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In a 23-inning duel, the second-longest game in NCAA history, William and Mary lost 3-2 at the College of Charleston on a walk-off single by Morgan Phillips. It came off Kevin Casey, who started the game at second base and rarely pitches for W&M.
The Tribe, which scored in the first inning and the 20th, retains two more chances to beat the Cougars and win its first CAA regular-season title.
Because the game went so long, the teams decided to play a doubleheader at 1 p.m. Saturday instead of Friday, as planned.
W&M's Ryan Hissey hit an RBI single in the first inning, but Charleston evened the game at 1 in the seventh.
In the 20th, Kevin Nutter hit an RBI single for the Tribe, but Nick Thompson grounded into a double play to keep the Cougars within 2-1. Two Charleston singles sandwiched around a sacrifice bunt made it 2-2 in the bottom of that inning.
Thompson was 3-for-8 for the Tribe. W&M starter Jason Inghram struck out 10 in 8 1/3 innings on a day when W&M pitchers set a school record by striking out 24. ...
W&M junior Michael Katz, who was 3-for-9 Friday, was a named a Dick Howser Trophy semifinalist by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association of America. Katz is one of 35 semifinalists and the only player from the Colonial Athletic Association tabbed.
He leads the country in RBI overall (71) and per game (1.48). He also ranks in the top 10 nationally in home runs (14), doubles (23), doubles per game (0.48), runs (61), home runs per game (0.29), slugging percentage (.711), total bases (143), and runs per game (1.27).
The finalists will be announced June 5 and the winner revealed June 14. ...
Old Dominion boosted its NCAA at-large hopes with a series-opening 7-3 home victory over Long Island University Brooklyn.
Freshman Nick Walker, sophomore PJ Higgins and senior Josiah Burney, a Gloucester High graduate, each knocked in two runs for the Monarchs (32-21). In a pregame presentation, Burney was named the Chesapeake Athletic Club's Player of the Year.
ODU will honor its 11 seniors before Saturday's 1 p.m. doubleheader against LIU. ...
No. 2 Virginia (43-10, 22-7 Atlantic Coast Conference) squandered a three-run lead in the ninth inning and lost 6-5 Friday at Wake Forest in the first game of a series-opening doubleheader, but bounced back to win 7-2 in the nightcap.
In Game 1, the Demon Deacons used the long ball to come back. Connor Keniry hit a solo home run in the ninth to cut the margin to 5-3, and Nate Mondou slugged a two-run homer with two out off closer Nick Howard to force extra innings.
Then in the 10th, Keniry hit a walk-off RBI single.
In Game 2, winner Artie Lewicki (5-1) pitched seven shutout innings, yielding three hits and two walks.
Catcher Robbie Coman was 3-for-4 with two RBI and a run for U.Va. Mike Papi also drove in two runs for the Cavaliers, and he, Daniel Pinero, Branden Cogswell, John La Prise and Matt Thaiss had each had two of the Cavaliers' 17 hits. ...
N.C. State swept a pair from Virginia Tech, 9-4 and 6-5 in Blacksburg, ending Tech's chances of qualifying for the ACC tournament.
Ryan Tufts paced the Hokies (20-31-1, 8-21 ACC), collecting three RBI and two runs for the day. Paul Sciretta had five hits. ...
Richmond (24-26-1, 13-12) won 12-4 at Rhode Island to clinch the last spot in the Atlantic 10 tournament.
Spiders sophomore Tyler Beckwith homered, doubled and drove in four runs, and Matt Dacey socked a grand slam.
In the NCAA Division I tournament's first round, Virginia Tech edged Lipscomb 4-3 in Knoxville, Tenn.
The Hokies will play Saturday in the winners' bracket against regional host Tennessee, the No. 10 seed. Tennessee defeated Charleston Southern, the surprise Big South tournament champion, 12-3.
With th Hokies tied at 3 and one out in the top of the seventh, Tech's Vanessa Gonzalez doubled down the left-field line, scoring Lauren Gaskill, who had led off the inning with a single.
Kelly Heinz pitched a five-hitter for the victory, leaving Poquoson's Maggie Tyler rested for subsquent games.
Lipscomb scored on an error in the bottom of the first, but the Hokies went ahead 3-1 when Amanda Ake hit a three-run triple to right-center in the third inning. Lipscomb pulled even with two runs in the sixth.
After the Hokies went ahead, Lipscomb threatened to tie or win in the bottom of the seventh, putting runners at second and third with one out, but Heinz got a called third strike and a grounder to short for the victory.
Also in the D-I tournament, Colonial Athletic Association regular-season and tournament champ James Madison defeated DePaul 6-1 in Lexington, Ky., as Jailyn Ford (24-6) tied her own JMU record for pitching wins in a season.
Caitlin Sandy doubled twice for JMU, and Taylor Newton homered.
The Dukes (45-13) won their 16th consecutive game and earned the right to face the regional host, No. 14 Kentucky, which won 6-1 versus Ohio. ...
Host Salisbury (39-3) held on to beat Christopher Newport 6-4 in Game 1 of a best-of-three NCAA Division III Super Regional, ending the Captains' 17-game winning streak.
The Captains (38-7), 2-3 against the Sea Gulls this season, scored three runs in the top of the seventh. Freshman Makayla Jenkins of Gloucester took the loss -- she has handed Salisbury its only three defeats.
The Gulls are 37-0 this season against teams other than the Captains, who will need to beat Salisbury twice in a row to make the Elite Eight.
CNU had 11 hits, 10 of them off Salisbury ace Rachel Johnson, who was taken from the pitching rubber with one out to get. At that stage, the Gulls were ahead 6-2 and the bases were loaded, and Kathryn Larson went in to pitch.
After the Captains' Karlee Holzbach walked and Taylor Dillow hit an infield single, each driving in a run, Johnson came back in with the bases loaded and induced Tori Clarke to fly out to center field, ending the game.
Retired Virginia Tech athletic director Jim Weaver was named an AD of the Year by the National Association of Collegiate Director. He was one of four FBS administrators so honored.
Virginia earned its 10th consecutive berth in the NCAA quarterfinals, ousting Notre Dame 4-1 in Athens, Ga. It was the fourth time this season U.Va. defeated the Irish.
The fourth-seeded Cavaliers (26-2) next will face No. 5 Baylor at noon Sunday. U.Va., the defending NCAA champion, has won 122 consecutive matches against Atlantic Coast Conference opponents -- the longest ACC streak ever in any sport -- and will be seeking its seventh semifinal appearance in the last eight years.
After winning the doubles point when Mac Styslinger and Thai-Son Kwiatkowski overcame a service-break deficit on line 2 for an 8-6 triumph, the Cavaliers advanced on straight-sets wins by No. 6 Justin Shane, No. 5 Kwiatkowski and Mitchell Frank, who is ranked fourth nationally and playing No. 2.
Richard Long, a Kecoughtan High graduate, resigned as James Madison's women's coach after one season to pursue other opportunities.
Assistant Dane Pedersen was named JMU's interim coach for next season.
In Long's only season with the Dukes, JMU finished second in the Colonial Athletic Association championships. Before that, he had spent seven years with the men's and women's programs at his alma mater, Auburn, including five as an assistant coach.
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In Italian director Dario Argento's 1996 horror-thriller The Stendhal Syndrome, his own daughter Asia Argento stars as Anna Manni, a detective investigating a series of brutal sex killings in Rome and Florence. So begins perhaps the most awkward take-your-daughter-to-work day in cinema history.
Manni suffers from the eponymous Stendhal Syndrome, a real life disorder whose victims suffer seizures and hallucinations when exposed to art. As the investigation unfolds, Anna and the killer play a game of cat-and-mouse-who-gets-raped-a-lot. Fascinated by Anna, the killer sets traps for her, pontificating about the power of art and the intensity of the creative experience between bouts of puttin' his lotion in her basket. After enduring a grueling assault in an abandoned tunnel, complete with demonic hallucinatory Stendhal graffiti, Anna finally manages to draw her gun and put him out of her misery.
After killing the perp, Manni experiences post-traumatic stress. She transforms her appearance and personality and imagines taunting phone calls from the dead killer. The plot thickens as copycat killings of people close to Manni suggest that she may not be hallucinating.
Taken at face value, The Stendhal Syndrome is a not-too-shabby killer thriller with obvious influences from Alfred Hitchcock and Brian DePalma as well as Argento's own signature Italian travelogue cinematography. Like William Friedkin, Dario Argento excels at infusing his films with a sense of place that is at once authentic and otherworldly and The Stendhal Syndrome, with its dreamlike artistic landscapes and haunting Ennio Morricone soundtrack, is no exception. The opening sequence, for example, where Manni takes in the view of the Ponte Veccio from the Uffizi Gallery before falling into Brueghel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus leaves little doubt that in this film one does not simply walk into Florence (fast forward to 1:50). And while a few of the effects, such as the bullet's point of view as it travels through a body and the pill's point of view as it travels down the esophagus, are somewhat dated and awkward, others are quite stunning and imaginative.
But for a film that features such visceral sexual violence, it is not enough to be merely not-too-shabby. There is a fine line between using sexualized violence in entertainment and rapesploitation. The Stendhal Syndrome toes that line with refreshing deftness. Just as Hitchcock used the lurid violence of Psycho's shower scene to bury the complexity of Norman Bates' mommy issues, so does Argento use sexual violence here to misdirect us from the true villain of his piece, art itself. And just as the victims of assault can find themselves identifying with their assailants, Manni moves from art to artifice as she struggles to process her traumatic experience with her all-too-real attacker.
The Stendhal Syndrome is ultimately about the transformative power of art, over us individually and as a culture. Art is presented here as a filter, a prism through which the light of reality is split and refracted, a vehicle for translating abstract myth into immediate experience. But Manni is incapable of processing art. For her, art is not a means to explore reality. Rather it is a perverse substitute for reality itself. Art is an assailant that imprisons her spirit rather than elevating it.
The uniquely Italian, uniquely Argento, rendition of this power makes The Stendhal Syndrome more than a mere shockfest. The horror of the film hangs literally on the walls, its sadism so ubiquitous that any response to it is bound to be disordered. But this is no contrived Night Gallery of cheap knock offs. It is our authentic legacy, note for bloody note.
On a recent trip to Rome, I had the opportunity to take the Vatican Museum tour. It's a fascinating multi-hour death march as you are squeezed by the crowd through the toothpaste tube of western history. The tour begins in the classical period, with busts of Roman and Greek gods, politicians, artists and other bustworthy subjects, and then literally turns left into the Renaissance and modern periods, where it becomes Golgothapalooza. One can almost hear Life of Brian's Michael Palin crooning on the audio tour "and here we have...crucifixion?...good...moving on we see...crucifixion?...good...now if you'll follow the yellow line into the Crucifixion Room, we'll see some renderings of the...crucifixion?...good..."
Perhaps if artists throughout the centuries had expended as much oil and canvas on the Sermon on the Mount as they did on the crucifixion, The Last Temptation of Christ would have been a bigger hit and The Passion of the Christ would be relegated to midnight triple features alongside Saw and Hostel, where it belongs.
At least there was a moral point to Saw.
The Stendhal Syndrome is available on Netflix streaming and on YouTube. Jason Shankel is a writer and creative developer living in San Francisco who, yes, has seen the Duomo from the Belvedere, Mr. Fancy Pants serial killer.

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Mark Meredith is an award winning journalist and has been a member of the KDVR/KWGN newsroom since January 2012.
Since moving to Colorado, the Georgia native has covered a number of high profile stories including: the Aurora theater shooting, Colorado's push to legalize marijuana, the disappearance of Jessica Ridgeway, and the largest wildfire in Colorado history.
As part of his coverage of the Black Forest Wildfire, Mark was named the Colorado Broadcasting Association's best breaking news reporter in 2013.
Before moving to Colorado, Mark worked as a general assignment reporter at the NBC affiliate in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. While in the Palmetto state, Mark covered a wide range of stories including plane crashes, local and state elections, hurricanes, the Presidential primary contest, and more.
Before reporting on-air, Mark served behind the scenes as an intern at CNN's The Situation Room in Washington D.C. and for NBC News TODAY and Nightly News in New York, NY.
A native of Georgia, Mark enjoys spending time with family and friends, commercial aviation, and working out. A Southerner at heart, he's looking forward to getting the chance to experience what the West has to offer.
Mark is a proud graduate of the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism. While at UGA, Mark worked behind the scenes with both WNEG News and the local campus produced station Newsource 15.


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Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General
OECD HQ, Friday 25th February 2011
Dear Ambassadors, aviation and airline officials, members of the press and media, ladies and gentlemen, good morning and welcome:
The Secretary-General (standing, fourth, left/right) during the Signing Ceremony.
1 . The dynamic airline market and the role of export credit agencies
Commercial aircraft represents a huge and expanding global market. The number of aeroplanes in the worldwide fleet is expected to nearly double from around 19,000 today to over 36,000 aeroplanes in 2029. Aeroplane deliveries for fleet growth and replacement of ageing aircraft could total more than 30,000 over the next 20 years, with an expected value of US$3.6 trillion (i).
To support this important market, Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) historically have provided financing for around 20% of aircraft deliveries. During the financial crisis, ECAs became even more central, providing financing for almost 30% of total deliveries in 2009. Preliminary figures show that last year, Export Credit Agencies provided around $20 billion of financing for commercial aircraft sales. This agreement is therefore highly relevant for global competition in this sector.
2. The contribution of the new ASU: a market-driven export financing agreement
This new Aircraft Sector Understanding is interesting and remarkable:
First, because, it unifies the terms, conditions, and procedures of official support for large and regional aircraft exports; second, because of its innovative design; third, because of its ability to significantly reduce, if not eliminate, subsidies; and fourth because it creates a level playing field among exporters, airlines and governments.
It is also interesting because all these things are accomplished through an agreement mechanism with a fairly unique legal status. Like all OECD export credit agreements, the form of the agreement in front of you is referred to as "soft law".
You might wonder whether "soft law" can produce "hard" rules. The success of our export credit rules throughout OECD history clearly shows that OECD export credit agreements do produce strong, effective rules.
In fact, I believe this special status helps to explain why our shared export credit disciplines have worked so well over the years and continue to do so. It explains why our agreements can be negotiated, implemented and evolve in a timely and effective manner. Moreover, our mechanism is flexible enough to enable partner countries, like Brazil, to join the agreement.
3. An agreement based on WTO commitments
The efficiency of this "soft law" mechanism also lies in the fact that it is built on WTO commitments, with respect to the design and operation of export credit programs. In turn, the WTO has delegated the implementation of these commitments to the OECD, and they are embodied in OECD agreements through specific rules on the terms and conditions of official export credit financing.
This "soft law" mechanism provides an expedited ability to reach agreements on financing rules, as has been demonstrated in the agreement we are signing today. The first formal negotiating session was held here this time last year, and the agreement in principle was approved in December. This allows for a rapid response to the major changes in the market, such as shifts in the manufacturing and financing of commercial aircraft.
The benefits of multilateral cooperation are greatly magnified in the aviation sector. We must remember that the aviation manufacturing industry represents "national champions" in their respective countries. They are major exporters and job creators. Trade disputes between national champions and their governments tend to escalate quickly, raising the economic and political stakes to the highest levels.
On this note, let me add that two of the participants here today were not party to any formalized aircraft finance disciplines before the 2007 Aircraft Sector Understanding agreement signed in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil is now an important partner for the OECD and a full ASU Participant.
Before agreed disciplines, Canada and Brazil engaged in an extensive litigation process in the WTO over aircraft financing. They then opted for a more productive and mutually beneficial approach - to work together with participants in the OECD, rather than pursue the litigation route. Both governments agreed that our multilateral soft law mechanism was a better and more practical way of resolving their real-time competitive transaction differences.
This is "hard" evidence in favour of the efficiency of "soft law". No government has ever resigned from our export credit disciplines. Commitments are made by governments at the Ministerial level and compliance is excellent.
4. Partner countries are invited to join
In addition to working with commercial aviation stakeholders, the negotiators designed and negotiated the agreement in the presence of official observers from Russia and China. Representatives from these governments attended the negotiations and fully participated in the debates.
Russia and China were also given the opportunity to become full negotiating partners. While they both chose to remain observers for the time being, I want to emphasize that the OECD and all other ASU participants encourage them to become full partners in implementing this agreement as early as possible.
Russia is becoming a prominent commercial aircraft producer, and China will begin commercial aircraft production in the next few years. I believe that they will find it in their longer term economic and financial interest to join this agreement; just as manufacturers, airlines, and their governments committed to the new Aircraft Sector Understanding today.
We are ready to support Russia and China in joining the ASU and the offer also extends to the full range of OECD export credit disciplines.
The rules that we are agreeing on today have a tremendous impact on both producers and buyers of commercial aircraft. It is great to see so many representatives from the airline industry joining us for this important event.
Their contributions have been essential. Negotiators, the Chairman, and the Secretariat received helpful analysis and policy advice from both manufacturers and airlines during these negotiations. All of this was valuable and key to reaching this new agreement.
So thank you all for making this path-breaking agreement happen. Let us now make it work together! Without further ado, and with my strong congratulations to the ASU participants, let us sign this new agreement.
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Our Hackathon on January 26th was a terrific success, thanks to the support of Chapman University, the Ralph W. Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics, Chapman's eVillage, and our two sponsors Influxis and TokBox.
The event drew teams of developers, entrepreneurs, product managers and designers who joined forces with members of the AnyMeeting product group to spend a day developing projects using WebRTC, which is short for "Web Real Time Communications".
"Innovation is a critical component of everything we do at AnyMeeting and this event was a great opportunity to engage with the local community and connect with partners and technologists driven to evolve the current state of communications online," Costin Tuculescu, AnyMeeting, founder and CEO said. "There was a really high level of excitement about being able to create video and audio applications so easily, and everyone was chomping at the bits to put together the next AnyMeeting or Google Hangouts. Interestingly enough though, the teams did quickly realize that while certain things like one-to-one video chat is now very easy, multi-way video conferencing and recording still remains a challenge.
The event opened with presentations from Costin, Chapman, Influxis and TokBox. We've captured them on video and will be sharing them on the AnyMeeting YouTube channel. Some highlights are embedded below:
The Hack session ended with presentations from the teams. The top projects were:
- An HTML5 WebSockets based signaling platform to synchronize any number of meeting attendees
- An online security system that feeds multiple security cameras into a central location, and allows recording
- A "Google Hangouts" like video chat platform
The consensus from the teams was that while this technology is very exciting, it's still in its infancy. A number of the teams found that documentation from just a few weeks ago had already become outdated on the current version of Chrome, and other docs warned that certain features would be changing, so be prepared for that.
Regardless, as the major browser manufacturers continue to make progress on this spec, the industry will certainly keep up with this wave of disruption and AnyMeeting will be holding future Hackathons to ensure that our community keeps up with the innovation.
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DENVER - A second Colorado Democrat who is facing possible recall over gun control says she wouldn't change her votes and has no plans to resign.
Sen. Angela Giron of Pueblo says she'll fight for her seat and that most constituents support the measures she backed. Giron oversees the Senate committee that first approved a measure to require background checks on most private and online gun sales.
Giron also voted for a new law to limit most ammunition magazines to 15 rounds. Those votes were cited by gun-rights activists who turned in some 13,500 signatures in Monday to see Giron in a recall election a year before her term is up.
Democrats could keep Giron's seat if she resigns and they appoint an interim replacement. But Giron says she'll stay and fight for her job in a heavily Democratic district.


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Studies in the Origins of the Ancient Egyptian People
This web site is designed for lay persons, not Egyptology professionals. I hope that those more versed in ancient Egyptian history and culture who come here will be forgiving of the lack of precision in expression.
The material is intended to be informative on important but thorny subjects for those who seek a more objective presentation. Although substantial portions are mathematical in nature, I am sure that those who can comprehend higher levels will reap great benefit from perusal of the material.
I elected to create a web site because I directly explore and develop elements that are not welcome for publication within professional journals supported by the current scholarly community. Psychological and social attitudes prevent the shattering of primitive concepts now shared in those realms.
I wish you the best in your search through this site.
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One by One
Seminary Music: Book of Mormon
One. One by one, every one.
One by one we came to look upon the Lord.
And feast upon His word.
One by one.
One. One by one.
One by one we came.
The halt, the blind, the lame.
He healed us in his name.
One by one.
He spoke what no tongue can speak
What ear hath not heard before.
We saw what no eyes hath seen;
The joys of eternity
Ah Then he blessed our little ones.
And we were overcome, everyone.
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia, Oh Gloria.
One. One by one everyone.
One by one we came to look upon our Lord.
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The Curb Event Center is the centerpiece of the Belmont Athletics' program.
Opened in the fall of 2003 and funded by a $10 million donation from the Curb Family Foundation and well-known music executive Mike Curb, it serves as the home of BU's volleyball and basketball programs.
The Curb Event Center arena has 5,000 permanent seats in an oval configuration, and a permanent maple hardwood floor. It has three full-size basketball courts and eight suites.
In addition to the arena, the center also includes offices for the Athletics Department, locker rooms for the Belmont athletic teams along with visiting teams, athletic training facilities, and weight rooms and other facilities for the athletics program.
Beyond its athletic functions, the Curb Event Center is designed also to host major music and entertainment events - concerts, speakers, road shows, trade shows, and corporate events - and is wired to support live television broadcast from a dedicated TV control room, numerous permanent camera platforms and two state-of-the-art, high definition videoboards.
The Curb Event Center also includes space for student-run retail businesses, and houses the Curb Café, a restaurant and entertainment venue for students and the community, and the Vince Gill Room, a penthouse meeting room offering outdoor rooftop dining.
Since its opening, the Curb Event Center has already hosted several special events; however none more noteworthy than the 2008 Presidential Town Hall Debate.
The facility hosted the Atlantic Sun Conference Men's Basketball Tournament in 2004 and 2005 as well as the A-Sun Volleyball Championship in 2005 and 2006. It also served as host for a portion of the 2004 U.S. Gymnastics Championships and the Vince Gill Celebrity Basketball Game and Concert.
Moreover, the CEC has been a proud host of the nationally-televised CMT Video Music Awards. In addition, the building has also been site of numerous concerts by acts such as Vince Gill, Amy Grant, MercyMe, Wynonna, and Heart, and served as a tour rehearsal venue for Keith Urban and Dolly Parton.
As it pertains to men's basketball, in 13 short seasons, the Curb Event Center has gained a reputation as being one of finest new facilities in college basketball.
From its clean sightlines and unsurpassed acoustics, the Curb Event Center fosters an atmosphere of excitement. And the Bruins have supplied plenty of excitement since Day One.
Belmont men's basketball is 158-25 (.863) at the Curb Event Center, going 114-13 (.898) in league games. The 2010-11 Bruins went a perfect 12-0 at home, recording a mind-blowing average margin of victory of 24 points per game. Belmont had its NCAA-best 35 game conference home court win streak snapped Feb. 6, 2016 vs. Eastern Kentucky. Belmont posted an NCAA-best home court winning percentage (.962, 51-2) from 2011-14. The Bruins also held an NCAA-best 23 game home court win streak in December 2013. Since Feb. 5, 2010, only Kentucky and Kansas have better home court winning percentages than Belmont. The Bruins are 39-1 in OVC games at the Curb Event Center.
Some of the most memorable moments in Belmont Basketball history have taken place at the Curb. From Andy Wicke's CEC record breaking 10-three-point night in victory over Gardner-Webb in 2007 to the Bruins' awe-inspiring 88-52 victory over Lipscomb in 2011 and nationally-televised games like the Don Meyer Classic, Ramada Worldwide BracketBusters and featured games on ESPN and CBS Sports Network, the Curb Event Center continues to be the place to be.
Belmont men's basketball attendance has increased 102 percent since 2005. That is the greatest percentage increase in attendance among all Nashville area sports teams – college and professional. That momentum continues on campus throughout the entire BU program.
Meanwhile, Belmont women's basketball is 27-1 in its last 28 home games, punctuated by trips to the 2016 & 2017 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship.
Likewise, Belmont Volleyball has been tough to beat at the Curb. The Bruins are a remarkable 108-39 at the Curb Event Center, including a triumphant defense of home court en route to the 2006 Atlantic Sun Championship and NCAA Tournament.
Belmont Volleyball also had a 14 match home winning that stretched from 2005 to 2007.
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Richard Griffiths, a versatile British actor who won a Tony Award for "The History Boys" and played the boy wizard's unsympathetic Uncle Vernon Dursley in the "Harry Potter" movies, has died. He was 65.
Richard Griffiths, a versatile British actor who won a Tony Award for "The History Boys" and played the boy wizard's unsympathetic Uncle Vernon Dursley in the "Harry Potter" movies, has died. He was 65.
Agent Simon Beresford announced Friday that Griffiths died a day earlier of complications following heart surgery at University Hospital in Coventry, central England.
He paid tribute to Griffiths as "a remarkable man and one of our greatest and best-loved actors."
Griffiths appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows, but will be most widely remembered as a pair of contrasting uncles - flamboyant Uncle Monty in 1980s cult classic "Withnail and I" and the hero's grudging Muggle guardian in the "Harry Potter" series.
Griffiths once said he liked playing Uncle Vernon "because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids."
But "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe paid tribute to the actor, saying "I was proud to say I knew him."
A large man and a huge stage presence, Griffiths was one of Britain's leading theater actors, creating roles including the charismatic teacher Hector at the emotional heart of Alan Bennett's school drama "The History Boys" - a part he took to Broadway, winning a Tony, and repeated for the film adaptation.
National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner, who directed "The History Boys," called Griffiths' performance in that play "a masterpiece of wit, delicacy, mischief and desolation, often simultaneously."
Griffiths also played poet W.H. Auden in Bennett's "The Habit of Art," a hugely persuasive performance despite the lack of physical resemblance between the two men.
Griffiths was born in northeast England's Thormaby-on-Tees in 1947 to parents who were deaf and mute - an experience he felt contributed to his exceptional ability to listen and to communicate physically.
He left school at 15 but later studied drama and spent a decade with the Royal Shakespeare Company, making a specialty of comic parts such as the buffoonish knight Falstaff.
On television, he played a crime-solving chef in 1990s' British TV series "Pie in the Sky," and he had parts in movies ranging from "Chariots of Fire" and "Gandhi" to "The Naked Gun 2 ½."
Known for his sense of humor, large store of rambling theatrical anecdotes and occasional bursts of temper, Griffiths was renowned for shaming audience members whose cell phones rang during plays by stopping the performance and ordering the offender to leave.
Griffiths' last major stage role was in a West End production of Neil Simon's comedy "The Sunshine Boys" last year opposite Danny DeVito. The pair had been due to reprise their roles in Los Angeles later this year.
In 2007 he appeared in a London and Broadway production of "Equus" alongside the then 17-year-old Radcliffe.
"Richard was by my side during two of the most important moments of my career," Radcliffe said Friday.
"In August 2000, before official production had even begun on Potter, we filmed a shot outside the Dursleys', which was my first ever shot as Harry. I was nervous and he made me feel at ease.
"Seven years later, we embarked on 'Equus' together. It was my first time doing a play but, terrified as I was, his encouragement, tutelage and humor made it a joy.
"In fact, any room he walked into was made twice as funny and twice as clever just by his presence."
Griffiths is survived by his wife, Heather Gibson.


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St. Denis (Ruth) Letters, ca. 1914-1959
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Ruth Dennis was born in Newark, New Jersey, on January 20, 1879.
Note: Ruth St. Denis claimed she was born in 1878; Ted Shawn claimed it was 1880; her brother claimed it was 1879. Recent evidence presented by biographer Suzanne Shelton supports the 1879 date. She spent her childhood on a farm in Somerville, New Jersey, with her parents, Ruth Emma Hull Dennis, a physician, and Thomas L. Dennis, an inventor. She had a brother Buzz and a half-brother Tom Dennis.
As a child, Ruth practiced exercises from the Delsarte system of expression which she learned from her mother. She also took dance classes in New Jersey and traveled to New York City to study ballet with Mme. Bonfanti. These classes did not last very long as, according to "Miss Ruth," Mme. Bonfanti tossed her out of class after only three lessons. Thus, when Ruthie Dennis embarked upon her professional career, it was with little formal training. She began with minor roles in musical plays, appearing as a "skirt-dancer," acrobat, high-kicker, model and actress. She even participated in a six-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden.
In 1904, while on a tour with David Belasco's
Note: It was Belasco who first called her "Saint" Dennis because of her "prim deportment." production of Madame DuBarry, Ruth St. Denis was inspired by a cigarette poster depicting the Egyptian goddess Isis to turn her career toward the exploration of dance as a serious art form. She began working on "Egypta," an elaborate Egyptian ballet, but was unable to meet the estimated cost of production. Instead she created "Radha," a Hindu ballet, which was presented on a program with two of her solos, "The Incense" and "The Cobras," at the Hudson Theater in New York City on March 22, 1906. The concert was a tremendous success and prompted Miss Ruth to embark on a tour abroad. She spent three years dancing throughout Europe to wide acclaim. She added "The Nautch" and "The Yogi" to her program and in Germany was offered a five-year contract. Miss Ruth chose not to accept the offer and returned to the United States in 1909 to produce the long awaited "Egypta." For the next few years Ruth St. Deniss toured throughout the United States and danced in Vaudeville.
In 1914 she met Ted Shawn and hired him as her partner. They danced their first concert together on April 13, 1914, and were married on August 13th of the same year. Together they founded the Denishawn schools and company, which were to thrive until 1932. Their schools, which offered a well-rounded dance education program, were established across the country. Courses included Oriental and primitive dance, ballet, ethnic and creative dance, and the Delsarte System of Expression. Performing a repertory of spiritual, ethnic character, and music visualization dances, the Denishawn Company toured extensively in the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Orient. Among the notable works were "Spirit of the Sea," "Egyptian Suite," "Soaring," "Sonata Pathetique," "The Peacock," "White Jade," "Liebestraum," "Salome," "East Indian Nautch," "Street Nautch," and "Dance of the Red and Gold Saree."
At the close of their 1931-1932 season, St. Denis and Shawn decided to pursue separate careers, and the era of Denishawn came to a close. It had greatly influenced the art of dance in America for seventeen years and produced such dancers as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman, who went on to develop their own dance styles and shape the course for modern dance in America.
After the separation, Ted Shawn went on to found a company of men dancers and the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Ruth St. Denis continued to run Denishawn House in New York City for a short time but was forced to close for financial reasons. She then retired from theatrical dancing and spent the next few years staging religious dances for churches and her Society of Spiritual Arts. In 1935 Miss Ruth stated that the purpose of this organization was to "bring together like-minded people into an environment where ideas have opportunity to be expressed along lines of new horizons of spiritual and aesthetic value."
In 1941 Ruth St. Denis re-created the same concert that had launched her career in 1906 for a performance at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. It was very successful and reintroduced Miss Ruth to theatrical dancing. She performed her "historical" dances in New York and on tour for the next few seasons.
During World War II Ruth St. Denis moved to California, where she lived with her brother, and contributed to the war effort by working at the Douglas Aircraft Factory and participating in benefits for allied causes. She established herself in a new studio on Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood, which served as her headquarters for the rest of her life.
During the late 1940s and 1950s, Miss Ruth devoted most of her time to The Ruth St. Denis Foundation, "an organization designed to assemble, catalogue, and record material pertinent to her career, and to the establishment of a church in which dance and the related arts will be dedicated to religious service."
Note: Walter Terry, "St. Denis, Ruth," The Dance Encyclopedia, ed. by Anatole Chujoy (New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1949), p. 416. She also performed frequently during the summers at Jacob's Pillow as a solo artist and with Ted Shawn.
In 1964 Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary at Jacob's Pillow and performed together for the last time. They danced "Siddhas of the Upper Air," a duet choreographed for the occasion to a poem by Miss Ruth with music by Jess Meeker. For the next four years Ruth St. Denis worked with William Skipper on a film illustrating her life through dance and continued to make occasional television appearances.
She died of a stroke on July 21, 1968. In addition to many articles, Ruth St. Denis published An Unfinished Life, her autobiography (1939), and Lotus Light, a book of poems (1932).


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Kate's Caribbean Hideaway: Inside Her Mustique Vacation with Prince George
The duchess, young prince and her family stayed in the $18,000-a-week, four-bedroom Rocina villa, on Mustique's west coast
Just your typical family vacation. Royal family, that is.
Prince George and his mother Kate had it good when they stayed in the $18,000-a-week, four-bedroom Rocina villa, on Mustique's west coast.
The available amenities included views of the sea, luxurious verandas, tennis courts and a chlorine-free pool surrounded by lush tropical gardens.
After connecting from the U.K. in St. Lucia, Kate and George arrived on Mustique with her brother, James, on Jan. 25.
While the nanny wasn't along for the trip, the villa was staffed with a chef, two housekeepers and a gardener.
This wasn't the first time Kate stayed at the villa, having been there in 2008 when she and Prince William were still dating. Last year, the couple returned for a babymoon, with she, William and the Middletons taking the Aurora villa.
By Feb. 3, the family was reunited at Kensington Palace, where William had stayed behind to continue with his agriculture course at Cambridge University.
Once home to a rainy London, Kate was apparently spotted pushing George in his Silver Cross pram, in the park adjacent to her Kensington Palace home.
Kate will next be seen in public at a gala evening at the National Portrait Gallery, on Feb. 11, and will then visit an art therapy class for one of her charities, the Art Room, on Feb. 14.
For more on Kate and George's Caribbean vacation, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday
• With reporting by AMANDA ORR


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On the subject of automating mundane processes, a recent study released by Oracle Utilities, a business unit of the software giant, showed that only 7 percent of more than 300 water utilities surveyed have fully implemented advanced metering, a technology that enables two-way communications between customers and a water company via a networked smart meter. Another 7 percent have begun pilot programs, and a similar number have plans in place to use the new technology.
The technology, similar to that being touted for the nation's electricity grid, could enable conservation by providing detailed, real-time data about water usage. But no one wants to be on the cutting edge of this wave, said Guerry Waters, vice president of industry strategy at Oracle Utilities.
"What they are waiting for is for some project to get into full implementation so that they can see that everything is going to work," Waters said.
The primary concerns about advanced metering include the costs of implementing such a system, security, interoperability and long-term product support in what is now an emerging and proprietary industry.
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Justin Warner Interview
Justin Warner Tones Down His Rebel Cause to Chill Out in Wine Country
It's been a year since we last spoke to Justin Warner, a Brooklyn-based chef and winner of season eight of Food Network Star. At the time, he had a fireball personality and was quick to defend his feisty love-me-or-leave-me attitude. But it's clear that the year of newfound celebrity chefdom has pacified chef J-Dollar Sign a little. His calendar, inbox, and Twitter feed may be slammed, but he's showing all signs of gratitude for his fan base and hopefulness for his future on food TV land, as he calls it. I spoke to Justin on the phone to hear about his year in review (he requested link outs; don't worry, man — I got your back!) and his current projects, including a partnership with winery Robert Mondavi Private Selection and, of course, more appearances on the Food Network.
POPSUGAR Food: How much has life changed since you won Food Network Star?
Justin Warner: I'm pretty much the same person as I was before, I'm just incredibly busy all the time. I do a lot of work with email, phone, and yadda, yadda, yadda that your average Brooklyn hipster chef doesn't really deal with. But you know what else is really nifty? Once you are a Food Network star, people really treat you with a lot of respect and think of you as an expert. I never really thought that I was an expert in anything — especially cooking, because I'm, for the most part, self-taught. It's really great to have people come up to you on the street and say "How do you do this?" and "What do you recommend?" Someone will send out a tweet to myself, Michael Symon, and Alex Guarnaschelli, and say "How do you recommend I defrost this?" Because I'm a Twitter junkie, I'm always the first one to respond and then Michael Symon says, "Yes, I agree with Justin." And it's like, what? That's nuts. You know Danny Meyer retweeted me. That's bonkers. I used to work for the guy as a waiter, and to have your former boss endorse you . . . that's crazy.
PSF: How has your relationship with Alton Brown evolved over the course of the year?
JW: Oh you know, pretty much the same. We hang out when he's in town. We're often at the same events like Food Network's 25th Anniversary Party and New York City Wine and Food Festival. We just text, hang out, bat ideas around, play around with Twitter. We just try to keep each other entertained. I did a podcast with him, I don't know if you heard that, you probably could link to that if you wanted to. Our relationship has probably gotten better now that we don't have to have a semi-produced relationship in any aspect.
PSF: Do you still consider him your mentor?
JW: Oh yeah, absolutely. There are a lot of people that have influenced my life, but Alton Brown is probably one of the first people to say, "Look kid, maybe you don't have to think you can do this, but I think you can do this. Because they think you can do this, you can do this. So go do it." And, I never thought about entertaining outside of my restaurant as an opportunity or as something that I would be even remotely acceptable at. You know, here we go. That's what I do now. Cool, huh?
PSF: When can we expect to see more of you on TV?
JW: It will happen. We're working out a lot of kinks. Rebel Eats was a really great special. We built it to be a stand-alone hour of hyper-interesting and super fun TV programming. I have a feeling that maybe Rebel Eats will come back as a periodic special when I get a wild hair. We're also just trying to figure out who I'm speaking to on food TV, because my demographic, the people that are into what I do, is so broad it blows my mind. I have 14-year-olds getting onto Twitter, like "You're my hero. Can you please tell me how to make ranch?" I didn't even know you were allowed to have Twitter when you were 14. And it's freaking great. So, soon. When you'll see me again? Soon. We've got a lot of things that we're tricking up. It's tough to make TV. It takes time and you have to do it right. There's nothing worse than bad TV.
PSF: What other projects are you working on?
JW: I'm definitely doing a demo at the New York City Wine and Food Festival with the next Food Network star, Damaris Phillips, and that's going to be pretty nifty. I'm not going to give away exactly what I'm doing there, but it will be cool. I'm also hosting Mixology Masters for New York City Wine and Food, which is about cocktails because I'm really into cocktails. You know, other than that just showing people the good life, getting people jazzed about all facets of gastronomy, and palling around with my Mondavi gang drinking wine.
PSF: Tell me about your partnership with Robert Mondavi Private Selection. How did you get involved?
JW: Back in the day, before I was the new Food Network star, I thought for a while actually that wine was going to be my thing, because I used to write rap songs about wine, which I'm sure you can link to in your publication. So word travels [that] we [Robert Mondavi and I] kind of think the same way. I try to make crazy stuff that's still delicious, approachable, and appropriate. I think Robert Mondavi, with his selection [of wine], kind of does the same thing. They make great wine that is not intimidating and pairs really great with food. It's not something that you have to stare into the glass and think and lament. You don't have to get so sommelier about it. You can just have a glass of wine and relax.
PSF: What weird and unlikely food pairings have you discovered?
JW: It's tough to say, because I drink wine no matter what happens. People would say red wine with meat and white wine with fish and poultry. I fundamentally do not believe that that's the case. If I think that a wine is super concentrated and really intense, man, I put an ice cube in it. I'll treat it with Scotch. You know, with Scotch, you can't taste the subtleties until you add a little bit of water. So I don't really follow any of the rules. What's the weirdest thing? I'll just have a glass of wine with french fries. Some chardonnay or sauvignon blanc and french fries. It's the bomb, so freaking good and comforting. I don't like to have to get too cerebral when I'm trying to have a good time. That to me is not a good time. That's like SAT prep. Wine should not be like SAT prep.


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A Supreme Court ruling may change the landscape of genetic research forever. The US Supreme Court ruled that human genes cannot be patented, in a landmark hearing giving a huge victory to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) while disheartening Myriad Genetics. The issue was the BRCA genes, the mutations on which are believed to be responsible for increasing the susceptibility to breast cancer.
The Contention
Myriad Genetics had claimed patent over this gene, claiming to have 'invented' this gene, which meant that all treatments and even detection of the BRCA gene would entail a royalty to Myriad. This would've raised the costs of detection, costs and treatment of breast cancer significantly. In a beautiful moment when calm commonsense prevailed, the Supreme Court struck down the 'invention' claim by saying:
Myriad did not create anything. To be sure, it found an important and useful gene, but separating that gene from its surrounding genetic material is not an act of invention… Myriad found the location of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, but that discovery, by itself, does not render the BRCA genes … patent eligible.
The Consequences
This, of course, means huge losses for the pharmaceutical industries, but it's the cancer patients who stand to benefit in the long run. The costs of detection tests and their subsequent treatment would come down, as no one company would have the monopoly on the technology and research. As it should be!
Myriad's defence even involved a ludicrous 'baseball' argument, in which they argued that the "baseball bat doesn't exist until it is isolated from a tree. But that's still the product of human invention to decide where to begin the bat and where to end the bat". This analogy fails on many levels and the court noted that merely deciding the start and end points of a gene sequence doesn't deserve a patent. Official ruling said:
The baseball bat is quite different. You don't look at a tree and say, well, I've cut a branch here and cut it here and all of a sudden I've got a baseball bat. You have to invent it.
However, Myriad did get part of the pie, when the court ruled that the Myriad can have its patent on the invention of the cDNA – complementary DNA – which is actually a synthetic form of DNA.
"The lab technician unquestionably creates something new when cDNA is made," said the court.
The ruling here: http://www.aclu.org/free-speech-technology-and-liberty-womens-rights/association-molecular-pathology-v-myriad-genetics-0


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Britney Spears on 'X Factor'?: Fans react
Britney Spears hasn't yet signed on the dotted line of what's reportedly a $10-million offer to be a judge on Simon Cowell's "The X Factor" next season, but fans of the show (and of Brit-Brit) are already making their opinions known online. And if there's one overriding sentiment being expressed by the masses, it's excitement (for various reasons), though tempered with caution.
After all, Britney Spears hasn't had the smoothest ride in recent years.
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Protective fan Nick Harris tweeted, "Dear @britneyspears please don't do the X factor.... Leave those shows for nobodies like christina, please and thank you!"
A Britney fan from Manila tweeted, "If @britneyspears on X Factor USA will pursue, Im gonna watch every single episode! Hello? She's been out of the television for like decades."
Non-fan Mark Sundstrom wrote, "The idea of Britney Spears judging/coaching a supposed SINGING contest... is beyond hilarious. When has she ever really SAAANG? Star Search?"
Miami Herald blogger Lesley Abravanel echoed that sentiment when she wrote, "If X Factor hires Britney Spears as judge, does that mean that part of that elusive factor now includes killer lip syncing skills?"
Washington, D.C., resident Nicole Cahill wrote, "i like watching hot messes on tv for all of the cringeworthy moments-and because of that, I will be watching x factor with ms britney spears."
And self-proclaimed Canadian cultural studies geek Michelle Gonsalves cautioned, "#badideas, kids. She's horrible under pressure."
Paula Abdul caught in "X Factor" shakeup
Nicole Scherzinger out as "X Factor" judge
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ESA's CubeSats ready for flight
The first students' CubeSats to be sponsored by ESA's Education Office have passed their Final Acceptance Review and have been declared ready for launch on board the maiden flight of Vega, the new ESA launcher. The launch window for this historic lift-off opens on 26 January and ends in the first week of February 2012.
The seven university-built picosatellites, each weighing only 1 kilogram, were integrated with the devices that will carry them during launch – the P-PODs, or Poly-Picosatellite Orbital Deployers – between late October and mid November. Before they could be cleared for launch, they had to pass a detailed technical examination known as the Final Acceptance Review.
The review panel was composed of representatives of the ESA Education Office, the VEGA Project, and the Italian Space Agency (ASI), supported by ESA specialists of all relevant spacecraft disciplines.
The formal review process began on 24 November at the agency's Space Technology and Research Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands, and it was successfully concluded on 9 December. Meanwhile, the CubeSats, already installed inside their P-PODs, were delivered to Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, at the end of November.
Between 12 and 14 December, the three P-PODs containing the CubeSats were integrated on-board the LARES System, the primary payload of the VEGA Maiden Flight Mission. Later on during the launch campaign, this will be attached to the launch vehicle's upper stage.
The single-unit CubeSats, whose development represented a highly valuable, if not unique hands-on learning experience for the university students that were involved - were developed by teams from 6 different European countries:
- Xatcobeo (a collaboration of the University of Vigo and INTA, Spain)
- Robusta (University of Montpellier 2, France)
- e-St@r (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
- Goliat (University of Bucharest, Romania)
- PW-Sat (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
- MaSat-1 (Budapest University of Technology & Economics, Hungary)
- UniCubeSat GG (Universitá di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy)
The CubeSats and the LARES payload structure will now be stored in a special clean room facility at CSG Kourou until their integration with the Vega launcher.
CubeSats are picosatellites of standardised dimensions (cubes of 10 cm per side, with a maximum mass of 1 kg) which can be operated from university or radio amateur ground stations. They are ejected into space by standardised deployment systems, which – for this launch - were P-PODs supplied to ESA by the California Polytechnic State University in the United States.
The primary payload on the Vega inaugural flight is the spherical Laser Relativity Satellite (LARES), which is installed on-board the LARES System along with AlmaSat-1 (an ASI Educational Satellite built by University of Bologna, Italy), and the P-PODs of the 7 ESA CubeSats. The accommodation of the CubeSats on-board the LARES System was made possible by an agreement between ESA and ASI.
The ESA CubeSats and LARES will be flying on the maiden launch of Vega, VV01. This new European launch vehicle has been designed to deliver small satellites into low or sun-synchronous orbits.


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Male and female birdss (Crex crex) are very similar in appearance; both have light yellowish-brown plumage, and the face and upper parts of the breast are pale grey. In flight their long dangling legs, chestnut wings and buff coloured underparts are visible. The corncrake is easier to hear than to see, the call is a repeated rasping 'crrek crrek' similar to a nail scraping along a comb (2). The scientific name of this species, crex crex refers to this call (4).
Upon reaching the breeding territory after migration, males begin to call repeatedly for many hours in order to attract a female. After selecting a male, females then choose a nest site (2). Nests are constructed on the ground from dead stems and leaves amongst patches of nettles (Urtica) or other tall vegetation. The female lays one to two eggs per day and the typical clutch size is 8 to 12 eggs. The male leaves the female before egg laying is complete, and attempts to attract another female. Females generally produce a second brood by the beginning of July. During the breeding season birdss feed on invertebrates taken from plants or from the ground (3).
A globally threatened summer visitor, the corncrake was once widespread throughout the UK and much of northern and central Europe, extending to Siberia. Within this former range the corncrake is now restricted, and occurs in fragmented populations. In the UK it is currently found mainly in the Northern and Western islands of Scotland. The species winters in south-eastern Africa and migrates to Europe in spring (3).
Most corncrakes are found in traditionally managed agricultural grasslands. They require tall grasses or herbs of at least 20 centimetres in height so that they can be concealed at all times. Occasionally crops such as barley or oats will be used later in summer (2).
The corncrake is classified as Least Concern (LC) on the IUCN Red List (1). Listed under Annex 1 of the EC Birds Directive and Appendix II of the Bern Convention. Included in the Birds of Conservation Concern Red List, and protected under Schedule 1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 in the UK (3).
The decline of the corncrake in the UK was first noticed in the south and east of England during the late 19th century; it continued into the 20th century and became more severe. After the 1930s corncrakes were lost from most of England, southern Wales and from large areas of Scotland. They are currently fairly common only in the northern and western islands of Scotland. This decline coincided with the increased use of farm machinery to cut hay meadows. Meadows were also cut earlier, which caused massive losses of adults, juveniles and nests. Other causes of the decline include loss of habitat due to conversion of grassland to arable and sheep pasture, or unsuitable management such as over-grazing. Disturbance and predation by domestic and feral cats and mink may also cause significant losses (3). Between 1978 and 1979 there were just 730 to 750 calling males in the UK; by 1993 this had fallen to 478, but by 2001 there were around 630 (2).
The latest corncrake survey in 1998 estimated that there were 589 calling males in the UK. This indicates that the population is beginning to increase in response to conservation measures. These measures include agri-environment schemes that pay farmers to manage their fields in ways that benefit the corncrake, such as cutting the meadows later to prevent losses, and maintaining crop rotation systems that create a mosaic of habitat types. It has been suggested that cutting should proceed from the centre of a field outwards as this minimises losses; in addition, leaving uncut patches at the field margins provides shelter for juveniles during the harvest.
Over ten percent of the British birds population is located within RSPB managed land, and ten of these sites have been managed specifically for the species. In addition, nine corncrake Special Protection Areas (SPAs) were established in 1998 (3). The corncrake is a UK Biodiversity Action Plan (UK BAP) species; the Species Action Plan aims to maintain the population, increase its range and in the long-term, restore the species to parts of its former UK range (5).
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Small Plant News: Volume 4, Number 11
|Small Plant News Archive Page. This is an archive page. No new content is being added. While these newsletters remain available for reference purposes, the documents do not reflect changes to Agency policy that may have been instituted since the newsletters were published. Also note that resources and websites mentioned in older issues may have moved or may no longer be available. Points of contact for various initiatives may have changed.
In This Issue:
- Preventing Salmonella Contamination in Ready-to-Eat Pork Barbecue
- Guide to Designing a Small Red Meat Plant Now Available Through FSIS
- Commonly Asked Questions & Answers
Preventing Salmonella Contamination in Ready-to-Eat Pork Barbecue
By Kazuhiro Okumura, LTJG, USPHS
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) monitors Salmonella contamination in ready-to-eat (RTE) meat and poultry products through a random sampling program (ALLRTE) and a risked-based sampling program (RTE001). Pork barbecue is among those RTE products subject to sampling.
Between 2005 and 2008, there were four Salmonella-positive samples of RTE pork barbecue, which accounted for 18 percent of the total number of Salmonella positives for RTE products during those calendar years. In 2009, there was one more positive sample, and in 2010, two samples of pork barbecue tested positive for Salmonella. The seven positive samples were from six separate plants, all located in the same State. In addition, a follow-up sample from Intensified Verification Testing (IVT) at one of the six plants also tested positive for Salmonella.
Because all of the positive samples came from the same State, a more detailed investigation into the causes of Salmonella contamination of RTE pork barbecue was conducted.
The investigation revealed that the preparation methods for pork barbecue vary by the different regions of the country. In the region that had the Salmonella-positive samples, the pork is thoroughly cooked. The barbecue sauce is added after cooking and hot deboning.
One type of barbecue sauce contains vinegar and peppers as the primary ingredients. Recipes show that the sauce is not heated and may even be used to help cool the pork.
Another type of pork barbecue sauce is tomato-based. The common ingredients for this sauce are vinegar, ketchup, tomatoes, sugar, spices, etc., that are heated to a simmer or boil to dissolve the ingredients.
All of the Salmonella-positive pork barbecue samples came from plants where the barbecue sauce was vinegar- and pepper-based, as opposed to the tomato-based barbecue sauce. There are several possible reasons for this finding:
- The ingredients in the vinegar-and pepper-based barbecue sauce, such as the peppers (red, black, fresh, and dried), molasses, etc., may be a source of the Salmonella contamination, and the acidity of the vinegar may not be enough to kill or prevent multiplication of any Salmonella that may be present in the sauce.
- Since the sauce is not heated, Salmonella may not be eliminated if the sauce is contaminated before it is added to the pork. Refrigerating the finished sauce may actually contribute to the survival of the Salmonella in the sauce.
- The pork and the barbecue sauce are handled extensively during the post-lethality phase (i.e., after cooking), and contamination from plant employees is possible. Cross-contamination from other products and equipment within the plant is also a possibility.
- Under-processing is probably the most unlikely reason because the pork is thoroughly cooked. However, contamination from slaughtered animals in proximity to ready-to-eat foods may be a possibility in some of the plants.
- Finally, animal vectors, such as birds, rodents, and insects, have been shown to contaminate foods with Salmonella. However, since positive samples were obtained from several different establishments, this is an unlikely reason.
So, now that you know that Salmonella contamination of RTE barbecue pork is an issue of concern, what can you do about it if you're making this product?
Steve Mamber of FSIS' Office of Data Integration and Food Protection has proposed the following steps you can take to prevent Salmonella contamination if you're producing RTE barbecue pork:
- Review your Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plan and all supporting documentation when addressing possible sources of Salmonella contamination.
- Verify the lethality of the meat component of your product to eliminate the possibility of under-processing.
- Verify that all Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOPs) associated with the preparation and handling of the barbecue sauce or its ingredients are implemented.
- Verify the effectiveness of sanitation procedures to prevent cross-contamination from raw materials, from contact with other products in the production environment, or from other environmental sources or unusual traffic patterns (e.g., animal vectors, contaminated equipment, clothing, or footwear).
- Verify the effectiveness of employee hygiene practices to prevent post-lethality contamination of the product by food handlers.
- Test your product and ingredients, such as pepper, as appropriate for Salmonella.
- For the pepper and other ingredients, determine if there are Certificates of Analysis or Letters of Guarantee that certify that these ingredients are pathogen-free.
- Determine what (if any) antimicrobial treatments (e.g., irradiation, steam, or ethylene oxide) might have been applied to the ingredients of the sauce.
- Consider changes in the preparation of the barbecue sauce, such as heating the sauce after adding all ingredients in order to kill contaminants such as Salmonella.
- Try to identify any other potential sources of process failure that could result in Salmonella contamination of your product.
"We encourage all establishments preparing ready-to-eat pork barbecue to review their preparation methods in order to reduce the risk of Salmonella contamination," concluded Mamber.
If you do get a Salmonella-positive sample finding for a product at your plant, you will be required to identify the source of the Salmonella contamination and reassess your HACCP program accordingly.
FSIS offers a variety of helpful resources on RTE products and the prevention of Salmonella. If you have any questions or need additional resources or materials, contact the Small Plant Help Desk at (877) 374-7435 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday.
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Guide to Designing a Small Red Meat Plant Now Available Through FSIS
If you have ever thought about building a small red meat plant or expanding/upgrading your existing small red meat plant, then the University of Iowa, University Extension's Guide to Designing a Small Red Meat Plant With Two Sizes of Model Designs might be just the resource for you.
The guide is intended to assist you in anticipating and avoiding some of the common problems associated with building, expanding, or upgrading a small scale "locker-type" meat processing plant that slaughters red meat animals, fully fabricates carcasses, and produces both raw and fully cooked processed meat products. The guide is not intended to be the sole source of information for constructing or renovating a plant, nor should the included designs be used as blueprints for construction or renovation.
The Guide to Designing a Small Red Meat Plant With Two Sizes of Model Designs has been reprinted with updates and is being made available by the Iowa State University, University Extension. FSIS has arranged with Iowa State University to make this helpful guide available for free to small plants and other interested persons. Copies of this publication may be ordered online at www.fsis.usda.gov/Science/HACCP_Resources_Brochure/index.asp .
Or you can fax a copy of the order form, located in the Food Safety Resources for Small and Very Small Plants brochure to (202) 690-6519. For further assistance, contact the Small Plant Help Desk at (877) 374-7435 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Commonly Asked Questions & Answers
Q. How should the lot number or production code number be applied to egg products?
A. The lot number or production code number shall be applied to each primary container and each shipping container when egg products are packaged. It must be legible and may be placed either on the label or the principal display panel of the container.
The lot number shall be shown as the consecutive day of the calendar year (i.e., the Julian date) on which the product was packaged, followed by the last digit of the year. The lot number must always contain four digits. For example, product produced on January 7, 2011, would be identified with lot number "0071" or "007-1." For product produced on July 30, 2011, the lot number would be "2121" or "212-1."
Plant management is responsible for defining the operational and cleaning procedures used to establish physically separate individual production lots for purposes of testing programs and in the event of a recall.
Requests to use alternate coding systems must be approved by the local in-plant FSIS Inspector-in-Charge (IIC) through correlation with the Frontline Supervisor. The Policy Development Division and the Labeling and Program Delivery Division (LPDD) can assist with this review, if needed. Once approved, changes to an alternate coding system cannot be made without additional review by the IIC.
Product must always be coded with the date of packaging, unless an alternate coding system approved by the IIC specifies otherwise. Record the applicable production lot number the plant uses on Form PY-203 or Form PY-159 as a permanent record of the alternate coding system. Extended shelf life claims displayed on labels are label claims and must be supported by an in-plant program that supports the claim being made. The in-plant program to support the label claim is reviewed by inspection program personnel. All egg products labels are reviewed by LPDD.
Q. Under what conditions can "wyngz" be used as a fanciful term on poultry product labeling?
A. FSIS has a standard of identity in Title 9 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Section 381.170(b)(7), that defines a poultry "wing." The use of the term "wing" cannot be used on any poultry product unless it complies with this standard of identity. In comparison, FSIS allows the use of the term "wyngz" to denote a product that is in the shape of a wing or a bite-size appetizer type product under the following conditions in which the agency considers its use fanciful and not misleading:
- The statement may only reference the term "wyngz" (no other misspellings are permitted). All labels bearing the term "wyngz" need to be submitted to LPDD for sketch approval because it is considered a special statement that cannot be generically approved;
- The poultry used is white chicken (with or without skin);
- "Wyngz" is placed contiguous to a prominent, conspicuous, and legible descriptive name (e.g., "white chicken fritters") in the same color font;
- The smallest letter in the descriptive name is no smaller than 1/3 the size of the largest letter used in "wyngz"; and
- A statement that further clarifies that the product does not contain any wing meat or is not derived only from wing meat (e.g., "contains no wing meat," "with no wing meat," "contains breast meat and wing meat") is placed in close proximity to the descriptive name and linked to "wyngz" by use of an asterisk. "Wyngz" referenced elsewhere on the package (e.g., on the front riser panel) would also need to be displayed with an asterisk linking it to this statement on the principal display panel.
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