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Blair Holliday looked dead. He was face down in Lake Tillery, only his life jacket preventing him from sinking. A jet ski accident had launched him into the water. Holliday was unconscious.
A dazed Jamison Crowder—a Duke teammate and fellow receiver who drove the jet ski that collided with Holliday—saw his friend's limp body and swam to him. The 5-9 Crowder lifted the 6-4 Holliday onto the back of a jet ski. Someone else drove while Jamison, facing backward, held onto Holliday, his feet and legs trailing in the water.
A nursing student named Chelsea Gibbons heard the accident as she floated in a cove. As her mom called 911, Gibbons climbed onto a dock nearby. When she saw Holliday taken to another dock, she worried she might not be able to swim the 100 yards to get there. She grabbed a floatie, tucked it under her right arm, jumped in the water and started kicking.
She swims faster under water, so she ducked under, popped back up and shouted instructions. "Lay him flat!" she hollered. She swam farther. "Don't move his head!" When she got to him, she assessed his injuries. The only visible ones were to his head, which bore the brunt of the crash. His mouth was bleeding. His jaw broken.
Gibbons found a weak pulse. It disappeared. She started CPR—she had been recertified just a few weeks earlier. She guesses she did CPR for 10 or 12 minutes. An emergency crew arrived, put an oxygen mask on Holliday and drove him to a nearby hospital. From there, he was flown to a University of North Carolina hospital.
Crowder was physically uninjured. But he was deeply wounded.
The crash was an accident, a horrendous accident. Holliday slowed to say hello to somebody, and when he did, spray from his wake hit Crowder, who was behind him, in the face. He never saw Holliday stop before they collided. Crowder knew it wasn't his fault — it was no one's fault. But his heart ached just the same.
Blair Holliday is such a good athlete that there is disagreement about which sport he plays best. His parents say baseball. He and his high school friends say basketball—he was named player of the year for the class level he played in as a high school senior in California. But he earned a football scholarship. He hoped to go to Stanford, but coaches there didn't seem interested. Other schools offered scholarships, but he didn't think they were good enough academically.
One of his high school coaches was former Tennessee quarterback Casey Clausen, brother of Carolina Panthers backup quarterback Jimmy Clausen. Casey Clausen called Duke coach David Cutcliffe, and that led to a scholarship for Holliday.
Cutcliffe is an old-school Southern football coach, and Holliday carries himself with California cool. Maybe too much California cool. Cutcliffe rode him, pushed him to work harder in 2011, Holliday's freshman season.
"It was a little culture shock. And it was fun shocking him, to be honest with you," Cutcliffe says. "I kind of picked on him. I coined the phrase, because he wouldn't be as intense, 'Every day is a Holliday.'"
That became the rallying cry of Holliday's friends and family as he recovered from the head injury that nearly killed him.
The hug that healed
Cutcliffe was driving across Tennessee on the Fourth of July about 5:30 p.m. when his phone rang. It was Crowder, calling from Lake Tillery, about 50 miles east of Charlotte, N.C. "The pain in his voice was beyond description. He said, 'Coach, something really, really, really bad has happened. Something bad has happened to Blair.' I'm just, oh my gosh. He tried to tell me. He told me they were airlifting Blair. I said, 'You've got to call your parents.' It was horrific to hear that pain in that young man's voice."
In California, Blair's mom, Leslie Holliday, gathered her husband, Rick Holliday and their two other sons. When they arrived in North Carolina, the diagnosis was bad. Holliday had a traumatic brain injury. He was non-responsive. He wasn't expected to live.
Days passed. A week. Two weeks. Holliday caught pneumonia. Doctors said he was the sickest person in the intensive care unit. His mom and dad called relatives to tell them it might be time to come to say goodbye to him. Duke football officials prepared themselves for his death, too.
Crowder, who left Duke to return to his parents' suburban Charlotte home after the accident, was too distraught to go to the hospital. He didn't know how Holliday's parents would react to him. Word of Crowder's pain reached Leslie Holliday. She could not bear the thought that she would lose her son and that Crowder's life would be ruined, too.
Crowder had not let her son drown in Lake Tillery.
She would not let Crowder drown in despair.
She had to see him. She kept asking for him. Finally, he and his parents went to the hospital. When they got to Holliday's room, it was silent, except for the noise of the machines. "Jamison was just visibly … just … I don't even think initially he could look at our family eye to eye. He just didn't know how to respond to us," Leslie Holliday said. "So I grabbed him. I hugged him. I told him that I loved him."
Cutcliffe says that hug is one of the most beautiful things he has ever seen. "I can't tell you words because it went beyond that," Cutcliffe says. "All of us, all of us, as children, hopefully, hopefully identify with a mother's comfort. The first thing we do when we scrape our knee is run to see our mother. This was a mother comforting a young man in a way that you would describe as taking her own. She took Jamison as her own for that moment."
That embrace started his healing.
Holliday's was still to come.
Cutcliffe spent so much time in Holliday's hospital room that he learned to read the devices that were plugged into him. The all-important pressure gauge, which bore deep into his brain, fluctuated based on who was in the room and what they were doing. When members of the Duke women's volleyball team, who had been part of the outing at Lake Tillery, talked to Holliday and rubbed his hand, the number dropped—which was a good thing.
"Then he'd hear my voice, it'd be like, 'I'm irritated like hell, you get out of here,'" Cutcliffe says. "It would go in the other direction. I said, 'I got you, I got you. I'm gone, brother.'"
Another constant at Holliday's bedside was David Helton. Like Holliday and Cutcliffe, Holliday and David Helton make an odd couple—and even odder roommates. Holliday is a wide receiver from California and a neat freak, Helton a linebacker from Tennessee and slob. ("He dealt with it well. I acknowledge that," Helton says.)
They became best friends amid endless soccer video games. When Holliday won, he let everyone know. When Helton won, he acted like he had done it before, so therefore it was no big deal. That drove Holliday crazy.
"I never really felt real anger until I started playing FIFA against Blair," Helton says. "Real, true anger."
As Holliday sat in his hospital bed, at a 60-degree angle because that position reduced the pressure on his brain, day after day, Helton read to him. He chose The Great Gatsby because he recalled Holliday saying he liked it.
Characters in The Great Gatsby wonder how Gatsby came to be who he was. Helton wondered who Holliday would be once he healed—if he healed. Would he get his full friend back or merely the shadow of him? Would he be the same Blair he knew and loved—the kid with the big personality, the guy who always had a smile on his face? Would he remember all the good times? More important, would he be able to make more?
Leslie Holliday barely ate. She barely slept. Once, she was so exhausted in the hospital room that she fell asleep … and woke up on the windowsill. On Aug. 6—a month and two days after the accident—Holliday still hadn't talked or walked, but he had shown some improvement, so he was moved from the UNC hospital to The Shepherd Center, a recovery facility in Atlanta.
Leslie Holliday took her husband to the Atlanta airport one day, leaving her cousin behind with Blair. On the way back, Leslie stopped to get gas. Her phone rang. It was her cousin, asking if Leslie wanted to talk to her son. He said, "Hi, mom," and "I love you."
From there, Holliday progressed rapidly. This once vibrant athlete re-learned to walk, to go to the bathroom, to sit. He could only take a few steps at first. He couldn't go to the bathroom alone. Someone, often one of his brothers, went with him, holding on to a strap that wrapped around Holliday, to catch him in case he fell. He was released to outpatient care on September 1, 10 days ahead of schedule.
The improvement he made physically mirrored the improvement he made cognitively. Helton first believed Blair would become his full self again when he started acting like others. The two do impressions of Cutcliffe and of teammate Chris Hoover, whose cry of "Let's go!" before each game fires up his teammates even if they like to make fun of it. When Blair did his Hoover impression, Helton knew he had gotten his friend back.
Leslie Holliday knew Blair would be himself again when she caught a cold.
"Normally, I'm taking care of him. He started taking care of me. He made sure I had Kleenex, asked if I needed something to eat, helped me get in and out of the car," she says. "That's the type of son Blair was before the accident."
For every step he takes, for every time his bright eyes light up at a joke, his friends and family see 99-yard touchdown runs. They all thought he was going to die. "A walking miracle," Leslie Holliday calls him.
"I don't know if I really realize how much of a miracle it is," Helton says. "He's one of the most special people you'll ever meet. The fact he's come so far and is progressing the way he is, it's one of the most inspirational things any of us can really feel."
The catch and the tuck
Amid the heartbreak and healing, Helton, Cutcliffe and Crowder prepared for one of the most anticipated Duke football seasons in years. The Blue Devils haven't won a bowl game since 1960 and haven't had a winning record since 1994, but they have gotten incrementally better since Cutcliffe arrived before the 2008 season.
The Blue Devils have won six games this year, none bigger than the sixth. Not only did it come against arch-rival North Carolina, but it also made Duke bowl eligible for the first time since 1994.
In that game, Duke trailed by four and faced 4th-and-2 from the 5-yard line with 19 seconds left. The play call was "chin x angle." Quarterback Sean Renfree took the snap from the shotgun. For three seconds, he stood in the backfield, waiting for a receiver to flash open. His fourth option did. Renfree floated a pass a few yards into the end zone. The receiver jumped so high to grab it that when the linebacker arrived, he planted his shoulder into the receiver's hips. At the same time, a cornerback pushed him from behind, and he flipped. He landed on his head.
There were so many bodies going every which way that nobody on the sideline could see exactly what happened. They saw the throw, they saw the receiver jump and get hit, but they didn't see whether he caught the ball.
They waited. For a flag. For the ball to come out. For some indication of what had happened.
There it was—Jamison Crowder ran out of the chaos, celebrating his catch, one of the biggest plays in Duke football history.
He'd had just made the biggest play of his life.
"I told my wife later, I said, 'Karen, that wasn't by chance,'" Cutcliffe says. "I hate to seem so mystical. But I am spiritual. I just told her, 'That was not an accident that it was Jamison.' People can believe what they want or comment what they want about that. I believe that. There's a worthiness in the way Jamison has handled himself through all of that. How great is that gift to him? How great is it to be a sophomore from Monroe, North Carolina and forever to be the one who caught that pass?"
Catch and tuck, catch and tuck. Coaches beat that into Crowder's head. You don't know who might hit you or where he might hit you or how hard he might hit you, but you better be prepared when he does. That's the lesson of this whole story in a broad sense, and in a narrow sense it's what was going through Crowder's head as he caught the ball that made Duke bowl eligible.
The events in his life in the last few months amaze him. "It's kind of strange how that happened, everything I went through, being able to make the catch like that. One of the greatest moments of my life, one of the greatest moments in Duke history," Crowder says. "I'm pretty much speechless about it."
Leslie Holliday's hug started his healing. The catch didn't end it, but it helped and it sure felt good. "It meant more than just a catch, just winning the ball game, to me," he says. Cutcliffe says that after the catch—and after he made sure the extra point and kickoff were handled—he scanned the sidelines. If Crowder and Holliday hugged, he wanted to see it.
They didn't.
But here's what happened.
After the catch, Crowder was mobbed by his teammates. Holliday wanted to join the fun, but given his head injury, decided not to. He waited a few minutes, then found Crowder on the sidelines. "Nice catch," he said to the teammate and friend who saved his life. "That's my job," Crowder told him. Later, Holliday sent a text to Chelsea Gibbons, the other friend who saved his life: "Did you see the catch my boy made?"
It's a crisp fall Sunday in Durham, exactly four months after the accident. Blair Holliday sits on the outdoor patio of a restaurant. He looks healthy—a little skinny, maybe, and the only visible scar is on his throat from the tracheotomy.
He and Leslie Holliday tell their story with laughter and joy, not tears and sadness. Life is fun when it stops being serious. They have a list a mile long of people they want to thank, including Crowder, Gibbons, Cutcliffe, Helton, the volleyball players, the staff at the hospital and The Shepherd Center and Tracy Ross, a stranger who raised money for them.
The future is ahead of Blair Holliday, and he can't wait for it to get here.
"I've come far. I can go farther," he says. "I realize if I'm maybe a quarter of the way there, I need to be 100 percent. Maybe I'm not the best I can be now, but I can get to that point."
He wants to get back to class in January and eventually, back to football, but he is not obsessed with the sport. That was true before, and it's one of the things his friends like about him. As much as he wants to play again, he admits if doctors never clear him to play, "I won't be bummed."
He lost 40 pounds in the hospital, and he calls the 20 pounds he has put back on bad weight, not the muscle he used to have. He can't lift weights yet, and he only recently could jog without pain in his knees. He laughs when he remembers re-learning to run—his arms flopped like an unattended garden hose.
There are small, unexplainable differences between the Blair Holliday he is becoming and the Blair Holliday he used to be. He likes vanilla milkshakes now instead of chocolate and snickerdoodle cookies instead of chocolate chip. He used to be a burger guy, but he recently went through an obsessive Chick-Fil-A phase and now can't get enough salmon. He thinks silly things are funnier now, and he laughs more than he used to. Which is saying something, because he laughed a lot before the crash.
Whatever grief and anxiety the son and his mother went through is gone, or at least it is for this day. To explain how that can be true, Holliday pulled on the neck of his blue Duke hoodie to reveal a tattoo a few inches below his tracheotomy scar: "Blessed," it declares him.
He believed that was true when he got the tattoo long before the accident.
He believes it more now.


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£200 - an extra zero slipped in there?
Lets get this straight - this simply takes the output from the first sling thing source and lets you watch it on a second telly?
Its an MVP? For £200?
Sling sure are lucky there's one born every minute.
Sling Media's SlingPlayer-in-a-box gadget, SlingCatcher, is now available to Brits. SlingCatcher takes the network-beamed feed from a Slingbox tuner and displays it on a TV screen. Sling's pitching the product as an alternative to the laptops, desktops and mobile phones Slingbox users current remote watch their favourite TV …
Lets get this straight - this simply takes the output from the first sling thing source and lets you watch it on a second telly?
Its an MVP? For £200?
Sling sure are lucky there's one born every minute.
I wanted a couple of these as I have no aerial sockets in the kitchen or second bedroom, and wanted to put TVs in there, since I can't do any rewiring as the house is rented. But for that price? Hell no. Anyone know of any alternatives for sending TV signals along ethernet along powerline adaptors?
£200 for a plastic skip (Uk for dumpster)? Noooo. I hate all sling shapes.
A couple years ago Slingmedia said we'll build a box to pair with a Slingbox to show the output on a TV as an alternative to using a PC. That box would have cost maybe £40 or £50 and they would have sold one to about half the Slingbox users. But then someone said we need to add network sources (UTube, iPlayer,...) so they added a pile of software (and some additional hardware to hold it), while that was being done someone said we need to add local storage to hold the net content (for replay), so the added USB ports, while that was underway someone said we are a year late on this thing so we might as well add the HD stuff, well you get the idea. Two years late and 4 times the price point.
Lesson, make a plan, stick to it and ignore all of the "someones".
So I could by a 'TV Sender' that works on microwave frequency radio links, for say £40 quid, and they want to charge me £200 for much the same thing?
A lot of the senders can seriously screw up your wireless network. The only smart system for transferring signals I've heard of is Milestone from bluedelta.co.uk. It ships video and remote control signals over Cat 5.


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The first BCS standings of the season come out Sunday. Is this important?
Well, sort of.
Since the BCS was implemented in 1998, only twice has neither of the teams ranked first or second in the initial standings reached the national title game.
Seven out of 13 teams that started No. 1 in the standings played for the national championship. Six times the second-place team in the first standings played for the BCS title.
Four times a team has started third and finished in the top two, and four times a team has started fourth and played in the big game.
Six teams have come from fifth place or farther back to reach the championship game. LSU started the farthest back in 2003 at No. 12.
Conclusion: Just like in auto racing, it helps to start in the front row, but expect some passing and maybe a wreck or two.
The coaches' poll and the Harris poll are the driving forces behind the BCS standings. A compilation of six computer rankings also count for a third of a BCS rating, but essentially the computers break ties when two teams are very close in the polls.
Alabama, an overwhelming No. 1 in the polls, is just about a lock to be first when the standings are released Sunday, barring a major upset of the Crimson Tide at Missouri on Saturday.
The Tigers are still looking for their first Southeastern Conference victory, coming off a loss to Vanderbilt, and they will be without injured starting quarterback James Franklin (knee). So good luck beating `Bama.
Oregon is off this week and stands a good chance to be right behind Alabama in the BCS standings, just as it is in the polls. The Ducks are a solid No. 2 in both.
The computer ratings going into this weekend treat Notre Dame a bit better than the pollsters. The Fighting Irish are ranked seventh in the polls, but first in two of the five computer ratings that have already been released. A sixth doesn't start coming out until Sunday.
And with the Irish facing another strong opponent Saturday, at home against Stanford, don't be surprised to see Notre Dame ahead in the BCS standings of some teams that it trails in the polls if it beats the Cardinal.
The most important thing to remember is this: Don't get too worked up. There are plenty of games to be played.
Wait about a month or so, and then get worked up.
The picks:
No. 1 Alabama (minus 21 1/2) at Missouri
You know who is enjoying the Tigers' first season in the SEC? Kansas fans ... ALABAMA 38-13.
No. 3 South Carolina (plus 2 1/2) at No. 9 LSU
Death Valley won't be so intimidating if Tigers can't fix their offense ... SOUTH CAROLINA 17-13
No. 4 Florida (minus 7 1/2) at Vanderbilt
Gators have won 21 straight against Commodores ... FLORIDA 17-9.
No. 5 West Virginia (minus 4 1/2) at Texas Tech
Can Mountaineers stay focused in between trip to Texas and home game against K-State? ... TEXAS TECH 38-35.
No. 6 Kansas State (minus 6 1/2) at Iowa State
Wildcats have won four straight in series, all by eight or less ... KANSAS STATE 28-24.
No. 17 Stanford (plus 8 1/2) at No. 7 Notre Dame
Cardinal have won three straight against Irish ... NOTRE DAME 23-13.
No. 8 Ohio State (minus 17) at Indiana
Braxton Miller Heisman hype picking up steam ... OHIO STATE 40-17.
No. 10 Oregon State (plus 6) at BYU
QB injuries have both teams scrambling ... BYU 12-10.
No. 11 Southern California (minus 12) at Washington
Trojans are second-most penalized team in the nation at 10 per game ... USC 28-17.
Boston College (plus 28) at No. 12 Florida State
Seminoles return home in a bad mood ... FLORIDA STATE 45-14.
No. 13 Oklahoma (minus 3) vs. No. 15 Texas at Dallas
Big 12 elimination game; one group of fans is going to be really ticked off ... OKLAHOMA 28-27.
No. 18 Louisville (minus 3) at Pittsburgh
Panthers have been a hard team to decipher ... LOUISVILLE 28-24.
Tennessee (plus 3) at No. 19 Mississippi State
Huge game for Vols with Alabama, South Carolina up next ... TENNESSEE 35-31.
Syracuse (plus 7) at No. 20 Rutgers
Orange DE Brandon Sharpe had four sacks vs. Pitt last week ... RUTGERS 21-13.
Fordham (no line) at No. 21 Cincinnati
Been a long time since the Seven Blocks of Granite were playing for Fordham ... CINCINNATI 58-10.
No. 22 Texas A&M (minus 8) vs. No. 23 Louisiana Tech in Shreveport, La.
Biggest hurdle between Bulldogs and BCS bid ... TEXAS A&M 52-24.
Fresno State (plus 7) at No. 24 Boise State
Conference rivals again, Broncos have won six straight in series ... BOISE STATE 31-21.
Illinois (plus 23 1/2) at No. 25 Michigan
Denard Robinson coming off 235-yard rushing performance against Purdue ... MICHIGAN 39-14.
Last week's record: 15-5 (straight); 11-7 (vs. points)
Season record: 101-20 (straight); 58-46 (vs. points)
Best bets: 2-4.
Upset specials: 3-3.
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It was a mixed bag for North Henderson wrestling on Friday night. The Knights hosted a tri-match with North Buncombe and Brevard.
The Knights beat Brevard 60-12, but lost to North Buncombe 60-15. North Buncombe beat Brevard 80-0.
North, led by two-time state champion Mitchel Langford, was dominant with Brevard. The Knights got pins from Langford (113), Brandon Johnson (170), Will Baldwin (126), Marco Asuncion (132), and Primo Arrona (152) to upend the Blue Devils. Sake Willingham, Logan Shook, Celedonio Cardenas, Anselmo Colin, Cory Glover, and Juan Chavez also recorded wins.
For the Blue Devils, Nick Siniard won by pin with Taylor Long and Jacob Pace winning by decision.
"I thought we did a lot of good things against Brevard," North coach Heang Uy said. Those good things included Langford's win, which took 24 seconds.
Against the Blackhawks, the going got tougher for the Knights. There are "no holes" in the North Buncombe lineup, Uy said.
The Blackhawks jumped out to a 30-0 lead before Langford stepped on the mat. The junior pinned North Buncombe's Dimitri Simonovich with 56 seconds left in the first period.
Glover followed Langford's win with his second victory of the night. Glover pinned Tyler Cross to pull North to within 18 of the the Blackhawks.
The Knights were knocking on the door of closing the gap more in the next bout when North Buncombe's Logan Anderson scored a last second victory over Baldwin. North got one more win from Arrona who won in a decision over North Buncombe's Reece Helms. "Our inexperience really showed against (North Buncombe)," Uy said.
North Henderson will wrestle today in the Ashbrook Invitational in Ashbrook. Brevard is hosting the Blue Devil Duals today.
North Henderson wrestling beats Brevard, falls to North Buncombe
It was a mixed bag for North Henderson wrestling on Friday night. The Knights hosted a tri-match with North Buncombe and Brevard.


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Cheese Galettes with Ratatouille
Crispy fried potato and Emmenthaler Swiss cheese galettes pair beautifully with this traditionally simple, vegetable-laden French ratatouille.
For the ratatouille:
5 oz. eggplant, diced
5 oz. zucchini, diced
4 oz. yellow bell peppers, seeded, diced
4 oz. onions, diced
6 tbsp. olive oil
7 oz. tomatoes, skinned, seeded, cubed
1 tbsp. marjoram leaves
2 garlic cloves, chopped
Salt and pepper, to taste
For the galettes:
2 lb. potatoes, peeled, grated
3 egg whites
10 oz. Emmenthaler Swiss cheese, cut into 12 squares
3 oz. butter
Salt and pepper, to taste
- Gently sauté eggplant, zucchini, peppers, and onions in olive oil over med-low heat until a light golden color. Add tomatoes, marjoram, garlic, and salt and pepper; cook until tender.
- Boil potatoes until they just turn soft; drain well and squeeze gently to remove excess moisture. Add egg white and a pinch of salt and pepper to potatoes; mix well.
Coat both sides of each cheese slice with the potato mixture. Heat butter in large skillet and and fry cheese slices over med. heat until golden brown on both sides. (Only turn the galette when the underside is nicely brown to prevent it from falling apart). Serve immediately.


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The Shadow Summit hosted by Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) brought women's voices to the NATO Summit. Featured speakers, Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Ambassador at Large for Women's Global Melanne Verveer, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (IL-D), and Afghan Women's Leaders, Afifa Azim, director and co-founder of the Afghan Women's Network, and Manizha Naderi, executive director, Women for Afghan Women, and Mahbouba Seraj, also of the AWN, all said women's participation and concerns must be included to ensure an enduring peace, women's rights and advancement, and progress for all Afghans.
"We have to ensure that our commitment to Afghan women does not end as our troops come home," said Congresswoman Schakowsky, reported the Christian Science Monitor. The open letter (see PDF) released by AIUSA and signed by 48 Afghan, US, and British women leaders urged Afghan women's leadership and participation be front and center in all the transition planning and execution and urged the adoption of a plan for protecting and advancing Afghan Women's Rights.
The eight step plan includes not only women's participation but also that all negotiation teams include at least 30% women in the "peace" talks; that any agreements with the Taliban include guarantees of women's rights, a creation of a trust fund set aside for women and administered by women to protect women's rights and support civil society, and the enforcement of anti-violence against women's and women's rights laws. The US/Afghan Strategic Partnership Agreement (see PDF) signed by Presidents Obama and Karzai on May 1 includes a guarantee of women's rights and advancement of women.
Manizha Naderi, who did not sign the open letter, issued a statement on behalf of Women for Afghan Women and the Feminist Majority Foundation. The two organizations warned that negotiating with the Taliban will not work and will produce disastrous results. Eleanor Smeal, president of the FMF, signed the joint statement and also signed the AIUSA open letter. "We do not believe the negotiations will work but if they take place (all talks have been suspended now) they must include women and the guarantee listed in the AIUSA statement," said Eleanor Smeal.
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Woodward Thanks UMaine Community
Following his firing on Monday as head men's basketball coach at the University of Maine, Ted Woodward released a statement through the team's twitter account.
Woodward had two years remaining on his contract extension and will be paid approximately $113,000. UMaine says it will use only privately raised funds for the buyout.
Woodward recently finished his 10th season as head coach of the Black Bears, compiling a record of 117-178 with the program.
A national search for his replacement will begin immediately.


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Patricia Urquiola on Designing for Longevity
We had the chance to meet Patricia Urquiola as she spoke about her Italian ceramic tiles for Mutina. She's a warm and gracious person who talks very quickly and makes rapid little gestures with her hands. This intensity underscores her resolve to design things her way...
Despite all of the emphasis on "new" collections at trade shows, Patricia stuck to her guns and continued to build on her previous Dechirer Collection of tiles for Mutina, releasing just one new addition to the line: a 4-millimeter-thin collection of laser-cut tiles that compliment the previous patterns in her porcelain stoneware line.
"People often compare my work to fashion," she says. "I always say, no, my work has nothing to do with fashion. It's not like something you're going to wear for a short time. My tiles have to work for a long time. They have to be in the market for a long time."
Like many designers, she seems uncomfortable with the idea of constantly populating the marketplace with new products for the sake of novelty. "I was fighting with them [Mutina] a lot on this point. I'm just waiting for them to ask me to do two collections a year," she jokes.
The surfaces of her tiles—perforated, smooth, or covered in a thin layer of relief—beg you to run your fingers over them. This emphasize on texture is a trademark of her designs, and bleeds into all of her projects. "I'm very happy working with many layers, in many ways," she says, "like the gardener that has lots of plants all going at once."
For more information on Urquiola's Dechirer collection for Mutina, click here.
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• Bathroom Fixtures by Patricia Urquiola for Hansgrohe
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D'IBERVILLE, MS (WLOX) - Two days of rain has caused the Tchoutacabouffa River to rise as many as six feet above flood stage.
"I was freaking out," Riverwalk North Resident Nathan Tavai said.
Tavai said he looked out his window Wednesday morning and saw water covering the streets.
"It's been kind of crazy. I woke up at 7 for a final and saw the water was above our mailbox out in the front yard," Tavai said. "There was a Papa John's car that we saw that was completely flooded, so it's been pretty deep, pretty crazy."
Most of the residents have the drill down pat, take the Sea-Doo until it is too shallow, then wade in the water until you get to your car parked on higher ground. That trick saved Tavai from missing his final exam.
"We are relatively new," Tavai said. "We moved in about a year ago, but it has happened two or three times since we have lived here, so we are getting used to it."
"No, it's nothing I like, but it's where I live right now so I have to deal with it," said resident Vicky Amos.
Amos is also fairly new to the neighborhood, but it only took her getting stuck inside her house one time to learn.
"I was due to work, and I could not get there because my car was inside my garage," Amos said. "The flood does not come up the hill where I live, but you are stuck because you can't get out of your garage. Last night for preparation, when I heard on WLOX that it was going to rise the river was rising, I decided to move my car out."
Next, Amos said she will get a Sea-Doo or boat to get around like her neighbors do.
"I need to invest in it if I plan on staying here," Amos said.
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Former President Bill Clinton opened the Clinton Global Initiative meeting at the University of Miami, Friday. The initiative, begun in 2007, aims to encourage students and universities to come up with innovative solutions to solve global problems.
In order to attend CGI U a student must make a "Commitment to Action" detailing steps they will take to resolve a global issue. Mr. Clinton described this year's series of commitments as "the best yet."
According to CGI, over 1,700 committments have been made during its annual meetings. They are valued at over $57 billion and have had a positive impact on over 220 million people living in 170 countries.
About 1,500 people including university students, NGOs and university presidents from the U.S. and abroad are attending this year's three-day conference. In addition music, film and sports celebrities will participate in workshops and meetings focused on issues such as education, climate change, the environment, human rights, poverty alleviation and global health. This year's meeting will put special emphasis on earthquake-stricken Haiti.
"I want to say a special word of thanks for the university's response to Haiti with which I have been very much involved," Clinton said.
During Friday's opening session, which sought to ignite the "social imagination," President Clinton spoke about his work as special U.N. envoy for Haiti.
"The whole idea is to create global networks of people who are committed to doing good as private citizens. You really have the power to change the world," President Clinton told the audience. "It's becoming increasingly clear that you don't have to be personally wealthy to do it. In the recent response in the United States alone to the earthquake in Haiti, more than half of American households made a contribution."
Clinton said many donations were made through the Internet and via text messaging. He hosts a private luncheon Saturday for the university presidents in attendance - among them six Haitian university presidents.
Gerard Dorcely, president of the Universite de Port-au-Prince says his school was completely devastated by the January 12 earthquake. He hopes the conference will provide new ideas on how he might rebuild and inspire young people to continue their studies.
"I don't know what the outcome will be," Dorcely said. "I think we need to re-think our university because when the January 12 catastrophe struck, we didn't have any response. A university should serve as a guide during a crisis."
The opening session Friday evening, featured a panel of two university students whose commitments during previous Global Initiatives resulted in projects that are helping to provide micro-loans to Palestinians entrepreneurs in Israel, and build "green" cars that significantly reduce the carbon footprint. R&B artist Usher, who was scheduled to participate but was unable to do so, was replaced by Hip-Hop artist Pharell. He spoke about his "Kidults" program encouraging young people to get an education and stay out of jail. He also talked about his clothing line which uses recycled plastic to make fabric. The fourth panel member was U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin.
University of Miami President Donna Shalala, who served as secretary of health and human services during the Clinton administration, said she hopes attendees will be inspired by ideas presented at CGI U and share them with young people in their communities.
"We are delighted to host the Clinton Global University on our campus," she said. "This is no ordinary time and you are not ordinary young people. Over the next three days, you will be thinkers who are doers. President Clinton is a world class thinker and a world-class doer."
Among the "doers" Shalala spoke about, were Anne Marie Warmenhoven of Florida International University and Camille Kremer of the University of Miami. Together, they started an urban sustainable garden movement in Haiti called "Rasin Lavil Bay Lavi" (Urban Roots Give Life) in connection with SOIL. President Clinton called them to the stage and lauded their work in Haiti.
"It's a tremendous honor," Kremer said.
"I think President Clinton has done a lot for the country of Haiti and I think he has a real committment to Haiti," added Warmenhoven. "So I think that his support is something that will help us move from idea to action, which is one of the themes of this conference."
In keeping with that spirit, hip-hop artist Pharell energized the audience with a call to action.
"Let's stop talking about it, let's just do it," Pharell said.
The audience responded with cheers.


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Last December some special friends from Moab and Salt Lake City cooked up a plan with us to take the marathon ride to see Angel Arch. My husband and I are generally game to make the journey every year or so, as it is a piece of our backyard that we feel privileged to visit. The privilege is dependent on our physical abilities to make the trek, and on the federal permitting system that still allows horses and mules in the area on a day-use basis.
These friends and I have been to Angel Arch several times in the past but we'd never taken the trip together. Some in our party had never been there at all because it is such a long and arduous hike, generally requiring a night or so to camp. Given the opportunity to ride and thus be able to make the journey in a day, we assembled seven riders – the maximum number of equestrians that are allowed in Salt Creek per day. As we rode we swapped fond memories of when our families could drive the dozen miles up the creek to Angel Arch, prior to 1998 when the road was closed to motorized traffic.
I'd never seen Salt Creek and its side canyons so full of water, but I suspect those are normal conditions for this time of year. We had to be careful of quicksand and staying on the right trail, because even some of the side canyons were streaming with water that will dry up as spring turns into summer. As we slogged through the ankle-deep stream, thrashed through thickets of willow and cottonwood, and plodded through rocks and sand, I was amazed to think that a four-wheel-drive could have ever gotten in there.
But I remember those jeep trips in the early 1970s so clearly. Spring break for our family meant weekends in Needles. It meant sleeping in a tent and hearing the wind make the canvas flap all night. It meant eating meals that made my teeth crunch because of the sand that blew into the food. It meant running and climbing on all the rocks with other friends and relatives who joined us to go camping. And it meant that the Easter Rabbit was a pretty magical guy, because he always seemed to find us when we were down there for the holiday.
In the 15 or so years since vehicles have been blocked from Salt Creek, Mother Nature has done a good job of healing herself. There is a fairly visible footpath that crisscrosses the creek, tamped down by hikers who want to keep their feet dry. The red and white rock art at Peek-a-Boo Arch always gives me chills as I see hand prints from prehistoric times. It has changed little from more than 40 years ago when my dad would let me and my brothers out of the Jeep so that we could hike the short cut through the arch while he drove around the bend to pick us up.
The Anasazi ruins my parents pointed out to me as a child still perch in the crevices of cliffs, and bring back more memories of the many times my family prowled around Canyonlands so many decades ago. Last weekend the vegetation was bursting forth from the desert oasis; cottonwoods were just barely getting a tinge of green and the willows were budded out with fuzzy pussy paws.
Thanks to a couple of wrong turns on our journey up Salt Creek, we reached the famed arch with only enough time to snap a picture then ride like hell to get out before dark. Even though we had only a minute to spend with the angel, it was worth the excursion. Like a sentinel keeping watch over the sacred lands, Angel Arch is a beacon of natural beauty that is the source of fond remembrances and memories in the making. It is a special place, protected by its remoteness and ruggedness. Those factors keep it frozen in time in a manner that has no place for modern conveniences, especially day-planners and cell phones.


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Ricky Nolasco whiffs 11, Marlins end losing skid
MIAMI (AP) — Ricky Nolasco followed his worst outing of the season with his best.
It resulted in a rare win for the Miami Marlins.
Nolasco struck out 11 and the Marlins stopped a season-high seven-game losing streak, holding off the Arizona Diamondbacks 2-1 Sunday.
"We've been playing close games, but it doesn't matter if you lose 10-0 or 2-1, you don't want to lose so it was good to snap that and try to get on a roll here," Nolasco said.
The Diamondbacks scored once in the ninth. Mike Dunn, the Marlins' third pitcher of the inning, got pinch-hitter A.J. Pollock to ground out on a 3-2 pitch with the bases loaded to end it.
"Bend, but don't break, that's all that matters," Nolasco said.
Marcell Ozuna broke a scoreless tie with a two-run double in the sixth.
Didi Gregorius had three hits for Arizona, which had won four in a row.
"Early in the game we had a few chances, but we couldn't get the big hit when we needed it and (Nolasco) got stronger," Gregorius said.
Nolasco (3-5) was coming off an outing in which he allowed six runs in five innings in a loss to Cincinnati on Tuesday.
"Ricky was great," Marlins manager Mike Redmond said. "Coming off a shaky last start, but that's Ricky. Ricky's been solid all year and I really wanted him to finish that game. He looked good and was in complete control."
But the Marlins' all-time wins leader bounced back with his best, earning his 79th career victory. He gave up one run and five hits in eight-plus innings.
"I felt good, good command of all my pitches," Nolasco said. "The curve ball was really good so that really helped a lot. I was able to spin it pretty much whenever I wanted to."
After hitting Cody Ross with a pitch in the fourth, Nolasco retired the next 14 batters, striking out the side in the fifth and again in the eighth.
Gregorius led off the ninth with a double, finishing Nolasco's day after 110 pitches, 74 for strikes.
Closer Steve Cishek relieved got Paul Goldschmidt to ground out as second baseman Derek Dietrich made a backhanded play up the middle. Jason Kubel hit a sacrifice fly that made it 2-1.
"That was a huge play in the hole," Redmond said.
After Eric Chavez followed with a pinch-hit single and Martin Prado walked, Dunn came in and walked Miguel Montero to load the bases. Dunn retired Pollock for his second career save.
"We had a good finish and I thought we were in good shape with A.J. (Pollock) there," Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson said. "It just didn't work out."
Wade Miley (3-3) gave up two runs and five hits in six innings while striking out six. He is 2-1 with a 0.89 ERA in three career starts against the Marlins.
"I felt good out there," Miley said. "I was making pitches and throwing strikes. Just a couple of bad pitches cost you late in the game, especially in a game like that where it's 0-0. You've got to do better job."
With the game scoreless until the sixth, Adeiny Hechavarria and Dietrich singled and Ozuna hit a double off the left-center field wall near the 386-foot sign. It snapped a scoreless inning streak for the Marlins at 14 after Brandon McCarthy tossed a three-hit shutout on Saturday in a 1-0 win.
"I thought it was a home run, but it's OK, a double, I'll take it," Ozuna said.
Ozuna, a 22-year-old rookie outfielder, is hitting .295 since being called up on April 30.
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|2009-12-04, 13:22
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|2009-12-04, 13:54
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That may be how she'll let him know that she's interested. She'll pin him down and plant a deep kiss on him, and then ask if it was her he was waiting for all along. But, that'll also be the day all hell breaks loose with the rest of the harem too, whether they witness that or not.
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Another scenario of possible events could be that after Inner Moka kisses Tsukune, she could just kidnap him, not that Tsukune would be resisting of course, but still I think that solution would only postpone ( and probably make things a lot worse ). Well Inner Moka is a vampire, but I don't think that she is able to defend herself against Kurumu, Yukari, Mizore, Ruby and Kokoa - well she would be aiming for Tsukune for "stealing" her Onee-Sama's lips ( not acknowledging that it would be the other way around ).
So, one way or the other "all hell breaking loose" is the only term that comes to mind if the scenario I mentioned is going to happen ...
|2009-12-05, 05:26
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I think I covered the most recent topics which we are / where discussing.
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The only reason Tsukune is 'missing' Inner Moka's hints is because she's more subtle than the other girls. Tsukune's so used to having everything in his face (sometimes literally) that he's a lil dull when it comes to the subtley games that Inner likes.
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So I think part of the reason why Tsukune chases Moka is that she is playing "hard" to get ( Male instincts , I think) , and the other is that Tsukune fell in love with Moka when she crushed into his "life" . ( first love ...).
Another reason why Tsukune is so dense foreword recognizing Inner Moka's feelings, is that he could be not used to be around girls ( at least in the beginning).
Another thing, do you think that later in the manga will get introduced to a former guy friend ( from his year's in human school - when Tsukune was still a "average" guy. ) who will get jealous of Tsukune's popularity and challenge Tsukune into a fight ( thinking that he still the "same" guy as before ) ...
... it probably is impossible, but I think that Tsukune need's a rival of some kind ... ... unless we could call Hokuto with that term, but so far we hadn't heard anything new about him. ( I mean after the anti-thesis arc ). And Hokuto hasn't shown any interest in Tsukune's harem. ( I mean that he was jealous, of the girls feelings for Tsukune ) ...
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For me the answer to both questions is as of now is no, but Tsukune and Moka are only in there second year ( Youkai Academy is a three year school, right ), and probably the manga will continue until Tsukune graduates from school. So what I mean to say is that a lot can change in that time. They still have about a year and a half left until Tsukune, Moka and the rest will be graduating, right ...
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Well, at last Yukari get her own chapter, although she is my less favorite than the other, but i think she deserve it. Since season II she doesn't have her chapter. And this chapter too is good, it actually growing Yukari's character development. Everyone might forget that Yukari is one of Tsukune's harem, although indeed she has the little to zero chance (if not zero) to get Tsukune.
This chapter is to remember that Yukari is one major character in Rosario + Vampire, lately she is like a minor character... >.<
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And from the girls point of view I think only Moka ( Outer and Inner ), Kurumu and Mizore have shown so far that they have "deep" feelings for Tsukune ( i mean something more then a "crush" )
Aside from that we still have to resolve Mizore's problem of having children in only a limited period of time . And from the Yuki Onna arc we know that Mizore wants to have Tsukune's baby.
Of course it could go with the polygamy route, but I see three problems with it:
1. ) Tsukune is against polygamy, and seems to be more of a one women type of guy ....
It is shown here and here that Tsukune is more of a one women type ( and as of now I think that women is Moka ), in contrast to Gin who I think is a typical type of a womanizer.
Well I won't go on about the complications generated becuase of Moka's Rosary ... I will just point out that so far it seems that Tsukune treats both Inner and Outer Moka as the same person ...
2.) Outer and Inner Moka are against polygamy. ( the only girls, from Tsukune's harem, that are against the idea ) In Outer Moka's case, it seems more like she is against the idea, becuase then Tsukune will have to join the Mafia ( anyway that's the meaning I got from that scene), but it might be just a exuse to hide her feelings. To anyone interested here is the reference on the discussed matter. On the other hand Inner Moka seems completely against the idea
3.) Basically, how the hell is Tsukune supossed to survive that....
If we take things with a dose of reality, there is no way that Tsukune will have stamina to well do it with five girls at the same time. I know that he is supposed to have a bit better stamina then when he was a human, but the same applies to the girls ( they are youkai, right ), so even if the girls take turns, I don't see how he is supposed to stay healthy through all this ... I konw that this is a manga, so anything can happen, but really, all I see down that road is a never ending case of exhaustion and probably severe cases of blood losses ... well the only bright point I see down that road is that at least Tsukune will die happy but unfortunately at a young age .
Well to summarize, I think that Tsukune's harem, will literally dry him up to the last drop if you get my meaning. That is if we go down the polygamy route, of course
So I see no easy way to get a conclusive ending, in the romance department of the RV manga. No wonder it's giving me headaches lately ...
|2009-12-07, 11:36
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And this is also not a hentai series... I've read enough of them to see that the guy can go on forever
and about Mizore... the thing is, Yuki-onna has a very small window of time during which they can actually get pregnant (according to the manga). And for Mizore, she was in that window (it was never said if she still is or not), and Tsukune was around... well, I think it was a case of "my window of time is going to be gone soon, and Tsukune just happens to be around". Sop whether or not she actually wants a baby or not is still rather up in the air, IMO
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Well, I don't think we have enough information to judge what outcome is it going to be ... I know that so far the manga suggests that in the end it's going to be Tsukune x Moka, but I'm talking about the rest of the girls, we just don't know what's going inside Tsukune's head at the moment, and I also don't think that the timing is right, haven't Tsukune got enough on his head already ... well If I point them out it's
- Training
- Fairy Tail
- School ( They have to keep up there grades don't they )
- The Wong Family ( They aren't giving up )
- Newspaper Club activities ( We haven't got them mentioned, but I don't think they aren't doing them )
So adding Tsukune's romance problems into the mix is I think a bit too much at this moment ...
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Update: With the return of Landon Donovan, and the return of Donovan's goal-scoring, the Galaxy (4-3-3) began to creep up the Western Conference standings in MLS with last week's 4-1 win over Philadelphia at home. Not only did Donovan set the league all-time mark for goals (136), he picked up his 120th career assist to move him within 15 of Steve Ralston's record. … Defender Leonardo, who had missed the previous two matches with a compound fracture in his finger, scored his second career goal. … Former Galaxy standout Mike Magee, the league's MVP last season, has scored four goals this season is questionable with a calf injury for Chicago (2-3-6). … This is the only meeting of the season between the teams. … The Galaxy hold a four-game win streak over the Fire, including a 4-0 win in last season's meeting.
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Yup, Brett Favre. The Rams called the newest member of the AARP to quarterback their team.
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The Rams eventually signed free agent QB Brady Quinn, but this act raises questions among other sports franchises - How far back can we reach?
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Hey NHL, Bobby Orr's skates still fit.
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As this week's only new entry into the full price UK sales chart, StarCraft II became the first PC-only number one of 2010, twelve years after the first instalment peaked at number 24 upon release, with the sequel already outselling its predecessor's entire lifetime of UK sales in its first weekend.
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South Platte Eleven Mile Canyon COC Grant Request
GRTU has received a Coldwater Outreach Conservation (COC) Fund Grant Request from the Cheyenne Mountain Chapter, Trout Unlimited, for work on the South Platte River in Elevenmile Canyon at Camp Alexander. This camp is owned by the Boy Scouts of America and is heavily used by Boy Scout troops from Texas. The project involved Trees for Trout, a program that was featured in 2005 on the Trout Unlimited National Conservation Tour. Both Mick and myself had a chance to witness this onstream conservation work and its benefits to the South Platte River.
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There's nothing worse at a wedding than an awkwardly timed toast. (No, breaking up the father-daughter dance is never a good idea!) Thankfully, it's pretty easy to figure out the best time to raise a glass. Read on...
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