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German Judith Arndt won the World Championships time trial title in Copenhagen on Tuesday. The title came after 15 years of top level racing, which included Olympic and Worlds medals.

“I am not surprised by the win, but I am very happy,” Arndt told Cycling Weekly. “I won the last three or four time trials I’ve done this year, I think I was one of the favourites.”

Arndt raced through the rain-soaked, 27.8-kilometre course in 37 minutes and 7.38 seconds. She topped the previous best time from New Zealand’s Linda Melanie Villumsen by nearly 22 seconds. Defending champion, Brit Emma Pooley was the last finisher, with a time good enough for a bronze medal.

Arndt, 35 years old, won her first time trial title and added to a road race title from 2004 in Verona, Italy.

“I’ve chased it for many years,” Arndt said in the press conference. “I won my first title on the track in 1997. I can’t tell you how long I’ve been wanting this. After the finish, I was overcome, dizzy.”

She took the first lap cautiously and pushed the pace higher on the second lap, taking risks on the damp corners and crosswalks.

“I had to push it,” she said. “I went all out.”

Pooley finished 24.13 seconds back from Arndt one year after taking gold for Great Britain. She found the course, mostly flat, difficult and she praised Arndt for her win.

“Judith,” said Pooley, “deserves it.”

Arndt won three time trials this year: the Giro della Toscana stage, the Chrono Champenois and the Memorial Davide Fardelli.

She won medals at three other World Championships: bronze in 1997 in San Sebastián, silver in 2003 in Hamilton and silver in 2004 in Verona.

In 2004, she also won the road race title, two weeks after winning the silver medal at the Athens Olympics.


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The National Hill-Climb podium regular Matt Clinton talks about Jaffa Cakes, bizarre
comments from motorists and how his off-season has fared so far

It’s become a long-running joke that my time trialling has improved this year because of the number of Jaffa Cakes I eat. Let’s face it, they’re an easy snack, and whenever people ask about what training I do, the answer tends to be a little bit of commuting and eating a fair few of them!

My fiancée got me an off-season treat following the National Hill-Climb Championships – a big tube of 48 Jaffa Cakes. I’m pretty sure we ate them all within two or three days.

I don’t have any pre-race superstitions. A few years ago, when I was fairly new to racing hill climbs, I remember having a big takeaway dinner – either Chinese or Indian – and I won the following race. It’s not something I’ve stuck to, though.

I rode into work the other day and I saw a white van driver opening his window to me. All of a sudden he shouted, “GO LANCE,” which struck me as being a bit weird. I had panniers and reflective clothing on, so I definitely didn’t look like I was trying to race my way through the traffic. I’ve had people shouting “Wiggo” at me in the past, too.

It’s frustrating that I’ve been on the National Hill Climb Podium seven times in a row having only won it once [in 2008],
but then again it’s nice to know that no one has ever achieved such consistency before. It will be a good motivation come next year to make sure I’m in the top three for the eighth year in succession.

I was born in Kent, but moved to Balsall Common, near Solihull, when I was about seven. I’ve recently moved house – I now live in Kenilworth – so it’s easy to ride out to the Costwolds. The only downside of this area is that it’s not particularly hilly. I have to ride a good 30 miles before I get to any notable climb.

I studied geography with information systems at Leeds University. It was a joint honours degree, although the second part was basically playing about on computers. I keep saying I’ll take the bike up to Yorkshire again soon, but it hasn’t happened yet.

My off-season so far has been mainly spent making improvements to our new house. I’m not sure if the previous owners actually did any improvements to the house at all. Still, there’s always the Sunday morning 14mph club ride to keep me ticking over!

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UMD Faculty and Students to Appear on the Discovery Science Channel

Highlights UMD Geological Studies of Lakes and Sediments in Understanding Global Climate Change

Professors Tom Johnson and Erik Brown of the UMD Large Lakes Observatory (LLO) and Department of Geological Sciences will appear on the Discovery Science Channels television series "Faces of Earth," to be broadcast later this summer.
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"Faces of Earth" is a 4-hour series describing how natural forces have continuously reformed Earth - creating its many distinct faces through history. Geoscientists from around the world are interviewed, in conjunction with extensive aerial filming and cutting-edge animation, to provide perspectives on the history of our planet. Some of the topics discussed are - how continents have shifted, how climate has changed, the frequency and intensity of volcanic activity, and how the occurrence of earthquakes has varied---demonstrating how all have contributed to the environment that we view today as "normal."

Evergreen Films of Pacific Palisades, California, under contract to the Discovery Channel, sent a crew to Duluth last fall to film Professor Johnson with students out on Lake Superior aboard the UMD research vessel, the Blue Heron, operated by UMD's Large Lakes Observatory. Onboard the Blue Heron, students were learning navigation skills, record keeping and sampling techniques, focusing mainly on the recovery of sediment cores (which help to unravel the history of the lake as it has formed at the end of the last ice age).

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UMD research vessel, Blue Heron.

On the second day in the area, the TV crew filmed Professors Johnson and Brown in the X-ray fluorescence laboratory of the Large Lakes Observatory, where the two were performing analyses of the sediment cores which they recovered from the African tropics as part of a major collaborative study of global climate variability. The study was funded by the National Science Foundation. See description of the ITRAX x-ray fluorescence core scanner (one of only six in the entire world) at

"Faces of Earth" will be telecast at 9 p.m. on the Discovery Science Channel in four episodes:

  • "Assembling America" on Monday, July 23
  • "Shaping the Planet" on Thursday, July 26
  • "Building the Planet" on Thursday, August 2
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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Dutch/British, 18361912)
The Staircase, 1870
Oil on panel, 16 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.

Alma Tadema was the pre-eminent painter of classical genre scenes. Full of accurate archeological details, his pictures generally focused not on dramatic events, but on domestic scenes and daily life. Such paintings were quite popular with the Victorian public, who saw in them an ancient, costumed reflection of their own bourgeois lives.

The Staircase was submitted by the artist as a lottery prize to a London exhibition for the benefit of the “Distressed French Peasantry” in districts occupied by the German army during the Franco-Prussian war (187071). Alma Tadema posed himself a formidable challenge in dealing with such an unusually shaped panel. His decision to paint four women in Roman dress ascending a marble staircase results in a striking image. The painting is in its original frame, which to certain extent forms part of the composition. The two classical columns expand upon the implied architectural space and compensate for the narrow width of the panel. Together, the starkly elongated format, the figures seen from the back, and the generic title all construct an enigmatic image that has true cinematographic qualities. The manner in which several figures are cut off in the composition, as well as their graceful poses, suggest knowledge of Japanese art, which was extremely popular in Europe at the time, mainly in the form of prints.

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S&P 500 closes above 1,900 for first time

ALEX VEIGA STEVE ROTHWELL AP Business Writers Published:

Call it the Great Slog.

Stocks are bumbling along this year after a gangbuster 2013.

The upward grind is underscored by the Standard & Poor's 500 index, which closed above 1,900 for the first time on Friday. The index has eked out a gain of 2.8 percent this year compared with a 16 percent increase over the same period last year.

Other major indexes haven't fared any better. The Dow Jones industrial average and the Nasdaq composite are barely positive for 2014.

The market's five-year bull run has slowed as investors become more evenly split between those that remain optimistic on the outlook for stocks and the economy, and those that think it's time for a sell-off. Investors haven't seen a "correction," Wall Street-speak for a drop of 10 percent of more, for an unusually long time.

"People have been waiting for this huge correction, but as soon as we have even a little bit of a pullback, people see the value in it, and they're jumping in," said Karyn Cavanaugh, senior market strategist at Voya Investment Management.

Cavanaugh believes that there will be a "spring snapback," in the economy. Company earnings, already at record levels, will keep climbing and support stock prices.

The S&P 500 rose 8.04 points, or 0.4 percent, to close at 1,900.53. The index first rose above 1,900 during trading on May 13, but fell back to close below that level.

The Dow climbed 63.19 points, or 0.4 percent, to end at 1,606.27. The Nasdaq rose 31.47 points, or 0.8 percent, to 4,185.81.

Investors bid up homebuilder stocks following news that sales of new U.S. homes increased last month. Lennar rose $1.55, or 4 percent, to $40.54. D.R. Horton rose 92 cents, or 4.1 percent, to $23.57.

The Commerce Department reported that sales of U.S. new homes rose 6.4 percent in April after slumping in the previous two months.

"While it wasn't a stellar number, it was not weak and it helps assuage fears" that the housing recovery is weakening, said Quincy Krosby, a market strategist with Prudential Financial. "It really did help set the tone of the market."

On Friday, investors favored stocks that stand to fare better than others in a strengthening economy. Gains were led by technology, materials and consumer discretionary stocks.

The S&P 500 has gained 180 percent since bottoming out in March, 2009 during the Great Recession. Stocks are now in the second-longest bull market since 1946, according to data from S&P Capital IQ. The index has also gone 2½ years without a correction. Typically those declines occur once every 18 months.

Another sign that investors have been more nervous this year than last is that while the S&P 500 has ground higher, the riskier parts of the stock market, such as small-company stocks, social media and biotechnology stocks have had sharp sell-offs.

The Russell 2000, an index that tracks small company stocks, is down 3.2 percent this year at 1,126.19. The index has flirted with a correction after falling as much as 9.3 percent from its March 4 high of 1,208.65.

Many investors still remain optimistic though, pointing to record company earnings and the Federal Reserve.

In the first quarter of the year companies in the S&P 500 earned an average of $27.59 a share, the second-highest level recorded, falling just below the $28.46 per share earned in the fourth quarter of 2013. Thus far during the economic recovery, companies have boosted earnings by cutting costs. As the economy continues to strengthen the hope among investors is that overall demand will improve and corporations will start reporting higher revenues.

Corporations "haven't had any real help from the economy," said John Manley, chief equity strategist at Wells Fargo Fund Management. "If the economy ever kicks in, these people who made more with less can make a lot more with more, and that's going to surprise people."

The stock market's rise has also been supported by the Federal Reserve's policy. Although policy makers are winding down the stimulus, many economists don't think that the Fed will start raising interest rates before the second half of next year.

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Bigfoot caused quite a stir in 1966 visit to Fontana

It used to be easy for me to laugh at those reality shows about ancient aliens, the Abominable Snowman, the Loch Ness Monster, flying saucers, haunted houses, and Bigfoot.

The “experts” all frantically search for an hour (less commercial time) but nobody ever finds anything — well, almost nothing.

A couple of weeks ago, a guy searched for Bigfoot in the forests of Virginia. The program ended with him proudly holding up a piece of key Bigfoot evidence — a plastic bag of poop that he felt was certainly a souvenir from the big guy.

As ridiculous as that used to seem, today I realize how foolish I was. That’s because I learned that Bigfoot, or at least one of his relatives, actually prowled in our area, in Fontana, almost 50 years ago.

Bigfoot, or “a horrible monster with a hairy body, long hands and claws dripping with slime,” was seen on numerous occasions near the old Fontana dragstrip between Foothill Boulevard and Base Line Road, according to the Ontario Daily Report of Aug. 26, 1966.

I know now that this was really serious stuff because both the Daily Report and the San Bernardino Sun-Telegram reported on it several times. They quoted reports from a bunch of Fontana teenagers — always a reliable source for such things.

The first incident was five weeks earlier when a group of teen boys were hanging around the race track one night long after everyone had left. They saw the hairy monster swinging from a tree so they naturally did what anyone would do in that situation — they hurled an empty orange crate at it.

When the crate came flying back out of the trees, they took off and reported the sighting to sheriff’s deputies. They searched but could find only a lone print of a foot with three toes.

(Traditionally, when media discovers such a mystery like this, they give it some kind of provocative name. The Daily Report called it “The Invincible Brush Man,” a rather dull effort that made the monster sound like a door-to-door salesman.)

On Aug. 28, the sightings were important enough to be spread across the top of the front page of the Sunday Daily Report under the headline, “Fontana Girls Describe Monster.”

Two girls, both 16, reported to deputies they had been attacked by the hairy beast along Base Line Road. “It reached out and grabbed me,” said one teen. “The monster is real and horrible.”

The paper reported one girl, whom they chose to describe for some reason as a “platinum blonde,” said they stopped their car on Base Line with what they thought was a flat tire.

Suddenly the monster jumped out of the brush and approached the girls. The article said they got back in the car and drove off while Bigfoot tried to grab them with his slimey claws.

In all those 1950s space alien and giant monster movies, every local police officer usually shrugged off impending disaster until it was too late to do anything about it. That pretty much described disbelieving sheriff’s Deputy O.W. Manning: “I think this monster business is a lot of hooey.”

Manning said the girls refused to take a lie detector test when asked, but one of them told the paper they weren’t allowed to take such a test.

“Probably scared they’d discover we were telling the truth,” she said indignantly.

The Sun-Telegram reported on a 21-year-old Ontario Marine scout, just back on leave from combat in Vietnam, who vowed to arm himself and use his military stealth skills to sneak up and ambush Bigfoot. If he was successful, it was never reported.

In the Aug. 30 Daily Report was an item that deputies were called out to reports of shooting around the race track. They didn’t find any Marines but instead four teenaged boys, with two rifles “combing the brush and shooting at everything that moved.”

Deputies called it a “small scale war in the area where the monster lived” and confiscated the guns for two weeks, sparing Bigfoot and anything else still alive out there for a while.

That seems to be the last sighting of our hairy visitor, at least in the local papers. That undeveloped area nearly 50 years later is now covered with tract homes, with nothing truly Bigfoot-like to be seen, not even monster poop.


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The late Thomas Berry insisted with a calm urgency that we humans are at a turning point in our relationship with nature. Either we engage in the "great work" of rapidly replacing our deadly industrial risk society with an ecologically wholesome way of life, or we are done for as a species. How we deal with the Rocky Flats site is a test case.

The Rocky Flats nuclear bomb factory, located 16 miles northwest of central Denver, was built in the early 1950s as part of a vast project to mass-produce nuclear weapons. For nearly four decades the plant produced the explosive plutonium "pit" of every nuclear warhead in the U.S. arsenal. From a military-industrial standpoint, Rocky Flats was a big success. But this success was tragically costly to environmental integrity, public health and democracy.

Due to the secrecy with which the plant operated, the public learned only gradually that major accidents as well as routine operations had released into the environment deadly clouds of plutonium particles too small to see but potentially lethal if inhaled, ingested or otherwise taken into the body. Because plutonium remains radioactive for a quarter-million years, its presence in the environment poses an essentially permanent danger. The FBI raid on the plant in 1989 to collect evidence of environmental lawbreaking underscored the danger. Production soon ended, never to be resumed.

How is it that Rocky Flats, with a history like this, could be an opportunity for ecological transformation? The opportunity flows directly from our human responsibility for conditions at the site. With production ended, the badly contaminated site was "cleaned up." But no effort was made to clean it to the maximum extent possible, which the public had sought. Instead, in a vivid display of anti-democratic risk society in operation, much plutonium was deliberately left in the environment on the assumption, first, that it would remain in place and, second, that exposure to it would be insufficient to cause harm. Both assumptions are false.

The idea that plutonium would stay in place is refuted by evidence that was not considered by those who planned the "cleanup," such as:

Rapid plutonium movement detected in soil on site in 1995.

65 cartons of data on environmental lawbreaking seized by the FBI in 1989 and sealed by order of a federal court.

A study showing that 18 species of burrowing animals on site constantly redistribute soil and its contents, including plutonium.

After completion of the "cleanup" at Rocky Flats, the Department of Energy (DOE), which ran the plant, transferred roughly three fourths of the site (about 7 square miles) to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to operate as a wildlife refuge, while retaining about 2 square miles of land in the more contaminated center of the site for ongoing maintenance. FWS decided, despite opposition from 81 percent of the commenting parties, that it eventually would open the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge for public recreation. This decision is clearly unwise, given information cited above.

In response to the inadequate Rocky Flats "cleanup" and the official indifference about risk, we at the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, in conjunction with the Naropa University`s Environmental Studies program, seek to implement Nuclear Guardianship at the site. This is a community-based initiative that will enable present and future generations to take responsibility for the nuclear legacy bequeathed to them in a way that protects people and the environment from further radioactive poisoning.

The intent of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Guardianship project is to provide a model for long-term ecological caretaking of radioactively contaminated sites while challenging the government plan to open Rocky Flats for public recreation. The project will be launched during the first six months of 2011 with a series of presentations and workshops in which technical specialists, artists and community leaders interact with government officials and a broad spectrum of the public to facilitate a shift from the polluting risk-based culture we have inherited to a culture of ecological responsibility. To learn more, to see a schedule of events and to support this effort, visit

LeRoy Moore is a consultant with the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center.


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Facebook has just launched its Timeline worldwide. The oft-delayed feature has been ready since September but only started rolling out last week. Users’ status updates about the new design thus far have been a grab bag of confusion, anger, and excitement.

The Timeline is a never-ending list of all your Facebook activity from the day you were “born,” in other words, since the day you joined the social network. Every little thing you’ve done on Facebook—from changing your status to being tagged in a photo—is now organized in image-conscious clusters nestled in the center of your browser. Each post is organized by year and month and hovers along a light blue timeline.

The first thing users will likely notice is just how exhaustive their digital footprint is. Thankfully, past posts can can easily be hidden using a small pencil icon in the top right corner. Conversely, those posts also be shared using buttons on the bottom left corner.

Facebook has given users seven days to decide what content they want shown on their Timeline. After that, all of your content will go live automatically.

For recent Facebook adapters who love photos, the new Timeline is sure to be a hit. It’s perhaps the most extensive visual overhaul the network has ever experienced-—a giant change from the days of a simple profile pic and a wall of text updates.

Although Zuckerberg may have wanted to create “frictionless experiences” with Timeline, which is built upon its Open Graph platform, he’s off to a somewhat rocky start.

The Timeline has been a worldwide trending topic all morning, collecting more than 30,000 mentions. So far it seems like many people have yet to test out the Timeline, but those who have—or who simply had read about it—have mixed reactions.

“I'm not loving Facebook Timeline at all,” tweeted Devin Drumheller (@devindrumheller). “The updates to displaying your information are nice, but the part that replaced the wall? Terrible.”

“Facebook is showing how truly revolutionary it is. See your entire (online) life in one timeline. Pretty incredible #respecttweeted @zrhirch.

“This new timeline nonsense on Facebook has me all confused... Hate it. Make it stop,” tweeted @Iggismallz.

Like it or not, these new changes are here to stay—along with every picture and post you’ve long-since forgotten.

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I have a lot of friends on Facebook. Not an absurd amount, but slightly above the average of 245. I know them from high school. Or college. Through other friends. From former jobs as their colleague, underling, or superior. Via events and common hobbies. To be my friend on Facebook, I have a rule that I have to have met you in person. (That said, I have broken this rule once or twice for people whose writing I’ve adored.)

It doesn’t really matter how I know my friends.

What matters is how you know my friends.

Two years ago, long before writing these columns, I decided I was going to use my Facebook status prompt to highlight a different Facebook friend of mine each day over the course of a month. I’d use that little box to briefly explain to all my other Facebook friends (at least the ones who hadn’t hidden my updates) why that person was so awesome.

I called it my Awesome Facebook Friend of the Day. (This is what happens when a writer rolls, unsupervised, without an editor.)

It’s sort of like how Bridget Jones decided to introduce people with thoughtful details. (Let’s not talk about the third book coming out. I just can’t.)

I know, I know. It’s kind of annoying when someone uses that chunk of Internet real estate to discuss something other than themselves. But I think you’re thinking more of that copy-and-paste-a-status as a means of supposed support for a supposed cause. That’s not support. It’s a step above chain letters.

There are a lot of ways to be insufferable on Facebook. This isn’t one of them. I promise.

See, I believe there is the family you’re assigned. And there is the family you choose. They’re both family. But why not explain why the people you’ve chosen as your people are your people?

If you’d like to do an Awesome Facebook Friend of the Day month, here are some guidelines I tend to follow. Do with them what you will.

  • Choose your Awesome Friend at random. It shouldn’t be only your besties. Try to highlight people from various areas of your life. Its fun to recall anecdotes from a long, long time ago and remember why you like the person. (Or even if you don’t; make this a time to purge, too.)
  • Keep each day’s write-up short. It can be long enough to go into a “See More,” but not much more. You don’t want to slavishly unspool.
  • If you have a friend with privacy concerns, respect that.
  • Like Amber Heard, I like to alternate boys and girls on alternate days, but that’s up to you.
  • It’s best if that day’s friend is on Facebook at least vaguely regularly or gets notifications if tagged in a post, because it’s nice to ensure that friend has seen what you’ve written.

Maudlin? Eulogistic? Depends how you write. Sharing your friends’ awesomeness with your other friends shouldn’t be cloying. It should be a celebration.

Because, really: Why hold off on honoring friendship? It should happen every damn day. Especially when you have a space you can dedicate to it. How often do we hatch opportunities to articulate why we’re friends with someone? Choosing an Awesome Friend of the Day is one way to let them, and the social world around us, know.

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Dreams of Indian Genius Come True!

The topics of dreams and human consciousness are popular here on TDG, so I thought this would be of interest.

What if your dreams were the key to advanced knowledge? Maybe they are! It was certainly so in this case.

Srinivasa Ramanujan was a self-taught Indian mathematical genius. His brilliance made him an academic star in India and England in the early 20th century. At the end of his life, in declining health, he conveyed mathematical functions from his dreams in letters to his English collaborator. Now, over 90 years later, his dreams are proven true...

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We tend to regard dreams as being "other," but isn't it more likely they are simply a product of the mind in a super relaxed state. Dreams may be the ultimate meditational state because in the dream state the ego is truly shuffled off to the side thus allowing the mind to focus with much more intensity on "problems" when there is a problem that is beckoning and which requires that the accumulated biases and insecurities of a life be set aside in order to see more widely.
Plus, the dream state is perhaps slightly mixed with the death state or the afterlife state which apparently grants us access to the other frequency domains where the perspective is more inclusive of the wider universe.
I am not being at all original here, but there is this tendency to regard the dream as being a state of disability and hallucination when instead it may just be that thinking so freely samples so much more of thought that it sometimes does hallucinate as a side effect. Maybe the haullucinations are a form of "play" that further relax the mind.


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The campaigns are over. Now, it is clear. Four years ago when voters said that they demanded affordable health care, they meant it. In Illinois, when they said they demanded tax fairness, they meant it. And they meant it when they said promises made must be promises kept.

Yet, as we celebrate here in Illinois, there are parents putting their kids to bed wondering if tomorrow there will be a roof over their heads. One out of five children go to bed hungry; two-thirds sit in overcrowded classrooms. And far too many of our citizens go without health care.

Illinois is stronger and better than that. The people of Illinois have accepted the truth about the troubles that beset us. They've refused to be taken in by the lies of desperate men. They know that the road ahead is not without peril. Yet, nonetheless, with their face to the wind, they are prepared to meet it.

I am aware that many of my colleagues may not see this in our people. But I do.

I've learned a great lesson while senator. I've learned that when you're honest with people, even if they disagree with you and even if they happen to be of a different political persuasion, if they feel as though they can count on you to tell them the truth and to level with them about the difficulties we all face, they will stand by you.

Thank you to all who voted and who volunteered in this election no matter which side you were on. Because of you our communities and our nation will be stronger and more prosperous than ever before. That's the promise of America.

Thank you for keeping it.

Sen. Michael Noland

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  • Missouri's Alex Oriakhi, left, and Jabari Brown (32) watch along with Illinois' Nnanna Egwu and Tracy Abrams, right, as the ball goes out of bounds during the first half in St. Louis. Missouri won 82-73.

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ST. LOUIS -- Growing up in suburban St. Louis, Tyler Griffey hoped he could one day compete in the annual Braggin' Rights game between Missouri and Illinois.

After turning down his home-state school for the Illini, Griffey got a chance to play in the game with added interest.

Illinois had won nine consecutive games in the matchup when Griffey joined the team.

But on Saturday, the 6-foot-9, 220-pound senior had to explain for the fourth consecutive year why his team didn't defeat the Tigers.

No. 12 Missouri topped the 10th-ranked Illini 82-73.

"I would have liked to go out with one, that's for sure," Griffey said.

Brandon Paul scored 23 points and Griffey added 13 for Illinois (12-1), which lost its first game of the season.

The Illini, entering the day leading the country with 10 3-pointers per game, made only 8 of 32 shots from beyond the arc, its lowest rate of the season.

In its first eight games, Illinois made 41.9 percent of its 3-pointers, but has seen that rate fall by 10 points its past five games.

First-year coach John Groce said the poor shooting was because of a lack of execution, but said his team's effort doesn't have him worried.

"I tell them all the time, the X's and O's only matter when you're playing your tails off and you're playing together, and we did those two things tonight," he said. "We just have to get a little better with the execution stuff."

Laurence Bowers led Missouri (10-1) with 23 points and 10 rebounds. Alex Oriakhi added 13 points and a game-high 14 rebounds. Jabari Brown, in his first start of the season, scored 18 points and grabbed seven rebounds.

Phil Pressey had 12 points and 11 assists.

Brown, a transfer from Oregon, became eligible after the first semester and made his first appearance Monday in a 102-51 win over South Carolina State.

A top recruit, Brown made the most of his first starting appearance Saturday.

"It was fun -- I'm part of the family now," Brown said.

Brown watched from the sideline as the Tigers rolled to an 8-1 record without him. After becoming eligible, he has worked hard to make up for lost time.

"I wanted to prove I could play right away and fit in any way I can," he said. "I spent a lot time practicing and getting used to things and the way they play here.

"Now, I'm finally feeling comfortable."

Brown keyed a 9-0 run that erased a 3-point deficit and put the Tigers ahead to stay 70-64. He had 4 points and 2 rebounds during the 2:31 run.

Brown scored from close range off a nice pass from Earnest Ross to increase the lead to 68-64, Pressey added a short jumper seconds later to complete the run.

Oriakhi, who got his fourth double-double of the season, was impressed with Brown's effort

"He's unbelievable, he did a little bit of everything tonight," Oriakhi said. "I can't believe he's fit in so fast. He's one of us now."

Brown played in two games at Oregon last season before deciding to transfer. He watched last season's Braggin' Rights game from his home in Oakland and was intrigued by the atmosphere, which annually features a sellout with the fans divided equally between both schools.

"I had visited (Missouri) and really hadn't made a decision, but I thought, 'If I choose (Missouri) that's going to be a fun game to play in.'"

Missouri coach Frank Haith was pleased with the performance of his new addition. He immediately moved him into the starting lineup after a 12-point performance against South Carolina State.

"It was all about our balance," Haith said. "And he can do a lot of things."

Missouri used its strength and muscle inside to win its fourth in a row in the series and cut the Illinois lead to 20-12 in the annual event. The Tigers outrebounded Illinois 58-35 and held a 44-24 advantage in the paint.

"They've got a lot of depth and they've got size," Groce said. "They're good now. They've got a chance to get even better moving forward."

The physical matchup featured 19 lead changes, 35 fouls and 43 free throws.

The Tigers scored 12 of the final 16 points in the first half to take a 41-35 lead into the break. Illinois reeled off eight unanswered points midway through the second half to go up 51-50 on a driving layup by Tracy Abrams. The Illini took their biggest lead of the second half, 64-61 on a baseline jumper by Nnanna Egwu with 6:43 remaining.

But the Missouri defense took over from there, forcing seven successive Illinois misses. Brown, Ross, Tony Criswell and Pressey added key baskets.

Illinois managed just 3 field goals in the final 3:29.

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DuPage County Forest Preserve officials are hoping to convince Warrenville that a request for municipal water shouldn't be tied to the city's desire for new trails.

The forest preserve district is planning to construct a fleet maintenance building at Blackwell Forest Preserve near Warrenville. The planned $7.6 million, 29,000-square-foot garage is slated to be built near McKee Marsh off Mack Road.

But before construction can begin, the district needs to get water service to the area to meet fire protection requirements.

As a result, the district is seeking permission from Warrenville to install a water main extension that would run north along Williams Road, west along Mack Road and then go south to Forest View Drive. The district has agreed to pay the $1.5 million cost of doing the work.

Warrenville, however, wants the district to commit to doing several capital projects not related to the water main extension as part of a proposed intergovernmental agreement.

The city, for example, would like to see four new trails constructed, including a multiuse trail along Mack Road, from Route 59 to the McKee Marsh parking lot.

Ronald Mentzer, Warrenville's community development director, said the city raised the issue of the trails now because the district previously has provided "different levels of reaction" to the proposals.

"We got nothing substantive from them," Mentzer said. "We got nothing to let us know if we're going to be able to do these trails and what the district's role will be."

Since the district is coming to Warrenville asking for help, city officials thought it made sense to address the requests they've made to the district.

"We're interested in working with them on the water main," Mentzer said. "But we would like to get clarity on the forest preserve district's position on all these other issues."

Forest preserve staff members on Tuesday shared their opinion about several of Warrenville's requests. Commissioners next week are expected to vote on a formal response to the city.

District staff members say they don't agree with the Mack Road trail idea because of safety and visibility concerns.

They also expressed concern about Warrenville's suggestion that the district pay for a new "interpretive" trail along the west bank of the DuPage River's west branch, between the Illinois Prairie Path on the north and the Warren Grove Forest Preserve parking lot on the south.

Andrea Hoyt, the district's director of planning, said it would cost an estimated $930,000 to build the half-mile trail. District staff is recommending the city take the lead on the project and pursue grant money for the work.

The district has no objections to a planned multiuse path along the top of a berm along the east side of River Road. But since the project already is in the works, district staff members say there's no need to include it in the intergovernmental agreement for the water main.

Mentzer said it will be up to city council members to decide if they are willing to approve the water main project.

In the meantime, residents who opposed the district's decision to build the garage at Blackwell for its maintenance fleet have asked the city council to deny the request for water.

District officials have said the Blackwell site was chosen, in part, because the land has been used for similar purposes for about three decades and is centrally located.

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The College of DuPage Latino Ethnic Awareness Association (LEAA) will host a Salsa/Merengue/Bachata Dance on Thursday, Nov. 7, from 7 to 11:30 p.m. in the Student Resource Center, Room 2000, at the College's main campus in Glen Ellyn.

The cost of the event is $8 in advance and $10 at the door, with all funds sponsoring LEAA student scholarships. The evening will feature dance lessons from 7:30 to 8 p.m., with open dancing and Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Reggaeton and Hip Hop music until 11:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served throughout the evening.

The Latino Ethnic Awareness Association (LEAA) creates and promotes unity on-campus among all students not only Latino/Hispanic students. The group engages students by providing opportunities for growth and development, focusing on academics, and building leadership and networking skills.

For tickets and more information, please contact The Latino Outreach Center at (630) 942-3039 or email

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If you have kids -- or were a kid -- you understand the attraction and fun of building forts. The Chicago Children's Museum has brought back its Forts exhibit, offering building materials just this side of nirvana: stairs-to-nowhere, headboards, cabinets, doors, and lots of everyday materials. There are costumes and props as well, so get ready to be here for quite awhile.

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday through Wednesday and 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday for Kraft Free Family Night now through April 20 at the Chicago Children's Museum, 700 E. Grand Ave. Admission is $13-$14, free for tots younger than 1. (312) 464-7680 or chicago

Hey, the water's great!

You might not want to immerse yourself in glacial water for fun, or even on a triple-dog-dare. But you might jump in the lake for charity. The Chicago Polar Plunge is a memorable way for individuals, organizations and businesses to support Special Olympics Chicago. Basically, you plunge, dip or walk yourself into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan with 2,000 other nuts. But by doing so, you raise funds for nearly 5,000 Special Olympics athletes. Plungers are asked to have at least $150 in either pledges or donations to jump. There are prizes for the most money raised, most participants and best costume.

10 a.m. Sunday, March 2, at North Avenue Beach, 1600 N. Lake Shore Drive. (312) 527-3743 or

No small crawl

Join The World's Largest Indoor Bar Crawl as Navy Pier partners with Players Sport & Social Group for a warm escape from winter. Seven bars at Navy Pier offer low-priced beer and winter cocktails, food specials, entertainment and much more. Walk the Pier and move from bar to bar while remaining indoors. Your ticket entry to the Crawl includes two beer tickets, drink specials and entertainment including live music, games, raffles and prizes.

2 to 8 p.m. Saturday, March 1, at Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand Ave. Tickets cost $20 at (312) 600-9035 or

Slush puppies

When you get lemons, make lemonade. And when the snow melts at a ski resort, you hold a Slush Cup. Michigan's Shanty Creek Resort offers its most popular winter event -- when skiers compete to see who can get up enough speed to make it across a 40-foot pond filled with icy waist-deep water. The Monster Energy Slush Cup Weekend at Schuss Mountain has hosted Midwesterners for more than 30 years with the main event as well as the Frozen Fish Toss, Shovel Racing, Fruity Suity, Seal Slide and the Silly Slalom.

9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 1, at Shanty Creek Resort, Bellaire, Mich. For lodging packages and special offers, visit or call (800) 678-4111.

Pass the pounded cheese

There weren't any golden arches (or even electric lights by which to see your burger) in the early 1800s. Experience an interactive 19th-century candlelight feast served inside the historic Conner House at Connor Prairie in Indiana. You'll prepare recipes straight from the pages of a 19th-century cookbook, including spiced cider, popcorn, pounded cheese, soup with soppets, rump of beef with forcemeat, carrots the Dutch way, and more. You'll also tour the historic 1823 Conner House, enjoy entertainment in the parlor, and learn about life in 19th-century Indiana from costumed hosts. Recommended for ages 10 and older.

6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday through March at 13400 Allisonville Road, Fishers, Ind. Cost is $60 per person, and reservations are required. (317) 776-6006 or conner

Put a sock in it

Everyone is semi-delirious from the long, cold winter, so the 2014 Sock Monkey Madness Festival seems to fit right in. Explore why the popular Sock Monkey is important to Rockford's history at Midway Village Museum during the all-ages event. It's a celebration of Rockford's Red Heel Sock: make your own Sock Monkey or get accessories to take home; join the Miss Sockford Pageant; and shop for unique items.

11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday to Sunday, March 1-2, at Midway Village Museum, 6799 Guilford Road, Rockford. Admission is $7 adults, $5 kids 3-17. midway or (815) 397-9112.

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Bartlett Fire Protection District Chief Michael Falese has a motto.

"All people can be great because all people have an opportunity to serve," Falese says.

His service to Bartlett earned him one of the state's highest honors in firefighting.

Falese has been named the 2014 Fire Chief of the Year by the Illinois Fire Chiefs Association.

"This recognition has my name on it, but more importantly it also has Bartlett and Bartlett Fire on it, and that is really powerful," Falese said during a gathering celebrating the award.

Trustees, firefighters and paramedics gave him two standing ovations during a brief speech at a village board meeting this week.

"It's very, very humbling," he said.

Mayor Kevin Wallace noted Falese's one-year tenure as president of the state association and his fiscal management when the district came in under budget with a $2.4 million renovation of its busiest fire station.

As Falese left the podium, Trustee Greg Martin asked how long he had been a firefighter.

"How much gray hair do I have?" Falese quipped.

And then he told the board he joined his first department in 1981.

"Thank you for every year," Martin said.

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Good highways are essential for economic growth, so it is heartening to hear the governor committing to improving one of Johnson County’s vital transportation corridors.

Gov. Mike Pence has approved spending $200 million in highway funding on two Interstate 65 projects. One will widen I-65 between Southport Road on the southside and State Road 44 in Franklin. The other highway project getting some of the funding is in the Lafayette area.

But this should be only the first step in enhancing the transportation infrastructure for the entire region. The interstate from Franklin south, particularly from Columbus and Seymour to Louisville, also needs to be widened to improve commerce and safety. And a widened I-65 to Chicago would be a boon as well.

The funding for the improvements comes from the state’s Major Moves construction fund. Last year the state planned to put $400 million in road funding into a savings account, but Pence asked to use that money for road projects on highways and interstates now. Lawmakers compromised and agreed to spend $200 million now, and the state budget committee will decide whether to release the other half.

Exactly what I-65 will look like after the work is done isn’t known yet, including how many lanes there will be, officials said. And exactly when the work will be done also hasn’t been decided, Indiana Department of Transportation spokesman Will Wingfield said.

He added that the project should reduce congestion-related crashes on the highway. The state considers factors such as traffic volume, crash numbers and the condition of the road pavement when choosing highway projects.

INDOT will accept bids from contractors this year on the project between Southport and Franklin, but the start and end dates of the road work haven’t been set yet, Wingfield said. As the state designs the project, one goal will be to use existing medians and land along the highway to make room for more lanes as much as possible, rather than buying property.

This last aspect is important as it will mean an improved roadway without the loss of farmland or displace established businesses.

This project will increase the connectivity between Franklin and Indianapolis. But the work cannot stop there.

I-65 south of Franklin also needs to widened. In particular, manufacturers in Columbus and Seymour would benefit greatly from a wider interstate. An improved road also might cut down on some of the frequent accidents.

In addition, the state needs to firm up financing to complete Interstate 69 to the capital city. At that point, Johnson County will be uniquely positioned to serve logistics needs not just in central Indiana but statewide and even farther.

We applaud the governor for recognizing the value of the I-65 corridor and moving to enhance it. But as we said, don’t stop there.

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Newport Beach lifeguard boat Sea Watch III pulls in behind a set wave to rescue two swimmers stuck in a rip current that held them in the impact zone and headed out to sea. The swimmers climbed aboard the rescue boat, took a break, and were returned safely when the swell dropped. (DON LEACH, Daily Pilot / June 10, 2011)

He could be working in any major Southern California hospital, with his master's in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University and bachelor's from UCLA.

Instead, Kevin Selna, 33, chose a different public health setting: the beach.

Selna, who patrols the coastline of Crystal Cove State Park, is one of about 70 lifeguards-peace officers for the state park system who watch the shores and enforce laws up and down the coast. While he carries a gun and a badge, most full-time lifeguards do not.

So when news reports revealed guards' generous pensions — one of the reasons Selna took the job — and the nearly $150,000 in salaries paid to Newport Beach supervisors, people around the world got furious. They imagined Pamela Anderson on "Baywatch," and flooded officials' phones and inboxes to demand changes.

Residents and politicians are now reevaluating career lifeguards' worth, and many towns are considering budget cuts or pension reforms. The guards — suddenly emblematic of excessive public-employee compensation — have tried to combat nagging perceptions. They say that their thorough training, sophisticated equipment and years of experience prevent thousands of people from drowning each year.

But city officials in Newport Beach and other coastal communities in California say they need to put a numerical value on those who save lives, especially in these austere times.

"The issue at the end of the day is, 'What is the expense to the taxpayer?'" says Newport Beach City Councilwoman Leslie Daigle, who supported slashing half of the city's full-time guard positions. "I think it's too high. It's not fiscally sustainable."

Newport's not alone, either in its generous compensation or in its proposed cuts.

San Diego, Huntington Beach and other coastal municipalities have considered reducing staffing or reforming guards' pensions.

And while Newport's full-time guards, supervisors and chiefs received all of the notoriety, the state's top three highest-paid guards are actually from the Los Angeles County Lifeguard Service, the largest guard agency in the state.

Three of its chiefs made more than $190,000 in wages during 2009, according to the state Controller's salary database, and that didn't include any county-paid retirement or health benefits.

Like firefighters and police officers, full-time lifeguards say they also deserve to be well-paid and receive pensions. These pensions are meant to reward all public-safety personnel who risk their lives on the job.

"You're running out into the surf when people are dying," says Chris Brewster, president of the U.S. Lifesaving Assn. "It is a highly stressful job."

'The waves get big here'

In today's economy, some officials along the coast are asking similar questions about career lifeguards: What is their appropriate compensation? How many do we need to sufficiently cover the beach?

Many, while cutting back on pension benefits, still defend their pay.

"We think about what adds value to the community, and saving people from the water is important," says Newport Councilman Keith Curry, who initially voted to raise lifeguard pensions but now supports reforms. "You don't want to pay them more than minimum wage — until it's your kid who's drowning."

One of the city's most experienced guards is Brian O'Rourke, Newport's rescue boat supervisor. He has been manning the 29-foot yellow "Sea Watch" boats since 1989.


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Affordable hearing aids? $200 style helps most

When it comes time to crank the volume on everyday banter, there are hearing aids that won't break the bankIt's a statistic that confounds and frustrates just about anyone who works to make sure the sounds of everyday living are heard: Only about 1 in 5 Americans with hearing loss actually uses a hearing aid.The stumbling blocks? The cost of hearing aids, and the fact that most insurance policies won't cover the devices that make it possible to hear a bird chirping or someone yelling across the room. Or a siren. Or fire alarm.Typically, a hearing aid costs $1,000 to $3,000 (and, remember, that's per ear). According to industry statistics, the average cost of a hearing aid was $1,601 in 2009, the latest year available.Only 22 percent of Americans have insurance policies that will help pay for hearing aids, according to the nonprofit Better Hearing Institute. (Those with Veterans Affairs benefits have full coverage.) Insurance companies, on the whole, have never explained the thinking behind that lack of coverage; some have actually deemed them cosmetic devices.The new federal health care plan doesn't offer coverage either. "We tried to push for that, at least for kids," but got nowhere, said Brenda Battat, executive director of Hearing Loss Association of America. (The plan does prevent a tax on hearing retail sales, however.)Affordable optionDr. Sreek Cherukuri, a board-certified ear-nose-throat specialist who runs an audiology clinic in a blue-collar community in Indiana, was frustrated by the calculus of hearing-loss patients who couldn't afford to hear.He was forever seeing patients with varying degrees of hearing loss, sending them to a free consultation with a trained audiologist -- and never hearing from those patients again. Once they heard the cost of hearing aids, which quickly translates to $2,000 to $6,000 if the hearing loss is in both ears, "Those patients went home with nothing," Cherukuri said.In 2007, when the iPhone came on the market, Cherukuri saw reports showing that the phone's components cost an average of $130 to $140. "I started thinking that if you can make a fantastic phone for under $200, I could make a hearing aid that's pretty good for about the same price," he said.Cherukuri is the first to acknowledge that the best option is a customized hearing aid, one that's designed and fitted to a patient. But for many hearing-impaired people, amplification of a full range of frequencies will make for a marked improvement.Cherukuri got to work designing a hearing aid, for mild to moderately severe hearing loss, that would cost less than $200. By summer 2009, his product, the MDHearingAid, was ready for retail.His company claims the FDA-registered hearing aid -- an analog device that comes with a volume dial -- is "one-size-fits-most," amplifying the sound frequencies of the human voice. Other hearing aids in the under-$200 range amplify only the bass, or low frequencies, and tend to amplify background noises that make it harder to hear the human voice.Review and trial"What he's doing is a good thing," said Dr. Charles Weingarten, an ENT in private practice for 41 years and assistant clinical professor at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. Weingarten examined the MDHearingAid at the request of Tribune Newspapers. "It's an economic issue. Good enough is sometimes the best you're going to get."Weingarten and other ENT physicians who looked at the MDHearingAid were quick to applaud its 45-day free trial, which allows people to find out for themselves if it works for their particular hearing loss.The trial is important, says Cherukuri, because "it takes the brain several weeks to adjust to the hearing aid. It has to get used to the new stimulus of sound. You will hear better on Day 28 than you hear on Day 1," he said. "It's not like glasses, where the minute you put them on, you see better."Cherukuri cautions that for patients whose hearing loss is due to nerve damage -- a hearing loss referred to as one of "clarity" -- the amplification will not fix that loss.Overall, Cherukuri's prescription is one with which no doctor would argue: "See a physician and get the best hearing aid you can afford."bmahany@tribune.comOptions for those who are hearing impairedSome 36 million American adults (approximately 17 percent) report some degree of hearing loss, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.For the MDHearingAid, visit mdhearingaid.com. For other more-affordable options ($295 to $895), Weingarten, who carries a pocketful of $30 amplifiers when he goes on medical missions to third-world countries, recommends the website hearingaidscentral.com.

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Virginia holds off upset-minded Virginia Tech, rallies for 57-53 win

BLACKSBURG – For just a moment Tuesday night, the sound of silence was the sweetest sound of all for Virginia’s Justin Anderson. He made it happen with clutch 3-point shooting down the stretch that helped No. 14 U.Va. escape Blacksburg with a win.

U.Va. bounced back from an 11-point deficit with just under 14 minutes left to come away with a 57-53 victory at Virginia Tech, extending the Cavaliers’ winning streak to 10 games. U.Va. (22-5 overall, 13-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) also locked up one of the top four seeds in the ACC tournament, which means the Cavaliers will get a double bye in the tournament.

“I told our guys, ‘Just keep playing. If you get quality shots, take them. Don’t worry about it. If you make a quality possession defensively, and they hit a tough shot, don’t worry about it. Just keep playing on,’” said U.Va coach Tony Bennett, who saw his team shoot just 39.2 percent from the floor.

“You’re never out of it. That team has shown that this year. I knew it was going to be a challenge. I knew it was going to be hard, and we were very fortunate. I feel like we stole one.”

Whether it was thievery or not, U.Va. had to at the very least earn its fifth consecutive win against Tech – and fourth straight win in Blacksburg – the hard way. U.Va. was down 40-29 with under 14 minutes left, and despite chipping away at the deficit, still had work to do in crunch time.

Trailing 46-42 with under four minutes left, U.Va. needed to find some offense in a hurry. It had missed 15 of its first 21 shots from 3-point range against Tech’s newest defensive approach – a 2-3 zone that confounded U.Va.’s perimeter shooters for much of the game.

Anderson and Joe Harris, who didn’t score for the first 30 minutes, ignited a late rally. Anderson made a 3-pointer with 3:26 left to cut Tech’s lead to 46-45.

After Harris stole the ball away from Tech’s Joey van Zegeren, Harris nailed a 3-pointer with 2:39 remaining to put U.Va. up 48-46 – its first lead since it was ahead 14-13 with under 12 minutes left in the first half.

A missed 3-pointer by Tech’s Ben Emelogu was followed by another 3-pointer from Anderson with 1:45 left to give U.Va. a 51-46 cushion. That’s when Anderson could feel – and hear – the hopeful buzz depart Cassell Coliseum.

“There was no better feeling, because when you hit those shots, everybody goes shush and all you hear is the people behind your bench going crazy for U.Va.,” said Anderson, who had nine points and five rebounds off the bench. “That was the best feeling about it.”

Tech (9-16, 2-11), which has lost 11 of its last 12 games, never got within three points in the final minute, 45 seconds.

A dunk by van Zegeren with 7:35 left put Tech up 45-42, but it was the Hokies' last successful field goal for the next seven minutes, three seconds. Tech missed five consecutive shots before Devin Wilson's layup with 32 seconds left trimmed U.Va.'s lead to 52-48.

Tech shot 50 percent from the floor in the first half, but just 40 percent in the second half. It also committed 14 turnovers, compared to just seven by U.Va., which won a school single season-record seventh ACC road game.

Neither team did itself any favors at the free throw line. U.Va. made 53.3 percent (8 of 15) of its free throws, while Tech made 60 percent (9 of 15) of its free throw attempts.

U.Va., which defeated Tech 65-45 on Jan. 25 in Charlottesville, was led by Malcolm Brogdon’s 12 points on 3 of 11 shooting from the floor. London Perrantes chipped in with 11 points on 4 of 8 shooting, including 3 of 6 from 3-point range.

Perrantes, who also had three assists and no turnovers, hit 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions in the first four minutes to help U.Va. jump out to an 8-2 lead. U.Va. would go on to miss 11 of its next 12 shots from beyond the 3-point arc.

Harris finished with seven points on 2 of 10 shooting. He missed his first seven shots, including four 3-pointers, and didn’t score until making a 3-pointer with 9:50 left in the game that cut Tech’s lead to 43-38.

“I think they played very well, and I don’t think we played very well,” Brogdon said. “I don’t know if we stole one, but I do know we came out and we made the plays we needed to in the second half.”

Tech, which played without starting guard Adam Smith for an eighth consecutive game due to a stress fracture in his fibula and a strained calf, got 13 points each from Wilson and van Zegeren.

Wilson made 5 of 7 shots from the floor, while van Zegeren connected on 6 of 7 shots. Wilson also had five assists and just one turnover, and van Zegeren had seven rebounds.

“Against a good team, you have to play 40-plus minutes, however long it takes,” said Tech coach James Johnson with new Hokies athletic director Whit Babcock sitting in the back of the press conference room.

“They’ll keep coming at you and coming at you, and they’re used to winning. That helps a team like that, especially when they are in a close game. They are used to winning, they are used to making plays and they have guys that can make plays.”

Tech came out with confidence in the first half, using a 9-0 run to build a 22-14 lead with 7:24 remaining in the half.

When Jarell Eddie made all three free throws with 27.1 seconds left in the half after being fouled on a 3-point shot by Harris, Tech’s advantage grew to 28-18. Eddie finished with seven points on 1 of 8 shooting from the floor, including 1 of 7 from 3-point range.

Brogdon sunk a deep 3-pointer at the buzzer to slice Tech’s halftime lead to 28-21, but Tech’s zone proved to be a serious challenge for U.Va. in the half. U.Va. shot 34.8 percent from the floor in the first half, including 23.1 percent (3 of 13) from 3-point range.

“We’ve been doing a pretty good job in the zone defense the last couple of games,” van Zegeren said. “We just have to rebound better. Down the stretch, those couple of (3-pointers by U.Va.) – it’s just being in the right spot (defensively) and we can’t let them get that. We know we have to be there.”

Bennett knows U.Va. will see a lot more of the 2-3 zone March 1 when it hosts No. 1 Syracuse. He gave his team a C-grade in its handling of Tech’s zone.

“They’re definitely a lot better than their record shows,” said U.Va.’s Akil Mitchell, who had seven points and 10 rebounds. “They’ve gotten a lot better. They’re a lot better defensively with that zone. They hit a bunch of tough shots and got a lot of wild second chance opportunities. We expected them to play us tough.”

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Cleora C. Block, 87, of St. Marys, died at 9:36 p.m. Nov. 14, 2004, at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital, St. Marys.
   Arrangements are pending at Miller-Long & Folk Funeral Home, St. Marys.

Mary Eschmeyer

Mary R. Eschmeyer, 92, formerly of 6099 Botkins Road, New Knoxville, died at 7:20 a.m. Nov. 14, 2004, at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital, St. Marys.
   She was born Aug. 23, 1912, in Lakeview, to Isaac and Carrie Beam Howell. On Jan. 30, 1930, she married Richard Eschmeyer who died Jan. 1, 1987.
   Surviving are three daughters, Twylah (Walter) Thomas, Donna Larson and Ruth (Eugene) Opperman, all of New Knoxville; three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
   Deceased are a daughter, Martha; three brothers, James, Clyde and Clarence Howell; and two sisters, Lula Fogt and Nora Westerbeck Keller.
   She was the retired co-owner and bookkeeper of Eschmeyer Lumber Co. She was a member of Wapakoneta Church of the Nazarene and a graduate of Anna High School.
   Services are 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the church, the Revs. Ward Lewis and John Wine officiating. Burial will be at Evangelical Protestant Cemetery, New Knoxville.
   Calling is 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at Vornholt-Miller Funeral Home, New Knoxville.
   Contributions can be made to the church,

Edna Heitkamp

Edna M. Heitkamp, 88, formerly of St. Henry, died at 7:45 p.m. Nov. 14, 2004, at Celina Manor Nursing Home.
   Arrangements are pending at Hogenkamp Funeral Home, St. Henry.

Burley Hough

Burley R. "Muggs" Hough Sr., 71, 8628 North 450 East, Bryant, Ind., died Nov. 12, 2004, at his home.
   He was born Oct. 20, 1933, in Bryant, to Rev. Burley A.D. and Hulda M. Kessler Hough. In 1956, he married Corinne Doolan who died in 1959. On Nov. 3, 1961, he married Joyce E. Wygant who survives.
   Also surviving are two sons, Burley R. Jr. (Barbara), Geneva, Ind., and Mathew P. (Jennifer), Bryant; three daughters, Rebecca A. Bisel Hough, Bryant, Faith M. (Harvey) Hooten, Geneva, and Bonnie Y. (Michael) Carpenter, Union City, Ind.; five brothers, Robert, John (Judy) and Joseph, all of Bryant, Thomas (Marilyn) of Geneva, and Lonnie (Carolyn) of Indianapolis; three sisters, Bernice Teeple, Caroline (Homer) Jones and Carolyn (Stanley) Wittwer, all of Bryant; and nine grandchildren.
   A brother, William, is deceased.
   A farmer, he had worked as a quarryman at Karch Stone Co. and continued after the company was sold to Stoneco. In 2002, he switched to Meshberger's in Linn Grove, Ind. and retired in September. He was a member of Bluffton Wesleyan Chapel.
   Services are 11 a.m. Wednesday at Williamson & Spencer Funeral Home, Portland, Ind., the Revs. Chad Clark and Arthur Page officiating. Burial will follow at Gravel Hill Cemetery near Bryant.
   Calling is 6-8 p.m. today, 3-8 p.m. Tuesday and prior to services Wednesday at the funeral home.
   Contributions can be made to the American Cancer Society.

Edna Baker Ray

Edna F. Baker Ray, 92, 1065 Parkway St., Berne, Ind., died at 5:24 a.m. Nov. 14, 2004, at Chalet Village Health Care Center, Berne.
   She was born March 6, 1912, in Jay County, Ind., to Wilmer and Ruth E. Riesen Pyle. On March 26, 1933, she married Wilbert T. Baker who died Dec. 8, 1960. In February 1970, she married Cleo F. Ray who died Nov. 25, 1989.
   Surviving are a son, Carl (Carolyn) Baker of Berne; two sisters, Helen R. Harris, Geneva, Ind., and Hazel (Dale) Noble, The Villages, Fla.; three grandchildren, five stepgrandchildren, six great-grandchildren and seven stepgreat-grandchildren.
   A brother, Sherman E. Pyle, and a sister, Pearl Champ, are deceased.
   She was a homemaker and a former employee of Berne Furniture. She attended Taylor University and was a member of Pleasant Neighbors Home Economics Club.
   Services are 11 a.m. Wednesday at Bethel Brethren Church, Berne, the Rev. Joe Nass officiating. Burial will be at Mount Hope Cemetery, Berne.
   Calling is 1-9 p.m. Tuesday at Downing & Glancy Funeral Home, Geneva, and after 10 a.m. Wednesday at the church.

Eleanor Werling

Eleanor Josephine Werling, 95, 48 Walnut St., Burkettsville, died at 1:01 p.m. Nov. 14, 2004, at Mercer County Community Hospital, Coldwater.
   She was born July 13, 1909, in Frenchtown, to Charles and Mary K. Chappie George. On Aug. 22, 1933, she married Albert F. Werling who died April 2, 1958.
   Surviving are four sons, James R. (Marilyn) and Edward J. (Sally), all of Burkettsville, Bernard J. (Sharon) of Springboro, and Frederick J. of Sarasota, Fla.; two daughters, Norma Jean (Sam) Moorman, Osprey, Fla., and Mary Ann of Louisville, Ky.; four brothers, Kenneth (Juanita) George and Marion (Vernita) George, all of New Madison, John George, Longwood, Fla., and Lester George, North Star; four sisters, Francis Holscher, Osgood, Rosemary Kinninger, Sidney, Bertha (Arthur) Bruening, Yorkshire, and Jean Roll, North Star; 22 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren.
   Deceased are two brothers, Earl Jim and Lee Edward George, and three sisters, Luella George, Leoma McEldowney and Ruth Thiebeau.
   She was the co-founder of Werling & Sons in Burkettsville and a member of St. Bernard Catholic Church and the Rosary Altar Sodality, both of Burkettsville, and the Daughters of Isabella, St. Henry.
   Funeral Mass is 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the church, the Rev. Tony Fortman officiating. Burial will follow at the church cemetery.
   Calling is 2-9 p.m. Tuesday and 9-10 a.m. Wednesday at Hogenkamp Funeral Home, St. Henry.
   Contributions can be made to the Center for Neurological Development, Burkettsville.

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Lindsay Lohan hits London's Bungalow 8 alone

SOMETHING very fishy is going on with Lindsay Lohan, and we’re not just talking about her new trout pout.

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Despite promising the world she’s back on track, everyone’s favourite car crash, 23, has been hitting it hard since she landed on British soil.

We caught up with the cocktail-quaffing actress at London’s swanky Bungalow 8 bar where she had a permanent Sex On The Beach attached to her face.

The lone party animal spent the night with her minder, knocking back the booze and chugging on fags like they were going out of production.

Skinny Linds necked shots alone and frantically sent text messages all night.

She wasn’t the only celeb at the Adidas bash – hot model Francoise Boufhal, 21, JB, 23, from JLS, and Sugababe Jade Ewen, 22, were also there.

Our spies say LiLo hasn’t stopped telling pals how much she wants to impress billion dollar mogul Jay-Z, 40, who is also in London.

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Google steps in to offer an alternative for "losers" of the FCC Auction 73

Last week the FCC's auction for the 700 MHz wireless spectrum ended with more than just a winner. The spectrum auction ended with bids totaling $19.592 billion.

Google's failure to win any of the spectrum surprised few analysts, at least compared to the company's ulterior motive of keeping the C-block of the 700 MHz spectrum open.  Even though the company lost its bid on the C-block, the company successfully lobbied for open access terms, meaning its future devices will work with the spectrum even if the user must pay an access fee.

Google is now moving on to the second item on its laundry list: "white space" between over-the-air digital television channels.

There are a number of heavy-handed tech companies, appropriately called the White Spaces Coalition, working together to deregulate and open access to new spectrums for wireless communication.  This includes Google, Microsoft, HP, Dell, Philips, Earthlink, Samsung and a few others who prefer to remain anonymous.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates personally petitioned to Congress for open access to these spectrums, traditionally used as padding between regulated radio signal blocks.

Google has announced a working model to deregulate the white space spectrums, which it will pitch to the FCC.

The designated white space falls between channels 2-51 within the radio frequencies currently used for analog and digital over-the-air television. Since there is a good amount of unused space on this part of the spectrum, specifically between 54 MHz and 698 MHz, White Spaces Coalition members propose this could instead be allocated for high speed broadband.

Google claims it developed technologies that will help the broadband internet access industry utilize these frequencies for high-speed internet services without interfering with devices such as wireless microphones and any other devices operating within that spectrum.

Of the 1040 licenses of the 700 MHz spectrum sold in FCC Auction 73, 69% went to companies planning to create broadband and wireless alternatives to existing infrastructure.

No public member of the White Spaces Coalition won any of the Auction 73 spectrums, though members like Google were known to have bid.

Google has petitioned American companies that it will provide schematics and information for those interested in freeing of the white space frequencies.

Unfortunately for Google and its friends, such call-to-arms may fall upon deaf ears.   Aside from the fact that the White Spaces Coalition consists of Auction 73 losers, a recent report alleges severe micromanagement at the FCC, which specifically details the futility of media reform lobbies

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By darkpaw on 3/25/2008 4:51:04 PM , Rating: 2
I think you did miss my point on the first part. If it is feasible then it'll likely be licensed. Look how much money this last auction generated. If they could slice up existing spectrum into finer blocks without causing major issues that is a big potential windfall.

The problem is, my understanding at least is that the "white space" has already been included in the spectrums the existing broadcasters have paid for.

By roadrun777 on 3/25/2008 9:45:55 PM , Rating: 2
I think your wrong on this issue. It takes an enormous amount of red tape to get anything approved in the wireless arena.

There is a lot of spectrum that isn't licensed at all, for many varied reasons, and not all of them have to do with technology.

These spectrum that have been sold recently are already well defined and have been in use for quite some time now, so the legal framework is already there it just needs to be amended. Drawing up more legal and political support to section off and sell every last unused frequency would be an enormous task. One that may happen in the future, but I foresee a real battle in the future. Eventually "we the people" will have to fight for a chunk of free and clear spectrum that isn't regulated by wolves.

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A "little ice age" in our future?

Previous DailyTech stories have detailed recent cooling experienced by the planet, and highlighted some of the scientists currently predicting extended global cooling.  Even the UN IPCC has stated that world temperatures may continue to decline, if only briefly.

Now, an expert in geophysics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico has added his voice to the fray. Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at UNAM's Institute of Geophysics, has predicted an imminent period of cooling intense enough to be called a small ice age.

Speaking to a crowd at a conference at the Center for Applied Sciences and Technological Development, Herrera says the sun can both cool and warm the planet. Variations in solar activity, he says, are causing changes in the Earth's climate.

"So that in two years or so, there will be a small ice age that lasts from 60 to 80 years", he said. "The most immediate result will be drought."  Herrera says satellite temperature data indicates this cooling may have already begun.

Recent increases in glacier mass in the Andes, Patagonia, and Canada were given as further evidence of an upcoming cold spell.

Herrera also described the predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as "erroneous". According to Herrera, their forecasts “are incorrect because are only based on mathematical models which do not include [factors such as] solar activity".

Herrera pointed to the so-called "Little Ice Age" which peaked in the 17th century, as a previous cooling event caused by solar fluctuations.

Herrera made his remarks at UNAM, located in Mexico City, is the oldest university on the North American continent.

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RE: Did you hear the one about......
By FITCamaro on 8/20/2008 3:26:37 PM , Rating: 1 left wing bias on that station whatsoever......

PBS is the station that aired a special on WW2 questioning whether the US was as bad as the Nazi's because we bombed Germany during the war.

By Ringold on 8/20/2008 8:48:36 PM , Rating: 2
PBS is the station that aired a special on WW2 questioning whether the US was as bad as the Nazi's because we bombed Germany during the war.

At least there is a valid point there about bombing military targets in civilian areas (though of course, what we were supposed to do about it).

Whats worse, as far as I'm concerned, how they censored "Inside Islam: Faith vs. Fanatics" Google it. Outrageous. Speaking truth in liberal-land wrecks careers and gets censored.

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Best Buy will be the only game in town for many customers. Circuit City was second to Best Buy in the retail consumer electronics market.  (Source: AdRants)
Best Buy shall rule the land when it comes to retail electronics in the U.S.

It’s been a tough road for Circuit City. The retail electronics giant has been pummeled over the years by the likes of Best Buy and Walmart, and has been unable to turn its operations around due to the current state of the economy.

In early November, the company announced plans to close 155 stores in the United States. The stores combined accounted for $1.4 billion USD in sales for fiscal year 2008.

Just a week later, Circuit City filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection -- the filing showed that the company has $2.2 billion USD in debt and $3.4 billion USD in assets. The news got even bleaker today as Circuit City's CEO announced that the company failed to find a buyer and that it could not refinance its debt.

As a result, Circuit City will liquidate all of its remaining stores. The liquidators lined up to sell off the merchandise from the remaining 567 stores include Great American Group, Hudson Capital, SB Capital Group and Tiger Capital.

"We are extremely disappointed by this outcome," said Circuit City CEO James A Marcum "Regrettably for the more than 30,000 employees of Circuit City and our loyal customers, we were unable to reach an agreement with our creditors and lenders to structure a going-concern transaction in the limited timeframe available, and so this is the only possible path for our company."

In early July, Blockbuster rejected a deal to purchase Circuit City.

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By TomZ on 1/16/2009 3:02:46 PM , Rating: 2
I heard recently that the ratio of retail stores per capita in the U.S. is far, far higher than in Europe; the upshot being that there's going to be a LOT of vacant retail buildings in the years to come.
What gives you the idea that US retail will converge upon what exists in Europe? If anything, I would guess the opposite is true, that European retail will continue to follow trends you see in the US (and elsewhere). For example, more large chains, more competition/overlap, etc.

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The Army has decided to upgrade all of its computers, like those shown here (at the NCO Academy's Warrior Leaders Course) to Windows Vista. It says the adoption will increase its security and improve standardization. It also plans to upgrade from Office 2003 to Office 2007. As many soldiers have never used Vista or Office '07, it will be providing special training to bring them up to speed.  (Source: U.S. Army)
Army will upgrade all its computers to Vista by December

For those critics who bill Microsoft's Windows Vista a commercial failure for failing to surpass Windows XP in sales, and inability to capitalize in the netbook market, perhaps they should reserve judgment a bit longer.  Just as Windows 7 hype is reaching full swing in preparation for a October release, the U.S. Army announced that like many large organizations, it will wait on upgrading to Windows 7.  However, unlike some, it is planning a major upgrade -- to Windows Vista.

The U.S. Army currently has 744,000 desktop computers, most of which run Windows XP.  Currently only 13 percent of the computers have upgraded to Windows Vista, according Dr. Army Harding, director of Enterprise Information Technology Services.

It announced in a press release that it will be upgrading all of the remaining systems to Windows Vista by December 31st.  The upgrade was mandated by a Fragmentary Order published Nov. 22, 2008.

In addition to Windows Vista, the Army's version of Microsoft's Office will also be upgraded.  As with Windows, the Army is forgoing the upcoming new version -- Office 2010 -- in favor to an upgrade to Office 2007.  Currently about half of the Army's computers run Office 2003 and half run Office 2007.

The upgrade will affect both classified and unclassified networks.  Only standalone weapons systems (such as those used by nuclear depots) will remain unchanged.  Dr. Harding states, "It's for all desktop computers on the SIPR and NIPRNET."

Army officials cite the need to bolster Internet security and standardize its information systems as key factors in selecting a Windows Vista upgrade.  Likewise, they believe that an upgrade to Office 2007 will bring better document security, and easier interfacing to other programs, despite the steeper learning curve associate with the program (which is partially due to the new interface, according to reviewers).

Sharon Reed, chief of IT at the Soldier Support Institute, says the Army will provide resources to help soldiers learn the ropes of Windows Vista.  She states, "During this process, we are offering several in-house training sessions, helpful quick-tip handouts and free Army online training."

The U.S. Army will perhaps be the largest deployment of Windows Vista in the U.S.  Most large corporations keep quiet about how many Windows Vista systems versus Windows XP systems they've deployed.  However, past surveys and reports indicate that most major businesses have declined to fully adopt Windows Vista.  Likewise, U.S. public schools and other large government organizations have only, at best, partially adopted of Vista.

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RE: Army Gamers?
By achintya on 5/25/2009 9:37:46 AM , Rating: 2
shown here (at the NCO Academy's Warrior Leaders Course)

Picture Title. NCO = Non Commissioned Officer = Rank below Lieutenant (Corporal & Sergeant)
Therefore there exists some sort of training for NCO's.

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By Artic Joe on 5/26/2009 10:16:45 AM , Rating: 5
Its a Scenerio Simulation. They are probably doing Convoy Security Situations.

In WLC, to keep a rank structure (since its a school for all e-4/e-5 to learn to be a e-5) they give each platoon a "class platoon sgt" "class squad leader" "class team leader" and "Class first sgt" They wear the rank on their sleeves.

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Domestication of animals helped humanity thrive.

A new theory coming out of Pennsylvania State University suggests that the interaction between animals and humans played a key role in the evolution of humanity.  Penn State anthropologist Pat Shipman has just published her paper "The Animal Connection And Human Evolution" in the latest edition of Current Anthropology

Her research introduces the idea that the domestication of animals drove the development of tool-making and language, both of which have driven the success of mankind, according to Physorg

"Establishing an intimate connection to other animals is unique and universal to our species," said Shipman. Shipman indicates that the animal connection had a major influence on human evolution, genetics, and behavior.
While Shipman acknowledges that there is an increasingly intimate and reciprocal set of interactions between animals and humans -- interactions that compel humans to adopt animals as pets -- she states that the it all began when humans began observing and exploiting animals.

After watching animals and observing their habits, more than 2 million years ago, humans switched from a vegetarian diet to a meat-based diet.  Shipman said this happened because humans invented stone hunting tools that enabled them to compete with other predators, according to
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"We shortcut the evolutionary process,” said Shipman. “We don’t have the equipment to be carnivores."

Animals were then domesticated as an extension of tool-making.  Shipman described domesticated animals as living tools that also provided valuable renewable resources.

Domesticated animals were utilized for their muscular power beyond human strength, use as transport and for raw materials. Managing these living tools required some way to express and retain this information and out of that need, the development of languages were formed.

Shipman hypothesizes that this animal connection, "gave a selective advantage to humans who had better abilities to observe, draw conclusions, communicate, and to make a new sort of living tool."

Shipman is also in the process of developing a book on her findings called "The Animal Connection".

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By Reclaimer77 on 8/11/2010 5:24:45 PM , Rating: -1
Without having access to the actual article, it's really hard to call the theory baseless.

No it's not, it's easy. I just did it. :)

It's not up to me to prove her wrong. She made the theory, the burden of proof lies on her. And the simple fact is there simply is NO evidence to prove, whatsoever, that early man's evolution was guided and shaped by pet's. We don't even know if they, in fact, even HAD pets. There is a big difference between a pet and a beast of burden.

This is an exercise in thought, but not a solid theory.

RE: Make a Name for Yourself
By FITCamaro on 8/11/2010 10:17:42 PM , Rating: 1
Well we know the Egyptians had cats. But thats just because the cats were a super-intelligent race trying to steal the rotational energy of the earth who grew fat and lazy from us feeding and coddling them.

RE: Make a Name for Yourself
By Lazarus Dark on 8/11/2010 11:09:44 PM , Rating: 2
Bite my shiny metal... cat.

RE: Make a Name for Yourself
By clovell on 8/12/2010 10:33:12 AM , Rating: 2
> No it's not, it's easy. I just did it. :)

That made me smile. Seriously - This is one of the things that ticks me off about DT - we're lucky if the writer stops to look at the abstract, before posting a regurgitated story.

It is a tech site after all - we're mostly smarter than the average bear. But we don't get enough to actually discuss the merits of the research - just enough to get a click.

Come to think of it, this isn't unique to DT - the entire media world does it. <insert cataclysmic implications here>

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