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Why Broncos should fear Russell Wilson
"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face."
NEW YORK — That's a Mike Tyson quote, and a good one, from his glory days knocking out heavyweight contenders left and right. The message is both blunt and accurate. A lot like his punches back then actually.
The point is that in any contest each competitor has a plan for how they are going to counter what it is their opponent does best. That doesn't mean they will do it effectively. Not by a long shot.
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Often times, even if they know exactly what is coming they have a difficult time because they haven't been able to prepare for that level of performance. Usually because they haven't previously seen it and there is no way to replicate it. For Tyson, it was his raw speed, ferocity and punching power. For the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLVIII, it might be Russell Wilson's athletic ability.
Most of the top young athletic playmakers at the quarterback position are in the NFC. Colin Kaepernick, Cam Newton, Robert Griffin III (when healthy) and Wilson. The Broncos have faced only one of them, RG3, and he wasn't even close to full speed for that mid-season encounter.
In fairness, the Broncos did play against Terrelle Pryor so this isn't their first time going against a quarterback who can run. Problem is, Pryor isn't near where those other guys are as a passer and Wilson is an entirely different type of runner than Pryor, who's a long-legged thoroughbred. Wilson is quick like a bunny rabbit. It is tough to run down a horse once they get a head steam but it's even tougher to even get a hand on a rabbit.
I'm sure Denver has a good plan. Of course they do. Defensive ends will try to keep contain, don't let Wilson get around the edge. The defensive tackles will try their best to stay in their lanes and not get washed out and thus create seams for Russell to dart through.
It's one thing to talk about it. It's another thing to do it.
Russell Wilson has an agility and a quickness that few quarterbacks have ever possessed. At times, he's looked like a modern day Fran Tarkenton, which can be both good and bad. The good is that he's been able to run around, make a few plays and help his team win. The bad is that he is not seeing and not making easy throws that he should.
In fact, the quarterback the Broncos faced who most favorably compares to Wilson's Houdini act in the pocket? Tony Romo of the Dallas Cowboys, a team that put 48 points on the Denver defense this year.
The question is whether or not the Broncos can hunt Wilson down. Can they finish once they get pressure or will he elude them and throw a couple of deep game-changing bombs like the one to wide receiver Doug Baldwin in the NFC championship game against the 49ers?
Not only are the Broncos defensive linemen not used to chasing after a guy like Wilson, but the defensive backs aren't accustomed to covering receivers that long if their big guys up front can't chase No. 3 down.
What about when the Broncos have the football?
I think on some level the same Tyson theory applies. Everybody has the same plan against Peyton and the boys. You have to "disrupt the timing" somehow yet very few are capable of actually doing it. Every scout team in the NFL can run the same plays the Broncos run leading up to the game, but they can't do it with nearly the same level of efficiency. I tend to doubt many quarterbacks on the "look" team are getting the ball out of their hands in 2.2 seconds or less on a consistent basis. If they were they probably wouldn't be on the scout team very long.
Yet that is the task in front of the Seahawks and they are as well-equipped as any team in the NFL to accomplish it because they may be as good as anyone at disrupting their opponent's timing at multiple levels of the defense.
It starts with the defensive line and an already potent pass rush last season led by Bruce Irvin and Chris Clemons was bolstered this offseason by the additions of free agents Michael Bennett and Cliff Avril, giving the Seahawks a "NASCAR" package of four legitimate pass rushers at one time that reminds some of the 2007 Giants squad that knocked off the most prolific passing attack in NFL history at that time in the 18-0 Patriots.
The beauty for the Seahawks is in the numbers. The Patriots had one good rusher (Chandler Jones), one average one (Rob Ninkovich) and two defensive tackles who aren't pass rushers at all. That allowed the Broncos to focus on Jones and keep Peyton upright the entire day.
Denver has no such luxury against the Seahawks.
"What makes Seattle so tough is that you can't slide to any one guy because all four guys can rush," Colts left tackle Anthony Castonzo, a starter for the only team to beat both Super Bowl squads, told me recently on SiriusXM NFL Radio.
Much like Sunday's Pro Bowl when it becomes clear how difficult it is for offensive linemen to hold their own with all of those one-on-one matchups against elite rushers, it will not be easy for each Bronco pass protector to hold up for all four quarters. The key will be pressure up the middle which likely means Bennett, who has become one of the better interior rushers in the NFL.
The other way of disrupting Manning is to throw the timing off with his receivers. The Seahawks do as good of a job of jamming receivers at the line of scrimmage as anyone in the NFL. That will be their task on Super Bowl Sunday.
Of course the Broncos know that and will have a plan for it, including the much talked about rub/pick plays depending on your perspective. Which may make the officials, and their willingness to call offensive pass interference and/or defensive holding on the spot.
Knowing how both teams like to play, the NFL and its officials will have a plan for those situations on Sunday. Everybody does.


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The New Age of Cooking Classes with a Mission
Despite New Yorkers' collective interest in all things food, quality options for recreational cooking classes have long been scant. Just ask Alison Schneider, founder of Haven's Kitchen, who wasn't satisfied with what the marketplace had to offer.
As she saw it, there were two options for curious cooks: night classes at culinary schools, taught by instructors who she felt were not invested in her, and what she called the "grandma model," classes taught by experienced cooks (but not experienced teachers). But in recent years, a flush of start-ups and small businesses—led by The Brooklyn Kitchen, Haven's Kitchen and Global Kitchen, as well as cooking class aggregators like CourseHorse—have emerged, motivated by missions that extend beyond their education programs.
At Haven's Kitchen, there are a core of courses on subjects like market-fresh cocktails, taught by in-house staff and a culinary team led by David Mawhinney. In addition to these, Haven's offers classes put on by chefs and culinary luminaries. While program director Allie Poindexter tries to achieve a balance between nationally recognized chefs like Floyd Cardoz and nascent entrepreneurs like NY Shuk, her foremost concern is finding good teachers.
"We have people who come in here who are really big names, and if I feel like they don't support the mission or are not really giving off the vibe we'd like to give off here, then we're not going to have them," Allie explained.
"We want to be supportive of the people who are doing really cool stuff in food, and there's so much good stuff going on in food that it should be given attention," Alison added.
Haven's Kitchen offers these chefs a chance to let their hair down. You can see this in their supper club with Hecho en DUMBO's Danny Mena, whose menu focused entirely on goat. Although goat is popular throughout much of Mexico, it's a much harder sell in New York. Chef-instructors are able to do something that speaks to them on a more personal level, and cook food that the economic burdens of New York might prohibit.
There's another, greater mission at work here, one that is rooted in the New Jersey pastures where the goat slaughtered for Mena's meal was raised. It can be found hiding in classes on innocent subjects like salads, making fresh pasta, and Thai street food. Think, "Here's a pasta class, and by the way you're cooking locally" instead of "this is what cooking locally is." Classes might cover the cooking of Mexico, like Mena's, or North Africa, but the produce is all local.
"Let's use Fish Tacos and Tequila as an example. Obviously the tequila isn't locally grown, but you're not going to see pineapple salsa in this class. You're going to see produce that you can use instead that also goes with fried fish," Allison explained. "We don't necessarily want to teach people how to use pineapple. Most of the people that work with us are really excited to find new ways to do that, to ask, 'How do we take local produce and make it fit these ethnic profiles of food?'"
For the team behind Haven's Kitchen, educating consumers on how to use ingredients is fundamental to empowering farmers and thereby increasing food's accessibility. But what do recreational cooking classes have to do with empowering farmers, and making local food more accessible?
"The only way we can empower farmers is by teaching people what the hell to do with kohlrabi—literally. If I'm getting kohlrabi but I'm from a place that has never seen these vegetables and don't know what to do with them, that doesn't apply to me in any way. Until we do that, the farmers aren't going to be able to grow enough to make money. We need them to grow more," Alison said.
Over in Williamsburg, the Brooklyn Kitchen is onto something similar. For five years they have been offering classes like easy weeknight meals, bread baking with East River Bread's Melissa Weller, making pizza with Roberta's, and whole-beef butchering. Program director Michelle Warner sees them as tapping into the Brooklyn culinary scene, and bringing its knowledge and resources into the home.
"I want to provide a program for you, not just offer classes that make me money." Warner requires potential teachers to teach her a class first and then work with her to develop it before it's offered to the public. "I want there to be something for everyone."
They're similarly subtle about sustainability, but are loud and clear about their mission to get people to start cooking at home. (Like Alison Schneider, Michelle believes this alone is a step forward.) Their approach is holistic, so when you take a class on making mozzarella, you start at the beginning—with milk, not pre-formed cheese curds like at other classes. It's all about teaching skills that can be applied directly at home.
"For example, once you taste a nigella seed you can start to think about using it in different ways. Talking about what those other uses are and learning the basic steps, is better, I think, then, 'Here's a recipe, now you know how to make pasta.'" But it's still an uphill battle to make the lessons taught in these classes stick.
"I teach a class on cast iron cooking. For me, I say, 'Oh you're going to learn how to make a roux and properly season a chicken or properly take care of a cast iron skillet, which is a lifetime investment,'" Michelle said. "But people are like, 'I just want to eat fried chicken.' Which is fine, but they'll take that knowledge and maybe put it to good use. I want people to have fun. This is a great way to spend an evening out that is different, and come away with a skill."
Keeping with their holistic approach, Brooklyn Kitchen will be introducing an after-school program in the fall, building on their current initiative wherein young students come in to take a class and get a tour of the butcher shop.
For Global Kitchen, founded in 2012 by Ryan Brown, Leah Selim, and Peter Freeman, the mission behind their cooking classes is tapping into the unrealized potential of New York's diverse communities and empowering immigrant entrepreneurs.
The Art Council of Staten Island's Ethnic Foodways, which has run programs on Liberian, Sri Lankan, and Mexican cooking this summer, is doing something similar on a smaller scale. For co-director Christopher Mulle, it's about exploring what goes on outside restaurants and off the menu, the traditional foods and preparations happening in homes." As is EatWith, the Tel Aviv-based social network that is Couch Surfing for curious eaters. Though the company is already established in Israel and Europe, they are debuting cooking classes in the New York market. A similar start-up, Kitchen Surfing, offers group dining experiences as well, but currently not cooking classes.
"We love to talk about how New York is the melting pot of the world," Ryan said, "but how often are people really making those deep connections across cultural boundaries? That's where we're trying to jump in, to facilitate that dialogue."
"Our goal is to serve as a connecting course between people who are really interested in sharing these recipes, food, stories and people who really want to hear it," Leah added.
After running test classes last fall, Global Kitchen formally launched with a fundraising party in January. They began by running classes once every 3 weeks, but are now running classes three times a month at locations throughout the city. At least one member of the team is always present.
These organizations are also interested in improving New York's stock of cultural immersion cooking classes. There's a widespread myth that the best way to learn about another culture's cuisine, whether it be Greek or Sichuanese, is to watch someone's grandmother who's been making that food all their lives. But that's exactly the problem—a grandma who's been making mapo tofu all her life may not have answers for you about why certain techniques are done a certain way—that's just the way it is. Cooking expertise doesn't always transform into teaching expertise.
"Part of what we're trying to say to our chef instructors is you have something really unique and really valuable that people will pay for. And they don't believe us. We have a hard time convincing them sometimes, you have this unique knowledge and people want to learn what you know," Ryan said.
In their pursuit of teachers, Global Kitchen has turned to local entrepreneurs. It's a mutually beneficial exchange, in that classes help prop those businesses up and the entrepreneur's success is free publicity. But not just anyone can teach a class at Global Kitchen. Potential instructors are vetted in a three-pronged process, beginning with a survey, then a follow-up phone call, and finally an in-person interview. English and storytelling abilities are key. After every class, a survey is sent out asking students about their experiences and the cuisines they're interested in. The team has not added some popularly demanded cuisines, such as Vietnamese, because of their inability to find the right teacher.
Global Kitchen's bent is very much towards home cooking, and like Haven's Kitchen, it offers teachers an opportunity to share something they can't at their business. Take, for example, an early class run by Raghab of Newark's The Falafel Factory. While he sells falafel and shawarma there, for his class, he cooked koshari, a starchy, eggy dish that originated as a worker's meal. Despite its wide popularity in Egypt, you won't find it in Astoria's Little Cairo.
"You have to distinguish between the things that people are going to want to pay money for at a restaurant and then the things that people are going to want to learn because its this dish that never gets served anywhere," Leah said. Classes like Raghab's offer access to foods that might be lost in the translation of immigration.
Part of Global Kitchen's initiative is compiling a database of all the recipes taught in class, which they'll eventually turn into a cookbook app.
Ryan envisioned all of this through the eyes of an outsider. The team found itself tapping into demographics it never intended to, like first generation Americans looking to reconnect with their roots. Three couples who recently adopted children from Ethiopia attended a recent class with Ethiopian pop-up Bunna Cafe so that they could better recreate those cultural experiences for their children. This phenomenon has since continued.
Countless times you've heard someone say that they live in New York because of all the diversity; but most of the time we're seldom more than voyeurs. Global Kitchen seeks to solve this, to connect our patchwork of disconnected communities and make the rich tapestry of our city accessible through the medium of cooking.
"What we're really trying to do is create this immersive experience where you're spending an evening with someone who is from that country. It's the smells and tastes of that country, of course, but its also the stories and the anecdotes and all the other things that go along with it," Leah said. "It's the full experience without having to travel to that country."
Where to Get Cooking
Haven's Kitchen A recreational cooking school where chefs let their hair down, and sustainable, local produce is part and parcel of every class. Address: 109 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011 Price: $125 Availability: five courses a week
The Brooklyn Kitchen Many classes are led by big names within the Brooklyn food scene. Address: 100 Frost Street, New York, NY 11211 Price: $55 to $85 Availability: Daily
Global Kitchen Start-up focusing on immigrant-led cooking classes. Address: Locations throughout the city Price: $70 Availability: three per month
Ethnic Foodways Series of cooking classes put on Art Council of Staten Island. Address: Locations throughout Staten Island Price: Free Availability: Last event on September 14th
EatWith Social network based in Tel Aviv, launching classes for the first time in New York. Address: Locations throughout the city Price: Determined by host Availability: Pilot classes are currently bring tested
CourseHorse Selective aggregator of classes of all kinds, including food. Address: Locations throught the city Price: Varies Availability: Daily
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Catholic leader Pope Francis shocked worshippers at the Vatican on Sunday (02Mar14) when he accidentally swore during his weekly blessing.
The Argentinian pontiff, who was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was delivering his speech in Italian at the weekend when he used the word "cazzo", the equivalent of the 'f' word, in place of "caso", which means "case".
The 76 year old, whose native language is Spanish, quickly realised his error and corrected himself, but his mistake didn't go unnoticed.
Translated into English, the speech read: "If each one of us does not amass riches only for oneself, but half for the service of others, in this f**k... in this case the providence of God will become visible through this gesture of solidarity."
The embarrassing flub makes Pope Francis the first pontiff in history to ever let slip an expletive in public.


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Question for the women
Posted 16 September 2003 - 10:33 AM
Ick feminazis! There's a huge difference between feminism and feminaziism from what I've seen from having to associate with feminazis: feminazis believe that they are superior to men where feminists believe in gender equality. There are parts of our society that still place women in an inferior position by law or by society but I personally don't believe men are superior to women or vice-versa. Feminazis wrecked the feminist movement in my humble opinion.
Sometimes I think men attach a stigma to women to make themselves feel better if they screw up. I've seen just as many men go fishing for compliments. It's also things like men assuming women have no interest in sports and can't understand why men do when I know lots of women sports fans. It's just a lot of things that men assume about women and that they can't understand why men are the way they are. Like forgetting birthdays, for example. There's no excuse for that because I think most men can remember their sisters' birthdays or their mothers' birthdays. I always hear the excuse that only women are that anal about birthdays and significant dates.
The whole thing about all women being nurturing is a myth. Some, but not all, women are nurturing and it's pretty ridiculous to assume that. I've heard snide statements that women who aren't the nurturing types are lesbians or not real women. That's like saying a man who can't support his family all by himself on one income isn't a real man. It's outdated and sexist thinking.
Men and women need to be better communicators in a relationship. Being straight with each other is not old fashioned at all. The whole thing with the girlfriend asking the boyfriend if she looks fat in something. If guys don't care about that sort of thing and aren't paying attention it then they should say so. If they are paying attention and still don't care then they should say so too.
Posted 16 September 2003 - 04:05 PM
Posted 17 September 2003 - 09:40 AM
MOST certainly, honest communication is essential in any
relationship as is getting away from the preconceptions,
be it of women in general or judging from the narrow scope of one's own experiences in relationships...or men
for that matter
Hi, KarenSue, I think you're right, the main person in your life should be among your best friends, maybe even among your bestest friends, because, I mean, what's the use of being with someone you can't trust? I do feel that each person needs to keep their best (est)friends and their own support structures 'lest things go amiss
Posted 29 November 2003 - 06:51 AM
MOST certainly, honest communication is essential in any
relationship as is getting away from the preconceptions,
be it of women in general or judging from the narrow scope of one's own experiences in relationships...or men
for that matter
In my opinion it is also understanding the other peron's feelings and moods before we pass on the information. There is no point in blurting out things to someone who may not be in a situation to take in it. Also there is no point in complaining "I told you so", in such a circumstance.
Any comments?
Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above
Posted 29 November 2003 - 09:03 AM
Posted 01 December 2003 - 05:54 AM
Don't get me wrong... I am a big fan of chivalry. Just make sure you're doing it because YOU want to, not because she TOLD you to or TRAINED you to.
Complete honesty is not such a bad thing. It may be ugly sometimes, but it's better than diluding yourselves. My girlfriend only asks me if she looks good if she really wants to know. She's not fishing for a compliment, she's making sure she doesn't look bad for a night out or a long day at work.
Just MY opinion. ;D
Posted 01 December 2003 - 12:12 PM
Posted 01 December 2003 - 02:44 PM
My husband does not compliment me every day Karen Sue, but when he does, it is because I ve gone to extra effort to make myself beautiful for him, like when we are going out for dinner, and he knows it. He would also tell me in a very diplomatic way that something is "not the most flattering to me, try the blue sweater instead, etc. that looks great on you".
But then sometimes, when i am in my pajames and my hair is all messed up he will say "I am awfully pretty." I love that about him.
Posted 01 December 2003 - 02:55 PM
being a very confident woman of size 16, five-foot-three, devil-may-care fashion, i don't need anyone to tell me that i look darned fabulous all the time. (my shoes will tell you that much - wear fetching john fluevogs and who wouldn't call you fabulous??) however, my husband being the amazing dude that he is, loves me for who i am and what i look like, and he's always saying embarrassing things like "your tummy is so cute!" thanks, dear. makes a girl feel good when it's a sweatshirt and gallon of ice cream kinda day.
however, i really disliked the guys that talked about other women like they were in a meat market. saying nice things about women's bodies is more than fine - like "that lady is so sexy!" most strong women wouldn't care about what you said about another woman's looks... UNLESS SHE'S FEELING LIKE SHE'S IN COMPETITION WITH THE WOMAN BEING TALKED ABOUT.
drew, getting back to your original post, you just shouldn't worry about that lady. she needs to get over liking men who cheat - period. end of report. so long, bon voyage. cheaters are not respectful partners, and should be the target of such remarks. i'm afraid that your co-worker has a lot to learn about herself and men in general, and shouldn't worry about criticising a little help from you.
and to all you guys out there that love your girls for their fabulous selves, no matter what they eat, how much they work out, what they wear, or how small or large they are, KUDOS TO YOU for helping your woman love her body!!
Posted 01 December 2003 - 04:01 PM
those are the ones you want to take camping and swat with a bush or tree limb and explain "I didn't want you to feel incapable of holding it yourself" ;D
OG, It sounds like you and Dr Owl are a really good match, courtesy is a negotiation and neither person should feel as though they're slighted or less of a person because someone held a door open
Posted 02 December 2003 - 03:59 AM
Posted 02 December 2003 - 10:05 AM
Have you ever consider going into the Psychology field? You would be great at it!
Freudian Owl!
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Posted 03 December 2003 - 01:04 PM
the thing to always, always remember, boys and girls, is to respect yourself - look out for your feelings and those of others - and steer clear of manipulation! the road beyond is filled with good surprises!
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Historian Robert V. Remini will deliver the first "Heroes of History" Lecture on May 1, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced today.
The new NEH lecture, originally scheduled for mid-February and postponed due to a major snowstorm, will be included in the morning session of "We the People," a White House Forum on American History, Civics, and Service co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Corporation for National and Community Service, and NEH, with the USA Freedom Corps, to be held at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington.
Remini, prize-winning biographer of Andrew Jackson, will speak on "Ordinary Heroes: Founders of Our Republic." The Heroes of History Lecture is part of an NEH initiative called We the People, which is designed to strengthen the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and civics. The lecture will be held annually and carry a $10,000 honorarium. This nationally published lecture by a noted scholar will provide an opportunity for the public to learn about the lives and deeds of our nation's heroes.
"Heroes from all walks of life have shaped our nation throughout its history," says NEH Chairman Bruce Cole. "We can keep alive the important principles of our democracy by listening to the compelling stories of Americans whose extraordinary deeds have distinguished themselves and inspired so many others." During the forum's afternoon session, Cole will chair a panel discussion on the role of cultural institutions in promoting history, civics, and service.
In addition to the lecture, the early session of the White House Forum will include the awarding of medals to grand prize winner Morghan Transue, 17, of Kendall Park, N.J., and five finalists in the first "Idea of America" essay contest, which is also part of the Endowment's We the People initiative. Also to be held annually, the essay contest drew more than 1,300 entries from 11th-grade students nationwide.
Under the NEH initiative, which was announced by President Bush in a White House Rose Garden ceremony last September, grant programs will support projects that help schools and universities improve their teaching of American history, government, and civics. The President has requested $25 million in new funding for NEH in FY 2004 to support the Endowment's We the People initiative.
Remini, professor emeritus of history and the humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is currently at work on a narrative history of the U.S. House of Representatives. He has been teaching history for more than 50 years and writing books about American history for nearly as long. In addition to his three-volume biography of Jackson, he is the author of biographies of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, as well as a dozen other books on Jacksonian America. He was educated at Fordham University (B.S., 1943) and Columbia University (M.A., 1947, Ph.D., 1951).
Among his many honors are the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation Award, the Carl Sandburg Award for Nonfiction, the University Scholar Award of the University of Illinois, the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction, and the National Book Award. Active in the national history community, Remini has served as a review panel member for the National Endowment for the Humanities since 1974. In 1991, he delivered a Presidential Lecture at the White House.


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Just a day after Phil Mickelson said he needed to make "drastic changes" in his life because his tax rate was going through the roof, he is trying to walk back his comments.
He released a statement through his spokesman T.R. Reinman in which Mickelson apologizes to anyone who may have been offended: "Finances and taxes are a personal matter and I should not have made my opinions on them public. I apologize to those I have upset or insulted and assure you I intend to not let it happen again."
This is absurd. There is no need for a half-hearted apology to those who might have been offended (as if they'd accept it).
He meant what he said, which is, "If you add up, if you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate's 62, 63 percent. So I've got to make some decisions on what I'm going to do."
In other words, I think I'm getting hosed and I want to figure out how to fix that.
It sounds pretty terrible coming from the mouth of a guy who made an estimated $60 million last year, even though he only won one tournament. The idea that he's going to be unhappy taking home $23 million is offensive to many people. But, there are many people who agree with Mickelson. They think he's being taxed excessively and are on his side.
He should have stuck by his statement and explained it with more nuance this week at the PGA event in Torrey Pines.
But Mickelson, like many pro athletes, doesn't want to upset anyone by revealing his personal beliefs. It's a lot harder to sell stuff if people don't like him.
Mickelson in particular is seen as one of the most fan-friendly players on the tour. If he's making comments like this, it's only going to alienate him from his fan base. Thus we get this wimpy statement.
Here is the full statement, via Golf Channel:
I absolutely love what I do. I love and appreciate the game of golf and the people who surround it. I'm as motivated as I've ever been to work on my game, to compete and to win championships.
Right now, I'm like many Americans who are trying to understand the new tax laws. I've been learning a lot over the last few months and talking with people who are trying to help me make intelligent and informed decisions. I certainly don't have a definitive plan at this time, but like everyone else I want to make decisions that are best for my future and my family
Finances and taxes are a personal matter and I should not have made my opinions on them public. I apologize to those I have upset or insulted and assure you I intend to not let it happen again.


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- Abstract: The final state with the leptonic decay of a W boson and a few high pt jets is a fertile area to probe important physics questions at the LHC. Starting with the known standard model, I explore WW and WZ production in the semi-leptonic final state and anomalous triple-gauge coupling. Moving to a search for the enhancement reported by CDF near 150 GeV, I detail the CMS result of a search for this final state. Finally I'll report the latest high-mass Higgs boson searches in decays H > WW > lnujj. All of these topics have made important contributions to our understanding of the electroweak physics and beyond.
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Mark Keating left a thoughtful comment on my throwaway post about Planet Perl Iron Man (PPIM).
I'm pretty introverted so IRC isn't an ideal medium for me – it's a direct conversation. Conversely, having a blog posted on PPIM sometime gets the message1 out to the important people and there is little need to interact with people directly 😉 For me, PPIM is better than IRC.
Malicious or Careless Users
"the code does assume that we're all honest and nice people and that we'll use good tags and the correct date"
In this case, I'd assume it was user error rather than a deliberate and somewhat annoying attempt to monopolise the top of PPIM. Having said that, whenever I've needed to develop a webfacing app, I've noticed that assuming your users are going to play nice is the wrong thing to do. If even one of your thousands of users is malicious and effective, it's going to ruin your day.
If I was responsible for implementing Planet Ironman, I wouldn't have planned for a future dated post either. But having seen it, it should be fairly simple to discard any post with a date more than 1 day into the future.
1. In this case, the message wasn't really important so finding the appropriate delivery channel didn't really matter.


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I'm here today with Dr. Antonio Urbina from St. Vincent's Medical Center in New York, where he is director of HIV education. Dr. Urbina, tell me about the new initiative.
We received a grant from the New York State Department of Health to educate every provider in the state on post-exposure prophylaxis [PEP]; this includes how to diagnose acute HIV infection and HIV testing. We had this challenge, and we thought of using widget technology as an efficient way to disseminate this information to physicians. We came up with this AIDS widget.
On the left side of the widget, we have an AIDS clock. In New York State, there is one new HIV transmission every one hour and 50 minutes. We thought that this would be a good way to inform everyone about the impact of HIV -- in particular, here in New York. Every one hour and 50 minutes, you're going to see the clock on the widget advance by one. As of January 1, '09, we've had about 3,400 new HIV transmissions in New York State.
|Antonio E. Urbina, M.D.
What we did is that with this widget, we put in these video podcasts -- videos instructing physicians what to do in the event of either an occupational -- meaning an actual needle stick -- a non-occupational or a sexual exposure to HIV. We think that this information is vital and that there are gaps in that a lot of physicians either have been outside of their medical training for a long time, or don't really understand what PEP is, how to give it, or that time is of the essence in giving PEP.
This is really for providers so that they can get this very valuable information and really help their patients, in particular, actually prevent HIV infection. Then on the bottom tabs, what we have are these text-based guidelines, which give all this information in a very cogent, succinct way that can be downloaded and printed.
Tell me a little bit about when you started working on this.
It was about a year ago. From our original concept to actually having the widget out took about one year. We partnered with this person from Webflow Solutions. He's our IT [information technology] guy and he basically designed the widget. We wrote the scripts. We filmed the videos and we populated the content. What we're most proud of is that we have all of the HIV testing consent forms right there, so people can download them. We feel it's a new form of publishing: It's one-stop shopping, very secure, kind of the anti-Google, anti-Bing way of browsing. You know you're going to get very, very reliable medical information.
Let's talk a little bit about PEP in general. Did you launch this widget to address a gap in emergency room physicians' knowledge regarding providing care for someone who comes in and says, "I might have been exposed to HIV"? Did you find that people were not knowing what to do or how soon to do it?
I think the biggest issue is that doctors and institutions weren't aware that the timely administration of PEP is essential in order for it to work. The animal data show that the earlier one gives PEP, the more likely it is to be effective. If you look at HIV pathogenesis, HIV can go from any type of mucosal surface into the blood in as few as five days. It's really important that the first dose be given immediately.
You also need to know when to give PEP and when not to give PEP. There are certain instances where the risk is really insignificant and there's really no benefit to giving PEP. We're instructing physicians on how and when to give PEP to fill this gap in knowledge.
What's important for PEP is that you give the first dose as soon as possible. If you can't get information about the source patient -- if you think you can, but if more than two hours have elapsed -- the patient should be given the first dose right away. There's very little downside to giving one dose of an antiretroviral regimen. You have to remember that we give these drugs to patients for decades.
How it's believed PEP works is that, if you can prevent the virus from having those initial steps of viral replication, if you can contain the infection locally, then your body can effectively eliminate it. But once it goes to the lymph nodes and starts to replicate and gets into the blood, then you cannot prevent infection. From exposure to HIV getting into the blood may occur in as few as five days, so you really want to get that PEP in as quickly as possible.
If you find subsequently that the source patient is HIV negative, can you discontinue PEP in the patient who was believed to have been exposed?
There's just one caveat: If that source patient is in acute HIV infection, he or she may test antibody negative. What we advise is to only stop PEP if the antibody and the viral load of the source patient are both negative, just to really be secure that there's no potential for HIV exposure. The worst thing to do is if a person was in acute HIV infection and you just tested for antibodies, but they were highly infectious and you told the exposed person to stop PEP.
Now, the PEP regimens can be altered. For example, if that source patient has a multidrug-resistant virus, you might want to alter the PEP regimen to include newer antiretroviral agents like the integrase inhibitors or the second-generation protease inhibitors -- for example, Prezista [darunavir] -- if, in fact, you can determine that that source patient has evidence of a multidrug-resistant virus. We know that those can be transmitted. But again, all of this information you don't have to determine right there. Give the first dose.
We know that there's evidence that just one single agent can be 80 percent effective. We even know that in HIV-positive women that had evidence of AZT [Retrovir, zidovudine] resistance, giving AZT even in those women had a prophylactic effect in further reducing the actual likelihood of transmission. So give the standard first dose and then you can think later and tweak it later. But if you wait, if you delay the initiation of PEP, it can result in transmission.
Can you update this information any time you want, as new guidelines come about? I understand you have guidelines for hepatitis C [hep C] and hepatitis B [hep B] exposure as well.
Yes. What is often forgotten is that oftentimes exposures to HIV can also carry a risk of exposures to hepatitis B or C. Now, both B and C are much more infectious than HIV. If that person that exposed you had hepatitis C or hepatitis B, you are much more likely to get those infections than if they had HIV. It's important to also understand that for hep B there are things that a doctor can do.
Most of us are immunized against hepatitis B, but you definitely want to check to make sure that your titers are adequate. Now for hep C, there is no effective prophylaxis, but what you want to do is manage exposure. That's important because, if you can pick up hepatitis C very early and refer to an expert for treatment, you can be up to 90 percent effective in treating the infection and preventing it from becoming chronic.
For hepatitis C exposure, would it occur mostly through intravenous drug use? Would it also be among MSM [men who have sex with men]?
Absolutely. We think about hepatitis C risk exposure coming from needles -- either intravenous drug use or with actual transfusions before they started screening -- but what we're seeing more, in particular in big urban centers, is increased rates of hepatitis C acquisition through sexual exposure. The vast majority of these cases have involved MSM, or men who have sex with men, where they've been involved with anal sex. Typically it's involved a lot of trauma to the anus and has also been associated with sex toys and the use of drugs, for example, crystal methamphetamine. So you also need to screen patients for sexual exposure to hep C.
Do you have actual guidelines for that? That's something that really needs to be explained to physicians. I think a lot of MSM patients aren't aware that that would be something they should share with someone in an emergency room, if, for example, the sexual exposure included a lot of blood. They wouldn't be aware that this would also put them at risk for hepatitis C or that there are a growing number of gay men in New York that are getting hepatitis C through sexual exposures. If they walked into the emergency room and said, "I had an exposure," they would not be talked to about hepatitis C, but just about HIV.
Again, we have a gap in terms of knowledge. We want to instruct our physicians to consider not just HIV, but in particular hepatitis C, in those high-risk groups. But I think what you'd find, if you were to interview physicians, is that there's a big lack of knowledge about PEP in general, but in particular about hepatitis C exposures.
I understand there's also a phone number that people can call in New York State to get more information.
Yes. There is a 24/7 PEPline number that any New York State medical provider can use. It is out of UCSF [University of California, San Francisco]. It's called the National Clinical Consultation Center. They're basically a think tank for PEP. It's very much operated like an actual Bloomberg newsroom, in that there are these health care professionals that are dedicated to giving guidelines and recommendations for exposure cases that may be a little tricky or where you're having some difficulty deciding whether or not to give PEP.
For example, let's say that there was an exposure risk where the source patient was known HIV positive and had a multidrug-resistant virus. This 24/7 PEPline can help those doctors make the best choices.
Let's talk about the regimen. What are the recommendations right now if someone is exposed to HIV?
There are a couple of guidelines that are out there. I think the two that are most prominent are the CDC [U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] guidelines and the New York State AIDS Institute guidelines. The New York State AIDS Institute guidelines are a little simpler in that what they recommend is that patients be given PEP if it's indicated, if the exposure occurred within 36 hours. The CDC extends that up to 72 hours, but the point is that the earlier, the better. A lot of people think that they have up to 36 hours or up to 72 hours to make up their minds, but really, there's this golden two hours where it's most effective.
The New York State AIDS Institute guidelines recommend three drugs from the same class, either Combivir [AZT/3TC] with Viread [tenofovir] or Truvada [tenofovir/FTC] with AZT. Now why they include tenofovir is that we know that it gets very good penetration in the genital tract. It's also very well tolerated.
Why they also include AZT is that, if you look at a lot of the data in terms of mother-to-child-transmission studies, most of those studies use AZT. So really, most data comes from AZT, but they wanted to increase the effectiveness of this drug, so they added a third agent. That's basically the combination that they recommend.
The CDC has a more complicated algorithm. They basically divide it up into low risk or high risk. If it's low-risk exposure, what they recommend is just two drugs, either Combivir or Truvada. If it's a higher risk, what they recommend is adding a third agent, either a non-nuke [NNRTI] like Sustiva [efavirenz, Stocrin], or a PI [protease inhibitor] like either Reyataz [atazanavir] or Kaletra [lopinavir/ritonavir]. Those are basically the two guidelines. With our widget, we give the New York State AIDS Institute guidelines of the three nukes [NRTIs].
Is it known which one is more effective, or are they the same?
There's very little data to support PEP. There's really only been one study. It was a CDC study. It was an actual retrospective case-control study. They looked at doctors that were exposed to HIV and they looked at those that were given just one single agent, AZT. What they found was that those that were given AZT had an 80 percent risk reduction in HIV. But that's the only study that's there. The other evidence comes from mother-to-child transmission. We know that in those women that have not had any antiretroviral history, if you give them drugs, you can actually reduce their chance of transmission.
But also in women that have not had any ARVs [antiretrovirals], if the child is given a dose, you can also further reduce the likelihood of transmission. The third line of evidence just comes from animal data, macaques, to know that these drugs can be effective. I'm not sure if the science behind PEP is going to improve much more because now it would be unethical. It'd be very difficult to design a study. First, you couldn't deny somebody PEP because there's enough evidence to show that it works. Second, to look at whether one ARV regimen is better than another would be very, very difficult because in order to actually design the study, you would need such huge sample sizes to show any difference. I just don't think those studies are going to be funded.
How are you publicizing this widget? Are you providing training for people to figure out how to use it?
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That's our next step, which we have to work on. Right now, our phase one is to get it downloaded into every emergency department throughout New York State.
What we're doing is that we've compiled our e-mail list of all of the emergency departments and we are going to send this widget via e-mail for all of the directors to download onto their desktops. We do want to find some other marketing strategies, so if you any ideas, let me know, Bonnie. [Laughs.]
[Laughs.] Do you think this is a sign of things to come in terms of educating physicians throughout the United States? It's a way to control where the information is being offered. It's a way to always be able to update the information. Are you the first state to do this?
This is definitely the first time that this type of technology has been used for HIV medical education. I think it is a sign of how the use of technology can really assist people in disseminating medical information, in a way that is cost effective and is far reaching. So I do think it's a sign of the future.
I know there are patients who may want to use this kind of widget so they can know what needs to be done, and when they go to the emergency room they can say, "By the way, I did this," or "I did that and I think you have to look at the hep C ramifications of this as well as HIV." Do you think that might be helpful?
Absolutely. Anybody can download this widget. It was really designed for health care providers, but I think for consumers and patients, any type of medical information that they can get can be helpful. I think we're entering a new era of health care as well, where the doctor is not all-knowing anymore. Patients have to take responsibility for their own health and work with health care providers. I think the more information that patients can have, the better outcomes we're going to have.
I know a lot of people come into an emergency room hysterical, very emotional, and they have a low-risk situation. The doctors' question is, "How do we get this person to stop crying? We can't just reject him for treatment. Maybe we should just give him something." Do you have recommendations or do you address this kind of issue?
We do. As part of our training for PEP, there are two things that are very important. One, that it's important to have the information to know when PEP is indicated and when it's not.
When is it indicated?
There are various scenarios that one needs to know. Definitely for a needle stick or for a sharps exposure, if the source is either HIV infected or their HIV status is unknown, then that's an indication for PEP.
For the non-occupational, those are a little more complicated, but for example, for any type of unprotected anal insertive or unprotected receptive intercourse, PEP is indicated. The same thing for unprotected vaginal insertive and also unprotected vaginal receptive intercourse.
For oral sex, it's a little trickier. It's only really indicated if there's been receptive oral intercourse that's gone all the way through to ejaculation.
There are a lot of gray areas, but for example, if a patient comes in and if it's very low risk -- if there's been sperm on intact skin -- that's not an indication for PEP. You need to have the confidence to say, "No, it isn't indicated here," that the risks from these drugs outweigh any benefit.
Now, with any exposure though, it's important to test patients. Just because PEP isn't indicated doesn't mean that you don't test them in a month. For any type of exposure, one should monitor for HIV infection.
A long time ago, the rule was that you had to know the status of your partner. That is a very hard thing for a lot of people who are in these situations: They just had anonymous sex with somebody and the condom broke and they don't even know the person's name. So they have no way of knowing. What's the recommendation?
That's a very good question. The New York State AIDS Institute guidelines have been updated to reflect that, if the source's status is unknown, we assume the worst-case scenario. If the exposure justifies PEP, and if you do not know the status of the source patient, then PEP is indicated.
Now, what's also important is that you test the patient that's been exposed for HIV. One, because PEP is not indicated for people who are already positive, because the meds that we use are really to prevent HIV. They're inadequate for treatment.
That's an important distinction. And now, with the advent of these rapid tests, it's very easy to ascertain the status of that person that's exposed. So that's also an important part of the algorithm -- that you test that person that's exposed because they might already be HIV infected and then they don't need PEP. They need referral to care and possibly treatment for their HIV.
Thank you very much.
This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.


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Alves wants action over racist abuse
Barcelona defender Dani Alves says the racist abuse he suffered in Wednesday's night's Copa del Rey clash with Real Madrid at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu happens everywhere he plays in Spain, and has called on Spain's footballing authorities to get serious about the issue.
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Alves was whistled and jeered regularly throughout the 1-1 Copa semi-final first leg draw. Racist-sounding abuse was particularly loud at two moments - in the first half when he clashed with home players Alvaro Arbeloa and Xabi Alonso, and in the second period when he was booked for a foul on Cristiano Ronaldo.
The chants were not mentioned by either team's coaches or players in their post-game press conferences, but Alves himself tweeted his disappointment after the game.
Speaking at press conference after training on Thursday morning, the Brazilian international said he had not been surprised at the chanting as he suffered such abuse regularly all over Spain.
"I did not think about leaving the pitch, but it bothers me," Alves said. "It does not just happen at [the Bernabeu]. I go through this constantly in all the grounds I go to. It is a shame, as fans can like you or not, and there can be heated moments within games, but the crowd should just support their own team."
Alves, who told reporters in Brazil in 2011 that racism was "uncontrollable" in Spanish stadiums, said the Spanish football authorities needed to drastically up their efforts to deal with the long-standing problem.
"Unfortunately the war against racism is lost, unless much more drastic action is taken," he said. "I have been here for ten years and since the first year this kind of thing has happened. There are worse grounds [than the Bernabeu]. It happens all over Spain. I lived through it at Sevilla. Until action is taken, nothing will be fixed."
In January 2012 then Espanyol coach Mauricio Pochettino - now at Southampton - criticised his own side's fans for directing monkey noises at Alves during a La Liga derby, however Los Pericos then president Ramón Condal refused to condemn his club's supporters.
Alves suggested that the only way to stop these incidents occurring was to seriously punish the clubs whose fans are involved.
"Punish the club and the team," he said. "But not with fines of €1,000 or €2,000. You must go much further."
English football authorities dealt with racism much better than those in Spain, said Alves.
"They should look at England," he said. "There the measures are tough, but you need to look at things in order to improve. Manners do not exist in Spanish ground."


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Bernstein Research's telecom analyst Pierre Ferragu today offered a parting thought on the smartphone market in advance of taking off for the holidays, choosing to remind readers he was right that the industry has not turned out to be as bad as the PC market in terms of commoditization and profit erosion.
He writes,
We have been defending for many years the idea that commoditization concerns were overdone in this industry, that mobile phone where inherently high-gross-margin products, halfway between a consumer electronics and a fashion accessory. The last few years proved this thesis right. Gross margins have actually increased significantly and a commoditisation scenario, in which Smartphone margins come down to PC levels, now appears very unlikely.
Ferragu argues that doesn't mean things are more stable: a lot will depend on what happens to the dominance of Apple (AAPL) and Samsung Electronics (005930KS) in the new year.
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Looking Back At 31
In an effort to be more creative about posts, today I'm going a different route. Being introspective can offer you a lot of insight if you're willing to face it all (the good and the ugly). I blame the writer in me, I blame the philosopher in me, and I blame poet in me for having to do this. In the end, if you can't be honest with yourself, life will present itself as a lie. To that end, I think it's time to write a letter to my bygone one-year-older self. It's an art that's dying in a byte-sized playground where quips and snark become the constitution of communication.
Dear 31,
It seems we've found ourselves in the same spot for the last two years: at a crossroads. Because where we go from here, the direction Tony at 32 chooses, the u-turns are farther apart and they're harder to make. It's been another year to be thankful for to be sure; the birth of my third daughter Mia, the connections made that blossomed into friendships, creating some real movement with Silver Arc Search, and celebrating another year with my wife. This year was about the little things. This year was about digging deep and being thankful for small moments of astonishment and joy.
I know 31. At the time, it felt like you were living on your knees. It was excruciating to have to be thankful for a dinner, thankful that we have a place to call home, that Natalie is learning to use sentences when she talks, or that Madison is learning to read. They seem automatic. But when life starts to tear away at the edges, when the dark of things beyond your control threaten to fold in on you, these are the things you have to hold onto to make to tomorrow. You did a great job 31 of finding those glimmers, without which we may have given up hope.
Right. Direction. And u-turns. I'm faced with some hard choices right now. There's a lot riding on the decisions I'm going to have to make in the near-future, as you well know 31. It seems that's your gift to me; the opportunity to choose and the opportunity to fail. There's no doubt it seems like a burden right now, and I'm sure I'll be second-guessing myself in the days to come. I keeping coming back to this idea that I'm still young enough to fail spectacularly and recover. When I do a 360 perimeter check, I know it just isn't true. Failure has consequences. Failure on multiple levels just isn't an option.
Then I think, maybe I'll fail-forward. Into the next great adventure. Maybe, unbeknownst to me, I've been living a charmed existence all these years and that it will take risking it all to see it. I do know one thing 31, we are going to kick opportunity in the teeth and ride it to the hilt. If we do fail, it'll be something for the record books and a teachable moment to anyone who would care to look. Maybe we'll never look back, ride off like John Wayne into those western sunsets, onto the next town that needs a hero to clean up the town.
This year we learned a lot about how not to manage a business: through crisis points. Like crisis politics, crisis business management is no plan at all. Moving from one fire to the next is the surest way to set the whole structure on fire. You can't continually serve those who are screaming the loudest because everyone is screaming. All crisis business management serves to do is add layers of complex over-process to deal with a specific case here and a unique case over there. In the end, all you ever do is re-invent the wheel through by masking its simplicity through mundane, over-thought process.
This year we learned a lot about growing a business responsibly. That biting off more than you can chew when you're making money is an easy thing to do. Because we never want the good times to end, and when the business is on a roll, the general feeling is that they never will. I equate to a sprinter that runs so hard and so fast that their lung collapses. Theoretically, I knew it was possible, but never thought I would see it happen. To expand so fast that you collapse, like watching a balloon deflate.
Of course we both pinned this on greed, the Gordon Gecko mentality, the super-sizing of everything mentality: if some is good, a lot is better. It's that attitude that causes collapse for small and mid-sized businesses. And Rhea's post on the ROI of No, is really about calculating the risk of temptation to kill yourself by gorging yourself. We learned this year that satisfaction is about being able to live comfortably. Not overextending. Not "keeping up with The Jones'". Because The Jones' is an illusion; they're trying to keep up with someone else too.
I think we both know 31, that 32 is going to be a year of real newness. I'll save us both from quoting Robert Frost here, because whatever we do now is, ultimately, a road less traveled by many. And we both know that through whatever trials and tribulations we'll go through this year, we're blessed to have led such an exciting existence, to be where we have been, to know who we know, and to know that the familial blood we carry in us carries us. That includes my SEM family too. Our bonds of picking each other by the bootstraps, that there is no quit in us.
I hope this letter finds you well 31. Let 29 and 30 know we're just fine, I know they were worried about us. I think you should quote Shawshank for them: "Andy Dufresne, who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side […] I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright and when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice […]" They'll understand.
Aug 19 2011
First, I'm totally shocked that you actually wrote a post and got it out the gate while it was still daylight out. I'm quite used to your blogging to go live late at night that I had to pause and think – WTH? 🙂
Second, Happy frakkin birthday Tony! I really heart how you wrote this one. Sure, it's typical to reflect at birthdays and on New Years day. but to be able to both have fun with how you share your insights and really share some serious value to readers is just teh awesome.
Here's to 32 bringing you and your entire family lots of blessings!
Aug 19 2011
Anthony. I think you might be becoming wise. Be careful. It is fatal.
Aug 19 2011
Happy birthday dear friend! We are lucky people, and there aren't that many professional circles that have the bonds we all have. And lucky, because we live comfortably, without fear of hunger, disease or oppression. We have so much. It takes maturity and awareness to remember that, so thank you for writing what you did. So to the 32-Year-Old, here's to you and your family. A fantastic year is ahead, just wait and see.
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How mistaken I was. My double diagnosis in 2002 led to a whole new world where I was a naïve ignorant student learning about a host of mysterious things neglected from my education in my various earlier stages of life. Things like carbohydrates, insulin, blood glucose, lymphocytes and all that.
Some of those subjects were vital to my continued health. In many of those fields I will be a student for the rest of my life.
Other things I had to learn were less directly important but still necessary to assist my search for knowledge; thus I became net-savvy and learned how to use the web and usenet to get the information I needed. Later, further learning was needed to allow me to find ways to pass on to others the knowledge I had gained. As a consequence I spent a lot of time in 2010 researching self-publishing;. That led to me eventually publishing What on Earth Can I Eat? late last year.
Originally that was going to be the only form of the book, but after publication I received many requests from people to produce an ebook. That involved another learning curve, as I tried to re-work the manuscript for the various e-reading options. I floundered around until I was directed to Smashwords. That made it so much easier.
So now, responding to popular demand, the ebook is out there on the web!
I have to admit I'm still an old fogey and tend to prefer printed books, but for those modern people who prefer to download and read on their Kindle (or any other ebook reader) please click here: What on Earth Can I Eat? Food, Type 2 Diabetes and You. As a service to my blog readers, a $1.00 discount is available if you include coupon number JP52U when you get to the checkout.


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ATLANTA - The Georgia College & State University women's tennis team (1-0) swept Clark Atlanta University 9-0 in both teams' season-opener today (Feb. 7). With only four players, the Lady Panthers forfeited three contests.
In the No.1 doubles spot, the veteran French duo of Diane Danna (Paris, France) and Bertille Lion (Lyon, France) won 8-3, while freshmen Kayla Barksdale (Martinez, Ga.) and Michelle Lingner (Dunwoody, Ga.) took second doubles 8-0. Adriana Acuna (Peachtree City, Ga.) and Linda Mosa (Stockholm, Sweden) won by default.
Danna kept the momentum going in first singles action with a 7-6 victory in game one and 4-0 lead in game two, when her opponent suffered an injury and was forced to retire. Slotted No. 2 in singles, Barksdale shut-out a Lady Panther 6-0, 6-0, as did Lion in the third spot and Lingner in No. 4 singles. Georgia College won the next two singles matches due to Clark Atlanta forfeits.
The Bobcats are back in action Thursday, Feb. 4 hosting No. 4 Valdosta State University at 2 p.m. for the women's tennis home-opener.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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For you who are now several months into your internship, has it changed any? I was thinking about you (a common occurrence) this week. It was Thanksgiving weekend, which quickly moves into the Advent-Christmas season. Last year, for most of you this season meant moving from one break to another. Family, friends, feasts, down-time from classes. This year? Well, your life is probably more like breakneck speed than break time.
A person with a gift for gross over-simplification once said that (despite the myriad variations on the themes) there are two varieties of prayer: "Thanks!" and "Help!" We've spent these past day focused on "Thanks!" And now things are speeding up toward Advent and Christmas and annual meetings and Lent, and it might feel more like "Help!" as you plunge into these wonderful but over-full days of ministry and life.
For a pastor or intern, the rhythms of this season are different from most folks. If you've been a student all your life, typically looking forward to a relaxing break with family over the holidays, these next few weeks might feel a bit overwhelming or disorienting. All the more reason to be constant in prayer.
How's your prayer life these days? Are you praying virtuoso variations on both the "Thanks!" and "Help!" themes?
You likely have no shortage of people, relationships, and ministry experiences in your life to trigger the prayers of "Thanks!" Have you noticed? There are mysterious, powerful ministry experiences in your own life for which you could be praying "Thanks!" In addition there are all sorts of new-to-you people to include in your prayers of thanks: people in the pews, colleagues in ministry, new friends and acquaintances, your internship committee, all incarnate catalysts for "Thanks!"
But it isn't only your "Thanks!" prayer life that has probably been expanded and enriched. Your "Help!" prayer life may be getting a workout, too. You are now praying formally for the list of parishioners each week who are hospitalized or struggling with life challenges. In various ways, you pray "Help!" on their behalf. You are surely including ministries in your community and around the world in your prayers, many of which you were blissfully unaware of until recently. Your intercessory "Help!" prayers have expanded, I trust. But then, as you look at the demands and opportunities of ministry, you're probably praying "Help!" more fervently on your own account, too. Ministry isn't easy.
I hope your "Help!" prayer life is expanding. It's only by the grace of God that any of us lives out the calling to serve as a pastor. But God will walk this journey with you, as promised. And as you experience that gracious presence, your "Thanks!" prayer life will expand as well.
"Help!" and "Thanks!" It's a wonderful rhythm. Blessings as you live it out.
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Passwords remain the primary means for online authentication and must be protected when stored on a server. Encryption is an option, but it has an inherent weakness in this application because the server authenticating the password must have the key to decrypt it. An attacker who steals a file of encrypted passwords might also steal the key.
Hashing is a better option, especially with the judicious use of salt, according to mathematician Andrew Regenscheid and computer scientist John Kelsey of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer Security Division.
Encryption is a two-way function; what is encrypted can be decrypted with the proper key. Hashing, however, is a one-way function that scrambles plain text to produce a unique message digest. With a properly designed algorithm, there is no way to reverse the hashing process to reveal the original password. An attacker who steals a file of hashed passwords must then guess the password.
Here's how it works: A user enters a password and an ID in a browser and sends it (preferably over a secure link) to the authentication server. The server uses the ID to look up the associated message digest. The password submitted by the user is then hashed with the same algorithm, and if the resulting message digest matches the one stored on the server, it is authenticated.
In this process the server does not store or need to see plain-text passwords. Stealing hashed files does the attacker little good because the attacker cannot reverse the hashing process.
But because people rarely use completely random passwords there is a trick that can be used to help guess the passwords in the file. An attacker can run a collection of a million or so commonly used passwords through a hashing algorithm and get a list — called a rainbow table — of associated message digests for these passwords. It is child's play for a computer to compare a file of stolen password hashes against a rainbow table. For every match, the table will show the password for that hash.
The protection against this is to salt the hash: Add a random number to each password before it is hashed. The resulting message digest is the product of both the password and the salt value and will not match anything on the rainbow table.
Of course, the attacker can always try adding random values to common passwords to find a matching hash, but now the difficulty of guessing the password makes it impractical. The return on investment of such a process is so low that a stolen file of properly hashed and salted passwords is essentially worthless.
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August 13 will mark the ninth anniversary of the D.C. – C.O.P.S. Classic and will be hosted at Westfields Golf Club in Clifton, Va., to support the D.C. Chapter of Concerns of Police Survivors.
This year's tournament is dedicated to the memory of Metropolitan Police Department Reserve Sergeant Joseph Pozell. On May 14, 2005, Reserve Sergeant Pozell was struck by a vehicle while directing traffic at the intersection of M Street and Wisconsin Avenue and died from his injuries on May 17, 2005. Pozell had served in the Metropolitan Police Department for three years. He is survived by his wife Ella and son.
D.C. COPS Classic Golf Tournament was started in 2003 by Metropolitan Police Department Detective Joey Crespo. Detective Crespo started this tournament to raise money for the Washington DC Chapter of Concerns of Police Survivors. The tournament has grown from 75 players to last year's biggest event with 260 golfers. Detective Crespo has been joined by Metropolitan Police Department Officer Greg Alemian in 2006 and Detective Travis Barton in 2008. 100 percent of the proceeds from the D.C. COPS Classic are given to the Washington, D.C., Chapter of Concerns of Police Survivors.


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Kings Point, NY – The USMMA men's lacrosse team closed out the 2014 campaign with a dominant 14-6 victory over Washington & Jefferson. Chirs Whitenack (East Meadow, NY) was a perfect 20-of-20 at the face-off "X" while Geoff Harty (Chicago, IL) tallied five goals and one assist in the win. Before the opening face-off, USMMA honored its four graduating players who competed in their last collegiate game: Chirs Anthony (Cleveland, OH), Brett Crawford (Arnold, MD), Alex Cline (Draper, UT), and Phil Walker (Falmouth, MA).
Washington & Jefferson (5-11, 0-6 Landmark) scored the opening goal of the game with a Tim Angell with an assist from Max Kroll. Angell finished with a team high three goals for the Presidents while Kyle Heinig posted two goals and two assists for the visitors.
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (8-6, 2-4 Landmark) took control of the game from there and rattled off 12 unanswered goals. Harty tied the game with 4:36 to play in the first quarter with an assist from Tim Llull (Havertown, PA). Walker, Troy Smith (Deer Park, TX), and Whitenack combined for all five goals in the second quarter as the Mariners took a 6-1 advantage into halftime.
Smith completed his hat-trick with back-to-back markers to start the second half while Dan McGovern (Baltimore, MD) found the back of the net to make it 9-1. Harty and Crawford both added another man-up tally as USMMA extended the margin to 12-1. The President's outscored the Mariners down the stretch but it was too little, too late as USMMA ended the year with a 14-6 victory.
Alex Peyreigne (Weston, CT) made eight saves in the decision while Matthew Amoscato (Rocky Point, NY) paced the defense with three caused turnovers. Whitenack scooped up a game high 12 ground balls and will be keeping an eye on the national statistics as he currently sits at the top of the nation in face-off winning percentage.