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UMass Cruises Past George Washington
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Paced by four goals each from Katie Ferris and Nina Sarcona, the No. 15 UMass women's lacrosse team scored the second-most goals for a game in school history racing past George Washington 23-10 on Sunday at the Mount Vernon Sports Complex. 11 different Minutewomen posted goals on the day as UMass improved to 11-1 overall and 2-0 in the Atlantic 10.
UMass returns to action on Friday, April 6 against Saint Joseph's in McGuirk Stadium with the opening draw set for 3:30 p.m.
Ferris finished the day with six points adding two assists to her four goals. Sarcona led UMass with a game-high six draw controls. Dayna Defliese posted three goals, while Lauren Terracciano and Cori Murray both had four-point games with two goals and two assists each.
Katie Florence picked up with win playing just the first 8 minutes, 45 seconds of the game. Rachel Vallarelli played the remaining time in cage making six saves while allowing seven goals.
Addi Bolin had three goals to lead George Washington (7-4, 1-1 A-10), while Megan Seidman, Allie Rash and Sarah Phillips all scored two goals each. Jess Hicks took the loss making three saves while allowing 18 goals in nearly 46 minutes. Mackenzie Jones played the balance of the game making three saves while allowing five goals.
UMass used a 33-to-19 shot advantage in posting its most goals in a game this season. A 21-to-14 edge in draw controls also helped the Minutewomen maintain possession for much of the game.
The Minutewomen jumped out to a 2-0 game in first 53 seconds of play on goals from Sarcona and Jesse O'Donnell (2 goals, 1 assist). Rash scored her first of the day at the 27:53 mark, but Ferris answered 25 seconds later to spark a four-goal run for UMass.After a pair of George Washington goals cut UMass' lead to four late in the first half, Terracciano scored her first goal of the game with nine second before intermission to give the Minutewomen an 11-6 lead at the break.
A six-goal run to start the second half effectively put the game out of reach as Terracciano's goal with 20:45 left in the game gave UMass a 17-6 lead.
In the last three minutes of play, Melissa Carelli,Sam Rush, and Paige Morelli all scored giving UMass a 23-9 advantage before Phillips notched her second of the game for the Colonials with eight seconds to go.
The 23 goals were tied as the second-most for a game in school history. The Minutewomen also scored 23 at Marist on March 22, 2011 in a 23-7 win. UMass scored 24 goals at Williams on April 17, 1980 which remains the program record.
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Discussion in 'General Pro Player Discussion' started by jamesblakefan#1, Feb 14, 2013.
Don't confuse him with facts, they make his head hurt...
By any chance, are you a fan of Marion Jones and/or Lance Armstrong?
The usual suspects for doping are either Nadal or Djocovic, however why does your highness Rodger getaway with claims? He's a 31 year old man with a recurring back problem, yet manages to sustain high level of tennis against top athletes, and against the so called offenders. So I assume he must be doping too, right?
Because Fed worshippers know that gods don't need to dope. The *are* dope.
As I have gone deeper into this issue over the years at first, my main inclination was just that testing should be done the best way possible. I also used to agree with total prohibition, now I am more skeptical specially about the total prohibition part. Professional athletes are from from regular people or even amateurs when it comes to what is expected of their bodies.
To believe that a professional athlete, a tennis player for example, can train 4-6 hours a day plus off court work, play 4 hours plus matches, recover to play day in and day for weeks in a 10 months season, not get seriously injured and do all that on bread and water is a bit of an illusion to ask. And Tennis is not even one of the most physical sports out there.
If you look into some of the main PEDS used, they haven't change much over the decades: HGH, Steroids (basic Male hormone in synthetic form), insulin and EPO. These are all substances naturally produced and found in the body, these are all substances that are prescribed legitimately for people under certain conditions, with minimal side effects when done correctly. The argument is that Professional athletes are like regular people and should not be able to use them. Which is not correct in my view, not in what is expected of their bodies.
To know that there are regular Joe's in the gym around the corner who used them just to look good, to expect that professional athletes who lived of their body to totally stay away from the science of substances that can greatly aid and help them to train better, recover faster and that if used correctly, under professional supervision do not show to have major side effects is a tall order to ask.
I am not saying for allowing everything, certainly there are substances to stay away from, but to prohibit everything just doesn't work, look at recreational drugs which has been tried much harder. And the Ped's testing has not work as a serious deterant, is hard to imagine will ever be truly efficient, unless several hundreds of millions are invested and a truly strong independent party such as the government can get involved. That is what it took to bring Lance forward.
So I believe a balance approach needs to be reach in an openly and honest way. The thing right now is that there is a political correct narrative for the lay man public to believe, that all Peds are bad and that sport's truly do their best to keep everyone clean, wink, wink, and that Tennis is a quite clean sport aside from a few exceptions. While most insiders or people who look deep into this now to be a charade. This needs to truly end, the issue needs to be brought to light, so the best solutions can be found. Not this 2 version way, one for the public and another for insiders.
First of all, I didn't ask you, I asked him. Secondly, as I'm sure will come as no surprise to you, I don't care what you think. And thirdly, your analogy is silly: I neither said, nor implied, that if one was a fan of a person ultimately found to have juiced, that makes one a juicer. The point, which, I mistakenly though was obvious, was we have been down this head-in-the-sand despite considerable circumstantial evidence before, in the aforementioned cases, so the "no proof, no story" line is not only unimpressive, it's wrong: he may WISH there is no story, but wishing doesn't make it so.
OK, finchy boy. What evidence is there against Nadal? Anything even remotely similar to what was there with Armstrong, please? Hint: Having muscles is not enough. Testosterone will do that to you along with heavy exercise and the right genes.
Crickets? I thought so.
Not a Lance fan but?
He was in a sport where most of the top riders/teams were doping! In that situation it was a level playing field. But he should not have come out and lied and accused others.
I believe there was a report stating if you go back through the Tour De France - the person who was never caught doping finished in 29th place.
U have no idea of what you are talking about. Seriously, so I really don't want to get into it with you. Organic steroids do NOT cause prostrate cancer, they in fact prevent it, and every other form of cancer.
They are much, much more expensive than pharmaceutical steroids, and thus all the information you are referring to, refers to synthetics. Organics? Truly the edge, the fountain of youth. And I in fact am on the same blend as five Hollywood actors that keep looking better with age. Whilst the other actors who are unaware of its existence get older and fatter.
If the truth came out about the high end organic stuff, every citizen would want one, and what government wants a bunch of youthful codgers running around collecting old age pension.
The answer? None that I am aware of. So hang out a few token athletes out to dry like Lance, don't test the rest and keep it all a big secret.
You want cancer? And the testosterone levels of an eighty year old at 30? Carry a smart phone around for more than a half hour a day. That is certain leukemia and cancer. Lets call them DUMBPHONES. Cause that is what they are, if you know what they deliver.
Pistorius had banned steroids in his house, although that's now the least of his worries.
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""OK, finchy boy. What evidence is there against Nadal? Anything even remotely similar to what was there with Armstrong, please? Hint: Having muscles is not enough. Testosterone will do that to you along with heavy exercise and the right genes.
Crickets? I thought so.""
Forget it, Jake. It's GOATtown.
What a time for GOATs to come out of retirement! First Nadal and now Sentinel!
As I remember the French media had said he was implicated when the entire Puerto scandal broke, that seems VERY Lance like to me. The Spanish Govt has blocked any effort to uncover who those people are/were. Why did Nadal not follow through with his law suit? Simple answer is the evidence locked away by the Spanish govt would have to be made public to clear his name. Thats why no follow through, thats why no pressure with a law suit, the French made no public apology for "defamation" on Nadal regarding PED use and Puerto involvement. The ball was in his court and he is still holding it.
Really???? I haven't been reading the media mania on this topic. Is that info from a legitimate source or is it just somebody's speculation?
You must be talking about synthetic testosterone. That stuff doesn't stay in your body that long. As for cellphones causing leukemia, what are your sources? The most prevalent theory for cellphones causing cancer is through heat causing DNA/other changes when the phone is in active use and pressed against your skin.
No I am not. The difference between Jones / Armstrong and the tennis players named here is that it has been proven that Jones /Armstrong cheated. When it has been proven that any of these people cheated, then by all means bring on the hate. Until then it is baseless speculation no better than a witch hunt.
Oh my lord. You've really ventured into the looney tunes zone now.
Your memory is very selective. The French media is hardly an authoritative source. They speculated he was involved? There are still people who speculate that the earth is flat.
"Lance like" is when multiple people come forward and claim they have solid first hand knowledge of Lance doing drugs. There has never ever been a hint of any teammate or any person claiming they have knowledge of Rafa doing drugs of any sort. The only remote implication is a Belgian guy who has a reputation for being a sore misfit questioning how Rafa could play two five set matches in a slam.
The Spanish government has NOT blocked efforts to uncover who was involved. They have investigated and are currently prosecuting the doctor involved. Spain is bidding for the 2020 Olympics and have gone to extraordinary lengths to clean up any supposed drug problems in order to remove the suspicions about their drug program enforcement. WADA has praised them for their efforts and they have met all IOC requirements. Spanish authorities released a statement years ago that Rafa was NOT on any list they uncovered in the Puerto investigation.
What Rafa lawsuit? Are you talking about taking action against the French press for publishing those ridiculous stories from Noah? Rafa never ever threatened a lawsuit. He tried to convince people to ignore the nonsense and not give the **** disturbers any publicity. The Spanish Olympic organization threatened a lawsuit because they felt the whole Spanish athletic community had been impugned but I must admit I don't know if they ever followed through with that threat or if they did where it stands now.
There is NO evidence locked away implicating Rafa in any drug scandal. There is only ridiculous garbage like you are spewing which has absolutely no basis in fact. You disgust me with your ugly gossip and rumors.
Lets take a who should be scrutinize base on fishiness as provided by one of the article links on the original post
• Skip the Olympics (which has much stricter drug testing) in your prime for any dubious reason and you're on the list.
• Enjoy your best season in years in your late 30s, four or five years after your last "best season," and you're on the list.
Fed while not having a best season did win a major at his "grandfather" age
• If you're a skinny dude who miraculously managed to add 20 pounds of muscle to your scarecrow frame, you're on the list.
None I think think of at the moment
• If you chopped down the recovery time of a debilitating injury to something that just didn't seem possible a year ago, you're on the list.
None I think think of at the moment
• If you were really good and really ripped at a really young age, and now your body is breaking down much sooner than it should be breaking down, you're on the list.
• If you're exhibiting a level of superhuman endurance that has little correlation to the endurance of any of your competitors, you're on the list.
Even though i'm a fed fan, i'll throw out one more
- Competing highly in an dubious era (a la lance armstrong)
Fed, Murray, Nadal, Novak
While it does seem like half the posts are finger pointing at their favorite players competition, the more doubts we can cast on the sport means more pressure from the fan base. And hopefully with more pressure from fans, the sporting organization will do something about this.
Evidence for cellphone usage destroying our bodies? There is literally mountains of independent research. But if you go to the first 100 pages of Google or Wikipedia, you will of course bump into the very smart agenda based bot software programs that assure you that there is little to no evidence.
Think outside of the box/pyramid.
I feel sorry for you. There is never a free lunch with regards to health. Nobody lives forever. Some diseases (cancer is a very good example) are simply the product of cummulative mutations at the DNA level, and will take place if given enough time. A hormone will not help you escape cancer forever.
You might look younger for a while taking certain hormones, but eventually age will catch up with you. Your knowledge of human physiology is appalling. You need to understand what a telomere is and what does it mean that during cellular replication there is an intrinsic degradation that is unstoppable regardless of whatever hormones you are taking. There is a built in cellular clock that can't be stopped. Does that sink in with you?
What's more important, even if it were possible to live forever, it would be a crime to do so. Until humans as a race develop economic means of interstellar travel and terraforming of alien planets, the Earth is all we have and we need to make room for new people. The easiest way to kill the human race (ironically) would be to discover the fountain of youth and make it public.
What you need to do is realize that you are a human being created by God with a finite earthly life, and invest on that part of you that is truly immortal.
The French media? You trust the French media? That's like trusting a French used car salesman. Not only it's a car salesman, it's a French one!
The French are so jealous of Spanish athletic achievement that they have not problem speaking out of their arse to implicate Spanish sportsmen in any scandal they can think of. Where is the evidence, yellow belly man?
This sums it up really well, thank you vernonbc. Well said.
You need to think outside your tinfoil hat. Do you know what is a more dangerous source of radiation that you can't escape? I'll give you a hint: It's above you, it's round and yellow, and if you look at it you'll go blind.
That's right, the sun and cosmic radiation is far worse than any cellphone. Now, I think some cellphones emmit a dose of radiation that is too high, and it doesn't hurt finding a cell phone that has a lower rate of emission.
Most importantly, radiation decreases inversely with respect to the square of the distance to the source (I don't expect you to understand that), so not pressing your cellphone to your ear while talking might be a good idea just from a preemptive point of view.
He won medals at the Olympics didn't he?
Well so much stringent drug testing at the Olympics. Actually, I understand they get off the drugs 16 days prior to competition to make sure it clears the system.
Actually, the Spanis government is blocking!
The doctor said his most of his clients are from outside the world of Cycling. I believe he said only 30% of clients were from the sport of Cycling. Then apparently the judge said we are only dealing with the cyclists. No other names were to be mentioned.
This is why people are claiming - they are trying to cover up the other names. It might not be Nadal who maybe implicated - it could be the Spanish Football players - as you know they have been touted as the best team ever - winning 2 world cups and a European cup - strongest group of Footballers ever - I would say!
Any sources or evidence for your claims
If plan to remain anonymous and refuse to give sources to back up your statements about organic steroids - how are we to evaluate the validity of your claims?
He most certainly did say they were investigating legal action. It was also a time when the Spanish govt was in no way interested in being part of any Anti Doping Agency. I wont take the time to list spanish athletes that have been caught only to have their own country praise them. And I was not using the French Media as an authoritative source(I am sure it was no a fabrication though), but they are multi faceted with the Puerto news and implications on Spanish athletes in general and with the legal action that Nads most definately was threatening. Only recently has Spain been interested in complying with Anti Doping, and its a facade in an attempt to bid for the Olympics. I wonder why Nadal would say the Govt need to release all documents and evidence to clear his name but you say their is none? Are you saying Rafa is a liar?
Robert Ludlum used to watch me train in Florida and he made me very aware of telomeres over 20 years ago, and my knowledge of human dna and physiology is 50 years ahead of wherever you are. Its appalling that you cannot intuitively feel that.
Telomere lengthening is the plum du jour, that I sifted, evaluated and researched before you could hit a two handed backhand.
I own and sell apparatus outside of North America that repairs the HUMAN dna spiral. I have 3500 doctors as customers and a large majority of them use nothing else in their practise but my equipment. North America is stumped and decades behind. And probably will remain so with a populace as thick as yourself.
Get past the obvious web 2.0 cell phone company agenda based insert research reports and do your own due diligence, i am not here to take blinders off the general population. Bad education and a bought and paid for media has done a phenomenal job of making that effort boring and frustrating.
And remember that guy Petr Korda, who got busted for steroids? Was there a skinnier athlete than that guy? Steroids are in most cases everything that is good, and thus is painted as BAD by the media. WHY? Because 25 is the new 85. Our population is fat, sterile and lazy, and its mostly EMF based, that deprives the body of your most important hormone, testosterone.
Young boys are being born every day now without a penus to speak of. Baby girls are being born with pubic hair all over North America. Why? Because of a horrid lack of testosterone and an explosion of estrogen. Welcome to a neutered male population. Lady Gaga is the new John Wayne.
"Lance like" is strictly hearsay from jealous cheaters in their own right. Its is not factual evidence! Their are way more people that have needled that Nads was not clean. Fed maybe the most vocal but def not the only one. Learn to read between the lines, when someone says they don't know where he gets his energy, he is not normal, its not a compliment.
Nadals performance in the 09 Australian playing 9 hrs and 40 mins (approx) with one days rest puts him right up there with Novaks feat... Everything else AGREE.
What is the pathway that causes EM radiation from cellphones to cause cancer? You must know that, right? As someone already said, power is inversely proportional to square of the distance. If you don't touch the cellphones to your body or use headsets, the dangers are greatly reduced.
As for DMA repair equipment, that does sound interesting. Genetic doping is pretty close to being a reality if it hasn't already. What can your equipment do?
And, the similarity with Jones and Armstrong is, that for quite a long time-in Armstrong's case, for the better part of FIFTEEN YEARS-it was speculated heavily, with many sources providing circumstantial evidence-that those two were guilty, so, although I don't hate anybody, the time for scrutiny is now, and let's see if we can bring results under the time it took for Jones to be nailed, let alone Armstrong. One man's "witch hunt" is another's justifiable skepticism.
Yes, they have.
I don't think any of us know exactly how this went on. The doctor said that when exactly?. During his trial?. When chatting with his clients?. In an interview?. Maybe they're only going with the names against whom there was more evidence than just what the doctor had said.
Uhm, from what I remember, there was one source-less article in the French media. Never said another word after Nadal threatened a law suit, back in 2006.
So you think that is anonymous haters on a tennis forum speculate, that somehow makes it more likely that Nadal would be doping?.
Oh BTW, there is no circumstantial evidence against Nadal.
I would assume that since it was after Puerto that their was some sort of "source" that was leaking information, and it was not just Nadal that was mentioned, but many Spanish athletes, not by name though as I remember. Maybe it was completely fabricated, (though all lies usually have some truth at the core) but you nor I know exactly, and the Spanish govt has kept everyone in the dark, haven't they? The question is why not pursue the legal action especially since no retraction was made?
Everyone knows that the French dislike the Spanish athletes, winning their cycling and tennis events, but the fact is that the Spanish athletes have only themselves and their govt to blame for being so late to the party with International Anti Doping Programs. Now, finally part of the Anti Doping, clearly and unequivocaly it is a transparent attempt too solely be legit contender for hosting.
We could assume anything, but we don't actually know. They could have just made it up. They could have had a source who swore he was telling the truth, but who could well have been making it all up. Just look at the recent case of a supposed serious newspaper, El Pais, publishing that video saying it was Chavez. The fact is this French newspaper didn't produce any sort of proof nor kept on going about it. You can be sure that if they had anything, they would have published it.
Why not pursue the legal action, well, why not sue random people on the internet who accuse him of doping?. There are just pros and cons of pursuing a legal action. It could have just brought more publicity to the issue. He maybe just didn't want to go through the trouble. Plus, what would that actually prove?. Haters would still be saying they just couldn't produce the evidence but that doesn't mean it isn't true. Look at OJ Simpson, etc. And Armstrong kept suing people I believe.
As for the Spanish government hiding anything on this respect - and I'm very, very far of being fond of the Spanish government -, I have heard that a lot but where is the evidence of that?. I've read articles saying the Spanish "authorities" haven't released names, but "authorities" doesn't necessarily mean the government. It could refer to the judiciary for example.
What I find mind-boggling is, that a lot of people (here as well) would go to extreme lengths and compromise moral standards, in order to protect wrongdoings of a country/government, that is completely foreign to them.
To an extend, that even the words of the GD of WADA are discussed as some kind of personal vendetta or perceived as insignificant.
What are they "protecting"?
Best way to evaluate the equipment is to measure certain things. Get a very expensive blood exam, that examines all kinds of markers and compare before and after. There is nothing on the planet that can clean you up like my equipment.
And yeah, there is some validity to what you say about contact with EMF. But there is a lot more to it than that.
First of all, "anonymous haters?" Biased much? Anybody who doesn't love your honey is a "hater," huh(what a tired, overused phrase btw)? No, it's not just them, there are people who write for well respected publications who speculate, too, but of course you wouldn't notice that if it kicked you in the nether regions....
Anybody who can read an article like the following(and there are others just like it) and NOT be suspicious is clueless and/or doesn't want to see...like the Spanish government-and, btw, notice that the article was written 2 years ago, and the strange signs re: BP have NOT diminished, if anything, they've gotten worse.
I'd wouldn't be surprised, given the horsemeat issue in Europe at the moment.
What are they protecting?
Not rocket science.
Huge gravy train and cash money.
I am reading Nikki Sixx's The Heroin Diaries.
The behavior that Team Motley Crue covered up and vouched for was maniacal,
Never f*ck with the cash flow OG!
Do not respond to any "fan" in an adult conversation and topic.
Especially reality topics like this.
The jingoism is like weird Stalinist slandering.
The thing is is that most of the time the fans fav could car little of them only when they need cash money and have to market their brand.
Yet the fan protect them near the point of hysteria like they are intimate. :?
I fail to see how pursuing an anonymous internet post is the same as pursuing a Media entity. I also fail to see how anything but good could come from being exonerated by said entities claims being proven false. Again, without knowing all details because of them being hidden/locked away, it doesn't seem too far fetched that an inside source thought they had something but that something is now of limits...
Sorry to confuse, that separation of govt and authorities is def foreign to me. I am aware of the distinction but I tend to generalize this point.
Problem is most doctors won't order expensive tests. Heck doctors don't even understand the value of preventative screening done yearly. They act as if they are paying out of their own pocket.
I will have look into this stuff more. Can you email me with some more info on your equipment?
I think Murray was fit, I think Lendl's work has been in Murray's head, not his body. I think that Murray had to get past his own head moreseo than his body.
You are wasting your time with this dim bulb. Fans like that have their heads too far up Nadal's ***! They could see syringes coming out of Nadal's body parts and still be in denial.
Do tell, what are these well respected publications?
While that website has good statistics and some good points, that article you linked to is biased, the author accuses Nadal of faking all of his injuries based on zero evidence whatsoever.
Wow, right on time. See the post that preceded yours...
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First of all, Mr. Lung, to answer one of your questions, no, I did not score a "perfect 100" on my citizenship test. You know why? Because I was born here so I don't have pass a citizenship test. What did you score on yours? Oh right. You didn't have to take one either. Typical red state attempt to reframe a debate.
Now, I'd like to point out once again that I don't wish to take anything away from Albert and Pedroia's accomplishments. But, the fact is, neither of them deserved the MVP for this year. It's like Denzel Washington winning the Oscar for Training Day. He's a great actor but giving him the honor for inferior work doesn't justify anything.
Honestly, it's almost as bad as this ongoing sportsboy fascination with Erin Andrews. Sure, even I admit that she's attractive when you place in her in the pantheon of female sideline reporters. But, when your competition is Suzy Kolber and Holly Rowe, how hard can it be?
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However, despite our disagreement on all things EA and your obvious naivete when it comes to the postseason awards, there is one area where we agree and, although I hate to say it, where we also agree with Mitt Romney. Detroit is America's Somalia, a failed-state. I mean, can you think of a more dysfunctional area? Not only is the auto industry teetering on the brink of total collapse, there's really nothing else to cling onto. Well, maybe except guns and religion.
Look at the situation. The University of Michigan football team just succeeded in having the worst season in school history. The Lions have an excellent shot at ending 0-16 and making official what Lions fans have known for a long time: this really is one of the worst teams ever. And what more can I say about the Tigers that I haven't already said. Farnsworth? No, Detroit and indeed the entire state of Michigan is just one big wasteland. But, I have an idea.
As more and more people start to realize that the Big 3 entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy and restructuring their enormous liabilities isn't such a bad idea, maybe it's time for some of the area's sports teams to do the same. Would it really be so bad if Detroit gave up their NFL franchise to a place like LA and then started over from scratch? You can't tell me there's anyone on that team who's really worth keeping around. And maybe the Tigers don't need to declare bankruptcy but they're starting to look as top-heavy as GM. Any student in Accounting 101 can tell you that too many libailities when paired up with too few assets makes for a really bad situation. And although U of M brought in new management, it doesn't really work so well when that manager can't adjust their style to fit the personnel they have on hand.
So, it's about time for Detroit to do with it's sports what it did to it's equally cack-handed former mayor. Indict 'em, convict 'em and then clean 'em up. That's change I can believe in.
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Wow, tough day in Detroit? I'll have to agree with your comments on the Big 3 automakers, not sure how I feel about the Lions leaving Detroit. Does LA really need another football team? (How about FL – I mean can three football teams really be enough?) But I will have to disagree with you assesment of Dustin Pedroia. You relate it to Denzel Washington getting the Oscar for inferior work. Was the movie inferior or his work? In either case – I will take issue. If you are impling that Dustin had great work on an inferior team (ie – the Red Sox were inferior last year) – do you really want to go there? The Red Sox, in the most competitive division, did something that few World Series teams have done. They made it back to the playoffs and came within one game of making it back to the World Series. If your issue is that Dustin's work was inferior, I would ask you the same question that I ask the reporter for the Dallas Morning News -did you actually watch any Red Sox games. Dustin derserve to win the MVP. Enough said.
I wholeheartedly agree with Julia. Eat it, Allen.
I agree with Allen about Training Day. Denzel (a Yankee fan, btw) deserved to win the Oscar not for that film but for Spike Lee's Malcolm X. I still haven't gotten over the injustice of it all!


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You're comparing apples with oranges there. The early 90s and early 10s are 20 years apart. There are different obstacles and challenges now facing anyone planning events. Relative to the crowds of the last decade, Wembley was a huge success and almost double the interest and of persisted with could grow and grow. The GF wasn't a sell out from day one, was it?
I do agree there are other reasons as well, but the 1997 crowd at Wembley for GB v Aus was down to 40k from 65k for the WC 2 years earlier. All that had happened in the meantime was that GB had lost against the Kiwis and had obviously lost in the WC final v the Aussies. The last 4N game at Wembley had a lot of decent promotion, if it was only organisation then this crowd would have been much higher, surely at least at the early 90's Wembley levels?
Also, the 65k was for a RLWC Final. Hardly a fair comparison. It's a completely different event. The event opener at Wembley got 41k.
But most of the big sports have much bigger and better organisation and dedication to their international programme than RL does. I think the apathy towards our international game by the organisers is stranger.
Fan apathy around international games is a strange thing in RL, although Welsh football also struggles for fans when they struggle.
I wouldn't call announcing venues and fixtures 2-3 months beforehand "well in advance" to be honest. Anything but, in fact. Why aren't they organised a year in advance so people who are at the current internationals know what's happening next? It's like we make it as difficult as possible for fans to know what's going on.
Whilst there has been issues with some of the organisation for the 4N, generally they were advertised well in advance and organised well. I find the venues boring, but that shouldn't stop us filling them for games against NZ and Aus.
It's really concerning that there is absolutely no idea what's happening next season internationally.
Well that's an argument based on extremes though, isn't it. Nobody would suggest playing at 70k+ grounds, but playing at 10k grounds that are partly knocked down as announcing it a month in advance hardly screams "big event" does it? That's where they apathy begins, not with the fans. It's spread from the poor organisation.
I agree with much of this, but then if they had arranged the games in the Autumn at Wembley and Cardiff I suspect many would have slated them for playing in front of 10k in empty grounds.
The RFL knew that the NRL players weren't available. Why didn't they organise and announce this after the 4N and promote it for a year? KC was down the road and has a good track record for internationals. Why not build that?
France pulled 14k in Avignon for a friendly versus England. Why not there?
There's no strategy or logic at all. It was like someone had forgotten to do their coursework and rushed to finish it last minute before the deadline!
42k was fairly good considering. They're pretty much having to start from scratc so you can't expect a huge crowd on the back of nothing. And again, announced 3 months beforehand is hardly ideal. It needs to be A LOT earlier.
I'm not sure it is as exclusive as you suggest. If the well organised double header at Wembley had seen 60k there then I'm sure they would have continued with it (although in fairness they have for the WC) - but even 42k was a poor crowd for the effort and presumably cost put in.
Both of these things are issues, it is a vicious circle - the fans won't change first, so it is up to the RFL to change what they are doing.
42k is a great start, and roughly what the first GF got. It needs to be stuck with. I'd rather watch Eng vs Aus at Wembley than a CCF not featuring Hull.


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Brink of disasterSeptember 23,2013We never knew it at the time, but it now appears certain that in January of 1961 just three days after President John F. Kennedy was inaugurated the United States barely escaped a nuclear disaster of unprecedented proportions when two hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped near Goldsboro, N.C..
The B-52 aircraft carrying them broke apart in mid-air and the bombs, 260 times more powerful than the atom bombs that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945, fell to the ground.
Nuclear experts have estimated that had either bomb exploded the lethal fallout could have spread as far as Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York City, endangering thousands, if not millions, of lives. The bombs payload represented the equivalent of four million tons of TNT.
Fortunately, a low-voltage switch functioned properly and it appears that is the only thing that prevented the devastating explosion when the bombs struck the ground.
How do we know this after all these years? Because, over the weekend, The Guardian, the London newspaper that is more and more a source of significant international news (for example, it broke the story of Edward Snowden, the American security contractor who leaked so many classified documents), published in declassified form a secret government document that described the 1961 incident.
At the time of the incident, there had been considerable public speculation about how narrow the Goldsboro escape was, although the government repeatedly denied that any American lives were in jeopardy.
However, the newly published document quotes a senior engineer in the Sandia National Laboratories (which are managed by Lockheed Martin on behalf of the Defense Department and are responsible for the mechanical safety of nuclear weapons) that one simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe.
Eight years after the incident, the Sandia scientist, Parker F. Jones, authored a document he called Goldsboro Revisited or: How I Learned to Mistrust the H-bomb and in it he stated conclusively that one simple, dynamo-technology, low-voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe.
The MK 39 Mod 2 bomb did not possess adequate safety for the airborne alert role in the B-52, he added.
Jones found that of the four safety mechanisms in the Faro (the small town near Goldsboro where the bombs actually fell), designed to prevent unintended detonation, three failed to operate properly, The Guardian reported. When the bomb hit the ground, a firing signal was sent to the nuclear core of the device, and it was only that final, highly vulnerable switch that averted calamity.
According to The Christian Science Monitor, which also reported on the matter this past weekend, the two bombs landed in a field and a meadow, near Faro, N.C., where theres now a roadside marker commemorating the nuclear mishap. A spokesman for the Pentagon once insisted to a wire service reporter that the bombs were, in fact, unarmed and could not have exploded.
There have been similar near-misses. Three years before the near-disaster in rural North Carolina, a 7,600-pound Mark 15 nuclear bomb disappeared in Wassaw Sound, near Tybee Island, Ga., after a bomber and a fighter jet, both on training missions, collided. The bomb has never been found, and The Christian Science Monitor adds arguments continue to this day about whether the lost Tybee Island nuke was armed.
This all occurred during the Cold War, when the United States and the Soviet Union each believed the nuclear threat was genuine.
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On Monday night, Florida State and Auburn battle for the national college football title. It will be the last championship under the much maligned Bowl Championship Series, or BCS. A new playoff system kicks off next season, but will it be better?


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The recent visit from China's President, Hu Jintao, has caused many, including Christians, to worry. China now claims the world's second most robust economy, having just surpassed Japan. Only a few years ago China was reclusive, and generally wary of international diplomacy. Today, the country is burgeoning. It has become a significant lender. It brokers agreements along the Pacific Rim. It has a large military. And while Hu did not seize the occasion of his visit to lecture the U.S. nor to plead for greater power for the Yuan, there is no question that China desires to make its presence known around the world
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January Top Notch Teacher
Physical education classes give kids a chance to get active and try new things.
The teacher you're about to meet makes sure every student gets in the game no matter what challenges they face. And that's what makes her this month's top notch teacher.
One by one Martha Tymeson, better known as Mrs. T, straps her students into their skis. It's the kind of one-on-one attention her students come to know over their years with her.
"Where a lot of classroom teachers may only have a student for one year, or two years if they loop, I get the advantage of having them for many years. So I can really see and develop kids' skills," she said.
Mrs. T is a Specially Designed Physical Education teacher for the La Crosse School District.
"It's a long name for an adapted physical education teacher. So, basically what I do is I teach physical education for students with disabilities."
And in her 30 years of experience, she's developed a strategy. Tymeson "I believe in the three R's -- and it's not reading, arithmetic and writing... It's relationships, rigor and relevancy. And with those three things, you can take kids a long way."
Which is exactly what Mrs. T likes to do. These kids may be practicing in a hallway now, but sometime soon they'll be on a cross-country skiing field trip.
With a little encouragement and a lot of love, she knows these kids can do anything.
We'd like to say a big thank you to Debbi Olson and her 11-year-old daughter Makayla for nominating Mrs. T.
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So nobody should be disappointed Saturday, Oct. 20, when the Professional Bull Riding, Inc. brings its event to the rodeo arena at the Bee County Exposition Center.
Some of the best bull riders around will be straddling some large and mean bovines to risk life and limb as they compete for the big bucks.
Kries Vaughan of CompanyKries is bringing world famous "Backflip Johnny" Dudley and a host of other top bull wranglers to town for the event.
But the cowboys will be here even before the event begins at 7 p.m. on the big Western Week Celebration Saturday.
Vaughan said Dudley will be in Beeville and surrounding areas beginning Oct. 16 and continuing through the 19th to visit businesses and schools.
She advised that bull riding fans stop by wherever Dudley will be appearing to get his autograph and bring a camera so they can take a photo with the champ.
She recommended that fans look for more information about places and times for the visits.
Dudley will be accompanied by other bull-riding champs.
For the kids, Kries recommends a visit to the Tractor Supply store in Beeville at 1:30 p.m., right after the Bee County Chamber of Commerce Parade.
The PBR will hold a "Little Britches Buck Out" at the store starting at 1:30 p.m.
Competitors there will have a chance to buck their bulls and possibly participate in the actual PBR Little Britches Buck Out.
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DURANGO, Colo. — Brent Jones led five Colorado-Colorado Springs players in double figures with 16 points and the Mountain Lions pulled away in overtime Saturday for an 80-76 victory over Eastern New Mexico University in the George B. Boedecker Classic, hosted by Fort Lewis College.
Colorado Springs, which had a 15-point lead with less than eight minutes left, went on an 8-1 run to erase a one-point ENMU lead in the overtime.
Luke Hristou came off the bench to add 12 points for Colorado Springs (1-1), while forward Rob Howe and guards Ben Fellmeier and Jordan McClung finished with 11 apiece.
Junior forward Max Carrier had 19 points and a game-high 13 rebounds for the Hounds (2-2), including seven boards on the offensive end. Junior guard Stefan Mirabal led the Hounds with 20 points while freshman guard Michael Maya added 14, and both players converted four 3-pointers.
The Mountain Lions shot 65 percent after halftime, including 4-for-4 in the OT, and finished at 57 percent for the game on 29-of-51. Meantime, ENMU managed just 32 percent from the floor on 24-of-76.
Colorado Springs led much of the first half, but ENMU went on an 8-0 run capped by Mirabal's layup for a 23-22 lead with four minutes left. The Hounds led by four points with two minutes remaining, but needed a Carrier free throw with 49 seconds to go to take a 29-28 advantage into halftime.
Colorado Springs scored 11 points in a row early in the second half to lead by eight, and steadily extended the advantage until a 3-pointer by Hristou made it 57-42 with 8:15 left. ENMU began chipping away, tying it at 64-64 on a 3-pointer by Maya with 58 seconds left.
Three free throws put the Mountain Lions back in front. Carrier's dunk with eight seconds left cut it to 67-66, then Howe missed the front end of a 1-and-1 with five seconds to go and Hristou fouled ENMU's Gerald Brown on the rebound.
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If at first you don't succeed, try again. That's the mentality of the Suttons Bay Floatilla2 on Aug. 31 when participants will once again attempt to break the Guinness Book of World Records' challenge for the largest raft of kayaks and canoes.
Last year, the event fell short of its goal by just 154 boats. The current record, which is held by the town of Inlet, New York, stands—or floats, rather—at 1,903 boats.
However, last year's massive on-water fundraiser was still a success, raising $45,000 for the Suttons Bay School Student Activity Fund. That money helped send the school robotics team to its state competition and elementary school trips to Mackinac Island and Grand Rapids, along with the school's Spanish club to Nicaragua.
"We have a great group of kids in our school, but we aren't the affluent school you think we would be for this type of area. The money is in second homes and that population. Our school just isn't big enough to have that money on-hand for these types of activities," said Kate Thornton, who returns as Floatilla's organizer.
Thornton, whose children attended Suttons Bay School, first heard about such a raft world record from her friend who lives in upstate New York.
"She showed me a bunch of aerial photos of all the boats," said Thornton, who brought the idea to school superintendent Mike Murray.
Like the aerial photos showed in New York, thousands of green, red, silver, brown, blue and yellow boats speckled the Caribbean-like blue waters of Suttons Bay that Saturday of Labor Day weekend 2012.
The Floatilla is again happening on the Saturday of Labor Day.
"We chose that weekend for several reasons," said Thornton. "There isn't another big event happening in town and a lot of local families don't go away on vacation because of school starting."
It's also an opportunity to get the outof-towners who've earned an extra day of weekend vacation.
"We're getting a lot of people from southeast and southwest Michigan. So far, we have people registered from Ohio, Indiana, along with a few Canadians," said Thornton.
Registration for this year's Floatilla is also promising, with 1,300 signed up as of last week.
"We're running almost double of what we were last year," Thornton enthused.
There will be four launch points on Saturday with registration and wristband pickup at Suttons Bay High School.
Every participant must wear a wristband, even though only boats—not participants— will be included in the official count.
"We had a lot of crashers last year, which isn't fair to everyone who's paid," said Thornton.
Part of the reason so many unpaid boaters got through last year, Thornton says, is because the entry point to the on-water corral drifted apart.
"The corral consists of big pull boats and lines with buoys. Last year was windy and some of the powerboats only had one anchor so they started drifting apart."
Not only will there be a stronger corral and count system, but a better sound system on the water.
"We actually got really high marks on our organization, which will pretty much be the same," Thornton added.
Each participant must wear a Coast Guard approved personal flotation device. Only kayaks and canoes will be permitted (no stand-up paddle boards or inflatable boats will be allowed). No boats can be tied together and in order to complete the record, the raft of boats must float without touching shore or bottom for 30 seconds.
"The folks in New York actually want us to beat the record," said Thornton, "because they want to do it again, too."
Registration for the Suttons Bay Floatilla2 is at sbfloatilla.com. Cost to participate ranges between $15 and $27 (depending on size of boat) through Aug. 27, then increases to $20-$30 through Aug. 31. Anyone under age 12 must be in a boat with a parent or guardian. Official count takes place at 1 p.m.


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Winter survival hike at PEEC
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DINGMANS FERRY, PA — The Pocono Environmental Education Center (PEEC) will host a winter survival hike on Saturday, December 8 from 1 to 3 p.m.
The facilitator of this program, Mike Dennis of Traditional Earth Skills, will teach hikers a variety of techniques required to survive in the woods during the winter months. Participants of this interactive hike will learn useful wintertime skills, including how to build a basic shelter and start a fire with minimal supplies. The winter survival hike is for adult participants only. The cost of this program is $20 per person and pre-registration is requested.
Dennis has studied native wilderness skills and botany since 1995. His company, Traditional Earth Skills, was founded in 2006 and offers a variety of living history as well as wilderness skills, workshops and presentations. These programs are combined with a genuine concern for recent climate changes occurring world-wide, ultimately hoping to create solutions we can all live with.
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Units: About 1,900
Distributor: International Playthings Inc., of Parsippany, N.J.
Hazard: The heads on the figures sold with the cars can detach, posing a choking hazard to young children.
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The District 31-A Baseball game was the first 1A baseball game played at Whataburger Field. Whataburger Field plays host to several high school baseball games every year, but this was the first between teams from the University Interscholastic Leagues smallest classification.
"It was an honor and a privilege to play at such a great facility. The opportunity to play at Whataburger Field and make a little history was one he could not pass up. I know the kids, parents, and fans were really excited. I would like to thank the Corpus Christi Hooks and the people at Whataburger Field for giving us the opportunity to play," said Eagle Head Coach E.J. McNamara.
The fans were treated to a great game between the Eagles and the state ranked Marlins. The Marlins were able to push one run across in the first on a bases loaded walk. The lead off hitter walked, then the next two batters got on with soft hits to load the bases with no outs. Eagles pitcher, Garret Horner, was able to get the next to hitters out on ground balls.
The sixth batter then walked to bring in the only run in the inning. The Eagles answered in the third, scoring one run to tie the game. Johnathan Flores lead off the inning by grounding out to the pitcher. Lead hitter Garret Horner then doubled to center. Horner stole third and then scored on J.T. Blaschke's RBI single to centerfield, tying the score at 1-1.
The Marlins added one more run in the fourth and fifth innings to make the game 3-2. The Eagles would bring the score to 3-2 in the sixth. Logan Moses lead off the inning with a walk then stole second and third and would score on a passed ball. The Port Aransas Marlins would score three more runs in the sixth inning on a walk and four hits, making the final score 6-2.
"I am proud of the way we played. We stayed with one of the top teams in the state for six innings. We made a couple of errors in the sixth inning and they took advantage," said Eagles Baseball Coach E.J. McNamara.
Leading the way for the Eagles were Garret Horner went 2-4 with a double and a single. Horner also pitched six innings, giving eight hits, three walks and striking out eight. J.T. Blaschke went 1-3 with an RBI. Logan Moses 0-2 with a walk and run scored. Trent Moses 1-2 with a walk.


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It is really breaking my heart to do this but for the past week he has been getting a few ounces of formula a day. I have been pumping my a** off and I am beginning to wonder if it is worth it!? My son takes 3-4 6 ounce bottles a day while I am gone. I only pump around 15 ounces a day. This is my pumping schedule:
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I have also started pumping whenever I am driving except in the evening when I am on my way home..I save it for him so that he can nurse. I take 4 fenugreek pills 3x a day and my supply will not go up!!!! I hate to supplement with formula.
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This is a composite image of galaxy cluster MS0735.6+7421, located about 2.6 billion light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis. The image represents three views of the region that astronomers have combined into one photograph. The optical view of the galaxy cluster, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys in February 2006, shows dozens of galaxies bound together by gravity. Diffuse, hot gas with a temperature of nearly 50 million degrees permeates the space between the galaxies. The gas emits X-rays, seen as blue in the image taken with the Chandra X-ray Observatory in November 2003. The X-ray portion of the image shows enormous holes or cavities in the gas, each roughly 640,000 light-years in diameter nearly seven times the diameter of the Milky Way. The cavities are filled with charged particles gyrating around magnetic field lines and emitting radio waves shown in the red portion of image taken with the Very Large Array telescope in New Mexico in October 2004. The cavities were created by jets of charged particles ejected at nearly light speed from a supermassive black hole weighing nearly a billion times the mass of our Sun lurking in the nucleus of the bright central galaxy. The jets displaced more than one trillion solar masses worth of gas. The power required to displace the gas exceeded the power output of the Sun by nearly ten trillion times in the past 100 million years.
Object Name: MS 0735.6+7421
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Hubble and Chandra Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, STScI, and B. McNamara (University of Waterloo)
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I think Izzy has burnt his ships and boats and anything else that floats as regards his ever returning to TGG, but thats his choice, or his managers choice.
I'm quite certain this isn't the case. If SBW can walk out on his club and then have NRL clubs clambering over each other to sign him, I think Izzy will be fine.


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Oh, I know, not exactly what you think, but close. Combine time travel, a female plastic surgeon from the future, a gorgeous enigmatic stoic loyal paranormal warrior hero from the past, a young inexperienced king, a self-possessed reluctant queen, Korean kitsch, funky subtitles and what do you get? Faith.
I'm loving the hero. I'm waiting for the heroine to stop whining. She's getting there, might be growing on me.
I've already got JW Manus interested. We're watching on Hulu. See here~ Faith.
It's a much-needed distraction right now, plus I'm working on a time travel story so all the better to immerse myself in a little cultural dislocation.
(In the dad front, no change, waiting for the cardiologist to decide upon the next step and waiting for hubby to get home from D.C. so he can have some input on any decisions we make.)
Here's a song for you: Walk on Faith, by Mike Reid
I've seen Mike Reid perform. He's a wonderful singer/song-writer and a former NFL player (Cincinnati Bengals). He was a very high draft pick, #7 to be exact, and one of my husband's heroes.


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PA and NY take back unused drugs
MONTICELLO, NY AND SHOHOLA, PA – Two "take back" programs, a national movement to lessen the availability of unused prescription drugs, will take place in Sullivan County, NY on Saturday, April 30 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Monticello at the Ted Stroebel Center at 2 Jefferson Street.
In Pennsylvania, the program will take place on Friday, April 29 and on Saturday, April 30. The PA program on Friday, April 29 will be held at the Senior Center s in Hamlin and Honesdale from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm..
On Saturday, April 30 the program will be at the PA State Police Barracks on Route 191 in Honesdale, at Elegante Restaurant in Forrest City and at Stephen's Pharmacy in Honesdale and Hawley from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.
Each location will take back expired, unwanted and unused pharmaceuticals and other medications, no questions asked.
An estimated 20 percent of people in the United States (48 million ages 12 and older) have used prescription drugs for non-medical purposes. According to the Partnership for a Drug Free America, studies show that each day approximately 2,500 teens use prescription drugs to get high.
River trips unaffected by bridge repair
POND EDDY, NY — According to Sean McGuinness, Superintendent of the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River, boating trips on the Delaware River will be able to continue during the Pond Eddy Bridge repair, April 11 through September 30. "Boaters will be able to travel under the bridge during the repairs," said McGuinness. "The bridge's center pier forms two river channels. Each span on the bridge will be repaired separately. Only the channel below the construction will be closed. One channel of the river will always be open."
As part of the emergency repair operations on the Pond Eddy Bridge, there will be scaffolding suspended by cables 15 feet below the bridge, creating a potential hazard for boaters traveling under the bridge. To ensure visitor safety, the section of river channel flowing under the span of Pond Eddy Bridge that is under repair will be closed to public use for a distance of 500 feet upstream and downstream of the bridge. The construction zone will be marked by buoys and signs directing boaters not to travel under the span of bridge under construction and to use the open channel. Call 570/729-8251.
Kipp Island closed to protect nesting bald eagles
HAWLEY, PA — As part of PPL's support for wildlife habitat around Lake Wallenpaupack, Kipp Island will be closed until the end of July to protect a bald eagle nesting area.
"Last year, Lake Wallenpaupack's first known bald eagle pair successfully raised an eaglet at Kipp Island, and so far this spring we've received several reports of eagles on the island," said Paul Canevari, PPL's community relations director for the Pocono region.
The Kipp Island nest is just one of the nests established by bald eagles and other threatened birds of prey in the Lake Wallenpaupack area.
Kipp Island, the second largest on the lake, will reopen for public recreation at the end of July, when the nesting season for eagles has ended.
Milk exempted from oil spill regs
NATION — Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency formally exempted milk and milk containers from the Oil Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure rule, potentially saving the milk and dairy industries more than $140 million a year, according to the agency.
Since the 1970s, milk had been considered the same pollutant threat as oil. That's because all kinds of oils, including animal fats and vegetable oils, had been considered oils under the EPA rule, with special requirements for storage and handling to keep them out of waterways.
Statuory requirements for farmers included measures such as building concrete dikes around milk tanks, drafting milk spill hazard control plans and reporting a spill when milk ends up on the ground.
The spill-prevention requirements on milk were never actually enforced, but the potential for enforcement remained, and farming groups have been pushing for an exemption for some time.
Samuel Kieffer, the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau's national governmental relations director, said, "There were two different deadlines where EPA said, 'Be prepared to do this.' There was the uncertainty of the farmers getting their ducks in a row and worried EPA would come on their farm and stick it to them."
EPA said it acted to formally exempt the dairy industry from the rules "as part of the Obama administration's efforts to make regulations more effective and eliminate unnecessary burdens."


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The Chicago Gay Pride Parade has been organized and attended for many years without interfering with the worship of God in a Catholic church. When the 2012 Parade organizers announced a time and route change this year, it was apparent that the Parade would interfere with divine worship in a Catholic parish on the new route. When the pastor's request for reconsideration of the plans was ignored, the organizers invited an obvious comparison to other groups who have historically attempted to stifle the religious freedom of the Catholic Church. One such organization is the Ku Klux Klan which, well into the 1940's, paraded through American cities not only to interfere with Catholic worship but also to demonstrate that Catholics stand outside of the American consensus. It is not a precedent anyone should want to emulate.
It is terribly wrong and sinful that gays and lesbians have been harassed and subjected to psychological and even physical harm. These tragedies can be addressed, however, without disturbing the organized and orderly public worship of God in a country that claims to be free. I am grateful that all parties concerned resolved this problem by moving the Parade's start time so as not to conflict with the celebration of Mass that Sunday.
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Two 7-inch flour tortillas
2 tablespoons guacamole
¼ cup
¼-inch-wide strips of bottled roasted red bell pepper
¼ cup (about 1 ounce) coarsely shredded Gouda cheese
Preheat the oven to 375° F.
Place one tortilla on a baking sheet. Spread with the guacamole, leaving a 1-inch border. Arrange the strips of red bell pepper atop the guacamole and sprinkle with cheese. Top with the remaining tortilla, pressing down gently to make the filling adhere.
Bake for about 8 minutes, or until the cheese is melted and the tortillas are softened and warm.
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Report lauds Catskills' foodshed potential
CALLICOON, NY —A new report issued by the Open Space Institute (OSI) in conjunction with the Urban Design Lab of the Earth Institute at Columbia University investigates food production in the Catskills region of New York—a region the report finds has the potential to produce enough healthy, locally grown food to feed millions of people in New York City and beyond. "Ground Up: Cultivating Sustainable Agriculture in the Catskill Region" will be presented at 12 noon on April 23 at the Callicoon Farmers Market.
"The demand for locally produced agricultural products equals more than $866 million per year in the New York metropolitan area," said Kim Elliman, OSI's CEO and president. "Existing local production accounts for $147 million in sales each year."
In 76,000-person Sullivan County, New York, home to only 235 farms in 2003 (there were 3,543 in the county in 1920), surveys indicate that residents value rural landscapes and the agrarian lifestyle, yet there has been no support from the state's Farmland Protection Program to preserve the county's farms. The report makes the case that the trend is one worth reversing.
New York Assembly member Aileen Gunther and a representative from Congressman Maurice Hinchey's office will be in attendance on Saturday for the release of the report.
Damascus passes zoning amendment
DAMASCUS, PA — Without a lot of fanfare, the Damascus Township Board unanimously passed the zoning amendment that would ease the way for gas companies to conduct drilling in over 90% of the township, even in the township's residential zones.
The only areas where drilling would be restricted are the river district and the five neighborhood development areas, small sections of the township.
The amendment changes the existing ordinance on drilling from a special exception to a conditional use, which removes the Zoning Hearing Board from any role in approving or denying drilling and gives the power of approval to the supervisors.
Objections had been made that, since all the supervisors who voted on the issue have signed leases, the vote constitutes a conflict of interest. "We have clarified this question often in the past," said Jeff Dexter, chairman of the supervisors, in response to the objection. "Our attorney and PSATS (Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors) say that there is no such conflict of interest."
Court hours reduced due to budget constraints
SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY — The Hon. Mark M. Meddaugh, Sullivan County Family Court Judge, has announced that, due to fiscal restrictions imposed by the state budget, the hours of operation and the services that are provided by family court will be curtailed effective immediately. The court will open at 9 a.m. and will be closed from 12:30 p.m. until 1:30 p.m. All court proceedings will terminate at 4:30 p.m.
Although the Court will be accepting paperwork at the front desk until 4:45 p.m., any emergency applications for either custody or family offenses must be filed by no later than 4 p.m. Any emergency applications for Orders of Protection after 4 p.m. will be referred to the local Justice Court that has jurisdiction over the case. All court proceedings that have not been concluded by 4:30 p.m. will be rescheduled to 9 a.m., the next day court is in session, or at a time that is convenient to all parties.
Judge Meddaugh further announced that the hours of operation of the day care center, which provides daycare for litigants who appear in Family Court, will be significantly reduced. The actual hours of operation will be made available as soon as they are determined. Mediation services will also be significantly reduced, and the schedule of availability of mediation services will be released when it is finalized.
Even with the cutback in court hours, it appears that layoffs may be necessary, which will further affect the operation of the court.
Frado named CRMC interim CEO
HARRIS, NY — Rosemary Frado has been named interim CEO of Catskill Regional Medical Center (CRMC), effective May 2.
The move by the board of directors follows the resignation of Steve Ruwoldt on April 13, citing health reasons. Since his appointment in 2007, Ruwoldt has been instrumental in turning around a series of financial and management issues at the hospital.
Prior to this appointment, Frado was vice president of planning and marketing for the Greater Hudson Valley Health System. Her responsibilities over more than 35 years of experience have included strategic and business planning, grants management, regulatory filings and marketing and public relations initiatives.
The board plans a search for a permanent replacement.


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Rose Breasted Grosbeak
Pheucticus ludovicianus
About This Animal
SIZE: 8 inches
RANGE: Eastern North America
HABITAT: Hardwood forests
DIET: Seeds, fruit and insects
ON EXHIBIT: Cove Forest in River Journey
The sexes of this species look very different. The male has a black head and back with patches of white in the wings. The white belly and breast are contrasted by a brilliant red (rose) breast patch. The females are close to the same size but are buffy brown with a prominent white eye line.
Although the breeding range of this species lies primarily to the north of Tennessee, it may breed in the mountains of our state at elevations of 3000 feet or more. A common migrant in SE Tennessee in spring and fall, they are sometimes seen eating from birdfeeders.
As with all native songbirds, they are protected by the "Migratory Bird Act" and their population remains stable.They are rare in captivity but have been in the Tennessee Aquarium's collection for many years where they have produced young.


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#115712 - 11/12/03 01:51 PM Transitive Verbs
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There is something that bothers me about the following sentence:
Alongside the ship careened by the tropical shore, a group of pirates buried beneath a coconut tree.
Ok. Not a great sentence, but one from which I want to ask a question. In this sentence, we expect the pirates to be burying something, but there is no direct object in the sentence. Transitive verbs can take direct objects, but what do you call a verb that must take a direct object? In other words, if the verb is not followed by a direct object, the sentence sounds awkward or not quite finished because the verb lacks an object. I don't think 'buried' a very good example, but I can't think of a verb that is precisely what I want right now. If I think of a better example, I will return.
Question again: Transitive verbs can take direct objects; what do we call verbs that must take a direct object in order to be correctly and grammatically used in sentences?
#115713 - 11/12/03 02:05 PM Re: Transitive Verbs
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I know very little grammar, but to me that is not a complete sentence, no matter what meaning you assign to
#115714 - 11/12/03 02:13 PM Re: Transitive Verbs
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I smell poetic license. If this is an attempt at poetry, here's some alternative imagery which flashed through my mind. A tropical storm caused a shipwreck and the falling coconut tree felled some pirates in its crashing descent. How many pirates can one coconut tree kill? Somewhat bizarre for more than one pirate to be standing in the path of the falling tree, but what do I know...these things have been known to happen. [sage nod]
#115715 - 11/12/03 02:28 PM Re: Transitive Verbs
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According to a quick search I performed, transitive verbs must have a direct object. It is not optional.
#115716 - 11/12/03 02:34 PM Re: Transitive Verbs
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Dear maahey: where does one apply for a poetic license to use in prose? I am a devotee of ellipsis. But ellipsis without some context can be confusing. So I'm still unsure what WW was trying to tell us.
#115717 - 11/12/03 02:34 PM Re: Transitive Verbs
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Which is why I offered up the other picture. Buried is not transitive here. If the author had written 'lay buried', it might have helped understanding, but then h/she would have missed out on being mysteriously enigmatic.
#115718 - 11/12/03 02:35 PM Re: Transitive Verbs
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So who careened the ship?
#115719 - 11/12/03 02:37 PM Re: Transitive Verbs
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..merely an expression to make a point, wwh. I don't know that this is prose or poetry; if prose shall we say, artistic license?
#115720 - 11/12/03 02:38 PM Re: Transitive Verbs
Carpal Tunnel
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Signals over.
Alongside the ship careened by the tropical shore, a group of pirates picnicked beneath a coconut tree.
#115721 - 11/12/03 02:38 PM Re: Transitive Verbs
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..who careened the ship...tropical storm. Imagine... imagine, dear wwh!!
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Brock: Chat with Romney covered Vt.AP Photo
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney picks up his order at Lui-Lui Restaurant on Wednesday in West Lebanon, N.H. Vermont Republican gubernatorial hopeful Randy Brock met with Romney that day.
The Republican looking to unseat Vermont's Democratic governor got a private meeting Wednesday with the Republican who wants to do the same to the country's Democratic president.
Inside a building supply store in West Lebanon, N.H., Sen. Randy Brock talked politics with GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.
It wasn't the first time the two have met — they conversed recently in Florida and earlier at one of Romney's campaign stops in New Hampshire. But Brock said his 15-minute conversation with the former Massachusetts governor early Wednesday afternoon was longer and more in depth than their previous encounters.
"The governor was interested in learning a little bit about the issues in Vermont and the Vermont election," Brock said shortly after the meeting. "And we talked about the parallel between the national scene and what's happening in Vermont."
In both state and national elections this November, Brock said, voters will be focused on "jobs, the economy, unemployment and taxes."
While unemployment rates and other economic indicators may be healthier here than elsewhere in the nation, Brock said, Vermonters' choice at the ballot box will hinge on who they believe can best rehabilitate local economies.
"(Romney) and I do share in the common belief that we have to make the economic pie bigger and create more jobs," Brock said. "And that means more business growth and more economic vitality."
Brock said Romney is warmer and more outgoing than his detractors would have the public believe.
"We did have a very good chance to get to know each other better," Brock said. "I thought he was outgoing, he was friendly and very personable in my discussions with him."
Brock said they know some people in common in Boston, "from my old days at Fidelity." He said the Romney campaign contacted him to set up the meeting, at which a number of Romney staffers were present.
Asked whether aligning publicly with the GOP presidential nominee makes good sense, politically, in a state that went more heavily for Barack Obama than anywhere but Hawaii in 2008, Brock said it did.
"Right now Vermont has all its eggs in one basket. We have in effect single-party rule in the Legislature, and single-party rule in our top statewide offices and congressional delegation," Brock said. "There's a very real likelihood, given what's going on in America, that we'll have a new administration in Washington in November, and I think it's very important that Vermont not be so dependent on people who will no longer be in power."
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I think it must be due to the characteristics of the two kinds of habitats. Both areas are part of the South Texas brush country, but the ranch is further southwest where the climate is more arid. There, the brush is a little thinner with open areas of sparse grass. Our farm's brush is denser. Any open areas we must maintain by mowing regularly. There aren't many naturally open spaces in our thick brush.
A habitat determines the species that use it. Some species are suited for heavy cover with clearings, senderos and roadsides. Others are superbly adapted to arid lands with rocky open spaces and scattered brush.
Eastern Cottontails spend most of the day in dense brush. They are likely sitting quietly in a favored hollow. At dawn and dusk they venture out into pastures and lawns to feed on grasses and tender vegetation. They are never very far out in the open. If danger threatens, cottontails make a mad dash back to the brush.
Jackrabbits, on the other hand, spend much of their time in the open. In hot, arid climates their large ears serve as both air conditioners and antennas. Excess body heat is dissipated through the thin ears. And those ears can pick up the slightest sound.
Jackrabbits take a rest during the heat of the day dozing in a form. A form is a slight depression at the base of shrub or bunchgrass, or beside a rock. In the cool of the evening, jackrabbits come out to feed on grasses and brush country plants. If a predator approaches, jackrabbits use their long legs to leap (up to 20 feet!) and rapidly distance themselves from danger across open country.
Both cottontails and jackrabbits belong to the same group, the Lagomorpha, which includes rabbits, hares and the pika. The pika is a small mammal found around rockpiles in the mountains of the western United States. All of the lagomorphs are herbivores, and they have distinctive teeth for the job of grazing. They have two pairs of incisors. The front pair is chisel-like, giving them a "buck-toothed" appearance (think of the cartoon character Bugs Bunny).
I am sure you have heard that hares are different from rabbits. In fact, the cottontail is a rabbit. And the jackrabbit is actually a hare.
So what makes a hare, a hare? It's simple. Hares have hair. Jackrabbits, being hares, are born well furred, and their eyes are open. In just a few hours after birth, baby hares are capable of running. They spend only a short time in the birth nest. And it isn't much of a nest either, just a scrape on the ground, and may not even be lined.
In contrast, rabbits are born naked, and their eyes are closed. Baby rabbits are quite helpless, so the mother cottontail constructs a nest. It is a pear-shaped hole in the ground with only a narrow entrance at the top. Rabbit nests are lined with plant material and some of the mother's soft fur. It is a comfy place for the baby bunnies to live until they grow some hair and their eyes open.
The nest cavity is too small for the mother cottontail to get in it with her youngsters. So, to nurse them, she squats over the hole. I think that would be funny to see. I suspect few people have ever seen a wild rabbit nursing her young. And we probably wouldn't be aware of what she was doing, anyway!
Like most rodents, many insects and some birds, the lagomorphs are first-order consumers. These are animals that consume an all-plant diet. They are the first ones to reap the green plants' bounty. Plants trap solar energy and convert it to food energy. The process is known as photosynthesis. Most of this energy is stored in the chemical bonds of sugars and starches.
When a first-order consumer eats a plant, it transfers the sugar-and-starch energy into the chemical bonds of proteins (and some fats). Protein and fat are valuable energy sources for many other animals (the predators). This means that the first-order consumers are PREY.
The lagomorphs are definitely prey species. Coyotes and bobcats, hawks and owls feast on rabbits and hares. When rabbits and hares are in good supply, these predators are healthy. And the whole ecosystem is healthy.
Of course, prey species have developed adaptations to keep themselves alive as long as possible. One thing that rabbits and hares have done is to be ready to flee in an instant. This means that they often have to eat and run.
So they gulp their food, barely chewing it. Plant matter doesn't digest thoroughly if it is not well chewed. The lagomorphs have developed another odd adaptation. It is called coprophagia, which means they eat their feces. Their feces is pelleted, partially digested and green. By eating these pellets, they give their digestive tracts another chance to absorb valuable nutrients. And they can do this in the relative safety of their forms and burrows.
So, the next time you see a cottontail or a jackrabbit, think of their role in the food chain, and their amazing adaptations. And let me know if you ever come across a mother rabbit nursing her babies!