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Heat: If Beasley wasn't injured
Lebron didn't care
Lebron has a bad back
IT'S ONLY ONE GAME! NOBODY CARES (Goes to message board to rant)
Greg Oden. Seriously, I have Miami fan friends who legitimately believe Oden + Turdman will be enough to deal with Hibbert in the playoffs. I try to remind them that Oden wasn't exactly killing it in the NBA yet when we was healthy, that he has zero NBA playoff experience, and hasn't played a game in 4 years. They honestly think this guy is going to give them enough production to make a difference.
Every time: "We just couldn't hit anything tonight!" Lol,
I always say: "Yah, we hear that a lot!"
"This was just a regular season game"
"Our guys are just resting for when it really counts"
"Those homer refs in Indiana..."
"Hibbert is fouling every time on defense."
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
Here's one off a real Heat board: "Really we don't even need someone to shut down Hibbert or make him play to his averages. If someone just made Hibbert play good instead of like the 2nd coming of Shaq, Indana would be totally ***ed."
Hibbert and West scare them...as they should.
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
Sorry, but their material is much better than mine: "In the Playoffs it's a different BEAST anyway."
...and another: "UD is the opposite of Hibbert. Hibbert gets away with everything and UD gets away with absolutely nothing."
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Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
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2nd coming of Shaq? Last I checked, Roy actually hits 3/4ths of his free throws.
"Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel
"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "
"I don't understand why they never call fouls on Hibbert."
My guess: because he usually doesn't foul.
This space for rent.
We didn't have JJ REDICK...yeah he would've made all the difference.
"You only won because our best player had an off night!"
"Yea...I'm just glad other teams best players always have an off night against us. Just lucky I guess."
"The Pacers get away with murder out there!"
"It's just unfortunate that we've been penalized so much this year and nothing has happened to the Pistons, the Palace or the city of Detroit," he said. "It's almost like it's always our fault. The league knows it. They should be ashamed of themselves to let the security be as lax as it is around here."
----------------- Reggie Miller
"Heat don't care in the regular season"
Oh really? That's why you had the best record in the East last season and stormed the league with the excellent 66-16?
What a weak ****** argument/excuse!
from realgm board after we beat heat.
ours guys took a picture with justin timberlake after the game. lol they don't give a **** about this game.
The best excuse I've seen so far was from a Bulls fan last week. After saying something like if DRose hadn't gotten hurt they would be a better challenger to Miami. They then said that the only reason the Pacers beat the Bulls earlier in the season was because Rose and Noah didn't play. They got called out pretty hard about that one.
That actual isn't funny pretty reasonable excuse(although injuries are a part of the game). The Clips are 4-4 without him 12-5 with him. They also score 10 more pts more per game with him playing this year. He is actually a really impactful player for the Clippers. He is kind of like Lance when he plays well his team normally wins he is an X-factor for that Clipper team for sure.
His movement is what makes that offense elite. They get really stagnate at times without him.
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How about an actual excuse from D. Wade. "It's a basketball game vs 2 good teams. A lot of that goes on in the NBA. It's not our championship." From Indystar article Dec. 17. About the upcoming game tomorrow where James is questionable with ankle sprain.
"I can't believe that scrub (insert name) beat us tonight"
It's usually when OJ or CJ Watson get hot and hit a couple of shots
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Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
Miami Heat make excuses before they even play. Ex: "it's just a regular season game". The funniest thing is Miamis beat writer went out and said he has never seen LeBron go out and play that aggressive on defense in a regular season game when they came to Indiana and lost. I can't stand those guys.
Wade: "Miami Heat don't talk"
Stephen A: "You guys talk quite well"
Even Stephen A knows haha.
I always love the always-heard "If we had just shot our normal shooting percentage we would have won easily. We missed shots that we always make."
It's not a game of H-O-R-S-E people. There are actual DEFENDERS out there wearing blue and gold, and they are pretty good at it. Sure, you shot 42%. That IS normal, for playing US.
The poster "pacertom" since this forum began (and before!). I changed my name here to "Slick Pinkham" in honor of the imaginary player That Bobby "Slick" Leonard picked late in the 1971 ABA draft (true story!).
"The rim that we were shooting at was broken"
Oh wait...that was my excuse for losing to the Pistons.
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Every so often, I'm in the mood for a no-holds-barred film with as much shoot-'em-up action as possible and as little story as available. Enter this week's The Tournament, starring Robert Carlyle (The Full Monte), Kelly Hu (X2: X-Men United) and Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible films) and directed by Scott Mann (Pocket Thief).
While I'm not saying The Tournament has the best action and no story, I'm simply saying there are those times in one's life when a movie with too deep of a plot will cause you a headache and too little action puts you to sleep. For those in just the right mood and for those looking for just the right amount of on-screen killing - be it with a shotgun, pistol, grenade, knife, or out-of-control bus/car/train - The Tournament is just what you ordered.
The plot is fairly simple (again, nothing too heavy here): every 7 years, in a random city in a random country somewhere in the world, the 30 most talented and successful assassins are invited by a committee of their clients to attend "the Tournament" in which the last assassin standing takes home the title "world's best assassin" and $10 million in cash.
Now, to me, 7 years seems like a short time period to restock the world with worthy assassins of this caliber, but apparently not (didn't you know, the world's never short of assassins!).
7 years ago, Joshua Harlow (Ving Rhames) won and is now enjoying a life of wealth and luxury away from the killing with his prego wife. However, after Harlow turns down an invitation to be in this year's tournament, events unfold which force the wealthy, assassin-turned-family man back into the ring to defend his title against a eclectic group of killers from around the globe, including a Chinese assassin, Lai Lai Zhen (Kelly Hu) on a quest of redemption. Let's not forget the drunken, but peaceful Father Joseph Macavoy (Robert Carlyle) who unintentionally - or, some might say, by God's will - enters the tournament and ultimately affects the outcome of the event as a whole.
Wow. After writing out the plot, it does seem that there's a bit more to it than I originally thought. But, after really thinking about it...there's not. The plot is really second-hand to the non-stop action that most adrenaline film junkies will appreciate. Bullets tear through everything from bodies and cars to churches and hotels, grenades are tossed every which way they can be, and even a rocket launcher or two make an appearance. Buses and fuel trucks take center stage as killers duke it out in what seems to be one of the most fun - and violent - films of 2009.
The DVD includes a English Dolby 5.1 surround sound audio track as well as solid subtitles (for those of us who need them). Sadly, the disc is light on bonus features and includes nada.
Granted, The Tournament is not for everyone. If you don't like seeing churches blown up, bodies shot up, fists caving in faces, and severed fingers sliced and diced, look somewhere else. The Tournament is violent and it doesn't apologize for being such. But for those who enjoy gun-toting assassins shooting up other gun-toting assassins (along with the random civilian or two...or 20!), The Tournament is my pick of the month for "cool new film you've probably never heard of" and it's available now on home video wherever fine home videos are sold.
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At this rate, we're probably only a couple of movies away from seeing Melissa McCarthy play a feral clump of sweatpants and greasy hair, living under a bridge and scaring small children.
At this rate, we're probably only a couple of movies away from seeing Melissa McCarthy play a feral clump of sweatpants and greasy hair, living under a bridge and scaring small children.
Her characters have been on a downward slide since "Bridesmaids," in which she always wore pearls and, sink defecation aside, was only a little eccentric. In "Identity Thief," she portrayed a felonious hot mess with a penchant for punching people in their throats, albeit with an underlying heart of gold. But by the time "The Heat" rolled around last summer, she was playing an unkempt bundle of violence and aggression whose every other utterance was a threat of anatomically impossible bodily harm.
Now, in "Tammy," she's an angry slob, dumb as a sack of plungers, who falls down, flies off the hood of a car, crashes a personal watercraft and gets kicked in the face by a deer.
Of all the Melissa McCarthy movies, "Tammy" is by far the Melissa McCarthy-est.
The actress is obviously playing to her perceived strengths. She co-wrote the script with her fellow Groundlings alum husband, Ben Falcone, who makes his directing debut. (Falcone, who's had small, memorable roles in all her movies, plays her boss in "Tammy.")
But too often, at least during its first half, "Tammy" feels like a case of been there, done something similar but not quite as over-the-top as that.
Right off the bat, McCarthy's Tammy totals her beater Toyota Corolla, gets fired from her fast-food job and catches her husband (Nat Faxon) cheating with a neighbor (Toni Collette). Her suitcase even falls apart on her way out the door, leaving Tammy to scoop up her meager belongings before setting off on foot to stay with her mom (Allison Janney), who lives just two doors down.
All Tammy wants is to get out of tiny Murphysboro, Ill. So when her grandmother Pearl (Susan Sarandon) offers the use of her car and a roll of cash for Tammy's getaway, the unlikely duo hit the road, bound for Niagara Falls.
Fuzzy math aside (there's only a 24-year age difference between McCarthy and Sarandon, who's aged for the part), the actresses work well together. And I can't remember the last time Sarandon had this much fun onscreen.
Once on the road, Pearl drinks too much and admits to having had a six-month fling with Duane Allman. During a stop at a Louisville, Ky., barbecue joint, Pearl hooks up with good ol' boy Earl (Gary Cole), and the two of them go at it in the backseat of her car as Earl's son, Bobby (Mark Duplass), and Tammy recoil in horror.
But the movie isn't "Pearl." It's "Tammy." And an awful lot of it feels familiar.
There isn't a drawer in which Tammy is the sharpest knife. She thinks Neil Armstrong was a world-class cyclist and can't believe the price of gas: "Four dollars a gallon? Thanks, Obamacare!"
There's the now-obligatory dance scene, a la "Identity Thief" and "The Heat." And there's a transformation that feels even more forced, albeit more welcome, than the one in "Identity Thief."
Once "Tammy" settles down and transitions, somewhat abruptly, from raucous road-trip comedy to a Tammy-Bobby romance, it offers McCarthy a beautiful chance to shine.
She's all over Bobby while Pearl and Earl are flirting, at one point making out with him against his will. Bobby: "I do not want your tongue in my mouth." Tammy: "Where do you want it, man?" But a makeover for a Fourth of July party softens not just Tammy's sweatpants-and-Crocs appearance, but her persona as well.
Once you scrub away some of the layers, Tammy is sweet and vulnerable, and it's nice to see McCarthy get to play something as simple as a smitten woman.
Duplass ("The League") is in his element as Bobby, who can't quite explain his attraction to Tammy. And the supporting cast is mostly terrific. Kathy Bates as Tammy's lesbian aunt is worthy of special praise, as is Sarah Baker as an employee in the restaurant Tammy robs in one of the few big moments that really works. Faxon and Collette are so underutilized, though, you wonder why they were cast.
The second half of the movie seems to be the one McCarthy and Falcone have the most interest in, with the predictable outrageousness feeling like nothing more than a way to get moviegoers in the door for the story they really want to tell.
McCarthy is such a unique and gifted performer, it would be refreshing to see her have the confidence to play a somewhat subdued character that didn't require a midmovie course correction.
Until then, she's in danger of succumbing to Chris Farley Syndrome and a career in which she feels obliged to crash through something for a laugh.
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- Benig Mauger, from Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth
The Art of Midwifery: Transverse Lie
For transverse lie, some things moms can do to help the baby turn: Visualization, talking to the babe, posting pictures of head-down babies all around them and meditating on this position, drawing a head-down baby on mom's belly. Then try the inversion exercises three times a day, lying on a slant board or propped with pillows, feet and hips higher than shoulders and head for 10 to 20 minutes at a time. This will encourage babe to find the best position to enter the pelvis. Swimming can help. She can try pelvic-rock exercises. She should be trying it all because babe will not be born vaginally from a transverse lie. There may be a physiological reason her baby is transverse, and she should be working closely with her care provider, discussing the situation and the concerns for her and her babe.
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A Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) study found that the overall rate of twin preterm birth has risen markedly from 1981 to 1982 and 1996 to 1997. The rate of twins born before 33 weeks increased only 7% between 1981 and 1982 and 1996 and 1997, while the rate for those born between 33 and 34 weeks increased 31%. The rate for twins born between 35 and 36 weeks (moderately preterm) rose 51% during the study period, while the rate for twins born from 37 to 44 weeks (term birth) declined 2%. The "intensive" use of prenatal care, marked by an "excessively large number of prenatal visits," was much more likely to be associated with moderately preterm twin births in 1996 to 1997 than in 1981 to 1982. African-American women, teenagers, unmarried woman, women with low education and those having their first babies were more likely to deliver preterm. However, the effect of these risk factors diminished during the study period.
- HRSA news brief, March 25, 2002
Obstetric Interventions: Synthetic Oxytocin
Synthetic oxytocin administered intravenously in labor acts very differently from a laboring woman's intrinsic oxytocin. First, the uterine contractions produced by IV Syntocinon are very different from natural contractions, possibly because the drug is administered continuously rather than in a pulsatile manner and can cause detrimental effects to the baby in utero. A woman's uterine contractions can occur too closely together, leaving insufficient time for the baby to recover, and Syntocinon also causes the resting tone of the uterus to increase (1). Such effects can produce abnormal fetal heart rate patterns, fetal distress (leading to cesarean), and even uterine rupture (2). As well, oxytocin augmentation stimulates uterine contractions out of proportion to cervical dilation, compared with a natural labor (3): this creates the possibility of a "failed induction" in which a woman's cervix fails to dilate and a cesarean becomes necessary. Second, oxytocin, whether synthetic or not, cannot cross from the body back to the brain through the blood-brain barrier. This means that when it is administered in any way except directly into the brain, it cannot act as the hormone of love. It does, however, generate negative feedback -- that is, receptors in the laboring woman's body detect high levels of oxytocin and so signal her brain to reduce production. We know that women who labor with an oxytocin infusion are at increased risk of postpartum hemorrhage (4) because their own oxytocin production has been shut down. What we do not know, however, are the psychological or psychoneuroendocrine effects of giving birth without the peak brain levels of oxytocin that nature prescribes for all mammalian species. In one study, women who had synthetic oxytocin augmentation did not experience an increase in beta-endorphin levels in labor (5), indicating the complexities that may result from interference with any of the hormonal systems in labor. Other research has suggested that exogenous oxytocin may pass through the placent unchanged (6), which implies that the baby's oxytocin system may also be disrupted by administration of synthetic oxytocin in labor.
- Sarah Buckley
2. Stubbs TM. Oxytocin for labor induction. Clin Obstet Gynecol 2000 Sep; 43(3):489-94.
3. Bidgood KA, Steer PJ. A randomized control study of oxytocin augmentation of labour. 2. Uterine activity. Br J Obstet Gynaecol 1987 Jun; 94(6):518-22.
4. Gilbert L, Porter W, Brown V. Postpartum haemorrhage -- a continuing problem. Br J Obstet Gynaecol 1987; 94: 67-71.
5. Genazzani AR, Petraglia F. et al. Lack of beta-endorphin plasma level rise in oxytocin-induced labor. Gynecol Obstet Invest 1985; 19(3):130-4.
Dr. Roberto Caldeyro-Barcia has demonstrated that uterine contractions stimulated with Pitocin reach over 40 mm Hg pressure on the fetal head. The quality and quantity of uterine contractions are greatly affected when oxytocin is infused. The contractions tend to be longer, stronger, and with shorter relaxation periods between....With each uterine contraction, blood supply to the uterus is temporarily shut off. If deprived of blood supply, fetal bradycardia (decreased fetal heart-rate deceleration) follows with oxygen deprivation and cerebral ischemia, causing the grave possibility of neurological sequellae. Truly the fetus has been challenged, and the EFM dutifully records the stressed fetal heart rate. With suspicions confirmed, a diagnosis of fetal distress is noted and elective cesarean section is the treatment of choice (Ettner 1977:153).
- http://www.birthpsychology.com/messages/pitdrip/pitdrip.html
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Q: Has anyone developed their own system for newborn gestational age assessment? The New Ballard Scale seems more elaborate to me than is necessary for term babies who are born at home. I know experienced midwives can quickly look over a baby and estimate the gestational age, but for now I would like to find a concise format to document characteristics for EGA.
- Amy Kieffer, student midwife
A: I first look at the amount of vernix, then the sole creases. If they are consistent with what I would expect from the mother's due date, I stop there. If there is any question, I then check the ear cartilage, then the breast buds and genitalia. If all those signs are consistent, I go with that. If there are still conflicting signs, then I go for the whole Ballard-scale stuff.
- Marlene
Q: I just attended a birth where the doctor put so much traction on the umbilical cord that it broke off from the base of the placenta. I don't know the potential implications of an epidural and induction on the delivery of the placenta. But I would like to know if there is increased risk that the placenta won't come on its own after labor had been induced. The mother had her placenta manually extracted -- after birthing the baby beautifully -- not more than 10-20 minutes after the birth. The next morning she went to surgery to have the remaining pieces taken out since she continued to bleed. She then had a blood transfusion because her hemoglobin was so low. I am appalled by this. I really want to get some reference stats and documentation that show the detrimental effects of traction. Can you help?
- Julia Lynx, doula
A: It breaks my heart to see such an awful third stage after a great birth experience simply because of impatience on the doctor's part. I personally have seen a marked increase in "slow" placentas after induction or augmentation and the use of ergot or manual extraction to speed placental delivery in these circumstances. AIMS has an article at http://www.aims.org.uk/3rdstage.htm about third stage. The latest study is at http://www.update-software.com/ccweb/cochrane/revabstr/ab000007.htm and is exactly what the AIMS article is talking about. I would be remiss if I didn't include cord clamping in this because I also believe immediate cord clamping that holds all the blood in the placenta and impedes its release is a concern: www.cordclamping.com.
- Connie Banack, CCCE CLD CPD
A: Labor induction with Pitocin can make the uterus contract weakly after delivery, prolonging the third stage (placental expulsion). The epidural could interfere with the woman's voluntary efforts to push the placenta out. However, all that said, mismanagement of the third stage of labor was the likely cause of this situation. Mismanagement of third stage includes attempting to remove the placenta before the signs of placental separation have occurred (lengthening of the cord, gush of blood, and a "balling up" of the fundus as it contracts, pushing the placenta down into the lower uterus and out through the open cervix). My nurse-midwife instructor had a saying about "Not fiddling with the fundus" because it interferes with the natural process. In our nurse-midwifery practice, third stage was allowed to proceed naturally for 30 minutes as long as there are no signs of hemorrhage. Of course, this means that the care provider remains in the room during that period. Most physicians don't want to wait, therefore they use a variety of techniques to "assist" the placenta, including cord traction and fundal pressure (taking a chance of inverting the uterus). These are very uncomfortable for a woman who does not have an epidural.
In my opinion, the physician showed no respect for this woman's body rhythms (allowing the placenta to separate naturally), then further compounded the problem by tearing the cord and having to manually extract the placenta. Even though that happened, gentle manual extraction should result in complete expulsion of the placental cotyledons and membranes. This was not the case because the woman continued to bleed. Thus, the physician had to do a D & C the following day. All because s/he rushed a natural process.
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by Gloria Lemay, compiled by Leilah McCracken
Herpes Simplex II
The general rule of thumb is that herpes I is above the waist (mouth cold sores) and herpes II (HSV II) is below the waist. Your clients will eventually include someone who is a herpes carrier because one in five women (at least) has the virus. Learn as much as you can about treatment, prevention and protocols for active outbreaks during the birth process so that you can feel confident that your client will have every chance to have a vaginal birth and a healthy baby.
Some tips:
The primary (first) outbreak of HSV II is usually the most painful and widespread. It is also the primary outbreak that can most damage the nervous system of the fetus/newborn. For this reason, the woman who has had HSV II for some time before her pregnancy began is in a better position to have a healthy child than the woman who contracts the virus during the pregnancy. Fifty percent of women who have a primary outbreak in the first trimester miscarry.
Only about 1 in 5,500 babies gets neonatal herpes, even though the virus is so widespread in the adult population. Neonatal herpes is not a reportable disease in most countries, so there are no hard statistics on the exact number of newborns affected. However, most researchers estimate there are between 1,000 and 3,000 cases a year in the United States out of a total of 4 million births. To put this in greater perspective, an estimated 20-25% of pregnant women have genital herpes, while less than 0.1% of babies contract an infection. Although remarkably rare in newborns, herpes outbreaks can cause severe damage to those who are infected with the virus.
Transmission rates to the baby are lowest for women who acquire herpes before pregnancy. One study (Randolph, JAMA, 1993) placed the risk at about 0.04% for such women who then have no signs or symptoms of an outbreak at delivery. The chances of transmission are highest when a woman acquires genital herpes late in pregnancy. With monogamous partners, this is a very rare occurrence.
Medical practitioners are concerned about release of the membranes for longer than four hours when a woman has a herpes outbreak. Great care must be taken NOT to release the membranes. The speculum exam should be the only pelvic exam. Internal scalp monitors must not be inserted because this can infect the child through the scalp puncture.
Dangers to the baby who develops herpes: death (60% mortality rate), herpes encephalitis or aseptic meningitis (inflammation of the brain or spinal cord), which in turn leads to neurological damage. The first symptom of disease in the newborn can be a sore on the skin which can be tested with a fluorescent stain to diagnose it as a herpes lesion. If left to develop into full-blown herpes, the baby could die, be brain damaged or blind. Early treatment is imperative if there is a suspicion that a baby might have a herpes skin eruption. Premature or otherwise compromised babies are at greater risk when a woman has a recurrent outbreak of HSV II.
Preventing Outbreaks
During an outbreak of herpes in pregnancy take 1,000 mg lysine (an amino acid) three times a day along with vitamin C (500 mg, three times a day). For a maintenance dose take 500 mg lysine daily as a preventive. If the woman is having recurrent outbreaks in pregnancy despite all the preventive measures taken, at 36 weeks the midwife may suggest she take Acyclovir 400 mg BID daily until the birth. This helps prevent outbreaks at term but is harmful to the baby's liver.
After the birth, the mother and breastfeeding baby should be kept warm and skin to skin. Rest for the mother is extra important. Nourishing food and extra vitamin C after the birth is recommended. Visitors should be kept to a minimum, told to wash hands carefully before entering the mother's room, and asked to leave if they have an oral herpes outbreak.
Gloria Lemay is a private birth attendant in Vancouver, BC, and is a contributing expert at BirthLove.
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A: am also appalled at the practice of renting hand Dopplers out to expectant mothers, some of whom are listening to their babies several times a day. Talk about exposure! Also, if a woman isn't really trained at using one correctly, I would assume that every time she can't find the heartbeat it causes undue distress.
- Anonymous
Russia's top health official Yuri Shevchenko reported that the gas used in the storming of a Moscow theater held by Chechen gunmen was based on fentanyl, a fast-acting opiate with medical applications. Shevchenko said the deaths were caused by the use of the chemical compound on people who had been starved of oxygen, were dehydrated, hungry, unable to move adequately and under severe psychological stress.
Injected, skin-patch and oral doses of fentanyl sold in the United States carry warnings that the anesthetic can be fatal if administered in too high a dose and that doses must be customized, taking into account the patients' size and any previous exposure to similar drugs.
Fentanyl was among drugs that Pennsylvania State University researchers suggested two years ago that the U.S. military explore as weapons to subdue angry mobs. The Pentagon has put such research on hold, however, because of worries that it would violate the international ban on chemical weapons.
Fentanyl is one of the drugs used in epidural anesthesia for childbirth ("hungry, unable to move adequately, under severe psychological stress" sounds familiar). It certainly has worked wonders on the women of this culture as a chemical weapon in the war against spontaneous, unimpeded, empowered birthing.
- Tammy Russell
In response to the inquiry about the Brewer diet [Issue 4:34], I suggest you read Dr. Brewer's books to have a better understanding of his research. I highly recommend "Metabolic Toxemia of Late Pregnancy," which you may locate by contacting www.blueribbonbaby.com.
- Amy V. Haas, BCCE
Have you read what various articles on www.virusmyth.org have said about HIV and breastfeeding? and about AIDS? Seems to me that the CDC has leapt to premature conclusions (to be charitable).
- Jill H.
I am planning a homebirth in January with a midwife. It will be my first vaginal delivery — I had a caesarean 10 years ago with my first child for CPD. I have seen an OB in the area, and he was very discouraging and reluctant to agree to be a backup doctor in case I have to go to the hospital (but he did agree). He quoted as high as a 10-15% chance of uterine rupture and said the likelihood that it would cause injury or death to the baby was very high. In all of my research on the subject, I have read that it is more like a 1 to 3% chance of rupture. He says this number is inaccurate and that the studies it is based on are probably biased.
I'm not terribly worried about statistics, but I wonder if there are any actual studies on VBAC that I could research so I could form my own opinions about whether or not they are biased. Also, I wonder if the issue of homebirth VBACs is ever discussed in the Forums. I would love to hear the opinions of some midwives on this issue. I live in Louisiana, and it seems that to do this at home with a midwife, I need to get approval from the State Board of Medical Examiners for a trial of labor at home.
- Anonymous
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CT Repertory Theatre Presents ALL IN THE TIMING 6/10-20
Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT), the professional producing arm of the Department of Dramatic Arts at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, continues its Nutmeg Summer Series with the David Ives' comedy, All in the Timing, playing June 10 through 20, 2010 in the Nafe Katter Theatre. This is CRT's first full summer season since 2002. The Nutmeg Summer Series will begin with the rock musical Rent, playing May 7 through June 6 in the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre (also located on the Storrs campus). Following the production of All in the Timing from June 10-20, the Nutmeg Summer Series will continue with the song-and-dance spectacular, Smokey Joe's Café, playing June 24 through July 4 in the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre; and Endurance, a world premiere play presented by movement theatre artists, Split Knuckle Theatre, running from June 24 through June 27 in the Nafe Katter Theatre. Tickets are now available for each of the productions by calling the Jorgensen Box Office at 860-486-4226 or visiting www.crt.uconn.edu. Rent, All in the Timing and Smokey Joe's Café can also be purchased as a subscription, with Endurance available as an "add on" to the subscription package.
All in the Timing
By David Ives
June 10 - 20
Nafe Katter Theatre
Described by Ben Brantley of the New York Times as "a wild slice of cerebral vaudeville . . . six utterly delightful one-act plays" make for one great evening of hilarious theatre! Uproarious and smartly written, this is comedy that will tickle your brain and touch your heart!
All in the Timing was originally a book of six one-act plays written by David Ives between 1987 and 1993, and published by Dramatists Play Service in 1994:
Sure Thing: A man and a woman meet for the first time in a cafe, where they have an awkward meeting that continually restarts each time they say the wrong thing, until, finally, they connect.
Words, Words, Words: Three chimpanzees attempt to write Hamlet, discussing the merits of literature and questioning its necessity.
The Universal Language: A man and a woman fall in love while communicating in the invented language Unamunda.
Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread: A musical parody of minimalist composer, Philip Glass, in which he has an existential crisis in a bakery.
The Philadelphia: A man in a strange place where he must ask for the opposite of what he wants in a restaurant.
The Lives of the Saints: Edna and Flo, with perfect Polish accents, prepare for a post-funeral feast with the help of some willing stage hands.
All in the Timing performances will take place in the Nafe Katter Theatre. Evening performances start at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Matinee performances start at 2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Single ticket prices for All in the Timing range from $15 to $37. Subscription package options range from $36 to $84. The Nafe Katter Theatre and the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre are located on the campus of the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Both venues offer air-conditioned comfort and convenient free parking. Children must be at least 4 years old to attend CRT productions. Not all productions are suitable for young children; please call 860.486.1629 for more information. CRT's Community Sponsors are Hamilton Sundstrand, Tim Hunter Design, and Leyland Alliance. CRT's Community Partners for the Nutmeg Summer Series are Mansfield Community Center, Nathan Hale Inn, UConn Dairy Bar, WHUS 91.7FM and Willimantic Chronicle.
David Ives is probably best known for his evening of one-act comedies called All In The Timing. In 2007, he simultaneously had a drama off-Broadway (New Jerusalem, about the excommunication about Spinoza, at Classic Stage Company) and a comedy on Broadway (Is He Dead?, adapted from a play by Mark Twain, at the Lyceum). His short plays are collected in two anthologies, All In The Timing (Vintage) and Time Flies (Grove). His full-length theatre works are available in Polish Joke And Other Plays (Grove). He is also the author of three young-adult novels, Monsieur Eek, Scrib, and Voss. He has adapted 22 American musicals for City Center's Encores series, as well as South Pacific (with Reba McEntire) and Jubilee for concert at Carnegie Hall, and My Fair Lady for the New York Philharmonic. He recently translated Georges Feydeau's classic French farce, A Flea In Her Ear, for Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and Yasmina Reza's A Spanish Play for Classic Stage Company. He is a graduate of Yale School of Drama, a former Guggenheim Fellow in playwriting, and is the Secretary of the Dramatists Guild of America.
DALE A.J. Rose (Director) is the Interim Artistic Director and Associate Head for Performance Program at the University of Connecticut, Department of Dramatic Arts. He comes to UConn from Tampa, Florida where he served as Director of the School of Theatre and Dance at the University of South Florida. Previously, Dale was the Director of Performance Training at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Under his leadership, the program received recognition by U.S. News and World Report as one of the top 20 Graduate Theatre Programs in the country. In the 1980's, Dale was the Master Acting Teacher at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Dale has taught professionally in New York City at the Warren Robertson Theatre Workshop, The George Morrison Studio space and The Actors Center. He was Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas where, among others, he directed Earle Hyman in King Lear and Morgan Freeman in Othello. Dale was Artistic Director of the Plaza Theatre where he worked with John Goodman, Mariel Hemmingway and Zakes Mokae. Again in Dallas, Dale was a co-founder of Stage #1. Dale began his professional directing career as founder and Artistic Director of the Alice People Theatre in Tampa.
Michael Anania (Scenic Designer) has Broadway credits that include Laughing Room Only starring Jackie Mason, A Change in the Heir, Run for Your Wife, Canterbury Tales, The View From Here, and The Gathering starring Hal Linden. He also designed New York City Opera productions of H.M.S. Pinafore, The Merry Widow, La Boheme, A Little Night Music, and The Desert Song (all 'Live from Lincoln Center'), as well as Wonderful Town, 110 in the Shade, The Most Happy FeIIa, Pajama Game, and The New Moon. Michael has worked on national tours of Applause, Heartstrings and The Wizard of Oz (star ring Mickey Rooney). He was nominated for Australia's Tony Award, the 2002 Helpmann Award for Singin' in the Rain and Dallas Theater League's Leon Rabin Award for My Fair Lady.
SARAH M. DELIA (Production Stage Manager) is pleased to be stage managing her first full CRT Summer production. She has stage managed CRT's Day in the Humanities play reading for the last two years. Other credits include Hartford Stage's BRAND: New play festival three of the last four years and Hartford Stage's A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur. She also stage managed the national tour of Rent at the Golden Gate Theater in San Francisco and Death Defying Acts at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley. Sarah was on the stage management staff at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. where she stage managed Lovers and Executioners, Uncle Vanya, Ghosts, It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues, Dance of Death and The Matchmaker . She spent three seasons as stage manager for the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, W.V. She also stage managed Showboat and South Pacific at the North Carolina Theatre in Raleigh, and the regional tour of American Repertory Theatre's The King Stag, as well as The Cherry Orchard at the Festival Playhouse, Kalamazoo, MI.
Mark Emerson was last seen in Is There Life After High School? with Opening Doors Theatre Company and in Barrier Island with MTWorks, both in New York City. Regional credits include Merton of the Movies at the Dorset Theatre Festival and in Noises Off at the Pioneer Theatre Company. He is a recent graduate of the M.F.A. Acting program at UCSD, where he performed in The Wiz and Zhivago at La Jolla Playhouse (both directed by Des McAnuff). He is a graduate of Northwestern University and a company member of MTWorks.
PHILIP KORTH is a 3rd year MFA Actor at UConn. Past CRT credits include The Comedy of Errors, Brecht's Galileo, Pericles and The Exonerated, the Graduate Performance Workshop production of Reasons to Be Pretty, and the Graduate Acting project, The Winter's Tale. He is a graduate of Western Michigan University where he appeared in Lion in Winter, Proof, and Dead Man Walking.
Gretchen Goode is a 3rd year MFA acting candidate. Her CRT credits include The Comedy of Errors, Galileo, The Exonerated, Pericles, and the Graduate Performance Workshop production of Reasons to Be Pretty. Past credits include The Winter's Tale, The Miracle Worker, Lysistrata, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, Grease, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Fiddler On The Roof, Hamlet, and A Minor's Christmas Carol. She also studied at the Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts in Santa Maria, CA and Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
KRISTIN WOLD teaches acting and movement at the University of Connecticut. She has directed Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party, Thin Air: Tales from a Revolution, North Shore Fish, Judevine and Loose Knit for Connecticut Repertory Theatre. Kristin has been a member of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts since 1987. Her acting credits there include Othello, Ice Glen, King Lear, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure and Berkeley Square. This summer she will also be acting in Sea Marks at Shakespeare & Company.
BLAKE DELONG has appeared Off-Broadway at the New York Theatre, SoHo Playhouse, Axis Theater Company, The Public Theater/NYSF, New Dramatists, and Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. He has also done readings with Red Bull Theater and Guerrilla Shakespeare Project. Blake's regional theatre credits include Ghosts at Triad Stage, Major Barbara, Julius Caesar, Antony & Cleopatra, Edward II and Tamburlaine - all at Shakespeare Theatre Company, Much Ado About Nothing and The Just at Chautauqua Theatre Company, Twelfth Night at The State Theatre, Hamlet and Twelfth Night at Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Titus Andronicus at Austin Shakespeare Festival. He has also appeared in the independent films, Sons of the Rodeo, Expecting and the upcoming production, Thank You A Lot.
Nutmeg Summer Series ~ 2010 Subscription Dining Options
Subscribers can enjoy a delicious, three-course meal at the Nathan Hale Inn before the performance (evening or matinee) at a specially discounted price of only $20 per show (a 30% discount off menu prices). Each meal includes soup or salad, entrée, dessert and soft drink. Subscribers will have a reservation before each show in their series with full exchange privileges. Gratuities are not included; reservations are required (please call 860.427.7888); this offer is not combinable with other offers and is available only to Nutmeg Summer Series subscribers; dining vouchers will be mailed with tickets in advance; this option is not available for performances of Endurance.
Top off a cool afternoon or evening of hot summer theatre with whipped cream and a cherry! Subscriber may add vouchers for three ice cream sundaes at the world famous UConn Dairy Bar to each subscription for an additional $12. The UConn Dairy bar is open before evening performances, and before and after matinees; daily hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Vouchers can be redeemed anytime before the expiration date of July 4, 2010.


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Quality Care Symposium
October 29, 2013
A new joint initiative between Moffitt Cancer Center and QURE Healthcare, LLC, that uses an online training tool for doctors or nurse practitioners may improve patient care by ensuring all patients consistently receive high-value, high-quality cancer care. This online training tool uses virtual patient scenarios (called Clinical Performance and Value CPV® vignettes) to test a doctor's knowledge and use of clinical cancer care pathways. Clinical cancer care pathways are approaches to cancer care that are based on research and recommendations from professional cancer organizations, as well as other standards for quality care. These pathways begin at diagnosis and provide all the treatment options a patient might need throughout his or her cancer care.
As part of these scenarios, a doctor or nurse practitioner takes a medical history of a virtual patient, recommends the tests needed for a diagnosis, and provides the treatment options. Afterward, the doctors receive feedback on their results, highlighting areas where they followed the clinical cancer care pathways and areas where they could improve.
The researchers regularly measured how well the doctors did on these tests to watch how they improved over time. Performance was then compared to information from actual patients to find out if improved performance on the tests led to improved care for real life patients.
What this means for patients
According to the study co-author, Karen K. Fields, MD, Medical Director of Moffitt Oncology Network, continually evaluating the most appropriate care means patients can be assured that they are not only receiving the most cost-effective treatments but the ones that are most likely to treat the cancer successfully, based on the current research and standards of care.
Questions to Ask Your Doctor
- What type and stage of cancer do I have? What does this mean?
- What are my treatment options?
- Are these treatment options based on the latest research and standards of care?
- What treatment option would you recommend? Why?
- What are the risks and benefits of this option?
For More Information
ASCO Care and Treatment Recommendations
Making Decisions About Cancer Treatment


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Outdoors Unlimited
A list of how the NHL has evolved in outdoor, stadium-setting, regular-season games:
Jan. 1, 2008: At Ralph Wilson Stadium, Orchard Park, N.Y. (NFL stadium): Pittsburgh 2, Buffalo 1 (SO), Attendance: 71,217. TV viewers: 3.8 million.
Jan. 1, 2009: At Wrigley Field, Chicago (MLB park): Detroit 6, Chicago 4. Attendance: 40,818. TV viewers: 4.4 million.
Jan. 1, 2010: At Fenway Park, Boston (MLB park): Boston 2, Philadelphia 1 (OT). Attendance: 38,112. TV viewers: 3.7 million.
Jan. 1, 2011: At Heinz Field, Pittsburgh (NFL stadium): Washington 3, Pittsburgh 1. Attendance: 68,111. TV viewers: 4.5 million.
Jan. 2, 2012: At Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia (MLB park): N.Y. Rangers 3, Philadelphia 2. Attendance: 46,967. TV viewers: 3.7 million.
Jan. 1, 2013: Canceled due to NHL lockout
Jan. 1, 2014: At Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Mich. (college football stadium): Toronto 3, Detroit 2 (SO). Attendance: 105,491 (all-time hockey game record). TV viewers: 8.2 million.
Jan. 1, 2015: Washington will host, site/teams TBA (All games televised on NBC)
Started in 2014
Saturday, Jan. 25: Ducks vs. Kings at Dodger Stadium, NBC Sports Net
Sunday, Jan. 26: N.Y. Rangers vs. New Jersey at Yankee Stadium, NBC-Channel 4
Wednesday, Jan. 29: N.Y. Rangers vs. N.Y. Islanders at Yankee Stadium, NBC SportsNet
Saturday, March 1: Pittsburgh vs. Chicago, Soldier Field, NBC SportsNet
(Future games TBA)
(A series involving two Canadian-based teams)
2003: At Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta (CFL stadium): Montreal 4, Edmonton 3. Attendance: 57,167
2011: At McMahon Stadium in Calgary, Alberta (CFL/University of Calgary football stadium): Calgary 4, Montreal 0. Attendance: 41,022
2014: Scheduled for March 2 at BC Place in Vancouver (CFL stadium): Ottawa vs. Vancouver
— Tom Hoffarth
The conversation was in October 2011, and NHL chief operating officer John Collins had been bouncing around the idea of whether the Kings were worthy of playing host to a league-sanctioned, regular-season outdoor game.
"What about a Winter Classic at the Rose Bowl, at night?" he asked.
By that point in time, the Jan. 1 Winter Classic had been a window of opportunity for the league to put on four outdoor games in cold-weather cities — Buffalo, Chicago, Boston and Pittsburgh — with another coming up in Philadelphia. The sight of players skating through a snow-globe effect on a day usually held captive by college football TV audience seemed novel.
Anaheim Ducks vs. Los Angeles Kings
When: 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25
Where: Dodger Stadium
TV: NBC Sports Net
What: The first of three NHL Stadium Series games, where pro hockey teams play outdoors in baseball stadiums.
Online: More Stadium Series coverage
But in that regard, a hockey game at the Rose Bowl would be a bit of a problem on New Year's Day. It kind of has another long-term commitment in place.
"Maybe at Farmer's Field?" Collins came back.
Sure. If the place ever got built in downtown L.A.
Ever consider Dodger Stadium? The Coliseum? The parking lot at the Santa Monica pier?
"I can just imagine the player introductions as they're skating off the pier, with the Ferris wheel in the background, right onto the ice," Collins said with a laugh. "Then we know we've made it in L.A."
It's January 2014. What took so long for sunny Southern California to finally melt the hearts of the NHL decision-makers, that an outdoor game this side of a Robert Frost road not taken finally was worth taking the chance?
Had the Kings not captured the Stanley Cup in the summer of 2012, we probably are not even in the conversation for a game on the Dodger Stadium infield come Saturday night. Not even the Ducks' Stanley Cup win in 2007, a follow-up to their mighty run to the finals in 2003, seemed to generate as much inertia behind the idea of this thing taking shape.
But here we have a Kings-Ducks clash, one that definitely counts in the standings but probably more so in the league's bigger-picture marketing strategy.
"When we saw that Stanley Cup run and how the L.A. market came alive for hockey with so much excitement and enthusiasm, it just seemed like an opportunity we couldn't pass up on to get an outdoor game out there," Collins said from Montreal.
"There was that question answered, as well as how we could move this from a traditional cold-weather, frozen-pond market into something like Dodger Stadium. The pieces finally came together."
Collins has been a master at making this outdoor-game magic happen since he came into the league's front office in 2006 as a key administrator for commissioner Gary Bettman. Collins' 15 years previous experience in the NFL, from working at NFL Films, to marketing in the league offices to becoming CEO of the Cleveland Browns, gave him a more savvy approach on how to tie the NHL's romanticized roots with the big-stadium event.
NBC had been inquiring about an outdoor game to boost TV ratings since 2004. But without Collins' involvement, the event that started as a test run in 2008 likely would not have branched out into this so-called Stadium Series that includes games this season in L.A., two in New York and back in Chicago.
"The demand from the teams and the markets and the fans and all the other partners became so great, we had to figure out how to get them all in," Collins said.
The Kings did not get as aggressive in their approach to lobby for an outdoor game until after it also saw the afterglow of clinching the Stanley Cup in June 2012.
A couple months before that, members of the Dodgers' front office already were on the record as ready to be connected with the concept.
"Facility-wise, we could certainly handle it," Dodgers relatively new president Stan Kasten, a former president of the NHL's Atlanta Thrashers, said at the time.
Kasten admitted he never really seriously considered the idea until Kings president of business operations Luc Robitaille asked him about it. With that, Kasten said he called Bettman to reinforce the Dodgers' backing.
Robitaille said it was a phone call from Collins in January, 2013 that got him most excited.
"We really hadn't talked about it before then," Robitaille said. "(Collins) said, 'OK, we'll do it.' I said, 'Really?' "
Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti, who admitted to being a huge hockey fan growing up in Chicago, was next on Robitaille's speed dial.
"I asked Ned, 'Do you want to play in an alumni game if we had one?' " Robitaille said. "It was fun, just the process of the league giving us the OK and the Dodgers. Dodger Stadium was always our first choice. We've done the research and know that a lot of Dodgers fans are Kings fans. That made it easy."
The hitch all along seemed to be getting Bettman on board with something that seemed so counter-intuitive to the game's cold-hard facts of operation. After all, L.A. is about 80 degrees of separation from a typical NHL experience for many purists.
The Kings' somewhat imperfect 1991 experiment in having an exhibition game in the parking lot at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas notwithstanding, the league didn't want to be put in a position to compromise its integrity if a warm-weather city hosting a game turned into a host of slushy issues related to Mother Nature's mood swings.
NHL ice guru and senior director of facilities operations chief Dan Craig finally convinced Bettman the technology had advanced to a point at which a night game even in 60-degree temperatures would be very doable.
Collins said all Southern California venues were considered for this — back to the Rose Bowl, the Coliseum, even StubHub Center in Carson, which seemed to be better structured for fan viewing. But the novelty of the Dodger Stadium site made more sense because "it is so iconic and we loved the idea of being able to turn it into a hockey venue. This was an extension of the relationship that the Kings already had with the Dodgers."
Next was finding a doable date. With the 2014 Winter Olympics in February, the task was even more tricky. January traditionally is the wettest month in Southern California, but the one which the coldest nights were more guaranteed.
Cold being relative as this Southern California winter has progressed.
As it turned out, having the Kings-Ducks game on the night before the Grammy Awards take place at the Kings' real Staples Center home was "really just a nice bonus," Collins said. "Maybe we'll have some people in L.A. who might not otherwise be there to add to the fun."
Making money also is the bottom line in all this, and Collins said the outdoor game is "profitable — it's a lot of marketing and promotion and fan development, but we do make money on it considering all that happens here with moving the Kings out of a home game and their sold-out suites, building an infrastructure and then converting it all from a baseball field to a special event."
The bottom line, Collins emphasized, is hockey "will be front and center in Southern California for three or four days, all the local news is out there to cover it and the rest of the country gets to see how far this market has come as a hockey town."
Plant the palm trees and drop the puck. Not to throw Columbus under the bus, but maybe your time will come.


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'The fire is so hot it's just cremating even the biggest trees'
HAILEY, Idaho (AP) - Fire crews on Saturday faced another challenging day battling a rapidly growing wildfire burning closer to two posh, central Idaho resort communities, while other blazes in the West charred homes, dry grass and brush.
As of early Saturday, the Patch Springs Fire had burned about 33,000 acres, or more than 50 square miles. It was estimated at 20 percent contained.
In Idaho, the Beaver Creek Fire grew by 15 square miles late Friday and early Saturday, to 144 square miles. Overnight, flames moved closer to homes and subdivisions in the mountains west and north of the communities of Hailey and Ketchum, and the Sun Valley Resort.
So far, authorities have issued mandatory evacuations for 1,600 residences in this smoke-shrouded valley. More homeowners, along with the growing camp of firefighters and support staff, could be asked to move Saturday depending on fire activity, fire officials said. | More on the evacuation near Ketchum
On the order of Governor Otter, the Idaho National Guard mobilized nearly two dozen citizen soldiers and airmen help out with the evacuations. The guard members will deploy sometime Sunday afternoon and help the Blaine County Sheriff's Office control traffic and go on roving patrols in evacuated areas.
The blaze was started by lightning Aug. 7. It expanded significantly Friday, burning through tinder-dry brush and timber in the mountains west of the towns. Efforts Saturday were focused on protecting homes and structures in the gulches and foothills just west of Hailey and Ketchum.
Crews also planned to target erratic, wind-driven fire growth in one area north of Ketchum and two locations west of Hailey.
For now, that battle is taking place on the ground because heavy smoke has grounded air tankers capable of dumping retardant and water on the perimeters.
In northern Utah, several manufactured homes were destroyed when a wildfire raced through the community of Willow Springs late Friday, jumping a state highway and fire lines, authorities said.
Fire managers and more than 700 firefighters are bracing for another dose of hot temperatures and afternoon wind gusts up to 30 mph that could move flames closer to homes. Hundreds more firefighters will be arriving Saturday as other fires die down in Idaho and some other western states.
"This fire is consuming everything," fire spokeswoman Madonna Lengerich said. "The fire is so hot it's just cremating even the biggest trees." | Evacuation Orders
The tight valley that bookends these communities - and serve as vacation getaways for celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom Hanks - is covered in thick smoke.
Downtown retail and dining districts, normally buzzing this time of year with tourists and summer residents, are quiet, and some merchants haven't even bothered to open for Saturday breakfast and lunch.
Ketchum, with a population of 2,700, and Sun Valley, with 1,400 people, also are under "pre-evacuation orders." Authorities have told them to be ready to leave if necessary.
On Friday, Sun Valley Ski Resort officials turned on water cannons, used for wintertime snowmaking, to protect lodges on the mountain and ski lift equipment.
In addition to the government firefighters, some private insurers have sent in their own crews to provide structural protection for homes with values that can stretch into the millions of dollars, Blaine County Sheriff Spokeswoman Bronwyn Nickel said.
"There are private engines that insurance companies have sent in," she said. "They're on site. They're working with our local firefighters and law enforcement."
In Utah, the Patch Springs Fire burning in Tooele County jumped Highway 199 as it burned through the community of Willow Springs, about 60 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. That fire was sparked by lightning Aug. 10.
Meanwhile, firefighters reported progress on a fire burning near Park City, Utah.
The Rockport broke out Tuesday and has destroyed eight homes. Officials say it has burned about 1,900 acres and was 58 percent contained early Saturday.
MANDATORY EVACUATION ORDER ISSUED for areas North of Ketchum.
**Residents of Glassford Heights north to SNRA on both sides of Highway 75 including Fox Creek, Eagle Creek, Chocolate Gulch and North Fork Trailer Park should pack your essential belongings, family, and pets and GO NOW
*Ohio Gulch
*Indian Creek
*Greenhorn Gulch, Golden Eagle, and Timber Gulch south down to Treasure Lane west of Highway 75
*Treasure Lane south to McKercher Blvd., INCLUDING Aspen Lakes, west of Highway 75 (does not include Northridge)
*Croy Creek from Big Wood Bridge West
*Zinc Spur to Treasure Lane, west side of Highway 75
*Baker Creek, west side of Highway 75 south to North Fork INCLUDING Easley
East Fork
*Timber Gulch south to Treasure Lane, west of Highway 75
*Deer Creek from the Big Wood Bridge west
*North of East Fork to hospital bridge on both sides of Highway 75, INCLUDING Broadway Run and Gimlet
*Residents are encouraged to evacuated SOUTH
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Warm Springs area
North of 75 along both sides of Highway 75 to SNRA
West of River Street, including Queen of the Hills Drive, Sherwood Forest and all Della View subdivision.
AP reporter Todd Dvorak contributed from Boise; AP reporter Brady McCombs from Salt Lake City.


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The men and women who gave their lives for freedom were honored Monday at Ft. McPherson National Cemetery, and at the American Legion, volunteers packed gift boxes for Union Pacific workers who are currently on active duty.
Burch said he was humbled to say a few words about those who set aside their personal dreams to serve in the military and were killed.
We thank God for those who fought, he said. They came from every corner of our country, from every walk of life. They are our family, friends and neighbors ordinary people who made extraordinary sacrifices. Some of them made a sacrifice that we can never repay.
Ft. McPherson National Cemetery Director William Haggerty noted the recent expansion of Ft. McPherson and the new columbarium that will provide more than 1,000 niches for the ashes. The columbarium will be dedicated in June.
The columbarium and gravesites will provide enough burial space in Ft. McPherson until the year 2055, he said.
Norval Holtmeier of North Platte said Ft. McPherson's history goes back to 1846, and it was officially named Ft. McPherson in 1866.
The national cemetary was established in 1873. What began as a final resting place for those who settled the American West now provides a place of honor for those who have defended the country around the world.
Veterans of the Civil War, the Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War and more recent wars are buried at Ft. McPherson.
Currently, there are 10,406 graves in the cemetary, plus 150 markers honoring veterans who are missing, buried at sea or whose ashes were scattered at the cemetery. There are also 85 burial plots for groups of 2-15 -- the remains of those who died together.
The first graves at Ft. McPherson were marked with wooden markers, which deteriorated until no one could read the names, so there are 541 unknown graves.
Boxes for troops
At 10 a.m., about 20 volunteers gathered at the American Legion building to put together boxes of flags, snacks and minor supplies for UP workers who are in the reserves and recently called into active duty.
The day started at 8 a.m. for some of them, as they hoisted flags over the eastbound run-through service bays at Bailey Yard. They flew 65 flags above the yard, then folded and packed each one, along with a certificate of authenticity, to send to those who are serving.
It is the 10th year of the Memorial Day effort, organizer Darren Deppen said.
Terri Melia, whose husband David is in Afghanistan, hoisted the first flag at Bailey Yard at 8 a.m.
It means a lot, Terri said, especially when you know where its going. This is an honor. It helps keep me together and connected. Its a way to pay it forward to others too.
Deppen said UP worker Ralph Shearing came up with the idea 10 years ago and UP officials were quick to agree, and Shearing put the first effort together in just a couple of weeks. Shearing was unable to attend this year due to poor health. Volunteers wrote good wishes on a UP flag to send to him.
Bruce Ferguson is another key organizer.
UP contributes the flags and the workers raise funds throughout the year.
Another volunteer, Carolyn Gardner, said she is gratified to help the soldiers. Her husband is in the Army and her brother is a UP worker on active duty, which makes it even more meaningful.
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The Notre Dame volleyball team fell 23-25, 25-20, 25-15, 28-26 on Saturday to No. 1 Branson of Ross in the CIF Division V NorCal semifinals on Saturday.
Coach Katie Herrald said it was one of Notre Dame's best matches all season.
"The girls definitely left it all out there," she said.
Blake Burnett led the way for the Spirits with 19 kills and 14 digs. Emily Cunanan had 13 kills and 11 digs, Daisy Valladares had 35 digs, Erin Deserpa had 40 assists and 11 digs, while Savannah Torres had nine kills and 12 digs.
Branson, the three-time defending state champion, will face Priory in the NorCal final with the winner advancing to the state final.
Chabot 65, Hartnell 61
The Panthers' Michael Salazar scored 14 points, Billy Giles scored 14 and Kyle Dragnich added 10 points.
Hartnell is now 1-1 in the Coast Conference and will play Las Positas in Livermore on Tuesday.


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