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CARSON, Calif.—While it appears that Saturday's MLS Cup final will be played beneath the shadow of David Beckham's departure, all of American soccer is facing the specter of Landon Donovan's potential retirement.
Donovan, the Los Angeles Galaxy captain who also is the U.S. national team's all-time leading scorer, first discussed his fatigue and flagging motivation in May. He hasn't changed his tune much since, despite helping his club reach its third MLS Cup final in four seasons.
Donovan, 30, told The Los Angeles Times this week that following Saturday's game he is "going to take as much time as I need and decide if and when I'm ready to come back. I can't put a time frame on that. If it takes two weeks and I'm ready to go again or two months or a year or two years. Or never. I don't know."
On Thursday, as the competing teams, league officials and media began gathering in Southern California in anticipation of Saturday's match, both Beckham and MLS commissioner Don Garber lobbied publicly for Donovan's return.
"Landon's a great player. He's a great talent. He's a special talent on this team and a special talent in this country," Beckham said. "He's still young. I personally hope that he doesn't stop playing because I believe he still has a few good years left in him.
"Whether he needs a break or to step away from the game for a while and then come back, 30 years old is still young. You know I hope he continues, so let's hope this is not his last game. And let's hope when he spoke about how he didn't have the hunger like he used to, let's hope it was just a moment that he had."
Despite the nagging injuries and his apparent increasing discomfort with the responsibilities and pressures associated with his fame, Donovan has played well this season when fit. He exploded for a hat trick in an exhibition against Scotland shortly after his initial comments on the subject and has been a key contributor, when healthy, for the Galaxy.
He had nine goals and 14 assists in the regular season, tied for the second-highest combined total of his career, and added one goal and three assists during the playoffs.
"What we're faced with now is a 30-year-old elite athlete who started at 16," Galaxy associate head coach Dave Sarachan told the Times. "So he's accumulated a lot of minutes and miles. Eventually, things start to wear down and it's new to Landon. Mentally, it was a hard year for Landon from that standpoint. But when he's been healthy, he's been the most influential player we've had."
Beckham said Thursday that Donovan's issues off the pitch haven't affected him on it.
"From what I see, when he's on the training field and on the (game) field, his hunger is still there for me. I hope a talented player like him continues to play for this club," the Englishman said.
The timing of Donovan's decision will have a significant impact on the Galaxy. The club already knows it must replace Beckham, but Donovan's departure would open up another designated player spot that coach Bruce Arena would have to fill in relatively short order. The offseason is brief. The Galaxy are scheduled to open the CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinals during the first week of March.
The absence of Donovan's slashing runs through midfield and quick, decisive combination play with striker Robbie Keane would change the Galaxy's look considerably. A hiatus or retirement would leave a deeper impact on the sport itself.
Donovan has five goals across three World Cup tournaments, won three CONCACAF Gold Cup and four MLS Cup titles and been named U.S. Soccer's athlete of the year a record four times. He was the first American-born player to go mainstream. For that reason, and many more, Garber is in no hurry to say goodbye.
"We certainly hope that he's here until he's 37 years old like David is," Garber said Thursday at The Home Depot Center. "I got criticized by one of the on-air broadcasters for talking about how important (Donovan) was in helping to build Major League Soccer and build soccer in America.
"I read these quotes that there were all these guys in the old days of the NASL. That might have been true in the '70s, but Landon has played here since he was 17 years old and has become the face of American soccer and I think really will be viewed as one of the key drivers of the success of the sport overall in our country.
"And I hope he has many more years left."


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National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day - What You Can Do
Sometimes we make jokes about our mental health, but serious mental illness is a real problem among young people in this country. Did you know that an estimated 4.5 to 6.3 million youth in the United States face mental health challenges? Read More »2 Comments
Addiction For Real
If you were the producer of a crime show on TV, and your police officer character was a chain smoker, how would you write the scene where he chases a criminal down the street? A chain smoker would probably be winded, because of less lung room. So you'd show him panting and out of breath. Read More »0 Comments
Drugs and Violence Go Hand-in-Hand
Mean Girls…or Violent Girls? A recent national survey (the National Survey on Drug Use and Health) found that more than one-quarter (26.7%) of girls age 12 to 17 reported engaging in some kind of violent behavior in the last year. Whaaat? Read More »5 Comments
Alcohol and Drugs Don't Mix
A recent episode of the hit TV show "Glee" focused on the problem of underage drinking. Called "Blame It on the Alcohol," the episode depicted glee club members narrowly avoiding school suspension for drinking on school grounds—never a smart idea! Read More »28 Comments

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July 20, 2014
A thunderstorm raged across Carson Valley this afternoon, leaving flooding and lightning caused fires in its wake.
Hardest hit was Fish Springs where flood waters closed the road into the neighborhood. According to the National Weather Service, 1.35 inches of rain fell in Fish Springs.
"It's pretty tough at Fish Springs and Johnson Lane," Sheriff Ron Pierini said. "They were hit pretty hard."
Floodwaters were crossing Highway 395 at Mica Drive, slowing traffic.
A foot of mud was reported across the roadway at Long Drive in Sunridge, and residents reported flooding in their homes. In places firefighters reported 6-12 inches of mud over the road, which serves the golf course community between Indian Hills and the Carson River.
Roads also closed by flooding included East Valley Road and Johnson Lane. Water was ponding on roads across the Valley.
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The parking lots at Carson Valley and Clear Creek plazas, along with Fuji Park and the Carson City Costco had standing water.
Waterloo and Lampe in Gardnerville experienced flooding.
Rain started over the Pine Nut Mountains at about 1:33 p.m. when a severe weather statement was issued by the Weather Service.
At around the same time a lightning strike started a fire near Sunrise Pass Road.
Repeated strikes were seen across the Pine Nuts and then spreading out over the rest of the Valley has heavy rain fell in the east Valley and then moved west.
A building suffered roof damage at Johnson Lane and Wildhorse, and a tree was blown down at the Johnson Lane General Store.
Homes were struck by lightning on Mountain Ash and Scarlet Oak. A fire was reported near Five-Creek in the Jobs Peak subdivision.
Major flooding was reported in Fish Springs, closing Fish Springs Road. Nell Way in Fish Springs was reported to be a river with several homes cut off.
East Valley Road is covered by flood waters. Sterling Ranch Road was also blocked.
A resident manned a grader and ran up and down Stephanie clearing debris.
A line of thunderstorms stretched from Sacramento to Battle Mountain.
At Lake Tahoe flooding sent mud and debris across Highway 50 and Kingsbury Grade. Tahoe Douglas firefighters reported numerous cases of hypothermia experienced by motorists in convertibles and Jeeps, motorcyclists and boaters.
According to the National Weather Service, 2.9 inches of rain fell at Glenbrook. Minden saw 1.21 inches of rain fall in an hour and 20 minutes.


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Should early childhood education be provided at preschool or by parents? That's the question lawmakers are grappling with as they consider HB96, which would provide funding for optional early childhood education for at-risk kids.
On Monday at 12:15 p.m., Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams, Eagle Forum president Gayle Ruzicka and Tribune education reporter Lisa Schencker join Jennifer Napier-Pearce to talk about the home-versus-pre-K debate.
You can join the discussion by sending questions and comments to the hashtag #TribTalk on Twitter and Google+, or submit comments in the comment section below this story.


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retrofuturist wrote:That said, we're all in the same boat, lay or ordained,
PadmaPhala wrote:what if she isn't on the boat/stream?
barcsimalsi wrote:Though a little off topic i like to know what you guys think about this.
Ben wrote:PadmaPhala wrote:what if she isn't on the boat/stream?
What if she is?
barcsimalsi wrote:In Asia, there are many stories about buddhist bachelor finding wife(mostly ladies from poor rural community) simply for the purpose of having someone to take care of their business and household so they themselves can devout their time more on practicing the dhamma.
My first impression to this is it will be quite unfair for their spouses. And the response i got is "as long as they treat their wife good, all is good".
Though a little off topic i like to know what you guys think about this.
nem wrote:....and trash wife....crappy family.... married to some crazy women and having some crazy children.


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Despite the outward appearance of growth with the recent announcement about the addition of Bombardier Global 6000s to its fleet, NetJets Europe is seeking further voluntary redundancies from its pilot workforce in response to prolonged softening in demand for fractional shares and jet cards, the company confirmed. It has begun a consultation process with flight crews, repeating an exercise that it embarked on three years ago at the height of the financial crisis.
"In 2009, due to the global economic environment, we launched a voluntary options program to manage excess crew levels at NetJets Europe due to a decrease in flight demand," NetJets Europe told AIN. "Forecasts indicate that market growth will not resume to previous levels for a number of years. To align our crewing levels with customer demand, we have put forward a voluntary redundancy proposal to our pilots and are undergoing a consultation process. As this is an internal matter, it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage."
The options offered to pilots in 2009 included long- and short-term leave of absence, job sharing, part-time work or voluntary redundancy. At the time, this approach achieved the company's goal of reducing flight crew capacity by 60,000 pilot duty days per year. Back then, it employed 1,046 pilots, and 87 of these took voluntary redundancy with many more opting for job sharing. Sources close to NetJets' flight crew have told AIN that NetJets Europe is seeking to reduce its payroll to around 650 pilots, an approximate one-third cut. However, the actual number of active pilots on the company's roster following the 2009 consultation is 719, taking account of the various voluntary options exercised by crew.
D.S.. yeah that... (not verified)
October 12, 2012 - 1:46am
Somehow this comes as no suprise..... For the last 2 years W.B. has praised his "executive teams" on how well they "turned around" Netjets...
What most of us employees know is they didn't turn around anything. All they did was cut costs as much as possible to give an appearance of turning the ship around. We all saw what was really going on. Business has not gotten any better. It has gotten worse. And all the while the "executive team" has done nothing but pat themselves on the back..
The "executive teams" are completely inadequate for the task. Their only plan for the next 10 years is to shrink. How is that a plan? Someone explain that to me...
CHICK (not verified)
October 12, 2012 - 4:43pm
As you are all aware, NetJets Europe has over the last few years faced unprecedented market conditions.
The prolonged downturn in the economy has led to a fall in demand generally for business aviation. In the circumstances, we have had to look at whatever steps we can take to control and reduce our own costs to safeguard the competitiveness of our business.
We have already implemented a comprehensive set of measures to reduce and control costs. Both the Voluntary Options and the more recent Voluntary Separation programme sought to minimise impact on pilots as far as possible and were initiated in good faith to avoid having to terminate employment on the grounds of redundancy, in the hope that in due course the economy would pick up.
As the Voluntary Options programme comes to an end within the next 15 months and following the final swap of most crew members to their job share year on, we have had to look again at the number of pilots we employ and compare this with anticipated demand.
Last year, when we launched the Voluntary Separation programme, we informed you that our forecasts indicated that at the end of the Voluntary Options programme, the probability was that we would still have too many pilots when compared with likely flight demand. The Voluntary Separation programme was therefore intended to help address this. Although the offer of voluntary separation was taken up by 152 employees, unfortunately, in the light of continued lower flight demand, this was not sufficient to address the issue of over-capacity of pilots. We expect that trading conditions across Europe will remain fragile and, based on our current forecasts, we do not expect to see a return to the levels of demand that would require our present crewing levels for several years. In the circumstances, it is critical for the future of the business that we take steps now to address this issue.
Currently, we employ 780 pilots of whom 529 are pilots-in-command (PICs) and 251 are seconds-in-command (SICs). Our assessment is that, whilst we do not have any excess of SICs (and they are not therefore affected by this proposal), we need to reduce the total number of PICs by 128.
In addressing this matter, we have to take account of another issue facing the business which is a significant change in European social security regulations. As you are aware from previous communications, the current position is that under EU law the UK system of social security contributions applies to crew employed by NetJets Management Limited (NJML). However, a new European regulation that has come into force now affects the social security regime applicable to crew based upon the country in which their gateway is located. We estimate that based on current crew levels and social security rates, these changes will cost the business an additional €6.3m per year in employer contributions.
In light of the position outlined above, we have formulated proposals to address the issues we face as a business. Unfortunately these proposals would involve job losses. These proposals are subject to consultation with employee representatives to be elected by the affected employees.
Our proposal is to reduce the number of PICs employed by NJML from 529 to 401, i.e. a reduction of 128.
If possible, we would like to avoid the need to make any compulsory redundancies. We therefore propose to offer voluntary redundancy to PICs with gateways in the six countries with the highest employer social security rates. These are listed below in descending order (i.e. of the six countries France has the highest rate and Hungary the lowest):
Country Number of PICs with gateways in that country as at 5 October 2012
France 105*
Belgium 61
Czech Republic 2
Sweden 9
Italy 10
Hungary 1
* PICs with Basel and Geneva gateways have been included in the total number of PICs with gateways in France and will be given the opportunity to opt for voluntary redundancy. Further clarification is required from the authorities regarding the treatment for social security purposes of PICs with these gateways before we can confirm whether or not such PICs would be included in any compulsory redundancy exercise.
PICs with gateways in these countries will under the proposal have the option to leave with a one-off compensation payment equivalent to 15 months' base salary (less applicable tax and social security payments) regardless of seniority. This sum will include any individual notice pay and redundancy payment entitlements but, clearly, will be well in excess of the value of those entitlements.
If the necessary reduction in the number of PICs cannot be achieved through voluntary redundancy, then the proposal is to select PICs for compulsory redundancy based first on the employer social security rates of their gateway country and secondly, where employees have gateways in the same country, by reference to their salary costs. It is proposed that PICs who are made compulsorily redundant would receive their contractual notice and a redundancy payment calculated in accordance with UK law but not any enhanced severance package.
In addition to the proposals outlined above, we have decided that, while gateways in the following countries will remain open for PICs and SICs already operating from those gateways, they will be closed to new moves:
France Belgium
Czech Republic Sweden
Italy Hungary
Finland Norway
A revised gateway policy reflecting these changes will be circulated to all crew members today and comes into force with immediate effect.
From today all permanent gateway moves will be suspended for the duration of the consultation period.
Consultation and Election of Employee Representatives
As stated above, these proposals are subject to consultation with employee representatives to be elected by PICs with gateways in France, Belgium, Czech Republic, Sweden, Italy and Hungary.
Details of the main functions of these representatives can be found at: http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId=1074477056&typ....
The company therefore invites PICs to elect:
• two representatives for PICs with gateways in France (the France Constituency);
• two representatives for PICs with gateways in Belgium (the Belgium Constituency); and
• two representatives for PICs with gateways in Czech Republic, Sweden, Italy and Hungary (the Third Constituency).
As a PIC with a gateway in one of the relevant countries, you are entitled to nominate an individual for election as an employee representative. You may nominate yourself or any other PIC with a gateway in the same constituency as yourself. For example, PICs with gateways in France can only nominate themselves or any other PIC with a gateway in France. PICs in the Czech Republic may nominate themselves or any other PIC with a gateway in the Czech Republic, Sweden, Italy or Hungary.
Your nominee must be an employee of NJML. Please also check that your nominee is willing to stand as a candidate for election.
Employee representatives will serve until the end of the consultation process which is anticipated to last until 31 January 2013. It is anticipated that the first meeting with employee representatives will take place on 31 October 2012 and that subsequent meetings may take place at regular intervals thereafter.
If you wish to nominate yourself or someone else for election, please complete the nomination form (at the end of this email and attached). In the case of a nomination of a colleague, your form must be accompanied by an email from the nominee agreeing to stand for election. Nomination forms received after this date will not be considered.
If more nominations are received than the number of vacancies, then a secret ballot will be arranged to elect employee representatives. Each PIC in a constituency will be entitled to two votes. The ballot will be conducted by Electoral Reform Services (an independent body) in order to ensure fairness, accuracy and confidentiality.
If you have any questions in relation to the proposals set out above or the consultation process, please send them by email to email@example.com. I have also attached answers to some FAQs for your information.
I appreciate that the announcement of these proposals is likely to cause significant concern and great uncertainty. As soon as the representatives have been elected we will commence detailed consultation with them and in addition we will keep you informed of developments throughout the consultation process. In the meantime, I would ask you to continue to focus on delivering to our customers the highest standards of safety and service.
Chief Operating Officer
Discover the Bombardier Global 6000,
the new flagship of the NetJets fleet.
Chad Trautvetter
October 12, 2012 - 4:50pm
Please don't include phone numbers and/or email addresses in comments – I've removed those in the post above. Thanks!
D.S.. yeah that... (not verified)
October 13, 2012 - 6:40pm
The e-mail should simply state....
"Our forecasts have been completely wrong year over year..... Somehow, even though we are receiving a very high level of pay, we seem to be wrong more often than not. Especially when it concerns the forecasted sales and revenue data. We realize if the employees were wrong as often as us, aircraft would be falling out of the sky. But since we are only critiqued by ourselves, and the old koot in Omaha checks up on us once a quarter, and as long as we "show a profit", things will remain good on our end."
....."we realize our forecasts have been off by nearly a half a decade or more. And we do apologize for not being even remotely accurate. It is what it is, so we'll throw a bunch of excuses your way and try not to go over your head with difficult jargon that no regular employee could possibly understand. Just trust us when we say that we're doing a great job. But we still need to squeeze out as much from you all as we can."


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Trowbridge snooker player Stephen Lee has had the second part of his appeal against his 12-year ban from the sport dismissed.
The hearing for the second part of Lee's appeal against the ban concluded on Monday, with the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) announcing that a decision was expected later this week.
Lee, of Birch Gardens, Hilperton, was given the ban last September after being found guilty of seven charges of match-fixing dating back to 2008 and 2009.
The 39-year-old, a former world number five, has continually protested his innocence.
His two-part appeal began with him challenging the use of Adam Lewis QC as chair of the independent disciplinary tribunal that heard the case and, in February, Lee was unsuccessful in that instance.
In the second part of the appeal, he challenged the finding, sanction and the costs order of £40,000 imposed by Adam Lewis QC in September 2013.


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On March 18, a naked man pulled a catheter from his groin and disregarded mental health workers who tried to keep him in Ukiah Valley Medical Center. He was tazered repeatedly by Ukiah police.
Last Wednesday, March 20, the Mendocino County Mental Health Board expressed hopes that a crisis intervention team, or CIT, could be created here like the one in Sonoma County. Karen Lovato, a county behavioral health top staffer, attended training where law enforcement officers were learning how to keep some of such situations from escalating. Lovato attended with a jail and a sheriff's deputy, a Willits police officer and Fort Bragg Police Officer Angie Wilder.
"The five of us were there to get the wheels turning on what more we can do in Mendocino County," said Lovato.
Sonoma's crisis team
Sonoma County is one of a handful of counties to have a crisis intervention team. The team was created following the shooting death by police of 17-year-old Jeremiah Chass in Sebastopol. That March 2007 shooting led to a $1.75 million settlement by the county and considerable discussion of the issue in the community.
A CIT features mental health workers and police working together to stabilize mental health and substance abuse problems at home, rather than arresting people or sending them to the mental hospital for a minimum 48-hour commitment.
The Sonoma County CIT recently lost its grant money for the second time and is now operated by the sheriff's department. There is just one team in Sonoma. The teams have struggled for funding in every county where they exist. The Sonoma CIT works only in the afternoons and is confined to a central geographical area of the county.
In Mendocino County, staff cutbacks have left just four longtime mental health employees in Fort Bragg. A plan is under way that may transfer all but a small handful of the remaining jobs in the county to a private provider of adult mental health services. Those who now respond to a local crisis have a wide variety of training and long response times for the coast.
Local hospitals and law officers end up dealing with more of the adult mental health problems than in many other counties. Lovato found the CIT training helped educate both law officers and mental health workers as to the different challenges and choices each face.
Being surrounded by lots of guns, batons and badges, Lovato was surprised to learn how those items could actually influence dealing with a mental patient. Lovato said a mental health worker will sometimes squat down to appear less threatening to a patient.
"With everything they have on their belt, doing that can create an officer safety issue. Something so simple to me was challenging to them," she said.
Jail vs. 5150 hold
In counties where CIT teams exist, they are as much about getting law enforcement and mental health workers to see more of each other's perspectives.
"One of the things that surprised me at the training, which is not going to be very popular. ... When presented with somebody who is in a behavioral health crisis and has a capacity for violence and distress, they proposed that jail is the most appropriate place. They can be held longer and treated longer in the jail than on a 5150 hold," said Lovato.
"It was as controversial an idea in that room as it is, I imagine, in this one," said Lovato.
The term "5150" refers to Section 5150 of the California Welfare and Institutions Code, which allows a person to be taken into custody for 72-hour treatment and evaluation if they are thought to pose a danger to themself or others as a result of mental disorder.
The notion surprised several in the audience of two dozen people, who understood that mental health treatment in jail was minimal.
James Bassler, who heads the mental health boards' jail committee, said that is true in Mendocino County.
"In Sonoma County, from what I have been told, there is a real hospital setting with serious treatment going on," Bassler said.
Some at the meeting said Mendocino County's jail system is getting better, if still sparse. The board heard two psychiatric R.N.s work part-time in the jail. A screening system is used and has been improved. A doctor is available by computer consultation, the board heard.
Lovato said the state's 5150 laws which were passed in 1968 need to be updated.
In 1968, mental health care was considered a behavioral issue, whereas now the scientific community sees mental illness to have chemical causes, Lovato wrote in a handout she provided to the board and audience of about 20 people.
Supervisor Hamburg
That characterization by Lovato brought an objection from Mendocino County Supervisor Dan Hamburg, who is serving the one-year supervisor term on the Mental Health Board. Hamburg said calling mental health issues chemically based is also incorrect.
"It's just so much more complicated than that," said Hamburg.
Hamburg also expressed disappointment that the Ukiah Police Department didn't send anybody to the training. He said that department, in his personal experience, has a need for more training in how to respond to mental health crises.
Society's understanding of mental illness has come a long way. Back in 1968, homosexuality was still officially defined as a mental illness. People with mental illness were often locked away for life in asylums, a practice now considered barbaric. Mental health patients are now treated at home as much as possible.
Since 1968, much greater patient privacy has also evolved. While the term patient has evolved into "clients" and "consumers," civil rights have actually become less important, especially in recent years.
Some of this is because of what has happened in society in general. Other changes are sought because of dramatic violence perpetrated by a tiny fraction of mental health clients.
"For law enforcement there are more stringent laws for destroying property (than for not heading off violence). They are more likely to be sued for breaking and entering in somebody's home than they are people protecting people for their own safety," Lovato said.
"The end result is that law enforcement is sometimes prevented from [taking action]. That surprised me," Lovato said.
Another area where the medical and law enforcement establishment is evolving is what has traditionally been called "dual diagnosis." A person with dual diagnosis suffers mental health and substance abuse issues at the same time. For most of the past 20 years, mental hospitals wouldn't treat people with methamphetamine, alcohol or other such substances in their systems.
Nowadays, the effort is to treat it all together, hence the fact that Lovato works with a renamed county behavioral health department.
"There is a huge movement to change the discussion of mental health and substance abuse into a discussion of behavioral health issues," Lovato told the mental health board.
By the end of the meeting the mental health board was still excited about the idea of a local CIT, but tempered when they heard how small the program is and that MHSA funding can't be used, meaning county funding would be needed.
Chairman Jim Shaw asked for several pieces of new information on how the county could go forward and how the mental health board could help.
NAMI funding training
Lovato, who for many years was a mental health crisis worker in Ukiah, mentioned that the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) had provided a version of the training in Mendocino County. That last happened in 2010.
Rodger Ruge, owner and founder of Ready Force Inc. and HeroTalk, helps provide the Sonoma training. Sonya Nesch of NAMI will facilitate two training sessions on the Mendocino Coast this summer by Ready Force. The Fort Bragg Police Department, Mendocino County Sheriff's Department and NAMI are co-sponsoring the training. One seminar will be for law enforcement and mental health, the other for the general public, Nesch said.
NAMI is using for the training $750 of the $1,000 in proceeds it has gotten from Sheriff Tom Allman and Stephen Sparks' book, "Out There in the Woods." The book documents the Aaron Bassler case, from the fatal shootings of Fort Bragg City Councilman Jere Melo and forest manager Matt Coleman to the dramatic search and the death of Bassler at the hands of law enforcement.
"The way the book is written it really makes people think about mental health as an issue," said Nesch.
The Mendocino Coast Sports Foundation and The Community Foundation of Mendocino County, Matt Coleman Fund, also got $1,000 each from the book sales so far, Nesch said.
The Aaron Bassler case raised local awareness of the need for earlier intervention by those with mental health issues caught in the legal system. His father, Jim Bassler, tried to get mental health help for his son before the summer-long incident in 2011 that prompted the book. Jim Bassler joined the mental health board partly to try to prevent such things from happening to other families.


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Is it viable (is it desirable) to arrange for it to feed its questions to Perl Monks as new nodes in Seekers of Perl Wisdom [perlmonks.org], even if it's not possible to set up a reverse feed for answers? That way, at least the questions get dropped straight into the attention zone of the Perl Monks users, which I think greatly increases the chance that some would log into StackOverflow to post a proper answer there. (Or an answer distilled from the wisdom of multiple Perl Monks.)
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PHOENIX -- Brewers third baseman Aramis Ramirez is pain-free and hoped to remain so Monday, when he ran his sprained right knee through its toughest test yet.
"Today, I'm going to move around a little bit more," Ramirez said before his morning workout. "Take grounders to the sides and run the bases, so I'll have a little bit better idea today where I am."
Ramirez, who was injured sliding into second base on March 2, took batting practice and fielded grounders on Sunday with no ill effects. He planned to add lateral movement to his field work on Monday, fielding and running on a back field at Maryvale Baseball Park.
Manager Ron Roenicke said it is unlikely Ramirez will return before Thursday's off-day.
"He's wanting to push it and get back out there," Roenicke said. "But we still have to go slowly. The running the bases will be probably the last thing he needs to do. He needs to be able to cut corners running. The swinging, there is no issues whatsoever."
Said Ramirez: "Everything is going good. I don't feel any pain right now, so I'm going to do some more stuff today and see how it feels."
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Terry J. Klopfenstein, Ph.D., professor of ruminant nutrition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was recognized for his professional achievements by the Federation of Animal Science Societies (FASS) on July 17. This is the 65th year the American Feed Industry Association has presented nutrition research awards, and the ninth consecutive year AFIA has sponsored the FASS award.
The FASS New Frontiers in Animal Nutrition Award, which is similar to a lifetime achievement award, was presented to Klopfenstein during a recent conference of animal science societies in Phoenix, Arizona. A committee of FASS members selected Klopfenstein for the honor, which was presented by Dr. Tom Earleywine, Land O'Lakes Milk Products, on behalf of AFIA. Dr. Earleywine is chair of the AFIA Nutrition Committee.
The purpose of the New Frontiers in Animal Nutrition Award is to stimulate, acknowledge and reward pioneering and innovative research relevant to animal nutrition. Among the qualities the award recipient must demonstrate are outstanding and innovative contributions to nutrition research concerning animals that benefit mankind and/or the nutritional value of food from animals.
Dr. Klopfenstein specializes in beef production systems, forage and protein utilization, waste management, protein nutrition and growing and finishing cattle. He is an internationally respected scientist and dedicated teacher who has given the livestock industry outstanding leadership and service during his 45 years of teaching and research.
Dr. Klopfenstein earned his bachelor's in animal science and his master's and doctorate degrees in ruminant nutrition from The Ohio State University, where he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1983. He joined the University of Nebraska in 1965 and held the Wagner Professorship from 1989-2007.
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Other prestigious awards include the AFMA-ASAS Nutrition Award, the 2004 U.S. Department of Agriculture's Honor Award and the Mexican Association of Animal Production Distinguished Honorary Member Award. He was also honored with establishment of The Terry Klopfenstein Student Excellence Fund, an endowment at Nebraska-Lincoln which provides scholarships.
As a leader in the industry, Dr. Klopfenstein has served as president of the Federation of Animal Science Society, the American Society of Animal Science and the Midwest Section American Society of Animal Science.
To date, he has authored 265 refereed articles, 561 abstracts, and 636 technical publications and mentored over 150 graduate students.
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The Samsung SyncMaster 2232GW sports a hefty price, over $350 on PriceGrabber, but you do get a lot out of it. It sports 2ms grey to grey response, a 1680x1050 native resolution and colours that Think Computers found to be quite impressive. It is simple compared to some other monitors, having only 3 plugs, power, VGA and DVI, no audio, USB or iPod Docks, just the basics. I do wonder why so many display manufactures set these larger displays top resolution just short of the 1920x1080 required for HD viewing, but that is exactly what we are seeing.
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In 2006, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Foundation received the gift of six medieval wooden sculptures - fragments from the Altarpiece of the Virgin from the church of Boussu- lez-Mons (Belgium). The group had been acquired from the art trade that same year. The fragments and other statuettes from the Schoufour-Martin Collection were exhibited in the museum from 16 February to 25 May 2008. Accompanying the exhibition was the catalogue Uit het goede hout gesneden.
In the course of the exhibition the museum was told that the sculptures had been stolen from the church of Boussu-lez-Mons in 1914. Although the theft was outside the statute of limitations the museum decided to launch an inquiry and began discussions with the Municipality of Boussu on the possible return of the objects. After careful consideration it was decided to give the sculptures to the church on permanent loan, provided steps were taken to optimise the climate control and security arrangements in the chapel where they would go on display.
The Altarpiece of the Virgin for the church of Boussu-lez-Mons must have been made around 1520 in the southern Netherlands, probably Brussels. The group is made of oak and must originally have been polychromed. Almost all the groups were broken in two at some point, and have been repaired. The altarpiece consists of three main groups.
In the centre was The death of the Virgin, with The Assumption and The Coronation of the Virgin above it. It was flanked on the left by The Circumcision and on the right by The Nativity. The sculpture group with the six fragments originally stood in front of the main scenes.
It is not just the six fragments from the museum's collection that are missing from the altarpiece. Seven groups were also stolen from the hollow frame in 1971 and 1981, and the Christ Child from The Adoration of the Shepherds (The Nativity) has also disappeared.
The provenance of the sculpture group can be traced back to 1873. Prior to the theft in 1914 it was part of the altarpiece installed in front of a bricked- up window in the Church of St Géry in Boussu-lez- Mons in Hainaut province. On 31 July 1915 two men appeared in court in Mons (Appendix 2) [[M2]] charged with the theft on the night of 3-4 December 1914 of the lower part of a 'Gothic altarpiece belonging to the Church of St Géry'. The sum of 50 francs was also missing from the church. In addition to the accusation of theft or complicity in theft the suspects were charged with having hidden the sculptures in Jemappes or elsewhere in Belgium in the course of December 1914. Their sentence was a six-month prison term and a fine of 196 francs and 79 centimes.
The whereabouts of the sculpture group remained unknown until 1961, when it featured in the exhibition Dutch Primitives from Dutch Private Collections in the Singer Museum in Laren, where it was stated that it came from the collection of the heirs of R. Meurs of Hilversum.
In 1976 the sculpture group was with the antique dealer G.M.J. (Gerard) Lommen in Maastricht. This came to the attention of the Municipality of Boussu, which asked him to consider relinquishing the sculptures so that they could be reunited with the altarpiece. It emerges from an article in the December 1976 issue of the journal De antiquair that he turned the request down. It is stated in the same article that the assistant priest [[M4]] sold the group to a Swedish engineer because money was needed to refurbish the church. Queen Astrid of Belgium apparently did all she could to get the sculptures returned, and the author appealed for financial support from benefactors to bring this about. Lommen was prepared to sell them to Boussu, but the town could not afford the price. He still had the sculptures in 1978, when he put them up for sale at the 12th Dutch Art and Antiques Fair in Breda. The group was eventually acquired in 2006 by the collector Jacques Schoufour, who bought it in good faith on the art market. The following year he donated the Schoufour-Martin sculpture collection to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, which exhibited and published it in 2008.
Marieke van Vlierden, with a contribution from Jeroen Giltaij,Uit het goede hout gesneden. Middeleeuwse beelden uit de collectie Schoufour-Martin (Boijmans Studies series), Rotterdam 2008 (ISBN 978-90-6918-227-8).
The altarpiece fragments are described and illustrated on pp. 169-171, cat. no. 51. [PDF, 221MB]
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University weed scientists and Bayer CropScience representatives presented evidence of major glyphosate resistance in waterhemp occurring in Iowa during a Respect the Rotation show-and-tell plot tour and information meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to warn growers, ag retailers and professional agronomists to "get out front of weed resistance instead of playing catch up."
Growers and ag retailer agronomists toured a 10-acre field plot in north central Iowa near Ellsworth. Media toured the plots with representatives of Asmus Farm Supply, which is based out of the northwest Iowa town of Rake.
Two university weed scientists presented their points of view—Mike Owens, Ph.D., Iowa State University professor, and Jason Nosworthy, University of Arkansas associate professor. A former university weed scientist also made brief comments.
Owen noted, "There has never been anything like glyphosate in the history of agriculture" because of its efficacy, simplicity and convenience. He said it was inevitable that resistance would develop to glyphosate. It should have only been a question of how long because the obvious example of weed resistance occurred with ALS inhibitors in Iowa during the late 1980s.
That ALS resistance has not gone away as Owen has not been able to find a waterhemp population in the state that isn't still ALS resistant. Once waterhemp is glyphosate resistant, it could be eternally resistant to both ALS inhibitors and glyphosate. Waterhemp in various locations of the nation has been found to be resistant to five modes of action—HPPD, ALS, PPO, atrazine and glyphosate. And Owen said this is "really problematic."
Mode of action rotation with a pre-emergence herbicide and the same with post-emergence herbicides plus mechanical weed control as necessary was the message from Owen. Professional agronomists have to make recommendations that preserve the technology we have today for as long as possible by using full rates in combination. He explained that the last new herbicide mode of action discovery was the HPPDs approximately 22 years ago and no new ones are on the horizon.
"We are lucky to have a lot of older herbicides that still work but are not simple and convenient," said Owen, about soybean weed control in the Midwest.
He told the ag retailers, "It is hard to sell stuff they (farmers) don't want to buy, but you have to work at it." Selling those additional herbicides is the only way glyphosate can be available for use in appropriate and necessary ways in the future.
Nosworthy provided data explaining research showing the success of 15-inch soybean planting canopying earlier than 30-inch rows and the potential for higher seed populations helping keep weeds from emerging following a pre-emergence herbicide application.
He further noted, "Using a herbicide that is 95 percent effective will be a failure." Growers cannot allow resistant weeds to spread their seed. "We have got to get weeds out of fields before they go to seed."
In general, he said Arkansas is a disaster in terms of Palmer amaranth that is glyphosate resistant, and Iowa is two to three years behind Arkansas with waterhemp being the pigweed-family glyphosate-resistant weed that will take over fields.
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BUS passengers demanding action to improve a stop-gap service set up after the shock closure of Pennine Motors have handed over a petition to county councillors.
There were more than 1,250 signatures on the petition, asking for an improvement to the 16-seater replacement minibus service on the Skipton to Settle route.
The petition was given to County Councillor Shelagh Marshall, a member of County Hall's transport task group, at Gargrave on Tuesday. It will be discussed by councillors on the Craven Area Committee at its meeting next Thursday.
Ian Flynn, of Hellifield, one of the petition organisers, said people had been queueing up to sign, which showed the strength of feeling about the issue.
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Enjoy waking up with breakfast surrounded by nature, among orange and olive trees! We are located just a short walk from the main tourist attractions of our beautiful province in Trapani, with its monuments and the salt and Marsala with its wineries, the picturesque and medieval Erice, the magnificence of Mothia, the fantastic sea Egadi and San Vito lo Capo.
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It's long been known that Germany faces a demographic collapse in the coming decades, as too few children are being born to keep the population from shrinking dramatically.
In fact, there are just ten countries in Europe that have a lower birth rate, which at 1.39 children per woman in Germany currently stands far below the replacement rate.
This is despite the buckets of money that Germany spends on families. While married couples with children benefit from hefty tax breaks, all parents also receive hundreds of euros in child subsidies each month. Introducing generous parental leave for up to 14 months a few years ago has also failed to really dent the country's birth dearth.
And a new study released on Monday revealed the country is becoming a less attractive place to have children as people struggle to balance the demands of a family with their careers.
So what's the problem? Do Germans simply not like kids? Are outdated stereotypes about being a "good mother" keeping women at home? Or have the authorities failed to offer enough day care options for working parents?
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It was a "don't short a dull market" day. The old saying worked well today, as we very slowly drifted upward after a poor start and then accelerated into the close. At one point, the Nasdaq was around 2 to 1 negative, and it ended the day with about 1,300 gainers to 1,100 losers. What was particularly impressive is that the Russell 2000 (IWM) small-cap index continues to lead. Money is flowing into the small names while the Nasdaq-100 lags, primarily because of Apple (AAPL).
The action today is a good example of what I've been writing lately about not trying to anticipate weakness. Trying to short on a day like this is an exercise in pain. We have seen this happen so often in the last few years. It just hasn't paid to fight the trend, regardless of how compelling the short thesis may be.
I have to admit I was surprised by how well the market recovered intraday. I made a few poorly timed sales this morning, but I did add a few things late. I have no desire to fight a market that is acting this way, even though it did put me to sleep for a while.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) – Two Virginia men have been charged with trying to smuggle millions of dollars' worth of marijuana from Mexico into Prince William County.
Forty-eight-year-old Francisco Vargas-Aquino of Manassas was arrested Tuesday and 47-year-old Ricardo Valdez of Gainesville was arrested Wednesday. Both are being held pending a detention hearing in federal court in Alexandria.
Court records show that in the last 18 months, the two tried to smuggle three tractor-trailers full of marijuana into the country. The drugs were concealed in tubs of frozen fruit pulp and were seized by customs officers.
U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Neil MacBride said the marijuana that was intercepted had a street value of tens of millions of dollars.
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TEENAGE sprint sensation Jack Wiskin is moving with a spring in his step as he aims to test himself in some of the biggest events in the world this year.
The visually-impaired 18-year-old, who lives in Codford and is a pupil at Larkrise School in Trowbridge, enjoyed a glittering 2013 on the track, with highlights including 100m ambulant gold at the England Athletics U15/ U17 Championships in Bedford, in August, and silver at the England Athletics Senior Disability Championships two months earlier in Birmingham.
Wiskin, who trains alongside sprinters at Team Bath, primarily races in the T12 category and currently holds the all-time 100m record.
The Wiltshire youngster has the 2014 IPC European Championships in Swansea and the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in his sights, with his long-term aim being representing Great Britain at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.
"Next year, there's the Commonwealth Games. Then there's the Europeans in July as well," said Wiskin.
"Last season, they didn't put me in for the World Championships (in Lyon) because I'd only just started my season but I might be ready for it next time (in 2015).
"Going to the Europeans next year would be the first time for me. There's going to be loads of my fans cheering and that will be something new.
"The Paralympics are in three years' time. I'm aiming for it and I've got plenty of time – there would be countries from all around the world and it would be amazing.
"I went to watch the sprinters at London 2012. I saw T12 men in the 100m and my dad was saying I'd be running against them in the future."
Wiskin, who studies at Larkrise because of learning difficulties, had begun running before he lost his sight aged 16, due to a brain tumour caused by a rare condition called Tubular Sclerosis.
His Larkrise PE teacher Rachel Bown, who is also an international age group triathlete, has taught him since he was 13 and reckons that Wiskin's speed is unquestionable.
"In 2008, I was asked to take some children to trials for the national disability championships, which historically happened in Blackpool each year," she said.
"I was asked to take three children, Jack, Wesley and Liam, and they qualified. So then myself and another teacher took the three boys to Blackpool to compete.
"Jack won everything that year, including the long jump, and the next year, Jack won again. The year after that, he broke the national record.
"Jack's dad Andrew has always been very supportive. Whilst we were in Blackpool, he said to me 'Will he have a future in the Paralympics?' and I said 'No, it will be the Special Olympics.'
"The real irony of it is that, sadly, on Christmas Eve 2010 he was rushed in to hospital for an emergency operation to save his life. Fortunately they did, but they couldn't save his sight.
"They removed a whole optic nerve from one eye and the other one was very damaged but they left it in place. So Jack does see but not much and he can't really tell you what he sees.
"It's a strange thing that happens. He can fly around the school and not bump into anything and he can hit a ball on a top of a cone from 20 metres but he'd come out of the school and trip over a step.
"So it's a concentration thing as well. And when he's on the track, it's always the same because he's just going from A to B as fast as he can.
"When he ran 200m for the first time, I stood at the end with a red coat on so he could see me jumping around and Jack came second.
"The fact is that if Jack hadn't lost his sight, he wouldn't even be thinking about Rio and that's the silver lining.
"From the first time I saw him run, I knew he could sprint. He runs on his toes naturally and his acceleration over the first 10 metres is huge.
"It's a bit like the Mo Farah story. His PE teacher saw him run and knew he'd be a champion and it's the same with Jack."
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It was to be a wonderful long weekend with monday as a public holiday.
We were looking forward to it after the searing temperatures in the 40C-45C ranges. Imagine lying on beach, surfing, walking in the sub-tropical rain forest, camping, family gatherings ..........
Then - the rains came ..and came.. and came.. and came.. Floods, roads closed, high winds, tornadoes, road accidents, houses wrecked
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I would imagine some of you are going to disagree with me - but please to those who waited in line since 6:00 PM last night - get a life. (sorry, I know that isn't an original phrase)
July 22, 2008
Many left without Lucas Oil Stadium tour tickets again
By Bess Davis
11:55 AM -- Tour tickets snapped up again
About 1,000 people crowded the Conseco Fieldhouse box office this morning in an attempt to once again get free tickets for a Lucas Oil Stadium tour.
The 20,000 tickets, also being distributed online at 10 a.m., were gone in within 20 minutes, leaving many in line grumbling.
The latest tour was added to the Aug. 16 Lucas Oil Stadium Grand Opening slate late last week after 80,000 tickets for four free tours were gone in a little over an hour.
Dana Orange, 37 and Tim Luke, 40, both of Indianapolis, turned up at the Fieldhouse at 6 p.m. last night and were the first people in line.
The Fieldhouse didn't open to let people in until 6:30 this morning, so Orange and Luke, along with many others, had to wait out the night outside, electrical storm and all.
"We huddled, but we stayed," said Orange.
Orange and Luke didn't go out last week to get the original tour tickets, but after hearing about the new tour, they decided to try to this batch.
Orange waited in line to get tickets for herself, Luke and her parents, Lawrence and Marilyn Orange. Orange's father is recovering from and intestinal surgery.
"This should be a nice little present for him," said Orange.
When 9:55 a.m. hit and the ticket sellers opened their blinds, the sleepy, reclining line snaking through and outside the Fieldhouse stirred and cheered.
Twenty minutes later, the line booed when Fieldhouse security announced that all 20,000 tickets were gone.
Hundreds of people, some who had been waiting outside the box office since 8 a.m., were turned away as the sellers shut their blinds and security began to mill around the ticket windows to keep the crowds from getting too worked up.
Tickets were limited to four per person this week, after last week's limit of eight meant that tickets went faster with many ending up for sale on eBay.
Still, with everyone in line getting the maximum of four tickets and the whole pool of tickets being available online, the tickets went too fast for waiting people to finish getting in the doors.
One woman, Krystal Hubble, 43, of Indianapolis, was near the head of the line when security announced that the tickets were gone.
"I'm not leaving yet," declared Hubble as some in the line started to leave.
Hubble went to the Fieldhouse last Monday to try for tickets to the first tours, but when she showed up at 11:15 a.m., all the tickets were gone.
She decided to wait at the box office this morning for "another fifteen minutes" before giving up on them opening another tour.
"We'll take one ticket," she yelled toward the shaded ticket windows, and the crowd behind her muttered in agreement. "We don't need four!"
At about 10:30, Peggy Gamlin, 58, of Indianapolis, made her way up to the box office to check if the four tickets she had just bought on a corner from a scalper for $25 were authentic.
The box office couldn't ensure the authenticity of the tickets, though they looked like those that had been given away just fifteen minutes before.
"I wouldn't get to see it unless I paid for a free ticket," said Gamlin.
10:24 AM -- Tour fans weather storm
About 600 people were gathered at the Conseco Fieldhouse box office Downtown Tuesday morning for the chance to get up to four free tickets for the Lucas Oil Stadium tour Aug. 16.
Dana Orange, 37, Indianapolis was the first in line at 6 p.m. Monday. She stayed through the thunderstorm.
"We huddled, but we stayed," Orange said. "We appreciate them doing this the second time around for die-hard fans."
-- Bess Davis
10:16 AM -- Free stadium tour tickets going fast today
Tickets for what is expected to be the last pre-opening public tour of Lucas Oil Stadium appeared to be going fast this morning.
About 10:10 a.m. this morning, the Web site of ticketmaster.com appeared to have few if any passes left for any of the four tour times, of 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
A check of all four time slots for four tickets prompted a message from Ticketmaster saying, "We couldn't find tickets that matched your request."
The tickets became available online at 10 a.m., as well as at the Conseco Fieldhouse box office.
Mayor Greg Ballard requested adding the fifth tour, which will take place at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 16, because of the huge demand. Unlike tickets for the earlier tours, these are limited to four a person.
The Indiana Stadium and Convention Building Authority had originally made available 60,000 free tickets for three tours. But those tickets were snapped up in less than a half-hour Aug. 14. The authority quickly added another tour, but those 20,000 tickets were also snatched within an hour.
And almost as soon as those tickets were gone, some fans began selling them online, much to the dismay of the stadium authority.
The new tour, like the others, will allow the public to take a self-guided look at areas such as suites and the locker room, as well as walk on the field and purchase refreshments from the new concession stands.


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Originally sold as a MattyCollector.com exclusive for $15, you can get your very own TWO-FACE, one of the villains of the 2008 motion picture The Dark Knight at your local Toys"R"Us stores for a mere $12.99. Not a bad consolation prize for anything sold at Matty Collector!
The packaging is much like the line since its debut in 2008: standard card and bubble with specific photography on the card backing, but no bio or description of the character you're buying.
Much like the previously released Harvey Dent figure, Two-Face uses the same basic mold with the exciting twist of acid. Two-Face, like many of Mattel's figures, is sculpted by The Four Horsemen and for the scale, they did a rather nice job. It's not the most precise looking mold we've seen (thank you, Hot Toys) but it's a solid looking figure.
Two-Face is well articulated and decently painted for a mass-market figure, featuring approximately 22 points of articulation. In the accessories department, Two-Face is a bit lacking. He comes with a large double sided coin (one side scarred) for YOU to flip around.
What he doesn't come with is his own coin to flip (which is understandable due to the scale) and a gun. No gun?? Come on, Mattel, he's a villain who actually uses a weapon in the film! Give it to us!
Final verdict, despite lacking a major villainous accessory, you should pick this figure if you've been getting the rest of the line so far. It wouldn't be complete without Two-Face Harvey Dent.
Review and Photography by David Yeh


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Maness searching for mechanical return to top form
PITTSBURGH -- A day after he allowed four hits and one run in a rocky season debut, Cardinals reliever Seth Maness said he identified "something just a little bit off with the mechanics" of his delivery. An adjustment, he said, should help as he searches for the feel of his sinker, the pitch Maness is most reliant on.
The young right-hander had some troubles getting in sync this spring and left Florida having allowed 11 earned runs in 11 2/3 innings, allowing two or more runs in an appearance four different times. Though the hits got through then and continued to do so on Friday, Maness said he was encouraged by the fact that several were on ground balls.
The first hit off Maness likely wouldn't have been one had the infield not been pulled in. Russell Martin's RBI single in the seventh off Maness on Friday was also a ground ball that squirted through the infield. In between, Maness hit a batter and allowed two line drive hits.
It had been eight days since he last pitched.
"The challenge, I'd say, was more mentally being able to come out there and be sharp," Maness said. "But you're always ready to go. You just have to be ready for everything."
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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At monthly meetings of the Mount Vernon Council of Citizens Associations (MVCCA) and South County Federation (SCF), I bring packets of information to distribute to meeting attendees. These packets typically include my Board Matters, letters to and from our state and federal legislators, and other public documents expected to be of interest to the attendees. I have just created a web page from which you may access these information packets - www.fairfaxcounty.gov/mountvernon/monthly-community-meetings-handouts.htm.
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Tiger Woods Dropped By Another Sponsor
Tiger Woods has now been dropped by his long-time watch-maker sponsor Tag Heuer.
The troubled sportsman made an unimpressive return to the golf course this week after a three-month injuty has kept him on the sidelines.
However, while Woods' game has been struggling, his endorsement deals have been as well.
Woods has been ditched by the Swiss company bringing the total of corporate sponsors to let him go to six.
Golf World writer Ron Sirak, tweeted:
"Tiger's agent confirms Woods' Tag Heuer relationship expired."
Woods has previously lost his deals with Gillette, Gatorade, Accenture, AT&T and Golf Digest.
Is Tiger's career fading right before us?