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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of its continuing effort to reduce public burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To request more information on the below proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan and instruments, call 404-639-7570 or send comments to LeRoy Richardson, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an email to email@example.com.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, including through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and (e) estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise disclose the information. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.
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Virtual Reality to Train and Assess Emergency Responders (OMB No. 0920-0975, expires 07/31/2016)—Revision—National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
NIOSH, under 91 as amended by 95 (Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977), and Public Law 109-236 (Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006) has the responsibility to conduct research to improve working conditions and to prevent accidents and occupational diseases in underground coal and metal/nonmetal mines in the U.S.
The turn of the 21st century started with much promise for the coal mining industry. Because there was only one underground disaster in the 1990s, it seemed that emergency response in the United States no longer needed to be a top research priority. However, major coal mine disasters between 2001 and 2010 have resulted in 65 fatalities. These events highlighted the critical need to balance investments to reduce low probability/high severity events with those that focus on frequent, but less severe injuries and illnesses.
The present research project seeks to determine optimal use of virtual reality (VR) technologies for training and assessing mine emergency responders using the Mine Rescue and Escape Training Laboratory (MRET Lab). Responders include specially trained individuals, such as mine rescue or fire brigade team members, and also managers and miners who may either be called upon to respond to an emergency situation or engage in self-protective actions in response to an emergency. This project is a step toward determining how new immersive virtual reality technologies should be used for miner training and testing in the US.
The project objective will be achieved through specific aims in two related areas as illustrated below.
Training Assessment
1. Evaluate four training modules.
2. Evaluate participant reactions.
3. Develop guidelines.
Training Development
4. Use 3D technologies to develop a prototype for a mine rescue closed-circuit breathing apparatus (e.g., Dräger BG4).
To accomplish these goals over the life of the project, researchers will utilize a variety of data collection strategies, including self-report pre- and post-test instruments for assessing trainee reaction and measuring learning. Data collection will take place with approximately 210 underground coal miners over three years. The respondents targeted for this study include rank-and-file miners, mine rescue team members, and mine safety and health professionals. A sample of 210 individuals will be collected from various mining operations and mine rescue teams which have agreed to participate. All participants will be between the ages of 18 and 65, currently employed, and living in the United States. Findings will be used to improve the safety and health of underground coal miners by assessing the efficacy of immersive VR environments for teaching critical mine safety and health skills.
To assess learning as a result of training, each participant will complete a pre-training questionnaire, a post-simulation questionnaire, and a post-training questionnaire. Participants evaluating the closed-circuit breathing apparatus training will only complete a version of the pre-training questionnaire. There is no cost to respondents other than their time.
As stated previously in the previously approved information collection request, research activities involving rank-and-file underground coal miners who participate in the mine escape training may occur at either the MRET Lab or in an off-site classroom or other typical instructional setting either at an above-ground mine safety training facility, mine administration building, or a university or academic environment (hereinto referenced as the "classroom setting"). Having these two subsamples allows us to better assess uses for VR training applications, determine the potential additive value of training provided in the MRET Lab, and the potential benefits of adapting simulation-based mine emergency training to a broader audience. To accommodate an appropriate amount of mine escape participants for both the MRET Lab modules and classroom settings, we are requesting a revision in order to add 60 more participants to our 150 participant data collection cap, which would ideally leave us with 30 BG4 participants, 60 mine rescue participants (MRET Lab), 60 mine escape participants (MRET Lab), and 60 mine escape participants (classroom setting), for a new grand total of 210 participants.
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|Mine Rescue participants
|Pre-Training Questionnaire
|Post-Simulation Questionnaire
|Post-Training Questionnaire
|Mine Escape participants
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|Mine Escape/Longwall Mining participants
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LeRoy A. Richardson
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Existing medical countermeasures target the molecular interactions between nerve agents and proteins involved in neural signaling. Neurons can communicate with each other or stimulate muscle cells by releasing a chemical called acetylcholine. Nerve agents and organophosphate pesticides bind and inhibit a protein called acetylcholinesterase (AChE), which normally breaks down acetylcholine after a stimulated neuron has released it. The acute symptoms of nerve agent and organophosphate exposure are due to excess acetylcholine that persists after its release and continues to stimulate nerve endings in the brain, muscles, and secretory glands. Although this route of nerve excitation is considered to be the major focus for drug intervention, other neurotransmission pathways in the body that can be affected by toxic chemicals may need to be assessed separately for the development of potential interventions.
The U.S. military adopted pyridostigmine bromide (PB), an FDA-approved treatment for myasthenia gravis (an autoimmune disease characterized by extreme muscle weakness), for the pretreatment of soman (a nerve gas) poisoning. PB competes with the nerve agent by reversibly attaching to AChE prior to nerve agent exposure, thus avoiding the toxic effects of excessive acetylcholine stimulation. PB has limited usefulness after exposure to a nerve agent and is approved for use in military populations against only one of several nerve agents that could be used in an attack.
The standard treatment for nerve agent and organophosphate poisoning includes a 2-PAM, and benzodiazepine anticonvulsants, such as diazepam. Atropine blocks acetylcholine receptors in certain tissues, drying secretions and reducing smooth muscle contraction. Oximes free AChE from the chemical nerve agent and have their most marked effect on skeletal muscle strength. The only oxime approved for use in the United States against nerve agents is pralidoxime chloride (2-PAM). This oxime is also indicated as an antidote for organophosphate insecticide poisoning and to control overdosage of anticholinesterase drugs in the treatment of myasthenia gravis. The Strategic National Stockpile CHEMPACKs, which have been distributed around the United States for deployment in case of a chemical attack or accident, contain military "Mark I" adult autoinjectors with atropine and 2-PAM, diazepam autoinjectors, pediatric atropine autoinjectors, and multi-use vials of 2-PAM and diazepam.
These current treatments for nerve agent or organophosphate exposure have significant disadvantages. Multiple doses of atropine and 2-PAM may be necessary in order to be effective. Atropine does not relieve nerve agent effects on skeletal muscles. Oximes are ineffective once the AChE-nerve agent complex has undergone "aging," a chemical change that permanently inactivates AChE. Aging can happen within minutes of exposure to some of the nerve agents, such as soman. Although diazepam is an effective treatment for nerve agent-induced seizures during about the first 40 minutes after exposure, it is less useful later. Benzodiazepine anticonvulsants also carry risks of excessive sedation and respiratory depression. No treatments are currently available to prevent or reduce neurodegeneration resulting from prolonged seizures, anoxia, or the direct effects of chemical agents.
Diagnosis following an acute exposure to a nerve agent is generally based on clinical observations of specific symptoms. Environmental sensors may provide valuable information on probable chemical exposure. One of the greatest challenges in diagnosis is determining whether an individual exposed to a nerve agent is experiencing chemically induced seizure activity in the absence of visible convulsions, since the chemicals that trigger seizures may also cause unconsciousness or paralysis. Sustained seizure activity that is uncontrolled can result in permanent brain injury and death. The standard test for seizure activity involves placing electrodes on the scalp to record electrical activity in the brain using electroencephalography (EEG). Such devices are not portable and have limited practical value in evaluating patients in a mass casualty situation.
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Governor LePage discusses future of Maine's National Guard BattalionUPDATED 5:36 PM EDT May 27, 2014
The 133rd Engineering Battalion could be moving to Pennsylvania. WMTW News 8 Political Reporter Paul Merrill has the latest developments.Video Transcript
IT WAS APRIL 30TH WHEN NEWS FIRST BROKE THAT THE MAINE NATIONAL GUARD'S 133RD ENGINEER BATALLION COULD BE MOVING TO PENNSYLVANIA. TODAY, WE'RE GETTING SOME EXPLANATIONS FROM GOVERNOR LEPAGE AND THE STATE'S TOP SOLDIER. WMTW NEWS EIGHT POLITICAL REPORTER PAUL MERRILL JOINS US WITH THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS, PAUL? áááÑ IN AN UNANNOUNCED IN AN UNANNOUNCED PRESS CONFERENCE THIS MORNING, GOVERNOR LEPAGE AND BRIGADIER GENERAL JAMES CAMPBELL SAID, IDEALLY, THEY'D LIKE MAINE'S NATIONAL GUARD FORCE TO EXPAND BUT, REALISTICALLY, THEY'RE GETTING READY FOR THE PENTAGON TO MAKE SOME MAJOR CHANGES. Maine:) "We probably ended up getting ahead of ourselves - like maybe two or three years." TOGETHER IN PUBLIC FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE NEWS BROKE, GOVERNOR LEPAGE AND GENERAL CAMPBELL ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT THEIR ONGOING DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING THE FUTURE OF THE MAINE NATIONAL GUARD'S 133RD ENGINEERING BATTALION. Maine:) "When the general gets involved, he looked at it from the standpoint of: if we're going to be forced to do some retrenchments, where and what can we get for it?" GENERAL CAMPBELL SAYS HE'S BEEN TOLD THAT ABOUT 20 PERCENT OF THE GUARD'S HEAVY CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER UNITS ARE GOING TO BE EITHER CONVERTED OR CUT IN THE NEXT FEDERAL BUDGET CYCLE. EVEN MORE CUTS COULD BE COMING BECAUSE OF THE CUTS KNOWN AS SEQUESTRATION. "We don't want to do this. We're not going to volunteer for it. What we've said to the National Guard is: if the worst case happens, we would rather convert a unit than have it eliminated entirely." CAMPBELL SAYS THE GUARD IS GROWING INFANTRY UNITS AND IS PLANNING TO ADD ONE IN NEW ENGLAND. HE WANTS MAINE TO BE IN THE RUNNING. THE 133RD IS THE OLDEST NATIONAL GUARD UNIT IN MAINE. ITS MEMBERS HELPED REBUILD AFTER THE 1998 ICE STORM. THEY'VE ALSO TAKEN PART IN COMMUNITY PROJECTS, INCLUDING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS AT CASCO'S CAMP SUNSHINE. "Interacting with the Guard has been such a privilege for all us here at camp because they do remind us of the good that our military does not only on the front when they're sent off to fight wars but also here in our own communities." ENGINEERING BATALLION SOLDIERS WOULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR RETRAINING. CAMPBELL SAYS HE'S BEEN KEEPING HIS HIGHER-UPS IN CAMPBELL SAYS HE'S BEEN KEEPING HIS HIGHER-UPS IN THE LOOP. "At no time have we told them that this is going to be imminent. This is all based on actions that are actually outside the control of the State of Maine." áááÑ GOVERNOR LEPAGE SAYS HE'S BEEN LOBBYING BOTH THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE PENTAGON. HE ALSO SAYS THERE'S A CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE THAT'S LOOKING INTO THE GUARD'S FUTURE. HE AND THE GENERAL AREN'T EXPECTING ANY DECISIONS FROM WASHINGTON UNTIL LATE NEXT YEAR OR EARLY 2016. LIVE IN THE STUDIO, PAUL
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Soha Ali Khan finds Irfan Pathan charming
Soha seems to have a soft corner for cricketers. She revealed not long ago that she had a crush on Rahul Dravid once. So, it didn't come as a surprise when she expressed her admiration for Irfan Pathan, who he met on her game show recently. She however said that she has never thought of marrying a cricketer.
She is currently busy promoting her film Tum Mile, which is releasing tomorrow, 13th November. She acts with serial kisser Emraan Hashmi in the film.


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By Adam Brady
ANAHEIM – If tonight's Anaheim-Montreal battle was – as many dubbed it – a possible Stanley Cup Final preview, that certainly bodes well for the red-hot Ducks.
Anaheim got goals from Francois Beauchemin, Rickard Rakell and Cam Fowler, along with an outstanding performance from goalie John Gibson, in a 3-1 defeat of the Canadiens before a sellout crowd of 17,174 at Honda Center.
It was the fourth straight win for the Ducks and a two-game season sweep of the Eastern Conference front-running Habs, including a 2-1 victory in Montreal on December 18. The win, the seventh in their last eight, also moved the Ducks back into a familiar spot – the top of the NHL standings with 91 points (42-17-7).
Gibson earned his fourth win in his last five games and followed up a 39-save night in Dallas on Sunday with 37 stops tonight. "We knew it was a big game coming in," Gibson said. "It was a battle for first place in the league. We pay attention to that stuff, too. It was a big game, and it was nice."
The Ducks got on the board in fine fashion 6 1/2 minutes into the first when Kyle Palmieri sprinted into the Montreal zone and dished the puck off to Beauchemin, who rang it home off the far post from the right wing. That goal was the eighth of the season and tied a career high for Beauchemin, who actually played one game in 2002-03 for Montreal, the team that drafted him in 1998.
"It was a nice breakout, and a matter of jumping up into the play and making myself available for Palmy," Beauchemin said. "He made a nice pass and I got it on net and got a goal out of it. It won't happen every game, but lately it seems to be working more often than not."
Anaheim made it 2-0 a little more than halfway through the second with the help of another former Canadien. Hampus Lindholm's shot from the point kicked off goalie Carey Price and Jiri Sekac kept the puck alive, allowing Rakell to punch in the rebound. It was the third point in five games with Anaheim for Sekac, whom the Ducks acquired in a trade with Montreal last week.
"I'm not going to lie. It's a pretty good feeling, and I'm very happy we beat the Habs," Sekac said. "Nothing gets better than beating the team you used to play for."
In that trade, the Habs got former Ducks winger Devante Smith-Pelly, who had four shots and 12:44 of ice time in his first game back in Anaheim.
The Ducks went up three goals with 2:02 left, seconds after a Clayton Stoner delay of game penalty and a Montreal empty net gave the Habs a two-man advantage. Right off the faceoff, Fowler slung the puck toward the Canadiens' end, and it bounced into the abandoned net.
Montreal got its first goal with 1:41 left, a one-timer by Alex Galchenyuk from inside the crease that spoiled the shutout on Gibson's otherwise sparkling night.
"I thought the team did a really good job," Gibson said. "There were a couple of chances in the first period, but after that I thought they really kept a lot of it on the outside. That made my job easier."
The Ducks will look to keep it going against another Eastern Conference power and another recently traded player, as Ben Lovejoy and the Pittsburgh Penguins come to Honda Center on Friday night.


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Raising Mabel – New mum, new skillz
Over the last few weeks I have found myself in some fairly hair-raising situations. Some of them have been really quite amusingly horrendous. The trouble is, when you're all alone apart from the wailing 5 week old on your hip, there's nothing else for it – you just have to find a way through. There's no one to turn to for some commiseration, you just have to grit your teeth, force a smile and think, 'in half an hour I'll be able to laugh at this', (maybe a little longer depending on the severity of the incident). Finding solutions to getting around seemingly impossible tasks, remaining unscathed against all odds, has started to become quite an art. Such is the feeling of unbelievable accomplishment at times, I wish I had a video camera following my every move so I could show my husband when he gets in from work and say, 'Look. Just you look at what I managed to survive today.'
Every day mothers the world over battle through tremendous adversity in the form of a stack of what once were the most simple of everyday tasks. To celebrate such feats I am dedicating this moment to some of the new-found skills I am proud to have acquired and which I'm sure many of you mums out there picked up long ago. When you have one of those 'power to the mum' moments this week, feel free to add it to the list.
NB for any of you who are unfamiliar with the following tasks – many are harder than they sound. Believe me.
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1) Showering in 45 seconds flat whilst simultaneously attending to a baby on a mat outside the shower door/bouncing a baby bouncer with one wet foot protruding from behind the shower curtain.
2) Applying a full face of make-up with one hand (baby in the other). Particular achievement it found in applying mascara whilst bobbing up and down at a rapid pace.
3) Making/eating cereal with one hand whilst standing, baby on hip. The ironing board makes a useful higher surface under these circumstances. The key to minimal milk dribblage lies in getting the bowl as close to your face as possible with no hands. Intense.
4) Getting baby, handbag/nappy bag, blanket, coat, brolly etc singlehandedly down 3 flights of stairs to the bottom of the hall and loaded onto the pram without dropping said baby. It is important to note that, unless you fancy carrying the whole lot up again, only one trip is possible. If you accidently leave something in the flat, even if it is your sanity, it stays in the flat.
5) Changing a nappy in public in the pram/on a bench/on pretty much any available flat surface, whilst avoiding any 'al fresco' canon-like explosions that may emerge from her bottom, and whilst trying to keep her (and your own) dignity intact. Taxing.
6) Pushing the pram with one hand whilst talking on the phone/opening doors/carrying shopping/hoovering/blow-drying your hair.
7) Bumping a pram up 2 flights of stairs without waking the baby (or breaking your back).
8) Carrying the baby on your front in a sling, whilst also carrying your handbag. Then managing to retrieve your purse from your handbag when attempting to make a purchase. This had me foxed for at least 5 minutes.
9) Standing on the moving subway with a baby strapped to your front whilst bobbing up and down to stop them crying, without falling over. Unfortunately ones dignity is hard to salvage with this one. Just try not to make eye contact with anyone.
10) Typing an email with one hand. Make that your left hand. Slow.
These are just the first ten that sprung to mind. Sometimes it feels like every moment in any given 24 hour period holds it's own Everest. But instead of throwing myself off the Forth Road Bridge, I'm just going to give myself a pat on the back and a big well done. I think we all should. And then pour ourselves a large glass of wine.


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Top Green Spa: The Spa Ritual in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
A quiet hallway at The Spa Ritual
Every guest visit to The Spa Ritual in Calgary, Canada, begins with a slipper ceremony. An attendant asks the client to take a seat and remove her shoes, thereby "leaving the outdoors behind and embarking on a path inward to rejuvenation," says president and founder Shauna Walker, who borrowed from Southeast Asian traditions in designing the ritual. The client then trades her footwear for sanitized slippers from Thailand, while her shoes are placed in a gift bag that's green in both hue and origin: Made from non-woven, recyclable plastics, the bag can be reused for shopping. It's just one of the many eco-savvy touches that help elevate this spa to Top Honors status.
The Spa Ritual, a 7,000-square-foot destination/day spa hybrid, was one of the founding members of the Green Spa Network before the Thai-inspired sanctuary even opened its doors in 2008.
And while its sustainability practices can seem humble when compared with some of its solar panel–bedecked, grey water–using peers, what makes this facility notable is that much of its green-fighting spirit is generated from within its day-to-day working ranks. For example, The Spa Ritual created a dedicated Green Committee early in its inception. Comprised of spa directors and representatives from different service departments, the committee meets monthly to discuss new initiatives for furthering sustainability.
"We're currently trying to find ways to incentivize staff and guests to use public transit when traveling to the spa," Walker says. "We're also trying to encourage volunteering for green events in the community."
Past committee decisions have resulted in the spa implementing programmable lighting and HVAC systems to reduce energy use; paperless appointment reminders, electronic guest surveys, and e-birthday and thank-you cards; water-efficient showerheads, toilets and tap aerators; recycled paper products including bath and facial tissues and paper towels; eco-friendly washing machines and detergents; and electric fireplaces.
All these efforts have paid off with high-profile distinctions from SpaFinder—including a 2011 Readers' Choice Award—and the 2010 Industry Award for Sustainability from Leading Spas of Canada. Accolades aside, the spa has also endured its share of uphill climbing in its quest to be green.
"We struggle to find staff that are fully committed to our green philosophy; and when we first opened, there was no citywide recycling program and we had to outsource to find companies to come pick up our recyclables," Walker says. "Still, I have always been very passionate about spa. It peaked when my husband and I traveled to Thailand. We fell in love with the people and the high level of gracious hospitality. Our goal here is to achieve that same level while also engaging our clients and staff in our ongoing mission toward greater planetary wellness."—Katie O'Reilly
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18-wheeler crash in Arlington; driver dead
Update: The driver was pulled from the truck at 8 p.m. — dead.
Update: As of 7:30 p.m. crews had still not pulled the driver from the truck. Doesn't look good.
Emergency crews in Arlington were working to extract the driver from an 18-wheeler that went off Interstate 20, just past State Highway 360, about 4:15 p.m. and crashed into a culvert.
Arlington Police Department spokeswoman Tiara Richard said the driver was believed to be dead "but getting to the driver has been a challenge because the cab of the truck is pretty badly destroyed."
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Brian Duff makes his Stanley Cup Playoff predictions
Wednesday, 04.11.2012 / 11:27 AM ET / News
By Brian Duff - Sabres TV Host (@duffersabres)
I know that I waited until the last possible minute, but I have finally succumbed to the pressure and am ready to deliver on my predictions for this year's Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Eastern Conference
Rangers vs Senators
In Ottawa's 11th game of the season, they found themselves down 4-1 to the Rangers at MSG with less than 12 minutes to go. The Sens prevailed in a shootout 5-4. I was in the minority at the start of the year believing Ottawa would absolutely contend for a playoff spot, and definitely see this as a series having huge potential for an upset.
Pick: Rangers in 7
Bruins vs Capitals
The Caps won when they had to down the stretch, including a snoozefest at the Garden in a shootout en route to three wins in four in the season series. But even with a healthy Nicklas Backstrom, I can't see the Bruins failing in round one.
Pick: Bruins in 5
Panthers vs Devils
This series will be a lot more entertaining than some are expecting. Both teams, and both coaches, have a lot to prove. The season series proved that no lead is safe and I think overtime will be a common occurrence.
Pick: Devils in 6
Penguins vs Flyers
When they met in consecutive playoffs in 2008 and 2009 it was great. Now it's at a whole new level. So much star power, so much depth, and so much hatred (in a sporting kind of way). Goaltending and depth at all positions are the biggest keys.
Pick: Penguins in 7
Western Conference
Canucks vs Kings
When they met in the spring of 2010, goaltending was a big issue - for both teams! That may not be entirely fair but lets just say the goalies weren't the best penalty killers out there. Six games produced 43 goals. Six games this year might produce 18. If Jonathan Quick can allow seven or less in the series, it could get real interesting.
Pick: Canucks in 6
Blues vs Sharks
Blue collar heroes. That's what this series will be all about. Expect physical intensity so common that you might not even realize how "heavy" these guys are playing shift after shift.
Pick: Blues in 7
Coyotes vs Blackhawks
At the end of the day, the return of Jonathan Toews is important for the Hawks but I don't believe it's critical. Chicago has enough skill to win this series, so long as they have the will to match it.
Pick: Blackhawks in 7
Predators vs Red Wings
For me, the toughest series to pick. Almost impossible to even think of picking against Datsyuk, Lidstrom, Zetterberg, et al this early. Hard not to believe that Nashville finally has enough depth to push a little deeper.
Pick: Predators in 7
Round two winners: Devils, Penguins, Blackhawks, Predators
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Because of the increasing amount of flu in the area, Pardee Hospital has implemented the following visitor restrictions to help prevent the spread of flu and for the protection of its patients:
The number of visitors will be limited to only those essential for patient support (one person if possible). Children under 18 will not be allowed to visit (due to the rising number of swine flu cases in this age group). Visitors should not come to the hospital to visit if they are sick. Family members and visitors may be asked to wear a mask while visiting. Visitors should wash their hands before entering the patient's room and immediately upon exiting the patient's room.
During this time, Pardee Hospital also reminds the community to participate in respiratory etiquette such as covering your mouth and nose when sneezing or coughing and observing the proper hand washing techniques.
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Northumberland Dairy in Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada, recently expanded its processing facility, making room for additional processing capacity. Included in the extension was a new automated empty case handling system from Westfalia's Deam Systems division, involving depalletizing, destacking and washing and transporting cases.
Founded in 1942, Northumberland Dairy has been committed to consistently achieving and exceeding the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's plant standards. The company says the new empty case handling system is one more example of this commitment.
Difficulties were arising from Northumberland's manual depalletizing operations where the top-out destacking system was too slow to accommodate rising demand, and the case washing system was old and inefficient. The Westfalia solution includes a case stack depalletizer, stack conveyors with three to one merging, a bottom-out destacker, and wheel drives transferring cases overhead to a new case washer. Clean cases are then color sorted with a Westfalia case reject system, and accepted cases then transported to production on a new cable conveyor supplied by Westfalia.
Constructed of stainless steel, the entire system is suitable for wash-down, as is typical in dairy or beverage production. From the point of entry where forklift drivers place a full pallet of seven-high case stacks onto the depalletizer, the system is fully automated. Using "clamp and lift" technology and at a rate of two to three pallets per minute, the depalletizer removes stacks from the pallet onto three stack conveyors, which merge into one conveyor leading into the destacking machine. The bottom-out destacker operates at rates of up to 90 cases per minute and discharges cases onto a wheel drive that transfers them via a vertical up-chute to the new case washer located on an overhead mezzanine. After running through the new steam cleaning washer, cases are conveyed on a cable conveyor through a color sensing case sorting unit, where rejected cases are pushed off and accepted cases are released to production.
The system has enabled Northumberland to reduce labor costs, achieve higher operating speeds and improve washing efficiency. "Northumberland chose Westfalia's depalletizing system based on the performance of equipment previously purchased from Westfalia and on the genuine interest Westfalia showed towards designing a system that would meet all our requirements," explains Randy Guimond, Northumberland's Dairy plant director.
"We were particularly impressed with the fact that Westfalia chose to send three representatives to our facility for supervision of installation and commissioning. It's not unheard of for manufacturers to leave customers hanging near the end of a project, but Westfalia saw it through to completion and still provided support and advice, as required."


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At Gearbox Gifts, we aim to offer a great range of car gifts for everyone who has a passion for cars and classic cars. With a vast range of car gift ideas for men including lifestyle car gifts, office car gifts, clothing, artwork and much more, our products ranges are updated continuously.
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Get Ready To Suit Up In The Crysis 3 Multiplayer Open Beta
Crysis fans: Get a taste of what it's like to become a deadly predator in multiplayer starting next week. The Crysis 3 Multiplayer Open Beta (on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and of course, Origin) launches on January 29, and continues up to February 12. Check out a little bit of the multiplayer progression, as you level up your character to rank 10 and customize your Nanosuit with all-new weapons, attachments, and suit modules. You can also check out the New York Feed, which provides specific challenges (generated by factors such as your performance and whatever multiplayer match you join) that reward you with XP upon completion. Challenges could range from simple "get X amount of kills in a match" to "destroy a giant robot with just a flagpole." Completing these challenges not only grants you XP, but will also generate tailored/further/future challenges for your friends to compete in—think of it like Need for Speed's Autolog but with the Crysis filter.
You can use The Crysis 3 Multiplayer Beta to get a lay of the land in two maps: Museum (ruins of a dark museum located in downtown Manhattan) and Airport (an open field flourishing with flora amidst a decaying airport in the financial district). With these maps, you can play two different modes: Hunter and Crash Site (the final game will have twelve maps and eight modes). Hunter lets you experience the perspectives of both the Nanosuited and the non-Nanosuited soldier. The match starts with two "Hunters" (Nanosuit soldiers who are permanently cloaked) and up to 14 CELL troopers (your traditional grunts) awaiting extraction. Whenever a Hunter kills a CELL trooper, the CELL player respawns as a Hunter. The Hunters win when they sneakily take out the entire CELL team, but if there is at least one CELL trooper still standing when the clock winds down, the CELL players win, ,. Whether you prefer stalking around with the Nanosuit or coordinating team maneuvers as a soldier, the Hunter mode offers fascinating gameplay opportunities.
Crash Site serves as the Crysis 3 interpretation of the classic King of the Hill mode. Here, an alien dropship randomly deploys a pod somewhere on the map, and players need to hustle over and stand near the pod in order to capture the zone and start accumulating points for the team. To help you stand your ground, the pod will also have shields that you can wield for an extra layer of protection. There's also a nice tool for players on offense: each Crash Site map has a "Pinger"—aka a giant walking alien vehicle that can provide a lot of help to clear out the team that's currently squatting at the pod.
Until January 29 when the The Crysis 3 Multiplayer Open Beta launchs, check out more information and get ready to become a hunter.
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Federal judge in hospital-owner's fraud case scolds but stays even-keeled
U.S. District Judge Michael Schneider gently dispensed his admonishments yesterday when Dr. Tariq Mahmood, who faces 15 counts of Medicare fraud, suddenly sought approval to fire his lawyer, scrap last week's guilty-plea deal, and obtain yet another extension so he could proceed to trial.
Schneider, the son of an East Texas Methodist minister, has had plenty of practice after a decade on the federal bench and as a former Texas Supreme Court justice.
But the judge for the Eastern District of Texas makes it clear that he doesn't abide anyone pushing the envelope — whether it involves edgy legal maneuvering or sloppy threads.
He has had a little chaos to confront in his courtroom lately, as described in today's story. As of last Thursday, it appeared that the fraud case against the former Texas hospital chain owner was wrapped up. Mahmood's Houston lawyer Dan Cogdell cut a deal with prosecutors for him to admit to conspiring to commit health-care fraud. Then less than 24 hours after the plea-agreement notice was filed, Mahmood entered another motion to replace Cogdell and seek at least his third trial postponement so he could take his case to a jury.
In a Monday hearing in Tyler to review the Dallas businessman's request, Schneider only once came close to appearing rattled when he softly blurted, "This really, completely upsets everything." A 90-day extension was "out of the question," he told Mahmood before settling on a roughly 60-day postponement.


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The police pool party packed the Marietta aquatic center this morning.
Kids came from all over, lining up at the door waiting to meet police dogs, play on blow up slides and win prizes from the Marietta Police Department.
Raffle tickets at the door gave kids a chance to win toys and even bikes.
Officers say the party is a way for kids to get to know them outside of their job.
Officer Dianna Hively says the party has been very successful in the past and donations piled in this year so the kids could have a great time.
"Hopefully to understand that we are there for them, and it's a fun way for them to get to know us, not just in our line of duty," said Marietta Police Officer Dianna Hivley.
"Super fun!" said Rylea Durham, Marietta resident.
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Deregulation of protections against invasive species can have dire long-term economic consequences
This post contributed by Terence Houston, ESA Science Policy Analyst The debate over the economic consequences of federal regulations intended to curb the prevalence of invasive species continues on Capitol Hill. During a Sept. 14 hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Republican committee leaders released a report entitled "Broken Government: How the Administrative State has Broken President Obama's Promise...
From the Community: Colonizing the oceans, fact-checking nursery rhymes and urbanizing mollusks
Aquanaut describes plans to colonize the sea for education and conservation, a pitcher plant previously thought to be carnivorous has been wildly reclassified and the first condor egg in 100 years discovered in California. Here are news stories and studies on ecological science from the second week in March.


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Containment of the 32,000-acre Powerhouse Fire in the Angeles National Forest near Palmdale increased to 65 percent today, in part because of weaker winds and an increase in humidity. Winds reached a top speed of 20 mph and humidity rose to a relatively high 35 percent. Sixteen structures have been destroyed in the fire that began Thursday and is not expected to be fully contained until Monday, officials said.
Powerhouse fire 65 percent contained
Mild weather conditions tame the 32,000 acre fire near Palmdale
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Acral afflictions occurring as extension of a generalized cutaneous process, or as a counterpart of systemic disease, is the subject of this handsome volume. Although the topic has received frequent sporadic attention, this is the first attempt to assemble and categorize all facets of this capacious field.
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Since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, I have heard this statement at least 100 times, "the world would be better off if guns had never been invented."
Well now, the same thing could also be said for knives, bows and arrows, automobiles and nuclear weapons. The hard fact is that these items are now a part of modern society and there is no known way to turn the water back across the falls.
Since the beginning of time, man has strived to make weapons that would give him power and be able to defend himself against unfriendly forces.
A human being is relatively weak in nature when compared to the brute strength of the large beasts that are on this planet. This is the primary reason why man has wanted to increase the power of his blows and the distance in which he could strike them.
At the same time, he wanted the weapons to be simple and as fool-proof as possible.
On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of innocent people of all ages were murdered by a small group of fanatics who were willing to forfeit their own lives to kill as many civilians as they could.
The nation's gun ban lobby saw this as an opportunity to launch a new wave of strict gun laws against law-abiding gun owners. Fortunately, their argument and objectives fell on deaf ears. Many of the nation's citizens responded to assume responsibility for their own personal protection, their families and property.
The people at large began to stand up for their constitutional freedoms that have made this nation different and great from all other nations in the world.
In West Virginia, I have often said the number of privately owned firearms far exceeds the state's population.
Having a gun in the home is just as common as a piece of furniture or refrigerator.
Sport hunting is an excellent reason to own a gun or several guns. Different kinds of game animals call for different types of firearms. While many white-tail deer are taken with bows and arrows in this state, the fast majority are taken with firearms.
We all know that close to a quarter of a million hunters will be in the woods and forests during the traditional two-week buck gun season in our state.
The statewide squirrel season is now two weeks away. The leaves will still be heavy at that time. Most hunters will likely be using scatter or shot guns loaded with small shot (No. 4 or smaller). I doubt if I will be in the woods on Sept. 10.
I will most likely be watching or listening to the West Virginia University Football game and hoping that West Virginia University will be cleaning up on Norfolk State University.
Many gun enthusiasts enjoy the challenge of punching holes in paper targets at various distances. Shooting accurately or target shooting is a challenging sport. Many people enjoy the sense of achievement at being able to place their shots at exactly where they want them to go.
Self-defense is by far the best reason for anyone to own a gun. The police cannot and do not have the obligation to protect all citizens every minute of the day or night. Therefore, it is up to the individual to provide his or her own protection.
To deny anyone the constitutional right to defend himself or herself from physical harm has to be a serious crime against humanity.
Owning a firearm for self-defense has to be one of the most basic of all human rights.


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[Editor's note: This is part one of a multi-part series on the use of prior knowledge in literacy. It originally appeared in a slightly different form at Tim Shanahan's blog, Shanahan on Reading.]
An idea heavily promoted in Common Core (CCSS) discussions is the notion that we shouldn't talk about students' "prior knowledge," and that avoiding such discussions somehow "levels the playing field" when it comes to learning to read. Researchers in the cognitive sciences rediscovered the importance of people's knowledge in learning and comprehension back in the 1970s (revisiting ideas previously explored by Bartlett, Kant, Plato, etc.).
Research findings were very clear: Readers comprehend more when a text overlaps with their knowledge of the world, and they comprehend less when there is less such information in their minds.
Research also has shown benefits from increasing students' prior knowledge (it is "prior" in the sense that readers knew it before the author told them). And even reminding students that they have relevant knowledge prior to reading can bear fruit.
Why is prior knowledge so useful to readers? There are many reasons, but certainly a basic one is that the availability of such information reduces how painstaking reading...
Media Contact:Michelle Lerner[email protected]202-223-5452Washington, D.C. (November 19, 2014) — The Thomas B. Fordham Institute has launched a new study to evaluate the quality and content alignment of PARCC, Smarter Balanced, and ACT Aspire to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Fordham's study will be published in summer 2015.As part of the effort, Fordham will also evaluate the 2014 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), a high-quality state assessment, for Common Core alignment under an agreement with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education."The promise of the Common Core State Standards, implemented faithfully, is improved education and life outcomes for millions of American children," noted...
Common Core has the potential to shift and drastically improve math instruction in American schools, but its detractors have marshalled a raucous opposition to its proposed changes. We've already examined the questionable arguments against Common Core literacy standards; now we're turning our sights to math.
September's Intelligence Squared U.S. debate pitted Fordham President Michael J. Petrilli and the Center for American Progress's Carmel Martin against the American Enterprise Institute's Rick Hess and New York principal Carol Burris. Hess and Burris are two of Common Core's most eloquent and energetic critics, but the position they mounted against the initiative's math standards is not a strong one. It can essentially be boiled down to three points:
1.) The standards confuse children.
This is perhaps the most common critique of Common Core math. As the new standards have been implemented (seldom perfectly) in participating states, districts, and schools, children have sometimes been assigned math problems that would make a structural engineer scratch her head. Parents accustomed to the "classic style" of teaching math—long worksheets of standard algorithms with one or two word problems...
There's apprehension in some ed-reform circles that things have gone sideways.
There's the resistance to Common Core coming from the right and the left. There's frustration with ESEA waivers. There's the mess in Newark. There are twelve students demanding Harvard divorce Teach for America.
But each of these is, of course, an anecdote, and "data" is not the plural of "anecdote." So are these chapters in a larger backlash-to-reform narrative, or are they just well-publicized exceptions to the reform-is-winning rule?
I've spent some time going through four recent surveys of the views of the public, educators, parents, and insiders. They offer encouragement to the reform community, though with one important exception. In short, many of today's most prominent reforms are quite popular, but it looks like folks are perturbed by a meddlesome Uncle Sam. (If you have time, I recommend your taking a gander at the data from Education Next, Phi Delta Kappan, Whiteboard Advisors, and Education Post.)
Consistent with public opinion data going back decades, today's Americans think their local schools are doing fine, but they think schools in...
I confess I'm somewhat bewildered by the passionate arguments over the Common Core State Standards. Getting in high dudgeon about K–12 learning standards, which say almost nothing about what kids do in school all day, makes no more sense to me than getting apoplectic about food-handling procedures, which I seldom think about when pushing my cart through the grocery store. In New York City, where I live, architects seem grimly determined of late to litter the skyline with strange new monstrosities, each a greater eyesore than the last. It had not occurred to me to blame Gotham's building codes.
I expect an argument when I assign my students Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Mill, and Hayek. But standards? They are dry, unlovely things.
But no matter. I come neither to praise nor bury the Common Core State Standards, now widely regarded as a "damaged brand" and a political piñata. But I do wish to point out that the standards enshrine several sound education ideas that have long been near and dear to conservatives. If Common Core disappears tomorrow, the considerable energy that has gone into fighting the standards ought to be redirected toward ensuring their survival. If not, conservatives may win a pyrrhic...
Call it the Iron Law of Pedagogy: Every good teaching idea becomes a bad idea the moment it hardens into orthodoxy.
The latest example might be "close reading," which has become yet another hot-button issue among Common Core critics. But complaints about it bother me less than its potential overuse, or the creeping notion that close reading is what all reading instruction should look like under Common Core. That would be bad for the standards, and even worse for reading achievement in the U.S.
Close reading is "an intensive analysis of a piece of text, in order to come to terms with what it says, how it says it, and what it means," writes literacy expert Tim Shanahan of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Common Core expects students to "read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text."
Sounds simple, benign, even obvious. Would anyone not want students to be able to do this? Close reading for evidence and to support inferences is a...
Though the occasional political firecracker still flares across the night sky, as of mid-2014 it seems likely that most of the forty-six jurisdictions that originally embraced the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) will stick with them.
That's a seismic development for American public education, but whether it produces a 1.0 or an 8.0 on the Richter scale remains to be seen. It depends on (1) the thoroughness of implementation, (2) the selection (and scoring) of assessments, and (3) perhaps most of all, the ways in which results revealed by those assessments affect the lives of real people and their schools.
Today, all three are up for grabs.
The most important thing to know about the Common Core standards is that learning what they say you should learn is supposed to make you ready for both college and career, i.e., for a seamless move from twelfth grade into the freshman year at a standard-issue college, where you will be welcomed into credit-bearing courses that you will be ready to master.
That's the concept. It's a really important one and the main justification for the heavy lifting and disruption that these standards...
Among opponents of the Common Core, one of the more popular targets of vitriol is the standards' focus on improving literacy by introducing higher levels of textual complexity into the instructional mix. The move to challenge students with more knotty, grade-level reading material represents a shift away from decades of general adherence to so-called "instructional level theory," which encourages children to read texts pitched at or slightly above the student's individual reading level. New York public school principal Carol Burris, an outspoken standards critic and defender of leveled reading, recently published an anti-Common Core missive on the Washington Post's Answer Sheet blog that was fairly typical of the form. Where, she wondered, "is the research to support: close reading, increased Lexile levels, the use of informational texts, and other questionable practices in the primary grades?"
The blog post, which has already been intelligently critiqued by Ann Whalen at Education Post, expanded on remarks delivered by Burris earlier this month at an Intelligence Squared U.S. debate with Fordham president Michael...
For over a year, I've been encouraging Common Core advocates to stop endlessly re-litigating the standards and instead to focus on getting implementation right. Taking my own advice last week, I traveled to Reno to see first-hand the work of the Core Task Project, the initiative driving implementation of the standards in Washoe County, Nevada.
It was a refreshing and invigorating visit. Common Core is not without controversy anywhere. But Reno seems to have largely sidestepped some of the more heated battles. Washoe County's implementation has become something of a national model—being one of four case studies highlighted in Fordham's report Common Core in the Districts, published in February 2014.
Reno's relative peace can be explained, I think, by several factors. First and foremost, under the leadership of curriculum and instruction specialist Aaron Grossman, implementation has focused on the right things—including building a coherent body of knowledge across and within grades (one of the broad "instructional shifts," along with reading for evidence and a greater focus on complex and nonfiction text)—that are easy to rally around and hard to dismiss as unimportant.
But more importantly,...
On September 9th, the Fordham Institute's Mike Petrilli participated in an Intelligence Squared U.S. debate on the Common Core, along with Carmel Martin, Carol Burris, and Rick Hess. These are his opening comments, as prepared for delivery. Or watch the video, embedded below, starting at minute 07:15.
Let me tell you a bit about the game plan that Carmel and I have sketched out.
First, I'm going to talk about the motion. What does it mean to "embrace the Common Core"?
Then I'm going to discuss the problems that the Common Core is designed to address—the problems with our education system and, frankly, with some of our previous education reform efforts.
Carmel will take up the potential of the Common Core to help narrow the achievement gaps in this country; the role that evidence and educators played in the development of the standards; and the issue of implementation—how it's going and how we can help...


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A Failure to Launch for Howard, Rockets
It's easy to forget that for as long as some players have been in the league, they've never fully pushed themselves over the hump of expectations—that remaining unsatisfyingly mortal is more often than not the norm in a sport where just one team will win it all at the end of the year. Dwight Howard is nearing that point: He's nearly 30, and won just a single game in his sole trip to the NBA Finals with the Orlando Magic in 2009.
It seems implausible that his tumultuous career—the botched exit from Orlando, the layover in Los Angeles—should have produced such few tangible results for a player of his ability, but after his Houston Rockets gave away Game 1 of their opening playoff round against the Portland Trailblazers on Sunday night, you wouldn't be faulted for wondering why. The Rockets were up 10 with four minutes left in regulation, yet ended up losing in overtime after a career performance from Portland's LaMarcus Aldridge. Worst, Houston's attack dog of a point guard Patrick Beverley may have reaggravated a nagging right knee problem. "There were no great speeches out of Howard for this great loss, only an unspoken promise that things had changed with him, that all these young Rockets could come to the gym on Monday and Tuesday and see for themselves: back to work, back to the grind," writes Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski. "All hell broke loose in Houston on Sunday night, and Howard had come to be the voice of reason, the voice of experience."
That's the beauty of the playoffs, though, in which surprisingly stiff teams can't afford to linger on their mistakes—not when the next chance comes a few days later. One could whinge about how Howard never does as much as he's supposed to, or they could watch a seething Houston reassert their territory. "They have precious little time to lament what transpired; instead they must rapidly refocus and resume the process of crafting – and adhering to – a game plan that can send this series back to the Pacific Northwest tied at a game apiece," writes NBA.com's Jason Friedman. "Because no matter what your favorite talk show host's jump-to-conclusions mat might say, this matchup is only getting started."
The opening weekend was about upending expectations, inasmuch as several teams didn't do what they were supposed to do. The Chicago Bulls were supposed to pull the Washington Wizards through the effort grinder and leave them a bloodless heap: They didn't, instead pulling off one of those virtuosic scoreless performances—bricked jump shots missed by bricked putbacks until the end of time—as the Wizards didn't come unglued. The Toronto Raptors, bolstered by a boisterous general manager, were supposed to storm into their return to the playoffs: They didn't, allowing the veteran Brooklyn Nets to steal homecourt advantage. The Los Angeles Clippers were supposed to establish themselves as real contenders against a team missing its center: They didn't, and now the Golden State Warriors threaten to turn things into a shootout.
The most worrisome development, however, came from the Indiana Pacers, the East's number one seed despite a fallow finish to the regular season. They were practically blown out by an Atlanta Hawks team that didn't even finish near .500, who took advantage of the slumping Pacers by giving them a matchup nightmare to deal with. Witness center Roy Hibbert, who was pulled out of position by Hawks center Pero Antic's perimeter abilities and afterwards said that the Pacers were "ready to compete"—this, from the starting center of the team with the East's best record after Game 1 of the playoffs. "What really must have the Pacers worried his Hibbert's confidence," writes Sports on Earth's Shaun Powell. "His body language is gloomier than Seattle in winter." What must have them more worried is the possibility that their struggles weren't just in the mind's eye—that in a sport where the potential teased by months of buildup can be punctured in a few days, the Pacers might be in real trouble.
"Suddenly, the Pacers seem poised for a very hard and inexplicable fall," Bob Kravitz writes for the Indianapolis Star. "It's too early to write the epitaph on a once-great season gone terribly wrong, but the time is getting close." If they end up disappointing, perhaps they can form a support group with Howard.
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The first time this Fixer heard of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter came after listening to the Bob Dylan song that bore his name, and after seeing the Denzel Washington-starring film bearing his name that chronicled his life's ups and downs, beginning with a racially charged wrongful conviction for murder and ending with his triumphant release. For newer generations, Carter was less the number one contender for the middleweight title than he was a symbol of those hurt by injustice, and the path that must sometimes be ceaselessly walked in order to correct such wrongs. Carter, who died on Sunday from prostate cancer at the age of 76, could be eulogized in a thousand obituaries or one eight minute song. For all that happened in his life, his death brought the prickly reminder that the cause he represented and fought for in the later period of his life—the release of wrongfully convicted prisoners—is still very much necessary, with Carter's own unjustful release fought against for years by those who didn't want to admit they were wrong. Imagining how many other cases might hang in similar limbo is unsettling, even as Carter himself admitted that he wouldn't recommend 19 years spent in prison despite all of the good he'd been able to accomplish in the aftermath.
"'The Hurricane' devoted the rest of his life to projects that secured the release of innocent prisoners and campaigned powerfully against the death penalty – he was, after all, the living embodiment of the argument," writes The Guardian's Geoffrey Robertson, who served on Carter's legal team in 1976. "He died over Easter in the presence of John Artis, the friend who lost two decades of his own life as punishment for refusing to help the New Jersey police to send Rubin to the electric chair." What could have ended as a sad story became something instructive: It would be far easier to become champion of the world by punching someone in the face than by beating the proper path for as long as possible.
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The first of its kind in Mississippi, the Code Red Alert Notification System will deliver important messages from designated city officials to Meridian residents, as a whole or as precise as a city block or one street.
"It would affect the residents of the city of Meridian and notify them in the event of emergencies," said Bunky Partridge, director of homeland security. "We can notify up to 1500 people per minute of impending dangers, if they need to evacuate, a hurricane. We just feel read good about the citizens and confident the citizens will use it."
Notification of Haz-Mat spills, lost children or elderly people, evacuation notices, fires, bomb threats, hostage situations and weather alerts will be shared by recorded messages to your phone.
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The system has been on line for two weeks. The city said its goal is to have a complete database by the end of September. It's funded through a homeland security grant.
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Oil hovered above $93 a barrel Wednesday after a plunge the day before, when investors worried that U.S. crude supplies remain high and that the Federal Reserve could decide soon to reduce its economic stimulus program.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark U.S. crude for December delivery was up 39 cents to $93.43 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract dived $2.10 to close at a five-month low of $93.04 on Tuesday.
Oil prices tumbled Tuesday amid expectations that U.S. crude stocks will rise for the eighth straight week. Data for the week ended Nov. 8, due Thursday, are expected to show an increase in crude oil stocks of 1.8 million barrels, according to a survey of analysts by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos.
Concerns that the Fed could start reducing its bond purchases meant to stimulate economic growth also weighed on oil prices. The stimulus measures have helped boost the price of oil and other commodities, attracting investors hoping for better returns than the low interest rates on bonds.
Meanwhile, Brent crude, the international benchmark, added $1.31 to $107.12 a barrel on the ICE exchange in London.
Brent's strong advance was attributed mostly to continued unrest in Libya, were protests, strikes and production snags have prevented the country's oil industry — a key supplier to Europe — from stabilizing production anywhere near levels before the eight-month civil war in 2011 which overthrew dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
On Tuesday, Libya's official news agency said an oil refinery in the country's west was open again, a day after disgruntled former rebels halted production and occupied the facility. The refinery provides the country with 23 percent of its fuel needs.
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How to Scare Away A Job Recruiter
Want to scare away a new job this Halloween?
Apply to a job for which you are completely unqualified, then stalk the hiring manager with daily phone calls and emails to check on your application's status.
Forty-three percent of recruiters said they would "blacklist" a candidate for applying to irrelevant positions, according to a survey of 1,500 recruiters by Bullhorn, a recruiting software company.
Chances are someone isn't qualified for both a sales position and a PhD-level research job. "If you've seen a resume 20 times for 20 different jobs, you're never going to open the resume again," says Art Papas, CEO of Bullhorn. Recruiters will suppress an applicant's name from future searches if they pop up too many times for a wide variety of openings.
It's fine to apply to a job that may be a smidge above your skill level — perhaps something asking for 10 years of experience when you only have nine — but 13% of recruiters surveyed said that responding to a job post way above your experience level — say one that requires 20 years of work — would scare them away.
"There's a difference between being unqualified and aspirational," Papas says.
21% of the recruiters were turned off by applicants who exaggerate the truth about their qualifications in order to fit a job description.
There's also a difference between a slight exaggeration (saying you're a fast reader when you're probably about average) and an outright lie (claiming fluency in a foreign language when you can barely count to 10). The latter is a sign of "an integrity issue" that should be a huge red flag for recruiters, Papas says. It'll also likely come back to haunt the candidate if they manage to get the job.
Another turn-off for recruiters, according to the survey, is hounding the company for updates more than once a week. Eleven percent of respondents said they'd sour on an applicant who followed up every couple of days.
So is there a magic number when it comes to checking up on a job application? Papas says sending an email or leaving a message every week or two is perfectly acceptable, and even recommended. "That shows persistence" without being creepy, he says.
Further reading:
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The first couple of music, Beyonce and Jay Z, are officially kicking off their 21-date On the Run tour today in Miami. Unfortunately, I didn't get tickets to their show because they're only performing in New Jersey instead of NYC, and I refuse to go there again because the last time I went to N.J. for a concert, the drive home was bumper-to-bumper World War Z traffic. I was straight-up trying to Gchat with retired UN Secretary General Kofi Annan so he could air-lift a damn Luna bar to the Honda Acura I rented from Zipcar so I wouldn't die of hunger. Y'all, I'm too old to go through all that again, but that doesn't mean I'm not BEYOND excited about these amazing upcoming concerts, so without further ado, here are six things that I'm praying to Black Jesus a.k.a. Oprah about, in hopes of them happening during the On the Run tour.
First things first, explain exactly what the hell was happening in the On the Run trailer.__
I mean, at one point, Jay says his problem is that he likes BBQ, and Beyonce's robbery outfit consists of a white bra. In short, this video is a triple-decker sammich of cray. The whole time I was watching it, I had the same look on my face as when I watching the unnecessarily confusing American Hustle:
More Acting! As evidenced by their movie trailer, Bey and Jay like to be thespians (Jay is actually pretty good!), so it only makes sense that they should do a Ratchetpiece Theatre (which is just like PBS's Masterpiece Theatre, except it has about 1/16th the budget and all the wardrobe comes from Strawberry) reenactment of Lil Mama bum-rushing the stage during Jay Z and Alicia Keys' performance of "Empire State of Mind" at the 2009 MTV VMAs:
Jay Z plays Jay Z, of course, Beyonce will be Alicia Keys, and the role of Lil Mama requires not only someone who can look good rocking a bustier but can also walk around bopping her head along like she's shoe shopping in the mall and "Hey Soul Sister" came on the loudspeaker. I nominate former MTV reality star Tila Tequila:
Make a PSA mid-concert telling Kanye West to chill the f**k out. And this is coming from someone who really digs Yeezus. He makes awesome music, can rock a leather kilt, and his adorable daughter, North West, is the same shade as my favorite charcuterie board, which warms my heart. Hey, I really like snacks. The point is that Ye has so much going for him, and that why his contact attention-grabbing antics and outbursts are a total bummer. Someone needs to knock some sense into him. Who better than Jay?
Listen, Jay, I get it. Just like when I say to my boyfriend after he asks if I want to have sex just as a new episode of Bar Rescue comes on TV:
...so is trying to figure out if you should tell your bestie the harsh truth or remain quiet despite your bestie constantly making things awkward. But, please, on behalf of everyone on the planet, I beg of you to tell Kanye that doesn't have to talk about Kim Kardashian's greatness ad nauseam anymore.
Bey, make your bae—that's Jay Z—dance! Seriously, every time you two perform together, Jay stands still like a tetherball pole while you grind around him:
Look, I'm not asking for a lot here, just some simple Footloose choreography:
I know Jay can do it! He doesn't sag his pants anymore, so he should be able to master this duck walk without flashing his Fruit of the Looms at anybody.
Play the deep cuts! Normally, I'm all about artists not performing their B-sides at concerts because a lot of times the songs simply aren't that good, but this is a once-in-a-lifetime co-headlining experience. We've all heard "Crazy in Love" and "Bonnie & Clyde" a ton, so I think it's time for Bey and Jay to bust out these forgotten collabos:
"That's How You Like It"
"Lift Off" featuring Kanye West
"Part II (On the Run)"
Finally, Michelle Williams on standby the whole night when Beyonce's weave gets caught in a wind fan again:
__What are you most looking forward to happening during the On the Run tour?


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