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If you're a fan of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl's Beautiful Creatures, then you already know that Aunt Deb plays a vital role in that teen-centric supernatural romance. In Warner Bros. and Richard LaGravenese's Beautiful Creatures adaptation (opening February 2013, the day before Valentine's Day), Aunt Deb is played by the infamously awesome Margo Martindale, who many Collider.com readers will recognize from her Emmy Award-winning work on FX's Justified, where she plays Mags Bennett.
Earlier this year, I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Baton Rouge set of Hollywood's latest supernatural-romance-based-on-a-YA-novel, where me and a few other online journalists got the chance to sit down with many of the film's cast and crew. Of all the interviews we conducted that day, Martindale's was easily the most entertaining. Find out what she had to say after the jump.
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: "If you're gonna write a teen-supernatural-romance, you're gonna need a slightly-older female who can see the past, present, and future all at once" (it's science, people). In Richard LaGravenese's Beautiful Creatures—which Warner Bros. will open in theaters nationwide on February 13th, 2013—that role is filled by legendary character actress Margo Martindale, who's probably best-known to the Collider.com audience as her character on FX's Justified, Mags Bennett.
Martindale has a helluva presence, both onscreen and off, and the time we spent interviewing her on the Baton Rouge set of LaGravenese's film was easily the highlight of our visit to that set: warm, funny, quick-witted, and genuinely invested in the character she's playing (Aunt Del), she had much to say about the film and her character within it. We'll get to the interview in just a second, but first—the highlights from our chat:
- Martindale says that her elaborate costumes are both "painful" and "absolutely beautiful", and that the character itself is "a whole different world" for her but "really fun".
- Martindale says that she read all of Garcia and Stohl's books prior to filming, and that she finds the idea of a character that can see time from all angles—past, present, and future—to be "interesting".
- Asked what made her take the role, Martindale offers an answer that typifies what makes her so charming: "What drew me was they offered it to me. And I love Richard so that's a huge plus. It's fantastic. It's fantasy. It's a fabulous story with wonderful actors. Why wouldn't you?"
- On the day we arrived, Martindale had only been on-set for a day, but had the following to say when asked what it had been like working with Jeremy Irons: "My answer is that he as handsome as I thought he'd be or more handsome."
Question: Your costume is spectacular.
Margo Martindale: It's more painful.
Are all of your costumes painful?
Martindale: Yes, very painful. (Laughing) …And absolutely beautiful.
Does that help with your characterization?
Martindale: I think that is the characterization. I don't have to do anything. It helps tremendously because it's a whole different world for me, so it's fun. Really fun.
Tell us a little about who you play.
Martindale: I'm playing Aunt Del. We're a family of casters. Our family … casters is an easier name that we prefer (rather than) witches. I see all things at the same time. I think I am called a hallumpalus…a plumpus… something like that. I've looked at that word maybe fifty times and still don't know.
You see the past, present and future?
Martindale: Yes, isn't that interesting? The past, present, future and all things going on at the same time.
With every person you come into contact with?
Martindale: With every being in this world is what I think. It's not in the script. I have to infuse things with that, seeing past, present and future. I used to have a dream about that from reading a book. It was about the past, present and future. It's kind of the opposite… it oddly rings true to me.
How difficult was it to get acclimated to all the mythology of this world?
Martindale: I've read the books. I've read the script several times and that's about all I've done. I understand witchcraft.
Can you delve into this scene in particular? It seems Nina is trying to figure out which side she's going to.
Martindale: She's trying to decide. This is the night, the 21st day of December in the 12th month of the 21st century. I say we must get on with this because the moon is about to appear. When the moon is about to appear, whatever her true nature will be will define the new age to come. The old age will be ended and the new age will begin. It's a big night.
It seems like it's much bigger than just her… It's the entire race.
Martindale: It's a big night. In this age the light and dark will merge. (Margot is singing) And all the world will be as one.
Are you leaning for her to go to the light?
Martindale: Oh yeah, I'm light.
Did you read the book before or after the script?
Martindale: I read the script and then I read the book and then I came back and read the script.
What drew you to the character when you read the script?
Martindale: What drew me was they offered it to me. And I love Richard so that's a huge plus. It's fantastic. It's fantasy. It's a fabulous story with wonderful actors. Why wouldn't you?
In the book, Del is described as being out of it because she's seeing all these things all the time. Is that what you and Richard talked about doing for the character, did you bring something into it as well?
Martindale: That's what I will bring. We just started. I've been other people recently. I'm trying to get …. I want to feel like that, kind of like seeing through a prism. Ohhh how do I get … I need to stop spinning. I don't know if there will be a place like that in here but there will be a place.
If you could have that gift of seeing the past, present, future in real life, would you want to take it?
Martindale: No. No, no, no. I am way too fearful.
How difficult is it to give a believable performance and merging it with a Satan universe of the world. Has it been tough to play into?
Martindale: Like I just said, I really just started so that will be to come. I think it won't be difficult. I think it will be fun to come from reality. It's sort of theatrical and that's where I come from, the stage. As do most of these people so it's fun.
Jeremy Irons seems like a fantastic presence. What was it like when you found out you were working with him? Did your expectations meet the reality? Is he a little less intense than we suspect him to be? What's it been like?
Martindale: I just started today (everyone laughs).
Do you want to make up an answer?
Martindale: My answer is that he as handsome as I thought he'd be or more handsome.
I might slip him my phone number.
Martindale: And he seems so cool. He seems full of laughs so I hope we get to that.
How do you compare the book to the script?
Martindale: It's hard because … I love the script. I think there are things about the book that I had questions about that are answered in the script.
Your power to see all the things at the same time, is the power visualized in the movie?
Martindale: I don't know. I think in this movie… I don't know if there's a place for it in this movie. I don't know what he has it in his mind visually.
It's an intriguing power to have. I was wondering how to spell it out. If you could look at someone and see their past.
Martindale: Wouldn't that be fun? The Aunt Del version of the story.
How are we going to tell the good casters from the bad ones?
Martindale: Just look at them.
Emmy's in green and she looks sort of angelic today and you're in dark clothing.
Martindale: She's my daughter you know. That's what she's trying to appear to be today. I think there will be times when you can't tell. If you can always tell then we wouldn't be good casters, you know. I think Emmy, Ridley, is extremely powerful.
What do you generally look for in a role?
Martindale: If it's fun. I look for insanity and drunken behavior, pill pushers, doped slings and cowboys. I like it all kind of twisted.
Particularly in recent years, it seems you have found more and more eclectic opportunities. Talk about this role being offered to you. Do you find that happening more now?
Martindale: Yep, yep.
How is that shaping the choices you make?
Martindale: I think it's the first time that I've actually had to be careful. A little more careful than I would have been before because I don't want to hit upon the same subject over and over. This movie I think I am going to go to, it will be wonderful. It will be a small movie. It's all fun and then if it's too small, it's never too small if it's good. If it's good it's never too small.
Emmy plays your daughter in the movie but she's on the dark side and you're on the light side. How did that happen?
Martindale: That happened because when her day came, I don't think she wanted to go dark but that's what came out. It's not what I wanted for her. (I was) Very disappointed. I think most of them like us had not thought we had a choice. I think that maybe Alice, who plays Lena, who is the first to be the first liberated woman of the casters.
What is your relationship with Emmy then since you're on two different sides?
Martindale: She's not really in my world much anymore. She's really gone down her own path. She comes to visit and it's, "Oh dear! What kind of trouble is she going to bring?" She's like a child that went down the wrong path.
As you can probably tell from the above, Martindale was an awesome interview, and a lot of fun to be around. A legend of stage and screen, it's likely that her performance as Aunt Del will make her familiar to a whole new generation of film geeks and supernatural-romance enthusiasts. We're really looking forward to seeing more of her once the film wraps. Speaking of: Richard LaGravenese's Beautiful Creatures opens on February 13th—the day before Valentine's Day, don'tcha know—next year.
For more on our Beautiful Creatures set visit:
- 15 Things to Know About Richard LaGravenese's Beautiful Creatures from Our Set Visit
- Alice Englert Talks Witch Bar Mitzvahs and Civil War Re-Enactments on the Set of Beautiful Creatures
- Alden Ehrenreich Talks Twilight Comparisons, Landing the Part, and Working with Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson on the Set of Beautiful Creatures
- Emmy Rossum Talks Playing the Evil Witch, Her Character's Many Looks, and Oral Fixation on the Set of Beautiful Creatures


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Basics of Statistics in SQL Server 2005
When we talk about statistics in SQL Server, we're not discussing a database to store your baseball card collection. No, statistics in SQL Server refers specifically to information that the server collects about the distribution of data in columns and indexes. This data in turn is used by the query optimizer to determine the plan of attack for returning results when you run a query. While in the majority of cases SQL Server takes care of this statistical recordkeeping for you automatically, it's useful to have some understanding of what's going on, and to know when you might need to intervene.
Automatic Statistics
By default, SQL Server databases automatically create and update statistics. Although you can disable this (by setting a property of the database), you should almost certainly leave it on. SQL Server needs these statistics to do a good job with query processing, and it's likely to be smarter than you about what and when to update. The information that gets stored includes:
- The number of rows and pages occupied by a table's data
- The time that statistics were last updated
- The average length of keys in a column
- Histograms showing the distribution of data in a column
- String summaries that are used when performing LIKE queries on character data
SQL Server maintains statistics on index and key columns of all of your tables - in other words, the columns that the query processor is able to use in various ways in queries depending on the data that they contain.
Viewing Statistics
You can get an idea of the statistics that SQL Server is maintaining on
a table from either T-SQL or the SQL Server Management Studio user
interface. Let's look at the T-SQL solution first. The place to begin is
with the
sp_helpstats system stored procedure, which will
list all of the statistics being maintained on a table. For example, in
the AdventureWorks sample database, you can find the statistics on the
Sales.SalesOrderDetail table this way:
sp_helpstats 'Sales.SalesOrderDetail', 'ALL'
statistics_name statistics_keys
---------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------
_WA_Sys_00000006_245D67DE SpecialOfferID
_WA_Sys_0000000B_245D67DE ModifiedDate
AK_SalesOrderDetail_rowguid rowguid
IX_SalesOrderDetail_ProductID ProductID
PK_SalesOrderDetail_SalesOrderID_SalesOrderDetailID SalesOrderID, SalesOrderDetailID
Given an individual statistic, you can use
to retrieve detailed information:
DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS('Sales.SalesOrderDetail', IX_SalesOrderDetail_ProductID)
Name Updated Rows
------------------------------ -------------------- --------------------
IX_SalesOrderDetail_ProductID Oct 14 2005 1:59AM 121317
Rows Sampled Steps Density Average key length String Index
-------------------- ------ ------------- ------------------ ------------
(1 row(s) affected)
All density Average Length Columns
------------- -------------- -------------------------------------------
0.003759399 4 ProductID
8.242868E-06 8 ProductID, SalesOrderID
8.242868E-06 12 ProductID, SalesOrderID, SalesOrderDetailID
(3 row(s) affected)
------------ ------------- ------------- -------------------- --------------
707 0 3083 0 1
708 0 3007 0 1
709 0 188 0 1
710 0 44 0 1
711 0 3090 0 1
(additional rows removed)
The first section of the
DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS output gives
you general information on the statistic, including how many rows went
into building the statistic (SQL Server may use only a sample of the data
if the statistic is on a non-indexed column). The second section shows the
sets of columns that this statistic can be used for, and statistical
measures of how well this statistic will help a query locate data in those
columns. The final section is the histogram showing the distribution of
data. The columns in this section show the key value that demarcates the
range, the number of rows that are in the range but not equal to the
upper bound,
the number of rows in the range that are equal to the upper bound, the
number of distinct values in the range (not counting the upper bound), and
the average number of duplicate values in the table for this range (which
helps measure the selectivity of the statistic). Even without
understanding the math behind query optimization in detail, it should be
obvious that this is useful information.
Of course, these days there are many developers and administrators who prefer to work with the GUI administration tools rather than raw SQL. Fortunately, all of this information on statistics is also available in SQL Server Management Studio. Connect to a database and expand the Object Explorer tree until you find the table of interest, then drill into the Statistics folder underneath the table. There you'll find a graphical representation of all of the statistics on the table, as shown in Figure 1.
If you right-click on one of these statistics and select Properties, you'll see the general information on the statistic, as shown in Figure 2.
Selecting the Details page shows detailed information on the statistic,
as shown in Figure 3. You may recognize this format - the SQL Server
Management Studio developers seem to have simply piped the
DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS output to the user interface.
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The report opens with a bold and concise message that pulls no punches: "Too many people in the UK feel they have no choice but to travel in ways that are dangerous, unhealthy, polluting and costly, not just to their own wallets but also to the public purse. Urgent action is required to address Britain's chronic levels of obesity, heart disease, air pollution and congestion...
There is an alternative. When more people cycle or walk, public health improves, obesity reduces and roads become safer. By changing how people travel, we can create places where people want to live, work, shop and do business. We can make people healthier, happier and wealthier. We can save huge costs to our NHS.
To realise the full potential of this vision will require a fundamental cultural shift in the way we think about the way we travel. Cycling needs to be not just a personal option, when we decide how to travel for work, school or leisure, but as a core issue when planning our streets, roads, buildings and communities."
Cyclists on London's Bethnal Green Road
Over 200 people had signed the petition within an hour of it going live last night, with the list of signatures growing rapidly this morning.
Julian Huppert (Lib Dem, Cambridge), co-chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group, said: "For it to become reality, it needs leadership from the very top, the Prime Minister. It is down to him to show that this matters to him and to the country."
In a powerful Editorial in The Times today, new editor John Witherow states: "Cycling has been good for David Cameron. The Prime Minister has used cycling to help brand himself a modern Conservative: young, down to earth and environmentally conscious. Now it is time for him to be good for cycling."
The report's 18 recommendations include;
- Funding of £10 to £20 per head of population per annum across the country for cycling
- A dramatic increase not just in the volume of people cycling but their diversity too
- Reallocation of road space for cycle routes running parallel to roads but separated from traffic, and connecting with routes and networks of enhanced off-road cycle paths, bridleways, disused railways and similar.
- A revision of existing cycle design guides, following the witness from the Highways Agency admitting his staff had little or no training or technical knowledge in designing for cyclists.
- Improved lorry safety through vehicle design
- Teaching children to cycle as part of the National Curriculum, just as they are for swimming
Cyclists in Copenhagen, Denmark,
where 50% of journeys to work are by bicycle
There has never been this level of sustained focus on cycling at a political level in this country before. Some may point out that reports about riding bikes in Britain have come and gone before. That's as may be, but this report comes on the back of Olympic and Tour de France cycling euphoria, as more people cycle across the country than in many decades previously, and with the energy and focus of a united bicycle campaigning establishment (a rare thing!) as well as The Times thundering on our behalf. This report, and the pressure pushing for this change, will not go away - but we need your help to really make change happen. The time is now.
Each and every concerned cyclist, would-be bike rider, and proud parent who dreams of a better country for their children has to today step up to be the change they want to see.
We must each of us sign the petition, and then tell our friends to do the same. Let your cycling club mates know, mention it at your school coffee morning. Call your Mum! Add the link to your Facebook profile and ask all your friends to sign up too if they'd like to see safer roads for their mate to ride on! Here's the link to the petition - get busy!
The last word once again goes to cycling champion and Olympic hero Chris Boardman writing in The Times;
"If we fail it won't be because people don't like cycling, it will be because it's just easier in the short term to do nothing, to pretend we can't afford it, to say it's someone else's responsibility or pretend we'll do it without making an honest long-term commitment.
It's apathy and lack of leadership that will continue to make us fat and our roads unpleasant places. ... it doesn't have to be like this, our Government can change it."
Let's ensure the Government hears our voices and truly commits to Get Britain Cycling!
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Drama Volunteers Needed in Romania for August 2010
The Drama Project in Romania is a fantastic project to get involved in at any time throughout the year, however, volunteers who are in the country at the end of August will get to take part in the 12th annual T4T Theater Festival, which brings together theater groups from all over Europe.
Romania Drama Project Supervisor, Alexandra Ichim tells us:
"August is a great time for drama volunteers to come to Romania to experience the Drama Project. Volunteers will help with the 12th edition of the T4T Theater Festival for Teenagers, organized in partnership with the National Theater of Timisoara, the City Council and the Timis County Council. The festival will take place in Timisoara between the 22nd and the 28th of August.
The festival aims to promote art and culture among teenagers, offering them the opportunity of developing their creative and innovative sides. It encourages teamwork through which it tries to discover and develop each person's abilities.
This year sees a new challenge: the groups will no longer come with a play prepared in advance; instead, they will create it during the festival. The 12th edition of T4T will be based, therefore, on improvisation, and participants will be given a surprise starting point at the beginning of the festival. The festival also offers hours of workshops with experienced teachers and many other exciting activities created for the participants to get to know each other better."
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In my computerless state, I've been missing a lot of the community news, only discovering trickles of it as I desperately try to read as much of my feedreader as possible. There is one bit of story, however, I caught, at first through Larisa's blog, then Blacksen's, about the famed Red Shirt Guy.
The story is very sweet and gave me the warm fuzzies: guy awkwardly points out a Cataclysm lore oversight, guy gets made fun of on YouTube, guy stands up for himself by making his own video, Blizzard honours him with an NPC, Imperative's, a top world guild, leadership hears about him and decides to give him the raid experience of a lifetime, complete with fabulous mount Invincible.
It wasn't the story, however, that interested me the most, it was the negative reaction of a number of people.
Is he a great hero worthy of worship? Of course not. He pointed out an in-game mistake (I know of a couple of people who would kill for that chance) and he stood up for himself. No lives were saved in the making of this e-hero.
But is he worthy of the nod given to him by Blizzard and the guys of Imperative? Absolutely.
Why is it so hard to feel happy when good things happen to good people?
As I was reading the negative comments, I got a mental image of the stereotypical old maid, at the announcement of her friends' engagements/marriages/childbirths, can't hide her jealous, bitterness and contempt.
This individual made a good gesture. Not so much by calling out Blizzard, in my opinion, but by standing up for himself. A reproach I often make to the gaming community is our general attitude of defeatism and victimization.
"I struggle at life because I was bullied at school."
"I got teased because I was a gamer."
"I get treated badly in games because I'm a woman."
I don't mean to take away the seriousness of these realities. Injustice hurts everyone and us geeky, occasionally socially awkward people all know Lady Injustice only too well. But why do we let ourselves suffer and keep suffering, because other people are wrong/cruel/dumbasses? It doesn't make any sense!
Red Shirt Guy (does he have a name? I don't like calling him Red Shirt Guy) did that thing our parents told us to do when we were kids and got bullied: he stood up for himself. Did it rid the world of jerks? No. But it caught the eye of many people who've been treated badly in their lives and wished they had used their voice.
What Blizzard and Imperative did then, was show what happens to people who stand up for themselves: people who stand up for themselves win respect. The respect of those who matter, Blizzard matters to a die hard WoW player, and the respect of those who have the power to do some pretty awesome things.
How can it be anything but heart warming when good things happen to good people?
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Dear all,
I have a Linux server, which already has an OID runing. I am trying to install a different verseion of OID on the same server using different home, different database, and diferent ports. I have no problem installing WLS, OIM; however during configuration of OID, I run into "INST-5124: Could not connect to the Database with the given credentials".
I checked the database and was able to connect using the credential in the configuration either from locally or remotely from my desktop client connection. I am not sure what could go wrong with this. Can anyone shed a light on it?


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Merrill Lynch Japan thinks it's in the know when it comes to both the retail cost of the PlayStation 3, and the manufacturing cost. According to Toyo Keizai, the investment firm is saying that the PS3 is going to cost roughly US$494 to manufacture, but will retail for about $100 less, at the $399 price point. We've previously suggested that this would be the ideal price point for Sony, although it's hard to know what Ken Kutaragi means when he says that the PS3 will be expensive. The fact of the matter is that the success of the Xbox 360 (or lack thereof) will probably have as much to do with the pricing of the PS3 as its manufacturing cost.
Given that Sony's PS3 will face stiff competition from Microsoft's Xbox 360, the chances that Sony will release its console at its production cost is slim. Under the assumption that the Xbox 360 is expected to sell at around $299, Merrill Lynch Japan predicts that Sony will sell each PS3 at the price of 44,800 yen ($410) in Japan and $399 in America. That would mean Sony would suffer a loss of more than 130 billion yen ($1.18 billion) during the first year of the PS3's release.
The real issue for Sony, however, is timing. The company has sunk billions and billions of dollars into the PS3, including nearly US$2 billion on the Cell processor alone. And while the company has proven itself capable of turning around and making big profits on big expenditures with the PS2, this time the situation could play out differently. Microsoft's Xbox 360 has come to market first, and there are questions as to when the PS3 would hit shores in North America and Europe. Currently a Japanese launch in the spring is expected, but it could be several months before we see units stateside.
If there is a long period of time between the Japanese launch and the North American launch, Microsoft may have a price advantage. If the PS3 doesn't arrive in North America and Europe until just before the holiday season of 2006, then Sony's PS3 could be met with a price reduction for the Xbox 360. This could make the first few years of the PS3's lifespan tougher than what its younger sibling had to face. Merrill Lynch Japan thinks that such a scenario could results in a second-year loss of $730 million, and another loss of $457 million in its third year. This is in contrast to the PS2, which was profitable in its second year, to the tune of $757 million.
But Ken Kutaragi isn't worried, because he thinks the company is going to roll out a product that will make you want to take extra shifts at work to pay for it.
"When Nintendo was selling its 16-bit machine at around 12,500 yen ($114), we sold the first PlayStation at 39,800 yen ($364)," continued Kutaragi. "The press was saying that it was expensive, but it was a huge hit. It's the same thing with the PlayStation Portable from last year. The Game Boy Advance is a same handheld gaming machine, and it costs less than 10 thousand yen ($91). On the other hand, our PSP had cost 25,000 yen ($229). But people lined up overnight to buy it, and it sold out on the day of its launch. It all depends on whether people want it. Of course, I'm confident that the PS3 is a product that people will definitely want."
Kutaragi and friends are definitely expecting the PS3 to look like a good buy when they tout all of its features. The company will not only emphasize increased gaming power, but they'll also beat the Blu-ray drum endlessly, selling the PS3 as a combo HD gaming and HD movie-viewing device. The company hopes that many consumers will feel like they can kill two birds with one stone by purchasing the PS3, and they're apparently going to enter into a war of words with Microsoft. Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios president Phil Harrison recently tried to douse water on Microsoft's "HD era" claims by saying that "true HD" wouldn't come before the PS3, although his claims were dubious at best.
And behind the cacophony of next-gen, big-ticket chest thumping, there's Nintendo, who's hoping to undercut both of these players with a cheaper console aimed at a wider demographic. Picture November 2006: a possible $299-349 Xbox 360 (premium), a $200 Nintendo Revolution (I don't buy the $149 rumors), and a $399 PS3. Those prices might shift a bit, but you get the idea.


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Well, after a few days of other distractions I got back to hp2any and implemented a simplistic graphing utility on top of the core library. Here is the first test run featuring a little game I'm working on in my similarly little spare time:
Oops, of course I forgot about the evils of laziness right away... I removed some debug text, but still calculate the values that would be displayed, which are therefore never evaluated and hold on to various big structures from every past frame. The situation is much better after adding an exclamation mark at the right spot:
There's no public code yet, but I hope to get it in a much better shape in a few days.
The first graphs
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A bone density test measures how strong your bones are. The test will tell you if you are at risk for osteoporosis ("os-tee-oh-puh-ROH-sis").
If you are at risk for osteoporosis, your doctor or nurse may recommend getting a bone density test every 2 years.
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What happens during a bone density test?A bone density test is like an x-ray or scan of your body. A bone density test doesn't hurt. It only takes about 15 minutes.
What is osteoporosis?Osteoporosis is a disease of the bones. It means your bones are weak and more likely to break. People with osteoporosis most often break bones in the hip, spine, and wrist.
Anyone can get osteoporosis, but it's most common in older women. The older you are, the greater your risk for osteoporosis.
There are no signs or symptoms of osteoporosis. You might not know you have the disease until you break a bone. That's why it's so important to get a bone density test to measure your bone strength.
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Chelsea Conaboy's article "Some nurses protest hospital flu shot rule" (Metro, Dec. 1), about nurses and other staff members at UMass Memorial Medical Center who are refusing to receive the flu vaccine, is yet another example of why the Massachusetts Nurses Association and its leaders fail to advance the nursing profession.
Ellen Smith is yet another obstinate union leader opposing a policy that is based on scientific evidence and supported by the health community and such organizations as Immunization Action Coalition. Florence Nightingale would cringe at such an ignorant stance.
The union's leaders and its nurses should expend their energy to advance the profession by highlighting nursing's contributions and supporting evidence-based practice guidelines. Instead they continue to present themselves like adolescents bristling at authority.
The writer is a registered nurse.


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Racist Ishihara Fails to Get 2016 Olympic Games
By Lee Jay Walker
Tokyo Correspondent – THE SEOUL TIMES
|Shintaro Ishihara, governor of Tokyo
Victory for Rio!
Japan failed to get the 2016 Olympic Games despite glossing over the racist governor of Tokyo. Yet clearly the governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, was the weak link in the chain because he might be forgiven for being a racist in Tokyo but the same did not apply to the wider world. Therefore, will the people of Tokyo wake up to the reality of Ishihara?
Firstly, I would like to state that The Seoul Times published several articles about Ishihara and the racial nature of this individual. I myself informed several major organizations about Ishihara and notified them about past statements he made with regards to other ethnic groups and towards women.
I am not claiming that this was the reason why Ishihara lost, of course not, that would be foolhardy and over-playing my role because I was just one of many committed people and organizations who were against the Tokyo bid.
Also, the reason behind the failure of Tokyo's bid will be multiple and maybe my articles had no impact what so ever, I will never know. However, I, other individuals, and organizations, did our best to inform the wider world and it shows you that the grass roots can't be ignored.
I will concede that many innocent members of the Tokyo bid did a very good job, however, I believe that they had little hope because of the past deeds of Ishihara. After all, Ishihara clearly played a back seat and he was no robust Governor during this bid, instead he looked out of touch with the modern world.
How ironic that multi-cultural Rio won the bid and that a superstar like Pele is visibly the anti of what Ishihara likes.
Remember, Ishihara is clearly a dangerous maverick and he is an individual who panders to anti-foreign bashing when the time pleases him. More alarming, he is a revisionist of history and a person who denies the Rape of Nanking (Nanjing).
Ishihara stated that the Rape of Nanjing is a myth because he commented that "They say we made a holocaust there, but that is not true. It is a lie made up by the Chinese." Yet the Rape of Nanjing did take place and both official documents and other forms of evidence are clearly available.
Also, like I stated in my article "Japan under Ishihara must not be given the 2016 Olympics," I commented that Ishihara stated that "old women who live after they have lost their reproductive function are useless and are committing a sin." He is clearly stating that women have no value once they have lost their reproductive function and this is a far cry from the equality of the Olympic movement.
In truth, Tokyo should have had a great chance of winning the 2016 Olympic bid because they have not held the summer Olympics for a very long time. Also, it is abundantly clear that the infrastructure of Tokyo is very high and crime is not an issue.
Yet despite this, and the sheer size of the economy of Tokyo and all the other positives, it was clear that Ishihara was the weak spot and he could not be kept out of the picture.
Another weakness of the bid was that it looked like "an elite bid" which would merely develop wealthy parts of Tokyo and the "human side" appeared to take a back seat. However, London, despite many parts of this city being wealthy, focused on developing a neglected part of London where unemployment and other negative social issues are a reality.
The Tokyo bid was more like a United Nations bid and too much focus was put on the environment and it was clear that many people from Tokyo were disinterested because the elitist Ishihara does not understand "the real world."
I am sad for all the decent people of Tokyo who wanted this city to emerge victorious. However, I am glad that Tokyo lost because it would have given a dangerous legacy and more important, it would have given a rampant racist and sexist a chance to revitalize nationalism in Japan.
How ironic that multi-cultural Rio emerged victorious and surely this will add "salt to the wounds" of Ishihara.
Maybe the campaign led by The Seoul Times, other individuals, and organizations, did not sway the International Olympic Committee? However, the Olympic dream is based on the fraternity of all nations and supports sexual equality; therefore, I am going to dream "that justice won," even if other factors were at play in the downfall of the Tokyo Olympic bid.


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FRAIL, elderly patients at the end of their lives are unnecessarily enduring aggressive medical procedures in an effort to keep them alive, according to researchers.
They are calling for restraint on the use of treatments such as intubation, intensive monitoring, intravenous medications, transplants, and painful resuscitation attempts saying the focus should instead be on making patients' last days comfortable and dignified.
In a study led by University of New South WalesAdjunct Associate Professor Magnolia Cardona and published in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, researchers reviewed the medical records of 733 admitted patients who received calls for medical emergency teams during hospitalisation. The median age was 68 years but a third of the patients were older than 80 years.
About 40 per cent of those 80-plus-were subjected to aggressive procedures.
A/Professor Cardona said that hospitals and emergency staff were offering invasive treatment when a close look at the patient's history would suggest a gentler approach could be more appropriate.
The often-costly and aggressive treatments brought about unnecessary suffering for patients by admitting them to the ICU; and the researchers questioned the benefit to the patients, their families and the health system.
A/Professor Cardona said that there was also a need for patients and their families to recognise that requesting intensive interventions for elderly people going through the natural end-of-life was likely to introduce more pain and discomfort while unnecessarily prolonging the process of dying.
She said patients or families can discuss their values and preferences before a health crisis takes place and before they lose the ability to make choices.
"If patients put these in writing in an Advance Care Directive explaining how they wish to be cared for towards the end, clinicians will be better equipped to guide shared treatment decisions."
"Some risk factors such as a history of presenting to the emergency room or several hospital admissions in the past few months, as well as not-for-resuscitation orders are clearly linked with poor clinical prognosis and impending death."
"Such high-risk flags could be used as a guide to refrain from using the emergency team. If hospital staff were trained for earlier recognition of when death is inevitable, patients could be spared such aggressive treatments and allowed a less traumatic and more dignified end."
Half of the deaths in the study occurred within two days of the medical emergency call, while all patients with a not-for-resuscitation order died within three months.
A/Professor Cardona said this suggests the prognoses of the patients would have been somewhat predictable.
"Our findings strongly indicate that admission to the ICU and invasive procedures for elderly people dying of natural causes need reconsideration.
"When death is inevitable, other more appropriate pathways of care can be offered such as symptom control, pain relief and psychosocial support, she said.
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If you watched Miley Cyrus perform at MTV's Video Music Awards and were as scarred as Wanda Sykes, the comedian promises you her show in Long Beach on Saturday will be twerking-free.
As a mother of a 4-year-old girl, Sykes said the performance scared her and left her wanting to put her daughter in a bubble until she's 40.
"You know, maybe it's me. Maybe I am too old now to watch the VMAs," Sykes said during a recent phone interview. "I think that's it because everybody on that show got on my nerves, really, to be honest with you, other than Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars, and Lady Gaga was good. … I was like what the (expletive), what the hell is this? So, maybe it's me. But Miley Cyrus, that stayed with me for days. I was like, man I wish I knew a vampire so he could glamor me and I could forget about that."
Obviously, not much will be off limits when the outspoken comedian takes the stage at the Terrace Theater for what she describes as "an evening with Wanda."
Sykes, 49, used to get much of her material from politics, reading and watching the news. But now that she's a mother, she says she doesn't have the time so she draws more from her personal life.
Her performances mix new material with her tried and true jokes to create a fun show for everyone — well, almost.
"It is an adult show so I would say you'd have to be at least 18 or older," Sykes said. "My audience is very diverse, there's young people, old people, black, white, Asian, Hispanic. I look out and there's just a little bit of everyone — gay, straight. It's exactly how I would like to have my audience, so it's for everyone."
Sykes learned she enjoyed making people laugh at a young age. Born into a funny family, she decided to out do her relatives by becoming a professional.
In addition to being a veteran stand-up comedian, she's also an actress, having starred in HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Monster-In-Law" and "Evan Almighty." She's voiced animated characters in films like "Ice Age: Continental Drift," "Rio," and "Over the Hedge."
She now has a recurring guest role in Amazon's comedy "Alpha House" about four male Republican senators who live in a house next door to Sykes' character, a senator from the other side of the aisle.
But becoming a respected comedian hasn't been easy as a woman.
"I mean, it is hard for females. It is because of the simple fact they say 'a female comic.' I mean, they never say 'a male comic,'" Sykes explains. "A comic is just a comic, but for us we have to have that title 'female comic' because it's abnormal I guess."
Though it may have taken work to become successful, it's paid off. Sykes has won four Primetime Emmy Awards, with three additional nominations. She's won the American Comedy Award for Outstanding Female Stand Up Comic and competed in the Toyota Pro/Celebrity race at the Long Beach Grand Prix earlier this year.
The funny lady is excited to return to Long Beach because not only is it a beautiful city, but Sykes says the residents know how to have a good time.
"They just want to have fun, you know," Sykes said of her past Long Beach audiences. "It's fun and they're partying, they're into it, maybe a little drunk when they get there but that's OK, I am too. They know how to party."
And don't expect Miley Cyrus to be the only celebrity on the chopping block when it comes to jokes.
"It's the celebrity du jour, whoever is goofy that day," Sykes said. "And they say Lamar Odom may be on crack and I'm just like, I can't believe that because I didn't know they still made crack. I thought crack had been discontinued. But then they said on TMZ they had pictures of him at Taco Bell so I'm like OK, thank God, it's not crack. It's probably weed if he's at Taco Bell, so I feel better about that."


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I purchased a ZD a few days ago, and used it for the first time over the weekend. When launched, the ZD was £7,000 body only plus VAT in the UK. Now Robert White are offering it for £5,995 plus VAt with a free 80mm f2.8 lens (worth around £350), so an effective pre-VAT reduction of around £1,300.00. The price reduction clinched the decision for me.HiIf you go to ebay you could purchase the 45, 150 and the 55-110mm lenses for about $1400.00 USD. That is where I bought these lenses which is incredible value for these quality lenses! My favorite lens is the 55-110mm and I have shot many jobs with this lens. $1400.00 USD is 735.00 GDP. So for 6730 GDP that is a pretty amazing kit.Thanks Denis
Additional comments...HiAs a ZD user the battery is excellent easy to replace and I have a spare. The camera comes with a dual battery charger.Interesting review but I wish it went into more depth. Denis
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Domestic favorite cheeses of 2012
By Janet Fletcher
Looking back at a year of columns, I'm surprised by how many American cheeses I featured. At a glance, I'm sure that I showcased more domestic cheeses than I have in any year past. What's up with that?
Availability provides part of the answer. Americans keep opening creameries, and existing creameries keep creating new cheeses. Membership in the American Cheese Society has doubled in the past decade, and the 1,700-plus entries in the society's competition broke records again.
Distributors and retailers do their part by taking a risk on these unproven new cheeses. It's easy to find buyers for Mouny Tam or Pleasant Ridge Reserve, award-winning cheeses with avid fans. But how do you move a high-priced newbie with no name recognition? The brief life span of many cheeses puts extra pressure on distributors and retailers to stock only brisk sellers.
That's all the more reason to applaud Cream and the Crop, a new Bay Area distributor specializing in American artisan producers like Fraga Farms in Oregon and Alemar Cheese in Minnesota. And to give a special shout-out to Rainbow Grocery and Mission Cheese, two San Francisco retailers who impress me with their support for new American cheeses.
In that spirit, I'd like to return the spotlight to some favorite domestic cheeses I highlighted in 2012. They're not all new, but all strike me as having exceptional merit. If you haven't yet tasted them, put them high on your shopping list.
In no particular order:
From New York's Adirondack Mountains, Nettle Meadow Kunik is a luscious, bloomy-rind goat cheese enriched with cow's cream. When young, it smells like clotted cream; when fully mature - my preference - it has a buttery aroma and a silky, spreadable texture.
Compare it with Vermont Butter & Cheese's Coupole, a cream-less goat cheese with a wrinkled, or "brainy," white rind. Modeled loosely after the French Taupinière, Coupole develops mushroom and damp-cave aromas as it ages.
Capriole's cheesemaker Judy Schad takes goat's milk in another direction with Julianna, an aged wheel coated with herbes de Provence. The interior is semisoft to semi-firm, depending on the age; smooth and sweet, with a gentle herbaceousness. From Indiana, it's rare here, but keep an eye out for it.
Franklin's Washed-Rind Teleme, from California cheesemaker Franklin Peluso, has been a long time coming and is worth waiting for. Who doesn't love Peluso's floppy, rice-flour-dusted Teleme? For this variation, he rubs the young squares with brine and ages them longer to develop a big, yeasty, nutty aroma. And the reasonable price - about $17 a pound - makes it affordable for cooking. Grilled cheese, anyone?
Vermont's Jasper Hill Farm produces the fabulous Winnimere, a washed-rind disk wrapped with a strip of spruce bark. Made with raw cow's milk and bathed with beer during its two-month maturation, this farmstead cheese develops a crunchy, flesh-colored rind and an oozy, fondue-like interior. The aroma is huge and reminiscent of earth, smoky ham, mushrooms and mustard.
Also from Vermont, Spring Brook Farm's Tarentaise is inspired by Beaufort, the classic French alpine cheese. Made with raw cow's milk from the farm's own herd, the 20-pound wheels of Tarentaise receive repeated brine baths during their 10 months in the aging cellar. A fresh-cut wedge comes close to Beaufort aromatically, with nutty and fruity scents mingled with hints of bacon and buttered toast.
Next up: Freya's Wheel, an aged goat cheese from Oregon.
Janet Fletcher teaches cheese-appreciation classes and is the author of "Cheese & Wine: A Guide to Selecting, Pairing, and Enjoying" and "The Cheese Course," both from Chronicle Books. Go to www.janetfletcher.com for a class schedule, or contact her at email@example.com.


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Located south of Palm Beach, between Pompano Beach and Boca Raton, this skeletal, black and white lighthouse, was first lit in 1907.
Standing 136 above sea level, its 5.5 million candlepower light can be seen 25 miles off shore. In years past, this lighthouse has witnessed rum and drug smugglers, many hurricanes, and German submarines.
Today, an armada of luxury yachts, sport-fishing boats, and private sailing craft use this waterway. Hillsboro Inlet can be a tricky inlet to maneuver when tides, currents, and water traffic are busy.
The Coast Guard operates this light and it is not open to the public. On the south side of the inlet are fabulous multi-million dollar homes.


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5 weeks ago, I said I was back. But apparently I lied.
I have a great excuse, though. I promise! ……I've started a new job. (Yay!)
But it's been hard trying to get used to the new schedule.
I have to leave the house earlier so I can drive farther, park in a garage 3 blocks away and walk up to the 5th floor of the building. And leaving downtown at 5pm isn't much easier.
I'm not complaining though. Once I'm downtown, I really enjoy it.
And how can I complain when this is the view from my new office?
Yes, I said OFFICE!! For the first time ever in my career, I actually have an office. With a door and everything!! Yay!
So far, my favorite thing to do is walk around and explore downtown during my lunch hour. (If you follow me on Instagram, then you've already seen a few of these) …..
One thing I love about downtown is the architecture.
Gorgeous doorways …..
Curious alleyways ….
Interesting angles ….
So many sights to see downtown. That's just a few of the many photos I've taken.
And there's so much more where that came from!
So stay tuned.
Hopefully this time I can actually be back for real.


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How to Produce a Backyard Olympics With Your Kids
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It should be noted that, for all of Pelosi and Maher's pretensions to being fearless truth-tellers, their denunciations of the "entitlement culture" are nothing new. Here's Barbara Ehrenreich from last week, talking about the history of the "culture of poverty":
It's been exactly 50 years since Americans, or at least the non-poor among them, "discovered" poverty, thanks to Michael Harrington's engaging book The Other America. If this discovery now seems a little overstated, like Columbus's "discovery" of America, it was because the poor, according to Harrington, were so "hidden" and "invisible" that it took a crusading left-wing journalist to ferret them out.
At the same time that it delivered its gut punch, The Other America also offered a view of poverty that seemed designed to comfort the already comfortable. The poor were different from the rest of us, it argued, radically different, and not just in the sense that they were deprived, disadvantaged, poorly housed, or poorly fed. They felt different, too, thought differently, and pursued lifestyles characterized by shortsightedness and intemperance. As Harrington wrote, "There is… a language of the poor, a psychology of the poor, a worldview of the poor. To be impoverished is to be an internal alien, to grow up in a culture that is radically different from the one that dominates the society."
It's a wonder that you don't hear nearly so much pearl-clutching over the "culture of wealth" explored in The Atlantic's 2011 profile of the new global elite. That's despite the recent proliferation of studies like this, which suggest that corporate executives are five times more likely than the general public to display psychopathic tendencies.
But so anyway. The point is, paternalistic assumptions about the culture of poverty are an old, old trope. And anyone who doesn't think they've already gone a long way towards shaping the modern welfare state hasn't been paying attention. Ehrenreich again:
So it was in a spirit of righteousness and even compassion that Democrats and Republicans joined together to reconfigure social programs to cure, not poverty, but the "culture of poverty." In 1996, the Clinton administration enacted the "One Strike" rule banning anyone who committed a felony from public housing. A few months later, welfare was replaced by Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), which in its current form makes cash assistance available only to those who have jobs or are able to participate in government-imposed "workfare."
In a further nod to "culture of poverty" theory, the original welfare reform bill appropriated $250 million over five years for "chastity training" for poor single mothers. (This bill, it should be pointed out, was signed by Bill Clinton.)
Even today, more than a decade later and four years into a severe economic downturn, as people continue to slide into poverty from the middle classes, the theory maintains its grip. If you're needy, you must be in need of correction, the assumption goes, so TANF recipients are routinely instructed in how to improve their attitudes and applicants for a growing number of safety-net programs are subjected to drug-testing. Lawmakers in 23 states are considering testing people who apply for such programs as job training, food stamps, public housing, welfare, and home heating assistance. And on the theory that the poor are likely to harbor criminal tendencies, applicants for safety net programs are increasingly subjected to finger-printing and computerized searches for outstanding warrants.
Unemployment, with its ample opportunities for slacking off, is another obviously suspect condition, and last year 12 states considered requiring pee tests as a condition for receiving unemployment benefits. Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have suggested drug testing as a condition for all government benefits, presumably including Social Security. If granny insists on handling her arthritis with marijuana, she may have to starve.


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British Supermodel Naomi Campbell insisted Tuesday that she wasn't lying in her court testimony in the war-crimes trial of ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor, who is accused of providing weapons to rebels in Sierra Leone in exchange for illegal "blood" diamonds.
"I've no motive here. Nothing to gain. I am a black woman who has and will always support good causes especially relating to Africa," Campbell said in a statement a day after actress Mia Farrow contradicted her court testimony in The Hague, Reuters reported.
Last week, Campbell said she was given what looked like "dirty looking pebbles" by two men late at night while in South Africa after having attended a 1997 dinner where Taylor was also present.
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Campbell said she did not know the stones came from Taylor, who was overthrown in 2003 and is being charged on 11 counts including rape, sexual slavery and drafting child soldiers in connection with Sierra Leone's 11-year civil war – which reportedly killed at least 50,000 people and mutilated twice as many. He denies the charges.
After receiving the stones, Campbell said, she gave them a South African charity the following day.
Farrow, however, said in court Monday that Campbell had bragged to her at a charity breakfast both attended the next morning about having received a "huge diamond" from men sent by Taylor.
On Tuesday, Campbell's ex-agent Carole White also told the court she believed the model received blood diamonds, People reported.
Campbell's statement, which was released by a London PR agency, said the model was "hurt" by suggestions she did not care about those who suffered in Africa.
"Naomi Campbell was in South Africa helping a charity, had the diamonds for a matter of hours and handed them over to a representative of Nelson Mandela's children's charity," the statement said. "She was not on trial in The Hague and was as helpful toward the court as she could be."


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Doing a project at school or have a Raspberry Pi Club, add it in this section to allow others to follow your progress!
- A key aspect of the Raspberry Pi Foundation's aims is to encourage education, several groups including Computing At School aim to bring Computing Science back into schools.
- We also have a bunch of educational links about RPi and tangent subjects.
Please add details of your group and what plans you have for the RPi or provide a link to your homepage.
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We want to use the Raspberry Pi with a simple hardware board and set of downloadable activities to use it to encourage young people (or anyone else) get into embedded computing. We're currently looking at piface for the interface board and trying to come up with little activities to do. We've got some ideas but would love some more if anyone else wants to get involved.
We already run Linux workshops for schools and the National UK Schools Animation Competition, which uses Scratch.


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SebBelgo posted a topic in Game Developmenthello there, I've been playing this game since 2008, so I feel I got a right to moan about a few things that bug me about the game engine, especially regarding match reports. 1. Goalkeeper grades These often make no sense. There are GK's who get a grade of 8, 9 or even a 10 when having lost a game, even swallowing several goals. Whereas GK's who have kept a clean sheet (thus making a few saves) would get a measily 5 or 6. This especially happens in games against unmanaged teams, where the GK of the unmanaged team will almost always outscore your GK by a big grade difference, even if your team has been the unmanaged team by say, 3-0. Because of that, I feel that the grading of GK's works by weird criteria. Ofcourse I can understand that in some games a less good team might lose 3-0 or more against a better team, but their GK having made a lot of saves to prevent worse. Yes, in such cases a grade of 7 or 8 could be realistic, but never more. Also GK's who keep a clean sheet do not always get rewarded for that. Them having kept a clean sheet could either mean they made some saves, or they had an uneventful match, their defence clearing all danger. Still, a clean sheet should always give a grade of 7. From there you could add further grades to the amount of saves they made > an 8 for 3-5 saves, a 9 for 5-8 saves, and a 10 for +8 saves. Any GK who swallows a goal, can never get a 10, ofcourse. 2. Man of the Match another thing that has bugged me for a while, players who get the man of the match are not always that. In my book, a player who score 2 goals or scores 1 goal and assists another, with no other player equalling that tally, should always become man of the match surely. An example of yesterday > I had a match, was quite uneventful and 0-0 until the 60h minute. I subbed in 3 players and changed tactic. One of those subs (young striker Kevin Volland) scores 2 goals in his 30mins on the pitch and his brace makes me win the game 0-2. But yet, he did not become man of the match and it went to Fellaini (1 assist) instead. That's weird, isn't it? In real life, it often enough happens that a player who gets subbed on becomes a man of the match, because he was decisive in a win. I guess that on SM this does not happen because the engine favours players who are full 90 minutes on the pitch, but I find that logic flawed. Man of the match should count for those players who have contributed most with goals or assists or even a GK who kept a clean sheet and made decisive saves (like a penalty save etc). Also I have noticed that when a player -who scored a few goals or gave many assists-, gets a yellow card, he can more often than not forget his man of the match award. This is a big flaw too. I'm sure that many who will read this will feel the same. I am curious about your experiences, perhaps I might have overlooked something? For now I can hope that SM can fix this, as it should be an easy thing to adjust and make this game more realistic. Seb


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BOILING SPRINGS -- The Runnin' Bulldogs were unable to dig their way out of a 2-0 halftime deficit, falling to Big South heavyweight Campbell 3-1 in women's soccer action Thursday night at Greene-Harbison Stadium.
With the loss, Gardner-Webb finishes its three-game conference hom stand at 1-2 to open Big South play this season.
GWU (2-8, 1-2) was unable to secure its second consecutive win due to a solid defensive effort by the Campbell backline. The Runnin' Bulldogs did score for the third consecutive match, marking the first time that head coach Kevin Mounce's team has achieved that feat.
The opening of the match saw both sides feel each other out, as neither side found much open space in the early going. A pressuring Campbell defense made it difficult for the Gardner-Webb forwards early.
Campbell (7-2-1, 2-1) changed the pace with a promising run in the 4th minute of play off a run from the Fighting Camels' leading scorer Ashley Clark. Clark pushed past the GWU backline and was followed by two well spaced teammates. Clark played the ball to the right side, but the ensuing shot attempt was blocked by Schmitt and cleared by a hustling Runnin' Bulldog defense.
A nice hustle play from a sprinting Shelby Hooe (Mechanicsville, Va.) resulted in a Gardner-Webb corner kick, but the ensuing attempt by Brooke Kelly (Lawrenceville, Ga.) flew over the box unthreateningly.
Campbell would go on to earn possession from there, as Clark got another strong run towards the goal and fired a shot right at Schmitt, and the sophomore recorded the save to keep the match scoreless.
The Runnin' Bulldog defense endured the early possession discrepancy to keep an aggressive Campbell offense off the board early in the first half.
A Campbell foul in the 15th minute led to a Gardner-Webb free kick 30 yards out, but Kelly's attempt went wide of the goal and trickled out of play.
Gardner-Webb was able to settle, not allowing threatening offensive possessions for the Fighting Camels to come to fruition. A stifling Campbell defense did limit the GWU offensive attack in the opening period, as the Fighting Camels outshot the Runnin' Bulldogs 11-1 in the first half.
Campbell's fifth shot attempt of the half put the Runnin' Bulldogs in a 1-0 hole when Clark broke through in the 23rd minute for her ninth goal of the season.
The lead nearly grew to two goals for the visitors in the 28th minute, as Clark found the ball in the box once again, turned, and fired a shot on frame. Schmitt reached full extension to punch the ball over the top of the goal and end the threatening CU run.
A nice hustle play from sophomore defender Addison Abee (Charlotte, N.C.) stopped another Clark run, limiting the Fighting Camels to a corner kick attempt. Schmitt punched the ball away, giving Campbell their third of five total corner kicks in the opening period. That attempt was cleared away successfully by the Runnin' Bulldogs to keep the score at 1-0 in favor of the Fighting Camels.
A great defensive play from freshman defender Whitley Bowman (Damascus, Md.) stopped a threatening run from Campbell's Kaleigh Rowlands, executing a well-timed slide tackle to end a two v. one opportunity for the visitors.
The Runnin' Bulldogs surrendered the second goal of the match to Campbell in the 44th minute, as Ashley Hartert entered the game and scored in the same minute to put GWU down 2-0 entering the break.
A speedy Campbell backline kept the Runnin' Bulldogs off balance, holding GWU to only one shot attempt, a Tara Woelfel (Thurmont, Md.) bid that went wide in the 45th minute, for the first period. Campbell's defense caused eight offsides calls for GWU in the first half.
Forward Arielle McCarthy Crum-Ewing (Oshawa, Ontario, Canada) and the Runnin' Bulldog offense came out of the break hustling, putting pressure on the Fighting Camels backline for virtually the first time in the contest.
Gardner-Webb got right back in the match in the 53rd minute after a foul was called on the Campbell defense after a penetrating run from freshman Ashley Carmean (Ashburn, Va.) resulted in a foul inside the box. Carmean buried the ensuing penalty kick inside the left post for her first goal of the season to cut the CU lead to 2-1.
The 54th minute saw GWU's momentum come to a screeching halt when Melissa Messier gave Campbell a goal to put the visitors up 3-1.
An aggressive Campbell offense continued to pressure the GWU backline despite the two goal advantage, keeping possession away from the Gardner-Webb offense.
A recently substituted Nichole Poppe (Youngsville, N.C.) gave the Runnin' Bulldogs a nice look in the 72nd minute, wrestling the ball away in a crowd to earn possession and placing a cross in front of the Campbell goal, but it was grabbed by Campbell's Alexis Connors to preserve a 3-1 lead.
Gardner-Webb earned its third corner kick of the match in the 78th minute, as Kelly put the attempt into the box. Sophomore midfielder Megan Curan (Mooresville, N.C.) rose up to get a head on the ball, but her shot attempt went just above the crossbar.
Gardner-Webb nearly moved to within a goal of tying the Fighting Camels after the CU keeper bobbled the ball off a cross, but the ball bounced off a GWU player and out of play. The Fighting Camel defense took it from there, keeping the Runnin' Buldogs from threatening to get a goal back in the waning minutes to provide the final margin.
Schmitt (2-8) took the loss for GWU, collecting five saves over the match. Torrero (7-2-1) got the win for Campbell in 45:00 minutes of action without recording a save.
Offensively, Gardner-Webb was paced by Carmean, who netted the first goal of her collegiate career with her penalty kick in the 53rd minute.
The Runnin' Bulldogs begin a three game road trip this Saturday at High Point at 7 p.m.


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Evon Young's body believe to be dumped in area landfill
Cadaver dogs have become an integral part of the search for a slain Milwaukee man's body.
The search group People and Paws have volunteered their handlers and a dog in the effort at Menomonee Falls landfill where Evon Young's body is said to have been dumped.
Fred Carsky's dog Liesel is one of the dogs that has assisted in the search.
"We see shade of different colors in every day life. Dogs smell different scents and no two are the same," said Carsky.
Liesel and other dogs have been put to the test for days as police shifted their search for Young's body to the landfill.
"At the landfill they scoop out the garbage, they spread it out, and we search it with the dog," Carsky said. "You can see that they are excited and overwhelmed and they get used to it, too, and settle down. But it's all about work and what they are trained to find."
He said the dogs rotate, working seven-hour shifts looking to detect items with human blood or skin.
Five men were charged with first-degree intentional homicide in Young's death. One of the men was his roommate.


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Hello everyone, and welcome to the The Graveyard Shift , which is hosted by Kotaku's reader-run blog, TAY. This is a place to talk about life, video games, or anything else you want, so feel free to hop in and join in the topic discussion, or anything else you want. Then, when you're done, feel free to peruse the articles on TAY and TAYCLASSIC. Is this your first time on TAY or The Graveyard Shift? Then check out this handy TAYtorial!
So . . . You guys heard how I tried that "Egg sauce over rice" dish earlier, right? Yea, it was good and all . . . But I totally started being hesitant about halfway through, because Astro was like "Hurga durga salmonella hurg durgdurgdurg". Prior to having that mental image in mind, I just didn't care. Raw egg, no biggie. Food's food. Totally ran at it without major thought because, well, it's easier to brush off hesitation if there is none, you know? But, about halfway through, I kept thinking "God, I can practically taste the salmonella in this thing" and came at a standstill. My mother had salmonella when I was younger, and I remember how she was bed-ridden for about a whole week due to it. I have classes, and finals next week. I actually shouldn't even be distracting myself with new dishes and hanging out with you guys, but what the hell, amirite? (#YOLO) But still, I hesitated.
"What do I do? Do I finish it? What if I get sick because I went and ate the whole goddamn bowl like a moron? What if I don't finish it? Will the karma gods be like 'hahaha, look at this jackass. What'cha gonna do, punk? Oh, what's that? You're not gonna finish the meal like a coward, just because you don't wanna get sick? *POOF* GUESS WHO'S FAILING THEIR CLASSES NOW!?'?"
In the end, I didn't finish. I actually got full. I still had like . . . the equivalent to two spoonfuls (Chopsticks FTW~), but I wasn't gonna bother anymore. Still, the thought of there being "Karma gods" is a pretty fun one, isn't it? I'll go ahead and say that, no, I'm not really religious. But I damn right fall prey to little superstitions like that, if only because I've learned that life can be mean at times, and it's more fun than just going on without internal monologue. So, what about you, my fellow TAYter Tots? Ever have little beliefs like that? Any of 'em ever struck you as funny?


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We have entered the final weekend of SHOTY voting, so we all thought we'd take a moment to remind you to vote, if you haven't, and update you on how voting is going. Polls will close at 12:01 ET Monday morning. Here's where the count stands:
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Archived posts and threads for 2010-11 Figure Skating Competitions and Events.
Nebelhorn Trophy, 18th Ondrej Nepela Memorial, Japan Open, Finlandia Trophy, Pavel Roman Memorial, Golden Spin of Zagreb, etc.
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You know it's a glacially paced Chicago Mackinac race when the 90 foot Windquest takes a day and a half to cover under 300 miles. The big Devos-owned water ballaster finished around 11 PM local time well ahead of the old Puma Il Mostro, while a massive Buffalo Girl move halfway to the arctic circle may have paid serious dividends for Bill Martin's GL70 Stripes.
The tracker is sweet, and there's some fun to be had on the CYC Facebook page. Here are a few updates from our pal Geff aboard first-placed multihull Lucky Strike:
"Very slow morning pre dawn. Been alot of transitions and been in phase with all of it since heading for the barn after can 3. Been staying ahead of the 70s through all this drifting. Finally got cell service. That is why my last post was from the first night. Going outside and staying west was pretty good for us. Still a long 9 miles to the bridge…"