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UPDATE: 7:32 p.m.
I'll preface the ensuing note with a warning: don't be alarmed. Jamie Moyer and Pat Burrell both filed for free agency with the MLBPA this afternoon. That doesn't mean one or both are leaving, or that even one or both will wind up testing the waters. It's just a procedural thing that all free agents do. But it is worth noting. So consider it noted.
The final meeting of the minds has ended here at the GM meetings in Dana Point. Ruben Amaro, Jr. just left the St. Regis Monarch Beach resort en route to a 12:30 p.m. flight back to Philly. We have lots of good stuff to delve into today, starting with the Phillies' future attempts at re-signing two of their arbitration-eligible players who will be free agents after next season.
Common sense tells you that this would be a good time to lock up outfielder Jayson Werth and reliever Ryan Madson. Both players are coming off career years (Werth moreso than Madson; Madson had better numbers in his first full season in the bigs). Both players will be free agents after the 2009 season. And the Phillies view both players as part of their future.
I wasn't able to get in touch with Werth's agent, but I talked to Scott Boras yesterday about Ryan Madson. I came away with the impression that it will be tough to get a deal done (which isn't a surprise, given Boras' reputation). For starters, Boras compared Madson's performance this season to the performance by Mariano Rivera in 1996, when he was the set-up man for Yankees closer John Wetteland. Granted, Boras is going to pump his client up as much as possible. Here are their respective numbers
Postseason (Rivera -1996, Madson -2008)
- Games: Rivera 8, Madson 10
- Innings: Rivera 13, Madson 12 2/3
- Runs: Rivera 1, Madson 3
- Hits: Rivera 10, Madson 10
- Strikeouts: Rivera 10, Madson 12
- Walks: Rivera 5, Madson 1
- Holds: Rivera 4, Madson 5
Regular season
- Games: Rivera 61, Madson 76
- Innings: Rivera 107 2/3, Madson 82 2/3
- ERA: Rivera 2.09, Madson 3.05
- Hits: Rivera 73, Madson 79
- Strikeouts: Rivera 130, Madson 67
- Walks: Rivera 34, Madson 23
- Wins: Rivera 8, Madson 4
- Home runs: Rivera 1, Madson 6
Obviously, if Boras and Madson think he will be able to duplicate his success from September through October this season for all of 2009, it will make more sense for them to either go to arbitration or settle on a one-year deal, then hit free agency. But if Madson, who had shoulder problems late in 2007 and early in 2008, decides some immediate security outweighs a potentially huge pay-day next offseason, a deal could get done.
Troy Renck of the Denver Post talked to various executives about a potential deal for Rockies outfielder Matt Holliday. And the majority opinion held the Phillies to be one of the teams most likely to land the star. I'm sure the Phillies have inquired and will continue to explore the situation.
The one caveat often mentioned with Holliday is the gross disparity between his numbers at home and his numbers on the road. In 359 games at Coors Field, he has hit .357 with a .423 OBP and a .645 SLG. On the road, those numbers are .280/.348/.455. He averages one home run every 16.1 at-bats at home compared to one home run every 29.6 at-bats on the road.
That said, in 14 games at Citizens Bank Park, he has hit .283/.356/.547 while averaging a home run every 13.25 at-bats.
So the home/road issue might not be as big for the Phillies as it is for some other teams.
For what it is worth, the Giants beat writer for the San Jose Mercury News wrote on his blog that he hears that the Phillies are willing to listen to offers for Jimmy Rollins. I wouldn't put too much stock in that. While the Phillies might listen, they have tremendous value in Rollins, who is a Gold Glove short stop and is locked in to a five-year, $40 million contract that looks tremendously economical given how he has performed since signing it in 2005.
Speaking of middle infielders, Jason Donald's stock has soared in the last year. He is currently tearing up the Arizona Fall League, which comes on the heels of a dynamite performance at Double A Reading this season (.307, 14 home runs) and a spring training game in which he hit two home runs against the Blue Jays.
The Phillies have been playing him some at third base in the AFL, and I'd lood for him to get more time there next season in the minors. Pedro Feliz is signed through next season. If Donald continues to perform, he could be an option there for 2010.


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This is one gigantic buck with width and mass and droptines! It definitely is a beast.
Deer this large have several things going for them including genetics, a wonderful supply of forage and usually little to no hunting pressure. Bucks this big wandering around during the day definitely are comfortable in their surroundings.
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PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania's health system says that beginning this summer people who use tobacco products will no longer be hired.
A notice on the Philadelphia-based health system website's career page says that as of July 1, the system will cease hiring tobacco users as part of efforts to improve the health of all employees and reduce health care costs.
The ban applies to all locations of the Philadelphia-based system except those in New Jersey, located in Cherry Hill and Woodbury Heights. NJ.com user StrictlyTopSecret points to a USA Today story from January 2012, which notes that New Jersey is among 29 states that have smoker-protection laws in place.
Vice president Judy Schueler told WCAU-TV that officials want to not only educate patients on healthy lifestyles but serve as a model for the community.
Schueler said employees won't be tested for tobacco use, as some employers with similar bans do, but evidence that an employee lied may result in "discipline for falsification of application."


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Just over two weeks remain until MLB's Aug. 31 waiver trade deadline, and a few contenders still have some glaring needs that can be addressed before a September playoff drive and October postseason run.
For some of those clubs, this is a second chance to make a deal that didn't get done before the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline. For others, it's an opportunity to add further depth or more help for problems that haven't gone away.
It does need to be noted that we don't know every player that's been claimed on waivers, negating a possible deal or putting one in progress. We do know that the Phillies pulled pitcher Cole Hamels and outfielder Marlon Byrd off waivers after they were claimed, so neither of them will be involved in any waiver deadline trade.
With that disclaimer, here are six teams that still need some help before Aug. 31 and the players those clubs could pursue.
St. Louis Cardinals: Second or Third Baseman
The Cards were active before the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline, acquiring starting pitchers Justin Masterson and John Lackey. But the team's real problem has been its struggling offense, which GM John Mozeliak hasn't addressed.
St. Louis is collectively batting .251 with a .690 OPS. No one except Matt Adams has really stood out this season, but with Kolten Wong batting .251 and Matt Carpenter regressing in his second full season, second or third base are the best positions to add a bat.
The Mets' Daniel Murphy and Ben Zobrist of the Rays would be ideal trade targets in what's now a pretty thin market for infielders, and both are under club control for next season. The D-Backs' Aaron Hill is having a rough season and is still owed $24 million through 2016, but that might him make less expensive in a deal. Murphy or Zobrist would be costly, but Mozeliak didn't have to trade a top prospect for Masterson or Lackey, giving up expendable pieces in Allen Craig and Joe Kelly. He still has plenty of depth to work with.
Los Angeles Angels: Starting Pitcher
Angels GM Jerry Dipoto did a nice job shoring up his team's bullpen before July 31, but didn't strengthen the starting rotation. That might not have seemed like a pressing need two weeks ago. But with Tyler Skaggs needing Tommy John surgery, C.J. Wilson struggling and Garrett Richards possibly needing his workload monitored toward the end of the season, the Angels could use another starting pitcher.
Names like the Padres' Ian Kennedy, Bartolo Colon and Dillon Gee of the Mets and the Rockies' Jorge De La Rosa are still available. Garrett Wilson mentioned a few more at Monkey With a Halo, such as the Phillies' Kyle Kendrick, Jon Niese of the Mets and the Astros' Scott Feldman.
The Angels don't have many prospects to trade after the Huston Street deal and really have nothing to spare on the major league roster. But Dipoto does have a couple of pieces (C.J. Cron? Cam Bedrosian?) that could possibly yield a lower-tier starter, which is more in line with the Angels' needs.
Detroit Tigers: Reliever
Stop us if you've heard this one before. The Tigers have been in need of bullpen help going back to the 2012 postseason.
GM Dave Dombrowski appeared to have finally addressed that issue by getting Joakim Soria from the Rangers, but he's now on the disabled list with an oblique injury. And those tend to have an indefinite recovery time. Joe Nathan has been unreliable all season and is now telling Detroit fans to do something private to themselves.
The Tigers signed Jim Johnson after the A's designated him for assignment. But there's a reason Oakland let him go, so how much can he really help? Antonio Bastardo of the Phillies and the Padres' Joaquin Benoit were attached to Detroit in trade rumors before July 31, and both are still available. The Astros' Chad Qualls and Neal Cotts of the Rangers are possibilities too. Dombrowski still has some notable prospects to trade, since he gave up two major leaguers (and a low-A prospect) to get David Price.
Kansas City Royals: Starting Pitcher
The Royals insist they won't put Danny Duffy on an innings limit in his first full season following Tommy John surgery in 2012. But the left-hander is already at 115.2 innings, moving toward a possible 150- or 170-inning limit. With Duffy at the back-end of the K.C. rotation, his innings could be easier to manage by skipping a turn or two down the stretch.
Yordano Ventura has thrown 133 innings this season, and might have to be monitored as well. But the rookie can probably go to 180 or 200, since he threw 134.2 innings in the minors last year.
GM Dayton Moore made a "go for it" type of trade by adding Josh Willingham to the lineup. The rotation doesn't need an arm as badly, but why not provide some insurance as the Royals pursue their first postseason bid since 1985?
Fewer options are available now, so a starting pitcher would be costly. Can Moore get one of those names without giving up a top prospect or major leaguer? That depends on whether or not he views getting more pitching as a necessity.
Toronto Blue Jays: Second or Third Baseman
It might already be too late for a trade to make a difference for the Blue Jays, as they've fallen 7.5 games behind the Orioles in the AL East and are three back in the wild-card race. Part of the reason for that slide could be GM Alex Anthopoulos' failure to add starting pitching help or bring in a bat to help out at second or third base.
The pitching issue may have been taken care of with the call-up of Marcus Stroman, though Toronto really could use a middle-of-the-rotation arm and any of the starting pitchers listed above would be a good fit. Anthopoulos also has top minor league talent to exchange in a trade, unless he feels that none of the arms available are worth that price.
However, a far more pressing need is an infielder that provides an upgrade over Munenori Kawasaki (.635 OPS) at second or Juan Francisco (batting .221 overall, and .100 against left-handed pitching) at third base. Murphy or Hill could help at either position, while Zobrist would also be able to provide depth in the outfield. There's still time to salvage a playoff run, if Anthopoulos makes the right move.
Los Angeles Dodgers: Shortstop
This might be a bit of a stretch, as Hanley Ramirez will probably return in September from an oblique injury. In the meantime, Miguel Rojas, Darwin Barney and Justin Turner can play capable defense at shortstop and perhaps provide just enough offense for a relatively strong Dodgers lineup.
But if there are concerns that Ramirez's injury will linger and he's not a sure thing to contribute in the postseason, what about taking a run at the Phillies' Jimmy Rollins? Rollins has no-trade rights, so would have to approve a deal. But maybe the chance to play in California (though he's a Northern California native) could sway him.
Rollins isn't the hitter that Ramirez is, but can still hit for some power while bringing some additional speed to the lineup. He'll also be under contract for next season with an option for 2015 that will trigger soon. That could give the Dodgers some insurance — and negotiating leverage — against Ramirez testing free agency after the season. If everyone comes back next year, then manager Don Mattingly has to do some juggling. But that's a problem for 2015.


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Sometime on Wednesday, Aug. 8, the publisher will post a link on one of its social-media platforms — blog, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr — to its online store, where (utilizing a combination of speed and luck) you'll be able to purchase one of the 500 copies available of Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life Collector's Edition. Okay, two, as that's the limit per billing address.
The $100 package gets you: a numbered book plate signed by O'Malley; five art prints featuring both versions of the cover and three of the first volume's biggest moments; 11 vinyl stickers, two embroidered patches featuring Scott Pilgrim and Matthew Patel; a hand-crumpled set list from Crash & the Boys drummer Trasha; a two-inch metal Scott Pilgrim 1-up coin; and a code for the digital edition of the full-color Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1, from comiXology.
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Spike priggen
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Power pop tribute album
New York-based musician sings cover songs
By David Chiu
Spike Priggen may not be a recognizable name to most casual music listeners, and thats fine with him. Yeah, nobody knows who I am, deadpans the 41-year-old singer, songwriter who has been part of the alternative rock scene for over 25 years. Im totally obscure. Most of the music I like is really obscure so I can take some solace in that.
Obscure also best describes the NewYork-based musicians choice of cover songs that make up his second solo album Stars after Stars After Stars. It consists of tracks originally recorded by the Ramones, Big Star, Alice Cooper, and the Zombies, as well as songs by the Jacobites and Hot Bodies, two local bands from Priggens hometown of New Haven, Connecticut. Making the covers album started out as an excuse to experiment and test new production techniques. I did it for fun early on to begin with, he says. It kind of grew into a record that I wanted to release.
Rather than recreating the songs in their original letter-perfect form, Priggen applied his distinct power pop melodic touch to them; one might have thought the catchy songs were truly his own tunes. Ive been doing them for so long that I can almost forget that I didnt write them, he says. I just had it in my head from the way I remember them. I didnt want to have them be just like the originals.
The songs transported him back to the 70s and early 80s during which his musical tastes developed. One song he felt proud of interpreting on the record is When You Looked At Me by singer/songwriter Jennifer Jackson. I think we added a pretty arrangement on that one, like what Harry Nilsson did on the Badfinger song Without You. Priggen even goes as far to cover A Slow Soul by the British pop group Scritti Politti. Its more of a soul ballad before they used drum machines, he says. Its as far away from their later [80s synth pop] stuff.
Priggen employed several talented local musicians for Stars after Stars After Stars; the biggest highlight according to him was having Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos play on several tracks. He has been friends with Carlos for over 25 years since meeting him backstage at a Cheap Trick concert. It was almost like having Ringo Starr and [Led Zeppelins] John Boham playing drums on my record, he says proudly. I couldnt think of anything that comes close to that.
Cheap Trick were one of the bands that fostered Priggens love for power pop as a kid in New Haven; one of his other influences were legendary cult band Big Star, whose Nightime is on Priggens record. I loved Big Star since when I was 12 or 13, he says. Ive always been a big fan of theirs, back when it was literally me and two other guys in New Haven knew who Big Star were.
Spike (nee Michael) Priggen had been playing music since 1978 as a member of various bands in New Haven. He was a part of the citys underground punk and New Wave scene (whose graduates included musician/producer Jon Brion, and Mark Mulcahy and Ray Neal of the rock band Miracle Legion). Priggen later moved to New York to study photography at the School of Visual Arts; he also formed a band called Blue Period, which later evolved into the Hello Strangers during the 80s. He was involved with other ensembles including the Boston-based Dumptruck; he later launched an independent label #1 Records and produced various projects. I figured out over the last couple of weeks that a band I was in, in 1980, called TV Neats is on three different power pop compilations, he says, indicative of his long musical resume.
After years of playing and recording with other people, Priggen finally released The Very Thing You Treasure (2001)his first album under his own nameto acclaimed reviews. Recording and releasing that album proved to be a challenge when Priggen was involved in a car accident that sidelined him for several months, and suffered a vocal ailment. I couldnt sing for like a year, he remembers, between recording the music and the singingit sort of made that record take a long time to get done.
Priggen is already busy working on a new album of his own original compositions. He doesnt plan to go out on an extensive tour, although he will play a few local shows. Right now, he hopes that people will like and enjoy Stars after Stars After Stars. I like to play and sing, Priggen says simply. Thats about it really. Its like a big vanity project. Im not making these records because somebodys paying me. Im making them because Im taking money out of my own pocket and doing it.
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MACON, Ga. (Sept. 16, 2013) – For the third time in her career, ETSU senior outside hitter Megan Devine (Kingsport, Tenn.) received Atlantic Sun Player of the Week honors, which was announced by the league office on Monday.
Devine, the ETSU all-time leader in kills, totaled 80 kills, 43 digs, six blocks, and a .324 attack percentage (80-19-188) in four matches (16 total sets) last week for the Bucs. In addition, the Kingsport, Tenn. native tallied a pair of double-doubles, moving her career mark to 58.
On Saturday, Devine was phenomenal in ETSU's four-set win at Tennessee. The reigning A-Sun Player of the Year recorded a career-high 27 kills and added 16 digs en route to registering the Bucs' first win over the Lady Vols in 34 years. Devine also hit a season-best .404 (27-4-57) and tallied four blocks versus UT. Meanwhile, the 27 kills are the most by an A-Sun player in a four-set match and the second-most overall this season. Devine began the week with another impressive performance as she helped guide ETSU to a five-set come-from-behind win at Marshall after finishing with 23 kills and 16 digs against the Thundering Herd. The Buccaneer leader just missed recording a third double-double for the week as she ended with 18 kills (.382 attack percentage) and nine digs in a 3-1 win over in-state rival Austin Peay.
Devine and the Bucs return to action this Friday as ETSU opens A-Sun play at Mercer.
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The following criteria are used by the Atlantic Sun Conference in selecting the A-Sun Players of the Week in each of the conference's 20 sports. These criteria are used in no specific order and, in its groupings, one does not weigh more than the others:
• Statistics compiled during the week of competition
• The impact of that person's efforts in meeting the team goals (i.e., game-winning shot, walk-off home run, etc.)
• Magnitude of the contest on the conference and national level (i.e., game meant championship, etc.)
• When individual participates in more than one game per week, how that individual performs in each of those games, effecting team performance goals
• Level of competition faced by each individual
• Each week's performance will be considered on its own merit
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Added support for the Forerunner 645 and 645 Music APAC devices

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I have tried lots of different watch faces to try and get exactly what I want and this one is hands down the best. There is tons of data but isn't cluttered. Very easy on the eyes at a glance. Garmin should make this their signature watch face.
Abhinav Khanna
9 de agosto de 2018
Excellent all-round clock face..it's just perfect. Gives all the info in a screen Very customisable. Have gone through dozens of clock faces and for a vivoactive hr, this one is the best!
24 de julio de 2018
I really like Watch Face BigTime! Tested many options and settled on BigTime. Informative, functional and beautiful!
13 de julio de 2018
Very nice watch face, clear and easy readable. Well done design. Thank you
Greg Ginther
3 de julio de 2018
The user guide webpage is dead. What do the bars at the bottom of the watch face represent??
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Highly configures and great for getting all my info at a glance on my VAHR.
30 de mayo de 2018
FINALLY the opportunity to get the energy in a valid unit: Kilojoule. Garmin itself does not seem to be able to use valid units :-(
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6 de mayo de 2018
Awesome watch face!! Definitely one of the best. very clear and very readable with lots of options and information but doesn't weigh your watch down keep your watch working quickly. Lots of good information with just a glance of your watch without too much clutter!! Thank you developer!!
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Отличный циферблат! То, что нужно! Вот только хочу узнать что означают полоски под шагами? Серая полоска, синяя и красная, что они показывают?
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Excellent watch face, but it has two problems (on fenix 3 hr): 1: most of the displayed times are misaligned with respect to the middle. 2: the stairs climbed data field shows N/A
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21 de marzo de 2018
What is the temperature?! It is definitely not the outdoor temp. But that is what I am looking for
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13 de marzo de 2018
It's an amazing watch face. The only issue I found is always show seconds not working in my vivoactive Thanks
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What are the second (grey) and third (blue) bars below the green bar? and where do I control their colors??? also what is the (Red) bar shown in the watch face image, and where to control it??? Am I missing something? Other than that Great watch face, I wish there is none more field and I noticed that it also saves a little battery on the Fenix 5. I just wish there is one more field.
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6 de marzo de 2018
Really like this for my Forerunner 235. It shows all the info I want to see at a glance on one screen and looks good on the round watch face. I've been using it for about a month and find it accurate and helpful.
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As a Scout, you can learn how to camp and hike without leaving a trace and how to take care of the land. You'll study wildlife up close and learn about nature all around you. There are plenty of skills for you to master, and you can teach others what you have learned.
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Survivor's second all star game is well under way, with Stephenie LaGrossa being the second woman eliminated for the second week in a row.
The 30-year-old Philadelphia restaurant owner gave a new interview to PEOPLE magazine, during which she discussed her recent elimination and her upcoming wedding plans to Phillies pitcher Kyle Kendrick. One subject or name that kept coming up was however that of her cast-mate, James Clement. James who was a past fan favorite and is on the "good" Heroes team, seems to be losing some fans this season based on his recent behavior on the show, which included constantly yelling at his team-mates.
According to Stephenie, she believes both James and other fan favorite Rupert Boneham have developed big egos.
Excerpts from Stephenie's interview below –
Did you know your number was up?
I knew I was going. Our only hope was to switch Candice and Cirie to come with me, Colby, Tom, and we gave them a really good deal. We said, "Come with us and you won't see your name come the merge. We'll go to the final five and fight it out, whereas they go with the other people, they have ties on the other side, so they will use you to get to the merge but you can pretty much expect to be gone then."
Did you know you would attract the ire of Rupert and James?
It was weird. It's like, where did that come from? I didn't know James at all. I didn't even know his last name. I was just trying to get to know him and he just got in his little clique with Amanda and JT and Rupert, and Rupert didn't like me. I didn't even have a conversation with Rupert, hardly, but it was tough out there. Rupert and James are really high on themselves, so very flattered by themselves and very arrogant. If you threatened their popularity or strength, they kept away from you.
James seemed upset that the group agreed to listen to "one voice" in the challenge but you spoke.
That wasn't what the fight was. It was "one voice" and the "one voice" was stumped! What happens when it's one voice but that one voice can't figure out the puzzle? We were all sitting there like, where is the direction coming from? So Candice, actually, took the lead, which you didn't see, and it was never actually right or almost right. At the end of the challenge James is cursing and screaming at everyone and he looks at me and I was like, "Listen, I wasn't the only one talking," and he took that like I was saying, "It wasn't me," when I wasn't saying that at all. He just lost it and started bringing up Palau. He may go further than me on the show but he went from the good guy to the biggest egomaniac, rudest bully anyone has ever seen.
Did it lift your spirits to have Tom defending you at Tribal Council?
That was amazing. Him and Colby to be such gentlemen and put their heads on the chopping block even more than they already were, it just shows the character and the type of people they are.
How are wedding plans going with your fiancé, Phillies pitcher Kyle Kendrick?
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In Springfield: Lisa becomes a vegetarian; Doris Grau, the voice of Lunchlady Doris, passes away; the town learns that Maggie Simpson shot Mr. Burns. Beyond Springfield: O.J. Simpson found not guilty of murder; Million Man March in Washington Notable guests: Paul and Linda McCartney, Glenn Close, Paul Anka, Jeff Goldblum, Mickey Rooney. Season rating: 8 million households
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2013 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Values
Select a 2013 Mercedes-Benz C-Class trim level
2013 model year changes
The Mercedes-Benz C-Class is mostly unchanged for 2013. Only the all-wheel-drive C300 4MATIC receives a significant update. The C300 4MATIC now comes with a less-powerful version of the 3.5L V6 available in the C350. In C300 4MATIC tune it makes 248 horsepower, a significant bump from the 221 it had in 2012.
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Affordable luxury; a wide selection of performance engines; available 4MATIC all wheel drive system; strong safety feature list
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The 2013 Mercedes-Benz C-Class competes directly with BMW's 3-series and Infiniti's G-series. Mercedes brings a century of automotive innovation and a reputation for ultimate quality and performance to their entry-level model. The C-Class starts at $35,350 for the 1.8L-powered sedan. The direct-injected engine makes over 200 horsepower but can also cruise at 31 mpg on the highway, while still allowing for spirited performance, excellent safety and Mercedes trademark cache.
Available with a new V6 engine, the 2013 Mercedes-Benz C-Class is an entry-level luxury car offered in coupe and sedan trim levels. The C-Class models are comprised of the C250 (sport/luxury) sedan, C250 coupe, C300 4MATIC (sport/luxury) sedan, C350 coupe, and C350 (sport) sedan. Engines offered are 1.8-liter 4-cylinder turbo engine that produces 201 hp (C250), 3.5-liter V6 engine that yields 248 hp (C300), and a 302 hp producing 3.5-liter V6 engine (C350). All trims are equipped with a 7-speed automatic transmission which enables fuel mileage to fall within an EPA estimated range of 19 mpg city to 31 mpg highway, depending on trim selection. For superior performance Mercedes-Benz offers C63 AMG coupe and sedan trims; both powered by the same 6.3-liter V8 engine that produces 451 hp, for a 0-60 time of 4.4 seconds. AMG models come with high-performance braking, AMG sports exhaust system, 7-speed AMG speedshift MCT transmission, and an AMG sport suspension. Features include 18-inch wheels, rearview camera, leather upholstery, keyless GO, heated seats, navigation, and premium sound. Safety is comprised of 11-way airbag protection, attention assist, blind-spot assist, lane keeping assist, anti-lock braking (ABS), electronic stability program (ESC), brake assist (BA), and adaptive brakes. The Mercedes-Benz C-Class is backed by a 4-year/50,000-mile warranty.


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BEIJING (AP) — BHP Billiton Ltd. said Wednesday it has agreed to sell its stake in a proposed Australian gas project to Chinese state-owned energy producer PetroChina for $1.6 billion.
PetroChina is Asia's biggest oil producer by volume and, along with other Chinese energy companies, has been acquiring assets abroad to profit from increased Chinese demand for imported oil and gas.
BHP said the sale covers its 8.33 per cent interest in the East Browse Joint Venture and 20 per cent interest in the West Browse Joint Venture, located off Australia's west coast. The Australian mining giant said other partners in the Browse joint venture have the right to match the offer and the deal still requires regulatory approval.
"PetroChina has acquired an interest in a world class gas resource and BHP Billiton has exited a non-strategic asset," said BHP Billiton's chief executive for petroleum, J. Michael Yeager, in a statement.
Last week, another Chinese state-owned energy company, CNOOC Ltd., received Canadian government approval to acquire oil and gas producer Nexen for $15.1 billion.
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17-Year Brood II Cicadas Emergence Update: They're Nearly Heeeere!
The red-eyed chittering horde that is 2013's Brood II cicada swarm has been busy since we lastchecked in on them at the start of May.
Back then, the first bugs had mostly been spotted along the I-95 corridor, as if they were headed into the office in the world's grossest commute. Look at the insectoid explosion that's occurred in just the past few days, as visualized by the Magicicada Mapping Project:
Each virtual critter on this map marks a place where somebody's spotted a nymph or adult cicada or the skin that the bugs throw off like divas jettisoning threadbare robes. There are cicadas waving stumpy antennae as far south as Tampa, cicadas thrumming tymbals way out west in Omaha and Austin, and cicadas absolutely crawling over the face of the East Coast. Check out this blown-up view of New York and its surroundings:
And here's the even buggier lands around Washington, D.C.:
The six-legged horde will only spread more and grow larger as ground temperatures coax it from stasis. The soil in eastern America is reaching prime warmth for cicada-birthing, as shown in this temperature map from New York Public Radio:
If you own a dog in infested burbs, chances are it's eaten at least three cicadas right before it last licked you. (Just my scientific guess.) In New Jersey, where the creatures are just now beginning to emerge, the ground is squirmy with boisterous young cicadas crawling from their subterranean dens:
Imagine trying to sleep through this wall of noise in Columbia, Maryland. Some TV journos have likened the sound to a "zombie apocalypse," showing once again the media's woeful ignorance of the sound flesheaters make (it's RAAAWWGGH, for the record):
What should you do when these things come out in your neighborhood? Probably not whisk bunches of them into muddy water to make a delicious "soup," as I did with childhood play-pals. (Kids can be so evil.) It's best to let them go about their business, which boils down to having sex and dying soon after. You might even grab one of the harmless bugs to verify a Fun Cicada Fact: Between their bulging crimson eyes – which give them a goofy, Buscemi-esque expression – there are actually three more eyes, called ocelli, arranged in a trigon:
And if you're the kind of person who refuses to go outside during cicada season for fear that one might fly into your hair, please satisfy any curiosity you have about these insects with this lovely montage from Cicada Mania. (It depicts a 2008 swarm in Ohio.) Warning: video contains grody footage of bugs missing body parts you'd assume are critical to life:
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When Lowell "Bud" Paxson sold the Home Shopping Network in 1991, he walked away with $130 million and dreams of a relaxing retirement. But after a single day of lounging on the beach, Paxson decided to launch a new company and try for a second fortune. Seventeen years later, that decision would land him in the middle of the 2008 presidential race as a key character in an incendiary story.
A Feb. 21 New York Times article examined U.S. Sen. John McCain's relationship with Vicki Iseman, a lobbyist who worked for Paxson in the late 1990s. In addition to hinting that the two may have had an affair, the article examined benefits Paxson supplied to McCain at a time when
Several facts are now well known: Paxson let McCain fly on his corporate jet four times and gave him numerous campaign contributions. In 1999, McCain helped Paxson by writing to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), asking regulators to limit delays and rule on Paxson's pending application to buy a Pittsburgh television station.
But while Paxson was clearly anxious to curry McCain's favor in the late 1990s, his major objective in Washington had nothing to do with winning approval to purchase a single TV station.
Had the Pittsburgh deal gone through, it would have increased the number of Paxson-owned stations in the U.S. from 73 to 74. A far more pressing concern: Paxson Communications was hemorrhaging red ink. Operating losses for 1999 were up 65%, to a record $225 million, on $248 million in revenue.
As the company's business faltered, McCain, as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, was in a position to help Paxson win--or lose--billions.
During the six-year-long fight that followed, McCain never wavered from his opposition to the legislation Paxson pushed, which would have diverted those billions into his company's coffers and away from the U.S. Treasury. Whether McCain did any other, smaller favors for Paxson is a question that will draw new attention as the campaign heats up. But, at least on the issue of most consequence, the two strong-willed men were implacable foes.
The fate of Paxson Communications and the personal fortune its founder had put at risk would ultimately depend on which man--Paxson or McCain--triumphed in this knockdown Beltway battle.
The Paxson Communications story begins in 1991, when Paxson decided to put his Home Shopping Network profits to work by buying a few radio stations. A devout Christian, Paxson also built a studio to produce religious TV shows. Then his next big idea struck.
As an old cable-TV hand, Paxson tracked the passage of a 1992 federal law, the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act. Among its provisions, Paxson knew, the law bestowed upon television broadcasters a special prerogative. Over-the-air stations could now force local cable networks to carry their channels.
Paxson spied opportunity. In the early 1990s, UHF stations (broadcasting on Channels 14-69) were a dying technology. As satellite and cable technology improved, the share of viewers relying on over-the-air programming shrank. Even among the rabbit-ears set, stronger VHF stations (Channels 2-13) attracted far more viewers than snowy UHF channels in the lands above Channel 13.
In 1994, Paxson began buying his first UHF channels, mainly in cities in Florida. He gutted the program lineup to air infomercials from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. (He filled the wee hours with religious programming.) Invoking the new must-carry law, he forced the local cable-TV networks to carry the channels he packed with wall to-wall ads.
As his station began churning out cash, Paxson repeated the strategy around the country. Paxson Communications could buy UHF TV stations cheap, according to its filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, since most were only marginally profitable. Paxson's system immediately jacked up cash flow, since airing nonstop advertising avoided the expense of acquiring programming.
In 1996, as Paxson Communications' revenues hit $145 million, Bud Paxson filed to take the five-year-old company public.
Despite its wild growth, the company's UHF purchases amounted to a giant gamble. The cable industry bitterly opposed the must-carry rules, and a legal challenge to the law was winding its way through the courts. By fall 1996, the case had reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
In his autobiography, Paxson recalls being "overcome with worry" that the court would throw out the must-carry rules, freeing cable companies to rid their channel lineups of his infomercials. The National Association of Broadcasters, the main broadcasting lobby, had told the court in a brief that must-carry rules were needed to preserve viewers' access to the sort of independent stations that might otherwise switch to a home shopping format. Paxson weakened that case by using the law to achieve the opposite effect.
(Paxson could not be reached for comment. A man answering the intercom at his gated Beverly Hills, Calif., mansion refused to talk to Forbes. A McCain spokeswoman, Melissa Shuffield, did not respond to requests for comment for this article.)
As the Supreme Court mulled his fate, Paxson summoned the courage to keep buying UHF stations. The reason, he writes in his autobiography, was that he believed God had guaranteed that his side would triumph. "God almost immediately filled my heart with a knowing. I couldn't shake the knowing, and it grew until all doubt was gone. The knowing from God was, 'Don't worry about must carry.' "
On March 31, 1997, the court, by a 5-4 vote, upheld the must-carry rules, deferring to Congress' judgment that the regulations furthered important government interests.
Hearing the news, Paxson began to cry. "We were like a bunch of kids who had just won an Olympic gold medal," he later recalled.
But the victory quickly began to sour. In the early 1990s, cable systems typically carried only a few dozen channels. That made each channel slot especially valuable. As technology improved, however, the number of channel slots steadily increased--and steadily reduced the value of Paxson's government-granted carriage rights.
In August 1998, Paxson responded to the changing cable landscape by rejiggering his business model, moving the infomercials out of prime time and airing family-friendly programming. The strategy hiked the company's operating costs without a commensurate bump in advertising income. Paxson's operating losses jumped from $22 million in 1997 to $136 million in 1998 to $225 million in 1999.
It was around this time that Paxson began exploring his other plan for rescuing his investment. And, as has happened so often in his career, his strategy relied on winning the federal government's favor.
The airwaves are the most important natural resource of the information age and must be divvied up for use by cellphones, wi-fi, satellite radio, TV and other wireless technologies. Yet even today, large sections of the airwaves allotted long ago to UHF televisions sit vacant. In any given city, most UHF channels between 14 and 69 are unused, and the few that are used are mostly unwatched.
In 1996, Congress took a first step that was aimed at clearing part of the UHF airwaves so they could be put to a better use. Lawmakers gave television broadcasters an equal-sized slice of the airwaves for a digital transmission, and set a deadline of 2006 for the end of analog TV broadcasts and a return of the airwaves. It was an even swap, ostensibly.
Opponents, most notably McCain and FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, called the deal a sellout. It wasn't an even trade, they argued. Digital technology would let broadcasters increase the number of channels they could transmit sixfold. And while the handout of new airwaves occurred almost immediately, the deadline for broadcasters to return the old UHF airwaves was to be delayed for at least a decade--and thanks to a glaring loophole in the law, possibly several decades more after that.
Estimates of what the digital TV airwaves might have fetched had they been sold at auction--instead of just given away--generally ranged between $30 billion and $70 billion.
Hundt, the Democratic chairman of the FCC in 1996, recalled the losing fight in his memoir. "Sen. McCain supported our critique of the congressionally mandated gift of airwave spectrum to the broadcasters. The senator said publicly, 'I am completely dismayed about the giveaway aspect of this legislation. One thing I want to make clear to the American public is that Congress, at the behest of special interest groups, has turned its back on $30 billion of potential revenue.' "
William Safire wrote in The New York Times in 1996, "One lone senator tried to oppose this giveaway. John McCain, Republican of Arizona, was flattened by the broadcast lobby's steamroller."
At the time Congress was passing out digital TV airwaves for free, no one owned more broadcast stations than Paxson Communications, and thus no one won the right to as much free spectrum. On the open market, the value of the airwaves he filled with infomercials was easily several billions of dollars.
The trick was turning that theoretical value into cold hard cash. In 2000, as Paxson Communications' financial fortunes continued to slide, Paxson set about trying to do just that. His plan was simple. All he needed to do was convince Congress to let the cellular phone companies buy the rights to the UHF TV airwaves--and write their checks to him instead of the government.
He faced several hurdles. First, the rationale for giving broadcasters the digital TV airwaves in 1996 had been to compensate them in advance for the day they would hand back the older airwaves. Second, Paxson did not legally own the airwaves he hoped to sell. TV station licenses are not property titles (a fact the licenses make clear in explicit language). Rather, TV licenses are essentially temporary leases, and rent-free leases at that.
Nevertheless, Paxson argued flatly that the airwaves were rightly his. He compared himself to Jed Clampett, the Beverly hillbilly who happened to find oil on his land. "The free enterprise system is about people working hard and making money, or getting lucky and making money," he said in a 2002 interview with Forbes.
Paxson became the head of the "spectrum clearing alliance," a group of broadcasters who would agree to hand over the airwaves in exchange for a big payout.
Given the history of the 1996 airwave giveaway, there was little question about which members of Congress would seek to block Paxson's plan.
Sure enough, McCain openly scoffed at the idea that broadcasters deserved to pocket a multibillion-dollar payoff, calling stations that refused to relinquish their spectrum "squatters."
McCain had often joked that in his fights with the broadcast lobby (of which there had been many), he had compiled a record "unblemished by victory." But this time, as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, he found himself in a much stronger position.
He portrayed the broadcasters' hold on empty UHF airwaves as not just selfish but dangerous. During the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, problems with wireless communications hobbled rescue efforts in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, according to the 911 Commission. The commission recommended that "Congress should support pending legislation which provides for the expedited and increased assignment of radio spectrum for public safety purposes."
Still, it wasn't quite enough. McCain regularly introduced bills and amendments seeking to accelerate the return of the UHF airwaves, and he continued to lose.
In 2004 McCain invited Paxson to testify before the Commerce Committee, which he chaired. Paxson said that if he was forced to return his analog spectrum, it could cause his company to fail. He concluded his testimony by once again threatening to sue, telling McCain that the government's reclaiming of the airwaves was "an illegal taking of our rights, and we would be forced to respond."
It was an empty threat, and McCain continued to push for a deadline. In 2005, wireless communications again failed during Hurricane Katrina. "Some of the human tragedy that took place as a result of Hurricane Katrina could have been avoided if Congress had acted in a more timely fashion," McCain said.
Finally, at the end of 2005, McCain and his allies succeeded in setting a hard deadline to clear the broadcasters off UHF Channels 52-69. The broadcasters would get no cash payout for relocating their signals. His dreams dashed, Paxson quit the fight and resigned from Paxson Communications.
Today, the UHF airwaves still lie vacant. But they will finally be put to more worthwhile uses starting Feb. 17, 2009. A big chunk will be handed to police and other public safety groups, improving their ability to communicate in emergencies. The rest of the airwaves are now being auctioned to the highest bidder by the FCC.
Cellphone carriers,
That reality has been reflected in the company's stock price for several years now. Immediately after the Supreme Court's 1997 decision upholding the must-carry rules, Paxson Communications' stock price hit $10.75, making Bud Paxson's shares worth over $340 million. By November 2005, just before he finally resigned from his company, those same shares had fallen to 37 cents.
Last week, the once mighty Paxson Communications, now renamed Ion Media Networks, was delisted from the American Stock Exchange and sold off to Kenneth Griffin's Citadel Investment Group.
Editor's note: An early version of this article incorrectly described the timing of Barry Diller's acquisition of the Home Shopping Network.


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Some (diseases) like it hot
All sorts of things have been linked to climate change lately: skin cancer, shrinking leaves, extreme weather and death. This summer, scientists and reporters have been puzzling over a wave of disease outbreaks—hantavirus, valley fever and West Nile virus—and whether they, too, are linked to climate change.
With some of these diseases the climatic connections are too obvious to ignore. The mosquitoes that pick up West Nile from birds, Culex pipiens, breed faster in warm weather and bite more frequently. The virus replicates faster at warmer temperatures, too. Drought also helps the Culex breed by turning streams into cesspools of stinky, stagnant water rich with organic matter, and by making life difficult for predators like dragonflies and frogs. Birds also concentrate around a few remaining water sources during droughts, making transmission easier.
Not surprisingly, the unusually hot, dry weather we had this past summer aided the spread of West Nile in the United States. As of October 9, 168 deaths and 4,249 cases of the disease have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, mostly from Texas. Most people never develop symptoms, but about 20 percent experience fever, body aches, and nausea, among other signs. The disease will turn serious in about one in 150 people, and symptoms can last weeks.
In California's Central Valley, cases of the aptly-named valley fever, a less-publicized but more common disease, are on the rise. The disease is caused by a soil-dwelling fungus called coccidioides. Fungus spores are carried in wind-blown dust, and once inhaled, take root in the lungs. Once it's inside you, the fungus never leaves. It can weaken bones, cause muscle wasting and skin pustules. People who work outside, in industries like agriculture and construction, are most likely to get it. Every year, valley fever kills more than 100 people and sickens 150,000.
The soil fungus that causes valley fever thrives in drought conditions. Hot, dry weather kills off the organisms that keep the fungus under control, giving coccidioides unlimited access to organic material in the soil. Research by University of Arizona and Kern County, Calif. health officials has shown that valley fever thrives particularly when a rainy year, like last year, is followed by a dry one, like this one, mobilizing the spores that grew during the wet period.
And while the climate connection is much more tenuous, researchers are also debating the role of global warming in a much-publicized hantavirus outbreak in Yosemite National Park this summer, which killed three people out of nine total infected. People get hantavirus through breathing in dust particles from the poop and pee of infected deer mice. Early symptoms include fever, exhaustion and muscle aches, and develop four to 10 days later into coughing and shortness of breath caused by fluid filling the lungs. About 38 percent of those infected die.
A University of Utah study found that increased rainfall from El Niño in the early 1990s precipitated an outbreak of hantavirus in 1993, likely because more rainfall equals more food for deer mice. But others say the climate link to hantavirus is pretty shaky. Janet Foley, an epidemiologist at University of California, Davis, told Mother Jones that the deer mouse is very common regardless of the weather, and the real question is whether (and why) more deer mice are holing up in cabins and shelters, where humans are exposed to them.
It's difficult to determine how much climate affects the frequency, intensity and location of disease outbreaks, but one thing is clear: the conversation on climate change now concerns public health, not just the environment. And when public health officials talk, the public generally listens. "When we show the evidence that a changing climate does affect their health, people become very concerned and believe it ought to be addressed," epidemiologist George Luber told NPR. Moreover, people tend to respond positively to a conversation about climate change when it's framed as a public health issue, even those who are climate skeptics, according to a recent study by researchers at George Mason, American and Yale universities.
It's certainly not a silver lining to climate-induced spread of disease, but it's something.
Emily Guerin is an intern at High Country News.
Photo of the Culex pipiens courtesy Flickr user fairfaxcounty; high magnification micrograph of valley fever courtesy Wikimedia user Nephron; photo of deer mouse courtesy Flickr user Tatiana Gettelman.


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3rd Annual All Muttster
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Join us for a fun filled afternoon for the whole family at our Waterford Shelter. The Waterford Branch is hosting their 3rd Annual All Muttster. There will be dog and owner contest, cat photo contest, collar decorating and more. For more information or to register for the contast click:
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These web pages outline the precautions to be taken when working with biological agents (BA), when carrying out genetic modification (GM), and tissue culture work. They also deal with University and national regulatory and enforcement matters. These pages are designed to assist you in both identifying BAs in the workplace and managing the risks they pose.
Definition Of Biological Agent And Why They Are Important
BAs are defined in legislation as 'a micro-organism, including those which have been genetically modified, a cell culture, and a human endoparasite, which may be able to provoke any infection, allergy or toxicity classified according to their risk of infection.'
BAs are described according to whether they are bacteria, fungi, helminths, protozoa, prions and viruses. Based on their potential for infectivity and appropriate treatment BAs are classified into 4 groups. If you use or are exposed to a BA during the course of your work in NUI Galway then according to the university's practices and procedures you must conduct a risk assessment or be made aware of its existence by your manager.
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BAs are found in two principal areas University activities:
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Each person responsible for work with or exposure to BAs must make appropriate arrangements to ensure that University policy and guidance is implemented. This responsibility extends to principal investigators and others who are accountable for the safety of persons at risk from exposure to BAs. Individuals responsible for the working with BAs are required to:
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Welcome to the Taylor University Police Department!
In keeping with the institutional mission of Taylor University, the Police Department is dedicated to providing for the protection of persons, property, and civil order on campus by overseeing the functions of law enforcement and security on a 24/7/365 basis.
The Police Department also manages the motor pool, identification card, campus parking, card access, and lost and found programs for Taylor University. These services are administered during regular office hours.
Message from the Chief
Thank you for your interest in the Police Department at Taylor University.
All of our full time officers are graduates of the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy and are certified police officers within the state of Indiana. Additional part time officers also receive extensive training and are graduates of the Pre-Basic Indiana Law Enforcement Academy. It is this high degree of professionalism and training that enables us to focus our energies and resources on providing a safe environment for all members of the Taylor University community.
Our ongoing mission at the Police Department is to provide the best possible service to our community in a professional manner that fully exemplifies Christ through our desire to serve.
Feel free to browse the contents of our Web site. If you have any questions or if you would like to see additional information, please contact me using the information below.
I look forward to seeing you on campus!
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Chief of Police
Jeff Wallace serves as the chief law enforcement officer for Taylor University and acts as the liaison for the university with all local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. Wallace, a 1989 graduate of Taylor University, has been involved in law enforcement for 25 years. His experience includes patrol, self-defense/personal safety awareness, emergency/tactical response, criminal investigations, crime scene management, expert testimony, public relations, and certification in Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED3).
Deputy Chief of Police
Tim Enyeart serves as the Chief of Police in his absence or by his designation and additionally serves as the training officer for the Taylor University Police Department as a certified state instructor. Enyeart has 38 years of law enforcement service, including patrol, criminal investigations, crime scene management, and administration.
Police Officers
There are two full-time and four part-time police officers, as well as two additional no-sworn campus safety officers. Our police officers have full law enforcement authority in the state of Indiana. Their responsibilities include: proactive vehicular and foot patrol; traffic, criminal, and infraction investigations; traffic enforcement; building and special event security; emergency medical assists; and more.


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Jewish World Review Sept. 6, 2011 / 7 Elul, 5771
Bullied by anti-bullying?
By Tom Purcell
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Anti-bullying measures are getting pretty tough.
According to The New York Times, New Jersey has implemented the nation's toughest anti-bullying law.
It "demands that all public schools adopt comprehensive antibullying policies (there are 18 pages of 'required components'), increase staff training and adhere to tight deadlines for reporting episodes."
It requires that "each school designate an antibullying specialist to investigate complaints; each district must, in turn, have an antibullying coordinator; and the State Education Department will evaluate every effort, posting grades on its Web site."
Educators who fail to comply could lose their licenses.
I endured my share of bullying when I was little. One bully rubbed my head in dog droppings once.
In eighth grade, another bully -- I'll call him Frankie -- busted up my go-cart. A big, fat kid, he laughed out loud as he kicked my handcrafted vehicle into pieces.
Of course, kids had it better back then. With so many big families around, we always had older siblings to protect us -- in my case, my sister Kris.
She tackled Frankie from behind. As he lay on his belly, Kris pounded his back with abandon. He blubbered like a baby, forever humiliated in front of the other kids.
Kids who are bullied now are so much more isolated. They don't have other kids to turn to.
What's worse is that bullying is a 24-hour activity now, thanks to the Internet and smartphones. Kids can be taunted online by other kids, even when they are locked in their homes.
A lot of kids aren't handling the trend well.
"According to various studies, one in three kids is either bullied or a bully," says Carleton Kendrick, a family therapist and author of "Take Out Your Nose Ring, Honey, We're Going to Grandma's."
"On any given day 160,000 kids are so traumatized by fear and intimidation they're afraid to go to school."
It's no wonder, then, that numerous government and private organizations are promoting anti-bullying campaigns and some 30 states have anti-bullying laws.
But then again, as the New Jersey law shows, aren't we overdoing the anti-bullying some? Aren't adults getting a wee bit too involved?
The unfortunate fact is there is pain in life and no amount of legislation or anti-bullying training will eradicate it.
Some kids are more popular than others. Some are bigger. Some are dumber. Some are bullies and others are bullied.
Regardless, all kids have to learn their own strengths and weaknesses and how to fend for themselves.
New Jersey's encouraging reporting bullying episodes to the Crimestoppers hotline. Consultants are counseling kids on the fine line between "telling and tattling." And educators are under pressure to respond to every bullying episode, real or perceived.
"The law requires districts to appoint a safety team at each school, made up of teachers, staff members and parents, to review complaints," says The Times. "It orders principals to begin an investigation within one school day of a bullying episode, and superintendents to provide reports to state government twice a year detailing all episodes."
It's a heck of a thing for a kid to be bullied, no doubt. But isn't it a little nutty for overzealous adults to attempt to use government to eradicate all unpleasantness from kids' lives?
What's next, a law to ensure every kid gets a prom date?
Besides, aren't New Jersey's anti-bullying politicians rather ironic? Aren't they carrying on like, well, bullies?
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Free-agent OL A.J. Greene (Bears) is giving a professional career another chance. He was in camp with the Chicago Bears last season, and took part in Auburn's Pro Day Tuesday, March 5. He posted 25 reps of 225 pounds in the bench press, a 29-inch vertical jump, 8-foot-7 broad jump, 5.35 seconds in the 40-yard dash and 7.82 seconds in the three-cone shuttle. All times were unofficial.
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The Chicago Bears have agreed to terms with undrafted rookie free-agent RB Alvester Alexander (Wyoming), OT James Brown (Troy), DT Ronnie Cameron (Old Dominion), LB Adrien Cole (Louisiana Tech), S Trevor Coston (Maine), WR Terriun Crump (Western Illinois), WR Brittan Golden (West Texas A&M), OT A.J. Greene (Auburn), S Jeremy Jones (Wayne State), WR Chris Summers (Liberty) and LB Ronnie Thornton (Southern Miss). Terms of the contracts were not disclosed.
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Making your own: There are plenty of items we can DIY and don't have to buy, such as certain foods and cleaning supplies. Not only will making some of these items on your own save you money, but it's also better for your health. There are fewer chemicals in homemade cleaning supplies and food.
Using it up: Use everything to the last drop before you toss it. This includes everything from bath supplies to cooking ingredients.
Going to the library: We often forget our friendly neighborhood library has plenty of awesome freebies in store for us, from ebooks to DVDs. Don't forget: the library is also a great quiet spot to enjoy free WiFi without the obligation of buying a cup of coffee.
Mending it: Instead of throwing away your items or handing them off to a professional, fix them yourself. Thankfully, we have plenty of online tutorials that can take us through the steps without us blindly figuring it out on your own. Check out these home repair projects you should tackle on your own.
Using less: Not only do we need to use everything to the last drop, but we also have to remember to use less of what we have. For example, you can always dilute your hand soap and shampoo with water. And you can use less detergent for your wash.
Growing your own: If growing your own food sounds intimidating, you can always start small. Explore foods that you can easily grow in a small space, such as herbs.
Needing over wanting: Apply the stranger test to purchases. Picture a stranger offering you the cash value of the purchase or the purchase to you, and figure out which one you would pick. If you pick the cash over the item, then you should seriously reconsider buying and just make do with what you have instead.
Reusing items: Don't throw away items just because you can't use it for its original purpose. For example, there are plenty of things you can do with an old t-shirt, books, mason jars, and even maps.
Spending less on entertainment: Didn't you know the best things in life are free? Enjoy free activities, and learn how to entertain yourself at home without spending a dime.
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Former North Providence police Col. John Whiting was sentenced Friday to five years in prison, but 4 ½ years were suspended. The judge stayed the sentence while Whiting appeals.
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GREENVILLE, N.C. (Nov. 18, 2009) — The U.S. health care system needs a lot of work, but no one bill before Congress has all the answers. That was the message from a pair of Brody School of Medicine faculty members who discussed federal health care reform measures Tuesday night.
Dr. Charles Willson, clinical professor of pediatrics and chair of the N.C. Health and Wellness Trust Fund Commission; and Dr. Stephen Powell, East Carolina University professor of cardiovascular sciences and a vascular surgeon, took opposing viewpoints on some topics but agreed on several others during a health care reform debate organized by medical students.
Dr. Paul Cunningham, dean of the Brody School of Medicine, was the moderator. The event was held in the Brody Medical Sciences Building.
"We don't have a health care system. We have a sick care system," Willson said. "We have a system perfectly designed to save your life at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars."
He also described the health care system as one in which millions of Americans are "one pink slip away" from losing their insurance coverage. "We cannot be the country we can be and ought to be until all our people have access to health care and don't have to worry about going broke."
Powell said the health care reform bill recently passed by the House of Representatives, H.R. 3962, or the Affordable Health Care for America Act, is hastily assembled, crowded with special interest provisions, does nothing to reduce costs and will add to the national debt. He said today's medical students will pay the costs.
He also predicted rationing will occur when people who don't have insurance are able to obtain insurance under the House plan, especially in a health care system that faces high costs and workforce shortages.
"Government health care programs would be forced to severely restrict services, ration care or deny care to save money," Powell said. "Adding more health care in a broken system will accelerate the breakdown of that system ... and lead to a rationing scenario. You can't have something for nothing."
The physicians also seemed to disagree on the question of whether health care is a right.
"Is food a right?" Powell asked. "Is it a right for people to have houses? Is it a right for people to have cars? You cannot have something for nothing."
Willson responded by saying, "I'm not smart enough to know if health care is a right, but I know it's good public policy if all Americans can be afforded the chance to be as healthy as they possibly can."
Both, however, agreed on several points. A limit on non-economic damages in medical malpractice suits is needed, people with pre-existing conditions should be able to buy affordable health insurance, reduce fraud and abuse in Medicare, and promote primary care "medical homes" for patients.
"A place where everyone knows your name," like at "Cheers," the 1980s television tavern, Willson said in describing what a medical home is.
Both also said doctors should play a more active role in making sure lawmakers and the public know more about the health care system, its problems and potential solutions. They also agreed that without change, severe challenges loom.
"We have a recipe for disaster with increasing costs, poor value delivered," Willson said. "We are going to have more and more rationing whether we want it or not."
Before the debate, Dr. Lillian Burke, an ECU oncologist, outlined the daunting numbers facing America's health care system.
The debate was organized by Brody Scholars Josh McKinnon and Ying Zhang. The scholarship program encourages and supports students organizing seminars such as the debate.
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Forget for a moment words like "good" and "bad" in relation to music, and cue up the sounds of Tanya Tagaq. Words that have to do with liking or not liking are inadequate to describe what she does.
A Tagaq performance is hair-raising. It's as if you've stumbled upon a voice that might be from another era, an era of stone and flesh before written history. Even that isn't adequate to describe the effect. If not for the deep currents of human emotion that course through her vocals, even contort her body, she might be an emissary from another planet.
That may sound like hyperbole, but her music-making is so unfamiliar in its contours, so much a product of another culture, that you can't help but be caught short by its astonishing power. Tagaq is Inuit, from Victoria Island, an enormous piece of arctic land north of mainland Canada. Her singing is not only unusual compared to European traditions; it also departs from Inuit tradition. Usually, Inuit throat-singing is a duo affair, something akin to a game. It's not much like the more commonly heard Tuvan variety of throat-singing, in which a low, growly drone is augmented by simultaneous overtones, as if two people were singing. The Inuit variety is heavy on rhythm, and growly sounds bump up against fully voiced ones in quick fashion.
The tradition may be primarily one of fun entertainment, but what Tagaq has done with that tradition is far more than that. Sometimes she sounds like a didgeridoo played rhythmically. Other times, she keens and wails. Sometimes both happen in quick changes, with rhythm giving way to sustained notes.
All that back and forth adds up to something greater than its parts. Tagaq improvises most of what she sings, and she's trying to tap into something greater. On her website, Tagaq says, "It feels like I dial in another frequency. I go to places where I surrender to all that terrifies and excites me."
Listen to her, and you'll be asked to do the same. Tagaq portrays, all at once, her emotional landscape and the wide-open spaces of her native region. Once you get used to the strangeness of the sounds she makes, recognizable elements emerge. Walrus snorts, whale song, and wolf howls erupt from her vocal cords, and she dances, crumpling to the stage, then reaching high, depicting the primal stuff of life, from suffering to ecstasy.
This is not lighthearted entertainment. Tagaq plays with a band, but the musicians are usually employed to subtle effect. They accompany and amplify what she does, and seldom divert attention.
The Holy Grail for many a music critic is material that possesses a voice that's so thoroughly tied to a performer's vision it cannot be mistaken for anyone else's. In Tagaq's case, that's true in such an overboard way it's hard to imagine anything it could be compared to. Yoko Ono's unleashed vocalizing, perhaps, is a much less deft incarnation of a similar urge, but Tagaq's sounds compel and persist in a way that Ono's generally can't. There's free jazz here, pure noise, wordless singing. It's steeped in Inuit culture, but steered toward the kind of musical progression that comes from European traditions. Tagaq is in such control of her voice that the result is more a spell than a song, a spell that connects distant past with present, primal with prosaic.
Though it's safe to say the pool of arctic-inclined musical experimenters is smaller than most, Tagaq came to greater prominence via that world—Icelandic innovator Bjork invited her on tour, and Tagaq appears on her album Medulla. Tagaq has also collaborated with the Kronos Quartet.
Happily, Tagaq's world intersects ours this week, when she and her trio (Tagaq plus violin and percussion) visit the Valley for a performance.•
Tanya Tagaq: March 8, 8 p.m., $10-18, Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center, Amherst College, (413) 542-2195, amherst.universitytickets.com.


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The New Bern Home & Garden Show is one of the longest-running events of its type in Eastern North Carolina, now approaching 30 years.
The New Bern Home & Garden Show is one of the longest-running events of its type in Eastern North Carolina, now approaching 30 years.
Admission is free to the Saturday and Sunday shows, featuring more than 100 exhibitors with a wide variety of products and services related to the home and the garden.
Show hours at the New Bern Riverfront Convention Center are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Some of the area�s top professionals in the home and garden industry will be under one roof, along with demonstrations, prize drawings and samples. There are also children�s projects and a local plant and flower show.
Among the highlights, the Craven Arts Council presents its Vintage Art Market, with proceeds benefiting the council, its gallery and the art community.
Something new this year is �Helping Our Heroes,� featuring the Crystal Coast Photo Booth taking snapshots to support Wounded Warriors. For $5, participants get a postcard of pictures taken in the photo booth. All proceeds go directly to the Wounded Warriors Project.
On the web: Encshows.com
Here is a sampling of other top events this week:
It�s a very busy week for the New Bern-Craven County Public Library, with ongoing events and special activities surrounding the National Baseball Hall of Fame traveling exhibit �Pride & Passion � The African-American Baseball Experience.�
The library presents YA Movie Nite! at 6 p.m. today. The film is �Bully,� a free PG-13 show for young adults in grades 6 to 12. Refreshments will be served in the Hayden H. Jones Auditorium.
Children�s Movie Day! is Wednesday at 4 p.m. with �Everyone�s Hero.� Rated G, this movie is for children in grades K through 5. Light snacks will be served.
After the baseball exhibit�s opening reception on Thursday at 4 p.m., there will be a program titled �Sweet Sport in the Carolinas,� an oral history about baseball in New Bern. It is presented by Kathryn Amerson and Craven Community College�s Phi Theta Kappa Chapter and Humanities 160 class.
Tuesday�s 10th Annual Taste of Coastal Carolina at the Riverfront Convention Center in New Bern features 30 Eastern North Carolina restaurants.
It raises money to support the protection and education programs of the Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation, a leading advocate for clean water in the river basin.
Award-winning restaurants and chefs, longtime favorites, newcomers to the area and established eating places from New Bern, Kinston and Oriental make up this year�s roster. The event provides �taste� of each restaurant�s specialties, with a wide array of food.
Those purchasing Patron tickets will have the opportunity to sample the region�s newest brewery, Beer Army, as well as premium wines.
General admission is $30, $35 at the door if available. Tickets are available at the New Bern Harris Teeter, The Funky Monkees, Cravin� Wine in James City and Mitchell Hardware. In Kinston, tickets can be purchased at the Kinston-Lenoir County Visitors Center. Pamlico County residents can buy tickets in Bayboro at The County Compass office and in Oriental at Nautical Wheelers.
Tickets are also available on the web: Neuseiver.org
Tryon Palace presents the first movie of the year Tuesday in �Fresh from the Past� programming.
That is the Palace�s 2013 annual theme. Activities include cooking demonstrations, food-related programs, tastings, dinners and movies.
The 7 p.m. Tuesday feature is �Ratatouille.� Seating begins at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free, donations are welcome.
More movie nights are planned June 11, Sept. 10 and Dec. 10.
Tryon�s Tales for Tots presents �Life in Chatawka� Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the North Carolina History Center.
Pre-schoolers and parents will learn about life in Eastern North Carolina before the arrival of European settlers. They will learn about American Indian life and traditional games, and have the chance to make a wampum bracelet.
Tickets are $6 per child with one accompanying adult admitted free. Additional adult admissions are $6. The program, for ages 3 to 5 with parental accompaniment, is included with regular admission. Space is limited to 20 children. Call 639-3500.
This program is designed for individual families. Preschool teachers interested in bringing a group for a program can call the groups services coordinator at 639-3524.
Ratio Theatre presents �Songs for a New World� Friday in Cullman Performance Hall at the North Carolina History Center.
The doors open at 7 p.m., seating begins a half-hour later and the show is at 8 p.m.
Other shows are Saturday and March 22 and 23 at 8 p.m. There are two matinees: Sunday and on March 24 at 2 p.m.
The production features music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. He transports his audience from the deck of a 1492 Spanish sailing ship to a ledge 57 stories above Fifth Avenue to meet a startling array of characters. They range from a young man who has determined that basketball is his ticket out of the ghetto to a woman whose dream of marrying rich results in a soulless marriage.
Tickets are $25 for adults, $22 for Palace Council of Friends and $10 for students.
Tickets are online at ratiotheatre.org or by calling 626-0358. The Ratio box office is at 901 Pollock St. in New Bern. Tickets are also available at the performances. Seating is general admission.
The program is part of the Tryon Palace Performing Arts Series. Media sponsorship is provided by Public Radio East and the Sun Journal.
The family concert is free, but cash donations are welcome. Parents are asked to pre-register by calling Child Care Resource and Referral at 672-5921, ext 21.
Craven Smart Start and Child Care Resource and Referral host a free family concert Friday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Tourist and Event Center in Havelock.
Anna Pridgen, �The Puppet Lady,� will present an evening of fun and education for youngsters and their parents, entertaining with puppets and music. The concert is designed primarily for families with preschool children, but older children will also enjoy the show.
Pridgen, the creator and co-author of �The Adventures of Sam the Shark,� has been involved in Early Childhood Education since 1991. Since graduating from East Carolina University, she has worked as Pre-K teacher, taught kindergarten and trained college students at ECU�s Child Development Lab. She has also owned and operated her own large family child care home.
The St. Elizabeth�s Chapter invites players to �Luck of the Irish Game Day� on Saturday at the Christ Church Ministry Center. The event is from 1 to 4 p.m.
The deadline for registration is today.
The games include bridge, canasta, mahjong and others. Players provide the cards and scorecards and the organizers offer the tables, door prizes, desserts, beverages and a 50-50 drawing.
The cost is $10. Make checks payable to ECW/St. Elizabeth�s Chapter. Proceeds go to outreach programs.
Tickets are available from the Christ Church receptionist or at the Four C�s on Middle Street, New Bern.
Participants are encouraged to wear green.Call 637-7657 for information.
Bear Hands Art Factory& Framing presents �Paint a Landscape� Saturday from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at the Middle Street studios.
Owner Chris Mathiot will guide participants through their atmospheric landscape painting. Materials are included and no experience is necessary. Beverages and snacks are welcome.
Admission is $40. Call 514-2787.
On the web: Bearhandsart.com
Nonprofit Craven Smart Start and Child Care Resource and Referral host the seventh annual �Early Childhood Building Brighter Futures� conference Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Craven Community College.
Registration deadline is Tuesday. Call 672-5921, ext. 21.
Anna Pridgen, �The Puppet Lady,� is the keynote speaker. She will present sessions on �Bringing Puppets to Life� and �Laugh & Learn.� The conference also will include a variety of breakout sessions on literacy; inclusion; health and nutrition; developmentally appropriate activities and materials; family style dining and more.
The goal is to provide a day of quality training for child care providers; preschool teachers; elementary school teachers; center director/managers; parents, grandparents and community representatives.
The fee is $25 and includes a continental breakfast, lunch and a participant bag.
RiverTowne Players present the renowned Christian recording artist Paul Saik in a St. Patrick�s Day concert on Sunday.
Centenary United Methodist Church�s sanctuary is the site for the 3 p.m. concert, with traditional Irish songs, Broadway tunes and favorite hymns.
Saik, who has toured internationally, lives in New Bern and is the minister of music at Centenary and the director of choral music at the Epiphany School.
Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the Bank of the Arts on Middle Street. The doors open at 2 p.m.
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