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At Home on Floyds Fork with Dr. James Ramsey
September, 30 2015	 | Bob Hill
Higher education, Presbyterian faith and the tight-knit, rural community of Fern Creek were deeply imbedded in his family long before Dr. James Ramsey became president of the University of Louisville.
So was the nearby, meandering presence of Floyds Fork and its often waterlogged Irongate Golf Course – a failed course that's been given a new life and will soon become the newest member of the nearly completed Parklands of Floyds Fork family.
What matters most in this Ramsey family history is how that legacy is now playing a part in Louisville's future. It's well-aged, rock solid – and relentlessly circular. Like so many Louisville family stories, it keeps running into itself in different ways, times and places.
The proof of its staying power can be seen in his presidency of the University of Louisville – as well as the two community buildings named in his family's honor; one at a Presbyterian church, another a middle school.
"My roots," said Ramsey, "are very much Fern Creek."
What follows is the proof of all that:
William Ramsey – James Ramsey's grandfather – came from North Carolina in 1909 to attend the Louisville Presbyterian Seminary on Broadway, now the home of Jefferson Community and Technical College.
After graduation in 1912, William Ramsey became minister at Beulah Presbyterian Church on Bardstown Road in Fern Creek. He and his wife, Perrye, lived in the seminary building on campus.
The church itself dates back to 1795 and the Pennsylvania Run Presbyterian Church. After the Civil War, many Presbyterian churches were bitterly divided over northern and southern allegiances, with the Beulah Presbyterian Church emerging from that in 1868.
Its first home was the Old Stone House on Bardstown Road owned by a Miss Margaret Guthrie. The first church building – a traditional meeting house with one large room – was erected in 1870.
It was there that William Ramsey became minister from 1912 until 1920 – and again from 1926 to 1941. The church expanded over the years, adding a basement, class rooms, stained glass windows, offices and a library. The old manse was torn down in 1958; a new one built a short distance away.
John L. Ramsey – the father of James Ramsey – was born in the manse on church property in 1917. He became a legendary athlete at Fern Creek High school, and was recruited to Western Kentucky University by the famed basketball coach E. A. Diddle where he met his wife, Louise Rowe.
Her father, Curtis Rowe, ran the L&N RR station house in Scottsville. The family lived right on the property; the scent and sounds of trains everywhere; you could walk out the front door and there was the depot.
There would be a slice of geographic coincidence in the meeting of John Ramsey and Louise Rowe. Scottsville is on U.S. 31E – the same U.S. 31E that runs through Fern Creek as Bardstown Road, and right past the Beulah Presbyterian Church.
And Bardstown Road would continue to run through the heart of the family.
"If you stop and think about it," said Ramsey, "it is kind of interesting."
His parents married in 1941. They would be married 60 years and raise two children, James and Suzanne. Both parents began teaching at Fern Creek High School. His mother, uncomfortable with the fact she was teaching in a school her two children were attending, moved on to Seneca High School to teach math.
She then attended the University of Louisville – the school which her son would someday lead – for her master's degree. She would become a guidance counselor at Seneca, retiring in 1976. She died in 2001 and was buried in Resthaven Memorial Park on Bardstown Road.
Her husband, John Ramsey, would work at a Rubbertown factory for a time, and taught and coached at Fern Creek High School for nine years.
He also received his masters from the University of Louisville. He moved on to the Jefferson County Public Schools system, eventually becoming associate superintendent for general administration, retiring in 1975. He died in 2010 at age 93 and was buried near Louise in Resthaven Memorial Park on Bardstown Road.
Dr. James Ramsey was born in 1948 at the old Baptist Hospital on Barrett Avenue. He grew up in a house on Fern Creek Road, attended Fern Creek Elementary and nearby Fern Creek High School – living only 10 houses away.
"The elementary school building is no longer there," he said, "but the current schools are all still on the same campus and location. I've been out many times and visited the last three principals, actually, and try to keep some of my roots there."
Fern Creek was isolated then, with miles of Bardstown Road farmland separating it from Buechel to the north – where General Electric built its massive Appliance Park in 1954 – and Floyds Fork and Mount Washington to the south.
Fern Creek remained rural, tight knit, a mostly blue-collar community of churches and interrelated families. The Gene Snyder Expressway that would fully open the community to suburbia and urban sprawl was still years away. It had a volunteer fire department and a community center with a small library.
There were the classic small-town doctors like Dr. Everett Neil Rush, a general practitioner who birthed and served thousands of residents, and Dr. Clyde Moore, another town doctor for 46 years.
Louisville was a distant place, a journey. Ramsey's childhood memories were made visiting Fanelli's Ice Cream store in Buechel, or taking a bus to Broadway and Fourth Street downtown with all those movie theatres – the Mary Anderson, Rialto, and United Artists. Back then everyone shopped at Stewart's and Kaufman's.
"When I was a sophomore or junior in high school it was a huge deal when they built the Showcase Cinemas on Bardstown Road, and you didn't have to do downtown," he said.
When Ramsey was 13 his family moved a few miles north from Fern Creek Road to an isolated home on Bardstown Road next to Wildwood Country Club. The area had begun to change; Bardstown Road had expanded to four lanes and commuter traffic was heavy.
"There were no neighborhoods there, no parks, nothing for kids," he said of his new home. "You couldn't go out and ride your bike and there weren't any neighbors.
"So from the time I was 13 until I was 16 and could get a driver's license, I'd get up, walk over to Wildwood Country Club and caddy.
"Gene Sullivan, a famous name around here, was the pro. There weren't any golf carts in those days, and so I'd hang out over there."
Hanging out was necessary. The work wasn't steady. The golfers were given cards to evaluate the caddies; Class A, Class B, etc. Only the Class A caddies earned $3 a bag.
Did some-day college president Ramsey receive an A rating?
And after work did he ever go wading for lost golf balls in the actual Fern Creek – the little stream that ran through the course that had given the community its name.
The caddies would also come in at 1 a.m. some mornings to clean up after parties. The fringe benefit would be on Mondays – when the course was closed – the caddies could play the course free, or go swimming in the pool.
At age 16, driver's license in hand, Ramsey got a job as a delivery boy for the Oak Drug Store in the Eastland Shopping center at Watterson Trail and Bardstown Road. His vehicle was a little Plymouth Valiant.
"So I would drive all over," he said, "not just Fern Creek but Buechel and sometimes into Jeffersontown and Okolona.
"They trusted me," he said, "and Muhammad Ali had moved out off Nachand Lane and Watterson Trail. So his dad would call in sometimes for refreshments. You know, drugstores had more than drugs.
"And so they would probably break the law but they let me be the one to take beer out to the house. And sometimes you would see Muhammad Ali.
"He was not living at home, but every now and then you'd go over there and he was home."
Ramsey also delivered medicine to a Bardstown Road nursing home owned by two local businessmen – Wendell Cherry and David Jones – the home that was the beginning of the far-reaching Humana empire. David Jones would eventually become a huge financial supporter and advisor for U of L – and a Ramsey supporter.
After graduating from Fern Creek High school in 1966 – where he played basketball against the likes of future U of L legend Wes Unseld – he attended Western Kentucky University.
He met his wife, Jane Langley Ramsey, in a story worthy of the coming-of-age movie "American Graffiti." Jane grew up in South Louisville, the daughter of an L&N Railroad employee who worked in the maintenance yard that's now the site of Papa John Cardinal Stadium. Her grandfather was an L&N engineer. She was in the first class to graduate from Iroquois High School in 1968.
She would, for a time, attend what was called Jefferson Community College on Broadway in a building that once housed the former Presbyterian Seminary – the same building James Ramsey's grandfather had used.
"I met her right before I went back to Western," said Ramsey, who worked summers at the Brown & Williamson factory at 15th and Hill streets to earn money.
"The Fern Creek kids hung out at the Jerry's on Bardstown Road and she hung out at a Jerry's on New Cut Road.
"She had been somewhere with a friend and I had been somewhere with a friend, and we just drove over to a Jerry's on Preston Highway, and she and her friend drove over…and we just met."
Jane Ramsey later transferred to Western Kentucky University. The couple married in 1972 – 43 years ago.
His path to the presidency of the University of Louisville is a bibliography that runs through a BS from WKU, a PhD in economics from the University of Kentucky, economics professorships at Middle Tennessee State University, Loyola University and the University of Kentucky and, in 1992, becoming vice-president for Finance at WKU.
"I thought I was going to retire in Bowling Green," he said.
His stops also included six months duty in the U. S. Army active reserves, serving Kentucky governors John Y. Brown, Wallace G. Wilkinson and Paul Patton in overlapping policy areas of investment, debt management, budget and economic analysis and becoming Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.
He returned to Kentucky in 1999 to be both an economics professor at U of L and the Kentucky State Budget Director.
"I come in at 8 a.m. to teach a class at U of L and then take off for Frankfort," he said, "and then they offered me the presidency in Louisville."
With his wife as partner – she grew up three miles south of U of L – they worked to revitalize the housing, park and business area around the campus, a job made easier with the tremendous boom in athletic facilities at the edges of the school.
Their two daughters, Jenny and Jacque, would include U of L in their academic experiences; Jenny with a nursing degree and Jacque with an MBA.
His administration has been lauded for the school's tremendous growth in campus facilities, landscaping, enrollment, academic achievement, research and fundraising. He has also been heavily involved in many community and civic projects in the Louisville area.
The work comes with some criticism, most recently for a current lack of racial diversity on its 20-member Board of Trustees – 17 of who are appointed by Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear.
There have also been complaints about his salary – set by the board – that is about three times higher than other comparable schools, a salary strongly defended by the trustees and community leaders who cite his many ongoing accomplishments.
He always believed he would finish out his career teaching; the U of L board had other ideas, extending his president's contract to 2020.
"We've still got some things I think that we need to get done," he said.
His family, Fern Creek and even Floyds Fork connections and memories are part of that need to keep improving U of L and its larger community; finish the job.
Some of that grew from stopping at an old family restaurant on Floyds Fork when headed south to visit his grandmother in Scottsville.
Some came from a Fern Creek rite of adolescence; teenagers would drive their cars into Floyds Fork just south of Fern Creek on Saturday and Sunday afternoons to play around and wash them.
"I wouldn't really call it swimming," he said. "We'd just fool around in the water, drink beer, whatever."
Then there was the old Irongate Golf Course at Seatonville he played as a member of the Fern Creek High School golf team – an area now transformed into meadow, new plantings and a park road.
"I mean if you hit your ball off line you're in Floyds Fork," he said.
There is also the old cemetery off Seatonville Road where he was walking with Parklands Chairman and CEO Dan Jones a few years ago and saw the name "Ellingsworth" on a tombstone.
"There was an Ellingsworth family I knew in Fern Creek," said Ramsey, "and I told Dan, 'Geez, I wish my dad were still alive. He could tell me the name of everybody who's buried here."
There are other, more solid Ramsey family memorials in the area, too. There's the Ramsey Activity Building at Beulah Presbyterian Church named for his grandfather, and the John L Ramsey Middle School just off Billtown Road a few miles from Seatonville named for his father.
Shortly before his father died more than 115 students from Ramsey Middle School went to sing for him at the Episcopal Church Home where he was living.
On occasion, Ramsey said, when feeling melancholy, he will drive Bardstown Road past the Buechel Presbyterian Church, or visit Resthaven to where his parents and sister – who also taught school for a time – are buried. He'll also drive past Ramsey Middle School to stay in touch with all that matters.
Former Louisville-Courier columnist Bob Hill is a historian for The Parklands of Floyds Fork. He travels Floyds Fork writing of the people, the places and the history of the stream within the 20-mile park system - all of which is to be preserved in the Filson Historical Society. Some of Hill's stories appear in A Landscape and its Legacy, the commemorative book for The Parklands of Floyds Fork project. Hill has also compiled a Floyds Fork "Places & Faces" presentation that adds imagery to the words.


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Q: Area between arc and line I have been working on a problem for a few days now. This was a challenge problem on a lecture for Trigonometry. I managed to find an equation for the radius, but wasn't able to solve it.
Problem: Line $AB$ is drawn such that $\overline{AB} = 20$. Minor arc $AB$ is drawn with endpoints $AB$ such that the length of arc $AB$ is $21$. Find the area of the region bounded by the arc and the line.
Progress: First, draw the full diagram as shown below.

We can compute the area of $\angle{ABC}$. Using the Law of Cosines, we have that
\begin{align*}
\cos C &= \frac{a^2+b^2-c^2}{2ab} \\
&= \frac{2r^2-400}{2r^2}\\
&= 1-\frac{200}{r^2}
\end{align*}Therefore, $\angle ACB = \cos^{-1}\left(1-\frac{200}{r^2}\right)$. The length of the arc in terms of $\angle ACB$ is
\begin{align*}
&\frac{\angle ACB}{360}2\pi r \\
&= \frac{\angle ACB}{180}\pi r \\
&= \frac{\cos^{-1}\left(1-\frac{200}{r^2}\right)}{180}\pi r
\end{align*}We know that
\begin{align*}
&21 = \frac{\cos^{-1}\left(1-\frac{200}{r^2}\right)}{180}\pi r
\implies \\&\frac{3780}{\pi r} = {\cos^{-1}\left(1-\frac{200}{r^2}\right)}
\implies\\ &\cos\left(\frac{3780}{\pi r}\right) = 1-\frac{200}{r^2}
\end{align*}
However, I couldn't solve this equation. Any help would be appreciated. I can also visualize a calculus approach involving finding the area between two curves, but I want to solve it in an elementary way if possible.

A: hint
Let $t $ be the angle $\angle ACB .$
Then
$$21=rt $$
and
$$r\sin(t/2)=10 .$$
the area we want is the difference
$$S=\frac {r^2}{2}t-\frac{20.h}{2} $$
with
$$h=r\cos(t/2) $$
hence

$$S=\frac {21}{2}r-10\sqrt {r^2-100} $$

with $r $ satisfying
$$r\sin (\frac {21}{2}r)=10$$

A: As angryavian commented, the problem reduces to : find the zero of $$f(\theta)=\frac \theta {\sin\left(\frac\theta 2\right)}- 2.1\qquad \text{or}\qquad g(\theta)=\theta-2.1{\sin\left(\frac\theta 2\right)}$$ which can only be solved using numerical methods.
Let $x=\frac\theta 2$ to make the equation $$x=1.05 \sin(x)$$ and use, for an approximation, the magnificent $$\sin(x) \simeq \frac{16 (\pi -x) x}{5 \pi ^2-4 (\pi -x) x}\qquad (0\leq x\leq\pi)$$ was proposed by Mahabhaskariya of Bhaskara I, a seventh-century Indian mathematician (see here).
Skipping the trivial $x=0$, this leads to the quadratic
$$4 x^2+\left(\frac{84}{5}-4 \pi \right) x+\pi\left(5 \pi -\frac{84  }{5}\right)=0$$ the positive solution of which being $$x=-\frac{21}{10}+\frac{\pi }{2}+\frac{1}{40} \sqrt{7056+3360 \pi -1600 \pi ^2}\approx 0.537445$$ making $$\theta \approx 1.07489$$ while the exact solution would be $\approx 1.07682$.
With this first result, we could use a Taylor expansion around $\theta=\frac \pi 3$ and get $$g(\theta)=\left(\frac{\pi }{3}-\frac{21}{20}\right)+\left(1-\frac{21 \sqrt{3}}{40}\right)
   \left(\theta-\frac{\pi }{3}\right)+\frac{21}{160} \left(\theta-\frac{\pi
   }{3}\right)^2+O\left(\left(\theta-\frac{\pi }{3}\right)^3\right)$$ Ignoring the higher order terms, another quadratic leading to $$\theta \approx 1.07683$$

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facebook in the white house
Mark Zuckerberg reportedly keeps an 'open line' with Jared Kushner
byKathryn Krawczyk
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Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg reportedly has a direct line to the White House.
At Facebook's outset, Zuckerberg was "completely apolitical," a former Facebook public policy director tells The Wall Street Journal in a deep dive into Zuckerberg's politics. But that all changed in 2016 amid criticism that Facebook steered the election, leading Zuckerberg to start getting closer with the company's top publishers — and the White House.
Publicly, Zuckerberg branded himself as "a work in progress, open to self-reflection and eager to understand other perspectives," the Journal writes. But "behind the scenes," was focused on ensuring the site didn't seem partisan with an emphasis on free speech, leading some Democratic officials to see him as "overly deferential to conservatives," the Journal continues. Indeed, Zuckerberg started forming close ties to conservatives with the help of the Trump-backing Facebook board member Peter Thiel and global head of policy Joel Kaplan, a former deputy chief of staff to George W. Bush.
One of Zuckerberg's newfound ties is to President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner. The two "sometimes discuss Facebook policies over WhatsApp," the Journal reports. And earlier this year, people familiar with the matter say Zuckerberg talked about the video app TikTok's U.S. presence with Kushner and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. "Zuckerberg also has forged ties with right-leaning publishers that drive engagement on the platform," including Ben Shapiro, who formerly ran the conservative Daily Wire, the Journal writes.
"Any insinuation that [Zuckerberg] encouraged the administration to ban TikTok is false," a Facebook spokesperson said. Zuckerberg declined to comment to the Journal. Read more at The Wall Street Journal.

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Dr. Martin Luther King, ninety years after his birth and 51 years after his murder, was honored Thursday at events from coast to coast.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, recreating King's final day in Memphis, marched from the Clayborn Temple to the Lorraine Motel — following the path from the hub of the sanitation workers' strike that brought the civil rights icon to Tennessee to the site where he took an assassin's fatal bullet while standing on a balcony.
And son Martin Luther King III, along with other family members, will join in a candlelight vigil and wreath-laying ceremony at the national memorial honoring his father in Washington.
The anniversary will be marked by AMC Theaters with free screenings of Sidney Lumet's 1970 Oscar-nominated documentary "King: A Filmed Record ... Montgomery to Memphis" at 100 theaters nationwide.


Responding to the Productivity Commission's draft report on removing export service barriers, ABDC says Australia needs to do more to support sustainable growth of our international education sector.
As ABDC member schools graduate two-thirds of international university students in Australia, we welcome simplified streamlined visa processing and the Productivity Commission's recommendations to introduce nationwide transport concessions and to look at regulatory changes that enable more flexible and innovative course delivery for international students onshore. Although currently one in five university business schools are ranked among the top 200 worldwide, in an increasingly complex and global international education market, our international reputation is at risk. Australia needs to do more to sustainably grow the international education sector and attract the best international students and academics.
Investment into developing Australia's international reputation for education and research excellence, as well as the support services required to promote Australia as an attractive study destination and to deliver good international student outcomes.
Ensure business – the preferred discipline for international students globally – is included as a priority for education and research funding and ABDC is included in further consultation on international education export development strategy, policy or regulation.
Encourage industry to provide relevant industry-based-learning for international university students during and after their study. Lack of these opportunities are significant barriers for developing a sustainable international education market in Australia.
Secure recognition of Australian qualifications for international graduates who have ambitions to undertake further study or work in their home country.


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Blog Tour: What To Do About POTASS: A Comedic Novella of Political Errors by Glenn Shepard @WhatToDoAboutPotass @KeriBarnum @RRBookTours1 #Satire #Comedy #Politics #Books
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Welcome to the blog tour for What to Do About POTASS, a hilarious political satire by Glenn Shepard! Read on for more details and an exclusive excerpt!
What to Do About POTASS: A Comedic Novella of Political Errors
Publication Date: October 4th, 2019
Genre: Political Satire/ Comedy/ Novella
Publisher: Mystery House Publishing
What To Do About POTASS tells the story of the bumbling antics of legislators and The President or, as he is known in the book, POTASS. When Capitol Hill maintenance worker Thomas Wilson (or Will Thompson, as POTASS calls him) overhears different groups of legislators scheming about saving the country through various plots, he believes it's incumbent on him to notify The President, who has recently hired him part-time to collect press clippings. But The President dismisses Wilson's pleas. Will the legislators bungle their way to greater disaster or can they succeed in their efforts to rescue the country? Where does Thomas Wilson fit in? How will they all ultimately decide What To Do About POTASS? Read this book, and it will have you laughing out loud.
This new novella is the first comedic endeavor for surgeon-turned-thriller-author Glenn Shepard (Dr. Scott James Thriller Series, including The Missile Game, The Zombie Game, The Ebola Game, and The Encryption Game). Ever with an aim to heal, in What to Do About POTASS Dr. Shepard offers the sorely needed medicine of comic relief in this politically divisive age.
"Bipartisan political tomfoolery. Diet Cokes. Bungled assassination attempts. Secret meetings in basement restrooms. Great Walls. Poisonous needles. And the most popular President of all time, POTASS. What more could anybody want in a great modern day political satire? This book is of this moment and also one for all moments. Read it. Laugh out loud. Pure satiric genius. Enjoy." ~ Rich Krevolin, Author of Screenwriting in the Land of Oz and The Hook
"I like Diet Cokes." The President pointed to the button. "This guy brings a Diet Coke each time I press it, at least eighteen times a day. Diet Coke stimulates my whole body and my brain as well. It improves my performance, which I need to stay on top of everything I do. I drink one before my every tweet. In fact, during my most productive days, when I do two dozen tweets in an evening, I just about pop from the heavy intake." He laughed.
"How about I bring you a hamburger for dinner tonight, one of those monster burgers with onion rings and bacon? That'll get your mind flowing strong again. And I have a few ideas to float, if you are in the mood to listen."
The President looked up and nodded slowly. "The burger sounds good, but I want two of them, with a double order of French fries. And I don't know if I want to hear your ideas or not. There are just too many people who seem to think they know better than I how to run this country. I'll have burgers delivered to the West Gate at six. Pick them up and return here. Just come in. No need to knock since I'll know it's you."
Wilson awakened in the morning with a start. He looked around and saw that he was in The President's office, lying on a sofa that was not a part of the office yesterday. The President was there reading at his desk.
Wilson sat up and rubbed his eyes. "Where are all the people that were here last night?"
"I dunno. I hope Congress is in session today, but no one has told me that." A President who was so warm and open to Wilson last night was coldly indifferent, like someone else.
GLENN SHEPARD is the author of The Missile Game and The Zombie Game. His first novel, Surge, was written while he was still a surgical resident at Vanderbilt. In the following years he wrote The Hart Virus, a one-thousand-page epic about the AIDS crisis, as well as three other novels. In 2008, he created "Dr. Scott James," his Fugitive-
like action-hero, and began publishing the series. The first volume of the Dr. Scott James series was originally released as Not For Profit, but was later changed to The Missile Game.
Born on a farm in eastern Virginia, Dr. Shepard lives and maintains a thriving plastic surgery practice in Williamsburg. The third volume of The Dr. Scott James Thriller Series, The Ebola Game, is due out this year, through Mystery House.
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U of S Researchers Given $1.2M for Prion Disease Studies
Published on May 7, 2008 May 7, 2008
Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan have been given a $1.2 million boost in their efforts to find solutions to threats posed by prion diseases.
The funding, provided by PrioNet Canada, is part of an $8 million total injection into 19 projects by 60 researchers across the country. The goal is to accelerate discoveries surrounding prion diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, commonly known as mad cow), chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and elk, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a variant human form of CJD acquired through the consumption of BSE-contaminated cattle products.
"Ultimately, these projects will translate to safer food, health, and environmental systems for Canadians," PrioNet scientific director Dr. Neil Cashman stated in a news release about the funding announcements.
Prion diseases are untreatable, infectious, and fatal neurodegenerative diseases. Normal prion proteins are found on the surface of the cells of both humans and animals. Prion diseases occur when the normal prion protein is misshapen into the infectious disease-causing form. Research is still trying to determine exactly how the misshaping occurs. Prions represent a new class of infectious agents that cause disease because, unlike other viruses or bacteria, prions do not contain any DNA or RNA.
Dr. Andrew Potter from the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO), based at the U of S, is heading up the work on developing a BSE vaccine for cattle. This vaccine would not only provide the first preventative treatment against BSE, but also considerable cost savings to Canada as current BSE-testing regimes are expensive and cumbersome. Furthermore, Potter's research may lead to vaccines that will aid in the prevention of other prion diseases.
The other U of S project, intended to minimize the spread of CWD in wild deer, is being led by Dr. Trent Bollinger. To date, culling infected herds has been the main practice to try stopping the spread of CWD, but such efforts have not been successful. In addition, the persistent spread of CWD in wild deer leads to increased transmission risks to other species, like moose, or even humans.
Bollinger's study will provide key data on movement patterns of wild deer in the environment and evaluate the effects deer culling and the presence of feed supplements have on the transmission of CWD in wild deer. This information will help shape policy and wildlife management strategies to reduce the incidence and spread of CWD.
The economic crisis resulting from the May 2003 discovery of a Canadian BSE-infected cow spurred the research. PrioNet Canada, established in 2005 through the federal government's Networks of Centres of Excellence program, was created to position Canada as a world leader in prion disease research.
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LAPD officer shoots 13-year-old boy playing with pellet gun after dark. $19.2 million net award. Los Angeles County.
13-year-old boy with pellet gun is shot by LAPD officer on street after dark. Circumstances of shooting are disputed. Quadriplegia. $19.2 million net after contributory negligence.
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NASCAR TALK | NBC SPORTSNASCAR Trevor Bayne
Decade in Review: Best NASCAR finishes of the 2010s
By Daniel McFadinDec 19, 2019, 9:00 AM EST
From Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010 to Sunday Nov. 17, 2019, there were 3,564 days that went by on the calendar.
In that time span, NASCAR's three national series held 924 points races.
That's a lot of races, but unfortunately not every one had a memorable finish.
What were the best race finishes of the 2010s?
NBC Sports' NASCAR writers compiled 21 memorable finishes from across the decade and then voted on them.
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Here are the resulting 10 best finishes in NASCAR from the last decade:
1. Watkins Glen International, Aug. 12, 2012
To borrow a phrase from "Saturday Night Live's" famous club critic, Stefon, this finish had everything.
On the last lap around the New York road course, the rumble began when the second place car of Brad Keselowski made contact with and spun leader Kyle Busch in the esses. Then it was on. Keselowski, the eventual Cup champion, and Marcos Ambrose, the defending race winner, took part in nothing short of a brawl, aided by a track coated in oil that had leaked onto the surface.
The two drivers went off course twice in the bus stop, kicking up a cloud of dirt. Ambrose slid going into Turn 5 and recovered enough to deliver a shot to Keselowski's rear bumper, opening the door for Ambrose. Keselowski then returned the favor in Turn 6, sending Ambrose off course and setting up a drag race to the final turn. Ambrose's position on the inside line prevailed, as he beat Keselowski through the final right-hander and went on to claim his final Cup Series win.
On this day, the best club in New York was called "The Glen."
2. Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval, Sept. 30, 2018
The drama from the last lap of the inaugural Bank of America Roval 400 came in the final turn and ensured the Roval's historic Cup debut would not be forgotten.
Defending champion Martin Truex Jr. led Jimmie Johnson, who hadn't won (and remains winless) since the June 2017 race at Dover. As they approached the frontstretch chicane, Johnson moved to Truex's left side for a pass. But Johnson's brakes locked up and sent his No. 48 into a spin that ended with it hitting Truex's right rear, which turned the No. 78 around.
That's when Ryan Blaney swooped in to take the checkered flag and score his only win of the year.
Almost forgotten in the chaos was Kyle Larson. Larson had been limping his battered No. 42 Chevrolet around the track following a wreck. He bounced off the wall twice in the final turns and passed the prone car of Jeffrey Earnhardt right before crossing the start-finish line. That gave Larson a 25th-place finish. That one extra spot placed Larson in a tie with Johnson and Aric Almirola for a transfer spot to the Round of 12. But the tiebreaker did not favor Johnson.
3. Chicagoland Speedway, July 1, 2018
Usually when the two frontrunners in a race make contact twice in the last lap and the second contact results in the first-place car going into a slide and the second-place car pancaking the wall, it's not likely you'll see a 1-2 finish between those same cars.
Don't tell that to Kyle Busch and Kyle Larson.
This last-lap duel between them included Larson's failed "Slide Job!" on Busch exiting Turn 2 and the first contact between them.
Then in Turn 3, Busch gave a push to Larson's rear bumper, which sent the No. 42 into a slide as Busch contacted the wall.
Thanks to a 55-lap green flag run to end the race, the third-place car of Kevin Harvick couldn't overtake either as Busch won and Larson finished second.
(Photo by Chris Trotman/NASCAR via Getty Images)
4. Daytona 500, Feb. 21, 2016
The Toyotas of Joe Gibbs Racing and Furniture Row Racing had the front of the field locked down for most of the 2016 Daytona 500. That was true right up to the checkered flag.
Denny Hamlin was fourth at the white flag before a push from Kevin Harvick in the outside lane propelled Hamlin to the rear bumper of leader Matt Kenseth entering Turn 3. Kenseth's attempt to block a move by Hamlin to the inside resulted in slight contact that had Kenseth successfully avoid a spin or worse.
That set up a drag race between Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. and Hamlin winning his first Daytona 500 by .010 seconds, the closest finish in race history.
5.(tie) Daytona International Speedway, Feb. 25, 2012
There's last-lap passes for the win and then there's what James Buescher did in the 2012 Xfinity Series season opener.
Buescher, driving the No. 30 Fraternal Order of Eagles Chevrolet for Turner Scott Motorsports, was in 11th place as the field navigated through Turn 4 for the last time.
Buescher technically passed the 10 cars in front of him. In reality, he avoided a really big wreck.
It would be the only Xfinity win for the cousin of Chris Buescher. James would go on to win that season's Truck Series title, earning four of his six career Truck wins.
Also, what's up with cars sponsored by the Fraternal Order of Eagles and wacky Daytona wins?
(Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)
5. (tie) Martinsville Speedway, Oct. 28, 2018
Martin Truex Jr. was two turns away from winning his first short track race in the Cup Series.
Then Joey Logano pulled the rug out from underneath him.
After a spirited six-lap battle between the drivers, the playoff race came down to the final two turns. Logano gave Truex's rear bumper a shove, drove underneath him and the two made contact as they exited Turn 4. Truex got sideways, Logano won and Truex finished third after Denny Hamlin snuck by him.
The win locked Logano into the Championship 4.
Three weeks later, Logano would pass Truex late in the season finale to win the race and his first Cup title.
7. Sonoma Raceway, July 26, 2016
If Tony Stewart was going to get his 49th and final Cup Series win on any type of track and in any fashion, it had to be a road course and it had to involve some bent fenders.
Stewart earned the eighth and final road course win of his career on this day after a last-lap duel with Denny Hamlin. Stewart lost the lead on the back half of the course. But opportunity presented itself in Sonoma's signature hairpin turn.
Hamlin wheel hopped as he entered the turn, which left the inside open to Stewart. He took advantage and while Stewart passed Hamlin, he delivered an authoritative door slam to Hamlin's car before racing to the checkered flag.
8. Homestead-Miami Speedway, Nov. 20, 2016
Jimmie Johnson only led three laps all night in the 2016 season finale. They were the only three that mattered.
Johnson, who started from the rear due to failing pre-race inspection, only took the lead on the overtime restart, taking it from Kyle Larson. Johnson then held off Larson and Kevin Harvick to claim the win and his record tying seventh Cup title.
9. Auto Club Speedway, March 24, 2013
Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin made contact multiple times during the last lap around the 2-mile track in Fontana, California.
The last instance allowed Kyle Busch to streak by on the outside for the win as Hamlin slid toward the inside wall and Logano scraped along the outside wall. Hamlin's car would impact the wall nose-first with the incident injuring his back.
Hamlin would sit out the next four races before returning at Talladega.
(Photo by Jerry Markland/Getty Images for NASCAR)
10. Daytona 500, Feb. 20, 2011
Trevor Bayne might be the epitome of a one hit wonder in NASCAR.
A day after turning 20, Bayne made his second career Cup start. It came in "The Great American Race" driving for the historic Wood Brothers Racing.
On the second attempt at a green-white-checkered finish, Bayne received a pushes from Bobby Labonte and Carl Edwards over the last two laps.
Bayne would not win again in 187 Cup starts, the last start coming in 2018.
Honorable Mentions: 2018 Daytona 500, 2011 Coca-Cola 600, 2016 Truck Series race at Canada, 2015 Martinsville Cup playoff race and 2015 Truck Series race at Charlotte.
Now's your chance to vote. What is the best finish of the 2010s?
I've been in lots of these crazy finishes. Some good and some bad. Memorable none the less
— Denny Hamlin (@dennyhamlin) December 19, 2019
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Decade in Review: Most memorable NASCAR moments of the 2010s
The NASCAR of 2010 and the NASCAR of 2019 offer completely different landscapes, from different postseason formats, rules packages, series sponsors and a rapidly changing driver pool driven by the "youth movement."
A lot happened over the last 10 years, but what are the moments that defined the sport in the 2010s?
Here are 10 moments and stories as voted on by NBC Sports' writers.
1. Aug. 5, 2018
It was a Sunday that began a new era for NASCAR.
Just after 5 p.m. ET, NASCAR's soon-to-be-voted most popular driver, Chase Elliott, claimed his first career Cup Series win after a late-race duel with Martin Truex Jr. at Watkins Glen International.
The victory on the New York road course came in Elliott's 99th Cup start and deep into his third full-time season of competition.
Roughly two hours later and more than 300 miles away in Sag Harbor Village, New York, NASCAR CEO and Chairman Brian France was arrested on charges of aggravated driving while intoxicated and criminal possession of a controlled substance.
France took a leave absence and later pled guilty to the DWI charge. He was replaced in his position by his uncle, Jim France, one of the sons of NASCAR founder William H.G. France.
Jim France is now the permanent CEO and Chairman of NASCAR.
In the past year, while staying out of the spotlight, Jim France has overseen the integration of the sanctioning body with its track operation arm, International Speedway Corp., the merging of NASCAR with ARCA (which goes into full effect next year) and the Cup Series' transition to a new premier sponsor model starting next year.
Elliott has won six times in the last two seasons and has been voted most popular driver both years.
2. Johnson ties Petty and Earnhardt, Nov. 20, 2016
Jimmie Johnson's record-tying seventh Cup Series title did not come easily.
After starting the season finale from the rear of the field due to a pre-race inspection failure, the Hendrick Motorsports' driver did not lead in the season finale until an overtime restart to finish the race.
He led the final three laps and solidified his name as one of the greatest to drive a stock car, alongside Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr. Johnson's seven titles are spread out over 11 years and multiple playoff formats.
3. Playoff elimination format introduced, 2014
NASCAR unveiled a new post-season format in 2014 that ensured the championship would be decided among four drivers in the final race of the season.
A field of 16 drivers are now whittled down over three rounds with the Championship 4 settled on after the Round of 8. In the finale, the highest placing driver is the champion.
Kevin Harvick claimed the first title under this format, earning his first championship in the process. So far all six championships under the elimination format have been claimed by the winner of the season finale.
Kyle Busch's 2019 title made him the first repeat champion of the playoff era.
(Photo by Chris Graythen/NASCAR via Getty Images)
4. "Spingate," Sept. 7, 2013
Richmond Raceway was the site of the 2013 Cup regular season finale and a race manipulation scandal that had far reaching consequences.
Michael Waltrip Racing was at the center of "Spingate," which got its name from the alleged intentional spin conducted by Clint Bowyer in the closing laps of the race, one part of a plan intended to get Bowyer's teammate, Martin Truex Jr., into the playoffs.
The plan, while initially successful, eventually backfired.
NASCAR fined MWR $300,000, the largest fine in the sport's history, and docked Bowyer and Truex's teams 50 points each. Truex was knocked from playoff eligibility and replaced by Ryan Newman.
Further controversy over alleged coordination between Team Penkse and Front Row Motorsports resulted in Jeff Gordon being added as a 13th driver to the playoff field the following weekend.
As a result of the controversy, NAPA Auto Parts withdrew from sponsoring Truex's team after the season and began sponsoring Chase Elliott at JR Motorsports (and eventually at Hendrick Motorsports).
Truex wound up at Furniture Row Racing in 2014 and three years later won the Cup championship with the single-car team.
Michael Waltrip Racing closed its doors after the 2015 season.
5. Tony Stewart's final championship run, 2011
When the 2011 Chase for the Cup began, two-time champion Tony Stewart entered the postseason with no wins and believing his team was a waste of space in the playoff field.
Then Stewart reeled off five wins in 10 races, including the season finale in Miami, where he beat Carl Edwards and clinched the title in a tiebreaker over Edwards.
Stewart remains the only Cup driver to earn their first win of the season in the playoffs and go on to win the championship.
6. NASCAR returns to dirt, July 24, 2013
Arguably one of the most anticipated NASCAR events since the inaugural Brickyard 400 in 1994, the Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series returned NASCAR to its roots in 2013 with its first race at Eldora Speedway, the dirt track owned by Tony Stewart.
Austin Dillon claimed the win in the inaugural event and other winners of the Eldora Dirt Derby include Bubba Wallace, Kyle Larson, Matt Crafton, Christopher Bell and Chase Briscoe.
7. Juan Pablo Montoya, a Jet Dryer and a Tweet, Feb. 27, 2012
Twitter as a social media platform has existed since 2006. But NASCAR Twitter™ came into its own late on a Monday night during the rain delayed Daytona 500.
With 40 laps left the and the race under caution, something broke on the No. 42 Chevrolet of Juan Pablo Montoya as his car entered Turn 3. His car then slammed into a jet dryer, causing a fiery explosion, spilling gas across the track and destroying Montoya's car.
No one was hurt, but it led to scenes of track workers cleaning up the mess with Tide, drivers racing each other to a port-a-potty and the cherry on top, Brad Keselowski's tweet from inside his No. 2 Dodge during the red flag.
Keselowski sent the tweet at 9:58 p.m. ET and NASCAR Twitter was born.
My view pic.twitter.com/RWn3xMn6
— Brad Keselowski (@keselowski) February 28, 2012
8. "Five Time," Nov. 21, 2010
Jimmie Johnson got his decade off to a notable start by accomplishing a feat no one had done before or will likely repeat.
Johnson successfully won his fifth-consecutive Cup title, two more than the previous best feat of three straight by Cale Yarborough (1976-78).
Next season will be Johnson's final full-time Cup campaign and he'll try to start the next decade just like he started this one, by making some championship history with his eighth title.
(Photo by Jared C. Tilton/NASCAR via Getty Images)
9 (tie). Danica Patrick's Daytona 500 pole, Feb. 17, 2013
Danica Patrick's NASCAR career ended after 252 national series starts, the last coming in the 2018 Daytona 500.
Patrick never won in her time in a stock car, and the long-term impact of her time in NASCAR and her popularity likely won't be evident for a while.
But there's one thing that can never be taken away from her time in the sport: her pole for the 2013 Daytona 500.
That's how Patrick started her first full-time season in Cup, by becoming the first woman to win the pole for a Cup Series race.
9 (tie). Trevor Bayne's only Cup Series win – Feb. 20, 2011
Trevor Bayne only won once in his Cup Series career and boy did he make it count.
The day after his 20th birthday, driving the Wood Brothers' No. 21 Ford in his second career start, Bayne survived the second green-white-checkered finish attempt of the Daytona 500 and won the "Great American Race."
Bayne would make 187 Cup Starts, with the last coming in 2018 with Roush Fenway Racing.
9 (tie). Enter the Roval – Sept. 30, 2018
Marcus Smith, Speedway Motorsports Inc. and NASCAR couldn't have asked for a better debut for the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval.
It all came down to the last lap and the final turn on the new road course, which combined Charlotte's traditional oval and the revamped infield circuit, the first of its kind in NASCAR.
Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson made contact and spun while racing for the lead, Ryan Blaney stole the win and Kyle Larson drove his battered No. 42 Chevy by the prone car of Jeffrey Earnhardt to pick up the one spot necessary to force a tiebreaker with Johnson and Aric Almirola and advance to the second round of the playoff.
Come back tomorrow for the best race finishes of the 2010s.
Now it's your turn to vote. What was NASCAR's most memorable moment of the 2010s?
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Long: Playoff drought could be coming to an end for one team
By Dustin LongAug 13, 2019, 2:34 PM EDT
BROOKLYN, Mich. — As cars ran out of fuel Sunday at Michigan International Speedway, Ryan Newman gained positions.
Then his engine sputtered, and he ran out of fuel in Turn 4.
On the final lap.
Newman made it to the finish line without losing any spots. He went from 18th to 12th in the last three laps as others coasted or had to pit for fuel.
Those six spots gained — and six points collected — helped stretch Newman's lead for one of the final Cup playoff spots. He can help end a significant playoff drought. Newman enters Saturday night's race at Bristol Motor Speedway (7:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN) 15th in the standings. Clint Bowyer, who holds the final playoff spot, is 10 points behind Newman.
MORE: Click here for the point standings.
Not since 2006 has the No. 6 team made the Cup playoffs. That car number was the first number Roush Fenway Racing used when it entered NASCAR's premier series in 1988 with Mark Martin. And it was Martin in the car when it last made the Cup playoffs. Now it's Newman's ride and he is three races away from making the playoffs.
"To get into the (playoffs), race our way in throughout the whole season, it would show a huge step for the program," said crew chief Scott Graves.
The team struggled last year with Trevor Bayne and Matt Kenseth sharing the ride. Graves, who had been Daniel Suarez's crew chief for the majority of the past two years at Joe Gibbs Racing, joined Newman with the No. 6 team this year.
Topping off for fuel played a key role in Newman's finish at Michigan. Twenty-seven cars pitted on Lap 150 under caution but Newman returned to pit road the following lap to top off on fuel. Only Newman and teammate Ricky Stenhouse Jr. came back to pit road to top off for fuel on Lap 151
Without that extra fuel, Newman would have run out sooner and lost positions — and points.
Ryan Newman is in a playoff spot with three races left in the regular season. (Photo by Brian Lawdermilk/Getty Images)
Newman looks to lead the No. 6 back in the playoffs with a grinding style that has not been pretty but has been productive.
The team has struggled to find speed. Newman has not started better than 16th in the last 15 races. It's a key reason why Newman has scored 19 stage points in that span.
Newman is ahead of Bowyer, Suarez and Jimmie Johnson in the race for the final two playoff spots. Bowyer (54 stage points), Suarez (23) and Johnson (37) each has more stage points than Newman.
With the deficit on stage points, Newman and his team have had to score solid finishes. That made Graves' decision to top off for fuel on Lap 151 at Michigan critical.
"We know the guys we're racing against here, they've got the potential on any given weekend to go up there and bust off stage points and potentially win," Graves said. "Obviously we are working really hard. We are grinding it out and getting the finishes we can to stay in this.
"That's how we have to race right now. We know that to get in and even get anywhere in the (playoffs) if we do get in, we've got to really work on speed to get points."
Kevin Harvick revealed after his victory Sunday that he's been racing with a right shoulder injury this summer.
The shoulder, he said, was not injured in an accident on the track. No, he injured the shoulder throwing a Nerf ball to son Keelan.
"It's cut into my golf game," Harvick quipped Sunday on NBCSN's post-race show.
He later added that the shoulder is "probably 80 percent now. I mean, there was a point when I went to Sonoma that I couldn't even lift it up. It feels better in the race car than it does — the worst thing I had to do in the race car was shift.
"My main concern was Watkins Glen, but we got through it. It's getting close to being back where it needs to be. But it was definitely uncomfortable. The load that these cars put on it is right next to the … it's right in the spot where it's not feeling well. So all the load from the shoulder is where it's been injured. … But it's fine."
Jimmie Johnson, Ryan Blaney, Kyle Busch, William Byron and Bubba Wallace were among the drivers who had conflicts after Watkins Glen and had to address it at Michigan.
Johnson and Blaney traded barbs through the media before eventually meeting in Johnson's motorhome last Friday night. Busch had meetings with Byron and Wallace.
With the rules package intended to keep cars closer together and blocking more prevalent, additional conflicts are likely to occur toward the end of the regular season and into the playoffs. How one handles those situations could play a role in the final weeks of the season.
Such situations can be challenging, says Brad Keselowski, who had feuds with Denny Hamlin and Carl Edwards early in his career. There remains friction with Busch even after Keselowski sought to smooth things between them.
"It wears on you as much as you let it wear on you," Keselowski said of conflicts with other drivers. "Second, I would say that there are some drivers that handle conflict incredibly well and there are some that don't. I have never considered myself to be the best at it.
"I will be honest, I do look at videos of guys like Dale Earnhardt. He was in so many situations of conflict and they were easier to deal with in his time and age because of the lack of social media and lack of a 24-hour news cycle and things of that nature. But then on the flip side, he was a master at dealing with it. So I think you look at those guys and you think that probably parlayed into some of the success of his career, so you would be a fool not to study and try to learn from it. In today's landscape it is harder than ever to handle for sure."
Ben Rhodes collected a dubious honor Saturday at Michigan International Speedway.
He ranked fifth in the points — before the standings were reset for the playoff competitors — and failed to make the playoffs. That makes him the driver who has been the highest in points before the standings were reset to miss the postseason in Cup, Xfinity or the Gander Outdoors Truck Series in this current format.
Rhodes scored more points than playoff drivers Ross Chastain, Austin Hill, Johnny Sauter and Tyler Ankrum. The difference is that in NASCAR's win-and-you're-in system, Chastain, Hill, Sauter and Ankrum won this year. Rhodes did not.
Also what makes Rhodes standing unique is that not all the playoff competitors ran all the races or scored points in all the races.
Ankrum was not old enough to compete in the season's first three races. Sauter was suspended one race when NASCAR penalized him for wrecking Hill at Iowa in June. Chastain started the season running for points in the Xfinity Series and switched to Truck points before the season's ninth race, which was at Texas in June. That's why they were behind Rhodes in points.
The Truck playoffs begin Thursday night at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Tags: Austin Hill, Ben Rhodes, Dale Earnhardt, Johnny Sauter, Keelan Harvick, Michigan International Speedway, nascar, NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series, roush fenway racing, Scott Graves, Tyler Ankrum, Austin Hill, Ben Rhodes, Brad Keselowski, Bubba Wallace, Clint Bowyer, Daniel Suarez, Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, Johnny Sauter, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ross Chastain, Ryan Blaney, Ryan Newman, Tyler Ankrum, William Byron
Friday 5: What Cup teams with new drivers are better off?
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By Dustin LongMar 15, 2019, 6:30 AM EDT
Some moves were made by teams. Others were made by drivers looking for better opportunities. Whatever the reason, there were a number of driver changes after last year.
Four races into this season, one can get a glimpse of how those changes are working out. In some cases, the comparisons may look unkindly on who was in the car last year — think about Chevrolet teams and the struggles many had early with the Camaro last year or how a team has switched manufacturers since last year — but here is a look at how some of the moves have gone.
Five of the eight full-time teams that had driver changes for this season are showing an uptick in performance in the first four races of this season compared to the same time last year.
No surprise that former champion Martin Truex Jr. and crew chief Cole Pearn have raised the level of the No. 19 team at Joe Gibbs Racing. Truex has two runner-up finishes this season and has scored 140 points — 73 points more than Daniel Suarez had with that ride in the first four races last year.
(Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
The No. 1 team at Chip Ganassi Racing also has seen a 73-point gain in the first four races this season with Kurt Busch compared to the same time with Jamie McMurray last year. Busch has three finishes of seventh or better in his Chevrolet Camaro to score 126 points.
Also making gains this year are the No. 6 team at Roush Fenway Racing with Ryan Newman. He has three finishes of 14th or better this season and has scored 25 more points than Trevor Bayne had in that car at this time last year.
Corey LaJoie and Matt DiBenedetto also have helped their teams to more points than last year at this time. DiBenedetto took over Leavine Family Racing's No. 95 — which also changed to Toyota and aligned with Joe Gibbs Racing after last year — and has scored five more points than Kasey Kahne had in the first four races last year when that team was with Chevrolet.
LaJoie replaced DiBenedetto in the No. 32 at Go Fas Racing and has a top finish of 18th. LaJoie has scored five more points than DiBenedetto had in the first four races last year with that team.
The teams that have not seen an increase of points so far compared to last year include two teams with rookies. Rookie Daniel Hemric replaced Newman at Richard Childress Racing and has scored 48 fewer points in the first four races than Newman did for that group last year. Rookie Ryan Preece has scored 12 fewer points in the No. 47 car for JTG Daugherty Racing than AJ Allmendinger had at this time last year.
The other driver move was Suarez taking over the No. 41 car for Stewart-Haas Racing and replacing Busch. Suarez has one top 10 so far but Busch had two top 10s at this time last year. Suarez has scored 40 fewer points than Busch did at this time last year.
2. Kyle Busch's race to 200
A few numbers to digest in Kyle Busch's quest for 200 NASCAR wins and more. He comes into this weekend with 199 and is entered in both the Xfinity and Cup races.
— Busch has 199 NASCAR wins in 996 starts (a 20 percent winning percentage)
— Busch has 494 top-five finishes in those 996 starts, scoring a top five in 49.6 percent of his starts.
— Busch's 199 career NASCAR wins have come on 28 different tracks. Among the tracks he's won at that are no longer on the NASCAR circuit are Lucas Oil Raceway (three wins), Nashville Superspeedway (three) and Mexico City (one).
— The most victories Busch has had in one season in Cup, Xfinity and Trucks was 24 in 2010.
— Busch has won a NASCAR race in 21 different states and Mexico. The most victories Busch has had in any one state is Tennessee. He's won 24 races there.
3. So far so good on inspection
This year marks the first time in the past three seasons that a Cup car was not penalized for an inspection violation after the race.
NASCAR announced before the season that any car that failed inspection would be dropped to last in the order. Any winning car that fails inspection will have that victory taken away.
So far, no team has been given such a penalty in Cup, Xfinity or the Truck series.
That's quite an accomplishment in Cup. Each of the past two years saw at least one team penalized for a violation discovered after the race in the first four events of the season.
In March 2018, NASCAR fined crew chief Rodney Childers $50,000, suspended car chief Robert Smith two Cup races, docked Kevin Harvick 20 points and the team 20 owner points for a violation with the rear window brace that was discovered after Harvick's win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Harvick also lost all seven playoff points he earned — five for winning the race and two for each stage victory.
In March 2017, NASCAR suspended crew chief Paul Wolfe three races and fined him $65,000 when Brad Keselowski's car failed inspection after the race at ISM Raceway. NASCAR also docked Keselowski 35 points and the team 35 owner points. NASCAR penalized the team for failing the rear wheel steer on the Laser Inspection Station.
NASCAR also penalized Harvick's team after that same race for an unapproved track bar slider assembly. NASCAR suspended Childers one race and fined him $25,000. Harvick was docked 10 points and the team lost 10 owner points.
4. One or the other
Since NASCAR created the West Coast swing in 2016, Kevin Harvick or Martin Truex Jr. have managed to win at least once in those three races.
They'll need to win this weekend at Auto Club Speedway to keep that streak going. Joey Logano won at Las Vegas to begin this year's swing. Kyle Busch won last weekend at ISM Raceway near Phoenix.
5. Extra work
ThorSport Racing drivers Matt Crafton, Grant Enfinger, Ben Rhodes and Myatt Snider will be racing this weekend even though the Gander Outdoors Truck Series is off.
They'll compete for Ford Performance and Multimatic Motorsports in Friday's IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge at Sebring International Raceway. Crafton and Enfinger will be paired on the No. 22 team, while Snider and Rhodes will drive the No. 15 entry. Their race lasts two hours.
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Friday 5: 'Chaotic' qualifying is entertaining and shouldn't change
By Dustin LongMar 8, 2019, 6:30 AM EST
Last week's Cup qualifying at Las Vegas Motor Speedway raised the question of is qualifying more about entertainment or sport?
It was fascinating to watch cars parked on pit road and drivers waiting for someone to go because nobody wanted to be the lead car. They all wanted to be in the draft.
While that took place, spotters counted down the time remaining in the session.
It became a game of who would blink first and take off.
When it was time to go, there was chaos. Cars darted around each other. In the final round, Joey Logano went four-wide on pit road. Ricky Stenhouse passed Logano on the inside and left pit road ahead of him.
"Is chaos a bad thing?" Logano asked NBC Sports' Jerry Bonkowski this week. "I think that's the question we have to ask ourselves. Is it chaos? Yes. Is it entertaining? Oh yeah, it's entertaining, there's a lot going on. So I don't know if it's wrong and we should be changing much.
"I think there's a couple safety aspects we can add to pit road while we're jockeying around for position and stuff like that. But as far as the entertainment value, will you get the lap in before the clock runs out, will you get a big enough draft, will they all go out for a second time and you get a big pack again, are they going to knock somebody out of the round? That's good.
"I don't know why we would change much of that, I think it's OK. Yeah, it's a little chaotic, it's crazy and none of us has it figured out or scienced out the way we want to have it yet, but that's competition, that's just what it is."
Logano is right. While there was a randomness to who won the pole at Las Vegas, qualifying was as entertaining as any session in recent years.
What happened last week was reminiscent of qualifying at Talladega in October 2014. NASCAR divided teams into two groups for the opening round and each had five minutes. The top 24 overall times advanced.
Most cars stayed on pit road until they hit their cutoff mark to complete two laps. Not everyone made it. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Justin Allgaier were among the cars that didn't make it to the start/finish line before the session ended. Their fastest laps didn't count. They both failed to qualify. It's the only race Stenhouse has failed to make since his 2013 rookie Cup season.
These days, 36 chartered cars are guaranteed a starting spot. That prevents a situation Stenhouse experienced five years ago with a well-funded team.
But that doesn't ease all the angst. Some competitors were frustrated at Las Vegas because the draft negates who has the fastest car. It's all about being in the right place to draft and turn the quickest lap. Being in that position can be as much luck as skill.
What happens in qualifying can impact the race. Teams pick pit stalls based on their starting spot. A poor qualifying effort can lead to issues in the race.
Logano is aware of that. He qualified 27th at Atlanta and his team had limited options on where to pick their pit stall. Crew chief Todd Gordon chose a stall behind Alex Bowman's pit and in front of Martin Truex Jr.'s pit.
Rarely do strong teams pit next to each other because they don't want to have to go around a car to enter their stall or be blocked in by the car in front. Logano faced that situation at Atlanta. He lost more than 10 spots on each of his first two pit stops because he couldn't get around Bowman's car to exit his stall.
That leads back to the question of should qualifying be about entertainment or sport?
The decision today will be easy. The fastest car will be rewarded because teams are not expected to draft.
This issue that will come up again in the coming weeks, though, when the series heads to Auto Club Speedway, Texas Motor Speedway and Kansas Speedway.
"Texas, I don't know," Logano said. "I think there's going to be parts of the track that you want to draft and parts of the track when you're going to want clean air. When you get to Turns 1 and 2, you're going to want some air on the car to be able to get through the corner with as much wide open time as possible. That one's a real question for me.
"I think Kansas is a no-brainer, you're definitely going to be drafting. As for Fontana, it'll be interesting. I think there's going to be some drafting going on there, but I think it'll be split up a little bit, kind of like the way Atlanta was, kinda 50-50."
There's no splitting this issue. It's about entertainment. Let chaos reign in qualifying.
2. Second to Kyle Busch
For all the wins Kyle Busch has amassed in his NASCAR career, there is a recurring theme.
The runner-up to Busch in more than a third of the 197 races he's won across Cup, Xfinity and the Gander Outdoors Truck Series has been one of five drivers.
Kyle Busch celebrating a NASCAR win has been a familiar sight through the years. (Photo by Sarah Crabill/Getty Images)
The driver who has finished runner-up to Busch the most in those races is Kevin Harvick. He's done so 18 times — five times in Cup, 10 times in Xfinity and three times in Trucks. The total equates to 9.1 percent of the time Busch has won a NASCAR race, Harvick has been second.
Carl Edwards is next on the list with 15 runner-up finishes to Busch. He's followed by Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano with 13-runner-up finishes. Next is Kyle Larson, who has placed second to Busch eight times.
Combined, Harvick, Edwards, Keselowski, Logano and Larson have finished second to Busch in 67 of his 197 wins (34 percent).
They are among the 60 drivers who have placed second to Busch in a race he won. The list includes three NASCAR Hall of Fame members (Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin and Ron Hornaday Jr.), two Indianapolis 500 winners (Sam Hornish Jr. and Juan Pablo Montoya) and drivers who have combined to win 48 NASCAR titles in either Cup, Xfinity or Trucks.
The list could grow this weekend. Busch is entered in both the Cup and Xfinity races at Phoenix.
Here is who has finished second to Busch in Cup, Xfinity and Trucks races and how often:
18 — Kevin Harvick
15 — Carl Edwards
13 — Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano
8 — Kyle Larson
7 — Todd Bodine, Matt Crafton
6 — Erik Jones, Johnny Sauter
5 — Greg Biffle, Ryan Blaney, Chase Elliott, Denny Hamlin, Ron Hornaday Jr., Matt Kenseth, Tony Stewart
4 — Jeff Burton, Austin Dillon
3 — Aric Almirola, Clint Bowyer, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Daniel Suarez, Martin Truex Jr.
2 — Mike Bliss, Terry Cook, Jimmie Johnson, Kasey Kahne, Mark Martin, John Hunter Nemechek, Timothy Peters, David Reutimann, Elliott Sadler
1 — Justin Allgaier, AJ Allmendinger, Marcos Ambrose, Trevor Bayne, James Buescher, Kurt Busch, Colin Braun, Jeb Burton, Brendan Gaughan, David Gilliland, Jeff Gordon, Daniel Hemric, Sam Hornish Jr., Parker Kligerman, Jason Leffler, Sterling Marlin, Jamie McMurray, Casey Mears, Brett Moffitt, Juan Pablo Montoya, Ryan Newman, Nelson Piquet Jr., Ryan Preece, Brian Scott, Reed Sorenson, Brian Vickers, Bubba Wallace, Cole Whitt
3. Multiple surgeries
Tanner Thorson, who competed in 11 Gander Outdoors Truck Series races last season, is recovering after he was involved in a highway crash early Monday morning in Modesto, California.
The 2016 U.S. Auto Club national champion had surgery Monday night for a broken left arm, according to the USAC Racing. Thorson had surgery Wednesday on his broken right foot. He also suffered a cracked sternum, broken ribs and a punctured lung, according to USAC Racing. The organization said that Thorson's family hopes the 22-year-old can return home soon.
According to a preliminary investigation by the California Highway Patrol, Thorson was driving a 2019 Ford pickup that was towing his sprint car when he approached slower moving traffic shortly before 4 a.m. PT. Thorson's truck struck the rear of a vehicle. KCRA, an NBC affiliate in Sacramento, reported that vehicle was a milk truck.
The impact sent the milk truck into the next lane where it was hit by another vehicle and then came back across the road and was struck another car. The driver was uninjured. A passenger in the truck was transported from the scene with minor injuries, according to the California Highway Patrol. Thorson's vehicle came to rest on the shoulder and caught fire.
4. First time in new garages at Phoenix
ISM Raceway at Phoenix debuted its new garages and layout when NASCAR raced there in November.
One person missing that weekend was Rodney Childers, crew chief for Kevin Harvick. NASCAR suspended Childers the final two races of last year as part of penalties imposed to the No. 4 team for failing inspection after its win at Texas. So Childers missed the new look at Phoenix – until this weekend.
Childers shared his excitement of being in Phoenix on Thursday night.
Excited to finally see the new infield and garages in the AM! 👍🏼👍🏼👊🏼 https://t.co/ljF8pVpJ3p
— Rodney Childers (@RodneyChilders4) March 8, 2019
5. Remarkable record
Kevin Harvick has finished in the top five in half of the 32 Cup races he's run at Phoenix. He has nine wins there. Jimmie Johnson has 15 top-five finishes in 31 Cup races there. He has four wins there.
Despite the dominance of the two, they have combined for one win (by Harvick) in the last five races at Phoenix. The other winners in the last five races at Phoenix are Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth, Ryan Newman and Joey Logano.
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Plain curl perms (often referred to as 'spot perms') focus on curling a specific section of hair. They're used generally to help achieve a certain style, for example curling only the ends or midsection of your hair. With plain curl perms, you can choose to either have tight or loose curls. The result tends to be natural looking waves depending on where you choose to have permed.
If you're worried about your perm looking a bit too uniform and unnatural, a multi-textured perm could be perfect for you. It's created using two different sized styling rods which means the curls end up varying sizes throughout your hair. This is thought to look more natural and the uniform and defined curls you would get otherwise. Due to the nature of the perm, it's best done on women with long hair – the result isn't quite as flattering on short hair I'm sorry to say.
Root perms are perfect for women with flat, limp and lifeless hair. As the name suggests, this process involves perming just the roots. The slight curl will give your roots a bit of body which will in turn help to lift the rest of your hair, giving it volume.
Root perms can also be used on women with short hair who simply want to bring a bit of life to it. It's perfect for giving your short hair an incredibly fashionable and retro look.
Stacked perms work better for women with hair of all one length opposed to hair with layers due to the fact it adds a lot of volume to hair. Generally, it suits women of all face types too. Stacked perms are where the stylist focuses on curling only close to the ends of the hair, giving hair volume and creating the illusion of layers.
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*Greenlet-based approach with gevent
In the first case, the natural thing to do is to give each thread a connection object. In the second and third cases, however, I don't quite get it.
With tornado and gevent, how and when should I create connections? How many should I have around?

A: If you're using a non-blocking library, one connection should be sufficient in RethinkDB 2.0 (prior to 2.0 there was less per-connection parallelism).  Per-connection overhead is pretty low, though.  Some people open a connection per query and even that isn't too slow, so you should just do whatever's easiest.
EDIT: This advice is now outdated.  For newer versions of RethinkDB using one connection per query is strongly discouraged.  One connection per thread is still fine.


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2019 most successful year for voice cloud provider Natterbox
by Aaron Hurst 7 January 2020
Providing cloud-based telephony services since 2009, Natterbox also recorded a 60% increase in its employee base since 2017.
As for the number of interactions the company supported in 2019, this amounted to 67 million calls, an increase of over 31% from the previous year, adding up to 150 million minutes.
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"We have seen growth above 40% for three consecutive years and massively added to our customer portfolio with well-renowned businesses that we are honoured to work with and support," said Neil Hammerton, CEO and co-founder of Natterbox.
"Natterbox's main aim when it was founded was to transform the telephony customer experience with personalisation and a customer service strategy that businesses can be proud of – and that hasn't changed.
"Customer service has never been more critical as the digital age continues to increase customer expectations, meaning brands are challenged by waning loyalty."
The company, the services of which are embedded entirely within Salesforce, had secured Series A funding from Octopus Investments in 2018, which went towards investment in product innovation.
Its interface, Freedom, was introduced in November 2019 to allow its customers to use its capabilities remotely and on any device.
"We are excited to see what other parts of the world have in store for us as we head into the New Year," Hammerton continued. "2020 will be a year of blitz growth for Natterbox as we storm the telephony industry with innovation and provide our customers, old and new, with ever-evolving technology and solutions.
"We hope they are as excited as we are."
Natterbox's customer base is spread across over 45 countries, with offices present in the UK, US and Australia.
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In this flashback article, we take a look at Stephanie McMahon's appearance on The Howard Stern Show back in the day.
Let's take a look at the highlights from the part where Stephanie's relationship with Triple H, her breast implants, Triple H in bed & more were discussed:
Howard: So you start working with him (Triple H) and then what? How did he put the moves on the boss' daughter? He came to say: "Listen, I'm having feelings for you"? He said, "I'm attracted to you"?
Stephanie: No. He would drop hints and I sort of wondered like is he hitting on me and then I thought no he can't be.
Howard: What would he say? We'd like to know how Triple H makes the move.
Stephanie: I don't know. Well, our storyline was that we were married and we took over the business and drove my dad out. And so like I would be sitting on his lap and things like that and he'd just say things.
Howard: Would he pop a rod when you had sat?
Stephanie: (Laughing) I didn't feel anything if he did. One time when I was standing around the ring, he sort of crawled around me, he was on the floor and he felt my leg. And I was like that's definitely flirtation. That's not (part of the script).
Howard: And you found yourself getting attracted to him?
Stephanie: Yes.
Howard: You didn't mind that he touched your leg?
Stephanie: No. I liked it a lot.
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Howard: Did you say stop touching my leg or did you say I like you touching my leg.
Stephanie: I just blushed.
Howard: So many women sometimes when they like a guy will begin to touch a man. They're like… touch his chest when she talks to him.
Stephanie: It was a very touchy situation. If he was coming on to me and I know that it's forbidden in our business for me to date any of the wrestlers character.
Howard: So how does it become a romance? It's very complicated. He's dating another wrestler. He's dating Chyna, who's a big star at that point.
Stephanie: Supposedly, they weren't dating at that point. They had a house together and they're trying to get out of the house or whatever. We saw each other for a couple months and then when it came apparent to me that obviously she is living in your house and something's going on, we stopped talking for a long time.
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Howard: Did you go to Vince and say listen I need the rules broken here?
Stephanie: Well, he could see what's going on. He gave us the okay and then he took it away. Because it was like if we really were gonna be together, it would have to be a big deal. It would have to be the right thing to do. And so he let us come together and then he made us be apart. And we came back together again. And if it was meant to be, you know, it was meant to be.
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As with other skincare, masks need to be done at the correct time in your routine. For the ingredients in a face mask to work, your skin needs to be prepped.
This is to remove any dirt and dead skin from the skin. This helps the skin to properly absorb the active ingredients into the deeper layers of the skin, rather than it sitting on top and only working on what needs to be removed.
"When applying a face mask, it's important for the skin to be cleansed and free from dead skin cells in order for the face to absorb the relevant nutrients," says Yong-Li.
It's been said in the past that you need to open and close your pores… this is a myth. Pores don't have the muscles required to open and close. The best we can do is clear the debris so if you're using a detox mask, it's able to remove any underlying dirt and bacteria.
There are so many masks these days it can be hard to know what to choose. It comes down to what your skin requires. If you have acne prone skin, you'll be tempted to remove the oil. In actual fact, what you need to remove is bacteria. Oil is needed to keep the skin healthy. For dry skin you obviously need rehydration. Look for hyaluronic acid in the ingredients. It holds 1000 times it's weight in water. Sensitive skin? You need to avoid things like alcohol, salicylic acid, perfumes and so on. Chamomile, certain Clay's and cucumber are amazingly soothing. Again, hyaluronic acid is great here.
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