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Photographic Processing Hazards
Michael McCann, Ph.D., C.I.H
Black and White Photographic Processing
A wide variety of chemicals are used in black and white photographic processing. Film developing is usually done in closed canisters. Print processing uses tray processing, with successive developing baths, stop baths, fixing baths, and rinse steps. Other treatments include use of hardeners, intensifiers, reducers, toners, and hypo eliminators. Photochemicals can be purchased both as ready-to-use brand name products, or they can be purchased as individual chemicals which you can mix yourself.
Mixing Photochemicals
Photochemicals can be bought in liquid form, which only need diluting, or powder form, which need dissolving and diluting.
Developing Baths
The most commonly used developers are hydroquinone, monomethyl para-aminophenol sulfate, and phenidone. Several other developers are used for special purposes. Other common components of developing baths include an accelerator, often sodium carbonate or borax, sodium sulfite as a preservative, and potassium bromide as a restrainer or antifogging agent.
Stop Baths and Fixer
Stop baths are usually weak solutions of acetic acid. Acetic acid is commonly available as pure glacial acetic acid or 28% acetic acid. Some stop baths contain potassium chrome alum as a hardener. Fixing baths contain sodium thiosulfate ("hypo") as the fixing agent, and sodium sulfite and sodium bisulfite as a preservative. Fixing baths also may also contain alum (potassium aluminum sulfate) as a hardener and boric acid as a buffer.
Intensifiers and Reducers
A common after-treatment of negatives (and occasionally prints) is either intensification or reduction. Common intensifiers include hydrochloric acid and potassium dichromate, or potassium chlorochromate. Mercuric chloride followed by ammonia or sodium sulfite, Monckhoven's intensifier consisting of a mercuric salt bleach followed by a silver nitrate/potassium cyanide solution, mercuric iodide/sodium sulfite, and uranium nitrate are older, now discarded, intensifiers. Reduction of negatives is usually done with Farmer's reducer, consisting of potassium ferricyanide and hypo. Reduction has also be done historically with iodine/potassium cyanide, ammonium persulfate, and potassium permanganate/sulfuric acid.
Toning a print usually involves replacement of silver by another metal, for example, gold, selenium, uranium, platinum, or iron. In some cases, the toning involves replacement of silver metal by brown silver sulfide, for example, in the various types of sulfide toners. A variety of other chemicals are also used in the toning solutions.
Other Hazards
Many other chemicals are also used in black and white processing, including formaldehyde as a prehardener, a variety of oxidizing agents as hypo eliminators (e.g., hydrogen peroxide and ammonia, potassium permanganate, bleaches, and potassium persulfate), sodium sulfide to test for residual silver, silver nitrate to test for residual hypo, solvents such as methyl chloroform and freons for film and print cleaning, and concentrated acids to clean trays. Electrical outlets and equipment can present electrical hazards in darkrooms due to the risk of splashing water.
Color Processing
Color processing is much more complicated than black and white processing, and there is a wide variation in processes used by different companies. Color processing can be either done in trays or in automatic processors.
Developing Baths
The first developer of color transparency processing usually contains monomethyl-p-aminophenol sulfate, hydroquinone, and other normal black and white developer components. Color developers contain a wide variety of chemicals including color coupling agents, penetrating solvents (such as benzyl alcohol, ethylene glycol, and ethoxydiglycol), amines, and others.
Bleaching, Fixing and Other Steps
Many of the chemicals used in other steps of color processing are essentially the same as those used for black and white processing. Examples include the stop bath and fixing bath. Bleaching uses a number of chemicals, including potassium ferricyanide, potassium bromide, ammonium thiocyanate, and acids. Chemicals found in prehardeners and stabilizers include succinaldehyde and formaldehyde; neutralizers can contain hydroxylamine sulfate, acetic acid, and other acids.
Disposal of Photochemicals
EH&S is responsible for deciding what is hazardous waste and what can go down the drain. Researchers should never put any hazardous (or even potentially hazardous) materials down the drain without explicit permission from EH&S. Please refer to Chapter 12 of the UCSD Lab Safety Plan, the UCSD Hazardous Waste Guide, or contact EH&S at (858) 534-2753 for hazardous waste questions. Each PI must get a Waste Generator Number to dispose of hazardous waste.
Waste Disposal Requirements
It is important to remember that when handling fixers, developer, or other photographic products that proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) be worn at all times. See Chapter 10 in the Lab Safety Plan for more information regarding PPE. At a minimum, all lab workers should wear appropriate footwear, lab coat, surgical type disposable gloves (preferably nitrile), and safety glasses when handling these hazardous chemicals. If you have any questions, contact EH&S at (858) 534-3660 for assistance.
This data sheet was adapted from the 2nd edition of Dr. McCann's Artist Beware., Lyons and Burford (1992).
For Further Information written and telephoned inquiries about hazards in the arts will be answered by the Art Hazards Information Center of the Center for Safety in the Arts. Send a stamped, self-addressed envelope for a list of our many publications. Permission to reprint this data sheet may be requested in writing from CSA. Write: Center for Safety in the Arts, 5 Beekman Street, Suite 820, New York, NY 10038. Telephone (212) 227-6220. CSA is partially supported with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the NYS Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Training and Education Program.
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Antony Eastmond read History at Oxford, before coming to The Courtauld where he took his MA in Byzantine art and PhD in art in medieval Georgia. After two years as British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at The Courtauld, in 1995 he moved to Warwick University as Research Fellow. In 2001 he was appointed Reader in the History of Art and Chair of Department at Warwick. He returned to The Courtauld as Reader in the History of Byzantine Art in 2004.
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Deformed Skulls Discovered in 1,000-Year-Old Mexican Cemetery
The excavation of an ancient burial site in South Sonora, Mexico, has uncovered a series of skeletons with deformed skulls. While some may insist they are aliens or some half-human hybrid, in this case, the oddly shaped skulls are intentional.
Of the 25 sets of human remains, which are believed to be about 1,000 years old, found near the Mexican village of Onavas, 13 had deformed craniums and five had evidence of dental mutilation.
Misshapen skulls haven't been recorded before in the cultural groups of Sonora, but they have been documented among Mesoamerican peoples.
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Moreno is the head of the research project, which is being conducted on behalf of Arizona State University with the approval of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History.
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SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA -- I often rent cars for pleasure but mostly for business. I reserved a car to rent for three days to have around town. The internet special was the pick of the company. I had rented before with Dollar and always had a nice car. But this week was different. When I rented online, the price for the "special" was listed near the economy and compact cars. At least the price was essentially the same. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would end up with a disco-mobile. I think they saved John Travolta's care from the movie Saturday Night Live. This car was old and not well maintained. The car, my "special", was a powder blue Crown Victoria.
I had never heard of this car before the other night. I complained and said the car was too big and the only other option offered by the guy at the counter was a smaller car for $24 more per day. Since I was staying local for the three days, I did not want to pay more. I realize, the disclaimer when I rented online said "it could be any kind of car". But in my wildest dreams I would not have imagined this monstrosity.
The crown Victoria is a cop car I guess. Well, I have never seen a powder blue cop car, have you? Heck, I've never even seen this car on the lot! Bottom line... Buyer beware.... Never ever get a "special" from Dollar. I think they pull the dust off of an old car to get a quick buck.
DAYTONA BEACH FLORIDA, FLORIDA -- Public BEWARE! If you're thinking of renting a car you should know the facts. The rental companies especially Dollar Thrifty are in business to trick you into spending your money. This starts from the time you book your car reservation till you arrive to pick your rental up. The sole role of the person at the rental car counter is to attempt to up-sell you a different car, small to large, etc. You will be told that some smaller cars don't have certain equipment, this is not true.
Should you reserve or rent from the Dollar Thrifty at the Daytona Beach Airport you will be subjected to harsh and continuous sales tactics. You must understand that these Rental Sales Agents are motivated by the fact that they must meet certain sales quotas or face being written up and then fire. The management of Dollar Thrifty based in Orlando FL has a financial part in this factor. When you book online with this company you are sent a random survey asking you to respond with your rental experience.
Most people figure that if they turn in a bad review they will be sent coupons that will save them on their next rental. These survey reviews are sent to the Rental agents for their review and they see what the customers are saying about their rental experience. I'm sorry to say that most of these reviews are lies from the consumers. Just remember "YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR" and "YOU MUST PAY TO PLAY". You will never get the deal you're looking for from this company due to the ruthless people running the company.
Also, a special note to all you local people renting in Daytona Beach and surrounding areas - smarten up and get your own car as you are getting ripped of by Dollar Thrifty every time your rent at the counter at the Daytona Airport. THIS COMPANY IS A RIP OFF for everyone.
CANCUN -- I was on a four day vacation with my wife for which I rented a car from the airport location. On the second day of my trip (Friday, August 16th), I had filled up the gas tank and on the way, I had a flat tire while driving from Cancun to Tulum, near Playa Del Carmen. I was waiting in the heavy rain for any passer-by to assist me in changing the tire as the airport location wasn't helpful at all in calling someone to help me out.
After an hour and a half of waiting, a cab driver finally agreed to change the tire for US $30. Then, I called the airport location again and was told to return the car at the Playa Del Carmen location in exchange for a new car. When I reached this location, I was told that there are NO new cars available and that they will need to fix this spare tire and so I need to wait.
From here on, our vacation plans went downhill. It took the staff at this location TWO hours to have an update for my car. After the long wait, I was told that the car couldn't be fixed and that they will NOW find me a new car. I thought this was ridiculous since they had firmly told me earlier that no new cars are available. So I was lied to and made to wait without any reason. This is UNACCEPTABLE and UNETHICAL. We were simply taken advantage of as tourists by this unprofessional, discourteous and useless staff.
As it was almost the end of the day approaching with your unplanned and unequipped staff trying to find us a car, we could not go to Tulum and had to turn back and drive to Cancun. The next day (Saturday), we decided to return the car to a nearby location to our hotel (Live Aqua). This location is next to Fiesta Americana and we were told about this location by the airport location staff when we were renting the car. We were told that we could return the car to this location in case we didn't need the car.
There comes our next shock, almost unbelievable for an established rental company such as Dollar. The one person sitting at this location heard our story and I told him that I want to return this car and should not be charged for the previous day as that was a waste just waiting on an unreliable staff to help me. This person simply told me he can do NOTHING. Not only could he do NOTHING, he said he doesn't have a way to reach his supervisor. He said his landline doesn't work and his cell phone doesn't have any balance.
Then as we were leaving, he tells us that he is talking to his supervisor via Yahoo messenger and the supervisor cannot do anything to help including waiving off a day's charge on the rental, or compensating us for the gas we filled or the $30 we gave to the cab driver to get the car fixed. So we wasting another couple hours with this lazy, half-asleep, so called Dollar-employee!
The next day as we went to the airport to fly back to USA, at the car rental office, I was given the same cold, unhelpful, useless attitude and was INSULTED by being asked by the staff manager "So if you don't want to pay one day's car rental, do you only want to pay a dollar?!" I was shocked at his guts talking to a customer in this tone. What an ill-mannered, uneducated staff!
He did not help out or understand our plight one bit. Instead of feeling bad for our ruined vacation, he talked to us in this airy and condescending tone. I have spent a good amount of money on my vacation and am not frugal in any way. I was asking for only what is fair and ethical, and what a company like Dollar is beholden to do for its customers. Instead, I had to deal with a bunch of morons who not only are pathetic at their jobs, but also lack basic common sense and ethics. I hope after reading this, you can better plan your car rentals and can actually enjoy your vacations.
WINDSOR LOCKS, CONNECTICUT -- San Diego, CA 11/5/2010. My review got kind of long so if you don't read anything else know this, car rental reservations are not set in stone so it is not too late to book with a better car rental agency and just cancel or no show for your dollar reservation. I wish someone would have told me!
Renting with Dollar was the worst experience of my life! The shuttle took forever to arrive. We saw several better shuttles pass by while we waited. Then the lady at the counter set a new low in rude service. She barks at people and isn't helpful in the least. I had a reservation for a Toyota Camry but they put me in a Kia Spectra. Our luggage didn't even fit in the trunk. I would have complained but I just didn't want to deal with the rude lady so I accepted it.
They charged us $15 a day for GPS rental (it would have been cheaper to buy one) and it didn't work. It was like 7 years old, the kind with a fat back and no touch screen. When the GPS crashed for the third time before we left the parking lot I took it back in and they quickly swapped it out for a slightly newer one. If they know it's a piece of junk why do they give it to people?
Upon returning the car we pulled to the door to unload our luggage in the pouring rain. The lady came out and instead of helping unload, she barked at us to move the car. We parked the car around back and my more patient wife went inside to deal with the rude agent while I unloaded our bags by myself in the rain.
After I unloaded the bags I went inside to find my wife losing her zen-like patience with the counter lady. We were returning the car with a full tank of gas but we didn't have a receipt so they still wanted to charge us a penalty. I was about to lose my temper so I went out and started loading my bags on the shuttle, it could have been hours until the next shuttle came.
When the shuttle driver came on board he reminded passengers to check for cell phones and chargers because they frequently find them and they have a whole box full of them in the back. One passenger joking asked if they had iPhone chargers and the driver said "let me look."The shuttle driver brought two boxes full of lost and found and let the passengers go through them and take what they liked!!
My wife asked for the manager's name to file a complaint and the lady said she did not know it. Before this experience I thought that all car rental companies were pretty much the same, but this experience taught me that is not true. Stay away from Dollar car rental like the plague. I plan on posting negative reviews as much as possible if only to warn fellow passengers to stay away!
PHOENIX, ARIZONA -- When it comes to renting from Dollar Rent A Car, take a pass and rent from another rental company. What a truly awful experience. My recent interaction with them at PHX Sky Harbor was THE worst rental experience of all time - and I rent a lot (both for business and personal use). The agent I dealt with was incredibly high pressured, distracted and unfocused (by other agent's issues), and potentially the most disingenuous rental agent I've met.
I was told Dollar Rent A Car vehicles do not carry insurance of any kind. Since Arizona isn't a "No Fault" insurance state, I found this hard to believe. The agent told me that if I got pulled over (for any driving infraction), I could be charged with not having valid insurance. I declined all the high pressure extra insurance and was on my way.
The first thing I did was check the glove box for registration and insurance documents. Sure enough the vehicle had an insurance card issued by Rental Car Finance Corp (Policy # **). So, not only was the rental agent a high pressured jerk, but he was also blatantly lying when he said the car had no insurance, whatsoever.
I completely understand that if I damage the car, or I'm in an accident, I'm on the hook for the repairs for the car. But to tell me that I'd be in violation of the law without their supplementary insurance is not only disingenuous, it's an outright lie. I find it hard to believe that the agent was working under the direction of the corporation. But, after reading all the other similar reviews, I'm guessing this is company policy.
Just so you're aware, Dollar Rent A Car is part of the Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group. And, clearly Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group has a customer relations problem. I've contacted them with my experience and I never received a reply. So, I'm making my experience public (which obviously isn't unique) and making it as widely known as possible.
SAN JOSE DEL CABO, BAJA, MEXICO -- Traveling with friends to Cabo San Lucas Mexico, we reserved 2 cars through Dollar Rent A Car at the airport in San Jose Del Cabo using United Airlines MileagePlus program. The rental price was estimated at $157.73 per week for each premium car. When we arrived, we discovered that we were not covered by our insurance in Mexico and the cost of each car with the recommended coverage was increased to the outrageous amount of $650! We should have walked (literally) away at this point but had planned to drive to La Paz as an important aspect of our trip.
We ended up with one Suburban to hold all eight of us at the slightly less outrageous cost of $796.84! We were then further raped by an inflated exchange rate used by the company resulting in the final insulting cost of $919.10 on my credit card statement when we arrived home. Our insurance had covered us on a previous trip to Mexico, so I had not checked with them before leaving on this vacation - my mistake.
Evidently many US insurance companies are no longer covering rentals in Mexico or insurance must be prearrangement including obtaining a specific VIN # for the rented vehicle. Dollar Rent A Car should provide NOTICEABLE warning to their customers that they may have to make special arrangements for insurance in other countries or pay outrageous prices.
I will certainly never rent a car in Mexico ever again but I will also never use Dollar Rent A Car as they clearly misrepresented the rental cost. I feel abused and it was a terrible beginning, paying almost 6 times what we had expected to rent a vehicle including 2 hours of miserable negotiations in the Dollar Rent A Car Office, at the beginning of an otherwise great vacation.
ORLANDO, OREGON -- NOTE: moderated letter
Urgent!!! Read this before you rent from Dollar Car rentals….. Warning Don't!!! rent from this organization. I am still waiting for my $250 deposit to be refunded since the 7th of June. I have emailed more than 20 times, no reply! Handle this case as Urgent and very serious!!
Firstly I gave all the info you are asking for three times with my last mails. I will forward these to you again. I give you the info again now next to your requests. This is fraud and I don't take this lightly!! I'm actually livid. I will advertise this to everyone. The deposit amount of 250 dollars should have been refunded the day we returned the car!!!! I want my money back within 2 days from now otherwise I'm going to open a case of fraud against Dollar car rental. I was warned by friends about USA car rentals and the deposit problem. We also upgraded to a red Mustang convertible and had to pay more, here is what the statement on my side shows:-
25-04-2013 pre paid car rental Rental Cars.com Manchester R 1295.64 about 120 Dollars
08-06-2013 upgrade + holding deposit of $250 DOLLAR RENT-A-CAR MCO000ORLANDO FL R 4115.34 about 410 dollars
Nothing has been returned as the deposit. The R 4115.38 included a $250 deposit and it has not come back.
Here is the link to our reservation conformation- **. It's the 1st of July today. I should have had my deposit amount back 23 days ago!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will not wait another week or two for your response!!! Advise what the delay and handicap is! This is pathetic, really.
AIRPORT BLVD MOBILE, AL, ALABAMA -- My family rented a van to travel to Gatlinburg, TN then DC. Price quoted was $40/day for UNLIMITED miles. When we picked up the car, the customer service person pretended to have a friendly discussion and asked us where we were going. Told her were going to DC and she says that it will cost us an extra 60 bucks per day to rent the car because that DC (TN was neighboring state for us) was not a "neighboring state". Re-read the fine print and there was a small statement saying that the "unlimited miles" only applies to neighboring states.
So our price for renting went from 250 for the week to a little over 600. I wanted to turn the car down but my trip was the next morning and our hotels were already booked so couldn't do that. In hindsight, we should have selected return the car in TN and rented another car up there. State of the car was not the best either; probably the worst rental that I had.
Seems as though it has been in a previous accident and Dollar marked it indicating that they were aware, which was fine with me except for the fact that it was a bit embarrassing to drive around with a car with giant scratches/dents all over it. Plus it felt as though the balance or tire rotations was off as the steering wheel shakes a bit and moves to the right slightly when driving at speeds >65 mph; but we didn't catch this until we were on the interstate.
When we came home to return the car, the same lady was there but her face was very unfriendly and cold this time. Seems as though she was having a bad day or I was being an inconvenience to her. Needless to say, I will never rent a car from them again. Even if I have to pay a bit more from a diff. company, if the car condition was better or the customer service was better, it will all be worth it.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA -- Consumer Warning to any travelers renting from Dollar Rental Car at the Indianapolis Airport. Questionable practices! First of all, our trip to Indianapolis was a wonderful experience as we moved our daughter from Casa Grande Arizona to Butler University, except for our rental car nightmare.
We rented on Friday when we flew in and drove straight to the hotel. However, the next morning was a nightmare. As we were all loaded up and ready for the exciting trip to Butler, the battery was dead. Of course our daughter was upset over the thought of missing her move-in time along with orientation meetings. We called Dollar Rental Car and asked for a new vehicle (as we knew we had not done anything to drain the battery).
Additionally, my husband, who is a mechanic, even noticed that the battery terminals had been recently cleaned indicating that this vehicle had probably had previous problems with the battery. We thought Dollar Rental Car would be happy to help us out. However, we were told that because we did not buy their roadside coverage they would not replace the vehicle nor send help to fix the problem (we had AAA and did not need their coverage). We were told we would have to contact our own roadside service.
I was amazed at their lack of customer service or willingness to help stranded customers because of a faulty vehicle. We called AAA and they were there to save the day in minutes. Interestingly, AAA attempted to test the battery, but the battery was completely bad. We were told it could not even be tested, let alone charged. We had to replace the battery in order to use the vehicle to get our daughter moved in and to orientation at Butler. AAA filled out a receipt indicating that the battery was bad and the replacement charge.
When we returned the vehicle on Monday and again explained what happened and that we had to purchase a battery. Dollar Rental Car made copies of all documents so we were encouraged that Dollar Rental Car would step up and take care of their customers. We were told that ** (manager) would call us back. However, when ** called us back, she was very defensive and told us that we should have called them about the battery and that they would have given us a new vehicle; therefore they were not going to pay for the battery.
We told her that Dollar Rental Car was the first place we called, but we're told we had to call our own road side service. She then became even more defensive and told us that they would only pay for half of the battery replacement charge because we should have had the battery change authorized first, and because we did not they would not pay for the entire charge. Really?! Again we reiterated we tried to get help from Dollar Rental Car as soon as we had the faulty battery problem, but were told we had to use our own roadside service.
We explained that we tried to get them to initially fix the problem, but they refused. We also explained that we did not and still do not see any mention of pre-authorization of replacing a faulty battery in our contract. We have spoken with numerous people from Dollar Rental Car including the owners of the Indianapolis Airport location. They were rude, and resistive to taking responsibility for renting a defective vehicle. They have even stopped returning our calls.
We are appalled at the way we were treated and want to warn other travelers to avoid using this company for their rental vehicle needs. I think we will stick with AVIS and Hertz as we have always used in the past with excellent service.
WEST DRAYTON, LONDON UB7 0HJ, UK -- I advise you not to rent from the Dollar Rent A Car "London Heathrow Airport" agency. The agency is not at the airport, but, rather, in the lobby of a Sheraton Hotel away from the airport. Moreover, it is not a Dollar agency but, rather, it is a Thrifty Rent A Car agency which, as it turns out, is actually run by a company called "Scot Group Ltd". After returning the car, this agency charged my credit card about US $500 to replace a tire they claim was damaged while I had the car. As explained below, this claim was incorrect and the evidence provided to support it was obviously false.
When I picked-up the car, the agency gave me a "Pre/Post Rental Damage Report" which had at least 16 areas of damage identified. I examined the car and attempted to identify each claimed area of damage, but, in almost every instance, the claimed damage recorded on the Report was inconsequential or non-existent. I rubbed at least one of the claimed scratches and found that it could simply be rubbed away. I did not understand why so many insignificant or illusory items of damage had been noted, but I did not see any point in disputing the presence of damage the rental company had identified.
When I returned the car, a male agency employee claimed that he had found new damage to the front left tire. The Pre-Rental Report noted damage to the front left wheel or tire, but the employee insisted that he remembered inspecting the car (at least 10 days before) and seeing damage only to the wheel. Just by looking, it was obvious the damage to the tire occurred at the same time as the damage to the wheel.
The Assistant Manager of the agency e-mailed purported "before" and "after" digital photos in order to "prove" that the damage to the tire was new. However, examining the photos showed that the "before" photo was of a different wheel and tire.
Thrifty said they would charge my credit card UK pounds 298.98, which they said was the cost of a new tire, an "administrative fee of [pounds] 37.50", and a charge for refurbishing the alloy wheel (65.00 pounds) (which even Thrifty said had been damaged previously). In the end, Thrifty charged UK pounds 343.04 (about $500) over the rental for replacing one tire (on the internet (e. g., www.etyres.co.uk), tire prices in the UK for the type of car I had, a Ford Focus, run from 75 to 105 UK pounds).
When I picked-up the car, I noticed 2 sets of customers engaged in heated arguments with a man behind the Thrifty counter. I could hear that the customers were challenging damage claims by the Thrifty representatives. The customers were complaining that the claimed new damage was not their fault, that they wanted documents (which the Thrifty representative was refusing to provide), that they wanted to speak with the supervisor or manager, who was not then available, and that they could not wait for the supervisor, because they had planes to catch.
When I returned the car I had the same experience. Again, the manager was "not available" and nothing could be accomplished at the agency. The Thrifty employees were surly, and their treatment of customers was uninterested and mean. It was obvious this agency was very familiar with, yet utterly indifferent to, angry customers.


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There hasn't much foreign policy discussion this election season, either in the Republican primaries or in the general election campaign. Certainly, there has been some lip service paid to Iran, but it is like pulling teeth to get either candidate to talk about Afghanistan, let alone any other country.
If there are two lessons policymakers across the aisle should learn from the pre-9/11 era, it is that problems ignored do not go away, and that no matter how remote a security vacuum is, it can still pose a threat to American national security.
It is time both the Obama administration and Romney's foreign policy team take Africa seriously. Over the past four years, security has declined significantly across a continent too often forgotten in Washington's policy debate.
Take, for example:
- Mali: Once labeled by Freedom House to be the most democratic, Muslim-majority country, a March coup enabled Islamists and Taureg separatists to seize control over the Saharan north of the country. Not surprisingly, the alliance between Tuareg and Islamists did not last, and Islamists consolidated control, implementing strict Islamic law and destroying UNESCO world heritage sites. Northern Mali now threatens to become a safe-haven for al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. The group which profits from drug smuggling networks as far south as Mozambique now has not only the material but also the territory to plot something bigger than beheading French tourists, all the more so since they seem to have taken possession of much of Muammar Qadhafi's loose weaponry.
- Nigeria: The seventh-most populous country on earth is also one of Africa's most diverse. While counter-terror experts once celebrated the demise of al-Qaeda's short-lived Nigerian affiliate, the rapid growth of the violent Boko Haram jihadist group should concern just about everyone. Boko Haram's slaughter of Christians threatens to take sectarian violence to a new level. The spread of jihadism into Nigeria's urban slums, let alone state failure, would also have profound repercussions.
- Somalia has actually been somewhat of a good news story in recent months, although if there's one lesson from recent Somali history, it is that no one should take positive security trends for granted in the Horn of Africa.
We can chase Joseph Kony around Africa's Great Lakes region, and his capture or killing would strike a blow for human rights. But, while it's all well and good to pursue a humanitarian policy, the White House should never forget those areas that could pose a growing threat to American national security. Radical Islamism and state failure is never a good mix. There is no easy answer about what to do in Mali, Nigeria, and Somalia, but failing to have a conversation is policy malpractice.


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Joining Shelton and Selig will be Korean War Marine captain and former baseball player Jerry Coleman. Other retired players from the Korean War era and numerous Korean War veterans also have been invited to attend.
The wreath-laying ceremony, with full military honors, will be followed by a press conference with Shelton, Selig, and other ceremony participants.
More than 1.7 million Americans fought and nearly 37,000 Americans died in the Korean War, which began on June 25, 1950, and continued until the fighting ended by armistice on July 27, 1953. Numerous major league baseball players served in the armed forces during the war. Three, in particular, played direct combat roles in the war. Coleman and Ted Williams, both Marine aviators, flew numerous combat missions over Korea. Both had been Marine aviators in World War II and were called to service in Korea in 1952 when their reserve units were activated. Air Force Maj. Robert Neighbors, a pilot who appeared briefly with the 1939 St. Louis Browns, was lost over North Korea in 1952. Neighbors' son will attend the June 14 ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.
Coleman, the Associated Press Rookie of the Year in 1949, played in six World Series in nine seasons with the New York Yankees. He was named to the American League All-Star Team in 1950 and later that season was selected World Series Most Valuable Player. He is currently in his 28th season as a broadcaster with the San Diego Padres, a team he managed during the 1980 season. Coleman's career was twice interrupted by military service, including 57 combat missions during World War II and another 63 in Korea.
The 50th Anniversary of the Korean War Commemoration, authorized by Congress, will commence on June 25, 2000, with opening ceremonies in Seoul, Korea, and at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Major League Baseball will be an active participant with commemorative activities planned at many major league ballparks on June 25, 2000 and remembrances during the All-Star Game and World Series.
For further information about the June 14 ceremony, contact Army Lt. Col. Anita Minniefield at (703) 604-0820 or email email@example.com .
For information regarding media access to, and logistical requirements at Arlington National Cemetery, contact Military District of Washington Public Affairs at (202) 685-4645. This event is open to the public.
General information about the 50th Anniversary of the Korean War Commemoration may be found at the official commemoration website: http://Korea50.army.mil.


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10.19.12 VOLLEYBALL: Cavs Rally to Beat Lake Superior
Women's Volleyball, 2012-10-19
(Sault Ste, Marie, MI) Walsh (7-11, 4-6) rallied from a 2-0 set deficit to defeat Lake Superior State (4-17, 1-9) 3-2 in Great Lakes Intercollegiate Conference action tonight. The Cavs are back in action at 2 pm tomorrow at Saginaw Valley State University.
After falling 25-27 and 15-25 in the first two sets, the Cavs got back into the match with a resounding 25-14 win in the third set. Walsh then evened the match with a heart-stopping 25-23 win in set four to even the match. The Cavs then completed the comeback with a 15-13 win in the fifth and deciding set.
Brittany Morris (5-11, Sr., North Royalton, OH/Padua Franciscan) led the Cavs with 13 kills. Devin Hummel (5-8, Fr., Shelby, OH/HS) was next with 10 kills and eight digs. Mallory Lenhart (5-9, So., Lambertville, MI/Bedford) handed out 29 assists. Julianne O'Donnell (5-10, Sr., Willowick, OH/Lake Catholic) and Krissy Sokol (5-9, Jr., Akron, OH/Archbishop Hoban) each delivered nine kills. O'Donnell added 14 digs and Sokol 10. Freshman Emilee Muzechuk (5-9, Mansfield, OH/Madison) also had 14 digs.
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After the second half of the Rick Wooler Memorial was rained out at Varney Motor Speedway, OSCAAR made the decision to run the event as part of the Velocity 250 weekend at Sunset Speedway.
In the first half of the event at Varney Motor Speedway on Saturday September 14th, Gary McLean picked up the checkered ahead of Brian McLean, Brent McLean and Davey Terry.
With this being the second half of the event, the OSCAAR Mods would only run one round of heats, with the heat line-ups determined by how you finished the 30 lapper at Varney. If any cars showed up that were not at Varney, they would have to start at the back of the heats.
With all this said and done, OSCAAR got it sorted out and the Modifieds put on a good show as they always do.
Trouble would strike early in the first heat as Bobby Tolton would head to the infield with problems. Then a little further on, Monty Kelly would get loose off of turn four and a little contact with Matt Barton resulted in Kelly into the inside wall. With water leaking for his mod, he'd be done for the afternoon. Gary McLean won the heat ahead of Brent McLean, Justin Jones, Brad Pearsall, Billy Zardo, Chad Strawn, Darryn Wright, Barton, Dave Osbourne and Dustin Jackson.
The second heat started off the same way as Ryan Dick spun, collecting Rod Sauder in the process. Davey Terry won the heat ahead of Shane Stickel, Branden Bullen, Justin Demelo, Mike Westwood, Brian McLean, Sauder, John Harper, Dick and Ted Patterson.
The OSCAAR Modifieds will run a B-Main (if needed) to finish off setting the field tomorrow afternoon. Then later on in the day, they will run the 40 lap Rick Wooler Memorial as part of the rest of the Velocity 250 show. The day includes a 50 lap OSCAAR Super Late Model feature, a 75-lap Limited Late Model invitational, a 50 lap Super Stock invitational and a 35 lap Mini Stock invitational. The green flag will fly at 1:30pm EST with Family Channel Star Veronica singing the national anthem.


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The Bristol Historical Society's sixth annual holiday craft fair is scheduled for Dec. 1 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the museum on Federal Hill.
There will be craft booths, a bake sale and the museum's own Christmas boutique. The main exhibits can be viewed during the sale, and anyone interested in the city's history is invited to talk with museum leaders about becoming involved with the organization.


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Last time, EgoFix TV brought us Boj singing to his group, DRB Lasgidi's debut single, "Toyin". Now, they've brought the hoarse-voiced crooner's acoustic set of his own debut single, "Cruella".
12.09.2012 at By Onos O 5 Comments
I have paid close attention to your african prints.. I think your style is very cool..it has this vintage touch to it. As for your music, BOJ you have an amazing voice!
what the heck is this? i just spent 2 mins trying to understand the head and tail of his song and it sounds like he needs to hit the drawing board again
the lyrics leave much to be desired, very repetitive. i hope this is a freestyle not something he actually put effort into. That being said, his voice is very unique and he has greta style. Just needs to work on his songwriting.


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Top Stories ONU receives pharmacy scholarship funding from Cardinal Health The Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy is one of 13 pharmacy schools from across the nation that have been selected to receive funding from the new, $1.1 million Cardinal Health Pharmacy Scholarship Program.Art and design to host 'Berlin to Prague' tour History, fine art and cultural exploration will combine during a 10-day tour to Germany and the Czech Republic, hosted by Ohio Northern University's Department of Art and Design and scheduled to begin May 16, 2012.
ONU Cedar Point Day, July 30 ONU alumni, students, faculty, staff, friends and families will celebrate summer with the ONU Cedar Point Day, July 30. Special admission prices to the Sandusky amusement park will be available from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the park.More Top Stories | Back to top
Spotlight: Faculty & Staff Faculty member receives Templeton Award Dr. Darrin W. Snyder Belousek, lecturer in philosophy at ONU, is the winner of this year's Templeton Enterprise Article Award, presented by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), a national educational organization headquartered in Wilmington, Del.Ohio State Bar Foundation names Mindi Wells as 2011 Fellow Mindi Wells, assistant dean for admissions and student services in the Pettit College of Law, has become a Fellow of the Ohio State Bar Foundation and will participate in the 2011 Fellows class.New album gets great reviews Dave Kosmyna, assistant professor of music, is a member of New Orleans Party Asylum. The band's new recording, "House of the Rising Sun," is getting great reviews. In the Toledo Blade, reviewer Tom Henry says, "This is an album that makes you proud of being from northwest Ohio." ArtSpace/Lima honors Greavu "Judith Greavu: A Retrospective" at ArtSpace/Lima features a comprehensive showing of the retired ONU faculty member's work. The exhibit runs June 12 through July 23.Quotes and Comments:Robert Carrothers, associate professor of sociology, on the Vancouver riots:CBCnews/CanadaSports fan violence: what triggers hockey riots? RadioNoonSlate podcastDarrin W. Snyder Belousek: Taxpayers should have voucher choice in Columbus DispatchHealthWise newsletter now online The July issue of the HealthWise newsletter includes information on seasonal allergies, heat illness and poison ivy, oak and sumac.Emergency MessagingEmergency on campus? Classes delayed or cancelled? Sign up for ONU's emergency text messaging. Just log in to Self-Service Banner and look for the box named "Emergency Broadcast Sign-up." Want weather warnings for Ada? ONU Security uses Nixle.com for these alerts. Go to www.nixle.com for this free service.Back to top
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The Foundation of the International Bartenders Association (I.B.A.)
Articles and facts were taken from IBA history book recorded by the late Mr Luigi Parenti, and
Mr Luigi Parenti was one of the members in the inaugural meeting in Torquay
The International Bartenders Association was founded on Saturday, 24th February 1951
The delegates of the Associations attended the meeting were:
Also present as Representatives-observers or in an advisory capacity:
The delegates representing their guilds agreed on the desirability to set up an International Organisation in order to represent the best bartenders in the world.
It was a smooth meeting where majority of proposals set forth were approved.
The Board was elected. They consist of:
The rest is history. For more information the minutes are provided in the folder "Archives of Minutes of Meeting"


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With more than 1,800 registered attendees, the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 9x), which is now in its ninth year, continues to grow and attract open source users, contributors, developers, projects, and companies.
Once again, Linux New Media had a booth at SCaLE last weekend at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport. Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth! Many of the attendees scored free copies of Linux Pro Magazine and Ubuntu User, as well as our newly launched Smart Developer and Admin magazine.
What did you miss if you weren't there?
Friday's full FOSS line up included Build an Open Source Cloud Day, DevOps Day Los Angeles, FOSS Mentoring, Fedora Activity Day, LPI Testing, Los Angeles PostgreSQL Day, Open Source Software In Education, PGP Keysigning Party, SCALE 9x Birds of a Feather, SCALE University, Splunk Training, and the UbuCon. Also on Friday were the fast paced, entertaining UpSCALE talks, which Linux Pro's own Rikki Kite and Amber Graner participated in.
Saturday opened with Leigh Honeywell's energizing keynote on Hackerspaces and Free Software. Other talks included Byobu: GNU Screen for Human Beings, OpenShot: Lights. Camera. Action!, Intro to Python, Open Source Television and more. There was a lot of movement throughout the day and the growing excitement attendees felt as as they left the scheduled talks transitioned easily into various "hallway tracks" between the scheduled sessions.
Canonical CEO, Jane Silber, opened Sunday with her keynote—Cloud for Human Beings, and kicked off another exciting line up of talks. Ruth Suehle, writer and editor in Brand Communications and Design at Red Hat, spoke about moving Beyond Linux: Changing the World with Open Source and Robyn Bergergon, Fedora Program Manager, discussed Decentralized Collaboration with Open Source Tools: Technical and Cultural Implementation. Sunday also saw talks on Crash Course : Open Source Cloud Computing, Writing GIMP scripts and plug-ins, Unity: Why does it matter? and more.
Many of these sessions are now available online and more are being added daily. More information can be found on the SCaLE 9x website.
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Van Buskirk Cos. is adding land to its Willow Ridge housing development near 10th Street and Six Mile Road on the east side of Sioux Falls. / Jodi Schwan / Business Journal
Annexations by the numbers
» 2007: 1,878 acres
» 2008: 1,811 acres
» 2009: 183 acres
» 2010: 45 acres
» 2011: 154 acres
» 2012: 123 acres
» 2013 projected: 418 acres
Developers are starting to annex land into Sioux Falls again after all but stopping in recent years.
Annexations peaked in 2007 and 2008, with more than 1,800 acres each year being added to the city. They bottomed out at 45 acres in 2010. So far this year, the city has annexed 81 acres. Plans from developers indicate that an additional 337 acres are pending, which would bring the total for the year close to the five-year average.
It indicates to me that were running out of land, said Jeff Schmitt, the citys chief planning and zoning official. The numbers have really come back up.
Undeveloped acres that sat dormant through the recession are being bought as future retail sites, office parks and housing developments. By annexing land, developers are able to market new property and establish rough timelines for when urban infrastructure will be available.
The city has approved three annexations, and four are pending. Theyre scattered in nearly every corner of the city, Schmitt said. Annexations must be approved by Planning Commission and City Council, and the land generally needs to be contiguous to city limits. Affected counties, townships, school districts and city departments are given the chance to submit comments on the plans.
The second stance is can we give them urban services in a reasonable amount of time, Schmitt said. It says in the resolution if there is water or sewer and what the time frame is.
Van Buskirk Cos. is working on the most annexations in the city.
Earlier this year, the company annexed land near 12th Street and Tea Ellis Road for its Cherry Lake Reserve development.
Streets will be paved this fall, and the plan is to install a bridge across the developments man-made lake in October. Lakefront home lots are selling, and Steve Van Buskirk said retail likely will follow.
Weve gotten restaurant calls. Weve gotten office calls, he said. And we really didnt expect that. Its probably four or five years out before we really see it.
On the east side, Van Buskirk Cos. is adding land to its Willow Ridge housing development east of Willow Run Golf Course. The company annexed 90 acres there in the mid-2000s.
Weve worked our way through the majority of that land, Van Buskirk said. Weve got 200 acres total, and were going to do more executive-size homes out there.
The company also plans to annex 116 acres south of 85th Street and Minnesota Avenue this fall. About half of it will have sewer service. Van Buskirk said plans are being developed, but there has been interest from hotels, and the company plans to market the land to smaller big-box retailers and restaurants in the spring.
Were showing 50,000-square-foot users, he said. Its really all variable depending on what we find.
Farther west along 85th Street, Rob Broin of RMB Associates LLC owns property at the southwest corner of 85th and Tallgrass Avenue. His representative, Joel Dykstra, plans to ask the city to annex about 150 acres this year.
The east side of the property is near the Platinum Valley development, and Dykstra said it likely will develop with similar housing.
Single-family homes, some twin homes and other kinds of developments, he said. The west half is probably going to be a combination of multifamily and commercial, no real firm plans.
The demand for residential development in the area is stronger than Dykstra anticipated, leading him to request annexation earlier than planned.
But the whole plan is to get out ahead of development, he said. First, you have to have annexation, then you have the zoning, and you try to get that done at this stage of the game. What we dont want to do is expand the residential and not have addressed whats going to be next door.


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Yup! Nothing will ever happen so this man.
lol the Mook isn't passing any of his classes and would never have graduated from college!
And is he just not good enough to play in the NBA.
His future is so sketchy!
The newest comments should be at the end, ever on the top, that is how ALL internet forums work.
This is going to be a joke, want to know why?
Because often times people report or now "flag" a post to get deleted simply because they do not agree with said post. That feature should just be taken away all together.
If you can't take people saying someone about you getting arrested or killing swans or stabbing someone then don't do those things.
Six kids and how many "baby daddy's"? lol
Thank God my tax dollars are not being wasted!
I believe that I agree with everyone that I know, we are GLAD that we have not seen his obnoxious, bloated face on TV in our market.
And right now, all of the politicians that Congel pays off are working to make sure that he is happy and that this plan never happens.
Congel owns the politicians and when, in the future the mall DOES transfer to the tax rolls he will be GONE.
Dude looks like he is as much of a dbag as his dad is.
But.....I thought that W won the war and fixed everything!?!
This is one of those times when the death penalty is a good thing.
Just kill it, and I mean it because he is no human.
Hopefully one group of our "elected" leaders have not been bought off and will protect the assets of the voter.
Very simple concept: if someone in that theater was carrying he/she could have taken out that psycho and saved a lot of lives.
Believe what you want but in states with open carry laws gun crimes have gone DOWN. This is a fact that the anti-gun folks don't want to talk about but it is a FACT. This FACT has been published by several university studies not idiots like the NRA.
Why does Air1 serve other counties?
My county taxes go to pay for that waste of money! Why is it going into other counties?
Seriously, this is ridiculous.
Abedelraheem and Naser?
Co-Darwin Award winners right there folks!
Buerkle is so right wing I don't see how she represents anyone in our area.
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Overall Record: 10-10-1 (0-0 PL) Last Week: 3-2-1
Scoreboard: Holy Cross 2, Connecticut 2, Storrs, Conn., 3/22
Holy Cross 3, Boston College 2, Worcester, Mass., 3/23
Holy Cross 4, Columbia 3, New York, N.Y., 3/26
Columbia 11, Holy Cross 1, New York, N.Y., 3/26
Holy Cross 3, Columbia 2, New York, N.Y., 3/27
Columbia 7, Holy Cross 3, New York, N.Y., 3/27
Schedule: Tuesday, March 29 vs. Massachusetts, Worcester, Mass., 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 30 at Harvard, Cambridge, Mass., 3:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 2 at Army, West Point, N.Y., 12:00 p.m./2:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 3 at Army, West Point, N.Y., 1:00 p.m./3:30 p.m.
- The Holy Cross baseball team plays against two more New England foes mid-week before traveling to West Point, N.Y. for the first Patriot League weekend doubleheader against Army. The Crusaders open up the week with a home game against UMass at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 29. The Crusaders then visit Harvard on Wednesday with first pitch set for 3:30 p.m. at O'Donnell Field. The weekend series with the Black Knights begins with a doubleheader on Saturday, April 2. The first game starts at 12:00 p.m. Action concludes on Sunday, April 3, with the final doubleheader starting at 1:00 p.m. All games in West Point will be held on Doubleday Field.
- The Crusaders and Minutemen have met a total of 59 times in program history with UMass holding a 35-25-2 advantage overall. The series dates back to 1905. Massachusetts currently owns a 6-9 record, including a 2-3 record on the road. They most recently took two out of three in their Atlantic-10 opening weekend against George Washington. Senior infielder Matt Gedman leads all starters offensively with a .421 batting average, scoring nine runs and collecting 24 hits and 11 RBI in 57 at bats. Junior RHP Glen Misho has the lowest ERA of Minutemen starting pitchers, collecting a 4.28 ERA with a 3-1 record in four starts thus far. He has also struck out a team-high 20 batters.
- Holy Cross is 105-54 all-time against Ivy League foe Harvard, with the series dating back to 1890. The Crimson are 3-15 after splitting two doubleheaders against NYIT this past weekend. Junior infielder Jeff Reynolds leads all starters offensively, collecting a .333 batting average, 20 hits and five RBI in 18 games played. Senior RHP Max Perlman is the squad's top hurler, appearing in five games and combining for a 1-3 record overall. He has an ERA of 1.85 in 24.1 innings pitched.
- This weekend's Patriot League opening doubleheader will serve as the 79-82nd meetings between the Crusaders and Black Knights, with Army owning a 53-23-2 all-time record. The teams first met back in 1911. Army was most recently no hit by Stony Brook on March 27, losing 1-0, and will host Stony Brook and Siena before the weekend series. They currently have a 6-12 record, including a 1-1 record at home. Senior Joey Henshaw leads all starters offensively, batting .339 thus far with seven runs, 20 hits and 12 RBI in 59 at-bats. Junior LHP Logan Lee is the squad's top starter from the mound, starting in six games thus far. He has an ERA of 3.60 in 35 innings pitched.
- Senior Nick Ciardiello (Edison, N.J.) extended his hit-streak to 17 games, collecting at least one hit in all six games last week. He led the squad in batting average (.450), hits (9), RBI (6) and total bases (14) last week as well. He currently leads the team with nine doubles on the season, including three last week, to bring his career total to 37, which ranks third all-time amongst Holy Cross career records. He also leads the squad with 22 RBI and has 109 in his career, which ranks second all-time behind senior Eric Oxford (Danvers, Mass.) who has 124 career RBI.
- Junior southpaw John Pedrotty (Portsmouth, R.I.) pitched the team's first complete game in a 4-3, seven-inning win against Columbia this past weekend. Pedrotty also earned his fourth winning decision, improving to a team-best 4-1 on the year. In five starts thus far, Pedrotty has recorded a 4.11 ERA with 22 punch outs in 30.2 innings pitched. His innings pitched are a team-high while his strikeouts rank second. Opposing batters are hitting .243 against him.
- For the first time in program history, Holy Cross tied Connecticut in a 16 inning game last Tuesday. The all-time series is now set at 40-19-1, advantage to the Huskies. The 16-inning game was the longest for UConn in the last 50 years while the 16 game ties the longest game played for a Crusaders squad. The team last played 16 innings back in 1957.The squad also moved in to the top six of the NEIBA (New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association). The poll is conducted by New England College Baseball Coaches. The Crusaders ranked sixth according to the poll and received eight points. UConn was ranked first with 30 points.


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Baseball | Sunday, March 10, 2013
Simon's Strong Pitching Helps Bearcats Defeat #15 Linfield, 6-3
Willamette Earns Five RBIs with Timely Hitting; Wildcats Commit Three Errors
SALEM, ORE. -- The old saying that quality pitching, solid defense and timely hitting is a winning combination in baseball certainly was true for Willamette University on Sunday, March 10, as the Bearcats defeated 15th-ranked Linfield College, 6-3.
Willamette starter Brandon Simon (Sr., RHP, Los Angeles, CA/Pacific Hills School) threw into the ninth inning and closer Parker Johnson (Sr., RHP, Carlsbad, CA/La Costa Canyon HS) faced just three batters.
The Bearcats did not commit an error on defense. At the plate, WU scored three runs on three hits in the first inning and earned three runs on two hits and two errors in the seventh inning.
With the win, the Bearcats advanced their record to 6-9 on the season, 2-4 in the Northwest Conference. Linfield, ranked #15 in the D3baseball.com Top 25, fell to 12-3 overall, 5-1 in the NWC.
Brad Breier (So., C, Torrance, CA/South HS) of Willamette went 2 for 4 with a run and an RBI. Brandon Chinn (Jr., 1B, Salem, OR/Sprague HS) hit a two-run single with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning and scored later in the stanza, as WU built a 6-1 lead.
Jake Wylie of Linfield was 2 for 4 with a solo homer, two runs and one RBI. Corey VanDomelen was 3 for 4 with one RBI for the Wildcats.
Willamette put its offense into gear early in the game, as the Bearcats opened the first inning with three consecutive batters reaching base.
Tyson Giza (Sr., CF, Salem, OR/Sprague HS) walked on a full-count pitch. Matt Hirsch (Fr., SS, Edmonds, WA/Meadowdale HS) singled up the middle to send Giza to third. Tosh Semlacher (Jr., LF, Gold River, CA/Jesuit HS) belted a hit to left field, driving in Giza and moving Hirsch to third. Semlacher went to second while Hirsch beat out the throw.
Hirsch scored when Hunter Gallant (So., 3B, Rescue, CA/Ponderosa HS) grounded out to shortstop for the first out. With two outs, Breier hit an RBI single to left field, as Semlacher scored on the play. Willamette led 3-0.
The Bearcats didn't record another hit until the seventh inning, as Linfield starter Zach Brandon kept the Wildcats close. Linfield placed its first run on the scoreboard in the fifth, when Wylie smacked his homer to left field.
Linfield's leadoff batter, second baseman Tim Wilson, reached first with an infield single to start the sixth. He was later picked off by Simon for the first out. VanDomelen, who was batting, singled to left field. The Bearcats ended the inning when Hirsch, Tanner Oates (So., 2B, Sparks, NV/Spanish Springs HS) and Chinn turned a 4-6-3 double play on a grounder by Nate McClellan.
Willamette increased its lead with several quality at bats in the seventh inning to take advantage of two errors by VanDomelen at shortstop.
Breier singled to open the stanza. Ben Petersen (Sr., C, Rocklin, CA/Rocklin HS/Butte College) hit the ball between first and second, but Breier was safe when VanDomelen dropped the throw. Pinch-runner Bryan Afzali (So., OF, Manhattan Beach, CA/Mira Costa HS) and Breier each advanced a base when Oates sacrifice bunted to the pitcher.
Chinn batted next and provided the key hit. He sent a single just behind Afzali and into left field. Both runners scored for a 5-1 lead. Chinn reached second base on the throw, and later moved to third on a groundout by Giza.
With two outs and reliever Joseph Stevick pitching for Linfield, Hirsch went to first on a throwing error by VanDomelen, as Chinn crossed the plate.
In the top of the eighth, Wilson singled with two outs and VanDomelen doubled to right center, allowing Linfield to cut the lead to 6-2.
Wylie smacked a double to left field to open the ninth inning. Kramer Lindell and Kyle Chamberlain walked to load the bases. Simon, who threw 111 pitches for WU, left the game and Johnson went to the mound.
After striking out Clayton Truex, Johnson got Jordan Harlow to ground out to first base. Wylie scored, cutting WU's lead to 6-3. The game ended when Nick Fisher flied out to Hirsch, who caught the ball in left field.
Simon improved to 2-2 with the win. He scattered 10 hits, while striking out three batters and allowing two walks. Johnson recorded his second save.
Brandon dropped to 3-1 for Linfield. He allowed six runs (four earned) and five hits in 6 1/3 innings. He earned five strikeouts and gave up one walk.
The Bearcats will return to action on Tuesday, March 12 with a game at Concordia University in Portland, Ore. Game time is set for 6 p.m. (PDT).
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WALNUT SPRINGS (June 25, 2013) -- For the past two months, this has been Luke Bielawski's day job.
Eight hours a day, the 24-year-old law student from Indianapolis drives through ditches and over desolate roads.
"You can't drive across the country anymore and see it like this."
When he does see a car, he either says hi or tries not to get hit.
But most of the time, he's more worried about hitting them.
Bielawski is golfing across back roads and open fields to raise money to help at-risk youth in his community go to college.
And he's doing it by playing the longest hole in the country.
Stretching from tee to shining tee.
Bielawski is miles from the nearest country club. He started on a beach in California. Recently, he was in Walnut Springs, north of Waco. He won't even see a golf course until he reaches his final destination at the Atlantic Ocean in August.
"I set my estimate, par at 48,000 strokes," he said.
And like any honest golfer, he counts every stroke. No matter where it lies, or how many times he loses a ball.
"We brought 3,600 and I think we've lost about 2,700," he said.
But for every ball he loses, he seems to*gain more new fans.
"If people didn't do that, it'd be really hard. We're fortunate enough to meet amazing people," Bielawski said. "Thank you guys for stopping. It was great to meet you guys."
Bielawski guesses it will take 24 thousand strokes and a couple thousand more golf balls before he reaches the east coast.
Doesn't look like he'll be quitting *this day job anytime soon.
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Why are Baffin Bay's drum starving to death?
CORPUS CHRISTI - Baffin Bay's black drum are starving to death.
Years of unabated population growth in the Upper Laguna Madre may have finally taken a toll on the fish's food source, which no longer can sustain the voracious bottom grazers. Or perhaps declining food sources is to blame. Either way, or for some other reason, the drum of Baffin have exceeded their habitat capacity.
While there is little historical evidence of this kind of collapse occurring on this scale, biologists say die-offs are one way nature keeps a population in check and maintains the delicate balance within ecosystems. Baffin Bay's various populations tend to rise and fall in five-year cycles.
But in this case the balance is way out of whack.
Black drum at the south end of the Upper Laguna Madre are reproducing at a rate that outpaces predation, natural attrition and angler harvest, which includes commercial efforts. For years, Texas Parks & Wildlife gillnet surveys have indicated the drum population down south is five times greater than speckled trout stocks.
Part of the reason may be the lack of recreational effort on drum compared with the harvest pressure on trout. Part of this can be explained by a lingering cultural stigma that unfairly labels drum a trash fish or as undesirable table fare. This was unfounded and untrue when the fish were healthy.
But don't expect any harvest relief from anglers or from commercial fishermen. The word is out that about half the drum caught are not worth cleaning. The fish are underweight, and the fillets are thin with a gelatinous texture. Bellies are empty, causing the fish to digest fat and now muscle tissue. For these reasons, the commercial harvest and sale of Baffin Bay drum has virtually ceased.
TPW testing has verified the emaciated state of drum in and near Baffin Bay. Drum elsewhere appear healthy.
Another contributor to population abundance could be that drum living in the high-salinity waters near Baffin Bay become sexually mature nearly two years sooner than their counterparts in other areas of the Gulf of Mexico. Generally drum can reproduce at age 5, whereas Baffin Bay drum begin to spawn at 3 1/2.
Biologists have speculated this might be an evolutionary adaptation to compensate for pre-Intracoastal Waterway conditions, when extreme heat, oxygen-poor stagnant water, evaporation and deadly salt content resulted in annual die-offs.
Some anglers, such as big-trout specialist David Rowsey, have speculated brown tide or poor water quality in general could be a contributing factor to an even greater problem. A brown tide bloom has lingered in isolated parts of Baffin since early spring. Brown tide generally is not considered harmful, though it can inhibit seagrass growth by blocking sunlight.
There is evidence from the upper East Coast that suggest a different strain of brown tide may interfere with the reproductive capacity of bivalves such as scallops.
There is no solid evidence of this happening here, but there is an indication that brown tide may be harmful to juvenile clams in the Upper Laguna Madre.
Paul Montagna, an endowed chair for ecosystem studies at the Harte Research Institute, believes brown tide may have altered the food web in the Baffin Bay system, which could have a negative impact on fishery health.
But Montagna said the more likely water quality issue involves oxygen depletion. It is a fact that the average temperature of Texas bays is warmer by about two degrees, based on studies that span more than 20 years. Warmer water holds less dissolved oxygen. And dissolved oxygen levels are lower near the bay bottom.
Montagna said the abundance of living creatures in the benthic or floor of Texas bays has been in decline for 20 years. Fewer benthic organisms means less fish food.
There is anecdotal evidence of a major decline in dwarf surf clams, historically a favorite food of drum, according to David McKee, author, longtime angler and biology professor at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. McKee said wade fishermen could not avoid crunching these clams underfoot throughout Baffin Bay in the 1970s.
But 20 years later and into today, the inch-wide clam with the white shell is difficult to find, he said. It was during this period the black drum population was building, leading McKee to believe they were eating something other than clams.
McKee said if today's black drum are malnourished, then researchers should look beyond the clam population to a decline in other food sources. A secondary food source, the blue crab, also is suffering a recent decline.
The scientific community is considering deteriorating water quality as a contributor to the overall problem. I won't speculate on the source, but studies show nutrient levels in Baffin have increased over the past decade. Speculative fingers of anglers point to a boost in agriculture operations on the King Ranch.
Montagna's research disputes this assertion.
To learn more, Mike Wetz, an assistant professor of marine biology at A&M-Corpus Christi is looking for research funding to get a better sense of the symptoms and possible causes. The study could start with a volunteer water monitoring effort that includes Rowsey and Scott Murray, a longtime Baffin angler and author of "World Class Texas Trout Tomorrow."
My prediction? The problem will get worse before it gets better.
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