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Portland starting guard Wesley Matthews scored a total of 15 points in Games 1 and 2.
During the first 7:55 of Game 3, he poured in 16 points on 6-of-6 shooting. At that point, he had matched the entire Dallas team as Portland led 22-16. He finally missed a shot with 2:25 left in the first quarter.
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A 15-minute lecture?
My JHS spent two hours lecturing us on the dangers of smoking and half my classmates now smoke. Go figure.
Drivers' Ed classes give lots of air time to driving the speed-limit. How many drivers really seem to have listened?
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Can anyone tell me the size of embroidery designs that will fit into the larger hoop that comes with this machine, can designs that are sized 5"X 7" work? I know designs that are 4"X4" will fit in the smaller hoop.
And, can anyone tell me if the computer has to be connected to the Internet when using the Embroidery unit?
Thanks, Marsha.
No to question one and yes to question two.
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Thanks for your reply. Do you have one of these machines? I'm wondering if there would be a way to get a 5X7 design to fit. I have a Husqvarna Rose, which only has a 4X4 hoop, and some design CDs have different sized designs, many of which I'd like to try.
No, but the size question is universal.
You can try resizing as long as the system you use also decreases the stitch count.
Another method is splitting the design and rehooping....not a fun process and the result can be hit or miss.
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Thirteen people were displaced by an overnight fire in the 400 block of High Street in Hanover, according to a press release from the Hanover fire department.
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Crews from Hanover and Penn Township fire departments had the fire under control in about 20 minutes.
The fire appeared to have started the unit at 471 High St., spread to the exterior of the 473 High St. property and the exterior and interior of 469 ½ High St., according to the release.
The residence at 469 ½ High St., owned by Anthony Biondino and occupied by five adults, sustained moderate damage.
The residence at 471 High St.,, owned by Ron Dehoff and occupied by one woman, is not livable because of heavy damage, the release stated.
The fire appeared to have been accidental, but a Pennsylvania State Police fire marshal will continue to investigate on Tuesday, the release said. Officials have not yet determined monetary estimates of the damage.
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The Tenth Amendment Center has released an Action Alert relating to the Nullification of Obamacare in South Carolina under H3101 and S102. The article summarizes some of the games being played by timid GOP leaders and goes over the moral and legal justifications for Nullification. Here's an excerpt of their summarization of recent events with the legislation:
When it comes to nullification of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the feet of some Republicans in the South Carolina legislature reportedly got cold over the last few weeks.
Rep. Bill Chumley introduced a bill to nullify Obamacare (HB3101) last month. It garnered 25 cosponsors and was ultimately referred to the House Judiciary Committee.
Committee chair Rep. Greg Delleney apparently fears nullification. He proposed changes to HB3101 that would strip all nullification language and remove direction to the South Carolina General Assembly to "adopt and enact all measures as may be necessary to prevent the enforcement of the 'Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act' within the limits of this State." The revised bill would only address the health insurance exchanges, leaving the rest of the PPACA intact in South Carolina.
It remains unclear why this so-called conservative refuses to stand up to the Obama administration and stop implementation of Obamacare. Perhaps he doesn't understand the legitimacy of nullification from a historical, moral and philosophical perspective.
Or perhaps he just supports Obamacare.
As you can see, they pull no punches. In fact, towards the end of the article, they call all of us in South Carolina to action, and even encourage people around the country to call our General Assembly members and pour on the pressure for Nullification:
If you live in South Carolina, call Rep. Delleney and let him know you want SB3101 passed out of committee as written. Remind him that his obligation lies with the people of South Carolina, not special interests and that he has a duty to interpose and protect the people he serves. You can find his contact information HERE.
Also contact other committee members and urge them to vote for the bill passed as written. You can find committee member contact information HERE.
Finally, contact your own senator and representative and ask them to support SB3101. You will find House contact information HERE and Senate contact information HERE.
If you live outside of South Carolina, contact Delleney and let him know America is watching.
And you can follow health care nullification legislation across the U.S. HERE.


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BUFFALO, NY - A collision between a school bus and a car sent both drivers to the hospital Thursday morning.
The accident happened at Walden Avenue and St. Mary's Road in Buffalo.
Maurice Harris of First Student bus company tells 2 On Your Side the bus driver was pulling out of the parking lot, when a car hit the side os the bus. No children were on the school bus at the time.
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1995 Ford Ranger • 24,000 miles
My truck has a pronounced "clunk" when I let off the gas and when I accelerate. This especially pronounced in the 30-45 mph range. I checked the u-joints and the seem OK. There is some slop in the driveshaft carrier bearing. Could this be the source of the noise or perhaps the u-joints just need to be replaced. This truck is all original in this area.
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If you see rust around ujoints replac ethem also see how much backlash you have in rear end it just may be a normal noise there sholdn't be aslop I in carrier bearing.
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Born in Bangalore on 12 March 1991 to Indian mother Surekha Nicollet and French father Marc Nicollet, Sharmila Nicollet is the best female golfers India has ever produced. She studied in the Bishop Cotton Girls` School and then in Bangalore International School. She graduated high school and senior secondary school privately. She is pursuing a bachelor`s degree course program privately as well.
The young Nicollet became interested in sports at a young age and started participating in swimming championships. From 1997 to 2001, she claimed as many as 72 gold and silver medals at various state and national aquatic meets. This former national sub-junior swimming champ was also a state level athlete. She participated in various athletic tournaments and set records while she was still studying in the Bishop Cotton Girls School.
When Nicollet was only 11 years of age, she shifted her focus to golf and soon grew very fond of it. At the age of 15, she won her first golf tournament. In the beginning when she was playing as an amateur, she represented India in 2006 at the Asian Games at Doha and later in the Asia Pacific Junior Golf Tournament. While playing at these tournaments, she kept improving her skills. The same year, she also participated at the Callaway Junior World Golf Championships at San Diego in California, and the Queen Sirikit Cup in Japan, as well as the Malaysian Open and other international tournaments.
In the year 2007, Nicollet became the youngest female golfer to win the title of All-India Ladies Amateur Championship 2007-08. On top of that, she also won seven Open Amateur Tournaments the same year. Later that year, she partnered with Laura Davies of England for a special amateur match, the Emaar-MGF Challenge Match.
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Bioware Reveals Most Popular Mass Effect Player Names
Bioware has revealed what the top five names players chose for their Commander Shepard's in Mass Effect 3.
Writing in a post on the company's official blog, Bioware staffer Conal Pierse released a list of the most popular first names for Commander Shepard. On the FemShep side of things, the five most prominent names were Sarah, Kate, Alice, Jessica and Alex. Among male Shepard's the names Jack, James, Chris, Alex and Michael were most popular.
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Am I the only one who getting more annoy by Skye every episode. I do not even know what is her purpose. I am glad that we got a bit more info on Ward background and a bit of Coulsons but can they give us May. I also like how Ward was helping Simmons up the tree and that she knew it.
1. Elijah ripping out hearts because he show while he should not be played with.
2. Klaus because at least you can compromise with Elijah.
3. Horrible, all she wants is love.
4. No
5. The first time you went after the baby, they left you go with a warning but since you did it a second time then your fate was doom.
1. Hook's confession and Regina telling Rumple that he will die by nobody hands but her own.
2. They should but first they should strengthen their bond with Emma first.
3. Regina
4. I have to go with David.
5. Not really
I think that Rick made the right call because Carol was on the verge of going rogue any time soon. I am going to feel sad that Daryl lost a friend but Rick and Daryl bromance always had their ups and downs and they will pull through. I wish that Daryl would have left Bob there.
I actually think it is going to be Aiden that shoots her but it will be for real. I do not think that Emily loves Aiden because you see her showing much more emotions to Jack and Nolan than to him. I do not think that she will also leave them behind because they are her family. If I was Victoria, I will probably be scared of Patrick because he admit that he did try to kill Conrad but what if he goes after her next. I love Nolan and Jack back together as friends and I wish I had been invite to share that lasagna. I am glad of Charlotte scheming this time and I am hoping that Emily finds out that her own half-sister is now plotting against her.
I was not that fond of the Ariel flashback but I also did not have high hopes for it only because Ariel is not in my top five favorite Disney princesses. I love Regina and Rumple scenes because I think they, along with Emma, powers can take down Peter Pan. I love Hooks confession the most and after that I do not think that Snow is on Swantheif anymore because she do not know how Neal hurt Emma. There was speculation going around about Snow confession long before this but I think that they should right their wrongs with their daughter before thinking about having another child and I think that they had cheated themselves about why they could not see her grow. I am finally glad that David secret is out and I think that the writers are rooting more for Captain Swan because we did not see Neal face or if he heard Hook confession but we seen Hook face on Emma confession. After that episode, I am sure that Neal will not be the love of her life because she wish he was dead. I also think that Peter Pan sees Rumple, Hook, and Emma as a threat to his grand plan because he ask Rumple and Hook to go home and take Emma with them.
Actually, I think that Peter Pan wanted them to find each other all along. Hint why Peter Pan told Neal that he knew when he left Neverland. If anything, I think that Pan is more threatened by Hook, Emma, and Henry because those are the only three he has been talking one on one with.
Actually they already confirm the love triangle between Hook/Emma/Neal.
1. I don't know why he does but I never been much interested in his character.
2. Yes, you have to fight fire with fire. I do not think that Snow knows what long term consequences is because she never went dark, she just went emo.
3. Yes
4. It is not a one time thing.
5. There were so many but my favorite two was Emma "our son" and Regina "we love you" because it goes back to first episode of this season when Henry said both his mothers will come for him.
Now that I questioning it, I wonder why Emma and co. just did not follow the lost boy to Peter's hideout.


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I find it depressing that Rossi isn't even trying anymore.
In the final minutes of QP he dragged the toe of his boot on the ground, that is pure laziness. I've not doen that on the road let alone track and I'm not paid a million per month to ride my old hack around.
Casey always gave 100% on that bike.
I used to be a Rossi fan cos of the way he rode, not his silly antics or yellow merchandise. His current efforts are insulting to Ducati, it's sponsors and more importantly to his fans.
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This will be the fourth year for the summer internship program.
Councilman Jack Estridge raised several concerns about plans to relocate Indian Land's Roy Hardin Park at Lancaster County Council's meeting April 6.
The plan, requested by York Development Group, LLC, would move the park from near Collins Road to an area one street over, near Shelley Mullis Road.
There are only 2 acres of usable park space at the current park, out of a total 9.9 acres, and the company has requested moving the park in order to develop the land in another way. The new park would have 4.9 usable acres of space.
A long road trip to eastern North Carolina wasn't kind to the University of South Carolina at Lancaster Lancers' baseball team over the weekend.
The Lancers, 11-18, dropped doubleheader defeats to Pitt Community College of Greenville, N.C., on Saturday and Sunday. Two of the losses came in extra innings by one run.
The Lancers, after dropping two on Saturday, fell twice Sunday.
In the opener, USCL dropped a 2-1 setback in eight innings.
Jeff Davis and his foursome halted a links drought on Friday afternoon at the Lancaster Golf Club in the 18th annual Crenshaw Oil Company golf tournament which benefits Lancaster County Partners for Youth.
Davis noted about 10 years ago in his first year in the tournament, he was a member of the winning team.
"Since then, we've had fun playing in this tournament, but we really haven't done too much," Davis said.
That is until Friday.
The Lancaster Bruins are on a roll in the annual Wheels Invitational high school baseball tournament in Rock Hill.
The Bruins surged to their third straight win, belting Brooke Point High (Va.) 7-1 on Saturday morning to cap play.
Senior right-hander Mike Catoe scattered four hits and walked one to go with seven strikeouts in LHS's six-run win over the Black Hawks.
According to Lancaster County Sheriff's Office reports:
- A Lancaster man was arrested April 2 after a traffic stop on York Street.
Carl Nicholas Hall, 26, 105 Hunter St., was charged with driving under the influence, driving under suspension and resisting arrest.
According to the report, an officer stopped Hall because he knew Hall was driving under suspension. The officer turned on his blue light and siren after Hall did not stop for him on Springdale Road, the report said. Hall turned into a driveway on York Street, got out of the car and ran.
The 2008-09 high school basketball season offered quite a challenge to second-year Andrew Jackson boys coach Dale Reeves and his Volunteers.
AJ answered in flying colors.
The Vols entered the season, their first in revised Region IV-AA, which featured three schools ranked in the Class AA boys preseason top 10. The elite trio included No. 4 Keenan, No. 8 Central of Pageland and ninth-ranked Eau Claire of Columbia.
Great Falls High School senior right-hander Gaither Bumgardner tossed a two-hitter and struck out 10 to key the Red Devils to a 4-0 Region III-A baseball win over Buford at the GFHS field on Wednesday.
The game was originally set for Tuesday, but a late afternoon thunderstorm caused GFHS officials to postpone play to Wednesday.
Bumgardner gunned the Red Devils' offense with a two-run homer and a solo blast.
BHS, 3-6, 5-8, had a hit each from Joseph Wright and Britt Wells. Wright also reached after twice being hit by a pitch. Justin Altman drew two walks.
The Lancaster County 2008-09 girls basketball season belonged to the Indian Land Lady Warriors.
Veteran Lady Warriors coach Tamara Jacobus and standout sophomore guard Mariah Williams swept top honors for the county girls basketball campaign.
Jacobus guided the Indian Land girls to a 19-5 mark, which included an unbeaten 12-0 record and the Conference III-A regular-season championship.
Williams was the Lady Warriors catalyst, averaging a county's best 13 points and 3.4 assists per game.
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Dr. Leslie Kean broke new ground when she discovered that a rheumatoid arthritis drug could potentially eliminate GVHD. Now she is leading a Phase II clinical trial to evaluate whether the drug works in children - the nation's only multicenter pediatric clinical trial aimed at preventing the disease. Read the full story
Our Craniofacial Center is the first to offer children with Apert syndrome a revolutionary procedure to normalize their facial proportions. Read the full story
Our work to cure cancer using reprogrammed T cells transitioned from treating mice to helping people in 2013. Read the full story
When children with epilepsy run out of treatment options, MRI-guided laser ablation surgery offers hope for a seizure-free life. Read the full story
A new bowel management program and quality-of-life database help the Reconstructive Pelvic Medicine Clinic improve long-term outcomes. Read the full story
Our researchers develop an iPad app to address key teen health issues and provide guidance for using social media safely. Read the full story
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Our new cell production facility helps turn laboratory discoveries into lifesaving therapies - starting with cancer immunotherapy. Read the full story
Our researchers are using fecal transplant to find cures for inflammatory bowel disease in children. Read the full story
We are meeting a critical community need, offering services for adults with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities. Read the full story
From curing graft-versus-host disease to using Facebook to prevent drunk driving, Seattle Children's Research Institute's newest researchers are pursuing innovative solutions to seemingly intractable problems. Read the full story
Dr. Carrie Heike continues her quest to give families better guidance and identify therapies for craniofacial microsomia that work best. Read the full story
Our Immunology Diagnostic Laboratory develops tests - and makes difficult diagnoses - that help children with immune disorders lead longer, healthier lives. Read the full story
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Seattle Children's adds smart radiation to its arsenal of tools to fight a deadly childhood cancer. Read the full story
The discovery of mutations in genes that help regulate brain growth could lead to better treatments for brain disorders and other conditions, including cancer, autism and epilepsy. Read the full story
A genetic variation in a regulatory protein may predispose children to side effects from opioids - a finding that may change how pain meds are prescribed. Read the full story
A novel mobile phone app being developed at Seattle Children's and the University of Washington may transform care for patients with chronic lung diseases. Read the full story
Seattle Children's takes a step toward revolutionizing the way cancer is treated with the hospital's first reprogrammed T cell immunotherapy trial for relapsed leukemia. Read the full story
Innovations in enzyme development made by the Scharenberg and Rawlings labs and their partners at the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center move researchers closer to making precision gene manipulation a therapeutic reality. Read the full story
Results from international clinical trials led by Dr. Bonnie Ramsay signal a breakthrough in treatment for cystic fibrosis. Read the full story
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Dr. Colleen Delaney's pioneering approach to accelerating white blood cell recovery moves to Phase II trials. Read the full story
A new kind of hydrocephalus shunt being developed by Dr. Sam Browd incorporates the latest technologies and promises to dramatically reduce failure rates. Read the full story
Seattle Children's lands a major NIH grant to take a multipronged look at how the virus that causes Kaposi's sarcoma spreads and turns cancerous. Read the full story
Dr. Dimitri Christakis has devoted his career to investigating how media exposure impacts children and helping parents take control of their family's media habits. Read the full story
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One thrust of Dr. Jack McClellan's research - studying the safety and usefulness of current antipsychotic medications - points to the need for better therapies. The other - searching for genetic causes of schizophrenia - could someday lead to more effective diagnostic and treatment strategies for that disease. Read the full story
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Recent outbreaks of respiratory viruses highlight the need for quick diagnosis to prevent the spread of disease. However, laboratories are still only able to detect virus in about 50% of samples. Tim Rose, PhD, wants to increase that detection rate. Read the full story
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Dr. Anne Stevens, a physician-scientist at Seattle Children's, believes maternal cells - which are transported to a fetus during pregnancy and persist through a child's lifetime - might play a role in pediatric lupus. Read the full story
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Dr. Andrew Scharenberg is working on an innovative approach to gene therapy called gene repair, in which proteins will cut defective sequences of DNA within a gene and cause them to be replaced with corrected sequences. Read the full story
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Hi! I'm making a t-shirt quilt out of my boyfriend's old band t-shirts, and discovered how expensive interfacing is. I wanted to know if there are any alternatives I can use.
------I have a great enthusium for sewing, but lack talent to be great.
If you are afraid to mess them up without using stabilizer -- use loads of starch. Loads.
With t-shirt I use a light pressure foot and let the machine do the feeding. Dont stretch out the fabric anymore than u need to.
If you need a stabilizer that is heavy - sew the blocks onto foundation pieces then piece the quilt.
have fun.
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Thank you! The main problem I was having was keeping them stiff while I was cutting. One t-shirt is really thin and was rolling up on the edges after I cut it. I haven't started cutting the others yet, but they appear to be thicker and less likely to be a problem. I was just using interfacing because a tutorial I found told me to. I've never quilted before!
And yes, I'm cutting the designs on the front (and most of the backs) and using them as blocks. Unfortunately, that only leaves me with 13 16" blocks, so I'm toying with ideas for other blocks to make the quilt a little bigger. -- Edited on 8/4/13 11:19 PM --
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Over the years we have cataloged quite an impressive number of cabinet and architectural parts in our CAD Database.
970 Legs, 2335 Posts, 519 Bun Feet, 77 Corbels, 161 Appliques, 625 Newel Posts and 959 Balusters…and growing daily.
The 25th Annual Management Conference and Exposition will be held Sept 28th through the 30th at the Best Western Ramkota Hotel in Sioux Falls South Dakota. As usual we will have a display table set up and our staff will be ready to answer any questions you may have.
For the Cabinet Industry we manufacture Cabinet Legs, Posts, Bun Feet and Appliques.
We are also able to manufacture your Stairway Newels and Balusters to match the Cabinet parts at no additional charge.
Glacial Wood supplies parts to the finest cabinetry manufactures in the United States. As we are a custom job shop you do not have to change your product offering, literature or displays to switch to Glacial Wood. We simply reproduce your existing product line, the transition to higher quality, less expensive shipping and better service is quick and painless.
New customers from this show will enjoy free shipping for the first 30 days of the first order, just ask for details at the show or call Mark @ 800-804-6885.
I look forward to seeing our current customers and possible future customers at the show. If you cant wait for that time please give us a call and a sales representative will stop out and see you at your convenience.
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We have had a machine custom built exclusively for the purpose of turning out square legs and bun feet. This machine will bring our quality level well past our competitors and it will be up and running within the month. Profiles available will be posted at that time as well. Our customers will finally have the option to get a shapered leg in any species needed, no more need to settle for what is on the shelf with other vendors.
Glacial Wood Products is very pleased to announce a significant addition to it's list of reason's, why you should use GWP as your source for "turnings.
Following months of development work with the popular software company, 20-20 Technologies, GWP can now offer an electronic catalogue, representing 55 of our most commonly used turned posts, legs, and bun feet. These parts can be easily down loaded into any 20-20 cabinet drawing, to provide a view of the actual part, used in the kitchen design.
The selected part is shown in three lengths, 3 diameters, and is priced in 5 wood species.
Additionally, Glacial Wood has created a brand new design tool, unique only with the use of our of our electronic catalogue system. The designer can now create any custom size part as may be desired. With the use of your mouse, you can stretch or shrink the part to fit any situation where a custom size is needed. This tool is only available with the use of the Glacial Wood, 20-20, electronic catalogue.
If your planning on attended to 2013 KBIS show in New Orleans, be sure to check in at the 20-20 Technologies information booth. They would be more than happy to assist you in implementing this new catalogue, or call GWP for more information regarding this "state of the art" designer tool.
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harvest green project, vancouver by romses architects
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the 'harvest green project' by romses architects was a winning entry in
a recent competition held by the city of vancouver 'the 2030 challenge'
to address climate change plans and to guide greener and denser development,
reducing carbon emissions for the future.
the concept of 'harvest' is explored in the project through the vertical
farming of vegetables, herbs, fruits, fish, egg laying chickens, and a
boutique goat and sheep dairy facility. in addition, renewable energy
will be harvested via green building design elements harnessing geothermal,
wind and solar power. the buildings have photovoltaic glazing
and incorporate small and large-scale wind turbines to turn the
structure into solar and wind-farm infrastructure. in addition, vertical
farming potentially adds energy back to the grid via methane generation
from composting non-edible parts of plants and animals. furthermore,
a large rainwater cistern terminates the top of the 'harvest
tower' providing on-site irrigation for the numerous indoor and outdoor
crops and roof gardens.
while the harvest green project supports the city mandate for compact
mixed-use communities in and around transit hubs, it further enhances
the mixed-use programming to include urban farming as a reaffirmation
of the importance of the connection of food to our culture
and daily life. in addition to food and energy harvesting, the proposal
purposefully incorporates program uses for residential, transit, a large
farmers market and supermarket, office and agricultural research and
educational facilities, and food related retail/hospitality. the result will
be a highly dynamic synergy of uses that compliment and support
each other.
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I love the design. The only thing I would change is from Horizontal axis wind generator to Vertical axis wind generator. Less harm to birds and less stress on wind generator. The wind shifts directions too much in urban enviroments.
People living near animals…in the city? First place to be evacuated when there's another swine flu… Neat idea though- trying to tackle so much!
loving the graphics<3
@Myra, The name doesn't cover the payload. Swines have nothing to do with "the swine flu". Also, putting people & animals together ain't that bad. In this way, people will get the real value of these animals, the respect will grow.
wonderful this is the right kind of architecture that i always imagine in my brain.
Just because it looks good doesn't mean it will work well… see [url=http://punkrockpermaculture.com/2008/12/29/vertical-farmingmaking-history-or-making-hype/]punkrockpermaculture[/url]
First of all, many of the vertical farming set ups I've seen are extremely energy intensive. Second, if we take the monoculture we've been experiencing outside with big agri-business and then put it inside we've gone nowhere. Third, in what way are these systems connected to the greater ecology of a region?
The best place for grow plants and animals is the country. I don't see like green put to grow animals in a city.


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Over 46 million Americans are hungry or at risk of hunger, including nearly 12 million children (according to the USDA) – and recent economic trends are adding to that number. To address this challenge and support new solutions and ideas, C&S is partnering with some of America's leading hunger relief organizations.
C&S has a special responsibility to the communities where we operate and where our employees work and live with their families. That responsibility manifests in many ways, including key support to local United Way campaigns. We also award Mini Grants to non-profit groups in the communities we call home.
Greenhouse gas, acid rain, vehicle emissions and industrial pollution are all having serious impacts on our planet. To promote the health of the environment we're taking steps through energy conservation, technological innovations and mindful choices.
Giving back and making a difference don't always involve cash donations. Sometimes, what's needed most is the kind of deep personal commitment that volunteers can offer. At C&S, we've created several programs to inspire, support and recognize our employees who volunteer.


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Welcome to the Adler's Blogs! Adler Transmissions provides you with the latest news and views from Adler's astronomers, curators, partners, and programming staff. From Earth to distant planets and beyond, This Week in Space discusses the latest discoveries and accomplisments in science, space, and technology.
Caroline Herschel & Mary Somerville Hacked Astronomy
In 1835, Caroline Herschel and Mary Somerville were the first women awarded honorary memberships in the Royal Astronomical Society. Caroline and Mary weren't the first female astronomers and they certainly weren't the last, but the level of recognition they earned was groundbreaking.


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Fort Myers High's Logan Samuelson and Kendall Brent are in Indianapolis for the World Championship trials.
Fort Myers High School swimmers Kendall Brent and Logan Samuelson are soaking in their time among the nation's elite swimmers, including Olympians Ryan Lochte, Missy Franklin and Katie Ledecky.
The local pair are among 800 of the United States most elite swimmers competing at the 2013 Phillips 66 National Championships & World Championship Trials at IUPUI in Indianapolis beginning today and running through Saturday.
"I talked to a couple guys and took in as much as I could," Samuelson said. "It's like the Hollywood stars are coming out to play here." ...


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Cheaper By The Dozen - This Week's Hot E-Book Deals
One of our favorite features of the e-revolution is the sheer amount of books you can pack into such a tiny digital device. But what do you do when the growing number of new reads causes your wallet to shrink uncomfortably? Shop the e-book deals, of course! In this column we highlight some of our favorite book buys that will cost you less than a medium-sized coffee.
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A Gentleman Never Tells by Amelia Grey
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Sultry with a Twist by Macy Beckett
Young Adult
Everblue by Brenda Pandos
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No One Needs to Know by Debbi Rawlins
Romantic Suspense
A Terrible Love by Marata Eros
The Blue Hour by T. Jefferson Parker
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Terms of Enlistment by Marko Kloos
Garden of Desire by Delilah Devlin
Bound in Death by Cynthia Eden
Mystic Fool by Andy Hill
Set Sail My Heart by Colleen Coble
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


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The Mental Illness Fellowship And Eric Bana
Before starring in big-budget films like "Hulk,†"Munich†and "Star Trekâ€, Eric Bana was busy making a name for himself on Australian TV. He began his show business career in 1991 as a comedian while still working as a barman. Producers of "Full Frontalâ€, the sketch comedy show, noticed Eric and in 1993 he was hired as a writer and performer. Spending four years on "Full Frontalâ€, Eric gained notoriety by creating some of the show's most popular characters. Peter (pronounced "Poidaâ€), a stand-in TV host (Read on …)


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Glycosylation — "sugar-coating" — of the muscle protein alpha-dystroglycan is known to be a crucial part of muscle function.
Without sufficient glycosylation, alpha-dystroglycan doesn't stick well to other proteins, and an important linkage between muscle fibers and their surroundings is disrupted.
By disrupting the fukutin gene at different time points in mice embryo, researchers have been able to develop research models of two types of human muscle disease: Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy (Fukuyama CMD) and type 2M limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD2M).
A new registry has been launched for people with conditions caused by mutations in the gene for fukutin-related protein (FKRP). This includes people with the type 2I form of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) and the type 1C form of congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) and, in rare instances, the congenital muscular dystrophies muscle-eye-brain disease and Walker-Warburg syndrome.
Update (March 31, 2015): A new guideline for care and diagnosis of CMD was published by the American Academy of Neurology on March 30, 2015. See CMD: Guideline for Patients and Familes.
It isn't known why the CMDs cause muscle weakness earlier than other types of muscular dystrophy. One possibility is that the muscle proteins affected in CMD are required early in the development of an infant's muscle, while muscle proteins linked to other muscular dystrophies don't become important until the muscles begin to get a lot of use as a child grows.
A diagnosis of CMD can be confusing because for many years the term was used as a "catch-all" name to describe conditions that looked like other muscular dystrophies, but started much earlier or followed different patterns of inheritance.
At least 30 different types of CMD are now recognized (see the Types of CMD chart). At first glance, the various types of CMD seem to have little in common other than their early onset. But on the molecular level, the types can be grouped how their faulty protein affects cells.
A very small group of CMDs are linked to proteins that affect what happens inside muscle fibers, affecting how the fibers process signals from the nervous system, for example, or how they handle calcium.
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Student-Athlete Spotlight: Caroline Piasecka, Fencing
Feb. 17, 2014
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Caroline Piasecka, a senior on the fencing team, excels both on the strips and in the classroom. The Oslo, Norway, native has tallied 38 victories so far this season and has been recognized as a member of the Primetime Performer Weekly Honor Roll by CollegeFencing360 for her performances at the NYU Invitational and St. John's Invitational. She has made an appearance at the NCAA championships for the past three years and earned Second Team All-America accolades for the 2012-13 season. Piasecka also demonstrates excellence in the classroom as a three-time Ohio State Scholar-Athlete and two-time Big Ten Distinguished Scholar.
Do you prefer the Oval in the Fall or Spring (or maybe the Winter)? Winter! I love when the Oval is covered in white snow.
Where is the best place to sit for lectures? Second row on the right side
Most underrated place to study on campus? The Physics building; it is always quiet and there are many secluded places to study.
Why did you choose to major in finance? I wanted to complement my undergraduate degree in international business with a more quantitative business discipline
If you were the University President for a day, what would you do? Give everyone the day off!
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Howard Berry has no doubt about what drove his 36-year-old son to commit suicide on Feb. 13 at his apartment in Landen.
Joshua Berry, a former staff sergeant, suffered "severe" post-traumatic stress disorder, his father said. It was not from his time on the battlefield in Afghanistan, he said, but from a horrific attack Joshua survived at home: the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, in which Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan killed or wounded more than 40 people.
Joshua Berry - who had just returned from Afghanistan and was preparing to return to Cincinnati - was injured in the attack; he separated his shoulder ...


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Poverty, Inequality, and the Negative Effects of Mongolia's Economic Downturn
June 25, 2014
For the last four years, Mongolia has had one of the fastest growing economies in the world, clocking double-digit growth on the back of a mining boom. The effects of this growth are obvious, especially in the capital, Ulaanbaatar, where cranes dominate the skyline and luxury stores compete for space to attract customers. However, the economic tide seems to be turning, with growth predictions showing a single-digit growth of 9.5 percent according to the ADB, which corresponds to a declining trend starting at a high of 17.5 percent in 2011, dropping to 12.3 percent in 2012 and 11.7 percent in 2013.
For the last four years, Mongolia has had one of the fastest growing economies in the world, clocking double-digit growth on the back of a mining boom. The effects of this growth are obvious, especially in the capital, Ulaanbaatar. Photo/Mathew Pendergast
There are several reasons for Mongolia's decelerating growth. As an economy fueled by the mining sector, Mongolia has suffered from the global drop in prices of coal and copper, two of its main export products, resulting in a corresponding drop of export revenues by $800 million. Another factor is the drop in foreign direct investment of 54 percent last year due to conflicts over mining agreements and licensing and insecurity of investors over the stability of the regulatory framework.
While the economic downturn presents pressing immediate challenges, one of the main long-term challenges for Mongolia has been to ensure that growth is inclusive. Although Mongolia's economic growth has helped to reduce poverty by more than 11 percent in recent years (from 38.7% in 2010 to 27.4% in 2012), it is clear that some are benefiting more than others from Mongolia's mineral wealth. There is a perception among many people of rising inequality in terms of income distribution, but also in terms of access to opportunities such as a good education, a good job, or just to get decent healthcare.
Poverty is higher in the rural areas (35.5%) compared to the urban areas (23.2%), as herders in the countryside struggle to survive as their traditional livelihood dissolves, and there are few job opportunities for young generations. Newly introduced Local Development Funds are meant to promote economic development and improved livelihoods at the local level through the involvement of citizens in decision-making. Nevertheless, urbanization is high with many people leaving the countryside and moving to Ulaanbaatar, home to 60 percent of the population, in the hopes of better economic opportunities. Many of these migrants settle in the outskirts of the ger districts, large unplanned settlements, which lack access to basic services such as water, sanitation, heating, schools, and kindergartens. However, given the lack of qualified skills training, these new residents are faced with fewer opportunities in the formal job sector, including the mining sector, and often find themselves unemployed or forced to work in informal jobs where wages are low. As a result, poverty in Ulaanbaatar stood at 19.8 percent in 2012.
As the economy slows, the question now is what the impact will be on poverty levels and income inequality. High inflation averaging 12.4 percent in 2013 has increased living costs in Ulaanbaatar where prices of food, consumer goods, transport, housing, and services such as electricity have risen significantly. Insulating low-income residents from the worst of the impact of high inflation and enabling their full participation in economic development through greater employment and access to basic public services are essential issues that Mongolia's government will need to address as part of its efforts to get the economy back on track.
In April, Mongolia's Prime Minister, Altankhuyag Norov, launched a "100-day action plan" aimed at reviving the economy. The prime minister's 50-point agenda, which was approved by Parliament in May, promises to boost infrastructure, mining, manufacturing, and the development of small- and medium-sized businesses. Proposed actions include the establishment of free economic zones, improving debt management, and flexible provision of services such as credit and leasing. An economic council has been tasked to monitor the implementation of the agenda and provide recommendations to the Prime Minister on key reforms.
If urbanization trends continue, Ulaanbaatar is likely to grow further in size and economic importance, becoming a key economic actor in its own right. While the prime minister's plan is an important step toward salvaging the economy in the short-term, long-term economic planning will need to be improved to diversify the economy and ensure the sustainability of growth.
The Asia Foundation is supporting the City Municipality of Mongolia in its economic development planning as well as in improving urban services in the ger districts in order to ensure socially inclusive growth for all residents. Read more about our work there.
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|Fate of aflatoxins and fumonisins during the processing of maize into food products in Benin.
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|The fate of aflatoxins and fumonisins, two mycotoxins that cooccur in maize, was studied through the traditional processing of naturally contaminated maize in mawe, makume, ogi, akassa, and owo, maize-based foods common in Benin, West Africa. Levels of total aflatoxin and fumonisin were measured at the main unit operations of processing, and the unit operations that induce significant reduction of mycotoxin level were identified. Overall reduction of mycotoxin level was more significant during the preparation of makume (93% reduction of aflatoxins, 87% reduction of fumonisins) and akassa (92% reduction of aflatoxins, 50% reduction of fumonisins) than that of owo (40% reduction of aflatoxins, 48% reduction of fumonisins). Sorting, winnowing, washing, crushing combined with dehulling of maize grains were the unit operations that appeared very effective in achieving significant mycotoxin removal. Aflatoxins and fumonisins were significantly recovered in discarded mouldy and damaged grains and in washing water. Fermentation and cooking showed little effect. During the preparation of ogi and akassa, reduction of fumonisin levels measured in food matrix was lower (50%) compared to mawe and makume, probably due to significant fumonisin release in ogi supernatant. Consequently, the use of ogi supernatant for preparing beverages or traditional herbal medicines could be harmful as it is likely to be contaminated with mycotoxin from the raw maize.
|P Fandohan; D Zoumenou; D J Hounhouigan; W F O Marasas; M J Wingfield; K Hell
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|Title: International journal of food microbiology Volume: 98 ISSN: 0168-1605 ISO Abbreviation: Int. J. Food Microbiol. Publication Date: 2005 Feb
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Uniontown's Taylor a leader at wide receiver
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Like most wide receivers, Jucqui Taylor wants the ball thrown his way — preferably often.
But Taylor accepts everything else that comes with the position, and because of that, he has become one of the leaders on Uniontown's football team.
The 5-foot-10, 170-pound senior has shown he can not only make the big catch, but that he can also come up with a big block when needed.
"It takes sacrifice," Taylor said. "At the end of the day, you want the ball and you want to catch it as many times during the game that you can. But you have to have a selflessness to better the team."
Taylor is the elder statesman of a group of receivers that includes Bru Martin, Jordan Pratt, Tito Cantalamessa and Lyric Ellis.
Uniontown coach John Fortugna said Taylor has been a work in progress, and that he's finally at a point where he can step up to be a team leader.
"Jucqui has really good hands, and he's very skillful," Fortugna said. "There's not a lot of seniors on the team, and all of the other receivers are juniors. Jucqui's a great blocker and he has a great work ethic. Jucqui's fast and he works hard. He wants to get better every day."
At cornerback, Taylor plays with the same tenaciousness that he does at wideout.
And yes, he likes to play rough.
"He's a good one back there," Fortugna said. "He'll come up and hit you. Every one of our defensive backs will hit you. They're not big, but they hit."
Fortugna said he has watched Taylor grow into a leader over the course of the past two seasons.
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The Red Raiders will field a young, mostly inexperienced team, and someone willing to step up and lead will be invaluable.
"The other seniors we have — the ones who didn't start in the past but who have played a little — are going to watch Jucqui and step up their game because of him," Fortugna said. "He's vocal and he does it by example. I think he had it in him to be a leader when he was a junior and a sophomore, but you don't see it as much when they're younger."
Taylor still wants his number called often. He still dreams of catching that game-winning touchdown pass.
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"I'm giving 100 percent and going hard 24/7," Taylor said. "I think that everyone else around me will go just as hard. I'm looking to be a leader. I know it's my senior year, and I want to pass some things on to the younger players."
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Big Data Technologies Narrow the Gap between HPC and the Enterprise
The intersection of big data and HPC will be a common theme at the upcoming ISC Big Data conference in Heidelberg, Germany, on September 25-26. On the second day of the event, Dr. Flavio Villanustre will deliver a keynote around this topic, offering his perspective on the merging of big data in HPC and the commercial realm. Villanustre, who is the vice president of Infrastructure & Products for the HPCC Systems group and vice president of Information Security at LexisNexis, gave us a preview of his talk, expounding on some of the technologies driving this trend.
How would you define "big data, aka data-intensive computing? What is the most important thing that distinguishes big data from older data-centric applications -- data warehousing, business intelligence, and so on?
Villanustre: Big data is loosely defined by its main attributes, as Gartner and other market analysts are eager to indicate: volume, velocity, variety and complexity. But this statement doesn't tell the whole story, and there is much more in big data than meets the eye. Just to point out one of the most significant differences, traditional data oriented systems and software architectures made strong assumptions that no longer hold true, such as that "data is structured and the semantics of the data are defined by that structure," "data is always truthful, complete and clean," "there are always unique identifiers that can be used to provide referential integrity across multiple datasets," etc.
When it comes to big data, each and every one of the assumptions made before are no longer valid. Big data is composed of structured and unstructured data elements, and while structured data can account for a large number of records, unstructured, and for the most part human generated, data normally makes up a much larger percentage of the total size. Big data, particularly when originated from external sources -- for example, social media and micro-blogging -- tends to contain errors, wrong content and missing parts. And big data does not usually come with unique identifiers, which generates significant challenges for entity resolution and entity disambiguation.
In my opinion, there is a place for big data in traditional data-centric applications, such as data warehousing, master data management and business intelligence and, as a matter of fact, we are already seeing convergence. But this means that traditional architectures used for these applications are inefficient and will become obsolete, as they are replaced by systems that are specifically tailored to dealing with data in a "big data way" -- distributed systems, shared-nothing architectures, in-place processing, etc.
In your estimation, what are the most important enabling technologies for big data?
Villanustre: Unlike other technologies appearing over the last few decades, where academic and research institutions were the place where the initial design and development happened, big data technologies were born out of necessity in the industry. Data processing companies such as Google and LexisNexis faced the big data challenge in the second half of the last decade, and came with very pragmatic approaches to the problem.
In the case of Google, the MapReduce paradigm uses the scatter-gather approach to distributed processing of crawler logs. In the case of LexisNexis, a high level declarative programming language, ECL, is used to abstract the underlying complexities of distributed architectures, parallelism and concurrency. Eventually Google's MapReduce approach trickled down into the Hadoop framework.
In general, big data benefits from faster, larger and denser distributed storage, fast network interconnects and faster processing. The data must be loaded into RAM in order to be processed, and moving the data from the hard drives into memory, and from memory back to the hard drive tends to be a significant hurdle to performance, particularly when the ratio between the size of the data and the available memory across the system is unfavorable. Multiple cycles of data reading and spilling are required in order to complete the process.
While non-volatile solid state storage is not at a point where it can compete with hard drives in capacity/density and cost, it offers unmatched random access performance and is quickly becoming more affordable. In addition to this, having the ability to equip the nodes with larger amounts of RAM -- for example, from upcoming technologies such as RRAM -- can minimize the number of trips to the persistent storage, increasing the overall performance significantly.
High speed network interconnects are also becoming more commonplace, with FDR InfiniBand and 40Gbps Ethernet providing for a faster and lower latency communication medium for low latency and high speed inter-node data transfers.
But big data is not just about storing massive amounts of data and performing aggregates and rollups. In order to make sense of most unstructured data, natural language processing is required; statistical methods such as clustering and segmentation analysis are needed to extract semantic meaning; predictions are used to make use of regression analysis and classifiers; high volume high velocity stream oriented processing requires special handling; and graph oriented problems may require approaches that specifically deal with this type of data structure. So we have seen a number of novel constructs employed to tackle each one these problems and the emergence of things like LSM-trees, array storage, key-value stores and in-memory graph databases.
More important, a number of applications in big data require a significant amount of numeric analysis, such as optimization methods and linear algebra, in general, as part of, for example, machine learning. This is creating a resurgence of analytical environments that can efficiently deal with these types of problems, but this time in distributed environments, due to the size of the data involved.
Is a real convergence going on between HPC and big data? If so, why is this occurring now?
Villanustre: Indeed, HPC and data intensive computing are converging fast, for some of the reasons I just mentioned. HPC, on one hand, has been perfecting itself over the years to provide highly efficient numeric processing in distributed environments, mostly in shared memory architectures -- and Parallel Block BLAS is an example of this. Data intensive computing, on the other hand, is specialized in dealing effectively with vast quantities of data in distributed environments, exploiting data locality.
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Is there a case to be made for buying different systems for traditional compute-intensive HPC applications and big data applications? If so, how would those systems be different?
Villanustre: Traditionally, the main distinction used to be the performance of iterative algorithms, such as certain numeric optimization methods, and the size of the data, which pushed HPC towards shared memory models, and big data systems towards disk storage local to the nodes and local data processing for the most part. Your traditional HPC system would have plenty of memory, little or no hard drives, InfiniBand interconnects, possibly GPUs and FPGAs, and plenty of CPU cores, while your big data system would have local storage, local hard drives, Ethernet/IP interconnects and a few CPU cores.
But as the analytical load increases, big data systems can benefit from many CPU cores and GPUs, faster networks and RDMA that InfiniBand offers, and a larger memory footprint. As you can see, the boundaries between HPC and big data systems are starting to blur.
Is it reasonable to think a single platform can be constructed to cost-effectively handle both types of applications?
Villanustre: Absolutely! Certain ideas need to be tweaked to work well in this dual world, but there is no inherent obstacle to a system that can handle both types of workload effectively and at a compelling price/performance standpoint, particularly at a time that technologies like InfiniBand and CUDA, OpenCL, and FPGAs are becoming mainstream commodities.
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Ballard blanks Skyline, 5-0
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Spartans retain third rank despite loss
After suffering a 6-5 loss at home to Skyline High School April 3, Ballard turned the tide April 30 by pulling a 5-0 win over the No. 3 ranked plateau softball team.
"It's softball, and that's part of the game," said Ken Brooks, coach of the Skyline Spartans. "We expected ups and downs with only having 12 kids turn out."
Ballard took the lead 2-0 right off the bat, capitalizing on a pop-up in the infield in the first inning. Then, with two runners on base in the top of the third inning, Ballard scored three runs on an error in the outfield. The Spartans batters were unable to answer back.
"You've got to laugh or cry about it. I am going to chose to laugh about it right now," Brooks said. "It's just we're young. It seems like every game that we've lost this year, we've done that — we had an error here or there, or two, that's let them back in the game."
At bat, the Spartans did manage to make contact with the ball, but attempt after attempt, they were thrown out at first. Their best chance came in the bottom of the fourth. With one out, sophomore Tia Hedman stepped up to the plate and hit a double on the first pitch. After stealing third, she made a run for home on a single hit by Madisen Camp-Chimenti but was tagged out by Ballard's catcher.
"It was my first pitch. I set my mind to 'I am swinging on this one' and I did it. I just kept my hands up. I was thinking I had to get runs for my pitcher so she could stay confident," Hedman said.
As catcher, she has played with Skyline's starting pitcher Winter Ridgeway since the two were little. As of April 30, Ridgeway had struck out 83 batters so far this season.
"She hits her spots. She stayed up this year. She is such a great pitcher," Hedman said. "Going forward, I just hope that we can support her more with our runs and get her more confident. Because when she's confident, she can do anything."
Going forward, Brooks and team co-captain Charlotte Zhao agreed that the most important thing is to make it to the KingCo tournament. From May 13-17, the top four teams from the Crest and Crown divisions will battle it out for the chance to advance to the state playoffs. With a record 5-7, Skyline is currently ranked third in KingCo 4A Crown.
"It was a little rough. Our defense is strong. It's just the one thing that we have been working on is the bats. That's what's been keeping us down," said Zhao, a senior this year. "The important thing is that we come out of this slump and that we bring each other back up. And, once we start getting hits, it is going to be contagious."
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