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Make Scents of Wine / Le Nez du Vin is based on the best selling book by Jean Lenoir. The collection has been updated for the new millenium to replicate the delicate flavors of wines from around the globe.
What is it for?
Developing the sense of smell We all have a very sensitive sense of smell but practice helps us to recognize and identify the different aromas present in wine.
Learning the language of wine:
How can we detect the aromas in wine if they are not stored in our scent memory or if we cannot put a name to them? Jean Lenoir approaches the problem as if he were writing a dictionary, introducing us to aromas and helping us remember them as if we were learning a foreign language. The collection provides users with a way of communicating their love of wine.
Improving our appreciation of wine:
We all enjoy drinking wine but that pleasure is heightened if we are able to appreciate different tastes and assess the wine's richness and complexity.
Features of the Make Scents of Wine 54 Aroma Master Kit:
- 54 Aroma Vials: These are the typical aromas found in white and red wines from France and around the world. They give us an indication of the wine's origin and the grape variety as well as the vineyard, the winemaking techniques used and the aging conditions. Memorizing these aromas gives an accurate an coherent vocabulary to further stimulate our appreciation of fine wines.
- 54 Illustrated Explanatory Cards: These cards specify the aromas and the corresponding molecules and list the wines in which they are found.
- A NEW 120 page Booklet: This explains why the taste of wine depends on its aromas and suggests three different methods of initiation: 1. from aromas to wine, 2. from grape varieties to aromas, 3. from the vineyards to the aromas
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Great way to train your nose between bottles Review by Winelover
This superb wine aroma kit makes a beautiful gift for yourself or someone you know. It has the appearance of a large hardbound book like an Atlas or Dictionary. The vials are presented very attractively in separate slots and are numbered so that you have to guess the aroma. Then you compare the number to the master list to see if you got it right. The vials and their holders take up the right side of the "book" and pictures and descriptions of the aroma sources (fruits, flowers, etc.) are handsomely presented on large, high-quality-printed cards on the left side of the "book." You use the vials by opening them and taking a whiff and then closing them to keep the aromas fresh. In other words, you don't ever pour the liquids out. The 54 samples give a very broad spectrum of aromas useful for wine tasting and are a great way to train your nose or keep it in "good shape" without having to open a bottle of wine. It is also fun for wine tasting parties, too. (Posted on 8/3/2011)

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Diamond's defense was lights out in the second quarter and that helped shape the difference in the Lady Wildcats' 44-27 triumph over the Jasper Lady Eagles in the Spring River Valley Conference opener on Tuesday.
Holding an 8-6 lead after one quarter of play, the Lady Wildcats locked down defensively and didn't allow the Lady Eagles to score in the period. The 15-0 run by Diamond made it 23-6 at the half, and proved too steep a climb for the Lady Eagles to conquer.
Cady Littlefield pumped in 14 points for the Lady Wildcats while Macie Seward added 11, Heather Wilson nine, Hanna Million and Shayla Jones four and Meghan Dresslaer two.
Larissa Atnip led the Lady Eagles with six points while Adi Etcheson had four, Monica Steeves one, Elizabeth Maneval three, Morgan Winchester four, Karrington Garvin two, Lexie Royster four and Regan Smith two.
Diamond (5-2, 1-0 conference) takes on College Heights at 5 p.m. Friday at College Heights Christian School. That game, which previously scheduled to be played at Ozark Christian College, was moved to College Heights.
Jasper won the junior varsity game, 42-28. Dresslaer led the Lady Wildcats with 10 points in the loss.
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On the Drivers and Download page, if you see Scan Your System for Updates click on it to scan your system. The device drivers and firmware on a computer should be updated for numerous reasons some of which include:
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About the Book
"A smoldering blend of darkness and sensuality, with a villain so unique, he gave me nightmares and fantasies. Erotic, alluring, and edgy, I couldn't put this book down!"
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Terri Garey spins off from her RITA Award-winning Nicki Styx series (Dead Girls Are Easy et al) to bring us Devil Without a Cause, paranormal romance fiction with a distinct difference. Garey takes a thrilling walk on the dark and steamy side in a story of love, sin, damnation, and redemption that features history's original and most diabolical bad boy: Sammy (Satan) Divine. The Prince of Darkness himself takes center stage in his new role as guardian angel, as a desperate young woman makes a deal with the devil that brings her intimately close to a sexy rock star who has already traded away his soul. Nalini Singh fans, take note!
Idle hands are the devil's workshop
Temptation and seduction are the tricks of the Devil's trade, and when offered the chance to regain his wings by playing guardian angel, he's hell-bent on doing things his way . . .
Faith McFarland is in need of a miracle. So desperate to save her sick child, she's willing to make a deal with the Devil: steal a ring worn by Finn Payne, the bad-boy rockstar who long ago sold his soul for rock 'n roll. Temptation and seduction become necessary evils, yet Faith's salvation means Finn's damnation . . . because the ring is all that stands between him and Hell. Falling in love was never part of the bargain, but now that they've tasted heaven in each other's arms, can they convince the Devil to give up his due?
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The melting pot boils over in the red-hot satire "Ching Chong Chinaman." Lauren Yee's explosive comedy is every bit as politically incorrect as its title in its South Bay premiere at City Lights.
The playwright aims to take away the sting of the 19th-century racial taunt as well as upend as many 21st century Asian-American stereotypes as possible. While Jeffrey Bracco's production lacks enough nuance and subtlety to ground the play's screwball plot, there's no denying the zip and zaniness of the energetic ensemble.
If you are in the mood for a smart and cheeky deconstruction of race in California today, look no further. This audacious satire, which runs through Feb. 24, skewers cliches and bursts taboos from start to finish.
The Wongs are so ultra-assimilated they don't think of themselves as Chinese. They never eat rice. They don't know chopsticks from Chopin. They can't pronounce Jinqiang (it comes out Ching Chong) to save their lives.
Almost 18, Desdemona (a lively Monica Ho) longs to get into Princeton, but she stinks at calculus. She knows she can't compete in the model minority realm with a mere 4.2 GPA. But she can't bear to lose at anything. She even has to win the school canned food drive. Or else. Unfortunately for all her brainiac tendencies, she just can't beat the curve among nose-to-the-grindstone Palo Alto teens.
Her little brother Upton (Anthony Chan), on the other hand, can't stop playing World of Warcraft long enough to do his homework. The 15-year-old is determined to make it to the video game world championships in Korea (he's in it for the groupies, naturally), even if it means he never gets offline.
Desperate to fulfill their overachiever destiny, the Wongs hire an indentured servant Jinqiang (Nick Louie) from China so that he can do problem sets while they live the dream.
Mom (a sweet turn by Chiho Saito) and Dad (Lawrence-Michael C. Arias) are also as American as baseball and apple pie. They feel no tug from their history and heritage. They are deeply concerned that their children keep their eyes "nice and wide" open for the annual Christmas photo. Dad lives for golf; Mom yearns for an emotional connection.
Yee ("Crevice," "A Man, His Wife, and His Hat") has an uncanny ear for the way teens speak and think. She nails just how absurd the adult world can seem to those who aren't yet part of it. But she also writes with real tenderness about the compromises of middle age.
The San Francisco playwright also has a flair for irreverence that won't quit.
In "Ching," which debuted at Berkeley's Impact Theatre in 2008, she consistently subverts our expectations, tweaking the narrative to keep us guessing. Irony goes into overdrive when Jinqiang decides to take his own stab at the American dream and the Wongs are forced to examine their own prejudices about who they are and where they are going. Dad purports to believe in manifest destiny, but fate ends up landing his family into some tight corners.
The wonderfully absurd plot is packed with surprises that include an obsession with tap dance, an unexpected quinceanara and a horribly mistreated orphan. She even has the chutzpah to close this loopy adventure with a surprising shift in tone from farce to drama. The narrative is as sly and slippery as cultural identity itself. Yee knows how to mash up the quirky and the conventional with witty results.
One of the least expected, and most delightful, aspects of the show is the bursts of dance, from tap to swing (choreographed by Lori Martinez). Bracco's production has a tendency to drag when the action should be fast and furious, but the dance interludes are always bright and brassy.
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Same Murray, Better Results
If the Andy Murray who beat Roger Federer on Friday is an entirely different player, as many tennis analysts are suggesting, the stats don't necessarily show it.
Murray was authoritative in defeating Federer, hitting 62 winners to Federer's 43. His forehand — sometimes a liability in the past — looked a bigger weapon than Federer's own forehand, considered one of the best forehands in tennis history. Many analysts ascribed this to the influence of Ivan Lendl, who began coaching Murray before last year's Australian Open.
But Murray's performance at the last three Australian Opens suggest he hasn't changed his ways as dramatically as the commentary about one match suggests. And that's not a bad thing. Murray was a great player, firmly one of the best four in the world, before Lendl arrived in his camp. He got there with fantastic fitness and defense, and well-judged moments of aggression. Occasionally he leaned too much on the former set of attributes, especially against his biggest rivals: Federer, Rafael Nadal and Murray's opponent in Sunday's final, Novak Djokovic. And perhaps now he has changed that balance, in those matchups. But if he has, it's with a series of tweaks, not a radical rewriting of his already excellent game — much like Djokovic's set of changes to his game that propelled him to 41 consecutive match wins and the No. 1 ranking at the start of the 2011 season.
Tracing Murray's evolution through stats isn't easy. Comparing different tournaments is difficult because each one has different surfaces that affect the style of play and the ease of hitting winners. And winners and unforced errors aren't recorded in a centralized database. So with the help of the WayBack Machine, I compared Murray's stats in his first six matches at each of the last three Australian Opens. Each time he reached the semis. In 2011, without Lendl, Murray won his semifinal, against David Ferrer. Last year, Murray lost to Djokovic in a tight five-setter. And on Friday, Murray beat Federer in five sets.
For each year, for Murray's first six matches, I compared his aggressiveness with that of his opponents in two ways. To check how successful he was at hitting big shots compared to his opponents, I added up his winners and his opponents' forced errors — mistakes they made as a result of Murray shots — and compared those with the sum of his opponents' winners and his forced errors. Then, I compared Murray's unforced errors with his opponents'; if he was playing more aggressively, he should also be ending more of the points he loses with his own racket than his opponents, or at least more than he used to.
The stats suggest that not much has changed. In 2011, Murray won 21.3% more points with his racket than his opponents did in his first six matches. That dipped to 20% last year, and rose to 22.5% this year — slight blips, but not a significant shift. Meanwhile, the unforced-errors stats suggest he hasn't gotten much more willing to accept risk. In 2011, he hit 36% fewer unforced errors in his first six matches than his opponents did. Last year, that figure fell to 21.4% — Murray was losing more points with his aggression than he used to, though still fewer than his opponents did. But this year Murray has lost 34.1% fewer points to unforced errors than his opponents have, indicating he is again winning lots of points by playing less risky tennis than his opponents.
There are limits to this sort of analysis. Scorekeepers change from match to match and year to year — though hopefully any idiosyncratic tendencies have been applied to both players, so shouldn't affect the comparison. The surface at the tournament also changes slightly from year to year, which should also be addressed by comparing Murray's stats to his opponents'. And most crucially, his lineup of opponents has changed. The semifinal each year was Murray's longest match of his first six, contributing the most to the stats, and each year his opponent got more aggressive, from Ferrer to Djokovic to Federer. That may suppress evidence of an increase in aggressiveness in Murray's stats. Another way of slicing the numbers: He won more points on his racket than his opponent did in five of six matches this year, compared to four of six in each of the previous two Australian Opens.
These limits may prevent our ability to see small changes in Murray's game, and that's the point: He's still the same player he was. His serve and forehand appear to be stronger than before, but not enough to change his basic statistical profile, and it's a very, very good one. It was good enough to win his semifinal against Tomas Berdych at the U.S. Open last year, and the U.S. Open final against Djokovic, even though in each match Murray had fewer winners plus points won on forced errors than his opponent did.


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SEC Opens Private Funding Floodgates
Mark Young has been trying for a year to raise money to start a real estate investment fund in California. He's had little luck.
Big investors and venture capital firms shy away from first-time funds with less than $10 million in assets, he said, and he didn't want to pay thousands of dollars to hire a solicitor to approach other accredited investors.
"Because I don't have friends and family who are wealthy, I've been stifled," Mr. Young said.
Not anymore. Mr. Young says he intends to advertise on social media and buy lists of accredited investors to phone directly to participate in his offering.
And he can thanks to Wednesday's 4-1 vote by the Securities and Exchange Commission to lift an 80-year-old ban on publicizing shares in private offerings — one of the biggest methods for companies to raise capital. The new rule will take effect 60 days after the SEC publishes it in the Federal Register and companies will still have to verify that they are only selling shares to qualified investors.
Congress told the SEC to lift the ban when they passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act in April of last year. Previously, companies seeking to raise private funds have only been able to advertise to wealthy investors who have net worth of more than $1 million or annual income of at least $200,000, or qualified buyers who manage at least $100 million in securities, for the past two years. So most investors never heard about a deal until it was completed and announced.
The end of the ban will let companies advertise more broadly to the general public, by issuing press releases or tapping social networks, for example.
The market for unregistered securities (including offerings made under Rule 506 and Regulation D) is already $900 billion, dwarfing the $43 billion companies raised last year through initial public stock offerings However, SEC Commissioner Luis Aguilar blasted the yes-votes by his fellow commissioners as "reckless," and said the new rules will make it easier for more investors to get duped by potential frauds. The SEC also voted to propose additional protections for investors.
Nevertheless, R. Cromwell Coulson, president and chief executive of OTC Markets Group Inc., predicts lifting the ban will fundamentally change the way capital will be raised.
The ban could level the playing field for entrepreneurs who don't have an easy time building relationships with angel investors and venture capitalists. He expects early advertising from companies to come in the form of press releases saying they have hired an investment bank to raise funds, and include risk warnings.
"Smaller companies are saying, 'This is going to make it a lot easier for me,'" Mr. Coulson said.
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AUSTIN (November 29, 2012)--An arrest warrant is out for the senior member of the top Texas criminal appeals court after he failed to pay a $193 fine from a 2008 speeding ticket.
The warrant was issued Oct. 20 for the arrest of Judge Lawrence Meyers of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, who's been involved in a long-running dispute with the city of Austin over a citation for driving 19 miles per hour over the speed limit on Interstate 35.
Meyers had pleaded guilty to speeding Aug. 8 and was given two months to pay what had become $481 in penalties and costs, but Meyers told an Austin newspaper that he has withheld payment to preserve his right to appeal the fine.
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An inflatable doll depicting Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez sits in front of Venezuela's National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. Chavez returned to Venezuela early Monday after more than two months of medical treatment in Cuba following cancer surgery, and was being treated at the Caracas' military hospital, his government said. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Hundreds of government opponents in Venezuela have held a demonstration demanding answers about President Hugo Chavez's condition while he remains out of sight in a hospital.
Chavez is undergoing treatment in a military hospital in Caracas more than 10 weeks after his latest cancer surgery.
Opposition leaders at Saturday's demonstration criticized secrecy surrounding Chavez's diagnosis and treatment. They say many Venezuelans want the government to tell the whole truth about the president's condition.
Chavez hasn't spoken publicly since before his Dec. 11 surgery, and during that time has been seen only in several photographs released by the government.
Vice President Nicolas Maduro said Friday night that he and other officials had a lengthy visit with the president at the hospital.
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) -- Authorities in Mexico say a Belgian man has been found shot to death in the Pacific resort of Acapulco, near the site of the Mexican Open tennis tournament.
Saturday's killing was the second attack involving foreigners in Acapulco in less than three weeks. On Feb. 4, a band of masked gunmen invaded a beachfront home and raped six visiting Spanish women.
Police say the body of the Belgian was found at a supermarket parking lot in a Mercedes-Benz car with Mexico City license plates. Officials haven't released the victim's name but say he was 64.
The killing happened not far from the Princess Hotel, where federal police are guarding the tennis tournament.
Violence and crime have worsened in Acapulco in recent years, with drug gangs getting most of the blame.
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Newly declassified U.S. documents indicate that Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet planned to use violence to annul the referendum that ended his brutal regime.
The formerly secret documents posted by the independent U.S. National Security Archive on Friday showed U.S. officials warning Chilean leaders against violence if Pinochet tried to use force to stay in power if people voted against eight more years of his rule.
They also show U.S. officials and agencies backed the anti-Pinochet campaign portrayed in the Oscar-nominated film "No," even though the U.S. government also had tried to undermine the socialist government Pinochet had overthrown.
The documents also portray Pinochet as furious after the vote results, saying he pleaded with his generals to let him use extraordinary powers to crush dissent.


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MARTINEZ -- Hoping to "light a spark" under the city's lukewarm economy, Martinez leaders are creating their own nonprofit lender that could bankroll a long-delayed downtown revival.
Independent from city government, the Martinez economic development corporation could seek funding from private lenders, corporate sponsors, grants and application fees.
The corporation's function is to provide loans to owners of 22 unreinforced masonry buildings so they can afford to seismically retrofit their properties. The organization also could make small business loans and fund marketing and branding campaigns.
The goal of all this: luring new shops and customers to downtown Martinez.
"I think this is probably the best shot we have at revitalizing this city, and I think it's probably less contentious in this community (than redevelopment)," said City Manager Phil Vince.
The City Council allocated $85,000 to hire a part-time administrator and draft bylaws for the corporation. An ad hoc committee will draw up a membership roster for the board of directors to present to the full council. Directors may include residents, business owners and representatives from the Martinez Chamber of Commerce and Main Street Martinez.
A 2009 city ordinance requires owners of unreinforced masonry buildings to make their properties earthquake-safe by 2015. But when credit dried up after the recession began, many property owners couldn't borrow the money to pay for seismic retrofitting, which can cost more than $100,000. An earlier plan to enlist local banks to provide low-interest loans failed when the city couldn't line up a primary lender.
The economic development corporation instead would seek to put together a pool of lenders.
"You've got, hopefully, 10 or 12 banks participating in several different loans and that spreads the risk around and then hopefully, in turn, it's a below-market loan," Mayor Rob Schroder said. "I see it as an investment in Martinez and the economic viability of the community. It could create jobs; it could increase revenue to the city through tax income."
Economic development corporations are operating in communities across California, although most tend to operate at the county level, including in Solano, Fresno and Los Angeles counties.
Pittsburg originally used its economic development corporation to make loans under the federal Small Business Administration program. In the 1990s, the corporation turned to real estate development projects, including restoring historic properties in downtown Pittsburg and building a restaurant at that city's marina, before finally evolving into a housing development corporation, according to Garrett Evans, assistant city manager.
Tom LaFleur, who runs the sister organization to the Pittsburg economic and housing corporation, said an economic development corporation is a good tool to finance retrofit projects. He also suggested that Martinez seek to designate the downtown as a historic district so property owners could take advantage of federal tax credits.
"The folks in Martinez may not be talking about historic preservation so much, but the goal of what they want to do, which is retrofit old masonry buildings so that they're usable and preserve the character, is pretty much the same thing," said LaFleur, executive director of Pacific Community Services.
"Frankly, I think the federal tax credit, now that redevelopment is not available, is probably the most effective tool they'll find."
Lisa P. White covers Martinez and Pleasant Hill. Contact her at 925-943-8011. Follow her at Twitter.com/lisa_p_white.


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Harvard Medical School welcomed the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) to its campus in March 2011 as part of its accreditation process that occurs every eight years.
Prior to the site visit, HMS engaged in an eighteen month self-study. Well over 450 faculty, students and staff participated in this process, which involved extensive planning, data collection, self-evaluation and analysis, synthesis and report writing. Once again, this process affirmed the effectiveness of the Program in Medical Education and the excellence of those who make it so successful.
During the site visit, which ran from March 6-9, 2011, five members of an ad hoc survey team representing the LCME met with numerous faculty, staff and students to discuss all aspects of the educational curriculum, medical student life, faculty life and institutional resources and policies. The visit culminated in an exit interview with Provost Hyman and Dean Flier.
HMS received full accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education in 2011. The LCME report lauded several strengths: the recent strategic planning process; the HMS curriculum, particularly the Principal Clinical Experience; the Office of Curriculum Services, student financial aid; student diversity programs; strong support for faculty role in education; and a rich academic environment. The next LCME site visit for HMS will be during the 2018-2019 academic year.
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By J. Brian Davis, Ph.D.
The survival and recovery of wood duck populations in North America are renowned wildlife success stories. By the late 1800s to early 1900s, extinction of the wood duck seemed imminent. Sentiments like, "Becoming scarce, likely to be exterminated," and "Almost exterminated, only few breed" reverberated among ornithologists in eastern portions of the continent.
Destruction of bottomland hardwood forests—the bird's primary breeding and wintering habitat—and market hunting were the two major factors that contributed to the species' decline. Because of their extensive breeding ranges in eastern North America, where most people lived in the early 20th century, wood ducks were probably the most hunted waterfowl species prior to 1918. Wood ducks were hunted from September to April. In 1918, however, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act prohibited the hunting of wood ducks nationwide. Wood duck populations recovered, and seasons were reopened in 1941. Fortunately, some lowland habitats composed of impenetrable vegetation and subject to prolonged flooding withstood man's environmental barrage, providing safe havens for wood ducks in parts of their range. These areas provided the remaining wood duck population that eventually expanded into its current range in North America.
Each spring and summer in selected parts of Canada and the United States, biologists fly airplanes along transects encompassing millions of acres, enumerating the numbers of May ponds, breeding pairs of ducks, and numbers of duck broods. These counts help estimate the population sizes of nesting ducks and are used to formulate waterfowl hunting season frameworks and daily bag limits.
Estimating the population size of wood ducks from aircraft, however, is basically impossible because the birds prefer to nest in forested wetlands and other densely vegetated habitats. Counts have even been attempted from helicopters, but to little avail. Thus, biologists primarily rely on four techniques to monitor wood duck populations and other biological trends of the species: 1) the annual Breeding Bird Survey (BBS), 2) long-term monitoring of wood duck nest boxes, 3) examining wings of harvested birds at annual Wing Bees, and 4) hunter harvest surveys and recoveries of wood duck bands.
The BBS is a roadside survey conducted annually in June to estimate the relative abundance of breeding birds across Canada and the United States. Monitoring nest boxes across large geographic areas, such as statewide or by flyways, allows biologists to monitor nesting attempts and the nesting success of breeding wood ducks. This information is useful for biologists to assess long-term trends in nesting success and the general health of local wood duck populations.
The annual Wing Bee is a meeting where biologists examine the wings of ducks harvested by hunters to determine the species, sex, and age of the birds. This technique allows biologists to estimate the ratio of the numbers of young to adults in the population as an index to productivity. Lastly, bands from harvested wood ducks reported by hunters to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service provide critical information, such as the age, sex, and location of a bird when it was harvested. These data are vital to estimating waterfowl species' annual survival rates and other important population trends.
Wood duck populations are currently considered to be increasing or remaining stable throughout much of their range. From 1959 to 1986, wood duck populations seemed to grow in the Atlantic and Mississippi flyways and elsewhere. Dr. Frank C. Bellrose, considered the world's authority on wood duck ecology and management, estimated that from 1959 to 1986 populations grew by 9 to 16 percent per year in the Mississippi Flyway and from 7 to 9 percent in the Atlantic Flyway. Respectively, approximately 1.07 million and 1.65 million pairs of breeding wood ducks were estimated in the Atlantic and Mississippi flyways during the 1980s. Band recovery data from the mid-1980s to 1999 indicate that wood duck populations may have increased in the Mississippi Flyway in recent years. However, much of this growth may have been in peripheral areas recently exploited by breeding wood ducks. Estimated numbers of breeding wood ducks in the Pacific (60,000) and Central flyways (76,000) are much less, but populations appear to be increasing there, primarily because of nest box programs.
Several factors may have contributed to the overall population growth of wood ducks during the past few decades. Although drainage and clearing of bottomland hardwood forests continued, there was an increase in abundance and size of trees suitable for nesting by wood ducks, and a great increase in the numbers of beaver ponds and farm ponds. The wood duck's favorite habitats are bottomland hardwood forest and other densely vegetated areas, but the bird has also exploited habitats of "secondary quality." For example, wood ducks expanded their range into some habitats lacking ample bottomland hardwood forest, such as the northern parts of the Great Lakes states, areas of the Great Plains, and higher elevations of the Appalachian Mountains. Habitats such as sluggish prairie streams, marshes, and other locales that provide aquatic insects and some cavity trees or nest boxes can be beneficial to wood ducks. Because of severe population declines once incurred by wood ducks, it simply has taken time for the bird to reoccupy some habitats where it was formerly abundant, and to expand gradually into secondary habitats.
Despite existing techniques used to monitor wood duck populations, it remains difficult to know with a degree of precision how many wood ducks exist. The wood duck has a highly fragmented, forested breeding habitat across eastern North America. Also, wood ducks are extremely philopatric, meaning they tend to return to the same breeding location each year. Thus, these factors contribute to the difficulty of monitoring some subpopulations of wood ducks.
In 1997, the Wood Duck Population Monitoring Initiative was conceived. The objective of the initiative was to develop methods to 1) identify and estimate the size of subpopulations of wood ducks, 2) measure productivity of the birds, and 3) improve banding programs for wood ducks. Identification of subpopulations of wood ducks in North America is important so that region-specific management plans can be developed. One goal of the initiative is for biologists in eastern North America to leg-band more than 10,000 wood ducks annually, to derive meaningful survival estimates of the species. The objective of this goal for the eastern two flyways is apparently currently being satisfied. However, significant expansion of banding efforts would have to occur to provide reliable estimates for subpopulations of wood ducks within all of the flyways. Other techniques, such as monitoring of nest boxes and expansion of BBS routes, may be too logistically and financially prohibitive, at least at this time. Thus, there is current discussion over how wood duck population monitoring efforts will be enhanced in the future.
Wood ducks comprise approximately 10 percent or more of the annual duck harvest in the United States. Wood ducks were second, only to mallards, in total harvest in the Atlantic and Mississippi flyways in 25 of the past 30 years. From approximately 1959 to the late 1980s, total wood duck harvest increased in the United States, and was believed to be indicative of a general population increase. Approximately 560,000 and nearly 260,000 wood ducks were harvested in the Mississippi and Atlantic flyways, respectively, during that time; as few as 32,000 were harvested in the Pacific Flyway. In the 2000-2001 hunting season, between 1 and 1.3 million wood ducks were harvested in the United States. Thus, wood ducks continue to be especially popular among waterfowl hunters.
Establishing effective harvest strategies for wood ducks is challenging because the species' population size is difficult to estimate. Because of the great decline in numbers of wood ducks in the early 20th century, and ongoing difficulty with estimating their population size, daily bag limits have been conservative. In 1941, the first year that wood ducks could be hunted legally in the United States since 1918, one or two wood ducks per hunter per day were permitted in parts of the Atlantic and Mississippi flyways. Most states, though, did not allow legal hunting of wood ducks until 1959 because of possible population declines. For the next several decades and through the present, conservative one- to two-bird bag limits have prevailed. However, in some years and states, bag limits have been more liberal, such as a legal daily limit of seven wood ducks in the Pacific Flyway during the 1975-76 hunting season.
Harvest management of wood ducks remains relatively conservative in the United States. In 1995, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) developed a waterfowl harvest management system termed Adaptive Harvest Management (AHM). AHM has several goals, but basically it seeks to provide a more systematic approach to establishing waterfowl hunting regulations. Hunting seasons of 20, 30, 45, or 60 days are established based on numbers of breeding pairs of mallards and prairie wetland ponds counted each year in May. During much of the 1990s, when breeding pairs of ducks and pothole wetlands were high, 60-day duck seasons existed from 1997-1998 to 2002-2003. That many consecutive lengthy seasons had not occurred in the two eastern flyways since the 1950s.
Biologists have been curious about how the liberal duck seasons might be affecting wood duck populations. In 2002, waterfowl researchers H.W. Heusmann and John McDonald analyzed wood duck population and harvest data from the Atlantic and Mississippi flyways. They subdivided the two flyways into six regions, based on the latitude of an individual state (i.e., Minnesota, New York, and others considered "northern," Pennsylvania, Iowa, and others were "middle," and North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and those farther south were "southern"). The researchers also examined numbers of hunters, wood duck harvests, and banding data. They determined that total wood duck harvests increased in both flyways during the liberal 60-day hunting seasons. Although this might have been expected, it was interesting because the increased harvest of wood ducks probably benefited southern hunters more than northern hunters. This is because northern wood ducks migrate earlier in fall than some other waterfowl species, and many wood ducks were probably present in southern states for the duration of the 60-day seasons.
The next logical question asked by Heusmann and McDonald was whether the increased harvest harmed wood duck populations. They evaluated the BBS and other breeding surveys and concluded that the long-term (1966-2000) and more short-term (1980-2000) data indicated maintenance or growth of wood duck populations in the Atlantic and Pacific flyways. Information available from the 1997-2002 liberal seasons suggests "population leveling" or even a reversal of the population trend. However, despite an apparent changing trend, there does not appear to be any indication that liberal hunting seasons have harmed wood duck populations.
Regardless of future harvest strategies, regulations will remain rather conservative because of the lack of efficient large-scale methods to assess the population status of wood ducks.
The 1930s marked the budding of the wildlife management profession. It also was the time when Dr. Bellrose and Arthur Hawkins initiated studies of wood ducks nesting in man-made nest structures (nest boxes) at Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge in Illinois. Since then, nest box programs have been popular among biologists and conservation-minded private citizens for studying and propagating wood ducks.
Today, it is estimated that 300,000 wood duck nest boxes produce 100,000 ducklings annually in North America. The use of nest boxes varies among regions, and basically is influenced by the availability of suitable natural tree cavities, the proximity of wetlands valuable to wood ducks, and other factors. In 1994, Dr. Bellrose estimated that states such as Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, and Ohio contain 7 percent of the wetlands important to waterfowl in the Mississippi Flyway, but only 17 percent of that land comprised hardwood forest. Alternatively, northern states such as Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin contain 41 percent of important wetlands in the Mississippi Flyway, but 31 percent of that landscape is covered by forest. Thus, the use of nest boxes generally is greater in mid-latitude or southern areas because of fewer natural tree cavities.
Regardless of geographic location, nest boxes that exist among quality brood habitats and that are properly maintained can increase local wood duck populations.
Basically, wood ducks need a cavity in which to nest, and an adjacent (one to three miles) wetland habitat that contains some trees, shrubs, or dense herbaceous vegetation that provides quantities of aquatic insects for ducklings. Generally, where such a substantial food base occurs and natural tree cavities are sparse, there may be significant use of nest boxes.
Habitat is one critical factor that influences waterfowl populations in North America. Ducks Unlimited prides itself on partnering with various governmental and other agencies to protect and restore habitats critical for waterfowl, wetlands, and other environments. Because of the extensive breeding and wintering range of the wood duck, DU's habitat projects in nearly every state could benefit wood ducks at some time during the birds' annual biological activities.
In the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV), the region extending from southeast Missouri to southern Louisiana, more than 24 million acres of bottomland hardwood forest were once present; only 4.5 million acres remain today. Thus, DU continues to partner with several agencies to deliver habitat restoration projects. The Wetland Reserve Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service, has been invaluable to wood duck and other waterfowl habitat restoration efforts. To date, DU has helped plant 33.9 million seedlings of bottomland hardwood forest tree species on 160,000 acres in the MAV.
In addition, 31,000 acres of wetland hydrology have also been restored there. In Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana alone, 16 million tree seedlings have been planted since the 1990s. Restoration of bottomland hardwood forest and associated wetlands will provide abundant food, natural nesting cavities, space, and critical environmental benefits. Such habitat restoration efforts are measures to help ensure the welfare of wood ducks and myriad other species of North American wildlife.


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Polk County Home Prices
Published: Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 12:20 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 12:20 a.m.
Are home prices being artificially inflated in Polk County by investment companies? One investment company, reports the Polk County Property Appraiser, has bought 154 properties in Polk County from Oct. 22 through Jan. 3.
Are investment companies setting us up for another real estate downturn in our local economy? By removing houses from the market, home prices inflate (supply vs. demand), but will this open us up to another rash of foreclosures in a couple of years? (As of Jan. 8, the Federal National Mortgage Association owns 378 properties in Polk County.)
How can the average home buyer compete against this kind of investor? Yes, homes sales may be increasing in Polk County, but not all are by owner-occupant buyers. Who's your neighbor?
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OAKLAND -- As a player who did not commit an error in 110 games in center field this season, Coco Crisp would seem to qualify as a prime Gold Glove Award candidate.
But in what will come as a shock to Oakland players and fans -- as it was to Crisp himself -- he has no chance. He wasn't even on the ballot distributed to coaches and managers, because he was deemed ineligible by the Rawlings Sporting Goods Co., which sets the guidelines and oversees the award.
According to Rawlings, which informed the A's that Crisp was ineligible after the club's media relations department asked if he had been inadvertently overlooked, the outfielder didn't meet one of two key minimum playing requirements to be considered.
Rawlings' rules state that a player must have played 95 games and 713 innings at his position by the 141st game of the season -- 67 percent in both categories. Crisp easily met the innings requirement by playing 779 innings, but he fell two games short with 93.
"I guess that's it then," said Crisp, who didn't know of his ineligibility until Wednesday. "Thanks for the news. It's still all good, though."
Had Crisp's games and innings been calculated over a full 162-full season, he would have met the minimum percentage qualification in both categories. But Rawlings sets a cutoff for its statistical guidelines after the first 141 games so ballots can be distributed to meet voting deadlines.
"We were well aware of who was on the cut line and we knew this was going to come up with somebody," said Rawlings representative Kurt Hunzeker. "Coco is a Rawlings guy, so it stung a little more just because it was him."
Hunzeker said the 141-game cutoff is 13 more thanlast season, when the cutoff was 128 games.
"That's the one wrinkle (from MLB)," Hunzeker said. "But it's a pretty big wrinkle."
Hunzeker agreed that innings played may be a more accurate indicator of a defensive player's qualifications for the Gold Glove than games played, and maintained he will push for "either/or" standards for games and innings next year.
Ultimately, Hunzeker hopes to have Gold Glove voting take place after the season. Under the current system, media relations reps from baseball's 30 teams need a time buffer to distribute and collect ballots from each club's manager and coaches. He said digital voting was offered to all teams for the first time this year, but only two teams took advantage of it.
Future improvements won't help Crisp this year, however. Gold Glove ballots already have been cast and the winners will be announced during a one-hour, ESPN2 "Baseball Tonight" primetime special on Oct. 29, which will be an off-day between Games 5 and 6 of the World Series, barring rainouts.
Rawlings has received much criticism over the years from players and media over the way the Gold Glove voting is conducted. The company still smarts from awarding a Gold Glove to Texas first baseman Rafael Palmeiro in 1999, when he started 128 games as the designated hitter and 28 games at first.
In recent years, the company has tried to improve how the best fielders are judged by closer aligning its qualifying standards to MLB's own sanctioned awards. This year, the Sabermetric Defensive Index (SDI) -- where Crisp figured to have rated highly -- was introduced as another instrument to help determine the best fielders at every position.
It was clearly Rawlings' 141-game cutoff on Sept. 8 that proved to be Crisp's undoing, since he played in virtually every game over the final three weeks.
Crisp is the first player to fall just short of the company's minimum qualifying rules. Two years ago, the defending Gold Glove winner at catcher, Joe Mauer of the Minnesota Twins, missed qualifying by one game.


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- Jan 17:
- 49ers' Kaepernick says his game plays well in any venue
- 49ers' Harbaugh says his team is ready for Seahawks
- 49ers' Rogers declares himself 100 percent
- 49ers hope to wipe smile off Marshawn Lynch's face
- 49ers near full strength for NFC Championship against Seattle Seahawks
- No penalty, but $7,875 fine for 49ers' Anquan Boldin
- Former 49ers exec Carmen Policy pokes fun at Seahawks fans
- Remembering the Seattle Seahawks' exec who helped build the 49ers
- Jim Harbaugh's $8 pants: 49ers coach gets new Levi's gear but can't wear it vs. Seahawks
- Thompson: Ahmad Brooks grows up
- Purdy: Super Bowl ring belongs on Frank Gore's hand
RENTON, Wash. -- Seattle Seahawks receiver Percy Harvin is officially out for Sunday's NFC Championship Game against the 49ers.
Coach Pete Carroll made the formal announcement shortly after practice here Friday, a decision that came as no surprise.
Harvin sustained a concussion last Saturday in the divisional round game against the New Orleans Saints and had yet to get clearance from doctors to return from practice.
"Obviously, we miss Percy Harvin a lot,'' quarterback Russell Wilson said. "We missed him all year. He's a tremendous football player. He knows how to play the game -- so physical, so fast. He brings an excitement to the game.
"But we played without him all year. And obviously, his health comes first."
Sidelined by a hip injury for all but one game during the regular season, Harvin missed both of Seattle's games against the 49ers. While with the Minnesota Vikings in 2012, Harvin had 89 receiving yards in a Week 3 victory over the 49ers.


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SAN JOSE -- SaberCats coach Darren Arbet has called it a season of adversity for his Arena Football League team, which has placed nearly a dozen players on injured reserve and relied on a rookie quarterback after its starter was lost to injury.
Adversity has rarely looked so good.
With five touchdown passes from rookie Nathan Stanley and the defense applying heat in the trenches and the secondary, the SaberCats rolled to a 55-28 victory over the Spokane Shock in a playoff opener Saturday night at SAP Center.
San Jose moves on to play next weekend against top-seeded Arizona or fourth-seeded Portland.
The SaberCats, seeded second, built a four-touchdown halftime lead Saturday as Ken Fontenette had two of the team's three interceptions, Jason Stewart had 3½ sacks and Stanley tossed scoring strikes to three receivers, including two to fellow rookie Dominique Curry.
"We played well on both sides of the ball," Stanley said. "Our defense did great, took a lot of pressure off of our offense, and our offense played well. Receivers got open, and our O-line did a phenomenal job."
The SaberCats (14-5) led 31-0 by the time Spokane scored its first points, a 5-yard touchdown pass from Erik Meyer to Mike Washington with 7:07 left in the third quarter.
San Jose answered that score with Stanley's fifth touchdown pass, all but clinching a trip to next weekend's conference final.
"He's been playing great," Arbet said of his quarterback. "He's focused. The thing I like about him is it means something to him, and the guys really believe in him. They're really fighting for him."
Russ Michna, who has had an injury-plagued season, was activated Saturday, but Arbet stuck with the rookie.
"Russ practiced two days this week," said Arbet, who also co-owns the team.
"Nate's been playing. He's hot. We've been winning. There are some things Russ still needs to get stronger at and work on. He knows that. When he's ready to go, it's a great choice to have."
As usual, there were early fireworks on the field Saturday.
After a high-voltage pyrotechnic pregame show, Spokane (11-8) had a great shot to take a quick lead when Meyer lofted a 33-yard pass to Washington, who was smashed into the padded sideline wall at the 1.
But three plays later, David Hyland swiped a pass in the end zone and returned the interception along the sideline to midfield.
Stanley cashed in the turnover with a 13-yard pass to Curry as the SaberCats grabbed a 7-0 lead.
Spokane threatened again on its next series, with another long pass from Meyer to Washington helping the Shock reach the San Jose 3.
But penalties and the SaberCats' defense stymied the opportunity.
Stanley made it 14-0 when he fired a 29-yard strike to streaking receiver Ben Nelson for a touchdown.
Fontenette followed another San Jose sack with an interception, completing a dominant opening quarter by the home team. Fontenette finished with 10 tackles.
"It was the fastest we've started all season," he said. "But I still think our best football has yet to come. We wanted to be on a steady incline going into the playoffs, and that's what we're doing."
Follow Darren Sabedra on Twitter at twitter.com/DarrenSabedra.
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Top donors to lawmaker's aides
In a term-limits world for lawmakers, aides get freebies too
Gifts for legislative aides
Trips to see Professional Bull Riders were among the freebies given to legislative staffers in 2012. Those seeking influence in the statehouse pay attention to staffers as well as lawmakers because, with term limits, the staffers may well be there longer. Click through to count down to the top staff donor.
Teachers union
California Teachers Association spent about $700 last year on meals for legislative aides at a lobbying day reception catered by Edible Events and an election night event at the Sheraton Grand in Sacramento.
Amgen spent more than $1,000 on staff meals at the Old Ebbitt Grill in Washington and for airfare, transportation and meals for a legislative fellow to attend a scholar's symposium.
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. spent roughly $1,100 last year on legislative aides at a breakfast, Mayahuel and Mcgrath's Elegant Catering. Kaiser also provided lunch and gift baskets to staffers at the grand opening of a medical center in Anaheim and refreshments for a Let's Get Health California Task Force meeting.
Wireless trade group
CTIA-The Wireless Association, which represents the wireless communications industry, spent about $1,350 on aides, most of it toward a reception.
Sempra Energy spent about $1,450 on staff gifts. The list includes meals and refreshments for a host of aides across the state, including the Fish Market in San Diego. Sempra also send a lawmaker's field deputy to an Angels home game in Anaheim.
Bridgepoint Education provided some $1,650 in staff gifts. The company paid for a district director to attend a $420 Los Angeles Lakers game, another district director to attend a $150 dinner and a handful of aides to attend the Holiday Bowl sponsored by Bridgepoint.
Chamber of Commerce
California Chamber of Commerce spent about $1,700 last year to feed legislative staffers and consultants at various venues and events, including the Sutter Club, Esquire Grill, the former Spataro, and from Griselda's Catering and Costco.
Del Mar
Del Mar Thoroughbred Club gave out $2,800 in racetrack passes and meals to staffers, most assigned a valued of $305 each.
P, G and E
Pacific Gas and Electric spent close to $3,100 on meals and tickets for staffers. Gifts included passes and meals at the U.S. Open Championship, tickets to see the World Series Champion San Francisco Giants and rounds of golf at Wildhorse Golf Course in Davis.
Comcast spent about $3,100 on legislative staffer gifts. A good portion of that went to food, beverage and movie tickets for a wide swath of aides. The movie packages ranged in value, with most clocking in at $19 to $38 each. Comcast also paid for various meals.
Edison International and subsidiaries spent nearly $4,700 on legislative aide gifts. Among the freebies were meals and beverages at Spataro and Chops and tickets and parking passes to see the Sacramento Kings take on the Oklahoma City Thunder, Los Angeles Clippers and San Antonio Spurs, among others.
Walt Disney Co. gave more than $5,500 worth of theme park passes, movie screening tickets and meals to legislative aides. In addition to passes to Disneyland Park and Walt Disney World Resort, staffers took in screenings of "The Avengers" and "Wreck-It Ralph."
Insurance association
Association of California Life and Health Insurance Companies dropped $9,950 on legislative aides, much of that going for them to accompany their bosses at an event at Pebble Beach. The food and lodging was not subject to the $420 gift limit because they participated on a panel.
A, T and T
AT&T and its affiliates dished out more than $27,000 in meals, parking passes and event tickets to see the Sacramento Kings, Blake Shelton, WWE Raw and Sesame Street Live. Many of the events took place in Sacramento, including Cirque du Soleil, Monster Jam, Disney on Ice and Professional Bull Riders.


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The Hands-Free Orgasm: It's Real
Latinas have the highest rates of cervical cancer of all groups of women, and although it's one of the easiest cancers to prevent, we are more likely to die from it than non-Latino women. What can we do? Get annual pap test regularly starting at age 21. In fact, 6 in 10 cervical cancer cases occur in women who have never received a pap test or have not been tested in five or more years.
Contrary to popular belief, Latinas are actually over 95 percent likely to use contraceptives whether they are single or married; religious or non-religious.
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Price tag switch alleged
Published: Monday, September 9, 2013 at 3:28 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, September 9, 2013 at 10:14 p.m.
A Thibodaux man is accused of switching price tags on fishing gear in Wal-Mart.
Clint Ambrose, 39, 919 Serenity Drive, took the more expensive UPC codes off the rods he purchased and replaced them with those from two lower-cost labels at the Thibodaux Wal-Mart, 410 N. Canal Blvd., police said.
Ambrose was still in the store when officers arrived, and he admitted to the switch, police said. He was ticketed.
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From the creators of Devotional Classics and Spiritual Classics comes 25 Books Every Christian Should Read, the definitive guide to the most spiritually influential and important books for Christians to read. Renovaré, a community of Christians promoting personal and spiritual renewal, put together a prestigious editorial board including Richard Foster, Dallas Willard, Phyllis Tickle, and Richard Rohr, resulting in this wonderful resource for exploring the richness of the Christian tradition.
For more than twenty years Renovaré has pioneered the use of spiritual classics for deepening our lives of discipleship. Their highly praised compendiums Devotional Classics and Spiritual Classics have sold 500,000 copies. Now they have put together a prestigious editorial board and polled respected Christian leaders and thinkers from a variety of Christian traditions, including Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant, to present the twenty-five most spiritually influential and important books for Christians to read.
There are books that should be shaping the church, our faith, and our engagement in the world. From timeless classics like The Imitation of Christ to unexpected selections like Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 25 Books Every Christian Should Read provides historical background for each work and explains its importance for modern Christians, while including selected readings from every book to get you started. In addition, each chapter ends with discussion questions to the work for use in small groups or for personal reflection. 25 Books Every Christian Should Read is a pivotal resource for the future of Christianity, an invitation into the fullness and richness of the Christian tradition.
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- On Sale: 09/13/2011
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GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Jarrod Parker has very high expectations of himself, to the degree that he called his 2013 season "mediocre" on Monday and not one that left him terribly satisfied.
His ERA went up a half a run from the previous year to 3.97, he gave up 14 more home runs, and he finished with one less win even though he made more starts while finishing 12-8.
On the other hand, counting the playoffs, Parker exceeded 200 innings for the first time in his pro career, had a 19-start unbeaten streak -- longest in franchise history since Lefty Grove in 1931 -- and won his only playoff start against Detroit in the American League Division Series.
Most pitchers wouldn't call that mediocre, but that's the bar Parker sets.
"I want to be great and continue getting where I need to be," he said. "I always look and think there are adjustments that could have been made. There are just a lot of things you aren't content with in a mediocre season. And in my mind, it was. I want to be better."
Parker's season might have looked a whole lot better if not for his April start. Following a rocky spring training, he opened 2013 with an 0-4 record and an 8.10 ERA as opponents hit .374 against him.
Hence, this spring, the 25-year-old right-hander is intent on getting off to a more focused and productive start. That goal didn't look like it was making much headway Monday when Parker gave up four runs in the first inning to the Dodgers -- including a three-run home run to Andre Ethier and a solo shot to Juan Uribe -- in a game that wound up an 8-8 tie.
At that point, Parker's spring ERA had soared to over 17 in three spring appearances. But Parker settled down and allowed just one hit the rest of the way, striking out five, including three straight to finish his outing. He got the ERA down to 10.61 with his subsequent 32/3 innings of scoreless work.
Parker was less concerned about the numbers than his mental approach, one that he feels impacted him in 2013 in getting off to such a horrible start.
"The first inning early on last year I was just trying to settle in a little bit, when I don't really think I need to do that," he said. "It's not conducive to the way I need to pitch. From hitter one, I need to be aggressive with a good mentality."
Manager Bob Melvin thought Parker was ready to come out blazing against the Dodgers but was more than satisfied with his young pitcher's outing. Parker remains one of three candidates to be the opening-day starter.
"He threw really well, and he was prepared to get after it in the first inning, they just hit some first pitches and then Ethier hit the homer off him," Melvin said. "But after that, I thought he settled in very nicely."
Melvin understands Parker wants to eliminate the "settle in" part, however, and the manager has been encouraging that approach in Parker throughout the spring.
"He wants to be on it right away," he said. "It's a good mindset to have."
"He's having really good at-bats now, he's not trying to pull the ball, he's staying within himself," Melvin said. "He has plenty of power to hit home runs to any field."
"That's one of the things he's not used to doing, picking balls at first base," Melvin said. "He'll get more comfortable doing it, and he looks good over there. Like I've said before, his hands play anywhere, so we don't feel like it's going to be a problem."
Taylor is in a battle for the last outfield spot with Sam Fuld, who has an out in his contract to become a free agent if he doesn't make the team.


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PARKERSBURG - Bob Wilkens knows what's it like to live on the streets.
The 51-year-old Cleveland, Ohio, native came to Parkersburg expecting to have a job and a place to live, but when he got here, family members told him he had neither and he found himself dropped off at the Salvation Army. That was back in 2001.
"I found myself trapped here," said the father of three.
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Bob Wilkens, 51, is coming back to Parkersburg to work with the Latrobe Street Mission project. Wilkens was homeless on the streets of Parkersburg and hopes to help others in a similar situation recover.
Wilkens said he was directed to the Department of Health and Human Services.
"Then I started hitting the pavement looking for work. It's tough to find a job here. I was able to find a couple of odd jobs," he said, noting he sometimes panhandled for money for food.
He could only stay at the Salvation Army till 4:30 and only for eight weeks. "Then you couldn't come back for a year. It was cold when I was here. There are only so many job applications you can do in one day," he said. He walked all over trying to find a place to get inside to stay warm. "But you keep getting thrown out of places for loitering."
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At one point he was able to get a subsidy for rent for an apartment and find a telemarketing job. When he lost his job, he had to leave his apartment and once again found himself out on the streets. He stayed with family for a period of time, but was unable to stay there.
"I freaked out. I didn't know what I was going to do," Wilkens said. He said he was drinking alcohol to cope. "I've been sober for more than a year now. I quit all by myself."
"I really didn't know anyone else. That first night I was homeless again, I stayed near the Salvation Army in a shelter, and someone offered me a spare tent they had," he said. "It was getting cold. I had no choice in the matter," he said. At first they stayed in the woods off Seventh Street for awhile. "It was good spot, only a hill behind you and you could see anyone coming. You have to be on guard constantly when you're on the streets,. Everyday is a gamble; when you leave your campsite, you don't know what you're going to find when you come back. We ended up down by the river," he said.
Wilkens said he met Shad and Amy Martin through the soup kitchen at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church.
"They used to come down once a week and drop off food, socks, water, canned food. They would check up on us once a week. I told them about my situation. I was about at the end of my rope. I wouldn't have made it through the winter living outside. I think he could see I was a go-getter, and he said he knew someone at a mission in Clarksburg and he might be able to get me in there. Shad came back about a week later and said he found a place for me. I was on top of the world, someplace to go, a decent job opportunity. He picked me up and took me to Clarksburg. I started doing volunteer work. They saw how much effort I put in and they hired me," Wilkens said.
Wilkens said the director there told him about Shad setting up a mission in Parkersburg and asked if he was interested.
"I've been here three or four times meeting with Shad. I'm going to be a dorm manager, like I have been doing in Clarksburg," he said.
Wilkens said he had always been busy and he couldn't believe it when he found himself homeless.
"It can happen to anyone. One day you just don't have a job, then you don't have a place to live. Being alone, it does affect you," he said. Wilkens said he's looking forward to the opportunity to work in the new mission here.
"Knowing I might be able to reach out to someone and help them through my own experience. I figure if I can get out, anyone can do it. Some people don't want to be helped. I am looking forward to reaching out to somebody else that needs it. People often stereotype the homeless. They aren't bums. Many have hidden talents," Wilkens said. "Homelessness doesn't discriminate. It can happen to anyone, and it's a growing problem."
Shad Martin with Not for Sale Ministries said plans are moving ahead to convert the former Gustke youth facility on Latrobe Street into a shelter. In March, Wood County commissioners agreed to donate the 1611 Latrobe St. property to the Not For Sale Ministries once that group obtained nonprofit status. The youth shelter expanded and was relocated to a St. Marys Avenue site more than seven years ago. By law, the commission must offer county-owned property at public auction unless they are transferring ownership to a nonprofit or other governmental entity.
After announcing availability of the property to see if there was interest, both the Lynn Street Church of Christ and NFS Ministries came forward. Commissioners asked the two groups to work together to come up with a proposal for the property.
Martin began working with the Lynn Street Church of Christ and Courage to Change Ministries to tie the projects together. Martin said the target date to begin the ministries at the Lynn Street location is Nov. 1 and it will probably be next spring before the Latrobe Street property is ready. Brenda Ridgeway has been hired as the director for the mission shelter.
"Bob will be a dorm supervisor, and we're excited to have him back in Parkersburg," Shad Martin said, noting Wilkens' experience will be plus. "It's always easier to help other people when you have been in the place they are at," Shad said.


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juju 1
A style of music popular among the Yoruba in Nigeria and characterized by the use of guitars and variable-pitch drums.
Example sentences
- Perhaps Nigeria's most popular form of music is juju, which uses traditional drums and percussion instruments to back up vocals and complicated guitar work.
- The multifaceted man of mystery might mask his identity, but there's no hiding the vivacious grooves woven into his blend of highlife, juju, R&B and a touch of rock.
- Like Fela, he's politically outspoken and, like Sunny, he paints in bright colours - highlife and juju meet modern funkiness.
Perhaps from Yoruba jo jo 'dance'.
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juju 2
1A charm or fetish, especially of a type used by some West African peoples.
Example sentences
- These Sun jujus are made from recycled mardi gras beads based on a spiritcatcher/voodoo doll; hang this juju in a window near a door and it will help ward off evil spirits from your home or workplace.
- Some people carry jujus around with them all of which have been blessed by a Priest or Priestess to keep them safe.
1.1Supernatural power attributed to a charm or fetish: juju and witchcraft
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- But for some it was an exercise in calming the nerves as the belief in the power of muti or juju set in.
- After a horrible storm or war, or anytime a lot of people die, is there some sort of bad vibe or negative juju imprinted on the landscape?
- No matter what sort of threat a politician is, usurping free will is pretty bad juju, as least as far as I understand things.
Early 17th century: of West African origin, perhaps from French joujou 'toy'.
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Heart Disease Health Center
Obese, Diabetic Youths Have Artery Plaque
May 26, 2009 -- Teens and young adults who are obese or have type 2 diabetes show early warning signs of heart disease, a new study shows.
Researchers from Cincinnati Children's Hospital used ultrasound imaging to confirm the presence of fatty plaque buildup in the carotid arteries of young people who were obese or had type 2 diabetes. Carotid arteries are found in the neck and carry blood from the heart to the brain.
Compared to normal-weight youths, the carotid arteries of obese youths and diabetic youths were thicker and stiffer, according to study findings.
Carotid artery thickness and stiffness are risk factors for heart attack and stroke in adults.
Evidence of plaque buildup in this critical artery early in life strongly suggests that the obesity epidemic in children will have a dramatic impact on heart and vascular disease rates in the years to come, study authors say.
"Because this damage is progressive and has started so early, this may be the first generation that has a shorter life expectancy than their parents," said lead researcher Elaine Urbina, MD, who is director of preventive cardiology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
Obesity and Heart Disease
The study included 128 children, teens, and young adults (age range 10 to 24) with type 2 diabetes, which is strongly associated with obesity; 136 obese young people without diabetes; and 182 age-matched youth without diabetes who were not overweight.
The average age of the study participants was 18.
Not surprisingly, those with obesity or type 2 diabetes were more likely than the normal-weight youths to have several traditional heart disease risk factors, including high blood pressure and high cholesterol. But these differences only partly explained the significant changes in carotid artery thickness and stiffness.
The participants with type 2 diabetes had the most plague buildup in their carotid arteries, but non-diabetic obese participants were not far behind, and both groups displayed similar significant increases in carotid artery stiffness compared to lean controls.
Urbina says this suggests that obesity-related artery damage may be occurring long before obesity-related diseases do.
"It appears that this functional abnormality is already present in obese youth well before they go on to develop type 2 diabetes," she tells WebMD.
The new research appears in the latest issue of the American Heart Association journal Circulation.


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P.D. James is best known for her Chief-Inspector (later Commander) Adam Dalgliesh series.
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The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously, and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills.
The New York Times called Shroud for a Nightingale "mystery at its best."
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The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest
In The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest, players assume the role of Aragorn to take on his greatest quests from The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Wielding a sword, shield, bow and spear, fans will battle enemies, lead armies and journey through a colorful and fresh rendition of Middle-earth. Players can even switch between spear and sword on horseback; taking down evil foes in an action-packed gameplay experience. Two-player co-op gameplay featuring Gandalf allows kids, families and friends to work together in the heart of the action.
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3.15-6 Tortious Interference - Actual Loss
Revised to January 1, 2008
If you find that the defendant
tortiously interfered with the plaintiff's <insert contract or business
expectancy>, then you must decide if the plaintiff has proven that
(he/she/it) suffered an actual loss as a result of that interference. The
plaintiff must prove that but for the tortious interference, there was a
reasonable probability that the plaintiff would have entered into a
(contract / business relationship with <name of contracting party> or
made a profit from <identify source of profit>. The mere possibility
of entering into a contract or making a profit is not enough. However, the
plaintiff need not prove the specific amount of the loss in order to
establish that (he/she/it) suffered an actual loss.
Hi-Ho Tower, Inc. v. Com-Tronics, Inc., 255 Conn. 20, 29-30 n.8 (2000) (approving instruction that required
"reasonable degree of certainty"); Goldman v. Feinberg, 130 Conn.
671, 674-76 (1944) (holding that a "reasonable probability" is required);
DiNapoli v. Cooke, 43 Conn. App. 419, 428 (1996) (requiring a
"reasonable probability"); Selby v. Pelletier, 1 Conn. App. 320, 323
(1984) (holding that "reasonable probability" of making a profit is
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With the United States District Court for Western New York striking down the seven-round provision of the New York SAFE Act on Dec. 31, the sheriffs of Livingston, Steuben and Allegany counties have said they will not enforce the provision.
The federal court, in a ruling written by U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny, upheld most provisions of the law, which has drawn lawsuits and statewide protests.
"This court finds that the challenged provisions of the SAFE Act — including the act's definition and regulation of assault weapons and its ban on large-capacity magazines — further the state's important interest in public safety, and do not impermissibly infringe on plaintiffs' Second Amendment rights," Skretny decided.
"But, the seven-round limit fails the relevant test because the purported link between the ban and the state's interest is tenuous, strained, and unsupported in the record," he continued.
New York state is expected to appeal that part of the court's ruling.
"Based on this court decision, the Livingston County Sheriff's Office will not enforce the seven-round limit at this time," the department said in a news release announcing Dougherty's decision.
In an email, Allegany County Sheriff Rick Whitney said, "It is my opinion that the decision of the Western District Court makes that provision of the SAFE Act unenforceable."
Steuben County Sheriff Dave Cole said of the court's decision, "It recognizes the backward logic of the law, which essentially would disadvantage a person even in their own home by requiring them to disarm themselves and the court has ruled that it's just improper."
All three sheriff's offices have noted that they will revert back to the 10-round limit for enforcement.
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