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Most of the energy consumed by traditional light bulbs is given off as heat - not light! Fluorescent tubes and bulbs use about 75 percent less energy and can last up to 10 times longer than traditional light bulbs. Each fluorescent light you install in your home will save about $30 in energy costs over its lifetime.
Compact fluorescent bulbs contain approximately five milligrams of mercury (roughly enough to cover the tip of a ball-point pen). This small amount of mercury is the key element which makes them so energy efficient, and it poses no harm to your family or the environment while the bulb remains intact.
DO NOT put unbroken fluorescent tubes or bulbs in the trash. Instead, please recycle them. Broken fluorescent bulbs should be placed in the trash. However, please follow the directions below.
See the Environmental Protection Agency's website for detailed instructions.
Carefully remove the bulb or tube from the lighting appliance. Always remove it by the base, not the glass. Place unbroken bulb or tube in original packaging if available. Unbroken compact fluorescent bulbs (which screw into standard lamp sockets) may be taken to the returns desk of any Home Depot Store. Fluorescent tubes are not accepted at Home Depot. See individual store for details. Both fluorescent tubes and bulbs are accepted at the county household hazardous waste sites during scheduled hours.
Unbroken compact fluorescent bulbs, full size fluorescent bulbs and tubes may be taken to the county's household hazardous waste sites during scheduled dates and times. In addition, they are accepted at some special collection events. See our activity calendar for a list of upcoming dates and times. Call 703-324-5230, TTY 711 for more information. Commercial Businesses may NOT take fluorescent bulbs or other hazardous materials to the county's household hazardous waste sites. For information about the disposal of commercial hazardous waste, see business hazardous waste.
To learn about methods for managing fluorescent light bulbs as a business, see Light Bulb Disposal Options.
BUSINESS TIP: Fairfax County's Facilities Management Division purchases "green tip" fluorescent lamps containing the least amount of mercury in this product. The FMD Director states that the county demonstrates its commitment to environmental stewardship by focusing on the appropriate management of mercury in the lamps while supporting 'green purchasing' policies. This is a good program for businesses to adopt to prevent pollution in the county." For additional information about the county fluorescent lamp recycling program, call 703-293-8060, TTY 711.
Once collected at one of our household hazardous waste facilities or a
special collection event, tubes and bulbs are placed in a special drum
for transport to a facility specially designed to process these items.
The tubes and bulbs are crushed utilizing special equipment to ensure
that none of the materials - including the phosphor powder and the
mercury vapor - escape into the atmosphere. The glass and aluminum in the
lights are separated and cleaned for recycling. The phosphor powder is
separated from the mercury-bearing powder and both are collected for
further processing. This mercury-bearing powder will later be processed
to remove the mercury for eventual reuse.
Please contact the Solid Waste Management Program at 703-324-5230, TTY 711.
See Also:
A-Z List of Recycling and Trash Topics
FAQs - recycling (general)
Materials for Recycling or Disposal
The Know Toxics Program


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Prospective Evaluation of Femoral Versus Femoral and Sciatic Nerve Block for Ambulatory Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Reconstruction
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified May 2013 by University of California, San Francisco.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
University of California, San Francisco
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First received: September 30, 2011
Last updated: May 16, 2013
Last verified: May 2013
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The investigators propose that a preoperative femoral and sciatic blocks vs a femoral block only, prior to ambulatory anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction will lead to a decrease in opiate consumption, pain scores, post operative nausea/vomiting, and post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) length of stay. The investigators are prospectively randomizing patients to either a femoral or a fem/sciatic block and monitor outcomes.
|Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
|Procedure: Sciatic Block Procedure: Femoral Block only
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|The Addition of a Preoperative Sciatic Nerve Block to a Femoral Nerve Block for Ambulatory Arthroscopic ACL Reconstruction
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Pain Scores [ Time Frame: Duration of stay at recovery room unil post operative day number 3. ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Length of stay [ Time Frame: Duration of stay in the recovery room ]
- Opiate consumption [ Time Frame: During surgery, recovery room and for 3 days after discharge ]
- PONV [ Time Frame: During the recovery room stay and after discharge from surgery center for up to 3 days. ]
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|October 2013
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|October 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|Experimental: Femoral and Sciatic Block
Procedure: Sciatic Block
Performing a sciatic block in addition to a femoral block preoperatively
|Femoral Block Only
Procedure: Femoral Block only
Performing a preoperative sciatic nerve block only
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 18 and over
- ASA status I-II
- Scheduled for ambulatory Arthroscopic ACL Surgery
Exclusion Criteria:
- Allergy to Local anesthetics or opiates used in the study
- Contraindications for regional anesthesia
- coagulopathy, anticoagulation, Thrombocytopenia
- infection at site of injection
- Chronic pain and high preoperative opiate requirements
- High risk for PONV
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Beloved local theater fixture Dan Gerrity passed away yesterday of an apparent heart attack.
The also news director for KSFR was currently working on the Santa Fe Playhouse's upcoming production of A Christmas Carol.
"I've been here nine years—and Dan was around most of those years," KSFR station manger George Weston tells SFR. "He was a sensitive, humorous, high-energy man who I appreciated as a friend and as a professional."
In keeping with the old theater saying, Weston says the station will continue Gerrity's Noon News segment, "because that's what we're all about and that's what Dan was all about."
On Friday morning, Weston says, special tribute edition of Santa Fe Radio Café will air in honor of Gerrity.
Yesterday, the Santa Fe Playhouse issued the following statement:
Dan Gerrity lit up the stage of the Santa Fe Playhouse for many years and served as a member of its board for the last six. In that time, he became the driving force behind the Playhouse's effort to showcase local writing, directing, and acting talent, primarily through the annual Benchwarmers production.
He brought tenacious intelligence and exuberant poise to all these efforts, raising the bar—and everyone's expectations—about what community theater could and should be. We at the Playhouse are grateful to have known Dan as an actor, director, producer, mentor, colleague, and above all, friend.
Next to the word Presence in anyone's mind is Dan Gerrity. His Loss will be felt not just at "the longest running theatre west of the Mississippi," but to the Stage and Cinema World at large.
We will never be the same.
Eliot Gray Fisher, who served with Garrity on the Playhouse board, tells SFR that "the cast of A Christmas Carol has been mourning privately and the Playhouse board will be consulting with them soon about whether and how to move forward."
"Personally," Fisher continues, "I can say that it was a joy working with Dan on the board, and he was not only insightful about artistic concerns large and small as far as productions, promotional materials, and the multimedia elements he single-handedly brought into our productions, but, most importantly, he had an intimate understanding of the community for whom he was passionate about working for, in every aspect of his life—including at the Playhouse."
Several phone calls to SFR's culture desk have lauded him as a "wonderful person," one "filled with charisma and love."
May he rest in peace.
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UPDATE 12/11: Adhering to theater lore, the show went on. Read a dispatch from opening night of the Santa Fe Playhouse's production of A Christmas Carol here.


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Discussion in 'Texans Talk' started by PockyAF, Jan 4, 2014.
new DC
Bye wade
I guess this means we are sticking with the 3-4
I like that B'OB added a guy with a ton of coaching experience! A little disappointed that we didn't keep a few of our current coaches around though...they weren't all bad.
New regime. COMPLETELY NEW REGIME. Sure didn't take BO'B long to make that decision did it?
Not surprised at all.
Son of a martha farkin' friend of O'Brien hire. We're doomed to mediocrity with our cheap ass owner and his good ol' boy ways.
Didn't they coach together at NE? Couldn't remember.
What's the report on Crennel? I know he's been coaching for a long time and has been a HC at one point or another.
Someone break it down for us...
Kubiak/Wade ish. Great DC, horrible HC. Players he coached love him.
McNair wanted someone that was gonna make tough decisions, something Kubes never did, this was one of them.
O'Brien was hired by the Patriots in 07, while Crennel was the head coach of the Browns in 07. So I don't believe they've ever coached together.
Interesting to see who the position coaches will be
Correct. Crennel left the Patriots after '04. He was the DC for all three SB winning teams.
Wait, didn't thunderkyss say this would never happen?
Great hire, peace out Wade!
I said this yesterday, I have been wanting Romeo or at least thinking of him as a grat option for us as DC since the beginning of the season. I am really happy with this hire. The man knows defense and IMO is in the top 5 DC's in the league
Yep, so there is NO way this BS can be true
Think "wishy-washy" may be a term of the past?
Fantastic hire.
I like how this Whole thing is shaping up
Now we wait 8 months and see if it worked
You can't just use Watt to take up space. Crennel's gonna have to modify his thinking.
According to Wikipedia they coached together for two years - 2007 & 2008.
Then Crennel left for the HC position at Cleveland.
He was the DC in NE and BO'B was the OC in NE at the same time. I'm all for O'Brien hiring his friends...as long as they came from NE. Seems to be a good franchise to copycat.
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Board of Supervisors Approves Fiscal Year 2003 Carryover Review
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Sept. 15, 2003
Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
Fiscal Year 2003 Carryover Review with
Additional Tax Relief and Funding to Address Critical
On Sept. 15, 2003, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors formally approved the fiscal year 2003 Carryover Review. County Executive Anthony H. Griffin proposed the Carryover package on Aug. 4, 2003, with a request to the board to advertise a public hearing on Sept. 15, 2003. Code of Virginia requirements stipulate that any budget adjustments of $500,000 or more must be advertised and a public hearing held prior to board action.
Fairfax County concluded fiscal year 2003 with an available balance of $40.06 million. After receiving testimony from the public, the Board of Supervisors approved the following adjustments recommended by the county executive with modifications as indicated:
• $10.5 million for a portion of the General Fund cost of a Public Safety Operations Center to replace the current outdated facility.
• $3.03 million to expand tax relief for senior citizens and people with disabilities by increasing the asset level from the current threshold of $160,000 to $190,000.
• $3 million to address the growing problem of homelessness, particularly among families who face difficulties in finding affordable housing. A new West County Shelter will accommodate up to 20 homeless families needing temporary shelter.
• $2.9 million instead of $3.9 million proposed to fund health insurance premium increases which are consistent with national trends.
• $2 million instead of the $3 million proposed to retrofit school buses with ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel in order to meet the board's commitment to improve air quality and address federal Clean Air mandates.
• $1.5 million for construction of Little River Glen II, a new assisted living facility for low- and moderate-income seniors. County funding is required since tax exempt financing is not available as anticipated.
• $1 million to begin removing asbestos from the many properties at Laurel Hill as part of a phased approach to make this parcel usable for the community. The county executive had proposed $3.0 million for this purpose.
• $1 million to leverage state funding for child care assistance for low-income working families who need safe, affordable child care. The board previously made this commitment when adopting the fiscal year 2004 budget and anticipated identification of the necessary funding as part of the Carryover Review.
• $175,000 for the county's share of dredging the Occoquan River as part of a cooperative funding arrangement with Prince William County and the federal government.
• $170,000 to restore funding at Riverbend Park and Hidden Oaks Nature Center enabling these facilities to reinstate regular operations which were reduced as part of the "Fiscal Year 2004 Adopted Budget Plan."
• $140,000 will enable the completion of lighting improvements at Great Falls Nike Park.
• $70,000 for staffing costs of a new Hybla Valley Computer Learning Center to provide support for at-risk youth.
• The board chose not to spend a total of $9 million for financing the Hunter Tract ($3 million), replenishing the Land Acquisition Reserve ($2 million) or funding Spot Road Improvements ($4 million) as recommended by the county executive.
After funding those priorities and making the necessary Managed Reserve adjustment of $0.5 million, the board was left with a balance of $14.1 million. With every indication that the fiscal year 2005 budget will present challenges similar to fiscal year 2004, the Board of Supervisors designated $10 million as a reserve or "cushion" in anticipation of the issues to be faced in the next budget cycle.
In accordance with its policy of allocating 40 percent of the balance to the Revenue Stabilization Reserve, the board approved the transfer of $1.62 million to Fund 002, Revenue Stabilization Reserve with a corresponding Managed Reserve adjustment for a total of $1.65 million. Finally, the Board of Supervisors emphasized its commitment to education as a top priority by dedicating the remaining $2.4 million to Fairfax County Public Schools as its "cushion" for the upcoming difficult budget year.
Information on the fiscal year 2003 Carryover Review is available on the county's Web site at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dmb and by calling the Department of Management and Budget at 703-324-2391, TTY 711.


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The Knight Commission does endorse the NCAA and AGB resources noted below to guide university leadership:
- Trust, Accountability, and Integrity: Board Responsibilities for Intercollegiate Athletics (2012).
Also see: Association of Governing Board's Statement on Board Responsibilities for Intercollegiate Athletics. Adopted by the AGB Board of Director's on Nov. 16, 2007 and updated with an "illustrative policy" in April 3, 2009.
- The Second-Century Imperatives: Presidential Leadership – Institutional Accountability. A report from The Presidential Task Force on the Future of Division I Intercollegiate Athletics (NCAA, 2006)
Additional Resources:
- ACE Roundtable Examines Issues of Academic Integrity and Intercollegiate Athletics. (December 13, 2016). Paper Recommends Practices for Aligning Academic Values, Athletics Programs.
- The Ties That Bind: Presidential Involvement with the Development of NCAA Division I Initial Eligibility Legislation. Dan Covell & Carol A. Barr, Journal of Higher Education (July - August 2001, 72(4), p. 414-52).
An academic article about the impact presidential leadership and influence had on the development of initial eligibility standards and calls for increased presidential control on athletic programs.
- 2008 NCAA State of the Association Address: "Leadership and Challenges: The Role of Intercollegiate Athletics in the University," Myles Brand, NCAA News (January 12, 2008).
According to the NCAA Website, this address articulates the following: "(1) intercollegiate athletics provides educational value; (2) intercollegiate athletics helps create community on campus; (3) the university is helped by college sports in meeting its obligations to engage the world beyond the campus; and (4) intercollegiate athletics contributes to social justice."


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President Francois Hollande's 75 percent millionaire-tax is unconstitutional because it doesn't guarantee equality for taxpayers, France's top court ruled.
Hollande's plan would have added extra levies of 18 percent on individuals' incomes of more than 1 million euros ($1.32 million), while regular income taxes and a 4 percent exceptional contribution for high earners would have been based on household income, the court said today in an e-mailed statement. As a result, two households with the same total revenue could end up paying different rates depending on how earnings are divided among members of those households, which runs counter to a rule of equal tax treatment, the Paris-based court said…
The constitutional court lowered a series of other tax increases, calling them excessive or saying they also violated equality of treatment for taxpayers. The tax rate on stock options and free shares was lowered to a maximum of 64.5 percent from a rate of as much as 77 percent. The marginal tax rate on a type of private retirement benefit, known as "retraites chapeau," was cut to a maximum of 68.34 percent from a planned rate in 2013 of 75.34 percent.
Looking at France's wealth tax, the court said that unrealized gains couldn't be included in assessing the tax because it ignores the requirement to take into account a payer's ability to meet his obligations.


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Photos: Beyonce Au Naturel & With Blue Ivy
Beyonce is taking a breather from her world tour following last week's femme-filled Chime for Change concert in London. With the European leg of her tour exed out, the "Grown Woman" singer has a monthlong rest before she heads out across America with her Mrs. Carter Show World Tour.
Channeling her relaxing mini-hiatus from tour, the singer has put up some ol' au naturalle pictures on her Tumblr. Check out the photos in the gallery that follows.


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The Fantasy Platoon Advantage, Part Two
Last week, I dove into the world of streaming hitters by way of platoon advantages, particularly with guys who excel against lefties. In part two, we will look at some righty mashers. With these guys being on plus side of the playing-time split, they won't all be as readily available as the lefty guys should be in your 10- and 12-team mixers, but if you have one of these guys you might consider getting someone from the first piece to pair with them instead of starting these guys all the time.
Here are five guys making life extremely difficult for right-handed pitchers so far this season.
Carp actually has a better career OPS against lefties than he does righties, but the Red Sox see his value being highest almost exclusively against right-handed pitchers. He had just five home runs against them in 145 PA last year, but has needed 45 fewer turns to notch two more than that total so far this season. Furthermore, his new home has been a godsend, as evidenced by his 1100 OPS in Fenway Park. Of course, the road has served him well this year, too, but he's no doubt happier as a Red Sox player. His ownership rates have surged of late, but he is still available in half of ESPN leagues and 75 percent of Yahoo! leagues.
Chavez has been on the disabled list since May 31, which no doubt increases his availability, but he is slated to return soon and he appears to have found his niche as a righty killer. He was tremendous with the Yankees a season ago, clubbing 16 homers with a .298/.365/.543 line in 274 PA against right-handers. He has also had two excellent home venues to take advantage of, posting an 804 OPS in Yankee Stadium and currently toting a 1033 mark in Chase Field.
Adams showed a stark advantage against righties last year with a 739 OPS that easily eclipsed his 440 mark against lefties, but this year he has taken it up another level with that killer line so far this season. The Cardinals are in a position to limit his time to best-possible situations, which happen to be against righties. You will have to be especially diligent with him, because he isn't guaranteed the start against every righty the Cardinals face. But he hits. Like several unheralded Cardinals prospects before him, he doesn't have flashy tools, but he gets the job done exceptionally well.
Parra has been a full-time player this year, but he has done most of his best work against right-handers. His .273 AVG and .379 OBP against southpaws are fine, but he lacks even a modicum of power, as evidenced by a .318 SLG. Thus, his ideal deployment for your fantasy team would be exclusively against right-handers. He started showing some progress a couple of years ago with a .427 SLG against them, but it dipped to .405 last year before his 2013 surge.
In fact, he has matched his extra-base production from 2012 in 126 fewer plate appearances, adding 19 doubles and a pair of triples to the five home runs. He was thought to be the odd man out coming into the season with new free agent signee Cody Ross, last year's addition Jason Kubel, and youngster Adam Eaton manning the outfield. But Eaton's injury opened up a spot, and Parra has taken a firm hold of it, so much so that I'm not sure he'll relinquish it even when (if?) Eaton returns.
We saw signs from the former top prospect a year ago when he smashed righties to the tune of an 831 OPS in 238 PA, but that served as 81 percent of his work, and even for a catcher, that is scant. Hence, he didn't really hit the radar is traditional mixed leagues. So far this year, Castro has really shown why he was twice rated by Kevin Goldstein in the top 100 (2009, 2010). He has improved markedly against lefties as well, making him a passable full-time player (651 OPS, up from 361), though in one-catcher mixed leagues you could definitely platoon Castro with someone like Chris Iannetta or A.J. Ellis to maximize your catcher roster spot. I think we could see some improvements in the coming year or two that narrow the gap in Castro's platoon split, but for the remainder of 2013, he is best utilized on the long side of the right/left platoon.
Paul Sporer is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @sporer
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They're all here now, all in New Orleans, preparing for NFL Films' biggest moment of the year. The IT guys started to arrive last week, laying groundwork for the cameramen and producers and logistics people to document Super Bowl XLVII as only NFL Films can do.
The final few crew members trickled in Thursday.
Two semi trucks have arrived from company headquarters in Mount Laurel, N.J., loaded down with all the equipment that makes the magic possible. The time is near.
Sunday afternoon, when the cameramen get into position inside the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, their assignment will be simple, yet pressurized: They must capture the same types of images that made NFL Films an institution, and, in the process, helped grow pro football into America's favorite sport.
But Friday night, amid the run-up to the big game, there will be no final meeting to discuss and fine-tune every possible detail.
No meeting Saturday, either. Or Sunday.
That's the way it was when Steve Sabol was still alive, and they're sure as hell not going to change things now that he's gone.
Sunday's game marks the first time NFL Films will document a Super Bowl without Sabol, its legendary creative force, who died Sept. 18 at 69 from brain cancer.
"It's definitely a sad thing," said Ross Ketover, senior coordinating producer at NFL Films. "But luckily, he put us in a position to succeed, which, of course, is what any good coach would do.
"Even in the Super Bowl meetings we would have, he'd sit there and say, 'You guys have been shooting all year. You know what to do. You're all talented filmmakers. You're all talented cameramen. Go out and execute it.' "
Execute it they have, for more than 50 years now.
A unique view
Although live telecasts of the Super Bowl usually produce the highest TV ratings of the year, the NFL Films accounts prove to be more durable — or, as Ketover put it, "the shows of record" for football fans.
Look at it this way: If you're old enough to remember Super Bowl XI, between the Raiders and Vikings in 1977, do you really remember the ABC telecast? Or do you remember NFL Films' slow-motion shot of Raiders cornerback Willie Brown, chugging down the sideline, ball in hand, with his game-sealing interception return?
Those images are very different from live TV. That is, and always has been, by design.
"The story of the game is different a couple of days after than it was 30 seconds after," said Kennie Smith, executive in charge of project management.
"That's what NFL Films does, is tell the historical story of the game. We have that perspective of time."
That shot of Brown is among so many unique, lasting images created by NFL Films, and they're indicative of the groundbreaking style Sabol developed after the little venture started in 1962.
Sabol's father, Ed, won a bid to film the '62 NFL championship game, and within three years, Blair Motion Pictures — named after his daughter and Steve's sister — had morphed into NFL Films.
To help develop the product, Ed called on his son, Steve, who at the time was uniquely qualified for the job: He was a fullback at Colorado College who majored in art history, and who was nearly obsessive in his consumption of pop culture.
Steve Sabol also had a flair for the dramatic. While in college, he made up a nickname, "Sudden Death Sabol," and a fake hometown, Possum Trot, Miss.
Though Ed, now 96, was the team leader, an idea man and sharp businessman — he served as company president until 1985 and was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011 — even he conceded his son gave NFL Films its signature style.
"We see the game as art as much as sport," Steve Sabol said in 2011.
It showed.
Changing the game
Sabol applied film techniques to football, often focusing on the emotion and drama of a game, rather than the technical side.
He loved tight shots of players — wide eyes, shuffling feet, falling sweat droplets — and usually put them in super-slow motion.
NFL Films also used real sounds from the sidelines and games, often persuading players and coaches to wear wireless microphones.
Sabol grouped the pictures and sounds with arresting music — horns, strings, crashing cymbals and the like — that became so popular, NFL Films later packaged some of its greatest hits into an album.
The films were guided by a narrator, John Facenda, a former Philadelphia television anchor who voiced scripts that were heavy on rhymes and alliteration (later films were narrated by Harry Kalas; the company now uses several narrators and produces new music in-house).
The results were revolutionary.
Sports Illustrated once called NFL Films "the most effective propaganda organ in the history of corporate America." Although NFL Films often glosses over things like player arrests and drug use, the company has received far more praise than criticism. NFL Films has collected more than 100 Emmys, and Sabol himself won more than 30 — including a lifetime achievement award.
Pursuit of perfection
Their success was a testament to Sabol's eyes, ears and relentless perfectionism.
Smith, the logistics executive, started at NFL Films as his assistant, handling day-to-day matters, typing his sripts and memos.
They usually returned to her, covered with red circles.
"He and Mr. Sabol, Ed, used to say, 'Finish like pros,' " Smith said. "Every single thing I do — even now, I mean, if it's mopping the kitchen floor, I say to myself, 'OK, finish like a pro.' I tell you, I'm not exaggerating. Every time I finish something, I make sure it's the best I can possibly do. That's what Steve gave me."
In 2011, Sabol was at an awards dinner in Kansas City when he blacked out. Within a week, he was back in suburban Philadelphia, where doctors told Sabol he had an irremovable brain tumor.
He continued to work, though his pace obviously slowed. Sabol struggled as the tumor Swiss-cheesed his mind, sometimes restraining him to only five words at a time.
Last spring, in a profile of Sabol, Sports Business Journal painted one especially heartbreaking scene. As Sabol spoke with a colleague, he picked up a pair of scissors.
"I know what these are," he said. "And I know what they do. But I don't know what the (expletive) to call them!"
Sabol died in September, but the memory of him is still vivid within the walls of NFL Films headquarters.
A sign still rests on his desk, reading: "Have you made someone laugh today?"
"He wrote that, maybe, three weeks before he passed," Smith said. "So it's still there, and every time you walk by his office, you say, 'Yeah, that was what Steve was about.' He wanted you to work hard and have fun. That's what we're doing."
The road ahead
Just as the game has evolved over the decades, so too has NFL Films.
When the company formed a hand-in-hand partnership with NFL Network, which launched in 2003, a whole lot of changes came with it.
Deadlines and budgets tightened; NFL Films went through a few rounds of layoffs and buyouts; and the sheer volume of programming increased.
Not everyone is happy. In a 2011 story that appeared on Philly.com, a few former employees slammed NFL Films' new direction, accusing new executives of essentially sacrificing quality for quantity.
The signature 30-minute Super Bowl highlight films (often referred to as "Super Bowl Memories") aren't met with the same kind of reverence as they were in the '60s and '70s, when Facenda manned the microphone.
That's OK, Ketover said.
These days, Ketover said, NFL Films produces shows for 11 networks. Its list of projects has grown and diversified, as well. Think about modern series like "A Football Life," "Hard Knocks" and "America's Game," and it becomes clear: Much of the magic remains.
The game awaits
Sunday afternoon, CBS' pregame coverage will begin with "Road to the Super Bowl," a one-hour season-in-review special that NFL Films has churned out for 43 years.
As Smith put it, it's a collection of the best "Oh, God" shots caught by NFL Films. It is, in short, a sparkling reminder of what the company does best, and until this year, Sabol's fingerprints were all over it.
Once the Super Bowl begins, NFL Films will have about 25 cameramen in place, each with a general assignment (one focused on a single player, another on the Ravens' sideline, another in the far corner of the end zone, just begging for the home run play to come to him).
Together, Ketover said, they will shoot more than 200 rolls of film, not counting the digital footage, which NFL Films is slowly inching toward.
After the game ends, all the footage boards an overnight plane to New Jersey, where producers will work on three highlight shows — "Inside the NFL," the long-running series now on Showtime; "Turning Point," an X-and-O-themed show for NBC Sports Network; and "Sound FX," an NFL Network show that relies heavily on wireless microphones.
Each producer will take a camera, dig through the raw footage, cut out all the fat and find the memorable NFL Films-style images — "the stuff that lives on forever," as Ketover terms it.
They will spend Monday and Tuesday editing segments, using as much wireless sound as they can. They will add a script, working almost through the night Tuesday.
The narrator, Scott Graham, lends his voice to "Inside the NFL" the next morning, and by Wednesday night, it's all finished.
All the while, Sabol's voice lives on in their heads.
Steve didn't like the electric guitar; I'd better dump that out.
That slow-motion shot of Adrian Peterson? Don't cut it. Let it play out. Steve liked it that way.
"If you love football and you love telling stories," Ketover said, "it's the perfect place to work."
NFL Films will enter new territory this week, documenting the Super Bowl without its iconic leader.
Steve Sabol isn't there anymore.
The work is tougher and longer. The loose deadlines and budgets are gone.
But Sunday night, the crew will pack up and leave New Orleans with more lasting images in hand.
And they will, in all likelihood, finish like pros.


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The Harlem Shake craze continues to grip Oxford. This week saw an Oxford-wide version filmed on Sunday 17th in front of the Rad Cam. St Catz, St Hilda's and Wadham, among other colleges, have also created their own versions of the internet meme this week.
These new interpretations of the globally popular meme follow the first Oxford University-based efforts made by Pembroke and Hertford, posted on the 10th and 12th February respectively.
Roughly 130 revellers attended the Oxfordwide Shake filmed on Sunday outside the iconic Rad Cam. The event was organised by Brookes student, Freddy Millburn-Fryer and the film currently has over 16,000 views on YouTube. Filming began at 2.15pm and captured students from Brookes and Oxford University dancing in fancy dress. Two Oxford University students can even be seen "milking" themselves in full sub fusc.
The first 'Harlem Shake' video was uploaded on the 2nd February by five teenagers in Queensland, Australia. Since then, over 40,000 versions have been uploaded to YouTube. The general pattern of the meme is of a 30 second video featuring the song "Harlem Shakes" by American DJ, Baauer.
Generally, the video begins with one person (usually helmeted or masked) dancing alone, surrounded by others who are apparently unaware of his or her presence. The lone dancer is then joined by a crowd of dancers for the next fifteen seconds.
Collectively, versions of the Harlem Shake have been viewed over 175 million times and the craze caused the song to reach number three in the UK charts.
In terms of views, St Catz is currently in the lead with nearly 30,000 hits. Millburn Fryer commented "As much as it hurts me to say it,
[St Catz] are beating my video on YouTube at the moment, so I'm livid about that as mine is clearly better." He also added in relation to his version of the meme "I knew I could rely on the Oxford student demographic to bring their A Game and they surely did. The video is fantastically fun; I've had a lot of great feedback. It's a crazy, undefinable moment that will stay with me forever."
Alistair Adams, who organised the St Catz Shake commented "there's a fantastic community spirit here at Catz and I really think the video shows that… I'd have to agree with the poll on the Oxford Tab [according to which, Catz has the best Oxford College Harlem Shake Video], although the Pembroke MCR one is pretty funny."
Juliette Ginsberg, also of St Catz, told Cherwell that the film has "clearly cemented Catz in a strong position to win over allies and continue
our ongoing war with Magdalen!"
Some students at Wadham have likewise seen the Shake as an opportunity to point to wider issues. The Wadham version sees students eating in hall, with the lone dancer, first year Bertrand Nzabandora, dancing on a table in a 'V for Vendetta' mask. He then is suddenly joined by about 150 students in fancy dress.
Luke Buckley, who organised the film told Cherwell that the motivation behind the Wadham film was to "[…] go beyond the usual boundaries that separate people into groups that are essentially arbitrary, and to challenge the stereotypical depiction of Oxford students as overly studious, pretentious, bourgeois, arrogant, etcetera."
"That was also what I felt made the Wadham shake different. We did it in our historic dining hall. So it was necessarily subversive in a way that doing it outside or in the JCR or in some other ostensibly uncontroversial area would not be."
Wadham was granted permission to film in their 17th century hall. However, at St Hilda's, students face being "deaned" for making their film in the college library. The film organiser, who wishes to remain anonymous, commented "I hope there won't be a punishment! It only took about 7 minutes to film and we did it at 11:30 on Sunday night so that minimal [sic] people would be disturbed and we asked the people in the library who weren't involved if it was ok, so in my opinion we did nothing wrong."
Other colleges such as LMH plan to shake in the near future. However, some are already getting sick of the craze. Ben Cohen, who filmed both the Catz and Wadham shakes told Cherwell "'I am just really tired of that song now."


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POMPANO BEACH, Fla. - When a 30-ton sperm whale started bobbing in and out of the water about 100 yards offshore in Pompano Beach, people nearby knew something was terribly wrong.
"Looks really hurt," said Jessica Steele.
Witnesses called police, who immediately reached out to scientists for help.
Both police and a rescue team took a boat and then a paddle board to get close to the injured animal. That's when scientists noticed the whale's deep scars.
"It's possible it was hit by a boat; it's possible there was an internal illness," said Doctor Stefan Harzen of Taras Oceanographic Foundation.
They also realized the whale was barely breathing.
"There's really very little you can do for a whale if it gets seriously ill or injured," said Dr. Harzen.
Eventually, Mother Nature took over, and the whale died.
Because of the low tide, the ocean gradually took the young, female sperm whale further, and further from the shore. Crews lets it drift until it was gone.
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Chimerix, Inc., a biotechnology company developing orally-available antiviral therapeutics, today announced presentations at two upcoming investor conferences in New York. Both presentations will include an update on the Company's clinical pipeline, including its lead development compound, CMX001.
About Chimerix Chimerix is developing novel oral antiviral therapeutics with the potential to improve outcomes for patients in multiple therapeutic areas, including transplant, oncology, acute care and global health. The Company's proprietary lipid technology has given rise to two clinical-stage lipid acyclic nucleoside phosphonates that have demonstrated the potential for enhanced activity and safety compared with currently approved drugs.
Chimerix's lead clinical-stage drug candidate, CMX001, is a novel, broad-spectrum, oral antiviral that inhibits double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) viruses, including cytomegalovirus (CMV), adenovirus (AdV), BK virus and herpes simplex virus. CMX001 has completed Phase 2 clinical development for the prophylaxis of CMV in hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients and is in Phase 2 development for the preemption and treatment of AdV infection. To date, more than 800 patients have been dosed with CMX001 in controlled clinical trials and open-label treatment protocols. Chimerix has completed an End of Phase 2 meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and is preparing to initiate Phase 3 clinical development of CMX001 for the prophylaxis of CMV in HSCT recipients in 2013.
In addition to its commercial use, CMX001 is being developed under a contract from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) as a medical countermeasure to protect against a bioterror threat in the event of a smallpox release.
In July 2012, Chimerix granted an exclusive worldwide license to Merck for the development and commercialization of its second clinical-stage drug candidate, CMX157, for the treatment of HIV infection, further validating the Company's propriety lipid technology.
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text: In Short: Jan. 17-23, 2013 By Staff reports January 16, 2013 Story Share An evening with Dreama DenverBeckley's 110 Marshall will host a free book signing and discussion with Dreama Denver beginning at 6:30 p.m. Friday. Denver, Bob's wife, wrote the book "Gilligan's Dreams." The night also includes tropical drinks and food.The venue is located at 110 Marshall Ave. For reservations or with questions, call 304-222-2536 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Reservations are suggested.Free filmAt 7:30 p.m., the Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 520 Kanawha Blvd. W., will screen "When Did You Last See Your Father?" as part of its free Third Friday Film Series. The film stars Colin Firth as an award-winning author who cares for his dying father (Jim Broadbent) and begins to see him as a complete person.The PG-13 rated film will be shown with captions for the hearing impaired. Call 304-345-5042.Opera at the moviesThe Metropolitan Opera's performance of Gaetano Donizetti's "Maria Suarda" will screen live at 12:55 p.m. Saturday at Regal Nitro and Cinemark Huntington Mall. The production lasts roughly four hours. It is based on the lives of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.Tickets at Nitro are $20 for adults and $16 for seniors and children. At Huntington, they are $22 for adults, $20 for seniors and $15 for children. Call 304-769-0405 (Nitro) or 304-733-3984 (Huntington). For complimentary passes, call 304-763-6488 (Nitro) or 304-342-0316 (Huntington).Film auditions Auditions for local horror filmmaker Eamon Hardiman's latest project, "The Crawling Dead," will take place at 5 p.m. Sunday at Bluegrass Kitchen, 1600 Washington St. E. Auditions are open to ages 18 and up.Audition sides will be provided. Actors are encouraged, but not required, to bring a headshot. They must bring a photo ID for proof of age.For more information, contact Missy Myers at 304-541-8945 or firstname.lastname@example.com.'Doubt' auditionsTreehouse Arts Ensemble in Beckley will hold auditions for "Doubt" at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at Tamarack. Performance dates are March 8-9 at Tamarack and March 15-17, 21-24 and 28-30 at the Raleigh Playhouse & Theatre. Roles are available for one man and three women. Actors will receive a stipend for a commitment of 25 rehearsals and 12 performances. Auditions consist of a cold read from the script.Email Robby Moore at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.Dinner concertThe Greenhouse of Teays Valley, 3554 Teays Valley Road, will host "A Musical Evening with John Eric Booth and Trio. Jan. 26. Dinner begins at 7 p.m., followed by the concert of classic standards.Tickets are $40. Call 304-397-6316. For more on Booth, visit www.johnericbooth.com. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Teen pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Oakes Field shooting 2 Facebook founder visits Cabin Creek Health Systems 3 Toyota announces new $115 million project for WV plant 4 'Report for America' pilot project begins in Appalachia 5 Congressional opioid investigation targets drug wholesaler Miami-Luken Of syndication and second chances Previous Story The Water Coolers take office humor outside the office Next Story


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Those living in the path of Hurricane Sandy heard the same message from government officials and loved ones alike: Stay inside.
But Alec Baldwin braved the worsening weather Monday afternoon – for his four-legged friends.
The actor, 54, sans wife Hilaria Thomas, was spotted walking two pint-sized pooches – Gitana and another pup – on the streets of N.Y.C., according to BuzzFeed. He carried no umbrella – not even a raincoat.
At least 26 deaths in seven states were linked to the storm, reports the New York Times, and Baldwin shared his sentiments over the severity of the situation on Twitter, asking, "What, as a society, do we do in response to this?"
After losing power, he wrote, "No lights here, no Internet. My wife @hilariabaldwin and I, sitting in the dark wondering where is the storm? No jokes please)."
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text: By the end of the year our government is hoping to get everyone who receives service connected disability payments on direct deposit. Hoping is their word but they also discuss that people who don't sign up will get a pay card and it will charge for transactions. This truly sucks for me because I will usually hold back a little for any tool or other purchases now that all of my check will be going straight to the bank account and I will have to give up getting a few small purchases I do every month. I have always preferred the check myself for that reason. Now I will have to show the actual price of stuff and my wife will be seeing that. She does the same with her part-time work of delivering phone books. I had to do direct deposit with my new part-time job as well, and that is ok with me there. Being in the business that I am of buying, rebuilding and selling engines sometimes I might have to dip into my cash reserve to get better quality parts to make extra money and make the engine easier to sell. I always pay it back afterward. I can see the wife freaking out a little bit if I had to dip into our account a couple hundred bucks to make a profit of 500$ extra on an engine. Hopefully in the next few months I will get the approval for my VA grant and have an actual shop where I will have that cash reserve to not touch that personal cash. I guess I am just an old fart who prefers to see the check in my hand.


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A whistle-blower lawsuit unsealed last week claims that dozens of government agencies were overcharged by millions of dollars for pens, ink, furniture and other goods under a contract with retailer Office Depot.
The case, which was filed under seal in March 2009 in Los Angeles Superior Court, claims the company overcharged governments in San Diego County and throughout California under a series of office supply contracts.
The most recent iteration of the contract, which was in place between 2006 and 2010, was used by about 10,000 governments and nonprofits nationwide for $3.6 billion in purchases.
The San Diego Unified School District used the contract. The county Office of Education and the city of Santee are listed as users of the contract in the litigation. Music Watson, spokeswoman for the education office, said the agency never purchased through the contract. Santee did not respond to a request for comment.
Some of the lawsuit's claims have been reviewed by government auditors or investigators in other states, which are seeking reimbursement from Office Depot or have received payments from the Boca Raton, Fla. company.
The whistle-blower case seeks triple damages for overcharges and a $10,000 penalty for each inflated invoice, possibly bringing the total damages sought into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Office Depot did not respond to requests for comment. The company denies it overcharged any agency through the national contracts, which it won by offering lower prices than other national retailers in competitive bids.
"Office Depot has a dedicated contract compliance team that reviews and monitors public sector customer contracts to ensure compliance," the company says on its website. "Office Depot continues to offer superior products and services to our government customers in every state. It is through these partnerships that we continue to take care of business."
The case is known as a qui tam proceeding, under which a whistle-blower aids the government and benefits from any penalty. Such cases start in secret. The government investigates the claims and attempts to reach a settlement before the seal is lifted and litigation proceeds.
All governments participating in the contracts could receive a portion of any settlement or judgment, but some have joined in active litigation — which could entitle them to a larger share of any payout. They include the cities of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Pomona, and school districts in Merced, Stockton and Monrovia.
"We believe Office Depot deliberately overcharged the city and are taking steps to recover the overcharges," a statement from the city of Los Angeles said. "We cannot comment further on matters in litigation."
Missing from the court documents is one of the contract's largest California customers, the San Diego Unified School District, which spent $17.3 million through the agreement between 2007 and 2010.
Phil Stover, a deputy superintendent, said the district audited its purchases in 2010 and found only $4,677 in overcharges. He said Office Depot found it actually undercharged the district, but it never asked for reimbursement for those billing errors.
Since the district's audit found no significant issues, Stover said it initially declined to intervene in the lawsuit. Now that the lawsuit has been made public, Stover said the district is reviewing whether to intervene.
"We have not yet determined whether our district is similarly situated to the plaintiffs based on the new allegations," Stover said. "If we determine that it is, we can then evaluate the potential costs and risks of participating in the qui tam case."
The agencies that used the contracts adopted them through a Bay Area nonprofit co-op, the U.S. Communities Government Purchasing Alliance. The largest governments involved in the co-op would conduct a competitive bid process in an effort to get the best deal, then others in the co-op could purchase supplies under the terms of that contract. The contracts addressed in the lawsuit were all bid by Los Angeles County, which has not joined in the lawsuit.
Since 2008, Office Depot has been fighting allegations it overcharged customers. In settling disputes elsewhere, the company has never admitted wrongdoing. It says it issued settlements, refunds or courtesy payments in order to ensure the satisfaction of customers.
The claims made in the lawsuit stem from ex-employee David Sherwin, a former senior Office Depot salesman who handled government accounts. The company says he is disgruntled and would have been a participant if any overcharging occurred.
The company says it fired Sherwin in April 2008 for sending a profane and threatening email to company executives. Sherwin, a former government auditor, said he repeatedly warned company officials about overcharging before being fired. After his firing, Sherwin began emailing, faxing and calling hundreds of the company's customers and told them to audit their contracts.
Sherwin stands to receive a percentage of damages under the qui tam action, possibly more than 33 percent depending on several factors, including any involvement he may have had in overcharges. Some of his post-employment efforts have been funded by Office Depot's competitors.
Sherwin said he had no comment for this story and forwarded questions to one of his attorneys, who did not respond to multiple requests for comment made since Tuesday.
The lawsuit claims Office Depot intentionally misapplied discounts and changed prices in violation of its agreements. It also claims the company failed to fulfill lowest-price guarantees and switched some customers to an alternate pricing option without telling them it would likely cost them more money.
Nearly all of the lawsuit's claims were investigated by the Florida attorney general in 2010 and Colorado attorney general in 2011. Both attorneys general set aside all but the price plan-switching allegation in settling with Office Depot for a combined $6.3 million.
In 2011, Dallas County accused Office Depot of not offering its lowest prices through the contract, and is demanding $1.8 million. Earlier this year, Detroit Public Schools claimed it was overcharged at least $1 million more than the company's lowest prices and received a settlement for an undisclosed amount. And earlier this month, Maricopa County, Ariz., sought $5.4 million after it found the company changed prices without authorization and also didn't offer its lowest prices.


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We fell in love with her "stego pony" last year, and now we can't get enough of Nina Dobrev's latest edgy hairstyle: the "knothawk." Dobrev debuted the intricate updo on the People's Choice Awards red carpet, and immediately editors were emailing about who would try it out first. While we doubt it's something we can do ourselves, it's totally worth saving in your iPhone pics for the next time you're at the salon.
Celebrity hairstylist Riawna Capri is the mastermind behind Dobrev's unique updo. The magic ingredient: KMS California Hairplay sea salt spray, which added the needed texture to the actress's hair. After spraying the star's hair, Capri created a mohawk style by pinning knots from the back of her head all the way to the top. And since the actress has long, thick hair, the finished product ended up being an intricate maze of 100 (yes, 100!) knots. As you can see in the gif, it's truly a masterpiece from every side.
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The pulled-back style was the perfect complement to the star's sparkling Jenny Packham turtleneck dress. And her bold red carpet look wasn't Dobrev's only statement-making moment of the night. She also took the stage with ex Ian Somerhalder to accept the award for "Best Chemistry" for their on-screen relationship on the Vampire Diaries, and totally poked fun at her off-screen breakup with the actor. Suddenly we understand why she had the hotness turned up to 11.
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Tokyo • Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling 2.77 million vehicles around the world for a water pump problem and a steering shaft defect that may result in faulty steering the latest in a spate of quality woes for Japan's top automaker.
No accidents have been reported related to these two problems announced Wednesday, according to Toyota.
Some 1.51 million vehicles are being recalled for the steering defect in Japan and 1.25 million vehicles abroad including 670,000 in the U.S. Affected models include the Prius hybrid, Corolla, Wish and other models produced from 2000 to 2011 in Japan, and from 2000 to 2009 overseas.


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DETROIT - On paper, it looked like a mismatch, the making of a Tigers' sweep of the New York Yankees.
After all, Justin Verlander was on the mound for the Tigers. That's supposed to be almost automatic.
Plus, the Yankees, devastated by injuries to start the season, have a weak, make-shift lineup and were losers in four of their first five games.
But CC Sabathia, the Yankees' ace, made the Tigers look pretty average, not like the team most expect to bash their way through the American League en route to their second straight trip to the World Series.
The Tigers' 7-0 loss before a sellout crowd at Comerica Park on Sunday afternoon certainly didn't look or feel good.
It was the first time the Tigers had been shutout in 235 regular-season games.
The loss dropped the Tigers to 3-3 after their first six games. And while there's a long way to go, the start to the season wasn't quite what most expected, especially given the competition. Some experts expect both the Twins and Yankees to finish in last place in their divisions.
"You have to be careful," Tigers' manager Jim Leyland said. "That's why I've never emphasized fast or show starts. What happens if you emphasis a fast start and you don't get off to a fast start, you cancel the season in May or June?"
Still, with so much excitement around this team, you just thought there was a chance for an impressive start like a year ago when the Tigers were 9-3 out of the gate.
Plus, fans were teased when the Tigers pounded out 17 hits on Saturday. All that thunder with the bats just came crashing down.
"We had a big weekend," Leyland said. "And today seemed almost like a little bit of a blah.
"But the biggest key was Sabathia. He pitched really good."
To say the least, it was a strange start for Verlander (1-1). The hitting-poor Yankees got some good swing against the right-hander.
The Yankees plated three runs in the second inning. The big blow was a two-run homer off the bat of ninth-place batter Jason Nix.
"It was really one bad pitch," Verlander said. "Poor pitch selection and poor pitching execution on the same pitch doesn't usually end up well."
And it wasn't a cheapie, rather a blast, giving the Yankees a 3-0 advantage.
Although that was it against Verlander, it was a very disappointing outing. You just expect him to eat up a soft lineup like this. Verlander said he never sizes up a lineup and thinks he's in for an easy day.
"This is baseball," said Verlander, who gave up three runs on seven hits in 7 1/3 innings. "I don't care who they got missing. That's the Yankees. They have a winning mentality about them and they are going to find a way to win this year."
Still, you just wouldn't expect the seventh and ninth men in the order to bash a former Cy Young.
"You don't ever take anything for granted," Verlander said. "As you saw today, it was the bottom of the lineup that did the damage."
And not just to Verlander.
The bullpen has been an issue thus far. Coming into the season, most thought there were going to be some drama after the Tigers decided to not have a set closer and instead try to save games by committee.
Phil Coke continued his early season struggle, giving up two runs in the eighth. It gave the Yanks a 5-0 lead.
Octavio Dotel gave up two more runs in the ninth inning.
New York had just 17 runs in its first five games. Here, the Yanks had seven runs on 13 hits.
Speaking of hitting, the Tigers have been inconsistent thus far. It seems to be feast or famine.
On Saturday, the Tigers had 17 hits against Yankees' pitching.
Against Sabathia, the Tigers weren't even able to get a runner past second base in seven innings of work by the southpaw.
"He was smart today," said Torii Hunter, who was 2-for-5 in the game. "CC pitched his butt off.
"There's an old saying, good pitching beats good hitting any day. And when you pitch like that, it's hard."
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MNA created the Nurse Practice Act, the RN license designation, developed a uniform curriculum for the education of nurses, wrote the first code of ethics for nurses and passed, or helped to pass, nearly every state law governing nursing practice including the law allowing nurses to unionize in Massachusetts.
Today, the MNA is the largest union and professional association of registered nurses and health professionals in the state, and the third largest in the nation, representing more than 23,000 members working in 85 health care facilities, including 51 acute care hospitals, as well as a growing number of nurses and health professionals working in schools, visiting nurse associations, public health departments and state agencies.
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On my June 18 radio show [stream]
I interviewed Loretta Napoleoni, an economist, reporter, and novelist from Italy,
about the economics of terrorism, a subject she knows well. Her work for Italy's financial
papers goes back to the '70s and includes coverage of jihadists, the IRA, and
even interviews with leaders of the Italian Red Brigades. Her new book Terror
Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks is the result
of 10 years of investigation. It shows.
to Scott's interview with Loretta Napoleoni
not ignoring religious, political, and ideological motivations, the book focuses
on the economics of modern terrorist groups. It tells how these groups emerged,
often spurred by various foreign incursions by the U.S. and U.S.S.R. during the
Cold War, and how they spun off from their former state masters, excelled at raising
money through criminal activity, and became amorphous, stateless bands of killers.
She calls it the "privatization of terrorism." It's not the phony
"privatization" by government contract that we're used to. Modern jihadist groups
are independent of the Middle Eastern states, and in many cases are even their
greatest enemies.
The black market is the jihadist's path to power. Though
not an apparent libertarian, Napoleoni details how government intervention in
the free exchange of goods has time and again helped jihadists flourish throughout
the world. For a terrorist group, she says, "heroin equals independence." This
began in the 1980s when America supported the mujahedin in Afghanistan through
Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). On the CIA's recommendation, Pakistan
convinced the mujahedin to levy high taxes on the land used by Afghan poppy farmers
in order to finance the resistance, which forced farmers to intensify opium production
enough to afford these tax increases. A smack-and-guns-dependent economy soon
replaced the formerly agrarian one, leaving what Napoleoni describes as a "state
shell." The "golden crescent" now supplies three-quarters
of the world's heroin.
the Soviet Union collapsed, the ISI, with U.S. approval, sent jihadists all around
central Asia to foment unrest in the former Soviet 'Stans and to facilitate their
break from Moscow. Heroin sales to European and American citizens paid the way.
The heroin market generates enough money to finance terrorist activities
only because it is illegal. As the risk involved grows unnaturally as a result
of government intervention, so too does the potential for profit.
The same
goes for oil. Where there are embargoes against trade, such as the sanctions maintained
against Iraq for 13 years, criminals gain, among them, in this case, the secretary-general
of the United Nations, Koch
Oil, and underground terrorist networks.
When the Soviet 'Stans gained
independence, the former Communist autocrats hardened their borders, which to
this day restrict locals from trading freely with their neighbors. Formerly prosperous
economies like that of the Fergana
Valley were destroyed, creating new havens for organized terrorist recruitment.
These crippled economies now depend mostly on Islamic banks that grew up to fill
this space where Western investors see too much risk.
This capital is used
to buy influence in a mirror image of how
the U.S. operates, but forcing religious doctrines instead of mercantilist ones.
Napoleoni quotes a Middle Eastern banker as telling her that, "they used finance
to colonize poor nations where Muslims lived. The material support granted to
the Muslim population in need was a means of imposing fundamentalist principles
upon Islamic society."
Much of this money is spent on recruiting potential
terrorists from a supply-heavy market of poor, desperate, and angry youth with
little to lose. This same process played out through the 1990s from Albania to
Indonesia, and is playing out in Iraq before our eyes.
Bush is right when he speaks of hopelessness causing terrorism. He, of course,
lost any points gained by that insight when he took the advice of the "End
of History" crowd and decided to invade and attempt to "remake" the Middle
East in that vein.
Imagine it. The U.S. military, the biggest
socialist program on
earth, using violence to open up "free markets" and teach
property rights: The irony
may be lost on some Americans, but how must it look from the Middle East and Asia?
tragic irony of exporting "liberty" with force is the expansion of the acceptance
of its opposite doctrines. The same thing is happening to the Middle East as happened
in Seattle in
1999. As the globalization of capital spreads under the corrupt American system
of corporate-state
socialism, provoking enemies along the way, many of those in opposition focus
their blame on capitalism rather than the government intervention on behalf of
the private interests. Though bin Laden's network has investments in many legal
businesses, including honey, acacia trees (gum Arabic), real estate, shrimp and
fishing boats, dairy farms, and stocks, Napoleoni says that the the bin Laden
network's in-house "ideologist" Sayyid
Qutb's ideal society would abolish the "selfish individual" and end "exploitation
of man by man," etc. She quotes Iranian scholars (presumably Shia) as calling
the modern jihadist ideology "Leninism in Islamic robes." This perspective seems
confirmed when we observe their radical
tactics and the description of bin Laden by his partner, Ayman al-Zawahiri, ais
the "new Che Guevara."
In the final (at least economic) analysis, the "war
on terror" is a clash between economic systems for dominance, a struggle between
East and West that goes back to history
far removed from the minds of most Americans. The real question is, why does this
have to be a conflict? As Napoleoni points out in her book, the economies of both
"sides" are completely interdependent already. This already places us in a position
of mutual assured
destruction, whether so-called weapons of mass destruction enter the equation
or not.
is the aggressive policies
of our government that provoke our enemies and grant them credibility in the eyes
of the masses in their part of the world. A centralized communist "caliphate"
could never work and would never be accepted by the people of the Islamic world.
They probably wouldn't listen to the fundamentalist crazies at all if we treated
them the way we demand to be treated.
In places like Uzbekistan, where former
Soviet dictators are the ones destroying the local economy, it is not our government's
place to force those markets open, but perhaps we could stop training the death
squads they use to put down
Scott Horton is an assistant editor at Antiwar.com and the director
of Antiwar Radio.
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On Sunday February 7th, APC convened an advisory group of for its network of networks for a free and open internet project. project
One of the key elements that emerged was the coupling of a deep desire to collaborate with the enormous complexity of the field.
We began by looking at some of the issues that we are working on and we very quickly amassed a list of close to 30 issues ranging from including a development agenda in internet governance to civil society participation in the International Telecommunications Union to digital migration. In such a wide ranging field – where the issues can sometimes seem impenetrable and accessing the spaces where they are addressed can require significant resources – working together is no easy feat and the group was quick to acknowledge this challenge.
We then explored past case studies of collaboration, including: the fight for access to medicine, Network Neutrality in the US, the Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS) campaign and the governance of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). From these campaigns the following lessons were learned:
- Important to leverage time-sensitive opportune opportunities for collaboration (such as a large event – the CRIS campaign around the World Summit on the Information Society);
- A vehicle to coalesce around helps mobilize;
- Similarly, there needs to be a clear understanding of the need to have a clear way to engage. (such as with network neutrality and Comcast in the US);
- Network builders need to be open to new alliances;
- Trust between individuals and organizations is essential;
- Beneficial to acknowledge organizational incentives;
- Beneficial to build a network structure that has a low cost structure for participation;
- Conceptual clarity is important if you are organizing around a key construct.
Key questions also emerged:
- What is the right balance between process and content?
- What are appropriate guiding principles for Networks? How do you develop touchstones?
- Can we partner on one thing but be opposed on something else?
- Can we affect change without aligning ourselves with powerful interests? Do we want to?
- Are we fighting a battle or a war?
- What are the characteristics that will gather different interests?
- What are the tradeoffs the Network is willing to accept?
Content with the day's deliberations, we agreed to let the conversations ruminate overnight and called it a day. On Day 2 we are planning on identifying upcoming key opportunities for collaboration and also how we might want to work together moving forward.


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Last Saturday marked the first ever Beach Bop Scouting Event (a mini Beach Jam for the little ones)…The piers and Raging Waters Waterpark were full of Cub Scouts, Daisies and Brownies, and boy were they having fun! The day began with some fun at the waterpark…then an ecology workshop by the Wetlands Institute (and they brought REAL live animals!), then a YUMMY BBQ, and of course lots of FUN on the rides!
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HOUSTON - The Houston Police Department says the Galleria made the decision to close the mall early Saturday due to large crowds.
"For the past several days, the Galleria, in conjunction with the Houston Police Department and the Houston Fire Department, has monitored mall traffic and crowds in town for the All-Star game," said Greg Noble, General Manager of The Galleria. "As of 8:15 pm (Saturday), the Galleria reached legal capacity and officially closed."
An HPD sergeant was called to the mall as a precaution because of large crowds, according to police.
Police said there were some celebrities, such as rappers, who tried to exit the mall Saturday evening, but they said they were having issues doing so because of the large crowds.
"As always, our primary concern is for the safety and well being of our shoppers and mall employees," said Noble. "Following discussions with HPD, mall entrances have been closed by the police and mall security."
Officials said everything was under control and no arrests were made as a result of the mall's closing.
"At this time, the Galleria plans to reopen at its normal time of 11 a.m. (Sunday)," said Noble. "As always, mall management maintains a close working relationship with the HPD which is particularly beneficial during times of high traffic, such as this weekend."
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