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Movies, Internet, the beach - what do you do for fun? Vamos! Let's talk about our hobbies, pastimes and fun things to do with some new vocabulary.
Bien! On to a memory exercise. You'll see vocabulary words in English. Guess the word in Spanish. Vamos!
(Answers: 1. centro, 2. piscina, 3. tomar el sol, 4. gimnasio, 5. montañas, 6. leer una revista, 7. el cine)
Bien! Here's a list of today's vocabulary. Note that the standalone words come first and the phrases follow. Say them out loud. Remember our vowel sounds: A (ah), E (eh), I (ee), O (oh), U (oo). Make a special effort to avoid the English sounds for A (as in 'cat') and I (as in 'kid'), as they don't exist in the Spanish language.
|el cine
|(el SEE-neh)
|the movies
|las montañas
|(las mon-TA-nyas)
|the mountains
|la playa
|(la PLAH-yah)
|the beach
|la piscina
|(la pee-SEE-nah)
|the pool
|el lago
|(el LAH-goh)
|the lake
|el parque
|(el PAR-kay)
|the park
|parque de diversiones
|(PAR-kay de dee-vehr-see-OH-nehs)
|amusement park
|la fiesta
|(la fee-EH-stah)
|the party
|el gimnasio
|(el him-NA-see-oh)
|the gym
|el museo
|(el moo-SEH-oh)
|the museum
|el restaurante
|(el res-tah-oo-RAHN-teh)
|the restaurant
|el café
|(el kah-FEH)
|the café, or coffee
|el centro
|(el SEHN-troh)
|leer una revista
|(leh-EHR OO-na reh-VEE-stah)
|to read a magazine
|leer correo electrónico
|(leh-EHR coh-REH-oh ell-eck-TROH-nee-koh)
|to read email
|ir de excursion
|(EER de ecks-koor-see-OHN)
|to go on a hike.
|tomar el sol
|(toh-MAR el SOHL)
|to sunbathe
|navegar por internet
|(nah-veg-GAR por een-tehr-NET)
|to surf the web
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good review, but I would try and stay away from just listing things with a description (IE the instrumentals). Try and integrate everything into paragraphs, it looks infinitely more professional.
Never heard of this band and honestly probably wont as Im not a dream theater fan.
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By DAVID GREEN
Morenci schools should soon have a "student success coach" in place to assist students that may have trouble graduating. Funding for the position would come from state money for at-risk students.
The coach would follow middle and high school students in need of extra help, explained secondary principal Kelli Campbell, and make daily contact with the students, and their parents and teachers as needed. Tutoring time would be organized and students would be assisted with organizational skills.
The coach would also be in charge of in-school suspension students in a classroom rather than in the school office.
Several factors would be considered in identifying students most at risk, added superintendent Michael Osborne.
"If any student is struggling, whether you're labeled or unlabeled," he said, "our goal is to support you."
The district has limited funds to use and decisions need to be made about where to focus the money.
"To me, this fits in real clearly with what we're trying to do," he said. "This is a really good use of funds and fits well into our plan for student success."
There's a strong effort at the state level for intervention...
The only problem with the new position, said board member Phil McCaskey during a committee meeting Oct. 1, is to put the program in place only to have state funding later cut. That would leave Morenci to pay for continuing the program.
That's true for most any state funding, said finance director Erica Metcalf, but there is strong support at the state level for intervention of this kind.
A job posting was expected to be listed by the end of last week.
BOND—Metcalf reminded the board that work needs to move forward if the board intends to seek additional financial support from taxpayers. In the past the board has discussed the possibility of voter approval for a bond, or for extending the current levy at no additional cost, to pay for several maintenance projects.
Roof and parking lot repair, a security entry system and computer upgrades are among the needs discussed in the past.
"We need to get a more accurate view of needs and costs and determine the best direction to take," said finance committee chair Laura Spencer.
SPORTS—Athletic director Phil Stark sought direction from the board about moving forward with a golf program in the spring. The board approved an agreement to accept Waldron students on the golf team, but Stark said there is only one student interested. Morenci had only two students last spring.
McCaskey said that no matter what the sport, student participation is needed if the district is going to pay for coaches, transportation, fees, etc.
"Let's get the word out," he said about golf. "Let's find out if there's interest."
Spencer asked if any other sports were in a similar position and Osborne mentioned that wrestling numbers were quite low last year.
Later, in the regular board meeting, Jeff Nofziger and Loren Delmonico were hired as co-coaches for the wrestling program.
OFFICE—Osborne said that he is still looking at the proposal from the Lenawee ISD to take over the district's business office duties and he's also continuing to examine a proposal to move the board office to the empty rooms at the high school.
He told the board that the Morenci Education Foundation is seeking office space to store files and to meet on a monthly basis.
GLASSMEN—The agreement with the Glassmen drum and bugle group for use of the school during the summer will not be renewed due to occasional scheduling problems for use of the building.
INSPECTION—A visit from the county health department found two non-critical items at the elementary school kitchen which were corrected and two critical problems with the new steamers at the high school. Minor issues at the concession stand were addressed.
The board voted to buy an upgrade to the district's point-of-sale computer system for school lunches.
RADIOS—The district has until the end of the year to buy 10 new bus radios before a change in federal regulations makes the existing units inoperable. Osborne suggested that a cost savings might be realized if buying with Hudson.
STAFF—Tina Rohr was hired as a middle school aide/paraprofessional and Levi Hoffman as a lunch room supervisor and instructional aide. Teachers Doug Rupp, Lisa Runion and Brad Brown will be paid to serve as lunch room supervisors, with pay coming from the cafeteria fund. Runion will also serve as an after-school tutor.
Teacher Ashley Joughin was hired to serve as a lunch-time tutor for middle school students and Kim Mohr as a tutor for both lunch-time and after school. Pay for the tutors will come from at-risk funds.


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In the March/April 2014 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Duke University scholar Eric M. Meyers questions academic Biblical and archaeological communication with popular media. We invite our readers to share their thoughts on popular presentation of scholarship in our field, Biblical history/archaeology conversations in your communities and the best way that we, as a website, can help bridge this chasm. Your thoughts are greatly appreciated! —Ed.
Unfortunately, today a seemingly impenetrable divide separates lay studies and sermons, on the one hand, from the academic study of the Bible and archaeology, on the other. To this we may add the yawning gap between what scholars do and what much of the media does. For example, an ABC special that aired last year showing Christiane Amanpour and her son watching the sunrise from Mt. Sinai more or less ignored the state of the archaeological field today. This show could have been produced a generation ago.
I do not think the American public is apathetic or indifferent. On the contrary, as many readers of BAR know, a small cadre of devoted readers pride themselves on staying attuned to the most recent developments in the field of Biblical archaeology. In relation to the larger population of the United States as a whole, however, this is a very small group. When we add the fact that the media is hesitant to take on some of the real current questions that are challenging the field, the situation is even worse.
What we in academia observe is a stubborn refusal by large sectors of the population to accept climate change and global warming as factors to be taken seriously. But cancer research—everyone takes that seriously. The study of religion—and especially the Bible and archaeology—often falls into the former category.
Let me offer a few examples. If a rabbi, priest or minister sermonizes about Biblical Israel or the Exodus, there is almost zero chance of hearing any serious consideration of the complexities of Israel's ethnogenesis: Did Israel emerge from Egypt as a fully developed people whose singular experience under slavery led to the almost immediate birth of monotheism and Israelite religion as we know it? The maximalist/minimalist debate, now a generation old and the subject of thousands of articles and books, has hardly inspired the Bible-reading public to alter its long-held views. As someone who regularly lectures on these subjects, I am usually nonplussed when people ask me, "Why have I never heard that before?"
Interested in the latest archaeological technology? Researchers at the UCSD's Calit2 laboratory recently released the FREE BAS eBook "Cyber-Archaeology in the Holy Land — The Future of the Past," featuring the latest research on GPS, Light Detection and Ranging Laser Scanning, unmanned aerial drones, 3D artifact scans, CAVE visualization environments and much more.
Having a more nuanced view of Israel's origins need not run counter to Biblical faith and might not be so threatening if one were to examine more fully the dynamics of the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age. In fact, one might just discover factors that would enhance our understanding of the Biblical record, although in slightly altered ways. For example, perhaps the recollection by a small group of newcomers (or indigenes) recently escaped from enslavement created an environment in which new ways of living could be envisioned in the highlands of Canaan that were different from the more hierarchical norms that dominated the cultures surrounding them. What if King David was not as mighty as the Bible portrays him? What if Jerusalem was not the shining city on the hill before the beginnings of urbanism under King Hezekiah? Perhaps recognition of such history might actually lead us to a greater sensitivity for what the Biblical personae achieved in such short order. And it might also lead us to a more appreciative and faithful reading of the Biblical narrative.
Even touring the Holy Land and its array of Biblical sites and national parks can be misleading. The sign-age is often overtly political, and many of the presentations in films, brochures and websites can be wildly different from what is currently accepted in academia.
How can we change things? We all know that the print medium is in serious decline. Most of us teaching in colleges and universities are aware that the humanities are also in steep decline. That is true for courses in religious studies and the Bible, as well as archaeology, though there are many exceptions. MOOCS (massive open online courses) are becoming more common, and some of the biggest names in higher education are experimenting with them, including Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. But until TV journalism, as well as major magazines and newspapers in print and online, catch up with the field and turn to real experts for advice, the larger public is destined to remain ill-informed.
Outreach education sponsored by seminaries could do a lot more in this area. In my own state of North Carolina, there are nearly 3,000 courses per year in public high schools that teach aspects of the Bible and Biblical history in a variety of settings, and yet there is no resource for those teachers so that they can be up-to-date on Biblical studies.
The Society of Biblical Literature's new online resource, Bible Odyssey [not yet published], will, one hopes, go a long way to rectify this situation.
Our free eBook Ten Top Biblical Archaeology Discoveries brings together the exciting worlds of archaeology and the Bible! Learn the fascinating insights gained from artifacts and ruins, like the Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem, where the Gospel of John says Jesus miraculously restored the sight of the blind man, and the Tel Dan inscription—the first historical evidence of King David outside the Bible.
Eric M. Meyers is Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor of Judaic Studies in the department of religion at Duke University and director of the Center for Jewish Studies.
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- Confussed: Most people with half a brain these days know what pathetic garbage NBC/MSNBC attempts to push to the growing unenlightened public these days. NBC was the one who actually altered the original tape to make Z look bad and racist; hence the lawsuit which is being brought against them. It ha …


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Many shorelines, especially those on residential properties, have their native plants, grasses and trees replaced with wooden bulkheads and/or rock walls. While the process is designed to prevent erosion, the artificial barrier destroys the natural habitat of birds and aquatic life, and erosion still occurs behind the wall. Additionally, hard shorelines cannot filter rainwater runoff, so pollutants and sediments can easily enter the waterway and harm aquatic life.
A "living" shoreline is one that has been restored to its natural state with native plants, grasses and trees.


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Hire workers to generic brands such as LV, GUCCI leather, cheap louis vuitton handbags involving up to 800 million yuan.Recently, Guangzhou Panyu District Prosecutor's Office suspected of counterfeiting registered trademarks crime suspect Wu, a quarter according to the law approved the arrest decision. It is reported that the case amount involved is huge, is to carry out a special action since the "three strikes and the two built the hospital accepted the value of the case a counterfeit, fake goods case.
The investigation, since the end of 2010, Wu, quarter of a lease a factory in the Panyu District, a village and hire a dozen workers imitation LV, GUCCI brand handbags, wallet. March 14, 2012, Guangzhou Panyu District Quality and Technical Supervision of the plant inspection of law enforcement, seized at the scene marked with the trademark "LV", louis vuitton messenger bag "GUCCI" is the production of leather goods batch and raw materials, production machines, a number of. Identified, handbags, wallets are counterfeit products valued at more than 800 million.


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According to Cpl. B.D. Humphreys with the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office, the elderly woman who suffered injuries during a home invasion in Pinch is listed in serious, but stable condition.
Police are still investigating and they believe that more than one person was involved in the crime.
Deputies tell 13NEWS they are exploring possible links to similar incidents.
Police also believe the victim may have opened the door the suspects entered.
We are working to bring you more details, keep checking back with us.
An elderly woman is battling serious injuries after Kanawha County deputies said someone broke into her home on Church Road in Pinch and ransacked her house.
"I feel sorry for people like that," said Thomas Hitchcock, who lives near the victim's home in Pinch. "Whatever happened to her, she didn't deserve it...They may have been keeping an eye on her and just found the right time to go in there."
Deputies said it happened around 3 p.m. on Thursday.
A family member found the 74-year-old woman unresponsive on the ground inside her home.
She was then rushed to Charleston Area Medical Center with serious injuries.
But Thursday's incident is more than just what happened to one woman in one house. It gives an entire neighborhood reason to lock their doors.
"All my doors will remain locked," said Hitchcock's daughter, Holly Curry, of Pinch. "Always."
Curry moved into her house less than a week ago, just yards away from the crime scene.
"I don't know if it's my safety I'm concerned about. It's my children because there's times they're here by themselves and I don't want anything like that to happen," Curry said.
Hitchcock has lived in the area since 1959. He said the times have truly changed and the number of violent crimes have risen.
"It's not just Pinch and Elkview. It's not safe anywhere anymore," Hitchcock said.
At this time deputies are still searching for a suspect.
Kanawha County Sheriff Deputies are on the scene of a home invasion in Pinch.
Deputies say it happened on Church Road.
Authorities say a 74-year-old female was found unresponsive by a family member around 3 p.m. Thursday.
When medics arrived they noticed that the house had been ransacked and notified police that it was a possible crime scene.
The victim was taken to CAMC with serious injuries.
Deputies say a suspect is still being sought.
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Villagers pour water on a beached whale at Kampung Kuala Nenasi, east of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Oct. 13, 2008. The 10-meter-long, three-ton whale was found beached during low tide in the South China Sea. Utusan.


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Firefighters battled a small canyon fire between business parks in Vista Monday.
Smoke rose up from the canyon near the 1300-block of Specialty Drive south of State Route 78.
Firefighters appeared to be getting a handle on the fire at 11:30 a.m.
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To his left are pictures, dozens of them, of Canada's championship teams dating back to 1920.
Behind Ryan Getzlaf are trophies from a variety of tourneys, plus an original Winnipeg Falcons sweater reminding all of the 1920 Olympic champions.
Straight ahead of the Calgary Hitmen captain is the list of world championship teams and their coaches. Welcome to Hockey Canada's hall of champions.
"It gives you a little tingle in your stomach to see all the guys that have been through here and through this organization," Getzlaf says, soaking up the atmosphere. "It gives you a lot of pride to stand in a room like this."
And incentive.
Getzlaf and 31 others chosen to attend the world junior team's selection camp won't have to be told about the nation's drought.
They're fully aware the last world junior title came in 1997, before any of those who'll don the Maple Leaf this Christmastime had reached their teens.
The camp opens Sunday in Winnipeg. The 22-player team will be named by Dec. 16 and will open the tournament against Slovakia Christmas Day in Grand Forks, N.D.
Seeing as the NHL brass and its players can't decide how to fairly split its $2-billion pie -- and won't likely figure it out by the time the tournament in North Dakota opens on Christmas Day -- Canadians will expect them to fill the void with gold.
It's a welcomed push.
"It's nice to have the pressure to play at that level. Everybody in Canada wants that gold medal and we haven't had that in a long time," said Getzlaf, who helped Canada win silver at last year's tournament.
"Now, we're excited for the opportunity again."
"It's a challenge," states head coach Brent Sutter, "and with challenges come great opportunities.
"They've got a great opportunity. Adversity is good if it's handled right and dealt with right. Our job as coaches, part of our job, is to make sure we do the right things so they deal with the task at hand.
"They've got to get used to it, though. They're gonna be pros some day and they're going to go through it all again. What better way to learn it."
Certainly, there's a good reason to believe the collection unveiled yesterday is capable of winning that elusive gold.
(To be fair, Canada has won four silvers and two bronzes in the last six years.)
The talent level -- thanks to the lockout -- rivals the squad that skated to gold in Red Deer in 1996. Patrice Bergeron, who was in Boston last season, super-prospect Sidney Crosby, Hitmen forward Andrew Ladd, OHL standouts Mike Richards and Anthony Stewart, sniper Nigel Dawes and WHL scoring leader and Calgary product Ryan Stone are vying for the forward positions.
The defence is considered as strong as ever with Flames top prospect Dion Phaneuf along with fellow first-rounders Cam Barker, Shawn Belle, Braydon Coburn, Mike Green and Brent Seabrook in the mix.
The big shocker is in goal, with four WHLers looking for the spots: Rejean Beauchemin, Kevin Nastiuk, Calgarian Devan Dubnyk and Cochrane's Jeff Glass.
All told, 21 of the 32 invitees are from the WHL.
However, Sutter -- owner, manager, coach and everything else for the Red Deer Rebels -- insists he isn't concerned with where the players come from.
All he cares about is whether they have what it takes to win.
"It's part of accountability, part of responsibility and part of leadership," Sutter said. "I sat down with those returning guys in August before we started our evaluation camp and made it very clear to them that those were the expectations of the coaching staff and if they want to be on the team, they had to provide that and give that."
Phaneuf, who painfully remembers losing to the U.S. nearly one year ago, is already gearing for that role.
"It's a huge thing in the back of everybody's mind and it's been there since we lost out in the gold-medal game," he said. "You never forget that feeling so I know talking to the guys that are coming back, it's gonna be a very exciting time.
"Everyone wants to do a job."
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No 103997, 2011 Annual Meeting, July 24-26, 2011, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
This study presents a thorough discussion of the efficiency and effectiveness improvement from optimization models (Binary Linear Programming and Goal Programming), as applied to the Department of Defense's Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative. The OM models can yield 21% and 19.1% higher benefit scores respectively, spending $13,013,473 and $31,463,473 less total acquisition costs. To achieve the same level of conservation benefits for the current rank based approach, the REPI would spend additional $20.1 million and approximate 50% of the budget. A counterpart of OM- the cost-effective analysis is observed to be inefficient when the problem becomes complex. In a real world of political environment of the conservation programs, we suggest a hybrid method of current rank based approach and the OM as well as the GP to address incompatible goals of interests groups.
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2012 was a wonderful year for the dogs of FDNLS…1004 dogs found their way to a New Life !
September being our greatest month of all, with an awesome 93 adoptions!
It's kinda become tradition around here to show off one special pooch to represent each month (the month they were adopted of course) but this year we couldn't pick just 12 ! So here are a handful of the lucky pups who found their forever families and a great New Life in 2012.
So without further ado…..
We're excited to see what 2013 brings for us, and just can't wait to meet all the special pooches who will be joining our family, every so briefly, while on their journey to a New Life!
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Former Dallas coach and GM Bob Gainey back with Stars as consultant
The Stars agreed to terms with former general manager Bob Gainey to return to the team as a consultant, team president and CEO Jim Lites confirmed Wednesday.
Gainey, who recently ended a similar job with Montreal, is expected to be an important voice for GM Joe Nieuwendyk, as well as Lites and others in the organization.
"I think the most important thing I can do in my job is hire good people, and Bob is one of the best persons I know," Lites said. "He was available, he was very interested in what we've been able to accomplish, and I just believe having a voice like that will be extremely beneficial in a lot of ways."
Gainey, 58, is a five-time Stanley Cup champion as a player with the Montreal Canadiens and also led the Stars to the 1999 Cup as GM. He was hired first as a coach by the Minnesota North Stars in 1990, then added GM to his title in '92. He stepped down as Stars coach in '96, and then stepped down as GM in 2002.
He worked with the Canadiens in several roles, including GM and interim coach, from 2006 to 2012.
"I do see it in a similar way to what I was doing with the Canadiens over the last two years," said Gainey, who was working a great deal in development with the team's AHL affiliate and also consulting with GM Pierre Gauthier.
"My scope will probably be broader with the Stars, but I see it as observing and familiarizing myself with the players and then hopefully offering some guidance that maybe others haven't seen. I would like to be able to say, 'I see this in a player,' or 'Maybe we could shape this player in this direction.' Those are areas where I believe I can help."
Gainey said he expects to live in Montreal and come down for lengthy stays during which he could split time between Dallas and Cedar Park. He also will do a lot of his work on the phone or through email.
The Stars are expected to make an announcement soon and are likely to have a news conference next week, Lites said.
"It's a great opportunity to add a great person, and I think we're very fortunate to have him," Lites said.
Nieuwendyk believes the veteran presence will be good for him and the organization.
"He just has so much experience and has been such a respected player, coach and GM that it's great just to talk with him and bounce ideas off of him," Nieuwendyk said. "I'm looking forward to it."
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Most live shows follow a pattern: Open with something catchy but obscure; move into the new material, sprinkling in a couple of old tunes for the faithful; close with the radio hit; encore with another radio hit.
And while Sunny Day Real Estate are hardly ones to heed rules, they unabashedly smashed them last night as they opened with "In Circles," the only SDRE song to travel along a bandwidth ... and that was back in 1995. Blowing their wad in the first three minutes? Hardly. Sunny Day were just getting the cumbersome "hit" out of the way, ridding the room of fairweather fans who had come only to scream along with the only song they knew. But few left after song one, and the overstuffed room pleaded for more of Sunny Day's pain all the more as they were pierced by the band's fierce vocals, exploding guitars and weighty bass lines.
It was surprising that much of the audience was well under the legal drinking age, considering Sunny Day had only one full-length album, '94's Diary before they parted ways. (They also had one posthumous release, a self-titled record affectionately nicknamed "the Pink Album" by fans.) The group played few shows (none in California with guitarist Dan Hoerner, who refused to fan the flames of the media circus burning in Los Angeles), granted no interviews, and put the band to rest while singer/guitarist Jeremy Enigk went in search of a higher inspiration. Namely, Jesus.
Consequently, precious few in the audience had ever seen Sunny Day Real Estate, the band at the core of emo-core, perform live before last night. When word of the reunited group spread (sans original bassist Nate Mendel, who's been playing with the Foo Fighters since '95; drummer William Goldsmith had also joined Grohl's band at the same time, but left after the recording of The Colour and the Shape in '96), devoted fans of the mythologized band held their breath for the release of How It Feels to Be Something On, SDRE's first since they got back together this year. And even though the album had been on the shelves a mere six days, the cult of Sunny Day that dominated the crowd already knew all the words.
And the new songs dominated the set. Playing no less than eight of the ten songs off their new album, Sunny Day made intensely emotional and beautiful noise that showed incredible maturity. Where the older songs were a bit rough around the edges, the new songs sparkled like lusters on a chandelier, with each song reflecting the light and color of the others. And while many bands lose an audience's attention mid-set, Enigk and Hoerner kept the energy level peaked, lowering the bar only for seconds between songs to graciously thank their fans.
Each of the 13 songs sparkled, but there were obvious stand-outs. "Every Shining Time You Arrive," with its acoustic opening and soprano chorus, and the delicate "Guitar and Video Games," radiated to the back of the room, where the lesser fans lurked around the bar. Even from the back, concert-goers could see Enigk's eyebrows serving as commas, giving his emotions pause before allowing them to pour dramatically from his mouth.
Closing with "Rodeo Jones" off the Pink Album, Hoerner, Enigk, Goldsmith and replacement bassist Jeff Palmer of the Mommyheads exited to much imploring from the crowd for a return. And with a gushing remark by Hoerner ("Every time we play in New York, it gets better!"), they did, with three more emotive, soaring, moody melodies. No radio-hit close, no rock-star posturing. Just utter sonic bliss from a group making their valiant return from obscurity.


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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -Philip Rivers and the San Diego Chargers did everything they could to save their season.
The NFL's highest-rated passer threw for 287 yards and four touchdowns Sunday, helping the Chargers beat the Tampa Bay Buccaners 41-24 to keep their playoff hopes alive and deal a crushing blow to the Buccaneers' chances.
After their third straight win in what amounted to elimination games for a team that began the season with expectations of reaching the Super Bowl, San Diego (7-8) got needed help when Buffalo beat Denver 30-23. The Broncos and Chargers meet next week in San Diego in a showdown for the division title.
``I can't say enough about our guys in terms of the way they've handled the last month. The way they prepared, they way they competed,'' coach Norv Turner said.
The Chargers have won 13 consecutive December games, including seven on the road, since a loss at Kansas City on Dec. 24, 2005.
``I think we are playing like a playoff team. ... Hopefully it's not too late,'' said running back LaDainian Tomlinson, who rushed for 90 yards to join Barry Sanders and Curtis Martin as the only players in NFL history to run for 1,000 in each of their first eight seasons.
Tampa Bay (9-6), which lost its first home game and has dropped three straight, could have clinched at least an NFC wild-card spot with a win and some help. Instead, the Bucs' day ended with Jeff Garcia's face bloodied and teammates hoping other contenders falter, too.
``We've let ourselves down,'' said Garcia, sporting a cut on the bridge of his nose.
``When you're 9-3 at one point and you're a couple of wins away from the playoffs, and now we're fighting just to get in ... it's tough looking at it,'' Bucs running back Warrick Dunn added.
Rivers threw TD passes of 15 and 5 yards to Antonio Gates, the latter giving the Chargers the lead for good on the first play of the fourth quarter. Darren Sproles turned a screen pass into a 32-yard touchdown before Antoine Cason returned one of San Diego's two fourth-quarter interceptions 59 yards for a score that made it 41-24 with three minutes left.
Garcia was sacked from behind and came up bloody four plays before his pass intended for Ike Hilliard was tipped by Quentin Jammer into the hands of Cason, who raced up the left sideline untouched.
Brandon Manumaleuna caught an 11-yard TD pass from Rivers and Nate Kaeding kicked a team-record 57-yard field goal on the final play of the first half, helping the Chargers build a 20-10 lead.
Garcia, who started after sitting out last week with a strained right calf, kept the Bucs in the game by running for a third-quarter touchdown and lofting a 71-yard TD pass to Antonio Bryant for a 24-20 lead.
But it was all San Diego after that, and Rivers had a lot to do with it.
``That's the San Diego Chargers that we anticipated on being at the beginning of the year,'' Gates said. ``Tampa Bay, with all due respect, there was nothing they could do about it once we had the rhythm like we had today.''
The Chargers moved the ball almost at will much of the day, scoring on three straight possessions to build an early 17-7 lead. Tampa Bay cut into it by driving into San Diego territory and settling for Matt Bryant's 49-yard field with 17 seconds left in the half.
But Turner wasn't content with a seven-point advantage. After Sproles returned the ensuing kickoff to the Chargers 36, Rivers threw 25 yards to Vincent Jackson to set up the long field goal that Kaeding nailed with room to spare.
Jackson finished with seven receptions for 111 yards and went over 1,000 yards in a season for the first time in his career for San Diego.
Tampa Bay's defense was picked apart for the second time in three weeks. After giving up 474 yards rushing in road losses to Carolina and Atlanta, the unit rarely pressured Rivers, who was only sacked once while completing 21 of 31 passes with no interceptions.
``We just never really solved them,'' Bucs coach Jon Gruden said. ``Obviously, it hurts.''
Gates' TD receptions gave him eight this season and 51 for his career. He reached 50 in his 92nd game, fastest in league history for a tight end. Jerry Smith was the previous fastest, doing it in 100 games.
Garcia scored on a 7-yard run, finishing a 78-yard drive that take up the first half of the third quarter and trimmed San Diego's lead to 20-17. He did a nice job of rolling to his right to avoid pressure and finding Bryant all alone on the TD that put the Bucs up 24-20.
``It's been very disappointing over the past three weeks to play the way we have and not finish games off,'' Garcia said.
Notes: Bryant had six catches for 127 yards, his sixth 100-yard game of the year. ... Tomlinson boosted his season rushing total to 1,014 yards. ... Rookie Pro Bowl selection Clifton Smith returned a kickoff 72 yards to set up Tampa Bay's first TD.
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I picked up an Arduino last weekend after my friend Eric introduced me to it (this is the same friend who got me hooked on Mac). I couldn't wait to order it on Amazon, and just decided to spend a little more on it at Radio Shack to have it in hand. Exactly one week later I have burnt two fingers with a soldering iron, broken open one alarm clock for parts, clipped the ends of about 3 sets of headphones and dumped money on all kinds of wires, sensors, LEDs, transistors, diodes and resistors… Oh, and I stole some of my daughters' Legos.
For my first "real" project I created a shutter release using an Arduino Uno, Arduino Ultrasonic Distance Module, Canon T2i, Legos and an RCA cable.
It was relatively simple to figure out that the Canon shutter release operates by detecting a change in voltage (off/on) in the input cable, but this isn't really the proper way to go about it (and in fact, sending voltage from an external source may damage the camera). The proper way to close the shutter (or focus) is simply by completing the circuit. I used am optocoupler to do this. My shutter output sends 5vv to the optocoupler, which is turn completes the circuit to the shutter input on the other side.
Using a left/right 2 channel 2.5mm adapter, you can focus and operate the shutter in the same way. I only had a single channel adapter at home, so I put the lens of my camera in M focus mode and only operated the shutter. For grins, I added an LED to turn on when a picture is snapped. To keep it all contained I snagged some of my daugthers' Legos.
This is a fun starter project because its something that is actually usable (e.g., See the Rupert Christmas Tree video). The code I wrote is pretty straightforward (and not to be taken as an example of graceful code by any means). This is more demo code than anything. It snaps a picture if something is detected within 12 cm of the distance sensor.
I think I may actually set this up in some kind of enclosure outside this summer and see what kind of critters I might captures pics of in my back yard. If I get lucky, I'll get a picture of the elusive Bigfoot!
#define shutter 2 #define trigPin 12 #define echoPin 13 #define light 7 // the setup routine runs once when you press reset: void setup() { pinMode(shutter, OUTPUT); pinMode(trigPin, OUTPUT); pinMode(echoPin, INPUT); pinMode(light,OUTPUT); Serial.begin(9600); } int getDistance() { float duration, distance; digitalWrite(trigPin, HIGH); delayMicroseconds(100); digitalWrite(trigPin, LOW); duration = pulseIn(echoPin, HIGH); Serial.println((duration/2) / 29.1); digitalWrite(shutter, LOW); return (duration/2) / 29.1; } // the loop routine runs over and over again forever: void loop() { delay(500); float dist = getDistance(); Serial.print("distance: "); Serial.println(dist); // The next write releases the shutter if (dist < 12) { // Turn the light on when a pic is snapped digitalWrite(light, HIGH); digitalWrite(shutter, HIGH); delay(100); digitalWrite(shutter, LOW); delay(1000); } digitalWrite(light, LOW); }
…For my next trick, I'd like to add a display and perhaps some simple inputs to program the sensor range.


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An investigation into the nature and extent of the adoption of RFID in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa
Thakur, Surendra
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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) allows for the wireless transfer of data between a small electronic transmitting tag and a reader without the necessity of line-of-sight. A feature of RFID, is that this read operation may occur over long distances and that multiple reads may occur. The aim of this study is to analyse the nature and extent of RFID adoption in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa. The study fits within the theory of innovation diffusion and is concerned with issues around technology diffusion, adoption rates, and its associated critical success factors. The estimation of RFID diffusion rate in the study is based on a telephonic survey of 140 companies. The respondents were chosen from a marketing database that had extensive information on South African companies. Size was determined to be the selection criterion as the literature indicates that size is the most compelling concomitant to innovativeness. In this study, size was deemed to be companies that had more than 50 PC's in one geographic unit, of the company, in KwaZulu-Natal. The key research result locates the RFID diffusion rate in KwaZulu-Natal to be around 19% which corresponds to points beyond the "chasm" as defined by innovation diffusion theory. The second phase of the study comprised the administration of a questionnaire to two groups of IT professionals with the aim of comparing perceptions and other characteristics between the two groups. The 140 respondents were asked to submit as many professional staff as they could for an in-depth interview. The result was that 21 companies submitted 30 candidates. This yielded the two groups: the Adopter sample with 14 respondents, and the non-adopter sample with 16 respondents. The analysis of results shows the two groups have similar views on many strategic factors such as privacy, security, cost and standards etc. Adopters perceive that the following factors impacts RFID adopting decisions more (than non-adopters): Turnover, Having labour cost savings, RFID ubiquity, It will take as long for my company to adopt RFID as it did for barcode, RFID cost awareness. On the other hand non-adopters felt that the following factor impacts non-adoption of RFID Technology unproven or immature, Human skills non-availability, Implementation costs, Corporate resistance, and, Support Concerns.


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Today's post is brought to you by Fiona Ellis, who is basically an incontrollable volcano of creativity. She has a million ideas, and we here at Twist are lucky to help realize a few of them. Ruddington is Fiona's stunner from our most recent issue, and the subject of today's post! If you live in Toronto (home of many lovely Twist designers, and this here bloglady too), then you probably know about the yarn shop The Purple Purl, which picks a lovely garment to do a knit-a-long with a few times each year. Well folks, Ruddington has been chosen as their next KAL, so if you're a local who has been thinking about casting this pretty girl on, this might just be your moment.
I often joke that if Picasso had his blue period then I can certainly have my..…(insert latest obsession) period. In my post about Farthingale I talked about how this thinking has me designing in series. I frequently work in series and when I flick back through my notebooks /sketchbooks I love to see the first entry that I made about when the inspiration hit. I especially love it when that initial spark went on to become several published designs.
b) "I wonder if I can create vertical lines (or yoke effects) in stranded colourwork while still working back and forth or round and round in the regular fashion"
c) Sometimes the spark for a series comes from things other than knitting techniques - amazingly I have many other interests like movies & books. These are designs ideas generated after reading "Pillars of the Earth" which led to research around the subject matter of cathedral building. The yellow swatch became Chartres
Which leads me to Ruddington,
which was born out of my series sparked by posing the question: "I wonder if I can create cables that appear like the ribbons threading through a corset, or mimic the effect of shoe laces".
My latest obsession, which I have a feeling will lead to a series of very colourful ideas, is really a return to an old one (as it goes back to my teenage years): David Bowie. I have seen the exhibition "David Bowie is" three times (I did say it was an obsession). So watch this space for some new oddities...
Twist Style Friday: Concertina
Every Friday we feature one of the garments from the magazine in a post about styling. We suggest different ways to wear the garment in question using mock-ups from Polyvore. We encourage readers to tell us what they think about these outfits via our Facebook page or Twitter, and if folks want to make their own outfits, please tweet them at us with the hashtag #twiststyle. You can find all of the Style Friday posts here.
Happy new year Twistfans!! You may have noticed that we *gasp* didn't publish a style post last week. It was the holidays, and I was on vacation in Montreal and didn't barely look at a computer screen (except for Netflix, currently completely obsessed with The Good Wife). Last Friday evening, however, I was thinking about you, dear sartorially inclined readers. I was sitting in front of a lovely fire (none of this fireplace-tv tomfoolery) at my friend Sue's place in Montreal. She is so fabulous, I thought it might be fun for y'all to benefit from her stylishness too, so we worked on some Polyvore sets together, and she wrote a bit about hers. Today I'll share both of our styling ideas! Sue is a rad bellydancer, choreographer, kitchen dynamo, yoga teacher, great knitter, and all-around fun-magnet. She made me dinner and pie and in the morning we had a butter-pecan french toast casserole and coffee with booze. gave me pie. I win at friends.
I could talk about how cool Sue is for pretty much ever, so we should probably move this along and take a look at this week's featured garment: Concertina. You can wear her open or closed, depending on your mood or outfit! The single-button side closure turns an easy open jacket with barely-visible contrast pleats into a dramatic assymetrical top with vibrant stripes. Shazam.
I think I saw a pretty lovely monochromatic version already, and I can't wait to see more knitters and the color combinations they come up with. If I was going to knit this tomorrow, I would get two yarns in the same colorway and the same weight, but different fiber content. Probably I'd choose a snuggly soft wool as the main yarn, and a silk or silk blend for the stripes. I love the way different fibers absorb dye differently, and I think that would make for subtle but interesting textural depth.
If I was going to wear Concertina as is, I would want to play on the lovely contrast colors; I kind of went all Cinnamon Girl on this one. We have, on the left, a sort of cowgirl-librarian (cowbrarian?), a (perhaps overly) twee grad student in the middle, and a chic museum-goer on the right.
I'll let Sue tell you about her styling and inspiration:
If you've never goofed around on Polyvore, you should definitely go give it a whirl. This was my first go and I may have fallen down the earring rabbit hole a little bit. For the first outfit I decided to play up the yellow tones in the contrast panel with a saffron body-con dress, while the middle outfit reads posh equestrienne. Lately I've been hooked on Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, an Aussie series about a 1920's lady detective who flies airplanes, speaks Russian, and always has a gold revolver stashed in her evening bag. Phryne Fisher is basically who I want to be when I grow up, and this last outfit is one I think she might wear.
New Pattern! Meliae
If you receive our newsletter, then you've already seen the newest addition to the Twist Collective library of patterns, and here at Twist headquarters, in the northeast, a pair of warm, cashmere blend colorwork mittens seems like a perfect treat. Meliae, by Hester Nerine has tons of little details, that we think you'll love. Corrugated ribbing, braids and finished hems, and coordinating patterns on the palm and outside of each hand, make for a mitten that is just as fun to knit as it is to wear. Cephalopod Yarns Skinny Bugga! Is a durable and luxurious blend of superwash merino, cashmere and nylon, so your mittens will feel great and look great for years to come.
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Twist Style Friday: Folki
Every Friday we feature one of the garments from the magazine in a post about styling. We suggest different ways to wear the garment in question using mock-ups from Polyvore. We encourage readers to tell us what they think about these outfits via our Facebook page or Twitter, and if folks want to make their own outfits, please tweet them at us with the hashtag #twiststyle. You can find all of the Style Friday posts here.
But I digress. Let me show you the sweater I'd like to be wearing right now. Hello, Folki.
This thing is a little odd, and a lot awesome. It's like a slouchy, cozy version of a little black dress. A roomy tunic with a wide neckline and exposed seams on the sleeves. It's also one of those things that photos have trouble capturing, but there are garter panels down the front and back that add an extra dimension to the fabric.
For sure you could wear this with leggings and boots, and even within that narrow group of clothing items, you could have pretty different looks. I tried something a little different with the last one (far left)- I imagined this as a second layer over a sparkly holiday dress. The tunic length could allow a couple of inches sparkly hem at the bottom, and the slash neck let's a little of the dress' shoulder and neckline peek out. It's not that I'm saying you *should* tone down a dress that's 100% sequins, but in case you want to, this could be an offbeat (and warm!) way to do it.
Since this sweater/dress is a little slouchy, I think a carefully chosen and somewhat chunky accessory (a cuff or big ring) will keep you from looking like you stepped out in your jammies.
How will you wear Folki?
Designer Post: Tuin
Today's post is brought to you by Tori Seierstad, and can also be founs on her blog, here. Tuin, the gorgeous yoked turtleneck from our newest issue. This is Tori's first design with Twist, and it sure is a pretty one.
You might have noticed by now, that I have a sweater pattern published in the Winter Issue of Twist Collective, Tuin. Isn't that just so cool!?! I'm really proud!
When I saw this old Slovak embroidery (38 weeks ago, according to Pinterest ), I knew I somehow had to use this in a knitting pattern. I spent a long time thinking about it, wondering what to make, a cowl, a pillow, pattern on the bottom of a sweater... before I suddenly realized it had to be a yoked sweater. I thought it would work, although it would be a challenge to incorporate the yoke shaping into the pattern.
Here it is, it did work out. (This is now on my needles going to be a child sweater.)
Then to find a yarn for the adult version. I wanted a gauge around 20 sts per 10 cm. Which can result in very heavy garments, which I did not want. So I chose to use two strands of yarn, both from Pickles: Pickles Merino Tweed, and Pickles Pure Thin Alpaca. It's super soft and warm without feeling to thick and bulky. It weighs 517 grams.
A while before, I had read a blogpost from Áine Ryan, describing the design process for a sweater she made for last year's Twist Collective's Winter Issue, Luggala. "Aim high", she wrote, having never designed a sweater before, and decided to submit it to Twist Collective. So I thought, if she can, so can I. And the rest is history...
Well, there was a lot of thinking and calculations and knitting. And waiting. First for the answer from Twist, of course. Then for the yarn to knit the sample sweater to arrive from the US. Then for the confirmation that the finished sweater had arrived in the US (it's a bit scary to send off a sweater across the Atlantic like that, I can tell you). Then waiting for the publication day. All the time thinking that they would get back to me saying that the sample was not good enough, or that the pattern had so many serious flaws they could not publish it, or something else. But it didn't happen, and the reception has been a great one, I think. There is even one finished sweater already!
The first Tuin was worked without short row shaping in the back. So it can be worn both sides. The final pattern has short row back neck shaping, with the tulip in the middle on the front. There was an error in the first published version, so on Pinneguri's sweater, the rose is in the front. I like both versions, but I just had to make a choice.
The yarn that Twist Collective sent me, Blue Moon Fiber Arts Targhee Worsted, was amazing. The blue colour was made specifically for this project. The yarn was really nice to work with, soft and bouncy and with a great stitch definition. I used 525 grams for a sweater size 40. If you have the chance to get your hand on the yarn, I highly recommend it. If you're interested in reading about the targhee sheep, you can find some information here (wikipedia) and here (US Targhee Sheep Association). The yarn can be found in the Blue Moon online store.
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STANFORD — Junior forward Dwight Powell said Friday that he will return to Stanford for his senior season.
Powell, who was an All-Pac-12 first-team selection since this season, also was named this year's most improved player in the conference.
Powell was the only player in the conference to rank among the league's top 10 in scoring and rebounding. He averaged a team-leading 15.4 points and was second on the Stanford team in rebounding with 8.2 per game. He also had nine double-doubles.


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Letter: A vote for the next generation
Statistics from many sources have shown that U.S. school children are not keeping up with the rest of the world, especially in the career areas of math, science and technology. Our children attend school for fewer days each year and fewer hours each day than children in other industrialized nations.
In the Willmar School District, we have an opportunity to change that if we vote "yes" for the operating levy on Nov. 2.
Administrative staff, teachers, paraprofessionals and school board members need to put their time, talents, and energies toward positive planning rather than "where can we cut?" Let's not shortchange the next generation.
Jeanette Carlson and Jennifer Gibson,
Co-presidents, Willmar Branch Board of Directors
American Association of University Women


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Simmons continues to dazzle with latest gem at short
By Mark Bowman / MLB.com
NEW YORK -- When asked what he considers to be the best of Andrelton Simmons' defensive plays, Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez has repeatedly said, "The next one."
Through his first three seasons at the Major League level, Simmons has routinely trumped some of his gems that originally seemed impossible to top. But when accounting for both the situation and degree of difficulty, it will be quite challenging for the Braves shortstop to best what he did to end the eighth inning of Wednesday night's 3-2 win over the Mets.
"He's unbelievable, always making plays for us," Braves starting pitcher Julio Teheran said. "Every time you don't think he's going to make the play, that is when he makes it."
With a runner on third and two outs in the eighth inning, d'Arnaud sent a sharp grounder through the left side of the infield. Once it escaped third baseman Phil Gosselin's reach, it seemed destined to result in a game-tying single that Justin Upton would glove in left field. But, all the while Simmons was ranging to his right.
"When it went by [Gosselin], it was just how am I going to get it over [to first base]," Simmons said. "That was the fastest way I could think of right there."
With momentum pulling him toward the right field line, Simmons backhanded the ball in the outfield grass and then hopped off his left leg. As he was in the air, he managed to rocket an accurate throw that first baseman Freddie Freeman scooped to record the out in uncontested fashion.
"As soon as the ball gets in my glove, I'm looking for him," Simmons said. "So as soon as I get in the air I got him locked in. If I don't, then I'm in trouble because I'm throwing into space and hoping it falls in the right spot. … I knew it was on target, I was just hoping it didn't take a bad or weird hop."
d'Arnaud was not necessarily shocked by the incredible development. One inning earlier, Simmons had backhanded one of his grounders in the infield dirt before making a throw to first base to record the out.
"When he made the play, I saw in the dugout that he was out and I said, 'I'd like to go out and challenge it as best I can, but I know he's out so all I'm doing is delaying the game a little bit,'" Mets manager Terry Collins said.
Simmons won his first Gold Glove Award last year and he entered Wednesday having compiled a Major League-high 62 Defensive Runs Saved since the start of the 2013 season. No other shortstop had more than 25.
Simmons' greatness has led many to compare him to the great Ozzie Smith, who played alongside Braves first-base coach and former third baseman Terry Pendleton for many years in St. Louis.
Pendleton said arm strength is the one thing that would have prevented Smith from matching what Simmons did on Wednesday night.
"If they are playing in the same spot, yes Ozzie Smith could get to that ball," Pendleton said. "But Ozzie might not have been able to throw the ball. He'd have gotten to the ball, but I don't know if he'd have been able to throw it because he played from 1985 until the day he retired with a torn rotator cuff. It's safe to say he would have gotten to the ball, but I don't know if he'd have had the arm strength to do what the kid did."
It would have been difficult for any shortstop to match Simmons' latest gem. But Gonzalez is certainly not ready to make any guarantee that this latest will indeed remain the greatest.
"How many times have we said that and there is another one?" Gonzalez said. "Maybe this one wasn't as graceful as some of the others. But the situation with two outs and the tying run at third … I'll stick to my guns with that one. There will be something else that we'll sit here and talk about because he's a special guy."
Johnson gets break amid hitting woes
NEW YORK -- Mired in a slump that has extended nearly three full weeks, Chris Johnson had no problem with the fact that he was not in Wednesday night's starting lineup. The unselfish Braves third baseman came to Citi Field well aware of the fact that he had previously struggled against Mets starting pitcher Zack Wheeler.
"I have no problem with that," Johnson said. "If I'm not going good against a starting pitcher out there or I'm struggling or whatever, whatever we have to do. I just want to win."
Given that he had notched two hits in 17 previous at-bats against Wheeler, Johnson knew the odds of breaking out of his funk on Wednesday were not favorable. But as September approaches, he remains hopeful that he will produce a strong finish to a season that obviously been much more trying than his surprising 2013 season.
Johnson exceeded all expectations when he batted .321 -- the National League's second-best mark -- with a .358 on-base percentage and .457 slugging percentage last year. These numbers trumped the career averages -- .276/.315/.430 -- he had carried into the season.
But as Johnson has progressed through his second season with the Braves, he has produced numbers much more similar to those career marks he had produced from 2009-2012. He entered Wednesday hitting .271 with a .296 OBP. His disappointing OBP is a product of the alarming strikeout ratios that he has produced while trying to hit for more power this season.
Although he has attempted to generate more power, Johnson has produced a career-low .375 slugging percentage.
"I've been trying to work on pulling the ball a little bit more and kind of driving balls a little more this year," Johnson said. "I think that has gotten me into pulling off some balls and getting first-pitch strikes and fouling balls off because I'm trying to do too much. Last year, I would just take my hits.
"I just never really got big [with my swing] last year. I want to find that happy medium for my game. I think I've got power. I just have to learn how to do what I'm really good at and use that power."
After striking out in just 21.2 percent of his plate appearances last year, Johnson has been retired via strikes in 26.1 percent of the time this year. Once again, this year's number is closer to the 24.7 percent that he produced from 2009-12.
As Johnson's strikeout total has risen to an already career-high 136, his walk rate has decreased from 5.3 percent to 3.3 percent this year. His 30.7 plate appearances/walk ratio stands as the NL's highest.
"There is only one stat that has absolutely killed me, and it's the strikeouts," Johnson said. "I'm a firm believer that if you put the ball in play you have a better opportunity to get hits. I've just struck out too much. It's something I've got to figure out."
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Tristan Reinhardt loves the water.
If one doesn't find him after school hours at the Murrieta Valley High's aquatics center, he's probably at an Orange County beach catching a wave riding on top of a surfboard.
"I think (water polo) might lose out to surfing," Murrieta Valley boys water polo coach Bryan Lynton said jokingly of his standout center. "He does a lot. He works out all the time. He's really dedicated. He does a lot more than a lot of other players do because he is involved in the national team and there's a big time requirement in the offseason there. It doesn't come without a price and that price is like sacrificing your free time and your Facebook time."
This past August, Reinhardt played on the United States national team's 16-and-under squad, which took part in the Darko Cucic Memorial Tournament in Belgade, Serbia. Lynton accompanied him on the trip as an assistant coach.
"He played in an eight-team tournament there," Lynton said. "We had five days of training with the Serbians. Then played Hungary, Croatia, Spain, Greece, Italy, Serbia. He got a lot of great experience."
The 6-foot, 190 pound Reinhardt heads a strong junior class that includes six of the Nighthawks' seven starters this year.
"He's a key point for us on offense," Lynton said.
Question: This past summer you had the opportunity to go to Serbia as a member of the 16-and-under U.S. national team. Can you describe what the experience was like?
Answer: You got to experience a whole different culture along with playing a sport in a different country. The European aspect of water polo is a lot of different from the American side of water polo. It was a good change and it was just fun to actually get to play.
Q : Did you have any eye-opening experiences from your visit to Belgrade?
A: Their food. Extremely different. I liked it, but some stuff I didn't like, so it took a little getting used to. Kind of a culture-shock kind of thing. It was really different from here to there.
Q: Did you get to do any sightseeing when you were in Serbia?
A: We saw some of the old castles, some of the moats that they have, the river that runs through there. We actually played our games in the river. They built like a course out of the river. They had stands built along the beach line. You could look over straight into the pool, you could see the seaweed coming up off the bottom that they trimmed. Like this cutter thing to make it lower. We played in that. Clear, crystal clear water. They had a giant jet fountain over to the left. It was this huge fountain shooting. It was dug out.
Q: The year before, you were selected to the U.S. National training team instead of the travel team. Did that motivate you to work harder this past year?
A: That gave me a true large incentive to come back, work harder throughout the year and then make the team the next time around. It really made me want to work harder as much as I can. I was out here every day trying to get better, as I am today. I am hoping to make it again next year.
Q: Outside of water polo, your passion is surfing. How often do you get to hit waves?
A: I like to get out when I can. Between schoolwork and water polo, I don't have much time. When I can, I try to find a couple hours to go out on a Sunday morning to go surfing. It's fun. It really gives you an outlet between water polo and school, having something else to do. It's fun.
Q : Do you have a favorite surf spot?
A: I like to go to Newport (Beach), (between) 54th and 56th (Street) a lot because they don't have a strong rip current and you don't have to paddle out that much. Usually I'm tired from practice, so I don't like to paddle too much. It's fun. It's a faster break, so you don't have to wait as long. More waves come through. It gets kind of choppy. It's still fun.
Q: Since you are a water polo player, what age did you start swimming at?
A: My dad (Kevin) would throw me into a pool when I was a baby. He'd watch me float. I would just kind of float there and swim and he'd pick me up. I learned how to swim when I was about 2 or 3 (years old).
Q: Did you learn to swim before you learned to walk?
A: Pretty close. I was in the water probably before I was walking. I have been in the water my whole life, pretty much.
Q: Do you also competitively swim?
A: Just water polo. I am not a fan of (team swimming). I don't like swimming laps. I like the ball, throwing the ball, shooting. It's fun. Having the team aspect and not just the individual.
Q: I hear you help Coach Lynton with coaching youth teams in the offseason. Is that true?
A: I help coach 10-and-unders, but I can't do that right now because I am in season. After the season, I plan on going back and helping. It's fun. Bringing up the new kids that are probably coming up later.
Q: What do you enjoy about coaching?
A: Watching them get better. Starting out, we had some kids (who were) not very good swimmers. Throughout the course of the year, you really saw like a time lapse of them being slowly, but surely getting stronger and better. Now they are starters on our 10-and-under team. Then (there's) also watching them go through 12s, 14s, 16s, and then to high school.
Q: Last year, this team didn't win league outright. Are you guys really hungry to prove everybody wrong and to take it to the next level?
A: This year, we are focused not only just on league title, but also on a CIF (SS) title ...
Q: Last year, you were a young team with mostly sophomores. How have you have grown as a team since this time last year until now?
A: With three seniors this year, and then mainly our whole team composed of juniors and a couple (of) sophomores, we're going to have a strong team this year. Maturity wise, we have all grown. And also playing wise, we have all grown. The game is going to be much faster for us. We're going to be thinking much faster. We have had another year to play with each other. We are going to be way more in sync than we were last year.
Q: What are the strengths of this Murrieta Valley water polo team?
A: I wouldn't want to give it away. You just have to wait until the season to see that.
Q: What aspect of the game do you enjoy the most?
A: Being with the team. Just hanging out with the guys. Being with them. These guys are like my best friends everyday. There's not like one time where I'm not with at least one of them. I guess the whole camaraderie of the whole team is probably the best part.


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New River Community College is closed for the Thanksgiving holiday. NRCC will reopen on Monday, November 27, at 8:00 a.m. All of us at New River Community College wish you a safe and happy Thanksgiving.
May 01 2012
This article was published on May 01 2012 and was archived on May 02 2013. The information below may be outdated or inaccurate.
Virginia Delegate and NRCC alumnus Michael B. Watson will address graduates at the forty-third annual commencement of New River Community College (NRCC). The ceremony will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, May 11, in Edwards Hall 117 on the NRCC campus in Dublin. Watson, a Virginia native, grew up in Hampton Roads where he worked with his father in the family's tug boat business. Watson went on to graduate from NRCC's instrumentation technology program in 1983. He traveled the U.S. extensively as an industrial instrumentation technician before moving to North Carolina to start his first business at age 27.
Since then, his employees have traveled the U.S. and the world implementing process control projects for a wide range of industries. Watson expanded his second business to Virginia in 2005. He presently resides in Williamsburg with his wife and three sons.
In addition to his service in the Virginia General Assembly, Watson is the president and chief executive officer of Control Automation Technologies Corporation. He has also been an active member of NRCC's Educational Foundation Board since September, 2010.
Approximately 500 degrees, diplomas and certificates will be conferred during the ceremony.
A live-feed of the commencement ceremony will be provided on NRCC-TV (channel 2, Pulaski County only) and over the internet via NRCC's website at www.nr.edu.
Following the ceremony, a reception will be held in the student lounge on the lower level of Martin Hall with music provided by The Old Pros Big Band Orchestra.
NRCC's associate degree nursing program will hold a separate pinning and graduation ceremony with 40 graduates on Wednesday, May 9, at 6:00 p.m. Ellen DeHaven, family nurse practitioner and 2005 NRCC nursing graduate, will be the keynote speaker.
Also this year, NRCC students will attend graduation in new, environmentally-friendly academic regalia. "GreenWeaver(R)" recyclable caps and gowns from Oak Hall Cap and Gown in Salem are being sold through the NRCC bookstore. The regalia is made from 100 percent post-consumer plastic bottles, with an average of 23 bottles used per gown.
After graduation, students will have the option to drop unwanted caps and gowns in special recycling bins, which will then be returned to Oak Hall. Oak Hall, in turn, will pass the unwanted material on to another company which will recycle it and turns it into a range of products including various types of carpet.
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