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After explaining to the media his part in the Celtics' latest improbability — a 118-114 triple-overtime victory over the streaking Denver Nuggets — Kevin Garnett wiped the sweat off his bald head, placed the towel on a jug of Gatorade, and touched the Celtics logo that welcomes those who walk into the locker room.
It was more than a symbolic gesture. Garnett said last week that he bleeds green, but his dedication to the organization that saved him from insignificance in Minneapolis is the primary reason he wouldn't allow the Celtics to sulk and then sink after losing Rajon Rondo to a torn right anterior cruciate ligament.
It's been two weeks since the Celtics found out the devastating news after a win over the Heat. They realized that they quickly had to reinvent themselves, understanding that he wasn't coming back.
So they were faced with either succumbing to the situation or responding with rejuvenated vigor and moving forward with the talent in the locker room.
Their seventh consecutive win is evidence of their direction. The Celtics have revived their season on the fly, turning into a formidable team without Rondo and Jared Sullinger (back surgery).
It's ridiculous to say the Celtics are a better club without Rondo, but their versatility and balance has become a strength, which inexplicably they didn't use while Rondo was healthy. Paul Pierce has become the all-around player he was six years ago, Jason Terry is hitting open jumpers, and Jeff Green has finally become consistent.
Whether the urgency created by Rondo's injury, the threat of being broken up through trades, or the embarrassment of losing a 27-point lead at Atlanta caused such a drastic change is uncertain, but the Celtics have made it clear they plan on hanging around this playoff race. Their surge is likely encouraging team president of basketball operations Danny Ainge to make additions instead of subtractions.
The Celtics defeated a team Sunday that had won nine straight, including victories over Chicago and Oklahoma City. Denver is the type of team that usually flourishes against the Celtics. The Nuggets are athletic, young, and were second in the NBA in rebounding. Yet, the Celtics led most of regulation and refused to wilt despite the pressure placed by the brilliant Ty Lawson and suddenly hot Danilo Gallinari.
Pierce hit a 3-pointer to send it into a third overtime, a step-back shot with 5.2 left over Andre Miller, and Terry, after missing six of his previous seven shots, made his biggest shot as a Celtic with a 3-pointer with 1:13 left in the third OT that was the eventual winner.
The Celtics have thrived under sudden adversity and created a new attack that must be respected.
"This is not a new game plan that he's given us,'' Terry said of Doc Rivers's instruction. "If you've been around this locker room, been around this team, he stressed ball movement. He stressed defense. Those are keys to victory for us, regardless of who's in those Celtic uniforms. That's the way we have to play. We've all bought in. I guess Rajon and Sully being out makes you, forces you, to buy in and it's been a blessing in disguise, but we'd still love to have those guys out there.''
What's interesting about this run is the Celtics have no idea how far it can take them. With Rondo present and the team spending the first half of the season swimming in mediocrity, they were hardly a contender in the Eastern Conference. But now? Who knows.
They are climbing up the playoff standings when most observers believed they would struggle just to hold on to the eighth and final playoff spot. Currently the seventh seed, the Celtics are 3½ games behind third-seeded Indiana. While the Celtics ran off six straight wins about a month ago and looked to emerge as a contender, the difference now is they are playing more to Rivers's liking, in the system and style he orchestrated in training camp with Rondo.
"For good or worse, that's what we are [a team without Rondo and Sullinger],'' Rivers said. "Neither one can play for us. And this is who we are. We're going to mix and match. We're winning games and we've got to keep it going.
"Honestly, I don't give [the streak] a lot of thought, probably because I don't want to. I just think our team's in a good place and we just want to stay there.''
What happens next is uncertain. The Celtics hit the road again Monday against the Charlotte Bobcats with Pierce, Garnett, and Terry coming off the equivalent of a double shift. But the Celtics' confidence is brimming now, they have faith in their versatility and know they can move forward without Rondo.
The Celtics had to embrace reality and they realized that there was too much at stake to collapse in self-pity.
"Since we lost Rondo, I figure we've been playing basketball really hard putting forward a Grade-A effort,'' Garnett said. "I know we're a bunch of fighters, I know we've got some competitive guys in here. We got a bunch of talent in here. A lot of guys can do great things. It's all about putting it together and seeing what we can do together.''


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WOOD COUNTY, TX (KLTV) - The lawsuit to end Wood County Commissioners routine prayer and remove the display "In God We Trust" has been dismissed.
The plaintiff, Charles Scott, did not show up for court this morning. The judge said that since Scott did not show up, there was insufficient evidence for the case.
Scott said he is a devout Christian. He said an elected official cannot honor both the United States Constitution and the Word of God. Scott said that is because the constitution allows for freedom of religion while God frowns upon worshipping anyone other than Him. Scott said the court's oath to uphold the constitution contradicts scripture.
Attorneys for Wood County said their display and routine prayer are constitutional.
KLTV asked Scott today why he did not show up for court. Scott said he was ready to go; however, "the Lord did not provide him with a means to get to court." Scott said he does not have a means of transportation.
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A woman gives birth to a demon in the new horror film 'Devil's Due' out Jan. 17. That's not a new cinematic concept. But to amp up excitement for the release, the movie's marketing team sent a prank demon baby out into the streets of NYC in an unattended coach and it wreaked some serious havoc.
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The baby terrifies the people it encounters and is our worst nightmare. Things escalate as the tyke runs amok. Watch and laugh!
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In a Feb. 6 Times-News article, �Graham wants to remove fluoride from drinking water�, it is reported that Graham and Mebane may soon be without fluoridated water. As a dentist in Burlington for the past 31 years, former chair of the Alamance County Board of Health, outspoken advocate for improved dental access, and the parent and grandparent of Graham residents, I am very concerned with the decision of the Graham City Council to remove fluoride from the water supply, seemingly based on little more than unsupported claims and misinformation provided by their utilities director, Victor Quick.
Addition of proper amounts of fluoride to water supplies has been shown by a preponderance of credible scientific studies to significantly reduce dental decay. Of most benefit is the reduction of dental decay in children during their cavity-prone years. When well-meaning officials such as Mr. Quick cite vague sources as �numerous studies,� �according to the research you believe,� and �I�ve done some research,� the first requirement needs to be for them to produce full and specific documentation for this information. In this case, it is unlikely that such documentation can be produced. If it can, the next requirement is to verify, by accepted scientific standards, the accuracy and validity of such presented evidence. I will gladly provide such documentation of any studies or reports to which I reference in this commentary.
Although I am very appreciative of the tireless work of our city and county employees, our water treatment specialists are not the persons on whose opinions should be based decisions on water fluoridation. Contrary to the implication of Mr. Quick, there is no confusion among respected, credible members of the scientific and healthcare communities as to which research is to be believed. The accepted standard utilized by these experts is those peer-reviewed studies which are published in respected journals.
Anti-fluoridation groups have been asked for decades to provide credible documentation for their irresponsible claims that link properly fluoridated water to cancer, stomach problems, and other systemic diseases. They have consistently been unable to do so. To my knowledge there is no credible study which links the miniscule amount of fluoride in water to any of these disorders. Should anyone disagree, I welcome them to provide to me specific, documented evidence that has been peer reviewed and validated by credible scientific sources.
In regard to other information provided by Mr. Quick, fluoride used in public water does not come from fertilizer, as he asserted. It is extracted from phosphate rock, a process similarly used to obtain phosphoric acid used in soft drinks. Additionally, his stated operational cost savings of $12,000-$16,000 is very misleading. A 2010 Texas study reported a cost per Medicaid recipient to be $24 more in unfluoridated areas than for those in fluoridated areas due to increased caries rates of the unfluoridated sites. This potential for significant increase in our county Medicaid expenses must be considered in any cost analysis of fluoride removal from the water.
Finally, skilled as our water treatment specialists are in their area of expertise, I�m unclear as to the relevance of their beliefs in regard to the most effective means of fluoride application to teeth. This is a health issue, as Mr. Quick admitted, and neither he nor his staff are health care experts. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Dental Association, and the American Academy of Family Physicians are among the leading health care groups who endorse the safety and effectiveness of water fluoridation. Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, called fluoridated water the �most efficient means� in America to reduce dental disease. Legal liability should be a concern for our leaders who make health care decisions in direct contradiction to recommendations of leading health care experts.
Fluoridated water supplies have provided invaluable, inexpensive oral health benefits to our population for decades. Any validity to the unfounded claims of anti-fluoridation groups would have manifested itself in rampant outbreaks of the diseases they claim are linked, with clear evidence of such linkage. There have been no such outbreaks. I hope our elected leaders will do due diligence in fact-checking and reliance on recommendations of qualified health care experts before hastily making a decision that will cause irreparable harm to the health of our citizens.
Dr. Steven D. Slott, is a dentist in Burlington. He is a fellow, American College of Dentists; and a fellow, International College of Dentists.


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Old ex-con back at the Rock, telling prison stories
Bill Baker is a big man, with wary, hooded eyes that peer out behind thick glasses. He's an old man now; he talks softly and walks with a slight stoop. Occasionally his hands shake a bit. You wouldn't look at him twice if you passed him on the street. But he is a celebrity, a member of what he calls "an endangered species, very nearly extinct."
Baker is a former Alcatraz convict, and when he goes back to the Rock, visitors stop and talk to him, hanging on every word.
"I've met people from all over the world," he said. "The tourists love me. That's amazing, because I've been rejected all my life."
Baker said that last bit carefully, because he had a prison reputation as a tough guy. He's been a car thief, a jailhouse rioter, an escape artist.
He cut his own handcuffs off when he was being transferred from one federal prison to another. He hit a guard once, too. He was sent to Alcatraz, the ultimate federal prison, in 1957. He was 23.
Baker spent four years on Alcatraz and learned a trade from another inmate - writing counterfeit checks.
"Courtney Taylor taught me," Baker said. "He was one of the best in the business."
'I made good money'
Baker learned how to make fake payroll and corporate checks look real, learned bank routing numbers, and how to get around magnetic ink. He made a good living, he said.
"It was exciting. I liked it, and I made good money," he said. "The bad part was getting caught.
"I learned from my mistakes, but they learned from my mistakes, too."
He served several prison terms, nearly half his life was behind bars. "Age and technology put me out of business," he said.
Baker finally got out of Leavenworth in 2011, and now he's back at Alcatraz, at the age of 80, on a book tour, promoting his prison memoir "Alcatraz 1259." That was his number on the Rock.
He is a pretty good writer. He read a lot in prison. In Alcatraz, Zane Grey was his favorite writer. He took creative writing courses.
His story is plain, and as real as the sound of cell doors slamming shut, a sound like no other. "I've been a convict or an ex-convict all my life, doing a life sentence on the installment plan," he wrote.
Baker makes the old-time convicts look a bit like a band of brothers, mixed in with a few cold-blooded killers, career criminals, inmate politicians and "punks," who represent the sexual underside of an all-male prison.
There are also "snitches," informers spread throughout the inmate population.
"Whenever you have desperate men you have snitches," Baker said. "They would do anything to get out. You had to be very careful what you said to anybody."
A prison stroll
Baker is now free to walk around Alcatraz, now part of a national park, and he walked around the old prison one sunny morning last week.
He stopped by the ruins of the old warden's house and paused to talk at the main entrance, with its carved American eagle. He went into the mail cell block, past the control room, down the long corridor in the main cell block they called Broadway, up into the second level of the C block, and into his old cell.
Out the window, past the bars, the inmate in C block could see the Golden Gate Bridge and parts of San Francisco, rising on its hills, like an illusion.
Adjusting to routine
What was the worst part of Alcatraz? "Boredom," Baker said. That and the routine, the same thing all the time, a world run by someone else, guards who mark the routine with bells: a time to wake up, to count the prisoners, to go to meals, to go to work, to take a shower, to go to the prison yard, at lights out.
"Life is a contest," Baker said, "and if you surrender to the bells, you belong to the keeper."
Baker lives in Ohio, and is on parole. He's a featured author, a star on the Rock. He's selling his book on the island Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays and at the Alcatraz shop on Pier 39 Saturdays and Sundays through November.
"Five days a week? Sounds like a job," someone said. Baker laughed. He's never had a job in his life.
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More than 100 mayors from across the nation have formed a coalition with Freedom to Marry called "Mayors for the Freedom to Marry." The notables include: New York City's Michael Bloomberg, Los Angeles' Antonio Villaraigosa, Chicago's Rahm Emanuel, Washington DC's Vincent Gray, Newark's Cory Booker, Philadelphia's Michael Nutter and Houston's Annise Parker, who is openly lesbian, and recently re-elected as mayor of the nation's fourth largest city.
Is your mayor for equality? The full list AFTER THE JUMP ...
The coalition was announced at the U.S. Conference of Mayors conference in Washington over the weekend, reports Michael Lavers at Windy City Times.
Villaraigosa, who chairs the campaign as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, spoke about growing up without a father as he highlighted the importance of family. He said the lack of marriage equality for same-sex couples has directly impacted members of his own family.
"I've seen the many faces of those hurt by the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8 in California," said Villaraigosa. "They are members of my own family. They're our nation's own children who face daily bullying and violence because of who they are or who people think they are. They're the couples the joyous marriages I've had the honor of presiding over, whose special day was shared by friends and families before their rights were stripped away."
Parker spoke about the difficulties that she and her partner of nearly 21 years faced when they adopted their three children. A series of insurance, custodial and educational challenges followed suit. "One simple thing would have made a tremendous difference in the lives of my family and truly the lives of millions of Americans, and that is access to the rights and privileges of marriage," said Parker.
The coalition could become key in the coming months. Marriage equality legislation has recently been introduced in Washington and is expected to soon be re-introduced in Maryland and New Jersey.
Maine voters will decide in November on an initiative that will overturn the 209 referendum that overturned marriage equality legislation. Minnesota and North Carolina will also decide on constitutional marriage amendments.
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AHL Game Night: 2-13-10 Devils at Admirals
No Lashoff? No Parrish? No problem.
Jaroslav Janus allowed 1 goal on 27 shots for the win. He's now 5-6-1 on the season with 1 shutout, a 2.01 GAA, and a rock solid .925 sv%. He's actually got better numbers than Tokarski.
First Period
LOW Palmieri, (18) (Vasyunov, Walter), 12:48
NOR Fornataro, (7) (Craig, Fadden), 17:33
Second Period
NOR Simek, (15) (Szczechura), 12:16
NOR Craig, (15) (Tyrell, Szczechura), 17:25
NOR Craig, (16) (Fadden, Wishart), 18:39 (PP)
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NOR Mihalik, (1) (Tyrell, Hall), 16:01
Ryan Craig, Paul Szczechura, and Vladimir Mihalik were the game's three stars. It was another banner night for the Presov Mafia between Janus' win, and both Juraj Simek, and Mihalik's goals. Mihalik's marker was his first of the season, and with a +3 night he jumped to +1 for the season.
Lowell got former Lightning d-man Cory Murphy back for this game, so they dressed 5 natural defensemen for this game rather than the 4 from last night, but it didn't matter. Even with Matt Lashoff out for a second straight game attending to family matters and Mark Parrish held out, presumably for a recall to the Lightning, the Admirals still dominated the Devils.
Oh, and Dana Tyrell had his second multi-point game of the season. Mitch Fadden had his third.
Norfolk remains in 3rd place in the East Division, 4 points behind 2nd place Albany, which dismantled Binghamton 7-0 tonight. Albany holds 1 game in hand. They widened their lead on 4th place Adirondack to 6 points after the Phantoms fell to Portland 5-4. Adirondack has 3 games in hand. They are now tied at 52 points with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton after the Penguins upset Hershey 5-0 tonight. So the Pens are 6 points back of Norfolk with 2 games in hand. In 6th place is Syracuse, which lost 2-0 tonight to Manchester. They're 8 points behind Norfolk with 2 games in hand. All the way in 7th place in Bighamton, which is now 11 points back of Norfolk with 5 games in hand.
Norfolk's win moves them 1 point ahead of the 5th place team in the Atlantic Division, so the Admirals are starting to take the crossover off the table. Even if they finish 3rd in the East Division, finishing ahead of the crossover 5th place Atlantic team is critical for the Admirals if they want to avoid a date with Hershey in the first round of the playoffs. 5th in the Atlantic is now a 3-way logjam with Providence, Hartford, and Bridgeport all at 57 points. Providence knocked off Springfield 3-1 tonight and Bridgeport beat Hartford 6-4 to create the three team pile-up. Both Providence and Hartford have 1 game in hand on Norfolk.
Norfolk's next game is on Monday, which will be an epic clash in Albany against the River Rats. An Admirals win could pull the team to within 2 points of 2nd place in the East Division.
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Paul Newman thought it should be eaten with a spoon. Baltimore restaurant owner Sascha Wolhandler calls it "a fabulous amalgam of flavor in every bite."
It's the chopped salad, and it's having a field day in Baltimore. A chopped salad featured on the summer restaurant week menu at Heavy Seas Alehouse proved so popular that it's been put on the permanent dinner menu.
Sergio Vitale, co-owner of Chazz: A Bronx Original, is considering making the lunch menu's steakhouse salad a dinner item, too. "It's definitely the No. 1 most popular lunch item and people ask for at dinner, too," Vitale said about the salad, which he says is an homage to a version served at Ruth's Chris Steak House.
Wolhandler, who serves customer-created chopped salads at her Mount Vernon restaurant, explained the appeal. "You've got your curried chicken salad, you've got your asparagus. You still want a little bit of the black bean and corn salad. You want to taste blue cheese," she said. "And you want all those tastes together."
The chopped salad has always had its fans. Newman's one request for the menu of Dressing Room, the Westport, Conn. restaurant he opened in 2006 with the chef Michael Nischan, was that it include a chopped salad. The "Use a Spoon" Chopped Salad, named by Newman himself, remains a favorite at the restaurant, where it's created out of seasonal ingredients — in late summer, it's plums, baby carrots, yellow wax beans, Beltane goat cheese and toasted almonds.
Baltimore is one of the few cities where the chopped salad inspires memories of fine dining. For decades, a salad of iceberg lettuce, egg, tomato and anchovy, chopped tableside by a stiff-backed waiter, was one of the signature items at the old Maison Marconi on Saratoga Street.
But the chopped salad has seldom been a chef's calling card. Its culinary pedigree is spotty, related on one side to idle society luncheons and on the other to the so-called garbage salad, a pile of iceberg lettuce, salami, shrimp and mozzarella — food writer Alex Witchel once called it "a cocktail party in a bowl."
The chopped salad is not something a chef would stake his culinary reputation on.
"I have not been a longtime fan," said Matt Seeber, executive chef at Heavy Seas Alehouse. "In the past, it's something I looked down on. I've always seen it as a salad with a bunch of stuff."
But Seeber saw the light when he was consulting for a restaurant in New York City. "I was asked to come up with a 'go-to salad for lunching ladies.' " Seeber was reluctant, but he ended up loving the salad he created — and how well it sold.
Made with feta cheese, piquillo pepper, red onion, black olive and cucumber, the chopped salad was so popular that Seeber put his Upper West Side salad on the menu at Heavy Seas Alehouse — the lunch menu. That's where Seeber thought it belonged. "It's really a lunch item," Seeber said. "It's something you can get to the table quick."
But if the chopped salad makes a smash on the dinner menu, that's something Seeber said he can live with. "I'm in the business of staying in business," Seeber said.
The chopped salad is a signature item at chains like California Pizza Kitchen, which uses salami, turkey breast and mozzarella, and at casual joints like Bagby Pizza, which makes a meat-free version with asparagus, squash, carrots and tomato.
Ruth's Chris version, the Ruth's Jumbo Chop Salad — a shimmering cylinder of iceberg lettuce, green olives, bacon, eggs, blue cheese and hearts of palm, topped with crispy fried onions — has been on the restaurant's menu for more than 20 years, according to Heather Renz, a representative for the restaurant. "It's one of highest-selling and most favorite items."
It's at Wolhandler's restaurant, Sascha's 527 in Mount Vernon. Although Wolhandler said she had heard about the famous Marconi's salad, she never knew it personally.
Wolhandler's chopped-salad epiphany came on a trip to New York City, where she rediscovered them at a Union Square restaurant. "I left just insane to bring it back to Baltimore," said Wolhandler, who said the lineup of available ingredients customers choose from took her back to her days at the creperie she operated in the Park Plaza building.
She introduced chopped salads to Sascha's lunch operation not long after that visit. At Sascha's lunch counter, one customer might art-direct a salad with curried chicken salad, bacon, egg and blue cheese. The next person might go light with grilled chicken, mushrooms, cucumbers and sun-dried tomatoes. "It's a very democratic process," Wolhandler said.
A trained professional takes the ingredients and works them over with a mezzaluna, a two-handled knife that gets rocked back and forth over the ingredients. The result is a finely chopped, but not minced, salad.
Although working with a mezzaluna takes some practice, it's worth the trouble. "The technique delivers a better final product than a salad that is not chopped," said Tony Shure, the co-founder of Chop't Creative Salad Co., the Union Square restaurant where Wolhandler had her come-to-chopped-salads moment. "All the favors of the different vegetables, ingredients and dressing really get intermingled."
The brainchild of Shure and Colin McCabe, Chop't introduced the concept of individually created chopped salads to the fast-casual market; there are 17 shops now in the New York City and Washington areas. There's flavor, Shure said, and there's another reason why the chopped concept caught on.
"A chopped salad is easier to eat," Shure said.
"The reason I love them is I'm sort of ferocious about my taste buds," said Woldhandler. "I want everything in that one bite. And it is just such a delicious explosion of flavors. That's why I think once you taste a chopped salad you will never go back to eating a composed salad."
Make your own
Find a recipe for the Gorelick family's favorite chopped salad at baltimoresun.com/baltimorediner
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On the last weekend of 2012, audiences crowded in to theaters to see three very different movies: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey managed to take the top spot for the third weekend in a row, though Django Unchained and Les Miserables also tallied impressive numbers. The Top 12 wound up earning an estimated $164.5 million, which helped push overall 2012 domestic box office to just under $10.8 billion (a new record). The Hobbit dipped 14 percent to $31.93 million. The movie has been holding well over the past week (noticeably better than I Am Legend over the same period in 2007), and $300 million seems like it could be in play again. Through 17 days, the first of three Lord of the Rings prequels has grossed $221.6 million, which is in between Fellowship of the Ring ($189.3 million) and The Two Towers ($243.6 million). In second place, Django Unchained earned $30.1 million from 3,010 locations in its first weekend. Including its Tuesday-to-Thursday revenues, Django has already grossed $63.4 million; in comparison, Inglourious Basterds was at $50.6 million at the same point. Assuming it doesn't completely crash in the next few weeks (and with an "A-" CinemaScore, there's no reason to expect it to), Django will pass Basterds ($120.5 million) to become writer-director Quentin Tarantino's highest-grossing movie ever. After starting stronger than Django on Christmas, Les Miserables has trailed off slightly over the last few days. Still, the musical did great business this weekend with $27.3 million from 2,808 theaters. Through six days its earned $66.7 million, and with a handful of Academy Award nominations on the way it should at least double that amount by the end of its run. Les Miserables's female audience (67 percent) awarded it a rare "A+" CinemaScore, and overall audiences gave it an "A". In fourth place, family comedy Parental Guidance earned $14.55 million from 3,367 locations. With $29.3 million since Christmas Day, the Billy Crystal-Bette Midler comedy is clearly the top choice for families with younger children this season ahead of Monsters, Inc.'s 3D re-release ($18.5 million with six more days under its belt). Parental Guidance's audience was 52 percent female and 55 percent under the age of 25, and they gave it a solid "A-" CinemaScore. Tom Cruise thriller Jack Reacher dipped 11 percent to $13.6 million, which was good for fifth place this weekend. Through 10 days, the Christopher McQuarrie adaptation has grossed $44.2 million, which is off from Valkyrie's $57.6 million total at the same point. This Is 40 improved eight percent to $12.5 million, bringing its 10-day total to $36.4 million. Judd Apatow's latest is going to have no problem out-grossing Funny People ($51.9 million), and should even get to Forgetting Sarah Marshall's level ($63.2 million). Lincoln continued to impress in its seventh weekend in nationwide release: Steven Spielberg's biopic of the 16th president was up 33 percent to $7.3 million for a new total of $131.9 million. With awards attention likely to buoy the movie through at least the month of January, Lincoln still has a lot more box office left to rack up.Thanks to The Avengers, Brave, Wreck-It Ralph and now Lincoln, 2012 is officially Disney's highest-grossing year ever with over $1.53 billion. Silver Linings Playbook grossed $4.1 million in its first weekend in nationwide release. It's still only in 745 theaters, though, and The Weinstein Company will likely expand it much further following Academy Award nominations on January 10. To date, the David O. Russell comedy has earned $27.3 million. Zero Dark Thirty remained in the same five theaters in New York and Los Angeles this weekend, and as a result it dipped 24 percent to an estimated $316,415. Through 12 days, the controversial CIA thriller has grossed $1.37 million, and will expand to more theaters this weekend ahead of its Jan. 11 nationwide expansion. Gus Van Sant's Promised Land, which stars Matt Damon and John Krasinski, debuted at 25 locations and earned a very weak $173,915. The movie will expand to around 1,500 screens on Friday, though it's unlikely that it will be able to pull many people away from the various other appealing options in theaters right now. Discuss this story with fellow Box Office Mojo fans on Facebook. On Twitter, follow us at @boxofficemojo, and follow author Ray Subers at @raysubers. This Weekend in Past Years:� 2011 - No Stopping 'M:I-4' Over New Year's� 2010 - 'Fockers' Frowned Upon, 'Grit' Glowers Over New Year's� 2009 - Christmas Booms with 'Avatar,' 'Sherlock,' 'Alvin'� 2008 - 'Marley' Retrieves Box Office Luster Over Christmas� 2007 - 'Museum' Exhibits Holiday Clout� 2005 - 'Chronicles' Conk Out 'King' on New Year's WeekendRelated Charts� Weekend Box Office Results� All-Time Domestic
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Big Sean finds spotlight by staying out of it
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Big Sean has discovered that in order to find the spotlight, sometimes you have to stay out of it.
The rapper put Miley Cyrus front-and-center in his recent "Fire" music video, with his face seen just briefly in the background. Then he released "Control," featuring an explosively competitive verse from Kendrick Lamar that overshadowed his own and has become the talk of hip-hop. Both are leading up to his second album for Kanye West's GOOD Music imprint, which blends Sean's signature wordplay with some unexpectedly serious introspection.
Sean says licensing issues prevented him from including "Control" on "Hall of Fame," out Aug. 27, but he wanted the song out "for the betterment of the culture." On the track Compton-bred Lamar, one of the year's breakout musicians, declares himself both "king of New York" and the West Coast, rapping that he wants to steal fans away from fellow rappers — including Sean. Sean said he deliberately didn't rewrite his own lyrics after hearing Lamar's verse: "I'm from somewhere where you live by honor. I'm not going to be cheating, man."
"Kendrick, when he dropped the names, it was such a dramatic thing. I love it. ... I haven't seen a song this exciting in rap music in years, and that's what it's all about," the 25-year-old said in an interview. "I already knew that people was going to be like, 'Kendrick's verse is the best!' ...I'm happy I could provide that moment."
The choice to highlight Cyrus in his video came from directors at DONDA, the company that West launched last year and has thus far focused on performance staging, album art and music videos.
"I wanted her to be a metaphor for ... people in general that made it through their own fire and came out strong, and as beautiful as a rose," Sean said.
Sean's "Hall of Fame" features collaborations with Lil Wayne, Nas, Nicki Minaj and Miguel. It's the follow-up to his 2011 debut, "Already Famous," which featured the hits "Dance," ″My Last" and "Marvin & Chardonnay."
Born in California and raised in Detroit, Sean Anderson launched his career by impressing West with a freestyle rap in a parking lot outside a Detroit radio station. Now like West and Kim Kardashian, Sean is enduring scrutiny of a very public relationship, with "Glee" star Naya Rivera.
"It's definitely something new for me and her," Sean said. "I don't look at her as my famous girlfriend, I look at her as my girlfriend ... it's just our jobs. It's my job to rap and it's her job to sing and act and stuff."
He's already collaborated with Rivera musically, on her song "Sorry." But his new album also includes the apologetic and heartfelt "Ashley" addressing his ex, longtime love Ashley Marie, written when the two were still dating.
"I played it for Naya and she loved it, so I had nothing to worry about on that end. It's a true song," Sean said. "I'm not going to just change that because of what's going on. It's a good song."
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With police ordering residents to stay in their homes, Boston is a ghost town right now.
That is a story in itself.
Many folks in the city seem to realize this.
They're Tweeting out striking photos showing what a major American city under what some are calling a version of martial law.
Here is a sampling:
Harvard Square, empty [via @thecrimson @pourmecoffee]. twitpic.com/ckg83s— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) April 19, 2013
The city is almost deserted... #Boston#lockdown#manhunt#ATVNyourview twitter.com/zachherbert/st…— Zach Herbert (@zachherbert) April 19, 2013
View from my daughter's dorm window of the Boston Common. "Empty. Like a ghost town," she says. twitter.com/cloepoisson/st…— Cloe Poisson (@cloepoisson) April 19, 2013
#Boston empty. mass ave bridge. twitter.com/cr3dit/status/…— no bid. (@cr3dit) April 19, 2013
#Boston empty. back bay. twitter.com/cr3dit/status/…— no bid. (@cr3dit) April 19, 2013
#Boston empty. kenmore-ish. twitter.com/cr3dit/status/…— no bid. (@cr3dit) April 19, 2013
Downtown Crossing 10:30 am twitter.com/WBURSteve/stat…— Steve Brown (@WBURSteve) April 19, 2013
Streets in Cambridge and Somerville eerily empty. twitter.com/davabel/status…— David Abel (@davabel) April 19, 2013
Boston a ghost town. RT @nbcnews: Photo: City on lockdown; an empty Kenmore Square in Boston. (via Andrew Golden) twitter.com/NBCNews/status…— Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) April 19, 2013
Inman Square, normally one of the busiest intersections in Boston area, basically a ghost town twitter.com/Dan_Rowinski/s…— Dan_Rowinski (@Dan_Rowinski) April 19, 2013
PIC from Boston from cnn colleague RT @adamatcnn: Ghost town twitter.com/AdamATCNN/stat…
— Antonio Regalado (@antonioregalado) April 19, 2013
This is what rush hour looks like in #Boston. Empty-so eerie and quiet. #fox6wbrctwitpic.com/ckfh7r— Beth Shelburne (@bshelburne) April 19, 2013
Streets are nearly empty in #downtown#Boston. twitter.com/mollyoehmichen…— Molly Oehmichen (@mollyoehmichen) April 19, 2013
Boston Common, totally deserted — via @cj_stevenson twitter.com/CJ_Stevenson/s…— Kim Bhasin (@KimBhasin) April 19, 2013
RT @stevenerlangerDowntown Boston Friday at 9 am. Virtually deserted twitpic.com/ckf4i6Retweeted by Julia La Roche — Chris Adams (@chrisadamsmkts) April 19, 2013
The Boston Univ. campus is deserted as everyone is urged to stay indoors and city is shutdown. twitpic.com/ckfmvh— Justin Abraham (@JustinABC17) April 19, 2013


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BELMONT � Injuries have frequently robbed Belmont Abbey College women�s basketball coach Susan Yow�s teams of valuable practice times in her six years as head coach.
And while there have been some injuries this season, Yow has been happy to have full five-on-five scrimmages in the preseason for the first time in years as she prepares for Saturday�s 5:30 p.m. season-, Conference Carolinas- and home-opener against Erskine.
�We�re ready for the challenge,� Yow said. �I think the exhibition with Elon was good for us (an 83-42 loss). It�s made us work harder and have more intensity since then.�
The biggest downside for the Abbey is that Erskine will be playing its fourth game while the Lady Crusaders will be playing their first.
�That�s tough, but that�s what the schedule is,� Yow said.
Picked to finish eighth in the coaches� preseason poll in the 12-team league, the Abbey will count on a veteran junior class of guards Candace Fox and Kelsey Long and forward Melisa Foures.
Fox has started 51 career games and led the Lady Crusaders� in assists the last two seasons. Long has 53 starts and is the leading returning scorer (12.3 average). And Foures has 47 career starts and is the leading returning rebounder (6.9 average).
�Those three are kind of our foundation right now,� Yow said.
Seniors Noel Bullock and Alyx Ingram will fill the other starting spots in the starting lineup and both return after getting starting experience a year ago.
Other returning players are seniors Jenika Sanchez and Kiki Allen, junior Jaterra Hurst and sophomores Caitlyn Ranson and McKenzie Owen.
Freshman forward Adrienne Simmons has been slowed in the preseason by mononucleosis but returned to the practice court on Monday.
�I hate to put too much emphasis on one game,� Yow said of Saturday�s season-opener. �But I think this game will tell us a lot about ourselves.�
Richard Walker: 704-869-1841; twitter.com/JRWalk22
2012-13 women�s basketball roster
No. Name Pos. Ht. Yr. Hometown
3 Jenika Sanchez G 5-5 Sr. Celina, Tex.
10 Candace Fox G 5-8 Jr. Thomasville, N.C.
12 Noel Bullock G 5-6 Sr. Greenbelt, Md.
13 Brianna Johnson G 5-8 Fr. Statesville, N.C.
14 Morgan Midkiff G 5-5 Fr. Mount Airy, N.C.
15 Kelsey Long F 5-7 Jr. Pilot Mountain, N.C.
21 Caitlyn Ranson G-F 5-10 So. Cary, N.C.
22 Melisa Foures F 6-0 Jr. Kernersville, N.C.
23 McKenzie Owen F 6-0 So. Burlington, N.C.
24 Alyx Ingram F 5-10 Sr. Cary, N.C.
30 Adrienne Simmons F 5-10 Fr. Raleigh, N.C.
32 Kiki Allen G 5-8 Sr. Graham, N.C.
44 Jaterra Hurst F 5-11 Jr. Lithia Springs, Ga.
Head coach: Susan Yow
Assistant coach: Britany Spivey
Belmont Abbey 2012-13 women�s basketball schedule
Nov. 17, Erskine, 5:30 p.m.
Nov. 24, Wingate, 2 p.m.
Nov. 27, at North Greenville, 5:30 p.m.
Dec. 1, at Limestone, 5:30 p.m.
Dec. 15, Johnson C. Smith, 2 p.m.
Dec. 18, at Mars Hill, 2 p.m.
Dec. 31, at Lenoir-Rhyne, 2 p.m.
Jan. 3, Converse, 7 p.m.
Jan. 5, at King, 5:30 p.m.
Jan. 8, Pfeiffer, 5:30 p.m.
Jan. 12, at Erskine, 5:30 p.m.
Jan. 16, Barton, 5:30 p.m.
Jan. 19, Limestone, 5:30 p.m.
Jan. 21, Queens, 5:30 p.m.
Jan. 24, at Mount Olive, 5:30 p.m.
Jan. 26, Lees-McRae, 5:30 p.m.
Jan. 31, Coker, 5:30 p.m.
Feb. 2, at Converse, 5:30 p.m.
Feb. 4, at Pfeiffer, 5:30 p.m.
Feb. 9, King, 5:30 p.m.
Feb. 12, at Queens, 5:30 p.m.
Feb. 16, North Greenville, 5:30 p.m.
Feb. 20, Mount Olive, 5:30 p.m.
Feb. 23, at Lees-McRae, 5:30 p.m.
Feb. 26, at Barton, 5:30 p.m.
March 1, at Coker, 5:30 p.m.
March 5-10, Conference Carolinas tournament


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New York - 2013
by Marty Brown '06
October 9, 2013
A small, yet mighty, contingent of Wallies spent the morning volunteering at the Ronald McDonald House in Manhattan. During the tour of the impressive facility, we learned about the mission of the Ronald McDonald House and the families the organization serves. In New York, the RMH is located nearby Memorial Sloan-Kettering, where many of the RMH guests receive medical care.
After the tour, we dug in to help with cleaning and organizing the main conference room and four of the kitchen facilities. The wide variety of cabinet sizes in the kitchen, we learned, create a set of popular hiding places for the children during games of hide-and-seek. Our tasks were simple-- get the conference room organized for a board meeting, and make sure the kitchen cabinets were cleaned and disinfected for the kids. After lots of hauling and scrubbing, we had things looking spic-and-span. We were grateful to have met several of the children living at the RMH during our project, and happy to have done our small part to help this wonderful organization.
Our roster included:
Marty Brown 2006
Kyle Coffey 2006
Nick Su 2012
Jessie Chen 2013
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Drought session Tuesday in Minden
Well-below average snow pack means limited irrigation water for agriculture operations in Carson Valley will be the topic of an Agriculture Innovation Forum, 6 p.m. Tuesday at the CVIC Hall in Minden, Forage and Alternative Crops Specialist Jay Davison, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, will discuss recommended irrigation practices for alfalfa-grass hays under conditions of limited water.
Douglas County Weed Control Coordinator Jeff Begovich will talk about how weed problems this spring compares to more normal moisture years and how weeds can be best managed. Begovich will also review the many services the weed department offers and how to get the most from these services.
The series is held at the CVIC Hall, 1604 Esmeralda Ave., Minden, 6-8 p.m. For more information on the April 29 forum on drought considerations for alfalfa-grass hays and weed control, contact Extension Educator Steve Lewis with the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension at 782-9960.
A couple of spring storms bought the Carson River Basin an extra week of water after more than a foot of snow fell at Ebbetts Pass.
According to Natural Resources Conservation Service snow telemetry, the amount of water contained in snow at the top of the East Fork of the Carson River is 10.3 inches as of midnight Sunday, slightly more than was there on April 20.
Sensors recorded 13 inches of snow during a 24-hour period between Friday and Saturday. The amount of water in the snow at Ebbetts Pass peaked at 17.7 inches on April 6 before starting to melt off.
Blue Lakes, at the top of the West Fork, received 8 inches of snow over the weekend bringing its snow water equivalent up to 12. 9 inches, higher than it was on April 19. It peaked at 17.7 inches on April 7. Blue Lakes should have been at twice that amount at the end of March. Ebbetts Pass should have exceeded that amount by more than twice.
Spring flows on the East Fork near Gardnerville were down to 77 percent of its average 707 cubic feet per second on April 22. Flows on the West Fork at Woodfords were down to 150 cfs, or 59 percent of average.
The April drought statement issued by the National Weather Service and the Conservation Service pointed out that Douglas County is included among the driest areas in the West, with extreme drought affecting portions of the county.
The Carson Water Subconservancy District reported many ranchers plan to pump more ground water this season, which may affect the ground water levels by the end of the irrigation season.
Drought conditions have prompted fish stocking in streams and lakes of Western Nevada earlier than has been done in the last 20 yers, according to the Nevada Department of Wildlife.
Fire danger through Western Nevada will remain average through May, with above average fire danger for June and July.


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Sydney Johnson, who coached Princeton to victory over Harvard in the game of the century, and then hung tight with Kentucky in the first round of March Madness, took the head coach job at Fairfield University today. You may see the irony there, since it's usually Princeton that poaches faculty at the height of their careers! Peter Singer, anyone?
But now anyone can apply to be the head coach at Princeton, our tipster Dirk notes. Right here.
Princeton University's Department of Athletics is conducting a national search for a full-time head coach of men's basketball. Responsibilities include all aspects of coaching, program planning, game management, team organization, recruiting, fundraising and alumni relations.
Essential Qualifications: The position requires a bachelor's or advanced degree and a successful background in coaching basketball, preferably with several years of playing experience at the collegiate and/or professional level. Demonstrated leadership and communication skills and the ability to manage team dynamics also are required. A demonstrated commitment to values-based coaching is necessary. The coach must be able to work and communicate with students, faculty, staff, administration, and alumni, as well as work within the framework of Princeton University, Ivy League and NCAA policies and procedures. CPR and first aid certifications are required subsequent to date of hire.
That's all quite reasonable, I suppose. According to the Princeton HR office, the minimum salary is $35,600. Prep those résumés and get your negotiating skills ready! Plus, since it's an Ivy League school, you're gonna wanna reference Jeremy Bentham and Michel Foucault as much as you can during the interview. Try to use the word "heteronormative," too. As John Thompson would.
Jobs at Princeton, Posting Details: Men's Basketball Head Coach [Princeton.edu]
Sydney Johnson leaves Princeton to become Fairfield head men's basketball coach [The Star-Ledger]


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Some people feel that variety is the spice of life. I'm on board with that concept, but I think we need to remember that spice is actually a bigger part of the spice of life. Bland doesn't work that well a lot of the time. Sure, it has its place. "Man, what a great funeral! And the food! Did you try the _____?"
Other than that, a bit more flavor is typically a good thing.
My folks, my sister, her daughter and I found ourselves on a trip to Alaska in an RV with plenty of time on our hands. Rather than just stopping at a grocery store and filling up with ham sandwiches and all the potato chips we could haul, we decided to hit a few spots for meals instead and leave the service to someone else. This was vacation. The whole point of it is to relax and see a few things you don't normally see in your daily life. In the case of my mother in particular, the whole point for us was to get someone else to do all the cooking and give her a break. After all, this year marks my parents' 60thanniversary. Mom has been in charge of cooking for a long time.
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Some of the meal choices were left to me. My decision was influenced by a couple of different things. The food was right close to the top, but access to it was a pretty close second. You don't just whip into any joint in the world with a 31' Winnebago as your mode of transport. Stopping somewhere to eat was usually a two-step process. I'd pull up to the front door and let my passengers out. Then I'd do my best to find a parking space somewhere within easy walking distance for me that would still allow me to get the moto-whale back out of that spot when we were done. On a couple of occasions, the foot miles I was wracking up didn't match up with the rest of my party. "Oh, the sign says RV parking is somewhere down the street, toward the bottom of the hill."
We got lucky on one of my choices. I tossed out Mexican food as an option and it was well-received. Not only that, but the Mexican place was right next to the highway with a huge parking lot that was almost empty. My crew was still on Central Time, so we were hungry in the middle of the afternoon when no one was around. We whipped in the parking lot (okay, as whipped as you can with a moto-whale) and got ourselves a table in short order. That's when I discovered a menu item I'd never had before – Halibut fish tacos. WOW! We need to figure out a way to get fresh halibut somewhere within an hours' drive of my house on a regular basis. The Mexican part of it only made things better.
Another part of the trip took us to Fairbanks.
We did some sightseeing and then we were ready to eat. Once again, the decision on where to eat was left to me. It was kind of raining, so this one didn't look like it would be a situation where I'd drop everyone else off and then park eight blocks away so I could walk through the rain to get there as their entrees made it to the table. I decided to enlist some technical help. My cell phone carrier did not have a data-sharing plan with anyone in Alaska, so we had no Internet and no GPS on my phone. What we did have was Gladys, the voice of my Garmin GPS. Perhaps you remember her by her other name from previous stories: Little Miss Can't Be Wrong.
We got Gladys cranked up and went to the menu for dining options. What with me being the decision-maker, I tossed out BBQ as our category of choice. There were no objections from the audience, so that was the plan. One of the options wasn't too far away. That made it a whole lot easier for me to decide it was our best choice.
Oddly enough, it sounded vaguely familiar, too, so I decided that was a good sign. The place was called Big Daddy's. There was a Big Daddy's in Des Moines at one time that had one of the hottest BBQ sauces around. If you finished your entire sandwich, your picture went on the wall. The heat from the sauce was powerful enough that you had to sign a waiver before you began eating. One of my other sister's coworkers managed to polish off his sandwich and get his photo on the wall. He was dripping wet with sweat when it was all done, so the photo wasn't exactly portfolio-quality. Oh, and he was a in a wheelchair, too, so the photo had more of a cause-and-effect look to it than just a plain portrait for the Sandwich Wall of Fame!
Lo and behold, this Big Daddy's had some parking right across the street where a guy could stow his moto-whale and not have to strap on the hiking boots and provisions for the epic journey to the front door. As soon as I walked in the door, I realized why the place was familiar. There on the wall, struck in a pose of his typical subtlety, was a photo of none other than Guy Fieri! This place had been on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives!
I always did like Gladys best.
The menu hadn't even arrived yet and I knew I wanted some Texas Toothpicks. They are breaded strips of jalapenos with plenty of flavor. Our mission was to see some different things on this trip, so I decided to order a few appetizers and get my folks to sample a bit of everything. Texas Toothpicks looked like a good way to start the list.
Our server showed up and took our drink order as we perused the menu. We'd always given my mom a hard time about her tendency to order soup or clam chowder on a lot of these visits. She knows what she likes and she's not afraid to order it if she can. This time, though, she went a different route. Her choice was Buffalo Wings. I was a bit skeptical, because the little flame insignias next to them on the menu indicated there was some major heat involved. Mom said it didn't bother her, because she liked some heat. Besides, she had gotten Buffalo Wings at Fareway, our local grocery store, and she liked them.
Well, this should be interesting. Growing up in a Norwegian Lutheran church environment most of my life, "adding some flavor" usually meant putting two drops of green food coloring in the Cool-Whip before you added it to the red Jell-O salad. Salsa was more or less the food equivalent of the Lambada – The Forbidden Condiment.
The lovely young server was more than surprised that Elsie was going with the Buffalo Wings. "Now, those are pretty hot. Are you sure that's what you want?" she asked in her best kindergarten teacher voice.
"Yes, I've had them before at Fareway. I like some heat," Elsie replied.
The Fareway reference was totally lost on our server. She looked at me to make sure this order was legit and she shouldn't try to talk Elsie out of them. I nodded my approval.
We got a few other appetizers, too. A guy can never eat too many Moose Nuggets, in my opinion. As any decent Animal Science major will tell you, they come from the most tender part of the moose.
The food showed up a short while later.
As soon as the Buffalo Wings were placed in front of Elsie, our server gave her another warning about the heat. She then glanced at Elsie's half-empty glass and promised to be right back with another Diet Coke for her. She returned in no time. You'd have thought she was getting the bucket brigade started for a house fire. In a way, she was. Everyone else's needs could wait, because she had food triage to do here and that meant keeping the beverage vessel topped off for our power-eater.
The only downside to the whole affair was that the whole menu had enough natural lubrication to it that my hands were always slippery. Only one or two photos turned out well enough to publish. The rest were kind of blurry as my sauce-and-grease-soaked fingers fumbled with my phone. If I've learned anything, it's that the best photos of my parents need to be snagged in as sneaky a fashion as possible. Taking the time to wet-nap and dry my hands meant they'd see what was going on and not play ball for a photo. I did manage to snag one shot right as the plate of wings was set in front of Elsie. From now on, I may ask for a rosin bag when we sit down.
All through the meal, our server kept stopping by to check on us. She always came to the end where Elsie was seated and looked in on her first. I think she was amazed that Mom had no problem with the wings. In fact, she was enjoying them immensely! The Diet Cokes kept making their way to that end of the table with surprising regularity. No puffs of steam or smoke were coming from Mom's ears, but you could tell she was starting to bead up as she worked her way through the pile of wings. If you break a sweat when you eat, that's always a good sign in my book.
When it was all said and done, our server got us a couple of boxes for some leftovers. The wings were gone. She put her arm around Elsie and congratulated her on her accomplishment. "We rarely get anyone who can eat that many before they give up because they're so hot."
Hey, listen, doggy bags are for wimps and to-go orders!
The rest of the group headed out the door for the RV while I paid the tab. I told the server that we were here on a trip for my folks' 60thanniversary. She was stunned, to put it mildly, so I tossed out Elsie's age.
"Seriously? Boy, I wasn't sure she'd be able to handle it. We almost never have anyone make it through those wings, but she was a trooper. If I'd have known it was their anniversary, I would have given them a cupcake or something to celebrate. She is somethin'!"
No argument here. My next goal is to introduce Elsie to Guy Fieri. Oh, and Joey Chestnut, too. We've got heat down. Now we need to work on volume and speed!
Jeff Ryan is Guy No. 2 in the operation of Two Guys Farming, Inc., near Cresco, IA.
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Ford Reaffirms Stance Against Diesel F-150
In light of its competitors building diesel variants of their full-size light-duty pickups, Ford is unwavering with a gas-only engine lineup.
Ford says it takes too long to amortize the extra cost of a diesel engine.
Chrysler's U.S. sales chief, Reid Bigland disagrees, saying, "We see it delivering a reasonable payback time, especially when you consider how long the average truck buyer keeps their vehicle. It won't hurt when it comes to meeting the mileage requirements of CAFE rules either."
Chrysler is also excited about their diesel Ram 1500 helping them stand out in the competitive segment.
Available late this year, the 2014 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel with its 3.0-liter V6 will generate 240 horsepower and 420 lb-ft of torque. The diesel option will lighten pockets by $2,800 when compared to the Ram with a Hemi.
A little further down the product pipeline, Nissan is working with Cummins in developing a 2.8-liter four-banger diesel for their next-generation Titan. They're expecting the 2.8 liter's output to be in the neighborhood of 210 horsepower and 385 lb-ft of torque.
How do you feel about the competition going diesel? Does the F-150 fan feel left out, or rebellious? Let us know.
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Thanks for all the feedback on how to get money in the early game everyone.
I have also tried corporate command with part I on 1.8 alpha 3, but I can't seem to recruit Jenna and Rama from doing the common wealth militia missions? I check at the bar at the fortress after each mission I complete, all the way up to max rank of Colonel?
In addition, more often than not, I would try to do a couple missions for the common wealth fortress before they run out of missions (I don't remember this being an issue for older versions for Commonwealth Fortresses until you actually do reach max rank in the militia?
If anyone else experienced something like this in alpha 1.8.3 on Part I, I would love to know how you dealt with it!
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Making Meaning in Literature:
A Video Library, Grades 6-8
Individual Clip Descriptions
1. Introducing the Envisionment-Building Classroom
2. Building a Literary Community
3. Asking Questions
4. Facilitating Discussion
5. Seminar Discussion
6. Dramatic Tableaux
7. Readers as Individuals
8. The Teachers Role in a Literary Community
9. Whole Group Discussions
Picacho Middle School
Location: Las Cruces, New Mexico
No. of Students in School: 907
Teacher: Flora Tyler
No. of Years Teaching: 21
Grade: 6th
Subject: Language Arts
No. of Students in the Classroom: 20
Middle School in Las Cruces, New Mexico is founded on the
principles of collaboration and interdisciplinary learning.
Students in grades six through eight work with cross-curricular,
thematic units that have bearing on children's daily lives
and decisions. The school hopes to help students learn to
make smart choices based on facts, not myths and misperceptions.
Classes are also designed to help students feel good about
themselves through a sixth-grade team emphasis on multiple
intelligences. As proof that this philosophy works, the school
touts its high daily attendance and active programs in music,
art, athletics, and community service.
student body is predominantly Hispanic, with smaller populations
of Anglo, African American, Native American, and Asian students.
While some children come from affluent households, many are
from migrant families or live in shelters and other temporary
housing. Language barriers and a lack of staff to conduct
home visits complicate the process of contacting parents.
Although a few schools in the area have begun dual prep programs
where all students are taught in two languages, Picacho continues
to use an ESL approach in which students are mainstreamed
with help. As required by the state, all sixth-graders take
the New Mexico Writing Assessment, in which students have
three hours to respond to a writing prompt. The state also
mandates that students in grades six through eight take the
TerraNova, which helps determine what rating a school receives.
size at Picacho ranges from 23 to 25 in 85-minute blocks.
Teachers at each grade level are divided into two teams, each
responsible for 120 to 150 children. They have one 45-minute
common planning period. In Flora Tyler's sixth-grade team,
teachers collaborate to sketch out the highlights and themes
for the year's curriculum, including at least two weeklong
interdisciplinary units per semester. The team's emphasis
is on challenging all students through individualized expectations
and support. Ms. Tyler also works with the second language
arts teacher to plan common objectives for each quarter, although
their classes usually take different routes to arrive at these
goals. Ms. Tyler's classroom is a celebration of different
learning styles. She frequently uses music, art, and imagery
to set a mood or make a point for instance, reinforcing
the meaning of punctuation by having students click, clap,
and snap the different rhythms each mark produces. Students
are required to incorporate multiple ways of knowing into
any presentation, and may ask their classmates for their help
and expertise in completing a project. Ms. Tyler's goal is
to instill a sense of self-worth in each of her students by
helping them to discover and develop their areas of strength.
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It has been a pretty exciting week. On Wednesday we rushed off to London to see our gorgeous new niece – Sophia – who was born at half past seven that morning! She is absolutely lovely, and we're very much looking forward to seeing her again at Christmas. I've also been having a lot of fun shopping for baby gifts. 😉
Today is of course, Bellariffic Friday, and I've got another Christmas card to share! Apart from a couple of special family cards I am now pretty much done! This is definitely a first. Normally I have four or five cards left to make on 23rd December and end up burning the midnight oil. Most of the Christmas gifts have also been ordered now, so fingers crossed I could potentially be all done with card making and gift wrapping by the end of next week. That would be a novelty.
So, here is my card for today, following the sketch we were given last week. I used the adorable Mister Penguin Helps Ramona, is he not the cutest? (stamp is available in the UK from Quixotic Paperie)
I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Make it Colour Blending Card and coloured with ShinHan Touch Twin Markers.
Papers are from an older Echo Park kit. Stickers are Tim Holtz Chit Chat. The snowflakes are from a Make it Crafty Lasercut Chipboard pack.
NEXT WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Simply – create a tag! You could create a tag on its own, or create a tag and add it to a card! Email your entries to Emily at Stamping Bella by the end of Thursday 6th December to be in with a chance of winning some Bella Bucks.
PLUS there's another chance to win $25 Stamping Bella gift vouchers with our Anything Goes challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers – check out the info here! Use keyword BELLANOV2012 when uploading to the SCS gallery and get your pics uploaded by midnight EST on 10th December.


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By Luke Edwards | Pocket-lint –
Nothing is ever free, not really. And this is no exception – but it's still impressive. Tesco is offering a year's free broadband, with no limits on data, if you sign-up for a Tesco Home phone line for £14.90 a month.
This 14Mb line will be available in only limited numbers – it's described as a "get it before it's gone" offer. It's actually scheduled to run until 1 December but might prove too popular to last that long.
READ: Tesco offers unlimited broadband for just £2 a month
Splashing out on a phone line might seem a bit of a waste these days, but Tesco is offering free evening and weekend calls as well as free calls to other Tesco Home phone customers to sweeten the deal.
As if all that were not enough, you also get points for your Tesco Clubcard with every phone bill. There's a UK-based call centre if you have any issues, you get a free router thrown in, and you can choose either a 12-month contract or a rolling 30-day deal.
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A three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) is helping Hope College physicist Dr. Stephen Remillard (pictured) and his student research team explore how superconductors used in electronics might be made even better.
Remillard explained that high-temperature superconductors, discovered in the 1980s, are used in a variety of commercial applications because they are highly efficient in transmitting signals without resistance. As good as that is, however, he noted that the devices aren't perfect.
"A limit to high-frequency device applications of superconductors results from the tendency of superconductors to distort the electronic signals," said Remillard, who is an associate professor of physics. "This project is seeking an understanding of why superconductors distort signals and to provide insight into how the distortion could be mitigated."
The $165,000 grant from the NSF will provide support through the summer of 2015. By the end of the study, Remillard is hoping to have developed a working model for the distortion that can be used as a tool in correcting the problem. Although the model will be focused on electronics, he's hoping that it will also be useful in other applications involving superconductors.
Remillard has been conducting research on superconductors for more than 20 years. He completed his doctorate in experimental solid state physics at the College of William and Mary in 1993, with his thesis on "The Effects of Granularity on the Microwave Surface Impedance of High k Superconductors."
Through the years he has received a variety of grants in support of his research, including most recently a two-year grant from Research Corporation for an earlier phase of the distortion project. His work has resulted in a variety of articles published in refereed scientific journals, many co-authored with Hope students who have conducted the research with him.
Remillard has been a member of the Hope faculty since 2007. He had previously held visiting appointments in physics at Grand Valley State University from 2005 to 2007 and Calvin College during the 2004-05 school year. Prior to that he had worked as an industrial physicist, including for nine years at a company specialized in superconducting technology. Since 2002 he has also served as president of Agile Devices Inc., which he founded and is focused on microwave technology.
Remillard graduated from Calvin College in 1988 with a major in physics. In addition to his doctorate, he also holds a master's degree in physics from the College of William and Mary.


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WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Advances in longer-lasting lithium-ion batteries will make electric cars more affordable and easier to introduce on a large scale, a new study said.
Envia Systems, which says it achieved world record energy density for lithium-ion batteries at half the price, outlined reasons that make affordable mass-market electric vehicles "dramatically closer to commercialization."
The company says development of its proprietary lithium-ion batteries will slash the prices of 300-mile electric cars.
"Envia has achieved world record energy density for lithium-ion batteries," the company said. The "unprecedented energy density, combined with the use of low-cost materials and manufacturing processes," cuts the cost of a vehicle's battery pack by more than 50 percent.
The battery's performance was verified by the electrochemical power systems department at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Envia said.
The tests indicated the highest recorded energy density of 400 watt-hours per kilogram for a lithium-ion cell.
Historically, lithium-ion battery energy densities have increased by about 5 percent per year, while Envia says that in the last two years it has nearly tripled the energy density of their battery cell to achieve the record.
Envia received grants from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy and the California Energy Commission in 2010 to develop high energy density batteries for electric vehicles.
General Motors Ventures LLC participated in an equity investment round of $17 million in 2011 and secured the rights to Envia's patented advanced cathode material for future electrically powered vehicles manufactured by GM.
The cathode uses abundant low cost materials such as manganese which lower the overall battery cost while maintaining stability and long life cycles, Envia said.
The company is developing high-performance silicon-carbon composite anode and high-voltage electrolytes with the aim of further optimizing the battery's performance.
The development also the number of cells needed for an electric vehicle may be reduced by about half.
Battery life is one of the key concerns often expressed in the ongoing debate over electric cars. Consumers choosing to switch to electric cars don't want "range anxiety" -- worry over when the battery may run out.
"Envia's achievement addresses both issues head-on," the company said. The technical breakthrough will go some way toward mainstream manufacturing of electric vehicles.
However, consumers will still be looking toward removal of concerns over cost, an increase in the range between battery charges and greater safety on the road before making a large-scale switch from gasoline-powered vehicles to electric cars.
Major automakers, including Ford, General Motors, Honda, Mitsubishi, Nissan and others, are producing all-electric cars. BMW has announced plans for a new all-electric model in 2013 and China's BYD and South Korea's Hyundai have advanced plans to produce more battery-efficient all-electric cars.
Analysts said a major hurdle in a large region, including the Canadian and U.S. auto markets, would remain the lack of a battery charging infrastructure over huge distances.


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Thank you 2011
The year started and is ending in a similar note. At the beginning of this year I was taking care of a friend's Chinese Water Dragon and as this year comes to a close I am taking care of friend's cat. I grew up with dogs and birds all my life so taking care of … Continue reading


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Buying a home is one of the most significant financial decisions you will make in your lifetime. For many Americans, saving for a purchase of that magnitude can feel impossible. The good news is there is no shortage of strategies you can choose from. The number one factor to consider (apart from your income) is how much time you have to save. Depending on when you plan on buying, some options may be better than others.
Here's a guide to saving for a new home with various timelines in mind.
If you want to buy a home in the next 3 years…
Every investment option comes with a degree of risk, and with only a few short years to save, it's likely not a wise idea to take big risks with your savings. The last thing you want is for the money to lose value without enough time to recover.
In this case, you should be looking for savings options that offer safety rather than growth, like a high-yield savings account and certificates of deposit (CDs). These are very low risk and, best of all, come with guaranteed returns on investment. If you're looking for the highest paying savings accounts in your area, you can use our free comparison tool. We also have a list of the best CDs for the month.
If you want to buy a new home in 4 to 7 years…
The longer you have to save for a home, the more creative you can be with your investing strategy. The key is to strike the right mix between safety and growth. You want your money to grow at a comfortable enough pace to beat inflation but maintain enough conservative investments to offset any potential losses you might experience in the market.
You may be able to achieve this with a 25/75 portfolio.
The 25/75 portfolio strategy is pretty simple — no more than 25% of your money is invested in stocks, and the remaining 75% are in bonds. This blend of stocks and bonds should allow your money to grow modestly while keeping safety top of mind. You can start this process by opening a brokerage account and choosing your own mutual funds to reach the right mix. But do your research first. For example, U.S. News & World Report maintains a list of funds that are ranked for their allocation, fees, and performance.
If you want to buy a home in 8 to 10 years…
Time is certainly on your side if you've got nearly a decade to save for your dream home. The key is taking on the right amount of risk. Because you have so much time to save, you can afford to take riskier investment bets, which can potentially reap much higher rewards in the long run.
Consider a 50/50 investment strategy: You'll invest 50% of your savings in stocks and 50% in bonds. You should have just enough risk to ensure you'll beat inflation and then some, but still be conservative enough to be able to weather any downturns in the market. To achieve the perfect 50/50 mix, you could split your money evenly between your own selection of stocks and bonds. For those who like a more hands-off approach, U.S. News & World Report has a ranking of mutual funds that are preset to give you the 50/50 allocation. There you can select the fund you feel suits you best.
Deciding where to invest
Where you invest your money matters. Save your money in the wrong place and taxes could eat up a portion of your gains each year. You could also be in a situation where taking the money out to buy a home could cause a penalty as well.
If you plan on buying a home in five years or more, strategically using a Roth IRA could be your best option. With a Roth IRA you can withdraw all of your contributions without penalty; additionally, you can withdraw $10,000 of the earnings without tax or penalty for a first-time home purchase.
Lastly, a plain brokerage account may suit you. There are no tax advantages to investing here, but if you're using the account to buy a home in the future, there may be more benefits in other areas. You can only contribute $5,500 ($6,500 after age 50) in a Traditional IRA or Roth IRA, and withdrawals are subject to strict rules. A regular brokerage account, on the other hand, has no limits to what you can put in or take out for home purchases or any other purchases. Take a look at your situation and see which options fit you best.
What about my 401(k)?
A common question most people ask is whether they should use their 401(k) to grow the money and then use it to buy a home. This is usually a bad idea. If you withdraw the money before age 59½, you would be subject to a 10% penalty, plus income taxes on top of that amount. In addition, the amount that you withdraw could severely alter your retirement goals. This is called an opportunity cost.
A better idea, though still not one we recommend, is taking a loan from your 401(k). You are allowed to take a loan of up to $50,000 or half the value of the account balance, whichever amount is less. This is still a loan, however, meaning it could affect your ability to qualify for a mortgage. You also have to pay this loan back. Depending on your company's 401(k) rules, if you leave the company, the entire balance of the loan might come due within 60 to 90 days after you leave. If you stay with the company, you could be required to pay the loan back within five years.
Thankfully, your 401(k) isn't your only option. Taking money from a Traditional IRA is a bit better. You are allowed to withdraw $10,000 without penalty for a first-time home purchase. This may change your tax situation as any withdrawal would have to be counted as part of your regular income. For most people this still isn't the best option but certainly better than dipping into your 401(k).
Making a clear goal
Do some research to see what home prices are like in your desired area. Then make a clear savings goal. An easy way to do this is to take 10 to 20% of the average home value in your area to estimate your downpayment. Use this calculator to see how long it will take you to reach your goal.
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The name Scott L. Schwartz may not jump off the page for you. His most popular in-ring persona of Joshua Ben-Gurion may not bring anything to mind, either. Chances are Schwartz would be okay with that. Once you scan down a list of his acing credits though, from Fun with Dick & Jane
to Ocean's Eleven, and once you see that unmistakably mean-looking face of his, you might say to yourself "Oh yeah, it's
Recently, Schwartz took SLAM! Wrestling on a trip through his past, present and future accomplishments, and it was on the topic of respect and history that he began.
"It was a different game and different sport," Schwartz laments when asked of his opinion on the current state of pro wrestling, "Not taking anything away from the athletes themselves, but what it's become from a promoter's standpoint is crap." Schwartz's less than flattering take is centered on the storytelling of wrestling. He, like many others, is discouraged by the failing frequency with which matches themselves are used to propel feuds and build the ultimate goal of dramatic tension. When vignettes and interviews become the main source of storytelling, instead of in-ring action, Schwartz warns that what you're left with are "stupid storylines of big-breasted women hanging over somebody dead in a casket." Perhaps not surprisingly, he worries about the impact that has on a traditional demographic for wrestling: "The message you're sending to kids today, I think it sucks."
Schwartz sounds a little old-school, doesn't he? Deservedly so. A native of Philadelphia, he cut his teeth at Killer Kowalski's wrestling school in the late 1970s before establishing his character of Joshua Ben-Gurion, "The Israeli Commando", a decade later.
"Every time I talk to Kowalski, not a conversation goes by where I don't thank him," he says emphatically. Schwartz's memories of life on the road share the similar depiction of a grueling life to those of many fellow wrestlers. "You travel 500 to a 1,000 miles, you might get a $50 pay-off," he remembers. The obvious question, of course, is why does anyone commit to that kind of hardship? "The best way to describe it is something John Tolos
said: if he won a millions dollars, what would he do with it? Keep wrestling until he didn't have it anymore," Schwartz explains, "You really do it for the love of the sport. The money really was a secondary thing. It was the act of getting out there and performing in front of people, being hated or being loved, and just the thrill of doing it."
It was while paying his dues on the road that Schwartz was presented with an opportunity out of the blue: an offer to try his hand at a different kind of acting. A Hollywood agent caught a glimpse of Schwartz wrestling on TV while in Bakersfield, California, and traveled to meet the wrestler and extend an invitation to Tinseltown. Some might think it the most obvious thing imaginable to jump at the chance and go for the brass ring in Hollywood, but Schwartz surprised the agent with his nonplus response. "I told him I didn't want to be an actor; I want to be a wrestler," Schwartz recalls, "He asked me 'Don't you have any goals?' I said, 'Yeah, my goal is to be carried out of a wrestling ring on a stretcher, crippled, and have the fans give me a standing ovation.' He said, 'You must really want something more than that,' and I said, 'Nah, I just really want to retire as a wrestler.'"
In the end, with Bakersfield only being a couple of hours away from Hollywood, Schwartz and a few other wrestlers from his company traveled to meet with the agent and get an idea of what the acting life might hold in store for them. In one of life's serendipitous moments, the agent took the wrestlers to a Beverly Hills restaurant for lunch around the same time that a certain actress was also showing up for a meal. "As we came out of there, a limousine pulls up on the curb, and who gets out of the limousine but Stephanie Powers," Schwartz remembers -- a little giddiness still evident in his voice. "At that time I had a crush on her, and I still probably do, so I said to myself I'm really going to like this acting business."
The acting business took a quick liking to Schwartz as well. Shortly after his lunch meeting in Beverly Hills, Schwartz started a process of calling agents off of a list to look for representation. Not only did he have misgivings about the agent who originally approached him, but he had a specific attribute in mind concerning an agency. "I started calling Jewish agents from the list because I'm Jewish," he says matter-of-factly, "As I worked my way down the list I came to Allan Goldstein & Associates -- how much more Jewish can you get than that? They said they would take care of me and they did."
Even with an agency backing him up, Schwartz still had to step carefully into his bid as a wrestler moonlighting as an actor. His road schedule was still tightly-packed, and he wasn't able to be in California for extended periods of time before his company would be off on a tour somewhere else.
As it tends to happen, though, Schwartz started making a name for himself as a dependable character actor, and he started making friends in the industry. "A lot of people don't realize that this goes into the equation: how you get along with people on the set and how they perceive you," Schwartz explains. "I've worked some difficult shows with some difficult people. I did three episodes of Nash Bridges. Don Johnson is not very easy to get along with, but he loved me. I worked with Steven Seagal (in
Fire Down Below, 1997), he's not easy to get along with but he loved me. Perception and how people get along with you -- how people like you -- that helps you get work in the future."
Schwartz gives a lot of credit to another wrestler-turned-actor, Gene LeBell, for helping him find his feet in the business. "Gene doesn't have the time of day for a lot of people," Schwartz says with a laugh, "But once he found out I was a wrestler he took care of me."
On first blush this nature of finding work through relationships doesn't sound all that different than the wrestling business. The cliché "it's not what you know but who you know" is like all other clichés -- they are borne from truth. As Schwartz puts it, though, the acting business is not as similar to the wrestling business as most people trying to make the transition expect. In truth, performance in the ring equates more to a live stage performance, where you only get one shot, than the cut and paste world of film acting. Schwartz explains that this is part of the reason that it's difficult for some great in-ring performers to convey their talents in the movies. "Randy Savage can only be Randy Savage, and Hulk Hogan can only be Hulk Hogan," he says. "Some guys can't play different characters, or don't feel like they need to do it, and that's why wrestling and acting are not as close together as you'd think."
As for the future, Schwartz is focused exclusively on acting. "I hung up my boots for good in 1999 which was after 20 years," he explains. "It was a tough decision, and in order to keep from returning to the ring, I sold most of my stuff on EBay. I kept one suit just in case, and sometimes I get a part as a wrestler and I wear that stuff in a movie, and then after I get off the movie I feel like going back in the business."
He never would have guessed that acting would win out over wrestling in the long haul, but he explains that his career path happened naturally. "Eventually it just got to the point where it just got in my blood," he says, "I did a couple of good jobs and I liked the way I got treated, and that was it, the rest is history, as they say."
Outside of the ring, Schwartz speaks in earnest about his ability to use his celebrity status, specialized though it may be, to set an example and be of help to the world around him. "Not necessarily do you need something on paper or on a plaque to show accomplishment," he suggests. "As long as you say to yourself I can accomplish and I can do, you will do. I think that kids need to know that. At this point in my life I'm still accomplishing things. I go to children's hospitals and visit kids with cancer, and I can make some kind of a difference in somebody else's life."
His face may not be splashed across billboards as is The Rock's, but Scott. L. Schwartz has paid his dues in moving from the wrestling ring to the silver screen and still has his head planted squarely on his shoulders. All he needs is that romantic lead playing next to Stephanie Powers and he'll want for nothing.
Dave Hillhouse is a screenwriter and wrestling fan. He lives in St. Catharines, Ontario, and can be emailed at