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Green rediscovers his lost swing
Green rediscovers lost swing this spring
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- The swings, noticeably quicker than those Shawn Green took 60 minutes earlier, imparted greater energy and more carry to the baseball. The contact produced crisper sounds and line drives that skipped rather than bounced in the outfield grass. The difference was as encouraging to the man responsible for it, as it was undeniable to those who witnessed it.
Uplifted as he was, Green could have skipped, too. An extended morning session in the batting cage had made Green's Wednesday "my most productive day of the spring" and sent him home happy.
Chances are that he will arrive at the Mets' complex a tad earlier than usual and with some sense of urgency on Thursday morning. Green also left camp with a sense of anticipation on Wednesday, expecting more good things to come.
"See," Julio Franco said, pointing to his own forehead. "Hitting is all mental."
Well, not all mental. That was clear on Wednesday, when, at Franco's urging, Green altered his batting stance, which in turn energized his swing, which in turn jogged the memories of those who had seen him overwhelm pitchers from 1998-2002.
One revised swing produced a hot line drive to left-center field that moved as catcher Mike Piazza's opposite-field gappers once moved. The next one sent a ball to the base of the right-field wall.
"Awesome," Franco said after each.
"Hit the bottom of the ball. Awesome.
"Empty your head. Don't think about what you have to do. Just feel it. Awesome.
"Don't think about getting comfortable. Just feel it."
Another swing, another "Awesome."
It was only batting practice. And it is only March. But Green's exhibition-game batting average is only .000 after 13 at-bats. In the kingdom of the blind, a one-eye man is king. In an 0-for-13 world, even a BP double is good for the soul.
Franco had studied Green's batting-practice session on Tuesday morning and reached the same conclusion that he reached last spring after a day of observing Carlos Beltran.
"Too balanced," Franco said when the tutoring session was complete. "He needs more weight on his back leg. He was even, 50-50. And 50-50 is no good. It should be 70-30 [favoring the left leg in Green's case]."
A camera, located just outside the batting cage to the third-base side, captured Green's left-handed swings, and an attached computer enabled teacher Franco, his student, Beltran, and hitting coach Rick Down to compare the early, flawed swings with the quicker swings Green generated after implementing Franco's advice.
The computer locked on the instant of contact and worked backwards, measuring the time lapse from contract back to the beginning of the swing.
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"He's much quicker to the ball," Beltran said after seeing the moving images side by side.
"Carlos [Beltran] was the same last year," Franco said. "Then, boom!"
Franco didn't approach Green until Wednesday morning.
"I didn't want him to try it in the game [on Tuesday]," Franco said. "I wanted him to see that it worked and then go home a think about it. He'll be so eager when he comes back here tomorrow."
"I am excited," Green said as he exited the clubhouse.
Green called his altered stance "a better hitting position" and said it enabled him to be "more powerful and more aggressive. It's a pretty big difference. It's kind of bold doing this now. It's kind of scary to make changes. But it's the right thing."
Green, 34, thought he had detected and corrected a four-year-old flaw in his swing during the offseason. Concerned about a significant decline in power -- from 157 home runs in a four-year stretch ending in 2002 to 84 over the past four years -- he watched video during the offseason and compared it to tapes of himself in his third season with the Dodgers, 2002. That was when he hit .285 with 42 home runs and 114 RBIs.
Green noticed he had begun "pushing" the bat head into the contact area with his arms close to his chest, instead of extending his arms to drive the ball. It was initially a concession to right shoulder surgery he underwent after the 2003 season, but it soon deepened into a bad habit.
Green explained it this way: "My arms are my levers. The last few years, I've been hitting without full use of my levers. I was cutting short."
The outfielder assumed a batting stance and illustrated it by collapsing his arms in near his chest as he swung.
"I got into that habit by trying to take the strain off my shoulder," he said. "It bothered me during the '03 season, then I had it scoped. I worked hard this winter on fixing the problem. When I'm in the [batting] cage now, the ball is carrying like it used to. Hopefully, I can transfer that into the games."
After his session on Wednesday, he suggested the change in balance and weight shift might have helped correct the problem with his arms.
"If these guys had been in California with me," he said, "I might be done with all this now."
Other issues have developed. One is a change most players would not consider much of a problem at all.
"The ball has slowed down, so much I've been [swinging] a little early," Green said. "I have more time to see the ball and I'm not used to that."
In contrast to Green's power struggles over the past four seasons, this one appears to be an easier problem to fix, though it still had him in a temporary funk. The 13 hitless at-bats were not indicative of the offseason progress he thought he had made. Now the weight shift has made a bigger change.
"I guess I could have come here with the same swing I had last year and dropped in a few hits to make it look better -- better than 0-for-13," he said. "But I wanted to do more and get back where I was when I thought I knew how to hit."
The Mets' right-field job is Green's to lose. He offers a veteran presence on a team hoping to thrive in the postseason, when experience often weighs heavily. Still, Lastings Milledge gives the Mets a youthful, talented alternative should Green falter.
Willie Randolph is making no declarations of job security for anybody, but the manager isn't shy about offering praise for Green.
"He's smart," Randolph said. "He knows the game. It's just a matter of him being consistent and finding a swing he's comfortable with. He brings a lot to the table."
Green especially likes the idea of having first baseman Carlos Delgado as a teammate again, since they played together for five full seasons with the Blue Jays. Green credits Delgado with helping him become a power hitter.
Before they initiated home-run contests before every game during batting practice in 1998, Green had hit a grand total of 42 home runs in three seasons. Over the next two seasons, he hit 77 -- including 42 in 1999 -- before being traded to Los Angeles, where he hit 162 more in five seasons, including 49 in 2001.
"I didn't really know how to hit the other way for power when we started," Green said. "With both of us hitting lefty, the rule was, we had to hit home runs to center field or left field. If we hit one to right, it was a foul ball. There was no pulling, because that's an easy way to get into some bad habits.
"The first year, I couldn't keep up with him. But all of a sudden, I started learning how to drive the ball to center field. Once you can drive the ball to center field and out of the park, you can really drive it anywhere. That's how I started hitting home runs."
Their friendship now transcends the playing field. Last weekend, Delgado met with Green's family, who were in for a visit.
"He's a good friend and he's helped me a lot in my career," Green said.
If Green can return to anything close to his former power-hitting form, the Mets would have a lineup that might have made Cy Young nervous. The power core already is formidable with Beltran, David Wright, Delgado and Moises Alou, while Jose Reyes and Paul Lo Duca are highly capable table-setters.
It's a special situation for Green, much different from when he played for the Blue Jays, Dodgers and, more recently, with the Diamondbacks.
"I don't feel the pressure here," Green said. "Sometimes, in years past, I felt that I had to hit 40 home runs in order for the team to compete. This lineup is so solid up and down that if everyone goes out and just has good years, not great years, we'll be fine. If a few guys have great years, then watch out."
Marty Noble is a reporter for MLB.com. Charlie Nobles is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Mexico Volcano Eruption: Popocatepetl Volcano Cancels Flights From Mexico City (VIDEO, PHOTO)
A Mexico volcano eruption has grounded more than 40 flights this week, with the Popocatepetl volcano spewing huge amounts of volcanic ash into the atmosphere.
Several airlines took emergency measures and canceled flights, including U.S. Airways, Delta, United, American and Alaska Airline to avoid any potential safety risks caused by the eruption.
It has been reported that 47 flights in total were canceled to and from Mexico City and Toluca, according to Boston.com.
Mexico City airport spokesman Jorge Gomez did however, confirm that although some airlines had grounded their flights, the airport was still open and that some Mexican airlines were still flying, believing there to be no significant risk caused by the eruption.
Gomes said: "The decision not to fly from Mexico City has been made by these airlines, but the airport is in operable conditions."
Gomez also confirmed that various flights to Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston and Fort Lauderdale were all delayed by the volcanic eruption.
The volcano has been active through this year, but the eruptions have generally been small and authorities have not so far ordered any forced evacuations from the local region.
National emergency services coordinator Luis Felipe has said that Mexico City was more concerned about the volcanic ash contaminating water than the resulting molten rock and lava from the eruption.
Lugo said: "If there is an eruption, we wouldn't evacuate Mexico City. For us the main risk is the handling of volcanic ashes."
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Just when most West Coast ports are crunched for space, the Port of Tacoma has enough spare land for three more container dockyards — and the port's new executive director sees opportunity ahead.
Just outside Timothy Farrell's office, three looming cranes snatch container boxes off trailers and stack them neatly aboard a ship moored in the Port of Tacoma's gritty Sitcum Waterway.
For the port's new executive director, the movements of workers and machines just outside his window is a constant reminder of what's at stake as Tacoma tries to capitalize on an increasingly rare commodity in the cargo business: space.
Tacoma has it in acres — hundreds of acres, actually. Enough for up to three container dockyards. And that space is like gold when a boom in Asian trade is testing the capacity of every major port from Los Angeles to Vancouver, B.C.
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"Of the acreage we have developed [for containers], we could at least double what we got," Farrell said. "It's a significant chunk of the [available] land on the West Coast."
Tacoma is bracing for a major growth spurt this year, thanks in large part to the $210 million terminal that opened in December for Taiwan's Evergreen Marine. The number of cargo containers is expected to jump 19 percent this year and 17 percent in 2006.
Evergreen's relocation has allowed Tacoma to move other major shipping lines to larger terminals and to lure a new customer, Taiwan's Yang Ming Marine.
Evergreen's 171-acre terminal is the largest and most expensive in the port's history, but it is not the last. Along the eastside of the Blair Waterway — on land now used for a wood-chip plant and a floating casino — the port is laying the groundwork for further expansion.
In 2003, the port bought 96 acres of nearby land from Kaiser Aluminum. Last year, it signed an economic development agreement with the Puyallup Tribal Council to move the Emerald Queen Casino and jointly develop the tribe's waterfront property.
Seattle, which has expanded and modernized its three main cargo terminals in recent years, doesn't have the same room to grow. With improvement in equipment and technology, Seattle estimates that its container docks could handle about 3 million TEUs (20-foot equivalent units) a year. TEUs are the standard measure for cargo containers.
With Evergreen's new terminal, Tacoma figures it could move about 2.8 million TEUs. Additional terminals on the Blair Waterway would allow Tacoma to move even more.
Seattle and Tacoma are poised to snatch a greater share of the trade boom with Asia than almost anyone expected, even as recently as last year. A study commissioned by the Washington Public Ports Association predicted a moderate 4 percent growth in Puget Sound cargo.
Instead, by November, Seattle hit a record 1.6 million TEUs, nearly 17 percent more than 2003 with a month left to count. Tacoma volume remained relatively flat at about 1.6 million TEUs through November because it was already handling about as much as it could. That will change in 2005, thanks to the new 171-acre Evergreen terminal.
In fact, the entire Pacific Northwest has seen a remarkable turnaround in recent years, in part due to growing congestion at the giant ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which handle about two-thirds of the cargo bound for the West Coast.
Shipping companies and major importers, such as Target, are increasingly looking to Seattle and Tacoma as alternative ports for their cargo. The attention has stoked the long-running competition between the two cities.
Seattle lost bragging rights as Puget Sound's busiest container port in 2001, when Tacoma took the crown for the first time.
Competition between the ports took its toll on Seattle starting in the 1970s. Tacoma lured away some of the biggest shipping lines calling on Seattle — including Totem Ocean Trailer Express, Maersk Sealand, K-Line, Evergreen and Hyundai — by offering them their own terminals.
"When they started out, Seattle was everything and Tacoma was tide flats with a pulp mill and a junk yard," said Alec Fisken, a Port of Seattle commissioner. "Then one by one, they picked off some of the big clients from Seattle."
When it came time for Hanjin, one of Seattle biggest clients, to decide whether to extend its lease on Elliott Bay, some feared that the South Korean shipping giant might move to Tacoma. Instead, it signed an extension that could keep it here until 2025.
Farrell downplayed the historic rivalry between the ports, saying that the two cooperate on common issues such as security, roads, rail lines and regulatory policy. And, he said, consolidation among steamship lines means ports have less opportunity to lure new shippers.
Instead, he said, the key is convincing customers to move more cargo through the Pacific Northwest — an issue both ports can work on.
"The battle is for allocation of cargo with existing customers more than moving customers around," Farrell said. "And that is where our interests are normally aligned."
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The Other Side of the Transaction
The cashier overlooked the milk in my shopping cart, so there had to be a separate transaction to process it. I paid for it with American Express, and it suddenly occurred to me to apologize.
"I'm so sorry for that. Your fees on that card will probably exceed your profit."
She looked at me as if I were speaking an unintelligible language.
"My fees?" she asked.
"Yes, American Express is the most expensive card on the market. You guys have to pay per charge and also a percentage of the transaction. This was only a couple of bucks spent here, so these fees can really eat into your profit margin."
"I don't pay any fees," she said.
It was at this point that I realized that we were on two different planets. She works for the company as a worker. The store makes a contract with her to show up and do certain things. She does them. She gets paid for this. That's the beginning and end of her economic role in the matrix of exchange. She is unaware that she is a consumer too, of the employment services offered by the store; these services must be paid for out of revenue generated by sales.
From this revenue, the business pays the clerk. The business pays the credit card company. The business pays tax. The business pays rent. The business pays for shelving and machinery. The business must acquire — usually purchase — the goods it sells before it sells them. In doing all of this, it is taking a risk because the profit is that last stage of the transaction; the expenses are paid earlier in the production process.
Here is the other side of the coin that the worker doesn't have to think about at all. Neither does the consumer. We walk into stores and think, "Wow, great stuff." Or, "What a bunch of junk." We examine the place to see if there is anything that would be valuable enough for us to acquire in exchange for the marked amount of money that the store wants from us. The deal is there for the taking. It is up to us to decide if we want to take it. No one forces us. If we walk away, there is no penalty for us.
We don't have to think about the strange reality that these retail and grocery stores carry millions in inventory. Tens of millions, all of it gathered together in one spot in the hope that we will like it and be willing to give our money in exchange for it.
I was in a sporting goods store the other day that seemed to have everything one can imagine. How much inventory? $10 million? $100 million? It was all beyond belief, and trying to run the numbers in my head boggled my mind. And here I was buying a $2 pair of socks. That's a tiny chink out of the inventory. They might clear 25 cents on that transaction after all the expenses are paid. And yet they did it all for me and others like me: consumers who are free to buy or not buy.
And then what does the store do with its profit after wages, expenses, and inventory? Why, it has to replace those socks that I just bought so that someone else can buy another pair. It has to expand more to compete with the new sporting-goods store that just opened up down the street, so it has to acquire ever more great stuff and sell it at the lowest price possible. There is no final victory in this battle. All profits are yesterday. All losses could be tomorrow.
To call enterprise a risk is really to understate the problem. Entrepreneurs have a special capacity to discern the uncertain future but they possess no power to actually create that future. It could be that tomorrow morning, no one will show up at the grocery store. That could persist through the afternoon, and so on through the evening. The same could happen the next day and the next, until the company goes bankrupt. And how long will that take? It depends on how much money the owners are willing to lose in the course of betting on a profitable future.
This crazy uncertainty of the future — a factor which we cannot overcome, no matter how much data we accumulate or how many fortune tellers we call upon — is a universal condition, always maddening and infuriating but completely unsolvable. It doesn't change for rich or poor. The largest corporation and the smallest lemonade stand face this trial in precisely the same way. Neither knows what the future truly does hold. The difference between the rich and the poor is how much money a person can afford to lose when he turns out to be wrong.
To posses a consciousness about the two sides of enterprise is a burden in some ways. It destabilizes you, and actually makes you wonder how the system can work at all.
How can a store hold on to millions in inventory and pay for it 25 cents at a time while being required by competitive pressure to expand evermore?
More questions:
How can a business employ hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of people to produce goods long before they know with certainty that anyone will buy them?
Why are there such people as entrepreneurs who are willing to take all this on?
Why are they so unlike the masses of people who would rather act solely as consumers of all the glories that the free enterprise system dishes out?
These thoughts are the ones economic understanding gives rise to, and they are not exactly comforting. The old-style classical liberals reveled in the fact that all these "impersonal forces" worked without anyone really being aware of them, or having to understand them. The checkout lady at the store just shows up, pushes buttons, gets paid, and stays or leaves based on her assessment of her own well-being. Everyone else does the same. The pursuit of self-interest generates this amazing global matrix that benefits everyone.
The old liberals reveled in the fact that no one had to understand it, but then the system itself came under attack, and needed defense. It had to be understood to be explained, and explained in order to be preserved.
This is why Ludwig von Mises set out to revise liberal doctrine. It is not enough that people participate unknowingly in the market economy. They must understand it, and see how, and precisely how, their smallest and selfish contribution leads to the general good, and, moreover, they must desire that general good.
All of which is to say that in an enlightened world, it would be a good thing for that cashier to understand economics from the point of view of those who pay her. It would be good for striking workers to understand how they are harming not only their bosses but also themselves. It would be good for voters to see how supporting government benefits for themselves harms society at large.
An economically literate public is the foundation for keeping that amazing and wild machine called the market working and functioning for the benefit of the whole of humanity.


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St. Croix County, along with five other western Wisconsin counties, has been working on a Convenience Store Recycling Project.
The project outlines the importance of recycling, how it can reduce costs by reducing trash and that it has been required by law for businesses since 1995.
Recycling Assistant Anna McCabe is the counties' voice in this effort. Her position is funded by the Recycling Efficiency Incentive Grant through the Department of Natural Resources. She has been on the road the majority of the year visiting the convenience stores in all six counties she works for, which include: Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin, Pierce, Polk and St. Croix.
Convincing convenience stores they not only should be recycling internally but also to provide bins outside near their trash cans, has been quite a challenge. However, "some stores are extremely supportive and understand the need to properly dispose of cans and bottles," McCabe stated.
Can and bottle recycling is the primary focus at the fuel pumps. When stopping for gas "people want to clean out their vehicles, and they should have the option to recycle," said McCabe.
Many stores in the area already have a system in place to collect aluminum, glass and plastic. Lake Magnor Store, Jonzy Market in Balsam Lake and CR Convenience in Clear Lake are just a few that are diverting internal recyclables from the waste stream.
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How do I calculate market value and what formulas do I use?
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a) A 10 year annuity paying $6000/yr when similar annuities yield 3%
b)A perpetual bond that pays $1000/yr when the current annual rate is 6%
c) A perpetual bond that initially pays $1000/yr, which will grow at a 2% annual rate when the current annual rate for similar perpetuals is 6%.
I was given a market value formula but when I used it on a test for a question like this one I got it wrong because apparently they don't all use the same formula.
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"Many products we use around the house every day – cleaning supplies, paint or pesticides – have the potential to contaminate the groundwater or cause environmental harm if they go in a landfill," said James Swope, Johns Creek solid waste manager. "Not only are they hazardous if they go into a landfill, but they can be hazardous to store at home. This gives Johns Creek residents an opportunity to dispose of toxic waste in a safe and environmentally sound manner."
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Sonic really is on a comeback to being considered a real brand once more – following up on the awesome Sonic & Sega All Stars Transformed, Sonic Lost World is like a mix of Super Mario Galaxy and Sonic Colors and the new video walkthrough is pure next-gen goodness.
The demo covers several levels from the game and how vastly cool the game has evolved. Oh man the game really just fires on all cylinders the way you would expect from a next-gen game oino a Nintendo platform.
The Super Mario Galaxy, skeuomoprhic 3D level designs are just, insane. Being able to to interact with almost every angle of the stage brings a certain level of originality and creative design ingenuity that's rarely explored in platform games like this. There's so much going on in some levels that I wonder how well players will be able to consume the design concepts and sort of asymmetrical platforming.
Out of the three levels showcased the first one was probably the most breathtaking given that there were just so many different routes and ways to attack those routes really made the game pop like few other games out there. I like that the scale of the game isn't just about moving forward but also moving up, around, over and through various segments and obstacles. It's like problem solving visualized in a 3D format and this might be a cool way for teachers to help kids attack issues and problems three-dimensionally.
I have to be honest, this game looks absolutely spell-bounding. I love the design and I love the way the game plays. Changing Sonic's speed so that he has a walk-sprint and an actual run really helps with players who try to exercise a more cautious take on the platforming antics. I've run into that problem oh-so-often in the Sonic Adventure, Sonic Colors, Sonic Heroes and other 3D Sonic titles where precision jumping is difficult to execute when he's moving so fast. Having a walk and a run separates those kind of issues and makes it so much easier for methodical-playing platform gamers.
Now there is something that's kind of not cool about the game... something that irked me ever since I've been watching promo footage of the game... the music. Unlike previous Sonic games before it, this is the one time that the music never stood out at all and I found myself forcing to listen to it in order to hear something distinctive or iconic. While there are plenty of throwbacks to previous games in the series, with old enemies and designs cropping up every once in a while, I would be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed with the music in the stages that were on display in the demo.
Maybe in the full thing there are slightly more memorable tracks – but comparing Sonic Lost World to something like Sonic Colors when it comes to the soundtrack, I'm sorry but Lost World falls flat. We'll find out in late October if the rest of the music in the game kicks it into high gear or if it'll be the only weak link in what looks like an otherwise strong game.
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LANZHOU, China, July 15 (UPI) -- A bomb threat, later determined to be unfounded, prompted the crew of a Chinese jetliner to make an emergency landing, police said Thursday.
Police said China Southern Airlines Flight 3912 was bound from Urumqi to Guangzhou Wednesday night when the crew was warned of a possible bomb on board, China's Xinhua news agency reported.
The aircraft landed safely at Zhongchuan Airport in Lanzhou, Gansu province, and all 93 passengers and 18 crew members were evacuated, officials said. No bomb was found.
The bomb threat had been received by the airline company, provincial public security bureau officials said.
Security staff questioned all passengers and crew, Xinhua said.
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Covalon Technologies Ltd., an advanced medical technologies company, will showcase new products at MEDICA the world's largest medical technology trade fair, November 20 to 23in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Brian Pedlar, Covalon's Chief Executive Officer said, "Since we announced the transformative license agreement with Molnlycke earlier this month, the amount of interest in our new product pipeline has spiked significantly. As a result, we have accelerated the unveiling of our FDA-cleared ColActive@ Transfer wound dressing and our CovaCoatT A.I. Anti Infective coatings. Along with our proven ColActive@ Plus wound dressings and SilverCoatT Antimicrobial Foley Catheters, our strong pipeline of new products and technologies, which includes ColActive@ Transfer and CovaCoatT A.I., positions Covalon well as a partner for wound care, urological, vascular access, surgical and orthopaedic companies and distributors." The latest addition to the patented ColActiveT family of wound care products being showcased at MEDICA is ColActive@ Transfer, Covalon's bio-degradable wound dressing that stimulates wound healing responses in difficult to heal wounds, while allowing wound fluids to pass through the dressing. ColActive@ Transfer is designed to protect new-growth tissue in wounds undergoing treatment and is FDA approved for sale in the United States. Along with the introduction of ColActive@ Transfer, Covalon anticipates entering the nearly US$500 million negative pressure dressing and kit market.
Covalon will also be unveiling its new patented CovaCoatT A.I. Anti Infective coating technology that provides antimicrobial and anti-thrombogenic properties, without eluting antimicrobial agents from the surface of medical devices. Covalon's CovaCoatT A.I. Anti Infective Foley Catheter significantly reduces biofilm formation on urinary catheters, the formation of which is a major source of hospital acquired infections. The use of CovaCoatT A.I. on vascular access devices provides both anti-thrombogenic and antimicrobial characteristics without the downside of delivering potentially cytotoxic antimicrobial agents directly into the bloodstream.
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Warren pie sale funds school trip
Warren — Sixth-grade students at Warren Community School sold pies for Thanksgiving to help fund their class trip.
All together the students sold 126 pies.
The pies were made by Chef Mark Hannibal's culinary arts students at the Waldo County Technical Center in Waldo and sold the pies at cost to the students.
The school also thanks parent volunteers Gina and Daniel Schaeffer for volunteering their time to organize this fundraising event.


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CLEVELAND — A Brecksville man was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison by a Cuyahoga County judge for causing a fatal car crash while trying to run the mother of his child off Interstate 77.
Sean Kay, 20, was convicted last month of aggravated vehicular assault and felonious assault charges in the death of 58-year-old Gerald Durczak in January. A murder charge was dismissed after a judge ruled there wasn't enough evidence to convict Kay.
Kay lost control of his Ford Expedition after ramming a Plymouth Voyager driven by Amanda Koczwara of North Ridgeville. The impact sent the SUV across the median, where it struck Durczak's car.
Wendy Clawson, a spokeswoman for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason, said Kay apologized for his actions in court and said he was ready to face his punishment. He also lost his driving privi


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February 23, 2012
Dixie Hornet Anglers conduct another successful tournament on Lake Secession
The Dixie High School (Due West) Hornet Anglers recently conducted a Youth Bass Fishing League Clubs tournament on Lake Secession on Feb. 18. The 20 Hornet Anglers caught 40 fish weighing 82.43 pounds and the threat of rainy weather luckily didn't affect the fishing.
The tournament winners were:
- 14 to 18 group
1st - Kameron Harbin - five fish - 14.89 pounds
2nd - Alex Davenport - three fish - 11.66 pounds
3rd - Parker Cann - four fish - 6.02 pounds
- 11 to 14 year old group
1st - Avery Gambrell - three fish - 8.51 pounds
2nd - J.T. Rawski - five fish - 7.29 pounds
3rd - Dylan Powell - two fish - 5.71 pounds
The Hornet Anglers next scheduled tournament is March 17th on Lake Russell.
Interested in forming a bass fishing club at your school? Perhaps you'll do as well as a two brother team from the Barnwell County Career Center Bass Fishing Club who competed in the 2011 High School Fishing World Finals this past July and came in seventh out of 101 teams from around the United States.
All you need to do is get a minimum of six students (within the 11-18 year old range) with dues paid and you can have a Youth Bass Fishing Club. You'll also need an adult at your school to help lead the club, provide advice and help arrange at least two club tournaments, fundraisers, speakers and other learning sessions pertaining to fishing for club meetings.
The Youth Bass Fishing Clubs is a product of a partnership between the S.C. Department of Natural Resources and The Bass Federation of South Carolina with help and support from parents, teachers, school districts, local bait & tackle shops, community partners and Pure Fishing.
Find out more by contacting Aquatic Education Coordinator Lorianne Riggin at (803) 737-8483 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
More News
- Spring turkey season forecast fair; youth day March 31
- Renowned herpetologist featured at Palmetto Sportsmen's Classic March 23-25
- Archaeological excavations open at Great Pee Dee March 5
- Three states add bass fishing as high school varsity sport: Will S.C. follow suit?
- Dixie Hornet Anglers conduct another successful tournament on Lake Secession
- S.C. Drought Committee to meet in Columbia on March 8
- Harry Hampton Wildlife Fund donates $104,050 to DNR
- Record size blue catfish caught from Santee Cooper system
- Oyster shell recycling drop-off opens at Kalmia Gardens in Hartsville
- Oyster shell recycling drop-off opens in Florence County
- S.C. Wildlife's 28th annual outdoor photo contest accepting entries
- Aiken County wildlife area will open to the public four Saturdays in March
- Prescribed burns planned at Forty Acre Rock Preserve in Lancaster County
- Camp Wildwood of South Carolina open for 2012 registration
- Freshwater fishing trends
- Saltwater fishing trends
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DURHAM, NC (AP) — Attorneys for the city of Durham have asked a federal appeals court to overturn a lower-court ruling allowing former Duke lacrosse players to seek damages from the city.
The Herald-Sun of Durham reported Wednesday the appeal defends the honesty of Durham's police and highlights inconsistencies in former lacrosse team members' claims.
The filing says U.S. District Judge James Beaty was wrong not to follow a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring judges to toss out claims against government officials that are based on speculation.
The players were implicated during a 2006 investigation of allegations by a woman hired as a stripper at a team party.
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BETHANY, W.Va. – The Bethany College Department of Education is hosting a weekly support group for parents and family members of children on the autism spectrum. The Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) support group is open to the public and meets on Wednesdays from 6-7:30 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge at Steinman Hall.
Various topics of discussion for the support group include dietary and medical issues, school-based support, state initiatives and sensory-based activities. The support group was started last year as part of the College's Autism II course and its community outreach has been very well received.
"It's really helpful for parents to have a support group," said Paula Webster, parent of a child with autism. "It gives you a place to discuss relevant issues and you don't feel so alone. I have learned a lot from the topics we have discussed, the different speakers and videos and just by talking with the different families who have all had different experiences."
Free child care for children with autism is provided by Bethany College Education students under the supervision of Dr. Keely Camden, Chair of the Department of Education. Education students from the Autism II course and several other Special Education courses work with the children on a variety of activities.
"The support group not only provides a forum where parents and family members can get together," said Camden, "it also gives our students a wonderful opportunity to obtain practical experience working with children on the autism spectrum." Bethany College is the only institution in West Virginia with a state-approved undergraduate endorsement for autism.
Senior Education Major Keegan Costello of Fairfield, Conn. designs an engaging theme each week with related activities for the children. Activities include sensory-based interactive projects, gross motor and fine motor skill development, books, cooking and singing. Special attention is given to all dietary and allergy restrictions related to food products.
"Keegan does a wonderful job planning and preparing the activities," Camden said. "The theme last week was ladybugs; the children and the Bethany students had a great time creating edible ladybugs (from gluten- and casein-free ingredients), crafting ladybugs and singing interactive ladybug songs."
The ASD support group has scheduled meetings for March 5, March 12, April 2, April 9 and April 16. Any tri-state area parent or family member of a child on the autism spectrum interested in participating should call Jill Hicks at (304) 829-7182.


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The World's Most Biodiverse National Park Is ...
Wonder no more—a remote park in northwest Bolivia is likely the most biologically diverse place on earth, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) study released at the International Union for Conservation of Nature World Conservation Congress, an international gathering of conservationists held in mid-September in Jeju, South Korea.
The 19,000 square-kilometer (7,335 square mile) Madidi National Park is known for its great variations in altitude and habitats from lowland tropical forests of the Amazon to snow-capped peaks of the High Andes. That's a more than 6,000-meter (19,685 feet) altitudinal range.
The park contains 11 percent of the world's birds, more than 200 species of mammals, almost 300 types of fish, and 12,000 plant varieties, says the list, part of a compendium published by the Bolivian Park Service (SERNAP) and funded by WCS.
The assessment grew out of an up to 15-year research enterprise employing 50 scientists from groups as diverse as the Bolivian National Herbarium, Amazon Conservation Association, and the Missouri Botanical Garden. A workshop staged by the group in 2008 at the request of the Bolivian Park Service summarized the astounding biodiversity that has come to be known about the park. The basic goal was to assess how many species Madidi contains as insight into what its future conservation needs may be.
The compendium that resulted estimates 1,868 vertebrates for Madidi, including 1,088 species of birds. To put that in perspective, the entire U.S. contains less than 900 bird species and only eleven countries have more bird species than Madidi National Park!
"With Madidi's great altitudinal range, no other protected area captures the diversity of South American habitats that pushes these numbers through the ceiling," said WCS's Madidi Landscape Program Director Dr. Robert Wallace. "All the scientists who contributed to this compendium feel privileged to work in Madidi, and we are all very happy to help SERNAP promote the national and international conservation importance of the area."
A little run-down of the riches really communicates the park's assets. Mammals range from the 661-pound lowland tapir, an Amazonian herbivore, to the tiny insectivorous Spix's disk-winged bat that weighs just 4 grams (.14 ounces). Bird species range from the harpy eagle, one of most powerful birds of prey in the world whose diet includes sloths and monkeys, to the diminutive festive coquette, one of 60 species of hummingbird expected to occur in the park.
If the above statistics sound impressive, keep in mind that two thirds of the park's total biodiversity has yet to be formally registered or observed by scientists. That, and the looming threat of climate change to the biodiversity of the world's mountains attests to the need for more research in this South American jewel.
Still unknown about the park? The tropical montane or cloud forests between 1,000 and 3,000 meters (3,280 and 9,842 feet) are still much of a mystery.
Madidi National Park is one of the top tourist attractions in Bolivia and part of a larger protected region known as the Madidi-Tambopata Landscape, one of the largest such complexes in the world.
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The Cairngorms is one of the UK's most spectacular national parks, where bulking, rounded summits rise above gaping corries, more often called cirques in the United States. Despite hosting Scotland's biggest ski area, the Cairngorms have passionate advocates of preservation who've managed to keep large parts of the park pristine.
No wonder people want to live there—and that requires housing. Plans to bring new housing developments to the park took a step toward fruition recently when opponents of the plans suffered a defeat in an attempt to persuade a judge to outlaw pro-development proposals.
Eight "grounds of appeal" were brought before Lord Glennie but he refused to rule out a plan for up to 2,000 houses as campaigners had hoped.
A story in The Scotsman newspaper said "the judge rejected each and every argument, paving the way for the Cairngorms National Park Authority to press ahead with the schemes outlined in its 2010 local plan." Under that plan, "development policies were adopted for Nethy Bridge (40 houses), Carrbridge (117), An Camas Mor near Aviemore (1,500 over time) and Kingussie (300)."
Aviemore and Kingussie are two of the park's main "holiday centres," Aviemore not far from Cairngorm ski area. The famous whisky town of Dalwhinnie is another village flanking the park, many of which are located on the rail line that links London and Edinburgh with Inverness, just north of the park.
The article said the organizations Cairngorms Campaign, Badenoch and Strathspey Conservation Group, and the Scottish Campaign for National Parks had filed the appeal. "They feared overdevelopment," said The Scotsman, "which could harm a range of birds, animals, insects and plants, and alleged that the park authority had failed to 'conserve and enhance the natural and cultural heritage of the park' as it was obliged to do under the National Parks (Scotland) Act 2000."
Unlike parks in the United States, considerable residential area lies within park boundaries in the UK, making "development" an issue. Lord Glennie faulted the proposal to eliminate the new homes, saying in The Scotsman, "I am persuaded that the appellants have not shown any basis for a successful challenge. The exercise of drawing up a local plan involves, at times, the striking of a balance. The statutory constraints recognise this, as do the policies in the local plan."


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The mission of DLNR's Division of Forestry and Wildlife is to responsibly manage and protect watersheds, native ecosystems, and cultural resources and provide outdoor recreation and sustainable forest products opportunities, while facilitating partnerships, community involvement and education. Mālama i ka 'āina
Lehua Restoration Operation To Rid Island of Rats BeginsPosted on August 23, 2017
State Moves Forest Carbon Project ForwardPosted on August 6, 2017
Rocks Within Historic Mauna Kea Ice Age Natural Area Reserve Found Damaged By GraffitiPosted on May 7, 2017
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Rescue, Rehab and Release For Kaua'i Pueo, Young Hawaiian Short-Eared Owl Flying FreePosted on April 29, 2017
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Kamehameha Butterflies Return to O'ahu Forests This Earth DayPosted on April 21, 2017
Mālama Hawai'i Signs Encourage Care For Natural Resources Across O'ahuPosted on April 20, 2017
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The current compact diesel cars are the Audi A3 TDI and Volkswagen Beetle TDI, Golf TDI and Jetta TDI, all of which use VW's turbocharged direct-injection 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine. The Chevrolet Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel went on sale in select markets in June and is scheduled to be available nationally in the fall. It uses a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder with EPA-estimated 27/46 mpg city/highway, which is the highest highway rating of any non-hybrid passenger car. The combined city/highway rating of 33 mpg, however, is one short of VW's TDI.
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Chartered, IBM, Infineon, Samsung enter 45-nm race
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SAN JOSE, Calif. IBM, Chartered, Infineon and Samsung have produced chips on a common 45-nm process technology, the companies said.
The four companies announced Tuesday (Aug. 29) that they have developed their first functional chips based on a low-power, 45-nm process technology. For some time, Chartered, IBM, Infineon and Samung have been collaborating on the development of advanced process technologies as part of a major alliance.
The first working circuits in 45-nm technology, targeted at next-generation communication systems, were jointly developed by the four alliance partners, they said.
The chips were produced at IBM Corp.'s 300-mm fab in East Fishkill, N.Y. Many of the verified blocks are standard library cells and I/O elements provided by Infineon Technologies AG (Munich, Germany).
The process is said to be compatible across various fabs within the four companies. "Our early hardware results indicate that the 45-nm node device performance is at least 30 percent greater than that of the 65-nm node, and that product developers can design to this process with confidence," said Lisa Su, vice president of semiconductor research and development at IBM and the head of the joint development alliance, in a statement.
"By leveraging the significant R&D and IP resources available worldwide across this alliance of industry leaders, we are able to bring manufacturing technology and design readiness to the market much sooner and effectively for customers than working individually," Su said. "And, the additional benefit to customers is the flexibility in accessing the technology thanks to the GDSII compatibility across multiple manufacturing facilities."
The 45-nm, low-power process is expected to be installed and qualified at Chartered, IBM and Samsung by the end of 2007. Infineon did not provide a timetable for its 45-nm process. The early design kits are developed through a collaborative effort by all four companies and are immediately available for select customers.
It, however, appears that the four companies are slightly behind the competition. Earlier this year, Intel Corp. disclosed the initial details of its 45-nm process and claimed that it has produced the world's first chips based on the technology. The announcement demonstrates that Intel's 45-nm process is on track and expected to be ready for mass production in the second half of 2007.
Bidding to get a jump on its foundry rivals, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) recently disclosed the first details of its new 45-nm process. Foundry giant TSMC has pulled in its introduction date and intends to move into risk production in the third quarter of 2007,


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They're a large but neglected group of Christians. Some do not have their own denomination. They have no bishops or pastors. Others might be Baptists or Presbyterians or members of a nondenominational fellowship or a mega church. They are sincere evangelical Protestants who are disenchanted with evangelicalism and are searching for a church that is historical, traditional and liturgical.
Usually the first place they stop and shop is the Episcopal Church.
Before long they discover that Episcopalians are too liberal for their liking. Not only does the Episcopal Church ordain women priests and bishops, but it also permits bishops and priests to be "out and proud" homosexual activists.
The evangelical searchers move on. They read. They study. They pray. They explore Eastern Orthodoxy. But that's not English, and they're not Greek or Russian, and the culture shock is enormous.
Finally, they turn to the Catholic Church, and that's a letdown, too. First of all, the same sorts of ethnic problems that turned them away from the Eastern Orthodox turn up among the Catholics. They're bewildered by Catholic culture. Rosaries, novenas, Fatima, statues and candles, the Infant of Prague — all of it seems foreign. Plus a lot of Catholics seem just as liberal as the Episcopalians.
This is where the new Anglican ordinariate — established by Pope Benedict XVI last fall — may well prove a bridge to Rome not only for Anglo-Catholics but also a wide range of Protestants.
What many Catholics don't know is that there are many more Protestants who are sympathetic to the call from across the Tiber yet do not register in ecumenical discussions. They are serious, God-fearing Christians. They are distressed by the liberal drift of their denomination. They admire the Pope and the resilient stance of the Catholic Church. They are curious about the doctrinal differences and are ready to discuss them. They are ready to affirm the authority of the Catholic Church.
These brothers and sisters in Christ are looking for a church where the historic faith is taught, the worship is liturgical and the culture is acceptable. If they could only find a church with decent liturgy, fine music, solid preaching and a link with the Catholic Church, they'd be in church heaven. If the new Anglican ordinariate is set up in the right way and is run by the right people, many more of our separated brethren than we first envisioned will cross the bridge. The Anglican ordinariate has the potential to be not simply a minor concession to a small rump of disgruntled Anglo-Catholics, but a major tool for evangelization and reconciliation.
In Springfield, Mo., for example, there has been a very interesting development. As yet there are no Episcopal or continuing-Anglican congregations interested in the Anglican ordinariate, but a few pioneering Christians are starting their own prayer group. Their intent is to eventually form an Anglican-use parish under the pastoral care of the Anglican ordinariate.
The group is small but diverse. Shane Schaetzel and his wife are former evangelicals. They turned Episcopalian, then converted to the Catholic Church about 10 years ago. After putting up a group page on Facebook, Schaetzel immediately received the support of more than a dozen friends, many of whom live in or near Springfield. The emerging group has drawn much interest. One inquirer is a former Episcopalian who is without a church home at this time. An active Episcopalian couple has also gotten in touch. The rest of the group consists of Catholics who have become disillusioned with the current vernacular celebration of the Mass and are now seeking something more traditionally "Catholic" but simultaneously have no interest in the Latin Mass. Even some Baptists have established contact.
Schaetzel explained to me that the initial intent of the group is prayer. They hope to meet weekly in Springfield. Those within the group who are not currently Catholic will use this time for personal reflection on the prospect of conversion and whether or not that's the right decision for them. An Anglican-use Catholic priest in Kansas City has graciously offered to drive 160 miles to celebrate Mass, and the Anglican Use Society has offered much help.
In the past, Anglican-use parishes have been created when a group of Episcopalians decide to convert together, usually with an Episcopal priest who guides them and is himself ordained as a priest in the Catholic Church. The Springfield group is showing a new way forward — and not just for those who are interested in the Anglican ordinariate.
The Pope's new initiative is full of promise. Perhaps one day we'll look at those who used it to drive a new catechetical mission — and call their brand of success the "Springfield spirit."
Father Dwight Longenecker, a convert from the Anglican priesthood,
is online at DwightLongenecker.com.
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Hello all! Trying to finish up my last programming assignment for the semester. In the beginning of the program I created a struct, and one of the individual elements of the struct is a character string called "action". What I want to do is IF action is ____, then do this. I'm getting all sorts of compiler errors. I'm only going to post the code from the function I wrote it in, but if you want to see the struct or main, let me know.
Thanks!Code:int readfile(FILE *ifp, struct class student[]){ int num, index; //Read in number of records. fscanf(ifp, "%d", &num); //Read in each record one by one. for (index=0; index<num; index++) { fscanf(ifp, "%s", student[index].last); fscanf(ifp, "%s", student[index].first); fscanf(ifp, "%s", student[index].action); //If they took a class or are doing grade forgiveness, // only scan in hours and grade. if(student[index].action == 'TOOK_CLASS' || student[index].action == 'GRADE_FORGIVE'){ fscanf(ifp, "%d", &student[index].hours); fscanf(ifp, "%s", student[index].grade); } //If they are changing their grade, scan in hours, old grade, and new grade. if(student[index].action[] == 'CHANGE_GRADE'){ fscanf(ifp, "%d", &student[index].hours); fscanf(ifp, "%s", student[index].grade); fscanf(ifp, "%s", student[index].newgrade); } } return num; }


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VILLA FAWN: a beach villa in Cape Town
Therese Botha restricts her portfolio of 'very smart' villas to 35 and more affordable options to 90 (including apartments). The locations span southern Africa (in particular the Western Cape), Mauritius and the Seychelles and her standards are exacting. 'I'm extremely fussy myself so I vet every property personally,' she says.
Villa Fawn in Clifton, Cape Town, is her latest example of an affordable beach villa. It has two main bedrooms (one screened from the open- plan living area) plus a smaller room, fabulous sea views and a lawned garden. The interiors are modern with a steel-built kitchen, wood floors and vast floor-to-ceiling windows.
Added value The free concierge service will book nannies, chefs, wine tours and safaris. Housekeeping Monday to Saturday is included.
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Facebook adds stress to the big day
As if deciding on the dress, the flowers, the band and the food were not enough, brides now face another tough decision: how to control tweets, Facebook posts and blogs on their wedding day.
A study of brides' expectations shows that nearly half believe it is important to enforce digital rules on wedding guests, with one in seven wishing that mobile phones could be banned.
More than one in two women felt that the groom should be the first person to upload photographs on to social media and a quarter would like to create a special wedding hashtag so that guests can post live updates.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - This was supposed to be the statement game for the Bills big-ticket off-season acquisitions.
Bringing in Mario Williams and Mark Anderson to join Marcell Dareus and Kyle Williams on a beefed up defensive line was supposed to be the perfect tonic for beating a guy like Tom Brady.
Put Brady on his back enough and hell never have the chance to get his high-octane offence in gear at least that was the thinking.
As it turned out, Brady wasnt the one the Bills had to worry about in a humiliating 52-28 beatdown Sunday.
Despite a gaudy 340 yards passing from Gisele Bundchens other half, this game turned when Brady, or more precisely Bill Belichick, decided to put the ball in the hands of his running backs.
And the punishment Stevan Ridley and Brandon Bolden put on Buffalo had the Bills using words like embarrassed and humiliated and whipped.
Linebacker Nick Barnett said it was a case of the Bills defence playing Santa Claus and giving the Patriots pretty much anything they asked for.
The talk after the game wasnt pretty, but then neither were the numbers.
Between them, Ridley and Bolden combined for 243 yards on 38 carries, both of them surpassing the 100-yard mark. They also combined for three touchdowns.
Danny Woodhead, another Patriots back, chipped in with a fourth.
To put that kind of rushing afternoon in perspective, a Patriots team hasnt had a pair of 100-yard rushers in the same game since 1980 when Don Calhoun and Vagas Ferguson both went over the 100-yard mark in a win over Baltimore.
Right now Im not liking the way Im feeling and Im sure everyone else is feeling the same way, Barnett said.
The real disappointment was that the Bills had a two-touchdown lead in this one after Ryan Fitzpatrick found Donald Jones cutting across the middle. He hit Jones in stride and Jones ran away from the New England defence for a 68-yard touchdown.
At that point it was 21-7 Bills and the crowd of 70,684 at Ralph Wilson were already trying to come to terms with a first-place Bills team with the Patriots a full two games in their rearview mirror.
Five consecutive New England touchdowns ended that illusion pretty quickly.
Just why the Patriots were suddenly able to run at will in the second half the two backs between them had just 88 yards in the first half seemed to be a mystery to some Bills and rather apparent to others.
Safety George Wilson pointed to the two tight-end sets the Patriots came out in as one of the major adjustments the Pats made in the second half.
But Williams wasnt sure about anything other than he needed some time in the film room.
It really wasnt at the point of attack, Williams said. I dont know what was going on, I dont know which way he was hitting it. It was the same blocking scheme the same plays and it all happened in the second half. I dont know what in the world was different or what was going on but obviously they were gaining yards on us.
As for Williams feeling like he might have let his team down, well, you can forget about that too.
If we dont stop the run, theres no putting anyone on their backs, Williams said sounding very much like a guy giving himself a pass. We tried different things and he was still breaking free. There was nobody there.
Head coach Chan Gailey said the combination of the turnovers and the Bills porous run defence were his teams undoing. In addition to the miles the Pats churned out in the ground game, they were also the benefactors of six Buffalo turnovers.
You turn it over and you dont stop the run, youre not going to win football games, Gailey summed up. To be honest with you, they just whipped us. Thats the bottom line. They blocked us and we didnt get off blocks and get to the ball. We missed entirely too many tackles.
About the only positive to take away from an afternoon like this is that as bad as it was, this was still just one game. Whether you give up 14 points and lose or 52 points and lose its still just a loss.
We made some mistakes and didnt look the way we wanted it to look, Barnett said. But were still 2-2. Theres still 12 games left and no one is perfect. This is disappointing and we have to get better.
What no one had the heart to point out to Barnett is that four of the teams next five games are arguably tougher matchups than the one the Bills had Sunday.
Next week they fly out to San Francisco to take on the 49ers, stay on the road for a date at the always tough Sun Devil Stadium in Phoenix, come home for what should be a breather against Tennessee and then head right back out on the road to take on the Houston Texans and then a second date, this one in Foxboro, against the Patriots.
Sure theyre .500 now, but maintaining that, or even staying close to it over those five weeks is going to be another monumental battle.


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When one thinks of the Holocaust film genre, dramas such as "Schindler's List" and "The Pianist" instantly come to mind for their harrowing portrayals of victims and survivors who suffered at the hands of Nazis. But what about the German survivors – more specifically, the children of Nazi war criminals forced to come to terms with the atrocities of their parents? This is a question posed by the exceptional new German-language film, "Lore," Cate Shortland's follow-up to her acclaimed 2004 feature "Somersault."
Based on the novel by Rachel Seiffert, "Lore" was shortlisted for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and most recently picked up directing and cinematography accolades at the Beijing International Film Festival. While at home this past week, Shortland took time to speak with the East Valley Tribune about "Lore," the casting of newcomer Saskia Rosendahl and how the film's themes are pertinent to the recent tragedies in Boston.
Q: So to begin with, I read that you were first introduced to "The Dark Room" by a producer at the Edinburgh film festival. What struck you about this particular story and drove you to become involved in the project?
A: I thought it was incredible – it's very fragile, it's got a real fragility to it and it's quite ambiguous in terms of, it doesn't make assumptions that we usually draw about history. It just felt really smart and kind of seductive, in a way, to make something that confronted what I'd always believed. I'd never seen this perspective before.
Q: I understand that you did extensive research for the film in Germany. Could you share with me that process and any challenges you may have encountered during that time?
A: The most useful was the day we spent with people who were, I suppose they'd have to be in their 80's. It was a room of about 10 people, no one really spoke English and they'd been in Hitler Youth. We spent this day at university with all these elderly Berliners, and the day started with them being really shy and thinking I was there to judge them. By the end of the day, they were speaking on a really personal level about their experiences during the war and many of them had been in Hitler Youth and that was fantastic because that really gave me an insight that you don't get in the history books.
I did a lot of reading, of course. Strangely enough, I actually visited a few concentration camps. I know that's not in the film but I kind of had to see the consequences of this family's actions or the father and mother's actions for myself. I sort of immersed myself in it for about four years but also my major at university was fascism. I studied history and art but fascism was kind of my great passion.
Q: Could you tell me about the casting of Saskia Rosendahl and what qualities of hers really convinced you that she could carry this film?
A: Yeah, we looked at I think 300 girls across Germany. We had actually cast the lead about three weeks before rehearsals were due to start but then we discovered that she was actually 14 and not 16, and we had to recast. We started recasting about 10 days before rehearsals were going to start and I had rejected Saskia about three months before when I saw a photograph of her – I didn't even want to see her. Then the casting director said to me, "You know, you have to see this girl."
Saskia hadn't acted before, really, she was a dancer and I think it's…her eyes, you see so much of this internal struggle when you look into her eyes and she's incredibly intelligent for such a young actor, just so truthful. I love watching her, actually. It was really interesting editing her because there's never a moment in the film when you think, "Oh, that's fake," and you don't believe it. So it was just about making choices with her performance and it was never about trying to cover up a bad performance, which I think is the sign of a really good actor. She's actually just been cast in a HBO series, so I think she's got a great future ahead of her.
Q: The film was truly mesmerizing to look at aesthetically. What sorts of looks or feelings were you hoping to convey through the cinematography?
A: Well, of course the big thing with the film is the children traverse Germany so we start in the Black Forest and we end up on the North Sea. It felt like Germany was a character, and we really had to capture that incredible trek that they did. We looked at really old fairy stories and really old gothic prints and things like that. And then we looked at National Socialist propaganda and how they portrayed Germany and how nature was such a huge part of the movement. So that was a really big part of it.
Then we were looking at, I suppose things like, I really love Nan Goldin the photographer, so we wanted the film to have, kind of in a strange way, a real contemporary feel. We didn't want it to look like a starchy period piece… We looked at all these really disparate sources to come up with the style but our DP Adam Arkapaw is really young – he was 29 when he shot the film – and it's handheld so he was in amongst the children the whole time. It feels like he's apart of it and it feels like the camera is a part of the story, which I really loved.
Q: Why do you think it's important to tell stories like this from the German perspective and what sorts of themes or ideas do you believe audiences respond to?
A: I think they're responding to looking at a family and the intricacies of how they deal with history, how they deal with the Holocaust. Not from our perspective, not from a perspective 60 years later, but a 14-year-old girl suddenly being confronted with the enormity of what her father's done, realizing that her father's not a hero, he's a murderer. I think that's really important.
I think there's been a real shift in that we're often really interested in what it means to be a perpetrator and I think, of course, the Holocaust is so overwhelmingly horrendous that it's been very difficult to look at the perpetrators because there's been kind of this blanket idea that they're just monsters. Really, they're people like us that committed monstrous acts, so I think that is kind of shifting. People and historians and artists are kind of looking at them through different eyes and sort of thinking, "Ah, they're human beings like us."
I've just been watching the bombings in Boston, you know, and I think what fascinated me about it aside from the huge, huge media attention it got was the way that that young guy committed that crime – that unimaginable crime – and then he went out to a party afterwards… That's what happened in the Holocaust, that's what happened in the war. People committed horrible, horrible crimes against humanity and then they'd go have dinner with their family.
I think that's been really hard to face but I think it helps us immeasurably to understand those acts if we can look at it like that and try to work it out. I think it's much harder to look at it like that. I think it's easier to say, "Oh, they're just all monsters and they were nothing like us," but it doesn't help.
Q: What did you personally learn or take away from the experience of making "Lore"?
A: That's an interesting question. I'm Jewish and I think I had many preconceived ideas about Germany. Then researching the film, working with German people, looking at how they've dealt with their history and the transparency with which they deal with their history every day, a lot of them are like that – the majority I'd say. It was a really great learning experience, especially coming from a country like Australia that doesn't deal with the atrocities we've committed and I think that North America's the same. Whenever I visit, I'm always struck by the similarities, actually. So yeah, I think that was a really great experience.
I had my 16-year-old son working by my side the whole shoot and that was a really wonderful experience because he was the video split operator, and my niece was the stills photographer, so I kind of made the film in a different way. I made the film on my terms, I brought my family with me along the journey and I realized that I can make films like that. I don't have to make films in any other system if I don't want to and that was really a great liberation.
Q: To wrap things up, any films that you've seen recently that you've especially enjoyed or would recommend?
A: Yes, I loved "Rust and Bone." It was incredible. And I really loved the American documentary about the boy who poses as… "The Imposter"? I think that was incredible. I loved "The Imposter," and I loved "Rust and Bone." And I just watched that documentary about the people in the armed forces…"The Invisible War." That was also incredible.
"Lore" opens this Friday, April 26, in Harkins Camelview 5 in Scottsdale. For more information about the film, visit http://www.musicboxfilms.com/lore-movies-53.php.


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Week 4
Finally the last preseason game
Tomorrow night at 8:30pm the Miami Dolphins will travel to Dallas to take on the Cowboys for their fourth and final preseason game. The key for both of these teams is not whether they win or lose, but rather that no one else gets injured. Both teams have had their fair share of injuries, and will be on alert to keep starters from exposing themselves to unnecessary risks.
For those of you phins fans that are unaware, yesterday pro bowl left guard Jake Long, was injured during practice. It is believed that he sprained his medial collateral ligament and could be out anywhere from 1-4 weeks depending on the severity of his injury. Obviously he will not be playing in Dallas, however, my money is on him being able to play in the opener against the Texans. Another key Dolphin player who will not suit up tonight is Karlos Dansby, who has stated that he will be ready for the first game.
It has already been announced that Ryan Tannehill will play against the Cowboys, but phins news fans should assume that he and the rest of the starters will only be in the game for 1 or 2 series max. This game is more about the non starters on the roster, that are still on the bubble, and have one last chance to prove themselves worthy to make the 53 man roster, which needs to be decided by the 9pm deadline on friday evening. WR Julius Pruitt was just cut, which means there are now 10 wideouts still vying for around 6 WR spots. So this game should go a long way to determining the 5th and 6th spots for the receiver position.
The best sportsbook on the web has the Dolphins at +2 1/2 for the game and a total of 37. For those football gambling fans that are jonesing for some action, I would suggest finding the best sportsbook on the web, which is either Acesportsbook, 5dimes, The Greek, or Bet any sports, and take a shot on the Phins getting +2 1/2. The Cowboys are even more banged up than the Dolphins, and it is telling that the Dolphins were a +3 point under dog at home against Atlanta last week, but are only a +2 1/2 point dog against the Cowboys in Dallas. I would also suggesting using the best sportsbook on the internet and picking the under 37 points for the game because with lots of 2nd and 3rd stringers playing a bulk of the minutes, football gambling fans are in for a sloppy game.


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XH is having surgery in 2 weeks. The surgery is to clear out his nose, throat, etc. I think it's deviated septum surgery and something else. XH showed me 2 papers about the 2 procedures a couple of weeks ago. The surgery itself doesn't sound too life threatening.
However, I talked with XH more today and learned that 4 of his uncles and his grandfather (all on his Dad's side) have died while under anesthesia. I knew about 2 of them prior to today. I asked XH what the circumstances were - what types of procedures they were having done - and they were all having minor routine surgery. Except for his grandfather who was having something done with his heart. He died prior to the surgery starting, after he was cut open. XH's Dad refuses to have any anesthesia go in him. He'd rather die or take the pain of any procedures. I can't blame him.
I'm worried. XH hasn't told his doctor about this medical history. I know there's nothing I can do. Of course I fear the worst. XH laughs it out... "I think your name is still on my life insurance policy. You'll be fine." I'm worried for the kids. They are 5 and 6.5. It's one thing to help them through the divorce, but death?
Am I worried for no reason?
3 boys: 11, 9, and 1.
Of course you're worried!
XH hasn't told his doctor about this medical history.
Why not??? Has he said? Is this urgent surgery? Can he do without it?
I know there's nothing I can do.
Yes, there is, you can call up his doctor and inform him of these facts. I know there is HIPPA stuff, but I'd go to the office, if necessary, and tell.
This needs to be made known to the doctors. There are additional precautions anesthesiologists can take to monitor patients who are under. They can also make sure NOT to have a student performing the anesthesia that day. Right?
Why not???
He said there's nothing the doctor can do differently. I told him that he should tell his doctor anyway. Just so the doctor knows! I'm not in the medical field and I don't know what options are involved. Maybe part of XH wants to die? I don't know. He's always struggled internally with low self-esteem and hidden depression issues. People on SI have told me they think he's NPD.
Is this urgent surgery? Can he do without it?
From what I understand, it will help him with sinus problems. XH is always trying to swallow and pop his ears. His doctor said it's probably related to XH's nose being broken when he was a kid/teenager?. It might also be the cause of XH getting bronchitis every spring and fall. I don't know. I'm not really in the loop. The only reason XH told me is because the surgery is scheduled on Friday morning of his weekend. He doesn't know if he'll be able to take the kids that weekend. I don't think it's urgent or necessary, considering the risk, but it's not my decision.
I don't know the doctor. He didn't have a doctor when we were together.
My xH's brother died during an appendectomy when he was 11, it was horrible and tragic and xH's family in their grief and need to understand why looked more into catastrophic reactions to anesthesia and I remember hearing so many stories when xH and I were dating and first married and would visit his family- it had just happened a few years before at that point, and they were constantly sharing stories of others with similar reactions, and any warning signs, and alternatives to the type of anesthesia his poor brother had been given. The family was justifiably terrified for any of them to be put under. And I know they arrived at several alternatives with their doctors, though I no longer know any details. But I know there are some alternatives in some types of surgery!!
Yes he should talk to his doctors and inform them, and not presuppose that there's nothing to be done about it. I still get a clutch in my stomach thinking about this subject after getting to know xH's stepmother and seeing her pain.
Does he have life insurance, for his kids' sake? Is it paid up?
*Look up "malignant hyperthermia."*
The anesthesliologist must be informed. If he actually has this, they can avoid the meds that trigger it. It is not enough to find out on game day, as it takes preparation.
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She passed away in 2011 (not from surgery), so she did not have to face that again...but her last surgery almost caused her death, due to the anesthesia. This is not something to take lightly.
Any CRNA,
(((and hope all is well)))
Just prior to this conversation he was telling me that our boys *still* talk about how my SO's parent's dog died last summer. I think they bring it up with him often simply because his girlfriend has 2 dogs of the same breed as the one who died... and one has the same coloring. They rarely mention the dog's death to me - less than monthly. And when they do, we are at SO's parents' house.
Anyway, so I reminded XH of this... they haven't forgotten a dog, you think they are going to forget you???? It's going to effect me every day until I die. He then said that he shouldn't have told me about it. I let it go at that point. There isn't anything I can do. He knows what I think. I'm afraid he thinks the anesthesia won't have a negative affect on him and that his life is worth the risk in finding out.
Yes, I knew my Mom had issues with antithesis...but nobody mentioned to me that it could be passed onto me.
So next Dr. appt. (who knows my mother's issues as she lived with me for the last 2 years of her life)..I'll ask him if this is something that should be on MY file....just in case of emergency. Can they test for it? I've had c-sections and hysterectomy, no problems. But, maybe as I age it might become an issue...as my mother didn't develop the problem till later in life.
And, if I am at risk I'll make sure my kids are also aware of this.
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Wayfinder School graduation
Camden — Friday, May 23, Wayfinder Schools held the first of four graduation ceremonies it will hold around the state this May and June. Held at High Mountain Hall in Camden, Friday night's ceremony awarded high school diplomas to students Skyler Brown, Katelyn Kribel, Cheyanne Penniman, Mitch Bartlett, Shama Maiwan, Emily Bennett and Carlos Andrade.
Wayfinder Schools (formerly The Community Schools) serves students deemed to be at high risk of high school non-completion and will graduate 21 students from throughout Maine this year. The school offers a nine-month Residential Program and a home-based Passages Program for teen parents, and serves 70 Maine students each year.
Additional ceremonies will take place May 30 at Opportunity Farm in New Gloucester, May 31 at University of Maine in Machias and June 14 at The John Street Methodist Church in Camden.


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NIAGARA FALLS – Niagara Falls Police said they are searching for the driver of a cab who participated in a shoplifting spree with one of her passengers early Saturday.
Police said a man and the driver of a LaSalle cab targeted the Sunoco station at 85th Street and Niagara Falls Boulevard shortly before 1 a.m., stealing items worth $94.72. Police said they have the number of the cab and the name of the driver. An investigation is underway.


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Mangaluru: In a fire that broke out at Senarabettu in Amblamogaru in Konaje police limits, a car and a bike were found charred late Monday night.
As they have been regularly doing, Hyder and his brother Abdul Jabbar, had parked their vehicles in fron of the house overnight. When they heard the sound of flames and burning, they came out and tried to douse the fire.
But by then, the bike was already charred and the car too was damaged almost completely.
There was no possible reason for fire. It is suspected that a petrol thieves' gang has been operating in the area. The fire may have broken out while the miscreants were attempting to drain the fuel tanks.
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Vegetarian Potluck for Spring
Host a potluck dinner and let the farmers' market inspire the menu. From asparagus and sweet peas to strawberries and rhubarb, these recipes showcase fresh spring produce at its best.
Ask guests to bring the appetizers, salad and dessert, and send them the recipes in advance (they'll appreciate the guidance). Then you can make the main course—tender grains of farro tossed with a medley of vegetables. When everyone arrives, set out the food buffet style and savor the bounty of the new season.


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text: Reading over the thread regards KISS' induction into the RRHOF, I got to thinking... When does a musician cross the line into artist territory? What is the criteria for rising from just another instrument beater to the higher plane of artistry? Strictly a personal opinion, but I think it is at the point one goes from being a musical imitator to a musical innovator. The bone in the throat of this opinion is obviously, who makes that call?