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Christine's story
Arteriovenous malformation, AVM
There was a sliver of a chance, maybe, and most likely the emergency room doctor thought there was no chance at all. Christine had arrived at the community hospital comatose, brought by her parents, who had come home after working out to find her semi-conscious on the floor. A CT scan revealed severe bleeding in her brain, the result of an aneurysm that had ruptured and spilled into a tangled mass of arteries (arteriovenous malformation, AVM). The abnormalities in her brain had probably been present since birth. On this particular Saturday evening, they presented in a sudden and unexpected catastrophe.
The emergency room physician advised Angie, Christine's mother, to call the family together to say goodbye. Christine, only 15 years old, was unlikely to live more than another hour.
Angie refused to believe it. Only a few hours ago, on the Saturday before Thanksgiving in 2007, her daughter had been an athletic and perfectly healthy teenager. Angie, who had endured a harrowing escape as a Vietnamese refugee, had seen death, and this was not what death was supposed to look like. Death looked like pirates taking over a ship, slashing and plundering. Death looked like 14 days without food. Death did not look like a 15-year-old who excelled in high school and played on the tennis team.
In a series of fortuitous events, Angie was able to reach the only person she knew to call, a Vietnamese-American neurologist from Louisiana, Benjamin Nguyen, MD, a UC College of Medicine graduate who was a friend of her brother's. "He and his family were going on a holiday ski trip in Denver," Angie recalled. "I was very lucky to get hold of him at that very moment, because if I had called him 15 minutes earlier he would have still been on the plane, and if I had called him 15 minutes later he would have been in the mountains, where there was no connection."
Dr. Nguyen asked Angie to open one of Christine's eyelids and see whether the pupil showed any sign of movement. "I said, yes, it moved a little," Angie recalled. Dr. Nguyen then told her to have Christine rushed to surgery. With that, Christine's parents begged the doctors to transfer her to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
"I said as her mother I wanted to fight for the 1 percent chance that she would live," Angie said. "The emergency room doctor was concerned that she wouldn't survive, and that if she did she would be left in a vegetative state. I said I would deal with the vegetative state later."
The emergency room doctor consented, and a helicopter was summoned.
With Christine on board and the helicopter in mid-air, another stroke of luck abetted Christine's survival: a quick-thinking young neurosurgical resident, Ondrej Choutka, MD, viewed her brain scan online through the Healthbridge system, which unifies hospital computer systems throughout the Tristate. Struck by the size and location of the hemorrhage, Dr. Choutka suspected a vascular malformation and knew the patient would be best served at University Hospital. He called the flight physician, Bill Hinckley, MD, an emergency medicine physician who, together with his resident, Orlando Encarnacion, MD, was stabilizing Christine's condition in flight, and asked them to divert the helicopter to University Hospital, renowned for its UC Neuroscience Institute and ground zero for the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Stroke Team.
Dr. Choutka then summoned Dr. Todd Abruzzo, an interventional neuroradiologist with UCNI and the Mayfield Clinic, and Mario Zuccarello, MD, a neurosurgeon with UCNI and Mayfield and Chairman of the UC Department of Neurosurgery. Christine was wheeled into the neuroangiography suite at 11 p.m. and, over the next five hours, the neuro-interventional team stopped the bleeding and saved her life.
Christine's remarkable story is made more so by her recovery. After missing 108 days of school following her stroke, she spent two years catching up. And in the spring of 2010, she graduated with distinction from her high school.
Christine was home alone when the headache struck in the early evening of Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007. "Our parents were out exercising, and my sister had left for an event at our school," Christine said. "I turned on the TV, and as I turned it on I had a horrible headache. I thought, oh my God, it was so painful. I called a friend and she told me to take ibuprofen and lie down. Then I called my sister and she said the same thing: go lie down."
Nauseated, Christine staggered to the bathroom and threw up. She was aware that she couldn't raise her right arm to flush the toilet. "I felt so dizzy and nauseated and fatigued," she said. "I thought I would lie down on the floor with my head in the hallway so that my parents could see me when they came home. I didn't feel any pain. I just drifted."
When Christine's parents arrived, they thought at first that she had suffered food poisoning, which their other daughter had experienced a few weeks earlier. But Angie noticed that Christine's leg was cold. "I thought this is not a regular food poisoning. I said we need to take her to emergency. Her heart beat was slow, her lips were pale."
At the hospital, clinicians asked whether Christine had vomited – a classic sign of stroke -- then ordered the CT scan. Later, at University Hospital, Dr. Choutka began the neuro-interventional process by shaving a little strip of Christine's hair, then drilled a small hole to help relieve pressure caused by swelling. "Christine was actually herniating from hydrocephalus, a buildup of spinal fluid, as a result of the large hemorrhage," Dr. Choutka said. "The pressure was relieved through a small catheter placed at the bedside through a hole drilled into her skull."
Christine would be very pleased later that he hadn't shaved her entire head. When Angie asked him, "Why do you pay attention in emergency to the beauty of the woman?" he replied: "First, I don't have time to shave her whole head. And second, I do really care about the beauty of a young girl. When she wakes up, she will see herself and I want her to feel happy and optimistic about her future."
Following placement of the catheter in her skull, Christine was taken to the neuroangiography suite, where Dr. Abruzzo inserted a catheter into Christine's groin and deftly navigated it up to her brain. He then obliterated the aneurysm within the AVM to prevent bleeding from recurring, injecting it, and then the AVM, with Onyx®, a liquid agent that solidifies upon contact with blood. Christine did not undergo surgery, Dr. Choutka said, because of the AVM' location in her brain. "She would have been devastated by any surgical approach," he said.
The team finished the neuro-interventional procedure at 4 a.m. At 7 a.m., Dr. Abruzzo was back at the hospital, checking on Christine to see whether she would require additional treatment. With Dr. Abruzzo at the bedside, Angie asked Christine to squeeze Dr. Abruzzo's hand if she recognized the doctor who had helped save her life the night before. Though in a coma, Christine squeezed his hand. Dr. Abruzzo's eyes filled with tears, and Christine's mother knew a turning point had arrived. Her daughter had survived.
Other turning points occurred after Christine woke up and repeatedly asked her mother and grandmother for a glass of lemonade. But every time they offered her the lemonade, she refused. What she really wanted, her sister finally realized, was for someone to turn on Grey's Anatomy. Inch by inch, Christine fought her way back from aphasia (the inability to talk) and hemiplegia (the inability to move one side of her body.)
"The months following my aneurysm were the most trying period of my life," Christine wrote in her college essay. "I couldn't walk, eat or go to the bathroom on my own. Taking a shower required two extra people. I was like a baby again. In addition to my new physical handicaps, I also had trouble finding words and communicating."
Christine's AVM was treated with radiation, and six months after her stroke, as her faculties continued to improve, she was able to speak to her class about her brain injury and her recovery. Supported and encouraged by her family, friends, community and school, Christine inched her way back. She was eventually able to play tennis again, get her driver's license, and throw herself back into her studies. And in a crowning moment of her re-assimilation into daily life, she was elected senior class co-president at her high school.
Graduating with her class was no small feat. She had missed 108 days of school during her sophomore year and had attended only part-time during her junior year because of the demands of physical and speech therapy. To compensate, she spent two summers immersed in her studies, working through the weekends and at night to catch up.
"I have a crooked smile and a scar on my head to remind me of that November night,'' her college essay concluded, "but I also have the knowledge that I am capable of achieving anything I set my mind to."
Her mother, meanwhile, lives "with the perspective of acceptance and gratitude of what happened" and is "forever grateful for the doctors and nurses." Her father, in a parallel neurological drama, is confronting early-onset Parkinson's disease. And her sister, hit hard by these twin calamities, has charted a career path in neuroscience, with the aim of becoming a physician who helps people who suffer from neurological disease.
As Christine prepared to head off to college, she was thinking about her future and "trying to find a solution to my life calling." Perhaps, she said, that will involve educating others about neurological injury. "My dream is to become a public speaker. I would like to help awaken the public, to go out into the world like Michael J. Fox. Most people who have suffered brain injury do not end up as well as I have. Maybe I can change the world."
In the spring of 2012, Christine was well on her way to accomplishing her goals. She had served as a spokesperson for the American Heart Association and was on a fast track toward graduation. She had secured an internship at a financial business for the summer and was already preparing for the GMAT in the fall.
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"I said as her mother I wanted to fight for the 1 percent chance that she would live," Angie said. "The emergency room doctor was concerned that she wouldn't survive, and that if she did she would be left in a vegetative state. I said I would deal with the vegetative state later."


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One of the largest land-based wind energy developers in the country has acquired a major stake in a wind farm being developed south of the Vineyard.
As waters off the Vineyard begin to attract strong interest among wind energy developers, legislation now before Massachusetts lawmakers would spur significant changes in the way local consumers buy power from renewable energy sources.
Vineyard Power is entering a new phase in its plans to develop a wind farm south of the Vineyard. Having successfully partnered with developer Offshore MW to secure a lease on 167,886 acres in January, the Island-owned energy cooperative is now focusing on public outreach.
Vineyard Power, the Island-owned energy cooperative, is preparing to partner with a private developer in bidding for leases early next year in the federally owned wind energy area 12 nautical miles south of the Vineyard.
Developers will bid on 25-year leases on one or more of the zones at a federal auction Jan. 29.
The Island energy cooperative is entering the next phase of its plan to build a 40-megawatt wind farm south of the Vineyard, and has reached a clear turning point in its young history, president Richard Andre said at the fifth annual meeting Saturday.
Chilmark will contract with the local energy cooperative Vineyard Power to build the town's first solar array.
Pending final approval from town counsel, the Chilmark selectmen Tuesday voted to approve a contract for about 530 solar panels at the town landfill off Tabor House Road. The 173-kilowatt system is planned to produce up to 215,000 kilowatt hours a year, enough energy to power the town buildings.
The project will cost $1.25 million to build and is being financed by an unnamed Chilmark resident.
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Loonie's Summer Rally Could Well Last Longer
What looks like a spot of summer madness for the loonie could well prove to be more than that.
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Playboy Model suing after golf related injuries to her BUTT!?!?
Well….I bet the shot was a hole in one. Liz Dickson, a former "Girl of Playboy Golf" model, is suing the adult magazine and comedian Kevin Klein, for injuries received from a stunt, where a golf tee was placed between her butt cheeks, that went terribly wrong.
TMZ reports that Dickson claims the big-wigs running a Playboy golf event asked her to lay on her stomach, and then placed a golf-tee and golf ball between her butt cheeks. Following that, they had radio host and comedian Kevin Klein take a wack at the ball, prompted perfectly by Dickson's posterior. However, Klein, being a comedian and not an athlete, missed terribly, and severely injured Dickson's backside.
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LeAnn Rimes Checks Herself Into Treatment Facility
Last week, LeAnn Rimes checked herself into a treatment facility for stress and anxiety.
According to People,
"This is just a time for me to emotionally check out for a second and take care of myself and come back in 30 days as the best 30-year-old woman I can be."
LeAnn didn't specify the source of her stress, but she's had a lot of public backlash from her marriage to Eddie Cibrian. She's also had to defend her slender figure, causing some to speculate an eating disorder.
According to The Boot,
"LeAnn's rep, Marcel Pariseau, won't reveal whether the potential lawsuit — or anything else, for that matter — is what pushed LeAnn to seek treatment. But he does insist she does not have substance abuse problems, nor an eating disorder.
"She is simply there to learn and develop coping mechanisms," he tells People. "While privacy isn't expected, it's certainly appreciated."
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Worlds Been Had Colliding: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Covers R. Kelly
Seriously, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, are you effing with me? I already love you in a creepy, possibly unhealthy way, and then you go and cover R. Kelly's "Ignition (Remix)" during a performance at Ohio State University. You're seriously too much, JGL. Too. Much. [Buzzfeed]


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The rules of the gift
There's only a week until Christmas but don't panic. Use our hints to make a list, plan your attack like a military operation - then hit the shops.
Buy in bulk
Getting colleagues and distant relatives the same thing will make your life much easier. Bloom has a new range of beautifully packaged soaps (available at department stores and selected pharmacies);
a bottle of wine or a great bottle opener would be good, too. Food is always appreciated and won't add to household clutter. Buy Christmas puddings or panettones, jars of relish or good-quality olive oil. All you need to wrap is coloured cellophane and fabric ribbon.
Surf the net
At the online Remo General Store you'll find plenty of gift options for the hard-to-buy-for, including harmonicas and handy sticky notepads - but be quick! For your mother or an elegant friend, Papier D'Amour has beautiful boxed note cards and writing paper (www.papierdamour.com.au). In Melbourne, try Paper Impressions (www.paperimpressions.com.au). If your friends are foodies, a visit to The Essential Ingredient will yield lots of ideas, including custom-made hampers (www.sydneyessential.com.au). Simon Johnson (www.simonjohnson.com.au) has retail outlets in Sydney and Melbourne and will create and deliver very attractive hampers. If time's really running out, try www.lastminute.com.au for gifts, adventures, concert tickets, travel and hotels.
Younger sisters and fashionistas will love How To Walk In High Heels by Camilla Morton (Hodder & Stoughton), which is filled with essential advice including how to cook a full English breakfast, buy a house and break up gracefully. Maggie Alderson's Cents And Sensibility (Penguin Books) is a frothy romance for fashion addicts and a relaxing read. For those who like cooking (or those who need encouragement), get Every Day by Bill Granger (Murdoch Books). For kids, try The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins) - adults will enjoy the witty illustrations.
Focus your energy
Hit one big store that will satisfy all your needs. Ikea, Freedom and Domayne aren't just for furniture. You can check out their stock online (each just uses their name plus .com.au) but they often have great finds that don't make it onto the website. Ikea's Salong vase in red glass is only $15 and perfect for an office Kris Kringle. At Domayne, you'll find smooth, organic sculptures (reminiscent of Barbara Hepworth's work) that will please art-lovers ($60 for a large tabletop piece) or a funky red Buddha head ($50) for those seeking enlightenment. Husk (www.husk.com.au), with three stores in Melbourne, covers everything from fashion to homewares; Duck Egg Blue (www.duckeggblue.com.au), in Sydney's Balmain, stocks Fleur Wood nightwear, candles and colourful leather-bound notebooks. For your modernist friends, R. G. Madden (www.rgmadden.com.au), in Sydney's Woollahra and Melbourne city, has designer classics from Alessi, Mandarina Duck and New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Throw money around
If all else fails: spend. Husbands and wives should run into the best jewellery shop near them and
buy gorgeous earrings for her or cufflinks for him. Jewellers such as Tiffany & Co, Bvlgari and Cartier also stock accessories. Try a chic leather wallet from Cartier; a Tiffany & Co silver pen or key ring; or for a summery tie option, head to Bvlgari for smart silk-linen ties. None will bankrupt you and the distinctive packaging will earn you extra points.
It might sound boring but a gift voucher will let the recipient choose something they really want.
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It's Christmas Day, you're present-less... Don't settle for blooms from the chemist - go to an area where the locals aren't celebrating (so shops are open) and buy Indian spices or Turkish delight.Source: The Sun-Herald
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Patricia Arquette also reveals how the writers would conclude the whole series this season.
"Medium" was in limbo two weeks ago but now its fate has been determined. Sad for the fans, the supernatural show has been canceled and they only have two more episodes to shoot to complete the 13 episodes order.
CBS cut the episodic order last month from 22 to 13 but did not state what it meant for the future of the rating-challenged show. The confirmation came this week through star Patricia Arquette who told EW at a gala at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles that "we got canceled". The actress added, "It's been a great time. I love that time in my life."
Arquette managed to dig out a little information about how the show is going to be wrapped up. "I was trying to get information from the writers about the last episode," she said. "I don't know what it's going to be, but they're really excited about it. They're like, 'we're just going to burn the whole thing down!' I'm really excited."
At 7.1 million viewers average, "Medium" could thrive on other smaller networks but since competition is high on the Eye, "Medium" is placed the lowest-rated series in the network. Almost all the other primetime programs on CBS are taking more than 10 million viewers per week.


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Walmersley, Lancashire
Historical Description
Walmersley, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Bury and Middleton parishes, Lancashire. The village stands 1 mile from Summerseat railway station, and "2 miles N of Bury; carries on manufactures similar to those of Bury, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bury. The township includes the extensive village of Shuttleworth, 2 ½ miles to the N, and Summerseat with Brooks Bottoms, and bears the name of Walmersley-cum-Shuttleworth. Area, 5053 acres; population, 5789. There is a parish council consisting of six members. The Earl of Derby is lord of the manor. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1838. Population, 2539. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £270 with residence. The church, erected in 1883, in place of the old one, is in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transepts, and bell-turret. There are Free Methodist and Wesleyan chapels, cotton mills, dyeworks, bleachworks, and a brewery A branch of the Northern Counties Hospital for Incurables is here. There is a Congregational chapel in Shuttleworth.
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
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Online maps of Walmersley are available from a number of sites:
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- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
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I lived on the East coast and Los Angeles where I acquired a taste for the urban, surrealistic and abstract fantasy characters I paint. I was lucky enough to gain performance experience in "The Dream Theater" in Los Angeles known for its cutting edge theater combined with costume and body makeup.
For the last 9 years, I have been living in Maui, Hawaii surrounded by the vibrant and incredibly diverse nature landscapes as well as the Polynesian tattoo traditions which have uniquely influenced her face and body painting. In Maui I started "Fabulous Faces" a face and body art business which uses the highest quality body paints and henna to transform children and adults for parties, theater shows, art openings, workshops, corporate events, magazine advertising, fashion shows, and the yearly "Mardi Gras of the Pacific" Halloween parade.
My style consists of detailed hand painted and sponge âblended work.
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Off to the Races
Speed and spirit rule the day at the Camden Snow Bowl's Box Derby Race.
Speed and spirit rule the day at the Camden Snow Bowl's Box Derby Race.
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Make this your best summer ever with our guide to the season's top festivals, art exhibits, concerts, and so much more.
Every August, the Sweet Chariot Music Festival turns Swan's Island into a musical Brigadoon.
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About eight years ago, there was frenzied and furious talk about WMDs, or weapons of mass destruction. Both the frenzy and the fury came from President George W. Bush and his administration, prior to the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and soon thereafter. The president's poll ratings had soared in the aftermath of the quick American victory in Afghanistan, which was the base from which al-Qaeda had launched 9/11. In order to keep his poll numbers up, the president and his officials were in a hurry to invade Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein from power. There was a frenzy of claims that Saddam possessed WMDs including chemical arms and nuclear weapons. But when none were found, the officials were furious that Saddam, so to speak, had deceived them. They were also furious at their critics who wondered aloud if the entire WMD claim was actually a fabrication.
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When you think of a carnival, what comes to mind? Rides? Games? The ability to get absolutely any food deep fried? Maybe, even a creepy freak show.
Well, Generation Opportunity brought its very own carnival to the National Mall last week and, while they didn't have a roller coaster or deep fried delicacies, they certainly had a freak show. In fact, the entire carnival--or "Creepy Care-Nival " as it was officially called- was dedicated to warning millennials about the freak show that is Obamacare.
Many of the carnival games were rigged against young people to teach them what a raw deal they'll be getting under the new health care plan. Signs were hung all over explaining the laws various provisions and how they negatively affect young people.
Finally, carnival visitors were invited to walk through a creepy hospital where they were treated to scenes portraying the grim future of America's health care system under Obamacare.
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I really liked Eleanor and I liked reading about Henry II coming into his own as a ruler and I especially enjoyed the parts of the story surrounding the prostitute who grew up in a brothel, Bellebelle.
Overall, I was not impressed with this book. The story was spliced up in between long detailed outlines of historical events and facts. There were ample opportunities to throw in some fictional story- thoughts from Eleanor or Henry, for example, that were left unclaimed. I felt like the book needed another round with a skilled editor before it had become published.
With that said, Jones is very skilled at creating interesting, nuanced characters that are flawed, yet redeemable. I also enjoyed the story when the plot line was not being bogged down with historical facts rather than woven together with the plot line. However, this book missed the mark for me, unfortunately.
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Monico Cup 21 Under Magic 12 matches set-A A +A
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
NOW there are only 12 left out of the 37 teams that joined the 8th Monico Cup 21 Under basketball tournament at Bays Center in Bacolod City.
By weekend, it will be trimmed further to only six squads after its knockout games depending on Commissioner Jack Marañon's schedule. Only the top two teams from Bracket A to F advance after each single round elimination.
Game 1 will pit Barangay 18 against Barangay 16 while Handumanan will challenge Barangay 24 in Game 2. Maui Huelar's Barangay 35 will take the cemented floor in Game 3 against the winner between Tangub and Mansilingan being played at press time.
Singcang and Barangay 22 will try to survive in Game 4 while Barangay 10 has to contend with the talent of Banago coached by veteran William Descutido in Game 5.
Game 6 will feature darkhorse Cabug and last Monico Cup runner-up Barangay 19 who were more determined to survive the elimination round. Defending champion Barangay 9 failed to advance to the knockout phase.
Winner in Game 1 (Barangay 18 or Barangay 16) will square off with Game 6 winner (Cabug or Barangay 19) for the quarterfinal round. Game 2 survivor (Handumanan or Barangay 24) will face Game 5 victor (Barangay 10 or Banago) in another QF match.
Barangay 35 or Tangub/Mansilingan is set to encounter Singcang or Barangay 22 in the third QF sked (Winner G3 vs WG4) and all the winners will qualify for the semifinal round.
The three QF losers will play a single round robin series and the team with the most number of wins or highest quotient (if tied) will take the number four spot in the SF series.
Published in the Sun.Star Bacolod newspaper on June 25, 2014.
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SAB Miller, which took over Foster's Group last year, plans to cut more costs and increase profit margins at the Australian brewer.
SAB Miller chief executive Ari Mervis told an investor conference in London overnight that he expected to widen margins at Foster's by 60 to 80 basis points, and to achieve $US180 million ($194 million) in "cost synergies" at Foster's by the end of its financial year in March 2016, Bloomberg reports.
This is higher than the $US150 million ($162 million) cost-cutting target flagged earlier.
Mr Mervis said the brewing industry in Australia was still "fundamentally attractive", and that SAB Miller had no plans to close breweries in the country, Bloomberg said.
The company is looking to increase growth in beer sales from 1 per cent a year to 3 per cent.
However, the volume of beer sold by Fosters slid by 6 per cent on a pro-forma basis during the December quarter, faster than the rest of the local beer industry, as cool weather hit consumption.
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Park Slope Food Coops proposed boycott of Israel is odious and idiotic / Leadership should kill this terrible idea (NEW YORK DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL) 02/22/12)
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There is in Park Slope, Brooklyn, bastion of liberal, organic, local and sustainable stuff, a thing called the Park Slope Food Coop.
Its a very nice idea, and a very popular one. You pay a fee and work a shift a month in what amounts to a glorified supermarket to be eligible for lower-priced, high-quality groceries.
Membership entitles patrons to participate in a hyperdemocratic governing process. How best to describe it? Think management in the style of Occupy Wall Street.
Should we sell beer? Have a referendum. Should we sell bottled water? Have a referendum? Should we boycott all products with any relation to Israel? Lets have a vote on whether to have a referendum.
The notion is odious, and, as Sen. Chuck Schumer, himself an area resident, said yesterday, totally wrong.
Forced onto the agenda by an artist preciously known as Hima B., the vote is part and parcel of a global movement called BDS Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions that verges on anti-Semitism in finding fault with the very existence of the Jewish state.
Asked why shed ban products like Israeli couscous or seltzer or organic paprika, Ms. B. responded, Palestinian civil society asks the world to support their right to human rights by putting economic pressure on Israel to end its racist practice of stealing their land and ethnic cleansing.
She also said the situation in Israel is no different than when black South Africans were crushed by white South Africans system of apartheid.
These remarks are so over-the-top offensive as to demand that the co- ops board rule even a vote out of order. You want a show of hands on whether to buy local produce? Knock yourself out. But to give a moments serious consideration to making a statement against alleged ethnic cleansing an accusation tantamount to a war crime is to give credence to grotesque libel.
On her website, Ms. B. calls herself an intradependent writer/director/producer who makes social issue documentaries, narratives, experimental films and videos that explore the intersections of race, gender, sexual orientation, labor and economics, especially as they relate to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) individuals, people of color, and women and girls.
While we cant say we are familiar with her intradependent work, it did seem that, given her background, Ms. B. might appreciate the fact that Israel, unique among Mideast countries, protects the rights of women and homosexuals, and defends freedom of conscience while neighboring regimes are imprisoning and killing protesters.
Or Israels universal health care system. Or its democracy, unparalleled in the region.
Fortunately, the co-op appears to have a contingent of more morally grounded members. Among those are longtime general manager Joe Holtz.
This faction appears to be trying to distance the co-op from the boycott call by having a vote on whether to vote. It needs to do better. It needs to tell Ms. B. and her allies to stuff their referendum and, if they can do so without falling all to pieces, take their business elsewhere. (© Copyright 2012 NYDailyNews.com. 02/22/12)
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With a brand like Bless at the helm for the creative direction, you can assume some innovative and interesting styling as the German brand collaborates with OXBOW. Looking into the OXBOW archives and most notably OXBOW's jacquard sweater offerings, Bless creates three different styles: the 3D-Skolpen, Black & White Mountain-Skolpen and Material Mix-Skolpen each with their own individual self-explanatory themes. The sweaters will be available starting this fall season at select Bless and OXBOW dealers.
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A fine serigraph by contemporary artist Isaac Tarkay (born 1935). It is numbered and signed by the artist, and with embossed seal of publisher (partial concealed by matt), see detail. Double matted and framed. Tarkay does cafe scenes reminiscent of the 1920s Toulouse Lautrec. This one is a tad unusual with the girl reading. His women remind me of Marie Laurencin. Frame 18 by 23". Image 12.5 by 16.5". Very good condition with no stains or tears.


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The IRB's own medical committee recommended in April that action was needed in order to preserve the international game.
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England already limit their appearances in any one season to 32 games for club and country.
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Catmull Dog replied to JamesProctor's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingThe slope is the difference between two adjacent vertices. You probably want the point normal though, or the weighted, normalized average of all adjacent edges at a given vertex.
Catmull Dog replied to Cornstalks's topic in Math and PhysicsIdeally you will draw the control points and let the user drag them independently. To move the whole curve the user would type Ctrl-A to select All and then could drag any point to move the whole curve. You may prefer Catmull Rom splines as they feature control points that lie on the curve (just the span 1 to 2), where Bezier defines a control polygon and only the endpoints 0 and 3 are on the curve). You can convert between them with a formula that is not too bad (see [url="http://www.cemyuksel.com/research/catmullrom_param/catmullrom_cad.pdf"]Figure [/url]4).
Catmull Dog replied to jingato's topic in Math and PhysicsHere is a good explanation of the 3D point to line problem. The line connecting the point to the closest point meets the line at a right angle. [url="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Point-LineDistance3-Dimensional.html"]http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Point-LineDistance3-Dimensional.html[/url]
Catmull Dog replied to polyfrag's topic in General and Gameplay ProgrammingIf any bugs can delay the shipping of a product, they will. - Murphy's Law of Programming
Catmull Dog replied to Disc07's topic in Math and PhysicsSounds like the OP would enjoy the Seismic Exploration field in the Upstream Oil industry. Lots of 3d graphics these days.
Catmull Dog replied to Zido_Z's topic in General and Gameplay ProgrammingAn interactive fiction (word) game is a good short-term project. Design a map and number each room and list the connections for R rooms. Then support 10 directions (the 8 compass directions, up and down). A 10 x R matrix then stores the connections between rooms. You could show a photo in each room (perhaps a panoramic one and let the user rotate 360 degrees). Then, support simple noun/verb parsing and inventory (pick up the rock).
Catmull Dog replied to Volgogradetzzz's topic in Math and PhysicsBasically when you rotate, you rotate the very axes of rotation themselves, so it quickly becomes non-intuitive. Trackball style essentially counters this by applying the transpose of the camera matrix.
Catmull Dog posted a topic in Math and PhysicsIn 1987 a FORTRAN subroutine package was created that fits points to surfaces using cubic splines (though more of a subdivision scheme it appears than a parametric surface). The author published a book (Paul Dierckx - Curve and Surface Fitting with Splines). I'm curious: 1) If it's still useful enough to charge $100 for the book 25 years later, hasn't anyone ported it to C++? 2) Are there limitations to consider versus using Catmull Rom surfaces or NURBS? 3) Is localized control possible? Thanks, CRD
Catmull Dog replied to cmt's topic in General and Gameplay ProgrammingRewind is simply playing every frame back to the (n-1)th frame, and looping n from max to zero. I did this for a billiard simulation 20 years ago and it was cool to watch the break in reverse. As nox_pp points out, this requires a deterministic engine (meaning if you have the same input conditions the same results will occur).
Catmull Dog replied to Alessandro's topic in Math and PhysicsThe object is probably made out of polgons, so you can test each one as a plane to see which side the given point is on. One way is to go in a certain order and make sure the Z value in the cross product of two edges of the (rotated into XY plane) polygon is consistent (all positive or all negative depending on the way you go).
I think that everyone is so happy to get theirs working they regard it as a trade secret once it does work. It often seems as though the very authors of the articles resent it when you get it working.
Catmull Dog replied to Catmull Dog's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingFor years I've had a user-controlled boolean that wraps around the call to clear. I'm not here to debate whether this is right, I'm wondering why behavior has changed on Windows 7 and/or with my graphics card. It may indeed be Alpha-related.
Catmull Dog replied to nfries88's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingToolkits like VSG VolumeViz support volume rendering. Voxels require gargantuan amounts of space. We're working on converting voxel-based models to parametric surfaces to reduce storage requirements but that's no easy task. Curious if anyone has looked into that (VSG hasn't!)
Catmull Dog replied to casefc3s's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingMaking two layers using the surface normals is pretty easy but here are some pitfalls: 1) Which way do you let the user scale the derived surface? Or do you support both thicker and thinner? This effects the lighting as you need to keep the winding order consistent. 2) If the surface is open like a tube, you will need to stitch the layers together at the ends. This is much more of a challenge than just deriving a thicker layer. 3) If you supported cutting holes and stitching pieces together, there are all-new problems when you add thickness, as the two layers (each featuring seamless articulation) are no longer simply offset by the normals, the projected region of intersection needs to be scaled about its midpoint and reprojected onto a slightly different surface.
Thanks K_J_M. It seems to me that basic, building-block code like this should be available in a standard form we could all share. Instead it seems we all implement the same algorithms and (never having common test data in most cases) we often don't know about the bugs we have in our version. The alternative is to buy some API that has more than what you need.


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Police at war. Against Hired Guns.
This flyer was distributed yesterday in blocks surrounding the intersection of Ritchie and Bancroft and at Arroyo Park, on Thursday May 30, one day after police killed someone at that intersection.
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This flyer was distributed yesterday in blocks surrounding the intersection of Ritchie and Bancroft and at Arroyo Park, on Thursday May 30, one day after police killed someone at that intersection.
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Police at war. Against Hired Guns.
On Wednesday afternoon, the Oakland police shot and killed a man at the corner of Bancroft and Ritchie. According to police statements, they found out that "occupants of a particular vehicle may be armed." The cops chased the car until people hopped out and ran in different directions. A cop shot and killed one of them, who the police now say had a gun.
The police haven't even claimed that any of those men threatened them, which they always do in order to justify murder. That's what they said when they killed Gary King, Andrew Moppin, Oscar Grant, Raheim Brown, Alan Blueford… The list goes on, and it's an old story that they always repeat to justify murder.
The only person who was hurt in the entire situation was the person the police murdered. Had the cops not chased them, there's no reason to believe anyone would have been hurt.
When Derrick "Deedee" Jones was murdered by cops near Bancroft and Seminary in 2010, they said that he took out a gun. They told us later that he NEVER had a weapon, and one of the cops who killed him said: "We were just doing our job, as we were trained to do."
Just as that cop said, it is part of the job of police to kill people. It is a mistake to think that they kill people to make us safer, which is what they tell us. The reason they kill us is the same reason they lock us up. It's the same reason they target us with stay-away orders, gang injunctions, Operation Ceasefire, or whatever their latest scheme is.
In the 1970s, 44% of Oakland's population was Black. The Black population has steadily decreased. Between 2000 and 2010, 25% of Oakland's Black population left the city.
Every time they kill someone and almost every time they lock someone up, the person is Black or Brown. Every time they make a new policy, it is enforced in working class Black and Brown neighborhoods but never in wealthy or white areas.
The police are here to kill, contain, harass and cage. That is not how we make public safety. That is how we make war. There is a war against the people of Oakland and it is being facilitated by the cops.
Fuck the Police. Know Your Rights. Never Snitch.
Local Anti-Policing Resources:
Against Hired Guns – http://againsthiredguns.wordpress.com/
A People's Hearing on Racism & Police Violence – http://peopleshearing.wordpress.com/
Story Telling & Organizing Project (STOP) http://www.stopviolenceeveryday.org/
Local Anti-Policing Organizations:
Critical Resistance – http://criticalresistance.org/
Eastside Arts Alliance – http://www.eastsideartsalliance.com/
Justice 4 Alan Blueford – http://justice4alanblueford.org/
ONYX – http://onyxbrief.blogspot.com
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The location is good for seeing the Franz Josef glacier. The key thing to know about Rainforest Retreat is that it's a sprawling complex-- one part serves backpackers and summer employees, and the other has higher end options. The higher end options--like the tree huts--aren't worth the money. We experienced the following challenges while there: - There was a major water shortage during our stay. This had happened before (google Franz Josef and water shortages and you'll see several hits), and the next town over (Fox Glacier) had running water. -The hotel staff blamed the water shortage on the city government (which was true), but did nothing for the guests during this time. Since they were shipping water in, the water wasn't potable/safe to drink, but we didn't find that out until we walked into reception. We had to buy our own bottled water to have drinking water. - The hotel staff also refused to do anything when our room had no running water-- they similarly blamed this on the city. However, that wasn't entirely true-- the backpackers had running water for their shower, and the maintenance people (who came 10 hours later) told us that a clogged water filter was why our particular hut had no water. The maintenance staff did eventually fix this so that we were able to shower once during our stay. - The walls between the units were paper thin. When our neighbors in the adjoining unit came home, we heard every movement they made, down to their lying down on the bed. - All of the furnishings were worn and had seen better days. In short, this was not worth $200 a night for a room. I would expect the hotel staff to ensure I have safe water to drink, that any maintenance issues are promptly dealt with (and that staff actually listened to their guests' concerns), and that the business tries to provide a good experience for their guests regardless of the external conditions. For somewhere nice, I would suggest you stay somewhere else, probably in the Fox Glacier township.
The room was super clean and modern. Bed very comfortable. Great value and located right next to the glacier. Basic double rooms have an entire glass sliding for for a wall- which means you can hear everything outside. This is a spot for backpackers, so people are up late and loud.
The front counter was very friendly and made the stay fantastic. The rooms were very cozy, and the location could not be better. Highly recommened! The WIFI is intermittent and parking is very difficult if the hotel is busy if your hire car is large - we recommend parking in the side street.
Our room was comfortable, a good size and well appointed. The location of the motel was ideal for exploring the Franz Josef glacier
Easy to find and central to Franz Josef attractions Friendly service and all the facilities clean and available. Not a luxury hotel but good basic accommodation
Ideally located
It is convenient to the Glaciers. The room is very small.
Excellent service and very good room. Breakfast good for price.
It was perfect for the price. Convenient location, the rooms were a good size and clean.
We spent one night in Franz Josef on our West Coast road trip to Queenstown. The Bella Vista was clean, the room was a tad small but for one night as a place to sleep it on our way to else where it served it's purpose. The beds were comfortable and the complex quiet at night so had a good nights sleep. Location is great, close to everything. Nothing special to report here, it is what it is.
This hotel was a great location easily accessible to all the activities. The DVD player and selections at the front office was a nice touch. Being able to make food in the room was helpful.
We stayed in the room with bath and shower. It is very basic but clean. It is one step up from camping. It did have a refrigerator. The room was small. There was no ice available to either use or purchase on site. They, along with many places in NZ should invest in screens for their windows and doors.
Owned and run by a couple with excellent attitude to serve. We reached at 12 midnight after a 7 hr drive and arrangements made by them to ensure that our rooms were ready, heated etc were great. We just stepped in and all formalities happened next day. We were with 2 kids aged 8 & 4 and found the place very comfortable to stay.
Only 5 channels on the TV, Small bathroom,
The ease of parking and the closeness to all the essential amenities of Franz Josef.
The Motel had a good location where it was quiet, and only a short walk to the village facilities. Staff were very friendly and helpful. Room was spacious and well appointed.
Studio unit very comfortable with all facilities. Very convenient to all activities particularly the Spa right opposite No
Good clean motel-Knowledgable and helpful staff-Good location.
Very nice unit, fairly new, great location in town. Couple running/owning the property very friendly and helpful. Just felt very comfortable being there. Heater kept kicking on and off all night, isn't real effective.
Very clean and well located. Very helpful and friendly owners, nothing was a problem at all. Maybe a sheer curtain or blind would allow a bit more privacy when the curtains are open.
Extraordinarily friendly and welcoming owners. Very comfortable simple but very well laid out and appointed rooms.
Room was clean and well laid out. Staff was helpful. Close to shops and restaurants.


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Research published in the American Chemical Society's Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry showed that drinking tea brewed from German chamomile, also known as manzanilla, appeared to increase antibacterial activity in the body and relieve muscle spasms.
"This is one of a growing number of studies that provide evidence that commonly used natural products really do contain chemicals that may be of medicinal value," said lead researcher Elaine Holmes, a chemist with Imperial College London. "The healthcare industry is placing increasing emphasis on functional foods including natural remedies, yet little work has been conducted on the long-term effects of such products on human biology."
Fourteen volunteers in the study drank five cups of herbal tea a day for two weeks. Urine samples showed hippurate, a breakdown product of plant-based phenolics, which are associated with antibacterial action. Drinking chamomile tea was also linked to increased levels of glycine, a nerve relaxant amino acid. Researchers said the results explained why the herb appeared to fight infections and colds and relieve menstrual cramps.
Levels of both chemicals stayed high for up to two weeks after subjects stopped drinking the tea, said researchers, who added that more research was needed into the herb's health benefits. The peer-reviewed study was funded by a British natural products company.


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[DARYL] will celebrate the release of its debut EP, Communication: Duration, on May 19 at Club Clearview, sandwiched between Chomsky and Red Animal War. The band recorded the disc in February with The Paper Chase's John Congleton at the controls, and if it's anything like the four-song demo disc that's been making the rounds, it will be a must-have. The group -- singer-guitarist-keyboard player Dylan Silvers, bassist Jeff Parker, guitarist Dave Wilson, drummer Spammie, and new keyboard player Chad Ferman -- will support the EP (scheduled for release on Kansas City-based Urinine Records) with a short tour through the Midwest in June. The disc is a bit of milestone for Silvers, who's been trying to get a CD in stores since he was playing in The Fitz. Unfortunately, both that band and his next group, Post From Vermont, broke up before it could happen. So maybe he should find some wood and knock on it, just in case. By the way, if you want to see and hear Red Animal War (who also have a new EP, Give Me My Pipe Dreams, on the way) before [DARYL]'s CD release show, the band plays at Trees on May 13 with Doosu, Gunfighter, and The Paper Chase...
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Valve releases its first full-length, A Perfect Day For Stars, with a show on May 13 at Curtain Club, featuring Lewis, Crave, and Fixture. The disc is a split release between Ffroe Records and One Ton Records, though One Ton only recently became involved, thanks to the impending major-label debut by Ffroe's biggest band, Bowling For Soup. As singer-guitarist Casey Diiorio explains on the group's Web site (www.valverocks.com), "About a week ago [Ffroe Records'] Jeff Roe and the band realized we would need more help. There was just too much to get done and not enough time for Jeff and the band to do it. Jeff is very busy since Bowling For Soup got signed. So we talked to Aden Holt and Tony Edwards, who have been into the band for a long time, to help with promoting the CD -- taking care of posters, press, and other stuff like that. It's been working out really well, and it leaves the band more time to write and play music, which is what we all wanted." Man, that's all anyone wants. Well, except for Pat Green's manager, who apparently wants any preview or review of his questionably talented client that is not 100-percent favorable to disappear. Our suggestion: Find a country singer that isn't a ridiculous, beer-swilling, jingoistic stereotype. That's all we can offer...
To expand on an item we mentioned in last week's Street Beat, guitarist Will Kapinos is also leaving The Falcon Project, joining bassist Pete Gannon on the way out of the group. Kapinos' last show with the band happens May 19 at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios with The Riverboat Gamblers and Pointy Shoe Factory, though he and Gannon will both appear on the group's new album, Lights, Kharma, Action, which will be released on Idol Records in June. With the recent departures, The Falcon Project's frontman Wanz Dover is essentially looking for a brand new band. Any bass and keyboard players or electronic musicians that are interested should contact Dover at email@example.com. On a related note, anyone who plays spoons, wax paper and comb, or kazoo should contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com. It isn't any fun playing washtub bass by yourself...
Fittingly, when Rusty Baker's documentary on the star-crossed Von Erich wrestling dynasty screened at the recent USA Film Festival, Jon "Corn Mo" Cunningham was on hand to start the proceedings with his song "Shine On, Golden Warrior." Cunningham performed the song, a tribute to Kevin Von Erich (the only living member of the Von Erich clan), live at the AMC Glen Lakes theater, and it goes without saying that it was one of the highlights of this year's festival. Not that that's a difficult honor to achieve. Baker, by the way, has progressed a great deal from the last time we saw him sitting in the same row as us at a preview screening of The Empire Strikes Back special edition a few years back. If we remember correctly, Baker chastised the theater employee introducing the film with this mix of Star Wars jargon and playground chutzpah: "Your mother's a tauntaun!" Uh, maybe you had to be there. Or maybe we're just really, really dorky. You make the call.
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SUN VALLEY - A man who was arguing with his girlfriend today drove through the guardrail of a railroad crossing and parked his car in the path of a speeding train, killing himself and critically injuring the woman, police said.
The attempted murder-suicide occurred just after noon near Branford Street and San Fernando Road, where the couple was waiting behind two other cars for a northbound Metrolink train to pass, said LAPD Officer Mike Lopez.
The man drove his 2005 Dodge Magnum around the two cars, through the guardrail and parked it on the tracks so that the passenger side was directly in the path of the approaching train, Lopez said.
"He drove up on the tracks as the train was coming," Lopez said. He added the train struck the rear end of the car, causing it to spin around and eject the man who was not wearing a seatbelt.
"What saved her was she was in her seatbelt," Lopez said.
The man, 21-year-old Brandon Funches of South Los Angeles, died at the scene. His 23-year-old girlfriend, whose name was not released, was taken to Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills where she was listed in critical condition, Lopez said.
Metrolink spokeswoman Denise Tyrrell said none of the 132 people on the Antelope Valley-bound train was injured and that the train did not derail.
They said passengers traveling on the line later in the day experienced five- to 10-minute delays.
Metrolink officials said the train was pulling the passenger cars at the time, meaning the locomotive collided directly with the car.
"It's amazing she survived," said LAPD spokesman Kevin Maiberger. "You should see the car."
Police Detective Pat Barron said the car was on the tracks for about four to five seconds before the train plowed into it.
"The train was honking its horn when it collided with the vehicle," Barron said.
Monday's collision came more than two years after the disastrous Glendale Metrolink train wreck, which killed 11 people and injured 180 others. The crash occurred when Juan Manuel Alvarez, then 25, of Compton, parked his Jeep Cherokee on the tracks in a botched suicide attempt. Alvarez jumped out just before the train struck his car, setting off a spectacular three-train collision.
Following the Glendale collision, Metrolink's practice of using locomotives to both push and pull trains came under intense criticism. When locomotives are pulling the train - like in Monday's collision - the engine is out in front, which offers more protection to passengers on the train.
In the Glendale crash, the locomotive pushed the train, meaning the lighter, passenger cars collided directly with the car on the tracks.
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Local animal advocates have a new plan to help central Indiana's stray pet problem.
Nearly 18,000 dogs and cats end up in government facilities each year with few being adopted. Now, several private and public groups will invest more than $2 million to try to fix the problem.
The money will pay for educating pet owners and increasing spay and neuter rates in central Indiana.
"As a result of these efforts we expect to see significant reductions in the number of homeless and unwanted dogs and cats in Indianapolis, a major increase in pet adoptions and a decrease in animal abandonment to this shelter," said Michael Twyman, director of Pulliam Trust.
The recently formed Animal Welfare Alliance is made up of ten groups including the Humane Society and Animal Care and Control.


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It does not take a well-trained ear to recognize the sound of snow thrower at work. For the second time in just four days a two stroke gasoline engine is doing the work it was designed for, throwing snow.
Snow throwers have been easy to find even with the snow we have had, retailers still have them in stock. Buyers have been hesitant to make the investment for a piece of equipment that may or may not be used every winter.
The same goes for those that make a living moving and throwing snow, "winter is divided into two seasons. The pre-season and in-season the pre-season was not there," says Brandon Eby. His family has been selling snow plows as long as he can remember. Indiana winters usually provide their customers with enough snow to keep busy and then some.
But the past few winters have been plagued with doubt "they were apprehensive up until about two weeks ago and then when a reliable forecast come and then even more so when an event came they were sold, I would say the selling season for whole goods is another three to four weeks," says Eby.
By whole goods Eby means plows and to the casual passer-by of their shop on Allisonville road the lot is typically a cornucopia of plows, trucks and salt spreaders. The first true snows of the season have reduced the selection to just a handful of plows. Even with the memory of last winter "it is hard to be hesitant with 8 inches of snow on the ground if you are hesitant you might as well not be in the business," says Eby.
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This was a good, solid, gritty, tough game of football. It wasn't a match big on brilliant strategy or surprising tactics. There was nothing complicated about the football on display. It was simply a case of ''stand and deliver'' and we'll see which team is still on their feet at the final siren.
The prospect of a contest between ninth versus 16th on the ladder might not have carried great expectations leading into the match, but this was a battle of great intensity. In the end, the Knights held on to defeat Parramatta 16-10 after leading 16-6 at half-time, but the result could easily have gone the other way.
The final 15 minutes was played pretty much on exhaustion. The opening 20 minutes were played with such vigour that both sides had little petrol left in the tank over the concluding stages. These two sides really ripped into each other from the opening whistle.
The big men charged at each other as they fought for ownership of the advantage line. Neither pack gave an inch. Both sides boast some of the quickest and most potent back-line players in the game.
They also saw plenty of action as the halves spiralled the ball to the outskirts of the field in search of space. To this end we must commend the defensive commitment of all players in this game. When tackles needed to be made, when players needed to be chased, when backs were to the wall on their respective try lines, someone was there to out his body on the line.
There were plenty of ''half-chances'' being created in this match as players beat tackles and threatened to score. However, desperation and great scrambling defence were always on hand to defuse the situation.
The Knights set up their chances of a win with a couple of quick tries just before the half-time break to open up a 10-point advantage. However, they did not score a point in the second half and had to tackle their way to victory.
The Eels came at them with raid after raid on the Knights' try line, but the visitors refused to buckle.
It would be unfair to criticise the Knights' lack of attacking play in the second half. They did get themselves into a mindset of protecting their lead, which is always dangerous playing against a team as potent in attack as the Eels. But there wasn't much more they could do, given the defensive workload they were forced to endure.
They had no energy to play attacking football. When they did have the ball in hand, they simply ran one out, conserved energy, and sucked some oxygen into the lungs for their next defensive effort. They showed plenty of grit and deserved their win. They are too good a team to be sitting in the cellar of the premiership ladder and will soon improve their position.
The Eels were also very good. They played their hearts out for the home-town fans.
They were always playing catch-up, pushing to get the try to put themselves within reach of their opponents. They created plenty of opportunities, but just couldn't get the final pass to stick.
They refused to succumb to frustration and despair despite the narrow misses. They kept their composure and continued to chase down the deficit with a blend of solid, constructive football, mixed in with their own brand of skill and flair thrown in for good measure.
Halfback Chris Sandow was at his scheming best and very busy all afternoon. Mercurial Eels fullback Jarryd Hayne threw everything at the Knights' defensive line, thrilling the crowd with brilliant individual efforts.
I humbly suggest that if you were a Parramatta supporter at this match, you would be a very harsh judge to walk away critical of your team's effort levels.
The Parramatta Eels are a young team on the rise. I like the direction this club is headed.
Well done to the Knights though. Back-to-back victories for the first time this year could well be the turning point in what has been a very difficult season for the Newcastle lads.


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