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The luxurious Vineyard Hotel in Berkshire is a wonderful place to spend a weekend close to London and great for a man who likes to be pampered. Having checked into my room, it was time to hit the spa where I was booked in for three treatments.
After a warm welcome, I was taken through to my first two treatments – a back, neck and shoulder massage and a manicure. Feeling fully pampered it was a bit disappointing to have to walk through the main hotel to get back to the main spa area, but it was worth the trek as I was rewarded with coffee and pastries in the lounge.
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Kelly Clarkson is reportedly convinced she'll be married by the end of the year.
The American singer has been dating talent manager Brandon Blackstock since late last year. They have grown incredibly close and the 30-year-old star is apparently convinced he is The One.
Kelly has been sporting a slimmer frame of late having dropped 30lbs. and it's been claimed her wedding plans are part of the reason she has toned up.
"Kelly's expecting an engagement ring by late summer and to be wed by year's end," a source told National Enquirer.
"Sure she wants to look great for the singing show Duets [she's appearing on], but the driving force behind her weight loss is the holiday nuptials."
Kelly is adamant she wants to look her best when she walks down the aisle. She also likes to make an effort for Brandon and has started to realise the importance of being healthy.
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An expansion of the Napier Family Centre's Sunny Days Early Childhood Education Centre is on the way, with the help of a $25,000 grant from the Eastern and Central Community Trust.
The grant, one of several announced by trust manager Bev Watkins yesterday, will be part of about $40,000 needed for the development of a whanau room at the pre-school facility in Barker Rd, Marewa.
Family centre funding and communications officer Kath Curran said it would help provide facilities for assisting parents and caregivers without their having to go to "yet another" while their young were already at the centre.
The community trust said it would make "valuable community help for young families more accessible".
The family centre, which has its headquarters on the corner of Morris Spence Ave and Wycliffe St, Onekawa, provides support for about 2000 families annually.
The early childhood centre at the moment caters for up to 48 children aged from 2 to 5 years of age.
The Hawke's Bay Lawn Tennis and Squash Club, off Higgins St, Marewa, also received $25,000.
The money will be put towards the club's costs of reinforcing foundations and resurfacing of five courts.
The Rescue Helicopter Trust will receive $20,000 to buy an upgraded ventilator and monitor to replace equipment which is more than 10 years old. The funding is the latest of a series of grants to the helicopter trust totalling $195,000 over the last 16 years.
The Hawke's Bay Squash Racquet Club, in Niven St, Onekawa, was granted $8000 as part of the fundraising for new showering and toilet facilities.
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Paperless dentistry, the storage, sorting, and retrieval of computerized dental records, has provided not just a step, but a leap forward in the efficiency and quality of patient care. However, we can continue to expand our uses of dental computers by adapting some additional easy, free, and powerful strategies to make our practices more profitable while providing superior treatment. This article discusses several simple computer strategies that any office can easily incorporate without changing practice management software. These strategies are user dependent, not software dependent. They will only require changing a few practice habits and are not a computer version of Extreme Makeover.
|Figure 1. Our operatories may appear more modern than this historical one seen in a museum display, but often our techniques for handling information remain antiquated, based on old-fashioned paper-based habits and dental myths.
The goal of paperless dentistry has never been the elimination of paper from the dental office. Rather, the goal is to replace the use of paper as electronic media becomes more efficient, such as with the storage, sorting, and retrieval of information. With more modern technologies, we need to rethink the way we do things (Figure 1). Did you ever notice that really old sinks, like the one in G.V. Black's 1908 operatory, had 2 separate spigots for the hot and cold water? People at that time were accustomed to washing in a pan of water. As a result, they ran hot and cold water separately into a sink with a stopper and then washed in the "pan." It took awhile for people to realize that it was nicer to wash in a mixed stream of warm water from a single spigot. Now sinks with separate hot and cold spigots have pretty much gone the way of the amalgam squeeze cloth. Similarly, there are now much better computerized ways of doing things than the old paper-based ways we were forced to use in the past.
G.V. Black used to have a ledger tray where he stored his accounts receivables. He had to file the patient ledgers alphabetically because he could not find them any other way. Our habit of sorting everything solely by alphabet is an example of an inefficient holdover from our paper-based days. With computers, it is usually much better to sort by other measures, since the computer does all the work and can instantly sort all accounts by more useful criteria. However, some offices persist in printing accounts receivable reports alphabetically. Instead, these should be printed by oldest balance or largest balance first. This is a much more profitable way to work the accounts. Similarly, unscheduled treatment lists should be sorted by the value of the treatment plan, or by the types of procedures the doctor likes to perform, not by alphabet. Referral reports should not be sorted by the referring patient's last name. Rather, they should be sorted by the number of people referred, or by the value of the treatment completed. G.V. Black had to sort alphabetically...we don't! We can use more productive computer strategies.
The use of electronic insurance claim processing is an example where computers are much more productive than paper. It is no longer efficient to print and mail a paper claim when an electronic claim is cheaper, easier, and gets the payment into the dental office much more quickly. But in some cases, paper still has advantages as we transition to an all-electronic media. Most patients still appreciate appointment cards, printed of course by the computer appointment scheduler so there are no mistakes, when they leave the office. However, because 70% to 90% of our patients now have e-mail, all follow-up re-minders can be sent electronically and automatically. The system that we use (uappoint.com) invisibly links to our ap-pointment scheduler and sends reminders without our staff doing any work. Electronic claims and e-mail appointment confirmations provide economic benefits to the practice while benefiting patients by helping them keep their scheduled appointments.
In a modern office, it is more efficient and cost-effective to have our "digital employees" (our computers) do more of the work. We paid for those computers, but most of the time they just sit there idle! We would not put up with that from any other employee!
G.V. Black's receptionist used to have patients address their own recall cards because she thought they responded better to a postcard in their own handwriting. (That's probably how this dental myth began.) However, if the patient did not respond to the single postcard, that patient was often lost. These days, we should make those lazy computers send out a series of re-minders, either postcards or e-mails, automatically at 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months overdue. Little or no staff time is necessary, it maintains hygiene production, and helps to ensure better periodontal health for our patients. Once this computer-based recare system is established, it works forever without any further attention from the doctor.
We can also probably thank G. V. Black's receptionist for starting another deeply ingrained dental myth: the need to "confirm" patient appointments by telephone. In G.V. Black's day, telephones were novel, and it might have seemed like a good idea. However, in our busy group practice, when we stopped telephone confirmations, the number of missed appointments went down! Our computers carefully track missed appointments, and we graph the results so that we are not myth-based, but fact-based. We did not just suddenly stop telephone confirmations. We made a point of telling each patient we were discontinuing this behavior and asked them to "Please be sure you do not make an appointment that you are not sure you can keep, and be sure to keep each appointment that you make." This worked like a charm! We do continue to do our automatic e-mail confirmations, and, for patients without e-mail, we send out a computer-generated postcard 2 weeks ahead of pre-booked recare appointments. Also, we never charge for missed appointments, but we do send out an automatically generated missed appointment letter asking the patient not to miss any more appointments. If the patient misses 3 appointments with 3 warning letters, which the computer tracks, we "fire" them. This also works like a charm. I can hear you thinking, "That won't work in my practice!" Yes, it will, if you handle it properly. You would be surprised at the number of dentists in our seminars who confirm this. Computers help us become fact-based instead of myth-based. You can see more examples of myth versus fact on our Web site, paperlessdentistry.com.
|Figure 2. Easily made graphs share information with staff to help promote desired changes by taking advantage of the Hawthorne Effect from industrial psychology.
I mentioned making graphs to illustrate trends, such as failed appointments, that are sometimes difficult to see as just numbers. For G.V. Black, making a graph was time-consuming and difficult. For us, it is almost instant and very simple. With a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Calc (a free program available at openoffice.com), you just click and drag the mouse to create an instant, colorful, and informative graph. Don't be intimidated by the prospect of learning to use a spreadsheet; it is really very easy and intuitive to do the basics such as making a graph (Figure 2). Lots of helpful Web sites are available to help teach these techniques. You might also ask your staff members if one of them already knows how. I was quite surprised to learn that one of our hygienists already was very accomplished with using Excel. We now utilize her skills to help administer our practice.
Graphs let you productively exploit something that was unknown to G.V. Black, and is actually little known in dentistry even today. It is the observation from industrial psychology known as the Hawthorne Effect. The Hawthorne Effect predicts that people's performance usually improves following any new or increased attention. We nagged our staff for 2 years to collect e-mail addresses when patients came into the office. The computers showed about 70% staff compliance. However, when we graphed compliance over time and shared this with staff members, their compliance improved to nearly 100% in about 2 months. We had a similar improvement with the collection of referral sources for new patients. We also started tracking the use of topical antibiotics in periodontal pockets and graphing this by hygienist. In addition, we now graph the number of porcelain veneers and implants we do each month because we want to increase these procedures in our practice. We graph the number of new patients each month, and the percentage of these patients that have appointments at the end of 3 months, so we know who didn't just walk out the back door. It is still early, but all of these strategies have resulted in positive changes, and they take only minutes per month to accomplish. Remember, the computers do almost all the work. The Hawthorne Effect provides free practice enhancements with almost no time or effort. G.V. Black would be green with envy!
Staff bonuses, based on some combination of production and collections, are usually a good idea. They encourage staff participation, improve morale, and tie salary increases to actual office profitability. But often, I see two problems with them. First, they are frequently so complicated that they are labor-intensive to calculate, and this is often the dentist's labor. Second, while staff members may be motivated by this month's bonus, they sometimes forget just how much the bonus has contributed to their paychecks over the last year. Our computer strategies have eliminated both of these problems. Using a simple spreadsheet that our practice manager updates in 2 minutes at the end of each day, the month-to-date bonus for each person is calculated and updated for each staff person. This number is automatically linked to our morning meeting report so that everyone knows each morning exactly where they stand. Furthermore, because we use a computerized payroll program that can export all reports to a spreadsheet, we can instantly graph the percentage each employee's bonus has contributed to his or her take-home pay for the year. Now, our computerized bonus program is simpler to administer and provides more motivation for our staff.
|Figure 3. The trend toward the "front deskless" office may not mean the elimination of the physical front desk, but rather the transfer of tasks to other areas such as the operatory, where they can be done quickly, easily, and more accurately.
The idea of "front deskless" dentistry has probably been around almost as long as paperless dentistry, but it is now becoming more common (Figure 3). Again, the goal is not necessarily to eliminate the physical front desk from the office, but rather to reduce or redistribute the tasks that were formerly done at that front desk. Clinical charting, posting, treatment plan entry, insurance claim submission, lab slip generation, and of course appointment scheduling, are all much more efficient chairside. Our office is front deskless only in the sense that fewer people perform fewer tasks in that area.
Two other practices that I visited recently have gone much further. In one office, the doctor works with only 2 staff people, both clinical assistants. They process all patient transactions at chairside. All 3 people, including the doctor, wear wireless telephone headsets, and whoever is free to take the call answers the phone. While one assistant is with the doctor, the other takes care of administrative tasks such as account follow-up and supply ordering. They have a computer in their lab area, but the only thing on the front desk is a vase of flowers. In the other practice, there is not only no front desk, there are no human staff members. The doctor does everything by himself: all appointments, charting, treatment planning, collections, billing, etc. If the phone rings, and he cannot answer it, his answering machine takes the message, and he returns the call when he has time. His only employees are his computers. He admits this may not be the most efficient way to practice, but he really likes the fact that everything is in his direct control and he has no staff salaries, sick days, vacations, holidays, training, complaining, quarreling, or any other staff issues. These 2 practices may not represent ways that most of us would like to practice, but they show what is possible. For the rest of us, more practical strategies allow us to use our computer systems to expand our management capacity. We can do this all while reducing everyone's work load and increasing profitability via the decentralization of tasks that previously could only be done at the front desk.
G.V. Black and his receptionist might have been wonderful and productive people, but they practiced 100 years ago. It behooves the modern dentist to dispense with the inefficient paper-based habits and myths of the past and embrace the advantages that computer-based strategies bring to our practices. Computerized scheduling, e-mail appointment cards, electronic insurance submission, replacing alphabetical sorting with more productive criteria, multiple recare reminders, eliminating counterproductive telephone appointment confirmations, using graphs to take advantage of the Hawthorne Effect, an effective staff bonus system, and decentralizing tasks away from the front desk to areas such as the operatory where they can be done more efficiently… these are just some of the ways computers allow us to move beyond paperless dentistry to gain more benefits for our staff, our patients, and for ourselves. Most importantly, these are easy to do and most of them are free.


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Theres one other important factoid: The Nuggets have, perhaps surprisingly, gotten off to a pretty good start this season. Which means theyre essentially the 2009 Phoenix Suns.
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Posted on Mar 4, 2012
By Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges gave this talk Saturday night in Washington, D.C., at the Occupy AIPAC protest, organized by CODEPINK Women for Peace and other peace, faith and solidarity groups.
The battle for justice in the Middle East is our battle. It is part of the vast, global battle against the 1 percent. It is about living rather than dying. It is about communicating rather than killing. It is about love rather than hate. It is part of the great battle against the corporate forces of death that reign over us—the fossil fuel industry, the weapons manufacturers, the security and surveillance state, the speculators on Wall Street, the oligarchic elites who assault our poor, our working men and women, our children, one in four of whom depend on food stamps to eat, the elites who are destroying our ecosystem with its trees, its air and its water and throwing into doubt our survival as a species.
What is being done in Gaza, the world's largest open-air prison, is a pale reflection of what is slowly happening to the rest of us. It is a window into the rise of the global security state, our new governing system that the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin calls "inverted totalitarianism." It is a reflection of a world where the powerful are not bound by law, either on Wall Street or in the shattered remains of the countries we invade and occupy, including Iraq with its hundreds of thousands of dead. And one of the greatest purveyors of this demented ideology of violence for the sake of violence, this flagrant disregard for the rule of domestic and international law, is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC.
I spent seven years in the Middle East. I was the Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times. I lived for two of those seven years in Jerusalem. AIPAC does not speak for Jews or for Israel. It is a mouthpiece for right-wing ideologues, some of whom hold power in Israel and some of whom hold power in Washington, who believe that because they have the capacity to war wage they have a right to wage war, whose loyalty, in the end, is not to the citizens of Israel or Palestine or the United States but the corporate elites, the defense contractors, those who make war a business, those who have turned ordinary Palestinians, Israelis and Americans, along with hundreds of millions of the world's poor, into commodities to exploit, repress and control.
We have not brought freedom, democracy and the virtues of Western civilization to the Muslim world. We have brought state terrorism, massive destruction, war and death. There is no moral distinction between a drone strike and the explosion of the improvised explosive device, between a suicide bombing and a targeted assassination. We have used the iron fist of the American military to implant our oil companies in Iraq, occupy Afghanistan and ensure that the Muslim world remains submissive and compliant. We have supported a government in Israel that has carried out egregious war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza and is daily stealing larger and larger portions of Palestinian land. We have established a network of military bases, some the size of small cities, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Kuwait, and we have secured basing rights in the Gulf states of Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates. We have expanded our military operations to Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Egypt, Algeria and Yemen. And no one believes, except perhaps us, that we have any intention of leaving.
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We are the biggest problem in the Middle East. It is we who legitimize the Mahmoud Ahmadinejads, suicide bombers and radical jihadists. The longer we drop iron fragmentation bombs and seize Muslim land, the longer we kill with impunity, the more these monsters, reflections of our own distorted image, will proliferate.
"If you gaze into the abyss," Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, "the abyss gazes into you."
I am no friend of the Iranian regime, which helped create and arm Hezbollah, is certainly meddling in Iraq, has persecuted human rights activists, gays, women and religious and ethnic minorities, embraces racism and intolerance, and uses its power to deny popular will. And yes, it is a regime that appears determined to build a nuclear weapon, although I would stress that no one has offered any proof this is occurring. I have spent time in Iranian jails. I was once deported from Tehran in handcuffs. But I do not remember Iran orchestrating a coup in the United States to replace an elected government with a brutal dictator who for decades persecuted, assassinated and imprisoned democracy activists. I do not remember Iran arming and funding a neighboring state to wage war against our country. Iran never shot down one of our passenger jets, as did the USS Vincennes—nicknamed Robocruiser by the crews of other American vessels—when in June 1988 it fired missiles at an Airbus filled with Iranian civilians, killing everyone on board. Iran is not sponsoring terrorist strikes within the United States, as our intelligence services and the Israeli intelligence services currently do in Iran. We have not seen five of our top nuclear scientists since 2007 murdered on American soil. The attacks in Iran include suicide bombings, kidnappings, beheadings, sabotage and "targeted assassinations" of government officials and other Iranian leaders. What would we do if the situation were reversed? How would we react if Iran carried out similar acts of terrorism against us?
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Motorists headed into Los Angeles International Airport can't miss the steel beams looming in the distance, topped with silver panels that shimmer like the nearby Pacific Ocean.
Jetliners taking off from the nation's third-busiest airport pass over the bustling construction zone of the new Tom Bradley International Terminal, the crown jewel of LAX's massive $4.1 billion improvement program.
"This is the big daddy," Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Tuesday as he led reporters on a tour of the Bradley terminal construction site.
"We're not even through with it," Villaraigosa said. "But you walk in here and you already know it's going to be a spectacular building."
On its own, the $1.5 billion project, known as "Bradley West," is the largest public works project in the history of Los Angeles, said Gina Marie Lindsey, executive director of LAX.
The renovated Bradley terminal will double in size to 2.1 million square feet and be equipped with 18 airline gates, half of which will be able to accommodate the next generation of super-sized jetliners, including the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
"I don't think there's any airport in the United States that has nine" A380 gates, Lindsey said. "The market is demanding these A380 gates and they are also demanding a much better entrance experience, and that's why we're in such a hurry to get this project done."
Construction on the massive expansion project began in February 2010. Every day, the construction site is bustling with hundreds of workers as jetliners make their way to four nearby runways.
Towering cranes swoop into action, gently setting steel girders into place. Crews dig deep into the ground to set cement foundations. Welders precariously straddle curved beams that will support the terminal's new rooftop. Glass windows already are set in place at several airline gates.
International carriers housed inside the Bradley terminal will pay for part of the renovation, while the rest will be funded by airport bonds.
"This fantastic structure is going to remake, really, what international terminals in the United States really are," Lindsey said.
Airport officials had hoped to complete most of the terminal by Dec. 12, 2012, but the unanticipated relocation of several utility lines, coupled with inclement weather, has delayed construction by several months.
The western half of the terminal encompassing seven new gates, first-class lounges and upgrades to the federal inspections area, along with a new dining and retail area known as the Great Hall, is now scheduled to open in March 2013.
After that, an older area of the Bradley terminal will be demolished as construction continues on the remaining airline gates through Dec. 24, 2013.
"The schedule we have them on is extremely aggressive and this is well below the slippage you would expect on a project of this magnitude," said Michael Lawson, president of the Board of Airport Commissioners, the seven-member civilian panel that oversees LAX.
"You can't do anything about weather delays, so I'm not at all dismayed," Lawson said. "The airlines are excited about it and we're excited about it because it will transform the passenger experience at LAX."
The new Bradley terminal also is expected to provide much more natural sunlight than the current structure, which was poorly planned and quickly built to accommodate an influx of travelers for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Airport officials also are promising a drastic improvement in the terminal's dining and shopping options within the 180,000-square-foot Great Hall, which will be larger than The Grove outdoor shopping mall in Los Angeles, said Roger Johnson, deputy executive director for airport development at LAX.
Earlier this week, the airport commission approved a 17-year contract with Westfield Concession Management to oversee the terminal's stores and eateries akin to operating a mall.
"This is definitely the sexiest project we have going on, but we have a lot of other things going on, too," Lindsey said.
Bradley West is the largest in a series of $4.1 billion worth of modernization projects under way at LAX, including renovations to several terminals, runway safety improvements and the replacement of 200 elevators and escalators.
Along with leading a tour of the Bradley terminal construction site, airport officials on Tuesday placed the final steel beam on a new $438 million utility plant that will provide power to the refurbished airport.
"This is incredibly exciting at a time when our economy is not doing any better than the national economy," Lindsey said. "This is a bright spot as we're basically defying gravity by providing nearly 40,000 jobs."
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The Wave has been around a long time. The first edition was printed in 1893, making this the oldest continually printing weekly in New York and the third oldest over-all, right behind the New York Times and New York Post. We recently did some figuring and decided that we would publish our six thousandth edition some time in September of next year. That's a lot of papers.
The men and women of the Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department got some good news last week. A Conference Committee made up of members from both the Senate and the House of Representatives approved the Omnibus Transportation Bill. In that bill is more than $1 million for the volies to build a new firehouse on Cross Bay Boulevard, adjacent to the present American Legion Hall. Their old facility is more than 100 years old and is not only dilapidated, but outmoded as well. We hope the feds come up with the money quickly and allow the volies to get on with their building plan.
Millionaire Mayor Mike Bloomberg is looking more and more like a schoolyard bully each day. Last week was not a particularly good week for the mayor, despite some endorsements that usually go to Democrats. First, the mayor's minions used some of his millions to challenge the ballot petitions of Thomas Ognibene, his only Republican rival. There are many who think that Ognibene is not a serious challenger and that the mayor was taking a petulant stand rather than a rational one in challenging his petitions, particularly in light of Bloomberg's earlier statements decrying efforts to throw him off the ballot during his first run. Then, the mayor refused to involve himself in a candidate's debate set up by cable news channel NY1. Opponents claim that Bloomberg is afraid to come out and meet his challengers in public, preferring instead to push his message in a long series of expensive television ads.
Congressman Anthony Weiner has a problem that none of the other candidates face. His campaign activities are ruled by two often-conflicting and always-complicated bureaucracies – the federal campaign laws and the city's campaign finance laws. Weiner's spokesperson recently said that the campaign is trying to keep things straight and to comply with both sets of rules, but that doing the right thing is not always easy under the conflicting laws. This had led Weiner's campaigns to experience some minor finance glitches, but so far, he has kept out of the major maelstroms that have hit his Democratic competitors. Fernando Ferrer was killed by his speech to the NYPD's Sergeant's union, Virginia Fields by her stupid composite picture and Gifford Miller by his campaign brochures. Nothing as big has yet to hit the Weiner campaign.
Congratulations to Walter Salowski, the commanding officer of the 101 Precinct, who was promoted to Deputy Inspector last week. He has done wonderful things for the Far Rockaway community and we can only hope that the NYPD will allow him to hang around for a while now that he has been promoted.
City Council Introduction 669 seems innocuous enough. It allows a motorist to park a vehicle on Sunday at a parking space with a meter without having to activate that meter. The introduction, which was passed last week, will have a huge impact on the west end shopping areas that center on Beach 116 street and Beach 129 Street. Think about it. A resident who wants to clear his or her driveway so that company can come need only park a car on one of those shopping streets at 7 p.m. on Saturday night and then leave it there until 9 a.m. on Monday morning, thereby tying up all the parking slots for the weekend. Or, some DFD can come early on Sunday morning, grab an open slot and keep it until the next day without worrying about the meter. What does that leave for the customers who shop in those important shopping areas? Not much. This is another bill that the council did not think through, preferring instead to go for the popular and cheap vote.
Margaret Spelling is the Secretary of Education. She recently sat for a short interview with the New York Times Sunday Magazine. Two of her interview answers stood out. When she was asked what she made of the controversy in Kansas over whether creationism should be taught in the schools along with evolutions, she said, "I can tell you that in Texas, we did go through this issue, when Bush was governor and I was working for him. We ended up with the curriculum basically saying that both points of view were taught from a factual basis. Next asked is she was implying that events in the Bible should be taught in the public schools as literal history, she answered, "I'm not implying anything. I'm just saying that my recollection from my Texas days is that both points of view were presented." Enough said about our Secretary of Education.
There is a little sanity in the courts after all. A Bronx judge ruled recently that the city is not liable for the drowning deaths of four teenagers who stole a small rowboat from City Island and then took off into Long Island Sound on one of the coldest and windiest nights of the year. You'll probably recall that one of the boys tried to make a 911 call from his cell phone, but transmitted only sketch details about their plight. The judge ruled that the brief call was not enough reason for the boys to believe that somebody was coming to rescue them. The parents of the four boys had sued, arguing that the city failed to locate the callers on the 911 emergency system.


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More Berkley/NAL Staffers Are Laid Off – So things are starting to look pretty grim over at Berkley Publishing Group. An unspecified number of staff have been laid off, Berkley President Leslie Gelbman has left, and Locus Magazine reports that layoffs include staff at SFF imprints Ace and Roc. In the ... more >
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Google's victory in book-scanning case is a huge win for fair use – Huzzah! Google's book scanning has been found to be both fair use and transformative in nature by the Second Circuit. The Author's Guild's protracted litigation against Google (nearly ten years now!) had numerous problems along the way, but ... more >
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Whether he's looking comfortable fronting Inxs for their classic "Don't Change", or belting out a version of his debut single "Somewhere In The World", the fact is that Altiyan Childs was the most talented competitor and most deserving winner of last week's finale of The X Factor Australia.
Though I maintain that it irreparably damaged fellow competitor Andrew's chances when he was forced to sing with James Blunt; it's hard to come back from that kind of thing.
Altiyan seems to be the guy who improved the most throughout the shows run - he screwed up the words to "Sex On Fire" during the audition stage (a song which most 18-year-old guys can sing perfectly, even while they stumble around a seedy nightclub on a Friday night), but managed to qualify after making up for the gaff in an encore performance.
That's a far cry from the confident, word-perfect singer we saw take the title on Friday night. Back in September, after the premiere, I described him as a "wannabe rock star", but he's grown into a legitimate talent.
My buddy Gareth, the biggest Altiyan fan I know, described him as a "good, solid, crazy rocker, who would be entertaining to see live and has an awesome presence - there would never be a dull moment while he's on stage", and that about sums him up.
The question is: where does he go from here? Therein lies the problem.
Talent show winners have been hit or miss since the format rose to prominence with American Idol in 2002.
Stars like Kelly Clarkson and Jordin Sparks, Australian Idol winner Guy Sebastian, and even recent NZ-born winner Stan Walker have managed to make a name for themselves following victory, but more often than not the winner goes on to mediocrity and irrelevance within a matter of weeks.
Think about past American Idol winners like Ruben Studdard, Fantasia Barrino, and Taylor Hicks, Australian Idol winners Casey Donovan and Natalie Gauci, or our own NZ Idol winners Ben Lummis, Rosita Vai and Matt Saunoa. The X Factor UK has produced Leona Lewis (who hit gold with single "Bleeding Love"), but also produced stinkers like Joe McElderry and Leon Jackson.
The Got Talent series may have fared even worse - America produced a slew of forgettable acts, while the UK edition of the series is more famous for producing Susan Boyle. She only managed a second placing in 2008.
You're almost better not winning. Aside from Ms Boyle, mainstream artists like Adam Lambert and Daughtry, and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson, all missed out on the top spot. You could argue that those failed stars have been more successful than all the winners combined, except for the few mentioned above.
(In fact, I would suggest that this proves the television talent show format is useless for determining who might go on to mainstream success. I spent part of yesterday afternoon collating a table of all the winners from the seven major shows - American/Australian/NZ Idol, The X Factor UK/Australia, America's/Britain's Got Talent - and can tell you that, by my count, only 6 of the 36 winners went on to any considerable success following the inevitable honeymoon period in the wake of victory. If the winner of the show isn't successful, or even the most successful person the show produces, doesn't that mean the show itself is a waste of time? Yet I digress.)
So what does Altiyan Childs have to look forward to? Let's consider both the Best and Worst Case Scenario for his upcoming career, by looking at the careers of the most successful and least successful talent show winners of the last eight years:
Best Case Scenario: Kelly Clarkson. Actually, Kelly Clarkson had the added benefit of being the first winner of a hit new show, so let's go with the first Aussie winner ... Best Case Scenario: Guy Sebastian. Believe it or not, Sebastian has had five albums achieve platinum status (meaning sales of over 70,000 copies) or better, and had ten singles crack the Aria Top 20 in Australia in a career spanning seven years, to go along with three Top 10 singles here in New Zealand.
Not only that, but his latest album featured several tracks with John Mayer and a duet with fellow Idol winner Jordin Sparks. I'd say that qualifies as success, right?
A lot of things would have to go right for Altiyan to do as well as Guy: song selection would have to be perfect, and his management would need to be on the ball. Plus, he has to make sure he doesn't get too pitchy, dawg.
Worst Case Scenario: Matt Saunoa. In case you'd forgotten, Saunoa won the third series of NZ Idol and quickly faded into oblivion (though his debut single "Hold Out" hung around the lower end of the RIANZ chart for a while). The response to Saunoa, post-Idol, was so poor that the network decided not to record an album with him, and since then his career highlights have included performing shows in Levin and being banned from Skycity for dodgy dealings in the casino.
My guess is Altiyan will land somewhere between these two extremes. Though don't be surprised to see him in Levin one day.
So where do you think Altiyan Childs will land - will he manage the heights of Guy Sebastian, or fall to the depths of Matt Saunoa?
Will he land somewhere in between? And do you think the TV talent show has any merit in deciding who might be a decent pop artist? Post your ideas below!
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"In fact, I would suggest that this proves the television talent show format is useless for determining who might go on to mainstream success." Ah, dude, have you only just figured that out? Seriously? As far as the producers of these shows are concerned finding people with actual talent/potential for success is largely irrelevant. What they're interested in is the revenue from the show itself.
I hope Childs gets somewhere, and I think he could. He seems like a nice guy and he's actually got some ability, which is more than you can say for a lot of the acts you see on these shows.
What these shows do is give immediate publicity and put people's names and faces out in the public arena. Such is celebrity that when Altiyan's {or whoever's, just that he's the most recent] album hits shops in a few days, it'll get snapped up. It'll be a generic recording, but his shine wouldn't have worn off yet. (I just caught the very end of X Factor last week - 'Somewhere in the world' nearly put me to sleep, I have to say!)
You're right in saying that the challenge comes with the follow-up. Altiyan needs to find his niche, whether that's 'adult contemporary' or rock star. And work bloody hard to produce something new and original next album.
I didnt even know that NZ was on three times... I hope Altiyan makes it far, he seems pretty paisonate about singing.
Good article, and I pretty well agree with much of it. However, so many seem to miss the point of these TV shows. They're entertainment! You apparently watched? Entertainment, again. You might not agree with it (and I'm speaking to all of ya out there) but if you WATCHED, you watched I'm guessing because it was amusing, entertaining, likeable, cringeworthy (why then did you watch???? - still entertainment)and it just so happens its based on music. I tend to feel the reason most don't make it from these shows is because of the anti- feeling fed by media and disgruntled musos. Whingers, I say
I think Altiyan will do well in the future, he need lot of good people around him to get him through the first three months or so and I think Ronan should keep close contact with him so he doesnt fall backwards His Album sould have come sooner than 10th of Dcember 2010 while his music is fresh in everyones mind. I will be buying atleast 5 albums for christmas and thats what my family members will begetting. I would like Altiyan to be a judge on the next xfactor. They should give him roles that will boost his confidance. He is very fragile due to his past, but with supportive people around him if will rock this world love you Altiyan Riz
Sally should have won.
I wouldn't put Stan Walker even close to the same level as Guy Sebastian. It's far too early to make that call. Stan only won last year and although his cd sales in Australia have been respectable (better in NZ) he hasn't sold as many as some other AI winners - including those who had less success on the charts later on.
A google search will reveal that most contestants who make the final 12 on AI go on to a have a career in the entertainment industry - musical theatre, acting, TV presenting, radio or as a live act. There are many successful musicians who don't feature on the music charts.
Don't be too quick to dismiss the Casey Donovans and the Natalie Gaucis either. Natalie has a new look and about to release a new single. Natalie's lack of immediate success post-Idol had more to do with disagreement with Sony about musical direction than lack of interest from the public. And Casey's career is going full steam ahead; a season in London with the stage show 'The Sapphires' next year, winner of the best supporting actress award at the Daegu Musicial Theatre Festival, toured with Tony Childs, and her own in-demand 'Big, Beautiful & Sexy' show which headlined the Brisbane Festival.
Altiyan's success (just like the others) will depend on whether his future recordings appeal to the public. So far he's only won a singing competition with tried and tested songs. My hunch is that Altiyan belongs with a band - preferably one of long standing that needs a good lead singer. INXS could do with one.
I loved both Alt and Sally they both have amazing voices, but i'm glad Alt won, i went from hating him and thinking Ronan was an idiot for putting him through, to absolutely loving him, he's crazy and strange but has a great rock voice. I think for Alt to do well he needs to be the frontman of a band, i think that where he could do really well with the right band, i mean he sounded awesome singing with INXS.
Though I maintain that it irreparably damaged fellow competitor Andrew's chances when he was forced to sing with James Blunt; it's hard to come back from that kind of thing.
Hahahaha. Gold. I heart Andrew. That awful winners single didn't help any of them either.
@Louisette #1: "Ah, dude, have you only just figured that out? Seriously?" ... In my defence, I've been thinking this for a while. But since On The Box is a relatively new blog, I thought I'd introduce my feelings that talent shows are a waste of time as a new thought, since I haven't really gotten into the subject at all before. Thanks for keeping me honest though :)
Thanks for the comments folks! And I agree with the sentiment that the winners single was terrible - it's arguably worse than U2's performance of "Get On Your Boots" last Friday. Ugh.
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Another common problem that survivors tell us persists after cancer treatment are memory problems. Sometimes these may have begun during an active cancer treatment, or they may occur after treatment has ended. Not being able to remember dates or times or appointments, can't keep a lot of ideas in your head simultaneously--this is very common with cancer treatments. It usually goes away over time but can be very frustrating. Some tips that people use are jotting down notes to yourself, putting them around the house, making sure you have an appointment book. When you are going to do activities, telling yourself steps along the way to do these, and talking to yourself about what reminders are--or asking other people to help you remember things until this improves for you over time.
The kind of problems that we see in memory for survivors after treatment is often called chemo-brain or chemo-fog, so that's sort of one of the tags for it. But it may be due to radiation that somebody has received to the head area, so it's not just limited to chemotherapy. The other thing for older adults is that it is hard sometimes to distinguish between what may be cancer treatment-related and what may be simply a process of aging.
So there again, a dialogue may be important to have with your healthcare provider to say "Is this treatment related and will it go away, or do I need to be concerned that there is something else going on?" That's an important conversation to have, particularly if you are finding that memory problems are disturbing your ability to function in day-to-day life.


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WAYNESVILLE — Ruth Evelyn Russell Caldwell, 85, went to be with her Lord, on Friday, March 21, 2014 at Memorial Campus of Mission Hospitals.
A native of Haywood County, she was a daughter of the late Walter and Celia Jane Massie Russell. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a daughter, Anita Wood Brown; two brothers, Walter, Jr. and Mark Russell; and one sister, Florence Russell. Ruth will always be remembered for her caring and loving spirit. She loved spending time in her flowers, camping with her family at Cataloochee, and cooking delicious meals.
She is survived by her husband of 43 years, Marshall Caldwell; one daughter, Sandra Wood Morgan of Canton; one son, Danny Ray Wood, Sr. of Bethel; four sisters, Irene R. Smathers of Canton, Shelby R. Moore of Hazelwood, Delma Sue Caldwell of Waynesville, and Doris R. Hall and her husband, Dennis, of Canton; three brothers, Samuel Russell and his wife, Ruth, of Bethel, Bobby Ray Russell and his wife, Loretta, of Canton, and Billy V. Russell and his wife, Myrtle, of Waynesville; seven grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews that loved her dearly.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, in the Waynesville Chapel of Wells Funeral Home with the Revs. Kristopher Estep and Charles Dean officiating. Burial will follow at Garrett-Hillcrest Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from noon until 2 p.m. prior to the service.
Memorials may be made to Barberville Baptist Church General Fund, 1441 Russ Avenue, Waynesville, NC 28786.
An online memorial register is available at www.wellsfuneralhome.com.


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NETWORKS OF THE BRAIN. Olaf Sporns. xii + 412 pp. The MIT Press, 2011. $40.
In 1993 Francis Crick and Edward Jones published an essay in Nature titled "Backwardness of human neuroanatomy." They lamented our poor knowledge about the anatomy and connectivity of the human brain compared to that of the macaque monkey brain, especially for the visual system. "Clearly," they wrote, "what is needed for a modern brain anatomy is the introduction of some radically new techniques." Networks of the Brain, by Olaf Sporns, heralds a new era in neuroanatomy based on major advances in brain imaging and brain reconstruction that have been made since Crick and Jones's commentary nearly 20 years ago. Sporns's goal is to connect neuroscience with network science, the study of complex networks.
In the book's early chapters, Sporns covers general principles of network science and offers background on the structure and dynamics of brain networks based on his research as well as that of many others, including some from my own laboratory. This prepares readers for the heart of the book, chapter 5, "Mapping Cells, Circuits, and Systems," in which the author introduces modern imaging techniques.
Traditional techniques used to reveal brain networks are invasive and damaging; they cannot be used in humans. In neural tract tracing, for instance, a living brain is injected with chemicals to stain and reveal pathways. New imaging techniques, especially noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), made it possible to visualize the locations of brain structures, such as the gray matter and white matter in the cerebral cortex. More recently, another breakthrough allowed researchers to trace the fibers that make up neural tracts: diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), which is based on MRI and exploits the tendency of water to diffuse more quickly along neuronal fiber bundles than it does perpendicular to them. While these techniques were being developed, computational methods for analyzing DTI data became increasingly good at producing three-dimensional maps of large-scale connectivity between brain regions, as in the image shown on the facing page. Such maps, when coupled with the detail provided by functional MRI scans, relate function to structure.
We have known for some time that there are relatively few long-range connections in the brain, and for good reason: If all 10 billion cortical neurons in the human cerebral cortex were connected with each other, the brain would be the size of a football stadium. As a consequence, the brain's connectivity pattern is locally dense and globally sparse, following a pattern called a small-world network. The small-world effect was first documented empirically in social-network experiments by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s, and it gave rise to the idea that you are connected to anyone else in the world by no more than "six degrees of separation" through a chain of mutual acquaintances. More detailed analysis of brain structures has revealed interlocking clusters of areas that are responsible for the major brain functions, such as our sensory, motor and planning systems. In a chapter on spontaneous neural activity, Sporns details a newly discovered brain system, called the default mode, which is most active when we are being introspective rather than interacting with the world.
New techniques for reconstructing the detailed connectivity between neurons are bringing us closer to the goal of creating complete "wiring diagrams" for big brains, including those of humans. Sporns, Giulio Tononi and Rölf Kotter coined the term connectomics in 2005 to describe this new field of study. Connectomics has joined the "omic" revolution in biology, which is characterized by the collection and analysis of complete data sets for complex systems. Molecular biologist and Nobel Prize laureate Sydney Brenner was once asked which of the many omics was the most important. He replied that, in biotechnology, the only omics that really counts is economics. Indeed, economic considerations have been a driving force behind the whirlwind of data collection. The Human Genome Project first sequenced a human genome in 2001 at a cost of $3 billion. Today, the cost of sequencing a human genome is less than $10,000. The plummeting cost of computing and storing data has made it possible to collect and analyze vast databases in search of hidden patterns.
Sporns is a member of the Human Connectome Project, which was recently launched by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. The project's goal is to produce a comprehensive structural description of all the network elements and connections in the human brain at a resolution of 1 millimeter. It is by necessity a large and expensive project: Humans exhibit a wide range of behaviors, and the sizes of brain areas vary significantly among individuals. For example, the primary visual cortex, area V1, can vary by a factor of 2 between different humans, and even between the two brain hemispheres of the same person. Similar differences have been found among individuals in the volume of white matter, which also changes in each brain during development—and in adults following learning. The Human Connectome Project will produce an invaluable quantitative treasure trove for studying the diversity of human brains.
Sporns recounts the mapping of the genome and connectome of the oft-studied roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, whose nervous system, he notes, is "the only nervous system of any organism whose connectivity structure is completely mapped at the level of individual cells and synapses." This was possible because the worm is only 1 millimeter long and 60 micrometers in diameter. It is extremely difficult to scale up this method to larger brains. But there is an even bigger problem: Even though neuroscientists have had the connectome of C. elegans for 25 years, the connectome in itself has not revealed how the network of neurons gives rise to behavior. To understand this, it is also essential to know the intrinsic properties of the neurons and synapses. Having a connectome alone is like having the schematic of a radio without knowing the functions of the resistors, capacitors and transistors. Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work. The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, just as having the human genome has made it possible to ask new questions about cellular and molecular systems.
Networks of the Brain explores some of these issues, such as how brain circuits develop and how individual differences in behavior relate to differences in brain circuits. But its most important contribution lies in connecting neuroscience with the science of networks. As Sporns puts it, "It's networks all the way down." Genes interact in gene networks, proteins in signaling networks. Information flows within and between these networks on a wide range of spatial and time scales. This is where we should be looking for solutions to the great mysteries of life and the mind.
Terrence Sejnowski is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and is also a professor of biology at the University of California, San Diego. He has published over 300 scientific articles and is coauthor (with Patricia Churchland) of The Computational Brain (The MIT Press, 1992).
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CWS Champs Get Warm Homecoming
June 9, 1998
LOS ANGELES - The Southern California baseball team was warmly greeted Monday upon its arrival home from Omaha, Neb., with its first College World Series trophy in 20 years.
About 150-200 people were at Los Angeles International Airport to salute the team.
As the players arrived, they were serenaded by the Southern Cal band and the school's song girls performed.
Morgan Ensberg, who had two hits in the Trojans' 21-14 victory over Arizona State in Saturday's championship game and stole home in the seventh inning, carried the national championship trophy off the plane.
The title was the 12th for the Trojans - the most in CWS history


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Don Yaeger, former Sports Illustrated Editor and NY Times bestselling author, weighed in on Lance Armstrong coming clean to Oprah. Yaeger said that Armstrong is looking for another opportunity to compete, but it will be difficult. "If you really read the rules… he couldn't be invited back into sanctioned races for eight years. And yet, if he does that, by the time he is in his late fourties, he's back competing in a sport that pretty much people compete in until their seventies."
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US bio-butanol producers Gevo and Butamax have been very busy churning out press releases while I was away, and the blog received another two from Gevo this morning.
Gevo announced today that it has partnered with Italy-based Beta Renewables to develop an integrated process for the production of cellulosic-based isobutanol.
The project would combine Beta's PROESA technology (focusing on cellulosic feedstock pretreatment), Gevo's GIFT process (focusing on isobutanol manufacture via fermentation), and ATJ technologies (I am still trying to figure this one out and has asked Gevo for a background on this technology).
Gevo and Beta Renewables are said to be evaluating future opportunities to partner on other US and international projects with a long-term goal of developing a licensable package for future third parties.
Speaking of cellulosic isobutanol, the blog mentioned last month of Gevo's intent to manufacture the product in Southeast Asia as the company has signed a collaborative agreement with Malaysia's BiotechCorp and East Coast Economic Region Development Council (ECERDC) to build a plant at a biorefinery complex in Kertih, Terengganu.
Gevo's plan is to have a cellulosic isobutanol plant in operation by late 2015 or early 2016.
Another announcement from Gevo today is their progress on the newly-started 18m gal/year bio-isobutanol plant in Luverne, Minnesota. The company said it was able to successfully ferment isobutanol in large 250,000 gal commercial fermenters, and transport it in tanks and railcars.
Some of the initial isobutanol produced will be shipped to customers such as Sasol. Gevo said it plans to be in the start-up/learning mode of operations for most of 2012.
By the way, the production in Luverne was almost jeopardized last month when rival Butamax filed a preliminary injunction request to bar Gevo from operating the plant and selling bio-isobutanol produced from the plant because of ongoing patent disputes. The District Court of Delaware denied the request on June 20.
Butamax released a statement saying that the company plans an immediate appeal to the court's decision. Yesterday, a judge has issued a temporary order restraining Gevo to supply the automotive fuel blendstock market with its bio-isobutanol from Luverne during Butamax's appeal process.
Gevo said yesterday that it has filed an appeal regarding the order and testing for automobile fuels will continue but with non-biobased isobutanol. The company said it is still free to operate in markets such as chemicals, jet fuel, marine fuel, small engine fuel and all other markets.
Other recent news from Gevo and Butamax on bio-isobutanol:
- Butamax Early Adopters Group surpasses capacity targets with addition of Big River. Membership represents 11 production facilities and nearly 900 million gallons of ethanol capacity
- The US Air Force successfully flew an A-10 Thunder Bolt jet aircraft powered by Gevo's alcohol to jet fuel blended with JP-8.
- Gevo and BioFuel Energy collaborates to explore large-scale isobutanol production


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Game One Final Stats | Game Two Final Stats
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BOCA RATON, Fla. – The No. 30 UAB baseball team suffered two losses in a doubleheader on Friday at Florida Atlantic. UAB lost the first contest 3-1, before losing 10-9 in extra innings in the latter game at the FAU Baseball Stadium.
UAB (34-19, 19-10) could not push runs across in the first game, leaving 12 men on base and the bases loaded on three occasions. In the second matchup, UAB tallied nine runs, but Florida Atlantic (28-24, 14-15) recorded 10 runs on 21 hits and secured the series with a walk-off single in the bottom of the 10th inning.
Game One: Senior right-handed pitcher Chase Mallard extended his nation-best quality start streak to 16 consecutive starts, but gave up three earned runs for the first time in 2014. Mallard did not have much run support, as UAB left 12 runners on and left the bases loaded three times.
Florida Atlantic jumped out to an early lead in the first contest of the day. With one out in the bottom of the first inning, FAU junior infielder Ricky Santiago hit a double down the right field line. Sophomore outfielder Brendon Sanger singled to left center to plate Santiago and give the host a 1-0 lead.
UAB battled back in the top of the second. Junior first baseman Jeff Schalk led off with a single to right center and then advanced to second after a wild pitch. Junior infielder Nathan Vincent grounded out, but moved Schalk over to third. A single to right field by redshirt junior catcher Tyler Mims would score Schalk and knot the score.
FAU pulled ahead in the third inning. With one out, Santiago drew a walk. Sanger singled for his second hit of the day, putting runners on first and second. Senior outfielder Tyler Rocklein singled to left to plate Santiago and give the Owls a 2-1 edge.
Another Owl run would come across in the bottom of the sixth. Freshman infielder C.J. Chatham led off with single and then moved over after a sacrifice bunt. A FAU groundout put Chatham on third with two outs. Redshirt freshman infielder Esteban Puerta singled through the left side to plate Chatham and give the host Owls a 3-1 advantage.
Game Two: With runners on first and third and one out in the bottom of the 10th inning, Rocklein hit a walk-off single off sophomore right-handed pitcher Cory Eller. It marked Rocklein's fourth hit of the game and third RBI.
For the second consecutive game, FAU tallied a run in the opening frame. Freshman infielder Stephen Kerr reached on a fielding error by UAB sophomore infielder Adam Smith. After stealing second, Sanger hit a ground ball to Smith. Smith went to get the Kerr at third, but Vincent could not hold on to the ball. Rocklein then hit a bunt single to score Kerr.
UAB tied things up in the top of the fourth inning. Redshirt sophomore outfielder Griffin Gum led things off with a double to deep right center. Schalk then singled to plate Gum from second. It marked his team-leading 29th run batted in of the year.
The host Owls took the lead back in the bottom of the frame. After junior right-handed pitcher Alex Luna retired the first two batters, he allowed a single and walk. With runners on first and second, Santiago singled to plate one and move Kerr to third. Kerr then scored after a single from Sanger to give FAU a 3-1 edge.
Another run would cross for Florida Atlantic in the following inning. Chatham would single to lead off. A sacrifice bunt would move him over to second. Luna looked like he may get out unscathed, after a fly out. With two outs, FAU freshman catcher Kevin Abraham doubled to deep left center to score Chatham.
The Blazers would knot things up in the next at bats. Senior designated hitter Ryan Prinzing led off with his second hit of the game. After a Gum fly out, Schalk singled to move Prinzing to third. A double down the left field line from Vincent would score Prinzing and move Schalk to third. Sophomore catcher Mitch Williams grounded out, but scored Schalk and pushed Vincent to third. Senior outfielder Ivan De Jesus hit a ground ball to Chatham. Chatham made an errant throw to first, which allowed Vincent to score.
The back-and-forth affair would continue in the bottom of the sixth inning. Senior right-handed pitcher Cameron Rose, in relief of Luna, got the first two Owls out before allowing a walk and single. Freshman left-handed pitcher Thomas Lowery came in and senior designated hitter Levi Meyer delivered a pinch hit single to score the go-ahead run.
A five-run seventh inning would put UAB ahead 9-5. Junior outfielder Chase Davis and Prinzing recorded back-to-back singles then moved over after a Gum sacrifice bunt. Schalk was intentionally walked to load the bases. Vincent was hit by a pitch to score Davis. Williams then singled to plate Prinzing. After a De Jesus strikeout, Morse forced a bases-loaded walk to bring Schalk home. Vincent then stole home on a triple steal and Williams scored after an FAU balk.
FAU cut UAB's lead to 9-7 in the bottom of the seventh. With one out, sophomore outfielder Billy Endris singled and then Kerr doubled Endris home. Two batters later, Rocklein recorded his second RBI single of the game.
The host squad would tie it back up in its last at bats of regulation. Sanger drew a lead-off walk and then Rocklein doubled. Chatham recorded an RBI single to cut the UAB lead to 9-8. Meyer then hit a sacrifice fly to plate the game-tying run.
The three-game series comes to a conclusion on Saturday afternoon in Boca Raton, Fla. First pitch is set for 10 a.m. CT at the FAU Baseball Stadium.
Notes: Senior right-handed pitcher Chase Mallard now has 91 strikeouts on the year, which ranks third in program history … Despite recording his second loss of 2014, Mallard now has 16 straight quality starts, dating back to 2013 … Senior designated hitter Ryan Prinzing set a career-high with four hits in the latter game … Junior first baseman Jeff Schalk had two hits in both games and now has a 10-game hitting streak, the longest by a Blazer in 2014 … Junior infielder Nathan Vincent recorded his team-leading 10th double of the year in the second game of the day … Sophomore catcher Mitch Williams and Vincent each recorded two RBI in the latter contest.
For the latest news on Blazer sports, follow the UAB Athletics Twitter account: @UABathletics. For baseball news, follow @UAB_Baseball.


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Although feeding fish has been banned in Florida waters since 2002, some tour operators are trying to skirt the regulations, resulting in charges being brought against four men accused of illegally feeding sharks and other fish within Florida's territorial waters.
An investigation by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) was launched after they received several complaints of shark feeding going on during dive trips, with one diver saying that the sharks were becoming so aggressive she felt she had to exit the water. Deputies from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office were able to catch video footage of feeding on two separate dive boats, leading to the charges of the men operating the boats and participating in the actual feeding.
Each of the four men has been charged with operating a vessel for hire within state waters to allow passengers to observe feeding, while only the men actively feeding were charged with fish feeding. Both are second-degree misdemeanors, punishable by fines of up to $500 and up to 60 days in jail.
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Description/Responsibilities:Central United Methodist Church is a vital, growing church with approximately 1800 in weekly worship. It is located in Fayetteville, Arkansas, situated in the beautiful Ozark Mountains, and home to the University of Arkansas. Central is now receiving applications for a full-time Associate Director of Student Ministries to join our team. At present, Central has 150 students involved in weekly small groups, Sunday school, and worship and this is supported by a strong volunteer base. This position is responsible for ministry and programs to students and their families through weekly programs, Bible studies, relationship building, missions, and retreats. This position will have emphasis on working with middle and junior high ministry and young women.
Requirements/Qualifications:A bachelor's degree is required and a minimum of three years of experience working with students in a ministry capacity is required. A competitive salary and full benefits package is provided to the successful applicant.
Application Instructions:Interested persons should submit their resume and letter of interest to Brooke Hunsaker at firstname.lastname@example.com or by mail to: Central UMC, Attn: Brooke Hunsaker, P.O. Box 1106, Fayetteville, AR 72702. A full job description is provided upon request. The application deadline is May 25, 2014. The position will start in summer 2014.


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