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Johnson, brought in as the A's closer, gave up two ninth-inning runs to Cleveland as a winnable game slipped away from Oakland. The Indians scored a 2-0 victory in the opener, and the boos, while not substantial, were clearly audible.
"I would have booed me, too,'' Johnson said. "I deserved it. The next time, though, they'll be cheering.''
Johnson, with 101 saves in the past two seasons, has no shortage of confidence. As he was quick to point out, after he put men on, with his sinker as an out pitch, he's always one pitch away from a double play. Just not on this night.
The right-hander faced five hitters and got just one out, a sacrifice fly off the bat of Nyjer Morgan that produced the game's first run. The second came on a single by former Athletic Nick Swisher, after which manager Bob Melvin replaced Johnson as an unhappy full house made its displeasure known.
"He'd given up a couple of runs,'' Melvin said in explaining why he lifted his closer. "We don't what him to throw too many pitches this early in the season. We don't want him out there throwing 30 pitches.''
Johnson, who wound up throwing 17 pitches, appeared in nine games this spring, posting a 5.00 ERA while giving up 14 base runners in nine innings, 11 hits and three walks. That's not what the A's were hoping for when they traded Jemile Weeks to Baltimore to replace departed closer Grant Balfour.
It's not what Johnson wanted or expected either, particularly in the wake of a gritty six-inning start from Sonny Gray, who was constantly in trouble and yet able to hold the Indians scoreless.
"That was one of the most impressive performances I've ever seen,'' Johnson said of Gray, who allowed five hits and three walks and who twice caught Indians runners in outs between third and the plate. "I've never seen anybody wiggle like that.''
The A's didn't have as much offensive muscle as the Indians on this cool, wet night, but Josh Donaldson twice delivered singles to center with men on second base, but in neither case did the runners score.
Eric Sogard got a bad read on a single in front of Morgan in center in the sixth, and Daric Barton held up thinking he would have to tag up on a long fly in the eighth. The ball wound up hitting the top of the wall, and Barton was only able to get to third base, where he wound up being stranded.
It was the second straight 2-0 loss on opening day for the A's, who have now lost 10 consecutive openers, the longest such streak in major league history.
Melvin did not seem to have much of a problem with the base running, reasoning that given the situations, Sogard needed to hold up to make sure the ball made it through, and Barton had to be sure he wasn't going to need to tag up.
The new look of baseball was very much in evidence in the opener, with a replay making sure the Indians didn't produce a sixth-inning run as the new rules on collisions at the plate were put to the test.
All of that happened in the sixth inning with one out, men on first and third and Gray working on a shutout. Asdrubal Cabrera tried to shoot a single up the middle, but Gray knocked down the ball, corralled it and threw to catcher John Jaso, who slapped a tag on Michael Brantley.
Umpire Mike Winters ruled that Jaso had given Brantley enough room to reach the plate and had slapped the tag on in time. Then Winters called for a review of his own decision. Sixty-five seconds later the call came back from New York. Winters' original call was upheld.
Oakland didn't have as much going against Justin Masterson, who won 14 games for the Indians a year ago. He threw seven shutout innings, allowing just three hits and a walk.
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Mean With Envy (混戦、混乱!ポケモンコンテスト・キナギ大会!(前編) Disorderly Melee! Pokémon Contest - Pacifidlog Convention! (Part 1) is the 23rd episode of Pokémon: Advanced Battle.
Episode Plot
The gang has arrived to Pacifidlog Town. May is seen to train with her Pokémon before her final Contest. Bulbasaur uses Petal Dance, Beautifly Silver Wind and Combusken Fire Spin. The gang admires her Pokémon, who are really powerful. May orders Skitty to use Blizzard, but Skitty sees an Aipom being given a Pokéblock. May tells Skitty that she can play after the Contest and sees other people's Pokémon. May still thinks she can win this and gets support from her Pokémon. Ash is also tempted to train and sends his Snorunt. Snorunt goes to practice Ice Beam, but something is wrong. Ash asks it what is it and gets hit by the Ice Beam.
Ash shakes his head and tells Snorunt they'll have to practice more. Team Rocket sees them and hope to catch Pikachu. Snorunt goes to use Ice Beam and Team Rocket snuck behind Pikachu. However, Snorunt attacks and freezes them, then uses Ice Beam at a rapid pace. A trainer's Aipom runs away and Skitty follows it because of its tail. They run away, so May and the trainer follow them. Ash stops Snorunt, who has some fun with all the trouble. Max spots May's gone. May spots Skitty, who plays with a man. Skitty comes to her and May introduces herself and the man is Joshua, the Coordinator. A woman spots Joshua talking to May, seeming to be jealous.
May tells Joshua she'll need the 5th (and final) ribbon for the Grand Festival. Joshua asks her if she's going to use Skitty, to which she replies she does not know yet. The woman appears before them, being very angered. Joshua recognizes her as Erica. Erica sees her and says she's much cuter than she is, to which Joshua meant Skitty, not May. Erica tells him "that" is what he meant by training separately - she thinks he likes May a lot. Erica tells her Joshua and her have known each other for a really long time, thinking they are meant for each other. They have been known to have won the Contests together. Erica tells Joshua to go with her to sign on the Pacifidlog Contest, though Joshua tells her May is coming as well, being a Coordinator herself.
May decides to use Skitty in the contest and Erica sends Jynx to show she's going to use her. Erica finds it quite the Pokémon for the Contest for winning. Brock, Ash, Max and May's other Pokémon come to her. May introduces her friends to Joshua. Joshua introduces himself and Erica to them, telling they both will enter the Contest. Unexpectedly, Team Rocket grabs Pikachu and Snorunt. Pikachu uses Thunderbolt, but with no effect. Snorunt goes to use Ice Beam, but fails. As they go off, Beautifly tackles them and they drop Snorunt and Pikachu. Team Rocket is angry, so Combusken attacks them with Sky Uppercut, destroying the balloon. Jessie sends Seviper and James his Cacnea.
Seviper uses Haze, then goes to bite and Cacnea attacks with Needle Arm. However, Joshua sends Houndoom, who uses Swift, hurting them. Seviper uses Poison Tail and Cacnea Pin Missile, but the attacks are negated by Houndoom's Flamethrower. Bulbasaur uses Petal Dance, knocking both Pokémon and Joshua compliments May for those attacks. Seviper goes to bite and Cacnea uses Needle Arm. Skitty uses Assist, which turns to Fire Spin and Houndoom uses Shadow Ball, hitting Seviper and Cacnea. By each hit, Erica is more furious. Ash and Brock release Pikachu and Snorunt. May orders Skitty to use Assist, but Erica pushes her and orders Jynx to use Hyper Beam, blasting them off. James tells Meowth he should have battled as well, so Jessie has an idea.
May is angry for being pushed, so Erica tells her she has a lot of learn, relying on Assist attack. Joshua tells them they need to register, so Erica and May promise each other to battle in the Contest. Inside the building, Jessie tells Meowth she'll enter with him, leaving Meowth baffled. Meowth refuses to enter, but seeing a Coordinator with a Persian, he remembers Giovanni with a similar one, so Meowth decides to enter, being fired all up. The Contest is about to begin, though Ash stays with Snorunt and Pikachu to train. The announcer tells to get the first Contestant - Jessie enters (being disguised as Jester) with Meowth. Everyone is impressed the way she entered (being carried down on a platform).
Meowth scratches an ice block into an ice sculpture of Giovanni and a Persian. Still, Meowth scratches more and Persian turns to Meowth. The viewers are impressed, so another Contestant enters. Snorunt fails to use Ice Beam. Still, it uses once more, with more power, but less control. Ash spots Joshua on the screen - Houndoom uses Shadow Ball and Swift, impressing the audience. Erica's Jynx uses Blizzard and Psychic, controlling the snowstorm and dazzling the audience. May's Skitty uses Assist, which turns to Razor Leaf (leaving May surprised), then uses Blizzard to freeze the leaves and uses Double Slap to destroy the ice and leaving shiny dust.
Ash visits May to congratulate her. Max has no doubts she'll pass to second round, but Erica hopes she'll get as well to battle her. May tells her Skitty is in top shape, so they both start to anger one another. The screen announces four second round Coordinators - Jester, Joshua, Erica and... May. The screen displays May is going to battle Joshua and Erica vs. Jester. May tells Joshua that even if they are friends, she will defeat him.
- Brock thinks that the ice sculpture of Giovanni "looks familiar", making canon to Mewtwo Returns, as it's the only time when Brock has met him.
- The English dub title is a pun on the idiom "green with envy".
- This is the third time Ash has trained on an attack during a Contest. The first one was Pikachu and Iron Tail, the second was Swellow and Aerial Ace and this one was Snorunt and its Ice Beam.
- This marks the anime debut of Jynx's redesign, and the dub has allowed it.
- When Meowth says "No Persian is gonna make a Mankey outta me!", the Closed Captioning referred the dialog as "No Persian is gonna make a Monkey outta me!"
- When Meowth changes the Persian statue into Meowth, it exclaims, "Nyarth", the Japanese name for Meowth.
- When the second round battle pairs are shown the second time, closeup of May and Joshua's pictures, the white line above Erica's picture is gone.
- When Erica hugs her Jynx, one of Jynx's arms is purple not red, yet right after it moves it's arm, it becomes red.
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- Question: Trainers, which Pokémon comes first?
- Choices: Skiploom, Hoppip, Jumpluff
- Answer: OK, Trainers! If you chose Hoppip, you were right!
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The Indian boys fought hard throughout the entire game against a team who has been scoring an average of 77 points every game they play. Sleepy Eye held the team to an all-time season low of 53 points in order to hang onto the game.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on March 28th the availability of $22.8 million to support new renewable energy systems and energy efficiency improvements by agricultural producers and rural small businesses. The funds will support the use of renewable energy technologies such as biomass (including anaerobic digesters), geothermal, hydrogen, solar, and wind energy.
The new funds will be made available in two stages. One half, or $11.4 million, is available immediately for competitive grants of up to $500,000 for renewable energy projects and up to $250,000 for energy efficiency projects. The grant request may not exceed 25 percent of the eligible project cost, and applications must be submitted by June 27th. The remaining $11.4 million will be set aside for guaranteed loans for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects through a process to be announced later this year. See the USDA press release.
Section 9006 of the 2002 Farm Bill established the Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvements Program to encourage agricultural producers and rural small businesses to increase their energy efficiency and use more renewable energy. To date, the USDA has invested $45 million in 32 states through this program. For complete information about the program, including the official Federal Register notice about the latest funds, see the USDA Web site.


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By Dan O'Brien
August 26, 2013
August 26, 2013
The music is blaring, the cheering is loud, the costumes are wacky, and the good-byes are faster than some parents would like.
It's move-in time at Emerson, where incoming first-year students are whisked away by upperclass students in butterfly wings, oversized bow ties, rabbit ears, rainbow suspenders, and banana costumes—all while blasting Katy Perry and Britney Spears from stereo speakers.
Emerson students help freshmen move into the Paramount Center residence hall in style Monday, August 26, 2013. (Photo by Dan O'Brien)
"I love the energy," said Carolyn Corbett of Billerica, Massachusetts, who dropped off her daughter, Maureen Corbett '17, at the Paramount Center residence hall on August 26. "I'm so excited for her."
A new student walks out of the Paramount Center residence hall to cheers and song. (Photo by Dan O'Brien)
Corbett was one of more than 850 incoming freshmen serenaded by shouting students—"Yay, Maureen! We're so excited you're here!"—who placed all of her personal belongings into a cart that was quickly wheeled up to her new residence hall.
Ryan Smythe '16 is dressed in a banana costume on Boylston Street. (Photo by Dan O'Brien)
The over-the-top move-in tradition is meant to be fun, welcoming, and to display Emerson's vibrant community.
Danny LeMar '15 helped move students into the Colonial residence halls on Tremont Street. (Photo by Dan O'Brien)
But it also serves a practical purpose—getting parents to move their cars off busy downtown Boston streets in less than 10 minutes.
Michael Kelly '15, wearing Emerson's purple and gold colors, gives a new student a high-five on Boylston Street as Leigha Morris '15, sporting butterfly wings, cheers on. (Photo by Dan O'Brien)
"They made it so easy," said Jillian Kleiner of Los Angeles, who was greeted by Emerson President Lee Pelton as she dropped off her daughter, Zoe D'Avanzo '17, outside Piano Row on Boylston Street.
Emerson President Lee Pelton shakes hands with Jillian Kleiner, parent of Zoe D'Avanzo '17, outside Piano Row on Boylston Street. (Photo by Dan O'Brien)
"It's so organized. I didn't expect such a nice experience," Kleiner said. "It's very welcoming."
Pelton stopped by all the residence halls on Monday, giving high-fives, speaking to students and parents, and even helping unload luggage.
President Pelton helps students move in. (Photo by Dan O'Brien)
The parents of Andrew Allen '17, of Woburn, Massachusetts, also praised the College's organization. Allen plans to major in Film Production and is excited about studying in the center of Boston's Theatre District.
Andrew Allen '17 with his parents Amanda and Ken outside the Little Building. (Photo by Dan O'Brien)
"I'm looking forward to making new friends, and to study film and maybe learn about radio," Allen said. "I couldn't think of any other college I wanted to apply to."
Daniel Houbrick '15 with new student Casey Hudacko '17 and Marlo Jappen '16 outside the Paramount Center. (Photo by Dan O'Brien)
There are numerous events for parents and new students throughout the week, including a stand-up comedy show on August 26. Move-in continues through Tuesday, August 27, and an orientation for parents also takes place that day. Pelton plans to meet with students at the Cutler Majestic Theatre on Wednesday, August 28, at 9:45 am.
President Pelton with student volunteers on move-in day, August 26, 2013, outside Piano Row on Boylston Street. (Photo by Dan O'Brien)
There is a full schedule of events for new students on emerson.edu.


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The award-winning Backstage Children's Theatre will premiere "Pirates of the Fourth Grade" today at Breckenridge's Backstage Theatre.
Written by Christopher Willard, Backstage Theatre artistic director, "Pirates of the Fourth Grade" is a "big-budget Hollywood movie onstage," Willard said. The show uses imaginative projections, clever sound effects and suitably spooky supporting movie music.
The show is rated G but recommended for children ages 6 and up because of some intense and spooky scenes. Please note that the show contains strobe lighting, loud noises and fog effects.
In the production, fourth graders Sam and Cameron dig up a pirate's treasure chest and take it to the local museum in search of answers. However, they accidentally open a container in the chest, releasing the long-dormant spirit of dreaded pirate Blackheart, best known as "The Phantom Pirate."
Blackheart takes over the local elementary school, transforming the teachers and staff into his pirate crew as he searches for the elements of a spell that will not only give him new life - but also immortality. Now Sam, Cameron, Hannah (Sam's motor-mouth little sister) and Heathcliff the class hamster must do battle with the pirates to stop Blackheart's evil plan.
"Pirates of the Fourth Grade" stars Chris Boeckx (Denver Post Ovation winner for Best Children's Theatre Actor) as Cameron Jones and Seth Maisel (Backstage's "The Hobbit") as Sam Buchinski. Jon Hans ("The Music Man," "The Wedding Eve") portrays the evil pirate Blackheart.
The show premieres today at 10 a.m., with another performance at 1 p.m. "Pirates of the Fourth Grade" continues throughout July with a number of performance and showtimes.
For a full list of dates and times, visit www.backstagetheatre.org. Tickets are $11 online and $13 by phone or at the box office. To order by phone call (970) 453-0199.
What: Backstage Children's Theatre "Pirates of the Fourth Grade"
When: Today, 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Where: Backstage Theatre, Breck
Details: Tickets $11 online (www.backstagetheatre.org) and $13 by phone or at the box office. To order by phone, call (970) 453-0199.


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Intrinsic factor is an important protein that helps your body absorb vitamin B12. Vitamin B12 is needed for red blood cells to form and grow.
Some people do not make enough intrinsic factor or have a condition that destroys it. If your body does not make enough intrinsic factor, you can develop a type of vitamin B12 deficiency called pernicious anemia.
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I'm still new to Qcad scripting, I've just finished working through the scripting tutorials, I need help to find the function that sets the export path it appears the default path is the Qcad folder.
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PHILADELPHIA -- It wasn't until late in Matt Cain's ninth big league season that he finally became acquainted with the disabled list. Now the longtime staff workhorse can't seem to avoid it.
Cain on Monday was put on the disabled list with irritation in his right elbow, giving him three D.L. trips this season and four since last August 23. This injury is easily the most serious. It's the first that involves his pitching arm. Cain said he was relieved that an MRI came back clean and showed no ligament damage, but he was unable to give a timetable for his return.
"We'll let it calm down and get back to throwing, and we'll go from there," he said.
And when will he throw again?
"I can't tell you when he'll throw," manager Bruce Bochy said. "I don't think we know. This thing can go down in a day or two, or it could linger. I don't know how it will affect him the rest of the season."
That's a scary thought for an organization already looking at numerous leaks to plug as the July 31 trade deadline approaches. For the time being, Yusmeiro Petit will take Cain's rotation spot, and George Kontos -- recalled from Triple-A Fresno -- will fill out the bullpen.
The Giants are hopeful the arrangement doesn't last long, but they don't have any definitive answers. The club discovered in 2010 that Cain has bone chips in his right elbow, and it's said to be a significant amount, hardly surprising since Cain has pitched more than 1,800 big league innings and carried a heavy load in two postseasons. Any cleanup procedure would likely end Cain's season, and he isn't keen on going under the knife in the offseason, either.
"You try to stay away from having surgery," he said. "Everybody has got stuff going on (in the elbow). If you can stay away from surgery, you do. That's the last option. There's no reason to need that step right now. We've got time to let it heal and go that way with it."
While Bochy has said Cain's elbow has been "cranky" since spring training, Cain refused to connect his subpar results to the inflammation. He is 2-7 with a 4.18 ERA in 15 starts and is striking out just seven batters per nine innings pitched, a career low. Cain has thrown at least 184 innings in every full big league season, but he's at just 901/3 thanks to a finger laceration, hamstring strain and this inflammation.
"When you see guys that are able to run out there every fifth day and position players that play all the time, that's something you take pride in," he said. "Some of it is luck, some of it you can't control."
The Giants don't have much control right now. They'll settle for luck.
For more on the Giants, see Alex Pavlovic's Giants Extra blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/Giants. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/AlexPavlovic.


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Early in my research, that strange phenomenon which Carl Jung called synchronicity brought me in touch with the single most amazing Baconian artifact I could have imagined. Most readers are familiar with such surprising events. Suddenly out of nowhere, just at the right time and the right place, some essential object or information will appear, as though a genie had been at work behind the scenes. For me this surprise came in the shape of a strange wooden contraption known as a cipher wheel. On the printed pages affixed to it, in a most ingenious code is recorded the true story of Francis Bacon-an account actually and incredibly written by him in his own words. It is a story that changes the current concept of English history. No longer was guesswork necessary. Now the task was to fit the details of Bacon's life, as the cipher gives it, into accepted records of history. The Shakespeare Code is my attempt to do just that and to explain what the cipher wheel is and why Bacon felt the need to create the ciphers. It is a poignant and tragic tale-but one that ends on an unexpected note of triumph. It is a story that is crying out to be told.
Virginia Fellows
Source: The Shakespeare Code, Pages: 384
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Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. -- Another bag full of donated clothing is about to be added to the growing pile in Amanda Fountain's home.
"I've yet to be able to clean my house by myself with all this," she said, looking around a family room stacked high with donations.
It's been coming in like this since she started a Facebook page three months ago called "Blessing One Another." And that's exactly what it does.
"Any wants or needs that you may have, you can post them on our wall," Fountain said.
"Well, right now we have a lot of furniture needs. We have a lot of bed requests. Kids' clothes are always in need," she said.
Life has not been easy for Fountain. She lost her mother last September and that's when we first met her.
She read to us from her mother's journal: "I was so glad I was still alive, I remember being weak, tired and in pain."
Fountain's mother overcame the same flesh-eating bacteria that nearly cost graduate student Aimee Copeland her life.
"When I woke up, I was terrified nobody in the family was there at the time," she continued reading.
Her mother's illness nearly left the family broke. Amy's three children range from 9 years to just 6 months old.
"You know, my kids before we started it would say, 'Mama, we don't have no clothes -- or it's the same clothes we've had for so long,'" Fountain said.
But instead of giving up, Fountain decided to reach out. She figured there might be other people in the same boat and some who just wanted to help.
"And I just believe that everything happened for a reason. And sometimes, unless you've been through it, you can't help anyone else through it," she said.
Now, her Facebook page has grown to 1,900 members -- reaching from Clinton, S.C., to Burke County, Ga. It's a place where people can post their needs or donate the things they're not using anymore.
"That's supplying one less thing they'll have to buy, which means I know that family can take that money and buy the medicines they need, put food on the table or whatever choice. It's one less thing they have to worry about," she said.
It's left this young mother of three with a better feeling about the future
and how her own need has turned into a blessing for so many others.
"There is no words that can describe the feeling when you're able to turn around and hand a family what they need," Fountain said.


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Young Professionals Winter Gala Raises Over $33,000
NYC celebrity hotspot SL hosted more than 200 young professionals, on the evening of January 7, for the second in the Autism Speaks to Young Professionals (AS2YP) event series, raising over $33,000. The Winter Gala, hosted by event co-chairs Amanda Niederauer and Danny Ryan, offered guests an open bar, delicious appetizers by Abe & Arthur's chef Franklin Becker and dancing to tunes spun by DJs Caleb Loftus and Nick Russo. The hundreds of guests complemented their fashionable attire, and raised autism awareness, by sporting the Autism Speaks puzzle pin.
The inaugural summer event, held at the Stock Exchange, sold out three days before the event and raised over $40,000. Danielle Yango, who attended both events, commented, "It was so great to be at events where everyone there was inspired by and engaged in the reason for being there – to raise autism awareness and to raise funds for Autism Speaks. Despite twenty-somethings not having a lot of money to spare, the event was filled with people wanting to do and give more. Change and improvement only happen when people take action, and this event is a prime example of people actively participating!"
Another guest, committee member Hallie Elsner remarked, "Despite the frigid temperature in New York City, it was amazing to see how many people made it out to support the first event of the year for AS2YP. It was a great way to kick off 2010!" Caite Kappel, another committee member in attendance, agreed, "It was great to have so many passionate people together in one amazing venue. The event went a long way to promote awareness of the disorder and I was thrilled to hear about all the money that was raised. I can't wait for the next event!"
The event, described as "fun," "hip," and "trendy" by the guests in attendance attracted not only people who have a loved one with autism, but people who wanted to learn more about the disorder. Throughout the evening, a presentation on the television screens reinforced the CDC's most recent findings that 1 in 110 children has autism.
Joshua Feldman, an active supporter of Autism Speaks and an ASY2P committee member said, "After participating in both Autism Speaks and AS2YP events, I realize the attendees to both are instrumental in the future of autism awareness and research. I think the AS2YP Winter Gala was extremely successful, because while other events may raise more money near-term, this event opened the eyes of tomorrow's benefactors who can support Autism Speaks and its goals in the future."
Event co-chair, Amanda Niederauer, hopes to expand the success of the Young Professionals events to other cities across the country. Amanda said, "I am so happy that the event was such a huge success. With the statistics so drastically increased to 1 in 110 children, our work is even more important. I think we have a terrific thing started with the Young Professionals series, and it is such an honor to be involved in spreading awareness to the next generation of parents."
Special thanks to our co-chairs, committee members, guests, and sponsors – Manhattan Beer Distributors, Montecastelli Selections, RBS and Alacrity Financial.
Become a fan of AS2YP on Facebook at www.facebook.com/as2yp to stay up-to-date with events and check out event photos by Josh Wong. The AS2YP event series will return to the floor of the New York Stock Exchange this August.
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FREMONT -- Tesla Motors (TSLA) has gobbled up a 35-acre site in Fremont near its automotive factory, apparently to build a test track for its all-electric automobiles.
"The land is attached to the Tesla factory property," said Shanna Hendriks, a spokeswoman for Tesla. "We will use it as we expand our use of the facilities."
Although Tesla didn't provide details about precisely how the land would be used, analysts say it would allow the company to expand an old test track that was built when General Motors and Toyota made cars and pickups there.
"It's a really good idea for Tesla to take over the test track," said Theodore O'Neill, an analyst with Litchfield Hills Research, an investment firm. "Having a big test track will improve the ability of engineers to work out the kinks in new vehicles."
Tesla bought the land Wednesday, Alameda County property records show. The seller was Union Pacific Railroad. Terms weren't disclosed.
The land purchase underscores the momentum that Tesla appears to have captured as the company pushes ahead with its electric vehicle program.
"I'm very bullish on Tesla," Colin Rusch, an analyst with Northland Capital Markets, said in an interview with this newspaper Friday.
Rusch has set a price target of $230 a share for Tesla stock, which closed Friday at $119.68.
"We believe Tesla has demonstrated its ability to manufacture vehicles in an efficient manner," Rusch wrote n a research note Monday. "With additional investment, its current facility could potentially accommodate a run rate of as many as 500,000 vehicles a year."
Tesla's shares have climbed throughout 2013 and have more than quadrupled their value since a previous low point for the stock on Oct. 15. Since the trough of mid-October, the company's stock is up 338 percent.
"I have a lot of confidence in Tesla's ability to execute and confidence in the prowess of their engineers," said Craig Irwin, an analyst with Wedbush Securities.
The big challenge for Tesla, analysts said, is market acceptance of its vehicles.
"Tesla has to convince people to buy a completely different technology as their primary mode of transportation," Irwin said.
Contact George Avalos at 408-373-3556 or 925-977-8477. Follow him at Twitter.com/george_avalos.


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Autism Tissue Program Reaches Milestone 100th Publication
A journal article published this week studying sex-linked hormones in brain is the 100th paper describing results from brain tissue provided by the Autism Tissue Program. Taken together, the 100 papers, all published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, represent a huge advance in our understanding of the brains of individuals with autism.
The first publications were released in 2001 and built on existing evidence of developmental changes in the brain of those with autism. The increase to 100 papers in 10 years mirrors the growth of the brain tissue resource from about 20 brains at the start to currently over 100 brains from individuals with a clear diagnosis of autism, ranging in age from 3 to 60. The papers also show the use of a wide range of specialized resources developed by the Autism Tissue Program including MRI, brain tissue biopsies, genetic material from brain tissue and a large permanent brain library of slides all derived from post mortem brains.
The 100th publication is by Valerie Hu, Ph.D. and colleagues at the George Washington University Medical Center titled: 'Sex hormones in autism: Androgens and estrogens differentially and reciprocally regulate RORA, a novel candidate gene for autism'. The aim of the research, funded in part by Autism Speaks, was to examine a particular sex-linked candidate gene found throughout the human body, including brain tissue. This line of research could provide some rationale for the fact that four times more males are affected with autism than females. Dr. Hu's research shows that both male and female hormones have varying and significant effects on the activity of the RORA gene product. The RORA gene product regulates an enzyme (aromatase) that converts testosterone into estrogen.
This study offers a molecular mechanism for understanding the sex bias towards males by increasing levels of testosterone. This paper is the first report a sex hormone-responsive candidate gene for ASD. RORA is important for the development of a part of the brain called the cerebellum. The cerebellum is involved in controlling some types of movement, but also plays a role in cognitive tasks such as redirecting attention. RORA also serves to protect neurons against inflammation and oxidative stress.
Dr. Hu and colleagues showed that the female hormone estrogen increases the expression of RORA, while the male hormone androgen (dihydrotestosterone) decreases it. Interestingly, the interaction is somewhat circular as RORA regulates the expression of aromatase, an enzyme that converts testosterone to estrogen. According to Dr. Hu, "We observed in the brains of individuals with autism a link between decreased in activity of RORA and a reduction of aromatase activity. This reduced activity would lead to build up of testosterone and a decrease in estrogen."
This study provides a molecular explanation for the higher levels of testosterone observed in some individuals with autism. These findings also suggest a mechanism for the male bias in ASD because female brain tissue may benefit from the protective effects of naturally higher levels of estrogen In addition, the estrogen receptor shares some of the same target genes as RORA, thus compensating for RORA deficiency, which the research team has also observed in some individuals with ASD.
Zeroing in on specific gene effects in the brain is one of several research avenues undertaken by scientists that can only be done through the direct examination of human brain tissue. The value of the study of human brain tissue is the interpretation of the data in the context of the current knowledge about autism. Combined with post mortem imaging and genetic analysis scientists can gain a broader and more thorough understanding of ASD.
Scientists studying brain tissue today need to consider disorders that can co-exist with autism. The Autism Tissue Program takes great care to fully document medical conditions of brain donors. The informatics portal catalogs over sixty disorders or conditions occurring in those with a diagnosis of autism including epilepsy, Fragile X, Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, Duschenne Muscular Dystrophy, Angleman, Rett and Asperger Syndromes and partial duplications or deletions of several chromosomes.
The Autism Tissue Program has emerged as an important resource of not only brain tissue but also as in informational hub of research results from an international group of scientists. None of this work would be possible without the dedication of the families who chose to donate brain tissue of loved ones to the Autism Tissue Program. To register you or your family in the brain donor program, please visit www.autismtissueprogram.org for information and online registration, or call 877-333-0999 for information or to initiate a brain donation.
Click here to view the full list of 100 papers the Autism Tissue Program has made possible.


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Michael Jackson tried to sabotage brother Jermaine's career in the 1980s, Clive Davis writes in his new book "Soundtrack of My Life."
According to Showbiz411, Davis writes that he signed Jermaine Jackson, who went on to score a couple hits "Do What You Do" and "Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming."
Apparently, Michael didn't like the competition.
Davis hired Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and L.A. Reid in the late 1980s to produce Jermaine's fourth album at Arista Records. Michael responded by tying up Babyface for his own projects, keeping him away from Jermaine.
"Jermaine couldn't believe that Michael, his close brother, would hijack his producers' material this way," Davis wrote. At a dinner in Paris, Davis said Jermaine was "crying, indeed sobbing at times, so deeply hurt that his brother would do this to him."
No wonder Tito never became a guitar hero.
Jermaine responded by writing the song "Word to the Badd," which denounced Michael as shallow and selfish. Michael responded by calling Davis and demanding he take the song off of Jermaine's new album.
While Davis found himself in a difficult spot, Jermaine leaked the track.
"I felt it would be wrong for me to tell an artist to take a song off an album," Davis wrote. "This was a family and personal matter that they would need to resolve themselves." Eventually a watered-down version of the song was officially released.
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Vivian M. Chamberlin, 96, a resident of Providence Place, Chambersburg, and formerly of Greencastle, died Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012, in the nursing home. Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Parklawns Memorial Gardens, Chambersburg. Arrangements were made by Harold M. Zimmerman and Son Funeral Home, Greencastle.
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SNOWMASS VILLAGE - A man killed while skiing on Snowmass ski area on Friday has been identified as David Schreitmueller, of Kensington, Md.
The 42-year-old died an accidental death from multiple injuries, according to the Pitkin County Coroner's Office. Schreitmueller collided with a tree on the Coney Glade run and was unresponsive and unconscious when ski patrol arrived.
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what is this app for, I don't know what it does and not sure if I'm using it? Is this an app that works behind the scenes
It works just by Quicktime. I do love VLC.
this app is the shizzle!
@ kaybar:
Maybe you could have checked the developer's website to find out what's the use of Flip4Mac WMV. See this page:
Flip4Mac WMV is a plugin for QuickTime that allows you to play Windows Media (WMV, WMA, etc.) files on your Mac.
Would you please inform this newbie--What does flip 4 Mac Do? Of what use is it?
An easier way to not install Silverlight is to click the "Customize..." button on the last page of the installer and deselecting Silverlight.
seems cool enough
If you don't want Silverlight, simply do this:
1. Select "Flip4Mac WMV.mpkg", right-click (or ctrl+click) on it and select "Show Package Contents"
2. Go down the folder hierarchy into the folder Resources.
3. Just install "Flip4Mac QuickTime Components.pkg" and "Flip4Mac Web
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2.3 version completed beta testing; now an official release.
I second neeklamy's comment re: MS Silverlight. When running the installer package, be sure to click the "Customize" button on the screen for "Installation Type."
This has always been a welcome addition to my Mac, but unfortunately Flip4Mac are starting to bundle Microsoft Silverlight with the download, just take a look at the size of the current beta release (184.108.40.206) - 20.6 MB, Silverlight takes up most of that. The inclusion is mentioned in the installer, but it would be ever so easy to miss.
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Vail official report: 0" new snow overnight, 8" in last week
Vail Daily field report: No new snow this morning, but new openings allowed access to untracked snow
Liftline status: At 9:20 a.m. liftlines were non-existent at Chair 8, and less than 5 mins at the Eagle Bahn Gondola. This was also the case on Saturday, and by noon it was quite crowded. As always, get out early to best enjoy the mountain.
Breakdown: Now that chairs 2 and 3 are up and running, there's plenty of ungroomed terrain open at Vail for powder lovers, and also plenty of nice groomers for those looking to do some easy schooshing.
Snowcast: NOAA is reporting there's chance of snow before 1 p.m. today, then a chance of rain and snow between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., and a chance of snow to follow after 3 p.m.
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Rosalyn Carson-DeWitt, MD
Unfortunately, there are no treatments available to cure scleroderma. Similarly, no treatments have been proven to slow the progression of the disease or modify its course, although a number of medications are often prescribed in the hopes that they will achieve this goal.
Goals of treatment include:
Treatment involves the following:
Surgery is done for complicated cases of scleroderma.
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POSITION: Left Wing
SHOOTS: Left
BIRTHPLACE: Maple Ridge, BC, CAN
DRAFTED: CAR: 2004-4 overall
|Traded to Chicago by Carolina for Tuomo Ruutu, February 26, 2008. Traded to Atlanta by Chicago for Ivan Vishnevskiy and Atlanta/Winnipeg's 2nd round choice (Adam Clendening) in 2011 Entry Draft, July 1, 2010. Transferred to Winnipeg after Atlanta franchise relocated, June 21, 2011.
|2011-12: Tallied 50 points (28G, 22A) after 82 games with the Jets... Played his first game
as a Winnipeg Jet on Oct. 9 vs. MTL (1-5L)… Scored first goal with the Jets on Oct. 15 at PHO
(1-4L)… Earned an assist in his 100th franchise game on Nov. 17 vs. WSH (4-1W)… Scored his
100th career NHL goal on Nov. 25 at CAR (3-1W)… Scored a pair of goals to extend his point
streak to three games on Feb. 21 vs. PHI (4-5OTL)… Scored a pair of goals and recorded
an assist on Feb. 23 vs. TB (4-3W)… Scored two goals, the second his 100th with the Jets
franchise, on Mar. 14 vs. DAL (5-2W)… Scored his 25th of the season, the overtime winner,
on Mar. 30 at CAR (4-3OTW)… scored two goals, including the overtime winner, on Apr. 3 at
FLA (5-4OTW)… Ended season as only Jet to play all 82 games in 2011-12.
2010-11: Leads the team with a career-high 58 points and 28 goals, and ranks third with 30 assists ... Leads Thrashers forwards with 20:04 of average ice time ... Earned an assist and scored the game-deciding goal in the shootout on 3/27 vs. OTT ... Posted 13 points (9g, 4a) in 12 games from 2/13 - 3/12 ... Tallied a season-high three points (2g, 1a), including the OT game-winner, on 3/5 vs. FLA ... Posted a career-high four-game goal streak (5g) from 2/7 - 2/23 ... Scored two unassisted goals on 2/13 vs. CAR ... Named eighth captain in Thrashers history on 11/18 ... Notched 17 points (6g, 11a) in 16 games from 11/6 - 12/10 ... Posted a career-high tying six-game scoring streak (4g, 3a) from 1/2 - 1/15 ... Also had a six-game scoring streak (3g, 5a) from 10/15 - 10/27.
2009-10: Tallied 38 points (17g, 21a) in all 82 games for the Chicago Blackhawks ... One of five Chicago players to appear in all 82 games ... Set a career-high and tied for seventh on the team in goals ... Earned points in three straight games (1g, 3a) from 10/10-10/14, including two assists on 10/12 vs. CGY ... Posted a three-game point streak from 11/15-11/21, earning three points (1g, 2a) during that stretch ... Scored his lone game-winning goal of the season on 1/7 at BOS ... Tallied two points (1g, 1a) on 1/16 at CBJ ... Recorded four points (2g, 2a) during a three-game point streak from 1/26-1/30 ... Skated in his 300th career game on 2/14 at CBJ ... Registered a three-game point streak (4g, 1a) from 3/5-3/10, including his first-career NHL hat trick on 3/7 vs. DET ... Tallied four points (1g, 3a) during a three-game point/assist streak from 4/6-4/9 ... Added six points (3g, 3a) in 19 post-season games, while help the Blackhawks capture the Stanley Cup Championship ... Scored his first post-season goal in Game Five of the Western Confer- ence Quarterfinals on 4/24 vs. NSH ... Registered a three-game point streak (1g, 2a) from 6/4-6/9, including one goal in the Stanley Cup clinching win on 6/9 at PHI.
2008-09: Recorded a career-high 49 points (15g, 34a) while appearing in all 82 games for the Blackhawks ... Set a career-high for assists ... Ranked sixth on the team in points and assists, while sharing seventh in goals ... Chicago posted a 12-0-1 record when he scored a goal ... Ranked second among team forwards and third overall with a plus-26 rating ... Earned three points (2g, 1a) on 11/3 vs. COL ... Recorded seven points (2g, 5a) during a three-game point streak from 12/3-12/7, including a career-high four points and three assists on 12/7 vs. PHX ... Recorded a season-high six-game point streak from 12/12-12/26, earning eight points (2g, 6a) during that stretch ... Tied his career-high with three assists on 12/16 at EDM ... Appeared in his 200th career NHL game on 1/17 vs. STL ... Tallied three points (1g, 2a) on 2/5 at CGY ... Registered four points (1g, 3a) during a four-game point streak from 2/27-3/7 ... Tied his season-high with two goals on 3/25 vs. SJ ... Added four points (3g, 1a) in 17 Stanley Cup Playoff games ... Tallied a post- season high two points (1g, 1a), including the game-winning goal in Game Four of the Western Conference Semifinals on 5/7 vs. VAN.
2007-08: Recorded 30 points (14g, 16a) in 63 games, splitting time between Carolina and Chicago ... Appeared in 43 games with the Hurri- canes, tallying 18 points (9g, 9a) ... Appeared in two American Hockey League games with Albany, scoring one goal ... Scored his first goal of the season on 10/5 vs. PIT ... Scored goals in back-to-back games on 12/20 and 12/22 ... Tallied his first game-winning goal of the season on 2/8 at WSH ... Registered a five-game point streak from 2/8-2/16, posting seven points (3g, 4a) during that stretch ... Scored a season- high two goals on 2/12 at BOS and tallied a season-high two assists on 2/16 vs. FLA ... Traded to the Blackhawks for Tuomo Ruutu on 2/26 and made his Chicago debut on 2/27 vs. PHX ... Scored his first goal in a Blackhawks uniform on 2/28 at DAL and earned points in three straight games (2g, 1a) from 2/28-3/4 ... Tied his season-high with the Blackhawks twice with two assists on 3/9 vs. EDM, as well as one goal and one assist on 3/14 at CBJ.
2006-07: Earned 21 points (11g, 10a) in 65 games with the Hurricanes ... Ranked seventh on the team in goals ... Scored goals in back-to- back games on 11/24 and 11/28 ... Posted a season-high two points (1g, 1a) on 1/20 vs. TB ... Collected a season-high two assists on 3/17 at NJ ... Scored a season-high two goals, including the game-winner, on 3/24 vs. SJ ... 2005-06: Made his NHL debut, tallying 11 points (6g, 5a) in 29 games with Carolina ... Recorded 19 points (11g, 8a) in 25 AHL games with Lowell ... Appeared in his first career NHL game on 11/20 vs. TB ... Scored his first career NHL goal on 11/25 vs. TOR ... Posted a season-high two points (1g, 1a) on 1/23 vs. MTL ... Added five points (2g, 3a) in 17 post-season games, while helping the Hurricanes cap- ture the Stanley Cup Championship ... Earned his first career Stanley Cup Playoff point (1a) on 4/24 vs. MTL ... Scored his first post-season goal on 5/26 at BUF ... Tallied his first post-season game-winning goal in Game Two of the Stanley Cup Finals on 6/7 vs. EDM.
AMATEUR CAREER: Registered 120 points (49g, 71a) in 137 career Western Hockey League games with Vancouver and Calgary from 2001 to 2005 ... Added 18 points (8g, 10a) in 19 WHL post-season games ... 2004-05: Posted 45 points (19g, 26a) in 65 games with Calgary ... Ranked third on the team in points and goals, and was fourth in as- sists ... Tallied 11 points (7g, 4a) in 12 post-season games ... 2003-04: Earned 75 points (30g, 45a) in 71 games with Calgary ... Led the team in goals and points, and ranked second in assists ... Tallied seven points (1g, 6a) in seven WHL playoff games ... 2002-03: Collected 55 points (15g, 40a) in 58 games with Coquitlam of the British Columbia Hockey League ... 2001-02: Made his WHL debut, appearing in one game with the Vancouver Giants.
INTERNATIONAL CAREER: Appeared for Canada at the 2005 World Junior Championship, tallying seven points (3g, 4a) in six games.
CAREER TRANSACTIONS: Selected by Carolina in the first round, fourth overall, of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft ... Acquired by Chicago from Carolina for Tuomo Ruutu on Feb. 26, 2008 ... Acquired by the Thrashers from Chicago for Ivan Vishnevskiy and a second-round selection in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft on July 1, 2010.


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The infamous Fire Alarm Show. This was a pretty wild one. The venue is very nice and ornate. They were used to having plays and symphonies there, hence the 70 year old security women and no smoking of any kind rule.
My friends and I went in the venue and found our seats, which were about fifteen rows back from the stage. I then decided to hit up the bathroom before the show. This was my first indicator that the Cincinnati Music Hall would not know what hit them after this concert. I went in the mens room door and it was a big cloud of smoke! There was a security guard (yes, a 70 year old woman) yelling at the kids to put out their hand rolled cigarettes, and go back to their seats. It was like getting caught by grandma doing something really bad. I thought she was going to start grabbing our ears and taking us to the principal's office. But low and behold, everyone just bolted out and scrambled in different directions.
After this experience I decided to just go back to my seat and take my chances there. The show started. Seconds later the mob of people took all the chairs on the lower floor and stacked them on the ground. At this point Grandma and her cohorts had run for cover. The whole place started filling
up with smoke. It was complete anarchy (but in a wholesome, not-looking-for-real-trouble kind of anarchy). Trust me, I know good Anarchy and bad Anarchy. Ive seen Guns and Roses a couple times.
So as far as the music went, it was good until the middle of Horse. The lights went on and the fire alarm went off. I have two theories about this: there was so much smoke the ire alarm went off, or somebody set it off. Regardless, we were forced to evacuate, even though we all knew darn well there was no fire, or at least not yet.
So we filed outside and all discussed whether the show would go on or not. Then came the announcement that we could go back in. The only good part of this evacuation was that if you didnt have a ticket you could go in for free.
Everyone got back in and the band came back out, and Trey made an announcement: The fire marshal (not Tom) says that if there is any more smoking of any kind, the show will be over. Then the band went into a ripping version of Jimi Hendrixs Fire.
The other part of the show that was pretty memorable to me was the acoustic part. Ginseng Sullivan, BBFCFM reprise, and Dog Faced Boy were a lot of fun to hear acoustic. I think that is the only acoustic BBFCFM I have ever heard, but hopefully not the last.
All in all it was a very chaotic experience. But fun.
Note: During My Friend My Friend, a buddy I went to show with (who was delirious) tried to convince me that he set off the fire alarm with his mind, and Phish was playing My Friend because we were all mad he set off the alarm and messed up the show. He then left the show. If anyone can prove or disprove this, let me know.


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On August 7, 1974 a man stepped out on a thin high wire tied between Manhattan's famous Twin Towers. Phillipe Petit, a skinny French tightrope walker, cast a rope between the two buildings of the World Trade Center with a bow and arrow in the night, and his illegal, crazy but ultimately successful walk between the two iconic buildings would eventually come to be called the art crime of the century.
For Dublin-born writer Colum McCann, 44, Petit's daring 1974 tightrope walk was a jumping off point, irony intended, a way to talk about New York, the Twin Towers and the people of the city and what they mean to him, without instantly conjuring up images of sirens and dust and devastation.
Petit's tightrope walk was all the remove that McCann -- who started out as a journalist for Dublin's Irish Press in 1985 -- needed, the critical distance that gave him the objectivity to write about our own time, our own city, and our own Twin Towers.
Petit's Twin Tower high wire walk
In "Let the Great World Spin" (Random House), McCann writes about Petit's 1974 high wire walk so vividly that at times he produces a sense of looming vertigo -- not only are we astonished at Petit's courage, we also know, behind it all, that the towers themselves will eventually fall.
So reading McCann's book is like looking at a double exposure. You can see the past and the present intermixed, but so deftly that its becomes hard to tell one from the other.
"I have vertigo and I can't walk more than one or two feet in the air," McCann, who now teaches creative writing at New York's Hunter College, tells the Irish Voice and IrishCentral.
"So the idea of standing on a rope a quarter of a mile up in the sky was quite extraordinary to me. Just the weather alone, the wind that's created up there, and the fact that the buildings themselves swayed in the breeze.
"If they swung in the wrong direction or if the wire contracted at any time Petit could have bounced up into the air. He had to get the tension in the ropes right. It's kind of a miracle that everything came together at once and he managed to go from one side to the other. He did it eight times. He even lay down on the wire at one point, which is extraordinary."
Reminders of 9/11
Thinking about the very real possibility of Petit falling reminds us of how much our minds are guided by those people who did fall on 9/11. Even though there were 27 years between the two events, the images linger indelibly. So McCann's new book addresses 9/11 by looking at it askance, from another era.
"That's the perfect way to put it. Many novels, films, poems, screenplays will go to the heart of the matter. Shortly after 9/11 it struck me that meaning was already being structured, it was coming down in a certain way," he says.
"I remember a child's drawing of the two towers holding hands; it was poignant as any work of art. The fact that there was no eyewash on the supermarket shelves on the day after 9/11 seemed to have as much meaning as anything else, I thought. In other words, everything was sort of poignantly connected."
But poignancy and heartache on that scale are not a good place for an artist to be. To rescue himself, McCann went back almost 30 years to see how it instructed the present, to place the Twin Towers back into the city's story was what McCann was thinking of.
"Vietnam folds over, to some extent, Iraq. Questions of faith then fold over to now. Ineffectual presidents are judged, forced to resign," he says.
"So choosing 1974 instead of 2001 was a way to talk about an act of creation rather than destruction. The moment that Petit, the tightrope walker, has is a moment of grace and reconciliation, even a moment of beauty."
McCann as Oisin
In McCann's new book, the opening scene, high up on the wire between the Twin Towers, turns almost reflexively to an imaginary Dublin childhood in the 1950s. It's as if McCann, like Oisin in the old Irish myths, decides to return and briefly touch his native soil to gather himself for the arduous journey ahead of him.
"I wanted to shock myself as much as anything else. I haven't gone back to Dublin for many years in terms of writing a novel, and I loved the transition from being up on the wire and falling back to find yourself on Sandymount Strand," he says.
"It just felt right to me. I kind of wanted to shock myself into examining where all these moments in the novel come from."
McCann's own father-in-law was on the 59th floor of the first tower to be hit (and the second one to come down).
"I still have the dust covered shoes he wore that day. I wrote an article for the Irish Voice and I mentioned them in it. He knew straight away that it was a terrorist attack because he had been there for the previous attack in 1993," McCann says.


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The Realm of Terror Horror Experience is Chicago and Milwaukee's Premier Halloween Attraction. In 2015, thrill seekers and Halloween Enthusiasts alike can expect our biggest and craziest production to date.
Come Experience the Highest-Ever Rated Haunted House in Illinois, having been named #1 by every major Illinois review site.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – Texas A&M - Corpus Christi men's tennis player Aurelien Tave has been named the GoIslanders.com Student-Athlete of the Week, presented by Pepsi. Tave earned the award following his performance on Sunday against No. 14-ranked Texas.
The senior from St. Gilles les Bain, Reunion Island picked up the lone point for the Islanders on Sunday against No. 14 Texas. In No.2 singles, Tave earned a tough, two-set victory over Chris Camillone of the Texas Longhorns. Tave finished with a 7-5, 6-4 win to keep the Islanders from the shutout in their only match of the week.
Tave and the men's tennis team will be in action on today at Southern Miss. with doubles starting at 2 p.m.
Keep up-to-date with GoIslanders.com each week to see who is named the GoIslanders.com Student-Athlete of the week, presented by Pepsi. Also, for the latest information, follow Islanders Athletics on Twitter (@Go_Islanders) and Facebook (Islanders Athletics).
2011-12 GoIslanders.com Student-Athlete of the week, presented by Pepsi Weekly Winners:
9-7-11: Jessica Korda, Volleyball
9-13-11: Brooke Alverson, Volleyball
9-20-11: Patrick Kimeli, Cross Country
9-27-11: Aurelien Tave, Men's Tennis
10-4-11: Isabella Arcidiacono, Volleyball
10-11-11: Nikki Dunn, Women's Golf
10-18-11: Ryann White, Women's Golf; Micah Nolan, Volleyball
10-25-11: Logen Bourque, Volleyball
11-1-11: Logen Bourque, Volleyball
11-8-11: Patrick Kimeli, Cross Country
11-15-11: Patrick Kimeli, Cross Country
11-23-11: Myeisha Myles, Women's Basketball
11-29-11: Myron Dempsey, Men's Basketball
12-6-11: Alisa Roberts, Women's Basketball
12-20-11: Chris Hawkins-Mast, Men's Basketball
1-2-12: Myeisha Myles, Women's Basketball
1-9-12: Johnathan Jordan, Men's Basketball
1-18-12: Zoe Vega-Vega, Women's Basketball
1-30-12: Terence Jones, Men's Basketball
2-12-12: Verne'qua Taylor, Women's Basketball
2-14-12: Aurelien Tave, Men's Tennis


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SAN JOSE -- The Sharks appear to be a mostly healthy group -- with the exception of Adam Burish and possibly Raffi Torres -- going into Thursday's Game 1 of their opening-round playoff series against the Los Angeles Kings.
Torres, who hasn't played since March 8 because of general soreness in his surgically repaired knee, skated for the third straight day Wednesday without any significant issues on a fourth line that included Mike Brown, Bracken Kearns and Andrew Desjardins.
Torres' availability will likely be determined after Thursday's morning skate at SAP Center.
Sharks coach Todd McLellan said he talked to Torres on Tuesday after practice and said Torres "felt better and better. Today, he looked even better. So you can probably interpret that as him being ready. Now, with that being said, I haven't sat with him or met with him after the skate today."
The top line in Wednesday's practice remained intact with Joe Thornton, Brent Burns and Joe Pavelski. Tomas Hertl, who played in the Sharks' two regular-season games and skated with the third line, is also improving, McLellan said.
"Some of that is our mindset. You begin to think of him as a regular player, you don't think of him as an injured guy working his way back in," McLellan said. "If he feels that from us, and from his teammates, it moves him along quicker and further."
"I've played with almost everyone, but it's nice to be able to play with one guy for an extended period of time and create some chemistry, and get to a point where you can read each other and don't have to necessarily talk a lot on the ice," Stuart said. "You just kind of know what's going to happen."
For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak's Working the Corners blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks.