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A diet high in fat and cholesterol may contribute to the development of heart disease in adulthood. A "heart healthy" diet may help prevent or treat high blood cholesterol levels. The American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition recommends that healthy children age 2 years or older follow a diet low in fat (30 percent of calories from fat). These are the same recommendations for healthy adults. A diet high in fat, especially saturated fat, may increase your child's risk for heart disease and obesity in adulthood. It is important to teach your child about healthy eating so that they can make healthy food choices as adults.
It is important not to put children under the age of 2 years on a low fat diet unless advised by your child's physician. Children under the age of 2 years need fat in their diets to promote appropriate growth and development.
Saturated fat is a type of fat that is found in foods. This type of fat may raise the body's total blood cholesterol level more than other types of fat. Most saturated fats are solid at room temperature. Some foods high in saturated fat include the following:
cream cheese
fatty meats
chicken skin
whole milk
ice cream
coconut oil
palm oil
Unsaturated fat is a type of fat that is found in foods. This type of fat does not usually increase the body's total blood cholesterol level when eaten in moderate amounts. Some foods high in unsaturated fats include the following:
olive oil
canola oil
nuts and seeds
peanut butter
corn oil and vegetable oils
Cholesterol is a waxy substance that is made by the body and found in some foods. Cholesterol found in foods is called dietary cholesterol. Dietary cholesterol is found in animal foods such as the following:
dairy products
Plant foods (grains, fruits, and vegetables) do not contain cholesterol. If the body's blood cholesterol gets too high, then cholesterol may build up in the heart and cause damage.
The food guide pyramid is a guideline to help you and your child eat a healthy diet. The food guide pyramid can help you and your child eat a variety of foods while encouraging the right amount of calories and fat. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the US Department of Health and Human Services have prepared the following food pyramid to guide parents in selecting foods for children 2 years and older.
The Food Pyramid is divided into six colored bands representing the five food groups plus oils:
Orange represents grains: Make half the grains consumed each day whole grains. Whole-grain foods include oatmeal, whole-wheat flour, whole cornmeal, brown rice, and whole-wheat bread. Check the food label on processed foods - the words "whole" or "whole grain" should be listed before the specific grain in the product.
Green represents vegetables: Vary your vegetables. Choose a variety of vegetables, including dark green- and orange-colored kinds, legumes (peas and beans), starchy vegetables, and other vegetables.
Red represents fruits: Focus on fruits. Any fruit or 100 percent fruit juice counts as part of the fruit group. Fruits may be fresh, canned, frozen, or dried, and may be whole, cut-up, or pureed.
Yellow represents oils: Know the limits on fats, sugars, and salt (sodium). Make most of your fat sources from fish, nuts, and vegetable oils. Limit solid fats like butter, stick margarine, shortening, and lard, as well as foods that contain these.
Blue represents milk: Get your calcium-rich foods. Milk and milk products contain calcium and vitamin D, both important ingredients in building and maintaining bone tissue. Use low-fat or fat-free milk after the age of two years. However, during the first year of life, infants should be fed breast milk or iron-fortified formula. Whole cow's milk may be introduced after an infant's first birthday, but lower-fat or skim milk should not be used until the child is at least two years old.
Purple represents meat and beans: Go lean on protein. Choose low fat or lean meats and poultry. Vary your protein routine - choose more fish, nuts, seeds, peas, and beans.
Activity is also represented on the pyramid by the steps and the person climbing them, as a reminder of the importance of daily physical activity.
According to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 (the most recent guidelines), a decrease in energy intake of 50 to 100 calories per day for children who are gaining excess fat can reduce the rate at which they gain weight. With this reduction in energy intake, they will grow into a healthy weight as they age. Help your child to find higher-calorie foods that can be cut from his/her daily intake.
Try to control when and where food is eaten by your children by providing regular daily meal times with social interaction and demonstration of healthy eating behaviors.
Involve children in the selection and preparation of foods and teach them to make healthy choices by providing opportunities to select foods based on their nutritional value.
For children in general, reported dietary intakes of the following are low enough to be of concern by the USDA: vitamin E, calcium, magnesium, potassium, and fiber. Select foods with these nutrients when possible.
Most Americans need to reduce the amount of calories they consume. When it comes to weight control, calories do count. Controlling portion sizes and eating non-processed foods helps limit calorie intake and increase nutrients.
Parents are encouraged to provide recommended serving sizes for children.
Parents are encouraged to limit children's video, television watching, and computer use to less than two hours daily and replace the sedentary activities with activities that require more movement.
Children and adolescents need at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity on most days for maintenance of good health and fitness and for healthy weight during growth.
To prevent dehydration, encourage children to drink fluid regularly during physical activity and drink several glasses of water or other fluid after the physical activity is completed.
To find more information about the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 and to determine the appropriate dietary recommendations for your child's age, sex, and physical activity level, visit the Online Resources page for the links to the Food Pyramid and 2005 Dietary Guidelines sites. Please note that the Food Pyramid is designed for persons over the age of two who do not have chronic health conditions.
Always consult your child's physician regarding his/her healthy diet and exercise requirements.
Bake, broil, or grill foods instead of frying whenever possible.
Choose low-fat meats such as chicken, fish, turkey, lean pork, and lean beef (meat without visible fat and without skin).
Limit high-fat meats such as sausage, bacon, hot dogs, salami, pepperoni, bologna, and fried meat.
Increase intake of fresh fruits and vegetables.
Use fruits as dessert instead of high-fat desserts (i.e., ice cream, cake, cookies).
Limit amounts of added fat such as margarine, butter, oil, salad dressing, and mayonnaise.
Use low-fat dairy products such as low-fat milk, low-fat or fat-free cheese, low-fat or fat-free sour cream and cream cheese, and low-fat ice cream.
Consider the following examples of food for healthier eating:
Food Product Category
Eat Less
Eat More
Meat and meat substitutes, poultry, fish, dry beans, and nuts
Regular beef, pork, lamb, regular ground beef, fatty cuts of meat
Poultry with skin, fried chicken
Fried fish
Regular lunch meat (bologna, salami, sausage, hot dogs)
Beef, pork, lamb, lean cuts (90 percent lean, well-trimmed before cooking)
Poultry without skin
Fish, shellfish
Processed meat prepared from lean meat
Dry beans and peas
Tofu and tempeh
Nuts and seeds
Fried eggs in butter
Egg whites
Egg substitutes
Dairy products
Milk: whole and 2 percent milk
Yogurt: whole milk types
Cheese: Regular cheeses (American, cheddar, Swiss, blue, Monterey Jack, cream cheese)
Frozen dairy desserts: regular ice cream
Milk: nonfat (skim), low-fat, buttermilk
Yogurt: nonfat or low-fat
Cheese: low-fat or nonfat types
Frozen dairy desserts: low-fat or nonfat ice cream, low-fat or nonfat frozen yogurt
Fats and oils
Coconut oil, palm kernel, palm oil, butter, lard, shortening, bacon fat, regular mayonnaise, sour cream, cream cheese, salad dressings, and trans fats
Unsaturated oils: safflower, sunflower, corn, soybean, canola, olive, peanut
Low-fat or nonfat mayonnaise, margarine, sour cream, cream cheese, and salad dressings
Grains (whole grains and refined grains)
Refined grains, biscuits, cornbread, muffins, pancakes, breakfast pastries, doughnuts, waffles, granolas, fried rice, and packaged pasta and rice mixes
Whole-grain breads, pasta, rice, and cereals made without added fat
Vegetables (dark green- and orange-colored kinds, legumes-beans and peas, starchy vegetables, and other vegetables)
Vegetables fried or prepared with butter, cheese, or cream sauce; olives, avocados
Fresh, frozen, or canned, without added fat or sauce
Fruit (whole, cut- up, pureed, and 100 percent fruit juice)
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A few years ago I was at a hockey game with a friend and out of the blue he said, "You know what? We just paid good money to watch grown men skate around and whack a piece of rubber with a stick." That made me laugh at the time, but today while watching the olympics I remembered him saying that and I started to look at each sport from that perspective, at the utter silliness of some sports.
I can understand the military origins of some of the older sports like the javelin and the various fighting sports, but most of them really are pretty silly. We're all here because we like to watch men hit a ball with a stick and run in circles. People around the world like to watch men run up and down a field and try to kick a ball into a net at the end and get quite fanatical about it. I enjoy hitting a little white ball only to have to walk after it and hit it again until I eventually, often with too many hits, manage to hit it into a hole in the ground. Have you ever looked at some of the sports you enjoy watching or playing and remarked to yourself or someone else how completely silly they are when you really think about it?


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The Dalles Viemeister sisters sing Aug. 18
The vocal stylings of The Dalles graduates Jena and Anna Viemeister will be on display Sunday, Aug. 18, at an afternoon of music titled "Cloaks and Daggers, an Operatic Cabaret."
The performance will take place at 2 p.m. at the Riverenza with a "hint of film noir." The sisters, both trained opera singers, will be performing a variety of arias and duets accompanied by Barbara Haren.
Jena is working on a master's degree from the Boston Conservatory and has a bachelor's of music in voice from Portland State University.
Anna has vocal performance degrees from Portland State University and Manhatten School of Music and has been working as a professional opera singer in New York City for the past four years.
Tickets ($15 for regular admission and $10 for seniors) are on sale at Klindt's Booksellers and the Riverenza. A free glass of wine or juice and chocolate-covered strawberries from Anzac Tea Parlor will be provided to each attendee.
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By the way, what is considered the requisite number of posts to be considered an all-knowing expert?
And is it a certain number of posts and then you're sondiered to be an expert on everything or do you have to have a certain number of posts in a specific topic area to be considered an expert in just that area?
I'm burning some time while I wait to talk to the IRS, at this rate, I could about double my number of posts if I wanted to.
P.s write that down. One for the ages :)
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A "feminosexual" is a less commonly used word for a lesbian used by people who felt 'homosexual' better describes same-sex attracted males.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Word of the Gay: "Feminosexual"
Posted by Queers United at 12:00 AM
5 comments:
- Laurie said...
That does sound better for a woman....
- January 12, 2009 at 5:52 AM
- Queers United said...
I like it but it implies femininity and some lesbians are butchosexual lol.
- January 12, 2009 at 11:51 AM
- Ray of Sunshine said...
Now, if we could just find a term to incorporate the two, feminosexual and butchosexual..........
- January 12, 2009 at 1:00 PM
- bridgeout said...
I like that! I definitely love the feminine aspects of my same-sex attraction. Definitely not struggling with my same sex attraction! ;)
- January 12, 2009 at 1:07 PM
- Lyndon said...
Well, seeing I haven't dated in years (I have enough trouble putting up with myself let alone others) I chose now be called ASMEONLYASEXUAL, thank you very much !!
- January 12, 2009 at 7:17 PM
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I got to see them. I think it was a great first attempt! It looks so cool.If I could make a recommendation? Use a smaller piping tip for the cherry blossom work next time to account for the spreading.
was it tasty? and what did you use for the filling?
I bow to your piping skills if you managed that with just the corner snipped of a ziploc bag!
Oh, my! That's gorgeous!Kudos to you for your first the attempt! And I'm glad that the crack and pale colors don't put you off of trying again.What was your son's reaction? I bet he was tickled pink!
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Minnesota, where the house resides, is a non-recourse state. A HELOC exists which I guess can bring a deficiency judgement. That lien is with a different bank (US Bank) than the primary mortgage (Wells Fargo). Not worried so much about my ability to pay the HELOC off. But the primary mortgage is making me nervous. Bought the house in 2002 at 144K. Mortgage has been worked down to 100K. 2013 says the home value will now be worth 80K. If I drop to 60K in 2014 then I feel I will need to do something.
I can't do HARP 2.0 because I used HARP 1.0 which only reduced me from 6.25% to 5.625%, not even a whole point. I can't refinance because of equity reasons obviously.
I can't do HAMP because I try to be a good person and make my payments. I've never missed one. Really $#@!ing annoyed at how this debt system works.
Short sale I hear might be an option but I don't really understand how that works? I really just want to hand over the keys and be free from this $#@!ty mess if things get any worse...
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Look in any biomedical laboratory, and you will find HeLa cells. Over 50 million tonnes of these cells have been grown in churning vats of liquid all over the world. They have been one of the most important tools in modern medicine, pushing forward our understanding of cancer and other diseases, and underpinning the polio…


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Cole Porter
One of the most sophisticated composers of American 20th-century popular song, Cole Porter was also a gifted lyricist whose texts are full of double entendres and clever witticisms, some of them proving too shocking for the theatre. His music includes some of the best-known songs in American popular culture such as 'Ev'ry Time we say Goodbye', 'I get a kick out of you', and 'Anything Goes'.
Porter was born in Indiana on 9 June 1891 and, in addition to learning violin and piano as a child, quickly discovered his gift for composing melodies. A period studying law at Yale was followed by a year studying harmony and counterpoint at Harvard (1915-16), by which time he had his first show, See America First, running on Broadway.
In 1917 Porter moved to Paris, married a socialite, and gave fashionable parties in Paris, Venice and on the Riviera, at which he would often perform his own songs. In 1919 he studied harmony with Vincent d' Indy and in 1923 wrote a jazz-influenced ballet, Within the Quota.
Porter achieved success in 1929 with the show Wake Up and Dream in London, followed by the song-and-dance musicals Gay Divorce for Fred Astaire in 1932 and Anything Goes (1934). Many of Porter's most famous songs date from these shows, which were later filmed. Porter also contributed songs for Hollywood films, including Born to Dance (1936) and Rosalie (1937).
Following a riding accident that crippled him, Porter suffered a period of decline in which he songs went out of fashion. In 1948, however, he wrote a masterpiece based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew called Kiss Me Kate that became extremely popular. He continued to provide songs for Hollywood films, including High Society (1956) and Night and Day (1946), but after the death of his wife in 1954, Porter withdrew from society. He died in Santa Monica, California on 15 October 1964.
Porter's achievements in the field of popular song are almost unrivalled. He possessed a rare gift for melody, and was also a keen experimenter with harmony and rhythm. His songs have an elegance and sophistication that reveal the depth and quality of his musical training, and have entered the cultural language of America.
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The utopian undersea city of Eden was once a haven of peace, harmony and beauty. Constructed in secret by a group of enlightened people who treasured noble ideals, knowledge and new discoveries, it blossomed into a harmonious, peaceful society. However, their insatiable curiosity led to Eden's downfall. A mysterious finding dug up from an ancient seabed unleashed supernatural forces that pitted the citizens against each other, turning them into the merciless executors of a sinister will. Fear and cruelty replaced peace and enlightenment. This fantastic civilization quickly perishes, leaving only a small group of resistance fighters hiding in its ruins.
When a famed underwater explorer accidentally discovers the city only to disappear under mysterious circumstances, his fiance must descend to the gloomy depths of Eden to find him.
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If a ballot initiative passes in November, the Brush School District could realize an additional $2.3 million in the 2015-16 school year.
That was the good news School Business Officer Aaron Oberg reported to the Brush Board of Education (BOE) at its meeting last Tuesday.
According to Oberg, the initiative - Senate Bill 213 - has received enough signatures, but has not been certified to be put on the ballot as of the meeting.
Oberg explained the district's revenue is 18 percent lower than it otherwise would be without reductions in the state formula funding due to the recent recession, with no recovery anticipated due to TABOR restrictions.
At the same time as the state cuts, he continued, the district's pupil count increased 1.9 percent and at-risk pupil count grew by 19.6 percent with $6.2 million less in funding.
Additionally, he explained, the state created additional mandates including educator effectiveness and early literacy without additional funding.
Oberg noted that serving the increased pupil count and at-risk students, implementing various new mandates, while absorbing the $6.2 million in cuts is the definition of "doing more with less".
He continued by explaining that next year's funding is expected to grow by inflation only and will continue to be reduced by state reductions of 15.53 percent.
Among other things, the ballot initiative would raise individual income taxes and transfer 43 percent of state tax revenues to the State Education Fund.
For workers in the Brush School District, there would be an increase to taxes of $30.16 on $24,262 of earnings, which is the median earnings for the district.
"Is SB 213 perfect?" Oberg asked. "No one has said that it is, but it is a step in the right direction. It is a piece of legislation…it can be amended."
As the Brush BOE agreed in its last meeting not to pursue the Mill Levy Override, Board President Don Dillehay commented, "If this resolution does not pass, there would be some real big decisions by the school board and district in the future. We have lost about $6.2 million in the last several years."
Oberg added that if the initiative passes, providing an estimated nearly $2.3 million to the district, there also would be additional funding streams available of which the district should be eligible for. "We would go after it," he commented.
After hearing the presentation, board members unanimously adopted a resolution officially declaring its support for the statewide ballot initiative to increase state individual income taxes for the purpose of funding public education.
In other business, board members approved a proposal from Primex Wireless to replace 47 clocks at Brush Middle School.
Maintenance Director Barry Quinlin explained that the original system was installed in 1974, with the current system and clocks not made anymore. "Clock replacement is extremely expensive, anywhere from $300 to $400 per clock," he explained.
The 12 1/2- to 13-inch clocks, along with a 16-inch clock for the gymnasium, he continued, need to be wireless, battery operated, have the ability to be synchronized, as well as adjust for Daylight Savings Time and power outages.
In putting out bids, Quinlin received information from Beacon Communications, LLC of Denver, Franklin Instrument Co. of Warminster, Pennsylvania, and Primex Wireless, Inc. of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, ranging from nearly $7,000 to $18,000.
According to Quinlin, this particular project has been in the five-year plan for several years, and is budgeted at $14,000.
His recommendation to accept Primex Wireless's bid at $10,458.45 was based on the fact that the same system is currently used in both Thomson Primary School and the high school. "It has been flawless for us," he told the board, adding that the PA system and school bells will tie into the system as well.
Quinlin noted that if ordered by the end of last week, the clocks would be received by the end of the month.
The maintenance director also reported that the glass for the high school's courtyard windows was due for completion this past weekend.
He also explained that close to 30,000 feet of wire has been pulled for the new security features in the school district, with installation expected to be completed last week. The programmer was expected to begin setting up the computers and inputting employee information mid-week with that to be completed in time for the start of school this week.
Quinlin added that the Raptor system at the middle school, Thomson Primary and Beaver Valley Elementary will be completed, although the enclosure at the high school was behind schedule. The plan was to have that structure completed this past weekend. "Testing on the Raptor system has been done and it is working," he noted.
The BOE also approved the purchase of a 2013 4WD extended cab work truck for the high school, as it is short one vehicle. Noting it was a state bid, Oberg commented, "We are lucky because most of the state bid trucks are gone," adding that the dealership has been good to the district in that it has held the truck for a little over a month, giving the district time to receive board approval.
Although the vehicle came in a little higher than Quinlin's $35,000 budget, Oberg explained there is room in his five-year plan for the truck. "It is a $47,300 truck, but through the state bid, it is $35,755."
The bid also includes a utility box and snow plow. "It's a work truck," Quinlin explained, with Oberg adding, "It's ready to be picked up."
Oberg also informed the board that this is the last year to obtain extended cabs through the state bid process, as the state will be going to quad cabs in the future.
In other matters, the board heard from Superintendent of Schools Dr. Michelle Johnstone, who reported the Colorado Department of Education reports the district served 9,000 meals in its summer food program. "That tells me that there's a need in our community," she remarked.
The superintendent also reported that with the new Gold Curriculum coming to the district, that a grant $1,074 has been received, allowing the district to cover site licenses. "Bits and pieces are coming together," she noted.
Also at last week's meeting, board members approved an employee handbook that will be made available to staff.
The BOE also approved a memorandum of understanding between the Brush School District and Brush UMC Head Start, with Dr. Johnstone explaining that, if approved, the memorandum would allow the district to work with the Head Start program to combine services.
The understanding also states the director would receive 60 percent of her salary from Head Start, with the district to provide the remaining 40 percent. The district also would take on the budget/finance piece after Head Start has completed its audit the end of this month; would take over the human resources side with hiring and labor practices; as well as partner on the technology side which began last year.
Vehicle maintenance, not to exceed $11,000, is another aspect to the agreement.
"We're super excited," Dr. Johnstone said of the one-year agreement. "This will put us in sync with professional development, kids…whether it's Head Start or district students, they will make the same gains."
"This venture will absolutely give us the capacity to increase enrollment. I'm excited about the potential," the superintendent remarked.
When asked how the programs sit when it comes to housing, the superintendent stated, "We're okay, we have walked through the building," adding that offices will be moved around to make necessary accommodations.
Looking to future housing, Head Start Director Barb Wacker stated, "It would be ideal to be under one roof, but there are so many good things that we can do for our families and district. I think we can only continue to go forward and bring those opportunities to children."
As to working together and combining forces, Thomson Primary School Principal Dave Uhrig commented, "Barb has already found a way to add a couple more kids…in the past couple of years we didn't have that knowledge. Having her on board, we are already seeing the benefit."
He continued, "Head Start has a wealth of resources…training for teachers, co-teachers and families. With all the training that Head Start and the federal programs provide, both can provide that, not just for Head Start but for Brush. Her knowledge of the Gold Curriculum and the Readiness Acts can help us move that into our kindergarten. It's just awesome. There are other things down the road where we may be able to share. I think there's going to be quite a few more benefits to go with this."
Board discussion also centered around the iConnect program, the alternative school located in Fort Morgan. According to Superintendent Dr. Johnstone, Brush has 15 students returning to the program, with another five slots open.
The Brush School District has a total of 20 slots in the alternative program which will begin its second year of a four-year grant.
Board members also approved a lengthy consensus agenda consisting of several employments, transfers and resignations.
Employed were Bobby Murphy as the Technology Systems Specialist; Raelene Massey as a paraprofessional at Thomson Primary; Morgan Tolentino as the BHS assistant girls basketball coach; Heather Monett as a first grade teacher at Thomson; Clinton Hedges, math teacher at the middle school; Araceli Flores as ESL/Spanish Teacher at BHS; Kort Marques, BHS assistant football coach; Charlene Carrera as an LPN at Thomson; Deanne Tucker, science teacher at the middle school; Brian Talmich, science teacher at BMS; and Glenda Howell as a health clerk at Beaver Valley.
Resignations accepted by the BOE were Thomson LPN Amanda Brown; Karen Vosburg from her position as a BMS cook; Adam Cordova, BHS ESL/Spanish teacher; George Mussell, BHS assistant boys basketball coach; Dan Kennedy, BHS assistant boys basketball coach, Kala Alton, paraprofessional at Thomson; Matthew Gorrell, maintenance worker; Virginia Rocha, BHS cross country volunteer and Lee Sandblom from his position as BHS science teacher.
Approval was given to transfer Brian Singley from the middle school to the high school science teacher position, and Rosalia Ortega as a volunteer at Thomson Primary School, with the board approving a stipend for Lisa Uhrig on the BMS school newspaper/yearbook staff.
The next meeting of the BOE will take place on Tuesday, September 3, with a work session beginning at 5 p.m. The regular meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the district office.


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Jackson paces No. 3 Duke women to easy rout of BC
Jackson paces No. 3 Duke women to easy rout of BCDuke's Chloe Wells, right, fights for a loose ball with Boston College's Lauren Engeln during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Durham, N.C., Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Ted Richardson)
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Short-handed by foul trouble and injury, No. 3 Duke showcased its impressive depth.
Reserve Richa Jackson scored a season-high 17 points to help the Blue Devils beat Boston College 78-57 on Sunday.
''I was really pleased with the bench overall and the way that everybody contributed,'' Duke coach Joanne P. McCallie said. ''Richa, she's a starter on the bench. So it was great to see her come into the game and make the difference that she made, which was absolutely huge.''
Haley Peters added 15 points and Alexis Jones had 10 for the Blue Devils (16-1, 3-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), who picked up the 800th victory in their program's history.
Chelsea Gray battled through a bruised thigh to score 11 points for Duke, which took control with a 19-2 run early in the first half.
Kat Cooper scored 21 points to lead Boston College (10-7, 1-2). Katie Zenevitch added 10 points for the Eagles. The Eagles scored on the first possession of the second half to cut Duke's lead to 43-32, but the Blue Devils answered with an 8-0 spurt.
Boston College shot 34 percent from the floor, including 9 of 34 from 3-point range.
''I thought the difference in this game was that they recovered so fast,'' Eagles coach Erik Johnson said. ''They were getting out to our shooters, so our percentage went down a little bit because we were rushing.''
Gray, the ACC leader in assists and steals, sat out the final 7:56 of the first half and the first 59 seconds of the second half with her injury. She limped her way through the early part of the second half before heading to the bench for good with Duke ahead 54-34 with 12:17 to play.
Gray heavily favored her right leg, on which she wears a knee brace after season-ending surgery last year.
Gray was not available for comment after the game, but McCallie said Gray was sore.
''She's OK, but we didn't play her for a reason,'' McCallie said.
The Blue Devils led 43-29 at halftime, seizing control with their defense.
After taking a 6-5 lead less than three minutes into the game, Boston College had turnovers on 12 of its next 16 possessions.
Duke ripped off a 19-2 run during that span despite significant foul trouble.
''They came out, and their defensive intensity definitely got us back on our heels,'' Johnson said.
Duke starters Jones, Peters and Tricia Liston each had two fouls less than seven minutes into the game. Liston and Peters sat for the remainder of the half.
''We've never had that kind of foul trouble in any game we've ever played,'' McCallie said. ''To have so many people with two fouls in the first half, it was an interesting twist to the game.''
Gray picked up the slack in their absence, engineering points on five consecutive possessions as the Blue Devils built their lead.
Gray made a 3-pointer, a wing jumper and two free throws in addition to assisting on a pair of layups to give Duke a 24-8 lead with 8:20 left in the half.
When she departed, Jackson took over with 10 points in the final seven minutes of the half.
''I just wanted to come in and bring a lot of energy, whatever I had to do,'' Jackson said. ''It's very rare that a lot of our starters get in foul trouble, so you just have to be ready and take advantage of your opportunities.''


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More formally a 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, this rare example of rolling French art deco styling was sold at a private auction, sometime last week, by the California-based auction house, Gooding & Company. Details of the transaction aren't being released but insiders hint the price tag was somewhere between $30 million and $40 million, which would handily exceed the previous record price paid for a car classic.
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You know the end is near for the long-running Google litigation when the books start coming out. In this case, the book inquestion is an e-book. At the end of 2012, GigaOM published staff reporter Jeff John Roberts's The Battle for the Books: Inside Google's Gambit to Create the World's Biggest Library. PW recently caught up with Roberts to get his take on the story behind the lawsuits.
What motivated Google to start scanning books. What's your theory?
Well, of course, there is the data, because the more you search, the more Google knows about you. However, I think Google is sometimes painted as overly mercenary or rapacious. The reality is there's a good bit of idealism in there. When [Google founders] Larry Page and Sergey Brin began to scan, they were men in their early 20s, the children of academics, and they were honestly excited about what digitization offered in terms of research, and the sharing of literature and knowledge.
Do you think this needed to end up in litigation?
Well, this is America—everything needs to be worked out by litigation! But, remember, when this all started we were still at the peak of the Napster litigation and music sharing, and all of the content industries were still freaking out and suing anything that disturbed them. So it was entirely predictable that there would be lawsuits. I do think it's unfortunate that the industry couldn't figure out a way early on to make it work, rather than setting out on a kind of rearguard action to defend the print empire.
What's the "story" here?
The story I tell is about what's happening to knowledge, how we share books, and what's going to become of libraries—will they still have relevance? I also wanted to show the divisions among librarians. Some see their roles as just being extended into the digital era and helping people find information. Some, however, fear for the loss of their power, and their beautiful places. Many libraries, especially university libraries, are lovely places full of treasures. And what Google has done diminishes their relevance, I think, which leads into the other prime thesis of the book—the shift in cultural power from New York to Silicon Valley. Culturally, it's been a diminishment for the East, watching its power and influence being usurped by computer programmers. But I do think there's a sort of cold, technocratic vision that goes with Silicon Valley. Putting engineers in charge of everything can be a bad idea. China's run by engineers, for example, and it's not a good place to be a writer or an artist.
What are some of the more memorable or surprising elements of the story for you?
It's not very dramatic, but a person I'm not very impressed with is Judge Denny Chin. I think his caution and political ambition have been detriments to the process. It took him 14 months to write a judgment that was frankly not very impressive, and it's partly due to him that the progress of digitization has slowed. Also, there's the role of Harvard librarian Robert Darnton, who basically launched a disinformation campaign to sandbag this thing. I was surprised by the raw ambition to preserve his influence. He wants, I think, to force Congress or Google somehow to give those books to him.
Digital reading has totally evolved since these suits were first filed, how did that affect the case?
Right, and this case follows the arc and the ascendancy of e-books and digital publishing. In a very contentious way, this battle kind of midwifed the explosion in digital publishing we see today. I mean, just three or four years ago, Google was supposed to take over every bookstore and library, and yet now it is Amazon that owns the literary ecosystem to an unimaginable degree. That was a remarkable shift.
What do you think we'll still remember from this publishing vs. technology moment in history? What would be a good ending?
I think we'll look back at the fading of the East Coast publishing and literary culture, and the rise of a more diverse but tech-based literary culture. As for an ending, I think the worst outcome would be for this [corpus] to be locked up for much longer. I think it's critical to make these wonderful books available as soon as possible.


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My mother says I was a perfect baby. In fact, I reached all the milestones early. In the spring of 1995, within hours of receiving my DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus) vaccination from the pediatrician, I suffered a seizure that lasted over 15 minutes. I was rushed to the hospital for a battery of inconclusive tests. I went on to experience seizures for the next ten years.
Seizures are a funny thing. When you're having one, you don't have control of your body, and you have no memory of it afterward. This incredibly scary event affects everyone around you, but you are strangely protected. I have never witnessed another person having a seizure, so I have no idea what it looks like. I wish I could say the same for my older brother, Marty. Many times he cared for me when I was seizing, laying me down, protecting my head, and calling 911.
At the age of three, I was enrolled in a school for children with special needs. I received daily therapy for eight hours, which continued at home. My parents researched and took the advice of many doctors on how to cope with my changing diagnoses: epilepsy, sensory integration disorder, autism, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and conduct disorder (CD), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), developmental delay, and on and on. At various times in my childhood, I was diagnosed with terms I think were invented just for me.
My parents surrounded themselves with great doctors who gave them hope and encouragement. One, Dr. Jose Ferreira, my neurologist from All Children's Hospital, told my parents they needed to treat me exactly like my brothers – holding me to the same expectations and punishing me for the same things. It might take me 50-100 times before I learned a behavior that my older brother could easily grasp, but they had to be consistent. This was reinforced by my Opa, my dad's father. He was very involved, since my dad was busy traveling and working. Opa believed in me and treated me as though I was normal. This was a saving grace.
As a child, my days were spent getting hours and hours of therapy. Weighted belts, educational toys, a special diet, music therapy, and deep tissue massages were all part of my daily routine. Of course, there were also many medications, each requiring extensive research by my parents. Finally, in 2002, my parents said, "Enough!"
They had a hunch that many of my behaviors were medically induced. They decided to go against the doctors' orders, wean me of my drugs, and re-evaluate my situation.
According to my family, what emerged was a miracle. I still had seizures, but not every day. I was in school and could read, but had fine motor skill problems, speech issues, and needed occupational therapy for help with coordination. But one new positive side effect was that I finally had a personality, something they hadn't seen since I was a one-year-old. Eventually, I was put back on medication for obsessive-compulsive tendencies and remained on these until I was 15, at which time I told my parents I no longer needed them, and they agreed.
To say I was in special education my whole life is an understatement. When I was three, they didn't even have schools for kids like me. I wasn't a behavioral problem; I was just cognitively delayed. From age two through five I seized constantly for 20- to 30-minutes at a time. Some seizures left me paralyzed, some left me twitching, others wiped me out for days.
When I turned six, the seizures became fewer and farther between. Because my immune system was compromised, the doctor recommended a non-contact sport, so my parents enrolled me and my brothers in swim classes. After the first six months, the warts that covered my knees were gone, I suffered less illness, and I was physically tired at the end of the day. And I have continued swimming to this day.
In 2007 I informed my parents that I wanted to go to a regular high school so I could play sports. They agreed to let me take the entrance exam at a local Catholic high school. Apparently my scores were the lowest in the history of the school. They suggested I return to seventh grade and try again in two years. I was crushed! My mom convinced them to let me attend for a probationary period, and if it was a complete disaster, they would pull me out in December.
They agreed, but I was expected to earn at least a 2.0, and I would be enrolled in a class designed to help develop study skills. Up until this point, I had no experience with textbooks, tests, homework assignments, or reading requirements. Attending a regular school would be a huge adjustment for me. My parents knew I would require hours and hours of tutoring just to learn the basics.
I managed to maintain a 3.7 GPA and finished my last semester with a 4.1. Unfortunately, as a result of my struggles freshman year, I will not have a career GPA high enough to make National Junior Honor Society – one of my goals.
Today I have my driver's license, which is great for getting to school and to my nine swim practices each week. I hold a leadership position in the Mission Club and hope to run for president this year. This club reaches out to less fortunate students to enlighten them and open their eyes to possibility.
I am the captain of the swim team and have swam in several high-level meets. My times continue to improve, which indicates that the next few years should be my best. Last season I was the team statistician for varsity football. It was through this experience that I realized my gift: I have an incredible ability to retain sports facts. I have always loved sports, with football, baseball, and basketball being my favorites. It is this interest and gift that led me to my current goal of wanting to study sports management and broadcasting in college.
Current testing indicates that my IQ is within the normal range, but this test does not measure my will or determination. My experience in high school continues to help me realize that I am willing to work twice as hard as most of my classmates. I still struggle with final exams, but I am more skilled with day-to-day study habits. Academic growth is always my top priority, with swimming being a close second. My high school experience has taught me many things, but the most important is that success is completely in my hands. I know I will not be sorting screws, because I have the desire to be great!
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Skip to comments.Philly newspaper union: Company threatens liquidation
Posted on 01/12/2013 11:05:40 AM PST by DeaconBenjamin
WELL, THIS IS getting ugly.
Interstate General Media, the parent company of the Daily News, the Inquirer and Philly.com, has threatened to "liquidate" the newspapers and their website if tentative contract agreements aren't reached with the company's 11 unions by next Friday.
The grim ultimatum was delivered Thursday by Michael Lorenca, the media company's chief operating officer, according to Dan Gross, president of the Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia.
Meanwhile, the company on Thursday simultaneously offered buyouts and an option for employees to switch to reduced work weeks.
The Guild, which represents newsroom staffers, advertising-sales representatives and circulation-customer-service representatives, has an existing contract that runs through October.
Contracts for the company's 10 other unions expired last fall.
Gross said IGM wants the Guild to agree to $8 million in wage-and-benefit cuts and is seeking similar concessions from the other unions.
IGM's ownership group which includes philanthropist H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest, South Jersey Democratic power broker and insurance executive George Norcross and businessman Lewis Katz, bought the newspapers and their website from a collection of hedge funds in April for $55 million.
The sale marked the fourth time in six years that the media company had changed hands.
Like many other print-media companies, IGM has been plagued by falling circulation and advertising revenue while trying to craft a strategy for getting readers to pay for digital content.
"People felt a little bit of relief when a group of millionaires and/or billionaires bought the company and pledged that they were in it for the long haul," Gross said.
"It surprises me that we've gotten to this point so quickly."
IGM spokesman Mark Block said the company can't comment because it is engaged in negotiations with the unions.
Good riddance I say!
They should close down, and reopen (sans union) as "The Philadelphia Hostess", as that name is not being used so much these days.
Goodbye and we don't care union. You have given money to the DNC and we hate you.
Didn't the Democratic Party buy this newspaper?
Another Atlas shrugs...
Now s a good time to go after the advertisers. Put the foot on their throats and don't take t off till they shut the doors completely.
I am interested in buying the presses and other printing equipment. Not the property, couldn't pay me to have a business in major city. Just the printing presses and equipment.
Liquidate!!!! I need a laugh.
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After missing the last three games with undisclosed, injured extremities, there's a chance sophomore linebacker Sean Spence and freshman safety Ray Ray Armstrong could return Saturday and play against Duke.
UM coach Randy Shannon said both returned to practice Tuesday. "Two days they got in, so they should be ready to go," Shannon said. "I don't know how much they'll play, but they'll play... they should help out the defense if they get an opportunity to get into the game."
Take Shannon's word on injuries for what it's worth. Last week we heard the same thing about Javarris James and Eric Moncur returning to practice. Moncur (leg) is now likely done for the season and I'm pretty sure James wasn't on the field even though he was listed on the participation report. I know James didn't catch a pass or have a carry.
JACORY PRACTICES AS USUAL... Quarterback Jacory Harris, who will likely play with pain Saturday, took his usual snaps Wednesday according to backup A.J. Highsmith. "We still did the same rotation we always do, our usual routine," Highsmith said.
Harris was seen wearing a protective strap over his thumb (the finger we suspect he messed up in the UNC game) and index finger. "He did everything," Shannon said. "He had no problems, did everything he was supposed to do."
SECONDARY'S VOW TO PLAY BETTER... After Riley Skinner and Wake Forest carved the Canes up for 555 yards of total offense, Brandon Harris said Miami's secondary vowed to "never come out and have another game like that."
Except for the final game-clinching drive by North Carolina last Saturday, the University of Miami defense has done a pretty good job of holding its own.
The Canes only gave up 149 yards of total offense to Virginia and 16 of North Carolina's 33 points (17 came off Harris interceptions). Shannon said the improved play is the result of guys who hadn't had many opportunities to play -- Ramon Buchanon, Curtis Porter, Jeremy Lewis, Jared Campbell -- finally beginning to get comfortable. I'll buy that.
But it also didn't hurt that Virginia (118th) and North Carolina (113th) rank among the country's worst in total offense. We'll see Saturday just how much UM has improved defensively. Duke brings the top-ranked passing offense in the ACC (ninth overall) to town. The good news for UM: Duke is basically one dimensional, ranking dead last (120th) in rushing.
"We definitely want to try and keep them one dimensional," cornerback Chavez Grant said. "When you know you can stop the run, you can concentrate on shutting the down the pass."
Still, a motivated, hungry Thaddeus Lewis, who has two talented, fast receivers from the Miami area won't be easy to stop. And the Canes know it.
"It's always fun going against Thad because he's a competitor and he always wants to win," Brandon Harris said. "He's going to give us his best shot. He's coming home for the last time. His family is going to be there. They say his goal when he got to college was to beat Miami. Three years he's come close [to beating us]. He knows this is his last shot. It's now or never. We feel the same way. We won't underestimate him."
> Expect more bad injury news regarding Sam Shields and Thearon Collier to leak out soon. And don't expect fullback Pat Hill back. Shannon was asked about Hill Wednesday and said he didn't know if he'd return. Expect Hill to seek a medical redshirt for his high ankle sprain.


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Apple said Thursday it is weighing ways to give shareholders more of its huge cash stockpile, after hedge fund Greenlight Capital filed suit in an effort to press it in that direction.
Greenlight sued the maker of iPhones and iPads to block a shareholder vote that includes a management-backed proposal to make it impossible for the Apple board to issue preferred stock without shareholder approval.
Greenlight said in a letter to shareholders that it wants Apple to issue "perpetual preferred stock" to distribute a bounty from the $137 billion in cash the company is holding.
Apple responded by saying it has been "in active discussions about returning additional cash to shareholders," a statement that helped drive up its stock late in trade for a 3.0 percent gain.
"As part of our review, we will thoroughly evaluate Greenlight Capital's current proposal to issue some form of preferred stock," Apple said.
"We welcome Greenlight's views and the views of all our shareholders."
Greenlight's suit alleged that Apple violated US securities policies by "bundling" the proposal on preferred stock with two other shareholder-friendly measures.
Doing so forces shareholders to accept or reject all three measures together, rather than separately, which Greenlight says violates a Securities and Exchange Commission rule.
Greenlight founder David Einhorn, a prominent activist shareholder, wrote in a letter to Apple shareholders that his company "is dissatisfied with Apple's capital allocation strategy."
"The combination of Apple's low (and shrinking) price-to-earnings multiple and $137 billion (and growing) hoard of cash on the balance sheet supports Greenlight's contention that Apple has an obligation to examine all options to create and unlock additional value," Einhorn said.
Greenlight is seeking to build support for his proposal that Apple issue a "perpetual preferred stock" that could carry, in Einhorn's suggestion, a four percent dividend, allowing shareholders to better share in its idle cash pile.
Such a "more shareholder-friendly capital allocation policy," Einhorn said in the letter, "would unlock hundreds of dollars of value per share."
Einhorn told Bloomberg television that he went public with his campaign after a "nice conversation" with Apple chief executive Tim Cook on Wednesday.
"It'll be very interesting to see if the shareholders can unite on a message to see how the board reacts to that," Einhorn said.
Apple's statement characterizes its proposal on preferred stock as a shareholder-friendly measure. Current policy allows Apple's board of directors to issue preferred stock without shareholder approval.
Greenlight argues that Apple's stance exemplifies the company's resistance to returning value to shareholders.


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More on Gladwell's Full-Court Pressure Argument…Posted by rtmsf on May 13th, 2009
We think we've isolated what Gladwell's problem derives from on the fallacious full-court press argument he made last week. Put simply, he's drinking the Rick Pitino kool-aid. We don't blame him, Pitino is an engaging guy who can sell ice cubes to eskimos, and Gladwell wouldn't be the first to slurp it all up (ask Karen Sypher or any Boston Celtic fan ca. 1997-98). But it appears that Pitino is his sole source of information when it comes to how underdogs win basketball games, and somehow Coach P has convinced Gladwell that much of his collegiate success is based on undertalented yet hungry players who were able to maniacally pressure Goliaths into turnovers and easy buckets. It's almost as if Gladwell doesn't realize that Pitino has been a Goliath for most of his career, nor does he realize that there are probably better ways of accomplishing a similar result (i.e., slowing games down to a crawl). In this week's back-and-forth with Bill Simmons, Gladwell writes:
You're right. I am a bit obsessed with the full-court press at the moment. I just did a story for The New Yorker about how underdogs beat favorites, which had a lot about basketball in it. For the story, I went down to Louisville and had a long chat with Rick Pitino. He argued that the press is the best chance an underdog has of being competitive with stronger teams, and I think his record proves the case. That Providence team he took to the Final Four in 1984 has to have been just about the least talented team EVER to reach that level. Then, of course, Pitino takes one of his first Louisville teams to the Final Four in 2006 and this season's team to the Elite Eight, and no one's going to argue that either of those teams were filled with future Hall of Famers.
First of all, it was 1987, not 1984, when Pitino's Providence team went to the F4, and we contend that it was Pitino's early-adoption of the just-instituted three-point shot that gave his team a competitive advantage that season more than their use of full-court pressure defense. PC set records that still stand today at the school for taking (665) and making (280) threes (over 8 per game), led by their sharpshooting guards Delray Brooks and of course, Billy Donovan. Traditional powers from the early to mid-80s such as Georgetown and Louisville were slower to utilize the new shot, and as such, they quickly became less relevant over the next several years until they realized its value. Providence's full-court press was important to achieving that success, but the three-point shot was decidedly more important.
Secondly, least talented team EVER to make the F4? George Mason 2006, Wisconsin 2000, LSU 1986, among others… say hello.
Finally, his record proves the case? How? Pitino is a masterful recruiter, and this is nothing new to anyone who has followed college hoops during the last twenty years. While it's true that his BU and Providence teams weren't particularly talented, his teams dating from 1992-97 at Kentucky and 2002-09 at Louisville were mostly loaded. We thought the argument Gladwell tried to make here is that the full-court press levels the playing field for the Davids of the world vs. the Goliaths, right? How is using Rick Pitino's teams, the majority of which were exceptionally athletic AND talented, as your example of this? The 2005 Louisville team (Pitino's fourth season at the school, btw) went 33-5, had an all-american wing playmaker in Francisco Garcia and a very good point guard named Taquan Dean to go along with the standard Pitino cast of numerous replaceable parts – all long, lean and athletic. That team was a #2 seed (corrected: #4 seed) in a region where the common perception was that the Cards were a better team than the #1 seeded Washington Huskies. This is supposed to be a scrappy group of underdogs? And who among our faithful readers is going to swallow the argument that the 2009 Louisville team (a #1 seed and preseason favorite along with UNC and UConn) wouldn't have been nearly as good without their press, as Gladwell implies. What about Earl Clark? Terrence Williams? Does he not realize that these two were among the best dozen or so players in college basketball this season?
And what about this indefensible jewel regarding Louisville center (and freshman all-american) Samardo Samuels?
When we were talking, Pitino called over Samardo Samuels, who is, of course, Jamaican — his point being that this was his ideal kind of player, someone who substituted for a lack of experience with a lot of hunger. There is something weird, isn't there — and also strangely beautiful — about a coach who deliberately seeks out players who aren't the most talented?
Right. The same player who was the 2008 USA Today POY at the high school level and rated #9 overall in his class by Rivals isn't the most talented. Jamal Mashburn, Tony Delk, Antoine Walker, Ron Mercer, Derek Anderson, David Padgett, Juan Palacios, Derrick Caracter, Jerry Smith and many others were also lesser-talented players whom Pitino plucked from the bottom of the barrel because of their innate hunger (not talent). (Amir Johnson, Sebastian Telfair and most recently Jeremy Tyler are additional lesser-talented players whom Pitino sought for their hunger only to be disappointed when they headed straight to the pros… because they were less talented.)
Gladwell has fallen hard for the Pitino pitch. Here's more.
There are two other things here that fascinate me. After my piece ran in The New Yorker, one of the most common responses I got was people saying, well, the reason more people don't use the press is that it can be beaten with a well-coached team and a good point guard. That is (A) absolutely true and (B) beside the point. The press doesn't guarantee victory. It simply represents the underdog's best chance of victory. It raises their odds from zero to maybe 50-50. I think, in fact, that you can argue that a pressing team is always going to have real difficulty against a truly elite team. But so what? Everyone, regardless of how they play, is going to have real difficulty against truly elite teams. It's not a strategy for being the best. It's a strategy for being better. I never thought Louisville — or, for that matter, Missouri — had a realistic shot at winning it all in the NCAAs this year. But if neither of those teams pressed, they wouldn't have been there in the first place.
Let's break this down again, because it's clear that Gladwell does not understand why he's wrong about this. Louisville and Missouri have elite talent and elite athletes at the college level. Their pressure defense only makes them better because they're already really good to begin with. These two teams are not and never were underdogs in the David mold. They're excellent college basketball teams and that statement would be true no matter what style of defense they chose to play. The elite teams that Gladwell mentions a pressing team will always have trouble against – yeah, what he's failing to recognize is that Louisville and Mizzou are the Goliaths in that scenario.
A true David in the college game is a team that is outclassed from a talent and/or athletic perspective. Often it's both. If a team deficient in one or both of these areas tries to press a legitimate Goliath such as a UConn, Michigan St. or Oklahoma this year, they'd have gotten crucified. A pressing team at the collegiate level must, must, must have good athletes (and enough of them) to become successful; otherwise, the elite guards populating rosters on the Goliaths will absolutely destroy it. There's a reason that the few pressing teams that pull major upsets in the NCAA Tourney, while somewhat lacking on skill, are always full of guys who can run, jump and terrorize teams with their long arms and defensive activity. We're thinking of Bruce Pearl's teams at UW-Milwaukee and Mike Anderson's UAB teams as good examples. Short on individual talent, but long on athleticism.
So what do you do if you're a David who is short on both? Gladwell suggests that full-court pressure evens things up, and uses his junior high girls basketball example as evidence to that fact. The problem, which we covered in our previous examination of this topic, is that at the collegiate level, a team that is significantly less skillful and less athletic than its opponent will suffer extreme humiliation by employing this strategy. The proper way to combat this is to instead slow the game down, limit possessions, run an efficient offense and play hard-nosed halfcourt defense. Princeton did this to UCLA, Bucknell did this to Kansas, Vermont did this to Syracuse, and there are many, many other successful examples. Seriously, does anyone in their right minds believe that those three teams could have pulled the upsets by pressing the Goliath?
It's preposterous, yet that's what Gladwell would have us believe.
The bottom line is this. Successful pressing requires athletes at the elite level of college basketball. If you do not have athletes (and most Davids don't), then you will get run ouf of the gym as Goliath scores layup after dunk after layup on your smaller, slower team. Your best strategy is instead to slow the game down and limit possessions while playing smart basketball on both ends. We see upsets like this nearly every year in the NCAA Tournament. The one caveat, however, is if you have players who can match up reasonably well with a Goliath from an athletic standpoint, then you may consider pressing as a viable strategy. The problem with this, of course, is that it's fairly rare in the college game that a true David will have that kind of athletic stable at their disposal. If you're lucky enough to have both talent and athletes to run a press (as Pitino has had throughout much of his career, along with Nolan Richardson and some others), then such a strategy can devastate opponents – the real question should be why more Goliaths don't institute the full-court press, rather than Davids. This is why we continue to argue that full-court pressure defense is a better strategy for an elite team rather than an underdog – those teams already have the proper tools of talent and athleticism to employ it.


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I feel shame for so many things. Little things like I'm not a good enough house cleaner to ever make a difference to my husband, and that I eat too much, to the larger things like I'm not fit enough to be a parent that and that my boys are going to end up in therapy at a young age because I've either messed them up or passed on the genes that will make then that way regardless of nurture.
The quest for perfection is exhausting and unrelenting. There is a constant barrage of social expectations that teach us that being imperfect is synonymous with being inadequate. Everywhere we turn, there are messages that tell us who, what and how we're supposed to be. So, we learn to hide our struggles and protect ourselves from shame, judgment, criticism and blame by seeking safety in pretending and perfection. (From I Thought It Was Just Me But It Isn't by Brene Brown)
I doubt myself every second of the day, at work, at home, with people I trust as my friends. I strive to please people who I doubt will be in my life even three years from now. I reply conversation in my head later wondering if I have offended someone, or said the wrong thing. I struggle to just "be" okay. To just enjoy those around me and the people who matter most. To see the differences in feeling shame for something and feeling bad about something I cannot control.
After an amazing conversation with a group of women that I only see but once a year, I was lead to find this book, and of course, that even ordered it immediately on my e-reader that evening. And while I'm only a few chapters in I can already feel the value that it holds for me, so much so that I bought three copies and gave them to women I value, and then bought three more, one of which I have left for a reader here!
It's time to take back our imperfect lives, our imperfect selves and be okay with who we are, and value that in other women we see. It's time to come from a place of empathy not sympathy and to recognize that while our struggles are different we have similarities that we can come together around.
So here is it, I've laid it all out! Leave a comment here and I will draw a winner on the 26th! Visit my Facebook page and enter there as well, if you win both you can share this journey with a friend!


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Then a 32-1 horse was DQd to first place, which opened up the window for a nice Pick 4. They were alive and when Mizdirection bombed down the lane for her second straight Turf Sprint, they hit the Pick 4 for $2,100. My dinner at Margaritaville was totally free. They also hit 4-of-6 on the Pick 6. They finished second in their losing legs with Sprint and Juvenile. I may have ordered an extra margarita if they hit that.
So, yes, they were winners and will presented with a Carryover Trophy of Honor. Many other connections, horses, trainers, jockeys also deserved a trophy. And the winners are:
Most Valuable Player: Kathy Ritvo
At first this was going to Mucho Macho Man and Gary Stevens, and they're worthy attendants to this. But Kathy Ritvo, trainer to Mucho Macho Man, became the first woman trainer to win the Breeders' Classic Classic.
I loved this horse from start. He was the best and had the right kind of preparation to win this race. No other horse in this field had quite the positive progression he did. Credit that to Ritvo.
Mucho Macho Man rated perfectly in the middle of the pack while Fort Larned, Moreno and Game On Dude battled on the lead. It set up perfectly for Mucho Macho Man, who put a head in front at the top of the lane. Will Take Charge stormed up to challenge and lost by the smallest of margins.
But Ritvo and MMM weren't the only winners. Gary Stevens pulled off the Breeders' Cup Double: Distaff and Classic.
He won the Distaff aboard Beholder and the Classic aboard MMM. This triumvirate of MMM, Ritvo and Stevens are the ultimate champions and the ultimate winners of an epic weekend of horse racing.
Least Valuable Player: Todd Pletcher
It hurts to call the greatest trainer in the game a loser, but he's measured by what happens on the sport's biggest stage, and on said biggest stage he laid an egg. Let's look at the horses he had going this weekend that came up empty:
Princess of Sylmar, likely the Champion Three-Year-Old Filly, she finished last of them all in the Breeders' Cup Distaff behind Beholder, Close Hatches, Authenticity, Royal Delta and Street Girl.
His Havana, the monster two-year-old he trained to a 102-Beyered maiden win and a 93-Beyer win in the Grade 2 Champagne, got caught up in a hot pace and finished second to New Year's Eve.
He had Capo Bastone in the Turf Sprint, and he had Palace Malice in the Classic, who ran a flat race after spilling out of the gate.
The Remember-Me?-Award: Richard Mandella
He's not the mainstream trainer he once was when he won four Breeders' Cup races in 2003, or when he had the monster Rock Hard Ten who had a hand in ruining Smarty Jones' bid for the Triple Crown, but by defeating Royal Delta and Princess of Sylmar with Beholder in the Distaff, Mandella, said, in essence, remember me?
Mandella has won eight Breeders' Cup races—all at Santa Anita. It's his home track and when Beholder romped in the Distaff, the world had to say, 'Oh, yeah, that guy, I remember him.'
Underlay of the Year: Verrazano
This warms my heart. Listen, I don't openly root against horses, I just love horses who take a ton of money for no reason and have no shot at winning because they choke when it matters.
Verrazano was the undefeated world beater of the Wood Memorial before gagging in the Derby (some may argue he had excuses because of the track and the awful pace scenario, but nuts to the them). He opened a can of Whoop Donkey on foes at Monmouth and the Pegasus and Haskell, but choked again when legacy was on the line in the Travers.
He had a long layoff before attempting a distance more suited to his abilities and proceeded to finish a distant fourth. His trainer, Todd Pletcher, is only left to scratch his head.
Heart Breaker Award: Royal Delta
It all started on the wrong hoof when Bill Mott's Ron the Greek scratched a few days ago with an abscess. Mott had to feel good because he still had alpha mare Royal Delta in the Distaff and Flat Out in the Classic.
Then, everything fell, a-part, you can count on that, you can count on that …
Royal Delta didn't get over the track well and finished fourth as the favorite. She won the Distaff the last two years and won several Grade 1s.
Rodney Dangerfield Award: Groupie Doll
How did this mare go off at 7-2?
She broke from the outside and rated perfectly, calmly, confidently in the four-path around the turn. She traveled smoothly turning for home before putting a head in front. She turned back all challengers and won her second straight Filly and Mare Sprint.
She won her first race of the season on dirt, then turned in two lackluster efforts on synthetic surfaces. She clearly loves dirt and loves Santa Anita and proved she's the champ of this division.
Best Continent Award: Europe
The Europeans know their wine, cheese, French Kings and horse racing.
Not only are they more stylish, possess more culture and history, they also had a day in the Breeders' Cup. It's almost enough to forget that Napoleon Bonaparte tried to take over the world and failed miserably fighting a Russian winter, getting exiled to Elba before coming back to get slaughtered at Waterloo.
They won the Marathon with London Bridge; they won the Turf with Magician; they won the Juvenile Turf with Outstrip; they won the Filly and Mare Turf with Dank. Even Declaration of War hung on for third in the Classic. Five wins in America's World Championships, that's what you call "Winner, winner lobster dinner."
Celebrity Winner Award: Jim Rome
Two years in a row Mizdirection, a filly, beat the boys in the Turf Sprint. I thought the outside post was going to hurt her. I thought she'd lose too much ground over the course of the entire race. Her finishing kick gives you an idea of just how talented she is.
The Jungle will be roaring when Jim Rome goes on the air today.
The This-Is-The-Life-You-Signed-Up-For Award: John Velazquez
Sadly, this is life as a jockey in horse racing.
John Velazquez, Hall of Fame jockey, winner of thousands of horse races, suffered a day-ending injury Saturday. His horse, Secret Compass, broke down, dumping Velazquez and ending his day. To keep things in perspective, Secret Compass had to be euthanized, a sad truism in horse racing.
Velazquez's injury cost him his mount on Havana, the freakish two-year-old colt who finished second in the Juvenile as a heavy favorite. He also lost the mount on Wise Dan, winner of the $2 million Mile. He also lost mounts on Point of Entry and Justin Phillip. A door closes for the injured jockey, and opens for others in the jock's room.
No one understands this more than Velazquez. In 2011, an injury to Robby Albarado opened up the mount on Animal Kingdom in the Kentucky Derby. This happened.
King of the World Award: Wise Dan
What can you say? Wise Dan was absolutely brilliant in the Mile (sorry, Johnny Velazquez). He probably won't win Horse of the Year, but his effort in the Mile was a sight to see.
He ran a relative clunker at Keeneland in the Shadwell "Turf" Mile, the quotization marks are because it got rained off the grass and thrown onto the awful monstrosity that is Polytrack.
Wise Dan won this race a year ago, and he was a deserving favorite. He tracked the field in mid-pack while the front end set brutal, Wise Dan-friendly fractions. Turning for home, Jose Lezcano straightened him out, and he blitzed for the lead like the champion he is.
The win keeps him in contention for Horse of the Year honors, but no matter what, he lived up to his immense talent, a true headliner.
The Skin-Crawling-Awkward Award: Kristen Chenoweth
I was seriously ready to reserve this slot for a horse that disappointed during the Classic ... but ... Kristen Chenoweth stood in the winner's circle and sang The Best is Yet to Come.
For some folks, perhaps this was a charming warm up for the Breeders' Classic, the greatest race on American soil (yeah, take that Kentucky Derby!). It was irritating. It was, dare I say, out of place, disconcerting and unsettling.
All right, the subtext makes sense: The best is yet to come. I get it. The meaning of the song is implicit and the Classic is befitting of a song that tells it how it is. But when four guys in a hotel room simultaneously recoil at the sight of Chenoweth, that's a telling review. The only thing that bailed her out was the sun setting on the San Gabriel mountains.


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"406 ON A NITROUS FIX." That's what the Bow Tie decal on the side of the hood says. It's just a subtle reminder to myself of the long hours, and hard, work that went under the hood.
I've been into Corvettes my whole life. I had a beautiful '77 that I drove until my third daughter was born. My wife at the time wouldn't let me put a child seat on the luggage rack, so the car had to go. Soon after, I purchased a severely injured '67 that was economically un-repairable and ended up using the engine and tranny, along with a nitrous enhancer, in a customized Chevy LUV pickup-but my quest for another Corvette never diminished.
In 1996, I purchased a '85 from a friend in Northern California. He was the original owner, and was able to order it through a dealer outside of the smog-ruled Golden State, so it doesn't have the mandated smog equipment. Two of the nicest options on the car were the transparent roof panel, and the Z51 performance handling package. The car had been immaculately taken care of, and also updated with several performance modifications, including an Edelbrock TPI intake mainfold, large-tube runners, Competition Cams roller-tipped rockers, a K&N filter, and a Grant Formula steering wheel.
I flew from El Paso, Texas, to Northern California to pick up the car, and had a wonderful drive home. The initial bond between an owner and their new car is special, and that first drive was great. Once back home, I updated the car with some minor performance modifications and touches to make it my Corvette. Within a year I upped the ante even more with TPIS engineered parts, a HyperTech chip and fan switch, a complete MSD ignition system, SLP Forced Air Induction, March underdrive pulleys, and a complete Dynomax and Hooker AeroChamber cat-back exhaust system. The 350 was performing better than ever, and the car was a joy to drive. But as with any performance enthusiast, I had the need for even more speed.
At the beginning of 1999, with a major push from my friends, I purchased a 400ci small-block, and tons of go-fast goodies. The engine was bored to 406 ci and fit with a SCAT crank, Speed-Pro 11:1 pistons, and Pink rods before it was all balanced. The Holley/Brodix aluminum heads were massaged by Valley Head Service, while the valvetrain included a Comp Cams bumpstick and Crane Cams roller rockers. Air flows through an Edelbrock/BBK throttle body and a ported upper plenum from Reggie Jackson's High Performance before mixing with the fuel supplied by a set of MSD Ignition Competition injectors. ARP fasteners hold everything together, while a Milodon oil pan sits between a set of Hooker long-tube headers that reach back to an exhaust-cleaning Random Technologies catalytic converter.
The entire package took about a year to complete. Everything was assembled in my garage, with the exception of the short-block. The new motor is smog-legal in Texas, and runs cleaner, with better gas mileage, than the original 350! I don't yet have enough miles on the new engine to let it loose on the track (a good choice of words, as it probably won't hook up, anyway), but in the unlikely case that it's still not fast enough, I have 150 horsepower on tap from an NOS nitrous system to keep me satisfied...I hope.


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The pay TV network put on showy "Game of Thrones" season premiere parties this week in Silicon Valley and Seattle, ground zero for the revolution underway in television viewing habits.
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Donald E. King, 84
Donald E. King, 84, of Cadillac, passed away Saturday, March 15, 2014, at the Saginaw VA Medical Center . He was born June 24, 1929, in Fryburg, Ohio, to William and Mary (Bonnoront) King.
Don retired from Northern Propane Gas Company after 30 years of faithful service. He enjoyed many outdoor activities such as golf, bike riding, hunting, baseball games and swimming. Don was an active member in the Cadillac community from fundraising events for the Veterans to managing the American Legion baseball teams. He was pivotal in having the Korean War memorial built and was also the driving force for the traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall coming through Cadillac. He was the post Commander from 1970-1971 of American Legion Post 94 of Cadillac and remained an active member since.
Don is survived by family members, Donna L. King, of Auburndale Fla., daughter Tana K. (Melvin) Beiderman, of Wapakoneta, daughter Vicki L. Hatfield, of Auburndale Fla., daughter Sheryl Ann Norris, of Sarsota Fla., daughter Rhonda M. King, of Pensacola Fla., son William (Janet) King, of Nashville Tenn.; five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren, along with multiple nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be Thursday, March 20, 2014, at 11 a.m., at the Hitesman-Holdship Funeral Home, Cadillac. Officiating will be Jim Helmboldt. Visitation will be Thursday, March 20, 2014, at 9 a.m. until the time of services at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Saginaw, VA Medical Center C/O Palliative Care Team, 1500 W. Weiss St. Saginaw, MI 48602-5298.
Condolences can be sent to the family on line at Hitesman-holdship.com.


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Hi All,
Could you tell me how do you pronounce the word "General", it has 2 syllables or 3 syllables?
Both the LPD and the Cambridge EPD give a superscript schwa for the sound after /n/, as Raymott does. EPD also gives a superscript schwa for the sound after /r/; LPD gives an italicised schwa. These indicate that the sound may be pronounced or omitted. If the latter, they give their syllabic character to the following consonant.
This suggests that, for many speakers, general has more than two syllables, but fewer than three. This may sound very strange, but it is often difficult, if not impossible, to decide whether syylabic consonants in such words as general, buttoning, bottling should be described as full syllables or not.
Incidentally, the symbol normally used in phonemic/phonetic transcription for the first sound in 'general' is ʤ.
According to Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, it is transcribed as:
BrE /ˈdʒenrəl/
NAmE /ˈdʒenrəl/
It might be irrelevant, but I can think of a word that has either three or four syllables:
BrE /ˈsteɪʃənri/
NAmE /ˈsteɪʃəneri/
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Affecting or concerning all or most people, places, or things; widespread: "books of general interest". Noun:
A commander of an army, or an army officer of very high rank. Synonyms: common - universal - generic - broad - public