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Diagnosing childhood Hodgkin lymphoma
Diagnosing childhood Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) usually begins with a visit to your child's doctor. The doctor will ask about any symptoms your child has and do a physical exam. Based on this information, your doctor may refer your child to a specialist or order tests to check for HL or other health problems.
The process of diagnosis may seem long and frustrating. It's normal to worry, but try to remember that other health conditions can cause similar symptoms as childhood HL. It's important for the healthcare team to rule out other reasons for a health problem before making a diagnosis of childhood HL. If the doctor suspects childhood HL, your child will be managed by a healthcare team that specializes in caring for children with cancer.
The following tests are commonly used to rule out or diagnose childhood HL. Many of the same tests used to diagnose cancer are also used to determine the stage, which is how far the cancer has progressed. Your child's doctor may also order other tests to check the child's general health and to help plan treatment.
|Diagnostic tests
|Staging and other tests
Health history and physical exam
Your child's health history is a record of their symptoms, risk factors and all the medical events and problems they have had in the past. The health history of the child's family may also help the doctor diagnose HL. In taking a health history, the doctor will ask questions about:
- symptoms that suggest HL
- a personal and family history of certain genetic conditions
- a family history of HL
A physical exam allows the doctor to look for any signs of childhood HL. During a physical exam, the doctor may:
- check for swollen lymph nodes
- feel the abdomen to see if the liver or spleen is larger than normal
- check the tonsils to see if they are swollen or if there are growths on them
- listen to the lungs for any breathing problems
Find out more about physical exam.
During a biopsy, the doctor removes tissues or cells from the body so they can be tested in a lab. The report from the lab will confirm whether or not cancer cells are present in the sample.
If the doctor thinks your child might have Hodgkin lymphoma, the pathologist will look for Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg (HRS) cells in the biopsy sample. HRS cells are much larger than normal lymphocytes. They have a large nucleus or more than one nucleus. Doctors use the presence of HRS cells to tell Hodgkin lymphoma from non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
A lymph node biopsy is the only way to make a definite diagnosis of Hodgkin lymphoma. The type of biopsy done depends on where the lymph nodes are enlarged (swollen). A biopsy may be taken from a lymph node in the neck, under the arm or in the groin. It may also be taken from the chest or abdomen during a CT scan.
Surgical biopsy is usually done to collect samples from lymph nodes. The surgeon may do an excisional biopsy, which removes all of the lymph node. In some cases an incisional biopsy may be used to remove part of a lymph node. If the lymph node is near the surface of the skin, the lymph node biopsy may be done with a local anesthetic (freezing). If it is deeper inside the body and not as easy to get to, then a general anesthetic may need to be used (your child will be unconscious).
Find out more about surgical biopsy.
Complete blood count (CBC)
A complete blood count (CBC) measures the number and quality of white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets. A CBC is done to check for anemia, or low red blood cell counts, which is common in children with HL. Doctors also use the results of a CBC as a baseline to check against during treatment.
Find out more about complete blood count (CBC).
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)
Doctors may order a blood test to measure the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR). The ESR is a measure of how quickly red blood cells (also called erythrocytes) fall to the bottom of the test tube. It is a general marker of inflammation. The ESR may be higher than normal with HL.
Immunohistochemistry treats a sample of cells from blood or bone marrow with special antibodies. Chemicals are added that make cells change colour if a certain antibody attaches to them. The change in colour can only be seen under a microscope.
Immunohistochemistry helps doctors determine the types of cells present in a sample, including if there are Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg (HRS) cells. Immunohistochemistry can rule out HL. It can also point to non-Hodgkin lymphoma or other diseases.
Blood chemistry tests
Blood chemistry tests measure certain chemicals in the blood. They show how well certain organs are functioning and can help find abnormalities. These tests are also used as a baseline that doctors can check against during treatment.
Find out more about blood chemistry tests.
Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy
During a bone marrow aspiration and biopsy, the doctor removes tissues or cells from the bone marrow so they can be tested in a lab. This test may be used to stage Hodgkin lymphoma in children who have signs that the cancer has spread outside the lymphatic system to the lungs, liver, bones or other parts of the body.
Find out more about bone marrow aspiration and biopsy.
Chest x-ray
An x-ray uses small doses of radiation to make an image of the body's structures on film. A chest x-ray may be used to check for swollen lymph nodes in the chest.
Find out more about x-ray.
CT scan
A computed tomography (CT) scan uses special x-ray equipment to make 3-D and cross-sectional images of organs, tissues, bones and blood vessels inside the body. A computer turns the images into detailed pictures.
A CT scan is used to:
- measure the size of a tumour
- check for swollen lymph nodes in the neck, chest, abdomen or pelvis
- see if the cancer has spread to any organs, such as the lungs, liver or spleen
Find out more about CT scan.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) uses powerful magnetic forces and radiofrequency waves to make cross-sectional images of organs, tissues, bones and blood vessels. A computer turns the images into 3-D pictures.
An MRI can be used to check for swollen lymph nodes in the chest, abdomen or pelvis.
Find out more about MRI.
Bone scan
A bone scan uses bone-seeking radioactive materials (called radiopharmaceuticals) and a computer to create a picture of the bones. It is used to see if childhood HL has spread, or metastasized, to the bones.
Bone metastases are not common in children with HL, so this test is usually only done if the disease seems to be advanced at diagnosis. A bone scan may be done if a child has bone pain or if blood tests suggest a problem with the bones.
Find out more about bone scan.
Gallium scan
A gallium scan is a nuclear medicine imaging test used to look for areas of inflammation or infection. It is also used to look for certain tumours, such as Hodgkin lymphoma. A gallium scan uses the radioactive isotope gallium, which is known to build up in inflamed, infected or cancerous tissues. A gallium scan may be used to help diagnose and monitor children with Hodgkin lymphoma.
Find out more about gallium scan.
PET scan
A positron emission tomography (PET) scan may be used instead of or in addition to a gallium scan. PET scan uses radioactive materials called radiopharmaceuticals to look for changes in metabolic activity of body tissues. A computer analyzes the radioactive patterns and makes 3-D colour images of the area being scanned.
A PET scan can help show if a swollen lymph node contains Hodgkin lymphoma or if the swelling is caused by a non-cancerous condition. It is also used to find Hodgkin lymphoma that has spread to other areas of the body and to measure how well treatment is working.
PET scans may not be available in all cancer treatment centres. Find out more about PET scan.
Questions to ask your healthcare team
Find out more about diagnosis. To make the decisions that are right for you, ask your healthcare team questions about diagnosis.
A procedure that uses gallium (a radioisotope) to produce images of structures and organs inside the body.
Doctors use gallium scan to look for inflammation, an abscess (collection of pus), tumours or other signs of disease. They may also use gallium scans to measure a person's response to cancer treatment.
Gallium scan is a type of nuclear scan.
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At Mobile World Congress this week, the company was showing off its MM 450x travel headphones, with Sennheiser's noise cancellation (called NoiseGuard) and other headphone features, including the ability to instantly shut down audio, so you can hear other noise (called Talkthru) and change music tracks.
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How the president's Irish "cousin" is making shrewd use of the First Family.
There was little surprise when, shortly after President Obama's chopper touched down in a patch of emerald grass in Moneygall, Ireland, in 2011, he was whisked inside the local watering hole and soon seen hoisting a pint and mugging for snapshots. It was a photo op, to be sure—one that played well with any of the 40 million Irish-Americans who saw pictures of the president's visit to their ancestral homeland—but few people would have figured that it was the young Irishman at Obama's side, Henry Healy, a then-26-year-old former accountant, who would go on to make deft political use of the moment. Fewer still who saw the pictures would have guessed they were looking at two old relatives catching up over a Guinness.
Healy, whose bright smile and ginger hair gives him a rather stereotypically Irish appearance, is a distant relative of Obama's—who is more often described as America's first African-American president, not its 12th one with Irish heritage. But both are accurate: Four years before that Obama visit to Ireland, Healy's paternal uncle used parish records to trace then-Sen. Obama's great-great-great grandfather to their village of Moneygall, population 310. Healy is one of several distant Obama relations still living in the hamlet, halfway between Dublin and Limerick, and when Obama upset Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Iowa caucuses, television cameras showed up, and the family put Healy forward as spokesman to explain how happy they were for their long lost cousin. "Speaking in public wouldn't be something I'd be afraid of," says Healy, who—as seems to be the village habit—often makes statements by speaking in the conditional. On an island where American politics looms large, Healy was an overnight celebrity.
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His star only rose when his eighth cousin won the White House. Healy reached out to offer congratulations, and later arranged for the trip to Moneygall when Obama visited Ireland in 2011. Obama was shown the site where his great-great-great-grandfather's home once stood and then stopped in for a beer and some pictures at a pub run by Healy's uncle, Ollie Hayes, who taught the first lady to pull a pint. Since then, the president, who's not exactly known for letting people in, seems to have taken a liking to his Irish relative: Healy (along with Hayes, who doesn't claim blood relation to the Obama clan) has met up with the famous family several times on both sides of the Atlantic. The Irishmen were given VIP treatment at Obama's second inauguration and have twice celebrated St. Paddy's Day with the commander-in-chief. This year, Obama joined them at the Dubliner near Union Station in Washington, before Healy and Hayes moved on to James Hobans in Dupont Circle, accompanied by White House staff, with whom they've also become friendly. Evidently the evening was quite fun, because when asked about the president's staffers, Healy loses his natural composure, avoids eye contact, and struggles to fight back a grin. After a long pause, he musters a diplomatic answer: "When we've been in the U.S., we've met them out for drinks and socialized with them."
This summer, Michelle, Sasha and Malia Obama paid Dublin a visit, and Healy presented them with certificates of Irish heritage before accompanying them to a performance of Riverdance. The first lady vowed that she and the president would come to Moneygall again in their retirement. White House aides confirmed to Healy the family's interest in Ireland: He says they told him that the 2011 visit ranks among the Obamas' favorite trips abroad. Still, Healy professes to be at a loss when it comes to the first family's continued interest in him. "I don't know," he says, "It's a hard one to explain."
The fact that Healy has gotten so much mileage out of a rather tenuous connection to the White House has earned him a few sideways looks from some of his countrymen.
That could be a bit of Irish modesty. Truth is that Healy and his uncle are such notoriously hospitable hosts that Vice President Joe Biden is said to have enlisted Hayes to pester the president for permission to explore his own Irish roots with an official visit. Obama has yet to greenlight any vice presidential pub crawls through Ireland, but Healy is still holding out for a Biden trip. "He talks a lot about Ireland," Healy told me. "He's very well up on Irish literature."
While a Biden sojourn remains to be seen, it's clear that Obama's friendship has been great for Healy, who's earned the nickname "Henry the Eighth" due to his presidential cousinship. When he lost his job as a bookkeeper for a local plumber last year, a journalist caught wind, and Healy was inundated with job offers. Fittingly, Healy became the face of a group called Ireland Reaching Out, or IrelandXO, an initiative that puts parish genealogical records online and encourages Irish citizens to reach out to long-lost overseas relatives. The project has brought 9,000 visitors to Ireland in the first eight months of this year. But its purpose goes beyond generating tourism dollars. The genealogical effort and the certificates of Irish heritage that the group confers on members of the Irish diaspora—a group that numbers some 70 million—are also part of a broader government-sponsored bid to maintain Ireland's political clout in the United States by strengthening the emotional bonds of Irish-Americans to their ancestral homeland. The project's model for success? The president, of course. "I've seen that man pound his foot on the timber floor and his eyes swell up when he stood in his ancestral home," Healy says.


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"Draft need" articles are boring.
I would list the reasons why they are boring, but the reasons are boring, too. Two quick ones: most draft need articles assume that no second-year player in history has ever developed ("last year's third-round pick is listed as a starter? That's automatically a problem") and they reduce roster development into a shopping list, instead of an integrated plan to achieve and sustain success.
So let's come at this from the other direction. Here are the non-needs for all 32 teams. We'll list each team's primary and secondary assets, then approach draft strategy from a big-picture standpoint: does the team need to win now, change direction, set a tone for a new coaching staff or (yes) just fix one massive roster problem? The assets and needs may get a little meta at times, but after weeks of finicky scouting report scrutiny, it's a good time to stop taking bark samples and look at the whole forest instead.
AFC East
Buffalo Bills
Primary Assets: The Bills have three-quarters of a great front four and the building blocks of an outstanding front seven. Kyle Williams, Mario Williams, Marcell Dareus, Kiko Alonso and newcomer Brandon Spikes make a worthy playoff nucleus.
Secondary Assets: The Bills have offensive speed to burn and exciting youngsters littering all units. The roster appears to be about 30-deep in decent wide receivers. Head coach Doug Marrone is an off-brand Chip Kelly whose ideas look like they should yield results.
Big-Picture Needs: The Bills never quite get the traction they need to climb from their sub-.500 culvert. Defensive coordinator Mike Pettine's departure (and the subsequent defensive philosophy shift) is the kind of thing that has derailed other talented young Bills teams in the last decade. They need to fill gaps (Chris Williams is not an NFL starting lineman, folks) but they need to press their pass rush and speed advantages as well, because the moment any Bills team thinks it has solved a problem is the moment it collapses to 6-10.
Miami Dolphins
Primary Assets: The Dolphins are not great at any one position but are roughly playoff-caliber -- or can be playoff-caliber if some youngsters develop a smidge -- on every unit but the offensive line.
Secondary Assets: Free agency brought skilled veterans at key positions like tackle (Branden Albert), cornerback (Cortland Finnegan) and running back (Knowshon Moreno). The Dolphins filled needs without busting the budget or opening up other holes, a sign that the new front office can see further than the tip of its nose. Albert and some others improve the line from "DC Universe Crisis" to "below average," and Ryan Tannehill stands to enjoy a vast third-year improvement now that his so-called protectors are not drowning in vitriol and tears.
Big-Picture Needs: The offensive line still needs stabilization, so that comes first. The 2014 draft then becomes a referendum on Mike Wallace and Dion Jordan, two fashion-statement splurges of the past regime. Both players can still be very useful, but multiple trade rumors suggest that the Dolphins are looking for a direction shift that goes beyond eradicating the Degrassi High offensive line capers. The Dolphins are one lineman away from being able to cut bait on Wallace, send Jordan to an actual 3-4 team where he belongs and still challenge the Patriots. Or they can just draft six offensive linemen. That will work, too.
New York Jets
Primary Assets: Rex Ryan has the type of front seven he wants, thanks to Muhammad Wilkerson, Sheldon Richardson, Quinton Coples, veteran David Harris and a deep bench of prospects and role players. Coples proved that Ryan still knows what he is doing when he slowly brings a defender along, which is good news for Dee Milliner, who has been promoted from third cornerback to first.
Secondary Assets: The Jets offensive line has always been too good for the skill position bumblers who played behind it. Eric Decker and Chris Johnson give those skill positions a boost toward NFL average. You can laugh at CJ2K if you want, but a CJ2K/Chris Ivory/Bilal Powell committee provides an intriguing power-speed-balance mix.
Big-Picture Needs: As usual, it is a lot easier to see the Jets coming unglued than coming together in 2014. The seeds of downfall are sown everywhere: Geno Smith's bust potential is at least as high as his boom, Michael Vick could rescue him for five plays and then get injured, CJ2K could become another grousing would-be playmaker and the secondary now lacks both "Revis Island" and "Cromartie Junction." Ryan and John Idzik can tighten the secondary in the draft, but if the Jets don't make some bold moves on offense as well, this team may look too much like the 2012-13 team. "Bold moves" could mean anything from quarterback insurance to a receiver that helps the passing game achieve Geno-sink-or-swim critical mass.
New England Patriots
Primary Assets: A Hall of Fame quarterback. The greatest coach of his generation, with perhaps the most adaptive scheme and staff in NFL history. A mercenary All-Pro cornerback.
Secondary Assets: A 13-year stranglehold on the AFC East now pays unexpected dividends. The Jets and Dolphins have noticeably spent years chasing the Patriots instead of trying to build great teams; many of their loopier decisions and collapses of the last half-decade can be interpreted as desperate, futile attempts to defeat a giant. The Patriots manage to surround Tom Brady with session musicians and keep winning partially because the other three AFC East teams have spent the last decade struggling even to define themselves.
Big-Picture Needs: Win now. The Patriots know this, which is why they signed Darrelle Revis. Many Patriots fans don't like to hear this because the team's careful cap-and-roster management model has morphed into a theology over the years. But the Patriots cannot noodle their way through the draft, trading down to select kids who might develop into stars by the time Brady retires to San Simeon, Calif. Immediate-impact defenders, solutions to the tight end dilemma and pass-protection depth will all be available in the spots where the Patriots draft, and future picks are expendable if the team chooses to move up. The Patriots need these things more than lacrosse players or a Rutgers alumni team.
AFC North
Baltimore Ravens
Primary Assets: Ozzie Newsome and John Harbaugh are like the proprietors of some ancient distillery in the Scottish Highlands. They do not cut corners or follow trends. If they tell you that Ricky Wagner or Brandon Williams have been sealed in oaken barrels and will mellow into Glenfiddich 18 when properly seasoned, you believe it, because that Paul Kruger- Corey Graham 2012 taste is still in your mouth.
Secondary Assets: The roster is chuck full of players who made major contributions to the Super Bowl run, including Joe Flacco, Haloti Ngata, Terrell Suggs, Dennis Pitta and Lardarius Webb (hurt most of that season, but still an important veteran). Recent arrivals like Steve Smith, Elvis Dumervil, Daryl Smith and Eugene Monroe sealed most of the cracks that developed just after the trophy presentation.
Big-Picture Needs: The Ravens need to spot weld at positions like running back, nickelback and right tackle, though prospects like Wagner and Bernard Pierce could step up. The Ravens have acquired pieces that fit Gary Kubiak's offensive puzzle, and the bench at most positions contains just the right mix of prospects and affordable veterans. The Ravens could afford to be about 15 percent better at just about every position, but it is easy to imagine Newsome backfilling the roster with long-term projects and watching Harbaugh lead the team to 10 more wins and another anything-can-happen playoff surge. Doing something more drastic might upset the delicate balance of Ravens football.
Cincinnati Bengals
Primary Assets: The Bengals have the best skill position talent in the NFL, when you factor in depth and breadth at receiver, running back and tight end.
Secondary Assets: Every Bengals unit is playoff caliber, though a few appear to be "reach the playoffs and keel over" caliber.
Big Picture Needs: The Bengals are stuck searching for marginal gains, the little edges that take a team from 11 wins to a deep playoff run. Those gains are hard to find: it is easier to get twice as good at a bad position than get 10 percent better at a good one. And no, they cannot find a quarterback in the draft who will outplay Andy Dalton in 2014, though a plan for the future may be wise. There is room to tweak the quality sliders in the secondary, at the edge rush positions and along the line, and the Bengals must explore ways to get a sudden boost in one of those areas. Just grabbing solid players -- the strategy that got them here -- will no longer work.
Cleveland Browns
Primary Assets: With an excellent deep threat and tight end (Josh Gordon and Jordan Cameron) and two bookend tackles surrounding an experienced, dependable center (Joe Thomas, Mitchell Schwartz, Alex Mack), the Browns have the tools to be the ideal quarterback development factory.
Secondary Assets: High-end talent is scattered all over the defensive depth chart, and new coach Mike Pettine is a mix-and-match guy who can turn disparate parts into a useful whole.
Big Picture Needs: The Browns need to stop being the Browns. That starts with eradicating organizational infighting; since everyone got fired recently, let's give them the benefit of the doubt that there is no one left to power struggle. Quarterback acquisition and development needs to be a holistic, logical plan: if they enter the season with "Brian Hoyer and Tom Savage will compete, with Vince Young ready for Week 17," get ready for more sadness. Three blue chips in the first two rounds can make this team a factor in the AFC North, and the Browns can't go wrong at most positions … unless they have once again gone wrong at coach, coordinator and general manager.
Pittsburgh Steelers
Primary Assets: Ben Roethlisberger. Antonio Brown. Maurkice Pouncey. Troy Polamalu.
Secondary Assets: Brown, Heath Miller, Le'Veon Bell, Lance Moore and some youngsters/ newcomers give Big Ben a strong skill position core. Lots of familiar faces still populate the defense, though that blessing grows more mixed every year.
Big Picture Needs: The Steelers are starting to sound like the Cowboys, aren't they? HERE ARE OUR FOUR PRO BOWL SUPERSTARS TRY TO STOP US BUT DON'T ASK WHO IS ON THE SUPPORTING CAST. The Steelers are asking more and more of their 2011 to 2013 draftees, and the results have been disappointing for two seasons. The fossilized secondary and never-ending crisis on the offensive line are two immediate trouble spots, and the Steelers should not overthink their solutions. Draft tackles and cornerbacks, guys, and provide Big Ben and Troy with a supporting cast that actually supports.
AFC South
Houston Texans
Primary Assets: The best defensive lineman in the NFL. Two outstanding wide receivers.
Secondary Assets: The overall talent on both sides of the ball is solid enough to allow the Texans to get good again in a hurry. The offense, in particular, is a headless horseman right now that will start galloping once someone screws a decent quarterback onto its neck.
Big Picture Needs: The Texans survey their realm right now and see: 1) The best pure defensive talent of the last decade waiting for them on the draft board; 2) A quarterback class in which the guy available at No. 33 may be only 15 percent less talented (but less risky and perhaps a better fit) than the guy available at No. 1; and 3) a division that gift-wraps nine wins for any team that plays competently. So the temptation is great to pair Jadeveon Clowney with J.J. Watt, let Jimmy Garoppolo and Ryan Fitzpatrick take turns handing off to Arian Foster and throwing to Andre Johnson and DeAndre Hopkins, scoot immediately to at least .500, then reappraise. That may be a temptation to resist: great everywhere else and good enough at quarterback was their 2011 and 2012 strategy, and the organization now has loftier goals. The Texans could also rebuild effectively around a Johnny Manziel or a Blake Bortles; frankly, just sucking out last year's poison should triple their win total. This will not be the draft that defines the Bill O'Brien Texans. They will experience some success; the trick will come when they have to build upon it.
Indianapolis Colts
Primary Assets: The best young quarterback in the NFL, Russell Wilson included.
Secondary Assets: The acquisition of Hakeem Nicks and return of Reggie Wayne and Dwayne Allen give Andrew Luck the receiving corps he needs. The defense has enough of a mix of top veterans and prospects to look Super Bowl worthy if you squint and ignore three-quarters of what you saw in the postseason.
Big Picture Needs: When the Colts replaced offensive coordinator Bruce Arians with Stanford's Pep Hamilton, they appeared to be committing to a ball control-and-defense philosophy, with a budding superstar quarterback under center to help the medicine go down. Then, the Colts bungled their effort to create a power running game and got distracted in the middle of building a competitive defense. The Colts want to be stout up the middle on both sides of the ball and they can do that without a first-round pick: power rushers, inside linebackers, 3-4 linemen and reinforcements at center and guard all come pretty cheap. The 2013 season wavered between pleasant surprise and squandered opportunity, depending on whether the Colts were clobbering the Seahawks or getting pummeled by the Rams. This year, there will be no bonus points for degree-of-difficulty wins, so they must somehow find consistency in the draft.
Jacksonville Jaguars
Primary Assets. Ummm …
Well, the Jaguars don't have any baggage. Blaine Gabbert is gone, Maurice Jones-Drew is gone and most of the links to the Gene Smith debacle have been severed. The Jaguars are truly free to start over, which counts for something.
Secondary Assets: The front seven, a mix of Seahawks dumpster dives and fairly-talented holdovers, should be pretty good under Gus Bradley's direction. The skill position talent is weak but not disastrous. The Jaguars bottomed out in the first two months of 2013, then rebounded from historically bad to ordinarily bad in the final two months. It looked more like improvement than a dead-cat bounce, though that may be incurable optimism.
Big Picture Needs: The Jaguars need an offensive direction. That almost certainly starts with a new quarterback, but running back, center and depth at receiver and tight end all need an upgrade. What's remarkable is that the Jaguars spent three years putting off this wholesale overhaul: since 2011, they have been grafting disparate parts onto Gabbert and MJD, crossing their fingers and hoping that touchdowns resulted. We cannot tell for sure if the Jaguars are terrible at fixing their offense until they show us one good attempt. Last season was a salvage operation. This year, Bradley and his staff must set sail.
Tennessee Titans
Primary Assets: Jurrell Casey, one of the NFL's best defensive tackles.
Secondary Assets: Kendall Wright leads an underrated group of receivers who spend too much of their time watching passes fly over their heads or behind them. The offensive line has a fine mix of veterans (Michael Roos, Andy Levitre) and developing sophomores (Chance Warmack, Brian Schwenke).
Big Picture Needs: The Titans are the most anonymous team in the NFL. Besides Jake Locker, who needs to be replaced, their most famous player may be newcomer Michael Oher. You don't win games with big names, but Ken Whisenhunt needs to make the Titans truly good at something so we at least know who to pay attention to. He may tinker with Locker another year (it's a Whisenhunt kind of thing to do) while throttling up at other positions, or he may start the Next QB Era while fixing the secondary and other trouble spots with later picks. Either way, the Titans need to declare their 2014 intentions, both to their fans and to themselves.
AFC West
Denver Broncos
Primary Assets: Peyton Manning and his gang. Von Miller and DeMarcus Ware.
Secondary Assets: Just about every roster position is set with a serviceable-to-great player and most units boast experienced depth.
Big-Picture Needs: Like the Patriots, the Broncos are in win-now, no-margin-for-error mode. The Broncos have a better roster but face a much tougher division. The Broncos can muddle through the draft patching the offensive line, restoring skill position depth and setting the stage for 12 more wins. But if a go-for-broke chance to trade four picks for Sammy Watkins or Khalil Mack somehow materializes, they must remember that there is no tomorrow.
Kansas City Chiefs
Primary Assets: Excellent all-around defensive talent, custom-tailored to Bob Sutton's scheme. Jamaal Charles.
Secondary Assets: Andy Reid's calm, deliberate, development-oriented coaching style prevents gaping holes from opening up, even on talent-poor units. The offensive line to the right of Eric Fisher looks bad on paper, but Reid tends to get good results from middling prospects like Eric Kush and Donald Stephenson.
Big Picture Needs: Get faster on offense. That's an easy one. The Chiefs cannot do much defensively about the fact that Peyton Manning plays them twice per year, but they can get in better position to force some shootouts and do more offensively than run Charles-Alex Smith Reid-options and pretend that Dwayne Bowe is still fast. Mix a burner at wideout with better overall offensive depth, and the Chiefs can insert themselves into the Patriots-Broncos conversation.
Oakland Raiders
Primary Assets: Iconic uniforms, a can-do spirit, rock-bottom expectations.
Secondary Assets: The Raiders free agent class consists of late 2000s Pro Bowlers with an estimated average of 0.75 productive years left. Their prospect crop is largely cornerbacks with health issues and linemen from the UK. Also, Marcel Reece.
Big Picture Needs: The Raiders need to get out of their own way. They managed to get older and less talented this offseason, which is a neat trick for a 4-12 team that had $500 gazillion in cap space. The Raiders even go into this draft with no fifth-round pick thanks to the Matt Flynn trade last year. If they come out of the draft with two true blue chips, the Schaub-and-Tuck brigade could help the Raiders creep toward .500 and the progress might attract some 2015 free agents while allowing the D.J. Hayden-types to develop properly. It's a modest goal, but that's the only type of goal the Raiders have a chance to achieve.
San Diego Chargers
Primary Assets: The Chargers have running backs. Lots of them. They look like Oklahoma State in the 1980s. Philip Rivers found a Lazarus Pit and looks rejuvenated.
Secondary Assets: A young nucleus is forming, with Keenan Allen at the center. There are a lot of unproven D.J. Fluker, Ladarius Green, Shareece Wright, Manti Te'o and Melvin Ingram types floating in that protoplasm, so don't project the Chargers into Next Best Thing territory just yet.
Big Picture Needs: Stuck between stealth contender and rebuilding team that is still turning the corner, the Chargers have troublesome crash potential. Rivers could backslide without Ken Whisenhunt; other old soldiers like Antonio Gates, Jarrett Johnson, Dwight Freeney and Nick Hardwick are close to the end; and of the youngsters mentioned in the last paragraph, only Allen has shown true Pro Bowl potential. They need reinforcements in the secondary and on just about every other unit but running back, and a quarterback of the future would be nice late on Friday or early on Saturday. It's a heck of a shopping list to fill when selecting 25th in every round.
NFC East
Dallas Cowboys
Primary Assets: "What are we doing tomorrow night, Jerry?" "Same thing we do every night, Pinky Garrett: try to take over the world with Tony Romo, Jason Witten, Dez Bryant, Sean Lee and a bunch of guys I don't really care about!"
Secondary Assets: The Cowboys' ancillary players this year are less ancillary than they were in past years. Tyron Smith and Travis Frederick anchor a promising line, George Selvie-Henry Melton-Nick Hayden-Anthony Spencer form a capable front four and the receiver and cornerback corps are deeper than they appear at first glance.
Big-Picture Needs: DeMarcus Ware is gone, Romo and Witten are aging and financial nuclear winter cannot be staved off much longer. It's nearly impossible to imagine this team challenging for the Super Bowl after years of 8-8 entropy, but it is also impossible to imagine Jerry Jones committing to, and actually pulling off, the wholesale rebuilding that will soon be inevitable. Sigh. I would draft a quarterback and the "best available athlete" in every round and prepare for Romo Capageddon. But the Cowboys will draft a guard and some safeties and linebackers in a desperate attempt to reach ten wins before the repo man arrives.
New York Giants
Primary Assets: Victor Cruz. Eli Manning. A coaching staff with enough old timers to bring credibility and stability, but enough youth to bring a fresh transfusion of offensive ideas.
Secondary Assets: The Giants appear talent poor at first glance but have .500-caliber players on most units. An active-by-their-standards free agency period -- they actually signed someone -- bulwarked a roster that unraveled as 2013 unfolded.
Big-Picture Needs: Second-tier free agent acquisitions like lineman Geoff Schwartz, running back Rashad Jennings and linebacker Jameel McClain -- plus bigger name Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and returnee Jon Beason -- filled immediate needs at positions the Giants habitually filled in the past with rookie free agents and their platoon of lifelong super-subs. It's a welcome change -- what worked well in 2011 was clearly yielding diminishing returns in 2013 -- and with lots of role players on hand, the Giants can reach for blue chips in the draft. Fresh skill-position weapons should be a top priority: coordinator Ben McAdoo must be the one who pilots the team's new course, and he and Eli need playmakers to shake the Giants out of the doldrums.
Philadelphia Eagles
Primary Assets: Chip Kelly, Bill Davis and their boundless imaginations. LeSean McCoy and his dead-on "bigger Barry Sanders" impression. Jason Peters and an experienced offensive line.
Secondary Assets: The Eagles are loaded with guys who suddenly looked better last year than we expected them to look, starting with quarterback Nick Foles but extending to Riley Cooper and a bunch of defenders. Did they make Kelly and Davis look better? Did Chip 'n' Billy coach 'em up? Or were novel new strategies fooling everyone?
Big-Picture Needs: Are you completely sold on Foles? Cooper? Cary Williams, Bradley Fletcher and the slightly rebuilt safety corps? You are not, and it is now easy to look back and see how a new system, the Redskins collapse and some timely coincidences (Packers and Cowboys backup quarterbacks, the Lions in a snowstorm) can push ordinary talent to a 10-6 record. To their credit, Kelly, Davis and GM Howie Roseman did not appear sold at most positions either, and the Eagles sound like they are aggressively seeking blue chips instead of plugging holes and shifting into maintenance mode. Replacing DeSean Jackson seems like an obvious need, but speedsters will come cheap in this draft class, and there are upgradable spots all across the defense. And yes, Kelly will look long and hard at the developmental quarterbacks, because Foles' interception rate is not sustainable, and his playoff performance showed that there is work to be done.
Washington Redskins
Primary Assets: Remember that young quarterback no one could stop fawning over nine months ago? He is still here. And this offseason, he can practice and stuff.
Secondary Assets: This year's free agent spree was more measured than Dan Snyder's past "48 hours of shore leave in Singapore" endeavors. Jason Hatcher, DeSean Jackson and Andre Roberts can all help substantially, and incumbents Brian Orakpo, Ryan Kerrigan, Pierre Garçon and Trent Williams pepper the roster with quality talent.
Big-Picture Needs: Jay Gruden is in a great position to build a bridge over the chasm of 2013 from 2012 to 2014. The talent is ample, the schedule is forgiving and a few of the greatest crises have been curtailed: The Shanahan-Griffin telenovela is over, and role players like Adam Hayward will keep the special teams from going haywire. With no first round pick, the Redskins will have a quiet draft weekend. Quiet is good in Washington. The interior line, inside linebacker and the secondary are all legitimate need areas, and all three can be adequately addressed on Friday or Saturday.
NFC North
Chicago Bears
Primary Assets: Jay Cutler-to-Brandon Marshall after a play-fake to Matt Forté. Newcomer Lamarr Houston. Professor Marc Trestman and the College of Offensive Knowledge.
Secondary Assets: Last year's offensive overhaul brought a rebuilt offensive line and found a worthy No. 2 receiver in Alshon Jeffery. There's an Expendables quality to much of the defense, but Lance Briggs, Peanut Tillman, Jay Ratliff, Tim Jennings and new arrival Jared Allen can all still play when healthy.
Big Picture Needs: Everybody got hurt at once last season, and the resulting implosion made the Bears defense look utterly ridiculous at times. That's not supposed to happen in Chicago, and while Houston and Allen upgrade the line and Jon Bostic is ready for a bigger role at linebacker, all those graybeards on defense present a real danger of a repeat performance. A whole post-Urlacher core must be built, and there are not many long-term blocks in place besides Houston, Bostic and one or two others. GM Phil Emery could spend three days drafting defenders and it would not be excessive.
Detroit Lions
Primary Assets: Calvin Johnson, Ndamukong Suh and Matthew Stafford: three characters in search of an author.
Secondary Assets: The Lions have a supporting cast as vexing as their stars: Reggie Bush, Nick Fairley, Brandon Pettigrew, Dominic Raiola and some young hopefuls like Joseph Fauria, Larry Warford, Ziggy Ansah and Darius Slay. New head coach Jim Caldwell and defensive coordinator Teryl Austin bring winches and ramps to help the franchise climb from its rut.
Big Picture Needs: The Lions looked like the third or fourth-best team in the NFC as recently as last October, and Caldwell/Austin have the talent for a quick turnaround. A pick or two at tackle or in the secondary will go a long way toward making the Lions sudden contenders. Taking a longer view, the Lions must kick butt in the middle-to-late rounds. They face a future cap crunch of near-Cowboys proportions, and keeping their core intact will require major contributions from affordable youngsters in the next few years. Of course, the core has not done much to merit remaining intact over the last two seasons, but perhaps fresh ideas and leadership are the solutions.
Green Bay Packers
Primary Assets: Clay Matthews, Aaron Rodgers, defensive and offensive schemes tailored to their gifts.
Secondary Assets: Up-and-comers like Eddie Lacy, Mike Daniels and David Bakhtiari. A.J. Hawk, who gets better every year and may finally live up to his collegiate hype by the time he turns 40.
Big Picture Needs: Ted Thompson's fascination with square pegs, along with Mike McCarthy's talent for pounding them into circular holes, has been a mixed Packers blessing since the Super Bowl run. Last year, they finally stopped noodling and drafted running backs, with positive results. Despite that rediscovery of the obvious (perhaps acquisitions should sometimes match needs!), the Packers are fiddling with a converted tight end at center and a cast of unknowns at receiver and tight end, where they prefer to be five deep. This is a team that forgot to grab a backup quarterback on the way out of training camp last year, so nothing can be put past them. Grab a center, a tight end, help in the secondary and receiver depth, Professor Ted. You are welcome.
Minnesota Vikings
Primary Assets: Adrian Peterson.
Secondary Assets: The roster is full of fun young prospects: Harrison Smith, Matt Kalil, last year's three first-round amigos (Cordarrelle Patterson, Sharrif Floyd and Xavier Rhodes) and others.
Big Picture Needs: Step One: Get a quarterback. Step Two: Get serious about developing and properly using said quarterback. Norv Turner will help Mike Zimmer with Step Two, but Norv is like a kindergarten teacher, so it will be important to transition to a better coordinator lest Turner skip the advanced algebra lessons for more fundamentals of shoe tying. Step Three: hammer on the secondary and defensive line so Floyd, Smith and Rhodes have more help. The Vikings have the young talent to be exciting as soon as they find a quarterback who is exciting. Finding that quarterback in their draft position, however, may be a chore.
NFC South
Atlanta Falcons
Primary Assets: Matt Ryan to Julio Jones and Roddy White.
Secondary Assets: About 300 rookies who saw playing time as last season droned on. Some of them are probably pretty good.
Big Picture Needs: This is what it looks like when a multi-year success cycle crashes to a halt. The Falcons have needs just about everywhere but quarterback and receiver, and everyone who follows the draft knows that Thomas Dimitroff wants to make some deals, most likely parlaying that sixth pick into multiple selections once some quarterback-starved team sees a Manziel or Bortles slips through the first five cracks. Dimitroff should consummate some sweet, sweet tradin' with the Vikings or Titans as soon as one of them ponies up, then take the Gatling gun approach to giving Ryan his second supporting cast. This draft is deep on the lines, at running back and in other places where a mid-round pick could make an immediate contribution to the once-mighty Falcons.
Carolina Panthers
Primary Assets: Cam Newton and his triple-headed backfield. Luke Kuechly and one of the best front sevens in the NFL.
Secondary Assets: The offensive line is sound. Ron Rivera now understands that it is legal to go for it on fourth down now and then.
Big Picture Needs: Receivers, receivers, receivers! And defensive backs! But mostly receivers! No sane organization would enter a season with Jason Avant and Jerricho Cotchery as their starting wide receivers, unless they planned to run the wishbone option full time, which is admittedly tempting given the Panthers personnel. The current secondary would have a hard time making the Seahawks second string. The Panthers chose to willfully gut these two units after the organization's best season in a decade. Perhaps the team saw the deepest receiver crop in 20 years and decided they could get better, younger and cheaper. Perhaps they secretly hate Newton, despite picking up his fifth-year option (they could have negotiated a new deal, after all). We will know the truth by the end of the day on Friday.
New Orleans Saints
Primary Assets: Drew Brees and an offensive nucleus that won a Super Bowl … albeit a few years ago.
Secondary Assets: Rob Ryan and a defense that has finally been built, for better or worse, in his image. Cameron Jordan, Kenny Vaccaro, Junior Galette and newcomer Jairus Byrd give the Saints a new core of stars to rally around, which (shhh) is something the offense will soon need.
Big Picture Needs: The Saints are the Patriots or Broncos of the NFC. Brees' clock is ticking, his top lieutenants are falling by the wayside, and the Saints quietly picked up Champ Bailey in acknowledgement that winning now may be their last, best hope. That has not stopped them from playing chicken with Jimmy Graham, and while there are still holes in Ryan's defense, Sean Payton's offense is suddenly short on fifth receivers, third-down backs and the other luxury items that makes it so unpredictably deadly. The NFC South is winnable, and the Saints should be seeking over-the-top players, not spackle.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Primary Assets: Who knows? The Bucs made so many moves this offseason than not even Lovie Smith is certain who is on the roster.
Secondary Assets: Seriously, though: the Buccaneers are fairly wide and deep with talent, especially by rebuilding-team standards. Their greatest strength is up-the-middle defense, which matches Lovie's area of expertise.
Big Picture Needs: The Buccaneers' top need is determining what they need. Quarterback might not be a major problem area; Mike Glennon could respond to Jeff Tedford like Nick Foles to Chip Kelly, for example. If Carl Nicks keeps having health problems, the interior line leaps close to the top of the problem queue. No one is sure who the No. 2 receiver is, and Brandon Myers is the tight end to sign when you want someone to catch six passes in a 41-23 loss. Lovie and Tedford will get a two-win bump just by treating players like human beings and perhaps another win from all the postseason juggling. The draft will inform us, and may dictate to them, how they plan to find the wins that will push them into contention.
NFC West
Arizona Cardinals
Primary Assets: Larry Fitzgerald. Some "wow factor" defensive talent.
Secondary Assets: There's an old guard of Fitzgerald, Carson Palmer, Darnell Dockett and John Abraham and a rising force of Tyrann Mathieu, Michael Floyd, Andre Ellington and Jonathan Cooper, with Patrick Peterson somewhere in between. Free agent signees Jared Veldheer and Antonio Cromartie make the Cardinals good enough to contend in every division except the one they play in.
Big Picture Needs: What happens if the Palmer-Abraham-Dockett training wheels have to suddenly come off the Cardinals? That's a problem the team must soon deal with, because let's face it: this team could win the AFC South but is no match for the Niners and Seahawks, and won't be as long as the geezers are doing most of the heavy lifting. The Cardinals are prime candidates to draft a surprise faller at quarterback: if Teddy Bridgewater really is sinking like a sack of buckshot, the Cardinals should pounce on him: he could be the quarterback who leads them to a deep playoff run in 2015.
St. Louis Rams
Primary Assets: The most exciting young defensive line in the NFL.
Secondary Assets: Very good linebackers, a promising secondary and gobs of young talent at the skill positions.
Big Picture Needs: Last week's Mandatory Monday spent 10 million words itemizing the faults of Sam Bradford and offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer. Jeff Fisher needs to prove that he really understands that it is no longer 1999, the AFC Central no longer exists and that even if his punt-and-pin-forever strategies could still work in other circumstances, they will fail in a division where two teams do it better. Bradford and the offensive line need reimagining, as does the whole offensive concept of going sideways to go forward.
San Francisco 49ers
Primary Assets: Pretty much everything except depth at wide receiver and cornerback.
Secondary Assets: Really, it's the depth that gets you. Wouldn't it be great to have Adam Snyder as your swing guard, Jonathan Martin battling two prospects to be the No. 3 tackle, Tank Carradine listed as a third-string tackle, Marcus Lattimore waiting to climb out of the pool and up the depth chart at running back, and dudes like Dan Skuta and Corey Lemonier playing special teams and waiting their turns at outside linebacker? That's what the 49ers have, entering the draft.
Big Picture Needs: The 49ers also have 11 draft choices, including two second-rounders and three third-rounders. There are not 11 serious need positions on the team's third string, so the 49ers are prime candidates to do something aggressive in their effort to pass the Seahawks. How much will it take to move up and draft their top choice at wide receiver, or some cornerback who slips through the first round cracks? The price will be high -- the Patriots and Broncos will also be in "one missing piece" mode, but the 49ers have extra second and third round picks to burn when moving up. Unlike the Patriots or Broncos, they do not have to worry about mortgaging their future, because their depth chart is already full of future.
Seattle Seahawks
Primary Assets: The best secondary in the NFL. One of the best front sevens. Russell Wilson. Marshawn Lynch.
Secondary Assets: General manager John Schneider and Pete Carroll work hand-in-glove to make the Seahawks the smoothest running operation in pro sports. Little things like Earl Thomas' new contract (and the ongoing negotiations with Richard Sherman) suggest that Schneider has a cap management strategy in place to prevent the Seahawks core from becoming too expensive to retain.
Big Picture Needs: Part of that plan is certainly to draft worthy replacements for whoever is replaceable. Offensive line is the Seahawks' need area, but once a reinforcement or two is in place, Schneider will keep restocking positions like running back and the front seven, even though (like the Niners) there are all sorts of Christine Michael- and Jordan Hill-types already in the wings. Schneider wants to be able to pay for wise long-term investments (Wilson, Sherman), while being able to move on from players likely to age or regress suddenly (Lynch). It's a delicate balance of short and long-term goals, but the Seahawks look like the team with all of the answers right now.


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When it comes to a high-low style mix, the luxe stuff is easy to find and lust after. But, the real stars of your look might actually come from the most unassuming places. We shopped a few of the stores that you may only visit when you need to restock on dish soap or buy a flat-screen television, or happen to fall victim to nostalgia for the food court.
So, forget what you thought you knew about these major department stores and mall retailers and start mastering the mix with our favorite affordable, attainable pieces. Now, whether or not you share that your splurge-worthy find is actually a cheap thrill, that's totally up to you.


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Things that Affect the Prices of Iron on Patches
For people looking to reproduce their logos, custom embroidered patches are one of the best and inexpensive options they should consider. It also provides convenience since they will no longer need to have their logos stitched on their garments. This is also a good way to save money.
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Windows App Day – slides and video from the event
A small month ago on November 23rd we welcomed over 200 attendees to our first Windows App Day in Antwerp, focusing on developer and User Experience/web content for building apps. What types of apps you ask? A lot of it was centered around Windows 8 Store apps but also Windows Azure and mobile services as… Read more
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The Holy Father's third and final meditation on the life of Christ, The Infancy Narratives (which he describes as being "not a third volume, but a kind of small 'antechamber' to the two earlier volumes") has now been published, in time for Christmas. I have only just begun reading it (I have it so quickly thanks to my Kindle, how did I ever live without it?) but I can record from the secular press that Pope Benedict is being widely reported, with apparent amazement, as saying that the Virgin Birth is actually true. Jesus's Virgin Birth and his Resurrection from the dead, writes Pope Benedict, are the two moments in the Gospels when "God intervenes directly into the material world". In other words, both are events which actually happened: they are history and not myth. "This is a scandal for the modern spirit," the Holy Father notes, since in today's world God is "allowed to operate on thought and ideas but not on matter". But for just this reason, he adds, Mary's virginity is a "test" and a "fundamental element" of the Christian faith.
Absolutely. Ever since I was converted to the Christian religion in my early 30s after a lifetime of atheism, I have firmly believed (by which I mean known) that the infancy narratives were true, and that the notion that these were stories which were a kind of meditation on faith, so they could not be literally true as well, was meaningless. There is no necessary dichotomy between meditation and historicity: that very simple fact is conveyed most beautifully by the sublime sentence in Luke's gospel which also reveals, surely, the evangelist's source as being Our Lady herself: "But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart."
Similarly, it has always seemed to me one of the most transparently bogus propositions of liberal Protestant biblical criticism that since the fourth gospel is a great meditation on the meaning of the faith, it is therefore much less historically to be relied upon than the synoptic gospels. It's quite clear that John is presenting his gospel as a historical record whose truth is to be believed in, and not as a meditation. That it is that, too, is the product of John's sublime spiritual and literary genius: but he ends the gospel (ch 21) by declaring that he is "the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down" and … "that his testimony is true". He also records (20: 30-31) that "Jesus did many … miraculous signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name." We are to believe, because it is true that these things happened.
Similarly with the Lucan infancy narratives. "But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart" (Luke ii. 19). As vicar of St Mary's, Newman preached one of his greatest sermons on this text (to which of course he returns in The Development of Christian Doctrine), in which he insists that simply knowing the historic narrative of God's interventions in human history is not enough: they are to be pondered, ingested, truly understood:
"… Mary's faith did not end in a mere acquiescence in Divine providences and revelations: as the text informs us, she 'pondered' them. When the shepherds came, and told of the vision of Angels which they had seen at the time of the Nativity, and how one of them announced that the Infant in her arms was 'the Saviour, which is Christ the Lord', while others did but wonder, 'Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart'. Again, when her Son and Saviour had come to the age of twelve years, and had left her for awhile for His Father's service, and had been found, to her surprise, in the Temple, amid the doctors, both hearing them and asking them questions, and had, on her addressing Him, vouchsafed to justify His conduct, we are told, "His mother kept all these sayings in her heart…
"Thus St Mary is our pattern of Faith, both in the reception and in the study of Divine Truth. She does not think it enough to accept, she dwells upon it; not enough to possess, she uses it; not enough to assent, she develops it; not enough to submit the Reason, she reasons upon it; not indeed reasoning first, and believing afterwards, with Zacharias, yet first believing without reasoning, next from love and reverence, reasoning after believing."
This passage from Newman's sermon continues with the following, which I cannot help applying to the present Holy Father, a more recent great ponderer in his heart on the events surrounding our Lord's birth. For, Newman thinks that it is not enough simply to immerse ourselves in the sublimity of this wonderful story; and neither does Joseph Ratzinger, a man of transparent simplicity of faith but also of great subtlety of mind and at the same time heroic pugnacity of spirit faced by the dangers of aggressive secularity, not only outside the Church but within it, too. The faith is to be both pondered and fought for: "And thus", says Newman, Mary "symbolises to us, not only the faith of the unlearned, but of the doctors of the Church also, who have to investigate, and weigh, and define, as well as to profess the Gospel; to draw the line between truth and heresy; to anticipate or remedy the various aberrations of wrong reason; to combat pride and recklessness with their own arms; and thus to triumph over the sophist and the innovator."
Thus, too, Newman himself; of whom, surely Pope Benedict (who knows his writings well and has acknowledged their influence) more and more shows himself to be one of his greatest successors as a defender of the faith, one who notably triumphs over the sophist and the innovator as well as being a true model of simple faith.


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Moto Exec on Android Upgrade Delays: It's The Hardware
Don't blame manufacturers' software customizations for holding up mobile phone upgrades to the new version of Google's mobile operating system, Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" (ICS), a top executive at Motorola said Wednesday.
It's the hardware, said Christy Wyatt, senior vice president and general manager of Motorola's Enterprise Business Unit. The issue at hand, according to Wyatt, is that writing code to support hardware other than Google's Nexus model has proven to be a tall order for smartphone makers.
"When Google does a release of the software ... they do a version of the software for whatever phone they just shipped," she said. "The rest of the ecosystem doesn't see it until you see it. Hardware is by far the long pole in the tent, with multiple chipsets and multiple radio bands for multiple countries. It's a big machine to churn."
Motorola understands that consumers want their Android upgrades sooner, but the process is complicated, she said. First there's hardware support, then the layering in of custom software from manufacturers like Motorola, and finally, phones must be re-certified by carriers, taking more time.
The company can't give more assurances of upgrade timing, Wyatt said, explaining: "I would have to know that every single operator I have is going to want to upgrade every single product, and sometimes they'll want to control the timing ... it's just not easy to make that blanket statement."
Windows Phone only supports one chipset, making upgrades easier, she said. But Motorola has no plans to support Windows Phone; it's an Android-only shop. Sony, meanwhile, has said it will upgrade a wide range of phones to Android 4.0, but it has fewer chipsets and carriers to deal with than Motorola doesand even Sony hasn't delivered its promised ICS upgrade yet.
At any rate, Motorola has been quicker than most at provisioning users with new versions of Android, Wyatt contended.
"More than once we've come out as the fastest to get to market with an upgrade," she said.
How ICS Changes Motorola's Strategy Motorola doesn't run stock Android. Wyatt talked at length about the company's 3LM device-management software and enterprise security options, pointing them out as differentiators for the company. They just prepare a lot of that code in advance so it doesn't slow down the upgrade process, she said.
And it sounded like Wyatt, and Motorola, are really looking forward to ICS. By offering users and developers a single UI for phones and tablets, Wyatt said Ice Cream Sandwich will help improve the appeal of Android tablets like Motorola's Xoom and Xyboard.
"That has to be one of the promises of Ice Cream Sandwich," she said. "By bringing these UIs together, you solve the experience gaps and the ecosystem gaps between [phones and tablets]."
The switch to Android 4.0 is changing thinking around Webtop, Motorola's very unusual mode which turns a phone into a mini-laptop running a desktop version of Linux. The desktop-Linux version may not be needed post-ICS, Wyatt mused.
"With ICS it's more interesting because it starts to have some of the full, desktop-like features," she said. Chrome for Android may make Webtop's desktop version of Firefox less necessary, for instance.
But ICS still needs work to operate well in laptop modefor instance, a way to handle the phone app so it operates in a window, and both keyboard and mouse support throughout the system. Motorola is currently looking at how to change Webtop for the post-ICS world, Wyatt said.
"We pick the best of both worlds ... we're not giving up any functionality that we've already given out to our customers," she said.


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Problems In Recent IE Cumulative Update
One of the updates last week on Patch Tuesday was a Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer. Microsoft is now stating that some users of Windows XP SP2 with Internet Explorer 6 will see browser stability problems after applying the update. Specifically, when visiting a site "hosting considerable media content (for example: http://msn.com)" [their example, not mine], the browser may hang or crash.
The company insists that the update does address the security issues it intended to, so if you are not experiencing any stability issues you don't need to worry. If you are experiencing such browser crashes and you are running XP SP2 with IE6, there is a registry hack/workaround for the problem in Knowledge Base article KB946627.
Microsoft also says that "[b]ecause this occurs in a customized installation, this isn't a widespread issue." They don't explain what the customization is and it's not clear to us.
[12/21/2007 - Edited to add: Microsoft has created a program to automate the registry hack. You can download it or get it through Windows Update.


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"Veronica Mars" fans try Kickstarting a movie UPDATE: it worked!
Is Warner Bros. sitting back, laughing at the swarm of "Veronica Mars" fans who are chipping in their hard-earned cash in hopes of launching a movie via Kickstarter? Or are we witnessing the logical evolution of the movie business, in which fans dictate what they want to see and use the internet to generate a movement?
The late, lamented "Veronica Mars" has been off the CW's air for five years. But creator Rob Thomas (who described his show as "Heathers" meets "Chinatown") along with cast members Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni and Ryan Hansen have an idea. They shot a promo asking for contributions totaling $2 million to launch a movie. Depending how much they fork over, contributors get a signed poster, maybe a walk-on, maybe a producer credit. Thomas posted in his Kickstarter explanation, that there was an effort to launch a movie in the past but, "Warner Bros. wasn't convinced there was enough interest to warrant a major studio-sized movie about Veronica and the project never got off the ground."
Check out the video. No re-enactments. And no catch-phrasing. And see who has the last laugh. Considering how quickly the amount is climbing, and with 30 days left for fundraising, I'm not betting against Thomas, Bell and company.
UPDATE: It's officially a go. The $2 million goal was met in less than a day. Those Marshmallows are a serious bunch.


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Staff Picks
Past and present Whistlestoppers have a fascinating diversity of taste in books, as you may deduce from a browse in all our recommendations. If you are curious about an individual staffer's picks, click the names below. I emphasize to them that all literature is fair game, not just current or trendy titles. We try to stock everything they would like to sell by hand.


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The 61st Grand National Roadster Show
Just when it seemed like the Grand National Roadster Show had gotten to be as big and about as good as it could get, after last year's celebration of its 60th consecutive running, they go and step it up even further. That's right, on top of the usual vast array of show cars-ranging from America's Most Beautiful Roadster contenders to panel-painted lowriders-filling over half a dozen buildings at the Pomona Fairplex, the show expanded itself to include two brand-new exhibits: the Vintage Race Car Display and, the one we're most proud of, Cars That Made A Difference: Famous Magazine Cover Cars.
Judging from the feedback received during the show alone, those two components of the Grand National were quite the success. But rather than interpret the cover car display in our obviously biased manner (we were responsible for putting it on), we've given roving rod reporter Dain Gingerelli the honor, which you'll find further ahead in our show coverage. As for the historic racers, well, much like the 75th Anniversary '32 Ford exhibit, that too was the talk of the crowds, and deservedly so. But there was more-much, much more.
As has been the case pretty much since its inception, the competition was fierce for America's Most Beautiful Roadster honors. And so too was the variety of the vehicle entrants-everything from polished traditional to over-the-top contemporary. In the end, the latter (Mike Dingman's '33 roadster) would leave with the tall trophy and the trimmings that come with. Above and beyond the "main building" spectacles, this year's GNRS didn't skip a beat, with its supporting attractions, including the Suede Palace and the outdoor Drive-In, where all the voids between the Fairplex buildings are filled with cars on Saturday and Sunday.
To sum it up, the Granddaddy of Them All made history … once again.
Cars That Made A Difference
R&C Cover Cars Past And Present Made A Special Appearance At The GNRS
Highboy hot rods and cool customs as the feature exhibit in an art gallery? That's like asking Rosie O'Donnell and Ugly Betty to host American Idol, or worse yet, model the latest in two-piece swimwear. What gives?
What gives is that Rod & Custom, acting in cahoots with STREET RODDER, hosted a rather special-and landmark-exhibit at this year's Grand National Roadster Show. The exhibit was entitled "Cars That Made A Difference," and it took place in the Millard Sheets Center for the Arts, an art gallery that's situated in a corner of the Pomona Fairplex, site for the annual Roadster Show the past few years now.
Specifically, the cars that composed the exhibit were former cover cars that, through the years, appeared on the fronts of R&C and SR. No, we couldn't begin to include every hot rod and custom that made it to those hallowed pieces of editorial real estate; there simply wasn't enough room in the exhibit hall for that. Heck, even Rosie and Betty can't make every Hollywood engagement. But we managed to include as many cars as we could for this gig, with the notion that we'd also respect the art gallery heritage in the process. So, first, a few words about the Sheets art gallery:
The gallery's namesake-Millard Owen Sheets-was an artist of repute, born in Pomona, California. Sheets' oil paintings, sketches, and renderings were well known and respected among his peers and art aficionados, and after he passed away, the art community and Fairplex management saw fit to name this gallery in his honor. The gallery building offers an intimate setting, too; carpeted floors, walls painted in soft hues, low ceilings, and diffused overhead lighting create an intimate setting to distance you from the clamor and bustle of the outside world so that you can focus on the subject at hand-art. Or, in this case, rod and custom art.
As you might guess, we had fun putting this exhibit together, but in the process we wracked our brains trying to cull the car herd to a workable number. We-meaning R&C-also effectively had only half the floor space to work with. Remember, we were sharing the gallery with our friends across the hallway here at the R&C/SR headquarters.
You'll notice in the accompanying photos that there are no annoying stanchions laced with ropes or chains to obstruct the view of each car. We did this for a reason-this was an art exhibit, dangit, and art should be enjoyed in its fullest. So we bared the cars to the world, and we offer hearty and special thanks to the participating car owners for agreeing to work with us in that capacity, too. We realized that we were placing their cars in potential harm's way, but everyone agreed that this was the only way that cover cars should be viewed.
GNRS show promoter John Buck, with the cooperation of the Pomona Fairplex, worked with us to spiff the exhibit even further by allowing our magazines to decorate the walls with poster-size (24×36) metal reprints of the covers that showcased the respective cars on display. Everyone thought that was a nice touch, and each of those reproduction covers included information about the featured car and its past and current owner. In addition, we lined the walls with about 100 other enlarged photos from our archives, so there was always something new and inviting to catch your eye.
But all that amounted to mere frosting on the cake; the cars remained the main attraction. Even so, we had one more surprise up our corporate sleeve-many of the cars' builders and owners were there too. Their presence allowed visitors at the art center to mingle and talk with them. At some point during the three-day show you were sure to see the likes of Blackie Gejeian, Tommy Ivo, Magoo, Jimmie Vaughan, Chip Foose, Roy Brizio, Bob Kolmos, Bobby Alloway, and former R&C staffers Jim "Jake" Jacobs and Spence Murray at our display. As for Rosie and Betty, we kept them on American idle while we resumed our stroll at the GNRS. And for three incredible days we hustled from building to building, loving every minute of this annual rite of passage on the road to selecting America's Most Beautiful Roadster.


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Just as we did last night, let's have a look at the top players remaining entering the draft's third day:
1. Georgia cornerback Brandon Boykin — We discussed Boykin (pictured) in the previous post, but it's possible teams have medical concerns after he fractured a bone in his lower right leg during the Senior Bowl game. If not, he'll surely be one of the first players selected on Saturday. Boykin is a three-phase playmaker and was a 2011 team captain at Georgia.
2. Washington defensive tackle Alameda Ta'amu — Ta'amu moves exceptionally well for a 6-foot-3, 341-pound manchild, which makes him appealing from a planet-theory perspective. He is a 3-4 nose tackle prospect. Also a captain for the Huskies' 2011 defense, Ta'amu started 42 games in college, recording 19 career tackles for loss and nine sacks.
3. Ole Miss tackle Bobby Massie — Massie was once regarded as a likely first-round pick by ESPN's Mel Kiper. The measurables are certainly there. Massie possesses vine-like arms at 35 inches, and packs 316 pounds onto his 6-foot-6 frame. Unfortunately, Massie plays more like Jane than Tarzan at this point. He's still a viable developmental project.
4. Arkansas receiver Joe Adams — Adams is slight at 5-foot-11 and 174 pounds, and he ran a relatively disappointing 4.53 forty time at the Combine. But SEC game watchers know he does not lack explosiveness. Adams scored 25 career touchdowns, including five on punt returns, and earned first-team All-SEC honors for his "all-purpose" work as a senior.
5. Tennessee defensive tackle Malik Jackson — For a much cheaper price, a team could get a higher-effort if only slightly less-gifted version of Quinton Coples on the draft's third day. Jackson's production wasn't overwhelming while forced to play nose tackle on an undermanned Tennessee line, but he could excel at 4-3 left end, 4-3 tackle, or five technique in a 3-4. Jackson plays the game relentlessly, and he's learned to defeat double teams. He's one of our favorite 2012 sleepers.
6. Washington running back Chris Polk — Polk lacks elite initial burst, but possesses terrific vision and is a natural pass catcher with big, soft hands and background as a receiver. As a ball carrier, Polk averaged over 5.0 yards per carry on 799 career rushing attempts at Washington. He's 5-foot-11, 215, and ran 4.47 at his Pro Day.
7. Alabama defensive tackle Josh Chapman — Chapman would have been a second-day pick if not for postseason ACL surgery. The operation repaired Chapman's anterior cruciate ligament in addition to left meniscus after he played the final eight games of his senior season through the injury. And he was still the best run-stopping nose in the nation.
8. California receiver Marvin Jones — A silky smooth route runner with veteran savvy and a wide catching radius, Jones' production was mediocre at Cal while playing second fiddle to future top-ten draft pick Keenan Allen at receiver. Jones was perhaps the best wideout on the field at the Senior Bowl. He goes 6-foot-2, 199 and ran a 4.47 at the Combine.
9. Miami running back Lamar Miller — Medical concerns may have pushed Miller down the board after postseason shoulder surgery. He also can't pick up the blitz and is a non-factor in short-yardage situations. But Miller runs very fast in a straight line (4.36) and has feature-back size at 5-foot-11, 212. He needs to be drafted into a zone-blocking scheme.
10. Michigan State quarterback Kirk Cousins — Cousins has average arm talent and his decision making tends to tank when pressured, but he played in a pro-style offense at Michigan State and was a 39-game starter in the Big Ten, going 27-12. One major knock on Cousins is his performance in big games. In four career bowl appearances, he completed just 54-of-100 passes with a 6.76 YPA and 2:6 touchdown-to-interception ratio. Still a heady, charismatic signal caller, Cousins projects as a quality long-term backup in the league.
Others left: Wake Forest receiver Chris Givens, Nebraska defensive tackle Jared Crick, Arkansas receiver Jarius Wright, Nevada linebacker James-Michael Johnson, Nebraska cornerback Alfonzo Dennard, Virginia linebacker Cam Johnson, South Carolina safety Antonio Allen, Boise State safety George Iloka, Troy defensive end Jonathan Massaquoi, Oklahoma linebacker Ronnell Lewis, Georgia center Ben Jones, Georgia tight end Orson Charles, Florida State tackle Zebrie Sanders, Louisiana-Lafayette tight end Ladarius Green, Furman cornerback Ryan Steed, Miami guard Brandon Washington.


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This week's culture critics are Nathan Rabin and Scott Tobias of The AV Club, here to offer up a pair of humor-fueled recommendations. Nathan suggests checking out comedian Hannibal Buress's debut one-hour special, Animal Furnace, noting a marked evolution in Hannibal's stand-up style. Meanwhile Scott is enamored with Wes Anderson's latest, Moonrise Kingdom, hailing it as the filmmaker's best work.
Moonrise Kingdom is currently in limited release, opening nationwide on June 15th, while Hannibal Buress's Animal Furnace is now available on both CD and DVD.
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Kurt Braunohler is a stand-up comedian and improviser, as well as one half of the sketch duo Kurt & Kristen, performing alongside writing partner Kristen Schaal. While stand-up consumes much of his time these days, he may soon be best known for IFC's Bunk, putting his disarming charms to work as host of an improv game show where comedians compete in insane challenges on behalf of less than charitable causes.
Kurt sits down with us to discuss the myriad ways in which the conventions of the game show format are begging to be satirized, the serendipitous origin of Kurt & Kristen, and how they took one of our all-time favorite sketches, "Kristen Schaal is a Horse", to Australia's biggest stage. Bunk premieres Friday, June 8th at 10:30 PM on IFC.
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Thought you could escape the world of news within the hour of our pop culture program? Think again! Getting you caught up on all the latest stories that may or may not have happened, here's an update from the minds of our fake news team: the San Francisco-based sketch comedy group Kasper Hauser.
For more Kasper Hauser, check out The Kasper Hauser Podcast right here on MaximumFun.org.
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Walter Mosley is an author of nearly forty books, but perhaps he's best known for his work in detective fiction. His Easy Rawlins detective series began with 1989's Devil in a Blue Dress. Lately Mosley's penning the stories of a new detective: Leonid McGill. His latest serial novel is All I Did Was Shoot My Man, the most recent entry in the McGill series, and it's loaded with the kind of snappy, hard-boiled noir writing Mosley is famous for.
Walter joined us back in 2010 to talk about the existential crises at the heart of the detective genre, and how he made the move from computer programming to detective fiction so many years ago.
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For The Outshot this week, Jesse makes the case for Jay-Z as hip hop's greatest of all time -- if only for the effortlessly perfect rhythm of his lyrical flow, best represented on the track "Hovi Baby".
Got your own pick for rap's best flow? Stake your claim on the MaxFun Forum by picking your own Outshot.
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General Information About Continental School of Beauty Culture
We, the Administration and Faculty of the Continental School of Beauty Culture, recognize and accept the responsibilities and privileges inherent in the conduct of an ethical private school. We dedicate ourselves to the community as a whole and to our students specifically in the training of the individual towards a gainful occupation as a life time career. We recognize the seriousness of striving to maintain excellence in our curriculum and our faculty, in order to prepare our students to make a meaningful contribution to society.
Institutional statistical data was gathered from the U.S. Department of Education - Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, 2009-2010.
Institution Type
- 2-year, Private for-profit
Special Learning Opportunities
- Weekend/evening college
Student Services
- Placement services for completers
Credit Accepted
- Institution does not accept dual, credit for life, or AP credits
Religious Affiliation
- Not applicable
Federal Aid
- Eligible students may receive Pell Grants and other federal aid (e.g. Direct Loans).
Degrees/Certificates offered
- Less than 1 year certificate
- 1-2 years certificate
Campus Setting
- Town: Remote
Disability Services Student
- 3% or Less
Admission Total Applicants Full Time Retention Rate 85%
Student Demographics Total Enrolled 149 Native American 4.0 Asian 1.0 African American 14.0 Hispanic 1.0 Enrolled FullTime Undergraduates 61 Enrolled FullTime Graduates


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v. to have a legal duty to pay funds to another. However, to owe does not make the amount "payable" if the date for payment has not yet arrived. (See: debt, due, payable)
oweverb be beholden, be bound, be due, be in debt, be indebted, be liable, be obligated, be under obligation, contract a debt, debere, have a loan, have an obligation, incur a debt
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Less than two years after the federal government rolled out a stimulus plan to spend $48 billion to rescue America's aging transportation system and keep construction crews working, the results are visible all over California.
The state has received $2.6 billion in stimulus funds for road and transit needs and completed or awarded contracts for 90 percent of 931 projects. That's the second fastest performance nationwide, behind Texas, according to the Department of Transportation.
"Our role was to spend stimulus money fast and we did it," said Dan Collen, deputy director of the County of Santa Clara Roads & Airports Department, which used $2.8 million in federal aid to finish the repaving of Montague Expressway.
A report released last month by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the Obama administration had met its goal of getting 70 percent of the $787 billion stimulus package spent within 18 months. Transportation is just a small chunk of that package, but perhaps the most visible.
Among the transportation projects either completed or under way in the Bay Area:
So many projects have been finished that roadside signs saying they were paid for by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act have mostly been taken down.
The Congressional Budget Office said stimulus spending added as many as 3.3 million jobs to the economy during the second quarter of this year, and may have prevented the nation from falling back into recession.
California estimates that each billion dollars spent yields about 18,000 jobs.
Kelly Kolander, president and CEO of O.C. Jones & Sons, the contractor for the I-280 metering projects, said at his firm the money "helped create and preserve over 40 jobs."
Officials with the Hayward firm Gillig, which built the VTA hybrids, say the stimulus contract helped the company avoid laying off any of its 700 workers.
"This filters into the economy," said Christen Monsen of the Alameda County Transportation Commission, "because construction workers spend their money. They don't hoard it for a rainy day."
But despite the infusion of cash, the national unemployment rate remains close to 10 percent and the construction industry remains severely hit by the recession.
"The stimulus helped here and there, but overall the road-building industry is reeling," said Russell Snyder, executive director of the California Asphalt Pavement Association, "and the stimulus was not enough to stave off business closings, layoffs and other doomsday measures."
Repaving was limited to major streets, even though some residential roads may be in worse condition. And transportation officials wish more cash could have been devoted to big capital projects.
"Fastest projects aren't necessarily the top-priority projects," said Debbie Hale, executive director of the Transportation Agency for Monterey County, who would have preferred to spend some of the money on the $91 million Highway 101-San Juan Road project, which is $18 million short. "We funded a bunch of local projects instead, but I'd rather use federal funds on one big job rather than federalize a bunch of little jobs.
"Efficiency vs. speed. We got speed on this one."
Two major Bay Area projects have received funds — nearly $200 million for the fourth bore in the Caldecott Tunnel and $96 million to replace the Doyle Drive approach to the Golden Gate Bridge.
Some transportation officials were hoping for a second stimulus boost, but that appears doubtful. Last week, Republicans proposed slashing $2 billion in stimulus funds for California's high-speed rail line.
"The real issue is that California's roads are in sorry shape and billions are needed, and these types of programs are the sort of things necessary," said Ralph Qualls, former public works director in Cupertino. "However, transportation must be a priority, and while the president is very supportive of that, I am not so optimistic about the new Congress."
Contact Gary Richards at 408-920-5335.
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