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A tailored Juicy Couture blazer, cut from ponte jersey. Notched lapels and faux welt pockets create a crisp appeal, while polished buttons offer a bold touch of contrast. Exposed seams. Shoulder pads. Buttons secure the placket and detail the cuffs. Long sleeves. Lined.

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No. 25 seed Benoit Paire was drawn into the quarter initially containing Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer.

I'll say this about the International Tennis Federation: It's not the sport's p.r. house organ. The ITF, one of tennis' (too) many governing bodies, has issued a series of releases this week that support empirically what we know intuitively: This has been something other than a banner event so far. To wit:

• Wednesday set a record for players retiring with injuries in a single session.

• For the first time since '12, there are no American men surviving the second round at Wimbledon. That's 1912, the last year of the William Taft presidency over a century ago.

• Today we learned that only 10 of the top 10 men's and women's seeds combined reached the third round at this year's Wimbledon. This is the worst performance by joint top 10 seeds at any Grand Slam in the Open era.

Five days in, it's been an historic Wimbledon, but only in a negative sense. Seed after seed has fallen -- often literally -- and been bounced from the tournament. Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer bow out in the first and second rounds, respectively. The grass has been criticized so fiercely that the organizers took the rare step of issuing a defensive statement in response. Friday's play was marred by steady rain delays. If the strawberries and cream triggered an E.Coli outbreak, no one would be surprised. As a friend of mine put it today, "It's time to hit reboot on this entire event."

WERTHEIM: Tennis Nation tries to make sense of the wacky Wednesday at Wimbledon

No way, I would say. One of the great virtues of sport is that it's unscripted and unchoreographed. Sometimes you get pyrotechnics and sometimes you get duds. And maybe there's some silver lining behind the all the clouds overhead: The rash of upsets and injuries will divert the spotlight and feature some new stars. For much of the last decade, the sport has been dominated by a half-dozen players. Now we get to meet the back-up performers.

The much-anticipated quarterfinal Federer and Nadal won't happen. But now we might spend time meeting, say, Dustin Brown, the serve-and-volleying Jamaican/German who once lived in a van -- down by the Rhine River? -- shuttling between lower level events. Or, say, Benoit Paire, a quirky Frenchman who is to ballstriking what R.A. Dickey is to pitching. Or Tommy Haas, the 35-year-old who is finally healthy and making up for lost time; he has already delivered the line of the tournament so far. ("You can't buy ATP points to buy your ranking. It's not possible, otherwise [Ernests] Gulbis would be No.1 in the world," he said today.)

On the women's side, we will not get to see Miss Maria Sharapova play Miss Serena Williams -- or Mistress Williams, as Sharapova ungraciously implied last week -- in the oncourt manifestation of their off-court feud. Instead, we might get to see Madison Keys, the ascendant American; Alison Riske, a Pittsburgh native who beat Ursula Radwanska today with her green lucky baby blanket tucked away in her courtside bag; or Kirsten Flipkens, a funky Belgian who played in sunglasses despite slate-colored skies.

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Even the hardest of the hard-core fans may not know Igor Sijsling from Grega Zemlja or Marina Erakovic from Klara Zakopalova. But they are all still playing for the Wimbledon title, and each has a story to tell. If some new players can break through, and get their moment in the sun -- or the clouds -- to broaden the cast of tennis players these next few days, the ambient chaos may be a disguised blessing.

Kimiko Date-Krumm made it to the third round of Wimbledon at the age of 42, and the seemingly unstoppable, 31-year-old Serena Williams could possibly be near the top of tennis well into her mid- to late-30s. Do you think Jennifer Capriati, Lindsay Davenport or even Kim Clijsters could come back today and break into the top 20, or perhaps even the top 10, due to the lack to depth and talent in the women's tour?
-- Robby Joe, Los Angeles

• Do I think one of the aforementioned players, assuming full health, could go out tomorrow and win a few rounds against players outside the top 50? Sure. Do I think they could play a full schedule? No. To me, Date-Krumm's run here is a nice story. But it's more impressive that she's still doing this, week in week out, all over the world.

With the upcoming match between 31-year-old Serena Williams and 42-year-old Japan's Kimiko Date-Krumm, I'm curious to know if there has ever been a match with this high of a combined age.
-- Chris, San Francisco

• With a nod to John Berkok, Date-Krumm played Venus Williams, as well as Tamarine Tanasugarn, both of whom were older than Serena.

After three days, is there anything at Wimbledon to look forward to other than a Novak Djokovic-Andy Murray final? As I sit here on Thursday morning, this tournament seems a lot less interesting.
-- Srikanth, Washington

• This tournament has the vibe of one the those NCAA tournaments when the early rounds are filled with bracket-busters, and yet the favorites still win.

Michael Llodra retired from his singles match today, but then went out and won a doubles match (his opponents retired). I thought it was a rule that if you retired from singles you couldn't play doubles either. Must not have been a serious injury. Do you know any of the details?
-- Jennifer Benson, Silver Spring, MD

Take it away, Michael Llodra.

John McEnroe made a case for Nadal being the GOAT over Federer, citing the Davis Cup. I don't see how the Davis Cup goes in the GOAT equation. It just means Spain has more top players than Switzerland.
-- Mike T., Alameda, CA

• Can someone track down the video of this? Would love to see it as, I suspect, would many. I don't want to mischaracterize John but I'm surprised he'd go so far down this rabbit hole.

Quick note: in response to that guy who asked, "Speaking of conflicts of interest, what is your connection to Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf?" I'm a huge fan of both, and always appreciate the selective linking you do of them. I hope this guy's pointed question doesn't cause you to stop. Even though they are both retired, I think you do a great job of bringing them into the conversation when it's appropriate from time to time.
-- Tom Glickman, Los Angeles

• I'd add that we're talking about of the greatest tennis players ever. It's not like I'm giving periodic updates on Jaime Yzaga and Sabine Hack.

"On a serious note, it's interesting that Federer is entirely too rational for superstition." Except for his stubborn refusal to give up on an outdated racket...
-- TennisDe, Milwaukee

• I'd contend there's a difference between stubborn and superstition.

"If Sergiy Stakhovsky is akin to George Bastl doesn't that mean Federer will win the 2013 U.S. Open then retire?" I hope half of that is true.
-- Cainim, Seattle

• Why do you want him to retire so soon?

Two quick thoughts: Could Tomas Berdych be an under-the-radar finalist, now that the draw so wide open? And is this the beginning of the slow fade for my compatriot Milos Raonic? Hockey's over, and if there's no Milos playing in Wimbledon, what are we Canadians to do until the start of the CFL season?
-- Neil Grammer, Toronto

• You like the UFC? There's always Georges St-Pierre. And what about Munenori Kawaski. Oh, wait...

I'd like to propose a new rule -- if closed-ended mailbag questions can be simply answered by Google on the number one result (type in "article on federer suicide" and see what the first three words are in the result), you should reject those questions for other readers' questions who are more earnest in their desire for an answer. I know, I know -- this sounds and is snooty, but c'mon people, Google!
-- Shayne, Louisville

• Usually I abide by this rule and avoid answering questions like, "Who did Federer beat to win Wimbledon for the first time?" In the case of yesterday, addressing the question offered an opportunity to plug David Foster Wallace. So I did.

Shots, Miscellany

Dallas Mavericks' Dirk Nowitzki talks Wimbledon on The Ticket in Dallas.

• Andrew of New York, NY: Your readers/followers might be interested in revisiting this interview with Sergiy Stakhovsky, and might not know that he was subsequently elected to the ATP Player Council.

• Nathaniel Aserios of Cebu: Federer still has a streak of 41 consecutive Grand Slams in which he makes the second round or better.

• Sam of San Diego: If Sergiy Stakhovsky does not eventually win the Wimbledon champion's trophy, his older brother, Academy Award winning actor Roberto Benigni should be able to spare one of his Oscar trophies.

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Newcastle has a reputation as a party town, but there's much more to it than that, with lush green spaces to explore, glorious food to eat and the bracing North Sea to surf

If you arrive in Newcastle by train, then your first view of ‘the toon’ will be special. As the train shuffles over one of the seven bridges that span the river, you will be able to catch a glimpse of the impressive Baltic flour mill and the Sage Opera House (home of the Northern Sinfonia Orchestra), both sat snugly next to the glittering Tyne. Walking through the John Dobson-designed 19th-century train station, you can use the underground system (the only one in England outside London) to head directly to the coast, to Sunderland, or to one of the more laidback and fashionable suburbs.

Jesmond, only 10 minutes' metro ride from the station, is an intriguing blend of laidback coffee shops, upbeat bars and boutique shops. The main thoroughfare, Osbourne Road, contains enough bars to keep Oliver Reed happy, but there are some real treats to be had if you know where to look.

For the best sandwiches north of Sheffield, try Nipoti on Brentwood Avenue. Run by an Italian chap and his Geordie wife, it serves genuine Italian sausage, a mouthwatering range of salami and cold meats, and the meanest espresso macchiato outside Italy. The home-made pizzas, at £1.50 for a large slice, cannot be beaten on taste or value for money. A few doors down is the ‘only butcher in Jesmond’, Stewart & Co. When the northeastern weather allows (more often than you think!), you can enjoy a green tea and pizziola on the outside tables, but be prepared to wait: the service can be slower than you may wish for.

Where to stay

Because of licensing laws, every bar on Osbourne Road is also a hotel. Whites Hotel, above Bar Blanc at the south end of the street, has 38 ensuite rooms starting at just £39 for a single and £59 for a double. The front of the hotel overlooks the bars, so a room at the back is advised if you’ll not be out after the sun sets.

A little further away is The Townhouse Hotel. A Victorian townhouse that was renovated in 2008, it offers 10 luxury ensuite rooms, starting at only £79 per night. All the rooms were decorated by Sheila and Cathy, the current owners, and revolve around enticing chocolate browns and smooth greys. Exquisite bathrooms with flat screens and huge bath tubs help you recover after a hard day.

If you want decadent luxury, Jesmond Dene House offers 40 beautifully designed rooms (starting at £175 for a double) in a sensational Grade II-listed Georgian building that was built by the mayor of Newcastle and bought by a local industrialist. Previous guests include Rudyard Kipling, Lord Baden-Powell and numerous foreign dignitaries. Once a month they run a legendary jazz night; booking a room on one of these nights entitles you to a room, supper, world-class jazz and breakfast in the morning for only £225.

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To relax, there is no finer green space in Newcastle than Jesmond Dene itself, designed to offer a rural setting in the heart of the city. There are waterfalls, lakes, crags and pools to explore, as well as the craft fair situated on Armstrong Bridge every Sunday. A petting zoo provides great entertainment for kids.

The Ouse Burn runs through the Dene all the way down to the Tyne; following the path of the river down will bring you to the cultural quarter. Next to the Cluny pub - which serves an amazing home-made burger (£5) that will definitely keep you going until tea - lies Seven Stories, a great interactive children's bookstore/museum that will keep kids entertained.

Newcastle has several excellent restaurants that cater for all tastes and budgets. At the inexpensive end, The Gospoda in Princess Square offers authentic Polish cuisine. When I say inexpensive, I really mean it: less than £6 for a main course like the Hunter's Stew is amazing value, but the Brigand’s Pancake, a crunchy potato pancake served with goulash, takes some beating at £5.30.

Adriano’s, on the high street in Gosforth, just a mile from Jesmond, is an Italian restaurant with a great wine list. Mains are between £7 and £20. The roast suckling pig, which was added to the menu after impressing as a special, is definitely worth trying.

For a restaurant with views as good as its food, Six Baltic is, as the name suggests, on the sixth floor of the converted Baltic flour mill on the south bank of the Tyne. The sea bass with crayfish risotto and asparagus is a stunning dish, but try to leave enough space for the Pimm's jelly knickerbocker glory.

If you need to burn off the inevitable calorific overload, surfing at Longsands beach in Tynemouth will leave a lasting impression. Rubber Soul has friendly, patient tutors catering for those who have never surfed before and those who need a quick refresher; Tynemouth Surf Co is based on the cliff overlooking the breaks; and Rise boasts a British big-wave surfing legend (Jesse Davies) as a tutor and charges £50 for two lessons or £90 for four.

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Well done for trying to make people realise that there's so much more to Newcastle than binge drinking. I am an almost-local but don't know the Ouseburn area, so found this section useful. I've been wondering where Seven Stories is for ages. Maybe it would have been nice to have a bit more about Tynemouth? And I think a photo of the beach there would really make an impact on people who never associate Tyneside with beaches.

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Was Madeleine Albright really surprised about her Jewish roots?

By Franklin Foer

The Washington Post reported Feb. 4 that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's parents were Jewish converts to Catholicism and that her grandparents died in the Holocaust. Albright declared, "This was obviously a major surprise to me. I have never been told this." Many people find that hard to believe. No one criticizes Albright and her parents, refugees twice-over (first from Nazism, then from Communism), for how they chose to put their lives back together. But there is lively debate over Albright's insistence that her Jewish roots are "a major surprise."

Doubters point, first, to circumstantial evidence. How could someone as intelligent and well-versed in European history as Albright (her Ph.D. work focused on contemporary Central European politics) not have deduced her family's ancestry from what we know she knew?

Albright's father, Josef Korbel, was a foreign-service officer in the liberal interwar Czechoslovakian government. Just after she was born in 1937, he was posted to the Czech embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. But he was recalled two years later, when the Munich Pact essentially made Czechoslovakia a German province. Instead of going home, Korbel moved his family to London to join the Czech government-in-exile.

After the war, the family returned to Prague and learned, Albright says, that her three living grandparents had died. Korbel was briefly the postwar government's ambassador to Yugoslavia, but when Communists ousted the government in 1948, the family fled to the United States.

Albright knew all this. What she did not know until 1997, she says, is that her parents grew up Jewish and converted to Catholicism only sometime around the outbreak of the war. And her grandparents, along with almost all her other relatives, died in German death camps.

Should Albright have intuited these omissions? The skeptics say her parents' story begs obvious questions:

Why did a midlevel Czech diplomat harbor enough fear of Nazi persecution to uproot his family to England? Korbel was a liberal, but not necessarily prominent or active enough to worry--for that reason alone--about getting singled out.

Why did three of Albright's grandparents and most of her family die during the war? It's not clear Albright ever received an explanation. The Korbel family's casualties were especially incongruous because gentiles generally suffered less during Nazi occupation in Czechoslovakia than in other Central and Eastern European countries.

There's also Albright's relationship with her Jewish first cousin, who still lives in Prague. The cousin, Dagmar Simova, has been the media's main source of information about Albright's wartime experience. A teen-ager during the war, Simova survived in London, living with the Korbels. Simova doesn't strongly identify as a Jew, but has never been under any misapprehension about her ethnic identity. Also, Simova discovered the truth about the wartime atrocities almost immediately afterward, including her own parents' deaths in Auschwitz.

The Korbels and Simova continued to correspond after the war, and Simova met Albright briefly in Prague just after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. For reasons unknown, Albright has rejected Simova's attempts to set up more meetings, though Simova is her only surviving Czech relative. Did Simova never mention that the family was Jewish, when living with the Korbels or during subsequent sporadic communications? Did Albright not wonder why this cousin was living with them in London, or what had happened to her parents?

Albright says her parents expressed vivid recollections of childhood Easter and Christmas celebrations. These recollections may well have been true. The elder Korbels came from a small town near the Czech/German border where Jews were almost entirely assimilated into secular life, hardly practicing, and lacking any communal institutions, including a synagogue.

A second reason some skeptics doubt that Albright could have been blindsided by her own life story is that since she has risen to prominence, the suggestion that she is Jewish has been raised repeatedly. Rumors of Albright's Jewish background have been circulated ever since she was appointed United Nations ambassador in 1993. A December 1996 article in al-Hayat, an Arab newspaper published in London, asserted that Albright, as a Jew, would be a dangerously pro-Israel secretary of state. But less tendentious media outlets have also reported on Albright's ethnic background. Multiple stories about it have appeared, for example, in major Czech newspapers.

The mayor of Letohrad, the town where Josef Korbel grew up, says he sent Albright three letters in recent years. The letters included recollections of her family and the clippings from Czech newspapers alleging her Jewish heritage. Albright says that she received several other similar letters as well. But she says they contained too many factual errors and inconsistencies for her to take them seriously.

Over the years, other people have come across the facts about Albright's background that she says she never knew. An Israeli official told the Post that Czech immigrants to Israel told the government in 1994 that Albright's parents had been Jewish. Western reporters in Belgrade say they have encountered people who recall reading press reports from the late '40s about Albright's family. Apparently, Josef Korbel was a minor celebrity during his stints there, and his conversion to Catholicism and his parents' deaths in the Holocaust were reported in the city's papers.

According to the New York Times, Albright told White House officials preparing for her confirmation hearings in December that she suspected her grandparents had been Jewish. That was a month before the Washington Post story ran.

Franklin Foer is editor at large of the New Republic. He is the author of How Soccer Explains the World.


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Utah State University analysts predict student enrollment in the state will rise 28% over the next decade, just as nearly half of Utah's teachers will become eligible for retirement. With a more robust economy now, legislators hoping to avert an educator crisis are mulling raising entry-level salaries, expanding mentoring to new teachers and giving scholarships for graduate study in math and science.

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Children at an English school have been banned from throwing snowballs at their classmates unless they ask their target's permission first.

In a move that rewrites the rules of playground winter warfare, pupils at Fairway Middle School, Norwich, have been told they will be punished if they launch sneak attacks.

Instead, if they want to throw a snowball at another pupil, they must now approach them and ask whether they are happy to be a target. Only once they have secured consent are they allowed to try to hit them.

Douglas Gowans, the principal, said the policy was simply an extension of normal school rules.

He said: "We told the children that if they were playing a game they had to make sure that everybody who was taking part wanted to be in it."

He denied being a killjoy, saying the restriction had not dampened the children's fun. "I went outside at lunchtime and they were being sensible and having fun. They were throwing snowballs, but nobody was complaining and it was all good-natured."

With much of the snow now turning to ice, the school - which has 215 pupils aged eight to 12 - has issued a complete ban on snowballing after several children who were hit suffered cuts and bruises. But the children were still allowed to build snowmen.

The move has won the support of parents and teachers' representatives.

Belinda Yaxley, of the Norfolk Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations, acknowledged that the ban "might look like political correctness gone mad".

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Peter Eldridge, of the National Union of Teachers, said: "With the litigious nature of the society we live in now, I can see where the head is coming from. It is a sensible thing to do."

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It was 1930, the depths of the Depression. The paying crowd for the Melbourne Cup had dipped to 72,358, down 20,000 on the previous year, a decline attributed to "the stringency of the money market". But at least 40,000 more packed on to the flat and Scotchmans Hill overlooking Flemington to watch the race free.

"Caution was the feminine characteristic in fashions," an observer noted, although "the coats and furs which dominated the dressing did not seem to cover up the variety of colours that lent gaiety to the parade below the Hill".

But no one had come to see the frocks and hats that day. They were all there to see Phar Lap win the Cup. To add a few shillings to their otherwise empty pockets. But mainly to be part of the most eagerly awaited moment in Australian racing history until, well, perhaps today.

To compare the brilliant Makybe Diva to Phar Lap on performance alone remains a sporting heresy, perhaps akin to comparing a mere champion batsman such as Steve Waugh to Don Bradman.

In the spring of 1930 Phar Lap won 10 times, including a race on each of the four days of the Melbourne Cup carnival, a feat now as seemingly unattainable as Bradman's batting average of 99.94. Yet, if Makybe Diva will never match Phar Lap's greatness, no other Cup contender since Big Red has created as much interest as the mare as she attempts to do what no other horse has done - to win a third Melbourne Cup.

In the race's 144 years there have been many compelling tales. Archer's walks from Nowra to win the first two Cups in 1861-62. The great champion Carbine beating 38 others home in record time in 1890 with 65.5kg on his back. Stars such as Galilee and Rain Lover returning to scale to rapturous applause. The Irish horse Vintage Crop cementing the Cup's newfound international status by churning through the slop in 1993.

Yet these stories were written only after the race was run and won. What links Phar Lap's appearance in 1930 with Makybe Diva's tilt at history today is the sheer expectation, something stirred both by the brilliance and popularity of the horses and, in Makybe Diva's case, by the uncertainty that has surrounded the decision to run.

As the Flemington track was watered yesterday for the final time, softening the surface to a condition Victoria Race Club officials said would be "good with give", threats by the trainer, Lee Freedman, and the owner, Tony Santic, to scratch Makybe Diva if the ground was too hard were expected to come to naught.

With 28 degrees forecast, the VRC expects up to 130,000 at Flemington today - more than the record 122,736 who saw her win in 2003. The VRC chief executive, Dale Monteith, has called it a "defining moment in the history of the race" and suggested that, for the first time, the "house full" sign could go up.

The added interest created by Makybe Diva is likely to see Australians bet far more than the $151million wagered on the race last year, with the prospect the seven-year-old mare will start the shortest priced favourite since - yes - Phar Lap (11/8 on). Indeed, so much money did he carry that he spent the days before the race hidden at a property near Geelong after surviving an assassination attempt, believed to be the work of gambling interests, the previous Saturday morning.

The VRC has for the first time this year assigned security guards to each of the horses running in the Cup, and Makybe Diva's day is expected to be far less dramatic. She will be loaded in a float at Freedman's property on the Mornington Peninsula before making the two-hour trip to Flemington, arriving within two hours of the race's 3pm start.

As ever, she will be saddled backwards in her enclosure - hind quarters facing outwards to avoid possible injury because she sometimes likes to kick. Then she will be led into the mounting yard by the strapper Christine Mitchell, where Freedman will give the jockey, Glen Boss, his final instructions and a leg-up into the saddle.

Then Makybe Diva will trot down Flemington's long straight, past the public lawn where men dressed in nuns' habits and women dressed in not much at all will scream her name. Then into barrier 14 before the gates open and the crowd roars. It will be 75 years since Phar Lap walked out onto the same track. We might never see a horse like him again. But, win or lose, Makybe Diva will have given us another moment of careless rapture.

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PEPTIDE sellers supplying some Sydney athletes have gone into meltdown, removing products from sale and pulling down their websites.

The Medical Rejuvenation Clinic in Bondi, part-owned by the discredited Essendon AFL team scientist Stephen Dank, has removed some online products and closed its Bondi shopfront. A company director, Edward van Spanje, was answering the phone on Sunday but hung up on Fairfax Media.

He has been telling potential buyers that, in light of the frenzy about peptide use in professional sport, they will need to provide more information to obtain a ''prescription'' to buy online.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration has banned the sale of peptides without a prescription. The Justice Minister, Jason Clare, said he would meet state attorneys-general in April to make it illegal to supply peptides to professional athletes.

But many vendors are still selling them. Several operate as a ''research clinic''. Biokem Research, a Queensland company, was selling peptides online and Pro Peptides at Castle Hill was selling peptides on Sunday.


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Volvo then turned to a 38-year-old mechanical engineer named Nils Bohlin, who had developed pilot ejector seats for the Saab aircraft company. Bohlin knew it would not be easy to transfer aerospace technology to the automobile. "The pilots I worked with in the aerospace industry were willing to put on almost anything to keep them safe in case of a crash," he told an interviewer shortly before he died, in 2002, "but regular people in cars don't want to be uncomfortable even for a minute."

After a year's research and experimentation, Bohlin had a breakthrough: one strap across the chest, another across the hips, each anchored at the same point. It was so simple that a driver or passenger could buckle up with one hand. Volvo introduced the result—possibly the most effective safety device ever invented—50 years ago; other automakers followed suit. No one can tally exactly how many lives Bohlin's three-point seat belt has spared, but the consensus among safety experts is at least a million. Millions more have been spared life-altering injuries.

But before we break out the champagne substitute to honor the three-point seat belt's demi-centennial, we might also consider the possibility that some drivers have caused accidents precisely because they were wearing seat belts.

This counterintuitive idea was introduced in academic circles several years ago and is broadly accepted today. The concept is that humans have an inborn tolerance for risk—meaning that as safety features are added to vehicles and roads, drivers feel less vulnerable and tend to take more chances. The feeling of greater security tempts us to be more reckless. Behavioral scientists call it "risk compensation."

The principle was observed long before it was named. Soon after the first gasoline-powered horseless carriages appeared on English roadways, the secretary of the national Motor Union of Great Britain and Ireland suggested that all those who owned property along the kingdom's roadways trim their hedges to make it easier for drivers to see. In response, a retired army colonel named Willoughby Verner fired off a letter to the editor of the Times of London, which printed it on July 13, 1908.

"Before any of your readers may be induced to cut their hedges as suggested by the secretary of the Motor Union they may like to know my experience of having done so," Verner wrote. "Four years ago I cut down the hedges and shrubs to a height of 4ft for 30 yards back from the dangerous crossing in this hamlet. The results were twofold: the following summer my garden was smothered with dust caused by fast-driven cars, and the average pace of the passing cars was considerably increased. This was bad enough, but when the culprits secured by the police pleaded that ‘it was perfectly safe to go fast' because ‘they could see well at the corner,' I realised that I had made a mistake." He added that he had since let his hedges and shrubs grow back.

Despite the colonel's prescience, risk compensation went largely unstudied until 1975, when Sam Peltzman, a University of Chicago economist, published an analysis of federal auto-safety standards imposed in the late 1960s. Peltzman concluded that while the standards had saved the lives of some vehicle occupants, they had also led to the deaths of pedestrians, cyclists and other non-occupants. John Adams of University College London studied the impact of seat belts and reached a similar conclusion, which he published in 1981: there was no overall decrease in highway fatalities.

There has been a lively debate over risk compensation ever since, but today the issue is not whether it exists, but the degree to which it does. The phenomenon has been observed well beyond the highway—in the workplace, on the playing field, at home, in the air. Researchers have found that improved parachute rip cords did not reduce the number of sky-diving accidents; overconfident sky divers hit the silk too late. The number of flooding deaths in the United States has hardly changed in 100 years despite the construction of stronger levees in flood plains; people moved onto the flood plains, in part because of subsidized flood insurance and federal disaster relief. Studies suggest that workers who wear back-support belts try to lift heavier loads and that children who wear protective sports equipment engage in rougher play. Forest rangers say wilderness hikers take greater risks if they know that a trained rescue squad is on call. Public health officials cite evidence that enhanced HIV treatment can lead to riskier sexual behavior.

All of capitalism runs on risk, of course, and it may be in this arena that risk compensation has manifested itself most calamitously of late. William D. Cohan, author of House of Cards, a book about the fall of Bear Stearns, speaks for many when he observes that "Wall Street bankers took the risks they did because they got paid millions to do so and because they knew there would be few negative consequences for them personally if things failed to work out. In other words, the benefit of their risk-taking was all theirs and the consequences of their risk-taking would fall on the bank's shareholders." (Meanwhile investors, as James Surowiecki noted in a recent New Yorker column, tend to underestimate their chances of losing their shirts.) Late last year, 200 economists—including Sam Peltzman, who is now professor emeritus at Chicago—petitioned Congress not to pass its $700 billion plan to rescue the nation's overextended banking system in order to preserve some balance between risk, reward and responsibility. Around the same time, columnist George Will pushed the leaders of the Big Three automakers into the same risk pool.

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    Welcome to UU Revamps, another place where amazing also happens. The same base rules as in Analysis Workshop apply here.

    1. UU Revamps is for posting major peer edits and full revamps to the Pokemon playable in the UU metagame. This includes the UU, NU, and NFE tiers. If the Pokemon you want to revamp is not on those lists, do not post here. However, do not refer to NU / NFE tiers. There is no metagame for these tiers yet, and therefore there should not be descriptions on them.

    2. All analyses must also comply with the Team Options sections outlined in this thread.

    3. Do not post sets without testing them thoroughly. Sets that are obviously untested will be locked and/or infracted. Post a collection of logs if your set seems gimmicky. Do not post copycat sets without significant playtesting; even if a certain set works on Pokemon X, it may not work for Pokemon Y, regardless of how similar the two Pokemon may be.

    4. Small, objective changes (like a typo, etc.) should be posted in the Small Changes thread. Likewise, small subjective changes (like an alteration to an EV spread, etc.) should be posted in the Small Subjective Changes thread.

    5. Proofread all peer edits posted, multiple times. Nothing is more irritating than misspelling the name of the Pokemon you're analysing. If you aren't fluent in English (and by fluent, we don't mean "I can read/write English", we mean "I understand the subtleties of the English language and can write prose that flows well.") pair up with someone who is and get them to transcribe your gibberish. This similarly applies to the content and accuracy of the content. Read about grammar, capitalization, and other standards here

    6. Under no circumstances are you allowed to post illegal sets. Check if your set is illegal here. Any offenders will be infracted.

    7. Follow proper SCMS format for all peer edits made. The following post contains a copyable version of said format. chaos's HTML Primer is also a useful resource.

    8. You are responsible for merging in the changes people give you. Otherwise, you aren't helping us at all.

    9. This is a serious forum; make your posts reflect this. Do not make useless and/or trolling posts in this forum. Any obviously gimmicky sets will be locked. Don't go offtopic in peer edits and always submit intelligent, well-thought out posts backed with reasoning. Post constructive criticism. Pointing out something is bad doesn't help anyone, help by providing a solution or suggesting a change (unless the work is truly unsalvagable, in which case, don't comment at all - the thread will be locked in due time.).

    10. If you are a badgeholder, wait at least 48 hours before uploading sets to the SCMS. Once they are uploaded, ask a member of the Smogon Site Staff to cache and move the analysis to the Peer Edit Archive. Ask them, also, to append an asterisk to the end of the thread title. This is for administrative uses.

    11. Link to the analysis you are editing in the OP of your thread. This is for administrative uses.

    12. Make sure to follow the Smogon-wide Forum Rules as well. The rule regarding bumping older threads is somewhat lax in Analysis Workshop, as long as your post contributes something to the thread or helps get things done. Useless posts will still be infracted.

    Thanks for contributing to Smogon and remember: ask not what your Smogon can do for you, ask what you can do for your Smogon!

    Any inquiries regarding the rules can be sent to: darkie, Caelum, Great Sage, DP Crobat, Havak, Twash, or Mekkah, as well as any other member of the Smogon Site Staff.
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    name: The set's name. Avoid stuff like "ObiMence" and other names. If it has a name people generally use, put that here ("CBMence", for instance), otherwise, give it a short and easy description.
    move 1: The first move (generally the most important)
    move 2: Next most important
    move 3: You should know what goes here by now
    move 4: And here. Limit the number of move / move / move kind of stuff ("slashitis"). If you really think the Pokemon can use Hidden Power Poison, Tackle, Rock Throw, Take Down, Struggle, and Sketch here, just pick the best one or two, and mention the others in other options or the set description.
    item: Put the item here
    ability: Put the ability here if you need to specifically recommend one over the other. If a Pokemon has two abilities, and they are just as good (or just as bad), there's no reason to put Run Away / Illuminate here.
    nature: Nature goes here. Just put the nature name (Impish), don't put Impish (+Def, -SpA)
    evs: The proper format is HP / Atk / Def / SpA / SpD / Spe. If an EV is 0, don't list it.
    ivs: If an IV is 31, don't list it. This is primarily for purposes of Hidden Power (Persian is an excellent example of this), but you may also want an IV of 0 in Speed for Trick Room or what have you. The proper format is the same for EVs, HP / Atk / Def / SpA / SpD / Spe.

Set comments go here with proper HTML formatting, as chaos explained in the HTML primer. Use this to explain specific information about the set itself. This is not a place to give a general overview of the Pokemon; that can go in the "Opinion" section.

    [Team Options]

This area is designed for in-depth comments about team support. You are expected to write about general support; what stuff Gyarados can use in general to maximize its utility. What else can be used to take out the Pokémon's counters? What Pokémon are likely to be paired with the opponent's counters? Finally, one should add what general strategies can be used team-wise, where you can also emphasize anything else you want to.

    [Other Options]

Put alternative moves here. You can think of moves worthy of putting about anywhere but were not mentioned yet, but also moves you put on one set, but not on another. In that case, you would go "on the bulky set, Roar is an option as well, to blah blah blah", even if Roar was already on your mixed sweeper set. Give reasons for every move you suggest, don't just say "Zap Cannon, Focus Punch, Water Sport, Mimic, Mach Punch, Iron Defense.".

This is me describing the general EV spread of the Pokemon! This is a good place to explain why Charizard might want its HP to be odd (so it can switch into Stealth Rock twice) if it's not using Substitute + Belly Drum. Perhaps you will give the important Speed breakpoints to meet ("Charizard wants to be at least 272 Speed to outpace Jolly Scarf Wobbuffet, which requires 144 Speed EVs with a neutral nature. If you are going that high, however, you might as well get to 274 Speed so you're faster than even Jolly Beedrill, which means Charizard will need 152 Speed EVs.").

Just because this section is titled Opinion doesn't mean you don't have to back up what you say. Better than "I like Charizard." is "I like Charizard because it gets STAB Fire Punch, Blaze, and a powerful Flying STAB to back it up.". Better still is to simply remove the "I" part and just go with "Charizard's power comes from its STAB Fire Punch paired with Blaze and STAB Flying attacks.".

People are reading the analysis to learn about the Pokemon, not you; to be honest, nobody really cares what "you" think.

Jumpluff can come in on your Substitute, Belly Drum, or Earthquake and Encore you, but can't come in on your STAB moves. This is another Pokemon that counters Charizard in a similar manner to Jumpluff.

Because Charizard has a lot of possible counters, I've decided to break this up into more paragraphs than one, but because I did this, I need to group the counters logically. This would be a poor place to put Encore Alakazam, because it's so similar to the above mention of Jumpluff. Instead, I could mention Suicune here, because it walls all of Charizard's attacks and poses an offensive threat. Or maybe I'll mention how much Charizard is hurt by Stealth Rock here. Remember, the counters section isn't necessarily reserved for Pokemon, you can mention other dangers. An excellent example of this is how Shedinja needs to watch out for certain weather and all entry hazards.

Don't list Weavile as a Charizard counter, even if it does have Specs HP Rock. Sure, you may be faster and have a OHKO, but you can't switch in Weavile on any of Charizard's moves without dying. Some Pokemon, however, are like Garchomp, in that it's very difficult to counter them directly. In this case, mentioning things like Weavile may be warranted, if for no reason other than because Garchomp's counters section would be pretty meager otherwise, and because once it's locked into an Outrage, it can't switch out. However, these types of counters need to be Pokemon that prevent switching somehow (Arena Trap, Pursuit, stopping an Outrage, etc.) or threaten a wide variety of Pokemon. Sure, you may be able to kill my Pokemon with yours after you first sacrifice something to bring it in, but if your Pokemon can't actually cause damage to the rest of their team or set up something like Spikes, then I will just switch out and you will accomplish nothing, because you are using an overspecific counter. That is not the kind of counter we want in this section.

    If any of the lines has no information on it (for instance, a Pokemon with all 31 IVs), you can simply delete the entire line (so it would go EVs:, then [Set Comments]).

    Here's a copyable version:

    move 1:
    move 2:
    move 3:
    move 4:

    Formatting guide and outline created by obi.
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    Corrigendum: Although you are allowed to post revamps of any Pokemon that is in UU or lower tiers, remember that at least two tiers will be formed that are lower than UU. Our current focus is on Pokemon that are in the "OU" of UU.
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Sweeteners / Health & Wellness / Columns

The skinny on sugar

The skinny on sugarSugar always gets a bad rap. It’s been accused of causing many diseases and conditions, from diabetes to tooth decay. (More later on why the latter is accusations, not facts.)

There are many kinds of “sugars” in our food supply:

•  Sucrose is the most common, manufactured from sugar cane or sugar beets and commonly called table sugar; high fructose corn syrup, invert sugar, crystalline fructose and glucose.

•  “Natural” sugars include honey, date sugar, maple syrup, molasses, agave nectar and other fruit concentrates, as well as table sugar.

•  Artificial sweeteners include Aspartame, saccharin, sucralose, acesulfame, Neotame and Stevia.

•  Novel sweeteners include Tagatose, Trehalose and sometimes Stevia.

•  Sugar alcohols include erythritol, hydrogenated starch hydrolysate (HSH), isomalt, lactitol, maltitol, mannitol, sorbitol and Xylitol.

Unfortunately, the terminology isn’t consistent. Some artificial sweeteners claim to be “natural,” even though they may be highly refined. Some, such as sucralose, comes from sucrose.

Sugar, natural sugars and sugar alcohols all contain from zero to 4 calories per g., while artificial and novel sweeteners rarely contain any calories. The latter are usually much sweeter than sugar, so less is required.

In addition to taste, table sugar provides water binding for preservation, adds texture and color to baked goods and bulk for ice cream, and balances acidity and controls crystallization. Saccharin, sucralose, acesulfame and Stevia can be used in cooking and baked goods.

The pros and cons

We hear a lot about “added sugars,” but what exactly does that mean? Unfortunately, definitions vary, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines them as sugars added during processing or at the table, not innate sugars, such as fructose in fruit and lactose in dairy products.

Researchers analyzed 2003-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data and found that two-thirds of the added sugars we consume are found in four major categories: Sugar-sweetened beverages (30.7%); sugars and sweets (13.7%); sweetened grain products (12.6%); and fruit drinks/fruitades (10.3%). They also found that 87% of Americans are consuming the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendation of 25% or less.

Are we consuming too much sugar in total, as some nutrition professionals would lead us to believe? The USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) estimates consumption of all caloric sweeteners in different ways. Often cited measures are by “deliveries.” In other words, these statistics detail the amount made available in the food supply, rather than what people actually consume. This data does not consider loss or waste during production, shipping and in the home. However, new ERS data “adjusted for loss” shows a decrease in consumption of all caloric sweeteners from 89.2 lbs. per capita in 1999 to 76.7 lbs. in 2011. Interestingly, this happened during a time of increased obesity and increased calorie consumption from all sources.

There are positive attributes to sugar besides the flavor enhancement of foods. Contrary to popular belief, sugar consumption doesn’t adversely affect children’s behavior. An analysis of 109 peer-reviewed studies showed no evidence that sucrose leads to hyperactivity.1  Research shows that sugar may improve cognitive ability in infants, the elderly and people with Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s.2

Sugars do add calories to the diet and can contribute to dental cavities, as do all fermentable carbohydrates without proper oral hygiene.

The bottom line is that sugar adds enjoyment to our lives and should be savored in moderation, as part of a balanced diet. SF&WB

1 Benton, D. “Sucrose and Behavioral Problems.”
Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. 48:385-401, 2008.

2 Schorin, M.D.; Sollid, K.; Edge, M.; and Bouchoux, A. “The Science of Sugars, Part 4: Sugars and
Other Health Issues.” Nutrition Today. 47 (6):
275-280, 2012.

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Moyes vs. Fulham

In the last several interviews and press-conferences, there has been a definite theme to many of David Moyes’ press conferences: luck. “Luck” has been the reason for a large section of their season going south, injuries, and a plethora of other issues that have Manchester United currently treading water in 7th place. “Luck” was even the main antagonist in United’s 2-2 draw with Fulham, but it is certainly feeling like the new United manager is definitely running out of his new favorite scapegoat. How much more of a leash does this guy have?

As soon as the United result was final, any other of the top six teams in the same position and acquiring that same result with the last place team in the EPL would have been fired immediately (even Wenger and Mourinho). Moyes is still at the helm and there are even rumors that United will be sticking with their current manager through the upcoming summer and allow him to wheel and deal in the summer window in order to try and rebuild the team. If that rings true, then Moyes is dealing with mountains of luck. The list of players that are taking their talents outside of Old Trafford at the end of this season seems massive and no amount of money can have the Red Devils immediately rebound.

Fulham ties against United

With that type of mass exodus this summer and the rumored amount of money that the Glazers are hoping to spend in the window, it does seem unlikely that Old Trafford will have to bear witness to another finish where the Europa League is the best the team can hope for. But, such a massive change in personnel can almost guarantee that the next Red Devil Premiership title will not see United challenging for at least another two years. For a team that made winning the title the rule instead of the exception, this much time without a shot at their prized possession will certainly cost Moyes his job…but will it be at the end of this campaign or the next?

Moyes is quickly running out of his luck and he is certainly aware of the type of hole he has put his squad in. In a few months, he will point to his “discovery” of Januzaj, his wrangling of Mata, and a few other “straws” to try and draw attention away from the job he has put in so far. The media campaign from the club will also voice how difficult a battle it has been for the new coach and the host of injuries that he has dealt with during his tenure. Brace yourself for one of the most obvious summers of misdirection from a club EVER if they keep Moyes in the head honcho’s chair. At this point, it does seem less and less likely that United will be parting with the embattled manager and increasingly likely that they will give him more time than he deserves…because of that, Moyes is dealing with more “luck” than we could have ever imagined…

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Catholics Rejoice: Pope Approves Of Social Media

Today Pope Benedict XVI expressed his appreciation for social media telling it represented an opportunity to provide a voice to people kept silent for much too long.

Well, he didn't say it like that. He actually said social media was “the starting point of communication for many people who are seeking advice, ideas, information and answers.”

He's a sly one, that Pope Benedict, and I mean that with the utmost respect. It would have been easy for him to have continued to ignore social media, or become a detractor, focusing on its less than stellar aspects as a time-wasting rumor mill, but instead he came out with his scepter blazing in defense of what is arguably the most powerful communication tool in the history of human kind.

Unfortunately, I don't think his pronouncement about the benefits of social media will have much impact. It's unlikely Catholics have been avoiding using it, or confessing their social media sins every Sunday ("Forgive me Father for I have Facebooked...")

I was raised a Catholic, though I am not a practicing anything, and I have an abundance of family and friends who remain practicing Catholics, and none of us have had any qualms about social media.

This May the Vatican will take part in the 46th World Day of Social Communications where it is anticipated more discussion about the impact of social media on the human species will take place, and even more pronouncements, some good, some maybe not so good, will be made.

Until then Catholics may continue to use social media to stay connected to their friends, family, church and the greater global conversation without worrying about whether or not they are committing a sin.

But eventually Lent will come around I predict at least a few of them will be giving up Facebook.

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Wow! I did 140 minutes of Wii Fit Plus, Walk It Out and EA Sports Active!

I started with Walk It Out, then Wii Fit Plus, then I just kept going and decided to try the Sports Active.

I'm feeling so much better today after being sick for 3 days.

I hope I can keep up the momentum.

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Ok, (sigh) here we go again! I WILL be starting a walking program. I WILL get up to 10,000 steps/per day.

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MKPQ51 9/10/2009 9:56PM

    Congratulations for starting again! There may be many start overs, but if you stick to it and make changes along the way, you're going to see some great results in your journey to a healthier lifestyle.

Absolutely, starting small and building up is a great idea. SP has lots of ten minute exercise videos; if you're not familiar with them, check 'em out.

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CEACARP 9/10/2009 9:29PM

    That is a good Idea i have done the same thing i am currently on day 12 and i have been increasing my walking a little more each time my wife and i walk so i dont get burned out either. Congratz on starting back KEEP SPARKING.

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Not looking forward to tonight...

Thursday, June 11, 2009

have to start drinking the junk before the colonoscopy tomorrow. emoticon

I really don't want to do this! But after tomorrow--and everything goes ok!--it will all be over. I just really don't relish what I have to go through tonight. emoticon

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MEXGAL1 6/11/2009 8:05PM

    Gosh, have "fond" memories of such an event myself. My girlfriend's Mum was diagnosed with colon cancer so she needed to get the colonoscopy and she was visiting me in Mexico when she got the news. So I needed one as well.....so we did it together...we drank the stuff and headed to our own bathrooms and then went back to watching tv and then we both would run again...we were on the same clock. Both of ours turned out well and we still giggle about what good friends do together. The cost here in Mexico was good as well. We paid about $200 US and come home with a CD of the proceedure. Best of luck to you!

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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Well, here we are at the end of another year.

Tomorrow the New Year means a new start. emoticon

My goals for 2009:

Start a walking program
Use the rebounder
Start a strength training program
Eat healthy
Take care of ME!

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MICHELAR 1/1/2009 12:09PM

    Great goals doll! Happy New Year!

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