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Sex and the Pursuit of Happiness: How Other People's Sex Lives are Related to our Sense of Well-Being
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A growing literature suggests that income, marriage, friendship, sex, and a variety of other factors influence self-reported happiness. Why these characteristics matter has been less examined. Scholars have recently demonstrated that part of the effect of income is relative. More income makes people happier, in part, because it sets them above their peers. Until now, the role of relative comparison in the study of happiness has been limited to income. The current work extends this focus to another activity—sex. Using GSS data, I examine how respondents' frequency of sex, as well as the average sexual frequency of their cohort, influences their happiness. The findings suggest that happiness is positively correlated with their own sexual frequency, but inversely correlated with the sexual frequency of others.
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- Title
- Sex and the Pursuit of Happiness: How Other People's Sex Lives are Related to our Sense of Well-Being
- Journal
Social Indicators Research
Volume 116, Issue 1 , pp 115-135
- Cover Date
- 2014-03-01
- 10.1007/s11205-013-0267-1
- Print ISSN
- 0303-8300
- Online ISSN
- 1573-0921
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Happiness
- Subjective well-being
- Sex
- Reference groups
- Social comparison
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Tim Wadsworth (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Sociology, UCB327, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA


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If you think the Angels are going to have a tough time contending in 2014, wait until 2016.
At that point, they are going to have about $100 million committed to four players: Albert Pujols, who will be 36 on opening day; Jered Weaver, 33; Josh Hamilton, 34; and C.J. Wilson, 35. They'll also be paying Mike Trout at least $10 million by then.
What that ought to tell you is the Angels don't really have the opportunity to use 2014 as the start of any sort of "rebuilding" phase. They need to maximize their chances to win the World Series before their highest-paid players get to an age when they are almost certain to have their performance and their salary going in opposite directions.
While it's going to be easier for them to field a winning team next year than a few years later, it's still going to be a difficult task for General Manager Jerry Dipoto, or whoever is running the show.
Fixing the Angels begins with improving the starting rotation. For all the hand-wringing over Pujols and Hamilton, the reason the Angels didn't win this season is the starting pitching didn't live up to expectations.
It was a combination of poor performances from pitchers such as Tommy Hanson and Joe Blanton, and a lack of depth to replace Weaver and Jason Vargas when they were injured.
Poor starting pitching leads to bullpen problems by causing relievers to be overworked, and it also puts a strain on hitters constantly forced to come from behind.
Weaver, Wilson and Garrett Richards are essentially set for three of the five spots next season.
To be a championship-caliber team, the Angels likely need to find two other starters who are No. 3 caliber pitchers, not No. 5s.
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Vargas made $8.5 million this season. Edwin Jackson, who has similar career stats but better raw stuff, signed for $12 million a year last winter. Vargas' annual salary probably will fit between those two figures.
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To get a pitcher like that, the Angels likely would have to part with a big piece of their major league roster.
Howie Kendrick and Mark Trumbo are the two most logical players to be discussed. Second base is the deepest position in the organization, including newly acquired Grant Green. Trumbo could be expendable if the Angels are confident in getting back a healthy Pujols to play first base.


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Settler colonialism
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Settler colonialism is a form of colonial formation whereby foreign family units move into a region. An imperial power oversees the immigration of these settlers who consent, often only temporarily, to government by that authority. This colonization sometimes leads, by a variety of means, to depopulation of the previous inhabitants, and the settlers take over the land left vacant by the previous residents. Unlike other forms of colonialism, the "colonizing authority" (the imperial power) is not always the same nationality as the "colonizing workforce" (the settlers) in cases of settler colonialism. The settlers are, however, generally viewed by the colonizing authority as racially superior to the previous inhabitants, giving their social movements and political demands greater legitimacy than those of colonized peoples in the eyes of the home government.
Land is the key resource in settler colonies, whereas natural (e.g. gold, cotton, oil) and human (e.g. labor, existing trade networks, convertible souls) resources are the main motivation behind other forms of colonialism. Normal colonialism typically ends, whereas settler colonialism lasts indefinitely, except in the rare event of complete evacuation (e.g., the Lost Colony of Roanoke) or settler decolonization. The historian of race and settler colonialism Patrick Wolfe writes that "settler colonialism destroys to replace" and insists that "invasion", in settler colonial contexts, is "a structure, not an event".[1]
This definition, by contrast, comes from the Settler Colonial Studies website:[2]
Settler colonialism is a global and transnational phenomenon, and as much a thing of the past as a thing of the present. There is no such thing as neo-settler colonialism or post-settler colonialism because settler colonialism is a resilient formation that rarely ends. Not all migrants are settlers: settlers come to stay, and are founders of political orders who carry with them a distinct sovereign capacity. And settler colonialism is not colonialism: settlers want Indigenous people to vanish (but can make use of their labour before they are made to disappear). Sometimes settler colonial forms operate within colonial ones, sometimes they subvert them, sometimes they replace them. But even if colonialism and settler colonialism interpenetrate and overlap, they remain separate as they co-define each other.
In the ancient world[edit]
Settler colonialism has occurred extensively throughout human history, including in the ancient world.
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Greek settlers founded city-states through much of the coastlines of the Mediterranean. Under the Macedonian Empire, the Hellenistic pattern of settler colonies extended deep into Western Asia. However, many of the people living in these cities were non-ethnic Greeks who had adopted the dominant Ancient Greek language and its concomitant Hellenistic civilization.
The Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire commonly established settler colonies in newly conquered regions. The colonists in these colonies were often veterans of the Roman army, who received agricultural land to develop. These agricultural communities provided bastions of loyal citizens in often hostile areas of the Empire, and often accelerated the process of Romanisation among the nearby conquered peoples. For examples of such colonies: near the city of Damascus in present-day Syria, the contemporary settlements of Mezze and Deraya can trace their origins back to villages opened for settlement by the Romans during the third century CE. Philip the Arab, the Roman Emperor from 244 to 249 designated this area around Damascus a colonia, and encouraged settlement by veterans of the VI Ferrata legion, as commemorated by coins minted in the city around this time.[3]
In early modern and modern times[edit]
During the early modern period, some European nation-states and their agents adopted policies of colonialism, competing with each other to establish colonies outside of Europe, at first in the Americas, and later in Asia, Africa, and Oceania.
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In Americas[edit]
European colonization of the Americas began as early as the 10th century, when Norse sailors explored and settled limited areas on the shores of present-day Greenland and Canada.[4] According to Norse folklore, violent conflicts with the indigenous population ultimately made the Norse abandon those settlements.
Extensive European colonization began in 1492, when a Spanish expedition headed by Genoese Christopher Columbus sailed west to find a new trade route to the Far East but inadvertently found the Americas. European conquest, large-scale exploration, colonization and industrial development soon followed. Columbus's first two voyages (1492–93) reached the Bahamas and various Caribbean islands, including Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and Cuba. In 1497, sailing from Bristol on behalf of England, John Cabot landed on the North American coast, and a year later, Columbus's third voyage reached the South American coast. As the sponsor of Christopher Columbus's voyages, Spain was the first European power to settle and colonize the largest areas, from North America and the Caribbean to the southern tip of South America. Spanish cities were founded as early as 1496 with Santo Domingo in today's Dominican Republic.
Other powers such as France also founded colonies in the Americas: in eastern North America, a number of Caribbean islands, and small coastal parts of South America. Portugal colonized Brazil, tried early (since 1499) colonizing of the coasts of present-day Canada, and sat for extended periods on the northwest bank of the River Plate (including it in the Brazilian region). This was the beginning of a dramatic territorial expansion for several European countries. Europe had been preoccupied with internal wars, and was only slowly recovering from the loss of population caused by the bubonic plague; thus the rapid rate at which it grew in wealth and power was unforeseeable in the early 1400s.[5]
Eventually, the entire Western Hemisphere came under the ostensible control of European governments, leading to profound changes to its landscape, population, and plant and animal life. In the 19th century alone over 50 million people left Europe for the Americas.[6] The post-1492 era is known as the period of the Columbian Exchange, a dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations (including slaves), communicable disease, and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres following Columbus's voyages to the Americas.
In Oceania[edit]
Europeans came and settled in Australia, in many cases displacing Indigenous Australians. The Indigenous Australian population, estimated at about 350,000 at the time of European settlement,[7] declined steeply for 150 years following settlement from 1788, mainly because of infectious disease combined with forced re-settlement and cultural disintegration.
In Africa[edit]
In the Middle East[edit]
Republic of Turkey (Turkish Kurdistan)[edit]
The Turkification of predominantly Kurdish areas in country's East and South-East were also bound in the early ideas and policies of the modern Turkish nationalism, going back to as early as 1918 (the manifesto of Turkish nationalist Ziya Gokalp "Turkification, Islamization and Modernization").[8] The evolving Young Turk conscience adopted a specific interpretation of progressism, a trend of though which emphasizes the human ability to make, improve and reshape human society, relying of science, technology and experimentation.[9] This notion of social evolution was used to support and justify policies of population control - not unlike European colonialism.[9] The paradigm of Kemalism rationalized the deportation-and-settlement program, reinforced with opinions of senior Young Turks that "In this country only the Turkish nation has the right to claim ethnic and racial rights. Nobody else has such a right".[9] The Kurdish rebellions provided a comfortable pretext for Turkish Kemalists to implement such ideas, and in 1926 the Settlement Law was issued. It created a complex pattern of interaction between state of society, in which the regime favored its people in a distant geography, populated by locals marked as hostile (in this regard, according to Prof. Caroline Elkins, the policy of governing a distant land to send settlers in order to reshape demographics there to resemble homeland is named 'settler colonialism').[9]
During the 1990s, a predominantly Kurdish-dominated Eastern and South-Eastern Turkey (Kurdistan) was depopulated due to the Turkey-PKK conflict.[8] Turkey depopulated and destroyed rural settlements on a large scale, resulting in massive resettlement of a rural Kurdish population in urban areas and leading to development and re-design of population settlement schemes across the countryside.[8] According to Dr. Joost Jongerden, Turkish settlement and re-settlement policies during the 1990s period were influenced by two different forces - the desire to expand administration to rural areas and an alternative view of urbanization, allegedly producing "Turkishness".[8]
Zionism and the State of Israel[edit]
In 1967 the French historian Maxime Rodinson wrote an article later translated and published in English as Israel: A Colonial Settler-State?[10] Lorenzo Veracini describes Israel as a colonial state and writes that Jewish settlers could expel the British in 1948 only because they had their own colonial relationships inside and outside Israel's new borders.[11] Veracini believes the possibility of an Israeli disengagement is always latent and this relationship could be severed, through an "accommodation of a Palestinian Israeli autonomy within the institutions of the Israeli state" (Veracini 2006)[12] Other commentators, such as Daiva Stasiulis, Nira Yuval-Davis,[13] and Joseph Massad in the "Post Colonial Colony: time, space and bodies in Palestine/ Israel in the persistence of the Palestinian Question".[14] have included Israel in their global analysis of settler societies. Ilan Pappé describes Zionism and Israel in similiar terms.[15] Scholar Amal has stated, "Israel was created by a settler-colonial movement of Jewish immigrants".[16]
Some Palestinians express similar opinions - writer and sociologist Jamil Hilal, member of the Palestinian National Council lives in what he describes as "the heavily-colonised West Bank", and drew parallels in 1976 between South African and Israeli settler colonialism, writes that "as in Southern Africa, stretches of land were acquired by the Zionist settlers [...] and their Arab tenants thrown out".[17] Former Palestinian Foreign Minister Dr. Nasser al-Qidwa opposes the policy of Israeli settlements and has described those efforts as colonialism.[18]
According to a report by the FMEP issued in 2000, the settler population in the West Bank and Gaza strip grew from approximately 1,500 in 1972 to approximately 73,000 in 1989, and more than doubled that in 1998 to approximately 169,000. The report also describes demographics statistics indicating that, by place of birth, 78% of Israeli settlers in the West Bank and Gaza were from Europe or America, 19% from Israel, 3% from Asia, and 1% from Africa.[19]
A number of scholars have objected to the idea that Zionism and the State of Israel are tantamount to settler colonialism. Avi Bareli, in his essay 'Forgetting Europe: Perspectives on the Debate about Zionism and Colonialism', argues that the "Colonialist School offered this alternative interpretation to replace the account of the return of the Jewish people to its land". Moreover, he asserts that it "ignores the economic, social, and cultural processes that spurred the Jews in Eastern Europe to emigrate to Palestine over decades in the twentieth century".[20] Arnon Golan contends that "Zionism was not imperialist or colonialist in nature, but a national liberation movement that developed in eastern and central Europe, in conjunction with other national liberation movements in these regions" and that "Zionism was a diaspora national movement that aspired to promote its interests in the destined homeland through becoming a collaborator of imperial powers."[21]
S. Ilan Troen, in 'De-Judaizing the Homeland: Academic Politics in Rewriting the History of Palestine', argues that Zionism was the repatriation of a long displaced indigenous population to their historic homeland, and that "Zionists did not see themselves as foreigners or conquerors, for centuries in the Diaspora they had been strangers". Troen further argues that there are several differences between European colonialism and the Zionist movement, including that "there is no New Vilna, New Bialystock, New Warsaw, New England, New York,...and so on" in Israel. He writes that "mandates were intended to nurture the formation of new states until independence and this instrument was to be applied to Jews, even as it was for the Arab peoples of Syria and Iraq. In this view, Jews were a people not only entitled to a state but that polity was naturally located in a part of the world in which they had originated, had been resident since the ancient world, and still constituted a vital presence in many areas of the region, including Palestine" and that "perhaps the most manifest or visible evidence—for those who would be willing to acknowledge—were found in the revival of Hebrew into a living language; the marking the landscape with a Jewish identity; and the development of an indigenous culture with roots in the ancient past." He concludes that "casting Zionists as colonizers serves to present them as occupiers in a land to which, by definition, they do not belong."[22] Others such as Michael J. Cohen,[23] and Bernard Avishai[24] have similarly rebutted criticism of the State of Israel as a settler-colonial state.
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Belich, James (2009). Replenishing the earth : the settler revolution and the rise of the Anglo-world, 1783-1939. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 573. ISBN 978-0-19-929727-6. Retrieved 2009-12-18.
- Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century (edited by Susan Pedersen and Caroline Elkins, Routledge, 2005)
- Irwin J. Mansdorf: Is Israel a Colonial State? Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
- Veracini, Lorenzo (2010). Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave MacMillan. p. 182. ISBN 9780230284906.
- ^ Patrick Wolfe, "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native", Journal of Genocide Research, 2006.
- ^ http://settlercolonialstudies.org/about-this-blog/
- ^ Burns, Ross. Damascus: a history. Routledge. pp. 76, 85. ISBN 978-0-415-27105-9.
- ^ Patrick Wolfe, "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native", Journal of Genocide Research, 2006.
- ^ http://settlercolonialstudies.org/about-this-blog/
- ^ Burns, Ross. Damascus: a history. Routledge. pp. 76, 85. ISBN 978-0-415-27105-9.
- ^ Smith, L. (1980), The Aboriginal Population of Australia, Australian National University Press, Canberra
- ^ a b c d Joost Jongerden. The Settlement Issue in Turkey and the Kurds - an Analysis of Spatial Policies, Modernity and War: p38. 2007.
- ^ a b c d Ugur Ümit Üngör. Making of modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950: pp,154. Oxford University Press. 2011.
- ^ Rodinson, Maxime. "Israel, fait colonial?" Les Temps Moderne, 1967. Republished in English as Israel: A Colonial Settler-State?, New York, Monad Press, 1973.
- ^ "Israel could celebrate its anticolonial/anti-British struggle exactly because it was able to establish a number of colonial relationships within and without the borders of 1948." Lorenzo Veracini, Borderlands, vol 6 No 2, 2007.
- ^ Veracini, Lorenzo, "Israel and Settler Society", London: Pluto Press. 2006.
- ^ Unsettling Settler Societies: Articulations of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class, Vol. 11, Nira Yuval-Davis (Editor), Daiva K Stasiulis (Editor), Paperback 352pp, ISBN 978-0-8039-8694-7, August 1995 SAGE Publications.
- ^ "Post Colonial Colony: time, space and bodies in Palestine/ Israel in the persistence of the Palestinian Question", Routledge, NY, (2006) and "The Pre-Occupation of Post-Colonial Studies" ed. Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Kalpana Rahita Seshadri. (Durham: Duke University Press)
- ^ The Palestinian Enclaves Struggle: An Interview with Ilan Pappé, King's Review – Magazine
- ^ [1] Amal Jamal, Arab Minority Nationalism in Israel: The Politics of Indigeneity, Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics, 2011.
- ^ "IMPERIALISM AND SETTLER-COLONIALISM IN WEST ASIA: ISRAEL AND THE ARAB PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE." Jamil Hilal, UTAFITI journal of the arts and social sciences, University of Dar Es Salaam. 1976.
- ^ "a classical colonialist phenomenon" Speech: Dr. Nasser al-Qidwa, former Palestinian Foreign Minister, Jerusalem Media & Communication Centre, November 2006.
- ^ [2] Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories, FMEP, Volume 10, Number 4; July-August 2000, pp.10, 12
- ^ Bareli, Israeli Historical Revisionism: From Left to Right, pp. 99-100
- ^ Arnon, Space and Polity, p. 140-141
- ^ [3] De-Judaizing the Homeland: Academic Politics in Rewriting the History of Palestine, S. Ilan Troen, Israel Affairs, Volume 13, Issue 4, 2007
- ^ [4] Zionism and British imperialism II: Imperial financing in Palestine, Michael J. Cohen, Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture; Volume 30, Issue 2, 2011
- ^ Zionist "Colonialism": Myth and Dilemma, 1975


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P&G has confirmed it will use the venue, on London's Bankside, to host up to 100 mothers of athletes competing in the Games, as part of its ongoing 'Mums' campaign to promote its global Olympic sponsorship.
It is likely to resemble the 'P&G Family Home' facility, first used at the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010.
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Vinopolis employees are set to be made redundant after a month-long consultation process, before being given the opportunity to re-apply for work during the Olympics.
After the Games finishes and P&G has vacated the property, tour guides will be required to re-apply for jobs commencing in October.
Although a P&G spokeswoman insisted it was 'a matter for Vinopolis and its employees', the link to redundancies is likely to come as an embarrassment for a multimillion-pound Olympic sponsor.
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The independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is coming to New York next week with plans to provide a definitive account in words, sounds and pictures of what happened that day, a process that will tread on sensitive ground and unsettled history.
For five months, as it has investigated the emergency response to the attacks, the commission staff has heard divergent views on precisely what happened -- perhaps unsurprising, given the velocity and stunning sequence of events that morning. The panel has also heard starkly conflicting opinions on whether better planning, coordination and communication might have avoided the heavy loss of life among rescuers and office workers trapped in the towers, according to people the panel has interviewed or their associates.
Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, for instance, has already spoken at length with the panel, telling its members that New York's emergency services mustered a brave, coordinated response as the city came under attack and two of the world's tallest buildings collapsed. In contrast, some fire chiefs and families of dead firefighters have told commission investigators that the effort, while brave, was also crippled by poor cooperation and communication among the city's emergency response agencies.
And the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, which took office four months after the disaster, has argued before the commission in private meetings that it has fixed much that was flawed about the city's preparedness for catastrophe, a point disputed by some experts and members of the city's emergency response agencies. As the claims and competing versions arise, and with lawyers from both the city government and Mr. Giuliani's consulting firm eager to be heard, the commission aims to sort out the factual disagreements and produce a credible account of the day.
''People still debate what happened at Gettysburg,'' said Al Felzenberg, a spokesman for the commission. ''We know who won but there are still a lot of questions. The goal here is to write the definitive account. We hope our report will eliminate as many of the divergent views as possible.''
The concern within the Bloomberg administration about the hearings -- the mayor initially refused to turn over some city records to the commission, citing privacy concerns -- has been considerable. While Mr. Bloomberg and his commissioners had no role in managing the response that day, they inherited the delicate task of drawing lessons and applying them to the city's emergency practices, an effort that began in 2002 when his administration asked a private consulting firm to review the emergency operations.
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A bill to require candidates for Federal office, Members of the Congress, and officers and employees of the United States to file statements with the Comptroller General with respect to their income and financial transactions.
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Although there will be plenty of fireworks in Linton on July 4 weekend, it will be hard to compare to the fireworks Monday and Tuesday at the Class 2A Linton-Stockton and Class A Shakamak baseball sectionals.
I will try to use this space to recap some of the action, some that I am still trying to comprehend, including 18 runs in an half-inning and a near perfect game.
Linton-Stockton senior right-hander Ty Scott's flirtation with perfection against Bloomfield was anything but perfect.
He had more three-ball counts than "Wild Thing" Ricky Vaughn had in the movie Major League.
I remember at least three times, maybe four, that Scott started Cardinal hitters with three balls before coming back to get an out. He showed a lot of toughness and character.
Even with two outs in the top of the fifth with a 14-run lead against Bloomfield's Brandon Thornsbury, he went 3-0 before coming back with two strikes.
Needing just one strike for the shutout, no-no and perfect game, Thornsbury lined a sharp single to left field.
Scott then fanned Cardinal senior Eric Bartlow to end the game, putting the Miners in the semifinals.
Scott finished a one-hit shutout, featuring seven strikeouts.
Bloomfield senior Payton Karl struck out and popped out to short to conclude his career. If memory serves, he hit 10 home runs this year and ended with 25 in his four seasons, the most in Cardinal history.
Eastern Greene trailed 3-2 going to the third inning against South Knox in their semifinal game Monday evening at Linton-Stockton Sectional 45.
Before the half-inning was over, 23 Thunderbirds had come to plate, 13 got hits and 20 reached safely, producing 18 Eastern Greene runs and what turned into an insurmountable 20-3 lead and eventually a 28-7 victory.
Somebody commented about it being a football score and the first thing I thought of was that nobody missed an extra point. Then in my twisted way of thinking, I thought about the Budweiser Super Bowl commercial from a few years ago where the Clydesdales were playing football.
One bystander asked the cowboy, who was watching and was apparently used to this activity, if they normally did this. His reply was, 'No, they normally go for two.'
Now back to the inning.
I know the 18 runs is not any kind of record but it might be for a game featuring two solid teams. Normally that happens when there is a distinct mismatch -- like Vincennes Lincoln vs. Vincennes Rivet or Union (Dugger) vs. Eminence. Lincoln and the Bulldogs both racked up numerous offensive records against inferior opponents.
South Knox had beaten the Thunderbirds 11-2 early in the regular season and probably would at worst been consider co-favorites to win the sectional.
When a team scores that many runs, normally you would think about a team hitting a couple of home runs, maybe even a grand slam or two.
But of the 13 hits, only one was for extra bases. That was a two-run double by Matthew Bays, who had three hits and scored twice in the inning, including an RBI single.
In the third, Jake Johnson had two hits, reached base three times, scored three runs.
Jake Hash had a two-run single, drew a walk and was hit by a pitch. He scored three runs.
Michael Love had two hits, walked once and drove in three runs.
Zak Eckerle singled in a run, walked in a run, scored twice and then struck out to end the inning.
Nathan Cobine reached and scored on an error and had a two-run single as the 15th batter in the frame.
Logan Hash struck out and then drove in a run with an infield hit. He later scored one of the 18 tallies.
Logan Frye walked in a run and then later reached on an infield hit and scored.
Winning pitcher Davis Russell had an infield single that plated a run and later made the second out of the inning with an infield pop to first.
Whew, man it was exhausting just to recall.
Hopefully, I did not miss anything.
This was not an official accounting of what happened, just notes from a reporter's scorebook.
The Miners scored 43 runs in claiming their second consecutive sectional title at home Tuesday night.
They scored 17 against North Knox, 14 against Bloomfield and 12 in a five-run win over Eastern Greene in the title game Tuesday night.
At the Class A Shakamak Sectional, I am sure that I was not the only person surprised when Clay City defeated Shakamak 8-3 in the second semifinal.
But upon further review, it turned out to be the perfect storm for the Eels, who went on and lost to North Central 15-7 in the championship game Monday night.
The Eels did not pitch their best in an 11-0 loss to the Lakers on the same field on May 21.
"We had nothing to play for on that day," CC coach Vance Edmondson said of choosing to play a bit coy. "It wasn't like we could win the conference or anything."
But even with his ace Brylan Jones pitching, not many in attendance on a hot and sunny Memorial Day thought the Eels could get the job done.
But Jones did exactly that. He struck out 11, walked one, hit two and limited the Laker batters to four hits.
As it turned out, that was the eighth victory in nine games for Jones. They were 8-1 when he pitched and 2-9 when he did not.
After the victory, Jones was out of innings (10 in three days) and could not pitch against North Central in the title game.
After Clay City scored seven runs in the fourth and chased Laker lefty Brock Dowell, Edmondson and the Eels nervously watched Jones keep the Lakers in check.
Shakamak used two Clay City errors to score a run, cutting the lead to 8-3 in the fourth.
But Jones then retired eight in a row before Patrick Green singled with two outs in the seventh. He then struck out Brodie Crowe to end the game, making it two years in a row that Shakamak would not be sectional champs after winning nine in a row.
Edmondson knew without Jones, their chances were slim and none against North Central in the title game later that night.
But I told him near the end of the game, you can't win a championship until you get to the championship game.
All he could do was smile.
B.J. Hargis is the sports editor at the Greene County Daily World. He can be reached at (812) 847-4487, ext. 12 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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At first glance, the new Mortal Kombat crossover from Midway seemed like a wee bit of an attempt to cash in. After all, MK's hay-day has since passed, and the fighting franchise all but ended itself with the PS2's massive Kombat mash-up, Mortal Kombat Armageddon. Adding superheroes seems like a surefire way to get anything relatively noticed by the public at large, but look into fighting games' past, this isn't the first superhero foray into the fighting genre, and certainly not the first crossover. Mortal Kombat vs. DC is a thoroughly enjoyable fighting experience that re-invents the formula for Mortal Kombat, but a lack of compelling modes, terrible online play, and difficulty of entry for newcomers makes MK vs. DC a difficult game to whole-heartedly recommend.
The story for MK vs. DC is very much a "What If?" comic book scenario. Essentially, at the same time as Superman defeats Darkseid and sends him hurtling through a boom tube, Raiden defeats Shao Kahn and casts the evil ruler into a dark portal. This simultaneous destabilization of portals causes the two worlds to begin merging. As such, characters from both worlds start duking it out as each thinks the other is responsible for the destruction of their various realms. It's a bit hokey and it's way over the top, but both are perfect considering the properties. There are some genuinely "cool" moments in the story, and it helps drive forward a narrative that could otherwise be completely absent.
As for game modes, this newest MK is a bit light. Aside from the aformentioned story, which is somewhat short despite two separate sides to play as, there is a traditionally ladder-ed arcade mode. There are also general trials that ask you to execute moves and combos in order. This latter mode isn't very fun at all, and even its intention, to teach you to be a better fighter doesn't work out too well. Besides this, there is only really online play to be had, which would significantly help out the game's replay value, but this too suffers from flaws in execution. Not only is there not really any reward or rank to pursue online, but the lobby system is flawed and even when finally getting into a game, the lag even with a moderate connection is so bad, the game becomes unplayable.
And as far as playability, MK vs. DC is two steps forward and one step back. This newest iteration has ditched the system of the newer games in the franchise in favor of one more archaic. This generally works in its favor, as the game is more about exploiting specials into combos and vice versa, and the game is very fun to play. Added into the mix are mini games that take place during fights whenever a grab is initiated or opponents are knocked off the stage or through a wall. These Klose Kombat, Free Fall Kombat, and Test Your Might mini games respectively do a nice job of breaking up the Kombat and making fights interesting and unpredictable. However, it is with this strange mix of new that the archaic system begins appearing a bit TOO old school. While the mid fight mini games are fun, they stress twitch gameplay and button mashing. The main combat, however, requires a mastery of timing and a new thumb punishing variant of supers called Pro Moves, as single special attacks and combos are too sluggish alone to be effective. The difficulty of these moves to pull off, yet ridiculous necessity of one to do them to be a successful fighter makes the game feel punishingly frustrating at times. Unless one has a group of skilled friends to constantly push one's fighting skills, expect to hit a wall and fast.
On the presentation front, MK vs. DC has a very action figure-y look. All the characters are recognizeable, although some on the DC front suffer from the MK asthetic, and some on the MK side aren't sporting their coolest duds. The moves look impactful enough, though a lot of the animation looks stiff at times. What you'll hear in MK vs. DC is some hammy voice acting and moody stage music. On both fronts, some performances are forgettable, but they'll satisfy for the most part.
MK vs. DCU will satisfy those hardcore fans of both franchises with its fun and engaging story modes, and old school fighting fans may find it scratches just the right itch. However, some anachronisms in the depth of modes, the online gameplay, and even the core fighting system itself means the game certainly isn't a must-own.


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The Colorado Reading To Ensure Academic Development Act (Colorado READ Act) was passed by the Colorado Legislature during the 2012 legislative session. The READ Act repeals the Colorado Basic Literacy Act (CBLA) as of July 1, 2013, keeping many of the elements of CBLA such as a focus on K-3 literacy, assessment, and individual plans for students reading below grade level. The READ Act differs from CBLA by focusing on students identified as having a significant reading deficiency, delineating requirements for parent communication, and providing funding to support intervention. Other components of the Colorado READ Act include a competitive Early Literacy Grant and a resource bank of assessments, instructional programming, and professional development.
READ Act Rules
On Tuesday, March 12, 2013, the State Board voted to approve the Rules for the Administration of the Colorado READ Act. A copy of the rules and the Cut-off Scores for Identifying a Significant Reading Deficiency document are linked below.
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At its April 8, 2015 meeting, the State Board of Education conducted a rulemaking hearing regarding proposed amendments to the Rules for the Administration of the Colorado Reading to Ensure Academic Development Act (READ Act Rules). On May 13, 2015, the State Board of Education will vote on the adoption of the proposed amendments. Any written comments to these rules can be submitted to firstname.lastname@example.com
The State Board approved the Rules for the Administration of the READ Act in March 2013. Subsequently, however, the Department of Education received an opinion from the Attorney General that the rules should be revised with respect to sections that address how a student should be identified as having a significant reading deficiency. The current rules require that all students be tested for a significant reading deficiency by using an interim assessment in English. The Department of Education is recommending revisions to the rules that would allow districts to also test for a significant reading deficiency by using an interim assessment normed for students who speak Spanish as their native language. A copy of the rules is available by clicking here.
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text: In review of the metadata balance patches, concern was raised about backward compatibility. In particular, the following questions were raised: Q. How does the user "go back" to a previous revision of lvm if he's been using metadata balancing? A: If the user wants to use an old version of the lvm tools, he SHOULD use "vgchange --vgmetadatacopies N", where N >= vg_mda_count (number of mdas across all PVs in the VG). The reason this is recommended is so that all mdas contain the latest version of the metadata. If he does not do this, when using the old tools, it will still work, but he will get a warning that the VG is inconsistent. Even in this case though, the next time the metadata is written, it will be written out consistently, with a message stating the older copies of metadata have been updated. Q: Won't the 'ignore' bits in the mda_header and/or the "metadata_copies" value written in the VG metadata cause problems with older LVM tools? A: No. The placement of the 'ignore' bits was done in a location on disk in the mda_header that was previously a 'filler' field (see patch #1). As such, the value of the field is irrelevant to previous LVM versions. As far as the VG metadata, LVM is written to disregard fields it does not understand in the VG metadata, so older tools will not parse the "metadata_copies" field/value, and will not write it back out the next time an LVM operation updates the metadata. I think this addresses the compatibility concerns, without need for further patches. If there are other specific concerns, please let me know. Thanks.


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The United States Postal Service has been delivering mail since 1775, and as the recession continues its grip on our economy, the Postal Service is taking measures to make sure that it's two century old service continues.
The Postal Service is projecting a $238 billion shortfall over the next decade, not to mention a current decline in volumes, and significant budget cuts.
Many ideas have been proposed on how to combat these shortcomings, but perhaps the most controversial is the move to a five-day delivery, cutting out Saturday deliveries.
"We're on a path where we are not going to be able to cover our costs," said Richard Maher, spokesman for the USPS in Southern California. "In order to maintain a viable universal postal service to every resident some changes have to be made."
Moving to the five-day week would force the USPS to cut 40,000 jobs nation-wide, but Maher says that they can easily make those cuts through attrition.
"Within the next five years about half of our employees will be eligible to retire, so we're in a good position to implement something like this," said Maher
The change would be the largest change to the USPS structure since 1950 when they reduced residential deliveries to one a day.
The USPS is required to prepay future retiree health benefits before they are due.
If the five-day week were to be established it would not effect express mail, which is delivered seven days a week, and would keep Post offices open on Saturdays to accept packages and distribute P.O Box mail.
Maher says that the Postal Service unions are not happy with the proposed cuts, but he says that based on a Gallup poll the public favors the five-day week over raising rates or degrading the service.
"We don't think it's a good idea because it doesn't solve the problem of the Postal Services finances," said Drew Von Bergen, Director of Public Relations for the National Association of Letter Carriers. "We need major stakeholders, mailers, unions, the Postal Service and Congress to sit down and very carefully map out a strategy."
A solution that the NALC and the USPS agree on is for congress to change the requirement that the Postal Service prefund retiree health benefits.
This service costs the USPS $5 billion dollars a year, according to Maher.
Congress is required to vote on any changes that are presented by both sides.
The proposed changes are being presented to the Postal Regulatory Commission for their opinion, and will then be voted on by Congress. Maher says that they are still more than nine months out from making any decision.
"If they cut the delivery week now to five, what's to say in the future they won't just cut it to four," said Von Bergen. "This change could affect the whole dynamic of the Postal Service."
The NALC is one of four major Postal Service unions and represents more than 200,000 active city delivery letter carriers.


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Splash! Animals to Appear at National Geographic Kids Celebratory Event of Third Annual World Animal Day
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ — Splash! Animals brings its dynamic, conservation-focused live art experience featuring endangered species to the National Geographic Kids event celebrating World Animal Day at the National Geographic Museum in Washington D.C., on October 16, 2010.
The Splash! Animals performances will delight audiences by showcasing dramatic live paintings of endangered wildlife while emotionally connecting them to the importance of conservation via a powerfully choreographed performance.
"For us, Splash! Animals is much more than a show. It's a message that we need to share the earth with these beautiful animals," says Christina Grenard, Blue Ink Syndicate co-founder. "In fact, we're so committed to animal preservation, we give 10 percent of our proceeds to our conservation partners every year."
The October 16 event is the last of a series celebrating National Geographic World Animal Day. The day will also feature National Geographic Explorer and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Greg Marshall, inventor of the Crittercam, which has allowed breathtaking glimpses into the animal world, most notably his work with emperor penguins in the documentary "March of the Penguins."
In addition to the Splash! Animals performance, attendees will be able to enjoy craft zones for kids, computer kiosks where kids can create their own animal avatars, and special screenings of National Geographic Kids shows. Families can also explore National Geographic's three animal-themed exhibits: "Geckos: Tails to Toepads" (paid admission required), "Wild Music: Sounds & Songs of Life," and the "Great Migrations" outdoor photography exhibit.
"We're so pleased to be working with Splash! Animals and to have their unique art and animal conservation-based entertainment as part of our World Animal Day celebration," said Darren Metzger, Director of Brand Marketing for National Geographic Kids Entertainment. "National Geographic has programmed the entire day to give families of all ages the chance to learn about the animal kingdom together."
Splash! Animals delivers the message of endangered animal conservation all over the world through its high-energy show at every type of venue from the World Famous San Diego Zoo to Downtown Disney to corporate events, fundraisers and schools.
Developed by the creative team of Stephen Fishwick, Christina Grenard and James Williams, Splash! Animals combines their passion for animals and their unique talents to create original art, music, choreography and live production in order to emotionally connect with their audiences through an inspiring performance while educating them about the importance of wildlife conservation.
To find out more about Splash! Animals, visit us online at www.SplashAnimals.com.
For details on the World Animal Day event at National Geographic, visit http://events.nationalgeographic.com/events/special-events/2010/10/16/world-animal-daydc/ or call the National Geographic Live! ticket office at (202) 857-7154.
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Heat or cold therapy may be used for any of the following:
Methods of administering heat or cold therapy include:
Each benefit plan, summary plan description or contract defines which services are covered, which services are excluded, and which services are subject to dollar caps or other limitations, conditions or exclusions. Members and their providers have the responsibility for consulting the member's benefit plan, summary plan description or contract to determine if there are any exclusions or other benefit limitations applicable to this service or supply. If there is a discrepancy between a Medical Policy and a member's benefit plan, summary plan description or contract, the benefit plan, summary plan description or contract will govern.
Not Medically Necessary
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana (BCBSMT) considers the following heat and cold therapy devices are considered convenience items and not durable medical equipment and therefore not medically necessary:
NOTE: Heat or cold packs (e.g., ice, gel, chemical, etc.), hot water bottles, ice bags, etc., are supplies purchased over the counter without a prescription. Over the counter supplies are generally contract exclusions. Member contract benefit may vary. Check contracts for coverage eligibility.
Convenience items are items that are primarily used for the convenience of the patient.
Water circulating cold pads (e.g.., Polar Care Cold Therapy Pads) or a cryogenic machine attached to an insulated disposable blanket or similar products are considered convenience items since the same outcome can be achieved with over the counter cold packs.
Heat and cold wraps and packs, ice bags, and hot water bottles are not considered DME and can be purchased over the counter without a prescription.
Disclaimer for coding information on Medical Policies
Procedure and diagnosis codes on Medical Policy documents are included only as a general reference tool for each policy. They may not be all-inclusive.
The presence or absence of procedure, service, supply, device or diagnosis codes in a Medical Policy document has no relevance for determination of benefit coverage for members or reimbursement for providers. Only the written coverage position in a medical policy should be used for such determinations.
Benefit coverage determinations based on written Medical Policy coverage positions must include review of the member's benefit contract or Summary Plan Description (SPD) for defined coverage vs. non-coverage, benefit exclusions, and benefit limitations such as dollar or duration caps.
Refer to the ICD-9-CM manual.


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Escaped Peacock Returns to Zoo
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
The peacock who wandered away from the Central Park Zoo and perched on the ledge of a tony Fifth Avenue apartment building Tuesday is safely back home.
Zoo Director Jeff Sailer said the peacock flew home on his own at 6:45 Wednesday morning. Sailer said zoo staff anticipated the bird would return on his own.
"A thorough understanding of the peacock's natural behavior allowed for the successful planning of its recovery," Sailer said.
In March, a cobra escaped from its cage in the Bronx Zoo but was found later in a non-public area of the zoo's Reptile House.
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Interaction of interference and SOA in the fMRI data. Results of the 3-way ANOVA identifying significant interactions of a) interference and c) facilitation magnitude with SOA, with ROIs indicated. Panels to the right show the percent signal change effect in b) interference (incongruent signal change minus control signal change) and d) facilitation (control signal change minus congruent signal change) for each ROI and SOA.
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