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groupit.com needed a new button or icon design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 22 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
We are a fast-growing startup that is revolutionizing the way businesses interact with their customers. Our product (currently in alpha) helps retailers sell big-ticket gifts (like LCD TVs, Furniture, Travel, etc.) by making it easy and fun for people to chip in and give those gifts with their friends. Even though we're less than a year old, we've gained a ton of traction with retailers and have some of the most well-known retailers on the planet knocking down our door to work with us. We have a great management team and are backed by an outstanding group of angel investors. We will be the driving force behind the coming social commerce revolution and will enable new and exacting ways for retailers to interact with their customers.
This button will be used on product pages (like for a LCD TV) and will function a lot like an "add to cart" button. This button needs to appeal to people interested in finding and giving great gifts. This button will be used on pages with expensive items (+$100) and needs to communicate that gift givers can buy the item with friends. After the user clicks the button, they're taken into a social checkout flow where they enter the recipient's name, invite friends to contribute to the gift, and start collecting money.
We need a new, polished "Buy with Groupit" button (doesn't necessarily need those words) that will allow people to start the process to buy an expensive gift with their friends.
We need a button created that will communicate:
1) That people can buy a big gift with friends
2) Groupit branding
3) Cool, fun buying option
This button could be used in the place of the "add to cart" button typically seen on most ecommerce sites for big-ticket, expensive item pages (like this one from Best Buy: http://bit.ly/9EQJOz)
The button you create should be designed in such a way that it could feasibly appear below (or in place of) the "Add to Cart" button on the Best Buy page above.
Your Design should:
1) Be Clean
2) Consistent with Web 2.0 styles
3) Be big enough to accommodate short phrases like: "Give as a Group", "Give a Group Gift", or "Buy with Your Friends"
If you like, consider including:
1) a subtitle/text under the button
2) some/all of Groupit logo
3) some/all of Groupit colors
Some comps for design inspiration:
Amazon Affiliate Buttons: http://www.problogger.net/wp-conten…amazon.png
See attached files for Groupit logo, preliminary checkout button (we need to improve this).


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Saturday, March 13, 2010
Nomadism is: (part 1)
Not assuming certain environments (like the American West) can be permanently settled.
(images from American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many by Charla Bear)
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Why Is There a Totem Pole at the University of Chicago?
Yes, a totem pole.
A plaque nearby tells that the pole was commissioned for a trade exposition in Chicago in the 1940s. It came from an Indian tribe located in the Coastal Northwest. The school came into possession after the pole sat in storage for many years.
In the late 1970s or early 80s the pole was installed on campus in the stairwell of the anthropology building.
I have complicated feelings about the pole and its location. My mother's tribe, the "Flathead," moved inland from the coast to hunt buffalo, but I don't know much about totem poles.
But I do know that it's located in a place nearly devoid of Native American culture. Indians are largely absent at the University of Chicago. Only thirty American Indian students attend the school. Unlike the first university I attended, there is little here for Indians. There is no Native American Studies department, no powwow, no cultural events. We lack a presence here. It's as if the entire school forgot Indians existed, except for this pole. And it's viewed as nothing more than a curiosity.
To me the pole feels lonely. Carved from the wood of a rainforest on the coast, by the hands of a skilled tribesman, it stands here near the stairwell devoid of context, devoid of meaning.
I identify with it.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
How to Raise an American Indian Baby
My wife and I currently live away from my homeland and tribes, which are located in Montana. The question arises: how do we keep our daughter in touch with tribal cultures that are very much about place and being there? Will she have an Indian name, as I do? Will she know how to point with her lips, as my tribe does? Will she feel at home in the tribal world?
I don't have any easy answers. I'm acutely aware that for me being Indian means being around the people and places and practices that make up a culture. She must see lip pointing. She must learn how to bet $20 on stickgame at the powwow. She must know how to speak her language. And she must be given a name.
This is not a new story: Indians have been leaving home for a long time, most often for school and jobs. It started with the boarding schools, but now it also means going to that PhD. program in the Midwest. I'm aware that sometimes in going away Indians get lost. Some never came back and some lost touch. There are people in America today who are part Indian, but have no connection to their culture.
I think of this because it's possible that I will always live away from home. As a writer, I have a "liberal arts" skill set. My reservations do not seem to have a need for such things. There are few jobs for those without hard, technical skills. I've returned home time and time again to find that there are no jobs for me.
Living in Chicago, the burden of culture rests with me as the father. If we were living on the reservation, American Indian culture would permeate everywhere, in every thing. I have to be that for my daughter. I have to be the source of all things Indian. My conscious effort to raise her "Indian" must accompany the everyday.
I need to make baby aware that she is Indian. I remember my niece as a young kid went around saying "I'm Indian" in her cute way. Baby must go home with us as often as possible to see her extended family, her grandparents, aunties, uncles, nieces.
Baby can travel home summers to stay with her grandparents and her auntie and uncle who live on or close to our reservations. I spent time as a kid staying with my Grandma on the rez, going to tribal summer camp.
Today my daughter is wearing the moccasins a family friend made for her. When we return home for summer vacation we plan to bury her umbilical cord stump according to the ways of my Mother's tribe. Baby will grow up Indian even if she lives in Chicago with her mom and dad. We just have to try harder so that she knows.
This presents an opportunity. We can choose the best, what's the most worthwhile, constructive and engaging things about being Indian. Baby doesn't need to experience the acute racism and discrimination of the reservation border town I grew up in. She doesn't need to be tied to the self-destructiveness many of us associate with being Indian.
I want her to see the reservation as one the places she belongs, along with the city. I want her to see that the world is hers.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
"Weren't you the Indian Rhodes Scholar?" she said, as I shivered in her doorway holding my pizza delivery bag, wearing my "Red Pies Over Montana" polyester shirt and ball cap. She handed me 20 dollars for driving a Sausage Lover's Special through the snow-drifted streets of the reservation border town of Missoula—for a one-dollar tip.
A month before, I had been sitting next to a well-known British novelist at a Rhodes House dinner in Oxford, which involved multiple courses and sparkling conversation over after-dinner sherry. I had been wearing a jacket and tie, not a tux, but near. The writer asked, "Aren't you the red-Indian Rhodes Scholar?"
They say the Rhodes is one of the few things a person can do at 20 years of age that will be mentioned at 40, that and joining the Marines—but I didn't go to Parris Island. I went to Oxford, England.
During my fifth year at the University of Montana, a familiar-looking woman, whose face I couldn't quite place, passed as I walked across campus. Coming closer, I recognized her as a former classmate who had trounced me in every subject in grade school, the smartest person in class, my main competition. Becky—Rebecca (some names have been changed for this story), I called out, asking her what she was doing in Missoula. She said that she had come back from Harvard for the local Rhodes Scholarship interview. I had no idea what the words "Rhodes Scholar" meant. A year later, I would be chosen.
I am from an American Indian tribe—the Crow—located in Montana. I say it this way, "located in Montana" because we predate the founding of the state. We predate the founding of the United States, though this is where we find ourselves. My parents went to college at the local university. They came of age in the 1960s during the Civil Rights movement and the Great Society. Coming from two separate Indian reservations, my parents were the first in their families to go to college, and, until I went 25 years later, the last. They went from poor to professional. They went from reservation schools and Catholic boarding schools, which sought to kill the Indian to save the student, to become active in the American Indian Civil Rights movement. My parents' generation (though not my parents) founded the "Red Power" movement, occupied Alcatraz Island and Wounded Knee. My father was one of the earliest lawyers in the Crow Tribe, and he still works for his people. My mother was active in American Indian women's rights, and still works in Indian health care. They made the big leap for me. I went to college only because they did.
Is there such a thing as a traditional Rhodes Scholar? Until the 1970s, a Rhodes Scholar was male. Was he also white? In December of 1992, when I called my mother from a high-rise in Seattle to tell her that I had had been chosen by the Rhodes committee, her first words were, "How many women were picked?" She identifies as a second-wave feminist. I grew up in a house where Ms. magazine and Our Bodies Ourselves sat on the coffee table—we learned that "a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." We learned that a woman could do anything—Mother told my sister that she could be a senator—but I wondered what an Indian could boy be? In my Rhodes Scholar class of 1993 there were few minorities, but about an even split gender-wise. I told my mother about half were women. "Good," she said. My peers seemed to come from two or three certain universities on the East Coast, men and women. Though not Harvard or Yale, my state university had secretly been sending Rhodes, too. The University of Montana was then rated 4th in the country for public schools for sending Rhodes Scholars, a surprise to me, being so close to the poverty and limited opportunity of Indian Country.
My former grade school classmate mentioned the Rhodes, but I found out what it was when a teaching assistant, Betsy, showed up to class one day dressed up. She usually favored the ripped jeans and Guatemalan sweater look of the early 1990s, so I asked her why she was so dressed up. She said she had an interview for the Rhodes. When she was chosen it was just as another Rhodes, Bill Clinton, was running for president. I finally figured out what the Rhodes was—a prestigious ladder to the world of success. Betsy had come from Chicago to Montana for graduate school; Clinton had come from a little town in Arkansas named Hope. Both went to England. Just before she was snatched up by the world of success, Betsy suggested that I apply. In one sense, my preparation for the Rhodes was thorough. The Rhodes advisor at my school, Margaret, a sixty-something Philosophy professor, from the East Coast, had a track record of grooming successful applicants. We talked in her book-lined office as she tried to envision me as Rhodes material. She asked if I kept up with the news. She grilled me about current events in her verbally aggressive style: the trade deficit with Japan, human rights in China, Hamas. We discussed Clinton's performance in the latest presidential debates. I don't believe I had ever met someone so upfront, almost brusque, but sure of herself, or sure-seeming—pushy. I had a little idea of what I was talking about, these things of the world, and the rest, I bluffed. As I was leaving her office after our first conversation, Margaret said, "I hope you want the Rhodes, because you're going get it." Even as she said it something didn't register—I had never been chosen for anything. Unremarkable in grades, athletics, student activities, I applied simply because I was told I had a chance.
Margaret began grooming me. I visited her office weekly. It was like the build-up scene in Rocky crossed with My Fair Lady. She told me what to wear—blue blazer, pinpoint Oxford shirt, fancy shoes—how to look the part. She helped me say what I wanted to say in my essay. Margaret had a reputation as a Rhodes-maker. Without Margaret, I would have never made it. In the 16 years since she retired, there have been no more from my school.
We prepared for the vetting, but we didn't prepare for life at Oxford. Could I go? Did I want to? It was assumed that if I could, I would. Oxford was a great place: everyone just knew that. Key information about what it was like was left to a few pictures in the catalogue. Margaret had sent many to Oxford, but hadn't been there herself. She assumed I would be glad to escape the rural poverty of a cultural backwater, finding refuge first in Oxford, then in the big city. We both assumed that greatness did not, could not, involve Missoula, Montana. I read The New York Times, The New Yorker, and I desired worldly opportunity, but I also wanted to put Native America on the world's map.
What about the world I was leaving? My university was 15 minutes from my mother's reservation, 20 minutes from my grandmother's house. My father had gone to the same university for law school, and I went to the university preschool. I had never left home. I hadn't even been out of state. My tribe is ambivalent about its people going away. Going away can make sense, economically, or to study, but in another sense, it doesn't make any. We were nomads and we traveled, but always within a known world of connections. Our world is known through stories. Sacred ancestors, from before humans existed, had lived in and around where Missoula is presently located. At the dawn of time, the sacred trickster, Coyote, killed a monster that was devouring everything in the next valley over. Coyote cut out the heart of the monster and threw it west. The heart of the monster is known by the tribe as the original source of all the mosquitoes in the world. This is what it means to be Indian: I could stand on campus in Missoula, slap a mosquito, and know that it had come from the dawn of time, when Coyote saved everything. Many Indians still live in their holy land, they've never left. Sometimes I would drive over to Idaho and view the heart of the monster, now a red monolith. Other Americans don't have this connection.
At Oxford I would lose touch with this. Other Indians had gone away before: to school, to the federal relocation program, where Indians were enticed to leave the reservation with promises of jobs and job training, so that the country might end its obligations to the tribes and the treaties. But everyone always came back. The story of going away and coming back developed from the very beginnings of the reservation era. The early American Indian novelist D'Arcy McNickle, a member of my mother's tribe, wrote The Surrounded, about a young man who goes away to a boarding school after selling his land. He comes back—Indians always came back. Coming back was a common thread to stories of leaving: reconnecting, plugging in, finding ground, finding home. I had some idea of these things when I applied for the Rhodes, but not enough to be able articulate them. In my Rhodes application essay, I wrote about standing astride two worlds: the tribal and the global. What I didn't realize is that if I lost my footing on one, I would fall.
Because of our great poverty and great need, my tribe pinned so much hope on me. After I got the Rhodes, local newspapers and radio and television trumpeted the story. I was a local celebrity and a hit in Indian Country. Tribal newspapers proclaimed my cultural achievement. I spoke at reservation grade schools and high schools and Native American Studies Departments throughout the West. I was the graduation speaker at my father's former high school. On the stand, I was embraced by the tribal chairwoman and members of the tribal council who rarely got along well enough to appear anywhere together in public. I stood for the possibility of an Indian finding success in the larger world.
Many Indian people told me that they were proud of what I had done, seeing it as a cultural achievement, what Indians could do. I saw it that way too. When I was a kid I had wanted to be the first Indian on the moon, and with the Rhodes I had some idea of what it was like. At my university's powwow on campus, an old woman dressed in the traditional style with high-top moccasins, calico dress, wide leather belt, and hair scarf, recognized me out of a crowd, put her arms around me and started crying. She said that she told her teenage grandson about me, so that he could be proud to be Indian.
At that same powwow, in a special ceremony I was given the traditional Indian name "Outstanding War Bonnet." A war bonnet, or headdress, is worn by warriors who have amassed many great deeds, each signified by an eagle feather. My great deed was the Rhodes, and I was given a headdress covered in eagle feathers.
A local Indian health clinic made a poster; it shows a picture of me, alongside a very old picture of my great grandfather, the original Bear Don't Walk, my family's namesake. The poster lauds my scholarship, and says, "This is Today's Warrior: Drug and Alcohol Free." These posters were pasted on the doors and walls of local businesses. I would run into pictures of myself all over town.
A week before I left for England, I was on the reservation helping friends smoke giant Columbia River salmon. We did it on the grill of a junked 1964 Impala, suspended from a rusted swing set, placed over a large fire of larch wood. I went to find a bathroom inside a nearby trailer house and walked into the room of a teenage boy, but no one was there. On the wall, I saw a poster of Michael Jordan dunking a ball—alongside my poster. My tribe didn't have many modern heroes. We had old ones: chiefs, warriors, rebels who fought the coming of the white man. Now, people thought I was one, which really put the spin on my head, not because they thought I was a hero, but because we were so bereft of them.
And so I went to England, and it was in Oxford that I crashed and burned. No story is pre-determined. To this day I search for the signs of what happened, the warnings. I've mentioned that while the Rhodes was important and lauded, I had no real idea of what it involved. I was also very far away from a world that made sense to me. This is all true. But there is something more. Another person with these same factors might have gone to Oxford and thrived. When I got there, I felt the alienation of a place unlike any other I had experienced. My fellow Rhodes had gone to the better schools in America and found in Oxford something familiar: soaring architecture, manners, a belief in a pursuit of excellence. For some, even the tutorial system was similar. I was a fish out of water, or a buffalo out of the tall grass plains, or an American Indian away from his tribe. A sense of displacement reared up. It wasn't just the crowded stone passages of the medieval city. Nor was it the lack of mountains and truly wild wildlife, though I felt these things. Something was wrong with my orientation, the direction I was facing. Whether from Brazil, South Africa, Singapore, or Palo Alto, students came to Oxford to tap into something old (but not old in the sense of the stories of my tribe), and yet of this moment. Everyone there was trying to get ahead, everyone was concerned about making it, it didn't matter if you were from Seoul or New South Wales, you wanted to plug into the global culture, via the cultural landmarks of English-speaking society. England had been a great power, and had left its mark everywhere. All of these former colonies, and some former enemies, felt a desire to measure up to the Oxfordian model of civilization. Wasn't this why Cecil Rhodes endowed his scholarship?
It was here, along the river Cherwell, in the wood-paneled rooms, at high table, among white china and crystal glassware that I fell out of place, out of time. Perhaps I didn't have enough concern for career and success. If I had stayed long enough, I could have become a convert. Things are not so different on my reservation, we want success. In the whole world, success—measured in terms of resume, salary, material goods—has become our common denominator, and perhaps Cecil Rhodes rightly celebrates the English, but to the nomad in me, all this makes no sense. It is the opposite of sense.
Rhodes Scholars will sometimes talk about the relationships they made at Oxford, but it's a matter of perspective. An Indian elder once told me that nomadic tribes had figured out a way to live so that they only had to spend about twenty hours a week "making a living." The rest of the time was spent really living: socializing, telling stories, singing songs through long winter nights. In Western culture, we haven't figured out how to spend less than forty hours at a desk. In this world, in Oxford's world, relationships aren't as important as getting ahead.
Asking these kinds of questions, I foundered. My meetings with my tutors were a study in acute, almost laughable anxiety and misunderstanding. The Don would say, Mr. Bear Don't Walk, for next week please read these twenty books, and write an essay on the topic "The French Revolution: What and Why." I would rush out to find these books. Searching the picked over libraries of my college (Merton) then the History Faculty library, then those of other colleges, I came up with two or three books from the "secondary" class. In a bind, I would consult various and sundry lesser books and come back to my professor in a week, with a handwritten tome entitled "The French Revolution What and Why." As I read aloud, the Don would indicate his displeasure by lighting a cigarette at the nearest possible opportunity. If I could read a few paragraphs before he lit up, my essay was considered decent. Once, and only once, did the Don wait until the end of my essay, only after giving remarks did he remember the cigarette. This was my lone triumph.
Perhaps my mistake was studying for a second BA in history. Classmates who continued on to higher degrees, in their area of study, seemed to enjoy their time better. I had no classes, just the occasional voluntary lecture. There was no hand-holding, and despite the tutorial system of one-on-one teaching, very little attention was paid to me. I had gone from a student of promise at my home to just another face in the crowd. I had been coddled in my old university. As a philosophy student interested in ideas, I had written papers about things like Romanticism, where the professor lectured, interacted with the students, and then expected original thought. Oxford had no such illusions about original thought. As an experiment at Oxford, I presented the paper I wrote on Romanticism from my first university, and got my Don smoking immediately. He didn't like my presumption to present original ideas. He wanted me to simply restate what the sources he had assigned said. This I did not do very well. After my first term of little feedback from my Don, I bought, on my trip home, a couple of large university textbooks of European and world history. I used these and their bibliographies much more than the list of texts from the Don that I couldn't find. I won't justify this, I was drowning, my head was barely above water.
Depression reared up, then. The gray rooms and sidewalks and bare trees of winter were becoming too much. The sun seemed to show its face only a few hours during the late fall and winter months. After the winter break, the sun went away completely. An avid runner, I tried to cope by working out. Something was coming on the edges of my eyesight. It felt like my vision and my mind were going gray. To head it off, I ran daily along the crowded city streets, and tree-lined paths, and the muddy trails of the river. Oxford is a scenic place, with the boats and high-tension power lines—but nothing compared to my home.
Spurred by the coming grayness, I visited the college nurse. She listened and gave sympathy. With her, and not with my Dons, I could talk freely. She recommended I see the counseling service of the university. I gathered that depression was a common problem, a given discontent of the place. I read that Oxford had the highest rate of suicide of any school in the UK. I read about medications available in America to treat depression. The news stories in Britain about Prozac, which had just become available, were skeptical. Foul moods and black dog depressions were considered a right, and those bloody Americans were trying to medicate away their feelings.
During my summer home with family and tribe, when the sun was in the sky, I felt better. But during my second year at Oxford, as the summer light waned, I felt a more serious depression coming. It felt like a hole in my skull where darkness was escaping. Waking up in my small bed in my small room, I thought, "Oh shit, I'm still here." I wanted Prozac; I got group therapy. In a room, around twenty Oxford students spoke of their problems. One had just tried suicide with pills, another had been found tying a rope to a light fixture, another had gauze bandages on her wrists, another with dark circles under his eyes barely spoke. Depressed as I was, I was still fighting. And I wasn't going to get better around students who were worse off than I was. It terrified me to think of the quiet rooms of Oxford full of students who alternated between having the usual "essay crisis" and suicidal thoughts. I wasn't there yet, but group therapy wasn't enough and the hole in my head seemed to be expanding, the grayness in my vision growing.
I finally went to the doctor and asked after other kinds of treatment, for medication. They could give old-type antidepressants with a long list of side-effects and negative interactions with common foods. The other possibility, if I were serious, was hospitalization and shock therapy. A child of the 1970s, I had seen the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, based on the book by Ken Kesey. In the movie, the Indian, Chief Bromden, played by Will Sampson, must smother his fellow mental hospital patient, who had been lobotomized, then throw a sink through a window to escape. In a way, that's what I did, without smothering the lobotomized fellow patient part—there were too many.
Talking with fellow Rhodes Scholars, I found similar feelings of despair and dislocation. People felt like they were treading water at Oxford, some talked of leaving. After speaking with my counselors, my support group peers, the school nurse, and the student advisor at the Rhodes Trust, after a year and a half, I decided to leave. It was apparent that while depression and feelings of displacement and alienation were common, very few people left. This game was for keeps. It was also clear that while there were many resources available to a Rhodes Scholar, real help with the one thing that was keeping me from staying, namely depression, was not available. It was simple and not so simple. Depression touched everything.
Before I left, I met a fellow Montanan who went to my high school thirty years before me. He was not Indian and he took to England, marrying an English woman and having English children. When I told him that I was planning on leaving Oxford and the Rhodes, he said that he continually made plans to take a trip to the Bighorn Mountains on my reservation. First he planned this trip with his kids. Now that they were grown, he made plans by himself. He said that there wasn't a day that he doesn't dig into the bottom drawer of his desk and pull out the topographical maps. Maybe more than anyone else in England, he understood, and he told to leave while I still could.
The day before I packed up my suitcase and boarded the bus to the airport, I visited the Pitt River Museum. Located about a mile from my dorm, it's an old-fashioned anthropological collection of spears and masks and other tribal ephemera collected from all over the world. In a dark corner, I stumbled upon a display case. In it, a large American Indian war bonnet, covered with many eagle feathers, stood atop a black velvet wigmaker's stand. The headdress' headband was beaded with distinct colors, the powder blue and dusty pink of my tribe. Every piece that made the headdress had been gathered in the tribal world of the person who made it—I had seen war bonnets made. Though the maker was unknown to me, the world it was made in was familiar. I knew the same rivers, along which the bald eagle, who gave his long feathers and down, hunted for fish. Ermines, white in winter, were hung down the sides of the headdress, framing the face of the wearer. I knew these weasel-like animals hunted in rock piles and stumps along river bottoms of the Yellowstone and Bighorn Rivers. Deerskin was used to make the headdress cap. Sinew held it all together. My tribal name is Outstanding War Bonnet. The plaque identified the owner of this war bonnet, a great chief of my tribe, a man named Plenty Coups. He had given his war regalia to an anthropologist who placed it in the museum. The sight of it cut through layers of darkness. I wanted to touch those feathers behind the glass, and feel the way a single feather comes together like a zipper when you run your fingers along its edge. I wanted to feel the ermine soft against my face. I wanted to take in the smoky smell of things that had once been alive, walking and flying along the riverbanks of home. I wanted to feel the subtle weight of the headdress as I hoisted it and put it on—it feels like wearing an eagle on your head. But I didn't dare, the display case glass was too thick. In England, people don't wear such things. I saw the war bonnet as a sign, I had earned a great honor for my people, and now I could come home.
Scott Bear Don't Walk (Outstanding War Bonnet) is a member of the Crow Tribe. He is also a descendant of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. He writes fiction and poetry. The Rhodes Project is an independent research project and online publication exploring how female and male Rhodes Scholars are redefining success within, and beyond, Cecil Rhodes' remit. The RP's Findings Report on the lives of the first generation of female scholars will be released in 2010.

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Two degrees warmer and rising: A review of A Great Aridness
A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest
William deBuys
384 pages, hardcover: $27.95.
Oxford University Press, 2011.
Cracking open yet another book about climate change requires a certain amount of resolve. Most readers already know the facts: In the past 50 years, average temperatures in the United States have risen 2 degrees Fahrenheit, and carbon levels in the atmosphere continue to climb. Rather than contemplate the catastrophes that could result from that rise, some have already surrendered to depression or apathy. Books about climate change are always a hard sell. But author William deBuys' three-decade-long love affair with the Southwestern United States is such that he can't help but tell a beautiful story, even when its subtitle is the ominous "Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest."
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From the civilization of the original Native inhabitants to the appearance of Coronado and his Spanish army at Zuni in 1540 to the still-ongoing real estate bust in the Sunbelt, deBuys traces the ways in which the people of the region have perished, survived, adapted and thrived over the course of the centuries.
Writing of the Four Corners, where archaeologists have sifted through ruins and other scientific evidence to study enormous prehistoric communities and theorize about their abandonment, deBuys takes the long view: "However one parses matters, today much of the fascination of Southwestern antiquity derives not from worn-out nineteenth century myths about disappearance, but from the saga of Puebloan continuity across oceans of time," he writes. "It is a story as much about adaptation as loss, as much about tenacity and endurance as abandonment."
This isn't an optimistic book; the likely impacts of higher temperatures and increasingly variable precipitation on water supplies, farming, forests and cities are disruptive and alarming. On the bright side, however, people living here today have both history and science as guides. And deBuys' book reminds readers of yet a third guide necessary for those who want to remain in this increasingly challenging region: a deep and unconquerable love for the land itself.


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In 1990, Homestead became the fifth campus of Miami Dade College. It was opened in the historic downtown district of the City of Homestead with the mission to deliver a full range of higher education programs for the Homestead/ Florida City communities. In fulfilling its mission, the campus enhances the community's capacity to meet cultural and social needs, in turn fostering a stronger sense of community. This togetherness was very important following the devastation of Hurricane Andrew and the closing of the Homestead Air Force Base.
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Oak Ridge coach Scott Blade has been preaching the process to his squad. Keep working hard and you will get rewarded. The Wildcats definitely treated themselves Friday as they scored 46 unanswered points and held rival Clinton to just 2 yards rushing in a 53-7 victory.
Oak Ridge coach Scott Blade has been preaching the process to his squad. Keep working hard and you will get rewarded. The Wildcats definitely treated themselves Friday as they scored 46 unanswered points and held rival Clinton to just 2 yards rushing in a 53-7 victory.
"Some guys are really getting better," coach Blade said. "You like to see your kids progressing and there is room for more."
Room for more despite all the positives makes for a scary thought for teams left to face the Wildcats. On offense, the 'Cats — led by Matt Moore — ran for 355 yards and seven rushing touchdowns. Moore had four of them including from 54, 32, 10 and 2 yards out.
Rian Hall was also efficient early connecting on 5-of-11 passes for 88 to spread the defense out before Oak Ridge (8-1, 7-0 in District 3-AAA) took to the ground. He also had a 53-yard romp through the middle of the Dragons line.
But for all the good offensively, the defense stole the show. Richard Turner pulled in two interceptions for Oak Ridge including a diving grab in the end zone to snuffout a Clinton scoring chance.
"He's putting himself in position to have those picks," Blade said of the junior defensive back. "The one down here (in the end zone) was incredible. You are laying out for it and he was in man-to-man coverage. The other ones are zone."
Said Turner, "From film I knew they were going to hit one of those guys. I just went underneath him a little bit and got the ball."
He now leads the team with five interceptions on the year.
Ethan Grumski continued his push toward his sack goal as well. The senior defensive end had two of the 10 tackles for loss that the 'Cats got in the first half to go with his two and half sacks. He leads the team with 14 and half on the season.
"I'm shooting for 17 this year," the linebacker turned defensive lineman said. "That's how many the team had last year.
"I've made it my new home."
The defense gave up just one big play, a slant that Drake Powell took 75 yards to the Oak Ridge 7-yard line. Three plays later Turner got his big pick. Powell accounted for 138 of the Dragons 147 yards of offense in the game.
He would get his second in the second half off a tip by teammate Ricky Chitwood and return it 24 yards.
The defense continued it the second half as the junior varsity got in on the action.
Tommy Kaczocha picked off a pass, cross the field at the Clinton 15-yard line and scored from 28 yards out to make it 46-0.
In all Oak Ridge had four sacks on the evening and got three turnovers.
"They are playing better," Blade said. "They really are. We work hard. We're probably going a little more physical than a lot of teams go right now (in practice) trying to work on our reads."
Clinton (2-7, 2-5) would get the zero off the board in the fourth quarter when Aaron Watson picked up the ball after a slot pass thrown behind the line was left to be scooped up. Watson ran in from 51 yards out to make it 46-7.
However, the jayvee offense shook it off and scored on the very next play. Michael Rowe capped a seven-play drive with a burst up the right sideline from 59 yards away to score.
"I was happy they got a chance not only to score one offensively but to score one defensively," Blade said. "They played as much as the varsity if not more. That's the future there. The more reps we can get them, the better off we're going to be in the long run."
Oak Ridge will finish out its regular season schedule this Friday with a trip to Campbell County. Kickoff for that game is at 7:30 p.m. from L. Hope Dossett Stadium. A win would secure the District 3-AAA title for the Wildcats, their first since 2005 and give them an undefeated record and a five-game winning streak heading into the Class 6A playoffs in two weeks.
Robert Holder can be contacted at (865) 220-5508.
Oak Ridge 53, Clinton 7
First quarter
ORHS — Elliott Normand 2 run (Brett Beeler kick), 8:21
ORHS — Moore 54 run (Beeler kick), 6:27
ORHS — Moore 2 run (Beeler kick), 2:04
ORHS — Rian Hall 53 run (run failed), 0.0
Second quarter
ORHS — Moore 10 run (run failed), 5:32
ORHS — Moore 32 run (Beeler kick), 2:39
Third quarter
ORHS — Tommy Kaczocha 28 interception return (kick blocked), 6:49
Fourth quarter
CHS — No. 8 51 fumble return (kick good), 6:01
ORHS — Michael Rowe 59 run (Brandon Nickle kick), 34.3
Individual Stats
Rushing — ORHS- Moore 8-143-4, Rowe 7-100-1, Hall 5-94-1, Gered Young 2-15-0, Normand 1-2-1, Michael Baker 3-1-0; CHS- A. Watson 4-8-0, Dylan Dotson 17-4-0, Nick Richmond 8-(minus-10)-0.
Passing — ORHS- Hall 5-11-88-0-0,Young 1-3-5-0-0; CHS- Richmond 7-15-145-0-3.
Receiving— ORHS- Wheeler 3-62-0, Robert Valdez 1-15-0 Allan Ford 1-11-0, Ben Abbott 1-5-0; CHS- D. Powell 6-138-0, M. Marsh 1-7-0.


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I am 5 wks pregnant, and work in a dental surgery. I had a miscarriage last year at 6 wks preg. I`m very worried the miscarriage happened because I work with a lot of chemicals and carcinogens, although I do wear gloves and a mask. Also,we take a lot of X-rays, but leave the room when doing so. Could this be dangerous? I have had two healthy pregnancies and wasn`t working when I had them. What do you think? Thank you.
You are wise to consider the potential impact of workplace exposures on the outcome of your pregnancy. Although you appropriately wears personal protective equipment at work and leave the room when x-rays are taken, there can be airborne exposures as well as dermal exposures you could receive in spite of those precautions. It is impossible for me to say that your work caused the miscarriage, but you should speak with your supervisor to see if work practices and the demands of her job can be altered in such a way as to minimize potential exposures. I'm sorry I can't be more specific, but not knowing anything about specific chemicals, I cannot do any more than suggest minimizing exposure as best you can.
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Curiosity's first scooping activity appeared to go well on Oct. 7. Subsequently, the rover team decided to refrain from using the rover's robotic arm on Oct. 8 due to the detection of a bright object on the ground that might be a piece from the rover. Instead of arm activities during the 62nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission, Curiosity is acquiring additional imaging of the object to aid the team in identifying the object and assessing possible impact, if any, to sampling activities.
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Religious nationalists living in a rogue settlement on a wind-swept West Bank hilltop are defying the Israeli government's plans to evict them, setting up a showdown that has threatened to rip the ruling coalition apart.
The outcome could hurt Israel internationally should it choose to again flout its 2003 promise to Washington to knock down Migron and other unauthorized settler enclaves built on land Palestinians claim for a future state.
The government says the settlers of Migron — 100 adults and 200 children living in a jumble of cramped trailers — seized the territory unlawfully in 2001 from private Palestinian landowners. Settlers deny the claim, saying Arab plaintiffs haven't been able to prove ownership of the land.
Israel's Supreme Court has ordered the government to remove them by March 31.
But with hardline lawmakers threatening to bolt Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition if Migron is dismantled, and a history of clashes with settlers in mind, officials are scrambling to find a solution that will satisfy both settlers and a court impatient with government delays.
Leaders insist they will carry out the court order if no compromise is reached.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who has tried for years to negotiate a solution with Migron leaders, said this week "it's out of the question" that settlers will remain on private Palestinian land. "It undercuts the rule of law and the supremacy of law and our position vis-a-vis the world, on the one hand, and our citizens on the other hand," he told Israel Radio.
The settlers believe it is their religious duty to settle this patch of the biblical Land of Israel and say they won't abandon their stronghold 10 miles (15 kilometers) north of Jerusalem, overlooking the main north-south road in the West Bank.
"It won't reach that point," Migron spokesman Itai Chemo said.
The international community opposes all Jewish settlement activity in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war. But Israel distinguishes between the 121 settlements established in accordance with official procedures and the more than 100 unauthorized "outposts" that skirted the process and are considered illegal.
Although the government did not officially approve the building of such enclaves, home to several thousand Israelis, the settlers have managed to work the system to their advantage to secure military protection or hook up their communities to utility grids.
Israeli governments have occasionally dismantled isolated structures in the enclaves, in some cases resulting in riotous confrontations with settlers and masses of supporters who flocked to the scene.
These standoffs chilled the government's ardor to evacuate the outposts it promised to dismantle, and years of negotiating with the settlers began. The negotiations have emboldened Migron's residents, who reject the state's claim that Palestinians own the land.
Migron is the largest outpost and has come to symbolize settler defiance.
A top security official told The Associated Press that the authorities are ready to take down Migron when the order comes. However, the official balked at the notion of blocking roads to the site to prevent mass disturbances, suggesting that would be considered too radical a step. The official spoke on condition of anonymity under military regulations.
For months, Migron's residents have been lobbying politicians to keep the outpost in place and searching for legal maneuvers to block an evacuation. They are also holding meetings to acquaint ordinary Israelis with their cause. Their Facebook page features a clock counting down to the evacuation deadline.
Chemo, the Migron spokesman, insists residents don't want violence, and predicts they will reach a compromise with the government.
"We will sit with the prime minister and find a solution to this story," said Chemo, a social worker who moved to Migron eight years ago.
On Sunday, the government proposed building them houses a mile (two kilometers) away, but settlers spurned that proposal, just as they rejected an earlier one to relocate to a nearby settlement.
Critics berated the government for offering Migron a new settlement instead of punishing it for its illegal actions.
If the government lets the March 31 deadline slide, it would embarrass leaders who profess to respect the rule of law.
"All governments have red lines that must not be crossed," said Talia Sasson, a former government prosecutor who compiled a 2005 report on Migron and other unauthorized settlement outposts. "A state has to follow the rulings of its courts. That's how things work in a democratic state."
A missed deadline would also deepen international skepticism over Israel's commitment to peacemaking.
"We believe that the failure of the Israeli government to evacuate even the settlements that they consider illegal is an indicator that the Israeli government is not serious," said Palestinian spokesman Ghassan Khatib.
In 2005, Israel forcibly evicted 8,000 settlers from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank. The Gaza withdrawal, along with the smaller, violent evacuation of the Amona outpost in the West Bank the following year, are widely considered national traumas because of scenes of clashes between settlers and security forces.
Nahum Barnea, commentator for the Yediot Ahronot daily, thinks "it's hard to see a showdown over Migron."
"It's very difficult to evacuate settlements, outposts, whatever you call them, after they've struck root," he said. "No one in the coalition is pressing. ... There isn't even public pressure. They'll find a legal gimmick to put off a solution."
The current government, like its predecessors, has been sympathetic to the settler movement, which stretches back more than four decades.
Many coalition lawmakers want Migron legalized, and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was reported telling political allies the ruling coalition would collapse if West Bank outposts come down.
On Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom declared, "Migron is eternal. It came here to stay."
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Sneak peek: What's ahead for downtown Greenville restaurant
A restaurant overlooking Falls Park in downtown Greenville will soon have an entirely new look, and on Thursday, News 4 acquired images that will give you a sneak peek at the possibilities.
The Overlook Grill is currently closed for renovations, but will reopen in the spring, with a new appearance, new menu and new name.
The Table 301 restaurant group bought the restaurant in May.
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Let's see how another Padres rival did today in its trade.
"I thought the Dodgers did OK," said an MLB evaluator from another club.
As part of a three-way trade with the Mariners and Red Sox, the Dodgers came away with three minor leaguers headed by catcher Tim Federowitz and pitcher Stephen Fife for outfielder Trayvon Robinson.
"Federowitz is a good backup, a real good backup," the evaluator said. "He can really catch and throw. He's defense first, but he's better than a typical, defense-first guy. He's a quality backup guy. He'll spend six to 10 years in the big leagues.
"Fife is, at best, a possible back end of the rotation guy in the NL West," said the MLB man. "He's been little slow to develop."
The evaluator hadn't scouted Red Sox prospect Juan Rodriguez, who also went to Los Angeles in the trade.


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If there is one thing fans have learned over the last three years, it is to consider any public comments by Ruben Amaro Jr. with a healthy degree of caution. He insisted the Phillies were not in the market for an elite starting pitcher almost to the day they traded for Roy Halladay. He insisted they were prioritizing a reliever almost to the day they traded for Hunter Pence. We are not accusing Amaro of being a liar. Being a big league GM requires a certain amount of misdirection. Nobody will ever fault a poker player for bluffing.
Phillies fans should hope that Amaro's comments during his year-in-review press conference earlier this week are another instance in which the third-year GM is simply playing the game. They should hope that his primary goal was not to put Charlie Manuel on notice for next season. They should hope that his public assessment of the Phillies' offensive personnel is not the same as his private assessment, that he is merely attempting to disguise his plan for what could end up being the most interesting offseason in recent memory.
Because anybody who has watched this team over the last four seasons will tell you that its biggest problem does not lie in its approach. And the numbers will back that assertion.
The Phillies are getting old. They are getting slower. They are getting weaker. And, unless they have suddenly discovered an antidote to the normal trajectory of age, they are losing hand-eye coordination. This year, they saw nine players age 32 or older accumulate at least 100 plate appearances. Since 1950, only nine other National League teams have featured that many contributors on the back ends of their careers. None of those teams finished in the top half of the league in runs. The only team to advance to the World Series was the 2010 Giants, who along with the 2003 Cubs (losers in the NLCS) had the best offense of the bunch.
The Phillies have already out-performed their age. They finished seventh in the NL in runs this season, better than any other team that featured as many old players. They finished second in 2010, when they had the oldest lineup in the NL. They finished first in 2009, when they had the second-oldest lineup. But they can't out-run age forever. And Father Time finally appears to be catching up.
That's not to say that we should call the horse amublance and raise up the curtain. And Amaro was correct in saying that the Phillies need to change their approach. But the approach that needs changing most is their approach to the construction of the lineup and roster, not their approach at the plate.
The Phillies lost to the Cardinals in the NLDS for a number of reasons. But you can start at third base. St. Louis had 28-year-old David Freese, who drove in five runs and scored one. The Phillies had 35-year-old Placido Polanco, who drove in none and scored none. At every other position, the two teams created runs evenly. Ryan Howard scored or drove in 6 of the Phillies' 21 runs. Albert Pujols scored or drove in 3 of the Cardinals' 19. At second base and center field, Chase Utley and Shane Victorino scored or drove in 9 runs. Skip Schumaker, Nick Punto and Jon Jay scored or drove in 9 runs. In left and right field, Raul Ibanez, Hunter Pence and John Mayberry Jr. scored or drove in 11 runs. Lance Berkman, Allen Craig and Matt Holliday scored or drove in 12. At short stop, Jimmy Rollins scored or drove in 6 runs. Rafael Furcal scored or drove in 3.
When the Phillies signed Polanco to a three-year deal before the 2010 season, the biggest question mark was his age. But they felt his defensive and contact rate provided a better value than the power and speed of more youthful options. It is hard to fault the Phillies for not taking a risk on a rich, multi-year deal for Adrian Beltre, who was also a free agent at the time. No other major league team felt comfortable meeting Beltre's demands. But by signing Polanco to a three-year deal, they limited their options beyond Beltre. Maybe the Blue Jays would not have parted with Jose Bautista at any cost during the 2010 trade deadline. Maybe the money remaining on Michael Young's contract would have prevented a deal this spring. Maybe Aramis Ramirez would have nixed any potential deal with the Cubs. Maybe the Phillies still would have been unable to meet Beltre's demands in his second straight offseason as a free agent. Maybe they would not have been able to swing a deal for the Padres' Chase Headley at the trade deadline.
The point is, the ramifications of a team's personnel evaluation at a given position extends beyond the actual production it gets out of that position. Every decision impacts every subsequent decision. Look back at the 2009 offseason, when the Phillies signed Raul Ibanez to a three-year, $31.5 million contract. He was the best free agent option. Milton Bradley, Pat Burrell, Juan Rivera -- those were the choices. On one hand, the Phillies might not have made the playoffs that season if not for Ibanez's stellar first half. On the other hand, they might have been forced to explore a move for a bat like Matt Holliday.
Polanco might be a better example. If the Phillies are getting more production out of third base, maybe they do not feel the need to trade for Hunter Pence this summer, instead choosing to pursue lower-cost options in right field. Maybe they feel they can win with a pitcher of a lesser pedigree than Roy Oswalt last season. Or, if they do not trade Cliff Lee to the Mariners, maybe they do not need a pitcher. Maybe they do not trade Anthony Gose, who is coming off a Double-A season in which he posted a .349 on base percentage with 70 steals and 16 home runs. Maybe the presence of a 20-year-old future leadoff hitter and center fielder changes the Phillies' approach to this offseason, when leadoff hitter Jimmy Rollins is a free agent and center fielder Shane Victorino is entering the final year of his contract. Maybe it opens up new levels of trade possibilities, possibilities that would trump Oswalt or Pence in terms of neighborhood blockbusters.
When you really break it down, a front office's job is to predict the future better than other front offices. Certainly, it is to predict the future better than the general public. Nobody is saying that Amaro and his fellow executives have failed. Remember, the Phillies are coming of a 102-win season. If they lose to the Braves in the final series of the regular season and eliminate the Cardinals from the playoffs, there is a good chance they are still playing. For the second straight year, they ran into the one team that was built to beat them in the postseason. This is not revisionist history. I said it last summer about the Giants, and I said it this summer about the Cardinals. At the time, neither team was a lock for the playoffs. Both of them snuck in. And, as fate would have it, both ended up playing the Phillies.
At the same time, the Phillies learned a tough lesson. When you put the majority of your chip stack on black, and the wheel lands on red, you have a problem. Black is postseason success. Black is pitching. The Phillies' traded for Roy Oswalt and signed Cliff Lee. They did not add a corner outfielder like Lance Berkman, or reserves like Nick Punto or Ryan Theriot or Rafael Furcal. Oswalt battled injuries, saw his strikeout rate dip, and allowed five runs while taking the loss in Game 4. Lee dominated during the regular season, then allowed five runs and took the loss in Game 2. Polanco performed at his expected level when healthy, but he battled injuries that affected his hitting throughout the second halves of both 2010 and 2011.
Polanco's struggles were exacerbated by the fact that the Phillies did not have any reliable offensive options to replace him. Organizational philosophy has always favored defense over offense. As we pointed out earlier, that philosophy has served them well: 102 wins, preceded by 97, preceded by 93, preceded by 92, and so on. But if Amaro's remarks are even somewhat truthful, then he believes that the Phillies underachieved. And it seems unfair to suggest that the biggest reason for that under-achievement lies in something that Manuel and Greg Gross can control with their coaching.
In 2011, Manuel had three players log at least 200 plate appearances and post an on base percentage of under .296. In his first six seasons combined, he had none.
Three more hitters logged between 100 and 200 plate appearances with an on base percentage of under .295 in 2011. In Manuel's first six seasons combined, he had seven total (Juan Castro and Greg Dobbs in 2010, Endy Chavez and Tomas Perez in 2005, Eric Bruntlett in 2009, So Taguchi in 2008 and Sal Fasano in 2006). In Manuel's two full seasons as manager of the Indians, Jolbert Cabrera was his only player who posted an on base percentage of under .310 while logging at least 100 plate appearances.
Over his seven seasons as manager of the Phillies, Manuel has not gone out of his way to alter the public perception about his philosophy. He talks fawningly about Harmon Killebrew and Walter Alston. Many of his home-spun tales are woven from the fabric of baseball's mythological view of power. All of it provides the type of easy narrative on which the media typically gorges itself. But it also ignores reality. In reality, Manuel's idea of a great hitter is not Killebrew, but Ted Williams. If you offered him a lineup of eight Chase Utleys versus eight Ryan Howards, he would take the former.
In the NLDS loss, the Cardinals appeared to do a much better job of extending at bats, of wearing down opposing pitchers. Amaro said that the Phillies need to improve in that area, and that the personnel in place are capable of doing so. In 2011, they saw an average of 3.80 pitcher per plate appearance, ranking a mediocre eighth in the NL. But in each Manuel's first five seasons as a big league manager (his two full seasons with the Indians and his first three with the Phillies), his teams ranked in the top four in their league in pitches per plate appearance, including second in the NL in 2005 and 2007:
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Did Manuel change his philosophy after 2007? Or did Geoff Jenkins and Raul Ibanez replace Aaron Rowand and Pat Burrell?
Without a doubt, there is a need for the Phillies to play a different style of baseball. Not only are they getting older and less powerful, but the pitching around the National League is getting better. The NL East features pitchers like Josh Johnson, Anibal Sanchez, Tommy Hanson, Craig Kimbrell, Jonny Venters, Jordan Zimmermann, Stephen Strasburg, Drew Storen, Tyler Clippard. Five years ago, that was not the case. The Phillies can still mash mediocre-to-below-average pitching. But they can't mash it as hard. And, more importantly, there is less of it.
Maybe Amaro thinks that the Phillies need to stop going to the plate looking for a pitch they can drive, and instead look for a pitch they can put into play to get on base. Maybe if they had that mentality, Chase Utley and Raul Ibanez would have hit singles instead of flying out in front of the wall in Game 5.
On the other hand, maybe the players on the roster are who they are. Maybe the roster was constructed with hitters who have spent their entire careers looking for pitches they can drive.
In 2002, former big league manager Chuck Tanner told Baseball Digest, "If a guy is a .250 hitter, he's going to hit .250. It's as simple as that."
Amaro said in his press conference that the Phillies should have more .300 hitters. But Polanco is the only hitter in the lineup with a .300 average in his career. Jimmy Rollins has a career average of .272 and a career on base percentage of .329. He hit .268 and .338 this season. Shane Victorino has a career marks of .279 and .344. He hit .279 and .355 this season. Carlos Ruiz (.265 and .357 for his career) hit .283 and .371. Hunter Pence has career marks of .292 and .343. In two months with the Phillies, he hit .324 and .394. The three players who underperformed against their career marks were Ibanez, Utley and Ryan Howard. Those also happened to be the three highest paid players in the lineup. The three highest-paid Cardinals -- Albert Pujols, Matt Holliday and Lance Berkman -- all performed at or above their career marks.
Has Utley's OBP dropped in each of the last three seasons because of his approach? How about Ibanez's? Or have those numbers dropped because Ibanez is now 39, and Utley is now 32, and both of them have battled wear-and-tear injuries since 2009?
It's an important question for a couple of reasons. First, if the Phillies really believe that an improved approach at the plate will bring drastic results, they risk underestimating the need to supplement their existing personnel this offseason. Second, if Manuel and Gross feel pressured into making drastic philosophical changes, they risk compounding the struggles of 2011 by forcing their hitters into an approach they are unable to execute.
The numbers suggest that the Phillies real problem lies not in their performance when they have two strikes or are behind in the count, but in their performance when they are ahead in the count. They suggest the real problem lies not in hitting with men on base, but in reaching base to begin with. They suggest the real problem lies not in the counts when Manuel tells them to swing or take, but in what happens after they swing or take.
I'll throw those numbers at you a little later. I just thought we would start but identifying the two schools of thought.
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So far having no trouble with scummvm wii, runs all my classic lucas arts games perfectly
Discworld is giving me issues though... It runs fine on my pc version of scummvm, but in the wii version when I launch the game it just sits at a black screen forever. I can power the system down with the wiimote, the power button, or the reset button (the reset button takes me back to the homebrew channel)
Any tips for what I can try? I'd also like to run the game with James Woodcocks updated soundtrack, but have tried launching the game with and without the extra path for the different soundtrack
additional info: I'm using my cd copy of the game. copied all the files directly from my disc
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I had the same issue with the official builds for Wii (1.5.0 and also some of the official daily build). My German version of Discworld was giving black screen and Discworld II crashed, whereas other games (Lucasarts, Inherit the Earth, ...) where running fine. As there where hints that the error is related to game file reading or language detection, I did some tests (like changing the case of filenames on the SD card), but unfortunatly I could not fine out how to debug (with logfiles) and also not manage to find enough information for a solution or for filing a concrete bug report.
Therefore I have tried building ScummVM from latest git with DevKitPPC r26. This revealed some falltraps. E.g. DevKitPPC directory handling has changed over versions and needed corrections in ScummVM code. With the self-compiled version now Discworld I and II run perfectly fine on the Wii.
Maybe the version of DevKitPPC used for building ScummVM official builds is breaking the Wii version of Tinsel engine?


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Description: The emerging InfiniBand architecture [1] is providing a new way to design next generation high performance clusters. In addition to the higher network speed, this architecture provides several new mechanisms (RDMA, multicast, atomic, and service levels) to build high performance and efficient communication subsystems for clusters. At OSU, a high performance MPI implementation (MVAPICH) [2,3] with a focus toward point-to-point communication has been recently designed and developed to take advantage of InfiniBand for next generation clusters.


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The long-time Albertsons in Kirkland's Juanita neighborhood will close mid-October, leaving many out of work or forced to relocate to another store. The nearest Albertsons is in Woodinville.
"(The store) was not meeting its numbers," said Lilia Rodriguez, communications manager for Albertsons. "(Supervalu's) goal is to ensure the success of the entire company."
In early September, Supervalu Inc. announced the closure of 60 underperforming and "non-strategic" stores across the U.S. Twenty-seven Albertsons, 20 Save-A-Lots, four ACME's and one Jewel-Osco will close before Dec. 1.
Washington's 10 closures include Albertsons stores located in Kirkland, north Marysville, Benson and 208th in Kent, Lacey, north Auburn, Bonny Lake in Sumner and Save-A-Lots closures in Port Orchard and Tacoma. Nineteen stores will close in California and eight in Oregon.
"The decisions are never easy because of the impact a store closure has on our team members, our customers and our communities," Supervalu President Wayne Sales said in a news release. "(The) announcement reflects our commitment to move with a greater sense of urgency to reduce costs and improve shareholder value."
The Juanita Albertsons, located at 9826 Northeast 132nd St., opened in December 1970.
Michael Olson, the City of Kirkland's deputy director of finance, said the 11 large grocery stores in Kirkland generate about $600,000 in annual sales-tax revenue a year. The smaller stores bring in around $20,000 and the larger ones amass about $30,000 to $40,000 a year.
"I would say Albertsons was in line with the small stores, that's why it's closing," Olson said.
The Daily News of Los Angeles reported that the number of workers varies from 50 to 100, depending on store size.
"Most of the affected team members are represented by labor unions," Rodriguez said. "So they'll abide by their collective bargaining agreements. Those with seniority will have bumping rights."
Many grocery store workers are under the United Food and Commercial Workers union.
Supervalu's closures over the next three years may generate between $80 to $90 million by monetizing real estate, cutting "cash operating losses" and selling assets.
"Cash generated from these actions will be used to reduce outstanding debt and for other general corporate purposes," said a Supervalu news release. "These closures will also be accretive to net earnings."


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Last summer I had the pleasure of visiting the Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill in Harrodsburg, Ky. During my stay there, the volunteer who showed me around explained that this piece is an example of something called a "Saturday table" – a table made on Saturday from bits of wood left over from the workshop's weekday labors.
I like to work in the presence of a certain amount of aesthetic risk. While I do use jigs and fi xtures, I also try to preserve the need for manual skill and an educated eye. In the case of this particular piece, my original intention was to execute the legs as a high-wire act, forming their eight-tapered swelling facets completely by hand using a drawknife. However, after experimenting, I realized that – although I could produce clean surfaces with a drawknife – I might not be able to define the underlying form of each leg with enough clarity using only that one tool.
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ROCHESTER – Two people were sent to the hospital after a car struck a tree along Route 202 Sunday afternoon.
Police, firefighters and emergency personnel responded about 2:04 p.m. after Daniel King, of Northwood, lost control of a 1995 Geo Prism heading east along Washington Street/Route 202. The vehicle left the road and struck a tree.
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Risk for MS Among Patients' Relatives Not As High As Thought
Swedish study found siblings, kids had greater odds of getting disease, but other relatives faced no extra risk
MONDAY, Jan. 27, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- A new study suggests that relatives of patients with multiple sclerosis aren't as likely to develop the disease as previously believed, even though the illness is thought to be caused mainly by genetics.
The researchers, at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, tracked almost everyone within the country who had been diagnosed with the disease since 1968 -- about 28,000 people. The researchers looked at whether their relatives developed the disease and then analyzed a group of people without multiple sclerosis (MS) and their relatives.
Siblings of people with MS were seven times more likely to develop MS than the general population; the risk for children of MS patients was five times higher. Grandchildren and nieces and nephews, however, faced no higher risk.
"The population registers in Sweden are reliable tools for finding relatives to MS patients and their possible MS diagnosis, instead of relying on the patients' memories," study first author Helga Westerlind, a doctoral student in the institute's department of clinical neuroscience, said in an institute news release.
"Our study is a good example of how one can quickly achieve more reliable results than the previous studies that were based on patient groups collected in hospitals throughout decades," Westerlind said.
The researchers have also studied twins and found that genetics do indeed play a major role in MS.
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