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Corey Drake (left) of the Avalon Division and Chris Ryan of the City Division chase the puck during the 12th annual St. John's Junior Hockey League All-Star Game at the Jack Byrne Arena in Torbay Thursday evening. The City Division was 11-8, taking its fourth straight all-star decision.
The City division may have won its fourth straight Kent St. John's Junior Hockey League all-star game Thursday night, but the Avalon division served notice that any gap between the two four-team pools is quickly narrowing.
After 60-minutes of end-to-end, practically contact-free action, the City team skated off the ice with a 11-8 win at the Jack Byrne Arena in Torbay, this after winning the past two all-star games by six goals or more, including a 12-3 rout in 2010.
"That's an indication of how close the league is getting between the two divisions," said City head coach Brian Cranford, bench boss for the league's second-place Mount Pearl Mark's Work Wearhouse Blades.
Cy city teams might be on top of the standings, but every game we're playing now is tight."
The City squad's captain Thursday, Mask Security Celtics blueliner Dan Cadigan, says there's more parity between the two sections than in his first season of junior.
"This year, you've got to come to the rink ready and if not, you're going to get blown out," said Cadigan.
Asked what it'll take to finally bridge the divide and get the Avalon division back in the win column, coach Eugene Hutchings, who leads the Trinity-Placentia I.J. Smith & Son Flyers in league play, is blunt in his assessment.
"Another Daniel Ryder," Hutchings said of the former OHL sniper from Bonavista who never actually played in the local junior circuit.
That said, early on it looked like Avalon, sponsored by Extreme Pita, might be on its way to the victory after opening up a 4-0 lead in the first five minutes with goals on City starting goalie Nick Rodway from the Blades. However, the City side has clawed back to make it 4-3 by intermission.
Cranford wasn't worried about the early deficit.
"Once they got out and relaxed a little bit, started shooting the puck, they started to go in," he said.
The City side, sponsored by Booster Juice, stormed out in the second with three unanswered goals to take a 6-4 lead and would go on to outscore Avalon 5-2 in the period and lead 8-6 after 40 minutes. They added three more in the third while holding Avalon to just a pair.
Still, Hutchings was pleased with the effort put forth by his team.
"I think our boys from around the bay did very good tonight."
Avalon Roebothan McKay Marshall forward Mike Cole led the City team's attack with three goals and a helper and was named the home team's Jungle Jim's player of the game. St. John's Toyota Plaza Caps forwards Kyle McGuirk and Mike King had two apiece. The Celtics' Chris Ryan, Avalon's Nick Bray and Mount Pearl's Aaron Schwartz had goal and two assists each. Celtics forward Matthew Oates tallied once.
Between the pipes, Rodway stopped three of seven shots, St. John's keeper Scott Bray made 16 saves in the middle frame and three-time all-star netminder Kyle Downer of Avalon turned away 12 of 14 shots against.
For Avalon, Conception Bay Regional Assante Wealth Management Renegades' Dan Roberts counted twice and earned visiting player of the game honours. Single goal scorers for Avalon were the Southern Shore C&W Offshore Breakers tandem of Shane Boland and Andrew Gale, the Trinity-Placentia I.J. Smith & Son Flyers' Liam Myers, the Conception Bay North Slateworks Stars' Jake Galbraith, and Kyle Hutchings and Corey Humby from the Renegades.
In net for Avalon, C.B.N. 'keeper Jason Penney allowed three goals on 15 shots in the first period, the Flyers' Justin Harnum allowed five goals on just 10 shots and Brian Ronayne from the Breakers made 11 stops.
Shots overall were 37-36 in favour of Avalon.


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On May 20-21 at Shippensburg University for the 87th edition of the district's extravaganza, 25 of the best Perry County track and field stars enjoyed stunning success.
Led by West Perry's magnificent senior Morgan Sheaffer, who increased her district-championship haul with three individual AAA golds, and Greenwood senior Emily Griswold, who picked up her first gold medal with a AA pole vault title, county athletes combined for 23 open-event medals and four more in relays.
In addition, Sheaffer and Griswold will be joined by six others at Shippensburg this week for the PIAA championships.
The best place to start the story of districts is at the end; for the running of the 1600 relay, the final event of the meet. Three teams, Greenwood's boys and girls, and West Perry girls treated fans who stuck around for the conclusion of a delightful spring day to spectacular performances.
First to the stage was the Wildcat girls, a young crew that included, in order, sophomore Jen Campbell, junior Rachael Loy, sophomore Erin Zeiders and freshman Hattie Kuhns.
Seeded 12th in a 16-team field, John Magill's squad was forced to work out of the slow heat and find a way to both win its heat and knock out at least one team that would benefit from better competition.
The 'Cats pulled it off.
Campbell's lead leg put her team in contention by running a 62 split. Loy gutted out a 66 quarter that lost a little ground, but maintained connection with the leaders. Zeiders, who has only recently signed on for the relay, popped a 65 that gave the Wildcats a real chance to medal before handing off to Kuhns.
The freshman, who had surprised by surviving two rounds of heats to make the final in the 200, had the added challenge of running on the 400 relay team, the 200 final — she earned a sixth-place medal — and the 4X400 in the span of less than two hours. Kuhns summoned up the strength to distance herself from three of the four other teams still in contention and draw a bead on the only one out in front. By the middle of the backstretch, Kuhns was within five meters of the lead and started a powerful kick. She easily went by, fired through the turn and came out the back end with a sizable lead. The question then became; could she hold on.
She could, finishing off a 62-second leg that gave her team a 4:18.16 — a season-best by eight seconds and a sixth-place medal.
"That was better than I thought they could do. Every one of them ran a PR leg," said Tom Magill. "You've got to hand it to Kuhns, running that kind of leg after what she had already done. That move she made, that was getting it on."
The Mustang girls followed with another wonderful effort. Running in the fast heat, Sam Beckerleg (1:01.6), Annah Aguillar (PR, 1:01.85) and Megan Smith (PR 1:02.26) got the baton to Sheaffer, who was running her third race (a 400 and an 800) in just over two hours, in sixth place. Calculating a fifth-place finish would get the team to states, Sheaffer ran down Central Dauphin's anchor, polishing off a 4:03.99 that broke the county record it set at Stan Morgan, but couldn't quite reel in Central York. The disappointment came later when it was determined that Ephrata, running in the second heat, had gone .11 seconds faster than the Mustangs, taken fifth, and the last bid to the PIAA meet.
"It's bittersweet. The girls ran a great race and broke a record, but miss out on states," said Mustang coach Tom Abeling. "I thought we'd have another week."
The Wildcat boys' 1600 relay squad had high hopes in their bid for a state-meet berth. They had a 3:29.71 on their resume and a third seed to work from. Though just off that mark, the 3:30.5 spun by Scott Kerstetter, Darren Shoemaker, Cody Peterson and Kyle Fronk was only good enough for seventh-place medals and .9 seconds shy of the state-qualifying standard.
Like the 'Cat relay runners, Griswold had reason to be upset. At least until the pole vault.
A fourth-year competitor in both the district long and triple jumps, Griswold had a history of coming up short, despite having high seed numbers. She had medaled all three years in the long jump, but hadn't made states. In the triple, her best finish was ninth — as a freshman. Her senior season was equally frustrating as she finished ninth in the triple on Friday, then was edged for third place in the long jump, by one-half inch. It was Griswold's best long jump medal, but there was no state meet to plan for.
In the pole vault, an event she dabbled in as a freshman, then became competent as a sophomore, Griswold was making her third trip to districts, hoping to improve on the fifth and fourth-place medals she already owned.
As the No. 1 seed with a 10-0 vault that was three inches better than any other competitor, Griswold had to be the prohibitive favorite. There was, however, certain anxiety drawn from several uneven performances earlier in the year.
Instead, Griswold blew away the field, locking up the gold when she was the only entrant to clear 9-9, and succeeding her teammate Stasi Osmolenski as the AA vaulting champ.
"After Stasi won last year, I had it in my mind that's what I wanted," Griswold explained. "I had a good day today. I really felt like I could go higher."
Griswold continued vaulting, clearing 10-0 on her second attempt, 10-3 on her first and 10-6, which tied her personal best, on her first attempt as well, before missing three cracks at 10-9. She does, however, have another week to try again.
"I had two good vaults and the height to (clear 10-9), but I didn't get the (body) turn," Griswold said. "When I get the turn, I know I can go 10-9."
Fronk, a senior, will join Griswold for the return trip to Shippensburg. Though disappointed with a fifth-place medal after running the 110 hurdles in a season-best 15.5, Fronk picked up his third medal of the meet when he placed third in the 300 hurdles with a time of 40.3 that was just a tick off his season-best 40.29.
Seasons ended for six other Wildcat athletes, but not without sparkling performances.
The boys' 4 X 800 relay team spent the year trying to live up to its potential. A late-season surge started to deliver on the promise. They took it to another level at the district meet.
Seeded eighth, Sal Buonocore, Garrett Byers, Patrick Horting and Darren Shoemaker shaved five seconds off their season-best time and moved up two slots to finish sixth.
For Shoemaker the highlight of the meet was his dazzling run in the open 800. The junior, seeded 10th with a PR of 2:03.19, passed two runners in the final 200 meters to clock a 2:01.87 that broke Ben Shea's school record and got him an eighth-place medal.
"I like it when I have (to chase leaders). That gives me something to go after," Shoemaker said. "I knew where I was at when I started my move. I was trying to keep on going. I knew I could get something close to my PR."
Senior hurdler Cheyenne Fetterhoff was the biggest surprise of the meet. Entering the competition as the No. 11 seed with a PR of 17.44, Fetterhoff advanced to the semis with a 17.18, then the finals after running a 17.27 that was third in her heat and the fifth-best time. She then placed sixth in the final to collect her first district medal.
Jared Myers improved on his PR by nearly a foot and placed fifth in the triple jump. He also tied for seventh in the high jump for his second medal.

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For years--make that decades--leather-clad cyclists from around
Michigan, most on Harley-Davidsons, have converged on the Capitol at the
start of the summer riding season to protest the 1970 requirement that
they wear helmets.
It used to get pretty rowdy back in the day when chopper-straddling
motorcyclists would roar into downtown Lansing spoiling for a
legislative fight. One year, they burned plastic helmets on the Capitol
Wednesday brought the 2008 rally and bikers were armed not with lighter
fluid, but more than $16,000 in recorded campaign contributions, a
public relations campaign centered on the slogan "adult choice" and a
real lobbying strategy. A few of them still gunned their cycles on the
streets that ring the Capitol, but overall their numbers were smaller
and older.
If the prostate-shrinking drug Flomax ever did an ad featuring
motorcyclists, these guys could be in it.
However it has evolved, the annual exercise likely remains the most
sustained unsuccessful special interest effort in the annals of Michigan
legislative lobbying.
Past repeal efforts would stall in committee or pass one chamber, but
not the other. Two years ago, helmet foes finally got a repeal bill
through both the House and Senate that was promptly vetoed by Gov.
Jennifer Granholm.
Despite Granholm's promise of another veto, this session's proposed
repeal was approved by its largest margin yet, 70-38 in the House on
Wednesday as Michigan members of American Bikers Aimed Toward Education
looked on from the gallery.
You have to admire ABATE's tenacity, it's core libertarian argument and
a novel new legislative approach that exceeds anything the lobbying pros
have come up with. Most special interests buttress their arguments with
thousands in PAC checks. Bikers are putting millions for the state
treasury on the table.
Greasing legislative passage of House Bill 4749 was a provision allowing
cyclists 21 or older with two years of riding experience or special
training to ride without a helmet--if they paid a new $100 annual fee to
the state, $200 for a three-year sticker.
There are approximately 200,000 motorcycle registrants in Michigan and
nearly a half million who hold a license endorsement to operate a bike.
So even if a fraction of riders paid the fee, the helmet repeal bill
would generate millions for various Michigan law enforcement funds.
Particularly unique is that the money, $20 million according to the
higher estimates, wouldn't buy any additional governmental service
related to motorcycle riding. Unlike, say, a fishing license that funds
trout stocking. That makes it a tax and the offer to pay it drew outside
support form various police unions including the Michigan State Police
Troopers Association.
ABATE figured a tax on helmetless riding in these tight budget times
would help their cause. But Granholm's not buying it and the bikers know
During Wednesday's rally at the steps of the Capitol, ABATE member Brian
Yinger of Milford departed from the group's stated lobbying policy to be
polite when he suggested that Granholm be sent packing "back to Canada."
ABATE argues that in a free society, adults are more than capable of
making the correct decision for themselves as to whether to wear a
helmet and that the health costs associated with repeal are overstated.
Repeal the helmet law and Michigan's scenic roadways become a
significant tourist draw for motorcyclists in other Great Lakes states
that have no helmet law and who refuse to vacation here. Bar owners
agree on that point.
Lining up to preserve the 38-year-old helmet requirement are the
insurance companies and health care groups that warn that higher health
costs associated with repeal are indeed real. They say Michigan
motorcycle crashes already account for a disproportionate share of
catastrophic injury medical care.
But if repeal opponents believe that a cyclist who's been riding for
decades should have to wear a helmet, they should at least be consistent
because Michigan law says moped riders 19 or older don't have to.
Visit any university in Michigan and you'll see kids protected only by
ball caps darting through campus on scooters, sharing congested roadways
with other kids driving cars while making evening plans on their cell
Is that safer than riding a Harley up north on I-75? Hardly.
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Downtown landlords need to adjust rents | Letters | March 27
Yesterday I spoke with yet another Winslow business owner who will be forced to close her store at the end of the month, due to the miserable economy and a landlord who is unwilling to accept anything less than her current rent.
And another store goes vacant.
I'm reminded of the Bruce Springsteen lyrics: "Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores/Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more."
Can't landlords "work with" their commercial tenants, some of them longstanding, to weather this economic storm? Isn't it better to get half of something than all of nothing?
It's not like the old days when people were standing in line to pay ridiculous rents to start a retail store or restaurant. The greed years are over, and the landlords should get out of denial.
Shoppers can help, too, by supporting their favorite stores and restaurants now. If not, they won't be here anymore when the good times return.
Rob Clark
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For months it has been the sand states getting all the merger attention. But last week's consolidation move by the $2.6 billion Visions FCU, Endicott, N.Y., to take over the long-ailing $330 million Paragon FCU in New Jersey shifted the merger focus to the Mid-Atlantic.
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Set to debut at tomorrow's Nokia World, Nokia's first pair of Windows Phones, the Lumia 710 and Lumia 800, have been leaked more than most devices pre-launch — but to Espoo's credit, that probably speaks to a relatively high amount of anticipation surrounding the handsets codenamed SeaRay and Sabre.
While neither device is likely to be extremely high-end (sub-four-inch screens, single-core processors, WVGA resolutions), what they lack on the spec sheet they certainly make up for in aesthetics; the N9-doppelganger 800, especially, is a real triumph of consumer electronic design.
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Mangini announced the hiring of his three coordinators Wednesday, all of whom shared his Super Bowl connection with the Patriots.
He named former Raiders defensive coordinator Rob Ryan to run the defense, former Jets quarterbacks coach Brian Daboll as his offensive coordinator and former Patriots special teams coach Brad Seely as his assistant head coach/special teams coordinator.
All three were with Mangini on Bill Belichick's Super Bowl staffs in New England, and their careers overlapped from 2000 to 2003.
"I'm extremely pleased to bring three quality people in Brian, Rob and Brad to our coaching staff and to the Browns," Mangini said in a Browns release. "I know firsthand that all three are very experienced, talented and dedicated coaches who share the same team-first vision and are passionate towards our goal of bringing an NFL championship to Cleveland."
During their four years in New England, Mangini coached defensive backs, Ryan coached linebackers, Daboll was a defensive assistant and then receivers coach, and Seely coached special teams. All but Ryan won three Super Bowl rings -- in 2001, 2003 and 2004. Ryan won two before taking over as Raiders coordinator in 2004.
Ryan is also extremely close to Raiders linebackers coach Don Martindale and might try to bring him here.
"It's great to be part of the Browns organization and to be reunited with Eric Mangini," said Ryan in the release. "Brian, Brad and myself have accomplished a lot of good things with Eric in the past and I look forward to continuing that in Cleveland."
Ryan, the son of legendary coach Buddy Ryan and twin brother of Ravens defensive coordinator Rex Ryan, has 11 years' NFL experience. In 2003, he helped the Patriots finish first in points allowed (238). Last season, his defense ranked 10th with 16 interceptions and 13th with 32 sacks.
Daboll, a native of Welland, Ontario, brings 11 years coaching experience, including nine in the NFL. He was a defensive assistant with the Patriots in 2000-01 and receivers coach from 2002-06. He spent the past two seasons as Jets quarterbacks coach, working first with Chad Pennington and then Brett Favre.
"I couldn't be more excited," said Daboll in the release. "Growing up a short drive away, I know how devoted and dedicated Browns fans are. I plan to use the experience I have garnered in my coaching career, on both offense and defense, to craft a tough, smart, hardworking unit."
Mangini pried Seely away from the Patriots after 10 years and gave him the added title of assistant head coach.
"Eric and I have forged a relationship over the last ten years and I look forward to continuing that with the Browns," said Seely.
Outgoing offensive coordinator Rob Chudzinski interviewed in San Francisco and could end up there. If so, quarterbacks coach Rip Scherer, who interviewed with the 49ers on Tuesday, could go with him.


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The presentation, "Beyond Bars: Envisioning the Prison System," is set for 6:30 p.m. at 8200 S.W. Wilsonville Road.
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Participants will begin by exploring what they know about prisons. After a brief multimedia history of prisons and alternative justice systems, Imarisha will lead a conversation about alternatives to incarceration.
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Diablo updated tune file?
I've been trying to get an answer on this but which is the correct up to date Diablo tune file name? I was told the one I have is the latest labeled as 1t09ea but if you go to the Diablo site their updated file on 12/6 has it labeled as 1r09e.
I believe on the diablo forum page on their website they answered this question. Just go there and you should find it fairly easily.
However I believe I read that the ea version was a beta version of the e file. So as I understand it as of now is that the e file is the most up to date.
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Congress could solve immigration problem alone
The Ku Klux Klan is demonstrating at the wrong places!
If no one would hire the immigrants, there would be no problems at the Texas border.
The entire U.S. population knows we don't need a fence or laws against immigrants. What we need and will never get is for the politicians in power - regardless of party affiliation - to arrest and put in jail all employers who hire the illegal immigrants. This would solve the problem.
Most House members and senators are afraid to offend the big companies that get richer at the expense of illegal immigrants. Their campaign funds just might dry up.
What a pity.
Mary Jean Corbet
Mayor McCartt, Amarillo residents all in same boat
This letter is in response to Mayor Debra McCartt's proposed voluntary water conservation initiative.
I agree with her 100 percent on this issue, because I see many people in my neighborhood watering their yards in the middle of the afternoon. I don't think they realize they are defeating the purpose, and I think properly educating people on the issue of water conservation may help with the vast amount our city consumes.
However, I think steps need to be taken by the city to abide by these same voluntary guidelines the mayor has set. I see many city and school parks with sprinklers running in the late morning/early afternoon, which obviously is not between the 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. recomendations. These sprinklers are also on more than twice a week.
I think the first step the city should take is to set a better example and follow the same rules they expect us citizens to follow.
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The real problem with dogs at Lake Greenbelt
I am writing in reference to the two letters against the ban on dogs at Greenbelt Lake.
First, I have to agree with Mark Self about the dogs belonging to residents around the lake. They should be fenced in or chained up. However, his reaction to the ban was pretty much "knee-jerk" and "small-minded," too. There have been some "incidents" with dogs other than the fighting, which was probably the final straw.
When I take my family to the lake, I don't want to have to watch where I step or listen to someone's barking dogs. That I can get in town. I don't want my grand kids to be bitten. I doubt that anyone at the lake scoops up after his dog. Dogs relieve themselves whenever and wherever they want, which causes odor and attracts flies.
Those of us who live in Clarendon would like a quiet, peaceful, clean place to go. Plus, the people in several nearby counties have to drink that water.
As for boycotting Clarendon stores, the people in town don't make the lake rules.
Some people in town don't like the rules either.
Why not go to Lake Meredith?
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Yes, I have noticed this. I've got an iPhone 5. And I've installed the Swype keyboard, which is pretty fantastic, but yep, it does feel a bit clunky. It takes a noticable amount of time for the keyboard to display on screen, and the visuals as display elements move around and adjust is definately a weird thing to see on iOS. I've noticed, for example, when turning the phone sideways, weird stretched graphics for a fraction of a second. And in other apps I've noticed some curious typographical anomalies - fonts in the app sitting just a little too close to the fonts in the status bar.
However, the extra features in iOS 8 do make up for this weirdness. It's stil usable, it just seems *slightly* imperfect, but I think that's to be expected for such a major change in the OS, particularly when it comes to the keyboard feature. I'm just going to have to assume that iOS 8.1 will iron out some of these kinks.


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Or..the price could do slow daily gains into earnings. About time for a Goldman upgrade and a pipeline deal announcement too.
Yeah, that could happen too. If so, I re-load at a higher price.One thing I have learned in over 30 years of investing, you NEVER lose if you take profits. Sure you may not MAXIMISE your gain, but a 50% run is good enough for me.Remember, both shorts and longs make money, pigs get slaughtered...GLTA


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Occasionally I reread a 1968 Sports Illustrated series that brutally and poignantly examines the complicated and evolving role of black athletes in America. It never fails to inform and remind.
Here's a small portion of it:
"Elvin Hayes, as they like say down in Houston, is something else.
"One night when the University of Houston basketball team was flying home from another successful appearance on the road, a newspaperman tried to get Hayes's attention. 'Hey, boy!' the reporter called.
"A silence came over the cabin of the plane. Players stopped what they were doing. Refreshments were poised in midair and conversations ceased. Elvin Hayes, the team's big wheelhorse, turned to the reporter and said softly:
"'Boy's on Tarzan, boy plays on Tarzan. I'm no boy. I'm 22 year old. I worked hard to become a man. I don't call you a boy.'
"'I'm sorry,' the newspaperman said. 'I didn't mean anything by it.'
"'I hope not,' Hayes said softly, and returned to his conversation."
Much has changed about America since the strange year of 1968, the year that Elvin Hayes, a future inductee into the NBA hall of fame, was a senior and the second black ever to play for the University of Houston.
That year, assassins' bullets took out Martin Luther King Jr. in April and Robert F. Kennedy in June. Cities, including Cleveland, exploded in race riots from coast to coast. America grew increasingly weary with the Vietnam War.
It was also a year that some black athletes, led by the likes of Bill Russell, Muhammad Ali and Jim Brown, donned the mantle of civil rights (race) leaders, at a time when the majority of Americas still preferred the black athlete to be seen and not heard.
When Olympic athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised black-gloved fists during the national anthem as a protest to racial inequality at the '68 Mexico Olympics, the reaction from powerful places was swift and punishing.
The Associated Press likened the protest to a "Nazi-like salute." Time Magazine called it a "public display of petulance." And the international Olympic Committee condemned the political statement and demanded that the pair be expelled from the Olympics.
Death threats followed.
That was the tumultuous climate that Sports Illustrated waded into with its highly acclaimed five-part series, "The Black Athlete – A Shameful Story."
Now fast forward 45 amazing years.
This week's Sports Illustrated cover story is about Jason Collins, a player in the National Basketball Association for the past 12 years. He's decided to stop living a lie.
He's gay.
He no longer wants to hide it – from his family, from his teammates, from his former long-term fiancee, who said she found out about his orientation two days before the rest of the world.
"I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport," Collins told the magazine. "But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation.
"Imagine you're in the oven, baking. Some of us know and accept our sexuality right away and some need more time to cook. I should know – I baked for 33 years."
It doesn't matter whether one views Collins revelation as a confession or a principled stand on identity politics; the nearly universal reaction is what's most important here. That reaction is far more telling than the story of a fairly well known athlete outing himself.
President Obama called Collins and praised him for his courage. He offered his support. So did former President Bill Clinton.
First lady Michelle Obama indicated her support with a gushing Tweet that read as follows:
"So proud of you, Jason Collins! This is a huge step forward for our country. We've got your back."
Some of the best known current and former stars of the NBA publicly declared their support for his decision.
He's now being likened to Jackie Robinson, the courageous man who in 1947 broke baseball's color barrier.
President Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the military in 1948, the year after Robinson made the United States of America a better country.
But, according to an archivist at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum, there was no immediately available record that the president reached out to Robinson to celebrate and praise his courage on April 15, 1947.
So this is where the nation stands:
A gay, journeyman basketball player, who will not be remembered a decade from now, was heartily saluted last week by the president as a civil rights pioneer.
A sports and cultural icon who will live in our collective memory as long as we are a nation was ignored by the then commander-in-chief.
That is just one glimpse of how much America has changed.
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A 61-year-old with dementia refused to eat and was prone to episodes of crying for months after a nursing home aide found her lying in bed, naked from the waist down, while another resident sexually abused her, according to a lawsuit.
Five days earlier, the director of nursing and an employee at Healthcare at Foster Creek had spotted the woman standing in a room half-naked with the same male resident next to her but not touching her, the woman's attorneys say.
Staff separated the two but didn't call police or the woman's family, even though they knew the woman's dementia was so advanced she wasn't able to consent to such adult activities, her attorneys say.
"All they did was put her pants back on," said attorney Erin Olson, who is representing the woman's interests along with attorney Jane Paulson.
• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services compiles information about the performance of nursing homes on its Web site www.medicare.gov.
Visitors can learn about staffing levels or how many stars a home earned in the department's five-star rating system. Twenty in Oregon and 32 in Washington garnered that top rating. General information is also available about staffing levels and the types of violations received.
A $2 million lawsuit filed Monday against the Southeast Portland nursing home alleges that Healthcare at Foster Creek failed to protect one of its most vulnerable residents from 68-year-old Marko Chandler, who was suffering from a lesser degree of dementia and had a decades-old criminal history that includes robbery. As recently as 2004, he was convicted of brandishing a gun at a man he argued with over a tangled fishing line.
The administrator of the nursing home said he had not seen the lawsuit and could not comment directly about it.
Chandler was charged with first-degree sexual abuse and unlawful sexual penetration for allegedly molesting the woman, but he was not convicted. A judge committed him to a mental health unit at a local hospital after finding him unfit for trial.
The lawsuit also claims that the home was the subject of 38 substantiated complaints of abuse or neglect in four years -- from the time the woman moved in in 2004 to April 2008, when a worker reported catching Chandler in the act.
The suit is one of a small but recent number of suits in Oregon that make disturbing claims against facilities that care for disabled or elderly adults. Among them, a September suit claiming that Salem nursing home staff failed to call ambulances for hours -- in one case, allegedly causing a woman who fell and gashed her head to slip into a two-year comatose state.
Another alleges that a Burns assisted living facility so infrequently changed a resident's diaper that he developed an ulcer so caked in stool that he died from it.
The litigation comes as baby boomers are increasingly concerned about the care their graying parents get and that they, too, may one day receive.
Healthcare at Foster Creek is one of 51 nursing homes -- or 37 percent -- in Oregon that the federal government rated "below average" or "much below average" in its annual performance reviews. In Washington, 101 nursing homes -- or about 42 percent -- received subpar grades.
Government authorities inspect nursing homes once a year and regularly inspect other types of adult facilities, including assisted living, residential care and adult care homes. Local authorities also investigate complaints.
In the case of Healthcare at Foster Creek, investigators this year have notified the home's California owners at least four times of pending fines, ranging from $300 to $975.
Among recent violations: failing to stop one resident from hitting other residents; failing to prevent a resident from wandering into other residents' rooms and striking residents or urinating in another's bed; and failing to closely watch a resident struggling with kidney disease who lost 30 pounds in 40 days after staff apparently didn't ask him what kinds of foods he liked.
Nursing home administrator Bill Swanson acknowledged that the nursing home has been "very troubled" for years but is actively working to change that.
"There's a history here, there's no doubt about that," said Swanson, who started his position three months before the 61-year-old woman's alleged assault. A new management company took over about the same time he did, he said.
"We've been working to try to improve the care that is provided here, and I think we've done that."
Government inspectors have recently finished their most recent annual review of the home, but the results aren't available yet.
The Oregonian is not naming the 61-year-old woman because she is an alleged victim of sexual assault. She is a married mother of four who may have suffered early onset of dementia in her 50s because of a car accident.
Chandler also may have been suffering from some dementia after a June 2005 car crash, the woman's attorneys say. But they contend that the 6-foot, 225-pound Chandler was functioning at a much higher level than their client, who was frail and weighed less than 100 pounds. Allowing the two types of residents in the same home can be dangerous, Paulson said.
"That's my concern -- she is totally vulnerable, and he is able to get around to rooms and this and that," Paulson said.
According to an investigator's report into the incident at Healthcare at Foster Creek, the aide who reported that Chandler was molesting the woman in her bed said Chandler looked up when the aide asked, "What the hell are you doing?" He put his finger to his lips and said, "Sh, I know, I know," and asked the aide not to tell anyone, according to the report. The woman was crying hysterically.
"Despite her level of dementia, she was very, very distraught," Olson said.
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Belgium = Boring, or so everyone said. We've were here a couple of days and wouldn't exactly say it's boring, but its not like we've had loads of things to do either. We are very pleased to get some warm weather - the last few days in Scotland were disgusting.
Yesterday we were in Brussels, where to only thing worth seeing was the Grand Place. We found it last night, entirely by accident, after going for an evening stroll through the gay men's caf� area (oops)
You'd think we would be having problems, what with being in a bilingual country (French and Flemish) with nothing in English. So far we've muddled along, when things are written down, especially in French, the words look similar enough to English we can usually figure it out. Jonny's really getting into it, saying bonjour to everyone!
Today we came to Bruges on the train. It's an old looking town, cobbled streets, canals, beautiful buildings and yet more people eating outside. Pretty much what you would picture Europe to be like. We didn't have anything particular to do here, but we satisfied our tourist urges by walking around all day, Liz dragged Jonny into every chocolate shop we come to and gazing wistfully at the yummy smelling cheese. We got a box of chocolates, they weren't badly priced and they were soooo yummy! We tried to make them last but ended up gobbling them down. In Bruges there is a cathedral that plays a different classical tune every half hour. The first one we heard was Ode to Joy, a bit hard to make out when you're close to it, but unmistakable (and damn hard to get out of your head afterwards!). We heard a couple of other tunes we recognised but our musical backgrounds aren't the best so we can't tell you what they were.
Belgium was an ok place to visit for a couple of days, but you probably wouldn't need much longer. We were glad we did it and look forward to our next stop.


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We're live at the Philadelphia National Guard Armory for Ring of Honor's first ever Honorcon convention!
after a half hour or so for fans to get autographs & pictures, we turn our attention to the ring for the arm wrestling tournament. Our first contest is Michael Elgin taking on "The Romantic Touch", a thin but ripped wrestler under a mask. The Touch kisses Elgin's hand before they start, & Elgin shakes his head and immediately slams the guy's hand down as soon as the contest starts.
Next up is Bobby Fish against Cheeseburger, who has Brutal Bob Evans by his side. Kyle O'Reilly helps Fish get ready, taping his hand up as Cheeseburger pumps some iron with a dumbbell. Fish is wearing his title belt as he sits down, but releases before they start because he didn't think it feels right. He turns his baseball cap around backwards, yells at the fans to shut up, and locks hands with Cheeseburger. The fans start stomping and pounding on the guardrail as the two gladiators engage in their test of strength. Fish begins to power Cheeseburger down, but Cheeseburger valiantly battles back. He nearly has Fish's hand down when O'Reilly spews a mouthful of water in Cheeseburger's face & allows Fish to put him down. Fish kicks Cheeseburger out to the floor because this is his ring and his table, then warns everyone that they're on notice.
Roderick Strong & Mark Briscoe are up next, and there are no shenanigans here as Strong handily defeats Mark Briscoe in mere seconds. A distraught Mark kicks the guardrail on his way out to vent his frustration over this bitter defeat.
The final first round contest is between Tommaso Ciampa and Michael Bennett, who is joined by the lovely and vivacious Maria Kanellis. Bennett takes his shirt off to try and intimidate Ciampa with his fearsome physique, but Ciampa is undaunted as Bennett sits down and exchanges in verbal outbursts. They finally set and lock hands, and the contest begins. Ciampa begins to gain the advantage, so Maria decides to try and run distraction by stroking Ciampa and ass dancing in front of him. Ciampa is still undaunted as he hammers Bennett's hand to the table and advances to the second round of the tournament.
We're now into the semifinals as Bobby Fish faces Michael Elgin, who matches Fish's unnatural superpowers by turning his baseball cap around as well. They struggle mightily, but Fish pulls away right before Elgin puts him down & claims an arm injury. Being that his right arm is apparently no longer up to the rigors of such a competition, he switches up & goes left to avoid disappointing the fans. Fish slowly closes his fingers on Elgin's hand & the competition restarts. Elgin doesn't appear the slightest bit taxed as Fish struggles & struggles to overpower his mighty foe, & O'Reilly tries the same water trick that got Fish past the first round, but that only makes Elgin mad as he continues to hold strong against Fish's onslaught. O'Reilly throws the rulebook out the window entirely and puts his hand over Fish's for a sinister double team, but Elgin easily puts them both down to make a very dominant entry into the finals.
Elgin's opponent will be determined by our next battle between Tommaso Ciampa & Roderick Strong, & both their faces actually turn bright red with the strain. Jimmy Jacobs tries dancing for Ciampa like Maria did, but the result is the same as Ciampa will not be stopped & puts Strong down to advance to the finals.
Cary Silkin gets into the ring & shows off the $2,500 check and fancy golden trophy to be awarded to the winner of the tournament final between Tommaso Ciampa & Michael Elgin. Ciampa, takes a moment to rest and stretch his arm before locking up with Elgin for the battle of the Irresistible Force and the Immovable Object. Elgin starts to gain an advantage, but Ciampa battles back to the neutral position and holds fast. Ciampa begins to move Elgin back, but Elgin recovers & pushes Ciampa's arm to near defeat. Ciampa fights valiantly as he struggles to stay alive, but Elgin finally slams the arm down & claims victory as the ROH Arm Wrestling Champion for 2014.
That was a very impressive win, though Ciampa was already weakened since he had just come off a tough semifinal win over Strong. Hopefully this will build to a rematch at Final Battle, because this had Arm Wrestling Match Of The Year written all over it. With this win, Elgin now qualifies for a berth in this year's Jesse "The Body" Ventura Strongest Arm Competition, joining previous champions Van Hammer (1992) & Big Van Vader (1993). Other participants will be announced in the weeks to come.
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(from "Un Chien Andalou")
To students of cinema, Salvador Dali is best known for co-directing "Un Chien Andalou," the short surrealist masterpiece of 1929 most famous for the image of a straight razor being drawn across a woman's eye, and for its follow-up, the dreamlike feature "L'Age d'Or," both made with Luis Bunuel. (Watch "Un Chien Andalou" here.)
But Dali had a complex history with film. He worked with Walt Disney on an unfinished animated movie and with Alfred Hitchcock on dream sequences for "Spellbound." And he had a long friendship with -- are you sitting down? -- Harpo Marx.
Anyway, I mention this because a major retrospective of Dali's film work is set to open on Friday at the Tate Modern in London and it has engendered a lot of interesting internet traffic. There's this article about Dali and Harpo. And there are these clips, which first came to my attention via Boing-Boing: Dali on "What's My Line?", circa 1957, and Dali appearing in a variety of TV commercials, including one for Alka-Seltzer.
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Teaching May Swenson
The mentor/mentee relationship between Elizabeth Bishop and May Swenson as demonstrated by the May Swenson Papers allows an instructor to demonstrate not only women writing over time, but also how women interact in a community. Moreover, these materials situate May Swenson in her cultural and historical contexts, as well as introduce students to how Swenson and Bishop are received by scholars.
The digitized materials on this site provide instructors in either Women's Studies or Literature with a prepared teaching block that gives students not only a sense of who May Swenson was as a poet, but also who she was as a person. The selected materials enable students to follow the creative process from beginning to end and to see what comprises an archive: multiple drafts of original creative work; personal scholarly responses from friends like Elizabeth Bishop; as well as, published criticism from scholarly and/or academic books and journals. From this, students will understand what one can do with these irreplaceable materials and how these objects are the source for an abundance of scholarship, both good and bad. While using digitized materials is not a substitute for handling the originals, by making these documents available in electronic form, these digitized materials are available to all students at any time.
In addition to a sample syllabus, there are also other shorter suggested exercises that could be used in the classroom for one class period or over the course of two or three.
Sample Syllabus
One of the first challenges of teaching with archives is selecting a manageable and coherent set of materials. The following is a sample syllabus that covers about three weeks of classes and is appropriate for either a course in literature or Women and Gender Studies.
Materials to be Used
- May Swenson, The Complete Love Poems, pp. ix, 10, 14, 21, 26, 76, 105, 127
- May Swenson, The Complete Love Poems, pp. 18, 41, 50, 109, 133; "Dear Elizabeth," "Women"
- Elizabeth Bishop, "Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore," "The Shampoo," "One Art," "Roosters;" May Swenson, "In the Bodies of Words"
- Finding aids for May Swenson Papers
- "I'll be your Mirror, Reflect What you Are" by Marvin Taylor
- "'In the Bodies of Words': The Swenson-Bishop Conversation" Parnassus 2002, Neil Arditi
- Bishop-Swenson Letters in Special Collections Dated:
- June 4, 1958
- November 11, 1971
- October 21, 1971
- October 16, 1971
- October 27, 1969
- April 12, 1979
- December 2, 1978
- November 8, 1979 plus enclosed poem
- "Bleeding," mss. (Series II.3.a. Box 43 Folder 306a Iconographs Drafts with titles beginning B to O (first folder) ca. 215 pp)
- "Women," mss. (Series II.3.a. Box 44 Folder 307b Iconographs Drafts P to Z (second folder) ca. 200 pp) (See images below)
- "Elizabeth Bishop-May Swenson Correspondence" Paris Review Summer 1994, Richard Howard
- Bishop-Swenson letters in Special Collections dated
- August 27, 1963
- September 25-26, 1963
- October 3, 1963
- October 12, 1963
- October 31, 1963
- November 11, 1963
- March 9, 1964
- March 11, 1964
- June 30, 1965
- July 5, 1965
- November 6, 1965
- November 10, 1965
- Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore, particularly as demonstrated by "An Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore" by Bishop.
- Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill, particularly three published poems "The Victor Dog," "Her Craft," and "Overdue Pilgrimage to Nova Scotia" and
"Three Dreams about Elizabeth Bishop,"
an unpublished poem found within the
James Merrill Papers.
For further information on James Merrill consult the Merrill site found within the
FinalVersions main site.
- Emily Dickinson and Adrienne Rich as shown in Rich's "I Am in Danger--Sir--" available in the Norton Anthology of Women's Literature
Dear Elizabeth [poem]. 1963:Sept 17-1965:June 9. Ts. 22 drafts, 22p.
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Short Exercises
Study the drafts of "Women"
"Women," one of May Swenson's "shape poems" appeared in Iconographs in 1970. There are six versions of "Women" in the May Swenson Papers housed by Washington University in St. Louis. Study these images and analyze Swenson's revising process. How is the final "shaped" version of "Women" different from the earlier regular forms? Does it alter the reading and interpretations of the poem? How?
Original versus Published, Edited Materials
Compare and contrast the transcriptions and/or images of the letters related to the composition of "Dear Elizabeth" with the edited published version found in "Elizabeth Bishop--May Swenson correspondence" by Richard Howard in the Summer 1994 issue of the Paris Review beginning on page 171 (both the print and electronic full-text version should be used). Does Howard's editing influence your impression of the relationship between Swenson and Bishop? How so? Is it different from that gained by reading the full original letters? How so? Finally, did you notice any errors in the published text when you checked it against the original? Was it in the print version, the electronic text, or both? If you found errors, are they significant? Why or why not?
Mentorship and Friendship between Poets
Swenson and Bishop are just one example of poets collaborating in the creative process. Analyze other mentor/mentee relationships between poets and how they are represented in an author's poetry. Consider one of the following pairings or others that you discover.
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Did you know today is International Women's Day?
According to the International Women's Day website: "It's a day to celebrate the economic, political, and social achievements of women from the past, present, and future." This event is celebrated globally with many activities in major cities across the world. I wasn't even aware that it's considered a national holiday in other countries like China, Russia and Bulgaria.
Although there is no one theme under which everyone celebrates International Women's Day, the United Nations has chosen the following:
Equal Access To Education, Training, Science, and Technology:
Pathway To Decent Work For Women
As I reflect on this theme, I can't help but apply it to the work of many inspiring nurses who surround me each day. We, as nurses, utilize all of these concepts in our daily work. We use our foundation of nursing science to provide the best possible care. We use our knowledge to orient each other to the numerous specialties in our nursing discipline. We also train patients or caregivers how to feel comfortable changing a colostomy bag or administering medications via a feeding tube. We strive to continue our education so that we can support evidence-based practices and enhance our therapeutic communication with patients and their caregivers. And we use technology every day in the form of machines for intravenous fluids or wound vac devices as well as our tablets or computers for documentation into electronic health records. Nurses are a very innovative group of individuals that I'm inspired to work with and have been grateful to learn from throughout my career. All of this wouldn't have been possible without the hard work of nurses past.
Lillian Wald, a graduate nurse in the late 19th century, made one of the first VNSNY home care visits. She may not have had the technology that we have today, but she utilized her educational observations about health and hygiene to care for women, children and immigrants to our country. She established a norm in the community that compassionate care for individuals was necessary for the betterment of the future. She even advocated for children with physical and learning disabilities so they could obtain an education. Her work made ripple effects throughout the community. It allowed future nurses to gain momentum to improve health care conditions. We still feel those ripple effects today as they are the momentum that continues to carry home care forward. (Source: http://www.vnsny.org/community/our-history/lillian-wald/)
Is there a historical woman in your past who has made it possible for you to do the work you are doing today?
What can you do in your own life to make a positive ripple effect in your family or community?
Wishing all women a Happy International Women's Day!
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I am a type 2 diabetic insulin dependent; I have had two heart attacks and currently have two stints in place, I also have HBP; sarcoidosis, migraine headaches, neuropathy of the stomach and legs, my question is I am tired of being sick and I need some help I am obese and I need to lose some weight and exercise, but I need some help, and I don't have a lot of money to pore into these diet programs I need the kind of help that I can do and live with on a daily basis based on my income I am on disability so my funds are very limited.— Cherron Roach / March 12th, 2011 at 11:38 pm
I would like to hear back from you regarding my first comment and thank you for any help you could give me regarding the matter.— Cherron Roach / March 12th, 2011 at 11:40 pm
I'm so glad you commented. I hope the following information is useful to you.
First, share your goal for weight loss and exercise with each of your physicians. Ask them of your limitations given your medical history. It's important to consult with a doctor before starting any nutrition or exercise program. I recommend mentioning your goal at the beginning of your doctor's appointment so you will have time to discuss it.
Next, ask your physician(s) if he or she is aware of any nutritional or exercise program that you can be referred to. If your doctor is not aware, ask if it's possible to be referred to a dietician. Your insurance will also dictate if you qualify for these programs.
You can also seek out programs at your local community centers or YMCA. Read information from the The American Heart Association which may offer some suggestions. (Click here: http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/GettingHealthy/GettingHealthy_UCM_001078_SubHomePage.jsp) or The American Diabetes Association. Again, inform your physician prior to starting any diet/exercise program to make sure it's safe for you.
Begin reading books about nutrition such as "Food Matters" or ask a librarian at your local library about books on nutrition. A better understanding of nutrition will help you make appropriate, healthy food choices.
Last, consider relaxation techniques to alleviate stress. Just four slow deep breaths when you're feeling overwhelmed can elicit a relaxation response in your body. Write an affirmation (a positive statement eg. I enjoy being healthy. I'm on the road to fitness. I choose to eat healthy foods.) and post it where you'll read it everyday. Consider using guided imagery for weight loss or pain issues too.
I repeat, please talk with your physician prior to starting any diet or weight loss program. You need to make sure it is safe for you. Your physician will be proud to hear about your healthy goals.
Good luck! Remember that positive results require patience. One step at a time.
Amy— Amy Drouin, RN, BSN / March 15th, 2011 at 8:31 pm


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The loss to Ohio State was the not of the punch in the gut variety. It was not a miracle finish by the other team like Michigan in 2005 and Iowa in 2008.
After another impressive display by a White Out Beaver Stadium crowd, the game was essentially over when Matt McGloin throw the interception that was returned for a touchdown by the Buckeyes' Ryan Shazier.
It occurred on the third play from scrimmage to start the second half. Up to that point Penn State's offense was ineffective. Now that pick six put the Nittany Lions behind for the first time in the game.
They did answer the score with a field goal, but for an offense that had racked 35, 39, and 38 points in their three previous games, the banged up Ohio State defense, a defense that was one of the worst in the Big Ten against the pass giving up an average of 271 yards in the air, looked like it was ready to be carved up by Bill O'Brien's schemes. That never materialized.
After the Ficken kick, the Lions' offense had two consecutive 3 and outs. Meanwhile Ohio State increased their lead to 28-10. Game, set, and match Buckeyes. Looking back the best part of the night occurred at halftime when Penn State President Rodney Erickson poked his head out of the ground to stand near midfield. The Hot Rod received a nice round of boos. Finally offering the opportunity for Penn State fans to voice their opinion of his "leadership."
I have a partial feeling that Ohio State was playing possum. This is a Buckeye team that needed a miracle finish last week to defeat Purdue, that barely beat California and Michigan State, that allowed Indiana multiple big plays to stay with in reach. In those wins they looked sloppy and their defense was reminiscent of the Philadelphia Flyers' goaltending situation during the 2011 playoffs.
So how does Ohio State barely defeat inferior teams, have their most complete performance at a tough venue and against a Penn State squad that had all the momentum on their side?
I wish I had the answer, but everything was pointing to a Penn State win. At least there was little evidence that Ohio State was primed to dominate the second half the way the did. After all if the Hoosiers could rack up 49 points against Ohio State, certainly Penn State should have some success with the offense.
For me, that is the biggest disappointment The sanctions were a huge blow to the enthusiasm level for Penn State football. The losses to Ohio and Virginia gave the feeling of the 2000 – 2004 four losing seasons in 5 year stretch times 10. This was a great a opportunity for a signature win.
There are many differences between Bill O'Brien and Joe Paterno. Here is one similarity: when there is a big game in this millennium, Penn State comes up small.
On the losing ledger, there is 2001 Miami, 2006 Michigan, 2007 Ohio State, 2009 Iowa, 2009 Ohio State, and 2011 Alabama. On the winning side what do you have? 2001 Ohio State, 2002 Nebraska, and 2005 Ohio State.
I don't think you can count 2007 Notre Dame considering the Fighting Irish went 3-9 that season. Nor would I count 2010 Michigan. The Wolverines ended up with a record 7-6.
I don't mean that as a knock on O'Brien or Paterno. There are several reasons why Penn State loses more big home games then it wins. The fact remains that even when a crowd is amped up as it was on Saturday, it does not mean the other team will automatically wilt under the heat of a White Out.
With the no post season for the next four years, this was a de facto bowl game for Penn State. Rumored games at Hawaii might be nice, but that atmosphere of a night game against Ohio State and the week long build up to that game are hard to match.
Still there are things to play for this season. Two victories are needed to secure a winning season, something that appeared to be in serious doubt after Penn State started the season 0-2. No matter what the record, there likely will be a good level of electricity on senior day against Wisconsin when Nittany Nation will have one final chance to see this special senior class to play in Beaver Stadium.
Ohio State was impressive, but it is yet to be determined if they have set themselves up for a strong finish. The Buckeyes finish the season at Wisconsin and at home with Michigan. Right now they should be favored in both of the games, but neither is a guaranteed lock.
O'Brien, his staff of coaches, and all of the players have done a tremendous job of keeping Penn State relevant in college football. With four games to go for the Nittany Lions there is still an outside chance to win the division.
A good case can be made that the year 2012 should join the undefeated and championship years that are attached to the east stand suites. A Leader's Division title would be added significance.
Matthew Pencek is the co-author of "The Great Book of Penn State Sports Lists." Click here to purchase the book on amazon.com. He also is soliciting e-mails for a potential future mailbag segment. The e-mail address for this long suffering fan of the Cleveland Indians is firstname.lastname@example.com


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Jeff Rowland and Ryan Hamme, each of whom in the midst of a slump at the plate, contributed key hits in the Whitecaps' 3-2 win against Great Lakes.
Rowland hit a two-run homer following a walk to Dixon Machado in the fifth inning to give West Michigan a 2-0 lead.
After Great Lakes tied the game with single runs in the sixth and seventh innings, Hamme delivered the game-winning single with two outs in the ninth inning. Hamme's hit followed a walk to Machado and a single by Luis Castillo.
Rowland and Hamme have struggled at the plate recently. Rowland, whose homer was his third of the season, is hitting just .188 in his past 10 games. Hamme, who had driven in only one run since a four-RBI game July 30, was hitting only .196 in his past eight games.
WHITECAPS 3, LOONS 2Next game: West Michigan (Josue Carreno 5-10, 5.01) at Great Lakes (Tim Sexton 3-2, 3.50), 7 p.m. Monday
Radio: WBBL-FM (107.3)
Against Great Lakes, the Whitecaps got a solid start from Alex Burgos, who gave up only one earned run in six innings. Relievers Kevan Hess and Jade Todd gave up just the tying run in the seventh inning over the last three innings.


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I printed out the recipe for Oopsie rolls when i first went LC last fall but never had the courage (desire?) to try them. Now that i'm strongly encouraging my family to go grain-free, too, I'll give these a try, both for sandwiches & burgers but also for the French toast option!
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Is it crispy?
adrian, do you think you could make these pizza bases and freeze for later when you want to whip up a pizza?
Darn, I just started eliminating dairy from my diet. This sounds awesome, I had no idea it existed! I'll have to keep it for an occasional treat. Thanks so much for posting!
I blog here: http://www.primalkat.blogspot.com/
I noticed neither recipe I looked at for these today have salt added.
I made some for the first time tonight but added a few shakes of Celtic sea salt.
Not bad!


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Happy birthday daddy !
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I have set my mind on the Chinese House to celebrate daddy's birthday. Check it out : http://www.chinesehouse.asia/ . The place is amazing. And like my grandparents house, it's one of the few houses in PNH that hasn't changed or hasn't been destroyed. Again, I must tell you that this is a recommendation from Darren ! Really the guy is awesome. I don't know whether he'll still be working at Paddy Rice when some of my friends visit Cambodia but I'll try and get his contact details before I leave, for you to have.
So I made it look like I picked a restaurant, not that far away. Because of the name, dad thought it was Chinese... Hahaha ! I made him walk quite a bit actually, about 1.5 Km... When we arrived, Darren had called Antonio (the owner) to tell him we were arriving and explained the occasion (I told you the guy is awesome !). The doorman opened both big doors of the house and for one second we felt like kings. The ground floor has high ceilings, lights are dimmed and there are a dozen Chinese lamps on the ceiling. It's gorgeous. We stop there for a drink and order an appetizer to share.
We order our main course in advance so that we don't need to wait too long upstairs before we get our food. There starts the time of our deepest talk ever, which will last throughout dinner. None of your business though... And I will therefore not elaborate. Just know that this evening will stay engraved in both our memories for a very long time.
The food was superb. The wine was delicious... proof is that, for once, we drank it all when we usually had one glass each on all our previous dinners... But hey you don't refuse a good Medoc for your birthday ! :-) Antonio brought us dessert and dad got his chocolate cake with a candle on it. Sweet !
By the time we got back to the ground floor to smoke, Antonio offered us a digestive. After my brandy, I was drunk enough... And for the first time, I really didn't have a clue where my hotel was apart from "close to the independence monument". Oooohhhh, I was so drunk ! But what an evening !
Happy birthday daddy ! First birthday in Phnom Penh since 63 years !


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PHOTOS: Willem-Alexander becomes new Dutch King
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Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn (R) and Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand (L) attend the inauguration of King Willem-Alexander at the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 30 April 2013. Royal Highness Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands in an official act on 30 April signed her abdication to leave the Dutch throne to her eldest son Prince Willem-Alexander who became the new King of the Netherlands the same day. Dutch King Willem-Alexander becomes the first male monarch in the country in 123 years. EPA/MICHAEL KOOREN / POOL


text: Brendan Byrne says, "Nobody regards George Bush anymore as a symbol of the United States, thank God, so his presence anywhere is almost irrelevant." Pretty harsh, since he will at least go down as the 43rd president of the United States. And how about Byrne? I suggest that his presence is completely irrelevant, even in this one small state of New Jersey.


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I apologize, but this is going to be another post about my life.
So, this last summer, I purchased an XBOX Live subscription. Now, I hate auto-renew. I always make sure it's off because the charges always seem to come at the worst times. That said, to my knowledge, my subscription hadn't been current since september.
A couple of weeks ago, I sold a game on eBay to make a little money. I'd almost completely run out of money and, by the time I got the funds from the game, it was all the money I had. That's when Microsoft randomly decided to renew my XBOX Live subscription.
Without my knowledge or consent, Microsoft literally bankrupted me. $10 might not seem like much to a lot of people but, when it's all you've got, it can seem like everything.
Their response when I contacted them regarding it? They refused to refund my money. Pretty much said that there is nothing they could do.
As if to add insult to injury, I don't even have sufficient internet access to play games on XBOX Live.
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AL.com columnist Kevin Scarbinsky and SEC writer Mike Herndon will debate a different topic each week during college football season. Their opinions may not always be at odds, but they'll always have some.
This week's question:
Which ranked SEC team is most likely to be upset this week?
Herndon: It may not be much of an upset, but we have very little idea of what to expect when No. 13 LSU takes on No. 14 Wisconsin in Houston on Saturday. Tigers coach Les Miles says he'll play both sophomore Anthony Jennings and freshman Brandon Harris at quarterback. Leading rusher Jeremy Hill and receiver Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham, Jr., are gone. There are a slew of new starters on defense.
Can the Tigers continue to plug their holes with new talent from perennially strong recruiting classes and not miss a beat? Or will multiple years of losing large numbers of underclassmen to the NFL draft finally catch up with them? We expect Kenny Hilliard, Terrence Magee and five-star freshman Leonard Fournette to keep the ground game moving behind a veteran offensive line. But beyond that, there are a lot of question marks.
Wisconsin is in much the same boat. The Badgers have had a quarterback competition of their own this fall and though coach Gary Andersen says he won't announce a starter until Saturday, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported that junior-college transfer Tanner McEvoy has beaten out Joel Stave, who has started 19 games in the last two years.
The Badgers also lost their top two receivers in Jared Abbrederis and tight end Jacob Pedersen and their leading tackler in Chris Borland, but they return a Heisman Trophy candidate in running back Melvin Gordon, who ran for 1,609 yards and 12 touchdowns last season, and four starters on the offensive line.
This should be a smashmouth football game and could be decided in the fourth quarter. Will the young LSU lineup, which should feature significant minutes played by several true freshmen, have enough left in the tank to win it?
Scarbinsky: If starting a new quarterback is a concern, and it is, especially when the last guy set all kinds of records, No. 12 Georgia has to be on upset alert against No. 16 Clemson. Hutson Mason doesn't have to be another Aaron Murray in his one-and-only season as the starter under center, but he'll have to be ready earlier than most new quarterbacks with Clemson calling.
Dabo Swinney and the Tigers have proven that they're not afraid of the big, bad SEC, if you don't count the embarrassing losing streak to in-state rival South Carolina. They took down Georgia in this spot last season, and they've also beaten Auburn and LSU in recent years. Swinney and his staff recruit SEC-style athletes on both sides of the ball, especially up front.
Example: Georgia's blockers will have to keep Clemson defensive end Vic Beasley out of Mason's face. It won't be easy.
The good news for Georgia is that Clemson doesn't have Tajh Boyd and Sammie Watkins anymore to light up the scoreboard, and new defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt was able to hold the Tigers to season lows in yards and points last season. But he did that with Florida State's athletes. Georgia's defense will be a question mark until it stops an offense with a pulse. Even with a new quarterback in Cole Stoudt, Clemson's offensive heartbeat should be just fine with Gus Malzahn protege Chad Morris calling plays.
If Todd Gurley is a legit Heisman contender and Georgia is a real threat to win the SEC East, the Bulldogs should find a way to win this game. Otherwise, Clemson is perfectly capable of helping the Bulldogs start 0-1 for the second straight year.


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Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration is turning to an oft-employed method, refinancing debt, to cover the lion's share of the deficit it says it inherited when Landrieu took office in May 2010.
A recently completed audit for 2010 shows that New Orleans ended the year $25.2 million in the red, a deficit that the state requires be eliminated by the end of next year.
The City Council recently gave preliminary approval to the administration's plan to sell enough bonds to cover about $15.5 million in obligations that otherwise would come due this December and at the end of 2012.
By issuing the new bonds, the city can push the $15.5 million of debt to 2013 and beyond, meaning that officials will have that much more money available in the short term to help pay off the 2010 deficit.
The plan, endorsed 7-0 by the council, also needs to pass muster with the State Bond Commission this month before the city can issue the bonds.
The Landrieu team blames the shortfall at the end of 2010 on years of overspending by former Mayor Ray Nagin's administration after Hurricane Katrina.
By using one-time-only revenue and depleting the city's accumulated fund balance, the city continually lived far beyond its means, spending a total of $90 million more in just 2008 and 2009 than it took in, Chief Administrative Officer Andy Kopplin told the council recently.
In the same two years, he said, spending totaled $75 million more than was authorized in the budgets approved by the council.
When the Landrieu administration took office, it discovered the city was facing a budget shortfall of $67.5 million. But that number kept growing as officials uncovered more and more problems. The administration responded by imposing unpaid furloughs, cutting and renegotiating contracts, and spending tens of millions in dollars in unexpected one-time revenue.
Even so, the administration announced in June of this year that the city had ended 2010 $28.6 million in the red, the result of both overly optimistic revenue projections and higher-than-expected spending on items such as health care for city workers.
The outside audit completed in September cut that figure by $3.4 million, but it also made it official, forcing the city to come up with a plan to make up the $25.2 million shortfall by December 2012.
The first part of the plan is to sell new bonds to cover the payments due this year and next on the final installments of $75 million in "certificates of indebtedness" the city issued in 1998.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. made the city the best offer on the new bonds, 5.95 percent, higher than the approximately 5 percent the city has been paying on the 1998 debt, but still what Kopplin called a "very competitive" rate.
The new bonds will have a very short term, only until March 2013, but Kopplin said they will be refinanced next year as part of a much bigger deal, and one with a tangled history.
In 2000, after years of rapid escalation in stock prices, the city decided to sell $171 million in bonds and invest the proceeds in the stock market as a way of shoring up its underfunded pension plan for firefighters. However, in short order, the stock market took a dive. Instead of the large annual returns predicted by the financial advisers who sold the idea to the city, the investment fund lost money for the first three years and threatened to cost the city as much as $400 million over its lifetime.
The city and Chase, the bank that now holds those notes, intend to refinance them next year, Kopplin said, and the $15.5 million in new bonds will be rolled in with the much larger package of pension bonds.
Officials hope the city will be able to get a favorable interest rate on the refinancing. They point to the forgiveness of $240 million in federal post-Katrina loans that hung over the city's head until last year, and what Kopplin said is the administration's record of living within its means this year. But as the 2000 bond issue showed, it is impossible to predict what the financial markets will look like in a few weeks, much less in a year.
Budget Director Cary Grant said the city's short-term debt burden is due to drop sharply by 2014, freeing up money for, among other things, the restructured and postponed 1998 debt. The refinancing plan, he said, is "a creative way of dealing with the deficit."
As for the rest of the city's $25 million shortfall, Kopplin said the administration plans to pay some of it by making use of the fund balances of public benefit corporations such as the Piazza d'Italia Development Corp. It hopes another chunk will come from pursuing FEMA reimbursements for "direct administrative costs" that the city previously did not try to collect.
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