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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
On the Street…Fifth Ave., Manhattan
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I love this photo!
She looks amazing!
Her proportions are perfect and I just love her pink flats.
you know, I don't like her outfit much…a little disjointed.
oooh when i grow up i wanna be just like her…
. . . and a little Chanel ;- )
This is one of my favorite of your pictures. She exudes confidence and is so stylish. I agree with the person who wants to be like her. Me too.
Oh, my lordy! This is exactly how I want to look when I'm her age. What an inspiration! What a motivation to live to be 'older'.
This lady looks lovely – and so happy to be photographed by you.
I love the beauty and grace of the older women of NYC.
She is CANADIAN!!! She always looks great!
My immediate impression was "she's not an American", something about her aura, her confidence and the way the picture captured both…
She is lovely and has a certain joie de vivre.
Oh MY Gosh I LOVE THIS! She is so incredibly gorgeous and NATURAL. And happy and comfortable in her skin. I want to be like her.
Truly inspiring. She's mixing classic (headband, pearls, Chanel flats) with funky (the clothes, the bracelets) and getting it all right. Sometimes as we get older we think we have to be so consistent with our look, when it really isn't so. She's age-appropriate and ageless all at the same time.
i love the colours of her outfit but not the shoes. at least not with this ensemble.
Do we know each other?
We ladies of the silver haired minx association
must stick together.
Fabulous look… comfort with style and panache!
… and a little bit CZ Guest …
This look is divine! I love the pink Chanel shoes! And she does such a wonderful job mixing colors — the pink, soft gray, teal and navy blue. And the pearl necklace! Perfectly elegant. This woman has class! Love it, love it, love it!
lovely, layered lady….
And a lot of lovely!
i love this, classy but with a twist!
Gorgeous! Not so sure about the outfit itself but something about the way she's wearing it makes me want to be like her when I grow up and wear this very outfit. Good find
oooh, i LOVE this. i want to be just like this woman when i am older. she looks like she knows exactly who she is and is totally comfortable in her own skin. i think this is one of my favorite sartorialist shots ever!
Sweater over jacket is unusual. I assumed it would not work because of the collar of the jacket, but here the collar of the jacket seems to disappear, allowing the outfit to work.
The pearls are classic.
Adding a jolt of color to the outfit is a great idea. The turquoise braclets do that, and they look great with the blue headband. But, I don't think that the pink shoes work here.
A lovely smile.
nice photo. i love it
I disagree with whoever said she doesn't look American.. I think she looks every inch the American wearing expensive French clothes, and I don't mean that in a bad way. It's a very only-in-New-York look, and it works.
love it! makes you want to grow old
How chic…
You caught the face of Spring. The turquoise bangles are especially ticklish.
I'm from the American South, and you'll find this is the summer look of certain well-dressed affluent women there as well.
This woman is fantastic and inspiring. "Old woman style" at it's boldest. I hope I can be as cute when I'm her age.
Oh my God! She is so goegeous! Ther is not one age to look fabulous. I'm gonna add my voice to the concert of women who want to look like her in a couple of years.
So grey but so full of life. Simple and comfy. Just love those details. Pretty bold of her to combine turqoise with pink.
OMG it's Genna Rowlands. Not.
Beautiful!. I love when you photograph this age group. It's so inspiring. I want to be like this when I grow up. She's gorgeous.Great job sart!
My girlfriend always tells me she likes dressing like a "donna di classe" and I always tell her I prefer the sexy look. After seeing this photo of clearly a donna di classe, I might change my mind.
she looks great
Grey and pink, linen and wool.. look pretty…and…¡ I love flats Chanel! jeje.
finally! a classic sartorialist shot! i have been waiting for the return of a truly chic person on this website, she's to die for.
She is very amazing!
Thanks, Sart!I'm a 50+ who used to dread getting older.Now there are many signs of a general shift in attitudes from ageism to something more accepting, and your photos are one of them.I especially enjoy how you look at, and choose, not-so-young people.Your models give an impression of being at ease with themselves, their age, fashion and our times.Thanks – but could we have some more of this, please…?
Very stylish and fun while staying mature. Looks great. I would switch the bracelets to black.
How cool is she? Very.
Is that a skirt or divided pants?
She's marvelous! Just adore her. And I'm loving her flats.
i recognize her from my yoga studio. yoga = happy in your skin.
why can't this be my grandmother?
Love the pearls and the rings……..,slip her into anything and she'll still look fabulously wonderful…,you see it's the positive attitude she radiates!Smile and the world smiles with you!
As they say in the south, "She looks ghau-ah-jus."
SHe looks so somfortable & confident in herself… no hair dye, no visible face-lift… genuine smile. I should be this elegant at that age!
i think the pepto bismol hue of the cambon flats totally kill the outfit, but everything else i love! would have preffered a classic black ballerina…
OOhh…!Zoran! She's lovely.
I think the shoes completely RUIN a look that would otherwise be great. She looks like she would be fun to talk to.
She looks like the original Gossip Girl.
I love every bit of her including the pink flats but the best accessory she had were the bangles and the pearl… except that the BOTTLED WATER ruined it for me… just a little though…
So fresh…
So fresh…
I hope her life is as wonderful and complete as her smile conveys.
Are those coulottes? Lovely!
Love the headband/pearl combination – so timeless. The turquoise bangles and pink Chanels are cute, but I personally wouldn't have paired those two colors. It seems a little too uncoordinated for my tastes. And I dislike the outfit proportions, especially the cropped sweater over a loose shirt.
However, as a whole, this woman's confidence makes the outfit and despite my nitpicking, she looks every bit the glamorous woman.
i hope to be as stylish as she is when i am her age. also, i love that she doesn't dye her hair!!!
Okay, so this is a lady who can pull this off. A million others couldn't, but there's something in her carriage that makes it all work.
Contrary to what an earlier blogger thought I think she exudes a very 'American' style-clean, fresh,pared down. She reminds me of C.Z.Guest the iconic American socialite who died a few years ago-she was one of Truman Capote's "swans".
On the contrary Anon. 9:25 AM…this look is the epitome of American to me. European ladies of a similar age always look much more formal and heavily styled. This look is nonchalant, a little sporty, and undone.
The pearls are lovely and unexpected. I do wish, however, that both of her tops fit a lot better.
She exudes beauty, charachter & style. The outfit is just perfect and the shoes & bangles add enough of a twist to it all.
lovely woman. i adore her accessories. without them the simple linen and cotton would be a bit plain, but the flats, pearls, headband, and bracelet give it zip. :)
Her clothes say to me she is an American. My mother would have no trouble compiling a look just like this at Talbot's or Olsen. The pearls look vintage. The turqoise is everywhere and anyone can find faux chanel flats in NY. The idea is to look expensive and she's fully in on it and that is why I do not think she is a European.
(first glance that looked like a double wrap hermes bracelet, that and her sweet Germanic face almost clouded my judgement)
…and a little Chanel. Go Granny!
Love it! Love it! Love it! How perfectly adorable is she?
I agree –she's a Yankee!
I image she's the sort who doesn't demure from mulching in the spring, or separating tubers when it needs to be done. Most likely she got up, got dressed, discovered it was cold, went back in got a sweater and put it on! Her carriage took care of the rest.
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im pretty sure this woman works at Holt Renfrew in Toronto (the Canadian Bergdorf Goodman's) and I always see her when I'm looking for inspiration via Balenciaga, Dries Van Noten, Givenchy, etc..) she always looks amazing!
She is absolutely adorable. Love the pops of color in the flats and the bangles!
She is absolutely beautiful!
What a gorgeous woman.
Of course she looks american; this is what my mom and her friends wear every day. Though her posture and eye for color seem to take the whole look to another level.
And the poster who mentioned high society women in the South is spot on. Rich older women in Dallas, Houston, and other big cities dress like this. Lots of linen, flats and pearls.
Hair, pearls, clothes are co-ordinated, with headband, bracelets and flats providing accents. Pink doesn't anchor the combination, which is why some of us find the whole a little unsatisfying. Dark pumps would work.
She looks adorable
She does work at Holt Renfrew in Toronto and she is hands down one of the most stylish women in Toronto! Eat your heart out NYC! :)
i was getting some Chanel vibes…
Culture Creators and many others before me said it best: what a gorgeous woman. And I adore what she's wearing.
good genes + 'class' + style + not taking one's self too seriously = this fantastic photo.
and love the fact that she threw in the hairband for good measure!
To me it seems like she's wearing divided pants.. Btw, please, who is Zoran?!
She is positively precious. I want to be her when I'm that age.
She looks so happy to be alive that her quirky/chic outfit barely matters, the gorgeousness of this shot is in her face. Love it.
This is exactly what I want to look liek when I'm 70.
She is Canadian
you should see her daughter & granddaughter!!
ps-she does work at holt renfrew in toronto
Oh I just love her. Sat, I love it when you post mature stylish people. I can recall one such lady from about 2 years ago. I think that post got so many comments because she radiated so much postive energy and beauty.
Beaaautiful lady, no question. I love this kind of casual 'society' style.
very c z guest
beyond fashion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
do check asiaticakc.com where they use a 78 year old model to show true beauty with intelligence.
yeah… if she had dark flats, I think this would be perfect. I think the pink ones are a little gaudy. but I still love this look and this woman and the charisma she exudes.
I know this woman. She isn't American she's Canadian. Works for Holt Renfrew in Toronto. She always looks fabulous!
this site never ever ceases to inspire me. any time i feel myself falling into a style slump, i come here and become re-invigorated – my faith in my own authenticity and potential for creative freedom reborn. thanks sart!
I work with her. She's not only super stylish to the extreme but also a very lovely person.
i went in to Holt Renfrew in Toronto the other day and told her I saw her on The Sartorialist and she started blushing and was like "What?!?!" Too cute.
She exudes the confidence of someone who's had a life well lived.
She is quite happy with who she is. I bet she has a few stories to tell.
She's not American, she's Canadian :)
I actually shot a street shot of her today and she was telling me about this shot, so I thought I'd check it out! What a fabulous lady!
Wow, i aspire to to as put together as this woman when i get older. she looks fabulous. love the sweater and the pearls.
I love this look and the fact that an older woman is represented her. She's beautiful. As far as her pink shoes, I think they coordinate wonderfully with the off-white and gray of the outfit. Softer and less predictable than black, which would have been boring and predictable here.
How come I don't see her when I'm in Holt Renfrew! I'm jealous.
Although there seems to be plenty of evidence above to suggest that this gorgeous woman is Canadian, I would like to throw-in the suggestion that she could be Australian. The braclets are by an Australian brand called Mimco, I know this because I own them myself. Prehaps she recieved them as a gift from Australia?.. I guess we will never know.
But this woman could certainly be Australian – the suntan, the relaxed slouched style and the sport edge which we all like to employ. Come to Australia Mr Sartorialist!!
There is one word to describe her flats: PERFECT.
She looks fabulous, and the smile complete the look.
she looks great, still keeps up with fashion;)
Wonderful style, I adore her pink flats and the colour of the bracelet is so unexpected – clever!


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Why a Ball Rollback Might Not Fly
Palmer, Nicklaus and Woods All Support a Reduced-Distance Ball—But It's Complicated
Arnold Palmer, in his annual session with the media last week at his Bay Hill tournament, trotted out his longtime support for rolling back distance on golf balls. "That's probably the major thing I would like to see happen," he said. Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and many other golf notables have also backed the notion. Why? To make classic old courses relevant for long-hitting players again without having to undergo expensive retrofits, and to reduce the footprint of newer courses that may have to be 40 or 60 acres bigger than they were 20 years ago. The costs for all that extra real estate and the associated maintenance drive up green fees, while the added length of the holes slows down play.
For most amateurs, however, the idea of shorter golf balls is beyond idiotic. Typical male players average something like 200 yards off the tee, and their main consideration in buying any new golf product is usually whether it will help them smite the ball farther.
Luckily, this column isn't about whether rolling back the golf ball would be wise. I'm not going near that, nor am I touching the related, even more contentious question of whether bifurcating the rules, by asking only the pros to move to a shorter ball, is a good idea. Instead, this column is about whether such a rollback is technologically practical, and what a reduced-distance ball would play like.
Proponents sometimes make the challenge of producing a shorter ball seem almost trivial. The first thing I learned in talking to engineers from several leading ball manufacturers and to the U.S. Golf Association's just-retired technical director, Dick Rugge, is that it wouldn't be—not if golfers want a ball that plays consistently throughout the bag.
"It would be relatively simple to turn down the distance on a driver by 25 yards," said John Rae, vice president for research and development at Srixon. "The two obvious approaches would be to change the dimple pattern and to change the restitution [the elasticity, or speed] of the core. But once we did that, we wouldn't know, out of the gate, what to expect from the rest of the set."
Deepening the dimples, for example, promotes added backspin, lift and drag, all of which reduce distance. "Let's say you make a drive go 25 yards shorter by aerodynamics," said Dean Snell, TaylorMade's vice president for golf-ball research and development. "That same ball hit with a five iron might lose even more distance, since five irons create more spin to start with. It might lose 40 or 50 yards." Starting with the six or seven iron, however, the effect of aerodynamics begins to fade rapidly, since balls hit with shorter clubs move more slowly through the air. The same ball hit with a wedge might lose only a few yards of distance, or none at all.
"Nothing is cut and dried," said Snell. "When you make a change here, it has an impact there, and it may not be proportional." Srixon's Rae, after patiently walking me through several scenarios and pointing out how interdependent the many variables are—some balls have five layers, each with different properties and thicknesses—finally sighed and said, "The problem with even having this conversation is that it quickly spiderwebs out into a million factors."
With enough tweaking, engineers assured me, they eventually could come up with reduced-distance balls that would work, even though the feel and flight characteristics might take some getting used to.
"Developing a new ball to substantially different specifications like that is almost like starting over for the ball manufacturers," said Rugge of the USGA. All the major companies have multiple ball lines, each with different characteristics intended for different players. "They honed those balls over decades of trial and error, a little of this, a little of that. There's no pixie dust," Rugge said. "Despite advances in fields like computerized fluid dynamics, which analyzes airflow, it's not a fully sorted-out science. There is still art involved."
There would also be patents involved, a potential difficulty that each of the manufacturers mentioned. In anticipation of a possible rollback, all the companies have been pushing back-burner research for years to tie up reduced-distance patents. "Certainly we acknowledge that," said Corey Consuegra, Bridgestone 's golf-ball marketing manager. Bridgestone has risen to second in U.S. golf-ball sales by exploiting a niche in low-compression balls, but any new short-ball designs will require a bundle of new techniques and processes, the best or most efficient of which could fall under a competitor's patents. "How it plays out for us, or a Callaway , or a Titleist, will depend a lot on what the requirements are, if a rule is ever passed down," Consuegra said. Competitive advantages could certainly shift in a new, short-ball era.
The USGA appears nowhere near proposing a ball rollback, especially after the unexpectedly fierce opposition it encountered to its proposed ban on anchored putting, which has yet to be decided. But the rules-making body has done considerable research on the implications of a rollback. In 2005, it requested and eventually received prototypes from eight or nine manufacturers and conducted tests with live players to see how they responded. More recently, it has been looking into various ways, including reduced-distance balls, to reduce golf's environmental impact. In recent months, the USGA has declared long-term environmental sustainability, particularly water usage, to be one of its top policy issues.
If push came to shove and the USGA did someday call for reduced-distance balls, the manufacturers would doubtless comply, although some might also continue to offer longer-flying models. As for golfers, they might grudgingly accept that distance is relative anyway. If all current shackles on golf-ball distance were removed, I learned, balls could probably be made to go 40 to 70 yards farther than they do today. So it's not like, even now, we're hitting the longest balls possible.
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Casio Computer has developed a digital still camera that can shoot at a rate of 60 photos per second at full resolution.
A prototype of the camera was unveiled Friday at the IFA show in Berlin. It has a large 12X optical zoom lens behind which sits a 6.6-megapixel image sensor. In burst shooting mode it can take up to 35 images at the 60 frame per second rate -- the equivalent of just over half a second of action. That's much faster than is possible with competing digital still cameras.
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Blonde Baller is speaking out about her time on Real Chance of Love 2. The latest contestant to be eliminated left a lot of unanswered questions when she left the show.
In this new interview with VH1, Blonde Baller aka Kip Force, talks about her feelings on being called a "snitch," her new war of words with Chance, why she wants to be on Charm School and how she felt about being eliminated.
Excerpts from her interview her below –
Usually the first question I ask is, "How was your time on the show?" But via your Twitter, and elsewhere, I think I already know the answer.
My time was not positive at all.
What leaves you the most unsettled?
The editing. They made me look like I snitched on Flirty. They didn't show the date before that, when she was dancing with Real and sitting with Real at dinner. Flirty was talking about me for 35 minutes about how she wanted to take a Real chain. She told me she liked Chance as a friend. I told her to use her next date to get to know Real, that way if she got kicked off, she got kicked off trying for the guy she was originally there for.
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What about the snitching issue?
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The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) undersea New Zealand map captures about 1.5 million square kilometres of seafloor in 20 times the resolution of previous versions.
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"New Zealand sits across a plate boundary, resulting in a diverse seascape of ridges, volcanoes, plateaux, canyons and seamounts.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Led by Sam Thompson's five goals SUNY Geneseo defeated men's lacrosse by the final of 15-7 Thursday afternoon at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Athletic Complex on the final day of the Beacons Florida spring trip.
Geneseo used a 7-2 advantage through the first 30 minutes of play, before tacking on eight more goals through the third and fourth quarters to hand the Beacons their second straight loss. With Thursday's loss UMass Boston falls to 3-4 on the year, while the Blue Knights improve to 2-2.
Senior Ryan McGoff (Charlestown, Mass.) led the Beacons attack with three goals, while Donny Delpha (Walpole, Mass.) finished with two goals. Craig Frehill (Norwell, Mass.) collected six groundballs in the cage and also made 12 stops in the non-conference match-up.
SUNY Geneseo led the contest in groundballs 46-24, while both teams finished with 18 successful clears. The Knights also held a 18-6 advantage on the face-off "X". The Beacons special teams finished 3-for-5 on man-up goals, while for the Knights they went 2-for-4 on extra man opportunities.
The Beacons return to action on Saturday when they travel to Emerson College for a 3 p.m. non-conference game.


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A divided Los Angeles Board of Education agreed Tuesday to move ahead with a trimmed-down plan to provide iPads to Los Angeles students, but an evaluation will look at whether the project should proceed.
During a heated debate over the $1-billion project, board members raised numerous concerns, including whether the contract with Apple needs to be reconsidered and whether high schools should be provided laptops instead of tablets.
The decision, by a 6-1 vote that left no one happy, means that the distribution of iPads can continue as planned by schools Superintendent John Deasy for this year. He had previously decided to scale back his original timetable after problems emerged during the rollout on 47 campuses this fall.
As a result of the board action, 35 campuses will receive iPads this year in addition to the 47 schools in the first group.
Continuing the effort gained traction in large measure because L.A. Unified staff asserted that the devices to be purchased represented the minimum number necessary for students to take new state standardized tests in the spring.
The board move also included providing tablets to every teacher and principal in the nation's second-largest school system.
At the same time, the board approved new oversight measures proposed by board member Monica Ratliff, including an evaluation of how the tablets affect student achievement.
Deasy said this assessment would result in a delay in the districtwide rollout beyond the next 35 campuses, perhaps by as much as a year.
There also will be a new effort to provide laptops, rather than iPads, at seven high schools. Ratliff also wanted to review a range of devices and curriculum options currently in use elsewhere in the district and at local charter schools. This apparently also will go forward, although board members weren't entirely clear on the particulars of what they had approved.
"My intent is to make sure that students have the best devices and the best curriculum," Ratliff said.
Tuesday evening's 2{-hour debate revealed how seriously at odds the seven board members are with each other. At one point, board President Richard Vladovic took Ratliff out of the room to nudge her to a compromise _ she'd wanted to halt further iPad distribution this year.
Vladovic also stopped to talk to board member Tamar Galatzan, who lashed out at Ratliff, repeatedly referring to her as "ma'am."
Galatzan, who cast the sole dissenting vote, objected to delays in the iPad rollout.
"I don't believe we will get to equipping students with technology, ever," she said.
Her concerns were echoed by Monica Garcia, who proposing distributing the iPads in her board district, because her schools wanted them, she said.
"If it doesn't work, we will fix it," she said. "If scores go down, we will fix it ... but we need courage."
"I haven't heard anything that is scarier than keeping our graduation rate and proficiency rates at the same place," Garcia said.
Board member Steve Zimmer said he was concerned that the contract to purchase the iPads was too expensive. He also had questions about the curriculum included on the iPad.
"I don't feel like we have the best contract," he said, adding later that "there is an inexplicable defense of this contract."
The rollout of the iPads quickly encountered problems, including more than 300 high school students who deleted security filters so they could surf the Web freely. After that, officials reclaimed the iPads from students at three high schools and ordered the rest kept on campus. Concerns also have arisen about higher costs and future funding of the initiative.
Vladovic said the concerns do not represent a retreat on technology.
"We are not going to back off on our technology efforts," he said.
The meeting marked the first public appearance of Deasy in an iPad debate since the contract process began. He had stayed in the background, on the advice of attorneys, because he owned Apple stock. But he sold his shares before Tuesday's meeting, according to the district. He helped craft the compromise that allowed his plan to continue.
The board's latest proposal next goes for review to a committee whose role is to oversee school bond spending. The iPad project is paid for with school construction bonds.
(c) 2013 McClatchy News Service


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Leahy: New Syria draft text coming
Sen. Patrick Leahy said Sunday that Senate Democratic aides are drafting new language for an authorization of military force in Syria.
The news comes after an intense holiday Sunday with the administration pressing its case with reluctant lawmakers on the Hill and to the American public on the Sunday shows, while members of Congress attended classified briefings and tried to decide what to do now that Obama has forced them to take a stand.
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The administration's proposal is too open-ended — a complaint many lawmakers have — Leahy (D-Vt.) said. The current version wouldn't garner his support, but he indicated that a more tightly written draft might.
"I know it's going to be amended in the Senate," said Leahy, who is the longest-serving Democrat in the chamber.
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Aides to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) are overseeing the revisions, which seek to narrow the scope for any U.S. military mission in Syria, Democratic sources said. It is unclear when the revised proposal will be released, or what reception it will get from the White House. Obama administration officials drafted their own resolution that was sent to Capitol Hill on Saturday without congressional input, and it was clear from the moment that it was unveiled that party leaders in both chambers would seek to change it.
Hill aides noted the White House-originated draft did not prevent the deployment of American ground forces in Syria in order to fulfill the mission of interdicting the Assad regime use of chemical weapons. That restriction is seen by some in Congress as a key to winning support for the military effort in both the House and Senate.
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Menendez has a hearing scheduled for Tuesday. Obama administration officials are expected to testify at that session. Menendez and Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), ranking member on Foreign Relations, have both backed a limited U.S. intervention in Syria tied to preventing the further use of chemical weapons.
Leahy made his comment after leaving a classified members only briefing on Syria in the Capitol. Secretary of State John Kerry and other White House representatives are urging Congress to approve military action in response to the growing Syrian crisis, though lawmakers on TV and on the Hill were unsure Sunday whether the president had the votes to authorize the use of force.
Members of Congress met with White House officials in a secure Capitol Hill auditorium to hear from administration officials on why the United States needs to respond to the Syrian crisis. That meeting follows a whirlwind tour from Kerry of all five Sunday morning news shows, where he pressed the administration's case for military involvement in Syria.
In what Kerry called a "very important recent development," the U.S. government has found that hair samples and blood samples from first responders in East Damascus have tested positive for sarin. The government said the Aug. 21 attack killed 1,429 Syrians, including 426 children.
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"This case is building, and this case will build," Kerry said on NBC's "Meet the Press." Over on CNN, Kerry said the case against Syrian President Bashar Assad is "overwhelming."
When asked on NBC how President Barack Obama would respond if Congress does not authorize military action, Kerry responded: "I do not believe the Congress of the United States will turn its back on this moment."
"I said that the president has the authority to act," Kerry said on "Meet the Press," "but the Congress is going to do what's right here."
Kerry's pitch to Congress came just hours before administration officials gave a members-only classified session on Capitol Hill. According to two sources, officials who briefed members were Tony Blinken, White House deputy national security adviser; Robert Cardillo, deputy director of national intelligence; Ambassador Wendy Sherman, the State Department's undersecretary for political affairs; James Miller, the undersecretary of defense for policy; and Vice Admiral Kurt Tidd, the director of operations for joint staff at the Pentagon.
Among the high-ranking House lawmakers who were seen attending the classified briefing were House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, the third-ranking House Republican; House Republican Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and House Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra.
A handful of senators were on hand as well, including Democratic Sens. Tom Harkin of Iowa, and Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey of Massachusetts, and Republican Sen. Dan Coats of Indiana.
The Obama administration has dispatched Kerry as its chief spokesman and prosecutor in its case for military involvement in Syria, relying on the former senator to make the argument — whether privately to former colleagues in Congress or publicly in a 20-minute speech at the State Department two days ago.
On Sunday, Kerry disputed charges that the administration's delay in military action amounted to a win for the Assad regime, saying on Fox, "That is in the hands of the Congress of the United States."
The secretary of state, a former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he spoke Saturday with Ahmed Assi al-Jarba, the president of the Syrian opposition.
"I believe he understands that America intends to act, that we are going to continue to support the opposition," Kerry said on CNN's "State of the Union." "We may even, as a result of this, be able to provide greater support to the opposition and do a better job of helping the opposition to be able to continue to fight against the Assad regime."
And Kerry repeatedly argued in his TV interviews Sunday that Obama believes he "has the power" to act unilaterally without the OK from Congress but that the U.S. government's hand would be strengthened with support from Capitol Hill.
"The president has the right, and he has asserted that right, that he could do what's necessary to protect the national security of the United States at any point in time," Kerry said on CNN. "The president believes that we are stronger as a nation when we act together."
In a surprise announcement Saturday, Obama said he would seek congressional authorization for any use of military force in Syria while arguing that he didn't need sign-off from Capitol Hill to do so.
The decision to seek approval from Congress was greeted warmly by most lawmakers, but it is far from clear whether an authorization vote would pass both chambers. And several lawmakers said Sunday that chances are slim that the White House has the votes in Congress to approve military action.


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About two years ago, when I was in the midst of recipe-testing for my cookbook, I was looking for ideas for cold appetizers for lunch or dinner. I was doing a lot of stir-frying at the time and just wanted something quick with Asian flavors that I could just toss together. The result was this Asian-stye peanut butter carrot salad, inspired by a classic French dish.
This appetizer was inspired by the carottes râpées I had bookmarked from David Lebovitz a while back. Unlike American salads, this one is not ashamed to feature its one key ingredient without any other vegetables to share in the spotlight. Here, the carrot shreds are bigger, and instead of parsley, olive oil, and lemon, I modified the sauce for my cold sesame noodles to have the carrots coated with a slightly tangy peanut butter sauce.
But the spirit of the salad is still the same. You can eat them as a proper dinner appetizer or have them as a late night snack. You can use a fork when others are watching, or, when alone, just swipe them out of the bowl with your hands.
"I do know sometimes there's nothing more satisfying than a simple pile of grated raw carrots, lightly dressed," says David. I couldn't agree more.
Peanut Butter Carrot Salad
Serves 4 as an appetizer
- 5 or 6 large carrots
- 3 tablespoons smooth peanut butter
- 2 tablespoons water
- 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon chili sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 scallion, chopped
- Peel and julienne the carrots (you can do this with a knife or a julienne peeler, one of my favorite kitchen tools).
- In a small bowl, whisk together the peanut butter and water until smooth. Stir in the cider vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, chili sauce, and sesame oil. (You can whisk everything at once, but separating the steps helps prevent the liquid from splashing too much.)
- Toss the carrots with the peanut butter mixture until the carrots are evenly coated (ideally, they should be lightly dressed, not swimming in peanut butter sauce). Top with scallions and serve.
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Some people succeed because they are destined to, others because they are determined to. Vic Edelbrock Sr. and Robert E. Petersen both probably fell somewhere in between. They were not the first to try to sell speed parts or car magazines, but they were men who excelled at it. From our 2013 perspective, their success seems so right, so logical.
Though Edelbrock was formed 10 years before HOT ROD and Petersen's publishing company, the companies shared a mutually beneficial relationship as two of the earliest, most successful, and longest-lasting hot rodding enterprises. On the topic of selling ads to Edelbrock, Petersen once said, "Vic Sr. told me he didn't want to grow too big because he felt he would lose control and not be able to stay on top of development of new product." Obviously, he was able to do both.
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Vic Edelbrock would have been hard to identify as anything special from the throngs heading to California during the depression. But he was special: He displayed mechanical skills that belied his early teen years. In 1934, he opened his first shop on the corner of Venice and Hoover in Los Angeles, working on cars during the week and heading out to Muroc Dry Lake on the weekends to race. By 1938, he had purchased his '32 Ford roadster—our cover car for this issue—using it as transportation and also to develop his first product: the Slingshot intake manifold for flathead V8s. During this time, he was also running a rail-job midget driven by Cal Niday. Midget racing was hugely popular, and Edelbrock was not only developing components for the big Ford flatheads but also for the V8-60s that were so popular with the midgets. Edelbrock sold more than 100 intakes before the war put a halt to racing and manufacturing.
After the war, Vic purchased his first building in Hollywood—a machine shop and facility where race cars could be repaired, upgraded, or have engines custom built for them. Soon Edelbrock was making intakes and heads for both of the Ford flatheads as well as stroker cranks, pistons, and adjustable tappets. His shop featured Winfield cam kits, fuel lines, carburetor linkage, and manual fuel-pressure pumps. He also offered balancing services.
By 1949, he was one of the first professional hot rodders to have an engine dyno to test new ideas and advertise the results, with hard data showing the merits of his products. At the same time, Edelbrock purchased a 5,000-square-foot building on Jefferson Blvd. to accommodate his expanding performance parts and engine testing business. Throughout the '50s, Edelbrock Equipment Company was a pillar among the burgeoning aftermarket speed industry. After the introduction of the '55 Chevrolet small-block V8—recognized by both hot rodders and racers as the heir apparent to the Ford flathead's position as the staple of racing—Edelbrock led the industry with products for this game changer.
Vic Edelbrock Jr. took over the company in 1962 after the untimely death of Vic Sr. from cancer. During the '60s, the company continued the formula established from the beginning: manufacturing leading-edge performance products for racers and hot rodders alike. Edelbrock was also pivotal in the establishment of the Specialty Equipment Marketing Association—the leading trade group for the performance aftermarket.
But as the '60s closed, the market changed. More importantly, the perception of the automobile and performance changed as environmental issues became as much of a shift in the aftermarket as the Chevy V8 had been 15 years earlier. Rather than bucking or ignoring it, Edelbrock led the way with a product that performed, was cleaner, and gave better mileage. Marketed as such, it helped elevate performance as being best for all concerned.
Into the '70s and '80s, Edelbrock expanded its performance offerings, breaking out of its reputation as just an intake-manifold company. Edelbrock was among the first companies to offer complete packages of engine components (from carb to intake to cam and heads), helping to take the guesswork out of performance upgrades for the enthusiast who wanted to do it himself.
In 1987, Edelbrock moved its headquarters to its current location in Torrance, California, and by 1990 had created its own aluminum foundry to become fully integrated, manufacturing more than half of the products in-house. As auto manufacturers incorporated computers and fuel injection into their offerings, Edelbrock developed new components to upgrade computer-controlled fuel systems, but, as always, without ignoring traditional carburetion. Improved aluminum heads, supercharging, electronic fuel injection, packages of performance upgrades, and dress-up items rounded out its future-oriented product lines.
HOT ROD had the opportunity to sit down with Vic Edelbrock Jr. and his daughter, Christi Edelbrock, to swap stories about the early days of Edelbrock, the association with HOT ROD that has lasted until today, and what the future holds for the next 75 years of Edelbrock Performance. What follows are quotes from Vic himself.
The Beginings of HOT ROD and Edelbrock
"Pete [Robert Petersen, founder of HOT ROD] found my dad. Guys would go up to my dad's shop and there was a rope [across the door opening] to keep the curious out. One day he came by—he had hitchhiked over to see my dad because he didn't have a car. He'd borrow a part, hitchhike back to take a picture of it, then bring it back.
"One time, the shop was going to the lakes, so Bobby Meeks took Pete with him. During the drive, he got to talking to my dad and offered to help him do a catalog. Once it got out, the telephones wouldn't stop ringing. So my dad tells Pete, 'You SOB, I can't get my work done, so now what do I do?'"
Hot Rod Mag and the First Chevy Small-Block
Edelbrock did the development on the first small-block Chevy written about in HOT ROD, and it appeared on the Jan. '56 cover with a blurb that bragged, "220hp Chev Street Engine!" Here's the story of how that came to be.
"Ray Brock was HOT ROD'S publisher, and he's the one that got us three Chevy engines. I don't know whether it was late 1954 or early 1955, but I was on break from USC and I did all of the dyno-testing and data from A to Z. It was great. My dad was very excited about the small-block because up until then, there was the flathead and then the Y-block Ford, which was not very good. We started with a three-carb manifold my dad made and got 20 hp. Then we got Bob Hedman to make some headers, we put them on, and that was another 20. Tom Spaulding made a distributor for us, and that got 20. Everything you did gave it another 20 hp—it was incredible.
"So my dad sent specs out to six or so cam manufacturers—Isky, Clay Smith, Ed Winfield. He told them [the Chevy] had pressed rocker arms and probably won't do 5,000 rpm, but he wanted a cam that was good for 6,000 rpm. So we get the first cam and put it in and fire it up and it starts missing and popping. We change the carb, change the ignition, but it's still missing. So [legendary rodder and longtime Edelbrock employee] Bobby Meeks asks me if I had lined up the cam marks to the crank and I said, 'What marks?' So we took the cover off and luckily I was within one tooth, otherwise we would have crashed the whole thing.
"We fixed that and ran the cams. Isky had the E-4 cam for the street and the E-2 for full race. My dad had made a small part that went over the studs to hold them in because they were only pressed in and we didn't have screw-in studs in the beginning—obviously, there was nothing [available]. We were afraid of valve float, and you could hear it pound, in fact stop, at about 5,100 to 5,200. So Fran Hernandez, who worked with my dad for years, made a set of magnesium lifters with a cap that went against the cam. No float after that. Of course, the deal was to use better valvesprings in it. So the only cam to go to 6,000 rpm was Winfield's, which looked like a mobile. It could have gone to 10,000 rpm. He did exactly what my dad asked for, but it had no power to it.
"Our association with HOT ROD where we would test engines for them started with that first small-block [Chevy], then a Pontiac, then the 283 hp from a 283 Chevy. Ray Brock would come by every time and say, 'We've got this engine….'
How Edelbrock Created its Nearest Competitor
"Around 1964–'65, our friend, Bob Joehnck, said I should make an aluminum four-barrel intake for the Chevy. I said, 'Why? Chevy makes one already.' Then I thought about it and decided maybe he was right. So we make one, and Les Gaugh from Holley says he'd like us to try some of their carbs on our manifolds. They made a 780-cfm 3310 Holley carb that was used on the Chevelle—they only made about 200. So we take the 3310 and put it on our intake and it just runs great—it's perfect.
"We go to HOT ROD, and they do an article. Holley never saw the article before it came out—they didn't know anything about it. They had planned their 3310 production for the following year at 200 units. When the article hit the newsstands, they sold 200 carbs in two hours. So they tried to figure out what's going on, and find out about the HOT ROD article, look me up, and the vice president of Holley calls me and is really upset. They want me to come to their headquarters. I had meetings in New York, and they were in Detroit, so I rearranged my flight and stopped in. They told me never do another article with their product without their knowledge. So that's how we initially got hooked up with Holley.
"Holley started repping our stuff, and things were going well. When the new Blazer came out in 1973–1974, they were having all kinds of problems with the Holley 6619 carburetors. From the higher engine heat, the tops would warp and dump gas into the bowls. We had an intake and replacement for those carbs. Eventually, Colt purchased Holley. At this point, the reps were not happy, so they came to us and said that if we would give them the Edelbrock line they'd withdraw from Holley and take us. Well, as you can imagine, Holley was not happy. Then I went to Carter Carburetor and asked them to start making the AFB. We calibrated our manifolds for the AFB. Once Holley found out, that's when they decided to get into the intake manifold business. But that's OK, we need the competition—it sharpened our act up."
The Emissions Era
"We looked at what was coming down and decided that instead of ignoring the California Air Resources Board [CARB], we would get to know them. When they mandated the emissions levels, the automobile companies only had time to lean down the carburetors and put in 230-degree thermostats. The cars would lurch and surge—they were terrible to drive. We came up with the Streetmaster intake—it had good distribution and eliminated the surge, plus mileage went up, and you could bolt it in with the stock carb. We had to do emissions-testing, so we installed an emissions lab. With that, CARB would accept our data, and we'd get an EO number, which made it legal to operate with our parts."
Edelbrock and Racing
"We got away from racing, except in NASCAR. We need to be involved again and have been addressing this for the last few years, but it takes time to get back. The conversion to fuel injection in drag racing is here, and we've got product. We're doing race engines for Sportsman and Pro Mod classes. We're working with Pat Musi, Keith Dorton, Vic Hill, and Ricky Smith. We feel we'll have the best impact by getting into intakes and cylinder heads. We've got several race intakes that have been home runs. We're the only manufacturers around that have our own foundry, machine shop, and heat-treating, all vertically integrated on the premises. With so many guys running nitrous, you better have a good cylinder head that can take that, and we do. In the casting process, we do what's called 'hipping' and there aren't many foundaries doing that process. Because aluminum is the most gaseous metal hipping combines heat and pressure to eliminate gas bubbles in the casting."
On Smokey Yunick
"Smokey Yunick came up with this cross-ram intake for a single carb and had a prototype. When I saw it, I told him we could sell it. We struck up a deal, figured out tooling costs and tested it. It wouldn't run. At 5,000 rpm it's all over the place, it had no horsepower, it had standoff—it just wouldn't run. We tried jetting and other things and got nowhere. I called Smokey and told him it wasn't running right. He says, 'Goddammit, if you don't want it I'll take it to Offenhauser.' I told him I would make it, but I was going to put on the instructions that for additional information the customer should call Smokey, and include his phone number. He said he didn't care—go ahead.
"So we make 500 of them and immediately get calls, 'It won't run, it doesn't run.' Customers were having the same problems we had experienced on the dyno. Then Smokey calls, 'Get my phone off of that instruction sheet now.' I told him customers were having problem, tell me how you make it run. He tells me he used a Racer Brown cam, and 830-cfm carb that was cross-jetted, et cetera, et cetera. I asked him why he didn't tell us the combo in the first place, but he just shrugged it off. We went back and used his combo, and it ran great—but you had to use his setup. We never did turn it around."
Edelbrock's Future
"The love affair with the automobile and with Edelbrock is ongoing, and we'll continue to make good product—it won't just look good but work good. Our product is not on the outside—it's on the inside. If the customer can't feel it in the seat of their pants, then it's no good. Edelbrock products have to do what we say they will do. We've always been passionate enthusiasts—it's our lifestyle. We want to continue that with the next generation of enthusiasts.
"We want to keep youth going in the right direction by helping Dad in the garage—they're doing something good to keep them from getting off course. We do our yearly event 'Rev'ved Up 4-Kids,' where we have teamed up with the Center for Learning Unlimited with the proceeds helping to support complex challenged children, and we support the trade schools like Goodland Technical College in Kansas, Wyotech, and Ohio Technical College. We give scholarships to OTC—they've got a great program with their engine challenge. It's hard to keep kids engaged, so sometimes they get the message that if they get into cars they can only be a Service Tech—which is fine, but they don't know about the great opportunities in hot rodding and the aftermarket. That's another reason why we are supporting the youth programs."
In the fall of 1966, Chevrolet contacted Edelbrock about tuning and prepping a pair of 396ci big-blocks for a race boat running the Salton Sea 500. The owners were astronauts Gordon Cooper and Gus Grissom. Edelbrock thrashed to help the astronaut heroes have the boat ready for tech inspection; if they missed it, they'd be disqualified. They did make the race and were competitive, but the stock cast pistons were not up for the stress, and one of the engines blew. A few months later, Gus Grissom was killed along with fellow astronauts Ed White and Roger Chaffee in a launch-pad fire testing Apollo I.


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The perennial last-minute negotiations over hosting the America's Cup regatta in San Francisco have led to contractors for race organizers owing almost $460,000 in back wages and costs for dozens of workers, according to interviews and city documents.
The main hurdle was the first-ever city provision requiring that workers who set up temporary facilities, such as tents and bleachers, for the races be paid prevailing wage, essentially a union hourly rate plus the cost of benefits, city officials and the prime contractor said.
Prevailing wage is standard in public works construction projects, but not for private entities staging special events.
However, the final list of jobs covered under prevailing wage wasn't decided until after the August and October 2012 America's Cup World Series events had already been held. A list of 22 job types related to the events, including seven requiring prevailing wage, wasn't shown to race organizers until Oct. 2, the day the second event began, according to a memorandum between all parties finalized last week.
"There was a lot of gray area," said Mark Guelfi, president of Hartmann Studios, the America's Cup Event Authority's prime contractor for the events. "The prevailing-wage language was to be determined. They didn't get that worked out until the week of Oct. 11 … I'm happy to pay whatever rates they want me to pay, but if they can't give me a clear indication of who to pay, what do I do?"
Working out wages
Jane Sullivan, a city spokeswoman on the America's Cup, acknowledged that the list of prevailing-wage jobs "hadn't been completely clarified" at the time of the events, although there had been discussions.
"There was no road map," Sullivan said. "It's never been done before, and the last-minute nature of what happened last summer contributed to the situation. … We've got it all worked out now. That's the happy part of the story."
The agreement calls for the America's Cup Event Authority, the arm of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison's sailing syndicate responsible for organizing the races, to pay prevailing wages on construction trade work, including erecting and dismantling temporary structures and dealing with audiovisual equipment.
Any contractors or subcontractors must also pay prevailing wages for that work. Race organizers initially agreed to pay the prevailing wage when the host agreement included allowing the authority to develop the publicly owned Piers 30-32 just south of the Bay Bridge.
After the development portion of the deal fell apart, organizers still kept prevailing wage in the deal for work that would be done on temporary race facilities.
"We're trying to do the right thing here," said Stephen Barclay, CEO of the event authority. "We put it in our contracts. We didn't have to do it in the first place, but we decided we would."
At two preliminary race events last year, eight subcontractors did not pay prevailing wages for 113 workers combined, who are owed more than $400,000 in back wages, according to an audit by the Office of Labor Standards Enforcement. Another $3,700 is owed for apprenticeship training, and almost $55,000 for the city's enforcement costs.
In some instances, workers setting up bleachers were supposed to be paid $64.32 per hour but were paid as little $9 an hour, according to the audit.
Workers for another subcontractor were supposed to be paid the $64.32 hourly rate, but instead were paid $20 to $27 per hour and not paid overtime because the employer contended they had "agreed to no overtime pay in order to get the work," the audit found.
The disclosure comes at a delicate time as the city is hurtling toward a July 4 start to host for the first time the qualifying matches for sailing's oldest and most distinguished event, followed by the finals in September. Supervisor John Avalos is preparing to hold a hearing on Wednesday to examine whether the city will be on the hook for millions of dollars to put on the event as fundraising by a private group of civic leaders has lagged behind expectations. Fundraising, though, had kept pace with city spending until earlier this year.
Mayor Ed Lee has taken it upon himself to raise $20 million from corporate and philanthropic donors as part of the $34 million overall target to defray city costs and fundraising expenses.
The race, though, has shrunk from a projected 12 competitors to four. Attendance estimates, and with them, city costs, are also expected to be less, officials said.
Pleased with sales
Still, the event authority described brisk ticket sales, including 1,000 of 5,000 "season passes" selling in 48 hours for bleacher seats at all upcoming races at $1,000 each and selling 10 of 12 corporate waterfront "chalets" at $675,000 a pop.
"We've been overwhelmed by the reaction," Barclay said.
Avalos, though, said the latest stumble regarding prevailing wage was symptomatic of a process where race organizers and supportive city leaders "just say what they want to say and then they don't live up to their commitments."
"They have failed miserably," Avalos said. "It's kind of a pattern with the America's Cup."
John Coté is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Michigan opened the season by scoring 59 points. It had at least 40 in wins over relatively solid teams in Notre Dame and Minnesota.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) ? Michigan opened the season by scoring 59 points. It had at least 40 in wins over relatively solid teams in Notre Dame and Minnesota.
The Wolverines even put up a school-record 751 yards of offense as they scored 61 points against Indiana last month to improve to 6-2.
Since then, they've struggled ? especially with the ball.
Michigan was held scoreless in the second half of its 24-21 loss Saturday at Iowa, its third in four games. The Wolverines scored nine points the previous week in regulation before going on to beat Northwestern in triple-overtime; they were limited to six and 13 points, respectively, in losses to Michigan State and Nebraska.
Coach Brady Hoke says he's confident Michigan (7-4, 3-4 Big Ten) will be consistent for a change on offense against archrival and third-ranked Ohio State (11-0, 7-0) on Saturday at home. Even though the Wolverines are 14-point underdogs, Hoke said he believes his team has a shot to win against the undefeated Buckeyes.
"This game has always been different in some ways," Hoke said Monday. "Are they a good football team? Yeah. They're a very good football team. Do we have to play better than we've played? I don't think there's any doubt."
On offense, that's as clear as the difference between maize and blue.
Michigan ranks last out of 123 major college football teams in tackles allowed for a loss, getting stopped behind the line of scrimmage 103 times this season. That statistic has led to the Wolverines ranking 110th in sacks allowed, 100th in rushing and 95th overall on offense among Football Bowl Subdivision teams.
"I know they've probably gave up a thousand tackles for loss this season, but I know going into this game that they're going to try to give up as least as possible," Buckeyes linebacker Ryan Shazier said.
The Wolverines were in a position to get a clutch touchdown to win or a timely field goal to probably push the Hawkeyes to overtime Saturday, but quarterback Devin Gardner fumbled at the Iowa 31 with about 2 minutes left.
"I lost the game by myself," Gardner said. "I fumbled the ball when they trusted me."
Gardner has broken Michigan marks this season, accounting for 584 yards of offense and 503 yards passing against the Hoosiers. He matched school records with five touchdowns against the Fighting Irish and again against the Hoosiers.
In the last four games, however, he has averaged 182.5 yards passing and lost a total of 47 yards rushing.
"He's had some really good moments and some moments that he would rather redo if he could," Hoke said. "I think we all have that; I do as a head coach. There are always moments that you think about and say, 'Maybe we should've done this.' He's been pretty resilient. He's a guy who comes to work every day to get ready to play."
Gardner's lack of consistency appears to be linked to rarely having time to throw behind a trio of inexperienced linemen and not having the luxury of a running game that defenses have to respect.
Michigan has shuffled several players around at center and both guard positions between senior tackles without much success.
The Wolverines gave running back Derrick Green a chance to carry the ball extensively against Northwestern in place of banged-up senior Fitzgerald Toussaint, and the freshman had 79 yards. Emblematic of Michigan's offense, Green then failed to find consistency in the next game as he had just 23 yards rushing on 11 carries against the Hawkeyes.
"We get a 9-yard gain, then we take a step back," Hoke said, trying to explain why his team has lacked consistency with the ball. "Or, we've got good protection and don't finish the throw or execute the throw or catch the football."


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Roy Martin III has weathered his shore of knockdowns in life, but the 27-year old has learned to adapt to any situation.
"I like to think of myself as a 'fighter' who happened to pursue the sport of boxing," he said. "For me boxing represents the will, the struggle, the battle that has been present in my life. It represents my fight."
When in the ring, Roy's thoughts are very clear.
"All the struggles, all the pain, all the mistakes I made in my life... I think about all of it."
Misfortunes and poor decisions seem more common throughout Roy's childhood than the presence of his own father, due to his parents' separation.
"I really didn't get to see him a lot due to him and my mom being separated, so he wasn't in my life every day," he said. "Whenever he did try to come around he wanted he respect of the daddy role that he didn't earn."
By the age of 15, Roy found himself in a fight that he realized he couldn't win.
"I was lost and caught up with the wrong crowd stealing cars for money. I got caught, put on probation," he said. "Shortly after that I violated. I spent three months in Lew Sterrett, and three months was pretty much long enough time for me to say, 'Roy it's time to get your act together.'"
Family and earning a living was now Roy's focus. He found work at a local steel processing plant and was one week away from earning a full-time position. Roy had no idea he was about to face the biggest challenge of his life.
"I operated a machine that bends steel. Before you noticed my foot was caught up in it and crushed," he says. "About a month later is when I got the news that my foot would be amputated."
Learning to walk again at the age of 23 is not what Roy had in mind. And certainly not boxing at the age of 27. But by sheer coincidence, Roy found his connection to amputee boxing.
"It was like a sign or message form God. I was strolling on my timeline and I just seen it. I got with the right people and its been on ever since," he says.
"He presses through the adversities, he presses through the negativity," Roy's wife, Blu Martin, said. "He presses through it all. I'm proud just to see him succeed on so many different levels."
Roy has been boxing for three years and for the past four months, Monday through Friday, two-and-a-half hours a day. He has trained diligently in preparation for only his second fight as an amputee boxer. But that training does comes with challenges.
Roy says although it may sound simple, he's constantly mindful of keeping his leg dry from the sweat in order to avoid an infection.
"This right here is kind of frustrating at times, this used to get to me," he said. "Be like, 'man why can't I just keep going all the time?' But one thing you got to learn about life, man... life you just got to adapt to any situation."
Part of Roy's routine includes his training runs, but recently while on his morning sprint Roy had yet another encounter with law enforcement. This time, a sheriff's deputy had something to share with Roy just as he was finishing.
"With your story and what you've done, everybody can do it if they just try. And you need to realize that you are an inspiration to other people, even though you may not see yourself as such," he told him. "All it takes is to hear your story and realize what you're doing."
"My initial thought when I saw him was, 'Oh Lord, what did we do wrong this time?' It was a real surprise, but at the same time it was the motivation that I needed headed into San Antonio for the Amputee Boxing Match," Roy said.
It's the only event of its kind in the United States. The National Amputee Boxing Association was organized to promote amateur boxing for amputee athletes.
"Psychologically it's given these men and women an opportunity to compete in something that they were told for many years that they were not allowed to do. And we do it because we want to see people succeed," Executive Director and Founder of The National Amputee Boxing Association, Shaman Owensby, said.
These athletes include military veterans, civilians, cancer and accident survivors. Each with a unique story of their arrival to the sport.
"On my last deployment overseas our team got hit with an IED," Former Marine and double amputee Alex DelRio said.
Due to the blast and medical complications, Alex lost both legs.
"Makes me realize that even if we are injured from missing limbs, you're able to still compete," he said. "And seeing other fighters fighting that were injured as amputees, I was like 'Wow, you know what? Maybe I'll do this.' It keeps you sharp on your toes, even though I don't have any toes... it's pretty good, I like it."
Although the "fight" can sometimes appear defeating, these men and women say they're not looking for sympathy because of their "disability," but rather an acceptance of their true "ability."
No one understands that better than Jake Johnson. Jake was born without his femur bone.
"You run into people who say you can't do this, and so that becomes another problem," he said. "People look at you like you shouldn't be doing this or they pity you or look down on you. I don't know what it's like to lose my limb because I was born without it, so for me it's always been normal to be one legged."
The night's title fight would soon belong to Roy. His five-round decision was the pay off to many days of training and a stepping stone to his journey.
"I was always told that boxing is 90 percent mental and 10 percent physical," he says. "If you believe that you can do it, you can get it done."
It's a weekend these men and women will remember, not because of the wins and loses, but because of their hope to inspire and make a difference in someone's life.
"What I'm really trying to do is wake-up the world," Roy says. "Wake up everybody who sill wants to chase something. I want them to say that I'm just motivation to them. My motto has been and will forever be, never fold."


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Less than 15 months after being diagnosed with a brain abnormality, Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Mike Patterson was activated from the reserve/non-football illness list Saturday.
Patterson is eligible to play in Monday night's game against the New Orleans Saints.
"He did a good job. He moved around well and there were no symptoms (from the) surgery he had with his head and brain," coach Andy Reid said after Saturday's practice. "He's felt good. He's felt good all the way through workouts and then once he came out here he felt good."
Reid said he didn't know how much the 29-year-old would contribute, but said he would "definitely monitor how he's doing."
"I think you would probably monitor how many snaps he plays," Reid said. "You're not going to put him in there and have him go the whole game, which our guys don't do anyway."
In August 2011, Patterson suffered a seizure which lead to a diagnosis of a cerebral arteriovenous malformation. He was placed on the reserve/non-football illness list Aug. 27 while recovering from offseason brain surgery to repair the condition.
According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine web site, a cerebral arteriovenous malformation is an abnormal connection between the arteries and veins in the brain that usually forms before birth.
To make room on the 53-man roster, the team released linebacker Jason Williams.


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When Lauren Stepp, a senior at West Henderson High, shouldered the task of completely redesigning the school's award-winning newspaper this year, she knew it would take a lot of effort.
When Lauren Stepp, a senior at West Henderson High, shouldered the task of completely redesigning the school's award-winning newspaper this year, she knew it would take a lot of effort.
Now, Stepp feels the initiative she showed in revamping Wingspan helped her win the North Carolina High School Journalist of the Year award, which is co-sponsored by the N.C. Scholastic Media Association, N.C. Press Foundation and the Journalism Education Association.
Representing North Carolina, Stepp is in the running for the National High School Journalist of the Year award, which will be announced April 13 at a Journalism Education Association convention in San Diego, Calif.
Stepp has written for Wingspan since her freshman year at West, and began freelancing with the Hendersonville Lightning in August 2013.
This year, as editor in chief of Wingspan, Stepp led the charge in overhauling the student newspaper, transitioning from a broadsheet newspaper to a glossy-print, news tabloid.
"I found that students weren't responding to it," she said.
"We had been a broadsheet newspaper for 18 years," added Brenda Gorsuch, a journalism and English literature teacher at West and the school's newspaper and yearbook adviser.
"I loved broadsheet newspaper, but the kids weren't reading it," she said. "(Stepp) did the research on what young adults like reading. And then she went and found the advertising dollars to fund it."
Gorsuch explained that Wingspan's new format — while more appealing to its young target audience — is twice the cost of the broadsheet version. But it seems the change was worth it.
"Readership's gone up," Gorsuch said.
The school newspaper's transformation was evident in the writing and design samples Stepp included in the portfolio she submitted for the state award. She also included her freelance writing work.
Monica Hill, director of the N.C. Scholastic Media Association, said the judges carefully consider contestant portfolios, and take into account the various forms of media each student submits.
"They're looking holistically at the portfolio... at the breadth and the depth of the student as a high school journalist," said Hill.
Stepp figures it improved her portfolio to include examples from both Wingspan and The Lightning and demonstrated "my commitment to journalism in the past four years, within the realm of West Henderson and outside of it."
It also didn't hurt that Stepp was chosen to attend last summer's Al Neuharth Free Spirit and Journalism Conference at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
"Competing against other North Carolina candidates really set me apart," said Stepp.
"She represented North Carolina," said Gorsuch.
Stepp plans to attend the University of North Carolina in Charlotte on a full scholarship through the Levine Scholars Program.
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