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Since going dark-blue-with-white-horse from the neck up, the Denver Broncos no longer sport that big orange "D" on their helmets. But if Mike Shanahan wins big in the biggest gamble of his coaching career, it is "D" that will be inside his players' heads this year. It will be "D" that will loft his championship-starved team back into the Super Bowl. "D" for Defense. Hard-nosed defense, especially on pass plays. What NFL junkies call shut-down defense. The Champ Bailey era begins Sunday night at Invesco Field, and if Shanahan has played his cards right, a team that ranked a respectable ninth in the league in 2003 for fewest points allowed will this year be fourth, or second...or first.
Guess what. The last four Super Bowl winners stood first, first, sixth and first, in that order, in scoring defense. Meanwhile, the offensive scoring prowess of those same teams -- last year's New England Patriots, the 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the 2001 Patriots and the 2000 Baltimore Ravens -- averaged out at just twelfth-best in the league. Shanahan thinks he's on to something: The game has changed radically since the glory days when the high-powered Broncos offense won the Lombardi Trophy for the Mile High City. Today, Shanahan believes, is D-Day.
For now, these are just numbers, statistics pre-supposing a trend upon which a theory is based. If Shanahan is right, the Drive will recede into the back pages of golden Broncos lore and the Trade will take its place. If he's wrong, the Trade may start to look like Lou Brock-for-Ernie Broglio; the Broncos will fail to win a playoff game for the sixth straight season; and Shanahan's future with the Broncos might, at long last, come into question.
The Trade, for those who've been vacationing on Pluto or writing briefs for Kobe Bryant, sent star Broncos running back Clinton Portis to the Washington Redskins in exchange for star cornerback Champ Bailey. It marked the first time in 32 years that two NFL Pro Bowlers had been traded for each other and, judging by the noise it's provoked, the Trade is the most significant event in Colorado history since the Sand Creek Massacre -- or at least Elway's bust-out from the Baltimore Colts. Coupla guys bring this burning issue up over a cold one in the corner saloon, and suddenly you've got Bush and Kerry armed with nightsticks. You can't give up one of the best ball carriers in the league for a defensive player! It's nuts! guy one shouts. Yer fulluvit! his pal screams back. Shanahan's great with running backs. Doesn't matter who he's got. Defense wins games.
This argument is not likely to be settled anytime soon. But Sunday night's season opener against Kansas City's powerful offense -- KC running back Priest Holmes has scored fifty touchdowns in his last 31 games! -- is bound to give belligerents on both sides of the offense/defense debate plenty to chew on.
The working theory of Mike Shanahan and defensive coordinator Larry Coyer is beautiful in all its parts: A dominant Bailey shuts off an entire sector of the field (smart quarterbacks don't go there), which allows Denver's defensive linemen to penetrate and linebackers (keep an eye on dazzling rookie D.J. Williams) to make more plays -- including blitzes against the passer -- while freeing up safeties like former Tampa Bay standout John Lynch to help stop the run. Whatever they try, opposing offenses get bottled up -- even if they've got Holmes carrying the ball or, say, Peyton Manning throwing it.
Meanwhile, the Broncos offense does its best with limited resources. Starting quarterback Jake Plummer has looked less than stellar in the pre-season (four interceptions in as many games, no touchdown throws and an abysmal passer rating of 40.8). The receiving corps is sure to miss retired veterans Ed McCaffrey and Shannon Sharpe. And a platoon of largely untested running backs is weakened by the August 27, season-ending groin injury to former 1,000-yard rusher Mike Anderson.
Brass tacks: Can the "D" inside the Broncos' heads compensate for what might be a lack of punch on "O"? That's the acid test of the Trade. The good old days are gone. John Elway's bronze visage gazes down from a high perch in Canton, Ohio; it now falls to Champ Bailey and company to save face in Denver.
If things go right, the running game may not be as awful as the why-trade-Portis skeptics believe. Since 1995, Denver has rushed for more yards than any other NFL team -- 20,150 -- and four different backs have come up with 1,000-yard seasons in eight of Shanahan's nine years. Injured-and-retired great Terrell Davis was one of them, of course, and Portis was another, but those who believe Shanahan's rushing system outranks individual talent have reason for optimism. All the Broncos' star rushers of the last decade -- Davis, Anderson, Olandis Gary and Portis -- came from the mysterious middle rungs of the NFL draft, and all of them produced. This year, Shanahan has got quick, shifty Quentin Griffin in the backfield, and he may have come up with another canny mid-level draft pick in Oklahoma State workhorse Tatum Bell. At just 5'7" and 195 pounds, Griffin may have durability issues. In Anderson's absence, the Broncos may have to depend on Bell and on veteran backup Garrison Hearst, who's fully recovered from a severe knee injury.


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Find balance and beat iron-deficiency anemia. Iron deficiency, whether it is severe enough to lead to anemia or not, can result from a number of health issues. According to research or other evidence, the following self-care steps may be helpful.
About This Condition
Anemia is a reduction in the number of red blood cells (RBCs); in the amount of hemoglobin in the blood (hemoglobin is the iron-containing pigment of the red blood cells that carry oxygen from the lungs to the tissues); and in another related index called hematocrit (the volume of RBCs after they have been spun in a centrifuge). All three values are measured on a complete blood count, also referred to as a CBC. Iron-deficiency anemia can be distinguished from most other forms of anemia by the fact that it causes RBCs to be abnormally small and pale, an observation easily appreciated by viewing a blood sample through a microscope.
Iron deficiency also can occur, even if someone is not anemic. Symptoms of iron deficiency without anemia may include fatigue, mood changes, and decreased cognitive function. Blood tests (such as serum ferritin, which measures the body's iron stores) are available to detect iron deficiency, with or without anemia.
Iron deficiency, whether it is severe enough to lead to anemia or not, can have many non-nutritional causes (such as excessive menstrual bleeding , bleeding ulcers , hemorrhoids , gastrointestinal bleeding caused by aspirin or related drugs, frequent blood donations, or colon cancer ) or can be caused by a lack of dietary iron . Menstrual bleeding is probably the leading cause of iron deficiency. However, despite common beliefs to the contrary, only about one premenopausal woman in ten is iron deficient.1 Deficiency of vitamin B12 , folic acid , vitamin B6 , or copper can cause other forms of anemia, and there are many other causes of anemia that are unrelated to nutrition. This article will only cover iron-deficiency anemia.
Some common symptoms of anemia include fatigue, lethargy, weakness, poor concentration, and impaired immune function . In iron-deficiency, fatigue also occurs because iron is needed to make optimal amounts of ATP—the energy source the body runs on. This fatigue usually begins long before a person is anemic. Said another way, a lack of anemia does not rule out iron deficiency in tired people. Another symptom of anemia, called pica, is the desire to eat unusual things, such as ice, clay, cardboard, paint, or starch. Advanced anemia may also result in lightheadedness, headaches, ringing in the ears ( tinnitus ), irritability, pale skin, unpleasant sensations in the legs with an uncontrollable urge to move them ( restless legs syndrome ), and getting winded easily.
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Rancher works to preserve Kansas' scenic Flint Hills
EMPORIA, Kan. (AP)--If you asked Jane Koger what she'd do if given the choice to go to heaven or stay in the Kansas Flint Hills, she'd tell you she'd rather stay in the Flint Hills.
Koger is the owner of the Homestead Ranch in Chase County, a 4,000-acre privately owned ranch. She has turned her love of the Flint Hills into a lifelong dedication to preserving the Flint Hills pristine ecosystem.
Koger launched the Homestead Range Renewal Initiative in 2003 and put together an advisory team of representatives from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and The Nature Conservancy.
Also included in the advisory team are another Chase County rancher and a youth partner.
Koger and the advisory team have one purpose in mind--to implement new rangeland management techniques that include a patch-burn grazing system, fence removal, reseeding of native plants on previously cultivated land, management of invasive woody species and nonnative plants.
Koger said the goal of the HRRI project is to show that you can have it all and still preserve the native wildlife. She said after the end of the seven-year project, she hopes to be able to say the efforts worked. Koger is a rancher herself and grazes cattle, but also wants to make sure the native species can thrive.
"I want to (say) that you can have a Big Mac and ground nesting birds," she said.
Koger's efforts recently got a boost when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service granted Homestead Ranch a $50,000 private stewardship grant to aid in the project. Marva Weigelt, who does research and education for the HRRI project, submitted the grant.
"We are honored to get this grant," Weigelt said. "I said 'The money is here, let's bring it to the Flint Hills.' We are unique in that we are a private ranch that is willing to try something new and that is on the cutting edge."
One of the major goals of the project is tree removal. They have already started on this part, evident by a large row of trees that have been cut down and lay on the ground opening up the prairie where it once was fragmented by the large trees. About 62 percent of the funding requested under the grant was for tree removal. Tree encroachment reduces the amount of grazing land and puts grassland birds in danger by providing predators places to hide.
"Trees are a place where some of the predators hang out," Weigelt said. "The prairie chickens don't like to nest next to tall objects. They are the pickiest of all other birds."
Koger and Weigelt pointed out an area that had a view uninterrupted by trees. The birds could be heard chirping in the distance and butterflies flitted in and out of the grass. Many fences were taken down also to reduce the fragmentation they cause.
"That's what the tallgrass prairie should look like," Koger said as she pointed to hills dotted with cattle. "Just rolling hills. You won't get arguments with ranchers about tree encroachment."
Another part of the HRRI project is patch burning, which divides the acreage up and only burns certain areas each year instead of burning the whole area each year. This provides control of woody species as well as still meeting the needs of wildlife. The greater prairie chicken needs a football-sized patch of deep grass to nest in. Leaving some grass unburned provides the cover they need.
"We get really good grass management," Koger said.
Weigelt pointed out the difference between an area that had been patch burned and the area right next to it that hadn't been burned this year. The newer grass is a different shade of green and the cows prefer to graze on the grass that had been burned.
Weigelt compared the cattle's preference to human's preference to fresher food. She said if a bowl of old lettuce was sitting next to a bowl of new lettuce, humans would naturally prefer the fresher lettuce.
Patch burning also is closer to the natural way the pastures used to burn. The pastures would be struck by lightening and only certain areas would be burned. This allowed for a variety of results.
"If you burn it the same way each year you are going to get a sense of sameness," Weigelt said.
The grant money also will go toward reseeding the area with native plants including wildflowers, something they couldn't do without the grant funding.
"Native flower seed is incredibly expensive," Weigelt said.
Koger's dedication to preserving the ecosystem is carried over into her home that is located on the range.
The home is completely off the power grid with a wind turbine to generate electricity and solar panels. Koger didn't want power lines to interrupt the landscape. The house was built with native Indian grass from the area, which is inside the walls.
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Baseball proposal in action tonight
The proposal to build a multipurpose stadium in the Celebrate Virginia South development is scheduled to be taken up by the full City Council in a few hours.
At 5:30 p.m., council will be discussing the negotiated deal during a work session that is open to the public. That meeting takes place in Room 214 of City Hall, 715 Princess Anne St.
Toward the end of council's 7:30 p.m. meeting, a vote is expected on whether to move forward with the deal in its revised form. As I reported today, based on interviews with council members, it looks like the proposal that would bring minor league baseball's Hagerstown Suns to Fredericksburg has sufficient support to get approval.
However, even if the concept of the revised proposal is approved, it won't be final until several steps are taken over the next 45 to 60 days. Those steps are expected to include more than one public hearing.
In a related issue today, as colleague Chelyen Davis is reporting, a judge in Spotsylvania Circuit Court this morning gave former Gov. Doug Wilder until Sept. 25 to address the outstanding taxes on the property where the U.S. National Slavery Museum was to have been built. This morning, someone offered to buy the land for $1.5 million, presumably someone involved in the stadium deal and possibly local investor Ron Rosner.
The Hagerstown Suns and Diamond Nation want to build the stadium on the 38-acre site where the museum was to have been built. Efforts have been underway to negotiate a sale with Wilder.
On Monday, Rosner, founder of Rosner Auto Group, announced that he is investing in the stadium deal and is purchasing naming rights for the stadium.
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U.S. Grains Council members heard at the 6th International Marketing Conference and 49th Annual Membership Meeting in Guatemala City, Guatemala, the financial value of the Council to U.S. farmers. Rick Fruth, USGC vice chairman, said in realizing such a review conducted internally could present an upward bias, the Council contracted Informa Economics LLC to construct an estimation procedure for the study in order to eliminate the potential bias and reduce the margin of error on the review. This is the second Council performance review conducted by Informa Economics and validated by USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service.
"Our goal in conducting this review was to be as accurate as possible and alleviate any concerns that a bias exists," said Fruth. "We wanted to give our producer members a clear picture as to how their state checkoff dollars apportioned to the Council have a significant return," said Fruth, who is a USGC delegate for Council member Ohio Corn Marketing Program. "Producers are fortunate their checkoffs are investing in the Council and increasing demand for U.S. feed grains, which means a greater bottom-line annually."
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The moon was one night shy of full and lit up the twisting road ahead. Beyond its beauty, it was offering a much needed protection. Not the mystic hogwash protection pagans buy into, but a quite literal protection. Without the lunar light I would have quickly stumbled off the beaten road down into a shadowy jungle valley. I was marching in the night. I was officially angry in paradise.
I had had a pretty dehumanizing afternoon behind the bar in the bowling alley. Immediately after clocking out, I walked straight to the liquor store that doubled as a souvenir shop. I was good. I only got an airplane bottle of Jameson. Hawai'i is pretty big on carding for ID on alcohol purchases, but I had learned some skills. I lost my ID on Maui, and had to sweet talk the TSA to get back to Big Island. Sweet talking an ABC store clerk was nothing.
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I was feeling inspired and a bit lucky after a pretty, young blonde was ballsy enough to give me a lift in the moonlight. I'm not sure which tenth of the three and a half mile hike up mauka (up the mountain) did away with my lucky feelings. Nor which tenth sold the inspiration down the river, but lucky and inspired I did not feel. That is, until a random lady on a moped offered to carry my bags up to the gas station in the next town. I followed my bags there. The gas station workers couldn't figure me. I don't know if I am proud or ashamed to be a "new one" to the employees at an all-night gas station. I thought they had seen everything.
About a quarter-mile onward from the gas station, an SUV skidded to a halt in front of me. I don't expect rides where there is no shoulder. My faith in catching a ride at night was quickly fading. Nonetheless, there sat a stopped vehicle in front of me. I scooped my jaw up off the asphalt, and clambered into the back seat. Funny how often a hiker and driver take off from the same place. The driver had just gotten off work at a bar near the bowling alley I worked at in Kona. He and his boyfriend were heading home to the next town up. They dropped me off in Honaunau, the "city of refuge." Cutely ironic.
After exchanging our sure-I'll-see-you-again-it's-a-small-towns, they went West, and I continued South. At this point, I had decided that my only real goal of the night was to go as far south on the island as I could before I got tired. I hiked with a vengeance. The fresh remains of a drunken accident lay in a deep ditch off the road. I thanked whatever it is I thanked that the wreckage below hadn't pinned me to the earth beneath it. I can greatly appreciate when another's mortality is put in check while my own is left unperturbed. I grew tired and set up camp in a gully a ways down the road. I had to keep telling myself how unlikely two cars flying down into gullies within a couple miles of one another must be. I sang it like a lullaby as I drifted off into mosquito dreams.
The next morning I woke in a cloud of real mosquitoes. I had some local botanical extracts that kept them off my skin, but it was a wild connection between dream and reality. I packed up, got picked up, and was dropped off at the bottom of the road up to my house within an hour of waking. I sat, thumb out, at the bottom of my hill for just another half-hour. Then, she pulled up. In her Subaru she'd named after Mauna Loa, the white mountain, she slowed down and offered me a ride.
She was going right past my house, which is probably where I shoulda gotten out. But I happen to have very little will power or common sense when the sacred word brunch is uttered. On our way up to my house, Flowing Water invited me to the Dusty Ramblers Sunday Brunch on the other side of the island in Honoka'a. My weakness accepted the invitation to brunch for me. Flowing Water went on to tell me there would be a spiritual healing after we ate. I have very sparse and particular spiritual thoughts, but I figure anyone could use a healing of almost any sort.
We stopped off in the town near where I lived, Holualoa, to pick up a couple of the Dusty Ramblers themselves. Flowing Water's friends were more traditionally Peter and Emily. I feel it necessary to quote Peter on the most considerate thing I've heard out of such a stoner to date. "Oh, if you had been opposed, I just wouldn't have smoked." Based on the volume of herb burned into my lungs alone, I don't know if he would have made it all the way to Honoka'a. Along the the way, he decided to add me as a bard/jester in his historical sci/fi novel. I'm honored to be a part of his creation.
We pulled into the house/start-up welness center that was to play host for our brunch. For being a one person, one month operation, I have to applaud what hey had going; a massage room, a colonics machine (if you're into that), an office, and a full kitchen. I ran into Flowing Water moving room to room with a burning bunch of sage. She asked if I wanted her to smudge me. I took a gamble, and came out smelling like a hippie's laundry.
Peter and I passed the guitar back and forth. He played Dust in the Wind (dead on for the moment), and I offered Big Ol' Goofy World by John Prine. We played and sang while Emily cooked up eggs, potatoes, yams and carrots, and seeded some papaya. It might not have been what first pops in my mind when I hear the word brunch, but it was Hawaiian as hell and delicious. Another crew of ramblers rambled in, and we all shared a great meal. Alas, nothing is free in this world, and I was set to learn this lesson one more time.
When I heard the words spiritual healing, I envisioned something of chakras, elements, love, and meditation. I came sorely unprepared. As our plates grew emptier, Flowing Water announced that it was time for the healing. She dug out her texts, got comfy, and let into it. She is a follower of Ra.
Stop right there. It's not that Ra. Well, it is, but not exactly.
Flowing Water believes that Ra is a group of sixth-dimensional beings that has coalesced into one entity. She believes that entity, Ra, is the Ra the Egyptian God of history, but also, that Ra contacted a group of American paranormal studies student in the sixties. The messages relayed between Ra and these students was recorded in a four book set called The Ra Material. If this all sounds absolutely nuts, just imagine being there. To put it into perspective, catch and episode of Ancient Aliens on the History Chanel.
Flowing Water taught a while, then of course we sang a few Baptist gospels because that's what Ra worshipers do. They sing Baptist gospel songs. When she had decided this had been a success, we packed up to head back to my side of the island. I left full, entertained, and Peter had given me a sprouted papaya tree to plant at my house. It was a winning adventure, however weird.
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This couple I snapped on camera the other day – made me smile! He is carrying her white handbag and she is dressed up as a maid for the day!
In Japan, it is not unusual to see a variety of cosplay visitors at public events such as Disney. Maid costumes, such as this, are particularly popular.
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I should not have to leave. The blues should simply follow the ADM and give the practices that the ADM says are necessary to compete in hockey. Its really that simple.
I dont associate with morons so your are correct in assuming we have never met. Did you read the email sent out this morning? Only 2 nihl teams made it to the BHC out of the 15 or so they have. That is simply horrible. The talent of the kids and coaches is being sacrificed by insufficient ice time you twit!
It will be a busy weekend for the Chicago Blues Hockey Club, as six teams compete for state championships. All games are at the Edge Ice Arena. Heres the rundown: Bantam Major CSDHL Bantam AA, 6:45 p.m. on Sunday, March 4 at Edge West versus the Huskies Bantam Minor CSDHL Bantam A, 11 a.m. on Sunday, March 4 at Edge West versus the Northwest Chargers Pee Wee Major CSDHL Pee Wee AA, 5:10 p.m. on Sunday, March 4 at Edge West against the Chicago Bruins Pee Wee Minor CSDHL Pee Wee A, 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 4 at Edge West versus the Chicago Bruins Pee Wee NIHL #2 Pee Wee B, 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 3 at Edge West versus the Fox Valley Cyclones Squirt NIHL #1 Squirt A, 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, March 4 at Edge West against the Leafs Hockey Club
You probably read that and think look how great we are doing. This is actually proof that we are failing to develop our teams. If all the NIHL teams are inadequate or can not compete in there tiers (as evidenced by their season records posted earlier by someone) there is nothing else to be said. You are definetely clueless.
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The name seems like a misnomer but Hwy. 89A between Sedona and Cottonwood is experiencing what an Arizona Department of Transportation spokesman calls "raveling."
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Pieces of the aggregate used to construct the road are working their way to the surface and loosening, drivers reported.
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The enjoyment, safety and education of children in rugby union is vital to the sustainability of the game.
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Sampling rugby in a safe environment is the first step so this section of the site can help you find out more about rugby in schools, help you discover your nearest club with a dedicated mini and youth structure, and allow you to see the RFU's commitment to safeguarding children.
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By ED WHITE and COREY WILLIAMS
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DETROIT (AP) - An ace pitcher and some of the game's best sluggers are the winning combination that has put the Detroit Tigers in the World Series for the second time since 2006. But miles away from Comerica Park, much of the city still seems many seasons from its own grand slam.
When the Series returns to Detroit Saturday for Game 3, TV viewers will get a glimpse of a vibrant downtown, including Comerica, the General Motors towers, popular restaurants and flashy casinos. High-end grocer Whole Foods is building its first Detroit store north of Comerica, and wealthy investors are snapping up vacant buildings and filling them with workers.
Yet beyond this pocket of revitalization, much of Detroit still is struggling to make a comeback after the Great Recession sent the city and the auto industry on a perilous plunge. Public finances are unstable, thousands of homes sit vacant, homicides are on the rise and many residents have left or want to leave.
"In `06, it wasn't as intense as it is now," said barber Thomas Carter, referring to the Tigers last trip to the World Series as he cut hair at the C-Spot, 15 miles northwest of Comerica Park. "The city is in more desperation today. The blight and the black eyes weren't as bad."
Indeed, life in the neighborhoods seems a world away from downtown. The area around the ballpark has been a bright spot for the otherwise struggling city, and its success has been difficult to replicate.
Downtown's rise took years to take hold. Tigers' owner Mike Ilitch reopened the rehabbed Fox Theatre in 1988, starting a slow revival along the historic, brick-paved artery, Woodward Avenue. In 2000, Ilitch moved the Tigers to a new stadium across the street from the Fox. Others have followed, including the Detroit Lions and its Ford Field, home of the 2006 Super Bowl.
The area is now buzzing. The new owners of Detroit Medical Center are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in hospitals. Employers are successfully offering subsidies to get workers to live downtown or in Midtown. Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert has acquired nearly a dozen buildings and other properties, even luring Chrysler as a tenant and renaming the building after the automaker.
"Government is in terrible shape but entrepreneurs are thriving," said Joel Landy, who has no-vacancy signs on his rehabbed apartment buildings in and near downtown. "It's the proximity to large institutions and the central business district, and the fact that we're surrounded by five freeways with the ability to get in and out. ... It's slower out in the neighborhoods but remember: Detroit is 140 square miles."
Downtown shines partly because its attractions _ sports teams, casinos, fine arts _ are enjoyed by suburbanites who head out of the city as soon as the show or game is over. To former council member Sheila Cockrel, the distinction between downtown and the neighborhoods is a modern day "tale of two cities."
"There's exciting momentum going on. But on the other hand, we've had what's now close to a collapse of city services," said Cockrel, who teaches at Wayne State University.
City government staved off a state takeover last spring after agreeing on many reforms, including an independent board to oversee public finances, which are burdened by more than $12 billion in pension obligations and dwindling tax revenue.
Mayor Dave Bing this week pleaded with the City Council to hire turnaround firms to examine city operations. The police chief recently quit because of an affair with another officer, forcing the city to search for a fifth top cop in four years. There were 311 homicides through Oct. 21, more than at the same point in 2011, and vast stretches of deserted neighborhoods have become a dumping ground for bodies.
In places, the city is almost pockmarked. Under the flashy neon lights of the MotorCity Casino in Corktown, one of Detroit's oldest neighborhoods, a half dozen newer and vibrantly painted homes stand at the corner of Harrison and Sycamore amid a few empty lots and vacant houses.
An older home with peeling pink paint over red bricks holds down one corner, tucked between two vacant houses next door. Blue spray paint indicates water was shut off "8/2/11"ahead of a wrecking ball that never swung. Across the street is a yellow house with a tidy yard, protected by a 6-foot stockade fence from the vacant house with crumbling porch and high weeds on the other side.


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Results of a recent Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries survey of resident, freshwater commercial fishermen are now available online. The purpose of the survey, conducted last summer, was to collect views and opinions of an often overlooked component of Louisiana's fishery.
Additional information was also collected to help define the demographics of our commercial fishermen and the issues they contend with. Please see the attached link for a condensed version of the report (link to Louisiana Freshwater Commercial Angler - Condensed). The full report is available at (Louisiana Freshwater Commercial Angler - Full Report).
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Schools on high alert Monday amidst Nolan County fugitive search
Updated On: Jan 21 2013 11:09:37 PM CST
Roscoe ISD and Loraine ISD took precautions as law enforcement searched for fugitives who fired a gun at an officer early this morning.
Keeping kids safe was first on the agenda.
"Kids are obviously our most important asset so that needs to be top priority at all times," said Dr. Kim Alexander, Superintendent of Roscoe ISD.
Both school superintendents decided this morning to close their campuses.
"That's our utmost concern taking care of our parents greatest treasures. We just want to be extra cautious," said Travis Edwards, Superintendent of Loraine ISD.
Kids were kept inside at all times during school hours and doors were locked. Communities came together to watch out for their students.
"The more eyes you got the better off you're going to be," said Doyle Mitchell, Assistant Chief of the Loraine Volunteer Fire Department.
Mitchell got the call about the suspects this morning and jumped into action.
"I don't know who's to say what's going to keep a school safer or not safer, but I still believe it's the responsibility of all citizens to do what they can," said Mitchell.
Everyone held their breath as police continued their search.
"We're trying to keep things as normal as possible for kids and keep them focused on their studies and we'll hopefully be out of this pretty quick," said Edwards.
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By Emma Miller
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In the morning, after an awkward and mostly silent breakfast, Karl left and I stewed, conflicted. On the one hand, I felt guilty for letting my jealousy override what must have seemed to him like a selfless act, the equivalent of donating a kidney to a sibling. I believe deeply in the right of gay people to marry and have children; I also understood that Karl's sister and her partner wanted a child who was biologically "theirs," and this was a way for them to have one. How selfish of me to begrudge these women something I had no real claim on. Also, it seemed like an inappropriate thing to claim. After all, we weren't talking about my boyfriend's love — we were talking about his sperm.
At the same time, his decision to donate sperm without telling me would have lasting consequences for our relationship. I imagined two possible futures: reconciling the fact that he would have a biological child whom I would have to see, if only occasionally (his sister lives in Germany); the other, life without Karl. Could I really give him up? No, but I also couldn't pretend this never happened.
Doing the dishes that afternoon, elbow-deep in suds, it hit me: I was upset because I wanted to be the one having Karl's baby. Deep down, I really couldn't imagine a future where he and I didn't eventually form a family. I'd never told him this, much less admitted it to myself. His donation had forced the knowledge upon me. But now that I knew, what would I do about it?
Later on that day, Karl sent me a text: In just a few days, his sister was flying in to New York from Germany with her two older kids, and she needed us to watch her daughter Zoë for 24 hours.
Zoë is a funny 9-year-old who idolizes me. Normally I'd have jumped at the chance to spend time with her, but under the circumstances, it seemed like a punishment. I considered leaving Karl with solo custody, but then imagined him handing Zoë a philosophy book to amuse herself and caved; maybe it would be a good distraction from our problems. As we discussed Zoë, we started to joke again — Karl suggested we act like the comically hypervigilant parents so common in our Brooklyn neighborhood. "We could scandalize everyone by letting her walk 10 feet away from us without a leash!" I said with a laugh.
When Zoë arrived, we knocked ourselves out trying to amuse her, picnicking in the park and leading her through endless subway mazes to hit all the tourist spots. In the evening, we came back to my place, where we were all spending the night, and collapsed with fatigue. The high-stakes emotions coupled with physical exhaustion had taken its toll, yet it was exhilarating, too. Walking down the street with Zoë had filled me with a sense of pride. I wondered if people assumed she was our daughter. In a weird way, it made me feel closer to Karl.
"We're taking a nap," I told Zoë, cueing up a show for her on Netflix. By the time Karl and I got up and started fixing dinner, she was asleep on the couch in her clothes. "Should we wake her up to eat or have her change into pj's and just put her to bed?" I asked. "Oh, man, I left the pajamas at my place," said Karl. "We could put her in a T-shirt or something."
"Should we wake her? She's probably jet-lagged."
Indeed, Zoë was snoring, her eyelids fluttering. Karl tried to nudge her and she shook him off resolutely.
"My God, we're terrible at this," he said, as the revelation hit us simultaneously that what Zoë had needed after a long flight was some R&R, not a whirlwind tour of New York.
"We really are."
But we were smiling, bonded by our experimental parenting failure. As we sat down to eat, Zoë still asleep on the couch, I mustered the courage to talk to Karl about what was truly bugging me.
"Clearly, we aren't ready to be parents, even for a day," I began. "But spending time with Zoë also reminded me that I can't imagine not having kids with you. If you want that, too, we have to actually start talking about the future."
"I think the problem is that we both feel the same way — we want it, we're not ready, and we're scared," he said, hesitantly. "At least, that's how I feel."
I nodded, heartbeat racing. "Me too."
"So let's make it less scary. Instead of getting married and pregnant tomorrow, let's move in together. If that goes well, we'll do the next thing, and the next thing."
"That sounds noncommittal," I said. "I worry that because you'll already have a biological kid, you'll feel like the pressure is off. Also, that it won't be special for you if we have a baby."
"When we have a kid, it will be different."
I knew he believed it as he said it, but I was still skeptical. However, we moved in together two months later, right around the time Karl's nephew was born. I haven't met him yet, but my feelings about that baby change daily. During moments when I feel sad, I remind myself that Karl's motives came from a good place.
We learned a lot from Karl's donation. I now understand that it's better to deal with the big issues rather than waiting for them to smack you upside the head. Karl learned that putting off a difficult conversation — or avoiding it entirely — is idiotic. And we both learned that sometimes you don't know what you really want until you are forced to think about life without it.


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Washington, DC - The National Transportation Safety Board today issued 19 recommendations regarding Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS).ĀThese recommendations address various safety issues including pilot training; safety management systems to minimize risk; collection and analysis of flight, weather, and safety data; flight data monitoring; development of a low altitude airspace infrastructure; and the use of dual pilots, autopilots, and night vision imaging systems (NVIS).
HEMS operations include an estimated 750 helicopters, 20 operators, and 60 hospital-based programs.ĀThey transport seriously ill patients and donor organs 24 hours a day in a variety of environmental conditions.Ā
"The pressure on HEMS operators to conduct their flights quickly in all sorts of environments makes these types of operations inherently more risky than other types of commercial flight operations," said NTSB Chairman Deborah A. P. Hersman.Ā"Operators need to every available safety tool to conduct these flights and to determine when the risk of flying is just too great."
For the HEMS industry, 2008 was the deadliest year on record with 12 accidents and 29 fatalities.ĀIn response to this increase in fatal accidents, the NTSB placed the issue of HEMS operations on its Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements.Ā
Last February, the NTSB conducted a 4-day public hearing to critically examine the safety issues concerning this industry. The hearing, which included testimony by expert witnesses representing HEMS operators, associations, manufactures, and hospitals, explored the increasingly competitive environment of the HEMS industry and provided a more complete understanding of why this industry has grown rapidly in recent years. As a result of recent accident investigations and testimony presented at the hearing, the NTSB made recommendations to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) at the Department of Health and Human Services, Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency medical Systems (FICEMS) and 40 government-operated or public HEMS operators.
The 19 recommendations issued today include 10 recommendations to the FAA to address the issues of improved pilot training; collection and analysis of flight, weather, and safety data; flight data monitoring; development of low altitude airspace in infrastructure; and the use of dual pilots, autopilots, and NVIS.
The two safety recommendations to the CMS are to evaluate the current HEMS reimbursement rate structure and its relationship to patient transport safety.ĀTwo recommendations are to FICEMS to address coordination and integration of helicopter emergency medical transport into local and regional emergency medical systems and selection of the most appropriate emergency transportation mode for victims of trauma. Finally, five recommendations are to public operators to improve pilot training, flight data monitoring; and the use of dual pilots, autopilots and NVIS.
In addition to the recommendations issued today, the Board also asked its staff to draft additional recommendations to CMS regarding safety audit standards.
NTSB Office of Public Affairs: (202) 314-6100
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is an independent federal agency charged with determining the probable cause
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Paramount gets high marks from promoters
Huntington's Paramount Theater gets high marks for everything. From its atmosphere, to its location to its seating chart, the Paramount is building a reputation as a premier venue for club boxing shows.
Over 1,100 people packed the theater on Saturday night to watch local products Chris Algieri, Cletus Seldin and Alan Gotay emerge victorious. Algieri, a welterweight contender and Gotay, a...Read more »
Floyd Mayweather touts Showtime deal
If you let Floyd Mayweather Jr. tell it, his newly formed relationship with Showtime and CBS is match made in heaven. The undefeated welterweight just might be right about that.
Mayweather made an appearance at the final press conference for Saturday's Showtime card featuring IBF junior middleweight champion Cornelius Bundrage and Ishe Smith and spoke in glowing terms of his six-fight deal...Read more »
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Huntington will be in the spotlight on Saturday night when several aspiring prospects step into the ring for NBC Sports Network's Fight Night card.
Huntington welterweight Chris Algieri (14-0, 7 KOs) will take on Jose Peralta (10-1, 6 KOs) in a 10-round co-feature. Another Huntington resident hoping to continue his unbeaten streak is Alan Gotay (3-0, 2 KOs), who will take on Micah Branch in...Read more »
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. has always been full of surprises. So it should've come as no surprise when the undefeated welterweight announced a deal with Showtime to broadcast his next pay-per-view fight.
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Meet the new standard for HVAC equipment: the X13 standard ECM. When 13 SEER became the new minimum rating for residential AC units in 2006, equipment manufacturers called for a blower motor with improved efficiency over PSC motors. To answer the call, Genteq developed standard ECM, a new category of motor made specifically to help meet the needs of 13 SEER.
Standard ECMs are similar in function to a PSC, with a minimal speed range, the ability to choose from 1-5 discrete speed taps, and no programmable features. The key difference, X13 offers improved efficiency over the PSC, built upon over 20 years of proven, reliable GE ECM technology. With the ever-increasing need for higher efficiency equipment, expect to see all PSC motors replaced with standard ECM in the next 10 years. X13 offers up to 33% greater efficiency than a PSC at rated speed, and up to 200% in constant fan mode.
With the addition of X13, there are now three kinds of motors found in new equipment: PSC motors have the lowest efficiencies, a minimal speed range and no programmable features. Standard ECMs have better efficiency than a PSC, but with a limited speed range and no advanced features. Premium ThinkTank ECMs have the highest efficiency and advanced features like self-adjusting constant airflow, climate-specific operating profiles, fully variable speed range, and digital communication.
Standard and Premium ECMs are for use in original equipment only, because they need a specialized control signal. To obtain a replacement X13 motor, please contact he OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer).


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Syphilis (Treponema pallidum) is transmitted through oral, vaginal, or anal sex and can be passed to a newborn baby through an infected mother during vaginal childbirth. Unlike many STDs and STIs, syphilis does have signs and symptoms. The problem is that the signs and symptoms of syphilis mimic many other ailments and is often overlooked and undiagnosed. Treatment is easy and usually leads to a complete recovery especially in the early stages. Early detection is best.
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Scott averaged 16 points and 6.5 rebounds per game while shooting 53.5 percent from the floor. He added three blocks and a pair of assists and steals as well.
Opening the week with a win over Ferrum in non-conference action, Scott led the Saints with 16 points and five rebounds. He added another 16 points in a CAC win over Frostburg State to go with eight rebounds.
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Curtis Armstrong made his film debut as Tom Cruise's best friend in "Risky Business" and went on to appear in nearly 50 films, including "Revenge of the Nerds," "Better off Dead," "Dodgeball," "Akeelah and the Bee," "Ray" and most recently, "Sparkle."
Armstrong has also appeared in many stage and television productions and is well known for recurring roles on "Supernatural," "New Girl," "The Closer," "Boston Legal" and "The Game," as well as a memorable series regular role on ABC's "Moonlighting" as Herbert Viola, opposite Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd. His numerous guest appearances include "Scandal," "Rules of Engagement," "Hot in Cleveland," "House M.D.," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Grey's Anatomy" and "C.S.I." As a voice actor, he can be heard as a series regular on FOX's "American Dad," Nickelodeon's "Robot and Monster" and as the ever-irritated Dan in The Hub's "Dan Vs."
A Detroit native, Armstrong graduated from Oakland University's Academy of Dramatic Art in Michigan. He co-founded Ann Arbor's Roadside Attractions, which later moved to Detroit as the Attic Theatre.
Additionally, Armstrong is an ardent bibliophile (read: nerd) who collects – and occasionally writes – articles about authors such as P. G. Wodehouse, Washington Irving and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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North Somerset spa hits pedicure perfection with new investment
By sophia1980 | Tuesday, November 20, 2012, 15:01
Pedicures will never be the same again at one North Somerset spa after managers have invested in an all-new piece of equipment.
Spa Manager Sophie Joules with Laura Masters
thespa at DoubleTree by Hilton, Cadbury House is continuing its expansion and the latest new addition comes in the form of a top-of-the-range pedicure chair.
The £6000 investment represents the spa's commitment to bring South West customers the best in relaxing beauty treatments.
Manager of thespa Sophie Joules said: "We are always looking for the best products on the market in order to give our visitors the very best experience and so that we are able to offer something different to your average salon.
"We recently updated thespa with all-new manicure stations and now with the introduction of the specialist pedicure chair, we're really pleased with what we can offer."
The pedicure chair, by spa experts Gamma State of the Art, features an integrated tub, air jets and an electrical reclining back offering comfort and practicality.
Sophie said: "The product is great, everyone who's tried it so far has said how much they prefer it and the lime green colour perfectly fits with our contemporary décor."
Last year thespa benefited from a new extension, adding extra treatment rooms, a new reception area and a relaxation area. An exclusive, award-winning health spa, the venue offers the very latest in spa treatments, relaxing spa days and overnight spa breaks.
thespa specialises in everything from St Tropez tans and eyebrow shapes to full treatment packages, a range of results-driven facials and of course tailor-made manicures and pedicures, using award-winning spa brand Jessica to create immaculate nails and toes.
Sophie continued: "This new pedicure chair will create an even more exclusive spa experience, ideal for an express pick-me-up or special girly event."
For more information about this luxury venue or to book a tailor-made pedicure please visit www.theclubandspabristol.co.uk or call 01934 834343.


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|Edith Mathis (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
This lilting, waltz-like setting has such a delightful melody that it was once a great favourite with audiences. This much is proved by the fact that Max Friedländer selected it to be in the first volume of the Peters Edition, a series which more or less published Schubert's output in the order of its popularity, the songs becoming more recherché with each successive volume. It is interesting that of all the songs in this volume, Lob der Tränen is now perhaps the least performed, its Italianate prettiness less tempting to the performer of today who prefers the composer in a less generalised word-setting mood. The song as a whole is rather a mis-match between the weight of the poetic content and the ingratiating tune, the shape of which was suggested by the poet's double rhymes. The fact that it is also an unmodified strophic song shows that the composer has no wish to take on board that the poem's message deepens with each strophe. By the time we hear of Prometheus's painful creation of mankind in these lilting tones we can only smile at the incongruity. Perhaps this conflict of tears and smiles in poetic and musical imagery was intentional, in which case the composer was showing a most sophisticated irony in deliberately going against, rather than with, the poet's drift. It is more likely that Schubert had not yet got the measure of the achievement of the brothers Schlegel. He was soon to do so in his settings of August's translations of Petrarch at the end of the year, and in the settings from Friedrich's Abendröthe in 1819 and 1820. This encounter with the Schlegel circle was to lead his musical language away from the carefree aria style into bold new realms of formal and harmonic exploration. Despite the fact that the song teeters on the edge of sentimentality, it has numerous touches of mastery: the ambivalence between G minor and D major of the introduction; the eruption into dancing triplets at 'Reihetanz'; the glorious way in which the final (repeated) line of each strophe takes rapturous flight. We adore melodic writing as natural and graceful as this, despite the fact that the music seems ideally fashioned only for the first two strophes.
For the dating of this song we rely on something written in haste by Schubert at the bottom of the manuscript: 'Spaun! Don't forget Gahy and Rondo'. This refers to a piano duet written in January 1818. As the composer was away in Zseliz for the summer months, it is likely that this song was composed sometime early in the year. It is sometimes ascribed to 1821 because that is when Schubert made a fair copy for the publisher. When the song was published in 1822 it was dedicated to Spaun who it seems had liked the piece so much that the composer let him keep the manuscript.
from notes by Graham Johnson © 1994
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