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Pounds may drive revenue in the cattle business, but how those pounds appear in the marketplace, and when, determine the direction and degree.
"Although cattle producers can't affect the forces that drive the cattle market, they can control the factors that affect the premium and discounts that their calves can potentially obtain," say authors of Kansas State University's (KSU) recently published "Factors Affecting Feeder Cattle Prices in Kansas and Missouri."
The study by Kevin Dhuyvetter, Karl Harborth, Lee Schulz and Justin Waggoner encompassed 84,319 head of cattle sold as 8,200 feeder cattle lots at auction in Carthage, MO, and Dodge City, KS, during November and December of 2008 and March and April of 2009.
As in similar studies, KSU researchers found wide, additive differences for management and marketing attributes:
Breed was worth +$3.10/cwt. (Angus) to -10.86/cwt. (Longhorn), compared to the base value paid for Herefords.
Compared to red cattle, blacks brought $2.49/cwt. more.
Heavy-muscled cattle were worth $6.62/cwt. more than average-muscled peers.
Small-framed cattle brought $5.98/cwt. less than medium-muscled.
Horns brought a discount of $2.18/cwt.
Compared to cattle in moderate condition, those classified as very thin were worth $10.83/cwt. less; very fat cattle were worth $4.87 less.
Those classified as very full brought $4.02/cwt. less than cattle with average fill; very gaunt cattle were $3.60/cwt. less.
Now consider that domestic consumer beef demand will likely end 2009 at a level reminiscent of 1999-2000 when it started to trend upward after two decades of consecutive year-to-year declines. In fact, during the second week of December fed cattle in some parts of the nation sold for $78/cwt. That was only the second week since 2006 that they traded below $80, according to the Agricultural Marketing Service.
Though some economists claim the recession is over, others say the nation is in the beginning stages of an economic depression. Either way, it seems obvious that high unemployment will continue to make for lackluster beef prices.
Feedlots continue to wade through a flood of red ink, even though feed prices are lower than last year. Cattle supplies are historically tight, but continued feeding losses and anemic beef demand suggest feeders must lower prices further on the cattle they buy.
Of course, more than price determines cow-calf profitability.
In a separate KSU study, "Differences Between High, Medium and Low Profit Cow-Calf Producers: An Analysis of 2004-2008 Kansas Farm Management Association (KFMA) Cow-Calf Enterprise," researchers Dhuyvetter and Michael Langemeier analyzed the profitability of KFMA-enrolled cow-calf producers.
"The variability across producers at a point in time is much larger than the variability over time," the researchers explain. "This research suggests that while both production (weight) and price do impact profit, they are much less important in explaining differences between producers than costs."
For 2004-2008, the average net return to management over total costs was -$152.20/cow. For the top third of producers it was +$15.05/cow; it was -$356.42 for the bottom third. The top third of the producers did have a 17% advantage in gross cattle income, but it was the costs that allowed them to show an average profit.
Compared to the bottom third of producers, the top third had 34% less total cost; 56% less depreciation cost; 46% less machinery cost; 44% less labor cost; 33% less interest cost; 21% less feed cost; 63% less "other" cost. Interestingly, the most profitable producers spent 2% more on cattle health than the least profitable.
"There is tremendous variability across producers, which means there is room for people to improve their relative situations," conclude authors of the KSU study. "However, before one can improve their situation, they need to know where they stand relative to other producers. Thus, benchmarking and identifying one's strengths and weaknesses is the first step to deciding where to focus management efforts."

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The World Health Organization has warned countries to heighten their surveillance for possible cases of infection with the new coronavirus, suggesting patients with unexplained pneumonias should be tested even if they don't have links to Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The agency also suggested investigating clusters of severe respiratory infections, and clusters of such illnesses in health-care workers, regardless of where they occur in the world.
Up until now the WHO has said that testing for the new coronavirus should be restricted to patients with severe respiratory infections who had recently travelled to or who were residents of a country that had recorded cases. To date the only confirmed infections have been in Qatari and Saudi nationals.
That change in advice, the basis for which the WHO did not explain, raised eyebrows among some infectious diseases experts, who were quick to try to read between the lines.
"That suggests that they have the idea that it's more widespread. Where does that idea come from? What's the evidence?" wondered Dr. Ron Fouchier.
The Dutch virologist leads the laboratory, which in June found that a new coronavirus — from the same general family as the virus that caused SARS — was behind the infection of the first identified case, a man from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
If the WHO has any evidence that the virus has spread further afield, it hasn't revealed it.
But its concern may stem from the fact that over three million Muslim pilgrims have recently returned to their home countries after attending this year's Hajj, which ended in late October.
The WHO's new advice was contained in a statement released Friday in which it announced the global count of confirmed infections with the new virus has risen to six. Two of the confirmed cases have died. All six cases were male.
It also revealed that Saudi Arabia has reported a cluster of cases, with two men confirmed and two others under investigation. The four men shared a household in an undisclosed part of the country.
All four were sick around the same time, suffering similar symptoms, the WHO said. Of the two men under investigation, one died. Test results are still pending on samples taken from the man during his illness.
The other man survived and tested negative for the virus, the WHO said. But it did not disclose the type of test used or when the testing was done.
Until more information is known, it is not clear that the test result can be considered reliable, said Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
The reliability of the test could vary, depending on when the person was tested, what kind of test was used and the kind and calibre of the specimen being tested, he said.
"If the person had an illness similar to the other illnesses, then ... I believe that you'd have to consider that this test may have been a false negative," said Osterholm, adding testing the survivor's blood for antibodies would shed some light on the situation.
Both the changing WHO advice and the lack of clarity on the testing underscore a problem with this situation, both Osterholm and Fouchier suggested.
Very little about the cases is being publicly shared. And the international teams of scientists who travelled to Saudi Arabia to look for possible sources of the virus have released no information about their investigations.
Fouchier was front and centre in the laboratory effort during the 2003 SARS outbreak. It was his lab, at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, that proved what's called Koch's postulates — conducting the test that confirmed that the newly identified coronavirus was actually causing the disease SARS.
During the early days of the SARS outbreak, the WHO rapidly put together a virtual network of laboratories, tapping into expertise around the world to combat the alarming new disease.
But this time? In the summer, Fouchier's lab identified and sequenced the new coronavirus and developed a test for it. But since then, it's been "radio silence," Fouchier said in an interview Friday.
"Everything I've heard since then has just come from the lay press, which is completely in contrast to how we acted back in the SARS era," he said.
"That was completely different during the SARS outbreak. We were all talking together, exchanging results and giving each other ideas about what to test, how to test, where to test. And none of that is happening now. We just have to rely that they're doing the right thing."
Officials in the know should be sharing more information, Osterholm agreed.
"At this point in any outbreak investigation, there clearly is more information that is known by health officials than likely has been shared," he said.
"But if there were ever a time for complete transparency, now is the time. We've learned that in the past and I'd hate to see us have to relearn the lesson again."


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There will still be the rim-rattling, mind-bending slam dunks, the barrage of breathtaking 3-pointers and the dazzling array of skills on display when the greatest talent in basketball gathers.
But State Farm All-Star Saturday Night will undergo an extreme makeover this year in New Orleans with rule changes for all four of the events and an overall team competition between the Eastern and Western conferences — led by captains Paul George and Stephen Curry — with $500,000 in charitable contributions on the line.
Perhaps the most familiar name by the end of the extravaganza will be guard Damian Lillard of the Portland Trail Blazers, who will be busier than a trumpet player in a French Quarter brass band. He's taking part in three of Saturday's four events — including stints as a dunker, a long-distance shooter and a playmaker in the Taco Bell Skills Challenge. The 2013 Rookie of the Year already has a busy dance card; he's scheduled to play in the BBVA Compass Rising Stars Challenge on Friday night and in the 63rd NBA All-Star Game on Sunday.
The most dramatic change Saturday is coming in the night's marquee event, the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest. The competition will feature six dunkers, three from each conference, in a free-wheeling, two-round showdown to determine the best conference. For the first time in the event's history, no individual dunker will be crowned. Instead, the title will go to the best conference. Complete rules.
Dunking for the Eastern Conference will be the team captain George of the Pacers, 2013 champion Terrence Ross of the Raptors and John Wall of the Wizards. The Western Conference dunkers will be Lillard, Harrison Barnes of the Warriors and Ben McLemore of the Sacramento Kings.
The 6-foot-3 Lillard will be battling in the land of the giants as the shortest participant in the slam dunk contest.
Highlights: George | Ross | Wall | Lillard | Barnes | McLemore
Before he puts on his dunking shoes, Lillard will be showing off his marksmanship as part of the Foot Locker Three-Point Contest. The other participants are Kyrie Irving of the Cavaliers, Bradley Beal of the Wizards, Joe Johnson of the Nets and Arron Afflalo of the Magic for the East. Curry of the Warriors, Marco Belinelli of the Spurs and Kevin Love of the Timberwolves will join Lillard shooting for the West.
The major rule change in the contest is that players will have an entire rack of "money balls," which count double, that can be placed in any of the five shooting positions around the court. Complete rules.
The Taco Bells Skills challenge has been turned into a relay race this year with each conference fielding two teams consisting of two players each. Each team will run the course, competing in a relay format for a single overall time. Complete rules.
The ubiquitous Lillard will team with Trey Burke of the Jazz and Reggie Jackson of the Thunder will team with Goran Dragic of the Suns to make up the Western Conference lineup. The East teams will be Michael Carter-Williams of the Sixers with Victor Oladipo of the Magic and DeMar DeRozan of the Raptors with rookie Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Bucks.
The Sears Shooting Stars will once again team a current NBA player with a WNBA star and an NBA legend in a time competition that will require four shots made from different spots on the court.
Tim Hardaway Jr. of the Knicks and Chris Bosh of the Heat will head up the East teams, while Kevin Durant of the Thunder and Curry will lead the West. Complete rules.
Each conference will be competing for charity. A total of $500,000 will be donated at the end of the night. For each competition, $100,000 will go to the winning conference's charities, with $25,000 going to the charities of the runner-up.
State Farm All-Star Saturday night will be televised exclusively on TNT on Feb. 15 (8 p.m. ET).
[UPDATE: TNT will hold a fan vote during the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest to determine the Sprite Dunker of the Night. The winner of that vote will be considered the individual champion for the competition.]
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LANCASTER, PA – The York College wrestling squad returned to action with a trip across the Susquehanna River to the F&M Open hosted by Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. The tournament featured some of the top teams in Divisions I, II, and III.
The Spartans had some outstanding performances against some of the best competition they will face all season.
York had a fourth place finisher, a fifth place finisher and two other seventh place finishers. Freshman Ryan Flynn (Newtown Square, Pa./Marple Newtown) ended the day with York's fourth place finish while sophomore Mike Spencer (Pompton Plains, N.J./Pequannock Township) was the fifth place finisher for York. Trevor Baez-Hernandez (Bendersville, Pa./Biglerville) (133 pounds) and Nick Zak (Jackson, N.J./Jackson Liberty) (184 pounds) both earned top-eight finishes in their weight classes.
Flynn began his day with an 8-4 win over George Mason's Zachary Isenhour. Flynn then fell to Clarion's Tyler Fraley, the eventual weight class champion, 7-2, in the championship quarterfinals. Flynn bounced back to pin Millersville's Kyle Loeb in a time of 6:41. Flynn then advanced past Baez-Hernandez in a forfeit before posting a 5-2 win over Virginia's Emilio Martinez to advance to the consolation championship. Flynn fell to Binghamton's Nick Tighe in the final match, 13-7, as the freshman finished his impressive day in fourth at 133.
Spencer, the Spartan heavyweight, opened his tournament with a 10-5 win over Franklin & Marshall's Alexander Henry in his first match. Spencer then advanced to the semifinals with a medical forfeit win over Trevor Smith from Army. Spencer was knocked to the consolation bracket with a loss to Tyler Deuel from Binghamton. Maryland's Carl Buchholz edged Spencer 10-6 in the consolation semifinals but Spencer bounced back to win the fifth place match.
Baez-Hernandez opened his stay in the tournament with a pinfall win over Sean Billings from New York University. He then picked up a 13-3 major decision over Bloomsburg's Elliot Zackowski in the second round. Binghamton's Tighe then pushed Baez-Hernandez to the consolation bracket with a 10-6 decision in the championship quarterfinals. Baez-Hernandez earned a 3-1 sudden victory win over F&M's Scott Stevens before forfeiting to teammate Flynn in the consolation semifinals. The seventh place match between Baez-Hernandez and Pitt-Johnstown's Luke Palamides was not held, tying the two for seventh place.
Zak started his day with a tight 3-2 win over NYU's Patrick Sheehan. He followed that with an 11-2 major decision over Millersville's Shane Gilmore. Princeton's Scott Gibbons knocked Zak to the consolation bracket with a 4-0 win in the quarterfinals. Zak rebounded with a 9-3 victory over Brett Dempsey from American University. Zak would fall to Travis McKillop from Pitt-Johnstown in the consolation semifinals as he finished tied for seventh.
The Spartans return to action on Friday when they travel to the Budd Whitehill Duals hosted by Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA. The two-day tournament kicks off at 9:00 pm on Friday.


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It's been a tough 12 months for Art Modell.
When he announced a year ago today that he was moving the Cleveland Brownsto Baltimore, team owner Modell transformed himself from an elder statesman ofpro football to its Benedict Arnold.
Longtime friends shunned him. Community leaders who once courted himvilified him. He was bashed from Capitol Hill to the World Wide Web. Hisnomination to the Hall of Fame failed, and his legacy as an NFL builder wasdashed.
Then, when he got to Baltimore, a rebellious Maryland General Assemblythreatened to revoke the deal, leaving him and his franchise homeless.
Oh, and he almost died.
In April, he contracted a blood infection, possibly from a cut. Theinfection sent his blood pressure plunging, his temperature up to 105 degrees,and pushed his kidneys to the brink of failure.
Doctors administered five antibiotics intravenously and Modell, 70,gradually recovered.
In a wide-ranging interview in his Owings Mills office, with its panoramicview of the team's practice fields and the colorful fall foliage beyond,Modell reflected on his first year as a Marylander.
"It's been a year that will never be forgotten. A memorable year in moreways than one," Modell said.
A Brooklyn, N.Y., native, Modell was a young Madison Avenue ad man in1961, when word came to him that the Browns were for sale. He assembled aninvestment group that paid $3.9 million for the team, and he moved toCleveland.
He soon became a member of former commissioner Pete Rozelle's innersanctum, at the center of every policy decision made during the league's boomyears.
Although he has long maintained a summer home in Florida, Modell was adominant figure in Cleveland affairs for more than three decades. He hasn'tbeen back since he took the podium at Camden Yards last Nov. 6 and made theannouncement that would break the hearts of the legions of loyal Browns fans.
Overall, he said, it's been the most traumatic year of his life. But alsothe most rewarding.
His reception in Baltimore has been warm, he said. The response of thefans -- who've sold out every Ravens game -- has beenheartening. Even the team, which has turned in a lackluster performance on thefield, has shown promise, he said.
"We lost some friends in Cleveland, although I'm beginning to realize theymight not have been our friends," Modell said.
One relationship that suffered is his long-standing friendship withCleveland billionaire Al Lerner. The two became close in the 1970s, when theyjointly invested in some radio stations. Lerner -- who started out in businessin Baltimore and ran Maryland National Bank before selling it to NationsBank-- bought into the Browns in the 1980s, helping Modell through a financialbind.
But the man who used to fly Modell to every away game and was a fixture inthe Cleveland Stadium owners box has not made it to a Ravens game. And the twohave talked about Lerner's cashing in his 9 percent share of the team tospearhead a drive for an expansion franchise in Cleveland, Modell said.
The NFL agreed, in a settlement of lawsuits sparked by the Brownsrelocation, to put another team in Cleveland by expansion or relocation by1999 and name it the Browns.
"I think there is a good chance he will divest," Modell said. If so,Modell said, he may seek local investors for that share of the Ravens. Buthe's not sure he favors expansion for Cleveland, with so many existing teamsneeding better stadiums.
"There are a lot of people in the league who oppose expansion. Having theexperience of moving, I would like to explore every possibility. I think wehave to look at our own first before we look at expansion," Modell said.
He and Lerner are still friends. "But it doesn't have the intensity offriendship it once had. But it's not cold," Modell said.
Modell declined to discuss the reasons for their drifting apart. Lernerdid not respond to requests for comment.
Mutual acquaintances say the two men were surprised by the outcry provokedby the Browns' move. Lerner, who played a crucial role in Modell's decisionand was the initial go-between for Modell and Maryland, found himself in aplace he generally shuns: the spotlight.
Lerner responded by trying to distance himself publicly from the decision.This angered Modell, according to friends.
As for his own legacy, Modell said it has unquestionably suffered in thecontroversy over the past year. In this, he finds irony: The popularity of theBrowns and their relationship with Cleveland were due in part to hisstewardship, he said.
"People will judge me as they judge me," he said.
But he holds out hope the rancor will fade.
He insists, as he has for the past year, that he was forced to movebecause community leaders failed to fulfill promises to renovate his decrepitstadium. Clevelanders say that they were making progress and that Modell neveradequately informed them of his situation or that he was considering moving.
A referendum to fund part of the work passed the day after Modellannounced he was moving the team. The league has agreed to kick in up to $48million to help with the construction of a new stadium.
If he could do anything differently, Modell said, he would have pushedharder in 1991 for a firm commitment from Cleveland officials on his stadiumbefore work began on new facilities for the American League Indians and NBACavaliers.
"The only regret that I have is that I shouldn't have taken them at theirword in 1991. I took them at face value," he said.
He almost found himself in the same position in Maryland, after the NFLhad approved the move. Stadium opponents in Annapolis pushed to rescind thedeal.
"I was horrified. I had a binding agreement signed by the governor,"Modell said.
The General Assembly was appeased when Modell agreed to contribute $24million toward stadium construction. The terms of the repayment were notspecified and won't be until a full lease is negotiated. That process probablywill begin next summer.
Modell said he has been assured that he will receive some off-settingrevenue source. That could be the right to sell the stadium's name to acorporate sponsor, he said.
"I have to have some revenue to pay for it. That's the understanding wehave, some external signs, naming rights, something," Modell said.
Maryland Stadium Authority chairman John Moag said that will be thesubject of negotiations. "I owe him a real fair shake on that issue," Moagsaid.
Shortly after the stadium matter was settled, Modell, relaxing in hisFlorida vacation home, came down with the blood infection. He checked into aFlorida branch of the Cleveland Clinic, a highly respected hospital he hadhelped raise funds for and had served as board president.
"I was gravely ill," said Modell, who has a history of heart disease goingback a decade.
He is still trying to keep his workload down as he regains his energy. Hehopes to resume exercising soon, probably starting with walks on the team'spractice fields.
"In general, I'm fine. I do tire easily," he said.
Modell said he intends to become involved in community affairs once he issettled in Maryland. He probably will not join as many boards as he did inCleveland, where he was a fixture on the civic scene for 30 years, but will beactive with charities, he said.
"I want to move and get into a new house," Modell said.
He paid $2.3 million in June for a five-acre estate in Hunt Valley, butit's being renovated, and he and his wife, Pat, have been living in a downtownhotel for the past year.
He said they've found a few favorite restaurants and are enjoying the newcity, although there hasn't been a lot of time for socializing.
One local delicacy he's still working on is crabs. "I could survive withor without them," he said.
His 35-year-old son, David, has assumed a larger role with the team inBaltimore, overseeing the marketing and representing it at many civicfunctions. His other son, John, 36, a Los Angeles musician, also has becomeinvolved, flying in and helping with the sound system on game days.
Long active in Ohio Republican politics, Modell said he's not sure whathis role will be in Maryland government, which is dominated by Democrats.
Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole, whom Modell has supported foryears, approached the team owner last fall about helping with the Ohiocampaign. Modell was about to move the team and didn't want to take on theextra duties.
"I said I can't, that I'm about to do something that might embarrass you,"Modell said.
With the blur of the move, and the resulting need to rename the team,design uniforms, sell tickets and get Memorial Stadium ready, he has hadlittle time for longer-term projects such as a new training complex. He saidhe wants to replace the old Colts complex at Owings Mills, but is in no hurry.
"We'll definitely have a new complex. I have no idea where or when. We'llbuild something in five years, though," he said.
His goal with the team is to have a contender by the time the new $190million downtown stadium, under construction adjacent to Oriole Park, opens in1998.
"I want to have an elite team no later than our first year at CamdenYards," he said.


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And the 12th man nearly put itself onto the Seattle Mt. Rushmore.
The fans narrowly missed inclusion in both the Pro Football Talk on NBCSN and the PFT Planet version's of the team's Mt. Rushmore.
For both, the 12th man came in at No. 5 (which is better than 12th). We also agreed on the four who merited the slots: Steve Largent, Cortez Kennedy, Walter Jones, and Shaun Alexander.
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Sometimes I find crafty inspiration in the most unexpected places. While watching The Colbert Report last night, my ears perked up when I heard Steven Colbert note that his musical guest, Lisa Hannigan, had stitched all the art for her CD cover and liner notes for the album Sea Sew. I was instantly intrigued and delighted to realize that not only did her cover art seem cool, but she also makes beautiful music. As I hopped on to her Web site to learn more, I was overwhelmed with excitement to see that all the design elements of the site appear to be hand-stitched. Her song listing is delicately embroidered and even has the needle still tucked in the fabric. I impulsively purchased her album (Colbert may be right about his "Colbert Bump") through iTunes, and am now smacking my head … of course! It doesn't have the digital liner notes, so I can't explore her stitching further. Still, though, I'm enjoying her music and I'm looking forward to learning more about her apparent crafty side.
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How to Improve the Likelihood of CDM Approval? Institutional shortcomings and the Case of West Africa
How can the likelihood of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) approval be improved in the face of institutional shortcomings? To answer this question, we focus on the three institutional shortcomings of income sharing, risk sharing and corruption prevention concerning afforestation/reforestation (A/R). Furthermore, three main stakeholders are identified, namely investors, governments and agents in a principal-agent model regarding monitoring and enforcement capacity. Developing countries such as West Africa have, despite huge potentials, not been integrated in A/R CDM projects yet. Remote sensing, however, appears to be an effective tool to overcome the three institutional shortcomings. Thus, a pilot project should be considered in near future to develop a best practice system.
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The debate about whether or not LeBron James is a "choke artist" has finally outgrown the bounds of reality.
Immediately after Heat-Thunder Game One, ESPN ran this graphic (via Yahoo!), called "Not Finishing How He Started," to underline LeBron's fourth quarter struggles.
The problem is that LeBron actually finished exactly how he started mathematically. 7 points on six shots and 2 rebounds is precisely what he did in the first three quarters.
You can write this off as a minor oversight. But the point is this: It doesn't matter what LeBron does. If the Heat win, no one will say he choked. If the Heat lose, people will say he choked.
The narrative has gone rogue, and it's fueled by its own momentum at this point. There's nothing that can stop it, not even math.


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1. Could you start by telling us a bit about your Chicagoland Vampire series?
CN: Absolutely. The Chicagoland Vampires series tells the story of Merit, a grad-student-turned-vampire who has to make the sometimes awkward transition from Smart Girl to Vampire Warrior. Vampires have recently announced their existence to the world, so Merit has to find her place within a world of very strategic vampires, even as she discovers that her family and friends aren't immune to the supernatural currents.
2. On your website, you have named the next two books in the series, Twice Bitten (July2010) and Hard Bitten (TBA). How many books do you anticipate for this series?
CN: I have ideas for about eight books, and there are currently four under contract (Some Girls Bite, Friday Night Bites, Twice Bitten, Hard bitten).
3. If you could describe your heroine, Merit, in 5 words, which would you choose?
CN: Smart, sarcastic, lovely, witty, hopeful.
4. Lately, readers are being exposed to stacks of vampire books. What makes your stories stand out from the rest?
CN: I like to think that I've put a new spin on the traditional vampire mythos. In the CV series, vampires lived as assimilated humans for centuries. As a result, they had their own rules, regulations and traditions. I try to explore that world within CV as vampires figure out how to live now that they're out of the closet.
5. On a guest post at the Knight Agency, I read that you are a visual person. How does this effect your world building and story planning?
CN: I like to collect images from the Internet from design and news sites that inspire me and the worlds I build, whether in fashion, art or architecture. These kind of references can be really helpful when I'm stuck or when I'm trying to figure out how a world should "feel."
6. Your Young Adult debut, Firespell (Dark Elite, book 1), comes out in January 2010. Was it hard to make the transition to YA novels?
CN: It was definitely a transition, although for very practical reasons. YA heroines are under age, may not be able to drive, can't vote, may have to abide by curfews, and are supposed to be in school all day. It's definitely a challenge to make a story interesting within all of those rules.
7. Are you currently working on any other projects you would like to share with us?
CN: I've just finished writing TWICE BITTEN, Chicagoland Vampires book three, and I'm now starting the second book in the DARK ELITE series. I have a couple of additional urban fantasy series ideas, but no time to work on them! :)
8. Lastly, what is your favorite way to relax after a hard day of writing? Any guilty pleasures?
CN: I actually have a day job, so writing is the thing I do at the end of the day to "relax." Unless I'm on a deadline, in which case, no relaxing. :)
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(SEATTLE) – The "12th man" and the city of Seattle celebrated the Seahawks' Super Bowl championship on Wednesday with a parade, which culminated with a celebration at their home stadium, CenturyLink Field.
"Once again today, the 12th man demonstrated an extraordinary gift that they have," Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll said during the celebration. "The love, the spirit, that they showed us at this parade today, in this celebration was just beyond belief and we thank you so much for that."
Seattle police estimated that 700,000 people flooded into downtown to watch the Seahawks parade that began near the Space Needle.
The Seahawks captured their first Vince Lombardi Trophy this past Sunday in Super Bowl XLVIII with a 43-8 win over the Denver Broncos.
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Years ago, when this site was young, we got so many people commenting to let us know "It's just a show – lighten up!" that we expressly forbade this point of view in our comment policy. It wasn't just the sheer volume, redundancy and dismissive tone of the comments that prompted us to get rid of them. It was also that it's just not true.
I can't tell you how times guys have disbelieved my claims to have gender-expectation-defying interests, preferences or activities, then cited television and movies as their proof I'm lying in some weird attempt to manipulate them. For example, women on TV and movies are always thrilled about getting flowers, they say, so when I say, "Oh, thanks, but actually having those anywhere near me will upset my allergies and lead to a bad headache", I must really be saying, "I have secretly found someone else because your penis was inadequate and I hate you and your damn flowers."
Another example: all women dream about their weddings. Men knows this because TV shows have given them the scoop. Remember the episode of Friends with the pillowcases? Even Phoebe was into it, and no one could be more of a strange loner misfit than Phoebe, therefore I must be lying when I say I have no interest in a wedding, mine or anyone else's, ever. (In fact, I find them creepy.) Every woman wants a big diamond engagement ring to impress her friends, according to TV and movies, so what am I trying to pull when I claim I don't? I must be trying to set men up to make mistakes so I can throw tantrums at them. Yes, that must be it. (I never even threw tantrums as a child, but women on TV and movies always do, so there!)
And of course, when I don't get angry at men failing to recall my birthday, which I usually don't recall myself, or for being late or for canceling last minute, which I totally understand and have to do myself sometimes, what I'm really saying is that I don't care about them. Because the women in TV and movies always secretly seethe about this stuff, I must be secretly seething too – unless I just don't care.
The sad fact is, a lot of people (including women) cite TV and movies as if they provide definitive evidence that all women feel/think/do X, and any individual woman claiming otherwise is lying, clearly for the purposes of manipulating somebody, the way all women do. I can't defeat one stereotype without getting backed into another one.
The truth is, pop culture is not just fun and games, and that's why "It's just a show" is bullshit. Culture – and current culture has always been pop culture, and always will be – is the medium through which the privileged people educate all the other sorts of people on how they are supposed to behave so as to inconvenience the privileged the least they can with their undesirable yet necessary presence. I really am supposed to not only like flowers, but to accept them in lieu of kept promises and fidelity – not because it's on TV but because that would be ever so convenient for uncaring and cheating men. What the person who criticizes me for diverging from TV portrayals of my gender is really saying is: "Don't you know this is your responsibility? Even if you don't like flowers, you still need to like the damn flowers because men need their women to be plug 'n' play, easily replaced! Men have nations to conquer and important things to do. They can't be bogged down with trying to remember what each new current girlfriend likes, which is why it's so crucial you all like exactly the same shit! Jeez, you selfish bitch!"
Pop culture has way more power than the law to change how people think and feel. We need laws to protect people from bigotry, but if you want to make people feel stupid about being bigots, pop culture can do that. After all, it's what's made people feel perfectly comfortable and righteous about being bigots.


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Bradley Cooper + Sandra Bullock Among Stars Shining at Palm Springs International Film Festival [PHOTOS]
The stars were shining brightly in the California desert for the Palm Springs International Film Festival on Saturday (Jan. 4).
The unofficial kick-off event of the Hollywood awards season, the International Awards Gala boasted a bevy of A-listers, including Bradley Cooper, Sandra Bullock, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Matthew McConaughey and Amy Adams.
"Seventeen hours of masonry put me together after the new year," joked Roberts, who won the Spotlight Award for her role in 'August: Osage County.' "I thought they should give us a couple of days to get up to speed. But it's exciting."
While other several trophies were also handed out at the event, celebs really had their eyes on the big prize: the Academy Awards. An appearance at the Palm Springs fest can boost a star's chances at an Oscar nomination -- ballots from Academy members are due Wednesday (Jan. 8), after all!
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SOFIA (Reuters) - Hundreds of protesters built barricades around Bulgaria's parliament, effectively trapping over 100 lawmakers, ministers, and journalists in the building for more than seven hours on Tuesday following a brief scuffle with police.
Protesters pulled out sidewalk tiles and piled garbage bins to cut off roads to Bulgaria's parliament, shouting "Mafia!" and "Resign!" and "Red Garbage!", to keep the deputies under blockade until the Socialist-led government steps down.
An earlier attempt to get deputies out of the parliament with a bus led to a scuffle with police. It was aborted after protesters threw bottles and other objects at the bus, while others sat in front of it.
Thousands of Bulgarians have been protesting almost daily in Sofia since last month following a government decision to name a powerful media magnate as security chief, which many see as an example of private interests controlling state institutions.
The government's withdrawal of the appointment failed to quell public discontent in the European Union's poorest country, which also is one of the bloc's most corrupt.
Seven protesters were treated for head injuries, the national radio said. Two police officers were also wounded.
President Rosen Plevneliev asked protesters and police to keep the demonstrations peaceful, as they have been for weeks.
"I appeal to the protesters to keep the protest the way it was and the way it impressed all Europe - peaceful, civilized and aimed at achieving the values of a democratic society," Plevneliev said in a statement.
Opposition center-right GERB party urged Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski to resign immediately and called on the president to hold an emergency meeting of the national security council.
Oresharski's Cabinet took office after an inconclusive early election in May. The previous GERB government was forced to step down in February after massive protests over poverty and corruption.
Parliament speaker Mikhail Mikov said the planned parliament session on Wednesday should be canceled until order was restored.
Interior Minister Tsvetlin Yovchev said police were able to ensure the security of the people blocked in the parliament.
"Depending on the situation, we will take a decision with the key aim not to allow violence and have people hurt," Yovchev told national radio.
Earlier on Tuesday, the European Union's justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, said she sympathized with the protesters who rallied against corruption and urged the government to reform its judicial system.
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Grace McVicar never got a chance to take a single breath, but her mother has turned the stillborn girl's memory into an international center that supports others who have lost an infant.
Candy McVicar is the founder and driving force behind the Center for G.R.A.C.E., a resource and counseling center. More than 7,000 people a year contact the center, with calls ranging from mourning parents looking for a sympathetic ear to hospital chaplains seeking advice on how to relate to their patients.
"I didn't set out to do all this," McVicar said of the center, which holds counseling sessions, offers phone and online support to bereaved parents, hosts educational seminars for medical personnel and sends care baskets to families.
"I didn't want Grace's death to be in vain — I wanted her to have a lasting impact. But I was looking to partner with someone who was already doing this. I couldn't find anyone else. I still get calls from people saying that we're the only facility like this in the country."
The 4,000-square-foot center in Rogers includes a library, play area for children, gift shop and meeting rooms, including one with a vaulted ceiling that can be used for funerals.
Knowing that grieving families often struggle with mundane tasks like grocery shopping, there's a communal kitchen where "the refrigerator is always stocked and people are welcome to eat whatever they want," said McVicar.
The center focuses on helping families that have experienced a miscarriage, stillbirth or had a baby die before its first birthday. (There are other support organizations that focus on children's deaths.)
In addition to being her daughter's name, the center's acronym stands for Grieve, Restore, Arise, Commemorate and Educate.
It's not a coincidence that grieve is listed first. The worst thing that a bereaved parent can do is skip the grieving.
"There are people who try to pretend that it didn't happen — they just try to move on with their lives," McVicar said. "They're the ones who come to us years later with even bigger problems. If you don't deal with it, it will deal with you."
Although there's no right or wrong way to grieve, she said, the McVicars had a funeral for Grace and buried her in a cemetery that they visit as a family. She believes that such things help bring closure to the mourning, which is why she makes the center available for memorial services.
"We want people to feel affirmed and validated in their right to grieve," she said.
The reaction outside the center often is the opposite. In fact, shortly after Grace was stillborn, the McVicars noticed that some of their friends pulled away from them.
"My husband and I would discover after the fact that there had been a party that we hadn't been invited to," she said. "People don't want to be reminded that life is fragile."
Some bereaved parents drive hundreds of miles to get to Rogers. And they keep calling, not only from all over the country but also from Asia, the United Kingdom and Australia.
Counseling parents who have lost a baby might sound like a depressing mission, but McVicar insists that it's not. One of the first things she tells callers is that their sadness needn't be permanent.
"There definitely will be a day when you will have joy again," said McVicar, who since Grace's death has given birth to two healthy daughters.
The center was one of the first places that Hallie Hoppe took her newborn son, Hudson. It was where she had wrestled with her grief after her first son was stillborn, and it was where she wanted to share the joy of Hudson's arrival.
"I had to stop in and see Candy," she said. "She's a very special person."
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Grace McVicar was stillborn in 2001. It was Candy McVicar's 33rd week of pregnancy, but she suspected a couple of weeks earlier that something was wrong because the baby's movement curtailed dramatically. She went to see her obstetrician but was told not to worry about it.
"They sent me away, saying, 'babies don't move as much late in pregnancy,' " she said. "In fact, she needed an early delivery by C-section."
Had that been done, Grace likely would have survived, McVicar said. She and her husband, Stephen, were devastated, but not vindictive. They decided against filing a malpractice lawsuit, but that didn't mean that they weren't going to take action.
"We wanted to change things through education," Stephen McVicar said. "Instead of going through a long legal battle, we wanted to work with doctors, hospitals and parents so this wouldn't happen to anyone else."
Candy McVicar, who was running her own marketing business, closed that in order to launch the Missing GRACE Foundation to provide educational, bereavement and support materials.
She ran the organization out of her house. People found her by surfing the Internet or hearing about her from hospital social workers or other bereaved parents.
"It was all word of mouth," she said of the organization's growth.
In 2011, the foundation finally had the means to get an office. Candy, whose official title is executive director, runs the center on a day-to-day basis. Stephen, who has a full-time sales job, leads some of the peer counseling sessions — "Men grieve differently than women," he said — produces educational videos, does the bookkeeping and, he added with a laugh, serves as janitor.
All of the services are offered on a sliding scale that starts at zero. "If people can pay, that's great," Candy McVicar said. "But if they can't pay, that's OK, too."
Pass it on
Sandy Lowe, a retired teacher, volunteers to staff the phones two days a week. Whenever she works, sitting on the desk directly in front of her is a framed photograph of a granddaughter who lived only 10 days before succumbing to a genetic lung disorder.
"For me it was double grief," she said. "My own daughter was suffering, but I also had lost a grandchild."
After she and her daughter used the center's services, "I felt that I should give back to the place that helped me heal," she said. "Now I'm able to help other people who are struggling with a really difficult loss."
Helping thousands of people a year is impressive, Candy McVicar will admit. But she does so grudgingly because she knows that she is only scratching the surface. According to the center's website, there are 40,000 stillbirths in the United States each year. Combining stillbirths, miscarriages and other forms of infant losses, the number jumps to 1 million a year.
"I'd love to have these centers all over the country," she said.
But lacking that, she wants to be able to do more with the center she has. In addition to needing more money — "All nonprofits need more money these days," she said — she also needs more volunteers. She'd like to be able to keep the center open in the evenings and on weekends because, many times, just being there is the most valuable thing it has to offer.
"Sometimes you just need to talk to the right person," she said.


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Creepy Guy With Serious Issues Caught Masturbating Outside a Church
This guy has a lot to talk about the next time he goes to Confession.
Police in Bangor Township, Michigan recently arrested a man for wiping his excrement on a church door. Oh, and he also pleasured himself on the steps outside the church.
Do you get the feeling this perv needed to take a cold shower with holy water?
A surveillance camera caught Joshua A. Gorski going number two on the church steps before putting socks on his hands, grabbing some of his freshly-steamed dookie and smearing it on a door and door handle.
Then, in part two of his show, he whipped out a magazine and masturbated on the steps before riding away on his bicycle.
We're assuming he wanted to go home and wash his hands before putting a little change in the collection plate.
Cops caught Gorski, who was already on probation for other charges, a few days later. He eventually copped to the crime and reportedly committed similar offenses at the church four or five other times last year.
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He stated that he lives in an apartment with his mother and father and does not have enough privacy to do the things he wants."
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Sarasota is the seat of the Sarasota County located on the southwestern coast of the United States, fronting the Sarasota Bay and including several barrier islands (Lido Key, St. Armands Key, Otter Key, Coon Key, Bird Key, and portions of Siesta Key) between it and the Gulf of Mexico. Sarasota is recognized as a medium-sized resort and waterfront community with a humid subtropical climate. It is also popular as a beach destination as well as for its arts programs and activities and architecture.
With a total area of 25.9 square miles of which 14.9 square miles is land while 11.0 square miles is water, Sarasota is a combination of touristy accommodations like hotels, resorts and cozy inns, and historic residences. However, regular residents numbering about 52,715 people (according to the Census of 2000) mostly own their own homes or live in complexes or high-rise apartments. Residences are mostly 2-3 bedrooms in homes that have been built between 1970 and 1999. There are also a number of old, well-maintained but not historic homes and a rising number of newer homes built from 2000.
The people of Sarasota have a pretty even distribution of population. Each age bracket is well-represented, about 10-12% of the total population but the majority belongs to the 35-54 age range. There is also 22% of people that are 65 years and older.A good portion of the population is married and living together, while the rest are still single and living independently. Sarasota is predominantly white although there's a large portion of Hispanics and Blacks in the neighborhood. As such, English is the common language but Spanish can also be heard and spoken in many areas. There is also a 17% portion of the population that was born on foreign soil.
In terms of employment, residents are naturally mostly employed by the accommodation and retail services, seeing as Sarasota is a major tourist destination in Florida. There are a good number of residents employed in the health care industry too because of the retirement villages in the neighborhood. However, since the community has high rate of High School graduates and those with Bachelor's degrees, there are a number of employed workers in offices and managerial positions. This translates to a high median per capita income of about $32,329.
One of the perks of living in a resort and tourist destination is the accessibility of various leisure activities and amenities. There are a several golf courses, sport fishing and tour charters, museums, nature parks and zoos. Shopping places and restaurants are also abundant. The location of these prime spots including the beaches is very convenient and most everyone can be at any of these locations within 20 minutes. Most residents prefer to drive although public transportation is available.


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2015 Ford Mustang's New Modern Look – Will You Like It? [POLL]
Ford recently announced some big changes to the iconic Mustang, and by big changes, I mean the car is pretty much unrecognizable. Do you think you'll like it? The 2015 Mustang was revealed and what could replace the classic look that everybody has come to know is a more modern futuristic sort of look. Don't get me wrong, the car is pretty slick, but, to me, it doesn't even resemble what a Mustang should look like and has looked like over the years.
What are your thoughts on the 2015 Mustang?


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When Ian Rapoport, formerly of the Boston Herald but now of NFL Network, forwarded the link to his conversation with Steelers linebacker LaMarr Woodley regarding the bounty controversy, the natural inclination was to scoff at Woodley's comparison of bounties to contract incentives.
But then I considered what he was saying. And it started to make some sense.
"If you think about it, when you say there's an extra incentive, the 'bounty,' that's like people having incentives in their contract," Woodley told Rapoport. "You get a certain amount of sacks, you get an extra bonus. Is that considered a bounty?
"You're still going to go out there to make the plays in order to get some extra money. Is that putting that much more pressure to go out there and want to hit a quarterback because you know you have a $100,000 bonus coming if you do this?"
In other words, football players play football. Different tactics are utilized to get players to play football harder, better. Whether that extra kick comes from a contract incentive or a cash payment for playing so hard that it puts an opponent out of the game, it's more about motivation and focus than it is about inflicting injury, especially in the absence of a specific pattern of cheap shots or other clearly beyond-the-bounds behavior that could serve no purpose other than to create bodily harm.
"When I'm going to hit the quarterback, I'm not thinking, 'I should hit this guy soft,' I'm thinking, 'I'm about to take this dude down to the ground,'" Woodley said. "With a running back going through the hole, he's trying to lay a hit on you, I think everybody is out there trying to lay a hit on somebody."
Contract incentives, bounties — whatever the device — get players in the frame of mind to go out with the single-minded purpose of delivering hard hits and fighting through pain and fatigue. These weren't Nancy Kerrigan-style kneecappings. These were, in many respects, good performances procured by bad intentions.
That's not to say the process flies off the rails when members of a team's coaching staff put together a formula for "knock-outs" and "cart-offs" and packs bills into envelopes and hands them out like gold stars, and then lies about it when the league investigates. But there's a certain amount of appeal to the notion that a disconnect exists between the unsavory methods of getting players to play with reckless abandon and the reality that, in the end, guys were simply playing football, often with reckless abandon.
None of this means the NFL should look the other way. The Saints screwed up, at the worst time in the history of the sport. But absent evidence that Saints players were using brass knuckles or dipping tape in plaster of Paris or hiding outside locker-room doors to cold-cock unsuspecting quarterbacks, it's more than a little difficult to paint the outcome of the bounties as anything other than the kind of aggressive, nasty football that we see from any team whose players are properly motivated and focused to play hard and fast and mean.