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BIOL W10 The White Plague - Poverty & Tuberculosis. Historically known as the White Plague, tuberculosis (Tb) is a highly contagious airborne disease. It is estimated that one third of the world's population is infected, and Tb accounts for 2 million deaths every year. Tb is often characterized as a disease of poverty since the poor and marginalized bear the heaviest burden. While this is true and the vast majority of Tb-related deaths currently occur in the developing world,Tb remains a significant public health concern worldwide. In fact, several developed countries continue to experience higher than expected rates of infection and some have even experienced a resurgence of Tb infections over the past decade. This class provides a historical perspective of the impact of Tb on human health, an analysis of past and present public health strategies used to control this disease, and explores what needs to be done to confront new challenges posed by Tb. Students investigate the biological, socio-economic and geo-political factors that contribute to shaping the current face of Tb, paying particular attention to how poverty impacts efforts to control Tb disease both within the United States and internationally. Students are responsible for specific reading assignments every day and classes largely revolve around discussions of the assigned readings and/or documentaries watched during class. Students are evaluated based on daily reflections on the assigned readings, participation in classroom discussions as well as a final project. An extensive understanding of biological concepts is not required for this class and students from a variety of academic backgrounds are encouraged to enroll. Y. Bediako. 8:30 a.m. to noon.
BIOL W60 Ecology on the Equator: The Serengeti (MAY). Located just south of the equator, the Serengeti in Africa is one of the most biologically unique and fascinating places on earth. Participants in this course travel to several different Tanzanian National Parks to spend time exploring and experiencing various tropical ecosystems. Students investigate the species diversity and natural history of the local flora and fauna as well as study some of the conservation efforts currently being undertaken to preserve these ecosystems. Particular attention will be given to the application of Reformed Christian principles of biological and economic stewardship as tools for assessing the current and future status of these important natural areas. Daily fieldwork combines plant and animal identification with an investigation of ecological processes and an evaluation of human impacts. Evaluation is based on a daily journal, active participation in course activities, and a written examination. Prerequisites: one biology course (high school or college) and permission of the instructor. Course dates: May 17 to June 3. Off campus. Fee: $4470. C. Blankespoor. Off Campus.
BIOL W61 Mammalian Histology. Histology is the study of the structure and structure-related function of cells, tissues, and organs. The emphasis of this course is placed on identifying mammalian tissues and organs on the basis of microscopic cellular appearance and on identifying the functions of these cells and tissues based on their structural characteristics. Characteristics and functions of the four fundamental tissues (epithelial, connective, muscle, and neural) and how they make up organs with many different specialized functions are presented in daily lectures. Following each lecture is a laboratory period in which students study prepared tissue slides using microscopes and computer-based images. Evaluation is based on written tests on lecture material and on laboratory tests using microscopes and prepared tissue slides and/or computer images. Prerequisite: Biology 141, 224, or 205. R. Nyhof. 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
STBR 310H Honors London-History of science, medicine and religion. London, one of the world's foremost cities, is a treasure trove of the history of religion, science and medicine, as well as all facets of culture. Throughout the Scientific Revolution and beyond, most scientists were individuals of significant Christian faith who perceived their work as both discovering the Creator's handiwork and worshipping God. Many struggled with apparent tensions between their discoveries and traditional teachings of the church. This course will utilize London and its surrounding environs to explore predominantly the history of British medicine, science, and religion but also British life and culture. On-site visits within greater London will include the British Museum, British Library, Buckingham Palace, Churchill Museum, Florence Nightingale Museum, Hunterian Museum, Imperial War Museum, London Museum, National Gallery, Natural History Museum, Royal Observatory, Royal Society, St. Paul's Cathedral, Tower of London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Westminster Abbey, and Windsor Castle. The course will include at least five day-long field trips to Stonehenge and Salisbury, Oxford, Cambridge, Downe, and Windsor. Class sessions will consist of lectures and discussions of assigned readings. Students will write a paper primarily on a prominent person in the history of science/medicine or religion, do brief on-site presentations related to their prominent person, maintain a journal, and engage in cross cultural reflections. Two pre-course meetings in fall, 2012, and pre-course readings and research required. This cours is a graded honors course and may be used to fulfill an honors requirement. Prerequisites: one course in the Natural World and one course in Religion, Philosophy or History, or permission of the instructor. This course will fulfill the CCE requirement. Course dates: January 3-24. Fee: $3925. H. Bouma III. Off campus.
IDIS W16 Wildfire: A Natural and Cultural History. R. Van Dragt, D. Warners. 8:30 a.m. to noon.
IDIS W21 Eating Lower on the Food Chain. Fee: $100. D. Koetje. 8:30 a.m. to noon.
IDIS W40 Harness the Wind: Learn to Sail. Course dates: January 2-19. Fee: $2780. J. Ubels. Off campus.
IDIS W60 Galapagos-Amazonia. Course dates: January 3-23. Fee: $4985. C. Blankespoor, D. Dornbos. Off campus.
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BOISE — An Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking after 3.5 pounds of marijuana was found in a duffel bag on a Greyhound bus.
Boise police were called to the downtown bus station at 11:25 p.m. Friday after bus company employees reported a strong odor of marijuana coming from a passenger's checked bag. Officers found several packages of marijuana in the bag.
The owner of the bag was identified as 25-year-old Michael C. Fuentes of Cave Junction, Ore.
Fuentes ran away when officers approached him, but they arrested him after a short foot chase. He was scheduled to make an initial court appearance Monday on the trafficking charge as well as resisting or obstructing an officer.
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Marrero resident Dionne Nichols was once a teen mother, who was raised in a single-parent home herself. Now, she is a school administrator at Bonnabel Magnet Academy High School in Kenner, and recently received her doctorate from Capella University in Minneapolis in educational leadership and administration.
Nichols, daughter of Sherry Gaston-Nichols and the late Robert Nichols, and the proud mother of Shantrice Nichols, said, "I want to share my story with others because I want all children to know that it does not matter what kind of home, neighborhood, or poverty you live in -- you can still overcome if you try."
She said her "journey has been very nontraditional compared to most of my friends, colleagues and counterparts."
She benefited from the fact that her mother always emphasized the importance of education. She matriculated through the Jefferson Parish Public schools, beginning at Vic Pitre, then Allen Ellender, John Ehret High School and on to Nicholls State University. She said, "I was determined to overcome the obstacles of poverty and despair, so I decided to work two and three jobs to put myself through college and take care of my daughter."
Nichols remembered that she loved playing school as a child, and as a teen, she tutored neighborhood children to earn extra money. She said, "It was easy to make the decision to become a teacher."
As she reflects upon her career she said, "I went from being employed as a teacher assistant in the Jefferson Parish Public School System, at the same school system that I attended as a child, to currently serving as an administrator at Bonnabel."
Academy of Our Lady
The staff and student body of Academy of Our Lady held a series of activities to welcome new students to the family Aug. 19 through 23 in the school's gymnasium. AOL's principal, Sister Michelle Geiger, Assistant Principal Michele Coulon and Student Council President Allison Dimagio gave a rousing welcome to students.
Activities included a "Big Sis/Lil Sis" luncheon, pinning ceremony, cheering, school song, drama and musical presentation centered around a modified "Wizard of Oz" theme. During the pinning ceremony, underclassmen received an academy pin from their Big Sis.
Key Clubs of West Jefferson
The West Jefferson Key Clubs held their Leadership Conference at Helen Cox High School Aug. 24. The club consists of a group of volunteers dedicated to "Changing the world one child and one community at a time."
Under the leadership of Lisa McDonald, who is president of the Kiwanis Clubs of West Jefferson, students from West Bank high schools gathered to gain momentum and focus for the club's 2013 goals and projects.
McDonald told the story of how a woman walked along a beach gathering as many beached starfish as she was able and returned them to the sea, rather than think that helping a few of them would not matter compared to how many others needed help. Through this story, McDonald, a retired Jefferson Parish Public School principal, encouraged club members to "make a difference, even if it is just for one."
The keynote speaker for the morning was Judge Ernestine "Teena" Anderson-Trahan, 2nd City Court in Algiers. Anderson-Trahan encouraged members of the club to schedule a half-day to visit her court and learn issues of law, basics of how to make a will and the importance of such. Anderson-Trahan, also a Kiwanis Club member, said, "Ask yourself, 'What can I do to make a difference?'"
She suggested that they might consider tutoring, assisting with the reading program at the Jefferson Parish West Bank Regional Library, volunteering at assisted-living centers, delivering meals, participating in the October Breast Cancer Awareness Walk or "select an area of your passion and interest and get involved." She said, "Pick what you like."
Participating schools were: Helen Cox, L.W. Higgins, West Jefferson, John Ehret, Thomas Jefferson, Archbishop Shaw, Landry-Walker, Academy of Our Lady, Grace King, Mount Carmel, Cabrini, Patrick Taylor and Ecole Classique.
The Westbank Key/Builders Clubs will hold their annual golf tournament at Stonebridge Country Club in Gretna on Sept. 27.
For more information, call 504.615.3333 or visit www.kiwaniswestjeff.com.
Jean Lafitte National Park
Barataria Preserve, 6588 Barataria Blvd. in Marrero, has changed operation hours. The visitor center is open Wednesday to Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. It is closed on all federal holidays and Mardi Gras. The preserve parking lot gates open for trail access every day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., including federal holidays.
For more information, call 504.689.3690.
Lincoln High Class of 1963
The Lincoln High School Class of 1963 recently honored Jefferson Parish Public School System's first African American librarian, Doris Cooper Pitts, and their former teachers at their 50th-year class reunion on Aug. 24 at the Quality Inn banquet room in Gretna. Deceased classmates were also recognized in a slide-show presentation.
Diane Carter presented certificates from U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond and award plaques to honorees Genie Butler, the Rev. Harold Clark, Stanley Crosby, Ida Gabriel, Pearl Lewis, Alvin Martin, Doris Pitts and Shirley Simmons.
Jubilee celebrants were: Maxine Adams, Yvonne Bell, Zeke Brown, Emma Carey, Diane Carter, Edward Chopin, Kenneth Coleman, Ivory Clark, Isiah Craft, Peggy Dumas, Regina Dumas, Joshua Jackson, Nolan Johnson, Herbert Monroe, Theophilus Prichard, Carol Ann Richard, James Smith, Obie Tate, John Varnado, Myrtle Walker, Sophia Watson, Joyce Williams and Eula Zeno.
Class committee members are Emma Carey (504.481.3377), Sophia Watson (504.236.3757), and Joyce Williams (504.273.3238).
Stress Management Series
West Jefferson Fitness Centers' Program Facilitator Denise Hoffman will conduct another "Stress Management: Not the Same Old Same Old Series" for September.
The first session will be held Sept. 25 from noon to 1 p.m. at the Marrero Fitness Center, and the second session will be held on Sept. 26 from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Oakwood Fitness Center. Pre-registration is required.
The topic is "Meeting, Greeting and Embracing Your Body's Energy Centers." Hoffman said,
Although the seminars are free, it is recommended that participants consider making a cash/gift card donation to benefit the Cancer Center.
To register or for more information, contact Denise Hoffman at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 504.348.0055.
Rosalie Simmons may be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com or 504.347.4215.


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Update to Qaym's Camels Post, We've been Fooled!
2 Apr, 2010
UPDATE: Jihad Alammar Founder of Qaym told ArabCrunch that Qaym Camels service was April's fools thing. So the only real news is that Qaym launched its API.
Saudi Startup Qaym which is a social review website for restaurants like Yelp in USA but in Arabic with a local feel, is adding a new addition to it services: reviewing Camels.
According to its blog post, Qaym which means "review" in Arabic will enable users to share their experiences about Camels and Camels' beauty. Qaym has launched its Application programming Interface (APIs) during Arabnet conference lats week.
Camels are a big business in Saudi Arabia as I was told.I do not know for sure if Qaym will keep restaurant reviews and just add Camels Reviews or focus on Camels only. I will get in touch with Jihad Alammar founder of Qaym and update you here with more info. (update: he said it is April's fools day!)
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Both group and individual volunteers are needed to participate in a Work/Play Day in Lacombe. Organized by the Friends of Louisiana Wildlife Refuges, the Work/Play Day will be Feb. 2 at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Bayou Lacombe Centre.
The "Work" portion of the "Work/Play Day" will begin at 9 a.m. and end at noon. The Friends of Louisiana Wildlife Refuges will provide all registered volunteers a light lunch.
The "Play" will consist of a staff led canoe outing on scenic Bayou Lacombe for those interested.
Volunteers will gather at the refuge headquarters, 61389 Louisiana 434, Lacombe.
The Friends group assists in many of the hands-on volunteer events at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Bayou Lacombe Centre and other area National Wildlife Refuges that are part of the Southeast Louisiana Complex.
This is the seventh year of successfully running the "Work/Play Day" model. Through this program hundreds of groups and individual volunteers have contributed in maintaining the grounds of the historic Bayou Lacombe Centre.
The Friends of Louisiana Wildlife Refuges is a non-profit organization formed in 1996 to support conservation and education projects on all the refuges of the Southeast Louisiana Complex. They have secured many grants for refuge projects, and spearheaded the opening of the Visitor Center at the Lacombe headquarters site. The Friends also sponsor the annual youth fishing event at Bogue Chitto Refuge and the popular Wild Things festival each October in Lacombe.
More information about the Friends can be found at www.friendsoflouisianawildliferefuges.org.
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MONTGOMERY, Alabama---It a took long, long , long time to get going but once Saturday's FCS, in-state battle between Jacksonville State and Alabama State at the Hornets' new stadium got going, fans got more than their money's worth of ball game.
The Hornets clung to a six-point lead at the half, stonewalling Jacksonville State leading rusher DaMarcus James at the 1-yard line to end the second and the lead changed twice in the third before the Gamecocks, who scored all of their points in that quarter, pulled away with a 24-22 victory.
JSU scored touchdowns and all ASU could muster was field goals until late in its second-straight loss in as many games at its sparkling, $62-million dollar facility nestled right next to Intersate-85 in the state's capitol city.
"We had great field position in the first half. We just didn't take advantage of it," ASU coach Reggie Barlow said. "We came away with two field goals and typically we get touchdowns on those opportunities."
The Gamecocks reached the end zone on each of its first three possessions of the second half, led by Minnesota transfer quarterback Max Shortell, who came on in relief of starter Parker High School alum Eli Jenkins, early in the second quarter.
First JSU sophomore running back Troymaine Pope score on a 2-yard run with 12:26 to go in the third and the Gamecocks took a one-point lead with, following a successful point after attempt by kicker Griffin Thomas.
Aided by a 29-yard from standout tailback Isaiah Crowell, ASU responded with the third of three field goals by kicker Bobby Wenzig, a 27-yarder with 9:25 left in the third.
However, the Gamecocks, of the Ohio Valley Conference, came right back when Shortell hooked up with tight end Anthony Johnson on a 23-yard pitch and catch down the right sideline with 6:59 to play. It capped a nine-play, 75-yard drive, which included a pair of penalties against ASU, totaling 20 yards, and gave JSU a 14-9 lead.
The wheels really began to fall for the ASU when Gamecocks linebacker forced Hornets quarterback Daniel Duhart to fumble and JSU recovered at the home team's 33 with 6:01 left in the third. Shortell lofted a perfectly thrown pass to wideout Telvin Brown on the very next play to give his team a double-digit lead at 21-9 at the 5:53 mark of the third.
The Gamecocks (1-0) added a 22-yard field goal from Griffin Thomas with 1:32 to go to go up 15.
"It was just that third quarter," Barlow said. "In the fourth quarter we still competed and got stops on them when we needed to but in the third quarter. It was just you know we couldn't stop them."
Shortell finished with 216 yards passing while completing 13 of 23 attempts for two touchdowns and an interception. Crowell rushed for 93 yards on 11 carries but was sidelined for much of the second half with an unspecified foot and problems, Barlow said.
But Alabama State (0-1) would rally late.
An interception by Maurice Tate deep in Gamecocks territory setup Jahaad Coleman's 6-yard score with 11:29 to go in the fourth and muffed punt, recovered by ASU, set up an 8-yard pass from Duhart to Chris Gilzeane to pull the Hornets to within two.
They nearly forced overtime but wide receiver Jarrett Neely's pass toward Duhart fell short.
They had one final shot reaching the JSU 20-yard line with less than a minute to go but back-to-back penalties forced them to attempt a pass on second-and-20 and JSU linebacker Brent Tolson picked it off to seal the victory for the Gamecocks.
"It was tough," Duhart said of the loss. "We fought hard. We just didn't do what we needed to do to get in position. It was just a couple of critical mistakes that we made but those are the type of things that we learn from."
Duhart completed 18 of 36 attempts for 204 yards, a touchdown and an interception and wide receiver DeMario Bell had five catches for 115 yards.


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On Sat, April 28th, the 4th Chess.com Death-Match will take place, with a prize of $1000. And you just might be one of the two players! My purpose here is just to lay out all the ground rules, so that everyone knows how they could qualify.
On April 15th, Chess.com will invite the highest-rated active blitz player and the highest-rated active bullet player to compete in the match. More precisely:
So if you think you're a blitz ace, get out there and play some games and boost your rating! The match-up will be announced on April 15th or 16th. Stay tuned!
Meanwhile, see you Saturday for Shankland-Hess!
P.S. Computer Cheaters out there, leave us alone!! Don't bother trying to qualify for this, stop inputting moves on our site, stop harrassing our members, stop wasting the time of titled players in live chess willing to play other members, who would actually enjoy that opportunity! *You are a WASTE and you are HURTING others*
thanks for that, chessatore.
Pitty that this is not done via an awesome massive swiss qualifying tournament. David & Daniel you should have a talk with Roman how they managed to create meaningful tournaments at chess.net 10-15 years ago without any price money at stake. At chess.com unfortunately all the tourneys do at the moment is create a couple of games. Even the winners tend to quit before the standings are announced because nobody cares really. Hope that changes, because tourneys can be hella fun! It's one of the last details on your way to perfection with this site.
I don't mind Roman bashing my moves as long as I learn something!
Yes a qualifying tournament would be fun.
oh my! you won't have internet access on your trip? it looks like you played more than 50.
I made an effort, but wasn't able to finish 100 more blitz games and I am going away on vacation until the 14th. Good luck to whoever earns the blitz spot!
We can see typical 'rating' layering. Certain people obtain high rating and don't play anybody with lower ratings. Thus it is almost impossible to get from 2100 to 2400 bullet. Also some players are good at beating up computers at 2 1 bullet.
In any case - whole idea of death-match based on rating seems fine as entertainment, but is prone to too many issues to call it fair.
It will be more fun to have qualifying tournaments of course, which was already mentioned
what's wrong with the rating system?
The new rating system makes it kind of senseless for players of my level to play here at all. In the live-chess area there are mostly players with a bullet rating lower than 2400, so I need to win 19/20 games to gain some points.
yes, interesting idea to put 1800 rated players against each other. I watch Sam and Robert playing, it was MIND BLOWING, but sadly I did not understand most of the moves... I mean David and Danny highlighted the most beautiful moves, but it was only a tiny bit of the 3 hours long fight I could understand. But surely those 2 amateur players shouldn't be below 1700-1800, there would be so many blunders which would make the event boring
well, we shall try it, and see!
It would be nice also to see two amateur players playing, maybe it could be more instructive. I don't know about the audience average rating but I think more people could follow the games according to their level and learn more.
Just an idea ;)
David, I guarentee people will show up. I'm sure not as many as to watch two chess giants slug it out but it will make people feel like it could be them up there. Just like people watch American Idol, to see ordinary folks in the spotlight. It's worth a shot, if no one shows up to watch then you can cancel it. Also they'll be lots of instructive mistakes that the audiance will be able to relate to.
Evan has earned his rating. and playing 100 games totally gives anyone a chance to catch up with him. if he plays low-rated opponents, then any loss costs him tons of points. anyone is welcome to try to reach his rating! also, as i said, if i feel that he handpicks people rated 230 who can't even move the pieces, i won't consider that satisfactory. i'm sure he'll play some fair opponents, and i am totally happy with the rules.
that said, i'm totally happy to do qualification tournaments; and i already had that and several other ideas in the works.
Narz, i am concerned that nobody will show up to watch a match between two 1800s, but i suppose it's worth doing it once to find out if that's the case. i absolutely think it would be very fun and instructive, i just don't know that it would draw a crowd. if nobody showed up to watch it would prove to be a waste of the commentators' time, interesting as the idea is.
I think there should be "death matches" in each rating class.
Of course an 1800-level death match isn't going to be as instructive as a 2300-level death match but it will allow the audiance to have fun critiquing the games more & Roman can have a field day pointing out all the awful blunders & missed brilliancies.
Since this was my idea I want to be the first contestant for the Amatuer Death Match arena.
This looks pretty awesome and I agree with Evan with the prospect of having a qualifying tournament, it would definitely be more legit :D
I also think that qualifying tournaments would be a great idea, for example something similiar to the Dos Hermanas online tournament format. It would just be a question of fine tuning it (how to resolve ties, scheduling, making sure some people don't just get "lucky" pairings against weaker players throughout the course of the qualifying tournament, etc).
I think that a serious confrontation if they played IM Pruess against IM Rensch :)
Evan (Eilyisum) has the highest blitz rating on this site so all he needs is a 100 games against mediocre competition (just an example) and he is pretty much guaranteed the blitz spot.
A much fairer option would have been some qualifying tournament(s) as it gives anyone a chance (and of course monitoring for those cheaters), and not just those with an inflated rating from the past.
well, it's now been fixed so that you don't gain a point for beating someone 1000 points below you. from my own experience playing tons of people rated 1000 points below me, that's a sure way to lose rating points over time-- you gain 0 points for winning 97 games, and the three games you lose cost you 50 points. but i will look at the qualifiers' history and make sure they are playing real games against real opponents, and not some hand-picked player who doesn't yet know the rules.
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On September 11, the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the US, the Jets played the Dallas Cowboys at MetLife stadium on Sunday night football.
We have had an emotional day leading up to this game as many of us watched the memorial ceremonies earlier in the day at ground zero. I will never forget the events of 9-11-01 or the sacrifices by our armed forces so we can all enjoy football games and other freedoms. I'd like to see every sport in the US at every level have some sort of "Never Forget, 9-11" message on their fields to honor the fallen! It would be a constant reminder all year long, not just on September 11!
That described the important part of the day for me. Now, for the entertaining part of the day, analyzing the NY Jets football game.
Jets fans should feel very lucky! A Revis interception on an ill-advised Romo pass during a game winning drive with 49 seconds to play enabled a Nick Folk 50 yard field goal to win the game. Jets win despite another pathetic play calling performance by Jets offensive coordinator, Brian Schottenheimer!
From a Jets fan perspective, this is typical Romo; plays a good game, then in the 4th quarter, he fumbles and throws an interception to give the game to the Jets. Frankly, the Cowboys outplayed the Jets in this one. Clearly, the Jets are not ready for prime time!
Kudos goes to the Jets special teams coach, Mike Westhoff, for designing a play that took advantage of Cowboy special team blocking issues that helped block a punt returned for a TD to tie the game late in the 4th quarter. Good thing the Jets scored on that play because with the way Schottenheimer was playing into the Cowboys strength all night, I don't think they would have score on offense.
Then, sure enough, I was proved right after the Revis interception when the Jets only gained 2 yds. on three plays forcing Folk to make a 50 yarder for the lead. Let's set the stage: There are 49 secs left in the game, the Jets have 2 timeouts left and the Cowboys one, the score is tied 24-24. Jets have the ball after the Revis interception on the Cowboys 34 yd line.
In this situation, you'd like to get your team as close as possible to kick a chip shot with 3 secs left, game over! However, in case this doesn't work out perfect, at a minimum, you do not want the Cowboys to have any timeouts or much time left on the clock! This is not brain surgery, every fan knows this. Well, everyone but Brian Schottenheimer.
Given the above scenario, it's clear the Jets should run the ball on every down to: a) get a closer field goal, b) force the Cowboys to use their only timeout, and c) Use up as much of the clock as possible.
On first down, the Jets run Greene up the middle for 2 yards. Great! But then (mistake #1), the Jets call a timeout with 41 seconds left instead of forcing the Cowboys to call their last one! Why stop the clock?
After their first mistake, they make their 2nd mistake. They call a pass play on 2nd down that almost gets intercepted. The incomplete pass, STOPS THE CLOCK! Now, it's 3rd down with 37 secs to go and Schottenheimer for some reason, makes his 3rd mistake by calling yet another pass play! Guess what the incomplete pass does? It STOPS THE CLOCK again!
So, Schottenheimer did not accomplish any of the three things we discussed earlier; didn't move any closer for a shorter field goal (only 2 yds.), didn't force Dallas to use their last time out, and didn't run down the clock! These are 3 critical mistakes to make.
Here is the issue, had Folk missed the 50 yd. field goal, Dallas would have gotten the ball on their own 40 yd line with a timeout and 27 seconds to go. All they would need is 30 yds to get into game winning field position! It was in Schottenheimer's power to not allow this to happen, but he didn't. He can't keep giving professional teams chances to beat you!
Do you think the Patriots would be this stupid? In the Miami vs New England game last night with a few secs left in the half, Brady gets sacked and immediately gets up looks at the clock and waits for it to get down to a few seconds and calls a timeout so they can kick a field goal! That's smart. That's from a player not a coach!
It's clear that Brian Schottenheimer, a supposed smart experienced coach, HAS NO CLUE! The Jets keep winning despite him but for how long? (sorry for this rant, but it just drives me nuts that fans know more about football than a man making millions of dollars a year!)
As mentioned earlier, the Jets did not appear ready to play yesterday. Maybe it's the shortened off season and camp. I don't know, but the offensive line looked weak. Pass protection was weak. Run blocking was weak. Especially when you consider they were going up against a depleted Cowboy defense! I herd the Cowboys Rob Ryan sent flowers to Brian Schottenheimer as a thank you for not taking advantage of the Cowboy defensive matchups the whole game!
The Jets defense wasn't much better. Despite a makeshift Cowboy offensive line, they couldn't put consistent pressure on Romo. Whitten killed the Jets in the middle and Cromartie was toasted by both Bryant and Austin for two TDs! Cro, if you want to be considered a top notch CB, you can't give up 2 TDs in one game!
These Cowboys who played 3rd stringers and a makeshift offensive line, were leading the Brian Schottenheimer offensively challenged Jets by 14 points with 14:50 left in the 4th quarter. Game over, I thought! However, I was watching the game with my friend Jeff, a Cowboy fan. Before the game, I laughed when he told me the Cowboys lead up till about 4 minutes left in the game then they find ways to lose it. "Wow," I thought, "is it possible that more cynical or pessimistic fans other than Jets fans exist?" lol
I told him, "Don't worry, we have the ultimate equalizer, Brian Schottenheimer! He has a special talent of finding ways to kill Jet drives and under-utilize every offensive weapon the Jets have!" We laughed about it. Then during the 3rd quarter when the Jets went 3 and out a few times, he turned to me and said, "I feel your pain!" Sad how both of our predictions came true!
After Romo gift wrapped the game to the Jets, I certainly felt his pain too! I was surprised by the Cowboy team. Despite all the injuries, I believe they are better than most people think and will have a good year if Romo can close games.
As far as the Jets, they have much work to do before they become a SuperBowl contender. They can start by getting an offensive coordinator that actually takes advantage of the defensive weaknesses not play to their strength! There is not reason why the Jets shouldn't have scored 35 or more points and Sanchez getting 400+ yards with the depleted Cowboy secondary. Luck should not have been necessary to win. Christmas only comes once a year!


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After the Red Wings lost Johan Franzen for four months (a.k.a. until early March at the earliest) with a torn ACL in his left knee, Red Wings GM Ken Holland had to shoot down trade rumors, and coach Mike Babcock discussed totally re-thinking his line combinations, but the most surprising news of the day, as NHL.com's Dan Rosen notes, is that Franzen somehow managed to either escape or play through the usually mind-numbing pain of a torn ligament to score the game-winning goal against the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday:
October 10, NHL.com: "We knew he had been bumped but we never thought anything was wrong," Babcock said. "He played the whole game. Now, how do you play the whole game on a torn anterior cruciate ligament? He's a tough guy and he fought his way through."I'd imagine that the Wings will send Franzen to Dr. William Clancy of the Andrews Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Center in Huntsville, Alabama as he and Wings team physician Douglas Plagens have successfully repaired the knees of Tomas Kopecky, Chris Chelios, Steve Yzerman, and Niklas Kronwall.
The word is that Franzen is going to be out for four months, which puts his return right around the Olympics. He remains a candidate to play for Sweden in Vancouver, but Babcock isn't worried about -- that nor is he worried about any timetables right now.
"I'm not looking at any math. That math does you no good," he said. "These guys are elite athletes and once he has the surgery, and we have a great surgeon, he'll be back better than ever. Now, how quickly will he get back? We don't know that now."
What he does know is guys like Helm, Abdelkader, Leino and others will have to step it up and produce in Franzen's absence. It's not an ideal situation, but Babcock is not panicking.
"I don't mind injuries later in the year because by then you have brought your young kids in," Babcock said. "This forces someone in before they are ready. That's life. Let's suck it up and go play."
The "let's suck it up and go play" mentality came from Holland himself, as the Detroit News's Dana Wakiji noted:
October 10, Detroit News: Franzen went from scoring 10-12 goals in his first two seasons in 2005-06 and 2006-07 to scoring 27 in 2007-08 and a career-high 34 last season. The Wings rewarded him with an 11-year, $43.5 million contractThe Wings have to keep their cap options open given the fact that Andreas Lilja's future remains in doubt, and given that Jimmy Howard has yet to prove himself as a regular NHL goaltender, and, as the Detroit Free Press's George Sipple notes, Ken Holland's likely receiving the kinds of calls from GM's that involve "helping" his team by unloading high-salaried veterans in exchange for the Wings' best players:
"You don't lose a power forward who scores 35 goals and breaks Gordie Howe's playoff scoring record and think you're going to magically find another one and plop him in there," Holland said. "It's a (salary) cap world. It's going to put pressure on 18 other guys. Everyone's got to be 10 percent better. At the same time it opens up an opportunity for somebody else to step up."
Franzen scored nine goals in four games against the Colorado Avalanche two years ago, breaking Howe's record of eight goals in one playoff series.
In the offseason, the team also lost Marian Hossa (40 goals) and Tomas Kopecky (six goals) to the Blackhawks, Mikael Samuelsson (19 goals) to the Vancouver Canucks and Jiri Hudler (23 goals) to the Russian League.
"We lost a lot of goals this summer," Holland said. "It's the same song we've been singing. We're going to have to play better defensively."
October 10, Detroit Free Press: Holland said there's no 30-goal scorer mysteriously unsigned. No team is going to offer one for nothing in a trade, so the Wings will have to find answers internally.
"No one is feeling sorry for us," Holland said. "We just gotta continue to stick to the program and need everyone to contribute a little more.
"We gotta find ways to win games. Somebody goes down, there's an opportunity for somebody else to step up and have a bigger role on our hockey club. I don't think it is one person. It's a cap world. The system is designed to distribute the talent to 30 teams. So when you lose a power forward that's a 30-to-40-goal scorer, I'm certainly not looking at one person. I'm looking up and down our lineup."
Don't expect the Wings to throw in the towel.
"We can either fold up the tent and go home — and we're not going to do that," Holland said. "It's no different than it was three months ago, when I told you we lost 90 goals. Now we've lost 125 goals. We've gotta be better defensively. We've gotta find ways to win hockey games."
Holland reiterated his point to the Windsor Star's Dave Waddell--who keenly observed the moment of Franzen's injury:
October 10, Windsor Star: "He's out until after the Olympic break," Wings general manager Ken Holland said. "We'll have to win like Thursday — great goaltending, defence, find ways to grind out games. We're not going to feel sorry for ourselves.''Holland told the Macomb Daily's Chuck Pleiness that he knows his team's facing an uphill battle (to say the least):
Franzen appeared to injure himself midway through the second period of Thursday's 3-2 win over Chicago. After getting involved in a pile up along the boards, Franzen came off the bench to take a twirl on the ice while flexing his left leg. Franzen then chatted with the Wings' training staff, but didn't miss a shift.
On a team that lost 88 goals through the departure of four free-agent forwards, Franzen's loss will be even more keenly felt. Holland said there's no magic fix beyond the rest of the Wings picking up the slack.
"It's a major loss, but we got to find ways to win games," Holland said. "We'll have his money, but at the end of the day, it's going to have to be handled internally. I don't think anyone's looking to move goal-scorers right now. It has to be players on our roster. Someone is going to have to eat up 18-19 minutes a game, or get more minutes."
October 10, Macomb Daily: "I think we're in the deepest divisions in the NHL, certainly in the Western Conference," Holland said. "We can feel sorry for ourselves, but no one else will. We've got to dig down. There are minutes there that the coach and players are going to ultimately decide who's getting them."
The team recalled Justin Abdelkader from Grand Rapids of the American Hockey League to take Franzen's spot on the roster.
Franzen, who's in his first year of an 11-year, $43 million contract, scored a career-high 34 goals last year in the regular season. He added 12 goals and 11 assists in last year's playoffs. Over the last two years, Franzen has combined to score 61 goals during the regular season and 25 in the playoffs.
"We've got to solve this problem internally," said Holland, who has four million in salary cap freed up due to the long-term injury. "You don't just magically replace a player (of Franzen's caliber).."
This past offseason, Marian Hossa and Tomas Kopecky signed with the Blackhawks. Hossa led the Wings with 40 goals a year ago, while Kopecky added six. Jiri Hudler inked a two-year deal in Russia, taking his 23 goals with him, and Mikael Samuelsson signed a two-year deal with the Vancouver Canucks. Samuelsson scored 19 goals last season.
"I was worried about offense even after we signed (Marian) Hossa," Holland said. "We know the challenge we're up against."


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Reader Question: Does a story hook (1st ten pages) have to be suspenseful?August 22nd, 2011 by Scott
In regard to hooking the reader in first 10 pages… Would you say that a "hook" consists of something shocking, mesmerizing, tantalizing, OR can a hook also be something that simply sets the stage for things to come in an interesting manner?
In other words, does a hook have to be suspenseful? And if you choose to go another route, are you essentially dooming yourself with certain pro readers?
It sounds like you're referring to either a 'hard' opening — something with a lot of eye-popping action, thrills, spills to grab the reader's attention — or a 'soft' opening — something quieter and more character-oriented. Let's consider an example of each type.
Two days ago in addressing the Open Forum question "What are the keys to a great opening scene," I referenced the beginning sequence in The Matrix. Here's an excerpt:
The Big Cop flicks out his cuffs, the other cops holding a
bead. They've done this a hundred times, they know
they've got her, until the Big Cop reaches with the cuffs
and Trinity moves --
It almost doesn't register, so smooth and fast, inhumanly
The eye blinks and Trinity's palm snaps up and his nose
explodes, blood erupting. Her leg kicks with the force of
a wrecking ball and he flies back, a two-hundred-fifty
pound sack of limp meat and bone that slams into the cop
farthest from her.
Trinity moves again, BULLETS RAKING the WALLS, flashlights
sweeping with panic as the remaining cops try to stop a
leather-clad ghost.
A GUN still in the cop's hand is snatched, twisted and
FIRED. There is a final violent exchange of GUNFIRE and
when it's over, Trinity is the only one standing.
A flashlight rocks slowly to a stop.
That is a good example of a 'hard' opening. And since the movie is an action / sci-fi story, it fits. Two days ago, we also considered the opening to Little Miss Sunshine which consists of:
* Starting with Olive as she watches and re-watches a videotape of a beauty pageant.
* Richard Hoover leading a self-help seminar to, as it turns out, a handful of people.
* Dwayne works out in his room, then marks off another date on his wall calendar.
* Grandpa snorts heroin in the bathroom.
* A rattled Sheryl talks with Richard on the phone, denying she's smoking.
* At the hospital, Sheryl picks up her brother Frank, who had attempted suicide.
That's an example of a 'soft' opening: No firebombs, no explosions, no car chases, just characters doing something that reflects some core aspect of who they are. And since Little Miss Sunshine is a character-oriented comedy-drama, that opening also fits.
So the first part of my answer to your question is that you can do either a 'hard' or a 'soft' opening. But whatever you write for an opening sequence must be a reflection of the genre and tone of your overall story. Yes, you want to be entertaining, but not in a way that doesn't fit with your story (e.g., a hard action opening for a softer character-oriented drama, drama-comedy, etc).
The second part of the answer is that if you have a 'soft' opening, you must incorporate some compelling narrative elements that connect with a reader. In Little Miss Sunshine, we get a glimpse of something that is important to each primary character. And with the introduction of each character, the movie raises some interesting questions: How are these people related to each other? What is their connection? And if they are connected, how in the world do they function together?
Now I'll grant you it's probably easier to grab a reader by writing something "shocking, mesmerizing, tantalizing," than "something that simply sets the stage for things to come in an interesting manner." But if the latter is what fits the genre and tone of your story, so be it — that's the type of opening you will almost assuredly need to write.
If so, then embrace that fact. As Little Miss Sunshine proves, it's possible to write a 'soft' opening that grabs one's attention. So, too, Juno and Sideways. How about the wonderfully comic misdirection in Parenthood which was the focus of a Great Scene post here?
'Soft' openings can work, just like 'hard' openings. Rely on your characters to help you find the right opening for your story.
How about it, GITS readers? What are your favorite examples of a great 'soft' opening sequence?
[Originally posted December 1, 2009.


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A 36-year-old woman from Beaverton was killed after being hit by a car while crossing Oregon 211 east of Woodburn early Saturday, according to Oregon State Police.
A westbound Volvo station wagon struck Amanda A. Hockett about 4:35 a.m., near Rock Creek Bridge between South Barlow Road and Needy Road, police said. She was walking with another woman who made it safely across the roadway before the crash.
Hockett was later pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver, Abel Guzman Calderon, 20, of St. Paul, remained at the scene and no citations were issued, according to police. The fatal crash caused the roadway to close until about 10 a.m.
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Oregon junior pitcher Madison Boer has been named Pac-10 Pitcher of the Week for Feb. 14-20, Commissioner Larry Scott announced Tuesday.
Oregon needed a solid pitching performance, and Boer delivered in the Ducks' 4-0 win at Hawai'i on Sunday. The Eden Prairie, Minn., native tossed eight innings of shutout baseball and held the Rainbows to just one hit while walking two. Boer recorded at least seven strikeouts for the third time in his career and faced just two batters over the minimum. Boer went six innings without allowing a hit before All-American Kolten Wong broke up the no-hitter with a single in the seventh. His eight innings on the mound and seven strikeouts matched career highs.
This is the Boer's first Pac-10 Pitcher of the Week honor and the second all-time selection for Oregon.
Arizona State junior third baseman Riccio Torrez was named Pac-10 Player of the Week.
Torrez was the offensive catalyst for the Sun Devils in their three-game sweep of New Mexico. The Phoenix, Ariz., native drove in seven runs in the three games, including three home runs. He drove in a career-high five RBI on opening night, thanks to his first career multi-homer game. After the two on Friday, Torrez added an inside the park home run in the first game of Sunday's doubleheader.
This marks the second career Pac-10 Player of the Week honor for Torrez and Arizona State's Conference-leading 96th all-time Player of the Week selection.
Also Nominated (Player): Josh Garcia, ARIZ; Andrew Knapp, CAL; Austin
Wilson, STAN; Jeff Gelalich, UCLA; Matt Argyropoulos, WSU
Also Nominated (Pitcher): Kyle Simon, ARIZ; Kyle Ottoson, ASU; Erik
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2011 Pac-10 Players of the Week: Feb. 22 - Riccio Torrez, Jr., 3B, ASU
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What can I do, as a small person in this sudden upheaval, this messy world? I read carefully, try to send donations where they will do the most good, maybe volunteer for whatever might make a small difference.
Yet I think the most important thing for me personally is to try to shield my children from this news--one is taking an important math final at University as I write this, one is basking in recent acceptance to the college of her choice, the little one is aiming to aim higher at his next science Olympiad event.
These kids will have the weight of this world on their own shoulders soon enough, soon enough. No need to burden them with all this now--boiling nuke rod pools, the possibility that household income will be substantially cut among their friends and neighbors, the effects on their friends' college choices.


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TUPELO – Circuit court officials from Lafayette and Lee counties will resume their effort this morning to impanel a Lee County to hear the Lafayette County trial of Caleb Carrothers. He is charged with two counts of capital murder in the fatal shootings of Frank and Taylor Clark in July 2009 in their rural Lafayette County home and aggravated assaulted in the wounding of Tonya Clark, their wife and mother, respectively.
Third Judicial District Judge Andy Howorth of Oxford led a session Monday at the Lee County Justice Center to distill the pool of 600 summoned voters down to fewer than 150, of whom 15 will be chosen. Some others in the same pool may be chosen to serve on a Lee County case.
"This is a slow but important part of the trial," Howorth apologetically told potential jurors, who were queried in shifts to accommodate their numbers. "What we're asking you to do is to participate in an important and valued right – an American's right to trial by jury. I ask you to make that sacrifice."
One of the central issues in the case is, if Carrothers were to be found guilty, whether to sentence him to death. Defense counsel includes representatives of the Mississippi Office of Capital Defense, and Howorth required potential jurors to disclose any views either for or against the death penalty that could cloud their judgment on the case, and several who responded were excused from service.
The alleged crime would fall within legal guidelines for the death penalty if jurors find that the homicides were committed in connection with robbery.
Carrothers' trial is expected to begin today as soon as jury selection can be finalized and the jurors bused to Oxford. More than a dozen people, including Tonya Clark and her surviving son Josh, law enforcement officers, forensics experts and others, have been identified as potential witnesses. Combined with a complex narrative of events and evidence, that roster may push the trial into the weekend.
"If we don't end on Friday, we'll work on Saturday," Howorth said.
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The Erie Canal opens, the Pony Express closes, Wyatt Earp shoots it out in Tombstone, "Baby Fae" gets a baboon heart, and the Patriot Act is signed into law, all on this day.
1973: Animator, actor and filmmaker Seth MacFarlane is born in Kent, Connecticut. He is best known as the creator of the TV show "Family Guy," the co-creator of "American Dad!" and "The Cleveland Show," and the director of the movies "Ted" and "A Million Ways to Die in the West."


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Gardener's vocabulary can be quizzical
All of my columns spring in some way from an idea that spends time growing from the first notion until it is developed enough to be set down. This one started with an article I read in a magazine while I was in England last September. It concerned "procumbent" roses.
I had never heard that adjective before, but rather admired it. It seemed like an amalgam of prone and recumbent, suggesting a plant that spent its life on the ground, and when I did finally check the dictionary, there it was – not an invention of the author, but a real word.
The gardener, or at least this one, comes across a lot of unfamiliar words in books and magazines, and I have been jotting down some of them in my invaluable notebook to explore further. This seems to be the time to list some of them.
Reading an article on pruning, I wondered exactly what basal breaks were and, on looking it up, found they are the stems and canes that grow directly from the bottom of a plant, new canes that allow for annual renewal. That brings to mind the fact pruning is one of those techniques that cannot really be learned from the written word, however accurate the illustrations may be.
One has to have pruners in hand and a mentor looking over your shoulder in order to understand and follow. I learned from Percy Lilly, the best of the best.
A term that refers to a particular type of pruning is espalier. This is a technique that makes a fruit tree grow flat against a wall or along a support that allows growth in a disciplined pattern where all parts of the tree receive sunlight and encourages abundant and early fruiting. The branches are tied in place until the growing pattern is fully achieved.
Xeriscape is a term we see used often during seasons of drought. This is a type of garden that uses different techniques and plant types to minimize the use of water as much as possible. To xeriscape successfully, a great deal of preparation is necessary, including soil improvement and mulching, along with proper irrigation and maintenance.
Articles about house plants often mention gesneriads, and this is simply the term for African violets, streptocarpus and other similar plants.
Articles about grouping plants in a container often use terms referring to the color wheel. Analogous colors are those that fall next to one another, such as blue, blue-purple and purple, while complementary colors are directly opposite one another, such as purple and yellow.
Growing a crop of green manure is a technique often used by organic gardeners over the winter. This is a fine way to condition the soil by sowing a crop such as alfafa, clover, barley, buckwheat or field peas in the fall, and letting the plants mature. The roots penetrating the soil and then decaying leave a store of organic material, which breaks down into humus.
In the spring, the upper parts of the plants as well as the roots are turned under and the decomposing material is valuable to soil enrichment.
There sometimes is confusion between parasites and epiphytes.
An epiphyte is a plant, such as an orchid in the wild, that will perch on another structure, often with the aim of reaching sunlight. It does not penetrate the host plant in any way, but simply uses the structure.
A parasite plant, on the other hand, attaches itself to the host and steals food. Mistletoe will latch onto a tree and drain nutrients from the sap for its nourishment. Major parasitic invasions eventually can kill the victim plant.
Now, in the interest of full disclosure, there are some terms that have me stumped. For example, micorhyzzia. I sat through a lengthy presentation on that subject at a tree event a couple of years ago and was no wiser at the end than I was at the beginning.
Worse, in fact.
I took dutiful notes as I always do, and to this day they are totally incoherent. Something about fungi and root hairs and humus. So if you ever need to know, don't ask me.
Janet Del Turco is a local gardener and a graduate of the Ohio State University Master Gardener program.
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NASHVILLE, TN - The announcement won't come for about five more minutes, but it appears Maplewood High School offensive lineman James Stone will sign with Tennessee.
During much of the recruiting process, it was Alabama and everyone else for the 6-foot-5, 300-pounder, a four-star recruit according to Rivals.com
But then Vols head coach Lane Kiffin bolted for Southern Cal last month. And once Derek Dooley took over in Knoxville, things changed. Stone is on record as saying he didn't agree with some of Kiffin's decisions - and that was before he left for the West Coast.
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Tom (Racer4life) has been with RC4WD for years, I met him at Scale Nationals this year and knew it was time to learn a little bit more about him and RC4WD. If you haven't heard of RC4WD before you are missing out. They make the coolest scale products around and some pretty good comp parts as well.
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Slaughterhouse Welcome To Our House Tracklist
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Slaughterhouse have released the tracklist to their album, Welcome to our house, scheduled for a 28th August release.
Cee-Lo Green, Swizz Beatz and B.o.B. all make appearances, along with Busta Rhymes and Eminem.
Royce Da 5'9 recently spoke to MTV where he admitted that the vocals were all complete, but the album's production was still being perfected. "The album is done. In terms of vocal recording, we're done. Marshall is still in the process of mixing, we still got a couple of records that we're missing," he said. "We're on pace for June, worst-case scenario, we're looking at July, but it's definitely coming, 100 percent."
Joell Ortiz also told MTV that the album had a mix of both upbeat and personal records. "It's a really personal album, but there are records like 'My Life' which are celebratory," he said. "There are records were those core Slaughterhouse fans will get their 'Ohs and ahs' like 'OK, the pen is pushing. It's themed, but we take you on a ride through this album. Y'all gonna enjoy it."
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10. Throw It Away feat. Swizz Beatz
11. Rescue Me feat. Skylar Grey
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13. Goodbye
14. Park It Sideways
15. Die
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A surgeon has been planting American flags in Marcellus.
A elementary music teacher in North Syracuse is leading practices of Mozart's Quintet in A Major, figuring out where the clarinet should swell, where the cello should resound.
The bagpiper has three services to play Sunday.
Ten years ago, none could imagine such an anniversary or their part in it. Yet, now, these people are the ones who volunteer their time and talents for memorials and concerts. They pass out the candles and arrange the ladder trucks and do their best to make the music outlast the tissues.
Their ideas bring neighbors and strangers together in parks and pews. Through prayers and poems, they help us reflect and grieve for what, despite all the images, remains unimaginable. The nation's tallest and most fortified buildings struck, hard. An airliner turned weapon downed in a field.
"It brings your mortality back into sight," said Stephen Wisely, Onondaga County's former 911 center director.
Here are a few people who, this weekend, will help us face our own memories from Sept. 11, 2001.
The bagpiper
Jack Heins, of Baldwinsville, grew up playing the bagpipes with his brother and sister. A second sister, the youngest, took up the snare drum.
His mother, a native of Scotland, was the family's biggest critic during their outdoor practices at their home, in Oswego County.
Sunday, Heins will play "Amazing Grace" three times in three places. He's done the 9 a.m. DeWitt ceremony every year. A few years ago, Cleveland called for help with their vigil walk, at 6:30 p.m. This year, he heard from Marcellus, where a piper was needed at 12:30 p.m.
Heins, a technology teacher at Paul V. Moore High School, in Central Square, volunteers his time for Sept. 11 memorial services.
In some ways, he's making up for the lack of calls he got 10 years ago. Right after the attacks, there were hundreds of funerals for firefighters and police with bagpipers playing taps. But those services were mostly downstate, and Heins, the pipe major for the Syracuse Highland Pipe Band, wasn't much in demand.
This weekend, Heins is ready. He plays at weddings and funerals often, and he doesn't need to practice.
"Pipes have a unique sound," he said. "They are either happy, or they make you cry."
Shanksville to Syracuse
Laura Beachy grew up in Somerset, Pa., seven miles from Shanksville, where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed.
When her sixth-grade teacher turned on the television, Beachy, then 11, couldn't believe the images were real. Her teacher broke down, evidence that they were.
She remembers the early days, when people in Somerset County opened their homes, cooked dinners and held candles for the families of Flight 93. She remembers later years, when community leaders and politicians debated how to memorialize the site and the memories.
In high school, by chance, Beachy visited Syracuse University during remembrance week, the October custom of honoring 35 students killed in 1988 when terrorists exploded Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
At SU, she found a memorial ritual she liked. She felt comfort in the continuum and the connection, how the university's mix of remembering former students and acknowledging new ones could touch those personally connected to the victims and those who wanted to pay tribute publicly.
Beachy chose SU, and in her junior year wrote an essay exploring the ways people transform tragedy into memorials. Sunday, Beachy, a senior film and anthropology major who is now a remembrance scholar herself, will share some of those thoughts as one of the speakers at a service at 2 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel.
"You will do anything for your neighbor," said Beachy, 21, when asked what she remembers as an 11-year-old kid. "Even if you don't know your neighbor."
Praise the peacemakers
The Rev. Mike Taylor's father was a Syracuse firefighter. Father Mike — the associate rector at the Franciscan Church of the Assumption, on Syracuse's North Side — is an emergency medical technician.
He's not leaving Saturday's homily to chance.
"Not this, baby," he said.
This 4 p.m. mass is special, and he's issued an open invitation to first responders of all faiths to come in dress uniform.
"I'm going to talk about the modern peacemakers," he said of Assumption's 9/11 memorial mass. "Making peace in a violent world."
Taylor's peacemakers are the ones who ran toward the towers while thousands were racing down stairwells, hoping to get out. They are the Syracuse police he sees many nights, trying to keep crime and criminals from getting a foothold on another neighborhood in his city.
"I know what it's like," he said. "This is something that is highly personal."
The witness
Victoria King saw the first plane sail down 6th Avenue. It was so big and so close, and it deafened her.
King, then a student in the Actor's Studio at the New School University, watched the chaos unfold. People shouted out warnings that more buildings were under attack, that gunmen were taking aim atop downtown buildings.
Trapped in the city, she spent the next day and a half volunteering with medical staff and emergency responders who gathered a few blocks north of the World Trade Center. They waited for patients who never came.
"I am a witness," said King, a vocalist, actor, director and part-time worker at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, in Syracuse.
"You hear about the people who lost their lives," said King, who lives in Syracuse. "But you don't often hear about the witnesses."
The sight of a low-flying plane still shakes her. She steels herself when she drives on the New York Thruway west toward the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, where jets share the horizon with the roadway.
Sunday, King will volunteer again, this time as a member of the chorus of singers, musicians and composers at a concert at 4 p.m. at St. Paul's.
"I feel really compelled to create some new thoughts and memories for 9/11," she said. "I can't be the only one who needs this."
Project Cafe
Matt Henderson was in his first few days of second grade when the towers fell. His timeline of that day is based on his parents' faces, the reactions he saw from his grandparents and teachers.
A senior at Cazenovia High School, he's still building his own 9/11 timeline. This summer, he visited Ground Zero. Sunday, he'll be responsible for much of Cazenovia's memorial service, which starts at 7 p.m.
Matt is president of Project Cafe, a non-profit organization made up of high school students. One of the group's projects each year involves 9/11. The teens put up educational exhibits in Cannon Park, and they talk about the attacks and take questions.
It's a 10-year tradition for Project Cafe and the village. This year, it's Matt's turn.
"I don't really have a memory," said Matt, 17. "But I can see how my community rallied. How tears come to people's faces when they talk about it."
Wrestle with demons
Sanford Sternlicht grew up near Wall Street long before his neighborhood included the World Trade Center.
"I saw the towers go up," said Sternlicht, 79, a professor emeritus of English at Syracuse University. "And then they weren't. And then they were replaced by these towers of light."
In between the towers rise and fall, Sternlicht taught drama at SU and wrote nearly 30 books. He's writing about the plays of August Wilson, who dramatized about race and racism in America.
"Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing," Wilson wrote.
Sternlicht isn't making such bold promises, but he certainly is willing to try. Sunday, he'll lead a discussion at 2 p.m. at the Marcellus Free Library that compares American's reactions to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the Sept. 11 attacks.
What's a healthy way to react? Which reactions are the right ones? Should we put this behind us?
Can service help people to remember?
"I think yes," Sternlicht said, confident enough to link this weekend's memorials and remembrances with the service and services that have grown out of the attacks. "I think it's a good way to channel energy and feelings about 9/11."
Caring for colons and flags
Dave Locastro was removing someone's colon when a nurse brought the news of 9/11 into the operating room at Auburn Memorial Hospital.
Normally, such dramatic news wouldn't make it to a surgeon in mid-operation. But it was the first plane, and they thought they were reporting a big mistake by a single pilot in a small plane.
Ten years later, Locastro spearheaded an idea to plant 300 flags in his friend's yard in Marcellus, a move that has grown into a 12:30 p.m. Sunday memorial service with a 21-bell salute from a nearby belfry.
Locastro got the flag idea from Auburn, where he practices medicine. There, the community has filled a field with American of flags for Memorial Days and 9/11 ceremonies.
"It's been done all over the country," Locastro said. "Why not us?"
In Marcellus, until Sunday, people can buy a flag for $40 in the name of a service member, police officer, firefighter or EMT. After the ceremony, they can take it home. The money will go toward the American Legion 297 and the Marcellus Girls Lacrosse Club.
Until then, the flags are planted in Mike Bird's yard, a former chocolate factory on North Street that Bird bought about a dozen years ago.
The men, along with their friend John Fuller, fashioned a shadow of the twin towers that glows each night on the side of Bird's barn. People have been stopping all week long to take photos.
"We're all connected," Locastro said. "We're fighting two wars."
Sounds of peace
John Harnois has been playing a 9/11 concert to a near-empty room for eight years.
No matter. Every June, since 2003, he gets out the music and starts making phone calls to see which of his musicians friends will join him.
Harnois, an elementary music teacher in the North Syracuse school district, appreciated all the ceremonies on the first anniversary in 2002. When nothing seemed to be happening in 2003, he didn't think it was right.
"I just had a vision that people who lost somebody could go and just reflect and remember and hear appropriate music performed," he said. "I got some friends together. It was very cathartic and healing."
There are no speeches, just an invocation from a pastor and a short introduction by Harnois to explain the musical choices.
He likes to play familiar pieces, music that swells and floats like a shaken blanket falling back onto a bed. At 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Andrews Memorial United Methodist Church, he and his friends will play "The Hymn to the Fallen" from "Saving Private Ryan." They'll play "The Ludlows" from "Legends of a Fall." Last week, some of them practiced Mozart's Quintet in A Major in Harnois' living room.
This year, he wants to close with something different, "Dona Nobis Pacem," a traditional canon that simply repeats the refrain: Grant us peace.
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Please refer to the clcInfo pages for in depth instructions. This is a basic setup using a current spell and next spell icon.
- type /clcinfo in chat to open the clcinfo option window
- Select Templates on the left side bar
- Click Add template
- Select the new template (Template1) on the left sidebar
- Give it a label (ex: Destruction) and click Okay
- Select Primary Tree: Destruction
- Select Distinctive talent: Tree: Destruction, Talent: Chaos Bolt, Rank: 1
- Select when you want it to be active: Solo, Party, etc...
Now Select Icons on the left sidebar
- Click Add Icon A new icon entry will appear below "Icon1"
- Click Icon1 on the left sidebar
- Give it the label "Spell1" and click Okay
- Click Unlock to allow moving it around (the icon should show up in the middle of your screen)
- Click the Behavior tab at the top
- Choose Categories: Warlock | Destruction, Templates: Destruction Rotation Skill 1 (return IconDestruction() will be inserted above)
- Go to the "Layout tab to move and size the new icon, you can drag it to position and resize using the Width and Height slider.
Repeat the above Icon instructions and choose Templates: Destruction Rotation Skill 2 for the next Behavior.
You can create additional icons using Categories: Warlock and select from the Templates drop down list the spell you want to track. This is how you set up the tracking for Shadowflame, Shadowburn, Fel Armor and Dark Intent.
Once they are in position and sized, be sure to click Lock for each icon
You can make some adjustments to Spell Priority and Prediction, but the defaults work well. Under Class Modules on the left Sidebar click DestroWarlock (Do not click the tab labeled "Destruction", it is for the default destruction template)
If Spell1 or Spell2 are suggesting spells you have already cast due to server lag, increase the value of Debuff Delay slightly.
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Washington County crews are sanding and plowing higher-elevation roads that typically become problem areas when temperatures drop.
Weather and traffic news
The county isn't keeping track of each road that crews are working on, but they are focused on routes listed on the county's snow plow map, said Stephen Roberts, a Land Use and Transportation spokesman. Crews started at 3 a.m. today.
Most work has been done on roads in the Bald Peak and Gales Creek areas, Roberts said. Those roads are mostly clear now.
Crews are currently working in Timber.
Four county roads have lane closures because of flooding, according to the Washington County Roads website. Northwest Bacona Road has a lane closed near Genzer Road because of a downed tree.
Flooding has closed lanes on these roads:
- Southwest Gaston Road near Spring Hill Road in the Gaston area.
- Northwest Gordon Road between North Avenue and Commercial Street near North Plains.
- Southwest McCormick Hill Road at Laurel Road.
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Update (April 12, 2016) - Van Aman pled no contest to a misdemeanor charge of reckless driving on February 18, 2015. DUI charges were dropped at that time.
The original story is below.
Grant Van Aman, a redshirt freshman walk-on Florida punter, was arrested early Saturday morning and charged with driving under the influence.
Van Aman, 19, was arrested by Gainesville Police after running a stop sign on his scooter, according to The Gainesville Sun.
Sports Talk Florida, citing a Gainesville Police Department report, indicated the redshirt freshman allegedly ran a stop sign on his scooter in front of a Gainesville police officer who was preparing to pull into the intersection.
The officer noted "a very strong odor of alcoholic beverages" and described Van Aman's eyes as "watery, bloodshot and extremely dilated."
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Sorry, Padraig, It's Been DoneJuly 21, 2008 – 12:01 am by McD
Gimpy-wristed Irishman Padraig Harrington is your (well, England's) Open champion for the second year in a row. He boldly gutted out a win by finishing at +3 and even fended off a 53-year-old former champion most notable for A) being old and B) being Mr. Chris Evert and C) choking in major championships throughout his career. He also beat Henrik Stenson, Ian Poulter, and a random Brit amateur. Oh, and Jim Furyk because, why not?
Only in the "Year of the Broken Tiger" could Harrington winning hurt seem kinda, nay very, underwhelming. We're sorry you hurt yourself practicing before the tournament, Padraig, but unless that thing was MRSA-infected, gangrenous and dislocated, you're not going to top what Tiger did at Torrey Pines.
The potential Greg Norman-winning story takes all the fun out of a perfectly nice guy repeating as champion. His charge to the lead came so far out of nowhere, the fans and press barely had the appropriate amount of time to get prepared for disappointment. Most people really wanted this one for Norman. Not only does his legacy consist mostly of his choking at majors, but the guy was still on his freaking honeymoon and was just using this tournament as preparation for a Senior PGA Tour event. He didn't win. Again. But I, for one, enjoyed the ride.
To sympathize with these guys a little, I've played golf in 30-40 mile per hour winds and it really, really sucks. That should explain the scores but winning a tournament when everyone is over par isn't all that special. It kind of makes the winner the tallest midget, er, leprechaun, er, dwarf. I imagine the scores should have been lower, but the Open is usually one of the very few times a year these players play links-style golf and have to deal with the wind like that. And yes, I'm convinced I could match John Daly's Thursday and Friday scores (scroll to the bottom of that link) at the Open given equal time to practice.
The real winner was Indiana University's own Jeff Overton. Playing in his first major, he made the cut and ended up tied for 70th place at +21 and won just over $19,000. Let me be the first to DECLARE TOTAL VICTORY FOR IU!!!!! Way to go Jeff, the Hoosier family is proud of you.
Uh, no homo.
I'll leave you with this thought: at least Kenny Perry didn't win in Milwaukee and was barely in contention at all until Sunday. He was finally just another chump in a second-rate tournament. The battle rages on to exact appropriate punishment for his cowardice, especially should he skip, miss, or play horribly in the PGA Championship next month. Stay strong, people. United we can stop Kenny Perry!
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NEW YORK - The "Today" show's top producer on Wednesday defended Matt Lauer against stories that have portrayed the anchor as difficult to deal with during the show's slide in the ratings.
The longtime morning champ has slipped behind ABC's "Good Morning America" in the ratings over recent months, after more than 15 years of being the unquestioned leader in the morning. The new ratings order has solidified since Ann Curry's tearful exit as Lauer's co-host in June.
"Matt has been the heart and soul of the show for a long, long time, and any of the stuff out that has portrayed him in an unflattering light as being difficult to work with is patently false and it's been tough to deal with," said Jim Bell, "Today" executive producer.
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This April 24, file photo shows NBC 'Today' show co-host Matt Lauer attending the TIME 100 gala, at the Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York. The 'Today' show's top producer is speaking out against stories portraying anchor Matt Lauer as being difficult to work with during the show's slide in the ratings. Executive Producer Jim Bell said Wednesday that Lauer is the heart and soul of NBC's morning news show and that negative stories about him have been hard to deal with. 'Today' has slipped behind ABC's 'Good Morning America' in the ratings recently, particularly since Lauer's former co-host, Ann Curry, was replaced by Savannah Guthrie. That's led to a wave of bad publicity, much of it focused on Lauer.
One tabloid report last week described Lauer as an "anchor animal" who berates the staff and inserts himself into show decisions, which Bell described as "patently false." He also denied an online report that Lauer would be asked to take a pay cut if the show's ratings don't improve. "Today" has also consistently shot down stories that Lauer played a behind-the-scenes role in Savannah Guthrie's replacement of Curry.
Asked if viewers were taking Curry's dismissal out on "Today," Bell said that "it's more complex than that."
"Any time there is a change, especially in the morning, it takes a while for people to process that change and we're still going through that," Bell said. "That's OK. We understand. We get it. We love our team and we really feel positive about the show we are doing and we are taking the long view here."
"Today" has actually taken pride in seamless anchor transitions in the past, such as when Meredith Vieira replaced Katie Couric, Curry replaced Vieira and Lauer took over for Bryant Gumbel. This one hasn't worked, at least for now.
Bell denied reports that he would leave "Today" for another job at NBC, saying "this is the best job in the world."