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A Washington, D.C., personal injury lawyer died last weekend after he jumped into the ocean at Pompano Beach, Fla., to save two drowning boys.
Charles Schulze, 73, was a name partner with Schulze & Pederson, the firm he co-founded in 1972, according to The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times. He collapsed and died after rescuing the boys, ages 9 and 12, according to the blog and the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
First Schulze grabbed the younger boy, who was closer to shore, then swam out to rescue the 12-year-old, according to the newspaper account. He began to falter as he swam to shore, prompting other bystanders to jump in to help, according to Helen Smith, Schulze's companion of 20 years.
Schulze was in Pompano Beach for a brief vacation at his condo there.
Co-worker Sherri Lahay Lasover told The BLT that Schulze was the kind of man who always wanted to help others. He regularly stopped to help stranded motorists and had worked for the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad.
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Boise's rushing game did its job as well. There were a lot of short fields for the Broncos to start from and they ended up with 320 total yards of offense. Only 113 of those yards were on the on the ground. RB D.J. Harper had 14 runs for 51 yards and and RB Jay Ajayi had 7 carries for 42 yards.
The early turnovers by Southern Miss made all the difference in the game. It wasn't until late in the third quarter at the 4:10 mark before the Golden Eagles even got on the board. But that still put them down 30-7 starting the fourth quarter and there was little doubt about the outcome. But the Hattiesburg, Mississippi fans were in it until the end and that helped the Golden Eagles to put up 422 total yards of offense.
The win is a solid performance for Boise State who are ranked #25 in the coaches poll. Boise State kicker Michael Frisina was 2 for 2 on field goals this trip.
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Wenger: Arsenal ready to win league
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger turned in a bullish performance at the club's AGM, saying his players were ready to win the Premier League title this season.
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Wenger had previously said it was "ridiculous" to suggest the Gunners were title contenders just seven games into the campaign, but he more upbeat as he addressed shareholders at Emirates Stadium.
"We have huge ambition to win the league this season," he said. "We are top [of the table], in a very strong position, but the end of November will give a much clearer indication of where everyone lies.
"From the end of March until now, we have lost just one match, and it created huge emotion. It was the first game of the season and we hadn't bought anyone, so I understood it. We have shown great mental strength since then.
"The Premier League is tight again this season, and we need your support. We've had moments at the Emirates where we've not had that, but it's our job to also inspire you and I am confident that, at the end of May, we will all be very happy."
Wenger went on to stress that the club record signing of Mesut Ozil was not an indication that he had changed his philosophy of developing young players and integrating them into his starting lineup.
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"The number of clubs with money is getting bigger -- that's why I believe developing our own players is the best route," he said.
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"The future of Arsenal will rely on quality of work we do inside, to scout and develop. We will also look to buy proven quality. We did not need to scout to buy Ozil, it was just money. I am pleased we have shown you we are not afraid to spend."
Wenger's confident performance confirmed that the mood has changed since last year's AGM, when fans criticised the board's decision to sell Robin van Persie to Manchester United.
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Last Friday night, the Ridgewood High School football team recorded its first state-playoff win since 2008 by defeating Passaic County Tech, 31-18, in the teams' second meeting in as many weeks.
Some additional factoids from postseason games involving Ridgewood and other locals in The Ridgewood News All-Suburban coverage area:
North 1, Group 5
Before November began, RHS had been 0-2 all-time against PCT, including 0-1 in the playoffs. The Bulldogs rolled past Ridgewood, 34-7, in the 2001 North 1, Group 4 semifinals on their way to the sectional championship.
While the Maroons, seeded No. 4 in the bracket, have squared off with No. 5 Passaic Tech only four times in their history, they are much more familiar with their next playoff opponent: No. 1 Montclair (9-0 entering Thanksgiving).
According to archived copies of The Sunday News and The Ridgewood Herald, RHS and Montclair played a series of games in the late 1920s and early '30s, but the rivalry did not resume thereafter until 1983. Since then, Montclair is 17-6 against the Maroons with a pair of playoff wins: the Mounties prevailed, 28-16, in the 2007 North 1, Group 4 semifinals and again, 38-28, in the 2010 North 1, Group 4 opening round.
Ridgewood's last win over Montclair came in game five of the 2006 season, 17-14, at RHS Stadium. Its last road win against Montclair was in the 2000 season opener, 33-29, at Woodman Field.
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How did Ridgewood's long-time rival prepare for yesterday's annual holiday showdown? By not making any history.
Paramus (6-3), the No. 6 seed, posted a relatively ho-hum, 19-0 upset at No. 3 Old Tappan (7-3) in the opening round last Friday, with sophomore quarterback Tyler Smith completing 6-of-9 passes for 67 yards and a touchdown to classmate Michael Mimmo. Sophomore running back Stephen Regalbuto ran for a pair of scores and caught a 53-yard wide-receiver option pass from Mimmo.
The term "ho-hum," of course, is relative to the teams' previous playoff meeting in the 2010 North 1, Group 3 semifinals. In that one, Spartans signal-caller John Robertson (now a sophomore starter at Villanova) and Old Tappan QB Devin Fuller (now a freshman at UCLA) combined to rush 59 times for 684 yards and 13 touchdowns – yes, in a single game – as the Golden Knights won, 63-56, in the highest-scoring contest in NJSIAA postseason history (119 combined points).
Paramus didn't seem to mind setting any records in the following game that year, however. Robertson rushed for 400 yards and four scores to power his team past Ridgewood, 42-38, on Thanksgiving Day 2010.
North 1, Group 3
Something had to give in last Friday's first-round match-up between No. 2 seed Ramapo and No. 7 Ramsey. The last time the two sides had met was on Oct. 10, 2009 as members of the old NBIL, in a game that was featured on the erstwhile WGHT Game of the Week broadcast, no less.
The Rams used that 16-7 victory as a springboard to the North 1, Group 2 title. Ramapo unearthed quarterback gem Tyler Ward in the second half of the loss and started him the rest of the season, winning its final seven games en route to the North 1, Group 3 championship.
This time, only one side had a shot at making a title run after the final whistle, and the Green Raiders (8-2) seized the opportunity with a 37-0 win behind senior quarterback Anthony Lovecchio, who accounted for all five touchdowns (three passing, two rushing). Senior kicker David Bonagura added a 33-yard field goal and four extra points, and senior Neil O'Connor had a solid game on both offense (five catches, 72 yards) and defense (team-high nine tackles).
Ramsey (7-3), which had been classified as Group 2 since 1995, was playing its first game in the North 1, Group 3 tournament since falling to Hoboken, 21-0, in the 1994 sectional final.
North 1, Group 2
Ridgewood's neighbors to the northwest, Waldwick and Midland Park, made their first postseason appearance since forming their co-op program in 2006. Though the No. 5 seed Warriors (5-5) fell to No. 4 Hawthorne (7-3) last Friday, 45-28, the game featured several historic footnotes.
Junior quarterback Evan Pagliei became the first player in Midland Park High School history to score a touchdown in the state playoffs – for which MPHS had not qualified prior to the merger – with a two-yard run in the second quarter.


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The traffic is picking up along Washington Road and it's not just people slowing down their cars to get a sneak peek inside Augusta National; many first time attendees were found standing outside the gates for a glimpse into what they can expect tomorrow.
"It's exciting, we got a picture of the sign and just got a look at the clubhouse from here," said practice round attendee Dennis Koerner.
Evidently, it's the place to be the day before the big week. Even ticket holders are not allowed inside until Monday but they are already getting as close to the green as they can.
"We're strategizing for tomorrow," said practice round attendee Tracy Hughes. "We want to get where we are going to park clear in our minds and which way is the main entrance and where to go first."
However, it's not just about what you can see from the outside but also who you might see driving through those gates.
"I just wanted to see the golf course but while we were standing at the entrance Jason Day pulled in and we got to see him drive by," said practice round attendee Richard Murphy.
Others told us Phil Mickelson and Bubba Watson were spotted arriving earlier on Sunday. However, when FOX54 was out there, first time Masters invitee Richard Sterne drove through the gates.
But for these first-time attendees, it is about the overall experience.
"It's kind of like heaven on earth here so far," said Gary Beckman.
"I am looking forward to seeing Amen Corner," said Rich Payton.
"Just seeing the beauty and the majesty of the place," said Tracy Hughes.
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How juggling rewires your brain
PARIS: Neuroscientists have discovered that learning to juggle causes changes in white matter, the nerve strands which help different parts of the brain communicate with each other.
University of Oxford researchers recruited 48 healthy young adults who were unable to juggle and put them in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner to get a cross-section map of their brain.
Half the volunteers then underwent a six-week training period to learn how to juggle, during which they were also encouraged to practice for 30 minutes a day.
At the end, they were all able to perform at least two cycles of the classic three-ball "cascade." They were then scanned again, as were their 24 non-juggling counterparts.
Among the juggling group, imaging showed important changes in white matter, the bundle of long nerve fibres that carry electrical signals between nerve cells and connect different areas of the brain. So-called grey matter consists of areas of nerve cells where the brain processes information.
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Sorry Magnum, but with your predetermined bias (which you yourself admit), in the most respectful way possible, I can't take your review as seriously as I would like. I personally enjoyed the movie, and yes,
you're right, because Vulcan was destroyed in this movie, this timeline will have an altered version of what happens during those episodes/movies etc. I wondered why it was necessary to kill Spock's mother off. You'd think having his planet blown up would make him pretty emotional already.
However, in response to your stating that Trek is dead, we can go back to the original Trek any time we want. Those things still happened, they just won't or will occur differently for the next generation of fans. I understand what you mean about wanting to have another Original Timeline movie, would be great to see a post Nemesis adventure for Picard and crew.
Personally for this movie, I may have mentioned it before, I'm looking at it as a sort of Crisis on Infinite Earths type scenario, key elements are still the same, but there's less baggage. Think of Superman in this instance, iconic character, been around since the 1930's, and has been through several reboots in the comic, each reboot changed something, in the 1930's, Superman could only leap and not fly, come the 1970s he could blow out stars and wasn't a newspaper reporter, he was a TV reporter, late 80s, complete reboot, now Lex Luthor wasn't a mad scientist but a business man, 2004, Clark's now a vegetarian (what happens to all the stories where he used his favorite Beef dish as a secret password?), there are small differences, big differences, but at the core, it's still the same.
I doubt that any of my rambling will change your mind, and that's ok. I just wanted to state my opinion as well.
I thought the movie was great and give it a solid 8 out of 10. There was room for improvement, but sequel wise, now that the crew's all set, they can jump straight into the story next time around. And if Gene Roddenberry's son says is a good movie, well, then I'm convinced that it was handled well.
Er should i mention that I hated Crisis also
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The Chinese characters for "crisis" can be translated into English as "danger" and "opportunity," definitions frequently used by mediators to encourage disputing parties to transform destructive conflict through mediation. Perhaps it is also appropriate to apply this translation to the crises in journalism and in our democracy, where it appears impossible to move beyond conflict-laden discourse and the reporting at the extremes of opposing points of view.
Americans are increasingly bombarded and troubled by the escalating amount of conflict conveyed by the news media, the destructive tone of political discourse, and the ways that journalists tend to sensationalize issues and the players involved. Long ago the news media adopted our cultural habit of competition to gain and sustain interest and scoop other news outlets. But this approach continues to cost us dearly as it forces us to confront seemingly insurmountable problems without the benefit of entering into civil conversation about them, let alone pointing the way toward solving them.
As a conflict mediator and more recently a media ethicist, I am struck by the similarities between how journalists frame their stories and how parties in disputes tell their stories. In mediation, parties harden their stances on issues, intensify their differences, and dwell on them until they are encouraged, through a facilitated process, to proceed in another direction. Using a different kind of language that explores interests and goals, parties can eventually see that mutually satisfying outcomes are possible.
What Mediation Looks Like for Journalists
- Gilda C. Parrella
Why, I wonder, do journalists appear so reluctant to adopt this approach, one that seeks to highlight common ground among disputing parties and explores systemic change? With such an approach, the ability to resolve conflict would be heightened, and this is the essence of my notion of consensus-building journalism.
Consensus, Not Conflict
Most of what we know about the world comes to us as secondhand information. We are at the mercy of storytellers—journalists primary among them—for approaching the truth of the matter, often based on how the story being told is framed. With conflict, our exposure is often intensified when storytellers exaggerate the distance separating opposing sides and views. Given the largely contentious space that the press occupies between government and the public, we have the makings of perpetual conflict.
With their coverage of nearly every news story, journalists have the option of framing it in a way that could bring about potential agreement and resolution without changing its essential facts. A story about climate change, for example, could be enhanced by defusing the angry language, treating opposing parties with respect, avoiding "either-or" frames, and searching for creative options that address multiple visions and diverse needs. Striving toward consensus-building journalism in a story about policy debates involving Medicare or Social Security would be more productive than categorizing winners and losers.
With digital media, the possibility exists for news organizations to engage people in mediated forums, providing a constructive venue for noninflammatory discussion—a refreshing alternative to what too often devolves into hate-filled speech.
What this country could use is an enormous mediation session, and in the unique role they hold, journalists are logical people to lead it. Mediators and journalists, after all, could share the role of an intermediary among disputing parties. How journalists in their role as intermediaries frame stories and go about reporting them determines a great deal about whether their content helps people confront differences and create roadways toward coexistence.
Ideally, citizens participate in the political process, educating themselves, voting and abiding by decisions made by legislatures and the courts. Citizens rely on the news media for factual information, context and commentary but more subliminally for models of discourse and conflict management. Unfortunately the overly competitive models have an impact on public morale as an unending stream of discord adds to feelings of dissatisfaction, anger and paralysis. We start to feel as though we are becoming helpless spectators to a destructive battle, doomed to a future of increased turmoil as the problems confronting us become more complex and threaten our way of life, if not our lives.
Restoring the investigatory and accountability functions of the press is essential but not enough in our polarized climate. Without a consensus building alternative—utilized regularly in all forms of media—it will be progressively more difficult for us to tackle environmental degradation, resource depletion, economic stagnation and deterioration, international crises, and natural and unnatural disasters.
The ingrained habit of framing issues as pro and con debates without sufficient attention to exploring common ground contributes to disempowering our national psyche. It might not be that we are experiencing a lack of political leadership as much as it is the lack of a functional communication process, and this restrains us from managing the enormous changes swirling around us.
Common Ground, Not Disparate Parties
Attempts to address journalism's economic predicament with paywalls, partnerships and foundation funding seem like stopgap measures—necessary in transitional times, but not enough for the long haul. While they are transforming the monologue to dialogue, still left unfinished is the opportunity to change the role of journalist from neutral observer to active intermediary with the intended goal of bringing together disparate parties in the search for common ground. Journalism has the chance to rethink not only its economic foundation but its relationship with society by establishing true dialogue and discussion with a facilitated model that can prompt citizen and, possibly, legislative action on vital issues of our time.
Consensus building as a part of journalism's mission would represent a major paradigm shift. It would move the reporter and editor away from a focus on conflict as motivating storytelling to one that highlights collaborative problem solving in an online community. Journalists already have many of the skills this type of enterprise requires. They develop and interview sources, investigate and analyze issues, report and write stories. Through social networks many of them engage with readers, listeners and viewers. Restraints of "objectivity" are being shoved aside, and so the transition to acting as intermediaries in resolving the challenges we face is not so daunting as it might have been even a few years ago. Some journalists might even be willing to learn mediation skills as a way of complementing the social media techniques they are using.
Among a younger generation who are unfamiliar with the traditions of journalism and favor interactive pursuits such as social media and online games (where players depend on one another to succeed), consensus building is likely to find wider acceptance. Given their increased exposure to the process of mediation—in educational settings and even in their homes—young people are among the population of users who report very high levels of satisfaction with the process. If mediation's practices and goals can be meshed with journalism's mission in ways that approach this high level of acceptance and satisfaction, then the work we, as citizens, need to do might head in a more positive direction.
Journalism and democratic institutions are linked symbiotically—a change in one can affect the other for good or for ill. Arguably, we are confronting an identity crisis in both, yet these crises may be the opportunities we need to experiment, revitalize and salvage what is best in both institutions.
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is an associate professor in the School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago where she teaches courses in conflict management, mediation and media ethics. She has been active as a mediator, trainer and adviser on a journalist hotline for many years at home and abroad. This essay is part of an ongoing research project to develop a working model of consensus-building journalism for use by media outlets. She can be reached at
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Ban, who is the eighth secretary-general of the UN, will speak about the UN's role in creating opportunities out of the challenges posed by today's rapidly transitioning world.
"Times of transition are times of profound opportunity," he recently said during his acceptance speech for the Seoul Peace Prize. "The decisions we make in this period will have an impact for generations to come."
Ban's initiatives as UN secretary-general have focused on promoting sustainable development; empowering women; supporting countries in crisis or instability; generating new momentum on disarmament, arms control, and nonproliferation; and strengthening the UN. Among his many activities as secretary-general, he has successfully raised major pledges and financing packages for aid and crisis response, established the agency UN Women, and introduced new measures to promote UN transparency and efficiency.
"I grew up in war," Ban has said, "and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As secretary-general, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development, and human rights."
Ban was born in the Republic of Korea in 1944, and he served for 37 years with the ROK Foreign Ministry, in roles including that of minister of foreign affairs and trade, foreign policy adviser to the president, and chief national security adviser to the president. He took office as UN secretary-general in January 2007, and was re-elected for a second term by the UN General Assembly in June 2011. Ban will serve as secretary-general until December 2016.
"We are deeply honored to have UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visit Stanford," said Gi-Wook Shin, a professor of sociology and director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC). "There are few people who understand global trends and dynamics more deeply than he does."
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Lawrence is replacing Gary Ross, who didn't feel he could deliver the sequel in time for the immovable November 22, 2013 release date.
Ross' move didn't necessarily sit well with the cast -- Josh Hutcherson told THR, "Gary in my mind is the only one that could ever direct the second one" -- or legions of fans, but the show must go on as scheduled.
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CATEGORIES Documentary, Drama, Romance, Cinematical Indie, CinematicalI'm all for documentary filmmakers making the occasional fiction film, particularly if it helps them fund another non-fiction film later on. But why must so many of the fiction films documentarians choose to make be trashy romantic comedies and teen dramas? Case in point: according to Variety, R.J. Cutler is set to direct an adaptation of Melissa de la Cruz's sex-filled Hamptons-set young adult novel The Au Pairs. A few reviews I've seen of the 2004 publication, which spawned a few sequels (Skinny Dipping, Sun Kissed and Crazy Hot) recommended it for fans of Gossip Girl.
Cutler is best known recently for his Oscar-shortlisted doc The September Issue, which takes a behind the scenes look at the production of every mailman's least favorite issue of Vogue magazine and its powerful editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour. Previously he directed the Oliver North campaign doc A Perfect Candidate. Other films Cutler has been involved with include D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus' political documentary classic The War Room and Lauren Greenfield's acclaimed film about anorexia, Thin. He also produces relatively serious reality series, such as Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days.
So what's he doing helming a movie based on a book about a trio of teenage girls partying on the beaches of Hampton while taking care of rich people's children? Well, honestly, I'm hoping he can bring an interesting perspective to the story, which Drew Barrymore is producing through her Flower Films shingle (He's Just Not That Into You). After all, he's been through the glamour of the fashion industry and he created the award-winning teen reality series American High, which aired on PBS back in 2000. I'd love to see The Au Pairs shot in the verite documentary style that Cutler is accustomed to.
Of course, it could also be another The Nanny Diaries, which was helmed by former documentarians Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. Or, even worse, it could be as bad as Barbara Kopple's teen drama Havoc, which also showed no signs of its director's documentary background. Joining Barrymore and her partner Nancy Juvonen as producer is Leslie Morgenstein, who has previously had a hand in the film adaptation of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and the TV series based on Gossip Girl. So yeah, this will probably be solely for teen girls and not of much interest to us regular Cutler and documentary fans.


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I made a statement today at the NFTC "I'm the best"— DeMarcus Walker (@livinglegend_44) April 22, 2012
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Teague, Taig, Tadhg: In Northern Ireland these names are used as derogatory slurs for Roman Catholics, similar in connotation to calling a black person the n-word. Some Irish nationalists have reclaimed Teague as an ironic self-identifier... but anyone considering this name for their child needs to be aware of the name's "other" meaning.
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My son's name is Teague. Most people with this name pronounce it as TEEgue. Our son uses the more traditional version of "TAIgue" (like the word "leg"). This is closer to how the original version (TADHG) sounds, though with the Irish accent, that name sounds more like (TIYgue...like "tiger" without the "r"). The Teague spelling is how the English decided the Celtic/Gaelic name should be spelled. Also note that "Taig" and "Teague" are also derogatory terms for an Irish Catholic in Northern Ireland.
To us, TAIgue sounds cooler than TEEgue. Regardless, most people say TEEgue and it takes a bit of time to get them saying it properly. This will follow him forever, I guess, but it'll make a good conversation starting for him in the future. The only nickname we hear is "T" ("TEE"). Maybe he'll be another Mr. T? Anyway, it's fairly unique. If the name confusion scares you, I'd suggest Taigue or Tague as alternates. Those variations are likely super rare or non-existent.
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Lydia Ko is a New Zealand teen golf prodigy who became a force in amateur golf - and in some professional events - by the age of 12.
Date of birth: April 24, 1997
Place of birth: Seoul, South Korea
Nickname: Lyds
Wins in Pro Tournaments
LPGA Tour: 3
Ladies European Tour: 1
Korean LPGA: 1
(Note: Ko has an additional victory on the ALPG.)
Major Championships
Amateur: 1
2012 U.S. Women's Amateur
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• 2011 Australian Women's Stroke Play Championship
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Lydia Ko: "I have to work hard, which sometimes can be boring but the end result makes me smile." (As quoted by harbourgolf.co.nz)
- In 2011 Ko became the first golfer to win both the Australian Women's Stroke Play and the New Zealand Women's Stroke Play championships in the same year.
- Ko is the youngest golfer, male or female, to win a professional event on a significant pro tour (one that awards world ranking points). Ko was 14 years old when she won the Bing Lee Samsung Women's NSW Open near Sydney, Australia, an event on the ALPG Tour.
- In 2012, at age 15, Ko became the youngest-ever winner on the LPGA Tour, claiming the trophy at the CN Canadian Women's Open.
- Ko, in 2013, became the first New Zealand golfer to win the New Zealand Women's Open and, at age 15, the youngest-ever winner in an LET tournament.
Lydia Ko Biography
Lydia Ko was born in Korea, but at age 4 her parents moved the family to New Zealand, and Ko represents New Zealand in international competitions.
You'd expect that a golfing phenom was born to parents who were golf fanatics themselves, but neither of Ko's parents played the game. Instead, it was an aunt in Australia who introduced little Lydia to the sport. She began playing golf at age 5.
Ko took to golf immediately, and improved so quickly that by age 8 she was already competing in the under-19 division at junior golf tournaments. Her first significant tournament victory happened at age 11 when she won the 2009 North Island Women's U19 Championship in New Zealand.
It was in 2010 that Ko really started gaining notice. She won the New Zealand U23 and was low amateur at the New Zealand Women's Open (tied for seventh) that year, plus represented New Zealand in the World Team Amateur Championships.
In 2011, at age 13, Ko became the first golfer to pull off the Aussie-Kiwi stroke play double, winning both the Australian Women's Stroke Play and New Zealand Women's Stroke Play titles.
And she very nearly won a significant professional tournament, the New South Wales Women's Open on the ALPG Tour. Ko led by one with one hole to play, but 3-putted the final green to lose by a stroke.
Ko reached No. 1 in the world amateur rankings in 2011, and looked ready to hold that spot for some time to come.
For example, a year after blowing the NSW Women's Open, Ko rectified that mistake by winning the same tournament in 2012. At age 14, she became the youngest winner of a pro tournament on a significant professional tour.
Also in 2012, Ko won both the Australian Women's Amateur and U.S. Women's Amateur championships. By the time she reached the U.S. Am, Ko had turned 15, and she was the second-youngest winner ever of that trophy. She also played in her first professional major in 2012, the U.S. Women's Open, finishing as low amateur.
Following her victory at the U.S. Women's Amateur, Ko said she was in no rush to turn pro, planned to remain an amateur for the forseeable future, and wanted to attend college. "There are so many things to learn as an amateur," Ko said. "Some people say, 'oh, do you want to go professional?' And I'm like, no, I want to go to college."
Two weeks later Ko won the 2012 CN Canadian Women's Open, becoming the youngest-ever winner on the LPGA Tour. Even after that, she reiterated her plans: "I'll still remain an amateur and then finish high school and then go to college," she said.
In 2013, Ko won her national open, the ISPS Handa NZ Women's Open, a tournament cosanctioned by the Ladies European Tour and the ALPG. She became, at age 15, the youngest-ever winner of an LET event, plus the first New Zealander to win the New Zealand Women's Open.
And back at the Canadian Women's Open in 2013, Ko repeated as champion with a tournament-record score. In so doing, she became the first amateur to win two LPGA Tour events. Later in 2013, Ko announced she was turning pro, and in October of 2013 the LPGA waived its minimum-age requirement, allowing Ko to join the tour in 2014.
She made her debut as a pro golfer at the 2013 LPGA CME Titleholders, finishing 21st. In her second event as a pro - the KLPGA co-sponsored Swinging Skirts World Ladies Masters - Ko won. Ko's first season as an LPGA Tour member was 2014, and her first win that year happened at the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic three days after her 17th birthday.


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Immediately, something seems amiss. I'm pretty sure the consensus before the year was that the Detroit Tigers would more or less run away with the AL Central. Right now the Tigers aren't in first in the Central at all, as they're looking up at the Cleveland Indians. So there is something surprising about the Tigers, and the "wholly" up there is incorrect and misleading. But this is an article about the Detroit Tigers' infield defense, and when you try to work in "Detroit Tigers Infield Defense", headlines get clunky, and nobody likes a clunky headline. It's the Detroit Tigers' infield defense that's been wholly unsurprising. Now you see where this is headed.
The Tigers' defense was a pretty hot topic before the season got started. It became a thing to talk about after Victor Martinez got hurt, and the front office turned around and signed Prince Fielder to a gigantic contract. One thought that maybe Fielder and Miguel Cabrera would split first base and DH. Instead, the Tigers committed to moving Cabrera back over to third base, where he used to be in his younger days. That was not an uninteresting decision, and while Cabrera approached the new task with all the enthusiasm that Hanley Ramirez didn't, lots of people questioned the wisdom.
With Fielder and Cabrera at the corners and Jhonny Peralta and other dudes up the middle, critics figured the Tigers' infield defense would be a mess. Not such a mess that it would bring the whole team down, but a mess nevertheless, hurting the pitchers and taxing the bullpen. The Tigers are a team of certain strengths, but the infield defense projected to be a real weakness.
We've got more than a month of baseball in the books, now. Numbers are starting to settle down, meaning we can take a look at how the Tigers' infield defense has performed. As expected, it's been Fielder and Cabrera at the corners, and Peralta, Ryan Raburn, and Ramon Santiago up the middle. If I were Leni Riefenstahl, I might indicate to you that the Tigers' infield defense has committed relatively few errors. If I were Leni Riefenstahl, I might leave you with the following highlights. Check out these highlights!
Prince Fielder
Ryan Raburn
Ramon Santiago
Jhonny Peralta
Miguel Cabrera
Look at all of those terrific or competent defensive plays turned in by the Tigers' infield! The Raburn one isn't particularly special, but it's also not particularly dreadful. Look at those clips and you might think, wow, I guess they've been all right!
When you've played more than a month of baseball, you end up with pretty highlights and ugly lowlights, no matter who you are or how good you might be. All of those clips were selected from the Tigers' video highlight page. We don't care about the highlights - we care about the overall performance. Do not be swayed by the .giftacular propaganda.
And about that overall performance - well, what do infielders do? Sometimes they field towering pop-ups. Sometimes they snare well-hit line drives. But mainly, they field or try to field ground balls. Pop-ups are infrequent, and infrequently challenging. Catching line drives has something to do with skill, but a lot to do with luck.
We care about how the Tigers' infield has done with ground balls. And to be blunt about it, the Tigers' infield has not done good work to date handling ground balls.
If you look at the entire league, batters so far have a .227 average on grounders. If you include errors, that mark goes up to .256. Basically, on average, about three-quarters of grounders have been turned into outs. The Tigers' infield, however, has allowed a .294 average on grounders, and .312 if you include errors. That .294 mark is the worst in baseball, above the runner-up Milwaukee Brewers. That .312 mark is the second-worst in baseball, between the Brewers and the Atlanta Braves.
We're dealing with a sample of a few hundred grounders. It's not an enormous sample, but it's big enough to show that the Tigers probably have a problem. No other team has done a worse job of preventing hits on ground balls. The Tigers are almost embarrassingly far away from the league average. Maybe they are embarrassingly far away from the league average. I don't know the Tigers' threshold of embarrassment.
So this article could've been titled The Detroit Tigers' Infield Defense Has Been What We Thought It Would Be if I wanted to write something accurate that no one would click. They've lived up to - down to? - expectations. Maybe they've even exceeded the negative expectations. I don't know if anybody ever put a number to how bad they thought the Tigers would be; I think the conclusion was just "they will be bad".
Maybe we're looking at some sample-size fluctuation. I assume the Tigers will finish with a lower batting average allowed on grounders than they have right now, because the worst mark a season ago was .268. That's a good distance away from .294. Perhaps more significantly, so what if the Tigers' infield defense has been bad? Why write about something you expected with great confidence? Hey, Matt Kemp has been a good baseball player, why not write about that next?
Indeed, it's hardly news that the Tigers' infield is porous. And the Tigers' porous infield won't be enough to ruin the team on its own. Their outlook now is about what it was at the beginning. But I guess if you were hoping for a miracle, there's probably not going to be a miracle. The Tigers knew they were probably sacrificing defense for dingers, and so far they've sacrificed defense for dingers. They can go ahead and complain about the defense if they want, but they damn well made their own bed.
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i have looked at the zillion tweets i got from people all who think we should own guns. none of them add up. ban all guns.—
Flea (@flea333) December 16, 2012
Flea and Chad Smith from the band The Red Hot Chili Peppers jumped aboard the celebri-ghoul train with both feet. Like their fellow celebrities, they immediately began politicizing the horrific tragedy in Newtown. 26 people are dead, including 20 children, and these cretins rush to dance on their graves to score political points.
@flea333 love you, love RHCP, but this is the dumbest tweet I've seen from you my man—
David Paul Miller (@JerseyBucks) December 16, 2012
Not so fast; there are more oh-so-brilliant tweets.
No civilians should be allowed to have guns. none.—
Flea (@flea333) December 14, 2012
in many countries the cops have no guns and they do perfectly fine—
Flea (@flea333) December 14, 2012
and i dont think the cops should have guns either—
Flea (@flea333) December 14, 2012
Er. Wait, there's even more.
change the constitution—
Flea (@flea333) December 14, 2012
His band mate, drummer Chad Smith, echoes his call to change The Constitution of the United States.
How many innocent children need to die before we "The people" make a constitutional change?—
Chad Smith (@RHCPchad) December 14, 2012
Rights? Who needs pesky rights? The Chili Peppers have spoken. Chad then retweeted the always jackassy, and snit fit prone, Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine.
RT @tmorello: It's not complicated: Continued mass slayings of innocents by the mentally unstable is price we pay … m.tmi.me/CN8Fh—
Chad Smith (@RHCPchad) December 16, 2012
It's not complicated: Continued mass slayings of innocents by the mentally unstable is price we pay 4 bowing down 2 extremists in gun lobby—
Tom Morello (@tmorello) December 15, 2012
Ah, yes. "Extremists" are to blame. Not the evil committing the horrific act. No, no!
Flea then retweeted these ghoul-gems.
.@flea333 Yep! The founding fathers are rolling over in their graves. The 2nd amendemnet doesnt apply to 2012. We dont need guns anymore—
Mack-E Flowers (@mcktll) December 14, 2012
although this may be a few years old, the facts speak louder than all the bullshit. http://t.co/9300576K—
glen E. friedman Ⓥ (@glenefriedman) December 15, 2012
In 1996, Australia banned semi-automatics. In the 18 years before, there were 13 mass shootings. Since then, none.—
Jeffrey D. Sachs (@JeffDSachs) December 15, 2012
And then continued to share his personal wisdom with Twitter.
melt them all down and turn them into sculptures. Hopefully one day in the future people will look back and sigh at these barbaric times—
Flea (@flea333) December 16, 2012
i don't give a shit about politics. i have no agenda—
Flea (@flea333) December 16, 2012
Really? Then why the public backing of Obama and a free concert for his volunteers? Also, no agenda? Then why all the anti-gun zealotry?
@flea333 wouldn't wanting to ban guns mean having an agenda? No hate meant here, just an observation.—
Josh Olson (@JoshOlson6) December 16, 2012
@flea333 If you don't care about politics then why do you keep tweeting about no guns???—
Rachel Slotnick (@RachelPeppers) December 16, 2012
Well, Flea, maybe you should give a hoot and get an interest in reality. Start by talking to these Twitter users.
@flea333 are u for real there banned in the uk, an where I live not a day goes by where someone doesn't get shot, it will make no difference—
Lionel Richtea (@chris_hurst84) December 16, 2012
@flea333 I'm not giving up a right our founding fathers fought for.—
Matt Conlan (@mconlan24) December 16, 2012
@flea333 I suppose that would work as well as our ban on drugs, murder, and rape. Cars kill more people than guns.—
Jared Smith (@SmittyTJ) December 16, 2012
@flea333 There has never been a gun in history that killed someone. It takes one with the will to pull the trigger. Wise up.—
Tim Loudenslager (@TimLoudenslager) December 16, 2012
@flea333 you are a great musician, but a fucking idiot if you think we should ban guns—
michael micchia (@micchia2) December 16, 2012
@flea333 i'd ban guns too if I was a millionaire that paid people to protect me… you outta go walk some streets outside your compound—
Bruce530 (@bruce530) December 16, 2012
@flea333 There's only one problem. Even if guns are banned, people will still find a way to get their hands on one to murder innocent people—
Philna :) (@philnavv) December 16, 2012
@flea333 banning guns will not stop a psycho from obtaining a weapon and it takes away our self defense.—
Duncan O'Keeffe (@DunkOKeeffe) December 16, 2012
@flea333 but when you are in your home (as i was), and someone is standing over you, trust me, my gun saved my life !!—
tonya rutherford (@tigermom48) December 16, 2012
Flea would rather Twitter user Tonya had been unarmed. Perhaps Flea should also talk to these conservative women, who understand that a real war on women is being waged by anti-gun zealots.
Dear Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stick to Californication, not pontification. Thanks!


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Spotlight - Sensing the Future
(Editor's note: Full-length version of story.)
Mondays and Wednesdays, in a science classroom in Brewer Middle School, there's a repeating refrain:
"Mr. Spratt! Can you come help us? Mr. Spratt!"
Mr. Spratt is William "Kyle" Spratt, a University of Maine (UMaine) master's student in mechanical engineering. Two days a week, he joins Frank Page, a longtime science teacher at the middle school, as part GK-12 Sensors!, a joint program of UMaine and the National Science Foundation that places UMaine graduate students in the sensor area in local high schools and middle schools. Using sensor technology – a major research area at UMaine –Spratt and seven other UMaine graduate students work with school teachers using sensors to explain the fundamentals of engineering and science to teens throughout eastern Maine.
"It's really about the concepts, understanding why things move, why they work the way they do," Page said. "They understand that part of it. If you gave them high school-level math and physics, it would be too abstract."
But Spratt, an outgoing lobsterman from Frenchboro, Long Island, makes the lessons seem like child's play. To test the effect of mass on velocity, he had his seventh-grade charges build parachutes out of trash bags, string and tape, with washers as weights. The students launched them in front of a motion sensor, which captured the data and converted the figures to graphs on their laptops.
Because sensor technology takes many forms – from everyday smoke detectors and thermometers to prototype airport screeners capable of detecting peroxide-based explosives – it lends itself to an array of subjects. GK-12 Sensors! fellows use the "gadgets" as keys to unlock the fundamentals of physics, chemistry, biology, food science, marine sciences, microelectronics and engineering.
Though he didn't realize it at the time, 12-year-old Vincent Banks had mastered a few basic engineering concepts as he ran through a series of successful parachute drops.
"Right now, we're learning about how air in a parachute can slow you down," Banks, 12, explained. "I like it, because Mr. Spratt can help us. He knows how to talk to us. He can talk in a regular voice, like if you're talking to a friend. It helps you understand a little better, because it's a little hard to understand."
Making science, technology, engineering and mathematics more accessible is what the NSF's GK-12 sensors program is all about. The GK-12 sensors grant provides funding for graduate students in supported disciplines, in the hope that their interactions with K-12 students and teachers will improve their communication, teaching, collaboration and team-building skills. The program also aims to provide professional development opportunities forK-12 teachers, a richer learning experience for students and stronger ties between local schools and institutions of higher learning.
Many of the teachers involved, including Page, participate in the accompanying Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Sensors! During the summer program, K-12 educators work with faculty and UMaine students in various engineering labs on campus.
When NSF's original GK-12 program was established in the late 1990s, Maine's best and brightest were leaving the state in droves for education and job opportunities. To help stop the brain drain, John Vetelino, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, wanted to showcase UMaine's world-class sensor research.
To that end, he worked with Constance Holden, a UMaine colleague in spatial information science and engineering, and Stephen Godsoe of Bangor High School to integrate sensors into the existing GK-12 model.
"You get kids looking at what's happening [with unemployment] and many of them leave the state never to return, even though they might have the desire to return," Vetelino says. "So we're trying to get them to remain in the state of Maine for their education and for their jobs, possibly contribute to the economy, start small businesses, things like that."
In the 2007-08 school year alone, 1,554 students in 13 schools participated in the program. Since its inception in 2002, GK-12 Sensors! has brought nearly $5 million in NSF grants to the university, which will sustain the program through 2011. GK-12 funding is intended to initiate programs that will continue with public-sector support. To that end, Vetelino is in the process of pursuing alternative funding sources.
Community partnerships – of a service-based, rather than a financial, nature – have long been a part of the sensors program. In 2004, Bangor's GK-12 Sensors! team began working with agencies and organizations in the city to address such issues as emergency preparedness. For example, students and teachers worked with fire and safety officers from the city and Bangor International Airport to build a geographic information system (GIS) for emergency service providers. As a result, the school introduced a GIS class in 2006, one of a handful of such high school level courses in the United States.
At Brewer Middle School, GIS design isn't part of Spratt's lesson plan. As his counterpart Page says, "Lectures, presentations, that isn't going to work in middle school." But parachutes and hovercrafts are all in a day's work. And sensors drive the lessons home.
"[The sensor] captures the statistics of falling objects –the velocity of parachutes," says Annissa Nicola, 14. "It's better than using timers and stuff like that."
Anissa's lab partner, Tiffany Sebastiano, agrees that the sensors make learning fun. But so does Spratt.
"He's just like a normal person – he's not boring," she says. "He knows when to be serious and when not to be serious."
As he works his way through the classroom, Spratt makes it a point to talk to each student. He stops at one table and glances at a laptop, telling the group, "That is a perfect graph!" As a boy and a girl by the door toss up their chute, it unfurls like a jellyfish before gliding out of the sensor's range. Spratt reassures them that the first drop – with only one washer to weigh it down – is always the hardest.
It is Vetelino's hope that strong role models from the University of Maine might inspire students to consider engineering – in any of its incarnations – when they get to college. If they choose to stay in Maine for schooling, this could, in turn, create a knowledge base large enough to lure high-tech companies to the region.
"To a large extent, many kids are influenced by the environment they're growing up in," says Vetelino. "If my father is a teacher, I might have aspirations of moving in that direction. You really don't know what might trigger a kid to go into engineering. It might be an uncle, or it might be a GK-12 fellow."
Gabe Levasseur, a Corinth native, decided to study in Maine– and GK-12 Sensors! fellow Wade Pinkham made all the difference. As a senior at Central High School, Levasseur excelled at math and planned to attend Worcester Polytechnic Institute because of its reputation in mathematics and science. That changed when Pinkham, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering who now works at Bath Iron Works, showed up in his classroom in the fall of 2004.
"I found out (UMaine) was good for math and science, too," said Levasseur, who graduated with a degree in electrical and computer engineering in May, after only three years in the program. Before graduation, he already had a job lined up at the Portsmouth (N.H.) Naval Shipyard. "GK-12 Sensors! opens your eyes to what engineering is and what engineers really do."
For Spratt, the program has not only strengthened his engineering skills, but his interpersonal skills, as well. After he completes his master's degree, he plans to pursue a Ph.D. with the intent of becoming a professor. When he started working with Page's pupils, he had a hard time translating graduate-level concepts to a language middle-schoolers could understand. Now, he feels more comfortable – and more helpful – in the classroom.
"I know more about how different people learn in different ways," he says. "I want to be a professor, and it's very important for me to learn all the dynamics. As I think about how to make up labs, how to manage my time, it keeps the fundamentals of engineering fresh in my mind."
It has also has helped him better articulate the key points of his research. While his peers struggled with their proposals for a recent Maine Technology Institute grant, Spratt was able to clearly outline his goals. He won the grant.
"I was able to effectively say what I wanted to say without losing people," Spratt says. "If [engineering students] can't relate what they're doing to other people, it might not work out in the long run. That's something this program has helped me do: pick out the key points and learn how to effectively communicate them."
In the classroom, effective communication could involve dropping parachutes, measuring the temperature of melting ice or clocking the speed of balloon-powered racecars. That's a huge part of the appeal for Nick Cram, 12.
"It's not like old-fashioned book learning," Cram says as he prepares for another parachute launch. "You get to build stuff, race it, smash it."
Joe Arsenault, UMaine's GK-12 Sensors! program coordinator, says such hands-on projects, led by an enthusiastic graduate student, makes for an unforgettable learning experience.
"When you take someone who has energy and the sense of discovery of what they're finding in their own research, and have them convey that to the students, that sense that science is alive, if they can begin to feel that, it's very different from sitting in a classroom and listening to experts give out facts," Arsenault says. "Here, they can feel the facts with their hands. It's visceral."
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A scheme to man a police reception desk with civilians has been branded "a complete fudge" and "unsatisfactory" by St Albans councillors.
Hertfordshire Constabulary and St Albans District Council have agreed to locate a police advice and information point at the public reception in the Civic Centre, but it will be run by council staff. This comes after the closure of the front inquiry desk of St Albans Police Station in Victoria Street to save cash.
However, councillors have criticised the "terribly disappointing" decision, which will come in to effect next month.
Labour councillor for Batchwood, Roma Mills, said: "This is less than I had hoped for. We asked for a police front desk and this is not what we have got – it is a complete fudge of the original offering.
"I hoped we would have retained a civilian police front desk available to the public. This is unsatisfactory. " Council staff will be briefed on how to direct people to relevant police resources and there will also be a free phone for them to call the 101 non-emergency number to report crime, minor traffic collisions and other concerns.
Councillor Mills added: "There is a confident view that people can manage their phone and email, but when you have been a victim of a crime or have a worry about a criminal matter, you want to report to a person who is in the police.
"I was really against the loss of our front desk. A district of some thousands of residents warrants a police desk."
Councillor Mills added she was anxious to find out where residents could report crime when the council offices are closed in the evenings and at the weekends.
County Councillor Sandy Walkington also expressed his dismay. He said: "There is good and bad in this. If they are moving into the council offices I think that is a real positive, because the council offices are becoming a focal point in the city.
"However, I would absolutely endorse that we are dismayed at the lack of police presence at the front desk.
"We have to hope these things go in cycles and people will wake up and smell the coffee and realise they have made a mistake."
Liberal Democrat leader Councillor Chris White said: "It is disappointing. This is better than nothing but the original decision to close the front desk was wrong. "Clearly we need to keep on pressing the police to revisit the original mistake and decision."
In response to criticism, leader of the council Councillor Julian Daly said it was important to "retain a police presence in the heart of the district".
The Conservative politician said: "We aim to offer the same services for members of the public at a cheaper price for the tax payer.
"It will be a good service.
"This is based on the same model as used in Rickmansworth, which works well."
St Albans Chief Inspector Ken Townsend said the information point was "not a replacement for the former front counter service" as it was closed five months ago because so few people used it.
He said: "People chose instead to contact police by phone, online or face-to-face at neighbourhood surgeries. There hasn't been night-time service in St Albans for several years.
"Where people have to report to a police station following an arrest, on bail, for example, we have kept front counter services at the main police stations in the county, including Hatfield."


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