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As the Monticello/Annandale/Maple Lake Moose hit the midpoint of the 2013-14 season, they are, for the first time in a long time, right where they want to be.
Following a 4-1 victory over Mound-Westonka Thursday night, the Moose are now 7-5, including a 4-1 record in the Mississippi 8.
With goals for the season that included finishing over .500 and competing for a conference championship, the Moose are within range of reaching what they set out to do.
"I think we're on track [to finish above .500]," said Coach Sheldon Weston, referencing both the team's record and upcoming schedule. "If we keep getting better, we'll be above that mark."
Thursday night, in their second-to-last nonconference game before entering the meat of the Mississippi 8 schedule, the Moose got better.
Despite a 2-1 record the previous weekend in St. Cloud, Weston felt like the team's play had trailed off toward the end of the tournament, a feeling that was backed by a 5-3 loss in their final game, a game they once led 3-1.
"We had started to get a little selfish, we were pointing fingers," said Weston. "So we refocused our attention on what's important."
The Moose entered their game with Mound-Westonka talking about playing as a team and playing with positive energy.
It showed early.
The top line for the Moose, Colton Jones, Drew Brockman and Oliver Winsor came out buzzing. They used relentless pressure on the forecheck to generate a handful of early opportunities.
"We had the puck in their zone it seemed like for the first five minutes of the game," said Weston.
Three minutes in, they capitalized. After forcing a turnover in their offensive end, Jones and Winsor teamed up to find Brockman in front of the net. He whirled and found the back of the net, putting the Moose up 1-0. Shots, just three minutes in, were 6-0, Moose.
Despite the dominance early, the Moose were only able to put the one puck in the net. And that goal seemed to wake up the visitors. Play evened out slightly, and while the Moose continued to control offensive zone time, Mound-Westonka started generating a couple breakouts. Midway through the period, one paid off.
Mound-Westonka broke out of the Moose zone on a 2-on-1 break. A pretty pass set up a 1-0 in front of the net and a pretty move led to a goal, tying the game at 1.
As the period wore on, the Moose found themselves in the penalty box twice, helping to fully halt their momentum. Their penalty kill held up though, keeping the game tied at one through the rest of the period. For the most part, the special teams unit kept Mound-Westonka from generating many good looks during the man advantage, and when they did, Darien Jones was there to make a couple of big saves.
After one, the game was tied at 1, with the Moose holding an 11-8 edge in shots on goal.
The Moose, who drew a penalty with seconds left in the first, opened the second period with nearly a full power play. They didn't score, but they did grab some momentum back.
With the Moose controlling the puck much like they had early in the first, it took just five minutes for the home team to grab the lead back.
The Moose generated another offensive zone turnover and the puck found the stick of Mason Vetsch, who was planted on the doorstep. He knew what to do. Vetsch flipped it past the goaltender, giving the Moose a 2-1 lead.
After 12 minutes of evenly played hockey, including another strong penalty kill by the Moose, the score remained the same at the second intermission.
In the third period, the Moose closed the door.
The home team started the third with energy and focus that they didn't lose. The Moose limited the visitors to just three shots on goal the entire period and didn't allow a legitimate scoring chance until there were less than four minutes left in the game. When Mound-Westonka finally got a good look on the goal, Jones made a big time glove save, preserving the lead.
The last real scare of the game came with one minute left. The Moose had a man sent off for a penalty, and with Mound-Westonka pulling their goalie the visitors would have a two-man advantage on offense.
The penalty kill, which had been so strong all game, needed to be strong once more. And they were.
Thirty seconds into the penalty, and with 30 seconds left in the game, Colton Jones took the puck away from the visitors, skated past the red line, and then past the blue line, and dumped it into the open net for a game-clinching goal. Ten seconds later Drew Brockman forced a turnover and added an empty-netter of his own, providing the final 4-1 margin.
"Penalty kill isn't the way you want to play the game," admitted Jones after the game. "But it's very important. It was good to get a couple goals at the end."
Most importantly, the Moose were having fun again.
"This one," said Weston. "This one was fun."
"We're having fun," agreed Jones. "Winning is fun."
They know they still have work to do. For example, the Moose know they need to spend less time in the box and on the penalty kill, but right now they're winning while learning. And that's set them up for just the kind of success they imagined having this year.
"We've definitely been expecting more this year," said Jones, in comparison to past years. "It's a year to make something happen."
Those things, the over .500 record and conference championship, are well within reach. And the Moose's recent hot streak that has seen them win 4 out of 5 games has them believing they're more than capable of finishing what they've started.
"I think we can play with any team out there," added Jones. "If everyone comes out to play each night we should be able to win [the conference]."
The Moose were supposed to play Prairie Center Tuesday night. But with school canceled due to the extreme cold, the game has been rescheduled to a later date.
The Moose return to the ice tonight, as they travel to St. Francis for a 7 o'clock conference showdown.
Contact Clay Sawatzke at [email protected]


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APIA Leichhardt Tigers maintained their flawless start to the PlayStation®4 National Premier Leagues NSW Men's competition season with a 2-0 win against Hakoah Sydney City East in front of a healthy crowd in the club's first home game at Lambert Park for the season on Sunday.
Two goals in five minutes just before the break, courtesy of Nathan Millgate and Jordan Murray, were the difference for the home side as they secured their second victory in as many weeks.
It was a tough night at the office for Hakoah who were forced to play the majority of the match with 10 men after Neil Jablonski was sent for an early shower in the 25th minute for a rash challenge.
It wasn't a perfect display from the home side who also had a player sent off when Paul Galimi received a red card in the 69th minute.
The first shot of the afternoon arrived in the 12th minute when a cracking free-kick from Sean Symons from some distance forced Anthony Bouzanis to turn the ball over the crossbar.
Symons had another strike on goal four minutes later but again failed to challenge Anthony Bouzanis in the Hakoah net.
In the 21st minute it was an APIA double act. A dangerous corner was met by Adrian Vlastelica who supplied Nathan Millgate for a header which finished just over the intended target.
Hakoah Sydney City East found themselves a player short in the 25th minute when Neil Jablonski was sent off for a nasty challenge on Vastelica. It was considered to be of excessive force after the referee consulted with his assistant.
A minute later a deadly volley from Corey Biczo from close range sailed just over the crossbar when it could well have been the opening goal of the game had it been a fraction lower.
In the 30th minute Tasuku Sekiya played across a dangerous ball that was intercepted by Bradley Walker and turned away for a corner, but it could well have been an own goal given the closeness of the clearance to the post.
In the 39th minute a sweet volley by Sekiya was just wide of the mark as the home side came very close to opening the ledger.
However, they didn't have to wait too long because in the 42nd minute APIA Leichhardt did take the lead and it was little more than they deserved.
A cross by Symons was kneed in by Nathan Millgate and despite the latter not really knowing too much about it, it was an opening goal that the APIA Leichhardt Tigers were content to accept all the same.
Two minutes later Sekiya found Jordan Murray who threaded the ball towards goal.
However, Oliver Green, in a gallant effort to prevent the ball from going into the net, deflected the ball into the back of the net.
In the second half, in the 58th minute, a beautiful cross from the right by Adrian Ucchino was met by Symons from close range. Bouzanis was up to the challenge and turned the shot over the crossbar
A few minutes earlier Franco Parisi had made his way onto the field as substitute and the veteran made some beautiful touches and kept the crowd entertained late into the afternoon.
He is fast becoming a very valuable impact player for the Tigers who boast outstanding quality on the bench.
APIA Leichhardt found themselves a player short too when Paul Galimi was sent off for a tough challenge on Anthony Frangie in the 69th minute as referee Michael Weiner produced his second straight red of the afternoon.
In the 85th minute a powerful volley by Dean Bereveskos finished straight into the arms of APIA Leichhardt custodian Luke Turnbull but it really was a case of too little too late for the away side.
After the game APIA's coach Danial Cummins spoke about his delight in getting the three points.
"We are very happy today with a clean sheet," he said. "We had to fight today as Hakoah took it to us but the pleasing part is six points in two games.
"We created a lot of chances and we need to be a bit more ruthless in front of goal otherwise it will come back to bite us.
"On the positive side, the boys are working hard and we have a bit of shape there. I can't complain about anything but we did do some soul-searching in the off season.
Over in the Hakoah Sydney City East dressing sheds, new buy Gideon Sweet expressed his disappointment with the loss at Lambert Park.
"Unfortunately today it just didn't work out for us," he said.
"It's always tough to go down a man especially so early; Neil is our captain and our leader, so to lose him so early for us was a big blow.
"It's always disappointing to concede goals especially in such dire circumstances late in the first half, so it might be something for us to look at because last week we conceded a goal late in the game too."
Match Stats
APIA Leichhardt Tigers 2 (N. Millgate 42', J. Murray 45')
Hakoah Sydney City East 0
Sunday, March 19, 2017
Lambert Park, Leichhardt
Referee: Michael Weiner
Assistant Referees: Danny Horstead & Patrick Teleki
Fourth Official: Tristan Harris
APIA LEICHHARDT TIGERS: 22. Luke Turnbull, 2. Nathan Millgate, 3. Paul Galimi, 8. Corey Bizco (10. Franco Parisi 55'), 11. Jordan Murray (5. Brad Bartels 83'), 12. Dominic Cox (Adrian Ucchino 46') 13. David D'Apuzzo, 16. Sean Symons, 17. Adrian Vlastelika, 19. Brandon Lund, 20. Tasuku Sekiya
Substitutes not used: 4. Joshua Symons 1. Blake Tuxford
Yellow Cards: Vlastelica 62'
Red Cards: Galimi 69'
HAKOAH SYDNEY CITY EAST: 1. Anthony Bouzanis, 4. Bradley Walker, 6. Cameron Draper (12. Jack Green 72'), 7. Aleksandr Lekoski (3. Robert Ezekiel 59') 9. Neil Jablonski, 10. Andre De Jong, 14. Anthony Frangie (18. Harry Jones 85'), 15. Dean Bereveskos, 16. Oliver Green, 17. Gideon Sweet, 19. Gavin Rae.
Substitutes not used: 8. Paul Orgad, 45. Michael Figueira
Yellow Cards: Nil
Red Cards: Jablonski 25th
Player Ratings
3 - Sean Symonds (ALT)
2 - Nathan Millgate (ALT)
1 - Gideon Sweet (HSC)
-by Joe Russo, PlayStation®National Premier Leagues NSW Men's 1 Reporter, at Lambert Park


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Hybrasil is a hard band to pin down. On the surface, they seem to be just another fun hippie jam band, but they seem to want to have much more going on beneath the surface of their music. Mixing simple ballads like "Keep Me Out of Trouble" with trippy political statements like "Semi-Automatic (For the People)," Hybrasil's Friendly Destroyer seems indecisive about what it wants to say. But combined with the band's obvious sense of humor and their delight in making music, Friendly Destroyer is a compelling, but uneven, listen.
The funky opening track "Aids, Poverty, War, the Fake Economy and Sports" is a plea to abandon the material obsessed culture. "I never met a man of power with something to offer me," lead singer Christian McNeill speaks over the background music. The result is an interesting one, but bears no relation to later songs like the sincere acoustic "Go Out and Get It." These two songs sound like they could be from two completely different bands. While neither are bad songs, the effect is a little perplexing.
Hybrasil's political leanings, while intriguing, can get tiresome, such as on "Massive Breeder" which offers stories of a woman with 11 children, a man who was shot, and a man on life support. The meaning placed on these stories seems muddled, as if Hybrasil tried to hard to say something important without actually stating it.
Still, Hybrasil isn't all seriousness, as featured by the weirdly fun "Monkey Feet." The lyrics are mostly nonsensical, and just serve as a showcase for Hybrasil's musical skills. Combined with their evident love for gentler songs, Friendly Destroyer is not bogged down in its social commentary.
Ultimately, though, Friendly Destroyer feels somewhat unsatisfying. Even though it has its highlights, it doesn't even follow through on what it began to do. Experimentation is fine, but doesn't always produce the best results musically. Hybrasil's flaw seems to be that they can't sustain the same level of appeal throughout the record, as it wanders over too much different territory to create a final impression. Hybrasil, unfortunately, misses whatever they intended Friendly Destroyer to do.
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New music: Almost Like the Blues, by Leonard Cohen
Legendary Montreal troubadour Leonard Cohen has announced that he'll be releasing a new studio album, his 13th, titled Popular Problems, on Sept. 23, two days after his 80th birthday.
On Tuesday, Cohen unveiled the a new song from the forthcoming album. You can check it out below:
Popular Problems is available for pre-order here on iTunes. (You'll get Almost Like the Blues now upon pre-order).
Here is the tracklisting for the new album:
1. Slow
2. Almost Like The Blues
3. Samson In New Orleans
4. A Street
5. Did I Ever Love You
6. My Oh My
7. Nevermind
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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are the guys we trust to reference all our favorite movies. Paul premiered at South by Southwest so the word should be out. They've got homages to Star Wars, E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind and even lines from those popular movies. Spoiler alert, but if you want to know who treats Sigourney Weaver like the alien queen, read on.
CraveOnline: Writing the script, what was your approach to references?
Simon Pegg: I think that we wanted them to be seamless. Because it's never planned, we don't have a checklist of things to reference. Basically our frame of reference is popular culture, so whenever we liken something to something else, all of our metaphors and similes come from popular culture. So we'll go into a bar and it's a little bit scary and we'll go, "Oh, it's like the cantina." Or I was running away from the guys, it was like The Matrix. We sort of immediately go to those touchstones to create our reference palette. So that's why the references are there. There are more probably than I realize in there. It's because we're making a film which has obvious progenitors and we don't want to pretend that we're somehow being completely original. This film owes a lot to other films.
Nick Frost: So Graeme and Clive live in that world too. They live in a world where they are big fans of Star Wars and Close Encounters. In many ways, their points of reference are ours.
Simon Pegg: Our stuff is often like it's the characters in the film explaining to you, telling you the story, that's how they saw it. Oh my god, it was like this, it was like that. We wanted to acknowledge that this film is in many ways a tribute to our own love of this kind of cinema, as such saying yes, we know those films exist.
CraveOnline: Was "Boring conversation anyway" and "Get away from her, you bitch" a given?
Simon Pegg: Well, when someone shoots a radio, which we had Zoil do before we wanted to put that line it, it's like well, come on. The last time someone shot a communicator with that amount of pinache, the last time an effortlessly handsome actor with good hair shot a communicator it was Harrison Ford. So we had to give Jason that line and we had this idea that he was kind of a Harrison Ford-ish character anyway. He refers to Paul as short round later on as well. Sigourney's line, the voice had always been a male, for a long time in the writing process was a guy. We were just kicking stuff around one day and said, "What would it be like if it was a matriarch controlling the shots." As soon as that became a woman, Sigourney was the first person we thought of. Then there was this fight and it got down to Tara was the last person standing and of course, what else is she going to say? We had to contrive it so Ruth was the second to last person so Tara could say, "Get away from HER, you bitch." We took the day off when we thought of that, didn't we? It's lunchtime, let's break.
Nick Frost: Also, being on set and me and Greg and Simon and Blythe [Danner] and Sigourney are standing around, and Sigourney's giving Blythe a line reading, the three of us are kind of looking at each other, "This is amazing."
Simon Pegg: Sigourney said that James Cameron only gave her one take of that line. They only ever did it once, as if she wanted to do it a different way because she was saying to Blythe, "You've got to kind of go up at the end, it kind of goes, 'Get away from her YOU BITCH.'" We just sat there going, "Are we here? Is this a dream that we're watching Sigourney Weaver talk about [this]?" I remember going up to her and saying, "Are you honestly all right that we're going to use your most iconic line against you." She's like, "Hell yeah." She was into it so it's cool.
CraveOnline: Was working with the Paul effect a lot like doing the big movies like Star Trek and Mission: Impossible?
Simon Pegg: Movies are movies. It doesn't feel that different for Shaun of the Dead or Star Trek. It's the same production structure. You're still working with a director and a first AD and a cinematographer. The catering gets better but generally speaking, I did more CG work on Paul than I did on Star Trek. I only acted with Deep's eyes. My little friend in Star Trek, he had CG eyes and the viewscreen on the ship and some elements of the bridge were CG but otherwise we were acting with each other. With Paul we genuinely had to act with something that wasn't there. But I don't make that distinction. There's only movies. There's scope and scale and budget and time, day to day. I've just done Mission: Impossible, we've been on it for six months but it still feels like we're just making a film. It's not like everyone has gold microphones.


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When Jan Bingen sits down to crochet a king-sized afghan, it is a distraction.
Bingen, 48, is homeless. She moved to Tucson from Iowa with her husband in April. They came here to get away from the snow and look for work. At the start of September, both were still looking.
Bingen discovered the relaxing effects of crocheting as a girl, taught by both her mother and grandmother.
Fiber arts such as knitting and crocheting have long conjured up images of a grandmother knitting on a porch rocker. Granny, as it turns out, might have been on to something. In recent years, knitting has gained popularity as a social event, bringing people together in libraries, coffee shops and more unlikely places. The rhythmic process of knitting and crocheting can slow the mind down enough to relax. It's a kind of therapy that transcends all walks of life.
Knitting Shelter
Women at Sister Jose Women's Shelter wander in and out of the living area, stopping to chat with and watch crafters gathered around a table.
Every Wednesday, the shelter, 18 W. 18th St., piles a small table with tubs of colorful yarn, crochet hooks, glue guns and spools of thread.
A volunteer hunkers down for the morning, helping women of all skill levels with various crafts. Several stop by to knit or crochet. They want to improve or learn for the first time.
"This is a place to sit and crochet, and you've got yarn to crochet with," Bingen said. "It's calming. I've been doing this so long my mind just gets into crocheting, and I don't think about anything else."
The shelter kick started the crafting program at the beginning of the summer to build a community and provide a productive way for homeless women to fill their time. When volunteers noticed some of the women knitting and crocheting on winter evenings, they decided to haul out donated supplies once a week to involve anyone interested.
Yarn, needles and other craft supplies get donated by local churches, Kiwi Knitting Company and individuals. In the living- room area at the shelter, colorful, handmade afghans donated by these same groups are draped over chair backs. The crafting program teaches interested women how to make these for themselves.
"As far as learning and knowing how to do it themselves, it kind of takes their minds off their crisis and whatever they're going through," said Denise Milne, the coordinator for the shelter. "I think, in some ways, it reminds them of their children, their families, their mothers. It gives them a sense of home when they're doing it."
Bingen remembers her mother teaching her to crochet a granny square as an 8-year-old. Her grandmother taught her a different method, and now she loves to teach others, adding her own suggestions to those of the expert volunteer.
"Once I start crocheting, I don't stop," she said. "Boom. I just go. I'll crochet all day. "I can't help it. I love crocheting."
Knitting Community
Instead of twiddling her thumbs or gripping the steering wheel during a traffic jam on Interstate 10, Holly Harper has been known to knit.
A true yarn artist can knit or crochet on the couch or on the go. Harper, 50, has also tried taking a ball of yarn and needles with her on the treadmill. It wasn't her best workout. Less extreme, Lynn Davis, who owns Kiwi Knitting Company, takes her projects with her on trips or to the doctor's office.
"Knitting fits into whatever you're doing at the time," Davis, 62, said. "If you only have a little bit of time, you can make something out of chunky yarn; if you have a longer period of time, you can do something that's bigger."
It's also a social way to pass the time. A group of knitters and crocheters gather weekly at Kiwi Knitting Company, 2540 E. Sixth St., to visit the Knit Doctor and work through knots and tangles in their projects. Sometimes, they munch on muffins while they chat, fingers plucking at woven yarn.
"It's very warm, very family-like, very cooperative," said Harper, the assistant manager at the store and the Knit Doctor. "We help each other and give each other advice creatively. Even though we like the sort of meditative state you get into with knitting, it's nice to have people to talk to."
Knitting confidence
In a knitting circle for refugees, clinical therapist Norma Mayer watched language barriers dissolve as women from Nepal, Iraq and African countries laughed and helped each other.
Through knitting, they could momentarily forget lives marked by trauma.
"It's a mindfulness about being in the moment and being aware about what's in your mind and body without holding on to anything or rejecting anything," said Mayer, 49. "It's being able to focus on your breath as a focal point ... but still returning to the knitting process as you're repeating the motion."
For five years, Mayer worked with the International Rescue Committee in Tucson as a mental health counselor and also facilitated a several-month knitting circle for refugees. For the duration of the program, these women could draw on pre-existing skills — a small step toward building lives in a foreign culture. Mayer remembers the beautiful scarves they made. Some even sold their creations, boosting confidence in the midst of loneliness and change.
"It's a coping mechanism and tolerance to help you go through your difficulties," Mayer said. "We're not going through talking about what you experienced in the past, but we're being present and enjoying the moment."
Knitting Healing
Saumya VanderWyst found relief in knitting after developing a number of autoimmune diseases several years ago.
Paired with visual issues and arthritis, the autoimmune diseases stunted the 35-year-old biomedical engineer's pursuit of her doctorate at the University of Arizona. Knitting gave VanderWyst a way not just to pass the time, but to enjoy it.
"I had no choice but to spend my days lying down and sitting down, and you get bored of the TV pretty quickly," VanderWyst said.
Her best friend, an avid knitter, initially taught her to knit. She learned more through YouTube videos and local knitting groups. It has only been two years, but in knitting, VanderWyst discovered a productive activity that does not require much movement. Now, she is the president of the Old Pueblo Knitters Guild.
"It satisfied a deeper need for me," VanderWyst said. "I just like making things."
Knitting Compassion
The Old Pueblo Knitters Guild knits for the community, donating finished projects to military members, premature infants and Native American students.
Every winter since 1994, two members of the guild trek to Rocky Ridge Boarding School in the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona. They take sweaters, hats, mittens, scarves and ponchos to school children in preschool through eighth grade, using their craft to care.
"It tells you someone cared enough to make something with their own hands and give it to you as a person," said Barbara Askren, a guild member who has delivered the knits to the reservation since the project started. This year, two other members, Cathy Dingell and Nancy Slutter, will take over for Askren.
"I like making something that I know someone is going to use," said Dingell, 72. "I have knit things for my family or friends that I don't think were used — or even myself."
Year after year, Askren, 78, has seen the sweaters in use, faded after months of wear. By now, the children look forward to these pre-Christmas gifts.
"One little girl, she was just the tiniest little thing, kept pulling on her friend and pulling on her," Askren said. "Finally, she got around right in that little girl's face and she said, 'We're going to wear these for Christmas!' and they laughed and got so excited. It was the sweetest thing."
The knitters find themselves more motivated when they know the project will meet a need. They could buy sweaters at Walmart, Askren said, but that misses the quality of handmade and skips a process that "saves your sanity."
"Sometimes, it's just quiet time and concentration," Askren said. "It's a wonderful hobby."


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When it comes to real health-care reform, an overwhelming majority of Americans believe an ounce of prevention is worth a pound — maybe two — of cure.
According to survey results released Monday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Trust for America's Health, more than three-quarters of Americans — 76 percent — say the U.S. health-care system should get serious about reorienting away from expensive, specialized sick care and toward much cheaper and more effective programs to prevent health problems in the first place.
Investing in prevention programs and public-awareness campaigns about how people can stay healthy will do more to reduce costs and improve the quality of U.S. health care than any of the proposals, such as better records management, better surgical procedures or regulating private insurers, according to the poll results.
Dr. Paul Grundy, a health-care consultant to IBM who was in Salt Lake City recently for a conference of preventive-medicine physicians, said surveys extolling the benefits of prevention will continue to mount. He noted that Utah's health-care-reform effort, now in its third year, recognizes and is facilitating more consumer involvement that is needed nationwide.
"The problem is there is no money to speak of in preventing illnesses," he said. "It's all in treating people after they're sick."
The current system isn't a system at all, Grundy said, but a kind of controlled chaos of sick-care providers treating diseases such as diabetes and heart disease that are chronic and growing illnesses of an overeating, underexercising population.
According to the poll and other recent best estimates, nearly $800 billion of the $2.4 trillion Americans spend on health care every year goes for treatment of health problems that are directly linked to lifestyle and poor health habits.
"We gave Americans a list of proposals being considered to reform health care, and investing in prevention trumped them all," said pollster Bill McInturff. "It's clear that Americans see the value of prevention for reducing disease, improving quality of life and lowering health-care costs."
The poll, which reflects responses from 1,014 registered voters, was conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and Public Opinion Strategies from May 7 to 12, 2009, and is available at www.healthyamericans.org. The margin of error was 3.1 percent.
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TAMPA — In a geographic sense, Orson Charles has come full circle, returning to the city where he starred for Plant High to play the final game of his junior season — and perhaps his college career — as Georgia faces Michigan State in the Outback Bowl on Monday.
"I feel like God set this all up," Charles said Thursday, sporting a weeklong smile as a proud host to his fellow Bulldogs. "Playing with my high school quarterback and playing at Raymond James, where we're from, I'm looking forward to seeing everyone in the stands, everyone from Plant, a lot of people from my church, I'm just excited."
Charles is back, and still, he is not the same player that suited up for the Panthers and won state championship in 2008, catching a ridiculous 21 touchdown passes his senior season. He was listed as a receiver then, but in three college seasons he has grown into a full-fledged tight end, right down to the demeanor.
"To me, he's maybe more of a throwback in the fact that you really want your tight end to block," Georgia coach Mark Richt said this week. "Now, a lot of these tight ends that are getting their All-American or all-whatever conference, a lot of them are just receivers that kind of play tight end once in a while. They don't block much at all. This kid blocks like a full-grown man, and I think that's why he won the (AFCA All-America) first team. He's more than a guy just catching balls. … He is tough as a blocker, run blocker, pass blocker. He runs routes, he catches the ball in traffic, he tries to run people over."
Georgia tight ends coach John Lilly remembers that Charles weighed 209 pounds when he was at a Georgia camp the summer before his senior year in high school. By that spring, he weighed 220, and he's now listed at 240, very much a tight end's body with a receiver's quickness.
"Since he came to Georgia, he's taken a lot of pride in his blocking, become more fundamentally and technically sound in blocking," said Lilly, who spent 10 years at FSU before joining Richt at Georgia. "He probably didn't have to block as much (in high school), but he's one of those guys that if you tell him he's not good at something, that he can't do something, he kind of sets his jaw to do it and get better at it. It's one of the things he's worked extremely hard on."
Charles is still busy catching passes, too, thrown by the same quarterback who passed to him at Plant, Aaron Murray. Charles' totals this season almost equal his production in his first two seasons at Georgia — he has five touchdowns, as many as he totaled in 2009-10; his team-high 44 catches are five short of what he combined for in those first two years.
And if fans have trouble deciding whether Charles is best used as a tight end or a receiver, Richt says opponents have the same issue, creating a mismatch.
"If they think he's a receiver, they're going play nickel. Well if they play nickel, they put a little nickel cornerback on him, he's going to maul him," Richt said. "Most people play him as a true tight end. … (If) it's a base defense, now let's see if a linebacker or safety can cover him."
NFL defenses could be facing the same quandary in the fall, as Charles is considering skipping his senior year to enter the NFL draft. CBS Sports rates him as the No. 53 prospect in the draft, which would translate to a late second-round pick, though Charles said this week he'll take time after the bowl to make a decision about his future.
Defenses have put focused more on Charles as the season has progressed — he had four touchdowns in his first four games, topping 100 yards in an opening loss to Boise State, but he has just one score in his past eight games. He's hoping for a big game Monday, but that starts with a victory and the memories that come with it.
"Nobody wants to end their season losing a game," Charles said. "We want to send our seniors off on a good note, possibly get 11 wins. We'll be the eighth team (in Georgia history) to get 11 wins in a season, and I think this is our first time getting 10 straight wins. We're definitely excited about this game."
Times staff writer Joey Knight contributed to this report. Greg Auman can be reached at email@example.com and at (813) 226-3346.


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Pluzhnikov and his mother, Natalya Pluzhnikov, followed Feliks to the U.S. in 1989. At first they went to Providence, Rhode Island, where Natalya still lives. But shortly thereafter, Paul Pluzhnikov got a job as a programmer at Parasoft Corporation in Monrovia. He and his wife now live in nearby Pasadena.
"When I came to the U.S.," Pluzhnikov tells me, "my father was already in Chula Vista." Pluzhnikov shows some reluctance, however, in admitting that father and son did not see each other. "It's sad. I should have contacted him," he says. "It wasn't that I felt bad about the past, and I don't believe Feliks had bad feelings toward us. I had seen pictures of him from when I was nine. But we just really didn't know each other."
I reach Natalya Pluzhnikov by phone in Providence. She does not harbor grievances against her former husband but remembers that he was "very argumentative over little details. When we finally got our own apartment after being married a few years," she says, "he didn't want to get furniture. He wanted to sleep on the floor. I'm not the kind of person who wants to be arguing all the time. So we divorced."
Next to the family at Feliks Khatsyanov's funeral sat Beth Seberger of Kansas City. She currently teaches English as a second language to refugees. Seberger met Khatsyanov in the 1970s, when he visited the Kansas City Catholic Worker House where she then worked. She thinks he arrived in Kansas City after having volunteered at a Catholic Worker house in Baltimore, where he worked for Johns Hopkins University. They remained friends, writing letters back and forth over the years. Early on, Seberger even wrote to Khatsyanov's mother, who still lived in Russia. On the day of his heart attack, police found Seberger's name and address in Khatsyanov's pocket. They called to inform her of his death.
I ask Seberger her impression of Khatsyanov.
"Feliks was very different than most people I had ever met," she says. "He ate very sparsely and avoided meat. He allowed himself little pleasure, lived simply, and shared with the poor. To him, neither communism nor capitalism was the answer. I found him to be very humble, yet extremely proud of his Russian heritage. He read widely and loved folk songs, both Russian and American. He collected recyclables in Kansas City, too, and would help homeless and alcoholic men. Eventually he moved on to Colorado and then to Alaska, where he worked for Avis Rent A Car in Anchorage. I know that he lived in a trailer up there."
Seberger passed on the information she received about Khatsyanov's death to Ralph Sherman, his engineer friend in Imperial Beach. "From Feliks's letters," she says, "I had information on Ralph as a contact person in Imperial Beach."
"When I was studying engineering in college," Sherman tells me, "I took a short story class that I struggled very hard to understand. But Feliks, also an engineer, had an amazing comprehension of literature, and not only the Russians. He did tell me all about Gogol and a story called 'The Overcoat.' And he said that Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground referred to the crawl space between the floorboards and the ground. But he would read me lines from the Persian poet Rumi, too. He was especially fond of quoting from a nonsense poem by an Englishman named Edward Lear. It's called 'The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.' It was very funny.
"Oh, we talked a lot about engineering and mathematics, too. Feliks told me he had taken his son Paul to his work in Russia on the old punch-card computers when the boy was very young. Feliks was also an expert in something called 'control theory,' which is important in manufacturing processes. Another name for it here is cybernetics, which, interestingly, comes from a word meaning 'helmsman.' Feliks said he once got sent on a control theory troubleshooting mission to the Uzbekistan city of Samarqand on the old Silk Road between China and the West. There was an error in the feedback loops at a factory there.
"But I think the conversation I'll remember most is when I was telling him about my son. I said my son had become a Hindu yogi and now calls himself a 'sannyasin.' I asked Feliks, 'Have you ever heard that term?' 'Yes,' he said, 'Rudy Kipling wrote about one in a story called "The Miracle of Purun Bhagat." It's about an Indian Brahmin.' "
I look into the meaning of "sannyasin." Huston Smith, the great scholar of the world's religions, notes that the Bhagavad Gita calls a sannyasin "one who neither hates nor loves anybody." In India, a man becomes a sannyasin during retirement years after a spiritual quest alone as a "forest dweller." When the search is over, the man comes back to his community. But he does not return to his family, wanders homeless among his fellows, and begs for his food.
I ask Sherman, "Do you think Feliks truly had that annuity he told you about? The one that took care of his needs?"
"I was curious about a lot of things in Feliks's life," he replies. "But I thought it was not right to pull somebody out of himself."


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Jackie Chan has indicated that he will star in The Expendables 3 if he can make his schedule work. In an interview with Getty Images Entertainment at the Cannes Film Festival, the martial arts legend confirmed that Sylvester Stallone's tweets about his possible involvement in the threequel are not far off the mark.
I would love to work with Stallone. I'm going to meet him and see what happens. I am supposed to be in The Expendables 3 but at the time I am meant to be doing Chinese Zodiac. I cannot promise you anything but let's see what happens. I would love to do it. I love Stallone.
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Local? Yes. Delicacy? Well… depends on where you're standing, really.
Gene Logsdon takes an irreverent look at the other side of local foods—or loco foods—in his latest post on The Contrary Farmer. Pull up a seat and dig in.
Out here in the flatland corn forests of the Midwest, we boast that we have the localest food in the country. Some of it never travels farther than 200 feet, the average distance between barn and house.
Souse is one such delicacy. If you don't know about souse you are a mere fledgling in the world of local foods. If you do know about it, you may refer to it more often as loco food. You can find out about it in cookbooks, but I can save you the time. Souse is the inedible parts of a hog cooked to a gelatinous mass that has the consistency and taste of Vaseline washed in vinegar. If it is not a local food where you live, count your blessings.
Blood pudding is another loco food still made in our county. Some cookbooks have recipes for it but none of them tell the whole story. Frontier farmers eking out a living before giant tractors were discovered in the primeval forests invented this savory dish. It consists of everything in or on a razorback hog that can't be eaten until one is near starvation. After surviving on the stuff in one's youth, old timers keep forcing it on younger generations out of loyalty to the past. Younger generations, worried about the future of mankind, have been known to make blood pudding disappear on the way from barn to the kitchen. It goes from barn to doghouse, ten feet away, making it the grand champion of all local foods.
If you are a locavore, be thankful you don't live in Kentucky. A local dish where my wife grew up is called Kentucky oysters. I don't know how to say it delicately so I will just say it. Kentucky oysters, or mountain oysters in other states, are pig gonads. My wife insists they are actually not bad.
I myself am glad that I don't live in California where avocados are local food. To me an avocado tastes something like a wad of cotton that has been immersed in three year old lard for a few days. Californians keep trying to pawn their avocados off on unsuspecting flatlanders in the cornbelt. My mother tried to hide some in a salad once, but I fetched every single slice out before my brother and sisters could be harmed.


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"This question is constantly in my mind, being a schoolteacher. But in terms of martial arts, where we put our faith and decades of training in the hands of one person, how do we know if we have a good teacher or not?
Some people say, I know a good teacher when I see one. Ah! The approach based on intuition and feeling. We depend on our 6th sense to inform us if we have a good teacher. Or maybe it is about feeling, how I feel after a class, how I feel about this teacher. I may like the teacher and maybe this is all that counts. But I still haven't answered the question: is he or she a good teacher?
Others believe that to depend on feelings alone would blind us, blind us to the teacher's shortcomings. As they say, love is blind. Some teachers are very charismatic, even though they may know little. They can turn on the charm, and we are mesmerized. But what are we learning and what are they teaching us?
I talked to a student of mine recently who had studied at another school and when he asked the teacher what style of kenjutsu it was that he was learning, the teacher told him "Oh, don't worry. It's all good stuff." But the teacher had nice cuts and showed one amazing technique where he threw the sword quickly from hand to hand. The explanation? It is a technique designed to confuse the opponent."
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Roanoke, VA - For a kid, a visit to the hospital can be a very scary experience, especially if a child has to stay for any duration of time, struggling to get better.
The "Songs For Kids Foundation" is working on curing that feeling, and they made a stop in Roanoke on Monday to play for some very special patients.
Just four days ago, young JJ Hopcroft had an emergency operation that saved his life.
"It's been pretty rough. He went to school and started off fine then came out with some headaches and wound up having a brain tumor removed Thursday," said JJ's mother, Cheyenne.
How fast life can change.
"He jumped right in and started singing," Cheyenne said.
It's a fact not overlooked by Josh Rifkind, one of the founding members of "Songs For Kids."
"We had no expectations. We only had great people involved and pursued it with love and did our best and... it ended up working," said Rifkind.
Monday's stop had Josh and his partner, Sanjay, working the crowd in the pediatric ward at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
The two also met little Grace, who has spent the past two days fighting a serious fever and fatigue.
"It brought tears to my eyes because she was so happy. I mean dancing and singing... she just absolutely loved it," said Grace's mother, Christina Fiedler.
"Needs that extra something to get them through the day," said Rifkind.
The program uses the gift of music, a proven method that some experts say, if allowed, can truly help one heal.
"All of this sounds very cliche, but it's true. All the small stuff kind of washes away and you really appreciate what you have, where you've come from... and it just feels good. You have this great sense of energy whenever you leave the hospital," said Rifkind.
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Fund-Raising Pace Slowed in 2012, but Revenues Were Up, Survey Finds
The number of alumni donors and the amount of money colleges collected from them stayed relatively flat in 2012, according to survey results released on Monday, bringing fund raising down to earth after a pair of postrecession bounce-back years.
Colleges counted 1.4 percent fewer donors in the 2012 fiscal year but pulled in about 2.3 percent more revenue from them. Institutions have seen donors drop off since before the recession, but the uptick in revenue represented a slowdown from the two previous years, which had seen 5.9-percent and 5.7-percent growth, respectively.
The survey, showing median figures for about 120 private and public colleges, was conducted by Target Analytics, which is part of the software company Blackbaud. The findings were presented on Monday at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education's annual meeting, in San Francisco.
"Things are shifting back to normal," said Jenny Cooke, a Blackbaud official who supervised the survey. "But what's normal has changed some for institutions."
The study is also in line with a report this year from the Council for Aid to Education, which also showed that colleges saw fund-raising revenue increase by 2.3 percent in the 2012 fiscal year, for a total take of $31-billion.
Over all, the colleges surveyed by Blackbaud saw a 10-percent participation rate among alumni, a small decrease from the 11-percent rate of the last two years.
The recent pattern of stable giving has set off a sprint for colleges to figure out how to maximize revenue from a shrinking donor base.
Colleges over all received 2.6 percent more revenue from repeat donors in 2012, a proportion that colleges can help lift by creating recurring-donor programs, which automatically sign up alumni for annual gifts, Ms. Cooke said. Very few of the institutions surveyed have such programs, but if they can "figure out a way around the bureaucracy and being able to turn it around internally, it's probably the biggest change we're looking at," she said.
Colleges that have performed well recently have spent more on their development staffs in order to make more personal connections with potential donors, Ms. Cooke said.
Such strategies will have to make up for a vast generational decline in giving to colleges. For instance, while private colleges retained 64 percent of alumni donors in the 1990s, they have kept only one-third of them this decade.
"There are signs that people aren't opposed to giving to higher ed," Ms. Cooke said. "We just need to figure out how to best approach them."
Public colleges seemed to make the biggest strides in attracting new donors, as they counted 2.4 percent more while private colleges saw 4.1 percent less. "Based on what we know from the cohort in this study, it would appear publics were more aggressive in asking their alumni to increase their support," said Shaun B. Keister, vice chancellor for development and alumni relations at the University of California at Davis.Return to Top


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"Do not have false hope," the attack seemed to say not only to Israelis
and Palestinians alike. Nothing has changed or is about to change. After all,
the Erez juncture is not just another checkpoint where citizens are blocked
from carrying out their daily lives. It is the juncture through which the citizens
of Gaza cross into Israel to work. It has been closed by the Intifada depriving
thousands of their jobs. Taking a calculated potentially lethal risk, Israel
agreed as part of its contribution to the success of the road map to reopen
the juncture and allow again Palestinian workers to enter Israel. Thrilled Gazans
were thrilled. Arafat and the Islamists were not. They had no intention to let
Mahmoud Abbas demonstrate to the Palestinians that the end of violence carries
tangible rewards.
In one master stroke Arafat ended the promise of Aqaba, demonstrated the powerlessness of the summiteers and scuttled any possibility of improving the life of the Palestinians.
Israel had to respond. Israel should have targeted Yassir Arafat. But not wishing to go back on his word to George W. Bush, Israel took out its wrath on a top Hamas leader named Rentisi. Having given up the hope that Abbas will take upon himself the dismantling of Hamas, a reluctant Israel Defence force did. The targeted assassination was botched but an all out Israeli - Hamas war has been launched. In short, the Israelis, Palestinians and Americans lost. Bloody shoes of dead and injured children are sure to fill the region's screens.
Why did the summiteers turn out to be so weak? Because Yassir Arafat succeeded in postponing indefinitely the Palestinian elections and Abbas is a leader who serves at the pleasure of Arafat. We are constantly told that Arafat would be elected and that Hamas is very popular but had it been so, they would be delighted to call for elections. Slobodan Milosevic believed the polls and called for elections. And surprise, surprise, he lost.
There is only one way to empower moderates. It is to provide people with an opportunity to vote and vote again. It is the need to get elected which forces Begin and Sharon to evict settlers and opt for a territorial compromise. After all, Begin was among the founders of the Herut party whose slogan was "There are two sides to the Jordan River. This is ours and the other too." In other words, it rejected the British creation of Jordan. Sharon is amongst the leaders of the settlement movement and had argued that Jordan is Palestine. Likewise, it is only the need to get elected and reelected by a pragmatic populace which would force a Palestinian leaders to come to terms with reality and end the havoc created by terrorists. At least two rounds of elections should precede the establishment of a Palestinian state. The time has come to realize that Arab-Israeli peace and regional progress will follow not precede Palestinian and regional democratization.
It is also time to stop buying the absurdity that Arafat is the legitimately elected leader of the Palestinian people. He has been elected once, if one can call it an election. His sole opponent was an elderly woman who ran because she wished to avoid creating a precedent of uncontested elections but she failed even to campaign for the post. A Palestinian friend compared those elections to the ones conducted by Saddam Hussein (98%). Since then Arafat scuttled all Palestinian demands for a second elections. He clearly does not trust his chances.
Bush almost forced him to hold an election -- Arafat announced that he will stand for reelection in January. Unfortunately, the Bush administration permitted him to postpone the date indefinitely and replace election with the appointment of a prime minister. Big mistake! If Bush wants to save himself from Clinton's humiliating experience, he better stop permitting Arafat to outsmart him. The only way to empower a alternative Palestinian leader is to legitimize him. The only way to legitimize him is through carefully monitored elections. Only election would make the Palestinian leaders depended on a population.
Citizens, unlike ideological elite, put their daily well being before their emotional demands for revenge. Many Palestinians may wish to see Israel destroyed just as many Israelis would love not to have them as neighbors. But both know these is merely wishful thinking and both will rather live together than continue to bleed.
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dave fryett - 6/21/2003
You are good at spotting anti-semites in much the same way joe mccarthy was good at finding communists! There is no "seeming" anti-semitism in piper's post. the baseless charge of bias is reflexive among zionist apologists. It has become the mother of all shibboleths.
there may have been some divergence of opinion regarding the level of clerical influence in israeli governance but that was a long time ago. One need only review the policies and statements of the likud to realize that debate is over. the likud is the jewish taliban! Israel's innumerable colonies, often miscalled settlements, are peopled by rabid jewish fundamentalists who are devoted to theocratic rule. And their eternal champion, ariel "the butcher" sharon, continues to have the support of the so-called secularists.
sharon, who has been accused of multiple war crimes spanning five decades, has refered to christians as "idiots" and muslims as "filth." He refered to the prophet muhamad as a "fag." so please, let's focus on the real bigots. You'll find them in the likud!
Corevan - 6/19/2003
While your statements carry some weight. They require much more analysis and fact than you provide in order to continue the debate.
This statement "a Jewish state (a theocracy contradicting, its claims to be a democracy)" is technically not correct. The founders of the state, like the founder of the US, struggled with this question. Is Israel a Jewish State or a State for Jews? A question they could not answer definitively and is still in debate today. The religious have hold of certain life cycle events that require government approval, marriage death that has right of return, but more secular forces have been attacking this recently. The perpetual assault on Jewish existence in the region has tilted the mindset more to the right.
Corevan - 6/19/2003
I think you need to get some of you historical facts straight before you make seeming anti Semitic statements.
R. Piper - 6/19/2003
Obviously, nothing can sooth a racist's soul like blaming the victims of 55 years of occupation, oppression, killings, torture and destruction, now imprisoned in concentration camps, surrounded by armed religous fanatics of the "chosen" tribe.
Ephraim Schulman - 6/18/2003
June 18, 2003
The proper advice for Prof. K. to give to the people in Israel is to revert back to their historical roots, In every society that the Jewish people found themselves they were discriminated against. Historically the Jewish people naturally desired and demanded where possible for equal treatment. The key word is equal. Now for the first time in centuries, the Jewish people have established a government which proclaims itself as a Jewish state ( a theocracy contradicting ,its claims to be a democracy ) and practices the very same discriminatory policies that they have opposed throughout their history. And so they glorify people like Sharon, Netayanou a monstrous lot. There will never be peace in the mid-east until the Jews of Israel treat ALL people equally even Palestinians.
Ephraim Schulman
Corevan - 6/16/2003
Judith's essay lays out clearly, that while there may be some actions taken by Israel you find objectionable, there is a real enemy we need to address before there can be peace.
Anyone interested in an enlightened discussion on this topic please see Don Williams and my comments on this very subject under the Daniel Pipes essay from last week.
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Two campaigns promoting milk consumption. The first is an outdoor ad created by Advico Young & Rubicam for Schweizer Milchproduzenten (Switzerland).
Milk gives strong bones.
The second is a billboard created by BBDO Montreal for Le Lait (Canada).
One glass of milk is good, but two are better.
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Mark T. Rice
Mark was born
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Mark had coached many little league teams as well as league basketball teams. He loved golf, jogging, movies, television series' and blackjack at Casino Aztar.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Mark is survived by his daughter, Katie Rice of Evansville; son, Matthew Rice of Mount Vernon; his grandson, Jackson Rice of Evansville; the mother of his children, Susan Rice of Mount Vernon; brothers, Chris Rice of Seattle, Washington, and David Rice of Mishawaka, Ind.; sisters, Robin Molina of Puebla, Mexico, and Laurie Wyllie Rice of Oak Park, Ill.
There will be public visitation Friday, March 16, 2007, from 3 to 7 p.m. at Austin Funeral Home, 1330 East Fourth Street, Mount Vernon, Ind. Funeral services will be private.
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Avatar: The Legend of Aang is a spin off computer game of the American television series which aired for three years between 2005 and 2008. Now, I never actually saw it on the TV. The only reason I came across it was because my brother downloads random stuff from the internet and Avatar: The Last Airbender was one of his more successful. Well, not for him because until I'd bought the DVD's I kept nicking his iPod to watch it. It is without a doubt a funny, heartwarming and charming cartoon series that mingles anime and American cartoon and it was a major hit. And if anything is a major hit then there will always be merchandise to take advantage of it. Usually I ignore it, but call me a fool on this occasion I couldn't resist.
Avatar: The Legend of Aang is based around the first series of Avatar: The Last Airbender and is based around the story of Aang, who is if you haven't guessed both the Avatar and the last Airbender. Currently this makes no sense whatsoever to you so I will explain. Each of the four nations have their own element; the Water Tribe, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Air Nomads. The benders (stop snickering) are people within these society's who have the power to use this power and harness it for either good or ill; so a Waterbender can move water which could be used to heal or could be used to harm. The avatar is the one is capable of bending all of the world's elements although he has a natural affinity to one type, there is only one alive in the world at any given time and when one dies another is born from a different tribe. Aang is the avatar, he is also the only surviving remnant from the Air Nomads after they were wiped out by the Fire Nation.
But Aang is also a twelve year old boy who without any adult supervision is more interested in messing about and having fun. Aang must master all four elements to bring peace and harmony back to the world and to stop the Fire Nation's otherwise inevitable domination over the world, and the first element he must master is water.
===The Game===
With a huge sigh of relief I am able to say that the game sticks pretty darn closely to the storyline of the original cartoon; if it hadn't I would have been more than a little bit disappointed. In fact, the opening scene of the game has been taken directly from the cartoon. It is probably what I would call an action RPG with the emphasis being on the action part of that couplet; although you do get the levelling up and new skills that would suggest an RPG title, the largest amount is sheer hit and slash action. If you've watched the television series then nothing in the plot is going to take you by surprise, but I don't know how far this game would really appeal if you are not already fans of the series.
There is to almost no point in this having RPG elements as there is no layer of choice to the game; the character levels up and that is about it. You don't get to pick equipment or stat increases. On the other hand you do get to choose your character out of a choice of four: Aang, the avatar, Katara a waterbender, Sokka her rather idiotic brother and Haru an earthbender who the group make friends with. Each of them has their own distinctive weapons and fighting styles, but the moves are basically the same so there's actually very little to distinguish between them.
The game is made up of seven chapters and you spend most of your time running around between NPC's collecting items for them and doing what they ask you to do along with beating the crud out of the Fire Empire other enemies, and this is probably what lets the game down most. There is very little variance in the game. Most of your time is spent running around on fairly mundane tasks or button mashing in order to kill as many people as possible. It becomes very repetitive very quickly as although there are different bending techniques there just aren't enough of them to keep the battles interesting, and the constant button mashing just gets boring. It's also not helpful that in order to beat the level bosses you often have to grind your level up by deliberately engaging in mundane battles.
During battles your allies are fighting alongside you and are controlled by the games AI system, which is another niggle of a let down in the game. To be bluntly honest they are about as thick as a plank of wood. At best they just won't help you much and at worst they will actively hinder your progress which does get irritating for obvious reasons. But despite the many, many battles and despite the grinding this isn't a game that will last you very long; it's easy enough to complete it in one sitting.
On the plus side the controls system is very easy to use and they have incorporated the touch screen into the menu system rather than the battle system. The menu system is very intuitive and works very well; you can easily switch characters, get items and look at the map without having to fumble or struggle, but for once it occurred to me that perhaps if they had included more of the touch screen in the main gameplay it might have been a little bit less monotonous.
Graphics wise it's quite pretty but nothing special, although luckily the cartoon style graphics that are in use don't date too quickly. The environments are done in a 3D fashion that is easy on the eye and the character sprites are more 2D within this. Some reviews have been head over heels with the environments but I never really found this; they didn't irritate me with their awfulness but equally there was nothing there that made me sit up and go 'Wow'. The cut scenes are quite nice though; they're simple stylistically but this in keeping with the overall anime. One thing that I was impressed with is that the characters are all in keeping with the show, as it is very often the case that game developers lose sight of the original film when they are making game adaptations. This is not the case here. It is very clear that the developers of the game have kept one eye very closely on the television series while making this and that is a relief for any fan.
The same is true in terms of in game sound. In terms of in-game music I did my usual trick of listening to it in order to put it in the review and then turned it off due to game music always driving me insane after a while (notable exception Chrono Trigger). Much like the majority of the graphics the sound is decent; there's nothing there that's going to really stand out but probably not much to really irritate you unless you're like me with a hatred of game music. It's very understated and you get the impression that this definitely wasn't where the effort went into the game. The exception to the rule again would have to be the cut scenes where the rest of the sound in the game is somewhat saved by the inclusion of real voice acting but the actors who actually played the parts in the television series. This is a rarity in any game really, but particularly in the DS field and is probably the highlight of the game.
===Extra Opinion===
At points it feels like you are watching an episode of the series, at points it feels like pointless button mashing in an attempt to get through yet another legion of the same enemies that you've been fighting for the last twenty five minutes and at points it just feels completely and utterly mundane. I won't say that this is a really bad game; the plot and the graphics probably allow it to fit into the category of a mediocre game. Its saving grace is quite literally how closely it has stuck to the original television series because as it is, it is not going to appeal to anyone who is not already a fan of the series. If it didn't stick so closely to the series then it would be a disappointment to this section of its possible sales base as well.
As an RPG it fails due to the lack of choice in how your character grows and evolves, but this probably can't be helped due to the fact that they had to follow the series. But it also doesn't measure up amazingly well as an action game because of the sheer amount of button mashing and messing around you have to do to get anywhere. To me it kind of felt like they were so busy concentrating on being true to the series that they forgot they were meant to be making an entertaining and preferably original game that would be fun and addictive to play. They really needed to concentrate more on the gameplay aspects of the game and make it less mundane and repetitive, because as it stands it is only being saved from being really poor because of the voice acting and the plot. Both of which you could find by watching the original series (available on itunes by the way), and if you're not a fan you're going to find very little to interest you.
My only other comment would be that even if I don't play multiplayer on the console, if you are going to create a game that has such a limited longevity then the least you can do is offer some sort of muliplayer addition to flesh it out a bit. Or some hidden extras perhaps? Umm...no. Nothing. Nada.
If you are a mad fan of the series then by all means buy this game; it's not the best you will find but it's not the worst by a long shot. It's let down by its battle system, its repetitiveness and its lack of anything original and that's without the poor longevity, but if you're a major fan of the series it's worth a look for a couple of hours entertainment. Plus it looks cool in your DS games case! If you're not an Avatar fan then I can see no interest for you whatsoever in the game as aside from being a nice retelling of the series it doesn't have a lot going for it.
Play as Aang, Katara, Haru and Sokka as you grow your team into an unstoppable force. Utilize your bending powers and explore the Avatar universe. Bring to life an adventure of intrigue, deception and revelation that exposes an even greater threat than the Fire Nation as you battle new enemies and master your bending skills.


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Monday Inspiration: Ocean Rower on Tribesports
Posted by Ben G under Rowing on 15 July 2012 at 11:00 PM
Ben G is one of our Tribesports users with some truly unique accomplishments; ocean rowing over the Atlantic and more recently taking on the English Channel:
Rowing (or to be more precise sculling – where each rower has 2 oars) in a quad across the English Channel from Dover in the UK to Sangatte in France. It is 36km as the crow flies – with tides we ended up rowing 39km:
It is the busiest shipping lane in the world so it is probably the equivalent of trying to cross the M25 on your bike. One of the hardest parts of the challenge was getting all the permissions from the relevant authorities and negotiating with the pilot boat. Not as many people as you would think have actually had the opportunity to do it.
How did you start Ocean rowing? Did you start out on lake or river rowing first?
I grew up rowing on the Thames in London or the 'Tideway' as it is often known. It's a big old river and can be quite intimidating for people only used to rowing on very flat rivers but it is a far cry from the coast and the real sea.
It is however also where I first saw an ocean rowing boat in 1997 - just before the first Atlantic Rowing Race, and it was where the seed of the idea of an Atlantic crossing was planted – I was just amazed you could cross the Atlantic in something so small.
Fast forward to 2010 and I was coming to the end of a work contract and the opportunity came up to join a crew going for an Atlantic Crossing speed record in early 2011 with the Talisker Whisky team. The timing was good so I signed up and was accepted for the crew.
How does ocean rowing differ from traditional rowing?
Big Ocean rowing is 90% mental. It is not just about pulling big ergs (although that helps a bit) a lot of it comes down how well you can deal with the relentless conditions - it is about team-work, looking after yourself and your team – ultimately success comes down to the planning before and problem solving on the fly while you are out on the sea - and fair bit of luck.
I've done a couple of smaller rows since - crossing the Irish Sea with an amazing collection of endurance athletes on the Trip to Remember (some of whom are Tribesports regulars) and rowing the length of the Tidal Thames from Ramsgate to Richmond. These events and the English Channel are much closer to river rowing, but still very different to a 2000m race that you'll see at the Olympics – it would be a bit like comparing the 1500m with a marathon.
The coastal boat we rowed across the Channel was actually very similar to the boats that I rowed in as a junior but a bit bigger and with automatic bailing - but essentially the same. We've since been told we could have borrowed a much lighter boat so that would have made it a bit easier!
For the Atlantic crossing, what is life on board and ocean rower like? What was your daily routine?
The first 48 hours are the most intense experience. You've gone out of sight of land; most of the crew are sea sick, you are trying to eat, sleep and get into a routine and at the same time get it into your head that you are actually going to be doing this for the next X days.
It is pretty brutal - especially when you are going for a record – but that is also part of the reward. You get to live in the moment and only concentrate on what you can control which in our times is pretty rare.
A few days in and the team starts to find its sea legs and the rhythm of boat life begins to settle into a routine - which makes it all so much easier. Row-eat-drink-sleep-Row-eat-drink-sleep-Repeat. I was lucky that I can sleep anywhere and don't get sea sick so that made focusing on the rowing and looking after myself much easier.
We rowed 2 hours, 2 hours off with a longer session overnight. About a week in you realise how privileged you are to be out there on the sea doing what you are doing. At first you laugh it off when people tell you that more people have been in space than have rowed across an ocean but then you just feel incredible when you realise the enormity of the sky at night and the power of the sea. On one evening we came up with the game of flying fish poker which essentially revolved around winning points by guessing who would be hit next by a flying fish (a common hazard). I don't think I have ever laughed quite as hard as that night - it was just the most surreal experience.
Your team's time for crossing the Channel was very impressive, how do you train as a team for the conditions you were rowing in?
From what I can find out there isn't a complete record of the fastest crossing times although the current record in our class of boat (2hrs 42m) set in 2005 was a lot quicker than our time (3hrs 22m). That crew was made up of some seasoned coastal rowers from Dover Rowing Club - our boat really had very little coastal experience in comparison – so we've got a bit of work to do to be challenging their time!
My crewmates all scull a lot in Maidenhead – I was definitely the weak link on that front – I spend a lot more time on my bike these days. We trained together as a crew putting in some long sessions up in Maidenhead in a similar boat and had a few sessions at Dover rowing club rowing inside the harbour wall but the first hour or so was a bit of a shock for the others when they realised just how bumpy it was going to be – even on a "flat" day!
What's your go-to reward food and drink at the end of an epic rowing journey?
When I arrived in Barbados I had steak and chips. And beer. We hadn't drunk anything cool or carbonated or eaten anything but dehydrated food for over 42 days. My taste buds were literally tingling.
How do you keep motivated over the longer passages? Do you have a sporting mantra?
The Atlantic row just totally shifted my perception and understanding of what my body was physically capable of.
Mantra-wise, well you can really hurt after a 6 minute ergo but after an hour you'll feel fine – you know you can dig harder and find something extra in that 6 minutes. The same applies for any event less than a few days long now – you are going to end up the day sleeping in a bed. Lots of people around the world don't have that luxury.
That and the humbling realisation of just how privileged we are to be able to do any of the sports that we all do in the places we do them keep me going whether it is on my commute, training ride or on a new challenge.
So I guess it is "Do your best every time you have the chance – you are lucky to have it"
Samarth A, Sonu K and 16 othersSamarth A, Sonu K, Jack A, Ratnesh V, Carol Ann B, Aireal M, Laura H, Karen M, Robin W, Anjanette O, Christian S, Kirstie M, Paddy N, Steve R, Joanne H, Manu S, Jonathan H and Nick B encouraged this.
quite exciting ...
Sounds like you have a blast! What an extraordinary experience =)
Your commitment and positively are really humbling, well done on your amazing achievements Ben :)
Thanks everyone - forgot to say it was also a lot of fun!
Truely amazing Ben.
Wow! What an achievement!
Wish I was more of a water person but cheers to you Ben!
Just seen this @benwg - great post
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In this week's installment of The Practicing Photographer, Ben Long discusses a fun and challenging photographic subject: wildlife. Whether it's the birds in your backyard or the buffalo in a nature reserve, wildlife presents an array of photographic challenges—starting with the fact that you don't have a lot of control over your subject.
This lack of control can lead to an interesting phenomenon: forgetting how to be a photographer. As Ben explains, when you do see an interesting critter, maybe one you haven't seen before at close range, it's easy to get so caught up in the experience you neglect those aspects of photography you've spent so much time learning—like the need to really work a shot, to move around and experiment with different compositions, focal lengths, and exposure settings.
Instead of asking yourself, "How can I capture images of these prairie dogs that help tell the story of where and how they live," you might revert to a more simplistic internal narrative, "Ooooh, prairie dogs! They're sooo cute! I need to take shot after shot of them standing on their hind legs munching something!"
It's an understandable reaction; most of us don't see exotic wildlife every day, and when we do, we're more likely to squeal "ooooh!" than we are to think about the art and craft of photography.
But that analytical process is essential, and it's something that's second nature (pardon the pun) to a wildlife photographer. So Ben's assignment for this week is to grab your gear and go where the wild things are, whether that's your backyard, a park, or a nature preserve. Practice shooting thoughtfully. Try to establish that balance between experiencing something exciting and capturing it in creative ways. It's an important skill for every kind of photography.
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What a difference a week has made when it comes to the Red Sox' starting pitching rotation.
The Sox have done some shaking up of things in the last week, and the impact has been felt on the club's pitching staff. Josh Beckett was traded to Los Angeles over the weekend, but Daisuke Matsuzaka was activated (and pitched well) Monday against Kansas City. Meanwhile, Felix Doubront made his return to the rotation last week after missing some time with a knee issue and to get some rest.
Boston's postseason hopes are all but dead, but that doesn't mean the games are meaningless — at least to those who take the hill for the Red Sox. Pitchers are jockeying for position moving forward, and this week will be another test for the starting rotation.
Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz will look to make a positive push toward the end of the season and end their campaigns on a good note. Franklin Morales hopes to bounce back after another rough outing, and a strong start for him will help further his case for a starting spot moving forward.
When it's all said and done, who will be this week's Amica Pitcher of the Week?
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Should We Set a Higher Bar for Coronary Angiography?
Should We Set a Higher Bar for Coronary Angiography?
- Howard C. Herrmann, MD
Compared with Ontario, obstructive disease is less common in patients who undergo catheterization in New York.
- Howard C. Herrmann, MD
A recent study indicated that more cardiac catheterizations are performed per capita in New York State than in Ontario, Canada (NEJM JW Cardiol Aug 25 2010). Now, the same investigators have compared the prevalence of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) — defined as diameter stenosis ≥50% in the left main or ≥70% in a major epicardial vessel — in patients undergoing the procedure in the two regions.
Obstructive CAD was found in significantly more of approximately 55,000 patients undergoing a first elective cardiac catheterization during 2008–2011 in Ontario than in some 18,000 such patients in New York (45% and 30%, respectively). Compared with the Canadian patients, the New Yorkers were younger and more likely to be women or to have no or atypical symptoms; the prevalence of several other risk factors also differed significantly between the two groups. Fewer patients in New York than in Ontario had noninvasive evaluations (63% vs. 75%, P<0.001), and the predicted preprocedure probability of obstructive CAD was significantly lower in New York.
Among patients with obstructive CAD, those in New York were significantly more likely than those in Ontario to undergo revascularization (percutaneous coronary intervention, 55% vs. 35%; coronary artery bypass grafting, 20% vs. 14%). Higher crude 30-day mortality in New York than in Ontario was mainly attributable to higher mortality in patients without obstructive CAD.
These findings suggest that the relatively high cardiac catheterization rate in New York results primarily from selecting patients at lower predicted probabilities of obstructive coronary artery disease. The investigators could not control for regional differences in patient, societal, and physician characteristics, preferences, and expectations; nor could they assess which catheterization rate is more appropriate. Nonetheless, the higher prevalence of interventionalists and cardiac invasive capabilities — as well as market-oriented financing — in New York seems likely to account for much, if not all, of the disparity; if so, these data illuminate an opportunity to reduce unnecessary healthcare expenditures.
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Disclosures for Howard C. Herrmann, MD at time of publication Consultant / Advisory board Gerson Lehrman Group; Siemens; St. Jude Medical Speaker's bureau American College of Cardiology Foundation; Cardiovascular Institute; Cardiovascular Research Foundation; Christiana Medical Center; Coastal Cardiovascular Society; Crozer-Chester Hospital; Mayo Clinic; New York Cardiology Society Equity Micro-Interventional Devices, Inc. Grant / research support Abbott Vascular; Edwards Lifesciences; Gore; Medtronic; St. Jude Medical Editorial boards Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions; Circulation-Cardiovascular Interventions; Journal of Interventional Cardiology; Journal of Invasive Cardiology


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Psychosocial Support for Cancer Patients
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National Cancer Institute (NCI)
University of Manitoba
Edith Cowan University, Australia
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