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Quick treatment for stroke may lead to more healthy days
Shaving even a minute off the time between the onset of a stroke and initial treatment may add to the amount of "healthy" days people have afterward, suggests a new study.
Researchers found that stroke patients gained about two days of healthy life for every minute spared between the onset of their stroke and when they first received treatment, on average.
"Every 15 minutes you wait, you lose a month of life," Dr. Atte Meretoja told Reuters Health.
Meretoja is the study's lead author from the Melbourne Brain Centre at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Parkville, Australia.
The exact ratio of saved treatment time to healthy days varied by patient, he and his team found.
Although it's well known that early treatment for strokes is best, the new study helps highlight how significant even small delays can be, researchers said.
"We developed that measure so it's easy to remember and that the general public will understand it," Meretoja said.
He and his colleagues summarized their findings in the journal Stroke as, "Save a Minute, Save a Day."
There is currently only one treatment approved by U.S. regulators for ischemic strokes, which are caused by blockages in blood vessels going to the brain. Usually, the blockage is a result of clotted blood or fatty deposits known as plaque.
Thrombolysis is the use of a drug known as tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, to break up the blockage and allow blood to flow to the brain. Restoring blood flow prevents the death of brain cells and improves people's recovery.
The treatment is time sensitive, however. The 60 minutes from the onset of a stroke is often referred to as the "golden hour" for treatment, because people treated during that time have much better odds of completely recovering.
Approximately 800,000 people in the U.S. have strokes every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 87 percent of those are ischemic strokes.
For the new report, the researchers compiled data from two studies to find how time to treatment is related to how patients fare after a stroke.
The studies, from Finland and Australia, included 2,258 stroke patients.
On average, the researchers found that patients gained 1.8 disability-free days for each minute shaved off the time to treatment.
Middle-aged stroke patients tended to gain about three days per minute saved, while elderly patients gained one day or less.
"The magnitude of benefit here is very much aligned with previous data and analyses we've done looking at the benefits," Dr. Gregg Fonarow, who was not involved with the new study, told Reuters Health.
Fonarow is co-chief of the University of California, Los Angeles Division of Cardiology.
"Time is really the most critical factor here in determining the outcome," he said.
Over time, Fonarow said hospitals have improved the time they take to get patients treatment. But there has been little success in shortening the time it takes for people to recognize they're having a stroke and get to a hospital.
Many organizations promote the FAST pneumonic device to remember the symptoms of a stroke: Face drooping, Arm weakness, Speech difficulty and Time to call 9-1-1 after any symptom.
"We continue to need to strive to educate the population regarding the benefits of seeking care as quickly as possible after suspecting stroke," said Dr. Robert Brown, a stroke specialist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Brown, who was not involved with the new study, said the finding that every minute counts is also a reminder to doctors and medical staff to evaluate their practices in an effort to save time once the patient arrives at the hospital.
"I think this is also very enlightening and energizing to providers who are constantly thinking of ways to improve," he said.


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Just Jared's Halloween Party 2013 - RECAP
Hilary Duff and Camilla Belle sandwich in JustJared.com's very own Jared Eng at the 2013 Just Jared Halloween Party held at Beacher's Madhouse at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Thursday (October 24) in Hollywood.
Also joining us to celebrate one of our favorite holidays were Ashley Greene, Krysten Ritter, Tim Tebow, Ahna O'Reilly, Ashley Madekwe, Patrick Scwarzenegger, Joey King, Holland Roden, Max Carver, Charlie Carver, Daniel Sharman, Jayson Blair, Wilson Bethel, Lacey Chabert, Avan Jogia, Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Garrett Clayton, Claudia Lee, Shawn Pyfrom, Becca Tobin, Carter Jenkins, Chris Galya, Ian Bohen, Ryan Rottman, and Zelda Williams. The evening also featured a very special performance from Bonnie McKee.
Be sure to check out all of the photos in our complete coverage of the Halloween party: [Party 1] [Party 2] [Party 3] [Party 4] [Party 5] [Party 6] [Party 7] [Party 8] [Party 9]
All of the celebs at the party carved and decorated pumpkins that were donated to a children's special needs center via The Art of Elysium, a charity which encourages working actors, artists and musicians to volunteer their talent to children with serious medical conditions.
Thanks for all the love from our sponsors – FIJI Water for keeping all of our guests hydrated and for the super fun glow-in-the-dark cotton candy, Wonka for the awesome candy bar that satisfied our sweet tooth, BiteSizeTV for helping us present a fun photo booth, and SmokeStik.
Many thank-yous to the following vendors for providing delicious food and beverage: Fat Sal's, Peligroso Cinnamon Tequila, Yacht Club Vodka, and Stella Artois.
Many thanks to Beacher's Madhouse for hosting us and allowing us to transform the space into a spooktacular environment. Big thank yous to LA's hot new DJ Nikki Pennie for playing the best music in the DJ booth all evening long and to Angie Banicki for her amazing tarot card readings that our guests were lined up for all night. And last but not least, thank you to Courtney Walter for creating all of the invitations and menus for the event!
40+ pictures inside from the 2013 Just Jared Halloween Party…

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Secure use of cloud services
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The publication "Secure use of cloud services" is primarily intended for cloud users. However, it can also be interesting for cloud providers to adapt their offers better to the needs of the cloud users.
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Target group: Management (primary), Beginners (primary), Professionals (secondary)
The publication "Secure use of cloud services – Step by step from the strategy to the expiration of the contract" describes one approach of being able to use cloud services in a secure manner. Its content is based on the IT-Grundschutz module M 1.17 "Cloud usage". However, it is explicitly intended for all organisations which would like to use cloud services even if they do not apply IT-Grundschutz. In a short and concise form, the individual steps to be taken in order to use cloud services are described, supplemented by various references to other publications. The outsourcing and storage of data and applications in a cloud has significant effects on the organisation's own IT; it is a strategic step. This step must be considered and planned carefully as well as supported by the management. Assessing the chances and risks realistically will save users and providers from unpleasant surprises and unfulfilled expectations. The approach described in the publication helps to ask the important questions at the right time and to find the answers for them.


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Bethany's January Cure: My First Week
Last week, like many of you, I decided to join in and give my own space the Cure. Here's how things went at my home.
Note - Reader anotherjen had asked in a related post for ideas on executing Cure assignments when you don't live alone. So, to that end, I will also be sharing how my fiancé and I worked together to accomplish each assignment (there's definitely been a bit of negotiation involved)!
Assignment 1: Make a list of projects
When I proposed the idea of the Cure to my fiancé, Shawn, he was very enthusiastic in his support. As a professor, he's currently on a winter break, and as such had already started making a mental list of all of the projects he'd like to accomplish before going back to school. Making this project list provided us the opportunity to not only commit those ideas to paper, but to look at every room in detail, and to collectively generate a list that resonated with both of us. Naturally, we came up with quite an extensive list to start. However, for the purpose of the assignment, we limited each area to the 3-5 projects. (We live in a relatively small one bedroom apartment, so some areas were combined for the purpose of the list.)
Entry/Dining Area
1. Declutter the coat closet
2. Repair scratches in dining table
3. Declutter the bookshelf
1. Deep clean cabinet doors
2. Declutter area around microwave
3. Replace old pot holders
4. Find a new home for the paper towels
Living Room
1. Declutter magazine rack
2. Reorganize my desk
3. Clean out my files
4. Rearrange Shawn's clothes closet (As I mentioned, we live in a small apartment. Therefore, the living room closet is actually Shawn's clothes closet.)
5. Rearrange stacks of books (condense? combine?)
1. Declutter baskets on shelves
2. Clean or replace shower curtain liner
3. Wash shower curtain
4. Declutter area under sink
1. Reorganize Shawn's armoire
2. Evaluate and declutter Shawn's magazines
3. Declutter area below my bench
4. Declutter the bottom of my clothes closet
5. Find handbag storage solution
1. Move small marble-topped table to basement
2. Relocate shelving unit
3. Sweep
Basement (By far, our biggest problem area, and one that's been severely impacted by my time in graduate school.)
1. Evaluate all school work (papers, projects, boards, etc.). Determine what to keep, what to toss.
2. Organize all school work being kept
3. Declutter and put away everything else
4. Create donate and trash piles
5. Act on donate and trash piles
Working together: To create our initial list, Shawn and I reviewed each room together and wrote down anything that stood out to either of us. Then, when it came time to narrow down the list, we each verbally ranked our top five for each room. From there, we negotiated until we had a top 3-5 that we both agreed upon. This step was important, as each of us has different "triggers" or responses to various trouble areas in our home. Collaborating on the list ensured that we would be addressing the areas that mattered the most to each of us.
Assignment 2: Set up an outbox and place one item in it
Let me start by saying, I love the principle behind this assignment. I know many people that hold onto to way too much stuff due to emotional attachment. I used to have a much bigger problem with this myself. My fiancé, on the other hand, is quite a minimalist and rarely hangs onto much of anything.
Working together: As you might imagine, this assignment led to quite a conversation between Shawn and me. For starters, we live in a small apartment. There is no out-of-the-way place to set up an outbox, and certainly no area that we can allow to be messy on an ongoing basis. Yet, in talking it through, we determined two things. One, this idea would probably be more helpful for me than it would be for him. And two, although we don't use an actual box or container, we sort of halfway employ this principle in our space already, whenever we set something by the door to the basement. Placing items there signifies that they need to go into the basement, either for handy storage, or for holding until we determine what we'd like to do with them.
Essentially, our basement is one big outbox. (Not ideal, I grant you, and part of the reason that our basement is our biggest problem area.) Therefore, I've decided to set aside an actual outbox in the basement that can be reviewed weekly, as suggested. Going forward, anything that is set by the basement door will be designated as "handy storage" or "outbox" and immediately filed accordingly. (Hopefully, this will help ensure that once our basement is decluttered, it will actually stay that way!) Item#1 in the new outbox - lampshade from broken lamp.
Assignment 3: Buy flowers, vacuum, mop, gather earth friendly cleaners & use your outbox
I used to buy flowers all of the time. Then, I got busy, got a kitten (who loved to play with the flowers), and weekly flowers became less of a priority. That said, I was excited by the idea of kickstarting my flower habit again. There's just one small problem. January is an extremely lean month for us financially. You see, most of my work is freelance and there's not a lot of it in December...hence, not much in the way of pay coming in in January.
Working together - Shawn and I loved all of the ideas put forth in this assignment, but after discussing it, decided that we couldn't spend any money this week to accomplish them. So, I got creative. I already had some calla lilies in a vase that had been saved from larger arrangement I received mid-December. (It's insane how long they've lasted!) So, I gave them a fresh cut, and straightened the arrangement a bit. Then, I pulled some fresh herbs out of the refrigerator, put them in glasses of water and made a few more simple arrangements.
As for the cleaners, thankfully we were already in decent shape. We use Method dish soap (I recently bought the Basil scent, and LOVE it), Seventh Generation laundry detergent and Method floor cleaner (Almond, so yummy). We do, however, need an earth friendly bathroom cleaner. Given our financial situation though, we simply decided to buy a greener cleaner the next time we run out.
Cleaning the floors ended up being our greatest challenge. Although we were both very enthusiastic about the idea, it quite frankly didn't happen. The biggest reason is because we still have our Christmas tree up. Late decorators, we bought it on December 21, and wanted to hang onto it a little while. Also, we can only dispose of trees on Thursdays, and last Thursday felt too early, (although, in all honesty, this Thursday feels too late). Either way, vacuuming and mopping before we removed the tree seemed a little pointless, so we've decided to wait on this step.
How did you do with your week? What challenges did you face?
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Lords Of Dogtown
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About Lords Of Dogtown
LORDS OF DOGTOWN tells the radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of sports forever. Stacy Peralta(John Robinson, Elephant), Tony Alva (Victor Rasuk, Raising Victor Vargas) and Jay Adams (Emile Hirsch, The Girl Next Door) are the Z-Boys, a bunch of nobodies until they create a new style of skateboarding that becomes a worldwide phenomenon. But when their hobby becomes a business, the success shreds their friendship. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke (thirteen) and written by Stacy Peralta, Lords of Dogtown is "...a dazzling daredevil ride." (Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE)
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
How Sweet It Is (To Wait Sometimes)
I can't believe I'm about to say this–the guy who hates waiting for anything, who wants everything yesterday–but, sometimes, things are so much sweeter the longer we wait for them.
Take, for example, two weeks ago. I was in our master bedroom closet, moving around some clothes, when I saw a large cardboard tube in the corner, with the word Regis repeatedly printed in swirls around it. I hadn't come across this tube in nearly five years, not since our last move.
For those of you who don't live in the area, Regis used to be/still is a local picture place, where you could/can buy various posters, from those of teen crushes to art prints, as well as get them framed (I don't know if any Regis outlets are still open; I haven't seen one in a long time). Without looking inside the tube, I knew what was it contained.
Many years ago, shortly after Chris and I moved in together (if I remember correctly), he special-ordered a print, either for my birthday or Christmas, when we still bought gifts (now, if we buy anything for each other, it's usually of nominal value).
At the time, our apartment was decorated with a assortment of Disney-themed prints–from art posters of Mickey and Minnie Mouse, to commemorative prints of the theme parks (for example, the fifteenth anniversary of Walt Disney World in Florida). What can I say? I was a huge Disney fan at the time. Still am, especially of the one-and-only, original Disney theme park, Disneyland, in Anaheim, California. But my feelings about The Walt Disney Company in general are more measured now.
At any rate, Chris special-ordered this print for me. I remember thinking at the time it was one of the nicest, if not the nicest, print in my collection. In the style of an American folk art wood painting, with a little aging thrown in, it featured a full-on portrait of Mickey Mouse from his heyday back in the early to mid-twentieth century, with a red, white, and blue banner surrounding it. Very American for a Canadian, to be sure, but entirely appealing to a Disney fanatic like me.
I don't know why, but, for some reason, I didn't get the print framed right away. Perhaps I didn't have the money at the time. Perhaps I thought our walls already had enough Disney art on them. Perhaps, since we'd just moved in together and decorated our apartment with everything I owned, I believed it was time we bought something together, a non-Disney piece, so Chris felt like he hadn't moved into my place.
Fast forward some nineteen or so years, there I was in my closet, picture tube in hand. And reminiscing about how many places Chris and I had moved together over the years, each time packing up the tube in a wardrobe box and bringing it with us–our condo in Fairview Slopes in Vancouver, a rental on Songhees in Victoria, our townhouse up from Mayfair Mall in Victoria, and, finally, our single-family home in the Lower Mainland, where we live now. That tube and print have seen a lot of miles and years, yet it's still around. Thankfully, it didn't get lost in the shuffle somewhere.
I brought the tube downstairs where Chris sat at the island in the kitchen, reading the newspaper. "Remember this?" I asked, pulling the large plastic plug out of the end of it, rolling the print inside tighter with my fingers, and removing it carefully. After I laid it on the island and opened it, I secured the corners with whatever heavy items were available. Then we looked at it. To me, it was even more beautiful than I remembered.
I suspect Chris knew from my comments that I was disappointed I'd never had it framed over the years. It occurred to me that he must have thought the reason why I hadn't, when I'd earned my own income and could have afforded it, was because it wasn't worth it, didn't measure up to all the other Disney pictures I already had. Of course, he would have been wrong. (By the way, the other framed Disney prints are long gone. I donated all of them to a garage sale the staff at the centre I worked at in Victoria at the time held in support of a local hospital, selling all six or seven for $150, a fraction of what they cost me. As I recall, they were bought by a fellow who planned to hang them in a place for children. That was a good enough reason for me to let them go for such a small amount.)
I was so glad when Chris spoke up and suggested the time had come to get the print framed. I couldn't have agreed more.
Several hours later, we stood in our local Michael's outlet, playing around with an assortment of different colored matte samples and wooden frames, eventually agreeing on a combination that not only complemented the print but also retained the spirit of it. We paid our money–a hell of a lot more than I would have thought, even at a supposed 60% discount–and were told it would be ready within two weeks.
This last Friday, after dinner at home, Chris and I drove to Michael's to pick up the framed print. The young lady there set it on the counter, lifted the masking tape, and carefully opened the craft paper wrapped around it.
I couldn't have been more thrilled with the result, but not for the most obvious reasons.
Sure, it's a classy, tasteful Disney print, representing both the better parts of the Disney I still cherish, as well as a whole other era of my life. Sure, it's professionally matted and framed. And, sure, I'll be able to see it every time I look up from the table in my writing room.
But it's also about Chris, the man I've loved with all my heart for many years, whose thoughtfulness, at a time when he was about half his age, overwhelmed me then and still overwhelms me now.
And it's about us.
We were going through a rough time back then. Something happened between us that shook my foundation and made me doubt we'd last as a couple for another month, let alone for another twenty years.
That framed picture is a symbol, really–of what we've been through together, of our commitment to each other, and of our enduring love. Every time I look at it, I will smile and think about how remarkable life is sometimes, how fortunate I am, and how things couldn't have turned out better for us.
It would have been simple to have that print framed when I first received it. But I can't tell you how waiting, and framing it now, means so much more.
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- AnonymousDecember 20, 2013 at 5:42 AM
Wow, that truly is amazing. Thanks for sharing! Hopefully one day I'll have a similar story of my own to share with the world. :PReplyDeleteReplies
Anonymous, one can't make things like this happen. You go about living your life, doing the best you can along the way. And then, sometimes, the past returns to the present with an unexpected resonance. That's what happened in this case, and, as I write, it's pretty sweet when it does.Delete
Of course, the most important thing in all of this is the love Chris and I have for each other. The framed print is just a framed print, in the end, but it's funny how things can adopt meaning, become more than they are because of associations. That's what I tried to capture here.
I appreciate your interest in my blog and your comment. It's always exciting to know someone's read what I've written, especially when it somewhat long, and taken something away from it. Thanks again.
- AnonymousDecember 24, 2013 at 9:22 PM
This article is so beautifully written. What a touching story.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you, Anonymous. I appreciate your taking the time to read it and your kind words.Delete
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2013 at 6:47 PM
What a great story - and awesome final print presentation. Thank you for sharing. ChristopherYVRReplyDeleteReplies
Christopher YVR, I'm not sure you'll see this thanks for your comment, but I hope you do. For some reason, I didn't receive your comment in the usual way, so I didn't know until now that you left it.Delete
Anyway, I appreciate your taking the time to read this long post, and I also appreciate your kind words.
Thank you.


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Dont launch Michael!
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Dont launch Michael!
how do you like that?
Riding used and closeout kites and boards from e-bay,craigslist,ikitesurf, and local surf shops.
Re: Dont launch Michael!
aka OP
Re: Dont launch Michael!
A non-OP feels that you non-OPs are being mean toward the OP.
Kites: 2018 F-One Bandit: 8m and 11m.
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Harness: Manera Exoharness.
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I launched Michael today at upper 3rd. Not the OP, but a different Michael (I surmised as no helmet was involved). I'm not opposed to launching those named Michael, but I'm concerned that there are so many Michaels wanting a launch.
I'm new and don't know what to do.
1.) Do I ask, "Is your name Michael?"
2.) Do I ask, "Are you the OP?"
3.) Do I ask, "Are you OPeeeed?"
Please advise. I don't want to just throw his kite into the wind without knowing how hard to toss it.
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After much consideration I have decided to retire from my lucrative career as a kite launcher.
I will now be pursuing the life of a happy helmet installer, and moving to oreygun. With Michael. I will continue not wearing a helmet.
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You just have to verify that it is Michael O.P. and not Louis C.K., Notorious B.I.G. or Doogie Howser M.D. prior to launch
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Late first-half 'pick-6' by Clampitt keys victory
CHILLICOTHE With a 21-10 Homecoming victory over the Cameron Dragons Friday, the Chillicothe High School football Hornets are off the schneid, at last, thanks to junior Tyler Clampitt's impact on the passing game.
Ironically, though, it was the Hornets' starting quarterback's work in defending Cameron passing late in each half which was his telling contribution, not flinging the ball with his strong right arm.
With the Dragons holding a 10-7 lead and having possession just into Hornets territory, courtesy of Sean Gray's pickoff of a Clampitt throw, with less than two minutes to go in the first half, winless Cameron looked certain to be in front at halftime. The question as its offense took the Bob Fairchild Field artificial turf at Chillicothe's new Jerry Litton Memorial Stadium was whether the Dragons would increase that lead before intermission.
When Chillicothe junior defensive end Elliott Keller, who deflected two other passes in his first varsity start, sacked Cameron substitute quarterback Marshall Colson for a 10-yard loss on the first play, the presumption was – with Chillicothe opting not to call either of its remaining timeouts – that Cameron would run off the remaining time with a running play or two and be satisfied with the 3-points advantage. That thought was reinforced when the Dragons were called for one of the handful of illegal procedure penalties, leaving them in second-and-25 with less than a half-minute on the clock.
However, in one of the most surprising turn of events in Chillicothe football history in the past decade, Colson – a sophomore running back inserted at quarterback due to the ankle sprain sustained by starter Dakota Calhoon early in the previous game and backup Sean Gray's injury the week before that – was called on to throw again, with joyous results for the home team.
Attempting to hit a tight end down the left seam, Colson and the Cameron faithful watched in horror as Clampitt – inserted at free safety for that play only on the off chance Cameron might try to throw deep – read the shorter throw and moved in front of the intended target. Grabbing the ball about head high between the Cameron 47 and 48 yard lines, the Hornet made a bee line for the open east half of Fairchild Field and the north end zone. Nary a Dragon could get there to cut him off and, with a mere nine ticks on the scoreboard, he turned the 3-points deficit into a 3-points lead. Zach Alperin's second of three successful conversion kicks put the Hornets in front 14-10 at the half, instead of down three.
In the second half, Chillicothe's defense remained rigid enough to keep Cameron's hampered offense at bay until the Hornets' DeEll Midgyett, with a strong seal block by left tackle Johnson Young, pulling right guard Justin Metry's outstanding kickout block on the outside, and Clampitt's downfield block on the safety, pranced into the end zone on a 16-yards slotback reverse 28 seconds away from the end of the third period. Alperin's PAT made it 21-10.
Clampitt made sure it would stay that way – again, not with his arm, but once with his leg and then with his hands. After nice, time-eating drive stalled in Cameron territory, Clampitt's punt from shotgun formation pinned the Dragons back at their 12 midway through the final quarter. Then, after a 27-yards Cameron completion immediately advanced the ball to near midfield, Clampitt – again inserted at free safety with Cameron likely to pass more – ranged over to snare another deep Colson throw at the Chillicothe 18 and return the pickoff 43 yards.
From there, the Hornets killed the final 4:04, Clampitt finally using his throwing skill in a timely way when he hit Alperin for a 15-yards pickup on fourth-and-5 at the 34 to extend the possession to the game's end.
When the clock finally hit 0:00, the 2012 Hornets exulted at last, having evened their Midland Empire Conference record at 1-1 while going to 1-3 overall prior to a game at St. Joseph's Missouri Western State University against Bishop LeBlond next Thursday.
Cameron, unsuccessfully trying to get its first 2012 win and first under first-year head coach Jeff White, led twice in the first half.
Placekicker Andrew Carr impressively converted a 39-yards field goal to culminate an unusual 10-plays, 18-yards drive late in the first period.
Chillicothe, sparked by Midgyett's 36-yards kickoff return, came right back with an 8-plays, 52-yards touchdown march capped by D.J. Gannan's 1-yard plunge to lead for the first time since early in its week two loss at Kirksville. Alperin's extra-point boot made it 7-3 two plays and 27 seconds into the second quarter.
A short Cameron punt gave Chillicothe good field position at its 39, but, after one first down, a fumbled handoff game the Dragons the ball at its 45. Three plays later, Joe Pratt took a first-down inside handoff and, with a quick cutback and hard-charging carry that broke four attempted arm tackles in the first 10 yards, burst into the open at the 30 on his way to the end zone. With 5:51 to go in the opening half, Cameron led again by three, 10-7.
However, just when it looked certain that would be the halftime tally, Clampitt made Cameron's boldness backfire and sent the home team on its way to a happy and relieved Homecoming weekend.
Aside from Clampitt's two interceptions and 93 return yards, the game was devoid of notable statistics. Neither team had a rusher or passer threaten 100 yards on the night. Cameron turned the ball over three times and Chillicothe twice. According to team statisticians, Cole Nichols' 10 tackles and eight by Hayden Major led the Hornets' tackling, while Keller and Clampitt provided five standout plays between them.


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Conference Primers: #17 – SouthernPosted by rtmsf on October 31st, 2007
Predicted Order of Finish:
- Davidson (23-5) (18-2)
- Georgia Southern (17-12) (12-8)
- College of Charleston (15-12) (11-9)
- Wofford (15-14) (10-10)
- Furman (10-18) (8-12)
- Citadel (5-24) (3-17)
- UNC-Greensboro (18-11) (13-7)
- Appalachian St. (18-13) (12-8)
- Western Carolina (15-15) (10-10)
- Chattanooga (11-15) (9-11)
- Elon (6-22) (4-16)
WYN2K. The Southern Conference has a reputation as a league on the rise, and deservedly so. After stellar regular seasons in 2006-07 from division winners Davidson and Appalachian St., including five wins over BCS schools among the league members (the highest total wins among the conferences we've rated thus far), the league has its sights on breaking into mid-major territory. If this is to ultimately happen, it will likely be led by Davidson, who with spectacular sophomore guard Stephen Curry, will challenge itself with several elite OOC games this season. Even though the league has been a one-bid conference throughout the 64/65 team era, last year Appalachian St. was very close to earning an at-large NCAA bid before ultimately settling for an NIT berth. And with the name cachet of Bobby Cremins bringing in exceptional recruits at College of Charleston, this league could be knocking on the door for two bids sooner rather than later.
Predicted Champion. Davidson (#9 seed NCAA) is the clear choice here. Davidson returns all five starters from the team that pushed extremely talented and athletic Maryland in the NCAA first round last year (down only four after the last tv timeout), including the aforementioned Curry, who had sick numbers for a freshman guard (22 ppg, 5 rpg, 3 apg, 2 spg, .408 3fg%, .855 ft%) including a run of 26.1 ppg the last ten games. But this is no one-man show. Aside from excellent point guard Jason Richards (#2 nationally in total assists), post men Thomas Sander and Boris Meno also both had outstanding seasons manning the inside, clearing boards and playing tough defense. Coach Bob McKillop also adds two significant recruits – Aaron Bond, who received some Burger Boy consideration last year; and his son, Brendan McKillop, who turned down ACC teams Virginia Tech and NC State to play for his pops. Knowing that Davidson needs a high RPI to offset any chance of being left at the altar should the Wildcats stumble in the conference tourney, McKillop has beefed up the OOC schedule considerably, setting up made-for-tv games with local bullies UNC and Duke in Charlotte and a trip to Raleigh to play NC State. Another road trip will include a game vs. UCLA at the Wooden Classic. All four of those teams are ranked in the Top 25.
Others Considered. We don't expect another team to push Davidson like Appalachian St. did last season, but if Davidson gets lackadaisical or suffers a significant injury, we'd expect UNC-Greensboro to be next in line. Believe it or not, Curry didn't win conference POY last year, and it's not a sure thing that he will this year either. This is due to the fact that UNCG has a 6'6, 230 lb. Sir Charles clone named Kyle Hines returning in the post. Hines has scored in double figures in fifty straight games, and the last time a team went single coverage on him, he dropped 38 on their heads. Although #2 scorer Ricky Hickman is gone, UNCG returns a trio of talented sophomore wing scorers who all showed promise of bright futures. Appalachian St. is another team to watch despite losing three key seniors. The key is that two post men, Donte Minter (who should be healthy this year) and Jeremy Clayton, are returning, and in a league of little size, this could carry them a long way. One concern is the loss of heady PG DJ Thompson, who led the team's uptempo attack, along with two other guards that saw significant time. Georgia Southern is another team on our radar, simply because they have an all-conference performer in the post (Louis Graham – #18 nationally in defReb%) and at the point guard position (Dwayne Foreman – #32 nationally in asstRate). And although College of Charleston lost three starters and a transfer from a 13-5 team, Bobby Cremins brought in the best recruiting class the league has seen in some time, and we should keep an eye on his team for that reason alone.
Games to Watch. The SoCon is going to a 20-game round robin conference schedule this season, which is the largest we've ever seen. Next year when the league expands to twelve teams with the addition of Samford, we suspect there will be a push by league coaches to return to a more reasonable sixteen game schedule. But for this year, it guarantees that Davidson will have to visit every road arena to test its mettle.
- Davidson @ Appalachian St. (11.26.07) & Appalachian St. @ Davidson (02.27.08)
- UNCG @ Appalachian St. (01.12.08) & Appalachian St. @ UNCG (02.16.08)
- Davidson @ UNCG (02.13.08) & UNCG @ Davidson (02.19.08)
- Southern Conference Championship Game (03.10.08) ESPN2
RPI Booster Games. We alluded to it above, but the SoCon went 5-38 (.118) against BCS teams last year (Appalachian St. – 2; Davidson – 1; Furman – 1; Wofford – 1). The number will be reduced this year, thanks to the additional conference games, but we expect a similar showing.
- UNCG @ Georgia Tech (11.09.07)
- Western Carolina @ Cincinnati (11.10.07)
- Davidson vs. UNC (Charlotte) (11.14.07) ESPN
- College of Charleston @ Arkansas (11.15.07) ESPNU
- Chattanooga @ S. Illinois (11.22.07) ESPNU
- Wichita St. @ Appalachian St. (11.28.07)
- Davidson vs. Duke (Charlotte) (12.01.07) ESPNU
- Tennessee @ Chattanooga (12.04.07) ESPNU
- Davidson @ UCLA (12.08.07)
- Georgia Southern @ Florida (12.15.07)
- Western Carolina @ Illinois (12.17.07)
Odds of Multiple NCAA Bids. This one is interesting, because if Davidson performs well against the ACC trio + UCLA, has a great SoCon record (like 18-2), yet loses in the conference tourney, we believe that this will be a two-team league.
Neat-o Stat. The Citadel must be one of the most historically horrific basketball programs in the NCAA. It joined the Southern Conference in 1937, and has yet to see its first NCAA or NIT bid. Pat Conroy wrote of his losing season there in the 60s, and not much has changed since. His cousin, Ed Conroy, will begin his second season at the school with what he calls the youngest team in America – 15 freshmen (incl. redshirts), one sophomore, one junior and one senior. Good luck, Ed, you're going to need it.
64/65-Team Era. The SoCon has been a one-bid league throughout this era, and it will probably remain so this year (unless Davidson lays an egg in the conference tourney). The conference record (3-23, .115) reflects the success of two Tennessee teams, one of which is no longer in the league. In 1992, #14 ETSU defeated #3 Arizona 87-80 in one of Lute Olson's earlier tankjobs, and in 1997, #14 UT-Chattanooga went to the Sweet 16 by defeating #3 Georgia (the year prior to Tubby Smith winning the NCAA title at Kentucky) 73-70, and #6 Illinois 75-63. Since then the conference (as an average #13.6 seed) has lost ten straight first round games by an average of 13.0 pts – not too encouraging. Still, the last four years show improvement, as the league representative has only lost by an average of 9.8 pts. Below is a nice clip of Curry dropping three of his thirty against Maryland.
Final Thought. This league is all about Davidson this year. The MSM will remember the Wildcats' performance against Maryland in the NCAA Tournament and pundits like Dickie V. will be touting Curry as a PTPer all season long. Even if Davidson merely pulls one upset against the four ranked teams it plays in the pre-conference schedule, that'll be enough to entice everyone to claim it as their Cinderella come March. But there are other good teams in this conference, so Davidson shouldn't be reading its press clippings too closely. Several other teams could surprise much as Davidson did last year, and the level of talent entering the league is rising. It should make for a very fun SoCon season this time around.


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Andrew Byron Nelson, 85, passed away at home in Grandview, Wash., surrounded by family on Feb. 15, 2011. Andrew was born at home in Ferron, Utah, on Sept. 4, 1925, to Jess and Jessie (Blackburn) Nelson. He was the oldest son but the fifth child.
Andrew loved the outdoors and spent many a memorable moment with his dad in the mountains around Ferron. Andrew is still famous for putting a cow in the schoolhouse and a horse in the theater. His name is carved on many trees on Nelson Mountain.
Andrew joined the U.S. Marine Corp during World War II and his first action was the invasion on Iwo Jima. He also deployed to Japan during the occupation following their surrender. He learned to speak Japanese and later in life, loved to surprise Japanese tourists in Disneyland and Hawaii by asking and answering their questions in Japanese. He was proud of his service and attended numerous Marine Corp reunions where he could reminisce with his combat buddies.
Andrew met Rosalie J. Lownsdale in the summer of 1947 and they married in December of that year. They had four children: two boys and two girls. Andrew loved his family very much and that love of family and history got him into genealogy. He took great enjoyment presenting new finds to friends and relatives.
He was a Boy Scout leader, swim team coach and was in so many ways "larger than life." He loved to roll his eyebrows to look like horns and chase his kids (and any unsuspecting visiting child) around telling them he was the "red devil from Utah," which elicited much delighted squealing.
Andrew worked for 40 years in the telephone industry. He loved data and information which made him a natural on the computer. He had a very inquisitive mind which resulted in him collecting many "treasures" over the years. He enjoyed puttering around the house and had numerous ongoing projects involving many of those treasures.
Andrew was preceded in death by his parents, Jess and Jessie Nelson; his sisters Aileen, Betty and Jean; granddaughter Lisa and great-granddaughter Jasmine.
He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Rosalie; his sons Gary (Sherry) Nelson, of Sunnyside, Wash., and Andrew (Sylvia) Nelson, of Yakima, Wash., and daughters Ann (Scott) Manley, of Grandview, Wash., and Lesli (Jerry) Shields, of Yakima, Wash.; eight grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter.
Andrew is also survived by his sister, Winifred Mahaffey, of Taylorsville, Utah, and brothers Russell (Connie) Nelson, of Ferron, Utah, and Thad (Pat) Nelson, of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Husband, Dad, Papa, Gpops - you will be missed but you will always be in our hearts. We know you are in a better place.
The family would like to thank the staffs of Kadlec Hospital and Lower Valley Hospice. A memorial service is planned for Saturday, March 26, at 11:30 a.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Grandview., Wash. A military interment will be conducted at a later date at the Washington State Military Cemetery in the Spokane area.
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Snocross national champion Ross Martin, who races for Judnick Motorsports/Jack Link's Polaris, made a fan for life after the national finals in Lake Geneva, WI, March 21, 2010.
Martin had a stellar season this year; he was on the podium for every weekend of racing (16 podiums), won an X-Games silver medal in snocross, won the Pro Open championship and finished second in the Pro Super Stock class. After Martin won his last race of the season and was crowned the national champ, he autographed his 2010 Fly F2 Carbon Snocross helmet and gave it to an unsuspecting fan.
The lucky fan, Josie Jakel, couldn't have been happier. She jumped for joy and had tears of happiness as Martin presented her with his autographed Fly Racing helmet in front of the race fans that came to watch the action and thousands of online viewers.
Fly Racing would like to thank Ross Martin, his teammate Mike Bauer, and the whole Judnick Motorsports/Jack Links/Dupont Polaris race team as they put Fly Racing on the podium 28 times out of the 37 possible this season-11 of those podiums being first place finishes.
The team took home two championships: Pro Open and Semi-Pro Super Stock No. 1. The team also placed second in Pro Super Stock and Semi-Pro Super Stock No. 2. A silver medal at the X-Games rounded out the team's full trophy case.
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NEW ORLEANS -- After watching the Baltimore Ravens pull off a 34-31 victory over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, it's now safe to say: Joe Flacco is an elite quarterback.
I don't think there's any question about it. I had an opportunity to spend a couple minutes with Flacco before the game, and I was amazed at how calm he was. He came out all by himself, sat down on the bench and laced up his shoes. Then, he started throwing the ball. I kind of reminded him that I remembered a time when he played at Delaware and they had to go down and play a night game at Southern Illinois. He said, "Well, that was a playoff game, too."
Flacco completed 22 of 33 attempts for 287 yards and three touchdowns in the game and finishes the 2012 postseason with 11 TDs and no interceptions.
Flacco had seven games this season where he didn't throw for 200 yards, and now, he hasn't thrown an interception since the Denver game on Dec. 16.
The biggest surprise in this game was how well two quarterbacks who are both in their 20s played in their first Super Bowl. To see Flacco and Colin Kaepernick throw for 500 yards in the first three quarters of the game with only one interception? To me, that's unheard of. Usually, when you have two young quarterbacks in a game like this, before they've had any experience, it's very, very tough.
» What cost the 49ers was the early mistakes. When tight end Vernon Davis caught a pass on the first play of the game, but wasn't on the line of scrimmage, a 20-yard gain became a five-yard loss. Then, when LaMichael James fumbled the ball, and they were down two turnovers to the Ravens' none at that point, I thought that would be too tough to overcome.
» The thing I was most impressed with didn't happen on the football field. As you looked around the stadium, you didn't see one person leave the game in the last three minutes. I think that tells you how competitive this game was, and how much faith everybody had that one team would come back and win or one would hold on to win.
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Wallenpaupack Area romped to a 35-0 Week One win over Valley View.
Paupack used an ages-old strategy to hammer out a convincing win over Valley View in Week One Lackawanna Football Conference action.
The Buckhorns put out the proverbial welcome mat for perennial Division One powerhouse Valley View on Friday night, but proved less-than-gracious hosts.
Paupack dominated the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball throughout this pitched battle on the shores of The Big Lake.
Dr. Mark Watson's squad established a bruising ground game early on. That, coupled with a relentless defensive attack, catapulted the Bucks to a lopsided victory over the Cougars.
The final score was 35-0.
"To be totally honest, I'm pleasantly surprised and pretty impressed," Dr. Watson said. "Valley View is a good team, but our kids really went out there and got after them."
Jovaughn Marshall led the assault. Paupack's senior tailback exploded for more than 200 yards rushing and four touchdowns.
"The most amazing thing about Jovaughn is that he's just scratching the surface as far as potential goes," Dr. Watson said. "Once he gets a little more comfortable at the position, it's going to be downright scary."
Paupack will look to open its 2013 LFC campaign with two straight wins this coming weekend.
The Bucks hit the road Friday evening for a battle with archrival Honesdale. This Division I-II crossover contest also represents the 21st edition of the Wayne/ Pike Shrine Bowl.
"I'm really hoping that the momentum carries over," said Dr. Watson. "It should be a great game. Honesdale's a good team and that whole Shrine Bowl setting is just outstanding."
Opening kick-off is slated for 7 p.m. at the HHS Athletic Complex.
Valley View entered this Week One encounter as one of the favorites to challenge for a Division One title.
However, after suffering a 35-0 beatdown, it's Paupack that may now be receiving consideration.
The Cougars managed just nine first downs and 122 yards of total offense on the night, a performance that left Dr. Watson smiling from ear-to-ear.
"In all my years coaching here, I don't think I've ever seen a defense play so physically," he said. "The kids were relentless right from the get-go.
Kenny Roman was the ringleader. Paupack's senior defensive tackle blocked a punt, made two tackles for loss and recorded a sack.
"I think that's the best all-round game Kenny has ever played," Dr. Watson said. "He was awesome. They just couldn't stop him."
Roman also played a key role in unleashing Marshall offensively. Kenny notched four pancake blocks that helped his tailback shred Valley View's front seven.
Marshall got Paupack on the board midway through the first quarter on a 4-yard touchdown run. Jovaughn then made it 14-0 with a 9-yard scoring scamper at the 3:06 mark.
By the time he was done, Marshall would amass 204 yards and four TDs.
"Jovaughn just ran with so much power," said Dr. Watson. "He showed a ton of balance. He kept moving, kept his legs churning. Jovaugh was very, tough to tackle out there."
Marshall's highlight reel effort of the evening came early in the third period when he broke loose on a 71-yard TD run.
Paupack's O-Line also earned high marks for its dominance up front. Matt Guinard (Sr), Kyle Vasey (Sr), Billy Rotella (Jr), Marc Peterson (Jr) and TJ Root (Jr) combined to pave the way for Marshall.
Over & Out
Senior Ricky Smith and sophomore Matt Vosburg also contributed big plays to the Paupack win.
Smith closed out the scoring by rumbling over from four yards away with 7:16 left in regulation.
Vosburg was perfect on his placement tries, banging through all five of his extra point attempts.
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Detectives with Port Arthur Police Department's Major Crime Unit are currently investigating a report of possible child abuse after receiving a call from a local hospital regarding life-threatening injuries to a one-month-old child.
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Ben Affleck: Filmmaker of the Year 2012
After he directed a couple of good movies, you probably thought: Eh, Boston crime flicks? Big deal—he barely left his backyard. But now, thanks to his globe-trotting, Oscar-caliber Argo—a gripping period thriller slash pitch-perfect showbiz satire— there's no denying it: Ben Affleck is a world-class filmmaker. He explains to Chris Heath how he hit rock bottom and reinvented himself as Hollywood's newest heavyweight
"I'm a little bit scattered and frazzled," Ben Affleck declares. His third movie as a director, Argo, is a few weeks from opening, and he has been doing all he can to help it on its way. These days, he explains, he's reluctant to push himself too far to promote movies where he is just an actor—some reasons for this may become clear later on—but when he is the director, everything's different. "I direct a movie," he says, "and I'll stand out there in a chicken outfit with one of those twirling signs: FIVE DOLLARS OFF CHICKEN IF YOU SEE ARGO."
Perhaps it's in that spirit—sign-twirling salesman in a chicken suit—that Affleck initially engages with today's conversation. Never mind that Argo, based on the unbelievable-but-true tale of how the CIA set up a fake Hollywood science-fiction B movie in an attempt to smuggle six Americans out of Iran during the embassy crisis of 1979, is plenty good enough to prosper on its own merits. Its director—and its star—is also prepared to do whatever he must, which these days tends to require his acquiescence in the telling of a simple, three-part story about Ben Affleck's life so far: the rise, the fall, and then the unexpected reemergence as Hollywood's latest actor turned director with the golden touch.
All three parts of that story are, broadly speaking, true, but the full tale is a lot stranger and crazier and, at times, much more brutal. And as we begin to linger on some of the more extraordinary details, Affleck becomes increasingly animated. It feels as though it's been a while since he has really talked this through, and that he might still have as much to work out about what happened to him as anyone else.
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Ben Affleck was a child actor, if not exactly a child star. His big success was a long-running educational science TV series called The Voyage of the Mimi, in which he was inquisitive and smart and keen and a little dorky. Acting was all he ever wanted to do, a delicate ambition to hold in a family with a father who had once wished for the same. "I lived with this tremendous fear of failure," Affleck says, "because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he...he failed, basically. Not just being an alcoholic and stuff. He didn't do what he said he was going to do. He worked with guys who later became famous, like James Woods and Dustin Hoffman, and he wasn't successful. And that wasn't going to be me."
Affleck explicitly connects some of the missteps he would make later in his career to this fear of failure. "That definitely drove me," he says. "It drove me and drove me and drove me." But if it hurt, it also helped. "I have it to blame for some choices of working for money," he reflects, "and I have it to thank for not giving up."
Affleck became friends with Matt Damon when he was 8. Damon was 10. At that age, a two-year gap is huge and an unlikely one to have bridged. Damon's bicycle was too big for Affleck to ride, he remembers, and Damon could simply blow him away on the basketball court. But there was something that balanced everything out. "I was littler and I was younger, but I had done acting," he says, "and that's something that Mattwanted to do. That's the thing I had." He was happy to share it. Affleck introduced Damon to his New York agent, who was pleased to sign up Damon, too: "He had the perfect look—blond-sweet-all-American-boy kind of face." After that, the two of them would travel down from Boston together to fail at the same auditions—for The Mickey Mouse Club, Batman & Robin—and would share lots of intense-young-actor talk, planning out careers they hadn't yet earned any reason to expect. "I remember," says Affleck, laughing at their presumption, "we both decided that the ideal career to have was Robert Duvall's."
After the usual years of struggle came the miracle of Good Will Hunting. "It was a product of a time in one's life that is actually kind of magical—when you've become capable and have yet to realize that you're fallible and that you're going to die," Affleck reflects. In the movie, Damon was the lead—the instinctive math genius who may or may not learn to cherish and use his talent—and Affleck was the kindhearted storytelling manual-laborer friend who, for his comrade to soar free, would have to be left behind. Much of what the two of them put into the screenplay was drawn from their own lives, but it took Affleck a while to realize that some people also assumed that this overall dynamic was true. "Like 'Here's the lovable dim friend who's along for the ride' or something," he says. "And Matt was a math genius! I didn't even realize it for a long time, because it was such a positive experience. It was only two years later I had a conversation with a girl in the business, she said something along the lines of, 'I thought you were the dim-witted friend—you're pretty bright.' I was shocked. I had this moment of profound reflection: Does everybody think this about me?"
If they did, it was no impediment to his acting career. When Affleck was starting out, he had been told that he was simply not leading-man material. Too tall, for one thing. "One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine." It got to him, and he was determined to prove people wrong, sometimes in ways that in retrospect may have been foolish. He had been cast in Michael Bay's_Armageddon_ even before _Good Will Hunting's release, in the process agreeing to some stipulated self-improvement. A couple of his teeth had been chipped, and one slightly smashed, in an accident with a pool triangle, but the required enhancements went beyond that—his teeth were to be capped so that the spaces between them would be filled, his smile smoothed out into one befitting a movie star. It was all part of the_Armageddon production budget: "At the time it just seemed like, 'Well, this is the fake-teeth-getting part of my career.' " Affleck seems unsure to this day whether this choice counts as an iniquitous compromise or as common sense and a free upgrade. "I guess I'm torn between my vanity and my principles still."
More big roles followed. Exactly how and when the tide turned against Affleck is complicated, but certainly one of the first markers was his second Michael Bay movie, Pearl Harbor. "The problem was," he says, "that Michael just wanted to make Armageddon putting it in an aircraft carrier in World War II. You can put it almost anywhere, but you can't put it in the Second World War." Still, Pearl Harbor is one of those movies that, while remembered as something of a fiasco, was actually a significant international hit. And so Affleck, who deferred his usual fee but got a share of the profits, presumably made a fortune.
"Yeah, it worked out pretty well," he says evenly. "Yeah. Although I feel like I earned every penny. I remember someone doing a joke that said, 'That movie Pearl Harbor is the worst thing that happened to America since Pearl Harbor.' "
What are the chances of you ever making a third movie with Michael Bay?
"Uh, I don't have any interest in engaging in that sort of speculation."
The truly grim years were 2003 and 2004. One factor surely was that all five movies he released in that period (Daredevil, Gigli, Paycheck, Jersey Girl, and Surviving Christmas) were disasters of one kind or another. But it was also because the public simultaneously seemed to lap up and obsess over—and yet be disdainful of—every unremarkable aspect of his relationship with Jennifer Lopez. I had remembered a vague sense that he went through a particularly rough period, but reading back through the coverage of him in daily newspapers, it's shocking how casually poisonous it was. Here are some representative comments from respectable newspapers in that period:
There is something unbearably smug and self-satisfied about Ben Affleck.... In the history of Hollywood, has any person in his position made more wrong choices over an extended period of time?... Affleck's got a big-man-on-campus, aren't-I-fabulous vibe to him, a yappy confidence in interviews that suggests no one thinks Ben Affleck is quite as funny and charming as Ben Affleck does.... And they say we don't torture people.... Neither Lopez nor Affleck has a scintilla of the talent, epochal hold on us or enduring iconic status of their illustrious predecessors.... It's time to put Ben Affleck out of our misery.
I read two particularly blunt examples out loud to Affleck. One is: At the risk of generalizing, there may not be a person on the planet who is more socially acceptable to hate. The other:_ It is fashionable at the moment to loathe Ben Affleck. To be honest, the guy makes it easy._
"It's as mean-spirited a thing as it is kind of permissible to say in an editorial capacity," Affleck says in response to the second. That one comes from The Boston Globe. "My hometown paper."
Looking back, whatever Affleck's real or perceived shortcomings, the viciousness of what was said about him now looks like a kind of collective lunacy. "At the time, I knew on some level, 'This is insane,' " he says. No one on the planet was more socially acceptable to hate? Really? "What was that guy's name who killed his wife and dumped her off the side of a boat?" He supplies the answer himself. "Peterson. I remember thinking he actually gets slightly better treatment than I do in the press. At least they had to say 'alleged killer.' Unfortunately there's an aspect of that that's like one of those fights you see on YouTube where one of them falls down and then a bunch of people who were standing around come over and kick the person. They don't know them, they have no involvement in the fight, but they recognize a moment that they can get a free shot in, and for some people it's just too much to resist. And that was definitely me at that point. I was the guy. I was the designated person to loathe."
He's still trying to work out exactly what it was all about. "The amount of venom—I must have touched some specific little place in the consciousness," he says. "I don't believe I didn't deserve any negative judgment for anything, but it was just way out of whack." He couldn't recognize in himself the person he was suddenly assumed to be. "People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I've never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn't me at all." There was also something about the way the public saw him and Lopez, as though they were each simultaneously unworthy of the other, both making some kind of laughably terrible mistake, some kind of humiliating blunder that involved race and gender and class and talent, so that both were acting in a way that was inauthentic, that was a shameful betrayal of who they really were. The notion that they might be two people who just happened to have fallen in love was given short shrift. (About Lopez they were, if anything, even harsher. Affleck mentions how glad he was when Lopez appeared recently on American Idol so that the public finally had a chance to see that she was a perfectly pleasant person.)
Part of the contempt centered around a perception that they were courting this kind of attention, deliberately living out a romance in public and for publicity. Affleck suggests that he and Lopez emerged as a famous celebrity couple at the exact moment that the market for celebrity-gossip magazines exploded; that they were caught in the crossfire, and also blamed for the public's simultaneous desire for and revulsion over all this endless coverage. Though Affleck and Lopez did do an unbearably cloying joint TV interview on Dateline, and probably updated the world about their ongoing romance in more detail than they needed to, there's little evidence that they went looking for what they received. "The most pernicious illusion, myth, was that this is something that this guy wants," says Affleck. " 'He's wanting this much coverage.' That's the most unappealing thing that you can say about somebody. And I knew how disastrous it was. It was the last thing I wanted, and I could tell it was damaging me, and I tried to get away from it, but there was still this idea: This is what this guy wants, he's a shallow guy, a camera whore or whatever. And there was no convincing people that that wasn't the case." The more he speaks about all of this, the more it's clear that, once reawakened, the torment—and his bewilderment over what overtook him—is still fresh.
He does concede some mistakes. "There were ways I did contribute to it, still kind of naively. Like these car dealerships would often say, 'Hey, do you want to drive around a car? Go take it as long as you like. You can drive this Rolls-Royce for nothing, for free.' The Boston kid in me thought, 'This is great! What a deal! I can just drive this car around. Let my friends drive it.' But then this image of a young guy in a Rolls-Royce was very off-putting to people. Probably be off-putting to me now if I saw it. And I didn't quite have the wherewithal to be smart about that at the time."
By the end of it all, Affleck had a series of failed movies, a failed relationship, and some of the worst press anyone has ever earned for doing little more than acting and being famous and occasionally showing a little clumsiness at both. He was left feeling battered by it all, an experience that he says "was really bad for me in all kinds of different ways, particularly in terms of my emotional life, my sense of self."
Did you strategize how to deal with it, or did you just run away for a while?
"I think I just ran away. You can only handle so much. I moved for a while to this place in Georgia that I have, was able to get away, by and large, from stuff. Come up with a plan for how to do something with my life that doesn't put me in the crosshairs of this sort of thing."
Affleck decided that he wanted to direct a movie. The last time he had directed anything was as a student in California: a precociously themed short about a film director who goes mad. "About how people who are creative are indulged," says Affleck. "And they can do anything outrageous just because they are successful." He didn't write the script, but he did come up with the title: I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meathook, and Now I Have a Three Picture Deal at Disney.
Now he wanted to direct a real feature film. At the time he had little optimism about how, even if he managed to pull it off, a movie directed by Ben Affleck would be welcomed. "I just assumed it would be received poorly," he says, "because it seemed the way that people wanted to talk about me." But Gone Baby Gone, a modestly budgeted dark thriller adapted from a Dennis Lehane book and starring his brother, Casey, was received warmly. "Nobody went to the movie, but we got pretty decent reviews."
Back then, there was another measure of success or failure that stuck in his head. He had never thought of Gone Baby Gone as the first step in a bold new career, but somebody told him that about 80 percent of the members of the Directors Guild of America only ever make one movie, and when he heard that he was determined not to be one of them. "The first day of The Town was one of the most satisfying days of my career," he says. "For better or worse, I'm going to have made two movies." The Town was a tale of crime and love in Boston, and this time Affleck directed himself in the lead role. Affleck says that The Town tested poorly in previews, and so it came as a surprise when it was not only acclaimed but a substantial commercial hit. Now, with the early enthusiasm surrounding Argo, Affleck suddenly seems to be reinvented as someone who can do little wrong.
When asked what he may be good at as a director, Affleck talks about allowing actors a freedom to relax and time to succeed, and about having the patience to edit performances meticulously, and about looking out for the kind of special moments he cherished when he watched movies ("...that great moment where Brando turns around and looks at Martin Sheen...this incredible moment in Glory where Denzel is getting whipped and looks up...") and building a movie around them, and about a focus on a kind of simplicity ("My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting"), and most of all about the pure amount of effort he puts in. "I appreciate the fact that I get to do it, and I work really, really hard. I went into it thinking, 'I'm new at this,' but I also went into it with a healthy sense that I needed to succeed, and the one thing I could control was to work as hard or harder than anyone else."
Why did you need to succeed?
"It just felt like life or death to me."
Our conversation takes place on the top floor of the Beverly Hilton, chosen because it is where a key scene in Argo was filmed. During the shoot, this room was full of actors dressed as bad-science-fiction aliens for a press event intended to drum up authentic-seeming publicity for the fake film whose production is devised as cover to smuggle the six Americans out of Iran. Today there are just the two of us, seated at a very small table in a large empty room. Hotel staff periodically come by to inquire when everyone else will be arriving.
As we talk, Affleck eats a burger. On the way here, he was caught in Los Angeles traffic and suddenly realized that he was alongside the TMZ Hollywood Tour and that he had been spotted. He gamely waved to the passengers and clearly was as charming as the situation required. ("Very cool guy, drove right up next to the bus and said hi to everyone," someone aboard later tweeted.) But Affleck tells me that it soon got awkward, because the traffic forced the two vehicles to shuffle forward together, and the TMZ host began to bombard him with family questions. Eventually he turned off into a store's parking lot, not because it was somewhere he wanted to go but because it was somewhere they wouldn't.
Soon he'll be returning to the family they were asking about: "There's going to be three maniacs screaming and running around the house." Affleck explains how skillfully his older children—he has 6- and 3-year-old daughters as well as a baby son born earlier this year—are learning to stretch out the bedtime ritual by increments, day by day. "But it's sweet," he says, "and washes away all the other stuff."
Affleck is married to Jennifer Garner. They got together at the end of that period when everything was at its lowest. "It was a really, really good thing that happened to me around the time that it was nice to have something good happen," he says. "And she's just a great woman and a great friend." As well as, he says, a stellar mother: "She has such wise and certain stewardship over these three characters that I love so much."
Which presumably allows you to sweep in to be hero dad.
"Oh, believe me, I'm always trying to sweep in and be hero dad, give them things they're not allowed to have, just completely pander to them. 'Have you had dessert yet?' 'You guys want to watch TV?' "
Affleck is not without ego, but he seems sincere about the fact that he considers his directing career only in its early days and that there is much more he can learn. To this end he is currently giving himself a methodical education, a process triggered by the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die and his realization that he'd seen far too few. (His favorite discovery so far has been the work of John Cassavetes: "I totally ripped off The Killing of a Chinese Bookie for the L.A. sections of Argo.")
That's also the reason why he took the latest of his now occasional acting roles for another director in Terrence Malick's To the Wonder. Affleck is well aware that the result may not be to everyone's taste. "I understand it got booed quite thoroughly at [the Venice Film Festival]," he says. "Honestly, you have to want to see that movie—there's hardly any talking. It's a tone poem. If you don't want to see that, you should not go." Affleck had a fair idea of what he was getting involved in because when he met Malick for lunches and dinners beforehand, Malick would tell him things like, "Just more and more I'm more interested in silences"—which is a slightly unusual thing to say to an actor you're about to cast in a movie. Malick also told Affleck he wanted him to be like Gary Cooper, but when Affleck showed Malick some Gary Cooper tapes he'd put together, Malick was horrified. "Oh, no no no! He's just rattling on!" Malick exclaimed. This wasn't the Gary Cooper of Malick's memory: "Gary Cooper, he just stares off."
They filmed for eight weeks in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. "The experience of it seemed half-crazy in that we didn't really have dialogue, so I didn't really know what was happening. Then I realized that he was accumulating colors that he would use to paint with later in the editing room. My character doesn't really do that much. It was kind of a wash for me in terms of learning something as an actor, because Terry uses actors in a different way—he'll [have the camera] on you and then tilt up and go up to a tree, so you think, 'Who's more important in this—me or the tree?' But you don't ask him, because you don't want to know the answer."
Anyway, Affleck didn't take the job for that—he took the job because he wanted to learn from Malick as a director, and this he did: ways of using natural light, being nimble enough to just jump out of a van and start filming. More skills stored up for all the movies he hopes to make.
One film he is developing—"It's not ready; it's not good enough yet"—is about the Boston gangster Whitey Bulger and will star Matt Damon. (Affleck and Damon regularly confer about work. Damon and his wife and four kids live very close to Affleck in the same Los Angeles neighborhood and get together for barbecues and such.) Affleck is also working on an adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand, struggling to condense its epic nature into a manageable form. "Right now we're having a very hard time," he says. "But I like the idea—it's like _The Lord of the Rings _in America. And it's about how we would reinvent ourselves as a society. If we started all over again, what would we do?"
You can hear his calm and satisfaction when he talks about things like this, as though he has finally found himself a life with the kinds of problems he wants to have. In his head he has a notion that he should direct four movies in the next ten years. With maybe the occasional acting job in between.
"I'm in a place where I feel a bit more like I felt after Good Will Hunting, but with a sort of added perspective," he says. "I feel like I've gone round a loop once. And for this lap, it's more measured. I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine."
Chris Heath is a GQ correspondent.


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DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co forecast a $2 billion loss in Europe this year, pointing to a punishing recession that could drive down industry sales in the region to a 20-year low.
By contrast, Ford expects to make more money this year in North America, its most profitable region. But the No. 2 U.S. automaker also predicted 10-percent operating margins in North America, smaller than the 10.4 percent reported last year.
The weak outlook overshadowed Ford's better-than-expected fourth-quarter results, and sent the company's shares tumbling as much as 6.5 percent. At the stock's low point, the declines wiped away more than $3 billion in market value.
The forecast "undercuts the popular investor thesis that Ford offers significant earnings expansion from a booming U.S. auto market while having 'Europe-proofed' its guidance," Barclays Capital analyst Brian Johnson said in a research note.
It was the fourth time in 12 months Ford ratcheted down expectations in Europe, illustrating how difficult it has been for automakers to predict and manage the rapid deterioration of sales in the region.
Ford expects the industry to sell between 13 million and 13.5 million vehicles in Europe this year. At the bottom of that range, sales in Europe would sink to their lowest level since 1993, according to automotive consultancy IHS Automotive.
"We're likely to see, in the euro zone, a recession for the full year," Chief Financial Officer Bob Shanks told reporters.
"Clearly, we still have some difficult times in front of us," Shanks said of Europe. "But we do think it will probably bottom this year."
While Ford draws the lion's share of its revenue and profits from North America, Europe is Ford's second-biggest source of revenue. It now expects to lose more in Europe this year than the nearly $1.8 billion loss it recorded in 2012.
Ford shares were down 5.6 percent to $13 on the New York Stock Exchange by early afternoon, the stock's biggest one-day decline since August 2011.
Some investors had been hoping that Ford would forecast North American margins of at least 11 percent for the year, Johnson said. He had predicted Ford would target a 10.6 percent margin, while Morgan Stanley estimated a 10.2 percent.
Still, Ford expects to earn more money in North America this year and gain market share in the United States.
Overall, Ford looks for total operating profit this year to match 2012 levels. In South America and Asia Pacific and Africa regions, Ford expects to break even.
So far, weakness in Europe has been balanced by Ford's strength in North America, which is reaping the benefits of Chief Executive Alan Mulally's "One Ford" turnaround strategy.
Jefferies analyst Peter Nesvold estimated Ford cut capacity in North America by a little more than one-fifth from 2006 to 2009. Higher vehicle prices commanded an additional $10 billion in revenues from 2006 to 2010, Nesvold said.
As a result, Ford avoided government bailouts needed by rivals General Motors Co and Chrysler Group LLC in 2009. The North American restructuring serves as the blueprint for Europe's overhaul.
"One has to believe the shares have tremendous upside if Ford comes even close to replicating its North American restructuring success in Europe," Nesvold wrote on Tuesday in a research note.
Ford reported a per-share pretax operating profit of 31 cents in the fourth quarter, better than the average analyst estimate of 25 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Fourth-quarter revenue totaled $36.5 billion.
Ford spent $1.2 billion on lump-sum pension buyouts last year, but did not say how many salaried retirees took the offer.
Ford earned nearly $1.9 billion in North America in the quarter, almost $1 billion better than the fourth quarter of 2011. It lost $732 million in Europe, much worse than the $190 million loss it reported a year earlier.
But Europe remains unpredictable, Ford and other automakers have said, adding it would take more action if necessary. Ford plans to close three factories and reduce capacity in Europe by 18 percent to save as much as $500 million a year.
In early 2012, Ford estimated it would lose $600 million in Europe and increased that forecast to "at least" $1.5 billion by October. Ford also said late last year that its 2013 losses in Europe would match 2012 levels.
Of the $2 billion in losses Ford now expects in Europe, about $500 million are restructuring costs, CFO Shanks said.
"Ford continues to take its medicine in Europe, while Asia Pacific and South America feel upfront costs as they position for longer-term growth," Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas said.
Reporting by Deepa Seetharaman and Paul Lienert; Additional reporting by Laurence Frost; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe and Leslie Gevirtz


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It seems like high-end pet food would have taken a hit during the struggling economic recovery, but Stella & Chewy's didn't feel the pinch.
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"We have a very loyal customer base. The Stella & Chewy's brand is a premium brand, and growth has continued about 50% year over year," CEO Jen Guzman told FBN's Jeff Flock in the latest Conference Room interview.
Guzman and founder Marie Moody say pet owners are always willing to spend on what's most important to them: their furry companions' health and wellness.
"The pet food and treat market tends to be more recession-proof than some of the hard goods like accessories and pet beds … people realize if you're going to spend money on pets, the most impactful way is to spend it on their health," says Guzman.
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Stella & Chewy's is proud of its innovative approach to pet food: no fillers, organic fruits and vegetables, and healthful probiotics, vitamins and minerals.
"It's as close to human food as you can get," says Guzman.
Moody says she got the idea for the company after she adopted her own dog.
"I rescued a dog, and he was very sick, and I did research on pet food. I found that this is a very species-appropriate and healthy way to feed," says Moody.
In addition to the company's blend of ingredients – 95% meat, 5% organic fruits and veggies – Stella & Chewy's also innovates in presentation. By freeze-drying the blend, Operations Director Lloyd Parks says the company can offer its fresh food in a shelf-stable format, making it more accessible for shoppers.
Lastly, the company says the food's high cost ($40 for a bag that lasts two to three weeks) shouldn't deter customers.
"Our philosophy is that some raw food is better than none, so we're trying to get some of this into every pet's diet. They don't need to be using it as a complete and balanced food, although they can," says sales director Doug Siegal.


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Hudson goes 8 2/3 as Giants edge Padres
SAN FRANCISCO -- Good things always seem to happen for the Giants when Tim Hudson takes the mound, and Wednesday night was no exception.
Hudson came within one out of his first complete game in two years, needing just 89 pitches to get through 26 outs of San Francisco's 3-2 victory over the San Diego Padres.View Full Game Coverage
SAN FRANCISCO -- Good things always seem to happen for the Giants when Tim Hudson takes the mound, and Wednesday night was no exception.
Hudson came within one out of his first complete game in two years, needing just 89 pitches to get through 26 outs of San Francisco's 3-2 victory over the San Diego Padres.View Full Game Coverage
"He just put on a clinic," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "He stayed down the whole game, had good movement, changed speeds and threw strike one. If you want to show young pitchers how to do it, that's how you'd do it."
The crowd of 42,164 enjoyed a swift game that lasted 2 hours and 17 minutes, the quickest game of the year, on a windless night and short-sleeve weather. The game-time temperature was a balmy 80 degrees.
"It was definitely an economical night for sure," Hudson said. "I was able to get down in the strike zone and stay down in the zone, work ahead in the count. Guys were making some good plays behind me. I was able to stay out of the middle of the plate, for the most part. It was a fun night for us."
Hudson's gem was the latest in a series from a pitching staff that has helped guide the Giants to wins in six of their last seven games. The Giants finished their homestand with a 5-1 mark, sitting in first place in the National League West as April comes to a close.
Hudson (4-1) became the first pitcher to work at least seven innings in his first six starts with the Giants since Livan Hernandez in 2002. Hudson allowed two runs on five hits, striking out six without issuing a walk.
Hudson, who has an ERA of 2.17, has allowed two walks in 45 2/3 innings this season. His strikeout-to-walk ratio is 15.5 to 1.
"He was throwing the ball down, down and away, down and in, slider action, good split," Padres shortstop Everth Cabrera said. "Hudson does a really good job of taking advantage of guys. He does his job."
Hudson had a 3-0 lead to work with as he started the eighth inning. Michael Morse doubled in a run in the first inning, giving him 20 RBIs to become the fourth Giants player in the past 10 years to drive in that many runs in April. Hunter Pence, who had two hits, singled and stole second ahead of Morse's hit.
"You can't let a guy like that get ahead in the count," Padres manager Bud Black said. "He'll really give you fits. Those pitches that were early-count swings looked to me as though they were in good spots, we just didn't hit them."
Brandon Hicks hit his fifth home run of the season leading off the second inning, giving the Giants a homer in eight straight games, their longest streak since going deep in 10 straight late in 2010. Buster Posey added an RBI single in the seventh.
Cameron Maybin had a leadoff double in the eighth and scored after a pair of groundouts as the Padres made it 3-1. Hudson came to start the ninth, accompanied by a loud roar of support from the crowd.
He was on the verge of going the distance when Yasmani Grandal's splash-hit homer chased him, but Sergio Romo got the final out.
"He got ground balls and attacked hitters," Bochy said of Hudson. "He's had a great month. He's been so consistent. Believe me, no one wanted him to get that complete game more than me. But I had my closer ready; he's hot and well rested. I like to think I got him ready for a reason."
Giants' first baseman Brandon Belt broke an 0-for-17 streak with a two-out double in the third. He said Hudson makes it easy to play defense.
"He keeps you on your toes. As a defense, you love that because you're ready for the next play and you're waiting for it to get hit to you," Belt said. "That was a great effort. We expect him to be consistent every time out and he is consistent."
Hicks and shortstop Brandon Crawford each made fine plays behind Hudson, who threw 67 strikes.
"When you have a good tempo and you're throwing strikes, the defense usually plays better," Bochy said. "They're on their toes because he pounded the strike zone and pitched to contact. Consequently they made great plays for him."
Belt entered the contest with 10 strikeouts in 16 at bats for the homestand. He made contact in his first three at bats and is encouraged.
"I felt a lot better at the plate," he said. "I was able to put the bat on the ball. It's a matter of continuing to work on it."
The Giants have 34 home runs, the most in April since hitting 36 in April 2000.
Rick Eymer is a contributor to MLB.com.


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Charlie Sheen Arrested, Spends Christmas In Jail
Charlie Sheen was arrested Friday morning (December 25) and charged with second degree assault and menacing and criminal mischief in Aspen, Colorado, police said.
Charlie's rep, Stan Rosenfield, released a statement saying, "Do not be misled by appearance. Appearance and reality can be as different as night and day."
The 44-year-old actor, whose real name is Carlos Irwin Estevez, has been married to real estate investor Brooke Mueller since May. The couple welcomed twin sons born in March. Charlie has two young daughters with actress Denise Richards, and a teen daughter from his relationship with Paula Profit.
Charlie currently stars in the popular CBS comedy Two and a Half Men.


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Have You Heard About… Little Treasures
… the sweet pet names parents call their children? Little Treasures, by Jacqueline Ogburn and Chris Raschka, looks at endearments used around the world. From "honey" and "pumpkin" to "little coconut candy" (docinho de coco – Portuguese) and "my chick" (mi pollita – Spanish), families everywhere have silly names they use for the children they love. This book gives examples from fourteen different languages used around the world.
A book this broadly based cannot hope to be comprehensive. However, it gives a good overview of languages spoken in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. The endearments are given in translation, in the language's normal script (transliterated where necessary), and with a suggested pronunciation. The illustrations show a wide variety of children and adults, and the text emphasizes the fact that families love children throughout the world. This is a sweet book for parents to share with their children, and possibly come up with a special pet name just for them.
I wonder if my nieces should be "my bubble of joy" (yeinay filiklik – Amharic), "little beetle" (chrobáčik – Slovak), or "flower bud" (nuppunen – Finnish)!
Reviewed by Fran (staff)