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As a two time cancer survivor, I am so excited to be participating in this year's Relay for Life. I am always proud to say I am a cancer survivor. It is because of wonderful organizations like this that I can say I survived. Because of the money raised more people can say they beat this horrible disease.
I was diagnosed 18 years ago for the first time with Hodgkins Disease Lymphoma. After several trips and long stays at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis I was told, "You are in remission." At age 11 you don't really realize how much that statement means.
I went on to live my childhood like most other children, except for checkups and frequent sicknesses because of my poor immune system. I graduated high school and was attending college when I was diagnosed with my second cancer. I was 19 years old when I was diagnosed with Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma. This cancer was caused by the radiation to my neck and chest to treat my Lymphoma. I was treated again at St. Jude.
After surgically removing my thyroid and receiving radioactive iodine, I was in remission again. As a child and young adult I didn't realize how important it was to say, "I am a cancer survivor." All I thought about was my hair falling out, the scars on my body and how my life was being inconvenienced.
As an adult I realize and understand how meaningful it is to call myself a cancer survivor. I am so thankful to God for giving us the knowledge to learn how to treat this horrible disease. I am also thankful for my family who went through both cancers with me.
I will be getting married next week and am thankful to be alive and living my life like everyone else. I am a nurse because of the people I encountered through treatment. I am always happy to tell my survivor story. I am able to tell my story because of organizations like the American Cancer Society. Please come out April 19th and join us in raising money for such a great cause so others can beat this disease like me.

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Israel need to tell the rest of the world to get bent and go in and annihilate these filthy unwashed savages....
For another war in the Middle East. Israel must learn destroy Hamas even it it takes the destruction of the Gaza Strip.
Israel need to tell the rest of the world to get bent and go in and annihilate these filthy unwashed savages....
The Gaza Strip.
A**hole morons killing each other for a 10 mile by 40 mile strip of desert.
They deserve each other.
Sent from my 8.6 acre property with 4 bedroom house with waterfront views and low utility costs because of the gas well on my property using fireworks...
What I want is Hamas to come out of their hiding places and fight like men, but that won't happen because they are gutless trash!
This is going to get bad. Hamas has got rockets landing around Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Israel is not going to take that lightly... sad situation.
If Israel were to go in to eliminate Hamas, the full force of Arabs would be at their side waging holy wars on Israel...and both Israel and the Arab world knows that it would be hard for America to justify American lives in another waged war; especially in one where Israel (for political purposes) was the aggressor.
The Israelis have known that they would need to go in to Gaza and get the situation there under control for some time however. The reason being the Iranians arming the Gazans with longer range rockets capable of traveling 150KM. As much as the Israelis tend to tollerate consistant rocket attacks on their southern villagers the idea of rockets hitting Tel Aviv for whatever reason crosses a line. Personally I think their tolerance of any rocket fire whatsoever crosses a line.
My hope is that the Israelis can continue to destroy the terror infrastructure and Hamas infrastructure while minimizing civilian casualties. Smart move now would be to shut down the power and communications in Gaza to slow the terrorists ability to coordinate their efforts.
"Yea, while the Arab world can't wait to get rid of Israel, they won't start anything because the US would come to Israel's defense."
And there lies the problem. We created the problem when we created Israel. That has been at the center of our problem with the Muslim world since we made that tragic mistake in 1943. We should cut off all support of Israel and then they would have to learn to get along with their neighbors and with the people on whose land they are currently co-residing.
As someone who throws his opinions about carelessly all over the forum while dismissing others' consistently, I don't believe you should be talking about 'reality' or any other pseudo-synonym for objective discourse.
Regardless of whatever your opinion is on the matter, to say that any of the absurd bloodshed going on out there is not derivative of some political purpose or agenda, is straight up ignorant. EVERY attack/war/retaliation has political ties.
You must have missed the first word in the paragraph that you thought was incorrect.
I said "if Israel were to go in...". The closing sentence which you misinterpreted was merely restating the proposed 'if'...as in, '(before the hamas strikes over the past two days), IF Israel did that, they'd be the aggressor.'
Regardless, I happen to agree with your 'solutions are fluid...' post.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 17, 2010) - On a day full of emotions, as the Lady Buccaneer softball program honored five talented seniors, Kennesaw State stepped in and played spoilers as the Owls swept the Blue and Gold Saturday afternoon at the ETSU Softball Complex.
Kennesaw State used a five-run fourth inning in game one to break things open, and the Owls flew their way to an 8-1 victory. The Lady Bucs looked to have responded in the nightcap, but Kennesaw State rallied from a three-run deficit to capture the sweep with its 5-4 comeback win in game two.
After sweeping Mercer on Friday night and keeping its Atlantic Sun Tournament hopes within reach, the Lady Bucs took a big step backwards on Saturday as ETSU dropped to 16-30, 5-11. The Owls improved to 23-19, 9-5 with the sweep.
Prior to the game, seniors Cheniece Cason (Moreno Valley, Calif.), Katy Jett (Talbott, Tenn.), Trisha Massenzo (Russellville, Tenn.), Darci Gilbert (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) and Marissa Hardy (Rocklin, Calif.) were honored with a special pregame ceremony. These five seniors stepped foot on ETSU's campus four years ago and since then have laid a solid foundation for the future classes to come - both on and off the field.
With revenge on their minds, the Lady Bucs stepped up and took control early after leading 4-1 through the first four innings; however, the long-ball played a huge role in the Owls' comeback win as Kennesaw State belted three home runs - including Ashlee Burkett's game-winning solo shot in the seventh - which rallied the visitors from Georgia to the 5-4 victory.
Despite pounding out ten hits - including Cheniece Cason's 3-for-4 effort at the plate - Kennesaw State continued to chip away and found a way to win. Joining Cason with multi-hit games were junior Katie Henderson (Jackson, Tenn.) and freshman Sam Lower (Sebring, Fla.). For the second time this weekend, Henderson went a perfect 2-for-2 at the dish with a run scored and was hit by a pitch. Lower ended 2-for-3 with a double and run scored.
Kennesaw State jumped ahead early on Burkett's two-out RBI single up the middle in the second, but ETSU stormed back with three runs of its own in the bottom half of the inning to take a 3-1 advantage. Henderson led things off with a scorching single to left - and Lower reached base as her bunt was placed perfectly between third and short - putting runners on first and second with nobody out. The Lady Bucs had the bases full when Whitley Hensley (Erwin, Tenn.) was plunked on a 3-1 pitch, and Henderson and Lower came around to score on Arielle Garner's (Buchanan, Ga.) two-run scoring single to center on the next at-bat. Then, with runners on the corners and no outs, pinch runner Tara Hartnett (Snellville, Ga.) broke for second, and after Kennesaw State got her in a rundown, Hensley crossed the dish - putting ETSU ahead, 3-1.
ETSU extended its lead to 4-1 when Lucy Schneider (Dade City, Fla.) doubled home Cason with one out in the fourth; however, Kennesaw State evened things at four in the top of the fifth thanks to a two-run homer by game one winner Jessica Cross and a solo blast from Kelsey Kulk with two outs in the frame.
Then, after the Owls brought Cross back in the circle with one out in the fifth, the Lady Bucs couldn't muster up any offense. Cross kept ETSU hitless for the final 2.2 innings, and Burkett's leadoff homer in the seventh proved to the game-winner as it put Kennesaw up, 5-4.
After allowing one run on three hits to earn the win in game one, Cross improved to 13-7 after being tabbed with the win in game two. Senior righty Marissa Hardy (Rocklin, Calif.) suffered the loss (4-10) after issuing five runs on ten hits in 7.0 innings of work.
A five-run fourth inning was all Kennesaw State needed to power itself past the Lady Bucs, as the Owls took game one, 8-1.
The Owls recorded 12 hits in the opener and Jessica Cross limited ETSU to three hits in seven innings of action.
After holding Kennesaw scoreless for the first two innings, the Owls began the third with three consecutive singles to load the bases. With no room for error, senior Darci Gilbert struck out Ashlee Burkett for the first out of the inning. Unfortunately, after the punch out, Gilbert threw a wild pitch - leading to the first score of the contest. Gilbert did bounce back by stabbing a liner off the bat of Sharon Swanson and fanned Jenna Closner to keep two runners stranded.
Once again the Owls loaded the bags in the fourth and scored five runs on four hits to take a 6-0 lead.
Kennesaw State plated two more runs in the sixth to make it 8-0, and ETSU pushed its lone run across in the bottom half of the inning when Lucy Schneider scored after Trisha Massenzo got tagged out in a rundown between first and second.
Gilbert suffered the loss (4-7) after allowing four runs on six hits in 3.0 innings of work.
The Lady Bucs return to action on Wednesday when ETSU faces UNC Central in Durham. First pitch of the doubleheader is set for 5 p.m.
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I've met plenty of CBE grads, and found them to be smart and competent. (Incidentally, I've met a few top T1 grads who complete assclowns.) I have noticed, however, that the cost of the CBE schools has increased quite a bit. The average total cost now seems to be about 50-60k. Although that's half the price of an ABA school, a student with s decent LSAT score could probably obtain enough in scholarships to a T4 ABA school to make the cost competitive.


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The nearly yearlong battle between the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association and the city of Gardner appears headed to court. And it's a place both sides say they don't want to be.
The nearly yearlong battle between the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association and the city of Gardner appears headed to court.
And it's a place both sides say they don't want to be.
City solicitor John Flick sent a three-page certified letter to MIAA executive director Richard Neal on Wednesday requesting a meeting to resolve the dispute that began last February and concluded on Jan. 16 with all Gardner High winter sports teams being banned from the postseason.
In between, the sides have argued their points publicly and privately, with the debate often confrontational.
Gardner officials maintain that no rules were broken by the school's former swim coach and that any violations of the MIAA's "bona fide team rule" were the result of a one-sided investigation by a vindictive parent.
Meanwhile, the MIAA claims the Gardner High swim program was more reflective of a club team and its practice schedule extremely abbreviated for one that had won 16 state championships.
The end result was Gardner being stripped of its 2012 state sectional title and ordered to return the MIAA-issued trophy. But Gardner did not, instead opting to appeal the ruling, which was upheld.
Still, Gardner officials kept the trophy, despite numerous efforts by the MIAA to take it back. So, on Jan. 16 the MIAA imposed the additional sanctions.
Gardner's mayor said he was shocked by the postseason ban, but MIAA public information officer Paul Wetzel said school officials shouldn't have been.
On Thursday, Mr. Wetzel volunteered several written correspondences between Mr. Neal, Gardner High principal Donna Pierce and school superintendent Carol Daring that gave the school specific deadlines in which to return the trophy.
"It was all clearly spelled out for them," Mr. Wetzel said. "We did everything we could to avoid this situation from happening."
Mr. Wetzel said the MIAA's efforts to retrieve the trophy were ignored, even after Gardner lost its appeal on Nov. 28. The school was first stripped of its title on Oct. 19.
According to documents provided to the Telegram & Gazette by Mr. Wetzel, Mr. Neal sent a lengthy email to Ms. Pierce on Dec. 11 that included a "post appeal" deadline of noon on Dec. 21 to return the trophy to the MIAA offices in Franklin.
The city solicitor's certified letter claims that "this e-mail was sent to the Gardner High School Principal and did not include a copy to the School Committee Chair (Mr. Hawke), or the Superintendent (Ms. Daring)."
Mr. Wetzel said the email was only sent to Ms. Pierce, but the principal told Mr. Neal that she planned to forward it to Ms. Daring.
"I am forwarding your request for the return of the Sectional Trophy and I respectfully refer you to our Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Carol Daring, to sort that one out. I look forward to more peaceful times ahead," the email from Ms. Pierce to Mr. Neal reads, in part.
Mr. Wetzel told the T&G that while the MIAA usually deals only with principals and athletic directors, Ms. Pierce "made it clear from the start of the appeal process" that Ms. Daring would decide when to hand over the trophy. In fact, Mr. Wetzel said, when the MIAA issued its postseason ban, it delivered the news by email to Ms. Daring, not Ms. Pierce.
Ms. Daring did not return messages left for her by the Telegram & Gazette.
According to the documents provided by Mr. Wetzel, Mr. Neal sent another email — this one addressed to both Ms. Pierce and Ms. Daring — at 3:35 p.m. on Dec. 11, giving the Gardner officials another deadline of noon on Dec. 12 to guarantee the trophy would be returned.
Only the trophy's return, Mr. Neal said, would acknowledge forfeiture of the sectional title.
That email reads, in part: "I suggest, and hope the Board would accept, that relinquishing the Association-awarded trophy, and thereby acknowledge forfeiture of that regional MIAA championship is — under the circumstances — the opportunity for us all to move forward. I hope this makes sense to both of you, and that you find this a helpful suggestion. Kindly advise by noon tomorrow, if this is an acceptable solution to you. Thank you for your consideration of my thought."
At 12:42 p.m. the next day, with the deadline to assure the trophy's return past, Ms. Pierce sent another email to Mr. Neal that reads: "It is after 12:00 and I'm sorry to say, I have not heard from Dr. Daring yet."
After that, Gardner officials made no attempt to return the trophy before Jan. 16, according to Mr. Wetzel.
The correspondences between Mr. Neal, Ms. Pierce and Ms. Daring are in contrast to the comments made by Gardner Mayor Mark Hawke after the MIAA issued its postseason ban.
Mr. Hawke — unaware of the deadlines, he said — returned the trophy to the MIAA the morning of Jan. 17.
"Shame on Gardner, shame on me for not double-checking on it," he said then. "But never did they say (after we lost the appeal) that if you don't return it by this deadline here's the punishment. They never said anything like that."
Mr. Hawke said Friday that he accepts full responsibility as chairman of the School Committee and the city's top elected official.
"No doubt, there was a breakdown in communication," said Mr. Hawke, who said the MIAA should have penalized Gardner High, but not its athletes.
That was the focus of the certified letter sent to the MIAA by the city solicitor, who argues that the school was denied its rights under the MIAA Constitution.
"No member school may be suspended from the Association until a hearing has been held with the representative of that school … and that a member school shall be given notice concerning the nature of the alleged violation," the letter reads, in part.
As of Friday, Mr. Hawke said Mr. Neal had not responded to the letter.
Mr. Wetzel said last week that the MIAA did not know what the new punishment would be against Gardner High until it was decided, debated and voted on by its board of directors on Jan. 16.
"We were still hoping they would do the right thing and return the trophy," Mr. Wetzel said.
But, as the emails prove, he said, Gardner officials knew about the Dec. 12 and Dec. 21 deadlines.
"They ignored a directive and now they are paying the penalties," Mr. Wetzel said. "As harsh as they might be, they have nobody to blame but themselves."
Mr. Hawke is still optimistic the MIAA will reverse its postseason ban, but recognizes that court may be the city's only option — even if losing the case would result in the city paying the MIAA's legal fees, according to the association's membership agreement.
"Gardner has extended an olive branch in the form of a letter that will hopefully allow cooler heads to prevail, the finger pointing to stop and an amicable resolution to be obtained," he said.
But Mr. Wetzel said the MIAA considers the matter closed.
"It's time for everyone to move on," he said.
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CHICAGO – Greg Burks is a big fan of the Blackhawks. He comes to almost every game.
Yet he misses almost every goal.
"It's the age-old thing that vendors will tell you," Burks, 34, said with a smile Monday before the Hawks hosted the Edmonton Oilers. "We hear the roar of the crowd and we turn around, and if we're lucky, we get to see the replay."
These are good days to sell cold beer for the hottest team in sports.
The Hawks extended their season-opening point streak to 19 games Monday with a thrilling comeback against the Oilers to win, 3-2, in overtime. The Hawks improved to 16-0-3, which is the greatest start in NHL history, as you probably have heard six-dozen times by now.
After every win, reporters crowd around Hawks players such as Marian Hossa and Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane. If you ask me, vendors such as Burks are at least as interesting.
By day, Burks coaches girls basketball and track at Hinckley-Big Rock High School. By night, drives to the city and sells beers at games for the Hawks, Bulls, Bears, Cubs and White Sox.
It's not uncommon for someone to see Burks in street clothes and to give him another look. It's the kind of look that says, "You look familiar, but I don't know why."
Maybe it's because you bought a beer from him the last time you were at the stadium.
Few, if any, cities are as passionate about their professional sports teams as Chicago.
However, to Burks, the Hawks' fan base stands out as the best of the best. The team's terrific start has put everyone in a good mood, but it's not the only reason fans are spending money.
Even if the team were .500, Burks said, sales would be good and tips would be generous.
"Blackhawks fans are second to none in this city," Burks said. "And that's not to short Bears fans, Cubs fans, Sox fans, Bulls fans. But the Hawks fans are a very loyal breed, shall we say."
Loyal breed. That's a good way to put it.
For many years, the barn was mostly empty whenever the Hawks took the ice.
When Burks started selling beer at the United Center in 2005, the Hawks were terrible. Home games weren't shown on TV. The majority of seats were unoccupied.
Not anymore.
The Hawks' crowd of 21,127 marked the 199th consecutive sellout for the franchise.
"It's unbelievable the transformation the franchise has made," Burks said. "I remember selling to 8,000 people. You were happy on a night when the place was half-full. And now, you're working every night to a standing-room-only crowd that's really into the game."
It's a fine line, though.
Sometimes, Hawks fans are so into the game that they don't buy as many beers.
"It's kind of funny," Burks said. "I'd say some of the toughest sales we had was the year they won the Stanley Cup, [during] the Stanley Cup Final, because everybody was so enthralled with the game that they didn't want you in their way in the seats.
"But any time there's more people on a nightly basis and more regular fans in the stadium, that benefits people like us that are working behind the scenes."
Clearly, sales are good. Burks won't say exactly how good.
"A good vendor will never disclose that information," he said with a wink.
Fair enough.
Almost an hour before the opening faceoff, Burks lifted a black strap around his shoulders and carried a case of 24 beers – 18 Bud Lights and six Budweisers – to the concourse behind Section 324. For $7.50 apiece, he poured 16-ounce beers into clear plastic cups.
Robin Hachmeister of Carol Stream stopped to buy a Budweiser on his way to his seat.
I wondered whether Hachmeister was more likely to buy a beer from Burks because the Hawks were playing so well. He and his buddy laughed and shook their heads.
"We always buy beers," Hachmeister said. "It makes no difference to us."
Hey, when in Rome. Or, I guess in this case, when in Rink.
At this rate, a deep playoff run is likely for the Hawks. That would mean more games at the United Center, which is especially helpful to workers such as Burks who lost out on income during the recent NHL lockout.
Burks thinks that the Hawks can chase another Stanley Cup title. But so much hinges on good health, and luck plays a factor, so there's really no telling how the season will end.
"We've got our fingers crossed that they can make a long run," Burks said. "There's no question they have the talent to do that. But the other things we'll just hope fall into place."
If so, Burks will be here, rooting on the Hawks.
Hopefully, he'll turn around in time to see the replays.
• Shaw Media sports columnist Tom Musick can be reached at email@example.com and on Twitter @tcmusick.


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NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa—Remember Jarrod Uthoff, the kid whose contentious transfer from Wisconsin sparked a national debate last spring?
It's understandable if you don't.
Even his summer league team can't seem to remember his name.
Uthoff—or "Utoff," as it's misspelled on the back of his gray mesh jersey for the recreational league in North Liberty, Iowa—spent the past season working anonymously toward his long-awaited Division I debut.
Uthoff, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa native, will get his wish after two long years when he's finally eligible for Iowa this winter.
"That's what keeps me going," Uthoff said. "There's a light at the end of the tunnel."
Uthoff's appearance in a summer league game Thursday was one of the first opportunities Iowa fans had to see him play.
For a while, it looked as though he might never play for the Hawkeyes—or any other team remotely connected to Wisconsin.
Uthoff, a 6-foot-10 forward and Iowa's Mr. Basketball in 2011, committed to coach Bo Ryan and the rival Badgers before his senior year at Cedar Rapids Jefferson. The Hawkeyes heavily recruited Uthoff, a versatile big man who lived about 20 minutes from Carver-Hawkeye Arena. But they were just starting a major transition between Todd Lickliter and current coach Fran McCaffery and were mired in the Big Ten basement.
Uthoff, a skilled shooter and passer for his size, seemed a perfect fit for Ryan's system.
He never was, though.
That's when the trouble began.
Uthoff sought to transfer from Wisconsin after not playing as a freshman in 2011-12. Ryan, who has rarely lost a player during his highly successful tenure in Madison, initially denied Uthoff permission to contact a number of schools, including those in the Big Ten and ACC, rival Marquette among others.
Ryan eventually relented and removed restrictions on any school outside of the Big Ten. But Ryan's actions prompted a backlash among many who wondered why coaches who are free to move to any school they want could restrict players from doing the same.
Uthoff stayed in the Big Ten anyway, electing to go to Iowa.
The restrictions prevented Uthoff from speaking with anyone connected to the Hawkeyes until he enrolled in classes. He also had to pay for school during the 2012-13 school year.
Though the soft-spoken Uthoff never sought to create a national dialogue about NCAA transfer rules, he's convinced he made the right call.
"The first couple of weeks, I knew it," Uthoff said. "It was everything. The atmosphere, the Hawkeyes community, the fan support. Everything."
The Hawkeyes are happy to add Uthoff, now on scholarship, to what could be their best team in nearly a decade.
Uthoff can stretch the floor as a big man with a mid to long-range jump shot and improved ball-handling skills. Uthoff also has the size and athleticism to score from the blocks through tip-ins or dunks, and he can defend multiple positions.
"Jarrod has been playing really well this summer. He can hit outside shots, and obviously he creates matchup problems for those post guys inside," Iowa senior forward Zach McCabe said. "He was always working on his game, just getting ready. Just talking to him, he's sick of sitting out. He wants to play."
Uthoff will join a crowded frontcourt that includes centers Adam Woodbury and Gabe Olaseni and McCabe, star Aaron White and Melsahn Basabe at forward.
Even with all that depth, Uthoff should push for significant playing time on a team expected to finish in the top half of the Big Ten and snap a seven-year NCAA tournament drought.
"I couldn't be happier. I'm with a great team. I love my teammates, and I'm having a lot of fun," Uthoff said.
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In the midst of the hustle and bustle of Times Square in the heart of New York City, St. Malachy's Church — The Actors' Chapel is a haven of quiet and prayer. It is also an active parish where stars and ordinary New Yorkers (if any New Yorker can be called ordinary) rub shoulders throughout the week. The young, peripatetic pastor, Father Richard Baker, keeps the parish hopping with his formidable personality, lots of panache and great pastoral skill.
St. Malachy's is also home to the New York office of Catholic News Service.
CNS profiled the parish last December. Reporter Beth Griffin described the glitterati this way:
Established in 1902, St. Malachy's gained fame as a spiritual home for members of the entertainment community, beginning in the 1920s. Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. were married at St. Malachy's in 1929, and other notable worshippers included Rudolph Valentino, George M. Cohan, Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Danny Thomas and Rosalind Russell. Fred Allen, Don Ameche, Cyril Ritchard and Jimmy Durante took their turns as altar servers.
This week, reporter Raphael Pallais of GloboMaestro, featured St. Malachy's in this video. It's a great slice of New York Catholic life.
Check it out, and stop in the next time you're between Broadway shows.


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More trouble for E! network's Pretty Wild star Alexis Neiers.
Following her July release from jail after serving 30 days of a 180 day sentence for her role in the burglarizing Orlando Bloom's home, TMZ is now reporting that Alexis was arrested on Wednesday for possession of black tar heroin.
As for how the arrest came about, it all began when the 19-year-old missed a post-jail probation meeting in November, thus violating her probation, which led to cops paying her a visit at her L.A. home.
Upon arrival, the cops decided to search Alexis's home and found black tar heroin. They immediately placed her under arrest.
It didn't end with the heroin as cops also tell TMZ they found her with a fake Florida driver's license. Alexis has been booked on two counts — possession of a controlled substance and perjury (for the fake ID).
She is facing some serious jail time since she is still on probation for her previous crime. Above is Alexis's new mugshot as she is sporting a rather ironic shirt that says "FREE BIRD."
Meanwhile, Alexis's mom/costar/enabler Andrea Arlington seems to be in denial about her daughter's arrest. "She was not arrested or being charged with possession as far as I know," Andrea told E! News yesterday, insisting that Alexis was in trouble because she missed her probation meeting.


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In our soon-to-be-mailed August issue, furniture maker Freddy Roman discusses the use of elliptical shapes. Freddy uses them frequently in the Federal-style furniture he makes. In the article, he shows three easy ways to generate the shapes using simple geometry. Not only do these techniques allow you draw the shapes, but they can be applied in the shop to actually cut the shapes. How? Once you know how to find the radius points, you can use a trammel beam with a cutter for handwork or swing a router attached to a circle cutting jig.
Describing the layout steps makes the process seem far more difficult than it actually is. In the video I lay out a false ellipse using the most complicated of the three methods (it's also the most versatile) and describe how it's done in about three minutes. Check it out.
If you liked this, you may also be interested in the "Drafting & Design for Woodworkers Collection," which includes a hardcover book and two CDs.


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Video appears to show cop hitting Texas man during arrest
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police in Austin, Texas say they're reviewing an early Friday morning arrest that was caught on video and appears to show an officer hitting a man with his fist and his knee.
The video shows someone being arrested near Austin's popular Sixth Street entertainment district.
One officer is heard saying, "Be still," while the man responds, "OK. I'm down bro."
Another officer later appears to punch the man's right arm to get it behind his back.
Officers are also shown arresting another man and a woman who was questioning the officers' actions.
In a statement, the Austin Police Department says it will review "the incident to determine what led up to the events captured in the video and whether the officer's actions were in compliance with" department policy.


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Jennifer Lopez Dishes on New Film 'Parker' and Film Career
When it comes to her acting, Jennifer Lopez welcomes any challenging role with "a good script" where she can have "as much fun" as possible.
Lopez, 43, who recently concluded her "Dance Again"world tour, is taking time to work in films again. Her latest flick, "Parker," is set to hit theaters on January 25.
In "Parker," JLO plays the strong Latina role of Leslie Rodgers. The "I'm Into You" singer gets to co-star with Jason Statham in an action movie about a robber who is left dead when betrayed by his alliances, and forms a friendship with a woman who helps him seize the crew's theft.
"To be quite honest I enjoy them all," Lopez told Fox News Latino about the roles she has played.
"It not about the genre," she added. "It's about a great script [and] a great director.
JLO got her big break back in 1995 in "Selena," playing the role of Tejano princess Selena Quintanilla-Perez, whose life was cut short abruptly when she was tragically murdered by the president of her fan club,Yolanda Saldívar.
Lopez insisted that having the opportunity to play diverse roles ranging from dramas to thrillers is one of the best things that she enjoys about acting.
"Doing a drama scene can be as intense and can be just as much fun as doing a romantic comedy where you are laughing," said Lopez.
With a successful music career, clothing and perfume lines and even "American Idol" judge experience under her belt, the Puerto Rican diva says that she missed acting -- that was the reason why she decided to pass on judging "Idol" a third time.
Aside from "Parker," last year JLO just starred alongside fellow Latinos Cameron Diaz and Rodrigo Santoro in the romantic comedy,"What to Expect When You Are Expecting."


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Now it says on amazon that you will need to pay $400.
Will there be another deal of $200?
if so, I will definately buy one for each of my 5 children.
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text: Area residents and drivers were watchful and respectful of students as they made their way to school for the first time this year in Knoxville and Pella. Knoxville Police Chief Dan Losada says very few problems were reported during school hours as parents shuttled their kids to school, and students moved over the crosswalks heading to class. Lieutenant John Van Haaften with the Pella Police Department also says things went smoothly as expected with the start of school. Van Haaften encourages residents to always have patience around schools before and after class, and to even leave slightly earlier in the morning to help relieve traffic congestion.


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Johnston actor relives the Rascals
You'd hardly expect a 23-year-old actor from Johnston to be familiar with a 1960s rock and roll band, but Ryan Boudreau was a little taken aback when he learned that so many of the songs that are still being played on radio were done by the Rascals.
"I knew some of the songs, but I wasn't really aware of the group," he said in an interview last Sunday. "Then I played one of the band members and heard the band live and I was amazed. These guys are all like 70 years old and they can really rock. They just sound so good for guys who played together 40 years ago."
Those of us of a certain age have known the Rascals rocked since the mid-1960s, when "Good Lovin'" was a party anthem for part-time Bohemians who shed their shirts and ties and boogied on down to the go-go. We'd all bust out of our straight jobs, jump into jeans and do the countdown:
"One, two, three…Good lovin'…Good lovin'…Good lovin'" and the Rascals described their visit to the doctor and the simple prescription that good loving was all you need.
Of course, not all the drugs people were doing back then were prescribed by doctors and the Young Rascals, as they were called originally, never overtly advocated the use of drugs, but their songs like "Groovin'" and "It's a Beautiful Morning" were the accompaniment for many a smoke-hazed pastoral excursion.
It being the 1960s, the Rascals acknowledge the counter culture ethics of freedom and liberty for all with their real anthem song, "People Got To Be Free." The Rascals were doing what became known as "blue-eyed soul" music. It was unapologetically borrowed from some of the older rhythm and blues bands. "Good Lovin'" is one instance where the white band cover is considered by many to actually be better than the original version done by the Olympics.
In his book, "The Heart of Rock and Roll," rock and roll critic Dave Marsh said, "the greatest example of a remake surpassing the quality of the original without changing a thing about the arrangement."
Marsh went even further when he declared that "Good Lovin'" all by itself was enough to expose the idiocy of saying rock and roll was just white musicians stealing from blacks.
But, if Marsh is lavish in his praise of the Rascals, his enthusiasm pales next to the devotion that actor and musician Steve Van Zandt holds for the Rascals. He nominated and introduced the Rascals to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 and mounted a Broadway Show built around the reunion of the Rascals this spring. The show features the original Rascals: Felix Cavaliere, keyboards; Eddie Brigati, vocals; Dino Danelli, drums; and Gene Cornish, guitar in concert on the stage. They are augmented by news and television footage of the Rascals and some artistically licensed re-enactment of seminal moments in the careers of the original Rascals.
That's where Ryan Boudreau comes in. Boudreau has been slowly building a list of credits as a screen actor. He has appeared in independent films like the "Cockle Cove Inn," studio productions like "Grown Ups 2" and, although he plays one on television, he is not really the murderer in "Murder On the Menu," doing yet another re-enactment for the show "Unusual Suspects."
"This was a very big crime in Danbury, Connecticut, and I got to play the murderer, which is a pretty big part," said Boudreau. "It was a cold case until some kids walking along a road started finding plastic bags with body parts inside. The police finally put the pieces of the crime together and arrest me."
The show has already aired so you can't consider it a spoiler if we tell you the murderer was actually a cook in the victim's restaurant and it was his professional butchering of the course that put the police onto him. When they needed someone to re-enact drummer Dino Danelli in the Rascals show, Boudreau jumped at the chance. It was another paying role and another credit for the résumé, and actors live or die by their résumé. It doesn't matter how many prestigious productions you have done, it's how many different things have you been in. The more diverse the roles, the more roles come your way. Playing a murderer, among other things, displays an actor's range.
"I'd actually like to do romantic comedy," said Boudreau, who certainly has the leading man looks necessary for that genre. Boudreau is one of those rare creatures that dropped out of high school but went back to college. After several unexciting jobs, like doing landscaping or working in boatyards, he learned that there were people in Rhode Island that appeared in films and got paid for it.
"About a year out of CCRI, I learned that they pay you real money to act," said Boudreau. "When I was younger, I thought I wanted to be a rock star, but I started thinking being an actor was a cooler job."
Perhaps it is, but it's the kind of job that requires constant attention, self-promotion and persistence, but Boudreau is willing to put in the hours.
"I know so many actors who have gotten some steam going in their careers but they just fall off," he said. "I don't want to be that guy."
Boudreau hopes that being associated with a show like "The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream" will lead to more roles. It certainly will give him exposure and having worked with Steve Van Zandt on the "Rascals" will do his résumé little harm.
Van Zandt is probably better known for his role as Silvio Dante in the HBO series "The Sopranos" than he is as a guitar player for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. The Rascals show is called a "BioConcert" by its producers and was staged at the Richard Rogers Theatre. Although not exactly a smash hit, the show made respectable money on Broadway, enough to prompt the formation of a touring version of the show. It is scheduled to run in Connecticut and Boston, with all kinds of stops in between. The producers call "Once Upon A Dream" a hybrid of a rock concert and a Broadway show, "Rock N Soul dance party meets the Jersey Boys." The history of the Rascals, and the history of the '60s through their music is "dramaticized" with narration and filmed scenes.
"There are elements of the staging and light design never seen before just as Marc Brickman has done in his previous groundbreaking work with Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, Blue Man Group, the opening ceremony of the Olympics, and Roger Waters recent The Wall tour," according to the producers.
Whatever they say about it, you have to say it was a success. There are still enough people who remember the Summer of Love and all the songs that make up the soundtrack of the 1960s. They came to see the Rascals, even younger people like Ryan Boudreau, who are just discovering the music of the Rascals and, through the music, discovering the history of the last part of the last century.
It will be a nostalgia trip for some of us, but for Boudreau and his generation, it will be bit of an adventure to hear and see what young people were doing back then. Although only the film of Boudreau and the other re-enactors appeared on stage during the show's run, they were all invited back for a curtain call for the last show at the Richard Rodgers.
"I was never much interested in acting on Broadway, but there I was on a Broadway stage, getting a standing ovation," said Boudreau. "I liked it."


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UK2KPosted by jstevrtc on December 21st, 2009
On Monday night, the University of Kentucky will welcome the Drexel Dragons into Rupp Arena for a 7:00 PM ET tilt that — no disrespect to Drexel, here, we're just playing the percentages — could give UK its 12th win of the season against no losses, and could further the record for best start at UK for a first-year coach. Previously held by (no surprises here) Adolph Rupp, who started the 1931 season with ten straight wins, John Calipari took that record for himself with the Wildcats' win over Austin Peay on Saturday.
Just your typical Monday night, post-finals week, holiday season, non-conference game, eh?
Oh, yeah. There's this other thing.
As you likely know by now, a win over the Dragons on Monday evening will mark win #2,000 for the Kentucky program. They'll beat North Carolina to that finish line by eight wins, or about a month.
While acknowledging how impressive that number is and what it means to Kentucky fans, the players and coaches in Lexington are largely dismissing the occasion with a sort of wave of the hand, seeing it not so much as a finish line but a milepost on the way to another finish line located in Indianapolis in early April. That makes sense, when you figure that Calipari himself will only be responsible of 12 of those 2,000 wins, and that even the three current Kentucky seniors — Ramon Harris, Perry Stevenson, and Mark Krebs — can lay claim to only 74 of them, a mere 4%.
Any wearer of the Kentucky uniform, past or present, should certainly feel a part of this achievement. No doubt about that. Calipari said it best, though, in a recent AP story about reaching 2,000 wins when he simply said, "It's important to the Commonwealth."


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Greetings Programs,
I was just getting a bit curious as to why Tron Uprising doesn't have its own listing in the categories alongside Tron, Tron 2.0, and Tron: Legacy. It seems like it would be due for one, as during the course of the series it has expanded upon the Tron universe greatly, having introduced dozens of new characters, vehicles, technology, and locations within the grid. Also, since the show is more or less canonical, fitting within the context of the films, it almost seems more likely a choice than Tron 2.0. Thoughts, anyone?


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By far the most common cause of avoidable compilation is lack of parameterization. Consider the following SQL statement:
SELECT C.cid, SUM(O.order_amount) FROM Customers C, Orders O WHERE C.cid = O.cid AND C.cid = 1234 GROUP BY C.cid
This statement computes the total number (amount) of orders for a given customer, who we identify by restricting the cid column to a particular value. In the preceding SELECT statement, that value is the embedded constant 1234. If this statement appears frequently in this application, you might see several similar statements being executed, differing from one another only in the value of the embedded constant. For example, another statement may look like
SELECT C.cid, SUM(O.order_amount) FROM Customers C, Orders O WHERE C.cid = O.cid AND C.cid = 5678 GROUP BY C.cid
These two statements would benefit from reusing the same query plan; however, because the statements' text is different, SQL Server doesn't consider the statements to be the same and doesn't reuse the plan. In such a case, if you examine the usecounts column of the master..syscacheobjects table, you'll find many plans with a usecount value of 1, indicating lack of plan reuse.
Several techniques let you write applications in a way that lets the query optimizer reuse the same plan for similar statements. By definition, stored procedures and their query plans are reusable. So, if you can create a stored procedure that uses parameters in place of the variable input, SQL Server can reuse the plan for that stored procedure. For peak performance, your application should invoke stored procedures by using a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) request. RPC requests bypass much of the statement parsing and parameter processing in SQL Server and are faster than using the T-SQL EXECUTE statement. You can find the RPC call syntax in SQL Server 2000 Books Online (BOL). Or, as Listing A shows, you can use sp_executesql, which lets SQL Server reuse the same plan for the two EXEC statements by separating out the constants from the text of the statement. Alternatively, you can improve plan reuse by using a prepare/execute model provided by data access APIs such as ODBC or OLE DB. You can find overviews of the appropriate APIs for ODBC in the Microsoft article "How to Prepare and Execute a Statement (ODBC)," and for OLE DB in the MSDN OLE DB Programmer's Reference.


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Alexander Ludwig knew he'd have to bring the muscle playing a young warrior in History's "Vikings," but he didn't expect to use them when the cameras stopped rolling.
Ludwig joined the cast in Season 2 as Bjorn Ironside, the now teenage son of Ragnar Lothbrok, the show's main character played by Travis Fimmel. In the history-based series airing at 9 p.m. Thursdays, Ragnar is a visionary Viking leader who leads his people to faraway lands, but grows to view his sons as rivals.
That father-son rivalry, Ludwig said, turned playful off camera between the actors.
"Just before a take we'd start wrestling and see who could take the other," he said of Fimmel, whom he called "a dingo." "At the start he was able to take me. I think by the end of the shoot we were pretty even."
Ludwig got close with many cast members on the shoot in Ireland. But it wasn't all fun and games, he said. As an actor who never thought he'd do TV, he considers "Vikings" to be one of the smartest career choices he's made to date. The 21-year-old has starred in "The Hunger Games" and the recent "Lone Survivor," among other films.
Ludwig said he's "grown so much as an actor" by getting to play a character over several episodes. His character sees tremendous growth this season as well. As Season 2 began, Bjorn moved away with his mother, Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick), who left Ragnar after marital indiscretions. By the second episode, four years have passed and when they meet again later in the season, the reunion won't be all roses. Bjorn's strength and eventual fighting prowess will inspire jealousy in his father.
"Ragnar was really the first pioneer of exploring other lands, but then Bjorn Ironside really took it to another level," Ludwig said. "The story's just begun, because what Ragnar's son did was incredible."
In coming episodes, viewers will get to see Ludwig in action as Bjorn learns to fight from his dad and his warrior uncle, Rollo (Clive Standen), as well as battle rival clans. (See the exclusive Episode 5 clip above.) Ludwig enjoyed training for the fight scenes, but said it was different from the fighting he's done in other productions.
"It's very much a schoolyard brawl. You can practice as much as you want but as soon as the director says 'action,' you're fighting 30 other guys," he said. "It's a shit show and you're just trying not to get hit."
Ludwig talked more about "Vikings," onset antics with other cast members and what "The Hunger Games" has done for him.
Let's talk about this new role of yours. How has it been playing older Bjorn?
It was amazing. The season premiere did exceptionally well for us. We were really happy about that. It looks like we'll probably do it again and it's been a great role for me. Just as an actor, I never thought I would ever do a TV show. Movies have always been where my heart is, but the truth is there's been such exceptional content on television.
It was the best choice I've ever made in my career because I still have grown so much as an actor being able to tell a story over time. It's been great and "Vikings" is such an intelligent show. We have a great writer and show runner in Michael Hirst. He did "The Tudors." He's a spectacular writer and it's a very character-driven show, which is what really attracted me to it in the first place.
Talking about doing a role over time and getting to live with this character: He's going to change a lot, isn't he?
Absolutely. I think the fans and the audience can really expect a lot to come of this character. ... When they first offered me the role I spoke with Michael and our historian. It's very interesting if you look at what this family did. Arguably the son of Ragnar Lothbrok—all his sons—went on to do even greater things than he did. ... And I hope that we'll be able to show that in the near future. It looks like we are going to so I'm very excited about that.
Is there a possibility that as the show goes on maybe Ragnar, Travis's character, is sort of less in the picture and it becomes more about the sons?
I never want really want to speak on behalf of any of the writers or anything, but I will say if you look at the history, the show is about Vikings and right now you're really getting the great story of Ragnar. I love Travis so much and I love what he's done with the character. I've learned so much from him. But I think you can definitely expect the show to really—it can twist on you any way. I talked to Michael, there are no limits to what he's planning on doing and nobody is safe. And all he's really trying to do is tell the story of how the Vikings lived. So as of right now it's really about Ragnar and his family. I think a lot is going to change in the next couple of seasons.
The real Bjorn Ironside traveled all the way into North Africa or some distant land?
Yeah, he colonized so many countries and he sacked what he thought was Rome at one point. It's an amazing story what he went out to do and we'll see how far into that we get. But he does end up sailing to a part that he assumed to be the Roman Empire. It turned out it wasn't. It was a different city.
Basically they wouldn't let him through the walls ... And he pretended he was dead and they let him in, kind of a Trojan horse kind of story. ... [His men] complained [that] his last wish as a dying man was to be buried on Christian ground. So they let him in and then he kind of just took over the city.
And didn't he become king of Sweden?
Yeah. And he became king of Sweden. Exactly. You've done your research.
I was kind of a nerd about the Vikings when I was growing up.
Me too. I'm such a history buff. I've got to say the one thing also that's great about the show that I love and I learned so much about is a lot of people don't know very much about the Vikings. There's very little to go off of and this is where I think the show's doing so well right now—people are really seeing it from another perspective.
Do you find that's a little freeing for the role?
Absolutely. I mean taking over a territory that's already been established has its challenges and I do want to keep certain qualities that were established in the first episode or the first season. But yeah, I mean four years have gone by since you last saw Bjorn and he's seen a lot changes. I mean I'm not the same man I was a year ago. A lot can change in four years and I really can do whatever I want with it. In terms of the show I say 80 percent of the show or 75 percent of it is factual and then the rest is fiction and in that there are characters that are added to help as foils and show the characters and really help to progress the show.
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I've written about this before but I think that Travis and Gustaf [Skarsgard] especially have given this very sort of odd, off-kilter sort of approach to their characters which I love. I feel like it makes them seem more foreign and sets apart "Vikings" from anyone else on TV.
Oh absolutely. I absolutely love what they've done and they took a big risk. Nobody knew that people would basically sympathize with these characters and attach themselves to these characters. But they took a big risk with us, especially Gustaf, with what he did with his character. I think that just speaks to what an incredible actor he is, because he took a risk and it worked and I think that's where true genius in the acting world comes from—really not being afraid to show a weird quality and to emphasize it.
So had you seen it before you got cast?
Basically I got a call from the heads of History going, "They want you to come in for a meeting." So I went in and met with them and absolutely loved them. I met with Travis and Katheryn, who plays Lagertha ... and we had an amazing conversation. And we talked about where Bjorn's character's going to go and what I could expect.
I'd seen publicity for the show everywhere but I hadn't been able to watch it because I was so busy. But I immediately went back and watched it, fell in love with the show and I called one of my buddies and he was like, "Yeah, what have you been up to? Like what are you doing?" And I said, "Well I'm actually going out for this show called 'Vikings.'" And they freaked out. And apparently I was the only person who hadn't seen the show out of all my friends. It's like their favorite show. So that was really cool and that was a big turning point for me knowing that it's a show that people my age and older and younger can all relate to and all love.
I had interviewed Travis over the phone but when I met him at Comic-Con he said, "Wow, you're a tall fuck." I noticed you are taller than he is. Did you get that kind of response?
[Laughs.] Oh, absolutely. I got that all the time. And it's funny because we give each other shit about that all the time.
INTERVIEW: Travis Fimmel feels at home with 'Vikings' ax in hand.
I saw a little clip in which Rollo (Clive Standen) is training you to fight?
Yeah, Rollo really comes on to be quite a mentor to me, which I love. Bjorn really finds some unexpected mentors along the way in Season 2. I think you can expect a great relationship between Bjorn and Floki as well, and a long-lasting one at that.
Every time Floki would come around, the younger Bjorn was kind of excited to see him. So that makes sense.
Exactly, and I would say Floki is very much an extremist when it comes to religion and the gods and what the Vikings believe in. ... The myth and legend about Bjorn Ironside—you'll find him growing into this in Season 2—is that everyone thought he was protected by the gods because he was such an incredible fighter and he was never touched when he was fighting. So obviously Floki being the extremist he is believes that wholeheartedly and he wants to basically be there for Bjorn at all times. But there are some twists and turns that happen in Season 2 and I don't want to give away too much.
Speaking of fights, did you enjoy the training?
Absolutely. I love that stuff. I've had lots of fight training during other films I've done, but what I love about this is it's very raw and they don't try to glamorize the fighting. ... I will say that it was an incredible opportunity. One thing I love about "Vikings" is that the violence and everything is exciting, but it's just a byproduct of how they lived. Their true story comes through the characters.
George Blagden said the first fight that he got to do this season he giggled wildly after the director yelled, cut." Did you experience that same kind of thing?
Oh my gosh, yeah. It is such an adrenaline rush. It's everybody's dream. Everyone wants to be a Viking—at least every guy does—it's just like the manliest thing you can do and you just go into this battle and you're really just swinging away as hard as you can. It's real. It's not like fake. You're really hitting. You hit the hell out of people and it's amazing.
INTERVIEW: George Blagden giddy about 'Vikings' fight scenes
Is it tiring, though, to do that kind of physical stuff and still be able to bring those character moments out, not to mention remember your lines?
Absolutely. It's exhausting, but I think it's our job to really incorporate it into our scenes because that is how they would be. It's a workout on its own, so it is so tiring. But it actually helps because you can really use that in the scene. So it almost helps when you're doing your lines and stuff because the fatigue is how they would feel.
Did you have a favorite weapon?
Yeah, probably my ax. I love working with my ax and it's so fun.
Everybody seems to say the ax.
I only got to work with a sword one time in the show and that was really fun, too. But the ax is so cool because you can throw it and you can do whatever you want with it.
When Ragnar and Bjorn meet again in the fourth episode, Bjorn seems to have forgiven Ragnar for all of his indiscretions and everything that happened in the past. Is that going to be the case? Ragnar earlier said something about fathers not having to worry about being jealous of their daughters, which kind of was a little foreshadowing maybe.
Absolutely that is foreshadowing. And I wouldn't say Bjorn forgave him. I would say that he has accepted the fact that this is just a reality. He's matured so he understands that what his father did—though it was a mistake and it ruined his family—he's not going to let that affect their relationship. At the end of the day, he misses his father and he does love his father.
But when you first see Bjorn, and I played it very deadpan because I wanted the audience to interpret it how they will because he is so conflicted and there are so many emotions going on inside. He's angry. He's excited. He's so relieved to finally have a father figure that he loves in his life again. So there's a lot of stuff that Bjorn has to deal with and a lot of emotions. But he's definitely matured a lot since you last saw him and he's accepted the fact that this is life now and it's time for him to find his way in the Viking community.
I think you nailed that. Being someone who was without a father for awhile when I was young, it moved me.
Thank you so much. That means the world to me.
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Is he more a warrior or more, I don't know, a thoughtful explorer?
I would say Bjorn is more of a warrior, but he is very much a visionary and very much an explorer as well. He's got the philosophy of a warrior and he's got the soul of a warrior. But he shares his father's vision for a greater future and for exploring the unknown.
Did you know about the Ironside legend before talking to Michael?
I knew a little bit because I did my research, so I was interested to see if that's where he was going to go. And it sounds like it's exactly where he's going to go.
The behind-the-scenes videos look like you guys had a lot of fun. I saw one where Katheryn was walking on top of a bunch of you guys. Did you have a lot of those moments?
Yeah. We took a nice little photo of that. I remember it. It's hilarious, because Katheryn's playing my mother and she is only 36 and I'm 21. It makes sense because back in the day they did have kids very, very young. But I would always give her shit for it every day. Like I'd come to set and I'd be like, "Hey, sexy mama." She'd say, "Alexander—stop." But yeah, we got along really well and it was definitely one of the best experiences of my life and I really look forward to hopefully going back.
You better be careful with her; she's a Tae Kwando champ or something, isn't she?
Oh yeah. You don't mess with Katheryn. She's a black belt.
INTERVIEW: Katheryn Winnick brings fighting spirit to 'Vikings.'
What can we expect from Bjorn this season?
In the second season from when you see older Bjorn to the end, you can expect to see Bjorn finding his place in Viking society as a man and begin to lay down the foundation upon which he builds the Ironside legend.
All right, now about you: I hear you're a freestyle skier? Did you watch a lot of the Olympics?
Not nearly as much as I would have liked. I was so busy promoting "Vikings" I didn't have any time. but I watched as much as I could. I watched Shaun White's performance and I watched as much freestyle as I possibly could.
After you filmed were you happy to get back to Vancouver? Did you miss it?
I really miss Vancouver. I love the people there and it's my home and it's always nice to go back home. I got to do some great skiing. I had some of the best skiing in my life when I went back about three weeks ago. I went back to Vancouver for the weekend and that was great. And I miss my family, so it's good seeing them.
You live in L.A. full time. Are you still at USC?
I actually recently took a leave of absence. That was always my plan to move out to Los Angeles and go to college. And if things were going well then I would take a leave of absence. School was not going anywhere. However, I do want to get my degree and if it takes me 10 years to get my degree then I'm doing something right.
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"The Hunger Games" was kind of your big first exposure. What did you learn from that experience?
That got me on the map and I will always be in debt to Lionsgate and "The Hunger Games" for really putting me on the map. I think that I wouldn't be where I am if that didn't happen. It was an amazing experience in its own right and I experienced just a sense of celebrity that I had never experienced before. That was mind-blowing. I never got into the industry for that. I love telling good stories and that's it. But that in its own way was a learning experience and a different world. It led me to deal with that. Everything that "The Hunger Games" had taught me I've taken on to every film I've gone to thus far, and hopefully I can continue doing that.
I saw this Seventeen magazine Q&A; with you and I don't know if it was from around that time or maybe earlier. But it was 17 questions with Alexander.
Oh my God. Oh my gosh. I don't even know if I've seen that.
The first one: How old were you when you had your first kiss?
Did I say preschool?
You did. Preschool.
Yeah! That's when I had my first kiss! I'll never forget it.
The reason I bring it up is in a recent TV interview you said you didn't want to be a heartthrob. I saw the 17 questions right after watching that interview and thought, "Well, those are heart-throbby, crazy questions."
[Laughs.] They are so crazy. And it's definitely one of those teeny-bopper kind of question things. But you go with it and it was fun to do. You can't really fight it. You've got to go along with that kind of stuff. At the end of the day, as long as the publicity is there to get your movie seen by more people, you've got to do whatever you can.
Thanks for your time. Maybe I'll see you at Comic-Con this summer.
I hope so. That'd be really great. We finally get to meet face-to-face, you tall fuck.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A U.S. judge has set a tentative trial date next year to consider federal Clean Water Act penalties that BP could face for the millions of gallons of oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion.
U.S. District Court Judge Carl Barbier on Friday set Jan. 20 for the trial — the third phase of a proceeding arising from the federal government's claims against BP and its contractors. Earlier phases dealt with causes of the disaster and the amount of oil that spewed into Gulf waters.
Barbier has not yet ruled on the amount spilled or on whether BP and others acted with gross negligence that led to the blowout — both issues that will figure into Clean Water Act penalties.


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On Saturday, a freshmen doubles team placed first to lead the Lady Vandals to a second-place finish at the Highland Doubles Tournament.
Karlie Bright and Makayla Tinker won No. 5 doubles, and two other teams placed second to help Vandalia score 13 team points to fall into second place.
Centralia (19) was the winner, while Hillsboro (nine) took third. Bright and Tinker's win against Centralia's Molly Hutson and Sruti Swesh was the Orphan Annies' only loss in the tournament.
PATOKA – In the biggest game on both teams' Egyptian-Illini Conference schedule, offense was hard to come by for Patoka and St. Elmo, as each team's ace took the hill last Thursday.
St. Elmo senior Connor Beasley and Patoka junior Clinton Hood combined for 17 strikeouts, but it was the Eagles who took advantage of its limited offensive opportunities to take a 3-2 win and improve to 3-0 in conference play.
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Patoka's baseball team has positioned itself well for the Egyptian-Illini Conference Tournament by winning another conference game on Tuesday, beating Beecher City, 6-1.
Senior Jake Orrell (1-0) earned the win, and Clinton Hood pitched the final 2 2/3 innings to secure the win. They allowed just three hits in the game.
Many athletes that spent their high school years in Fayette County have moved on to play for college or professional teams. Below are the athletes who recently made headlines.
Single-game leaders
•Rushing yards: Ambuehl, 160
•Passing yards: Ritchey, 45
•Receiving yards: Cowger, 23
•Total TD: Ambuehl, 3
•Tackles for loss: Lucken, 5
•Team scoring: 42 points
•Team rushing yards: 393
•Team passing yards: 45
•Team receiving yards: 45
•Team tackles for loss: 11
•Margin of victory: 28 (42-14)
Season leaders
•Rushing yards: Ambuehl, 407
Friday at Roxana, 7 p.m.
Thursday at Hillsboro, 5 p.m.
Saturday vs. Brownstown, 8 a.m.
Saturday vs. EAWR, 10 a.m.
Saturday vs. Carlyle, 1 p.m.
Saturday vs. TBA, 2 or 3 p.m.
Monday vs. Ramsey, 6 p.m.
Tuesday at Litchfield, 5 p.m.
Thursday at Rolling Hills, 4:15 p.m.
Monday at Indian Springs, 4 p.m.
Tuesday at Eagle Creek, 4 p.m.
Wednesday at Ramsey, 4 p.m.
Thursday vs. EAWR, 4:30 p.m.
The Vandalia soccer team got 26 saves from Colin Ledbetter in losses to Litchfield (13-0) on Monday and to Hillsboro (6-1) on Tuesday. Jussi Craycroft scored against the Hilltoppers.
The Jr. High girls basketball season kicks off at the beginning of next week with the Old Capitol Classic.
Games in the annual tournament will begin at 5:30 p.m. next Tuesday at the Vandalia junior high and elementary schools.
Local teams in the tournament include Vandalia, Brownstown and Mulberry Grove.
JV photos from the past week.
The VYO football teams took to Mark Greer Field on Saturday against Roxana.
This Saturday, the Jr. Vandals travel to Pana. Action from two weeks ago at East Alton-Wood River was canceled due to rain.
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La Plata Electric Association is asking residents to be on the lookout for anyone stealing copper wire.
The metal can fetch a high dollar, so thieves steal it from electric substations, railroad signal lines and construction sites to sell, sometimes on the black market.
A theft occurred overnight Sunday at BC Fabrication, a business in Bayfield, according to a news release from LPEA. The thieves took about 20 feet of copper wire.
The thieves cut into the live conduit and it burned up part of the equipment, but that didnt stop them, said Steve Gregg, LPEA manager of operations. They were determined to get the wires.
Utility trucks are well-marked, and workers carry identification, Gregg said.
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Allergic to issues, obsessed with personality, and unwilling to confront the reality of Republican radicalism, most members of the mainstream media have focused their coverage of the GOP presidential nominee on a single banal inquiry: "Who is Mitt Romney?"
Allow me to clear this one up: it doesn't much matter.
Befitting a Republican who sought statewide office in navy-blue Massachusetts, Mitt Romney spent most of his political life, in the words of The New Yorker's Louis Menand, as "a liberal Republican cryogenically preserved from the pre-Reagan era." Back in Massachusetts, Romney believed that "abortion should be safe and legal in this country" and pledged to "sustain and support" Roe v. Wade. He promised not to "line up with the NRA" and proudly boasted of the state's "tough gun laws." He refused to sign Grover Norquist's "no tax" pledge as governor and termed it an example of "government by gimmickry." He endorsed equal rights for gays, a generous immigration policy and, most famously, instituted universal healthcare for the state's citizens based on an insurance mandate.
That fellow is as difficult to locate today, however, as the balance of a Cayman Islands bank account. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney opposes pretty much everything that Republican Senate candidate and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney ever said and did. Even so, countless journalists (and perhaps not a few undecided voters) have been racking their brains trying to decide whether President Romney might revert to that nice liberal Republican who occupied his body until 2005 or so. Many conservatives apparently fear the same.
But that Mitt Romney passed into history together with that "maverick" media hero, John McCain (remember him?), and for much the same reasons. All successful statesmen must be able to demonstrate flexibility in making pragmatic political calculations, but Romney appears to do little else. Even the non-maverick-y McCain, circa 2008, defended Barack Obama when his more rabid supporters attacked the president's patriotism, birthplace or religion. Romney, however, offers his silent assent under the same circumstances. So while the Tea Party amateurs—the naïve and frequently ill-informed pawns of wealthy corporate funders like the Koch brothers and their ilk who served as foot soldiers for the lunatic candidacies of Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich—may have pined for a more "authentic" conservative than Romney, the pros always knew better. As Norquist himself explained, "We just need a president who can sign the legislation that the Republican House and Senate pass. We don't need someone to think. We need someone with enough digits on one hand to hold a pen."


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Cliff fight may cancel out December stock market rallyBy CHUCK MIKOLAJCZAK
December 01. 2012 8:30PM
NEW YORK - In normal times, next week's slew of U.S. economic data could be a springboard for a December rally in the stock market.
December is historically a strong month for markets. The S&P 500 has risen 16 times in the past 20 years during the month.
But the market hasn't been operating under normal circumstances since Nov. 7, when a day after the U.S. election, investors' focus shifted squarely to the looming "fiscal cliff."
Investors are increasingly nervous about the ability of lawmakers to undo the $600 billion in tax increases and spending cuts that are set to begin in January; those changes, if they go into effect, could send the U.S. economy into a recession.
A string of economic indicators this week, which includes a key reading of the manufacturing sector on Monday, culminates with the November jobs report Friday.
But the impact of those economic reports could be muted. Distortions in the data caused by Superstorm Sandy are discounted.
The spotlight will be more firmly on signs from Washington that politicians can settle their differences on how to avoid the fiscal cliff.
"We have a week with a lot of economic data, and obviously most of the economic data is going to reflect the effects of Sandy, and that might be a little bit negative for the market next week, but most of that is already expected - the main focus remains the fiscal cliff," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital in New York.
Concerns about the cliff sent the S&P 500 into a two-week decline after the elections, dropping as much as 5.3 percent, only to rally back nearly 4 percent as the initial tone of talks offered hope that a compromise could be reached and investors snapped up stocks that were viewed as undervalued.
On Wednesday, the S&P 500 gained more than 20 points from its intraday low after House Speaker John Boehner said he was optimistic that a budget deal to avoid big spending cuts and tax hikes could be worked out. The next day, more pessimistic comments from Boehner, an Ohio Republican, briefly wiped out the day's gains in stocks.
On Friday, the sharp divide between the Democrats and the Republicans on taxes and spending was evident in comments from President Barack Obama, who favors raising taxes on the wealthy, and Boehner, the top Republican in Congress, who said Obama's plan was the wrong approach and declared that the talks had reached a stalemate.
"It's unusual to end up with one variable in this industry, it's unusual to have a single bullet that is the causal factor effect, and you are sitting here for the next maybe two weeks or more, on that kind of condition," said Sandy Lincoln, chief market strategist at BMO Asset Management U.S. in Chicago.
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Opioid addiction is destructive across all demographics. But compared to men, women's addiction can have more devastating implications. Some children are born addicted, while others face uncertain futures because of addicted mothers. Many children are placed in foster care, but an increasing number are being raised by extended family – further disrupting lives. WQED continues its Emmy© Award winning "Hope after Heroin" project with a compelling new documentary exploring how opioid addiction among women is breaking the family bond and changing the fabric of society.
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First-time psychotic episodes are frightening, confusing and distressing for the entire family. Traditionally, teens and young adults experiencing first-episode psychosis (FEP) have been pulled out of school and/or society – only to begin a lifelong journey of spotty treatment, recurring episodes, and unfulfilled hopes of a career, happy marriage and children. But new research shows a significant success rate for people who receive proper, coordinated care after a first episode. This documentary shows who's leading the FEP treatment movement, while families share personal stories of heartbreak, success and hope. The program also explores fascinating research on young adult brains that could lead to life-changing treatment of psychosis.
Original airdate: Mar 30, 2017
Church has always been an important part of African-American life. While Western Pennsylvania is blessed with hundreds of predominantly black churches, this documentary focuses on just five - but each with a very different story: a church with ties to the underground railroad (Bethel A.M.E. in Monongahela), one known for its rich music program (Mount Ararat Baptist in Pittsburgh's Larimer neighborhood), a small church soldiering on despite dwindling membership (Allen Chapel A.M.E.
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The number of seniors is rising dramatically in the United States. But the number of medical professionals and family members who can provide care for these older adults is seriously lagging. WQED is proud to partner with Highmark Blue Cross, Blue Shield in this multi-platform project that includes a television documentary and digital-first content focusing on challenges for both the aging seniors and their caregivers.
Original airdate: Feb 14, 2017
As the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump nears, moderator Chris Moore sits down with a group of local voters who talk openly about who they voted for in the presidential election and why. Voters explain the campaign messages that appealed to them, and discuss whether they feel post-election healing is a possibility.
Original airdate: Jan 19, 2017
Western Pennsylvania has a rich history of volunteerism. This documentary focuses on three local volunteers who give their time in three different ways: John Edward Hutchinson of the Greensburg VFD is believed to be the nations oldest-living volunteer fire chief; Former Pittsburgh Steeler Charlie Batch combines athletics and academics in a highly-successful program for at-risk youth; Linda Lafferty organizes Blessings in a Backpack in Wilkinsburg, providing food for students who might not have a meal waiting at home.
Original airdate: Dec 16, 2016
Chris Moore hosts the ninth and final episode in a series of Election 2016 discussion programs. In this episode, the panel explores the major issues of this election year, and the impact they have on Western Pennsylvania. The panel will also discuss the big contests in November, including the races for President, U.S. Senate, and Attorney General.
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