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Washington’s football games this fall against Oklahoma and Notre Dame will be televised by either ESPN or ABC, it was announced Friday.

The Huskies’ family circle game in expectation of Oklahoma on Sept. 13 will be televised on ESPN and begin at 4:45 p.m. Their home brave against Notre Dame on Oct. 25 will be televised on one and the other ABC, ESPN or ESPN2 and will begin at 5 p.m. Also, Washington’s game at California on Dec. 6 will have existence televised by either ESPN, ESPN2 or FSN.

The selections were made Friday in the first round of picks by means of the networks for games for the 2008 season. More TV selections will come next month, and more will be made in-season. Last year, all 13 UW games were telecast.

Cragg out of AD hunt, Moos not contacted

Mike Cragg, a 1986 receive a diploma of Washington who is an associate brawny director at Duke, reported Friday he will not be a solicitant for the Huskies’ vacant athletic-director job.

Cragg said he is instead focusing his energies in succession attempting to become the new AD at Duke, where he has worked since 1987. That job is be unclosed after Joe Alleva freshly left to take the same station at LSU.

Cragg, a natural of Yakima, applied for the UW job in 2004 and had related in December he would in the manner of to be considered this note the rate of. But now, through the Duke opening, he said “the timing is just not right” to jump into the mix at UW.

Also, Raymond Cihak, an attorney for former Oregon AD Bill Moos, said Friday that Moos has not been contacted by either UW or the search firm helping the Huskies.

Moos has been speculated as a potential candidate but also has a noncompete clause in his contract with Oregon that could complicate coming to UW. Specifically, he will be paid $1.85 the public over 10 years as long as he does not take a job viewed like an AD “or a worthy of comparison position at a Bowl Championship Series conference school west of the Mississippi River.”

Rumblings are that Parker Executive Search, hired by UW to aid in the search, has begun contacting potential candidates, a continued movement thought to have picked up steam this week after it became known that acting AD Scott Woodward would not be a candidate to espouse over permanently.

Woodward has been thought a leading candidate goal said Thursday he wouldn’t carry on the piece of work with UW president Mark Emmert saying that Woodward have power to best serve the school in his passing from hand to hand position as the vice president of external matters of action.

Cohen promoted to senior associate AD

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The death this week of a musician who said he was denied a liver transfer because of his medical-marijuana use has highlighted a new ethical consideration: Should pot conversion to any act with a doctor’s blessing be held over against a dying patient who necessarily an organ transplant?

Timothy Garon, 56, used marijuana to ease the symptoms of advanced hepatitis C. Dr. Brad Roter, the physician who authorized Garon to smoke pot to lessen nausea and abdominal pain and to stimulate his appetite

Garon died Thursday, one week after he said he learned from his doctor that a University of Washington Medical Center committee had again denied him a spot on the liver-transplant listel.

“He said I’m going to die, by so conviction,” Garon said then. “I’m not angry, I’m not lunatic, I’m just confused.”

His death at Bailey-Boushay House, an intensive-care nursing center, was confirmed Friday by means of his lawyer, Douglas Hiatt, and Alisha Mark, a spokeswoman for Virginia Mason Medical Center, which operates Bailey-Boushay.

Garon, lead singer as far as concerns Nearly Dan, a Steely Dan cover band, believed he contracted hepatitis by sharing needles through “speed freaks” as a teenager. In recent years, he said, pot had been the only mix with drugs he’d used. In December, he was arrested for growing marijuana.

The UW Medical Center declined to confer about Garon’s case specifically, but released a statement saying: “Although sanatory marijuana may be an issue in rare cases, it is the sole determinant in arriving at medical decisions about candidates for organ transplants, and whether a patient is listed. Patients with a reasonable chance of survival and a good outcome, given a variety of factors, are listed.”

The statement also noted that there are about 98,000 patients waiting for organs in the United States and only 6,000 donors available.

Hiatt said Friday that UW was being “completely disingenuous” about the carry denial: “They denied him for the cause that of medical-marijuana use,” he said. “They gain a shortage of organs, and they’re using moral judgments to decide who gets any.”

Garon had been in the hospice for brace months. His savant at Harborview Medical Center told him she wouldn’t put in his paperwork for transplant cause at UW until he avoided pot on this account that six months, Hiatt said. The university soon offered to reconsider if he enrolled in a 60-day drug-treatment program, but his liver disease was too advanced by then for him to last that long, doctors told him. The university-hospital committee agreed to reconsider its settlement, then denied him once more.

Because of the scarcity of donated organs, plant in a new place committees like as the one at the UW Medical Center be beneath the necessity tough standards for deciding who should get them. Does a candidate have other serious health problems? Will he or she religiously take anti-rejection medicines? Is in that place good family support? Is the candidate probable to drink or do drugs? And what about therapeutical marijuana authorized by a doctor?

“Most transplant centers struggle with issues of how to deal with clan who are known to practice marijuana, whether or not it’s by a doctor’s prescription,” said Dr. Robert Sade, director of the Institute of Human Values in Health Care at the Medical University of South Carolina. “Marijuana, unlike alcohol, has none direct force on the liver. It is, but, a make uneasy … in that it’s a potential indicator of an addictive personality.”

Garon’s girlfriend, Leisa Bueno, of Olympia, said Garon had not used other drugs or alcohol since he was diagnosed with hepatitis in 2001.

The Virginia-based United Network for Organ Sharing, which oversees the commonwealth’s transpose system, leaves it to individual hospitals to develop criteria for transplant candidates. At some, people who application “illicit substances”

At others, such as the UCLA Medical Center, patients are given a jeopardy to reapply if they stay clean for six months. Marijuana use is unlicensed under founded on law.

Typically, doctors don’t realize that authorizing marijuana use for nausea or other disease complications may jeopardize their assiduous’s chance for a transplant, said Peggy Stewart, a clinical social handicraftsman on the liver-transplant team at UCLA who has researched the issue.

“There needs to be some kind of general eligibility criteria so that everyone will discern what the rules are,” Stewart said.

The patients “are trusting their physician to do the not crooked thing. The physician prescribes marijuana, they take the marijuana, and they are shocked that this is now the extremity result.”

No any tracks in what way multitude patients are denied transplants over medical-marijuana use. Pro-marijuana groups have cited a maniple of cases, including at least sum of two units patient deaths, in Oregon and California, since the mid- to late 1990s, when states began adopting medical-marijuana laws.

Another Seattle-area patient, Jonathan Simchen, 33, of Fife, Pierce County, said he was rejected as a kidney-transplant candidate at Virginia Mason and told through the UW that he will not be listed until he abstains from pot for six months.

Simchen said he uses marijuana to control his blood pressure and to stimulate his appetite, which is disrupted by dialysis.

Many doctors agree that using marijuana

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iran supports the Iraqi government in its fight against militants, the head of a delegation from Iraq's ruling Shi'ite alliance said on Saturday after returning from a visit to Tehran.

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KALAMA, Cowlitz County

On a Style Network “Split Ends” episode that aired utmost month, it was revealed that the town of 1,700 is home to not one, otherwise than that two Miss White Trash USA winners

Amberleigh, who appears in the “Split Ends” episode moving at the Stage West barbershop/antique store in downtown Kalama, proudly spilled the beans about her title to horrified Philadelphia stylist Mary Lamb. Then Amberleigh introduced Lamb to Hindman, who stopped by the one-chair shop for a haircut.

According to the Web site www.misswhitetrash.com, the yearly record Miss White Trash Pageant was founded in 1999 in Portland by dint of. the Rev. Tony Hughes to celebrate “women who proudly represent the large and looming underbelly of middle Americana.” Contestants are judged in categories including makeup, hair, outfit, talent and overall trashiness.

Hindman, who has lived in Kalama most of her life, took the 2008 cognomen in September’s beer-fueled pageant at a Portland bar. Amberleigh had encouraged her to enter after seeing Hindman join the “redneck rodeo” at last summer’s Kalama fair, telling her, “I know snowy trash, and you’re gonna win.”

“I declared I’ll try anything once,” said Hindman, who recently got divorced and wanted more fun. “I’ve always been a goofball, always joke around and stuff, but nothing like this.”

For her pageant outfit, Hindman wore a glittery bikini top borrowed from Amberleigh with a pair of ripped-up construction shorts. She beat out dozens of other scantily clad contestants, winning a 1973 GMC pickup truck with “Miss White Trash 2008″ painted on its camper shell, nourishment products, a tattoo and a check for $29.99.

Sadly, she has since sold the truck to a Longview man for $100 after her proprietor told her she couldn’t park it at her apartment.

“It’s exact a joke, really. I’m just your basic country girl, is all I am,” said 42-year-old Hindman, a mother of couple who works in the place of Cleaning With TLC. “It was the best time I ever had in my life, and I didn’t have to be trashy to do it. I was just myself.”

Amberleigh, however, says she takes her claim seriously and strives to endure up to her responsibilities.

“It’s a great honor. I feel that I’m representing a good allot of our population. … I approach from a long string of rednecks,” Amberleigh declared, rocking her newborn baby, Jameson, while 17-month-old Tennessee played upon the body the floor of the family’s new modular abode in Kalama’s rural hills. Yes, the pair sons’ names are references to whiskey, she grins.

With Amberleigh, 29, it’s hard to tell whether her embrace of white-trash ideals is each authentic lifestyle or a smart young woman being campy and ironic. Her dad’s family is from the Kentucky/meridional Ohio region. She keeps it attached the down-low that her mom’s from San Diego, in which place Amberleigh grew up judgment moving to Portland. She’s lived in Kalama, between Vancouver, Wash., and Longview, instead of a year.

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They said people who took drugs that block acetylcholine — a chemical messenger in the nervous system critical for memory — functioned less well than their peers.

"These results were true in like manner in older adults who have normal recollection and thinking abilities," uttered Dr. Kaycee Sink of Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina, who led the study of 3,000 people of whom 40 percent were taking more than one anticholinergic drug.

"The effect is essentially that of a three- to four-year increase in age. So someone who is 75 in our study and taking at least one moderately anticholinergic medication is at a similar functional point to a 78 to 79-year-old," Sink said in an e-mail.

Sink's tools and materials, presented at American Geriatrics Society Meeting in Washington, add to a growing dead body of research that suggests these so-called anticholinergic medications have power to hasten functional and cognitive declines in elderly family.

Some of the most undistinguished such drugs in the con over included the blood pressure drug nifedipine (sold as Adalat or Procardia), the stomach antacid ranitidine or Zantac, both with demulcent or appease anticholinergic properties, and Pfizer Inc's incontinence drug tolterodine or Detrol, which is highly anticholinergic.

"The tricky part … is that many useful drugs from many different classes of medications have anticholinergic properties," Sink said.

She said in many cases newer drugs are available that do not have these effects and said doctors should look out for the sake of them for elderly patients.

MEMORY DECLINE

Dr. Jack Tsao, a neurologist with the U.S. Navy, reported last month at a American Academy of Neurology meeting that elderly people who took anticholinergic drugs had a 50 percent greater assessment of reputation decline than people in a long-term study who did not take the drugs.

Sink studied the effects of captivating multiple anticholinergic drugs attached walking speed, basic activities such as dressing, eating, taking care of individual hygiene, grooming, and harder activities like shopping, cooking and managing money on her trial subjects whose average age was 78.

The researchers found that the more anticholinergic drugs rabble had in their systems, the worse their physical function, based on reports from people in the study and upon the body independent measures of their performance.

In a separate think this month in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Sink found that older nursing home residents who took drugs for loss of intellect and inability to retain at the sort time had a 50 percent faster diminution in function than those treated only for dementia.

"I would encourage patients to procure in a list of everything they take (equitable over-the-counter medications) to their doctor and consider them review it at least yearly," Sink said. "Physicians should try to lower anticholinergic burden whenever possible."

(Editing by Alan Elsner and Maggie Fox)

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And … New Jersey?

Yep. They all have strong ties to the oft-maligned Garden State, and they’re among the first 15 folks to be inducted Sunday into New Jersey’s new Hall of Fame.

“I think anything you get inducted to you feel good about,” said 82-year-old Berra, the famous New York Yankee catcher who lives in Montclair in northern New Jersey. “Heck to get inducted through all them guys, that’s pretty good.”

Berra, who’s lived in New Jersey for 52 years, is in good joint concern.

In addition to Edison, Einstein and Morrison, the inaugural class includes Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen, Meryl Streep, astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf and Vince Lombardi.

“There’s no hesitate to believe this desire be a historic incident for the state,” said Don Jay Smith, the hall’s charged with execution director. “New Jersey is often the butt of jokes, nationally, and yet when people see who has claimed New Jersey as their home, they be disposed be very impressed.”

Edison’s great-granddaughter, Elizabeth Sloane Eggemann, of White House Station in northwest New Jersey, said the celebrated originator would be thrilled by the repute, and she hopes children are inspired by all of the hall’s inductees.

“It’s veritably great to recognize all the accomplishments,” she said.

The Hall of Fame exists only as a virtual essence now, but officials are raising money to build a fixed museum. The first rank was chosen through one online vote after 25 finalists were announced in 2006.

All inductees must consider lived in the glory towards at least five years, though organizers made an exception to that rule for Underground Railroad pioneer Harriet Tubman.

Smith said he expects most of the living inductees to attend Sunday’s induction ceremony at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.

Two inductees, Streep and former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley, have asked that the presentation of their awards be held until they can receive them in person.

“Meryl Streep was honored to be among the first class to have existence inducted to the New Jersey Hall of Fame,” her substitute, Michelle Benson, said in a statement. “Because of the consequence of the Hall of Fame, she has asked that the presentation of her adjudge be postponed until she can accept in person.”

John Lombardi said his grandsire, a mythical coach who led the Green Bay Packers to seven NFL championships, would get a kick out of his baconian method into the state’s assembly room of fame.

“I kind of look at the list of the ‘who’s who’ who are acquirement inducted and I manner of laugh because I’m like, Edison, Einstein, afterwards my grandfather,” he said. “I think he’d be laughing out loud. He had a healthy ego but I don’t ween he ever thought he was up there with those guys.”

SANYA, China, (AFP) - The Olympic torch returned to the Chinese mainland Saturday, the state-run Xinhua news agency aforesaid, ready for its first relay here.

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Barack Obama’s problem winning votes from working-class whites is showing not one sign of going absent, and their fancy of him is getting worse.

Those are ominous signals as he hopes for strong performances next week in Indiana and North Carolina primaries that would derail the candidacy of Hillary Rodham Clinton, his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination. Those contests come as his candidacy has been rocked by renewed attention to his volatile former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and through his defeat in last month’s Pennsylvania primary.

In an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll in April, 53 percent of whites who have not completed college viewed Obama unfavorably, up a dozen percentage points from November. During that period, the numbers viewing Clinton and Republican candidate John McCain negatively bring forth stayed about even.

The April register - conducted before the Pennsylvania debate - also showed some overwhelming preference for Clinton over Obama among working-class whites. They favored her over him by dint of. 39 percentage points, compared to a 10-point Obama lead in the midst of white college graduates. Obama in like manner did worse than Clinton among those less-educated voters when matched up against Republican candidate John McCain.

“It’s the stuff about his preacher … and the thing he reported about Pennsylvania towns, how they turning to virtue,” Keith Wolfe, 41, a supermarket viands stocker from Parkville, Md., said in a follow-up interview. “I put on’t compass he’d be a certainly good leader.”

Just before the Pennsylvania primary, Obama related many small-town residents are bitter through their lives and turn for solace to virtue and fire-arms.

Recent voting patterns underscore Obama’s continued poor performance with these voters, who are often pivotal in inaccurate election move backward and forward states like Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

In Democratic primaries held on or before Super Tuesday, Feb. 5, whites who have not finished college favored the New York senator by a cumulative 59 percent to 32 percent, according to exit polls of voters conducted for The Associated Press and the television networks.

In primaries since Feb. 5, that dispose has favored Clinton by 64 percent to 34 percent. That includes Ohio and Pennsylvania, in which working-class whites have favored Clinton by 44 and 41 percentage points respectively.

The AP-Yahoo poll shows less educated whites present a problem to Obama in part because of who they are. Besides being poorer, they tend to be older than white college graduates - and Clinton has done forcibly with older white voters.

Yet political professionals and analysts say else is at play. They reflect upon Obama’s problems with blue-collar whites on their greater reluctance to embrace his bid to become the first black president, and his failure to address their concerns about job losses and the battered dispensation specifically enough.

Terry Madonna, a political knowledge of principles professor at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., uttered Obama lost among working-class whites in the state because his message of how this generation’s period has come did not address their economic necessarily.

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Microsoft may raise its offer, very lately credit $42.2 billion, by a few dollars per share from an initial $31 per share to complete a deal as easily as this weekend, a person intimate with Microsoft's cogitative said.

But talks are at a "sensitive stage" and a deal is not certain, sources familiar with the situation said.

Investors wage an agreement was to have being expected, sending Yahoo shares up 7 percent to $28.67 on the first recent accounts of significant touch between the sides since Microsoft's deadline for its initial volunteer expired last Saturday.

"My recognition is Microsoft is taking into account raising their price to the mid-$30s," said a San Francisco-based portfolio manager who owns both Yahoo and Microsoft shares, but would not be identified due to a company policy regarding shares that are actively traded.

Yahoo had previously refused to inscribe formal negotiations with Microsoft, observation the initial price it made public in February did not fitly value Yahoo's search and display advertising technology, or its overseas holdings.

Every dollar added to the per-share price amounts to about $1.4 billion extra for the entire deal at current prices, and Microsoft shareholders have questioned how a great quantity higher the social meeting should go.

"If it's $35 or less, I think it's fine," said the portfolio manager, whose group owned 21.2 the great body of the people shares of Microsoft and 1.93 million Yahoo shares as of the end of December.

NO QUICK EMBRACE

A deal could accord. Microsoft a stronger place to stand on in its contest with Internet search leader Google Inc (GOOG.O), which is rapidly expanding into the software maker's own turf with new Web-based applications.

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer indicated on Thursday he might sweeten the bid after weeks of saying publicly that his offer was fair as it stood.

"I know exactly what I think Yahoo is worth to me, exactly," Ballmer said at a duel with Microsoft employees. "I won't go a dime above, and I will go to what I think it's integrity if that gets the deal done."

Yahoo executives have repeatedly reported the company was not averse to a deal with Microsoft at a higher price.

But in a sign of its reluctance, Yahoo has courted a possible deal with Time Warner Inc's (TWX.N) AOL distribution and a inquire after advertising partnership through Google.

Yahoo is still in talks steady an alternative to the Microsoft wish, sources familiar with the matter before-mentioned on Friday.

For its part, Microsoft has made clear it will not wait abundant longer. Ballmer said on Thursday that walking away was one of three options, along with wonderful a friendly deal or launching a hostile bid, and to look for an announcement tersely.

Microsoft shares fell 0.5 percent to grapple at $29.24. Yahoo shares closed at $28.67, up nearly 7 percent on the day.

(Additional reporting by Anupreeta Das in San Francisco, Muralikumar Anantharaman in Boston, Kenneth Li in New York; Editing by Braden Reddall)

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Tests on monkeys infected with a similar virus shows the method of treating controlled the infection, although it does not cure it, and tests are already planned in people.

The treatment is called OPAL, for Overlapping Peptide-pulsed Autologous Cells, and would be categorized as an immunotherapy technique, or a so-called curative vaccine, Stephen Kent of the University of Melbourne and colleagues said.

Writing in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Pathogens, they said the treatment involves mixing a patient's own relationship cells through tiny bits of protein from the virus.

These cells are then re-infused into the patient.

"Levels of virus in vaccinated monkeys were 10-fold lower than in controls, and this was durable for over one year later the initial vaccinations," they wrote.

"The immunotherapy resulted in fewer deaths from AIDS. We conclude this is a promising immunotherapy technique. Trials in HIV-infected humans of OPAL therapy are planned."

The AIDS virus infects greater quantity than 33 million people globally and has killed 25 million since it was identified in the 1980s.

While in that place is no cure and no vaccine, cocktails of drugs can superintendence the virus. But they have side-effects, are expensive and eventually often stop working.

Kent's team took weak bits of the poison called peptides and placed them in lab dishes with both whole mettle and single immune system cells.

This helped train the cells to recognize the virus and attack it other effectively, they wrote in the essay, freely available at http://www.plospathogens.org/doi/ppat.1000055.

The macaque monkeys were infected with a related virus called SIV or simian immunodeficiency virus.

HIV is tricky to handle because it attacks the immune system. It specifically goes from immune cells called CD4 T cells, the very cells that are supposed to spring upon and slaughter viruses.

"Virus-specific CD4 T cells are typically very weak in HIV-infected humans or SIV-infected macaques; dramatic enhancement of these cells were induced by OPAL immunotherapy and this may support its efficacy," they wrote.

The treatment appears to be in action best if started right after someone becomes infected.

"Although it may be challenging to identify humans within three weeks of infection, this is when HIV-1 subjects typically favorably attentive (show up at a doctors office) with acuminate infection," they wrote.

(Editing by Todd Eastham)