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A fully-functional Honda FCX Concept vehicle will be on display for the first time to the general public at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The FCX Concept features a newly developed compact, high-efficiency Honda FC Stack as well as a low-floor, low-riding, short-nose body. It offers a comfortably large cabin and futuristic styling along with significant improvements in power output and environmental performance. Limited marketing of a totally new fuel cell vehicle based on this concept model is to begin in 2008 in Japan and the U.S.
To meet Honda objectives for significant gains in both environmental and driving
performance, the FCX Concept is equipped with a V Flow fuel cell platform consisting
of a compact, high-efficiency fuel cell stack arranged in an innovative center-tunnel
layout. This has allowed designers to create an elegant, low-riding, sedan form
that would have been difficult to achieve in a conventional fuel cell vehicle.
This new fuel cell stack is 20 percent smaller and 30 percent lighter than the
current FCX FC Stack, yet its power output is 14kW greater. The drive motor
has been positioned coaxially with the gearbox for a more compact design, with
output increased by 15kW. Overall, the power plant is about 180kg lighter than
that of the current FCX and about 40 percent smaller in volume. The result is
improved energy efficiency and performance along with a more spacious interior.
While with previous fuel cell stacks the hydrogen and the water formed in electricity generation flowed horizontally, the new FCX Concept features vertical-flow design. This allows gravity to assist in discharging the water that is produced, resulting in a major improvement in water drainage, key to high-efficiency fuel stack performance. The result is stable power generation under a broad range of conditions, and higher output from a smaller package. Low-temperature startup has also been significantly improved, enabling cold-weather starts at temperatures 10ðËüðËüC lower than the current FCX - as low as minus 30ðËüðËüC.
As an auxiliary power source, the FCX Concept carries a compact, high-efficiency lithium ion battery, contributing to increased power output and a more compact power plant. These efficiency improvements to major power plant components give the vehicle a travel range approximately 30 percent greater than the current FCX. The vehicle is also highly efficient, with an energy efficiency of around 60 percent -- approximately three times that of a gasoline-engine vehicle, twice that of a hybrid vehicle, and 10 percent better than the current FCX.
Other features include seat upholstery and door linings made from Honda Bio-Fabric, a plant-based material that offers outstanding durability and resistance to sunlight damage. Other improvements such as Shift-by-Wire and a newly designed instrument panel with easy-to-read display of hydrogen fuel consumption facilitate improved ease of operation.
The new fuel cell vehicle currently under development for release in 2008, will feature the principle technologies of the FCX Concept to achieve a new dimension in environmentally friendly driving pleasure not found with gasoline-engine vehicles.
Stack Layout Comparison
New stack layout
(hydrogen and water flow vertically)
Previous stack layout
(hydrogen and water flow horizontally)
|Number of passengers
|Max. Output
|95kW (129PS, 127 horsepower)
|Max. Torque
|256N-m (26.1kg-m, 188.8 lb-ft.)
|AC synchronous motor (Honda Mfg.)
|Fuel Cell Stack
|PEFC(proton exchange membrane fuel cell, Honda Mfg.)
|Compressed hydrogen
|High-pressure hydrogen tank (350atm)
|Tank Capacity
|171 liters
|Dimensions (L x W x H)
|4,760 x 1,865 x 1,445mm
(187.4 x 73.4 x 56.9 inches)
|Max. Speed
|160km/h (100 mph)
|Energy Storage
|Lithium Ion Battery
|Vehicle Range*
|570km (354 miles)
* When driven in LA4 mode (Honda calculations)
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A proposal that passed the Ohio House would change laws governing the licensing of physician assistants and give them authority to write prescriptions.
Physician assistants would need at least a master's degree or have had prescriptive authority while practicing in the military, in order to write prescriptions. They also would need to be issued a prescriber number by the state Medical Board. And their first 500 hours of prescribing would have to be under a physician's supervision.
The House passed the legislation Wednesday. It would allow a physician to supervise up to three physician assistants, rather than two, at one time.
State Rep. Anne Gonzales, the bill's sponsor, says it will help physician assistants better use their full capabilities of training.
The measure now goes to the Senate for consideration.


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It seems once again, that Tinsley's play was explained easily.
Some of us were wondering why he was so up and down, and though some of the grassy knoll people here are sure that Tins was pouting and not simply sick, like Fred Jones before him. This time Rick said on his show that Tins got a groin injury since the Cavs game and should not have played.
Now we all know, though hardly every ackowledge, how much of a warrior Tins is when it comes to playing with pain, I remember to well and vividly the playoff series against Detroit where he was riding a bike when not on the court to keep his muscles warm and his knee mobile.
This is another example in my opinion of the poor communicative skills of the Pacers, despite all the modern possibilites at their disposal and the great website they have (which is kept better uptodate and has more interesting stuff then most sites out there)
They do however the players and the fans a disservice by not simply reporting these injuries, no matter how small, list a player as probable but hurting, do I care how they announce it, but at least it will change our view of the player in question.
Now we come out in force to rip 'm a new one, and propose the most silly trades because (fillinwhateveryouwanttocomeupwithhere)
I agree that certain things are privy to the team only, but information like this which creates perception of the team and the circumstances they work under is important enough to be relayed to a fanbase, no matter how small.
Other examples of plainly poor communications on these matters are:
Foster's injuries
Bender injuries
Tinsley injuries
JO injuries
Ron injuries
I can probably make this list a page long, but what it boils down to is my advice to the Pacers: improve communications on injuries, small or big.
We would like to know what is wrong without details that would create legal difficulties, this can be done, other teams seems to succeed at it, why not we?
How important is this?
Ok let's take the example of the last occassion, i.e. now with Tinsley.
Can you tell me you would have been as harsh on him as some were/are knowing he is playing with an injury?
Can you tell me your conclusion (if you reached that one) that either we get rid of him or the conclusion that Saras will take his spot (other then through injury and temp) would be less easily made if you knew that Rick obviously wants him on the floor so bad that he is asked to play with an injury?
Don't those things all tell a story? Therefore is it important Pacers are more open.


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Children's toy magic lantern projector, designed for domestic use with miniature glass slides. Consisting of a box containing a lantern, illuminant and a set of twelve strip slides. Each slide, containing a series of images, would be slid through the slide holder. The illuminant could possibly be a candle or a paraffin or similar burner.
Ernst Plank, the manufacturer was founded in 1866 and produced tin toy trains and boats, as well as magic lanterns. At one time it was the second largest manufacturer of magic lanterns in Nuremberg, Germany. Nuremberg was a major centre for metal toy production and export in the latter part of the 19th century and up to World War I.
While the invention of the magic lantern is generally seen to be in the 17th century, its greatest popularity as an optical projector spans the late 18th Century to the early decades of the 20th Century. It was used both as a means of entertainment and education.
This lantern projector set is part of the Francis Collection of pre-cinematic apparatus and ephemera, acquired by the Australian and Victorian Governments in 1975. David Francis was the curator of the National Film and Sound Archive of the British Film Institute as well as being a co-founder of the Museum of the Moving Image in London, which was operational between 1988 and 1999.
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A Sutton police officer has heaped praise on the Sutton South Hello initiative, which supports elderly and vulnerable people in the borough.
Sergeant Paul Cole even had time for a quick game of darts with volunteers and members, when he dropped in on one of their meetings on Wednesday, August 13.
The officer said: "This initiative scores a bullseye in terms of helping to combat loneliness and isolation.
"The ward has a high proportion of over 65s with a large number of people living in sheltered accommodation or in single occupancy flats.
"Any initiative that provides a lifeline to people who may be lonely, and have no one to talk to is a great idea and deserves our full support."
Sutton South councillors Trish Fivey and Richard Clifton were also at the meeting held at Christ Church, Christchurch Park, Sutton.
Sutton South Hello was set up in May 2013, and encourages elderly people to be active in their community.
Members meet at Christ Church every Wednesday between 2-4pm to take part in various activities.
One of the members steadies her hand to land a bullseye
"You're looking the wrong way!"- The dartboard is behind them


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STANFORD — Stanford freshman power forward Reid Travis underwent arthroscopic knee surgery Monday, but should be sidelined just 4 to 6 weeks, coach Johnny Dawkins said.
"He's just getting the knee cleaned up," Dawkins said. "It's not something that's going to hold him out. It's nothing major."
Travis, a McDonald's All-American from Minneapolis, is expected to compete for a starting position with the Cardinal, who lost forwards Dwight Powell and Josh Huestis to the NBA.
A 6-foot-8, 235-pounder, Travis is the headliner in a Stanford recruiting class that was ranked 18th nationally by Scout.com. Dawkins said the issues in Travis's knee were discovered during a routine physical examination after he arrived on campus this summer.


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MedPage Today reports that atacicept did not meet primary endpoints in the Phase II/III trial. Flare rates were not significantly less in the group of patients treated at a lower 75 mg dose; while the rate was significantly lower for patients receiving a higher 150 mg dose, two deaths due to infections might have been associated with the drug.
The time to first flare (length of time person was in the study before experiencing a flare) was significantly longer among those treated with the 150 mg dose but not those who received the lower dose. Enrollment in the 150 mg dose arm was terminated prematurely due to the two deaths. Investigators feel the drug at the higher dose may still have benefit but further study is needed to determine if there is a role for atacicept in treating lupus.
Atacicept is a biologic agent that targets two B-cell factors being studied in patients with moderate-to-severe lupus. The study was reported on in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.


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THE turning of the year is inevitably a season of reflection and introspection, both personal and collective.
Each of us will have private reveries over the next day or so - fond memories burnished by recollection into glowing warmth, regrets surely, but also hopes for the months to come. Collectively, though, our thoughts are likely to be roiled by anxiety and gnawed by discontent. If Auden correctly pronounced the post-War years an "age of anxiety," then ours is an era of insecurity.
Too many of us remain jobless; income disparities continue to grow alarmingly. The rewarding middle-class life we've come to regard as the great American norm now seems out of reach to many and tenuous to those who still enjoy it. Social mobility, our economic system's glory and our great guarantor of social peace has ossified alarmingly. Today, children born into the American working class are less likely to better themselves over their lifetime than those born into an English or French family.
We look to Washington for solutions and find ourselves alone, peering into the abyss just over a "financial cliff." Such are the wages of bitter partisanship and brittle ideology.
Is it any wonder, then, that the surprising runaway hit of this holiday film season is the musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's great, 1,900-page novel of romantic idealism, "Les Miserables"?
In his turn-of-the-20th century anthology of literary social protest, "Cry for Justice," our own Upton Sinclair called Hugo's masterpiece "one of the half-dozen greatest novels of the world" and quoted approvingly from the author's own preface: "(S)o long as the three problems of the age - the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of women by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night - are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible ... books like this cannot be useless."
Check - as the wiser film critics have advised - your irony at the theater door and enjoy "Les Mis" for its unembarrassed endorsement of the truths too many of us usually are too realistically world weary to acknowledge: the viciousness of social stigmatization; the transforming power of kindness; he inhumanity of ideological rigidity; the fact that solidarity with the poor and exploited is the beginning of social decency.
By now, the outlines of Hugo's narrative are familiar. Jean Valjean, convicted of stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving sister, is paroled after 19 years hard labor, but issued an "internal passport" that marks him forever as a former convict. Unable to find other lodging, he is taken in by a saintly provincial bishop, Myriel, whose kindness he repays by making off with the old man's silver.
After Valjean is arrested and returned to the bishop's house, the cleric not only refuses to denounce him, but reminds him in front the police that he had forgotten to take a valuable set of candle sticks. Transformed by the saintly cleric's example of goodness, Valjean assumes a new identity as a beneficent factory owner and just mayor. Detected by his nemesis, the inhumanly implacable policeman, Inspector Javert, Valjean flees with the orphaned daughter of a woman he has inadvertently wronged. He raises her as his own daughter in a Parisian refuge and performs extraordinary acts of individual charity until - inspired by his ward's affection for a student revolutionary - he experiences the power of collective action against economic oppression while at the barricades during the rebellion of 1832.
It is, of course, the special genius of our own American Revolution that it did not seek to impose on subsequent generations a template of human perfectibility, but rather restrained appetite and impulse through checks and balances while allowing liberty to make a space for human goodness. If we have not always filled that space as we should or often done so only after long struggle, that's simply more evidence of the Founders' and Framers' wisdom in taking account of our fallen nature's intractability.
It may be that one of the reasons "Les Miserables," the musical entertainment, seems to speak to us at the turning of this weary year is that many feel that, in this moment, simple kindness ought to be allowed to trump the faux tough love of ideology and social solidarity to assert itself over and above the atomized individualism.
Sometimes, the art and entertainment that strikes the most resonant chord in us does so because it lifts us above the stifling clouds of daily strife and reminds us that there is a way forward - one open to all who simply set their feet upon it.
Perhaps the one thought we all ought to take into this season of memory and aspiration is that, as a people, we are at our best when our laws and policies rise above abstraction because we have heeded their interpretation by those better angels of our nature. Throughout our history we Americans always have rediscovered a salvific hope in such moments, one the poet Kenneth Patchen - who belonged to California in a special way - captured in these lines of his:
Therefore the constant powers do not lessen;
Nor is the property of the spirit scattered
On the cold hills of these events.
The hour of love and dignity and peace
Is surely not dead.
With more splendor than these somber lives
The gates within us
Open on the brilliant gardens of the sun.
Tim Rutten is a columnist for the Los Angeles News Group. Readers can contact him via email at email@example.com.


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From MN 41:
"Abandoning sexual misconduct, one abstains from sexual misconduct; he does not have intercourse with women who are protected by their mother, father, mother and father, brother, sister, or relatives, who have a husband, who are protected by law, or with those already engaged"
What is your understanding of the bold text?
I'm thinking of a certain 27 year old woman that I know, whose (very traditional Catholic) parents threaten to disown her if she has sex before marriage... even though everyone knows she must be. Even if she was 80 years old, and finally had sex but was not married, still her parents would want to disown her for this.
So by having sex with her in the context of a committed relationship, would someone be breaking the precept on sexual misconduct? From my perspective, the woman's parents are just control freaks, and what do their likes or dislikes have to do with sexual misconduct, or a fundamental precept in practicing the Dhamma.
In a literal sense....They could be opposed to her having sex within marriage, and still it could be said the husband is breaking the precept? Having sexual misconduct because he's having sex with his own wife and the family does not approve of him or is protecting her? They'll be protecting her with regards to being involved with men, her whole life, that is apparent. She's had only 3 boyfriend and had to hide the fact that she had them. Her parents assume that someone is going to come and sit in the parlor a few times, make small talk, and then marry her without even going out of the house with her (because, if she's out on the street with a man, then she must be sneaking off to have sex with him). Yes, I'm serious, that's how they think.
I think I'm missing something from Indian cultural context...what does it mean "women who are protected by their mother, father, mother and father, brother, sister, or relatives"?


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Heather Nyberg-Schlotzhauer
Beacon Correspondent
The Eel River Valley will be gliding into Strongs Creek Plaza today at 1 p.m. to mob Glamorous and meet the merchant and other local customers.
Glamorous is owned and operated by Nicole Foley who describes her shop as, "The only boutique in Fortuna that carries a premier source for today's hottest fashion from head to toe, carrying a wide range of sizes from 0 to 16 in juniors and women's."
The Fortuna Cash Mob gathers at a chosen location the last Thursday of each month to 'mob' and shop. They want it to be a celebration of the uniqueness of each store where visitors have face time with the owner and other faithful Glamorous shoppers who can share their experiences.
There is little doubt that Foley will shine in glamour throughout the event as she is well known to the community for her work with Glamorous Garb, FVFD Ladies Auxiliary, and her other business One Fine Day.
Glamorous will offer a 20 percent discount to all customers who mention Cash Mob the day of the event. Glamorous invites the community to come check out their merchandise and meet the owner during this mob event.
For more information contact Barbara at 725-3565.
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Just wondering if anyone knows when Gerald and D.J. come to Indy or if they are already here
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Just wondering if anyone knows when Gerald and D.J. come to Indy or if they are already here
Probably already here, they were both free agents who likely want to come and see the city.
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Can't wait to see DJ's fascilitating with our group of guys.. I think we are gonna see some spectacular plays this year from him..
haha just found this..
Whole video is great highlights, but the thing I am loving, is DJ's Stephen Jackson impressions.. haha wow he is SPOT ON at about 2:15 on i think.....
Also love how he can change speed and gears at the drop of a dime... a good example is somewhere around the 3 minute mark then at 3:57
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"They want to be famous. We want to be champions. They want to be rappers and backup dancers. We want to play football." - T.J. Ward, Denver Broncos
Thanks for the video. Boy, his eyes going to light up when he gets to play with our starting lineup ( or backups for that matter) after having to try to facilitate in Charlotte. If he can play well and Lance is ready to play we might just have a chance this year.
From watching D.J. and his alley oop passes I can see him feeding Paul and Gerald for a lot of highlight dunks. The drive and dish for corner 3- feeds well into Paul George's camping the corner 3point shot. Plus he has a little more weight than DC to take contact finishing on drives.
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I imagine these guys will be getting into Indy any day now to start working out with the team, as Paul has done. I just hope that practices go well and the team starts meshing like it needs to. DJ is going to be great with Paul, Green, and Miles.
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Surprised there hasnt been a presser yet.
Stop quoting people I have on ignore!
They're both busy working out with TJ Ford. So I'm sure he's got nothing but great things to say about the franchise.
Can't tell if any of this should be green or not. I always thought that, despite his release from the team, he always enjoyed the Pacers team, the FO, etc., and was sad to depart? Regarldess, as long as they're working out and staying active, that's what matters.
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But if anyone thinks he's telling players anything positive about this franchise when the doors are closed then I have some local ocean front property to sell you.
Maybe not anything positive about a certain former head coach... but I'm don't think he'd be speaking bad of the franchise itself. He just doesn't strike me as someone who would do that.
James Posey on the other hand, considering he'd mouth off to Vogel in practice.....
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A 22-year-old man was shot to death about 2:15 p.m. Thursday on the street in the 900 block of Rider Avenue in Salinas, fire Battalion Chief Herb Shoemaker said.
The man was shot once in the head and twice in the chest, he said. Police and paramedics performed CPR, but the victim was pronounced dead at the scene, he said.
Police ask anyone with information to call 758-7321 or the anonymous tip line at 775-4222.
Woman lures man
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A woman's invitation to a man to come up to her apartment ended in an armed robbery Wednesday afternoon, police said.
The 34-year-old victim said he picked up the woman near South Sanborn Road and Fairview Avenue shortly before 1 p.m. to give her a ride. They went to her apartment in the 1000 block of John Street.
The victim said when he entered the apartment, two men wearing ski masks and armed with a handgun and knife demanded his wallet and other belongings, police said.
They ordered the man into a bedroom and all three fled, police said.
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Two burglary suspects were nabbed Wednesday after an alert resident saw them taking electronic items out of a residence, police said.
The witness told police the two burglars got into a residence in the first block of John Circle about 10:15 a.m. and carried items out a window.
Officers got a description of a vehicle and made a traffic stop as the men left the scene, police said.
Booked into Monterey County Jail on charges of burglary, conspiracy and gang enhancements were Gabriel Magana, 24, and Jacobo Gerrero, 18.


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Category: naming literary characters
One of our favorite guest bloggers is best-selling, prize-winning thriller writer JEFF ABBOTT, whose recently released novel Adrenaline is receiving accolades across the national mediascape. To commemorate his success, we're revisiting the blog that takes us inside his character naming process, complete with concrete examples–and, incidentally–an acknowledgement of the part played by our very own books and website.
I think it is sometimes easier to name a child than a character in a book.
I have used Pam and Linda's books to name characters in my novels now for the past several years. And they are perfectly geared to finding that ideal character name, given that the lists are organized by groupings such as style, energy, creativity, and so on. (My favorite all-time list as a resource: The Fitting In, Standing Out list).
I first used a baby naming book as a second-grader, when I was writing my first stories in pencil in a Big Chief tablet. I told my mom I was having trouble knowing what to name a certain character, and she gave me the baby name book she'd used. It listed names alphabetically, with ethnic origin and "variations and diminutives." What I mostly learned from this book was that Teutonic meant German and I would have been named Caroline if I was a girl. (It was the only girls' name circled in the entire book.) It offered a fairly slim list of choices, compared to today's books, and I pretty much resorted to either trying to match a name to the feel of the character (like naming a pretty girl Melissa, which was the epitome of a pretty girl name at the time) or matching the name's original meaning to the character. (I named a king in a very early short story Frederick because it meant 'peaceful ruler', and he was a nice king.)
I knew even then that picking a name because it meant 'brave warrior' in Old German had very little to do with how the name was viewed in our culture. And in the shorthand of fiction, you want a name that matches the character, that signals, however subtly, to the reader, a trait or feeling about this person.
When I started to write a new crime series about an ex-CIA agent who owns bars around the world, I wanted the characters to have names that matched their personalities. Now, the advantage of naming characters over kids is that you know the personality of the character, and you don't know (yet) the personality of the beautiful little baby.


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Two years ago, Bill Orem and his team of researchers were setting up air monitors in the yards and on the porches of residents in Artie, a small Raleigh County community surrounded by mountaintop removal mines.
Orem, a chemist with the U.S. Geological Survey, was trying to piece together evidence about exactly what caused residents who live near Southern West Virginia's large-scale mining operations to face increased risks of serious illnesses, including birth defects and cancer, and of premature death.
Since starting their work, Orem's team has added much to what was already known about the issue: Air quality in communities near mountaintop removal is quite different from air quality in non-mining areas, with more particulate matter and higher concentrations of certain contaminants. Mountaintop removal neighbors have higher rates of certain respiratory diseases, including lung cancer. Also, air pollution particles in mining communities show higher levels of certain elements that indicate the dust is coming from "overburden," or the rock that mountaintop removal operators blast apart to get at the coal underneath.
"The data is pretty startling for some of these things," Orem said last week. "To me, it's compelling enough that a more targeted health study needs to be conducted in these areas."
However, if that more in-depth study is going to ever be done, it won't be by Orem and his USGS team. Last year, the Obama administration quietly put the brakes on any new field work to gather data on the potential public-health threats posed by mountaintop removal.
Without warning, the USGS Energy Resources Program in February 2013 pulled its funding for the project. Agency managers diverted Orem and his team to research on the health and environmental effects of unconventional oil and gas extraction, such as hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania and Northern West Virginia.
Douglas Duncan, interim director of the USGS Energy Resources Program, noted that natural gas plays a key role in President Obama's "all of the above" energy strategy, and that research on hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," became an important administration priority as part of that strategy.
"We are always having to make tough decisions," Duncan said. "There are lots and lots of worthy research projects."
So, while the Obama administration pushes to increase the nation's natural gas production in the hopes of reducing greenhouse gas pollution from the energy sector, the government-wide focus on increased drilling has the somewhat ironic effect of curbing official research into the potential public-health effects of strip mining for coal in Appalachia.
Other researchers say the move by the USGS was more complicated and was, at least partly, the result of the coal industry's vocal reaction to studies that suggested mountaintop removal might be harming not just bugs and salamanders, but also people.
"I personally believe they were shut off for political purposes," said Michael Hendryx, a former West Virginia University researcher whose more than two-dozen papers on mountaintop removal's impact prompted the USGS investigation in the first place.
And while research on natural gas drilling's environmental and health effects also undoubtedly will be controversial, that practice is carried out more broadly — in multiple states across the country, meaning that more researchers are interested and more funding is available for such work. Studies of mountaintop removal's health effects have been fewer, and are conducted by a smaller group of scientists. Much of the work was done by Hendryx or by researchers partnering with him or building on his efforts.
As more research continued to be published by Hendryx and his partners, coal companies, including Alpha Natural Resources, Arch Coal and Patriot Coal, created a $15 million research effort based at Virginia Tech to respond to the public health studies. Industry lawyers have tried to keep the studies out of court cases over new mining permits, and coal company public relations officials have dismissed the findings.
Elected officials in West Virginia have generally ignored the growing body of studies showing health risks of living near mountaintop removal, but citizen activists have convinced lawmakers from other states to introduce legislation aimed at blocking new mining permits until further studies can show the practice is safe.
Coal River Valley resident Bo Webb, a leader of the Appalachian Health Emergency campaign, said it was "extremely disappointing to see funding for this much-needed research being diverted to fracking."
"While fracking research is clearly an issue of need, it is already being addressed by scientists from all over the U.S.," Webb said Friday. "On the other hand, mountaintop removal is being studied by only a handful of scientists operating on meager budgets. Our elected officials should be doing everything in their power to see to it that USGS scientists continue to focus on mountaintop removal."
Before their funding was pulled, Orem's team completed several presentations for scientific conferences. They have one paper undergoing review by a journal and a second one going through internal USGS review, Orem said.
The USGS has not stopped all research on mountaintop removal.
Last month, a team led by biologist Than Hitt published a study that found that Appalachian streams affected by mountaintop removal can have fewer than half as many fish species and a third as many total fish as other waterways in the region.
"Our results indicate that headwater mining may be limiting fish communities by restricting the prey base available for fish," Hitt said. "For instance, fish species with specialized diets of stream insects were more likely to be lost from the streams over time than fish species with more diverse diets."
That study, though, was conducted by a different section of the USGS, and it wasn't focused on human health. Still, Hitt's paper, published in the peer-reviewed journal Freshwater Science, added to the growing body of scientific literature outlining the serious environmental impact of mountaintop removal.
Earlier this month, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency scientists Greg Pond and Margaret Passmore published a study reporting that "sustained biological impacts" of mountaintop removal could be found in creeks downstream from valley fills that were "reclaimed" up to 30 years ago.
The study, published in the journal Environmental Management, said that while the valley fills examined were built pursuant to permits issued under the strip-mining law and the Clean Water Act — which require mined land to be reclaimed to its original or higher use and mandate that mining not cause or contribute to water-quality violations — Pond and Passmore's team found "sustained ecological damage in headwaters streams draining" valley fills "long after reclamation was completed."
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The University of California released new data Thursday about its employees' earnings in 2013, including nearly 30 people who made more than $1 million.
UCLA Bruins basketball coach Steve Alford came out on top with $2.64 million in 2013, closely followed by Cal's ex-football coach Jeff Tedford ($2.44 million) and his successor Daniel "Sonny" Dykes ($2.37 million).
Seven of the 10 highest-paid employees on the list were coaches or athletic directors.
Coaches and top medical-center staff were the exclusive members of UC's million-dollar club, with earnings often including incentive pay and money from grants.
Of the 29 employees with seven-figure salaries, 28 were men.
The university system's payroll grew from $11.2 billion to $11.7 billion between 2012 and 2013, while its total workforce, including student and part-time workers, grew slightly to 194,800, according to the university's analysis. UC had about 101,000 full-time employees.
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Crime Stoppers is offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a driver who was involved in a hit-and-run accident in Detroit that claimed the life of a local middle school student.
Christopher Sandoval, 10, was killed in the March 3 incident in front of his house on Bringard near Cordell in the area of Eight Mile and Kelly roads on Detroit's east side. The driver apparently drove up on the curb, struck the boy and continued on. He also struck a garbage can Christopher was near and stopped to get out and dislodge the garbage can from beneath the vehicle before taking off.
"I feel (the driver) was on drugs or drinking and driving because there's no way he would jump curb, taking (Christopher) 200 feet and leave him to die," said Lisa Sandoval, the boy's mother at a press conference on Wednesday.
Christopher, a sixth-grader at Clintondale Middle School in Clinton Township, was taking the trash out at his mother's request when he was hit. Witnesses told police a man driving a 2000 or 2001 Dodge Ram pickup truck struck the child. The truck may have had a snowplow or bracket in the bed.
Investigators said the driver was a white man or light skinned black male with a mustache.
"He was a caring little boy," Lisa Sandoval said.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Crime Stoppers of Michigan at 1-800-Speak-Up. Callers can remain anonymous.


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Annie never goes anywhere without being prepared. She wears a bicycle helmet, sometimes even when she's not on a bicycle. She carries lots of band-aids. She checks for black widow spiders. She doesn't ride her bike fast or climb too high and she always, always wears sunscreen. Annie even does research looking up the symptoms of diseases in the medical encyclopedia so she can know right away if she's got something weird.
Annie knows there's a lot of dangerous stuff in the world and if you don't look for it, it might get you while you're not paying attention. Annie wants no more surprises. She's had one surprise and that's enough. Her older brother Jared suddenly died from an undiagnosed heart problem. Her parents, her friends, even her friend's dad who is a doctor…everyone keeps telling Annie not to worry so much, that she's just fine. But they all thought her brother was just fine too.
The thing is, it's hard to be so careful all the time and it isn't any fun either. Annie can't grow up covered in band-aids and walking around in a bicycle helmet. Luckily, she finds a kindred spirit in her new neighbor, Mrs. Finch, who has also lost a person close to her. Sometimes it takes a good friend who understands to help you find your smile and have fun again. Author: Lisa Graff
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I've been tweaking my bag lately, so I'd thought I'd use this as a log of how it changes and also to ask a couple questions. All discs are 166-172g.
beat in s-PD: straight distance, or long anhyzers
newer s-PD: big hyzers, or big s-curves
beat in star TL: tunnels, turnovers, anything requiring little fade (most often used driver)
newer star TL: anything i might use the beat TL for, but where fade is OK, and flipping is not OK.
beat in DX Roc: anything where very low fade is good, less than 250 feet (used quite a lot)
newer KC-pro Roc: hyzers or anhyzer-to-flex under 250 feet (least used disc)
two S wizards: putting and straight approaches, up to about 150 feet
Within the last few months I've gotten better snap and better spin, letting me throw the TL's for things that used to be teebird shots. I realized that my beloved beat TL doesn't have a backup, so I started using a new TL to wear down instead of a teebird. The weird thing is that the teebird used to be my favorite disc, so it was hard to take out of the bag, but the TL is doing good work.
I also just replaced my aviars with wizards because the aviars felt too soft in my hand and everyone here loves wizards.
I'm looking for recommendations for a pure distance driver. I just got a couple of cheap used wraiths but haven't tried them yet. I haven't used anything faster than a PD in a long time, but I can throw the PD 350-380 feet. I definitely don't want an ultra-super long range disc because they feel weird in my hand. I'm hoping the wraith has similar stability as the PD if they're thrown at the same speed (but with more fade from the wraith of course).


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Fairfax County Wins Seven NACo Achievement Awards
June 14, 2012
- Fairfax County received seven National Association of Counties (NACo) 2012 Achievement Awards, including one Best in Category, recognizing effective and innovative programs that contribute to and enhance county government in the U.S.
- Stormwater Management, Department of Public Works and Environment Services, wins Best in Category.
Awards went to the Department of Code Compliance; Department of
Housing and Community Development; Library; Animal Shelter; Office
of Public Affairs; and the Office of Public, Private
Stormy the Raindrop
Best in Category
Stormwater Management, Department of Public Works and Environmental Services
Lessons of aquatic health, environmental protection and personal responsibility are well received by young and old alike when delivered by the cheerful cartoon character "Stormy the Raindrop." The public education campaign encourages children to appreciate and take better care of their environment, and to pass on this desire to their peers and parents. The campaign includes two Stormy-themed activity books, puppet shows and numerous appearances at county events and venues.
Creation of the Department of Code Compliance
Department of Code Compliance
The Department of Code Compliance (DCC), a consolidation of multiple code enforcement functions into a new agency, began operations on July 1, 2010. It responds with multiple and coordinated efforts to complaints and code violations in a 'one-stop shop' approach, in addition to community outreach and education.
PROGRESS Center
Department of Housing and Community Development
A multi-faceted approach that seeks to end the cycle of poverty starts at the Housing PROGRESS Center where those in housing programs are given job and employment training and counseling, financial planning resources and human service assistance if needed.
Embracing E-Books
With the explosion of Kindles, Nooks, iPads and other mobile reading devices, the Library developed a comprehensive digital media strategy that integrates e-books, e-audiobooks and e-video into every aspect of library service, from staff training and customer workshops to marketing and seeking non-governmental funding to expand the collection.
Feral Cats: Traps, Neuter and Return Program
Police Department: Animal Shelter
Using an "army of trappers," the Animal Shelter introduced a humane, cost-effective program to control feral cats. Box traps are provided to volunteer residents and the collected felines are neutered and given a rabies vaccination. When they are returned to their original outdoor colonies, with marks on their ears, they help create "kitten-free" and "rabies-buffer" zones.
Communications Toolkit
Office of Public Affairs
The new Communications Toolkit ensures a common look and message in all county communications through a user-friendly Web portal that offers quick access to county guidelines. Developed by a committee of information officers and based on input from county staff, it can evolve with the county's communications needs.
V-16: Volunteer Leave Initiative
Office of Public, Private Partnerships
Volunteer activity leave is a unique employee benefit that provides up to 16 hours per year for each county employee to give back to the community. This innovative program not only is added value to the employees, but also increases the capacity for enhancing their overall sense of engagement, contributes to the local and regional community and gives the county a competitive recruitment advantage.
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Topic: Using the forum and family members
I am just wondering if there are many carers and their patents on here. What I mean is it seems like most are one or the other-that if the patient is a member, the carer isnt and vice versa. I am interested what it is like when both parts of the same diagnosis use the forum.
I very much believe that my husband would benefit from this site and posting here. Yet, I am scared to loose that one place of total emotional freedom to stress and worry and vent. Here, I dont have to pretend everything is fine and I can be raw if I need to. However, I feel selfish that Hans has no outlet for his questions and worry and to share his experience in the same way I have.
Can it work? Can both the patient and carer use this forum at the same time? I know that jules and her dad did but are there any others? I want Hans to have the same support I do, but I am selfish enough to want to continue to have here what I have now.
Does anyone have opinions on this or experience?
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Arcade Spotlight: Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum in Farmington Hills, MI
We're not going to focus just on straight up arcades in our Arcade Spotlight features. Sometimes we'll wander off into the weird and wacky, which is what we're doing with this week's spotlight. What are we talking about this week? None other than Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum.
Marvin's opened in 1990 and is a giant playhouse of mechanical wonders. It has almost every mechanical machine ever created, packed into one giant area. From old horror machines to the latest pins, Marvin's is truly a site to behold.
There's not a lot of information on his website, but that's probably the way Marvin likes it. Why spoil the surprise? We won't show you everything, but we do have some cool pictures of the place and a nice video from YouTube.
Marvin's has modern video games, posters, antiques, pinball machines, fortune telling machines, carnival rides. If it takes a coin, he's got it. We now have a reason to take a road trip to Farmington Hills, MI. Who's in?
Words don't really do the place justice. Check out some pics and the video below.
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Mary Chapin Carpenter Announces Fall Orchestral and Acoustic Tour
Mary Chapin Carpenter will have a busy — and diverse — fall. The songstress will embark on both an orchestral and an acoustic tour, crossing the country for a series of shows that will run through November.
Carpenter will perform her acoustic shows with pianist Jon Carroll and multi-instrumentalist John Doyle, with Tift Merritt serving as her opening act.
In addition, the New Jersey native will continue performing her orchestral concerts, singing songs from her 'Songs From the Movie' record, which was released in January. The project, which was recorded at Air Studios in London, features Carpenter's take on some of her most beloved tunes, under the direction of famed conductor Victor Mendoza.
Carpenter, who kicked off her orchestral tour last year, says the entire project has been a labor of love.
"The rehearsals are as physically challenging and mentally difficult as the show, in the sense that there's a lot of time spent on rehearsal, and you have to work very, very, very hard to get it going," she tells The Boot. "It's been one of the great experiences of my life to be able to present this music in this way. Every night that I get to sing with these amazing orchestras and follow the baton of Maestro Mendoza is an honor and something I'll never forget."
See a list of all of her upcoming shows below.
Mary Chapin Carpenter Orchestral Tour Dates:
Sept. 21 — New Albany, Ohio — Jeanne B. McCoy Community Center (with the New Albany Symphony Orchestra)
Sept. 29 — London, UK — Royal Albert Hall (with The London Concert and special guest Benjamin Scheuer)
Sept. 30 — Gateshead, UK — The Sage Gateshead (with Royal Northern Sinfonia and special guest Benjamin Scheuer)
Oct. 1 — Manchester, UK — Bridgewater Hall (with Manchester Camerata and special guest Benjamin Scheuer)
Oct. 2 — Edinburgh, UK — Usher Hall (with The Festival Orchestra and special guest Benjamin Scheuer)
Mary Chapin Carpenter Acoustic Tour Dates:
Oct. 10 — Santa Barbara, Calif. — Lobero Theatre
Oct. 11 — Thousand Oaks, Calif. — Fred Kavli Theatre
Oct. 12 — Cerritos, Calif. — Cerritos Center for the Arts
Oct. 14 and 15 — Berkeley, Calif. — Freight & Salvage
Oct. 16 — Chico, Calif. — Laxon Auditorium
Oct. 22 — Westbury, N.Y. — The Space at Westbury
Oct. 23 — Tarrytown, N.Y. — Tarrytown Music Hall
Oct. 24 — Northampton, Mass. — Calvin Theatre
Oct. 25 — Hartford, Conn. — Infinity Hall
Oct. 26 — Lebanon, N.H. — Lebanon Opera House
Nov. 7 — Clearwater, Fla. — Capitol Theatre
Nov. 8 — Melbourne, Fla. — King Center )
Nov. 9 — Jacksonville, Fla. — Florida Theatre
Nov. 10 — Newberry, S.C. — Newberry Opera House
Nov. 11 — Durham, S.C. — Carolina Theater
Nov. 13 — Florence, S.C. — Francis Marion Performing Arts Center
Nov. 15 — Bristol, Tenn. — Paramount Center for the Arts
Nov. 18 — Wilmington, De. — Grand Opera House
Nov. 19 — Ridgefield, Conn. — Ridgefield Playhouse
Nov. 20 — West Long Branch, N.J. — Pollack Theatre
Nov. 21-22 — Rockport, Mass. — Shalin Liu Performance Center


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WordonometryLanguage brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
You have just enrolled into a new class called "Wordonometry". Wordonometry involves adding and subtracting parts of words and using special functions on a word. On the first day of the class, you claim that you are new to the subject, so the teacher goes easy on you. He gives you the definitions of certain key functions that will aid you in today's warm-up problem:
ant = Change the word into an antonym of its former self. Example: ant(alive) = dead
syn = Change the word into a synonym of its former self. Example: syn(idiosyncratic) = strange
hom = Change the word into a homonym of its former self. Example: hom(straight) = strait
+bgn+ = Add the second word/fragment to the beginning of the first word/segment. Example: lick +bgn+ s = slick
+end+ = Add the second word/fragment to the end of the first word/fragment. Example: rob +end+ in = robin
You can use these functions in any order you need to change words into other words. Can you use the following functions to change HIGHER into THRIVE?
The functions are:
+bgn+ f
+end+ ish
HintUse the hom function before using the syn function and after the ant function.
AnswerUse the functions in this order:
ant(HIGHER) = LOWER
LOWER +bgn+ f = FLOWER
hom(FLOWER) = FLOUR
FLOUR +end+ ish = FLOURISH
syn(FLOURISH) = THRIVE
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Buffalo, NY 14203
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Advanced Orthopedic & Spine Center
Total Knee Replacement
Each year, approximately 500,000 people (two-thirds of them women) have knee replacement surgery. For the vast majority, the procedure eliminates pain and increases mobility, allowing them to return to a more fulfilling, active lifestyle. Total knee replacement, also called arthroplasty, is a routine surgical procedure that realigns the joint (bone end surfaces) with man-made materials such as plastic, ceramic or metal. It is preformed when the damage to the knee causes constant pain, loss of mobility and diminished quality of life. At Buffalo General Medical Center, orthopedic surgeons utilize the latest, most precise computerized navigational technology to ensure a perfect fit of the new knee joint.
Total Hip Replacement
Much like knee replacements, total hip replacement is indicated when range of motion becomes limited and substantial, continuous pain is present. The need for hip replacement surgery is usually caused by arthritis, injury or tumor. During total hip replacement surgery, the damaged parts of the hip are replaced with plastic and/or metal parts. The surgery basically rebuilds the hip by replacing the ball, socket and stem.
Hip and Knee Revisions
In the majority of cases, hip and knee replacements should function for 10-20 years. Due to time, injury, infection or wear on the joint, the implant function may deteriorate, causing pain, swelling, stiffness or instability. If this occurs, joint revision surgery may be indicated.
Shoulder Replacement
Total shoulder replacement surgery is less common than hip or knee replacements, but the process is basically the same. The damaged joint is replaced with a plastic and metal implant, which replicates a person's shoulder joint.
Orthopedic Oncology
Orthopedic oncology is the practice of treating tumors of the musculoskeletal systems. These tumors can be benign or malignant and can be in the bones or soft tissue like muscles. Treatment can range from active surveillance to surgery, radiation, and/or chemotherapy, depending on the status and location of the tumor.
Arthroscopic Knee and Hip Surgery
One of the most common orthopedic surgeries is arthroscopic knee and hip surgery. During the procedure, a camera is inserted through a very small incision (about a quarter of an inch). In a separate small incision, the surgeon inserts instruments to remove damaged ligaments or cartilage.
Arthroscopic Wrist and Ankle Surgery
Arthroscopic wrist and ankle surgery is used to repair ligaments, fractures, carpel tunnel syndrome, loose bone fragments, or inflamed or damaged joints caused by arthritis.
Foot Surgeries
Foot surgeries performed at Buffalo General Medical Center include bunion and hammer toe surgery and fracture repair.
Back and Neck Pain
Typically, pain of the back or neck is a benign, self-limiting disorder. Most patients spontaneously recover within a few days, weeks, or months. Patients with chronic pain will often recover more quickly if they enter into a rehabilitation or chiropractic program designed to strengthen core muscle groups in a structured way. Maintaining good nutrition, avoiding excess weight, practicing good body mechanics, and abstaining from tobacco products can also significantly reduce pain.
It is important to understand that surgery should be considered a last resort, but if surgery is appropriate, our spine group focuses on less-invasive and minimally invasive procedures to lessen the discomfort and down time associated with spine surgery. Not all patients, however, are candidates for minimally invasive surgery; sometimes a more traditional approach is necessary.
In general, surgery should be reserved for patients with intractable pain, instability of the spine, disk rupture, tumor, or nerve damage. Symptoms of a more severe condition may include leg pain associated with back pain or arm pain associated with neck pain. These combinations of symptoms often indicate that a cervical or lumbar disk--one of the rubber-like shock absorbers found between each vertebra in the spine--has ruptured and is compressing a nerve root. If this occurs, minimally invasive microsurgery can sometimes be performed to remove the broken pieces of disk. Because the surgery is conducted using microscope and microdissection techniques to minimize the disruption of normal tissue, surgery can result in immediate and dramatic pain relief, and can often be performed on an outpatient basis. After microsurgery, patients are usually able to return to their normal activities within days or weeks.
For cases of significant spinal instability, a more extensive procedure, such as interbody fusion, may be required to reduce or eliminate the abnormal motion responsible for the patient's pain. In recent years, even spinal fusions have increasingly been performed in a minimally invasive fashion, enabling shorter hospital stays and more rapid resumption of normal activities.
Minimally Invasive Spine Procedures
Vertebroplasty: A relatively new procedure, vertebroplasty stabilizes osteoporotic compression fractures to provide immediate pain relief. The procedure provides an instant internal vertebral body fusion as bone cement (methyl methacrylate polymer) is injected into a weakened vertebral body under fluoroscopic guidance. The treatment is performed with local anesthesia and some mild sedation. Vertebroplasty is also used for pain relief and stabilization of vertebral metastatic lesions and hemangiomas.
Similar to vertebroplasty is balloon kyphoplasty. In this procedure, tiny balloons are inserted into fractured vertebrae and inflated. The space created by the balloons is then filled with cement to support the bones and prevent further collapse.
Disc Surgery: Neurospine surgeons can treat lumbar disc ruptures using tubes smaller than 1-inch through the METRxTM Microendoscopic (METRxTM MED) system. In addition to allowing smaller, more cosmetic skin incisions, this technique avoids muscle cauterization and dissection techniques which can often be painful and prolong the recovery period. Instead, the muscle is spread (similar to the technique used in laparoscopic surgery) in such a way that when the procedure is over, the muscle can return to its normal preoperative state with minimal trauma. Patients often leave the hospital on the same day the procedure is performed.
Foraminotomy: Compressed or pinched nerves in the low back and neck can result in pain, numbness, and/or weakness in the arms and legs. The nerve is most often pinched in the bony canal as it exits the spinal cord to the body through an opening called a foramen. Instead of performing a traditional lengthy midline incision down the back, our surgeons are now able to place a small tube over the bony canal that is squeezing the nerve root. Once the tube is placed (under x-ray guidance and using wires with special dilators), a small amount of bone can be removed, freeing the affected nerve from the tight spinal canal. Many patients awake from surgery pain free and are often able to go home the next day.
Pedicle Screws and Interbody Fusion: Minimally invasive technologies have evolved to a point where it is now possible to insert fusion devices through a 26-mm tube, eliminating the need for large open incisions. With the aid of x-ray imaging, the screws required to stabilize the spine and keep the interbody device in place can also be inserted through small incisions and guided over wires into the proper location. For patients with pain on one side, discogenic back pain, or unilateral vertebral bone fractures, these minimally invasive approaches have produced good patient outcomes.


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1. Oregon (9-0)
QB Marcus Mariota's last three games: 39 of 49, 486 yards, seven TDs, no interceptions.
1. Oregon (9-0)
QB Marcus Mariota's last three games: 39 of 49, 486 yards, seven TDs, no interceptions.
2. Oregon State (7-1)
Beavers' opponents have converted only 24.1 percent of third-down plays.
3. Stanford (7-2)
Ed Reynolds has intercepted five passes, returned three for touchdowns.
Brett Hundley completed 16 straight passes vs. Arizona, one shy of Rick Neuheisel's school record.
A third consecutive loss would create the Trojans' longest streak since 2001.
6. Arizona (5-4)
QB Matt Scott questionable for Colorado with concussion, likely back for Utah next week.
7. Washington (5-4)
Austin Seferian-Jenkins leads the country's tight ends with 48 receptions.
8. Arizona State (5-4)
Sun Devils have outscored opponents 111-27 in first quarter, but have lost leads in three Pac-12 games.
9. Utah (4-5)
WSU's negative rushing yardage was first such production for a Utah opponent since 1981.
10. California (3-7)
Bears have to deal with Oregon now, and QB Zach Maynard is injured.
11. Colorado (1-8)
Buffs have had 18 players make their first career starts this season.
12. Washington State (2-7)
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text: Chicago Auto Show outperforming the pundits February 16, 2009 12:00 AM If you'd listen to economic and auto industry pundits, you might think you could shoot a cannon through the nation's biggest auto show and not hit a soul. But the combination of a beautifully staged show, a long weekend, good weather, big manufacturer incentives and the natural allure of a century-old Chicago tradition has proven those pundits wrong. "Our walk-up box office and online sales have been strong all weekend, and today we're absolutely slammed—and encouraged," said Chicago Auto Show General Manager Jerry Cizek. "We expected a big crowd for Presidents Day, but even we're surprised at the mass of people who have been streaming through our doors. We've added extra booths and ticket sellers to better accommodate the demand—and we couldn't be more pleased." The pre-show lineup at the box office was expected, "But we're well into lunch time and our lines are still going all the way across Lake Shore Drive," said Cizek. "It's a good problem to have and our team is working hard to connect consumers with the vehicles they're excited to see." The Chicago Auto Show is open daily through Feb. 22 at McCormick Place. To purchase tickets online and for full information visit www.ChicagoAutoShow.com. Back to News


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Minnesota's unemployment rate fell to 7.3 percent in September and there's a consensus among leading economists that the country has emerged from the longest, deepest recession in decades. But employers continue to shed jobs and people looking for work far outnumber the openings available, and that means more struggle for people who are already unemployed.
At a state-run job center in St. Paul, dozens of people occupy a row of computer terminals, quietly poring over job listings. Staff member Yvonne Simmons said signing up for unemployment is the first thing on the minds of most of the newly jobless she sees.
"People come in and talk about the possibility of being evicted or losing their home, not being able to pay their rent or put food on the table," she said. "It's getting to a critical state right now."
These days, Simmons is seeing more critical situations, and a lot more people.
As at other job centers around the state, demand for help here is up sharply. The St. Paul Workforce Center is serving about 25 percent more jobseekers now than it was before the meltdown last fall. Other centers have seen increases topping 50 percent compared to last year.
The Center's Luis Brown-Pena said the numbers are up, not just because of layoffs, but because job seekers are also staying unemployed a lot longer.
"It's getting to a critical state right now."Yvonne Simmons, Workforce staff member
"There are more people unemployed for one job so someone that was taking, let's say three months to get a job, now is taking twice the amount of time to get a job," Brown-Pena said.
Jerry Coleman was at the Workforce Center looking for work in a warehouse. He has been unemployed for more than a year and is broke and getting frustrated. But he said he's accepted that it may just take a while longer before he's back to work.
"I'm not discouraged, but it's just the economy is screwed up right about now. I'm hopeful," he said.
But hope is harder to come by the longer you're out of work. "You try not to let it get you down," said Catina Davis, a single mom in Oakdale.
Davis lost her job as a caseworker for disabled people more than a year ago, and cashed her last unemployment check in September. That makes her one of as many as 1,000 people a week in Minnesota who are exhausting their unemployment benefits.
Davis said her old job used to pay about $17 an hour, but she's now willing to take a job for minimum wage. But, she said, nobody is hiring.
"They say we do want to hire, but right now we don't have the funds to hire," she said. "That is what a lot of people say."
Davis just missed her first life insurance payment and said the stress is keeping her up nights. Last week, she rushed to the emergency room with chest pains, which the doctors blamed on stress, not a heart attack. Her doctor prescribed medication to deal with her stress-related ailments, but she can't afford to fill them. Davis said her situation makes her understand the desperation that pushes people past the breaking point.
"I had seen on the news where that man had killed his wife and his kids and himself," she said. "This economy, it would make you do something like that."
Davis recently wrote a letter to the White House urging President Obama to extend unemployment benefits to the jobless in all 50 states.
She might get her wish.
Congress is considering another extension. A measure under consideration in the Senate would provide a 14-week extension to all states, regardless of the unemployment rate. Another part of the Senate proposal would give extra benefits to states with an unemployment rate of 8.5 percent or higher. That threshold also holds for a House proposal to extend benefits.
Either way, Minnesotans will likely lose a 7-week extension already in place because the state's jobless rate fell again in September.
For her part, Davis isn't giving up yet. She still resumes her job hunt every day after her kids head off to school.


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LUTON Town have completed the loan signing of striker Andy Mangan until the end of the season.
Forest Green terminated the contract of the 27-year-old in early February after a lengthy disciplinary process, but still hold the registration for the player while an appeal process is ongoing with the Football Conference.
He made his name at Rovers, netting 26 goals in 41 league games, while was also a regular scorer for both Wrexham and Fleetwood.
Luton boss John Still said: "Andy's arrival strengthens the squad as we enter the final seven games of the season.
"He joined Forest Green this summer, where he had done well previously, but for whatever reason it hasn't worked out.
"It goes without saying how good his goalscoring record is and that is something which I am sure we will benefit from."
Mangan has been training with the Hatters since February and although the loan window closed last week, the documents were submitted in time with the striker provisionally registered, but a contractual issue needed to be resolved before the move was accepted by the Football Association and the Football Conference.
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Torrington accepting applications for Small Cities Program administrator
Published 12:00 am, Thursday, January 24, 2013
Torrington >> The city issued a request for proposal for its Small Cities Community Development Program Administrator on Jan. 22.
Torrington has requested proposals from qualified firms or individuals for professional and technical services that may be required in the slating of Torrington's 2013 Small Cities Community Development Program Application.
The selected individual or firm will work on both ends of the block grant; in the creation of the application and in the implementation of activities and programs resulting from approval of that application.
Larry Wagner, president of Wagner Associates, is the current Small Cities administrator. He has held the position for several years and said Wagner Associates will, "put our application in just like everyone else."
Torrington puts out a RFP for a program administrator every year. It is the first of many steps in the process of obtaining federal funding through the Small Cities Development Program.
Applications will be accepted until 11 a.m. on Jan. 31. There will then be a public hearing and a council resolution before the administrator is officially selected, said Wagner.
The Small Cities Community Development Program Application is due in April. Tim Waldron, mayoral administrative assistant, said the city plans to apply for a Housing Rehabilitation Grant through Small Cities this year. That is one possible project the city could implement should they be awarded federal funding.
"We have a really good track record," said Wagner. "Thirty years of funding, but not last year."
Torrington was not awarded any money through Small Cities last year.
Cities with populations less than 50,000 have to compete with each other for federal funding.
"Big cities don't have to be competitive," said Wagner. "They get the money regardless."
Funding is not guaranteed for small communities. The grant application is a big responsibility, therefore the appointment of a program administrator is an important step in the process.
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Photo Gallery: Inland Empire breweries
In recent years, the specialty beer scene in Los Angeles has taken off and now the Inland Empire seems to be catching up.
The new wave means beer aficionados no longer have to make the trek to Los Angeles or San Diego counties for handcrafted selections, but they can look no farther than their hometown or neighboring city.
San Bernardino County is home to Hangar 24 Craft Brewery in Redlands, Dale Bros. Brewery in Upland as well as Big Bear Mountain Brewery and Restaurant in Big Bear Lake.
This year alone, I & I Brewing in Chino opened in January. More than six months after that, two new locations also began serving up artisan hops – Chino Valley Brewing in Ontario and Claremont Craft Ales in Claremont.
And it doesn't end there.
Donkey Punch Brewery and Ritual Brewing Co, both based in Redlands, are expected to open some time this month. There are many more in different stages of development.
"We are getting all these breweries here and we want to be a place where people think of it as a destination, they can come and do a brewery tour. Hop around within a 15-mile radius where they start here and end up at Hangar 24," said Emily Moultrie, who is general manager of Claremont Craft Ales, which opened its doors in August.
Moultrie said she has noticed that customers will go to Chino Valley Brewery, then stop by their brewery in the industrial complex in the north part of town, and end up in Upland at Dale Bros.
"These are people who would have never have come to Ontario or Claremont before. They go on purpose to see the brewery," she said.
"We've all done it. We're a bunch of beer geeks and planned vacations around beer."
The craft beer scene
As Dale Bros. brewery gets ready to celebrate its newly expanded location at Cable Airport in Upland, it now means the brewery will be able to increase its production, including its well-known selection, "Pomona Queen."
The Upland Brewery will celebrate the grand opening of its 8,200 square foot brewery at Cable Airport, today with Oktober Fiesta, with live music, food trucks and beer tasting.
The brewery's move is significant for another reason – it puts a cap on the burgeoning beer scene in the Inland Empire, which, in the past year, has seen the opening of two breweries as well as a nanobrewery.
"The more (breweries) we have to offer the more we can change the culture, expand people's knowledge of what beer is and what it can be – all the different tastes. It's a rich beverage with a rich flavor," said Karen McMillen, general manager of Dale Bros.
Her husband, Andy Dale, and brother-in-law, Curt Dale, own Dale Bros, one of the first local breweries in the Inland Empire.
Another brewery, which many in the industry see as a business model worth emulating, is Hangar 24 Craft Brewery in Redlands. Ben Cook, who has been brewing for more than six years, is the founder and master brewer at brewery adjacent to the Redlands Airport.
In May, Hangar 24 Craft Brewery took home a first-place win at the 2012 Brewers Association World Beer Cup in San Diego for its Winter Warmer selection.
The growth has been fairly recent, Moultrie said. Just two years ago, when the creators behind Claremont Craft Ales were working on their business plan, the only local brewers in a 23-mile radius, besides Dale Bros., was Hangar 24, she said.
Moultrie opened the brewery along with her husband, Simon Brown, who is the director of the brewery operations. They are joined by business partners Natalie and Brian Seffer, who is the head brewer.
"There was good crop in Riverside but right in this circle of east Los Angeles County and western San Bernardino, the last three years have been crazy," Moultrie said.
McMillen echoed her sentiments.
"At that time we started seeing some new breweries, but it's been an explosion, three all new craft breweries. We think its fabulous," she said.
Strength in numbers
Why the sudden surge in breweries? McMillen thinks it has to do with the success of Hangar 24 and Dale Bros.
"It ends being up a lot of hard work and more difficult than people imagine in the beginning. That's why we try to help out others."
Even with the spike in local breweries none of them see themselves as competition. In fact, it's the opposite.
McMillen said she considers the craft beer industry to be very friendly – one where everybody helps each other out. She said she is excited to see the growth of the industry and what crops up next because they can all learn from each other, McMillen says.
"I think part of it stems from the fact that almost everyone who opens a craft brewery started out as a home brewer. And home brewing is often a collaborative venture among friends. Home brewers are always looking to connect with each other and share knowledge, ideas, equipment and war stories of brews gone bad – all over a couple of beers, of course."
Moultrie said she can attest to the helping hands of the Upland brewery. The Dale brothers were extremely helpful in helping Claremont Craft Ales brewery open, and it's why Moultrie is now trying to help friends who are thinking of opening up a brewery in Glendora.
It doesn't end there for Dale Bros., the new location may even have a tap available for up-and-coming homebrewers, McMillen said.
With the larger location, Dale Bros. will serve their own beer styles as well as from other brewers. They are also exploring the idea of bringing in homebrewers and giving them more of an outlet for their creativity.
Another reason why the breweries in the region embrace each other is because they know they provide something that can not be imitated.
Each brewery has a different focus or idea on how how they make their lager or ales.
"They are going to be made by a different person at each place and that person brings their own tastes, style preferences, knowledge and experience and what they like and what they want to serve," Moultrie said.
The new brewmasters
Those behind the handcrafted ales say they are aiming to provide more selections than what is often known in the beer community as the big three – Bud Light, Miller, Coors – which is mass produced and watered down.
Many brewers in the Inland Empire produce their one-of-a-kind ales using fresh and local ingredients such as orange-infused beer.
Partners Chuck Foster and Eric Millspaugh opened I & I Brewing in a Chino business park in January
The business venture is an outgrowth of their enjoyment of home brewing, and both say they are self-taught in the craft of ales, lagers and porters.
I & I Brewing is only open for tastings on Fridays and Saturdays.
Like many of the new locations in the Inland Empire, the brewers hold full-time jobs elsewhere, as Foster is a chemist and Millspaugh, a programmer.
They currently have more than a dozen beers on tap, including their interpretation of an American Oktoberfest. Their upcoming beers will feature a Cinnamon Papaya Belgian Dark Ale, a Belgian Pinapple Blonde and Peach Wheat Ale.
Business has been growing at both Chino Valley Brewery and Claremont Craft Ales. So much that both locations are now open Thursday through Sunday.
In Claremont, full-time jobs mean the brewmasters only brew once a week – on the weekends.
Right now, they typically have between seven and eight styles on tap. The goal is to expand to 16 taps in the near future.
The Claremont Craft Ales will always offer seasonal and speciality beers. Their flagship beer is the Jacaranda, a Rye IPA.
"No matter what kind of beer drinker you are, everybody loved it. People who say, `I'm not a beer drinker,' like this beer," Moultrie said.
Things are a little different for the guys at Chino Valley Brewery, a nano-brewery nestled among a row of industrial warehouses in Ontario.
On most days, brewer Matthew Maldonado and business partner Ray Duran spend nearly 10 hours a day, several days a week, brewing one of the five styles of beer that is produced by Chino Valley Brewery.
One of the newest Inland Empire breweries to serve up artisan hops offers everything from their own IPA, an English-style stout served on nitrogen, a porter to a Blonde.
What sets these brews apart from what you'll find in the grocery store is the ingredients, Maldonado said.
The Blonde Butterfield is one of the popular beers served at the Ontario Brewery. It's a light ale and something he recommends for people who don't like strong beers or are not use to drinking craft-style beers.
"Girls who don't usually drink beer drink it. Guys like it, too. It's our best seller and we seem to run out or we seem to be on the verge of running out of it on the weekends," Maldonado said.
Maldonado admits that he decided to brew a porter and stout because they are English-style beers, a personal preference.
The Foggy Morning Stout is a dark roasty beer, which has hints of chocolate and roasted coffee flavor.
He also uses milk sugar during the brewing process. It is served on nitrogen, something he said he doesn't see a lot in the Inland Empire.
As the business continues to grow, Maldonado said he would like to start by distributing their ales to restaurants and local pubs. If there is enough demand, they will most likely increase their operations. Ultimately, they would like to bottle their beers.
Staff writer Andrew Edwards contributed to this report.
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Taylor Swift recently had her own countdown to the release of her latest album, 'Red' on the homepage of iTunes. Since it's release, she's topped the iTunes charts with her songs from the album. This makes Blake and I wonder, if iTunes wasn't 'the thing', where would her countdown have gone instead? If iTunes didn't exist, where would you get your music from?


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Since we have a decent book thread going... what about movies?
Since the book recommendation thread has been so much fun to keep up with, shall we start a movie recommendation thread too?
What are your favorite movies?
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Oooh too much fun! These are just the ones I remember right now:
An Education
Angel Baby
Away From Her
Away We Go
Bend It Like Beckham
Finding Neverland
His Girl Friday
Indiana Jones
James Bond (almost all of them)
Little Miss Sunshine
Love, Actually
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Pan's Labyrinth
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Rabbit Hole
Roman Holiday
Rust and Bone
Sliding Doors
The Artist
The Constant Gardner
The Godfather pt 1 and pt 2
The Holiday
The One and Only (Den Eneste Ene)
The Princess Bride (although the book is better)
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...I also can't say enough good things about The Emperor's Club and Take the Lead. Very wholesome and inspiring movies. Oh! And the first Karate Kid!
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I think the recent Lincoln film was fantastic. My husband and I saw it twice. Daniel Day-Lewis' acting for the role of Abraham Lincoln was absolutely phenomenal. He did an incredible job of recreating Lincoln based on research, even using a tone of voice and walking with a specific gait that were described in correspondence between Lincoln's friends and relatives.
And of course I will always promote the Narnia films for family viewing, particularly The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. It has an eerily beautiful soundtrack--I walked down the aisle to one of the scores--and the setting is just enchanting.
May 30th, 2013 07:58 PM #9
Erm, I'm not a huge movie person, but lately, my two favorites are Olympus Has Fallen and the new Star Trek movie. Over the years, I've loved:
While You Were Sleeping (still probably my favorite)
A Cinderella Story
Becoming Jane
The Narnia movies
Pretty much any Jane Austen novel.
Two Weeks Notice
Leap Year
August Rush
The Sound of Music (gah, I watched this religiously as a child!)
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Hunger Games (I admit it! I'm such a dork. :/)
The Holiday
Step Up
The Avengers (And Iron Man, and The Incredible Hulk, and Thor, and Captain America... guilty!)
Battle: Los Angeles
Spiderman (the new one, with Andrew Garfield!)
All the President's Men (I was a writing major, and a history buff--what do you expect? )
The Patriot
Johnny Tremain
Knight and Day
The Proposal
The Back-Up Plan
Usually I love the super-ooy-gooey romantic movies, but lately I've been in an action sort of mood.
ETA: I don't know how I missed Sherlock Holmes (seriously! They need to make a third one!), Ever After, Ella Enchanted... I'll probably edit again to add. Many times.
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Nuts seems to be all over pizza menus these days, and it's more than just the relatively traditional instances of pine nuts and pesto-like purées. I recently enjoyed pistachios on Brooklyn Central's Coney Island Pie, and our round-up of fancy pants pizza cheeses included a topping recommendation of hazelnuts, shaved apple, and balsamic glaze.
Do you "do" pizza nuts? And if so, how do you like 'em served?
About the author: Niki Achitoff-Gray is the editor of Slice and a part-time student at The Institute of Culinary Education. She's pretty big into pizza. Also, she likes offal. A lot.