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Volume 16 Issue 37 | February 13 - 19, 2004
Aesthetic realism/terrain gallery, 141 Greene St., Wed.-Sat., 2-5 p.m., 212-777-4490: The Surprising & Abiding Opposites, III, photographs by DIENES & BERNSTEIN, paintings and prints by KOPPELMAN, RACKOW & SPINELL, through Mar.
American indian community house gallery, 708 Broadway, 2nd fl., Tue.-Sat., noon-6 p.m., 212-598-0100: Secret Treaties, work by JESSE COODAY & JASON LUJAN, through Feb. 21.
Anton kern gallery, 532 W. 20th St., call for hours, 212-367-9663: Scream, 10 artists, 10 writers, 10 scary movies, through Feb. 14.
Ansonia windows, Corner of 6th Ave. & 10th St., call for info., 212-255-0838: Sage Sunset, paintings by JESSICA FALSTEIN, through Feb. 18.
Artists space, 38 Greene St., 3rd fl., Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-226-3970: eRACISM, retrospective of mixed media work by WILLIAM POPE.L, through Feb. 21.
Blumarts inc., 99 Wooster St., Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Mon. by appointment, 212-343-0441: RUDOLF DE CRIGNIS, paintings, through Jan. 31.
Brooke alexander, 59 Wooster St., call for hours, 212-925-4338: Under $2,000 Alber <-> Zaugg, various works, through Mar. 20.
Carolina nitsch editions, 101 Wooster St., call for appointment, 212-966-4095: Call to see new editions by numerous artists including LOUISE BOURGEOIS, OLAFUR ELIASSON & LAURA OWENS, open ended.
Cavin-morris gallery, 560 Broadway, #405 B, Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-226-3768: New Obsessions, outsider art by SANDRA SHEEHY, through Feb. 28.
The center for book arts, 28 W. 27th St., Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat., 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 212-481-0295: Call for current exhibition information.
The center for jewish history, 15 W. 16th St., call for hours & fee information, 212-294-8301: As Seen By... great American Jewish photographers, through April 11, 2004.
Cofa/claire oliver fine art, 529 W. 20th St., 212-929-5949: Inner Circles, works by GABRIELA MORAWETZ, through Mar. 6.
Cooper union, Humanities Gallery, 51 Astor Place, Mon.-Fri., noon-7 p.m., Sat., noon-5 p.m., 212-353-4158: Polish Prints: The Traces of Tomorrow & Yesterday, group exhibtion, through Jan. 25; Houghtoun Gallery & Lubalin Study Center, 7 E. 7th St., Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Sat., noon-5 p.m., 212-353-4207: Designing: The Work of Chermayeff & Geismar, design retrospective, through Feb. 21.
Cuchifritos art gallery, 120 Essex St., 212-598-4124: Insert, concieved and curated by THIAGO SZMRECSANYI, through Jan. 31.
DCA gallery, 525 W. 22nd St., call for hours, 212-255-5511: At the Last Moment, paintings & works on paper by LEIF KATH, through Feb. 21.
Deitch projects, 76 Grand St., Tue.-Sat., noon-6 p.m., 212-343-7300: Inside Track, lifesize robots by MOMOYO TORIMITSU compete in business against each other, through Feb. 7; Call for current exhibition information.
Denise bibro fine art, 529 W. 20th St., 4th fl., call for hours, 212-647-7030: Manifestations III: Form & Function, an exhibition of functional & wearable art, group show, through Jan. 31.
The drawing center, 35 Wooster St., Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-219-2166: The Imprint of Drawing, solo exhibition by GIUSEPPE PENONE, through Mar. 6; Inhabited Drawings, solo exhibiion by HELENA ALMEIDA, through Mar. 6.
THE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE, 197 E. Broadway, Mon.-Thu., 10 a.m.-9 a.m., Fri.-Sun., 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 212-780-2300: Call for current exhibition information.
Feigen contemporary, 535 W. 20th St., call for hours, 212-929-0500: Adrift, new work by MATTHEW MCCASLIN, through Feb. 14.
55 mercer Gallery, 55 Mercer St., Tue.-Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-226-8513: Call for current exhibition information.
Fraunces tavern museum, 54 Pearl St., Tue., Wed., Fri., 10 a.m.-5 pm., Thu., 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m., 212-425-1778: Call for information about current exhibitions, open houses & other events this winter at the museum, $2-$3.
Gallery 438, Seward Park High School, 350 Grand St., call for hours, 917-562-8468: A Piece of My Heart: An Exhibit of Words & Images about Love, group exhibition, through Mar. 1.
Gallery 928, 928 Broadway at 21st St., Tue.-Fri., 1-6 p.m., Sat., 1-5 p.m., 212-675-1616: The National Association of Women Artists Presidents: 1970-2003, group exhibition, through Feb. 6.
Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones St., Tue.-Sat., noon-6 p.m., 212-242-4106: Figural Compositions, cramic works by Greenwich House Pottery Faculty, through Feb. 7.
Hebrew union college, One West Fourth St., call for hours, 212-824-2205: The Art of Aging, group exhibition, through June 25, 2004.
Henry street settlement, Abrons Ats Center, 466 Grand St., Tue.-Sat., 10 am.-6 p.m., 212-598-0400: Balancing Act, group exhibtion of artist working on both sides of the art world, through April 3.
Jack shainman gallery, 513 W. 20th St., call for hours, 212-645-1701: Paintings: 1953-2003, by CLAUSE TOUSIGNANT, through Feb. 7; Recent Photographs, by PHILIP KWAME APAYA, through Feb. 7.
June kelly gallery, 591 Broadway, Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-226-1660: 44 Years of New York, photography by ALEX HARSLEY, through Feb. 10.
Kim foster gallery, 529 W. 20th St., Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-229-0044: Contingencies: New Work & Tangential Growth, by JIM TOIA, through Feb. 14.
Leica gallery, 670 Broadway, Tue.-Fri., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-777-3051: FRANZ HUBMANN: a 90th Birthday Celebration, through Feb.14; Photographs, by DIDI SATTMAN, through Feb. 14.
The lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender community center, 208 W. 13th St., call for hours, 212-620-7310: Portraits in Pride: The Gay Portfolio, photographs by BRIAN GORMAN, through Feb. 20.
The lower east side tenement museum, 91 Orchard St., call for hours, 212-431-0233: Eat.Live.Work/Pray, installation by ADAM LUBINSKY & GARY STOLTZ, through June 12.
Michael ingbar gallery, 568 Broadway, Tue.-Sat., noon-6 p.m., 212-334-1100: The Beauty of Landscape, photographs by CHRISTOPHER BURKETT, through Feb. 28.
Museum of chinese in the americas, 70 Mulberry St., 2nd fl., call for hours, 212-619-4785: Living Through History: Chinatown Stories, large collection, open ended; General Lees Banquet Room, conceptual work by CINDY SURIYANI, Jan 27-July.
New museum of contemporary art, 583 Broadway, call for Summer hours, 212-219-1222: Killer Instinct, video gaming culture/hackers, in the Zenith Media Lounge, through Feb. 15; call for information on other exhibitions.
NEW YORK CITY FIRE MUSEUM, 278 Spring St., Tue.-Sun., 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 691-1303: Classic firefighting equipment & art, ongoing.
New york studio school, 8 W. 8th St., call for hours, 212-673-6466: ROSEMARIE BECK, paintings 1965-2001, through Mar. 6.
NYU BObst library, 70 Washington Square South, Mon.-Thu., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m., 212-998-2596: Visions for a Changing Theater, assorted items from the Amitin/Universal Theater Repertory/World of Culture Archives, through Mar. 12, 2004; The Nicholas Wahl Papers, a major archival collection, ongoing.
NYU BROADWAY WINDOWS, Broadway at E. 10th St., 24 Hours/7 days, 212-998-5751: Big Babies, collaborative installation by CHAN DAVIS & JOAN B. WHEELER, through Feb. 16.
NYU grey art gallery, 100 Washington Square East, call for hours, 212-998-6780: Family Albums, photographs by DIANE ARBUS, through Mar. 27; call about numerous events related to the Arbus show through Mar.
NYU washington square windows, Washington Square East, 24 hours, 7 days, 212-998-5748: Gloved Migration, installation by JANET NOLAN, through Feb. 9.
Noho ny, 666 Broadway, 12th Fl., call for hours, 212-677-4579: NohoNY Art Walk, Jan. 20-25, 6-8 p.m., call for information.
PEn & Brush Club, 16 E. Tenth St., Tue.-Sun., 4-7 p.m., 212-475-3669: Call for current exhibition information; Call for Entries: 58th Annual Sculpture & Metallic Art Exhibition, for women artists, for Prospectus send SASE to P&B to the attnetion of Sculpture, Deadline Feb. 27.
Plane space, 102 Charles St., Wed.-Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sun., 1-5 p.m., or by appointment, 917-606-1268: Re:Moving, paintings by ROBERT OLSEN, through Feb. 8.
Posteritati movie posters, 239 Centre St., Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Sun., noon-6 p.m., 212-226-2207: Vintage Movie Posters on display at all times.
The puck building, Houston & Lafayette St., Fri., noon-8 p.m., Sat., 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Sun., 11 a.m.-7 p.m., 212-265-1040: The 8th Annual ational Black Fine Art Show, representing 42 galleries, Jan. 29-Feb. 1, $10-$35, cal for information.
Robin rice gallery, 325 W. 11th St., Thu.-Sat., 1-7 p.m., Sun., 1-6 p.m., Mon.-Wed., by appoint., 212-366-6660: PETE KELLY, paintings, through Feb. 29.
SALMAGUNDI CLUB, 47 Fifth Ave., daily, 1-5 p.m., 255-7740: Call for current exhibition information.
Staley-wise gallery, 560 Broadway, Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m., 212-966-6223: A Lifes Work, photographs by PHIL STERN, through Feb. 28.
Sunshine Factory Cafe & Gallery, 11 Essex St., Mon.-Fri., 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun., 9 a.m.-5 p.m., 212-420-7240: Uncoverng the Light, paintings by ELLIOT BASSMAN, through Mar. 7.
Swiss institute-contemporary art, 495 Broadway, 3rd fl., Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 212-925-2035: Horizons, a new work by MOMOYO TORIMITSU, also showing several other artists, through Feb. 21.
Tanya bonakdar gallery, 521 W. 21st St., call for hours, 212-414-4144: Under the Sun & Stars, main gallery show by SANDRA CINTO, through Feb. 14.
Yeshiva university museum, 15 West 16th St., Tue.-Thu., Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p.m., 212-294-8330: Remembrance: Russian Post-Modern Nostalgia, group exhibition, through Feb. 1, 2004.
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Bailey House, the landmark agency that has provided housing and supportive services to people impacted by HIV/AIDS for the past 30 years, has been awarded a $1.12M grant from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene HOPWA (Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS) program to expand its groundbreaking STARS (Success Through Accessing Rental Assistance and Support) initiative. STARS is a supportive housing program for formerly homeless HIV+ youth in New York City, including lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual (LGBT) individuals. The grant will allow Bailey House to fund an additional 25 units of supportive housing; the STARS program will now encompass 53 apartments for homeless HIV+ youth including 10 apartments solely for homeless transgender youth.
Regina Quattrochi, Bailey House CEO, commented, "This new grant will help us expand our supportive housing for homeless HIV+ youth and support more young people to access the care and support they need to thrive. We are very excited to be a leader in addressing this critical need in New York City."
STARS fills a critical gap in services for this population, and is the latest addition to Bailey House's supportive housing portfolio. Bailey House started in 1983 when a group of community activists, spurred by the lack of adequate housing, care, and support for people who were then living – and dying – of an unknown disease, responded by creating their own solution: SHAP (Supportive Housing Apartment Program). As the nation's first housing provider for people living with HIV/AIDS, Bailey House pioneered a housing model that has been emulated worldwide, and cited for best practices by HUD (U.S. Housing and Urban Development) and the New York State AIDS Institute.
Less than 200 municipal shelter beds are available for homeless youth in New York City, while even fewer options are available for those living with HIV/AIDS. In response to the need for stable housing and care coordination for HIV+ homeless youth, Bailey House launched STARS in 2009. A HUD-SPNS (Special Project of National Significance) initiative, STARS originally consisted of 20 apartments. Because there is a significant dearth of services for homeless young adults of transgender experience, eight additional units specifically for transgender youth were added last year. STARS is one of the only programs in the city that provides permanent housing for the transgender community, and this new grant allows Bailey House to expand its housing for transgender youth as well as its housing for the HIV+ homeless youth population as a whole.
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Year after year The Heritage Foundation continues to make an impact in the fight for conservative principles. This year, Heritage's expert policy analysts testified before Congress 34 times and distributed more than 1,100 policy reports on Capitol Hill. Below is the list of the top 10 most read research papers of the year:
1) The 2012 Index of Dependence on Government
By William Beach and Patrick Tyrrell
February 8, 2012
The great and calamitous fiscal trends of our time—dependence on government by an increasing portion of the American population, and soaring debt that threatens the financial integrity of the economy—worsened yet again in 2010 and 2011.
2) Taxmageddon: Massive Tax Increase Coming in 2013
By Curtis Dubay
April 4, 2012
If President Obama and Congress fail to act this year, an enormous, unprecedented tax increase will fall on American taxpayers starting on January 1, 2013.
3) High Gas Prices: Obama's Half-Truths vs. Reality
By Nicolas Loris
February 23, 2012
Higher gas prices drive up production costs for goods reliant on transportation, and more money spent at the pump means less money spent at restaurants and movie theaters.
4) Federal Spending by the Numbers
By Alison Acosta Fraser
October 16, 2012
The federal government has closed out its fourth straight year of trillion-dollar-plus deficits, and the imperative to rein in spending has never been greater.
5) Red Tape Rising: Obama-Era Regulation at the Three-Year Mark
By James L. Gattuso and Diane Katz
March 13, 2012
During the first three years of the Obama Administration, 106 new major federal regulations added more than $46 billion per year in new costs for Americans.
6) The Ryan Budget: Confronting the Nation's Spending Crisis
By Alison Acosta Fraser and Patrick Louis Knudsen
March 21, 2012
In the few months since Washington's dramatic debt ceiling confrontation, America's fiscal situation has only worsened. Federal spending is set to soar past previous record-shattering levels, endangering the economic future of the nation.
7) Auto Bailout or UAW Bailout? Taxpayer Losses Came from Subsidizing UnionCompensation
By James Sherk and Todd Zywicki
June 13, 2012
The U.S. government will lose about $23 billion on the 2008-2009 bailout of General Motors and Chrysler. President Obama emphatically defends his decision to subsidize the automakers, arguing it was necessary to prevent massive job losses.
8) Government Employees Work Less than Private-Sector Employees
By Jason Richwine, Ph.D.
September 11, 2012
The stereotype of the under-worked government employee is frequently invoked in criticisms of public-sector employment. But does the average public employee really work less than the average private employee?
9) Tax Policy Center's Skewed Analysis of Governor Romney's Tax Plan
By Curtis Dubay
September 23, 2012
Their conclusion is the result of a series of carefully made choices. These choices, not the underlying nature of the Romney plan, cause them to arrive at their selected result. This finding is harming the debate on tax reform.
10) Welfare Reform's Work Requirements Cannot be Waived
By Andrew M. Grossman
August 8, 2012
Under the guise of providing states greater "flexibility" in operating their welfare programs, the Obama Administration now claims the authority to weaken or waive the work requirements that are at the heart of welfare reform.


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I've been leveling my warrior in an attempt to avoid "over-doing the expansion burnout".
This has allowed me to pick up a number of Northrend rares as I move through the zones.
I realized yesterday that I hadn't caught any in Storm Peaks, so I took the warrior around the zone.
ALL. Around the zone. Around 6am server time.
Didn't find a single pet to battle.
Went around again at noon. Same thing.
Went around again at 9pm. Wow, three for three.
I DID however see several times briefly on the map that pets were available - but then when I would enter an area of heavy phasing (Thunderfall, Dun Nifelem, etc) they would vanish.
This leads me to the conclusion that, if you are trying to search for battle pets in Storm Peaks (when it is NOT snowing), you will not find anything if you have done zero quests in the zone.


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Chinese Lessons For SOPA/PIPA: The Great Firewall Of China Was Once A Way To Stop Infringement Too
from the well-look-at-that dept
Wen supports U.S. activists challenging the bills, saying it's a slippery slope to lesser web access. He said China's so-called Great Firewall, which blocks access to many foreign sites like Facebook and Twitter, was first billed as a strategy to stop piracy and pornography.The slippery slope to censorship starts with the insistence that the mechanism for censorship only has "the best intentions." But the reality is that once you have the infrastructure for censorship, it's only a matter of time until that censorship expands. It's just too powerful for those in control.
"Now it's being abused and extended to thousands of websites," he said.


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Updated from 4:24 P.M. to include more information about the report.NEW YORK ( TheStreet) - Amazon ( AMZN) reported a 22% fourth-quarter revenue hike on Tuesday, although the online retailer missed Wall Street's bottom line estimate. Amazon earned 21 cents a share on $21.27 billion in revenue, as consumers flocked to the company for their holiday shopping needs. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected the Seattle-based retailer to earn 28 cents a share on $22.26 billion in revenue during the fourth quarter. During the prior year's quarter the company earned 38 cents a share on $17.43 billion in sales. Revenue rose 23% year-over-year in North America to $12.175 billion, while International revenue increased 21% to $9.09 billion. The company's effective tax rate in the quarter was 57% and it paid $194 million in taxes on $334 million in operating income. "We're now seeing the transition we've been expecting," said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, in a statement. "After 5 years, eBooks is a multi-billion dollar category for us and growing fast - up approximately 70% last year. In contrast, our physical book sales experienced the lowest December growth rate in our 17 years as a book seller, up just 5%. We're excited and very grateful to our customers for their response to Kindle and our ever expanding ecosystem and selection." First-quarter guidance was weaker than anticipated, with the company forecasting revenue between $15 billion and $16.6 billion. Analysts were expecting $16.85 billion in sales. Amazon expects first-quarter operating income between a loss of $285 million and a gain of $65 million. Amazon's fourth-quarter operating margin was 1.9%, compared to 1.5% in the prior year's quarter. The company will hold a conference call at 5 P.M. EST to discuss the results. Shares of Amazon fell in regular trading, off 2.87% to wind up at $268.13. The stock is moving sharply higher in extended trading, climbing 8.83% to $283.33. -- Written by Chris Ciaccia in New York >Contact by Email. Follow @Commodity_Bull
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text: 2013 National Conference Speaker/Session Spotlight: Tricia McCabe, Ph.D. Posted on April 23, 2013 by VIUS Support 2013 National Conference Speaker/ Session Spotlight Thursday, July 11 – Saturday, July 13, 2013 at Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center Tricia McCabe, Ph.D., is Course Director and Senior Lecturer at The University of Sydney. Her main research area is treatment for moderate-severe speech impairments in children. Within this area she has a number of interests including (a) treatments for Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) (also known as dyspraxia), (b) disorders of speech which cause impairments to production of polysyllabic words and longer linguistic units, (c) the comparison of phonological and articulation treatments to demonstrate relative effectiveness and efficiency and (d) the use of ultrasound for biofeedback in speech pathology. With her colleagues, Elizabeth Murray and Kirrie Ballard, she has recently completed a Randomised Control Trial comparing ReST with the Nuffield Dyspraxia Program (3rd ed). Other research projects in CAS currently underway include: Developing parent delivered interventions for children with CAS in both Australia and Canada; projects trialing computer delivered versions of ReST and NDP3; and a longitudinal study of speech development in children with early identified ASD. She is Chair of the International CAS Assessment Consortium. This Consortium hopes to develop agreed reporting standards to be used in research involving children with CAS. Tricia is particularly interested in the application of the principles of speech motor learning to new treatments for CAS particularly and articulation and voice disorders more generally. She is also interested in the application of Evidence Based Practice (EBP) in speech pathology and speech pathology service delivery innovations. You are traveling a very long way to speak at the 2013 National Conference on CAS. What are you looking forward to the most? "I'm excited to meet a wide range of people who are all interested in CAS and very excited to share our new treatment and our research results. It's very exciting to have done the first ever randomized control trial of treatments for children with CAS and I want as many people as possible to know about it." What makes our National Conference on CAS so different from other conferences? "The variety of people: parents, children, clinicians and researchers all together." _____________________________________________________________________________ DR. MCCABE'S PRE-CONFERENCE SESSION 300 ReST: A New Treatment for Prosody and Speech Accuracy for School-Aged Children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech Rapid Syllable Transition Training (ReST) is a recently developed treatment for improving prosody and speech accuracy in children aged 4-12. ReST uses pseudo-words of 2-3 syllables to target syllable segregation, lexical stress and articulatory consistency and accuracy in high intensity drill based therapy. We have recently completed a randomized control trial of ReST which shows that the treatment is effective and generalizes to untreated words. In our recent research, we also showed that children who had treatment 4 days per week for 3 weeks continued to improve for up to 4 months after the treatment stopped. This workshop will describe the background to the treatment, the research including the RCT and other studies including parent training and a trial of computer delivery, and describe who the treatment might suit. Participants will watch the therapy being conducted and will learn to judge correct and incorrect target productions. Learning Outcomes: Participants will be able to describe the theoretical background of the Rapid Syllable Transition Training (ReST). Participants will be able to describe the major components of the treatment. Participants will be able to identify correct and incorrect production of the treatment stimuli. _____________________________________________________________________________ The information presented in your session might be fairly new information for many of the participants. Why do you feel it's important to have this additional tool available in the treatment of children with CAS? "Having treatment that has been shown to be effective at improving speech and prosodic accuracy in children aged 4-12 is a huge leap forward. Until now the best research evidence we have had has been group studies where the children were not randomized and follow-up data was not collected. Our new treatment, ReST, shows excellent results." DOWNLOAD THE CONFERENCE BROCHURE & REGISTER TODAY! Posted in News | Tagged 2013 National Conference on CAS, apraxia, Apraxia-KIDS, australia, cas, CASANA, CASANA's national conference, children, colorado, communication, denver, EBP, education, evidence based practice, families, International CAS Asssessment Consortium, language, national conference, parents, pre-conference session 300, Rapid Syllable Transition Training, research, ReST, speech, speech disorder, speech pathology, support, treatment, tricia mcCabe, university of sydney


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 10, 2009) - The ETSU baseball team begins the 2010 season Friday, Feb. 19 with the first game of the The Citadel Memorial Challenge against the host Bulldogs. Every day, leading up to the first pitch, a different member of the 2010 squad will check in with Buccaneer fans. Today freshman Kerry Doane is letting ETSU fans get to know him a little better.
Kerry Doane (freshman infielder)
Birthday: September 3, 1990
Hometown: Pompano Beach, Fla.
High School: Nova High School
What's on TV: ESPN
What's in my iPod: Country, Rap, Hip Hop
What I drive: Camaro
Favorite flicks: Avatar
Bookmarks (websites): Facebook
Favorite class at ETSU: Sociology
Worst habit: Spitting
Pet peeve: Excuses
Superstition: None
On my wall: Pictures of memories with friends and family
Love to trade places for a day with: Derek Jeter
Talent I'd most like to have: Switch Hitter
First job: Mechanic with my father
Favorite meal: Spaghetti
Favorite athlete to watch in another sport: Kenny Boyton - UF Basketball
Favorite city to visit: Paris
Favorite value in others: Trust
Favorite physical attribute about myself: Eyes
And least: Facial hair
Dream date: Megan Fox
Greatest love: Family
My hero: My Father
My bucket list: Skydive, Bungee Jump, Snowboarding, go on a cruise, go to Europe
My favorite quote: "The strongest heart is the heart of a volunteer."


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WQ427, New January 1996
Biosolids are domestic wastewater sludge that meet standards for beneficial use as fertilizer or soil conditioner. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (Missouri DNR) developed standards to regulate safe use or disposal of biosolids. The standards were specifically developed to protect human health and the environment, including the health of animals, crops, soils, wildlife and aquatic life.
Land application of domestic wastewater and biosolids is not a new management concept. For centuries cultures around the world have applied wastewater biosolids as fertilizer. In some European countries such as Germany and the Netherlands, almost all biosolids are applied on agricultural land. In fact, the widespread popularity of biosolids in most industrialized nations stems from the nutritional benefits and soil-conditioning that biosolids provide. However, in addition to the numerous benefits that can be derived from land application of biosolids, there are certain risks. Municipal wastewater may contain low levels of industrial and commercial wastes. Nonetheless, with the strict controls on the use of biosolids, these compounds should offer little or no threat to human health.
Recent technological advances in industrial pretreatment systems have drastically reduced the likelihood of introducing pollutants into biosolids. Operational and monitoring controls in most wastewater treatment facilities regulate the concentration of toxic pollutants coming from industries. These controls reduce the concentration of heavy metals and other pollutants in the resulting municipal wastewater biosolids.
Biosolids are removed from wastewater treatment systems in order to provide an acceptable quality of the treated wastewater. The wastewater treatment operator is then faced with four optional methods for the use or disposal of biosolids. These include landfilling, incineration, surface disposal and land application. Land application of biosolids is the method of choice by both the EPA and Missouri DNR; it is the only option that promotes beneficial reuse or recycling of biosolids and will, under good management, cause the least harm to the environment.
In 1973 leading researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the EPA and the National Association of Land Grant Colleges met at a national workshop to discuss land application of municipal biosolids. Their goal was to form a comprehensive framework for assessing the potential long-term hazards from land application. To do this, the researchers knew they would have to study the effect of leaching on water quality, plant uptake and food chain transfer of toxic chemicals, plant toxicity, pathogens and public health concerns. Twenty years later, studies provided data and understanding of these basic research areas. Regulatory agencies and leading researchers have used this information to reach a scientific consensus on acceptable risk factors and to write sound guidelines for land application. The research findings have been used as the scientific basis for the current state and federal sludge regulations.
Confusion can result from the many different types of laboratory testing methods and the way data are reported. For many of us the confusion is compounded when we try to understand the metric system units such as milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg), which are commonly used in scientific publications. It may be easier to visualize this by using the general term of parts per million (ppm); 1 milligram per kilogram = 1 ppm. Table 1 gives some examples of how much one part per million is.
Table 1Common examples of one part per million
One part per million is equal to the following:
Data can also be reported as wet weight (as-is basis), which is commonly used for wastewater or drinking water test results, or as dry weight. Test results for biosolids are reported as milligrams per kilogram or ppm on a dry weight basis. This allows comparison of test data from biosolids that contain different amounts of liquid. Since most biosolids contain 80 percent to 99 percent water, this dry weight data may seem like a large number when compared to wastewater or drinking water test data. However, remember these numbers are expressed in parts per million. For example, a biosolids sample that is 99 percent liquid and has a dry weight concentration of 10 ppm arsenic would be only 0.01 ppm arsenic on a wet weight or liquid basis.
Missouri's firsthand experience with land application began in the 1960s when a handful of communities began to land apply biosolids. In the 1970s the land application method of biosolids became widespread as new treatment plants were constructed in rural communities. In 1982 the Missouri DNR, in cooperation with MU and other interested groups, published WQ429. The biosolids series of Water Quality guides addresses state and federal regulations under 40 CFR 503 for use and disposal of municipal biosolids. The EPA sludge standards under Part 503 regulations (issued in February 1993) are similar to the 1982 Missouri land application guidelines. Missouri guidelines are more stringent in certain cases, giving an additional margin of safety for its citizens.
Questions on the types and levels of pollutants in Missouri sewage sludges were addressed in a 1982 study by MU Environmental Trace Substances Laboratory5. This study analyzed the biosolids from 74 domestic wastewater treatment facilities for toxic levels of organic compounds, nutrients and heavy metal contaminants. Twelve land application facilities were chosen for further research. Soil samples were analyzed for potential accumulation of pollutants. The following conclusions were drawn from the study:
Between 1982 and 1985, sludge from the city of Columbia was studied to determine the reactions of biosolids with the soil and the potential for toxic chemicals to migrate into groundwater. This study was conducted using biosolids research plots located at the City of Columbia Wastewater Treatment Plant and was published by MU5 in 1985. Nitrogen was determined to be the pollutant creating the most concern due to its potential to leach into groundwater. Excess nitrate leaches into the groundwater if nitrogen is applied in excess of normal crop fertilization levels. Proper annual application rates are essential. Metals in the applied biosolids were retained within the top 1 or 2 inches of soil in relatively insoluble forms. Maximum cumulative loading rates for metals, as recommended in previous research, were believed adequate for long-term safety of the soil-plant-water environment. The study recommended continuing the Missouri DNR guidelines on land application of biosolids.
One of the foremost benefits of land application of biosolids is the addition of plant essential nutrients, such as nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K). Applying biosolids to cropland gives producers an opportunity to gain plant available nutrients, particularly nitrogen and phosphorus, at a relatively low cost.
The most significant result of applying biosolids to soils is yield increase. Yield increase is attributed to the availability of a wide array of trace minerals in biosolids. The presence of trace minerals affects the overall health of the soil environment. Most soils are deficient in the essential trace elements (heavy metals) that are required by plants for healthy growth. The deficiency in trace minerals can be amended by applying biosolids to the soils. Biosolids are like vitamin pills for soils because they contain nearly all the essential trace elements, such as zinc (which is chronically deficient in soils but essential for crop growth), vanadium, chromium, iron, copper, cobalt, and molybdenum. There are no fertilizers available on the market today that can supply a more complex array of essential trace nutrients. A fertilizer blend composed of all the required plant nutrients would be costly — beyond the financial means of an average farmer.
Increased organic matter is an indirect benefit of biosolids. The amount of biosolids applied at agronomic rates is too small to make a direct impact on organic matter increases. The increase in organic matter from biosolids is attributed to a corresponding increase in plant residues after harvest, such as leaves, stems, and more significantly the proliferation of plant roots in the soil. The microbial degradation and transformation of plant residues into organic matter enhance the availability of trace elements for plant uptake. Plant residues left above and below the soil surface after harvest also control erosion by providing a soil cover against wind and rain.
One of the long-term benefits of biosolids application to land is the improvement of soil structure. When biosolids decompose, they form a substance that glues and binds the soil particles together to form blocks. The end product is a stable soil with good physical properties. Soils with an improved structure have increased porosity, which enhances water root penetration and decreases bulk density. All these factors combine to give favorable soil tilth.
Communities benefit from the land application of biosolids because it frees up much needed room in sanitary landfills. In rural Missouri, landfill space is already inadequate for solid waste needs, and suitable new landfill sites are not easily available. The costs to the community are considerably less with land application of biosolids than with disposal methods, such as landfilling or incineration. Land application also provides an opportunity for the farmers and city to work together in a cooperative venture that benefits both groups.
Misconceptions over high levels of heavy metals, other pollutants and potentially harmful pathogens create concerns about the potential adverse impact of land application. Most people lack the technical knowledge needed to understand how nutrients move through soil, the technical issues surrounding potential risks, and the general practice of applying biosolids. It is true that potential exists for toxic materials in biosolids, which are highly variable in quality. Consequently, the EPA developed risk-based standards for controlling the use and disposal of biosolids.
One health risk with the land application of biosolids is the potential exposure to pathogens (disease causing organisms). Organisms in this category include, but are not limited to, bacteria, protozoa, viruses and viable helminth ova. Pathogens can be eliminated by treating biosolids prior to land application using one or more of the many available treatment technologies for control of pathogens and vectors.
A perceived risk is that the biosolids may contain chemicals that are directly toxic in small concentrations or doses. Most pollutants can be considered toxic or harmful at certain concentrations or doses, such high concentrations have rarely been found in biosolids. Common foods or products, such as salt or aspirin, are safe at normal levels but are also toxic at certain high doses. The same concept is true for biosolids (Tables 2 and 3).
Table 2Guide for interpretation of toxicity data
Table 3Toxicity of some common chemicals
Most of the metals found in biosolids occur naturally in soil, water and air mediaQuantities of metals found in soils, water and air are called background levels. These background levels vary from place to place in various media. The amount of metals added by the annual land application of biosolids is small compared to the background levels in some soils One acre of land contains about 1,000 dry tons of soil 6 to 8 inches deep. If 2 dry tons of biosolids are incorporated into 1 acre of soil, the annual addition of zinc would increase the soil level of zinc by only 1 or 2 percent for a low metals biosolid (Table 4).
Table 4Quantity of metals in Missouri soils and biosolids
Numerous research studies, in both the laboratory and field, have shown that there are no short-term risks to agricultural field crops when biosolids are applied at recommended rates based on nitrogen content. However, in the long term, metals will accumulate in the soil to the point that crop uptake of them will increase. With the approval of research scientists, cumulative loading rates (in pounds per acre) of metals have been established in order to protect the long-term productivity of the soil and assure that crops will be suitable for food-chain use. These loading rates are based on the soil's ability to retain metals in an immobile form and on maintaining proper soil pH. The same reactions in the soil that protect crops will also protect groundwater supplies.
Researchers have fed biosolids directly to beef and dairy cattle at 10 percent to 20 percent of their diet with no negative health results. Other research studies also show that there is not a significant health risk to beef or dairy cattle from consuming feed grown on biosolids amended soils. The use of best management practices will reduce the potential for direct ingestion of biosolids while grazing cattle on biosolids-amended pastures.
See MU publication WQ42613, Best Management Practices for Biosolids Land Application.
Research has been conducted on pollutant levels in storm water runoff from land application sites. Since most biosolids are adsorbed onto soil particles, it is important to minimize soil erosion and sediment transport. Biosolids that are surface-applied must be able to infiltrate into the soil surface. Biosolids that are applied during frozen or saturated soil conditions risk being transported off-site if storm water runoff occurs before the soil dries. Intense storm water runoff occurs several times each year at random intervals in Missouri. Runoff can be controlled when recommended best management practices are followed.
In 1988 the EPA conducted the National Sewage Sludge Survey, which sampled municipal sludges from 200 cities across the nation and tested for about 400 different pollutants. Most of these pollutants were found at very low levels. The EPA used this survey information and national research data to select pollutants for the risk assessment under the 40 CFR 503 rules. The EPA risk assessment looked at 14 possible pathways that land application of biosolids could impact the environment (Table 5).
Table 5Exposure pathways for biosolids land application
The EPA risk assessment evaluated the health risk to the general population as well as to a highly exposed individual, such as a person who would have direct contact with biosolids land application sites for a lifetime. The aggregate health risks to the U.S. population from all biosolids land application is much lower than many other common activities in our everyday lives. The aggregate health risks per one million (1,000,000) persons is less than one person for biosolids land application compared to 42 persons for motor vehicle accidents (Table 6).
Table 6The relative risks of activities
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We already know that the box of the PS4 will include the console, the DualShock 4, a HDMI cable, an headset, a power cord, an USB cord and the instructions. What we didn't yet know is how some of those components will look.
The picture is confirmed as legit (I wouldn't yet say "official", as it didn't appear on any Sony website), as it appeared on the Amazon UK product listing.
Update 2: added picture of the headset plugged into the DualShock 4
I see this and I get excited.
I think Sony fully intends to mimic the success of the PS2. Look at that PS4, that's the PS2 Sequel! Looks very similar.
Am I weird for finding that instruction booklet damn sleek?
I'm loving the blue. Microsft's "goolish green" is finally looking dated. Worked during the "X1" era.... but now it's played out and grotesque.
Nope, that instruction booklet is the finest instruction booklet I have ever seen, but seriously the PS4 looks like amazing so far! I can't wait for launch!
Good thing they are boxing HDMI cables now. I still have my original black piano PS3 but the last I remember, they were still boxing it with the Component Cables back then. Not sure if newer PS3 models come with HDMI?
Yes, i agree. It looks like Sony's out for blood. They are doing everything right so far. PS2 success in today's world is kind difficult especially MS spending billions in marketing and time exclusive games/dlc but PS4 will do great no doubt about it.
@Abriael, for a folded quick start guide? Yes, a little bit.
@lawgone: oh well, normality is overrated nowadays
@ perry
The only reason MS went with green because it's the color of the money which is the only thing they care about.
@Need4Game: that was already known for a while, yeah.
Holy crap ! That's an instruction booklet?
IT COMES WITH THE VERTICAL STAND?! would be awesome if true
I fear that headset will create a very noisy PSN environment. Really need something a bit more 'professional'
They weren't giving component cables (5 cables), they were giving composite (3 cables) cables out. Totally mental for a HDMI enabled device.
No...It's the first thing I noticed. I grew up playing games where, when I got a new game, I would open the box and not play the game until I'd read every page in the manual.
There was always good interesting stuff in them and that just kind of died off.
I'd spend 20 minutes reading through before playing a game....lol
PS4 never looked so good!
I surely can not resist this baby!
Can't wait to hold that controller!
The controller curves really goes well with the console's straight lines.
Super Sleek Sexiness Perfection!
@roper and need4game
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you guys funny me! Xd
Xbox 1 is going to win the next gen console, they already won with pre orders.
The genius Don Mattrick is going to prove all haters wrong.
I think you have a bit of nostalgia going on there. I too used to read the manuals of all the games thoroughly in the Nes, MD and SNES-era but nowadays I don't bother. The swich to the manual we have now (pretty much nonexistant when compared) doesn't bother me at all.
If it's NOT nostalgia for you however it's too bad. I don't need them but I do understand both ways.
@ inso- yea nostalgia kicks in a bit. lol, but also I actually enjoy reading. I could read for hours as long as it's something I'm interested in, so a game I like falls into that category.
They were also pieces of art to me too kind of. Also there was good information, background info on characters, tips, background story overall, pictures and other art that may or may not have made the game.
They aren't a need, more of a want, but there are still millions of us out there that would appreciate them still. I guess you could say there is still a market for manuals....but I'd never pay more for one.
@PerryCaravello - The industry has changed a lot since the PS2 Hay days. The PS4 will undoubtedly be a huge success, but owning 70 plus % of the market. Highly unlikely.
Anyone know what the plug (on the controller) next to the headphone input is for?
One of those extension ports. They could use it for basically anything from a chatpad to a more high end headset.
It's for an upcoming feature.
I probably shouldn't talk about it but...
Well, you've seen The Matrix right? You know how they "jack" into the Matrix itself?
Yeah...you'll be jacking into all sorts of games soon.
if SONY was even close mimicing ps2 success we would have more games than zombies,fps,multiplayer type games then. im not hating on ps4 but rather like to see more than those titles. i hardly turn on my ps3 tired of same titles over and over.killzone,unchrated,call of duty,socom,battlefield. if ps4 the incarnation of ps2 Sony!!!! please bring fun variety games back to everyone and not push old school gamers to the curb.
hardcore gamers not the only ones that buy games ya know.
PS2 didn't exactly have the most stellar launch lineup. PS4 isn't even close to being available, and it already looks A LOT better at release. The bombardment of Indie games should also quench your want for variety.
PS4 has 20 inhouse exclusives releasing this year. Should have something for everyone. Failing that you got a ton of indie and 3rd party games to look forward to.
Have you played Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time? It's awesome ;)!
Also, check out on PSN, the Cave is nice!
@ chickengamer
YES, i played sly,ratchet an clank trilogy,nfs Hotpursuit criterion (version) Rayman legend,GT5,Castlevania lord of the shadow,Marvel vs, Capcom 3,Super street fighter iv,Jax & Daxter collection,Ratchet an clank collection not much else. now if Sony make of ps1 era games specially R-TYPE,GRADIUS,EINHANDER,CONTR A i'll be happy camper.
Hate to break it to you but Sony has had way more games than just killzone, uncharted, call of duty, socom, and battlefield. They clearly had the most variety than MS too. Guess if you don't like any of the other Sony exclusive games or third party games then that sucks for you and I don't know what to tell you.
I had to stop reading at "mimicing".
I don't think the PS2 era will ever be replicated :( 10,000+ games released on one console 0_o
can we use our pulse headsets with ps4 since ps4 does have bluetooth?
I want to know the same. I have the first one they released. The 5.1 one. I want to say I'm 99% positive they will work with the PS4. The move and navigation controllers will work as well. Dualshock 3 and the old Playstation eye camera will not work with the PS4. Hope that helped.
I've been wanting to know the same. The only info I can give you is a Sony exec on the official PlayStation message forum leaning towards yes (sorry I don't have the link), and Amazon listing the headset under PS4 accessories. Obviously not confirmation, but I'm hopeful.
Even The instruction booklet looks cool too! "welcome to the world of playstation" can't wait!
Sony is well known for their design, even Apple tried to copy Sony's design. So, not surprising that PS4 has a nice design.
I cannot wait to get my hands on this console. It reminds me so much of the PS2 just with sexier lines ... I am really loving the DS4 also.
The first comments on that page summed it up for a lot of people "i am an xbox guy all the way but atleast sony is putting out information, details etc(know this was leaked) but MS is basically silent on everything which isnt good when the competition is throwing one two punches everyday. kudos to sony. "
too bad that stand isn't bundled.
The design looks like you can put it on it's side easily, so you don't even need a stand. I am really happy I can use my old Turtlebeach headset with the new console.
I am excited too. It can't come soon enough!.
I just don't like how the light of the front fades on the right. The whole "line" should turn blue. it looks bad the way it is now, it looks as if something is wrong with the light.
I like how the PS4 is slimmer than the Xbox One and still doesn't have a power brick.
The only problem is that a HUGE part of the PS2's success was they DVD player. At the time the format was relatively new and I know for a lot of people it was their first DVD player. Bluray hasn't had the same impact and now with digital becoming an ever growing alternative, I don't think Bluray will ever reach that level of install base.
I do think that PS4 is going to be hugely successful, though. Just not PS2 successful.
Sony is well ahead with production it seems...that FoxConn speed.
In what way does a picture of the console along with the controller and a few leads suggest that they are ahead of production?
If they weren't this type of material wouldn't be out there already.
Not to mention all the actual hardware at E3, packaging is finalized also.
You should take a look at FoxConn, the same company outputs 8m Iphones in a week.
Not to mention all the pre-orders Sony is allowing around the world, I think it's safe to assume that their production is going well.
Nevermind, looking at your replies I can see that you're a troll.
not so much the picture but Sony told places that can take as many preorders as they like which is why all kinds of PS4 bundles showed up at places like Amazon. That would leave me to believe that they will have more units available at launch than they initially thought
But this article is claiming it's leaked.. so technically this doesn't mean that it is "out yet". I don't see how a picture of the console (which we've seen before), along with a few leads, implies that they are ahead of production.
They have months to work on production for launch, so it's pretty obvious that they would allow tons of preorders. It's just smart business.
It's not leaked, it has been confirmed as official good sir.
You sir, are a dumbass. Signed in just to tell you that :)
Who PreOrders A Console Just To Get It Later On? If Sony Is Allowing Alot Of Preorders Thats Means They Are Definitely Ahead Of Schedule In Production
It sure seems that way, but if its true we just might see an earlier launch plan from sony.....a win win for us gamers.
judging by the insanely huge demand for day 1 preorders that early launch window might not be possible it seems like releasing at the same time as xbox one might provide a greater launch day stock to compete with xbox one; however i have a feeling ps4 releasing on or before black friday might benefit them more.whatever sony decides im sure will keep liver punching the xbox one sony is pissed at this gen 1 year behind fiasco.
also i may note that im starting to wonder if im the only one that has this strong feeling that ms is completely setting them selves up for a disastrous launch this november.
Anybody else on here have the same feeling?
I have fears the demand will be veeery high meaning a lot of people may not be able to get one at launch. I hope i'm not one of them
As long as they can keep their employees from jumping off the roof, Foxconn is quick.
such a good looking beast. hey what do you know, that's an oxymoron.
also just a quick question folks. can i insert headphones into the DS4 and listen to in-game sound or is it just for chat headsets?
edit: cheers for the reply below.
Not sure, but it's a mono earbud so if you can listen to in-game audio, it's not going to sound that great. The good news is that, unlike XBoxOne proprietary audio jack, PS4 will work with just about any headset you may currently have.
Yes, 3.5mm is standard, from iphone's, to walkmen's .. Micro$oft is greedy enough to have proprietary, sad.
A man is going to use his Pulse Wireless headset on PS4 and it will be glorious. It already scared the crap out of a man playing LoU with its virtual surround sound.
It will be for other human comms only just like 360's headset. You wont get the game's soundtrack and gunfire etc coming through that tiny little thing!
It's a comms device hence ONE earbud and a mic.
For me I 9/10 play games with headphones so hope my normal cans can slip over this ok so I can use both at the same time.
the pic is on amazon uk look at pic 2 http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/...
Excuse me whilst I lose a pint of saliva...
I couldn't have predicted that it would have wires.
I bet you couldn't have predicted that it wouldn't have an external power brick ;)


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He is the only member of the U.S. media ever blacklisted and banned from a Western nation. His ban from visiting Britain in June 2009 has made him the "poster child" for free speech, not only for Americans concerned about the cultural shift towards totalitarianism and their rights to freedom of expression, but for people around the globe. In mid-2009, this worldwide media attention concerning the ban resulted in a New Yorker magazine profile of him.
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To die for scenic reefs in Red or the South China Sea is dying; pretty fishes and panoramic colors of soft and hard corals are now down to a complex ecology similar to tropical forest ecosystems. Compare to the microorganisms that makes the whole thing more tremendous in doing all the destruction, the predators and consumers, the producer algae and the tiny invertebrates mean nothing.
Catalina Reyes of CoECRS. (Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies) and the University of Queensland has published her work alongside 4 colleagues, on the bacteria, fungi and algae that live in this most complex marine ecosystem. The change in this ecosystem recently is because of our overproduction. Oceans now are Cola like, the CO2 we made over the last century or two has made the sea water to feel like one. As to Catalina's research, the acid has effects and that are clearly identifies in the micro-world of corals. She links it all up and explained, "So fish, turtles, sharks, lobsters and other reef organisms may lose their homes, threatening coral reef biodiversity and the livelihoods of tens of millions of people." All reefs, molluscs and others are basically made up of Calcium carbonate, accepted as true to hard corals as well. Due to different reasons erosion of the reef is just a normal phenomenon but at present the erosion has become excessive that it destroys the reefs worldwide at a really disturbing rate. The well equilibrium of attrition, storm damage, predation and growth has been distorted. Today, deterioration seems to be the pattern in lieu of slow growth. And because of the acid now less and less carbonate is available. You have probably had experimented such in your school laboratory. Micro-boring organisms also eliminate the coral skeleton as usual consequently oceans ends up with no reef! Catalina found a 35% rate of erosion in the second example when computer simulation by the researchers compared current increases in carbon dioxide levels and their effects on reefs with those lesser increases which we hope to achieve by cutting emissions The dreadful effect of "doing nothing about emissions" was a doubling 100% of the erosion. Because of acidic conditions, Micro-boring organisms became much more active and seemed to have a higher temperatures and pH (acidity) that causing the destructions of more corals. A great number and the most common of all was a tiny alga that has the ability in photosynthesizing even in the low light conditions as it penetrated deep into the corals' hearts.


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Approximately half of the active apprentices in Wisconsin work in the construction trades. This includes the people who build, repair and remodel homes, commercial and industrial buildings, bridges, highways, airports and other structures.
How Do I Apply For a Construction Apprenticeship?
The application process for construction trades varies depending on the trade and the area of the state. Construction trade apprenticeships are sponsored by local trade committees comprised of skilled workers and employers who are advisory to the Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards. Committee members recommend approval of qualified applicants to the Bureau. Each committee develops its own policies and practices, with approval from the Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards, for operating its apprenticeship program and for selecting apprentices.
Each local committee takes applications. Each committee will determine the selection items required for the selection process. These may include an aptitude test, an interview with the committee, high school transcript, proof of graduation or equivalent, birth certificate, valid driver's license, etc. Once all application materials are on file and the applicant is deemed to be qualified, the committee will notify the applicant as to the next step in the procedure.
The construction trades use two methods for the actual placement of apprentices in jobs: the rank order list and the letter of introduction.
In the rank order list method, the committee creates a list of candidates in order of their accumulative scores on written and oral examinations. An employer seeking an apprentice will make a request to the appropriate apprenticeship committee. The committee will contact the next person on the list and ask him/her to report for acceptance into the apprenticeship program and to sign the contract.
In the letter of introduction method, applicants who meet the basic requirements are given a letter from the sponsoring committee stating they are eligible to be hired as apprentices. They must then find an employer to sponsor their apprenticeship. Frequently the committee will provide a list of participating employers.
To obtain a list of local construction trade committees contact the local Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards Representative.
Construction Apprenticeships Available in Wisconsin:
Cement Mason/ Concrete Finisher
Construction Craft Laborer
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Iontophoresisinvolves passing a weakelectrical currentthrough the skin. Iontophoresis has a variety of uses in medicine. This article discusses the use of iontophoresis to decrease sweating byblocking sweatglands.
The area to be treated is placed into water. A gentle current of electricity passes through the water. A technician carefully and gradually increases the electrical current until you feel a light tingling sensation.
The therapy lasts about30 minutes and requires several sessions.
How iontophoresis works is not exactly known. It is thought that the process somehow plugs the sweat glands and temporarily prevents you from sweating.
Iontophoresis units are also available for home use.
Why the Procedure Is Performed
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Side effects are rare but may include skin irritation, dryness and blistering.
Pollack S. Electrosurgery. In: Bolognia JL, Jorizzo JL, Schaffer JV, eds. Dermatology. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 140.
Miller JL. Diseases of the eccrine and apocrine sweat glands. In: Bolognia JL, Jorizzo JL, Schaffer JV, eds. Dermatology. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 39.
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Friday, November 27, 2009
Coffee Chat #1: Dan Beachy-Quick
Dan Beachy-Quick is a poet I have loved and admired for years. What I love about his work is how it challenges me with each subsequent book. I also love his music--all of his books are exceptionally lyrical and I've learned a lot from his language. He was gracious enough to indulge my curiosities.
One of my favorite of his books is Spell and he is the author of several other wonderful books, North True South Bright, Mulberry, and his newest book, This Nest, Swift Passerine, and A Whaler's Dictionary (prose pieces, admittedly, I haven't read this though).
1. Do you have a writing process? If so, how would you characterize it? How does risking failure fit into that writing process?
I wouldn't say that I have any writing process in particular. I should also say that whatever that process is it has also changed fairly radically over time. It also differs based on what genre I'm writing—poems and essays seem to require something different from me. For the past year or so, maybe even two years, my writing of poems has become a very slow process, but slow in the strangest of ways. I've forced myself not to write simply to write, and so instead wait until I hear a line—for me, almost every poem begins with a line in which I hear a kind of music inside the language. I have the archaic sense that once a line is found, once it is written down, that a certain kind of fate has begun, and that the entire poem is somehow located within the line, and my work as a writer is to be patient enough to see how that line can unfold into a poem outside the mere compulsion of my intent or will or desire for it to do so. I find myself meditating on the line at odd times until, in some unbidden sort of way, I can see a way forward, usually no more than 2 or 3 lines, and the active patience of the process begins again.
Essays seem more a full immersion into the work, a daily writing for fear I might lose the connective threads that seem to hold the thinking together. I suppose I trust a poem more to discover itself, to do its work in me rather than my doing work on it. I don't quite have the same trust when working in prose.
As to risking failure, I think for me it is a continual resistance to working out of habit, or to return to an activity (writing) that I find pleasurable simply for the pleasure's sake. Of course, I don't know if "pleasurable" is how I would qualify how the work makes me feel—but it does make me feel a certain way, and rather than give in to that feeling, the compulsion toward that feeling, I tend to be skeptical of it, to resist the allure of the page, to reach that point where writing seems the inevitable outcome of whatever process endures itself through the distracted days, and then I sit down and write. I don't know how that risks failure, save that a poem to me is never certain, that a poem undoes certainty, and in thinking about what it knows undoes what it knows. This is also to say I suspect that one cannot risk failure by intending to risk failure—it cannot be "poetic" in any normal sense of that word. Failure is something else. The possibility of giving into the gravity the poem tries to resist—save here gravity is different than the gravity we know, but is, nonetheless, a force that runs counter to the poem's dearest trajectory, whatever that direction might be.
2. How did your latest book project (This Nest, Swift Passerine) come to be?
It's only in hindsight that I can see This Nest, Swift Passerine as a fairly recognizable extension from the book previous, Mulberry. At the time I was writing it—some four or five years ago—it felt wholly new to me, a kind of departure and arrival at once. What concerned me was what I observed—that birds make their nests not only of some inherited innate pattern, but also that they use material not of their own making: grass, mud, spider-webs, holiday tinsel, grocery lists, and so on. I found it very moving, somehow, that their place of dwelling, and their place of song, was not in any typical way "original."
The link that started me writing was that my own relation to language felt the same to me. I began to think of the work of the poem as the creation of place of dwelling from which it was possible to sing—the barest notion of dwelling though, one open still to the world (the world of which it is made). It also made me feel not only that language is not in the poet any sort of original work, but that my voice was formed by other voices—more, that perhaps the importance for me of being a poet isn't in saying that which I alone can say, but to speak or sing in such a way that other voices can be heard again in the voice—my voice—they make possible. It is, in its way, a kind of Aeolian Harp, save that the lines are poetic lines rather than wires. I wanted to find a way to extend a metaphor over the course of a book, not as a cleverness, but as the essential work of mimicking in language the very thing I was trying to consider—the nest, and language as a nest. I wanted to include as honestly as I could everything that made possible the thinking I was trying to do, to interweave notions of self and other, to give as simply as possible the full difficulty.
3. Your work has evolved and taken leaps from book to book, yet you seem to retain your distinctive voice. Do you try to do this? And if so, how?
I don't think I try to do this—maintain a consistency of voice through projects that have always felt to me to be departures from one another. But I suppose that any actual departure—a term by which I mean a willing abandonment of the ground a previous project has uncovered, and having uncovered, makes available for further use—forces one to rely more necessarily on basic resources. Voice may be one of the primary resources, not as a style, but as reduction to some fundamental need to express what one experiences in the world, a kind of witness or evidence or humble claim to existence.
4. Do you think about your audience while you write, and if so, how? And if not, why not?
I don't. For me, the idea of an audience feels very theoretical. I am deeply grateful that anyone would read the books I write, and so, I guess, also surprised. To be read—it's a gift. But while I'm writing I feel primarily in connection or conversation with what I'm writing, and what by writing opens up to be thought about, to be attended to. There is a compensatory nature to such work I find thrilling—a kind of reciprocity in which to think about something other than myself opens myself up in unexpected ways. (I suppose this also has something to do with the question above.) To think too much about audience risks severing the basic relation between the writer and what's being written about. The reader, the audience, that is in this equation some unaccountable for grace, some impossible to predict gift, and I worry that to write for an audience breaks that trust or sullies that hope—that is, the hope that someone will find the work, and do so unbidden.
5. You are a very lyrical poet. Where does that sensibility come from? Do you have to work at achieving a lyrical sense in your writing?
I think I've always been impelled toward music in verse, and through music, toward a particular kind of lyric sensibility. Lyric, here, for me, referring quite directly back to the instrument Hermes constructed out of a turtle shell and gave to Apollo to appease the sun-god's anger at the theft of his sacred cattle—that is, the song that results from audacious trespass and a sense of needing to offer a gift to balance out a wrong. There is in lyric tradition a sense of breaking a rule, or even an order of being, and then through the gift of song repairing that damage while not simply re-asserting the broken order. But it's also reading Hopkins who taught me how deeply music can be thought to be the primary mode of meaning in a poem (if not in the world entire), a sense which reading Zukofsky and Ronald Johnson furthered. I finished reading those authors' works feeling as if I could let go of easier hearkening after fact or accuracy and trust the music inside the language to reveal itself, and so to reveal what the music itself is "about," more than I could ever manage. There is a lovely and strange place in Valery's essay "Poetry and Abstract Thought" where he says, as he's walking down the street, that he hears an entire symphony orchestrate itself in his head, but as he didn't know how to write down the music, didn't know how to record the astonishing gift, that the "sequence amazed my ignorance and reduced it to despair." Somehow, though the thought is not fully formed in my head, I think that lyric tradition offers a way in which both language and music may co-exist, opposites that nonetheless do not destroy each other, but continually reduce the other's dominance as a representative mode. It is work, but a strange kind of work—one that lets the notion of work subside into listening.
6. At the same time, you've been described as "experimental." Do you agree?
Well, I'd like to think so—that is, if the etymological source of the word can be the fuller meaning of it: the danger of being in actual experience. I'd like to think—though maybe it's naïve—that all writing aims at being experimental in this way. My fears about the word, and the designation (both it being applied by some, and hearkened after by others) is that it has come to designate a gesture of style and little else. I certainly do not see Tradition and Experiment at odds with one another, nor being traditional as a refusal to being experimental. I think ideally they are opposed directions that merge helplessly in the poet.
7. What do you think about the current state of poetry?
It is too large a question for me to answer responsibly. There are contemporary poets, at many different stages of their poetry careers, that I love, and without whose work I'd be a lesser person and lesser poet. One thing I do notice, maybe worth mentioning, is that it seems to me that we are in a poetic climate now not as filled with particular "camps" as 20-30 years ago. It seems to me that many of the discoveries made by, say in particular the Language poets, have somehow trickled down into a more general usage—as if the so-called experimental push has through whatever mechanism been somewhat subsumed into a more "typical" practice. I suppose I feel that there is a kind of poetry given to a particular style or sound or gesture that signals to a reader of poetry "experimental" but without the undergirding risk in thought and perception that makes it actually so. There are many surfaces, dizzying surfaces (there are also false depths). Of course, I suppose this somewhat jaded view is true of every age. Nor do I think it indicative of this one—just a tendency that I take note of, to little end other than the noting of it.
8. Tell me something your readers don't know about you or your writing.
This question is hard to answer, as I don't know what my readers do know about me or my writing. As for the writing, I hope that in it there are the answers to the questions someone may ask. As for me—I don't know. I'd like to take a year off and learn classical Greek.
9. What do you want to do with your work going forward?
I want to work. I might reverse the terms of your question. I want to find out what my writing wants to do with me.
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Lyric, here, for me, referring quite directly back to the instrument Hermes constructed out of a turtle shell and gave to Apollo to appease the sun-god's anger at the theft of his sacred cattle—that is, the song that results from audacious trespass and a sense of needing to offer a gift to balance out a wrong. There is in lyric tradition a sense of breaking a rule, or even an order of being, and then through the gift of song repairing that damage while not simply re-asserting the broken order.
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It seems to me that many of the discoveries made by, say in particular the Language poets, have somehow trickled down into a more general usage—as if the so-called experimental push has through whatever mechanism been somewhat subsumed into a more "typical" practice. I suppose I feel that there is a kind of poetry given to a particular style or sound or gesture that signals to a reader of poetry "experimental" but without the undergirding risk in thought and perception that makes it actually so.
Complicating the received binary. Uncovering the risk and transgression underlying the so-called "traditional," and the surface conformity that characterizes some examples of the so-called "experimental." The "undergirding risk of thought and perception" seems to be what poetry ought to be about, in whatever style or form.
I agree that the trickle-down effects of Language writing seem to center largely on surface characteristics of "strange" language or unconventional style. Whereas the radical leftist, collectivist underpinnings of political/aesthetic thought that drove the original experiments in the 1970s do not seem to be part of the takeaway in the general trickle-down. And these radical underpinnings actually have a lot in common with Beachy-Quick's mytho-etymological definition of the lyric.
Great interview series. Looking forward to more to come...
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Sometimes you will hear that a Karate Sensei grew up in a tough neighborhood and had to learn martial arts in order to survive on the streets. This is particularly true in certain neighborhoods here in Hawaii.
I have to admit that I did not grow up in any tough neighborhoods. My father was in the Air Force and I grew up on or near Air Force bases. I was born in 1957.
One of the things I recall growing up was that we children did not want to get into any fights because of two things: (1) the MPs (military police) were always around; and (2) we did not want our fathers to get called in by the Base Commander. I think that the second reason was always in the back of my mind. I had heard about children who had gotten their fathers in trouble and this was certainly not something to do! My father was an enlisted man and being called in to be reprimanded by a Colonel would have been it!
But also, I did not see many fights as a child. Perhaps my childhood was idyllic. I spent my time fishing, in Boy Scouts, and in Judo (later Karate). I cannot remember having anything stolen from me, or anyone demanding money from me. I guess that I was lucky.
When my father went to serve a year in Viet Nam, my mother, sister and I lived off base in Shalimar, Florida. I think that my father was sort of assigned to Eglin Air Force Base in connection with his tour of duty in Viet Nam. Even there, in Florida, I had no problems. Everyone was nice to me. I did not get into any fights and the only scary thing I ever saw was snakes! No one treated me badly because of my mixed race. I did see prejudice against black people, which I had not seen on military bases. There are many people of different and mixed races on military bases. I felt perfectly normal being of mixed race (Caucasian and Japanese).
I have to say one thing about Shalimar. That place had the best fishing ever! I would ride my bike and fish off a nearby bridge all day long.
I guess that the point I am trying to make is that I did not grow up in tough neighborhoods -- just the opposite. My views about Karate are probably colored by this. I realize that the world can be a dark and dangerous place. The self-defense aspects of Karate are useful and for some people, necessary on a day-to-day basis. But I pursued the martial arts for enjoyment and self-improvement, and still do.
Charles C. Goodin
Tough Neighborhood?
Sometimes you will hear that a Karate Sensei grew up in a tough neighborhood and had to learn martial arts in order to survive on the streets. This is particularly true in certain neighborhoods here in Hawaii.
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Tuesday, July 22, 2008


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Without hope, they say life has little meaning. But can the same be said for hope as an investment strategy?
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When it comes to preventable deaths and disease, smoking is still a top killer in the U.S., says a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Approximately 443,000 people die from cigarette smoking each year, and 8.6 million suffer from a serious illness related to smoking, according to the Tobacco Control State Highlights 2012.
Utah claimed the lowest adult smoking rate of 11.8%, according to the report released last week, while Kentucky topped the charts with 29%. California hovered above Utah at 13.7%. The U.S. median was 21.2%.
Tobacco use was responsible for $193 billion in health-related economic losses from 2000 to 2004, the report said: $96 billion in medical expenses and $97 billion in lost productivity -- not to mention 5.1 million years of potential life annually.


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The Maui Invitational�s championship rounds started Monday in Hawaii.
Dave Odom, the chairman of the men�s basketball tournament, will be there. His son won�t be.
Lane Odom did his father a favor and oversaw operations of the two-day Maui Invitational mainland regional at Elon.
Dave Odom, a former coach at Wake Forest, South Carolina and East Carolina, is the mastermind behind the expansion of the Maui Invitational that allows more games and makes it possible for schools such as Elon to participate, albeit without leaving the continental United States.
Lane Odom has made assistant coaching stops at several colleges. Now he�s a Charlotte-based scout for Phoenix Suns.
The son said he was glad to help out. He said his observations were that the event was a good arrangement for Elon and the three other teams that played during the weekend at Alumni Gym.
But he said his role doesn�t extend to the Hawaii portion of the tournament. Maybe next time.
�It�s a long flight, dad,� Lane Odom said. �You�re 70.�
-- Who would have thought that defeating Wake Forest would be enough to ascend a team to the No. 1 ranking in college football?
That�s the case for Notre Dame, which is the new top-ranked team. That comes courtesy of a couple of upsets Saturday night.
Now we know why they call it the luck of the Irish.
-- Brian Boesch handled the radio play-by-play for Elon University�s men�s basketball game Saturday against Colgate as the school�s resources were stretched with a football game going on at the same time. Boesch previously handled play-by-play for the Burlington Royals baseball team and now works in a similar capacity with the Winston-Salem Dash.
Boesch�s fill-in duties resulted in his first play-by-play assignment for a Division I men�s game.
-- We know that North Carolina State doesn�t take kindly when rival North Carolina is part of a record day, but the Wolfpack might have had the wrong idea.
One week after the Atlantic Coast Conference record-setting football score between Georgia Tech and North Carolina, N.C. State was in position to be part of a record-breaking performance. For the Wolfpack, it�s best that didn�t happen.
Georgia Tech�s 68-50 victory against North Carolina amounted to the most points scored in an ACC game. N.C. State and Clemson threatened that Saturday with Clemson�s 62-48 triumph, failing to reach the record total in large part because the Tigers were scoreless in the fourth quarter.
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Buccaneers aim to recover after an uninspired effort Sunday against Western Carolina
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Dec. 2, 2013) – The ETSU women's basketball team will look to shake off a closely-contested, 58-56, loss on Sunday at Western Carolina when they travel to Nashville to take on the Vanderbilt Commodores on Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 8 p.m. EST inside Memorial Gymnasium.
Sluggish play from the Buccaneers on Sunday proved costly as the Western Carolina Catamounts made a few plays late to hang on and top the Blue and Gold, 58-56. WCU's bench outscored the Bucs' 41-19 and ETSU's struggle to find any offensive consistency was too much to overcome. The Blue and Gold did feature 10 players in the scoring column but their leading scorers both only registered 10 points each.
The matchup with Vanderbilt will be the sixth all-time meeting between the two teams, a series that the Commodores lead with a 3-2 advantage. The Commodores have won three-straight versus ETSU including the most recent matchup when Vanderbilt bested the Bucs, 96-83, on Dec. 28, 2009.
For more on Tuesday's game, read the game notes below. For more on ETSU women's basketball throughout the 2013-14 season, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the women's hoops link.
Game Notes
The ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics would like to ask both the print and broadcast media to honor our request to be called "ETSU" throughout the 2012-13 season ... East Tennessee State in first reference is acceptable, but subsequent references should be ETSU ... On TV graphics, please use ETSU ... Our nickname is the Buccaneers, but Bucs is also acceptable.
The ETSU Buccaneers enter the 2013-14 season under the guidance of first-year head coach. Brittney Ezell. A two-sport star in basketball and softball at the University of Alabama, Ezell comes to ETSU after spending three seasons as head coach at Belmont University where she compiled a 41-52 overall record. The Franklin, Tenn. native takes the reigns of a veteran-heavy team that returns nine letterwinners from an 8-18 overall 2012-13 campaign. Among the nine returnees are six players who started 10 or more games last season. Highlighted among the returnees is last year's team-leading scorer and rebounder Destiny Mitchell who led the way with 11.5 points and 8.1 rebounds per game. Supporting Mitchell are juniors Serena Clark and Cara Bowling who each averaged 9.5 points per game last season.
Junior forward Serena Clark has started 2013-14 off strong, scoring in double-figures in five of the six games this season. After falling just one rebound short of a double-double in the season opener at Memphis (11/8), the native Georgian reeled off four-consecutive double-doubles for ETSU in games from Nov. 12th thru the 29th. The most recent performance came versus Alabama A&M (11/29) when the junior posted a career-high 21 points and 11 rebounds in an 82-65 win. Clark has now exceeded her double-double total from last season just five games into the 2013-14 campaign and seems poised for more throughout the season. Her 12.2 points per game currently ranks among the top-20 in the A-Sun, while her 11.7 boards per game ranks second in the league.
Junior guard Cara Bowling is currently averaging a team-leading 13.7 points per game for the Bucs to begin the 2013-14 season. Presently, this point total per game is tied for ninth in the A-Sun and her 2.0 three-point field goal makes per game stands tied for fifth in the league. The Elizabethton native posted a career-high 22 points vs. Saint Francis (Pa.) (11/24) including four makes from behind the arc.
Sophomore guard Chandler Christopher has proved to be a valuable piece for the Bucs to begin the 2013-14 season. After spending the entirety of the 2012-13 campaign as a seldom-used freshman walk-on, first-year head coach Brittney Ezell liked what she saw from Christopher and decided to elevate the Greeneville native from walk-on to scholarship status prior to this season. Christopher has since recorded her first-career starts in each of the first six games of this season and has been a vital cog for the Blue and Gold. After netting two points, five rebounds and three assists in the opener at Memphis (11/8), the guard followed with career-highs of 17 points and four assists in an also career-best 37 minutes played in ETSU's 81-72 win at Appalachian State (11/12). Christopher's performance in the Bucs' first win of the season led to her being named A-Sun Player of the Week by College Sports Madness on Monday, Nov. 18. The sophomore then added another team-leading scoring performance to her résumé with 15 points in a 77-69 loss to Morehead State on Nov. 21.
In 2012-13, the Bucs discovered the most offensive production through points in the paint. ETSU averaged roughly 30 points in the paint per game, including an average of 30 points in its last six. In a loss at Jacksonville, the Blue and Gold recorded 54 points in the paint, the most since scoring 50 against Jacksonville earlier this season on Jan. 28 in Johnson City. To begin the 2013-14 season, the Bucs are averaging 35 points in the paint through six games including 36 in the season opener at Memphis (11/8), in the home opener vs. Morehead State (11/21) and in a home date vs. Saint Francis (Pa.) (11/24). The Blue and Gold got a season-high 42 points in the paint in an 82-65 win versus Alabama A&M (11/29).
The Blue and Gold outrebounded the opposition in 20 of the 26 games last season and held a plus-6.0 rebounding margin, ranking first in the A-Sun … in a loss at FGCU, the Bucs outrebounded the Eagles by 20, 53-33. The Bucs' plus-6.0 rebound margin ranked among the top 30 nationally. To start the 2013-14 campaign, ETSU outrebounded the Memphis Tigers 47-44 in a 77-74 overtime loss on Nov. 8 and boarded evenly with the Appalachian State at 40 in the Bucs' 81-72 win in Boone, N.C. on Nov. 12. The Bucs also outrebounded the Morehead State Eagles, 36-27, in a 77-69 loss on Nov. 21. In an 82-65 win versus Alabama A&M (11/29) the Blue and Gold dominated the Bulldogs, 43-29, on the boards. The Bucs' current +2.8 rebound margin ranks third in the A-Sun.
Through six games to begin the 2013-14 season, ETSU is currently averaging 73.5 points per game which is first in the A-Sun. With the 73.5 points per game also come successes in field goal percentage and three-point field percentage where the Bucs are leading the league at 43 and 34 percent, respectively.
The Atlantic Sun coaches picked the Bucs to finish tied with North Florida at fifth, while in the media poll ETSU was selected seventh ... the coaches picked FGCU with seven first-place votes to win the conference, while the media selected FGCU with 30 first-place votes ... the Bucs finished the 2012-13 season in eighth.
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Richard Hodges has taken multiple breaths since the season ended just to make sure he can soundly type something that makes sense and trust me, he waited long enough. Rich delivers a gem that suggest three areas the Vancouver Canucks need to focus on at the upcoming NHL Entry Draft. I'm thinking this is where we solve that goalie dilemma of ours. Dalton Thrower should be a name to watch for.
Vancouver Canucks 2012 NHL Draft plan of attack
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