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<p">Today's HIV Frontlines interview is with Debbie Hagins, M.D., an HIV-specialist who heads a federally funded clinic in Savannah, Ga. Dr. Hagins is the kind of doctor who gives her cell phone number to her patients. She goes to their homes and believes in being there to be sure that they take all of their HIV medications. And because most of her patients are struggling financially, this kind of dedication can make a huge difference. In 2006, Dr. Hagins participated in a landmark trial focusing on African-American women known as GRACE. Although she runs a clinic with almost 1,000 patients and is the largest provider of HIV care in her community, this was the first trial she or any of her patients had ever participated in. I had the honor not long ago to talk with Dr. Hagins about her clinic and her experience with participating in HIV research.
Dr. Hagins, welcome to HIV Frontlines! Can you please start by describing your job?
I am a family practitioner in Savannah, Ga. I have the honor and the privilege of serving as the clinical director of a Ryan White clinic. Our clinic happens to be the third largest in the state of Georgia. We service eight counties. We have approximately 970 patients -- individuals who are living with HIV and AIDS. I think that, for what I can appreciate, the clinic represents the epidemic, how we see it in terms of the health care disparity.
Our clinic is approximately 80 percent African American, even though the community is about 50 to 55 percent African American. Like most Ryan White clinics, the individuals, 75 percent of them, live at or below poverty. Our clinic is also 40 percent women.
That's a pretty big rate of women. Isn't the national prevalence rate around 10 percent less than that?
Yes, I think you can say that, because if you look at the national demographics, and you look at the percentage of women living with HIV, as a whole they represent about 30 percent in the nation. So our clinic does have a little bit more in terms of females infected.</p">
"I have five fabulous nurse practitioners who are all female. All of the nurses are female. All the case managers are female; it's amazing!"
Is your clinic more female-friendly because it's run by a female?
No, I wouldn't say that we're more female friendly. I guess if you just look at the staff, the staff is predominantly female. So it's not just myself. I have five fabulous nurse practitioners who are all female. All of the nurses are female. All the case managers are female; it's amazing! [Laughs.]
That must be part of it, don't you think? I mean, it's a nice thing to go to a female-run and staffed place.
I guess it would. We'd really have to get the perspective of the patient. But I think people still respond to genuineness. When they feel they matter to the health care team, they respond to being treated with respect.
Some of our patients live in our homeless shelters, and in our subsidized housing. Our individuals, the patients that we service, do have some challenges, in terms of substance abuse and mental health disorders. They have life issues -- like trying to cope with all of the other challenges of being HIV positive, the stigma, and then other chronic illnesses. I heard a patient say, "I'm not just your HIV."
"Being a Ryan White clinic, we are a true medical home. We have the benefit of case managers who do medical case managing, a nutritionist, a pharmacy that's on-site, and other support services -- transportation -- that are either on-site or made available to the patient."
How do you deal with all those issues in your clinic?
Being a Ryan White clinic, we are a true medical home. We have the benefit of case managers who do medical case managing, a nutritionist, a pharmacy that's on-site, and other support services -- transportation -- that are either on-site or made available to the patient.
We're fortunate to have peer advocates who are our adherence counselors. One of our staff members is an adherence counselor, as well. Of course, all the providers do adherence at each visit. Case managers also try to do some adherence, just to make certain that people are taking their medicines and keeping their appointments.
We are actually developing our adherence program. Because our site has approximately 80 percent African Americans, we have a particular outreach in the African-American community. We have our peer advocates, of course -- in some places they are called peer counselors, or patients' counselor peers, or patient advocates -- who try to make contact with the patient, understand what it means to live with HIV, understand the challenges, and help patients navigate the health care system, as well as introduce them to what services and resources are available to individuals living with HIV, and keep them linked into care.
I like to refer to what they do as a "search and rescue." Maybe the person has presented to the clinic at least one time, and hasn't returned. Then, thru extraordinary methods, they try to find them, and find out what happened to them.
I understand that you recently got involved in a research project.
Yes, my very first.
Could you tell me about it?
Yes. I'd be delighted to. It was called GRACE. GRACE stands for Gender, Race And Clinical Experience. We participated in this trial in 2006 -- myself as one of the clinical investigators in the country, but the only clinical investigator at our site.
It was our introduction to clinical research, but of course, we were excited because of the nature of the trial. Even though I did not sit at the table when all the ideas were going forward and this trial was being designed, we certainly embraced it, and embraced it full court.
"Women are a fast-growing segment of the positive population, but there's not a lot of clinical research that has put an emphasis on women living with HIV."
Could you share what it was about it that you embraced? What was so exciting about it to you?
For a long time, we have seen the numbers, especially in the South, especially in African-American communities, that African Americans experience, by far, the highest percentage of new HIV infections, and all of the complications that go along with it. Women are a fast-growing segment of the positive population, but there's not a lot of clinical research that has put an emphasis on women living with HIV. So, this study focused on women who were already treatment experienced. A lot of trials look at people who were treatment naive.
I think that a clinical trial that was focused on women, and particularly women of color, who are HIV treatment experienced in North America, was unique, very unique. I didn't understand or appreciate how unique it was until we actually began to be fully involved in the trial itself and to have other clinical trial exposure.
I've heard that you got very involved with getting people to stay on the trial. Tell me a little bit about that. Do you usually drive to people's homes to help them?
Is that just you? Or is it common in the South?
Well, no. I don't think that it's just me. I think there are other physicians like myself. But it's not common in the South, no.
I think that what I did for this clinical trial, I've done all along in my past 20 years as a health care provider and have certainly dedicated myself to the care of the indigent and underserved ... myself and many, many others.
For this particular trial, we were, of course, enrolling women who had a history of being non-adherent for various reasons. Maybe they had a history of homelessness, maybe depression, maybe incarceration, maybe substance abuse issues, maybe loss of insurance -- a host of reasons. So here we were dealing with an at-risk population of people, and by virtue of the fact that they met the poverty guidelines.
To get individuals to the clinic, yes, we had to pick some of them up, take some of them home. I did give every client my cell phone number, and I asked them to please call me if they had a question or a concern, or any issue. And they did. They didn't abuse it, but they did call. So I've had to make some weekend runs, some after-hour runs, for individuals.
One individual called on a Friday afternoon, and we had just gone into our Christmas holidays. So we weren't going to be back in the clinic until the following Wednesday. She called and said she had run out of medicine.
I said, "You couldn't possibly have run out of medicine. You've only had it for two weeks."
She repeated, "I've run out. I've run out."
I told her I was going to come to her house that evening, after I finished with another commitment I had. So, I went to her home, which is in a housing project.
We stood outside in the light rain with an umbrella, behind my SUV. She brought her medicines -- that she had dumped out of the bottles -- in a grocery bag ... she did this because she lived in a home where her household contact did not know of her status.
We looked at her bottles and her pills, and we figured it all out. She had not run out, as she had thought. She had old bottles of old regimens, and just got a little bit confused. We got all that straightened out and I took all of her old medicine away from her.
We also had an individual in the study who was living in a homeless shelter who called the study coordinator, Elissa Greene. They had her number, as well. She's very involved. Elissa was in New York. I was in Atlanta. The client was living in a homeless shelter.
The client said, "I've run out of my other medicines." Not the study drug, but the background medicine. Elissa called me. I was on my way back to Savannah. Because I had a key to the pharmacy in the building, I had to go into the building on the weekend and deliver her medicines to the shelter on a Sunday.
We have another client who had her house burn down. I made a run to her house 8 o'clock one night. Actually, I was just in the street, on my cell phone. I said, "Please make yourself visible, wherever you are."
She popped out of one of the houses and came to my car. We went over her medicines and what had to be done.
I'm married to the community, and I think that, for me, GRACE has brought a lot of focus to an area that for a long time didn't have the attention that it needed.
GRACE also helps us to understand and appreciate the fact that African Americans have not been targeted, and helps us to gain meaningful, and very useful, clinical information.
"Here we have a segment of our population who are the most impacted by a disease that we should have some control over and they're the least represented in clinical trials."
Even though we still hear Tuskegee [Syphilis Study] -- and Tuskegee went on for a long time -- I think that what GRACE has done, at least, is raise the bar and put forth a great effort by pulling together a very diverse group of people, health care professionals, and other professionals.
Here we have a segment of our population who are the most impacted by a disease that we should have some control over and they're the least represented in clinical trials. They certainly give a voice, a face, a name, a title, a recognition, and the list goes on, to what was a gap in health care data.
You may be aware that African-American women, in the South, represent anywhere between 67 percent to about 75 percent of all new HIV cases.
Of everyone with HIV in the U.S., African Americans represent about a half. African Americans only represent about an eighth, an eighth of a pie, which is 12 percent of the population. But it wasn't just about African Americans. It was also about women of color. So there also was an emphasis on Hispanic women.
If we look at Hispanic women and African-American women -- who represent about 25 percent of the female population in America, and yet represent close to 80 percent of all individuals living with HIV -- then yes, it does cause us to raise not just one eyebrow, but two eyebrows, and to try and at least put some sound clinical research into how women respond to our medications.
Are women different? Yes, we know that women are different. We know from some other clinical research that women do respond differently to HIV medications. This study put a lot of emphasis on: Are there gender and race differences?
But didn't the GRACE study show that there was no difference in response among the women compared to the men with the drugs that were used? So, the difference was all due to life problems and issues that were beyond HIV?
In terms of the primary endpoint -- which is to have your HIV controlled with an undetectable viral load -- yes, there were no clinical differences, because everybody responded to treatment. There were some differences, of course, in the rise in CD4 count, but also significant differences in the people who completed this study.
When you begin to look at those who dropped out of the study, there were more African Americans and there were more women who dropped out of this study. We don't know all of the reasons for that. I can say that, at least at our site, nobody dropped out.
I would think not, with your amazing involvement! I think people felt a part of something. I don't think that kind of stuff -- where doctors give out their cell phone number and go to people's houses -- is going on in New York. Your level of involvement is pretty amazing. It must make a lot of people feel cared about.
I do believe that. Coming from a housing development myself -- not growing up poor, but not growing up wealthy -- I've always wanted to make a difference in health care. I wanted to be a medical missionary, believe it or not.
Well, you're kind of that.
I am. But I thought about it in terms of being abroad, and not being on my home soil. But in a way, yes; I guess you can say that. And I do believe that the women who participated in the study had to have also grasped the concept that they were participating in something that was larger than themselves, that they were being given an opportunity to contribute in a very significant and meaningful way about women who were living with HIV in this country, particularly women in the South and women of color.
Let's characterize these women. I think it's really important. You said some percentage were below the poverty line. I don't think most people understand what that means. In a dollar amount, what's the average earnings of these people? Are they unemployed?
Some were working. Some were on disability. Some were unemployed. I think the national poverty guidelines state that, for a household of one, you have to make less than $10,000 a year.
In our Ryan White clinic, you had to be at least 200 percent below the poverty line to qualify for the medications through the AIDS Drug Assistance Program [ADAP]. Some of these individuals were on Medicaid, so they had an ability to get some of their medicines.
But our women, if I just look at all of them: some had issues with incarceration; some had substance abuse issues, and some even relapsed while they were in the trial; some were, of course, in recovery; some of them were homeless, or living in a homeless shelter; some of them worked, they were just the working poor.
Was this their first trial, in general?
"As a matter of fact, in my community, there were no HIV clinical trials until GRACE."
Every single one. For every single one of them, it was their first trial. As a matter of fact, in my community, there were no HIV clinical trials until GRACE.
Why do you think that is?
We're the largest providers of HIV care in our community, and trying to participate in clinical trials poses its own hurdles. We had a very, very supportive administrative arm, who saw the importance and the significance of clinical research. They gave us the stamp of approval to participate.
Then, it was trying to at least communicate to the rest of the team about what a clinical trial was. We were on a steep learning curve, ourself, and there were moments of frustration. For instance, we had to get our own dry ice, because there's no dry ice delivery in my community.
Why would you need dry ice?
You need dry ice to ship your blood. There was no delivery. There's no courier in Savannah that did dry ice delivery. I picked up ice, the study coordinators picked up ice, the coordinators' husbands have picked up ice, as did the case managers.
Whatever we had to do, we did. GRACE was just that important. Having clinical research was that important to us, because we wanted our patients to have access, not only to novel drugs, but to be able to have a voice in what was going on.
I wanted to share this with you: In our homeless shelter, there is some artwork that was done by the clients that we serve. In a framed piece of artwork on the wall of that hallway was a photo and a cutout of a newspaper article that showed African Americans standing behind tombstones. Written on a tombstone was "R.I.P." -- Rest In Peace. It said, "AIDS Equals Death. African-American Men and Women Dying Because They Are Excluded From Clinical Trials."
To focus on people of color has its own inherent challenges, I'm sure. But for a company to at least acknowledge that, and to seek ways to reach them, [is important.] One of the focuses of GRACE was recruitment and retention. How do you recruit people that you know you need to gather information on into a clinical trial? Then, how do you retain them until the completion of that study?
GRACE took some very novel approaches, by going to some new sites, of which we were one. They went to areas where they knew they had a heavy concentration of HIV and of women, and women of color, and offered those sites the support that they needed. The study was branded, so we saw the logo, the butterflies. That, in itself, was very unique, very different. And while we had some males who participated, and some Caucasians, our African-American women were, by far, the largest proportion of those contributing.
Actually, we also asked some of the study participants to speak at little lunch-and-learn events; to talk about their experience in the clinical trial, and what their concerns had been about participating in the clinical trial, and how those concerns had been dissuaded.
Was there enough money to pay everybody, provide transportation and that kind of stuff?
The sponsors did offer a stipend to the participants that reimbursed them for travel, if they needed it, or childcare. Some individuals were honest in saying that the stipend was what drew them to the trial, but it's not what kept them in the trial. They realized that they were part of something very significant.
So they are a real untapped resource. It sounds like participating in a trial gave some of these women much needed attention and made them feel less alone.
Well, they developed some camaraderie between them. Not all of them. Some of them still were very, very private, and still kept to themselves. But some of them needed to participate in the trial, because of the access to some of the new meds that hadn't yet been available through ADAP or that weren't even yet FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] approved. The clinical trial gave us access.
I want you to understand something: We had already witnessed our own clients dying, alright? Because we were waiting for FDA approval to get drugs that we knew they might benefit from. So this opened up that door for us to get people who had uncontrolled disease an opportunity to be controlled.
We had two women in the trial who had not been undetectable with respect to their viral load for at least two years, because they had very resistant virus. They were very treatment experienced. They needed something. They became undetectable for the first time in the study.
One of our participants actually had to drive about 40 miles one way to participate. But she came. She came. And she's still enrolled in care. She's still on the same medicines that she was on in GRACE. And GRACE ended for her at the beginning of 2008.
I understand that since the GRACE study you've been participating in a lot more clinical trials.
Yes, yes, yes.
All of the clinical trials are still HIV focused. We had an opportunity, because of GRACE, to participate with other HIV drugs, and treatment-experienced patients, as well as treatment-naive patients. But also, the emphasis, again, is on people of color.
I think that what GRACE did -- in fact, I'm pretty certain -- and what GRACE has now at least stated is that we need to proactively involve more African Americans, more women, more people of color, and more people who are disproportionately impacted by the disease. We need to at least reach out to them. It's not a secret that the majority of the clinical data that we now have is based upon Caucasian men; and they are no longer the largest factor or cause of new HIV cases.
That clinical research paved the way for the advances that we now see.
Well, thank you so much Dr. Hagins for sharing your experience. It's really such an honor to meet someone so caring and so committed.
This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.
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Dr. Debbie P. Hagins is the clinical director of the Chatham County Health Department Infectious Disease Clinic, a Ryan White-funded clinic in Savannah, Ga.


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COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 22 points to lead Georgia to a 59-52 win over slumping Texas A&M on Saturday in the first-ever meeting between these new Southeastern Conference foes.
Sherrard Brantley had two 3-pointers during a 16-2 run by the Bulldogs to start the second half, giving Georgia its biggest lead.
The Bulldogs had to fight off a late rally by Texas A&M for the victory. Texas A&M cut it to three points with a minute left on a lay-up by Kourtney Roberson, but the Bulldogs scored the last four points of the game to secure the win.
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Will Muschamp has a well-deserved reputation as one of the brightest defensive minds in college football. The more days that pass during Muschamp�s tenure as Florida�s head coach, the more indications we get that he should stick to that side of the ball and allow the offensive coordinator more freedom to do his job.
GAINESVILLE � Will Muschamp has a well-deserved reputation as one of the brightest defensive minds in college football.
The more days that pass during Muschamp�s tenure as Florida�s head coach, the more indications we get that he should stick to that side of the ball and allow the offensive coordinator more freedom to do his job.
Muschamp said Friday he intends to stick with two quarterbacks � sophomores Jacoby Brissett and Jeff Driskel � when the Gators open the season Sept. 1 at home against Florida Bowling Green. In this circle, that is the improper decision and could derail Florida�s season before it�s even started.
It was one thing for former coach Urban Meyer to use Tim Tebow in particular situations and sub-packages when Tebow was the backup behind Chris Leak in 2006. Tebow added an option element to the Gator offense that Leak did not, and Tebow was a versatile weapon around the goal line. Leak was the unquestionable starter, however. Tebow carried the ball 89 times and threw it 33 times that year. Leak, on the other hand, ran 68 times and passed 190 times.
Coaches are paid big-time money (Muschamp makes over $2.7 million annually) and frequently have to make big-time decisions. Muschamp seems unwilling to hurt either quarterback�s feelings, and that is to the detriment of his program.
Muschamp has indicated he wants to return to a smashmouth-style attack offensively. In other words, more I-formation looks, more sets with two tight ends and a scheme built around a play-action passing attack. That system requires a traditional drop-back quarterback willing to throw from the pocket in the face of an on-coming defense. Only one of the two quarterbacks contending for the starting nod fits that description, and that player is Brissett.
That�s not meant to be critical of Driskel, who is an ideal quarterback for the kind of spread-option scheme Meyer employed at Florida and now at Ohio State. There is a reason Meyer recruited Driskel, after all. Perhaps Muschamp is rewarding Driskel for remaining loyal to the Gators coming out of high school when Muschamp was trying to salvage the team�s 2011 recruiting class in the weeks after he was hired.
Indeed, Driskel was the crown jewel of that class, but times have changed quickly at UF. The decision to stick with the spread-option offense last year was an unmitigated disaster. Muschamp apparently can�t recall that John Brantley, a drop-back passer, was an awful fit for that scheme, and the sub-par results were predictable. Now he seems to be making the same mistake from the opposite end of the spectrum trying to utilize an option quarterback in an offense designed for a pocket passer.
Brissett is no sure thing either, but at least he has the tools best suited for the offense. He struggled mightily when he was thrust onto the field as a true freshman, completing just 46 percent of his passes. Like Brantley, though, Brissett wasn�t a fit in that offense. He�s not a guy who regularly will escape pressure by exiting the pocket and then turn up field to run for a first down. He�s a 6-foot-3, 229-pound quarterback who stands tall in the pocket and has the arm strength to deliver the ball downfield. That�s who he is, and UF shouldn�t tinker with that.
Brissett has been getting all the reps with the Gators� first-team offense recently because Driskel has been banged up with a shoulder injury. The idea that UF should revert back to the two quarterbacks splitting time with the first team in practice once Driskel is healthy is absolutely misguided. It hurts the progress of both quarterbacks more than it helps.
Offensive coordinator Brent Pease came to Gainesville from Boise State, where he enjoyed considerable success with an undersized quarterback and a system that fit the Broncos� personnel on the field. He didn�t ask Kellen Moore to scramble around. He didn�t ask Doug Martin to carry the ball out of the Wildcat formation. This decision to use two quarterbacks doesn�t seem to fit Pease�s modus operandi.
Charlie Weis left Florida last December after one season as the team�s offensive coordinator to take over as head coach at Kansas. That decision sure seemed questionable at the time. Now I wonder how much of that decision was based on Muschamp�s involvement in the offense.
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I find that research does help. The old map makers weren't always accurate and the USGS are removing ruins, graveyards and caves from the maps.
My big gripe is how tall tales and legends from some towns have made their way into history and have shoved out a lot of the smaller towns. So much history has been lost while the same old myths get passed around. I can find reams about Tombstone and the Earps, but try finding out about the gun portals that face west at Alto or much about William Fourr. There is so little information that I can find. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to bury myself at historic societies the way that I want to. I'm forced to rely on the internet and authors who focus on what sells or what they imagine what sells.
Quite often I find that a single old topo map is far more valuble than quite a few books in finding the ghost towns and ruins. Roads and rivers change, the hills and mountains do, but not as quickly. The hard part is getting the story behind the ruins. I missed all the hubris and find myself with too many questions.


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The place was rather small, but included a small tasting room and the standard "history of" and "how to make" displays. Over a hundred plastic models of various kinds of kimchi took up a third of the museum. I would probably have expected the shrimp, cod gills, and ginseng kimchi. But pickled pumpkin? Persimmon? Pheasant? The museum was indeed an eye-opener.
Mall food in Asia tends to be of higher quality than its counterpart in the west, so it wasn't surprising we found Korean restaurant inside COEX that served a nice bubbling beansprout rice stew...
...along with the requisite 5 or 6 side dishes.
One of the most memorable things I ate last week was in Hongdae, the funky district around Hongik University. We found a pod-like little glass box of a restaurant amidst higher concrete buildings. You are free to draw all over the tables, and are given pens to do so.
The memorable dish in question was a noodle soup with clams and shrimp in an subtly aromatic garlic and seafood broth that I couldn't stop slurping. I forget the Korean name of the dish, but now I am on a personal mission to find a suitable recipe.
I had mentioned in my last Seoul post how Koreans have become obsessed with and adapted their own versions of American foods. Imagine my surprise upon seeing a huge sign for the Doughnut Plant on my first day, a slice of my beloved Lower East Side in Seoul. The placard fonts and enormous doughnuts were both reminiscent of the original New York hole-in-the-wall, and one wall was decorated with a blown-up Times article about Mark Israel, the founder.
I didn't know if it was a legitimate franchise or just a well-done homage until I did some quick Googling later on. The Doughnut Plant actually has four locations in Seoul and ten in Tokyo. Gone is the grubbiness and sunrise call for fresh hot doughnuts. This location has regular hours, leather banquettes, and the muted brown color scheme of an upscale sandwich shop. (Of course, Asian franchises of Dunkin Donuts, Pizza Hut, and other fast food joints are also gussied up versions of the stateside locations.)
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It's the old Chicago rub: World-class restaurants seem to spring up here every week. (Maybe it's something in our soil.) But, as the temperatures get low, Chez Nous is really the only place we want to dine. Dinner? Movie? Wool blanket? From November through March, that's our idea of a Michelin-worthy menu.
But, don't be afraid of missing out, fellow winter hibernators — we've got good news for you. Gourmet popcorn is trending hard at local hot spots, and five of our favorite chefs have agreed to share their recipes for at-home popping. They've even thrown in suggested movie pairings.
With this guide, you don't have to leave your love seat to get a taste of scene-y spots like Chuck's Manufacturing and Sixteen. Now, you've got all the ingredients for a movie (night) with a happy ending.


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Kylie Jenner was in a car accident Wednesday just weeks after obtaining her driver license, according to reports.
Jenner, daughter of Kardashian momager Kris Jenner and Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner, is the youngest of the Kardashian family step-siblings. The "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star turned 16 on Aug. 10 and promptly got herself licensed two days later, when half-sister Kourtney Kardashian posted a pic of her behind the wheel.
"Look out world! @kyliejenner is a licensed driver!" Kardashian wrote.
Watch out, indeed.
The crash took place about 5 p.m. Wednesday on a residential street in Jenner's hometown of Calabasas. The young starlet's accident involved two other vehicles, according to TMZ. Her brand new $125,000 Mercedes G-wagon allegedly rear-ended the back of a Toyota, which subsequently hit the Subaru SUV in front of it.
The Toyota was severley damaged and its back bumper was lodged in the grille of Jenner's car, as seen in photos obtained by the website. However, no one was seriously injured.
Jenner reportedly got out of her car, apologized, asked if everyone was OK and then exchanged information with the drivers. When the Lost Hills Sheriff's Department arrived, Jenner had already left.
E! News confirmed that there had been an accident at that time and place, but said there were no injuries nor anything illegal or unusual.
Jenner's car is said to have been taken to a body shop for repairs.
The aspiring model/fashion designer took to Twitter on Thursday to talk about her feelings, though she did not specifically address the accident.
"What do I have to do to not get bothered by something for one day," she wrote, adding, "I still shed a tear every once in a while."
And so might the mechanic who tended to that damaged custom G-wagon.
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Father, dad, daddy, papa — these are the many names given to a man by his children. It is a wonderful privilege to be known by any of these names.
So let's spend some time together as it relates to what this name really means, and how to live up to the expectations therein.
First of all, this column will address only those things which will benefit and enhance the term attached to the man referred to by his offspring, whether as the birth, adoptive, foster or stepfather, and any other name which has been accepted by him and his family.
Dear Savvy Senior,
When my father passed away we thought he had a life insurance policy, but we haven't been able to track it down. Do you know of any resources that might help?
Searching Family
Dear Searching,
Lost or forgotten life-insurance policies are actually quite common in the U.S. In fact, it's estimated that around $1 billion in benefits from unclaimed life-insurance policies are waiting to be claimed by their rightful beneficiaries.
Dear Savvy Senior,
Can you recommend some easy-to-use television remote controls for seniors? I got my 74-year-old mother a new HDTV for her birthday, but the remote control is very confusing for her to operate.
Shopping Son
Dear Shopping,
The column this week can be one of the most important, yet can be painful if you are or know someone who feels, "I just don't fit in ... they just don't like me."
Having been an elementary teacher for one year before I became a school psychologist in the public school system, I experienced some of the visual pains that were displayed in some of the faces of some of the nicest kids I worked with. I felt some of them when I was a child, as well.
Nothing brings people together quite like a neighborhood picnic or family celebration. So, gather up neighbors, friends and family for a celebration of great food and fun.
Dear Savvy Senior
Are herbal supplements safe for seniors who are taking other prescription medications? I have a friend who swears by them, but I want to be sure before I take anything new.
Cautious Carol
Dear Carol,
Have you noticed how many people seem to have a never-ending supply of words, often spoken rapidly, even at warp speed, trying to say as many words as possible in the shortest length of time.
Well, maybe if you are one of those, it would be helpful to give your listener a chance to respond to your long presentation. While there are many like I just described, there are also many who have so few words, that some elaboration is needed. One or two words is not enough.
Jam is usually reserved for bread and biscuits, but the Kentucky tradition of jam cake takes it to another level. Jam cake is a spice cake that is often served in layers with cream cheese frosting or caramel, and sometimes another frosting altogether.
Dear Savvy Senior,
I've heard that there are strategies available that can help married couples increase their Social Security benefits when they retire. My wife and I are approaching retirement age and would like to understand these options. What can you tell us?
Getting Prepared
Dear Getting,
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Anti-fascist protests across Greece turn violent
KERATSINI, Greece (AP) — Violent clashes broke out in several Greek cities Wednesday after a musician described as an anti-fascist activist was stabbed to death by a man who said he belonged to the far-right Golden Dawn party. More than 75 people were detained.
The death of Pavlos Fyssas, 34, drew condemnation from across Greece's political spectrum and from abroad. While the extremist Golden Dawn has been blamed for numerous violent attacks in the past, the overnight stabbing is the most serious violence so far directly attributed to a member.
Golden Dawn leader Nicholas Michaloliakos denied that the party had anything to do with the attack.
Fyssas, a hip-hop singer whose stage name was Killah P, died in a state hospital early Wednesday after being stabbed twice outside a cafe in the Keratsini area west of Athens.
Police said a 45-year-old man arrested at the scene admitted to attacking Fyssas and said he belonged to Golden Dawn. A knife with traces of blood was found near his car.
Clashes broke out Wednesday evening between riot police and thousands of protesters holding anti-fascist demonstrations in Fyssas' memory in Keratsini and another five cities.
In Keratsini, violence broke out near the scene of the stabbing, with hundreds of protesters attacking a nearby police station.
The confrontation lasted more than two hours, with riot police using tear gas to repel youths, who set fire to trash bins and smashed up sidewalks with hammers to throw rocks at police.
The clashes left a busy suburban road strewn with rocks and smoldering trash for several hundred meters (yards). Traffic outside the busy port of Piraeus was disrupted as police cordoned off streets to stop protesters from reaching the area.
Similar scenes played out in Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, where about 6,000 demonstrators marched. Greek media also reported violent clashes in the western city of Patras, the northeastern city of Xanthi, the central city of Larissa and in Chania on the southern island of Crete.
Authorities said 41 people were detained in Keratsini, and 36 in Thessaloniki.
Earlier, friends of the victim and residents left flowers and candles at the spot of the attack, where blood still stained the sidewalk. The head of a small right-wing opposition party, Panos Kamenos of the Independent Greeks, was briefly assaulted by protesters when he attempted to visit the site.
Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos, whose Socialist party is part of the coalition government, said Golden Dawn had "violence as its priority and must be dealt with as a criminal organization."
Hannes Swoboda, president of the Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament, urged Greek authorities to examine banning the party altogether.
"Golden Dawn's openly xenophobic, neo-Nazi hatred even goes as far as murdering political opponents. This is shocking and intolerable by any standards, and more so in a European Union country," he said.
The rights group Amnesty International called on authorities to prevent any further incidents.
"Politically motivated violence of this kind is unacceptable anywhere, and history has shown the grim consequences if it goes unchecked," said Jezerca Tigani, Amnesty's deputy Europe and Central Asia program director. "The Greek authorities must send a clear message that attacks like this will not be tolerated."
The suspect, who was not named in accordance with Greek law, appeared before a prosecutor Wednesday evening along with his wife, who was arrested on suspicion of concealing evidence. Another couple also appeared in court on similar charges. Five prosecutors have been assigned to the case.
Golden Dawn, whose senior members have expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler although they deny being neo-Nazi, won nearly 7 percent of the vote in 2012 general elections. Recent opinion polls show its support has since risen to around 12 percent.
Party members and supporters, often clearly identifiable in black T-shirts and combat pants, have been suspected of beatings and stabbings across the country, usually of dark-skinned migrants. In January, two men identified as party sympathizers were arrested for the fatal stabbing of a Pakistani migrant worker.
But Wednesday's killing was the first attributed to a Golden Dawn member, and the most severe attributed to political rather than racial motives.
"I am shaken by the event," said Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias, who cancelled a visit to Rome scheduled for Thursday. The killing and other recent violent incidents "show in the clearest possible way the intentions of the neo-Nazi creation."
Michaloliakos, the Golden Dawn head, said his party "unreservedly condemns the murder of the 34-year-old at Keratsini and denies any involvement of the party."
"All the political parties must assume their responsibilities and not create a climate of civil war, giving a political character to a tragic event," he said.
Police spokesman Christos Parthenis said the suspect drove to the scene of an altercation between two groups of people, got out of the car and stabbed Fyssas. Friends of the victim told Greek media they had been attacked by a large group of men as they left the cafe.
Golden Dawn lawmaker Michalis Avranitis offered a different version of events, saying the victim and the suspect had initially argued about a soccer match.
"Yes, this man, as it turns out, has declared himself to be a member of Golden Dawn. But Golden Dawn has 1 million supporters," Avranitis said in Parliament. "If, in a restaurant, two drunken idiots have a fight and someone is stabbed, should we look at their ideology and blame that?"
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Fly to Stavanger
SAS, the largest airline company in Scandinavia, flies to Stavanger, Norway.
From Stavanger, you can reach some of Norway's most famous nature sights, such as Trollveggen or Geirangerfjord.
What's up in Stavanger
Eagle's nest
Have something to eat 2100 ft. (640 meters) above Lysefjord at Orneredet Restaurant.
Stavanger 2008
European Capital of Culture in 2008.
Food festival
Every year in July, the Glad mat festival brings all of Stavanger to the tables.
Set in a landscape of sea, mountains, fjords and islands, Stavanger is a favorite destination for travelers exploring the southwest area of Norway. The city combines a modern metropolis with the charms of a small town. You'd never guess the city is also the oil capital of Norway; the main source of income for the region comes from the petroleum industry.
In 2008, Stavanger was named European Capital of Culture. The city is a university town and has a multitude of museums, art galleries, events and festivals to explore. Gamle Stavanger (Old Town) showcases Northern Europe's largest surviving wooden house settlement.
At night, the city transforms into a hub of entertainment. With numerous theaters, live music venues, bars and nightclubs, Stavanger's nightlife will keep you entertained into the early morning hours.
Stavanger Harbor
Stavanger's historic harbor adds to the city's scenic allure. Still a working seaport, the harbor is fronted by a colorful row of restored, half-timbered, wharf warehouses. There are a number of shops, restaurants, cafes and bars here, and you can buy fresh seafood from boats alongside the pier.
There is no shortage of museums in Stavanger—a good one to start with is the Stavanger Museum. This museum actually comprises five different museums, which you can see with a single ticket. The main museum (Stavanger Museum) features an exhibit about the history of Stavanger from the Viking days. The other museums focus on Stavanger's maritime history, historical architecture and past canning industry—the main industry of the city before oil.
If you're interested in how Stavanger became the oil capital of the region, visit the Norwegian Petroleum Museum. The museum explains the history of the oil industry in Norway through film, exhibits and interactive displays.
Gamle Stavanger (Old Town)
For a break from the bustling city center, take a stroll through Gamle Stavanger, the Old Town. With its narrow cobblestone streets and white wooden houses with terraced gardens and planted flower boxes, Gamle Stavanger is one of the most picturesque parts of Stavanger. The area is home to more than 170 wooden houses from the 18th and 19th centuries—the largest, surviving wooden house settlement in northern Europe. Most of the buildings have been carefully preserved and restored.
Domkirke (Cathedral)
Located in the center of the city, Domkirke, the Stavanger Cathedral, is a medieval stone cathedral built in 1125. Originally built in the Anglo-Norman style, the church was renovated in 1272 after a fire and a Gothic chancel was added. Wander through the cathedral and you'll find tapestries, white stone columns and a beautiful stained glass window. Make sure you stop and admire the cathedral's pulpit, an elaborate example of woodcarving from the Baroque period.
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While the victory of pro-bailout parties in Greece brought cheer to the markets on Monday, one expert warns it will not go a long way in boosting the debt-laden country's economic prospects.
Wilbur Ross, the billionaire investor and Chairman of private equity firm, WL Ross & Co., says the real question facing Greece is what policies the new government will implement after the pro-bailout New Democracy party won the most votes in Sunday's vote.
The euro reversed earlier strong gains against the U.S. dollar in Asian trade on Monday, as optimism surrounding the expected win by Greece's pro-bailout parties in Sunday's critical elections proved short-lived for the single currency.
Risk assets rallied in early Asian trade after Greece's pro-bailout New Democracy Party won the most number of votes in elections on Sunday, helping to ease concerns the country would leave the euro zone.
Antonis Samaras, the leader of the New Democracy party which won the most votes in Sunday's election, told CNBC that investors should be reassured by his parties victory over radical leftist Syriza party.
Spiraling unemployment, biting austerity measures and political uncertainty have led to an upsurge in Greeks quitting the country for sunnier economic climes.
New Democracy may have won the largest share of the vote in the Greek elections which have held markets in thrall for weeks — but leader Antonis Samaras is unlikely to be cracking open the ouzo quite yet.
Recent weeks have seen the rhetoric from both sides of the Greek tragedy ramped up with naysayers claiming the days of the Hellenic Republic's membership of the euro zone are numbered, and others insisting the bloc will stay intact come what may.
The emotions dominating conversations in Athens - the city where democracy was first founded - include despair, pessimism and resignation.
I am lucky enough to have met some bright and extremely patriotic Greeks who fully admit their country needs a radical overhaul. It's these people Greece needs to help rebuild their broken state but these are very often the most mobile of people.
The estimated 1.4 billion euros ($1.8 billion) spent on bribes by Greeks last year wouldn't pay off its bailout debts, but it might give its people more spare cash to deal with belt-tightening elsewhere.
Would a new Greek government be able to mobilize sufficient internal and external support as it embarks on one of the most difficult economic adjustments in modern European history?
Hundreds of employees at big firms, some part of special teams, will be on standby this Sunday, awaiting the results of Greece's pivotal election. The New York Times reports.
I am lucky enough to have met some bright and extremely patriotic Greeks who fully admit their country needs a radical overhaul. It's these people Greece needs to help rebuild their broken state but these are very often the most mobile of people.
"We are moving from being a Western country to a poor country," George Protopapas, national director of international charity SOS Children's Villages, told CNBC.
It seems nothing matters more to the market right now, than the outcome of the elections in Greece. And it's more likely than not, that they're a bullish event.
The very existence of deposits in Greek banks is a mystery to many outside observers. Why on earth would anyone—including Greeks—still have money in a bank located in Greece?
In a Europe where the outcome of most elections is predicted weeks before votes are cast, the triumph of left-wing Syriza in May's Greek elections was one of the few shocks of recent years.
The supply of healthcare and medicines in Greece is already increasingly difficult – and if the country left the euro, the situation would get even worse, Greek healthcare officials have warned CNBC.
The stereotype of the lazy Greek worker, putting in long hours but not producing much, and not declaring everything to the taxman, has dogged the country's efforts to get international sympathy.
Greece may be a small country, but its vote this Sunday may be the most important in the world this year.
As more and more Greek nationals turn to the promised land of Australia to escape unemployment and austerity, visa procedures may not make it as simple.
The 1,200 who waited for bread, rice and vegetable soup at a kitchen visited by CNBC this week are just a fraction of the many hungry people in Athens and the surrounding area, as the noose of austerity tightens around the Greek population.
One of Greece's most powerful weapons in the fight to get its economy back on track and avoid a potentially catastrophic crash out of the euro could be the millions of Greeks who live elsewhere.
Greece is back on top of the international economic and political agenda after a brief respite. Check out a guide to the key players in the coming election and Greek political crisis.
Some nations around the globe are in considerably worse debt positions than others. Here are nations with the world's greatest debts.
If you think you've got it tough living in America, just be glad you're not going to be in Greece as that nation begins to confront the true reality of austerity.


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IBM Watson goes to work for you, tranforming how brands and consumers engage (Infographic)
Date added: 21 May 2013
Consumers are increasingly looking for personalized, efficient interactions with the brands they frequent. To address this need, IBM has unveiled the IBM Watson Engagement Advisor, which uses cloud-delivered mobile and online chat technology to assist businesses' customers, anytime and anywhere. From answering questions to offering guidance for purchases, IBM Watson will allow a brand's customer-facing employees to make better recommendations, or sit directly in the hands of consumers, offering helpful advice via mobile engagement. (Credit: IBM)
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NHL announces 2012-13 All-Star Teamsby Adam Kimelman / Chicago Blackhawks
After leading the League in goals in 2012-13 and winning his third Hart Trophy, Ovechkin received one more honor -- First-Team All-Star right wing, as the League announced its First- and Second All-Star teams Wednesday.
Voting for the teams is done by members of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association in a poll taken at the end of the regular season.
It's the sixth First-Team All-Star nod for Ovechkin in his eight NHL seasons -- the previous five came at left wing.
After a slow start adjusting to his new position, Ovechkin came on strong with 23 goals in his final 23 games to finish with a League-best 32, while also finishing tied for third in the League with 56 points. He won the Rocket Richard Trophy for the third time and then won his third Hart Trophy as the League's most valuable player.
Ovechkin becomes the second player in League history to be named a First Team All-Star at multiple positions, joining Mark Messier, who was named to the squad twice as a left wing (1980-81, 1981-82) and twice as a center (1989-90, 1991-92).
Joining Ovechkin as a First-Team All-Star is Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby, who received the honor for the second time. Crosby, who won the Ted Lindsay Award (most valuable player as voted on by the players) and was a Hart Trophy finalist, finished tied for third in the League with 56 points in 36 games. He was the League's leading scorer until missing the final month of the season with a broken jaw.
Joining Ovechkin and Crosby on the First All-Star team are four first-timers -- Penguins left wing Chris Kunitz, defensemen P.K. Subban of the Montreal Canadiens and Ryan Suter of the Minnesota Wild, and Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky.
Kunitz led all left wings with 22 goals and 52 points. Subban tied for the lead among all NHL defensemen with 38 points, was second with 11 goals, and won his first Norris Trophy. Suter played more minutes than any player in the League, was third among blueliners with 32 points and was a Norris finalist.
Bobrovsky, in his first season with the Blue Jackets, emerged as the team's most valuable player. After starting the season competing with Steve Mason for No. 1 spot, he cemented his role as the team's top goaltender, and finished second in the League with a .932 save percentage and fifth with a 2.00 goals-against average. He then became the first Russian-born goalie to win the Vezina Trophy.
He also received 129 first-place votes, more than any other player.
Jonathan Toews, captain of the Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks, was named the center of the Second All-Star team. He tied for the team lead with 23 goals and was second with 48 points. He also had a team-best plus-28 rating while playing the second-most minutes of any forward on his team.
Joining Toews on the Second All-Star Team are New York Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist, defensemen Francois Beauchemin of the Anaheim Ducks and Kris Letang of the Penguins, right wing Martin St. Louis of the Tampa Bay Lightning, and Ovechkin at left wing.
Lundqvist led the League with 24 wins while playing 43 games, second-most in the League. It's his first Second-Team appearance after making the First Team in 2011-12. Beauchemin had 24 points and a career-best plus-19 rating. Letang tied Subban for the lead among blueliners with 38 points while playing 35 games. St. Louis had 60 points in 48 games to win the Hart Trophy for the second time in his career.
St. Louis is on the Second All-Star Team for the fourth time, and has made the First Team once. Beauchemin, Letang and Toews are first-time Second-Team All-Stars.


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Donald M. Fehr (born July 18, 1948) was the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association from 1986-2009. Currently he is the executive director of the National Hockey League Players Association.
Fehr was raised in Prairie Village, Kansas. He graduated from Indiana University and was a member of Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity. Fehr received his law degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.
As a young lawyer Fehr assisted the MLBPA in the Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally arbitration case (later known as the Seitz decision). In 1977, Marvin Miller hired Fehr as the Players Association general counsel.


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Martin Scorsese's fantastical Hugo may still not have made back its budget yet ($170 million according to IMDb; it's grossed $75.6 million worldwide so far), but it's definitely earned some fans in Hollywood. It's landed 11 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director alongside unsurprising nods in categories like Visual Effects and Costume Design. Unfortunately, if you were hoping to watch it before the Academy Awards air, you'll have to try to find a theater still playing it, because Hugo won't arrive on Blu-ray and DVD until February 28th.
Hugo is an adventure set in the 1930s and based on Brian Selznick's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret. It's about a young boy named Hugo (Asa Butterfield) who lives in the walls of a Paris train station, stealing food to survive and working on his dead father's last project: a mechanical man. Convinced that the automaton contains a secret message from his father, Hugo sets out on an adventure that will eventually cross his path with that of George Melies, the filmmaker of A Trip to the Moon.
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LETTER: We must protect New York's water from hydrofracking
To The Editor:
Oct. 18, 2012 marked the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, and we have a lot to celebrate. Forty years ago, corporate polluters used our waterways as their personal sewers.
Ohio's Cuyahoga River was so polluted it repeatedly caught on fire.
The Hudson River and Long Island Sound were in much worse shape than they are today.
We have come a long way from rivers catching on fire, but today our waterways face a new set of problems.
Here in New York, 87 percent of our streams may no longer be protected from pollution under the Clean Water Act, putting the drinking water of more than 11 million New Yorkers at risk.
Let's build on 40 years of progress. It's time for EPA to restore clean water protections to all streams, set limits on pollution for factory farms, and protect our drinking water from fracking.
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J.J. Abrams' new series Alcatraz, debuting tonight, feels very much like an attempt to recapture the glories of Lost. It features yet another mystery on an island, and the return of Jorge Garcia. The show was created by a Lost writer — who was replaced during production. And there are lots of random little mysteries in tonight's first two hours. But it all falls a little flat.
It all leaves you wondering — is the Abrams era of television coming to an end?
Abrams used to be an unstoppable television hitmaker.Alias was a mega-hit for most of its run. Lost was water-cooler material right until its final episode, and Fringe's first season was a huge hit as well. But in recent years, Abrams' television work has felt a lot less bulletproof. He's scored huge success as a director, with Super 8 being an impressive hit on the heels of Star Trek. But he's failed to score another Lost on television.
Fringe has struggled since the start of its second season. Abrams' goofy spy show Undercovers vanished without a trace. Person of Interest has been described as a "bubble" show — although with its ratings going way up recently, that may no longer be true. And now, Alcatraz feels like the worst stereotypes of an Abrams show in some ways: geek humor, bland mysteries, a contrived set-up, and quirky but unengaging characters.
More to the point: every show that tried to copy Lost's "mystery-driven soap adventure" format has failed, including FlashForward, The Event, and several others before that. There's more wreckage from failed Lost imitators than a hundred crashed airplanes. And the more Fringe has focused on endless mysteries (Who are the First People?) the more viewers have tuned out of an otherwise excellent character-focused show. One reason Person of Interest has been so fun is that the actual premise is straightforward, and the show has been delving into it with a fair degree of integrity.
You know it's looking bad for J.J. Abrams when television luminary Maureen Ryan writes, "Every year, J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg put their names on a TV project or two. Is it time to start actively avoiding those shows?" And then goes on to enunciate more or less the same set of complaints about Alcatraz that I was about to lay out.
What's Alcatraz about? No major spoilers here, but basically, in 1963 all the inmates and guards vanished from Alcatraz, and it was covered up. Now, 50 years later, they're reappearing one by one. And all the inmates are committing crimes and settling old scores — and because they're presumed long dead, they're not in the system. They're untracable psychopaths from the past! It's up to a team headed by a cop (Sarah Jones), an Alcatraz expert with two PhDs who runs a comic book store (Jorge Garcia), and an untrustworthy dick (Sam Neill) to track these bad guys down. One at a time. Each episode will be another 1960s escaped convict roaming around 2011 San Francisco, while the show's underlying mysteries continue to pile up.
Without going into too much detail, those mysteries include: Who's sending these creeps forward in time? What's the agenda of this mysterious time-manipulator? What's with a mysterious object that's inside a safe? What's the deal with the cop's grandfather, who's one of the escaped convicts? Why is Sam Neill such a dick? What is he doing with the time-lost convicts he's rounded up and put in a new secret prison? What's up with Parminder Nagra's doctor character? And there are a few others that crop up.
So, first the good news and then the bad news. The good news is, the pilot had a lot of reshoots since everybody saw it last summer — and since the original creator, Elizabeth Sarnoff, departed the show. The reshot version of the pilot is a bit more fun than the original version, and the main character, Rebecca Madsden, is a bit more interesting this time around. The mysteries have been beefed up a bit. The whole thing felt less leaden than it did the first time around. (The original pilot was shown at Comic-Con and also released to critics last summer.) It definitely has potential, and I was genuinely curious about Parminder Nagra's character.
The other good news? Watching the show again, I'm really struck by how much it delves into the brutality and horror of life in America's worst prison — and the 1960s flashback sequences seem like they're going to be the heart of the show.
The bad news is, it's not enough. There's still precious little chemistry among the main cast. The idea that every week, we're going to be following yet another escaped Alcatraz convict, just feels kind of... wearying. Somehow, unlike Person of Interest, where there's a "POI of the week," this just doesn't seem like it'll be as much fun — maybe because the characters are less fun, or maybe because the "convict of the week" is always going to be a 1960s psychopath. Also, Jorge Garcia's "nerdy PhD who runs a comic book store and plays early 1980s video games" character feels like somebody threw a bunch of darts at a "nerd stereotype" board after taking too many muscle relaxants. I can't really buy into Sarah Jones as a tough cop — she just doesn't pull that off somehow.
And the mysteries? They feel a bit perfunctory, to be honest — the mysterious item inside the mysterious safe feels like another one of Abrams' "rabbit's foot" things. The time travel is a genuinely intriguing mystery, but it seems unlikely we'll get much insight into it any time soon. I think, if memory serves, a fair bit of the reshoots on the pilot involved layering in more mysteries and making the show less simple — but the end result is to add clutter.
But the larger point is — has J.J. Abrams' reign on television ended? Should it end? Or is it more the case that TV shows focused around a big mystery (with lots of little mysteries glommed on) should be a thing of the past? We'd love to see Abrams create something new — a show driven by characters rather than endless questions, like Fringe at its best. So far, Alcatraz isn't that show. But maybe it'll grow on us.
Alcatraz debuts tonight on Fox at 8 PM.


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In just a few short weeks, Torchlight II will finally come out. I'm looking forward to digging in to Runic's dungeon-crawler for a number of reasons, and of course, the question of "What can they get right that Diablo III got wrong?" is at the top of my mind.
But one of the very coolest things about the game is Matt Ulemen's soundtrack. Ulemen, to those who don't know, is the man who wrote the music for the first two Diablo games, as well as the first Torchlight. His compositions thrum with what can only be described as "dungeon crawling power" (ha!), a mix of exotic harmonies and familiar fantasy melodies that sounds both familiar and distinctive.
I've listened to the entire soundtrack, and while I'm sure the songs will be even better once we can put them in the context of the game, they're all pretty great a la carte, as well.
Over at Destructoid, they posted three remixed tracks from the soundtrack, all of which are cool.
Destructoid also got Ulemen to give some background on those tracks — for more from the man himself, head over there and check it out.
Torchlight II comes out on September 20. Hope your clicking-fingers haven't gotten too out of shape.


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We've been playing around with Google's Fusion Tables data visualization tools, which have been improved since our last experience in test driving them, and in doing so, we've created three interactive maps showing the price of gasoline around the United States.
First up, using GasBuddy's list of average gasoline prices by state, our map showing the average price a motorist can expect to pay for a gallon of gas as of 18 March 2012:
Next, here is our map showing the average combined federal, state and local excise taxes per gallon for each state in the U.S. as of 1 January 2012, as per the American Petroleum Institute:
Our final chart shows the actual average price of a gallon of gas per state, removing the increases in cost imposed by federal, state and local government taxes throughout the United States:
You might be pretty surprised to see that the price of a gallon of gasoline in Montana is the lowest in the United States, followed closely by Wyoming and Colorado, which is all the more remarkable because only Wyoming is ranked as an oil producing state. There is a big reason for this observed pattern, which we can illustrate using the following map of major crude oil pipelines in North America from 2001:
As we can see, Montana (along with Wyoming and Colorado) directly benefit from their direct connection to low-cost oil being produced in Canada that is fed through multiple pipelines into those states, where it is then refined into the gasoline and other products that consumers use.
So if you ever wonder what a President can do to lower the price of gas at the pump, especially one who believes that " we can't just drill our way to lower gas prices", just remind them that one thing they can do is to remove the barriers to building the pipeline infrastructure needed to inexpensively transport oil across the nation from where its cost is lowest to where it is highest. That would be, in fact, a constructive economic activity that would help secure the nation's ability to deal with the political instability that can affect world energy prices by their potential to disrupt energy supplies.
You know, the sort of things that a President ought to take seriously and work to achieve if they're serious about being President.
Even if the easiest path to achieving that national security goal mostly means moving themselves and the government's bureaucracy out of the way....
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The Decapolis was a league of ten cities founded by Alexander the Great and his successors around 323 BCE. By the first century CE, according to both the Gospels (Matt. 4.25; Mark 5.20, 7.31) and Pliny (Natural History 5.16.74), the term refers both to the cities and to the region in which they were situated (Map 12:Y3–5). The earliest list of the cities appears in Pliny; most scholars agree on these ten: Scythopolis/Beth‐shan, Hippo, Philadelphia (modern Amman), Gerasa (Jerash), Gadara, Pella, Dion, Canatha, Raphana, and Damascus. According to both Josephus and Polybius, by the dawn of Seleucid rule in the region of Palestine and the Transjordan at least four of the cities were of real importance (Gadara, Scythopolis, Pella, and Abila).
This region is perhaps the paramount example of the role of urbanization in the development and dominance of the Greek East by colonial empires. In both the Ptolemaic (ca. 300–200 BCE) and the Seleucid periods (200–130 BCE) these cities were built or expanded. With the conquest of the region by Pompey on behalf of Rome (ca. 63 BCE), their importance increased. They were a vital means of Roman control, both economic and military. Pompey made the capital of the league, Scythopolis/Beth‐shan, the seat of the regional court (the Sanhedrin) and utilized other cities in the region in a similar fashion. These urban centers almost invariably sided with the colonial power in revolts by the indigenous population (whether Maccabean, resistance to Pompey, or the First Jewish Revolt against Rome in 66–70 CE) and frequently put down native resistance brutally.
A number of the cities have been excavated (Pella, Gerasa, Abila), with the most recent significant project being at Scythopolis/Beth‐shan. Excavations at these sites reflect a diverse, cosmopolitan milieu. Several languages were used (Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic), temples and monuments stood almost side by side with synagogues and early churches, and local culture and trade took place within the larger setting of Roman military and economic hegemony.
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My Alliance guild killed Nefarion for the first time this weekend – yay! What an ordeal that was. I really feel for the tanks on that fight. Raid healing got pretty simple after a while, but those adds are a giant pain in the ass. All our tanks performed admirably and we managed to get a fairly clean first kill with only a few deaths. I also got lucky and won my T11 helmet.
My Horde raid group is still sitting at 9/12, having some dps issues on Cho'gall. On the bright side, we repeated our kill on Atramedes this week (he's been giving us grief) – while his targetting was bugged, no less. I actually kinda liked the aggro-sensitive flame breath.
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Lady Panthers secure spot in state tournament
On Saturday the Lady Panthers secured a spot in the state tournament for the third year in a row defeating Sheridan 49-31 in the quarterfinals of the district tournament. The victory also completed an undefeated season for the first time on their home court. Advancing into the state tournament for three consecutive seasons is not only exciting but is a record for the program.
The Sheridan Rams came out strong showing tremendous hustle and the score was tied 9-9 at the end of the first quarter. The Panthers settled down in the second quarter and started to execute their game plan pushing the ball up the court offensively and playing strong pressure defense holding the Rams to 6 points. The score was 18-15 at the half. The Panthers came out after half time with a high intensity level and took control of the game. Both team captains, Joanna Eaton and Erin O'Connor lead the way. Joanna scored 14 points driving strong to the basket and pulled down 7 rebounds along with 4 steals. Erin also added 14 points on several power house plays under the basket, along with 8 rebounds and 3 steals. Kelly Allen played an impressive game as well scoring 9 points, adding 9 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 steals. Hailley Pedersen contributed 6 points and led the defense with her quick hands and anticipation creating 6 steals. Point guard Kayleigh Busse set the offensive tone with 5 assists adding 3 rebounds and 2 steals. Mary Acord came off the bench and contributed 3 points, 2 rebounds and a steal along with taking a charge stopping an offensive drive by the Rams. Ellis Linke added 3 rebounds and 2 points to the winning effort. Both Jessica Sanchez and Simona Senovaityte played strong defense altering Sheridan's offensive attack.
This is an exciting time for the Lady Panthers. They will play DSST next Thursday at 7:30 at Jefferson High School in the semi-finals of the district championship. DSST ended the regular season in first place in the Frontier League. They are a top ranked team in the 3A division. The Panthers plan to be ready to put it all on the court!
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