he approved the Doyle's Creek licence, then primary industry minister Ian Macdonald opened up tracts of land in the Bylong Valley for coalmining. ALP powerbroker Eddie Obeid had bought a property there. Its value rose fourfold.
The Obeid deal is code-named Operation Jasper. Doyles Creek is code-named Operation Acacia, and Operation Acacia is the next item on the agenda for ICAC.
The inquiry promises to engulf many more business and political figures before it is done, among them one of the world's largest goldminers, Newcrest Mining.
It has become clear that any deal and any licence approval that involved Ian Macdonald or Eddie Obeid will need to be scrutinised.
Eddie Obeid had the mines portfolio in NSW from April 1999 to April 2003, during which time Newcrest was granted mining licences over its leviathan Cadia East goldmine in NSW. Exploration company Gold and Copper Resources is now disputing those licences. The challenge for Newcrest is that some of the nation's most influential mining identities are behind GCR*.
That brings us to former NSW planning minister Tony Kelly, who, ICAC found in July last year, had acted corruptly in relation to the purchase of a union retreat at Currawong.
It was Tony Kelly who signed Newcrest's Cadia East planning approval – an approval which now faces a legal challenge from GCR, which alleges that Newcrest is mining outside its mining leases.
And it was none other than Ian Macdonald who was minister of mineral resources when Newcrest announced to the market in 2010 it had completed the other regulatory requirements for Cadia East. Documents seen by BusinessDay indicate that Newcrest had not even lodged its necessary mining lease applications at that time.
The explosive revelations at ICAC has come at a bad time for Newcrest, especially as the Mines Department too should come under the purview of the inquiry. It is unlikely that department bureaucrats were in the dark as to the activities of their political overlords.
The Doyles Creek report mentioned above found there was "a circumstantial case of wrongdoing and breach of public trust" and recommended a special commission of inquiry into the allocation by the department (then the Department of Primary Industries) of the Doyles Creek exploration licence.
According to the report, the minister invited Maitland to apply for an exploration licence over Doyle's Creek; which, the department acknowledged in a ministerial briefing of February 2007, had an estimated 62 million tonnes of coal and ought to be put up for tender.
"Ultimately, though several parties showed interest in the Doyles Creek area, the EL [exploration licence] was not allocated by a competitive tender process but rather was directly allocated to Doyles Creek."
The decision came down to "ministerial discretion", said the report. Yet it noted that Clayton Utz in its investigation had not been able to review the correspondence on the matter as "it was not in the department's file".
The department was unaware at the time that the minister had invited Maitland to apply – and it followed the appropriate protocols, according to the report. Still, a department officer did make the offer to Doyles Creek in December 2008.
Besides the missing department documents, there was this: the exploration licence application was only advertised on January 8, 2008, "some 25 days after the Doyles Creek EL was granted".
The NSW Greens are introducing a motion in Parliament this week to have the Mount Penny coal licence, which is the subject of the current ICAC investigation, suspended due to what they claim may be "false and misleading" information in the application document.
Under the Mining Act, a licence may be terminated or suspended if it can be shown that the applicant "provided false and misleading information" to the authority that granted it.
Last week, Rob Oakeshott called for the review of all ministerial decisions under Eddie Obeid and Ian Macdonald, particularly in the resources portfolio. What is required is a review of all decisions in the Mining Department since Obeid became minister in 1999.
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The Biltmore Concert Series Wraps Up This Weekend
The timeless group The Beach Boys will be the last musical performer on Friday night, August 30 for the Biltmore Concert series.
Stunning views of the Biltmore House and the Blue Ridge Mountains make this a great locale for a concert under the stars! General Admission tickets are $54 and can be purchased online at the Biltmore website.
The Beach Boys continue perform with the same bold imagination and style that marked their debut over 50 years ago. Expect to hear your favorites, like "Surfin' Safari," "Fun, Fun, Fun," "I Get Around," "Help Me Rhonda," and "Good Vibrations." The show starts at 8 p.m.
On Saturday night, comedian Bill Engvall will take the stage at Biltmore. Sharing the humor in everyday situations is Engvall's specialty. Engvall was part of the enormously successful Blue Collar Comedy concert films, which are some of the most watched movies and specials in Comedy Central history. Bill's first album, "HERE'S YOUR SIGN," was certified platinum and held the #1 position on the Billboard Comedy Chart for 15 straight weeks.
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Older adults with cancer, especially frail older adults, often have different needs than younger adults who have cancer. The Specialized Oncology Care & Research in the Elderly (SOCARE) clinic at the University of Chicago Medicine campus was created in 2006 to anticipate and address the specific care needs of elderly cancer patients and survivors. The SOCARE clinic is unique in Chicago, and is staffed by board-certified physicians with expertise in geriatric medicine, geriatric oncology, and palliative care.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — A senior Israeli official says world powers should give Iran an ultimatum to curb its nuclear program.
Yuval Steinitz, Israel's minister of intelligence and strategic affairs, issued the call on Sunday. He spoke a day after Iran and six world powers failed to agree at talks in Kazakhstan on how to reduce fears Tehran might use its technology to make weapons.
"The time has come to present the Iranians with a military threat or some kind of red line or unequivocal ultimatum by the entire world ... in order to get results," Steinitz told Army Radio.
He said the ultimatum should be "weeks," without elaborating. Israel and the US have hinted at a military option if diplomacy fails.
Israel believes Iran is developing a nuclear bomb. Iran denies the charge.


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At his core, John Ulrich is a racer, a motorcycle racer to be more specific. He's been zooming around on two wheels since 1973, won a few championships and has been a team owner for 34 years.
He's also been a proponent for the sport, often going against the grain and accepted logic in his quest for rider safety and exposure for the premier American road racing series.
And if that wasn't enough, he's also the publisher of Roadracing World, the Lake Elsinore-based publication that's all about motorcycle racing.
"I have two full-time jobs already," said Ulrich, the owner of Team Hammer. "I wasn't looking for a third job. But now, I have three."
Of course, he has help from son Chris, who races Superbikes for Team Hammer, and daughter Natalie, who works for the magazine.
Dissatisfied with AMA Pro Racing decision to reduce its Superbike and Sportsbike season to five races, and none west of the Mississippi, Ulrich has spent the past four months organizing the Geico Superbike Challenge, a three-event series not sanctioned by the AMA or produced by Daytona Motorsports Group.
The first race is set next weekend, April 26-27, at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, with additional events set for Sonoma and Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah. The last AMA Superbike weekend at Fontana was in 2009.
"When I saw that there were no national-level professional motorcycle road races scheduled anywhere in the western half of the country, I knew I had to make something happen," said Ulrich. "This series is modeled after British Superbike's proven formula. I'd like to thank WERA Motorcycle Roadracing and Fastrack Riders for working with me on this first step toward rebuilding our sport in the United States."
Fastrack Riders and WERA had events scheduled at ACS but reworked their schedule for the new series.
Ulrich also arranged a television package and MAV TV will air an hour show for all three events. Yamaha has signed on as a presenting sponsor; the Yamaha SoCal Nationals will be the name of the ACS event. Geico, long a supporter of the series, and Dunlop are also involved.
As a result, several high-profile teams representing manufacturers are taking the unusual step of participating in the series.
"That's historic," said Ulrich.
Among the teams that have committed are the KTM/HMC Factory team (Chris Fillmore), Chino-based Yoshimura Suzuki (Martin Cardenas, Roger Hayden, Chris Clark), Yamaha Monster Energy and, of course, Team Hammer (Ulrich, Jake Zemke, Joe Roberts).
"It's a very nice opportunity to race at Auto Club Speedway again," said Cardenas, who will race a Suzuki GSX-R1000 Superbike backed by Suzuki Motor of America. "It's been, I think, since 2009 that we've been there, and I think it's great that we can come back there. There are a lot of people around. The circuit is quite nice. I think it has the potential to attract a lot of spectators, so that is a good thing for the racing."
Riders aren't the only ones excited about the event.
"We are excited to see professional road racing back in Southern California for the first time in many years," said David Pyles, president of Fastrack Riders. "Southern California is one of the sportbike hotspots in the United States and it makes sense to have racing here for all the fans. Fastrack Riders is proud to be a small part of bringing professional road racing back to our area and to Auto Club Speedway!"
The event is just more than a week away and Ulrich said there are those within the industry who don't believe it will actually take place.
"This is the first step to rebuilding our sport," said Ulrich. "We want to keep it alive. We're not out to make money, we hope we just don't lose a lot."
Racing on TV
A sign of the future? NHRA and ESPN announced this week two live three-hour telecasts from Mello Yello Drag Racing Series national events in Epping, N.H. (June 22) and Denver (July 2). A third event, from Chicago (June 29) will air on ESPN 2. Additionally, during the six-race Countdown to the Championship, all qualifying shows will air before the finals on Sunday.
As for NASCAR, Fox (KTTV/Ch. 11) will broadcast qualifying from Talladega Superspeedway on May 3 beginning at 10:30 a.m. It had originally been set for FoxSports 2, but high rating and interest prompted the switch.
Speedway bikes return
There may not be a person in San Bernardino as busy as Shawn McConnell on Friday night. He'll be competing in the Southern California speedway opener at Pirate Speedway, a facility he not only promotes but also works on.
Despite the roles, McConnell found time to win a couple of main events on the dirt track located on the Orange Show grounds. This season, he'll be aided by Robynn McConnell, Roger Hyden and Jerry Armstrong. Steve Lucero, a former national and California champion, will serve as racing referee for the 21 races scheduled over the summer.
The legendary Bruce Flanders, fresh off his work at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, also returns as the announcer.
Racing around SoCal
Auto Club Dragway will host NHRA Street Legal drag racing on Saturday. Techs will start at 7 a.m., with racing two hours later. Cost is $20 to race and $10 for spectators. … Irwindale Event Center will have a busy week. NHRA Thursday Night Thunder features five hours of Street Legal racing. On Saturday at the speedway, it's a twinbill for Late Models along with South West Tour Trucks, Super Stocks, Legends, Bandoleros and trailer racing. … Partnership for Los Angeles Schools is among the 10 semifinalists revealed by the Jimmie Johnson Foundation through the Blue Bunny Helmet of Hope program. Five winners will get a $25,000 grant and an ice cream party. A public vote is set for April 17-24 at www.helmetofhope.org to determine winners. … Joey Saldana won the World of Outlaws feature last Saturday at Perris Auto Speedway, in front of a special group. "The win is for the Workshops for Warriors and all the veterans who work hard for us," said Saldana. "It was a great night for us. It was all about timing and hitting the marks right. We were able to put it all together." … Perris Auto Speedway and Ventura Raceway are dark this weekend due to Easter.
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Nude Man Wants To Propose To Girlfriend — Too Bad He Went To The Wrong House
Thomas Edwards wanted to show his love for his girlfriend, but he ended up showing a whole lot more than that. Police in Casselberry, Florida arrested Edwards, 22, after he stripped down to his birthday suit to pop the question to his girlfriend, only to discover he'd gone to the wrong house to ask for her hand in marriage.
Don't you just hate when that happens?
Edwards claims he went to a house where his lady love told him she was with the intention of getting on bended knee (pity any poor soul who was standing behind and got a load of that view).
Edwards began taking off his clothes on the patio when the homeowners spotted him. They claim they have never heard of neither Edwards nor his girlfriend.
Either this clown jotted down the address wrong or his "girlfriend" is really some woman he's pining for who chose to blow him off by giving him some random address, thinking she'd never see him. Kind of like giving a wrong phone number, except much, much meaner. Or funnier, depending on your point of view.
For his snafu, Edwards was charged with burglary of a dwelling, battery on a law enforcement officer (for spitting on cops) and indecent exposure.
And he didn't even get a "yes" for his trouble.