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AVON — Behind some timely offense and a solid pitching performance by Alex Nelson, the Ben Davis baseball team defeated Perry Meridian in its sectional 11 opener Thursday night.
"I thought that our guys had great energy," Ben Davis coach Aaron Kroll said. "We made a few errors, but we clamped down in big spots and made up for those errors. (Perry Meridian's Jordan) Tackett is one heck of a pitcher.
"It was the type of game that we needed. We knew that it was going to be a low scoring game. I thought that we stepped up and made some big plays in big spots. We were able to scratch just enough to get by."
The Giants jumped on top early, as they scored two in the top of the first. Cedric Vaughn walked and later scored on a fielder's choice by Cody Turpen. Arin Welsh came home on a wild pitch.
"We got off to a good start, which is huge," Kroll said. "Putting up two (runs), we knew that runs were going to be really hard to come by against (Tackett). He's probably one of the best pitchers that we have seen all year and one of the best in the state, so it is big to push across a couple."
In the bottom of the frame, Ben Davis pitcher Alex Nelson got into some quick trouble with a hit and an error. After a strikeout, the bases were loaded on another error. However, two flyouts later, the Giants were out of the jam.
Ben Davis was not as fortunate in the bottom of the second. Garrett Beldon led off with a single and later came around to cross the plate on a single by Mitchell Garrity.
The Falcons struck again in the third, on a RBI double by Max Heyob.
Ben Davis had another scoring opportunity in the fourth, as Nelson was hit by a pitch to lead off the frame, before Trevor Ferrell walked. They both advanced on a wild pitch, but were stranded in scoring position.
Perry Meridian returned the favor, leaving the bases loaded in the bottom of the frame.
Turpen led off the top of the sixth with a double and was advanced to third on a bunt by Jacob DeWeese. Turpen then scored on a botched squeeze, as the Falcon catcher was unable to come up with the tag.
Nelson was tremendous for Ben Davis, allowing a pair of runs, while spreading out seven hits, and striking out four.
"If (Nelson) continues to pound the strike zone and we make plays behind him, then we have a chance to stay in games," Kroll said. "We have to win games by low scoring. That is how we are and how we have to win games. In order to do that, our pitcher has to be in the strike zone and he was phenomenal."
The Giants move on to battle sectional host Avon following the 10 a.m. game between Brownsburg and Southport on Monday.

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Hawley Field will be full of former West Virginia University baseball players for this weekend's Alumni Weekend on Friday and Saturday.
To honor Breast Cancer Awareness this month, three former players did an autograph signing hosted at the Ramada Inn in Morgantown. Jedd Gyorko, David Carpenter and Grant Buckner spent the day signing autographs and talking sports to all the Mountaineer fans that attended.
Since Buckner's grandmother passed away from Breast Cancer, he was very happy to help the fight anyway he could.
Carpenter was the most experienced of the three Mountaineers, making his MLB debut with the Houston Astros in 2011. Carpenter graduated from WVU in 2006 and has been traded between the St. Louis Cardinals, Astros and recently to the Toronto Blue Jays.
All three former Mountaineer baseball players have been in contact with head coach, Randy Mazey, and plan to attend this weekend's Alumni Weekend.
"I'm excited. I get to go to the football game Saturday and play in the Alumni game Sunday," said Buckner. "I have had it marked on my calendar for months now."
The Mountaineer coaching staff is excited going into the season, flying under the radar with a talented ball club. Mazey tweeted about his appreciation of all the fans who attended Scout Day for the Mountaineers and supported the players as major league scouts took notes during practice.
Mountaineer baseball is working hard and creating excitement for the spring season.
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Figure 20.1.
Percentage of public schools that used selected safety and security measures: School year 2009—10
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3 For example, drugs or weapons. Does not include dog sniffs.
NOTE: Responses were provided by the principal or the person most knowledgeable about crime and safety issues at the school. Respondents were instructed to respond only for those times that were during normal school hours or when school activities or events were in session, unless the survey specified otherwise.
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Neighbors called it the "Kudzu House." Abandoned and with a massive hole in the roof, the house at 6110 Sorrell Street in the Covington Mills neighborhood north of U.S. 278 was overgrown, run down and dangerous.
Neighbors called it the "Kudzu House." Abandoned and with a massive hole in the roof, the house at 6110 Sorrell Street in the Covington Mills neighborhood north of U.S. 278 was overgrown, run down and dangerous.
Big events are planned at the Covington Square every weekend in October, which will be good for business but, probably, bad for traffic.
You've heard of Savannah's Gulfstream plane manufacturing center. Imagine something like that here. Or something better, perhaps.
Nowhere in Georgia is there a highway dedicated to World War II veterans.
Mayor Ronnie Johnston convinced the Covington City Council to take a "gamble" Monday and give $25,000 to the forming "commercial improvement district," which business owners are forming along U.S. 278 to raise money for area improvements.
Thousands of people may have been awed by the sight of colorful fireworks exploding above Covington's Historic Courthouse clock tower, but Covington's Independence in the Park festival organizers were definitely in awe of how the event seemed to go off without a hitch Friday.
With a predicted zero percent chance of rain, a fireworks show in Rockdale and events in Social Circle today will pose the threat of a crowded Fourth of July in Newton County.
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This is the last weekend to see the inaugural Covington's Magical Lights of Christmas display downtown, as the lights will be taken down beginning Monday, weather permitting, according to Main Street Covington interim director Serra Phillips.
Amid all the talk about developing more qualified workers to handle the jobs of today and tomorrow, Newton County celebrated the grand opening of its newest workforce development center Thursday.
Covington will wait a little longer to invest in electric vehicles, as the Covington City Council voted Monday not to participate in a program from car manufacturer Nissan that would have given the city a free electric car charger.
Covington city officials want to make next year's July 4 fireworks event bigger and better, and Covington Mayor Ronnie Johnston said the goal is to put together a $20,000 show.
Transportation Project Manager Terry Savage is leaving the city of Covington after an eight-year career working on the city's roads, sidewalks and other projects.
Friends of Newton Parks and local sponsors have rescheduled the Twilights lighting festival at Chimney Park for 5-7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15.
Twilights at Chimney Park has been canceled tonight due to weather.
The Covington Lions Club /Main Street Covington Holiday Parade wound through the square Saturday morning. Mother Nature provided enough of a chill to get the crowd bundled up and in the holiday spirit.
Covington police are looking for a man they say robbed a convenience store at gunpoint early Thursday morning.
The Covington Police Department swore in its youngest member Monday night, one so young his oath of office included the unusual vow to "mind his mother and be the best student possible."
Covington officials are continually working on making the city more walkable, and people will soon be able to travel on paved paths - sidewalks and crosswalks - all the way from the Turner Lake Complex to Eastside High School, approximately a 4-mile trip.
Donna Sheldon visited Covington Friday to share her plan to shake up the federal government, and topping her list was implementing term limits and balancing the budget.
Covington officials say this year's holiday season kickoff will be one that residents won't want to miss.
"The Vampire Diaries" is returning to film at Worthington Manor, 2129 East St., Covington, but the crew had to get a special-use permit to temporarily violate the city's noise ordinance for night filming from Nov. 12-14, as even a director's yell of "Cut!" would be too loud under the current rules.


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FLORENCE – We swat, put on repellant, wear long-sleeved clothing and yet we still seem to get bitten. Its monsoon season in Arizona and yes, that means mosquitoes are included in the deal.
"Actually, we have mosquitoes throughout the entire year," said Tami Schuler, Pinal County Environmental Health Specialist. "But it seems that mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus are more active during the monsoon season."
In an attempt to control West Nile, Schuler and her co-worker Garry Bouquot set up traps in many 'hot spots' where mosquitoes seem congregate. The pair collects the traps, bring the captured mosquitoes into a small lab at the county complex in Florence and test for the dreaded virus. If a site does come back with mosquitoes carrying West Nile, a fogging is scheduled.
"Fogging is only done in an effort to decrease the chance of West Nile virus in humans," Schuler said. "It is our goal not to rely on fogging as an answer to controlling mosquitoes. The real work is done when residents help us reduce the places where mosquitoes breed."
"I think the county has done a good job of informing people how to look for trouble areas like green pools, birdbaths, pet water dishes and water in old tires. The residents have taken those suggestions to heart."
As of July this year the drop in West Nile virus positives is staggering.
"At the end of the first half of 2010, we had 28 positives," Schuler pointed out. "In that same period this year we've only seen four."
That is a 90 percent drop from 2010. Schuler said the extremely dry conditions could play a factor in the low positive count.
The type of mosquito most likely to carry West Nile virus is one that favors breeding in 'permanent water.' Actually, these mosquitoes are here throughout the year and are mostly active from March to November. They are usually found around ponds, green swimming pools and other areas that hold water for a long period of time.
There are also the garden variety 'nuisance' mosquitoes (aren't all of them a nuisance?). These are mosquitoes that appear a couple of days after a significant rainfall. This type of mosquito is rarely infected with West Nile, thus not considered a public health threat. They are active during the daytime, while the permanent water mosquito is active from dusk to dawn.
The best bet to protect yourself from contracting West Nile is to wear long-sleeved shirts and pants while outside. Limit outdoor activities from dusk to dawn while the permanent water mosquitoes are most active. When you do go outside properly apply a mosquito repellant containing 23 to 30 percent DEET or any percentage of Picaridin. Oil of lemon eucalyptus, PMD and IR 3535 are effective as well. "Vigilance is the key," Schuler said. "If you take a little extra time to protect yourself, then you lower the odds of getting bitten. That's time well-spent."
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LEWISTON — A woman was shot in the neck by police Tuesday after a chase through the city that ended in a crash on Central Avenue behind Raymond A. Geiger Elementary School.
Police say officers fired after Kristy Cookson, 28, of Manchester tried to run over at least one officer. Her gunshot wound was not life-threatening, police said.
Police Chief Michael Bussiere said no one other than Cookson was injured.
He said the chase began around Walnut and Howard streets when officers attempted to pull over a dark green 2005 Chevrolet pickup that was being driven erratically. Cookson allegedly refused to pull over and ended up speeding down Central Avenue, Bussiere said.
She lost control of the vehicle on a curve and crashed into a parked vehicle at 384 Central Ave. at about 5:40 p.m. The driver's side of the car was smashed and the back window was shattered. The crash pushed the car into two others parked next to it, but the damage to those cars appeared to be minimal.
"That's when the officers attempted to stop the woman, and somewhere in that incident it looks like she attempted to run at least one of the officers over, or was driving back and forth trying to get out," Bussiere said. "Both officers engaged her and fired shots at the vehicle and at the suspect. One of the shots did strike the suspect."
The officers involved in the shooting were Raymond Vega and Keith Caouette, Bussiere said. The Attorney General's Office is investigating the use of deadly force, he said.
Cookson eventually backed into a tree and police were able to get her out of the truck, Bussiere said. He said he believed the officers used a Taser because she was still uncooperative.
Bussiere said officers got out of their car and asked Cookson to get out of her vehicle, but she continued to try to drive away.
Cookson suffered a gunshot wound to the neck and was treated before being taken by ambulance to Central Maine Medical Center for nonlife-threatening injuries, Bussiere said.
"I heard the sirens; I heard the crash and I heard the (truck) in reverse," said Judy Cousins, who lives in a second-floor apartment at 384 Central Ave., where the incident took place.
"Police were flying everywhere," she said.
Cousins and other residents of the apartment building said between three and five shots were fired.
"From what I've been told by the officers investigating the driving and
what led up to it, it's a minor miracle that nobody else is at the
hospital tonight other than her," Bussiere said.
Bussiere said Cookson has a lengthy criminal history that includes several OUI convictions.
In 2005, Cookson was charged with being a fugitive from justice stemming from charges on six warrants from Florida, according to Sun Journal archives. The charges were dismissed. Cookson also was charged with at least two OUIs in Lewiston, one in 2007 and another in 2008.


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The Problem vs. The Magic Man, Serious?
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I admit, I have shitted on Paulie so many times but recently he has won me over. His commentating is beautiful and even with the lack of power he has he still goes out and fights his soft fisted ass off! Paulie has experience and can box, good foot work and heart; on the other hand we have Adrien. I am starting to lose my liking for Adrien because he tries to hard and his antics are a little annoying. However, I can not deny the dude's power and skill set. I do not want to see Magic man take a beating. His punches will not hurt Adrien maybe he can out box him but I honestly think Paulie should fight someone else. But then again Paulie doesn't back down and I appreciate that, at the same time he should think is this a fight that I really want? By the way, what network would they be fighting on if they do fight?
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I'll be honest. I used to work for the Bears and he is friends with a lot of the players. and everybody knows he can play he just don't want to. His brothers are some leaches, I mean they so bummy you'd think they was from Detroit lol
Any way, the pro athletes here get treated at Midwest rehab and that's where he's been getting treatment. He lied when he said he wasn't able to confidently dunk off his left foot because it's footage of him doing it multiple times during pre game warmups in OKC. My friend does marketing for the Bulls and TBH, don't look to see him play this year. My boy who works there said he's been ditching practice(which is a story that was leaked last week) because the Bulls and the media putting pressure on him to come back and play, but he doesn't like the team and he wants Boozer and Deng gone. Boozer's friend plays ball a t a gym here in the west burbs and said the same thing
Regardless,, I think he needs to be real. That's not Chi like shit, just tell the truth about you not wanting to play cuz you don't like what you got to work with. But it makes him look like a quitter. Now he's talking about paying for that little girl's funeral which is nice but I smell a PR move a mile away
Deng is a great player and Boozer has stepped up. Derrick Rose is being a Saul Alvarez. As far as him not taking his SAT scores, do you honestly think all those Alabama football players took theirs and had good scores? SEC covers their athletes like no other. Memphis got the NCAA championship so who is really complaining? Let's face it, College sports is a money maker so who cares if the kid didn't take his SAT, he wasn't going to Memphis to get a degree. Hardly. Rose needs to tell his brothers to chill and get their own shit. But I understand it is hard to say no to family. But you see what happen to Mike Vick? That is why I say family can be your worse enemy especially if they ain't got shit going. As far as his knee goes, I look at Grant Hill and his ankle injury. They rushed him back and he was never the same. Vince Carter is another example and that so called Center from the Lakers. They all rushed back just to get re-injured.
Paying for the little girl's funeral is a good thing, rather for PR or not. That is one less thing that the family has to worry about. Shit is tragic.
I like Paulie, I didn't at first but I do now, he talks a good game and I love his spirit. I hope he teaches either Broner or Thurman a lesson. More so Thurman than Broner... A gangsta with a lisp! HA!
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(Undated) -- A car mechanic from Argentina is credited with inventing a device that could save a baby stuck in the birth canal. Jorge Odon got his inspiration from a YouTube video for extracting a cork from inside a wine bottle. His device involves slipping a plastic bag that's inside a lubricated sleeve around the baby's head, inflating the bag and then pulling the baby out.


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When President Bush went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, he expected quick military victory followed by adulation and flowers from the folks U.S. troops liberated.
Eight years after the first strikes on Kabul, President Obama has adopted a new Afghanistan policy that acknowledges President Bush's mistakes and successes.
The 30,000 additional troops Mr. Obama is sending to Afghanistan is similar to the Iraq surge Mr. Bush ordered in January 2007. It is meant to provide a window of peace in which the Afghanistan military can be trained toward self-sufficiency and the admittedly corrupt government of President Hamid Karzai can clean up its act.
Will it work? Nobody knows. Iraq hasn't become self-sufficient yet, either.
At least Mr. Obama has returned the focus to the correct war. The surge in Afghanistan might not be necessary now if Mr. Bush hadn't pulled troops and resources from that country in March 2003. Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar still are hiding in the region. Iraq, which unlike Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9/11, never should have been invaded.
What about the 18-month deadline Mr. Obama set for Afghanistan? It's necessary so that the Afghan leaders know they have to make progress. If they don't, U.S. protection will be withdrawn. The deadline is flexible enough that troops can stay longer if it will do any good.
We wish the benchmarks for progress in Afghanistan were more clear. And Mr. Obama and Congress have to decide how to pay the estimated $30 billion in cost. Unlike Mr. Bush's wars, this one shouldn't be off the books.
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Roy Hodgson's Premier League debut as Liverpool manager was one of the oddest games of the 2010-11 season. It featured a sending off for the Reds, lots of terribly misplaced passes and a result that everyone wanted to move on from. Liverpool were very lucky to nick a 1-1 draw from Arsenal on that day, even though the Arsenal equalizer came in stoppage time, off an uncharacteristic howler by Pepe Reina.
Joe Cole was sent off just before the stroke of halftime in that match for a terrible challenge on Laurent Koscielny. His debut was one of the worst for any big club in recent memory. Incredibly, David Ngog put 10-man Liverpool ahead just after the halftime break, but Arsenal eventually found an equalizer to draw a game that they should have won much more easily, even without Cesc Fabregas and Robin van Persie fit to start.
The result of Saturday's match between West Bromwich Albion and Liverpool was infinitely more disastrous than the result in Hodgson's debut, but the performance brought back memories of that match back in 2010. After all, there was nothing about Hodgson's tactics or Liverpool's play that caused Samir Nasri, Marouane Chamakh and Andrei Arshavin fail to convert chances. The Baggies' 3-0 win might look worse than Hodgson's debut on paper, but the two matches were very similar.
Hodgson and Rodgers arrived at Liverpool with similar recent accomplishments, and public perception of both men was similar as well. Both are British, though neither is really thought of as an British-style manager. Though Hodgson has been around Europe and is extremely experienced as a coach outside of the British Isles, Rodgers is thought of as just as 'continental' of a manager as Hodgson, mostly due to the style of football his teams play.
As well-regarded continental-style British managers who had recently exceeded expectations with similarly average teams, possessing small grounds and weak finances, both had been pushed by fans and media as managers who could achieve something great if given some talent and money to spend. They both arrived at Liverpool, expected to help start a period of upward trajectory at Anfield like they did with their previous sides. Hodgson failed. No one will know whether or not Rodgers was a successful hire for Liverpool for a very long time.
But like Hodgson, Rodgers' Premier League debut as Liverpool manager was a disaster. Rodgers' debut also came against a weaker side, with a better Liverpool team at his disposal, and there were more similarities between the two matches than just poor results.
Both debuts featured a new system implemented by a new manager, with Steven Gerrard somewhere other than his normal preferred position. Gerrard wasn't poor and was hardly Liverpool's biggest problem, but failed to create much of note. On Hodgson's debut, the new creative focal point of the Liverpool team was supposed to be Cole, who failed miserably. Last Saturday, most of the play ran through Joe Allen, though his primary responsibility appeared to be recycling possession, not creating scoring chances. It seems as though that's still supposed to be Gerrard's job, just from a slightly deeper role than he played during the Rafael Benitez era.
This wasn't all Gerrard's fault, which is important to note, since he unfairly picks up a lot of the blame whenever Liverpool play poorly. He was far from spectacular, but was by no means their worst attacking player. Luis Suarez squandered numerous opportunities, Fabio Borini looked like he was a bit overcome by the occasion of his league debut with Liverpool, and Stewart Downing was as average as he always is.
Gerrard also deserves some criticism, and there's an obvious parallel between his performances in Hodgson's debut and Rodgers' debut. Even taking the average play of his teammates into account, Gerrard was expected to create from a deeper role than his preferred role. He didn't look completely comfortable, and he didn't play his best game. Cole and Allen are not the same player, but Gerrard's resulting role and lack of production in the two games was eerily similar.
Rodgers' debut, like Hodgson's, also saw a Liverpool player pick up a silly and unnecessary red card. On this occasion, Cole was replaced by Daniel Agger, who effectively ended the game with his denial of a clear goal-scoring opportunity in the 58th minute. Shane Long missed the ensuing penalty, but it only delayed the inevitable beating. Peter Odemwingie scored a penalty four minutes later and Romelu Lukaku capped off the 3-0 victory for West Brom in the 77th minute.
This is where the similarities between the two debuts end. While both featured a team struggling to play new tactics, a poor result, a red card and a mediocre performance by Gerrard, Hodgson's Liverpool team drew a Champions League side. Rodgers' team was issued a second half beatdown by a mid-table side who was expected to experience a bit of a drop-off this season after Hodgson left The Hawthornes to take the England job.
However, Rodgers' side did do something infinitely better than Hodgson's. They actually displayed some understanding of what their manager wanted them to do, played some respectable football, and were the better side during the first half. While Cole was absolutely abysmal on his Liverpool debut, Allen was the Reds' best player on Saturday. Cole's signing and the resulting tactical adjustments were an instant disaster that Liverpool never recovered from, but the same cannot be said for Allen and the changes that Rodgers has made to the team.
A 3-0 loss to West Brom looks like a worse result than a 1-1 draw against Arsenal on paper. The missed penalty by Long, a red card to the best defender on a team light on central defenders and the strength of Liverpool's current squad relative to the squad Hodgson had at his disposal makes it look even worse. But unlike Hodgson's debut, Liverpool actually played some good football on Rodgers' debut and got their new signings involved. Allen and Borini are a lot better than Cole and Milan Jovanovic. Until Agger's red card, Liverpool didn't look like a disaster. In Hodgson's first game as manager, Liverpool were poor for the vast majority of the match.
In another eerie similarity between the beginning of these two managerial campaigns, Liverpool plays Manchester City this weekend. A match against City was also the second in Hodgson's reign as Liverpool manager, and it went horribly. The Reds were awful in a 3-0 slaughter at the hands of City, who were still in the middle of becoming the juggernaut that they are today.
If Rodgers can manage to engineer a performance better than the one Liverpool put in against City in the second game of Hodgson's tenure, the club's supporters might have something to feel good about.


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As I walked through these silent woods I feel as if I'm one with all around me. The streams and waterfalls call to me. "Come" they say "join us in our journey to the sea". The red, gold trees whisper "Stay, stay with us, plant your roots, and stay". The wind flows around me "Fly, fly to the highest breeze, and fly free around the world". But the stones, they keep their silent vigil over all that moves, they sit as all time passes over them, living longer than anything. And the sky, oh the sky and its marvels, its brilliant blues, whites, and grays. I want to join all of them, let them take me in. But I cannot I am strapped to my human world! Everything speaks but I cannot answer! Why must I be plagued by this wish? Why can't I be as nature is? I want to shed my human skin and fly like the wind, soar like the clouds, and run like the water. I need to be a part of nature's beauty.
As I weep for a wish that could never become reality, I listen. A voice travels throughout the forest. It speaks to me hearing my plea. "Come, I can help you find what you want." I look around, who is it that is offering my greatest wish?! "Wait, where are you, what should I do?!" I call. "Wait, Wait for me here young one". The voice is gone, I shall wait. After hours of waiting, it is night. My mind tells me to go home, but my heart tells me to stay. The forest is peaceful at night, no people stomp, only animals play. I look at the sky; it seems as if it is reflecting my soul for the world to see. I feel all the pain, the joy, the sorrow; it fills me until I can't bear it any longer! I scream as the wind does, I howl with the tornadoes and hurricanes, I roar with the animals of the world as we empty the pain of the world into ourselves. I fall into peace, no longer am I holding the world's pain. These feelings have tired me; I hold no strength within me.
"It is time" she calls. "You've felt my pain, had my joy, and carried my burdens". Her voice is gentle around me. It is lulling me like a warm wool blanket. I fall into it as I close my eyes; my wish has finally come true. When people find me in the morning I am more peaceful than I've ever been. Those who morn me shouldn't, they should celebrate for I've found my place in the world. By Mother Nature's side, I will help her protect herself from the ones who hurt her. I will be the deer you miss, I will be the rain after the fire, I will ride the waves gently touching shore. There will be punishments if you get too close. I will be the winds that rage around you, I will bring the cold that will chill your soul; I will hide the fish from you in times of need. I will be the teeth of nature. These are the things you respect about nature.


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BECKLEY (WVVA) - A Pennsylvania man is behind bars in southern West Virginia after police find components of a meth lab in a Raleigh County residence.
Officers with the Beckley PD, Raleigh County Sheriff's Office and State Police executed a search warrant at a residence on Edwards Street in Beckley Monday that was suspected in the sale of methamphetamine.
Upon searching the residence, components of a meth lab were discovered in the basement.
Authorities arrested 27-year-old Jeorge James Lozovoy of Pittsburgh. He's charged with delivery of methamphetamine and is currently being held at Southern Regional Jail on $30,000 bond.
Additional charges are pending.
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The Batesville Herald-Tribune
---- — After fourteen consecutive SEISA championships, the Batesville Stingrays were unable to bring home a win for a record 15th time.
The Milan Swim Team earned the trophy on Tuesday at Greensburg High School. Batesville missed the mark by less than 400 points. Milan won with 2,209 points followed by Batesville (1,862),Decatur County (1,795), Hidden Valley (974), South Dearborn (784), and Madison (623).
"I give Milan a ton of credit for working so hard at putting together a team that is very competitive," commented head coach Mike Weiler. " They have set the bar really high and I believe teams are going to be required to be on their 'A' game if they are to beat them. I believe with additional pool time and a year around program, we could do just that."
The meet was not a total loss. "Of the 270 individual swims, we had 125 personal best times," Weiler commented. "I don't believe any other team on our conference can say they had that type of improvement in one meet.
"It really goes to show what kind of program our summer swim team is and will continue to be for a very long time." Weiler added.
The Stingrays celebrated their successes at their annual banquet which took place in the Batesville Middle School commons last week.


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Xgig peers inside SANs
Finisar's Xgig Analyzer 1.5 provides powerful analysis of iSCSI linksFollow @infoworld
Investing in diagnostic tools for networked storage bears several benefits. With the proper tools, you can easily shorten the time it takes to get to the root of performance problems in a complex storage infrastructure. Moreover, even when nothing is broken, a good diagnostic tool can provide a better understanding of your SAN's inner workings, knowledge that can help you improve the performance and resilience of your storage networks over the long haul.
Late last year Finisar released Xgig Analyzer 1.5, a new version of its popular SAN analysis tool. Xgig 1.5 maintains the capability of previous versions to do flexible and accurate diagnosis on FC (Fibre Channel) networks, and adds similar features for iSCSI and FCIP (Fibre Channel over IP) protocols, extending its support to the quickly growing area of IP-based storage.
Finisar offers different models of Xgig tailored to different analysis requirements. They range from a portable single-blade model to a rack-mountable four-blade version, all sharing the same analysis software. Finisar sent me a desktop unit which I've been using in my tests of storage networking equipment. It's about the size of a shoebox, and includes two blades for analyzing FC and GbE networks, each hosting four 2Gbps FC ports.
Tap and trace
The first step to setting up the Xgig is to invoke the Xgig character-based management application via serial connection and set an IP address. After that you use a Web-based management tool to configure other settings, and to update the Xgig's software via FTP if necessary.
The Xgig software works in synergy with a suite of applications that includes Expert Viewer, Performance Monitor, TraceControl, and TraceView. Their self-descriptive names give away their functions, but I should clarify that they run on a separate Windows console and interact with the Xgig to capture and analyze traces or monitor performance.
The Xgig architecture gives you great flexibility. You can position a unit to monitor a single device or plug it behind a switch to monitor the traffic from multiple devices. Or you can position a number of Xgig blades at different locations in your SAN and monitor them from the same workstation. Moreover, your applications won't miss a beat while you monitor or analyze their traffic; the Xgig is completely transparent to the storage network.
For this review, my goal was to analyze the traffic flowing to and from an iSCSI array in my test network, namely the Overland Storage RA2000I reviewed in February. After connecting the Xgig to my SAN then back to the machine hosting Xgig's software suite, I launched the main application, TraceControl.
TraceControl auto-discovers Xgigs on the LAN and remembers findings in future runs. The first time you use it, you simply type the IP address of the Xgig, press the "discover" button, and TraceControl opens a window showing the Xgig and the ports available on each blade.
TraceControl doesn't analyze data, but collects information for later analysis with TraceView or Expert Viewer. However, you can program TraceControl to collect only selected data, filtering according to a protocol, to specific frames, or just for errors, which is extremely helpful because it narrows the capture to the specific information you need.
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Holiday time is a wonderful period of celebration, reunion, family, and—hopefully—gratitude. Unfortunately, it's also the season of overeating. But there are a lot of really smart things you can do to minimize the damage, both to your health and your waistline. day time is a wonderful period of celebration, reunion, family, and—hop
One of them is making some really smart swap-outs, such as this incredible Orange Garnet Yam Pie, which contains no flour or white sugar (only 2 teaspoons of palm sugar or xylitol in the crust). Yet it's still lightly sweet, aromatic, and satisfying. It can serve as a side dish or a dessert; it has a low glycemic load; and it's gluten-, egg-, and dairy-free. Plus it's brimming with fiber and antioxidants, and it even boasts a touch of protein thanks to the silken tofu.
If you're going to eat dessert, this is the way to go. Sweet potatoes are delicious in a variety of settings, and they are by far the most nutritious of all potatoes. Most orange foods contain a lot of either vitamin A or carotenoids, and sweet potatoes have both. One medium yam has more than 21,000 IUs of immune-supporting vitamin A and more than 13,000 mcg of beta-carotene, plus almost 4 grams of fiber and more potassium than a banana. Not bad for the basis of a dessert!
Orange Garnet Yam Pie
Makes 8–12 slice
2 cups blanched almond flour
2 tsp. palm sugar or xylitol
1/4 tsp. baking soda
¼ tsp. salt
1/3 cup almond oil or melted butter
1 tsp. vanilla
4 medium garnet yams
½ 12.3-oz. box firm silken tofu, drained
Juice and zest of 1 naval orange
½ tsp. ground cinnamon
½ tsp. ground ginger
¼ tsp. cloves
1 tsp. NuNaturals vanilla stevia
PER SERVING: 255 cal; 7g pro; 19g total fat (1g sat fat); 17g carb; 0mg chol; 123mg sod; 4g fiber; 6g sugars
Notes From Chef Jeannette
Despite their name, garnet yams are a type of sweet potato rather than true yams. They are more cylindrical in shape than traditional sweet potatoes, tapering to points on the ends, with smooth, pale orange skins and dark orange flesh. They need very little additional sweetness to transform them from a savory dish to a dessert. The orange juice and a touch of vanilla stevia in this recipe are perfect complements to the garnet's natural flavor. They make a delicious simple baked potato, as well: Try them with butter and a little fresh lime juice or ume plum vinegar. Though you can find them year-round, their peak season is fall through winter.


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- Directors: Gabriele Muccino
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- "Playing For Keeps" is a romantic comedy about a charming, down-on-his luck former soccer star who returns home to put his life back together. Looking for a way to rebuild his relationship with his son, he gets roped into coaching the boy's soccer team. But his attempts to finally become an "adult" are met with hilarious challenges from the attractive "soccer moms" who pursue him at every turn
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Multistage rocket
A multistage (or multi-stage) rocket is a rocket that uses two or more stages, each of which contains its own engines and propellant. A tandem or serial stage is mounted on top of another stage; a parallel stage is attached alongside another stage. The result is effectively two or more rockets stacked on top of or attached next to each other. Taken together these are sometimes called a launch vehicle. Two-stage rockets are quite common, but rockets with as many as five separate stages have been successfully launched. By jettisoning stages when they run out of propellant, the mass of the remaining rocket is decreased. This staging allows the thrust of the remaining stages to more easily accelerate the rocket to its final speed and height.
In serial or tandem staging schemes, the first stage is at the bottom and is usually the largest, the second stage and subsequent upper stages are above it, usually decreasing in size. In parallel staging schemes solid or liquid rocket boosters are used to assist with lift-off. These are sometimes referred to as 'stage 0'. In the typical case, the first-stage and booster engines fire to propel the entire rocket upwards. When the boosters run out of fuel, they are detached from the rest of the rocket (usually with some kind of small explosive charge) and fall away. The first stage then burns to completion and falls off. This leaves a smaller rocket, with the second stage on the bottom, which then fires. Known in rocketry circles as staging, this process is repeated until the final stage's motor burns to completion.
In some cases with serial staging, the upper stage ignites before the separation- the interstage ring is designed with this in mind, and the thrust is used to help positively separate the two vehicles.
The Taurus rocket is unusual in that its 'stage 1' ignites in flight; this designation is used because its upper three stages are identical to those of the Pegasus rocket, with the 'stage 0' booster replacing the Pegasus' carrier aircraft.
The main reason for multi-stage rockets and boosters is that once the fuel is exhausted, the space and structure which contained it and the motors themselves are useless and only add weight to the vehicle which slows down its future acceleration. By dropping the stages which are no longer useful, the rocket lightens itself. The thrust of future stages is able to provide more acceleration than if the earlier stage were still attached, or a single, large rocket would be capable of. When a stage drops off, the rest of the rocket is still traveling near the speed that the whole assembly reached at burn-out time. This means that it needs less total fuel to reach a given velocity and/or altitude.
A further advantage is that each stage can use a different type of rocket motor each tuned for its particular operating conditions. Thus the lower-stage motors are designed for use at atmospheric pressure, while the upper stages can use motors suited to near vacuum conditions. Lower stages tend to require more structure than upper as they need to bear their own weight plus that of the stages above them, optimizing the structure of each stage decreases the weight of the total vehicle and provides further advantage.
On the downside, staging requires the vehicle to lift motors which are not being used until later, as well as making the entire rocket more complex and harder to build. In addition, each staging event is a significant point of failure during a launch, with the possibility of separation failure, ignition failure, and stage collision. Nevertheless the savings are so great that every rocket ever used to deliver a payload into orbit has had staging of some sort.
Upper stages[edit]
An upper stage is designed to operate at high altitude, with little or no atmospheric pressure. This allows the use of lower pressure combustion chambers and engine nozzles with optimal vacuum expansion ratios. Some upper stages, especially those using hypergolic propellants like Delta-K or Ariane 5 ES second stage, are pressure fed which eliminates the need for complex turbomachinery. Other upper stages, such as the Centaur or DCSS, use liquid hydrogen expander cycle engines, or gas generator cycle engines like the Ariane 5 ECA's HM-7B or the S-IVB's J-2. These stages are usually tasked with completing orbital injection and accelerating payloads into higher energy orbits such as GTO or onto escape velocity. Upper stages such as Fregat used primarily to bring payloads from low Earth orbit to GTO or beyond are sometimes referred to as space tugs.[1]
Passivation and space debris[edit]
Upper stages of launch vehicles are a significant source of space debris from spent boosters remaining in orbit in a non-operational state for many years after use, and occasionally, large debris fields created from the breakup of a single upper stage while in orbit.[2]
After the 1990s, spent upper stages are generally passivated after their use as a launch vehicle is complete in order to minimize risks while the stage remains derelict in orbit.[3] Passivation means removing any sources of stored energy remaining on the vehicle, as by dumping fuel or discharging batteries.
Many early upper stages, in both the Soviet and U.S. space programs, were not passivated after mission completion. During the initial attempts to characterize the space debris problem, it became evident that a good proportion of all debris was due to the breaking up of rocket upper stages, particularly unpassivated upper-stage propulsion units.[2]
History and development[edit]
From an illustration and description in the 14th century Chinese Huolongjing of Jiao Yu is the oldest known multistage rocket; this was the 'fire-dragon issuing from the water' (火龙出水, huo long chu shui), used mostly by the Chinese navy.[4][5] It was a two-stage rocket that had carrier or booster rockets that would eventually burn out, yet before they did they automatically ignited a number of smaller rocket arrows that were shot out of the front end of the missile, which was shaped like a dragon's head with an open mouth.[5] This multi-stage rocket may be considered the ancestor to the modern YingJi-62 ASCM.[5][6] The historian Joseph Needham points out that the written material and depicted illustration of this rocket come from the oldest stratum of the Huolongjing, which can be dated roughly 1300–1350 AD (from the book's part 1, chapter 3, page 23).[5]
Another example of an early multistaged rocket is the Juhwa(走火) of Korean development. It was proposed by Choe Museon and developed by the Firearms Bureau (火㷁道監) during the 14th century.[7][8] The rocket had the length of 15 cm and 13 cm; the diameter was 2.2 cm. It was attached to an arrow 110 cm long; experimental records show that the first results were around 200m in range.[9] There are records that show Korea kept developing this technology until it came to produce the Singijeon, or 'magical machine arrows' in the 16th century. The earliest experiments with multistage rockets in Europe were made in 1551 by Austrian Conrad Haas (1509–1576), the arsenal master of the town of Hermannstadt, Transylvania (now Sibiu/Hermannstadt, Romania). This concept was developed independently by at least four individuals:
- Kazimierz Siemienowicz of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1600–1651)
- the Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935)
- the American Robert Goddard (1882–1945)
- the German Hermann Oberth (1894–1989), born in Hermannstadt, Transylvania
In 1947, Mikhail Tikhonravov developed a theory of parallel stages, which he called "packet rockets". In his scheme, three parallel stages were fired from lift-off, but all three engines were fueled from the outer two stages, until they are empty and could be ejected. This is more efficient than sequential staging, because the second-stage engine is never just dead weight. In 1951, Dmitry Okhotsimsky carried out a pioneering engineering study of general sequential and parallel staging, with and without the pumping of fuel between stages. The design of the R-7 Semyorka emerged from that study. The trio of rocket engines used in the first stage of the American Atlas I and Atlas II launch vehicles, arranged in a "row", used parallel staging in a similar way: the outer pair of engines existed as a jettisonable pair which would, after they shut down, drop away with the lowermost outer "skirt" structure of the booster, leaving the central "sustainer" engine to complete the first stage's engine burn towards apogee or orbit.
Separation events[edit]
Separation of each portion of a multistage rocket introduces additional risk into the success of the launch mission. Reducing the number of separation events results in a reduction in complexity.[10] Separation events occur when stages or strap-on boosters separate after use, when the payload fairing separates prior to orbital insertion, or when the launch escape system—used in many early human spaceflight missions—separates after the early phase of the launch. Pyrotechnic fasteners are sometimes used to separate rocket stages.
With staging, the delta-v of each stage can be calculated via the rocket equation and summed:
Where is the effective exhaust velocity, the initial mass, and the mass of the rocket at the point of burnout of each stage.
When the and mass ratios are the same for all the stages, this simplifies to:
and it can be seen that the delta-v is limited only by the n, the number of stages.
Alternatives to rockets[edit]
See also[edit]
- Multistage rocket
- Reusable launch system
- Space tug
- Conrad Haas
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- ^ a b Loftus, Joseph P. (1989). Orbital Debris from Upper-stage Breakup. AIAA. p. 227.
- ^ Johnson, Nicholas (2011-12-05). "Space debris issues". audio file, @1:03:05-1:06:20. The Space Show. Retrieved 2011-12-08.
- ^ "火龙出水(明)简介". 星辰在线. 2003-12-26. Retrieved July 17, 2008.
- ^ a b c d Needham, Volume 5, Part 7, 510.
- ^ "中国YJ-62新型远程反舰导弹". 大旗网. 2007-09-30. Retrieved July 17, 2008.
- ^ "주화 (무기)". 위키피디아. 2008-08-30. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
- ^ "화통도감". 위키피디아. 2011-06-03. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
- ^ "주화 (走火)". 한국민족문화대백과. 1999-09-25. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
- ^ "Falcon 1 - Stage Separation Reliability". SpaceX. Retrieved 8 January 2011.


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Two major mid-major squads face off in the Third Round of the 2011 NCAA Tournament Bracket: San Diego State vs. Temple means either a Mountain West or an Atlantic 10 team will be making this year's Sweet Sixteen. The game is at the heart of the updated 2011 NCAA Tournament schedule, tipping in Tucson on Saturday at 6:10 p.m. Eastern.
The Aztecs cruised through their Second Round matchup against Northern Colorado, winning 68-50 in a game that they dominated on the boards (42 rebounds) and in turnover margin (just three giveaways). Kawhi Leonard paced San Diego State with 21 points and 10 rebounds, and could well do the same sort of thing against an undersized Temple squad.
The Owls may have problems scoring, too: Juan Fernandes and Ramone Moore combined for 46 of Temple's 68 points in their dramatic Second Round win over Penn State, and San Diego State can do more things on defense. Neither team wants to run, though, and if Temple's slightly better three-point shooting can produce a few more points in half-court sets, this could be close late.
Star Watch: Leonard has been excellent of late for the Aztecs. Since San Diego State's second loss to BYU, he's had 12 or more points and eight-plus rebounds in every game, and has shot over 50% from the field in each of his last three outings.
Prediction: Despite a valiant effort early, Temple cannot keep up with San Diego State's better athletes, and falls 75-62.
More Reading: SB Nation's Mountain West blog Mountain West Connection has more San Diego State insights, while you can learn more about the Owls at SB Nation Philadelphia. The Smoking Musket, has plenty more on the Mountaineers.
Need help picking your bracket? Check out SB Nation's full 2011 NCAA Tournament bracket predictions, picking every game of March Madness, or our region by region breakdowns for the East Region, West Region, Southeast Region, and Southwest Region.
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Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch injured his back in warmups and did not play in Sunday's loss to the Browns.
Leon Washington got the start and rushed for 39 yards on seven carries. Justin Forsett had eight carries for 23 yards.
Lynch is the team's leading rusher with 239 yards in five games. He has two rushing touchdowns on the season and rushed for a season-high 98 yards in the team's last game.
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Roasted Beet Salad
- 3 Large Beets, peeled, scrubbed with ends cut off
- 2 tbsps extra virgin olive oil
- Black pepper and salt to taste
- 1 tbsp Vermont Maple Syrup
- 5 tbsps fresh lemon juice
- 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tbsp fresh, minced parsley
- 8 scallions, sliced
- salt to taste
- 2 cups mesclun (radicchio, watercress, spinach, arugula)
- 6-8 tbsp sliced, fresh goat cheese
Cooking Directions
- Slice beets and arrange in a large glass baking dish. Coat with extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper to taste. In a preheated 350˚ oven, roast the beets for 45 minutes or until tender. Remove from the oven to cool. Then further slice the beets and set aside.
- While beets are cooking, whisk together the maple syrup, lemon juice, oil, parsley, scallions and salt in a medium bowl for the dressing and set aside.
- Once the beets have cooled, toss them with mesclun and dressing, top with the fresh goat cheese and serve. Note: For an added garnish add 1/4 cup of chopped pecans.


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Brandon Sharp, Executive Chef, Solbar, Calistoga, California. "If you asked me this question 10 years ago, it would be fried bologna, American cheese, barbecue sauce and potato chips wrapped in a tortilla. But now, rice, vegetables and gravy is something that's really soothing to me whether it's Thai coconut curry, chili verde or ratatouille."
"Solage Calistoga's hotel restaurant Solbar isn't just another hotel restaurant. From the culinary expertise of Executive Chef Brandon Sharp, the menu denotes Northern California's finest and freshest produce with modern French techniques. That "non-intimidating" approach to classic California cuisine is probably what earned Solbar attention from Michelin Guide, though that recognition has hardly stopped the furor of creation (after all, it originated as a bistro with burgers and pizza). "The cooking has French technique and a French backbone to it, but the [entrees] aren't classical French compositions so they aren't screaming for Napa Valley Cabs and Chardonnay," says Sharp. Wine goes hand in hand with any restaurant in the Napa Valley, but sommelier Bradley Wasserman doesn't feel the need to be bound by local wineries. "It's a fun juggling act," says Wasserman about mixing local wineries with those from around the globe."
There are plenty of high-end restaurants, such as the stunning Solbar, with remarkable bass with pear or dungeness crab with a sweet potato veloute to go with a knowledgeable wine staff
- Jim Byers
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"Poolside patio at Solbar is the spot to get a glass of wine and watch the sun go down over the Mayacama mountains across the valley. The Euro lounge-y vibe and a bar menu — served until midnight — with all the comforting basics make it an ideal place should you want to eat after most restaurants' closing time of 9 p.m. (they get to bed early in wine country). Early risers, too, will find rare respite with breakfast and a Sunday brunch menu. While there's a slightly trendy vibe, don't be surprised if a couple wanders in wearing bathrobes — Solbar sits on the premises of Solage Resort. The haute-hearty dinner menu has garnered raves, though, and Solbar stands alone as a singular distention."
"I love meat. I fantasize about ribeye. I would live inside of one of Momofuku's pork belly buns if I could. But I have to say the meal that's seared in my memory after a recent trip to California is the plate of perfectly cooked, delicately dressed vegetables I had at Solbar in Calistoga. A lovely arrangement of carrots, beets, parsley root and Tokyo turnips, this was a shockingly flavorful dish that made me rethink my carnivorous ways—at least for a night."
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November 29, 2011
"Sharp is executive chef of the Michelin-starred Solbar Restaurant in Calistoga. He is preparing turkey for Thanksgiving but will brine and roast the breast while deep frying the leg. This, he says, turns the different parts of the turkey into the best versions of themselves. Accompanying the turkey is one of his personal favorites — sour cream and chive whipped potatoes. At Solbar, Brandon concentrates on making the best possible version of traditional dishes. For the dish, Yukon potatoes are boiled then dried. Add hot sour cream and slowly add in chunks of cold butter (not melted). Sharp explains that using cold butter will result in creamier potatoes, while also letting you use more butter without making the dish too greasy. Whip potatoes and add in desired amount of chopped chives. Brandon recommends Fisher Vineyards "Unity" Rosé of Cabernet Sauvignon; Lang & Reed's "Two Fourteen" Cabernet Franc or Chateau Montelena's "The Montelena Estate" Zinfandel with dinner."
"According to Brandon Sharp, executive chef at Solage's restaurant, Solbar, "Pasta with veggies is one of the quickest, easiest and most satisfying dishes you can make." The noodles provide protein and slow releasing engery, while produce addes nutrients, fiber, and antioxidants."
"The Michelin Guide San Francisco storylines were shared yesterday, and today, the stars are finally out."
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The Petit Gully follows the prominent gully to the right of the south face of the Petit Grepon. The route offers a lot of everything with classic gully groveling and steep, sometimes overhanging, drytooling as well. In March and April, there's the potential for some actual ice as well.
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"We've come home to ourselves."
Perhaps that feeling of regaining something lost during those heady days is what I had begun to notice. I hear that sentiment echoed again and again around town.
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"There's a sense now that we're all in this together," Dublin native Louise Horgan says as she strolls past the small Victorian row houses in the now trendy Portobello section of town. Beside a shuttered church, Horgan points to a thriving community garden planted beneath the "For sale" sign. "This garden is a direct result of the downfall," she says. "It didn't exist before. There's a palpable sense of community now."
There's also a sensation around town that people are doing more than just making the best of a bad situation. The city center seems alive in a way that feels almost counterintuitive. New businesses are opening; an entrepreneurial spirit appears to be taking hold.
"I never could have done what I'm doing during the boom," John Farrell says. "The bust gave me the opportunity." Reared in the poverty-riddled Ballymun council flats of north Dublin, the brown-eyed 38-year-old recently opened his third restaurant in the last four years.
"I bought my first place when it was in receivership in 2009," he says. "It would have been eight times that cost during the boom — I'd still be clearing tables. Back in the Celtic Tiger days, it was the same people opening the same kinds of places. But now, there's a whole new generation; it's very exciting. You can feel it."
Farrell's latest venture, a Mexican restaurant named 777 on South Great Georges Street, is testament to that spirit. It's funky glitz 'n' kitsch in design, consistently packed — and with the Margarita Especial made with organic tequila priced at 12 euros (about $15), it's not cheap.
"People are still willing to pay for the small pleasures," salon owner Noel McCarthy explains. "We put our foot in the water of prosperity and decided we liked it. People don't want to give everything up. If you're in the housing or the car business, forget it, but the small-ticket items are booming again." In what is perhaps a barometer of the times, McCarthy owns two hair salons, down from five during the height of the boom, but he plans to reopen a third in the next few months.
"You still got your taxi drivers moanin' and groanin', but they were complaining during the good times too. It was all a little unreal before, but now we're back to the graft, and we're good at that. An hour's pay for an hour's work. We're in a better place now."
A walk down a swarming Grafton Street — the pedestrian mall and hub of Dublin's shopping center — past Trinity College, across the River Liffey and up bustling O'Connell Street, seems to bear out what I'm hearing. I begin to wonder if this new optimism is restricted to the big city or if they are feeling a similar sense of resurgence in the country.
Reality check
I head west on the M6 motorway, covering ground at a rate that would have been impossible just a decade ago, before EU money established a network of highways throughout the country, making obsolete many of the notorious meandering Irish lanes.
My first stop — just outside the postcard village of Cong in County Mayo — is at one of the favorite playgrounds of the Celtic Tigers. Inside the wrought-iron gates I glide past the golf course and sweep over the gentle rise until the view of Ashford Castle stops me in my tracks. Dating to 1228, later owned by the Guinness family, the soaring gray stone turrets and formal gardens, home to Ireland's oldest falconry, Ashford became a symbol of Ireland's excessive success. And to look at the manicured lawns and full parking lot, the genteel life at Ashford continues.
"At the high-end level, there is huge demand," general manager Niall Rochford says. "If I had more suites, I'd be filling them every night." Yet the once-bustling heliport sits empty. "We used to need air traffic control out there; choppers were circling and hovering. But I can't remember the last time an Irishman got out of a helicopter. We've all come back to a level of reality."
Rochford shrugs and then leans toward me. "We lost some of the caring that the Irish are famous for," he says. "It's back to basics, and that's a good thing."
After a quiet stroll through the lush gardens and down along the misty shore of Lough Corrib, Ireland's second-largest lake, I find it difficult to imagine that anything could be amiss on the Emerald Isle.
But the rising tide of the boom did not raise all boats equally. Hardship in the west is keen. I head down the road to the university town of Galway. With close to 80,000 residents, it is the west's largest city.
Yet here too, the pedestrian mall along Shop Street is — like Grafton Street in Dublin — swarming. A few more street musicians than I remember have their hats out, but the students that give this town its perpetual feeling of optimism are dictating the mood.
An hour farther down the coast, around Galway Bay, past some of the "ghost estates" that litter much of the Irish landscape and into County Clare, beyond Ballyvaughan and along the fringes of the rocky Burren, past whitewashed houses with thatch roofs that preside over sheep grazing in green fields encased by dry stone walls — this is the Ireland of postcards — the village of Doolin is strung along one narrow road that fizzles out down by the sea, where ferries ply the route to the Aran Islands. This is the epicenter of Irish traditional music. I've come to see whether they still have a song to sing.
Street life is humming, but Doolin native Declan O'Callaghan sums up what I hear more than once: "At least we've got the Americans coming in for the music; otherwise, it's pretty bad out here." Yet when the sun goes down, the music starts and the Guinness begins to flow, troubles seem forgotten — at least while the fiddles burn.
Eventually I make my way back to Dublin and ease onto my familiar stool in Kehoe's Pub, still trying to reconcile the feeling of struggle I know exists with the consistent laughter I've heard around the country. Then I remember something my psychologist friend Jim Lyng pointed out at the beginning of my unscientific experiment to take the temperature of the land.
"What you have to understand is that for the Irish our joy is not something that's subsequent to misery, the way it might be in other nationalities who go through great hardship or tragedy. Our misery and relationship to suffering is so ingrained, so long-standing, so imbued in who we are that it coexists with everything else. Consequently, we can laugh at anything, including ourselves." Like the good psychologist, Lyng is silent as I consider this. Then he continues.
"There is certainly no promise that things are going to turn around, but on a good day, when the sun is shining and a fair wind blows, I would take a chance and go out on a limb to suggest that there is the potential for hope."
For a people who love their misery as much as the Irish, it sounds almost like a guarantee.
Actor and travel writer Andrew McCarthy's memoir, "The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down," has just been published by Free Press.


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we're using Symbian/Qt IAP with our own backend server. There we use the Ticket Verification API to test the purchase tickets. We directly pass the purchase ticket from our app to the backend server and from there to Nokia IAP servers. We don't extract or manipulate the contents of the purchase ticket.
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Savory Green Beans Recipe
This was my mother's favorite way to fix green beans. She always grew savory in her garden, giving this dish lots of fresh flavor. Not only is it low in fat, but it goes well with just about any main course.Carol Ann Hayden of Everson, Washington
- 3/4 cup chopped sweet red pepper
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1-1/2 pounds fresh green beans, trimmed and cut into 2-inch pieces
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh savory or 2 teaspoons dried savory
- 1 tablespoon minced chives
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- In a large skillet, saute red pepper in oil for 2-3 minutes or until tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in the green beans, water, savory, chives and salt. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 8-10 minutes or until beans are crisp-tender. Yield: 6 servings.
Originally published as Savory Green Beans in Light & Tasty April/May 2006, p17
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"Until we make the penalties for using a gun during the commission of a crime so severe that even low-wattage criminal types think twice before doing so, we can expect little improvement in crime rates for our gun-control efforts."
The above statement, taken from yesterday's editorial, makes good sense. I wish it had been the lead statement of the editorial instead of the conclusion. Does The Eagle-Tribune really support this idea? If so, I hope you will continue to emphasize the good sense it represents. Perhaps even gun advocates will be able to support the idea of stiff penalties for using a gun during a crime.
An automobile is powerful and potentially dangerous but for over a century Americans have accepted legislation designed to regulate and control automobile use. A car can go well over 100 mph but that speed is illegal on public roads. Americans support age limits, insurance requirements, health restrictions, traffic signals, speed limits, safety belts, child seats and other regulations formulated to alleviate the dangers inherent in a large, fast vehicle accessible to every citizen.
Why are some Americans so violently against common sense safety regulations for gun use? I have read that the NRA has 4 million members. I wish 5 million Americans would write letters — real paper letters with stamps — to Washington to support sensible gun control legislation, including the above idea suggested in The Eagle-Tribune editorial today.
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NoSQL databases break all the old rules
Amazon SimpleDB, CouchDB, Google App Engine, and Persevere may have a better way of storing data for your Web appFollow @peterwayner
This distinction between immediate and eventual consistency is deeply philosophical and depends on how important the data happens to be. The old guard who start reaching for their heart medication at the news of these new databases are usually bank programmers who want to make sure that the accounts balance at the end of the day. After all, the bank's brilliant leaders can't turn around and "invest" the cash in subprime mortgages if there's one penny missing after a failed database transaction. At least they're not hauling the DBAs before Congress to explain where the cash went.
But many modern Web sites will sail on without a hiccup if some transaction fails. I see glitches on Facebook regularly. The world won't end if some snarky, anonymous comment on Slashdot disappears. None of these sites cares if the accounting is as good as a bank's, and they don't really need all of the power of a traditional database. (Some wags suggest that banks put the money from an Oracle license into a fund to compensate the people who actually lose money on a failed transaction from one of these newfangled data stores.)
To get an understanding of this expanding tier of non-traditional databases, I took a few out for a ride and built up some test applications with them. The field was surprisingly diverse despite the fact that the offerings are so stripped down that they really don't have more than three major commands: Insert, Update, and Delete. Some offer clustering. Some are available only as a service. Some have grand pretensions to take over the entire server stack. Some play better with AJAX tools than others. None of them is right for everyone, and all of them are completely wrong for the bankers out there. (See the sidebar, "Open source and SaaS offerings rethink the database.")
I also excluded a few interesting tools because of space or just because they were slightly different. Sun, for instance, is now bundling a version of a relational database called Derby with its Java VM. Oracle has its own embedded tool once known as Sleepycat's Berkeley DB but now called the Oracle Embedded Database. Some programmers are even creating very low-rent libraries that write the objects directly to the disk. One project, Prevayler, brags that all of the code from one version could fit legibly on a T-shirt. These products are also stretching the meaning of the two letters "db," but they didn't fit in this comparison.
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Five Ten Men's Anasazi Moccasym Climbing Shoe
FEATURES of the Five Ten Men's Anasazi Moccasym Climbing Shoe
- Delivers performance, comfort and composure in dangerous situations
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- Weight: 8.0 oz / 227.20 g
- Upper Material: Leather
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These are simply great shoes. They work for almost everything (save edging on the tiniest of holds). Although they will dye your feet red the first several dozen times that you use them, there is nothing to complain about with these shoes. They slip on comfortably. These shoes are SOFT. Look elsewhere for a rigid shoe. I will certainly buy another pair when my current ones wear out. Happy climbing!
This will be my 4TH pair of Five Ten Moccasym and I love them! Great feel/fit, good indoors and comfortable outdoors. The stealth rubber is amazing and when my friends are slipping all over I'm usually stuck to the rock loving it. The only weak points of the shoe I can think of would be a strong heel hook could be problematic if you're not used to the shoe and edging is great but not excellent. Overall, this shoe is the best all around, indoor/outdoor, bouldering to sport to trad, shoe I've ever worn. Looking forward to my next pair!
I have had i pair for close to two years...yes they stretch (about a size) but that is why they are awesome...the mold to your feet and become so comfy! Just buy them a tat smaller than other shoesReally durable...they took 2 days in the gym and one day outside for a bit over two years as my go to shoe…I use them both at the gym and for trad multipitch routes...great for smearing and jamming.Bottom line I just bought my second pair of a classic shoe.
A few months ago I got my first pair of La Sportiva Miuras, and it was instant love. They are amazing for bouldering as well as shorter sport climbing (I wore them once for trad). Unfortunately, as with all relationships, they need occasional re-soleing. So I bought these babies. The mocasyms are really great for sport climbing, super comfy once they are broKen in, although it did taKe a few days until I could get them all the way onto my feet. I wear a 35.5 in climbing shoes, and got a size 4 (mens) in these. The one draw-bacK is they turn my feet bright red, and I thinK they are going to stretch out a bit. But for now, I'm loving them!
This is the second shoe I have owned, the first being Evolvs. This is definitely a trade-up. I first bought these shoes for slab climbing in Boulder CO but they perform on Texas limestone, granite, and gym settings equally well. It's not aggressive at all and the heel hooks are pretty weak, but that's really the only negative things I could even think of. This slipper smears on literally everything (I could count on both hands how many times I've blown a foot in these) and has really baller edging. They do stretch big time, so get into literally the smallest one you can squeeze into and it will (eventually) become perfect. I wear street size 8.5-9 and got a 7.5. Literally perfect sizing. Just buy this shoe and you won't regret it. BTW c4 stealth rubber is seriously the best thing for climbing since rope :)
The Moccasyms are an all around great shoe. I've had them for over a year now and I'm still overusing them. The C4 Stealth soles make for a great smearing, edging and durability which is unmatched. The shoes do stretch and form fit after decent use but I wouldn't recommend going down more than a size and a half as you will be hurting for months. I think the heel could be more aggressive and the edging wears down more quickly than I would have liked. My feet are red from the dye leeching after I take them off but it's cosmetic at best. Overall, I would highly recommend them.
I have a very low volume foot so I was worried I wouldn't be able to get the sizing right. I had to size down around 2 sizes, standard for rock climbing. My toes were curled over and I was worried, but after several painful climbs, they broke in beautifully. They arn't hard to slip on and off, which I love. Excellent quality. They stretch A LOT so don't be shy about the fit, go as small as you can.
The edging is great for the first few weeks. Once the shoe stretches and forms to your foot it is the best all day crack and multi-pitch shoe. I love when I get to a plush belay and can just slip my heel out but keep my feet in the shoe. Definitely worth buying a pair and seeing if you like them. Even if they don't work best for your feet there is always a place for them in your climbing pack.
I love these shoes, and I probably don't even have the best shaped foot for them. They're incredibly sensitive, and if you downsize 2 street shoes (like I did), you'll have an incredible bouldering shoe that does everything well except heel hook. They're also very reassuring on trad routes because you can feel every little hold (downsize a bit less, mine kill at belay ledges).My feet are narrow at the back, and wide & flat at the front. The toes on the Moccasyms are very pointed, and so the rand's coming off by my pinky toes (plus it hurts). La Sportiva Cobra may have been a better option in my case, but hey, they're still great and I'm hanging on to them.
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