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But I thought it would be fun to try to remember some of the books I've encountered this year, particularly since circumstances have kept me from writing very much about a few of them...
I began the year with two books that were Christmas presents: All the Rage: The Boondocks Past and Present and The Complete Far Side. Though the folks who gave them to me couldn't have known it at the time, these were perfect gifts: my father died a few days before Christmas, and my life changed completely. I had no ability to handle much text at the time, but brilliant comics, yes, that was exactly what I needed.
The first novel I read in the new year was Cormac McCarthy's The Road, read on a plane while flying back from a quick trip to southern New Mexico. Except for certain elements of the ending, it seemed to me a perfect book in its own way. I'm sure I would have a somewhat different and more judicious response were I to read The Road now, but I treasure that first encounter with it. It was, for me, exactly the right book at exactly the right time.
The next book I remember encountering in the early part of this year was J.M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year -- Coetzee is my favorite living writer in English, and so anything he writes interests me. My memory of reading it remains vivid, while I've utterly forgotten plenty of other books I've read more recently.
I failed to make much progress with the Africa Reading Challenge, though I have read about half of Histories of the Hanged (it's vivid, excellent, painful, fascinating). I still plan on reading all of those books, but it's likely to be a few months before I have the time.
I dipped into a bunch of fun anthologies throughout the year, though never managed to read enough of even one to be able to write a review of any of them (my fault, not the anthologies') -- the VanderMeers' Steampunk and New Weird and John Joseph Adams's Wastelands and The Living Dead are the ones that stick out in my mind at the moment.
Even by the spring, I was still having trouble handling really meaty texts, so I found refuge in reading a bunch of old Spider novels. They were easy reads, and I never felt guilty about skimming. Pure bliss!
Lydia Millet's How the Dead Dream remains a high point for my year as well, again because it was just the right book for me when I read it. The sentences and pacing were beautiful, the situations and imagery strange and lyrical, the comedy biting. What stuck with me most from it were the scenes with the animals -- there is a grace to those scenes that I have rarely found in fiction.
Glancing at the archives here, I see that May included two books that were a lot of fun to read: Money Shot by Christa Faust and Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. Both were easy reads with something to think about as well, and though not books I would consider the best of this year or of any year, they did what they needed to do, and they did it well.
One book I would consider the best of any time is John Williams's Stoner, which was a real highlight of my 2008 reading.
Another highlight of the year, though one I did not write about, was Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives. I have noted my love of Bolaño before, but I didn't mention Savage Detectives for a few reasons -- for one thing, there's been lots of other good writing about it, but also my reading of it has often been interrupted, and I've never had a much more intelligent thought about the book than, "Wow!" (Oddly, looking at that earlier Bolaño post, I see that I thought I was going to get Savage Detectives when it came out. I didn't. I waited for the paperback.) I had some trouble getting a handle on the first section of the book, and put it down a few times because of that, but eventually something clicked, I reread the first part, then jumped into the second section by taking big gulps separated by days. This seemed to work well. I kept developing a hunger for the book, returned to it, read 50 pages or so, then put it aside for a few days until the hunger returned with all its strength. I didn't quite get to the last section, though, when life caused me to have to put it aside, and it's only now that I'm returning to it, jumping back and forth throughout the second section to refresh myself about who is who and what is what. It's a marvelous way to read this particular novel -- I've rarely enjoyed a book as deeply.
I didn't get to too many short story collections this year, but among the ones I did encounter, the best were Paolo Bacigalupi's Pump Six and Jeff Ford's The Drowned Life (which I actually still haven't finished reading -- but it's a magnificent book, even if I've got a few more stories to go). Both are books that deserve an audience beyond the community of science fiction readers -- after all, most of us who know the SF world already think highly of Ford and Bacigalupi.
I read all three of Ursula Le Guin's recent YA novels: Gifts, Voices, and Powers, but though they were pleasant enough to read, they didn't really do much for me. Voices was my favorite by far, though even there I thought Le Guin was treading on ground she'd walked more gracefully before, particularly in Four Ways to Forgiveness, just about my favorite of her books.
This summer I devoured Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life by Julia Briggs, one of the most interesting and comprehensive explorations of a writer's process of writing and thinking that I've read.
Because I spent much of the summer preparing to teach a class on Feminism in America, I read a lot of feminist history and theory in a short amount of time, trying to find texts that would be useful to my students. One that I didn't end up using, but which I found fascinating and enlightening, was Cynthia Fuchs Epstein's Deceptive Distinctions: Sex, Gender, and the Social Order, a valuable look at how gender roles and gender differences are discussed and studied.
My other favorite discovery among the many books I read in preparation for the feminism class was White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States by Louise Michele Newman. I even made the students read an excerpt from the book for class (they didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I did, but it gave us a tremendous amount of fodder for discussion). It's a dense book, certainly, filled with information and ideas, but I found it to be, unlike many academic books, gripping.
I started reading Nick Flynn's Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and Mike Davis's Planet of Slums. Liked both a lot. Hope to finish them ... someday....
I read a few books by Meja Mwangi in preparation for writing an essay about him. I still intend to write the essay, but need to read more books and review the ones I have read before I can. I had previously read Going Down River Road, and then this year read Kill Me Quick, Carcase for Hounds, and The Mzungu Boy. Next up will be Cockroach Dance, The Last Plague/Crossroads, and The Big Chiefs. I discovered Mwangi because some Kenyan writers spoke highly of his work to me -- indeed, among Kenyans I have found far more people willing to cite Mwangi as a formative influence than the contemporary Kenyan writer many people outside of Africa probably most closely associate with Kenya, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
As I chronicled at Strange Horizons, my re-reading of Maureen McHugh's China Mountain Zhang was a powerful one, and I can report now that my students mostly seemed to enjoy the novel. I ended up pairing it with Borges's "Garden of Forking Paths", Ha Jin's "Saboteur", and Blade Runner (I was going to have the students read Mishima's "Patriotism" and then watch the movie, but I put this on the syllabus before watching the movie myself, and once I did watch it, I realized it was much too slow for the students to really appreciate.) I'll have a better sense of the results once I finish grading final exams, but the students mostly said they enjoyed the book, at least in comparison to the others I asked them to read.
The Journal of Jules Renard was another highlight of my reading year, a book that, like Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life, I would especially recommend to writers.
I almost forgot to mention Brian Slattery's Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America -- a book no home should be without during an economic collapse!
Speaking of economic collapse, I've been taking good advantage of the library to read things like The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and Eric Rauchway's Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America to get some opinionatin' on economic history, a realm I only occasionally dip into. I also read The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew Bacevich because Rachel Maddow said nice things about it one night on her show and, well, I'd really kind of like to be Rachel Maddow... (Fun fact: Rachel Maddow, Samuel Delany, and my paternal grandfather all share a birthday. I'm certain this means something in the grand scheme of things. Especially since it's April Fools' Day.) It is, indeed, worth reading.
Most recently, I read Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success and enjoyed it quite a bit, somewhat to my surprise. I had read some of Gladwell's previous work and had often found it a good read, but somewhat facile -- too neat, too clean (if that makes any sense). Outliers I liked more than the others, partly because I was already familiar with some of the research that it is founded on, having read a few books by Robert Sternberg and other writers on intelligence, talent, and accomplishment. Still, much of the information was new to me, and Gladwell presents it in his typically entertaining way -- his talent is not only for summing up complex ideas, but for narrative itself: he tells a good story. He conclusions are, once again, a bit facile, but I also think the general thrust of his arguments in this book is one that deserves as wide an audience as possible, and given his popularity, it might actually receive that audience.
Finally, though for some reason I hardly read any poetry this year, what I did read blew me away. I kept The Reservoir by Donna Stonecipher on my living room table for a few months, and numerous people picked it up and glanced at it, all of them quickly finding themselves sucked in. "This is really ... good..." they'd say, or, "This is weird, but -- I don't really know quite what this is saying but -- what is this? It's amazing!" These were not all poetry people or even people who read much. It's a beautiful, mesmerizing book, and rewards not just the quick glances that caused my visitors to be intrigued by it but real, sustained, careful reading.
The other poetry book that blew me away this year is one I've only recently received: My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, which is a treasure-trove of extraordinary stuff. I discovered Spicer via Alex Irvine's novel One King, One Soldier -- I'd probably seen Spicer's name in various anthologies, but had never paid much attention to him until reading the novel -- and soon was on a quest to read his books, but it was hard because almost nothing of Spicer's poetry was in print. Eventually, I got a library copy of The Collected Books of Jack Spicer, but, it being a library copy, I had to give it back. The new collection includes all of the old one and a lot more. Ron Silliman says it is "one of the most important volumes published in the past 50 years. It is hands down the best book published in 2008. And it is one of the most powerful collections of poetry you will ever read."
Meanwhile, at the moment I'm reading The Boy Aviators in Nicaragua, or, In League with the Insurgents, which is ... about what you'd expect.


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Wait a minute! If they are doing all these tasks on one day--it has to be 12/1 because of the AIDS MArch--Ushuaia MUST have been a long pitstop--hence all the meals in the Insider videos!If it is 12/1--where are we??
How could Guido miss the 3:00 ? It's spoon fed.
And now it is 12/1 in Maputo--which means a longer Pitstop in Ushuaia right? A whole day maybe?
Quote from: georgiapeach on March 18, 2007, 08:58:06 PMAnd now it is 12/1 in Maputo--which means a longer Pitstop in Ushuaia right? A whole day maybe?GEORGIAPEACH, you are asking the right questions but not coming to the conclusion that ties it all together properly:1. There was an extended pitstop of 36 hours in Ushuaia and the plane left there on Monday night Nov. 28.2. On the Indian Ocean, the last connecting flight landed in Maputo on Wednesday morning Nov. 30 at 940am.3. Amazing Race editors played a nasty trick on us again. Teams left Maputo airport to go to INHAMBANE, which is not 45 miles away) and stayed overnight there (not shown on the episode).4. On Thursday morning Dec. 1, teams did the early morning rat Roadblock at the APOPO training site near Inhambane and then returned by driven vehicle to Maputo. When Danny and Oswald ran into the AIDS Day march in Maputo, it was the afternoon of Dec. 1 when the march logically was. 5. The detours were then done and the pitstop reached in Maputo.
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Fox International Productions president Sanford Panitch tells Jeremy Kay about lessons learned from the company's 40 films in three years, and its plans for English-language European co-productions.
Like many in the film business, Sanford Panitch has taken note of French smash Intouchables. It is mid-April when we catch up in the Los Angeles offices of the Fox International Productions (FIP) president, and the Gallic breakout has registered around $300m from select European territories. Panitch's thriving division has not shared in the success of this particular local-language hit, but his admiration says it all.
"Companies are choosing to be local in certain parts of the world, which speaks to the growth of this market," he says, shifting in his seat with typical energy. "You take the most exciting film-makers and see where they are coming from, not only for the potential for remakes but for the ability to tell new stories. Look at Intouchables — it's not only English-language movies that travel."
Exploring global film culture
Since FIP launched in 2008, the company has scored palpable hits such as South Korean smash The Yellow Sea, Astral City: A Spiritual Journey (Nosso Lar) in Brazil and What A Man in Germany. Panitch has embraced an exhausting travel regime that has seen him hop on a plane to India at least six times a year and visit other regions with daunting regularity.
The process has allowed Panitch and his team to observe global film-making culture, unearth local talent and forge lucrative relationships.
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Take India. The sub-continent, he says, is "changing at such a pace that you cannot define rules as to how things work". The region houses several hundred languages and local content accounts for approximately 90% of total box office. Indian box office in 2011 reached $1.4bn according to the Motion Picture Association of America's annual spring report.
"Last year there were five films that grossed more than $20m and the year before, there were three. The big adaptation for Hollywood is the way stories are told… they call it a 'masala film', which means a film that offers the full experience — you have love, song, crying; you have sweet taste and a sour taste. That in itself is already quite different from Western stories, which are all about consistent tone, single genre. That's not how Indian movies are made."
After Fox worked on My Name Is Khan, Panitch learned Tamil films, known as 'Kollywood', grossed $750m last year. "Bollywood's only part of the story. The other regional languages produce great films. This year we released our first Tamil-language film Anywhere, Anytime (Engeyum Eppothum), a co-production between Fox Star Studios and AR Murugadoss."
The film achieved $3.5m at the box office and film-maker Murugadoss has become FIP's guide of sorts to Tamil film-making. "[News Corp sibling] Star, by being the largest cable and satellite operator in India, has been able to help us so much in terms of the regional languages. Star has a Tamil channel and it was a great resource for us when we made our first Tamil film."
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That relationship model has applied elsewhere. The Yellow Sea grossed $15.6m in South Korea and FIP has not only signed up director Na Hong-jin for another film but also has begun to assemble a development slate in the territory. When Chinese co-production Hot Summer Days broke out at the box office, FIP was there to make Tony Chan and Wing Shya's follow-up Love In Space, which took around $10m.
The collaboration with German multi-hyphenate Matthias Schweighöfer created the $17.6m hit What A Man in 2011, while the $13m smash You Are The Apple Of My Eye, which FIP did not produce, contributed to a 20% increase in local-language box office in Taiwan in 2011 and earned $25m in territories where Fox distributed. Astral City grossed $20.9m in Brazil and Federal Bank Heist (Assalto Ao Banco Central) took $11.8m. Meanwhile August. Eighth has amassed $9.9m in Russia.
"Between acquisitions, distributions and co-productions, we have made more than 40 films in three years in 11 countries," Panitch says. He declares himself pleased with FIP's early progress, noting the performance of the nascent arthouse label Fox World Cinema, which provides a US DVD and digital platform for fans of international or international-flavoured fare such as Miss Bala and the re-release of Slumdog Millionaire, and the in-house sales unit led by Shebnem Askin-Schreger.
Askin-Schreger is at Cannes touting FIP's Spanish-language Argentinian thriller Everybody Has A Plan, starring Viggo Mortensen, which is in post.
There have been challenges. "As markets expand there's a frothiness that happens in terms of talent asks and appetite, so it's balancing a bit of the growth potential with also being prudent about budgets and having realistic expectations at the box office," he says. It has taken time to adapt to certain business cultures, one example being Japan, where the high cost of distribution has given rise to the consortium structure with partners sharing the risk.
When a challenge becomes a "stumble", as Panitch calls it, he is quick to highlight the upside. So Yukihiko Tsutsumi's adventure film Hayabusa "wasn't a disaster but we had bigger expectations for it". He continues: "But I don't really look at it negatively because in adapting to the consortium process you see why they invented that system, so we got to share the benefits of being protected by many partners."
FIP strives to secure remake rights to its films and the word on the street is that Panitch has been exploring English-language European co-productions, to exploit ownership of potentially lucrative properties. When pressed, he reveals FIP is building a slate and wants to structure these remakes as European co-productions that accrue tax breaks and qualify for subsidies. The partners will be ventures like FIP Germany, FIP Russia "or wherever we set up local entities". It seems the trick here is to reverse-engineer a local hit into a package that is palatable to audiences more familiar with the Hollywood format.
"International production doesn't only mean non-English," Panitch says. "On the production side for FIP, it's a natural and new initiative to utilise the full machine of worldwide distribution. I view English-language European productions as an additional weapon in the arsenal. The European co-production entities we created for local films are well suited for overseeing films that would shoot in those territories — in any language. We've been acquiring a handful of projects, primarily in the action or thriller space that we are considering making as English-language European co-productions this autumn."
Upcoming titles include Federal Bank Heist, which as in the case of the Portuguese-language original will use real events as its source. FIP is also preparing a remake of The Yellow Sea. "One of its great merits is the film has so many qualities that would lend itself to something that could work in a Hollywood format." A third project may be the first to go in the autumn, though Panitch prefers to keep mum for now.
- Began his career in 1989 working at Pacific Western Productions on films including The Abyss and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Moved on to run Arnold Kopelson Productions from 1993-96.
- Named EVP at 20th Century Fox in 1997 and served as the executive on Titanic. In 1999 he was also named president of production at Fox-based New Regency Productions.
- Has overseen more than 75 feature films including The Fugitive, Alvin And The Chipmunks, Big Momma's House and Mr & Mrs Smith.
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ALBANY — Sixteen years after the disappearance of a University at Albany student, lawmakers are asking to update state law to require New York colleges and universities to inform law enforcement within 24 hours of a violent felony or a missing student.
The state Legislature passed the Campus Safety Act in 1999, a year after Suzanne Lyall disappeared. It requires colleges and universities to have plans for notifying local law enforcement of any violent felony offense or missing person on campus. But it didn't require the schools to actually report such incidents to outside authorities.
The University at Albany and the State University of New York Cortland have their own police force on campus that investigates violent felonies. A spokesman for SUNY Cortland says the school's police department has a memorandum of understanding between campus police and the city police department regarding the investigations.
Sarah Lawrence College and the Binghamton University, which are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education for possible violations of federal law over the handling of sexual violence and harassment complaints, did not immediately respond to a question seeking comment on their protocol for investigating felonies.
State Sen. Kathleen Marchione, R-Halfmoon, a sponsor of the bill, said that her legislation will not interfere with the Federal Campus Sexual Assault Victims' Bill of Rights, which gives the victim of a sexual offense the ability to choose whether or not to report the offense to the police.
In 2012, the University at Albany reported 10 forcible sex offenses on campus and SUNY Cortland reported two last year.
The Democrat-led Assembly passed the measure in early May, but after a month the Republican-led Senate has yet to take up the legislation it passed last year.
Scott Reif, a spokesman for the Republican conference, said the conference is looking at hundreds of bills before session concludes June 19 and is likely to pass the measure once again.


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Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.
Mark Turgeon's team had just recorded a win over a ranked team on Wednesday night, and yet the coach seemed disconsolate. What was up?
Jeff Barker: It's hard to know where to begin. The coach made the point -- emphatically -- that Turgeon teams are adept at winning close games. They historically execute plays at the end.
But this team? Not so much. At least not yet. Yes, Maryland beat N.C. State, 51-50. It was a big and dramatic win -- a confidence-builder for a team that needed one. It certainly jazzed up the fan base.
But it wasn't exactly the finish that Turgeon scripted. He said Alex Len was to set a high screen for a shooter -- apparently Logan Aronhalt. The way it unfolded, Pe'Shon Howard forced up a shot that Len grabbed out of the air and put back into the basket.
Turgeon was no doubt thrilled for his team. But the play was also evidence that his players aren't quite in command of what the coach is trying to execute. They're either not always listening or simply not processing his edicts.
The game seemed to put Turgeon in the unusual position of being delighted and frustrated at the same time.
The coach said that Len -- who was tough down the stretch at keeping offensive rebounds alive -- looked a little lost when he was shifted to the 4 so that Shaquille Cleare could play center.
Turgeon said he was compelled to go to his veteran players at the game's end because he still doesn't quite trust his freshmen to execute plays in crunch time.
The coach's biggest worry seems to be his team's ball handling. Turgeon, a former point guard, can't help but harp on this. If he obsesses on a single statistic, it's probably assist-to-turnover ratio.
Last season, Maryland had 339 assists and 425 turnovers, a ratio of 0.8 that put the Terps in a four-way tie for last in the ACC. They're better this year -- 1.1.
But against N.C. State, the Terps had more turnovers than assists (13 to 10). It was worse in the preceding game against Miami (four to 15).
Maryland has played Howard at the point, as well as Seth Allen. On Wednesday night, Turgeon tried Nick Faust.
The Terps need one guy to take over that role. Steve Blake, are you available?
Maryland has now been in three close games with a shot to either win or tie the game and have failed to execute the play Mark Turgeon called. Even though the Terps won Wednesday over No. 14 North Carolina State, is that a concern going forward?
Don Markus: It's not just end-of-game situations. Turgeon said after the win over the Wolfpack that his team had not run a single play correctly coming out of timeouts and were lucky that Alex Len was in the right spot to put back Pe'Shon Howard's baseline airball with under a second remaining.
Not that a lot of games typically come down to a final possession. But Maryland has now taken three bad shot in those situations -- Howard's forced 3-pointer over a flying defender against Kentucky, Seth Allen's blocked 3-pointer with a wide-open Len rolling to the basket against Florida State last week and now Howard's shot this week.
It was interesting talking with some of the players after the win over the Wolfpack about that last possession.
Len said the play was supposed to be a high screen and a pass to senior Logan Aronhalt for what would have likely been a wide-open 3 since he was probably the player N.C. State was going to sacrifice in order to double-team Len.
Allen said it was supposed to be "some sort of lob to Alex."
Howard did not come into the press room, but on tape it looks like Allen picked up his dribble and gave the ball to Howard in something of a panic move. As badly as it would have looked if Howard's shot was blocked too -- and it came close, which is why Len was so open underneath -- I'm not sure Aronhalt was a great option for two reasons.
One, the Terps just needed a two-point basket or even a two-shot foul to have a chance to win. Also, after a hot stretch earlier in the season, the team's designated 3-point shooter has cooled off considerably in ACC play. I am not sure why Dez Wells was throwing the ball inbounds and was essentially out of the play.
Running end-of-game plays or even end-of-clock situations is usually more a crapshoot with college players than an art form. But the way the Terps are playing right now -- either trying to keep the score low or doing that by missing a lot of shots at their end and keeping the other team out of sync with great defense -- will lend itself to more of them, possibly Saturday at North Carolina.
Somehow Turgeon will have to get his team to figure out what the heck he is telling them during the previous timeout.
The Maryland football team will welcome three early enrollees to campus next week. What can we expect from them?
Matt Bracken: The Terps will officially unveil their 2013 football recruiting class Feb. 6, with in-person introductions to wide receiver Deon Long, offensive lineman Silvano Altamirano and cornerback Will Likely available to fans and the media.
Altamirano, a two-star offensive guard from Mesa Community College in San Diego, should provide depth for a Maryland offensive line that loses Bennett Fulper and Justin Gilbert to graduation.
Likely, a four-star prospect from Belle Glade, Fla., is a slightly built cornerback at 5 feet 7, 172 pounds. But the future Terp is skilled enough to have earned the No. 199 overall ranking in Rivals.com's Top 250. Maryland returns enough depth at cornerback (Dexter McDougle, Jeremiah Johnson, Isaac Goins, etc.) that it might not necessarily need to burn Likely's redshirt. That will surely be determined in the spring and summer.
Long, meanwhile, has "future starter" written all over him. He rewrote the junior college record books at Iowa Western Community College this fall, catching 100 passes for 1,625 yards and 25 touchdowns. And even before then, Long proved himself on the Division I level by catching 47 passes for 809 yards and four touchdowns as a redshirt freshman at New Mexico.
I spoke to Long this week for our ongoing "Meet the Recruit" series on Tracking the Terps. In the six years I've done these pre-Signing Day Q&As, defensive end A.J. Francis stands out as the most entertaining/memorable Terps commitment ("I have a split personality," he said. "I'm a nice guy when I'm off the field. … But when I'm playing, I do some of the meanest things you've ever seen in your life."). Long is now a close second for most memorable interview. He may not be the Renaissance man/Twitter star that Francis turned out to be, but I have a feeling he'll be a regularly quoted Terp during his two years in College Park.
In the "Something that not many people know about you" portion of the Q&A, Long offered this: "I'm not cocky, [but] when it's brought up, I tend to speak on the success that I've had. Not throw it in your face, but just to say 'I'm here, I'm accomplished, I've done this and I've done that.' But I'm not a cocky person. Everybody thinks I'm cocky, but I'm really not, though. I'm a humble guy."
But when asked how opposing defenses will be able to stop Stefon Diggs and him, Long said this: "They're not going to be able to. That's my mindset going in. They're not going to be able to. If they double me, we'll make them pay on the inside. If they double the inside, I'll make them pay on the outside. [We're] just working together to keep defenses honest."
How's that for confidence? With the graduations of Kevin Dorsey and Kerry Boykins, Long will quickly get a chance to back up that braggadocio. If his first two years of college are any indication of future success, Maryland's got a good one.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 30, 2010) - A sluggish start and snowstorm still couldn't slow down the Lady Bucs on Saturday afternoon.
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Davis, who was one of five Lady Buccaneer players to score in double figures, finished with 16 points, six assists and six steals; while Good poured in a career-high 10 points in 14 minutes of action. Senior TaRonda Wiles (
The victory marked ETSU's eighth straight win and seventh straight at home, as the Lady Bucs improved to 12-7, 10-1 in A-Sun play. Lipscomb suffered its sixth straight loss and fell to 4-18, 2-10.
"At halftime I just wanted to go in and explain to them that we are a much better defensive club than we showed in the first half," added head coach Karen Kemp, who improved to 11-1 all-time versus Lipscomb. "I really didn't lose my cool too much, because this team knows what they need to do and that's the beauty of this team. I just went into the locker room and let them know what they needed to do - and they responded."
The Lady Bucs responded and did so in a big way.
After getting off to a rough start which included 2-of-12 shooting and five turnovers, the Lady Bucs were trailing 11-6 in the opening 8 minutes, 17 seconds of the contest. However, when coach Kemp pulled her starters at the 14:08 mark, the reserves clicked and pulled ETSU to a 16-13 lead after Ashley Benedict (
"Our starting five came out flat," commented Kemp. "They weren't ready to play - mentally for whatever reason - so I felt like we had players on our bench that were ready to compete and give this team a spark."
From there, four of the five starters returned to the court, and it looked like the lesson wasn't learned after the Lady Bisons regained an 18-16 advantage following Hannah Phillips' lay-in with 8:19 to play before intermission.
Fortunately, things clicked, and after ETSU mounted a 13-2 run over the next 3 minutes, 30 seconds, Lipscomb was forced to burn a 30-second timeout as the Lady Bucs led, 29-20, with 4:33 showing on the clock. The Lady Bucs would eventually grab a 14-point lead, 42-28, after Good nailed her second three-pointer from the corner, but an Anna Bowers trey with three seconds remaining in the half cut the Lipscomb deficit to 42-31 at the break.
In the second half, ETSU wasted little time extending its lead, as the Lady Bucs pushed their 11-point advantage to 18, 53-35, when
Then, over the last 11 minutes, 55 seconds, the Lady Bucs controlled the tempo and came away with the 23-point win.
For the game, ETSU shot 38.7 percent from the floor (29-75), compared to Lipscomb's 36.8 shooting percentage (21-57). Both teams hit eight 3-pointers in the contest, while the Lady Bucs made seven more free throws - 16 (24 attempts) to nine (19 attempts). ETSU tied a season-high with 55 rebounds and held a plus-17 margin in the category. Lipscomb turned the ball over 17 times and ETSU turned those mistakes into 25 points on the offensive end.
Once again, the Lady Bucs did a great job utilizing their bench, as they accounted for 37 points and 11 of the 12 players played at least ten minutes.
"I have always said from the beginning of the year, that I thought this was the deepest team I have had in quite some time," said Kemp. "We talk about team all the time and we are all in this together. Whether you get five or twenty-five minutes, you come in and compete hard when your name is called."
Lipscomb's Jenna Bartsokas led the Lady Bisons with 11 points, while Bronson pitched in with 10 off the bench.
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Stonehenge isn't just for stones anymore. It's also for automotive publicity stunts. Skoda commissioned an artist to build a recreation on the ancient stone structure using 18 junked cars.
Assembled just in time for London's summer solstice celebration, the huge sculpture can be dismantled and moved to other venues around the country.
It isn't the first carhenge ever dreamed up, and based on the number of cars used, doesn't seem to be a life sized replica of the druids' stone temple. The one that's been standing in Nebraska for the past 25 years contains 38 cars and is 96 feet in diameter.
But the fact that Skoda's ambitious 38-ton advertising project is actually portable makes it pretty impressive, even if it doesn't exactly conform to Stonehenge's dimensions.
The Czech car manufacturer is using its version of carhenge — which it's calling Citihenge — to market the Skoda Citigo. Right now, the display is set up at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
If they really wanted to make a splash with Citihenge, they'd hire Spinal Tap to play in front of it.
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When small fish are threatened by large fish or much larger marine mammals in the open ocean, instinct demands that the small fish group together to try to appear larger as a group.
But it's not often that one of these swirling bait balls contains perhaps millions of anchovies and is large enough to dwarf, by many times, some of the largest predators to roam the ocean.
Nor is it often that a photographer and videographer just happen to be flying overhead when one of these remarkable spectacles plays out.
The accompanying image was captured this week off Ventura, California, by Liz Vernand, who was a passenger with Channel Islands Helicopters.
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The video footage, showing what the company says was one of the largest bait balls it has ever seen, was captured by one of the crew.
The anchovies were corralled by dolphins before the two humpback whales showed up. (This has been a boom year for anchovies off much of California, and a boon for large predators.)
"We actually watched the two whales traveling toward the bait ball," said Vernand, who decided to take the flight with a friend because the weather was so nice.
The photograph lends a unique perspective. Viewers can see the two whales just to the right (the white streak is the underside of one of the whale's pectoral fins).
A surfacing dolphin is visible next to the whale at the lower right. Another dolphin is swimming alongside the bait ball, above the second whale.
Vernand said the whales were lunge-feeding horizontally and that the bait ball would sink down during the lunges, making it hard to capture the feeding a photograph from straight overhead.
The video shows the feeding, but not from close range because the pilot did not wish to interfere with the feeding, which would have been a violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
Humpback whales can measure to nearly 50 feet and the bait ball looks to span at least 100 feet across.
"It was just amazing," Vernand said. "We were supposed to be on a 30-minute trip, but we ended up staying out there for an hour because of what was happening."
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Among couples undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment, those that remained childless appeared to have a greater risk of death in the near term, researchers found.
Through at least 3 years of follow-up, the rate of death was significantly lower for parents who had a biological child compared with those who remained childless (rate ratio 0.25 for women and 0.51 for men), according to Esben Agerbo, PhD, of Aarhus University in Denmark, and colleagues.
Childless women experienced a four-fold higher rate of death (95% CI 2.56 to 6.31), they added.
Having an adopted child was associated with a lower death rate for men (RR 0.55, 95% CI 0.32 to 0.96) but not for women (RR 0.67, 95% CI 0.32 to 1.38), the researchers reported online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.
"Mindful that association is not causation, our results suggest that the mortality rates are higher in the childless," they wrote.
Agerbo and colleagues explored the relationships between childlessness, parental mortality, and psychiatric illness using national registries in Denmark. The analysis included 21,276 childless couples who were included in an IVF registry from 1994 to 2005. Follow-up lasted through 2008.
During follow-up, 96 women and 220 men died, for rates of 51 and 117 per 100,000 person-years, respectively.
Also during the study period, 15,210 children were born and 1,564 were adopted by the couples.
The relationship between having a biological child and a lower rate of death among both men and women remained significant even after accounting for various potential confounders, including age, calendar year, income, and parental comorbidities.
After accounting for those factors, however, the association between adopting a child and a lower death rate in men disappeared.
When looking at psychiatric illness, having an adopted child, but not a biological child, was associated with a lower risk for both men (RR 0.60, 95% CI 0.38 to 0.95) and women (RR 0.63, 95% CI 0.42 to 0.95). That trend was seen across diagnoses, including substance use disorders, affective disorders, neurotic disorders, and other psychiatric illnesses.
The authors argued that the findings lend "support to the conjecture that previous reports of higher [psychiatric] risks in the childless may actually reflect reverse causality, as individuals with an undiagnosed or insidious psychiatric illness are more likely to be childless and, subsequently, diagnosed with a psychiatric illness."
The lower risk of psychiatric illness associated with adopting a child likely reflects that effect, they said.
The researchers acknowledged that the findings of the study may not apply to other childless couples who are not seeking IVF treatment and may be limited by residual confounding and by the relatively low numbers of deaths and psychiatric diagnoses.
The National Center for Register-Based Research is supported by the Stanley Medical Research Institute. One of the study authors receives funding from the Danish Medical Research Council.
The authors reported no conflicts of interest.
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Check out the Nintendo 3DS Photo Showcase. Browse featured galleries of user-submitted photos updated weekly, and submit your own.
All Nintendo 3DS systems come with a Stylus to allow for precise touch controls on the bottom screen.
The original Nintendo 3DS comes with an Adjustable Stylus that can be shortened or lengthened to your liking, while the Nintendo 3DS XL comes with a comfortable, full-sized Stylus.
Every Nintendo 3DS system comes packed with a SD Memory Card*. You can use this SD Memory Card to store your 3D photos, and sound recordings created on the Nintendo 3DS system, and music** from your PC. You can also use it to store games downloaded from the Nintendo eShop. The Nintendo 3DS system has SDHC card compatibility to increase your storage space even further.
* Nintendo 3DS systems come with a 2GB SD Memory Card and Nintendo 3DS XL systems come with a 4GB SD Memory Card.
** Nintendo 3DS is compatible with MP3 and AAC file formats.
Almost all existing Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi games can be played on a Nintendo 3DS system in 2D. With backwards compatibility, your existing portable games look and play just as well*.
* Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi games will be displayed in 2D graphics. Select Nintendo DS games that use accessories in the Game Boy Advance slot of the Nintendo DS system are not compatible with the Nintendo 3DS system.
Social and wired like no Nintendo system before it, Nintendo 3DS brings fellow players together in exciting new ways with StreetPass? communication. Set your Nintendo 3DS to Sleep Mode and carry it with you wherever you go to exchange game data like Mii characters, high scores, and custom characters with other users you pass on the street. You control what data you exchange, and you can exchange data for multiple games at once, making virtual connections with real world people you encounter in your daily life.
StreetPass Mii Plaza: Find out more about StreetPass Mii Plaza and how to interact with other Nintendo 3DS owners.
Your Nintendo 3DS system can automatically connect to a wireless internet access point. Once connected, special items will download automatically to your system via the SpotPass feature, even while in sleep mode. Some of these surprise items include exclusive content and promotions from Nintendo Zone, unique 3D videos from the Nintendo Video service, and add-on game content from your favorite Nintendo 3DS games!
Not sure if you've received something? Look for the blue LED light on the outside of your Nintendo 3DS system or a blue dot on your favorite HOME Menu icon to find out what's been delivered to you.
Getting SpotPass on the go is easier than ever! Enjoy a free and automatic connection to Wi-Fi at over 29,000 Nintendo Zone locations across the U.S. and Canada. To find a location near you and learn more about Nintendo Zone,
*Manufacturer's suggested retail price. Actual price may vary. See retailer for details.
**Some of these features may not be available at launch
***There is a limit to how many times transfers can be made. Some software may not be transferred.
****Additional features added through system updates may also be subject to Parental Controls.
Some of these features such as the Internet browser, Nintendo eShop, system transfer and the ability to download software and videos using SpotPass will be available after system updates are performed.
Extra Large 3D Screen
The top screen of the Nintendo 3DS XL system are 90% larger than that of the original Nintendo 3DS, at 4.88 inches. It's the largest screen on a Nintendo handheld to date! The lower screen is also getting a bump up from 3 inches to 4.18 inches.
Longer Battery Life
Get your game on for even longer! The Nintendo 3DS XL comes with an estimated 6.5 hours of battery life - a noticeable increase from the 3.5 hours on the original Nintendo 3DS.
Larger SD Card
Now you can store even more of your favorite downloadable games from the Nintendo eShop on a larger 4GB SD card! This is double the storage space from the Nintendo 3DS - which means double the fun!
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2014 Audi Melges 20 Miami Winter Series Rocks On
8 February 2014
Miami, FL - Thirty-five Audi Melges 20s have assembled in Miami, FL at the Winter Regatta, the ultimate continuation of the 2014 Miami Winter Series. Friday, registration day, a simply beautiful and warm day served as a preparation period of practice, tuning and just simply getting the team ready to race. The fleet, besides being predominantly comprised of U.S. teams also presents tough competition from Brazil, Canada, France and Italy.
Two days of racing commences on Saturday with light breezes forecasted. Awards will be presented on Sunday afternoon immediately following racing.
Returning centerstage is none other than newly crowned World Champion John Taylor aboard Ninkasi, however not with his entire winning crew. Bowman Joey Mello rejoins the team, along with Taylor's gorgeous daughter Alex aboard. Rhonda Joyce's Batteries Not Required holds on steady to Melges 24 World Champion crewmember Matt Woodworth on bow and welcomes in Terry Line to the team. Kevin Jewett and Dan Morris will accompany Lake Geneva based Mike Keefe on Flannel. Erwan Le Gall's Le Rascator is on the hunt for some 'go-fast' magic with Charlie Smythe and Sammy Loughborough as crew. Skip Shapiro plans to crank it up with Dave Scott and Ethan Bixby on Makaira. Terry Hutchinson will join Alessandro Rombelli's STIG program as tactician for the first time ever. Eighteen-year old Clay Broussard will confidently handle his father's Audi Melges 20 Velocity.
Playing the Corinthian field is John Brown's Blind Squirrel, and Eric Wynsma's Superfly from the U.S.A. Canada proudly holds its own with representation from Jim Pearson's Slippery, Frank McLaughlin's CAN-254 and Paul Currie's Wild Deuces.
The overall Miami Winter Series challenge is full on with Russ Lucas' Shimmer in first place overall, followed by Tony Tabb's YOLO. Marcus Eagan aboard Cajun Underwriting rounds out the top three. View The Full 2014 Miami Winter Series Ranking
As with other Audi Melges 20 events in North America and around the world, racing updates will be posted online at theOfficial Audi Melges 20 Facebook Page. Tune in for the latest racing information, results, video interviews, and photos. Race reports, press releases and photos will be available online each day post racing at melges20.com.
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What is you and your family's your relationship to fast food? Do you eat it regularly? Do you never touch the stuff?
Fast food is about as American as baseball and (McDonald's) apple pie. In fact, according to a new study, Americans get a whopping 11% of their calories from burgers, fries and 1,000 calorie taco salads. The research, released by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), asked participants whether they had eaten any fast food or pizza in the past 24 hours.
The study points to some interesting demographic differences: for one, the older you get, the less likely you are to eat fast food. Ah, the wisdom that comes with age. Younger Americans tend to eat fewer calories from fast food as their income rises — however, income has no correlation to fast food consumption among the over 40 set. Unsurprisingly, obese people eat the most fast food on average.
As shocking as this percentage is, though, it's not the worst news in the world – this actually is a decrease from previous years. Between 2003 and 2006, Americans ate nearly 13% of their calories at fast food establishments. The 1990s saw a significant surge in fast food consumption – -and this surge is finally beginning to lose its steam. All we can do is hope that, the next time this data comes around, the percentage will drop even more! That, in addition to making healthier eating choices and steering our children away from fast food, of course!
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I hardly ever eat "fast food", but those advertisements sure are tempting! Currently, I'm trying to eat more "Mediterrean".
There were periods in my life when I ate a lot of fast food, because I was poor and it was much cheaper than eating healthy. Now I'm in a much better financial situation, and I rarely ever touch the stuff. When I do, I notice that my body wants for it to be expelled as quickly as possible ... if you catch my drift. It's like my intestines open up a shortcut to my colon. =^(
I almost never eat fast foods for three reasons. I know it's not healthy, my budget can't afford it, and I'm wary of how clean the people are that prepare it.
It's easy for me to abstain because my parents could'nt afford to do it very often, so I never got in the habit.
Just about the only exception is Pizza Hut's Crispy Crust Garlic Chicken Pizza. Delicious! But I only buy one of those every couple of years. $10 just hurts my frugal brain too much!
I went to the grocery store a couple days ago, and a head of iceberg lettuce was $2.49, the cheapest apple I could find was $2.99/lb, and english muffins were on sale for $2.99 (for a six pack.) I can barely afford to eat healthy. The McD's dollar menu is not only convenient and fast, but it is affordable. Disgusting and unhealthy, but fast and affordable.
Yes, Future, the price of most foods at the grocery store hurts me a lot also, so I tend to eat a lot of inexpensive food, like beans and split peas.
I like split pea soup and the dried peas were only 33 cents per pound until a few months ago, when they jumped to 67 cents. But, even at that price, they still make a lot of soup for a little cost.
Luckily, I like chicken nearly as much as pork and better than beef, so most of the meat I eat is chicken at 99 cents/lb.
Then, I grow as much of my own food as possible on my small property, and keep looking for a cheap acre or two to move to where I can grow much more. If I make it there, I plan on growing lots of fruit & veggies, as well as rabbits and fish.
Idaho, funny you should mention Pizza Hut. I've always thought the best thing to do with a Pizza Hut pizza is when you get it home, throw out the pizza and eat the box. However, I recently did a divorce where I represented the wife. The ex-husband, who is the manager of the local Pizza Hut, was having pictures taken of himself - naked - on the table where they prep the food to be cooked. I had the photos, and the divorce was settled real easily. I realize this can happen at any place that serves food. But, every time I think of Pizza Hut, I can't help but think of the "special sauce" on the food, and go back to to eating apples, grapes, oranges, and salads I prepare myself.
P.S. I happen to love lentil soup!
Oh boy, I may never eat a Pizza Hut pizza again, thinking of that special sauce.
From what little experience I've had eating at fast-food places, it seems the food from the same name joint can taste completely different from place to place.
There is one Pizza Hut in town that I ordered my favorite pizza from, and it tasted mediocre. I loved the food in a california Taco Bell I went to, but the one here has tasteless food.
Oh wow Pat - I certainly won't want to eat out after that story.
My cheap go to breakfast is Dannon yogurt that I put chopped up celery in. May sound weird, but it actually goes well together with all flavors and it's cheap and healthy. 80 calories, 0 fat, and about 60 cents per serving.
I wrote that down to remind me to try it.
I get my fast food at the supermarket, like fruit etc.
Yeah, grease and sugar and salt are very cheap ... the healthy foods mostly have low calorie density.
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This 360-degree live show features a dream cast of Voice stars who deliver a wide-ranging performance through timeless hits and current chart toppers from the world of rock, pop, country, R&B, Broadway, and more. It all happens in a brand new venue at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino that includes an interactive exhibit where you can sit in an authentic coach chair and even cut your own demo in a professional recording studio that could give you a chance to be on the Las Vegas stage or even on the hit NBC show. The show features an all-star cast of vocalists, Alisan Porter, Chris Mann, Mary Sarah, Matthew Schuler, and Matt McAndrew. They will be joined by future winners of THE VOICE and backed by the world's most versatile band led by Michael Sanchez. The Voice: Neon Dreams is the continuation of a journey that began on the NBC television show and now culminates in this one-of-a-kind experience that is in a word...electrifying.View All The Voice Tour Dates


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Stephen Levinson - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC
Stephen E. Levinson was born in New York City on September 27, 1944. He received the B. A. degree in Engineering Sciences from Harvard in 1966, and the M. S. and Ph.D. degrees in ElectricalEngineering from the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island in 1972 and 1974, respectively. From 1966-1969 he was a design engineer at Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics in Groton, Connecticut. From 1974-1976 he held a J. Willard Gibbs Instructorship in Computer Science at Yale University. In 1976, he joined the technical staff of Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ where he conducted research in the areas of speech recognition and understanding. In 1979 he was a visiting researcher at the NTT Musashino Electrical Communication Laboratory in Tokyo, Japan. In 1984, he held a visiting fellowship in the Engineering Department at Cambridge University. In 1990, Dr. Levinson became head of the Linguistics Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he directed research in Speech Synthesis, Speech Recognition and Spoken Language Translation. In 1997, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he teaches courses in Speech and Language Processing and leads research projects in speech synthesis and automatic language acquisition. He is also a full-time faculty member of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology where he serves as the head of the Artificial Intelligence group. Dr. Levinson is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. He is a founding editor of the journal Computer Speech and Language and a former member and chair of the Industrial Advisory Board of the CAIP Center at Rutgers University. He is the author of more than 100 technical papers and holds seven patents. His book, published in 2005 by John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.,is entitled "Mathematical Models for Speech Technology"
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