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Celebrity Drive: "Fast and the Furious" composer Brian Tyler is a different kind of tuner
Celebrity Drive: Fast and the Furious composer Brian Tyler is a different kind of tuner
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Brian Tyler film composer
Daily Driver:
2004 Ferrari 360 Modena
(Tyler's rating: 10 on a scale of 1 to 10)
Other cars in his collection:
2006 Porsche 911
C4S (Rating: 10)
2005 Mercedes CLK 500 (Rating: 9)
(Rating: 9)
Favorite road trip:
Hopefully to Nurburgring
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First car bought:
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In Hollywood, composer Brian Tyler has been called a young John Williams -- he scores music for major movies in addition to being able to play all the instruments. But for the SoCal car enthusiast, to be able to write music for three of "The Fast and the Furious" films was the ultimate combination of two passions.
The second film "2 Fast 2 Furious" was the only one Tyler did not write music for. "It was really cool working on these movies 'The Fast and the Furious' because I love cars and racing and working on movies with music, my career, and being able to cross over with my hobby."
He worked with director Justin Lin on "Annapolis," and when Lin was set to take on the third film "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" he brought Tyler back. "He knew I was a car enthusiast; I sent him a giant box of DVDs of drifting videos I had because he was learning it. So it was fun to be at the ground level of that."
Growing up in Orange County, Tyler also went to junior high with Toshi Hayama, who was a technical consultant on "Tokyo Drift." He didn't know it was the same guy on the drift videos he owned until they met for the movie. "We were like 'wait, you're that Toshi' and he was like, 'wait, you're that Brian.' It's like later in life we're all of a sudden working on this movie together and we've become friends again."
Tyler believes music is integral to these films, especially since they're not as dialogue driven. The music is there to help drive the race scenes, storyline, and provide emotion and adrenaline, so for "Tokyo Drift" he blended underground industrial music with a rock vibe because the main character moves from the South to Japan. He brought in Slash to do a guitar duo with him on a track called "
Nismo" in the scene where they took the American chassis, the Mustang, and dropped the Nismo engine in it.
"The music style is hard-core rock guitar combined with really underground Japanese music," Tyler says. "It was really fun." Throughout the movie, Tyler combined East and West influences. In the last scene of the big race, Tyler combined guitars with Taiko drums and a live orchestra.
Tyler scores the upcoming "Fast and Furious," out next June. There will be lots of guitars and percussion for a raw and raunchy vibe. "It's going to be extreme, but there's going to be an orchestra, too, and there's also a Latin thing going on that's really pretty cool. It's pretty edgy, I think people will enjoy it."
Tyler's music is on "Bangkok Dangerous" with Nicolas Cage, out Sept. 5. Tyler also scored the new Steven Spielberg flick "
Eye" in theaters Sept. 26, which has a car chase scene with a
Porsche Cayenne
. "It's very much like a modern Hitchcock kind of thriller, so the style is classic themes -- big orchestra, but using a lot of modern instruments. Really propulsive and bold sounding."
Such A-list Hollywood film directors visit Tyler's music studio to discuss their projects. They walk by a console, which is covered, except for the three foot pedals that protrude. It's for Tyler and his music team to play Gran Turismo 4 during work breaks.
"Whenever directors and producers come over, they always wonder what's under the mixing board -- there's three pedals, and they always wonder what they are, what kind of music thing it is," Tyler laughs. "I hide the wheel and the stick shift, I have paddle shift and manual shift set up, but I keep the pedals there, so I have brake, clutch, and throttle underneath the mixing board desk, so it's always permanently there. We can easily just, boom, switch right into racing simulation and we'll go anywhere. It's like you can go anywhere in the world."
His set up is like simulators at driving schools. The wheel has a 900-degree turning radius for sliding into turns, there is a heavy clutch and a giant HD screen with surround sound and sub woofer. "It's like a flight simulator, it's crazy," he continues. "Sometimes we go all through the night and the morning trying to win Monaco against whoever."
To say that Tyler takes the video game seriously is an understatement. "A lot of the Formula 1 drivers, the young ones that hadn't maybe gone to Bahrain, they'll use Gran Turismo or this new game Formula 1 for Play Station 3 and they'll learn the track that way," Tyler explains.
The first time he went to a track day in 2005, he won in his class with the CLK. "When they asked me how I learned exiting the apex and all the lines, the funny thing was how I learned was years and years of Gran Turismo and believe it or not, it was totally right."
Daily Driver
In real life, Tyler's daily driver is a silver
2004 Ferrari 360 Modena
, which he rates a perfect 10. "I'm a huge Formula 1 fan, that's how I got into Ferraris. I'm a huge Michael Schumacher and Kimi Raikkonen fan. So it crossed over into what I like to drive."
Tyler likes the paddle shifters. "It's really immediate and it's great -- cornering and banking -- you don't have to take your hands off the wheel, and you can really kill it and keep the revs really high because the
lo-oves to be revving way up in that upper, upper band. It's great for racing."
While he does take it to the track, he has three other cars: a
2006 Porsche 911
, with 6-speed manual tranny, which he also rates a perfect 10; a 2005 Mercedes CLK 500, an automatic, which he gives a 9 rating; and a "normal car" a
, also an automatic, used to carry equipment, which he also gives a 9 rating.
Tyler's home track is Fontana's Auto Club Speedway, which he goes to with his music/speed buddies and they mix it up with each other's cars. "We just love cars. We have a '69 Vette T-Top Stingray, we've taken out, it's something we all use, it's my music editor's Joe Lisanti and we've taken that out and that's become part of the arsenal."
A CLK may not be the first car one would think of to drift in or use as a track car, but Tyler's gets its share of track time. "On the last film, 'Tokyo Drift,' I went to the track to try drifting just for fun. I always find it fun to take something completely unexpected out to the track and just wail on it and raise some eyebrows, kind of fun."
The CLK has an automatic Steptronic transmission, but Tyler has a certain way he likes to drive it. "You have to take off the traction control and everything in order to have a lot of fun," he laughs. "Take off as many of the driver's aids as you can. It's basically like step-shifting mode and you can control all the shifting and gears. It's like forcing it to be a manual. That's when you feel the car and the power. You can really slide that thing. It's fun to seeing a Mercedes doing donuts."
At the track, he installs in-car cameras. "It's a blast getting that footage, just to watch it back and you hear us screaming and hollering and the tires screaming."
Tyler's racing style is more like drifting. "I kind of prefer that rally style, it's not the fastest style to go around slaloms," he laughs. "But it's the most fun. It's really just being able to feel the car barking back at you, especially with the Ferrari -- that motor is just howling at 8500 rpms. The window's down and you hear the tires squeal, it's great. It's not so much drifting, but my style of racing is a little bit oversteer. It's got a bit of sliding out that back end."
Growing up in the OC, it is pretty much a given Tyler frequented go-kart tracks. These days he goes to Moran Raceway for some open wheel racing, which he says is a bit like go-karts on steroids. "You go, you get a crew and you do pit stops. It's got a long straight and that's hair-raising, because you're so close to the ground -- the feeling of speed doing that is kind of mind boggling. That's some serious stuff."
Although Tyler has been in a crash on the track -- as a passenger while his friend drove -- it didn't deter him. "We went straight into a giant concrete post head-first, it was his
. It was totaled. I broke my ribs. The car did its job, but it was a freak weird thing, we went off-line on the slalom and lost control. If the airbags weren't in there, I would not be talking to you right now. It broke the axle in half, the car was an accordion. It did not look survivable. I've also crashed karting but not as bad. But that's racing. I love it."
Car he learned to drive in
At age 16, Tyler learned to drive in his grandfather's four-speed manual 1973
Volkswagen Beetle
on the streets of Corona del Mar and passed his driver's test in that car. "It was great," he says. "I worked on the engine and souped it up. It's such a basic car you can learned the inner workings of how the motor works."
First car bought
After his grandfather's
, while at UCLA, Tyler bought a used 1989 Nissan Pathfinder, again with a manual tranny. His big break writing music for movies was 1998's "Six-String Samurai," an indie hit at Sundance. With money from that, he bought his first new car, an automatic 1998
Since then Tyler's had three BMWs and three Mercedes. "I don't keep them," he says. "Sometimes I buy, sometimes lease, depending on the business plan. I bought my
with cash because it's just the type of thing it is." The BMWs have all been different versions of the same
. "Every few years I get the new something, even if it's the same thing." The same with Mercedes -- all CLKs -- but the discussion turns to the new AMG C63. "I've got my eye on that," he chuckles.
"Since I've got the Ferrari it's been so much fun, it fortunately stops me from getting tons of cars," Tyler says. "I just love driving it. I drive for fun, I don't really drive very much -- people come to me to hear my music at my studio so I don't have a commute."
Favorite road trip
"My favorite road trip I haven't done yet -- I want to go do the Nurburgring in Germany," Tyler laughs. "That's also something I know pretty well from Gran Turismo. We're thinking about doing it, my friend Jason and I. It's massive, just one lap is 13 miles, it's 170 turns." He and his music team/speed buddies also travel to Formula One races. They plan to go to Montreal and whenever Formula 1 is held at Indy, they always go to support the effort. "We'll make the pilgrimage to hear the extremely loud Formula 1 cars," he says.
Locally, Tyler loves the twisty Mulholland Drive. He also likes that anticipating drive to a racetrack in the morning. "The drive out to the speedway -- it's early in the morning and knowing you're going to be getting to the track and you'll be able to smell the gasoline, it's so much fun," he says.
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Hidekichi Nagamatsu (August 4, 1914 - November 18, 1992) was a Japanese boxer that represented Japan in the 1936 Berlin Olympics as a featherweight. He lost in the Round of 16 to eventual silver medalist Nikolai Stepulov of Estonia after winning his first round match against Jan Chytrý of Czechoslovakia.
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New carrier joins WV exchange
In 2014 and 2015, West Virginia's exchange had just one carrier – Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield. West Virginia is the only state in the country that had just one participating exchange carrier in 2015.
But for 2016, CareSource will also be offering plans in 15 of West Virginia's 55 counties (Boone, Brooke, Cabell, Clay, Hancock, Kanawha, Lincoln, Marshall, Mason, Ohio, Pleasants, Putnam, Wayne, Wirt, and Wood).
Kentucky Health Cooperative (a CO-OP created under the ACA) had planned to expand into the West Virginia exchange in 2015, but in early November 2014, the CO-OP announced that they were postponing their expansion into West Virginia by a year, saying that they needed additional time to make sure that the new West Virginia Health Cooperative would be fully functional before being offered for sale in WV.
But Kentucky CO-OP stays away
But in September 2015, The West Virginia Office of the Insurance Commissioner confirmed by phone that the Kentucky CO-OP will not be offering plans in the West Virginia exchange for 2016. The CO-OP has the majority of the market share in Kentucky's health insurance exchange, and the Kentucky Department of Insurance approved the CO-OP's average rate increase of 25 percent for 2016.
It is unclear whether Kentucky Health Cooperative might eventually enter the West Virginia market – at this point, the WV Insurance Commissioner's office said that there are no long-term plans to do so.
2016 rates
Highmark has requested an average rate increase of 19.7 percent for individual plans in the West Virginia exchange. The proposed rate changes vary from about 17 percent to almost 22 percent depending on the plan, but because West Virginia has just one carrier in 2015, it ended up among the three states where one hundred percent of the exchange plans have requested double digit rate increases for 2016.
Highmark's rates have not yet been approved by regulators in West Virginia. For residents of the counties where CareSource will be offering plans in 2016, there will be some competition and choice. But in the other 40 counties, Highmark will remain the only option. The good news for the vast majority of exchange enrollees is that if the price of the second-lowest-cost silver plan increases, subsidies will increase commensurately, just as they did for 2015.
ACA subsidies are safe
Because West Virginia has a federally-run exchange, the continued availability of subsidies depended on how the Supreme Court ruled in King v. Burwell. Fortunately for the residents, insurers, and medical providers of West Virginia, the Court ruled that subsidies are legal in every state, so West Virginia's reliance on Healthcare.gov no longer puts subsidies in jeopardy.
The Urban Institute had estimated that if subsidies were eliminated in states that use the federally-run exchange, the individual market population in those states would drop by 70 percent. 25,000 people would have lost their subsidies in West Virginia, and their premiums would have increased by an average of 234 percent. Even for those not currently receiving subsidies, premiums would have skyrocketed – by about 55 percent, not counting the normal annual rate increases- because healthy people would have been more likely to drop their coverage if it became unaffordable.
State-run exchange costly and unlikely
West Virginia is one of 23 states where leadership's opposition to the ACA is strong enough that there was little chance of an agreement to create a state-run exchange if subsidies were eliminated in the federally-run exchange.
Prior to announcing in 2013 that West Virginia would be expanding Medicaid, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin's administration had hired out cost analyses for both Medicaid expansion as well as setting up a state-run exchange, and ultimately decided that Medicaid expansion would provide more bang for their buck.
Now that subsidies are no longer in jeopardy in the federally-run exchange, there is little incentive for states to spend the money and resources necessary to create their own exchanges. Not only will West Virginia likely continue to use the federally-run exchange, some states that currently have state-run exchanges might eventually switch to Healthcare.gov instead.
AG supported elimination of subsidies
Incidentally, West Virginia's Attorney General Patrick Morrisey joined AGs from five other states in December 2014 in an amicus brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell. Despite the fact that about 25,000 West Virginia residents would have lost subsidies if the plaintiffs had prevailed in the case, West Virginia's Attorney General supported that outcome.
Governor Tomblin made it clear however that he did not support Morrisey's amicus brief position, and has argued that when the state opted to use the federally-run exchange, they were under the impression that subsidies would be available either way.
2015 enrollment numbers
33,421 people enrolled in private plans through the West Virginia exchange during the 2015 open enrollment period (through February 22). 86 percent qualified for premium subsidies, and 49 percent are new to the exchange for 2015. The other 51 percent are people who had plans in 2014 and either renewed them or selected a different exchange plan for this year.
HHS had projected 25,000 private plan enrollees in the West Virginia exchange by the end of open enrollment, and at ACAsignups, Charles Gaba set a higher projection: 31,000 enrollees by February 15. Enrollment reached nearly 134 percent of the HHS projection, and even exceeded Gaba's prediction (although the final count reflects a week-long extension that HHS added to allow people additional time to finish their enrollments).
But some enrollees didn't pay their initial premiums, and others have cancelled their coverage mid-way through the year. In addition, Healthcare.gov stepped up enforcement of immigration/financial documentation requirements in 2015, resulting in more real-time disenrollments and subsidy adjustments. By the end of June, effectuated enrollment in private plans through the West Virginia exchange stood at 31,106 people.
An additional 5,063 people enrolleed in Medicaid or CHIP through the exchange between November 15 and February 22. From the end of 2013 to June 2015, total enrollment in Medicaid/CHIP grew by 184,057 people in West Virginia – a 52 percent increase.
Open enrollment for 2015 has ended, and most people can only purchase coverage (on or off exchange) at this point if they have a qualifying event (Native Americans can enroll year-round, as can applicants who qualify for Medicaid or CHIP). The next open enrollment period begins on November 1, for coverage effective January 1, 2016.
2015 rates and plans
West Virginia had just one carrier in its exchange – Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield – although the carrier only offered 12 plans in 2014, and bumped that up to 14 in 2015.
By December 31, 2014, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield reported that they had enrolled 31,100 people in 2015 plans, including on and off-exchange policies, and renewals from 2014. But it wasn't clear what percentage of those plans were purchased outside the exchange (by January 16, a total of 27,471 people had purchased plans inside the exchange, so clearly there were several thousand off-exchange plans purchased by December 31). Off-exchange plans must be fully ACA-compliant, but if you enroll outside the exchange, you're not eligible for subsidies.
In 2014, the lowest cost bronze plan in the WV exchange was an average of $280/month, higher than the national average of $249. For 2015, the average rate increase in the individual market in West Virginia is 6.7 percent, although there is variation from one plan and region to another, and includes off-exchange plans as well as plans in the exchange. Because the Kentucky CO-OP filed rates alongside Highmark for 2015, experts believed (and Highmark has confirmed) that Highmark was forced to be more competitive with their rates for 2015. Highmark's rates were not able to be adjusted heading into the 2015 open enrollment, even after the CO-OP pulled out of the WV market. So despite the fact that Highmark remained the only carrier in the state's exchange in 2015, rates were as competitive as they would have been with a second participating carrier.
Because the exchange only had one participating carrier, there wasn't as much to be gained as there was in other states by shopping around again during the 2015 open enrollment. The NY Times Upshot showed that people who had the benchmark plan (second lowest cost silver plan) in 2014 saw an average rate increase of 9 percent in most of West Virginia for 2015. Since the benchmark plan isn't changing to a new carrier, there was no option to switch to a cheaper plan, unless they wanted to go with the lowest-cost silver plan or a bronze plan.
Across all metal levels in the exchange, a Commonwealth Fund analysis found an average rate increase of 10 percent for a 40 year-old non-smoker in West Virginia. Of course, most enrollees qualify for subsidies, and the subsidies rose to keep pace with the increase in price for the benchmark plan.
The ACA's impact in West Virginia
Although West Virginia opted to let HHS run the exchange, the state chose to expand Medicaid under the ACA, and has been working diligently to enroll as many people as possible in expanded Medicaid. Their efforts have paid off: In 2014, the state had the second-highest increase in Medicaid/CHIP enrollment in the country (Oregon was first).
By June 9, 2014, West Virginia had 508,496 residents (about 27% of the state's population) enrolled in Medicaid or Children's Health Insurance Program. And as of mid-September, 2014 reports indicated that the state had enrolled virtually all of the people who were eligible for expanded Medicaid. Medicaid enrollment continues year-round, so any remaining eligible residents can enroll at any time.
In 2013, about 17 percent of the West Virginia population was uninsured. By July 2014, that number had fallen to 6.6 percent, and the reduction is due almost entirely to the ACA. Another study in 2015 confirmed similar data, pegging West Virginia's uninsured rate at 6.59 percent.
In a study conducted by Wallet Hub, West Virginia is currently ranked second in the nation in terms of how much the states and their residents benefit from Obamacare. If all provisions of the law were fully implemented in every state (including Medicaid expansion, which West Virginia has already implemented), West Virginia would rise to the top of the list as the state the benefits the most from the ACA.
Anti-ACA legislation didn't advance
Despite how much the ACA has helped West Virginia, lawmakers introduced a pair of anti-ACA bills shortly after the 2015 legislative session convened. HB 2216 would give only the legislature the authority to create a state-based health insurance exchange – the Governor would not be able to create an exchange without legislative approval if HB 2216 passes. The bill was approved by the House Health and Human Resources Committee in a 14 – 9 vote on January 27, but it didn't advance after that.
And HB 2509 goes a step further – it would invalidate the ACA in West Virginia. This bill was also reviewed by the House Health and Human Resources Committee, but did not advance to the House floor.
How many people enrolled in 2014?
In addition to Medicaid and CHIP enrollments, 25,856 people had completed their private plan Obamacare enrollments by early July 2014, which represented an increase of about 6,000 people since the end of the 2014 open enrollment period (qualifying events trigger special enrollment periods for private plans.)
Another 6,171 people had enrolled directly (outside the exchange) through Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield – the only carrier offering 2014 plans in the WV exchange – between October 1 and April 15.
Prior to open enrollment, there were an estimated 99,000 West Virginians eligible for private Obamacare plans, so the combined total of on and off-exchange enrollments represents nearly a third of those individuals. Perry Bryant, Executive Director of West Virginians for Affordable Health Care, called the first year's enrollment numbers "not as robust as we would have liked" but noted that HealthCare.gov is much more functional that it was a year ago.
Why has West Virginia been so successful?
West Virginia is expanding Medicaid, and is using auto-enrollment directly through the state's Medicaid program, in addition to Medicaid enrollment through the exchange. The state has been working to contact residents who receive SNAP and WIC benefits, as well as households where some members were already receiving Medicaid benefits. By letting these individuals know about the expanded Medicaid program, the outreach program has been wildly successful.
Actuaries had predicted that 63,000 people would enroll in WV's expanded Medicaid program in 2014, but by September 2014, the number of new Medicaid enrollments in WV had grown to between 132,00 and 145,000 people, out of an estimated total of between 143,000 and 150,000 eligible people.
West Virginians for Affordable Health Care is a group that has been instrumental in pressing for healthcare reform in West Virginia for nearly a decade. They have been involved in education and outreach about the ACA, and are pushing for better management of chronic illnesses, which account for three quarters of the state's health care spending. Their efforts have helped to bolster WV's exchange enrollment numbers, for both Medicaid and private plans.
In December 2014, West Virginia University's School of Public Health received a $2 million grant that will be used to pilot innovative approaches to improving public health and controlling healthcare costs. The initiative was sponsored by CMS, and initially focused on people using Medicare, Medicaid, and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). But WVU and its public health partners envision that eventually "… all West Virginians will benefit from these initiatives…"
West Virginia exchange history
After first developing plans to operate a state-run health insurance exchange, West Virginia submitted a blueprint for a partnership exchange to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The blueprint for the West Virginia Health Insurance Marketplace was approved in March 2013.
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's administration cited cost, particularly the expense associated with information technology systems, as a key factor in deciding against a state-run exchange. Administration officials also said the partnership gives the state some control over the exchange.
Under the partnership, West Virginia is responsible for regulating the companies that sell health insurance policies on the exchange.
The state also oversees the In-Person Assister (IPA) program. Assisters will be under contract with the state and provide individuals impartial help with the enrollment process. In November 2014, the state announced that it would be hiring an additional 100 people to help residents enroll in the exchange and the state's expanded Medicaid program.
No extension of grandmothered plans
West Virginia is not allowing non-grandfathered pre-2014 policies in the individual market to renew again in 2014; they had to be replaced with ACA-compliant coverage as of their renewal date in 2014. The state has also filed a lawsuit against the Obama Administration because the federal government deferred to the states on the decision about whether or not to renew grandmothered plans.
Contact the exchange
West Virginia residents will enroll through the federally facilitated exchange; 2016 enrollment runs November 1, 2015 through January 31, 2016.
West Virginia health insurance exchange links
West Virginia Health Reform Resources
State Exchange Profile: West Virginia
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation overview of West Virginia's progress toward creating a state health insurance exchange.


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Cook Inlet Academy continued its roll through the Alaska School Activities Association Class 1A state girls tournament by defeating Klawock 46-37 on Monday at the Sullivan Arena in Anchorage.
The win avenges a loss at the hands of the Chieftains in mid-January and eliminates the pre-tournament favorite from title contention.
"We just beat the No. 1 team in state," CIA girls coach Rustin Hitchcock said. "We beat them last year, but they have a 2-to-1 advantage on us since I've been coaching. It's been going back and forth.
By JOEY KLECKA
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If there's anything Cook Inlet Academy girls coach Rustin Hitchcock learned from this year's Super Bowl, it's that momentum can change on a dime.
And, like the big game back in February, which was delayed by a stadium power outage, Saturday night's first-round matchup with Buckland at the Alaska School Activities Association State 1A basketball tournament was delayed for almost an hour due to a hallway sprinkler setting off the West Anchorage High School fire alarm.
One year ago, the Seward girls basketball team made the trip to the state tournament, while the Seward boys did not.
This year, the boys are back in on the action, and the two teams are going together again, like they did two seasons ago in 2011.
The Seward girls played last year to a seventh-place finish in the Alaska School Activities Association Class 3A tournament after two straight days of losses, which left them wanting more. The Seahawks are returning to state for the third straight year.
The Nikolaevsk girls got off to a good start at the Alaska School Activities Association Class 1A tournament with a convincing 47-24 win over the Yakutat Eagles on Saturday at West Anchorage High School in the first round of action.
The Warriors dominated with a strong post presence, as they out-rebounded Yakutat 54-29. Junior Nianiella Dorvall grabbed 18 rebounds and teammate Sophia Kalugin brought down 13. Kalugin also led Nikolaevsk with 15 points on 5-for-5 shooting.
At last year's Alaska School Activities Association Class 2A basketball tournament in Anchorage, the most glaring numbers on the Nikolaevsk girls team roster were the ages. The team had no upperclassmen and six eighth-graders.
The squad surprised some folks by winning its first game at the tournament against Tok before dropping two consecutive games and finishing fifth.
When Kenai River and Wenatchee (Wash.) face each other in the North American Hockey League, it's bound to get wild, and Thursday night was no different as the Brown Bears kicked off a three-game series with the Wild at the Soldotna Sports Center with a 3-0 victory.
Bears goalie Evan McCarthy performed admirably under pressure, stopping all 36 shots sent his way, including a crucial penalty shot Wenatchee was awarded with 11 minutes, 26 seconds, left in the game.
A day after celebrating both teams winning, the Soldotna basketball squads fell to their opponents on Friday at the Northern Lights Conference tournament at Soldotna High School.
The SoHi boys fell short after nearly rallying from a 22-point deficit to lose against the Colony Knights 58-45, while the SoHi girls were dominated by the Wasilla Warriors in a 62-40 contest.
The boys game could have been mistaken for a 3-point contest, as 42 combined shots were taken between the two teams from beyond the arc. SoHi converted on 6-of-25 attempts, while Colony made 7-of-17.
The Colony girls basketball team escaped with a narrow 47-46 win over Soldotna in Saturday's third-place game of the Northern Lights Conference tournament.
The final seconds of the game ended in a furious scramble under Colony's net as the Stars tried to tip in a game winner, but heavy contact that was not called by the officials as the buzzer sounded sent Colony to the locker rooms as the winners.
SoHi guard Kaillee Skjold's 16 points led the Stars, but Colony's Mary Klapperich was able to lead all scorers with 19.
Both Soldotna basketball teams snatched victories on the first day of the 2013 Northern Lights Conference tournament Thursday at Soldotna High School, while both Kenai Central teams saw their chances at a state berth come to an end.
The fourth-seeded Soldotna girls edged the No. 5 Palmer Moose 49-39 in a thrilling final few minutes to advance to Friday's semifinal round against the mighty Wasilla Warriors. Friday's game tips off at 7:45 p.m.
As the 2013 Northern Lights Conference tournament kicks off today at Soldotna, the Stars will take a moment in between Soldotna's two games to recognize a former "Star" player — Molly Tuter — and have her jersey number, 34, retired in a special ceremony that will also commemorate Soldotna's 1993 Class 4A state championship basketball team.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP)—Sergio Kerush—the Preseason Player of the Year in the Sun Belt Conference—scored a game-high 31 points on 11 of 15 shooting to lead Western Kentucky past St. Joseph's 98-70 on Friday night in the season opener for both teams.
Kerush also grabbed nine rebounds and shot 6 of 8 from three-point range.
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ABSTRACT Central pontine myelinolysis is a rare neurologic disorder that is defined by demyelination of longitudinally descending tracts and transversly crossing fibers in the basis pontis. Frequently observed clinical manifestations of this disorder include sudden weakness, dysphagia, loss of consciouness and locked-in syndrome. However, there have been a few studies that reported a benign course of this disease, which include cerebellar signs, such as ataxia, intention tremor, and dysarthria. Here we report on a 53-year-old male with a history of liver cirrhosis who showed the cerebellar type of central pontine myelinolysis. The patient was diagnosed with central pontine myelinolysis based on clinical presentations and magnetic resonance imaging findings after a liver transplantation. Conventional magenetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed the preservation of the corticospinal tract and abnormal pontocerebellar fibers. However, these findings were not sufficient to define the pathophysiology of our patient. Electrophysiologic analysis and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) were performed to investigate cerebellar signs in this case. Delayed central motor conduction time (CMCT) to the tibialis anterior muscle with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was observed, which indicated demyelination of the corticospinal tract. Also, diffusion tensor imaging showed abnormal pontocerebellar fibers, which might have been caused by cerebellar dysfunction in our patient. A combination of TMS and DTI was also used to determine the pathophysiology of this disease.
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I like this place and waved goodbye to it this morning from Sennen Cove before we left Cornwall ~ all the best ~ nick
Thanks for the comments Nick. There is certainly something about the combination of quality of light and the natural ruggedness of Cornwall that makes you want to capture it on camera. Greetings & all the best, Matthew
Lovely! So very British landscape.
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Here are some of the many Botanical Print experiments from the last few weeks. Stay tuned, there are lots more pictures to post, but I will be leaving to spend time with my Mom who will be celebrating her 92nd Birthday, Sunday, August 16. What a joy for our family - she is a treasure!
Added some "bling" to the purple cochineal dyed scarf by hand stitching some purple sequined netting from my stash along the ends.
For the past several weeks, I have been outdoors every day from morning until dinner experimenting with silk and leaves, except taking a break for lunch. The reason? my darling husband, Peter, painted the ugly plywood floor with light grey porch paint so I love working out there; we also got get another table to accommodate longer scarves and it enables me to work right outside under the overhang Now the shed is so much brighter and all of my supplies, i.e., chemicals, plastic, pots, are easily located and easily put away when I'm finished with them and there is plenty of room inside to work as well as running water.
I've been working on combining eco printing with synthetic dyeing - I like to call it botanical printing and I have been doing all kinds of experimenting along those lines and learned a lot at the same time. I have a journal that I began keeping records in because it is so easy to forget the method, even after a couple of days. Rather than write out a long note and attach it to each piece, I identify each by the date and assign a number and write the notes in the journal, e.g., mordant, fabric, plants, method (simmer/steam) and any other pertinent information. I then label each piece using a small sticky label referencing the date and number which makes it easy to find in the journal and enables me to keep much more comprehensive records.


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What I'd like to see is some veteran Trek writers taking advantage of all this hype and putting together a pitch for a new series that stays within the established continuity, maybe even a Captain April series (hey, I'm biased; sue me). After all, there's a five year period that's begging to be told, and if it's still going strong, and Ray Liotta is up for it, sign him up as Pike and keep rolling for a while (I don't know if it'd be workable to do a retelling of "The Cage" or just skip around it, from the fight on Rigel VII to their finally getting to the Vega colony, and maybe just deal with the fallout from Talos and Starfleet's enacting of General Order VII).
That's just not going to happen. It's full speed ahead with this new and signifigantly improved timeline. Seems you're the only one "begging" for that particular story to be told.
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Slideshow: The Best Ramen in Chicago
#1: Slurping Turtle (31/35 points)—Tori Ramen ($13):
Noodles: 9/10 Yaghashi's noodles are custom-made following his own recipe exclusively for his restaurants. It shows. Showing superb texture and resiliency, they also absorb hints of flavor from the broth, making them extra scrumptious.
Broth: 9/10 The balance and depth of flavor of the shio-style (salt) broth was incredibly satisfying, just as a truly excellent bowl of ramen should be. Savory but not overly salty, the chicken flavor is rich, well pronounced, and delicious.
Toppings: 4/5 The standard toppings on the Tori Ramen include slices of white-meat chicken, whole heads of baby bok choy, green onion, snow peas, and a soft-poached egg. All were excellent except the poached egg, which arrived with a slightly overcooked yolk. Instead of oozing yellow goodness when punctured, the egg yielded a seized—but nevertheless delicious—orangey center.
Overall Satisfaction: 9/10 Slurping Turtle is a handsome, modern space with great service and a menu that goes well beyond ramen…not that you have to stray far from the main event to have an epic, rattle-to-you-core meal.
Total: 31/35
Slurping Turtle, 116 West Hubbard Street, Chicago, IL 60654 (map); 312-464-0466; slurpingturtle.com
#2: Santouka at Mitsuwa Marketplace (30/35)—Special Toroniku Shio Ramen (Small, $9.49)
Noodles: 9/10 Showcasing just the right amount of bounce, these bright yellow noodles were able to hold their own against the strongly flavored pork.
Broth: 9/10 Their shio broth is astonishingly complex, with a slightly creamy consistency and seemingly endless depth. Though it is referred to as salt broth on the translated menu, it's only mildly salty. Simply outstanding.
Toppings: 4/5 toppings The regular bowl features pork belly, but an upgrade for toroniku is an absolute must. Featuring supremely tender sliced pork cheek, this is one of the most flavorful toppings encountered during the search. When ordered, the toppings are also served on the side, so you can add in as much or as little as you'd like.
Overall Satisfaction: 8/10 Located inside the very busy Japanese grocery store, Mitsuwa Marketplace, this food court is a total immersion into another culture. While fun, it's also still a food court, and it can be hard to track down a place to sit on a busy Saturday.
Total: 30
Mitsuwa Marketplace, 100 E Algonquin Rd, Arlington Heights, IL 60005 (map); 847-956-6699; mitsuwa.com
#3: Takashi (29/35)—Shoyu Ramen ($13.00)
Noodles: 7/10 Featuring the same specimens as Takashi's Slurping Turtle, these noodles are usually some of the best around. But on this visit, they were slightly overcooked.
Broth: 9/10 This is where Takashi truly shines. The soy sauce broth is clean and complex, with just a few fat bubbles speckled on top to give it some body. It's as refined as anyone could or should want their ramen. Don't be surprised if your done with the broth before anything else.
Toppings: 4/5 Too often the pork sampled on this quest was tender but bland, but not here. The barbecued pork is rich, just slightly sweet, and still toothsome. The egg also had the perfect balance of runny yolk and firm white.
Overall Satisfaction: 9/10 Though it's slightly annoying that the noodles are only available on Sundays, the service is impeccable and the setting is tranquil. There may be no better room in Chicago to slurp ramen in.
Total: 29/35
Takashi, 1952 North Damen Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647 (map); 773-772-6170; takashichicago.com
#5: Roka Akor (28/35 points)—Ramen Noodles in Master Stock with Prawns & Scallops ($15)
Noodles: 9/10 Roka Akor's generous tangle of thin, wavy noodles were shockingly good and easily bore the best "spring" of any we ate—robust, yet not weighty or dense. By virtue of the presentation (high noodle-to-broth ratio), we suspect the chefs realize the strong suit of this dish and have chosen to flaunt it.
Broth: 7/10 Really, the broth is playing a supporting role to the noodles and toppings in this bowl. Tasty, but no fireworks to speak of.
Toppings: 5/5 Kind of an embarrassment-of-riches situation. In the bowl: grilled shrimp and scallop and earthy shitake mushrooms; on a side plate: barbecued pork garnished with thinly sliced jalapeño, and cubed tofu with pickled ginger. The seafood was fresh and well seasoned, the mushrooms were earthy and meaty. The tofu was the only misstep—it was bland and cut too large—but it hardly mattered with everything else to indulge in.
Overall Satisfaction: 7/10 Roka Akor only serves its ramen at lunch when the clientele is sparse and the dining room feels big and empty. But, figuring in the miso soup and nicely dressed salad, this lunch offering is a surprising value at $15.
Total: 28/35
Roka Akor, 456 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60654 (map); 312-477-7652; rokaakor.com
#6: Arami (26/35)—Arami Ramen ($15)
Noodles: 7/10 Featuring a decent amount of spring in each bite, if not nearly as much as others, these were still perfectly solid.
Broth: 8/10 Deep and rich, this was one of the most soul-satisfying broths encountered. Unfortunately, when the runny yolk was mixed in, it became a little too rich.
Toppings: 3/5 This is the only place that used beef instead of pork, and it totally worked. The meat was tender, but not too fatty. Though the egg was perfectly cooked, once the yolk mixed in with everything else, the flavors seemed dulled. Poached eggs are pretty much always delicious, but this is a bowl that didn't need any more richness.
Overall Satisfaction: 8/10 The backroom is charming and comfortable, and the service is responsive.
Total: 26/35
Arami, 1829 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60622 (map); 312-243-1535; aramichicago.com
#7: Union Sushi + Barbeque Bar (27/35 points)—Oxtail Ramen ($13)
Noodles: 5/10 Union opts for a flat, wide noodle for its Oxtail Ramen. They're a little bit heavy, a little bit starchy, and a little bit limp.
Broth: 8/10 From the taste of it, Union's ramen broth has a tomato base, not unlike some traditional Western oxtail soup recipes. It's unexpected, and we happened to like it a lot. Is it really a ramen broth? Well, that's up for debate.
Toppings: 4/5 We have onion, pickle chili, mushrooms, crispy tofu, Napa cabbage, ginger, grilled tomato, and parmesan. Oh, and a sizable amount of slow-cooked, fallen-off-the-bone oxtail meat. A nice melody of diverse textures and big flavors.
Overall Satisfaction: 8/10 We like the dining room at Union. The graffiti-colored walls, the floor-to-ceiling photos of Japan's urban landscape—it puts us in the mood to eat copious amounts of street food. And for the most part, the kitchen doesn't disappoint.
Total: 25/35
Union Sushi + Barbeque Bar, 230 West Erie Street, Chicago, IL 60654 (map); 312-662-4888; eatatunion.com
#9: Wasabi (23/35)—Tonkotsu Ramen ($12)
Noodles: 7/10 Another batch of acceptable, if unexceptional, noodles. The standard here is surprisingly high.
Broth: 7/10 Rather than earth-shattering, this Tonkotsu broth is comforting and a little one dimensional. More complexity would have been appreciated, but it definitely warms you up.
Toppings: 3/5 Though not as mind-blowingly awesome as Santouka's own version, the pork cheek served here is tender and flavorful. We wish the rest of the toppings were given as much care.
Overall Satisfaction: 6/10 Wasabi's menu is all over the place, and the room borders on too dimly lit. Service is good, though.
Total: 23/35
Wasabi, 2539 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647 (map); 773-227-8180; wasabijapanese.net
#10: Ginza Restaurant (20/35 points)—Tonkotsu Ramen ($10.50)
Noodles: 5/10 Simply described as "yellow" on the menu, the noodles in Ginza's Tonkotsu Ramen are, like pretty much everything else making up this bowl, pretty standard issue. Good but not great, in other words. More al dente than firm, they lack any discernible personality.
Broth: 6/10 Tonkotsu is one of a handful of mother ramen broths, typically made from pork bones and fat. Ginza's is a respectable example—if slightly salty—with a thick cloudiness and a strong kick of picked ginger.
Toppings: 2/5 This bowl comes dressed with fishcake (which I could always do without), slices of pork, seaweed, pickled ginger, scallion and sesame seeds. The real loser here is the pork, which lacks any boldness or memorable depth of flavor.
Overall Satisfaction: 7/10 Ginza is old and tired, with algae-fogged fishtanks and vinyl-upholstered chairs straight out of an '80s catering hall. But it's also awesome for all the same reasons. And the staff couldn't be nicer.
Total: 20/35
Ginza Restaurant, 19 East Ohio Street, Chicago, IL 60611 (map); 312-222-0600
#11: Chizakaya (19/35)—House Ramen ($12)
Noodles: 7/10 Like a lot of places on this list, the noodles were surprisingly good, if not transcendent.
Broth: 5/10 Very fatty, and also a touch spicy, the broth was great at first. But it's a little too aggressive, and then becomes totally out of whack when the egg yolk is mixed in.
Toppings: 2/5 Once again, the pork belly was tender but not very exciting. And the aforementioned egg was well cooked, but that yolk kind of messes with the balance of everything else.
Overall Satisfaction: 5/10 Though always lively, this is more of a place to get little fatty things on skewers. The ramen, while very good, isn't as much fun.
Total: 19/35
Chizakaya, 3056 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL 60657 (map); 773-697-4725; chizakaya.com
#13: Cocoro (12/35 points)—Miso Yasai Ramen ($12.75)
Noodles: 2/10 The biggest disappointment of the ramen journey took place at Cocoro, where we've had good ramen in the past. But on a recent visit, we were served a daunting amount of increasingly mushy, overcooked noodles.
Broth: 3/10 A bowl of ramen is a living, changing entity, with noodles continuing to cook in hot broth as the bowl sits composed. In this case, the bland miso broth slowly took on the characteristics of bitter, funky, unappetizing cabbage soup.
Toppings: 2/5 Cocoro is very generous with the toppings in its Miso Yasai (vegetable) Ramen: bean sprouts, julienne carrot, grilled cabbage, onion, and sesame seed. And the sesame add a nice nutty flavor in the mix. But the overall effect of the toppings is to clutter the bowl and turn off the diner.
Overall Satisfaction: 5/10 Like that of any good cozy neighborhood establishment, the service at Cocoro is friendly and attentive. But you get the sense that they're going through the motions.
Total: 12/35
Cocoro, 668 North Wells Street, Chicago, IL 60654 (map) 312-943-2220; http://www.cocorosushi.com/


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