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TSW Jerez Wheel 18"x8.5" Two-Piece Matte Black With Chrome Lip 1994-2004
TSW 18" x 8.5" Matte Black Jerez Two-Piece Wheel with a Chrome Lip for all 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 Mustangs.
TSW's Jerez 18" x 8.5" wheel is just one of the many offerings TSW has for your 1994-2004 Mustang.
This wheel is named after the 2.752 mile racing circuit of Jerez located close to the city of Jerez de la Frontera in southern Spain. The race track was opened in 1985 and hosted the first Formula One Spanish Grand Prix in April 1986. The 1997 European Grand Prix was hosted at Jerez where the championship between Michael Schumacher and Jacques Villeneuve was to be determined but they ended up colliding during the race. Although it has never hosted another Grand Prix, it remains a popular venue for winter testing.
The Jerez TSW wheel is made from two pieces that are joined together through an advanced, high temperature process called fusion welding. A seamless 360° bond is formed between the center of the wheel and the forged barrel. This Jerez wheel features 10 spokes finished in matte black. A chrome stainless 2-1/2" lip contrasts the matte black finish of the wheel. TSW diamond cuts their wheel lips with a high speed lathe instead of common machine cutting. Diamond cutting the lips produces a much brighter shine than machine cutting. TSW completes the Jerez wheel with a matching center cap. An extra thick TSW emblem is used to prevent warping and fading.
TSW wheels are specific for each application. The widths and offsets were designed so this 18" x 8.5" Jerez wheel fits all 1994-2004 Mustangs perfectly. Correct sizing is important for proper fitment as well as geometry. An incorrect offset can increase bumpsteer which causes the wheels to turn when coming in contact with bumps. Every TSW wheel is equipped with a special metal centering ring so the wheel fits your Mustang perfectly and vibrations are nonexistent. Although the wheel is lightweight, it is designed to handle the weight of your Mustang and the specific load rating is stamped on the back of the Jerez wheel. Also, TSW wheels are specifically designed to be TPMS compatible.
Every single TSW wheel is put through radial and lateral runout tests as well as balance testing. TSW tolerances are 1/2 the industry average ensuring precise machining and a wheel that will not cause any vibration issues.
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This TSW wheel requires small diameter, tuner style lug nuts. Larger OEM style lug nuts will NOT work.
Available individually, as a set of four wheels or a set with tires.
TSW's heritage spans four decades of leadership in racing and wheel technology development. Throughout their history, TSW has developed top notch wheel technology as well as many different styles of wheels for all types of vehicles. TSW offers something for the racing enthusiast, styling enthusiast and those that just want something for their daily driven Mustang. Along with fantastic styling comes the advantage of TSW's strong and lightweight wheel construction. TSW wheels carry Europe's highest TUV rating. TUV is a European auditing and certification body that ensures wheels meet international, EC directives and German Motor Traffic Agency road traffic legislation.
One of the easiest ways to get the biggest visual impact from an upgrade to your 1994-2004 Mustang is by adding some new wheels from CJ Pony Parts. If you want to stray away from common replica style wheels, add a set of unique TSW Wheels so your Mustang can be one of a kind. With the addition of matching tires, your Mustang can look amazing in no time!


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TAPS 197: Dance in Prison: The Arts, Juvenile Justice, and Rehabilitation in America (AMSTUD 197, DANCE 197)
This class works collaboratively with a local juvenile hall to use civic engagement and performance to explore the aesthetic, cultural and legal issues in the lives of incarcerated youth. In the process students gain an understanding of incarceration on an immediate and personal scale. Taught jointly by a Dance Studies scholar and a lawyer specializing in Juvenile Justice, we will consider what unique understandings are possible if we position the arts as central to an exploration of punishment, rehabilitation and recidivism in America. The course will examine case studies, historical and contemporary narratives about the social, imaginative and behavioral change possible through arts programs in prison.Half of the class meetings will be in Hillcrest Juvenile Hall in San Mateo, where our class will join with a group of 13-18 year old youths currently detained there. Dance will be used to help shape their individual expressive voices, and ours, through collaborative hip hop dance classes. Books to be read are Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson, and Last Chance in Texas by John Hubner.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-ED
Instructors: Ross, J. (PI)
2019-2020 Spring
3 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-ED |
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
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Instructors: Ross, J. (PI)
TAPS 248: Family Drama: American Plays about Families (ENGLISH 148)
Focus on great dramas about family life (Albee, Kushner, Shephard, Vogel, Kron, Nottage, Parks). Communication in writing and speaking about conflict central to learning in this class.
Last offered: Autumn 2013 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
TAPS 251C: Hamlet and the Critics (ENGLISH 115C, ENGLISH 215C, TAPS 151C)
Focus is on Shakespeare's Hamlet as a site of rich critical controversy from the eighteenth century to the present. Aim is to read, discuss, and evaluate different approaches to the play, from biographical, theatrical, and psychological to formalist, materialist, feminist, new historicist, and, most recently, quantitative. The ambition is to see whether there can be great literature without (a) great (deal of) criticism. The challenge is to understand the theory of literature through the study of its criticism.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum | Repeatable for credit
URBANST 126: Spirituality and Nonviolent Urban and Social Transformation (CSRE 162A, RELIGST 162X)
A life of engagement in social transformation is often built on a foundation of spiritual and religious commitments. Case studies of nonviolent social change agents including Rosa Parks in the civil rights movement, César Chávez in the labor movement, and WIlliam Sloane Coffin in the peace movement; the religious and spiritual underpinnings of their commitments. Theory and principles of nonviolence. Films and readings. Service learning component includes placements in organizations engaged in social transformation. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Instructors: Karlin-Neumann, P. (PI)
2019-2020 Winter
3 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ED, WAY-SI |
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Section 01 |
Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
| Students enrolled: 2
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Tue, Thu 9:30 AM - 10:20 AM at 80-113 with Karlin-Neumann, P. (PI)
Instructors: Karlin-Neumann, P. (PI)
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Mayor Reed's office says city DID work to keep Braves | News
ATLANTA -- Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed's office says the city did in fact work to keep the Atlanta Braves inside the city.
Reed's communications director Carlos Campos issued a statement Thursday in response to reports the city did not have any interest in keeping the ball team.
Campos issued this statement:
These public remarks by Mr. Schuerholz are completely inaccurate and unfortunate. There are verifiable records, which have already been released to the public, that show the Reed administration was fully engaged with the Atlanta Braves in good faith negotiations to keep the team at Turner Field.
As late as September 2013, the Braves had provided us with a list of demands they wanted met to keep the team at Turner Field. We were in the process of vetting those demands when they abruptly, and without warning, announced their intentions to move to Cobb County in early November.
To suggest that we had "no interest" in keeping the team at Turner Field is patently false. Mayor Reed gave the team his personal assurances, in a private meeting in his office, to team Chairman & CEO Terry McGuirk that he would get a deal to keep the Braves at Turner Field done, as soon as we had completed the Falcons stadium deal.
There was little public support for financing of a new stadium for the Falcons, so the notion of attempting to find public financing for two stadiums simultaneously was out of the question.
The Reed administration has a track record of accomplishments; and we're certain this deal would have been among them had the Braves shown some patience and continued to negotiate in good faith.
We wish the Braves well in their new home, but any notion that we were not engaged to keep them in the City is utter nonsense.
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On 10 February 1967, the 57th Aviation Company was reorganized at Fort Bragg. N.C. from an Airmobile Fixed Wing Company to an Assault Helicopter Company. During the next several months the 57th aquired the personel, equipment, and training in preporation for it's deployment to Vietnam. October 1967 saw the 57th deployed to Vietnam and by the end of December it was operating from its new home at Kontum in Northwest II Corps.Read more
On January 10, 1968, just weeks before the Tet Offensive of 1968, the 57th Assault Helicopter Company sustained it's first casualties of the Vietnam War. 6 Gladiators gave all that fateful day and over the next five years 39 more Gladiators would fall victim to the horrors of war. Let us never forget the sacrifice these brave young men gave in honor of country.Read more


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I like Asians, but the only ones who like me back are the too-nerdy-for-words type. There's this incredibly cute and awesome Azn who comes by EBGames... but he's got a smoking hot girlfriend already: nice, cute, funny, gamer (quadra-threat). Ah well.
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We have seen demonstrations from IBM/Cognos, Oracle/Hyperion and Infor but CCH Tagetik went straight to the point and focused exactly on our needs. We achieved a 0 to 5% difference between actual and budget figures and a 30% time reduction in our budgeting and forecasting processes. Everybody at Banco Toyota do Brasil is really impressed with the performance of CCH Tagetik's calculation engine. We are very proud to be the first CCH Tagetik customer in Brazil and so happy with this software!
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Banco Toyota do Brasil has three product categories: "Floor-plan Program", to help Brazilian dealers to buy cars from Toyota; "CDC/Lease" that helps end customers to buy cars from the dealers; and "Insurance", specifically dedicated to providing insurance to customers.
The financial services organization could not plan at a detailed product (car type) level and could not guarantee maximum accuracy and visibility throughout the entire process. They found themselves in "Excel hell" trying to manage and manually update up to 40 multiple files to perform the necessary calculations.
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Some opinions:
I) For a newbie, coming up with significant (or even modest) bounty is difficult.
II) A newbie is more likely to feel more "stuck"/"helpless" in some situations than a "pro", but it is the pros who can comfortably use bounties.
III) A newbie need not be a newbie in all fields. For example's sake, someone may be an algorithm expert, but can do with some help as a webmaster.
Keeping in mind the above, here are few suggestions that can make the bounty system more useful (all suggestions can be improved, but just conveying the points):
1) Cross-site bounties: Example: allow users to use their reputation on SO as bounty on superuser, etc.
2) Allow 'special' reputation points: A newbie is given say 200 reputation points which can only be used as bounties. No powers associated, and not counted/displayed as actual reputation.
3) (I don't particularly find this elegant): Allow a 'credit'/'debit' system. Allow people with low reputation to effectively go negative for some time, should they need to throw a bounty for something important to them.
All said, maybe bounties are rarely used, and maybe, the SO team wants to encourage only experts to raise bounties (for a valid reason). But from one point of view, the newbies can do with ability to throw more bounties.


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Very simply put, do perks in Skyrim apply to companions as well? For instance, upgraded Archery skills, stealth backstab bonuses, etc.
Or do they just apply to the main player? It could have a big impact on strategic playing of Skyrim.
I was fairly sure I'd find this already asked, but it appears to either be a new question or else the search is failing me.


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When DARPA, the Air Force, NASA, Boeing, and Pratt & Whitney got together to unscramble the the riddle behind scramjet technology, it's unlikely they ever considered failure, until now.
The five companies sent three X-51A Waveriders shooting above the Pacific in the last two years and while the first effort in 2010 showed promise, the other two were undeniable failures.
It must be disappointing because in 2010 things went off without a hitch. The Waverider was strapped to the belly of a B-52, dropped, powered up its solid-rocket boosters and made the full transition to scramjet-powered flight.
While the X-51 Waverider, an unmanned hypersonic scramjet is supposed to tear through the sky at 4,000 miles per hour and promise an untold richness for future flight, this current effort looks like a flop.
W.J. Hennigan from the Los Angeles Times talked to Robert A. Mercier, deputy for technology in the high speed systems division at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Ohio who said: "Since the Wright brothers, we have examined how to make aircraft better and faster. Hypersonic flight is one of those areas that is a potential frontier for aeronautics. I believe we're standing in the door waiting to go into that arena."
Scramjet technology forces combustion to occur when airflow surpasses the speed of sound and hydrogen is injected into the flow, allowing for theoretical speeds of Mach 20.
That's what was hoped for during DARPA's Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 test flight last year, as well. Unfortunately, that widely watched test ended in failure after the craft's skin peeled away from its body and the flight was terminated before any record breaking speeds could be reached.
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Director-General on Official Visit to El Salvador
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, is on an official visit to El Salvador from 6 to 8 May 2013. She is expected to meet with the President of El Salvador, HE Mr Mauricio Funes, as well as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Secretary of Culture of the Presidency, the Minister of Education, the Vice minister of Education, the Vice minister of Science and Technology, the First Lady, and Secretary of Social Inclusion, and the Director-General of Integral Social Development.
The Director-General will also meet the Rector of the University of El Salvador, Mario Roberto Nieto Lovo, the oldest and most prominent university in El Salvador, as well as the Vice-president of El Salvador and Member of the Tri-national Commission of the Trifinio Plan, Salvador Sánchez Cerén. Trifinio Fraternidad is a transboundary biosphere reserve shared by El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Irina Bokova will visit the Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site, a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed on the list in 1993, the Project Ciudad Mujer and the Monument to Memory and Truth located in Cuscatlan Park in downtown San Salvador.


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A harsh reality of life in the NFL is that 99 percent of NFL athletes have something to prove every season. Only the rare superstar like Tom Brady or Larry Fitzgerald has his starting job guaranteed. For everyone else, every day is an opportunity to lose (or win) a job.
You always have the young rookies and veteran fighting to carve out a spot in the NFL, as well as the veteran special teams types. And the 2012 Dolphins have more players with something to prove than usual, because new coach Joe Philbin and his staff is starting fresh with its evaluations.
But, obviously, some players have more to prove than others. Here are the top 10 Dolphins players who have the most to prove during offseason workouts and training camp, as ranked by us:
1. OLB Koa Misi
This will be a critical year for Misi, the Dolphins' 2010 second-round pick whose career hasn't gotten off to a fast start. After a promising rookie year that included 11 starts and 4.5 sacks, Misi regressed in 2011, with just nine starts and one sack as he lost playing time to Jason Taylor. Misi has been running with the starting defense during OTAs, playing mostly weakside linebacker, and he will be given every opportunity to beat out Gary Guyton and rookie Josh Kaddu for the starting job. But if he doesn't, it could signal the beginning of the end of his time in Miami.
2. WR Brian Hartline
The pressure on Hartline this year is two-fold. First, he has to prove that he can be a front-line starting receiver. The Dolphins opted not to replace Brandon Marshall after trading him away, with the belief that Hartline and Davone Bess can be the top two starters. Hartline has been solid and consistent in his first three years, with 109 catches for 1,670 yards and a 15.3 average, but the Dolphins need him to significantly improve upon his career bests of 43 catches, 615 yards and three touchdowns for the offense to be successful. Second, Hartline is entering the final year of his contract, and has a lot of money at stake. If he has a 1,000-yard season, he could cash in with a big contract. If he doesn't perform, he could get significantly less.
3. CB Sean Smith
Faces a lot of the same pressures that Hartline does. Smith, the Dolphins' second-round pick in 2009, has shown flashes of brilliance in his first three seasons. And a 6-foot-3 cover cornerback is not easy to find, so his physical abilities will always intrigue NFL teams. But he's also been a knucklehead, losing his job in 2010 because of inattentiveness in meetings and film study, and generally frustrating the previous coaching staff because of his lack of maturity. Smith is also entering the final year of his contract, and could cash in with a huge contract if he acts like an adult off the field and plays like a Pro Bowler on the field. Or, he could find himself out of a starting job in Miami and fishing for a team to bid on his services next season.
4. S Chris Clemons
Clemons, the Dolphins' fifth-round pick in 2009, didn't enter the NFL with any real expectations. But he grabbed a couple of starts at the end of his rookie season and started 14 games in 2010 before having his 2011 season derailed by a balky hamstring and strong play from Reshad Jones. Clemons has been running with the starting defense during OTAs as Yeremiah Bell's replacement at strong safety, but his spot on the team is hardly guaranteed. The Dolphins have several other options at safety – Jimmy Wilson, Tyrone Culver, Tyrell Johnson and rookie Kelcie McCray – and all happen to be cheaper than Clemons, who is set to make $1.308 million in 2012, the final year of his contract. If he doesn't standout in OTAs and training camp, Clemons could find himself looking for another team.
5. RG John Jerry
Jerry has been a bit of a disappointment since being drafted in the third round of the 2010 draft. He started 10 games at right guard as a rookie, but has constant struggles with his weight (he's listed at 6-5, 328 pounds) and was benched for most of 2011 before earning three starts at the end of the season to replace injured players. He's been playing with the starters at right guard during OTAs, but Jerry, who was drafted for the power running scheme under Tony Sparano, needs to prove that he's nimble and athletic enough to play in Mike Sherman's zone blocking scheme.
6. QB Matt Moore
Talk about someone with a lot of money at stake this year. Moore, entering his sixth season, will be a free agent after the 2012 season, and another strong season could make Moore one of the most attractive players on the market next season (Moore, who went 6-6 as a starter last year, was twice named AFC Player of the Week and finished 12th in the NFL in passer rating, sees the three-year, $19.5 million contract signed by Matt Flynn this offseason and salivates). But if he loses the quarterback job to David Garrard or Ryan Tannehill, or just doesn't play very well in 2012, it could dramatically hurt his free agent value. The competitor in Moore will never allow him to do this, but his best course of action might be to sit out 2012 so as not to hurt his value, which skyrocketed last year with his impressive performance as Chad Henne's replacement.
7. WR Clyde Gates
The Dolphins have about nine young, unproven receivers gunning for the final three spots, so there is pressure on all of them to perform well this offseason. But there's a little extra pressure on Gates, because he's the highest draft pick of the bunch – a fourth-round pick in 2011. Everyone else went undrafted (Marlon Moore, Roberto Wallace, Julius Pruitt, Chris Hogan, Jeff Fuller), is a low-round pick (Rishard Matthews, B.J. Cunningham) or is a free agent with low expectations (Legedu Naanee). Even though Gates was drafted just last year, his roster spot is hardly guaranteed.
8. TE Anthony Fasano
Fasano is similar to Jerry, in that he was brought to Miami by a different regime and for a different scheme – the power running scheme run by Sparano, Dan Henning and Brian Daboll the past four years. Now he's entering a completely different offense that emphasizes run-after-the-catch – speed has never been Fasano's forte – and he has stiff competition in second-year H-back Charles Clay and rookie third-round pick Michael Egnew. Fasano is also entering the final year of his contract, so he must prove that he can fit in well with the new offense or else he could find himself out of a job. The only reason Fasano has less to prove than other players is because if he is cut loose, he is accomplished enough that a power running team will quickly snap him up (Sparano's Jets and Daboll's Chiefs instantly spring to mind).
9. DE Jared Odrick
The Dolphins didn't sign a pass rusher in free agency, and used only a third-round pick on a very raw Olivier Vernon in the draft. That means Odrick, listed at 6-5, 304 pounds and drafted to be a bulky defensive end in the Dolphins' previous 3-4 defense, now has to prove that he's quick enough to get around the edge as a defensive end in the new 4-3 scheme. He did have a promising six sacks in a part-time role in 2011, and needs to continue to improve this year to help take pressure off Cameron Wake and prove that the Dolphins were right not to go harder after a pass rusher this offseason to replace Taylor.
10. DE Cameron Wake
After a long, winding journey that took him from Penn State to his couch in Maryland to the CFL to Miami, Wake finally got paid last month when he signed a contract extension that will guarantee him $17 million over the next three years. But Wake's work is hardly complete. Was he worth the money? Will his work ethic change? Was his decline in sacks from 2010 to 2011 – 14 to 8.5 – a one-year blip or a trend? Now that he's on the wrong side of 30, does he still have the same power and explosive first step? The contract didn't make Wake's life easier – just gave him a whole new set of challenges.


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Will you be translating this series as well?
So is this a Celebrity version? Or is this like The Amazing Race Asia, where a lot of the contestants have ties to the entertainment industry but they try to say that it's a show for ordinary people?
Bring them on please...
Judging from Mole Mail #1 I guess the last woman talking in this clip is the Mole. ETA: Or the winner.
Quote from: SuperTux on December 13, 2012, 05:44:16 AMJudging from Mole Mail #1 I guess the last woman talking in this clip is the Mole. ETA: Or the winner.Mja sorry to dissapoint you but no, Janine (last woman in vid) is neither.Don't want to spoil anything but I think it's best you know straight ahead to avoid confusion. Janine had an accident early on in the series (not sure when exactly, ep 2 or 3 max I think). She was hospitalized and operated on, because of a fractured vertebra - therefore incapacitated to continue.I wasn't sure to which degree this would be discussed/out in the open and didn't want to spoil stuff for you guys either But since it's now been out in the open by the way they brought it to light well, I would suggest to just take her out of the equasion.
Oh, sorry to hear that... Hope she's well now.
Unfortunately I had a laptop crisis/hardware crash this weekend. So I lost some of the subtitles that were done, and had to buy a new one.. But hopefully we're back on track now.
Interesting! I get your reasoning for Tania but not so much for Carolien tbh.Don't you think it's slightly problematic that she Show contentpushes on to win them 1000,- - in effect 2000,- because they would have lost it had they failed - when she could have just as easily failed?She would have had a good excuse.. Heroism cover or not I personally don't think it's likely the Mole would do that..But I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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It was a story that spanned three continents and an ocean and remains unresolved as 2012 draws to a close. And the multifaceted storyline involving the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks doesn't show signs of abating any time soon.
WikiLeaks burst into the headlines in 2010 after it published hundreds of thousands of confidential and sensitive U.S. military and diplomatic communications and documents.
Its founder, Australian Julian Assange, was thrust into the spotlight as well after two Swedish women accused him of sexual assault, which he denied. Swedish prosecutors said they wanted to question Assange in the matter; he said he feared Sweden would turn him over to the United States for prosecution if he returned to the Scandinavian country.
After a months-long appeal, Assange, 41, lost his battle against extradition.
In June, he fled to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and has been holed up there since.
Now, however, his health is being affected, Ecuadorian officials said. The country's ambassador to Britain, Ana Alban, said Assange was suffering from living "in a confined space," the BBC recently reported.
When Ecuadorian officials previously sought assurances Assange would not be arrested if he were hospitalized, British officials had said they wouldn't prevent "any medical care that he requires."
When Assange first fled to the embassy, an international incident was brewing between Britain and Ecuador, with Britain reportedly threatening to yank Ecuador's diplomatic status under the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act of 1987.
And while the offer of asylum is out there, Assange can't leave the embassy compound for the airport because Britain has refused to give him safe passage, The Guardian said.
Assange, 41, who was granted asylum by Ecuador in August, violated terms of his bail by staying at the diplomatic compound and faces arrest if he leaves the premises.
Across the Atlantic, the military trial of U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of providing sensitive documents to WikiLeaks, could begin early next year. The judge is to decide by Jan. 16 whether to recommend a court-martial.
During a recent pretrial hearing at Fort Meade, Md., military prosecutor Joe Morrow said the U.S. government will prove at Manning's court-martial in the WikiLeaks case he knowingly helped the enemy.
Morrow said prosecutors would show Manning, now 25, knowingly "aided the enemy" when he transferred hundreds of thousands of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables and other documents WikiLeaks.
"Manning had a key to the house, but he used a bulldozer to access the information, thus exceeding his authorized access," Morrow said during one hearing.
Manning faces 22 charges that include aiding the enemy, violating the Espionage Act, exceeding access to his computer, stealing documents, and conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline in the armed forces for providing sensitive information to the whistle-blowing website.
Manning has been in military detention for more than two years since his arrest at Forward Operating Base Hammer outside Baghdad.
Manning attorney David Coombs has accused his client's jailers of treating Manning harshly while he was incarcerated at the Marine Corps' detention facility in Quantico, Va., by putting him on unnecessary suicide watches, stripping him, not allowing him to rest during the day and maintaining a well-check schedule that was disruptive.
Officials said they took the measures to protect Manning but his lawyers said the brig staff defied a clinical diagnosis and treated him punitively.
Manning was transferred to a medium-security facility at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., in April 2011. He declined to enter a plea when arraigned at Fort Meade in February 2012.
If Col. Denise Lind finds Manning was subjected to "unlawful pretrial punishment," the military judge can reduce or reject the charges against him.
In November, Lind approved a deal in which Manning would plead guilty to lesser charges, The Washington Post reported. Her ruling leaves open the question of whether Manning will be court-martialed on more serious charges, including violating the Espionage Act and aiding the enemy.
The agreement calls for Manning to accept responsibility for having turned over classified information to WikiLeaks.
If Manning accepts the terms of the agreement, he could be sentenced to 16 years in prison, the Post reported. Legal analysts say the more serious charges would be difficult to prove.
Manning supporters have praised him for exposing military and diplomatic malfeasance. Readers of the British newspaper The Guardian voted him "Person of the Year."
In a rare public appearance after he fled to the embassy, Assange told a group of supporters, "The U.S. war on whistle-blowers must end. ... As WikiLeaks stands under threat, so does the freedom of expression and the health of all our societies."
Assange also called on the United States to release Manning.


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A shopping complex in a former Lancashire mill has generated 22 more jobs after expanding its ground-floor space to add soft furnishings to its retail offer.
Ena Mill, in Atherton, near Leigh, announced earlier this year plans to extend its retail space by 30 per cent.It has now added 10,000 sq ft following a six-figure investment. The additional area will house 20 concessions and takes the total retail space in the mill to 43,000 sq ft.
The ground-floor now features bedding ranges from Rectella, Sanderson, V&A and Belledorm, along with cushions and towels.
New brands have been added to its ladieswear offer, which now also includes lingerie and nightwear, and Pavers Shoes has also become a tenant at the mill.
Ena Mill is now home to 120 retailers.
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Do Not Track is a mechanism for protecting online privacy that specifically addresses the challenge of pervasive online web tracking, especially as employed by behavioral advertisers using increasingly sophisticated tracking technologies. Do Not Track is unique in that it combines both technology (a signal transmitted from a user) as well as a policy framework for how companies that receive the signal should respond.
The Current State of Online Tracking
In recent years, an ecosystem of online tracking companies has begun to monitor our clicks, searches and reading habits as we move around the Internet. While technologists have been concerned about the privacy implications of such tracking for years, the Wall Street Journal's What They Know series brought widespread public attention to the issue by showcasing how marketers gather data on online users.
An HTTP cookie, originally invented by Lou Montulli and John Giannandrea at Netscape in 1994, is extremely useful for the web; cookies are the easiest way to offer "stateful" user interfaces such as user accounts and logins, multi-page forms, or online shopping carts. Cookies also allow sites to store a unique ID in your browser, and therefore to track you. So many people have learned to block, limit or delete their cookies.
Unfortunately, more recent technologies have brought the advent of cookie-like tracking systems that are harder for a user to detect or delete, and may well provide marketers with a rich source of data about an individual. Today, online tracking companies use supercookies and fingerprints to follow people who try to delete their cookies, and the leakage of user IDs from social networks and similar sites has often given them an easy way to identify the people they were tracking.
The pervasiveness of online tracking is a threat to the privacy of our online reading and communications. That's why technologists and policy makers have been devising ways to give users a choice about when they are tracked online. Do Not Track is a unique and powerful way of dealing with the problem of online tracking. It provides users with a voice - so they can tell companies whether or not they want to be tracked online.
Do Not Track – The Technology
Every time your computer sends or receives information over the Web, the request begins with some short pieces of information called headers. These headers include information like what browser you're using, what language your computer is set to, and other technical details. The Do Not Track proposal is to include a simple, machine-readable header indicating that you don't want to be tracked. The header that would be inserted is DNT:1. Because this signal is a header, and not a cookie, users will be able to clear their cookies at will without disrupting the functionality of the Do Not Track flag.
It's important to note that there is no "list" that consumers need to sign up for. Early discussion of Do Not Track included proposals about a list-based registry of users, similar to the Do Not Call Registry. This proposal does not collect data on consumers in a central list. Read more about the history of Do Not Track.
Do Not Track – The Policy
The policy aspect of Do Not Track includes how recipients of the Do Not Track flag should respond, and the appropriate response from a regulatory body. While the technology of Do Not Track is simple, the policy framework is where the important work happens. We have blogged about what we believe the "track" in Do Not Track could mean.
The bigger question is, "what institutional process should be used for setting and updating this policy?". EFF has written comments to the FTC, Commerce Department, and the California State Senate expressing our views on the optimal regulatory framework for Do Not Track.
The best policy framework will need to strike a careful balance between protecting consumer privacy and safeguarding the rights of innovators. Do Not Track is designed specifically to address the issue of invisible third-party tracking, so EFF strongly supports limiting the scope of Do Not Track to those sites which are acting as third parties. See our letter to the California State Senate on this issue. We also believe that, given the failure of industry to effectively self-regulate, Congress may need to grant the Federal Trade Commission limited, carefully cabined authority to do rulemaking on how sites should interpret this signal.
Several consumer privacy bills have been introduced, each with a slightly different approach to dealing with online tracking. We'll be following this debate as it continues on the Hill, and continuing to advocate for the rights of users to tell companies: Do Not Track Me.
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Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ALXA) Appoints J. Kevin Buchi to its Board of Directors
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 3, 2013 -- Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALXA) announced today that J. Kevin Buchi has been appointed to its Board of Directors. Mr. Buchi has more than 30 years of pharmaceutical industry experience. Most recently, Mr. Buchi was Corporate Vice President, Global Branded Products at Teva Pharmaceutical Industries. Mr. Buchi served at Teva from October 2011 until May 2012.
"We are very pleased to welcome Kevin to our Board of Directors," said Thomas B. King, President and CEO of Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. "This will be a transitional year for us, as we move from a development-stage company to a commercial company with the launch of ADASUVE. Kevin brings a wealth of experience and expertise to our Board, particularly in product commercialization, partnering and overall corporate development. We look forward to his contributions to Alexza's next phase."
Mr. Buchi served as Chief Executive Officer of Cephalon, Inc. from December 2010 through its acquisition by Teva in October 2011. Mr. Buchi joined Cephalon in 1991 and held the positions of Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer before becoming its Chief Executive Officer. From January 2010 through December 2010 as Chief Operating Officer, he managed the company's global sales and marketing functions, as well as product manufacturing, business development and investor relations. From 2006 through 2010, Mr. Buchi served as Chief Financial Officer. At various times in his career at Cephalon, Mr. Buchi had oversight of corporate finance, accounting, information systems, facilities, human resources and administration.
Mr. Buchi graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in chemistry. He was a synthetic organic chemist for the Eastman Kodak Company before going on to obtain a Masters of Management from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
Mr. Buchi currently serves on the Board of Directors of Stemline Therapeutics and Forward Pharma A/S. Previously, Mr. Buchi served on the Board of Directors of Lorus Therapeutics (Canada), Encysive Pharmaceuticals, Celator Pharmaceuticals and Mesoblast Limited (Australia).
About Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Alexza Pharmaceuticals is focused on the research, development and commercialization of novel, proprietary products for the acute treatment of central nervous system conditions, including agitation, acute repetitive seizures and insomnia. Alexza's products are based on the Staccato® system, a hand-held inhaler that is designed to deliver a drug aerosol to the deep lung, providing rapid systemic delivery and therapeutic onset with ease and convenience for patients..
ADASUVE®Staccato (loxapine) inhalation powder is Alexza's first product approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Grupo Ferrer Internacional, S.A. is Alexza's commercial partner for ADASUVE in Europe, Latin America, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States countries. Alexza has filed the ADASUVE Marketing Authorization Application with the European Medicines Agency and recently received a positive opinion from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use. The European Commission, which has the authority to grant marketing authorization for medicinal products in the EU, is expected to deliver its decision on the ADASUVE marketing authorization in the first quarter of 2013.
For more information about Alexza, the Staccato system technology or the Company's development programs, please visit www.alexza.com. For more information about ADASUVE, including the full prescribing information and boxed warning, please visit www.adasuve.com. ADASUVE® and Staccato® are registered trademarks of Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Safe Harbor Statement
This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve significant risks and uncertainties. Any statement describing the Company's expectations or beliefs is a forward-looking statement, as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and should be considered an at-risk statement. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, particularly those inherent in the process of developing and commercializing drugs, including the ability for Alexza to effectively and profitably commercialize ADASUVE in the US, the impact and risks of the ADASUVE post-marketing studies and Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy on the commercialization of ADASUVE in the US, the timing and prospects for regulatory approval to market ADASUVE in the EU, if approved for marketing in the EU, the ability for Alexza and Ferrer to effectively and profitably commercialize ADASUVE, the adequacy of the Company's capital to support the Company's operations, and the Company's ability to raise additional funds and the potential terms of such potential financings. The Company's forward-looking statements also involve assumptions that, if they prove incorrect, would cause its results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These and other risks concerning Alexza's business are described in additional detail in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011 and the Company's other Periodic and Current Reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements contained in this announcement are made as of this date, and the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
SOURCE Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc.


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A native of Australia, Greg Delves resides in New York. His skillful composition of light and color lends itself to beautiful arrangements of cosmetic, beauty and still life images.
Delves is interested in the graphic interplay between objects and people; his goal is to create a perfect balance in a photograph's elements.
Delves has photographed major campaigns for Saatchi & Saatchi, Grey Advertising, Select Advertising, AR Media, Atelier's ABC, Jung Von Matt, MVSB/EURO and Valentine Group.
His clients include Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Elle, Marie Claire, Instyle, Self, Glamour, New York Times T magazine, Amica, German GQ and German Vogue. His commercial clients include: Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Escada, Mont Blanc, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman, Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Coach, Cole Haan, Kenneth Cole, Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, Target, L'Oreal, Estée Lauder, Parfums Givenchy, Revlon, Avon, Covergirl, Elizabeth Arden, Bobbie Brown, Trish McEvoy, Mac, Prescriptives and Wella.


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2/27/14 Pre-K Program Enrollment
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Children who will be 4 years old on or before August 31, 2014 may be eligible to register for Pre-Kindergarten classes for the upcoming 2014-2015 school year. Pre-K programs target at-risk four year olds who may not be ready to enter Kindergarten due to certain risk factors, including: low income, health-related conditions, developmental delays, and English as a second language.
Parents are encouraged to complete and submit an application, along with required documents as listed on the application form, for a review of their child's eligibility. Applications are available at the Alamance-Burlington school district's administrative office at 1712 Vaughn Road in Burlington, at any Alamance-Burlington School System (ABSS) elementary school, at the Ray Street Academy at 609 Ray Street in Graham, or on the ABSS website: www.abss.k12.nc.us. In addition, applications are available at the Alamance Partnership for Children office at 2322 River Road in Burlington, or at any Head Start location in Alamance County. For more information, please call 336 438-4212.


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New York, April 15, 2014--Two Egyptian journalists were shot by live ammunition on Monday while covering clashes in Cairo between security forces and university students supportive of the Muslim Brotherhood, according to news reports. At least one student was killed in the clashes, news reports said.
Amr Abdel-Fattah, photographer for the independent TV channel Sada El-Balad, was shot in the back and underwent surgery at a local hospital, according to news reports. He is in stable condition. Khaled Hussein, reporter for Al-Youm al-Saba'a, was shot in the chest, according to the independent daily. He underwent surgery and is in critical condition, reports said. Both journalists were taken to Qasr El-Einy Hospital.
While being taken to the hospital, Hussein said the police had fired at him, according to a video published by Al-Youm al-Saba'a.
Ahmed Mamdouh, a student and protester who helped take the journalists to the hospital, told CPJ the police used live ammunition to shoot at the journalists and protesters. Independent photojournalist Amru Salahuddien also wrote a post on Facebook that said police had used live ammunition. Al-Youm al-Saba'a published photos showing damage to the outer doors and walls of Cairo University.
The Interior Ministry denied police used live ammunition and said Muslim Brotherhood protesters had shot at journalists, according to news reports.
"We call on the Egyptian government to ensure that journalists can safely cover demonstrations," said Sherif Mansour, CPJ's Middle East and North Africa program coordinator. "Authorities can take the first step toward quelling the violence by fully investigating the attacks on Amr Abdel-Fattah and Khaled Hussein and holding those responsible to account."
Al-Dustour daily reporter Mayada Ashraf was shot dead while covering clashes in Cairo last month, according to news reports.
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Student Lucy, who lives in Glasgow, put her confidence issues behind her and dazzled the judges with her performance of Nella Fantasia.
The 25 year-old, who was taunted by bullies for years because of her love for classical music, got a standing ovation from all four of the judges and won the public vote with her heartfelt performance.
Show supremo Simon Cowell said: "Incredible. I mean, you literally saved the show tonight. I was on my way home and then you came back and most importantly you proved a point to yourself. You have got rid of all your problems in your past."
Fellow judge Amanda Holden said: "Lucy, I mean, it was the most beautiful, haunting piece of music I've heard in a long time.
"You came back looking like a star, sounding like a star. Your voice control was incredible and I'm so happy we found you on this show. Amazing."
Panellist David Walliams joined in the praise and said: "It was just faultless. It was like we were at your concert. You are a ready made star. If I was Simon Cowell I would be signing you up tonight."
While Alesha Dixon said: "Lucy I adore you and I know you have been on such a personal journey. You just transported me in that performance. I think you are a star."
Camp dancing trio Yanis Marshall, Arnaud and Mehdi also impressed the celebrity judging panel with their diva dance medley.
Cowell said: "I said there were going to be some highs and lows. I think you were the cherry on the top of one of the nuttiest shows we have ever done on Britain's Got Talent. It was entertaining. It was fun."
Holden said: "Honestly I think you are sexy, you are sassy. I love your styling." While Walliams added: "Sisters, that was fierce."
Just 45 acts have made it through to the live semi-finals from the thousands who applied and the hundreds who auditioned, and they are battling it out on the ITV1 show for the prize of £250,000 and a spot at the Royal Variety Performance.
The third semi-final is Thursday night at 7.30pm.
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Although the squatters' camps that were the central visual focus of the Occupy Wall Street movement have mostly been dissolved, the apparent idea behind those various rallying points still lingers: that financial power and resources are too concentrated (whether that's really true, is it really a problem, and if so, what should be done about it, is a whole different discussion).
What sparked my interest in the topic is how a commentator on the Motley Food website seized on the OWS movement to write about how the food production sector also needs to be "occupied." You can read Brian Stoffel's whole piece here, but the author's key argument is this:
"If we are all up in arms over an industry (banking) where the four biggest players control 50% of the cash, surely we should be wary of the fact that 90% of our most consumed food (corn, whether for human or animal consumption) is in the hands of just three companies!"
Stoffel goes on to allege that corn and soybeans, in additional to being created, planted and processed by near-monopolistic companies, are overproduced in the U.S., and thus overconsumed, leading to deleterious health effects and rising medical costs.
These are arguments we've seen before in various forums – there's really nothing new under the sun – but it's the first time I've seen criticism of American agriculture linked to the Occupy Wall Street movement. What these contentions really illustrate is an overly-simplified, even naïve understanding of food production. In fact, it's really a series of data points, strung together in random order, in search of a fact.
Stoffel says that because DuPont and Monsanto control patents on 58% of the corn planted in the U.S., that's a problem. Really? Microsoft and Apple control the software in probably 90%+ of personal computers in the U.S., while Proctor & Gamble, and Unilever, control a big share of laundry detergent sales (just to pick some other random consumer product). Should we occupy laundromats after we march on Seattle, WA, to protest those concentrations?
And what about the hundreds of thousands of farmers who actually make decisions each spring about what to plant? Isn't that really where the issue starts? And if these myriad small businesses are the decision-makers when the seed meets the ground, how is that monopolistic behavior?
The author also said that because four companies are responsible for 85% of global high-fructose corn syrup sales, that's also a problem. Never mind that four sellers is hardly a monopoly, even of 100% of a product. More to the point, he says that corn syrup is too cheap, and thus too readily available. I always thought the purpose of a monopoly was so you could limit competition and charge MORE for your product, not have so much that it overruns every grocery store and vending machine in America (That's why a pricey hotel on Boardwalk will bankrupt you if you land on it in the game of Monopoly…isn't that the point?).
How, exactly, if feed grain and oilseed production in the U.S. are truly the result of food cabals, are they hurting the availability and quality of the food supply? Is the problem too much availability, or too little? Or is really that people eat too much and want to blame someone else for their choices? And where is a mention that food retailers are where the real concentration has occurred in the past generation?
Stoffel quotes Attorney General Eric Holder about the Department of Justice's quest two years ago to find evidence of collusive, illegal behavior in the food chain. What he failed to include is that the DOJ effort found….basically nothing. The lead investigator behind the effort, in fact, left the Justice Department this past summer for a job at a big New York law firm.
And one last thought: if "agribusiness" really needs to be occupied, why don't some of these unemployed OWS protestors start their own farms? That would kill at least two birds with the same stone.


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2009: Made 12 starts and played in 15 total games during her sophomore season...Tallied two goals and four points...Scored her first collegiate goal August 30 at Campus Field against Longwood...Finished the season with 12 total shots.
2008: Started two games and appeared in six total tilts as a freshman…Made her first collegiate start August 23 at Maine…Compiled two shots for 2008.
High School: Played soccer all four years of high school under head coach Tom Veryzer…Served as team captain for three seasons…Named team MVP four consecutive seaons…Three time All-Conference selection and twice name to All-County squad.
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DOYLESTOWN (PA) – Kyle McGrath scored on a nine-yard touchdown run in overtime and the King's College defense stopped host Delaware Valley College on its possession as the Monarchs posted a 21-14 upset victory in a Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) contest.
The win was the first for King's over the Aggies since 2003 and it was also the team's fourth win in a row as the Monarchs improved to 4-3 overall and 4-2 in conference play. The loss dropped Delaware Valley out of a tie for first place in the MAC as they fell to 5-2 overall and 4-2 in the league.
The Aggies won the coin toss and elected to go on defense to start the overtime. King's picked up eight yards over its first two plays and then got a first down when McGrath picked up three yards to put the ball at the Delaware Valley 14-yard line. After Tom Hehre picked up five yards, McGrath got the call again and he broke three tackles, en route to the end zone. Kevin Mulvhill added the extra-point for the 21-14 lead and forcing the Aggies to have to score a touchdown and convert the point-after to continue the game.
Kyle Schuberth began Delaware Valley's overtime possession with a two-yard gain, but was stopped at the line of scrimmage on the next play. On third-and-eight, quarterback Charlie Marterella, making just his second collegiate start, zipped a pass over the middle that would have been enough for the first down, but it was dropped by Rasheed Bailey and the team faced fourth down. Marterella was then flushed out of the pocket and his pass was knocked down by James Burke at the line to end the game and set up a King's celebration.
Delaware Valley started the game by going 75 yards on 12 plays, which included a pair of third-down conversions and a fourth-down conversion. On third-and-goal from the two, Charlie Marterella hit younger brother Bobby Marterella in the end zone. Brandon Snyder added the extra-point for a 7-0 lead just 5:35 into the game.
That was all the scoring in the first half as the two teams combined for five turnovers and five punts the rest of the way. The Aggies also had a golden opportunity midway through the second quarter, but Snyder pushed a 22-yard field goal attempt wide right of the uprights.
Early in the third quarter, Burke intercepted a pass for King's and headed to the end zone for a sure score, but he was called for taunting as he reached the Delaware Valley five-yard line. The Monarchs took over at the Aggie 20 after the penalty was marked off, but roughing the passer and offsides penalties by Delaware Valley put the ball back to the five. Hehre then called his own number on a wildcat play and got the touchdown for a 7-7 score with 10:40 remaining in the quarter.
Later in the third, the Aggies regained the lead as they went on an eight-play, 61-yard scoring drive. Schuberth got the call on five of the last six plays of the drive and netted 54 yards, including the final 13 that put him in the end zone. Snyder's boot made it 14-6 with 1:52 left in the quarter.
Delaware Valley had a chance to make it a two-score game, but Snyder's 32-yard field goal attempt was blocked by Bobby Russell and King's took over at its own 20 with 5:56 remaining. The Monarchs moved down the field and then faced a fourth-and-three from the Aggie 39-yard line. Quarterback Tyler Hartranft hit Dan Kempa around the 30 and Kempa bounced off two defenders and went the rest of the way for the touchdown. Mulvihill added the extra-point to knot the game at 14-14 with 2:06 remaining. The contest then went to overtime where King's pulled out the win.
Schuberth had another big outing for Delaware Valley as he finished with 188 yards and a touchdown on 32 carries. Charlie Marterella was just 8-for-21 for 88 yards, one touchdown and three interceptions. Defensively, the Aggies held the Monarchs to 239 total yards. Freshman linebacker Frank Law made his first start at linebacker and he had nine tackles, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery. Ken Kenner-English had nine stops and a sack while Chris Vega and Danny Wynne had interceptions.
Hartranft completed 18 of 31 passes for 162 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. Kempa caught 10 passes for 114 yards and a score. McGrath was held to 23 yards on 15 carries, but nine of those yards came on the game-winning score. Kris Matthews and Ron Garrett led the way with 14 and 12 tackles respectively while Nick Kaijala recorded nine tackles, one sack, one interception, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery.