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CLEARWATER, Fla. >> Derek Jeter treated fans to some batting practice before a sore ankle sent him home early.
Domonic Brown hit his sixth homer of the spring, Kyle Kendrick threw six impressive innings and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the New York Yankees 4-1 Tuesday.
Those who came to see Jeter play his first road game of the spring left disappointed because the Yankees captain was scratched from New York's lineup for "precautionary" reasons because of stiffness in his surgically repaired left ankle. He said he's day to day.
"I'm not concerned because I was told this was going to happen," Jeter said, adding he would've played if it were a regular-season game. "From everything I've been told by the doctors, it's normal."
Manager Joe Girardi told reporters afterward that Jeter went back to Tampa to see a doctor.
"I haven't heard anything," Girardi said. "We'll find out what we're dealing with and go from there."
Jeter broke his left ankle in Game 1 of the ALCS against Detroit. The 13-time All-Star shortstop played in his first spring game on March 9 and is 3 for 11 so far.
"It's just stiff but it's not in the part that I broke; it's around it," Jeter said. "I was told I'm going to feel it around the ankle because I was in a boot for so long. It takes time to strengthen. It's normal, just have to deal with it and move on."
The 38-year-old Jeter led the American League with 216 hits and batted .316 with 15 homers and 58 RBIs last year. Yankees manager Joe Girardi said Tuesday morning Jeter might begin the season as a designated hitter against Boston if the Red Sox start a left-handed pitcher.
"When you're dealing with a rehab coming back from injury, you're going to have some ups and downs," Girardi said. "Very seldom do you come back from a rehab and it goes completely smooth. It's really went well up until this point. We've had a lot a lot of good days."
Kendrick allowed one unearned run and two hits, striking out three.
"He was aggressive. He looked like he wanted to pitch," Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said. "He mixed his pitches, changed speeds. His location was good."
Brown's torrid hitting this spring has all-but-officially assured himself a starting spot in the outfield. Brown is hitting .397.
Ryan Howard hit his fifth homer of the spring, continuing his comeback after playing less than half the season in 2012 following surgery to repair a torn Achilles' tendon.
Yankees lefty Boone Logan, who had been out with an elbow injury, struck out two in a scoreless inning in his first appearance this spring. New York starter Adam Warren allowed two runs and seven hits in 3 2-3 innings.
"That's what I was expecting to do," Logan said. "I wanted to go out and get the job done."
The Yankees have been beset by injuries this spring.
Third baseman Alex Rodriguez is expected to be sidelined until at least the All-Star break following hip surgery on Jan. 16. Center fielder Curtis Granderson broke his arm in his first exhibition at-bat and is out until May. First baseman Mark Teixeira has a partially torn tendon sheath in his right wrist and could miss up to two months of the regular season.
"I believe in the guys we're going to put on the field." Girardi said. "I believe we're still talented, even though we've got injuries to deal with and you find a way to get it done."
NOTES: Phillies RHP Roy Halladay said he's lost about 10 pounds in two days because of a stomach virus that cut his Sunday start short after one inning. Halladay still expects to be ready to pitch in the first series vs. Atlanta. ... The Phillies reassigned RHP Rodrigo Lopez to minor-league camp and are down to 35 players. ... Jimmy Rollins singled in his first at-bat with the Phillies since returning from the World Baseball Classic with Team U.S. ... Yankees RHP Joba Chamberlain retired the only batter he faced, striking out Michael Young looking to end the fourth


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Stony Brook women's lacrosse has high expectations
The Stony Brook women's lacrosse team came within one victory of making the NCAA Tournament last season. This season, the goal is even more ambitious.
"It's definitely motivating coming back. We're even more motivated to get ready this spring," senior attack Claire Petersen said. "Our goal is to exceed way past the America East championship, and we look forward to doing so. We're returning all of our starters. Everyone came back better, faster, stronger."
Stony Brook was transformed by the arrival of Petersen and other transfers from Adelphi, a three-time national champion in Division II. Coach Joe Spallina, who guided those teams at Adelphi, made his debut at Stony Brook, went 14-5 and was named the conference's coach of the year.
"To go from the 60th-ranked team in the country to all of a sudden being relevant in the top 20, that was special stuff," Spallina said of Stony Brook's success. "I know the conference is the first goal for a lot of people. We expect to be in the NCAAs and we expect to go deep into the NCAAs. We have all the key parts back, assuming we can stay healthy. This team is solid and really good in all the key spots."
Petersen is joined by two former Adelphi teammates: midfielder Demmianne Cook and goaltender Frankie Caridi, who missed nine games last season with a knee injury.
"Frankie is healed and cleared and her hand speed is like nothing else," Spallina said.
Spallina is counting on his former stars from Adelphi and other seniors to excel in their final year of eligibility.
"Nothing can ever make up for strong senior leadership," he said. "With Demi, Janine [Hillier], Claire and Melissa [Rotante], they almost served as assistant coaches in making people understand this is their last dance, we have to be successful. I'll take Claire, Demi and Janine. They'd be a top-five trio in the country. When you have three linchpins and you add in a Michelle Rubino, Amber Kupres, we have very, very high expectations."
The top new recruit is defender Alyssa Fleming from Shoreham-Wading River High School.
Stony Brook was denied the NCAA bid when it lost in the conference championship game, 9-7, to Albany, a team it had beaten by 11 goals in the regular season.
"We got a little comfortable. We're just college athletes; it's going to happen," Cook said. "If what happened last year didn't happen, we wouldn't be where we are right now as far as being motivated."

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There are lots of articles and essays of interest to modern Pagans out there, sometimes more than I can write about in-depth in any given week. So The Wild Hunt must unleash the hounds in order to round them all up.
- Fields Book Store in San Francisco, California, a haven for spiritual and esoteric books since the 1930s, has announced that it's closing their physical location and moving to online sales only. Current owner David Wiegleb says that "the bottom line comes down to the bottom line — revenues did not meet expenses for quite a number of years, even after cutting back wherever we could." They have set up an email address at firstname.lastname@example.com where patrons can send photos and remembrances which they hope to collect into a gallery to be shared. I'm proud to say I've visited (and bought books) at Fields, and that David Wiegleb is a gentleman and a scholar, I wish Fields well as it makes the transition to being an Internet-only business.
- The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions has announced that the 2014 Parliament of the World's Religions will not be happening in Brussels due to the ongoing economic hardships in Europe, and that they are seeking a new home for the gathering. Quote: "The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions and the Parliament of the World's Religions Brussels 2014 regretfully announce that, due to the European financial crisis, it has not been possible to raise the necessary funds to hold the 2014 Parliament. The two organizations look forward to exploring other potential joint projects. Separately, the Council is pursuing options for the next Parliament with other interested and qualified cities." Currently, two Pagans, Andras Corban Arthen and Phyllis Curott, sit on the Board of Trustees, while a third, Angie Buchanan, is a Board Emeritus. Could this mean the Parliament will come to America? Will the Parliament even happen in 2014? We'll keep you posted as things develop.
- Remember "Secret"-peddler James Arthur Ray? The New Age guru is currently in prison after being convicted of negligent homicide after leading a fatal sweat lodge ceremony in 2009. Now, lawyers are seeking to have his convictions overturned, or to have a new trial held, while prosecutors have filed a cross-appeal challenging the assertions made by Ray's lawyers. So much for all that remorse Ray felt over their deaths.
- California's sexual orientation conversion therapy ban for minors is being tested in the courts, with federal judges splitting on whether the new law is constitutional. Looks like this one is going straight to the Supremes. I covered the passage of this law back in October, and the key role Pagan psychotherapist Deborah Oak played in its passage. At the time of the law's passage Oak said that "I've always believed that being a therapist was being an agent of change and my work with Gaylesta has proved to be integrative. Being an activist within my profession is satisfying. Good therapy can save lives. Bad therapy can destroy them."
- Buncombe County Schools in North Carolina will now allow distribution of religious materials, but only once a year, along with non-religious community groups, and after regular school hours. This policy was partially the culmination of months of activism that began when North Carolina Pagan Ginger Strivelli challenged her child's school's policy regarding the distribution of religious materials. According to the Asheville Citizen-Times "representatives of Baptist faith, Quakers, Pagans, humanists, atheists and the Unitarian Universalist church all committed to being a presence at the community fairs."
- Sarah Whedon, author of "Birth on the Labyrinth Path: Sacred Embodiment in the Childbearing Year," has moved her Pagan Families blog to Patheos.com. We wish her all the best! Meanwhile, in related Patheos Pagan Portal news, portal manager Christine Hoff Kraemer has just published "Seeking the Mystery: An Introduction to Pagan Theologies" which looks like a must-read for anyone interested in the subject.
- A coalition of tribes has successfully raised the $9 millions dollars necessary to buy an area of sacred land in the Black Hills of South Dakota known as Pe'Sla, land central to the religious and cultural identities of several tribes. Quote: "According to Rosebud Sioux Tribe Chairman Cyril "Whitey" Scott, the purchase is a done deal. 'I can tell you that Pe' Sla, the sacred land on behalf of the Oceti Sakowin, is secured. The $9 million was secured, Pe' Sla has been purchased.'" I first reported on this story back in August, with subsequent updates. I'm heartened that this sacred land was secured, though it's unfortunate that they had to pay for it at all.
- Suhag A. Shukla, Co-Founder of the Hindu American Foundation (HAF), writes about how congresswoman-elect Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii breaks the "religious glass ceiling." Quote: "My hope is that Tulsi Gabbard, as a Hindu American, will bring to Washington and to her style of representation two striking qualities that are as quintessentially Hindu as they are American — the duty to work toward the greater good and pluralism. Hinduism teaches that each of us is an embodiment of the Divine and this shared quality of divinity makes us part of a world family (Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam). How should this translate to how one governs? See everyone as an extension of oneself, treat others fairly and equally, regardless of race, religion, gender or class, and support actions (i.e. policies) that benefit the greater good, and not special interests."
- Check out this interview with Dr. Dave Evans, author of "Aleister Crowley and the 20th Century Synthesis of Magick" and "The History of British Magick After Crowley." Quote: "It is also very difficult when historical research starts to unpick and in some cases undermine a lore that surrounds a big name, and I got some pretty hateful stuff by email from a few Grant fans who didn't like me pointing out some historical problems with his tales, even though I made it abundantly clear that while pure academic work on him showed some logic problems, as a magician I had the ultimate respect for him. Unlike Amado Crowley, who I pretty much dismantled in every way possible, his claims were a dreadful case of fairytales (in a bad way) – which was a shame, I really *wanted* Aleister to have left a living vessel behind, with some massive magickal power. Maybe he did, but it was not Amado, and all the email abuse and threats from his students doesn't change that… As I said, for every asshole there were angels, and now that the fictional character known as Amado has "died" the abusive emails have stopped."
- The Herald in Everett, Washington profiles Pete Davis and the Aquarian Tabernacle Church. Quote: "I had wanted to establish a place that the pagan and Wiccan people in the greater Seattle area could go for worship without having the neighbors get excited because they had candles or were wearing robes or were chanting in the backyard."
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Tanzania's government and international donors are pouring money into the country's water sector, but climate change and human activities are making this essential resource scarcer
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Lucas Mahiga still fished a decade ago, there was more water in the Kilombero Valley's Mkele River and catches were good. But now water levels have dropped, making it impossible to earn a living as a fisherman.
"I have stopped fishing, and I'm now engaged in fruit and vegetable farming," Mahiga said.
The 52-year-old, who lives in Chisano village in Tanzania's eastern Morogoro region, recalls better times when the river was home to different fish species, most of which have now died off due to insufficient water.
Local residents says there's no doubt the climate in the Kilombero Valley - which sprawls across 7,679 square km some 200 miles (322 km) southwest of Dar es Salaam - is changing fast.
The vast wetland, listed as a protected site under the Ramsar Convention, has lost most of its perennial rivers. They have dried up completely or become seasonal, affecting the livelihoods of thousands of people.
The Kilombero Valley is struggling to retain its reputation as the nation's bread basket, as climate and water stresses take their toll.
Chisano residents say the valley has been hit by recurring droughts, while expanding human activities - including livestock grazing and farming - are making water shortages worse.
Richard Muyungi, director of climate change in the Vice President's Office, told Thomson Reuters Foundation climate change is already damaging people's livelihoods and the wider economy. Droughts and floods have pummeled many areas, denting food production and causing water scarcity.
"While the government is committed to addressing this global problem (of climate change), the affected people must make serious efforts to take adaptation measures, such as irrigation and sustainable farming, to minimise the risks," he said.
Tanzania is endowed with many river basins that play a key role in providing water and income for local communities. But its water resources are under growing pressure from both human and climate impacts.
Media reports indicate that conflict between herders and farmers over shrinking water supplies and pastureland is rife in many areas.
Water shortages are a chronic problem in Tanzania, mostly affecting the rural population. According to the World Health Organization, one out of six Tanzanians lacks access to safe drinking water, due to population growth, rapid urbanisation and climate change, among other factors.
In response, Tanzania has embarked on major reforms in its water sector, aimed at promoting access to water for both urban and rural communities.
According to the Ministry of Water, the government has decentralised water and sanitation services to about 20 urban and 100 district utilities in the past 10 years in a bid to bring water management closer to the people it is supplying.
Official data shows the water sector has received a significant boost in public spending over the past decade, since it was first included as a priority in the national strategy for growth and poverty reduction.
According to a 2013 report on the country's water sector development programme, the Tanzanian government and its development partners committed funds to the tune of $1.364 billion over the five-year period ending June 2013, 43 percent more than initially planned.
Yet Tanzania is still failing to provide enough clean water for its people. Only 57 percent in rural areas had access to water in 2012, compared to 51 percent in 2000, according to the report. The government will need to speed up its efforts if it is to meet the Millennium Development Goal target of providing water services to 74 percent of its population by 2015.
Herbert Kashillilah, a technical advisor with Water Aid Tanzania, told Thomson Reuters Foundation, that while the government has boosted finance and technical assistance to the water sector considerably, implementation of programmes is proving a challenge due to gaps between policy and practice on the ground, and a lack of accountability.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos last month, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete made an emotional appeal to the international community to help East African nations tackle water scarcity.
"When I was growing up, there were many rivers - and during the rainy season many people were washed away. These days, those rivers are running dry," the president said.
Hydropower, which generates over 60 percent of the country's electricity, has also been hit by acute water shortages, he added.
"We depend on hydropower generation, but in the last decade, it has become very unreliable as dams do not have enough water," he said.
Lakes are also declining. The water level in Lake Victoria has fallen by 1 metre and Lake Manyara has receded by 7 kilometres. And cross-border tensions between Tanzania and Kenya are growing, as people fight over dwindling water resources.
Kikwete said the international development agenda tends to favour education and health at the expense of access to water, which is critical for both sectors.
"Water is not considered a priority - if you talk about health, in Africa, many diseases are waterborne. Clean water is part of health," he said.
A 2011 study on climate change and cholera in Tanzania said higher temperatures and shifts in rainfall patterns posed serious risks to human health, including a greater possibility of diarrheal diseases.
"For a 1 degree Celsius temperature increase, the initial relative risk of cholera increases by 15 to 29 percent," it said.
Henry Mahoo, professor of agricultural engineering at Sokoine University of Agriculture, warned that unless Tanzania adopts better water management strategies - especially in farming - it will not be able to avoid worsening water woes.
"One of the critical constraints to agriculture in East Africa is water scarcity, which may be defined in terms of access to water. In some places water is abundant, but getting it to people is difficult because of the lack of infrastructure," Mahoo said.
According to a 2011 study on the economics of climate change in Tanzania, rising temperatures may reduce water availability, as well as exacerbating extreme events such as drought and floods, which affect the water sector. That will be critical for the country's tourism, fishing and farming industries, the report said.
"There could be reduction in rainfall, river flow and groundwater systems that will have potentially large impacts for household water supply, irrigation, industry and the functioning of the existing water infrastructure and ecosystems services," the study warned.
Tanzania needs at least $600 million per year to fight climate change effects, it added.
Kizito Makoye is a journalist based in Dar es Salaam.
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The Lancaster YWCA is launching a campaign to help survivors of sexual assault.
The YWCA is launching a letter writing campaign, asking community members to write letters of support for people affected by sexual abuse.
April is sexual assault awareness month and letters will be accepted through the end of next month.
Counselors at the Y's Sexual Assault Prevention and Counseling Center hope the letters will offer words of encouragement.
"When you're talking about issues like sexual assault, it becomes really important to have community support, specifically a support system. So as these letters are read from community members to the survivors, survivors can feel encouraged and empowered as they journey toward healing," said sexual abuse counselor Kelsey Smoker.
Letter writers of all ages are welcome to participate.
The letters should be mailed to Kelsey Smoker, YWCA Lancaster, 110 N. Lime Street, Lancaster, PA 17602.


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I've really enjoyed reading blogposts lately about different people's memories of Christmas days gone by. One of my own memories keeps coming to the surface and it makes me smile every time. Remember back in the 1970s (that long ago!), it was a very BIG THING to get a bike for Christmas. It was an even BIGGER THING to get a bike that was new from a shop, not a recycled and repainted hand-me-down.
I'm not sure exactly what year it was, but it was the early 70s. Us three kids all received a shiny new bike on Christmas morning - one each! My sister and I were lucky enough to get the most trendy bike of the day - yes, a dragstar with a politically innappropriately-named sissy bar and all! We were impressed. So was my brother ... he was impressed not to receive a dragster because they were seen as girls bikes back then. Even so, I'm sure he was impressed to be a member of a household that included two groovy dragsters.
However, the most impressive thing was still to come. You see, there were quite a few other kids in the neighbourhood who also received bikes that Christmas. We were all keen to try our new bikes in a bigger space besides the suburban streets outside our homes. Can you imagine? About 10 or so kids with new bikes itching to give them a spin, circling the parked cars and the street trees in the narrow streets of suburban Sydney. Instead of sitting around relaxing on Christmas day, our great Dad decided that he'd take us ALL down to the local oval which had some nearby flat ashphalt (a new bike owner's dream!) so that we could test out our new wheels. Yes, not just his three kids but the whole neighbourhood of bike-riding kids. It must have been a strange site, a forty-something year old man walking along at the front of a pack of kids on bikes. He was a king of the kids that day, and a king of the kids-on-bikes as well, not to mention a king especially in his own kids' eyes.
Our Dad did a lot of things like this that I'm only just appreciating now in later years. Picking us up from discos at all hours of the night, dropping us off at friends' places near and far with his voice echoing in our ears, "Remember love, no matter time it is, ring me and I'll pick you up." What a Dad he was.
Thanks Dad for the bike, for the trek to the oval on that Christmas Day way back in the 1970s and most of all for the memories. Wish you were still here with us, especially at Christmas time.
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text: George Strait will release his new album, Here for a Good Time, on Sept. 6 on MCA Nashville. The title track is his current single. Strait co-wrote seven of the 11 tracks with his son, Bubba. They teamed with songwriter Dean Dillon on six of those compositions, including the title track. Strait also recorded a version of Jesse Winchester's "A Showman's Life." Other songwriting credits on the album are Al Anderson and Chris Stapleton; Chuck Cannon and Allen Shamblin; and Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton. Strait and co-producer Tony Brown recorded the album at Shrimpboat Sound Studio in Key West, Fla., where Strait recorded his three previous albums. Strait will tour in 2012.


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In almost all textbooks on Homological Algebra, when they talk about injective modules, they do not give many examples, usually are $\mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}$ and $\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}$. Is there a general way to construct an injective module (except using Baer criterion)?
The other question is, if a ring $R$ is hereditary then every submodule of a left $R$-projective module $M$ is projective. Then every quotient module of a left injective $R$-module is injective too. What about submodule of a left, injective $R$-module? Is it also injective? Please help me to find a counterexample (if it exists). Thanks.


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For years I thought this school was a prime site for a tower next door or overhead:
The folks who live and work near Second Avenue and 57th Street are due to get a large, new neighbor.
The site of two schools on the southwest corner has been put up for sale by the city's Educational Construction Fund, an agency controlled by the mayor's office to facilitate school development through the sale of air rights.
What's on the block is a 75-year leasehold on the 62,000-square-foot site's unused development rights.
It can support a residential tower above the schools of at least 420,000 square feet as of now, with the possibility of 125,000 square feet more under certain conditions.
The corner is home to both the low-slung High School of Art & Design and PS 59. The ECF has tapped CB Richard Ellis's Darcy Stacom and Paul Leibowitz to sift offers.
Stacom said the site's location and size "create a phenomenal opportunity."
She would not speculate on price. Sources said a sale of the land as opposed to a leasehold would likely draw offers around $150 million.
The news comes on the heels of an agreement Stacom recently negotiated for ECF to sell the leasehold above a vacant school at 1765 First Ave. to the DeMatteis Organization and the Mattone Group. They can put up an apartment tower of 150,000 square feet.
The ECF was active in the 1970s but fell quiet after that. But Mayor Bloomberg's capital plan "says we should aggressively leverage the system's air rights, and we are strategically putting them out," ECF executive director Jamie Smarr said.


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So often ethics, morality, and general anxiety disorder get in the way of a great photo. Not so with the Super-Secret Spy Lens, which attaches to the lens on the end of your DSLR camera and allows you to shoot left, right, up, or down (it swivels 360 degrees), all while looking like you're shooting straight ahead. It doesn't affect the quality of the end photo, which makes it as great for paparazzi as it is for kids. For $50 it comes with an adapter for your go-to lens, and each one thereafter is an extra five bucks.
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This thread is intended to help answer all the questions new sand users have.
Won't sand trap debris?
No. Sand is denser than the debris, so poop and other things just sit on top of it waiting to be picked up by the filter.
But won't my turtle eat the sand?
It's possible. But if they ingest the sand the grains of it are so small that they pass through a turtle without causing any harm.
Where do I buy sand?
The beach is not a way to get your sand. You should buy your sand from any pet store (Ie; Petsmart, Petco, Etc.) or from a hardware store(Ie; Home Depot, Lowes, OSH).
What type of sand do I buy?
Avoid any sand made for saltwater or "reef tanks" these sands often have live cultures, containing many ingredients and possible additives that won't help or may even hurt your freshwater tank or turtle. Also, if possible, I would avoid calcium sand for reptiles as well. I'm unsure of any ill effects from this sand, but it can affect the general hardness of your water, which then increases the carbonate hardness of your water. There are a few choices in what type. You can buy aquarium sand, which is great, and what I have in my tank. It is finer grain and usually feels "Soft." It is usually a natural tan color, although it does come on other colors such as white, and black. The downside of aquarium sand is the price. For 20-30lbs of it, it's going to cost anywhere from $30 on up. Aquarium sand is available at pet stores. You can also buy Quickrete playsand or just quickrete sand, this sand is usually a medium grain, and natural color. It usually requires more washing, but the end result can look very nice. The big upside of Quickrete sand, is that it is cheap. Usually less than $10, for a 50 lb bag of it.
Do I need to rinse the sand before putting it in the tank?
Yes. You need to rinse the sand extremely well. I use a 5 gallon bucket, and rinse the sand under high pressure from a garden hose sprayer for about 15 minutes, dumping off dirty water as needed. Putting the sand in a pillow case and rinsing from the inside of the pillow case works well also.
Why is my water so cloudy?
Your sand needs to settle now. This can take anywhere from 30 minutes, to a couple days depending on how well you washed it.
Can I turn on my filter while my sand is settling?
Yes, but I wouldn't recommend it. There are very fine particles of sand floating around when it is settling, and turning on your filter is only going to suck up those pieces. This could cause damage to your filter.
But won't my filter suck up the sand?
No, not if you have the intake at the right distance. I recommend putting the intake 3-4" away from the top of the sand so that if your turtle kicks up the sand, it settles before getting pulled into the filter.
How do I use my siphon or Python now? Won't it suck up the sand?
No, Not if you keep it a couple inches away from the sand.
How do I clean the sand once it's in the tank?
I found the the Zoo med sand sifter works great for cleaning sand, much better than either spot cleaning with a turkey baster, net, or using a siphon to pick up debris. Or for a more thorough cleaning, you can stir up the sand with something, and then run the siphon picking up debris and let your filter do the rest.
Here's a link to the Zoo Med sand sifter, http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/p ... atid=13992
Can I put my turtle in the tank while the sand is settling?
Yes, it will have no effect on the turtle.
What about a Prefilter on the intake?
You can use those if you like, it's added insurance that sand wont get sucked up into your filter. Remember to take it off and clean it off often otherwise it being dirty will restrict your filters flow. You can get them on the coarse(about 10-20PPI) or fine side(30-40PPI), I would recommend coarse, because it will have less of an impact on the suction power and won't get clogged as fast. Prefilters are readily available for most filters, or you can just buy ones made for the Aquaclear power filters, and make your own.
How much sand will I need?
Go to the very bottom of the page, and type in your details.
Heres a step by step pictorial of washing and adding
The sand I bought, 5.68 at OSH.
What you'll need; 5 gal bucket, and hose.
Cut a small hole in the bag:
Pour the sand in the bucket, I only did a small amount because thats how much I wanted to add:
Initial fill up:
Let the hose run, go text some friends, work on something else...
After 5 min
After 10ish minutes, looks a lot clearer doesn't it? I deem it ready to go in the tank.
Dump off excess water slowly until you get this
Get something to put the sand in the tank with, I prefer a spatula.
NOTE: Turn off your filter before proceeding!
Grab a spatula full of sand...
and dump it in!
Dumping in more sand..
**I spilled some sand at this point, so I grabbed the vaccum and sucked it up before I ground it in the carpet with my foot.
And just a bit of cloudiness this time...
Also, warning if you wash your sand in cold water, do not put it straight into the tank. the sand being so cold can cause a water Temp. drop that can shock your turtle, possibly causing a RI or worse. If you wash your sand in extremely hot water, a temp increase will happen. Not sure if this would be as much of a problem as a cold shock though. So if you washed with super cold or very warm water, let your sand cool to room temp. before putting it into the tank.
There are other colors of sand available besides white, tan and black!
Walmart has Green, blue, and purple.
Heres what different colors look like!
(My tank)
(Picture courtesy of Daniel3507)
(Above picture courtesy of Zoologist.)
And how it looks in the tank:
(Pictures courtesy of chrisinva)
Anyone else have any other questions to add?? Or suggestions to answer the above questions better? Post here and I'll add them so we can get a good resource thread going!!
[admin note] This topic has been stickied. It's a worthwhile read for those interested in a sand substrate.[/b]


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Napa, Sonoma wineries mop up
When the earthquake struck shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday, Fred Biagi immediately began thinking about the warehouse and distribution business that he co-owns with his brother, Greg.
After all, Biagi Bros. has warehouses in the Napa County city of American Canyon, storing millions of bottles of wine right near the epicenter of the magnitude-6.0 quake.
His worries mounted until an employee reached the warehouses at 5 a.m. and reported limited damage. Twenty pallets at one warehouse tumbled to the floor during the shaking, damaging 1,120 cases of wine — a fraction of the 3.5 million cases stored at the facility. A 100,000-square-foot warehouse nearby had damage only to a few doors.
"We're very lucky," said Biagi, who was in at 7 a.m. Sunday cleaning up. "It's amazing how few bottles got broken."
Others weren't so fortunate.
Winemakers across Napa and Sonoma counties scrambled to assess the damage Sunday from the largest earthquake to hit Northern California in a quarter-century. While many said they avoided catastrophic damage, others spent the day cleaning up mounds of shattered glass and pools of precious wine that poured out of broken oak barrels and ruptured steel tanks.
Sebastiani Vineyards and Winery in Sonoma reported the quake damaged 14 tanks of red and white wines. Some wine from the tanks sprayed out as though from a fire hydrant, creating large puddles. Each tank at the winery holds 30,000 to 70,000 gallons.
In Napa, two 20,000- gallon tanks at The Hess Collection winery on Mount Veeder were damaged, with one resembling an enormous soft-drink can that had been crumpled. The damage resulted in almost 15,000 cases of 2013 cabernet sauvignon spilling onto the property, including flooding the garden courtyard and coloring it with large swaths of red. That included 2,000 cases of high-end wine that would retail for about $60 per bottle.
"It looked like some giant hand just came down and crushed them and the wine came out of them," said James Caudill, spokesman for The Hess Collection.
The visitor center suffered damage when barrels also came off the rack, breaking some windows. It will be closed until employees can clean up.
Napa Valley Vintners, a trade group representing 500 wineries, said it would take 24 to 72 hours to determine the extent of damage to the region's industry. Initial reports suggested damage was concentrated in the Napa and south Napa areas, which received the most violent shaking.
The center of the quake, just 6 miles southwest of Napa, was located underneath a critical distribution center for the wine industry, home to a network of warehouses that distribute Northern California wines around the globe. American Canyon also is a major hub for industry suppliers that provide everything from wooden barrels to corks and bottles.
While social media was filled with images of broken glass at Napa Valley wineries, many said they expected the industry avoided a major blow.
"It could have been a heck of a lot worse," said Alison Crowe, director of winemaking at Plata Wine Partners.
Crowe toured Safe Harbor Wine Storage in Napa on Sunday to gauge any damage to a tank where she was overseeing the winemaking. She said she only saw a few drops of wine on the floor and a few empty barrels nestled together.


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Sadie Hoffmiller is looking forward to an entire week cruising the Alaskan wilderness with her two grown children, Shawn and Breanna, and her boyfriend, Pete. Not only will they all have the chance to get to know one another better, but Sadie will finally be able to help Breanna plan her upcoming wedding. They board the ship with high expectations of a well-deserved vacation.
And except for the mysterious woman on the ship that Shawn seems to know but will not discuss, and the fact that Breanna's future mother-in-law has already hijacked the wedding plans, and the unexpected death of a passenger in the middle of the buffet line, Sadie's vacation would have been perfect.
As it is, Sadie will need all her investigative skills to navigate the deep waters of the mystery that is soon swirling around her family. Amid her growing fears for the future, Sadie must also come to terms with the fact that her role in the lives of her children is changing and that even the best laid plans can go awry when a secret gets thrown into the mix.


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Review: Mimo Monitors - iMo Pivot
NOTE: This review was written using the DisplayLink 5.2.20937 Drivers on Windows 7 x64 RTM. Be sure to scroll to the bottom in their forums, as that's where the new stuff is.
I switched to three monitors over two years ago and I can't go back. I replaced those CRTs with LCDs a year later when I rebuilt my home office and added a fourth monitor. I moved that fourth monitor over to my Mame Arcade Cabinet later and have been using a 24" and two 22"s ever since.
However, then Twitter happened and darnit, I need another monitor. Maybe, hm, a tiny monitor. I could watch videos, Hulu, run Zune and all sorts of things. But is it cheap? Does it work? Can you run a monitor over USB? Let's see.
The Big Idea
The idea is that the iMo Pivot is a 7" 700x480 portable monitor that uses USB as its buss. It works on XP, Vista and Windows 7, as well as Intel-based Mac OS X. It has drivers for all including 64-bit.
There's also a touch screen version, but I bought the $129.99 Pivot version without a touch screen. It can stand horizontally or vertically (hence, iMo Pivot) or it can be removed and stand up like a picture frame with a metal support.
I put mine underneath my 24" 16:9 monitor and while it's slightly dimmer (it has a 400:1 contrast ratio and 350 cd/m2) it's not a distracting difference against my bright Dell.
It's a real monitor and shows up as an extra one (number 3 below) in your Control Panel.
Twitter or Email Screen
You could take Outlook and fold up the folders/calendars/toolbars and have a nice tidy place for your Email. Again, you've got 800x480 to work within.
Also, you can use this as your Twitter screen, putting your timeline either on the web or using TweetDeck or bDule.
Debug Windows
Sometimes you just need a place to put your Watch Window. ;) While Visual Studio 2008 doesn't have the explicit support for Multiple Monitors like Visual Studio 2010, you CAN take your toolboxes and toolbars and move them over to your second monitor.
Music Monitor
An interesting app that this is perfect for, although there were a few visual glitches is the Zune software. This little 800x480 monitor is a great place to park the Zune software and let it entertain you while you work, without using one of your larger monitors. Unfortunately, something about the Zune visualization being so "heavy" it causes the monitor to sometimes switch into a Video Optimized view. I only saw this with the Zune software and only once or twice, but the idea appears that you can set the iMo to favor framerate over clarity, so it'll switch seamlessly to 400x240 (basically big dots) when there's a LOT of fast pixels moving. Again, don't freak out, I don't think this is a big deal and I only saw it a few times. Also, you can CHOOSE to turn this on or off with their software driver.
Video Screen
It works great for Hulu (sorry folks outside the US) and YouTube videos. There is an "optimized for video" option, but I haven't had to use it. More on that option below.
I had no problem dragging an episode of Family Guy down onto the monitor, even using Hulu Desktop, and it worked seamlessly with minimal problem. It was smooth and watchable to the point where I was genuinely surprised it was all happening over USB.
I could totally see using this to watch DVDs or little things in the background while writing, well, blog posts like this.
Frankly, this is an amazing piece of hardware. It's $130 and it works exactly as advertised. I'm looking forward to taking it with me to conferences an using it as a countdown timer for my laptop while on stage! It'll be perfect as a second monitor in Hotel Rooms when I'm away from my "command center." This is a fantastic little monitor and I'm happy I bought it.
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TUCSON, Ariz. – Several players from both Arizona men and women's tennis teams visited the Pima County Juvenile Detention Center on Saturday to talk with minors who have had previous run-ins with the law.
The athletes talked with a group of approximately 30 kids ranging in age from 10-15 to discuss the importance of goal setting and staying on track in order to reach their ambitions.
"Both the men and women's players spoke very well," said senior Kieren Thompson. "The kids paid attention, and I think they really listened to what we said."
The athletes benefitted too, as they glimpsed into lives far different than their own.
"From our perspective, it made us understand how privileged we are," said Thompson. "These kids have struggled, and may not have good family lives, financial stability, or role models. It reminded us that people right here in Tucson could use some help."
For both teams, this adds to a string of community service events participated in as they commence their spring seasons. The men begin Jan. 17 in Albuquerque, N.M., while the women kick of their season by hosting Northern Arizona Jan. 25.


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Today the news was delivered: Twitter had beaten Myspace for third place as the most visited social network. When I heard that I thought, "Well what the hell's in second?"
The answer is confounding to me: It's Windows Live Profiles.
That's right, Windows Live Profiles – of course! Haven't we all spent just hours pouring over our… uh… Profiles and did… stuff?
Seriously, Windows Live Profiles? Do you even know what that is? I do – it's the social "enhancements" attached to Hotmail. In other words, it's part of an e-mail client, but not a social network. If that's the criteria commScore used, I'd imagine Google Buzz does very well, since it runs by default on Gmail. Of course, no one uses Buzz either – cross posting from Twitter doesn't count. Or does it? I don't know! The standards here are beyond confusing!
After I read that, I could almost hear the gasp of online marketers across the land moaning, "But I don't do anything with Windows Live Profiles! I don't even know what the hell it is! Guess I'd better start setting up my company's profile!"
Well you can relax. It isn't a social profile the way you think it is. Windows Live Profile is used to access Xbox Live. There, players can game against each other, exchange messages, and in that way it's a social platform. There are a lot of Xboxes in the world, which would explain why there are so many users.
But if that's how they're calling it a social network, I think it's cheating. You need a Google account in order to use an Android phone. If Buzz is attached to your Google account by default, (which it is,) that would make it pretty damn popular. We know it isn't, of course, because no one uses it. But there are a lot of Android phones on the market, enough to make even Buzz seem like it's happening too.
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What is Phenology?
The term Phenology is derived from the Greek work "phaino", meaning to show or appear. Phenology is the study of the reoccurring life cycle stages of plants and animals; such as bud break, leaf-out, hibernation, bird migrations an insect emergence. Phenology also includes the study of how the timing of these events relate to biotic and abiotic forces, such as weather and climate.
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The search for exoplanets is about reach the next level with the Gemini Planet Imager, a new smart-car-sized telescope instrument that will use "extreme" adaptive optics to directly see distant planets around other stars.
Most large telescopes on Earth use adaptive optics — mirrors that wiggle a thousand times a second — to compensate for distortion from the atmosphere that causes the familiar "twinkling" effect of stars. With the technology, fuzzy globs of starlight are transformed into sharp pinpoints. GPI will take the method a step farther, using a mirror made from advanced silicon microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) instead of glass.
The system uses two quarter-coin-size silicon wafers to erase blurred light. GPI's computer will send electrical signals to more than 4,000 actuators to warp the super-thin mirror painted on the upper layer. To accommodate that many sensors, a conventional adaptive optics mirror would have to be more than 15 inches across, bigger than a MacBook Pro. That would make GPI far too big to fit on its intended telescope: the 8-meter Gemini South telescope in Chile. MEMS's compact deformable mirror will provide an image much brighter and sharper than that of any other ground-based telescope.
Most exoplanet searches rely on indirect methods, for instance inferring the presence of a planet by noticing how it tugs gravitationally on its parent star. GPI will actually take direct images of distant exoplanets. A component of the instrument called a coronagraph blocks light from the extremely bright star, but lets light coming from the hot, young planets circling the star to pass through, enabling astronomers to see those planets.
"There's something satisfying about seeing the little dot," said astronomer Bruce Macintosh of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and principal investigator for GPI.
Another GPI instrument, a spectrograph, detects infrared heat from planets and reads the signature of compounds like methane, water vapor, or carbon dioxide in their atmospheres. "The most exciting thing is that it can really analyze the planets' compositions," said astronomer Michael Liu of the University of Hawaii. "That's a completely new tool we never had before."
One limitation is that MEMS can only move about 4 micrometers — not enough to completely correct the distortion. So GPI also has a conventional glass deformable mirror — the woofer to MEMS's tweeter, as Macintosh puts it — to collect and correct a wider range of light. The machine also needs built-in coolers to keep it at -203 Celsius to prevent internal heat from interfering with its readings.
The "adolescent" stars GPI will study are up to 500 million years old, a tenth the age of our solar system. GPI won't be able to see Earth-size planets, but it will be able to see larger exoplanets with orbits similar to or wider than our own gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. Spotting arrangements of these planets will reveal details of how planetary systems form.
A nervous energy and excitement is building among the exoplanet-hunting community as it waits for GPI to come online.
"For all we know, GPI could be the next Kepler," said astronomer Sara Seager of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, referring to the space-based telescope that has so far spotted more than 800 exoplanets. "They're bound to find many, many fascinating objects, because it's a new eye on the sky."
But both Liu and Seager point out that there's a slim chance GPI won't find planets in the orbital distances it will search. "You just have to hold your breath because…what if there aren't planets?" said Seager. "What it finds kind of depends on what's out there."
If GPI finds a dearth of planets in the orbital outskirts, it will tell us that the layout of other solar systems are very different from our own, and it will also mean fewer chances to study exoplanet atmospheres. GPI can't distinguish planets that have snug orbits around their stars.
The instrument's components are currently being tested at UC Santa Cruz. Macintosh hopes GPI will be online in September or October, ahead of SPHERE, a similar project led by European astronomers. It's turned the quest to see exoplanets from Earth, considered nearly impossible a decade ago, into a tight sprint to the finish line.


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Cute little Stephanie Kane decided to stop by and visit and once again have some fun. She really enjoyed the way Reno had his way with her tight skinny frame. She couldn't help but tell her gal pal Alexis Love how strong and muscular he was and how he knew exactly how to please a girl. Alexis was intrigued by Stephanie's explicit story of pure 18 hijinks and decided to get in on all the rowdy fun. This time Reno wasted no time and got them to ride him hard. He got so riled up, he picked up Stephanie high above his head and started teasing her perfectly wet snatch with his tongue. She admitted having many wet dreams about Reno after their first encounter so this time I think she will be slipping into a post coital coma. Alexis won't be too far behind bemused by the brawny beast known as Reno.


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The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business is one of just 20 schools in the United States to be recognized by the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) Institute for the work it is doing to prepare students to obtain the Chartered Financial Analyst© designation, which has become the most respected and recognized investment credential in the world.
The CFA Institute is a global association of investment professionals. Entry into its University Recognition Program signals to potential students, employers and the marketplace that the Huntsman School's bachelor's of science in finance degree curriculum is closely tied to professional practice. It shows the school is well-suited to prepare students to sit for the rigorous CFA examinations, according to Paul Fjeldsted, a senior lecturer in the Finance and Economics Department. Students in the program will gain access to CFA Institute textbooks, journals, webcasts and other educational resources, he said.
Stephen Horan is the head of University Relations & Private Wealth for the CFA Institute. He said students in these programs study what the institute calls the "Candidate Body of Knowledge," which is a curriculum designed to help students obtain the knowledge, skills and abilities that investment experts worldwide have identified as essential best practice.
By mastering the fundamentals of the CFA Program, as well as what the organization calls its "Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice," these "future investment professionals join us in our mission to promote the highest standards of ethics, education and professional excellence for the ultimate benefit of society," Horan said.
To be accepted into the program, the Huntsman School's finance degree curriculum was required to incorporate at least 70 percent of the CFA Program Candidate Body of Knowledge components and to emphasize the CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice. Because of this recognition, students pursuing finance degrees are eligible to apply for scholarships, which cover a substantial portion of examination costs.
"This recognition would not be possible without the hard work that our dedicated faculty has put into building this program," said Tyler Bowles, the Economics and Finance Department head. "We continually strive to improve the program and aim for academic excellence and rigor."
There are 26 faculty members in the Economics and Finance Department. Among them, three are CFA charterholders: Drew Dahl, Sheila Lai and Paul Fjeldsted. A CFA charterholder has passed all three levels of the CFA examinations and completed the required years of work experience.
Students who are interested in the scholarships are welcomed to fill out an application form in the Economics and Finance Department. Since the scholarships will be given out on a first-come, first-served basis, students are advised to register for the examination and apply for the scholarships as soon as they can, Mr. Fjeldsted said.
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QUEBEC — On Tuesday, Jan. 1, Quebec and California became the first jurisdictions in North America to enforce compulsory cap-and-trade regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The idea was pushed by former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Quebec premier Jean Charest, within the Western Climate Initiative, which includes seven states and four provinces — Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia.
Quebec and California will set allowable emissions limits in the first year, with the permitted amount reduced over time.
Quebec aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 25 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020. California aims to return to its 1990 level of greenhouse gas emissions by the same year.
"The Quebec government is ambitious," said Jean-Yves Benoit, a climate change expert with Quebec's Environment Department.
If a facility exceeds its emissions limit, or cap, the owner can buy carbon credits from another producer whose emissions are below the allowed limit, or buy carbon offsets, such as an untilled farm field or a forest that can absorb a specific quantity of carbon dioxide.
Initially, about 80 industrial facilities, belonging to 60 companies — refineries, cement plants, paper mills, Hydro-Québec power stations and aluminum plants — will fall under the new regulations.
The facilities generate 25,000 tonnes or more a year of greenhouse gases, and will be required to reduce emissions so that Quebec hits its reduction target by 2020.
During the first phase, the province will give free carbon allowances to emitters facing international competition, to ensure the new rules do not hurt their business, Benoit explained.
Facilities can invest in green technology to meet their reduction target, and if they have extra credits, the credits can be sold.
"This is where the market starts," Benoit said.
At the start, companies can deal directly with each other, he explained. Then, brokers can get involved, and banks have shown interest in the carbon market.
In 2015, a second phase of Quebec's cap-and-trade plan will come into effect, extending the plan to vehicle fuel distributors.
In May 2008, Charest, accompanied by then-Quebec environment minister Line Beauchamp and then-federal environment minister John Baird, participated in a ceremony to inaugurate the Montreal Climate Exchange, where futures contracts were to be traded.
The Montreal Climate Exchange was a joint venture with the Chicago Climate Exchange. Both offered carbon credits on a voluntary basis, but without demand there was no market, Benoit said. So they ceased operations.
Similarly in Europe, ICE Futures, operated by the IntercontinentalExchange, recently resumed trading following a nearly two-year shutdown. Investors lost confidence in the European carbon market after a series of scandals and the alleged theft of 30 million euros (almost $40 million) in emissions allowances. As well, an oversupply of carbon allowances drove down prices.
Trading resumed after the European Commission took steps to rebuild confidence in Europe's 80-billion-euro market (about $105 billion).
The Montreal Climate Exchange, operated by the Montreal Exchange, remains inactive.
"We are currently assessing market conditions," said Montreal Exchange spokesperson Catherine Kee.
Quebec and California have agreed to harmonize their carbon markets. While the Quebec cap-and-trade regulations took effect on Tuesday, the link between the two markets will not begin until the second or third quarter of this year, Kee said.
To avoid the problem of a glut of carbon allowances, the governments will remove excess credits from the market.
California will auction carbon credits in 2013, and has set a reserve price of $10.71 a metric tonne, while Quebec, after initially distributing allowances for free, will sell the remainder at $10.70 a tonne.
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The Ravens surprised a sellout crowd at M&T Bank Stadium with a new menacing look, and it had nothing to do with sporting all-black uniforms for the first time in three years.
A bruising running game sprang up when the temperatures dropped. A terrorizing defense ambushed the reigning Super Bowl Most Valuable Player. And quarterback Joe Flacco unleashed his angry side, hurling expletives at officials.
All this sound and fury culminated in a 30-24 triumph over the New Orleans Saints and one of the biggest home wins of the John Harbaugh era.
It took until Week 15 for the Ravens to establish their smash-mouth identity, but they didn't smack just any team in the mouth. Ray Rice ran past -- and through -- the defending Super Bowl champions, producing a career-high 233 total yards and two touchdowns. The Ravens' blitzing defense crashed the pocket around Saints quarterback Drew Brees and slowed a team that had scored 30 points in five straight games.
No one in the Ravens locker room would classify this as "a statement win," but Rice summed up the significance of beating the sizzling Saints (10-4) eloquently.
"To beat them this late in the year when they were peaking, it just says something about our team," said Rice, who totaled 153 rushing yards and 80 receiving yards. "We've been making it pretty interesting, but one thing about our team is we've got a resilient group."
The Ravens (10-4) have the same record as the Pittsburgh Steelers (10-4), who lost to the New York Jets, but they're technically behind the Steelers in the AFC North. If the teams end the season tied atop the division, the Steelers would win the AFC North because of a better division record (the Ravens have one more loss in the division after falling at Cincinnati in Week 2).
In order for the Ravens to have a shot at the division title and a top seed in the AFC playoffs, they need the Steelers to lose at least once in the final two weeks (home against Carolina and at Cleveland). The Ravens wrap up the regular season at Cleveland and home against Cincinnati.
"We keep the pressure on Pittsburgh this way," Harbaugh said. "We're still trying to win the division. They have the edge because they beat us, but we're not conceding that just yet."
The Ravens certainly didn't back down at any point against the Saints, not with the way Rice was dominating the game. He broke a 20-yard run on fourth-and-one in the first quarter and responded with a big play every time New Orleans scored in the second half.
When Garrett Hartley's 47-yard field goal cut the Ravens' lead to 21-17 in the third quarter, the Ravens' first play was a swing pass to Rice, who broke six tackles for a 32-yard gain. The Ravens settled for a 33-yard field goal from Billy Cundiff after a wide-open Le'Ron McClain dropped a pass on second-and-goal.
When the Saints tied the score at 24 in the fourth quarter on Lance Moore's stretched-out 15-yard touchdown -- which was upheld after a replay challenge -- the Ravens didn't panic in losing their ninth fourth-quarter lead of the season. Their first play was a 50-yard run by Rice, who ran behind a wall of blockers and wasn't touched until he was tackled deep in New Orleans territory. Roman Harper's late hit on Rice on that play set up another field goal by Cundiff.
"There was some doubt that we weren't going to be able to beat the defending champs because of last week's performance," said Rice, referring to the fact that the Ravens needed overtime to win at Houston after squandering a 21-point lead. "But this is a new week. We scored, they scored. We matched them hand-for-hand. We played chess with them today, and it just so happened we finished the game with a checkmate."
The Ravens' finishing move came from a defense that failed to close in the fourth quarter six days earlier.
With the Ravens ahead 27-24, the defense didn't let New Orleans get within a sniff of the end zone. On fourth down at the Saints' 17-yard line, defensive tackle Haloti Ngata tipped Brees' pass and defensive end Cory Redding pulled it in for the interception with 1:47 remaining.
Cundiff's 27-yard field goal closed out the Ravens' fourth win in five games.
"I think everybody on our defense was thinking that we couldn't let this one get away," Ngata said. "Throughout this year, we have always let teams finish us off. It just felt great that our defense could help out our offense like that."
Rice carried the Ravens' offense on a day when the wind chill dipped to 25 degrees. When the Ravens scored touchdowns on three straight drives in the first half, they ran the ball 16 times and threw six passes.
Rice scored on a 10-yard run and caught a 17-yard touchdown pass from Flacco in the back of the end zone. Rice, who had only one 100-yard rushing game this season, finished with his most rushing yards since gaining 154 at Cleveland in November 2009.
"I knew we were going to run the ball today," said Rice, who is going to sign his shoes and give them to his mother for Christmas. "It felt good that we said we were going to do something and then we went out and did it. If I have to be a sparkplug, so be it."
This also wasn't the same Ravens defense that played the safe route by rushing three players and dropping everyone else into coverage. The Ravens blitzed more than they have all season, sending linebackers, cornerback Chris Carr and safety Ed Reed.
The Ravens defense didn't give up anything easily. Two of the Saints' three touchdowns were the result of acrobatic catches (a one-handed grab by tight end Jimmy Graham and an outstretched one by Moore) to reach the end zone.
The Ravens -- who improved their record against Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks to 2-12 under Harbaugh -- caught Brees off guard.
"It was a lot different from Monday night when we watched them against the Texans," Brees said. "The defense played a lot less conservatively."
Another unexpected development was the outburst by Flacco on the sideline. Late in the third quarter, Saints defensive end Will Smith landed on Flacco after the play ended and appeared to put his knee into the quarterback's helmet.
TV cameras caught Flacco using some salty language as he complained to the officials.
"I have my things on the sidelines sometimes," Flacco said. "I don't know that they always get caught. But apparently this one did. I wasn't too happy at the time. It happens. I feel like it was a late hit."
The Ravens were the ones who delivered the final blow and find themselves in a strong position to make the playoffs for a third straight season. With two regular-season games remaining, the Ravens carry a two-game lead over the San Diego Chargers and Jacksonville Jaguars for a wild-card spot as well as a boost of confidence after beating the Saints.
Asked whether this was a signature victory, Harbaugh said: "I don't know. That's a fair thing for you guys to talk about, but for us, it's a win we needed this week. We needed to get 10, and we have 10. Now, we need to get to 11."
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — After taking its hardest weekly hit in four months, the U.S. stock market next week confronts third-quarter earnings in earnest, with 40% of the Dow components reporting.
"Earnings will dominate next week's news flow. More importantly, we get management's color on how the balance of the year looks," said Lawrence Creatura, portfolio manager at Federated Investors Inc.
Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott, agreed: "People will be teasing everything there, it's really not so much the numbers but what is said accompanying the numbers, what CEOs have to say about hiring, and the notion of the fiscal cliff blunting activity."
The week brings the first "peak week" of the season, with results expected from 12 of the Dow Jones Industrial Average's
Of the 34 S&P 500 companies that have reported third-quarter results so far, nearly 59% beat earnings estimates; almost 18% reported earnings in line with expectations and close to 24% came in below expectations, according to Thomson Reuters.
"This has been the ease-in," Bill Stone, chief investment strategist at PNC Asset Management Group, said of the quarterly earnings reported so far. Next week "is just a ton," said Stone, pointing to expected earnings from technology bellwethers International Business Machines Corp.
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U.S. stocks last week took their hardest hit in four months on a pullback that many market observers chalked up to a much-needed pause after the market's four-month climb into October.
The Dow finished with a 2.1% weekly loss, leaving it up 9.1% for the year. The S&P 500 fell 2.2% for the week, trimming its year-to-date advance to just under 14%, and the Nasdaq Composite
"Having a slight pause is probably normal considering the strong run we've had in the face of decelerating statistics, both from the macroeconomic perspective, and with respect to company pre-announcements," said Creatura at Federated.
"Basically the news hadn't been good, but the market went up regardless. This week, we gave a little of it back. Ironically, it was in the face of some quite positive data, conspicuously positive data on the employment front," Creatura added about the jobless rate falling to 7.8% in September.
While there are multiple factors behind the market's rise, including a much-needed stabilization in the housing sector, analysts usually point to global monetary easing as a primary reason.
"The easiest first choice is to look at the central-bankers-gone-wild type behavior we've seen from Europe, the Bank of Japan and our own Federal Reserve. It's a global shell game, the collective issuing of debt on the one and with other hand purchasing it with currency we're also printing," said Creatura.
U.S. economic reports in the coming week include U.S. retail sales on Monday and the Consumer Price Index Tuesday along with housing and manufacturing data.
"If we get reports showing stability if not improvement, it would give the market the economic validation to move higher," said Luschini at Janney Montgomery Scott.
The market will also look to import and export data from China, which could hit during the weekend, and will be viewed to "give us a little idea of the strength or lack thereof of the Chinese economy and of the globe, to see how many are taking their goods," said Stone.
The market is also holding its collective breath to see if and when Spain requests a financial rescue, a condition for the European Central Bank to purchase its debt and help lower the borrowing costs of the debt-strapped nation.
The Nov. 6 U.S. presidential election is also weighing on the market, especially given that it's seen as a close contest.
"Right now with an evenly divided electorate, all the market sees is uncertainty, and uncertainty is priced at a discount," said Creatura.


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There's a terrible hereditary eye disease called Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy that affects men in their twenties. It's a mitochondrial disease inherited from your mother that leads to total blindness within six months of onset.
A recent breakthrough from a team of researchers at Newcastle University suggests this disease may be reversible in its early stages. The researchers gave 55 test subjects the drug idebenone for six months and 20 reported an improvement in their vision at the end of the study.
It didn't work for everyone and it's not a cure, but as team leader Patrick Chinnery points out the results show the drug had "a significant effect." Best of all, idebenone has limited side effects and could be used prophylactically to prevent the onset of the disease. The same treatment could also be used to treat other mitochondrial diseases as well. [New Scientist]
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If you were anywhere near Bryant Park just after dawn on Friday, you probably saw them: herds of little girls, skipping down sidewalks in denim HotPants, clutching their mothers with one hand and a homemade sign with the other, glitter trailing in their wakes. The tweens — along with a number of their stroller-bound siblings and coffee-swilling parents — had descended on Midtown by the thousands, many having risen as early as 3:30 a.m. to see Miley Cyrus strut onstage for the "Good Morning America" summer concert series. As a line snaked around the park ("Just because you're pregnant doesn't mean you can cut!" shouted one police officer to a sneaky mom), Cyrus' pint-size fans compared carefully selected duds and hummed tunes from their heroine's new album, "Breakout," due out on July 22. "She sings the best songs ever," sighed Amanda Cristo, 12, who had trekked from the Bronx and had chosen a pair of black leggings and a white tunic with silver sequins ("Miley wears a lot of sequins," she explained). "I just love her music, and she's so real," said Marlena Prast, 13, from Wallingford, Conn. Prast was wearing what appeared to be the uniform of the day: denim shorts (cut high on the thigh), a jersey tank top and bejeweled flip-fl ops, topping off the look with a pair of white plastic sunglasses. "She dresses like this all the time," her father said, though Prast noted that, since she wears a uniform to Catholic school during the year, this particular outfit was special. "I picked it out two nights ago," she said.
Elsewhere in the crowd, sisters and best friends nervously huddled together, comparing Mileyemblazoned shirts. "I got this from Limited Too," explained Sarah Norris, nine, from Chester, N.J., of her Cyrus T-shirt, which she paired with a flowered miniskirt. "My mom took me shopping for it." Fiveyear- old Naia McGinn, wearing a bright pink Miley T and ruffled pink miniskirt, quietly sang Cyrus' hit song "The Best of Both Worlds" into the ear of her blonde Miley Cyrus doll; of her outfit she said, "My mom picked it out." Clad in a white T heat-pressed with Cyrus' smiling face and dusted with pink sparkles, Kaitlin Miller, eight, from Connecticut, said she takes inspiration from her bedroom wall when planning outfits: "I have two posters of Miley at home, and I like to look at her clothes," Miller said. "They're, like, springy and bright."
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If the preteen set was uncomfortable with Cyrus' recent controversial photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz, you wouldn't know it by talking to them ("Mommy, what's Vanity Fair?" asked one nineyear- old, a purple boa tied around her neck). "She does the right thing at a young age, and she doesn't have a big head," said Kelsey Graham, 13, from Williamstown, N.J. "I like her because she's a good person." Kayla Vera, 10, from the Bronx, who wore a sequin-covered newsboy cap she bought at Claire's, took Cyrus' appeal a step further. "She, like, expresses herself by saying nobody's perfect," Vera said. "She's saying that even she's not perfect, so you don't have to be, either."
Being of driver's-permit age didn't stop a slew of teens from showing their Miley love (the singer herself, after all, turns 16 in November). "Her songs are different," said Anna Blazejowskyj, 16, while Brianne Strnad, 15, adjusting her pearl necklace, said, "I really like her TV show." As the line slowly inched forward and chatter turned to Cyrus' own wardrobe ("Miley can wear, like, a yellow sock and a red sock," Vera explained solemnly to the friend next to her, "but she still makes it look supergood") a gaggle of just-arriving adolescents, their hair pulled into matching side ponytails, stopped, stared at the crowd before them, and began to wail. "Next time," muttered a father as he tugged the girls along, "we're getting here the night before."


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The Bank of England has refused to bow to pressure over surging inflation and held interest rates at their historic low of 0.5%.
The debate among the nine-strong Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is likely to have been heated as new pressures on inflation emerged and recent voting evidence showed an increase in the number of policymakers backing a hike.
The borrowing rate was last changed in March 2009 but the CPI measure of inflation rose to 4% in January - well above the Bank's 2% medium-term target - and governor Mervyn King has warned it could hit 5%.
Furthermore, recent unrest in North Africa and the Middle East has driven up oil prices, which is expected to add further pressure to the cost of living.
Ian McCafferty, chief economic adviser at the CBI, said the no-change decision was unsurprising but an increase in rates is becoming more likely.
He said: "The short-term data continue to cloud the issue, but there are growing risks of inflation becoming more ingrained as firms attempt to bolster their profit margins and employees seek higher wage rises in the face of sharply increased costs of energy and commodities.
"The shifting pattern of MPC voting suggests that these risks are an increasing concern, and we continue to believe that a move away from the emergency 0.5% rate set during the financial crisis is likely in the second quarter.
"By acting early, the Bank can keep inflation expectations under control, preventing the need for more aggressive action later on."
The committee was split four ways last month as Andrew Sentance voted for a greater hike than two of his hawkish colleagues. Voting patterns for this month's meeting will be revealed in two weeks.
The majority of MPC members said they were prepared to wait for further insight into the strength of economic recovery in the first quarter of this year following shock figures which showed the UK economy declined by 0.6% in the final quarter of 2010.