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Another interesting roster turn just popped across the wire.
Adam Eaton has been optioned to the minor leagues, paving the way for what should be the promotion of lefthander J.A. Happ from Triple A Lehigh Valley. Eaton has not been assigned to a specific classification because his schedule has not been announced.
Eaton, like Brett Myers before him, had the right to refuse the assignment. Eaton, 31, was 4-8 with a 5.80 ERA in 21 games (19 starts) for the Phillies this season. His last two appearances came in relief. He allowed three runs yesterday in the Phillies' 12-10 win over the Braves.
Yesterday in Richmond, Happ was lifted from the game by manager Dave Huppert after just 2 2/3 innings and 41 pitches against the Triple A Braves. He hadn't allowed a run, giving up two hits and a walk while striking out three. There were reports that he received high fives from his teammates when he came back to the dugout.
"I'm physically fine," Happ coyly told a reporter who reached him by phone last night. "They haven't made a move yet, so I don't feel it's appropriate to comment. I'm still waiting for the phone call."
The Phillies said a roster move would be made before tomorrow's game in Washington against the Nationals.

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The antivirus world's other heavy hitter doesn't put in quite as good a performance as this year's Norton, but still serves up a very respectable performance across the board.
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Green Bay will be without quarterback Aaron Rodgers for at least one more game.
The Packers have announced that Rodgers is out again on Sunday against the Falcons, the fifth full game he has missed since suffering a broken collarbone against the Bears.
Matt Flynn will start for the Packers and Scott Tolzien will back him up.
Now the question is whether the Packers can stay close enough to the NFC North lead to make it worth considering the possibility that Rodgers could return for the final three games and help them win the division. If the Packers can beat the Falcons without Rodgers — and if the Lions lose to the Eagles — then Green Bay would still be in the hunt for a division title, and a return of Rodgers would make them a legitimate threat to win the NFC North.
But if the Packers lose this week (and especially if the Lions also win at Philadelphia), they're just about out of any hope of winning the division. At that point, it might be time to shut Rodgers down.


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If you're a "Whedonite" (the moniker given to fans of Writer/Director Joss Whedon) then you probably know Fran Kranz from his role on Whedon's "Dollhouse." But Kranz' credentials go far beyond his stint as "Topher" on the short-lived sci-fi series. His filmography includes roles on "Frasier"; M. Night Shyamalan's "The Village"; "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules"; "Cabin in the Woods"; and most recently Joss Whedon's modern interpretation of William Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing."
And yet, with so much experience in film and television, Kranz doesn't hesitate to lend his talent and presence to a web-series like "JourneyQuest." JourneyQuest tells the story of a band of adventurers and their trials as they go on an epic quest. There's Perth (Christian Doyle) a "terrible wizard" who has been charged with carrying the Sword of Fighting (voiced by Jeremy Spray) a sentient weapon with a cutting wit. Perth is accompanied by Nara (Anne Kennedy) an elfmaid who's deadly with a bow; and Carrow (Brian Lewis) a priest and healer who struggles with his faith.
You also have Wren (played by the scene-stealing Emilie Rommel Shimkus) a bumbling bard-in-training who is mistakenly given the task of chronicling the greatest epic ever. And of course you have Kranz in the role of Silver Tom, an affluent bard who is charged with taking Wren's epic from her.
(The most recent JourneyQuest season, "City of the Dead", can be seen online at the JourneyQuest site, or on the YouTube Page. Read the interview then see how you can win a FREE COPY of the JourneyQuest DVD.)
Kranz took time out of his schedule to talk to Geek To Me about working on JourneyQuest; how the show compares to other shows like The Guild and Legend of Neil; not being cast in The Avengers movie; and how he feels about sequels and crowdfunded movies:
Geek To Me: What led you to take a role in JourneyQuest?
Fran Kranz: I loved the show. I was approached by Matt Vancil through a mutual friend about playing a role in the first season but couldn't because of a prior commitment. When I finally saw the finished product I was jealous I wasn't able to be a part of it. I reached out to Matt to congratulate him and shamelessly ask for a part in a later season. The guys offered me this great role Silver Tom. I see him as a brilliant lothario Bard but whose arrogance can be costly and humorous. A qualified and actually talented Guilderoy Lockheart.
Also I'm a big fantasy fan so it was all kind of a no brainer. All the characters are so fleshed out and interesting at this point that I'm really excited to continue with it. I hope I get a chance to interact with a lot of them though as a Bard I'm not supposed to.
It's a super dysfunctional world but also very sincere. Matt Vancil and Ben Dobyns really created a perfectly balanced atmosphere of comedy and adventure. It's captivating. There is plenty of satire for the genre and self awareness but it's not a spoof. There's good drama and action. As an actor that wants to do both comedy and drama that's satisfying. The world and characters have great range.
Geek To Me: How do you think JourneyQuest compares to other similarly-themed shows like Legend of Neil and The Guild?
Fran Kranz: I respect The Legend of Neil and The Guild too much to spoil their story lines with comparisons to JourneyQuest. JourneyQuest is better? JourneyQuest has no peers? JourneyQuest and who? Just kidding I love Felicia Day.
Geek To Me: Your fellow Dollhouse alum Felicia Day is also into gaming, do you two ever talk about the hobby?
Fran Kranz: I just mentioned her! I don't believe we have but I certainly will now. I'm getting too old to play Link in a movie though, so the whole gaming world is becoming a sensitive subject for me. That being said I am really an NES/SNES guy, so I may not be able to keep up with the kids these days anyways. Final Fantasy though, I'll come to days later with a restraining order for trying to put a green wig on girls and call them Rydia.
Geek To Me: You have a role in Joss Whedon's "Much Ado About Nothing" but no appearance in the Avengers movie, dude! What gives?
Fran Kranz: We actually stopped speaking after The Avengers. It made filming Much Ado very difficult. "Could you please tell the pre madonna playing Claudio to move to his left and learn to emote?"
Honestly I am very thankful to be in his black and white artsy Shakespeare adaptation and not his giant superhero franchise crossbreeding behemoth. Did I say 'thankful' I meant poor.
Seriously though, stop joking, Fran. I don't mind at all. I am so thankful and grateful for the work Joss has given me. He bought my home. He's made my career in many respects.
Would I like to be in the Avengers 2? Of course. I've asked him if I can be an anonymous foot soldier and get killed by Thor. I love Chris Hemsworth. But I guess he thought I was joking.
On the other hand I'm not a big super hero movie guy anyway. I really think we should stop these franchises or be very picky about our sequels. There's far too many.
The idea of the Avengers movie didn't excite me until it was Joss'. If it wasn't for him I probably would not have seen it or at least I would have been dragged there by friends.
I like originality, granted the Avengers was the first of it's kind. It's the 9th appearance of Iron Man in 5 movies, or whatever, that bothers me. Robert Downey Jr. is far too good an actor to be stuck playing Tony Stark for this long. I'm all for super heroes being reinvented but continuing the same way episodically doesn't interest me quite as much.
Geek To Me: Has Joss been in touch about future projects?
Fran Kranz: No. I don't want to rock the boat so I wouldn't ask. I know he loves Hamlet. Hamlet, mmm... He is a very loyal person and obviously draws from a group of actors he likes but he is also very specific. I was surprised to be offered Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing but he has a unique vision and now after seeing the film I see why everyone was cast the way they were.
If I am lucky enough to work with him again I am confident it will be something both challenging but fitting. It's just another reason he's a joy to work with.
Geek To Me: How does working on a show for online broadcast compare to working for network television?
Fran Kranz: Well, there's large and small projects but quite honestly I approach it all the same. I try to just tell the story as best as I possibly can. This really means pay attention to your actors, director and camera. You try and block out all the other noise on set. Given that film is broken down into scenes and setups anyway the length of the project tends not to matter as much during the process.
A web series can be three scenes or pages and a television show can be 50 but you're going to film it all the same way for the most part. So much of film has to do with solving the problems or challenges the scenes present when you lift them from script to page. This plays out similarly on all projects I think.
Also, these days content is watched differently. It's no longer "cable cutters" but "cable nevers". All content can be watched on tablets so the web series is no longer defined by small or cheap or independent.
I just shot a webseries pilot with friends and felt as strongly about it's potential success as a lot of movies and television I've done. This transition is only beginning as well.
The real separation between television film and web content will be blurred even greater or matter much less. It's exciting.
So to answer your question again, or to try and speak english and not ramble so much, there is little to no difference technically and theoretically. That's exciting and should be inspiring to all aspiring artists.
I've been asked so many times for advice and now I really believe great advice is just do do do. Nothing is too small if it can make it online. And as we all know some really worthless stuff is online.
Geek To Me: What do you think about Zack Braff getting funding for his "Garden State" sequel on Kickstarter?
Fran Kranz: I didn't know that. See my remarks about sequels. I like Zack Braff a lot. He does a lot of theater and writes and directs and admire that greatly but I am not interested in a Garden State sequel.
Hopefully he will surprise me. Kickstarter on the other hand is amazing. I've done a lot of projects on Kickstarter. I recently completed a movie called Lust For Love funded by Kickstarter and it's very humbling to be produced by fans and people with genuine interest. Oh and money.
I heard the Veronica Mars movie raised 3 million dollars in a day or something. It's kind of scary in that you find out what you're "worth" on there but it's been so helpful to so many projects. Just don't offer too much. I would never use it as a director or producer because I wouldn't want to be beholden to so many people. I should never say never though.
Geek To Me: What's next for you?
Fran Kranz: I am currently filming a movie called Murder of a Cat. Sam Raimi is producing and his wife Gillian Greene is directing. It stars Greg Kinear, JK Simmons, Blythe Danner, Nikki Reed, Leonardo Nam and a bunch of other great actors. It's going very well. I think it will be something special.
After this I'm not sure. I did my first professional play two years ago and it was life changing. I fell in love with acting doing plays in High School and College but somehow forgot that or how passionate I was about the theater. Getting back on stage reinvigorated me and opened up a whole new world to me when I was already so happy. I felt incredibly lucky to rediscover so much potential. It will remain a serious part of my life and career now.
Geek To Me: Where can your fans follow you on social media? (Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, etc.)
Fran Kranz: Facebook I don't use as much anymore. I'm on there and it's me and fans talk to me but it's become hard to navigate. I have a twitter account, @frankranz. I'm getting better with it. I have instagram, @instafrankranz. My friend is going to sit me down and help me with a website, www.frankranz.com. But it's like teaching a brain dead already dumb thing. I'm an idiot with computers. It's sad.
But anyway, I'd rather people follow my work than any of these things. A thousand more twitter followers has nothing on one person liking me in a movie. That performance is more likely going to be a more genuine expression of myself than a tweet anyway.
Geek To Me: Thanks!
WIN A COPY OF JOURNEYQUEST ON DVD! Send me an E-MAIL (redeyegeek[at]gmail.com) with the words JOURNEYQUEST CONTEST in the subject line, and your name, address (and Twitter handle if you have one) in the body. Everyone who e-mails will be entered into a random drawing for a copy of JourneyQuest: City of the Dead on DVD. Deadline for entry is Friday, June 14th, 2013. Winner to be notified via e-mail.
Elliott Serrano is a Redeye Special Contributor and Chicago's Top Geek. One day they will write a ballad about him.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — There's the Al Madrigal who speaks in the crisp, skeptical tones of a "Daily Show" correspondent, whether grilling Arizona foes of Latino studies or questioning the sanity of Puerto Ricans who want statehood in a dysfunctional United States of Sequester.
Then there's the comedian showcased in his first hour-long stand-up special, a tour guide through the life of a family man dealing with lippy kids, urban absurdity and angst. Gone is the bravado of the faux TV reporter he plays for Jon Stewart, replaced by a bemused grin and an appealing touch of goofiness.
Although no swashbuckler takes the stage in "Al Madrigal: Why is the Rabbit Crying?" debuting 11 p.m. EDT Friday on Comedy Central, don't be fooled by his modest soft-shoe — a few hesitant steps toward the audience, a few steps back: Madrigal is relishing success after a determined march toward a place in show business.
And he's done it on his terms, as a Mexican-Italian-American from San Francisco who crafts a wry storyteller's take on the world for his comedy act and "Daily Show."
"I'm proud that I've been able to go into any (nightclub) room and do the same material and not change it up for them," said the bearded, bespectacled Madrigal, 41, who lives in Los Angeles and commutes to New York for Stewart's program.
His universal family-guy humor makes translation unnecessary, a la Bill Cosby, one of his comedy influences (Franklin Ajaye and Patton Oswalt are others). There's the bit, for instance, about his young son picking his own clothes for a party, then shrugging off his tattered look: They're your friends, dad.
Or his account in an interview of coming to realize how spoiled his daughter has become. The family, tagging along with Madrigal for a club gig, had checked into a modest motel in upstate New York.
"The 6-year-old looks at me and says, 'Ummm, why am I staring at the parking lot?'" Madrigal recounts. "I had to tell her, 'Cause you're on the road, baby, and this is what you do. You think it's glamorous? We're going to fight a businessman for a pancake after this.'"
There are times that some background is required, including the bit that gives his special its name. "Why is the rabbit crying?" is the nervous question the family raises about the tattoo they spot on an LA "cholo," a young Latino with a gang-member air about him.
Some background, but less than you might think, according to Madrigal: "I think there's cholos everywhere. There's cholos in all of us, and they don't necessarily need to be Mexican."
The comedian and his material are more than ready for the spotlight, said Jonas Larsen, Comedy Central's senior vice president for talent and specials. An extended CD-DVD combo of "Al Madrigal: Why is the Rabbit Crying?" will be released April 30.
"A one-hour special is, in a sense, showing that you've arrived as a comic ... It takes a lot of work to get there," Larsen said, adding that Madrigal is an outstanding storyteller with a fresh take on family life and a "Latino point of view but not exclusively Latino, that reaches a broader audience."
Or, as Stewart put it in an email, he brings a "laid-back, zen-like comedy ninja quality that we didn't even know we were missing."
Madrigal's show-biz dream meant ditching a career at his parents' San Francisco business that provides staff management for other companies. Among his responsibilities: To caution and, in some cases, fire workers. He moved his wife, Krystyn, an educator, and their two children to Los Angeles, encountering both opportunity and lean times over the past decade.
He scored repeated late-night appearances, including with Conan O'Brien on "Tonight" and on "Lopez Tonight," ''The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live." There were acting jobs as well, on sitcoms including "Gary, Unmarried" and "Free Agents," but none of the shows stuck. One, "The Ortegas" with Cheech Marin, was shelved by Fox before it aired.
Madrigal is upbeat about a pilot under consideration for next season, "About a Boy," based on the Nick Hornby novel of the same name and following the 2002 Hugh Grant film. Its top-notch pedigree includes executive producer Jason Katims ("Friday Night Lights," ''Parenthood") and Minnie Driver and David Walton in the cast.
Madrigal's character, a stay-at-home dad, is fuller than his previous ones and offers him the chance to play drama as well as comedy.
"I've always been 'ethnic friend,' without any serious moments, all jokes," he said, like the character in the office who complains, "Did anybody touch my lunch?" and then is gone from the scene.
Instability is an entertainment industry given, but his two years on "Daily Show" have given Madrigal a high profile and the chance to create some indelible moments, including his interrogation of a member of the Tucson, Ariz., school board that banned a Mexican-American studies program. A board member earnestly told Madrigal that one teacher was buying his students' loyalty with burritos, which Madrigal said prompted "burrito protests" against the board's action.
"That's the most viewed piece" he's done for "Daily Show," he said, proudly. "People are teaching that piece in Chicano studies classes."
Although he introduced a Hispanic perspective to Stewart's almost impeccably diverse show, he, like other "Daily Show" cast members, hit different comedy beats. He's done a Black Panther piece and a remake of a Clint Eastwood car commercial, and was at work on a federal budget sequester take.
"My primary responsibility is to be funny," said Madrigal.
No pink slip needed here.
Lynn Elber is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. She can be reached at lelber(at)ap.org and on Twitter (at)lynnelber.


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While Dwight Howard headed to the mountain air to consider where to take his talents, Daryl Morey grabbed a day to breathe before heading to Orlando, Fla., for summer league.
For nearly two years, the Rockets general manager had chased Howard one way or another. He had come tantalizingly close and fallen far short. He had tried to engineer trades, reworked his roster and cleared salary-cap room, all to bring in the player he pegged to be the next in a line of Rockets star big men stretching from Elvin Hayes through Moses Malone, Ralph Sampson, Hakeem Olajuwon and Yao Ming.
Morey could get an answer as soon as Friday, with Howard, 27, expected to emerge in the coming days with his decision. After Howard heard the pitches of five teams trying to land the NBA's top center and most coveted free agent, Morey's long, "Les Miserables"-worthy chase had made the Rockets a strange combination of front-runner and underdog.
The Rockets have strengths at least some of their competitors cannot match, starting with a young, ascending roster including another top talent just reaching his prime in guard James Harden.
Yet, the legacy of the Lakers and lure of Los Angeles, to say nothing of the persuasive powers of Kobe Bryant and celebrity make the leap to the Rockets or other teams seeking to lure Howard out of town seem enormous, even after his unsatisfying season in L.A.
A strong contender might have emerged Thursday. ESPN reported Golden State is trying to clear cap room to sign Howard.
Howard's decision will have a widespread impact beyond the five teams given an audience with him in Los Angeles. But no team has pursued Howard longer or with more single-minded purpose than the Rockets.
Morey's maneuvers
The Rockets came closest at the 2012 trade deadline when Howard waffled between opting in for another season with the Orlando Magic and becoming a free agent at that season's end, all while Morey negotiated a trade. Even that day, as Howard headed to the news conference to say he would remain with the Magic, Morey was on the phone negotiating a deal focusing on Kevin Martin in case Howard reversed course again and headed toward free agency.
Howard had sent signals he had little interest in the Rockets' rebuilding. But even with only six weeks left of the season, Morey was willing to risk that even that short period of time would be enough to keep him. He never got the chance.
By the summer, talks resumed. Morey moved to strengthen his position with the Magic by dealing Kyle Lowry to Toronto for a lottery pick. Morey did strengthen his position to make a deal, but he did not come as close with new Magic GM Rob Hennigan as he had with his predecessor, Otis Smith. The Magic preferred a deal that would bring them Arron Afflalo to a trade featuring Martin.
With Howard joining the Lakers, he seemed certain to remain out of the Rockets' reach. But the deal with Toronto paid off, enabling the Rockets to land Harden. And with Morey structuring every other new contract to allow him cap flexibility this summer, he remained in the chase.
While the Lakers struggled, Morey moved Marcus Morris for a second-round pick and traded Patrick Patterson for Thomas Robinson in the belief he could more easily deal Robinson, moves primarily made to have the cap space to offer Howard a max contract.
Howard wants crown
None of that might mean anything to Howard, who during the season said he would look for a place to be happy and after the season said he was primarily searching for a team that will be positioned to win a championship in the short and long term.
The Rockets sought to sell that they could provide both, as other teams no doubt did, too. But their long, unrelenting pursuit could be viewed as a contrast to Bryant's tough-love recruiting pitch. The Rockets see Howard as the key to assembling a championship team; Bryant according to a Yahoo Sports report told Howard he could teach him how to be a champ. It's unclear what Howard thinks about that.
That and a great deal more could become evident in the coming days. If nothing else, if there was an inclination to hold their breath while waiting for a puff of white smoke, or Tweet, out of Aspen, the Rockets should know better.
After two years, they should be accustomed to reminding themselves to breathe normally.


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George W. Bush is more and more frequently referred to as "the worst president in the history of America" by those who know the background and pay attention to what's going on. However, that description may be too mild.
We may need an entirely new classification. For more than five years we've had an administration that has shown consistent contempt for the rule of law, for the Constitution, for Congress, for the American people and for the facts. They're squandering trillions of dollars, the effects of which will be felt much more severely in the decades to come.
They have failed to catch the mastermind of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, and instead have helped increase that nasty band of thugs with our ham-handed tactics. We have ruined Iraq, doing far more damage to it than Saddam Hussein ever dreamed of. Hundreds of thousands are dead.
All for a war which we are doomed to lose, in a country we'll leave once somebody in Washington calculates that the voters won't put up with any more dead Americans, a number which will reach 4,000 in three months or so.
So far, the corpse count hasn't excited many Georgetown or Ann Arbor cocktail parties, because in this war, those fighting are mostly inner-city blacks, jobless rural whites and Hispanics who are trying to earn their way to citizenship.
Eventually, however, even the liberals may start to get uneasy. Last week, in what should have been a sudden epiphany for the half-asleep, this administration gave us a sharp lesson in just how thoroughly corrupt it is.
That was when Our Supreme Leader announced he was commuting the sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who was sentenced to 30 months in the slam after being convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice. Libby, you may remember, was the former chief of staff for Vice President Richard Cheney.
Libby leaked to the press, presumably at his master's direction, that the blond bombshell Valerie Plame was an undercover CIA agent. This was printed, which destroyed her effectiveness and career, as they intended it would. Why did the Bush administration want to do that?
Simple. Her husband, a former ambassador named Joseph Wilson, had angered the Bushies by telling the truth publicly, which was that his investigation revealed that Saddam Hussein had never tried to buy uranium from Niger.
Libby was tried, convicted and duly sentenced by an experienced and fair federal judge. Previously, the Shrub had said he would do nothing till the appeals process had run its course. Something, however, happened to change his mind.
After five years of trying to govern by propaganda, George Bush suddenly decided that a strong dose of George Orwell's doublespeak is exactly what was needed instead. "I respect the jury's verdict," he said, and in his next breath showed he didn't respect the jury, or the judge, in the slightest, by adding, "I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive."
Never mind that our intellectually challenged and allegedly dyslexic prexy never set foot in law school, or that the Constitution gives the responsibility for determining sentences and punishment to the courts. That doesn't matter because, as he sees it and likes to say, "I am the decider."
But why now? The normally cautious New York Times openly speculated Bush could be worried about what Libby might say once he realized he was at the tender mercies of the guards and his fellow convicts.
For a little perspective, let's compare this with what actually happened in Watergate, the only scandal that ever actually brought a president down.
What few remember now is that Watergate actually was sort of a comic-opera bugging episode in which a band of Cuban exiles, under the supervision of whacked-out former spy Howard Hunt, tried to bug the Democratic National Committee offices one night in June 1972. This was immensely stupid, since it was perfectly clear the Democratic nominee, George McGovern, was going to lose by a landslide.
They were caught in the act; Hunt was stupid enough to have the White House's phone number in his pocket. Eventually, Nixon ordered an illegal and clumsy attempt at covering the mess up - and taped himself doing it. Yes, he did other bad stuff, but what I just told you was the essence of why he had to resign. That, and the fact the tape showed he was a real potty-mouth. In that long-ago time, Americans never imagined Their President could possibly be a man who would say "cocksucker."
George W. Bush is a man who has constructed secret prisons and authorized torture - not only here but in other countries. He started a war and lied about why. He has invaded our privacy illegally, authorizing wiretaps in a way forbidden by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. When all that was needed was to ask a secret court for rubber-stamp permission, he didn't even do that.
What America - what all of us - needs to ask now is this:
• Why isn't Congress - right now - authorizing committees to investigate what this president and vice president knew and when they knew it? (House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers: Your move, sir.)
• Why aren't journalists in America demanding an investigation to what seems to be an organized cover-up and obstruction of justice?
• Why doesn't someone - Senate Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin, say - demand the White House explain its strategy for the Iraq War?
That strategy seems to consist of having our soldiers drive up and down the roads, getting blown up, until one day the insurgents adopt democracy.
We have a world crisis and a sick democracy at home, and our puppet masters are cleverly amusing us to death with Paris Hilton.
You really might want to do something ... while you still can.
Email Jack Lessenberry
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The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, open in February, just 100 days from now.
The games have already given rise to some superlatives: most expensive (at more than $50 billion), most heavily guarded and, potentially, most controversial.
Here are key questions surrounding the Sochi games, and some answers:
An Islamist militant leader has called on Muslim fighters to attack the Olympics. Can Russian officials keep visitors and athletes safe?
The mountains that will be the site of the Alpine events are part of the North Caucasus, a mostly Muslim region of Russia that includes Chechnya and Dagestan.
Both areas have been plagued by separatist violence. Russia fought two wars to keep control of Chechnya, and Dagestan is currently the scene of a long-running insurgency.
Earlier this year, Chechen militant Doku Umarov issued a video statement in which he called on fellow rebels to attack the Olympics.
Russia has responded by deploying tens of thousands of soldiers and police to the Sochi area, backed up by surveillance cameras, drones and robots.
Authorities have said they will be monitoring all communication in the region, including mobile phones and email.
Security experts say it will be difficult to stage any kind of large-scale attack on the games themselves.
What about attacks elsewhere in Russia? Will people be safe in Moscow or St. Petersburg?
There was a bus bombing in the southern Russian city of Volgograd earlier this week that killed six people and wounded more than 30.
Police say a woman from Dagestan carried out the suicide attack.
There's no indication that attack had any link to the Olympics in Sochi, but it shows how relatively easy it might be to stage a spectacular attack somewhere else in Russia while the Olympics are going on.
A really severe attack could throw the country into crisis and would sap attention from the games — and it's not at all clear that the officials are ready for that.
The Sochi Olympics have also been the focus of a controversy over lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Russia. How will that affect the games?
Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed that issue again Monday, as he was taking the new head of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, on an inspection tour of Sochi.
Putin said all participants would be made to feel welcome, "regardless of nationality, race or sexual orientation."
The reason that assurance was necessary was that Russia has a law that limits gay rights — specifically, it bans giving information to minors about "nontraditional" sexual relationships.
The law is so vaguely worded that it could ban any discussion about same-sex issues, or any expression of gay pride, such as a march.
There have been calls for boycotts, urging people to stay away from the Olympics. Is that a cause for concern?
It has aroused some concern among officials, who fear that foreign disapproval of the law could keep fans away.
Some prominent LGBT activists in Russia are saying that would hurt athletes and fans without addressing the government's role in this law.
They want the major, longtime Olympic sponsors to make some gestures in support of LGBT rights that would put the issue in the spotlight.
Masha Gessen, a journalist and a prominent LGBT activist, recently told The New Yorker that Coca-Cola could put a rainbow on all its cans of Olympic Coke.
Coca-Cola is scheduled to make an announcement on whether it will address the issue during the games.
Olympic sponsors are probably going to be reluctant to make political statements during a supposedly nonpolitical event, especially if it embarrasses the host country.
Activists may stage protests of their own that will challenge the law.
One of the unusual things about the 2014 Winter Games is that they're being held in a subtropical climate. Will there be enough snow for Alpine events?
Sochi is a resort town on the Black Sea that's known for its palm trees and balmy climate. The temperature, which rarely gets below freezing, has been running lows of about 50 degrees and highs of around 70 degrees over the past week.
The venues for skating events, such as hockey, speedskating and figure skating are all near the seashore, where the main challenge is keeping the ice cold and the spectators warm.
The Alpine events will take place in the mountains, about half an hour away by train. The area gets significant snow during the winter, but it's not absolutely certain that there will be enough during the games.
Olympic planners have stored some of last year's snow, by heaping it in gullies and keeping it covered during the summer. That could provide the base for the ski runs.
But the main snow surface will provided by snow-making machines — "snow cannons" — that will spew clouds of fresh snow that conform to standards for international competitions.
Today starts the countdown to the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. One Hundred days to go. The games, at more than $50 billion, are already the most expensive in history. And because of a Russian law that limits gay rights, the games could also turn out to be among the most controversial. And then there's the threat of potential terrorist attacks.
NPR's Corey Flintoff is on the line to talk with us about the potential challenges facing the host. Hey, there, Corey.
COREY FLINTOFF, BYLINE: Hi, Audie.
CORNISH: So what are the biggest issues facing the Olympic organizers right now?
FLINTOFF: Well, when I was in Sochi in June, Audie, the big question what Russians were going to get for their $50 billion investment, and there are really still a lot of questions and allegations about corruption here. But almost all the venues are now finished. They're ready for the competition. So a major issue now is whether Russia can protect fans and athletes at the games. You know, Sochi is part of the North Caucasus Mountains. It's not that far away from Chechnya and Dagestan. Those are Russian regions that have had ongoing Islamist insurgencies.
So the Russians will have tens of thousands of troops and police in and around the Olympic venues - all kinds of technologies, surveillance, cameras, drones, robots. The authorities have said they'll be monitoring all communications. That includes people's cell phones and emails. So it will be very difficult to pull off a large-scale terrorist attack.
CORNISH: At the same time, Corey, there have been security problems elsewhere in Russia, right? I mean, there was just a bus bombing in southern Russia last week.
FLINTOFF: Yes. Police say a woman from Dagestan blew herself up on a bus in the city of Volgograd. That killed six people. But there's no indication that that attack had any link to the Olympics in Sochi. But it still shows how relatively easy it might be to stage a spectacular attack somewhere else in Russia while these games are going on. And a really severe attack could throw the country into crisis, it'd just sap the attention away from the games. And it's not clear that the authorities are ready for that.
CORNISH: Now another thing people have been talking about, of course, is the issue of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in Russia and how that will affect the games.
FLINTOFF: Well, Russian President Putin addressed that issue again yesterday. He was taking the new head of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, on an inspection tour in Sochi. And Putin said all participants would be made to feel welcome, regardless of nationality, race or sexual orientation. And the reason that assurance was necessary was that Russia has a law that limits gay rights, specifically it bans giving information to children about so-called non-traditional sexual relationships. The law is so vaguely worded that it could ban any discussion about same-sex issues or any expression of gay pride, such as a march.
CORNISH: And this controversy has also led to talk of boycotts, right, urging people to stay away from the Olympics. But is that having any resonance in Russia?
FLINTOFF: Well, it has aroused some worry here but prominent LGBT activists are saying that that would hurt athletes and fans without addressing the government's role in this law. So what they really want is for major, long-time Olympic sponsors to make some gesture in support of LGBT rights that would put the issue in the spotlight.
Now, Olympic sponsors are probably going to be pretty reluctant to make political statements during what is supposedly a nonpolitical event, especially if it's something that would embarrass the host country, so activists may well stage protests of their own that would challenge the law.
CORNISH: That's NPR's Corey Flintoff in Moscow. Corey, thank you.
FLINTOFF: My pleasure, Audie. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Windham field hockey prevails in overtimeBy John Habib
New Hampshire Union Leader
November 03. 2013 7:55PM
It's been a trying season for second-year Windham coach Amanda Ward, whose baby girl, Clairee, died in August at birth. "This team, my girls, have helped me heal," said an emotional Ward after the game. "They've rallied around me since August and we've been a close team the whole year."
Ward said an interesting trend started in the semifinal final game against St. Thomas Aquinas of Dover. "We beat St. Thomas 3-2 in overtime," she said. "We tied the game with eight seconds left and won the game in overtime with five minutes and eight seconds left. Today we won the game in overtime with 13:08 showing on the clock. There's something about the eights and the only thing I can think of is Clairee was with me in August, the eighth month of the year. I know she was with me and our team every step of the way."
Merrimack Valley was trying to make history as a sixth-seeded team. The Pride knocked off No. 11 Milford, No. 3 Souhegan and No. 2 Lebanon to reach the finals.
After a scoreless first half dominated by the Jaguars, Merrimack Valley took the lead with 20:47 to play. Lily Davis scampered down the sideline for 20 yards before centering a pass to Cassidy Huckins for an open six-yard shot past Windham goalie Kelsey Federico, who stopped eight shots.
A turning point took place with 11 minutes left when Merrimack Valley senior defender Autumn Hoyt got hit by the ball on her foot and had to leave the game for a few minutes to recover. Two minutes later, with Hoyt on the sideline, Windham tied the game on a penalty corner with 9:50 left. Taylor Powell fed Justine Levesque who blistered a high shot past Pride goalie Maggie Carey for the equalizer.
Just before the teams took the field for overtime, Ward told her team to do one thing. "I told them to just score," she said. "I didn't care if they did it in the first minute or last. Just score."
Windham (15-1-1), which finished runner-up last season, celebrates its first title in the program's four-year history. Merrimack Valley, under coach Kim Kenney, ends up 12-5-1.
"It would have been great to win the title, but we still had a great season," said Kenney. "Few people thought we'd get this far, so I'm proud of my team."
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Located in Paris City Centre, this hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Grands Boulevards and Parc des Buttes Chaumont. Galeries Lafayette and Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris are also within 2 miles (3 km). Louis Blanc Station is only a 2-minute walk and Château Landon Metro Station is 4 minutes.
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A crunch meeting to decide controversial plans to drill for gas in Calow has been delayed.
Campaigners claim Derbyshire County Council failed to provide enough notice about the date of the meeting to the 400 protesters who objected to the proposals.
The meeting, which was due to take place on Monday, has now been postponed until next month. A spokesman for the Calow Against Gas Extraction campaign group said planners had "really messed up".
A council spokesman said: "These are clearly proposals that many people care about and we want to be sure residents have every opportunity to give their opinion.
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Seven Star Natural Gas wants to carry out the extraction on land off Dark Lane to generate electricity for up to 5,000 homes. The firm hopes to carry out the operation round-the-clock every day of the week for a period of up to 15 years. Protesters fear the proposals will lead to more noise and have a visual impact on the village.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Firefighters have rescued a man who was struck between a subway train and the platform in Brooklyn.
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AutoNation, the country's largest auto retailer and biggest business based in Broward County, is starting 2013 on a high.
Last year, the company had faster growth in sales of new vehicles than the U.S. industry as a whole. Its profits were running close to levels before the recession, even on lower sales. And its stock now trades at double the price it was before the industry crash in 2007-2008.
How has the Fort Lauderdale-based giant, with sales topping $13 billion a year and more than 19,000 employees in 15 states, pulled it off?
Customer care is one reason, analysts said, but that's just the start. Employees at AutoNation's 215-plus stores work to build relationships with car buyers, so they return to dealers for parts and service, a highly profitable segment in the business. Plus, AutoNation offers consumers more on the Internet than most — from service records online to forms to research and buy cars, slashing time in stores.
Auto analysts and company executives also credit a mix of savvy management that knows its market, listens and adjusts to changing times. They are innovative users of technology to make operations and data collection more efficient.
And, critically,they have a long-term focus that's not dictated by quarterly earnings on Wall Street.
"They have an extremely experienced group of people who are able to adapt to the changing marketplace," said Jesse Toprak, vice president of auto industry trends at research group True Car in Santa Monica, Calif.
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In the coming months, Helen Mirren will kill on contract (Red, opens Oct. 15), hunt Nazis (The Debt, Dec. 29), and raise flames to the skies (The Tempest, Dec. 10). Mirren, now 65, is most often discussed in terms of the longevity of her sexiness. But this late-life display of fury is likely to bring attention to the less discussed genius of Mirren's acting career: her complex portrayals of the many faces of female aggression.
As Mirren has moved through her 50s and into her mid-60s, she's deftly played some pretty intimidating broads. In 2001, for instance, she portrayed the self-controlled and calculating housekeeper turned poisoner, Mrs. Wilson, in Gosford Park. In 2005 in the miniseries Elizabeth I, she depicted the monarch ruthlessly fighting back against her enemies with mercurial passion. Even in Mirren's quietly complex, Oscar-winning portrayal of the current Queen Elizabeth, she highlighted a stubborn resolve. Mirren's midlife characters may be angry, but they aren't perceived as madwomen. With Mirren's skills, they can go from subtly rude or frosty to enraged and back, and audiences root for them.
My favorite of Mirren's everyday aggressivistas is detective superintendent inspector Jane Tennison. Tennison, the protagonist of BBC's globally popular Prime Suspect series (1991-2006), was a woman of a certain age who had earned some power in the workplace but still had to waste her time dealing with sexism to get her job done. Her aggression was mixed in with ambition, wit, and a glimmer of lust, and she did not always keep it under control. Without warning she could unfairly holler at a subordinate or snap at her niece. Most disastrously, Tennison turned her rage on herself and drank too much.
Tennison's struggles weren't mine, and her successes not familiar ones to me (haven't tracked a serial killer lately). But watching Tennison in the 1990s made me think about how much I was starved for these kind of forceful, successful, but also flawed adult-women characters. Watching Prime Suspect more recently, as I was researching my book on portrayals of female aggression, made me realize that not much has changed. Tennison is still the best antidote to the clumsy ways movies and TV usually handle middle-aged women.
We know the stereotypes well. There's the 2-D bitch boss (Miranda Priestley in The Devil Wears Prada); there's the sexless, sturdy, and hardworking woman (Lieutenant Anita Van Buren in Law and Order); there's the sexually predatory Mrs. Robinson, now re-imagined as an oversexed cougar (Samantha in Sex and the City). And finally, the eternally fussy, ignored, apron-wearing caregiver, from Andy Griffith's Aunt Bea to Marge Simpson.
In this life-starts-at-retirement age we now live in, we've added a new stereotype, which is perhaps my least favorite. I like to call her the Serene One. She frequently appears in ads as a still, beatific woman sitting cross-legged, yogic hands pressed together at heart level. Her eyes stare off into space from a blank face. From its repeated representation in the 2000s—in certain ads for Eileen Fisher clothing or Wells Fargo retirement planning, for instance—it seems this slack face, often artfully positioned gazing at an ocean or mountain view, is U.S. consumer culture's new mask for postmenopausal women. It feels to me like a replay of Aunt Bea's required smile in the 1950s—only moved back to a later stage of life. Like any domain of enforced calm, it is an exhausting and impossible place to live. It's also destructive to older women, because it ennobles a kind of passivity, albeit in softer cashmere. There's a behavioral continuum from proactive to empowered that is energized by, among other things, aggression.
Which brings us back to the powerful and messy Tennison. The character was created by Lynda La Plante, who is Mirren's exact age. La Plante was the writer for the first three years of the series, and it was her decision to foreground aggression in Tennison's character. As La Plante told me, "before aggression rises to the surface, you have frustration. Tennison is a highly qualified officer facing discrimination such that eventually it builds to anger. Only when she was able to confront on an aggressive level was she able to break through."
It was often Tennison's subtle deployment of aggression that drew me in. In Prime Suspect's second episode of its first year, for instance, there is a tiny scene in an elevator in which a large male copper (who viewers already know dislikes Tennison) crowds her unnecessarily while pretending to be politely reaching for the panel of buttons. Tennison simply refuses to move or accommodate or do anything but stare—in a distinctly non-yogic, non-serene fashion—and make him reach awkwardly around her. It's these small graces of rudeness in the face of minute social plays for power that only Mirren could have pulled off so well.
Tennison's fierceness is a large part of what keeps her sexy, too; in different episodes she indulges in affairs with a younger colleague, a married detective, an old flame, another old flame, and others. And here she is now at 65, snapped by paparazzi in her two-piece at the beach, photographed by New York magazine nude in the bathtub, much discussed in terms of her heat.
It's this intimate mix of aggression and lust that will allow moviegoers to sit back and enjoy the more heavy-handed combination of comedy and violence promised in Red. Soon to come—a semi-retired CIA agent firing into a limo; a former Moussad operative in chase; Prospera stirring the seas into tempest. Bring it on, Helen, bring it on. And thank you.
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Strategic Tech Slideshow: 10 Things You Should Know About Mac OS X Mountain Lion
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A year after launching Mac OS X Lion, Apple is planning to offer up Mountain Lion, the latest version of its operating system. Due this summer, it's not expected to be a major upgrade. Yet, there's a good chance that Apple's OS X Mountain Lion will come with enough improvements to make current Mac OS X users want to upgrade to the new offering. Chances are, you're still heavily invested in Windows in the workplace, but the number of Macs in use is creeping upward in the enterprise. With this in mind, here's what you need to know about Apple's next big operating system launch, Mac OS X Mountain Lion. The platform won't be a groundbreaking release, but it offers significant new features including enhanced Gatekeeper security and the iMessage platform, that make it worthy of evaluating as you decide whether to increase the number of Macs into your office or upgrade those you already have in place.
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Program also features club teams
(Sioux Falls, SD) – Volleyball is the latest sport Sanford has added to its list of training programs for regional athletes. Sanford POWER Volleyball Academy will include a comprehensive skill-development program and club-team component.
Sanford POWER Volleyball Academy, which will begin workouts in early May, has tapped Mark McCloskey, a club volleyball veteran who also spent time as a college assistant coach, to lead the program.
Sanford POWER Volleyball Academy is open for girls from kindergarten to 12th grade. It focuses on individualized skill development through small-group or one-on-one training with qualified instructors.
The volleyball program will also feature age-specific club teams for girls ages 10 to 18 years old. Those teams will participate in tournaments sanctioned by USA Volleyball (USAV), the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) and the Junior Volleyball Association (JVA).
The eventual home of Sanford POWER Volleyball Academy is the Pentagon by Sanford Health. The facility, scheduled to open this fall, can accommodate up to 11 regulation volleyball courts. In the interim, the program will train athletes at Linwood Wesleyan Church.
"Providing student-athletes with the opportunity to play with and against the best talent in the region with qualified instructors is key to developing well-rounded athletes," said McCloskey. "With the means to mentor players at a spectacular facility and a marketplace asking for high-level training opportunities, we feel Sanford POWER Volleyball Academy is set up for success."
Most recently the executive director of the Thoroughbred Elite Volleyball Alliance in Lexington, KY, McCloskey has nearly 20 years of experience at the collegiate and junior volleyball levels. He made assistant coaching stops at the University of South Carolina, the University of Northern Colorado and the University of Wyoming. McCloskey served as the head coach of various club programs throughout South Carolina, Arizona, Colorado and Kentucky. He was also senior director of recruitment and events for the American Volleyball Coaches' Association from 2003 to 2008.
Sanford POWER Volleyball Academy will host an open house and open gym on Friday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Linwood Wesleyan Church at 1101 E. 58th St. in Sioux Falls.
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B.J., Braves walk off in 11th, win sixth straight
ATLANTA -- As B.J. Upton's struggles have extended throughout this season, the Braves have remained patient with the hope that this oft-streaky outfielder would eventually live up to his reputation of being a player who has a knack for getting hot at the right time.
Time will tell how productive Upton will be during the remainder of this season. But the veteran outfielder will enter September with the momentum created by a four-hit performance that was capped by his walk-off single in the 11th inning of Saturday night's 5-4 win over the Marlins.View Full Game Coverage
ATLANTA -- As B.J. Upton's struggles have extended throughout this season, the Braves have remained patient with the hope that this oft-streaky outfielder would eventually live up to his reputation of being a player who has a knack for getting hot at the right time.
Time will tell how productive Upton will be during the remainder of this season. But the veteran outfielder will enter September with the momentum created by a four-hit performance that was capped by his walk-off single in the 11th inning of Saturday night's 5-4 win over the Marlins.View Full Game Coverage
"He's had tough months, but nobody remembers what you did in April, May and June," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "If everything goes well and we go where we want to go and he continues swinging the bat, that's what he's going to be remembered by. So those are good things."
After they stranded two runners in both the ninth and 10th innings, Upton was not necessarily the guy the Braves would have chosen to come to the plate with two on and two outs in the 11th inning. He entered the plate appearance hitting .091 (7-for-77) with runners in scoring position and .023 (1-for-41) with two outs and runners in scoring position.
But none of that mattered when Upton laced right-handed reliever Ryan Webb's slider to right-center field. The sharp single scored pinch-runner Paul Janish from second base and prompted the second walk-off celebration the Braves have staged this week.
Janish replaced Chris Johnson, who capped his own four-hit performance with a single that sparked the decisive inning and raised his batting average to a National League-best .331.
"We've got a very good ballclub," Upton said. "It's not going to be one guy every night. It just so happened tonight was my night."
Along with delivering the game-winner, Upton also produced a game-tying sixth inning home run that helped the Braves claim their sixth consecutive victory and increase their division lead over the Nationals to 15 games. They will enter September with their magic number to clinch the National League East at 13.
"I'm just going to stay the course and trying not to do too much," Upton said. "You just keep at it and keep grinding. My teammates have been behind me all year. They haven't given up on me. That's a big part of it. I've had their support all year."
After striking out in Saturday's first two at-bats, Upton found himself in the midst of a 4-for-42 skid that extended back to Aug. 7, when he notched his only other four-hit game of the season. But he got himself back on track in the sixth inning when he erased a 3-1 deficit with a two-run home run off Miami starting pitcher Jacob Turner.
Upton's first home run since June 15 marked the first of four consecutive hits he recorded to exit this game with a .195 batting average. Instead of focusing on that number, the Braves are simply looking forward to the possibility that this game marks the start of another of his late-season surges.
Upton grabbed the attention of the baseball world when he hit seven home runs while playing in his first postseason in 2008. The franchise-record five-year contract he gained from the Braves in November was a product of the 19 home runs he hit in his last 57 games of the 2012 season.
"I've been working hard all year and I'm finally starting to see some consistent results," Upton said. "The season is not over. I've just got to keep playing and working hard and stick with what I'm doing."
Upton's contributions benefited Mike Minor, who was in line for a loss after surrendering opposite-field home runs to his nemesis, Justin Ruggiano, and Giancarlo Stanton through the first three innings. Ruggiano has hit .412 (7-for-17) with two home runs in his career against Minor.
Along with hitting a two-run home run in the first inning, Ruggiano began the seventh inning with a single and scored on Logan Morrison's one-out single, which allowed the Marlins to regain the lead that was lost when Upton homered during the previous half-inning.
The lead proved to be short-lived as former Braves left-handed reliever Mike Dunn surrendered a two-out, seventh-inning double to Johnson and Brian McCann's game-tying single.
McCann's single erased the possibility of Minor being saddled with a loss on a night in which he allowed as many home runs (two) as he had in his previous 10 starts combined.
"For us, four runs is like 25 runs for some teams," Marlins manager Mike Redmond said. "You've got to try to find a way to win that ballgame. We didn't."
The Braves wasted some opportunities while stranding 15 runners. They left the bases loaded twice and put two on with none out before Dan Uggla grounded into a double play to end the ninth inning.
But with their rock-solid bullpen allowing just two hits over four scoreless innings, and Upton picking an opportune time to halt his most recent funk, the Braves took one more step toward clinching their first division title since 2005.
"We have guys that step up," Upton said. "That is what this team is about. It's never going to be about one guy. When we need somebody to step up, it just seems like that is what happens."
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com.


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Earns a Fourth All-America Honor
DES MOINES, Iowa – Senior Kate Grace competed in her final collegiate race today, and she went out with a bang. The All-American added another national honor to her career as she placed fifth in the final of the 800-meter run at the NCAA Championship. Grace finished in 2:04.22, less than a second off of her preliminary time of 2:03.48 on June 8.
Grace led by a slim margin during the whole of the first lap, clocking in at 59.66, and was even in second place with just 200 meters to go. Unfortunately she was unable to fend off late charges from the rest of the field.
"I went for it. Coach [Mark] Young ['68] said it was going to be decided in the last 100 meters and it was," said Grace. "I came up short, probably a little shocked at going out so fast. But I can't say that I held anything back."
She finished her race in 2:04.22, which is just barely off of the school record of 2:03.41 that she set at NCAA First Rounds last month. Sophomore Anne Kesselring of Oregon claimed the title in 2:02.15, besting freshman Natalja Piliusina of Oklahoma State by a mere hundredth of a second.
The race was Young's last as well.
Grace said of their final race: "We wanted a higher place. The last thing I heard him yell was simply 'Win it'. But I'm happy that I took us that far: literally in position to win, up to 100 meters from the end."
The honor of All-America is awarded to the first eight finishers of American citizenship. This is Grace's fourth time receiving the accolade. It is also her highest finish at a national championship; she placed seventh in the same race last year.
As a junior in 2010, Grace had hoped only to qualify: "Last year, it was 'Don't get last'. I was in contention [for a title] this year. My time today would have been a college personal record before two weeks ago. I have improved each year at this level, not by the amount I had hoped this year, but it bodes well for future endeavors, and I will be running again."
Grace ends her Yale track and field career with four school records and six other top-ten times on the outdoor track, and three school records with thirteen additional top-ten times on the indoor track.
Report by Natalie Villa '13, Yale Sports Publicity


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#FutureMed Highlights Innovations in Data-Driven Healthcare
As Social Marketing Director at Billian, Jennifer Dennard is responsible for the continuing development and implementation of the company's social media strategies for Billian's HealthDATA and Porter Research. She is a regular contributor to a number of healthcare blogs and currently manages social marketing channels for the Health IT Leadership Summit and Technology Association of Georgia's Health Society. You can find her on Twitter @JennDennard.
I admit it. I started monitoring the #HIMSS13 tweet stream around Christmastime, hoping to get a leg up on vendor announcements and networking opportunities. I should know by now, however, that sometimes the best events, don't release details on Twitter until the last minute (ahem, New Media Meetup).John's Note: The New Media Meetup will be from 6-8 on Tues. 3/5. More details and registration page coming soon.
I try to remember not to focus too much on the #HIMSS13 hoopla to the detriment of other interesting healthcare hashtags that might be circulating. I came across many intriguing tweets related to the #FutureMed conference, which kicked off recently in California. Billed by sponsor/host Singularity University as a "specialized interactive conference for physicians, healthcare executives, innovators and investors interested in exploring the impact and opportunities presented by rapidly developing technologies in the fields of health and medicine," the six-day event wraps up February 9th.
I've already noticed a bit of crossover between the #FutureMed and #HITsm audiences – @annelizhannan and @2healthguru, to name just two. Much of the stream seems devoted to the power data holds, and will continue to hold, over healthcare, especially when it comes to personalized medicine and the quantified self movement. I've picked a few of my favorite tweets below to share with y'all. Hopefully they'll give you some insight into the conversations going on at this event. Perhaps they'll help you kickstart networking chitchat at HIMSS in a few weeks.


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Lecture Features U.S. District Judge, Rochester Alum Lewis A. Kaplan
WHO: Students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend a lecture Justice Under Siege? Increasing Threats to Judicial Independence with The Honorable Lewis A. Kaplan '66, United States District Judge, Southern District of New York.
TIME, DATE, PLACE: 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 14, Hawkins-Carlson Room in Rush Rhees Library. The lecture will be immediately followed by a reception in The Meliora, Salon D.
ABOUT JUDGE KAPLAN: Since his appointment in 1994, Judge Kaplan has handled a number of well known cases, most notably presiding over the only criminal prosecution in a federal district court of a Guantanamo detainee. Judge Kaplan also tried the largest criminal tax case in U.S. history, and presided over a number of federal racketeering cases involving some of the nation's most notorious crime families. Other noteworthy decisions include his 1998 ruling enjoining the City of New York from interfering with the so-called Million Youth March in Harlem on the ground that the regulations relied upon by the City in banning the march violated the First Amendment as well as a 1997 decision upholding the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 against constitutional challenge.
Throughout his career, Judge Kaplan has delivered speeches and lectures at some of the country's leading academic institutions and has been published in journals including the New York Law Journal and the Columbia Business Law Review. In 2009, he was awarded both the Learned Hand Medal for excellence in federal jurisprudence from the Federal Bar Council and the Judicial Recognition Award from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He graduated with an A.B. with high honors in political science from the University of Rochester in 1966 and earned his juris doctor from Harvard Law School in 1969.
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Dr. Siderits has an incurable penchant for research pursuits that take years to complete (cf. Siderits, M. A., Johannsen, W. J., and Fadden, T. F. (1985). Gender, role and power: A content analysis of speech. Psychology of Women Quarterly 9 (4), 439-450.). She, therefore, openly warns students that she is in that respect a most unwholesome model. Working with an unusual format can have its own excitement, however, and she is now extending the work on role effects to an examination of gender differences in impairment of listening capacity under conditions of bilateral negotiation vs. group decision making. Her other current research interests include an investigation of the relationship between variations in physical appearance and appraisal of personality traits by observers; a study of separation from religious authority in moral evaluation; and (with a colleague in the community) a study of the relationship between Elkins' inventory of spirituality and self-reported means of coping with psychic loss.
Among her special interests as a therapist are Bossian dream analysis (cf. her article in the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology on Rehearsal in reverie: Dream exploration as the equivalent of play) and Rational Emotive Therapy.
Dr. Siderits was the first woman chair of the Committee on Faculty at Marquette and has held a variety of professional offices including the presidency of the Milwaukee Area Psychological Association, stints as secretary/treasurer of the Wisconsin Psychological Association, the state conference of the AAUP, and APA Divisions 24, 32, and 36; and a seat on the national council of the AAUP. A past newsletter editor for Division 12-IV (Clinical Psychology of Women), she currently edits the newsletter of Division 32 (Humanistic Psychology). To relax she writes an occasional poem, makes an occasional necklace, or plays an occasional air on the Renaissance lute.
Ph.D., University of Michigan
The courses Dr. Siderits teaches at Marquette include the psychology of gender roles, the psychology of religion, ethics and professional issues in clinical psychology, and various offerings in the clinical curriculum.
Gender, the psychology of religion, children's issues
Siderits, M. A. (1973). Selves selving: The development of a sense of self-determination. Philosophical Studies, XXI, 57-69.
McCall, R. J., & Siderits, M. A. (1974). Group therapy with obese women of varying MMPI profiles. Journal of Clinical Psychology, XXX, 466-470.
Siderits, M. A. (1975). Person vs. pigeonmonger: The variable of counteraction. Philosophical Studies: XXIII,188-197.
Siderits, M. A. (1978). We called the chessboard white: Shifts in religious and psychological values and their impact upon sexual counseling. Counseling and Values, 22(3), 140-150.
Siderits, M. A. (1981). Rehearsal in reverie: Dream exploration as the equivalent of play. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 12 (1), 87-105.
Siderits, M. A., Johannsen, W. J., & Fadden, T. F. (1985) Gender, role, and power: A content analysis of speech. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 9, 439-450.
Siderits, M. A. (1991). Ethics in psychology courses. In R. B. Ashmore & W. C. Starr (Eds.), Ethics across the curriculum: The Marquette experience, Milwaukee, Marquette University Press.
Siderits, M. A. (1996). A center for empowerment. The Humanistic Psychologist, 24,325-330.
Siderits, M. A. (2002). Introducing traditional students to individualized assessment:The biocontextualist Rorschach with lessons from dreamwork. The Humanistic Psychologist, 30, 23-32.
Gavin, E.A., Clamar, A., & Siderits, M.A.(Eds.)(2007). Women of vision: Their psychology, circumstances, and success. New York: Springer Publishing.
Siderits, M.A. (2008). Journeying in twilight: Agnosticism and spirituality. In C.A. Rayburn & L. Comas-Diaz, WomanSoul: The inner life of women's spirituality. Westport CN: Praeger.
Siderits, M.A. (in press). Entry on Margaret Mead and psychology of creativity, Encyclopedia of Creativity. Elsevier: Oxford (scheduled to be published in 2011)


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LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — A central Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to charges he robbed and assaulted three elderly Mennonite sisters.
The Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era reports (http://bit.ly/1aEbhbL ) 24-year-old Dereck Taylor Holt on Thursday blamed a prescription drug addiction is for his crime.
Holt apologized and said he's "not a heartless being." He pleaded guilty to multiple counts including robbery and aggravated assault.
Authorities say Holt pretended to be an insurance salesman to get inside the Clay Township, Lancaster County home in December, then bound the victims, hit them with a stun gun and sprayed the home with household chemicals. The victims ranged in age from 85 to 91.
Investigators initially believed the sisters were targeted because of their religion, but charges of ethnic intimidation were later dropped.
Sentencing isn't expected for several months.
Information from: Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era , http://lancasteronline.com


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While not as interesting as Lindsay Lohan
going impersonating Marilyn Monroe, there was an intriguing feature in New York magazine about
people who wear all one
colour. Don't worry, black wasn't allowed – otherwise it would have just
been a feature on Goths.
There's a shoe designer who only wears
blue, a fashion designer in grey, an industrial designer who wears pink and
white at separate times (that's two colours, the cheat), a fabric designer in
green and Stephin Merritt, who only wears brown. The article is interesting if only for the
pomposity of the interviewees. The industrial designer (is that just fancy talk
for architect?) stated that wearing white made him feel "angelic and free".
Presumably, wearing black made him feel like the grim reaper.


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Go Down Under With Mark S. King's Video Blogs From AIDS 2014
July 9, 2014
When TheBody.com sent me to Vienna in 2010 for the International AIDS Conference, it was profound for me in more ways than one. I had found my calling as a video blogger, and I will never forget how exhilarating it felt to share the sights and sounds of the massive event with viewers.
Wrangling a female condom. Meeting female activists from Uganda on the subway. Interviewing Annie Lennox about her "HIV POSITIVE" T-shirt. I will always be grateful to TheBody.com for believing in me and nurturing my crazy video reports.
And now, we're headed down under for AIDS 2014 in Melbourne, Australia! Even though I have since created my own ongoing blog, My Fabulous Disease, TheBody.com will always be home for me. I'm so excited to be creating exclusive coverage for the site that sent me my first video recorder and said, "Just do what you do." I'm so proud of my association with this tremendous online resource.
In Melbourne, as in the past, I'm going to leave the clinical data and research coverage to those better qualified to cover it. Instead, I hope to provide you with that which you might not see anywhere else: the advocates; the people living with HIV from around the world; and the awesome visuals of the music and dance and theater and human drama of the conference.
Are you ready? Let's go!
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World No 1 Rory McIlroy was no longer with regular partner Graeme McDowell, but with Justin Rose, Sergio Garcia and Martin Kaymer instead as Europe's captain rang the changes.
McDowell went out with Ian Poulter, Luke Donald and Francesco Molinari, while the first group was Lee Westwood, Paul Lawrie, Peter Hanson and Belgian newcomer Nicolas Colsaerts.
Europe's defence of the trophy begins with foursomes on Friday morning and it is widely expected McIlroy and McDowell will be back in harness and that Donald and Garcia – unbeaten in six games together in that format – will again be partners.
Close friends Rose and Poulter played together in 2008, winning two of their three games, and practised together the first two days at Medinah.
If those three are fixed in Olazabal's head then the biggest decision he has to take for the start of the match is who to put with Westwood, unbeaten in his last 10 foursomes going back to 1999.
In that time Westwood has partnered Darren Clarke, Garcia, Colin Montgomerie, Kaymer and Donald.
Of the remaining players Scot Paul Lawrie has the experience of playing an away match, but that was in 1999, while Hanson and Kaymer made their debuts last time. As the debutant big-hitting Colsaerts is expected to be given the chance to soak up the atmosphere in the foursomes before being introduced for the afternoon fourballs.
The foursomes pairings are announced at the opening ceremony on Thursday night.
To give his side more rest he decided to limit Wednesday's practice to the front nine and the final tune-up to Medinah's inward half.


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Third mighty WD 'data tub' launched
3TB AV barrel-o-bytes rumbles down the slipway
WD has launched a big, fat data tub, a 3TB hard drive for audio-video applications, the AV-GP, giving WD three 3TB drives in its line-up.
The 3.5-inch AV-GP, with the GP meaning Green Power, comes with either 2.5TB or 3TB capacity and is for 24X7 use in audio-video environments such as video surveillance as well as video recorders. It has so-called SilkStream technology enabling it to capture up to a dozen simultaneous video streams, and comes with a 3Gbit/s SATA interface, a 64MB cache, and a rotation speed of, we think, 5400rpm. WD says it has IntelliPower. Being such a large capacity drive, it uses Advanced Formatting.
WD hasn't revealed the number of platters but we reckon it has four, WD not having yet matched Seagate's areal density feat of terabyte 3.5-inch drive platters.
WD introduced a 3TB Caviar Green drive in October last year, for use in MyBook and MyPassport external drives. It was a 4-platter drive and came in 1TB and 2TB versions as well. The AV-GP is probably a derivative of that product.
With its ongoing purchase of Hitachi GST, WD has a third 3TB drive, an enterprise one, the Ultrastar 7K3000. This is a 5-platter drive, with a lower areal density than both the Caviar Green and AV-GP. It takes advantage of that to spin at 7,200rpm and has a 6Gbit/s SAS and SATA interface. This was the world's first 3TB enterprise drive. It has 2 million hours Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF) rating, which compares well to the 1 million hour MTBF rating of the AV-GP, and also has a bulk data encryption capability.
We might envisage WD revving its Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) technology to the next level and being able to make its 4-platter 3TB technology robust and reliable enough to spin at 7,200rpm, and so lowering the component count and cost of the 7K3000 or whatever it will be called in the future. Possibly it will emerge as the next Caviar Black iteration; that range topping out at 2TB currently. A 3TB RE4-GP is also likely.
If WD matches Seagate's terabyte platter areal density with its next PMR rev, then it could decide to keep the 5-platter Ultrastar product and increase its capacity to 5TB, something Seagate could do but hasn't done yet. Now these really would be big fat data tubs as EMC calls them, but best used for desktop systems rather than in RAIDed storage arrays, where the RAID rebuild time would be diabolically long. ®