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Former Portsmouth school worker sentenced for sexually assaulting studentBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
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BRENTWOOD - A former Portsmouth school department worker was sentenced three to eight years in state prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old student after soliciting her online in February.
Judge Marguerite Wageling told Kenneth Kimber, 35, of Portsmouth during his sentencing hearing Thursday in Rockingham County Superior Court that he was lucky to dodge a longer stretch in prison.
"I agreed to take this plea to protect this victim, not because of any sympathy I have for what you are going through," Wageling said, calling Kimber's actions "nothing less than selfish and depraved."
Kimber pleaded guilty on Oct. 17 to single counts of felonious sexual assault, indecent exposure and two counts of prohibited uses of a computer.
He began communicating with the girl through Facebook between Feb. 3 and Feb. 11, and sent the girl a picture of his genitals with an explicit message before picking her up and driving her to his apartment for sex, according to prosecutors.
Assistant County Attorney Patricia Conway said that if Kimber had been convicted at trial, "the state would be asking for a lot more than three to 8 (years) stand committed."
Prosecutors negotiated a plea deal to spare the victim, who they say has been "affected tremendously" by Kimber's actions.
Kimber worked for the Portsmouth school district's information technology department and coached a boy's basketball team at Noble High School in Berwick, Maine, when he was arrested by Portsmouth police.
New Hampshire and Maine school officials promptly fired him after he was charged.
The girl's mother told Wageling during Thursday's hearing how Kimber's actions led her daughter to attempt suicide multiple times, and miss school because she was being harassed there.
"To be honest, I am completely broken. As a single mother, I honestly thought a school would be a safe place for my daughter," the mother said.
"No parent should ever have to go through this. No child should ever have to go through this," she added.
Kimber still has more legal woes to resolve. He faces nine counts of stalking for allegedly calling a woman from the county jail after he was barred from having contact with her, according to prosecutors. No trial date has been set in that case.
Kimber could have faced up to 3 ½ to 7 years in prison on each of the charges had he been convicted at trial.
"He's taken responsibility for his actions," defense lawyer Joseph Prieto said after the sentencing hearing. "He wants to put this matter behind him and move on."
Kimber was ordered to undergo the state's sexual offender program and have no contact with the victim or her mother. Wageling also barred Kimber from using email outside of work and any kind of social media including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. email@example.com


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What You Need to Know About HIV Cure Activism
Stephen Leblanc, Kate Krauss (fellow activist), Dr. Paula Cannon and Dr. John Zaia (cure researchers).
Much like it happened during the 1980s and '90s, a new kind of activism is emerging in the fight against HIV. As newer HIV antiretrovirals have helped many regain their health, several activists are not relaxing about their work.
A shift in paradigm occurred when the research world accepted the fact that the "Berlin Patient" was cured of HIV. This shift has also fueled a resurgence of activism that very few people living with HIV are aware of. One of the activists who has been advocating for a cure for HIV even before it became an "accepted" word in the research world is Stephen LeBlanc. Stephen, a 20-plus-year HIV survivor and patent attorney, was kind enough to agree to be interviewed for TheBody.com to let us all know how we can join the new wave of activism that will lead to a faster HIV cure.
Stephen, can you tell us a little bit about your experience in HIV activism for the folks who do not know you?
I have been an LGBT community activist since I came out in 1982, at age 20. When I lived in Boston, I worked to pass the Massachusetts Lesbian Gay Civil Rights Law and worked on a number of anti-hate/violence projects. In 1995, I joined ACT UP Golden Gate in San Francisco and became an AIDS Treatment Activist. I worked on making treatments for wasting syndrome and opportunistic infections available before we had effective antiretrovirals. I worked on campaigns for early access to protease inhibitors and for use of protease inhibitors in powerful combinations before combination therapy was widely accepted as critical.
What is the AIDS Policy Project and what makes it different than other advocacy organizations?
The AIDS Policy Project is an organization started by long-time AIDS activists and people with AIDS to focus exclusively on changing the research climate and funding priorities to developing an actual cure for HIV. At the time we started working on this campaign, in 2009, the word "cure" was generally unacceptable to use in AIDS research or policy circles. In our initial research, we learned that less that 3 percent of the NIH AIDS research budget (about $60 million dollars out of a $1.5 billion dollar research budget) was going towards finding a cure. While prevention and improving AIDS treatment access remains critically important, as an organization we believe that ensuring that appropriate resources are directed to cure research is vitally important to the 33.3 million people living with HIV in the world and to ending the AIDS pandemic.
Some readers believe that the cure of AIDS is already available but it has been withheld by companies who want to sell HIV drugs. What can you tell them to clarify this?
I certainly understand the skepticism many people have about the drug companies. In my own experience, the scientists who work at these companies are relatively open about their research and honest. They also have many interactions with scientists in academia and with community activists who are scientifically literate. Even if someone believes that the drug companies are corrupt, the scientists who work there mostly are not and are in relatively constant communication with other scientists.
As a community activist with a scientific background, I have some understanding of why HIV is so difficult to cure. Important human viruses general fall into two categories: (1) those from which some people naturally recover and are then immune from re-infection, and (2) those that generally never naturally cause people to become immune and can cause persistent infection. Scientists have substantially reduced, and in one case eliminated, many of the first types of virus that were major killers (Smallpox, Whooping cough, Measles, Polio, Diphtheria) through vaccines. In these cases, scientists have repeatedly stepped forward to cure or eliminate diseases that it might have been more profitable to chronically treat. There really is no evidence that any drug or treatment has been "held back" from the world at large in order to increase profits.
Both the HIV cure and the HIV vaccine are very hard to develop because of the nature of HIV infection. As for the cure, any of your readers can read the hundreds of scientific papers discussing and documenting that HIV can hide silently in cells in the body for many, many years (possibly a lifetime) even in patients with undetectable viral load. Scientists do not yet know how to identify or eliminate these cells. This simply is a fundamentally hard problem. No one knows for sure what a cure would even look like (almost certainly not just a pill you take for 10 days). So, the idea that someone has a cure available but just is not bringing it forward does not make much sense to me.
The more important issue is whether industry or the government will want to spend the hundreds of millions, even billions, of dollars that developing a cure is likely to cost. The amount of money devoted to this research is increasing, but not nearly fast enough and not to the levels necessary.
What do you think are the main advocacy efforts that we as people living with HIV need to work on to advance HIV cure research?
More money, more money, more money! More collaboration and sharing of data between researchers! More ideas being pursued! More openness to new ideas!
Researchers want to work in fields where they can make a difference and make a decent career. Both of those require money. New medical technologies are being developed every year. One of them, or some combination of them, might lead to a cure. But we need hundreds of researchers around the world working on HIV cure research to make sure that as new technologies come online they are applied as appropriate to possible cure therapies. There are not nearly enough researchers working in the field now.
Patients also need to educate themselves and one another about cure research and be present in the rooms when cure research is being discussed and decisions about funding and other issues are being made. Crixivan (the first very successful protease inhibitor) happened in part because ACT UP New York activist Bill Bahlman was in the room with Merck researchers (including Emilio Emini) when initial setbacks happened. The researchers were dejected, but Bill told them to dust off and keep at it. Bill Bahlman was there because there were AIDS activists across the nation following almost every possible AIDS treatment being developed. We have a very small handful of people doing work like that today. We could use many more.
Do you think there is politics within the research community that could impede progress towards the cure for HIV?
Within every community, from Congress to your neighborhood book club, there are politics that resist change and outside ideas. HIV research, for understandable reasons, has been dominated by virologists, small molecule drug manufacturers, and vaccine specialists. Most of the funders, most of the people reviewing grants and scientific papers, all come from these fields.
Stephen Leblanc giving an award to Dr. Gero Hütter (the doctor who cured Timothy Brown).
The first person cured of HIV, Timothy Brown, was cured by a cancer doctor with no previous HIV experience, using a cellular transplant therapy. This happened entirely outside of the multi-billion dollar international AIDS research community and was accomplished by a 38-year-old German hematologist-oncologist who had never treated a person with HIV before. I do believe that cure strategies unfamiliar to those who have been working in HIV for decades, like genetic therapies and cellular therapies, receive more skepticism and less support and funding than they should.
I also think there is a bias for strategies that people can immediately envision being made available to all 33.3 million people with HIV. For example, a theoretical $100,000 cure based on genetic engineering and cellular transplant would initially be available mostly in the developed world. But, that makes it no less important to develop now. The $25,000 annual antivirals used in the United States are now being made available in the poorest countries for $135 per year. Also, a $100,000 cure in the developed world would save at least hundreds of thousands of lives and free up AIDS treatment resources that could the be used in the developing world.
Winstone Zulu, an amazing African AIDS activist and PWA who died in 2011, was a huge supporter of the AIDS Policy Project and was unambiguous is saying "Yes, yes, yes. We badly need a cure. Why is all the important research on treatments, vaccines and microbicides? What about me who is already infected? ... Time for a cure!"
We have recently seen some news about Timothy Brown, the Berlin Patient, that hinted at the fact that he may not be cured or that he may have been reinfected. Can you tell us what is behind that story?
Timothy is such a hero for people who care about a cure for AIDS. After going through extreme tragedy and stress in his life (becoming HIV positive and living with HIV for years, then being diagnosed with terminal, rapid-onset leukemia at age 38, then suffering a horrible mugging in Berlin), he has for the last several years been extremely cooperative in I believe every research project he has been asked to participate in, including giving lots of blood, doing all kinds of tissue biopsies, flying to research sites in different parts of the country.
He clearly has been and remains cured in terms of having no viral load, taking no anti-HIV medicines for five years, and having normal CD4 cell counts.
However, researchers wanted to know if they could detect any virus anywhere in his body. No one found whole virus or replicating "live" virus, despite looking for that. However, some labs, using ultra-sensitive DNA testing, detected fragments of HIV that they announced were different from the HIV DNA that Timothy had been infected with. Preliminary results of this research were presented in a session at the International Workshop on HIV & Hepatitis Virus Resistance and Curative Strategies in Sitges, Spain, in June. The researchers who presented the data, and many, many scientists, suggested that false signals or contamination were likely sources of some or all of the HIV signals found. This is a known and common problem with ultra-sensitive DNA tests.
One attendee of the conference, however, decided to issue a press release based on this presentation and substitute his own conclusions for those of the scientists who did the work. His press release was both very unusual and highly unethical. First off, it is bad form to issue a press release about another scientist's preliminary research results. Generally, you allow the initial researcher to release their own data, and then you discuss or critique or criticize or refute it. Secondly, the attendee added a sensational conclusion to the press release that none of the researchers involved agreed with, that Timothy still showed signs of active infection. Finally, the attendees stated that Timothy might have been reinfected, which is wild speculation contradicted by the data presented, and that tests were being done to see if Timothy could infect others, which is false. The tests were done. There is no evidence of replication competent virus in Timothy.
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I'm going to India with World Vision Australia to blog about their development programs
Hi everyone, I'm very, very excited to announce that I'll be heading off to India with World Vision Australia!
I'm going over with three other talented bloggers, Eden Reily from Edenland, Carly Jacobs from Smaggle and Kelly from Be a Fun Mum, to cover World Vision's women's and children's development programs in the state of Chhatisgarh, in central India. We will also be joined on the trip by World Vision's social media manager Joy Toose.
The state of Chhatisgarh is highlighted in the above map (Source: Wikipedia)
Over the ten days in India we will be visiting a number of World Vision Area Development Programs (ADPs) in both urban and rural areas.
I'll be photo blogging the journey on a daily basis, using my phone and Instagram to show you all where we are and what we are doing. I'll be cross posting my Instagram feed right here on this site and my Tumblr for those not on Instagram.
For those of you that don't know, I've been a World Vision Child Sponsor for over twelve years now, first starting when I was just out of high-school. I'm genuinely excited to see how these programs - that I've known so well through cards, letters and photos - actually work at ground level.
As I'm travelling I'm more than open to any questions you may have about the journey and World Vision's programs.
Don't forget you can also follow the journey through Eden's, Carly's and Kelly's blogs.
Wish us luck!
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When is it good to feel blue? When your school wins the Blue Ribbon excellence award from the U.S. Department of Education.
Students and staff at Shaw Avenue School wore their feelings on their sleeves after it was announced that the District 30 elementary school had won the coveted honor. School administrators found out on Sept. 24, and the following day, most of the 750-plus children and adults who call the school their daytime home came clad in blue.
Shaw Avenue is the first school in Valley Stream to receive the Blue Ribbon Award, which recognizes public and private elementary, middle and high schools where students perform at very high levels or where significant improvements are being made in their academic achievement.
"I'm elated," said Principal Amy Pernick. "I think it's validation of everything we knew about the school."
Pernick, who is in her first year as principal after five years as assistant principal, was joined by administrators and board members as they watched U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's press conference live in a sixth-grade classroom. It ended without an announcement of the winning schools, but moments later, Pernick got an email confirming what many District 30 officials already suspected.
Superintendent Dr. Nicholas Stirling said the award is a tribute to everyone in the school community, from the staff to the parents to the crossing guards. "Everyone's part is significant, no matter how small or large," Stirling said. "Everyone has got to make a contribution in order for the system to work."
He added that while the award went to Shaw Avenue, it is an honor for the entire district. Stirling credited District 30's strong curriculum, high expectations for students and the hard work of the staff to do what is best for the district's children.
The school was nominated for the award last November, largely because of its impressive results on the 2012 state tests. Ten months later, Shaw Avenue became one of only four Long Island schools to earn the Blue Ribbon designation this year.
School board President Carolyn Torres said she was not surprised. "Personally, I knew we were going to get it," she said. "Shaw Avenue is an excellent school."
Torres noted that Shaw Avenue has gone through some tumultuous times in the past few years, specifically repeated turnover in the principal ranks. However, she said, there have been two constants — Pernick and a devoted teaching staff.
"They have worked very, very hard as a unit to push the children forward," Torres said. "They've never lost sight of what's important."
Sue Lipski, a second-grade teacher, is one of those staff members. She has been at Shaw Avenue since 1992, and said it is a place where students comes first. "It's full of dedicated teachers who love their craft," Lipski said. "We believe that every student can succeed."
Rosemary Decker, who co-teaches with Lipski for half of the day, said Shaw Avenue is a place where students learn not only academics, but also how to be good people. Decker said that the school's character education program is a big part of what makes it a special place.
Lipski and Decker agreed that whenever expectations are raised, the students accept and meet the challenge. They added that the district is innovative, and is often ahead of the trends in education.
After finding out about the award, Jennifer Graham built a blue balloon arch for the main entrance, and children walked beneath it when they arrived at school on Sept. 25. Graham, the mother of a Shaw Avenue second-grader, said it took 230 balloons and three hours to build, but was well worth it.
She and her husband, who both attended the school, said they are glad they send their daughter there. "My daughter is loving school," Graham said. "She loves her teachers. She's doing very well."
PTA President Oneka Chan, who had two children graduate from the school and has two children still there, was understandably excited. "It is such an honor to receive such an accolade," she said. "Receiving this award is really going to put Shaw Avenue School on the map — and District 30."
Although the award was presented this year, Shaw Avenue will be a Blue Ribbon School in perpetuity. "It's ours forever," Pernick said. "We're not giving it back."
"It will be an ongoing reminder of what the possibilities can be for not only Shaw, but for the entire school community," Stirling added. "We are always striving for excellence."
On Nov. 18, Pernick and at least one other district official will head to Washington, D.C., for a ceremony honoring Blue Ribbon schools from across the nation. She will return with a plaque and a banner that will be hung on the building for the community to see. Shortly afterward, the district will hold a local ceremony to celebrate the accomplishment.
The application for the award was more than 20 pages, and included teachers' testimonials. Much of it was completed by Stirling, Pernick and her immediate predecessor, Johane Ligonde.
Torres said the Blue Ribbon award is not only prestigious, but an indicator that school officials need to stay the course. "This just doesn't fall in your lap," she said. "It's not a 'who you know' award. It's an award that's earned."


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Lucy's new shoes were so big
She had the biggest shoes.
Her shoes were so very pink
Lucy's new shoes were big news.
She wore the new shoes all day,
She wore them in bed all night.
She always wore the new shoes.
Lucy's new shoes were just right.
Lucy showed off her new shoes
And all her friends loved them too.
Her shoes were the shoes they'd choose
If their feet were size twenty-two.
Then one day the shoes came off
As Lucy walked down the street
Which wasn't surprising really
Because Lucy had very small feet !
So the shoes went back to the shop
And replaced with shoes the right size
You can't wear shoes ten sizes too big
If they're pink and up to your thighs!
So Lucy no longer has big shoes
And it came as quite a big shock,
It's not so much the size of your feet
It's all about the size of your sock!
a little poem i wrote for my mates daughter .she seemed to like it .
keep your eyes peeled for 'penelope's poo' !!', coming soon .


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Its peers stand as high as an elephant's eye this time of year, their silk-covered ears ready for husking.
But not this lonely stalk of corn. It likely sprang to life accidentally when its seed fell from a passing truck and settled into a crevice on the shoulder of North Main Street.
So far, the little fellow has defied the odds, finding just enough soil beneath the pavement and water above it to eek out a life.
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WANAKA, New Zealand (Aug. 26) – Olympic gold medalist Kelly Clark (West Dover, VT) opened the 2014 Olympic Winter Games qualifying period for snowboarding with victory at the FIS World Cup halfpipe Sunday in Cardrona, New Zealand. Clark, who won double gold at the 2012 X Games, has won a staggering 19 of her last 20 contests. The New Zealand halfpipe marks the first event of the Olympic qualifying period that lasts for the next 17 months.
HIGHLIGHTS• Kelly Clark (West Dover, VT) won the opening FIS World Cup of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games qualifying period.• Clark fell in her opening run, but stomped a winning run of 83 points for a 2.25 point margin of victory.• U.S. Snowboarding riders placed three men and three women in the top 15.• Hannah Teter (Belmont, VT) took fourth, with Matt Ladley (Chicago, IL) as the top American male also in fourth.• Scotty Lago (Seabrook, NH) was sixth, Kaitlyn Farrington (Bellevue, WA) took eighth and Benji Farrow took 14th.• The 17-month qualifying period provides individual athletes with opportunity to achieve required international ranking to be eligible for Olympic selection and helps the USA earn nation's quota spots.• Clark secured her 10th World Cup podium out of 12 starts and her 19th victory of her last 20 elite competitions.• Clark's winning run: frontside 720 indy, cab 720 mute-grab, frontside air, backside 540 mute-grab, to frontside 540 Japan-grab.• France's Sophie Rodriguez was second behind Clark and Spain's Queralt Castellet came in third. Japan swept the men's podium with Ryo Aono in first followed by Shuuhei Sato and Yiwei Zhang.
QUOTESKelly ClarkWith my win and Hannah's [Teter, fourth] good finish, this is a great start to the season for the U.S.
Falling in the first run is never ideal but I tried to look at it as an opportunity. That's exactly what can happen in major events. So it's good to get used to it and this kind of pressure.
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I use a compactor bag and stuff the pack and boots in it under my hammock so I can grab stuff without getting up!
I use a compactor bag and stuff the pack and boots in it under my hammock so I can grab stuff without getting up!
High ground is dry ground!
Similar to what other guys have mentioned already....
Just a soft shackle or carabiner through the packs handle, then onto my suspension rings.
Rain cover over the pack. Done.
Makes it a little bit harder for those pesky rodents, big & small to reach.
Mountain views are good for the soul....& getting to them is good for my waistline.
I usually tie to a tree on arrival at a hammocking site then put on a small offcut piece of tarp under the hammock. I also have a bergen cover should it be necessary.
Vid of my camp set up here
Remember LNT
For my pack, I have just put the cover on and carry a loop of paracord. Throw the cord around a tree and clip the pack to it. I like the idea of putting it under the fly on the suspension line better, I'm gong to try that next.
My Molly MacPack is my foot pad! So, yea, it goes on the ground and then my shoes and stuff go on top; if it is dewy in the morning I stand on it to get my dry shoes, socks etc on. Multiple use gear Baby!
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I just set everything on the ground under me on a piece of plastic. stay dry and critters haven't gotten into it. yet.
I use to hang things from the trees, but gave that up due to sap and ants. I made a small hammock, about 3-4' long. I'll try that next time.
Numbers 35:34
You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell...
"You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." - Milton Berle
"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." (Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Waterson)
I attached two lines to the pack cover and can now use it as a gear hammock/catchall. Once set up my pack is empty and sits in the cover/gear hammock. Which is above my hammock in good weather and below in wet weather depending on how high i think my tarp should be.
Used to hang it on a tree but also disliked sap and bugs!


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Next week the U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to return to Washington. At that time we are expected to consider how the government will continue to operate into the new year. This is the direct result of the fact the Democrat controlled Congress failed to pass a budget or enact any of the twelve annual spending bills that fund all government operations. Recent reports indicate that the Democrats hope to consider a $1.11 trillion omnibus spending bill that would increase expenditures by hundreds of billions of dollars.
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WASHINGTON – A year-end deadline looming, Senate negotiators remained short of an agreement Sunday to prevent across-the-board tax increases for millions. President Barack Obama blamed Republicans for putting the nation's shaky economy at risk.
Despite indications of progress in the negotiations, Democrats said Republicans were seeking to slow future cost of living increases for Social Security recipients as part of a compromise to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff. Republicans declined to confirm the assertion – and one GOP official disputed it – but noted that Obama said in a television interview broadcast earlier in the day he had advanced such a proposal in earlier talks with Republicans.
The fate of the negotiations remained in doubt, with both the House and Senate meeting during the day, two days before the beginning of a new year that would trigger across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts that leaders in both parties have said they want to avoid.
"We have been talking to the Republicans ever since the election was over," Obama said in the interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" that aired Sunday. "They have had trouble saying yes to a number of repeated offers."
Senate leaders Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., were hoping for a deal that would prevent higher taxes for most Americans while letting rates rise at higher income levels, although the precise point at which that would occur was a major sticking point.
Also at issue were the estate tax, taxes on investment income and dividends, continued benefits for the long-term unemployed and a pending 27.5 percent cut in payment levels for doctors who treat Medicare patients.
"I feel fine," McConnell said in response to questions from reporters about the status of negotiations.
Obama, in the NBC interview, said that while he had been "modestly optimistic" late last week, "we don't yet see an agreement."
As the Senate opened a rare Sunday session, Chaplain Barry Black offered a timely prayer for lawmakers.
"Lord show them the right thing to do and give them the courage to do it," Black said. "Look with favor on our nation and save us from self-inflicted wounds."
Senate negotiators were haggling over what threshold of income to set as the demarcation between current tax rates and higher tax rates. They were negotiating over estate limits and tax levels, how to extend unemployment benefits, how to prevent cuts in Medicare payments to doctors and how to keep a minimum income tax payment designed for the rich from hitting about 28 million middle class taxpayers.
Obama pressed lawmakers to start where both sides say they agree — sparing middle-class families from looming tax hikes.
"If we can get that done, that takes a big bite out of the fiscal cliff. It avoids the worst outcomes. And we're then going to have some tough negotiations in terms of how we continue to reduce the deficit, grow the economy, create jobs," Obama said in the NBC interview.
Gone, however, is the talk of a grand deal that would tackle broad spending and revenue demands and set the nation on a course to lower deficits. Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner were once a couple hundred billion dollars apart of a deal that would have reduced the deficit by more than $2 trillion over ten years.
Republicans have complained that Obama has demanded too much in tax revenue and hasn't proposed sufficient cuts or savings in the nation's massive health care programs.
Obama upped the pressure on Republicans to negotiate a fiscal deal, arguing that GOP leaders have rejected his past attempts to strike a bigger and more comprehensive bargain.
"The offers that I've made to them have been so fair that a lot of Democrats get mad at me," Obama said.
Boehner disagreed, saying Sunday that the president had been unwilling to agree to anything "that would require him to stand up to his own party."
Don Stewart, a spokesman for McConnell, said Sunday: "While the president was taping those discordant remarks yesterday, Sen. McConnell was in the office working to bring Republicans and Democrats together on a solution."
The trimmed ambitions of today are a far cry from the upbeat bipartisan rhetoric of just six weeks ago, when the leadership of Congress went to the White House to set the stage for negotiations to come.
"I outlined a framework that deals with reforming our tax code and reforming our spending," Boehner said as the leaders gathered on the White House driveway on Nov. 16.
"We understand that it has to be about cuts, it has to be about revenue, it has to be about growth, it has to be about the future," House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said at the time. "I feel confident that a solution may be in sight."
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham is predicting that without at least 28 of the 47 GOP senators on board with any given proposal, House Speaker John Boehner wouldn't be able to get the votes to pass it.
If Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., "can't get 60 percent of us to vote for this deal, it will be hard for Boehner to get it through the House. And I want to vote for it even though I won't like it because the country's got a lot at stake here," Graham said on "Fox News Sunday".
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said the 2.1 million Americans whose extended unemployment benefits ran out on Saturday are already feeling the pain of Congress' inaction.
"From this point on, it's lose-lose. My big worry is a contraction of the economy, the loss of jobs, which could be well over 2 million in addition to the people already on unemployment. I think contraction of the economy would be just terrible for this nation. I think we need a deal, we should do a deal," Feinstein said on "Fox News Sunday."
But the deal was not meant to settle other outstanding issues, including more than $1 trillion in cuts over 10 years, divided equally between the Pentagon and other government spending. The deal also would not address an extension of the nation's borrowing limit, which the government is on track to reach any day but which the Treasury can put off through accounting measures for about two months.
That means Obama and the Congress are already on a new collision path. Republicans say they intend to use the debt ceiling as leverage to extract more spending cuts from the president. Obama has been adamant that unlike 2011, when the country came close to defaulting on its debts, he will not yield to those Republican demands.
Lawmakers have until the new Congress convenes to pass any compromise, and even the calendar mattered. Democrats said they had been told House Republicans might reject a deal until after Jan. 1, to avoid a vote to raise taxes before they had technically gone up, and then vote to cut taxes after they had risen.
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The Portrait Of A People In Putin's Russia
Gregory Feifer's book, Russians, draws on hundreds of conversations to paint a portrait of today's Russian people. He discusses his family's past and Putin's popular reign.
The Winter Games in Sochi have focused world attention on Russia in the age of Putin: huge state expenditures, contracts that benefit the president's cronies, complaints about shoddy workmanship, controversy over Russia's treatment of gays and lesbians.
Well, Gregory Feifer's new book, "Russians," fleshes out the country that Vladimir Putin leads; a country that Feifer covered for NPR, in fact. It's a country that Feifer feels in his blood. His mother is Russian and she is that great rarity: a war bride from the Cold War. His Russian mother met his American father when his father was working at the 1959 American exhibition in Moscow.
GREGORY FEIFER: My father, who was a graduate student studying about the Soviet Union went there to be a guide for this big moment of detente. And he lectured about the Ford Thunderbird. Thousands of Russians crowded around and he would talk about the horsepower and the chassis, and so on and so forth, and then take questions. A lot of the questions were from KGB plants, so, why do you lynch people in the States.
Then he got a question about American jazz from the voice of a young woman. He said he followed the chord of the microphone and there she was, and he immediately called a break and the rest is history.
SIEGEL: So your interest in Russia is your birthright here is what you're saying.
FEIFER: That's right. And I'm a product of detente so I'm very much for it.
SIEGEL: Well, let's talk about Vladimir Putin and Sochi. We've heard that Russia is spending somewhere around $50 billion to host the games. And some of that money, I gather, goes to Putin's oldest friend.
FEIFER: That's right. Seven billion or around seven billion, it's reported, went in construction contracts to his childhood friend and judo partner. This gives you an idea of the kind of corruption taking place in Russia. But this is the entire country. Now, a joke has a newspaper reporting Putin's latest reform program. Its main goal, the paper says, is to make people rich and happy. And then it says: See list of people attached.
SIEGEL: Now, you report this - I mean I laugh because people make jokes about these things in Russia. But, as you write, companies calculate what the cost of paying bribes is in Russia, and it's very high.
FEIFER: That's right, it's huge. And so this begs the question: Why two decades after the Soviet collapse do Russians continue to support the authoritarian Vladimir Putin? My approach in my book has been to look at Russians' daily behavior; their family lives, work, drinking. And what's clear to me is that although Russians' way of doing things may be seem chaotic to us, I think it's very successful in achieving its own aims. Now, these aren't Western aims. I think Russians' values and motives are different than ours.
SIEGEL: You mentioned drinking. You devote a chapter to drinking, which means a chapter about vodka, really. And you write that Russian drinking and I'm quoting here, "reflects a sense of pessimism about the ability to better oneself." What do you mean?
FEIFER: Look, this is the biggest country by territory in the world. A lot of this territory is uninhabitable. And, of course, as we all know, the winter is legendary. So this is a place in which it's very difficult to survive. And I think this has led to belief that the individual is weak. Acting alone you can't do very much. And I think that's reinforced this sense of Russian fatalism.
SIEGEL: It makes one wonder can Russia ever fit in as another big European country, as a country that's part of a community of nations that draw some principles from the Enlightenment; principles which seemed to be - by your description - just basically alien to a Russian view of the world?
FEIFER: I don't think that Russia is fated to be the way it is. I think that it is the way it is for very practical reasons. I'll give you an example. The conventional wisdom is that Putin rules according to a social contract. As long as living standards keep rising, thanks to the country's vast energy wealth, the Kremlin is more or less free to do what it wants. I don't think that's quite true.
I think that the glue binding Putin's regime to the people is corruption. Everybody pays bribes. If you own a corner shop, you'll have to pay the fire inspector, the building code inspector. So I think bribes have two purposes. They co-opt people because they give the authorities the ability to prosecute almost everybody. But they also give people a stake in the system.
SIEGEL: They implicate people in the system.
FEIFER: They implicate people, they sort of so its coercion. But we tend to explain away what we'd don't understand about Russia, by saying that there is this mystical Russian soul that's different and so we can't understand it. I don't happen to think that's true.
SIEGEL: You write about the conspicuous wealth of new Russians and the new oligarchs. And do you think that the typical Russian takes any pride in the phenomenal wealth of the oligarchs? Or it's all envy and resentment of what they've managed to get away with.
FEIFER: Both, because I think Russians do feel a tremendous amount of pride in their country. You can just look at the reaction to the Sochi Games. And yet, of course, they know what's going on. They see the corruption. They're very much a part of the system. So I rarely get into cabs these days in Moscow without steeling myself for what I expect to be a barrage against those corrupt, greedy jerks at the top who are plundering the country.
SIEGEL: Gregory Feifer, thank you very much for talking with us about Russia and about your book.
FEIFER: Thank you very much for having me.
SIEGEL: And the book is called "Russians: The People Behind The Power."
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It may sound strange to admire as a role model someone you've spent only a few anonymous minutes with — and will probably never see again.
And yet, that happened to me last weekend on a chairlift at Sunday River.
The guy who joined us from the singles line was exclaiming over one of those perfect days on the New England slopes. He was 72, retired, and a winter migrant to Maine.
"All of our friends went south when they retired but we came north," he said. For the skiing.
No Florida for him. "I play enough golf in the summer," he said. "Why would I want to be hitting a golf ball around in the winter too?"
Why indeed, when one can be skiing?
Nor is my chairlift companion a lonely outlier. Last month, after a morning of amazing skiing courtesy of the Blizzard of 2013, my wife and I repaired to a lovely, large-windowed lodge for coffee and cinnamon buns. Looking up once my plate was scraped clean of the last drop of frosting, I noticed that we were two of the youngest people in the bustling mid-mountain eatery. Which is remarkable when you consider that, to appropriate (and update) a line from A.E. Housman, of my four score years and ten, 50 will not come again.
It was one of those moments when you declare: Wow, if this is what senior citizenship is all about, sign me up. Now, I realize that health problems frequently interrupt plans for an active retirement. Sometimes, instead of 70 being the new 60, it insists on acting like the new 80. The spirit may be willing, but the body just isn't.
But even there, attitude matters. A few years back, while riding a lift at Waterville Valley, I shared a chair with a 74-year-old who told me he'd been skiing 50 or so times that winter. When I expressed my envy, he noted that he was trying to make up for the winter before, when he'd missed the entire season.
Quadruple bypass surgery, he said.
A few weeks later, I was relating that story to a friend while on a lift at Mount Sunapee. I'd like to be like that at 74, I said. Absent the heart surgery, of course.
A skier who had joined us on the lift spoke up.
"I'm 80," he said.
Wow, still skiing at 80, we replied. Good for you.
Perhaps he found our expressions of congratulation tinged with some unintended condescension. At any rate, as we made our way down the slope, the same skier came zooming by us at a speed that as much as said: Catch me if you can.
I encountered the antithesis of that doughty New England spirit last summer when a colleague and I did some talk-with-the-voters interviews at The Villages, the 55-and-up Florida gated community where residents tootle between quaintly themed town squares in tricked-out golf carts.
One fellow in particular sticks in my mind. To my eye, he was only on the near edge of senior citizenship, but he said he'd already been at The Villages for several years. The day he'd retired, he proudly reported, he'd packed up his car and made a beeline there from the snowy Midwest.
To each his own, I suppose. But as for me, I'd rather stick my hand into a can of annoyed spiders than live in a cloistered community like that. Talk about leaning into old age.
One who turned determinedly the other way was Emile Allais, the great French skier and pioneer of the parallel turn, who died last year at 100.
At 90, Allais broke his shoulder in a collision with (surprise, surprise) a snowboarder. But once it mended, he was back out on the slopes. Allais skied well into his 90s. He had even bet his doctor that he would beat him down a celebrated run at Chamonix on his hundredth birthday.
After only nine decades on skis, you can hardly blame him for wanting more. Sadly, however, a deteriorating sense of balance kept him from doing that race.
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Aging With HIV/AIDS
March 3, 2014
This piece originally appeared in Rae's blog, Diva Living With AIDS.
I've said it before, I never thought that I would live to see perimenopause, but I did. While I'm glad to be alive, I've got to admit, menopause or pre-menopausal which is what I'm gong through, is more than a notion. Now, menopause is when your menstrual cycle has ended, no more, done. Perimenopausal is basically, everything a woman experiences leading to menopause and you still have a cycle.
While every woman will have to go down this path, studies show that women with HIV have more severe perimenopausal issues. We tend to begin menopause earlier at 48-49 years of age. This is true for me. I started having hot flashes at 48. Women with HIV tend to have more severe hot flashes, depressed moods, irritability, sleep problems and all of this could lead to issues around adherence to HIV medication and ones overall well-being. As well as, a greater risk of heart disease.
It's interesting, older women don't really talk about menopause much other than hot flashes. When I was younger, I laughed off the topic with a shrug like most young women.
This is at least true for me and I'm finding it difficult as I muddle through. For the longest, I've suffered through hot flashes. A hot flash is heat consuming your body like an inferno on the inside coming out. For a good two years, hot flashes were a thorn. Then they went away, then they came back, then they tapered off. Which is where I'm at now; a hot flash every now and then. But when I have one, it stops me in my tracks.
Now perimenopause is far more then hot flashes. First off, this thing with the menstrual cycle, it just won't go away and when I'm this close to being done, then BAM! That's what happened last week. I hadn't had a cycle in 7 freaking months, then BAM! For me, having a menstrual cycle is not a breeze. I also have endometriosis, so my cycles tend to be heavy in the cramping; like someone has their hand up my vagina up to my uterus yanking down.
Yep, that was last week. Then these night sweats. Now night sweats are scary to me. Let me explain. Back in the day, night sweats were common for people living with AIDS and it often meant some kind of infection. So when my night sweats started back a few months ago, I went to my HIV doctor in a panic. She tested me for everything HIV related and all my test came back normal. So the night sweats that I'm experiencing are clearly caused by my perimenopausal status.
For the last 3 months or so, I wake in the middle of the night soaked. The weekend was the pits. Friday night I had to change my gown about 4:00 AM. But Saturday night was the pits. I woke up wet, wet, and wet, my gown, my sheets, my pillows, even my blanket was so wet that I had to remove everything. This happens at least 3- 4 times a week, where I at least have to change my night clothes and shift to the other side of the bed, and sometimes it happens a couple times in one night.
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RANDOLPH — For sisters Erin and Kiera Dwyer , there is a part of the game that stands head and shoulders above the rest when they take the ice for the Archbishop Williams girls' hockey team: penalty killing.
But sitting in a locker ream at Zapustas Arena in Randolph last weak, suited up for one of their final practices as scholastic teammates, neither Erin, a senior captain, nor Kiera, a sophomore, could explain why, as forwards, they enjoy the kill so much.
"That's my favorite part," Kiera said, laughing while giving her older sister a glance, as if looking for guidance. "You're not expected to do anything'' offensively.
No matter what it is, one thing is certain: When the Dwyers — whom eighth-year Archies coach Mark McHale calls the best penalty killers he's ever had — are on the ice, junior netminder Ashley Dallaire is appreciative.
"It's very comforting," Dallaire said with a chuckle. "As a goalie you want to . . . trust your teammates, and I trust them very much.
"A little stress goes off when they're on the ice. They're very good together."
The two Weymouth teens have been so good, in fact, that they are the top two scorers for a Bishops team that compiled a 14-7 mark in the regular season, the best in the Braintree program's history, earning an eight seed in the Division 2 state tournament.
At 5-foot-4, and centering the first line, Erin netted a team-high 25 goals with 19 assists, while the younger, but taller (5-6) Kiera had 13 goals and 21 assists skating the left wing.
Right wing Emma Crocker — a freshman from Abington with a rocket slap shot — chipped in seven goals and seven helpers to complement the sisters.
McHale also speaks highly of junior assistant captain Katie Barry (18 goals, 11 assists), also of Abington, and freshman defenseman Carolyn Drowne , a Raynham resident. But when it comes to the Bishops, the elder Dwyer is the team's unquestioned leader.
"She has been part of making this program grow the past three years," he said of the team's lone senior. "She came in here as a freshman and . . . right away she became an impact player."
Kiera similarly became an impact player her rookie campaign, finding the net 17 times during the 2011-12 season, a number topped only by Erin.
The sisters got their start together on a backyard rink, spending hour after hour working on stickhandling and playing keep-away. They played hockey in a town league before eventually joining the Charles River girls' hockey program, usually playing in the same age division despite being separated by two years.
The Dwyers still play for the Charles River U19 team — they are headed to California for a national tournament in April — and come September, Erin will be off to Colchester, Vt., to play for Division 2 St. Michael's.
For now, though, the Dwyers are still Bishops.
Both sisters give much credit for the successful regular season to Dallaire, a third-year starter who also plays for Charles River.
Dallaire only began skating in eighth grade, but has started every game since her freshman year, according to McHale, backstopping the team to the state tournament each of her first two years.
With a .936 save percentage and 1.71 goals-against average, the East Bridgewater resident has been sterling once again this year.
"We know she's an important part of the team," Erin said. "She's really good, and we know we always have her in net."
The Bishops hosted ninth-seeded Marshfield in a first-round matchup Wednesday night.
Four other varsity girls' teams in the area have the talent to make a deep tourney run:
DUXBURY (18-1-2): The two-time defending Division 2 state champs will be hard to unseat again. Expect senior captain Hannah Murphy (27 goals, 20 assists) to continue to roll offensively while junior captain Rachel Myette (.952 save percentage, 0.94 goals-against average) takes care of business at the other end.
CANTON (16-3-1): First-year coach Dennis Aldrich has his crew taking a big step up after last year's 14-8 campaign. If the Bulldogs make a run, seniors Meaghan McKenna (28 goals, five assists) and Meghan Lennon (10 goals, 18 assists) will lead the way.
NORWOOD (13-5-2): Sophomore Kacie Smith (32 goals, 15 assists) and junior Emily Kelly (28 goals, 18 assists) are among the top goal scorers in the state on an underclassmen-laden squad.
SCITUATE (10-5-4): The 10th-seeded Sailors played well enough for a preliminary-round bye, thanks in large part to a 6-1-3 run in the final month of the regular season. If Scituate makes a long run, senior forward Sam Coughlan will probably play a big role.
Boys' teams to watch in tourney
Five boys' teams to keep an eye on in the state tourney:
DUXBURY (14-3-5): Senior goaltender Chris Johnson is playing as well as ever, which is saying a lot for the owner of four shutouts. Senior forward James Marcello and sophomore forward Luke Stevens are difference makers at the other end.
MARSHFIELD (16-6): The Rams stumbled to the finish with a 2-2 record in their last quartet, but don't discount their more than four goals per game, especially when it comes to senior Michael Carbone and freshman JoJo Carbone , brothers playing their final games together.
NORWOOD (13-5-2): With junior forward Jack Sheehan (17 goals, 14 assists), senior forward Rourke Flynn (12 goals, 14 assists), and senior goalie Jordan Davis (.939 save percentage, 1.53 goals-against average), the Mustangs are as well rounded a team as any.
CANTON (15-3-2): Junior forward Brian Brooks's 18 goals and 24 assists make him one of the top point-getters in Division 2 and the Bulldogs a threat in their bracket.
XAVERIAN (8-7-5): Don't let the Hawks' record deceive you. As members of the Catholic Conference — which sent four teams to the Super 8 — they had one of the toughest schedules around. Xaverian went 7-2-3 in nonconference games.Tim Healey can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @timbhealey.


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says "the hour for immediate action is here" on a deal to avert the fiscal cliff.
The president says he remains "optimistic" that an agreement can be reached in Congress before a looming year-end deadline to avoid tax increases and spending cuts.
If Congress can't reach a deal, the president says Congress should allow a vote on a basic package that would preserve tax cuts for middle-class Americans while extending unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless and working toward a foundation for a broader deal.
The president says an hourlong meeting Friday with congressional leaders was "good and constructive."
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate's top Democrat and Republican say they're entering last-minute talks with the White House aimed at avoiding the fiscal cliff.
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He has a deep contempt for Britain, the British people and parliamentary democracy. He is trying to climb back to power via the Treaty of Rome, and put Britain under government from Brussels for ever. In 1970 Mr Heath solemnly promised that he would not take Britain into the Common Market without the full-hearted consent of the British people. He broke his pledged word then, and he now says he will not accept a 'No' vote on Thursday. Heath promised more jobs and higher living standards inside the EEC. These promises were all broken, and he now tells us we are so poor we cannot come out; beggars can't be chooses. That is false, too. Heath's leadership has been a total disaster for the British people. The Tory Party threw him out.Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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Pallbearers carry the casket of Mauricio Cornejo into St. Teresita Catholic Church in Boyle Heights Wednesday night. Close to two hundred residents of Ramona Gardens (background) attended the funeral. Mauricio died in police custody earlier this month igniting yet another round of police-brutality accusations and countercharges of gang intimidation.
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At about 4:30 on Friday evening someone walked through the front doors of the Mesa County Community Services building and hand delivered a manila envelope to the receptionist. According to Grand Junction Fire Department Spokesperson Mike Page, after handling the envelope, two employees experienced some minor skin irritation. They locked it in a closet where it remained over the holiday weekend. The Grand Junction Haz–Mat team wasn't called out until Tuesday. When they arrived they secured the copy room where the envelope was located and isolated the two employees that had handled the envelope. From there two members of the team suited up and headed in. The powder found in the manila envelope is consistent with a cleaning solution a janitor might use to clean–up viral contamination. No one was evacuated from the building and it was only put on lock down for a brief moment when the Haz–Mat team entered. At this time, the Grand Junction Police Department says they have a pretty good idea of who may have delivered the envelope. The incident is still under investigation.


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Video: Fab Five vs. Kentucky 1993 Final Four
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February 16th, 2011 at 7:30 AM ^
This is one of my all time favorites. Kentucky looked so unbeatable that year but Michigan handled their press way better than I imagined going into the game. A true classic.
February 16th, 2011 at 7:56 AM ^
Jamal M was the best college player I ever saw. IT was an EPIC win!!
February 16th, 2011 at 8:29 AM ^
Everybody pretty much picked Kentucky to win the game and almost gave Michigan no chance of beating the big and bad Kentucky.
It's amazing on how talented that the Fab 5 really is. C-Webb is a great athlete who can run and an outstanding passer. Juwan can really run for a big guy. Jalen is Jalen.
If they had stayed for all four years, they would win a national title when all is said and done. The fact that they got to the national championship twice is an amazing feat by itself.
February 16th, 2011 at 9:11 AM ^
That was an awesome day. Kentucky seemed like the real test that year and after the Fab 5 beat them I thought there was no way they could lose to Montross & UNC.
But it is sports and shit happens. And with the scandal that emerged later, it's probably for the best not to have had a national title stripped.
February 16th, 2011 at 9:40 AM ^
Great to just see the highlights. I had forgotten about Mashburn fouling out. UK was up 4 in OT when that happened, and you kind of just knew that was going to be it. I also don't remember Ray Jackson being such a factor in OT. A nice drive to the hole and foul to get UM within 1 in OT and then a beautiful post feed to Webber to take the lead for good. Jackson doesn't get the credit he deserved. I also thought it was interesting to see Howard guarding Mashburn. Kind of forget that they both were really primarily inside players in college, despite what they became in the NBA.
February 16th, 2011 at 10:38 AM ^
after the game was a good good time.
Someone said Mashburn was the best college player he saw. Can't argue it, but would submit Glenn Robinson and Calbert Cheaney for consideration.
February 16th, 2011 at 12:04 PM ^
Apparently, we are talking "best player ever seen from 1990-1993 in the Big Ten conference." Anyway, I don't think you can say Calbert Cheaney was a better player than Robinson. Robinson carried that team, where as Cheaney got his points within a system while being surrounded by a great cast. I don't think either of them were stellar defenders, either, though I think Cheaney was superior. (Granted, all of this is subjective). HowEVA, Big Dog averaged like 30 ppg in the Big Ten in a year where you had that Cheaney team at Indiana (which won the Big Ten and was a #1 seed in the tourney) and the Fab Five at M. Robinson was sick in college.
Along the lines of what everyone else's said. . . that Kentucky team came into that game with an average tournament margin of victory in excess of 30 ppg (!). They were a machine, and, to me, that game was the Fab Five's best performance. I seem to recall Mr. Webber hitting a shot while being pulled down by his shirt (although I may be thinking of a different game). It was the only time I felt like "holy shit, the other team, if playing its best, is better than Michigan" at times during the game that year. But Mash fouling out was massive, and the Fab Five grinded out that win in a game that tested them in a way I don't know they'd been tested like before.
God, what a game.
February 16th, 2011 at 2:12 PM ^
I'd take Webber over either Mashburn or Cheaney. He was an incredible athlete - he was all over the court on defense and on the glass - and his skill level was underrated, especiallly his passing ability. He also had a decent perimeter touch (if you watch the video of the '92 MSU game that was just uploaded, he drains two threes during our comeback). The only thing he couldn't do was shoot FTs.
Glenn Robinson's a tougher call. He was an absolute scoring machine.
February 16th, 2011 at 10:43 AM ^
I've said it before -- I think that was the Fab 5's high point.
* That was an amazingly big, athletic team.
* Other than Howard, they didn't have much conventional offense. In terms of ball handling and (especially) outside shooting, they were pretty average. Imagine (say) Voshon Lenard on that team.
* Pitino is such a @#$%head. Notice how quickly he brushed off Fisher after the game.
February 16th, 2011 at 11:01 AM ^
of all players who can run and jump out of the gym. I think the shortest player was Ray Jackson at 6'5" which is amazing that every one of them are all tall and athletic. When you have that much talent, you don't need conventional offense. You want them run and gunning and get the fast break buckets.
February 16th, 2011 at 12:07 PM ^
Agreed. When you watch those great Big Ten teams from the late-80's to the early 90's (including the Michigan-Illinois 1989 tourney game), it's really almost like pick up ball/NBA style: just great players who only need an inch to exploit their matchup and get buckets. For me, that was college basketball's apex, as the talent level was at an all-time high due to a.) the amount of kids playing basketball nationwide growing up (vs. other sports), and b.) the fact that they all basically stayed in college for at least a couple years, holding the talent pool for guys that age all in the same place.
February 16th, 2011 at 4:26 PM ^
If you watch carefully, the did run a convetional offense. The athleticism is what made it look easy. It also helped that CWebb was long and had great hands. To me, CWebb and Juwan ran some of the best hi-post to low-post in college those years. Juwan had a sweet 15 footer and CWebb could finish under the rim like no other back then. Goosebumps.....
February 16th, 2011 at 2:25 PM ^
I've said it before -- I think that was the Fab 5's high point.
Well of course - what else could it be? The Cincy game the year before?
February 16th, 2011 at 10:49 AM ^
I was at the game, row 18, on the superdome floor, sitting right behind Isiah Thomas and Terry Mills. That win was incredible.
February 16th, 2011 at 11:04 AM ^
hate 'em or love 'em. There is no middle ground. Old Michigan alums hated Fab 5 because they brought something new that they have never seen. Ironically, it was the Fab 5 who started the trend for showboating and trash talking. Now it's the norm. Other people loved the Fab 5 for their charismatic attitude, energy, athleticism and swag to the game of basketball. They started the trend of baggy shorts, black socks and bald heads.
Fab 5 transcend college basketball and will always be a piece of NCAA basketball history. No matter how hard Michigan tries not to acknowledge Fab 5, they will always be talked about.
February 16th, 2011 at 2:13 PM ^
They didn't start the trash-talking trend. That was around beforehand. (Larry Bird was one of the biggest trash-talkers ever, but for some reason no one ever noticed.) They started the trend of long, baggy shorts, which for some reason frightened people. Later, they added black socks.
February 16th, 2011 at 11:20 AM ^
Fab 5 was greatest team to watch ever. They were influential in so many ways. I was in middle school when they were at UM, watched EVERY game with my buddies, wore black socks, went outside and played b-ball in the cold/snow after every game (half time too).
I loved the swagger they had...Young, cocky, athletic and just good. Looking at this: They couldn't really shoot from the outside, basically played pickup offense, gambled, threw crazy passes, etc...But were just so damn talented and hungry to win they found a way. C-Webb was a beast and those hands ate up everything. Jalen was just the man, everybody followed him. That famous UK 'Press' didn't rattle Jalen at all, he looked relaxed breaking that thing time after time.
Makes me miss having a relivant UM hoops team...Hopefully our young team is on the rise and updgraded facilities will help.
Fab 5 were the shit...Can't wait until they can honor all these guys together whether they took money or not....GO BLUE
February 16th, 2011 at 12:10 PM ^
Dude, I feel like we lived similar lives in different places. The Fab Five came to prominence when I was 11-14 years old. I rocked the black socks, still have the Jalen Nike replica jersey (and the shorts), saved up and got the black Air Max's to wear as my basketball shoes my 7th grade year, cried when Webber called the timeout, and decided Michigan was the coolest school ever. It was hoops, more than football, believe it or not, that got me stuck on Michigan, and ended with two degrees there. I was an out-of-stater with parents who went to Illinois, but after the Fab Five, Michigan was it for me.
Man, I loved that team. I still love that team.
February 16th, 2011 at 2:06 PM ^
I swear to god I did the same exact thing during the tournament games. But I think I was outside every timeout with the rim about 8 1/2ft so I could slam. I was in Texas so the weather was cool. It made me proud that my team had the coolest players with long shorts, black socks, & bald heads. God I love those guys, even to this day!
Was it me or did Ray Jackson always take that shot with one foot over the 3pt line?
February 16th, 2011 at 2:09 PM ^
Yeah, those were Ray threes.
As a kid I idolized that team. Wow, it brings back emotions to this day. I love those guys.
February 16th, 2011 at 9:50 PM ^
That's so funny. My friend had an adjustable hoop we would lower and just go out and rag on it! I was always Jalen because I was the guard on our team. I watched that entire highlight at work today and it got me fired up...Literally makes me want to watch every game I can find on Youtube.
So funny how people from all walks of life and different parts of the country can grow up so similar...Even being moved by the same things going on at that time. I think you hit in on the head about the Fab 5 creating a bigger interest in Michigan. I grew up watching Bo with my Dad and running outside singing to fight song after touchdowns, loving UM football...But the Fab 5 created rapid love for UM that hasn't changed...
February 16th, 2011 at 1:24 PM ^
So classic. I remember watching this game about 6 inches from my TV screen. Man, I miss those long March runs.
February 16th, 2011 at 2:17 PM ^
One of my favorite Michigan games in any sport. The Fab Five was amazing. I don't care what the NCAA says - Webber had a far stronger case for being eligible than Cam Newton did (Ed Martin befriended Webber's dad when Chris was an eighth-grader, not right before he chose a college). I hope after the 10 years are up, we can find a way for him and the university to reconcile.
February 16th, 2011 at 5:14 PM ^
The Fab Five are my age...class of '91. As good as they were, that was my SECOND favorite Michigan basketball team. I really liked the 1989-90 squad, the year after the title run.
Sean Higgins, Terry Mills, Rumeal, Loy Vaught, Richard Voskuil...fun team.
But everyone knew how special the Fab Five were. Webber, Howard, and Rose were all unique players. BTW, I have an SI College Basketball preview from 1986 that lists the best players by class looking into the future. They miss on a lot (their best player from that year's current class was Marcus Liberty), but they singled out Jimmy King as the best player from the class of 1991.
February 16th, 2011 at 5:17 PM ^
I was at that game. Sitting next to three guys from UK. I was a bit apprehensive at the start of the game, but by the end we were all fast friends. We even shared a round on Bourbon St. afterwards as consolation. One of the best bball games I've ever witnessed.
Of course, I was the one needing consoling a cpl nights later... :/
February 16th, 2011 at 8:41 PM ^
who say "well, the Fab 5 never actually won anything" (meaning Big 10 titles).
The Fab 5 cut down nets at the Final Four 2 years in a row as Freshmen and Sophomores. Tell me Purdue wouldn't have traded all thier run-of-the-mill Big 10 championships for just one of those Final Fours.
Kentucky was a juggernaut that year, blowing out teams in the tournament by 50 points a game. It gets overshadowed because of what happened in the Final game, but that Kentucky win was the most underrated win in Michigan sports history.
February 16th, 2011 at 10:09 PM ^
In retrospect, it really is surprising Kentucky was such a big favorite in this game. We had three guys go on to have legit NBA careers. Kentucky just had one.


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DALLAS — It was the one that got away and the Vancouver Canucks have not forgotten about it.
Just six days ago, the Dallas Stars did something not many teams have accomplished at Rogers Arena in recent years: They came from behind in the third period to beat Vancouver 4-3 in regulation.
Goalie Cory Schneider was not at his best that night and welcomes the opportunity to help make amends tonight at the American Airlines Center (5:30 p.m., Sportsnet Pacific, Team 1040).
"We're not happy how the last game ended, losing two points in our building like that late in the game," Schneider said after today's optional morning skate. "They are a good team, they are a team that has been playing hard and has a lot of skill, so we can't fall asleep against them again and it's important for me to be just be a little bit better than I was the last game."
The Canucks will play tonight without winger Jannik Hansen, who is serving a one-game suspension he received for his hit Tuesday night on Chicago winger Marian Hossa.
"Jannik has been one of our most competitive forwards, he has been real good five-on-five, he has been solid killing penalties," said coach Alain Vigneault. "It is going to be a loss for us, but that's part of the game. We are going to move Zack (Kassian) up in his position with Ryan (Kesler) and Chris Higgins and hopefully that will give us a real solid line."
Kassian hopes to use that opportunity to snap out of a slump.
"I am really excited," he said. "I haven't been playing my best of late. It's a good opportunity for me to get going again."
Last Friday, the Stars got a late second-period goal from Cody Eakin and third-period goals from Antoine Roussel and Brenden Dillion to get the win.
"That top line of Jagr and Benn and Eriksson, they are so fast and skilled and seem to slow the game down to their speed," Schneider said. "But then they can use their speed and Jagr with his strength and size down low he can carry a couple of guys on his back. So when they get going it's hard to stop.
"But last game it was their depth that really hurt us. The guys who were crashing the net, going for loose pucks and just putting pucks on net. We can't let the top guys beat us, but we also have to be aware of their depth guys."
That game seemed to turn after three fights within three seconds of one another with five minutes left in the second. A spirited scrap between Aaron Volpatti and Ryan Garbutt was followed by fights between Max Lapierre and Vernon Fiddler and Dale Weise and Eric Nystrom.
"That's why fighting is part of the game," Nystrom said today. "It changed the momentum of the game. Obviously, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, but the fans love it. I know the building was going crazy when it was going on and that's sometimes a player's role on a team is to give a spark that way. It was just a tough game and those things happen. It was fun."
The Canucks, who have lost three straight, will go with three new defensive pairings tonight. Kevin Bieksa and Dan Hamhuis will be reunited, Chris Tanev will join Alex Edler on the second pair, while Jason Garrison drops down to play with Keith Ballard.
With Kari Lehtonen still out with a groin injury he suffered last Friday night in Vancouver, the Stars are starting Cristopher Nilstorp in goal tonight. The 29-year-old is a veteran of the Swedish Elite League.
Nilstorp's name is actually spelled Nihlstorp, but the H was apparently dropped on some documentation he used to get into the U.S. and NHL rules stipulate the name on his contract has to match those documents. So in the NHL, he's known as Nilstorp.
Stars: Victoria native Jamie Benn has 10 points in 11 games since ending his contract holdout and signing with the Stars. He centres the top line with Jaromir Jagr and Loui Eriksson.
Canucks: Zack Kassian is tied for the team lead with five goals, but hasn't scored in his last eight games. The Canucks want the big winger to be more physical and make smarter plays with the puck.
The Stars are without forward Ray Whitney (foot), goalie Kari Lehtonen (groin) and defenceman Trevor Daley (neck).
Canucks centre Manny Mahotra (eye) is out for the season.
ICE CHIPS: With Hansen serving his one-game suspension, winger Aaron Volpatti will draw back into the lineup after sitting out Tuesday night's game in Chicago as a healthy scratch … The Canucks are 4-0-1 in their last five regular-season visits to Dallas.


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If we fire him, I still want to stay a 3-4 defense, but yeah, teams have been suing the same blueprint against us for like two months
OK, this probably won't happen. Sutton is not as bad as GRob (ooh I just got a nasty chill typing that name), but he does not know how to adjust. We could do a lot better for DC.
Furthermore the title of this thread is somewhat hypothetical because I don't think Andy will fire his friend Sutton. That said, who would you want as the Chiefs next DC is by some miracle Sutton was dumped?... And why?
- Wade Phillips?
- Ray Horton?
- Any of the recently fired HCs?
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If we fire him, I still want to stay a 3-4 defense, but yeah, teams have been suing the same blueprint against us for like two months
I agree 100% fire Sutton
I say you don't fire Sutton. It's his first year as our DC. You've got to give him some time. We need to get some players on that side of the ball that can play the game the way the coaches want it done. If we do that and still have issues then fire him. But not without giving him the chance to get good players. It's not his fault that Robinson can't cover any more than it was his fat that Copper was getting lit up early in the year. Gotta give him time to implement his defense with his type of players. As bad as it sucks to have lost, were leaps and bounds ahead of where we were last year. You take the best player off any team in the playoffs and it's gonna be hard for them to win. Now lose 5 good players in the same game and becomes even more difficult. We have to learn to win in the playoffs. Unfortunately most I our guys don't know how to win there yet, but here's hoping this was the first step in that direction. Next year we have a tougher schedule and hopefully a better more focused team!! Either way I'm proud of this team!!
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An imaginative DC puts himself in the shoes of the opposition's OC at halftime. "What would I do if I were him?" he should think, "And what should I do to counter?" Sutton has been woefully short on imagination and it has cost us dearly this season.
It just looks like we should not pass up on someone like Wade Phillips now that he may be available. Not a great HC, but a great DC.
I agree with Tbone here. We need some coaching consistency after years of revolving doors. Sutton lapsed by not double teaming Hilton, but our secondary was $#@! To begin with.
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