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Since the release of the .NET Framework 1.0, Microsoft has committed to a made-to-measure programming environment with each new version of its managed framework. But for a number of reasons, this tradition was interrupted last year when .NET Framework 3.0 made its debut without a new version of Visual Studio. This year, however, .NET 3.5 comes out with a new programming environmentVisual Studio 2008.
Visual Studio is designed as a container environment that integrates the functionality of multiple visual designers for just about any supported type of application and component. This means you have ready-made templates for a variety of Windows and web application types, including Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), ASP.NET sites, and web services. In addition, Visual Studio 2008 offers ad hoc designers for creating workflows and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services. The characteristics of each output component are managed through projects, and in turn grouped in solution containers.
The true added value of Visual Studioand perhaps the primary reason to consider upgradesis the boost it gives to developer productivity. Dozens of wizards, smart and context-sensitive popup windows, effective debuggers, and visual designers are examples of facilities that may not necessarily make any code automatically smarter, but still help you focus on key pointsskimming over chores, repetitive tasks, and overzealous procedures.


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MADtv Is Getting a Revival on the CW
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MADtv, the late-night sketch comedy series that ran for 14 seasons from 1995 to 2009 on Fox, will be making a somewhat unexpected comeback on the CW, the network announced Monday. MADtv will return for eight new one-hour prime-time episodes. A premie… Read more

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You can learn more about NAMC at www.alliancemonterey.org
As designated by the passage of Assembly Concurrent Resolution 54 by Assemblymember Monique Limón, June 28, 2017 is the second annual California Nonprofits Day Nearly 100 California nonprofit organizations from around the state have been selected by legislators as their Nonprofits of the Year and will be honored at a luncheon event at the State Capitol.
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Congratulations, again, on being selected as a California Nonprofit of the Year by Assemblymember Mark Stone! We want to be sure you have all the information you need to get and make the most out of this honor. Furthermore, we need a little information from you to help us with recognizing you.


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To verify your voter registration status, please use your state's voter verification tool.
To be eligible to vote in Georgia you must be:
If you are a first time voter, you are required to provide your Social Security number and one of the following acceptable items of identification when you register:
You can register by mailing a copy of your identification with your voter registration application; providing a copy of your identification to the registrar during the absentee voting process; or by showing one of the pieces of acceptable identification when voting at your polling place.
When you arrive at your polling place, you will be required to present one of the following forms of identification:
If you are unable to show identification at the time of voting you may cast a provisional ballot which will be counted only if you present identification within the two day period following the election. For more information on the acceptable forms of photo ID and the free Voter Identification Card, please visit your state's resource.
The voter registration deadline is 30 days prior to the election. Mail in registration must be postmarked by this deadline to be eligible to vote in the upcoming elections.
You can now register to vote online! You must have a valid driver's license or ID card with a signature on file with DDS in order to complete the registration online. If you don't have either of these forms of ID you can complete the paper registration.
If you move within the same county in which you are registered to vote and do not notify the registrar at least 30 days prior to an election, you may vote in your old polling place for that election. You must file a notice of your new address. This can be done by writing your county board of registrars, or by submitting a new voter registration application. If you move outside the county in which you are registered to vote in excess of 30 days prior to an election, you have lost your eligibility to vote in the county of your old residence. You must reregister to vote in your new county of residence. If you do not reregister to vote by the deadline, you cannot vote in that particular election.
To verify your voter registration status, please use your state's voter verification tool.
There is no specific deadline for absentee ballot applications to be received. However, no absentee ballots will be issued on the day before, or the day of the election.
You do not need to provide a reason to request an absentee ballot by mail. You may request an absentee ballot as early as 180 days before an election. Absentee ballots must be received by the county board of registrars by 7:00 p.m. on Election Day. No absentee ballots are issued on the day before or the day of an election. You may fill out an absentee ballot request here. The application must be in writing and contain the address to which the ballot is to be mailed, sufficient information to identify you as a voter, and the election in which you wish to vote. If you are physically disabled or living temporarily outside your county of residence, a close relative may apply for an absentee ballot for you. You may vote by absentee ballot in person at the registrars' office, Monday through Friday, the week prior to the election without having to provide a reason.
A physically disabled or illiterate voter may receive assistance from another voter in the same county or municipality or from the same category of relatives who can make an application for or deliver an absentee ballot. If the voter is outside of the county or municipality, then a notary public can provide such assistance. Any person who assists another person to vote absentee must complete an oath prescribed by law demonstrating the statutory disability and that the ballot was completed as the voter desired. Other than federal elections, no person may assist more than ten voters in a primary, election, or runoff. A candidate on the ballot, or a relative of a candidate on the ballot, may not offer assistance during the election to any voter who is not related to the candidate.
Overseas citizens and U.S. military personnel can find information on how to register to vote and request an absentee ballot at the Overseas Vote Foundation.
You are a Military or Overseas voter if you are in uniformed services, living overseas OR a spouse or dependant of a uniformed services voter. To get registered and vote, you can utilize Overseas Vote Foundation.
If you have additional questions about elections and voting overseas you can use our state specific elections official directory or contact the Overseas Vote Foundation.
As Election Day approaches, your county may have multiple early voting sites and even extended hours. Voting times and locations for your precinct can be found here.
Any voter registered in Georgia may vote absentee in person. This allows you to vote on a day and time that is convenient for you.
Please note that you cannot vote on the day immediately preceding the Tuesday election. Traditional polling places will be open on Election Day. However, if you choose to advance vote you cannot cast another ballot at your precinct on Election Day.
The next election date is Tuesday, September 17, 2019 (Special Election). The registration deadline is Monday, August 19, 2019.
For more election information contact your county clerk.
In order to be a poll worker in Georgia:
To sign up, contact your local board of elections.
Polls are open from 7:00 am until 7:00 pm on Election Day. Any voter who is waiting in line to vote at 7:00 pm will be allowed to vote. Peak voting hours are historically from 7:00 am until 9:30 am, 4:30 pm until 7:00 pm, and during the mid-day lunch hour.
Employers must grant employees two hours of paid leave to vote, unless polls are open 2 hours before or after regular working shift. This time may be paid depending on location.
You can find your polling place by utilizing your state resource. If you have further questions on your polling place location, please contact your county clerk.
UPDATE: The Secretary of State has established a hotline voters can call to check on the status of thier provisional ballot. If you voted provisionally in the 2018 General Election, please call this toll free number: 1-844-537-5375. For more information about this hotline please click here.
Voters have 3 days after the election to verify registration with the County Registrar.
Provisional voting allows you to cast a ballot in person even if the requirements for doing so cannot be met at the time. The provisional ballot will county if the problem is solved within three days after Election Day. The three reasons for voting a provisional ballot are:
If you vote a provisional ballot because you did not have acceptable identification, you will have three days from the close of the polls to present acceptable identification to your county registrar office for your vote to count.
The voting system used in Georgia is DRE.
Direct Recording Electronic (DRE): This is the newest kind of system in use in the U.S. All the information about who and what you are voting for is on an electronic screen like a TV or computer screen.
There are many variations of DREs because lots of companies are inventing new ones, and many cities, counties and states are trying them out. Usually, after you have signed in, the poll workers will give you a card that you slide into a device to start your voting session.
Some of these devices will show all of the candidates and ballot choices on one big screen. Often, with these big screen devices you push a button next to the name of the candidate you want to vote for (or yes or no on a ballot measure). On other DREs, the screen is set up to show pages. On each screen or page, there will probably be one thing to vote on. For example, on one screen or page, you might vote for president. Then you might move to the next page to vote for senator. Often these small-screen devices have a touch screen, where you touch the screen next to the name of the person you want to vote for. Other devices have a key pad. Some have a keyboard, so you can write in the name of someone you want to vote for.
You let the system know you are finished voting by pushing a button, touching the screen or entering something on a keypad.
You can learn more about voting systems by checking out the Elections Assistance Commission's (EAC) resource.
Candidate and ballot information can be found here.
To see a list of available races, visit the race index.
You may receive assistance at the polls if you are unable to read the English language or if you have a physical disability that renders you unable to see or mark the ballot, operate the voting equipment, or enter the voting booth. In order to receive assistance, everyone, except those that are blind, must take an oath stating the reason they need assistance.
The person providing assistance to you must sign on the oath. When there is a federal candidate on the ballot, you can select anyone you want to assist you in voting, except for your employer, an agent of that employer, or an officer or agent of your union. When there is no federal candidate on the ballot, you can select any other resident of the precinct or a parent, sibling, spouse or child (provided they are not a candidate on the ballot or a relative of a candidate on the ballot) to assist you inside the voting booth. No person may assist more than ten voters in a primary, election, or runoff.
Note: Between the hours of 9:30 am and 4:30 pm on the day of an election, voters who are 75 years of age or older or who are physically disabled may, upon request to a poll officer, vote immediately without waiting in line.
If you are physically disabled or illiterate, you may receive assistance from another voter in the same county or municipality or from the same category of relatives who can make an application for or deliver an absentee ballot. If you are outside of the county or municipality, then a notary public can provide such assistance. Any person who assists another person to vote absentee must complete an oath prescribed by law demonstrating the statutory disability and that the ballot was completed as the voter desired.
For more information, you can utilize the American Association of People With Disabilities (AAPD) resource.
For information on federal campaign contributions, please visit Open Secrets.
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The Internet offers many sources of free company information. Things to remember:
- Make sure you can trust the source (see Thinking Critically about Web 2.0 and Beyond ).
- Check that the information is current (check date; use View/Page Info or File/Properties).
- Have a research strategy or plan (determine the steps to take & have a "shopping list").
A research strategy is important, so that you do not waste time collecting the same or similar information from many sources, while still missing some information that you really need.
Information Provided by the Company
The Company Web Site
- Sometimes, it's simple - just type the company name in the location or address box. For example: nike.
- Or check for company Web sites using online directories. Ex: ThomasNet.
Go Beyond the Marketing Glitz. Look for Links to:
- About the Company -- expect to find - Mission, Product Description.
- Corporate/Company Overview -- expect - Brief History of the Corporation.
- Company News -- expect - Press Releases, Earnings Announcements.
- Investors' Information -- expect - Shareholder Assistance, Financial Statements.
Read Company's Reports to the Securities & Exchange Commission
- EDGAR database has company reports which contain financial data and company plans.
Click: Search Companies and Filings. Then type company name in Company name box. Ex: nike.
Click: Find Companies. (If a list of several companies appears, select your company from this results list).
Click on latest 10-K. Use Edit/Find in Page to find specific information in the report. Ex: balance sheet.
External to the Company
Company Profiles
- A Hoover's Online "Capsule" is free on the Internet. For example: nike.
- A Yahoo! Finance gives a business summary and statistical profile. For example: Nike.
Company News
- MarketWatch. Type company name or ticker in top box. Then click News on menu bar. Ex: NKE for Nike (Ticker look-up is available).
- CNN Money. Type company name or ticker in top box. Then click News on menu bar. Ex: Nike.
Latest Stock Quote
- CNBC MSN MoneyCentral Stock Research. Type company name or ticker symbol in box, click GO.
For example: Nike Lycos Finance - includes analysts' recommendations
For example: Nike.
Financial Analysis - for serious investor needs
- Wall Street Research Net (now Internetnews.com) is a good portal for stock market data on companies.
- Zacks Investment Research provides extensive analysis including financial ratios
Enter ticker NKE. For example: Nike.
Business Information Portals - for additional business research on the Internet
- Academic Info - Business: Reference Desk
- BEOnline (Library of Congress)
- CEO Express
- Corporate Information
- Librarian's Index to the Internet - Business
Provided by the Rosenfeld Library. Page last modified August 12, 2009.
Need help? Consult a Business Research Librarian.


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The NMU Crew Club, also known as the Rowing Club, gives students the opportunity to participate in the sport of rowing and compete across the Midwest. The club was founded in 1999 and has grown to approximately 50 members. The team travels to major regattas, successfully competing against Big Ten and other major schools. Recently, the Rowing Club hosted a home regatta held on Teal Lake in Negaunee. The rowing club practices on Lake Superior at Lower Harbor. Each spring the team travels to a different training camp over spring break. This year's training camp will be held in Florida.
For a taste of what it is like to be part of the club, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPxp8vki8zE&feature=youtu.be
Dues are around $250 for fall semester which include: gas for traveling, boat maintenance, wear and tear of cars and a novice jersey.
Participants Must Supply
Spandex and money for food while traveling. Members are also required to purchase a PEIF pass for the year.
Illinois, Wisconsin and Lower Michigan.
Practice Times
Varsity: Monday - Friday 6 a.m. - 8 a.m. (Usually 2-3 days per week)
Novice: TBD (Will be chosen according to novice rower's availability, usually around 6-8 p.m.)
Additional Information
No experience is required, the team will teach you everything you need to know at our Learn-To-Row Weekend being September 5-7, 2015. To become a member of the Crew Club, participants need to pass a swim test consisting of treading water for 10 minutes, and watching a safety video on rowing.
Click here for more information about Rent-A-Rower
Rowing Terms
Alissa Nemmers
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On December 7, 1941 Japan launched an unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States of America. I was 9 years old at the time and I remember it well. My oldest brother Joe Origer, Bob Callahan, Lester Bush and two other friends of theirs all got together and enlisted in the Army Air Corps. They had eight days to report to a base in California. My brother had just bought a near new 1940 Buick so the guys got together and mounted a 35 gallon drum in the trunk (gas was already being rationed) and each of the boys got 5 gallons of gas from the barrels (tractor gas) filled the tank and each got a few gas stamps from the families and left on Tuesday morning for California. They took turns driving and arrived in California on Wednesday night and reported for duty on Thursday morning. They were all assigned jobs, Joe and Bob went to flying school, one of the boys became a navigator, and Lester Bush was a bombardier. Joe was trained as a fighter pilot and after he finished his training they needed navigators real bad. He was a math whiz so they put him through that school as well making him a good fighter pilot with navigation training. He was then made a blind flying instructor and spent the duration of his time during the war training others night flying. Lester Bush was killed during the war and Bob Callahan flew many missions as a bomber pilot with his plane being shot up several times, but he never quit. All five of these boys were at one time farm boys from Emmet County and I feel great pride for each and every one of them.
My sister Imogene's husband Jim Dessel went into the Army and received his training in Arkansas. From there he went to North Africa where he slugged his way up the boot of Italy and all the way to Germany. He returned home after the war was over. My Uncle Ben Amelsburg fought in the Kazarene Pass and was later wounded. He had a steel plate in his head and after some recuperation time, he was released to come home. While he was gone, his wife worked in a war plant in California, kind of a Rosie the Riveter, if you recall the song. My sister Mary was an RN at the time and had just received her commission but the war ended.
I now have six sons of my own, five of which have been in the service. Three of them served their hitch and came home. Two of them, Sam and Larry, are former Marines. Allan was in the Army and Army reserves. Don served 20 years Army retired and Matthew has been in the Army 24 years and counting. This is just to let the world know we raise sturdy boys and girls here in Emmet County, Iowa. The United States should be proud of all the men and women who have given in and of themselves to serve our country and fight for all the freedoms that we have.
John Origer,


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This is a sample registry
Chelsea & David
Chelsea Paschall and David Legate Jr.'s Honeymoon Registry
|This is a sample registry
"Well Wishes" From Our Family & Friends
|"CONGRATULATIONS!! I am so happy for the two of you...Enjoy your honeymoon and I look forward to seeing plenty of pics, and learning that the family is expanding by one maybe two!! LOL love yall!!!"
- Marlon and Tabitha Turcios
|"We are soooo excited for you guys!! We pray that you have a blessed marriage filled with joy, happiness, love, and lots of fun! May Jesus always be the foundation of your relationship. We love you guys!"
- Jared and Carissa
|"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
Can't wait to see all your pictures and spend some time together when you get back. Love you both and again, Congratulations."
- The Bridges Family; Doreen, Greg and Thomas
|"You crazy kids are going to have such a blast in Italy!! I love you both and wish you two many years of happiness."
- Nancy Daves
|"Congratulations! Have a great time in Italy and a great life together! Love Y'all!!"
- Becky, John, Kelli, and Jenna
|"What an honor to know such great people and a perfect couple. We are so happy for ya'll! We wish you a lifetime of love and happiness!!"
- Love Teddy &Lysa
|"Have a wonderful wedding and an exciting, memorable honeymoon. We wish you a lifetime of happiness!
Congratulations to you both!"
- Love, Erik, Tina, Lance &Alyssa Liccioni
|"Congratulations! May God bless your wedding! We wish you a happy and joyful life together."
- Joel, Sharif, Myrelsie and Laura
|"Can I come with you guys? Have a great time and go crazy! Piercings, tattoos, TMZ following you... Crazy!
Much love to ya crazy kids,"
- Jason
|"Best wishes to you both!"
- Robin and Gary Crisp
CONGRATS!! Hope you have a wonderful time on your honeymoon. Wishing you all the best ALWAYS!!!"
- Mark &Brenda Bradford
|"You're such a special couple and we wish you many many years of bliss!"
- Cheryl &Wayne Daniels
|"Wishing y'all the best of everthing.
Have a fabulous honeymoon in Italy and a blessed and happy life together. Love you both,"
- John and Janice
|"Happy Wedding Shower &Wedding! Wishing you many, many years of happiness!"
- Marty &Aprille
|"Good Luck I hope you have a great trip."
- Lucille Bates
|"I'm so, so happy for the both of you! I want to wish you both the best! yall are such a fine couple and i'm so happy that I get to be a part of your wedding! Yall have an awesome time in Italy, I'm jealous.
David- Wecome to our crazy family:)"
- Tracy Boethel
|"I love you guys!! Have a great trip!"
- Emily &Joe
|"congradulations, and have
a once in a lifetime - time- in Italy"
- Vicki and Jim Doyle
|"Love is patient and Kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when its been wronged.
Good Luck and God Bless"
- Dad and Marian
|"Wishing you both a blessed and happy life together! Congratulations!"
- NaJean Preiss
|"I hope y'all have a wonderful trip! All the best wishes for the wedding and honeymoon. Take care, hopefully we will see ya soon."
- Michelle Hitchcock &Andreas Bouras
Thank You for visiting our honeymoon bridal registry and wedding website. We decided to use this honeymoon bridal registry to allow us to pre plan all the wonderful things we want to do on our dream honeymoon. If you have any questions about how our honeymoon bridal registry works, please contact a honeymoon registry specialist at 858-433-1506 and they can help with our wedding registry list. Again, Thank You so much for using our honeymoon bridal registry and wedding website. Most of all, thank you for being part of our wedding and helping us have the romantic honeymoon and wedding we've always imagined.
This is a sample registry
Items cannot be purchased from a sample registry.
If you're looking for a specific couple please search for them here.


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Welcome to LifeROOTS formerly RCI Inc. Since 1958, LifeROOTS, a non-profit community-organization serving Albuquerque, Rio Rancho and the surrounding area, has responded to the increasing and changing needs of children and adults with physical, developmental and behavioral disabilities. Our innovative programs and services assist people of all ages – from infants to adults – to reach their personal goals. Today, LifeROOTS programs touch more than 1,500 individuals with disabilities and their families each year.
At LifeROOTS we focus on individuals and their specific needs. Our disabled adult clients and families have access to day habilitation (day hab), supported employment, job coaching, job development, literacy programs and much more. We offer children and families FREE early childhood intervention screenings, assesments and services from birth to age 3. We also offer other therapeutic and support services for children with disabilities including parenting classes, therapeutic and behavioral services and much more.
Our LifeWORKS program offers quality contract and business services to the Albuquerque and Rio Rancho government and commercial industry consisting of a disabled and committed workforce.We are committed to providing a caring and stimulating environment where disabled, developmentally delayed or behaviorally challenged children and adults in Albuquerque, Rio Rancho and surrounding areas will achieve their highest potential.Whether you're hiring a person with a disability, seeking employment or community-oriented services for persons with disabilities, or looking for an early intervention or therapeutic children's program, contact LifeROOTS to learn more.


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And now the game where we ask someone who's done a lot of great things to do one very silly thing, that is play Not My Job.
Do you love music, I mean great American music by Otis Redding or Ray Charles or Willie Nelson or Bob Dylan or even the band Rancid? Well, if you do, you love Booker T. Jones. He played with all those musicians, as well as his own classic soul band, Booker T and the MGs. Fifty years after his first hit record, he's still playing. We're delighted to have him with us. Booker, welcome to WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME!
BOOKER T. JONES: Thank you. Thank you for having me.
SAGAL: So you became famous as Booker T. when you came out with your record "Green Onions," Booker T. and the MGs. I thought that when you started with Booker T. and the MGs you were a sort of grizzled session musician, had been doing it for years. You were almost a teenager, right?
JONES: I was a grizzled session musician. I was just 15.
SAGAL: So you had this instrumental record that came out. The hit single was "Green Onions." And in fact for people who don't recognize it, we'll play a little bit of it right now.
SAGAL: So first of all, that's like one of the most famous instrumental songs out of the '60s. Did you come up with that? Were you're just sitting around noodling on the organ?
JONES: Yeah, playing the piano, actually, before I got into the studio on the organ, yeah. I was playing on the piano around my mom's house, yeah.
SAGAL: And then how did you name it? Why "Green Onions"?
JONES: Well, the bass player thought it was so funky, he wanted to call it "Funky Onions." And I thought that was - that was a pretty crass title. So we decided to call it "Green Onions" after the smell of, you know, the green onions.
SAGAL: Sure, that makes perfect sense.
JESSI KLEIN: I think you went with the right title.
SAGAL: Yeah.
JONES: Yeah, thank you.
SAGAL: And you went on, and you played backup, you played as a studio musician for, like, everybody who's recording with Stax, the great soul label of the '60s. So tell me who you played with.
JONES: Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Wilson Pickett, Eddie Floyd, Albert King, Carla Thomas, Booker T. and the MGs.
SAGAL: Of course. And this is crazy because again, I mean, all I'd heard about you is you were like this great studio musician, and I imagined this certain lifestyle. And I found out for a lot of those years you were doing that while you were going to college.
JONES: I did. I was a mad, crazy, Friday afternoon student driving back to Memphis, 400 miles, between Bloomington and Memphis, yeah.
SAGAL: Oh, you were at Indiana University?
JONES: Yeah, I was studying. I got a degree in music education. But I did study composition and conducting, theory, stuff like that.
SAGAL: Right. And then on Friday, when your fellow Indiana University students would go out to party and go to their frat houses, you'd get in your car, drive 400 miles and play for, like, the greatest soul musicians who ever lived.
JONES: Most of the time that's what I did.
SAGAL: Did the other students - I mean...
JONES: Thank you, thank you.
SAGAL: Did the other students know this? Because that...
JONES: They did. Yeah, I was a famous kid on campus. I had a Fairlane convertible, and I got to play gigs around campus.
SAGAL: All right, I'm just going to ask you this question straight out. Did the chicks dig it? Did you say, oh, hey, maybe I'll see you when I get back from playing with Otis Redding?
JONES: Well, I didn't throw it out like that, but yeah...
SAGAL: Now, you left Stax I guess in like, around 1970, but you've gone on to play with everybody. I mentioned a bunch of them. Willie Nelson you played with. You played with Bob Dylan, right?
JONES: Yeah, I bought a ranch in Malibu, and Bob had a ranch across the street.
SAGAL: Wait a minute.
SAGAL: Because I was going to ask how you ended up working with him, but you're just saying, like, you had a ranch in Malibu, he had a ranch in Malibu. One day you come down to get your mail, I guess, there's Bob Dylan, and he says hey, Booker, and you say hey Bob, and...
JONES: Well, everybody just sort of kind of knew everybody out there. You know, it was a small community out there in Malibu.
SAGAL: Yeah.
PAULA POUNDSTONE: What do you mean, you lived on a ranch?
JONES: Yeah, I bought Lana Turner's old ranch out there on Winding Way in Malibu, and...
POUNDSTONE: And did you raise something on the ranch?
JONES: Yeah, I had horses and ponies and...
POUNDSTONE: Wow, nice.
ALONZO BODDEN: So for any kid in algebra class right now, this session musician thing pays pretty good, huh?
JONES: Well, if you're lucky, it does, yeah.
SAGAL: And you've had vast success, of course, over the years, but we read that there was like one short period, like maybe in like the end of the '70s, around 1980, when things weren't going that well, and you actually dabbled with becoming a real estate agent. Is that right?
JONES: Oh, my goodness, yeah, I sold real estate in the San Fernando Valley. I wasn't dabbling. I was a serious real estate agent.
SAGAL: When you were selling a house, and you were like hi, I'm Booker T. Jones, and I'm going to be selling you this house. Did anybody ever go wait a minute?
JONES: Yeah.
SAGAL: Really?
JONES: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah. Are you the Booker T.? Are you the Booker T.? You know, yeah. And then I said I'd have to play a tune to prove it.
SAGAL: Well, Booker T. Jones, we are delighted to have you with us, and we've asked you here to play a game we're calling...
BILL KURTIS: Because Funyons are awesome.
SAGAL: Your famous hit was "Green Onions," but that sounds suspiciously natural for modern America. We prefer Funyons, the crunchy junk food that actually features real onion powder way down on its list of ingredients. We're going to ask you three questions about Funyons from Frito-Lay. Get two right, and you'll win our prize for one of our listeners, Carl's voice on their home answering machine. Bill...
JONES: Is that a real food? That's not a real food, Funyons?
SAGAL: That's a real food, Funyons.
SAGAL: Next time you go into the supermarket, just ask to go down to the disgusting section, and there will be, next to the other Fritos and potato chips, there will be Funyons.
JONES: OK, if you say so, Funyons, OK.
SAGAL: So who is Booker playing for, Bill?
KURTIS: C.J. Plyter of Villa Park, Illinois.
SAGAL: All right, here we go.
SAGAL: Now, Funyons were invented back in the '60s, and - but the name Funyuns was the second choice for the new snack food. What was the original choice? What did they want to name them? Was it: A, Onion Hoops; B, OnYums, OnYums; or C, Funster McFunFuns.
JONES: That would be Onion Hoops.
SAGAL: You're going to go for Onion Hoops?
JONES: Onion Hoops, absolutely.
SAGAL: Delicious Onion Hoops. No, I'm afraid it was actually, the original name they wanted was OnYums, OnYums.
JONES: OnYums, onion yums, absolutely. Yeah, I knew that. I knew that.
POUNDSTONE: I believe him.
SAGAL: Three minutes ago, you didn't know that Funyons existed. Now you're telling me you know about OnYums, but believe it or not...
JONES: I was putting you on. I did know.
SAGAL: All right, no, the original - the name they wanted was OnYums, but another product had been invented that was given that name. It's amazing to think that more than one person thought of these things.
All right, next question. One of these things I'm about to describe was once found in a Funyons bag by an unsuspecting customer. Was it: A, a live badger; B, an actual whole onion; or C, an enormous Funyon the size of your forearm?
JONES: It was C.
SAGAL: You're right.
JONES: An enormous Funyon the size...
SAGAL: That's exactly true. See, the way Funyons are made, you see, is they're extruded in a tube out of a machine, and then they're sliced in little rings. But apparently one came all the way out and didn't get sliced. So it just ended up being this enormous Funyon tube that really is very disturbing to look at.
BODDEN: Isn't it amazing no one would guess that there was an onion found in a bag of Funyons?
SAGAL: That's unlikely.
SAGAL: Now, I'm sure in your day you wrote a lot of songs about food, and in fact Funyons have shown up in popular music. Which of these actual lyrics: A, the original words to "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-Lot were my anaconda don't want none unless you got Funyuns.
SAGAL: B, this line from Bon Jovi, she knows how to make my motor run, with just lingerie and a bag of Funyuns.
SAGAL: Or C, from the Insane Clown Posse, bring me some Funyuns and a Slurpee, promise not to hurt me, or give me Herpes.
JONES: That would be B, she knows how to make my motor run with only a bag of Funyons.
SAGAL: Really?
JONES: Yeah.
SAGAL: Have you ever played with Bon Jovi, and you met the man?
JONES: Absolutely, at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He did that song.
SAGAL: Wait a minute, he actually sang a song that mentioned Funyons at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
JONES: Absolutely did.
SAGAL: Well, I don't know what to say because the real answer was actually C, and...
JONES: I knew that, I knew that.
SAGAL: You knew that?
JONES: I just wanted to see if you were listening.
SAGAL: So here's the thing, here's the thing. So yeah, C, Insane Clown Posse, the song is called "To Catch a Predator," and it mentions Funyons. So, Bill, I mean, Booker is telling us that he heard Jon Bon Jovi sing those very lyrics. So I look to you, Bill. What do we do here?
KURTIS: You know, he convinced me.
SAGAL: All right, then.
KURTIS: What a salesman.
SAGAL: I guess so. So how did he do, then, Bill?
KURTIS: Well, technically, he got a couple wrong.
SAGAL: But?
KURTIS: And one right. But being the Hall of Famer he is...
SAGAL: How can you say no?
KURTIS: Why don't we say what a great salesman.
SAGAL: There you are, congratulations.
SAGAL: Booker T. Jones is a Grammy-winning, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legend. His new album, "Sound the Alarm," is out on June 25. Booker T. Jones, what a pleasure to talk to you, and thanks for those years of great music.
JONES: Thank you, Peter, thank you, Peter, I had a good time. I had a good time.
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Portland State women's basketball coach Sherri Murrell was honored on May 30 with a Leadership Award at the Equity Foundation's 1st Annual Women's Leadership Luncheon at the Portland Art Museum's Sunken Ballroom.
Murrell, who just completed her fifth season as the Vikings' Head Coach, received the Leadership Award for her courage and leadership as the only openly gay Division I Women's Basketball Coach in the U.S.
Former Oregon Governor Barbara Roberts was the other honoree, receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award "for her tireless and steadfast activism as an Ally to Oregon's LGBT community."
Peter Cunningham, Executive Director of the Equity Foundation said, "… we are honoring both Governor Roberts and Coach Murrell – they epitomize the strength and perseverance needed to lead the charge for equality in Oregon, and everywhere."
"I am deeply honored to accept such an award from the equity foundation," said Murrell, who addressed the luncheon attendees. "It was special to be alongside Governor Barbara Roberts, who is a true pioneer and role model for human rights."
During her career at Portland State, Murrell has led the Vikings to unprecedented success at the Division I level, including a 98-60 record, 53-27 in the Big Sky Conference. She led the Vikings to the 2010 NCAA Tournament, PSU's first-ever trip to the NCAAs as a Division I program. Murrell also guided the Vikings to the 2009 and 2011 WNIT tournaments and was the 2010-11 Big Sky Coach of the Year.
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Feb. 11, 2008
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - On Wednesday, men's and women's squash will face off against Harvard in each team's last regular-season match, with Ivy League positioning and postseason seeding implications at stake for both teams. The showdown between the Bulldogs and Crimson will be available to watch via live video stream on goyalebulldogs.com.
The men are currently tied for second with Harvard in the Ivy League standings, with each team sitting at 4-1. Yale, however, boasts a gaudier 10-2 record, compared to Harvard's 5-2 overall mark.
Though the draws are already set for this weekend's CSA team championships - No. 4 Yale faces No. 5 Western Ontario in the first round - the Bulldogs can still gain some momentum with a win against the Crimson on Wednesday.
The women's Ivy League and posteason pictures are a bit less clear. Yale, Harvard, and Trinity all currently sit in a tie for third in the CSA women's national rankings. Yale and Harvard are also tied for third in the Ivy League standings with 3-2 records in the Ancient Eight. The Bulldogs boast a 10-2 overall record, while Harvard is 5-3. With Trinity squaring off with No. 2 Princeton on Sunday, the No. 3 seed in next week's Howe Cup will likely emerge from Wednesday's match.
Four-time all-Ivy squash player and former Bulldog John Musto will call the action from Court One on Wednesday. Audio commentary and live updates from the other courts will be available via Yale All*Access on goyalebulldogs.com.
Introductions will begin at 5 p.m., with the matches to follow.
Report filed by David Sherfinski '08, Yale Sports Publicity


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Module Five: Writing E-mails
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Module Six: Writing Business Letters
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Module Seven: Writing Proposals
The Basic Structure
Choosing a Format
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Module Eight: Writing Reports
The Basic Structure
Choosing a Format
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Requests for Proposals
Executive Summaries
Business Cases
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Boy at center of Alabama hostage standoff freed, in hospital receiving treatment
A 5-year-old boy who was being held hostage in an underground bunker in Alabama for nearly a week has been released while his abductor is now dead, authorities said Monday.
In a press conference Monday night, FBI Special Agent Steve Richardson told reporters the little boy had endured a lot and that he was receiving medical treatment. "The boy is laughing, joking, playing, he's eating; he's very brave, he's very lucky, and the success story is that he is out safe and doing good," he said.
Richardson was unable to clarify any other details as the incident is still being investigated.
Police say 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes shot and killed a bus driver last week in Midland City and then abducted the boy.
Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson said late Monday that Dykes was armed when officers entered the bunker to rescue the child. He said the boy was threatened but declined to elaborate.
"That's why we went inside -- to save the child," he said.
Olson and others declined to say how Dykes died. But an official in Midland City, citing information from law enforcement, said police had shot Dykes.
The official requested anonymity because the official wasn't authorized to speak publicly about the investigation.
FBI bomb technicians were clearing the property for explosive devices and planned to look more closely at the scene when it's safe, FBI spokesman Jason Pack said.
"The most important thing is we have a safe recovery of a child," said Col. Hugh McCall, director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety.
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley thanked law enforcement officials, first responders and other personnel who assisted in the hostage recovery effort.
"I am so happy this little boy can now be reunited with his family and friends," Bentley said in a statement. "We will all continue to pray for the little boy and his family as they recover from the trauma of the last several days."
Melissa Nighton, city clerk in Midland City, said a woman had been praying in the town center Monday afternoon. Not long after, the mayor called with news that Dykes was dead and that the boy was safe.
"She must have had a direct line to God because shortly after she left, they heard the news," Nighton said.
Michael Senn, pastor of a church near where reporters had been camped out since the standoff began, said the boy was always on his mind.
"So when I heard that he was OK, it was just like a thousand pounds lifted off of me," he said.
Throughout the ordeal, authorities had been speaking with Dykes though a plastic pipe that went into the shelter. They also sent food, medicine and other items into the bunker, which apparently had running water, heat and cable television but no toilet. It was about 4 feet underground, with about 50 square feet of floor space. The little boy requested Cheez-Its and a red Hot Wheels car, both of which were delivered to the bunker.
On Sunday, more than 500 people paid final tribute to the driver that was killed, 66-year-old Charles Albert Poland Jr., hailing him as a hero for protecting the other children on the bus.
Poland is now "an angel who is watching over" the little boy, said Dale County School Superintendent Donny Bynum, who read letters written by three students who had ridden on Poland's bus. "You didn't deserve to die but you died knowing you kept everyone safe," one child wrote.
Outside the funeral, school buses from several counties lined the funeral procession route. The buses had black ribbons tied to their side mirrors.
Dykes grew up in the Dothan area. Mel Adams, a Midland City Council member who owns the lot where reporters are gathered, said he has known Dykes since they were ages 3 and 4.
He said Dykes has a sister and a brother, but that he is estranged from his family.
Adams said he didn't know what caused the falling-out, but that he knew Dykes "had told part of his family to go to hell."
Dykes, also described as a loner who railed against the government, lived up a dirt road outside a tiny hamlet north of Dothan in the southeast corner of the state. His home is just off the main road north to the state capital of Montgomery, about 80 miles away.
Government records and interviews with neighbors indicate that Dykes joined the Navy in Midland City, serving on active duty from 1964 to 1969. His record shows several awards, including the Vietnam Service Medal and the Good Conduct Medal. During his service, Dykes was trained in aviation maintenance.
At some point after his time in the Navy, Dykes lived in Florida, where he worked as a surveyor and a long-haul truck driver. It's unclear how long he stayed there.
He had some scrapes with the law there, including a 1995 arrest for improper exhibition of a weapon. The misdemeanor was dismissed. He also was arrested for marijuana possession in 2000.
Dykes returned to Alabama about two years ago, moving onto the rural tract about 100 yards from his nearest neighbors, Michael Creel and his father, Greg.
"He said he lived in Florida and had hurricanes hit. He wanted someplace he could go down in and be safe," Creel said. Authorities say his bunker is about 6 feet by 8 feet, and the only entrance is a trap door at the top.
Neighbors described Dykes as a man who once beat a dog to death with a lead pipe, threatened to shoot children for setting foot on his property, and patrolled his yard at night with a flashlight and a firearm. Michael Creel said Dykes had an adult daughter, but the two lost touch years ago.
The Dykes property has a white trailer which, according to Creel, Dykes said he bought from FEMA after it was used to house evacuees from Hurricane Katrina. The property also has a steel shipping container -- like those on container ships -- in which Dykes stored tools and supplies.
Next to the container is the underground bunker where authorities say Dykes holed up with the 5-year-old. Neighbors say that the bunker has a pipe so Dykes could hear people coming near his driveway. Authorities were using the ventilation pipe to communicate with him.
The mother of the 5-year-old boy was 'hanging on by a thread,' during the standoff, said a local politician who visited the woman.
State Rep. Steve Clouse, who represents the Midland City area, said the mother told him that the boy has Asperger's syndrome as well as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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We recently mentioned Tweetro, the new Windows 8 Twitter app for two reasons -- (1) we had a video tour at BUILD and (2) the app had to be pulled due to it being too popular. That latter part has to do with Twitter's new API changes and limits on how many people can use a third-party Twitter app. Needless to say, it's putting the crunch on Twitter devs. And it means they'll likely have to charge a pretty penny for their wares. Yes, Tweetro is back. But it'll cost you.
The developers behind Tweetro aka LazyWorm Apps (who also make MetroTube for your Windows Phone and yes, that's coming to Windows 8 too), have now released Tweetro+ with an introductory price of $9.99. It will jump to $12.99 in two-weeks, so you may want to get it now...
The question is, why pay for a Twitter app? Well, to be honest it is becoming necessary. Devs need to eat and Twitter is basically forcing their hand on this issue. If it makes you feel better, the most poplar Twitter app on OSX (Tweetbot) fetches for $20, so $9.99 is competitively price--relatively speaking. Of course even the popular MetroTwit has a Plus version that goes for $15.60 though there are cheaper alternatives out there, like Liquid Daffodil's Cowlick and glƏƏk! for Windows 8 which are both under $5 (and highly rated).
Personally, we like quite a few out there but we will say that Tweetro functions well and is quite stable on our Windows 8 tablet. If you like the company and their client, you'll have to decide if it's worth it. We're okay with it and as you can tell, we bought the app.
You can pick up Tweetro+ here in the Windows 8 Store.
Speaking of tablets, we'll have something on that Acer Iconia W510 and how it compares to the Surface RT later this week. The answer may surprise you.
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The groundbreaking comic series Watchmen redefined what was possible with the comic medium. Written by Alan Moore and drawn by David Gibbons, Watchmen is set in an alternate history where masked vigilantes have been outlawed. The story takes place in 1986. Richard Nixon is still in office and riding high off of the victory in Vietnam thanks to two "heroes" employed by the U.S. government, mad mercenary The Comedian and molecular master Dr. Manhattan. The narrative of Watchmen is a murder mystery. When The Comedian is killed, fellow vigilante Rorschach makes it his business to find the culprit. Based on Steve Ditko's character, Question, Rorschach is so obsessive about justice that he makes Batman look wishy-washy on crime. The story follows Rorschach on his quest, introducing the reader to Watchmen who hung up their tights when vigilantism was outlawed. Described by many (including Moore) as "unfilmable," it was only a matter of time before the underground comic made its way to the multiplex. Hollywood loves the quixotic notion of making movies out of impossible properties that have the potential for a massive box office.
Sam Hamm (1989)
The transformation from printed page to silver screen hasn't been easy. For years, the project languished in the hands of 20th Century Fox. The studio gave Batman screenwriter Sam Hamm the thankless task of adapting Moore's epic in the late '80s. The basic structure of Watchmen remains in place in Hamm's draft insofar that the characters are the same, though far fewer in number and with less complicated relationships. Hamm's bizarre decisions on which complex areas to eliminate and which to keep molds the story into an odd shape. This pushes the setting from one that was rooted fairly close to reality into a clunky science fiction realm, evidenced most at the film's finale.
Subsequent drafts of Watchmen screenplay by David Hayter (X-Men) and Alex Tse (Sucker Free City) also splintered at their conclusion, but none so spectacularly as Hamm's. In Moore's graphic novel, Silk Spectre struggles to convince Dr. Manhattan to come out of a self-imposed exile on Mars to save the Earth from imminent destruction. It's ultimately the miracle of humanity and its struggle against insurmountable odds that convinces the deific Manhattan to return for a literal deus ex machina finale. Hamm changed this scene's conclusion, removing the redemption of humanity.
It gets worse. Seeing Manhattan's existence as the cause of more problems than the solution, mastermind Ozymandias opens a hole in time to assassinate Manhattan before the accident that made him omnipotent. This essentially takes the former Outer Limits "Architects of Fear" ending into something closer to the Twilight Zone episode "No Time like the Past". By shooting Manhattan, Ozymandias unravels a timeline and deposits Rorschach, Silk Spectre and Nite Owl in a world where they never existed but where Watchmen is just a comic book. This ridiculous twist leaves a sour taste in one's mouth. Hamm's draft was rewritten by Charles McKeown when Terry Gilliam agreed to direct the project. Ironically, McKeown did an uncredited rewrite of Hamm's work on Batman.
David Hayter (2003)
David Hayter took over the reins of writing a Watchmen adaptation in 2001. He stuck closer to the original source material, making his additional flourishes stick out like sore thumbs. The strangest augmentation includes a "Memory Mirror" that Dr. Manhattan creates for "Slingshot," the renamed and powered-up Silk Spectre. This mirror shows Slingshot scenes from her past, introducing flashbacks that never fit into the plot. Hayter also gives Slingshot the ability to shoot balls of energy from between her fingers, eliminating the pesky use of a handgun during the film's climax.
Hayter's attempt to tone down the finale has Ozymandias shooting a beam of concentrated solar energy into Manhattan Island, killing the population but somehow leaving everything else intact. This attack results in a city bereft of population but decorated with the kind of silhouettes of bodies that Rorschach sees on one of his patrols. Ozymandias's plan also includes the dispersal of black boxes to every world leader (a clever nod to the comic) which Nite Owl later uses to send a worldwide message of peace and love via a quote from The Beatles. This gesture comes off as syrupy and regrettable.
Alex Tse (2006)
Eventually, Alex Tse was brought in to rewrite Hayter's script. Tse's draft sticks fairly close to Moore's original story. He strays occasionally in scenes where the U.S. government uses Silk Spectre as a human tracking device to discover Dr. Manhattan on Mars. While Hayter moved the world of Watchmen out of its alternate history to something closer to our own timeline, Tse addresses 9/11 via dialogue about Dr. Manhattan saving the World Trade Center and by pitting him against a gang of terrorists whose stolen uranium he turns to sand. During the climax, Tse has Ozymandias beaming concentrated energy from Dr. Manhattan into "the hearts of nine key regions around the globe, crossing all traditional politics and ideologies," leaving the same black silhouettes and thus eliminating the carnage and horror of such an event.
In all three drafts, the most startling departure from the Watchmen graphic novel is the death of Ozymandias. Apparently, the writers found it simply abhorrent that Ozymandias, after murdering millions, would be allowed to live. In Hamm's draft, Dr. Manhattan vaporizes him. In the Hayter and Tse scripts, he's eliminated by a razor sharp boomerang owl, allowing Nite Owl further redemption and virility. Like Rorschach, the writers knew that evil must be punished. The death of Ozymandias simplifies Moore's original work from a multifaceted examination of fascism, storytelling, and hope into a derivative "good guy versus bad guy" shadow play. The subtleties of Watchmen are lost in all of the drafts, making the label "unfilmable" all the more appropriate.
What You Saw (Theatrical Release)
While there's still a 204-minute (at least) director's cut of Watchmen yet to make its appearance (perhaps with the death of the original Nite Owl), the theatrical version did well to correct a lot of the errors still found in the scripts. Ozymandias managed to survive, though he still seems more like a corporate raider than an egocentric superbeing. While the Twin Towers still stand, looming in the background of Ozymandias's office and the cemetery, it's not called out that Dr. Manhattan saved them. Having Nite Owl, Dr. Manhattan, and Ozymandias recall three different aspects of The Comedian while attending his funeral were a great way of giving backstory in a satisfying way. Also, the opening credits do a good job of providing the history of the main characters along with placing the world of the movie in the right alternate history (especially when Silhouette is at the center of the famous VE day photograph).
Some will go to their graves bemoaning the loss of the "squid" from the graphic novel but would that have really played in Podunk? As it was, the least of three evils was chosen as Ozymandias's masterstroke and most of the other changes in the adaption were laudable. In all, the Watchmen film triumphed over the evil plans laid out by its screenwriters.
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Austrian Thomas Feyrsinger will take a one shot lead into the final day of the Karnten Golf Open by Markus Brier Foundation after carding a one under par 71 in the third round.
Feyrsinger led by one at the start of the day and was able to maintain his advantage as several players who were just behind him overnight struggled with the breezy conditions and tricky pin positions.
Dutchman Floris De Vries needed a superb finish to post a 71 and move to ten under, while tournament host Markus Brier fell away from the top of the leaderboard with a two over par 74 leaving him at seven under overall. Australian Matthew Zions capitalised, posting an impressive seven under par 65 to join De Vries at ten under, and Spaniard Jorge Campillo shot a 67 – helped by a hole in one at the par three 15th – to go to nine under with countryman Luis Claverie and Swede Leif Westerberg.
Feyrsinger admitted his score would have been better if he had holed three good birdie chances, but was satisfied nonetheless.
"I played really well again," he said. "I only missed two greens all day, but it was a little windier so I couldn't get as close to the pin as the other two rounds. I left a few chances out there but overall I'm very happy.
"It's good to be going into the final round as the leader and I'm just going to stay relaxed and enjoy it. I've worked so hard on my game to get to this point and I'm feeling so confident right now so I have no reason to be nervous."
De Vries also blamed poor putting for not shooting lower, but was happy to be only one shot off Ferysinger's lead after birdies at the 14th, 16th, 17th and 18th.
"I missed five putts from three feet or closer," said De Vries, who won the Mugello Tuscany Open a fortnight ago. "This hardly ever happens once so for it to happen so many times today is very annoying. I played really well apart from that. I'm happy to still be up there because nobody at the top did anything fantastic today, but I can't help but think that I would have a good lead if I had just holed those short putts."
Zions is confident he can win his maiden Challenge Tour title after finding some form with the putter. "I started well with birdies at the first, third and fifth and had a good up-and-down at the sixth," he said. "Then I had another great up-and-down for birdie at the seventh, and on the back nine I got a bit of momentum going with four in a row from the 14th. I finished well too by holing an eight footer for par.
"Everything has felt better and better each day. It's a course which really suits my game. You have to drive the ball well and it really respects good golf. And there were some tricky pins out there today. I drove the ball well and the putter really came to life today.
"There's something about this course...I've just got to keep in the same frame of mind. I'm feeling very calm and I'm due for a win. It would be great to win here."
Campillo said: "I was getting very impatient before the hole in one because I was not holing anything. I just need to be a little bit more consistent with the putter and it will be better. I'll have a day when I'm holing a lot of putts but then the next day I don't. Hopefully it will be another good day tomorrow. Can I win? If I play as well as today, why not?"
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|WIEGELE, Martin
|DENISON, Daniel
|DE VRIES, Floris
|ZIONS, Matthew
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Treatment Options for Recurrent Small Cell Lung Cancer
I am a 42-year-old male who has been treated for small cell lung cancer. I had a large tumor in my right upper lobe, as well as cancerous lymph nodes on both sides of my neck. I received 6 cycles of chemotherapy with carboplatin and etoposide on a 3-week cycle, along with radiation therapy to my upper lung and chest beginning with my fourth cycle of chemotherapy. I then received radiation therapy for the lymph nodes in my neck. My last chemotherapy was 4 months ago. Today, I was told that I have a massive amount of nodes in my chest and 3 tiny spots on my liver. My oncologist has put me on a schedule to receive a one-day treatment of chemotherapy for this but admits it will be more for quality of life than for any kind of cure. Are there any other options for me?
Barbara Campling, MD, Medical Oncologist, responds:
The two chemotherapy drugs that you received are fairly standard treatment for small cell lung cancer. Usually small cell lung cancer responds very quickly to chemotherapy and radiation therapy. When this happens patients usually feel much better, despite the unpleasant side effects of the treatment.
Your story is quite typical of the way that small cell lung cancer behaves. Initial responses to treatment are often quite dramatic, but when the tumor is more extensive at diagnosis, such as in both sides of the neck in your case, it almost invariably recurs. When that happens, the cancer is more difficult to treat, because the tumor cells become resistant to chemotherapy. Even drugs that have completely different mechanisms of action from the drugs used during your initial course of chemotherapy do not work as well. After recurrence, the chance of responding to further chemotherapy is higher if the interval from the initial treatment to the recurrence has been prolonged. Responses to "second-line" chemotherapy are typically not as dramatic as the initial responses. If it has been many months from the time of initial treatment to the time of recurrence, often the drugs that were used initially can be used again.
In someone that has completed therapy less than 6 months ago, it is unlikely that the same chemotherapy agents, such as carboplatin and etoposide, will work again. There is some chance of response to other chemotherapy drugs, although the chances are not high. Much has been learned about how lung cancer cells acquire resistance to chemotherapy. Unfortunately, however, there is not currently a successful way to overcome drug resistance for small cell lung cancer. A number of different chemotherapy drugs could be used as second-line therapy, including irinotecan, topotecan, gemcitabine, or taxol. It would also be worth looking into if there are any clinical trials being done in your area for patients with recurrent small cell lung cancer. However, regardless of the treatment that you pursue, these agents do not offer realistic hope of long-term response or cure.
What would happen if you decided not to have any treatment at this point? The goal of further chemotherapy is to make you feel better, delay the development of symptoms related to your cancer, and potentially prolong your life. If you are free of symptoms at the moment, there is no urgency to receive second-line treatment. On the other hand, small cell lung cancer often grows rapidly and can quickly cause symptoms. If you are interested in chemotherapy in the future, you would want to make sure you do not delay treatment too long, at which point the cancer may cause you more advanced symptoms and you may not be well enough to tolerate additional therapy.
If you decide against any further chemotherapy, there are other measures that can make you more comfortable, control pain, or help with any other symptoms that you might be having.


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D. C. Radley, S. K. H. How, A. K. Fryer, D. McCarthy, and C. Schoen, Rising to the Challenge: Results from a Scorecard on Local Health System Performance, 2012, The Commonwealth Fund, March 2012.
People in the United States, regardless of where they live, deserve the same opportunities to lead long, healthy, and productive lives. Achieving that goal means that all communities should receive the very best from their local health care systems. Yet this new Scorecard on Local Health System Performance finds that where one lives has a major impact on the ability to access health care and the quality of care received. Comparing the 306 local health care areas, known as hospital referral regions, in the United States, the report finds wide variations on key indicators of health system performance. Access to care, quality of care, costs, and health outcomes all vary significantly from one local community to another, both within larger states and across states. There is often a two- to threefold variation on key indicators between leading and lagging communities. The 30 top-performing local areas include communities in the Northeast, Midwest, and a few West Coast communities—with these leading areas often doing well on multiple indicators and dimensions of care. Yet while pockets of excellence exist, there are ample opportunities for health system improvement in all communities, even among the leaders.
The Local Scorecard aims to provide communities with comparative data to assess the performance of their health care systems, establish priorities for improvement, and set achievement targets. It tracks 43 indicators spanning four dimensions of health system performance, including: access, quality, costs and potentially avoidable hospital use, and health outcomes. Indicators were defined using the latest data available, generally from 2008–2010, and therefore represent a baseline for assessing the impact of national reforms. For each indicator, the Local Scorecard assesses health system performance in local areas and compares their performance against benchmark levels achieved in the nation's highest-performing communities. Overall performance ranking then depends on performance on the indicators aggregated by dimension. (See Appendix A3 for a complete list of local areas, organized by state, with summary performance ranks and relative performance by dimension.)
The findings show that local health system performance is linked across all dimensions—with better access to care associated with higher quality and better outcomes. This interconnectedness underscores the need for health insurance, payment, and delivery system reforms to improve care experiences and outcomes, while at the same time slowing cost growth. Looking to the future, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (Affordable Care Act) offers states and local health systems new resources and expanded authority for such a whole-system approach, with the potential to stimulate and support delivery and public health system innovations. Success at the local level will ultimately depend on communities and providers—aided by strong leadership and collaboration—setting goals and taking action to achieve them.
As the nation continues to rebound from the recent economic recession and states contend with often severe budget constraints, the burden of rising health care costs increasingly falls on local businesses and families. There is a pressing need to support local efforts to extract better value from the health system while safeguarding access and affordability. Unsurprisingly, the Local Scorecard finds that high-poverty communities typically face problems accessing quality care that are more severe than those faced by high-income communities. Strategically targeting resources to the poorest communities will likely be necessary to reduce barriers to progress and improve health for the most vulnerable populations.
Where people live matters: it influences their ability to access care as well as the quality of care they receive.
Local areas vary in the provision of health care that is easily accessible, effective, safe, well coordinated, and focused on maximizing population health outcomes. On some key indicators of performance, there was a twofold or greater spread between the local areas grouped in the top 10 percent of the performance distribution versus the bottom 10 percent. The gaps between the best- and worst-performing areas were even wider.
There are strong geographic patterns of performance, though the patterns vary by dimension.
Overall, local areas in the Northeast and Upper Midwest often ranked in the top quartile of health system performance, whereas places with the lowest performance were concentrated in the South, particularly within the Gulf Coast and south-central states.
For many performance indicators, there is dramatic variation among local areas in the same state.
Health system performance in states with large and varied populations can differ from one community to another, even though they share state policies and borders. Intrastate variations demonstrate that local attributes drive health system performance and also show that local provider and community action, as well as state policies, can support improvement in areas of greatest need.
Spending among commercially insured and Medicare populations varies considerably across local areas.
But patterns of regional variation are often inconsistent between the two populations. Both Medicare spending and private insurance spending per enrollee vary widely across local areas. Excluding two outliers for Medicare with very high spending, there is a two-and-a-half-fold difference between the local areas with the lowest and highest per-enrollee spending rates for both Medicare and commercially insured (ages 18–64) populations. The lowest Medicare and private insurance spending areas had per capita costs that were 30 percent to 40 percent below average (all-area median), and spending in the highest-cost areas was more than 50 percent above average. However, Medicare and commercially insured spending patterns were often inconsistent. Although private and Medicare spending in some areas tracked each other—relatively low on both or high on both—there were areas of the country where spending rates were relatively high for Medicare but low for the commercially insured population, and other areas in which private spending per enrollee was relatively high and Medicare spending relatively low. The inconsistency in spending patterns between the Medicare and commercially insured populations points to the need for a better understanding of local market dynamics as well as care patterns in the underlying delivery systems.
This analysis takes advantage of a rich set of insurance claims for people enrolled in employer-sponsored plans in 2009. Despite representing about 36 million covered individuals nationally, these data can fluctuate in smaller regions from year to year as the representative employer mix and annual benefit designs change. Along with variations in Medicare and private spending, this underscores the pressing need for all-payer databases that enable the tracking of total health care costs at the community level, examination of the sources of variation, and development of efforts to improve and track total costs and affordability over time.
Leading local areas often perform consistently well on multiple indicators across dimensions of performance.
The local areas that scored in the top quartile of overall health system performance often performed well on multiple indicators and across dimensions. In fact, many of the top-ranked places performed in the top quartile on each of the four dimensions. A confluence of factors likely contributes to better performance in these areas, including efforts to expand health insurance coverage, state and community leadership, supportive policy, and a culture of collaboration and improvement. In contrast, areas in the bottom quartile of overall health system performance lagged relative to leaders on multiple indicators of performance. Overall performance in these areas was pulled down by high uninsured rates for adults and children, low rates of recommended preventive care and treatment, and poor health outcomes. The 10 percent of communities that performed worse overall (about 30 areas) tended to struggle on each dimension.
Still, we find exceptions in all regions of the country. There were no regions where every community demonstrated strong performance across all indicators. Moreover, there were many cases where local areas in the lowest-performing regions achieved high levels of performance on certain indicators, even ranking in the top half of the distribution on a dimension. Learning about these places can offer insights for other communities, particularly those facing similar health system or resource constraints.
Multiple dimensions of health system performance are interrelated.
Across local health care areas, strong relationships between core dimensions of health system performance were evident: better access was associated with higher quality; better access and higher quality with improved health outcomes; and poor access and lower quality with higher rates of potentially avoidable hospital admissions and higher overall costs. These cross-dimensional findings underscore the need for policymakers and community leaders to focus on population health and take a whole-system view to improve performance.
Health system performance in the nation's largest cities is highly variable.
About 40 percent of the U.S. population lives in the local health care areas representing the country's largest cities. These regions are also home to many of the nation's leading academic hospitals and major health care systems—providing referral centers for a global community as well as residents of the United States. The Local Scorecard finds substantial performance variation across cities.
Socioeconomic factors, particularly high poverty rates, are associated with some aspects of health system performance, but not all. There are significant variations within areas with low levels of poverty as well as within areas with high poverty levels.
Local areas with high poverty rates tended to have poorer access, lower rates of preventive care, and higher rates of potentially avoidable hospital admissions and readmissions. High rates of poverty were also associated with poor health outcomes, especially those for which timely access to care and population health interventions can make a positive difference. Yet dividing local areas into relative high or low-income groups, the Local Scorecard finds significant variation in performance within both types of communities. On prevention and treatment as well as other dimensions, high-income communities were not always in the top half of the performance distribution and low-income communities were not always in the bottom half. The way local health care systems are organized and care is delivered makes a difference.
There is room for improvement in all local areas.
While top and bottom local areas often performed consistently across dimensions, no local areas ranked consistently at the top or bottom on all indicators of performance. And for some indicators, such as preventive care for adults and patients' assessment of care experiences in hospitals, even the top rates fell below what we know is achievable in the highest-performing care systems. Approximately 66 million people live in the local health care areas that score in the lowest performance quartile overall, and many would benefit from even modest improvements in their local health system. Raising performance levels in these areas to benchmarks already achieved by some communities would yield substantial returns for the nation's health care system.
If all communities reached the performance levels achieved by the highest-performing 1 percent of local health care areas, we might expect the following gains:
These are ambitious targets for all local areas. But by aiming high, there is the potential for substantial gains, especially if leaders succeed in raising the bar.
The Local Scorecard's evidence of wide variation in health system performance across local areas and within states points to the need for strategic improvement efforts in each community, supported by state and federal policies and resources. Building on The Commonwealth Fund's assessments of health system performance at the national and state levels, the Local Scorecard finds wide variation across all four dimensions of performance, based on 43 indicators that were available across the country.
These comparative data represent a baseline leading up to national reforms enacted in 2010. Thus, the Local Scorecard offers a starting point from which to assess changes over time, as federal reforms unfold and states begin to use new authority and resources provided by the Affordable Care Act. At the same time, state policy leaders can use it as a tool to target interventions to the communities with the greatest need and most to gain.
This report underscores the importance of looking locally—beyond national and state averages—for opportunities to improve care experiences, improve population health, and achieve more-affordable health care systems that deliver high-quality care and lower costs. Findings also point to the need for multidimensional strategic approaches to health system improvement that avoid focusing on just one factor to the exclusion of others. While national and state policies provide resources and help to structure markets that promote improvements in health system performance, real and sustained progress hinges on engagement and collaborative action at the local level.
A framework for local health system improvement.
Changes to health care provider payment, new health information technologies, more robust performance measurement and data systems, and health system infrastructure investments enacted in recent national health care legislation are leverage points that can accelerate and support local health system improvement. Moving forward, however, requires multiple stakeholders—Medicare, Medicaid, private insurers, state policymakers, community health leaders and providers, and local businesses—to align incentives with a shared will and vision. Action is needed at national, state, and local levels to ensure that health care is affordable, of high quality, and responsive to population needs.
The federal government has set the stage for improvement in states and communities across the country via the insurance, payment, and delivery systems reforms embodied in the Affordable Care Act. Key reforms include:
The Affordable Care Act further provides state governments with new authority and resources to support state-level policies and initiatives to improve performance. States can reduce unwarranted variations within state borders and improve health system performance for all communities by focusing on insurance expansions, information systems, oversight of quality and safety, and policies to address concerns in areas with the greatest need. For example, the Affordable Care Act will reduce the number of uninsured in all states by supporting Medicaid enrollment expansion and providing new premium assistance to help make sure insurance is affordable for low- and middle-income families. Starting in 2014, new state-run insurance exchanges and insurance standards that prohibit charging more based on health conditions will make it easier for people to sign up and stay covered.
With federal and state insurance reforms paving the way for improved access to care, providers and other community stakeholders, as well as state officials, will be able to focus on improvement to systems of care and population health, including payment changes that hold care systems accountable for outcomes and costs. The newly established Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation will serve as a resource for states, health systems, providers, and private payers interested in testing and implementing new payment and care models, locally, that reward innovation, high quality, and efficient care delivery over the volume of services provided. Such action can support initiatives in communities across the country to enhance primary care and reduce avoidable hospital admissions and readmissions.
With insurance expansions, better information systems, and new resources available, communities have opportunities to achieve better health system performance, so long as they are engaged participants, rather than observers, as state and national policies unfold. The substantial variation across communities documents the potential of local action to make a difference. Local action will require:
National health care system reforms, newly available resources, and expanded state authority can help set the stage for communities to assume greater accountability for improving patient experiences, lowering costs, and achieving better health for all of their residents.
The Local Scorecard takes an important first step toward understanding community-level variations in health system performance and identifying opportunities for improvement. The "starter set" of performance indicators it introduces represents a new measurement framework for those stakeholders most attuned to local needs, one that could motivate the development of explicit, locally appropriate health system improvement goals.
We acknowledge that some of the data used in this analysis are not as robust in all communities as we might like; clearly there is a pressing need for better data on health care outcomes, sources of costs, and performance variation at the local level. For that reason, we encourage stakeholders to identify improvement opportunities in their local area and initiate their own performance measurement activities, rather than emphasizing the specific rankings reported here. This report is an important step forward, but it raises as many questions as it answers, and highlights the need to assess changes over time and understand the factors contributing to variations in performance.
Federal and state policies have the potential to support improvement in all the nation's communities. But ultimately it is up to health care systems, community leaders, and health policy officials to rise to the challenge of improving performance to meet the current and future health and health care needs of the people they serve.
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Pac-12 Season Preview: USC TrojansPosted by AMurawa on October 23rd, 2014
USC Trojans
Strengths. Let's get this out of the way immediately: This USC roster is not one that is going to win the Pac-12 or likely to find its way into the NCAA Tournament. And really, that's no surprise given that this is a squad that won two conference games last season and lost the team's top four scorers to boot. But this is a program in the middle of a complete rebuild and change of identity. The strength of this version of the Trojans is the fact that said change in identity is well underway. The last time the Trojans were even remotely relevant on a national scale, they were trudging their way through 63 possessions of terrible offense a night. And last year in his first season at Southern California, head coach Andy Enfield was stuck with a mishmash of players who either weren't good fits for his style of play or weren't fit to act as veteran leaders on a team in transition. This year, however, there is some reason for excitement. Enfield's got his point guard in freshman Jordan McLaughlin, an explosive, attacking player most comfortable in the open floor. He's got UNLV transfer Katin Reinhardt ready to serve as a secondary ball-handler and a floor stretcher who will likely lead the team in scoring. He's got a couple of Serbian big guys (Nikola Jovanovic and Strahinja Gavrilovic) with pick-and-pop skills. And he's got intriguing athletic depth. There's still a ways to go here, but Enfield is starting to round his roster into shape.
Weaknesses. Of course, coupled with that rebuild is the fact that right now there is an awful lot of inexperience on this team. There are only four players — Reinhardt, Jovanovic, sophomore Julian Jacobs and Charlotte-transfer Darion Clark —who have averaged as much as 15 minutes per game at the Division I level – and each of those players has only done it once. This team is going to have to learn on the fly; but then again, "on the fly" says a lot about how Enfield will want his team to play.
Non-conference Tests. After a couple home warm-up games against Portland State and Tennessee Tech, we'll get a good glimpse of USC against legitimate competition in the second week of the season, where they'll open with Akron in the Charleston Classic, then face either Miami or Drexel on day two, and then a beatable opponent in their final game. Honestly, USC has as much of a chance to win that tournament as anybody else invited. Their biggest test during the rest of non-conference play will likely come when the Trojans travel to New Mexico on the final day of November, but even that is a winnable game against a team that lost most of last year's top contributors. Later on, there's a trip to Boston College just before Christmas. But, really, USC plays 12 very winnable games prior to conference play. Anything less than a 9-3 record will be disappointing, even for a young team.


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