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Pekka Rinne- The Perfect Goaltending Model
by Paul on 12/03/14 at 04:16 PM ET
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from Jamie McLennan of TSN,
It's no secret, when I've been asked if I had to build a goaltender, what would it look like, the simplest reply I can offer is: Pekka Rinne.
- 6'5"
- unreal flexibility
- elite lateral movement
- great puckhandling
- the Finnish relaxed but intense mental makeup
- durability (can play 70 games in a season)
- structure, but worries about stopping the puck by any means necessary
- elite rebound control because he catches pucks - and this is why I believe Pekka and most Finnish goalies work to give themselves the edge
There are a few reasons I am biased, one being I had the great fortune of playing with one of the most talented goaltenders I've ever come across in Miikka Kiprusoff. Second, I had the opportunity to go to Finland three summers in a row and work with some of their goaltenders and the coaches involved in their development, and watch firsthand the philosophy and thought process behind what they believe to be important in the mechanics of goaltending.
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Simmons devotes a paragraph to hockey on Grey Cup day
by George Malik on 11/30/14 at 03:49 AM ET
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The Grey Cup is taking place today, which is why the Wings-Canucks matinee is the only NHL game on the schedule, and the Toronto Sun's Steve Simmons spends the vast majority of his Sunday notebook discussing the match-up between the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Calgary Stampeders (airing at 6 PM EST on TSN), but he spends one meaty paragraph discussing all things NHL-related:
I wonder if Bob McCown read his own book. In the bestselling 100 Greatest Hockey Arguments, McCown makes a case against Paul Henderson's inclusion in the Hockey Hall of Fame. A strong case. Lately, he has been pushing the Henderson Hall of Fame agenda. Strange ... On Saturday afternoon, the Montreal Canadiens and Vancouver Canucks were tied for the most points in the NHL and that has to be wrong, doesn't it? ... The first quarter MVP in the NHL: Pekka Rinne ...
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Pekka Rinne Is On His Game Again
by Paul on 11/25/14 at 05:08 PM ET
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from Nicholas J. Cotsonika of Yahoo,
He was supposed to be back a year ago, back from hip surgery, back to his old self. But then came an infection, another surgery, another rehab and the worst season of his NHL career. And then came something else, something you wouldn't necessarily expect from a two-time Vezina Trophy finalist with a seven-year, $49 million contract.
"You come back, and in your own head, you think you're going to be the same player that you've always been and you're going to start where you left," Pekka Rinne said. "When it doesn't happen, it's mentally pretty demanding."
Rinne is finally back now, for real. Among the reasons the Nashville Predators are off to one of the best starts in their history – new coach, new players, new up-tempo style, hot rookie, better 5-on-5 play – it's important that they have a healthy, happy, elite goalie again. He entered Tuesday night tied for the lead in wins (13), second in goals-against average (1.92) and third in save percentage (.930).
"He's invaluable," said Predators captain Shea Weber. "You see when he's in the lineup how good we are."
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Pekka Rinne Will Start Tuesday Against Pittsburgh
by Paul on 03/03/14 at 01:01 PM ET
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via Jimi Russell at the Nashville Predators site,
After missing 51 games due to an infection in his surgically repaired hip, goaltender Pekka Rinne will start for Nashville on Tuesday night against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Rinne recently completed a two-game conditioning stint with the American Hockey League's Milwaukee Admirals (Feb. 28-March 3). The Kempele, Finland won both outings, turning away 33-of-35 shots against to post a .99 goals-against average and a .946 save percentage.
In his last five NHL games prior to his injury, Rinne was 3-1-1 with a 1.60 goals-against average and a .937 save percentage – turning away 120-of-128 shots in those contests. The two-time Vezina Trophy finalist is just five wins shy of surpassing Tomas Vokoun's mark in all-time wins (157; Vokoun, 161), and has been among the League's elite since becoming a full-time starter in 2008-09, ranking first in shutouts and among the Top 10 in wins, save percentage and goals-against average prior to his injury.
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Predators Update Pekka Rinne's Health Status
by Paul on 12/20/13 at 05:33 PM ET
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via the Nashville Predators,
As a follow-up to Pekka Rinne's MRI earlier this month, we indicated Dec. 20 as a date for further update and next steps relative to Pekka's recovery from a bacterial infection. It is important to note that Pekka and the medical team have not encountered any setbacks in his recovery and rehabilitation.
However, as we have realized and learned throughout this process, the recovery and rehabilitation from a bacterial infection does not involve a specific timetable. It does come with a degree of uncertainty.
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More Rehab For Pekka Rinne
by Paul on 12/05/13 at 07:36 PM ET
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Rinne had an MRI today..
added 8:00pm, from the Nashville Predators,
Pekka saw Dr. Byrd today – he had an MRI and saw the doctor this afternoon," Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile said. "The MRI has improved. It is always hard to know where we are in this situation because we've never dealt with it before. In a nutshell, the doctor is happy with the progress and he is recommending two more weeks of rehab. December 20th is our target date to get Pekka into more strenuous activity leading back into playing. From my position, I'm obviously encouraged, as is the doctor, because we are making progress. To be honest, there is never going to be a timetable that is going to be perfect for us until we see him back on the ice. But, this is all good news, and December 20th will be the date as we move forward.
"The problem with this situation is there really is no timeframe that we can be exact on. I'm hoping, from listening to the doctor today, that when we get to December 20th, we'll be on the home stretch."
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Update On Pekka Rinne's Health Status
by Paul on 11/10/13 at 07:52 PM ET
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via the Nashville Predators,
Pekka Rinne underwent a MRI earlier this week and he continues to progress in his recovery from a bacterial infection in his hip which was initially identified and addressed with arthroscopic hip surgery on October 24. There have been no setbacks – and we and the doctors are thankful they have identified the infection – so now it is simply a matter of time for recovery and allowing treatment to take its course. Pekka will remain on crutches and antibiotics for at least the next couple weeks before a follow-up MRI in late November. We expect a full and complete recovery and will provide additional updates when appropriate.
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Pekka Rinne Will Visit With Doctors Today
by Paul on 10/24/13 at 09:23 AM ET
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Yesterday the Predators recalled Milwaukee goaltender Magnus Hellberg but no word on the health of Rinne.
update 11:18am,
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Four Month Recovery Period For Pekka Rinne After Hip Surgery
by Paul on 05/09/13 at 03:34 PM ET
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from Josh Cooper of the Tennessean,
Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne recently underwent arthroscopic hip surgery, general manager David Poile said Thursday.
The recovery time is four months, Poile said.
The star netminder saw his numbers drop this season after consecutive years of being named a finalist for the Vezina Trophy, given annually to the NHL's top goaltender. Rinne had a 2.43 goals against average and .910 save percentage, his lowest numbers since the 2009-10 season.
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Shootout Issues For Rinne
by Paul on 03/12/13 at 06:38 AM ET
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from John Glennon of The Tennessean,
Predators goalie Pekka Rinne leads the NHL with four shutouts and ranks among league leaders in goals against average and save percentage, but he's frustrated with his performance in shootouts.
On Monday, Rinne expanded on comments he made after a 2-1 shootout loss to Minnesota on Saturday, when he called himself "terrible in the shootouts" after surrendering goals to two of three Wild shooters.
The Predators have suffered a league-worst five shootout losses, and Rinne's .556 save percentage in shootouts leaves Nashville ranked 21st in that category.
"I feel like I'm probably not so comfortable right now in shootout situations," said Rinne, who had a .700 save percentage in shootouts last year and a .794 save percentage the year before that.
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Video- Save Of The Night, Pekka Rinne Robs Henrik Zetterberg
by Paul on 03/30/12 at 11:45 PM ET
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Video- Bad Goal Of The Night
by Paul on 11/24/11 at 02:08 AM ET
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Pekka Rinne gives up the eventual game winner to Cal Clutterbuck.
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Nashville Extends Rinne
by Paul on 11/03/11 at 02:28 PM ET
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Nashville, Tenn. (November 3, 2011) – Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced today that the club has signed goaltender Pekka Rinne to a seven-year, $49 million contract – the largest in franchise history.
"Today's signing is further evidence of our ownership's commitment to keeping our core intact," Poile said. "This is the first step of a process designed to retain our key players and leaders. Pekka has grown with our franchise, just recently established our franchise record for career shutouts and is now recognized as one of the game's elite players. We're thrilled to know that he will be backstopping our franchise for several years to come."
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The Case for Number One in Goal
by Ian Gooding on 08/22/11 at 10:00 AM ET
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Determining a first overall pick in this year's fantasy hockey drafts is anything but easy, but we probably know this much: the first overall pick won't be a goalie. Yet a goalie is an important investment to fantasy hockey teams, since only two goalies can be responsible for four out of a team's ten stat categories in many fantasy hockey leagues. The need for solid goaltending explains why many starting goalies can fly off the board early in fantasy hockey drafts.
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Video- Rinne On Omark's Latest Shootout Winner
by Paul on 03/02/11 at 11:25 AM ET
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from Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal,
"He comes with a lot of speed and makes you back off, but I don't think he did anything special," said Rinne after the Predators' record fell to 6-4 in shootouts. "He made a nice move, but I thought he fanned on the shot. He was trying to go upstairs and fanned on it and I was leaning a little bit."
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Video- Stick Save
by Paul on 01/24/11 at 06:40 AM ET
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Predators' Lidback Stepping in Nicely for Injured Rinne
by Patrick Hoffman on 12/10/10 at 10:05 PM ET
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from John Manasso at NHL.com:
A few years ago, Nashville coach Barry Trotz and the team's celebrated goaltending coach, Mitch Korn, were watching one of the organization's prospect camps. In goal stood 2008 seventh-round draft pick Anders Lindback.
"We looked at each other and said, 'He looks just like Pekka,'" Trotz said, comparing Lindback to the team's current No. 1 goalie, Pekka Rinne. "'He moves just looks like Pekka.' It was funny because we looked at each other and we just started chuckling because we were both thinking the same thing."
Since Lindback, 22, seemingly came out of nowhere to land the Predators' back-up job—and, for the time being, the No. 1 job with Rinne out for a few weeks with a left knee injury—the comparisons to Rinne are hard to shake.
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Report- Rinne Out Up To A Month With A Knee Injury
by Paul on 12/03/10 at 05:52 PM ET
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via Bryan Mullen tweet,
Rinne out 2-4 weeks with left knee injury, per a Predators official.
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Bad Goal Of The Night
by Paul on 04/27/10 at 12:05 AM ET
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Pekka Rinne goes out to play the puck on a shoot-in, but….
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Predators Re-Sign Pekka Rinne
by Paul on 02/24/10 at 04:33 PM ET
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via John Glennon of the Tennessean,
The Predators have re-signed goalie Pekka Rinne to a two-year, $6.8 million contract.
The team is expected to officially announce the signing later this afternoon.
Rinne will make $2.8 million during the 2010-11 season and $4.0 million during the 2011-12 season.
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Two Goalies In The Calder Race
by Paul on 03/12/09 at 03:00 PM ET
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from Dan Pollard of TSN,
Nashville's Pekka Rinne is giving the Blue Jackets' Steve Mason a run for top rookie honours. Both have helped put their teams in a position to make the playoffs this year. For Columbus it would be the franchises maiden voyage into the post-season.
There's not much to choose from when comparing the goaltenders numbers wise.
Other than shutouts, Rinne's numbers are better or almost identical to Masons.
That being said, when forced to make a choice my support leans to Mason.
read on and more NHL topics (fighting and Daniel & Henrik Sedin)...
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Backing Up Nashville
by Alanah McGinley on 07/28/08 at 07:55 PM ET
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Neil Bristow at Hockey Prime Time has an interview with Nashville Predators' goalie Pekka Rinne online which he was good enough to mention to me today. Rinne is set to back up Dan Ellis this coming season (which didn't impress Brian Costello at THN very much yesterday) so maybe now's a good time to get to know the guy better.
From Hockey Prime Time:
Neil Bristow - You made your NHL debut Dec.15th 2005. Can you share with us a little of what that was like? What was going through your mind at that time?
Pekka Rinne - It was something that I had always been dreaming of. At that time both Tomas Vokoun and Chris Mason were hurt and I got the call. Everything happened pretty fast and I didn`t have time to stress about the game, we won the game and it was just amazing experience I'll remember for rest of my life.
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EAU CLAIRE — University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire junior Kelsey Swanson, Chaska, Minn., has received recognition for a paper she wrote during a semester abroad at Harlaxton College in Lincolnshire, U.K. Swanson is a member of UW-Eau Claire's Honors Program.
The paper, written for the course "Literature 330: Romancing Arthur," was selected for the Best Scholarly Paper Award at Harlaxton College during the spring 2010 semester. Swanson's professor, Dr. Roger Pieroni, of the University of Evansville in Indiana, praised her paper as "graduate-level work."
Swanson's paper, titled "Guinevere: Victorian Gender, Sexuality and Nature," was a character study of Lord Tennyson's Guinevere in his "Idylls of the King," with particular emphasis on Victorian gender ideology apparent throughout the idylls, according to Swanson. She focused on the male view of women and their sexuality throughout the idylls and the expectations they had of women.
"I also make note how these male-invented ideals give the female a particular role and power over the men of Tennyson's version of King Arthur's court," she said.
The Harlaxton program is a study abroad opportunity offered through the UW-Eau Claire Center for International Education and Harlaxton College, which is owned by the University of Evansville. The program is for students wishing to study with American students and professors as well as British faculty members. With the cooperation of her professors in Harlaxton, Swanson took "Romancing Arthur" as an Honors Program contract course, simultaneously earning academic credit through Harlaxton and Honors Program credit at UW-Eau Claire. Coincidentally, the Harlaxton program has recently created its own Honors Program, which will offer courses to UW-Eau Claire Honors Program students who study there.
For more information about the Harlaxton program and study abroad, contact the Center for International Education at 715-836-4411 or email@example.com. Information about the UW-Eau Claire Honors Program can be found online at or by calling 715-836-3261.
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If you've taken the time to record an action in Photoshop, or you've edited an existing action, you're going to want to save it, otherwise you run the risk if losing it if Photoshop decides to crash on you. Thankfully, Adobe has made it easy for us to save our actions, although there is one thing you need to be aware of. Photoshop does not allow us to save individual actions. We can only save action sets. So if you record or edit an action and want to save it (which of course you'll want to do), you'll need to select and save the entire action set. This is one of the main reasons why I suggested earlier that you should avoid placing your own actions inside any of the action sets that Photoshop comes with. Keep all of your actions inside your own action sets, which will make it easy to save them, load them, and keep them organized.
To save an action set, first select the set you want to save in the Actions palette. I have a couple of actions inside my "My Actions" set – the "Soft Glow" action we created in the previous section and the "Improved Photo Corners" action, which is a customized version of the original "Photo Corners" action that comes with Photoshop. I want to save this action set, so I'll select it in the Actions palette:
With the action set selected, click on the menu icon in the top right corner of the Actions palette, or if you're using Photoshop CS2 or earlier, click on the small right-pointing arrow. This brings up the Actions palette's menu. Select Save Actions from the menu:
Photoshop will pop open the Save dialog box. Save your action set to a location on your computer where you'll be able to easily access it later. I've created a folder on my Desktop named "Actions" and I'll save the "My Actions" set into this folder. This will make it easy for me to find the action set later if I need to load it back into Photoshop. Make sure you save your action set with the extension ".atn" after the name if you want your actions to be playable on both a PC and a Mac. When you're ready, click on the Save icon in the dialog box to save your actions:
Your actions are now saved! If Photoshop crashes at this point, your actions will be safe. Of course, if your computer crashes, you'll probably lose Photoshop, your actions and everything else, so I would highly suggest backing up your actions on to a recordable CD or DVD, or on to an external hard drive just in case.
Resetting The Actions Palette To The Defaults
Now that we've saved our actions, let's clear everything out of the Actions palette and reset it to just the Default Actions set. To do that, click once again on the menu icon in the top right corner of the Actions palette, or the small arrow if you're using a version of Photoshop prior to CS3, and select Reset Actions from the menu:
Photoshop will pop up a warning box, as if often does, asking if you really want to replace the existing actions with the Default Actions set. Click OK to close the dialog box and rest your actions:
If we look in our Actions palette now, we can see that all of the action sets have disappeared. Only the Default Actions set remains:
Loading Actions Into Photoshop
Now that we've cleared out and cleaned up our Actions palette, let's load the action set we saved a moment ago. Click on the menu icon (or the small right-pointing arrow) in the top right corner of the Actions palette to bring up the menu, then select Load Actions from the menu choices:
This brings up the Load dialog box. Navigate to where you saved your action set on your computer, select the action set, then click on the Load button in the dialog box. My action set was saved to a folder named "Actions" on my Desktop, so that's where I'll navigate to. I'll click on the "My Actions" set, then I'll click Load:
And now, if we look once again in the Actions palette, we can see that the "My Actions" set has been successfully loaded back in to Photoshop:
Notice how the action set appears already twirled open in the Actions palette. That's because it was twirled open when I saved it. Action sets will appear either opened or closed after being loaded in to the Actions palette depending on how they appeared when they were saved.
And there we have it! We've now covered everything you need to know to get up and running with Photoshop actions!


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The leak was detected Nov. 28 during a workover of the well, which included pulling the production tubing, and has left 130,000 b/d of oil production shut in from Snorre A as well as 75,000 b/d of oil from the Vigdis satellite field, which uses the Snorre A facilities for processing.
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Last week the French group Generations Futures announced findings from a small biomonitoring study of children living and learning near agricultural fields. Eighty percent of the children tested had been exposed to agricultural pesticides in the previous three months.
Researchers took hair samples from 30 children living or attending school within a 1/10 of a mile of agricultural areas. Analysis of the samples found "traces of 53 pesticides believed to affect the hormone system of mammals, leading to cancerous tumors, birth defects, developmental disorders and learning disabilities in humans."
Pesticides are an everyday part life in our town. Sometimes we can see or smell the drifting chemicals, sometimes they are invisible. But we know they are there — especially in the fall when fields are fumigated, and this time of year when new plants are sprayed.
So I wasn't surprised when health officials released a report last week showing that children in our part of California — the Central Valley — are most likely to be in schools near pesticide-sprayed fields. We've been telling our stories for years, and unfortunately policymakers haven't heard us. As a mom, I'm very much hoping that maybe now we will see some change.
A few weeks ago I heard Dr. Marla Spivak give a "State of the Bees" address to a packed auditorium in Minneapolis. At the end of her presentation, an audience member raised his hand and asked: "What state is doing the most to protect bees?" Dr. Spivak only paused for a moment before answering, "Well, I'd have to say Minnesota."
Dr. Spivak may be biased, since her Bee Lab is based at the University of Minnesota (and I guess I could be too). But I think she's onto something: Minnesota is getting a move on protecting its pollinators.
It's no surprise: pesticide corporations go to great lengths to protect the public image of their products. We've been highlighting their PR hijinks for years, and their attempts to spin facts to suit their agenda have only gotten more blatant.
Bees and pesticides provide the latest example. Corporate attempts to reframe the conversation, and subvert independent science, have gone into hyperdrive. Bayer, Syngenta and Monsanto in particular are positioning themselves as "bee friendly" — no matter that several top selling pesticide products are directly linked to bee deaths.
At a funder conference I'm attending this week, we began by singing the venerable labor song, "Which side are you on?" I thought it was an especially appropriate choice because at PAN, we're joining our allies around the world in reflecting on the intersections between worker's rights, safety and public health.
This week, as we note both International Workers Memorial Day and May Day (International Workers Day across much of the world), I'm reminded of how important it is for all of us who care about the food system to take sides with the system's workers.
This is very powerful data. A new, first-of-its-kind report from California's Department of Health (DPH) shows that health-harming agricultural pesticides are being sprayed close to schools across the state.
Not just a few pesticides, either — or a few schools. More than 500,000 California children in hundreds of schools spend their days within 1/4 mile of pesticide applications. Of these, more than 100,000 (mostly Latino) children in 226 schools attend classrooms near fields with the heaviest use of dangerous chemicals. We have a problem.
Things are looking up for opponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Although a bill to "fast track" this wide-ranging trade agreement was introduced late last year, opposition to quickly green-lighting the TPP has led Congressional leaders to slow down the process.
Labor and farmer organizations, among many others, have effectively made the case for more transparency before approving what will be the largest international trade agreement to date. And although President Obama is in Japan this week, seeking alignment on key issues within the TPP, it will not likely be signed into law in 2014.
April 25th is World Malaria Day, a time to look back at progress made over the past year in the quest to control this dangerous disease. We also take a look at progress made in the shift toward sustainable, least toxic and effective malaria control tools.
Last year, we marked the day by highlighting on-the-ground successes in Senegal, Kenya and Ethiopia in reducing malaria with community based approaches. This year I join my colleague Dr. Paul Saoke from Physicians for Social Responsibility, Kenya to give our on-the-ground perspective on the path we think malaria control needs to take going forward.
The last of the late spring snowstorms are winding down here in the Midwest, and it won't be long before corn goes into the ground. With corn-planting, of course, comes atrazine applications. And though atrazine doesn't get much use in the colder months, this winter hasn't been a quiet one for the notorious herbicide and its manufacturer, the Syngenta Corporation.
In the last few months, investigative reporters in the U.S. and Canada have highlighted Syngenta's desperate scrambling to discredit atrazine's critics. Recent pieces in major outlets like the New Yorker and Canada's 16 x 9, building on important findings first published in 100Reporters, have pulled back the curtain on Syngenta's PR machine for a broader audience. The message? In the pesticide industry, spin is half the business.
Last week, Swiss-based pesticide corporation Syngenta dumped tens of thousands of dollars into a county election in Southern Oregon. Sound familiar? It should. Still reeling from their recent defeat in Kaua'i, Syngenta and the rest of the "Big 6" don't want to lose any more fights around pesticides and GMOs.
But Oregononians are holding their ground. Led by a group of farmers dubbed Our Family Farms Coalition, these residents put an initiative on the ballot that would restrict the planting of genetically engineered crops. The vote will be on May 20.
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Dr. J. Colman Feore is from Waterford, Ireland. He received his MD from the National University of Ireland and completed internships at St. Finbarr Hospital in Cork, Ireland, and The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore before completing his residency at Johns Hopkins.
Following a two-year fellowship in infertility and female endocrinology at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and the Boston Hospital for Women, Dr. Feore became an Instructor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at The Harvard School of Medicine.
He is Board Certified and is a member of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Giving patients the opportunity to experience the miracle of birth is one of Dr. Feore's greatest joys, and as a result, he devotes a portion of his practice to infertility counseling as well as tubal microsurgery and the reversal of tubal sterilization.
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The issues teens struggle with have not changed in several hundred years; these days, they are just broadcast to everyone through text messaging, cell phones, and Facebook. Most of the struggles I see teens talking about can be categorized into two themes: fitting in socially and making sense of the world. Their social life is second to nothing — "confusion" may be an over simplistic word describing what teens feel as they work to bring into alignment their perception of things with the messages they get from TV, the internet, and caring adults.
I work full-time as a middle school counselor and I know firsthand how difficult these years are. Sweet, freckle-faced children slowly mutate into bundles of explosive hormones. Telling a seventh grader not to worry about some middle school drama makes about as much sense as telling a monkey not to climb trees. Their friends' influence is massive during middle school — and who your friends are, according to a fourteen year old, can make or break you.
The struggle to define oneself through friends, while blazing a path to individuality, is typical for middle schoolers. Sadly, what is also typical is that many students trudge on with holes in their lives that should be filled with a loving parent. Instead, these spaces are filled with the memory of the last time they saw mom or dad. The child, living in a broken home with one caring adult and maybe a step-parent, wants a relationship with the parent they rarely, if ever, see. This parent may choose to be absent even though they are just across town, their whereabouts may be unknown, or they may be deceased. In my experience, I have found that teens have a particularly difficult time handling the situation when a parent is physically present but emotionally absent.
Much has been written on this topic including John Eldredge's Wild at Heart and Meg Meeker's Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters.  In their book Freakonomics, Steven Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner relay the story of how a card company, on Mother's Day, gave every inmate at a local prison a card to send to his mother. They could hardly meet the demand. A few weeks later on Father's Day, when cards were again afforded to the prisoners, none were sent. The inmates either hated their fathers or did not know them. The influence of a parent far outweighs the credence many seem to give it.
What is a child to do? What are parents, step-parents, guardians, and counselors to do as they try to help a child develop appropriately through the turbulent teen years in the absence of a crucial adult figure? The following is what I have done with some success.
The child's desire to be with the absent parent (Parent A) runs deep as he carries extreme guilt in the belief that he has done something wrong to push Parent A away. "Why didn't she call me?" the desperate boy asks as yet another birthday comes and goes.
With a deep desire to control their environment, these teens try and fail at bringing their parents closer to them. Therefore, helping the child develop boundaries with Parent A is important in resolving the conflict of continuing on with his life, even if Parent A does not want to be around. Carrying both sides of a relationship can be excruciating, so a time-table of tasks that includes an ending date can help the child draw an emotional boundary line. Sending letters, making phone calls, and journaling about the experience can all serve as landmarks showing what the child has done to reconcile with Parent A. This puts the proverbial ball into Parent A's court, allowing the child to relinquish himself of the thought that he must do something else to get the parent involved in his life. Instead, he is seeing that he is doing something and therefore can rest easy knowing that at least he tried.
A Good Mother
Many of my middle school boys reside with their mothers and may or may not have a stepfather. Several of these mothers have come to me with questions like, "Why does he act this way?" "Why can't I control him?" "Why does he have a temper problem?" My heart goes out to the mother who is having a tough time dealing with a boy who is rampaging into puberty. A boy's desire to have a father figure in his life is extreme, making it all the more difficult for the single mom to meet her son's needs. For the mother who is at a loss with her boy, recommending books such as Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dan Kindlon & Michael Thompson can help a frazzled mother understand why her son does not want to sit quietly and enjoy a cup of afternoon tea. Also, That's My Son: How Moms Can Influence Boys to Become Men of Character by Rick Johnson would of course be another good choice. Equally on the dad's side of things, there are books that are helpful such as Leonard Sax's Girls on the Edge. In this list, I'd also include the Meeker and Eldredge books mentioned earlier.
Support Through Groups
As was mentioned earlier, one common attribute of teens is their desire to be in groups. The social aspect of their personality controls nearly every decision they make. Just sitting with a counselor answering questions can be too much sometimes.
One year, my school had nine different boys with a deceased father. I decided to create a support group for these boys. Their situations were very diverse. They lived in step-family situations, single parent homes, and one was even in foster care. Their personalities were also very different in terms of rebellious behavior, academic performance, and extracurricular activities. Despite this spectrum, they developed a strong sense of camaraderie due to the fact that they all had someone very important missing from their lives. We discussed their individual stories, the grieving process, and what it meant to be a man.
Over the six-month period that we met, the boys opened up about their struggles, frustrations, and fears. It was in this setting that I saw how fragile yet resilient boys can be in the absence of a biological father. The group could have easily been a weekly pity party, but instead we utilized it as a chance to learn about manhood and locate assets important for success.
Hopefully, through the care and guidance of adults, these impressionable children and teens can grow into strong and productive adults.
Dale Sadler is an artist, hiker, public speaker, and the author of How to Argue with Your Teen & Win; an e-book that can help you communicate better with your teen the very first day. Dale works full time as a School Counselor in a middle school, and at his private counseling practice, he specializes in marriage, parenting, and men's issues. Dale's passion for the family compels him to aid them in their journeys towards peace and empowerment. Find out more at www.dalesadler.net, www.insearchformore.com, or follow him on Twitter @DaleSadlerLPC.
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I happen to have a strong love for my slow cookers. Yes, that was plural because I own four - my husband's friends Mom is going to give me more. They all range in sizes from really small to really big. I love slow cooker meals. If I could make dinner in one every night, I would. My husband, not so much. I tend to use mine year round. They are great in the summer when we have been out all day and I do not want to cook. Along with my love of slow cookers, I also love Gooseberry Patch books. They always have great recipes and craft ideas. One of my favorite Gooseberry Patch books is the "Slow Cooker Recipes" cookbook. I made this for dinner last night and thought it was fabulous. I did not take a picture so I copied a picture from another site.
6 boneless chicken breasts
1 to 2 T oil (I used olive)
1 onion, chopped
1/4 C fresh parsley, minced
2 10 3/4 oz cans cream of mushroom soup (I use fat free ones)
1/2 C sour cream (I use fat free)
1/2 C milk (I use fat free)
1 T nutmeg (I grate mine fresh, it is so much better)
1/4 t each dried sage, rosemary, thyme
In a skillet, over medium heat, brown the chicken n oil; reserve drippings. Arrange chicken in bottom of slow cooker; set aside. Saute onion and parsley in drippings until onion is tender. Add remaining ingredients, mix well and pour over chicken. Cover and cook on low setting for 5 hours until chicken is done. Serve over cooked rice.
I absolutely loved this. Eleanor is not into the sauce on her chicken, so I simply cut up some and served hers with the rice. For us I poured the sauce over the rice and chicken. I did not brown the chicken because I forgot to defrost it (common problem here). I have always read to add 2 hours to the cooking time when using frozen meat, however this was still done in 5 hours.


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Recently by Thomas R. Eddlem: Was Maine Stolen From Ron Paul?
Will Mitt Romney's "victory" in the February 11 Maine presidential caucuses be taken away like his phony victory in Iowa? That now seems quite possible. The Maine GOP declared the former Massachusetts Governor the narrow winner of the state's presidential caucus February 11, but Romney's 194-vote margin of victory over Texas Congressman Ron Paul is being whittled away as more results have been reported.
Moreover, the state's rural Washington County – along with a few other communities that postponed their caucuses February 11 – will hold the final caucuses Saturday, February 18 and may decide the victor of the non-binding straw poll.
But GOP Party Chairman Charlie Webster insists that he will not release updated results from the additional caucuses, even as he comes under increasing fire from his fellow Maine Republicans and national Ron Paul campaign officials. In results in the three counties that have been released to the public, Ron Paul won more votes than were reported in the official results. Webster claims that the missing votes – when all of them are counted — will favor Romney, and that he is not going to give the press access to updated results. "No one has access," he told the Daily Caller February 15. "There will be no access. We will give it to the committee on March 10. We are not going to release them [the missing votes]. People can whine and complain and plead, but I'm not going to make them public."
Webster admits there were clerical errors in the tally on February 11. "What I tell people is that I'm not going to fire my staff because they make clerical errors," he told the Daily Caller. "My poor staffer is in tears, because people are harassing her."
Washington County, which will caucus February 18, has some powerful party officials who are already complaining about Webster's claim he will not announce updated results. "I think it's not surprising that there would be very strong objections to the notion that our votes wouldn't count in Washington County," Maine Senate President Kevin Raye (R-Perry) told the Bangor Daily News February 14. "I've made known my position that those votes should count and the [GOP] chair said he would take that request to the state committee." Raye's district is in Washington County.
While Paul campaign officials immediately balked about the Maine GOP Chairman's premature decision to award Romney the victory in advance of the Washington County caucuses, errors in the official vote totals have metastasized as more results have become known. "It's no longer just about Washington County," the Christian Science Monitor reported February 15. "There are towns whose votes went uncounted, and other towns whose caucus dates are yet to come. Plus – and here's the big finish – the Paul forces are now fully alerted, and if you've ever been on their wrong side, you know what that means. Their social media organizations are going to be focused on turning out more caucus attendees than the Washington County GOP has ever seen."
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- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 cups water, divided
- 1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
- 3/4 cup cold whole milk
- 2 (14-ounce) packages frozen guanabana (soursop) purée, such as Goya brand, thawed in refrigerator (3 cups)
- 2 (1/2-pound) papayas
- 2 mangoes
- 1/2 cup fresh pomegranate seeds
- 2 teaspoons fresh lime juice
Bring sugar and 1 1/4 cups water to a boil in a small saucepan, stirring until sugar has dissolved. Transfer syrup to a metal bowl and quick-chill by putting bowl in an ice bath and stirring occasionally until cold, about 5 minutes.
Add remaining 1/4 cup water to saucepan and sprinkle gelatin over it, then let stand 1 minute to soften. Bring to a bare simmer, stirring until gelatin has dissolved. Add to syrup along with milk and guanabana purée.
Freeze mixture in ice cream maker, then transfer to an airtight container and put in freezer to harden, about 2 hours.
Peel, halve, and seed papayas, then cut into bite-size pieces. Peel and pit mangoes, then cut into bite-size pieces. Toss fruit with pomegranate seeds and lime juice and serve with slightly softened sherbet.
Cooks' note: Sherbet keeps 1 week.
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main ingredients: Lime, Papaya, Mango, Tropical Fruit, Pomegranate
cuisine: Central American/Caribbean
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Munoz–Torrero J et al. – Elevated Lp(a) plasma levels are associated with higher proinflammatory markers in patients newly diagnosed as having Metabolic Syndrome (MS).Methods
- Eighty-four white patients with MS were classified according to two Lp(a) levels (normal Lp[a]: < 30 mg/dL or high Lp[a]: > 30 mg/dL) and were compared with 42 healthy controls.
- Oxidative stress biomarkers (oxidized low-density lipoprotein, antibodies to oxidized low-density lipoprotein, and nitric oxide metabolites) and proinflammatory cytokines (interleukin [IL]-2, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-10, IL-12P70, IL-13, and interferon-gamma) were measured in plasma.
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- Among the group members, 58 patients had normal Lp(a) levels and 26 had high Lp(a) levels.
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A grocery price book is a time-tested tool that can empower you to save hundreds of dollars on groceries every year. There are four key ways it can help you save but the basic concept is simple – track a product's price over a span of time and determine the sale cycle for it. Then only buy it on sale and buy enough to last until the next expected sale.
Traditionally a price book has been a tablet (the old school paper kind) used to record a product's price, size, unit price, and date of purchase. Every time the price changes you pencil in a new entry to the product's list. A tablet is fine for doing this job – in fact, thousands of people have had success with this method. But, come on, its a mobile age and an app can do the job better because it is simply more convenient to use. And the more you update a price book, the more powerful this savings tool becomes.
Let's look at some examples taken from data I've collected with my app, ValueTracker for iPhone and iPod touch, that illustrate the four key ways a price book can help you save.
Identify Sale Cycles
A 14 ounce can of lite sliced pears has a regular price of $1.35. It goes on sale for $1.09 or less about once a month. I like pears and buy 5 cans a week. (Yes, this is a money-saving math problem.) If I pay the regular price for three weeks and the sale price for one week that's $25.70 a month times 12 months equaling $308.40 a year for pears. But if I only buy at $1.09, and buy enough to last until the next sale, I'll spend $283.40 a year. That's a savings of $25. Now extend this same strategy to ten products or twenty and the savings can be substantial.
Seasonal Shifts in Pricing
But a price book is good for more than just identifying sale cycles. It can help you identify what produce is in-season, which is sometimes not obvious when stores stock the same fruits and vegetables year-round. I also like cantaloupe and from mid-June through mid-September it goes for $0.69 to $0.89 a pound. It's in-season and at it's lowest price range. By October it goes for $1.19 a pound. So October is the time to switch to a different fruit and save on the higher out-of-season cost.
Unit Pricing
The only way to compare the actual cost of products with varying prices and sizes is to know the unit pricing. A unit price is calculated by dividing a product's price by its size – net weight, fluid ounces, count, etc. Garbage bags are, by their very nature, already trash when you buy them. I like to pay the least amount possible but with several choices of varying price and count for 13-gallon bags the only way to compare them is by unit price or cost per bag. Yes, more math.
- Brand A $6.97 50 bags $0.139 per bag
- Brand B $11.57 100 bags $0.116 per bag
- Brand C $6.97 85 bags $0.082 per bag
- Brand D $3.97 32 bags $0.124 per bag
- Brand E $7.47 80 bags $0.093 per bag
Unit pricing makes it clear which product has the actual lowest cost. It's a small savings but there is no reason to pay more.
Value Decisions
This fourth savings benefit is not as easily measured as the others. It's simply this – a price book makes you alert to increases in a product's price and/or decreases in its size. You won't be easily fooled when a product's redesigned packaging tries to distract you from a decrease in size. Recently, a national store brand has been redesigning the packaging for its product line. The $2.98 bag of chips is still $2.98 but its been downsized – it used to have a net weight of 19 ounces but now it's 18 ounces. Still a good value? Maybe, depending on how the unit price compares to other brands. But I prefer an honest price increase over a deceptive size decrease.
Get An App For That
Now that you know how a grocery price book can help you save, here's what you should look for in an app:
- 1 – The ability to add a product with its price, size, and purchase date. Yes, this one is kind of obvious but it's the beginning of every price book and not to be overlooked.
- 2 – The most important feature, however, is a chronological listing of a product's data. This is the very heart of every price book and the key means of identifying sale cycles and seasonal pricing. Every product needs a tracking list.
- 3 – The ability to backdate entries if you input information from a sales receipt days later. Accurate dates are as important as accurate prices and sizes.
- 4 – The ability to reorder your list of products to match the store's layout so there's no excessive scrolling to find the next product. Stores don't shelve products in alphabetical order so your product list shouldn't be sorted that way either.
- 5 – An easy interface for updating a product's price and size.
- 6 – A built-in unit pricing calculator for the time-saving convenience of staying within the app while shopping. Even better if you can do multiple side-by-side calculations for easy comparing.
You may notice this list doesn't mention scanning bar codes or accessing internet databases for pricing information. That's because a price book's usefulness depends on accurate, local data and you – the person standing in the store, looking at the shelf price and sale price – are the most accurate source of information.
Savings are just an app away. Visit the App Store, Google Play, or wherever you download apps and do a "grocery price book" search. Find the app that suits your style and start saving.
About the Author: T.R.Baillargeon from thegrayworks.com is the Independent iOS Developer of ValueTracker, the grocery price book app for iPhone and iPod touch. ValueTracker is available on the App Store: http://itunes.com/apps/valuetracker


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Afghan officials have raised the death toll to 38 people following a suicide bomb attack at a hospital in Afghanistan.
The UN said the hospital's maternity ward was badly damaged in Saturday's blast, and many of the victims were women and children.
Dozens of people were also wounded, officials said. Estimates of the casualties, which included patients and medical staff, varied widely as chaos enveloped the facility in Azra district of eastern Logar province, which is just south of capital Kabul.
The bomber had been driving an "SUV packed with explosives," officials said.
"The target of the blast is not clear but what is obvious is that a hospital was attacked and civilians were killed ... The casualties are all patients, their visitors and relatives and hospital personnel," Deen Mohammad Darwish, a spokesman for the Logar provincial government, said.
Mohammad Zaref Nayebkhail, the provincial health director, said the death toll could be significantly higher than initial estimates as many people had come to the scene quickly after the blast and removed the bodies of their relatives.
President Hamid Karzai and his government strongly condemned the attack.
"Our health centres are not the place of political and military activities and our staff do not engage in political activities," said Dr Soraya Daleel, Afghanistan's minister of public health.
"This is an inhumane action and we condemn it," she said.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid denied responsibility for the attack. "We condemn this attack on a hospital ... whoever has done this wants to defame the Taliban," he said.
Counterterrorism summit
Saturday's attack came as Afghan President Hamid Karzai told a counterterrorism summit in Iran that despite his government's efforts, extremist violence was on the rise in both his country and the region.
"Unfortunately, despite all the achievements in the fields of education, infrastructure and reconstruction, not only has Afghanistan not yet achieved peace and security, but terrorism is expanding and threatening more than ever Afghanistan and the region," he told the opening session.
On Friday, 10 people were killed by a bicycle bomb, which went off in a busy bazaar in Khad Abad district of the northern province of Kunduz.
Earlier this week, US President Barack Obama announced that 33,000 US forces would leave Afghanistan by the end of next summer.
All foreign combat forces are due to pull out of the country by the end of 2014. There are currently up to 150,000 foreign forces in Afghanistan, including around 99,000 from the US.
Some analysts fear that Afghan security forces may struggle to contain violence, which has reached record levels, as withdrawals start to get under way.
Nearly 2,800 civilians were killed in Afghanistan last year, according to the UN.
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