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A doctor guides robotic arms to do urologic surgery. This is done through several tiny keyhole incisions.
Examples of urologic surgeries that have been successfully done using this technique include:
Compared to more traditional procedures, robotic-assisted surgery may result in:
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Bladder cancer—robot-assisted laparoscopic radical or simple cystectomy. University of Chicago website. Available at:
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Carmack AJ, Siddiq FM, Leveillee RJ. Novel use of da Vinci Robotic Surgical System: removal of seminal vesicle cyst in previously dissected pelvis.
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Takacs EB, Kobashi KC. Minimally invasive treatment of stress urinary incontinence and vaginal prolapse.
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For those that have watched him play......Is he as good at shooting the 3 as McGee? Is he a similar shooter to McGee where as he just chucks it up from anywhere off a screen not facing the basket and it goes in? Or is he more of a traditional shooter like Fred was? What are his HS stats?
Not asking if better player just shooter.
Tough to be better than McGee, but I think he has potential because of his size.
I'd doubt it to start off. 46% is pretty hard to do.
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I think Thomas is a little more a "face up" guy than a "turn in mid air off the screen without looking at the basket and hit nothing but the bottom of the net over a 6'8" defender" type of guy. But I could be wrong
Probably not year one, I think year two is the magic year for shooters to blow up under Fred. The longer the better.
McGee is much is quicker at getting open and getting his shot off than Thomas.
I doubt it, but there is a chance. McGee was pretty phenomenal this year.
Also: McGee's quick release and incredible vertical on his threes was astounding. It was amazing how quick he'd get shots up coming off a downscreen.
To be honest, I think Tyrus might have been the best pure shooter this team has had in a very long time so no. I do however think that over the course of his career, he will be a better overall player.
Not from day one. Leading the nation in 3pt percentage is pretty incredible. I think he has the potential to be that good though. He's more of a Fred type of spot up shooter from what I've seen. His size will help him as well.
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Ya McGee is amazing, truely one of the greatest chuckers Ive ever seen...I was just curious because people always talk about how amazing Thomas is.
Some of our fans couldn't see the possibility of McGee replacing what we got from Scotty. Not all or even a majority, but definitely quite a few.
I think Ejim's shooting improvement has been the most impressive, a lot of the other guys like Tyrus, SC, Babb, KL and Clyburn arrived as good or great shooters and improved a little. Even Niang seemed to be able to shoot it from day one as a freshman. Part of that is Fred knowing how to identify great shooters though.
Watching McGee shoot was one of the most pleasurable things about the year. It almost seemed like he would twist and release mid-air with a hand in his face and the ball would float to the hole like it had a mind of its own.
I don't think we will have anyone with his style for a very very long time and it makes me sad.
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Come on now, show some respect for Mr McThree. We parted ways less than 24 hrs ago.
Too soon, man. Too soon.
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For those that have watched him play......Is he as good at shooting the 3 as McGee? Is he a similar shooter to McGee where as he just chucks it up from anywhere off a screen not facing the basket and it goes in? Or is he more of a traditional shooter like Fred was? What are his HS stats?
Not asking if better player just shooter.
Way too early to make that comparison. Tyrus was one of the best in the country, he was fearless, and he could get the shot off in tough situations (coming off screens, off dribble, etc.).
Thomas is a great shooter, but let's not be disappointed if he is not Tyrus right away.
That one McGee hit in our comeback yesterday was ridiculous. There is no way to defend that shot. We're going to miss him badly.
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I never knew there were so many blade options available. All different shapes, sizes and strengths. Thanks for mentioning it.
Not all blades will fit the Piranta handle. The #70 or rounded nose blade #60 will fit this handle. They also make a smaller version that accepts the #22 blade. I use these blades every day in my studio and have completely quartered the last 6 Elk with just this knife.
Now every guy in our camp carries one.
need to renew mine so I can get another one
I just bought a Piranta at Cabelas yesterday. I was amazed at how much thinner the blades are that come with it than they are on the Baracutta I have. For those who like the Havalon concept but don't like the thin blades of the Piranta you should really check out the Baracutta. I thought it might be to big and bulky when I first got it, but after we used in on our 4 antelope we all loved it. It's real easy to choke up your grip on for fine work without worry of slipping. I will keep the Piranta for caping, but prefer the Baracutta of the two. It also takes the fillet blades for fish or boning, really multi-purpose. The bigger blades of the Baracutta look much harder to break and are much easier to change without tools.
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I thought of that when I bought the Piranta. I wanted something small to get into tight spots. Like getting out the tenderloins when using the gutless method. I haven't broke a blade yet, but as I said earlier. I'll switch to my Buck knife for the heavy work.
I do like the fillet blade on the Barracutta for fish, so I might still buy one. Then I can see how it compares to the Piranta for game.
My Piranta is the only knife I carry (plus a few extra blades). I snap a blade once in a while, but I don't have trouble swapping them. I don't think I will ever go back to a traditional blade.
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I've got Zimbra 3.1 running on a 2.1Ghz Celeron with 2G ram with 300 mailboxes/users. They are about 50% web client and the rest are IMAP or POP. It was running very well until i upgraded to 3.1 and it has not been very stable since. frequently the logger process would eat all the CPU cycles. So now I just stop it altogether. Now it will run for almost 3 days at shot (yippie) before one of the processes bombs out and I have to shutdown & restart it.
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Despite Michael Chadd Boysen's troubled history that spiraled from lying to drug abuse to prison, his grandparents supported him and loved him "more than life," according to his mother.
"When it came to Chadd, they saw the good in him and were forgiving of his choices," Melanie Taylor said in a statement released Thursday by the King County Sheriff's Office. "They were warrior spirits fighting for a cause and that cause was Chadd."
The unconditional support Taylor's parents, Robert and Norma Taylor, offered their grandson was evident last Friday when they picked him up from a Monroe prison, spent six hours driving him to errands, which included taking him to meet his probation officer, and then
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"Chadd was upbeat and talked about the wonderful day he had with his grandparents," said Taylor, who also attended the party.
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It was sometime after that party that Boysen, 26, strangled his grandparents and stole their car, according to the King County Sheriff's Office.
On Saturday, Melanie Taylor discovered the bodies of her 82-year-old father and 80-year-old mother inside their home in the 16200 block of 145th Avenue Southeast. A law-enforcement source said Thursday that detectives are still trying to establish a clear motive for the slayings.
The slayings sparked a multistate manhunt that ended Tuesday when Boysen was arrested at a Lincoln City, Ore., motel after a nearly 10-hour standoff with police. He is recovering from what authorities are calling "self-inflicted" injuries in a Portland hospital, where he is listed in serious condition.
The Washington Department of Corrections is working on having him extradited as soon as possible.
Taylor, in a lengthy interview with sheriff's spokeswoman Sgt. Cindi West, declined to address the investigation, other than to say, "as stressed out as I am I have grand support from the
Taylor said she and her former husband adopted Boysen when he was a baby. She said they have no records of his biological parents or his medical history.
Early on, Taylor's parents developed a close bond with their grandson, and were "like second parents," she said.
Boysen was a good student growing up, and even participated in Running Start classes at a local college, his mother said. But at some point in his teens, he developed what she termed "addictive behavior."
He had drug problems and lied to his family, Taylor said. When he was in his late teens, he pleaded guilty to a series of robberies in 2006 and spent five years in
Despite his problems, Boysen's grandparents always saw the best in him, she said. Taylor and her parents visited him in prison every other week. It was during these visits, she said, that her son became more "rough," something she felt he needed to do to survive in prison.
Toward the end of Boysen's five-year prison sentence his mother told him that she would not visit him if he was incarcerated again.
But after his release his problems resurfaced. He began using drugs after two operations to treat a back injury from playing soccer, according to his mother's statement.
Boysen went back to prison for nine months of a 16-month sentence for a 2012 attempted residential-burglary conviction.
Taylor, employing what she called "tough love," didn't visit her son during his nine-month term. However, she sent care packages and letters to let him know "she still loved him but did not agree with his choices," the statement said.
Boysen's family made arrangements to have him undergo a six-month
substance-abuse-treatment program run by The Salvation Army after his release last Friday. He told his grandparents he was excited to be out of prison and start the program, according to the statement.
Bob and Norma Taylor celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary on March 5, just days before Boysen's release. They talked about dressing up and going to Bob's favorite restaurant, Red Lobster, but when Norma wanted to do something more low key they decided to get some KFC and stay home with their dog, Princess.
The couple were loving, giving and deeply family-oriented, their daughter said.
Norma Taylor spent 25 years working at a bank; her husband was the co-owner of a cabinetry business. Each Christmas, Bob Taylor would create crafts for friends and family in his wood shop behind their home.
They were planning on giving out wooden reindeer this Christmas, she said.
Melanie Taylor compared her parents to "soldiers" because they "gave their lives" for their grandson.
"If they were given a choice to die and save others they would," she said. Taylor suspects that other lives were saved because of her parents' deaths.
As difficult as it is, she said she is "glad they are together."
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i would like to know if i can install a mailstore ( zimbra NE ) in an environment with Zimbra OSE installed.
I've installed mta, proxy e 2 mailstore of the Zimbra OSE edition, but now i would like to add some user with the NE funtionality and backup as well.
If i install it, how zimbra works?! The backup is for every thing or just for the mailstore (NE ) ?
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I installed Zimbra yesterday on a new department mailserver and everything seems to work just fine except for using mail apps to access the SMTP server.
IMAPS works, haven't tried SMTP but in both Apple Mail and Thunderbird the app is not able to connect with our Zimbra box when TLS or SSL is checked, but when I configure the app to send mail without using TLS it does this beautifully.
What do I need to change in the configuraton to enable TLS with the zimbra box?


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Hi, got a question for someone that knows about FSM.
I'm getting a console that has been returned from Sony in FSM. Its supposed to be firmware 4.25. What can be done? Can it exit service mode? Can it downgrade? Is it stuck in FSM?
Any hints would be good. I got dongles for FSM and downgrade other consoles under 3.55 without problems but I've never had one in FSM over 3.55 before.


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Kansas City, MO (Sports Network) - Fred Chatmon scored 20 points to lift the
UMKC Kangaroos to a 79-65 victory over the IUPUI Jaguars in their Summit
League season opener at the Swinney Rec Center.
Chatmon also grabbed nine rebounds and blocked four shots for UMKC (3-3,
1-0 Summit). Nate Rogers chipped in 13 points while Kirk Korver added 10 on 4-
of-6 shooting from the floor. Thomas Staton contributed 11 points off the
P.J. Hubert shot the ball very well for IUPUI (3-5, 0-1), scoring 18 points
while connecting on 4-of-5 shots from three-point range. Donovan Gibbs shot 75
percent from the floor to tally 14 points. Mitchell Patton and John Hart
netted 10 points each.
UMKC took its first lead of the game on a Korver layup five minutes into the
contest and never looked back. The hosts extended the lead to 20 late in the
half before entering the locker room with a 45-26 advantage. The Kangaroos
controlled the glass in the first half, outrebounding IUPUI 25-13.
The Jaguars were never able to cut the lead under double digits as UMKC
converted 63.6 percent of its field goal attempts to cruise to an easy win.
UMKC outscored IUPUI in the paint, 42-18.
The Sports Network


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|2 deaths, 1 critical injury result from collision
|Written by Brenda Johnson Brandt
Memorial services are scheduled this week for Aldemar Chavez-Vasquez, 23, and Eleazar Medina-Cienfuegos, 28, while Dale Jacoby, 51, had not regained consciousness as of Tuesday, March 27 and remains in ICU at North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley.
Aldemar Chavez-Vasquez Eleazar Medina-Cienfuegos
The two deaths and one critical injury resulted from a tragic two-vehicle collision Saturday, March 24 at the intersection of Phillips County Road 41 and Phillips County Road 18 (one mile east and two miles south of the stoplight in Holyoke).
Trooper Scott Boskovich of the Colorado State Patrol investigated the 6:55 p.m. accident.
He reported Medina-Cienfuegos was driving a 1998 Ford Mustang northbound on County Road 41, and Chavez-Vasquez was a passenger in the car. Jacoby was westbound on County Road 18 in a 2005 Dodge 2500 pickup.
Jacoby failed to yield at the yield sign and collided with the passenger side of the car in the intersection, according to the CSP report.
The Mustang was pushed off the northwest corner of the intersection, rotating clockwise, and came to rest on its wheels, facing east. The pickup started to rotate clockwise and ran off the northwest corner of the intersection. It became broadside with the driver's side leading and started to overturn twice. As it overturned the first time, the driver was ejected. The pickup came to final rest on its wheels, facing north.
Boskovich reported, "Alcohol is being investigated as a contributer in this crash."
Holyoke Volunteer Fire Dept. was called and some extrication was required.
Chavez-Vasquez died at the scene. Mustang driver Medina-Cienfuegos was taken to Melissa Memorial Hospital in Holyoke, where he died at 7:36 p.m., about 40 minutes after the accident. Jacoby was transported to North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley.
Jacoby remains in intensive care
Family members of Dale Jacoby are with him at NCMC in Greeley. They reported Tuesday morning he remains in intensive care and had not yet regained consciousness.
His address, where cards can be sent to him and his family, is: Dale Jacoby, NCMC, 1801 16th St., Room M, Greeley, CO 80631.
Wednesday memorial service for Chavez-Vasquez
A memorial service for Aldemar Chavez-Vasquez was scheduled for Wednesday, March 28 at 7 p.m. at Baucke Funeral Home in Holyoke, with Ismael Lopez conducting the service. He will be buried in Mexico.
Chavez-Vasquez, born Sept. 28, 1988, attended school in Mexico and had lived in the United States almost three years. He was working for Oppliger Feedlot in Wallace, Neb. and came to his parents' home in Holyoke every other weekend.
His parents are Rafael Chavez and Sandra Chavez-Vasquez of Holyoke. He also has a brother, Osman, who worked with him at Oppliger, and a sister, Ximena, age 9. In Mexico, he has a daughter, Crystal, age 3; and a significant other, Laura Isela-Chacon.
An account in Chavez-Vasquez's memory has been established at Holyoke Community Federal Credit Union, c/o Sandra Chavez-Vasquez.
Thursday service for Medina-Cienfuegos
A memorial service for Eleazar Medina-Cienfuegos is planned for Thursday, March 29 at 6 p.m. at Baucke Funeral Home in Holyoke, with Father William Jungmann officiating. He will be buried in Mexico.
Medina-Cienfuegos was a close family friend of Chavez-Vasquez. He was born Oct. 8, 1983. He had been in the United States for almost four years and was most recently working for Larson Farms of Wray.
He was with Yahaira Dominguez in Holyoke for the past two years.
In Mexico, his family includes his mother, Carmen Cienfuegos-Piñuelas; and his children, Kevin, 8, and Anahi, 3.
An account in Medina-Cienfuegos' memory has been established at Holyoke Community Federal Credit Union, c/o Yahaira.
Holyoke Enterprise March 29, 2012


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El conocimiento tradicional y su protección en el marco del acceso a los recursos genéticos: el debate no termina
Proyecto GEF‐PNUMA‐UICN para el Fortalecimiento de la Implementación de los regímenes de Acceso a Recursos Genéticos y Distribución de Beneficios en América Latina y el Caribe. … | English
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PNC Election Announcement
Election for the IUCN Pakistan National Committee held in December 2011 for electing its Executive Committee for the period of January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2013. …
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Working with nature in and for islands
What can we learn from islands on ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) in a changing climate: from practice to policy? Read the summary and download presentations of the event on the topic convened at the Rio Conventions Pavilion during the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 17), in Durban, South Africa. …
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World Firsts on Henderson Island
The Royal Society for Protection of Birds (RSPB), an IUCN Member, and the Pitcairn Islands Government have announced that the ground-breaking rat eradication operation to restore Henderson Island, a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site in the South Pacific, has been successfully implemented. The final result as to whether all rats have been successfully removed will be known in 2013. …
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IUCN CEC Newsletter December 2011
More than 50 news stories from CEC members, Commission reports on CEPA workshops for NBSAPs and season's greetings from the CEC Chair …
22 Dec 2011 | News story
Join Pyramid 2012 global workshop event for Rio+20
It's an international happening. Hundreds of groups around the world — from schools, universities, businesses, communities, you-name-it — will all be doing Pyramid workshops at roughly the same time. CEC member Alan AtKisson invites you to join. …
22 Dec 2011 | News story
IUCN-Med 2012
Les deseamos lo mejor para estas fiestas y el próximo año … | English | French
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The "Dhamma Yatra" – a walk to raise awareness of Mekong nature organised by MWD Thailand and partners
Between 10 and 19 February 2011, a walk will take place along the Mekong River in northern Thailand to celebrate and raise awareness of the river's natural beauty and conservation importance. The "Dhamma Yatra" walk for Mekong nature is being jointly organised by MWD Thailand and its partners, the Mekong-Lanna Network for Nature and Culture Conservation, Hill Area and Community Development Foundation (HADF), Living River Siam, Northern River Basin Network, Khun Nikom Phuttha and his Dhamma Yatra Network, Plum Village, a network of people from eight Mekong provinces, Anantara Golden Triangle, Panyapeti Institute, the Tambon Community Organization Network from seven Mekong provinces in northeast Thailand, and the Recycle Band. …
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Indigenous women discuss managing water resources to enhance food security and adapt to climate change
On 2–3 December 2011, MWD Thailand, together with the Inter Mountain Peoples' Education and Culture in Thailand Association (IMPECT), the Hill Area and Community Development Foundation (HADF), and the Indigenous Women's Network of Thailand, held a seminar in Chiang Rai for indigenous women to discuss and exchange views on managing water resources to enhance food security and adapt to climate change. Twenty women representing 10 ethnic groups (including Karen, Hmong, Mien, Palong, Lawa, Shan, Lahu, Lisu, Kachin and Akha) from Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai took an active part in the event. …
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UICN: ¡Felices Fiestas!
Víctor Hugo Inchausty, Director Regional (ad-interim) de la Oficinal Regional para América del Sur de la UICN. …
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OXON HILL, Md. (WUSA) - The identity of the man who died of injuries sustained in a house fire Sunday morning has been released by the Prince George's County Fire/EMS Department.
Douglas Williams, 59, died after returning to the burning home in the 5100 block of Boulder Drive at about 5:30 a.m Sunday.
Witnesses say that after the fire started, Williams rescued his wife and escorted her to safety before returning inside the burning home where he fell unconscious. He was found by firefighters near the area of the kitchen/dining room.
Investigators believe a kerosene heater may have been to blame for the accidental fire which cause more than $50,000 in damages.


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We are increasingly living our lives in online spaces, and as a result, the monetary value of those spaces seems to be rising every day. Billions and billions of dollars are spent every single year on online advertising. One of the challenges is not only making sure that your money is well spent, but also that your spend won't have a negative impact on your brand. If you're wondering how that could happen, think about this: it's estimated that about 10% of all online ads wind up in places they shouldn't be.
I actually had the pleasure of having lunch with Ian Lightstone (CFO ArtsandTV) a few months back while we were originally filming this video. It was my first exposure to the project and I have to say, it's pretty fascinating what they're working on. As someone who spends all their time talking about vulnerabilities and attack types and all the other pieces of the security conversation, advertising wasn't something that came up a lot. SEO attacks are probably the closest I'd ever gotten to thinking about advertising in the context of security. So how does security intersect with advertising?
ArtsandTV is a relatively small company that needed a lot of data. Data is something that IBM has. Specifically, we have one of the largest URL filtering databases in the world (Security Content Analysis SDK). This product is something typically used to enhance existing security offerings, but it is being used a bit differently here. The Project Sunblock team wanted to improve the way advertisers spend their money.
As you can probably imagine, there are a lot of inappropriate websites on the internet, places where you wouldn't want your brand to appear. In addition to the obvious places you want to avoid, there are other places that are more subtle. Imagine you are a bank, and you advertise a lot on some popular news site. One day, that site runs a story about the financial crisis and is extremely critical of the banking system. Despite the fact that you might frequently advertise on this site, you likely do not want your brand associated with that story.
So, ArtsandTV had the algorithms and IBM had the data. The combination of the two became Project Sunblock, an ad spend optimization and brand protection tool. Project Sunblock can help to keep your brand from appearing on inappropriate pages through the use of content and image analysis combined with a real-time decision making engine. This applies to both generally inappropriate sites, as well as the instances of specific articles and stories that you don't want your brand associated with.
One last thing to remember is that 10% figure I cited at the beginning this post. Not only is this solution protecting the image of a brand, it is also a way to get a better return on your investments. That 10% can be better spent elsewhere.


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Digital Studio Workstation
A.The VS- and BR-series recorders offer two methods for creating an audio CD: "Disc At Once" and
"Track At Once." The method chosen and the disc's finalization status determine whether
additional songs can be written to the disc.
If you used the Track At Once method and did not finalize the disc, you can add more songs up to the disc's capacity. To be able to play the disc on a standard CD player, you'll need to finalize the disc (unfinalized discs can only be played on a VS- or BR-series unit). Once a disc is finalized, no more songs can be written to it. If you try to write additional songs to a finalized CD-R disc, an error message will be displayed.
If you used the Disc At Once method, no new data can be written to the disc (regardless of its finalization status).
Once data is written to a CD-R disc, it cannot be erased. CD-RW discs, on the other hand, can be reused. However, you cannot delete individual songs from a CD-RW disc; if you wish to reuse the disc, you must erase all the data currently on it.


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Central Grasslands All Bird Workshop
Participants – Mike Carter, Greg Kramos, Galen Wiens, Rob Unruh, Todd Pesch, Toby Marlier, Jeff Rue, Kerrie Kirkpatrick, Marvin Kraft, Greg Nichols, Ron Ruthstrom, Aaron Deters, Charles Cope, Robert Barbee, Michael Watkins, Todd Gatton, Randy Clark, Suzanne Fellows, Karl Grover, Gene Schneweis, Jerry Ney, Steve Moran, Ted Alexander, Helen Hands (session leader), Lloyd Fox (facillitator), and Bruce Taggart (recorder).
Methods – The group was divided into 3 subgroups: grasslands, public land wetlands, and private land wetlands. Each subgroup was asked to list the 10 most important conservation issues related to their subgroup. Then the whole BCR group was reconvened and each individual in the whole group was asked to vote for the top 3 issues in each of the 3 categories and the top 3 issues overall. The top 3 issues overall were: 1) conversion of grassland to cropland, 2) competition between conservation and commodity payments in the Farm Bill, and 3) farmers do not trust government agencies and lack coordination in interagency program delivery, and are highlighted in blue. The first 2 issues tied for first. Note that whole BCR rankings and subgroup rankings were not well correlated. Then the 3 subgroups were asked to develop strategies to deal with the top 3 issues for their respective category. Below is a listing of all the issues listed (in priority order) and the strategies identified to deal with the top 3 issues for each category.


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I was browsing the net for autorealm stuff and saw a map I really liked.
I believe it was made in auto realm.. I'd be greatful if anyone could show me or post a link to show how it was done.
Here is the link where it can be found. It is on the first post, the 'aged map 1" link.
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RG Steel Sues Health Plan
Bankrupt steelmaker claiming $1.45 million was mismanaged
January 26, 2013
WHEELING — RG Steel liquidated its mills last summer, but the bankrupt company is now suing the Health Plan of the Upper Ohio Valley for allegedly mismanaging $1.45 million worth of funds....
RG Steel is on a FISHING EXPEDITION. They will come up empty on this. SnaplesOV I think you need to do some research. All the laws and regulations that apply to any other insurance company apply to HMO's.
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Hi atoddh, good to see your name again...
To the subject: "RG's complaint states these errors continued until last summer and were only discovered because the steelmaker conducted an AUDIT of the plan."
I have one question---Why wasn't an ANNUAL AUDIT DONE, as in most businesses??? Not to mention a monthly review of financial records...
But RG should have REQUIRED a monthly statement and an ANNUAL AUDIT...
This is how good business is run...
Never trust an Insurer of anything; of Health Plans in particular...
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snap:You are confused.It is Rennert who has rapped and shut down WP forever now.He is the beneficiary of all of this.Yes,true, the workers will never have an opportunity in steel again. But not the fault of the Health Plan. Actually care will suffer for all in the Health Plan now as WP was a big client in their pool. The steel payrolls were an important part of the Wheeling economy;now gone.If Ormet goes another big piece will go.Gas will not create the jobs( manufacturing did) once the wells and infrastructure are in place.The big landowners will get rich and depart.Wheeling will be at 20,000 or less by 2020.
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And I should add even beyond disgusting a health "insurer" do this to our steel worker employees who've contributed so much here at home and to our great nation. They were forced out of work by all these free trade agreements. So atoddh you blaming them for this awful situation is a straight slap in the face. I'm ashamed to co exist in the steel valley with idiots like you.
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Yeah that's not even close atoddh. Health plan is a disgrace. They don't pay doctors for services so they greedily line their pockets. The hard earned dollars of the people having hp are not returned via them getting the healthcare they deserve and pay for. An HMO can deny your care at anytime and you have no rights whatsoever. They are immune in the courts by being sued by a patient even if resulting in wrongful death. That's flat out disgusting. We deserve better.
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translation: Rennert is looking under every rock and stone for ways to fleece the former W-P.There will absolutely nothing left of W-P by 2014.The end of "Steel Valley."
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The new head of the U.S. Copyright Office says that illegal video streaming should be a felony. The new Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante spent her first day testifying at a House Judiciary Committee hearing, giving her approval to the IP Enforcement Czar's recommendation that the government should stop treating illegal streaming offenses as "unauthorized performances" and start classifying it as a serious crime, or "unauthorized reproductions and distributions." The White House backs the IP Czar's recommendations. This would turn illegal streaming into a felony – up from a less serious misdemeanor charge.
Pallante said the following before the House Judiciary Committee hearing:
"One might ask why it is not sufficient to prosecute streaming as a misdemeanor. The fact is, as a practical matter, prosecutors have little incentive to file charges for a mere misdemeanor. This means that compared to similar infringing conduct involving the large-scale making or distributing copies (e.g. DVDs of a movie), streaming is not only a lesser crime on the books, it is a crime that may never be punished at all. As a matter of policy, the public performance right should enjoy the same measure of protection from criminals as the reproduction and distribution rights; prosecutors should have the option of seeking felony penalties for such activity, when appropriate."
As Ars Technica points out: "..an online stream is not necessarily a 'reproduction' or 'distribution' under the Copyright Act, but is instead a 'public performance.' And such unauthorized public performances are currently held to a different legal standard."
Sources: VentureBeat, Ars Technica


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I am hosting Kevin and Dixie Jordan's Art of Wall Portrait Sale workshop http://realitystudiotour.com/ Feb 25-26 at my studio in McKinney, TX (suburb of Dallas).
Make sure and check out the daily agenda, testimonials and Kevin and Dixie's amazing story. Each studio can bring an employee or spouse for free!
If you are wanting to combine a fantastic education and a mini vacation, consider that McKinney was voted 2nd Best Place to live in the US by Money Magazine in 2012. (We are going for#1 next year.) The studio is 3 blocks from a wonderful old town square with boutiques, mom and pop shops, antique stores (oops dont want to give away my source of cool props), and many award winning restaurants. You can even stay on the town square in a restored Grand Hotel. It might be 75 degrees here in Feb, you never know.


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Associated Press Release
MONTEZUMA, Ga. (AP) -- A 21-year-old woman is charged with making a false statement to police after starting a rumor that she found a dead baby in the trash.
Montezuma police say Alexis Boland was on her way to work at a dollar store and saw a baby doll in a trash bin. Boland told police she thought it would be funny to play a joke on a co-worker and say she saw a dead baby.
Police say customers overheard Boland telling her co-worker the story and calls began flooding the department. Authorities tracked the rumor to Boland -- who stuck with the story when she was initially interviewed. She later told the truth and said she panicked when police approached her. Boland was arrested Wednesday.
Montezuma is about 66 miles east of Columbus.
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The Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives has created an Electronic Records Archives (e-Archives) as a way of managing digital public records and making them available to our citizens. The Electronic Records Archives (e-Archives) is a way of expanding KDLA's capacity to manage digital records of archival value. The e-Archives contains a variety of electronic records produced by state government agencies. We hope you will find that this new resource will speed your access to a wide range of information.
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1969 Chevy Camaro- Under ConstructionWritten by on June 1, 2009
'69 Camaro
Sick Seconds
Denny Terzich of North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, has built some bad rides in his time, but none like this one. He started building cars on a professional level with his father, uncle, and cousin in 1994, forming his business called Pro Rides. He built a '56 Chevy that turned up all over the magazines and won the Goodguy's Street Machine of the Year award in 2002. He built many famous cars for companies like Summit Racing, but decided to go back to building cars for himself. Aside from building world-class show and race cars, Denny owns a business selling classic cars that allows him to build his cars exactly how he wants.
Denny has shown particular interest in an event held every year called Drag Week. It's an intensive week traveling and racing where each participating car has to drive to the destinations under its own power, towing all of the tools and parts it needs for racing. That's four dragstrips and 1,200 miles in five days. Needless to say, the requirements to build a competitive car are extreme. In 2007, Denny built a '67 Camaro that took the win running almost a full second faster than the competition ever had. The pressure is on for this year as he is building a car to go even faster than his last.
His latest project is this '69 Camaro titled "Sick Seconds." His goal is to bury his competition at Drag Week by running in the 6s. This would really be a huge achievement since IHRA Pro Mod cars are into the 6-second range, and there is no way they could drive 1,200 miles. You may be asking yourself, how is this possible? The simple answer is lots of power and fiberglass. Aside from the roof, the entire body is made from a composite material. He is looking everywhere to drop more weight. He says the block has an extra 50 pounds of metal he doesn't need. The goal is to get the total weight with driver down to 2,700 pounds to allow the 2,000hp big-block to really shine. Another cool thing about this Camaro is it won't always look like a drag car. The 15- and 16-inch diameter wheels for the strip will get traded out for 18- and 20-inch wheels for the street.
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1969 Camaro
Denny Terzich, 39 * North Huntingdon, PA
estimated at 2,000+ horsepower
|598-inch big-block Chevy
|Dart Big M iron
|Moroso 7-quart fabricated aluminum fabricated pan
|LSM custom grind
|LSM Pro lifters
|Wilson Manifolds throttle-body fuel injection
with ProCharger F3R-139 supercharger
|MSD Pro Distributor and Digital 7 box,
Big Stuff EFI management system
|Be Cool radiator split into two
|Flowmaster mufflers and custom headers
|ARP SS 12-point
|Bowler Pro 400, Gear Vendors overdrive
|4-inch billet aluminum
|Rear axle:
|Suncoast Racecars fabricated chromoly housing,
40-spline Currie axles, billet aluminum
third member with 4.10 gears
|Suncoast Racecars 25.1E-certified
chromoly chassis and
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Diuretics, sometimes called water pills, help rid your body of salt (sodium) and water. They work by making your kidneys put more sodium into your urine. The sodium, in turn, takes water with it from your blood. That decreases the amount of fluid flowing through your blood vessels, which reduces pressure on the walls of your arteries.
There are three types of diuretics: thiazide, loop and potassium-sparing. Each works by affecting a different part of your kidneys, and each may have different uses, side effects and precautions. Which diuretic is best for you depends on your health and the condition being treated.
Examples of thiazide diuretics include:
Examples of loop diuretics include:
Examples of potassium-sparing diuretics include:
Different types of diuretics may also be combined into one pill.
A large group of medical experts known as the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure recommends that most people should try thiazide diuretics as the first choice to treat high blood pressure and heart problems related to high blood pressure. If diuretics alone aren't enough to lower your blood pressure, your doctor may also recommend adding medications such as beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor blockers to your blood pressure treatment.
In addition, doctors prescribe certain diuretics to prevent, treat or improve symptoms in a variety of conditions, such as:
Diuretics are generally safe, but do have some side effects. The most common side effect of diuretics is increased urination. This occurs most frequently in people taking loop diuretics. For most people, this side effect improves within a few weeks of taking a diuretic. People who take diuretics may also develop too much potassium in their blood (hyperkalemia) if they take a potassium-sparing diuretic, or too little potassium in their blood (hypokalemia) if they take a thiazide diuretic.
Other side effects of diuretics may include:
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Philadelphia Medical Society.
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2. A discourse upon the duties of a physician: with some sentiments, on the usefulness and necessity of a public hospital : delivered before the president and governors of King's College, at the commencement, held on the 16th of May, 1769 : as advice to those gentlemen who then received the first medical degrees conferred by that university
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4. The millenial door thrown open or, The mysteries of the latter day glory unfolded: in a discourse, delivered at East-Windsor, state of Connecticut, July Fourth, 1799 ; the twenty-third year of the declaration of the independence of the United States : in which event was laid the corner stone of the national temple, under whose auspices all worshippers of God are allowed full indulgence : and from which springs the temple of the living God, into whose bosom the nations of the earth are to bring their glory and their honor
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MIDDLEBOURNE - Missed opportunities.
That, in a nutshell, is the best way to describe Tyler Consolidated's 19-6 loss to Ritchie County on a rainy Homecoming Friday night at Tyler Consolidated High School.
The Silver Knights (2-6) turned the ball over twice, both of which resulted in scores. Add in the fact they failed to capitalize on a pair of fourth-quarter red-zone opportunities, and Friday's loss was tough to swallow for coach Rob Caldwell.
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Tyler Consolidate's Koty Martin picks up yardage through a host of Ritchie County defenders.
''I thought we played well in spurts,'' he said. ''But we had some opportunities we just didn't take advantage of.''
Ritchie County's defense had a lot to do with that. It kept Tyler Consolidated's vaunted passing attack at bay and held when it had to.
''I knew this would be a dogfight,'' said Ritchie County Coach Mike Dawson, the former Magnolia standout and OVAC Hall of Famer.
''I knew, from looking at them on film, they were very, very talented. It's just once things start sliding downhill for you, it's hard.''
The Silver Knights started out well. They drove into Ritchie County territory on their first drive only to have it halted when Austin Weekley picked off a Hunter LeMasters pass at the Ritchie 46.
Six plays later quarterback Trevor Shepler hit an open Jayden Allender in the left side of the end zone from 23 yards out. The point after failed leaving the score 6-0.
''I thought we played really well, but we had some mental mistakes like the one that cost us that first touchdown,'' Caldwell said.
The drive was typical Rebels (6-2), who pretty much alternated carries between Devon Jones and Jessie Hilvers for what seemed like most of the night.
Jones finished with 60 yards, with Hilvers amassing 71.
''They are unselfish kids,'' Dawson said. ''We did a pretty good job up front. Those guys did a great job of getting those extra 2 or 3 yards, which is really what we talked about doing this week.''
Later in the first quarter, the Rebels punted from the Tyler 36. The ball looked like it was going to roll into the end zone, but at the last second, it jumped out at the 1.
The field position proved key for Ritchie County after the Silver Knights went four-and-out.
The Rebels, winners of six straight, took over at the Tyler Consolidated 31. Following a 15-yard jaunt by Jones, Tyler Reed scampered 6 yards for a touchdown that put the score at 12-0.
The Silver Knights finally got on track midway through the second quarter.
Jacob Highley, in his first game back since Week 1, scored on a 5-yard run capping a 10-play, 72-yard march. The drive was highlighted by a 20-yard flea-flicker play involving LeMasters, Koty Martin and Alex Doak.
It was one of few big plays for Doak, who exploded for nearly 240 yards receiving in last week's last-second victory at South Harrison.
''We couldn't break him lose,'' Caldwell said. ''For some reason they were really keying in on him.''
The weather didn't help, either. After halftime the rain came down harder helping keep the Silver Knights' passing game in check.
''When things got a little wet it took us out of our element,'' Caldwell said. ''But that's a good team we played.''
The Rebels scored their final touchdown with 3:14 left in the third quarter when Hilvers picked off LeMasters and returned the ball 21 yards for the score.
The Silver Knights came right back, driving inside the Rebels 10. But the drive stalled when LeMasters' fourth-down pass to Koty Martin sailed out of the back of the end zone.
Tyler Consolidated recovered a fumble on the ensuing drive at Ritchie County's 22. But again the Rebels held, forcing another incomplete fourth-down pass with less than three minutes left.
''It wasn't pretty,'' Dawson said. ''But our team gained some confidence.''


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Buddy Spicher (born July 28, 1938 in DuBois, PA) is an American fiddle player. Spicher started in the late 50s as part of the backing band for Audrey Williams, the widow of Hank Williams, later with Hank Snow, the Charles River Valley Boys. Spicher became a Nashville-based session musician, backing the likes of Bob Dylan. He was also one of the band members of Area Code 615 with other Nashville sessions musicians and Asleep at the Wheel. Buddy can be heard playing the fiddle ("vioin" in the credits on the record jacket) on Christian singer Don Francisco's 1977 album "Forgiven". Most of the tracks feature the violin, including the Dove-award winning "He's Alive". He joined producers Randal... Continue Bio >>


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- Uncle Toni on the pressures of being in Rafa's position
Who's the zen master now Babs?
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Uncle Toni should do something about the butt picking. Maybe a good, old-fashioned spanking?ReplyDelete
If only the tennis world were full of Uncle Toni's.ReplyDelete
>>Maybe a good, old-fashioned spanking?<<
Ooooo...can I watch?
OK someone's REALLY obsessed with the butt picking here... (no wonder though with Rafa's heavenly ass)
But hey, I can do the spanking!!
Uncle Toni FTW :D
Not zen, more like voice of reason I think.
But.. If we spank.. It's gonna itch and tickle and he's gonna touch it all the more.
Uhm. I just realized... is that line referring to me?
"Who's the zen master now Babs?"
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Babs did Agassi? You just gave me hope. Gimme another 15 years, Rich. You'll never have seen a cougar like me. XD
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I was really looking forward to review the HTC One M8, which I thought was among the most innovative phones I had seen in a while. But that was not to be. However, I have got hold of an HTC Desire 816, an Android phone that brings in high-end specs to mid-range price points. The Taiwanese smartphone company seems to be banking a lot on this phone to improve its prospects in an important market like India. But does it have what it takes?
Quick Tech Specs: 5-5-inch 720 x 1280p (267 ppi) Super LCD2 display | Quad-core 1.6 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor | 1.5 GB RAM | 8GB internal memory, microSD up to 128GB | 13MP rear camera with auto-focus + 5MP front camera | Dual Nano SIM (GSM + GSM) | 4G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4, DLNA | 2600 mAh battery | Android KitKat
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Design: The Desire 816 is a sleek, stylish phone. But then you can expect that from HTC, which has always had an eye for design perfection. My review unit was all-black, with just the power and volume buttons on the left getting rings of metal. However, the rear flap was too smooth for my liking and there is high probability of the phone slipping out of your hand. You cant open the rear flap, so the two nano-SIMs and SD card slot are behind a neat little flap on the right side. The phone also has speakers on both ends, appearing as perforations. Despite the 5.5inches, the phone is not hard to handle or grip. A bit of real estate is wasted with the HTC logo just under the virtual keys at the bottom of the screen.
Screen: In this age of Full HD and even Quad HD phones, it is tough for a HD screen to make an impression. But the Super LCD2 of the Desire 816 does as good just even with the 720p resolution. The screen is very crisp and offers good viewing angles. It is also good for watching videos, something users will have in mind while buying a 5.5-inch screen.
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LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. (WUSA)-- A young man is dead, and an investigation is underway after a shooting inside a Loudoun County home.
A Sterling homeowner told deputies he shot and killed an intruder early Sunday.
WUSA9's Kristin Fisher reports that the principal at Park View High School says the teen who was killed was Caleb Gordley.
The sheriff's office confirmed that it was Gordley that was killed in the shooting.
There was an assembly at Park View High School on Monday.
Facebook was buzzing Monday morning with people speculating about the cause and the identities of the people involved but we are only releasing information confirmed by police.
Here's what we know: Around 2:30 Sunday morning a man told police that he shot and killed an intruder inside his home in the 45900 block of Pullman Court in Sterling. While our crew was there, investigators returned to the scene and spoke with residents inside the shooter's home and people from a home two doors down, said to be the victim's home.
Police did not say whether the intruder was armed or if he threatened the residents in some other way, but the homeowner shot and killed the young male.
The Washington Post says the teen had been drinking and was dropped off at home by friends, but instead of entering his home he somehow got into the neighbor's house two doors down. Police are not confirming that information to us.
If you have any information regarding this incident, you are asked to call the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigations Division at 703-777-0475.


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Raleigh, NC -- Back on January 12th, then No. 1 Duke made the trip to Raleigh to meet up with NC State.
After 40 minutes of action, the Wolfpack topped Duke 84-76 handing Coach K's squad their first loss of the season.
Revenge will be on the mind of the Blue Devils this Thursday night when the two ACC powers meet once again.
This time it goes down in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
You can see all the action right on WFMY News 2.
Tipoff is set for 9pm.
Extra: Watch bonus interviews and coverage from the January 12th game.
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Percy Sledge's manager has assured fans the R&B veteran is not dying, despite canceling a U.K. tour after he was diagnosed with liver cancer.
The "When A Man Loves A Woman" singer, 73, was forced to pull out of plans to take part in David Gest's Legends of Soul trek earlier this month, leaving the producer to break the news of his friend's health troubles to the audience.
He reportedly told a crowd in Stockport, England, "Percy won't be with us tonight, I'm afraid. He's in hospital with liver cancer. I know we are all going to pray for him."
Sledge's spokesman Mark Lyman has since revealed the star actually underwent surgery to have a cancerous polyp removed from his liver in January, and he was advised by doctors against taking the long-haul trip from the U.S. to the U.K. to give him extra time to recover at his home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
But Lyman reveals the singer's cancer battle is looking positive and Sledge will resume his live gigs on 1 March (14), when he is booked to perform at the R&B Reggae Festival in Kingston, Jamaica.
Lyman tells the National Enquirer, "He's not dying. In fact, he's going to Jamaica for a concert next week…
"It (the surgery) wasn't a big deal. He was in and out of the hospital in two hours and has been at home ever since."


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Jim Crutchfield has heard the whispers, though that's all they are really.
There are those who, for whatever reason, don't think his current team is as good as the one before it, or more specifically, the NCAA Division II Final Four team from two years ago, despite its 23-1 record.
''I know sometimes athletes as they get older, they start to remember how great they were,'' Crutchfield said. ''Teams have that some thing, too. All you can remember is Corey Pelle driving and John (Wolosinczuk) draining 3s. But there were some times when they didn't actually do that a few games.''
Says who?
First, a thought from George Carlin's bit about the invention of the one-hour photo comes to mind here.
''How can anyone be nostalgic about a concept like 'a little while ago?' '' he asked during the rant.
Pelle can.
''Make sure you tell them who was the best team,'' Pelle said. ''We were undefeated and beat everyone by 32 points a game and averaged 112.''
And now a word from Mark Twain: ''Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.''
Those Hilltoppers actually only beat foes by an average of 29.7 points per game, though he was fairly spot on with the average points per game, which was 111.3.
Still, there's a few problems there. Current WLU team leader Alex Falk started on both teams. Tim Hausfeld and Chris Morrow each averaged better than 16 minutes on that team two years ago, which featured four 1,000-point scorers (Pelle, Wolosinczuk, Jordan Fortney, and Barry Shetzer) and spawned all of these legends.
''Yeah, he helped us a lot, can't take that away,'' Pelle said of Falk. ''But in my eyes, we were way better. But that's me being biased.''
The team from two years ago swept through the regular season, conference tournament, regional tournament, and the first game of the national tournament. It didn't lose until it met BYU-Hawaii in the national semis - 130 days after the season opener.
Perhaps recognizing how truly special that team was, Crutchfield says most of what he hears is this team can't match last year's. The 2011-12 team, again, won the conference, regional, and reached the Elite 8, falling in the national quarterfinals.
''You guys were doing this last year and maybe you're not doing it this year,'' the coach hears. ''We have a better record, our margin of victory is better, we scored more points than we did last year. The conference is stronger than last year. I'm not trying to please anybody, I'm just trying to win the next game.''
There's another variable that makes this impossible to judge. In recognizing the need to compete with three-time defending league champion West Liberty, athletics directors have brought in some serious coaching power and charged them with putting together the types of teams that can play with Hilltoppers. Nobody can argue Mark Downey's track record at Charleston, or Greg Zimmerman's at A-B, or Bryan Poore's at W.Va. State.
Wheeling Jesuit's Danny Sancomb has yet to field a team that couldn't spring a monumental upset or compete to the last whistle. Fairmont State brought in heavily connected former WVU men's basketball assistant Jarrod Calhoun this year, while W.Va. Wesleyan hired some star power in former WVU player Patrick Beilein, son of Michigan coach John Beilein.
What has transpired at the top of the conference is some serious high-end talent is playing basketball at these schools.
''Our conference is beating other conferences now,'' Crutchfield said. ''They got the best of the PSAC, got the best of the CIAA. Our conference is as good as I've ever seen it.''
So how can we possibly come to any type of conclusion here? The same way everything else in sports is figured out.
With numbers.
Don Clegg, the former Wheeling News-Register sports editor who does some work for West Liberty's sports communications department, ran some efficiency numbers, which on offense, are designed, in part, to figure out how many possessions a team gets per game, and how many points a team scores per possession, and on defense, how many it yields.
These seem to be some concrete guides in the murk of all the others.
The Hilltoppers from two years ago scored 1.349 points per possession and yielded 1.003, a difference of plus-0.346. This year's team is averaging 1.320 points per possession, while yielding 0.975, a difference of plus-0.345. All of these number were, and are, tops in the WVC.
Those numbers suggest it's a basically wash. Both teams crushed wills of opponents - both good and bad - at an eerily similar pace. As Crutchfield said, who's next? That's all he's concerned about.
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Second Graders Love Royals
Ms. Clay's second grade students love their Royals.
The Spring Branch Elementary (Independence, Mo.) students devoted several hours recently to telling the Royals players that they are behind the team through thick and thin this season.
As part of a classroom lesson, Ms. Clay has centered her entire classroom on baseball and the Royals. She uses the game to teach her students about sportsmanship, geography and remaining loyal to your hometown teams among other baseball-related lessons. She even converted her reading area into a mini baseball field complete with lights and a Royals scoreboard. Right around Opening Day, she paired up each of her students with a member of the 2007 Royals and then encouraged the students to research their players before writing each of them letters.
We received those letters and delivered them to the players prior to a home game this season. So, to Ms. Clay's second graders: thanks for the continued support. With school almost out for the year, we hope you have an enjoyable summer and we hope you are able to make it out to Kauffman Stadium to see your Royals play!
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I want to thank the Kansas City Royals for this wonderful article featuring the efforts of my students. They had such a great time writing the letters and drawing the pictures. I was lucky enough to get to teach these wonderful 8-year-olds who put such thought and care into this project. Go Royals!


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TAKOMA PARK, Md. (WUSA9) - Officials have arrested three male adolescents for alleged armed robbery, 1st degree burglary, theft under $500 and 2nd degree assault. Police are still searching for a fourth adolescent who they believe aided the juveniles in the robbery.
Police say that on March 6th they responded to reports of a fight on the 7800 block of Kennewick Avenue. Four adolescents reportedly assaulted a victim and forced their way into the victim's home. They then stole property, police say.
Officials claim that when police arrived to the victim's residence the four adolescents had fled. However, Takoma Park police located two of them on Erskine St. in possession of the stolen property. After contacting the third subject's parents officials took him into custody.
Police have not located the fourth adolescent. Reports describe him as a Hispanic male, medium build and between the ages of 15-17. He was last seen wearing a dark blue jacket and black jeans.
All three adolescents are being detained in Noyes Juvenile Detention Facility. Investigation is on-going.