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We are opening a self-serve frozen yogurt in an upper-middle class, young family oriented area of Southern California. We are hoping to set ourselves apart from the popular, but trendy Yogurtland, Cherry on Top, Pinkberry theme. We will have 16 flavors and 50+ toppings.
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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Forty-eight individuals gathered in Oklahoma City earlier this month to see if they had what it takes to be one of the Navy's most elite, a Navy SEAL.
Held in conjunction with Oklahoma City Navy Week, the SEAL Fitness Challenge was held at the Oklahoma City Community College Aquatic Center. More than 20 U.S. cities will host Navy weeks in 2008 in an effort to increase awareness in metropolitan areas that do not have a significant Navy fleet presence.
Participants tested their fitness, strength and stamina in the SEAL Fitness Challenge, including a 500-yard swim, push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups and a 1 1/2-mile run.
"The event went really well, including the results of the females who came out," says Chief Information Systems Technician Matt Pate of Navy Recruiting District Dallas. "Pull-ups present the biggest challenge for females."
Three females turned out for the event, including the 17-year-old daughter of Edmond, OK, resident Scotty Pippen. A straight-A student and high school senior, Pippen's daughter, who almost qualified to be a SEAL, is considering a career in the Navy, her father says.
"She's phenomenal," says Aviation Electrician's Mate 1st Class Eric Hinson with Navy Recruiting Station in Edmond, OK. "She's a good athlete, and I'd love to put her in the Navy."
Eleven of the men made it through.
"We saw some good swimmers and runners, but they must be good at all of it to pass," Pate says.
The top three finishers and fastest swimmer received a medallion. All challengers earned a T-shirt for participating in the event.

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Shot in high-definition, Alaska Outdoors TV – produced by 59th Parallel Productions Inc. – gives viewers an open window into Alaska's remote wilderness. Alaska's best outdoor enthusiasts team up to challenge rugged terrain and often-unforgiving conditions. Cameras follow these outdoor adventurists in each episode as they explore a variety of diverse hunting and fishing opportunities in Alaska's last frontier."It has been a crazy season,"adds executive producer Tim Delarm. "A lot of amazing adventure was experienced and I'm really glad that I was personally there to witness places I have not been before and to capture it all on film. I'm still amazed, as an Alaskan, at the vast size and number of outdoor opportunities available to each and every one of us. I think the whole team pretty much feels that way; people are going to see this show and realize really how remote, untamed and rugged Alaska is."
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Much of the novel takes place in the Marshalsea prison for debtors, an environment with which Dickens was familiar due to his own family history. William Dorrit, father of "Little Dorrit," has been confined to the prison for so long when the book opens that he has become known inside its walls as "Father of the Marshalsea." He has lost all hope of ever being released from the prison and has learned to enjoy the respect that he receives there from prison employees and fellow-prisoners alike. In fact, he has been imprisoned for so long that Little Dorrit, born inside the prison walls, is now a young woman working as a seamstress outside the walls in order to be able to bring her father some of the luxuries not provided to prisoners. She faithfully returns to the prison every evening in order to see that her father is as comfortable as possible.
Into this mix arrives one Arthur Clennam, only recently returned to
But this is only one of the book's major plotlines. Dickens also spends hundreds of pages introducing a predatory Frenchman and describing how this despicable man is attempting to extort money from Clennam's mother because he knows some dark secret of hers that she is desperate to keep hidden.
At its heart, Little Dorrit is a love story, one that seems destined for a sad ending because middle-aged Arthur Clennam feels that Little Dorrit can never see him as anything more than a friend and father-figure. She, on the other hand, living in complete poverty, does not feel worthy of Clennam's attention. Pride proves to be a two-way street, and when Little Dorrit finally admits her love for Clennam, he is broke and refuses her because he does not want to leave the prison at her expense.
Little Dorrit is filled with side-characters who have distinct personalities and stories of their own to tell. It is through them that Dickens so successfully recreates the world of early nineteenth century
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – NEWMAC powerhouse MIT rebounded from its recent non-conference loss on Saturday, beating Babson College 9-0 a day after falling to Bowdoin by a 5-4 score. With the win, the Engineers remained unbeaten in league play at 8-4 overall and 3-0 in the NEWMAC, while the Beavers dropped to 4-9 overall and 0-3 against conference competition.
The top two doubles matchups were both decided by just two points, but the host Engineers came out on top in both contests. At number one, MIT's duo of Ken Van Tilburg and Matthew Skalak edged Babson's Mitchell Henry and Nissim Cohen-Sabban, 8-6, while at number two, Curtis Wu and Edwin Zhang slipped past Beavers' captains Danny Schneider and Austin Conti by the same score. MIT would complete the doubles sweep with an 8-2 triumph at number three.
The Engineers put the match away by winning the top five singles contests in straight sets. The closest singles battle came at number six, where MIT's Andrew Cooper rallied to beat Babson's Ferran Arimon in a third-set superbreaker, 4-6, 6-2, 1-0 (10-4).


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WASHINGTON — Certain law partners no longer call Theodore B. Olson for lunch. Old friends no longer come to dinner at his sprawling house in the woods near the Potomac. One of his best friends died in December, somewhat estranged.
All since Olson — the conservative legal hero, crusader against Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, defender of George W. Bush — signed on to fight for same-sex marriage in California, a battle that he will take to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday when he challenges Proposition 8, the state measure that banned gay marriage.
An earlier version of this story said Olson would argue the case with a co-counsel. He will argue it alone. It also said that if the Supreme Court strikes down a ban on same-sex marriage in California, gay marriage will be legal nationwide. Such a ruling would not necessarily go that far.
Olson will argue that gays and lesbians should have an equal right to marry, a view that, if shared by the justices in a ruling after Tuesday's hearing, would strike down the California ban.
PATT MORRISON ASKS: Theodore B. Olson, Legal eagle
"They feel a little rebuffed, that their leader has turned on them," said Olson's wife, Lady Booth Olson.


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FDA: Seven infections tied to steroid injections from Tenn. compounding pharmacy
WASHINGTONFederal health officials are investigating reports of complications caused by possibly contaminated medications made by a Tennessee specialty pharmacy.
The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that the investigation involves seven reports from patients who received steroid injections from Main Street Family Pharmacy, a compounding pharmacy in Newbern, Tenn.
The injections contain methylprednisolone acetate, the same drug at the center of last year's deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis. More than 55 people have died and over 740 others have been sickened after receiving contaminated injections from a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy, the New England Compounding Center. The steroids are usually used to treat pain and reduce inflammation.
The FDA said in a statement at least one of the seven cases appears to be a fungal infection. The government recommends doctors stop using any sterile drugs distributed by the pharmacy and quarantine them until further notice.
To date, there have been no reports of meningitis or life-threatening infections, the State of Tennessee Department of Health said in a press release.
The department added the patients were in Illinois and North Carolina, and received the injections after Dec. 6, 2012.
Health care facilities in at least 13 states received the products including: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Kentucky, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
"The pharmacy staff and management have been cooperative," state regulators added in the press release.
The Dyersburg State Gazette reported in April that Main Street Family Pharmacy had been placed on probation for two years by the Tennessee State Board of Pharmacy beginning in March. Last November, the Board had inspected the facility and found violations related to drug compounding, expired medications, and outdated prescription orders, the Tenn. paper reported.
CBS News requested comment from the pharmacy but phone calls were not returned.
Main Street Family Pharmacy is a compounding pharmacy, which means it mixes custom formulations of drugs based on doctors' specifications.
Compounding pharmacies have long operated in a legal gray area between state and federal regulations. Since last year's outbreak, the FDA has stepped up inspections of compounding pharmaciesacross the country, triggering several national recalls of potentially contaminated medications.
Drug compounders have been overseen by state pharmacy boards, with regulations varying widely depending on the state. Over the last 20 years some compounding pharmacies have grown into larger business, operating more like manufacturers by shipping thousands of doses of drugs across state lines. The FDA has occasionally tried to assert its authority over these operations, though it has repeatedly been challenged in court by pharmacy owners.
Legislation moving through Congress would give the FDA direct oversight over these so-called compounding manufacturers, with the aim of preventing future national outbreaks tied to compounded medications. While Republicans and Democrats in the Senate have coalesced around a bill, the House has not reached any such agreement.


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LL Cool J is to host this year's Grammys.
The award-winning rapper and actor says the February 12 broadcast is "gonna be a great night" and that his hosting duties are a dream come true.
He will be the first host in seven years for the show.
The Recording Academy has already named some performers – the Foo Fighters, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars and Jason Aldean.
It will be LL Cool J's first time hosting the awards show. He has hosted the live Grammy nominations concert since it began in 2008.
The Grammys will be broadcast on CBS from Los Angeles. The rap legend is a star on the network's NCIS: Los Angeles.
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2 Afghan ex-warlords join forces for April vote
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Two former Afghan warlords announced Thursday that they will share a ticket — one for president, the other for vice president — in next year's elections, a vote that will help shape the country's future following the departure of foreign combat troops.
Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayyaf, an influential lawmaker and religious scholar, registered his candidacy for the presidency for the April 5 election.
Another former warlord, former energy and water minister Ismail Khan, will run as Sayyaf's first vice-president, and a little-known member of Afghanistan's upper house, Abdul Wahab Irfan, as second vice president.
"We will move to unite Afghanistan. If the nation is together and has the same voice, problems can be solved," Sayyaf said.
Registration expires Oct. 6, and four presidential candidates and their respective vice-presidents have signed up so far.
The most prominent is former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, who was the runner up to President Hamid Karzai in the 2009 elections and dropped out just ahead of a runoff vote following allegations of massive fraud in the first round.
Karzai can't run for a third consecutive term and has not yet endorsed anyone. There are no clear favorites, but speculation in recent days has focused on Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul, who may wind up as a consensus candidate, and Karzai's older brother Quayum, who is a businessman and politician.
Billions of dollars in funds pledged to Afghanistan are tied to the government's holding transparent and credible elections, a challenge in a country rife with patronage and corruption and a resilient Taliban insurgency. The Taliban have asked people not to vote and do not recognize the election process.
Karzai's failure so far to sign a security deal with the United States and his apparent reluctance to do so until the elections also looms over the campaign
After nearly a year of negotiations, the United States wants a deal by October to give American and NATO military planners enough time to prepare to keep some troops in the country instead of a total pull-out by end of next year. If the U.S. does not sign the deal, it is unlikely that NATO or any of its allies will keep troops in Afghanistan after 2014.
Karzai, however, is pressing demands that the U.S. is reluctant to meet, and also is believed to want to shield himself from any possible backlash over signing a deal that some might see as compromising Afghan sovereignty.
Ethnically fractious, Afghan politics are marked by patronage and alliances among the elite — a group that includes warlords and tribal elders who can marshal votes among the country's various ethnic groups. The population of 31 million is roughly 42 percent Pashtun, 27 percent Tajik, 9 percent Hazara, and 9 percent Uzbek along with other, smaller factions. The Taliban are predominantly Pashtun.
Alliances among those groups are expected to generate coalitions that will vie for the powerful job of president.
Sayyaf and Khan are best known as warlords during Afghanistan's civil war from 1992 until the Taliban takeover in 1996, fighting on the side of the Northern Alliance against the Taliban. Previously, both also actively participated in the war against the Soviet occupation.
Sayyef, 67, is an Egyptian-trained religious scholar and ethnic Pashtun who was a lawmaker until he resigned to run for president.
Khan, who hails from Herat province, is a 67-year-old Tajik warlord who wields influence inside his ethnic community.
Irfan, a religious scholar in his forties, is from the Uzbek ethnic group but told reporters he was not a supporter of Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, another former warlord who is thought to control the majority of that group's vote.
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Lindsay Lohan has been accused of ruining the borrowed designer gown she wore to the American Foundation for AIDS Research gala earlier this month after allegedly hacking off the bottom half of the dress.
The star was photographed at the glitzy New York bash in a beaded, floor-length Theia outfit, but when it was returned to the fashion house, the $1,750 dress was in tatters.
Pictures obtained by UsMagazine.com show the gown now with a roughly cut high-low hem, and a source says, "She said that the dress had ripped (at a club after the fundraiser) – she couldn't possibly wear it like that – so her stylist friend went to the club bouncer and requested some scissors to repair the torn part of the dress."
Lohan wore the designer item after declining a generous offer from actor Charlie Sheen – to pay for style guru Phillip Block to dress her for the February 6 party.
Sheen, who met Lohan on the set of the upcoming "Scary Movie 5," had previously shared his wealth with the troubled actress by lending her $100,000 to settle her hefty tax debts.


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The people in south Asia had no warning of the next disaster rushing toward them the morning of December 26, 2004. One of the strongest earthquakes in the past 100 years had just destroyed villages on the island of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean, leaving many people injured. But the worst was yet to come—and very soon. For the earthquake had occurred beneath the ocean, thrusting the ocean floor upward nearly 60 feet. The sudden release of energy into the ocean created a tsunami (pronounced su-NAM-ee) event—a series of huge waves. The waves rushed outward from the center of the earthquake, traveling around 400 miles per hour. Anything in the path of these giant surges of water, such as islands or coastlines, would soon be under water.
The people had already felt the earthquake, so why didn't they know the water was coming?
As the ocean floor rises near a landmass, it pushes the wave higher. But much depends on how sharply the ocean bottom changes and from which direction the wave approaches.
Energy from earthquakes travels through the Earth very quickly, so scientists thousands of miles away knew there had been a severe earthquake in the Indian Ocean. Why didn't they know it would create a tsunami? Why didn't they warn people close to the coastlines to get to higher ground as quickly as possible?
In Sumatra, near the center of the earthquake, people would not have had time to get out of the way even if they had been warned. But the tsunami took over two hours to reach the island of Sri Lanka 1000 miles away, and still it killed 30,000 people!
It is important, though, to understand just how the tsunami will behave when it gets near the coastline. As the ocean floor rises near a landmass, it pushes the wave higher. But much depends on how sharply the ocean bottom changes and from which direction the wave approaches. Scientists would like to know more about how actual waves react.
MISR has nine cameras all pointed at different angles. So the exact same spot is photographed from nine different angles as the satellite passes overhead. The image at the top of this page was taken with the camera that points forward at 46°. The image caught the sunlight reflecting off the pattern of ripples as the waves bent around the southern tip of the island. These ripples are not seen in satellite images looking straight down at the surface. Scientists do not yet understand what causes this pattern of ripples. They will use computers to help them find out how the depth of the ocean floor affects the wave patterns on the surface of the ocean. Images such as this one from MISR will help.
Images such as these from MISR will help scientists understand how tsunamis interact with islands and coastlines. This information will help in developing the computer programs, called models, that will help predict where, when, and how severely a tsunami will hit. That way, scientists and government officials can warn people in time to save many lives.


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PK of Tenofovir, Emtricitabine and Efavirenz in Healthy Volunteers
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01108926
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : April 22, 2010
Last Update Posted : November 1, 2010
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The purpose of the study is to look at the levels of three HIV medications: tenofovir, emtricitabine, and efavirenz in blood after the drug intake has been stopped in order to understand how long these drugs persist in the blood. The study will specifically look at blood levels of these three drugs (taken as a 3-in-1 tablet) after taking them every day for 14 days.
This study is not randomised which means that all subjects will receive all study medications in the same order. You and the study doctor will know which study medications you are taking at all times during the study.
|Condition or disease
|HIV Infection HIV Infections
|Drug: Atripla®
|Phase 1
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|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|19 participants
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|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
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|Official Title:
|Pharmacokinetics of Tenofovir and Tenofovir-diphosphate, Emtricitabine and Emtricitabine-triphosphate, and Efavirenz Once Daily Over 10 Days Following Drug Intake Cessation in Healthy Volunteers
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|June 2010
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|October 2010
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|October 2010
Experimental: All Subjects
All Subjects will receive the same intervention
Drug: Atripla®
All subjects will be administered Atripla® (tenofovir 245 mg plus emtricitabine 200 mg plus efavirenz 600 mg), one tablet orally once daily for 14 days
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- pharmacokinetics of plasma tenofovir, emtricitabine and efavirenz [ Time Frame: 24 days ]To assess the pharmacokinetics of plasma tenofovir and emtricitabine, and their active intracellular anabolites, tenofovir-diphosphate and emtricitabine-triphosphate, and plasma efavirenz over 10 days following drug intake cessation, in HIV negative healthy volunteers
- inter subject variability [ Time Frame: 24 days ]To assess the inter subject variability in the concentrations of plasma tenofovir and emtricitabine, and their active intracellular anabolites, and plasma efavirenz following drug intake cessation
- safety and tolerability of Atripla® [ Time Frame: 24 days ]To assess the safety and tolerability of Atripla® over 14 days of administration in HIV negative healthy volunteers
- pharmacogenetic [ Time Frame: 24 days ]To investigate the association between genetic polymorphisms in drug disposition genes and drug exposure
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 65 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
Subjects must meet all of the following inclusion criteria within 28 days prior to the baseline visit:
- The ability to understand and sign a written informed consent form, prior to participation in any screening procedures and must be willing to comply with all study requirements
- Male or non-pregnant, non-lactating females
- Between 18 to 65 years, inclusive
- Body Mass Index (BMI) of 18 to 35 kg/m2, inclusive.
- Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) must be using an adequate method of contraception to avoid pregnancy throughout the study and for a period of at least 12 weeks after the study
- Willing to consent to their personal details being entered onto The Over volunteering Prevention Scheme (TOPS) database
- Willing to provide photographic identification at each visit.
- Registered with a GP in the UK
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Subjects who meet any of the following exclusion criteria are not to be enrolled in this study.
- Any significant acute or chronic medical illness
- Evidence of organ dysfunction or any clinically significant deviation from normal in physical examination, vital signs, ECG or clinical laboratory determinations
- Positive blood screen for hepatitis B surface antigen and/or C antibodies
- Positive blood screen for HIV-1 and/or 2 antibodies
- Current or recent (within 3 months) gastrointestinal disease
- Clinically relevant alcohol or drug use (positive urine drug screen) or history of alcohol or drug use considered by the Investigator to be sufficient to hinder compliance with treatment, follow-up procedures or evaluation of adverse events. Smoking is permitted, but tobacco intake should remain consistent throughout the study
- Exposure to any investigational drug or placebo within 3 months of first dose of study drug
- Use of any other drugs (unless approved by the Investigator), including over-the-counter medications and herbal preparations, within two weeks prior to first dose of study drug, unless approved/prescribed by the Principal Investigator as known not to interact with study drugs.
- Females of childbearing potential without the use of effective non-hormonal birth control methods, or not willing to continue practising these birth control methods for at least 12 weeks after the end of the treatment period
- Previous allergy to any of the constituents of the pharmaceuticals administered in this trial
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01108926
|United Kingdom
|St Stephen's Centre
|London, United Kingdom, SW10 9TH
|Principal Investigator:
|Marta Boffito, Dr
|St Stephen's AIDS Trust
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Dr Marta Boffito, St Stephen's AIDS Trust
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01108926 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
2009-018055-16 ( EudraCT Number )
|First Posted:
|April 22, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|November 1, 2010
|Last Verified:
|October 2010
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Communicable Diseases
HIV Infections
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Slow Virus Diseases
Efavirenz, Emtricitabine, Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Drug Combination
Antiviral Agents
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Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - After a strong spring trip produced wins over two nationally ranked teams, including the defending NCAA Division III National Champions, MIT's baseball team was rewarded by the NEWMAC with a sweep of the league's weekly honors. Rookie Thomas Phillips was named Co-Player of the Week while senior Wayne Duggan copped honors as Co-Pitcher of the Week.
Phillips led an impressive hitting attack for the Engineers, which continued its hot start with a 6-2 week, including a two-game split with the defending national champions, Wisconsin-Whitewater. Phillips batted .600 (15-for-25) with 12 runs batted in, eight runs, two doubles, two triples and five walks. Through 11 games this season, he was leading the team in batting (.500) and slugging (.684).
Duggan was named Co-Pitcher of the Week by the conference after securing a win in his only start of the week while adding two saves. On Saturday, Duggan threw seven innings while surrendering one earned run en route to a complete-game victory over Elms. He also picked up saves after working a combined 2.2 innings against Hartwick and Southern Maine. For the week, Duggan pitched 10.2 innings, giving up two earned runs with five strikeouts and no walks.


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The LA Galaxy are going full speed ahead with their plans for a USL team in 2014.
During his interview on Joe Tutino's LA Galaxy All-Access Podcast, Arena stated that the club is "anticipating" having a USL squad in the coming season that will help them develop existing rostered players, but also add further pieces in the Galaxy Academy.
"We're going ahead full speed. We anticipate having a USL team. That will serve our academy players who were moving up to the major league roster. It will serve our players who are not playing on a regular basis for the first team as well," Arena told Tutino. "We're going to have obviously other players involved in the [USL] roster. Between the first team, which is now 30 to 29 players in MLS, and [the USL] roster we'll likely have another 15 players who are involved in the USL and complemented by our roster. We should have 45 players here on a daily basis, two teams and a number of opportunities to give players game experience and to continue to move forward.
"We're hopeful that we can discover a couple of players through the USL team but also develop our academy players that need playing time," Arena continued. "You're going to see players like Oscar Sorto, Jack McBean, Raul Mendiola, perhaps, Jose Villarreal; all those young players that if they're not playing on a regular basis with us, they will be playing with the USL team."
Over the past year, both Techinical Director Jovan Kirovski and club President Chris Klein have discussed mentioned that a USL team was a distinct possiblity for the Galaxy in 2014.
In addition to the USL team and a myriad of other topics, Arena addressed the topic of LA Galaxy players going on offseason loans stating that "our players aren't going anywhere" noting that Landon Donovan and Omar Gonzalez are expected to join U.S. National Team's annual January camp. The Galaxy manager also stated that Robbie Keane should be back in comission after four to six weeks following his "procedure" earlier in the week.
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The Harvard wrestling team heads to Lehigh in Bethlehem, Pa., March 6-7 for the 106th Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) Championships.
The 2010 EIWA Championships will take place in four sessions. Session start times are as follows:
Sessions 1 - Saturday, March 6, 10 a.m.
Session 2 - Saturday, March 6, 3:30 p.m.(semifinals)
Session 3 - Sunday, March 7, 10 a.m. (consolation semis, place finals)
Session 4 - Sunday, March 7, 3 p.m. (championship finals)
The Contenders
American, Army, Brown, Bucknell, Columbia, Cornell, Franklin & Marshall, Harvard, Lehigh, Navy, Penn, Princeton and Rutgers make up the EIWA conference.
Location, Location, Location
This is the fifth year in a row the EIWA Championship will be held in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In 2006, the tournament was held at Lehigh, it was at East Stroudsburg in 2007, at Franklin & Marshall in 2008 and at Penn in 2009.
Harvard's Line-up
Nine Crimson wrestlers will compete in crimson and white this weekend: freshman Steven Keith (125 pounds), sophomore Fermin Mendez (133), freshman Paul Liguori (149), senior J.P. O'Connor (157), freshman Adam Hogue (165), freshman David Lalo (174), senior Louis Caputo (184), sophomore Sean Murphy (197) and sophomore Spencer DeSena (285).
Up for Grabs
The NCAA has changed the allocation process for NCAA Championship qualifiers. Each qualifying tournament was awarded spots per weight class based on current-year data Division I winning percentage, rating percentage index (RPI) and coaches ranking. The NCAA has already announced 284 of the 330 championship-field positions. The final 46 at-large qualifiers will be selected by the Division I wrestling committee and announced March 10.
The EIWA was allocated 41 qualifiers. Only the Big Ten Conference received more (56). NCAA automatic qualifiers will be returned their place at the EIWA Championships this weekend. The oldest wrestling conference in the nation will have the following qualifiers: 125 (four), 133 (five), 141 (three), 149 (four), 157 (four), 165 (six), 174 (four), 184 (four), 197 (four) and 285 (three).
Wow... What a Conference
Injuries have plagued several EIWA schools this winter. Despite injuries three EIWA schools are ranked in the top-25. In the most recent poll, Cornell is ranked seventh in the nation, while Lehigh stands eighth and Rutgers is 21st. Thirty-two individual wrestlers in the EIWA are ranked in the Intermat/NWCA/NWMA top 20. An EIWA grappler leads the nation in three weightclasses: Cornell's Kyle Drake at 149, J.P. O'Connor at 157 and Cornell's Mark Lewnes at 174.
EIWA History
The EIWA Championship, the oldest intercollegiate wrestling competition in the country, will take place for the 106th time this weekend. Thirteen teams will compete in the two-day tournament at Stapler Arena.
Harvard won the team title in 2001 and has won 19 individual titles, 15 coming under Jay Weiss, the David G. Bunning Head Coach for Harvard Wrestling. The Crimson has had 151 placewinners at the event since 1930.
Team Successes
Harvard won the EIWA team title in 2001 edging out host Penn by nine points. Since then, the Crimson has finished in the top five three out of the last seven years. Harvard had its best finish since 2003 was in 2006 with a fifth-place finish and two EIWA champions.
Individual Champions
Harvard has had at least one champion in 10 of the last 12 tournaments, including two winners in 2007 Nineteen Crimson grapplers in all have won EIWA crowns. Jesse Jantzen '04 is the only three-time EIWA champion for the Crimson, while Dustin DeNunzio '98, Joey Killar '00 and Dawid Rechul '02 won two titles. Louis Caputo won the 184 pound title in 2007.
On the Medal Stand
Louis Caputo and J.P. O'Connor have both been on the medal podium before. Caputo has placed three times at the EIWAs, taking fifth in 2006, first in 2007 and third in 2008. O'Connor is a three-time runner-up at this meet.
Ivy League Honors
J.P. O'Connor was named Ivy League Wrestler of the Year, while earning unanimous first-team All-Ivy League honors along with classmate Louis Caputo.
O'Connor, a two-time All-American, was named Co-Wrestler of the Year for his unbeaten record thus far. The Oxford, N.Y., native is 26-0 overall, 5-0 in the Ivy League and ranked No. 1 at 157 pounds. It is his second Wrestler of the Year honor, having won the award in 2008. O'Connor, a three-time EIWA finalist, is the first Harvard grappler and seventh in the Ancient Eight to earn the honor twice. He is also a three-time unanimous first-team All-Ivy League selection, after earning second-team honors as a freshman. As a freshman, he was named Co-Rookie of the year in 2007 after becoming the first Crimson to All-American as a freshman.
Caputo, also a two-time All-American, was named a unanimous first-team All-Ivy League honoree for the second year in a row. The Blue Springs, Mo., native is a three-time first-team honoree and four-time selection to the All-Ivy team after making the second-team as a freshman. The 184-pounder is currently ranked sixth in the nation and second in the EIWA. He won the 184-pound title at the 2007 EIWA Championships and placed two other times at the NCAA qualifying meet.
Statistical Leaders
J.P. O'Connor paces the team in wins with 26 victories this season. Louis Caputo has 19, while Steven Keith has posted 14 wins in his rookie season. O'Connor has 14 wins by bonus points, while Keith has nine.
The Harvard Victory Club
J.P. O'Connor moved into second on Harvard's all-time wins list with 123 career victories. Louis Caputo is third with 122 wins. Jesse Jantzen '04 holds the program record for wins with 132.
The Big Show
The NCAA Championships will be held March 18-20 at Qwest Center in Omaha, Neb.
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EXPLANATION: The University of Montana offers the only Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology in the State. Students increasingly express interest in the forensic sciences, in general, and Forensic Anthropology, in particular. The Department of Anthropology has added new courses to serve these students and has experienced growth in the number of students with interest in Forensic Anthropology. Students often indicate a desire to pursue a graduate option in Forensic Anthropology. Professionals in the field of the forensic sciences express their belief that students have an advantage when it comes to employment if they actually have a notation on their transcript that says "Forensic Anthropology."
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Growth and development of electric and natural gas customers is the number one goal listed in the public utilities' two-year business plans presented at the Lexington City Council retreat Tuesday.
Growth and development of electric and natural gas customers is the number one goal listed in the public utilities' two-year business plans presented at the Lexington City Council retreat Tuesday.
The council finished out the first day of its retreat with presentations from the natural gas and electric department along with an informational seminar from ElectriCities.
As part of the two-year business plan for the natural gas department, the top short-term and long-term goals continue to be the same from 2011: add new customers, growth and value to the system and expand based on results of marketing studies.
"(From 2011 to 2013) we have totaled about 1,700 net new services," said Chris Smith, director of public utilities.
Part of that number includes expansion into the Southmont area. But not only has the public utilities department expanded the natural gas line, but it has completed GPS mapping of the entire system and entering it into Geographic Information Systems.
"Back in the past, if the office burned down, there went our maps. Now it is all electronic," Smith added. He pointed out that the GIS was an ongoing project as new lines were introduced to the system or repairs were done to existing lines.
Another goal accomplished between now and the past two-year plan was working with the Davidson County Economic Development Commission to identify new areas for commercial growth. Smith noted the partnership with the EDC on the Lowe's Millwork natural gas line as an example of collaboration.
"That's a good example of working with the EDC to provide natural gas for industrial customers," Smith said.
But he also noted that the department has faced difficult times in light of the county losing industrial customers. The remaining natural gas costs would have to be spread over the remaining customer base, therefore potentially increasing rates.
"To study and update rates will always be a long-term goal. We update them every three years or as needed and when the industrial customers started leaving, we had to study our rates more often," Smith said.
Smith said one of the key long-term goals included looking at "other revenue centers" for natural gas, including natural gas vehicles and possibly converting the city's fleet of vehicles. The department will be conducting a study to see if this conversion is feasible.
Natural gas vehicles "are a good option, but it will not work for everything," Smith said of the reason the department was conducting the study. "I think NGV are areas we really need to pursue."
Smith also documented growth as the number one goal for the past two years for the electric department as well as moving forward but included in the list were items like providing energy audits, updating outage management system and re-engineering organizational structure to implement GIS and GPS into the electric department.
Clark asked Smith why the department provided energy audits to lower customers' bills if the city would still be required to buy the same amount of power from ElectriCities.
"In short, if everyone cut their bills by 10 percent, we would have to raise rates by 10 percent," said Frank Callicutt, councilman at-large.
Smith agreed this statement was true as this was a battle all electric departments faced as appliances and houses become more energy efficient as well as customers becoming more aware of their consumption.
"The consumption of energy is coming down every year, and we have to find a way to balance that," Smith said.
As one of the long-term goals for 2011-15, Smith noted the city wanted to pursue changing to LED street lights. This continues to be a focus for the department and as funds permit, LED lighting will be integrated into the streetlights.
Some of the goals for the next two years are to evaluate, implement and market load reduction rates, complete installing the Automated Meter Reading and implement an electric system study to identify future reliability projects.
The electric department will continue the capital improvement program to enhance reliability and plan for future growth that includes completing construction on the West Bypass Extension phase 1 between Parkway Plaza and Fairview Drive. The department will also continue to monitor progress on phase 2 between Lowe's Boulevard and South Main Street.
"We will also continue to partner with ElectriCities economic development staff, the EDC and the Lexington (Area) Chamber of Commerce to recruit new business," Smith said.
T. Graham Edwards, CEO of ElectriCities, discussed Lexington's involvement with the power agency. During his presentation, Edwards reviewed the governance structure of the company, the budget of $564 million, projections of rate increases of 5 percent each year through 2016 and the effect of the economy on the power agency.
"We can't do anything about the rates right now, but we can do something about the consumption," Edwards said, noting the more customers using power spreads the needs and responsibility.
"I give citizens the example of everyone is required to buy 10 oranges, but while we're required to buy 10 oranges, we only have six buyers," explained Newell Clark, mayor of Lexington. "Huntersville buys 10 oranges but they have 20 customers, so they can spread that cost."
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If there's a sentiment that crops up with frequency in this column, it's that bigger is seldom better when it comes to how businesses treat consumers.
So I say today, with no small surprise and puzzlement: Go get 'em,
's great, don't get me wrong. I can't think of any other company that's deservedly succeeding through a combination of superior products, unbridled innovation and breathtaking vision.
Google is Apple, but much more so.
Yet as Google prepares to muscle its way into the wireless telecom market, and as it continues its virtually total domination of the Internet, I can't help but think that what this company needs more than anything else is some serious, in-your-face competition.
So my feeling is that Microsoft's nearly $45-billion offer for Yahoo is a good thing for the tech world and a good thing for consumers. Until, that is, it's not.
"It's very difficult to figure out upfront when these things are good for consumers and when they're bad," said Steve Morrissey, an antitrust attorney at the
office of Susman Godfrey.
"Trying to figure out where these companies will be in five or 10 years is exceedingly difficult," he said. "It's really hard in such rapidly developing markets to know where you draw the line."
I guess it's like porn -- you know it when you see it. Google is a company that's become absurdly powerful in an absurdly short amount of time. Ten years ago, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were still cobbling together their computer gear in Page's Stanford University dorm room.
Now they're billionaires, and Google all but owns the Web. According to market research firm Hitwise, Google accounts for about 55% of all Internet searches, with Yahoo trailing at 17% and Microsoft's MSN a distant third at 5.2%.
Google is among the leading bidders -- though it remains to be seen how serious -- for a multibillion-dollar chunk of prime wireless bandwidth that could make the company a major player in cellphone circles. And it's not that farfetched to imagine the company's YouTube video service evolving into a 21st century TV network.
So how do you keep such a dominant force focused on making customers happy? You make sure it has robust rivals. And at this point, it looks like a merged Microsoft-Yahoo may be our best bet for giving Google a run for the cyber-money.
"It's probably inevitable," said Patricia Seybold, a business consultant and author of the book "Customers.com."
"But why do I have such a sinking feeling about this?" she asked.
Seybold pointed out that the best scenario for consumers is always a diverse marketplace with plenty of players. A Microsoft-Yahoo combo might be able to stand up to Google, but what then?
Are we now looking at a replay of what's happened in the telecom and cable industries, where the market is dominated by a relative handful of heavyweights and consumers frequently have to choose from only two or three service providers?
"Customers really don't trust the Microsoft brand," Seybold observed. "But they're also becoming suspicious of the Google brand."
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buys everything that's left.
Remember what I said about porn? Now this is what I'd call obscene.
But from the consumer's perspective, what's the choice? For all its virtues, Google is becoming so powerful that it's everything we always thought Microsoft would be -- a world-conquering juggernaut capable of writing its own rules, and to hell with anyone who gets in its way.
Microsoft's playing catch-up here, and, like I say, that's probably a good thing. Before you know it, Google is ramping up its Gmail service to better compete with Yahoo Mail-Hotmail. Microsoft-Yahoo, in turn, is introducing all sorts of cool video services to better compete with YouTube.
Competition = innovation.
If history is any guide, though, the good times won't last.
Ten years ago, as Google was just getting started, Ed Whitacre, who was then chief exec of what was known as SBC, told wary lawmakers in Washington that his company's planned $72-billion acquisition of rival Ameritech would benefit consumers by boosting competition.
"I'd also like to address a concern raised by some who have suggested that SBC and Ameritech have set out to turn back the clock and re-create the old 'AT&T Bell System,' " he said.
"Nothing could be further from the truth," Whitacre testified. "The competition genie is out of the bottle."
Since that time, SBC has spent $16 billion acquiring AT&T (and the AT&T name) and $67 billion more acquiring
. Meanwhile, the old Bell Atlantic has become Verizon Communications, which in turn acquired MCI for $8.5 billion.
AT&T and Verizon are now the country's No. 1 and No. 2 telecom companies, respectively. The 'old AT&T Bell System' is very much alive and kicking.
I conveyed my concerns of a looming oligopoly in the Internet world to Bob Foster, a professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management who focuses on the tech industry. As it happened, he was just at Google's campus in Mountain View, Calif., last week, meeting with former students.
"At the end of the day, we may have an oligopoly, but there's always room for niche players," Foster said. "There will always be opportunities for smart young technologists."
So go get 'em, Microsoft. And let's just hope some of those smart young technologists will be nipping at your heels before too long.
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KLON MAI, Thailand — Storm clouds approached from the northeast, piling up behind the mountains. The wood smoke from thatch-roofed kitchens blew horizontally, and banana trees flapped in the wind. Mothers stepped outside and called their children home from the rice fields below.
Klon Mai is perched in the remote mountains of far northern Thailand, less than a mile from the border with Burma, in the infamous Golden Triangle known more for its illicit drug trade than stability and self-reliance. Most of the 20 families in the village are members of the Luha ethnic group, who migrated from Burma before settling here two decades ago. When the first families arrived, there was no road, no water supply and no way to make a living. They survived largely on the corn and rice they grew.
Now, the main source of income for families in Klon Mai is tea. The Thai government planted a new variety of tea on the surrounding mountainsides and pays villagers to act as caretakers to the crop. Each family looks after about two acres and receives in return 15,000 bhat—about $500—a year.
A Heifer International project in Klon Mai is helping villagers supplement this meager income with gifts of livestock, seeds and training.
The Lahuna Family As the sky darkened, Yuri Lahuna climbed the mud-slick trail back to Klon Mai from her family's plot of tea, where she spent the morning clearing weeds.
Inside the corrugated metal door, her house was dark except for a bare fluorescent bulb and the light that filtered through the woven bamboo walls. Her 5-year-old son lay curled up on the sleeping platform in the corner.
Yuri and her husband, Asu, set up a small folding table and chairs on the pocked dirt floor. Over glasses of hot tea, they talked about their lives and involvement with the Heifer project in Klon Mai.
In 1993, Asu's mother died while visiting family in Thailand. Asu crossed from Burma for the funeral, met Yuri and settled here.
As the sky outside began to spit rain, he described their situation in those early years. The village was garbage-strewn. The few pigs villagers had were allowed to roam freely, rooting up gardens and sparking arguments between families.
There was little work and little food. "For my labor, I could only earn 25 that a day," said Asu. That's less than a dollar. To make it through the dry season, the family was forced to forage for food in the jungle. "Sometimes, it wasn't enough."
Heifer Brings a Better Future In April 2009, the Lahunas received five pigs and a water buffalo from Heifer International. Since then, their pigs have given them 12 offspring, and their water buffalo gave birth soon after they received it. They also received seeds for a vegetable garden and the supplies to build their own fishpond.
Now, say the Lahunas, they have enough food. "We can eat fish from our pond," said Asu, or sell piglets for income. Last year, they even had a surplus of vegetables from their garden and were able to sell some to nearby villages.
"Since we became project members, I can see that our health has improved," said Asu. "I think it's not only because of more food, but, because we are more secure, our mental health is better also."
Life is by no means easy for the Lahunas now. Yuri still has to rise at 5:30 every morning, cook breakfast and feed the animals before heading to the fields. But their life is improving as a result of the gifts of animals and training from Heifer International.
I believe if we keep raising animals, growing tea and saving, we will have a better future. Yuri, Thailand
Outside, the clouds passed and the relentless tropical sun returned. As the tea glasses were cleared and everyone prepared to return to work, Asu admitted that before joining the Heifer project, he didn't think much beyond the immediate situation. "But I believe if we keep raising animals, growing tea and saving, we will have a better future."
If they needed a sign of a promising future, the Lahunas have one: Their water buffalo will give birth again in December.


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BLOGPOLLIN', PART TWO, or THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE
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(SMQ's 11-25 can be found here)
The preseason BlogPoll is official, you know, and now we sooper smartypants Web folks with our fancy charts have an idea why the professional-type pollsters have been so consistently wrong for so long: this is hard! Everybody stinks.
SMQ himself didn't file his ballot until 9:15 a.m. Central (yikes! Did not consider time zones then. Good thing Michigan's on the same
latitudelongitude as Mississippi [at least you caught that yourself instead of some smartass commenter - ed. Swear to God I'm not a total idiot]), 45 minutes before the deadline, with the help of a haphazard spreadsheet ranking his top ten by position, offense and defense as a whole, coaching, exracurricular elements he feels especially important (namely, quarterback experience and run-stuffing ability on defense) and his perception of a team's overall talent level, based largely on past recruiting rankings. Each was rated 1-10, final rankings based on the end average. After weeks of hemming and hawing over fractions involving Central Michigan and Ball State, this analysis literally took less than an hour. The results may reflect this.
The results are, however, still as good a guess as anyone else is going to make this year, this insane year with team after legitimately, deeply flawed team written off for its apparent unworthiness, then rediscovered, rethought, shed in a new light, and uplifted by the medicority of those around it. Forecasting this sesason might be the most imperfect effort in the history of one of the planet's most imperfect sciences. And we, brothers, should take solace in that universal uncertainty rather than snipe at one another's inevitable ignorance and misfortune at the hands of unpredictable young men chasing a cruelly oblong ball in directions no combination of statistics, spreadsheets or soothsaying could possibly foresee.
Which is to say, SMQ is certain the rightest he can be in this context is still completely wrong. So don't jump on his back too hard when this is proven empirically by Penn State's mythical championship run.
So here we are, number one. Number One. Gotta be somebody. And SMQ hates to be one of these people, he really does, he was hoping it wouldn't come to this, honestly, you must believe, reader, but, uh, yeah, so, OK, er *closes eyes very tight* ...
1. Notre Dame
OK. Though SMQ did contribute to an Irish-centered publication this offseason, this selection is in no way influenced by imbibing of any green brand name sugar-water mixures. The very long, very loud and almost very consensus raps on Weis' army of storm-trooping clones and Manchurian Candidate Brady Quinn are readily apparent: the defense was regularly torched. The offense put up its lauded numbers against horrendous teams and in grass imported from the backyard of an abandoned shack in the northern Argentenian jungle. The previous two Irish "resurgences" this decade were followed by two of the school's worst seasons in the past half-century. Heisman Pundit picked them number one - with a reference to the dreaded Gang of
SixFour, even (four? What happened to Boise State and Utah? Oh, yeah). Et cetera and so on. All valid. All true.
Basically, SMQ just thinks these are more easily-overcome problems than Ohio State's emerging-from-the-crib defense, Auburn's size against the run and inexperienced O-line, Texas' pack of freshman quarterbacks, Florida's whimpering babes on the offensive line and in the secondary, SC's unavoidable succumbing to the Inviolable Laws of an Indifferent Universe and the lingering Jeff Bowden/Lloyd Carr problems at Florida State and Michigan. Notre Dame is flawed, but in SMQ's mind, the least flawed. Or the least fatally flawed. And that is the ringing endorsement.
The defense was shredded to little pieces by a runaway train Ohio State team in the Fiesta Bowl. This is undeniable because SMQ watched most of it happen. He also watched it happen to Florida in the 1996/7 Fiesta Bowl, in much grislier fashion, and the Gators rebounded the following season to win the mythical title. He also watched it happen to Tennessee in the 1997/8 Orange Bowl, and the Volunteers rebounded the following season to win the mythical title. Obviously, this doesn't mean Notre Dame will accomplish the same feat against a potentially brutal schedule, but it does mean they're not automatically excluded because of the poor postseason showing against a team virtually no one - maybe even either of the two Rose Bowl participants - was going to beat at that point. Plus, very importantly, the defense is going to be better. Has to be better. The linebackers are a question, but SMQ is willing to go with the experience and underrated talent (according to dubious recruitniks) on the line and in the secondary, admitted cornerback warts and all. This includes especially pass rushing specialist Victor Abiamiri and safety/knockout artist Tom Zbikowski, whom - in light of what Phil Steele reveals as sub-4.4 speed, two return touchdowns, two interception touchdowns, an instant knockout in his first pro fight and a menacing Marine cut- SMQ dubs the scariest player in the nation. If it didn't alright belong to all-time Terror Team hall-of-famer Mitchell Friedman, Zbikowski would be a mere Chuck Cecil collision/felony battery or firearm charge from earning the "Fright Night" handle. Ambrose Wooden was a top ten CB recruit, took his youthful lumps, and now needs to start paying dividends as a junior. At the least, it could improve to roughly USC's production (361 yards, 22.8 points allowed per game), which was more than enough for the Trojans' offense to surpass without much trouble. Notre Dame's offense may not be 49 per game material - the running game is just OK as a keep-em-honest necessity, compared to USC's galloping thunder stallions - but it will be good enough to leave a lot of margin for error on the other side, as much room as any team in the country, probably, and still get out unscathed.
And Penn State, Michigan, Purdue and UCLA=all at South Bend. No guarantees in sight, but, per the typical deception of the "impossible" Irish slate, the schedule doesn't shape up as brutally as it might appear on first glance. Certainly no more than Ohio State's.
And the offense! Gang of four! Score, baby, score!
Rending ballots to shreds in regret? Of course you are. Of course you are. Of course you are. SMQ is always right...Charlie Weis...Charlie Weis...
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2. California
This pick involved copious amounts of brand name sugar-water concoctions, of SMQ's own rendering. This is the one that will have to be defended to the justifiable skeptics. This is much crazier than Notre Dame on top. The one guy who picked Cal No. 1 is teetering on the edge of a dark, dark abyss at the core of his sanity; SMQ knows, because he's an early adoptee into the cult and almost put the Bears up there his own self.
SMQ first got into Cal sometime in July, talked himself into their prospective mythical championship success based on their embodiment of many time-tested underdog characteristics, the unreal yards per carry averages of the talented and gentlemanly Marshawn Lynch and backup Justin Forsett, Jeff Tedford's stellar and nearly unblemished history of molding average passers into fearsome, overrated draft picks, the return of six of the front seven on defense, including a legitimate all-American (DT Brandon Mebane) to clog up the middle and a pair of senior corners with the chops to hang with the likes of Dwayne Jarrett and Steve Smith (Daymeion Hughes and Tim Mixon combined to pick off 8 passes and break up another 22 last year).
Mostly, though, this pick is made with the firm belief that no single program, no matter its dominance, can continue to rock everyone's world in the fashion USC has the last three and a half years. Not when they've lost all that USC's lost. Nebraska 1996. Florida State 2001. Miami 2002. Oklahoma last year. This is just the way of nature, what SMQ's NFL namesake would refer to as an "Immutable Law": 'dynasties' run their course in about three years, when a large number of core players depart at once.
Cal, for all the reasons above, is the main beneficiary of the law's ruthless application this fall to USC. Definitely, they are not as talented as the Trojans. But they are more experienced, and in key spots - running game, defensive line that relatively contained USC and Oregon in a rebuilding year and allowed 3.3 per carry over the season - they are mythical champion quality. The receivers are very solid, very, very fast DeSean Jackson perhaps a star-in-waiting and at least the necessary gamebreaker in a pinch. SMQ likes to think of last year's pre-injury starter, Nate Longshore, especially under Tedford's watch, as the next Matt Mauck, and also reminds skeptics that Mauck's team won part of a mythical title with one loss. The main difference being the Bears have ab opportunity to circumvent the subsequent futile bickering by ensuring the loss is not to USC.
3. Ohio State
Maybe the best offense around, though Troy Smith ultimately is going to belong in the pantheon with Brad Smith or Michael Robinson, maybe, not Vince Young. This is no knock on Troy, just an assumption that either of those quarterbacks could also make a serious mythical title run with the kind of blazing talent accompanying him this year. What is going to put a kink in that run, of course, is the defense, which was legitimately as killer on a weekly basis as any in the country last year but lost the whole kit. Really, all of it - certainly this is the first preseason favorite to bring back an entirely new set of starters at linebacker and defensive backs (SMQ is more concerned about the latter). Getting over the inexperience there to put the Bucks on top is too much, though it's a testament to the terrifying offense and the ability of OSU's recruiting clout to restock the other side that they're this high.
Hypothetical but likely thoughts from the reader: You know, for a guy who talks up defense so much, SMQ, you're really riding the HP/Maisel bandwagon here, aren't you? Notre Dame, Cal, Ohio State...point machines, dude, but who they gonna stop? You're a hypocrite, SMQ. A hypocrite and a sell-out.
Hard to argue, reader, except that a) SMQ has always touted balance - offense and defense, run and pass - as the road to wellness, and b) there is nothing at this point to suggest anything like the bonanza of hellraising defenses we saw in 2005. When will college football experience the point-pinching quality of last year's units from Virginia Tech, Penn State, Ohio State, Miami, LSU, Alabama, Texas, Tennessee and NC State in the span of a single fall again? All of these teams were outstanding - save the last two, which were merely competitive - despite mostly middle-of-the-pack offenses.
Now, though, those defenses have each been wracked by attrition with none vying to take their place, while experience and talent abounds on the other side at the above schools as well as on much of the rest of the poll. It looks like a high-scoring year. Which is not to say the best defensive teams won't still be as successful, but there will be fewer very good defensive teams and they won't be as good as the units that stood out so much in '05 - SMQ sees no team with a defense he feels can carry it into the top ten without some amount of firepower to go with it. But everybody up here, and in Tuesday's list, has the skill talent (offensive line is a different story) to average about 25 a game, minimum. Most of them will need to do better than that.
This has nothing to do with any overarching trends in strategy or anything, just returning talent and experience, which is far more concentrated this time around on the offensive side of the ball.
These guys can still play defense, as they return a full third of all the linebackers with starting experience nationwide (seriously, 7 LBs here have at least half a dozen career starts, and that doesn't include Rey Maualuga, the star sophomore who's probably the best of the gorup), plus a first-level pass rusher in Lawrence Jackson and the leading tackler, safety Josh Pinkard. The corners may be a problem and are the reason SMQ sees vulnerability against DeSean Jackson and the like.
But the real issue here is dealing with the loss of Leinart, Bush, White and three starting linemen on offense. The receivers definitely rule, but running back is a legitimate concern, given its youth and injury/eligibility at the position (is Chauncey Washington going to play or not?), and can't approach the insane production of the past two seasons. As stated above, the laws of nature will not allow this program to survive such losses with another trip to the mythical title game - nobody pulls this off four years in a row. Not USC, not nobody. But still, you know, they're very, very good.
5. Michigan
Maybe SMQ's gullible here, picking the Wolverines almost ten spots higher than the poll at large, but overrating in the past doesn't preclude more, um, overrating. Or something...you get it. Anyway, this seems pretty safe, actually, given the amount of talent returning on both sides and the lack of an obvious debilitating weakness that pretty much every other school around them is facing. We're talking about a quarterback in his third season as a starter, a steady running game, a couple potential all-league caliber receivers, four returning O-linemen, two potential all-America caliber defensive linemen, all three linebackers back, three out of four in the secondary - none of it overwhelming on its own, this not having been a great team last year, but collectively it adds up to one of the most complete wholes in the top ten. And this was a consistently competitive, oft-injured group that could have just as soon been a double-digit winner as 7-5. It is not wild conjecture to presume that kind of return from this talent.
Still SMQ doesn't really see them containing Troy Smith.
Important: This ranking is completely contingent on the health of Mike Hart, who has improved the offense by about 70 percent when he's been in the lineup that last two seasons, and is not valid in the occasion of persistent ankle injuries, or any other ailments necessitating his absence from the lineup. Three of the four debilitating Michigan losses last season were with Hart out or hobbled, and two of the three best wins, Penn State and Michigan State, were his best games. Nobody else ran on the Nittany Lions all season with such success.
6. Florida
Love love love the front seven on defense, maybe the nation's best such collection, and the passing game, even if it is occasionally hopelessly conservative. But the offensive line and secondary seriously undermine championship hopes outside of the conference. UF allowed 35 sacks last year, four or more in five games, which is unheard of among this elite territory. And there are four new starters up there this time around, which means big problems are ahead for Chris Leak and probably the running game, again.
Leak has plenty of very good options with the ball, though, and the D-line and linebackers are going to keep things within striking range of Meyer's offense, whether or not it's less grind-it-out than it was in its SEC debut last year.
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Florida's ranking will roughly correspond to the number of times per game this happens to Chris Leak
7. Texas
Everything is in order here otherwise, but no way is SMQ signing on to either of a pair of brand, brand new quarterbacks taking this team past the Big XII championship. That they're the consensus now, post-Lexusgate, to advance that far is a testament the overwhelming abilities of the rest of the squad. But as far as repeat mythical championships go, we must recall that the first one required the greatest efforts of one of the most dynamic athletes the sport has yet produced - a little out of the range of Colt McCoy and Jevan Snead just yet. All bets are off, though, if one of those guys does enough to beat Ohio State.
8. Florida State
SMQ said Tuesday one of his initial efforts resulted in the 'Noles on top, largely because of an old-school schedule that includes Miami up front, Florida at the back, and not much apparent danger in between. The inexplicable ACC loss, and often two of them, has become the routine in the darkness of the Rix years and on into Drew Weatherford Era, but not necessarily guaranteed to continue. For one, the late season slide coincided with season-ending injuries to three starting offensive linemen, an area that ought to be counted as a veteran asset this year. Two, the win over Virginia Tech and hard-fought overtime loss to Penn State in the Orange Bowl were reminiscent of the old FSU teams that finished up here without fail. And three, Mickey Andrews has another crop of robotic mustangs set on 'destroy.'
The only real requirments for a major comeback season that would include a more convincing conference championship in a vulnerable league are health, a reduction in picks from Weatherford and a better willingness to get the ball into the hands of very dangerous backs Lorenzo Booker and Antone Smith. Won't win 'em all, but every game is winnable, at least.
9. Auburn
If Michigan is a wack No. 1 pick an unfamiliar Southerner might fall for, Brian, SMQ would say the same about the Tigers for Midwesterners. Orson may be ridin' with AU, but SMQ has concerns about the young receiving corps and especially the loss of Marcus McNeil and Troy Reddick, a massive and vital tackle combo that will be much-missed regardless the experience on the interior. Similarly, the defense will miss Stanley McClover and especially Tommy Jackson, who was an essential run plugger in the middle of an otherwise speed-rushing unit. SMQ still believes teams can line up and run straight at 215-pound converted DBs at linebacker with success, as Arkansas, Georgia, LSU, Alabama (when it wasn't being sacked to death) and then Wisconsin in the bowl all did to some degree last season.
Optimism is clearly in order for the pass rush, Kenny Irons and probably Brandon Cox, who got a bad rep for an interception-riddled (but otherwise very assured) start against Georgia Tech's relentless blitzing but dramatically cut back on mistakes over the season. SMQ is willing to call these Tigers the class of the SEC West, if only because he much prefers Tommy Tuberville to...
Les Miles and his pristine, square capped excitability are another of several SEC teams (Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia) faced with replacing the overwhelming bulk of an unstoppable D-line bent on destruction, and the Tigers' losses (Kyle Williams, Melvin Oliver and Claude Wroten) might be the most severe. They're also looking to replace Cameron Vaughn, the defense's most productive player at linebacker. Glenn Dorsey and Ali Highsmith ought to be better than serviceable in those roles, but a 38-sack, 3.0-yards-per-carry repeat is not very likely. The offensive line is also replacing both tackles - though one of the potential new guys, Philip Loadholt, is a 6-9, 344-pound JUCO monster.
SMQ likes: again, the skill guys. JaMarcus Russell is only a junior! What? He has a good chance to live up to his huge hype after all. Alley Broussard, Dwayne Bowe, Early Doucet, etc. are all frightening options with the ball.
Got all that? Now forget it, if you know what's good for you.
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Each week, the Granite Stripe gets fans ready for the upcoming race. In this week's preview, the hosts take a look at the Darlington favorites in the broadcast and podcast, power rank the hottest drivers and give a fantasy NASCAR run down.
Listen to the Granite Stripe Podcast (2013, Ep. 12): Talladega Recap, Darlington Preview
Jonathan and Gavin congratulate Front Row Motorsports on its surprising win, renew the Power Rankings debate and make their picks for Darlington.
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As the trip through the South continues and the Sprint Cup Series unloads in Darlington, S.C., is there any reason to think that a track nicknamed "Too Tough To Tame" will be the one that provides a rare dull race? I doubt it.
Join the debate of NASCAR's hottest drivers with this week's Magic Mile Power Rankings.
1. Matt Kenseth - Might catch a little flack around the office for this one, but he's led 52 percent of the last 859 laps over the last three races. And he hasn't shown any signs of slowing down after a 50-point penalty looked like it had all the makings of the kind of infraction to ruin an entire season. Right now, the No. 20 is the favorite to win it all.


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That .80 constitutes a stronger relationship with livability than with any other variable considered. Keep in mind, the importance of IQ underestimated by this method, as many of those variables are part of the 44 used to gauge livability--in this sense, they have a built in statistical advantage that the IQ estimates do not have. Other correlations with livability include:
Illegitimacy rate (-.68)
Average life expectancy (.62)
Racial composition of the population (.62)
% of the population with a bachelor's degree or greater (.56)
Violent crime rate (-.54)
Unemployment rate (.50)
Per-student educational expenditures (.45)
Gun ownership rate (-.44)
Median age (.20)
It even 'explains' slightly more than the poverty rate (r-values of .801 to .797) does, the only variable that approaches IQ's significance. Interestingly, though, IQ and poverty correlate at a more modest than expected .59. They do not relate to livability in the same way, but instead act as the two primary pillars on which it rests.
Murray and Herrnstein showed that greater intelligence decreases the probability of becoming impoverished (from The Bell Curve, p135):
Imagine a white person born in 1961 who came from an unusually deprived socioeconomic background: parents who worked at the most menial of jobs, often unemployed, neither of whom had a high school education (a description of what it means to have a SES index score in the 2d centile on socioeconomic class). If that person has an IQ of 100-nothing special, just the national average-the chance of falling below a poverty-level income in 1989 was 11 percent. ...Going in the other direction, a reduction in poverty, especially as it relates to ensuring that basic nutritional needs are met, bolsters IQ somewhat.
Conversely, suppose that the person comes from the 2d centile in IQ but his parents were average in SES status-which means that his parents worked at skilled jobs, had at least finished high school, and had an average income. Despite coming from that solid background, his odds of being in poverty are 26 percent, more than twice as great as the odds facing the person from a deprived home but with average intelligence.
We've been waging the War on Poverty to reduce it for half a century now, yet we're in the same spot we were in at the end of the sixties. Erstwhile, the corresponding War on Unintelligence, or more palatably, the Crusade for Intelligence, has not yet been forthcoming (or has been comparable to the first wave led by Peter the Hermit in the form of No Child Left Behind). It's long past time we attack a low quality of life on two essential fronts.
The Bell Curve brought to the public mind the importance of IQ in the US, and data marshalled in IQ and the Wealth of Nations evinces how meaningful it is at the national level. It's not everything, but it's increasingly becoming clear that it is quite a lot. Raising it should become a primary policy goal.
Inevitably, such an approach will be criticized for insinuating the moral worth of people based on an attribute that is largely beyond their control. That kind of posturing is, however well-meaning, injurious.
Why not make the same argument about attempts to reduce obesity or the prevalence of autism? If there are ways to increase physical fitness or reduce the number of children born with autism, through a systematic revamping of foods to have a lower glycemic index or by encouraging men to have all their children before they reach their fifties, does that too insinuate that obese or autistic people are of lesser moral worth? Is such didactic posturing worth increasing the prevalence of obesity or autism?
In the forceful words of Randall Parker:
Anything that could raise average IQ a few points would do more to boost economic growth and lower social pathologies than increased educational spending or the other typical liberal or free market libertarian nostrums.To oppose methods to boost average IQ (incentives for the wealthy/intelligent to have more children, the poor/unintelligent to have fewer, ensuring adequate iodine intake and vitamin consumption for impoverished children, a merit immigration system, discouraging the use of mind-altering substances), or even the discussion of potential ways to do so, must be challenged with this: There is nothing socially or economically benign that correlates inversely with IQ. I believe that is about tautologically true--I've come across nothing to the contrary, except for fecundity, which is debatably desirable.
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When I was a kid , I was very fuzzy with food. I have to say my kids are better than me. I hardly eat vegetables, fruits or even meat, you might be wondering what did I eat ? Yes, that's a different story. As a fuzzy eating kid still I loved cutlets a lot, whether it's a veg or non veg. Do you know why I liked this a lot, since whenever I get cutlets, I also get ketchup as a dip. There are times I used to think, without ketchup cutlets are tasteless, silly isn't. Anyway not any more I think the same way and I'm not still that little fuzzy kid.
This good old cutlet recipe is not too technical to make and it also includes very simple ingredients which will be available in almost any Indian kitchen. These cutlets taste delicious just on it's own, or served with ketchup. You can enjoy these cutlets also as a burger with cheese melted on top.
Preparation Time: 30 minutes
Cooking Time: 40 minutes
Serves 4
Potatoes- 300 g( boiled and mashed)
Carrot- 1 medium sized finely chopped
Beans- 50 g finely chopped
Onion- 1 medium sized finely
Ginger garlic paste- 1 tsp
Turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp
Chilli powder- 1/4 tsp
Curry powder- 1 tsp
Cumin seeds- 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil- 1 tbsp
For coating:
Egg- 1
Turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp
Salt- 1/2 tsp
Bread crumbs- 200 g
Plain flour- 100 g
Oil for frying
Boil and mash about 5 medium sized potatoes. Heat the oil in a pan, add the cumin seeds, then add ginger garlic paste and onion. Fry it in medium heat until the onion looks transparent, do not let them burn. Quickly add the carrot and beans mix it well. Cover the pan and cook until the vegetables are soft, this might take about 3 minutes.
Add the spice powder and salt, mix it well. Finally add the mashed potatoes and mix it well until the masala gets evenly coated. Take it off from heat and let it cool down for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile for coating beat the egg, turmeric and salt in a bowl. Spread the flour and breadcrumbs in separate plates. Take the vegetable mixture and form it into patties shape. To get a perfect round shape, use a round cutter or a cup. Form the patties and keep it in a separate plate. Dip the patties one by one in the flour and dust the excess flour. Then dip them one by one in egg and keep it in a plate. Finally roll them in the breadcrumbs and keep it separately. Spread them in a plate such that they don't touch other, cover with a cling film and put it in a refrigerator for minimum 2 hours. This will help the patties firm a little and the shape will not be deformed when frying.
Heat oil in a pan, take the patties out from the refrigerator and fry them two to three at a time in medium heat. Fry them on both sides until they look golden in colour. The oil level in the pan should be such that, the patties get half immersed in the oil, so that they get evenly fried.
Serve hot with ketchup and salad.
If you are a vegetarian you can also use gram flour mixed with water like a thick paste for coating instead of eggs.
This recipe goes to Kid's Delight- Street food by Srivalli and Appetizer Recipes by Charitha, also linking this to Let's Do Brunch.