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Highlights from Ole Miss head coach Andy Kennedy's time on the SEC teleconference Monday as well as selected questions and answers from Mississippi State head coach Rick Ray, Vanderbilt head coach Kevin Stallings and Georgia head coach Mark Fox.
Ole Miss is the No. 6 seed in this week's 2014 SEC Tournament in Atlanta and will play the winner of 11-seed Vanderbilt and 14-seed Mississippi State in the second round Thursday (approximately 8:25 p.m. CT, SEC TV/ESPN3). The winner of Thursday's game will play 3-seed Georgia in the quarterfinals Friday (approximately 8:25 p.m. CT, SEC TV/ESPN3).
Ole Miss head coach Andy Kennedy
Opening statement:
We're excited about heading to Atlanta and competing in the SEC Tournament coming off a hard-fought win, which will hopefully give our guys some life moving forward.
On Arkansas' big loss at Alabama:
We're all living on a slippery slope. We played about as poorly as I have ever seen a team play from our vantage point against a team that played about as well as they could possibly play in Arkansas, and then both scripts got flipped. All I saw was the final score.
I was not surprised so much that Alabama won because Alabama is a good basketball team and it's hard to win on the road, but when I saw the score I was surprised because of how well Arkansas had been playing, and then as poorly as we played, we were able to bounce back and grind out a hard home win. It speaks to my theory, where I don't believe in game-to-game momentum; I believe in in-game momentum. Each game has a life in and of itself, and you have to prepared as such.
On making a run in the SEC Tournament:
Most everyone, especially when you have a lot on the line, you hope that your players would go into with a sense of urgency that the next loss could be your last game. We have one senior, and I know he will be playing with a sense of urgency. When you have a number of different guys who have that sense of urgency, you make plays and special things can happen.
We were certainly a part of that last year. I had three prominent members of our team, who were seniors, and they were playing with that senior sense of urgency, and we were able to get a last-second win in game one. We had a feeling of relief but also excitement about the potential that the next day held, and that's what you can experience sometimes in tournament play.
On balancing the routine with the excitement of playing in the SEC Tournament:
Heading not the tournament, you try to keep your routine the same. We have been doing this now for a number of months, and you try to stay on the same routine. Once you get into that tournament setting, there's always electricity in that building. The SEC does an outstanding job of creating an electric atmosphere. Guy gets excited about that, and if you can get through that first game, guys are really on edge as it relates to the opportunity that's in front of them.
On Georgia's play through the SEC regular season:
Mark (Fox) and his staff did an outstanding job of getting that team to understand who they were. They were 6-6 in the non-league and when you do that, not many people gave them much hope of moving up in the standings once they got into league play. They looked in the mirror and made the necessary adjustments as to who they were and their best chance to be successful, and they maximized that by having an outstanding run in our league.
They're playing as well as anybody with a hard-fought win at LSU in the last game. They're playing with momentum and a lot of confidence. They'll be in their home state, and there will be a lot of Bulldogs in the building. Last year, we came into the tournament in a similar mode, where we were tied for second and we got the third seed via a tiebreaker, and then we were able to make our run. Georgia is in a great position.
On the team's mindset entering the SEC Tournament:
I'm like most every coach. We split the season into a number of different quarters going back to our high school days. Now we're in the fourth quarter. This is the postseason. This is the epitome of March Madness, which created this mindset that anything can happen. We lived that last year when we were able to go and have a magical run. That's still fresh on the thoughts of our players' minds. We realized that the task is going to be a daunting one, but at the same time, all coaches try to turn the page and say we're all starting here anew. There's a lot to play for heading into Atlanta.
Mississippi State head coach Rick Ray
Opening statement:
We're getting ready for a well-coached Vanderbilt team. Coach Stallings does about as good a job as anybody in the nation of exploiting some of your weakness, both on the offensive end and defensive end. On the offensive end, for them, they do a great job of running a lot of set plays. When you're playing Vanderbilt, you have to make sure that you rely on your principles more so than just guarding their set because they do a lot of sets, but more importantly they have counters to those sets to exploit anything that you're doing as far as the way you're guarding the basketball.
In the first game against them, Damian Jones got in early foul trouble. He has a world of potential, and he's going to be a really good player in the SEC. Having him available on the court to give them an inside presence, along with their outside shooters and scorers will be a problem for us.
On the team mindset entering the SEC Tournament:
The one thing that we're trying to focus on, because we're playing Vanderbilt, and we played a good game against them. It was a closely contested ball game. We had a couple of chances to cut it to two points under two minutes, and we missed point-blank layups and a couple of tips. You could show them that you had some success against Vanderbilt at Vanderbilt, so that's one thing that always helps. The second thing is that we went into the SEC Tournament last year, and it was the first time that we had won a game in the SEC Tournament since 2008 as a program. You try to point to those positive things because the negatives are very obvious.
On the team's depth:
It's a problem. I don't think you can sit here and say that we're on an even playing field with everybody else. Our first year we were playing with six and seven scholarship guys, and this year we played the whole season with seven and eight scholarship guys. There are two things we don't have. We never had the competition for playing time. Any program needs that. The second thing is that I have never had our best teacher, which is the bench. You need that to have that competitive fire in your program all the time. Our guys continue to play hard. Everybody has their bumps and bruises at this point in time. It's more mentally fatigued than physically fatigued. Our guys have to pull it together for the stretch run.
Vanderbilt head coach Kevin Stallings
Opening statement:
First of all, I would like to congratulate Coach Donovan and the Florida Gator basketball team on their championship. Going 18-0 in our league is an incredible accomplishment, so I congratulate them on a job more than well done. Our team is coming off of two very close games, difficult, similar-type losses from last week.
We're thankful for the opportunity to play again. Those were two frustrating losses for us last week, but we're hopeful that we can get to Atlanta and play the way we have been playing defensively and maybe play better on offense. Our defense has been good enough in our recent games except for one to really give us a chance to win games, and our offense has not been what we need it to be, so hopefully we can do some things this week can get that rectified and play better offensively and maintain the defensive intensity that we have shown the last few weeks.
On making a run in the SEC Tournament:
It tends to happen just in the games. You can start to get the feeling in a game. If you win one, maybe you get on a little bit of a roll. There has never been anything that I have sensed going into the tournament when we have done well or when we have done poorly. It's more of thing where you get there, you win a game and then you get a feeling, see some confidence and start playing well, and the confidence gets contagious and it carries you through the weekend. I have never sensed anything in the prior couple days going into the tournament.
When you win, you gain confidence and momentum is built. In 2004, I remember when we beat Mississippi State, which was league champion that year, in overtime and that was a tremendous situation for us because they had just won the league. That catapulted us not only in that tournament, but that gave us momentum going into the NCAA Tournament as well. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about, winning a big game, winning a tough game, winning a close game, and it continues to provide you momentum.
Opening statement:
Our team is excited about the tournament. We're really excited that it's in Atlanta and just down the road for us, so hopefully we will have some support from our fan base there in Atlanta. Our kids are really excited about the tournament, and it should be a great week of basketball in the Georgia Dome.
On this year's team:
Normally, you compare most things in the life to the first time you maybe did something, so I compare of my teams to my first team, which I thought was really a group of overachievers and a team that was picked fourth in the league that won the league and won an NCAA Tournament game and was a joy to coach. Every year, I often compare the team I'm coaching to that group because it was my first one and it was one of my favorite teams.
This team has been just as much fun to coach. These guys have been a real joy, and I look forward to seeing them every day. They enjoy each other. Throughout the season, whether it is success or failure, they have tried to use things to grow as people and grow as a team. From that standpoint, it's been a process that we have all enjoyed.
On the locker room after the win over LSU:
It was typical. The kids were certainly excited. They had a sense of accomplishment for winning the game because LSU is a good team, and it was a good win. It was typical of a scene after a conference road win. It was not more than that. When you win a road game in this league, it's very hard to do, and so they were excited like they would be for most conference road victories.
On the coach's control of team chemistry:
Coaches do their best to manage the personality of the group, but the one thing that you can't control -- and you can in some instances as you recruit -- is the quality of character. You really have to have people that have great character to strive and achieve, and sometimes you can't control that. You don't know exactly -- even though there is some communication in recruiting -- until you go to battle with someone how they're wired. Fortunately, we have a really good chemistry and some really good character on our team that has allowed us to continue to grow.
On the team entering conference play:
That was a tough time. We had played George Washington in our last nonconference game, and I learned right before that game that my dad was about to pass, and so right before conference play started, I was away from the team for a day or two. I don't know if at that time we had a grasp on what we could accomplish. From day one this year, we felt like we could have a good team. Even though Kentavious left, and we knew there would be some growing pains getting used to his absence, they didn't waver from thinking we could have a good team. It just took a little while to figure out how to do that.
On NCAA Tournament standing entering SEC Tournament:
For the first time, yesterday, since I didn't know whom we would be playing, I took a minute to look at it. I don't know if we will have to win it, but it sure takes the stress out of it if you could do. We would have to advance. To have a legitimate at-large chance, we would have to advance. If you advance, you might as well win it.


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I'd prefer to not have to back-rev if I can avoid it... >> >> We're seeing the following error in WRF compiled with openMPI and the >> PGI 7.2 compiler: >> mca_btl_tcp_frag_send:writev failed with errno=104 >> >> While all nodes were accessible prior to the run and returned >> appropriate "stuff" when queried with, eg., ssh and a command, two >> nodes now return something like this: >> [gerry at brazos SCOOP12km]$ ssh c0522 >> Received disconnect from 192.168.200.154: 2: Bad packet length 808464432. > > Hmmm... sounds like a link tried re-negotiating. Can you get on via > serial/console and My guess is that the driver wandered across memory boundaries. This stinks of a buffer problem to me. Typically, after this happens, I can't log into the node via any interface, nor on console. It requites an ipmi or physical reboot. > root at lightning:~# ethtool eth0 -bash-3.2# ethtool eth1 Settings for eth1: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: g Wake-on: d Link detected: yes > You might want to > > ethtool eth0 autoneg off > > to force it not to renegotiate its speed. Also, look at -bash-3.2# ethtool -A eth1 autoneg off autoneg unmodified, ignoring no pause parameters changed, aborting > root at lightning:~# ethtool -g eth0 -bash-3.2# ethtool -g eth1 Ring parameters for eth1: Pre-set maximums: RX: 1020 RX Mini: 0 RX Jumbo: 4080 TX: 255 Current hardware settings: RX: 255 RX Mini: 0 RX Jumbo: 765 TX: 255 > See if you can do something like > > ethtool -G eth0 rx-jumbo 100 > > if you have zero jumbo ring rx entries. Doesn't look like this requires much change. 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Yeah, the WRF as >> compiled did run before the change to Jumbos. >> >> Do I reduce the size of the frames to something smaller, like 8800 >> bytes? 7500? 1500? > > In the past I had heard that jumbo frames may work on Broadcom NICs > around 6000 byte length. We haven't tried this in a while ... YMMV. > >> >> I'm not completely out of ideas but stumped. >> >> Thanks, gerry > > -- Gerry Creager -- gerry.creager at tamu.edu Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas A&M University Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.458.4020 FAX: 979.862.3983 Office: 1700 Research Parkway Ste 160, TAMU, College Station, TX 77843

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For the past couple of years, I have used Carol Gray's materials extensively during my work with adults with developmental disabilities. Creating comic strip conversations has been extremely helpful in facilitating conversation, resolving social issues between peers, taking turns in conversation and providing different social scenarios within various contexts.
Since I have worked in creating my own comic strip conversations with my clients for some time now, I decided to experiment using the comics section in the newspaper. My clients are motivated by the local newspaper for many reasons. They enjoy browsing through current events, looking at the pictures in the sports section and reading the comics.
The comics within a local paper are inexpensive (in my area it is just $1.00 for the local newspaper), easily accessible and age appropriate for older children, teenagers and adults. Therapy using comic strips has been surprisingly motivating and beneficial to my clients. I never realized how effective using the comics section could be!
I like to keep my favorite comics and laminate them for future use. I have also created a game around using the comics section. My clients take turns choosing from a pile of comic cards and then have a discussion about each particular card. When one client doesn't understand a particular comic and why it's funny, I have him ask his peer for assistance. As a group, we have had many extensive and interesting conversations related to the comics. Here are some speech and language goals that can be facilitated with the comics:
1. Expanding vocabulary: The comics are full of language, which make it an ideal time to discuss and define new vocabulary. It will be difficult for a client to understand a particular comic without understanding the actual definition of some of the words. For example in a recent Garfield comic, Garfield thinks "This is a perfect day to stay in bed and contemplate life's truths." Discuss what "life's truths" means with your client. Defining the "contemplate" can help build vocabulary and build in conversation. Ask your client, "What do you contemplate about?"
2. Abstract Language/Humor: The comics are excellent in discussing abstract language and humor. In many comic strips, there are often multiple meanings of words. In a recent comic, the discussion between the characters was about "trail mix." To one character trail mix was the snack, to the other character trail mix was a bunch of items that you picked up along a trail in the woods (e.g. dirt, sand, rocks). This comic began a conversation about the multiple meanings of words and how they had a miscommunication. Discuss the humor in the comic and why it may be funny to the reader. This can be a tricky exercise for many clients especially with autism, but it can be extremely useful as well. Helping a client recognize humor can help build friendships and improve conversational skills.
3. Taking Turns in Conversation: Between characters, there are natural turns in conversation. This can be a great model for conversation. As a carry-over activity continue the comic with an extra blank comic strips. This can help your clients create their own conversations.
4. Improving Literacy/Punctuation: Having your client read the comics can help improve literacy and reading comprehension. Point out different punctuation markers within the comic such as exclamation marks, periods, question marks, etc. Also, discuss the difference between the characters thinking a particular thought versus actually speaking it.
5. Interpreting Facial Expressions and Feelings/Emotions: In many comic strips the characters have extreme emotions. In other comics, the feeling and emotions of a character can be a little tricky due to the high levels of sarcasm. Read the specific comic strip together, discuss the language and then ask your client how the character is most likely feeling.
Rebecca Eisenberg, MS, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist, author, instructor, and parent of two young children, who began her website www.gravitybread.com to create a resource for parents to help make mealtime an enriched learning experience . She discusses the benefits of reading to young children during mealtime, shares recipes with language tips and carryover activities, reviews children's books for typical children and those with special needs as well as educational apps. She has worked for many years with both children and adults with developmental disabilities in a variety of settings including schools, day habilitation programs, home care and clinics. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com, or you can follow her on Facebook; on Twitter; or on Pinterest.


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I am stirred by the thought of chivalry. A devotion to ideals beyond our own self-interest is man's dominant quest. I think of Cervantes' immortal hero Don Quixote and his aria, "One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this." The fabled knight's passionate outcry defines chivalry as most idyllic.
Don Quixote's battle with windmills throughout the Spanish countryside of Medieval Europe was a simple metaphor in his attempt to right all wrongs. Life is often a series of serendipitous happenstance that unexpectedly provides challenge and a chance to define just who we are. T.E. Lawrence explains this as, "A chance to be great."
Last week a simple and downtrodden homeless man, Gustus Bozarth, had a moment in the sun because of a chivalrous act. Are you familiar with the story?
Recently, a flagpole was blown over during a rainstorm in El Paso, Texas. The next morning the folks at METI Inc. responsible for the pole found the American flag properly folded and securely placed in front of the company's building. The surveillance video showed a man coming to the rescue of the flag in the early hours of the morning. The video shows a man in the driving rain and wind carefully folding the flag military style. He then placed the pole off to the side and quietly returned to a storage unit adjacent to a local warehouse.
"Folding the flag like that is a small act of respect," he said.
I've read about many flag stories and, as a young Marine, was in a few myself. However, I find the story of Gustus Bozarth filled with a sense of irony that raises important issues that we as Americans grapple with.
Patriotism has been an elusive butterfly over these recent years. As a pluralistic culture we see the flag and what it represents through different eyes. Recently, a men's magazine ranked El Paso, Texas, the least patriotic city in America. This irony is compounded by the fact that Gustus, a homeless man who can readily argue that his state in life has absolutely no connection to the American Dream, would be the one to rescue the flag.
The flag is more than a piece of cloth; it is symbolically intertwined with the highest ideas from the loftiest minds. The verse of Thomas Carlyle is understandable "…I have known five hundred soldiers sabered into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag…"
John Greenleaf Whittier's poem Barbara Frietchie depicts the allure of our connection with the flag. When Stonewall Jackson's Confederate Army entered Frederick, Md., he ordered all American flags struck. Barbara Frietchie defied his order and flew the flag outside her window. General Jackson ordered the flag to be shot down. She defiantly appeared at the window. "Shoot if you must this old gray head; but spare your country's flag," she said. The noble nature of Stonewall was stirred. "He who touches a hair of yon gray head, shall die like a dog, march on," he said. The Confederate Army marched that day under the scrutiny of a wavering American flag.
Patriotism is nebulous. However, what is not nebulous is the dilemma of the homeless in American. It's beyond my pay grade to have a solution. However, awareness precedes action, thus Eldridge Cleaver's assumption, "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem" has to be our Achilles heel.
Gustus Bozarth is a homeless man who has nothing. But he still holds on to his flag and to the hope of our country. Thus, he symbolically refuses to relinquish the American Dream. Patriotism is not always waving the flag; it's doing something for Gustus and the millions he represents.
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The Sabres 2011-12 Season: a Disaster and a Success that will Enrage the Local Media for Months to Come
Well, that sucked.
Back on June 18th (and again on October 4th), we talked here about the importance of adding a veteran defense to the Buffalo Sabres. Remember our defense from the 2010-11 season? From our previous article:
Buffalo only has three defenders over the age of 24. A disturbing list:
- Steve Montador, 31
- Jordan Leopold, 30
- Shaone Morrisson, 28
- Chris Butler, 24
- Andrej Sekera, 24
- Marc-Andre Gragnani, 24
- Mike Weber, 23
- Tyler Myers, 21
Of those guys over 24, Morrisson has hardly been a defensive stalwart this season, and Leopold/Montador have not been able to stay on the ice. Indeed, if there is a weakness of the Blue and Gold that teams are going to expose until the end of this hockey year, it is going to be the green defense corps. Of all places, it is in their own zone, from where the team must take it's most important steps, where their Achilles Heel is exposed.
We went a bit further from there:
Bruce McCurdy of the Edmonton Journal wrote a smart piece that not only confirmed my worries about our green defense, but provided an analysis of all Cup-winning team defenses from the last ten years (this year's Bruins excluded). The results of his study are truly damning of our current roster.
As a whole, the champion defencemen were a veteran group. The average age was something over 30, with the top-pairing guys averaging a year or two more than that. Among 28 minute-munchers who averaged over 20 minutes a night (highlighted in bold), fifteen were 30 or older, just three 25 or younger.
Each of the last four Stanley Cup champs has featured a major UFA signing on the back end.
As we all know, Darcy Regier took Terry Pegula's riches and was able to lure Christian Ehrhoff and Robyn Regehr to town. Mission accomplished, so one might think. Ehrhoff was a steady spark plug on the ice all season long, and played well enough with his new teammates. Regehr lead the team in hits, as expected, and was a quiet force of steely grit on the ice.
Well, mostly. They weren't always out there. Like most of their new teammates, they were hit by the injury bug. In all, 335 man games were lost to injury this season for the Sabres. That's not an excuse for missing the playoffs. It is just something that happened. Folks might point out how the Penguins had even more man games lost and still succeeded, but remember – we don't have a 50-goal 109-point scoring Malkin if our Crosby goes down.
And we don't have a Crosby.
For a while, we also didn't have a Ryan Miller. Thanks, Lucic. The Miller Lucic incident will define this season for years to come. It's ridiculous and sad that something more out of the WWE will be our nostalgic gem from this campaign.
To add to our misery, we had our share of dealing with the worst part of the injury bug this season – concussions. It first hit home for us on October 6th, when the CBC produced a report detailing the discovery of CTE in the brain of deceased and beloved Sabres legend, Rick Martin. Concussions hit Jochen Hecht pretty damn hard, too. Concussions limited his time on the ice to 22 games. He's now an UFA, and at 34 years of age, he'll be lucky to sign on anywhere. Frankly, given his injury history along with this CTE nightmare, he might be luckier if no one signs him. After 9 seasons with Buffalo, (10 if you count the lockout season), it looks like Hecht has put on a blue and gold sweater for the final time.
As if the injuries and the losses weren't enough, fans were also treated to the misery that was the Time Warner/MSG Network dispute. For many, the 2011-12 season will be remembered as the season we all learned how to (illegally?) transmit feeds of the game on our laptops. (If that's you, I'd strongly advise running a strong anti-virus program right about now.)
After the magic of Jeremy Lin helped settle that ridiculous issue, the magic of the Sabres began just in time for an unlikely playoff run. A 19-5-5 run almost got us there, but just faltered at the end. It was reminiscent of the 16-4-4 late season push last season, when Pegula first strode into town.
Then again, this season was also reminiscent of something else.
On locker room cleanout day, the players all agreed that this year's 12 game road losing streak was a main factor (likely the main factor) that killed this season. The last time the Sabres missed out on the playoffs was the 2007-2008 season, which featured a 10 game losing streak that stretched from December to January. The boys weren't able to recover from that one, either.
Injuries, Lucic, and one heckuva losing streak. Those are the stories of the 2011-12 Buffalo Sabres. Well, mostly the Lucic one. But, Sabres fans, take heart, for
Ted Black appeared on WGR radio recently to tell everyone that "Sometimes, winning and success aren't necessarily the same thing." Despite how that might enrage some of the local media, he's right. While the Sabres ultimately failed on the ice this season, they succeeded in plenty of other areas. Their roster additions were smart and effective (ok not Leino, and yes, I know we signed him hoping for a strong playoff performance, but he was a stoic no-show for the clutch games of the 19-5-5 playoff run and beyond). The Sabres over-spent, but the message to the players of the NHL was delivered: the Sabres do what it takes to get players to Buffalo and to keep more coming. Buffalo: a destination. Finally.
And for fans, the upgrades to the arena and game experience are still coming. Hockey heaven isn't just the guys sitting on the bench. It's all around us, outside the arena, in our living rooms and at our local rinks. Pegula bolstered an already strong hockey community here, and that shouldn't be forgotten.
There were plenty of other sparks on the ice once that injury bug finally started to disappear. The Foligno-Ennis-Stafford line was nothing short of spectacular. The need for call-ups from Rochester gave our young kids plenty of NHL experience, which will ultimately speed and augment their development as prospects. Regier was also able to add Cody Hodgson to our center ranks, and the surprising Alexander Sulzer to the defense. He dealt Gaustad for an unfathomable 1st round pick. Buffalo has 4 picks in the top 44 selections of the upcoming draft. The future, as they say, is bright.
"The future" isn't much of a consolation to this team or its fans right now. But after a week of hindsight at least on my part, it's pretty clear that the Sabres built a strong foundation this season. They've got a top notch goaltender, a veteran defense, some pretty nifty wingers, and an improving center corps.
That's usually a recipe for deep playoff runs.
And they're not done building.
This offseason should be a wild one. Those 4 picks in the 1st and 2nd round could add much to this team through the draft, or through trades. It would seem that no one in the "old core" is untouchable in the trade market anymore. (5 seasons of general failure will do that to a core.)
In other words, don't buy anyone's jersey right now. (Or if you do, make sure you request for a free nameplate switch if your player is dealt.)
Meanwhile, we'll keep you entertained again in the offseason. We'll have our ridiculous Summer Awards and top Sabres GIFs. 2011-12 is dead to us, but as Rick Jeanneret is famous for saying: "Plenty more comin' up in a moment!"
Go Sabres.
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Disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by certain large companies and groups (proposal to amend Accounting Directives) - Frequently asked questions
See also IP/13/330
1. What will change? What information will be disclosed and how?
This proposed Directive would amend the Accounting Directives (Fourth and Seventh Accounting Directives on Annual and Consolidated Accounts, 78/660/EEC and 83/349/EEC, respectively). The objective is to increase EU companies' transparency and performance on environmental and social matters, and, therefore, to contribute effectively to long-term economic growth and employment.
Companies concerned will be required to disclose in their annual reports relevant and material information on policies, results and risks concerning environmental aspects, social and employee-related matters, respect for human rights, anti-corruption and bribery issues, and diversity on the boards of directors.
Companies will retain significant flexibility to disclose relevant information in the way that they consider most useful. They may use international or national guidelines according to their own characteristics or business environment (for instance, the UN Global Compact, ISO 26000, or the German Sustainability Code).
2. Why does business transparency matter? Is disclosure of environmental and social information important?
Transparency leads to better performance. The financial crisis has shown how some companies that fail financially at one point in time may have had significant transparency mishaps before. This is true not only about disclosure of financial information, but also as regards environmental and social transparency.
Companies which are transparent perform better over time, have lower financing costs, attract and retain talented employees, and are ultimately more successful.
Investors are more and more interested in non-financial information in order to have a comprehensive understanding of a company's development, performance or position, and they thoroughly analyse this information in their investment-decision processes.
3. Why now? Shouldn't the Commission wait until the economic crisis is over?
Transparency is part of the solution, not part of the problem. Transparency leads to improved performance, healthy economic growth and sustainable employment.
The requirements of the existing EU legislation have proved ineffective. Currently, fewer than 10% of the largest EU companies disclose environmental and social information regularly. Some Member States have introduced disclosure requirements that go beyond the Fourth Company Law Directive. For instance: the UK introduced legislation in 2006 which is now being updated; Sweden adopted legislation in 2007; Spain in 2011; Denmark amended its legislation in the same year; the latest update in France dates from May 2012. An EU update and a level playing field in the EU Internal Market is needed.
Transparency, economic success, environmental and social performance are all important in the long-term. Tackling transparency in a period of crisis has made the Commission more sensitive and vigilant so that all efforts have been made to avoid an undue administrative burden.
Companies with fewer than 500 employees will not be subject to any new obligations. For larger companies, costs associated with the required disclosures are commensurate with the value and usefulness of the information, and with the size and complexity of the companies involved.
4. Why a legal requirement? Would a purely voluntary approach not be enough?
Over the years, we have seen the limits of a voluntary approach. Today, around 2,500 large EU companies disclose environmental and social information regularly. Regulating the disclosure of some minimum requirements, whilst avoiding an undue administrative burden, in particular for the smallest companies, is the right decision at this time.
5. Who will benefit from this measure?
Each individual company that discloses transparent information on social and environmental matters will realise significant benefits over time, including better performance, lower funding costs, fewer and less significant business disruptions, better relations with consumers and stakeholders. Investors and lenders will benefit from a more informed and efficient investment-decision process. Society at large will benefit from companies managing environmental and social challenges in a more effective and accountable way.
6. Is this Directive "comply or explain" legislation?
Different stakeholders have different views on what "comply or explain" legislation should look like. Jurisdictions claiming that they have a "comply or explain" approach to transparency often have very different legislation.
To be clear, this Directive sets out a requirement. But companies are left with significant flexibility and the legislation contains significant "comply or explain" modalities. For instance, companies will not be required to have a boardroom diversity policy, but when they do not have it, companies will have to explain why not.
Companies will not be required to disclose information that is not relevant or not necessary for an understanding of a company's development, performance or position. This is no box-checking exercise. This is about disclosing material, useful and valuable information for proper management and understanding of a company.
7. What is the Commission doing to avoid undue administrative burden, in particular for small and medium-sized companies (SMEs)?
Companies with fewer than 500 employees will not be required to report environmental and social information. This does not mean that they would not benefit from better transparency. The same logic applies as for larger companies. But smaller companies may lack appropriate human resources and information handling costs may be proportionately higher. Thus the overall administrative burden may be disproportionately high.
In itself, this directive will not result in a direct administrative burden for smaller companies. Nevertheless, as companies of all sizes develop their businesses, they are likely to experience transparency demands from their customers, employees, consumers, investors, lenders and other business partners and stakeholders.
Other measures have been taken to limit the administrative burden for larger companies too. For instance, the disclosure requirements may be fulfilled once at group level, rather than by each company in the group. Auditing and insurance aspects are limited to a check of consistency between the environmental and social disclosures and the financial information.
8. How many companies will be subject to the new reporting requirement?
A fine balance has been achieved so that the benefits of enhanced transparency are realised, whilst an undue administrative burden, in particular for smaller companies, is avoided. No precise statistics are available, but, to be clear, millions of small and medium-sized EU companies will have no new obligation whatsoever.
Currently, around 2,500 large EU companies disclose environmental and social information regularly. Had the Commission used a threshold of 250 employees as for financial disclosures, more than 40,000 large companies would have come within the scope of application. Having increased the reporting threshold to 500 employees actually reduces the number of companies to around 18,000. This means that around 15,500 large EU companies will be required to be transparent on social and environmental matters as a consequence of this legislation, which is an increase of more than 600%.
9. OK, this is good for the environment, but how much does this cost companies?
This initiative is certainly good for the environment. Transparency leads to awareness and brings the attention of senior management and directors to the key impacts of the company's activity on the environment. More environmental transparency translates into better environmental performance.
But beyond environmental benefits, this initiative is good for society and is good for companies and investors. Companies must equip themselves adequately to handle social challenges and issues related to corruption, bribery and respect for human rights. Companies will clearly benefit from more diversity in their boards of directors. The long-term success of EU companies hinges upon excelling at managing these and similar key strategic challenges. Transparency is an effective management instrument in the strategic toolkit box of EU companies.
Although it is difficult to cite hard data, the benefits of transparency by far outweigh the costs. Transparency is key to the common values and understanding of a social market economy. Transparency extends beyond the publication of the company's balance sheet and profit or loss account.
Reverting to costs, there is a broad range of estimates. Most agree that comprehensive reporting on social and environmental aspects costs a large company between 30,000 euro and 600,000 euro per year. This depends on the company's size and complexity. It also varies according to the internal use and external visibility. Many companies have learnt the strategic value of reporting on social and environmental matters for their internal business-decision process, and for their external communications. Many see expenditure on such reporting as an investment rather than as a cost.
But, to be clear, the new directive is not requiring comprehensive reporting on environmental and social aspects (although the Commission certainly encourages it). The proposed Directive requires the disclosure in the annual report of certain information on policies, results and risks. This is estimated to result in an additional direct cost for large companies of less than 5,000 euro per year, i.e. less than 100 million euro per annum on an EU basis.
10. How does this Directive relate to integrated reporting?
The proposed directive focuses on environmental and social disclosures. Integrated reporting is a step ahead, and is about the integration by companies of financial, environmental, social and other information in a comprehensive and coherent manner. To be clear, this Directive does not require companies to comply with integrated reporting. The Commission is monitoring with great interest the evolution of the integrated reporting concept, and, in particular, the work of the International Integrated Reporting Council.
11. What is the relation with the Commission's recent initiative to increase the presence of women on boards of directors?
The objective of both initiatives is similar: to diversify the composition of boards of directors so that they better supervise the company's management. However, the logic is a little different.
The presence of women on boards initiative covers gender aspects only, and is based on reaching a certain percentage. The proposed Directive covers other aspects of diversity, such as the educational and professional backgrounds, ages or geographical diversity of directors. Companies will be required to disclose their diversity policies. This is expected to exert indirect pressure by encouraging more diversity. Therefore, the proposals are complementary.
12. Has the Commission foreseen any transition period?
The Commission is aware that some large companies may need some time to adjust, build skills, and implement in an effective and useful manner their transparency on environmental and social matters. This will be done over time. That's why the measure includes significant flexibility so that companies report in the way that they see most useful, according to their characteristics. It is also foreseen that companies will take advantage of the adjustment time given until this Directive is adopted by the Council and the European Parliament, and transposed by Member States (say, 2016, which means that companies might be required to publish their first reports in 2017). Member States may grant non-listed companies, which currently may be less used to reporting practices, the possibility of an additional transition year.
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Ackermann's Swan Song Deutsche Bank Moves Toward an Uncertain Future
Outgoing Deutsche Bank CEO Josef Ackermann presided over his final annual press conference on Thursday. His legacy will be that of transforming Germany's largest financial institution into a profit machine. But in the end, he lost control of the specters he unleashed.
Once again, it was Josef Ackermann's day. On Thursday, the Deutsche Bank CEO strode into the limelight for a press conference to present his bank's annual results. It was the 10th -- and final -- time that Ackermann would preside over such a gathering.
It wasn't the kind of departure he had been hoping for. At the beginning of 2011, he had confidently predicted pre-tax profits of 10 billion ($13 billion), a record that he wanted to be his legacy. But the euro crisis ruined it for him. The total came in at 5.4 billion -- nothing more than an average Ackermann year.
When the Swiss banker turns over his position in May of this year to the leadership duo of Anshu Jain and Jürgen Fitschen, he will leave behind a Deutsche Bank that is radically different from the financial institution that he took over in 2006. What was once a successful yet conservative German credit institution has become a global investment bank -- one which plays a role in all important markets and earns gigantic profits.
Many in Germany, however, view the bank's growth with skepticism. Ackermann has become the poster boy in the country for unscrupulous financial capitalism and the media has done little to counter that view. He is seen as only being interested in maximizing profits -- an economic principle that Germans have long been skeptical of, and one which has lost all acceptance since the beginning of the financial crisis.
Yet the idea of radically reforming Deutsche Bank did not originate with Ackermann: It was a process he inherited from his predecessors. As early as 1997, then-CEO Hilmar Kopper set a goal of a 25 percent return on equity. Shortly thereafter, Ackermann was made responsible for the growing investment banking department within Deutsche Bank, meaning he was essentially responsible for turning Kopper's goal into reality. It was clear from the beginning, after all, that a 25 percent return on equity cannot be achieved through traditional commercial and retail banking activities.
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When Ackermann became management board spokesman in 2002 -- and particularly after he was named chairman of the board four years later -- 25 percent return on equity became his mantra as well. It was a goal that he never lost sight of, and one he was prepared to take great risks to achieve. During his tenure, Deutsche Bank became one of the largest traders of derivatives in the world. In the US, the Frankfurt-based bank plunged into the real estate market, often using dubious methods which have resulted in several cases pending against Deutsche Bank in American courts.
But the financial crisis led Ackermann to rethink his approach. It revealed the dark side of investment banking and showed all too clearly the weaknesses of his one-sided business model. In 2008, Deutsche Bank lost 3.8 billion, the first time in its proud history that the bank had lost money -- and it was Ackermann's ignominy.
From then on, balance became his new leitmotif; the company should no longer be completely dependent on investment banking. An immediate outcome of the new philosophy was Ackermann's 2010 purchase of a majority share in Postbank, a classic bank for small depositors. It was a move that just a few years earlier, he would have scorned. But now, grandma's savings were to provide Deutsche Bank with increased stability. Within Deutsche Bank, Ackermann himself became something of a moderator between the two worlds: between the profit-hungry investment bankers in London and the boring savings bank business in Bonn.
It wasn't the only evolution Ackermann has undergone in recent years: He has also transformed himself from being a pure businessman to being a politically-minded banker. It is the kind of progression that several of his Deutsche Bank predecessors also experienced, from Hermann Josef Abs, to Alfred Herrhausen to Kopper. All of them saw their position as having a political element as well. They were, to a certain extent, spokesmen for the German economy -- and were both loved and hated as a result.
Playing Both Roles
Ackermann had not actually intended to carry on the tradition. When he became spokesman of the board a decade ago, Berlin seemed far away. Now, though, he travels regularly to the German capital, and not just because his daughter lives here. Whenever a bank has had to be saved, a bankruptcy prevented or a group of German parliamentarians advised about the financial crisis, Ackermann has been present. And not everyone within Deutsche Bank has been happy about his frequent forays onto the political stage. Several times in recent years, he has been accused by bank leaders of neglecting his managerial responsibilities.
Ackermann had hoped to continue playing both roles -- that of his bank's foreign minister and internal moderator -- even after he stepped down. His original plan called for him to move from the CEO role to that of chair of the advisory board. In such a position, he would have been able to manage his own legacy.
But it didn't turn out as planned. Ackermann is to step down at the end of May, but his successors are to take over the day-to-day running of the bank already this week, now that the annual results have been presented to the press.
In the wake of Ackermann's departure, the bank is to be led by a triumvirate: Jain and Fitschen will pair up as co-CEOs and Paul Achleitner -- formerly a board member at Allianz and the ex-Germany head for the US investment bank Goldman Sachs -- will take over as chairman of the board of directors. At the economic summit in Davos, the trio posed for several photos. The fact that Ackermann wasn't involved in the photo ops speaks volumes.
Controlling the Specters
The bank's future now depends on which of the three takes over the leadership role. Most anticipate that Jain, a native of India, will be the one. Achleitner, after all, will have no operative role in the bank's management and Fitschen, who turns 64 this autumn, is widely seen as an interim solution.
Furthermore, investment bankers such as Jain are seen as being the strongest faction within Deutsche Bank. In recent years, they have received such a huge quantity of stock options that they have become the bank's largest shareholders, owning around a fifth of the company. Achleitner will not be in a position to ignore their voting strength.
The Ackermann era, however, was much less profitable for the rest of the shareholders. Deutsche Bank's stock price has halved in the decade he has been at the top -- despite his target of increasing shareholder value.
Jain will pursue this goal as well. Important bank investors have made it clear that they would like to see Deutsche Bank continue to play an important role on global financial markets. And should Jain indeed concentrate power in his hands, investment banking will surely remain a vital sector, limited only by new, stricter legal regulations.
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[Illinois] BioE 498/ME 498: Experimental Methods for Biological Machines (Traction Force Microscopy Experiment)
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Traction Force Microscopy (TFM)
Using polyacrylamide gels with fluorescent microspheres, students in Professor Saif's laboratory Samantha and Sandeep show how to track cellular motion and calculate traction forces. In this video, the students first walk through the procedure of creating the polyacrylamide gels with the microspheres. Later in the video, the students show the calculation of displacement and traction forces.
Experimental Methods for Biological Machines
Spring 2012
4 credit hours
Live videoconferenced lectures
UIUC campus on Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:30-5:00 PM CST
Taught by Illinois Professors Rashid Bashir, Minh N. Do, Martha Gillette, Hyun Joon Kong, K. Jimmy Hsia,
Gabriel Popescu, Taher Saif, Paul Selvin, Fei Wang, Ning Wang, Yingxiao Wang
This course introduces students to the students unique experimental methods that are important to successful
research in developing biological machines. These methods are in general not covered in standard experimental
courses at most universities, and often not included in text books. The EBICS Graduate Teaching Consortium provides an opportunity for students to be exposed to a broader selection of experimental methods, and develop potential inter-institution collaborations.
The EBICS (Emergent Behavior of Integrated Cellular Systems) mission is to
"Create a new scientific discipline for building living, multi-cellular machines that solve real world problems in health, security, and the environment."
This mission is achieved through integrated research and education efforts, human resource development, diversity and outreach programs, and knowledge transfer activities. EBICS is an STC, Science and Technology Center (STC). The Itegrative Partnerships program supports innovative, potentially transformative, complex research and education projects that require large-scale, long-term awards. STCs conduct world-class research through partnerships among academic institutions, national laboratories, industrial organizations, and/or other public/private entities, and via international collaborations, as appropriate. They provide a means to undertake important investigations at the interfaces of disciplines and/or fresh approaches within disciplines. STC investments support the NSF vision of advancing discovery, innovation and education beyond the frontiers of current knowledge, and empowering future generations in science and engineering.
Professor Saif's research focuses on the mechanics of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), fracture mechanics, submicron materials behavior and bio-MEMS. He uses MEMS devices, often of his own design, to explore the mechanics of extremely small things-from nanocrystalline metal films to living cells.
Using micro force and strain sensors, he demonstrated for the first time that plastic deformation in nanocrystalline metal films can be reversible. After deformation, metals with grain sizes between 50 and 100 nanometers recovered 50 to 100 percent under macroscopically stress-free conditions. This recovery was time dependent and thermally activated, and involved a distribution of activation energies. When stretched again, the metals showed no effects from the previous strain. The research, which was reported in Science, raises the possibility of designing and manufacturing metal components that recover or heal themselves after being deformed or dented.
Professor Saif also developed an innovative MEMS device that places loads on single living cells by stretching them, and he records their responses through the use of MEMS force sensors that he also developed. His research has advanced the state of knowledge about cells because he found that contrary to conventional wisdom, the force response of a cell has a linear relationship to the amount of force applied rather than being much higher. He also found that the force response is reversible, that is, the cell's force response follows the loading path as the stretching is decreased. Again, this defied expectations that cells would not return to their original configurations once a load was removed. In measuring a cell's response to stretching, he was also able to determine how strongly a cell was attached to tissue. He believes knowledge of such mechanical properties as cell stickiness and stiffness may have important implications for the detection and treatment of such diseases as cancer, atherosclerosis and malaria. Also in the area of biomechanics, he and Professor Akira Chiba in the Department of Cell and Structural Biology discovered that mechanical tension in neuronal axons plays an essential role in neurotransmission, a key component of memory and learning.
His work with self-assembled nanowires has been similarly groundbreaking. He and a colleague combined two different methods for making nanowires-each having its own drawbacks-to create a new and effective method that creates wires 40 to 50 nanometers in diameter. Reducing the size of nanowires is critical to making electronic devices smaller and more powerful.
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If one word could be used to sum up Sunday's 23rd edition of Survivor Series, it would have to be "cluttered." While the November pay-per-view has a long tradition of five-on-five elimination matches, singles wrestling was almost entirely absent from this year's card.
The lone one-on-one encounter, between former friends Rey Mysterio and Batista, ended quickly and without a pinfall. Both world titles were on the line later on in the night, but they were both contested in three-way matches, and neither changed hands.
To its credit, the WWE creative team layered multiple subplots onto the traditional Survivor Series matches, one of which furthered the excellent feud between rising star Kofi Kingston and top heel Randy Orton. But whether it was the nature of the multi-person matches or not, nothing before the main event seemed to really bring the crowd at Washington, D.C.'s Verizon Center to life.
In that main event, John Cena essentially took on DX in a Triple Threat match for the WWE title. Any notions that this was going to be a de facto handicap match were super kicked through the ropes when Shawn Michaels hit Sweet Chin Music on Triple H, sending him to the arena floor.
Cena took advantage of the one-on-one situation by trying for the Attitude Adjustment, but HBK countered it into a DDT. Michaels kept the pressure on with a chop block to the back of the knee, then followed with a figure four leg lock. Cena broke the hold and rolled to the floor. HBK dove over the ropes, crashing into Cena.
On the outside, HBK tore apart the announce table, but Cena got the upper hand and looked for the AA. Hunter made the save, only to slam HBK through the table, taking him out of the match for a period of time.
Back in the ring, Hunter worked over the champ with hard Irish whips. Hunter looked for the Pedigree, but Cena countered into a catapult that sent his foe into the turnbuckle. Cena charged in but got rammed into the ringpost, allowing Hunter and Shawn to have some one-on-one time.
Hunter connected with a high knee. Both men traded blows and hit the mat. HBK nipped up but walked right into a spinebuster. Hunter went for the Pedigree, but HBK countered into a backdrop. Michaels climbed the turnbuckle, but a recovered Cena cut him off. The champ then went high risk, but HHH was able to roll away from the leg drop, allowing HBK to drive an elbow into the heart of the champ.
Hunter knocked his partner from the ring but got tripped up by a drop toe hold. Cena locked in an STF. Hunter crawled for the ropes, but HBK made the save by locking in a crossface on the champ. Cena powered out of the hold by standing up. The champ looked for an AA, but HBK was able to slide out of it.
Cena went back to the STF after dropping HBK with the toe hold. HBK was able to grab the ropes to break the hold. HBK struck with Sweet Chin Music, first to Cena and then to his DX partner. HBK fell out of the ring as a knocked out Hunter fell onto Cena. The ref started the count, but Cena was able to get a shoulder up.
The champ finally connected on the Attitude Adjustment, and crawled to a cover with HBK. Both men got a hand on HHH, but Hunter was able to kick out before the three count.
The finale of the match was a flurry of reversals and counters. Hunter was superkicked by Michaels, who was then picked up by the champ and dropped with the Attitude Adjustment onto HHH. HBK fell from the ring, and Cena covered Hunter to retain the title.
The next WWE pay-per-view is TLC on December 13th.
If you've been with us for the past few years, you know the drill by now. Nick's comments will be in plain type with Dale's remarks in italics.
I'd really like to know if there is some kind of training academy for Scottish and Irish wrestlers that I don't know about. I want to know where they find guys like Sheamus and McIntyre. Ziggler, Bourne and Finlay are eliminated in roughly the first five minutes, setting up an extended period of action between Morrison and Swagger. Morrison finally prevails, but sees teammates Benjamin and Hardy taken out next, leaving him all alone. It's set up for former partners Miz and Morrison to face off, but I suppose Sheamus' push is more important, as he uses a crucifix powerbomb to finish off Morrison. The fans in D.C. didn't really seem to dig this opener too much, and I can't say I blame them.
Winner ... Team Miz (Survivors: Sheamus, Drew McIntyre, and The Miz) at 20 and 48 seconds.
Match Rating: 4/10
Christian wants to address the differences between him and his teammates Kofi Kingston, M.V.P., R-Truth and Mark Henry. Is it because he's Canadian? No, it's because he is the only superstar from ECW. Christian wants to show that Canadians are good rappers. Um, no.
I disagree. I'm calling Christian so we can collaborate on a song I'm calling "Maple Leaf State of Mind." What's up? Meanwhile, I just missed the video package explaining the feud between Rey Mysterio and Batista.
Rey Mysterio vs. Batista
Well, it's not really surprising that this is a squash since Rey needs time off for injuries. Three Batista Bombs later, the ref decides he's seen enough and calls for the bell. Mysterio can't continue, but he can continue to take damage to his back. Dave gives him a spinebuster on a chair as a going-away present. It is almost the holiday season after all.
Winner ... Batista at six minutes and 50 seconds.
Match Rating: 5/10
Orton "inspires" his troops. He isn't happy Regal isn't the new ECW champ, Punk isn't the current champ, and he's very disappointed in Legacy. Punk takes a verbal jab at Orton, who responds by saying they can change everything tonight.
An early RKO eliminates Mark Henry less than a minute into a match. CM Punk hits the GTS on R-Truth, and Team Kingston goes down two. Team Kingston gets one back when DiBiase is rolled up by Christian. M.V.P. evens the score with the elimination of William Regal. M.V.P. connects with the Ballin' Elbow, but an Orton distraction stops the Playmaker, and Rhodes hits Cross Rhodes to pin and eliminate M.V.P. Kofi quickly leaps in and nearly scores a pin with a roll-up. Christian tags in, and it pays off with as he hits the Killswitch on Rhodes to get the pin. Orton looks for the RKO, but Christian counters into the Killswitch. Punk breaks up the pin, saving Orton. Christian runs into the ringpost as Orton dodges him, and then Orton hits the RKO to eliminate Christian. Orton tags in Punk, wanting no part of Kingston. Kofi fights out of the GTS and narrowly misses hitting Trouble in Paradise. Punk tires to take advantage of an Orton distraction by rolling Kingston up, but Kofi reverses it and gets the pin. Orton jumps in and is immediately hit with Trouble in Paradise. Kofi covers for the win.
Winner ... Team Kingston (Survivor: Kofi Kingston) at 20 minutes and 40 seconds.
Match Rating: 7/10
Chris Jericho (challenger) vs. The Big Show (challenger) vs. The Undertaker (champion) -- Triple Threat World Heavyweight Title Match
Winner ... and still World Heavyweight Champion ... The Undertaker...at 13 minutes and 39 seconds.
Match Rating: 6/10
The WWE could set up a backstage interview segment with just about anyone, one would think, so naturally we get... the winning members of Team Miz. I dig those accents on Sheamus and McIntyre, but that's about it.
Team McCool (Layla, Beth Phoenix, Alicia Fox, Jillian Hall and Michelle McCool) vs. Team James (Gail Kim, Kelly Kelly, Eve, Melina, and Mickie James)
Kelly Kelly eliminates Layla with a leg drop. McCool takes out Kim with her finishing move. Eve takes out Jillian and is promptly eliminated by Beth Phoenix. Kelly Kelly steps in and is quickly dispatched by Phoenix. Mickie James pins Phoenix with a crucifix pin. James then pins Alicia Fox with a Thesz press off the top rope. Melina hits her flip powerbomb and covers for the win.
Winner ... Team James (Survivors: Mickie James and Melina) at 10 minutes and 38 seconds.
Match Rating: 3/10
Josh Matthews aims a little higher with this interview segment, trying to get an explanation from Batista for wrecking his former best friend without -- gasp! -- even trying for a pin. Dave answers Josh's question with his own question, "Didn't Rey Mysterio get embarrassed in the ring tonight?" Then he cryptically adds that he was embarrassed for Rey. Josh looks puzzled, but that's not unusual for him.
Shawn Michaels (challenger) vs. Triple H (challenger) vs. John Cena (champion) -- Triple Threat WWE Title Match
Winner ... and still WWE Champion ... John Cena at 21 minutes and 13 seconds.
Match Rating: 7.5/10
Total Event Time: two hours and 46 minutes
Event Rating: 5.5/10
SLAM! Wrestling Raw reporter Dale Plummer and utility infielder Nick Tylwalk think that to liven things up, the 2010 edition of Survivor Series should involve 1980's pop-rock hit makers Survivor. Live versions of "Burning Heart," "High on You" and, of course, "Eye of the Tiger" would be prominently involved. Discuss the merits of this idea by email at firstname.lastname@example.com and/or email@example.com.


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Opinion: Dems on Defense
American Spectator senior editor John Fund on how the Obama campaign is responding to last night's debate and what to expect from the President in the next one. Photo: Getty Images
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Hello internet! Park Sessions at Winter Park, Colorado just wrapped up, and we had one hell of a week here. Day one was a full blown storm day, we did a couple pow park laps through the Railyard and Dark Territory parks and then headed over to Mary Jane for some sick tree runs and wild bumps with our crew of Ben Lynch, Tim Eddy, Jackson Fowler, Tucker Andrews, Alex Rodway, and Sam Hulbert, plus our photo dude Aaron Blatt and filmer guys Justin Gunson and Patrick Raicher. Then we caught three days of classic Colorado sunshine with temps in the mid thirties, and the parks are on point. That foot of snow groomed into the features nicely, and the park crew here at Winter Park dials everything in on the daily. We got a couple wild cards in the mix, local rippers Ben Berberich and Ryan Arrington, plus Chad Otterstrom and Summit County via Maine homey Jack Kyle, that added to our diverse crew of boarders. And that was it, a crew of boarders doin' what they do best, that's boardin'. Nothing about the week felt like a photo shoot or a video project, just a bunch of dudes lapping the park. And if you want the same experience we had, just get here this weekend. Winter Park is on tap to get upwards of a foot of snow through Saturday, so come shred Mary Jane then stick around for when the parks get cleaned up and let 'er eat. Bet you a plate of Rocky Mountain Oysters you'll have a good time.
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Reyataz, one of two preferred HIV protease inhibitor (PI) medications under U.S. treatment guidelines, is associated with the risk of kidney stones and other potential renal abnormalities. According to Japanese researchers, people taking Norvir-boosted Reyataz developed kidney stones 10 times more frequently than those taking other PIs. Kidney stones were diagnosed in 31 of 465 individuals on boosted Reyataz vs. four out of 775 patients taking another PI.
Furthermore, six of the 18 people who continued taking boosted Reyataz after developing kidney stones experienced new ones. Lead researcher Yohei Hamada, M.D., pointed out that most participants were of East Asian origin and, "Thus, it will be important to investigate the association between [Norvir-boosted Reyataz] and the development of renal stones in other populations."
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