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If you've been longing to learn shuttle tatting, or looking for a new craft that's fun, inexpensive and portable, this is the class for you. Marilee's warm and expert instruction will guide you through the tricky parts and send you on your way to creating lacy jewelry and tatted embellishments for quilts, paper crafts and more. You'll learn the basic lark's head knot and double stitch and how to create lace patterns with chains, rings and picots. Marilee shares pattern-reading skills and discusses where to find vintage patterns. She also helps you avoid or fix common mistakes. As a bonus, you'll learn a few more techniques: reverses, joins and beadwork, node stitch and floating and split rings. Use the skills you've learned to make little flowers and butterflies, floret earrings, a classic-edge bracelet, the beaded Rhapsody necklace and parfait snowflakes!
Meet Marilee Rockley, who will show you how simple and beautiful shuttle tatting can be!
The basic double stitch, or lark's head knot, is the hardest thing to master in shuttle tatting. Marilee guides you through!
Learn how to form a chain with picots, the decorative or functional loops that adorn your lace. Then turn your work to work in reverse!
Marilee shows you how to read patterns and shares the fun of seeking out vintage patterns.
Practice your tatting with little motifs that can be used on greeting cards.
Marilee shows you how to make a pair delightful earrings from start to finish.
The technique used to make this bracelet can be adapted to create edging for almost anything!
Make this charming accessory with or without beads. Marilee shows you how!
Learn about some common pitfalls in shuttle tatting and how to avoid or fix them.
Use two shuttles to work in the round to create a floating ring in one or two colors. You'll build a snowflake to incorporate in other designs or to use as an ornament.
The split ring and node stitch techniques are used to construct a dainty accessory.
Marilee shares a bonus lesson that include split chain, lock stitch chain, block tatting and split ring with bead to create beautiful earrings.
"I had never heard of shuttle tatting before I saw an advertisement of the 'shuttle tatting course'. I decided to take the course. Not only were the designs beautiful, it was also going to be a challenge to do something I've never done before. ... The course is designed to teach you the basic techniques step by step. The techniques were well-spaced throughout each lesson. Marilee Rockley always commented on all of my designs and always encouraged me. A very wide variety of techniques are covered in this course, which makes it possible to use patterns of all kinds. This course took someone that had never heard of shuttle tatting before and made it possible to enjoy tatting all kinds of patterns. I recommend this course to everyone."
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Put yourself in Curiosity's shoes with 360-degree view of Mars
August 22, 2016, 1:48 p.m. by Catie Leary
NASA releases interactive panorama that gives viewers an immersive glimpse of Martian terrain.
Sublime images of Mars lay groundwork for 2020 rover mission
August 11, 2016, 6:12 a.m. by Catie Leary
A fresh batch of satellite images is providing scientists with valuable data for future travel to Mars.
Can we protect astronauts from radiation?
July 29, 2016, 11:47 a.m. by Kristen Bobst
Magnetic force fields may be the secret to deep space exploration.
Huge 400-foot tsunamis once washed over Mars
May 20, 2016, 5:03 a.m. by Bryan Nelson
Several billion years ago, Mars had a vast ocean that may have harbored some giant waves.
Why is this doctor living in lonely Antarctica?
April 18, 2016, 9:06 a.m. by Kristen Bobst
'White Mars,' as Antarctica is known, is ideal for studying the long-term effects of isolation.
Everything you need to know about ExoMars
March 10, 2016, 4:47 p.m. by Kristen Bobst
The ESA's two-phase mission will look for methane, ice and landing sites for future rovers.
Why we need a planetary protection officer
February 2, 2016, 12:34 p.m. by Kristen Bobst
Not only do we need to keep Earth safe from alien microbes, but we also need to keep space safe from Earth microbes.
Next Mars lander delayed due to leaky instrument
December 23, 2015, 10:48 a.m. by Mike Wall, SPACE.com
NASA officials will have to wait until 2018 for the next ideal Earth-Mars launch window.
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Holiday gift ideas for future astronauts and solar system aficionados.
How Mars could become a ringed planet
November 24, 2015, 10:38 a.m. by Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com
Mars getting rings wouldn't pose many problems for traveling to the Red Planet.
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November 18, 2015, 11:34 a.m. by Kristen Bobst
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Does anyone watch deathnote?
does anyone like to draw
I did try to pick up drawing manga beforebut in order to draw black and white, u need to learn the skils of sticking/cuttig shadows and patterns which I'm not very good at... then gave up might take up again with computers graphic program O genki desu ka?
A lot of people watch Death Note, it's a good show. I am a fan of most anime. "You will See, in Time you shall walk the same path as I"
i like some anime mostly spiral,naruto,deathnote
right now i'm into bleach, death note, and Black Blood Brothers. Did you hear about the Death Note movie? "You will See, in Time you shall walk the same path as I"
theres a movie of it
the death note movie I know is live-action movie such a hit in HK actually O genki desu ka?
i used to watch it but i like reading the comics more than watching deathnote it takes to long hey hiya doin?


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Details Emerge About Family of Suspected Gunman
By Tammy Audi, Heather Haddon, Erica E. Phillips and Tamer El-Ghobashy
UPDATED | New details emerged late Friday about the family of the suspected gunman in the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., which left 28 people dead.
Law-enforcement officials identified the suspected shooter as 20-year-old Adam Lanza and said he was found dead inside the school. Officials said the alleged shooter's mother, Nancy Lanza, was believed to be among the victims.
Earlier, a law-enforcement official incorrectly identified the suspect as 24-year-old Ryan Lanza, who is Adam's brother. Ryan was questioned by investigators Friday but isn't believed to have had any role in the shooting.
Two federal law-enforcement officials familiar with the investigation said the firearms recovered at the scene — Glock and Sig Sauer handguns – were registered to the alleged shooter's mother and are legal. A third firearm was registered to Ms. Lanza as well, the officials said.
The registration answers one of the questions about the origin of the firearms believed used in the mass shooting. Under federal law, Adam Lanza would have been prohibited from buying handguns from a licensed dealer because of his age.
According to state court records, the suspected gunman's parents divorced in 2009. Both Nancy and Peter Lanza filed certifications of their completion of a parenting-education program, a Connecticut state requirement in divorce proceedings if the couple has children under the age of 18.
Beth Israel, a neighbor of the Lanza family whose daughter went to elementary school with Adam, said she recalled the suspected gunman as a "socially awkward" teenager.
"He was kind of a loner and shy. He didn't look you in the eye," she said. Ms. Israel described Adam as very thin with dirty-blonde hair and a long, narrow face.
Mary Ann Lanza, the ex-wife of Adam Lanza's grandfather, said she remembers the family as a close-knit and loving group who lived across New England, from New Hampshire to Connecticut. Adam's aunt and uncle live in New Hampshire, she said, and would often invite relatives to swim in their above-ground pool during the summers.
"They were just a lovely family," Mary Ann Lanza said.
His former grandmother said she remembered Adam as a young child but didn't know him as a teenager. His parents had separated "years" before they divorced, she said.
Her ex-husband, who died in 2010, was a widower when she met him, with children and grandchildren of his own. They married in the 1990s and divorced in 2001, she said.
Mary Ann Lanza hadn't realized until informed by a reporter of her family connection to the suspect in the mass shooting. "Oh my God, oh my God. Adam?" she said. "But they're such a lovely family, the whole family was just beautiful."
Katie Colaneri, a 24-year-old resident of Hoboken, N.J., described herself as a friend of Ryan, the suspect's brother who for hours Friday was incorrectly identified as the alleged gunman. "He [is] a little shy, but very nice and sweet," said Ms. Colaneri, who has known Ryan for over a year.
She said Ryan is a gentle guy who was devoted to his job at the Ernst & Young accounting firm. A representative for Ernst & Young would not comment on his employment status.
A law-enforcement official briefed on the investigation told the Associated Press that Ryan has been "extremely co-operative" and is not under arrest, although he was still being question late Friday.
The official said Ryan's computers and phone records were being searched but only "in an abundance of caution." Ryan told authorities he had not been in touch with his brother Adam in recent years, and the official said he isn't believed to have any connection to the school killings.
In Hoboken, Ryan lives in a newer building that was hard-hit by superstorm Sandy, Ms. Colaneri said. He lost power for a number of days following the storm.
The last time she saw him, about a month ago, Ms. Colaneri recalled that Ryan ran up to her and gave her a hug. "I'm really shocked," she said. "As the details unfolded, I was totally devastated."
The well-to-do suburban neighborhood where the Lanzas lived was lit up as on a usual December Friday night, with lavish Christmas lights covering the trees and plastic reindeer set on manicured lawns. Police blocked off the street as a crush of news vans lined up behind the police tape.
A neighbor of the Lanza family said that houses along Yogananda Street in the village of Sandy Hook occupy at least two acres of land. The home occupied by Nancy Lanza is a yellow Colonial with a swing set in the backyard, located in a wooded area at the end of a long, private road.
"I wouldn't know them if they drove right by me," he said of the family, describing them in a phone interview as a quiet presence in the neighborhood. "We know all the neighbors but them."
The 49-year-old neighbor, who did not wish to be identified, said police surrounded the home on Friday afternoon and had forced open the garage door with a loud bang. He said police arrived before noon and were eventually joined by a heavily armed group of officers in "full camouflage."
A former school board official in Newtown called into question earlier reports that Nancy Lanza had been connected to Sandy Hook Elementary School, possibly as part of the teaching staff.
"No one has heard of her," said Lillian Bittman, who served on the local school board until 2011. "Teachers don't know her."
– Gary Fields, Devlin Barrett, Jacob Gershman, Anton Troianovski, Joseph De Avila and the Associated Press contributed to this report.


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I'm amazed there don't appear to be any so-called early-access / alpha books on Rx coming from Manning or APress. At least they're not listed yet. I'd really like to find something longer than 'just' a couple of blog postings that really digs into specifically Rx and reactive programming in general in .NET. These videos are great and I'm very grateful they're being make available, however for study purposes nothing beats the one-to-one, deep dive that the printed word delivers. Does anyone know when we might see a Rx book?
That is one of my new year's resolutions.
I'm curious, what is the origin of the terms "hot" and "cold?" Were other terms considered like "static" vs. "dynamic," or "immutable" vs. "mutable?"
Hot = Running
Cold = Not Running
Static/Dynamic would be misleading. Immutable/Mutable is also misleading. Perhaps, the closest terms are Deferred / Not-Deferred or Latent / Active.
The terms Hot and Cold came from whiteboarding and design sessions where we needed a term to describe the difference between something that running versus something that represents a thing that can be run. We definitely didn't sit down and figure out a vocabulary, these things just happen. I'm sure that at some point in time people will think about standard terminology, but we usually can't wait for that to happen.
As Wes mentioned above, I like to think of them as
Hot = Active
Cold = Passive.
I think we can do better than the explanation JVG gives here.
Ok instead of being part of the problem I thought I would put my 2c in.
Here is my post on Hot vs Cold Observables.
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If I leave any sort of writing legacy, I will be known as the mom who only writes about how she can't find the balance and yet can't stop looking at her kids while they sleep. It's like that memory eraser wand thing in sci-fi movies. They hypnotize me with their faces and poof. What? Where am I? How can I get more of these beautiful tricky things to fill my days?
And then I teeter on a panic thought -- how have I let so many nights go by that they've drifted off to sleep on their own? And I was not there to watch. It's like the sunset that happens Every Single Night but we go on driving or looking down when oh my God how can you not be paralyzed in awe?
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quote: "The radar detects a rocket launch and passes information regarding its path to the control center, which calculates the predicted point of impact. If this location justifies an interception, a missile is fired to intercept the rocket.
quote: In 2011, three years after the first field tests, the system was boasting a 70 percent interception rate.
quote: The answer has come this last week, as the system recorded a "real world" success rate of around 35 percent. Roughly 1 in 3 missiles shot at Israel was successfully intercepted.
quote: So the system chooses not to intercept every missile?
quote: 35% of all missiles fired are shot down. Assuming the 70% rate listed above, the system would need to be firing interceptors at 50% of all fired missiles to achieve this rate. If anything this seems to suggest that the system is operating at or beyond the levels it was during testing. Other sources seem to indicate that a very large percentage of these missiles are falling harmlessly in unpopulated areas, suggesting that interception isn't even necessary in the vast majority of launches.Correct me if I am wrong, but this sounds like a huge success.
quote: If the interceptors have a 35% success rate and only 500 were fired, then only 175 enemy missiles would have been shot down.So just how many interceptors were fired? (as 500 is unlikely to be the right number) Or rather, how many enemy missiles have been aimed at dust (thus not needed to be intercepted)?
quote: 35% is the absolute minimum success rate assuming the launchers decided that ALL rockets were an immediate threat to the populace.
quote: Iron Dome intentionally ignores some rockets. You can't make claims like 35% until you know the number of rockets the system chose to engage as well as the total number of rockets. 70% might very well be closer to the correct value.Look at it another way. If they reprogrammed the system to engage every rocket it saw, and not ignore any, what would be the number of rockets intercepted? That doesn't even factor in the possibility of the system being overwhelmed because it is no longer carefully choosing its targets, but even so, the number of interceptions would skyrocket (pun intended).


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on February 3, 2013 - 1:00 AM
Two hundred years after his birth, Richard Wagner still has the power to shock. His operas were radical, and the most revolutionary of them all was "Tristan und Isolde," a medieval drama of passionate, doomed love.
"Tristan" can be overwhelming. Its music is overtly erotic. Its uneasy opening harmony, known as the "Tristan chord," changed the course of music.
Now, the Canadian Opera Company is showing "Tristan" in a bold new light.
The production is the audacious, video-enhanced creation of world-renowned director Peter Sellars, and features Ben Heppner, one of the most celebrated tenors of our times. At last count, tickets were 90 percent sold out.
Sellars (not to be confused with the late actor Peter Sellers) is famous – notorious – for reimagining operas. He set Mozart's "Don Giovanni" in Spanish Harlem and "Cosi fan Tutte" in a bleak diner.
The Canadian Opera Company's next season (see accompanying story) will feature a Sellars take on Handel's "Hercules" that recasts Sophocles' tragic hero as a 21st century general. And Sellars is no stranger to Wagner. More than 20 years ago, he took "Tannhauser," an earlier medieval Wagner opera, and set it in Las Vegas, among mobsters and hookers.
Sellars' "Tristan" is in a class by itself.
Taking on the opera in 2004, Sellars worked with celebrated video artist Bill Viola, whose resume includes work with Nine Inch Nails. Viola, who has confessed to feeling initially intimidated by the task at hand, created an ever-changing backdrop of video images that flicker behind the singers on stage, though the performers also appear all over the auditorium.
The production has been presented in Paris and Los Angeles. The Canadian Opera Company was able to get it partly because its general director, Alexander Neef, worked with Sellars in the Paris production. That means our region has a rare chance to see world-class, cutting-edge opera – and to start the Wagner bicentennial year on a high note.
Sellars has been called an enfant terrible, out to shock. Beneath all the sensationalism, though, is artistic sincerity.
The 55-year-old director, with his signature polyester '70s shirts and Eraserhead haircut, is like something out of an avant-garde drama himself. He is engaging and sincere on a YouTube video as he shares his thoughts on "Tristan."
"Bill Viola's videos can really open on an interior world and keep an interior world alive, and not illustrate Wagner's music, but quite the opposite, to move into a zone that is so private where everyone in the audience is making their own associations, just as they are with the music," Sellars explains.
"What's marvelous is the singers are breathing in the present, but the video is two-dimensional. Our work is to create a sound world as three-dimensional. So we are placing musicians all over the hall, singers all over the hall, so the audience is immersed in Wagner's music."
"Tristan und Isolde" tells the medieval Celtic legend of the love affair between a knight and an Irish princess. Tristan has killed Isolde's fiance and is delivering her to marry King Marke of Cornwall, when the two drink a love potion and fall fatefully in love.
Sellars' production immerses the audience in the smoldering drama.
"In Act I on the boat, the sailors are down below decks, and then they're up above, and then somebody's singing from the crow's nest," Sellars says, eyes shining, in his video interview. "And all of those spaces that are on board the ship, and the commanders on that deck, the women on the lower deck, all the spatial levels in Wagner's imagination – we can actually realize in this space, and this space itself, the whole room, becomes musically charged."
'This is not good'
Wagner's operas – or music dramas, as he called them – invite experimentation as many others do not.
Perhaps it is a reflection of the discomfort people can feel over the absurd beauty created by a man who, as a person, has been called a monster. The composer was famously selfish, anti-Semitic, unscrupulous and adulterous. ("Tristan" hit him when he was infatuated with the wife of a patron of his, a wealthy banker.)
It does not help him that Adolf Hitler was an ardent fan. Hitler became friendly with Wagner's British daughter-in-law, Winifred, an association that taints the music to this day.
Neef, who is from Germany, cringes at a moment in Act III of "Lohengrin" when crowds shout "Heil" to the king. In 1944, he explains, a production of "Lohengrin" was interrupted by the audience shouting "Heil" to Hitler, who was present.
"Wagner didn't have that in mind when he wrote it," Neef says. "But with age, a piece accumulates history.… I would understand a certain fear."
Fear, though, is not the reason to experiment with Wagner's dramas. The nature of his art inspires further creativity.
Wagner's music has a singular power to tap into the subconscious, and even his contemporaries noticed a unique power at work. His friend Robert Schumann wrote, long before "Tristan": "Many passages of his operas, once heard from the stage, cannot but prove exciting. … They distill a strange magic that captivates the senses."
Neef says Sellars' aim is to help people understand that Wagner's dramas are about their own lives. He found himself thinking of that in 2005, working with Sellars in Paris.
"That production of 'Tristan,' in 2005, changed my world," he says. "It's a long opera, but not much happens. It's all about feelings and emotions. It's a tricky thing to put on stage. How do you do that without breaking the mood of the piece?
"[The Sellars/Viola production] is one of the most human Wagner performances that I've seen. … It's not about heroes. What Peter and Bill have done is bring the characters very close to us … it draws people in. It's quite magical."
Viola's videos, ever-changing, play up the otherworldly aspects of "Tristan."
"What he does, like Wagner, is slow down time," is how Sellars explains it. "He manipulates the time flow, and so you are able to see the seconds inside seconds. What is time inside of time? That's of course what Wagner's music is giving you."
The case for live opera
"Tristan" is the second Wagner opera the COC has presented in five years. It is all but sold out. Neef sees the production as a kind of crossroads for the company and the audience.
"Before you've done 'Tristan,' after you've done 'Tristan' – it's not quite the same," he says.
The all-embracing production makes a strong case for live opera. Sellars' production cannot be experienced at home, or even in a movie theater in an HD broadcast.
"There are a lot of scenes of people doing stuff that is not on stage, doing different things in different places in the auditorium." Neef says. "The audience becomes part of the performance.
"That's something that's important to me. They feel they participate. They're not a passive part of the performance, not on the receiving end of what we do. … They shape that performance, as much as a musician does, with their coldness or with their enthusiasm."
Neef said that, for him, the video helps unlock the opera's secrets.
"It calls me into the music, has me listen to the music more intensely," he says. "The video is very much full of the flow of the music."
Wagner would probably have approved.
The theater he designed in Bayreuth, Germany, was custom-built to accommodate his ever-increasing demands. Musically and dramatically, he was always thinking bigger than his era allowed.
"Wagner was a real visionary in how he conceived his operas, how he imagined them being performed," Neef says. "When the 'Ring' cycle was performed in Bayreuth, he wasn't happy with the way it was done. He said he didn't know how to do it differently, but hopefully in the future people would know."
Productions like Sellars, always reaching, show that "Tristan" can remain as new as it was in 1859.
There's no way to prepare for seeing "Tristan," Neef says. He says that when he spoke about it to students at the University of Toronto, his only suggestion was to listen to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, another masterpiece that changed music.
"There was 'before Beethoven Nine' and 'after Beethoven Nine,' " he says. "The same thing happened when 'Tristan' showed up. You could make a claim that, without the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth, that a lot of Wagner wouldn't be possible."
No time to listen to Beethoven's Ninth? No problem.
"Let go and enjoy the ride," is Neef's advice. "Don't prepare too much."
Off to the opera
"Tristan und Isolde"
• By Richard Wagner, directed by Peter Sellars, conducted by Johannes Debus and featuring Ben Heppner, is presented by the Canadian Opera Company in German with English surtitles. Performance time is approximately four hours, 50 minutes, including two intermissions.
• Performances are at 6:30 p.m. Friday and Feb. 14; 2 p.m. Feb. 17; 6:30 p.m. Feb. 20 and 23 at the Four Seasons Centre, 145 Queen St. West, Toronto.
• Tickets (nearly sold out) are $45-$390. Standing-room tickets are $12 and go on sale at the Four Seasons Centre at 11 a.m. on the day of a performance. Patrons under 30 may purchase tickets for $22 (call for availability). For more information, call (800) 250-4653 or visit www.coc.ca.
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on March 16, 2013 - 12:09 AM
The University at Buffalo will launch a search for a new basketball coach after releasing 14-year leader Reggie Witherspoon on Friday upon the team's return from the Mid-American Conference Tournament in Cleveland.
Witherspoon, a Western New York native, compiled a 198-228 record at UB and had three years remaining on a contract extended by former Athletic Director Warde Manuel. He took over a program about to be placed on NCAA probation and coached it to the MAC title game in 2005 and 2009. Once UB's probationary period ended in 2003, Witherspoon's teams were 173-142 and won 20 games the two years before this one.
UB skidded to 14-20 this season and won two MAC Tournament games before losing to Kent State, 70-68, in the quarterfinals. The year was complicated by a mid-December season-ending injury to starting point guard Jarod Oldham and the unavailability of guard recruit Stan Wier due to an offseason procedure on his knees. Lack of depth became an issue. But it was generally agreed the Bulls were positioned to contend for a MAC title in 2014.
Assuming the returning cast remains intact, the new coach will inherit a team that includes two-time All-MAC forward Javon McCrea and guard Jarryn Skeete, a member of the league's all-freshman team after replacing Oldham at the point.
UB Athletic Director Danny White, hired about 10 months ago, told Witherspoon of his decision when UB arrived home from Cleveland.
"It's as difficult a thing as I've ever done in my career," White said. "Reggie is a phenomenal person and continues to mean a lot to this university and the program, and does it the right way. So it's hard. I think any time we have a personnel change, it's difficult, but this one was particularly difficult because he's such a good person."
A numb Witherspoon said he never saw it coming. "I'm thankful for the way we built a program that's like a family, and for everybody that supported us and helped us get the program off the ground, and to the point where it is," he said. "I'm sure I'll have more to say later, but I'm really kind of shocked."
White said he understood the circumstances that negatively affected the season but felt a change was needed.
"I took all of it into consideration," he said. "There's so many moving parts in evaluating a coach. But it's never about one season. It's about a body of work. And in the case of Coach Witherspoon, it's a 14-year body of work. There's a lot of success there, and there's also opportunities where maybe we can take it to another level. So the evaluation was more than just this season."
Witherspoon was the MAC's longest-tenured coach and had the respect of his keenest rivals. Akron's Keith Dambrot told the Associated Press he couldn't make sense of the decision. Akron, the regular-season champion, had its national-best 19-game winning streak snapped at UB's Alumni Arena on March 2.
"Completely shocked," Dambrot said. "If anybody could have done a better job at Buffalo, more power to them. Not only is he a quality basketball coach, but he's one of the most high-character people I've ever been around. It sends a terrible message. Everybody sits there and preaches about academics and integrity, and then a guy like that gets fired."
White said he assessed the program and contemplated making a change "toward the tail end of the season. I've been evaluating it throughout the course of the season and made a final decision last night after the game."
Candidates for the job will abound, and White said he'll cast a wide net. Asked if he had someone in mind, he responded, "I do not. We're going to launch a national search and want to interview as many people as possible. We're going to take the time to make sure we get the right leader for the next chapter."
Like the search itself, the timetable is open-ended. The NCAA Final Four is often fertile time to touch base with candidates.
"It's difficult to say how things are going to go," White said. "I don't want to paint myself into a corner there. We'll take as long as it takes to get the very best coach possible."
Potential candidates include Buffalo native and Texas assistant Rob Lanier, Niagara coach Joe Mihalich, Loyola (Md.) coach Jimmy Patsos and former Virginia Tech coach Seth Greenberg. Also, Iona associate head coach Jared Grasso, Lackawanna native and Dayton assistant Kevin Kuwik, and perhaps White's brother, Michael White, the head coach at Louisiana Tech.
Lanier (two NCAA berths at Siena), Mihalich (two at Niagara), Patsos (one at Loyola) and Greenberg are on the more experienced end of the scale; Grasso and White are on the more youthful end. Kuwik and Danny White were both on the staff at Ohio when the Bobcats beat UB in overtime in the 2005 MAC title game.
One interesting scenario bandied about has Michael White moving to Mississippi to replace Andy Kennedy. If Kennedy becomes available, he may also be of interest to UB. Danny White came to the Bulls from Ole Miss.
The firing of Witherspoon with three years left on his contract is a surprise in that UB has operated its basketball program on a budget below that of its MAC East rivals. The program has not "bought games," a practice in which lesser opponents are scheduled and paid for the appearance. Such scheduling can add 3-5 victories to a team's total.
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"Today was great," she said moments after winning the Class AA 3200-meter run by some 60 meters Friday in the West Virginia State Track and Field Championships at the University of Charleston's Laidley Field.
"I hope tomorrow is just as good."
In a patient, tactical race, Chambers watched where she was at all times and did everything in her power to avoid being boxed in.
"I really wanted to start fast because I saw everyone else going, but I thought that if I start too fast I won't have an end, so I just held back and waited," she said. "It was kind of crowded, so I stayed far enough back to where I knew I could catch up.
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"That was my plan," she said with a large smile. "I didn't want anyone near me at the end. I was surprised it worked out that well, honestly. I thought it was going to be one of those sprint-to-the-finish-line type of things."
At the 300 mark of lap 5 she got herself out a boxed-in situation and with 700 meters to go, started slowly pulling away.
Her time of 11:41.83 was 12 seconds better than Samantha Stout of Webster County.
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"I had a meltdown after the 8 (800) just knowing I had about 10 minutes before the hardest race, two-mile," she admitted. "I had the hardest race to run and it was my last race. I was so tired. Doing it all together is like a huge, tough workout. It gave me more endurance, I feel like.
"But, I think that day helped me today. I was still tired coming into the 32, but I still felt better than at OVACs. It really prepared me for today. I'm grateful, actually. It was hard at the time, but I'm kind of glad I did all four events (3200 relay, 1600, 800, 3200) that day.
Earlier in the day, the Oak Glen girls 3200 relay team had huge bullseyes on their collective backs and they knew it.
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"I'm usually nervous anyway, but that (being heavy favorites) made me ever more nervous because we were supposed to be so far ahead and you never know what could happen," said Mangano.
Mangano handed the baton to Arnott and she took the lead down the back stretch.
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Arnott handed the baton to Felicity Nolder, who had a good two-lap battle with Kinsey Reed of Webster County.
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BALTIMORE, MD (May 18, 2011) - Maryland Labor Secretary Alexander M. Sanchez and Assistant Secretary for Workforce Development and Adult Learning (DWDAL) Paulette L. Francois announce the appointment of Ellen Flowers-Fields as DWDAL's Deputy Assistant Secretary.
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Prior to joining the Tri-County Council, Ellen served as Executive Director of Southern Maryland Works, Inc. She began her career in workforce services as a Case Manager for Pratt Institute's Job Training Partnership Program. She has over 20 years of progressive professional experience in the field of workforce development and human capital management. Ellen is credentialed as a Global Career Development Facilitator from the Center for Credentialing and Education. A graduate of Pace University, Ellen holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration.


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It felt like deja vu Thursday night at the Merrie Monarch Festival with Maui dancers finishing one-two in the Miss Aloha Hula competition.
For Manalani Mili Hokoana English, it was deja vu with a twist.
Two years ago, she was just three points short of fellow Maui dancer Tori Hulali Canha, who took the title, providing a one-two finish for the Valley Isle.
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Manalani English of Kula's Halau Na Lei Kaumaka O Uka climbed to the top of the hula world by winning the Miss Aloha Hula title Thursday night at the Merrie Monarch Festival in Hilo. She came out on top after performing kahiko (traditional) and auana (contemporary) numbers.
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Sloane Makana West of Halau Kekuao-kala'au'ala'iliahi of Wailuku finished as the runner-up in the Miss Aloha Hula competition.
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Kumu hula Napua Greig (left) and Kahulu Maluo (right) celebrate with Manalani English after their dancer captured the Miss Aloha Hula title at the Merrie Monarch Festival in Hilo on Thursday.
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This year offered much the same Maui dominance in the individual hula competition, only this time English of Kula's Halau Na Lei Kaumaka O Uka took the crown and Sloane Makana West of Halau Kekuao-kala'au'ala'iliahi of Wailuku finished second.
"It felt amazing," English said via cellphone Friday from the site of the 50th annual Merrie Monarch Festival. "I was like, 'Oh no, was it really me? Am I dreaming?'
"I was pretty thrilled and overwhelmed with happiness."
The 24-year-old Waiohuli resident also was awarded the Hawaiian Language Award, completing a clean sweep of the top awards by Maui dancers.
"We're very proud of her," said English's kumu hula Napua Greig. "She is the epitome of our hula tradition. . . . We couldn't be happier."
In what was her second appearance in the Miss Aloha competition and eighth trip to the festival, English credited her experience as one of the reasons for her success.
"I knew what to expect," she said referring to the training and technique needed for the individual competition. "It's the little things that make a difference."
English, who has danced hula for about 15 years, all with her current halau, said her experience with the backstage transition from hula kahiko (ancient) to hula auana (modern) was particularly helpful.
"It can get crazy in the dressing room," she said. "There's the makeup, the hair, the flowers. . . . It just helps to make the journey smoother."
Greig, who was one of the founders of the Kula halau 17 years ago, has watched English grow up and agreed that her maturity was the key to her performance.
"Her age, maturity and life experience, she draws on that," Greig said. "All of that put together, along with her training and fine tuning. . . . She was ready."
In contrast to her smooth performance at Merrie Monarch, the Kapiolani Community College radiology technology student's life has been very hectic in the preparation.
Since the end of last year, the full-time student with a part-time job flew home every other weekend to practice with her halau. English eventually put her job on hold and began flying back every weekend for the past month.
"I don't know how I managed it in the beginning," she said. "It wasn't easy."
Finishing behind English was West, a senior at Kamehameha Schools Maui and a student under kumu hula 'Iliahi and Haunani Paredes. She had a difficult journey to the festival as well.
Her kahiko honored Queen Emma, beloved wife of Alexander Liholiho, Kamehameha IV. She described her performance and her personal connection in a television interview that aired before she took the stage. West said that the composer of the mele calls for the queen's return to her Hanaiakamalama, or summer home, after losing her son and husband.
"And those are two very important people," West said while choking back tears in the interview. "I have also lost one important to me, which is my dad."
West went on to finish in second place with 1,042 points, one point ahead of third-place finisher Jasmine Kaleihiwa Dunlap of Hula Halau 'O Kamuela of Oahu. English finished with 1,057 points.
West could not be reached for comment Friday.
Greig, who was with English during the previous one-two finish, said she was surprised and proud of English and West.
"It's good that these young women from our island are so dedicated to our cultural practice," she said.
The festival ends tonight at Aunty Edith Kanaka'ole Tennis Stadium, with Maui's Halau Na Lei Kaumaka O Uka, led by Greig and her sister, Kahulu Maluo, competing in the women's division, and Halau Kekuaokala'au'ala'iliahi', under the direction of the Paredeses, entering its men in the kane group division.
Tonight's competition features hula auana, following Friday night's hula kahiko.
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CarolLiza_fan, thanks for supplying the adjective for Belarus. I'm old enough to remember the name Byelorussia, and its adjective. I'm glad the new adjective is constructed the same way.
You make a good point about the fact that that Daria, whether "our" Daria or not, is someone's daughter. I got a feeling of such dissonance from her writing. I am so strongly aware of a deep wound.
On a nicer note, it's great contemplating Michelle's many tasks and activities. There's something so lovely in watching a young person who's been able to find and maintain her footing out in the world. I'll have to go check out the MK forum. Thanks for the spoonful of sugar after the bitter scent we've been taking in on this thread.
Daria is not a public figure. She has not sought or invited our scrutiny. Just saying...
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Thanks so much, Math! A treasure box of news and tidbits.
The last link, the ESPN one, had an interesting observation by Michelle. Instead of saying, "I worked extremely hard while I was training for skating," she pointed out that during that time the efforts of everyone, from her coach to her choreographer to her parents, to herself, were concentrated on her. That's an understanding that is unusually healthy for a star athlete to have. I don't imagine I'm going to stop being an MK fan anytime soon.
One more question about Liza Kulik: when are the Southwest Pacific Regional Championships this year? That will be her qualifying competition for Nationals, as it was last year, where she barely missed qualifying. Thanks in advance to anyone who knows!
And I just looked at last year's results again, and wow Liza had bad luck. Yes, she missed the CR by one placement, but she was 5th in her QR...and had the 5th highest score of all the Juvenile girls. Her score in another group would have pushed her to the CR.
Watching her skate from last year again makes me want her to make it further next year.
Liza competed in the Pasadena Open this past weekend and landed her first double axel there: http://kuliksskating.com/events/pasadena-open.html
So, in the SWP regionals last year, there were 4 qualifying rounds in Liza's level. Top 4 from each QR made the Championship Round for a total of 16 girls. Top 4 from the CR went to Sectionals.
Liza was 5th in her QR and thus didn't progress further. It sucks because she had the 5th highest score of all the Juvenile girls, which is something that makes me not like QR even though I understand it's otherwise hard to organize that many girls into competition segments.
You would think it would occur to people that now that skaters get an actual numerical score, they could just use the score from the qualifying round to choose the top qualifiers. This might mean three skaters from one group and seven from the other, but it's better to be fair than symmetrical.


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I'm torn on this. I really don't want to give them any of my money after this third fiasco. On the other hand, I really want to see the Wings. I have no option for that other than Gamecenter. I'm not going to use Hockeystreams because of the legal issues. I paid $159 for Gamecenter in 2011-12 which comes out to $1.93 per Wings game. $50 for 48 games comes to $1.04 per Wings game. OTOH, 21 of the 48 will be nationally televised in the States. Of that number, I'll be able to see the 4 on NBC. I don't really mind watching the games the next day, sans commercials.
The figures above aren't completely accurate either, because I have watched plenty of non-Wings games too.
The question is: do I try to make a "point" with the NHL by not subscribing even if that means missing an entire year of the Wings? I guess I'd be more P.O.'d if I believed that Mr. I was a driving force behind the lockout.
A couple things....
First, I am not 100% convinced that every owner was for the lockout. That being said, I do believe that Illitch is tired of spending money to bail out owners who are not making money AND Illitch believes he should be making 50% of the revenue and not 43%. So was Illitch the driving force behind the lockout? No. Was he participating willingly with much to gain? Yes.
I live in MI so I will be able to watch the Wings on FSD. No gamecenter live for me this year. This coming from someone who has subbed to them for the last couple years. I am going to miss it a little bit as a hockey nut, but I just cannot spend money on the NHL this year due to the lockout nonsense. I will watch them on TV when I can. The NHL network, NBC Sports Network, and NBC will have games too. I will also attend Griffins games when I can instead.
If I lived out of town and I needed to watch the Wings, then I would relent and probably buy the Gamecenter Live package. I hate to admit, but thats a fair price for a half of a season.


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DUI Task Force helps prevent tragedies after weekend event
February 12, 2013
Less than an hour after pulling over a drunken driver traveling south in the northbound lanes of Route 220 in the city early Sunday morning, two members of the county's DUI Task Force stopped a......
Sadly they will "Upgrade" the current YMCA Arena which will eventually fail because it will not be large enough to support quality entertainment outside the annual outdoor expo (woohoo). The owner will in turn cry to the city for help and the city will step in and throw money at it making it a far worse situation, all the while an outside area such as the greater mall area will see the benefits of a larger arena and step up and once again steal the cities thunder and build a suitable place once again stealing the cities revenue streams. Williamsport is and always will be a college town with nothing better to do than go out and have a few drinks and thats it. DUI is a ugly side effect of society and has ruined countless lives but again such as other society issues there is no cure or solution other than to stay vigilant and protect your own well being. Its appalling for the DUI task force to call for ending any events since as i have stated in previous posts DUI stops fund th
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Util this City wakes up and elects folks who actually know what they are doing and actually care about the city and its residents things will never get better it will be more of the same. Start with strengthening the city codes enforcement, force landlords to fix their blighted properties and stop the slumlord mentality that landlords have. Stop overtaxing the small business owners out of business and start taxing the large businesses to pay their fair share. Again so starved are they, they will allow businesses such as Kohls to come in and all kinds of special tax breaks yet they will raise taxes on the small shop down the street and put them out of business. Allow a arena project in the area to actually happen, this area could easily support an arena such as the one in Wilkes Barre, again if you build it they will come from all over. Folks dont want to drive 2 hours one way for quality entertainment.
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Williamsport's biggest issue are those who reside in City Hall from the Mayor to all those on City Council. Until they actually learn how to run a town properly and not treat it as some large metropolis they will continue to have issues. They are so desperate for additional streams of revenue every year just to hit budgets they go out and make horrible decisions such as adding Hockey Outdoors in the dead of winter with a league that can barely stay afloat. Who's bright idea was this anyway?? I am all for Hockey in the area I love Hockey but really no one in city hall could of researched this better? Every "New Idea" seems to backfire because there is a rush to judgement without proper investigaton of the long term outcomes. Case in point the idea to accept State and Federal Funding to open Rehab centers in Williamsport to accept those from other larger Cities with drug and alcohol problems to the area and give them low cost housing etc... That was a Grand Idea...
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There will never be a solution to the DUI problem no matter how much gov tries to prevent it, it will not go away. Its just another unfortunate reality that we all must face daily. Let's face it there are two Colleges in the City of Williamsport which will always attract business folks to open new bars and taverns and why not they are huge money makers and serve as a way to fill the business minded folks void of business ownership within the city limits which has been destroyed by countless city gov administrations over the years. The only thing left in town to do is go out to the bars especially for the young 20 sometings and college kids. Until other forms of entertainment are established within the city this will unfortunately be the case.
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i havent seen much mentioned about the bar owners, and the bartenters,if these bar owners / bartenders didnt serve visibly intoxicated people most of them would be out of business, just go out and see for yourself, night after night,bar after bar, they just keep serving it up to patrons that cant talk and cant walk,and right back up to the bar they go and get served another round,funny that every bar owner will claim their bar " dont serve VIPS " YEAH RIGHT who are they trying to kid , i have worked at several and the order comes from the top down,and it usually goes something like this " if we remove all the VIPS there will be no one left in the bar, which means no profits for me and no tips for you" , im dontwant to put all the blame on the bars , the drinkers need to be responsible too, and some with a high tolerance are very good at disguising their level of intoxication, but the fact is the bar owners are not into this because they enjoy the hobby, they a
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I saw something interesting the other day at "The Joint," they had a public breathalyzer machine..
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Those who had a family member kill by a drunk driver will think different.
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Typical liberal, knee-jerk reaction: ban Mardi Gras!
OK, if we ban Mardi Gras, then we do away with the DUI task force.
No?! Why?
It does not solve the problem? There will still be drunks on New Year's Day and other events?
So banning Mardi Gras does not solve the problem?
No, but liberals can feel better about themselves.
The FACT remains that people will get drunk and drive. Some do not need a holiday, or other exuse, for this behavior.
There are better answers.
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Heart disease kills more people than drunk drivers do. Fast food is 100 percent preventable. Why isn't Solomon setting up a McDonald's Taskforce? His department hangs out there anyway... they might as well be saving lives while they are there.
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This just goes to show how educated the powers that be in Williamsport are. Capitalized on an artificial holiday that includes excessive drinking.......What could possibly go wrong?????? The sad part is it took untill now till they realized there was a problem. You can't smoke anymore in a public bar and you can drink more than one beer in a public bar. What's the point of even leaving the house at this point??
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Try taking a walk or riding a bike around this city. YES PLEASE BUILD MORE BARS AFTER ALL ITS THE ONLY TYPE OF BUSINESS THAT CAN SURVIVE IN WILLIAMSPORT.
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How stupid, do you think you can only build bars in this city and not have drunks and people getting killed try having a nice day out with your family in this place IMPOSSIBLE the drunks the dope heads and the people walking around GD,ing this and MF,ing that yea its a real nice place I bet the ones in charge never do anything in this city with the family, no they go somewhere else.
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Too drunk to know which side of the road to drive on? Too drunk to realize you destroyed a sign? Now how many were too drunk to NOT have safe sex?
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btw, that's not me advocating to have bars shut down. I just think we have too many of them and frankly...a lot of them aren't very good bars. Maybe we'd have less drunken idiots if anyone in this town new how to make a drink. (yes that was a joke).
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I don't disagree with you Jamie, however, it tends to be a few more than a few. Frankly, this issue goes beyond Mardi Gras. We have too many*****bars in this city.
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I am against taking away freedoms from all because a few abuse theirs wether its alcohol, guns, speech ect.
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Thank you for the kind words. I am merely looking at the problem from a "logical" standpoint. Trying to come up with a viable SOLUTION to this epidemic. Unlike your "emotion" based response. After all are you accusing me of "playing off statistics when human lives are in danger?" The same EXACT way our police, madd, news agencies, and bureaucrats do daily? Have a wonderful day!
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Additionally (hadn't read RexJag's comment yet) I do believe your idea, as does mine, both have flaws, but I don't think you can find a flawless plan. Also, hypothetically speaking if an interlock system was put into place, if someone had their friend blow in it for them; the penalty should be tripled if/when they're caught.
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eric, I think you're misunderstanding me. I'm not 'not supporting your idea'. I think your idea, despite the criticism it's receiving is a fair and quality suggestion. My point is simply that I, and only speaking for myself, as a citizen am okay with the 'delay' a sobriety check point causes if it's doing it's job. However, the real debate is, are they doing their job?
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"Its not there because it dosen't fit the agenda. We need more cops, more programs, more jails, more judges, and more lawyers to harness the increasing need to police the .000001% of participants that screw up!
eric88, YOU ARE AN IDIOT! Pure and simple. Quoting percentages when human lives are at risk because of drunk drivers.
You, and others that think like you are pathetic! Devaluing human life to just a "percentage".
God Bless our police who do their job!
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Eric88, any procedure can be circumvented. If that Bar Patron doesn't want to turn in his keys, knowing he had that option, he doesn't have to. But, it would show that the tavern is doing something to address the problem.
Your interlock solution has weaknesses, as a drunk could have a sober friend blow into it for them. right?
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RexJag, Good idea but.... key check person "coat and keys please", bar patron "I walked here/rode the bus(even if they drove)", key check person "okey dokie, go on in"---or the guy that dosent consume his alcohol in a bar?
And again that 1%easily slips through the system and becomes a stat for outrage articles in the paper.
Interlock! Every vehicle! Problem over! Or continue with the wildly elaborate batman entrapment schemes.
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Excellent letter, goodbye Mardi Gras!
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The solution here is very simple. An establishment (such as a Tavern) has a "key check" room, similar to the hat check or coat check rooms of days past. If you want to celebrate, turn in your keys -period. The "key check" would be run by an off-duty or retired police officer, deputy, or fireman. When trying to retrieve your keys, you'd be give a breathalizer test. If you pass, you get your keys. If not, you get a Cab or designated driver. This sytem would be a great chance to educate people, give people a second chance to rethink their condition, and be an example of due-diligence and responsibility by the tavern owner - and possibly limit their liability at the same time. SIMPLE.
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---- if you haven't been drinking what's it matter? I'd rather be inconvenienced for safety and law abiding reasons.--
My all time favorite debate argument! If you are in agreement of that philosophy then why not a mandatory interlock in every vehicle? Defray the cost of it from madd money for current vehicles. It would be easy and cheap to include with newly produced vehicles.
Just wonder why the support for the current failed system? A big no to stopping the problem before it starts, but yes to the cat and mouse game currently in place?? Really? Makes no sense...
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It is just so alarming!
Out of the blue, blood starts pouring out of somebody's nose. A Kleenex turns crimson. A paper towel gets soaked. Ten minutes later, panic takes over. It's still bleeding. It's a mess! It's a catastrophe!
It's normal.
The good news about nosebleeds is that they're almost always nothing but a nuisance. Dr. Richard Dudrak, medical director of Urgent Care by Lifetime Health, says the odds of real danger are low. "Probably far less than 1 percent," he says.
"The vast majority happen in the front part of the nose. In the front part, they're very easy to control. It's in the back portion of the nose that it's higher risk of being an artery." But not to worry: "Those can usually be taken care of with medical intervention."
Nosebleeds occur more in winter because the air is dry. Older people tend to get them because their noses are drier and suffer more from lack of humidity. Kids tend to get them because they hurt themselves, and because they stick things, including fingers, in their noses. Colds can bring on nosebleeds, because symptoms irritate the nostrils.
Use of blood thinners could present a nosebleed problem. "It increases the likelihood of persistent bleeds," Dudrak says. Those odds, though, need not mean worry. "Most people who are on blood thinners and suffer nosebleeds do not get into trouble," Dudrak says. "Because most of the nosebleeds are in the anterior (front) part of the nose, where pressure can stop it."
The inside of the nose has a lot of blood vessels, hence the dramatic bleeding. But it's not as bad as it looks.
"The likelihood of having severe blood loss is actually very tiny," Dudrak says.
In contrast, the likelihood of having a nosebleed is large. Dudrak says most people just treat them at home.
"We wind up seeing only a handful a year," Dudrak says. "But it's common, seeing someone, to hear, 'I had a nosebleed in the course of an illness.' "
Know your nosebleeds
Bonny Klein, the nurse at Christ the King School in Snyder, reckons she treats 10 nosebleeds a week.
Once, at a different school, she had an extreme case.
"We had this girl, I don't think she had any underlying health issues, but she would hemorrhage out of her nose, for an hour," Klein says. "It was frequent, horrible. She'd have to go home, change her clothes. It was awful. Awful."
Most cases she encounters are routine.
"My first question is usually injuries – if they fell, bumped their face," she says. "We see a lot of nosebleeds this time of year from dry heat in homes, kids having viruses or colds. Then they take medications – cough medicines, antihistamines – that dry them out even more.
"We put pressure on it. If it's really bad, we put an ice pack over their nose," she says. "An old wives' remedy is to put pressure on the nose and put the head back. That you should never do. Blood could run down the throat into the stomach, and they can get sick to their stomach. I always tell kids to squeeze their nose as if something smells bad. Don't stuff it. A lot of kids want to stuff things in their nose. They shouldn't do that."
Dudrak also advocates holding your nose.
"When you're acutely suffering a nosebleed, the best thing to do is to pinch the bridge of the nose, and hold it without stopping for seven minutes," he says. "If you apply direct pressure that way, you will cure almost all nosebleeds. It's also helpful to tell them not to panic." He suggests slow, deep breaths through the mouth.
Keys to a nosebleed
The best remedy for nosebleeds, of course, is prevention.
"One of the most important things is to keep the air humidified," Dudrak says. "Running a vaporizer, especially if you don't have one built into your heating system, is very helpful in the dry winter months. If you feel you already have a dry nose, using a nasal saline spray is a good idea."
But, he cautions, "With saline spray you have to be careful. You have to get one you mix yourself with distilled or boiled water, or a premixed one that doesn't come in a plastic bottle." The plastic, he says, has a preservative shown to be a nasal irritant.
Klein likes Ayr Gel – not Vaseline, because Vaseline has petroleum. "Use a Q-Tip, go around the inside of the nostril. It moisturizes."
What's new with nosebleeds? "They have a device called a Rhino Rocket," says Dudrak. "It's a clinic-based balloon that you inflate." The balloon, inflated inside your nose, stops the bleeding.
Nosebleed treatment, however, has probably not changed much since the Middle Ages.
The People's Pharmacy, the syndicated column that runs in The Buffalo News, has a bizarre remedy, said to go back centuries. Place a set of keys on the back of the nosebleeder's neck, and the bleeding stops. Many of their readers swear by it.
Neither Klein nor Dudrak had heard of that fix. Neither, though, sniffs at it.
Dudrak says the shock of the cold keys might stop the bleeding. Klein, too, is intrigued.
"There must be some major blood vessel back there, or something," she says.
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3 Die in Cambodia Factory Collapse
The collapse of a floor piled high with material in a Cambodia sneaker factory killed three people and drew fresh attention to safety problems in low-cost countries serving the world's apparel retailers.
Three people died early Thursday and at least six others were injured in an industry accident, which occurred when a ceiling collapsed in a factory outside the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. An official at Asics Corp. 7936 -1.85 % , a Japanese sneaker company whose brand is popular among athletes in the U.S. and elsewhere, confirmed that the factory is one of its suppliers. The company said it was investigating and trying to determine what, if any, safety precautions had been taken.
"We are deeply shocked and saddened to hear of this terrible accident," Asics spokeswoman Masayo Hasegawa said. "Safety is of paramount importance for Asics."
The collapse came on the heels of other, more-deadly garment disasters in recent months, including the collapse of a building housing factories in Bangladesh this month that killed more than 1,000 people. It also shone a light on the role of Asian retailers' attempts to compete with Western brands by expanding production in lower-cost countries.
The factory involved in Thursday's deaths, Wing Star Shoes, was built a year and a half ago by a joint venture between Asics subsidiary Asics Trading Co. and a Taiwanese partner. A chronic problem at Asics had been production delays and poor-quality products at Chinese factories where it outsourced production, and the new factory was built with the aim to help tighten quality control, according to company reports.
Workers at the scene said the deaths occurred when a mezzanine level used for storage collapsed after bearing too much weight. They said the mezzanine floors were added to the site in the past two months to connect buildings at the factory, which employs more than 6,000 people. Workers performed tasks under the mezzanines, including operating machines cleaning the soles of Asics running shoes.
The level that collapsed was stuffed with tons of pallets piled with cardboard boxes, crates of tissue-paper wrappings and other dense, heavy materials.
Ith Sam Heng, Cambodia's social-affairs minister, told reporters authorities are investigating the addition.
Yarn Neat, 31, an assistant stock manager, said she had helped load the materials into the area using a freight elevator a week ago. She said the floor started shaking as the materials were stacked up, and she later grew afraid to walk under the mezzanine. She said she raised her concerns to higher-level managers but said that nothing was done.
A factory spokesman, Chea Sothavirith, said he hadn't heard of such warnings about the building or storage. "We always deal with workers' complaints," he said. The factory's leadership plans to offer compensation to workers, including an initial $1,000 for funerals, and he said it would meet "to discuss more solutions," adding, "we are now focusing on the victims."
The recent spate of accidents in the garment trade, especially in Bangladesh, where in addition to the building collapse more than 100 have also died in factory fires over the past year—has led labor unions and worker-safety groups to press Western retailers to tighten oversight of their supply chains. Major brands including Hennes & Mauritz HMB 0.24 % AB, Zara parent Inditex, ITX 0.21 % and Benetton Group SpA agreed to sign a legally binding safety pact this week that is expected to include better monitoring of factories. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT -1.05 % has declined to sign the pact but announced its own plan for improving factory safety. Many other major brands have said they are still deciding how to proceed.
Less attention has focused on retailers from Asia and other parts of the world, which serve millions of consumers yet sometimes have to compete even harder than Western brands to grab customers in a business dominated by giants like Nike NKE -2.92 % or Zara. The involvement of Asics, which makes baseball player Ichiro Suzuki's spikes and is Japan's biggest sporting-goods company, in Thursday's accident led some activists to call for more pressure on non-Western brands to join efforts to tighten their supply chains.
"There is too much attention over and over on those brands that really have started to make changes" in the West, and not enough focus on lesser-known Asia brands that also serve giant markets, said Jill Tucker, chief technical adviser at Better Factories Cambodia, a project of the International Labour Organization that works to improve factory conditions in the Southeast Asian country.
She noted that many factories in Cambodia don't produce for Western brands at all, supplying all their goods to places such as South Korea and China. When it comes to manufacturers serving those markets, "it's going to be very hard to get leverage for change" because consumers typically haven't applied as much pressure on brands as in Western countries, she said.
The Cambodian accident, while much smaller than other recent disasters, nevertheless fits a pattern of dangerous work conditions in Asian garment factories. Like Bangladesh, Cambodia has seen rapid growth in its garment industry in recent years as apparel makers look for alternatives to China, where costs are rising. Cambodia now employs about 500,000 people in more than 500 factories, and the industry is its biggest export earner, having shipped more than $4 billion in products to the U.S. and Europe last year, the Associated Press reported.
Founded in 1949 as a maker of basketball shoes in Kobe, Japan, Asics's sales are smaller than a global heavyweights like Nike, and it has become increasingly reliant on low-cost manufacturing partners in other parts of Asia to compete. Since 2008, under a new president, the company has shifted emphasis toward gaining market share overseas—especially in the Americas. It rolled out lower-priced, casual shoes, for which profit margins are higher and through which it hopes to grab entry-level runners.The company has said it is looking into the recent binding agreement backed by H&M and others but had no further comment on the matter on Thursday.
Asics' bylaws include standards prohibiting partners from using forced labor and child labor. The statement also says it expects partners to provide a "safe and healthy working environment," and that Asics has the right to conduct inspections or have independent monitors conduct such inspections without prior notice. A company official said it was still investigating whether such checks were made.
Japan is also home to a number of other major apparel companies that activists hope will join on to global efforts to tighten oversight of supply chains.
They include Fast Retailing, FRCOY -0.50 % Asia's biggest clothing retailer and owner of the Uniqlo casual clothing brand, which has been building a network of production sites in Bangladesh since 2008 to lower its dependence on manufacturing in China, where about 90% of all Uniqlo apparel is made. Fast Retailing faces a stagnant economy and shrinking population at home, and its future growth depends on its ability to continue to churn out affordable, fashionable wear elsewhere.
The company is reviewing the draft of the binding agreement backed by Zara and H&M and is checking fire and building safety at its partner factories in Bangladesh, spokesman Aldo Liguori said. The company has a code of conduct for its manufacturing partners prohibiting child labor, forced labor, or hazardous working conditions, and checks for compliance via regular third-party monitoring, he said.
—Sun Narin and Celine Fernandez contributed to this article.
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A chance at the cup is worth more to me. I'd rather not waste yet another year of datsyuks prime. If we sell we might as well go all out.
if youd think with your head rather than your heart youd know this current team doesnt have the chance to win the cup we'd need significant upgrades by wednesday