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Sept. 26, 2011 -- Children who have diabetes may be more likely to also have asthma. What's more, kids with both conditions are more likely to have poor control over their diabetes.
These are the two main findings of a new study in Pediatrics.
The study didn't explore why asthma and diabetes may be linked. But the two conditions share certain risk factors, including obesity.
They are also both related to underlying inflammation, says study researcher Mary Helen Black, PhD. She is a biostatistician/data consultant at Southern California Permanente Medical Group in Pasadena.
Black says that the next step will be to look at how diabetes and asthma are connected.
"If your child has diabetes first, recognize asthma symptoms," she says. These may include:
"Having to deal with diabetes all by itself is very difficult, so other things may go unnoticed or unchecked and it is important for physicians and parents to be mindful of a potential connection," she says.
The new study looked at asthma rates from 2002 to 2005 for 1,683 kids with type 1 diabetes and another 311 who had type 2 diabetes. Close to 11% of these children also had asthma, the study showed. This number is higher than the 8.7% seen among all children in the U.S.
Among children with diabetes who had asthma, the rate was higher in children who had type 2 diabetes. The asthma rate for those children was 16.1%, vs. 10% for children with type 1 diabetes. Many children in the study with either type of diabetes were overweight or obese.
Those children with asthma and diabetes had higher levels of hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c). This blood test provides a snapshot of average blood sugar control for the past two to three months. Poor blood sugar control is linked to many of the complications associated with diabetes.
"Among youth with diabetes, those with asthma were more likely to fall into the category of poor glucose control," Black says.
Children whose asthma was not treated with medication were more likely to have poor control of blood sugar than those with treated asthma.
The researchers suggest that certain asthma medications such as leukotrieneinhibitors may improve blood sugar control among children with asthma and diabetes. Other asthma medications such as oral steroids are known to sometimes increase blood sugar.
Harold Farber, MD, urges caution in interpreting the new study. Farber is a pediatric pulmonologist at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.
"It is provocative, but we need more research," he says. Farber is also a professor of pediatrics - pulmonary at Baylor College of Medicine.
The study does bring some reassuring news, he says. "We worry that some asthma medications cause problems with diabetes control. And while this study was not designed to test that, it seems that not taking your asthma medications was more of a problem than controlling your asthma."
"Taking good care of asthma also bodes well for diabetes," he says.
This is a good thing, says Janine Sanchez, MD. She is an associate professor in the division of pediatric endocrinology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
"Kids with asthma have worse diabetes control if they are not taking care of asthma," she says. "Both medical conditions should be treated."
SOURCES:Black, M.H. Pediatrics, 2011.Helen Black, PhD, biostatistician/ data consultant, Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Pasadena.Harold Farber, MD, pediatric pulmonologist, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston.Janine Sanchez, MD, associate professor, division of pediatric endocrinology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
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A perfect storm of interest rate, tax, and market factors is driving down the rents for many of today's railcar users to historic lows. Low interest rates are contributing to long term operating lease interest costs of 3% or less per year depending on the credit quality of the borrower. U.S. bonus tax depreciation (50% in 2012) is playing a big role in cheaper rents. A variety of factors are pushing the 2012-2013 North American railcar build rate to near historic highs.
Today's tsunami of railcar building and leasing has a diverse and incredibly strong economic underpinning. It used to be that a spike in carbuilding usually meant one thing: operating lessors speculating on a hot rental market. All kinds of long term bets were placed on short term requirements and everyone shared in the roasting that the market served up for them when it turned. In this market, new carbuilding is being driven by a variety of economic factors—some super-heated to be sure—as well as the appetite of our veteran operating lessors.
Small cube covered hoppers and general purpose 30,000 gallon tank cars are being built to serve the fracking industry that is pulling hydrocarbons from shale deposits in the American west and in central and eastern regions. Industrials have decided that this is a good time to reequip and have placed and are placing orders in line with this strategy. Virtually all market sectors (with the specific exceptions of coal cars and center beam flatcars), are participating in this aggressive building of new cars.
Not only is it a great time to be a railcar builder. It turns out that it is a great time to finance these cars on medium term leases with the nation's banks.
What's going on?
Tax leasing—the purchase by a taxpayer of capital equipment for lease to others—is one of the few ways left for a bank to manage its tax bill. The bank buys the equipment and uses the depreciation it receives as the equipment owner to subsidize lower rental rates. If you can find manufacturing capacity, U.S. 50% bonus depreciation makes 2012 a particularly good year to do this.
Low interest rates also push down the rental costs of bank-provided operating leases. But there's more. Financial debacles in the mortgage industry coupled with international efforts to bolster bank capital have combined to make long term leases (15 to 20-plus years) unattractive to banks.
Instead, the banks that have had a positive experience with railcar residual values on longer leases have taken the view that medium term operating leases of 7 to 12 years are just their cup of tea.
The result?
Railcar buyers, particularly those with decent credit, are finding that they have very affordable financing alternatives to the 1 to 5 year operating leases traditionally offered by North America's operating lessors. If railcar buyers can stretch their commitments to meet the banks' sought after 7-8 year minimums, they can do a sale/leaseback and save 20% to 25% on the rents that the operating leasing companies need to make their deals make sense. Even better, the bank deals come with purchase options. (Existing car owners are getting in on the action with their own sale/leasebacks.)
Make no mistake about it. Operating lessors are open and eager for business and are writing new leases at rates that finally make financial sense for them. But these deals are primarily in the operating lessors' "sweet spot" of 1 to 5 years. When operating lessors try to compete for the deals the banks have targeted, the bank numbers are blowing them away.
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'Twilight,' Bond, 'Lincoln' lead record weekendBy DAVID GERMAIN
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British actor Robert Pattinson, right, having his photo taken with fans upon arrival for an exclusive fan event for the final chapter of the Twilight Saga "Breaking Dawn Part 2" in Sydney, Australia.LOS ANGELES — Bella Swan, James Bond and Abe Lincoln have combined to lift Hollywood to record Thanksgiving revenue at the box office.
Kristen Stewart's finale as Bella in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2" was No. 1 again with $64 million during the five-day holiday stretch that began Wednesday, according to studio estimates Sunday. Daniel Craig's Bond adventure "Skyfall" came in at No. 2 with $51 million, while Daniel Day-Lewis and Steven Spielberg's Civil War saga "Lincoln" finished third with $34.1 million. According to box-office tracker Hollywood.com, the three films paced Hollywood to an all-time Thanksgiving week best of about $290 million from Wednesday to Sunday.
That tops the previous record of $273 million over Thanksgiving in 2009, when "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" led the weekend.
This Thanksgiving also was a huge 25 percent jump from a year ago, when domestic revenues were a weak $232 million as some big holiday releases fizzled.
With a strong December lineup ahead, Hollywood has resumed its record revenue pace for the year after a brief box-office lull in late summer and early fall.
Domestic revenues for 2012 are at $9.75 billion, putting Hollywood potentially on track for its first $11 billion year, which would beat the 2009 record of $10.6 billion, said Hollywood.com analyst Paul Dergarabedian.
"We're barreling toward a record-breaking box-office year," Dergarabedian said. "It's built on the back of just a lot of really strong movies that have come out over the past few weekends. It bodes very well for the rest of the holidays."
The "Twilight" finale, "Skyfall" and "Lincoln" finished in the same top-three rankings for the second-straight weekend as new releases were unable to dislodge the holdovers.
Released by Lionsgate's Summit Entertainment banner, "Breaking Dawn — Part 2," pulled in $43.1 million from Friday to Sunday, raising its domestic total to $227 million. The movie added $97.4 million overseas to bring its international total to $350.8 million and its worldwide take to $577.7 million.
Sony's "Skyfall" also topped $200 million domestically, ringing up $36 million for the three-day weekend to put its U.S. total at $221.7 million. With $41.3 million more overseas, "Skyfall" raised its international revenues to $568.4 million and its worldwide sales to $790.1 million.
"Lincoln," a DreamWorks film distributed by Disney, took in $25 million over the weekend to lift its domestic revenue to $62.2 million.
Leading the newcomers was Paramount and DreamWorks Animation's tale "Rise of the Guardians" at No. 4 with $24 million for the weekend and $32.6 million since opening Wednesday.
Based on William Joyce's "Guardians of Childhood" books, "Rise of the Guardians" gathers Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and other mythical beings as a team of heroes battling an evil overlord.
Close behind at No. 5 was director Ang Lee's shipwreck saga "Life of Pi" at No. 5 with $22 million over the weekend. The 20th Century Fox release has taken in $30.2 million domestically since its Wednesday debut and added $17.5 million in four Asian markets.
"Life of Pi" was adapted from Yann Martel's best-selling novel about an Indian youth adrift on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. Many fans considered the introspective novel impossible to film, but Lee has charmed audiences and critics with an inspiring survival story told through dazzling 3-D images.
The weekend's other new wide release, a remake of the 1980s U.S.-invasion tale "Red Dawn," opened at No. 7 with $14.6 million, raising its total to $22 million since debuting Wednesday.
"Red Dawn" sat on the shelf for three years while studio backer MGM went through bankruptcy, with distributor FilmDistrict eventually picking it up for domestic release. The movie's cast includes Chris Hemsworth ("Thor") and Josh Hutcherson ("The Hunger Games") in a story of young guerrillas battling North Korean invaders.
In limited release, Fox Searchlight's "Hitchcock" opened solidly with about $300,000 in 17 theaters. The movie stars Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock in a behind-the-scenes story of the making of "Psycho."
The weekend's overall strength came from a broad range of films that clicked with various audiences, from action and family fare to thoughtful drama.
"This is a marketplace that has something for everyone," said Chris Aronson, head of distribution for 20th Century Fox. "You have something deeper like 'Life of Pi,' yet you have a very successful sequel in 'Twilight' at the same time. Adult bio-drama, if you will, in 'Lincoln,' and you have Bond. That's the secret to a very successful and balanced marketplace."MORE IN National / World BusinessWASHINGTON Conservatives should stop the fight over Common Core and instead consider the... Full StoryWASHINGTON The central bankers meeting this week at their annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Full StoryHEXIGTEN, China Deep in the hilly grasslands of remote Inner Mongolia, twin smoke stacks rise... Full Story
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Bank of America BAC +1.12% Bank of America Corp. U.S.: NYSE $16.27 +0.18 +1.12% Sept. 2, 2014 4:02 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 58.36M AFTER HOURS $16.27 0.00 % Sept. 2, 2014 6:17 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 857,806 P/E Ratio 25.03 Market Cap $169.20 Billion Dividend Yield 1.23% Rev. per Employee $395,876 09/02/14 J.P. Morgan in Talks to Sell O... 09/02/14 U.S. Government Bonds Sell Off 09/02/14 Tianhe Shares Suspended in Hon... More quote details and news » and Wells Fargo WFC +0.25% Wells Fargo & Co. U.S.: NYSE $51.57 +0.13 +0.25% Sept. 2, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 9.81M AFTER HOURS $51.45 -0.12 -0.23% Sept. 2, 2014 4:58 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 146,299 P/E Ratio 12.52 Market Cap $268.54 Billion Dividend Yield 2.71% Rev. per Employee $334,220 09/02/14 1-800-Flowers to Acquire Harry... 08/29/14 Ernst & Young to Return $100,0... 08/29/14 Buffett Gets to the Meat of th... More quote details and news » probably were the biggest winners among large banks from the Federal Reserve's annual review of capital plans. The Fed released its decision, which affects stock buybacks and dividends over the next year, on Thursday.
The results underscored the improvement in bank-capital positions and profitability in the past two years, which was predicted in a bullish Barron's industry cover story ("Buy the Banks," Oct. 17, 2011).
Bank of America (ticker: BAC) got approval for a $5 billion stock buyback—which could retire nearly 4% of its shares over the next 12 months—and the ability to retire $5.5 billion of high-cost preferred stock. Deutsche Bank analyst Matt O'Connor said the buyback was a "positive surprise" in a client note—he had anticipated a total closer to $2 billion. (The details for six leading banks appear in the table.)
The Fed permitted Wells Fargo (WFC) to boost its quarterly dividend to 30 cents a share from 25 cents, plus an increase in its share buyback relative to 2012, when it repurchased almost $4 billion. The dividend increase, lifting the yield to 3.2%, was better than expected.
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Dick's (ticker: DKS) fell 10% on Monday to $45 before recovering to $47 by Friday. The shares are off 4% since Barron's argued the retailer was a good bet to gain market share as it opens stores countrywide ("A Long-Distance Runner," Feb. 25).
We think long-term investors should use the opportunity to snap up shares, because the retailer should regain its footing pretty quickly. Dick's trades for 14 times its forward earnings estimate, below historical levels. Its balance sheet is strong, gross margins are expected to increase a bit, and earnings are forecast to rise 13% this year, to $2.86 a share.
"The long-term story is intact," says Brian Lazorishak of Chase Mid-Cap Growth Fund (CHAMX), who sees the stock in the high-50s by year's end.
Fourth-quarter earnings were $1.03 a share, slightly below consensus. Dick's curtailed orders of cold-winter gear, but January's freeze left the company short of merchandise. Customers also reportedly spurned Armstrong's LiveStrong elliptical and treadmill brands after the cyclist admitted to steroid use. LiveStrong generates more than 50% of equipment sales.
Displeasing as they are, these missteps are forgivable. Dick's still aims to open 1,100 stores. Better to keep an eye on how that race goes.
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This is a letter to United States military personnel stationed in occupied Iraq:
Dear Soldiers in Iraq:
They LIE. They LIED to You. And they LIED to us. And they are still LYING to all of us.
Today some of you heard and/or saw a special videotaped message from the recently deposed former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, an open war criminal who worked to secure U.S. support for Saddam Hussein during the middle 1980s and who sent you without adequate support and equipment into an illegal occupation in one of the most dangerous parts of the world. In his goodbye message, Rumsfield thanked you for responding to a terrorist attack on the American homeland by "taking the fight to the enemy." You certainly deserve Rumsfeld's gratitude, but his thank you shows that he insists on LYING to you to the bitter end.
As more and more of you certainly know every day, Rumsfeld, Bush and others further down the command structure deceived you with the claim that Rumsfeld's old freind Saddam Hussein was linked in any relevant way to the 9/11 terror attacks. As a growing number of you certainly suspect and is evident to an ever-larger share of the American populace, the occupation in which so many of you are both experiencing and inflicting irreparable harm has been predicated on a series of deep DECEPTIONS developed and disseminated by rich and powerful policymakers who expect you to kill and die for their crimes, their LIES, and their "mistakes." They have put you in harm's way on the criminal basis of one unforgivable FALSEHOOD after another.
First there were the Big WMD, al Qaeda and 9/11 LIES. At the outset, dominant U.S. media dutifully relayed White House myths about Saddam Hussein's "weapons of mass destruction" and his alleged connections to al Qaeda and 9/11. It did this despite the abundant availability at the time of evidence showing that Saddam's regime possessed so significant WMD stocks and had no connection either to al Qaeda (or other Islamist-terrorist forces) or the terrible events of 9/11/2001. "Mainstream" journalists like to say that they know better now, but the FALSE nature of Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld's claims was readily apparent to numerous observers well in advance of the invasion.
Then came the Big "Mission Accomplished" LIE. With cameras positioned to deceptively sell the toppling of Saddam's statute (torn down with the help of an American tank) as a great moment of popular Iraqi rebellion, American media played along with the nonsense that a quick and sweeping "victory" had been attained.
I don't need to tell you that this claim was pure, unadulterated bullshit. What you might not know is that there existed at the time numerous, readily available reasons to know that the occupation was going to lead to mass U.S. casualties while killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and triggering a terrible chain of events guaranteed to produce widespread devastation across Iraq, including civil war.
Then came the Big "Bad Intelligence" LIE. When it became belatedly clear to "mainstream" war media that there were no Iraqi WMD, that Saddam was not connected to al Qaeda et al. or 9/11 and that the occupation was becoming a prolonged and bloody nightmare for the Iraqis (and for U.S. soldiers), leading news and communications institutions transmitted the irresponsible notion that the occupation had been undertaken on the basis of "honest mistakes" rooted in "faulty intelligence." this was complete bullshit: we know very well that the "bad intelligence" about Iraq was being "fixed around the [pre-existing] policy" (to quote the July 2002 "Downing Street Memo") of invading Iraq. The "intelligence" that supported the invasion of Iraq was not "bad;"it was "cooked": made to order for enactment of Bush's "preemptive" war doctrine. It was good (for Bush and Rumsfeld et al,) DECEPTIVE intilligence.
There have been numerous other Iraq War LIES told to you and the American people by the administration and its many enablers during the war on Iraq. We've been told TALL TALES about the invasion of Iraq being part of the "war on terror" when it was widely understood in numerous intelligence circles that invading the sovereign Iraq would increase the threat posed to America and the world by stateless terror networks.We've been told little public relations LIES about U.S. soldiers like Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman. We've been instructed to think that the killing of a leading terror operative (Zarqawi) was a major step forward in the reduction of violence in Iraq. We've been asked to childishly believe that the U.S. torture of Iraqis in Abu Ghraib and other locations was the result of the misconduct of a few deranged rank-and-file GIs and not explicit, top-down U.S. policy ordered by people like Rumsfeld, Bush, and current U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.We've been told foolish TALES about ethnic violence the U.S. supposedly did nothing to create, had no reason to expect (not true…it was widely predicted) and which supposedly necessitates a continuing U.S. military presence to guarantee "public safety" (wrong: it is widely understood that the U.S. presence is provoking and sustaining violence in Iraq).
Many of you have, like us, been told the Big Democracy Promotion and Exporting "Freedom" LIE. This big FAIRY TALE was quickly disseminated once it became clear to all Americans that there were no relevant WMDs in Iraq. According to this great DECEPTION, the real reason you are in Iraq was the White House's desire to export democracy and create a truly free and sovereign Iraq. Never mind that:
? the preponderant majority of Iraqis want U.S. troops to leave their nation. According to a recent poll by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland, 78 percent of Iraqis now believe that the U.S. military presence is "provoking more conflict than it is preventing" and that 61 percent of Iraqis now approve of attacks on American soldiers. .
? a poll commissioned by the British Ministry of Defence last year found that fully 82 percent of Iraqis were "'strongly opposed' to the presence of foreign troops and that less than 1 percent believed the troops were responsible for improvement in security."
? a poll conducted by our own State Department reports that almost three-fourths of Baghdad's residents would "feel safer" if U.S. forces left their country.
? 72 percent of Americans surveyed by the mainstream Chicago Council on Foreign Relations in 2004 (the percentage is certainly higher today) said that the U.S. should remove its military from Iraq if that's what a clear majority of Iraqis want.
? more than half the U.S. population now says the war on Iraq is NOT morally justified.
? a majority of the population now rejects administration's efforts to link the war on Iraq with the so-called "war on terror."
? 60 percent of the U.S population opposes the war.
? Sixty-one percent believe that some troops should be removed before the end of the year and 57 percent want a timetable for full withdrawal.
? These policy choices supported by the American popular majority have been denounced by the LIAR-in chief George W. Bush as naïve elitist "appeasement" – so-called "cut and run" – even while he insists that the war is being fought on behalf of the idea that government should reflect the "will of the people."
? one of the first actions of the U.S. occupation authorities was to open up much of Iraq's economy to multinational corporate ownership – an action that would never have been supported by the Iraqi majority and which violated core principles of national independence.
? the U.S. is building a large number of permanent military bases in richly oil-strategic Iraq (Iraqis who believe the U.S. seeks permanent bases are especially prone to support attacks on U.S. troops)
? the U.S. is a close ally and sponsor of the feudal, arch-repressive Saudi Arabian regime along with numerous other authoritarian state and political forces in the Middle East and around the world. U.S. policymakers have long been willing to collaborate with Saudi Arabia and other harshly anti-democratic states in the region for one very simple and obvious reason: American access to, and control of, that region's unparalleled petroleum reserves.
And never mind that that the notion of the Iraqi people doing whatever they wish with their own state's critical petroleum resources – second or third only to those of Saudi Arabia – is completely unacceptable to U.S. foreign policy makers from either of the nation's dominant two parties. As is widely understood around the world and is apparent to some inside the U.S., the White House sent you off to kill; and die in Iraq because that occupied nation possess stupendous oil resources, mostly untapped, and is located in the center of the world's super-strategic energy system. Even Bush has recently acknowledged (in his own backhanded sort of way) that his war on Iraq is largely an oil invasion that is all about dominating the leading petroleum centers of the planet. That's why some of you and your comrades have been ordered from the start to set up permanent U.S. bases in Iraq.
We have long possessed abundant evidence that Rumsfeld, Cheney, and other highly placed "neoconservative" policymakers saw 9/11 not as a national tragedy as a great opportunity for them to rally popular support for their preexisting goal of invading Iraq – a nation whose people and dictator had nothing to do with al Qaeda or 9/11. We know very well that Rumsfeld was plotting to use the jetliner attacks as a pretext for attacking Iraq even before the smoke had cleared from the Pentagon. We can be sure that he was planning for the U.S. chain of command to pass down to you the big LIE that Saddam and Iraq were linked to the attacks.
We know that the Iraq War is completely and monumentally illegal under international law and that it commits the ultimate crime under that law: an aggressive and unprovoked war with no remotely just basis in the requirements of self defense. From the moment that American and other "coalition" forces initiated hostilities without authorization from the United Nations Security Council, the invasion was illegal. The Charter of the United Nations, universally accepted as legally binding, is quite clear on this: "All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state" (Article 2(4)). It is for the Security Council to "determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression" which would allow for any possible limited resort to armed force (Article 39).
The recent defeat of George W. Bush's Republican War Party in the mid-term congressional elections this week was driven largely by popular U.S. dissatisfaction both with Bush and Rumsfeld's war and with the endless series of deceptions that have accompanied that war. Since the new party in congressional power lacks a clear policy on the war and largely shares Bush's imperial determination to maintain a permanent military presence in oil-rich Iraq, however, the elections do not mean that all or many of you will be coming home and escaping apparently deepening danger (the U.S. body count has escalated significantly during the last two months) anytime soon. Numerous leading Democrats will be content to see hundreds, perhaps thousands, more of you die for the criminal LIES of Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney over months and maybe years to come.
It is important for you to know that Bush and Cheney were of military age when the U.S. was fighting a war on Vietnam – a war that both of them supported. Both of them made sure that they themselves would NOT have to put their own precious bodies on the line in a war they supported and in which 58,000 Americans died (along with 2 million Vietnamese). Bush got himself placed in a safe National Guard position; he skipped out even on that. Cheney recalls having "other priorities" during the war. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld are all millionaires at the same time that they are LYING war masters. They remind many observers of the following lines from a song that Bob Dylan wrote more than forty years ago:
Like Judas of Old
You LIE and Deceive…
You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
You sit back and watch
While the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansions
While young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And gets buried in the mud
(Masters of War, 1962)
Today's wealthy war masters, like those of the Vietnam era and in other wars, believe that the rich and privileged shouldn't have to fight in bloody imperial campaigns that make them yet richer. They believe that they are too good to have to suffer the terrible physical, mental, and spiritual dangers you regularly face by having to participate in an illegal and unjust war that has so far killed at least 650,000 Iraqis. Like your predecessors in Vietnam after early 1968, you are expected to sacrifice your lives and/or your physical and/or mental and spiritual health to provide cover for American rulers' LIES, crimes, and "mistakes" even after those LIES. crimes, and "mistakes" have become shockingly clear to a dissatisfied majority at home.
Many of us at home don't think you should have to do this. Please consider taking immediate action to end this illegal war. There is currently no legitimate reason for any more of you to have to die or receive terrible injuries or kill or maim others in Iraq. There never has been, but the illegitemacy of the war in now more evident than ever inside the U.S. The Bushes and Rumsfelds and the rest of their war-master ilk (a group that includes plenty of Democrats, unfortunately) can't commit these terrible crimes if you refuse to accept their LIES and if you refuse to participate in their monumentally illegal and mass-murderous occupation of Iraq.
It's good news that Bush's party has been defeated, swept out of congressional power by a wave of popular revulsion against his war and the LIES that created and sustained that war. But the Democrats are divided, confused, frightened, and significantly confused about what to do. They will spend a good period of time dithering and collaborating with Bush while you are asked to kill, maim, die, and suffer for LIES and policies you never made. The good news is that there is a new opening now at home for a more intelligent and democratic discussion of U.S. policy options in Iraq.
Soldiers on the ground know more about the suffering imposed by this war than any other Americans. You can encourage, expedite, and inform the discussion at home and help end the murderous tragedy over there by refusing to participate any further in crimes that have been advanced and sustained by monumental LIES from the beginning and through the present.
A U.S. Citizen in the American Midwest


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Your beach and water pictures are very nice, Jason. Bright, happy images with nice exposure.
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I really like this image. I hope you don't mind but I did a little rework.
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Here's a recent fall landscape shot with my 6D and the 24-105mm lens. I gave it an HDR treatment to bring out the colors - hopefully it's not too over-the-top!
Looks natural to me. I don't think I would have guessed HDR. Wish we had pretty fall colors like that here in Hawaii (leaves are either green or dead brown).
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Chef Philip Tessier and his Commis Skylar Stover from The French Laundry in Yountville, CA will represent Team USA 2015. The 2015 Bocuse d'Or competition in Lyon, France, will take place January 27-28, 2015.
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Chef Richard Rosendale of The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, represented the United States at the 2013 Bocuse d'Or in Lyon, France (January 29-30, 2013). Chef Rosendale was joined in Lyon by his commis Corey Siegel. The two went through an intensive training process and placed 7th out of 24 teams in the Bocuse d'Or, the world's most challenging and prestigious culinary competition. Chef Rosendale was mentored by the Foundation's Board of Directors, Chefs Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller, and Jerome Bocuse, and Team USA coaches Chefs Gavin Kaysen (head coach), Grant Achatz, and Gabriel Kreuther.
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It's April 1 and orange construction barrels are taking over I-75 in Saginaw County. It's a sign of the beginning of construction season, much to the dismay of drivers like Theresa Farquharson."I tried to get on 75 in Zilwaukee and that was closed off. So I went to 675 going south and by time I got to the Civic Center it was a parking lot," said Farquharson. It's the first day of the Zilwaukee Bridge project. It includes replacing bearings, bridge deck overlay and electrical work.If you're headed southbound on I-75 in Saginaw County because of this project you'll have to take a detour onto I-675. The detour lasts for several miles which could add several minutes onto your commute.Anita Richardson, a spokesperson for the Michigan Department of Transportation, says the project needs to be done to help keep drivers safe."By replacing the bearings we're making sure that the weight shifts properly across the bridge and that it doesn't move suddenly or give way due to any weight or loads that are going across that bridge," said Richardson.Work on the southbound lanes of I-75 is scheduled to last until April 27. Then work on the northbound lanes will begin.
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Multiple reports late Wednesday night, including this one from Carrie Muskat at cubs.com, indicated that Milwaukee Brewers coach Dale Sveum would be offered the Cubs' manager position. No indication was given on when this might happen, nor would anyone from Cubs upper management confirm this report, which came out after Rangers pitching coach Mike Maddux withdrew his name. Maddux reportedly cited "family reasons" for not wanting to leave Texas.
Sveum had a 12-year playing career that peaked with 25 HR and 95 RBI in the freakish 1987 season when players who never hit home runs did so (Wade Boggs hit 24 HR that year; his career high otherwise was 11). Sveum, a first-round pick of the Brewers in 1982, came up as a shortstop, but after a serious injury in 1988 which caused him to miss the entire 1989 season, became a utility player, retiring after 1999.
He was the 3B coach for the Red Sox in 2004 and 2005, and has been a Brewers coach since 2006, taking over the Brewers as manager for the final 12 games of the 2008 season, when Ned Yost lost control of a team that was cruising to the wild card and had them in a 3-11 tailspin. Sveum righted the Milwaukee ship just enough (going 7-5) to get into the playoffs, where they were eliminated in the first round by the Phillies. He was passed over for the fulltime managing job when Milwaukee hired Ken Macha, and again in 2011 when they hired Ron Roenicke.
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At the Associated Press, covering today's durable goods report from the Census Bureau, Martin Crutsinger wrote that "Orders for durable goods fell 4 percent last month."
No they didn't. They fell by a seasonally adjusted 4%. The raw data before seasonal adjustment says that they fell by over 15%:
No variation on the word "seasonal" is in Crutsinger's report. Anyone reading or hearing his crummy content has every reason to believe that the reported drop of 4% is what actually happened. Obviously, it isn't.
Seasonality is supposed to smooth out large variations in monthly numbers to give news consumers and number crunchers the ability to quickly evaluate the direction in which the data is headed, and then to attempt to discern reasons why things are looking better or worse. A 4%, one-month drop after seasonal adjustment demands intense scrutiny, especially when consensus expectations (which Crutsinger didn't note) were for a drop of 1%.
So what happened? If you believe Crutsinger, the decline occurred because of what he described as a December 2011-exiring "tax break" once and as a "tax credit" twice
Businesses slashed spending on machinery and equipment in January after a tax break expired, pushing orders for long-lasting manufacturing goods down by the largest amount in three years.
... Economists attributed much of the decline in January to the end of the tax credit. They noted that demand for core capital goods hit an all-time high in December as most companies raced to qualify for the tax credit. Many said the underlying trend remained strong and predicted further business investment in the coming months.
"We see no evidence of underlying slowing in the industrial economy so we look for a rebound in February and the re-emergence of the upward trend over the next couple of months," said Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at High Frequency Economics.
Bloomberg's "economists" weren't as sure of themselves, as its Timothy R. Homan reported:
The expiration at the end of 2011 of a tax incentive allowing full depreciation on equipment purchases may have prompted a slowdown in investment at the start of this year. At the same time, a strengthening auto industry may help keep factories at the forefront of the expansion that began in June 2009.
... Last month's decrease in capital goods orders extends a pattern of declines early in a quarter that are typically reversed later. Demand for non-military capital goods like computers, engines and communications gear have dropped in the first month of a quarter in all but three instances since the end of 2005.
Three things are annoying about what Bloomberg noted:
Back to the post's titled topic: Business reporters, especially it would seem at the AP, focus on seasonally adjusted data and almost always ignore the underlying raw results. That's bad enough, and barely tolerable as long as they properly label what they deem to report. But when the "seasonally adjusted" label drops off completely and it "just so happens" to make a 15% decline look like it was really 4%, that's completely unacceptable -- but perhaps expected behavior between now and November from what yours truly has taken to calling the Administration's Press.
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2.6/5 rDev -26.3%
Hazy orange apperance. White, abundant and creamy foam.
Typical blanche smell, with classic spices, and some white flowers. and also something more unusual: nutmeg.
Normal at the taste, nothing realy interesting. Citric and spicy.
Something not too pleasant in the aftertaste, perhaps due to the spices.
Quite decent appearance and smell, but the rest is very little convincing.
11-11-2010 19:42:58 | More by stcules
3.48/5 rDev -1.4%
Beer bottle (33cl.), tasted in 2000.
Appearance : yellow color (trouble), with white foam head (not persistent).
Smell : wheat aromas.
Taste and mouthfeel : citrus, sweetness of wheat goes back in finish.
Drinkability : a good beer in the style Belgian Witbier.
11-22-2008 20:04:53 | More by thierrynantes
3.35/5 rDev -5.1%
I bought this beer in London as Tesco French Wheat Beer.
The colour is yellow-orange; the liquid is very cloudy. The firm head is finger thick and white.
The smell got some strong notes of yeast and sour wheat-flavours. I found some meat, orange peel and white bread, too.
The taste is quite neutral with notes of white bread, wheat flour, yeast and hints of spices. The mild aftertaste got some notes of oriental spices and yeast.
The carbonation is medium strong; the bubbles are small. The liquid is rather thick.
A rather neutral and uninteresting wit. Perhaps it is much better of with some fine food than on its own?
09-16-2007 12:53:36 | More by bark
3.25/5 rDev -7.9%
25 oz bottle has a bottled on date 06/10/05 , so this may be a little old for the style
Pours a hazy straw color with a pinky of white head. Minimal head retention & zero lacing
S: Big time grass & lemon.
T: Grassy with hints of lemon up front. Some peppery notes. More lemon & whear tartness as this warms. finishes tart with apple skin notes. Refreshing but would've been more so with carbonation
MF: Thinish and close to flat
Drinkability really suffers from thiness & lack of carbonation. I try this again if I could find fresh, otherwise pass
01-09-2007 02:25:34 | More by russpowell
2.83/5 rDev -19.8%
Very hazed straw yellow as it sits in my chalice, with an assured, yet slim layer of snow white bubbles lay above.
Looks like a wit.
Aroma, sour and citric, but on first sniff, unremarkable. And that's how I insist my wits smell...remarking of something, at least. No, none too pretty, wish I could state otherwise.
Taste: Weird. Not terribly pleasant. Doesn't have that uplifting zip and zing, that light, airy spirit a good wit should have. Feels laden down with something it shouldn't be,...a bit plastic. Is this infected? Might be an old bottle, might be a bad one, but this is not a good wit in the least. Not a happy beer at all, at all.
I'll finish it, but I won't enjoy it, and will curse the $8 down the drain, and contact the distributor for a what's up.
05-27-2006 09:36:26 | More by feloniousmonk
4.72/5 rDev +33.7%
On tap at Max's in B-moretown. One of the best Wit-Biers I have had hands down. Cloudy white yellow with a barest of head. Smells like wheat baked and cracked goodness with a touch of citric red pepper sweetness and a tinge of yeast funk. First sip is Absolutely golden. It tasted like my first kiss and I was in love. A large wheat taste that drys out leaving fruity, spicy deposits on my tongue. I love the flavors the yeast produced and I don't have the words to describe it. I would love to know which yeast they use. Very full in the mouthfeel and very tasty and way too drinkable.
03-16-2006 17:53:48 | More by Higravity
United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)
4.2/5 rDev +19%
750ml bottle bought from Sainsburys...
Poured a hazy golden colour... Head was white - pours quite large with small beading. Nice thin layer stays until the end...
Aroma - Vanilla, very fruity (tropical fruits ?), some citrus hints, honey...
Taste Sweet, flowery, vanilla notes...
Feel - Very, very smooth and mellow. Extremely drinkable...
Overall - an excellent beer, very individual- haven't tasted much else like this before...
07-14-2005 13:41:58 | More by mdagnew
United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)
3.85/5 rDev +9.1%
750ml bottleld, corked and caged
Pours with a cloudy lemony body. Fuzzy white head with fair retention
Smell, fairly fancy :), some hint of clove, cinnamon, lots of dry spices
Taste, fresh and very tasty, some hint of hops, mostly clove and some fresh herbs
Not bad, a pretty tasty white ale
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3.13/5 rDev -11.3%
Tried this beer on 21 May 2005 in its 750ml bottle-version, with best before date of 5 June 2006.
Appearance: cloudy, lemonade-like pale-yellowish colour, with a nice one-inch thick foamy head, albeit not long-lasting.
Smell: coriander, lime-peel, refreshing wheaty and corny nose.
Taste: citric-like dryish-sourness balanced with mild "wheatiness".
Aftertaste: very dry and short throat; not much residual flavour left within ten seconds.
Drinkability: very quaffable, but somehow not remarkable in terms of body and taste compared with most Belgian witbier counterparts.
04-21-2005 22:33:29 | More by wl0307
3.88/5 rDev +9.9%
Whitish off-white color and huge foam. Fermented porridge, sage, lemonpeel and floral aromas lead into flavors of tangy wheats, paper and dry, slightly herbal citrus fruits. The finish is brief and slightly metallic.
This is well manufactured witbier.
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"For You created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts,God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand—when I awake, I am still with you." – Psalm 139:13-18
Researcher of Christian faith and culture, George Barna, has stated, "God doesn't call the qualified. He qualifies the called." Have you ever questioned if you are prepared enough to effectively share God's love in where He has placed you and what you are doing? Our eternal Father has called you, and I, to a special purpose in His kingdom even before we were born. As the psalmist David expresses to God in verse 16, "All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be."
If you're feeling insecure or inferior to other Christ followers, know that our gracious Father is a loving daddy that never fails and never makes mistakes. He will use you and I, ordinary people, to fulfill His greater purposes. No matter how challenging or difficult situations become for you, trust in His truth that He never leaves or forsakes you. In these challenging moments He may be further preparing you to share His love for greater Kingdom impact not recognizable in the current moment. Steward well the opportunities afforded to you here at Asbury to be equipped, both personally and professionally, to serve His church in excellent ways wherever He takes you now and into the future (the corporate world, the classroom, film studios, relief efforts in third world countries, etc). My friends, as a previous pastor of mine has reminded me on multiple occasions, God's best is yet to come for you. May we not waste these days of preparation as He equips us for greater things He has for us tomorrow.
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Children from a St Albans school have celebrated Earth Hour, an initiative to help children look at ways to safeguard the planet for their future.
On Friday, April 25, Crabtree Infant School pupils met with the Foot Fella and WWF Panda as part of World Wide Fund For Nature, a Global Earth Hour initiative.
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---- — No muss, no fuss, no sweat. The Indianapolis Colts — to be known the rest of this account as the Griff Whalen Gang — were so dominant Sunday, they didn't even trail at halftime.
What's a quick way to feel good after you've been feeling bad? A 25-3 walk in the stadium will do. Of course, it could be mentioned it came against a 2-12 Houston team that has not seen victory since mid-September. But that's quibbling. Time must tell if Sunday was the result of refreshed Indianapolis prospects, or a broken opponent mailing in the rest of the season. Or maybe both.
"It's a big win regardless," Antoine Bethea said. "It's not easy to get wins in the NFL. "And as Chuck Pagano said, having sat through some ugly Colts game films lately, "We needed it."
The Griff Whalen Gang has seen more close shaves lately than a bathroom mirror; its previous six victories had been by an average of 5.2 points. So it was relaxing for them to have a sleepy fourth quarter.
The Griff Whalen Gang ended the Great Drought of 2013, having gone six games without a first-half touchdown, which is an utterly remarkable statistic for a division champion. Hoping for a spark with a no-huddle offense, they scored two — count 'em — two Sunday.
The Griff Whalen Gang is now 9-5 and looking for some pre-playoff mojo, continuing its thisaway-thataway pattern. The past six weeks, every loss has been followed by a win. And vice versa.
There were plenty of points Sunday, including those scored by Eric Dickerson and Marshall Faulk on the scoreboard screens at halftime, as they went into the Ring of Honor.
Plus, Robert Mathis had his 108th sack to set a franchise record. All in all, a nice day.
"We needed this," Darius Butler said. "You never want to back into the playoffs. We want to go in there hot."
Any questions? Oh, yeah. Who's Griff Whalen?
The new Colts' folk hero.
Friday, he was on the practice squad. Sunday, he caught the first NFL touchdown pass of his life. Plus three other catches. Plus a 51-yard punt return.
"The coaches just told me to basically have fun out there and do what I know how to do," Whalen said.
He didn't know he was playing until Saturday. Before that, not a word. The life of a practice squader is rather like a fireman, waiting for the alarm bells to go off.
"That's something we talk about, having everybody prepare like a starter," he said.
Whalen has all the prerequisites of a guy nobody ever sees coming. Walk-on at Stanford. An undrafted free agent entering the NFL. A mainstay of the Colts' practice unit, except for the occasional times they need another body.
Working and waiting. Waiting and working. Doing well in the practice assignments handed him. But as Whalen said — and this could have been any NFL player who ever lived — "It's a different story doing it on Sunday."
Not that he has ever doubted his choice of vocation.
"This is a game I love playing, so it's not hard to get up and go do it every day."
Pagano has noticed. "Certainly Griff's not one of those guys that would go in the tank, so to speak. He's a grinder. He plays with a chip on his shoulder. He's got something to prove, obviously."
They Colts needed him Sunday with receiver LaVon Brazill hurt. So there Whalen was in the first quarter, slashing across the middle of the Houston defense and into the hearts of anyone partial to underdog stories. It was his 14-yard catch from old college teammate Luck that gave the Colts their first pre-halftime touchdown in eons. The handiwork of a Boy Scout invariably prepared.
"You always want to be on the field," he said. "You always want to be contributing. It's kind of a tough thing mentally just to keep yourself in it and try to stay focused."
And the touchdown ball? Surely a keeper?
"I handed it to somebody. I think they said they were going to hang onto it. I hope they did," said Whalen.
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High waters in the Mississippi River are still raising concerns in the Q-C-A. Mark Poulos is a member of The Big River Rescue and Recovery Dive Team in The Quad Cities. He's been doing this for over 20-years and says people should take these warnings into consideration.
"Common sense should come into play, if the coast guard says it's too dangerous to be out there, they're saying that for a reason," said Poulos.
He and his team were called to an incident Friday night after a man tried to launch his boat into the river. The man ended up losing his truck to the fast current, but they eventually pulled the truck out. Poulos says if the man had stayed in his truck things would have been much more serious.
"Vehicles are replaceable, but when there's human life involved that's when, that's what majority we are called for, is to help recover the remains of somebody that has drowned in the river," he said.
Richard Sadler, the dive team's medical officer says any accident in the river like Friday night's is taken very seriously, and boaters should be more aware of the risks they're taking.
"There's no such thing as a little accident in this kind of water if somebody goes overboard you now have a real emergency and your ability to save them can be compromised, and that leads to tragedy," he said.
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Colorado Discover Ability (CDA) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to increase the independence, self-confidence, self worth, and education of individuals with disabilities through outdoor therapeutic recreation.
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CDA offers year-round recreational programs of therapeutic value. During the winter, CDA operates the adaptive ski and snowboard school at Powderhorn Mountain Resort, located just 35 miles east of Grand Junction, Colorado. Using an array of specialized, adaptive equipment and individualized instruction, skiing and snowboarding are individually tailored to each client's ability level, thereby enabling them to experience the chosen activity. During the summer, CDA's focus shifts to providing water-based recreation, such as river rafting, kayaking, and related camping activities. Summertime also brings day camps, bike nights, camping trips and specialized camps for children and adults with disabilites.
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Year after year, staff and volunteers at CDA have the incredible honor of looking into the eyes of individuals who have gotten to do something new and exciting, something that might change and improve their lives and, as a minimum, will give them memories to last a lifetime. Making this possible requires a partnership: clients provide the courage and determination; CDA provides the equipment, instruction, and support; and the community provides volunteers and financial support from individuals, corporations, and granting organizations.
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Princess Moss, an elementary school music teacher in Louisa County, Va., was elected to the National Education Association's (NEA) Executive Committee in July 2011 for a second, three-year term.
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Moss earned her bachelor's degree in music education from the University of Mary Washington in 1983. In 2006, the University of Mary Washington awarded her its Distinguished Alumnus Award. In 2007, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine appointed her to a four-year term on the University of Mary Washington's Board of Visitors. Moss also earned a master's degree in elementary and secondary administration and supervision from the University of Virginia.
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STERLING — — On Thursday night, fans packed the Tiger Den at Sterling High School to see perhaps the most anticipated wrestling dual of the season in Logan County as the No. 6 ranked Tigers welcomed in their rival, and the No. 1 ranked team in 3A, Brush.
In what Sterling head coach Chad Duncan said would be the "biggest test of the year" for his team, the Tigers responded as they gave themselves a chance for the upset, despite forfeiting 12 points in two weight classes, but came up just short as Brush held on for the 44-35 win.
"I thought we wrestled really well. Brush is the top 3A team in the state and for it to come in here and the dual come down to the last match, when we gave up two weights with forfeits, shows that," Duncan said. "It was a fun match to watch for fans on both sides. It was an exciting dual and it was fun to see a gym full of people."
Each team would win six matches in the 12 that were wrestled and, with the Tigers clinging to a 35-32 lead; it was the last match of the night that proved to be the decider.
Sterling was going to have to forfeit six points at the 170-pound class, meaning it needed at least a decision win from freshman Dylan Prelle in the 160-pound match against Brush's Elijio Barraza Jr. to force a tie.
After making it through the first round down just 2-0, Prelle was pinned at the 2:32 mark by Barraza Jr. to give Brush the lead back at 38-35 and seal the 44-35 win.
"Dylan did a great job. Being a freshman and bumping up two weight classes — he really should probably be a 145 pounder — his effort was really good and I thought he did everything he could in the match for us," Duncan said.
The night started a bit rocky for Sterling as it fell down 23-0 through the first four matches, losing three and forfeiting at 182, but was able to rally back like it has done most of the season in the lower weights.
Junior Jacob Beltran (106) earned a pin over Brush sophomore Jason Moreno just 13 seconds into the third period and then sophomore Colby Duncan (113) won by tech fall to get the Tigers on the board.
Sterling closed to within six points at 29-23 when sophomore Dustin Graves, who was ranked No. 12 in the 132-pound class in Tim Yount's On the Mat Rankings for week five, pinned No. 4-ranked Beau Rocha in 2:33.
"I was really nervous about the match going into it, but as soon as I got in there I felt pretty good on my feet against him," Graves said. "I took him down twice, got up 4-1, and then he ended up almost reversing me, but I got him on his back and stuck him."
After a close 6-1 decision in the 138-pound match won by Brush's Alec Petterson over Sterling's Erick Krier, the Tigers received pins from Joel Contreras (145) and Fidel Ochoa (152) to take their lead at 35-32 before the final match between Prelle and Barraza Jr.
"I'm really proud of our guys. They all went out and wrestled their hardest," said Sterling senior Austin Krier, who won by pin in 57 seconds in the 145-pound match. "We had a couple matches that could have gone either way and if those go differently, I think we could have won this dual."
Even though Tuesday night's dual will still go down as a loss and drops the Tigers to 5-2 now on the season in duals, Duncan said the way his team performed and what they learned from wrestling tight with the No. 1 ranked team in 3A will bode well for the team the rest of the season.
"This dual kind of let us know where we are. To get a solid team in here and wrestle them tough was great, but it also showed us that we still have work to do," Duncan said. "Hopefully we respond in the practice room, improve on those things we need to get better at, get ready for the regional tournament, and see how many guys we can get to state."
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