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- Edison Spa
- Endesa SA
- Norsk Hydro
- Statkraft AS
Norway-based Statkraft AS is an electrical utility company that operates actively in the renewable energy industry as well. The company is involved in the generation of wind power, gas power, hydropower, solar power as well as district heating services. The company is also a leading developer of osmotic power and marine energy. Statkraft AS operates through the segments of continental energy and trading, international hydropower, wind power, industrial ownership, Nordic hydropower, district heating, other activities and group items.
This research presents Analysis of Statkraft AS. A complete and comprehensive analysis of Statkraft AS, includes an overview of the industry the company operates in and then moves on to analyzing the company itself.
Company analysis includes a history of Statkraft AS, a business segment analysis of the segments Statkraft AS operates through, a look at the organization structure of the company, a geographical operating segments analysis, an analysis of the company's major competitors.
A financial analysis of Statkraft AS is presented in the report which includes a ratio analysis, basic profit and loss analysis, presentation of the company balance sheet, and much more.
A SWOT Framework Analysis of Statkraft AS completes this in-depth company analysis.
- Edison Spa
- Endesa SA
- Norsk Hydro
- Statkraft AS
A. Executive Summary
B. Looking at the Industry
B.1 Industry Definition
B.2 Brief Profile of the Industry
B.3 Industry Value
B.4 Market Segmentation
B.5 Competition in the Industry
B.6 Future Perspective
C. Looking at Statkraft AS
C.1 Company Profile
C.2 History of the Company
C.3 Organizational Divisions
C.4 Profiling the Key Executives
C.5 Products & Services
D. Looking at Business
D.1 Business Segments
D.2 Geographical Segments
D.3 Company Subsidiaries
E. SWOT Framework Analysis
E.1 Strengths to Build Upon
E.2 Weaknesses to Overcome
E.3 Opportunities to Exploit
E.4 Threats to Overcome
F. Profiling the Competition
F.1 Norsk Hydro
F.1.1 Corporate Profile
F.1.2 Business Segment Analysis
F.1.3 Financial Analysis
F.1.4 SWOT Analysis
F.2 Edison Spa
F.2.1 Corporate Profile
F.2.2 Business Segment Analysis
F.2.3 Financial Analysis
F.2.4 SWOT Analysis
F.3 Endesa SA
F.3.1 Corporate Profile
F.3.2 Business Segment Analysis
F.3.3 Financial Analysis
F.3.4 SWOT Analysis
G. Financial Analysis of the Company
G.1 Current Financials
G.2 Balance Sheet
G.3 Profit & Loss Statement
G.4 Ratio Analysis
G.4.1 Capital Market Ratios
G.4.2 Annual Ratios
G.4.3 Interim Ratios
H. Future Perspective
I. Glossary of Terms
- Norsk Hydro
- Edison Spa
- Endesa SA
- Statkraft AS


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THE TYPE and source of the cells which line arterial prostheses placed in experimental animals has been of interest to us. It has been postulated that the endothelial lining came from the ingrowth of the aortic endothelium1; or from the capillaries in the surrounding tissue penetrating the interstices of the graft2; or from the cells of the circulating blood.3,4 The other types of cells which compose the lining of the intima have been thought to arise from the blood monocyte as well as from ingrowth tissue.3,4 The present study was undertaken to further clarify the source of the cells composing the tissue lining of grafts.
A knitted, crimped terylene prosthesis, 20 cm long and surrounded by a nylon sheath impervious to cells (but not to the diffusion of fluid and electrolytes), was placed between the divided ends of the abdominal aorta of 15 dogs (Fig
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SNMP Monitoring with Nagios
Nagios has been around since 2002 and is considered stable software. It is in use by the likes of American Public Media, JP Morgan Chase and Yahoo, just to name a few. It is an enterprise-level network and systems-monitoring platform. Nagios performs checks of services and hosts using external programs called Nagios plugins.
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a network protocol designed for monitoring network-attached devices. It uses OIDs (Object IDentifiers) for defining the information, known as MIBs (Management Information Base), that can be monitored. The design is extensible, so vendors can define their own items to be monitored.
OpenManage is provided with Dell servers and is an extremely well-documented system (see Resources) that provides extensive server administration capabilities. OpenManage works with both Linux and Windows. The OpenManage "SNMP Reference Guide" (see Resources) is a 732-page document that is "intended for system administrators, network administrators and anyone who wants to write SNMP MIB applications to monitor systems". The "SNMP Reference Guide" documents the SNMP OIDs/MIBs for monitoring Dell's servers.
The system described here was implemented for a local utility company when it upgraded to Dell Power Edge servers. As often is the case, out of the box, Nagios didn't do exactly what the company needed, but being an open-source project, it easily was extended to accomplish the goal. All we needed was a Nagios plugin to monitor the new servers.
The first thing I set out to do was find an existing Nagios plugin that offered similar functionality to what we needed. Quite a number of existing plugins are available. In less than one hour, I found check_snmp_temperature.pl by William Leibzon. This is a plugin module that monitors the temperature of various devices remotely via SNMP. Although monitoring temperatures was not our goal, retrieving information via SNMP and reporting it to Nagios was. The module is written in Perl and after reading it over, it looked very well written.
Chapter 4 of the Dell's "SNMP Reference Guide" is the "System State Group". It states:
The Management Information Base (MIB) variables presented in this section enable you to track various attributes that describe the state of the critical components supported by your system. Components monitored under the System State Group include power supplies, AC power cords, AC power switches, and cooling devices, as well as temperature, fan, amperage, and voltage probes.
The associated OIDs provide the overall state of all the critical subsystems that we were interested in. OIDs exist that provide much greater detail, but in this situation, the requirement was to be alerted only if a server had a problem and to indicate the particular subsystem that had the problem. One subsystem was not addressed in the "System State Group" chapter—the RAID subsystem. There is, however, an OID for monitoring it. This OID is described in Chapter 23, the "Storage Management Group".
As stated earlier, these OIDs are used to define particular MIBs that can be queried via SNMP. On the Dell server, there is an SNMP server running. The SNMP server answers queries that are in the form of a long string of numbers (the OID). This string of numbers is understood by the SNMP server to be a specific question. For instance, if you want to ask the SNMP server "How are your power supplies?", you would send it the OID .126.96.36.199.4.1.674.108188.8.131.52.1.9.1 (Figure 1). The SNMP server will respond with 3 if the power supplies are okay.
Table 1 shows the OIDs we are interested in.
Table 1. OIDs
|Object ID
|Defines the system status of this chassis.
|Defines the status of all power supplies in this chassis.
|Defines the status of all voltage probes in this chassis.
|Defines the cooling device status of all cooling devices in this chassis. The result is returned as a combined status value. The value has the same definition type as DellStatus.
|Defines the status of all temperature probes in this chassis. The result is returned as a combined status value. The value has the same definition type as DellStatus.
|Defines the status of all memory devices in this chassis.
|Defines the intrusion status of all intrusion-detection devices in this chassis. The result is returned as a combined status value. The value has the same definition type as DellStatus.
|Defines the overall status of this chassis (ESM) event log.
|Global health information for the subsystem managed by the Storage Management software. This global status should be used by applications other than HP OpenView. HP OpenView should refer to the globalStatus in the root level object group. This is a rollup for the entire agent including any monitored devices. The status is intended to give initiative to an SNMP monitor to get further data when this status is abnormal.
One of the benefits to choosing these particular OIDs turned out to be that they all respond in the same format. Dell refers to this format as DellStatus, and it maps integers to subsystem states:
Variable Name: DellStatus Data Type: Integer Possible Data Values Meaning of Data Value: other(1) The object's status is not one of the following: unknown(2) The object's status is unknown. ok(3) The object's status is OK. nonCritical(4) The object's status is warning, noncritical. critical(5) The object's status is critical (failure). nonRecoverable(6) The object's status is nonrecoverable (dead).
Now that we knew what we wanted to monitor, it was time to modify check_snmp_temperature.pl to do what was needed. The result, check_dell_openmanager.0.7-test.pl, is too long to print here, but it is available on the Linux Journal FTP site (see Resources).
why reinvent the wheel :-)
check_openmanage does all you need and is (at this point) a better solution for nagios.
Wheel wasn't reinvented
I feel the need to comment on this. I am the author of the check_openmanage plugin. I know for a fact that Jason's plugin existed long before check_openmanage, so to be precise it was I who reinvented the wheel. Also, our two plugins are different in their focus, and I believe that both are needed. Users can choose whichever plugin they want, among these two and many others. Isn't open source great :)
Besides that, I really enjoyed Jason's article. It explains in a detailed and concise manner how one goes about to monitor something with SNMP, and how to integrate this with Nagios. This is universally useful to many out there.
Thanks for a great article, Jason!
MonitorSNMP is a free
MonitorSNMP is a free monitoring service, basic but provides notification based on rules. Easy to setup and use. Take a look
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Risky shot!!
It was me having my photo taken. I did not expect the wave as the cliff was about 7 metres high. I got wet :(
And thanks you "only" got wet !! ;)
great photo... looks like a monster from the sea about to engulf you
Thanks Rafael. It did engulf me! :)
Photo taken in Cala D'or, Illes Balears, Spain


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One of the ways that we think about our photos is by the places in which they were taken. So Adobe has added another view to the Organizer, the Places view, that you can use to locate your photos on a map by the location where the photos were taken. This can be a great way to find photos that you may have forgotten about. Now in order to use Places you do need to be online because Places takes advantage of Google Maps online. You can use Places with an entire catalog of photos or with a selected number of photos like those here in the folder that I have selected over on the left in the folder list, in Media view.
With that folder selected I'm going to go to Places view by clicking the Places button at the top of the Organizer. The first thing I want to do in Places view is rearrange things so that I can see more of the map over on the right. So I am going to collapse the panel on the left by going down to the taskbar and clicking the Hide Panel icon. And then I'll move over to the border between the grid of photos and the map and hover over that border till I see this icon and then I'll click and drag to the left.
What is showing here? Well in the grid of photos, I can see all the photos that have already been located on this map, I didn't locate these manually. These automatically appear on the map in the places where they were taken because all these photos were taken with a GPS enabled camera, I actually took these with an iPhone which adds the GPS coordinates to the photos in their metadata. Let's take a closer look. If I want to see just the photos that I took over here in France, I can double-click this symbol which has a number of photos taken there and that limits the photos that appear over here in the grid to just the photos taken there.
I can do the same with this single photo. Now this appears to be somewhere in Maine, I don't remember being in Maine. Let's see what this photo is. I'll double-click this and it's a photo that was taken from an airplane as I was flying over Maine to Europe. Now I am going to click and drag the map so I can see this symbol and I'll double-click it and then I'll zoom out with this slider, so I can see the four photos that are represented by this icon on the map. Now I know these were all taken in the same place, so I am going to zoom in on the map by dragging just very slightly on this Zoom slider and then I'll drag over this way and I'll zoom in a little more and now I can see that really these four photos were taken in two locations, both in the state of Colorado.
So if I double-click on this symbol, there are the two photos that I took in Boulder, Colorado and there are the two photos I took in Salida, Colorado. Now I want to go back and see the photos from all the places that have been located on the map. So I'll click this arrow All Places. The map automatically zooms out to try to show me all the locations of those photos and I'll drag the Zoom slider to the left to see all the photos in the grid. I happen to know that there are two photos in that folder that I selected in Media view that I don't see here in the grid.
It must be that those photos were taken with my regular SLR camera which is not GPS enabled and so they're not automatically located on the map. When you have photos that are not GPS enabled, then you can add GPS coordinates to them and put them on the map manually. So here is how to do that. First of all deselect all these photos and then I'll go down to the bottom of the Places view and click Add Places. That opens this view of the map with those two photos that are in that folder at the top of the screen and here I can either just drag and drop these photos on the map where I think they go or I could come to this Search Map field and I'll type in Denver, Colorado, that's where I took these photos, I click Search and that brings up a drop-down menu of possible responsive places.
Well Denver is the place where I took the photos so I click that and that automatically places a pin there. It asks me if that's the correct place. It is, so I click the green checkmark. Now these two photos are on the map as well in the location where they were taken. So I'll click Done, I'll click and drag the map and now you can see that there are six photos taken in Colorado that includes these two photos which now appear up here in the grid view and if I were to double-click this symbol, that would include the two photos that I just added.
There is one more view and that is the List View. If I click that I see all locations that contain photos that I manually added to the map. So this List view which is available even when you're offline doesn't include locations that only have photos that were originally GPS enabled by my camera. I'll go back and click on Map view again. So Places view is a welcome addition to the Organizer. It gives you one more way to find just the photos that you are after in your Organizer.
The course begins with a look at how to import your photos into Elements, and then dives right into editing photos with the Photo Fix, Quick Edit, and Guided Edit workspaces. Jan also introduces the Expert Edit workspace, which provides tools for making selections, retouching, compositing, adding text, and more. Finally, the course reviews the Elements 11 sharing features, including crafting photo creations like greeting cards, emailing photos, and sharing photos on Facebook.
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- Working with catalogs
- Importing photos from your computer, camera, or iPhoto
- Applying one-click photo adjustments in the Organizer
- Using Quick Edit and Guided Edit in the Editor
- Retouching with the Healing Brush tools
- Correcting skin tones
- Editing automatically with actions
- Organizing photos by people, places, or events
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Though Belgium is better known for tradition than innovation, one of the country's most cherished breweries takes a stab at brewing India Pale Ale, a style that originates from the U.K. and has been revived in the U.S.A. Belgium is also known for producing some of the world's most epic ales. While these ales' power and complexity generally exceed their bitterness, hops usually take a back seat. Not so with Brasserie d'Achouffe's Dobbelen I.P.A. Tripel, a wildly successful mash-up that combines the traditional Belgian style of ale brewing, a classic British I.P.A. recipe and American hops like Amarillo and Tomahawk. Bottled conditioned and unfiltered, this strong beer pours a cloudy gold. Fragrant floral and citrus hops join distinctively Belgian ale aromatics, like spice cake and baked apples. On the palate, herbal hops scour the palate clean, making this beer a remarkable food partner. "Houblon" is French for hops, and communicates clearly what sets this beer apart from its Belgian cousins. The hop aromas and bitterness, however, will still seem subtle to fans of brash American Imperial I.P.A.'s.
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Personal Branding Across Cultures Blogathon – Day 6 / Dr. Amit Nagpal
In spite of the increasing westernization, Indians are clinging to their cultural roots and community centric attitudes. The joke doing the rounds is that, "Indians don't talk about sex, now they are opening up to talking lovemaking. Indians don't talk about personal branding, now they are opening up to storytelling (for inspiring others & branding as a byproduct). Passionate knowledgepreneurs & early adopters are taking the lead and demonstrating to the fellow countrymen, the power of personal branding through social media.
In fact, personal branding via mass media and books has existed in the country since decades and is restricted to celebrity management, rather than celebrity creation. Now only the celebrity creation through social media game has begun.
Challenge 1: The myth that Personal Branding is done by celebrities only as it's too expensive
Hugging Opportunity – Social Media is new to India (from professional and branding perspective) and majority of the professionals and entrepreneurs are yet to realize the power (and affordability) of personal branding through social media.
Offline personal branding tools are either too expensive (hiring PR agency for example) or too slow (writing a book for example). But internet particularly social media has changed the rules of the game. Even a middle class person (into a full-time job or business) who has an internet connection can build his brand over 2-3 years.
Challenge 2: The perception that Personal Branding is about self-promotion
Hugging Opportunity- Personal Branding is about communicating your value. In fact one can inspire others by sharing one's success stories and the brand can be a byproduct. In community centric cultures like India, where the focus is on the community and not on self, storytelling is already becoming a popular tool to inspire others (and build the brand too in the process). Here is my story on how I realized the power of storytelling and became a professional storyteller.
In fact, personal branding can help you grow as a person, make you a better collaborator and make you even more large-hearted. Here is an interesting article on the subject, "7 Personal Branding Lessons you Learn by Falling in Love"
Challenge 3: The belief that Personal Branding is not necessary
Hugging Opportunity- Majority of the people who know about personal branding also believe that it is not necessary unless you are in top management or top entrepreneurs league. We need to remember that human beings have some illogical tendencies, jumping to conclusions and halo effect for example. If we have not communicated what we stand for, we are giving chance to people to jump to the wrong conclusions about us.
Others may create wrong perception and may do enough damage to your brand before you start the process. Personal Branding is the process of becoming what you aspire and communicating what you stand for. Personal branding also takes care of countering wrong perceptions which may be becoming popular about you (in the online and offline worlds).
Challenge 4: The ideology that any branding including Personal Branding is very slow
Hugging Opportunity- Very few people understand how brands are built but many people understand the term goodwill and believe that it takes a very long time to build goodwill.
If you are extremely hardworking and can spare 6-8 hours per day, you can build a strong brand in less than 1 year. But even if you are an extremely busy person, you can still build a strong brand in 2-3 years with consistent efforts and learning the social media strategies. Though many personal branding activities are DIY (Do it Yourself), if you take the advice of a professional, you can do it much faster and in a more effective way. The one who sows the seeds of personal branding efforts reaps higher salaries in job, higher profits from customers and higher respect and recognition in society.
Challenge 5: Personal Branding is not required at all (only organizations and products should become brands)
Hugging Opportunity- Many Indians also think that personal branding is not required at all as people only serve organizations. Hence, only organizations and products should do brand building and people need not do. If we go by this logic, parents should not give names to their children because even naming our children is also branding. If have already been branded by our parents through the names given to us, why let our names be like weak and local brands, why not make them strong, respected and over a period of time global?
Challenge 6: Personal Branding is about image manipulation and not about uncovering our potential and inner greatness
Hugging Opportunity- Branding is about manipulating the perception and image and thus fabricating a lie. Here is an interesting comparison between Personal Branding and Image management on Google trends (search of both keywords internationally on Google over the last few years)
Social Media in any case requires hard work, which necessitates passion. Here is an interesting story about how we can bring out our peak potential and creativity in the personal branding process and bring out our inherent greatness, "3 Life Lessons that led to Social Media Success"
Challenge 7: The herd mentality behavior is strong
Hugging Opportunity- My prospects tell me, "If personal branding is such a powerful tool, why are others not doing it." Being a developing country, most of the people tend to avoid risk taking and wait for others, encouraging herd mentality.
I used to receive many queries for personal branding coaching (and outsourcing of social media activities), but almost everyone wanted to see success stories of others.
Recently, I began to publish the success stories of my clients, which is finally resulting in conversion of queries into clients. But I want every knowledgepreneur, every SME entrepreneur, every journalist, every academician, every author, every student, every introvert to Enlarge, Excel and Evolve into a personal brand and express their deep passion.
So if you respect your individuality and want others also to respect it, then embrace personal branding and give it a tight warm hug. Rest assured, you will love it like mad.


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February 15, 1999
Heidi Lambley and Sen. Rosemary McAuliffe.
Heidi Lambley, a senior at Bothell High School, recently spent the day with Sen. Rosemary McAuliffe, D-Bothell, learning what a day in the life of a legislator was like. Lambley, who is senior chair of the Honor Society and active in volleyball at school, said that her visit with the senator cemented her interest in pursuing political office. "Now, when I'm older, I want to be either a U.S. senator or a state senator," Lambley said.


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Andy Rautins
Rautins with the Knicks
|No. 2 – Royal Halı Gaziantep
|Shooting guard
|Turkish Basketball League
FIBA Europe Cup
|Personal information
November 2, 1986
Syracuse, New York
|Listed height
|6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
|Listed weight
|190 lb (86 kg)
|Career information
|High school
(DeWitt, New York)
|Syracuse (2005–2010)
|NBA draft
|2010 / Round: 2 / Pick: 38th overall
|Selected by the New York Knicks
|Playing career
|Career history
|New York Knicks
|CB Lucentum Alicante
|Tulsa 66ers
|Skyliners Frankfurt
|Pallacanestro Varese
|Royal Halı Gaziantep
|Career highlights and awards
Andrew Jay Rautins (born November 2, 1986) is an American-born Canadian professional basketball player who plays for Royal Halı Gaziantep of the Turkish Basketball League (TBL). He played for Syracuse University and was drafted by the NBA's New York Knicks in 2010, with the eighth pick of the second round (38th overall).
He was born in Syracuse, New York in the United States, but is also a Canadian citizen and has played for the Canadian national team. He is the son of Leo Rautins, who also played for Syracuse and professionally, and is the former coach of the Canadian national team.
High school[edit]
Rautins played on the 2004 Jamesville-Dewitt High School Class A state championship squad that went undefeated (29–0) after defeating St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute, 77–73 (OT) in the championship game. Rautins led the way with 19 points and seven rebounds. He was named first-team all-state and first-team All-CNY.[1]
Team Canada[edit]
Rautins made his international debut in the Jack Donohue International Classic averaging 18.3 minutes and 8.8 points. He started the Gold Medal game against Australia and scored a Canadian team tournament high 20 points including draining five three-pointers in the first half of the game.
Rautins also played in the FIBA World U21 Championship in Argentina. He averaged 9.4 points in five games. In the bronze medal game, Rautins scored 11 points.[2]
Rautins played for the Canadian Senior Men's National Team. The squad played a 10-game exhibition schedule in Europe during July and August.[1] In a game vs. Venezuela at the International Alpos Cup, Rautins scored seven points and recorded three steals in 19 minutes. He also played in one game against Germany recording three points in eight minutes. Rautins played in all three games of the Diego Gianatti Tournament averaging 10.3 minutes and 2.3 points, including five points against Greece.[2]
Rautins participated in the 2007 Pan-American Games held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, averaging a squad-best 14.4 points and 2.4 assists. He scored 16 points in a preliminary loss to Brazil.[3] During the same summer, he also played for Team Canada in the Tournament of Americas held in Las Vegas and tore his ACL during Canada's loss to Brazil.[4]
Rautins was the second youngest player to be selected to the Senior Men's National Team, and appeared in all three of the 2008 FIBA Olympic Qualfiers.[5] He logged 13 minutes and three points in an 86–70 loss to Slovenia on July 15,[6] six minutes in a 79–77 win over Korea on July 16,[7] and eight minutes and four points in an 83–62 loss to Croatia on July 18.[8] As a result of their 1–2 record, Canada did not qualify for the 2008 Olympics.
Rautins also played significant time in Team Canada's exhibition game against Team USA, the eventual gold-medal winner at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Rautins spent all of his time exclusively at point guard during that game, logging 16 minutes.[9]
Rautins was Team Canada's second leading scorer as the Canadians earned a fourth-place finish at the FIBA Americas Tournament in Puerto Rico. Rautins averaged 9.5 points and 3.0 assists for the tournament, including a 23-point performance as Team Canada blew out Panama 97–65 in the quarterfinal on September 23.[10] The team's finish was good enough to secure a spot in the 2010 World Championships in Turkey.[11]
Rautins had offers from Providence and St. Bonaventure before deciding on Syracuse.[12] At Syracuse, he majored in communication and rhetorical studies.[13]
Rautins was used sparingly his freshman year, appearing in just 20 games. He averaged 2.9 points and 0.9 rebounds, but did set a then-career high of 10 points against South Florida on January 8, 2006, connecting on 3-of-5 3-point attempts.[citation needed]
In his sophomore season, Rautins appeared in all 35 of Syracuse's games, including his first career start against Baylor on December 16, 2006. Rautins remained a fixture in the Syracuse starting lineup, and set a career high with 19 points against Providence on February 24, 2007. He finished the season averaging 7.2 points. Rautins established himself as one of the team's best perimeter shooters, converting 36 percent of his 3-point shots.[1]
Rautins missed the entire season because of a knee injury suffered during the Tournament of the Americas in Las Vegas over the 2007 summer. He was granted a medical redshirt.[4]
Rautins would return for his redshirt junior year after reconstructive surgery on his knee. His return paid immediate dividends for the Orange, as Rautins tied a school record with nine 3-pointers (Gerry McNamara had nine against BYU in the NCAA tournament in 2004) highlighting a career-high 29 points in an 82–71 victory over Coppin State on December 22, 2008.[14]
Rautins would continue his tear against Seton Hall (26 points on 7–10 shooting from three point land), South Florida (14, 4–8) and DePaul (17, 5–10). In those four games, Rautins would hit a combined 25 3-pointers at a 57 percent clip.[15] Other highlights included Rautins 20 points, and six 3-pointers in the epic six overtime game against Connecticut in the Big East tournament. Rautins made a crucial 3-pointer in the final seconds of the third overtime, forcing a fourth. Rautins also made the go-ahead 3-pointer in the sixth overtime, giving Syracuse their first lead since the end of regulation to help lead to the historic win.[16]
Rautins would become the full-time starter at shooting guard in his senior season. On November 20, 2009, Rautins would lead Syracuse to an 87–71 upset of then-No. 4 North Carolina with 11 points, seven rebounds, seven assists and seven steals.[17] On December 10, 2009, Rautins played 39 minutes and scored 16 points and handed out five assists as Syracuse knocked off then-No. 10 Florida 85–73.[18] On January 13, 2010 against Rutgers, Rautins scored 23 points and added 9 assists, 8 rebounds, and 5 steals in an 81–65 win.[19]
Rautins finished the season averaging 12.1 points, 4.9 assists, 3.4 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game (leading the Big East), and was named to the All Big East Second Team and was also named an AP All American Honorable Mention.[20]
Professional career[edit]
Rautins was drafted as the 38th pick by the New York Knicks in the 2010 NBA Draft.[21] He signed a two-year non-guaranteed contract on August 12, 2010.[22]
Rautins made his on-court NBA debut on November 9, 2010 in a game vs. the Milwaukee Bucks. He played 8 minutes, scoring 3 points and adding 1 assist during a 107–80 loss.[23]
On December 10, 2011, Rautins was traded to the Dallas Mavericks as part of a three-way trade.[24] He was waived by the Mavericks on December 15, 2011.[25]
On December 21, 2011, Rautins signed a contract with CB Lucentum Alicante in Spain.[26] On September 12, 2012, he joined the Oklahoma City Thunder.[27] He was waived by the Thunder on October 27, 2012.[28] He was then acquired by the Tulsa 66ers of the NBA D-League.[29]
Rautins joined the Chicago Bulls for the 2013 NBA Summer League.[30]
In September 2013, he signed with Skyliners Frankfurt of the Basketball Bundesliga for the 2013–14 season.[31]
On August 23, 2014, Rautins signed a one-year deal with Pallacanestro Varese of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A.[32]
On August 10, 2015, he signed with Royal Halı Gaziantep of Turkey for the 2015–16 season.[33]
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- ^ a b c SUathletics.com – The Official Website of Syracuse University Athletics
- ^ a b "Canada Basketball". Basketball.ca. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
- ^ http://carrierdome.syr.edu/News/basketball/mbasket/2007/7/30/RautinsPanAm7.30.07.asp?path=mbasket
- ^ a b ESPN – Syracuse guard Rautins hurt in Tournament of Americas – Men's College Basketball
- ^ Andy's Back- Syracuse.com
- ^ "Canada Basketball". Basketball.ca. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
- ^ "Canada Basketball". Basketball.ca. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
- ^ "Canada Basketball". Basketball.ca. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
- ^ "Syracuse University Athletics – Catching Up With Andy Rautins". Suathletics.com. 2008-09-09. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
- ^ "Canada Basketball". Basketball.ca. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
- ^ "Syracuse University Athletics – Rautins, Canada, Earn Berth at 2010 Worlds". Suathletics.syr.edu. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
- ^ CSTV.com: #1 in College Sports
- ^ "Syracuse University Athletics – 2009–10 Men's Basketball Roster". Suathletics.syr.edu. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
- ^ "Coppin State Eagles vs. Syracuse Orange – Recap – December 22, 2008 – ESPN". Sports.espn.go.com. 2008-12-22. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
- ^ "Andy Rautins Stats, Bio – ESPN". Sports.espn.go.com. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
- ^ "Syracuse Orange vs. Connecticut Huskies – Recap – March 12, 2009 – ESPN". Espn.go.com. 2009-03-12. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
- ^ "Syracuse Orange vs. North Carolina Tar Heels – Recap – November 20, 2009 – ESPN". Sports.espn.go.com. 2009-11-20. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
- ^ "Syracuse Orange vs. Florida Gators – Box Score – December 10, 2009 – ESPN". Sports.espn.go.com. 2009-12-10. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
- ^ "Syracuse Orange vs. Rutgers Scarlet Knights – Recap – January 13, 2010 – ESPN". Sports.espn.go.com. 2010-01-13. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
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- ^ "Syracuse University Athletics – Rautins In New York State Of Mind". Suathletics.com. 2010-06-24. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
- ^ "News". New York Knicks.
- ^ "New York Knicks vs. Milwaukee Bucks - Box Score - November 09, 2010 - ESPN New York". ESPN.com.
- ^ "Done deal: Knicks complete Tyson trade". NY Daily News.
- ^ "Dallas Mavericks waive guard Andy Rautins".
- ^ "Reports: Former Syracuse basketball star Andy Rautins to play in Spain". Syracuse Post-Standard. 21 December 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
- ^ "OKC Thunder sign DeAndre Liggins and Andy Rautins".
- ^ "OKC Thunder waive Daniel Orton, Andy Rautins, Hollis Thompson".
- ^ "NBA Development League: 66ers Acquire Nine Players". NBA.com.
- ^ "Chicago Bulls Summer League Roster - RealGM".
- ^ "Fraport Skyliners Frankfurt sign Andy Rautins". Sportando.com. September 22, 2013. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
- ^ "Pallacanestro Varese lands Andy Rautins". Sportando.com. August 23, 2014. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
- ^ "Royal Hali Gaziantep signs shooter Andy Rautins". Sportando.com. August 10, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
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- American people of Canadian descent
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- Basketball players at the 2007 Pan American Games
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The best 33 yards on Nova's 371-yard day came to win the game and salvage an otherwise ugly game.
After a third-down sack, Nova stepped up against the blitz in the pocket and led sophomore Leonte Carroo perfectly for the game-winner.
"It was a sigh of relief when Carroo made that catch," said senior defensive end Marcus Thompson. "It was big as far as us getting over the hump. Now we have to keep getting better and getting our team back ready for the bye week that's coming and get ready for the next game."
Nova never lost his confidence, he said, but to bounce back the way he did feels good.
"I was just trying to do it for my teammates, and I let them down the last two weeks," Nova said. "I had to come out here and do my job."
The junior quarterback and team captain finished with 371 yards, three touchdowns and – most importantly – no turnovers. Rutgers offensive coordinator Ron Prince showed confidence in him with a pass-heavy game plan, and a perfectly executed game-winning drive.
Out of timeouts after a six-minute Temple drive, Rutgers completed five passes and went 72 yards.
"In the second half I'm proud of the way the team fought," Flood said. "This team has proven they will fight and they will compete and the moments in the fourth quarter that are close are not too big for this team, and that's exciting to coach a group of kids like that."
Temple (1-8, 0-4) gave Rutgers a fight, but one of the worst statistical pass defenses in the country played as expected on the final drive.
"I thought Gary got better, protected the ball," Flood said. "I think you saw him a couple of times when he didn't have what he wanted, he pulled it down and ran. I thought that was good. Gary is a good athlete. He's not your traditional running quarterback, I don't want to make him feel too good about it, but he is an athletic guy who was able to move the ball with his feet today as well."


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Weather events have been dominating the news recently thanks to the "polar vortex" that caused record cold temperatures across the nation. But just a few months ago, the news was filled with other events: record rain and flooding in Colorado; destructive tornadoes in Oklahoma; widespread drought in the Southwest; and the sluggish recovery from Superstorm Sandy in New Jersey. Unlike the record cold, however, these extreme weather events are becoming more commonplace.
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Getting Ready for the Stork: Our Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy
In this day and age, it's not just vitamins and good nutrition mom needs to worry about. Making good personal choices won't keep all toxic problems out of the womb, but will give baby the best start possible. Follow these tips for a happier and healthier pregnancy!
Growing Up Green
January 2010
The most critical time of development is in the womb, and moms-to-be know that a lot goes into a healthy pregnancy. But in this day and age, it's not just vitamins and good nutrition mom needs to worry about-if she does some research, she'll find that the stork has a lot of toxics to dodge before reaching the nursery. Making good personal choices won't keep all toxic problems out of the womb, but will give baby the best start possible.
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You are what you eat!
If you don't already, eat fresh and organic as much as possible. It's a good idea to avoid canned foods during pregnancy because linings in cans leach toxic bisphenol A (BPA). And frozen foods, fast foods, and microwave popcorn may be contaminated with "Teflon chemicals" from their packaging.
Top produce items to buy only organic are peaches, apples, sweet bell peppers, celery, nectarines, strawberries, cherries, pears, grapes (imported), spinach, lettuce, and potatoes.
Fish is some of the healthiest food you can eat because it is a high-quality protein, rich with important omega-3 fatty acids, but you need to choose wisely to minimize mercury. Wild salmon, sardines, anchovies, Atlantic herring, Dungeness crab, Pacific cod, Alaskan black cod, farmed striped bass, tilapia, farmed catfish, clams, mussels, and Pacific oysters are all safer selections.
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Don't let your nose tempt you when reaching for lotions, body washes and cleansers-toxic phthalates often turn up in fragrances. Opt for fragrance-free products and, if possible, consider giving up perfumes. Hair dye and nail polish typically contain harmful chemicals and should be avoided as well.
Choose cosmetics and personal products from companies committed to safer products, like Burt's Bees, Avalon, Aubrey Organics, and California Baby. You can also explore safer products and ingredients on the Cosmetic Safety Database.
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David Blitzer, Joshua Harris Acquire New Jersey Devils
Newark, NJ ? August 15, 2013 ? David Blitzer and Joshua Harris today completed the purchase of the New Jersey?Devils hockey team from the current ownership group controlled by Jeffrey Vanderbeek. The transaction includes?the team?s long?term operating interest in the Prudential Center and related assets.
Scott O?Neil, Chief Executive Officer of the Philadelphia 76ers, will take on the additional role of Chief Executive?Officer of the New Jersey Devils and the Prudential Center. In this role, Mr. O?Neil will lead the Devils? business?operations and work closely with Lou Lamoriello, the Devils? President/General Manager. Mr. O?Neil will also?oversee the Prudential Center and its broad entertainment offerings. Mr. Vanderbeek will work with the new?ownership group as a senior advisor.
Before becoming CEO of the 76ers earlier this year, Mr. O?Neil was President of Madison Square Garden Sports,?where he oversaw the business operations of three professional sports teams: the New York Rangers, the New?York Knicks, and the New York Liberty.
?I am very excited about the opportunity to become involved with the Devils, an organization with a rich heritage?and tradition of excellence, a passionate fan base, and a world?class arena in the Prudential Center,? said Mr.?O?Neil. ?I have long admired the on?ice success of this franchise under the guidance of Lou Lamoriello, and I look?forward to working with him to bring the fans and business community a future of sustained success.?
?Josh Harris and I are thrilled to own the Devils and, as someone who was born and raised in New Jersey, I am?especially excited by this unique opportunity,? said Mr. Blitzer. ?Both of us have long admired the team for its?passionate fans who reflect the character and commitment to winning that are trademarks of this organization.?We want to thank Jeff Vanderbeek for his leadership of the Devils organization and his great work in bringing the?Prudential Center to Newark. The Rock is a first?class entertainment venue, which will continue to grow and bring?amazing talent to the city. Newark is showing positive signs of growth, and the Devils and the Prudential Center?look forward to supporting this progress. We will be committed stewards of this great franchise and arena as we?work closely with city and state leadership to ensure the Devils, their fans and the Newark and greater New Jersey?community all share in the future success of their favorite team.?
?I've had the opportunity over the past week to spend a considerable amount of time with David Blitzer and?Joshua Harris,? said Mr. Lamoriello. ?There is no question in my mind about their commitment to the fans in?creating the best possible in?game experience, their commitment to winning, and their ultimate goal of bringing?the Stanley Cup back to the fans of New Jersey. Additionally, I have known Scott O?Neil for more than 10 years and?have a tremendous amount of respect for the competency, work ethic and loyalty that he will bring to the New?Jersey Devils and Prudential Center. I look forward to working with David, Josh, and Scott.?
?Today is an exciting day for the New Jersey Devils, the Prudential Center and the city of Newark,? said Mr.?Vanderbeek. ?David and Josh have the experience and passion needed to grow both the Devils and the Rock, and I?look forward to working with them to ensure a smooth transition. I am confident they will carry on the great?tradition of ?Jersey?s Team?. I am proud of our accomplishments this past 10 years ? most importantly, ensuring?the Devils have a state of the art arena to call home in the great state of New Jersey.?
David Blitzer is a Senior Managing Director of Blackstone Group and Joshua Harris is Co?Founder of Apollo Global?Management.


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Featured Golf News
Taking On Bear Mountain
Editors Note: Our north-central Washington correspondent, Bob Spiwak, has become enamored with the new Bear Mountain Ranch golf course in Chelan, Wash. Never one to shy away from personal opinions, Bob is quite smitten with this new track. Heres what the veteran scribe has to say about the course and its unique setting.
Tis a good thing I have an understanding wife. While my golfing might usually take me out of touch for a few hours of the day, my new love requires a round trip of about 140 miles and an all-day venture.
This new inamorata is Bear Mountain Ranch, located on the north side of a mountain above Lake Chelan in Washington State. The course, 6,209 yards from the whites, overlooks the 60-mile long glacial fjord whose blue waters are visible from most of the holes. Signature hole? asks head pro Von Smith. Almost all of them are.
Located just south of the town of Chelan (sounds like Bataan) in Chelan County, it is located on the east slopes of the Cascade Mountains. The sunny side. Being on a mountainside, the course could be considered hilly, and indeed there are many side-hill lies. Eighty bunkers of pure-white sand decorate the 18 holes and fairways, and on the back nine a lake and creek come into play.
Bear Mountain Ranchs owner, Jerry Scofield, teamed up with Don Barth to create the layout. Barth, incidentally, is the owner of the only 18-hole course Alta Lake in neighboring Okanogan County, the largest county in Washington and 50th largest in the nation. The partners hired Robin Yount to design the footprint and routing of the course on the face of the hill. It is a course designed by committee, with all the participants in its development including constructors having input. Delayed by a monstrous forest fire several years ago that came onto the property, the layout opened at the beginning of April 2005, a month earlier than intended. As of Septembers end, over 18,000 rounds had been played.
The greens are bent grass; fairways are a close-cropped mix, predominantly bluegrass. Most of the greens are elevated; knowing how to hit a ball sitting below your feet is a great help on many fairways on the front nine. I recently hit from 124 yards to a couple of feet below the green on No. 8, the top handicap hole. Back rolled the ball, diagonally, concluding its journey with a 155-yard shot back to the green. My 6-iron netted me MINUS 30 yards.
This is a course that definitely requires inside knowledge and a couple of circuits before some level of comfort sets in. Right out of the box, the first hole is a blind dogleg-right, with the aiming point being, to the left of the second pine tree. Most players should keep the big dog in their bag at the first hole, or youre apt to go through the hidden fairway into a bunker, or worse, the pucker-brush. This mixture of native grasses and shrubs surrounds the course. Happily, there are no out-of-bounds, and Smith, the pro, said the peripheral areas should be played as lateral hazards. A rail fence defines the borders of most exterior fairways.
There are five tee areas on each hole: Black, Blue, White, Gold (or bronze) and red. The yardages range from 7,231 from the tips to 6,249 from the reds. Ill reference the whites only. The second hole is a straight-ahead par-4 with a right-to-left canted fairway, only 312 yards in length. This is followed by a par-3 of 142 yards with a downhill shot. The fourth is another blind shot with a goodly carry over the sagebrush and pricklies.
No. 5 is the first of the par-5s, 555 yards of gentle dogleg-left with a fairly severe left-to-right tilt to the fairway. A par-4 follows, more left-to-right cant, then a par-3 over a pond on the seventh, which has a bailout area to the right. More of the same on No. 8, the 482-yard top handicap hole. The ninth is a lesser 329-yard version of toes-down swinging. And remember, there are 80 sand traps around the course.
Take a quick break at the turn and pick up a snack ordered from the cart when you get to the ninth tee. The on-board GPS reminds you to order. It is the best GPS system I have ever encountered. Particularly helpful especially on the blind holes is the location and yardage of the cart ahead.
The 10th hole is a dogleg-right of 363 yards. This is followed by a short par-3 and then into what I consider the most photogenic part of the course. At the 12th tee, a lake runs alongside; big fish break the water a lot. Ahead and uphill, the green is fronted by nine pot bunkers. Can it only be 359 yards from the whites? No. 13 goes farther up the hill to the edge of the burned trees of the big fire. Then youre headed downhill on a 518-yard par-5 sloped left to right with a level landing area alongside the lake. The green juts out on a peninsula. The blue of the water and sky, green of the grass, white of the clouds and black of the charred trees in the distance make for an artists palette.
At 16 you feel you are on top of the world. The snow-capped Cascades are behind; to the left Lake Chelan stretches with orchards on more hills rising behind it. It is an understatement to call this an elevated tee. There is some carry required over the brush before reaching a wide fairway. The hole is only 367 yards long, but it looks like a mile from the top. After a par-3 with a left-to-right sloping green, theres a long cart ride to the finisher, a par-5, 580-yard mission requiring a goodly aerial transection of a wide creek bed at the base of the green. Cowards such as I lay up; the brave will go for it on their third shot.
The pro shop, downstairs snack bar and patio and even the rest rooms are of understated elegance at Bear Mountain. Head pro Smith is one of the most congenial greeters behind the desk I have known after many years in the golf-scribing business. Following a long stint at Lake Chelan Muni (another excellent 18-holer, by the way), he was on board for the opening of Desert Canyon and remained the pro there until his move to Bear Mountain.
Tee times can be made up to 90 days in advance. It will cost you $65, which includes cart with GPS and all taxes. In the off-season, the rate drops to $45, and there is a lesser twilight rate after 2:00 p.m., seven days a week. As for its season, Smith notes, Well play until it snows and reopen when the snow is gone.
The course has a smallish practice putting green, and a largish uphill driving range that requires a token for the ball machine. Smith offers lessons for $45, which usually run just under an hour.
Youll be greeted in the parking lot by a guy wholl have the cart next to your car, load your bag, will check to be certain there is ice in the on-board cooler as well as a bottle of water and tees for two players.
A reality check here is needed. I, and several others, after playing for the first time, were frustrated (I lost 8 balls that first day). As mentioned earlier, course knowledge is a great benefit. So dont give up if you dont shoot lights-out the first time.
Golfing Bear Mountain is like a first date shes intriguing, but difficult and well worth that follow-up phone call. And the date probably does not bake chocolate chip cookies the likes of those by food and beverage manager Cindy Smith. They alone are worth that 120-mile round-trip.
But dont tell my wife.
For more information, contact the Golf Course at Bear Mountain Ranch at 877/917-8200 or visit http://www.bearmt.com/golf_course.html.
Bob Spiwak took up golf in 1953 as a respite from the rigors of selling bibles door-to-door in North Dakota. Though suffering a four-year lapse, hes back to being a fanatical golfer. Spiwak has written articles for almost every golf magazine in the Western world, although few have been published (not true). Bobs most treasured golf antiquity is a nod he got from Gerald Ford at the 1990 Golf Summit. Spiwak lives in Mazama, Wash., with his wife and several pets next to his fabled ultraprivate Whispering Rattlesnakes Golf & Flubbers Club.
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Shrimpers in Louisiana and Mississippi have had to deal with the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, an influx of fresh water during the Mississippi River's flooding and a spike in fuel prices. They're even being branded as turtle killers.
"We have a hard enough time surviving as it is without putting more on us," said A.C. Cooper, a Plaquemines Parish shrimper and the vice president of the Louisiana Shrimp Association.
"Fuel prices high, shrimp prices down," said Pete Gerica, a fisher on Lake Pontchartrain. "I got better prices in the '70s." He said small shrimp were selling for $1 to $1.40 a pound on the dock.
To him, the shrimp caught this year were smaller than usual. He wondered whether the oil spill hurt the usual food sources for shrimp. "The populations (of shrimp) were there, they just didn't grow. The crabs were behind in growth too," Gerica said. "I don't think there was enough in the system for them to get to the size we usually see."
The biggest problems are in Louisiana, hit hard by the BP oil spill and the high river. The Army Corps of Engineers opened two Louisiana spillways this year to divert high water from the Mississippi to keep river levels down, but all that freshwater hurt shrimp grounds, said Jerald Horst, a Louisiana biologist and shrimp expert.
"It's a subnormal shrimp season. Prices haven't really been that good. The supply of shrimp isn't where it should be, which we attribute to the massive amounts of freshwater," Horst said. "That's always caused a depressed shrimp harvest."
Louisiana so far has brought in about 26.5 million pounds of shrimp during the brown shrimp season. In 2009, 27.4 million pounds of brown shrimp were harvested and in really good years, like 2004 and 2006, more than 48 million pounds of brown shrimp were harvested.
Horst said there is a lot of speculation that the smaller catch may be related to less demand for shrimp since the spill put doubt in consumers' minds about the safety of seafood from the Gulf.
The Louisiana Commission of Wildlife and Fisheries voted to open the fall shrimp season for Louisiana on Aug. 22 at 6 a.m. The commission on Thursday set the season based on recommendations by state biologists and public comments.
There are two seasons in Louisiana, by far the most important shrimping Gulf state. Brown shrimp are caught in the spring and early summer and white shrimp in the late summer and fall months. But brown shrimp like salinity and the freshwater stunted their growth this year, Horst said.
In Mississippi, the shrimp industry is enjoying a better year.
"Last year was a total disaster," said Richard Gollott, an owner of the Golden Gulf Coast Packing Co. in Biloxi. "It's pretty normal this year."
Mississippi opened its shrimp season a bit early this year because regulators worried that the freshwater from the Mississippi would have depressed prices and supply.
Joe Jewel, the deputy director of the Mississippi Office of Marine Fisheries, said 2.9 million pounds of shrimp has been caught this year, the best season in the past five years, he said.
He said the weather and environmental conditions in the Gulf have been ideal.
"We have beautiful shrimp," Gollott said.
There was no sign of oil contamination and, he added. "We have the most tested shrimp in the world," he said.
There are a few places on the Louisiana coast -- Bay Jimmy, Grand Terre Island and portions of the Mississippi River's bird's foot delta -- that remain closed due to the BP oil spill.
The last 10 years have been extremely tough on shrimpers. The industry has been hit by cheap imports of farm-raised shrimp, high fuel prices, catastrophic hurricanes and the oil spill.
Dean Blanchard, a shrimp dock owner in Grand Isle, said the year has been terrible for him. His dock is located in an area that was hit hard by the spill. He said his dock has processed about 2 million pounds of shrimp this year, or about 5 million pounds less than usual. He also said he was down to seven workers. In good times, he hires as many as 80 people.
"Ever heard the expression 'Peace of mind is priceless?'" he said. "How can you have peace of mind? I laid off a couple more guys today."
Shrimpers are also fighting new restrictions being considered by federal regulators to force them to have special devices on their nets to allow endangered and threatened sea turtles to escape when they get caught in shrimp trawls. The new restrictions are being considered after hundreds of sea turtles were found dead last year and scientists have linked those deaths to shrimp boats.
The proposed restrictions are not sitting well with fishers.
"All of a sudden we kill 600 turtles in 2010 when the majority of us didn't fish or were working for BP? How could we have killed them?" Cooper said. "They can't blame us for the turtles. We weren't out there."
In the midst of so much turmoil, Cooper said the upcoming fall season would be crucial.
"A lot rides on this season here," he said. "This season will make or break the industry. Hopefully it comes through."
Cain Burdeau of The Associated Press wrote this report.


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Among his teenage peers in Sheridan, Ark., Tommy Smith was a rueful clown. The 17-year-old was known to wear sunglasses and a black trench coat to class and jokingly referred to himself as "Norman Bates" or "Freddy Krueger." Rhonda Damron, 16, appreciated Tommy's "weird" ways, and the two had been friends since sixth grade, although they never dated. "He was different," says Rhonda. "He didn't believe in trying to be Mr. Popularity." Still, Rhonda sensed from their twice-weekly phone talks that Tommy's mordant style was a mask for his insecurity. So when he told her on the phone the night of April 29 that he was going to kill himself, she made him promise to come to school the next day, certain that his threat would prove empty.
Sure enough, after parking his Maverick in the parking lot, Tommy showed up at his American history class wearing a black T-shirt. Teacher Rick Ward was lecturing his class of 24 kids about the Great Depression when Tommy asked if he could speak. Then, says Rhonda, "he got up in front of the class and told them he had two things to say. One was that he loved me." The other thing, he said, reaching into his blue jeans and pulling out a .22 pistol, " 'is this.' " "No, Tommy, no," pleaded the teacher, edging closer. Then Tommy put the muzzle between his eyes and pulled the trigger.
A sign on the Sheridan Pentecostal Church says, GOD NEVER PROMISES SUNSHINE WITHOUT RAIN. But though the town's 3,200 souls have endured storms, fires and tornadoes, nothing could have prepared them for the blows of this spring. Tommy Smith was the second of four Sheridan High School teenagers who killed themselves in the tiny community in a span of five weeks. It began when Raymond Dale Wilkinson, a 17-year-old senior, took his life on March 28. Smith was next. That same evening, Thomas Chidester, 19, turned a gun on himself in his bedroom. The next day, 17-year-old Jerry Paul McCool also put a bullet in his head. The four stunning fatalities added to the nationwide toll of teen suicides that claims some 5,000 lives a year. As elsewhere, the victims were bright youths who, despite adolescent traumas, seemed to have much to live for.
The young men's families, friends and neighbors, many of them deeply religious Christians, were left to grope for an explanation. The 50 professional counselors who descended on Sheridan High School could offer soothing words but little enlightenment. Rumors flew, as people blamed heavy metal music or drugs or Satanism for driving the children to take their own lives. Others suggested that broken homes and the waning of traditional values had bred a sense of hopelessness. "We don't know what happened," concedes 79-year-old Harlan Walker, co-publisher of the weekly Sheridan Headlight. "What can make a 17-year-old put a gun to his head and pull the trigger? I don't know."
Raymond Dale Wilkinson had threatened to kill himself in the past, according to Police Chief David Hooks, but the threats had been viewed as teenage histrionics. His father was a car salesman and a deacon at the First Landmark Missionary Baptist Church; his mother was a secretary. Raymond Dale was considered an extremely bright young man—although he had a drinking problem. Arrested last fall for drunk driving, he was sent to a rehab center in Little Rock, where he spent several weeks. But prior to his death the boy had seemed on the upswing; he was planning to get an apartment and go to college in Little Rock.
None of that mattered on the night he killed himself. His parents were out, and for some reason Raymond Dale went on a rampage, knocking pictures from the walls, sweeping decorative glassware from the tables and slamming a golf club through the wall of his bedroom into the adjacent den. A shotgun was found with its barrel bent—evidently from being hammered against the freezer—and its stock splintered. Stuck with a knife to the windowsill near his bed was a note to his girlfriend. It read, "Don't blame yourself. It's nobody's fault." Raymond Dale had placed a .22 rifle under his chin and put a bullet in his brain. "Raymond Dale's problem was his frustration," says his pastor, Dennis Moon. "He really fought his drinking. He'd get off, slip, get off and slip. Raymond Dale was just fought out trying to whip his problem."
A similar feeling of defeat seems to have overcome Thomas Chidester. "Where shall I begin?" said his note, neatly penned on a sheet of spiral notebook paper and left on his bed. "I really don't know. It's hard to say what's going on anymore. A long time now I have felt like I am on the edge and slipping fast. I guess I've finally slipped over the edge." Chidester and Tommy Smith had been friends, says Thomas's mother, Ura, who works as a custodian in local state parks. But if Smith's death affected her son, he never let on. A straight-A student who liked to read, listen to '50s and '60s oldies and hunt and fish, Thomas did not smoke, drink or swear. He lived in a poor rural area near the hamlet of Grapevine, too far out of town to have many buddies. His father died of cancer when Thomas was 9, and his mother remarried, then divorced. Two years ago, his grandfather, terminally ill with cancer, committed suicide with a pistol shot to his head. Since that time, Thomas had lived with his ailing grandmother, mostly to keep her company. Sometime between 10 and 11 P.M. on April 30, Thomas shot himself in the temple with a .45 semiautomatic pistol.
His mother had him buried in full ROTC uniform, his medals gleaming. "I hope people realize what it's like to lose a child," says Ura, sobbing. "He was the world to me. I'll never be able to hold him again. It ain't right—a mother should never outlive her children."
Each suicide was troubling, and the death of Jerry Paul "J.P." McCool seemed particularly incomprehensible. Popular, gregarious and good-looking, he wanted to be a game warden. McCool was so deeply religious, his friends nicknamed him "Preacher Boy," and some thought he might end up in the ministry. The night after Smith's death, says his mother, Jean McCool, J.P. said, " 'I can't understand how anyone would commit suicide—that was the coward's way.' He was mad about what was going on. He loved life too much, so he couldn't understand why they'd do it." That same night he called his girlfriend, Reneé Gordon, 16, whom he hoped to marry. "I love you," he told her. "I'll talk to you tomorrow." The next day he decided to stay home from school because a recent hernia operation was bothering him. Then at some point that morning, he went up to his parents' bedroom and took their fully loaded .22 caliber six-shooter out from under the bed. At around 12:30 that afternoon, while watching TV, he shot himself in the head. His family insists Jerry Paul's suicide was accidental, and given the boy's character, Saline County Sheriff Larry Davis does not rule out that possibility. "He was a good boy," he says. "But he did put the gun to his head and just pull the trigger."
With the dead buried, a period of mourning has begun in Sheridan. Recovery will not be easy; Police Chief Hooks cannot recall Sheridan ever having seen a murder, so four suicides have left a deep scar. Some kids organized a group called Students Against Suicide, but others rejected the efforts of the counselors brought in from across the state, preferring to be left alone with their grief. "It just pissed me off," says one. "They ought to let it just settle down." Meanwhile Sheridan's adults watched their children for signs of distress—and prayed that the dying was over. "When something like this happens, I guess all parents start to worry," says Ethel Ferrell, whose 17-year-old, Tammy, was in the classroom when Tommy Smith killed himself. "We're just going to go on with our Lives. But it's something she'll never forget."
—Montgomery Brower, Kent Demaret, J.D. Podolsky and Joseph Harmes in Sheridan
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Kent Demaret Joseph Harmes
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The lefties love Jon Stewart, the Republicans fear him (but appear on The Daily Show for a gentle bout of ball-busting anyway), and the irony-damaged young people of this nation worship him for his ability to reduce the most terrifying and senseless world events to a nightly "moment of zen." America (The Book) bottles the show's sensibility in the form of an American history textbook, complete with an introduction by Thomas Jefferson (who, as a feature called "Your Unelectable Founders" points out, probably wouldn't make it into the White House today due to his penchant for mocha chicas like Sally Hemings). Alongside the funny time-lines, charts, and activities (such as an unpleasant paper-doll game starring naked Supreme Court justices) are features on American history, the workings of the legislative and judicial systems, the media, and political lobbyists ("the unsung heroes of American government"). There's even a helpful guide to writing a letter to your congressman, an action that "shows you care enough about an issue to spend five, maybe ten minutes expressing your opinionan investment of time that, by contemporary standards, makes you Cesar Freakin' Chavez." Like most Daily Show content, this stuff is thoroughly satirical yet could serve as a decent substitute for civics class in this underfunded No Child Left Behind era.
My favorite chart lets discriminating readers contrast the pros and cons of different political systems. A typical day in a democracy is all about "Counting your money and deciding which fast food to eat," as compared to a totalitarian regime ("Marching, marching, marching"), an Occupied Territory ("so many rocks, so little time"), or a third-world resort island where you'd be "earning $5 a day moving chairs around a pool for white kids who ask if you can get them pot." Jon Stewart knows the American way: When in crisis, we like to mock ourselves to sleep.
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