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By Jon Lane
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Jeter, Teixeira win Gold Gloves
By Jon Lane
Derek Jeter and Mark Teixeira were named AL Gold Glove winners this afternoon. Jeter's range improved from last season and Teixeira was a godsend at first base, making plays not seen in the Bronx since Tino Martinez followed in Don Mattingly's footsteps.
The duo shared their thoughts through the Yankees in separate statements:
"I've said it time and time again, playing championship-caliber baseball starts with pitching and defense, and I think those two components were certainly the foundation for our success in 2009. I've always taken a great deal of pride in my defense, and being honored with a Gold Glove is an accomplishment I will never overlook.
"I also want to congratulate and recognize Mark Teixeira on his well-deserved achievement."
"Solid defense is the most underrated component of winning baseball, but it is something I have always taken pride in. Winning a third Gold Glove means a lot to me, especially when good defense helped our entire team reach the ultimate goal of a World Championship."
Other AL winners include Torii Hunter (OF), Ichiro Suzuki (OF), Evan Longoria (3B), Adam Jones (OF), Mark Buehrle (P), Joe Mauer (C) and Placido Polanco (2B). National League winners will be announced tomorrow.
Off and running
By Jon Lane
The Hot Stove is fired up and it'll be burning through this week's General Managers meetings in Chicago and the Winter Meetings in Indianapolis. It'll be re-fired after baseball takes a (scheduled) sabbatical for the Christmas holidays and keep you warm until pitchers and catchers report in February.
The biggest question on the minds of Yankees fans is the futures of Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui and Andy Pettitte. All three are free agents and in their mid-to-late 30s. At this point figure on Damon coming back. He was clutch in the ALCS and World Series at the plate – and especially on the base paths – and remains valuable as a slap hitter at the top of the lineup who can get on base.
Matsui is the toughest decision. Many believe he's a goner, and logic dictates he will be unless he'd accept a workable one-year deal to be a part-time player; the Yankees have a strong desire to rotate the DH position with veteran players, namely Jorge Posada. But Matsui's MVP performance in the World Series certainly changed that story a bit.
Pettitte's plan was to take his time to contemplate one more year or retirement, but according to SI.com's Jon Heyman, the left-hander told teammates he'd like to try again one more time. The starting five would be set right away (CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, Pettitte, Joba Chamberlain and Phil Hughes) – assuming John Lackey doesn't become the newest hired gun Yankees brass suddenly bails on their Joba the Starter plan. Either way, there will be depth entering Spring Training with ample time to evaluate if Chien-Ming Wang has anything left.
Felix Hernandez in pinstripes would look fantastic, wouldn't it? Of course, Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik sees no reason why "King Felix" won't pitch in Seattle for at least the next two seasons.
"He's our property this year and next year, and we're looking forward to him being part of the organization as we move forward," Zduriencik told reporters at the GM meetings.
It would take a King's Ransom for any team to acquire Hernandez, 23 years old and off a season in which he established career-highs in wins (19), innings pitched (238.2) and strikeouts (217), and a career-low in ERA (2.49). The M's come off a surprising 85-win season and have to tools to compete in the AL West, so I don't see Hernandez going anywhere, that is unless Nintendo of America cries poverty.
Besides, Brian Cashman is walking around chest out and chin up, body language that reads "I told you so." Cashman took a lot of heat for not dealing for Johan Santana in 2007. People stopped talking about that a long time ago.
If you still care about the enemy – I know you do – Tim Wakefield and the Red Sox have finalized a new two-year contract, reports WEEI.com's Rob Bradford. Meanwhile, while the Jason Varitek Era in Boston appears to be over, the BoSox are on Roy Halladay's wish list if the Blue Jays decide to finally unload the right-hander.
Imagine CC Sabathia opposing Halladay April 5, 2010 at Fenway Park? The thought of that alone will keep you warm once the weather reaches the intolerable stage.
Statement from Hal & Hank Steinbrenner
"After the overwhelming public response to the historic achievement of our 27th World Championship, I would like to thank our fans for their highly spirited and remarkably steadfast support this season.
"The New York Yankees have long enjoyed the positive effects of the world's greatest fans. It is a real and tangible benefit to our success every day and every game. Each and every fan contributed this season, from the 3.7 million who attended our home games to the millions more who lined the 'Canyon of Heroes' for our victory parade.
"Throughout the season, the team found inspiration in the very essence of New York City and its people. By persevering and never wavering from our goal, the Yankees reflected the true spirit and determination that defines the city of New York."
Now what?
By Jon Lane
Now what? It's time to party. The Yankees completed a virtually endless 2009 baseball season by capturing their 27th World Championship. We scribes never stop thinking about what's next, that's the nature of the Hot Stove season and you know Brian Cashman is already drawing up an offseason blueprint, but today is a day for the players, their families and everyone in the organization to bask in the glory.
The Core Four of Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada and Mariano Rivera have done this four times (today makes five), but for Alex Rodriguez, it's his first in 16 seasons. For A.J. Burnett, it was winning without the pain of rehabbing from Tommy John surgery. For Jerry Hairston, it was the first time in his 11-year career he played in postseason games and was in left field the night the Yankees clinched.
This may have been Hairston's final shot at a winner, and for youngsters like Joba Chamberlain, Phil Hughes, Melky Cabrera, Brett Gardner, Francisco Cervelli and Ramiro Pena, this may be their only chance to enjoy the experience. Yes they play for the Yankees and not the Pirates, Nationals or Royals, but there was also nine years between World Championship.
Before the parade, Steven Goldman asked questions the rest of us will be asking quite often this weekend. But for today, Chris Shearn, Joe Auriemma, Kevin Sullivan and the rest of the YES gang are in lower Manhattan. Stick around for many great photos and videos from the festivities.
Some quick housekeeping: Within the next week or two, I'll be blogging for YES in this space full-time. All of us will soon be fully migrated to My YES, and the door is open to you too.
Boss: The quest for No. 28 begins
"The Steinbrenner Family and the Yankees Organization are extremely proud of the members of the 2009 New York Yankees for bringing a 27th World Championship to New York City and our fans, the greatest fans in the world. Every World Series victory is special, but this one is especially sweet coming in the first year in our new home.
"The 2009 New York Yankees proved that we are the best in baseball. We beat truly worthy opponents in the American League Division Series, the American League Championship Series and the World Series. As we did all season long, we fought hard, never lost focus and gave a true team victory. Our players have a lot to be proud of. This group will become legendary – similar to the 26 World Championship teams that preceded them.
"Joe Girardi and his team deserve great credit for racking up wins over a long, tough season.
"We are so grateful to our fans. They have never wavered in their faith or enthusiasm through the good and bad years. This World Series belongs to them and to all Yankees, past, present and future.
"We'll enjoy this win. And the quest for No. 28 begins."
Burnett: Nobody can take this away
By Jon Lane
A.J. Burnett now owns two World Series rings, though there's no doubt No. 2 is sweeter. He was a member of the Marlins team that won it all in 2003, but was out most of the year after undergoing Tommy John surgery.
November 4, 2009 was Burnett's finest moment. Well, almost.
"I have two kids and I've got a beautiful wife," Burnett said, "but besides that they ain't nothing that beats this right here."
Some days he drove you crazy. Others he was an adrenaline surge. All put together, Burnett had a fine first season in the Bronx, the first of a five-year pact that will pay him $82 million. Burnett is so, so talented, you always want more from him, but a 13-9 record with a 4.04 ERA isn't too shabby. There were times Burnett was electric enough to make citizens stop and stare in awe: 7 2/3 shutout innings August 7 against the Red Sox and one run allowed with nine strikeouts in seven frames in Game 2 of the World Series.
Burnett had a bad Game 5, really bad, but his Game 2 saved the Yankees from being in deep trouble and a city from near-total panic.
"Nobody can take that away from me," Burnett said of his 3-1, Game 2 win, his World Series debut. "I had a rough one my last time out, but I had 24 guys in there telling me, 'You know what, if it wasn't for you, we'd be coming to Philly in a big hole. I'm glad I could help out and be a part of something this special."
Burnett was always an interesting interview. He was soft-spoken, sometimes blunt, always honest and had good insight on the most standard of cliches. On July 22, Burnett defeated the Baltimore Orioles to put them alone in first place. At the time, though, the AL East was long from being decided, especially with Boston due in town for that big early August series. The Yankees were 0-8 against the Red Sox and the questions were accumulating. Burnett was asked why it'll be different and whipped out one of sports' oldest cliches, albeit with a different spin.
"We're going one game at a time right now," Burnett said. "That's the big difference as opposed to looking ahead and worrying about who's coming into town or where we're going. It's just one at a time."
While drenched in champagne, I asked him how and why that philosophy worked so well.
"Nothing mattered to us," Burnett said. "We knew we had another game. No. 2 [Derek Jeter] over there would always come in and say, 'Oh, we got another game today.' And that was it. We're a humble team that no matter what happened the day before, we had another game. That's all that mattered, one at a time."
Ticker-tape parade Friday at 11 a.m. beginning at Broadway and Battery Place, and ending with a ceremony at City Hall where Mayor Mike Bloomberg will present the team with keys to the city. It's open to the public, but details are forthcoming about a limited number of tickets that will be made available for those wanting to get inside City Hall Plaza. Fans who can't get a ticket can watch the ceremony on a giant TV screen that will be set up near City Hall Park.
Ladies & gents, the Bronx and Toyko are partying
By Jon Lane
So much ground to cover. I'll have a mixed bag in this space later with my feature on Hideki Matsui's Reggiesque performance in Game 2. This image from the AP shows people watching a TV at the Yamada Denki discount store in Tokyo and their national hero, Matsui, become the first Japanese-born player to be named World Series Most Valuable Player after hitting a record six RBIs.
Assistant general manager Jean Afterman, instrumental in bringing Matsui to the Yankees in 2003, had some great perspective on a physically-challenging season that culminated in him being named Series MVP.
Nick Swisher, at his frat boy best, put it to us this way: "MATSU! They're partying in Tokyo tonight! He deserved that MVP trophy. There's no doubt about it."
Five more years?
Mariano Rivera is serious. Entering the final year of his contract, Rivera believes he can play five more years. He turns 40 years old later this month.
"I'm serious and hope the organization will do whatever it takes to bring me back," Rivera said. "Whatever happens, happens."
You go ahead and try to stop him. Rivera threw 41 pitches in the final 1 2/3 innings to lower his career World Series ERA to 0.99. He has 11 World Series saves and 39 in the playoffs for his career. Oh yeah, in the regular season he converted 44 out of 46 save opportunities and posted a 1.76 ERA.
"There's nothing Mariano can't do," said Alex Rodriguez. "He's Superman. All I was thinking enough today was give Pettitte enough of a cushion to get Mo in the game. Once Mo was in the game I felt like we could bring this home."
One season removed from missing the playoffs, the Yankees won World Championship No. 27 and their first in nine years, an eternity in these parts. They are the second team this decade to win two world titles (Red Sox in 2004 and 2007).
"When you win, especially the way that we won, having to overcome a lot of adversity, and winning it for the city of New York, it's tremendous, really special," Rivera said. "It tells you how hard it is. We didn't make the playoffs last year. This year we gave everything we had."
This one was for the Boss
Yankee Stadium's huge Diamond Vision touted World Championship No. 27 with the inscription, "Boss, this is for you."
Team president Randy Levine said that Hal Steinbrenner spoke to his father, principal owner George Steinbrenner, after the celebration. Hank Steinbrenner relayed the Boss' emotions while he watched No. 27 unfold on television from Tampa.
"He's very happy," Hank Steinbrenner said. "This one was big for him and more emotional than the others probably. We knew they had character. We knew they had makeup. Since the first day we all thought that. So to us they were no-brainers."
Under Steinbrenner's ownership (he took over the team in 1973), the Yankees have won seven World Series.
In select company
Joe Girardi is the first manager to play for and manage the same team to win a World Championship since Billy Martin in 1977.
"The joy is the same, but it's a different type of joy," Girardi said. "As a player it's what you dream about ever since you were a little boy. As a manager you still have that joy, but the joy is for other people because you know as a player what it takes to win a championship."
Crazy scene on the field (it's 3:11 a.m. as I write this). Yankees employees are running the bases and whooping it up. The rest of New York can join in on Friday when the parade down the Canyon of Heroes begins at 11 a.m.
The old lady across the street
By Jon Lane
She spoke and people listened for 85 years. She's dark and empty, and soon will no longer be with us, yet she still speaks with conviction.
I heard her voice stuck in traffic on the Major Deegan, on the exit ramp and emerging from the parking garage. It was then she said it: "They're taking it tonight."
Yankees in 6. The new place is quiet at the moment, but the buzz is palpable. It doesn't guarantee winning or losing, but fate and karma has played huge role in the Yankees' 2009 regular season. The old lady is demanding she be heard one last time.
Joe Girardi is meeting the media in five minutes. Figure on him announcing the lineups – Nick Swisher or Jerry Hairston Jr. in right field is the only suspense – along with sharing more thoughts about being in position to win it all and answering for the thousandth time why he's starting Andy Pettitte on three days' rest and how long Mariano Rivera can go.
UPDATE: Swisher is in right. Girardi's been fielding questions on going with his season-long starter, clinching at home, Mark Teixeira's slump and A.J. Burnett's availability (yes in an emergency).
On the iPod en route to the Bronx: A block of Judas Priest, the ideal band to get you pumped up. Now playing: Tommy Bolin's "Wild Dogs," another great tune to get one in the zone.
Back with a whole lot more later.
4:42 p.m. Quick hits from Girardi's pregame press conference:
On the chance to win a World Series at home:
I think any time you get a chance to close it out in front of your own fans, it's special, especially being the first year at the Stadium and what it would mean to the Steinbrenner family and the Yankee organization and all the people of New York. I've been on championship teams where we've won it at home and where we've won it on the road. And it seems to be a little bit louder and crazier when you do it at home.
On the decision to start Swisher over Hairston
"Swish has been our everyday right fielder. We thought it was important that Swish just sit down for a day. His at bats have been very good since we sat him down. We don't always look at how many hits you get. We look at the at bats, and does the hit the ball hard, and does he square ball up and is he seeing pitches? That's what we look at.
"Swish has been our everyday right fielder, and that's what we're doing."
On being second-guessed:
"Well, as far as that, that pretty much happens a lot year in New York during the regular season, as well, so you get kind of used to it.
"The interesting thing about what people were calling second guessing that I've always thought is curious is they don't know if their idea would have worked. Everyone makes the assumption that it would have worked. We base our decisions on a lot of preparation, a lot of discussion. We don't do anything where we just pull something off the wall and with the intent of it working.
"The one thing about baseball and in life, every decision is not going to go according to plan, and you have to deal with it and you have to answer for it, and you understand that here."
On the Yankees' Core Four:
"They understand the moment, they know how to handle the moment. They've been through it and can share their experiences with others. They know that they're not going to be fazed by the situation because they've been through it so many times together. So I mean, we like having that. And I'm sure they like having what they went through last year together as a club.
"Experience is important."
7:36 p.m. Settled into my spot in Section 405. No pregame news to discuss. Let's face it, the talking is over and everyone is psyched for first pitch. Just now I heard the first chants of "Who's your daddy?" (and that's old and weathered, too). While paying for dinner at the NY Grill, Margaret the cashier was wearing her collection of World Championship pins. I asked if she has room for a new one if it comes down to it. She said her guy has one ready and waiting, just for her.
7:50 p.m. Mary J. Blige gave a beautiful rendition of our national anthem before Scott Brosius threw out the ceremonial first pitch.
7:58 p.m. Andy Pettitte's first pitch is a ball to Jimmy Rollins. The game-time temperature is 47 degrees.
8:02 p.m. Great start for Pettitte. He needed eight pitches to retire the Phillies after getting the red-hot Chase Utley to ground into a double play. Right now the Stadium is playing a highlight montage to Metallica's "Seek and Destroy." It's their best one yet.
8:24 p.m. Another good inning for Pettitte. It got slightly hairy when he threw a wild pitch to Pedro Feliz with two out that advanced Jayson Werth to second base. Feliz popped the next pitch behind home plate where Jorge Posada made the catch.
Pedro Martinez looked sharp early too. Wishful thinking suggested the Yankees pound him early, but you know he's not going down without a fight.
8:34 p.m. Godzilla goes boom! 2-0, Yankees off Hideki Matsui's third homer of the 2009 World Series, fourth of this postseason and 10th of his career. The joint is jumping. Pedro's hearing it now.
Matsui's World Series numbers so far: .600, 4 HR, 9 RBIs. The Yankees want to free up the DH spot, but it's going to be very tough to not re-sign him.
8:39 p.m. 2-0, Yankees after two. There's a long, long way to go, but Pettitte is a guy you feel comfortable with protecting a lead.
8:48 p.m. Well, Carlos Ruiz tripled and scored on Jimmy Rollins' sacrifice fly. It could have been a lot worse. To reiterate, there's a long, long way to go.
9:10 p.m. Two more runs plated by Matsui, now .636-4-11 in the World Series. This was bigger than his home run because it came with two out and after A-Rod was caught looking. Godzilla is making a serious case for both Series MVP – despite not starting three games – and to play in the Bronx for another season.
Pedro, by the way, has thrown 62 pitches. His night may be over. Jerry Hairston Jr. meanwhile, is now in left. Uh-oh.
Memo to Pettitte: You have a three-run lead. Do what you do.
9:17 p.m. Damon has a strained right calf. He probably did it coming home to score.
9:24 p.m. Pettitte works out of trouble again. He's been walking a tightrope and is at 62 pitches after four innings. I'm wondering more and more whether Girardi will deploy Rivera in the seventh.The lefty was livid with plate umpire Joe West, BTW. West's strike zone is tight enough. Probably not the best idea to tick him off.
9:43 p.m. Yankees ahead 4-1 going into the bottom of the fifth. Anticipation reached another level when Pettitte retired Jimmy Rollins on an inning-ending double play. He has enough for two more innings to get it to Rivera.
9:48 p.m. Tex breaks through with an RBI single. 5-1, Yankees. Fans starting to smell it, but still a ways to go.
9:57 p.m. Matsui – again. That's six RBIs and for the first time I felt this place shake. He's tied a World Series record (Bobby Richardson, Oct. 8, 1960, Game 3 WS).
10:10 p.m. Fans chanting "Andy Pettitte!" Nice touch. Who knows what his future will be if the Yankees seal it?
10:11 p.m. The beast has awakened. Ryan Howard's two-run homer makes it 7-3. Yogi is a genius.
10:14 p.m. Raul Ibanez's double ends Pettitte's night. The lefty sprinted to the dugout and tipped his cap. It's Joba time with two out in the sixth.
10:19 p.m. Joba cleans up. Nine outs to go, three to get to Rivera. I don't care if the Yankees blast J.A. Happ to make it 10-3. Lock it down.
10:47 p.m. Not Joba Version 2007, but he gets two outs. Girardi doing anything and everything to give Rivera a lead in the eighth, which means Damaso Marte is in to face Chase Utley with two on. Marte's been flawless since Game 2 of the Division Series, but still hold your breath.
10:50 p.m. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good night. Marte does his job. Six Mariano Rivera outs to go.
10:54 p.m Game 6 attendance: 50,315 – including Kate Hudson. A new Yankee Stadium high.
11:06 p.m. Godzilla is human, yet if he doesn't bat again he'll finish with a .615 batting average in the 2009 World Series. That is insane.
11:10 p.m. Marte will pitch to Howard to open the eighth before Rivera opens for business. Makes sense.
11:14 p.m. Give Marte a ton of credit. He was an afterthought for much of the season after starting poorly and landing on the DL. He whiffs Howard (13 Ks in the WS) and gets a nice ovation. Five outs to go and the place is going nuts for Rivera. I'm headed downstairs to get in postseason position.
11:25 p.m. Three to go.
1:45 a.m. Finally back from the crazy party in the clubhouse. A TON of ground to cover. The old lady had her say.
World Series Game 6: Lineups
Derek Jeter SS
Johnny Damon LF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Hideki Matsui DH
Jorge Posada C
Robinson Cano 2B
Nick Swisher RF
Brett Gardner CF
Pitching: Andy Pettitte (14-8, 4.16)
Jimmy Rollins SS
Shane Victorino CF
Chase Utley 2B
Ryan Howard 1B
Jayson Werth RF
Raul Ibanez DH
Pedro Feliz 3B
Ben Francisco LF
Carlos Ruiz C
Pitching: Pedro Martinez (5-1, 3.63)


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Postmaster to talk about growing debt
WASHINGTON (AP) — The postmaster general is going to Congress to discuss the Postal Service's mounting debt.
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe is among the witnesses scheduled to appear today before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
The Postal Service is facing a second straight year of losses of $8 billion or more.
A decline in mail because of the Internet and the loss of revenue from advertising amid the economic downturn have taken a toll on the agency.
Postal officials say they will be unable to make this month's $5.5 billion payment to cover future employee health care costs because the agency will have reached its borrowing limit and doesn't have enough cash.
The Postal Service has proposed ending Saturday mail delivery and is considering cutting as many as 120,000 jobs.

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If you're a salt and vinegar chip fan, you probably really like them. You probably like them to make your eyes water a few tears, your nostrils flare a few flickers, your lips turn white from all the seasonings, and your tongue to be coated in all that sour, salty tang.
You want to open a bag that explodes with vinegar-scented air so strong that you go, whoa there. After eating a whole bag, you sometimes wonder if your tongue will just fall off right then and there—and it'd probably be worth it if it did.
What genius first decided that salt and vinegar should go on a chip? The Irish snack brand Tayto was allegedly the first to put the flavored chips on the market. They pioneered a technology back in the 1950s to add seasoning directly to the chip (actually called "crisp"), starting first with Cheese and Onion and moving on to Salt and Vinegar.
But even before that, plenty of places in England were serving fish and chips with salt shakers and malt vinegar on all the tables, which was also a key force in this flavor combo.
SEHQ is home to many S&V chips fans. It was a given that this taste test needed to happen. So we tried 15 different brands to find our favorites.
The Contenders
Most of the major potato chip players have a Salt and Vinegar variety. We grabbed all of the widely distributed brands we could find.
- Kettle Brand (kettlebrand.com)
- Kettle Brand, Reduced-Fat
- Lay's (website)
- Lay's Kettle-Cooked (website)
- Whole Foods 365 (website)
- Route 11 (website)
- Wise (website)
- Dirty's (website)
- Trader Joe's (website)
- Cape Cod (website)
- Cape Cod, Reduced-Fat
- Deep River (website)
- Utz (website)
- Boulder Canyon (website)
- Miss Vickie's (website)
The Criteria
A true Salt and Vinegar chip gets your attention. It has a kick. It's not for the faint-hearted chip eater (stick to tortilla chips). Your taste buds immediately wake up—hello there, vinegar. The chips should be tangy, salty, and like any good potato chip, have a nice crunch and not be too greasy.
The Results
Most of us at SEHQ are serious S&V chip fans. That is, we want our chips to punch us in the mouth with vinegar. Those who weren't fans opted out of the tasting; a few swore they'd have gag reflexes if force-fed. So we didn't go there.
The flavors ranged from weak (are you sure there's vinegar in there?) to mouth-burny. We tended to like the stronger, punchier, mouth-burnier flavors.
As for chip texture, some of us prefer the thicker kettle style of chip; others favor the thinner, crispier kind like the classic Lay's. Winners of both varieties are included in the tasting results.
#1. Kettle Brand Chips (7.11)
This had all the merits of a pleasing salt and vinegar chip, especially if you're serious about your vinegar. "Vinegar hits you after and hits hard!" said one taster. It's tangy, acidic, and stays interesting with each handful. The chips are crunchy, not greasy, and have a real strong potato-y flavor. This is the quintessential salt and vinegar chip right here.
#2. Miss Vickie's (7.05)
"Now these are what I think of when I think of salt and vinegar chips," said Ed as he dove into a bag. We actually had these sitting out before the tasting started and realized Ed had already grabbed them unaware and downed the bag. "Hey, where'd that bag of Miss Vickie's go?...[*Looking over to Ed, caught with empty bag*]... Ed!!!" When tasted side by side against the winning Kettle brand, they were just a touch less vinegar-intense. The sourness is slightly muted, but not so much that it throws off the flavor balance. It's a solid bag of S&Vs.
#3. Cape Cod (6.33)
This is the classic one you want to be eating with a packed sandwich on the beach. Very vinegary but nicely balanced with salt. There's a tinge of heat and an ever so slight sweetness. And reminiscent of pickles? Yes. In a good way. "Good crunch, good bang," said one taster. An all-around pleasant mouth-zing of a chip.
#4. Wise (6.18)
While many of the other brands were on the kettle-chip-thick end of the spectrum, these are thin. "Dissolves on your tongue like a communion wafer," said one taster, to give you some idea. Quite the aggressive vinegar punch here, and it tastes like real vinegar, too. Like someone just let these bathe in the stuff from the Heinz bottle. "WOAH vinegar. How could someone eat more than one of these?!" Many tasters appreciated the sour zing, but consider yourself warned: It's a vinegarbomb.
#5. Utz (6.05)
Thin and crisp, these have a similar body to the Wise chips. They're really salty. Really salty. Not as much vinegar as the Wise's, and we wish there was to balance out the salt. But we'd still be happy munching up a bag of these.
#6. Lay's Kettle-Cooked (5.89)
Salt and vinegar chip wimps, we haven't forgotten about you. These are really more for the classic potato chip people posing as S&V eaters. The real-deal S&V enthusiasts might laugh. "Ha, really? You call these salt and vinegar?" The chip itself is crunchy and potato-y, but there's something sweet happening at the end that obscures the tangy experience. They're not as intense as many of the others, but some tasters appreciated their gentle personality and scored them higher.
#7. Dirty's (5.55)
A case of salt > vinegar. We wanted there to be more vinegar here. In the end, they mostly just taste salty. If you're more into salt than vinegar, maybe you'll dig Dirty's. They are ridiculously crunchy. Roof-of-mouth-scraping crunchy.
#8. Trader Joe's (5.22)
A more rare case of of vinegar > salt. "All vinegar, barely any salt," said one taster. Hard and thick with an effort-required chew. A few found them to have stale texture.
#9. Cape Cod, Reduced Fat (5.06)
We tried a few Reduced Fat versions just to see if the difference was significant. And it usually was. But as far as reduced-fat chips go, these aren't so bad. Good salt, good vinegar, good crunch. If you've got a calorie calculator in your pocket, these don't compromise on taste too much.
#10. Whole Foods 365 (5.0)
Ka-runch. These are loud. You couldn't eat these in a library, let's put it that way. If crunch factor is high on your list, these have that covered. But flavor-wise, it was another unfortunate case of too much salt, not enough vinegar.
Salt and Malt Vinegar?
Of the 15 brands we tried, only the Boulder Canyon specified that they were made with malt vinegar, not the generic white distilled vinegar. (Though the Lay's bag features a malt vinegar bottle image, but just goes by "Salt and Vinegar.") They tasted sweeter, maltier, and to many tasters, not enough like a true S&V. If you opened a bag of these and were expecting classic S&V chips, you might be disappointed. At least at first. Maybe the taste would grow on you as it did for Ed and Robyn.
They just don't provide the same sour hit. It's like, if you were to buy something chocolate and were all amped for that chocolatey-ness, then got caramel.
Why the Others Scored Lower
As you can see, not all of the chip brands made it into the above results. What was wrong with those absentees? They were typically too bland and boring. "More vinegar please" was a common complaint. Or, there was a vinegar flavor but no pucker. And you want a little pucker, right? They shouldn't be flat. Texture was also important. Some chips had a tough, stale chew. You don't want to pull out any fillings when eating chips.


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Bangladesh is on track to meet the 2015 deadline for U.N. Millennium Development Goal 5 (50 percent reduction in maternal deaths). The Bangladesh Maternal Mortality and Health Service Survey [PDF] jointly funded by the Government of Bangladesh, USAID, Australian Aid (AusAID) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) found that maternal deaths in Bangladesh fell from 322 per 100,000 in 2001 to 194 in 2010, a 40 percent decline in 9 years.
The decline in direct obstetric deaths is most likely the consequence of better care seeking practices and improved access to and use of higher-level referral care. The decline in total fertility rate due to the successful family planning program has reduced exposure to high risk pregnancies and has thus prevented a large number of maternal deaths.
USAID's program in Bangladesh has historically been very strong in family planning through the world's largest social marketing program for non-clinical contraceptive methods and through the public sector for long-acting permanent methods. We can confidently say that our long and unwavering investments in family planning have had direct impact in lowering the total fertility rate, and thus the maternal mortality rate, in Bangladesh. Over the past five years, USAID has also invested in scaling up active management of the third stage of labor to prevent postpartum hemorrhage in the public and NGO sector.
The USAID program has also long invested in promoting and providing antenatal care through the NGO sector which linked women to the health system thus contributing to increased awareness and care-seeking for obstetric complications. USAID and CDC's long term commitment to the in depth training of local scientists has resulted in the creation of Bangladesh's premiere research institute, the International Center for Diarrheal Disease and Research, Bangladesh (ICCDDRB) which has the capacity to effectively guide valid and reliable research efforts such as the 2010 Bangladesh Maternal Mortality and Health Care Survey (BMMS).
USAID supported and provided technical leadership in implementation of the 2001 and 2010 BMMS to monitor the performance of the overall maternal health program. Without these two surveys it would not be possible for Bangladesh to monitor its progress towards achieving the MDG 5 goal.
Amanda Glassman, Director of Global Health Policy and a research fellow at the Center for Global Development, wrote "the results are also a good reminder that investments in family planning and girls' education drive much of maternal health outcomes, and that USAID investment in social marketing of family planning and health seems to be paying off in improved health (see blog post)."
The Bangladesh Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is scaling up emergency obstetric care and active management of the third stage of labor; the Ministry has also recently approved distribution of Misoprostol tablets to all pregnant women shortly after delivery to prevent postpartum hemorrhage. There is also increasing availability of Magnesium Sulphate for management of pre-eclampsia. The predominance of hemorrhage and eclampsia deaths and deaths after delivery indicate a need to strengthen access to treatment for these two conditions, improve referral systems, and improve referral level care.
Every year, USAID provides basic health care services to nearly 20 million Bangladeshis, including provision of low-cost, quality family planning services and maternal and child health care. With USAID and international support, under-five mortality rates have declined by more than 50 percent in Bangladesh since 1990. USAID has trained and mobilized community health workers to provide critical maternal and child health care to supplement broader health interventions and support country-level capacity. Bangladesh already received a country award from the United Nations for significant progress in reaching MDG 4 (reducing child mortality) during the MDG Summit in New York on September 19.
The Government of Bangladesh and the United States jointly rolled out President Obama's Global Health Initiative in Bangladesh on November 23. GHI in Bangladesh will focus on providing quality services to reduce maternal and child mortality, resuscitate family planning programs, improve nutrition status among children under age five, and strengthen overall health systems over the next five years.


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You know how you hear a new word and you know the basic meaning of it by its usage?
Well, today's words are: vapid and vacuous.
You see, we turned on Letterman the other night and he was interviewing Paris Hilton. He kept asking her about her prison stay until she was getting upset saying she wanted was there to talk about other things, not her prison time ("It was so long ago" I believe were her words). She then said she was sad she came on the show.
But she showed almost no emotion! She appeared to be on some heavy mood altering drugs…or maybe that's the way she always acts: very soft voice and a clueless semi-smile on her face. The hubby suddenly said he now knows what the word 'vapid' means. And I followed that with the word 'vacuous'.
(The full phrase that actually came to my head was a line from Stephen Sondheim's Assassins where John Wilkes Booth calls Lee Harvey Oswald a "vapid, vacuous, non-entity." The third term also describes her, too. So maybe Paris could be compared to a presidential assassin.)


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Publications: Penhale, William
Journal Article
Rinaldi, C., Penhale, W.J., Stumbles, P.A., Tay, G. and Berry, C.M. (2014) Modulation of innate immune responses by influenza-specific ovine polyclonal antibodies used for prophylaxis. PLoS ONE, 9 (2).
Berry, C.M., Penhale, W.J. and Sangster, M.Y. (2014) Passive broad-spectrum influenza immunoprophylaxis. Influenza Research and Treatment, 2014 (Article ID 267594,).
Geerlings, P.M., Ugalte, W.C. and Penhale, W.J. (2009) A skin chamber to investigate wound infection and healing in the mouse. Wounds, 21 (3). pp. 79-83.
Hui, J., Oka, A., Tomizawa, M., Tay, G.K., Kulski, J.K., Penhale, W.J., Iaschi, S.P.A., Makino, S., Tamiya, G. and Inoko, H. (2004) Identification of two new C4 alleles by DNA sequencing and evidence for a historical recombination of serologically defined C4A and C4B alleles. Tissue Antigens, 63 (3). pp. 263-269.
Hui, J., Oka, A., Tamiya, G., Tomizawa, M., Kulski, J.K., Penhale, W.J., Tay, G.K., Iizuka, M., Ozawa, A. and Inoko, H. (2002) Corneodesmosin DNA polymorphisms in MHC haplotypes and Japanese patients with psoriasis. Tissue Antigens, 60 (1). pp. 77-83.
Wareing, S., Hartaningsih, N., Wilcox, G.E. and Penhale, W.J. (1999) Evidence for immunosuppression associated with Jembrana disease virus infection of cattle. Veterinary Microbiology, 68 (1-2). pp. 179-185.
Turner, J.H., Rose, A.H., Glancy, R.J. and Penhale, W.J. (1998) Orthotopic xenografts of human melanoma and colonic and ovarian carcinoma in sheep to evaluate radioimmunotherapy. British Journal of Cancer, 78 (4). pp. 486-494.
Tenaya, I.W., Penhale, W.J. and Hampson, D.J.ORCID: 0000-0002-7729-0427 (1998) Preparation of diagnostic polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies against outer envelope proteins of Serpulina pilosicoli. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 47 (4). pp. 317-324.
Deplazes, P., Penhale, W.J., Greene, W.K. and Thompson, R.C.A. (1995) Effect on humoral tolerance (IgG and IgE) in dogs by oral administration of ovalbumin and Der p I. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, 45 (3-4). pp. 361-367.
Deplazes, P., Thompson, R.C.A., Constantine, C.C. and Penhale, W.J. (1994) Primary infection of dogs with Echinococcus granulosus: systemic and local (Peyer's patches) immune responses. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, 40 (2). pp. 171-184.
Sexton, N., Penhale, W.J., Plant, S.L. and Pass, D.A. (1994) Use of goose red blood cells for detection of infection with psittacine beak and feather disease virus by haemagglutination and haemagglutination inhibition. Australian Veterinary Journal, 71 (10). pp. 345-347.
Greene, W.K., Carnegie, R.L., Shaw, S.E., Thompson, R.C.A. and Penhale, W.J. (1993) Characterization of allergens of the cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis: detection and frequency of IgE antibodies in canine sera. Parasite Immunology, 15 (2). pp. 69-74.
Stumbles, P.A. and Penhale, W.J. (1993) IDDM in rats induced by thymectomy and irradiation. Diabetes, 42 (4). pp. 571-578.
Greene, W.K., Penhale, W.J. and Thompson, R.C.A. (1993) Isolation and in vitro translation of messenger RNA encoding allergens of the cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, 37 (1). pp. 15-23.
Day, M.J. and Penhale, W.J. (1992) Immune-mediated disease in the old English sheepdog. Research in Veterinary Science, 53 (1). pp. 87-92.
Zilch, A.C., Penhale, W.J. and Macey, D.J. (1991) Aspects of the immune response in the Southern Hemisphere lamprey Geotria australis. Developmental & Comparative Immunology, 15 (Suppl. 1). S60.
Day, M.J. and Penhale, W.J. (1991) An immunohistochemical study of canine disseminated aspergillosis. Australian Veterinary Journal, 68 (12). pp. 383-386.
Feldwick, A.C., Penhale, W.J. and Macey, D.J. (1990) Erythrocyte binding factors in the sera of the adult lamprey Geotria australis. Developmental & Comparative Immunology, 14 (1). pp. 39-48.
Penhale, W.J., Stumbles, P.A., Huxtable, C.R., Sutherland, R.J. and Pethick, D.W.ORCID: 0000-0002-3255-7677 (1990) Induction of diabetes in PVG/c strain rats by manipulation of the immune system. Autoimmunity, 7 (2-3). pp. 169-179.
Penhale, W.J., Day, M.J., Lines, A.D. and McKenna, R.P. (1990) A review of cases submitted to Murdoch University for immunodiagnostic testing: 1978–1989. Australian Veterinary Journal, 67 (4). pp. 148-149.
Williamson, P., Munyua, S.J. and Penhale, J.W. (1989) Endometritis in the mare: A comparison between reproductive history and uterine biopsy as techniques for predicting susceptibility of mares to uterine infection. Theriogenology, 32 (3). pp. 351-7.
Day, M.J. and Penhale, W.J. (1988) Serum immunoglobulin A concentrations in normal and diseased dogs. Research in Veterinary Science, 45 (3). pp. 360-3.
Martin, R.G., Penhale, W.J. and Williamson, P. (1988) Factors affecting the composition of mare uterine fluid. Research in Veterinary Science, 45 (1). pp. 111-6.
Penhale, W.J. and Young, P.R. (1988) The influence of the normal microbial flora on the susceptibility of rats to experimental autoimmune thyroiditis. Clinical and Experimental Immunology, 72 (2). pp. 288-92.
Day, M.J. and Penhale, W.J. (1988) Humoral immunity in disseminated Aspergillus terreus infection in the dog. Veterinary Microbiology, 16 (3). pp. 283-94.
White, T.R., Thompson, R.C.A. and Penhale, W.J. (1988) Studies on BCG immunotherapy in mice infected with Mesocestoides corti. International Journal for Parasitology, 18 (3). pp. 389-393.
White, T.R., Thompson, R.C.A., Penhale, W.J. and Chihara, G. (1988) The effect of lentinan on the resistance of mice to Mesocestoides corti. Parasitology Research, 74 (6). pp. 563-568.
Williamson, P., Munyua, S., Martin, R. and Penhale, W.J. (1987) Dynamics of the acute uterine response to infection, endotoxin infusion and physical manipulation of the reproductive tract in the mare. Journal of Reproduction and Fertility. Supplement, 35 . pp. 317-325.
Day, M.J., Penhale, W.J., McKenna, R.P., Mills, J.N. and Pass, D.A. (1987) Two cases of IgA multiple myeloma in the dog. Journal of Small Animal Practice, 28 (2). pp. 147-156.
Day, M.J. and Penhale, W.J. (1987) A review of major histocompatibility complex-disease associations in man and dog. Veterinary Research Communications, 11 (2). pp. 119-132.
Ahmed, S.A., Young, P.R. and Penhale, W.J. (1986) Beneficial effect of testosterone in the treatment of chronic autoimmune thyroiditis in rats. Journal of Immunology, 136 (1). pp. 143-147.
Day, M.J., Penhale, W.J., Kabay, M.J., Robinson, W.F., Huxtable, C.R., Eger, C.E., Shaw, S.E., Mills, J.N. and Wyburn, R.S. (1986) Disseminated aspergillosis in dogs. Australian Veterinary Journal, 63 (2). pp. 55-59.
Day, M.J., Eger, C.E., Shaw, S.E. and Penhale, W.J. (1985) Immunologic study of systemic aspergillosis in German shepherd dogs. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, 9 (4). pp. 335-47.
Day, M.J., Kay, P.H., Clark, W.T., Shaw, S.E., Penhale, W.J. and Dawkins, R.L. (1985) Complement C4 allotype association with and serum C4 concentration in an autoimmune disease in the dog. Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology, 35 (1). pp. 85-91.
Haines, D.M. and Penhale, W.J. (1985) Autoantibodies to pancreatic islet cells in canine diabetes mellitus. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, 8 (1-2). pp. 149-156.
Mills, J.N., Day, M.J., Shaw, S.E. and Penhale, W.J. (1985) Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia in dogs. Australian Veterinary Journal, 62 (4). pp. 121-123.
Kay, P.H., Dawkins, R.L. and Penhale, J.W. (1985) The molecular structure of different polymorphic forms of canine C3 and C4. Immunogenetics, 21 (4). pp. 313-319.
Haines, D.M., Lording, P.M and Penhale, W.J. (1984) The detection of canine autoantibodies to thyroid antigens by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, hemagglutination and indirect immunofluorescence. Canadian Journal of Comparative Medicine, 48 (3). pp. 262-7.
White, T.R., Thompson, R.C.A. and Penhale, W.J. (1983) Factors influencing the establishment of Mesocestoides corti in mice following oral inoculation of tetrathyridia. Journal of Helminthology, 57 (03). pp. 197-203.
Williamson, P., Dunning, A., O'Connor, J. and Penhale, W.J. (1983) Immunoglobulin levels, protein concentrations and alkaline phosphatase activity in uterine flushings from mares with endometritis. Theriogenology, 19 (3). pp. 441-448.
Nandapalan, N., Wilcox, G.E. and Penhale, W.J. (1983) Production of antisera to the heavy chains of chicken immunoglobulins. British Veterinary Journal, 139 (6). pp. 501-506.
Thompson, R.C.A., Penhale, W.J., White, T.R. and Pass, D.A. (1982) BCG-induced inhibition and destruction of Taenia taeniaeformis in mice. Parasite Immunology, 4 (2). pp. 93-99.
White, T.R., Thompson, R.C.A., Penhale, W.J., Pass, D.A. and Mills, J.N. (1982) Pathophysiology of Mesocestoides corti infection in the mouse. Journal of Helminthology, 56 (02). pp. 145-154.
White, T.R., Thompson, R.C.A. and Penhale, W.J. (1982) A comparative study of the susceptibility of inbred strains of mice to infection with Mesocestoides corti. International Journal for Parasitology, 12 (1). pp. 29-33.
White, T.R., Thompson, R.C.A. and Penhale, W.J. (1982) The effects of selective immunosuppression on resistance toMesocestoides corti in strains of mice showing high and low initial susceptibility. Zeitschrift fur Parasitenkunde, 69 (1). pp. 91-104.
White, T.R., Thompson, R.C.A., Pass, D.A., Penhale, W.J. and Stephanson, J. (1981) Pathological phenomena associated with Mesocestoides corti infection in mice. Journal of Helminthology, 55 (3). pp. 167-171.
Thompson, R.C.A. and Penhale, W.J. (1978) The enhancement of tetrathyridial proliferation of Mesocestoides corti in mice by B.C.G. Zeitschrift fur Parasitenkunde, 56 (2). pp. 195-203.
Conference Paper
La, T., Penhale, W.J. and Hampson, D.J.ORCID: 0000-0002-7729-0427 (1998) Lack of significant systemic immune response in pigs experimentally. In: 15th International Pig Veterinary Society Congress, 5 - 9 July, Birmingham, UK p. 131.
Conference Item
Geerlings, P.M., Penhale, W.J. and Stumbles, P.A. (2009) Pseudomonas aeruginosa; progression from dermal infection to septicaemia. In: School of Veterinary and Life Sciences Annual Postgraduate Research Day, 13 November 2009, Murdoch University.
Geerlings, P.M., Ugarte, W. and Penhale, W.J. (2008) A skin chamber to investigate wound infection and healing in the mouse. In: School of Veterinary and Life Sciences Annual Postgraduate Research Day, 14 November 2008, Murdoch University.
La, T., Mikosza, A., Penhale, W.J. and Hampson, D.J.ORCID: 0000-0002-7729-0427 (1997) Identification of Serpulina pilosicoli outer membrane proteins by screening a genomic library with monoclonal antibodies. In: 8th Annual Combined Biological Sciences Meeting, 15 August, Perth, Western Australia.


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Fire destroys corn crib in southwest Rockford
Staff Writer
Rockford Register Star
ROCKFORD — A fire destroyed a 40-foot tall corn crib this morning in the 3100 block of Centerville Road near Montague Road in southwest Rockford.
Blackhawk firefighters were called to the scene about 11 a.m.
Blackhawk Fire Chief Roger Flood said the property owner had a small fire going nearby and winds possibly blew embers on to the structure's roof.
Flood immediately requested mutual aid from surrounding fire departments to bring water tenders to the site.
"It was old and dry, and it went up pretty quick," the chief said.
Flood said the corn crib was in the process of being torn down by the owner before the fire occurred. A damage estimate was not available.


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Many critics scoffed at the unveiling of the Nintendo DS at E3 2004. The prototype was ugly. The two tiny screens seemed like a bad marketing gimmick. And touch controls had never been applied to gaming, only Palm devices. Here we are, five years later, with 100 million DS systems shipped, according to Nintendo. That's 19 million shy of the handheld record set by the Game Boy, and includes shipments of the original DS, the DS Lite, and DSi editions.
"Consumers have shown their love for Nintendo DS—100 million times over," said Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime. "We are grateful that people of all ages continue to respond to our products, and we will continue to look for ways to please current gamers and create new ones."
The company also announced that 83 DS games have surpassed 1 million in sales. GameSpot later confirmed that seven of those games have sold more than 10 million worldwide: Nintendogs, New Super Mario Bros, Brain Age, Pokemon Diamond/Pearl, Mario Kart DS, Brain Age 2, and Animal Crossing: Wild World.
Selling at a rate second only to the Wii, the DS could make a run to become the best selling video game system of all time, an honor currently held by the PS2 with 140 million units sold.


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Vincent Toro
Vincent Toro (c) Cameron Blaylock
Belly bronzed bikini wasteland of jello buck shots keg stands and nights that last three days jacuzzi swirl of spray tanned glam the gleam of soaked shirts and vomit as the spring breakers bump stumps bury plastic pints in sand littering the boardwalk with pizza grease They lift their middle fingers to the sun flash their cameras tops and gold cards a slick arrhythmia bobbing to the monotone of bass heavy dance anthems Funneling down their throats gallons of distilled cane venerating glass bottles bearing the name of Captain Morgan was a sunburnt cyclone famous for plundering Panama and for cutting clean off any finger with a gold ring on it He could empty a bohio faster than any tsunami could making sport of torturing slaves and puncturing their women He took pleasure in hacking off the limbs of village children while those he shackled were mining for his gold These deeds earned him knighthood from the English crown They say before his death he gutted three of his men so they could guard his treasure in the afterlife and that today he still sails the Atlantic as a phantasm chasing down the descendents of his enemies snuffing them in their dreams by drowning them in rum
Vincent Toro is a Sorta-Rican poet, playwright, and educator living in The Bronx. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Rutgers University. Toro is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a finalist for the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize, recipient of an associate artist residency with the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and a member of The Macondo Writer's Foundation. His poems have been published in Word is Bond, Rattapallax, Vallum, Bordersenses, Kweli Literary Journal, The Buenos Aires Review, and in the anthologies Coloring Book: An Anthology of Multicultural Poems and Stories, CHORUS and The Waiting Room Reader 2.


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The Lincoln Highway: A Century Later
We Travel the Lincoln Highway in a GMC Sierra Denali
Setting the XM on our GMC Sierra Denali to Willie's Roadhouse, and after a good night's sleep at the Red Lion Hotel minutes from the Denver International Airport, we pointed our AWD pickup northeast and headed for Central Nebraska. Traversing land that was once home to the Pawnee, Sioux, and Cheyenne, our goal was to follow the old original Lincoln Highway from Gothenburg, Nebraska, in the west to Grand Island in the east.
Now 100 years old and with a centennial celebration planned in Central Nebraska, a below-the-radar but hugely important piece of American automotive history called the Lincoln Highway was in our crosshairs. Forgotten or unheard of by most, the Lincoln Highway was the first coast-to-coast highway (dedicated in 1913) that when completed could take the American family by automobile across America in 10 days from Time Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco. The Highway was the idea of a group of auto enthusiasts including Carl Fisher, who was a partner in the building of Indianapolis Speedway and a supplier of headlamps to the auto industry. These forward-thinking promoters recognized that the age of the automobile had arrived and it was time to forge a single route across America. The midway point on the Lincoln Highway was to be in central Nebraska near the town of Kearney, 1700-plus miles west of New York City and a similar amount east of San Francisco.
A marketing ploy called the "Seedling Mile" would promote the Highway. It was an idea the founders hoped would accelerate the completion (the paving or surfacing) of the 3389-mile-long Lincoln Highway. Seedling Miles were stretches of the highway outside of towns and cities across America that would be paved, the idea being that when someone traveling by automobile left the primitive unpaved dirt trail and enjoyed smooth effortless travel on the paved sections (even for just a few hundred feet), they would be inspired and join forces with those who were pushing to get the Lincoln Highway paved.
Two of the total four Seedling Miles across America were completed in Nebraska: One was in Omaha and one in Kearney. Today, remnants of these along with other Lincoln Highway memorabilia can be seen between Gothenburg and Grand Island. Paving the Lincoln Highway would finally be completed in the mid 1930s, and the few sections of the original pavement that remain today are treated as historical landmarks.
One such stretch of paved highway is in Shelton (east of Kearney on Highway 30), which is also where the Lincoln Highway Travel Center is located. Here, the main street remains lined with the original red bricks that were laid 100 years ago. The Travel Center offers a wealth of information about how the Lincoln Highway was planned and built. West of Kearney on Highway 30 is an original Lincoln Highway bridge built in the very early 20th century. It's adorned with red, white, and blue paint to signify its historical importance in America's progress west.
In Gothenburg, you can see a stretch of the original dirt highway. At the railroad depot in Cozad which is now a museum, you can stand in one place and look to the right and the left where within a few feet of each other lies the Pony Express Trail (1860-1861), the Lincoln Highway (1913), and Interstate 80, the first completed highway in the Eisenhower Interstate Highway system completed in the 1950s. This was the brainchild of President Eisenhower when he was a major in the U.S. Army. In 1919, he led a motorized caravan across America (part of it along the Lincoln Highway) as a test to see how responsive the military could be if a national emergency were to take place on the West Coast. The experience of getting bogged down, stuck, continuously needing to be pulled out of mud and muck, and averaging only 5 mph -- in conjunction with his being impressed by the German autobahn when he commanded the Allied Armies in the European Theater during WWII -- made him push for the Interstate Highway System.
Nebraska's rich historical landscape is dotted with the original structures that remain from the days of the Lincoln Highway. They lie juxtaposed along historical landmarks like the original Pony Express Station in Gothenburg when they could deliver a letter between St. Joe, Missouri, and Sacramento, California, in 10 days at the cost of $5 per half an ounce. There are wagon tracks carved into the earth 150 years ago where the California, Oregon, and Mormon Trails ran along both sides of the Platte River. Between 1840 and 1869, these three trails carried a half-million pioneers west and are examples of what makes taking a road trip through central Nebraska (with or without Willy's Roadhouse) such a grand idea. Central Nebraska is an important part of American History.
Kearney is smack dab in the middle of America and at the very center of the Lincoln Highway. Here, you can visit the Classic Car Collection, where 1310 cars are exhibited. This collection represents many of the 2600 different makes of automobiles built over the last 100 years (that doesn't count the models each built). All the vehicles are beautifully restored and housed in 50,000 square feet of museum. You can find the cars from your youth, along with the musclecars that roared through the streets of America during the 1960s and '70s. This collection is superb.
Twice a year along the Platte River, between Kearney and Grand Island, you can find a different kind of autobahn, but this one is for migratory birds andn is one of the top world wildlife migrations that ranks along with the wildebeests on the Serengeti. Each spring and fall, a half million Sand Hill cranes, two million snow geese, and some 350 varieties of birds use the North American Central Flyway as a stopover on their way to Mexico or on their return to the Arctic to places as far away as Siberia. Here, crane-watching is a favorite of the Audubon Society, which hosts guided excursions to watch and photograph these huge birds (wing spans of more than 5 feet) land and take off from their nesting grounds on the sandbars in the Platte River. The Flyway is like a huge funnel, where millions of birds fly through one narrow passageway in a day.
Kearney hosts many excellent eateries, such as Grandpa's Steakhouse, which serves prime Nebraska beef aged for six weeks. You also have the choice of many affordable comfortable accommodations.
There are two historical places that are fun stops in Grand Island, Nebraska, where the fine tradition of Lincoln Highway lives on. One is a roadhouse called Doc & Fritz's Shady Bend Restaurant, which opened in the 1920s and where automobile travelers could stop and spend the night in a camp cabin or pitch a tent and get an excellent meal . The cabins and campground are no long around, but the restaurant remains and is as charming as it was back in the day. The second place is Kensinger Service & Supply, built in 1937. It's a service station that looks as it did when Model As and Chevy roadsters pulled up to the gravity-fill pumps. It's a time capsule where today their state-of-the-art fuel delivery system still pumps gasoline.
South of Grand Island (and worth the short drive) is Red Cloud, the girlhood home of Willa Cather, one of America's premier novelists. This country town that sits just above the Kansas line is one of the best-kept secrets in America's heartland. Here, the Willa Cather Foundation has stopped time in its tracks by preserving the old downtown buildings where the Cather Family lived circa the 1880s and 1890s. In Willa Cather's novels and short stories (such as "My Antonia" and "Oh Pioneer"), the characters she wrote about are based on the people she grew up with and this community where she lived. The Old Opera House, which houses the Foundation now hosts events and performances on the same stage where both Willa Cather and Williams Jennings Bryan addressed audiences 120 years ago.
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Ames Lab researchers team up to probe iron-arsenic superconductors
AMES, Iowa –Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory are part of collaborative team that's used a brand new instrument at the DOE's Spallation Neutron Source to probe iron-arsenic compounds, the "hottest" new find in the race to explain and develop superconducting materials. Rob McQueeney, an Ames Laboratory physicist, was part of that team whose findings, published in the Oct. 8 issue of Physical Review Letters, mark the first research produced with the aid of the new tool.
The Spallation Neutron Source – SNS for short – is the DOE's sprawling new $1.4 billion complex operated by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the rolling green hills of eastern Tennessee. The SNS uses a pulsed neutron beam to provide information about the structure and dynamics of materials that cannot be obtained from X-rays or electron microscopes. Although neutral in electrical charge, neutrons interact with the nucleus. The neutron's magnetic moment can also interact with magnetic spins in a material. As neutrons from the beam pass through a material, they scatter off the nuclei and spins. By measuring the speed and angle of the scattered neutrons, scientists are able to develop detailed information about the positions and the motion of the nuclei and spins within the material.
McQueeney serves on the Executive Committee of the Instrumentation Development Team for ARCS, a wide angular-range chopper spectrometer designed to measure the vibrations of atomic nuclei. The sixth of the proposed 24 instruments to be built at the SNS, ARCS is undergoing final testing and is available for general use this fall, but McQueeney is already impressed with the results.
"The preliminary results are amazing," McQueeney said. "I have experience with a similar instrument and ARCS blew it away," adding that it produces better results from smaller samples in a much shorter time frame.
The timing of the testing phase for ARCS was ideal because in the preceding months, a new class of superconducting materials – pnictide compounds based on iron and arsenic – was discovered. This allowed McQueeney and collaborators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and California Institute of Technology to look specifically at lanthanum-iron-arsenide (LaFeAsO0.89F0.11). One of the samples studied was produced by McQueeney's Ames Laboratory colleague, physicist and crystal-growth expert Paul Canfield. When this new class of superconductors was first announced, Canfield was able to quickly replicate the results and develop additional compounds.
The phenomenon of superconductivity is caused by the pairing of conduction electrons due to forces within the crystal. The origin of this pairing is one of the great unsolved mysteries in the field of high-temperature superconductivity.
"There are two prevailing ideas behind superconductivity," McQueeney said. "One is that pairing is mediated by lattice vibrations. The other is that it's mediated by magnetic or spin fluctuations." Since neutrons are capable of measuring both the lattice vibrations and spin fluctuations, they are an ideal probe to gain an understanding of superconductivity.
The experiments focused on understanding the role of lattice vibrations in the new superconductors. The vibration of atoms within the crystal lattice creates a pattern of waves called phonons. When a neutron collides with this lattice, it can give up some of its energy to create a phonon. The difference in the neutron's energy before and after the collision is equal to the phonon energy.
"Our measurements did not support the conventional electron-phonon mediated superconductivity," McQueeney said, adding that theoretical calculations matched up fairly well with measurements obtained with ARCS. While the results are an important first step, there is still much work to be done to determine the origin of superconductivity in the iron-arsenides. McQueeney and his collaborators are continuing studies of phonons and spin excitations in these compounds.
The quest to understand and develop superconductor technology has important energy implications. By their nature, and as the name implies, superconductors can conduct electrical current with virtually no power loss, unlike conventional electric transmission lines which lose up to 30% due to resistance in the system. Basic research to understand the atomic interactions that make superconductors work, and to potentially control those properties, is one way that Ames Laboratory strives to address the scientific challenges facing our country.
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Question: Now that the "traditional" network season is about half over, do you have any shows you've found to be either pleasant surprises (those you didn't think much of initially, but improved) or disappointments? I know that for me, the biggest disappointment has been (as it has been for many people) Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which is basically just the 21st-century A-Team. It's fairly entertaining enough, but if it were to disappear tomorrow, I wouldn't shed any tears. The two happiest surprises for me have been The Crazy Ones (which didn't sound like it would be good, and I quit watching after the pilot but have caught up and found it quite enjoyable - probably because they keep Robin Williams' zaniness in check and the supporting cast has proven very funny) and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. I didn't really know much of Andy Samberg so wasn't that interested, but the early reviews had me check it out. I was very glad, too, because that's one new show I look forward to every week. I find it to be a worthy successor to The Office in its heyday. I'm also finding Almost Human to be getting much better from its middling premiere, though it's still not quite appointment TV. - Scott
Matt Roush: Not a lot about this season's new shows screams "must-see," but for me, the fall's most pleasant surprise was how Sleepy Hollow turned into an enjoyable fright-fest with engaging lead characters (especially Ichabod), and I'll miss it now that it has finished its limited run. My initial take was that it could implode on its wacky mythology (a la Zero Hour), but it didn't take itself overly seriously, so bravo. I agree about The Crazy Ones finding its ensemble voice; I always saw the potential in Brooklyn and am glad the industry (or at least the Golden Globes) is taking notice. Also agreed that S.H.I.E.L.D. hasn't lived up to the Marvel-ous hype, but the biggest letdown for me was what a glum mess Hostages turned into. I believe in the potential of that kind of serialized thriller on network TV and was hopeful at the start, but it didn't take long to lose its way. I'm also sorry that The Michael J. Fox Show hasn't lived up to its star's potential and jelled as a family comedy. On the other hand, ABC's Trophy Wife is an unsung winner with a splendid cast (including the kids) that deserves a shot on Wednesdays. (Over the holidays, relatives were crowing about The Goldbergs, which I find awfully shrill, but for their sake, I'll add that to the list of sleepers that deserve patience - which I'd be surprised if it doesn't get.)
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Question: During the last Olympics, NBC got a lot of grief for spoiling the winners before the events had been broadcast, most notably when they aired a promo for the Today show touting Missy Franklin's gold medal victory a few minutes before her event aired. It's not much fun when you go out of your way to avoid the results online only to have the network betray you. Is there any chance NBC has learned their lesson? - Mike
Matt Roush: Hard to imagine there won't be at least a few glitches, especially in a year when the time differences will be as extreme as they will be in broadcasting from Sochi, and with the sort of blanket coverage NBC and its offshoots will be providing. But NBC Sports is very aware of this issue, especially in an era of wall-to-wall news and instant social media. It won't be easy to cocoon yourself from all of the results until you have time and opportunity to watch, especially if you're among the many millions who will be watching whatever the prime-time packages consist of. Figure, though, that the network will need to report on significant Olympics news while doing what it can to protect those who still want to experience the joy of victory and the agony of defeat on time delay.
Question: You have a great clear-cut, no BS way of explaining things that I like, so I thought you'd be the best person to ask this question. I'm an Arrow fan. Love the CW show. Love a ton of things about it, including Felicity Smoak, who I gather has zero to do with the original comics. It seems like every time I read a review or teaser article about episodes, I see comments about the blatant "fan pandering" and "fan servicing" Arrow is doing with Felicity, making her a series regular, having her on Team Arrow, etc., by some viewers. Now I seem to see those complaints leveled at a ton of different shows. I don't get it. What the heck is fan pandering and servicing? I mean ... I watch these shows and I enjoy them. I was thrilled when Arrow added Emily Bett Rickards to the show full time and expanded Felicity into Oliver's team and even opened the door to a potential romance between Oliver and Felicity last week in "Blast Radius." It's fun. It's entertaining. What am I missing? - Julia
Matt Roush: It's not an issue of what you're missing, it's what you shouldn't be absorbing - to wit, the venom of hostile commenters who seem to be affecting your enjoyment of the show and the character. Why even read that stuff? The way it typically works in TV is that when a supporting character like Felicity catches on with the fans, and/or presumably with the show's creative team, that character gets a lot more to do and becomes more embedded in the show's DNA. It's only seen as "pandering" if you're not on board with the evolution. Like you, I can't envision Arrow without her, and enjoyed the triangle that ensued when she went off to tend to Barry Allen, stoking Oliver's jealousy and sense of need. Few such characters are universally beloved, though, a fact that can become unpleasantly more apparent thanks to the wonders of the Internet, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are comics or other purists who resent her intrusion (I'm not a comics expert, so will stay out of it). Debate over TV shows and characters can be healthy, but can also devolve into bitter and cruel invective. My advice: Steer clear, sit back and enjoy, because Felicity isn't going anywhere. (Unless she crosses over to The Flash from time to time, which would be OK by me.)
Question: I love Arrow and am looking forward to the spin-off of The Flash, but is any network ever going to do a women superhero show? - Aleana
Matt Roush: Many have tried to resurrect Wonder Woman, for starters, and I think of Alias's Sydney Barstow as a superhero of sorts from recent times. (Similarly, ABC is developing a show built around the Marvel character of Agent (Peggy) Carter. The WB did try a female-centric superhero series, Birds of Prey, a while back, but it didn't last a full season. I'm sure there are characters ripe for developing from the various comics canons, and I'd also like to see them try. Sounds like a job for ... The CW.
Question: As a TV critic, when you review comedies, where and how do you draw the line between clearly stereotyping people versus attempting to be funny but failing miserably? Two recent examples come to mind: this past week, How I Met Your Mother was criticized for an episode that portrayed highly stereotypical Chinese caricatures. I was more disappointed by a children's show showing Asian stereotypes - a trailer for the Disney show Austin & Ally showed an Asian character that didn't speak English, and the character's dialogue was translated with English subtitles. - Brian
Matt Roush: Didn't see either of these examples, but it's fair to say that ethnic stereotyping (and this goes for sexist humor and gay jokes as well) is a very tricky and rarely rewarding arena for comedy. Fox's Dads, for example, wallowed in Asian and sexist (and other) stereotypes in its dreadful pilot episode and has never truly recovered. (The show isn't very funny to begin with, but going for shock value has its limits when that's the only card you're playing.) A show like Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy can get away with it more easily, because of the anything-goes sensibility of its warped animated universe and because it's such an equal-opportunity offender. As a critic, I try not to be so politically correct in my sensitivities that I can't enjoy a good laugh, even of questionable taste, if it's earned. More often than not, though, it's the cheapest form of pandering humor and tends to raise a red flag about the show's quality as a whole.
Question: I have watched The Mentalist for the last few years and was profoundly grateful when the Red John storyline ended. In the last episode, it seemed like everyone involved in bringing down Red John was being targeted by some unknown entity (presumably not Red John, unless Jane killed the wrong Red John again). Does this mean that Wayne and Grace are returning? I was just getting used to the new team. Also, is there any hope for Jane and Lisbon to become a couple or to clarify that they will not be a couple? I find the "will-they, won't-they" annoying. I don't see any chemistry between Jane and Kim. She is really, in some ways, too similar to Lisbon without the charm or affection for Jane that would be needed for a believable relationship. - Kristi
Matt Roush: It's a very transitional season for The Mentalist, obviously, so for now, with the actors' names still in the opening credits, I'd look at Owain Yeoman (Rigsby) and Amanda Righetti (Van Pelt) as "recurring regulars," who'll pop in and out of the show as the story demands. Some weeks they'll be invisible, but as long as the show follows this storyline of the targeted ex-CBI agents, they'll likely be around, though I've seen nothing to indicate they'll be back for good. Relocating them to Austin wouldn't make much sense, and this current storyline would be a smart way for them to take a final (hopefully not fatal) bow. They'll always be a part of The Mentalist's universe, though, as long as they're still breathing, so I wouldn't rule out return visits in the future. Regarding the never-ending issue of Jane and Lisbon's romantic prospects, that will likely be a slow burner for some time to come, although the post-Red John reinvention of The Mentalist seems to have liberated Simon Baker's performance, which is a lot more playful and flirtatious, ditto with Robin Tunney as his reassigned "equal." Agreed, though, that there are no sparks with the so-far-underdeveloped Kim Fischer (Emily Swallow) character, so let's hope they don't go there.
Question: Here's my beef. ABC's The Assets was supposed to be an eight-part miniseries, but it's been canceled after two episodes. I love spy movies, especially when based on true facts, and wanted to watch all eight episodes continuously, but when I'd check the "upcoming episodes" it only showed two set up to be shown. Was ABC setting this up to be canceled? I'm glad I didn't watch the two, only to become invested in it and then have it canceled and replaced with repeats of Shark Tank. What was the point in all this? It was only eight episodes, couldn't ABC show them on a Saturday or something? With DVRs these days, why couldn't the network at least finish the miniseries? So frustrating. - Vanessa
Matt Roush: No network "sets up" a show to be canceled. But if any show deserved to be, it's The Assets, which was simply a terrible and grindingly dull drama that didn't deserve that plum time period on Thursday (the Scandal slot) to begin with. Consider yourself spared. What was the point, you ask? The main motivation for scheduling shows like this and the also defunct (though still currently airing) Killer Women was to provide ABC with some filler programming to kill time during this awkward period in the new year until the Olympics are over. In the past, some shows like these have made their remaining unaired episodes available online, and that may yet happen with The Assets. Not that I'm recommending it.
Question: I accumulate entire seasons of a show and then watch the entirety over a couple of days. But as such, I fill my DVR quickly. Currently I have 31 episodes of Revolution, 13 of Under the Dome and 13 of The Bridge. Could you help me choose which one to watch now, which one to keep for later, and which one to delete outright to make room for my other favorite shows? - CCB
Matt Roush: So hard to answer a question like this without knowing your druthers. Devouring the first season of Dome shouldn't be such a hardship, and the same goes for The Bridge. I found both underwhelming (Dome starts strong but doesn't always sustain, and The Bridge never really caught fire for me), but Bridge in particular wraps enough of its initial mystery in the first season to make it worth your while burning off in a binge if you're drawn in. With Revolution, that's a much bigger time suck, and I'm not sure there's a great return in that investment. I'd be surprised if it goes beyond this second season, and I bailed a while back, though this season seems to be an improvement dramatically. My advice would be to start on that one, and if it doesn't grab you, delete and liberate your DVR for more promising prospects - have you considered Syfy's new Helix?
Question: I am a huge fan of Shameless. However, after seeing the first two episodes, I've noticed that Cameron Monaghan, who plays Ian Gallagher, has yet to appear. Will he still be making appearances this season? - Cyrus
Matt Roush: Though the actor is enjoying a busy film career, he's still in the show's title credits and remains part of the family, so I'd assume you'll see Ian (whose absence has been well explained) at some point. But answering that more specifically would veer into spoiler territory, so just stay tuned.
Question: Can we talk about Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and its extra minute every week? Talk about screwing up my DVR. I guess it makes me do exactly what they want: watch it live so my DVR can pick up the other two 8 pm shows and two 9 pm shows. (Tuesdays are the worst.) It's super frustrating. It is just a ratings ploy or something else? - Kristi
Matt Roush: You've already figured it out, that spilling over the extra minute - which is hardly unique to this show, this network or this season - is intended to drive live viewing, with the hope you'll stay tuned to whatever follows (and lift the lead-out's numbers with even a small overlap). It is aggravating, for sure, when that minute gets in the way of recording something on another channel in the next hour. (And sometimes even with that extra minute, it still cuts off, depending on the show.) I've resorted to manual recording at times when the situation gets extreme, and my rule of thumb is that when forced to choose, it's still best to record that last minute in case there's a plot twist, at the expense of the first minute of the overlapping show.
Question: Please confirm they will keep Rusty on Major Crimes after the Jan. 13 season finale. I loved The Closer but Major Crimes is also great. I never miss an episode and hope they will keep Rusty (Graham Patrick Martin) a part of the cast. - Brenda
Matt Roush: Even with the Phillip Stroh case settled, Rusty isn't likely to go anywhere, despite his tearful plea that he's not worthy to stay. Sharon disagrees, and she usually has a say in such matters. Whether you're a Rusty fan or a hater (I hear from those, too), he's part of this spin-off's premise, and I'd be shocked if that changes.
Question: I'm a longtime reader of your column and always really enjoy it. I don't always agree, but that's part of the fun, right? I have Chuck Bartowski on the brain. Chuck was one of our favorites when it was on. Now our kids are old enough to watch and enjoy it, so we've been ordering the old episodes through iTunes and watching them all over again. I'm finding that I'm not tired of it at all (well into it, too, just finished the Shaw story arc in Season 3), and we're having great fun sort of anticipating what's coming next (and taunting the kids). This leads me to my question. I know this is part of your job and it must be hard just to stay on top of current shows, but are there shows you would deem worthy of watching a second time around if you had the chance (or have re-watched and still enjoyed)? PS: Speaking of Chuck, how much fun would it be if Yvonne Strahovski actually played Sarah Walker on the upcoming 24 reboot? Cameo by John Casey? Big Mike? Jeffster? - Brad
Matt Roush: To your big question: I can think of few things I'd enjoy more than the luxury of time to revisit old or even recent TV favorites. (Having more time to read is also high on the list.) TV examples that come immediately to mind: I'd love to relive Fringe start to finish to remind myself how it changed and deepened season to season. I have a boxed set of the complete China Beach, for which I'd been waiting years to be released, and outside of sampling a few key episodes, just haven't had time to fully re-appreciate. Even current shows I've fallen behind on (it happens, and usually it's telling me something when I do) are difficult to catch up with, because there's always new material to sample and preview, and as we like to say in our workplace, these shows don't watch themselves. I love the idea of rewatching a show like Chuck with a new generation of fans. I envy anyone who has yet to experience the fabulousness of a show like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Thanks to streaming sites, it's all there for those with the time to indulge. As for a Chuck-24 crossover, it would be fun to see some of these actors appear in a more serious setting, but I draw the line at Jeffster. Never my favorite part of that show. (See earlier reference to "fan pandering.")
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Directors: Karen Adams-Taylor, Karl Elvin, Sue Sherrill, Brian Shields Managers: David Antos, Chris Borden, Debbie Camp, Lydia Cruz, Diane Darnell, Colleen Kelly, Chris Meyer, Jaye Mize, Sean O'Donnell, Sean Ohlson, Phil O'Leary, Ryan Patella, Susan Price, Emily Mitchell, Denise Steinhauser Advertising and Production Services: Bernadette Bauer, Kim Boler, Rhonda Bailey Brown, Timothy Burke, Susan Chiara, Daniel DeGroot, Jordynn Farrar, Euwanaha Joiner-Smith, Cindy Rendlen, Ellen Yoshihara Circulation Services: Julie Burton, Dexter Golden, Erin Hinchliff, Noemi Rivera, Geneine Van Someren Composition and New Media: Gail Barrett, Regina Brownlee, Brenda Chandler-Grayer, Scott Curl, Amy Evers, Teri Hutchison, Mary Ann Kuranda, Joshua Lampinen, Fred Marshall, Patricia E. Panek, La'son Diggs Sledge, George Thomson Graphics: Joe Amft, Maria Duda, Fred Furtner, Carolyn Hall, Maria Kowalkowski Proofreading: Carol Joy Farrell, Daniel James, Judith A. Literskis, Teresa H. Omiotek
Ama executives and trustees
Executive Vice President, Chief Executive Officer: James L. Madara, MD Chief Operating Officer: Bernard L. Hengesbaugh President: Jeremy A. Lazarus, MD President-Elect: Ardis D. Hoven, MD Immediate Past President: Peter W. Carmel, MD Secretary: Stephen R. Permut, MD, JD Speaker, House of Delegates: Andrew W. Gurman, MD Vice-Speaker, House of Delegates: Susan R. Bailey, MD Trustees: Joseph P. Annis, MD; David O. Barbe, MD, MHA (chair-elect); Peter W. Carmel, MD; Malini P. Daniel; Alexander Ding, MD, MS; Julie K. Goonewardene; Patrice A. Harris, MD; Ardis D. Hoven, MD; William E. Kobler, MD; Jeremy A. Lazarus, MD; Barbara L. McAneny, MD; Mary Anne McCaffree, MD; Albert J. Osbahr III, MD; Stephen R. Permut, MD, JD; Carl A. Sirio, MD; Steven J. Stack, MD (chair); Georgia A. Tuttle, MD; Robert M. Wah, MD (immediate past chair); Monica C. Wehby, MD
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