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Wednesday's collision between Arsenal and Manchester United is important for both teams, if for different reasons. Arsenal need an immediate response after their crushing loss against Liverpool while United just need something positive to happen as their season continues to be a disaster, by their high standards.
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Arsenal's 5-1 loss to Liverpool dropped them out of first and has the doubters firing full broadsides at Arsene Wenger's team. Returning to the Emirates Stadium will help as the Gunners have allowed just a single goal at home in their last 11 matches in all competitions.
This game is also another chance for the Arsenal fans to give former Gunners striker Robin Van Persie a "warm" welcome.
David Moyes' first season in charge of United has been nothing short of nightmare with poor results and injuries having sunk the proud club all the way to seventh, nine points behind the final Champions League spot. Hence the critics have been sharpening their knives and calling for Moyes to be fired though that doesn't seem likely. United have won just twice in their last six league matches, including a loss and draw in their last two.
United won the first meeting on the season between the two teams in early November 1-0 thanks to a goal from van Persie.
Arsenal injuries and suspensions
Out: Mathieu Flamini (suspended), Aaron Ramsey (thigh), Kim Kallstrom (back), Thomas Vermaelen (calf), Abou Diaby (knee), Theo Walcott (knee).
Manchester United injuries and suspensions
Out: Phil Jones (calf), Marouanne Fellaini (groin), Jonny Evans (calf).
Jones and Evans remain sidelined for United with calf injuries while Fellaini is still working back from a groin injury picked up last week. Arsenal's injury list remains long with Ramsey, Kalstrom and Vermaelen still not fit. Flamini is serving the final match of a three game ban for a red card.
Projected lineups
Arsenal: Wojciech Szczesny, Bacary Sagna, Per Mertesacker, Laurent Koscielny, Kieran Gibbs, Mikel Arteta, Jack Wilshire, Mesut Özil, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Santi Cazorla, Olivier Giroud.
Manchester United: David de Gea, Rafael, Chris Smalling, Nemanja Vidic, Patrice Evra, Michael Carrick, Darren Fletcher, Juan Mata, Wayne Rooney, Adnan Januzaj, Robin Van Persie.
Match Date/Time: 7:45 p.m. local, 2:45 p.m. ET
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State Sen. Bill Emmerson has been appointed to the Little Hoover Commission, a bipartisan panel that reviews state government programs and suggests ways to improve them.
Emmerson, R-Redlands, was named to the commission by the Senate Rules Committee, of which he is a member. He replaces state Sen. Mark Wyland, R-Escondido.
"I'm deeply honored to have been appointed to serve on the Little Hoover Commission," Emmerson said in a statement. "I strongly believe in the mission of the commission as we should constantly be striving towards increasing efficiency and accountability in government, ensuring that taxpayer dollars are being spent wisely."
Emmerson is the second Inland Southern California lawmaker appointed to the commission in recent weeks. State Sen. Richard Roth, D-Riveside, also is a member.
The 13-member commission, created in 1962, is formally known as the Milton Marks "Little Hoover" Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy. The governor appoints five members, the Legislature appoints four, and there also are two senators and two Assembly members on the commission.

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After a 42-year partnership, the Milan Police Department's Auxiliary Unit is no more.
New rules will take effect in Illinois Saturday that require all auxiliary officers to receive the same training as full-time officers.
"When you have the Illinois Attorney General's office and the Illinois Training and Standards Board and the insurance care for the city which is risk management come out and state that auxiliary officers need to be trained the same as full-time officers, its very restrictive for us to be able to train them all," said Captain Shawn Johnson, Milan Police Dept.
Milan Police Auxiliary Chief Jim Uskavitch took his last patrol through Milan Friday, the city he's served for 25 years.
"We can't ride anymore after today. The auxiliary's done after today," said Uskavitch. "Just kind of sad. Sad that the auxiliary has been around 42 years, I've been here 25 years and today is the last day."
Jim and the rest of his all-volunteer unit laid down their badges due to the state's new regulations.
"Kind of wish they would have done something grandfathering wise or looked at each auxiliary unit on an individual basis," said Uskavitch.
"It's a huge loss for us manpower-wise during major functions and just normal functions when they come in to ride with full-time officers and assist in those duties too," said Johnson.
Many who served on Milan's Auxiliary Unit have gone on to careers in law enforcement.
"Over the years we've had several that have gone off to become full-time on other departments," said Uskavitch.
He says six former volunteers work for Milan full-time. Dozens of others got jobs in departments from Florida to California.
For others like Jim, he says serving his community was a passion, a calling he wishes he didn't have to let go.
"If I didn't want to do it I wouldn't have done it for 25 years," said Uskavitch. "Of course it's another chapter in life so we'll see what happens after this."
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What Happens When Your Movie Unexpectedly Goes Viral? Ben Howling & Yolanda Ramke's 'Cargo'
It's a phenomenon that didn't really exist before the internet: going viral. The term has come to mean quite a few things and can be applied to all sorts of different scenarios, but in this case, we're talking about a video that is seen by millions of people in a relatively short amount of time — a near impossibility for the average person just a decade ago. Ben Howling had this exact situation happen to him about a month ago, when the movie he co-directed with Yolanda Ramke for the Australian Tropfest Film Festival was considered a finalist and then posted online, going viral long after. It has now been viewed over 2.7 million times in just a matter of weeks. Check out the short below, followed by a discussion about the production and how the sudden success of the film caught the filmmakers off-guard:
The film is one of the more touching I've seen in a while, and it's also a fantastic lesson in "show, don't tell." Without any dialogue at all, the filmmakers managed to create a moving and emotional piece that deserves the attention it has received.
I talked with Ben recently, and here are some details on the actual production itself:
It was shot on Red One MX, with Zeiss CP2s. Was mostly handheld, with some Steadicam. Pre-production was messy, because Yolanda (Writer/Co-Director) and I were working interstate at the time, whilst our producer and DOP (also a producer) were doing the ground work and recces to help find locations. Landing Andy Rodoreda was a big coup for us, because he's had some leading feature roles over here, and we didn't think he'd be interested in a little short film concept. When we contacted his agent, he informed us that Andy had recently stepped away from acting, but he was happy to pass on the script – and from there, Andy liked the script, and the rest was history. Everything was sorted via emails and drop box. Yolanda and I were back in Sydney 3 days before shooting. We shot it over the course of a weekend, had 2 weeks for post, which was made even tighter because it was around Christmas time, so people were flat out with end of year deadlines, and going away for Christmas. Our Composer was actually working on Christmas day for us!
From there, we entered it into Tropfest, were listed as a Finalist, had a great time but ultimately didn't place on the night. Since then, we've submitted to other festivals, and been invited to screen at others. But then, out of nowhere, Cargo was picked up and screened on Buzzfeed and Sourcefednews.com, and the video took on a life of its own from there. Part of the T's and C's with Tropfest is that they own the rights to distribute the film as they see fit, so they put all finalists online. Ideally, if you're submitting to other festivals, you don't want that, but in this case, it's worked out well for us and garnered more exposure than we would have had hope for on the festival circuit.
After the film was picked up by a number of different outlets online, it blew up:
The response to Cargo has been overwhelming, to say the least. We've had people from major agencies and studios in the USA and UK reach out to us, and off the back of that we're now organising a trip to LA to meet with them.
Moving forward, we're currently developing our next short film with plans to go into production later this year, and we have a slate of feature concepts which we are also developing, with the intent to make our feature debut in the near future.
His advice to anyone releasing a film:
For anyone else who is planning to release a short film in the near future, my advice would be to be prepared. Have your next project ready to go, so that if it were to start gaining viral traction, you can capitalize; whether that's via talks with agencies and studios, or launching a kickstarter campaign to fund the next project.
I think his last point is something everyone should keep in mind. You never really know if a movie you're making will find its way onto millions of screens, so having a few projects ready to go isn't a bad idea. I know for film festivals, if you catch the eye of a producer or agent, it can help to have other material prepared (like scripts) or at least an outline of a number of different movie ideas. Even if you release a short and it doesn't go viral, having a strategy for getting the movie out there and getting it seen by as many people as possible is important if you want to take advantage of any possible exposure.
We should hear more from Ben in a few months, but in the meantime, feel free to ask any questions in the comments and he should be able to answer them.
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This should have won tropfest none of the other submissions had even close to the emotional weight that this film had behind it
Peter Kelly on 05.11.13 @ 4:11AM
That was brilliant!
James on 05.11.13 @ 8:46AM
Well, the aftermath of the supposed car crash looked as unconvincing as the zombie make up. The decal of the family would never have been applied in such a way to allow the actor to remove it. What an untrue moment. Details matter when making a film. Also, I did not believe the baby would have waited to cry after the zombie dad was shot, it would have been screaming all along. This was just the director trying to get a cheap reaction from the actress. Good storyline, but it would have been cool in 2005, now they are just jumping on the bandwagon.
Well James, clearly you didn't read the comment policy above – how is anything you said constructive?
It's a feat to create a memorable and engaging film, even with ample time and budget (soderbergh's address posted on this site states this beautifully), let alone being able to create something within a crazy short timeframe and no doubt minimal budget! And to the quality that this did.
Job well done, and congrats to the film makers on its success.
Peter Kelly on 05.11.13 @ 2:56PM
While i don't agree with James' comments I think they are constructive and he shouldn't be criticised for stating his point of view, which as I said I don't agree with.
I think in a zombie film you can grant leeway on small details like the ones he points out for the sake of story. We all knew the baby was going to cry when he did, for me it didnt take away from the piece.
I love this short, but my criticism is the lack of dialogue. While I like the idea of not using dialogue, I think it should only be the case if the people don't speak for a reason. For me at the end it was unnatural for the other characters not to speak to each other. In that circumstance people would converse. The lack of dialogue worked for the rest of the film, particularly with the baby crying and the good sounds, but just at the end it fell down a little for me.
Great piece though!
Tyler on 05.11.13 @ 3:14PM
Yeah… you forgot to point out that zombies aren't real either. Don't be haten, this was very well done regardless of the cliche genre. I usually don't like zombie flicks, but I (and many other people) loved it. Congrats to the team that made this!
Kraig on 05.11.13 @ 7:37PM
Untrue? Erm… You do realize there are zombies in this?
This short blew me away. I don't care how trendy zombie stuff is, this one is really about family and fatherhood. So well done.
Agree with Jim. It's not about zombies, it's about family and doing everything you can, no matter what, so your kid gets a chance. And I'm a big fan of little-to-no-dialog films. They're MUCH harder to do than talky ones. Great job, guys!
Hey Joe, thanks for the write up! And thanks to everyone for taking the time to watch the film.
Wow. Excellent. I expect Hollywood to be knocking at your door in no time.
This was really great. Absolutely not about zombies. It takes the genre and transcends it.
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Hello Rams fans. I hope you are all well. Yes, yesterday's loss stung similar to Tampa Bay's (and Oakland's... and Arizona's). My immediate reaction during the 4th quarter surge by the 49's was "here we go again." But, rather than be a Debbie Downer today, I'd like to try to put a positive spin on some things I saw rather than dwell in the negatives (after the jump).
- We have a terrific young leader at QB who can only get better: Sam Bradford showed some real "intestinal fortitude" (as my old baseball coach used to say) in the final two minutes by practically willing his team down the field to set up the tying field goal. No, we didn't get it done in overtime, but I am pleased with his overall performance. The more experience the offense (and Sam) gets in those situations, the more I feel the chips will fall in our favor. They just have to, right football gods?
- Chris Long is becoming a monster: My goodness, the guy has woken up this year. He pretty much owned anyone who tried to stand in his way, and forced Troy Smith out of the pocket constantly. Unfortunately, Troy Smith is one of the better QB's out of the pocket from what I have seen (as a Buckeye, he won the Heisman by making plays on the run). BUT, nonetheless he is living up to that draft pick.
- Our special teams should help us win close games in the future: Aside from Josh Brown's ridiculous kickoff penalty, and the direct hit Mardy Gilyard took in the chest on a kickoff return, our special teams was excellent. Josh kicked key field goals, and Donnie Jones did not allow a punt return. The punt block showed we can be aggressive (although I do not believe it sparked us enough). It's only a matter of time before our special teams is the difference between winning and losing.
- Craig Dahl is looking like a "steal": 12 tackles! And a few key pass breakups. He is emerging as being one of the more underrated strong safeties, at least in our division. He is unafraid of making the difficult hit, and is pretty good in single coverage (although he is not a burner). Smart player, and a great teammate.
Steven Jackson has a great attitude, and is keeping his teammates focused on a winning mentality: Immediately after the game, he cooled everyone's heels by saying:
"Stick together. Everyone stick together. Everyone trust in what we're trying to get done, what we're trying to establish here. We have seven games to go. Although this is a tough one to swallow ... we're still in the middle of things." Very well said, even as an immediate reaction. He knew this would be a barroom brawl, and that's what it was. We are lucky to have him, as he is one of the toughest, hardest-working and most team-oriented guys in the NFL.
I just want everyone to know that although I was super bummed about this loss, I still feel like this team is making REAL progress each week (especially our ability to control the clock, and get consistent pressure on the QB: two things that DID NOT happen at all last year). I do not think yesterday was a big set-back for the team (other than the penalties, which must be mitigated), and I think that many things that went wrong (i.e. blow coverage, missed tackling) is correctable through repetition. I believe in this coaching staff, and in what they are trying to build.
- If you told me during the summer that the Rams would already have 4 wins at this point in the year, I would have laughed. But now, I appreciate what we have so far and am excited for the remainder of the season. I hope you all can do the same. Feel free to comment, and Go Rams!!!


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A domestic dispute this weekend in Trigg County ended with a stabbing.
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Police said he forced his way into Latosha Woods' apartment and started fighting with a 17- year-old boy.
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Just filled a growler at the brewery and cracked within the hour.
Pours a dark amber with cedar tanin red. Thick foamy tan 4 finger head reduces to about 1/2 finger that stays with the drink. nice thick lacing with heavy ring.
Smells of a rustic orange sweetness with maple syrupy malts and a peppery spice edge. Some candy belgian like yeast happening with nicely balanced farmhouse grain.
Nice peppery/coriander spice up front with a candied grain that partly offsets the dominant peppery spice. Citrisy bitter mid palate with a grilled orange reduction like flavor that kind of drys on the tongue. A tad of unfermented Belgian yeast on the finish.
High carbonation but not bothersome, delivers the orange bitter nicely.
Nicely done Saison with a roasted orange element that adds an almost woody character similar to a Reposada tequila or rustic orange liqueur.
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Pours clouded darker amber with an auburn hue. Darker khaki head that stays nicely, leaves a frothy film and decent thicker ringed lace.
Fruity nose with some pepper and ginger.
I get some smoky oranges and plenty more ginger on the palate. Then in the finish some Belgian yeast characteristics, peppery, nutty and flavorful. Nicely done. Quite enjoyable stuff, went well with a few steak tacos.
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Jim Hodges landed heavily in Gladstone's two Chelsea galleries last week with five improbably delicate investigations of the overlapping space between ancient Eastern divination and aleatoric art, carried out with outside fabricators, a jackhammer and heavy moving equipment.
When you walk into the gallery on 21st Street, the first things you see are three gray boulders all leaning, like modern dancers, to the right. The knife-peaked central stone is parenthesized between two deftly split halves, one with a heart of copper, the other with a heart of gold. But when you begin to circle, you find that the piece actually comprises four boulders in a cross, each one sheathed, where it faces in, with molded stainless steel painted in lacquer. The blue and lavender sheaths point up, and the yellow and copper sheaths point down, and the shiny surfaces are broken up as the steel follows the dimpled stone, so that the reflection of your face, if you can find it, appears to have a wavelike motion.
Upstairs are five scratched and incised seven-foot-by-five-foot color photos of cloudy skies, two ruddy in sunset, the rest more or less shadowed shades of metallic blue. The scratches are at once hastily drawn and carefully placed: there's little sense of the artist's controlling hand in any one white line, but the total effect—a net, an oracle bone, a shape like a diving fish—is, if anything, too considered.
The wall pieces at Gladstone Gallery's 24th Street branch are stronger: five separately hung segments of a 12-foot circle, covered in tesseras of black mirror, inscribed with stars and crescent moons. In the back of the space, a disco ball hangs from a thick steel wire over a large hole raggedly jackhammered into the concrete floor. The hole is filled with water, and the water dyed with ink; the disco ball sinks down into this pool, submerges completely, and rises up again during a nearly hour-long cycle. Four computer-controlled lights in the room's upper corners follow the ball as it rises and falls, slowly spinning, so that it casts bright snowflakes of light across the ceiling, floor and walls. At one point, when the ball is low, four white ovals with black centers of shadow spread out from the water like flower petals; and then they rise up the walls, in concert with the ball, like eclipses. The water is flush with the floor when the ball is submerged; when it rises, a few drops cling to its glass; and when these drops fall back down into the pool, it's hard to see the shimmering in the black surface of the water, but you can see it reflected in the bottom of the globe.
Delicacy of conception would seem unlikely to hold its ground here against showiness of execution; but this particular delicacy is surprisingly robust. Polished surfaces consistently throw off conventional attempts to connect, whether intellectual—analyzing the disco ball's meaning—or emotional—trying to feel what the stones feel, rather than what they make you feel. But over time, your eyes adjust, so that if you're patient, you can see through the mirrored surfaces to the depths.
Where Mr. Hodges's boulders are silent—mysterious dinosaur heads on inscrutable business of their own—for the stubbornly figurative Los Angeles painter Llyn Foulkes, rocks serve as a powerful compromise between the tension-generating constraints of figuration and the symbolic potentials of abstraction. In advance of a major retrospective of the painter's work planned for UCLA's Hammer Museum in early 2013, Andrea Rosen Gallery has mounted a small, tightly focused study of his paintings of rocks.
Lost Horizon (1991) shows the head and shoulders of an anxious older man in a thick sweater climbing over a ridge. A "For Sale" sign, a small American flag and a crushed beer or soda can rest at the foot of a tall, straight tree trunk. Behind the man, a series of surreal mountain ridges, the closest shaped into a grim, Lincoln-like face, recede into a flat blue sky; a cruciform seagull, carefully cut from another painting, is blown weirdly backward. It's important to note that the mountains' paint has a sticky tactility, while the white clouds look like the first, lethargic strokes of a housepainter; that the can is a real can; and that the tree trunk and the man's head, built up with modeling paste, project out from the canvas. Eagle Rock (1984), showing the outline of an eagle above a broad gray peak, also plays with the distinction between foreground and background, earth and heaven, night and day, spattering the mountain with drops of sky-blue paint. Shadow and color are blended in a disconcerting way that makes the mountain look like a photogram of blue jeans.
Happy Rock (1969) is a monochrome green painting of a strangely shaped rock, something like a little girl's dress, with a perfectly circular cutout or superimposed disc. It begins with the way we project our own psychologies onto the world around us, the uneasy give-and-take between found and made beauty, and the close but fundamentally alienated relationship between texture and shape—and it goes on from there.


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December 5, 2011
The Honorable Herb Kohl Chairman, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Kohl:
On behalf of American taxpayers, I write to urge you and your colleagues on the Subcommittee to consider fully supporting the Express Scripts-Medco Health Solutions merger. This merger will permit these industry leaders to pursue greater savings on prescription medicines for patients, employers, and taxpayers.
As you may know, NTU's mission on behalf of fiscal responsibility and economic freedom has long included advocating for sensible federal regulatory policies toward mergers and competition, in sectors ranging from software to telecommunications to health care. Our experience tells us that an Express Scripts-Medco Health Solutions merger would result in benefits to consumers and the economy.
It is clear that cost issues surrounding prescription drugs can only be addressed through an open and competitive marketplace, despite the intentions of ongoing government-directed efforts to impact their prices. Uniquely in the health care industry, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) lower prescription drug costs and improve safety by managing drug benefits for many private and taxpayer-funded health insurance plans.
PBMs help control drug spending by leveraging purchasing power when negotiating with drug manufacturers – both brand and generic – and pharmacies for the fairest prices for their clients. Also, by evaluating incoming patient prescriptions for adverse drug interactions, availability of less-costly, medically-appropriate generic medications, and through the use of other clinical and economic tools, PBMs safely reduce drug-related spending for their clients. These efforts have had a tremendously positive impact on our health care system overall – 50 percent of which is supported by taxpayer dollars.
Government interventions, whether through imposition of unnecessary regulations or interruption of industry evolution, would severely compromise the ability of PBMs to introduce more efficiency and safety in the provision of prescription drugs to millions of employer-sponsored insurance beneficiaries. Especially during this time of major economic and fiscal uncertainty, we cannot afford to unnecessarily pay more for prescription drugs.
Because the PBM industry is so competitive, market participants have developed distinct tools and methods for achieving savings and providing quality care for clients and their beneficiaries. The proposed merger between Express Scripts and Medco Health Solutions would then combine the best practices of each company to further empower patients with greater and safer prescription choices and savings.
Impeding the merger of two companies that have been hugely successful in lowering costs sends a message to the health care industry that government leaders continue to believe they know best how to address the problems facing our health care system. I hope you and your Subcommittee colleagues will consider supporting real health care reform –represented in the form of this merger – that wouldn't cost taxpayers one cent to enact.
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Chase Lee Galbraith, 2, of Hope passed away Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013, at Riley Hospital. Chase had battled Acute Myeloid Leukemia for 1 year.
Chase and his family attended Columbus Free Methodist Church. He enjoyed going to story time at the library and spending time with his brother, Tristian. He loved all three of the Toy Story movies, Spiderman and Elmo. He also loved Mickey Mouse, whom he got to meet recently when his wish was granted for a trip to Disney World by the Make A Wish Foundation.
Born Dec. 27, 2010 in Shelbyville, Chase was the son of Andrew J. IV and Cortney Pattingill Galbraith. He is survived by his parents of Hope; a brother, Tristian James Galbraith of Hope; grandparents, Samuel and Tracy Fugate of Columbus, Matthew and Dorothy J. Galbraith of Hope, Gary and Kaye Pattingill of Columbus; great grandparents Andrew and Linda Galbraith of Hope, Shirley and Jack Herring of Columbus, Curtis E. Combs Sr. of Greensburg and Mildred Hadley of Columbus; several aunts, uncles and cousins.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 27, 2013, at Columbus Free Methodist Church, 1511 22nd St., in Columbus with Pastor Mark Hurt officiating.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 26, at Norman Funeral Home in Hope and from 10 a.m. until service time Friday at the church. Burial will be at Flat Rock Baptist Cemetery west of Clifford.
Memorial contributions may be donated to Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research at Riley Hospital or The Magic Castle Cart at Riley Hospital (a fund that provides free toys to inpatient children)


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"One thousand people a day are moving to Texas, which means there will be 15 million more people over the next 25 years."
"Last year," Obama "administration officials released into our neighborhoods more than 36,000 criminal immigrants who had nearly 88,000 convictions. The crimes included hundreds of convictions for murder, rape and kidnapping and thousands of drug-related crimes."
In Texas, "a faceless hospital panel can deny life-sustaining care, giving you only 10 days to find another facility for your mother, dad, or young child, even if the patient is conscious."
Since 2000, Texas has reduced "harmful pollutants in the air like nitrogen oxide by 62.5 percent, and ozone by 23 percent--a reduction that is 12 percent greater than the national average."
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Well, ladies, looks like it's that time of year again.
Firstly, let me get something out of the way. To the KC fans who came to Silver and Black Pride after Al's passing away, thank you for your condolences and class during the time. I'm sure if there is an afterlife, Mr Davis and Mr Hunt are preparing to watch the game in the big owners' box right now. And probably death staring at each other.
Now that I've gotten the sappy BS out the way, let's focus on the game.
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Olympus Updates Its PEN Mirrorless Micro Four Thirds Cameras – PEN E-PL5 And E-PM2
tagapagbalita on September 18th, 2012 with 2 Comments
Olympus updated its PEN lite E-PL5 and mini E-PM2 mirrorless Micro Four Thirds cameras. These cameras now has the TruPic VI image processing engine found in their flagship m 4/3 OM-D EM-5. The new image processing engine and 16 megapixels sensor promises a better image quality than its predecessors. As you can see on the PR images above, Olympus now incorporates the hand grip found on the higher PEN model E-P3 which is a welcome design update. Aside from the slight tweak in design, these PEN's got the capacitive touchscreen inherited again from the E-P3. Of course the Art Filters are […]
Leaked Panasonic GF5 (Rumor)
tagapagbalita on March 19th, 2012 with 0 Comments
43 Rumors has posted the rumored leaked image of the Panasonic GF5 Micro Four Thirds camera from an Asian website nphoto.net. It mentioned that the ISO noise levels are as clean as the Canon 7D and 60D. The design is similar to that GF3 that is unfortunately looks ugly for our taste.
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Shooting Impressions and Samples
Regie Fernando on March 14th, 2012 with 1 Comment
Just few hours ago we posted the quick review of a pre-production unit of Olympus OM-D E-M5. I went to Rizal Park to grab the opportunity to shoot with the E-M5 before its return to Japan. Quick and easy, I tested the unit with my usual style, with bright sunlight I usually shoot in Aperture Priority mode and Shutter Priority mode for some motion capture results. Having tested an E-P3 and now a proud owner of E-PL3 I can fairly say that I'm now quite accustomed with Olympus PEN menu system and features, fortunately E-M5′s menu system and has the […]
Quick Review: Olympus OM-D EM-5
Regie Fernando on March 14th, 2012 with 7 Comments
Here we go! One of the hottest mirrorless camera is in our hands right now. RedDot Philippines was kind enough to give us a test run of the new flagship Micro Four Thirds Olympus OM-D E-M5 24 hours before it goes back to Japan. This is a quick preview only but we will try to tackle the important functions of this retro shooter. Please note that this is a pre-production camera and it doesn't represent the final production quality to be released this April. I highly doubt if it will change physically though. The SLR looking E-M5 is quite portable, size […]
Olympus OM-D to be Released on April
Regie Fernando on March 9th, 2012 with 0 Comments
RedDot Philippines the official distributor of Olympus cameras showed us a sneek peek of their latest Micro Four Thirds OM-D at the launching of Tough series cameras. The SLR looking Micro Four Thirds cameras will be available this coming with estimated MSRP is of P56,750 for body only and P62,750 for body with kit lens. The OM-D comes in two colors, the all black and combination silver with touch of black leather seen above.
Olympus PEN Lite E-PL3 Review
Regie Fernando on December 15th, 2011 with 0 Comments
Olympus PEN Lite E-PL3 Review It was just the other day when we published the E-P3 review. It was a pleasant surprise that there is a growing interest with these new generation interchangeable cameras. Right now you'll be reading my take on the PEN Lite, the mid-model m 4/3 Olympus camera. If you haven't done so, kindly hit my Olympus PEN E-P3 review to get a little grasp of my initial impressions on Micro Four Thirds system and some notes comparing it to a DSLR. The E-PL3 was able to travel with me for 3 weeks in the United States on some "travel-vacation" photo […]


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ban·zai (bän′zī′)
used as a Japanese greeting, cheer, and battle cry
Origin: Jpn < Sino-Jpn ban, ten thousand + sai, year, age - from Webster's New College Dictionary
"My job is to score goals, " - Peter Bondra.
Earlier this year, Bruins blueliner Zdeno Chara scored a hat trick in a game. Upon scoring the third goal, Chara motioned to his helmet and pretended to pull off an invisible hat and throw it to the ice. Some neophyte hockey fans may not have realized his celebration was an homage. But Washington Capitals fans knew. It was a tip of the cap to the most prolific goal scorer In Caps history: Peter Bondra.
"The Slovakian Sniper" in fact was not even born in Slovakia. He was born in 1968 in Lutsk, Ukraine where his father had moved after WWII to find work. In 1971, his father moved the family back to the former Czechoslovakia. After his father's death in 1982, Peter and his two older brothers were raised by their mother. Two of the sons (Peter and Juraj) took up hockey Peter played for the team in his hometown of Propad, Slovakia for a season and then advanced to play hockey for the VSZ Kosice team at age 18. His scoring totals went up each year there from 9 to 38 to 40 to 46. Kosice would win a championship with Bondra in the lineup in 1988.
Amazingly Bondra's scoring touch in the Czech league seemed to go unnoticed by NHL scouts until he was 22 years old. Caps longtime scout Jack Button spotted him and recommended Caps GM David Poile to take a chance on the sniper. In the 8th round of the 1990 draft, the Caps picked Bondra 156th overall. Bondra came to North America immediately to prove his worth to the Caps. His 1990-91 rookie season wasn't an easy one and the RW's line read 12g 16a for 28 points in 54 games played. Bondra talked about his transtion to the North American game in a late-career interview:
"Looking back at 1990 when I come here that summer, I didn't know much about NHL. There wasn't Internet. There wasn't satellite to see any games. I knew about a couple players. I knew who Gretzky was. Maybe Mario Lemieux. That was pretty much it. I wasn't ready. I just try and see what happen. If I don't succeed or I don't like it for some reason, I will just come back. That was my mentality. That was my talk in my head. I wasn't here to make a career, make the top, or score 500 goals. I wasn't sure what kind of player I was. I knew I could skate. Maybe I knew I could score some goals. I had some offensive talents. But I just came here to try it...(Caps teammate) Neil Sheehy come to me and told me to take the Jofa (helmet) off and take the CCM. I asked him why? Because the other team will know you're European and will go harder against you. I just put a CCM helmet on. Some of those guys try to help you up, protect you when you go to battle. At the same time, you learn the game. I pretty much learn from beginning. Whatever I knew about the game, you come here, it's different. Totally different game. Different coach. Coaches ask you to do different things. You learn as you go."
What did help his transition though was the presence of teammate Michal Pivonka who helped him on and off the ice. Pivonka had gone through a defection from Eastern Europe to play for the Caps a a few seasons earlier and his mentoring of the younger Slovak seemed to pay dividends. Linemates on the ice and friends off it, Bondra had a much more successful sophomore year scoring 28g and 28a for 56 points and raising his plus minus from -10 to +16. He also scored 6 goals in 7 playoff games that year in another first round exit for the Caps.
Bondra's main strengths were his skating and his shooting. His burst of speed was amazing and was like a shot out of a cannon when a loose puck was available. His wide skating stance gave him great balance and he was always amazing at puckhandling at high speed. It is no surprise Bondra won fastest skater at the NHL Skills Competition in 1997 and 1999. Bondra was probably the premier shooter in the league in his heyday. He had a quick, accurate wrist shot and an overpowering slapper. Combine this with his speed, and goaltenders had trouble getting an angle on his shot as he was so explosive driving the wing and blasting it high from along the boards. His skating and shooting skills are well captured in this video montage.
Bondra's third year (1992-93 ) was a career year in points scored with 85 (37g 48a). The following saw a drop in point production to 43 in 69 games but a career high +22 (he was always an apt defensive player and was effective on PK duty because of his speed). In the lockout-shortened year of 1994-95 he scored an amazing 34 goals in 47 games. The following year, his agent held out him and Pivonka and signed them to play with the IHL Detroit Vipers. After 8 games, the Caps settled with the two holdouts and they would end up having career years. With help from Pivo's 60 assists, Bondra would finish fourth in the league in scoring with 52 goals (80 points overall with the 28 helpers tacked on).
After a 46 goal campaign in 1996-97, Bondra once again led the league in scoring with 52 (tying his career high) and 78 points in the Caps' Stanley Cup year of 1997-98. He went 7g 5a and 12 points in 17 games played during that post season run which would be the closest Bonzai (his favoured nickname by Caps fans) would come to getting the Cup. One of his most memorable plays came in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Final when he ran into Sabres goalie Dominik Hasek who was way out of his crease (link).
The next two years found a dropoff in production due to injuries but he rebounded strongly in 2000-2001 with 45g 36a and 81 points. The next two seasons saw him score 39 and 30 goals respectively. Many expected Bonzai to be a lifelong Cap but in 2003-2004 he was shipped off to Ottawa for Brooks Laich and a 2nd round draft choice (later traded to Colorado). Despite Laich's current status as a fan favourite, there was much disappointment in DC over this trade when it happened. After going back to Slovakia for the lockout season, there was rumour Bondra would resign with the Caps. It never happened though and he spent a lackluster 2005-06 season with the Thrashers scoring 21 goals in 60 games. He'd play one more season with the Blackhawks where his line read 5g and 9a in 37 games played--the definite highlight of the season being his 500th career goal against Toronto, the 37th player to do so. In October 2007, Bondra retired from hockey at age 39.
In 14 years with the Caps, Bondra scored 472 goals and 353 assists in 961 games played.He holds Capitals team records in goals (472), points (825), power-play goals (137), game-winning goals (73), short-handed goals (32) and hat tricks (19). With the Caps he appeared in five all-star games (1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999). A 2004 Capitals fan poll saw him rank second to only Olaf Kolzig as most popular Washington Capital ever.
These days, Bondra still has a hand in hockey as GM of the Slovakian National Team (this latter-day interview with Al Koken sees him at the Verizon Center doing some scouting).Bondra was a successful international player for Slovakia and scored the winning goal to help them win the 2002 World Championships. He lives in Riva, Maryland with his wife and three kids and was a recent member of the Winter Classic Alumni Game. Appropriately enough, he scored the game-tying goal there for the Caps.
Happy 43rd Bonzai!


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As construction begins on Sikes Field, Mercer softball supporters will be able to follow the progression online through an array of photographs.
May 19, 2006
Viewed from behind the University Center. Behind home plate.
The home (left) and visiting (right) dugouts.
The third base bleachers. Viewed from the outfield.
May 31, 2006
Workers prepare to remove the fence posts. The fence capping in left field.
Right field without the fence. The fence capping in left field.
June 1, 2006
Remains of the third base dugout. Remains of the first base dugout.
June 2, 2006
Down the third base line. From center field.
June 9, 2006
Preparation for first base dugout. From right field.
Workers lay first base dugout foundation. Finishing the third base dugout foundation.
June 15, 2006
Down the third base line. Overview from behind home plate.
June 26, 2006
From center field. Behind home plate.
Down the third base line.
Down the first base line.
July 7, 2006
Down the third base line. Down the first base line.
Behind home plate. Workers lay pipes in left field.
July 19, 2006
Down the third base line. Down the first base line.
From behind second base. The third base (visitors) dugout.
July 27, 2006
Down the third base line. Center field with the new fence.
First base (home) dugout. Pouring gravel for the drainage system.
August 2, 2006
Down the third base line. Behind home plate.
Workers move the new sod. The outfield sod gets its first sip of water.
August 9, 2006
Lighting equipment sits behind home plate. Down the first base line.
A light pole sits along the right field line. The newly installed warning track.
August 29, 2006
Workers prepare concrete for the stands. The new outfield fence with capping.
Working on the third-base dugout. View from the pitcher's circle.
September 6, 2006
The new scoreboard. The first base bullpen.
The backstop. The bases are in place.
September 18, 2006
The pressbox waits to be put up. A crane will assist in placing the stands.
The new concession stand window. Workers prepare the way for the stands.
September 19, 2006
The view from the pitcher's circle. The third base dugout.
October 4, 2006
New stands, complete with orange backs. The pressbox gets railing for videographers.
The view from center field.
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HJ Architects Web Design
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When Hanson & Jung Architects approached Jump to design and develop their new online presence, we eagerly accepted the challenge. The existing HJ Architects website was a legacy build; an all-Flash site that had some interesting bells and whistles, but was in need of engaging and up-to-date content, intuitive navigation, and a content management system.
We began by designing a site that is clean and contemporary, using their logo to anchor the site but developing a design that is in sync with the architectural style they deliver in their design. We employed a minimal amount of animation to give the site enough visual intrigue without overdoing it. Using an open source content management system allowed us to deliver an affordable content management solution that meets their needs, giving them the ability to add portfolio sections, edit existing pages, as well as publish news.
The new HJ Architects site was launched in November 2008. Check it out at www.hjarchitects.ca.
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