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Area schools Heber Springs, West Side, Concord and Pangburn have all placed bids to host a postseason tournament late this winter into spring. By virtue of placing the only bid, Heber Springs has already landed the Class 4A state track and field meet in early May along with both baseball and softball 4A East Regional Tournaments, also scheduled for early May. Additionally, Heber placed a bid to host the 4A State softball tournament as well along with Ashdown and Harrison. Heber also bid on the 4A East basketball tournament, which will be held Feb. 20-23, along with Cave City and Highland. Cave City hosted the regional tournament last year. Cave City and Highland also joined Heber in bidding for the Class 4A State basketball tournament, set for Feb. 26-March 2. Dumas, Lincoln and Maumelle also placed bids, making the Class 4A basketball tournament one of the most heavily sought after events of all the state tournaments in Arkansas. Pangburn, which opened its new gym last season, bid on the Class 2A North Regional basketball tournament (Feb. 20-23) along with Marmaduke, Rector and Sloan-Hendrix. Concord, West Side, Mount Vernon-Enola and Wonderview all bid on the Class 1A, Region 3 basketball tournament (Feb. 20-23), while West Side also made a bid for the Class 1A State basketball tournament to be held Feb. 26-March 2.


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Jhelum is a District and City of Punjab, Pakistan. Jhelum City is the district headquarter. It is in northern Punjab on the bank of the river Jhelum and at GT Road.
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Lehri Nature Park is situated in Jhelum District, northern Punjab, Pakistan. The park is almost 90 km on GT Road in the hilly Pothohar region from Islamabad and almost 40 kilometers from Jhelum City. It is 10 km from GT Road. The park has lodgings for the night. It is named after the Union Council of the village Lehri. Lehri village is approx 10miles from the park. The residents of Lehri village are mainly the descendants of the Gakhar tribe of the Pothohar region in Pakistan.

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Ted Siefer's City Hall: 2012 saw bid to let Hooksett, Candia join school boardBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 29. 2012 10:38PM
The departure of a superintendent, the election of a Charter Commission, the arrest of an alderman and an earthquake. The year 2012 was an eventful one at City Hall. Let's take a brief jog down memory lane.
The year began with the presentation of a school budget that, for the first time, was limited by the voter-approved tax cap - and it set the stage for what proved to be the dominant issue of the year.
Superintendent Tom Brennan dutifully presented the capped budget of $152 million, while acknowledging that it fell short of the district's needs and would force mass layoffs. In order to limit the layoffs, Mayor Ted Gatsas sought health care concessions from the teachers union, which were ultimately rejected - and at the end the 2012 school year, out went close to 200 pink slips.
Still, no one quite seemed to expect what happened when the school year began in the fall. Many classes had more than 40 students, and there were complaints about shortages of desks and textbooks.
The spotlight was shined especially bright on these problems by Jim O'Connell, the Hillside Middle School parent and founder of the group Citizens for Manchester Schools. Media savvy and outspoken, O'Connell, along with other members of the parents group, would clash with the mayor repeatedly over school conditions.
In short order, parents in Hooksett and Candia joined the fray, and the towns' school boards took steps to sever the contract to send their kids to city high schools.
Through it all, Gatsas has remained defiantly upbeat about the schools, and he has pushed his own slate of reforms, including the creation of "virtual" classrooms, redistricting and longer school days.
As if the school board and mayor didn't have enough to deal with, Brennan announced July 31 that he would be stepping down at the end of the school year, citing in large part the strains of dealing with a contentious school board.
Brennan would join several high-level officials who took their leave this past year, some voluntarily, some otherwise.
Water Works Director Tom Bowen announced that he would be retiring, after 42 years at the agency (more on his tenure below). A couple of months ago, economic development chief Jay Minkarah stepped down, and his seemingly hasty departure has triggered on ongoing debate over whether the city should refill the post and the overall purpose of the office.
Then there was the arrest in July of Russell Ouellette, the Ward 11 alderman, on sexual assault charges stemming from a late-night encounter with a woman he met at a bar. Ouellette stepped down from the board and would later plead guilty to lesser assault charges.
A special election was held to fill the Ward 11 seat, and the winner was former firefighter Normand Gamache. So far, he's been an inconspicuous presence on the board.
In addition to the aldermanic race, Manchester residents on Election Day also had to contend with the Charter Commission ballot. Nine members - out of 62 candidates - were elected to the commission, which is now undertaking the task of proposing changes to the city's basic governing document.
The commission elected Jerome Duval, former alderman and school board member, as its chairman and Rich Girard, a former alderman and current radio host, as its vice chairman. At its final meeting of the year, the commission got an earful from Mayor Gatsas and three predecessors. (More on this below.)
The year 2012 also saw construction finally begin on the Hackett Hill fire station, after the aldermen spent a couple of years trying to cement a deal with a private developer with the goal getting the station built in exchange for city-owned land.
Welfare Commissioner Paul Martineau probably received more attention in 2012 than he ever has before, much of it focusing on the declining amount of assistance his office has paid out while his salary, along with those of others in the office, has swelled.
Another controversy burned brightly - but briefly - in August, when local members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights told the school board that there was systemic discrimination against minority students and English learners. The presentation was cut short by Mayor Gatsas, who was angered by the lack of data to support the charges. The group hasn't been heard from since.
Last but certainly not least, the city municipal complex is rapidly nearing completion, "on time and under budget," as the mayor is fond of saying. The new year kicks off with the opening of the new central police station, complete with its avant-garde window arrangement.
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Among the last City Hall meetings of the year was the Charter Commission session Dec. 19 - and it featured an all-star panel of mayors past and present.
Mayor Gatsas was joined by former Mayors Robert Baines, Ray Wieczorek and Sylvio Dupuis in testifying before the panel.
The mayors weighed in on possible changes to city government, but the most notable may have been the first one proposed by Gatsas: Give Hooksett and Candia one seat each on the school board.
Gatsas says the idea has been around for a while, and he insists it was not prompted by the grievances those towns have forcefully expressed about conditions in the high schools.
As for other changes the commission might be considering, Gatsas told the commission to keep it simple. "It's got to be changes around the edges," he told me. "Change anything about the tax cap and that'll just be voted down."
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There have been few, if any, employees who have worked in city government as long as Water Works Director Bowen. He will be retiring at the end of January after 42 years at the agency. While complex infrastructure systems rarely generate big headlines, it's worth noting that, under Bowen, the Water Works has gained national recognition for the quality and taste of the water it conveys through city taps.
Bowen started in May 1970 as an engineer, and in 1992 he became director of the agency, which provides drinking water to about 160,000 people in Manchester and neighboring towns via the Lake Massabesic reservoir.
Bowen says he is proudest of his involvement in the construction of the water treatment plant on Lake Shore Road in the early 1970s and its rehabilitation in the 2000s.
"Water quality goes hand in hand with the treatment facility," he said. "Manchester has excellent water quality. It starts with having a good program in place to protect Lake Massabesic and the improvements that were completed in 2006, which will serve the community for at least another 20 years."
The Manchester Water Works was ranked among the top five water systems in the country for water taste at the 2011 American Water Works Annual Conference. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has given the Water Works its highest ranking for water quality.
Bowen spreads the credit around.
"I think we've always had great support from the commission that oversees the Water Works," he said. "I'd be remiss if I did not say that we've always had very good people there, from the meter readers right through to the administrative staff and engineers. It's been a very dedicated group of people, and I really enjoyed my career there."
As for his plans after his last day, Jan. 31, Bowen says he plans to spend more time at the beach with his wife. He is a water guy, after all.
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the most popular events from the 5K to half marathon. Also running
Pete Pfitzinger, the top American finisher in the 1984 and 1988
Olympic marathons, is a respected coach, exercise physiologist, and
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of the best marathoners in U.S. history by outkicking Alberto Salazar to
win the 1984 U.S. Olympic Trials. That same year he received the DeCelle
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City Marathon. He is a member of the Road Runners Club of America's Hall
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Although best known as a marathoner, Pfitzinger was highly successful at
shorter distances with personal bests of 22:46 for 5 miles, 28:41 for
10K, 43:37 for 15K, and 1:03:14 for the half marathon. He won national
championships at 15K and 30K and held the American record for 20 miles.
As a coach, Pfitzinger has more than 30 years' experience helping
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first 5K or competing with distinction on the world stage. He is
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Pfitzinger is also a successful author, having written Road Racing
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Marathoning, Second Edition (2009), all from Human Kinetics. He was
a senior writer for Running Times from 1997 to 2008 and author of
the magazine's most popular column, "The Pfitzinger Lab Report."
Pfitzinger is a graduate of Cornell University (BSc, MBA) and the
University of Massachusetts (MSc exercise science). He and his wife, New
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their two daughters, Annika and Katrina.
Philip Latter is a senior writer for Running Times and the
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He has also been the head cross country coach at Radford University in
Virginia and the lead assistant at Fort Collins High School in Colorado,
where he helped guide the Lambkins to three Nike Cross Nationals
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A runner for more than 15 years, Latter set four school records at the
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Church engulfed in flames after car crashes through doors
SMYTH COUNTY, Va. (WCYB) - A church in Smyth County, Virginia, caught fire Wednesday morning after a Chevrolet Impala crashed through its doors. Virginia State Police are still trying to find the driver of the car.
Police say that around 5:45 AM, they got a call that a car crashed through the doors of Pugh Mountain Free Will Baptist Church near Marion, starting a severe fire.
A neighbor who saw it said the driver got up and ran away.
Ashes, collapsed beams, and melted plastic were all that was left of the entrance to the church. Members were shocked to hear what happened.
"We got a call at 6 o'clock," church clerk Dorothy Firestone said. "My husband answered and they said the church was on fire."
Firestone and her husband rushed to the church.
"We saw the back part of the church," Firestone said. "It didn't look that bad, but then we saw the steeple burning. And like I said, I knew if the steeple was burning it had to be bad. And of course, when we came around and saw the front, we knew."
The driver apparently lost control on a curve in the road just before the crash. The neighbor who called 911 saw gasoline leaking from the bottom of the car.
The church plans to rebuild.
"We have insurance, and we'll be looking for the adjuster to come and see the cost of the damage."
At this time, police have not named a suspect or a person of interest, but the investigation is active. Virginia state police say they are looking for a suspect. They describe him as a white man in his 30's or early 40's with a tall, slender build. Police said he was wearing dark clothing at the time of the crash.
Church members will not miss services Sunday. Instead they will meet at the American Legion on Highway 11 Sunday morning at 10:00.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 27, 2010) - As the ETSU women's tennis team closed out its quick two-match road trip to Nashville the Lady Bucs continued to sing a nice tune as the Lady Bucs stayed unbeaten in Atlantic Sun Conference with a 7-0 win over league foe Belmont Saturday at the Davis Tennis Complex.
With the victory the Lady Bucs improved their overall record to 13-2, with a perfect 8-0 mark in A-Sun play, while the Bruins dropped to 3-10 overall and a 0-7 record in conference acton.
"Belmont is a good team that could still end up finding a way into the tournament," said head coach Steve Brooks.
After ETSU swept the doubles point, the Lady Bucs extended their lead with as senior Yevgeniya Stupak (Kyiv, Ukraine) had no trouble with Abby Leatherwood defeating the Bruin junior 6-0, 6-0.
Joining her teammate was sophomore Paula Jaime (Madrid, Spain) who blanked Abigail Hogan with a pair of six love sets wins.
Freshman Diana Navrostska (Kviv, Ukraine) then closed out the win with a 6-1, 6-1 victory Natalia Nunes at the No. 5 position.
The Lady Bucs continued to roll as junior Andra Voinea (Brasov, Romania) - the Romanian rocket - blew past Lauren Irick 6-4, 6-0, while local junior Tara Sheets (Gate City, Va.) - the Gate City grenade - bombed junior Lindsay Bennett 7-5, 4-6, 10-7 at No. 4.
Rounding out the scores was junior Kelly Holtzhausen (Johannesburg, South Africa) who picked up her sixth win-in-a-row with a 1-6, 6-2, 6-1 win over Laura Stack.
"It was good to see Stupak get another conference shutout, while I thought Kelly struggled early before she found her rhythm," said Brooks. "Then at No. 4 Tara got overruled a couple of times in the first three games and got a little apprehensive before settling down."
With the Music City sweep compete ETSU returns to action with as they host A-Sun rival Jacksonville with a 2:30 p.m. contest next Friday at the Buddy Hartsell Tennis Center.
Stupak/Holtzhausen (ETSU) def. Stack/Leatherwood (BU), 8-3
Jaime/Voinea (ETSU) def. Hogan/Nunez(BU), 8-3
Navrostska/Sheets (ETSU) def.Bennett/Irick (BU), 8-0
Stupak (ETSU) def. Leatherwood (BU), 6-0, 6-0
Holtzhausen (ETSU) def. Stack (BU), 1-6, 6-2, 6-1
Jaime (ETSU) def. Hogan (BU), 6-0, 6-0
Sheets (ETSU) def. Bennett (BU), 7-5, 4-6, 10-7
Navrostska (ETSU) def. Nunez (BU), 6-1, 6-1
Voinea (ETSU) def. Iricik (BU), 6-4, 6-0
For more information on the ETSU women's tennis team please visit www.ETSUBucs.com.


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UCLA School of Nursing dean is the keynote speaker for the 2008 Siegfried Lowin Visiting Scholar Lecture Series
GREENVILLE, N.C. (Nov. 19, 2008) — In 1992, the first guidelines about how to prevent pressure ulcers, or bedsores, were published.
Few changes have been made in 16 years although much more research on the topic is needed, said Dr. Courtney H. Lyder, dean of the UCLA School of Nursing and associate director of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, who was the keynote speaker Tuesday for the 2008 Siegfried Lowin Visiting Scholar Lecture Series in the East Carolina University College of Nursing.
Lyder is helping lead the charge.
A respected researcher in patient safety, geriatric nursing and a leading advocate for health care diversity, a key study area for Lyder has been identifying early indicators for tissue damage that could lead to pressure ulcers particularly in minority populations.
Lyder said 82 percent of all ulcers occur on three spots: sacrum, heels or hips. The cost associated with pressure ulcers is conservatively estimated at $11 billion annually, with increasing litigation and hospital-acquired non-payment. The average settlement from litigation is $250,000.
"Why is it a huge concern? Because most ulcers are preventable," Lyder said.
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"There is no basis for every two hours," Lyder said. "We need a lot more work to break the sacred cow we've been stuck on."
He said investigators really don't know how much time it takes to induce an ulcer.
Pressure ulcers are categorized from Stage I to Stage IV as well as a more recent diagnosis, deep tissue injury.
A risk assessment tool was developed in the late 1980s by Barbara Braden and published in 1992. Lyder was an undergraduate research assistant at Rush University who worked on validating the Braden Scale, which is still the most widely used in the United States and abroad to determine a person's chance of developing pressure ulcers. It includes hip fractures, decreased sensory, history of previous pressure ulcers, CVA, diabetes, limited mobility, PVD, unintended weight loss, COPD, incontinence, terminal disease and physical restraints.
Lyder has been involved in ongoing research that shows COPD, CVD, diabetes, obesity, corticosteroids or smoking may be better predictors of who will get pressure ulcers.
Research also shows that people with pressure ulcers are at two fold risk of dying and people of color with bedsores are three times more likely to die, and the chances increase if the person is in a long-term care setting, Lyder said.
"We're not saying the pressure ulcer caused the death, but it may be the last insult to the body before the death," Lyder said.
Lyder, who was named dean of the UCLA nursing school four months ago, has garnered $12 million for research as a principal investigator and has authored more than 170 publications including two books.
Previously, Lyder was a faculty member at the University of Virginia, where he chaired the acute and specialty care department in the School of Nursing and served as director for diversity initiatives. Between 1994 and 2003, he served on faculty at the Yale University School of Nursing, where he directed a number of programs specializing in adult, family, women's and elder care as well as chronic wound care.
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Development of a Modular Deep Sea In situ Dissolved Gas Extractor System
Anna Michel, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
Scott Wankel, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
2013 DOEI Funded Project
AbstractThe role of the deep ocean in global biogeochemical cycles remains grossly under characterized. For example, while it is evident that strong feedbacks exist between oceanic dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and atmospheric CO2 and that human activities have led to dramatic increases in CO2, oceanic acidification and global modification of the carbon cycle, both the impact upon and the role of deep ocean environments in this dynamic remains virtually unknown. To begin adequately characterizing fundamental biogeochemical processes in a spatially and temporally meaningful context, robust and high-resolution chemical and isotopic data from the deep ocean using in situ measurements are required. Challenges associated with sample collection, costs associated with ships and submersible operations, and the limited information available from discrete sampling all factor into an increased need to develop robust, autonomous analyzer platforms for application to questions of deep sea biogeochemistry. The long-term monitoring and measurement of such deep-ocean biogeochemical processes will be a centerpiece of our understanding of this environment and will only be possible by the development of new in situ chemical sensors capable of reliable, high-precision, long-lifetime measurements in the deep sea environments.
Recent advances in the sensitivity and robustness of oceanographic sensors, including in situ mass spectrometers and in situ laser-based spectrometers, provide the ability to measure concentrations (and very recently isotopic composition) of a wide range of dissolved gas species. However, these sensors require the extraction of dissolved gases from fluids for analysis in the gas phase, which can hinder precision and accuracy of the sensors due to limitations in the gas extraction process. In this project, we will develop a Modular Membrane Inlet-based Dissolved Gas Extractor (MIDGE) for enhanced gas extraction that will have applicability to numerous in situ deep-sea instruments. Through modifications to the membrane inlet design, including inlet temperature control and the addition of a gas dryer and cryo-trap, we aim to increase the dissolved gas extraction efficiency and to reduce the interference from the presence of water vapor. Through these advances, we aim to significantly improve a currently viable membrane inlet that is designed to remove dissolved gases from fluids for gas phase analysis, with the ultimate goal of enhancing sensor performance. In addition, in an effort to advance instrumentation for carbon cycle studies, the MIDGE will also include an in-line sample acidification system that will enable dissolved gas species capable of CO2 measurements to quantify DIC. Demonstration of the MIDGE will be made in the laboratory and during field tests with the R/V Tioga using an in situ quadrupole mass spectrometer.


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A program of tax deferred savings accounts is one alternative being considered by Congress to help farmers manage year-to-year swings in income. The Farm and Ranch Risk Management (FARRM) accounts would allow them to deposit funds during years of high net farm income that they could draw on during low income periods.
"Farmers able to build new savings through these FARRM accounts could self-insure some of their income risk, with the additional incentive of tax deferral and possibly tax savings through bracket reduction,î say USDA Economic Research Service senior economists Ron Durst and James Monke, who discussed the option at the annual Agricultural Outlook Conference in Washington.
But the way the program is structured, a large percentage of farmers would not be eligible to participate, and for many of those eligible the amount they could contribute would be quite small.
As proposed by Congress, farmers could get a federal income tax deduction for FARRM deposits of up to 20 percent of eligible farm income. Deposits would be made into interest bearing accounts, and earnings would be distributed and taxable annually. Withdrawals from principal would be at the farmerís discretion and would be taxable in the year withdrawn.
Deposits could remain in an account for up to 5 years, with new amounts added on a first-in, first-out basis. Any deposits not withdrawn within five years would incur a 10 percent penalty. FARRM funds would also have to be withdrawn if the participant stopped farming. Deposits and withdrawals would have no impact on self-employment taxes.
Only individual taxpayers who report positive eligible farm incomes would be eligible for FARRM accounts, and to benefit from tax deferral, the farmer would also have to owe federal income tax in the year of the deposit.
"Using Internal Revenue Service data, an estimated 916,000 farmers could be eligible to contribute as much as $2.8 billion to FARRM accounts," Durst and Monke note. "Farm sole proprietors account for over two-thirds of eligible participants and over three-fourths of potential contributions."
Even though sole proprietors dominate the estimates, significant variation exists within their ranks. Nearly 73 percent either report a farm loss or have no federal income tax liability, and could not participate or benefit from participating in FARRM accounts, they say.
Nearly half the remaining 27 percent of sole proprietors who are eligible would be limited to contributing less than $1,000 in any given year. Only about 1 in 6 could contribute more than $1,000.
"Thus, while the amount of money necessary to provide risk protection for either farm operations or household living expenses is difficult to estimate, with over 80 percent of all farmers limited to contributions of less than $1,000 in any given year, and with participation rates certain to be less than 100 percent of those eligible, most farmers are not likely to accumulate significant reserves," they say.
Large family farms with sales over $250,000 are the most likely to be eligible, at 69 percent, with an average potential contribution of $10,800.
It is for these large farms — and many primary occupation small farms — that FARRM accounts could offer the ability to build "a sizeable and useful self-insurance safety net over a period of several years."
At the other extreme, limited resource farms (those with sales of less than $100,000 and a household income of less than $10,000 for tax purposes) would be least likely to be eligible. For those eligible, their average potential deposit is only $760 and "for such small amounts, FARRM accounts would be of little value."
They would also offer little for so-called "retirement" and "lifestyle" farms, "but these may not need additional risk management tools since their primary occupation and source of income are away from the farm."
While farmers "clearly respond to tax incentives," Durst and Monke note, without specifying other income criteria for eligibility, a large share of the benefits could go to "relatively few farmers, including some who do not rely on farming for their livelihood."
Because the current proposal doesn't specify a maximum deposit or accumulated balance, about 0.5 percent of sole proprietors would be eligible to contribute over $20,000 annually. The average off-farm income for this group exceeds $250,000, ìincreasing the likelihood that their contributions would be high."
To meet the goals of increasing risk management and achieving program efficiency by providing benefits that exceed costs, FARRM accounts "must create new savings rather than replacing existing risk management practices," Monke says. "New savings must come from reduced household consumption, or from funds that would have been invested in the business. If deposits come from assets shifted from existing savings, savings intended for another account, or borrowing, FARRM accounts would serve more as a tax management device than risk management.
IRS data also suggest that, at least initially, most farmers who are potentially eligible have ample resources to shift funds in to FARRM accounts instead of creating new savings."
Given the limitations, Durst and Monke say, FARRM accounts may improve short term cash flow for those who can participate, ìbut are not likely to significantly reduce the demand for emergency relief from the federal government."
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FORT MYERS, Fla. - The Red Sox today acquired left-handed-hitting first baseman/outfielder Mike Carp from the Mariners in exchange for a player to be named or cash considerations, Boston announced in a release.
The move gives the Sox a much-needed lefty bat to complement two other new acquisitions, first baseman Mike Napoli and left fielder Jonny Gomes, both of whom bat right-handed.
To make room for Carp on the 40-man roster, Boston placed outfielder Ryan Kalish (right shoulder surgery) on the 60-day disabled list.
Carp, 26, batted .213 with six doubles, five home runs, and 20 RBI in 59 games for the Mariners last season, during which he spent three stints on the disabled list.
In 2011, Carp was among the American League's top rookies in batting average (third, .276), slugging percentage (second, .466), and OPS (second, .791). He appeared in 79 games that season, hitting 12 homers and driving in 46 runs.
A ninth-round selection of the New York Mets in the 2004 June Draft, Carp has hit .255 with 28 doubles, 18 home runs, and 71 RBI in 173 major-league games, all with the Mariners from 2009-12.
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A team of Michigan Technological University researchers led by Associate Professor of Chemistry Haiying Liu has discovered how to make a strain of E. coli glow under fluorescent light. The technique could eventually be used to track down all sorts of pathogens and even help in the fight against breast cancer.
E. coli bacteria are naturally found in animal intestines and are usually harmless. But when virulent strains contaminate food, like spinach or peanuts, they can cause serious illness and even death.
The researchers' trick takes advantage of E. coli's affinity for the sugar mannose. Liu's team attached mannose molecules to specially engineered fluorescent polymers and stirred them into a container of water swimming with E. coli. Microscopic hairs on the bacteria, called pili, hooked onto the mannose molecules like Velcro, effectively coating the bacteria with the polymers.
Then the researchers shined white light onto E. coli colonies growing in the solution. The bugs lit up like blue fireflies. "They became very colorful and easy to see under a microscope," said Liu.
The technique could be adapted to identify a wide array of pathogens by mixing and matching from a library of different sugars and polymers that fluoresce different colors under different frequencies of light. If blue means E. coli, fuchsia could one day mean influenza.
With funding from a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes of Health, Liu is adapting the technique to combat breast cancer. Instead of mannose, he plans to link the fluorescent polymers to a peptide that homes in on cancer cells.
Once introduced to the vascular system, the polymers would travel through the body and stick to tumor cells. Then, illuminated by a type of infrared light that shines through human tissue, the polymers would glow, providing a beacon to pinpoint the location of the malignant cells.
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The team's work using polymers to detect E. coli was partially supported by the US Department of Agriculture and has been published in Chemistry--A European Journal. It is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121637775/abstract .
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The French dance music scene that gave us Daft Punk, Justice and the late DJ Mehdi has also produced a lot of lesser names that weren't worth your time and effort. For a long time, producer/DJ Kavinsky was one of them. He released the usual scattered remixes--mostly music to buy chinos to.
That changed with his song "Nightcall," whose inclusion in the opening credits of the Ryan Gosling film "Drive" rocketed Kavinsky back into popular conversation. On the heels of that success, he releases "Outrun," his first full-length album and a record that's so '80s it hurts. So much, in fact, that the album is named after the Sega Genesis racing game (What do you mean you don't remember?).
Nostalgia runs rampant on "Outrun." Songs like "Deadcruiser" sound like the background music for a 2D side-scroller like "Double Dragon" or "Final Fight." The entire project could serve as a lesson on how to take a sound that used to be popular (in this case, more synths than should be legal) and giving it a modern update.
Unfortunately, the dedication to the theme sometimes hinders the album. Songs like "Suburbia" (featuring Havoc from Mobb Deep, of all people) stick out like sore thumbs and distract from the concept. Oh, did I mention that this is a concept album? The backstory is that Kavinsky actually died in 1986, then became a half-zombie, half-car groove monster. No, seriously.
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Memories of Bonnie G.
By Loreen Willenberg
January 10, 2012
Bonnie Goldman was a remarkable human being who has left us to continue her good works in another sphere. She leaves a lasting legacy, not only in the form of this awesome website or her incredible articles and interviews with cutting-edge HIV-research scientists and people living with HIV, but through her acts of kindness, inspiration and mentorship, too. I am devastated by the news of her untimely death to yet another deadly-stalker: breast cancer. As I grieve her loss, my thoughts turn to celebrating the many wondrous ways Bonnie touched my life over the five short years we knew one another.
I will always remember Bonnie's thoughtfulness on the day we met, Aug. 16, 2006. She recognized that I was exhausted following a rather momentous occasion, and kindly offered me a chair. This may sound insignificant, but at the time, it meant the world to me. For the previous two hours, you see, I had been standing beside Dr. Bruce Walker, the renowned immunologist from Harvard Medical School, literally surrounded by 100 or more journalists from around the world. We had just given a press conference at the granddaddy of all AIDS conferences: XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada. I had just gone public after 14 years of silence about my HIV-positive status, in addition to becoming the "poster child" of the HIV Controller community. My adrenaline was racing and the level of energy in the Media Center was very high, to say the least! (Dr. Walker had convened the press conference to announce the creation of the HIV Elite Controller Consortium, and the launch of an international search effort to recruit participants into the International HIV Controller Study in Boston, Mass.). Relieved, I gratefully accepted her offer to sit down. A bit of history happened then, because Bonnie asked for the first of several interviews with me that would, without a doubt, increase the number of participants in the HIV Controller study, and solidify our friendship, too.
I was the recipient of multiple acts of kindness from Bonnie in the ensuing years, especially as I worked to establish the first organization devoted to the HIV Controller community. Bonnie was integral in helping me to think outside of the box in respect to achieving this goal. She provided excellent advice and connected me with other, more seasoned advocates, job opportunities and a variety of projects in the field. In November 2007, I had a blast "impersonating" Bonnie in Palm Springs, Calif., at the XI United States Conference on AIDS (USCA). When Bonnie realized I was not a registered delegate, she loaned me her badge!! As the day's activities drew to a close, she graciously took me under her wing, saying, "There are a few people in the Exhibition Hall I need to see ... why don't you tag along and I'll introduce you." Later that evening, she honored me by saying that I was destined to make a difference with my "valuable voice" and "amazing social skills" (thank you, dear Bonnie!), and invited me to consider becoming the first blogger for TheBody.com. (I would eventually become blogger #2, in July 2008). It was during this discussion that I learned that Bonnie was the mother of a young daughter, and that the fuel behind her passion was the loss of a beloved brother to AIDS.
Bonnie always encouraged me to write, something I love to do but have a hard time finding time for. My constant "north-star," she would remind me how important it was for at least one member of the HIV Controller community to share her story to the world. How on earth she found time to carefully edit the pieces I managed to produce is beyond me ... she was always on the road to another conference, another interview or a work-related task. Bonnie was a people-person, first and foremost, and one of the most solid professionals I know. She was determined to bring us the most accurate information from many fronts, the personal stories of HIV-positive people, their advocates, and ground-breaking news from the HIV research field. She knew how to cut to the chase. It's no wonder that The Body is one of the most highly respected, and visited, HIV/AIDS resource sites on the Internet today. Behind the scenes and over the years, however, Bonnie always seemed to find time out of her hectic schedule to connect many recently diagnosed HIV-positive women with me ... women who were afraid to post questions on public forums in their quest for information and in need of experienced support.
The last time I saw Bonnie was in San Francisco, on the eve of the XVII Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in mid-February 2010. She had just retired from her position as editorial director, and said that she wanted to spend more time with her daughter while she laid the groundwork for a bigger and better project in the field. She was grinning as she told me to "stay tuned!" I remember thinking, "I can't wait to hear what this is all about; it's going to be great!" It's sad that we will never know what she had in store for us. I'm glad, though, that I gave her a huge hug as we went our separate ways that evening. Little did I know it would be our last one.
We have lost one of our champions, at a time when more of them are needed, not less. I hope that Bonnie's amazing career and passion serve to inspire a new generation of activists/advocates. May her death remind us that there is more work to do.
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ILION, N.Y. -- The Remington Arms factory is at the center of this small village, straddled midway between Albany and Syracuse in the Mohawk Valley, towering over nearly every corner of the small downtown.
It may also be at the center of Friday's mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
A Bushmaster .223 semi-automatic rifle was among the three powerful weapons crazed gunman Adam Lanza used in his bloody rampage.
And it was the Bushmaster -- a semi-automatic, military--style assault rifle - that Lanza fired to massacre 20 schoolchildren and six adult staffers.
Manufacture of the rifle was moved to Remington's Ilion factory in March 2011, providing a morbid link between this tight-knit town of just over 8,000 and the postcard-perfect New England community of Newtown.
Machinist Carl Bovay, 46, said if Lanza's weapon was manufactured after production moved to Ilion, there is roughly a one-in-three chance that he worked on the gun. The thought, he said, has weighed heavily on him and a handful of colleagues.
"I keep telling myself that I did not make that barrel," said Bovay, who made a point to mention that he does not personally own any firearms.
"It upsets me a lot," he said. "At the same time, we're making a living off this."
Elsewhere in Ilion, as a reinvigorated gun-control debate begins to sweep the nation, residents were on the defensive.
The village has sprung up around the factory, founded nearly 200 years ago, their two histories permanently linked. It was in 1816 that a young Eliphalet Remington II, as legend has it, forged his first firearm at Ilion Gulch. Ever since, the welfare of the town has relied heavily on that of the factory.
"I have sadness, but to make a connection to us, the village of Ilion, and what happened Friday & I'm not sure it's there," said Mayor John Stephens.
In the past, Remington has stated that tighter gun controls, such as microstamping, might force the North Carolina-based company to relocate its plant to another state. Stephens has long since been an outspoken critic of microstamping and other forms of stricter gun-control.
"People that are going to use this as a platform for gun control are just wrong," he said, adding, "Remington belongs here. We'll do whatever we need to do to keep them here."
Remington employs more than 1,000 people at its Ilion factory, a complex of brick buildings connected by sky bridges. Faded and nearly a century old, it resembles a high-security prison, cordoned-off from downtown by yards of wire fencing and multitudes of signs warning passersby to keep out or else. In its shadow sits a smattering of mid-century homes, a bowling alley, McDonalds and a handful of other chain stores and gas stations.
At a Stewarts convenience store, a handful of Ilion residents commiserated after filling up on gas or picking up milk. Just across the street, traffic streamed in and out of the factory, in spite of the weekend.
"The guns that they make over there have also saved a lot of lives," said Irving Truax, Jr., a former Remington tool maker who retired in 1998. A friend in a World War II veteran cap nodded vigorously in agreement.
About the Bushmaster weapon used in Friday's mass shooting, Truax said: "Where that gun was manufactured, it has no bearing."
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Stephane Hessel
PARIS (AP) - Stephane Hessel of France was a man of many talents.
As a spy for the French Resistance, he survived the Nazi death camp at Buchenwald by assuming the identity of a French prisoner who was already dead. As a diplomat, he helped write the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. And at age 93, after a distinguished but relatively anonymous life, he published a slim pamphlet that even he expected would be little more than a vanity project.
Au contraire.
Hessel's 32-page "Time for Outrage" sold millions of copies across Europe, tapping into a vein of popular discontent with capitalism and transforming him into an intellectual superstar within weeks. Translated into English, the pocket-sized book became a source of inspiration for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
In the book, Hessel urges young people to take inspiration from the anti-Nazi resistance to which he once belonged and rally against what he saw as the newest evil: The love of money.
The book, called "Indignez-vous" in French, had an initial run of 8,000 copies in 2010 and sold for 3 ($4) before becoming a best-seller.
Hessel died overnight in Paris. He was 95.
"I'm eagerly awaiting the taste of death. Death is something to savor, and I hope to savor mine. In the meantime, given that it has not yet happened and that I'm generally getting around normally, I'm using the time to throw out some messages," Hessel told RTL radio in 2011.
Born in Germany, Hessel and his parents immigrated to France in 1924, where they settled into an avant-garde life, hanging out with artists like Alexander Calder and Marcel Duchamp.
Hessel fled to London to join the resistance led by Gen. Charles de Gaulle in 1941, but snuck back into occupied France on a spying mission in 1944, where he was arrested by the Gestapo and shipped off to the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp. The day before he was to be hanged, he swapped his identity with another French prisoner who had died of typhus.
As a French diplomat after World War II, Hessel joined a panel that included former U.S. first lady Eleanor Roosevelt which wrote up the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Hessel "leaves us with the invaluable heritage of fighting for universal human values and his inalienable sense of liberty," Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said Wednesday.
A proud Socialist, Hessel said the aim of "Time for Outrage" was to convince adrift or discouraged young people that they can change society for the better - even if they feel the world is controlled by entrenched and financially powerful interests. But he hardly expected it would find a large audience in France, much less elsewhere.
Hessel said he purposely offered no solutions.
"I am not giving them a meaning, but I am saying: 'Do try to find for yourself what would be meaningful.'"
French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Hessel had succee ded in that goal.
"In France, in Europe, in the world, Stephane Hessel was the spirit of resistance incarnate," he said. "For every generation, for young people, he was a source of inspiration but also a reference. At 95, he embodied faith in the future of this new century."
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After announcing a few dates last week, Metallica have firmed up dates for all 15 shows on their 2014 European Tour
The trek is being the dubbed the Metallica by Request tour. Every show will have a different setlist, with fans who buy tickets given a link to cast their votes on the songs they would like to hear. Seventeen of the songs each night will be selected that way, with the remaining song a brand new track, one that might appear on Metallica's next album.
The tour will be great for European fans, but U.S. fans will have to wait longer to see the band, since Metallica have called off the Orion Music + More Festival for 2014.
So when will that new album be released? Probably sometime in 2015, although frontman James Hetfield says they have been working on it for a while. "We have lots of material [we've been] working on from the day 'Death Magnetic' ended all the way up until now," Hetfield says. "There's tons of material. Some [riffs] stick with me because the themes keep coming back. Out of 700 riffs, there's at least three I've played 20 times."
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1. Re: AI to Fireworks drop shadow problemgroove25 Mar 23, 2012 12:23 PM (in response to corriela)1 person found this helpful
I'm not surprised that something got lost in translation as I'm sure it takes considerable work to get the two applications to work smoothly together. In my older versions of these applications (FW8 and CS2), importing an AI file into an FW file results in a bitmap, not a vector object with effects.
So can you select the vector object in FW and re-apply the drop shadow as a live Effect from the Filter menu of the Properties Inspector? If that's inconvenient, perhaps you could go back to AI, edit the Drop Shadow effect (from the Appearances panel) to adjust the blend mode to Normal. Then once it's imported into FW, set the blend mode to Multiply. Because it sounds like it might be an issue with translating the blend mode behavior. (I forgot to ask: Does the AI drop shadow appear as an effect in FW, or as another vector object?)
I'm surprised that the quality of raster graphics is better in FW than AI. In a different post, I was suggesting to someone that they try doubling the size of their vector graphic and then outputting the graphic as a bitmap at half-size. This can sometimes smooth out a rough or aliased-looking vector object.
ONE MORE IDEA: In Illustrator, you have the option of flattening effects like Drop Shadow by selecting the object and choosing Object > Expand Appearance. This might help in your case. And I believe that the Document Raster Effect Settings (under the Effects menu) will influence the quality of effects rendering—so setting it to Medium or High before flattening would be a good idea.
2. Re: AI to Fireworks drop shadow problemcorriela Mar 26, 2012 2:05 AM (in response to groove25)
Hey Groove25,
Thanks so much for your reply, very helpful.
I could re-apply the shadows in FW, the main problem though is that I have a whole GUI designed in AI with many buttons so having to re-apply everything in FW would take too long. I have tried changing the raster quality in AI, but the quality isn't as crisp as through FW (i.e. 1px lines become fuzzy 2px lines for example)
This is an article a found about FW being better for PNG export (than AI and PS):
The other probelm is that all my other shadows have imported fine and I have already saved these out for the software engineers, switching to a different method could give some inconsistency if I now have to export some shadows in a different way.
I'll apply the shadows in FW for now as a workaround because I'm working to a deadline but I'd still like to know why it's happened and why some shadows import fine.
3. Re: AI to Fireworks drop shadow problemcorriela Mar 26, 2012 2:16 AM (in response to groove25)
groove25 wrote:
Does the AI drop shadow appear as an effect in FW, or as another vector object?)
Sorry forgot to say - the white area has come in as a single layer with the shadow rastered as part of the same object - the shadow is not a separate object in FW (I imagine if I expanded it in AI it would be but that wouldn't solve the problem).
4. Re: AI to Fireworks drop shadow problemcorriela Mar 26, 2012 2:34 AM (in response to groove25)
If I lighten the background grey, or make the shadow darker it imports correctly! It's like there's a crossover point where FW can't translate the shadow's 'Multiply' effect or something.
I don't know if this discovery rules out anything else that might be causing it.
5. Re: AI to Fireworks drop shadow problemgroove25 Mar 26, 2012 9:45 AM (in response to corriela)
Did you try changing the blend mode of the drop shadow in AI from Multiply to Normal? (As long as it doesn't change the appearance in AI, you might get better results upon importing to FW.)
I have to admit I'm a bit lost here... If the shadow is being rasterized, that suggests that the vector itself has been flattened to a bitmap object upon being imported into FW. In that case, I can't imagine that exporting from FW would deliver better-looking results... but I'll leave that to you to determine. If the button and its shadow are fused into one bitmap object, I would again suggest that you could flatten the effect in AI by choosing Object > Expand Appearance.
Interestingly, I'm just noticing that FW8's drop shadow effect does not offer a blend mode option.
Were you aware of Illustrator's Pixel Preview capabilities (under the View menu)? With that view enabled, a Snap to Pixel option appears in the View menu as well. I don't know if it would help in your case, just thought I'd mention it.
6. Re: AI to Fireworks drop shadow problemcorriela Mar 26, 2012 10:04 AM (in response to groove25)
Interestingly changing the drop shadow from Multiply to Normal in AI gives the same result as my picture above - i.e. turns it to white, so obviously FW is losing the effect.
It's a bizarre one, as you suggested I've expanded in AI to get round the issue, but it does seem odd that if the shadow is dark enough, or the grey background is light enough it comes in correctly.
I do know about the pixel preview, thanks - it's been really useful for seeing how the graphics might appear on the final screen (except my monitor isn't the same res so it's a bit of a hash, but I can at least see roughly how the pixels will view)
Snap to piel drives me nuts as I have icons made of many parts, if I move it, AI decides which bits to snap to which pixal and it messes up the icon alignment! Useful for somethings though.
Thanks again groove25
7. Re: AI to Fireworks drop shadow problemgroove25 Mar 26, 2012 10:45 AM (in response to corriela)
It's hard to know what's going on without seeing the files, and even then it could be a mystery—it's most likely a bug in FW. Or a quirk. I'm assuming you checked the blend modes of all the objects in the FW document (and also considered blend modes of objects and layers within AI)?
It's too bad my Multiply-to-Normal suggestion had no effect. I was thinking that Multiply is a good choice when you want to preserve colors but that Normal would work just as well in this particular case, since it's a grey-on-grey blend.
For curiosity's sake, you could try recreating the object from scratch in FW, with those exact color values, to see if the same results occur.
8. Re: AI to Fireworks drop shadow problemcorriela Mar 27, 2012 1:45 AM (in response to groove25)
Hi, so this image shows a few trials. All of these were created in AI, then I opened the .AI file in FW.
All of them came in with the grey boxes as separate layers and the white boxes as separate layers, but their shadows were rasterised with them so there's no way of separating the shadow in FW.
I used the bottom one for the client in the end, but I could have exported a .png directly from AI.
I'm not too worried because there are all sorts of workarounds, I'm just interested to know why FW does this.
If you have time, let me know if you're able to recreate this,c us it'd be interesting to know if it's my AI version (5.5) or something I'm doing differently.
9. Re: AI to Fireworks drop shadow problemgroove25 Mar 27, 2012 1:31 PM (in response to corriela)1 person found this helpful
Aha! In terms of pinpointing the problem, a crucial piece of information was the color or value of the drop shadows—in the first two of your examples, it's actually lighter than the background color.
I made these graphics directly in FW8, using a feathered rectangle for the shadow so that I could apply a blend mode to it. They're based on your 2nd, 3rd, and 4th examples. The top shadow in each graphic is set to Normal at 100% opacity; the bottom shadow is set to Multiply at 100%.
From this, I can tell that the Blend mode was getting lost in translation. In hindsight, it becomes more obvious: A single object can be assigned only one blend mode. If the button and its shadow were getting flattened into a single bitmap, then the blend mode attached to the drop shadow effect would naturally get jettisoned.
That said, I don't know for sure if blend modes between AI and FW are compatible, but you could easily test for this with a simple document using just two objects, one blended into the other. For this case, though, I think the key would be expanding the appearance of the effect in AI, and possibly ungrouping it from the button object—whatever it takes for the two items to be imported as separate objects in FW. Then in FW, you could apply a separate blend mode to the shadow object, to restore its original intended appearance.
Other thoughts: I don't have the latest versions of these applications, so I don't know... You might take a look at Preferences in AI and FW, to see if there are any Export or Import settings that could help with translating effects like this. Also, I have to admit, I don't usually use a lighter color for a drop shadow; I'd use a darker color instead and lower its opacity. However, there's nothing wrong with the way you're doing it as long as it works in the application(s), which it does.
10. Re: AI to Fireworks drop shadow problemgroove25 Mar 27, 2012 5:23 PM (in response to corriela)1 person found this helpful
This is a bit off-topic, but it relates to how Illustrator and Fireworks sometimes handle rasterization of vector objects differently, and I thought you might find it interesting. (This was done using Illustrator CS2 and FW8; I can't say whether CS5 behaves the same way or not.)
The basic question is this: Where does a 1-pixel stroke belong on a vector object that's aligned to a bitmap grid?
In Illustrator, with Snap to Pixel enabled (in Pixel Preview mode), the vector itself is aligned to the bitmap grid, and a 1-pixel stroke is balanced across both sides of the vector—appearing in effect as a lighter, 2-pixel, anti-aliased stroke. The result looks very imprecise. You can fix this by setting the Keyboard Increment (in Preferences) to 0.5 pixels, turning Snap to Pixel off, and nudging the object a half pixel in each direction using your keyboard arrow keys: Now the stroke, not the vector, is aligned to the bitmap grid.
Theoretically, you should be able to adjust stroke position to handle this issue; however, I found that setting the Stroke to "Inside" produced an unexpected bit of anti-aliasing on one side of my rectangle. (This type of problem may have been fixed in a newer version of Illustrator.*)
In Fireworks, vector objects tend to snap to the pixel grid automatically, as do strokes. But how can FW do this? After all, the default stroke position is center-aligned, just as it is in Illustrator. Well, it turns out that the application is willing to bend the rules a bit: A 25-pixel square with a 1-pixel stroke applied to it still only occupies 25 pixels on the grid, because Fireworks moves the stroke to the inside of the object. It cheats. Once you bump up the stroke weight to 2 pixels, the stroke alignment reverts to center. At 3 pixels, the stroke remains center-aligned but becomes anti-aliased, too.
So anyway... I hadn't really sat down with Illustrator's Pixel Preview mode before. Despite the issues above, I think it's kind of neat in that it's like a window into the world of Fireworks and pixel grids. (In Fireworks, by contrast, you don't have the option of seeing vectors rendered smoothly at any zoom level, as in Illustrator's standard view mode.) I can't recall whether Preferences can be saved in a Workspace, but View settings can at least be saved as part of a template file, and you could probably set up a de facto workspace for working with pixels in Illustrator in a relatively short amount of time. This could help you avoid surprises when using "Save for Web" (as described in the article to which you linked).
*Later, I was able to fix the "stroke inside" rendering problem in Illustrator by setting the stroke to .99px instead of 1px.
11. Re: AI to Fireworks drop shadow problemcorriela Mar 28, 2012 1:25 AM (in response to groove25)
Thank you so much for all your time and hardwork on researching this, it must have taken you ages
really appreciate it.
There's a lot there and I'm working to a crazy deadline today and I'd like to do this topic justice, so I'm going to go through your replies later, but forgive me if I don't reply for a little while.
Thanks again and I'll be back


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By Jesse Piper
Big 12 Campus Correspondent
Ask any college football fan the most important aspects of a winning program and answers would more than likely be limited to a high-scoring offense and a dominant defense. But looking at the track record of the Kansas State football program, especially under legendary head coach Bill Snyder's control, special teams is just as important to winning as a strong offense and defense.
This season, that is no different as the duo of Anthony Cantele and Ryan Doerr, along with numerous other largely-unrecognized players, carry on the special tradition of special teams play for the Wildcats.
Under the tutelage of associate head coach and special teams coordinator Sean Snyder, who was named a First Team All-American punter by numerous publications during his time in Manhattan, K-State's special teams unit has continued the tradition of being of one the nation's best.
As a member of the program's exclusive Ring of Honor, Snyder knows how big of an impact a solid special teams unit can have on a football game.
"We put a lot of emphasis on it," Snyder said. "Every year we spend a lot of time at practice and in meeting time with it. The coaches and players take great pride in how they perform. Historically, we have been pretty good special teams-wise and a lot of is based on the players. The pride they take in it, the emphasis they put on it and the emphasis the coaches put on it as well."
Though the paths of K-State's kicker and punter mirror each other in certain ways, Cantele and Doerr each chose to wear the purple and silver for different reasons.
Cantele, who played one year of soccer at Missouri State, grew up a Wisconsin Badgers fan and was initially not aware of K-State's special teams' tradition.
"I really did not know the history of K-State's special teams until I got here," Cantele said. "I did not follow K-State that closely growing up. My parents are both from Wisconsin and my mom went to the University of Wisconsin, so we grew up cheering for them. I really didn't know who Sean Snyder was or his background or any of the history at all."
Upon his arrival in Manhattan, the Wichita, Kan., native quickly learned what an asset having a former All-American punter as his position coach could be.
"It absolutely is an advantage to have him," Cantele said. "Especially with him having played at K-State, he has been around the program for so long. I have talked to kids from other schools where their coaches don't know very much about special teams, they are more of a supervisor of special teams, so I think it is a huge advantage having Coach (Sean) Snyder here."
Like Cantele, Doerr did not choose the Wildcats out of high school. But after signing with South Carolina during his senior year at Katy (Texas) High School, Doerr decided it was in his best interest to transfer away. Having grown up a K-State fan, choosing to become a Wildcat was a no-brainer for the Texas native.
"I have always loved K-State and their special teams tradition. They were my favorite team growing up," Doerr said. "I had a few connections with the special teams coach who was here when I first got here. I attended a couple of kicking camps that they put on and I really liked the way they worked with me, so I thought it would be a good fit and it has worked out pretty well."
Entering his fourth year as the team's starting punter, Doerr echoed Cantele's sentiments about having Snyder as special teams coordinator.
"I feel it is a big advantage," Doerr said. "He has been through it all and he really knows what he is talking about. A lot of other programs do not have that kind of leader and mentor. I feel like they don't get the coaching they need in practice. I feel like that puts them a step behind so I feel like we have a big advantage over other teams who don't have a coach like him."
The Wildcats are enjoying one of their best seasons in their history with a top 5 ranking in The Associated Press, Coaches and Bowl Championship Series (BCS) polls. The squad is known for its ball-controlling offense led by Heisman Trophy-contending quarterback Collin Klein and an improving defense. However, the special teams segment is still a significant factor in the team's success.
Seeing that Doerr is averaging a pedestrian 40.8 yards per punt, a casual fan might not see the value he provides to the Wildcats. What does not show up in the stat column is the fact that he has downed seven punts inside the 20-yard-line this season, including five against Oklahoma alone, for which he was named Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week. With the Wildcats' offensive style of play revolving around time of possession and field position, Doerre can change the complexion of a game with a few shorter-than-average kicks.
"Ryan is a good worker," said Snyder in his weekly press conference following the Wildcats 24-19 win over then-fifth ranked Oklahoma. "He takes a lot of pride in his skill level and his contribution to our football team and special teams. It is a field position ball game, and there are a lot of things that contributed to field position and certainly Ryan's punting is one of them."
Unlike Doerr, Cantele's stats might jump off the page at you as he is a perfect 39-for-39 on extra points and a Big 12-best 9-for-10 on field goals so far in 2012. But like Doerr, Cantele is just as important to K-State's success as starting wide receiver Chris Harper or All-American candidate linebacker Arthur Brown, even if the general public does not recognize their names.
So after starting this season with a perfect 7-0 mark, including key road wins at Oklahoma and West Virginia, some might think that this pair of Wildcat special teamers might be content with their performance enough to coast through the remainder of this season. But just like the head coach of the Wildcats, each player is focusing on one thing - improving every day
"We like to set our goals very high, especially after the season that we had last year" Doerr said. "We look at what we did last year and we just want to keep getting better and better as this season goes on."


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