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PHOENIX -- Instead of looking to make moves with the future in mind, perhaps the Pirates should've looked for help in the past at the Trade Deadline. Maybe somebody like Lastings Milledge.
It worked for the D-backs, who got a pinch-hit, tiebreaking two-run homer in the sixth inning Thursday night from Andy Marte -- in his first Major League at-bat since 2010 -- and turned it into a 7-4 victory over the Bucs.View Full Game Coverage
PHOENIX -- Instead of looking to make moves with the future in mind, perhaps the Pirates should've looked for help in the past at the Trade Deadline. Maybe somebody like Lastings Milledge.
It worked for the D-backs, who got a pinch-hit, tiebreaking two-run homer in the sixth inning Thursday night from Andy Marte -- in his first Major League at-bat since 2010 -- and turned it into a 7-4 victory over the Bucs.View Full Game Coverage
And just to contribute to the Throwback Thursday feel, the win in relief went to Oliver Perez -- yes, the former Buccos lefty who threw his last pitch in Pittsburgh in 2006.
Marte, who was called up from the Pacific Coast League's Reno outpost to replace traded infielder Martin Prado, did not arrive and suit up until the second inning. Four innings later, he clocked an 0-1 pitch from Jeff Locke to break a 3-3 tie with his first homer since Sept. 8, 2010, when he was with the Indians.
There were indications that the Bucs, preoccupied pregame with pumping themselves up after the trade-market shutout and with routine pre-series meetings, weren't quite up to snuff on Marte. Locke was certainly surprised to see a guy in the batter's box he hadn't seen since they were Atlanta farmhands.
"I haven't seen him since Braves camp," Locke said of the well-traveled Marte. "I didn't even know he was on the team. I had no idea."
Neither did Locke have an idea of how to approach him, other than Pitching 101: Keep the ball down -- which he failed to do.
"I got a changeup in the zone, and he's got some power and hit it," Locke said.
Two batters later, Aaron Hill also went yard to end a Locke outing that had begun dominantly then briefly became gutsy. Locke retired the first eight men he faced and turned his first jam into a highlight, fanning Paul Goldschmidt to end the third with the bases loaded.
"It's tough to strike out Goldschmidt any time," manager Clint Hurdle noted. "So to strike him out with the bases loaded after falling behind 3-1 ... he made a big pitch there."
From there, bad defense and bad pitches sent Locke's outing south, ruining the 2-0 lead he had been given on Russell Martin's two-run double in the second off Arizona starter Josh Collmenter.
Locke almost worked his way out of a second straight bases-loaded jam in the fourth but had the misfortune of Collmenter bouncing the two-out grounder to third base. Alvarez fielded the ball, took three steps, pounded the ball into his glove -- then uncorked a throw at the feet of first baseman Ike Davis.
Davis was charged with the error, on the grounds that the ball did not hit the ground before reaching his glove and dribbling past him. Regardless, the challenging throw with the pitcher running resulted in two unearned runs that made it 2-2.
"[Locke] had a chance to get out of the fourth. We were in position to put the inning away," Hurdle said. "That's a catchable ball. [Davis] has played a lot of first base and has caught that ball before. He didn't catch it [this time] and nobody felt worse about it than he did."
Davis experienced something more common for infielders at the end of ground balls, not first baseman on throws: Getting caught "between hops."
"I tried to get a read on the throw, and I wasn't sure how far it would carry," said Davis, who pulled his glove back -- the way one would catch eggs at the county fair. "I backed off, rather than reach out and get it. I should've played it differently."
The D-backs jumped to a 3-2 lead on Jordan Pacheco's two-out RBI single in the fifth.
The Bucs briefly caught up, on Neil Walker's homer in the sixth -- his 16th, matching the career high he set last season.
"It was frustrating giving that up," said Collmenter, given the hook after the homer. "I had a feeling he was looking first-pitch curveball and threw it anyway. It was just a hunch, but I should have stuck with it and thrown something different."
With two on and two outs later that inning, Jordy Mercer hit a 405-foot rocket off Perez. Unfortunately, Chase Field's wall in dead center is 407 feet from home plate. Ender Inciarte settled under the ball for an easy catch.
Locke's last two starts have been comparable, and not in a good way. Saturday in Colorado, he allowed six runs on 10 hits, three of them home runs. Thursday night, it was six runs (albeit the first two unearned) on nine hits, two of them home runs.
"Most games in Colorado ... I kick 'em to the curb," said Hurdle, alluding to the altitude that skewers pitching efforts. "Today, some pitches got elevated."
"We had some innings that went on longer than they needed to go," said Locke, diplomatically. "The pitch count starts too get up. By the sixth, I was feeling a little fatigued."
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer.


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Burkina Faso boosts salaries amid growing unrest
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso's government announced Thursday it is lowering taxes for civil servants and increasing student loans amid growing unrest over the high cost of education and living in the landlocked West African country.
Under the new plan, the government is boosting student loans each month by about $50. Civil servants' salaries are expected to go up by about 5 percent as a result of the tax changes.
The new measures were being taken to provide "an adequate response to the concerns of different groups," according to a government statement Thursday.
The move appeared aimed at placating a growing sense of unrest in Burkina Faso, where the president has been in power since 1987. Earlier this year students in the capital led violent protests stemming from disputes over their university accommodation.
While some applauded the government's new gesture, others said it was not enough.
"I figure that I'll have $4 more (after) the reduction in taxes on my salary," said Aboubakar Konsegre, who works at the Finance Ministry. "Maybe that could buy me a liter (0.25 gallon) of gas for the week. In any case, it's minuscule."
Burkina Faso, a deeply impoverished nation of some 17 million people, has battled a growing cost of living and is struggling to educate its youth.
Uprisings began in February 2011 when students protested following the death of a student in police custody. The president tried to stem the unrest by dissolving the government and removing the country's security chiefs. Relations have remained tense since then, and in July scores of students in the capital set more than a dozen cars ablaze after failed negotiations with university officials over their housing situation.
The last few years have been rocky for Compaore, the country's longtime leader who came to power after a coup in which the president was killed. Last month a former bodyguard was killed in an exchange of gunfire while trying to penetrate the grounds of the presidential palace. Compaore also survived a 2011 mutiny which led to hundreds of soldiers being prosecuted and removed from the army.

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July 2, 2013
MILAN (AP) — Pirelli says it will change the tires used by Formula One cars after a string of blowouts during the British Grand Prix.
The Italian manufacturer will use a Kevlar belt on its rear tires for the German Grand Prix on Sunday to help prevent punctures.
Starting with the Hungarian Grand Prix this month, Pirelli will revert to the tires it used in 2012 combined with the current compounds from this season.
Tires exploded on four cars during the British GP, including those of Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa.
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It was one of those days when I didn't have much choice but to be accurate and patient with exposure and colour balance as it kept changing. It was a real hassle and while it screwed up the workflow, the weather was bracing and Federica in her Italian way did her best to be professional and cooperative.
I say in her Italian way because Italian girls are special. At least they believe they are and, in Federica's case, you can see her point. At the age of 29, she seems to have discovered the secret of eternal youth, tall, slender, with fairy-tale blonde hair, and eyes that sparkle like pools of water reflecting the setting sun. Or with today's weather, the shifting clouds.
Federica shares a flat with her mother, in fact she admits she's something of a mummy's girl, and made a point of expressing her disdain for immature men. "What on earth could they possibly offer?" Too right, I said, and acted like really mature. So, ever since she grew up, Federica has only dated men over 40. Her present boyfriend is 49. Just right for her mum, I was thinking, but I didn't want to sound immature and didn't say so.
With the wind blowing up a storm, she bravely stripped off and then for some reason I couldn't understand, imitated the weather by bursting into tears. She cried for mama (perfectly true!) when I asked her to pose with the stone dog that stands proudly on top of one of the entrance pillars to the villa. We got through that. Federica put on a brave show below a freezing cold fountain and, when her perfect flesh was completely covered in goose bumps (chicken skin we say up at the North Pole) she climbed an ancient olive tree and warmed up riding a quad bike. Naked, naturally.
So far so good and lets hope tomorrow is even better!
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I can understand the concept of your interests and hobbies affecting your social opportunities. Being a Wiccan who happens to enjoy watching ballet and anime is hardly a recipe for instantaneous popularity in the law enforcement community. . .most overlook it, a few ask about it, and every so often some asshole comes along with "freaks like you should be in cuffs, not toting them." Mostly, though, it just doesn't come up unless they hear Ali Project or Sawa's Phool playing in my squad car. They ask about the music and then remember that I'm the weird one. . .I actually catch more grief from my wife, who rather thoroughly disapproves of my wasting time with anime. (Since she's a news junkie, though, I can always argue that anime is at least entertaining!)
just wandering about...
Clearly a weabo, but in all honesty if you feel (after cutting through the hard to read melodrama and god awful "smiley" things) insecure about your ability to relate/communicate with your peers that aren't into "Japan" then the answer is pretty simple... broaden your horizons.
It can be done in your home, it takes little effort and it gives this magical thing called experience, that experience can be used to mask the weabo (I jest) nature you have... or in the best case scenario, actually make you a well rounded person.
@moonhawk: Japanese music coming from a squad car.. I can think of a couple of things I'd like to hear, if for no other reason than shock value. I'm but a humble office jockey, so I can't relate to how drastically different things must be on the police force. On the other than, my wife is Wiccan with a Catholic family, so I can at least appreciate that side of the prejudice.
@Coffeebot: You cut me to the bone.
Back in the day my 'god awful smiley things' were awesome. ._.
Anyway, my horizons are about as wide as I can keep up with. Truthfully, my 'weeaboo' (what IS the proper spelling, anyway?) nature is really only limited to music and my culinary talents. Otherwise I can keep up reasonably well with other subjects. I think in my opinion, moreso than TV, religious views, blah (read: etc), food and music are simply the two things relate with the most which is why there tends to be such a 'disturbance.'
Maybe I'm wrong.
Ama_no_Kagaseo wrote:
@moonhawk: Japanese music coming from a squad car.. I can think of a couple of things I'd like to hear, if for no other reason than shock value. I'm but a humble office jockey, so I can't relate to how drastically different things must be on the police force. On the other than, my wife is Wiccan with a Catholic family, so I can at least appreciate that side of the prejudice.
@Coffeebot: You cut me to the bone.
Back in the day my 'god awful smiley things' were awesome. ._.
Anyway, my horizons are about as wide as I can keep up with. Truthfully, my 'weeaboo' (what IS the proper spelling, anyway?) nature is really only limited to music and my culinary talents. Otherwise I can keep up reasonably well with other subjects. I think in my opinion, moreso than TV, religious views, blah (read: etc), food and music are simply the two things relate with the most which is why there tends to be such a 'disturbance.'
Maybe I'm wrong.
If music and food are your biggest 'deficit' areas then the easy suggestion is... other stuff.
Listen to some generic music enough to become familiar with it so that you can spout it off in a flash, in my case I use AC/DC (although I actually like the music) but it's useful because there are few people in Australia who haven't heard of AC/DC and it's generic rock so it gives people a basic understanding of my musical taste.
As far as food is concerned, learn some basic stuff from other cultures, and by basic I'm talking white/red sauce + meat/seafood + carbohydrate level of basic, oh and try some different restaurant/eatery food. But many of us that cook tend to focus on one culture/style because it's a lot easier and cleaner than being a jack of all trades.
Hell I also focus on south-east Asian cuisine because I enjoy the taste and texture as well as the visual appeal of the food, but I've spent enough time cooking that I can appreciate food from many areas and styles, and more than that, I can cook a variety of dishes (because of the basics) and talk about them.
Then again, where I live you can't go 2km without finding an Asian style/themed restaurant or eatery so it's not like your preference for an Asian style is uncommon.
Should rename the thing "self-indulgent praising thread"
seriously what the hell?
You put out this bs attitude that you grew up and feel different than everyone else. Nobody feels the same way, get over it.
Other people do better than you, you might think? well yeah... There will always be someone better than you, there will always be someone worse than you, that doesn't mean you need to put your self anywhere to feel better about your self.
Sounds like you had a rough time, but there is absolutely no need for you to go online or anywhere public for that matter, to talk about how hard it is to be different or "ask for advice"
Everyone's different mate, don't get full of your self, that kind of attitude tends to develop into a sort of arrogance, which is the most disgusting human feature.
I'm not trying to bully you, or get on your case. Just trying to make you realise that everyone goes through some sort of identity crisis at one point no matter what.
You're asking the wrong way, you already like Anime and Japanese culture right? well guess what, there's a hell of a lot of people here that feels the same way, no need to proof your self to anyone.
Embrace who you are, don't pull your self down because you don't get along with people in your neighbourhood, and while I'm at it! Don't think you're better than others either.
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I think you just need to... be more open-minded...
I think that conversation you had with "Mr. Suzuki"; it seems to me like he was just making a joke, he's not trying to insult that you're trying to be Asian... it's just lighthearted humour.
You're taking things too seriously... just go with the flow.
The way I hold you and the night just seems to fly
There's always plastic surgery. If you're yellow on the inside and not happy about it, you should go yellow all together.
Good read.
Thinking of something cool to say...
Ama_no_Kagaseo wrote:
So..this is my first post on a forum in.. -Counts on fingers..- About two years? Cut an old man some slack if I'm not 'mad cool' like you kids say these days. Beware, I may come across pompous but these are my efforts to make fun of myself.
Anyway.. This is something I kind of wanted to get off my chest and see how other people react in a similar situation. In order for me to build proper understanding of my situation, let me explain a couple of things about myself:
I have been an anime fan for a pretty long time. Maybe even forever since I grew up with stuff like Tonari no Totoro and the like ever since I was.. This tall? -Measures something pretty short.- And on top of it all I spent a lot of my youth in martial arts where practice and philosophy was taught, so it was a disciplined and borderline spiritual class (please don't misunderstand. I'm not trying to make myself out to be some crazy bad ass.) Combine that with an anti-social nature (ah..it's getting worse. TToTT) in a small town and you arrive at someone who fails at establishing an identity that syncs with their immediate surroundings. Therefore I supplemented my ignorance of my own culture with a growing interest in Asian culture, specifically Korean and Japanese.
So fast forward more than a decade, and I've attached myself to Japan quite strongly. I only listen to Japanese music, not because "nglish muzak suxx" but because.. I don't even think I know where to learn about my local music anymore. I tend to eat with chopsticks (depending on what I'm eating. I'm not someone who tries to tackle steak and potatoes with chop sticks) and FURTHER STILL - I can really only cook Asian cuisine well. Anything else and I'm relying on recipes and youtube videos.
My 'religion' of choice is Shinto, because I can't identify with dominant monotheistic practices.
I read (translated) Japanese literature.
And more often than not I'm ignorant of current trends that surround me. Do you know how long it took me to catch on to what a Honey Boo Boo is? DO YOU!?
Over the years I've become so distanced from my immediate surroundings that it's hard for me to even figure out a way back.
So imagine my dismay when two things happen:
As a working adult I interact with my co-workers. I consider myself social, but awkward. When people ask what I listen to I find myself dodging the question.
Conversation with a co-worker:
"Oh. You know, I listen to a little everything.."
"Oh, well, like what?"
"Well, I listen to some rap..some rock.."
"Oh, so do you like (x musician)?"
"Ah..Sorry, I don't know. I like some old school stuff, like Zeebra.."
"Ah..he's a Japa-"
And now I seem to have earned a reputation as being 'that person.' Not that it's a bad thing.. it's kind of funny, if not daunting sometimes. I've become the go-to person for Asian restaurants in our area, for example. What really gets me is when I hear someone refer to me as 'Fasian' to my face or otherwise. For some reason, it just really gets under my skin. I'm not TRYING to be Asian (btw, I'm not.) I'm just trying to be me the only way I know how. TT-TT
On the other hand, there are conversations that are held between me and my Asian friends.
Conversation with Mr. Suzuki:
"Hey, so what's for dinner tonight?"
"Ah.. I was thinking about sukiyaki or okonomiyaki.."
"Where are we going then?"
"I just really wanted to stay in, so I was going to break out the skillet or pot.."
"...I have to have my mom make okonomiyaki for me.."
"..It's kind of easy.."
"What mix do you use?"
"..I make my own.."
"...You're more Asian than I am."
NO I'M NOT! Stop it! Stop it right there! I'm not Asian, I'm not trying to be Asian! Just.. just..stop...;o;
I'm sure there are other people here that have these same issues right? How do you cope?
SAME!!!!!!!! Wow, didn't think there was anybody else........
I cope by embracing it, being proud of it, and becoming more and more obsessed.
Yea, my Asian friends say the same thing "You're more Asian than me," well, I probably embrace their culture more than they do themselves, it's sort of funny yet worrying at the same time. Karaage chicken and rice and sushi are my sort/of specialties.
Wanting to watch Legend of Korra book two, but having to wait until April
Some of this made me chuckle.
But I can relate to you.
But I'm also fairly aware of English music. So I can't relate to you as well. I grew up to some Studio Ghilbli movies as well. What a coincidence. o m o!
I cope by just not bringing it up in conversations, and try not to get excited when I'm around friends when something updates on my phone or something and it's either anime-related, or gaming-related. Unless it's a friend who happens to like that stuff... Which is somewhat rare where I am. I don't like to hang out with the "otaku" kids because well... They aren't like you... But they're just too... Fan girly about it. And I'm not like that.
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Do whatever makes you happy.
Ignore the haters.
They mad cuz they just jelly.
Sorry but....
It's the law.
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Ama_no_Kagaseo wrote:
NO I'M NOT! Stop it! Stop it right there! I'm not Asian, I'm not trying to be Asian! Just.. just..stop...;o;
Hey man, do what you like and whatever floats your boat but, umm, you've got a serious case of denial if you think that's the case. You've effectively shunned every possible element of your own culture to adapt that of Asian culture. If that's not trying to be Asian, then what is? Maybe you're not consciously aware of it (although I think that'd be impossible considering the depths you've gone to) but it is something you're undeniably doing.
You'll probably be happier in life if you just admit it to yourself and embrace that it's who you are. Although you might be happier if you first take a hard look and see that if this longing to reculture yourself is actually a longing to do that and not a side effect of some other events in your life that you've avoided dealing with.
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Crisis, what economic crisis?
Just one of the surprises to emerge from the recent fall TV season network announcements is that ad sales for the U.S. networks are running about 10 per cent ahead of where they were a year ago. Industry analysts for The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and others predict that, in all, advertisers will commit more than $9 billion for prime-time spots on ABC, Fox, CBS and NBC, topping the previous record set in 2008 - and considerably more than last fall, when advertisers were still nervous over a jittery economy.
The rosy economic picture for network TV in the U.S. may well be duplicated in Canada, where CTV, Global and Citytv last week unveiled their own fall schedules, featuring many of the same dramas, comedies and reality series that are driving the bullish U.S. ad market.
Casual viewers are more interested in the shows themselves than the business that drives them, of course.
And the early indicators are that the fall season will be safe in both style and substance, with the emphasis on nostalgia, retro fits and what worked in the past - the TV equivalent of comfort food.
The big picture is now settled. The time for speculation and gossip is past. Major roles and behind-the-scenes writers, producers and crew for most series have been decided. Script writers, producers and showrunners for new series report to work the week of June 7. Production for most returning series will resume in mid-July.
There will be the inevitable fast cancellations and last-minute substitutions, of course, but for now, the fall trends are clear.
Hello, ladies.
Are you young, female, well-educated, upwardly mobile and free-spending? Never mind all that: Are you female? If so, the networks want you this fall.
What a difference a year makes. Last season, all the fall buzz surrounded male-skewing, guaranteed hits like The Event, Detroit 1-8-7, Chase, Lone Star, No Ordinary Family, Running Wilde and Outlaw.
This summer, the fall buzz is all about female-oriented sitcoms like 2 Broke Girls, Whitney, Up All Night, New Girl, Happily Divorced and I Hate My Teenage Daughter, and female-driven dramas like Ringer, Revenge and Unforgettable. But wait, there's more! The female-friendly sitcom Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea and the Broadway musical-themed Smash are waiting in the wings for mid-season.
Familiar faces, old friends.
Tim Allen, Fran Drescher, Will Arnett and Christina Applegate are just some of the faces from TV's past with new sitcoms this fall. Hank Azaria, Zooey Deschanel, Stephen Lang and Christina Ricci are trading in their film careers for a shot at stardom on the small screen. Kathy Bates's first-year legal series, Harry's Law, is back for a second term. Also in the dock for fall: Familiar TV names Jaime Pressly, Minka Kelly, Eddie Cibrian and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
And mid-season will see the return of Laura Prepon and Debra Messing, late night talk show host Chelsea Handler comes to prime time, and Oscar winner Anjelica Huston shows up as a recurring guest-star in a new, Broadway-themed musical series produced by Steven Spielberg.
The song remains the same.
The Sing-Off and the newly revitalized The Voice join The X Factor and American Idol.
Inexpensive to produce, and relatively easy to make: Those are just two reasons why singing competitions are all the rage. More important, as the record industry continues to reel from technological changes, music fans are discovering more new acts online and by word of mouth. Also, ratings are up. It's all about the ratings.
Even CBC is getting into the song-and-dance act, with the new music-talent search, Cover Me Canada, set to bow in October. Auditions are already underway.
Mid-season is the new fall.
Once again, some of TV's highest-profile, most expensive newcomers are being held in reserve for mid-winter.
It's not just American Idol, The Celebrity Apprentice or the return of the Emmy-winning 30 Rock - delayed to mid-year because of Tina Fey's pregnancy-imposed fall hiatus.
Mid-season, which falls loosely between January and March, is poised to be a brand-new season in its own right.
Not long ago, mid-season was the dumping ground for new series not good enough to cut it in the fall. Not anymore.
This mid-season will see the debut of at least two dramas that, in any other year, would have been two of the highest-profile series of the fall: J.J. Abrams' supernatural-themed Alcatraz, about a prison break that tunnels into a time warp; and Smash, a music-inspired ensemble drama about the creators of a Broadway musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. Steven Spielberg is one of the producers; the cast includes Debra Messing, Tony nominee Christian Borle and American Idol ingenue Katharine McPhee.
If Alcatraz and Smash prove to be hits - in TV, as in life, nothing is certain - January could be the new September.
All our yesterdays: Nostalgia is in.
The TV networks are borrowing a script from the movies - Hollywood studio movies, that is, not art-house or indie flicks.
Pre-sold titles, titles that most viewers will recognize ahead of time, are all the rage.
Charlie's Angels is a throwback to the cheesy but popular '70s romp.
Prime Suspect is an updated-to-present-day, transplanted-to-the-U.S. re-imagining of the U.K. classic.
Pan Am is inspired by one of history's most famous and iconic airlines, set in the Jet Age's golden years during the '60s.
The Playboy Club is based on the goings-on at Hef's house in Chicago - before he moved into his infamous L.A. mansion - also set in the '60s.
If you're looking for something to blame for all this, blame Hawaii Five-0. The new one, not the old one. In TV, as in life, past is prologue.
The new season officially begins the week of Sept. 19, the night after the Emmy Awards.
Daily breakdown:
• Terra Nova (drama)
Citytv 8 p.m.
• 2 Broke Girls (comedy)
Citytv 9:30 p.m.
• The Playboy Club (drama)
Citytv 10 p.m.
• Unforgettable (drama)
CTV 10 p.m.
• Man Up (comedy)
CTV Two (rebranded from A) 8:30 p.m.
• New Girl (comedy)
Citytv 9 p.m.
• The Protector (drama)
CTV Two 9 p.m.
• THE X Factor (reality)
CTV 8 p.m.
• Free Agents (comedy)
CTV Two 8 p.m.
• Up All Night (comedy)
CTV Two 8:30 p.m.
• Suburgatory (comedy)
Citytv 8:30 p.m.
• Revenge (drama)
Citytv 10 p.m.
• Charlie's Angels (drama)
CTV 7 p.m.
• How to Be a Gentleman (comedy)
Global 8:30 p.m.
• Whitney (comedy)
CTV 8:30 p.m.
• Person of Interest (drama)
Citytv 9 p.m.
• Prime Suspect (drama)
Global 10 p.m.
• A Gifted Man (drama)
Global 8 p.m.
• Grimm (drama)
CTV 8 p.m.
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An antidepressant commonly prescribed to help autistic children control their repetitive behaviors is actually no better than a placebo, according to a report published today.
Roughly a third of all children diagnosed with autism in the U.S. now take citalopram, the antidepressant examined in the study, or others that are closely related. The results of the nationwide trial, published in Archives of General Psychiatry, have some experts reconsidering the appropriateness of antidepressants and other mind-altering drugs used to treat children with autism spectrum disorders.
"There are tons of things being advocated as treatments for autism, some with appropriate caveats and careful explanations, others without any of that," said David Mandell, associate director of the Center for Autism Research at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, who wasn't involved in the study.
An estimated 1.5 million Americans have autism, a group of poorly understood developmental disorders characterized by problems with communication and social interaction. One of the hallmarks of the disorder is obsessive, repetitive behavior such as flapping one's arms or hands or memorizing car makes and models. When those routines are interrupted, severe tantrums can result.
Only one medication -- the antipsychotic drug risperidone -- has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of irritability and aggression in children with autism. But doctors, frustrated by their limited options, haven't shied away from giving other pharmaceuticals a chance. Worldwide spending on drugs to treat autism is estimated to be $2.2 billion to $3.5 billion annually.
Because very few medications have been tested on autistic children in large, rigorous studies, doctors have looked to drugs that treat similar symptoms in other conditions, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
That's what led physicians to a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, that help adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Their repetitive rituals, such as counting, cleaning or hand-washing, are reminiscent of the behaviors seen in autistic patients.
Doctors were also hopeful about SSRIs because the serotonin system is known to function improperly in people with autism.
But the medications will work only if the root causes of obsessive-compulsive disorder and autistic repetitive behavior involve the same biological pathways in the brain. The new study strongly suggests they do not.
"It just begs for a more careful understanding of the neurological underpinnings of the disorder," Mandell said.
Dr. Bryan King, director of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at Seattle Children's Hospital and leader of the study, said he was shocked to find that citalopram didn't help patients. Not only was the placebo slightly more effective, but the drug's side effects -- such as impulsivity and insomnia -- were at least twice as bad, the study found.
"I personally would have a healthy dose of skepticism about" prescribing citalopram or other SSRIs, King said. Citalopram is sold in the United States under the brand name Celexa.
In the study, King and his colleagues from six academic medical centers, including UCLA, enrolled 149 autistic children ages 5 to 17 whose compulsive behaviors were classified as moderate or worse. After 12 weeks, 33% of the 73 patients who took citalopram had improvements in repetitive behaviors as measured by clinicians and parents, versus 34% of the 76 patients who took a placebo.
If there hadn't been a control group for comparison, King said he would have been impressed by the improvement seen in the children who took the drug. "The decision would most definitely have been made to continue them," he said.
The study underscores the value of evaluating drugs in randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies, which are considered the gold standard of medical research, Dr. Fred R. Volkmar, director of the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Conn., wrote in a commentary that accompanied the study. In such studies, neither patient nor doctor knows who is getting the drug and who is getting the placebo until all the results are in.
"We need more studies of this kind to advance research and guide clinical practice," Volkmar wrote.
Placebo-controlled studies are especially important in evaluating medications to treat behavior and mood because patients are typically in a crisis state when they enroll in a clinical trial and could improve on their own in time, Mandell said.
What's more, the attention focused on children when they are in a trial tends to improve their behavior all by itself, Volkmar said in an interview.
The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health. King and several of his colleagues have received research grants and other funding from pharmaceutical firms, including Forest Laboratories Inc. of New York, the maker of Celexa.


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PATH Act "Enables FHA to Play Expanded Role in Times of Crisis"Posted by on July 19, 2013
Rep. Ed Royce hit the nail on the head this week when he correctly pointed out that the PATH Act does not eliminate all government guarantees as some have incorrectly claimed.
Courtesy of Rep. Royce's office, below is his exchange with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke this week on how the PATH Act preserves the FHA's countercyclical role by allowing it to insure loans to any borrower during period of significant credit contraction.
This means the PATH Act would preserve the FHA's existing countercyclical role in mortgage lending, which enables the FHA to serve as a backstop to keep mortgage credit flowing, to promote stability in the housing market, and to ensure that middle-class families can still buy homes.
Royce Q&A with Fed Chairman Bernanke
Washington, D.C. - Today at the House Financial Services Committee "Humphrey-Hawkins" Hearing, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) asked Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke about the need for the government to play a countercyclical role in the housing market, rather than the extraordinarily pro-cyclical role the government played during the last crisis.
Specifically, Royce questioned whether provisions of the recently proposed PATH Act - the Protecting American Taxpayers and Homeowners Act – which enable the FHA to play an expanded role in times of crisis, will ensure continued access to the mortgage market for a great majority of borrowers regardless of market conditions. Bernanke responded: "We need to think about the situation where there is a lot of stress in the market and we need some kind of backstop… It seems to me that FHA could be structured to supply such a backstop, it would depend on the details. That would be one way to have the government supply a backstop."
As you may know, Title II of the PATH Act includes several provisions meant to allow FHA to play that countercyclical role:


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Miss Viola Rodgers, who was well known as a newspaper woman in New York and Chicago during the decade before the first World War, died on January 1 at her home near the village of Lardy, a few miles south of Paris, France. Her death of a heart attack occurred on her sixty-fifth birthday. A delayed report reached the State Department yesterday.
A first-rate reporter, who covered many of the big crime stories of the day, Miss Rodgers had also been a society editor for the Hearst newspapers before she engaged in French relief work in the last war. After the armistice, an American inheritance enabled her to buy an old French estate near Lardy, which she restored and made an attractive home for the entertainment of her many friends in the American colony in Paris.
When the Germans approached in 1940, Miss Rodgers and her servants joined the thousands fleeing southward. Later the Germans, who had used her home as a military headquarters, allowed her to reoccupy it. Interned at Vittel when the United States entered the war, she was released last year.
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Judith's comment after the event was, and I paraphrase. . ."I felt so smart! I never knew I knew enough to teach someone! It was fun!"
Camille teaching a beginner. . .
Louise not only taught beginners, but later taught many guests and guild members some techniques they were interested in learning. It seems that many of the attendees KNEW how to knit. . .it was afterall, KNIT Michigan. . .and they wanted a quick mini-lesson on an interesting technique. Louise was the star of the day for that type of teaching.
I never got an actual count of how many people entered the room and took advantage of what we were teaching, but it seemed like we had a steady crowd. . .and we distributed around 200 flyers. . .we could be PACKED at our meeting on February 27!
Louise modeled our guild's charity focus by working on another scarf for SOS.
Coraleee teaches a teen how to crochet. . .
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I went to the Royal Oak Knitting Guild last night and three people mentioned that they had already read the posting I put up yesterday afternoon. Not that I'm letting this get to my head or anything, but it's sort of cool to know people actually read this! The more readers I know we have, the more I want to post. Maybe that's why at 4 am, when I should be sleeping, I'm posting to this blasted blog. . .say a novena for a snow day tomorrow, would you?
As you read, think about posting some comments. . .what kinds of things have you enjoyed? Do you want more pictures, more links, specific topics, posts from other members, lets make this OUR blog that reflects member desires. (And COMMENT! It's so cool to hear your responses!)


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DOE A to Z: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z #
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DOE Identifies 60 NCLB "Districts in Need of Improvement"
Fifty-four New Jersey school districts and six charter schools have been designated as "Districts in Need of Improvement" (DINI) based on their students' 2006 statewide test scores as calculated under a formula established by the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), Department of Education officials announced today.
A list of the 60 districts and charter schools is attached.
Districts were evaluated on whether or not the aggregated scores of the students tested in each grade in all schools within the district attained the necessary proficiency levels to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for two consecutive years in both language arts literacy and mathematics. For NCLB calculation purposes, each individual charter school is considered to be a district.
Sixty-three districts were on the 2005 list. Districts that have been DINI-designated must make AYP in both language arts literacy and math at all grade levels for two consecutive years in order to be removed from the list.
"Our main focus continues to be improving student achievement, and we have seen gains in many districts," said Education Commissioner Lucille E. Davy.
"While we are disappointed that there are any districts on this list at all, we are pleased to note that 19 of the districts – almost one-third of this year's list – did make AYP this year. These districts are in 'hold' status. If they make AYP on their 2007 assessments, they will no longer be in federal status next year," the Commissioner said.
"In addition, eight districts – Lenape Regional, East Orange, Buena Regional, Jersey City, the Morris School District, Academy Charter High School in Monmouth County, Liberty Academy Charter School in Hudson County and Lady Liberty Academy Charter School in Essex County – made AYP two years in a row and are no longer DINI-designated. All of these districts should be congratulated on their efforts," the Commissioner said.
Districts received notification of their DINI status on October 13. The deadline for the submission of appeals was November 13. Two districts' appeals were accepted and they were removed from the list prior to its publication.
School administrators were required to notify all parents that the district has been DINI-designated. Districts that receive federal Title I funding are required to develop and implement district improvement plans and allocate ten percent of their federal money to professional development for the teaching staffs.
Thirteen of the DINI announced today did not make AYP for four consecutive years and are now facing federal corrective action sanctions. These could include the loss of federal funds, the implementation of a new district curriculum or the replacement of administrators and teachers deemed relevant to the inability of the district to make progress.
The corrective action districts will be evaluated using DOE's new monitoring process, NJ QSAC (Quality Single Accountability Continuum), which is an alignment of state and federal accountability standards in a single review process.
The designations announced today are based on preliminary calculations and do not contain the results of the Alternate Proficiency Assessments (APAs), which are administered to the special education students with the most serious disabilities. Once the APA results are included, the data will be recalculated. If necessary, a revised DINI list will be issued.


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i watch a lot of random stuff...
-americas next top model
-the office
-that 70s show is a favorite :]
-CONANNNN OBRIEN. i love him!!
-the o.c.... lame but im addicted
-some soap operas, not regularly but wow some are kinda funny..
-entertainment tonight
-jay leno
-my super sweet sixteen
-suite life of zach & cody.. yes, its stupid. but i love that show!
i love veronica mars! ( but i heard it got cancelled :cry: ) and america's next top model ( i love the pictures the girls take )
I have seen every episode of every season of the following so far:
Veronica Mars
Gossip Girl
Beauty and the Geek
The Office
Pushing Daisies
America's Next Top Model
Notes from the Underbelly
Hannah Montana (I think, don't have cable so not sure)
ummm, the writers strike helped me to catch up, lol.
Wow, I didn't realize there were many other Veronica Mars fans, one of my top 2 of all time! I had the first 2 seasons, but lost them.
A long time ago i should have put big brother (since i've watched it obsessively since s.1)
but its not just a tv show for me.
Its a lifestyle LOL!
Big Brother is christmastime for me pretty much
My favorite tv show are:-
*Family guy
*Prison break
*True blood
*Criminal mind
*Fashion Television
*The News
*Trailer Park Boys


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Ciao! Ristorante general manager Terry Kretz holds an Acer tablet menu in use at the restaurant.
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Politeness dictates you stash the digital devices and focus on your companions when out to dinner — but only after you order.
As the proliferation of technology continues, it's only natural that tablet computers are finding their way to the dinner table as digital menus and wine lists.
Several Toledo-area restaurants have put their drink lists on tablets. Mancy's Steakhouse in Toledo was an early adopter, moving its beer and wine list to iPads more than a year and a half ago.
With almost 300 options for wine alone, printing detailed information on every variety in a paper wine list would be like publishing a small book. The digital list lets co-owner Gus Mancy give guests as much information as they want. It also allows for much easier updates.
Though he keeps some traditional paper lists on hand, Mr. Mancy said the digital list has been a hit. It also has steered patrons to try a wine they might not otherwise have sampled.
"You're able to give more information, which then gives the guests the opportunity to go off the beaten path and try a wine they've never heard of because they're able to read a little more about it," he said.
Most local restaurants haven't yet replaced traditional printed menus with digital versions. But there are at least two exceptions.
Ann Arbor restaurant group Mainstreet Ventures Inc. opened Revolution Grille with tablet menus last summer and later added them at its other Sylvania establishment, Ciao! Ristorante.
"It's something that's here to stay," said Mike Gibbons, president and chief executive officer of Mainstreet Ventures.
For Mr. Gibbons, the idea started with an algorithm that took taste cues in foods and paired them with wine. The program worked well — so well that Mr. Gibbons decided to further develop the application and use tablets for everything.
He and a software developer started a company to create a program that can show diners not only what's on the menu, but what's in the dish, its nutritional information, and more. Mainstreet Ventures first tested tablet menus at the Chop House in Ann Arbor. Mr. Gibbons said it was hugely successful, both for patrons and staff.
A diner uses an Acer tablet to select an entree at Ciao! Ristorante in Sylvania.
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"One thing that it did was it leveled the playing field for someone who started working for us a month ago and someone who had been working for us eight years, because everything they needed to know was in there."
The restaurant group slowly has been adding the tablets to its 16 locations. Mainstreet Ventures has worked out a deal to lease them, making the switch far more economical.
David Lindsley, a retired University of Toledo professor and administrator, said he'd read about tablet menus but first encountered them at Ciao! in December.
"I thought it was kind of cool," he said. "I liked them, but I like a lot of tech things so that's not really a big surprise."
As a matter of practicality, Mr. Lindsley had mixed emotions about the tablets. He liked the detailed descriptions and photos of each dish, but thought there was an awful lot of swiping to see all the choices, taking him longer to get through the menu.
"It was more informative than a regular menu, but it didn't change what I ordered," he said.
Mr. Gibbons said his restaurants keep traditional paper menus on hand for those who prefer them. But he firmly believes the menus are the wave of the future, especially at restaurants that have multiple daily specials or seasonal menus.
Mr. Gibbons said Mainstreet Ventures was spending an average of $26,000 a year at each of its seafood restaurants printing food and drink menus. Being able to instantly update the menus also gives restaurateurs freedom to tweak prices up or down in line with increasingly volatile food prices.
Beyond that, he sees them as a visual marketing tool, and said check averages have risen in restaurants that have started using them.
Mr. Gibbons said the tablets eventually will show up in Real Seafood and Zia's at The Docks complex in East Toledo, but right now the facility doesn't have the Internet bandwidth.
It could be easy to dismiss Mr. Gibbons' optimism about tablet menus, seeing as he has some skin in the game. But even restaurateurs who aren't using digital menus say they can see it in the future.
"I think there's probably more pros than cons," said Moussa Saloukh, co-owner and chef at LaScola Italian Grill in Toledo.
While it's not something LaScola is currently looking at, it's something to consider.
"It's a cool set-up," he said. "I think it's going to be something for the future. I think a lot of people are going to be going to it."
Still, not everyone is ready to replace leather-bound paper with leather-bound tablets.
Peter Swick, assistant general manager at Toledo's Inverness Club, said the club's restaurant has successfully been using an iPad wine list, but he's not sure Inverness is ready to go full-on digital.
"I love the idea that if something changes, with the click of a button all your menus can change instantaneously," he said.
"That's huge. But part of me likes the nostalgic piece with the menu. I don't see us going to it any time soon."
Mr. Mancy also said he likes the idea of a nice, leather-bound embossed menu in his hand when he's ordering his favorite steak. But he concedes that the digital tide isn't likely to be stopped.
"Right now they're great for wine lists and some day we'll look at them for menus," he said.
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After the coffee. Before coming up with my own stat of the day.
The Skinny: Caught most of an amazing documentary on KCET last night on World War II hero James "Maggie" Megellas. Incredible story. Go watch it. Tuesday's roundup includes more analysis of what Netflix's purchase of the documentary "The Square" means for the movie industry. Also, the cable channel HLN is going through an overhaul and CNN had a really bad week.
Daily Dose: Fans of the old Howard Stern radio show remember well the king of all media's legendary birthday parties, which would draw a bizarre group of stars, politicians and, of course, freaks. When Stern joined satellite radio broadcaster Sirius, the parties stopped. Well, with Stern turning 60 next year, he'll do it again and has tapped Jimmy Kimmel to host the festivities.
A big step? Netflix's acquisition of the critically acclaimed documentary "The Square" about protests in Egypt has the industry talking about whether the streaming service will soon be crashing the Oscars the way it invaded the Emmys this year with "House of Cards" and "Arrested Development." On the business side, the acquisition will allow Netflix to experiment with releasing a movie on its service the same day it debuts in theaters. Like Oprah Winfrey, anything Netflix does gets tons of coverage so here are some stories about "The Square" deal from the Los Angeles Times and New York Times.
How about refunds? Paramount Pictures is going to offer so-called "supertickets" to people who want to pay a lot to see "Anchorman 2" a few days before its nationwide release, according to the Wall Street Journal. Besides an early jump on the movie, supertickets also can include a digital download when the movie is done with its theatrical run. Having seen the trailer for "Anchorman 2," I will be a very hard sell to pay the regular price, much less an inflated one just so I can suffer a few days before my friends.
Making headlines. HLN, the cable network formerly known as Headline News that has been through more personality changes in recent years than Sybil, is tweaking its lineup and making cuts under new chief Albie Hecht. HLN gets big ratings when there is a juicy trial to cover, but when there isn't, the network struggles. Much of the time HLN looks like a combination of E! and CNN. Its biggest personalities are Nancy Grace and Dr. Drew Pinsky. More on the changes from Variety and Mediaite.
Tough week. CNN ratings fell last week to a new low under Jeff Zucker, who took over running the network in January. CNN has had some success with Zucker's moves including programming documentaries but it is still struggling with trying to find a formula to take viewers away from Fox News and MSNBC and avoid constant ridicule from Jon Stewart. The Hollywood Reporter and TV Newser on the numbers.
Keep your friend close and your enemies closer. New Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler seems to have a borrowed a page from the Michael Corleone school of management by tapping Gigi Sohn for a senior role on his staff. Sohn founded Public Knowledge, a media watchdog group that has often been critical of the FCC's regulation of the media and Internet. With Sohn on board, Wheeler will have an in-house critic and perhaps has sent an olive branch to consumer advocates who fear the agency favors big media over the little guy. The Los Angeles Times on the hire.
Inside the Los Angeles Times: Vince Vaughn is hoping to break out of a box-office slump with "Delivery Man." A sneak-peak look at "American Hustle."
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U.S. railroads originated 300,908 carloads for the week, up 10.7 percent compared with the same week in 2009, but down 8.2 percent from the same week in 2008. In order to offer a complete picture of the progress in rail traffic, AAR reports 2010 weekly rail traffic with comparison weeks in both 2009 and 2008.
Seventeen of the 19 carload commodity groups increased from the comparable week in 2009 with only primary forest products, down 2.1 percent, and non-metallic minerals, down 1.5 percent, posting declines. Farm products excluding grain, up 63.9 percent, led those commodity groups with increases from 2009. Compared with 2008, fourteen commodity groups posted declines. Farm products excluding grain, up 22 percent, led the five commodity groups posting increases from 2008.
Weekly carload volume on Eastern railroads was up 10.4 percent from last year, but down 10.8 percent from 2008. In the West, weekly carload volume was up 10.9 percent from last year and down 6.3 percent from two years ago.
For the first 38 weeks of 2010, U.S. railroads reported cumulative volume of 10,828,835 carloads, up 7.2 percent from 2009, but down 12.3 percent from 2008, and 8,182,454 trailers or containers, up 14.7 percent from 2009, but down 4.7 percent from 2008.
Canadian railroads reported volume of 76,556 cars for the week, up 10.3 percent from last year, and 51,162 trailers or containers, up 14.2 percent from 2009. For the first 38 weeks of 2010, Canadian railroads reported cumulative volume of 2,758,741 carloads, up 19.7 percent from last year, and 1,787,018 trailers or containers, up 15.8 percent from last year.
Mexican railroads reported originated volume of 14,690 cars, up 24.7 percent from the same week last year, and 8,021 trailers or containers, up 16.9 percent. Cumulative volume on Mexican railroads for the first 38 weeks of 2010 was reported as 521,749 carloads, up 20.7 percent from last year; and 252,284 trailers or containers, up 28.4 percent.
Combined North American rail volume for the first 38 weeks of 2010 on 13 reporting U.S., Canadian and Mexican railroads totaled 14,109,325 carloads, up 9.9 percent from last year, and 10,221,756 trailers and containers, up 15.2 percent from last year.
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With so many titles to choose from, Netflix Instant's library can be overwhelming. So we bring you this biweekly column as a tool to cut through the clutter by highlighting some now streaming titles that pair nicely with the latest theatrical releases.
Looking to Oz the Great and Powerful, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone and The Call for inspiration, we've pulled together a selection of before-they-were-stars titles, niche-career narratives, and star-fronted thrillers.
Oz The Great and Powerful
James Franco stars as a womanizing magician who has a chance at greatness when a fateful twister lands him in a fantastical land full of wonders, witches, and flying primates. Michelle Williams, Mila Kunis and Rachel Weisz co-star; Sam Raimi directs.
Since Oz the Great and Powerful focuses on the man before he was great and powerful, I've picked out the projects that launched the then-unknown stars of the film. For Sam Raimi, his breakthrough was Evil Dead, which is streaming. But notably most of his cast broke through as teen dreamboats on TV.
Freaks and Geeks (1999) This 1980s-set dramedy series created by Paul Feig only lasted one season, but since its cancellation has proved not only to be a growingly embraced portrait of teendom, but also a majorly influential show that launched a string of careers. Here James Franco played one of the freaks, more specifically a beautiful burnout boy named Daniel Desario. Revisit it, or find out what all your friends have been raving about. Linda Cardellini, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, and John Francis Daley co-star.
That '70s Show (1998) This daffy sitcom set in 1970s suburbia centered on another batch of burnouts that week after week managed to find a new mistake to make. Though a young Mila Kunis started off as a supporting character, playing Ashton Kutcher's demanding girlfriend Jackie, over the series, she grew to be a fan favorite. Find out how by diving into all eight seasons, all of which are now streaming. Topher Grace, Lauren Prepon, Danny Masterson, and Wilmer Valderrama co-star.
Dawson's Creek (1998) Michelle Williams first won attention playing the secretive new girl Jen Lindley in this contemporary teen drama series that centered on a sensitive teen cinefile named Dawson Leery (James Van Der Beek). All six seasons of the popular series are now streaming, so you can catch up with Dawson, Jen, Joey Potter (Katie Holmes), and Pacey Witter (Joshua Jackson). Do it now. You don't wanna' wait for our lives to be over. (No, I could not help myself.)


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Ditch the car and parking fees and use a bike instead. Biking on campus is convenient and easy. Bike racks are located close to most buildings and there are designated lanes just for bike users. Bikes must only be locked to bike racks. Click here for full bike regulations on campus located in our policies under the "Non-Pedestrian Device" section.
Learn how to keep your bike in tiptop shape.
Being a bike owner and user means knowing the rules of the road.
Keep yourself and others safe while biking.
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I think it was a bleb. The photo on the Kellymom page really helped diagnose it. I stopped BF on that side for a couple of days, used heat and pumping to clear it. My LO had rubbed the tip of that nipple a bit raw when latching badly.
A few days later we had a breakthrough in our BF journey. He latched, squirmed a little and then the discomfort suddenly vanished. I looked down to check his latch and saw - for the first time ever - his tongue working away. He had also widened his latch. While Iowa watching he unlatched, opened wide with his tongue right out and relatched. Again, no pain. Amazing! He had just hit 5 weeks when this happened. I'd heard BF improved around this time but couldn't see it happening for us.
I partly credit the improvement to switching from the Medela Calma bottles to Breastflow. The Calma seemed to give him a lot of gas and didn't seem anatomically correct. I read about the Breastflow bottles on this forum and was thankfully able to buy them here in the UK. Watching him feed from them I could see straight away how much wider he had to open, and how much he had to use his tongue on the wider part of the teat to get the milk flowing. Much more like BF
So we now have about a 90% success rate for latching and I'm able to see EBF as a real possibility now. I just need to work on my supply


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SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — It's hard to separate Patrick Connolly from the sport of soccer. In fact, even though the long-time boys soccer coach at Berwick Academy is also a dedicated English teacher at the school, in August most of his focus is on one thing.
"I don't look at it as coming back to school, I look at it as coming back to soccer," Connolly said. "A lot of the relationships I have with the kids kind of start with soccer first, then blend into the classroom. If you ask my wife, she'd probably call it some sort of obsessive complex. But I guess we all have to have (one)."
Connolly, in his 17th year coaching the Bulldogs, recently won his 200th career game. Over Connolly's tenure, Berwick has made 11 trips to the New England Prep School Athletic Conference tournament — including one that starts today. BA has won it all in 1999, 2003, and 2007). The win total is also the largest in the 50-year history of the program.
"You stick around long enough, these things happen," Connolly said with a laugh.
His players said Connolly's enthusiasm for the game constantly shines through.
"He brings all of his energy to the games and practices," said Berwick junior goalkeeper Erik Wisniewski. "It really pushes us to work harder."
The Bulldogs will take an 11-6-2 overall record into the NEPSAC Class C tournament quarterfinals this afternoon (2 p.m.) at Hebron Academy (Maine). Should Berwick win, they will either host Marianapolis Prep (Conn.) or visit Beaver Country Day School in Newton, Mass., on Saturday in the semifinals.
While Berwick has already had a successful season, things did not start out that way.
"It's been one of the more interesting seasons we've had in years," Connolly said. "It's been challenging in some ways, too. We had a lot of new faces and by the end of September we were where we should be, around .500. We won some games, lost some games we shouldn't have."
Connolly said things turned around early in October, after the team held an impromptu mini-retreat at a secluded location on campus.
"Then we just rattled off a boatload of wins," Connolly said. "We just stopped giving up goals and started scoring them. I think we scored probably 30 times in the month of October and gave up three or four goals. The kids saw themselves as a different type of team."
Although it wasn't a win, Connolly said his team played one of its best games in a 1-0 loss at Phillips Exeter, which will play in the Class A tier of the NEPSAC tournament. The team was an 8-1 winner vs. Lexington Christian, which clinched No. 200 for Connolly.
"He's a great guy and one of my favorite coaches I've ever had, and I've played soccer my entire life," said senior defender Chris Richards, who had an assist in Connolly's milestone win. "We played a great game of soccer and it was fantastic to get it for him."
Connolly grew up in North Andover, Mass., and played four years of college soccer at Westfield (Mass.) State College in the late 1980s. He came to Berwick in 1993 after finishing graduate work at the University of New Hampshire.
"It's a great place to coach because the athletic department gives you a lot of room to express yourself, do your thing, expand your schedule," Connolly said. "I think the admissions office itself is quick to take in good kids. We've always enjoyed character-type kids. They're willing to learn and they work hard. We very rarely get outworked. And very rarely do we get out-thought, I suppose, is the word I'm looking for."
Connolly takes a 202-123-41 record into today's tournament opener.
Milestone season for Berwick's Connolly
SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — It's hard to separate Patrick Connolly from the sport of soccer. In fact, even though the long-time boys soccer coach at Berwick Academy is also a dedicated English teacher at the school, in August most of his focus is on one thing.


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The words "supply driven" or "supply constrained" seem to be popping up more often in conversations with scrap processors and brokers. Some might argue that it's just a short-term situation that occurs infrequently. Winter weather can assume the blame—peddlers and small dealers take a break when snow starts falling, while the larger yards are reluctant to operate much of their heavy machinery because equipment breaks down more often in the cold and the snow makes repairing it that much more difficult.
The cold weather normally has little impact on industrial scrap generation. Plants still make vehicles and appliances regardless of the outside temperature. The only critical problem is transportation. Picking up roll-off containers or scheduling a railcar loading can be a problem. Snow slows all traffic, and gondola cars or truckloads of No. 1 bundles and No. 1 busheling may not arrive as soon as anticipated.
For those mills operating with a minimal amount of scrap on the ground or just-in-time inventory management of raw materials, winter sometimes means a shipment of scrap arriving a few days late—not simply a few hours late.
This notion that supply, or lack of it, is driving the scrap market and setting the price may have longer-term implications for steelmakers and foundries. Some dealers and brokers believe that supplies of obsolete scrap aren't shortened just by winter weather. There is, as some would say, a structural change to the market.
U.S. exports of ferrous scrap have more than doubled in the past two years, much of it shredded scrap and the heavy melt grades. When that material goes overseas, it won't come back into the U.S. steel recycling loop some 20 or 30 years from now. Much of it is being made into rebar for construction projects in China and the Middle East. When those bridges and buildings are torn down at some date far in the future, the scrap steel is not likely to come back to this country—it will remain in the local markets.
Scrap buyers at mills pooh-pooh the notion that obsolete scrap could be "supply constrained." Drive around the countryside, says one buyer, and you still see plenty of old tillers and tractors rusting away on many farms. Also, says another, the infrastructure replacement work that the Obama administration is funding will add to the supply when the girders from old bridges are torn down and shipped to scrapyards to be cut apart.
That may be true .?.?. eventually. Those so-called shovel-ready construction projects have not yet overwhelmed the scrapyards with old rebar and I-beams and probably won't for the next few years. Even then, while much of that material will flow into local scrapyards, a substantial portion likely will be sold to major ferrous scrap exporters or their feeder yards. Even some of the tonnage that goes to the smaller processors will leave this country and find its way to foreign mills thanks to the growth of container shipping of ferrous scrap.
So what's a mill buyer to do when he finds that much of the scrap isn't coming back to his melt shop as it once did?
Some of the integrated steel mills faced a similar problem in the past decade when mini-mills invaded the flat-rolled steel market and started scooping up more industrial steel scrap. The integrated mills dealt with the problem by setting up buybacks with several of their major customers or discounting new steel products by the value of the scrap returned. These practices normally apply only to prompt steel scrap—the clips and trimmings from stamping presses, for example.
Are we likely to see this activity in other scrap markets? Will sheet steel be sold to automakers with the proviso that it be returned to the mill that made it when the car is junked and shredded 10 years hence? That may be a bit far-fetched, but there have been other developments in the steel industry in recent years that have been more than a little surprising.
Thin slab casting, for example, set the entire integrated industry on its ear. Some of the big mills that assumed they had a lock on the flat-rolled market are no longer around, and the steel girders and corrugated siding at their plants have been torn down and remelted into new steel products. Who would have imagined that the industry would one day cannibalize itself?
It isn't just obsolete scrap that is supply-shortened these days. Reduced manufacturing means a smaller volume of industrial steel scrap. That shortage has pitted integrated mills against their flat-rolled mini-mill rivals.
True, much of the flat-rolled steel produced by basic oxygen furnace (BOF) mills comes from iron ore and not scrap, but the integrated mills are still scrap buyers as well as consumers of their own home scrap. Some have even shifted part of their melt mix through the use of computer planning programs and are now buying railroad wheels and rail crops as alternatives for No. 1 bundles. And when demand for steel is inching upward and the blast furnaces are running at their peak, it's not unusual to see the big mills using scrap to boost the output of their BOFs.
One veteran broker argues that some of these mills have learned that even though the cost of scrap is a small portion of their overall melt cost, when they find themselves in competition not only with each other but also the mini-mills, the outcome is higher prices.
Higher prices won't bring many more bundles and busheling to the market, he says. That scrap is limited to the amount that is produced and comes into the market quickly. Few, if any, manufacturing plants are inclined to lay it down until the price goes up. Scrap is simply a by-product of their stamping presses, to be disposed of as soon as possible so it doesn't begin taking over space in the employees' parking lot.MICHAEL MARLEY
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The skies above New York City were clogged with planes waiting to land in winds gusting up to 50 mph Tuesday night, forcing long delays at two of the three major metropolitan airports and causing some flights to be diverted to other cities.
National Weather Service meteorologist Adrienne Leptich said the delays occurred because the number of planes that can land each hour must be decreased in high winds, forcing some planes to circle the region or be diverted to other airports if fuel runs low.
"The winds were a little bit stronger than we anticipated," she said. "We're getting into the season now where we have stronger storms. It's not completely out of the ordinary that this would happen."
The Federal Aviation Administration reported at 10 p.m. that some arriving flights at Newark International Airport were delayed an average of 2 hours and 8 minutes while flights into LaGuardia Airport were delayed an average 1 hour and 34 minutes. Kennedy International Airport reported minor delays.
By early Wednesday, all three airports were reporting average delays for arrivals and departures of less than 15 minutes.
Daniel Kennedy said his 4:48 p.m. Delta flight operated by Shuttle America left Madison, Wis., bound for New York's LaGuardia Airport, only to be diverted to Albany, where passengers were kept on board while the plane was refueled. It did not land in New York until shortly before midnight.
"Our gate is occupied by another aircraft diverted from LaGuardia as well," one of the plane's pilots could be heard telling passengers as Kennedy spoke to The Associated Press while the plane was on the ground in Albany.
"They tell us we can't get up because we're sitting on an active taxiway," Kennedy said. Shortly afterward, a flight attendant announced that they could get up one at a time to use a restroom.
After landing in New York, Kennedy said the flight attendants had been helpful, passing out bottled water at one point to passengers who remained in good spirits. He said he wished there had been more communication from the pilots.
"I'm impressed by how well people are behaving," he said.
Chris Kelly Singley, a Delta spokeswoman based in Atlanta, said two LaGuardia-bound Delta aircraft were diverted to Boston Tuesday night "as a direct result of the winds we were seeing in the three New York airports."
She said the diversions are necessary when fuel starts to get low as planes circle while waiting for their turn to land.
A message left Tuesday with Shuttle America's parent company, Republic Airways, was not immediately returned.
Leptich said the space between planes must be increased in bad weather conditions. She had good news for those traveling in or out of New York City through New Year's, saying the next possibility of any kind of significant storm appeared to be at least eight days away.


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Restoration Hardware Holdings Inc. raised its outlook for the year as it reported strong sales and swung to a profit in its fiscal first quarter.
Chief Executive Gary Friedman said the luxury-home-goods retailer continued to outperform the home furnishings industry by a wide margin in the period.
The Corte Madera, Calif., retailer now expects adjusted per-share earnings for the year of $2.24 and $2.30 on revenue of $1.86 billion to $1.89 billion, up from its previous estimate of $2.14 to $2.22 a share and revenue of $1.825 billion to $1.86 billion.
For the current quarter, the company forecast adjusted per-share earnings of 62 cents to 64 cents and revenue of $443 million to $453 million. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters are calling for a per-share profit of 61 cents and revenue of $452.1 million.
Once on the verge of bankruptcy, Restoration Hardware has been investing in new product lines and replacing legacy stores in malls with larger showrooms to spur growth.
The company's stock closed Wednesday at $71.35, up sharply since it resumed trading publicly in November 2012, having been taken private four years earlier amid the housing downtown.
For the period ended May 3, Restoration Hardware reported a profit of $1.8 million, or four cents a share, compared with a year-earlier loss of $161,000, or less than a penny a share. Excluding impacts from legal claims and other items, earnings rose to 18 cents from six cents.
Revenue increased 22% to $366.3 million, with same-store sales climbing 18%.
The company expected adjusted per-share profit of nine cents to 11 cents and revenue of $345 million to $350 million.
Gross margin widened to 34% from 33.8%.
Shares rose 12% to $79.90 in recent after-hour trading.
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