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By Wade Bourne
If there's one constant in waterfowl hunting, it's change. Weather and water conditions change. The birds' food preferences change. Their flight patterns change. As winter wears on, ducks begin pair-bonding, and bigger flocks break up into smaller groups and pairs. Weeks of hunting pressure make birds wary. For all these reasons, pursuing late-season ducks and geese isn't the same as hunting them earlier in the season.
Successful hunters adjust their tactics as waterfowl go through this transition. And this is particularly true with decoy spreads. By adapting spreads to specific late-season conditions and hunting situations, waterfowlers can continue to enjoy good shooting until the season closes.
Few places receive more gunning pressure than Bayou Meto Wildlife Management Area southwest of Stuttgart, Arkansas. But despite considerable competition, Greg Churan of Little Rock enjoys consistent shooting in this huge maze of flooded timber, and he does so over a minimal decoy spread.
"My partners and I usually hunt the same general area," Churan says. "We wade in at dawn and watch where ducks are working. Then we'll make a quick move to set up where they're going."
Churan and his hunting partners take in only six to 18 decoys. "We use the lightest standard-size mallard decoys we can buy, and we set mostly drakes because they show up better in the dark woods," Churan says. He believes that big spreads scare heavily pressured ducks in the late season. And because he and his partners must change locations frequently, fewer and lighter decoys make fast moves easier.
"We typically set up beneath a little crease or thin area in the overhead canopy," Churan explains. "This might be where a tree has blown down or where the trees are shorter than the surrounding woods. But these are not well-defined holes in the forest cover." Churan scatters his decoys randomly where he expects ducks to land. "I leave a lot of space between my decoys," he says. "I don't want them bunched up."
Sometimes he also rigs a jerk string by tying a bungee cord to a tree, running a line back through the landing zone, and attaching two or three decoys to it. "You've got to have ripples on the water," Churan stresses. "We always kick water, and the jerk string adds more movement to convince circling birds to come in."
Jim Reid hunts on the Arkansas River northwest of his home in Wichita, Kansas. He says that late in the season, when local wetlands and ponds freeze over, mallards and Canada geese flock to this free-flowing river in large numbers. Reid sets up to hunt where he finds the right combination of open water, a favorable wind, and good cover.
"We've studied how the birds pack around open water, sitting on adjacent ice or frozen sandbars," Reid says. "They gang up in some really big numbers, so we use a lot of decoys—75 to 100 ducks and up to 50 geese. Most are shells or full-body field decoys on motion stakes. When it is cold, birds rest very close to each other, so this is how we arrange our decoys. We also put two or three dozen duck floaters in the water, and the final touch is a wing-spinner or two near the ice or sand where we want ducks to land."
Reid typically places his duck decoys in a crescent shape with the goose decoys clustered upwind at the head of the set. "You have to leave plenty of open water for the birds to land," he advises. "If there's just a little open water available, we'll cut back on the floaters. It's a sight to behold when 200 or 300 mallards are backpedaling down into your landing area."
Marc Pierce of Manhattan, Montana, owns a spring-fed creek that remains open in the late season, and mallards flock to it when adjacent wetlands freeze over. Pierce frequently hunts from the same blind on the inside of a horseshoe bend on the creek. "I'm hunting many of the same ducks day after day, so I continually change my decoy spread so the birds don't get used to the same look," he says.
One day Pierce may put out 36 mallard decoys divided into two groups. The next day he may set out a dozen mallards, a few goldeneyes, and two or three Canada geese. The following morning he might deploy a handful of ducks and a blue heron confidence decoy or a spinning-wing decoy.
"I'm constantly giving the ducks a new look," he explains. "And I try to make my spread look as natural as possible. If I'm hunting in the morning when more ducks are usually on the creek, I put out a larger spread. If I'm out for a quick afternoon hunt, there are usually fewer ducks around then, so I go with just a few decoys. I've been places where guides hunt every day in the same spot over the same spread, and I think ducks get wary of this show. But I don't give them a chance to get suspicious on my little creek. They never see the same spread twice."
Pierce also uses the most lifelike decoys he can purchase. "What my spread lacks in size, it makes up for in realism," he adds.
Late in the season, Canada geese feed in large concentrations, often in snow-covered fields.
"We mainly use shell decoys and full-bodies without the foot bases, and we set them right on the snow," Keller notes. "When Canada geese come into a snowy cornfield, they will sit down soon after they hit the ground; they're not up walking around. So having the shells and full-body decoys sitting on the snow looks natural."
Keller arranges his spread in a pear shape with the narrow end pointed downwind. Decoys are concentrated close together in the upwind part of the spread. In the downwind part, Keller sets small, tight family clusters with plenty of open space between them. He also mixes in a few full-body decoys with foot stands on the edges of these groups to simulate geese walking from one group to another. His layout blinds (with snow covers) are aligned in the spread about a third of the way from the upwind edge, facing the open landing areas just downwind.
"We kick down the snow and root up dirt to look like feeding activity around the main group of decoys, but we're careful not to disturb the snow cover around the blinds," Keller adds.
Chester Moore of Orange, Texas, hunts coastal marshes in southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana. He says that by January, ducks are wary from hunting pressure, and when the birds get tough, most hunters respond by setting bigger spreads. But several seasons ago, Moore discovered that with heavily hunted ducks, using fewer decoys worked better than using more. "I was running late one morning, and as I went out the door, I grabbed just one sack of decoys," he says. I had a great shoot over them, and that experience led to what I call my 'Dirty Dozen' spread, which I continue to use during the late season."
Moore's spread consists of eight magnum mallard hen decoys and four drake blue-winged teal decoys. He says the hen mallards will attract any large puddle ducks—gadwalls, mottled ducks, shovelers, and greenheads—and the white crescents on the teal capture passing birds' attention.
Moore looks for small potholes to set his dozen decoys. He hides on the upwind edge of the pothole. As he faces downwind, the mallard decoys are clumped in the upper right portion of the pothole, while the teal are set in a line on his left, angling toward the mallards. He leaves a 10-yard landing zone between the two groups.
"I want it to look like the teal have just come in and are swimming to the big ducks," Moore explains. "I don't know why this spread works so well, but it does."
In the early season, Mark Mayes of Madisonville, Kentucky, usually hunts in nearby river bottoms and swamps. But as the season progresses and these shallow waters freeze, Mayes heads to Barkley Lake, a Corps of Engineers reservoir on the Cumberland River, and he hunts from the bank where both puddle ducks and divers are trading.
"We look for a small point that juts out into the lake, somewhere that's not directly exposed to a strong wind," Mayes says. "I especially like a spot where the breeze is blowing parallel to the bank so we have a crosswind setup. We put out a large spread—up to 10 dozen magnum mallards and 18 canvasbacks or bluebills. We want a lot of visibility because we're frequently trying to pull ducks from long distances."
Mayes sets his mallards in a large random cluster on the upwind side of the point. Then he drops two or three decoys along the bank and downwind from the main body in the spot where he wants incoming ducks to land. "These look like ducks that have just come in and are swimming into the main body," he explains.
Mayes sets diver decoys just a couple of feet outside the main body of mallards. "When mallards come over the lake, the first thing they see is the white on the diver decoys," he says. "Then when the birds get closer, they can see the rest of the spread. A lot of times they'll hook downwind and come right in without circling."
Avery pro-staff member Martin Hesby of Brookings, South Dakota, gets serious about hunting snow geese, especially when they are migrating back north in early spring. Hesby's favorite time to hunt snows is when northerly winds temporarily halt the migration and cause the birds to stick around for a few days in a roosting and feeding pattern.
When Hesby finds where a flock is feeding, he deploys his "cigar spread." "We set out 400 to 1,500 full-body decoys, about 40 percent blue geese and 60 percent snows," he says. "We set these in a cigar shape with the ends oriented downwind and upwind. We set our layout blinds in a line four-fifths of the way up the spread from the downwind edge. Then, below the blind line, we pack decoys very tightly 15 yards downwind and from one side of the spread to the other. We leave a 20-yard open space with just a scattering of decoys on the very outside edges. This is our landing hole.
"Below the landing zone is another 20 yards of massed decoys," he continues. "Both these masses look like geese thronged together on good food sources. From there all the way back to the downwind edge of the spread, we set family groups of four to eight decoys, arranged like they're walking toward the masses."
Hesby says incoming geese overfly the lower part of the spread to get to the landing hole. Average shots are at birds 10 to 15 yards out and five to 10 yards high. He adds that this same spread design will work with fewer than 400 decoys. "Just keep the same design, but downsize everything," he advises. "But remember, with snow geese, realism is the key to getting flocks feet down in the decoys, and the more lifelike decoys you have, the more convincing your spread usually is."
By mid-November, potholes in central North Dakota are usually locked in ice, and hunters must resort to different tactics and decoy spreads to lure in any ducks that haven't yet migrated.
Troy Shirley of Bismarck employs a lifelike decoy set for hunting frozen potholes. "My hunting partners and I stomp out a circle in the ice 15 feet in diameter," Shirley explains. "We try to keep the broken-out ice in one big chunk, and we slide it under the ice at the edge of the hole, leaving an ice-free opening in the pothole.
"Then we set two dozen Canada goose sleeper decoys on the ice at the upwind edge of the hole, about one or two feet back from the open water. We also set two Canada goose sentry decoys at the edge of the sleepers. At the side of the hole, we set six full-body duck decoys directly on the ice without using stands. And the final components of our spread are three or four duck floaters in the water in front of the ducks on the ice and three or four goose floaters in front of the geese.
"I think the main thing is to leave the hole in the ice wide open," he continues. "I want to give incoming birds plenty of room to land." Shirley and his partners shoot from cattails 20 yards away from the hole.


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Many of the senior scientists, engineers and government relations specialists on the team have been monitoring the spill and coordinating DU's actions since the spill began. They will lead DU's response and action in all matters related to the spill. We are establishing the formal team to ensure that DU's response to this environmental catastrophe is fully coordinated in the areas of wetlands and waterfowl science, wetlands restoration and public policy.
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2012 CROSS COUNTRY (FRESHMAN): Ran in four meets throughout the season … finished in 29th place with a time of 20:27.5 in the 5k at the Islanders Splash (9/28) … ran a time of 23:36.0 at the Southland Conference Championships (10/26).
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A team of conservationists from the Kenya-based Amboseli Trust for Elephants received a call last week of a baby elephant that had fallen into a well.
The hole was too deep for the eight-month-old calf to climb out of on its own, and its mother was unable to help.
"Luckily the report came in early in the morning and we were able to get there quick before the mother was forced to leave by herders arriving to water their cattle," writes an ATE team member. "It was a happy ending as we were able to reunite the calf with her mother, Zombe."
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What's everyone's thoughts on displaying a 26.2 sticker on your car? Do you have one? Any specific reason why you do/don't?
(I have one I put on after completing my first marathon, I don't think too many people know what it means though...)
I enjoy seeing them on cars. It's a fun way to identify other runners.
I have a magnet on mine. I end up explaining it a lot.
i just finished my first 26.2 and am keepng my ey open for the sticker. It is fun for me to see other runners.
I agree. I like seeing other cars on the road with the sticker/magnet; I always find myself having to see the face behind the wheel and thinking "yeah, they know what it's like"...
Len: I'm actually surprised as to how many people need an explanation.
i love 'em! every time i pass a car with a 26.2 sticker, i smile. then i get green with envy! i'm planning to run my first marathon sometime next year (and i have the lofty aspiration of qualfiying for boston 2010). i have a 13.1 sticker on my car. i ran my first half this september and it was awesome. i can't wait to add a 26.2 to the other side.
Oh heck yea. I've done one half and I put a 13.1 sticker on mine. Of course I have a Jeep though and it has a lot of stickers on it.
People probably don't know what it means but then again if they don't then it's not about them.
"On every world, wherever people are, in the deepest part of the winter, at the exact mid-point, everybody stops and turns and hugs. As if to say, "Well done, well done, everyone! We're halfway out of the dark." Doctor Who
oh heck yeah ryan!!! these stickers/magnets are the best things to see on cars!!! i have a 13.1 magnet on my car. i just did my first half back in september (second last month). and you darn right i will be getting the 26.2 when i complete my first full marathon in may '09!! i love it when i see it on other cars. i just nod and smile. it's an automatic connection!
"Sweat is the cologne of success!" Love this friggin' quote!
I have a 26.2 as well as a USAT sticker on my car. I like seeing them on other cars as well. I figure those who know what it is have an apprciation for it and those that dont, wouldnt understand anyway. I have done a couple ultra's as well and would like to get a sticker for that. I am doing the Crooms Fools 50 miler in April in Fl. I would like a 50 miles sticker for that and will be looking for one. Hey, display what you've accomplished proudly and if somebody ask you what it is then that gives a chance to proudly let them know! There is still a very very small percentage of people who have completed a marathon and if you have then its something to be proud of no matter what your finish time was.
I am proud of anybody who has done this. Half Marathoners as well!
Yes, display it! Why not?
Explain it too. You never know - you may inspire someone else to run 26.2
Everytime I see one - I have race memories and I smile
Training For: 50k Ultra Marathon (2nd)
I plan on getting one after my 1st. I thought of getting a 26.2 tattoo after I finish, but my husband thought the bumper sticker was a better idea!
I'm glad we are all on the same page! I thought there would be at least one person who sees it as a bad idea!
My wife and I were watching the CMA's last night (yeeeHAW!) and it really made me want to buy a belt buckle for some reason. I told my wife I could earn a buckle through the Western States 100..... she quickly squashed that idea (good thing too, I'd probably kill myself!)
I got two car stickers:
The year that I started running
and NICAMEX6
I'm from Nicaragua and my wife from Mexico
Hey - I do like these - and I was wondering would any one be interested in some that say 5K, 8K, 10K, 10Mi, 15K 30K, 50K etc? I thought I'd like to be able to add stars around the number, to depict how many you've done - and maybe the year in the star. Let me know - I've been thinking of making some (since this is something I do for a living - besides run!) But If you were to purchase them from me, I was thinking I could give an "active" member discount or something. What do you think? If I get enough response, I'll post them on my website, and hopefully you'd be able to purchase right from there.
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Ale-Battered Fried Chicken Sliders
Makes about 8
Note: This ale-battered chicken is inspired by a meal in "The Great Gatsby" and topped, Bakesale Betty-style, with a spicy slaw.
2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
4 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 egg, beaten
1 cup ale, such as Speakeasy's Prohibition Ale
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon cayenne
3/4 teaspoon smoked paprika
1 teaspoon salt
Canola oil, for frying
8 slider buns
1/4 red onion, slivered
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar, divided
1/4 red cabbage, thinly sliced into ribbons
1/2 carrot, shaved into thin ribbons with a vegetable peeler
1 teaspoon minced jalapeno, seeds removed
1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 teaspoon minced shallots
Salt, pepper
1. Slice chicken crosswise, into ovals. Slather with garlic and olive oil; let rest 30 minutes.
2. In a shallow bowl, beat egg and ale. Mix flour, cayenne, paprika and salt; divide between two shallow bowls (you can put all the flour in one bowl, but it's less gloppy this way). Dredge each piece of chicken in flour, dip in egg, then dredge in second bowl of flour to coat.
3. Heat oil in a heavy-bottomed skillet, set over medium-high heat until a crumb dropped into the oil instantly sizzles. Working in batches to avoid crowding, fry chicken until golden brown and cooked through, 3 to 5 minutes per side. Drain on paper towels.
4. In a small bowl, toss onions with 1 tablespoon vinegar; let sit 20 minutes.
5. In a large nonreactive bowl, toss drained onions with cabbage, carrots, jalapenos and lemon zest. Whisk together oil, 2 to 3 teaspoons vinegar, mustard, shallots and salt and pepper to taste. Add just enough dressing to the slaw to moisten it.
6. Split the slider rolls and toast them. Fill with fried chicken and slaw, and serve.
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Better sleep, stronger joints, a boosted immune system-- and a younger look? Some say you can get all of that in just one supplement, called TA-65.
A pharmaceutical giant discovered it, now patients swear by its anti-aging powers.
Actress Suzanne Somers is such a big fan of the supplement she recommends it in her new book Bombshell.
"It's almost like science fiction," Joe Edwards, who takes TA-65 said.
Edwards says he stopped driving and was tired and listless before taking TA-65. But after a year on the supplement, the 73-year-old says he has the energy of a much younger man. His arthritis is almost gone, even a toe that required surgery is no longer a problem.
"I can move it again," Edwards explained. "It's the only explanation I have."
As we age the tips of our chromosomes called telemeres shorten. Animal studies link shorter telomeres to a shorter life span. The makers of TA-65 say their supplement activiates an enzyme that increases the length of telomeres or slows how fast they shorten. They say TA-65 promotes cell health and longevity.
"If we can keep them long, it's a good thing," Dr. Raymond Ishman said.
Ishman recommends the supplement to his patients. He agrees that TA-65 repairs and lenthens telomeres, but says maintaining a healthy lifestyle is just as important and he admits it would be an overstatement to say the pill stops aging.
"There is no magic bullet of course, but it is a very important component because of what it does," Ishman added.
"I would say buyer beware," oncologist Dr. Jean-Pierre Issa countered. Issa says in general supplements like TA-65 should be avoided because they are not tested or given approval by the Food and Drug administration.
"Most clinical trials when done with supplements show either no effect, so it's a waste of money, or more alarmingly a bad effect. There have been several trials with supplements that were widely taken and thought to be good that were found to increase mortality, increase the risk of cancer," Issa said.
The founder of T.A. Sciences, which makes TA-65 says there is no evidence the supplement causes unwanted human cell over production. He believes the potential benefit of the supplement outweights any theoretical risk.
Meanwhile Joe Edwards is back to driving and syas he's stronger than he's been in years.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Jake Wise's homer to lead off the fifth inning lifted No. 14 Arkansas to a 2-1 win over No. 23 Kentucky in the series opener on a pleasant Friday night at Cliff Hagan Stadium.
Kentucky (26-18, 9-13 Southeastern Conference) and the Razorbacks – the NCAA 's leader in ERA – battled in a pitching duel to open the series. After a scoreless first four innings, Wise opened the scoring with a solo homer in the fifth and Matt Vinson singled home a second run in the frame with two outs.
UK rallied to load the bases with no outs in the bottom of the sixth but was only able to scrap out one run for the final margin, with the Razorbacks claiming their sixth consecutive win.
The Wildcats finished with seven hits and four walks, getting hit by two pitches and leaving a total of 11 runners on base. Junior J.T. Riddle had a team-best 3-for-4 game and UK also got hits from Kyle Barrett, A.J. Reed, Zac Zellers and Paul McConkey.
A native of Terre Haute, Ind., Reed (2-6) took the hard-luck loss in his seventh quality start of the year. The 6-foot-4, 245-pound southpaw worked 7.1 innings, allowing seven hits and two runs, striking out five. Sophomore righty Chandler Shepherd came on and worked 1.2 shutout innings in relief.
Arkansas (31-15, 14-7 SEC) starter Barrett Astin (4-2) – the reigning SEC Pitcher of the Week – worked 5.2 innings, allowing five hits and one run, walking three and striking out four. Lefty Trent Daniel came on in a two-out jam in the sixth, working one inning, allowing one hit and one walk, striking out one. Righty Brandon Moore came on in the seventh with two outs, working out of a jam to toss a shutout frame into the eighth. Lefty Jalen Beeks got a key out in the eighth and closer Colby Suggs picked up his ninth save of the year in the ninth inning.
The series will now conclude on Saturday with a doubleheader, set for 12 p.m. ET. The first game will be televised by the UK IMG Network and will be tape delayed to 7 p.m. ET on Fox Sports South. The games will be broadcast live on the UK IMG Radio Network with the Voice of UK Baseball, Neil Price, calling the action. Fans can hear the games live on WLAP 630-AM in Central Kentucky, WKJK 1080-AM in Louisville and online at UKathletics.com.
Following four scoreless innings, Arkansas jumped out to a lead with two runs in the top of the fifth. Wise led off the inning with a solo homer over the rightfield wall for the first run of the evening. Jacob Mahan followed with a single to rightfield and moved into scoring position on sacrifice bunt from Brett McAfee. With two outs, Vinson singled through the left side to score Mahan from second and increase the Arkansas lead to 2-0.
Kentucky got one back in the bottom of the sixth to cut the Arkansas lead to one run. Reed opened the inning with a line-drive single into rightfield and a Zellers walk put two runners on for Kentucky. Riddle dropped a bunt down the third-base line for a base hit, loading the bases with no outs. Greg Fettes delivered with the bases loaded, reaching first on a fielder's choice, enabling Reed to come home and score UK's first run of the game. Arkansas got out of the jam with only one run surrendered, striking out one and forcing a groundout for the third out.
GAME NOTES: Arkansas leads the all-time series with UK, 34-22, including a 14-11 mark in games played in Lexington … UK falls to 4-3 in all white uniforms … UK is now 5-10 vs. top-25 teams … UK is 16-8 at Cliff Hagan Stadium, including 5-5 vs. SEC teams at home … UK is now 6-12 in night games … UK is 19-11 vs. right-handed starting pitching … UK falls to 6-6 on Friday … UK is now 7-11 when its opponent scores first … UK allowed just the second and third stolen base off its relievers in 2013 in the eighth and ninth innings … UK fell to 9-5 in one-run games in 2013, still leading the SEC in one-run wins.
• Junior second baseman J.T. Riddle made his team-leading 110th consecutive start.
o Riddle notched his 12th two-out hit of 2013.
o Riddle had his first multiple-hit game since March 30 vs. Georgia and his 11th of 2013.
Riddle has 37 multi-hit games in his career.
Riddle has 11 career three-hit games.
• Sophomore A.J. Reed made his team-high 12th start on the mound.
o Reed worked his seventh quality start of the year and the ninth of his two-year career.
• Junior Paul McConkey made his second career start at first base.
o McConkey was hit by his third pitch of the year.
• Freshman Kyle Barrett drew a leadoff walk in the first inning.
o Barrett has now reached as the leadoff hitter in 15-of-33 chances.
o Barrett extended his hitting streak to eight games.
o Barrett recorded his 12th two-out hit of 2013.
o Barrett was hit by his second pitch of the year.
• Senior Zac Zellers has now reached base safely as the leadoff hitter in an inning in 11-of-25 chances.
• Sophomore Max Kuhn drew his team-high 32nd walk of the year in the second inning.
• Freshman Greg Fettes laid down his second sac bunt of the year.
• Sophomore Chandler Shepherd inherited a runner without allowing it to score.
o Shepherd has inherited 25 runners in 2013, allowing 11 to score.


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Surprisingly, I've never played an entire round out there but decided to take the plunge once I heard they got the water crossings in.
There are places that need some mowing and some trees that need trimming and some tees that need concrete and some signs need to be replaced from being stolen. It should only be a day or two of work and it'll be good to go for Iowa Games. My round took me 1:30 to play.


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When disaster strikes, do you know what to do?
The question gained national attention last year after Hurricane Katrina proved emergency responders can be spread thin in large devastations.
That's why Columbia County is gaining more and more interest from the community to participate in their Emergency Response Team.
Emotions are high, tensions have flared--as chaos breaks out.
It's a worst-case scenario: two tornadoes touch ground in Columbia County. One collapses a building, injuring several and killing others.
"It gets your adrenaline running and you have to think on the spot how you're going to calm a person down," says Virginia Berkheimer, member of Columbia County's Community Emergency Response Team.
CERT students were tested Saturday in a disaster simulation to react when disaster strikes and help is nowhere in sight.
"After watching the hurricanes last summer, it's time to step up to the plate and help you and your neighbors," Berkheimer says.
The students learned to recover and treat wounded victims from fallen debris and scour the area for the missing.
"Always be prepared, always plan so you're not a victim and stay calm," said participant Trevor Ward.
And it was the small details that caught most of these students off guard, like staying with a buddy or remembering to count all the victims.
"We said 8; there was 10. Someone could be bleeding for hours," said another participant.
But it's here that exercise director Jeremy Wallen would rather see those mistakes happen.
"Even in simulation when that does happen and they lose control because of hysteria, that's the time to do it," he says.
Now that it's over they can let their hair down, knowing they've pulled out all the stops when help is needed the most.
29 students participated in Saturday's simulation. If they all pass, CERT will have more than 200 trained responders in Columbia County.


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Ido Kedar Speech at Los Angeles Walk Now for Autism Speaks
Ido Kedar is a fourteen year old 8th grader in all general education at his local middle school, which he attends with the with the support of an aide. Ido is also non-verbal and communicates via letterboard (unassisted) or dynawrite. He was not able to demonstrate that he understood language fluently until he was age seven. It took several years after that to convince the school district to remove him from his remedial autism class and since, he has taken off running.
"I am here to represent the point of view of people with autism who don't speak. Some of you might be parents of non-verbal people like me and stopped believing it was possible that your child could ever learn communication or even to understand.
I don't doubt that experts probably told you that it was false hope to imagine that your child could talk. Well, I don't talk but I still go to regular middle school in regular classes and do regular schoolwork, and I get good grades. I tell you this, not to brag, but to give you hope.
I don't need to talk with my mouth. It's too hard. But I'm able to communicate thanks to my letter board and dynawrite. It was a long journey to get to here from where I started. I had years of silence and rotten frustration. I was totally not able to show people I understood, so I suffered inside while my specialists chose wrong for me.
It was the worst, and I know it's equally challenging for parents too.
I want people to know that not speaking is not the same as not thinking; that poor fine motor is not the same as not thinking; that impulsive actions are different than not understanding right from wrong; that poor facial affect is not the same as not having feelings; that boring people to death is denying them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
But here's my hope. I went from so bored in school in remedial education when I couldn't communicate to a diploma path in high school next year. How, is the story of the potential in your kids.
Teach them interesting things. Read them age appropriate books. Talk normally to them. Not, "go car," "say hi," "good job." I believe many autistic people are understanding inside and can't show it. To be talked to like a baby is so frustrating.
The letter board was my freedom. This is it.
It takes a while to learn how to use it, but it's worth it.
Communication is the most important thing.
I used to dream of talking, of course. But I am not free because I talk. I don't talk. I am free because I can express my ideas in pointing to letters, in typing, in my blog and in my speeches. I am not lonely now.
Autism is a deep pit. Don't give up."


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Toyota's Prius: Performance Is All That Matters
Toyota's hybrid continues to be excellent in performance if not beauty
TOYOTA, RESTORED AS the world's largest auto maker by sales in 2013, produces lots of amazing vehicles. It makes the world's most durable small pickup, the Hilux. On the other side of the vehicular universe, there is the Lexus LFA, a carbon-bodied apparition with a naturally aspirated V10 engine and a spine-tingling 9,000 rpm redline. Me want.
Toyota TM 0.92 % builds the best-selling sedan in America, the Camry; it builds full-size, steak-eating trucks in Texas (more than 1 million at last count). This company has bandwidth.
But the Prius Liftback, introduced 10 years ago, is Toyota's product-design masterpiece: a dead steady, massively functional, safe, flexible and affordable five-seater (in four trim levels, $24,200 to $30,005, plus $810 delivery) with fuel economy that makes it among the most fuel-efficient automobiles of any size sold in America, year after year. This year the EPA-rated fuel economy is a nice, round 50 miles per gallon, city and highway combined.
When a 2014 Prius (in the "Three" trim level, with navigation, cloth interior, and 15-inch wheels) showed up in my driveway last week, unbidden, I didn't even blink. I was rather hoping for something in an Aston Martin. But then I got in it and was again struck by the Prius's deep, considered brilliance. It still feels futuristic.
Let's just talk structure. According to the feds, this car has 93.7 cubic feet of passenger space and 21 cubic feet of trunk space—more than a Ford Fusion—and yet it weighs a mere 3,042 pounds, about the same as a new Porsche 911 Carrera. A similarly sized Ford C-Max hybrid is 600 pounds heavier. That is a fifth of a car!
'In terms of practicality, there is no more rational car on Earth than the Prius.'
No, the Prius Liftback isn't fast (0-60 mph in about 10 seconds) and it isn't sexy. It has small wheels, a big flat butt (a "Kamm" back, technically), and headlamps like eyes dazed in servitude. Though the smoothly arcing roofline is a model of efficiency in the wind tunnel (according to Toyota, a super-efficient 0.25 coefficient of drag), visually the Prius is a lump, a mogul, a neutered nubbin. It couldn't be more of an appliance if it weremade by Amana.
But if you are a commuter with kids to ferry and errands to perform, this is what the right tool looks like. If you possess a Manhattan taxi medallion, the Prius is so perfectly suited to your needs it is practically Platonic.
The Prius (Gen II, 2004-09) changed the automobile business. Let's go to the scorecard: 3 million Priuses sold world-wide, with half of that in the U.S. No longer merely a model, Prius is a brand, with the Prius v (wagon) and Prius c (coupe) joining the lineup in 2011. Meanwhile, Toyota's proprietary hybrid system—Hybrid Synergy Drive—pumps away in the hearts of more than 5 million Toyota and Lexus hybrids sold world-wide.
It is worth marking the anniversary and consider how far reaching and disruptive the Prius effect is. For one thing, Prius anticipated the direction of automobile powertrain design generally. Honda, too, was a pioneer in hybrid cars, starting with the 1999 Insight. Honda's Integrated Motor Assist technology used a permanent-magnet motor/generator essentially wrapped around the drive shaft to impart electric motor torque, as needed, and generate electricity under braking (regenerative braking).
But Honda's parallel-hybrid design prevented the Insight, or its other hybrids, from moving solely on electricity.
Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive—which made its debut on Prius II and is built around an elegant, horological planetary gearset—is a full hybrid design, allowing a car to move (slowly) under battery power alone, or gas power, but usually a blend of both, relying on sophisticated powertrain algorithms to optimize fuel economy and manage the frantic tides of electrons sluicing among motor-generators and batteries. The Toyota architecture thus provides a broad range of efficiency in slow-speed, stop-start urban traffic.
2014 Toyota Prius Liftback
Price, as tested: $26,625
Powertrain: Series-parallel gas-electric hybrid, Atkinson-cycle 1.8-liter DOHC, 16-valve inline four-cylinder gas engine with variable valve timing (98 hp); permanent-magnet synchronous traction motor (DC650V, 80 hp, 60kW); nickel-metal hydride battery pack (DC201.6V, 46 hp/27 kW output); continuously variable hybrid transmission; front-wheel drive
Length/weight: 176.4 inches/3,042 pounds
Wheelbase: 106.3 inches
0-60 mph: <10 seconds
EPA fuel economy: 51/48/50 mpg, city/highway/combined
Cargo capacity: 21.6 cubic feet
As if to provide a clinical comparison of the two approaches, in 2010 Honda unveiled the second-generation Insight hybrid, a Prius-like car that was and still is slightly cheaper, substantially lighter and a little less powerful than the Prius. And yet the Insight's fuel economy, 42 mpg combined, couldn't approach the Prius.
And because so much of the Prius's powertrain efficiency depends on software, it grows increasingly efficient with each generation. Toyota officials have said the next generation Prius (2015) will be 10% more efficient than the current model. That pencils out to 55 mpg and about 160 grams of CO2 per mile.
While the principles of hybrid propulsion have been around at least as long as Ferdinand Porsche's Lohner Mixste (1900), the Gen II Prius was the first fully realized gas-electric hybrid car, and there were plenty of doubters. GM dismissed hybrids as an interim technology while promising the ultimate solution was hydrogen fuel-cell technology. GM begged regulators to relent on fuel-economy standards so that precious R&D moneys could be devoted to the hydrogen endgame. And we are still waiting.
You could have built a bridge to Tokyo with all the wood-head experts who predicted Prius battery failures would cost consumers thousands. Battery failure rates in Prius turned out to be practically nil. In California and New York, the battery pack is warranted for 10 years or 150,000 miles. Hybrid components like the power electronics and motor are covered for 15 years or 150,000 miles.
The Prius became politicized along the way, a dog-whistle phrase that meant liberal, lefty. But are we talking artsy-fartsy? Because there is no more rational car on Earth than the Prius. I mean, come on. Look at it. How unmoved by aesthetics must you be to own a car like this? A roomful of monkeys typing for a billion years couldn't come up with a scenario where this car is sexy. The Prius is an utter rebuke to emotionalisms such as performance and style. Doesn't that rather speak to an owner with practical cast of mind?
Before leaving politics: There is a federal tax credit on the purchase of most hybrid models, but the Toyota long ago exhausted its manufacturers' allotment. That hasn't seemed to slow down sales.
The enduring mystery of the Prius is how a car with quite modest driving satisfactions—in terms of acceleration, handling, cornering, ride compliance—can be such a winning automotive experience. These cars are, still, strangely fun to drive. Of course, there is the mileage nerd-factor, and the near-hypnotic graphics illustrating the doings of the hybrid system. But it is also that the Prius feels uniquely apart from other cars, a separateness underscored by the casually futuristic interior, with its flying-buttress console design and contrasting lightweight, plant-based plastics, each with a unique texture, from rice paper to fine-grit sandpaper.
After 10 years, the Prius still feels like what comes next.
Corrections & Amplifications
There is a federal tax credit on the purchase of most hybrid models. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said the tax credit is for most plug-in hybrid models.
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- Apr 20:
- Kawakami: Warriors' Stephen Curry must remain difference-maker
- Apr 19:
- Poole: Warriors' playoff success tied to David Lee
- Nuggets' George Karl enjoying best season
- Golden State Warriors lean on their faith heading into playoffs
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- Warriors: Golden State is likely to push the tempo against high-scoring Denver in the first round of the playoffs
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- Warriors-Nuggets: Injuries an issue for both teams
- Warriors-Nuggets: About altitude as much as attitude
Against a Denver team that thrives on attacking the rim on offense and crashing the boards at both ends of the floor, it can't be underestimated how critical 7-foot Andrew Bogut could be toward altering the dynamic for the Warriors in their playoff series with the favored Nuggets.
Denver won three of four games against Golden State during the regular season, but Bogut didn't play in any of them. He will play in this series, however, and promises to deliver what he has, even if he's less 100 percent physically.
After missing three games with a bone bruise in his left ankle, Bogut logged 17 minutes in the regular-season finale at Portland and said he'll be ready to go against the Nuggets.
But will the 7-footer be able to handle the fast pace Denver is sure to try and bring?
"We'll find out ... I hope so," he said. "If I can't, we're going to be in some trouble. All of our bigs need to do a good job of getting back (on defense)."
Bogut said his ankle is much improved and that even getting that limited time against the Blazers Wednesday night was crucial.
"I definitely wanted to play at least one game before the playoffs, just to get some of my rhythm and legs back," he said. "I felt like I was moving pretty well. It's the playoffs, so you have to hurry up and get healthy. The playoffs are no time to be thinking about the ankle or myself. I'm just going to go out there and play as hard as I can and leave it one the floor."
If he can handle the physical demands, Bogut's teammates believe he can be a major factor in a potential upset.
"He'll be big for us," said Stephen Curry. "He's just a presence. They're long and athletic, and hopefully, we can allow Bogut to control the paint and the boards and keep them off the offensive glass. Second-chance points are a big bonus for them, and hopefully he can neutralize that with his presence down low."
"They (the Nuggets) are a team with a lot of depth and the more depth we have is going to be important to us," said David Lee. "Having a guy like Andrew can definitely help, just trying to match their numbers."
Bogut understands he may have to score a little more as well, even though he hasn't really shown that side of his game much as he's battled back from injuries and then finding it hard to get his shot to drop.
"I'm not going to be a be-all, end-all (on offense)," he said. "My primary role and focus right now is to make sure their bigs don't get cheap buckets. I hope to control the paint, block some shots and get 10 rebounds a game. But obviously it would be nice to have some shots fall."
Bogut also believes to beat the Nuggets, they have to match Denver's physicality.
"Teams that have 4's and 5's that can bang us around in the paint have given us trouble, so we have to accept that challenge," he said. "If we start giving up a lot of second chance points and offensive rebounds because of the physicality, I think we're going to be in big trouble."
The key, he said, is getting back when Denver fires out on the break.
"They like to run, and we like to run, but we feel like we're a defensive team first and if we can get back defensively and make them play in the half court, we feel like we have a chance to win," Bogut said.


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Telangiectasias are small blood vessels just below the surface of the skin. The blood vessels are very visible through the skin. They may appear as a single vessel or as many vessels in clusters.
They may also be seen in the mouth or whites of the eyes. The may also be in other locations, such as the brain and the back of the eyes.
Telangiectasias are caused by small blood vessels that are stuck in a wide open position. There is no clear reason for why this happens in many cases.
Some telangiectasias are due to conditions like:
Telangiectasia may be related to rosacea.
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Factors that increase your risk for telangiectasias are based on the underlying condition.
Symptoms may include:
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done.
Depending on the cause of the lesion, your doctor may take a
of the area. You may be referred to a skin specialist.
Talk with your doctor about the best treatment plan for you. Often, treatment is not needed for the telangiectasias itself. Treatment depends on what is causing the telangiectasias.
Make-up can be used to cover the red patches. Depending on the type and location of telangiectasia, laser therapy or chemicals may be used to destroy the vessels.
There are no current guidelines to prevent telangiectasias.
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Generalised essential telangiectasia. DermNet NZ website. Available at:
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Rosacea. DermNet NZ website. Available at:
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Rosacea. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at:
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Gun shop owners: 'No... I don't have any damn .22 ammo'
The shortage caused a customer of Village Gun Shop, in Whitefield, to provide owners Stan and Sandy Holz with T-shirts that say: "No... I don't have any damn .22 ammo."
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I am presenting to you all my latest build: Æneias, an Iris class french schooner from around 1820. She is a 14-gun gaff-rigged schooner based on the plans of La Recouvrance, a well-known vessel which sails from Brest. I have followed both the lines and the rigging of the original ship, since I had abundant free plans.There were 5 Iris-class vessels and they were originally used for mail-transport and latter for protection of merchant ships.
In case anyone is wandering, the name is from the classical hero Aeneas which is said to have founded Rome (go remember school stuff! ), though I have chosen to write the name in latin.
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Cb4 for the amazing hull design, most credits for the hull go to him;
Captain Blackmoor for the efficient and neat designs on almost every torso of my crew — credits to him!;
Captain Green Hair for overall support, great assistance and expertise on ship-building:
Thank you so much Rick!
The prow figure (which, by the way, is Dido ):
The stern is one of the ares of which I am most proud: the curve is recreated using an intricate SNOT which places studs in 7 different directions.
The brick-built 12 powder cannons (each one consists of 12 parts):
The crew (around 30 sea-men), the armament and the provisions:
For maintenance reasons, she is almost fully modular:
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Jailed Seabrook man, unable to make bail, misses wife's funeral
Brett Duggan asked to have the bail reduced as much as possible so he'd have a chance to grieve the death of his wife with his family.
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'Kick-Ass 2' Diminishes the Franchise
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I would describe "Kick-Ass 2" as an over-the-top, good natured action movie. "Kick-Ass 2" has, however, come under a great deal of scrutiny because of co-star Jim Carrey attempting to distance himself from the movie based on his stance on gun control. "Kick-Ass 2" opened last weekend at No. 4 in the box office, earning $13.6 million, which suggests that Carrey's attempt to not promote a movie he starred in may have had the opposite effect.
I found the movie to be a lackluster version of the first installment. "Kick-Ass 2" boasts some high quality action sequences, memorable lines and laugh-out-loud situations. Unfortunately, these are the exceptions, and are not found throughout the majority of the movie. What "Kick-Ass 2" does have for the lion's share of the movie is gratuitous violence and vulgarity.
Patrons who enjoyed the first movie, I think, will enjoy this sequel but find it lacking in comparison to the first. Newcomers to the franchise are likely to be disappointed and confused about the suggestion that there may be yet another "Kick-Ass" film in the works.
"Kick-Ass 2" gets two stars out of five.
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Irondale man shot trying to prevent celebratory gunfire
Published: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
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TUSCALOOSA | The Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit made an arrest in the unit's 16th homicide of 2012 on New Year's Eve.
Capt. Loyd Baker of the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday called New Year's Eve "fairly busy" as investigators were called to a homicide, a stabbing at the downtown Tuscaloosa YMCA and random reports of celebratory gunfire Monday night.
At 10:08 p.m. Monday, Lake View police and sheriff's deputies were dispatched to a residence in the 20100 block of Alabama Highway 216 after a report of a shooting.
Baker said that deputies found the body of 39-year-old George Boyd on the floor of the residence with a gunshot wound to the chest.
Witnesses at the scene told deputies that Boyd and 41-year-old Jason Lane Johnson got into an argument over a woman who was at the residence.
Johnson went into a bedroom, returned with a gun and shot Boyd and then fled, witnesses told deputies.
Johnson was found by patrol officers in the Lake View area. He was booked into the Tuscaloosa County Jail, charged with murder and his bond was set at $75,000.
Also, at 8:20 p.m. Monday, investigators were notified of a stabbing at the downtown Tuscaloosa YMCA, 2405 Paul W. Bryant Drive.
Baker said that 66-year-old Larry Travis told investigators that he had stabbed a 38-year-old man in the chest in retaliation after the 38-year-old man hit Travis with a towel. The stabbing victim was taken to DCH Regional Medical Center and treated for a collapsed lung.
Travis was arrested, charged with second-degree assault and taken to the Tuscaloosa County Jail. Travis' bond was set at $15,000.
Walt Larisey, CEO of the downtown Tuscaloosa YMCA, said Tuesday night that the Y was closed at the time of the stabbing. He said that Travis and the stabbing victim were not members of the Y, but they were staying temporarily at a residence hall on the Y's third floor.
"One of our three pillars is social responsibility, and we provide people affordable transient housing," Larisey said of YMCA's mission.
"I want members to know that they are safe while they are at the YMCA," he said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the individual who was injured Monday night."
Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported that a central Alabama man was shot twice after trying to stop a New Year's reveler from firing gunshots into the air.
The victim was wounded in his chest and shoulder around 8 a.m. in Irondale.
The unidentified man was taken to the University of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham and authorities say his injuries were not life threatening. Police say the suspect fled the scene in a white SUV and was armed with a 9mm handgun.
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- SFO crash: Doctor finds unusual pattern of spine injuries
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- Two girls killed in San Francisco plane crash were students headed to summer camps in U.S.
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San Francisco Police Officer Jim Cunningham was sucking down oxygen, refueling his weary lungs, when his phone started ringing with his wife's frantic call: He had just charged into the burning hulk of Asiana Airlines Flight 216 -- without a respirator or protective clothing -- to help pull the last several survivors from the wreckage.
A paramedic had to answer his phone for him, briefly terrifying his wife, Roberta. "What were you thinking?" she would later ask, reminding him of their 18-month-old daughter at home.
On Monday, in shaken voices at a packed news conference, Cunningham and other first-responders to Saturday's crash-landing at San Francisco International Airport told their stories of the chaotic and harrowing rescue of dozens of dazed, stunned or trapped passengers on the downed Boeing 777.
But along with the rescuers' heroism might have come a tragic, deadly accident. San Francisco Fire Department Capt. Dale Carnes acknowledged Monday an earlier report that one of Saturday's two fatalities -- two 16-year-old Chinese girls who had been seated in the plane's rear, bound for a church summer camp -- might have been hit by an emergency vehicle.
"At this time, because we have not clearly defined or established those facts, we cannot answer your questions," Carnes said, adding he didn't want to compromise an ongoing investigation.
The rescuers who spoke at the Monday news conference were a mix of veteran police and firefighters; to a person, they had never been through anything quite like it. San Francisco Fire Lt. Chrissy Emmons said most alerts at the airport's "crash house" station warn of incoming aircraft with mechanical problems; the fire trucks roll, but rarely are needed. Yet when a female dispatcher called "alert 3, alert 3, plane crash, plane crash," just before 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Emmons "knew from her voice that the event we were going to was real."
Cunningham was finishing a routine check of an airport building when he heard another officer's calm voice over his radio, calling "code 33, 777 down." He flagged down a nearby ambulance and told the driver to follow his police car through a security gate and onto the runway.
He and another officer went first to the front of the plane, where flight attendants tended to older passengers groaning on the ground; other flight attendants called down from the plane's door, pleading for knives to cut passengers free of their seat belts. The officers handed up their knives but saw the plane's wing was "gushing fuel right next to us," Cunningham said, so they began moving everyone back.
"It was absorbing into the ground," he said. "I'm thinking, if this spark hits this dry grass and fuel ..."
Emmons' truck parked near the plane's nose and firefighters began spraying foam on flames licking at the fuselage. Then she circled around to join Lt. Dave Monteverdi and firefighter Mike Kirk. The three of them charged up an inflatable chute as passengers slid down to escape the smoking plane.
Monteverdi went left toward the cockpit. Emmons and Kirk took a fire hose to the right to knock down flames and search for passengers. "Most of the fire was in the front of the plane," Emmons said.
Then Kirk radioed that he'd found several passengers near the plane's mangled rear.
"We had elderly, we had a woman with a gentleman who was standing over her, we had someone who was partially trapped, as it turned out there was a small person stuck between the seats," Emmons said. "The back of the plane did not hold up as well as the front. ... The fuselage was definitely more impacted."
Monteverdi found nobody in the plane's forward section, so he joined Emmons and Kirk. As another rescue crew came in from the rear, they all worked to free those last few passengers.
Cunningham said, "It didn't look like they had enough people in there," so even without any breathing apparatus, he went in too, clearing debris so passengers could be removed.
San Francisco Police Lt. Gaetano Caltagirone saw Cunningham enter the burning airplane. "I couldn't let him go inside the plane and just be there by himself." So Caltagirone went in too, as the flames began to grow.
"The next thing you hear is crackling and popping," Caltagirone said. "You want to save lives. I also have to make sure that he (Cunningham) goes home. When is it time to leave?
"It was so surreal, there was so much chaos going on, but it was quiet," he said -- at least, it seemed so. "Everybody was doing what they were trained to do."
Caltagirone found a young brother and sister, the girl wearing only one shoe, the boy barefoot; he put the girl on his back, and put her socks on the brother so he could walk. The last person Cunningham and Emmons helped off the plane was an elderly man who they had to stand upright and help out. By then, "the fire was banking down on us, we had heavy black smoke," Emmons said. "So I feel very blessed we were able to get those people off the plane in that time."
Cunningham ducked back in for a last look to ensure nobody had been left behind; a wall of smoke rushed toward him as he got out.
Fire rescue Capt. Tony Molloy oversaw triage and treatment near the runway: red for the most severely injured, yellow for those less so, green for the least hurt. Reds were evacuated to local hospitals within minutes, quickly followed by yellows, Molloy said; greens were taken to the international terminal to be triaged again, and more than 100 of them eventually went to hospitals, too.
As of Monday, 17 passengers remained at San Francisco General Hospital while eight remained at Stanford Hospital; of those 25, seven remained in critical condition, including one child. The two hospitals saw a total of 117 patients from the crash. Wang Chuan, a Chinese consulate spokesman, was at San Francisco General on Monday. "It's one of our top priorities to take care of and comfort the injured people," he said, carrying a purple orchid, a symbol of support for the Chinese victims.
Caltagirone at Saturday's end had told his officers: "Go home and hug your kids." But exhausted as they were, everyone reported for duty again Sunday, leaving their commanding officer inspired.
"They didn't worry about themselves," Caltagirone said, "they worried about the lives of the people they needed to save."
Staff writers Erin Ivie, Natalie Neysa Alund and Mark Gomez contributed to this report. Contact Josh Richman at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I am considering to register my 14yr old son for ball handling sessions with Advantage Basketball Camp. Are they any good? Did anyone of you use their services? Is it really so effective?
Not effective
I am not familiar with the specific camp you refer to but these are some things I look for before I recommend a camp to a parent on my team.
1. Kid's Involvement- by now you should know wheter or not your kid want's to play ball or if it's not for them
2. Content vs. Cost- camps aren't cheap so you should get your moneys worth. Does the camp guarantee 1 on 1 instruction, what is the duration, what facilities will be used. These are all questions you need to ask yourself.
3. Faculty- Who is teaching at the camp, what is their backround and expertise and are they worth what you are paying for.
I would recommend you talk with you kid's coaches. They will be able to research and perhaps give you some other things to think about.
My kid currently plays for an Advantage AAU team. This organization seems very disorganized. Practices are often cancelled at the last minute, coach arrives late and leaves early, and seems bored during practice. There is little skill development during practice, but lots of yelling at the kids during games to encourage "winning". This program seems emblematic of the worst of AAU basketball, think Miami Heat! wish we could have gotten a refund.
Trying to put this on any blogs about Advantage Basketball camps - don't waste your money on them! My son went to the one day 4 hour "Shooting Academy" today which unbeknownst to us coincided with another camp that was going on M-W so some kids had been there all week and some showed up for the shooting academy. JD Taylor from the University of Washington was supposed to be there to teach the kids his "unparallelled skills" but he was there for literally 5 minutes and didn't do anything with the kids. They started 20 minutes late, nobody ever even asked my son his name, let alone checked him in or even asked for the waivers that the website and the confirmation emails say are required - I still have them. Each time I poked my head in to see check on my son there wasnt an adult anywhere near the kids let alone teaching them anything. After the 3rd check I decided to actually come in and watch - just in time for their 45 MINUTE BREAK. The kids started shooting themselves since no adults were telling them what to do. The "coach" that was there was working with 2 girls who apparently were getting a private lesson. One kid in my son's group was picking on another kid and I had to step in to make sure it stopped - the "coach" was completely oblivious. THEN the coach came over to tell them to play a shooting game and took off to do his private lesson again. At that point I went up to him and said I was getting pretty mad - first they were on a 45 minute break and now they're playing a game my son can play in my driveway so where's the teaching of how to shoot? He said he's had 20 years of experience and that the younger group worked their tails off earlier so they're ending on a a more relaxed level. I said each time I peaked in there were no adults near them and he said, "I understand what you're saying." and walked away. This camp was a joke and I've already requested a refund. We'll see.
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The AIDS Vaccine Research Subcommittee (AVRS), formerly known as the AIDS Vaccine Research Working Group (AVRWG), assists NIAID in developing a comprehensive research program aimed at expediting the discovery and development of an effective HIV/AIDS vaccine. The subcommittee is composed of researchers and advocates engaged in HIV vaccine research.
The Strategic Working Group (SWG) provides expert advice on the scientific priorities of the NIAID-funded HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Networks. Specifically, the SWG serves as a forum for discussion, resolution, and proactive planning of critical issues; provides guidance on scientific priorities for future high resource trials, provides input about budget allocation for future funding of the networks and sites, and facilitates communication among all stakeholders relevant to the NIAID-sponsored HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Networks. The SWG meets two to three times a year, and members include the network principal investigators, NIAID-appointed external advisors, representatives from the Community Partners, and the director of DAIDS.
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steppen wrote: was all of that necessary?
steppen wrote: I'm not implying that it should be tame. But it just seems like the dude has nothing to offer but disturbing language.
MessiahCarey wrote: steppen wrote: was all of that necessary?
Necessary? Is it necessary for a grown man to drink his own urine?
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