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ClearLungs™ is a unique Chinese herbal formula designed to provide nutrients to the lungs. Each ingredient plays a special role in providing nutritional support.
Each capsule contains Hoelen, Dong Quai, Ophiopogon, Scute, Platycodon, Citrus Morus Root, Fritillary, Asparagus, Almonds, Gardenia, Shizandra, and Licorice. Not for sale to persons under eighteen years of age.Contains no corn, dairy, gluten, soy, wheat, yeast, or animal products.


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ATHLETE OF THE WEEK (Jan. 31-Feb. 5): Kristen Williams
Eisenhower junior Kristen Williams has had an up-and-down year, including injuries, but she scored points in bunches this past week to help the Lady Knights avoid playoff elimination in District 10 Class A. She had 17 of her team's 25 points in a 38-35 loss against Strong Vincent in a non-region game, but it was a win over Youngsville – isn't it always? – that mattered most. After a 21-point loss earlier this season, Williams, a junior, scored 18 points in a 46-36 turnaround win over the Eagles. With seven 3-pointers in two games, including four 3-pointers in four straight possessions against Strong Vincent, Williams is the Times Observer Female Athlete of the Week, sponsored by Little Caesars.


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iHerb Customer Reviews
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Posted by jotonthehunt on Sep 16, 2013
I did not even realize I had purchased this until I saw it in my past order history. So I went digging into my "garbage" drawer, the seemingly endless pit of products purchased and then quickly discarded after producing less than satisfactory results. And there it was, partially used. If you a few fine lines, dryness and darkness under your eyes then do not buy this product if you expect it to provide any relief! All it did was sit on top of skin, did not sink in and left behind a residue. It was demoted to neck cream until I foolishly bought another Derma E eye product and ended up with the same 1 star results. Its safe to say I have now learned my lesson.
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I order this product but iHerb sent me the Rapunzel Vegetable Bouillon 8 cubes instead.
Derma E, Pycnogenol & Hyaluronic Eye creme
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THe eye cream works very well. I'm happy with the Product.
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Felt heavy on my eyes. I didn't see any positive effects!
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Cream feels nice, no problems there but I didn't see any positive effect and people actually commented they could see eye wrinkles that they'd never seen before! :( Derma E's other stuff is great though, I just wouldn't buy this again.
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Stock Futures Shrug at Jobless Claims Report
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Stock futures were pointing to a flat to lower open on Wall Street Thursday, pausing after the Federal Reserve pledged continued stimulus support and business activity appeared to have slowed in Germany, Europe's biggest economy.
The markets' response to a less-than-expected rise in claims for U.S. unemployment benefits was muted.
Futures for the S&P 500 were flat, or 2.91 points below fair value, at 1,549.
Futures for the Nasdaq were down 3.5 points, or 16.46 points below fair value, at 2,781.75.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were up 14 points, or 11.73 points below fair value, at 14,422.
J.C. Penney (JCP) shares were rising 2.04% to $16.50 in premarket trading after the company said in a filing Wednesday that bondholders on March 18 withdrew a claim of default against the department-store company. Bondholders had filed the notice on Feb. 4 saying that the company was in default because it pledged merchandise as collateral on its bank credit line.
Micron Technology (MU) shares were rising 1.18% to $9.42. The Boise, Idaho-based company is expected by analysts Thursday to post a fiscal second-quarter loss of 19 cents a share on revenue of $1.92 billion after the market close.
The FTSE 100 in London was slipping 0.75% and the DAX in Germany was stumbling 0.85% after financial information services company Markit Economics' early estimate on the German private sector output in March showed the slowest growth so far this year.
The "flash" Germany Composite Output Index slowed to a three-month low of 51 in March from 53.3 in February. The "flash" Germany Manufacturing Output Index contracted to 49.8, a three-month low, from 50.7.
On Thursday, the European Central Bank gave Cyprus an ultimatum or Monday deadline for finding a solution to raising €5.8 billion in funds to meet requirements under a €10 billion European bailout package after the Cypriot parliament rejected the proposal for levies on Cyprus bank accounts.
The Labor Department said that initial jobless claims rose 2,000 in the week ended March 16 to 336,000, from an upwardly-revised 334,000 the prior week. That was less than the 342,000 expected by economists.
Continuing claims for the week ended March 9 increased by 5,000 to 3.053 million from an upwardly revised 3.048 million the previous week. This was roughly in line with the 3.05 million average estimate from economists.
The four-week moving average on first-time claims was 339,750, a decrease of 7,500 from the prior week.
The National Association of Realtors is forecast to say at 10 a.m. that existing home sales rose to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 5 million units in February from a 4.92 million-unit rate in January.
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The Giant Lego Batcave
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Well according to Carlyle Livingston II and Wayne Hussey, the answer is simple. Construct a huge – and I mean huge - LEGO Batcave, complete with lighting effects.
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Drone Strikes and Due Process: The Role of the Separation of Powers in Lethal Action Against U.S. Citizens Outside Traditional Battlefields
Written By: Michelle Sohn
Edited By: Laura Fishwick & Gillian Kassner
Editorial Policy
At the end of the Civil War, Lambdin P. Milligan, a United States citizen, was arrested in his Indiana home, tried before a military commission, and sentenced to death on a number of charges including "[a]ffording aid and comfort to rebels against the authority of the United States". Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2, 6 (1866). Milligan petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus and the case went all the way to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court held that the military commission had no jurisdiction to try or sentence Milligan. Even in a time of war, Milligan was entitled to his due process rights under the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Nearly 150 years later, the U.S. finds itself embroiled in another time of war. Advances in military technology such as drones have greatly enhanced the government's ability to conduct lethal operations anywhere in the world without ever having to put a single American soldier on the ground. Paradoxically, it is exactly these new advances in military technology that have dredged up a longstanding, yet important conflict between balancing national security with constitutional protections of due process.
The conflict between national security and due process recently regained national attention with the leaking of a Department of Justice White Paper. The White Paper detailed the legal framework under which the government can lawfully order lethal operations against a United States citizen who is outside a recognized battlefield and believed to be a "senior operational leader" or an "associated force" of al-Qa'ida. It concluded that when an informed high-level U.S. official determines that (1) a U.S. citizen poses an "imminent threat" of violent attack, (2) capture of the citizen is infeasible, and (3) the operation can be conducted consistently with law of war principles, lethal force does not violate international or domestic law. The White Paper expressed the latest of a long series of arguments put forth by the Obama Administration justifying its practice of requiring minimal due process procedures before taking lethal action against U.S. citizens far from the combat zone. In fact, as early as 2010, Harold Koh, Legal Advisor to the U.S. State Department, stated that a nation "engaged in an armed conflict or legitimate self-defense is not required to provide targets with legal process before the state may use lethal force…" In 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder in his address at Northwestern University declared that the President is not required to go through a federal court in order to take action, "The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process." What is most striking about the Obama Administration's collective arguments is the wide discretion afforded to the Executive Branch and the inchoate analysis of the constitutional expectations due process requires from each branch of government.
There are two components of due process: fair notice and the opportunity to be heard. The fundamental rationale behind due process is to check against arbitrary government action. At its core, due process is an amalgamation of what makes the separation of powers a powerful American ideal. The Legislative branch writes the laws—including the ones that dictate charges available against U.S. citizens—that the Executive branch enforces by bringing citizens in violation of the law to be tried before an impartial Judicial branch that the Constitution itself or the Legislative branch has established. Times of national crisis will necessarily render some procedures of due process more elastic than times of peace. Indeed, the Supreme Court has recognized that in certain cases the procedures for due process must be narrowed in times of national crisis. For example, in Ex Parte Quirin, during World War II, the Court upheld the constitutionality of trying a U.S. citizen for offenses against the laws of war in front of a military commission rather than a jury. See Ex parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1 modified sub nom. U.S. ex rel. Quirin v. Cox, 63 S. Ct. 22 (U.S. 1942). At the same time, the Court has also recognized that "[w]hatever power the United States Constitution envisions for the Executive in its exchanges with other nations or with enemy organizations in times of conflict, it most assuredly envisions a role for all three branches when individual liberties are at stake." Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507, 536 (2004).
The Hamdi opinion, which the DOJ White Paper cited, also recognized the need to balance the constitutional guarantee of due process with the Executive branch's responsibility to keep the nation secure. Thus, in evaluating the constitutional protections afforded a U.S. citizen captured and deemed an "enemy combatant" by the U.S. military, the Hamdi Court used a balancing test that it had employed 28 years prior in Mathews v. Eldridge. The Mathews Court stated that the proper test for evaluating how much due process is required is the consideration of three factors: "First, the private interest that will be affected by the official action; second, the risk of an erroneous deprivation of such interest through the procedures used, and the probable value, if any, of additional or substitute procedural safeguards; and finally, the Government's interest…".Mathews v. Eldridge, 424 U.S. 319 (1976). The DOJ White Paper conceded that "no private interest is more substantial" than the interest in avoiding erroneous deprivation of life. White Paper at 6. However, the DOJ reasoned that the government interest in ensuring national security by using force on those that pose an "imminent threat of violent attack" is compelling. As such, the DOJ concluded that the "realities of combat" justified the force rendered necessary to meet those realities. In fact, the DOJ White Paper quoted the Hamdi decision, "due process analysis need not blink at those realities." Hamdi, 542 U.S at 531. However, this use of Hamdi is disingenuous. The "realities" the Court referred to were the necessities of detaining enemy combatants rather than the use of force.[1]
The DOJ White Paper's use of Hamdi to justify drone strikes outside recognized combat zones is increasingly suspect due to the fact that Hamdi emphasized that petitioner Hamdi was captured in a foreign combat zone. In doing so, Hamdi refered to Ex Parte Milligan, the aforementioned Supreme Court case regarding the constitutionality of military commissions during the Civil War. The Milligan Court held that despite being in a time of declared war, the military commission had no jurisdiction to try and sentence Milligan. The Hamdi Court reasoned "[h]ad Milligan been captured while he was assisting Confederate soldiers by carrying a rifle against Union troops on a Confederate battlefield, the holding of the Court might well have been different". Hamdi, 542 U.S. at 522. Indeed, the Milligan Court pointed to the fact that in Indiana "…there was no hostile foot…[and] so in the case of a foreign invasion, martial rule may become a necessity in one state, when in another, it would be "mere lawless violence." Milligan, 71 U.S. 2 at 126-27. The Court in both Hamdi and Milligan implicitly acknowledged the importance of recognized combat zones as a potential check on the Executive branch's expansive war powers.
Perhaps part of the reason the Hamdi Court emphasized the fact that Hamdi was captured in Afghanistan involves the due process requirement of fair notice. After all, to be in an internationally recognized battle zone such as Afghanistan can constitute sufficient notice as to the hazards and "realities of combat". As Professor Noah Feldman wrote in his blog post, Obama's Drone Attack on Your Due Process, "The White Paper should have said that due process doesn't apply on the battlefield." However, the DOJ White Paper's analysis is not focused on the legality of drone strikes on the battlefield. It justifies drone strikes outside an area of active hostilities. White Paper at 1. Under the DOJ's analysis, U.S. citizens in countries that the President, Congress, or even the United Nations Security Council has not officially authorized military engagements with are open to drone strikes. Of course, one could argue that Congress authorized the use of force against terrorists and thus, being a terrorist against the U.S. is notice enough. However, this is a rather tautological argument. After all, how does the government determine a U.S. citizen is a terrorist without providing the citizen a meaningful opportunity to be heard before issuing a drone strike?
The Obama Administration has consistently justified its broad exercise of military powers by pointing out that it is executing what Congress has authorized it to do. Congress' 2001 Authorization of Military Force "authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001." Authorization for Use of Military Force, Pub. L. No. 107-40 (2001). The DOJ White Paper notes that Congress did not put geographical limits on this authorization.
Further, the DOJ White Paper stipulated that once a U.S. citizen is deemed an "imminent threat," the use of lethal force becomes a legitimate act of self-defense. However, the DOJ White Paper's definition of "imminent threat" is alarmingly broad. According to the White Paper, imminent threat does not require "clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons…will take place in the immediate future". White Paper at 7. The DOJ concluded that if the targeted individual is continually involved with planned attacks and there is no evidence suggesting "that he has renounced or abandoned such activities", the U.S. official could make a determination of "imminent threat." White Paper at 8. The White Paper leaves unresolved the criteria or timeline as to how and when those assessments are made. It is also unclear which officers of the U.S. military are "informed" and "high-level" enough to make such an assessment. "[W]ithout doubt, our Constitution recognizes that core strategic matters of war belong in the hands of those who are best positioned and most politically accountable for making them." Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507, 531 (2004). However, just how far up or down the chain of command can the assessment of "imminent threat" be made? If the principle behind due process is government accountability, how accountable can we hold those in charge of making the assessment? Are the current Obama Administration practices the ones that properly minimize erroneous risk of deprivation of life?
Certainly, terrorism is a global threat not limited to traditional geographic notions of the battlefield. The DOJ White Paper is a reflection of these modern conditions of warfare. Indeed, the forefathers of the Constitution and the Milligan Court could not have foreseen or fathomed the amorphous, global nature of today's threats posed to the United States of America. However, as the Hamdi Court plurality wrote, "We have long since made clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens…" The Constitution demands that more than one branch of government balances the scales of due process in its hands. The core of due process requires that our branches of government hold each other accountable precisely to decrease the risk of erroneous deprivation of a U.S. citizen's life. After all, while Article II of the Constitution names the President "commander in chief", Article I grants Congress the authority to "declare war…and make rules concerning captures on land and water…" and Article III puts acts of treason within the jurisdiction of the judiciary. Thus, there is still a role for both the courts and Congress to play in the realm of military technology and constitutional guarantees. Congress should seek to more concretely define the concept of "imminent threat". It should also seek to clarify the protocol on using force against U.S. citizens outside the combat zone. This is not to say that Congress should necessarily limit the Executive's power to use force outside Afghanistan. However, it should seek to more clearly define the policy concerns for U.S. citizens outside traditional battlefields. For example, if a U.S. citizen is outside Afghanistan, should more efforts be made to capture? The Executive Branch can then execute the law with a more definite strategy that has Congress' blessing. As for the judiciary, while the courts should not undertake to form military policy, when called upon the courts should evaluate the criteria used through the lens of the Mathews balancing test as well as the measure of Congress' authorization of power to the Executive.
As more and more information regarding drone use is provided to Congress and the public, all citizens should keep in mind that the entire world is not a combat zone and U.S. military practices toward its citizens should not imply this scenario. On the other hand, the Executive should be enabled to use advances in military technology to secure the nation against the global nature of terrorism. However, due process does require that no one branch maintain unilateral authority over a U.S. citizen's life, liberty, or property. Due process can and does require the Executive, Congress, and the courts to work in concert toward accountability and the pursuit of a more perfect union.
[1] Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507, 531 (2004) (". . .[T]he law of war and the realities of combat may render such detentions both necessary and appropriate, and our due process analysis need not blink at those realities.").


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- January 22: Nissan and Infiniti Vehicles Recalled Over Takata Airbags recalls | 0 days ago
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CarComplaints.com Notes: We don't recommend the 2009 Maxima nearly as highly as the 2007-2008 Maxima, because NHTSA complaints show a pattern of the steering lock module failing.
When the module fails it prevents the car from starting, & Nissan dealers charge over $1,000 (!!) to repair it. Nissan recalled the module on some other 2009 models with the same steering lock problem, but for some reason they left out the 2009 Maxima.
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Some more facts on US-Dakota War
To the editor:
I have been following the to-and-fro letters in The Journal regarding what is currently labeled The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. (have a list of 16 other labels from the past.) The exchange has been an interesting but seldom informative exercise in apologetics. Perhaps it is time for a few facts, specifically as they apply to New Ulm, Milford Township, and Brown County. They may be subject to some correction in the future, but are not subject to debate.
FACT # 1: The population of New Ulm in 1860 was 635; of Milford 485; of Brown County 2,339. In 1861 the number of Dakota annuity recipients on the Reservation was 6,500. Dakota outnumbered settlers about three to one.
FACT # 2: On Aug. 14, 1862 residents of New Ulm, Brown County wrote Governor Ramsey with their analysis of the difficult and unjust situation on the Reservation. Their letter implored Ramsey to speed payment of the annuities due the Indians, to investigate certain government agents, and to keep militia in Brown County.
FACT # 3: The Dakota attacked settlers of Milford Township by surprise the morning of Aug. 18, 1862. The Dakota attacked New Ulm Aug. 19 and again Aug. 23. Neither the settlers of Milford nor those of New Ulm attacked the Dakota.
FACT # 4: In their book "Eight Days in August," Darla Cordes Gebhard and John Isch detail the accounts of casualties in Brown County. They document the age, sex, date of death, place of death, and cause of death of 123 settlers. Of these 29 were female; 26 were children 15 or younger; and 10 were age 60 or older. (I spare the reader the often gruesome causes of death. See subject book for details.) Known Dakota casualties in Brown County were four.
I leave the interpretation of these facts to the reader.
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014
OCZ Reveals Z-Drive 4500 PCIe SSDs with Up to 3.2TB Capacity.
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Monday, February 10, 2014
Firepower Acquires PSU Assets of OCZ Technology.
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OCZ Storage Solution Roll's Out New Vertex 460 SSD Line.
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OCZ's Vertex 460 SSDs Use 19nm NAND Flash, Bigfoot 3 M10 Controller
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Toshiba Completes Acquisition of OCZ Technology Group's SSD Assets.
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Court Okays Toshiba's Purchase of OCZ's SSD Assets.
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Thursday, December 12, 2013
OCZ Launches New Enterprise-Class Intrepid 3000 Solid-State Drives.
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Toshiba Corporation to Purchase SSD Assets of OCZ Technology.
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So you want to be a conservationist? Think of the community
This post contributed by Lina Oliveros, a native Colombian and administrative assistant/governance at the Ecological Society of America.
When we consider all the conservation challenges facing our world and society, we know that communicating effectively to the community is not only helpful but necessary. However, many inspiring projects in various conservation areas have failed to succeed—not because the scientific background was not there or because the financial resources were unavailable—but because the community's support was not entirely there. One of the elements to a successful conservation project is a strong connection to the community, especially during the early stages of project planning.
For example, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the United States Forest Service and the National Federation of Coffee of Colombia recently completed a census of birds in the coffee zones of the tropical Andes in Colombia, done mainly to study the preservation of resident and migratory birds. As part of the project, Jorge Botero, program coordinator of conservation biology for the Federation, introduced the coffee shadow program. It was designed to connect the "green patches," isolated patches of native forest, with coffee crops that serve as corridors for migratory and resident birds.
From the beginning of this project, the team made the community a major component. For example, the Colombian Coffee sub-global assessment categories included human well-being, such as quality of life and economic security, in addition to ecosystem services. Jorge Botero appreciates this connection between community and conservation: "It is critical to link local communities with conservation programs for migratory birds and resident [birds] and thus promote habitat conservation."
TNC, the U.S. Forest Service and the Federation have created a strong bridge between the local community and the scientists working there. They produce educational projects for children that live in nearby villages, including posters and educational materials that teach children various topics in bird conservation, such as how to distinguish between migratory and resident birds.
This community outreach campaign not only touched the children and farmers' lives, the owners of private coffee areas started the practices as well. Many farmers and owners are now adopting these sustainable ideas and incorporating them into their coffee plantations, not only because it makes sense in terms of conservation, but because it incorporates financial stability.
Another area crucial to success is being aware of a community's culture—learning the traditions, language, rituals and history can only work to a conservationist's advantage. When planning to "sell" a project to a community, conservationists will often find hesitation or even resistance. Therefore, it is critical the team knows who it is they will be working with. What are the community's rituals? What is their history? Who are their leaders? How long have they lived there? The more questions asked, the more the team will know what exactly the variables are and how to rearrange the projects accordingly. Considering that many people do not like change, conservationists should always step into the shoes of those communities and make reasonable propositions that respect tradition, and of course, that prepare for any resistance.
For example, Corrie Mauldin, program manager for ESA's Science Office, worked as an agroforestry extension agent with the Peace Corps in a small forest village in southwestern Cameroon from 1998-2000. She learned that the needs of the small-scale cocoa farmers of the village were complex and crossed many areas, such as improving agricultural practices, infrastructure, education and health. Because these needs were immediate and intertwined, she decided to first discuss the needs with the king makers—the heads of the 14 families who founded the village—and with youth groups, women's groups and farmer groups, before she introduced any projects.
Each group prioritized the need for more effective farming technology for food and cash crops, and the demand for a bridge across a large river that led to the most fertile farming ground. The food and cash crops suffered from nutrient depletion due to erosion and slash and burn practices that left the soil depleted after the first one or two seasons. Mauldin created a nursery in which she grew agroforestry tree species for farmers to plant among their food crops. These particularly fast-growing tree species helped to lessen erosion on steep hillsides and provided fuel, fodder and food. Some tree varieties helped to fix nitrogen in the soil, aiding crops such as maize and okra. As Maulden explains:
Although working on field projects in developing countries rarely goes according to plan, it is necessary that the community be a functioning partner in the process. If a local community is not a key leader in development projects from the beginning, the project will inevitably fail.
Corrie Mauldin was able to return to this village ten years later and was impressed with the initiative that individual farmers and the community as a whole demonstrated in their improved food and cocoa crop yields.
Another critical component is flexibility: finding projects that can incorporate a community's culture while encouraging the conservation point of view involves communication and flexibility. Take Jeff McNeely, former chief scientist for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, who worked for 7 years in Thailand, 2 years in Nepal and 3 years in Indonesia on various conservation projects:
When I was working in Indonesia back in the late '70s, one of my projects was to support the establishment of a protected area on the island of Siberut, off the west coast of Sumatra. This is quite an amazing island about the size of Bali but with only about 18,000 people, most of whom live by harvesting sago palm and hunting pigs and primates. Siberut has no less than four endemic species of primates, including the only gibbon found on such a small island, and the closest relative of the proboscis monkey (that lives on Borneo). Tony Whitten, now at the World Bank, was doing a field study on the gibbon for his Ph.D. but was also helping to lay the groundwork for a protected area. Tony, like several anthropologists before him, had found that Siberut still had plenty of primates, despite the hunting pressure (mostly with bows and arrows). Various rituals and taboos restrained hunting pressure, and we saw no reason why the traditional hunting could not continue even as we were working to conserve the primates. We therefore worked with the local people and came up with a design that would limit the impact of logging from outside interests while enabling the local people to continue their traditional way of life. This has turned out to be a success. Tony Whitten told me a few weeks ago that he had recently returned to Siberut and was able to see all four species of primates within his first day on the island.
An important general lesson here is that people living in forested areas have little interest in over-exploiting the resources upon which they depend. Most of the over-exploitation comes from outsiders who have no long-term interest in maintaining healthy wildlife populations.
Conservationists provide invaluable contributions to the preservation of healthy wildlife populations and enhance the community in ways the members may not fully appreciate. But always remember the impact that the communities can have on the overall success of a project as well. And remember how much of a difference you can really bring to a community as a conservationist, by enhancing ecosystem services without changing the true identity of the community.
Lina Oliveros earned a B.S. in Marine Biology from Florida International University. She currently works for ESA and is a volunteer for the Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Migratory Bird Center.


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Jay Eugene Noble
Jay Eugene Noble, 84 years old, of Fredonia Place, Fredonia, NY and formerly of Burr Road in Fredonia, passed away on Monday afternoon (Jan. 28, 2013) at Brooks Memorial Hospital in Dunkirk, NY after a brief illness.
Born in Sinclairville, NY on July 24, 1928, he was the son of the late Emory and Gladys Fessenden Noble and had lived in the Brocton and Fredonia area most of his life.
Jay had been employed in the maintenance division at Fredonia State College as a lawn and groundsman and was also a Station Engineer for Fredonia State College. In later years he was employed at and retired from Lakeview Correctional Facility in Brocton, New York where he had also been a Station Engineer.
He served as a Sergeant in the Army in World War II in the Pacific Theater where he received the World War II Victory Medal and the Army of Occupation Medal – Japan. He was also a former member of the Dunkirk Moose Club and former member of The Grape Bunch Camping Club.
He is survived by his wife of 43 years Thelma "Glady" Noble; one stepson, Dennis
(Gloria) Colt; one stepdaughter Carol "Molly" Colt; and children Dawn Noble, Douglas (Shirley) Noble, David (Jacqueline) Noble, Darryl (Lisa) Noble and Dale Noble, and Bonnie (Quinton) Gamble; and also several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by one daughter Denett Pimkowski; one infant daughter Dixie; and two sisters Hazel Sherman and Barbara Miller.
Funeral services will be held on Friday, February 1, 2013 at 11 o'clock from the Morse Funeral Home in Brocton, NY with the Rev. Larry Morrison officiating. Interment will follow at the Portland Evergreen Cemetery where Full Military Honors will be conducted by the American Legion John W. Dill Post 434 of Brocton, New York. Friends are invited to call at the Morse Funeral Home of Brocton, NY on Thursday
(1/31/13) from 2-4 and 7-9. The family kindly requests donations in his honor be made to the American Heart Association, P.O. Box 417005, Boston, MA 02241-7005.


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Kollien leads the way
The Alpena girls basketball team had Parents Night on Tuesday, celebrating the graduating seniors Megan Barkley, Ami Milligan, Caten Teff and Christina Kollien.
It's a good thing then that they pulled together an impressive come-from-behind 36-30 victory against the Cheboygan in the fourth quarter after trailing for the first three periods.
Christina Kollien led Alpena with 21 points.
"My teammates were so big in tonight's game. They got me the ball when I needed it, set up plays and helped me get into scoring position time and time again. I can't stress how important they were tonight," Kollien said.
The first quarter saw a very slow start for both teams.
Alpena's offense slowed to a crawl as Cheboygan pulled ahead slowly early. Kollien snuck in a field goal with two and a half minutes left in the quarter, but Cheboygan's Holly Scolovitch hit a field goal with eight seconds left to keep the Chiefs up 7-4.
The second quarter saw a similar slow pace. Alpena's offense opened up a little as its zone defense kept Cheboygan passing around the perimeter. Milligan was an especially avid defender as was Lizzy Trelfa.
Kollien got into her groove in the second quarter, hitting another field goal and a three pointer to bring the game to a 9-9 tie.
The Chiefs were able to answer back with two Jessica Smith free throws. The game became a back-and-forth scoring marathon from there. Alpena ran into some foul trouble, giving the Chiefs three double-shot free throw chances.
Luckily for the Wildcats, Cheboygan only hit four of the six shots and led 17-13 at the half.
The third quarter saw both teams continue to struggle offensively. Both teams played solid defense and forced a lot of jump balls in crucial situations. Alpena's Emma Strong was particularly effective at fighting for the ball when it was needed most.
Alpena continued to present the Chiefs with free throw situations in the third. The Chiefs hit three of four in the third quarter while Macey Charbeneau and Socolovitch hit a field goal each.
Lizzy Trelfa contributed her first basket of the night, while Kollien hit a field goal and a trey to narrow Cheboygan's lead to 24-20 after three quarters.
The Chiefs fell apart in the fourth quarter against a seemingly renewed Alpena offense.
Kollien picked up her third triple of the night 30 seconds into the period, stole the ball and scored a field goal five seconds later to put Alpena ahead 25-24.
The lead was strengthened by Strong and Trelfa field goals giving Alpena a 29-24 lead with five minutes left.
Alpena shifted to a more aggressive, man-to-man defense that forced a lot of missed passes and stolen balls. Cheboygan struggled to hit the right player time and again as the ball flew out of bounds under its basket and into the hands of the Wildcats.
The Chiefs finally got on the board with four minutes to play off a Socolovitch field goal. Bridget Blaskowski then hit a trey and a free throw to narrow the lead to 33-30.
Continued strong play from Kollien kept the Chiefs at bay as she scored one more field goal and two free throw shots.
"I really feel like our team's on a roll right now. At the beginning of the season we didn't know each other's strengths and weaknesses very well. Now that we know how each other plays we know how to help each other out in ways that benefit the team," Kollien said.
The Alpena JV team also came ahead with a win, 32-25. Jordan Modrzynski lead with eight points while Rachel Zolnierek and Mykayla Price each scored six points.
Alpena (36): M. Barkley 1-0-1-2: E. Strong 2-0-0-4: A. Milligan 2-0-0-4: C. Teff 0-1-2-1: L. Trelfa 2-0-0-4: C. Kollien 8-2-3-21.
Cheboygan (30): H. Socolovitch 4-0-0-8: B. Blaskowski 2-1-2-6: M. Charboneau 1-1-2-3: B. Hancock 1-3-4-5: J. Smith 0-2-2-2: S. Buhr 1-0-0-2: M. Rozek 0-1-2-1: C. McNeil 1-1-2-3.


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INDIANAPOLIS - Troy Dumais (Ventura, Calif.) and Christina Loukas (Riverwoods, Ill.) became the first two divers to earn nominations to the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team after winning the men's and women's 3-meter springboard titles at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials on Saturday at the Indiana University Natatorium on the campus of IUPUI.
For Dumais, it'll be his third trip to the Olympics, having also competed in 2000 and 2004. Loukas will make her first trip to the Games.
Both divers won in convincing fashion, with Dumais scoring 1552.90 points to runner-up Chris Colwill's (Brandon, Fla.) 1465.10. Loukas outdistanced second-place Nancilea Foster (Conroe, Texas) 1092.10-1002.85.
Dumais and Loukas each started the competition with bonus points for their performances at the 2008 World Cup, but both proved the points were not needed as their margins of victory were far wider than the 30 and 25 points each received for their fourth-place efforts at the World Cup.
Dumais, who had five 10s in Friday's semifinals, earned two perfect marks on his front 3 ½ pike and scored as high as 9.0 or 9.5 on four of his other five dives.
"It's a relief. Four years ago when Athens didn't go so well, this was the first thing I thought about. And now it's done. I climbed the ladder and I am close to my goal," Dumais said. "I felt it was a lot easier to keep motivated this time. I was able to take control of my emotions. My coaches and I did it right this time. We knew what we had to do."
Loukas had already secured her victory before she even completed her final dive, as she was eight points ahead of Foster after all other divers had finished. Having clinched the berth, Loukas went out and hit her front 2 ½ with 1 ½ twists for 81 points, by far her best dive of the day. She earned two 9.5s and four 9.0s on the dive.
"It still hasn't sunk in yet. I'm a bit overwhelmed right now," said Loukas, who entered the day nearly 50 points ahead of the rest of the field. "I tried really hard not to focus (on the lead) and focus that we were all starting even, at zero."
Colwill upgraded his dive list for the finals and finished the day with his reverse 2 ½ with 2 ½ twists, a difficult dive with a 3.9 degree of difficulty that very few divers perform. He scored as high as 8s on the dive, which he's competed only one other time. Colwill also had the highest single-dive score of the afternoon, earning 96.25 points on his reverse 3 ½ that resulted in three 9.5 marks from the judges.
Only the winners of each event earn Olympic berths. The second individual spot, as well as all four synchronized diving teams, will be chosen at a selection camp in Knoxville, Tenn., from July 2-6. The top six divers on each event are invited to the camp.
Rounding out the top six on men's three meter were Justin Wilcock (Smithfield, Utah) at 1363.40, Jevon Tarantino (Boca Raton, Fla.) at 1362.80, Kristian Ipsen (Clayton, Calif.) at 1304.45, and Burkley Showe (Columbus, Ohio) 1267.25.
The other top six finishers on the women's side were Allison Brennan (Huntington Beach, Calif.) at 994.15, Ariel Rittenhouse (Santa Cruz, Calif.) at 978.65, Kelci Bryant (Chatham, Ill.) at 944.60, and Tory Ishimatsu (Seal Beach, Calif.) at 933.60.
Men's and women's 10-meter finals are Sunday at 2:30 p.m.. NBC will provide coverage from 3-6 p.m.


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Last month I mentioned that we had made the decision to add Copeland Furniture's beautiful Vermont made collection to our online furniture store. Since then we've been researching and studying the details about this luxury furniture line. I am amazed at the diversity of styles and construction designs offered by Copeland. And at the affordability they have engineered into their furniture through high-precision processes.
Tim Copeland started his company in 1974 as a one-man operation in a garage in rural Vermont. His earlier designs were inspired by Shaker furniture but now Copeland Furniture offers many creative styles including Shaker, Mid Century modern, Danish, Scandinavian, Asian, Arts and Crafts, Japanese, and transitional designs.
Dennis is our point person on Copeland Furniture and he's been feverishly working away over the last several weeks. He's drafted over 100 new Copeland product pages and has been bringing the rest of us up to speed on Copeland styles and construction details. My job is to polish and publish Dennis' draft pages. Kendall is creating information pages that explain construction details and finish options for the different collections. Manjula is orchestrating the whole project and fixing our mistakes as we go.
So far we've been able to add most of the products in Copeland's Berkeley, Catalina, Harbor Island, Horizon and Lily collections. I figure we're about 30% through the project but we're picking up speed and we're hoping to have it complete within a couple weeks. In the meantime, if you're interested in purchasing and our website doesn't yet have the details you need, you can find our Copeland Furniture catalog, policies and prices here. Or give Rebecca and Shannon a call at 888-390-5571 with your questions. We'll look forward to hearing your thoughts about this new Vermont made furniture line.
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In a joint collaboration, ESRI's ArcGIS Map Stories and Global Footprint Network created Our Global Footprint | Map Stories for the upcoming Eye on Earth Summit taking place from December 12 through 15, 2011, in Abu Dhabi. Under the Patronage of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, the Summit will enable global leaders, decision-makers and innovators to issues critical to the world's expanding environmental and social data. The Summit is facilitated by Abu Dhabi Global Environmental Data Initiative (AGEDI) and hosted by Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD), in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The EoE Summit brings together representatives from government, business, science, civil society and academia to showcase "best-impact' examples of geospatial and environmental data technologies, projects and creative innovations. ESRI Program Manager Allen Carrol, former VP of maps at National Geographic, along with Mathis Wackernagel, Co-Founder and President of Global Footprint Network, will present Our Global Footprint |Map Stories at the EonE Summit.
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Monumental respect
Man pushes to have his grandfather's loving tribute to his daughter rebuilt.
By GINA PACE
Published March 2, 2007
ZEPHYRHILLS - When Samuel Richards started cleaning up Oakside Cemetery in the mid 1920s, he didn't know anyone buried there. He did it out of respect for the dead.
The stone mason and first building inspector for the city of Zephyrhills put up a fence with a brick gate and tidied up the grounds.
But in 1939, his daughter, Bernice Richards Tarbox, who was in her early 30s, died of pneumonia. To deal with his grief, he built a three-tiered stone monument and placed it in a main intersection of the cemetery.
Over the years, members of the Richards family moved across the country or died. Richard's grandson, Jack Emmett, now 66, moved from Zephyrhills and worked as a police officer in upstate New York.
He visited his hometown in the mid 1980s but noticed something missing: his grandfather's monument.
"He built that in memory of her," Emmett said. "I thought about if I had to do it, what my thoughts would have been while putting that together stone by stone."
Over the years, Emmett mulled over what his grandfather's reaction would have been to find the monument torn down. He asked around to find out who approved its removal, but he got no answers.
In 2003, he decided he would do something about it and started to talk to Zephyrhills friends about getting the project off the ground. In 2005, he sent a letter to City Manager Steve Spina along with an old postcard showing a picture of the monument. Spina wrote back, telling Emmett the city would rebuild it.
The new monument is a slightly larger version of the original, built with the same material - Florida field stone - but with contemporary building technology, such as steel reinforcement, said Shane LeBlanc, the city's public works superintendent. It was constructed based on old photographs.
Emmett and his wife, Jean, are visiting from New Berlin, N.Y., for a dedication ceremony today. Emmett said his grandfather, whose stonework can still be found on many Zephyrhills houses that dot the city, would be proud of the monument.
"I was just filling his shoes," Emmett said. "Trying to right a wrong."
Gina Pace can be reached at 352-521-6518 or toll-free 1-800-333-7505, ext. 6518. Her e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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BEIJING, China - The U.S. Paralympic cycling team had already gone above and beyond its expectations for the track portion of cycling so when Coach Craig Griffin (Colorado Springs, Colo.), projected four to five medals today, he had no idea he was being very conservative.
"The whole team did a wonderful job," said Griffin who joked it was best to under-promise and over-deliver. "I had a really good feeling the first day of practice on the course. We rode into the venue (when practicing) and they were rehearsing medal ceremonies and happened to be playing our National Anthem. It seemed like it was karma."
Team USA hauled in seven total medals on the first day of road competition, bringing their total to 11. That number is already one more than they had hoped for and there are still two days left before cycling concludes. The team began with a gold medal in their first race, and concluded in the same fashion.
The HC C Men's Time Trial was the first race of the day with a distance of 12.7km. Oz Sanchez (San Diego, Calif.) was the first to cross the finish line, winning the gold with a final posted time of 20:16.52. Sanchez finished 20 seconds before the 2nd place winner, but not far behind was Alejandro Albor (Elk Grove, Calif.) who posted a time of 20:59.49, good enough for the bronze.
In Sanchez's first Paralympic Games he commented, "If I had to put my money on this race, I wouldn't have, but nobody comes here to lose. I knew I had potential and I could maintain a pretty heavy tempo. I expected the podium but not the gold, it is very surreal."
As the afternoon session got started heat began to play a factor. Team USA was very conservative in their warm-up and started out at a slow pace, which paid off with more U.S. medals.
"We knew how to ride in the heat," commented Griffin. "At the first time check, we were usually behind, but then once the first hill was over we could really explode."
Anthony Zahn (Riverside, Calif.) was the first cyclist to take a medal in the afternoon race in the LC 4 Men's Time Trial. After competing in track cycling, Zahn had yet to score a medal. But he found success on the road and posted a final time of 41:08.21 and was awarded with the bronze.
"It felt pretty good. Track cycling is not my thing and it is really a warm-up for me," said Zahn. "Today was my event and so it was really nice after focusing on it for so many years."
The U.S. women then had their turn and they did not disappoint. First out was Jennifer Schuble (CP4/Homewood, Ala.) in the LC1/LC2/CP4 Women's Time Trial. Already winning a gold and silver in track cycling, Schuble continued her success, winning silver, once again behind Great Britain's Sarah Storey. Schuble posted a factored time of 38:38.94 to Storey's factored time of 37:16.65. Greta Neimanas (LC1/Colorado Springs, Colo.) also competed and just missed the bronze medal with her time of 40:26.09.
The Women's Time Trials continued, this time in the category of LC3/LC4/CP3. Fifty-two year old Barbara Buchan (LC1/Colorado Springs, Colo.) won her second gold in the Games. Not far behind was Allison Jones (LC3/Denver, Colo.) who, like Zahn, had gone through track cycling without a medal. This time was different and she won a silver with a time of 44:42.88.
"It was really hot but it was a great day," said a very pleased Jones. "This race was my specialty so if it was going to happen it was going to happen here."
The final time trial of the day was for the Women's Blind and Visually Impaired. The tandem team of Karissa Whitsell (B/VI/Eugene, Ore.) and Mackenzie Woodring (Pilot for Whitsell/Grand Rapids, Mich.) finally found their gold after a fourth place finish and a bronze medal in the track cycling. Their posted time of 36:14.87 was 44.11 seconds faster than the second place team.
Woodring, who has been piloting for Whitsell for only five months, commented "We felt pretty confident going into the trials, but everything is so unknown because we have been together for such a short while."
Whitsell agreed. "It was such an unknown. But we were confident and excited - the whole mixture of emotions. It was incredible and unreal that we won. We are not finished either - we race again on Sunday."
Others racing in the day included Matthew Updike (HCB/Denver, Colo.) who posted a time of 24:39.59 in the HC B Time Trial, followed by David Lee (HCB/Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif.) with a time of 25:04.99. Michael Farrell (CP4/Colorado Springs, Colo.) raced in the CP4 Men's Time Trial and finished with a time of 38:14.76. Ron Williams (LC2/Hoover, Ala.) competed in the LC 2 Men's Time Trial and finished in fifth place with a time of 36:12.84.
Road racing continues tomorrow (Saturday, September 13) with the Men's Individual Road Races. Williams, Farrell and Zahn will all compete, beginning at 13:30.


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by leadpipe » Tue Nov 06, 2012 6:46 pm
skatingtripods wrote:There are a lot of mediocre players making $11-13M on that list.Cody Ross appears to be this year's Josh Willingham. He's a slightly better defensive outfielder. Similar numbers to Willingham before the career year JW had this year.Curious to see if the Indians are players for Napoli and possibly overpay a little. I guess it all depends on if they think they can contend at all over the next 2-3 years or not.Wouldn't be shocked to see us in on Kevin Correia. Our type of free agent pitcher. Nothing flashy, low walk totals last two years. Joe Saunders wouldn't shock me either. Both are guys you can get for 2 years, at a reasonable salary, and are tradeable assets.
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motherscratcher wrote:Mark Reynolds not offered by Baltimore and is a free agent.I know he had a shit year last year, but that just means shorter contract. 1-2 years at $7-8mil per?Not really exciting, but he's a guy that plays first, bats right, and has shown in the past he can hit HRs. Of course he won't help bring down the Tribe's astronomical K totals.Worth a look?
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bookelly wrote:Lots of OF there for relatively short contracts. Trade Choo and sign a couple guys to fill the gap to Lindor and company.
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Mac & Cheese
- Vegetable oil
- Kosher salt
- 1 pound elbow macaroni or cavatappi (see Note)
- 1 quart milk
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, divided
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 12 ounces Gruyere cheese, grated (4 cups)
- 8 ounces extra-sharp cheddar, grated (2 cups)
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg
- 3/4 pound fresh tomatoes (4 small)
- 1 1/2 cups fresh white bread crumbs (5 slices, crusts removed)
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Drizzle oil into a large pot of boiling salted water. Add the macaroni and cook according to the directions on the package, 6 to 8 minutes. Drain well.
Meanwhile, heat the milk in a small saucepan, but don't boil it. Melt 6 tablespoons of butter in a large (4-quart) pot and add the flour. Cook over low heat for 2 minutes, stirring with a whisk. While whisking, add the hot milk and cook for a minute or two more, until thickened and smooth. Off the heat, add the Gruyere, cheddar, 1 tablespoon salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Add the cooked macaroni and stir well. Pour into a 3-quart baking dish.
Slice the tomatoes and arrange on top. Melt the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter, combine them with the fresh bread crumbs, and sprinkle on the top. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until the sauce is bubbly and the macaroni is browned on the top.
Note: To make ahead, put the macaroni and cheese in the baking dish, cover, and refrigerate until ready to bake. Put the tomatoes and bread crumbs on top and bake for about 40 to 50 minutes.
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|Gem State Challenge 2012
|Oct. 13-14 * Boise, Idaho
Idaho Rush girls teams ran riot at IYSA's annual Gem State Challenge, claiming five titles in three age groups, including dual titles in both the U10 and U12 age groups.
|Girls U10-Blue
|Gold Division
|The Blue team opened the tournament with a 1-1 draw against Nova-Coyle, then struggled to score in Saturday afternoon's game, a 3-0 loss to Nova-Chicas. But the girls squeaked through to the semifinals on a tie-breaker, where they exploded for five goals in a 5-0 drubbing of yet another Nova team. The semifinal win set up a rematch with Nova-Chicas in the final, where Rush reversed its earlier fortunes, winning 2-1.
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|The White team earned a pair of close wins on Saturday, 1-0 over Crossfire and 2-1 over Fury, before unloading on an overmatched Nationals team Sunday morning 9-0. The three wins landed them in the final against Soccer Xpress. Soccer Xpress evened the match late at 2-2 and extra time failed to produce a winner for either side, sending the girls to the penalty spot. Allison Ross saved one shot and Emory Deutsch put the final nail in the coffin for Rush.
|Girls U12-Blue
|Gold Division
|Rush-Blue rolled through the group stage, getting three shutouts in a 2-0 win over Nova-White, a 4-0 win over Nationals, and a 2-0 win over Nova-Pink. But the competition would be stiffer in the final, where they faced Nova-Grey, which had also gone through pool play undefeated on the strength of three shutouts. The Rush back line proved to be too much for Nova, though, as the girls recorded their fourth shutout in four tournament games, 3-0.
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|Silver-East Division
|Rush-White booked their ticket to the semifinals on Saturday with a 5-0 win over Nova in the morning and a 3-2 nailbiter over Crossfire in the afternoon. The Rush backline stiffened Sunday morning to get a 2-0 shutout of Fury in the semifinals before the girls faced Crossfire, eager to avenge the earlier tournament loss. Unlike the earlier one-goal affair, the final was never in doubt as Rush grabbed an early lead and never let go, winning 4-0.
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|Gold Division
|Rush was never really tested until the final as they cruised through the group stage with a 4-1 win over Fury, a 6-1 win over Nova and a 3-0 win over Torrent. In the final, they faced a Nova team that snuck into the finals behind a win and two draws, so they could have been saving the best until last. But the girls' dominance held fast en route to a 4-2 win.
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Larson, Jonathan
Jonathan Larson Rent
Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Drama; New York Drama Critics Circle and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical; Drama Desk Awards for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Music, and Best Lyrics; Antoinette Perry ("Tony") Awards for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Score of a Musical; Obie Award for Outstanding Book, Music, and Lyrics.
An American dramatist, Larson was born February 4, 1960, and died January 25, 1996.
Winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Rent was hailed by the critics as the breakthrough musical of the 1990s when it premiered at the off-Broadway New York Theater Workshop; within three months it opened on Broadway. Rent also has become something of a theatrical legend: Larson, who worked on the words and lyrics of his play for over seven years, died of an aortic aneurysm at the age of 35 on the night of the last dress rehearsal. Consequently, he never saw the phenomenal success of his play. Larson's sudden death "has undoubtedly deepened the emotional power of the musical's central motif, the struggle of doomed young people to find love with time running out," according to Peter Marks. Based loosely on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Boheme, Rent tells the stories of a group of struggling artists in New York's East Village who celebrate life despite suffering the effects of drugs, poverty, and AIDS. Among the characters are Roger, an HIV-infected punk rocker desperate to write one great song before he dies; Mimi, a drug-addicted dancer at an S & M club, also HIV-positive; Angel, a drag queen dying of AIDS who loves Tom Collins, a computer science teacher; Maureen, a performance artist in a violent relationship with her lesbian lover, Joanne; Mark, Maureen's ex and would-be filmmaker who narrates the play; and Ben, an eccentric landlord who threatens to evict the artists from their loft. Billed as "the rock opera of our time," and often called "the Hair for the '90s," Rent is admired for its unique blending of show tune traditions and rock music. "[Larson's] gift for direct, compelling, lyrical statement seems to prove that the show tune can once again become both pertinent and popular," remarked John Lahr. While many critics have pinned their hopes on Rent for the survival of music theater, John Gardner responded that "despite its studied hipness and its aspirations to be the voice of the Nineties, Rent … is pretty much the same old showbiz fare." Nonetheless, Rent, as Richard Zoglin put it, "is the most exuberant and original American musical to come along this decade."
Principal Works
Superbia (drama) 1988
Tick, Tick … Boom! (drama) 1990
J. P. Morgan Saves the Nation (drama) 1995
Rent (drama) 1996
John Lahr (review date 19 February 1996)
SOURCE: "Hello and Goodbye," in New Yorker, Vol. LXXII, No. 1, February 19, 1996, pp. 94-6.
[Below, Lahr examines the theatrical implications of Rent's popularity, hinting at Larson's possible influence on musical theater.]
By some terrible irony, the restaurant next to the Minetta Lane Theater, where a memorial service for the composer-lyricist Jonathan Larson was held last week, is called La Bohème. Puccini's opera was the inspiration for Rent, Larson's rock opera (at the New York Theater Workshop), and the show features, among forty well-sung numbers, three songs that are as passionate, unpretentious, and powerful as anything I've heard in the musical theater for more than a decade. Larson died of an aortic aneurysm on January 25th, a few hours after the dress rehearsal of Rent. He was thirty-five. Larson's name is new to me, but his talent and his big heart are impossible to miss. His songs spill over with feeling and ideas; his work is both juicy and haunting. That's why, after seeing Rent, I ended up at his memorial service. I found out that Larson was a rangy, goofy-looking guy with jug ears and a funny grin; that he grew up in White Plains; that he had the capacity to love and to be loved; that he'd done six downtown musicals with suitably quirky titles like Tick, Tick … Boom!, J. P. Morgan Saves the Nation, and Superbia; that he waited tables at a SoHo diner to support his musical habit; that he dreamed of earning enough money from his writing to splurge on cable TV; and that he believed, like Gatsby, in the green light and the orgiastic future. "Count the green flags, not the red flags," he told his friends. He also talked about his crazy ambition to bring the musical up to date: Rent is billed as "The Rock Opera of the '90s." Larson is certainly not the first composer to take aim at that elusive target, but he may be the first to have hit it. His gift for direct, compelling, colloquial lyrical statement seems to prove that the show tune can once again become both pertinent and popular. Over his desk Larson had posted the motto "Make the familiar unfamiliar, and make the unfamiliar familiar." Whatever the problems of the production, the score of Rent achieves the astonishing feat of marrying the musical's old sense of blessing to the society's new sense of blight.
The landscape of Rent is a gray and dishevelled loft space and environs in the Lower East Side's Alphabet City. "The curtainless set seems more like a pile of junk than a set," Larson's stage direction says; and waste is the right metaphor for this soiled, threadbare world of artists, addicts, and the homeless—the compost out of which the lost souls in Rent try to grow their dreams. Here poverty, and not abundance, is the musical's issue. "No Visa No Mastercard / No Amex / No travellers' checks / No dollars / No cents / No," a chorus of Village vendors sings. It's Christmas, and the holiday provides an ironic frame for the uncharitable events of Rent, which include the eviction of a group of artists from their loft. In fact, every assumption of the traditional musical has been stood on its head. The old romance of triumph has been replaced by the new romance of despair. Now lovers don't meet cute, they meet infected. Roger (Adam Pascal), a young songwriter struggling to write one good song before his light is snuffed out, falls for Mimi (Daphne Rubin-Vega), a strung-out dancer; both are H.I.V.-positive. The drag queen Angel (Wilson Jermaine Heredia) camps up catastrophe in his seduction of Collins (the smoky-voiced Jesse L. Martin), a young teacher who ends up giving him safe harbor. "Yes," Angel sings. "This body provides a comfortable home / For the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome." Mark (Anthony Rapp), a would-be filmmaker who bears witness to the group's eviction battle and earnestly tries to take the moral temperature of his times, asks, "How can you connect in an age / Where strangers, landlords, lovers, your own blood cells betray?" Death is the climate in which this musical lives. The air is full of loss—loss of home, loss of dreams, loss of life. If it sounds like Sondheim territory—well, in a way, it is. Larson won a Stephen Sondheim Award for Superbia and a Richard Rodgers Development Award for Rent. Although he wasn't a Sondheim clone, he was definitely a disciple; he even works his decidedly uptown mentor—a Broadway baby if there ever was one—into a rhymed catalogue of downtown bohemian icons: "To Sontag / To Sondheim / To anything taboo … "(At the memorial service, a college friend recalled long late-night talks with Larson about...
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New York Times (review date 25 February 1996)
SOURCE: "Rent Is Brilliant and Messy All at Once," in The New York Times, February 25, 1996, sec. 2, pp. 5, 22.
[In the following review, the critic describes Rent as "a lot of things: brash, brilliant, sweet, canny and messy."]
It's odd to have joined the generations that talk about what "the young" are doing, saying and going through these days, and how that is reflected in art and entertainment. When Hair, the counterculture antiwar musical, opened to the late 60's, I was pleased but a little patronizing as well you always are when you're part of a subculture that suddenly goes mass culture. So I wonder what today's counterculture young think...
(The entire section is 1005 words.)
Jack Kroll (review date 26 February 1996)
SOURCE: "A Downtown 'La Bohéme'," in Newsweek, Vol. CXXVII, No. 9, February 26, 1996, p. 67.
[In the review below, Kroll focuses on the characterization in Rent.]
During rehearsals of his musical Rent, composer-writer-lyricist Jonathan Larson was told by his excited producers, "Jonathan, you're the new voice." Larson smiled: "Yeah? That's good." Hours after the dress rehearsal on Jan. 24, Larson, 35, was found dead of an aortic aneurysm in his Greenwich Village apartment. After the show's opening last week at the off-Broadway New York Theater Workshop, the new voice, now stilled, was greeted with the most feverishly enthusiastic reviews for any new American...
(The entire section is 672 words.)
Peter Marks (review date 26 February 1996)
SOURCE: "Looking on Broadway for a Bohemian Home," in The New York Times, February 26, 1996, pp. C9, C11.
[In the following review, Marks describes the frenzy surrounding Rent's premiere.]
On the opening night of Rent two weeks ago, the phones in the offices of the New York Theater Workshop began ringing off the hook. They haven't stopped since.
Theater producers, record promoters, film directors, actors, musicians and ordinary theatergoers have been jamming the phone lines in search of tickets to the critically acclaimed rock musical, in a clamor unlike anything the people who run the nonprofit theater on East Fourth Street have ever...
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Frank Rich (review date 2 March 1996)
SOURCE: "East Village Story," in The New York Times, March 2, 1996, p. A 19.
[In the following review, Rich describes the theatrical and political significance of Rent.]
In an age when almost every showbiz event is predigested and presold by the media long before the public can decide for itself, the truly spontaneous pop-culture phenomenon is almost extinct. Almost but not quite. Two weeks ago, at a 150-seat theater in the East Village, a rock opera called Rent, written and performed by unknowns, came out of nowhere to earn the most ecstatic raves of any American musical in the two decades since A Chorus Line. And now the world is rushing to catch up:...
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John Simon (review date 4 March 1996)
SOURCE: "All in the Family," in New York, March 4, 1996, p. 65.
[Below, Simon gives a mixed review of Rent.]
In September 1914, Puccini got wind of an abridged version of La Bohème to be mounted in Lucca, and promptly wrote his publisher, "I beg you not to give them the opera. You will do me a real favor." How would he have felt about a version called Rent, which updates the Giacosa-Illica libretto, transplants the action to the East Village, and keeps only a few bars of his music, strummed on a guitar—just enough to put the rest of the score to shame? Well, with the copyright lapsed, it would not matter what he felt.
Jonathan Larson,...
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Richard Zoglin (review date 4 March 1996)
SOURCE: "Lower East Side Story," in Time, Vol. 147, No. 10, March 4, 1996, p. 71.
[In the following favorable review, Zoglin praises the life-affirming message of Rent.]
Jonathan Larson was looking tired and pale all week, but it might have been just the stress of preparing for the opening of his new musical, Rent. Twice he went to the hospital, complaining of chest pains and a fever; his trouble was diagnosed as food poisoning, and he was given a battery of tests. He managed to drag himself to the last dress rehearsal, but colleagues were concerned: Larson, who rode his bicycle even on the coldest winter days, came in a taxi. "You could see he was trying to...
(The entire section is 834 words.)
Donald Lyons (review date 6 March 1996)
SOURCE: "Rent, New Musical Is Deserved Hit," in Wall Street Journal, Vol. CCXXVII, No. 46, March 6, 1996, p. A 18.
[Below, Lyons distinguishes between "Rent the phenomenon and Rent the show," claiming that the production's "artlessness is a sophisticated achievement."]
There's Rent the phenomenon and Rent the show. The phenomenon: Limousines and taxis snake through East Fourth Street, a strip of tenements and bodegas, toward the New Theater Workshop, where the new musical is the town's toast. It's an updating of Puccini's La Boheme, which, exactly a century ago, celebrated the defiant struggles of Paris bohemians....
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Bernard Holland (review date 17 March 1996)
SOURCE: "Flaws Aside, Rent Lives and Breathes," in The New York Times, March 17, 1996, sec. 2, p. 31.
[In the following review, Holland discusses Rent in terms of its relation to high art.]
Who has musical culture and who doesn't? A letter to the editors of this newspaper recently complained that young people don't. Its author used opera on the radio as a measuring stick. "I … remember walking from one end of the Yale campus to the other on a warm Saturday afternoon without missing a beat of the Metropolitan Opera broadcast through open dormitory windows," the offended correspondent writes. "Thirty years later, the same trip yields loud rock." A strong...
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Patrick Pacheco (review date 14 April 1996)
SOURCE: "Life, Death and Rent," in Los Angeles Times, April 14, 1996, p. 4.
[In the following review, Pacheco recounts the history of Rent as the production prepared for its Broadway premiere.]
It was closing night for the new musical Rent at the New York Theater Workshop, a 150-seat East Village theater where the pop opera, loosely based on Puccini's La Boheme, opened in February. Onstage, friends and creative personnel, including director Michael Greif, mingled with the youthful cast and band in the kind of pizza-and-beer ritual that has been repeated countless times in experimental theater spaces.
But this celebration...
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Paula Span (review date 18 April 1996)
SOURCE: "The Show Goes On," in Washington Post, April 18, 1996, p. C1.
[In the following review, Span relates the genesis of Rent and its phenomenal growth.]
Opening night looms, and at the Nederlander Theater all is chaos.
An artist with one name (Billy) and two earrings is painting graffiti-ish murals on the mezzanine ceiling to invoke that gritty downtown ambiance. Workers are installing cheetah-spotted carpeting in the lobby. Onstage, 24-year-old Wilson Jermaine Heredia rehearses a dance number that calls for him to hop onto and off a table, no small feat in a Santa jacket, zebra-striped tights, a wig and huge platform heels. The theater...
(The entire section is 2334 words.)
Robert Brustein (review date 22 April 1996)
SOURCE: "The New Bohemians," in New Republic, Vol. 214, No. 17, April 22, 1996, pp. 29-31.
[Below, Brustein questions the popularity of Rent, disparaging Larson's lyrics and the production's use of rock music.]
The American theater chases after a new musical sensation with all the messianic fervor of a religious sect pursuing redemption. And when the composer/librettist dies the day before his show begins previews, we have all the conditions required for cultural myth-making—a martyred redeemer, a new gospel, hordes of passionate young believers and canonization by The New York Times, which devoted virtually all the theater columns of a recent Arts and...
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Laurie Winer (review date 30 April 1996)
SOURCE: "Rent Goes Up—to Broadway," in Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1996, p. F1.
[Below, Winer ponders whether Rent would be as popular if Larson had lived, suggesting that "what would have been merely moving in Rent is made almost unbearably bittersweet by the knowledge."]
When Rent, a rock musical version of Puccini's La Boheme opened off-Broadway last February, Jonathan Larson garnered the kind of rave reviews that young, struggling composer-lyricists pray and dream for.
Larson wasn't there to read the reviews—he died of an aortic aneurysm on the night of the final dress rehearsal at the age of 35. His opus...
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Gregory Beals (essay date 13 May 1996)
SOURCE: "The World of Rent," in Newsweek, Vol. CXXVII, No. 20, May 13, 1996, pp. 58-9.
[In the essay below, Beals, a former roommate of Larson's, reminisces about the playwright with cast members and friends.]
In December of 1995, Jonathan Larson wrote his good friend Victoria Leacock a touching Christmas card. This was typical of Larson; even when he was entirely consumed with his work, he still made the effort for his friends. He'd been working on Rent, obsessing over it, since 1989. Now it was finally going to open. But for both Leacock and Larson, the season was a difficult one. They'd lost two close friends to AIDS since September. Their lives and...
(The entire section is 1238 words.)
Jon Wiederhorn (essay date 16 May 1996)
SOURCE: "A New Rock Opera Celebrates Life after the Death of Its Creator," in Rolling Stone, May 16, 1996, pp. 54-8.
[In the following essay, Wiederhorn examines Rent in terms of Larson's life and death.]
The day before his rock opera, Rent, was scheduled to begin previews at a small off-Broadway theater in New York's East Village, the composer and playwright Jonathan Larson felt like he was coming down with the flu. Tired, pale and feverish, he had also experienced chest pains and had visited two emergency rooms earlier in the week. His symptoms had been diagnosed as food poisoning, but some of his colleagues thought he might be suffering pre-show...
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John Guare (review date May 1996)
SOURCE: "Smash!," in Vogue, May, 1996, pp. 305, 347.
[In the following review, Guare considers the tragedy of Rent and of Larson's death.]
I'm sitting in the Truck and Warehouse Theater on East Fourth Street in New York City's East Village, a.k.a. Lower East Side, a.k.a. Loisaida. The matinee performance has just ended for the new smash hit Rent, which reviews have ballyhooed as the most important musical since A Chorus Line, I can't help going back 25 years to when I sat in this same theater (now the home of the New York Theater Workshop) in the same cold month, waiting for my play The House of Blue Leaves to open. In 1971, I was in my...
(The entire section is 806 words.)
James Gardner (review date 3 June 1996)
SOURCE: "Lowering the Rent," in National Review, Vol. XLVIII, No. 10, June 3, 1996, pp. 56-7.
[In the review below, Gardner dismisses Rent as mostly hype and little substance.]
I have this theory: in any given musical after 1970, there will come a moment in which the protagonist is on stage alone and sings the words, "Who am I?" This may be called the hokey-identity-crisis moment, when the character is torn between his principles and his self-interest, and tempted to take the easy way out, which threatens to damn his soul and shave twenty minutes off the second act.
In Rent, the new great hope of the American musical theater, this does...
(The entire section is 838 words.)
Stefan Kanfer (review date 3-17 June 1996)
SOURCE: "Tragedy and Art," in The New Leader, Vol. LXXIX, No. 3, June 3-17, 1996, pp. 22-3.
[In the following review, Kanfer faults Rent on the basis of its form, characters, and the theater building, suggesting that the play is "only a mainstream entertainment disguised as avant garde art."]
Plot A: An earnest polymath—playwright, composer and lyricist—struggles for recognition. He writes a musical and takes it to producer after producer, hoping for a showcase somewhere, anywhere. After many disappointments he finally attracts the attention of a director and a vigorous little theater group. They get him a production at a 150-seat Off-Broadway house....
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Molly Ringwald (essay date June 1996)
SOURCE: "Jonathan Larson," in Interview, Vol. 26, June, 1996, p. 104.
[In the essay below, Ringwald offers reminiscences of Larson and her perspective on Rent.]
Recently, my best friend, Victoria Leacock, woke me from a nap. When I answered the phone, I was still disoriented, halfway between sleep and waking. She asked, "Did you hear about Jonathan?" Her voice was trembling and sounded oddly grave. My first thought was, Oh God no, he died. And then, No, it couldn't be. "He won the Pulitzer," Victoria told me. I felt a huge rush of happiness. But then, of course, our friend Jonathan had died.
I met Jonathan Larson through Victoria,...
(The entire section is 1140 words.)
Francis Davis (review date September 1996)
SOURCE: "Victim Kitsch," in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 278, No. 3, September, 1996, pp. 98-100, 102-104, 106.
[Below, Davis argues that Rent is not the solution to Broadway's problems.]
As everyone has surely heard by now, Jonathan Larson's Rent—the seventh musical ever to win a Pulitzer Prize for drama and the first to do so in advance of its premiere on Broadway—is a rock musical in the tradition of Hair but with even grander pretensions to opera, "sung through" by an energetic young cast that plays East Village versions of the artists and paupers in Puccini's La Bohème. The painter Marcello and the poet Rodolfo have been transformed...
(The entire section is 4549 words.)
Ed Siegel (review date 19 November 1996)
SOURCE: "Rent Has a Lease on Energy," in The Boston Globe, November 19, 1996, p. D1.
[In the following review, Siegel analyzes Rent's blend of show tunes and rock music.]
There is one characteristic of rock music that it alone possesses. It's the jolt at the beginning of a song, from Chuck Berry's "Reelin' and Rockin'" to Cracker's "Teen Angst" that shoots the audience onto the dance floor, or at least into the middle of the living room playing air guitar. It's as if the electric instruments have created a musical energy field.
Show music has its own form of up-tempo energy, consisting of hummable tunes that get your toes tapping while...
(The entire section is 847 words.)
Further Reading
Rosenthal, Elisabeth. "2 Hospitals Fined in Wake of Death of 'Rent' Creator." New York Times (13 December 1996): A1, B6.
Outlines preliminary legal and punitive action taken in the year after Larson's death against the two hospitals that misdiagnosed his fatal heart condition.
Tommasini, Anthony. "The Seven-Year Odyssey that Led to 'Rent'." New York Times (17 March 1996): sec. 2, pp. 7, 37.
Details the creation of Rent.
Galvin, Peter. "How the Show Goes On: An Interview with 'Roger,'...
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