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One is American, the other speaks with a soft Scottish accent
When our expanding family moved from our small house in Annapolis proper to a larger abode in Cape St. Claire on the Broadneck Peninsula, we were greeted by one of the more garrulous and distinctive birds in America, the crow. A large flock of the all-black avians was ensconced in and around the many trees that abounded in our new neighborhood.
They did not sound like the crows I had grown up with long ago in Pennsylvania. These Broadneck crows seemed to have a different call all together, a low-pitched, nasal caw quite unlike the brash, raspy caw-caw-caw I was accustomed to hearing. It was as if these birds were possessed of a strong but soft Scottish accent.
I discovered that not only did they sound different from the crows of my youth, the American crow (Corvus branchyrynchos), they were an altogether different species: the fish crow (Corvus ossifragus). Their numbers are significantly less than the American crow, but they are common to the wetlands and river drainages throughout the eastern and southeastern United States.
Smaller than the American crow but not by much, the fish crow is otherwise a very similar bird. They are all black, quite intelligent and dine omnivorously on anything edible, including crustaceans, fish (living and dead), fruits, small reptiles and mammals and, unfortunately, the nestlings of other birds.
Those ebony rascals ranged through our Broadneck neighborhood for a number of years — until one spring I heard the additional calls of the American crow echoing around the houses. At first I thought it was a melding of sorts, but after a day or so I realized the truth. A battle for territory was going on.
The fight — and it was a loud one — lasted for the better part of two weeks. After that the nasal, Scottish accent of the fish crows that we had become accustomed to was replaced with the raucous caw of the American crow. This species then dominated our neighborhood for the next 20 years.
A few weeks ago, however, I began to hear that Scottish burr once more. Their calls seemed to be everywhere at once as they began flitting through almost every copse of trees in the area.
I then realized I had not been hearing crows of any kind for some time, years perhaps. Doing a little digging, I discovered that the reason for this absence had been a dire episode for crow populations in general.
West Nile Virus, first identified in 1937 in Uganda, showed up in the United States in 1999 and within three years was widespread across America. A mosquito-borne infection that hit about 20 percent of humans with flu-like symptoms (and worse), it proved particularly deadly to all species of crows in the Americas.
Ultimately, the fish crow proved somewhat more resilient (50 percent mortality once exposed to the disease), than the American crow (over 90 percent mortality). The overall crow population across the nation collapsed to about half of its previous abundance. Now that precipitous decline appears to have leveled out if not reversed.
There is hope and some scientific evidence that both species are increasing in resistance to West Nile, but the change is slow. In the meantime, the territory of the more disease-resistant fish crow is expending due to the relative absence of the once-abundant American species.
Today, it is once again pleasurable to hear the understated voice of the fish crow echoing about the Tidewater. Though sometime in the future the species may be again challenged for territorial supremacy, I am delighted to be remaking its acquaintance.
Note: The raven, the largest bird of the genus Corvus, is also seen in Maryland but much less commonly. Ravens are noticeably bigger than both American and fish crows. Many of those around the Chesapeake favor purple and black.
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission made a decision in 2012 to manage Atlantic menhaden as a critical part of the ecosystem rather than a single species and reduced the allowable commercial harvest. The results were an improvement in species population.
Now, at the first sign of success, the Commission is considering increasing the commercial harvest.
Communicating your displeasure at this action could reinforce the Commission's resolve to protect the species: ASMFC, Menhaden Management, 1050 N. Highland St., Suite 200 A-N, Arlington, VA 22201 or firstname.lastname@example.com. A personal written and mailed comment gets exponentially more consideration than an email.
Progress in the Bay … Opportunity in the Cook-off
It takes a long time — two to three years — for an oyster to grow up.
It takes even longer for science to puzzle out how to make the best environment for healthy oysters.
Just out is the first five-year report on how oysters are faring since Maryland decided to give our native oysters the best chance for survival. The best chance scientists and fishery managers could imagine, that is.
In the Bay and rivers, sanctuaries were established and furnished to suit oysters, with beds made from lots of old oyster shell where baby spat could settle and grow, safe from harvesting. The bet was that oysters would flourish in sanctuaries, supporting the species, filtering the Bay and making reefs beloved by all sorts of aquatic life. That was the environmental part of the plan.
Of course oysters are more to the Chesapeake than good environmental citizens. Over our state's history, they've supported an economy, a culture and an enormous national appetite.
To maintain our oyster economy and appetite, Maryland's 2010 Oyster Plan made more of aquaculture than ever before. Oyster farming is now a thriving part of our maritime economy. Aquaculturists are making money, and all of us who like to eat oysters enjoy new abundance and variety.
But the Chesapeake's oyster culture rises from our oystermen, and they are hunters, not farmers. For their sake, much of the Bay remains open to wild harvest.
Oysters in wild harvest territory have not fared so well. They've declined by 30 percent on average between 2013 and 2015, presumably due to harvesting.
Protected oysters, on the other hand, increased two and one half times in number and size since 2010, when sanctuary management went into effect.
You can see what that means.
But the whole story is more complicated, as watermen strive to protect their livelihood and Gov. Larry Hogan follows up on his promise to promote Maryland business.
How to resolve competing, contrary interests?
It's only possible if all sides feel they've gotten their fair share. Mediation makes that kind of resolution happen, we're told by our Bay Weekly neighbor Martin Kranitz, who runs Mediation Services of Annapolis.
Oyster wars have a long history in the Chesapeake. As we begin to understand what oysters need to be healthy, making oyster peace among humans seems a good part of the plan.
Opportunity in the Cook-off
In this age of relative oyster abundance, it's time for some oyster culinary invention.
Can you create an oyster recipe worth $1,300?
Suit the taste of this year's judges of the 37th Annual National Oyster Cook-off, and that grand prize will be yours.
I challenge you to imagine how you — and Maryland oysters — can wow us.
Yes, I'm one of the judges, along with John Shields, PBS cooking show host, cookbook author and chef-owner of Gertrude's in Baltimore and Rob Kasper, former Baltimore Sun syndicated food columnist, author and blogger. So I'm invested in your invention. The better you create, the better our tasting experience. We've eaten some delectable — and imaginative — dishes over the years; this year, we want to taste yours.
Submit recipes for any or all of three categories: Hors d'oeuvres, Soups & Stews and Main Dish. Recipes are accepted through August 31.
If one of your recipes is named a finalist by the National Oyster Cook-off committee, you'll prepare your recipe to present to the judges and share with spectators on October 15 during the 50th Anniversary St. Mary's County Oyster Festival in Leonardtown.
First, second, and third place prizes in each category earn $300, $200 or $150. The grand prize adds an additional $1,000. Awards also recognize Best Presentation and People's Choice. All contestants plus a guest will be invited to a welcome reception and lodged in a local hotel.
Judging of the recipes is based on predominance of oysters, oyster flavor, overall taste of the dish, originality and presentation. Judges look for dishes that highlight the taste of the oyster. One judge commented that when you take a bite and close your eyes, you should be able to taste the delicacy of the oyster.
Submit recipes to email@example.com. Find official rules and more information at http://usoysterfest.com/page/6433524:Page:611.
Contest is sponsored by the Rotary Club of St. Mary's County, St. Mary's County Department of Economic & Community Development and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
Sandra Olivetti Martin
Editor and publisher; email@example.com
Find out as six young playwrights speak out in Twin Beach Players' 11th Annual Playwright Festival
Twin Beach Players has unusual success in getting kids to say what's on their minds. Over 11 years, youngsters from elementary to high school have taken to the Kids Playwright Festival stage, writing plays that describe the world as they know it.
The Player and the Festival are "safe spaces for kids of all backgrounds to express themselves," says company president Sid Curl. "Kids feel they can be themselves and have fun doing it."
At the same time, the annual competition and festival introduce young people to the camaraderie and teamwork needed to get live theater productions to work.
From Kids Playwright Festival, alums have even made it big, with internationally published plays, small roles on popular shows like House of Cards and original plays on the Charm City scene.
Six-dozen aspiring thespians are creating this year's festival, as authors, actors and stage hands. Two dozen submitted plays. Half a dozen — all girls — earned the honor of seeing their words come to life in the words and gestures of actors in front of families and friends. That talented cadre also earns cash prizes of $100.
After three years of acting, recent homeschooled high school grad Taylor Baker tried her hand at playwriting this year. Objection! won, she says, because it not only "breaks the fourth wall — drawing the audience in — but also is funny."
Sisterly competition brought younger sister Sidney Baker to this year's stage with her Shoes, Pizzas and Spirits. "It's a twist on A Christmas Carol," she says, created to please theatergoers who, like herself, tire of the same old play every December.
Rising Northern High School ninth grader Leah Hartley is a two-time winner. Last year she wrote about art and friendship. This year's Science Mistakes was a challenging new subject for her. And, she thought, for the competition because, she says, "nobody writes about science."
Cousin Elizabeth Kieckhefer, a home-schooled sixth grader, tracked her with Amber's Science Lesson.
Science would have been a natural subject for aspiring meteorologist Lucie Boyd, a seventh grader at Northern Middle School, and second-time Festival winner. A couple of years back, her play about meteorologist Doug Hill won a countywide school competition. Instead, for this year's festival she wrote a sequel to her last year's winner. "I love reading mysteries and learning about history in school," she says. The Mystery of the Hum of Nachitti combines both interests.
Sadie Storm, a seventh grader at Plum Point Middle School, is the most experienced Twin Beach Player, with the company since second grade. As an actress, Sadie poured her heart into her roles. One of her proudest moments was her director's praise for her work in a very small part. "Passionate about social change," her debut as a playwright is Changes, a play about bullying that, she hopes, is "better than the boring ones she sees at school."
Playing thru August 14. FSa 7pm, Su 3pm, North Beach Boys and Girls Club, 9021 Dayton Ave., $7, rsvp: www.twinbeachplayers.com.
Boldly focusing on character development makes this the best of the new Trek films
For Captain Kirk (Chris Pine: The Finest Hours), boldly going where no man has gone before is surprisingly boring. As his five-year mission to explore the universe as a diplomat for Star Fleet continues, he's looking for a way to break the routine of space travel.
Kirk seeks a position on a space station. Meanwhile, his second in command, Spock (Zachary Quinto: Tallulah), plans to leave the Enterprise to ensure Vulcan survival. Before they abandon their crew and seek out new futures, they are sent on one final rescue mission to an uncharted planet.
Things go wrong, as they often do when on one final mission. The Enterprise is ambushed and destroyed by Krall (Idris Elba: Finding Dory). Most of the crew is captured.
That leaves big jobs for the few who escaped. Spock and Bones (Karl Urban: The Loft) seek to uncover Krall's origins. Kirk and Chekov (Anton Yelchin: Green Room) search for their captured comrades. Scotty (Simon Pegg: Ice Age: Collision Course) searches for signs of life.
With interesting characters and an exciting plot, Star Trek Beyond is the best of the newest set of Star Trek movies. While past sequels have rehashed classic plots, director Justin Lin (True Detective) moves beyond the Kirk/Spock dynamic to give the characters room to grow.
It's a refreshing take on familiar characters, based on a clever script from Simon Pegg and Doug Jung.
The Bones/Spock pairing is especially successful, with Urban doing some fine comedy as the curmudgeonly doctor. We also meet an interesting new character. Jaylah (Sofia Boutella: Kingsmen) is neither a love interest nor a damsel in distress. Kirk remains a smug jerk, perhaps as a send up of William Shatner.
It's not perfect. Despite the fearsome Krall, nothing much is at stake. You know from the beginning that no one important will die. Hints are so obvious that you know how it will end. Some action sequences are too dark to see.
Star Trek Beyond has no deep message, but it does have an excellent rescue sequence that features transporters, phasers and motorcycles. All together, it's the perfect film to help you beat the heat.
Good Sci-Fi • PG-13 • 122 mins.
Get cutting to ensure big-flowering mums and azaleas
With all the rain we have received this year, azaleas and chrysanthemums have produced an abundance of new growth. If you want those plants to produce an abundance of flowers — this fall for chrysanthemums and next year for azaleas — get out your shears this week.
Chrysanthemums are short-day plants, which means that they will start initiating flower buds around mid-August. Prune any later than this week, and they will produce fewer flowers, which will be smaller in size and on shorter stems. Later pruning won't give the plants adequate time to generate new branches for flower buds to develop. For chrysanthemums, flower buds are not only developed at the ends of each stem, but also in the axil of the uppermost leaves.
Azaleas generally stop producing new vegetative growth in mid- to late- August. As soon as the tops of the plants stop growing, they begin generating flower buds at the ends of every branch. If you wait to sheer azaleas in August, the plants will not have adequate time to produce new branches upon which flower buds can be produced. Since woody plants such as azaleas are slow to recover from being sheered, there needs to be sufficient time for them to produce two to three inches of new growth before initiating buds.
When you prune, do it right. When cutting azaleas, always allow at least one, preferably two, inches of new growth to remain on the plant. If you sheer the top of the plant back to its original height, the new growth will have to originate from last year's growth, which will result in fewer new branches for flower bud initiation. With one to two inches of new growth remaining on the plants, new branches will emerge from the axils of the existing leaves, resulting in more dense foliage with many branches upon which flower buds can grow and flower next spring.
Footnote for Azaleas
If your azaleas lost most of their lower leaves last winter, you may wish to apply ammonium sulfate fertilizer after the first killing frost this fall. The loss of lower leaves is a clear indication that the plants are not absorbing sufficient ammonium nitrogen. Pruning will result in a greater need for ammonium nitrogen because there will be many more branches and flower buds to feed. By fertilizing with ammonium sulfate after the first killing frost, you will have not only healthier looking plants in the spring but also a greater abundance of flowers.
Ask The Bay Gardener your questions at firstname.lastname@example.com. Please include your name and address.
Turn on a light to observe National Moth Week
In the midst of National Moth Week, turn on your porch light any summer night and see who you see.
Summer because moths get their wings in warm weather. Over winter, they are caterpillars. In spring they pupate, emerging winged from their cocoons to create new generations of moths.
Night because drawn to light in perhaps some moonstruck phenomenon, most moths are nocturnal.
Like butterflies, moths are members of the Lepidoptera family, with between 150,000 and 500,000 species, according to National Moth Week founders David Moskowitz and Liti Haramaty. In the United States, there are upward of 11,000 moth species, 15 times more than butterflies.
As caterpillars, moths are familiar nuisances: in our fields, cutworms and cornworms; in forests, gypsy moths, webworms and tent caterpillars; in our closets, clothing moths; and in pantries, the Indian meal moth, Plodia interpunctella. Yet the hairy-bodied creatures are great pollinators, especially for night-blooming and white flowers.
Moths come in big and small, from the size of small flies to as wide as large songbirds. They are dull, striking and extraordinarily beautiful.
Beautiful like the pink, green and purple Pandora sphinx that flew into my still-lighted bedroom late on the night of June 29, 2014, lingering for photographs and drawings.
Striking like the yellow Clymene haploa moth perched aside my front door on the evening of June 28, 2016. Was its yellow lemon, or butter or butterscotch? I couldn't tell, and as the light faded, I tried all three, in colored pencil, watercolor pencil and watercolors. The color of its distinctive centered marking, something like an elongated fleur de lis, was clearly black.
"The Clymene haploa moth looks like a Star Trek communicator badge as it boldly goes everywhere both day and night," reports insectidentification.org, where I identified this visitor.
Perhaps National Moth Week will bring a beautiful translucent green luna moth.
Join National Moth Week observers from 8pm Sa July 30 to 9am Su July 31 at Glendening Nature Preserve, free, rsvp (ages 18+): 410-741-9330.
Yes, but do it at the grocery
Anne Arundel Countians are lucky to have their recycling picked up at the curb. With the county's single-stream recycling program, you don't even have to sort. Even so, 26 percent of what goes into the trash is recyclable, according to Anne Arundel County Recycling.
Getting that quarter of our waste out of the trash stream depends not only on the will to recycle but also our knowledge.
You can find a list that outlines most of what is and is not accepted for curbside recycling on the website www.recyclemoreoften.com.
How about plastic bags?
Reading the website left me confused, so I asked direction from Rich Bowen, Recycling Program Manager for Anne Arundel County.
Most plastic bags that stretch when pulled are recyclable. This includes grocery bags, bread bags, retail bags (even the thicker plastic retail bags) and newspaper bags. Also in this category are zip-top or roll-top food bags and cellophane plastic wrap.
Not recyclable in Anne Arundel's program are shiny metallic bags like chip bags.
Gather recyclable bags together, please, Bowen asks.
"For curbside pickup, we ask that residents bundle these bags together and tightly tie the bundle so that they don't come apart during collection or sorting," he told me.
Still, curbside recycling is not the best solution for plastic bags.
"The best thing to do with them," Bowen advises, "is take them to the grocery store with you and deposit them in the collection bin at the front of the store."
The reason is what happens to the bags after you put them out for recycling.
"The biggest buyer for bags right now is the company that makes Trex decking," Bowen said. "The composite lumber material uses the plastic bags to make its product. They want clean bags and feel that when the bags are collected with other materials they get soiled by other recyclables so they can't use them," Bowen said.
Also, if the bags come loose during sorting, they can get lodged in the gears of the mechanism that separates paper, metal, glass and plastics. Escaped bags gum up the works, causing the machine to slow down. This results in a slower processing time, which makes costs for recycling all single stream materials increase.
Many — but not all — grocery stores have obviously located plastic bag collection bins.
Has a sight stymied you? Does an oddity bewilder? Your curiosity may be featured in an upcoming column. Send your questions to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Fish favor a careful angler
We were drifting soft crab at the Bay Bridge for rockfish when I let my bait get too deep. It fouled on bottom debris. Gritting my teeth in frustration, I maxed my drag, froze my reel spool with my thumb and backed the skiff away. I had lost a number of rigs over past seasons on this particular support, so I assumed that this was just another dues payment.
I felt my monofilament line stretch as I moved away until it finally broke free, and I reeled my line back. I was surprised to see my hook still attached. Checking its point to ensure it had not been dulled, I rebaited and we set up for another drift.
When a short time later a good-sized rockfish took my bait, I realized two mistakes I had just made. The first was that I had maxed my drag setting when I snagged my line and had neglected to reset it. The second was that I had ignored the effect of putting so much strain on the line. When that big lunker headed away, the drag held fast. I desperately backed off the adjustment, but my line snapped before the effort could have enough effect. Slumping dejectedly as I retrieved the loose line, I felt like a fool. This was far from my first rodeo, and I had made these mistakes before. Together they spelled disaster.
As you impart acute strain on a knot, as I did when trying to break off my snagged bait, it continues to tighten, stretching the line and causing it to cut into itself until the knot, or some other weak point in the line, eventually fails.
Though in this case the knot had not broken and my bait had pulled free, the mono within the knot had already been critically weakened. Coupled with the subsequent stress of a big fish and an extreme drag setting, the knot failed — and a trophy-sized fish easily broke off.
The lessons, of course, are that when you put high stress on knots, cut them off and retie them — or suffer the consequences. When you mess with your drag, always remember to adjust it back to the original setting.
The next disaster due to detail happened just a few days later. My favorite hook for bait fishing is made by a quality manufacturer, but with one minor flaw. The shank gap where the hook eye was formed was just a little larger than I would have preferred.
Early in the season, it made no difference because we were using 30-pound fluorocarbon leaders, more than adequate for our light tackle and thick and tough enough to withstand a questionable hook-eye gap. However, a few weeks later the bite changed. We went from fishing big baits deep with 30-pound leaders to live-lining small perch with sections of 20-pound leader.
You can guess the rest. During a battle with a particularly large and powerful striper, I experienced a long-range release, inexplicably losing the big devil. When I retrieved my line, I discovered my knot was intact but had slipped through the gap in the hook eye. There's an old Wall Street saying: To know and not to do is not to know. I had known of the flaw and had done nothing. Willfully, I remained stupid.
I still use that hook as its other qualities are significant. But whenever I get a fresh pack, I anoint the gap on each hook eye with a touch of epoxy. I have not lost a fish to that defect since.
Retying stressed knots … modifying or eliminating flaws in terminal tackle … always checking for nicks and abrasions in the your line … being sure that the ring inserts on your rod guides, particularly the tip top, are undamaged … continually checking your drag settings: All of these are small habits acquired by experienced anglers.
The longer you fish, the more little stuff you remember. When that big fish is finally on the line, minor details can make all the difference.
Vegetables from A to Z — plus a little free protein at the K
As July rolls into August, locavores are in high corn. Literally, for in the fields around us corn is reaching to the sky. Figuratively, because we can eat our fill of Maryland-grown sweet well-kernelled ears — along with all the complementary fruits of the season, from beans to zucchini, with plenty of tomatoes along the way. Mid-summer's harvest supplies a fruit or vegetable for every letter of the alphabet, except maybe X.
The morning after the Governor's Annual Eat Local Cookout, husband Bill Lambrecht and I toured our home garden. With the heat wave moving in, the valiant kale — the plant on which so many cool weather meals were built — was doomed. I harvested it for one last stand. The plants were too old for salad or to be crisped with olive oil in a slow oven, as a friend suggests. But they weren't too old for that down-home favorite, a mess of greens.
My recipe offers a distinct variation on that old theme. Or perhaps it doesn't.
Harvesting the kale, I pulled the plants up by their roots, clipping off the freshest stems and discarding the rest, including a thriving community of Colorado potato beetles, pretty striped bugs that had been feasting on the leaves. I could tell the bugs were healthy, for they made short work of climbing out of the four-foot-tall paper yard waste recycling bag in which I stuffed them. Eventually, I had to catch them one by one and consign them to, I hoped, death by suffocation in a plastic bag. Easier to manage were the caterpillars, lots of small, thin, striped ones, the cabbage moth larvae, and a few softly fat pale green ones, the cabbage loopers.
I was pretty successful in corralling the beetles, I saw, as I stripped the leaves from the stems. For that job I have a nice tool, a flat plastic half disc perforated with four holes of ascending size. Choosing a hole, I pulled each stem through, collecting the leaves in a bowl. Discarded along with the stems were lots more caterpillars.
Garden kale takes ample washing, indeed triple washing, in bowls of water, sinks of water and under streams of water. Each washing turned up plenty more caterpillars, drowned or holding tenaciously to the curly kale leaves. When I'd surely gotten them all out, I filled a large, low pot with deep green leaves of kale.
In the pot on the stove, I sprinkled the kale with dried mustard and a nice pinch of chilies dried from earlier years' garden crops, plus grindings of fresh pepper. "You know when it's enough," my mother said, and I've always followed that measure — except in baking, which my mother seldom did and perhaps her motto explains why.
I cook a mess of kale with only two more ingredients: a jigger of cider vinegar and about six times as much apple cider. This time of year, when apples are still to be harvested and pressed, a child's juice pack is just about the right amount. Cook slow and long. When the greens are cooked, I add two or three cloves of garlic — ours is just harvested — crushed and sautéed in olive oil. That's all it takes for a fine mess of local greens.
Except, as the kale wilted, I saw that this mess of greens had another ingredient.
"What local dish are we having tonight?" my husband asked that evening.
"Organic kale with fresh garlic and small striped caterpillars," I said.
"Free protein," says Bay Gardener, Dr. Frank Gouin.
Find recipes without caterpillars, created by top Maryland chefs for the Governor's Annual Eat Local Cookout, in the 2016 Maryland Buy Local Cookbook: http://mda.maryland.gov/Documents/cookbook16.pdf
I ain't afraid of no all-female reboot!
Dr. Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig: Zoolander 2) hopes to earn tenure at Columbia. The professor is smart, serious and laser focused; but her career is put in jeopardy when a book resurfaces on Amazon. Co-authored with her former best friend Dr. Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy: Central Intelligence), the book considers the science of ghosts.
Erin co-authored the book on ghosts with her former best friend Dr. Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy: Central Intelligence). When no one believed them, Erin walked away from ghosts — and Abby.
All that changes when MTA worker Patty Tolan (Leslie Jones: Saturday Night Live) finds a mysterious device attracting ghosts to the Big Apple.
Erin, Patty, Abby and her new partner, the slightly unhinged engineer Jillian Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon: Finding Dory), the newly formed Ghostbusters set out to save New York.
Smart and funny, Ghostbusters is a worthy reboot of a classic. It is, however, a very different beast. It pays tribute, with all six original cast members making appearances, but it's astute enough not to copy. With humor that's more modern and self-referential, the reboot focuses on what it's like to navigate the world as a woman.
When director Paul Feig (Spy) announced his all-woman take, internet comments ranged from mildly misogynistic to vile.
Instead of dismissing the vitriol, Feig leaned in, making internet commenters part of the story. The women are constantly harassed online and dismissed because of their gender.
Ghostbusters works so well because of this cast of women. Both Jones and McKinnon do comedic heavy lifting, earning laughs and kicking butt. McKinnon creates an unforgettable oddball.
A surprisingly strong member of the ensemble is Chris Hemsworth (The Huntsman), with his brilliant take on the bimbo secretary.
Though humor and cast are refreshing, there are flaws. Like most movies about the supernatural, it doesn't stand up to close examination. And Feig spends too much time on Wiig and McCarthy when he has an ensemble of stronger characters to pull from.
Still, as far as summer blockbusters go, you'll laugh, reminisce and even see Slimer. I was heartened by young girls leaving the theater excited about careers in physics so they could create cool machines like Holtzmann. It's about time the princess culture was bucked for careers in ghost busting.
Good Comedy • PG-13 • 116 mins.
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Schizophrenia is a mental illness characterized by perceptional impairments
and impairments in expression of reality manifesting as auditory hallucinations,
paranoid delusions in the context of significant social or occupational
dysfunction (Castle et.al, 1991). Diagnosis is based on the patient's
self-reported experiences and observed behavior. An increase in dopaminergic
activity in the mesolimbic pathway of the brain has been found to be associated
with the disease (American Psychiatric Association, 2004). Treatment by
pharmacotherapy is done with antipsychotic drugs that suppress dopamine
activity. Schizophrenia patients usually show comorbid conditions, including
clinical depression and anxiety disorders (Parnas J et.al, 1989). Disorganized
thinking, auditory hallucinations and delusions are common symptoms. Patients in
advanced stages of schizophrenia exhibit frequent agitations and bizarre
postures (Amminger et.al, 2006).
Psychiatric nurse care
Although psychiatric nursing practice has incorporated many aspects of the
medical model and the attention has been on neuroscientific theories and models
of serious mental illness, nursing theories and nursing models have been placed
in a low profile within psychiatric and mental health nursing (Barker, 2001).
Continuity of care seems to be a significant factor in psychiatric nurse care as
documented by research studies (Backrush, 1981). Continuity of caregivers, where
a single, continuous treatment team is responsible for patients in both
inpatient and outpatient settings seem to complement improved cognitive function
(Fuller Torrey, 1986). A study to investigate and compare mental health nurses'
beliefs about interventions for schizophrenia with those of psychiatrists has
shown that the nurses usually agree with psychiatrists about the interventions
most likely to be helpful, such as antipsychotic medication for schizophrenia.
However, nurses have been shown to believe that certain non-standard
interventions such as vitamins, minerals and visiting a naturopath would be
helpful as well (Caldwell and Jorm, 2000).
The neo responsibilities of a mental health nurse include monitoring the
physiological status after medications, establishing a communication bridge to
establish patient's self care, caring based on intimacy and decision making
rather than just following physician's instructions. In this context, the
importance of reevaluation of Peplau's nursing theory that considers nursing as
an interpersonal process between nurse and patient in mental health care has
been well documented (Jones, 1996).Through the use of nursing models and
theories for planning patient and health care, nurses will be able to offer a
better service to the individual and the community (Brown, 2000). For example,
the Tidal Model, which has emerged from a series of studies on the 'need for
psychiatric nursing' extends and addresses some of the traditional assumptions
concerning the centrality of interpersonal relations within nursing practice,
emphasizing in particular the importance of perceived meanings within the
lived-experience of the person-in-care and the role of the narrative in the
development of person-centred care plans. The model also effectively integrates
discrete processes for re-empowering the person who is in mental distress
(Barker, 2001).
Nurse Interventions
Drug and psychosocial interventions for the symptoms of schizophrenic
disorders contribute to a lower incidence and prevalence of schizophrenia
(Falloon et.al, 1996). Studies have also shown that psychiatric nurses are under
pressure to concentrate more on those with a diagnosis of schizophrenia (Marland
and Sharkey, 1999) and treatment services for many schizophrenia patients are
inadequate (Lehman, 1999). Caring such patients undergoing therapy with
antipsychotic drugs like clozapine and benzodiazepines involves careful
monitoring of the patient's physiological condition as well. Such drugs have
marked side effects like sedation, hyper salivation, increase in transaminases,
EEG changes, cardiovascular respiratory dysregulation, overweight, mild
Parkinsonism, akathisia ,tardive dysakinesia, increase of liver enzymes,
hypotension , fever ,ECG alterations , tachycardia, and delirious states. These
drugs also pose the risk of seizures (Cochrane, 2006). The quality of life as an
indicator of the outcomes of nurse interventions has been recommended to measure
the impact of variables such as gender, ethnicity and duration of illness on the
measurable quality of life of an individual diagnosed with schizophrenia
(Pinikahana et.al, 2002). A study to investigate whether brief
cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) produces clinically important outcomes in
relation to recovery, symptom burden and readmission to hospital in people with
schizophrenia at one year follow-up has shown that brief therapy protected such
patients against depression and has highlighted the need for mental health
nurses to be trained in brief CBT for schizophrenia to supplement case
management, family interventions and expert therapy for treatment resistance
(Turkington, 2006).Another study has also elucidated the application of
cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in the treatment of clients with
schizophrenia and the implications for mental health nursing practice showing
that CBT has positive effects for clients reducing the relapse rate (Chi-Chan
et.al, 2002).
A grounded theory investigation has identified the importance of the
nurse/patient relationship as the central concept for psychiatric nursing. This
substantive theory has knowing as the core category of the theory and
socializing, normalizing, and celebrating as subcategories (Dearing, 2004). A
symptom self-regulation model has been evaluated recently to examine the
characteristics and stability of indicators of illness identified by individuals
with schizophrenia. Primary indicators of illness from 51 subjects categorized
as anxiety-based, depressive, or psychotic indicators have been shown to enhance
self-care through monitoring symptoms (Hamera et.al, 1992).Although the use of
care pathways is recommended to enhance mental health care, little has been
investigated about the development or implementation of care pathways for mental
health conditions. A recent action research guided process of implementation has
shown many problems in implementing the care pathway including poor levels of
morale and engagement (Jones, 2000). A recent study has addressed three main
factors for the development of care pathways for people suffering from
schizophrenia, namely, predictability of the illness, nature of standardized
care and role autonomy. A care pathway has also been shown to establish
standardized care and a greater control over the delivery of care (Jones and
Adrian, 2001). A study to investigate the use of reality orientation in mental
health care has shown that nurses use reality orientation frequently in their
nursing work, with reality orientation being most often used in the mornings and
evenings (Patton, 2006).Reality orientation therapy has been shown to improve
the cognitive capabilities of the Schizophrenics. Individuals with schizophrenia
commonly do not know how to use time productively when not in therapeutic
sessions, and are restless and bored spending a great deal of time in bed,
focusing their waking activities on eating, and smoking. They are not adequately
prepared in activities of daily living, social skills, and community awareness.
Programs that train these residents on the primary Activities of Daily Living
(ADLs) have been shown to enhance their social skills, motivation, and desire to
change, simultaneously decreasing their lethargic and apathetic state (www.schizophrenia-help.com).
Drug and psychosocial interventions for the symptoms of schizophrenic
disorders contribute to a lower incidence and prevalence of schizophrenia.
Nurses will be able to offer better care through the use of nursing models and
theories in the care of Schizophrenics. Protocol for assessing standards of care
for people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia have major implications for nursing
practice (Gournay, 1996). The theory-practice gap in psychiatric nurse care of
Schizophrenics needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency.
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To whom it may concern, I am currently carrying out a research project with Prof Adrian Furnham at University College London on schizophrenia and schizophrenia related disorders. I am looking for people who may have direct experience with schizophrenia to fill out a short, non-intrusive and anonymous questionnaire. The aim of the research is to discover whether there is a difference in knowledge and beliefs about schizophrenia between those with direct experience (e.g. mental health nurses/carers/relatives) and those who have none. I was wondering if you might be able to distribute the link to my questionnaire (below) to your relevant contacts who may be willing to help, or alternatively I can send you an electronic copy (in Word format) which can be printed out.
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Our partners in crime, UN Global Pulse and UN Volunteers were also in the mix, contributing presentations on the current state of big data affairs: from the Nepal population estimates after the earthquake to the case of the Seoul "Owl" bus, to UNV's own burgeoning online volunteers platform.
The social innovation lab at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering (FINKI) was definitely the coolest place in town that week.
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Local chapters of the Lions Club broke out their dry erase markers and an oversized check on Thursday, with members gathering with representatives of the Greater Minot Zoological Society outside of the Roosevelt Park Zoo visitor center for a ceremonial presentation.
The Zone 2A chapters of the North Dakota district's Lions Club raised $14,075 this year for the GMZS, to be used at its discretion. The Zone 2A includes the local Lions chapters of Minot, Magic City, Hooterville (Ruthville), Glenburn, Sawyer, and Garrison. In all, president of the Magic City chapter Josh Ressler estimates there are 125 Lions in the Zone 2A chapters.
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The use of restraints in motor vehicles has never been an easy call for North Carolina legislators.
The use of restraints in motor vehicles has never been an easy call for North Carolina legislators.
In 1985 lawmakers debating seat belt laws agreed children don't have to be restrained if there aren't enough seat belts in the car, granting the exception to pacify opponents and get any law at all passed.
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SAN FRANCISCO — January 28, 2014 — Range Networks, the innovative provider of commercial open source cellular systems and leader of the OpenBTS software community, today announced that it has hired a new CEO and reached significant milestones in corporate growth and market adoption over the past year.
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Edward Kozel, CEO of Range Networks, said: "We believe that in the not-too-distant future mobile networks will look entirely different than they do today. Software-defined mobile infrastructure providing end-to-end IP transport, combined with the power of the open source model, will transform the industry. We look forward to continuing to support these initiatives and demonstrating the strength of open source systems throughout 2014 and beyond."
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Evaluating advanced search interfaces using established information-seeking model
Wilson, Max L., schraefel, m.c. and White, Ryen W. (2009) Evaluating advanced search interfaces using established information-seeking model. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60, (7), 1407-1422. (doi:10.1002/asi.21080).
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When users have poorly defined or complex goals search interfaces offering only keyword searching facilities provide inadequate support to help them reach their information-seeking objectives. The emergence of interfaces with more advanced capabilities such as faceted browsing and result clustering can go some way to some way toward addressing such problems. The evaluation of these interfaces, however, is challenging since they generally offer diverse and versatile search environments that introduce overwhelming amounts of independent variables to user studies; choosing the interface object as the only independent variable in a study would reveal very little about why one design out-performs another. Nonetheless if we could effectively compare these interfaces we would have a way to determine which was best for a given scenario and begin to learn why. In this article we present a formative framework for the evaluation of advanced search interfaces through the quantification of the strengths and weaknesses of the interfaces in supporting user tactics and varying user conditions. This framework combines established models of users, user needs, and user behaviours to achieve this. The framework is applied to evaluate three search interfaces and demonstrates the potential value of this approach to interactive IR evaluation.
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You'll probably want the bigger pads. If you are being offered both, then no worries.
Hm, I just measured my own ears out of curiosity and they are 6.5cm (!). I've been perfectly fine with the current earpads obviously. My ears don't fan out much though.
My right ear are about 6.9 cm. (My left ear is a little bit smaller.) My ears do touch the pads just slightly. Still, you might want to wait for the new pads. My concern is that the new pads may not be as comfortable. If HFM is making the opening larger, it could change the comfort if the pads are thinner or stiffer. Of course, we don't know yet.
Actually, size, angle, and extension (or some combination thereof) could be problematic. It all depends on the individual ear. "Comfort" is a very subjective evaluation. An HP that fully surrounds the ear without touching it may be less comfortable to an individual than an HP that touches slightly. It depends on a lot of different factors.
That is a very interesting answer. thank you very much both of you! It shall let me try it...
I don't think you will have a problem, except when you go to take the 560's off, you won't want to. :^)
Theyre changing the pads on the 560 already? It's too small i guess?
Kind of, not really. A few impressions mentioned that their ears touched the inside of the earpads, and people who didn't get their headphones lost their stools and overreacted. This forced a reaction from Hifiman to make new earpads with larger openings.
Fortunately there is also a cosmetic / build issue with the first preorder units, so the delay is not only due to making new (most likely unnecessary) earpads.
You got that right!! Even though my HD650s are a lot lighter and completely surround my ears without touching, my preorder HE-560s are much, much more comfortable, esp. for long periods. I just hope that the new pads don't lose any comfort.
I heard Clem's HE-560 from the DA8 (and from many other setups) at a meet last weekend. The DA8 has enough power. The HE-560 doesn't seem hard to drive. Whether the DA8 sounds good or not is another question and a matter of preference.


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Skip to comments.THE NEXT DISASTER shall come in a form of threes , Not a stone left unturned T
Posted on 03/26/2011 10:57:26 AM PDT by Jedediah
The next disaster will come in a form of threes ,
The first one shall affect the forest and the trees ,
The second the waters , their taste you shall find ,
Shall become as that of lime ,
The third a fire from heaven that can not be overcome ,
It shall destroy both buildings and nations in that all it touches shall be over run ,
No life in these places shall be found ,
For all that was shall be burnt to the ground ,
The foliage shall die as if from a disease ,
Every leaf shall fall until there is emptiness in the trees ,
The water shall change , its color shall be clear ,
But all will know not to get near !
The forests , the water , and fire from the sun ,
Until all that is left has been undone ,
Not a stone unturned or a cave laid bare ,
There will be nowhere to hide for my spirit is there !
The judgment of " EARTH " is about to begin !
Yet all that know me shall find relief from those who have chosen to live in their sin ,
So now comes the warning to the Cain and Esaus of today !
Repent and turn from your ways !
Find your Savior , your Lord and King !
Sing Hosannah to the King of kings !
For Christ Jesus is King and soon to come !
So Repent My children and enter into My Kingdom !
Your Faith in Jesus is your answer and key !
So receive and believe before this tragedy ! ! !
John 4:22-38 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.
25 The woman said, I know that Messiah (called Christ) is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.
26 Then Jesus declared, I, the one speaking to youI am he.
The Disciples Rejoin Jesus 27 Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, What do you want? or Why are you talking with her? 28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah? 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, Rabbi, eat something.
32 But he said to them, I have food to eat that you know nothing about.
33 Then his disciples said to each other, Could someone have brought him food?
34 My food, said Jesus, is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35 Dont you have a saying, Its still four months until harvest? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying One sows and another reaps is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.
Many Samaritans Believe 39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the womans testimony, He told me everything I ever did. 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41 And because of his words many more became believers.
42 They said to the woman, We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.
Whatever you're smoking, please put it down.
I never realised Dr. Seuss dabbled in prophecy.
Actually, according the the Revelation of John, the bad stuff will come in strings of 7 sequential events.
I recommend not being here in those days.
And on that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness. And if anyone again prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the LORD. And his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.
On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies. He will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive, but he will say, I am no prophet, I am a worker of the soil, for a man sold me in my youth. And if one asks him, What are these wounds on your back? he will say, The wounds I received in the house of my friends. --Zech. 13
I like green eggs and ham, and the world will end, Sam I am.
That reminds me to pick up some of that green Tabasco Sauce at Walmart. It's great with ham and eggs!
"I am the Lorax , I speak for the trees !"
The forest and the trees = earthquake
The waters = tsunami
The fire from heaven = nuclear
The birth pangs are getting closer, like the perfect storm, this isn't the judgement.
I love when someone inflates themselves up to the point where thy think they speak for God. God said he would speak to all of us, not just this one person.
Here's mine:
Behold a strong wind or maybe it's a lite breeze will blow out of the east, but that could also be southeast. When the sun rises above the peaked mountains you will know that it is day time with a lite breeze.
I like green eggs and ham, and the world will end, Sam I am.
The fire from Heaven could be an asteriod. But I don't think that's going to be anytime soon. The nuke could be today.
Or an asteroid.
Yo, Jed, move out of your mom's basement, get a job, and for the love of God, quit drinking the bong water.
I've been through several hurricanes, typhoons, and a small earthquake but thought of getting hit with large 3s scares me to death. Any ideas of what material those 3s will be made from?
The cat ran to the Hat
The Mat fell on the rat
The dog ran skipping away
The mice began to play
Maybe I should start a new prophecy thread, too?!
This actually seems to meet the description ?! I have never heard of this term before thank you for sharing it !
Hebrews 12:15-16 (Amplified Bible)
15Exercise foresight and be on the watch to look [after one another], to see that no one falls back from and fails to secure God's grace (His unmerited favor and spiritual blessing), in order that no root of resentment (rancor, bitterness, or hatred) shoots forth and causes trouble and bitter torment, and the many become contaminated and defiled by it—
16That no one may become guilty of sexual vice, or become a profane (godless and sacrilegious) person as Esau did, who sold his own birthright for a single meal
Wait, what about the Pacific Northwest. You were predicting something happening in the Pacific Northwest. Now you're talking "nations." Are Tacoma, Multnomah, and Eureka going to secede from the United States first?
Really? Because coronal mass ejections don't cause widespread death and destruction like you prophesied. They cause Northern Lights, cell phone disruptions, etc. I don't see at all how they fit with water turning to brine, building being burnt to the ground, etc.
Um, earthquakes don't effect trees.
Dr. Seus had a sense of meter. Apparently, this god of Jedediah's is one lousy poet.
God said he would speak to all of us, not just this one person.
And lo he is here, are lo he is there , believe it not, for when the Son OF Man Appears all shall see ?
I do not know what it will be but it seemed to me that it sounds like meteors or something we have never experienced and part of it may be this coronal mass ejection . . .
The Spirit of The Lord knows .
Meteors being ejected from the Sun as part of a Coronal Mass Ejection makes as much sense as expecting someone to sneeze out a sailboat.
Any time frame?
This year?
This decade?
Sooner or later?
No I meant at first it seemed by the description of the effects that it would be some kind of meteor but can the sun shed anything solid ?
I do not have a time frame
parts of the Olmypic Peninsula may soon disappear ! There is about to be , A catastrophe , Of human life greater than ever fortold
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One game does not a rivalry make.
So as entertaining, intense and chippy as Sunday's Celtics-Knicks battle was to usher in the 2011-12 season on Christmas, that's not a rivalry again quite yet. Let's see the Knicks win the Atlantic Division or a playoff series against Boston before we give it anything more than an enmity tag, considering how long it's been since both teams were legitimate contenders in the same season.
Now, Celtics-Heat? Yeah, that's got the "R" word written all over it.
Remember, the Celtics were defending Eastern Conference champs last season, having knocked off both Dwyane Wade and the Heat and LeBron James and the Cavaliers en route to the NBA Finals during the 2009-10 campaign. That summer, the Heat put together its own Big Three and went on to knock Boston out of the playoffs in May en route to taking over the conference throne.
Boom, rivalry. Two teams competing for the same objective, each with a legitimate chance of obtaining it.
That rivalry will be resumed on the national stage Tuesday at AmericanAirlines Arena when the Heat -- fresh off a season-opening rout of the defending NBA champions, the Dallas Mavericks -- host the Celtics (8 p.m., TNT).
Boston players weren't quite in the mood to talk about their next challenge after Sunday's loss in New York. But make no mistake, the Celtics will be amped for this one.
The Celtics won't need any reminders about how last season ended. Without enough bodies to hold a worthwhile practice on the first night of training camp earlier this month, Celtics coach Doc Rivers dragged his team into the film room and went over highlights from Miami's five-game triumph in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
"We didn't get enough out of our team [last season]," Rivers said after the viewing. "We just watched some film of that [Heat series] -- just to refresh all of their memories. [The Heat] were the better team in that series, but we made mistakes. And I wanted to remind them of that. I thought that was important."
Important because, on paper, the Heat -- who were dealing with similar financial restrictions to the Celtics -- only got better this offseason, while some wonder if the Celtics did little more than tread water.
Miami made one of the offseason's biggest splashes by hooking Shane Battier at the mini mid-level and were still able to re-sign James Jones and Mario Chalmers. The only free-agent departures were aging veterans such as Jamaal Magloire and Mike Bibby.
What's more, Miami rookie Norris Cole, selected one spot after Boston's JaJuan Johnson in June's draft, looks like an immediate contributor, while Johnson -- who may very well have a bright future -- didn't get off the bench Sunday.
Make no mistake, Boston likes its reserve unit, and the Brandon Bass-for-Glen Davis trade in particular looks like it has potential for high returns. But the loss of Jeff Green for the season (heart ailment) really hurt the bench, and the Celtics will need the likes of Chris Wilcox (whom Boston spent its mini mid-level exception on), Keyon Dooling and even second-year guard Avery Bradley to make significant contributions. The arrival of newly signed Mickael Pietrus could help the Celtics, but it's unclear how soon he'll be ready to go.
That means on Tuesday we could see more of Sasha Pavlovic, who logged 15 underwhelming minutes in a starter's role against the Knicks. Rivers would prefer to keep Marquis Daniels with the reserve unit, so the team might have to continue leaning on Pavlovic, given his size and ability to defend the likes of James (even after Carmelo Anthony went off for 37 points on 10-of-17 shooting Sunday). The Celtics don't need offense from Pavlovic, but they need stout defense (avoiding fouls, especially those of the technical variety, would aid that cause).
The other X factor is whether Paul Pierce will be able to suit up. He skipped Sunday's game in New York and told reporters to Google "bone bruise" to understand the injury that has sidelined him since the start of training camp. Those that clicked on the "images" tab risked losing their Christmas dinners. It's hard to imagine a couple of days would be enough to get Pierce on the floor after missing Sunday's opener, but it would further hammer home the magnitude of this game if he were to suit up.
What does a December win mean to either team? In the standings, not much, save for an end-of-the-year logjam atop the East. Heck, the Celtics won three of four meetings last season, and how did that work out for them?
But there is something to be said for a psychological edge. After how the playoffs unfolded, the Heat would seemingly have the sort of confidence that suggests they've leapfrogged the Celtics and are no longer worried about the old guard. A win Tuesday, which would be the sixth win in the last seven meetings, would only confirm that notion.
For Boston, a win could help remind the Heat that they can't forget about the Celtics. After all, the only way a rivalry exists is if there's give and take on both sides.
Recent meetings suggest the Heat are pulling away. It's up to Boston to rekindle the rivalry before the flame goes out.
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