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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Springfield College scored a run in the bottom of the ninth inning without the aid of a hit to pull out a 7-6 win over MIT in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference game this afternoon. Errors were costly for both sides as a total of 11 miscues, seven by the Engineers, led to seven unearned runs scored in the contest, including the game winner.
With one out in the ninth, Springfield senior Mike Corletta (Westtown, N.Y.) drew a walk off junior Henry Zhu (Overland Park, Kan.) and moved to second on a wild pitch. MIT intentionally walked the next hitter to set up the force and it almost worked as junior Matt Milano (Cumberland, R.I.) hit a comebacker to Zhu. Unfortunately his throw to second to get the force there went into center field, allowing the winning run to score.
Springfield (11-9, 5-4 NEWMAC) scored a single run in each of the first two innings to take an early 2-0 advantage. The Pride scored an unearned run in the first before getting a two-out, RBI single from freshman Steve Starr (Lebanon, Conn.) in the second.
MIT (11-10, 2-8 NEWMAC) also scored its first run with the aid of an error, with sophomore Sean Karson (Winter Park, Fla.) scoring in the third on an misplay by the Springfield shortstop. The Engineers tied it in the fourth on an RBI single off the bat of junior Ricardo Perez (Vienna, Va.) before taking its first lead of the game in the fifth. Karson led off the inning with a single, was sacrificed to second, stole third and then scored on a wild pitch. Senior Torre Swanson (Redding, Calif.), who was at the plate when Karson scored, reached when he was hit by the pitch. He then moved over on the second wild pitch of the inning, stole third and then scored on another Pride error.
MIT scored two more times in the sixth for a 6-4 lead. Perez led off with a single, made it to third on a wild pitch and groundout before stealing home. Later in the inning sophomore Jon Rea (Palo Alto, Calf.) delivered a single down the line in right that scored senior A.J. Hansborough (Deltona, Fla.), who had reached on another error.
Both of MIT's two-run innings were answered by Springfield. The Pride scored a pair in the fifth when Milano delivered a two-run single. In the sixth it was Starr that came up with the big hit, another two-run single that gave him three RBI on the day and tied the game at six-all.
After the sixth the Engineers could only come up with a pair of hits as freshman Tyler Benoit (North Adams, Mass.) and sophomore Jon Medici (South Portland, Maine) came out of the bullpen to close the door on MIT. Benoit threw 2.2 innings of scoreless ball, with Medici setting down the two batters he faced to pick up the win. Despite not allowing an earned run in three innings of work, Zhu took the loss for the Engineers, giving up three hits and a pair of walks while striking out two. Junior Aric Dama (Winfield, Ill.) started for MIT, going 5.1 innings and allowing six runs, three earned, on nine hits while striking out a pair.
The two teams will play again tomorrow at MIT, completing the three-game series with a doubleheader that will begin at Noon.


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Blues look for better defense against Flamesby Corey Masisak
BLUES (7-5-1) at FLAMES (4-4-3)
Last 10: St. Louis 5-4-1; Calgary 4-3-3
Season series: This is the first meeting. The St. Louis Blues won three of the four in 2011-12, and the Calgary Flames scored a total of six goals.
Big story: Can the surprisingly defense-deficient Blues slow down a Flames offense that scored seven times Tuesday night?
Team scope:
Blues: After a 6-1-0 start, St. Louis dropped five straight games before an overtime victory at the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday. The Blues have been uncharacteristically sloppy in the defensive end, and the goaltenders have not met expectations after Jaroslav Halak and Brian Elliott were a dynamite tandem last season.
Halak was injured, set to come back, then had a setback. Elliott had a bad series against the Los Angeles Kings in the Stanley Cup Playoffs after Halak was injured then, and hasn't been able to find his 2011-12 regular-season form. St. Louis looked better at Joe Louis Arena, in the first of a three-game road trip, after allowing 25 goals in the previous five contests.
"I think we got scared into the right direction," said Alexander Steen, who scored in overtime. "I think that fear made us play hockey."
Flames: After a rough January, the start to February has been more kind to Calgary. The Flames are 3-1-2 this month, including a win at Detroit and a 7-4 victory against the Dallas Stars at home Tuesday. Calgary now has four players with at least four goals, but one of them isn't captain Jarome Iginla. He's been held to one so far, but he did have two assists in the victory against the Stars.
Mike Cammalleri returned after missing three games and had a hat trick, and five players had multiple points. Starting goalie Miikka Kiprusoff is out with a knee injury, and Leland Irving won for the third time in 11 career NHL starts.
"As a group you want to build on something like this," Cammalleri said. "We're capable of breaking games when we want to."
Who's hot: Steen has goals in three straight games and points in four consecutive for the Blues. … Flames forwards Jiri Hudler and Lee Stempniak each have four points in the past four games.
Injury report: Halak (groin) remains out. St. Louis also is without forward Jamie Langenbrunner (hip), who is out for the season. … Kiprusoff is joined on the injured list by center Mikael Backlund (knee) and rookie wing Sven Baertschi (hip). Forward Lance Bouma (knee) is out for the season.


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Jess Weiner: "Did Loving My Body Almost Kill Me?"
More than just talk: Weiner, 37, on the path to health
At a packed South Florida Barnes & Noble several years ago, I was speaking to a hometown crowd of my family, friends and fans for the release of my second book, Life Doesn't Begin 5 Pounds From Now. I gave a speech I'd given before, telling the audience that it was important for every woman of every size to love her body, no matter what. And that's when a woman in the front row raised her hand and changed my life forever.
"How can you honestly tell us that you love your body?" she asked. "You are obese."
My face flushed at her rudeness. I was shocked and embarrassed, but responded firmly: "My body is none of your business." The audience erupted into cheers.
But the woman continued. "What about health?" she asked me. "How can you be healthy looking like that?"
Again I had an answer ready. "You can't tell someone's health just by looking at them," I told her. "So don't assume that just because someone is overweight that he or she is unhealthy." And again the crowd cheered, and that was that. Friends asked the woman to leave, and I finished up my talk, forcing a phony smile.
It wasn't the first time I'd been confronted about my work and my self-love messages. But that night I felt as though I had been exposed. The woman's caustic question nagged at me: How healthy was I? My weight hadn't stood in the way of my dating gorgeous men or succeeding in my career. But I couldn't remember the last time I'd been to the doctor. And it had been 16 years since I weighed myself. In fact, I'd stopped completely when I began recovery from the eating disorder I'd suffered in my teens. So I didn't know: Was I really obese? My body wasn't anyone else's business, but had I done everything I could to make it my business?
I realized I had to be honest with myself. I had to answer that woman's question—not for her, but for me. I picked up the phone and made a doctor's appointment.
My Big Decision
I'm not the only woman with weight issues to shun medical checkups—and the issue of health in general. Like me, many women recovering from eating disorders step away from the scale to focus on their value independent of numbers. And "some heavier women avoid the doctor completely for fear they'll be shamed about their body," says Cynthia Bulik, Ph.D., director of the University of North Carolina Eating Disorders Program. Their worries may be legitimate: Studies have found that many doctors have less respect for their overweight patients than for thinner ones, and some experts say that medical professionals have a history of recommending weight loss as a cure-all. "Sometimes it's hard for physicians to see past a woman's weight," says Bulik. "No matter what problem she brings into the office, their immediate response is Well, the first thing you need to do is take off some weight.' This simplistic thinking is hurting women's health."
That kind of bias, along with the finger-wagging from our thinness-obsessed culture, has helped fuel what's become known as the body-acceptance movement. "If society is saying, Shame on you. You're lazy. You're not trying,' we can expect a defensive reaction among women: Shame on you—I'm heavy, and I'm proud,'" says David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., an obesity specialist and director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center.
I'd been a proud leader and a strong voice within that movement. I'd written books and magazine columns, appeared countless times on Oprah and other TV shows, and given hundreds of speeches telling women to love themselves no matter what their size. But now it was time to consider not just my self-esteem but also my well-being. After all, says Dr. Katz, "Women should be able to feel confident in their body image. But there's a danger in the OK at any size' message. The fact is that obesity is a risk factor for heart disease, for cancer, for diabetes. It's not OK to say OK at any size' if your size has implications for your health."
I felt I'd be in good hands with Nadini Verma, M.D., the ob-gyn I also considered my primary care doctor. I loved her no-nonsense attitude and warm demeanor, and I knew she'd give me a fair assessment. After she ran a few tests, she sat me down.
"Jess," she said, "your blood sugar numbers show me that you are almost in the prediabetic range. If you don't lose some weight and watch your sugar intake, you will get diabetes." It was a harsh truth: Diabetes is a disease you can't easily undo. And then she showed me these stats—stats I never thought I'd share with anyone:
250: My weight at the time
99: My blood sugar—anything between 100 and 125 is prediabetic
146: My LDL, or "bad," cholesterol—borderline high
40: My HDL, or "good," cholesterol—that number should be 50 or higher for women
150: My triglycerides—borderline high
120/72: My blood pressure—the only figure in a healthy range
Dr. Verma had no pity or shame in her voice as she shared these findings with me. These were just numbers, after all. But these numbers told me that I wasn't just overweight—I was unhealthily overweight. I wasn't processing insulin properly. My arteries were quickly clogging. And I was in danger of becoming irreversibly sick.
It didn't matter in that moment, sitting half dressed in a paper gown, how many books I had written or speeches I had given about loving your body and accepting yourself as you are. The cold, hard truth was that accepting myself as I was was putting my life in danger. But could I really call a public time-out and say, "I'm going to focus on losing some weight now"?
I was about to find out.
Prepping for the Backlash
I knew dropping pounds or even talking about a diet could be career suicide for me. When Oprah slimmed down, some of her fans got angry; and after plus-size model Crystal Renn lost weight, some comments were vicious. One skeptic lashed out: "She's a hypocrite, and her whole pseudo plight for plus-size models was a publicity stunt." It's like when celebs get a nose job and say it was because they had a deviated septum—you never believe them. Instead, you think, Now there's one fewer of us who's succeeding "as is," one more woman who caved to the image machine that wants us all to be skinnier, prettier, more "perfect."
When I confided to a colleague about my plans, she suspected that that exact pressure was getting to me. "Are you sure you want to do this?" she asked.
I wasn't sure. I didn't want to join the ranks of women who felt as though weight loss alone made them "healthier." But when I thought about how I felt physically—weighted down and not as strong and vibrant as I would like—the realization hit me like a ton of bricks: I needed to go deeper than the mantras and speeches. To truly love my body, I had to treat it better.
I started doing just that. With Dr. Verma's guidance, I sought out a nutritionist, who helped me understand how my body breaks down insulin and who tasked me with choosing foods that have at most 10 ingredients and 5 grams of sugar per serving. (I've come to appreciate fresh veggies and whole-grain wraps.) It was a blow to realize how many foods I liked had unhealthy chemicals and extra sugar in them—such as many cereals and yogurts—but she taught me to feed my body five times a day to keep my blood sugar steady. And slowly but surely, things got easier.
Knowing that I enjoy working out in a group, I joined a gym that offered dance and water-aerobics classes. I was one of the bigger women there (I do live in Los Angeles), but I powered through my negative inner voice and kept myself committed. I also started seeing a therapist to work on the emotional baggage I carry and how it plays a part in the way I turn to food for solace, not nutrition.
During those first months, it felt like a fog was lifting. I felt stronger, more in tune with my body. And after 18 months, how were my numbers?
225: My weight
88: My blood sugar—normal!
116: My LDL—out of danger
50: My HDL—up 10 points
129: My triglycerides—no longer a risk factor
110/80: My blood pressure—superhealthy
Dr. Verma stared at me: "These numbers are fantastic! You are out of the prediabetes zone, and you've dropped your cholesterol." But I was a little pissed off. "I've only lost 25 pounds?" I asked. I thought declining desserts and exercising when exhausted would have brought me a more dramatic verdict. "Jess, you're focusing on the wrong number," Dr. Verma said. "Health is more than just your weight."
Health is more than just your weight; of course she's right. A recent University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey study found that nearly 30 percent of obese patients had healthy blood pressure, cholesterol and other numbers. Still, personally, I never would have gotten my healthier numbers without confronting my weight. I know I'll never be skinny, and I'm fine with that, but I'm still focused on losing more weight—30 more pounds is my goal—so I can stay out of the diabetes danger zone.
What about all my fans and readers? I had been so worried about their reaction to my new healthy-weight message. Indeed, when I first talked about it in a keynote speech at a Binge Eating Disorder Association convention in Scottsdale, Arizona, this past spring, a woman approached me afterward. "So now you're saying that my life will begin when I lose weight?" she chided. But I didn't feel the same hurt and embarrassment as that night so long ago in the bookstore. "Not at all," I said. "There is no shame in carrying extra weight, but there's also no shame in wanting to be healthy. The more we support one another in that thinking, the better off we'll be."
And guess what? Women were more supportive than I'd ever expected, and many of them even admitted that they too wanted to lose weight to improve their health but had, like me, felt trapped by the stigma that confident, heavy women weren't supposed to think about weight at all. Like me, they felt liberated by the idea that it wouldn't betray their ideals to value their physical health.
I understand why women are so fed up with being told by society (and doctors) that they need to get to some "ideal" size. I get why they'd want to rebel and no longer care about weight—I've been there too. But we also can't pretend illness doesn't happen to us. Health matters, and paying attention to markers like your cholesterol, blood pressure and, yes, your weight doesn't mean you're giving in to some societal ideal. It means that you're listening to your body on the inside, which is a crucial part of loving yourself completely.
Jess Weiner is an author, self-esteem expert and public speaker. She's at jessweiner.com.


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Checking in on… the Ivy LeaguePosted by rtmsf on January 15th, 2010
Dave Zeitlin is the RTC correspondent for the Ivy League.
The Good
A lot has already been written about Cornell's near-miss vs. Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse. It should not have come as a surprise as this is a veteran Big Red team with two players (Ryan Wittman and Jeff Foote) who will most assuredly get NBA looks. And it also has a coach who has become a proven big-time recruiter and is finally getting his just due as a game coach. With the core of his soon-to-be three time defending Ivy champ team graduating this spring, look for Steve Donahue to be a hot name for many job openings.
The Bad
The bottom of the conference, to be kind, has been dreadful. Brown, Yale, Penn and Dartmouth (more on them later) are a combined 4-28 in their last 32 games vs. Division 1 competition. Their RPIs are respectively 247, 291, 309 and 322. Only Penn, and to a lesser extent Brown, has played a representative schedule. Fortunately for all of those except Penn (which still has two Big 5 games ahead), the conference season begins this weekend. As the saying goes — someone has to win.
The Ugly
So for all those out there wishing to do some research: when was the last time two Ivy teams fired their coaches mid-season? (The keys to the Corvette for anyone with the correct answer.) Hot on the heels of Glen Miller at Penn was Terry Dunn at Dartmouth. Talk about the inmates running the asylum — the players allegedly unanimously signed a petition indicating that they would not play unless Terry Dunn was fired. This after the assistant coaches all left in the spring. Word as to their specific grievances has not leaked out. Think there is a line out the door to take over this plum assignment?
Here are the power rankings, with a rundown on each team heading into league play:
1) Cornell (14-3): After a warm-up on Monday, the Big Red stands at a gaudy 14-3. Can you say 28-3? A perfect Ivy season is not out of the question for the best team the league has seen since the Penn teams (who should have won an NCAA game) in the early part of the decade. Look for a Top 25 ranking and – invoking the ghost of Bill Bradley – maybe even a single digit seed in the tournament. To paraphrase ESPN analyst extraordinaire Jimmy Dykes: "Don't be fooled by the names on the uniforms — this team can win two games come March."
2) Harvard (12-3): Technically at the top of the standings (1-0 league) after last weekend's drubbing of the coachless Big Green, Tommy Amaker's crew has played a tough schedule which included respectable losses to Big East powers Georgetown and UConn, and wins vs. BC, GW, and that West Coast sensation, Seattle (50-point conqueror of Oregon State). Right now they are the clear cut second choice and their 1/30 and 2/19 games vs. Cornell should be wars.
3) Princeton (8-5): Tigers begin the Ivy season winning six out of their last seven games, albeit vs. weaker opposition. They should be battling Columbia for the minor awards in the league. With Cornell's graduation losses looming, the Tigers may be the 2010-11 pre-season Ivy pick with underclassmen Doug Davis, Dan Mavraides and Patrick Saunders all returning.
4) Columbia (6-8): Quick – which Division 1 player has the best 3-pt fg pct? You're right if you guessed the Lions' Noruwa Agho. The sophomore from N.Y. boasts an unheard of 62.5% from behind the line (52 attempts). He also leads the team in scoring, averaging more than 18 points per game. Columbia has played a rather weak non-conference schedule but has the pieces in place to be better than .500 in the league.
5) Brown (6-11): A 6-11 record has to be taken with a grain of salt as two of those wins have come vs. Division 2 opposition. Nevertheless, they have played a tough schedule that included Virginia Tech, St. Johns, URI, Siena, Minnesota and Providence (all losses). The one bright spot has been 6-8 junior Matt Mullery who leads the team in scoring (15.8) rebounds, assists, field goal percentage and blocks. He may become the first Brown Bear to accomplish the near impossible Pentagon (though I just made that up).
6) Penn (1-11): With two Big 5 games (LaSalle and St. Joes) next up, it is very likely that the Quakers will enter conference play with a 1-13 record. The good news is that new coach Jerome Allen seems to have gotten the players attention and the team is, after all, 1-1 in their last two after a not-so-terrible performance against Temple on Wednesday. He has also given free reign to sophomore point guard Zack Rosen who responded to this new-found freedom with a 28-point effort vs. UMBC. The Red and Blue have been decimated by injury with starters Andreas Schreiber and Tyler Bernadini, among others, both likely lost for the season.
7) Yale (6-11): The Bulldogs returned to New Haven with two easy tune-ups prior to beginning conference play — this after a brutal five-game road trip that overlapped the new year. Coach James Jones' squad relies heavily on holdover Alex Zampier. The 6'3 guard from the Hudson Valley in New York State averages almost 19 points per game and leads a rebuilding Yale team that includes three freshman and four sophomores.
8) Dartmouth (3-11): The Big Green, like Cornell, may be well on their way to a perfect record in conference as well — on the losing end. With Terry Dunn out (after a rare victory vs. Bucknell) assistant coach Mark Graupe will handle the coaching responsibilities until the end of the season. Not a lot of joy or promise in Hanover as no starter is averaging over eight points per game. But at least they share the rock.


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The experience of death is changing in America, gradually shifting from costly, high-tech battles against death in hospitals into hospices that gently accept the inevitable end.
A new national database shows that 25 percent of Medicare patients died in a hospital in 2010, down from 28 percent in 2007. More than 47 percent died in hospice environments, often at home, up from 42 percent.
"We're seeing progress. Physicians are catching up with what patients want," said Dr. David C. Goodman, co-principal investigator for the Dartmouth Atlas Project, widely regarded as the best geographic analysis of the nation's variable medical resources.
"This shows how the health care system can change very quickly. We can look at the data and say, 'Through leadership and better planning, we can see pretty rapid change,'" he said. "That is a very hopeful sign of what we're capable of."
Santa Cruz, Calif., stands out for its low-intensity, high-touch standard of care: Its hospitals use less intensive care and more hospice than anywhere else in the greater Bay Area. In 2010, just 20.4 percent of its Medicare patients died in a hospital.
And it ranks with a handful of regions in the nation where patients saw fewer, not more, specialty doctors at the end of life. That is a measure of intensive care, because having many doctors poking, prodding and testing can be costly and physically onerous for the dying.
Santa Cruz also is one of the few regions where patients' out-of-pocket costs actually declined, despite soaring national health care inflation. The Santa Cruz success story is attributed to an unusually tight bond among doctors, hospitals and civic groups in the geographically isolated locale. Additionally, its leading hospice has existed for 35 years, cultivating trust.
"We have a remarkably collaborative community that is able to meet each other at the edges, having tough conversations that involve high-quality, low-cost and practical solutions," said Michael Milward, CEO of Hospice of the Valley. "We talk to each other, so we know who can offer the best service for a patient and their family."
For more than two decades, the Dartmouth project's studies of variations in the use of medical resources in the United States have been influencing public policy. For this report, researchers analyzed Medicare's billing records between 2007 and 2010, the most recent years for which information was available, to identify differences among local, regional and national markets, and among hospitals and their affiliated physicians.
It found, for instance, that spending rates per chronically ill Medicare beneficiary in the final two years of life varied from a high of $112,263 in Los Angeles to a low of $46,563 in Minot, N.D. Nationally, Medicare spending for patients in the last two years of life increased more than 15 percent from 2007 to 2010.
In 2010, the highest rates of death in a hospital remained in regions in and around New York City, including Manhattan (43.7 percent), the Bronx (37.7 percent), East Long Island (37.4 percent), and White Plains (36 percent) — though all these regions had lowered their rates since 2007. Chronically ill patients were far less likely to die in a hospital in Dubuque, Iowa (15.2 percent), Cincinnati (16.8 percent), and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (17 percent).
The project has its critics, however, who say that more intense care and higher-spending hospitals may save lives.
Several trends are driving the growing use of end-of-life comfort care, said Victoria Emmons, CEO of Hope Hospice in Livermore, which had a 32 percent increase in patients between 2007 and 2010. The Internet offers new ways to learn about such services, she said. Aging baby boomers have found such intimate end-of-life care helped their parents, so they are using it themselves. And because there are a growing number of hospices, each does more publicity to stay competitive, she noted.
"There is more acceptance of it and greater interest nationwide," Emmons said.
Although hospice popularity is growing, its use in 2010 still varies widely. In the East Bay, Hayward's St. Rose Hospital transferred 28.5 percent of patients to hospice; its average Medicare spending, per dying patient, was $129,478. In nearby Castro Valley, 38 percent of Eden Hospital's patients went to hospice. It Its Medicare spending averaged $99,601.
Even within a city, there are differences in cost of care. In San Jose, Calif., Santa Clara Valley Medical Center and Good Samaritan Hospital are less than 10 miles apart, but Medicare spent an average of $21,000 more per dying patient at Santa Clara Valley, a public hospital where sicker patients are likely to go, than at Good Samaritan.
And even within a single medical center, practice patterns vary. John Muir Medical Center in Concord transferred 35 percent of its dying patients to hospice; the John Muir campus in Walnut Creek refers 50.7 percent.
"The trends are moving in the right direction overall," said Maribeth Shannon of the California HealthCare Foundation, which campaigns to improve end-of-life planning and care.
"But there is huge variation among individual hospitals, which is always troubling," she said. "Some are changing quickly and some are not making a lot of progress."
Contact Lisa M. Krieger at 650-492-4098.


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The war continues. The alien terror spreads into a whole new dimension. Seeking to take advantage of a weakened Earth, X-Com's deep-space foes unexpectedly change strategy and launch a powerful second front against planet Earth. In the dark depths of the vast oceans, long-sleeping forces are awakened by reanimation signals sent out across the galactic silence by their interstellar brothers and sisters. Slowly but surely, an army of hibernating alien sea creatures awakens. Your combat now extends to the strange, new worlds of the deep, where the superior alien technologies threaten the very survival of this planet - your planet - Earth.
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SD8073 : View across Ribblesdale in the snow
taken 7 years ago, near to New Houses, North Yorkshire, Great Britain
April snow in the Yorkshire Dales 2012
Overnight on the 3rd April 2012, light rain became sleet, which in turn became a blizzard that covered the Yorkshire Dales in a blanket of snow. By mid morning on the 4th the snow was already melting, however, the volume of snow that had fallen on the fells produced deep drifts that blocked some lanes, and sadly killed many new-born lambs. Nevertheless, the walker, who is fortunate in not having to worry about such things, was provided with wonderful views throughout the day.
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Financing. Contingencies that depend on the buyer being able to obtain financing are very common.
Home Inspections. Probably the most common type of contingency is the "contingent upon satisfactory completion of inspection". There are any number of specific types of inspections for which a contingency might be included in a contract. Some of the more common would include inspection by a qualified home inspector for hidden defects, radon tests, sewer line inspections, pest inspections, water and sewage system inspections, inspections dealing with the presence of mold, etc.
Appraisal. It's not unusual for a buyer to have a contingency that requires an appraised value at or above purchase price. Since lenders will nearly always want an appraisal performed too, sellers usually don't have a problem with this.
Remember, just like everything else in real estate contracts, contingencies are negotiable. In drafting your offer to purchase a home or piece of property, we will ensure that you are comfortable with all contingencies included in your contract and help you determine if it is appropriate to add additional ones as well.
One of the most important steps when purchasing a home is to have the home inspected by a licensed and experienced home inspector. Home inspectors are trained to test the heating, electrical and plumbing systems in addition to many other components of the home. We have worked with dozens of inspectors over the years and can provide you with a list of some of the ones we felt performed well for our clients in the past. Ultimately, you will be the one to decide which inspector is right for you. When interviewing a home inspector, ask the inspector what type of report format he or she provides. There are many styles of reports used by property inspectors, including the checklist, computer generated using inspection programs, and a narrative style.
We recommend that you are present during the entire inspection if possible. This helps you to understand the condition of the home and the details of the report.
At the end of the inspection your inspector may provide a summary with a question and answer period. Use this opportunity to ask questions regarding terms or conditions that you may not be familiar with. A good inspector should be able to explain the answers to your questions. If for some reason a question cannot be answered at the time of the inspection, the inspector should research the question and obtain the answer for you. For instance, if the inspector's report states that the concrete foundation has common cracks, be sure to ask, "Why are they common?" The answer you should receive will be along these lines: common cracks are usually due to normal concrete curing and or shrinkage. The inspector's knowledge and experience is how the size and characteristics of the cracking is determined.
After receiving a written copy, take the time and become familiar with your report. Digest the report completely and understand the condition of the home you are about to purchase. After all, it is most likely one of the largest investments you will ever make.
In addition to a traditional home inspection, there are many other possible inspections which may be appropriate and recommended by us. We will carefully evaluate your particular needs and provide you recommendations on other possible inspections that will benefit you.
Radon is a cancer-causing, radioactive gas. You can't see radon, smell it or taste it. But it may be a problem in your home.
Radon is estimated to cause many thousands of deaths each year. That's because when you breathe air containing radon, you can get lung cancer. In fact, the Surgeon General has warned that radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States. Only smoking causes more lung cancer deaths.
Radon comes from the natural (radioactive) breakdown of uranium in soil, rock and water and gets into the air you breathe. It can get into any type of building — homes, offices, and schools — and result in a high indoor radon level. But you and your family are most likely to get your greatest exposure at home, where you spend most of your time.
We strongly urge you to have the home you are purchasing tested for radon during the inspection contingency period. Testing is the only way to know if radon is present and if you and your family are at risk.
If radon is found during an inspection, there are ways to remedy the situation. There are several proven methods to reduce radon in your home, but the one primarily used is a vent pipe system and fan, which pulls radon from beneath the house and vents it to the outside. This system, known as a soil suction radon reduction system, does not require major changes to your home. Sealing foundation cracks and other openings makes this kind of system more effective and cost-efficient. Similar systems can also be installed in houses with crawl spaces. Radon contractors can use other methods that may also work in your home. The right system depends on the design of your home and other factors. If radon is found during the inspection period, the inspector can identify which system will be the best for your home.


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Welcome to the Family Roots and Branches Genealogy Blogspot. This site is devoted genealogical hints, tricks, tips and news for family historians in the GA/NC/TN Tri-State. You will also find info on genealogy classes and meetings here in western North Carolina. This blog is run by Larry and Gayle Van Horn and you can reach us via email at familyhistorian at frontier dot com. Copyright 2006-2018 by Family Roots and Branches, a division of Teak Publishing.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Antietam Union Civil War Soldier Buried
The remains of a Union Civil War soldier found nearly a year ago on the Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland are laid to rest. Video story from the Pentagon Channel.
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KnowledgeBase 00063: Error Logging
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The Error Log File
The error log is a text file in the QMSYS account directory named errlog. All users should have read and write access to this file. Any user who does not have access will be unable to log messages.
Each entry in the log consists of a header line followed by one or more detail lines. The header shows:
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New Delhi, Nov 22: An attempt by former UPA ally Trinamool Congress to bring a no-confidence motion against the government over FDI in retail failed today in the Lok Sabha for want of requisite numbers.
Mamata Banerjee's party moved the motion as soon as Parliament met for the Winter Session but Speaker Meira Kumar disallowed it as it could not muster the required support of 50 members.
The motion, first in the current Lok Sabha, was moved by Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party leader Sudip Bandopadhyay and was supported by BJD.
However, it lacked the support of the required 50 members as only TMC's 18 members and BJD's three members supported.
Moving the motion, Bandopadhyay said, "This House expresses want of confidence in the Council of Ministers over its decision to allow 51 per cent FDI in multi-brand retail as it is going to harm millions of small businesses."
The Speaker asked all those supporting the motion to stand up.
Amidst chants of "shame shame" from Congress benches, TMC members stood up and there was a verbal clash too.
On seeing the lack of adequate support, the Speaker said, "The motion does not have the leave of the House."
The Lok Sabha witnessed two adjournments including one when Trinamool Congress members stormed the well.
After Trinamool's no confidence motion failed, the Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj pressed for a discussion on the FDI in retail issue under rule 184 which entails voting.
The senior BJP leader contended that discussion under a rule which entails voting was necessary as the government has committed "gross insult" of Parliament by not keeping its word on consulting all stakeholders including political parties before taking the decision on FDI.
She said the government has shown contempt for the assurances given by then Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee who is now the President of India.
Swaraj said a vote on the issue would show that people of the country were against the move which would affect small traders.
Earlier, the Speaker said that she has got a notice of adjournment motion on the FDI issue from SP member Shailendra Kumar and the same was under her consideration.


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The owner of the 96,096-square-foot office building at 6525 N. Quail Hollow Road in East Memphis has filed a $7.5 million loan on the property.
Memphis-NCR LLC, a local affiliate of Culver City, Calif.-based real estate company Goldrich & Kest Industries LLC, filed the deed of trust Sept. 25 through German American Capital Corp.
Barry Cayton signed the deed as manager of JG Group GP LLC, which serves as a general partner in the borrower's managing entity.
Built in 1991, the Class A, five-story office facility sits on 4.6 acres on the south side of Quail Hollow at its intersection with Aaron Brenner Drive and houses the corporate headquarters of Crye-Leike Realtors Inc. and Magna Bank.
The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal is $9.5 million.
Memphis-NCR bought the building in 2007 for $17.5 million from 6525 Quail Hollow GP.
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Memphis-based Audio Video Artistry is holding a grand opening event Oct. 25 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. to celebrate the opening of its new design studio in Cordova.
The event, which the company is calling the 7th Inning Soiree, will invite current and prospective clients, media and industry professionals to experience the company's state-of-the-art design studio up close.
That Friday evening event also falls on an off night of the 2013 World Series, and as a nod to the company's clients who use its services to create their dream, in-home sports-watching experience, the evening will cater to the high-end sports fan.
Partnering with Joe's Wines and Liquors and with Slider Inn, the company will offer guests an exclusive pairing menu with chef-inspired sliders and hand-chosen high-gravity brews. A selection of baseball-themed entertainment, including classic movies like "Bull Durham" and "Field of Dreams," also will be displayed on next-generation technology designed to showcase the company's audio and video abilities.
– Andy Meek
Memphis-based Terminix is opening a customer care center in Glendale, Ariz.
It is the second such center the pest-control provider, which is part of The ServiceMaster Co., has opened this year. The other is in Tampa, Fla.
The new Glendale center is 32,800 square feet, and the Tampa center is 25,000 square feet.
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Memphis-based marketing and communications firm Walker Associates has added Cecilia Walker as a new account executive.
The daughter of CEO and president Ceil Walker, she enters the company as head of its Nashville branch. She previously worked in the marketing department at Memphis-based investment firm Duncan-Williams Inc., and she's also worked as a ghost writer and editor for "The Beat Goes On," a manuscript written by Sun Studios session drummer and Grammy Award winner J.M. Van Eaton.
– Andy Meek
The Tennessee Registry of Election Finance has dismissed a complaint against Gov. Bill Haslam for failing to disclose how much he paid an outside adviser.
The panel voted 3-1 on Wednesday to throw out the complaint filed by former state Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester.
Tom Ingram was Haslam's top campaign adviser in his successful 2010 bid for governor.
The governor in the years following his election paid Ingram out of his own pocket for political and policy advice. He has since placed Ingram on his re-election campaign payroll.
The panel rejected Forrester's argument that Ingram's political advice was inherently related to his re-election effort, which should have been disclosed.
Ingram is also a contract lobbyist and a spokesman for the Haslam family-owned Pilot Flying J truckstop chain's response to an FBI investigation into trucking customers being shorted diesel fuel rebates.
– The Associated Press
Arkansas lawmakers have endorsed the rules enforcing a new state law that will require voters to show photo identification when they cast a ballot.
A subcommittee of the Legislative Council on Wednesday reviewed the rules the state Board of Election Commissioners approved for enforcing the voter ID law. The Republican-controlled Legislature enacted the law earlier this year when it overrode a veto by Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe.
The rules approved in August closely mirror those outlined in the law, which takes effect in January. Opponents of the law have said they plan to sue in state court to block its enforcement.
While Arkansas poll workers already must ask for identification by law, voters don't have to show it to cast a ballot.
State Rep. Charles Curtiss says he will not seek re-election.
The 66-year-old Sparta Democrat didn't give a specific reason for his decision but said Wednesday he wanted to give candidates considering running for his District 43 seat plenty of time to plan.
Curtiss was elected in 1994 and will have served 20 years when his current term ends.
House Minority Leader Craig Fitzhugh says Curtiss will be missed.
The Ripley Democrat, who was elected at the same time as Curtiss, called him a leader on workers' compensation, insurance and utility matters, who is "always looking out for the regular working people."
Family Dollar said Wednesday that its net income rose 26 percent in the fourth quarter as sales improved despite flat customer traffic.
The discount retailer's average customer transaction and a key revenue metric were also flat. The company gave a cautious 2014 earnings forecast and a first-quarter earnings outlook that was below Wall Street's average expectations.
Family Dollar Stores Inc. earned $102.2 million, or 88 cents per share, for the period ended Aug. 31. That compares with $80.9 million, or 69 cents per share, in the prior-year period.
Excluding an accounting adjustment, earnings were 86 cents per share. This beat the 83 cents per share that analysts polled by FactSet expected.
Revenue for the Matthews, N.C.-based company rose 6 percent to $2.5 billion from $2.36 billion. Sales of consumables climbed 8.3 percent, helped by higher sales of refrigerated and frozen food, health aids and tobacco.
Wall Street forecast $2.56 billion in revenue.
Revenue at stores open at least a year, a key indicator of a retailer's health, was flat. This metric excludes results from stores recently opened or closed. The company has more than 7,900 stores in 46 states.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz wants lawmakers to come together to resolve their political gridlock. And he's giving away free coffee to customers who set an example how to do it.
From Wednesday to Friday, the coffee chain is offering a free tall brewed coffee to any customer in the U.S. who buys another person a beverage at Starbucks.
The offer is a way to help fellow citizens "support and connect with one another, even as we wait for our elected officials to do the same for our country," Schultz said in a memo to staff on Tuesday.
Schultz wrote that he wants to do something about Americans' uncertainty over the federal government shutdown, the pending debt and default crisis and waning consumer confidence.
"In times like these, a small act of generosity and civility can make a big difference," says an ad being published in The New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today on Wednesday. "Let's see what can happen. #payitforward.".
Marshal Cohen, chief retail analyst at The NPD Group, said the campaign won't likely have much political effect because it lacks the kind of punishment that makes lawmakers think twice, like an impeachment drive.
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Given the current anti-immigrant climate in the U.S., it comes as no surprise that an Alabama federal judge upheld many provisions of that state's new immigration legislation, which takes Arizona's SB 1070 and raises it a few rights-limiting provisions. And while much of the abhorrent legislation was allowed to stand, it is hard to tell for now whether the judge's reservation of judgment on numerous provisions—and reservation of implementation in the interim—is a good or bad sign for immigrants. What does seem clear, though, is that on the state and federal level alike, there is confusion not about the state of the economy (after all, who could be confused about that?), but about what immigrants' contribution has been, is, and should be. A close look reveals that Alabama's economy depends on the work of immigrants, and that the state's new legislation will have high dollar costs to the state as well as high human costs to the immigrant population.
There appears to be general consensus that the U.S. needs to shift its economic focus in order to try to regain the economic might of a bygone era—in other words, skilled is the name of the game. But Alabama's approach has looked backward instead of forward, cutting off immigrants' access to many educational opportunities, effectively blocking the growth of a skilled workforce, and arguably placing a huge roadblock in the road to economic recovery and growth.


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Ingonish Landing Marina is located at Hawleys Cove on the southwest shore of Ingonish Harbour and features a substantial 380ft wharf with a depth over 9 ft at low tied at the south end.
The Ingonish Development Society (IDS) will again be hosting Race the Cape 2016 on Saturday July 23th. Sail boats will arrive from Sydney Harbour between 4pm and 6pm - depending on wind. This Leg of the race is called "The Aspy Cup"
IDS will host a meal and entertainment that evening at Ski Cape Smokey Lodge, just up the road. The sail boats will overnight at the Ingonish Landing Marina. The next morning Sunday July 24th the race will begin at 11:00 am in South Bay and end in North Sydney at Northern Yacht Club.
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Springfield Mayor Mike Houston is disputing a report that acting Corporation Counsel John Mehlick is stepping down due to a perceived conflict of interest.
Citing an anonymous source, WTAX-AM 1240 reported that the former associate judge decided to resign because he had presided over traffic cases in which Calvin Christian III was the defendant. The mayor has said Mehlick was instrumental in negotiating a settlement of Christian�s lawsuit over the destruction of police internal affairs records he had requested under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.
The mayor�s office announced Mehlick�s resignation Wednesday, a day after he and Jon Gray Noll, an outside attorney representing the city in the lawsuit, told the city council they believed Ward 5 Ald. Sam Cahnman shouldn�t be involved in settlement discussions because he is representing Christian in an ongoing traffic case.
Houston said Mehlick informed him during a private meeting last month that he intended to resign, effective Dec. 14. Mehlick submitted his letter of resignation that day as well, the mayor said Thursday.
�He had given me a resignation letter on Nov. 21, which was way before any of this came up,� Houston said.
City spokesman Nathan Mihelich on Wednesday told WTAX�s Ray Lytle that Mehlick handed in his resignation earlier that day.
�He offered it this morning,� Mihelich said. �The mayor, (executive assistant) Willis (Logan) and I were in a staff meeting in the mayor�s conference room, and the judge informed the three of us that, effective Dec. 14, he was going to be leaving the city.�
Houston said he and Mehlick kept the earlier conversation private because they didn�t want Mehlick�s impending departure to become public and possibly interfere with the settlement.
The idea was for the resignation to be announced after the city council approved the settlement, which would pay Christian and his attorneys more than $100,000 without requiring the city to admit liability. But a wrench was thrown in the gears when the city council decided not to vote on the proposal when it was up for emergency passage Tuesday night. Instead, they chose to delay the vote until Dec. 17.
Aldermen were informed of the outline of the settlement agreement during a Nov. 19 closed-door executive session.
Houston said Mehlick heard thousands of cases throughout his time on the bench. In that role, he was an impartial arbiter, responsible neither for bringing charges nor dismissing them.
The mayor said he was aware when Mehlick took the temporary job with the city in August that he had presided over cases in which Christian was the defendant.
�There is no conflict of interest,� he said. �He certainly remembered that Calvin Christian had appeared before him, but I don�t know that he would recall the specifics of any cases.�
Sangamon County Circuit Court records show Mehlick, who retired as head of the traffic and misdemeanor division in 2010, was assigned to four cases from 2008 to 2010 in which Christian was the defendant. Prosecutors dismissed the charges in two cases. Christian was given court supervision in 2008 after pleading guilty to disregarding a traffic light. In a fourth case, another judge signed the state�s motion to dismiss a charge of operating an uninsured vehicle.
Houston noted that, while working as a private attorney, Mehlick represented Sangamon County in lawsuits brought by people he had sentenced before he retired.
James Grogan, deputy administrator and chief counsel for the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, pointed to a rule governing professional conduct for lawyers and judges that states, �a lawyer shall not represent anyone in connection with a matter in which the lawyer participated personally and substantially as a judge.�
This rule does not preclude former judges from serving as attorneys in cases involving people who appeared before them in unrelated matters, Grogan said.
�It�s got to be really case specific,� he said. �When you leave the bench, you�re going to encounter, generally speaking, people you encountered as a judge.�
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Tonight's episode of Smallville features Green Arrow finally returning from the "wherever the hell he's been" limbo that the character has been languishing in since his informal Justice League decided to stop Lex's operations around the world. Although with that much superpower on a team you would have expected them to wrap things up a long time ago. Heck, Impulse and his speed powers could have taken care of it in an afternoon. Anyhow, he's back and he comes face to face with the Black Canary and her screaming O-face this clip above.
We're not sold on the eye-smudge makeup she wears in her Canary gear, which looks like it's a combo of Heath Ledger's Joker and Kristen Dunst from Marie Antoinette. But that "Canary Cry" effect ain't half bad. When did she develop such Wonder Woman-like powers of leaping, though? And were we the only ones out there hoping there might be a steamy love scene between Black Canary and Chloe? After all, the intrepid reporter keeps getting burned by boys. Maybe it's time she tries the other team. We're just saying.


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Young at art: Students make marks at McGuffey
On a recent Project Runway episode, Tim Gunn challenged the competing designers to construct garments using only items from a hardware store. Good thing the contestants didn't have to go up against St. Anne's-Belfield students Hannah Velie and Katelyn Coyner, whose dresses are among the standout pieces in this year's High School Art Show, currently on view at the McGuffey Art Center.
Velie's mini-dress, "Far Out," pops with swirls of blue, green, purple, and yellow paper paint swatches spiraling outward on the front and back of a yellow oilcloth shift. Velie's piece is not only fun, it's also dead-on in its retro pop-art sensibility. Meanwhile Coyner's "Lucky Strike" dress wows with a fringed bodice made of red-tipped cardboard matchsticks, a wide cummerbund of layered blue Diamond matchbooks, and a fringed skirt created with long wooden fireplace matches.
Can you find all of Velie and Coyner's components at a hardware store? Why, yes, you can–- and Project Runway judge Nia Garcia would never deem their innovative designs "boring."
Innovation and mastery of technique are the keys to several students' successful work in this year's show. Renaissance School student Sakeena Alkateeb's "Stick Drawing" is simultaneously raw and sophisticated. The quick India ink marks that Alkateeb has used to create her simple figure are free and energetic, but she has softened the composition and given it presence through varied weights of charcoal shading.
Western Albemarle student Ally Slechta also dazzles with technique in her batik, "April in Paris." Even the darkest areas of Slechta's Eiffel Tower, rising skyward behind stylized cherry branches, feature rich detail and texture. Further down the hall, another Renaissance School student, Marian Stevenson, has created a monochromatic red block print of a heron spreading its wings while standing above a fallen women that's both strange and compelling.
Among the ceramic pieces, St. Anne's-Belfield student Greg Wise's whimsical creature is especially charming. Resembling a humorous cross between a dog and an alligator, the four-legged being's body comprises parallel discs of bisque-colored clay. But it's the movement in the scaly tale and expression of the painted-on eyes that bring the piece to life.
Also noteworthy for their outstanding technique are Western Albemarle students Reid Meador for her hand-tinted photograph of thread spools, and classmate Aly Baker for her watercolor, "Mrs. Roy."
They may be young, but these local high school students combine fresh imagination with mature execution. As Tim Gunn would say, they "make it work."
The annual High School Art Show is on view through March 31 in the upstairs hall gallery at the McGuffey Art Center. 201 Second St. NE. 295-7973.