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The Lipscomb Bisons closed out the regular season with an 87-79 victory Thursday night against Troy at Allen Arena to clinch a post in the Atlantic Sun Conferenec Tournament. The victory was the fourth in a row for the Bisons, the first time they have won that many consecutive A-Sun games in their two seasons in the conference.
"We just hoped we were going to be in the mix coming down the stretch," said Lipscomb Coach Scott Sanderson. "We were hoping those four games were going to mean something. We had a great run."
In the first half the Bisons combined a perfect 11-for-11 free throw shooting with seven 3-point shots to take a 42-37 lead at intermission.
"We scored most of our points in transition in the first half, and we kind of got loose in the second half too," Sanderson said.
The Bisons jumped out to a six-point lead at 19:25 on a 3-pointer by James Poindexter.
Troy took over the lead at15:30 on a lay-up by Bobby Dixon that made the score 51-50. The Bisons came back with another 3-pointer by Poindexter to take a 53-51 lead.
At 11:10 Troy took over the lead again at 56-53 on a 3-point shot from Eddie Baker. Troy would keep the advantage until the7:14 mark when Poindexter again found the range from 3-point land for a 63-61 advantage. The next time down court he would hit another 3-pointer to move the Bisons ahead 66-61 at 6:24 . From 7:30 to 6:24 Poindexter would hit three 3-pointers.
"He shot some of the balls very deep by the hash marks out there," Sanderson said. "They were very, very deep. He raised up and made some big shots. He has been a clutch player in the last month of the season."
Corey Hornsby caught fire for Troy hitting back-to-back 3-pointers to take a 67-66 lead at5:29 . It would be Troy 's last lead of the game.
In the final 5:12 of the game Poindexter would hit six-of-six free throws. The Bisons were on target on 29-of-37 times at the line. During that same time frame the Bisons attempted 16 free throws and hit 15.
Poindexter finished with the game-high in scoring with 26 points, 23 of them in the second half. Brian Fisk scored 19 points and also had five rebounds, six assists and two steals. Eddie Ard pitched in with 10. On the boards for the Bisons Cameron Robinson was the game-leader with 11,
Troy placed three players in double figures. Baker scored 25 followed by Hornsby with 23 and Bobby Dixon with 18.
The Bisons finished the regular season with a 16-11 record, 11-9 in the A-Sun. Troy slips to 12-16, 10-9 in the A-Sun with one game left Saturday at Belmont .
"We can finish anywhere from third to fifth based on what might happen," Sanderson said. "I'm glad we played tonight instead of Saturday."
The players made a curtain call to say thank you to the fans at Allen Arena.
"This league is so balanced," Sanderson. "There is a lot basketball to be played in this league."
The Bisons also celebrated "Senior Night" honoring Corey King and matt Jarboe. Also be honored was senior cheerleader Rachel Gallaher.

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How do you get around men who may want a design? Is it possible to run a henna business without hennaing males? Or is there a way to do it without it being haraam/inapropriate? Can you just exclude men, or does this give you a bad vibe?
Islam forbids physical contact between men and women who are not immidiate family, and while I don't mind the occasional, brief, hand shake, doing someone's henna is quite intimate. I was planning on looking into doing the farmer's market in my community next summer, but then I thought of this issue.


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I am traveling with my wife, 8 month old and beagle named Blue to Ohio this weekend to visit my parents who just moved to Springboro, OH.
I wanted to ask the Michigan fans who live in Ohio is it safe for me to keep my Michigan paraphernalia on my truck ( license plate cover, magnet on rear hatch, and Block M tow hitch) or should I remove it.
I wouldn't care if I was just traveling by myself to Ohio but with the baby and the wife coming along, I don't want to get run off the road or have my truck vandalized.
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Southwestern's soccer and lacrosse teams will soon be embarking on a new era of competition: night games. Thanks to a generous donation from current parents, the Athletic Department has installed lights on the soccer/lacrosse competition field and will soon install lights on the nearby pedestrian walkway and parking lot.
Lights will allow the teams to practice and compete on the field later into the evening, reducing the amount of class time missed by student athletes. Night games will also improve the fan experience for students and community members, and elevate the competition environment for Pirate athletes.
"This addition will take the program to an even higher level as the night venue will be a significant boost to recruiting and to student and fan attendance," said Men's Soccer Coach Don Gregory. "It has been a dream for quite a while to play under the lights, and now 'hitting the switch' will be a reality."
An additional gift from a former Southwestern athlete provided funds to run a fiber optic cable to the field. This will allow the University to broadcast the games live online.
The first night game is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 7, and can be viewed live online through www.collegetvticket.com. A brief dedication ceremony for the new lights is planned for 6:45 p.m. on Oct. 21, between the women's and men's soccer games as the teams take on SCAC opponent Hendrix College at 5 and 7 p.m. respectively.
Glada Munt, director of intercollegiate athletics, noted that the new lights will be used judiciously to stay in line with Southwestern's energy conservation and green initiatives. In the past few years, Southwestern has added new scoreboards to the softball and soccer/lacrosse fields that, when combined with the new baseball scoreboard, still use less electricity than the former baseball scoreboard alone.


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David Higginbotham contracted hepatitis C more than 35 years ago. He'd like to rid his body of the virus, but Colorado's Medicaid program says he's not sick enough to justify the cost.
And he's not alone.
Since 2013, when Gilead Sciences Inc. released Sovaldi, the first medication that can reliably cure hepatitis C, health insurers and state Medicaid programs have been coming up with ways to limit access to it and a sister drug, Harvoni, because they're priced so high — more than $80,000 for a 12-week course of Sovaldi at the outset.
Both drugs are produced by Gilead, and their price has dropped some, as competitors have hit the market, but Higginbotham still hasn't been able to get the cure.
Gilead isn't the only company that produces expensive drugs. Prices for prescription medications for various conditions have been rising faster than inflation for years.
President Donald Trump says the pharmaceutical industry is "getting away with murder," and he's vowed to do something about it.
So what could he do in the case of hepatitis C medications?
One solution that's been proposed is to buy the company. Specifically buy Gilead Sciences Inc.
Dr. Peter Bach, the director of health policy and outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, says the U.S. government could save money and treat everyone in the nation who has hepatitis C if it bought Gilead Sciences, rather than just buying Gilead's products.
Hepatitis C kills more Americans than any other infectious disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and it leads to a liver transplant more often than any other condition.
A year after Gilead got FDA approval for Sovaldi, it launched Harvoni, — a combination medicine that includes Sovaldi's key ingredient and a second medication that attacks the hepatitis C virus in a different way. Sovaldi and Harvoni are the first drugs to consistently eradicate the virus, which has infected an estimated 2.7 to 3.3 million people in the U.S.
Bach says that in the three years since the drugs hit the market, only about 600,000 people have been treated — a low number considering there is a cure available.
"We're doing a pretty poor job right now of finding patients with hepatitis C," he says.
The slow uptake, Bach says, is because of the drugs' price. When Harvoni came on the market, it was listed at $94,000 for a course of treatment that cures most patients. The price has since dropped to about half that, but is still out of reach for most people.
Medicaid programs are limiting access and many insurance companies list it as a specialty drug and cover only a percentage of its cost.
"Because nobody can afford Gilead's prices, there really isn't much sense in investing to go find these patients and get them into treatment," Bach says.
He says the U.S. government, however, could cut the cost of treatment by almost two-thirds by buying Gilead on the open market – its market capitalization on March 17 was about $90 billion — and selling off all its assets except the U.S. rights to Sovaldi and Harvoni.
The savings would be three-pronged, he explains. The cost of treatment would decline. The disease would stop spreading. And the number of liver transplants prompted by hepatitis C infections would drop significantly.
"There's a queue right now for liver transplants, so it will free up those livers for other people who have other diseases that we can't cure who otherwise will die," Bach points out.
That would help states like Colorado, for example, which is limiting access to Medicaid patients because the costs of treating everyone at once would be too high. If the state were to treat every Medicaid beneficiary who is diagnosed with hepatitis C, it would cost an additional $500 million.
So to get the drug, Higginbotham has to wait until his liver is more damaged that it is today.
Bach says if the federal government treated hepatitis C as a public health issue, rather than as a Medicaid budget problem, buying Gilead would make sense.
Gilead's senior vice president, Gregg Alton, says Bach's idea is thought-provoking. What it really demonstrates, Alton says, is that the system to pay for prescription drugs isn't equipped to deal with quick, expensive cures.
"Because we have a cure, the costs are paid in a short period of time," he says. "Our payment systems have a real tough time with that because they're used to these sorts of long-term, chronic therapies that pay a little bit at a time – but, over time, cost a lot more."
In other words, it can cost a lot more to treat diabetes or multiple sclerosis over a lifetime than to cure hepatitis C in three months.
From a public health perspective, buying Gilead isn't a bad idea, says Sara Fisher Ellison, an economics lecturer at MIT.
But that assumption rests on the notion that the government would buy the company's shares at full price on the open market. That would avert any reaction from drugmakers or other companies who would fear that the government could use its power just to force them to lower prices.
"The reason this proposal could work is that right now the drugs are only serving a fraction of the potential patients," Fisher Ellison says, "and there's a big public health benefit to serving all of the patents. That's something that Gilead doesn't take into account in its pricing policy, but it's something that a government does take into account."
The idea is a long shot of course.
But Higginbotham, who is still waiting in Colorado for his chance to take the hepatitis C drug, sees an opening with Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
"With our present administration," he says, "a hostile takeover might be just up his alley."
President Trump says he wants to help lower the cost of prescription drugs for consumers. He hasn't given clear signals as to what he might do to make that happen, but since he's an unconventional leader, NPR's Alison Kodjak decided to take a look at some of the unconventional proposals out there to slash the prices of expensive medications. Yesterday she asked whether the government should use its patent rights to drive down prices. Today she looks at a proposal to have the government buy a drug company.
ALISON KODJAK, BYLINE: Gilead Sciences released the first of its two revolutionary hepatitis C drugs in December 2013. Both drugs cured just about everyone who gets them, but only a fraction of the millions of people who are infected have been treated. Dr. Peter Bach of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York blames the price.
PETER BACH: The original list price of those treatments was $85,000 to $95,000. That's for a treatment that should go to 3.3 million people. All right, so that's $300 billion, give or take. That's about what we spend on drugs overall in the U.S.
KODJAK: Bach is Director of Health Policy and outcomes at Sloan Kettering, and he's been tracking drug price trends for years. He says the big price tag for Gilead's hepatitis C drugs and their competitors have lead insurance companies and state Medicaid programs to restrict access. So this contagious disease just keeps spreading.
President Trump has complained repeatedly about high drug prices and promised to do something to bring them down. Here's what he said last month in a speech to congress.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We should implement legal reforms that protect patients and doctors from unnecessary cause that drive up the price of insurance and work to bring down the artificially high price of drugs and bring them down immediately.
KODJAK: But what can he do? Peter Bach at Sloan Kettering has an idea.
BACH: Buy the company at a market price from the shareholders.
KODJAK: That's right. Have the government buy the company. He says the government could actually save money and treat everyone with hepatitis C if it bought Gilead outright rather than buying its expensive drugs.
BACH: With the prices that Gilead wants to charge, there's really no return on a government public health investment in finding people with hepatitis C because the treatments are unaffordable.
KODJAK: But if the government bought the company on the open market, its stock is now worth about $90 billion. It could keep the rights to the hepatitis drugs, sell off the other assets and treat the millions of people with hepatitis C for about a quarter of what it costs today.
BACH: We will also reduce the number of liver transplants needed by patients with hepatitis C. And there's a queue right now for liver transplants. So it will free up those livers for other patients that we can't cure.
KODJAK: Gilead's senior vice president, Gregg Alton, called Bach's idea an interesting thought experiment. But the problem isn't the price of his drug, he says. It's the speed at which it cures people.
GREGG ALTON: The cost of the drug is concentrated in two to three months as opposed to spread out over a lifetime. And our payment systems have a real tough time with that because they're used to the sort of long-term, chronic therapies that you pay a little bit as you go but over time actually end up paying a lot more.
KODJAK: In other words, it can cost a lot more to treat diabetes over a lifetime than to cure hepatitis C in three months. Sara Fisher Ellison, an economics lecturer at MIT, says buying Gilead to cure disease isn't a terrible idea as long as the government pays the full market price.
SARA FISHER ELLISON: The reason this proposal could work is that right now the drugs are only serving a very small fraction of the potential patients. And there's a big public-health benefit to serving all of the patients. And that's something that Gilead doesn't take into account when it sets its pricing policy. But it's something that a government does take into account.
KODJAK: The idea is a long shot of course, but with Donald Trump in the Oval Office, there's always the possibility he'd be tempted by the thought of making a deal. Alison Kodjak, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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A broke guy walks into a car dealership and is immediately hounded by a salesman. "Can I put you in one of our nice used vehicles?" the salesman asks.
A broke guy walks into a car dealership and is immediately hounded by a salesman. "Can I put you in one of our nice used vehicles?" the salesman asks.
"No, I'm looking for something a little faster," the man responds. "I've been down on my luck for a good while. I lost my job. I lost my house. I couldn't keep my lights on. But I really think that something in the six-figure range will help me turn my life around."
"How about a Ferrari?" the salesman asks. "We're running a great program where you won't have to put any money down or pay a single dime for the entire first month!"
"A whole month!" the man exclaims. "What a deal! Where do I sign?"
This has never, nor will it ever, happen. Why? Because no self-respecting businessman would ever be so foolish to offer financing to a person who cannot pay his bills. And yet this is what the federal government is promising us in an expansion of Medicaid. Why? Because that's how they do business in Washington. (Remember the housing crisis, anyone?)
Despite a just-released audit of our state's Medicaid program that highlights its inability to control costs, adhere to a budget or even follow the law, the federal government is offering us a lot of taxpayer money to expand the program.
Some say we would be crazy to pass up this opportunity for "free" cash. But I for one haven't seen a tree that grows dollar bills. Even if I had, I'd need to see a lot of them to come close to covering the costs of Medicaid expansion in North Carolina.
The state's Department of Health and Human Services estimates that Obamacare's changes to our Medicaid program could cost the state $1 billion through 2019. But even that figure is misleading. The federal government is hoping to bribe states to buy into this monstrosity by agreeing to foot 100 percent of the costs for newly eligible Medicaid recipients for the first three years.
The real costs don't come until 2020, when the federal government's support shrinks. That leaves North Carolina holding the bag for more than $100 million each year — potentially a lot more if it ever occurs to Washington lawmakers to reduce our deficit. Given the current fiscal realities, not even the most stubborn of liberals can delay that day of reckoning much longer. The federal government will soon be forced to get real about its spending habits. And when that happens, you can bet it will push more of the Medicaid burden to us.
Unlike the big spenders in Congress, our state's General Assembly is required to balance its budget. And we're also trying our best to get Medicaid costs under control. This should not be rocket science. Every one of us knows what happens when you live beyond your means.
And yet, because of the failure of previous state leaders, Medicaid has been an utter disaster, racking up huge deficits and sucking money from other state priorities like our schools and universities, bridges and roads, and public safety.
Just last year, we were forced to fill a $500 million hole in the state Medicaid budget. That wasn't just a one-time occasion. It's become an annual exercise in banging our heads against the wall.
And now we're talking about expanding it?
One lesson I learned early on is the first rule when you're in a hole is to stop digging. So let's put down the shovel. Rather than gamble with taxpayer money to double down on failure, let's focus on fixing what we already have. The Ferrari can wait.


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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
ConstantCon Game - Tonight
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
How to be a better GM
Monday, August 29, 2011
Rise of the MakerBot and the death of the miniatures industry
Sunday, August 28, 2011
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Friday, August 26, 2011
Ordering Neoclassical Geek Revival
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Conan the Barbarian, A movie review about a great movie
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Down to Last Copy of Neoclassical Geek Revival, if you are interested speak up now.
Friday, August 19, 2011
How to get programmers to build your game aid
In this particular case, I am going to write the music. You're just going to play it.
Hey, it won't be that hard. Musicians play music written by other people all the time.
Yet.. this is what programmers tend to get. Sheet music contains a ton of technical detail about how EXACTLY you want the musician to perform the music. You don't write "A really high note" or a "really low note" or "really fast". You put specific notes, specific timing. You specify exactly what you want within the allowable framework (ie, no making up new notes).
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
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Friday, August 12, 2011
Pets and working animals in RPG's
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Books are in the mail!
They will arrive, eventually. So let me know when these things get dumped on your doorstep.
ConstantCon Game - Tonight
A shift in the flow of a river starts to lower a bogs water level (just go with it). Local looters have set up shop in the local frontier village on rumours of sunken treasure and long buried tombs. Which is great because you have some debts that need paying..now..
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
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Tempest in a Teapot 2: Tao Edition
Now Alexis over the Tao of D&D has an interesting take on something I said in regards to a post over at The Grand Tapestry. Specifically in regards to an interview with Harlan Ellison in which he rants about people who offer work (in this case writing) for nothing and in doing so devalue his own work in the field.
This is something I am personally familiar with as I work in computer code. The number of volunteers doing open source work or free (garbage) coding for some start up doomed to fail causes the same problems, best exemplified by this hilarious post. Similar situations are encountered by anyone who does for a career what others dabble in as a hobby. Artists know this, sex workers know this, writers know this, game developers know this, sport players know this, and everyone applying for a job someone else is willing to intern for knows this. And those working in the industry always have this inane need to rant about how people need to stop donating work and charge for it so that everyone can get fair value. "Stop posting art for free on DeviantArt!", "Stop submitting to periodicals for free!", "Don't put your amateur porn on the internet!", "Don't release your OSR rules for free!", "Don't play on the company baseball team for free!" and "demand pay as an intern!". All of it is garbage by people who don't understand the nature of the trade they are in. If you are in one of these jobs you need to understand that people donate work because they want something other than money. Developers love to tinker, writers want to write one immortal work (money be damn), amateur porn stars get a thrill of exhibitionism and interns want to pad their resume.
Deal with it or find a career no one wants to do for free. Its part and parcel of the trade and no one is going to pay you for what others will do (and often better) for free. I get paid quite handsomely for my developer work and contractor work because I am damn good at what I do. I also lucked out and met the right contacts. If you aren't lucky or skilled and usually both then you need to find a new trade if you want to make money. Just because some people get paid for baseball doesn't mean I should get paid for being in the junior rec league. If I am not good enough to make it to the big leagues I am getting jack shite. If you write some Kirk/Dr. Who fan-fiction don't expect a pay check. Also know that even if you write really good Kirk/Dr. Who fiction that the number of people writing crappy Kirk/Dr. Who fan-fiction will depreciate the demand (and thus price) for your work. If you can't hack it find a different career path.
The second most irritating part? Alexis himself points this same issue out over at his other blog the Pegasus Rider " I have long said about agents that the reality is that you have to be the married spouse of some brother or sister of the Agent's girlfriend or bookie. That's how it seems to work. I've had some very nasty dealings with agents over the last fifteen years and except for really needing one, I really hate that I really need one."
The most irritating part?
"But nothing tops the truly stupid comment left by Zzarchov, which I want to be sure I copy here so he can't delete it there. Here it is in its entirety:"
The assumption that I would try to skulk off and hide my words like a coward. Alexis may consider himself a coward, but I find it distasteful the implication I am one.
He also points out often "miss the point", which I will use this post to make clear my position on that since it is unlikely he would allow me to comment further on his post. I do get the points he is often trying to make, I also realise its often wrong. Case in point his long rambling post about how guns wouldn't exist, completely ignoring an important fact. It is bullshit. Alexis does not want guns because he declared with GM fiat "No Guns" even though in even a pseudo historical world they would exist. Without guns and artillery the time period he purports to play in and be an expert in (demanding our respect on the matter) would be so radically different (from everything involving military organizations to the architecture of new towns) as to be unrecognizable unless you just flat out say "Guys I don't want guns in my campaign, can we roll with it?". Which is a fine answer, but just say the real answer instead reacting with such indignation if we call shenanigans on his flawed reasoning on why guns shouldn't exist.
I don't care for his implication that I said people shouldn't be paid for good work, as I charge for good work and pay (or offer to) others for their good work. Those who have worked with me can attest to this. What I don't charge for is garbage. Notice how my RPG is free? Physical copies are sold at cost because my work in the rules and layout and public domain art has no real value. Now future versions have better layout, but that work isn't mine but someone I received help from (and offered a sizeable sum of cash for said help).
Should Alexis be paid for his work? His economic system seems to be built with a great deal of skill, millions of lines of calculations by his estimate. Let's compare that to my economic system shall we?
"So just how much is a gold coin worth? If 2 gold coins buy a nice dagger that's fine, but is a gold coin a lot of money or not?
To answer this question, all prices are displayed in '$' giving an approximate modern day comparison how much that is to an average person. If you are trying to think of the price of an item on the fly, compare it to a modern equivalent device. A horse is much like a car, a draft horse like a transport truck. A dagger might be closer to a handgun, a sword an assault rifle."
Should I expect money for this? God no. Should Alexis expect payment for his system? He thinks so and I agree. His economic system took skill and effort; mine took 10 minutes and hand waving. But I think any implication that I should not release my work because it will negatively impact the value of my work is garbage. I don't want to see people stop the DIY attitude because those up high and mighty declare you shouldn't release things for free. It is your time and effort, so you can charge what you want for it including nothing. This grates on me as it is not an attack over just RPG's and other (in the grande scheme of things) unimportant matters, but over my professional conduct.


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Full TitleA Pilot Study of Genetically Engineered NY-ESO-1 Specific (c259) T cells in HLA-A2+ Patients with Synovial Sarcoma (Version date 28-MAR-2017)
The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and preliminary effectiveness of an investigational treatment in which a patient's immune cells are altered in a laboratory and given back to the patient with the hope of provoking an immune response against synovial sarcoma.
NY-ESO-1 is a protein found on many synovial sarcomas. In this study, some of a patient's T cells (a type of white blood cell) will be removed and modified with a gene that makes them recognize sarcoma cells containing NY-ESO-1. This approach is called "T-cell receptor gene therapy."
Patients will first have chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide and fludarabine. They will then receive the NY-ESO-1-modified T cells. Researchers will determine if this therapy is safe and see if the altered T cells can kill synovial sarcoma cells.
To be eligible for this study, patients must meet several criteria, including but not limited to the following:
- Patients must have synovial sarcoma that has returned or continued to grow despite prior therapy that included ifosfamide and/or doxorubicin.
- Patients' tumors must contain the NY-ESO-1 protein.
- Patients must be positive for HLA-A2.
- At least 3 weeks must have passed since the completion of prior therapy (1 week for biologic agents and small molecules) and entry into the study.
- Patients must be able to walk and do routine activities for more than half of their normal waking hours.
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A low-protein diet limits the amount of protein that you can eat each day.
This diet may be advised if you have liver or kidney disease. The liver helps in protein digestion, and the kidneys are responsible for removing the waste products of protein digestion. If your liver or kidneys are not fully functioning, they will have to work extra hard to handle the protein that you eat. If you eat more protein than your liver or kidneys can handle, waste products will build up in your bloodstream, causing fatigue and a decreased appetite.
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for up to a year. With kidney failure, you may also need to make other dietary changes, such as limiting your amounts of salt, potassium, phosphorous, and fluid. Work with a registered dietitian to come up with an eating plan that meets your nutritional and medical needs.
Dietary protein comes from 2 sources: animals and plants. Animal products are higher in protein and provide us with complete proteins. Complete proteins contain all of the essential amino acids that our bodies need to live and that we have to get from the food we eat. Plant products are lower in protein and provide us with incomplete proteins. Both types of protein should be a part of a healthful, low-protein diet.
The following chart categorizes food by group and lists the amount of protein per serving. Your doctor or dietitian will let you know how many grams of protein you can consume each day. On this diet, it is important that you work with a dietitian to make sure that you are within the recommended protein range and meeting all of your nutrient needs.
1 serving = 7 grams protein
1 serving = 4 grams protein
1 serving = 3 grams protein
1 serving = 2 grams protein
1 serving = 0.5 grams protein
Pure fats and sugars contain no protein. But, foods made mostly of fat or sugar, such as cake, cookies, ice cream, snack chips, and fried foods tend to be high in calories and low in nutrition. There are some fats that are healthy in moderation, including olive oil, canola oil, avocados, and nuts. Ask your dietitian about how foods from this group can fit into your diet.
Here are some suggestions to help you with eating a low-protein diet:
Eat Right—Academy of Nutrition and Dieteticshttp://www.eatright.org
National Kidney Foundationhttp://www.kidney.org
Dietitians of Canadahttp://www.dietitians.ca
The Kidney Foundation of Canadahttp://www.kidney.ca
Enjoy your own recipes using less protein. National Kidney Foundation website. Available at:
https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/enjoy. Accessed May 9, 2017.
Nutrition care manual. Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics website. Available at:
https://www.nutritioncaremanual.org. Accessed May 9, 2017.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Lipscomb track and field continues competition this weekend at the Georgia Tech Invitational. This will be the last opportunity for Lipscomb athletes to qualify for the NCAA East Preliminary Round.
In addition to host Georgia Tech, Lipscomb will face athletes from Florida State, Jacksonville, ETSU, Tennessee Chattanooga, Appalachian State and Bethune-Cookman among others.
Fresh off a school-record 16:38.53s performance at last weekend's Oxy Invitational, sophomore Dani Walker will return to action in the 5000m run at Georgia Tech. She was named Atlantic Sun Female Runner of the Week for her performance at the Oxy, which moved her to 69th in the east region. She will also compete in the 800m run.
Joining Walker in the women's 5K will be freshmen Maggie Lawrence, Kendra Lobley and Renee' Menzie, sophomores Tessa Hoefle and Alex Newby and seniors Louisa Van Batavia and Ashley Lehman.
Lobley ranks 80th in the region in the 5K. Lehman and Van Batavia are competing in their final meet for Lipscomb unless they qualify for the preliminary round.
Junior Geoff Musick will run the men's 5000m run, while junior Ashton Fisher will compete in the 3000m steeplechase.
Sophomore Tucker Peabody will run the 100m and 200m dashes while freshman Colin Dempster will compete in the 400m event. Peabody won two gold medals at the A-Sun Outdoor Championships three weeks ago.
Lady Bison April Terry will get some big-meet experience at Georgia Tech. The freshman thrower will compete in the shot put and hammer throw.
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On the list of things that make me happy, few items rank higher than high-powered cars that aren't supposed to be high-powered.
Think along the lines of the Nissan Juke-R, which managed to stuff a GT-R drivetrain into a normal Juke (or placed a Juke body over a GT-R drivetrain, depending on how you look at it). Either way, the result is fantastically ridiculous.
There's also the more recent news of the old Ford customized with 1,700 horsepower courtesy of a Koenigsegg CCR engine. Good stuff.
There's really no limit to the craziness that can come out of the combination of a small car with a high-power drivetrain. With the right resources, all a guy has to do is search through some used car listings, find an appropriate project car, purchase a supercar engine and then spend a few hours in the garage. Easy enough, right?


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With a new quarterback named Trent Dilfer, the Baltimore Ravens (7-4) have suddenly emerged as one of the NFL's quality teams on the eve of the easy section of their schedule, which continues against Dallas (4-6) Sunday and then Cleveland (3-8).
All season, the Ravens have been the league's modeldefensive power, blanking three opponents and playing 2-3 football through a five-gamestretch in which they failed to score so much as one touchdown.
Then they changed quarterbacks and changed direction,bursting forth this month as an offensive-defensive power with the all-around strength toupset even the playoff-bound Tennessee Titans (8-2), 24-23.
The catalyst was, improbably, Dilfer, who, through a stormyseven-year NFL carrer, has inspired more abuse from more critics than perhaps any othercontemporary quarterback.
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That's 2 for Troubled Trent
During the first two months of the season, Raven Coach Brian Billick, an offensive expert, apparently agreed that Dilfer's many querulous critics had apoint.
In any case, he kept Tony Banks at quarterback in apunchless offense that continuously disheartened Baltimore's defense--the league'sbest--until, finally, successive defeats lowered the Ravens' won-lost record to5-3.
At that juncture, Billick brought Dilfer in to beat Cincinnati, 27-7, as the Ravens scored their only touchdowns in six weeks.
But when, seven days later, a Tennessee cornerbackintercepted Dilfer during a furious 17-17 fight in the fourth quarter--and returned theball 87 yards for what seemed to be the winning touchdown--you could hear the anti-Dilferfans shouting, from living rooms all over America, "Same old bum!"
They were wrong about that.
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Rams-Ravens-Raiders-Titans Tops
The Raven-Titan game matched teams with names that wereunheard-of during all but 78 of the NFL's 81 years when, in large part, the old Chicago Bears and the old Green Bay Packers made pro football what it is.
The game also matched two of this year's four best proclubs--placing St. Louis and Oakland in that company.
Indeed, if the Ravens are going to be respectableoffensively now with their new one-two punch--Dilfer and rookie running back Jamal Lewis--they have defense enough to hold off any opponent.
Much the same can be said for the Titans and their one-twoweapons, quarterback Steve McNair and running back Eddie George.
It was McNair who won the first Raven-Titan game in October,14-6, before Dilfer's accurate passing tilted the rematch Baltimore's way, creating first-half leads of 14-0 and 17-7.
The Titans, on their home field, had fallen behind trying torun the ball.
Suddenly, to compete, they had to pass.
The question of the day was, Could they do that?
McNair's answer: They could.
But in the end, McNair couldn't quite undo Dilfer's faststart, when, as the Titans grounded out, the Ravens went overhead to jump ahead by 14points.
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Titans' Mason Best Yet
Measuring the NFL's 31 teams strictly on the quality oftheir players, the Titans seem far ahead with McNair, George, defensive lineman Jevon Kearse, safeties Blaine Bishop and Marcus Robertson, offensive lineman Bruce Matthews, andtheir many other gifted people.
This week's Exhibit A in the Tennessee talent survey is widereceiver Derrick Mason, a fourth-round draft choice in 1997 who has been often overlookedon a team that has lost so many good wide receivers to injury this season--starters Kevin Dyson and Yancey Thigpen among them--that some of its best friends doubted whether it hada championship chance.
Yet when the Titans discovered in the Baltimore game thatthey had to pass to compete, Mason was there to catch the McNair passes that scored or setup all but 6 of their 23 points.
Moreover, on punts as well as kickoffs, Mason looked likethe best kick runner in the nation.
Some of us think of him as the best two-way returner of alltime.
Primarily, punt returners need the ability of a superiorrunning back whereas kickoff returners need something else--speed, above all--plus greatcourage.
And to double effectively in the two roles, Mason, whoweighs only 188 pounds, keeps displaying all three traits.
Still, he's only one of many Titans with extraordinary talent.
Although coaching decides most big NFL games, neverunderestimate the team that has the edge in personnel.
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Passing Drills for Titans?
Tennessee reached the Super Bowl a year ago, and should havewon it, and should win it this time.
But there's a difference between last season and this forthe Titans, namely, they have a dangerous contender in their own division now.
Accordingly, the Titan requirement this year is to run thetable--against Cleveland, Jacksonville, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and, finally, DallasChristmas Night--to win the AFC Central from Baltimore, which will also be favored all theway against San Diego, Arizona and the New York Jets after Dallas and Cleveland.
The Tennessee coach, Jeff Fisher, a running-play enthusiast,can probably prevail in the regular season running the ball.
But it seems likely that he'll need a polished pass offensein the playoffs to overcome the opposition he could run into there: opponents likeIndianapolis, Oakland, possibly Denver, probably Baltimore and in time St. Louis again--allof which can and do throw the ball successfully.
To beat Baltimore, Fisher's pass offense, assuming it was well enough designed, wasn't polished enough.
Thus, to insure his best chance in the playoffs, Fisher,surely, will have to practice passing in Tennessee's last six regular-season starts.
You can evaluate the Titans' ability to win playoff gamesthis winter by noting how often and how well they pass in the regular-season stretchagainst teams they could beat, it may be, without throwing the ball at all.
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Rams' Backup Backs Win
Of the pro clubs you've seen this fall, how many could losetheir entire backfield to injury--along with a kicker who rates in the league's kickingelite--and continue to win?
Conceivably, the Rams, who will be seen against WashingtonMonday night, are the only defending champion in NFL history to be stripped of thebackfield of the year--in this case quarterback Kurt Warner, running back Marshall Faulkand fullback Robert Holcombe--and keep on ticking.
Most recently, to beat the New York Giants, 38-24, the Ramsplayed impressively with backup quarterback Trent Green, backup running back Justin Watson--and several backup fullbacks--who joined in Coach Mike Martz's wide-open offenseto again produce the day's record number of NFL points.
Green isn't as nifty as Warner in the pocket and he doesn'tscramble as well, nor is he quite as accurate throwing long, but he is clearly one of theNFL's finest.
He and Green Bay's Matt Hasselbeck are two backups with thetalent to win elsewhere in a league that numbers few great quarterbacks; and next year, nodoubt, both will be starters somewhere.
Meanwhile, the question is why the Rams keep winning soeasily with backups.
Often cited are their great speed, their quickness, theirsolid blocking line, their receivers' ability to hold off-target passes in heavy traffic,even their improving defense.
The answer, however, is none of the above.
They keep winning because in the Martz system, they keepthrowing the ball.
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Virtual Rookie Helps Vikes
It is Daunte Culpepper, the virtual rookie, who keeps theMinnesota Vikings in contention.
He proved it again the other day when Minnesota mastered theArizona Cardinals, 31-14.
Thus, unlike most young passers, Culpepper has alreadylearned a lot about how to pass.
When throwing into the center of the field, for example, hetypically misses with low passes now, if he misses at all.
When throwing to the wide part of the field, if he misses,he misses wide.
Culpepper has learned, clearly, that on inside plays, thelow pass is hardest to intercept.
On outside plays, the wide one is hardest for a would-beinterceptor to reach.
Not that Culpepper misses that often, but against Arizona,again, he threw a bundle of passes--34 this time--with but one interception.
He was playing against an Arizona team that held him evenfor a quarter, 7- 7, on a day when the Vikings led by only 10-7 at the half.
To win big, they had to play their best second half of theseason.
That suggests they had some competition that day.
And that might be.
The Cardinals are in the care of a new coach, Dave McGinnis,their former defensive coordinator, whose good first half seemed to verify that this is anup-and-rising team with more talent than it has shown in a 3-7 start, which, in 2000, isonly good for last in the NFC East.
Behind even Dallas.
The Arizona talent begins in the most necessary places.
In quarterback Jake Plummer, the Cardinals have a scramblerwho can throw with above-average accuracy.
In Michael Pittman, they have a running back who is moregifted than his team's record implies.
In sophomore David Boston, they have at least one helpfulreceiver.
And in Marc Trestman, they have a capable offensivecoordinator.
Moreover, to move into contention someday in thatdivision--against the likes of the Giants, Cowboys, Redskins and Philadelphia Eagles--doesn't seem that difficult.
In truth, the toughest Eastern contenders in a year or twocould well be the Cardinals and Eagles.
As always, against leaders like Jerry Jones of Dallas andDaniel M. Snyder of Washington, the won-lost issues will be resolved in the frontoffices.
And in the Phoenix office, as you know, the big desk belongs to William V. (for Victory) Bidwill.


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AT91CAP9S500A (ARM9 + FPGA-port)
Why FPGA?:
- October 17, 2007 ucr.edu: UC Riverside Research Leads to Self-Improving Chips with Speed 'Warping' Computer science research results in new technology that can outperform standard microprocessors up to 1,000 times.
- 20 March 2007 Green supercomputer is 'go' in Scotland Quote: "...A supercomputer 10 times more energy efficient and up to 300 times faster than its traditional equivalents..."
Take a look at this microcontroller, that integrates an ARM9 microcontroller and a dedicated FPGA port: AT91CAP9S500A. It has "only" a max. clock at 200MHz, but can use a FPGA for hardware acceleration, that could be used for video (de)compression, aacPlus v2/HE-AAC v2 sound (de)compression and many other things. HE-AAC v2 is better than MP3.
- AT91CAP9S500A Quote: "...The AT91CAP9S500A is built around a 12-layer bus matrix, allowing a maximum internal bandwidth of twelve 32-bit buses. Its distributed DMA architecture enables multiple data transfers to take place between the processor, memories and peripherals with minimal processor overhead...".
- GNU-Based Software Development on AT91SAM Microcontrollers
- Maybe this is a good tool?:
- Compiled Acceleration of C Codes for FPGAs (pdf) Quote: "...Riverside Optimizing Compiler for Configurable Computing. A C/C++ to VHDL compiler...Same speed as hand-written VHDL codes...ROCCC is not intended to compile the whole code to FPGA. Only compute intensive code segments, typically parallel loops..."
- BYU JHDL, Open Source FPGA CAD Tools
- 02/05/2007, FPGA tool bottleneck stalls HPC Quote: "...Current FPGA synthesis, placement and routing tools are written for hardware designers, not software programmers simply trying to accelerate an algorithm..."
This seems to be a good hardware mix (ARM+FPGA). It does Ogg Theora or MJPEG in the FPGA with 1 million gates:
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/elphel, board 10353, camera hardware, Main page, Imaging solutions with Free software and open hardware
Just another FPGA+microcontroller example:
- The Alya Project (old page)
- PIC assembler source code, Altera FPGA code. Schematic: [1], [2], [3]
I do not think this means what you think it means... I read "...and a metal programmable (MP) block of 500K gates of digital logic." as meaning that it's a one-time programmable block, more akin to a standard-cell ASIC than an FPGA. This is supported by the fact that their development board contains a separate FPGA chip. Now, granted, having a 500K gate ASIC on board an ARM is a cool thing... but not quite as cool as this chip appeared at first glance.
Possible FPGA
This FPGA is just an example:
- Spartan-3AN FPGA Capabilities Quote: "...Simple and secure embedded application storage with up to 11Mb of integrated user Flash...Enable simple arithmetic and math functions as well as advanced DSP functions to derive over 330 Giga MACs/sec...Up to 32 18 x 18 embedded multipliers support 18-bit signed or 17-bit unsigned multiplication, and can be cascaded to support wider bits..."
Tool for FPGAs
- xilinx.com: ISE WebPACK is the industry´s only FREE, fully featured front-to-back FPGA design solution for Linux, Windows XP, and Windows Vista
Asynchronous FPGA, AFPGA
- Achronix-ULTRA


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The Real Estate Law Society at the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law presents "Crepes! The Mortgage Market is Changing - What do I need to Know?" on Thursday, Feb. 17, from 12:30 p.m. – 2 p.m., in the Broadway Activities Center, Room 202. It is free and open to the public. Crepes will be served. RSVPs are recommended and can be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Recently, the U.S. Congress enacted the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act, commonly known as the SAFE Act. This act completely revised the way mortgage brokers and loan originators are trained and licensed, therefore subsequently impacting the entire mortgage process. These changes will affect everyone who plans on purchasing or selling real estate property for personal use or investment purposes.
Topics to be covered include:
- What your credit score means
- Changes in down payment requirements
- Negotiating the interest rate
- Pre-qualifying vs. pre-approval
Speaker Roy Ponthier, Ph.D., Ed.D., has worked first-hand with the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System to develop guidelines for training mortgage brokers and loan originators in the U.S.
For more information on the Real Estate Law Society, including how to become a member, visit e-mail email@example.com. The membership deadline for 2011 is Feb. 28.
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LONG POND, Pa. (AP) - Rain has washed out Friday's Sprint Cup qualifying at Pocono Raceway.
Points leader Jimmie Johnson will automatically sit on the pole for the start of Sunday's 400-mile race.
It rained all day and cars never got on the track. There are only 43 entries for the race so no driver will miss the field.


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Colorado's Wind for Schools Project Honored with a Wirth Chair Award
April 3, 2012
Colorado's Wind for Schools project will be honored with a Wirth Chair Award on April 25 for its work in integrating wind energy into classrooms throughout the state.
Since 2009, the Colorado Wind Application Center at Colorado State University and the Colorado Governor's Energy Office have selected nine rural schools to participate in the Wind for Schools project: Arriba-Flagler Consolidated School District High School in Flagler, Burlington High School in Burlington, Kit Carson High School in Kit Carson, Stratton High School in Stratton, Walsh High School in Walsh, and Wellington Middle School in Wellington, Ponderosa High School in Parker, Nederland Middle/Senior High School in Nederland, and Park County RE-2 School District in Fairplay.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Wind Powering America initiative, based at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, has helped to launch the Wind for Schools project in 11 states (Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Alaska, Arizona, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia) to address workforce development needs and public resistance to wind energy deployment.
This year marks the 13th anniversary of the Wirth Chair Awards and will celebrate the "Creators of a Sustainable Future." Recipients include The Colorado Foundation for Water Education, Veterans Green Jobs, the Denver Sustainability Park, the Colorado Alliance of Environmental Education, and the late David Getches, former dean of the University of Colorado School of Law.
The Wirth Chair in Sustainable Development at the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver is named for former U.S. Senator and Undersecretary of State Timothy E. Wirth and honors environmental and sustainable development achievements across Colorado.
Get more information about the Wind for Schools project.
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With the adjournment of the Oklahoma House of Representatives on May 22, 2009, House Resolutions 1014 and 1015, attacking Richard Dawkins, are presumably dead.
NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott will discuss the significance of Ida, the 47-million-year-old primate fossil dominating the headlines, on the Culture Shocks radio show on May 26, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. EST.
Writing in Seed, NCSE's Joshua Rosenau explains what the new Texas state science standards mean for science education nationwide.
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Lethal Weather On 'World's Most Dangerous Lake' - L. Victoria
Straddling three East African countries -- Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya -- Lake Victoria has for centuries been a vital resource for the millions of people living along its vast coastline.
The massive lake, which stretches some 70,000 square kilometers, is the world's second-biggest freshwater body and the biggest of its kind in Africa, as well as the chief reservoir of the Nile. Home to a stunning archipelago of more than 80 islands, Lake Victoria provides a livelihood for the fishermen navigating its waters and the businesses dotting its shores.
But for many that comes with a risk.
According to local officials, about 5,000 people are killed every year on the lake, victims of erratic weather conditions and a mix of poor communications and lack of resources.
The high death toll makes the lake "arguably the most dangerous stretch of water in the world in terms of fatalities per square kilometer," according to The National Lake Rescue Institute, a group launched in 2002 to improve safety on Lake Victoria and provide education and training in maritime safety.
"It's very dangerous," says Sam Kabonge, a fisherman from the Bugala island in Lake Victoria, a tropical patch of land boasting sandy shores and lush forests. "You sit on top of water not knowing the depth of the pitch you are sitting on so in any case of accident ... even if you do [know how to swim], you might be far away in the lake."
Kabonge says not all fishermen can afford life jackets. At the same time, their small and often dilapidated vessels can easily succumb to the wind-whipped waves formed in the lake by its volatile microclimate.
"There are times when you may leave the landing site when the lake is still," explains Kabonge. "As you are in the middle of it, it starts getting rough -- rain, winds, clouds, and you know what happens next because ... our boats, cannot resist the strength of the wave. Sometimes they break; others capsize."
Ugandan meteorologist Khalid Muwembe says the lake, which lies on the Equator, has a distinct effect on the region's weather.
"Because the lake is generally warm and has a lot of moisture, we find that it generates this very big, what we call, convective potential energy, which generates a lot of cloudness and this unique nature of weather characterized by heavy thunderstorms which sometimes can be dangerous," he explains.
Muwembe is part of a team testing a new mobile alert system aiming to improve the delivery of weather forecasts and help vulnerable fishing communities in Lake Victoria protect themselves from dangerous conditions.
Under the free pilot program, locals receive tailor-made text messages on their mobile phones, providing them with daily weather forecasts, warnings about potential hazards and advice on what action they should take.
Muwembe says the mobile alert weather system is helping fishermen to plan safer outings.
"For a long period of time, we didn't have a very good weather service to try and guide and promote safety of all those navigating over the lake," he says. "So because of that -- and also daily reports of accidents over the lake -- we thought it was very important that we have a weather system where we are giving the users of the small vessels over the lake at least some guidance on what kind of storms they expect to find over the lake."
See also: Why Do So Many Africans Drown?
"We provide this information on a daily basis as texts on their mobile phones and in a situation where we see that there is a very dangerous storm which is developing, we also give them an additional message, which we call an alert. We say that 'this is happening, please take action, or hold position,' or whatever it is that will at least promote safety," he adds.
For fishermen like Kabonge, who is among those involved in the pilot program, the localized weather information is a vital service that can help people in the community stay safe.
"We need it because ever since it came, at least the death tolls have reduced," says Kabonge, who calls for the program's expansion. "The lake is too wide -- if it [the program] could go across the whole lake, our brothers also may get use of it."
And for Kabonge that is what is most important -- to use new technology to help protect the lives of Lake Victoria's fishermen.


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It's not that difficult: Identify what's wrong with the Bears and find a coach who can fix it.
The offense is what's wrong with the Bears.
Jon Gruden can fix it.
Lovie Smith never fixed it. That's one of the reasons he was fired. Smith continually fired offensive coordinators for failing to fix it and continually hired offensive coordinators who also failed to fix it.
Today's NFL demands that offenses score points. Smith's offenses couldn't. That resulted in collapses the last two seasons. Smith also failed to make the playoffs five of the last six seasons and never won a Super Bowl in nine years. That's the object of the exercise. Smith failed. His offense failed. His choices failed.
That's why the Bears need to replace Smith with a Super Bowl-winning coach who knows offense.
Don't bring me another hot defensive coordinator. We've seen that with Smith, Dick Jauron and Dave Wannstedt. How'd that work out for everybody?
The NFL has rigged the game. The offenses get every break, every new rule, every questionable call.
And despite that, the Bears offense remains awful. Connect the dots, people.
Connect the dots, Phil Emery.
The Bears have gone defense in their head-coaching hires. The Bears have gone with promoting assistants. The Bears have gone without a Super Bowl since Mike Ditka.
If you're going to make a change, then make it a big one: An accomplished offensive head coach.
The NFL rewards offensive creativity, and believe me, Gruden knows offense.
After his first year in Oakland, his offenses ranked eighth, third and fourth in scoring. His quarterback was Rich Gannon. Do you think Jay Cutler has more physical talent that Gannon?
Yeah, me, too.
His offenses in Tampa Bay, frankly, ranked in Bears territory. Those numbers might be the biggest argument against hiring Gruden.
But he won a Super Bowl in Tampa Bay, beating the Raiders team he put together. In Tampa, Gruden inherited a great defense that allowed him to develop an efficient offense run by Brad Johnson.
Do you think Cutler has more physical talent than Jonson?
Yeah, me, too.
The bigger question might be this: Is it believed around the league that Cutler is uncoachable and ultimately a coach-killer to the point that smart offensive minds are too smart to take the job as his boss?
I don't know if Gruden can solve Cutler or even wants to. I don't know if Gruden could be lured out of the "Monday Night Football'' booth for the Bears job. I don't know if the Bears have the appetite to pay the kind of bidding-war money it probably would require. I don't know if the Bears believe it's important to bring in a coach who has won what the Bears haven't since 1985.
But I know that the way the Bears have gone about it since 1985 hasn't worked.
I think it was George Santayana who said that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to losing to Green Bay. Something like that.


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How Big An Issue Are Orphan Works?
from the longing-for-a-public-domain dept
In the meantime, though, since that doesn't seem likely, many are pushing for such orphan works laws. Unfortunately, there has been a lot of blatant misinformation spread around against orphan works legislation, who insist that it's really a way for companies to use works without paying for them. Of course, the various proposals for orphan works laws make it clear this is not the case. They all require the potential user to conduct a very real and very serious search for the copyright holder. You can't just declare the the copyright holder can't be found.
Of course, another complaint against orphan works legislation is that orphan works really aren't much of a problem, as they're somewhat "rare." How rare are they? Well, Michael Scott points us to a report trying to quantify the number of orphan works in Europe alone. The numbers are pretty impressive:
- 3 million orphan books
- 129,000 orphan films (potentially up to 225,000)
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Earlier this week, I got to re-connect with two pretty amazing gals — Ashland's Ginny Auer and her 8-year-old dynamo daughter, Tess Hemmerling.
The pair had just returned from a cross-country trek to visit family and friends. And exciting locales like New Orleans, Broadway and the Grand Canyon, to name just a few.
Their grand adventure was a deeply personal spiritual quest in honor of Ginny's husband and Tess' father, Troy Hemmerling, who, after a courageous 16-month struggle, lost his battle with a rare form of cancer on April 21, 2011.
Before Troy died, he wrote Ginny a letter and placed it inside a card. He signed it, "LIVE HUGE, Troy."
And so they did. All summer long.
But now they were back home. And while Tess was happy to return to her home, her pooch, her friends and her school, Ginny had a tougher re-entry. She was deeply missing her beloved partner — a man whose motto was "We must be brave, foolish, joyful and generous. Every day."
I worried Ginny might feel rudderless and adrift. That she'd have a big case of the "now whats?"
I should have remembered Troy was always teasing Ginny that she was the posterchild for perpetually stuffing 10 pounds of Live Huge into a 5-pound bag. She already was headed off on her next adventure.
"This would have been Troy's 50th year on the planet. To commemorate that, I am going to do a hike a day for 50 days," Ginny wrote on the Live Huge Facebook page.
She's going to reduce the junk in her trunk while raising money to help Kids Konnected — a national organization founded on the premise that when a parent gets cancer, the entire family is affected, especially the children.
"Because I love giving back and engaging others to join me, I am asking you to sponsor me. One dollar a hike, a quarter a hike ... whatever you can spare. That will keep me motivated and help out the children receiving counseling services through Kids Konnected. Wahoo!!!" she wrote.
When Troy was diagnosed on Nov. 9, 2009, life shifted dramatically for all of them. Tess was only 5 years old. And she didn't understand what was happening to her dad. To her life.
Months of treatments slid into years. As Ginny continued to support her husband's battle, she also continued to keep an open and age-appropriate dialog going with Tess. They read books that deal with the topic of a parent having cancer. They discussed what it means when daddy loses his hair. They even discussed the question, "Is daddy going to die?"
But even though Ginny's communication is good with her emotionally articulate daughter, she knew Tess might need someone else safe to talk to about her feelings — and to realize other kids are going through the same challenges. So she started looking in the community for therapeutic support. Enter Kids Konnected.
Ginny wants to continue helping Kids Konnected help kids such as Tess. And she's willing to put her soles where her soul is.
"I realized the best thing I can do is walk," Ginny wrote. "Troy and I always bemoaned the fact that we lived in this beautiful place and did not take advantage of the beauty by hiking more of the hikes."
Ginny's hikes will consist of anywhere from one to 14 miles on local trails. She's calling her fundraiser a Widow's Walk. Ginny wondered whether I wanted to come up with a 50-list of my own. I'm pondering the notion.
Meanwhile, if you want to join Ginny's Widow's Walk team, see her fundraising page at www.crowdrise.com/ww50in50/fundraiser/ginnyauer1. Or you can mail or drop off a check for Kids Konnected to United Way of Jackson County, 769 Spring St., Medford, OR 97504.
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Fifty hikes in 50 days is Ginny Auer's next step
Earlier this week, I got to re-connect with two pretty amazing gals — Ashland's Ginny Auer and her 8-year-old dynamo daughter, Tess Hemmerling.


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Philippe Herreweghe's Harmonia Mundi recordings of Bruckner's 4th, 5th, and 7th symphonies with the Orchestre des Champs Elysées have met a mixed reception. Some reviewers have been downright hostile – e.g. this review of the 4th by David Hurwitz. I have a much more positive response. There are real benefits to listening to Bruckner's symphonies played by a smaller orchestra – as Herreweghe points out in the booklet accompanying the 7th, the balance of his forces is pretty close to that of the Leipzig Gewandhaus in the 1880s. And the use of period instruments and gut strings adds new timbres and sonorities. He is not a purist about editions, but does leave out the cymbal clash in the Adagio on the 7th (which makes good sense in the context of his overall approach – although including it works well for many other conductors).
The real strengths of Herreweghe's approach are, first, how the smaller orchestra allows the finer details of Bruckner's orchestration to emerge and, second, his grasp of the verticality of Bruckner's scores. On this second point, and as one might expect from a conductor so steeped in Bach, Herreweghe does wonderful job with the heavily contrapuntal 5th (particularly the fugue and double fugue in the final movement). He typically adopts fairly constant tempi. This generally works well, although the slow movement of the 5th has its longeurs and the overall architecture of some of the longer movements occasionally gets blurred.
Herreweghe's Bruckner is much more the religious symphonist than the Romantic Wagner enthusiast. There is a good deal to be learnt from listening to him in this light. The most recent of these recordings was 2009. It's about time for an 8th and a 9th. And, for that matter, why not a 6th and a 3rd?
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201 F.3d 937, affirmed.
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BUFORD v. UNITED STATES
The United States Sentencing Guidelines, as relevant here, define a career offender as one with at least two prior felony convictions for violent or drug-related crimes and provide that a sentencing judge must count as a single prior conviction all related convictions, advising that they are related when, inter alia, they were consolidated for sentencing. The Seventh Circuit has held that because two prior convictions might have been consolidated for sentencing, and hence related, even if a sentencing court did not enter a formal consolidation order, a court should decide whether such convictions were nonetheless functionally consolidated, meaning that they were factually or logically related and sentencing was joint. Petitioner Buford pleaded guilty to armed bank robbery. At sentencing, the Government conceded that her four prior robbery convictions were related, but did not concede that her prior drug conviction was related to the robberies. The District Court decided that the drug and robbery cases had not been consolidated, either formally or functionally, and the Seventh Circuit affirmed, reviewing the District Courts decision deferentially rather than de novo.
Held: Deferential review is appropriate when an appeals court reviews a trial courts Sentencing Guideline determination as to whether an offenders prior convictions were consolidated for sentencing. The relevant federal sentencing statute requires a reviewing court not only to accept a district courts findings of fact (unless clearly erroneous), but also to give due deference to the courts application of the guidelines to the facts. 18 U.S.C. § 3742(e) (emphasis added). The deference that is due depends on the nature of the question presented. Koon v. United States, 518 U.S. 81, 98. Although Buford argues that the nature of the question hereapplying a Guideline term to undisputed factsdemands no deference at all, the district court is in a better position than the appellate court to decide whether individual circumstances demonstrate functional consolidation. Experience with trials, sentencing, and consolidation procedures will help a district judge draw the proper inferences from the procedural descriptions provided. In addition, factual nuance may closely guide the legal decision, with legal results depending heavily upon an understanding of the significance of case-specific details. And the decisions fact-bound nature limits the value of appellate court precedent, which may provide only minimal help when other courts consider other procedural circumstances, state systems, and crimes. Insofar as greater uniformity is necessary, the Sentencing Commission can provide it. Pp. 47.
201 F.3d 937, affirmed.
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The Conservatory of Music at Taylor is part of the E P Wahl Centre, and offers high-quality music instruction to students of all ages and abilities. We are located in Muller Hall on the grounds of Taylor College and Seminary, the tall brick building on the west side of the Taylor campus, beside the main parking lot; click here for a link to Google maps.
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