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Dan Moore, certified physician assistant at McLaren-Greater Lansing Internal Medicine, a partner of McLaren Greater Lansing, is treating allergies this week.
Symptoms are: nasal stuffiness, headache, sinus congestion, wheezing, fatigue and itchy, watery eyes.
To treat allergies, take over-the-counter antihistamines. If those don't work, or if your allergies are more severe, see a doctor.
Moore is also treating upper respiratory infections this week.
Symptoms include: nasal congestion, runny nose, sore or scratchy throat, sneezing, coughing, itchy eyes, fatigue and headache. Kids sometimes have a fever.
Viral upper respiratory infections usually last a week or two.
Take acetaminophen or ibuprofen for fever control and pain relief, and try over-the-counter antihistamines, decongestants or cough medications.
You can use a vaporizer or humidifier to help with congestion.
See a doctor if you have a high fever or increased pain in the face or upper teeth.
Upper respiratory infections are usually contagious and can spread from coughing, sneezing or touching.


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SAN MATEO -- Despite being on the short end of the matchup in terms of size and athleticism, the Aragon basketball team led nearly all the way.
But Vanden went on an 11-2 run to close the game after Aragon point guard Alex Manu fouled out with 1:15 left and pulled out an 88-85 victory in the CIF Northern California Division III basketball playoffs.
"Manu is an outstanding player," Vanden coach Micheal Holloway said. "He was giving us trouble all night. Emotionally it gave us a lift when he fouled out."
Aragon (20-10) was holding on to an 83-77 lead when the senior point guard, who scored 26 points, picked up his fifth foul. Vanden (20-11) immediately started pressing and forcing turnovers, tying the score 85-85 on a free throw with 31 seconds left and taking the lead on another foul shot with 28 seconds left.
"You don't realize what he does for the team until he's gone," said Aragon coach Sam Manu, Alex's father.
Toby Liebergesell led Aragon with 29 points. His two free throws were the last points Aragon scored, giving the Dons an 85-80 lead with just under a minute left.
Kevin Hahn, Aragon's tallest player at 6-foot-3, scored 15. But Aragon's lack of depth hurt, especially after Kono Filimoehala-Egan, the team's 5-10 center, underwent shoulder surgery after the team's 94-93 triple-overtime win over Aptos in the Central Coast Section semifinals.
Vanden, with 6-8 Jansen Smith and 6-7 Jihad Woods pounding the boards, got multiple shots time after time.
"They got a lot of easy baskets," Manu said. "Their athleticism hurt us. It's hard to simulate, but then it was hard for them to simulate what we do."
Aragon pushed the ball at every opportunity, even after made baskets.
"We knew they'd play that way due to the size discrepancy," Holloway said.
But the Dons fell just short.
"This team is all heart with a lot of skill," Manu said. "Maybe not a lot of athleticism, but if you want us to play some ball, we're ready."
Half Moon Bay 67, Marshall 39: Case Dufrane and Corey Cilia scored 16 points apiece for Half Moon Bay, which will host Fortuna on Saturday in the Division IV quarterfinals.
Sacred Heart Prep 56, Colfax 52: Corbin Koch scored 19 points, and James McLean had 13 as the Gators held on for the Division IV victory.
Girls basketball
Eastside Prep 73, Central Catholic 13: Eastside Prep, using a full-court press early, opened a 23-4 lead after one quarter then cruised to the Division V win.
Alexus Simon led all scorers with 22 points, contributing a game-high 13 rebounds and three steals. Brije Byers scored 20 of her 21 points in the first half. Destiny Graham scored 20 points, with seven boards, four steals and a block.
-- John Reid, MediaNews
Cardinal Newman 47, Menlo School 35: The Knights trailed 21-20 at halftime but were unable to prevent the visitors from pulling away in the second half of the Division IV game.

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HOUSTON – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi Men's Tennis team bounced back from its first loss in nearly a month on Saturday morning, taking a 4-0 final over Radford on day two of the Rice Team Invitational at Jake Hess Tennis Stadium.
The Islanders (8-6) started the match with a win in doubles and never looked back, not losing a point during day two of the invitational. Radford (3-7) battled host team Rice to a 4-2 loss on the opening day of the tourney.
Peter Nagy and Gergo Weidinger came out blazing in doubles action, winning 8-2 at No. 1 to give their team an advantage in the battle for the point. Andrew Maingot and Matt Westmoreland earned a very tough match and clinched the doubles for the Islanders with a 9-8 (-) win at No. 3 for the early 1-0 lead. Guillaume Rauseo and Odon Barta were deadlocked into a 7-7 match at No. 2 when play was stopped.
Nagy made it a 2-0 lead for Texas A&M – Corpus Christi when he picked up a 6-4, 6-2 final at No. 1 singles. Rauseo put his team on the brink of clinching, picking up an identical 6-4, 6-2 final at the No. 6 match to make it 3-1.
Westmoreland closed out the contest at No. 2 singles, winning a tough 7-5, 6-2 final to complete the 4-0 win.
Next up for the team is a Sunday finale against host Rice at 12 p.m. on the courts at the Hess Tennis Stadium. Live stats will be available through www.RiceOwls.com.
For all the latest on Islanders Tennis, like the team on Facebook (IslandersTennis), follow them on Twitter (@IslandersTennis) and visit www.GoIslanders.com.
Tennis Match Results
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi vs Radford
03/16/13 at Houston, Texas
#53 Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 4, Radford 0
Singles competition:
1. #103 Peter Nagy (AMCC) def. SAYER, Nicholas (RADM) 6-4, 6-2
2. DEHAEN, Thomas (RADM) vs. Gergo Weidinger (AMCC) 6-4, 5-2, unfinished
3. Matt Westmoreland (AMCC) def. MILLS, Joe (RADM) 7-5, 6-2
4. MEULEMANS, Stijn (RADM) vs. Ricardo Mayagoitia (AMCC) 7-6 (7-4), 2-2, unfinished
5. O'KEEFE, Patrick (RADM) vs. Javier Pujol (AMCC) 3-6, 1-6, unfinished
6. Guillaume Rauseo (AMCC) def. CARTER, Randall (RADM) 6-4, 6-2
Doubles competition:
1. Peter Nagy/Gergo Weidinger (AMCC) def. DEHAEN, Thomas/MEULEMANS, Stijn (RADM) 8-2
2. SAYER, Nicholas/MILLS, Joe (RADM) vs. Odon Barta/Guillaume Rauseo (AMCC) 7-7, unfinished
3. Matt Westmoreland/Andrew Maingot (AMCC) def. O'KEEFE, Patrick/CARTER, Randall (RADM) 9-8
Match Notes:
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 8-6; National ranking #53
Radford 3-7
Order of finish: Doubles (1,3); Singles (1,6,3)


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The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi men's basketball team continues its road trip with a visit to Thibodaux to take on Nicholls in a pivotal early-season conference contest. Both teams sit 4-1 in league play, tied with Sam Houston State for second place in the Southland standings.
• During conference season, eight different players have posted double-digit scoring efforts, with all eight averaging at least 5.0 points per game.
• John Jordan had his fifth and sixth 20-point games last week, and is averaging a team-best 17.2 points per game in league play.
• The Islanders have been beasts in the paint in the conference, averaging 41.2 points in the paint with three games over 40.
• Joy Williamson is quietly averaging 10.8 points in league play and is yet to miss a free throw in Southland contests (12-for-12)
• The 101 points scored by the Islanders were the most since scoring 107 against Nicholls on Feb. 8, 2007. Six different players finished in double figures against Northwestern State, the first time since 2006.
• The Islanders took part in a 10-day, four-game tour of Italy in August, a trip that allowed them 10 extra days of practice prior to the tour.
• Though Coach Wilson has his most experienced team with the Islanders, only five players have more than one year of Division I playing experience (Ali, Knowles, Jordan, Douvier, King).
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi split the season series with Nicholls last year, falling in the game at Thibodaux but knocking off the Colonels at the American Bank Center. In the first game, Nicholls jumped out to a big lead, then held off a late Islanders charge to win 69-62. All-Southland performer Fred Hunter had a big game, going 8-for-10 from the field for 19 points to go along with four rebounds and four assists.
In the second game between the teams, the Islanders knocked off the Colonels on senior night at the American Bank Center, 68-64. Will Nelson had a double-double with 23 points and 12 rebounds, while John Jordan scored 16 points and dished out nine assists. Hunter again had the bulk of the damage with 25 points and nine rebounds.
The Islanders won the first four meetings against the Colonels before losing three in a row between 2011 and 2013. The victory in the home finale last year was the first win against Nicholls in the Willis Wilson era, and represented the fourth time in eight games that the contest against Nicholls was decided by less than five points.
The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi men's basketball team got off to a blistering start and rode the momentum to a 77-61 victory over McNeese State on Thursday at Burton Coliseum. The Islanders improved to 4-1 in Southland play with the win – including a 3-0 road record – while McNeese is now 3-2 in the league.
Zane Knowles led all scorers with 16 points and added nine rebounds to lead three players in double figures for the Islanders. John Jordan (12 points) and Joy Williamson also topped 10 points for the road squad. Jake Kocher matched a career high with eight rebounds and added seven points and three assists, while Rashawn Thomas added nine points and six boards.
Desharick Guidry was the only player in double digits for McNeese, scoring 11 points. He nabbed a team-best five rebounds in the loss, as the Islanders won the battle of the boards, 37-25.
In the first half, A&M-Corpus Christi went 18-of-28 from the field (.643) as opposed to McNeese's 7-of-27 (.259).
Among all the impressive stats that the Islanders racked up in the win over Central Arkansas, perhaps none was more telling than the fact that the team piled up 50 points in the paint. Of the 26 field goals the Islanders registered inside the arc, 25 of those came in the paint - the lone exception a long two from Brandon Pye.
Against Oral Roberts, it was another strong performance inside, with 32 points in the paint (14 from Rashawn Thomas). Northwestern State provided another stellar inside performance, with nine different players recording points in the paint for a total of 48. Even against SFA, which is incredibly strong inside on defense, the Islanders posted 34 points in the paint. Of the 77 points A&M-Corpus Christi scored, 42 came in the paint.
The Islanders have had at least 20 points in the paint in each of the last 14 contests and are averaging 41.2 points in the paint in league play. The 5-foot-10 John Jordan currently leads the Islanders with 126 (see chart on page 5 for full breakdown).
John Jordan is only a junior for the Islanders basketball team, but he's the most experienced player on the roster and one of the favorites for Southland Conference Player of the Year. The Houston native was named Preseason First Team All-Southland Conference by the league's coaches.
He leads the team and is sixth in the league with his 15.8 points per game, while his 4.5 assists are second. Despite his 5-foot-10 frame, he has also pulled in 4.9 boards per game. He has posted 20 points or more on six occasions, five assists or more nine times and at least five rebounds in 11 games this year.
But the Oral Roberts contest showed he may be at his best when not being the go-to scorer. He had just seven points, but dished out six assists and commanded the offense to the signature victory of the Willis Wilson era. It was somewhat similar in the win over Northwestern State, as he ran the offense efficiently and was the principal architect of the press break that saw the Islanders commit just 10 turnovers in 75 offensive possessions.
Jordan did get 22 points against the Demons, but did so mostly on his ability to get to the free-throw line, where he went 11-for-16. He added 24 points (10 at the line) against SFA. On the year, he has gotten to the line 10+ times on six occasions and has hit at least 10 at the line four times. He is 107-for-154 on free throws this year.
It's hard not to be impressed when looking at the numbers that the 5-foot-10 Jordan put up last season. Jordan was second in the league in assists (5.5 per game) and 12th in the league with 12.8 points per game. His 5.5 assists per game were 39th in Division I.
Jordan broke the school record with 138 assists as a freshman, then bested his own mark with 159 as a sophomore. With 374 career assists, he is now second in school history and closing on Brian Evans' 493.
After being one of just five upperclassmen on the roster a year ago, Joy Williamson enters his second year as an Islander as one of just three seniors on the squad in 2013-14. The Oklahoma City native finished third on the Islanders in scoring a year ago, netting 8.3 points per game. He has been among the Islanders' leaders in minutes the last two years, but has had significantly better numbers coming off the bench.
In his career, coming off the bench Williamson is averaging 9.5 points per game (209 in 22 games). When he is in the starting lineup, Williamson has averaged just 6.8 points per contest (143 in 21 games). His 99 bench points on the season are best on the Islanders.
He had a strong start to his conference season. Against Central Arkansas, he went 5-for-8 from the field for 12 points, adding six rebounds and three assists. He was tremendously efficient against NW State, scoring 14 points in 14 minutes on 5-for-5 shooting. He added 10 points at McNeese State, giving him at least nine points in every league contest. He is averaging 10.8 per game in league play and is yet to miss a free throw (12-for-12) in Southland action.
The native of Oklahoma City played two years at Redlands Community College under current Islanders assistant coach Yaphett King.
With Rashawn Thomas' putback layup, the Islanders cracked the 100-point barrier against Northwestern State on Thursday. It marked the 15th time in school history that the team has finished in triple figures (ninth time against a Division I school). The last game with over 100 points for the Islanders came against Nicholls on Feb. 8, 2007 – a 107-91 win over the Colonels.
It was also far and away the most points scored in the Willis Wilson era, besting the previous high of 82, coming in an overtime loss to UTSA in 2012. The previous high in a regulation game for the Islanders was the 81 scored at Central Arkansas a week ago.
The Islanders have seen an improvement on the offensive end with the advent of conference play. A&M-Corpus Christi has topped 70 points in each of its five conference contests and is currently fourth in the league with an average of 80.0 in league play. The Islanders are 10th overall with 69.1 points per game on the year.
Part of the offensive improvement can be attributed to remarkable efficiency. The Islanders are shooting .524 from the field in conference play, 40 percent better than Sam Houston State, which is in second place. Likewise, the Islanders have turned the ball over 10 times or fewer in each of the last four games after turning the ball over 19 times in the conference opener at Central Arkansas.
Freshman Rashawn Thomas was one of the most electrifying players for the Islanders over the summer. During the team's trip to Italy, he had a double-double in each of the team's four games.
But the fates turned another direction for Thomas. The Oklahoma City native fractured his jaw on Nov. 7, the day before the Islanders' first game of the year against Huston-Tillotson. He missed the first nine games of the season.
Any doubts about the 6-foot-7 forward being tentative were instantly alleviated. Thomas missed his first two shots, but converted his first career points at the 8:25 mark. By the time the dust had settled in the game, the freshman had 12 points, 10 rebounds, three blocks and two steals. He became the first Islander freshman with a double-double in his debut since Corey Lamkin had 16 points and 15 rebounds against Sul Ross State on Nov. 16, 2001.
He has had some struggles with foul trouble, but he has come out with a fury in his first five conference games. At Central Arkansas, he posted a career-high 18 points on 8-for-11 shooting and blocked four shots while snaring eight rebounds.
At Oral Roberts, he one-upped himself, posting his second career double-double with 15 points, 12 boards and two blocks in leading the Islanders to the upset victory. He added 10 points, seven boards and two blocks against Northwestern State in just 18 minutes. In league play, Thomas is averaging 11.4 points per game, 7.2 rebounds and 1.8 blocks. He is shooting .610 from the field in conference.
Thomas was a McDonald's All-America nominee and was named City Player of the Year his senior season at Southeast HS.
An impressive attribute of the Islanders' four conference wins has been the ability to grab a lead and maintain it. Over 160 minutes of league play in those contests, the Islanders have held an edge on the scoreboard for a total of 132:17. Furthermore, the team has led for every second after halftime.
A&M-Corpus Christi led for the final 30:45 of the Oral Roberts game, the last 30:09 of the Northwestern State victory and the final 28:45 against Central Arkansas. In the win over McNeese State, it was even more extreme, as the Islanders took the lead on John Jordan's free throws just 13 seconds in and never gave it back. Holding a lead at halftime has been paramount to the Islanders' success on the year – the team has led at half in all seven of its victories this season.
The contrast in the SFA game could not have been more stark. The Islanders led for a total of just 20 seconds - from 16:11 to 15:51 of the first half.


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William Thomas White of Weed passed away at his home on Dec. 10, 2012. He was 61 years old.
William was born on Oct. 24, 1951 in San Francisco. He moved to Siskiyou County in 1980. He was an auto mechanic.
Survivors include his wife Fran of Weed, his sons Jason S. White of Anderson and Jesse J. White of Weed, his daughter Snow K. White-Nelmes of Grenada and five grandchildren. He is also survived by his brother Jimmy W. White of Mount Shasta.
Private services will be held. Memorial contributions can be made to the 700 Club or Operation Blessing.
The Mt. Shasta Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
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STAFFORD COUNTY — Need help in paying your heating and electric bills? You can apply for assistance through the 2012-2013 Low Income Home Heating Program (LIHEAP), available until April 30.
Anyone who needs help paying their heating bills can make an appointment and apply for the program. Electrical assistance is also available for those who qualify.
The only way to know if you qualify is to make an appointment by contacting Community Action Partnership of Strafford County at 603-516-8126 or 603-516-8191.
With our centralized scheduling system, we can make an appointment for you at any of our outreach offices in Dover, Farmington and Rochester
Learn more at www.straffordcap.org
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Definition of concordant in English:
1In agreement; consistent: the answers were roughly concordant
More example sentences
- Ends and means are concordant and, indeed, explicitly so, with every step toward the outcome a faithful miniature of the larger program.
- As an English major you hit a concordant note with me.
- And it does seem to me that art and love are concordant facets of one truth of salvation.
1.1 Geology Corresponding in direction with the planes of adjacent or underlying strata.
Example sentences
- East Uralian Zone host rocks surrounding the Dzhabyk batholith have an overall east-dipping foliation that, near the batholith, are concordant with the contact.
- One of the tips yields a concordant analysis with an Ordovician age of 495 Ma.
- However, a true concordant relation between the uppermost Jurassic and the lowest Cretaceous sequences is in principle only found locally, and is restricted to the deepest parts of the basin.
1.2 Medicine (Of twins) inheriting the same genetic characteristic, such as susceptibility to a disease.
Example sentences
- The contribution of genetics in handedness has been supported by studies of families of concordant twins and adopted individuals.
- Emphasizing inherited components by studying concordant or discordant patient pairs with extreme phenotypes, we were able to detect associations of residual chloride conductance and of modifier genes with the CF phenotype.
- There have been some recent studies using twins which show that there's a higher rate in the concordant, identical twins than in the discordant twins.
1.3 Music In harmony.
Example sentences
- He showed that 31-degree equal temperament, with degrees of 38.7¢, gave an excellent rendition of the concordant intervals.
- Harmony can be concordant, with all pitches 'agreeing' with each other, or it can be dissonant, creating a sense of tension.
- The carillon originated in the 12th century in the Low Countries when people wanted not only to make beautiful bells, but also to achieve a sonorous and concordant sound.
concordantly adverb
- Example sentences
- In the garter snake Thamnophis elegans, strength of chemosensory responses changes concordantly with dietary preferences over the geographic range, and diet and response are heritable.
- This is in contrast to the pattern observed in eutherian mammalian herbivores, in which 'ungulate' morphological diversity increased gradually and concordantly with taxonomic diversity (pattern C).
- As supplementary Tables 3 and 4 show, many ESTs from the same TIGR contig were upregulated concordantly.
Late 15th century: via Old French from Latin concordant- 'being of one mind', from the verb concordare (see concord).
Words that rhyme with concordantaccordant, discordant, mordant, mordent
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Unleashing his killer instinct, Klay Thompson hit the game-winning shot for the Warriors that doubled as a strong statement.
Thompson's fadeaway with six-tenths of a second left lifted the Warriors to a 98-96 win Tuesday against Eastern Conference-leading Indiana and showed they can win in difficult circumstances without simply relying on Stephen Curry.
It was Thompson who got the ball for the designed final shot, backed down smaller Indiana guard George Hill and was good with the turnaround.
"That's why you play -- to fight, to score to win," Thompson said. "It was a lot of fun, especially winning on the road, silencing a crowd.
"It proves to people I can make that shot. I wanted that shot."
Thompson poured in 16 of his 25 points in the fourth quarter while Curry sat for a large chunk of the final period in which he committed three turnovers as the Pacers erased a 13-point Warriors lead.
Two of those turnovers came during the Pacers' 12-0 run to tie the score at 94. Curry then stepped out of bounds with 46.1 seconds left and the score tied at 96, making it seven fourth-quarter turnovers over the past two games.
"I owe Klay about seven dinners," said Curry, who finished with 19 points, eight rebounds and six assists as his backcourt mate caught fire.
Indiana's David West scored a game-high 27 points, including picking Curry's pocket for a steal and dunk in the fourth to lead the comeback. Paul George added 26 but missed 3-pointers in the Pacers' final two possessions as his shot at the buzzer went off the back iron. He helped play solid defense on Curry late in the game.
"If a team is going to try to take away our best player, then you've got to make them pay the price," Warriors coach Mark Jackson said. "And I thought for a stretch there, we got a little tentative, expecting Steph to bring it home. You've got to go and make plays. You can't sit and watch, and the game turned when we began to do that."
The Warriors clung to a 75-72 lead when Thompson began his scoring spree, pouring in 14 of the next 17 points while the team's second unit was on the floor making contributions in what Jackson called "a thing of beauty." Draymond Green had 10 points, seven rebounds and three assists, while Harrison Barnes had 10 points and five rebounds. Jermaine O'Neal had seven points, four rebounds and two blocks in 30 minutes.
"When we don't know what to do offensively, go to Steph," Green said. "When nobody else can hit a shot, go to Steph. He picks us up all the time.
"When he's struggling like he did in the fourth quarter, it's critical for us to back him. Because if we don't, we lose that game."
The Warriors scored a signature win on their six-game trip and can clinch a winning trip with a victory Wednesday at Boston. They became the only Western Conference team to earn road wins this season against Indiana and Miami, the top two teams in the Eastern Conference.
"With all due respect to those teams, when we play our best basketball, we can beat anybody," Jackson said. "The problem is, if we don't, we can be beaten by anybody."
Thanks to Thompson, the Warriors snapped a six-game losing streak in games played at Indiana and did it with the crowd fired up over the Pacers' hopes for a comeback win.
"We can't just put everything on Steph's shoulders," Thompson said. "It's too much for him. He already does so much for this team that we've got to get him a break sometimes. He's our engine that makes us go, so we've got to help him out as much you can."
For more on the Warriors, see the Inside the Warriors blog at ibabuzz.com/warriors. Follow Diamond Leung on Twitter at twitter.com/diamond83.
Warriors (37-24) at Boston
(20-40), 4:30 p.m. CSNBA
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A look at the Warriors'
game-winning shots made in the final 5 seconds this season:
Date Opp. Player
Nov. 14 OKC Andre Iguodala
Dec. 11 DAL Stephen Curry
Jan. 3 @ATL Andre Iguodala
Jan. 10 BOS Stephen Curry
Tuesday @IND Klay Thompson


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EUPORA – Randall Davis Buford Sr., 60, died Monday, Jan. 20, 2014, at Regency Select Hospital in Meridian. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23, at Mathiston First Baptist Church. Burial will be in Sapa Cemetery in Webster County. Wise-Reed Funeral Home of Eupora is in charge of arrangements. Visitation will be from […]
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The Stockton Art League Elsie May Goodwin Gallery hosted a reception recently for Janis Pastore Smith's exhibition of oil paintings.
Her landscapes are inspired by her travels through Italy and by many trips into the Sierra Nevada and seaside areas in and around Pacific Grove. The exhibition will be on display throughout November.
The gallery is at 1902 Pacific Ave., Stockton. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Information: (209) 466-6604.
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SNOWMASS VILLAGE - If there's one thing we anticipate most about Westin's arrival to Snowmass, it's the addition of new slopeside dining options that kick us out of our veteran comfort zones and hurl us into a short-lived life of a restaurant virgin. The glistening floors, the freshly sanded barstools, the untapped kegs of beers we've never heard of, a whirlwind of new hearty tastes for the famished skier, and a brand new staff of service folks waiting to respond at the lift of a finger. Sure, we'll have to coexist with the crowds of hungry tourists scraping their ski boots across the polished oak floors and desperately waving down a nonchalant bartender for a drink, but that's OK: We will go because we are locals, and it's our duty to look after the new kids in town.
One place in particular, the New Belgium Ranger Station, merits not only a cold slopeside beer, but also a quick bite on the patio before clicking back in on the hill. Under the direction and ownership of Patrick Wasserman, the Ranger Station will operate independently of the Westin and cater to a culture of beer drinkers from all over the world.
With a soft opening the week of Thanksgiving, offering a 10 percent discount on beers for locals, Wasserman discusses the approach behind the Ranger Station and his anticipation for a successful season.
Snowmass Sun: What exactly is the inspiration behind the New Belgium Ranger Station?
Patrick Wasserman: I've always been thoroughly inspired by New Belgium Brewing, of Fort Collins. A lot of people are familiar with the brewery, but they aren't necessarily familiar with the culture behind it. It's in my interest to bring an affiliate bar that will share their values and integrate ideals of sustainability, community and fun.
SS: What varieties of beer and food options can we expect to see at the Station?
PW: We will offer 10 beers on tap and 11 varieties of New Belgium, from Fat Tire and Ranger IPA to the more esoteric, limited release beers of the Lips of Faith series. The beer offerings will be accompanied by a full bar along with a menu of beer-focused food pairings consisting of soups, sandwiches, waffles and pretzels.
SS: What kind of clientele do you hope to cater to most?
PW: I think we sit somewhere between casual and upscale, and by that we hope to bring a large diversity of locals and tourists from all over under a common passion and understanding for good beer.
SS: Do you expect to offer any kind of entertainment this season, aside from the satisfaction of tasty brews?
PW: Yes. We plan to use the amenities of the Westin, including the patio, on-slope stage, fire pit and outdoor heating. Snowmass Hospitality will offer s'mores by the fire for kids twice a week, and I also plan to host musical entertainment throughout the season. We will have a 70-inch projector inside for the showings of games and movies as well.
SS: What are the operating hours for the season, and what do you look forward to the most?
PW: We will be open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday, and 11 a.m. to midnight Thursday through Saturday. I look forward to a season of fun with tourists and locals who will hopefully identify the Ranger Station as a favorite place to hang out with friends over local beers and good eats.


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Summit County, along with the state of Colorado, is entering into its second year of drought. This has aversely affected the snowpack, which is at below-average levels throughout the state, according to a report by the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
The statewide snowpack is at 72 percent of the average for this time of year and 90 percent from last year. For Summit County, in the Colorado basin, snowpack is only at 67 percent of the average for February and 89 percent of where it was last year. This means that the Colorado basin currently has just over half of the amount of snow it should have and just over 10 percent less than it had at the same time last year.
Colorado is not seeing the snowstorms it needs to alleviate the powder deficit. The entire state has been experiencing high-level drought conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor website. Exceptional Drought (D4) has crept across the Eastern Plains, while Summit County is engulfed in red at the Extreme Drought (D3) level.
"When we start stringing drought years back to back, that's when you start having problems across the state," said Wendy Ryan, research associate at the Colorado Climate Center at Colorado State University. "The odds are definitely stacked in favor of having a below-normal snowpack year again."
The pattern of snowfall has been acting differently this year, Ryan said. In the past, snowfall has been continual, with small amounts falling in between big storms. Recently, however, periods of dryness and no snow have come sandwiched between the larger snowstorms.
"That's really what sets us back. We should be accumulating about an inch of water a week in the mountains," said Ryan, but that hasn't been happening.
One of the factors affecting the weather across the state is the fact that Colorado is currently in a "neutral zone," meaning it's not experiencing either of the La Nina or El Nino phenomena.
"Typically when we have a strong La Nina or El Nino, that means certain things for our state. This sort of neutral is kind of unknown and hasn't happened for eight or nine years," said Mage Hultstrand, assistant snow surveyor supervisor at the NRCS center in Denver.
The lack of the driving force of the El Nino or La Nina weather patterns can make it harder for forecasters to predict the weather. Some have termed this the "no nino" condition.
The below-average snowpack will directly affect streamflow forecasts and reservoir storage, according to the NRCS report. Although last year was a drought year, the reservoirs were full from the previous year, which was exceptionally wet. As the drought continues and potentially worsens this year, reservoirs haven't been able to return to full levels and are lowering.
Statewide reservoir storage is at 70 percent of the average for this time of year. Colorado basin's reservoir storage, which includes Summit County, is at 67 percent of average and 59 percent of where it was last year. As of January, Dillon Reservoir is at 68 percent capacity, compared to last year's 96 percent.
"We don't have that cushion of having a previous really wet year to fill our reservoir. We've lost that and we need to replenish that storage," Hultstrand said. "Really to come out of that, we need at least an average snowpack this year. So far we're not there. We have a couple months left and we hope we get it."
Snowfall during the Christmas season and end of January helped, said Ryan, but storms will need to continue to alleviate the drought. An approaching storm this weekend looks promising.
"We're looking at about an inch of liquid throughout the heart of the Rocky Mountains," Ryan said.
"We're excited to keep that snowpack growing," she added. "We'll take anything we can get."


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This kid-sized tote is ready for an Independence Day picnic. It's just the right size for a juice box and a small snack!
Watch all your favorite shows weekdays on Nick Jr.
From the red and white plastic bags, cut several 1-inch-wide strips. (Don't worry if the strips end up wider or skinnier.)
From the cardstock, cut two circles about 2 inches in diameter. Cut holes in the centers of them to create a donut shape. Stack the donuts, aligning their center holes. (They don't have to match perfectly.)
Starting in the hole, wrap the strips over the outer ring of the donut and back through the hole. Repeat until you've wrapped the entire the donut several times. (A good way to know if you've wrapped it enough is to continue until the donut hole is halfway full.) If, as you�re wrapping, a strip runs out, just add in another one without knotting it. Don't worry if your donut looks loose and messy. You'll trim it later.
Snip a 6-inch piece of string. Set aside. Slip the tip of the scissors between the strands and then snip around the circumference to reveal the cardstock donuts. Holding the snipped pieces carefully, pass the snipped length of yarn between the two donut pieces, wrapping it around the "hole." Pull tightly and then tie in a double knot. You will have a tail of string left over. Do not snip. You'll need it to add the pom pom to the handles of the tote.
With the scissors, trim the pom-pom until it is about half the size that it was when you first finished it.
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Using the tail of string, tie one pom-pom to each handle of the tote.
Glue a length of ribbon down the center of the bag. Glue two more pieces of ribbon to the bottom edge of the bag. Let dry.


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Contractors working for the Missouri Department of Transportation will begin replacing the Gasconade River bridge on Route D in Phelps County near Jerome Tuesday, July 9.
The bridge will be completely closed during the work. Detours will be in place. The bridge is scheduled to reopen in mid-August before Newburg school begins holding fall classes.
"The project involves not only replacing the bridge, but realigning a small portion of the roadway. This project will improve the safety of the crossing and the roadway," said MoDOT resident engineer Dennis Krenning.
J.C. Industries, Inc., of Jefferson City, was awarded the bid for the project in the amount of $397,778.
During the closure, MoDOT is suggesting travelers use Route 28 and Interstate 44 around the bridge. The detour length is about 28 miles.
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As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC or Commission) requests comments on a proposed extension of approval, for a period of 3 years from the date of approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), of a collection of information from manufacturers and importers of children's sleepwear. This collection of information is in the Standard for the Flammability of Children's Sleepwear: Sizes 0 through 6X and the Standard for the Flammability of Children's Sleepwear: Sizes 7 through 14 and regulations implementing those standards. See 16 CFR parts 1615 and 1616. The children's sleepwear standards and implementing regulations establish requirements for testing and recordkeeping by manufacturers and importers of children's sleepwear.
The Commission will consider all comments received in response to this notice, before requesting an extension of approval of this collection of information from OMB.
The Office of the Secretary must receive comments not later than December 3, 2012.
You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CPSC-2013-0002, by any of the following methods:
Submit electronic comments in the following way:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
To ensure timely processing of comments, the Commission is no longer accepting comments submitted by electronic mail (email), except through www.regulations.gov.
Submit written submissions in the following way:
Mail/Hand delivery/Courier (for paper, disk, or CD-ROM submissions), preferably in five copies, to: Office of the Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Room 502, 4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone (301) 504-7923.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name and docket number for this notice. All comments received may be posted without change, including any personal identifiers, contact information, or other personal information provided, to http://www.regulations.gov. Do not submit confidential business information, trade secret information, or other sensitive orprotected information electronically. Such information should be submitted in writing.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or comments received, go to http://www.regulations.gov.
For further information contact: Robert H. Squibb, Consumer Product Safety Commission, 4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; (301) 504-7815, or by email to: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Children's sleepwear in sizes 0 through 6X, manufactured for sale in or imported into the United States, is subject to the Standard for the Flammability of Children's Sleepwear: Sizes 0 through 6X (16 CFR Part 1615). Children's sleepwear in sizes 7 through 14 is subject to the Standard for the Flammability of Children's Sleepwear: Sizes 7 through 14 (16 CFR part 1616). The children's sleepwear flammability standards require that fabrics, seams, and trim used in children's sleepwear in sizes 0 through 14 must self-extinguish when exposed to a small open-flame ignition source. The children's sleepwear standards and implementing regulations also require manufacturers and importers of children's sleepwear in sizes 0 through 14 to perform testing of products and to maintain records of the results of that testing. 16 CFR Part 1615, subpart B; 16 CFR part 1616; subpart B. The Commission uses the information compiled and maintained by manufacturers and importers of children's sleepwear to help protect the public from risks of death or burn injuries associated with children's sleepwear. More specifically, the Commission reviews this information to determine whether the products produced and imported by the firms comply with the applicable standard. Additionally, the Commission uses this information to arrange corrective actions if items of children's sleepwear fail to comply with the applicable standard in a manner that creates a substantial risk of injury to the public.
OMB approved the collection of information in the children's sleepwear standards and implementing regulations under control number 3041-0027. OMB's most recent extension of approval will expire on December 12, 2012. The Commission proposes to request an extension of approval for the collection of information in the children's sleepwear standards and implementing regulations.
Commission staff estimates that about 83 firms manufacture or import products subject to the two children's sleepwear flammability standards. These firms may perform an estimated 2,000 tests each, which take up to 3 hours per test. Commission staff estimates that these standards and implementing regulations will impose an average annual burden of about 6,000 hours on each of those firms (2,000 tests × 3 hours). That burden will result from conducting the testing required by the standards and maintaining records of the results of that testing mandated by the implementing regulations. The total annual burden imposed by the standards and regulations on all manufacturers and importers of children's sleepwear will be about 498,000 hours (83 firms × 6,000). The annual cost to the industry is estimated to be $30,751,500, based on an hourly wage of $61.75 (Bureau of Labor Statistics: total compensation for management, professional, and related workers in goods-producing private industries: http://www.bls.gov/ncs) × 498,000 hours.
The Commission will expend approximately 3 months of professional staff time annually, for examination of information in the records maintained by manufacturers and importers of children's sleepwear subject to the standards. The annual cost to the federal government of the collection of information in the sleepwear standards and implementing regulations is estimated to be $43,014. This estimate uses an annual total compensation of $119,238 (the equivalent of a GS-14 step 5 employee with an additional 30.7 percent added for benefits.)
The Commission solicits written comments from all interested persons about the proposed collection of information. The Commission specifically solicits information relevant to the following topics:
—Whether the collection of information described above is necessary for the proper performance of the Commission's functions, including whether the information would have practical utility;
—Whether the estimated burden of the proposed collection of information is accurate;
—Whether the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected could be enhanced; and
—Whether the burden imposed by the collection of information could be minimized by use of automated, electronic or other technological collection techniques, or other forms of information technology.
Dated: October 1, 2012.
Todd A. Stevenson,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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Man accused of murder in debt dispute, detectives say
Published: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 5:37 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 9:44 a.m.
SARASOTA COUNTY - A Sarasota man has been arrested and charged with murder following a dispute Monday over unpaid debts, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office.
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According to reports: Ed Rutherford, 38, called Gloria Troyer on Monday afternoon and told her he had discovered her husband, David Alessandrini, 45, dead at their home in the 2100 block of Oak Terrace. The woman told authorities that Rutherford and Alessandrini had been in a dispute over unpaid debts and that Rutherford had called her earlier, asking if she would be leaving her home soon and if she would take her children with her.
Detectives found Alessandrini dead in the home's master bedroom and call the death a homicide, reports say. A bulletin was issued for Rutherford, who was found at his parent's home in the Sun-N-Fun RV park. A search of the home turned up a large amount of cash, blood in a sink and on a bar of soap, and an envelope with the victim's name.
Rutherford had fresh wounds on his body that detectives say are consistent with being in a violent struggle, according to reports.
Rutherford is charged with murder and is being held at the Sarasota County jail without bail.
A 47-year-old man was found dead in his Sarasota-area home by his wife Monday, and investigators have taken one person into custody in connection with the death, authorities said.
The deceased was identified as David Robert Alessandrini, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office. The identity of the suspect in custody was not released by deputies.
Alessandrini was discovered by his wife in their home in the 2100 block of Oak Terrace, sometime shortly after 4 p.m., according to a brief sheriff's office press release. The woman told deputies she arrived home to find a door ajar, and her husband on the floor inside.
Authorities plan to release more information early today on what they are terming a homicide, the release noted.
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Australia Police Warn Apple Maps Pose Danger
Apple Maps Guide Motorists Into Danger
Apple decision to use its own much-maligned mapping system on its latest iPhone is looking more misguided than ever.
Australian police this week issued a warning to drivers after Apple's map service left several people stranded in "life-threatening" conditions in the middle of the 6,330 square kilometer Murray Sunset National Park.
Victoria state police said they were forced to rescue five drivers–some of whom were stranded for 24 hours with no food or water and had to walk long distances through tough terrain to find phone reception. Police said the drivers had been led there while looking for the town of Mildura, located about 70 kilometers away.
"Police are extremely concerned as there is no water supply within the park and temperatures can reach as high as 46 degrees (celsius), making this a potentially life threatening issue," the police said in a statement.
The issue is the latest misstep by the U.S. technology giant since it launched the new maps application as part of the iOS 6 operating system.
Users worldwide have complained about Apple's new map app, pointing to misplaced labels for businesses and landmarks, cities with missing roads and erroneous features like a fractured river in Ann Arbor, Mich. When the new phone launched in Australia in September, the new application showed some of Sydney's biggest landmarks out of place. A search for the iconic Bondi Beach under the term "Bondi Beach Sydney" turns up in the city's land-locked Western suburbs.
Shares in the iPhone maker have dropped more than a fifth from their September peak, although with a market value of just under $500 billion it's still more-than twice the size of rival Microsoft
By Tuesday, the day after the police issued the statement, Apple did not appear to have fixed the mistake, according to the route finder on an iphone. Apple didn't immediately return requests for comment.
"Anyone travelling to Mildura or other locations within Victoria should rely on other forms of mapping until this matter is rectified," said the police statement.


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'Halt and Catch Fire' Season 1 Episode 3, 'High Plains Hardware'
As the three main characters begin their day — Joe MacMillan psyching up to Gary Numan's "Are 'Friends' Electric" in his apartment, Cameron Howe waking up to the din of an office cleaner's vacuum and Gordon Clark contemplating an injured, dying bird on his front lawn before firing the bulk of his engineering department – one can't help wondering how this crew will keep their software company, Cardiff Electric, afloat.
Nemesis IBM has wooed away its most critical customers in a classic raid, undercutting prices and trying to poach key employees. Now the company has just a few months to come up with a world-beating personal computer – one that Joe says will be portable, with a handle, two floppy-disc drives, and an integrated keyboard.
Best of all, it will weigh less than 15 pounds. Put that in your docking station.
But there are problems. While Joe can visualize the new machine, he has to beg for venture capital from people he cannot stand. Gordon sketches out a revolutionary layered mother –really his wife Donna's idea – but lacks the spine to stand up to the company naysayers who say it will be too difficult and expensive to build.
Cameron seems on the verge of solving the riddle of upping the machine's speed cheaply but cannot quite make the equations work, even when she draws them with lipstick on mirrors.
On the plus side: Donna seems to be tiring of her suffocating job at Texas Instruments. And since she has the fortitude Gordon lacks, and probably more smarts, we have to hope she is at least considering a jump to Cardiff to work on the new machine. It would be a second chance to create a revolutionary, as she and Gordon tried years earlier with the ill-fated Symbonic.
Good news comes for Cameron in the form of her first paycheck, and just in time as boss John Bosworth tells her she can work as late as she likes but cannot live in the office.
Joe and John continue to battle for control – or CTRL – of the PC project. Joe invites an old associate in venture capital to the office to discuss a possible deal but John repels him and seeks funding from a local wealthy widow. When she makes a low-ball offer Joe insults her verbally. But John still plans to accept her terms. So Joe ups the ante by instigating a sexual encounter in the next room with the widow's young boyfriend – a hapless kept man.
She senses what has happened and withdraws her offer, leaving John wondering what just hit him. "What did you do?" he asks Joe afterward. "We'll talk in the morning," Joe replies.
This is another scene in which the audience winds up with more fresh questions about Joe that answers. How does he know the venture capital guy? Does he really hail from the Hudson River Valley as he claims? And is he in fact bisexual or just willing to do whatever it takes to have his way?
Donna is arguably the only one to close a deal in Episode 3 when she sympathetically kills the wounded bird, which is still alive in the evening after work.


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Vestra C. Seville, 90, of Mercersburg died Friday, Jan. 18, 2013. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday in Greencastle Church of God. Burial will be in Parklawns Memorial Gardens, Chambersburg. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in Lininger-Fries Funeral Home Inc., Mercersburg, and one hour prior to services Thursday in the church.
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Citi: Lackluster 3rd Quarter Bodes Ill for Law Firm Profit Growth
It's been years since the halcyon days of double-digit profit growth for law firms, and the industry has ratcheted its expectations down accordingly.
Well, get ready for another downshift.
The folks at Citi Private Bank expect law firms will see even lower profit growth this year on an industry-wide basis than they did in 2011, when they notched a 3.5% gain (paltry by pre-recession standards).
"We were characterizing that as a very good year in this new market for legal services," Gretta Rusanow, a senior client advisor with the bank's law firm group, told Law Blog Thursday. "Our predictions were that we would be looking at low single digit growth this year. . . Now we are looking at flat to single-digit growth. We're not as optimistic as we were."
Citi, a major law firm lender, reached that dismal conclusion after analyzing third-quarter performance among 182 mostly large firms. While the results aren't public, the bank posted a summary over at AmLaw Daily.
So what's gone wrong now?
Firms are still grappling with weak demand for their services. At the same time, expenses continue to grow faster than revenue.
"When we look at where we're at after the first 9 months of the year," said Ms. Rusanow, "It's not enough to take off that pressure… We are concerned about profit growth, so long as we've got this margin pressure that we've been seeing."
A caveat: Some of the third-quarter drop in revenue growth is related to a slowdown in the collection cycle, according to Citi.
Law firms tend up build up "inventory"—work that lawyers have completed but for which the client has not yet paid—and then collect on that work, converting inventory to cash. Third-quarter collections have been sluggish because there wasn't enough inventory in the pipeline.
That pile of inventory is building up again, so the fourth quarter could see another bump in revenue as law firm ramp up end-of-year collections efforts.
Also, Citi's numbers are industry averages, and don't reflect the success of those firms that continue to perform well and will likely experience "pretty good profit growth" this year, Ms. Rusanow said.
Still, "I don't think anyone is immune to pricing pressure," she said. "There is a shrinking market for legal services. We know that clients are opting to bring more work in-house to begin with. We know that work that traditionally may have sat with the AmLaw 50 may now be done by firms in the AmLaw second hundred. It's a very different industry than we were looking at a few years back."


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Beyond the Supercharger: Tesla's Other Charging Network
Tesla Motors opened its latest Supercharger location today near Lake Tahoe, a popular vacation spot for Bay Area Model S owners and part of the company's growing network of fast-charging locations.
But with little or no fanfare, Tesla also has been installing high-power wall chargers at restaurants, hotels, beach parking and other locations that can send 80 amps of electricity into the Model S and add 58 miles of range in an hour. While that's not nearly as fast as a Supercharger, which can recharge the 85 kWh pack in around 30 minutes, it's twice as fast as the standard 240-volt chargers that can be more commonly be found around in parking lots and garages.
Tesla has been rolling these out quickly across the country as a convenience to customers. The company says 106 of them have been installed since the program began this spring, with more coming online daily. Like the Superchargers, they are free to use for Tesla owners. They don't work with other electric cars.
Unlike the Superchargers, which function more like gas stations, located off of major routes, these wall chargers are designed for destinations. Teslas can also use standard charging stations with the use of an adapter that comes with the car.
Tesla spokeswoman Alexis Georgeson said the company hasn't laid out a specific number that it plans to install. Indeed, the Supercharger network is designed to have as many as needed — a not one more. Tesla's plan for the Superchargers is to service 98% of the U.S. and Canada population by the end of 2015. There are 110 stations today.
See also:
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Liverpool Message Board
...does it again! He gets into trouble more than JT, Barton, Rooney and Balotelli put together.
Each time I watch the video of the bite I try to imagine what he is thinking at the time. I find it almost impossible to work out what his motivation is and I am driven to one of two conclusions:
- he doesn't know what he is doing. That is, he is reacting in the moment with no thought.
- he is doing it for a reason.
The first is troubling. It implies he has never grown up and that he has never acquired any self-awareness, or awareness of how his actions affect others. It suggests he is a sociopath, like an utterly selfish child. As others have said, biting is what three year olds do, and it's not tolerated in them.
The two biting incidents support this idea, I think. Also, the refusal to shake Evra's hand after promising LFC he would. And I think the lying supports it too – the lying all around the racism incident (I didn't do it, it's all a United conspiracy, keeping changing his story in the enquiry).
But I'm forced to the second conclusion. He does know what he is doing and he's doing it for a reason. All of his actions on the pitch are supportive of a player who wants to win (which is good) but who wants to win at any price (which is not good). Yes, we all know that players push at the boundaries, whether it is claiming throw-ins, delaying goal kicks when leading 1-0, appealing penalties at one end and denying them at the other, but we still expect them to adopt a set of boundaries they don't cross. We deplore spitting, diving, stamping, and other things. And biting. We have a secondary set of rules, an unwritten code, which define how the game should be played, around the edges of the real rulebook.
Suarez more than other players tries to make trouble in the penalty area. He pushes and shoves defenders around, to make space and to get them wound up. Yes, it goes the other way too. But I think his abuse of Evra was trying to make Evra boil over and I can only think biting Ivanovic was trying to do the same. Wouldn't he have loved it if Ivanovic had taken a swing at him and been sent off. Unfortunately for Suarez his bite was too blatant and Ivanovic didn't react. (Unfortunately for Chelsea the ref didn't see it and ignored Ivanovic's complaint. I'd prefer Suarez to have got Defoe's booking, gone off for two yellows and Chelsea won the game, to the ten match ban.)
Look at his reaction after being sent off for the handball in the world cup. When the penalty is missed he reacts as if he has just scored the winning goal. To react like that indicates no second thoughts at what he had done, that the cheating is of no consequence if it means the team wins, and no cares about how his reaction might be viewed.
This all suggests to me that Suarez is indeed different and at the leading edge of bad behaviour in the English game. It's the second biting incident, there was the racism and then the repeated denials, the handshake. There's a reputation (fully deserved in my view) for serial diving. There have been quite a few stamps and studs in calfs, generally not noticed by referees.
So should he get three matches or ten? Yes, you can argue for three. Of course, it's no more violent or dangerous than a bad stamp. But if you think that Suarez is indeed cheating violently, knowingly, repeatedly for the sole purpose of trying to gain footballing advantage then surely the penalty has to try to firmly discourage the behaviour. An exemplary penalty is merited. LFC fining him doesn't do that. A three match ban wouldn't. He had a seven match ban for biting before and he's done it again. In this light, ten matches seems no more than appropriate.
Eric Cantona would say he got off lightly.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Hi Robert
I have no problem with the idea of banning him for 10 games if this was a precedent to discouraging bad behaviour in football full stop. I suspect though, that it will be just this incident that is treated this way.
As an example, and in no way taking away from what Suarez did, in the same game I saw what looked to me like two dives and an elbow. There seems to be no reaction at all to those incidents.
I suspect you're right in your view that Suarez has a win at all costs mentality which is clearly wrong. It should be equally wrong to cheat in other ways in professional football in my opinion.
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I suspect another bite wouldn't get ten matches, just as JT got four where Suarez got eight. This is not because Suarez gets picked on but because it is a repeated offence. But we need to see the FA's reasoning later today.
I don't remember either dives or an elbow from the match. But then I was watching on Sky with the sound off and I didn't know anything about the bite until well after the match. I saw Carragher whingeing and whingeing and whingeing at the referee and get the impression that was about the alleged elbow.
The worst thing I saw in the match was Sturridge's foul on Bertrand. That could easily have been a red.
Where you and I differ is you talk about all cheating being equally wrong, where I think, as I said above, there is an unwritten code. In life, all bad behaviour is not equally wrong. I don't see why it should be on the football field.
I don't see what banning the guy will achieve.
Dave Steer posted that he might need professional help, I agree.
To ban him and let him come back without help would be cruelty on a par with bear baiting.
This is beyond football, IMHo.
There's an interesting parallel with boxing here. The purpose of boxing is to try to cause brain damage to your opponent (which is what every knockout does) and you are applauded by the boxing world if you do this. However, bite your opponent and you become a complete pariah. That's regarded as completely below the belt. Even more so than hitting someone below the belt.
LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Apr 26, 2013 14:41 Flag
Part of me thinks he knows exactly what he's doing and he 's doing it to test LFC and how much they'll tollerate. Besides he wants a move away.. so what better way than to #$%$ off your manager & owners.. Suarez won't be playing for LFC or any other english club next season.. he should get a lifetime ban from the sport for biting another player.. he did it once before. He's a very talented striker so he has no need to resort to things like this.
So I wonder how much he'll go for.. my guess he'll go for around £35 - 40m.
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dsteer_lfc_68 dsteer_lfc_68 Apr 26, 2013 15:19 Flag
So have you flipped again, or is this now your latest flop? First its ban and sell to the highest bidder, then its he should get the same sanction as Defoe, now its back to ban and sell. How often does the wind change in your house?
Red_Till_Im_Dead Red_Till_Im_Dead Apr 26, 2013 14:47 Flag
It also irks me when I hear "he needs help" like he is the victim, if you did that in a pub you would need help alright. Quickly.
Hello Robert. Good to see you post again.
In my view he has a screw loose. DSteer says the same I believe. The bite in my view was a reaction. However the Evra incident was different in that he was out to get a reaction and an advantage and then it ran away with itself.
He obviously lacks self control which is evident in both incidents. The little stamps here and there also demonstrate that lack of self control and are simple reactions to being beaten in a particular situation i.e a defender gets to the ball first.
It's competitive to the extreme but it's obviously too far. That's not the game we play and love.
10 games is difficult to judge until we see what the FA says. I suspect it it'll be useless as I have little faith in them. BUT if we say that Suarez was banned for 8 games in Holland for the same offense then 10 sadly starts to look fair, bordering sensible. Of course when we consider that others such as Defoe have gotten away with it then it looks daft. Or one could say that the Defoe decision was the daft one
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Red_Till_Im_Dead Red_Till_Im_Dead Apr 25, 2013 11:27 Flag
What really bothers me is immediately after the bite he staggers of like he has been injured and is looking for sympathy, like a little boy who was just been caught up to no good, If me, you of whoever bit someone then you would be arrested, if you did it at work you would be fired and arrested.
If he played for Manchester United the Liverpool fans would say he should never play again, as you all go on about Ferdinand missing a drugs test that he returned to do the same day and passed.
Stop comparing the Defoe incident to this, they are 2 different incidents, and yes Defoe got off light, but that does not mean every player from then on should get of light for such things, the Defoe judgement was the wrong one not this one in my opinion.
The guy is a serial offender, in his short time at Liverpool he has stamped on players, said racist comments about a player, is a serial diver & done the worst dive we have ever seen & proudly admitted later that he dived, he has bitten a player and we all know he has done this before, I personally think he is a disgrace, skilful but disgraceful too.
Thanks. I have to say I've generally been avoiding the boards since the format changed to this disaster, and it took Suarez to drag me back in.
I agree with all you say. Defoe plainly got lucky and that decision looks daft. It highlights - yet again - that when the FA say they can't overturn a referee's decision there are times when they should make exceptions. The previous week Aguerro stamped on a Chelsea player and the FA said they wouldn't review it because the referee claimed to see something of the incident, but not presumably the stamping. It's plainly wrong. Obviously the reason they have the policy is because they don't want a hundred cases to look at every Monday morning.
(I'm not going to mention Michael Essien.)
Yes, he's accepted the ban which is good for LFC's PR. It would have dragged on forever generating bad headlines for LFC if he had appealed, like last time.
"it would not take very long to make a list of plenty of other players just as nasty if not worse who have not just been tolerated but are considered hero's by their fans."
Go on then - what have you got? :)
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PhRMA's 2011 Annual Meeting starts this Wednesday in Jersey City, New Jersey. Few places in America have as many pharmaceutical research and biotechnology sector manufacturing and headquarters facilities or employ as many people as New Jersey.
This week marked the 20th anniversary of the New York Biotechnology Association annual meeting, featuring PhRMA President and CEO John Castellani as the keynote speaker.
I was struck by the significance of the number 20, as it indicates a good rough timeline of when biotechnology became a major influence in the life sciences sector.
Today is World Health Day. The theme of this year's activities is focused on the important health issue of bacteria that are resistant to current medicines. Today's events highlight the urgent need for new medicines to combat the growing number of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics and the significant challenges that resistant bacteria pose to global public health.
Last night in DC, our president and CEO, John Castellani, and Sen. Jon Kyl were honored during the Bryce Harlow Foundation's 30th annual award dinner.
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David Hyde Pierce - who played Niles Crane on Frasier - is in DC today to speak about the importance of government support for Alzheimer's disease research.
Huffington Post yesterday published an article listing the "10 Companies That Will Save the American Economy," choosing "those that are most likely to develop products and services which will allow global GDP [gross domestic product] growth to continue.
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On March 15, Research!America convened its 2011 National Health Research Forum, bringing together experts from the public and private sectors to discuss key health and research issues.
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The New York Times highlights Butler basketball coach (and apparently fairy godfather) Brad Stevens, who left a job in the biopharmaceutical research sector to try his hand at coaching. We love industry employees, but that might have been a pretty good move on his part. Plus, according to the article, "he still discusses developments in the pharmaceutical industry with former co-workers after church."
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uestion: There's been something on my mind, but I haven't come across anybody who's able to give me advice that I'd feel confident putting into action. You're definitely the guy to ask since you've had consistent results in non-hold 'em events.
I've observed your play in the mixed-game tournaments online, which has already improved my game. I have played mixed cash games for many years and hold my own, but I've had poor results in tournaments. I realize that I can't just wander into a tournament playing my normal game and expect a good result. What kind of strategy should I be thinking about in a general sense?
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I'm curious about whether your strengths are in the flop games (hold 'em and Omaha 8) or in the up-card games (stud, razz and stud 8). A HORSE tournament favors players who are more proficient in the stud-style games. This is not only because it's three parts up card and two parts flop, but also because of the extra betting round in stud games. As you get deeper into the tourney, every hand in the stud games becomes more crucial.
Once you get involved, you generally have to follow up all the way to the river, whereas the flop games are more "hit or miss" -- you can defend your blind for one extra bet, and if you miss the flop, you just release. There are many cases where the betting becomes accelerated in the up-card games, more so than in the flop games. Since most of each player's hand is exposed, there's a greater chance of being able to read somebody's hand, which in turn creates aggression in players who would have to play more timidly in flop games, where they're often unsure about opponents' holdings.
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Most offenders are small processors who are possibly being misguided by the FDA, the USDA, and/or consultants. Hain and Campbell's, both large companies, are among those who have been alerted to both the deception that they are perpetrating and the illegality of what they are doing, yet continue with what the FDA has, in the past, termed deceptive and misleading labeling.
Placing "No MSG," "No MSG Added," or "No Added MSG" on food labels has been deemed by the FDA to be false and misleading under section (403)(a)(1) of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act when the label also lists any hydrolyzed protein as an ingredient since it contains MSG." Thus, to advertise "No MSG," "No MSG Added," or "No Added MSG" when there is processed free glutamic acid (MSG) in a product is illegal.
At one time, the FDA responded to the illegal use of the term "No MSG Added," with both a Regulatory Letter and threat of seizure and injunction in case of non-compliance.(4) At one time, State Attorneys General sued manufacturers that made such claims, and won consent decrees from them, and sometimes fines were imposed.(5-6) But when the FDA began to look the other way, and the State Attorneys General turned their attention to other matters, the deceptive and misleading use of "No MSG" and No Added MSG" once more began proliferating.
Following the FDA's announcement in 1995 that "…FDA considers foods whose labels say "No MSG" or "No Added MSG" to be misleading if the food contains ingredients that are sources of free glutamates, such as hydrolyzed protein,"(7) the incidence of such misleading and deceptive labels regulated by the FDA began to decline. At the same time, similar labels regulated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) continued proliferating. At the USDA they don't simply fail to enforce the regulation. The USDA actually approves labels of meat and poultry products that claim "No MSG," "No MSG Added," or "No Added MSG" when they contain free glutamic acid.
Clearly, it is false and misleading to claim "No MSG" or "No MSG Added" on a product label when MSG is present, even if it is present as a constituent of an ingredient.
Those making such claims should be able to demonstrate, through valid tests for free glutamic acid content, that there is no (zero) free glutamic acid in their products.
Even if one could assume that a particular label reflected the ingredients actually in the product (which one cannot), review of product labels to determine the presence of MSG would not be satisfactory, and will not substitute for analysis of the end product. The number of products/ingredients /substances that contain MSG is not finite, i.e., new ingredients that contain MSG are invented and/or renamed every day. To keep track of them would be virtually impossible. Moreover, MSG can be freed from protein during processing or manufacture given appropriate conditions. For example, any ingredient that contains a bit of protein can be hydrolyzed if hydrochloric acid, enzymes, heat, and/or other substances or conditions that cause glutamic acid to be separated out of its host protein are present, resulting in some processed free glutamic acid (MSG). Hydrolyzation of protein inevitably creates some (processed) free glutamic acid (MSG).
Only if there is no (zero) free glutamic acid in an end product can one legitimately claim that there is no MSG. The burden of proof for a claim about the absence of MSG must lie with those making the claim.
If you write or call to ask whether or not there is MSG in a product…
If you want to find out if there is processed free glutamic acid (MSG) in a product, you must ask the manufacturer for information about "free glutamic acid." Don't ask about "MSG." Manufacturers find it convenient, when speaking to consumers, to tell them that there is no "MSG" in their product, meaning that there is no ingredient called "monosodium glutamate." Even if a manufacturer tells you there is no MSG in a product, there may be autolyzed yeast, hydrolyzed pea protein, carrageenan, sodium caseinate, enzymes, and a whole slew of other ingredients that contain or create processed free glutamic acid (MSG) during manufacture.
If you are told that all of the MSG in a product is "naturally occurring," thank the manufacturer for that meaningless information, but explain that all processed free glutamic acid (MSG) is referred to as "natural" by the FDA — so "natural" tells you nothing. In fact, as the word "natural" is defined by the FDA, the food ingredient "monosodium glutamate" is "natural."
It is the amount of processed free glutamic acid in the product that will determine whether or not you might suffer an MSG reaction. (Everyone has a different tolerance for MSG.) If the manufacturer claims not to know whether or not there is processed free glutamic acid (MSG) in his or her product, ask that the product be analyzed for free amino acids, including free glutamic acid. There are tests for measuring free glutamic acid. The AOAC Official Methods of Analysis (1984) gives one method. There are others. The cost of testing should be no more than $150.
We have been advised by the FDA that if any such misbranded products are brought to their attention, they will act to correct the situation. To report misbranded products to the FDA, please call the FDA at 888-723-3366 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., eastern time – and keep a record of your call.