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Patience a key factor in every baseball season
Before I address some of my audience's contemporary questions, let me ask one of my own:
Q. What's with all these injuries?
Obviously, there's no real reason they happen. They just happen. And it so happens that the White Sox are experiencing a phase in which six of their players are on the disabled list, including two starters in the rotation (Gavin Floyd and John Danks).
Now, depending on the severity of Floyd's elbow injury, there's a possibility both he and Danks -- who's beginning a rehab assignment with Birmingham this week -- return around the same time.
For a team that's been remarkably healthy over the last decade, it's a considerable blow.
No use whining about it, though. They'll just have to find a way to tread water until everyone returns. The Sox are not the only team that'll deal with it this season.
Now, let's move on to a couple of the common and current concerns from fans:
Q. Will this defense get better?
Honestly, it should. I'm having a difficult time understanding why a team that was as steady as it was last season, is having such a rough start to 2013.
Usually, defense is not something that simply disappears from one year to the next, provided the team's personnel hasn't experienced a whole lot of turnover.
I'm inclined to think they'll eventually solidify that aspect of their game. And to be perfectly direct, this isn't a team that can afford to be a poor defensive team this year. Not if they want any real chance at the division.
Reason being: they just don't score enough.
The only thing they can do as a club is continue to work at it and to relax. As long as they don't let defense become a "thing" [Thing (thing) noun. see: Chuck Knoblauch] they should be all right. Hopefully, sooner rather than later, because it's costing them wins in the meantime.
Q. Can't the Sox just relea
NO. The White Sox cannot just release Adam Dunn. I mean, they could, but they could also try to sell the team to me for a dollar. In other words, it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense, and it wouldn't happen anyway.
There are a dozen reasons why they shouldn't/wouldn't, and the last four days are an indication of reason number one: it's highly unlikely that he'll be an unproductive player this year.
Granted, it is just four games, but has Dunn, at any other time this season, put together that many consecutive days like this? A couple of home runs, 5 total hits, 5 runs batted in, and 6 walks makes for a pretty good four-game period. It's certainly more Dunn-like.
The previous four days does not, in any way, predict the rest of this season. But what it does suggest is that he is still capable of having good at-bats on a number of consecutive days, which, in turn, suggests he can still put it together for the majority of the season.
This is why one should never write (or speak) the words "Adam Dunn (or any player, for that matter) is done" any time before the month of May.
I don't know how Dunn's entire season will unfold, but what I do know is that it's a mistake to ignore one of the most important virtues in baseball: patience.
• Chris Rongey is the host of the White Sox pregame and postgame shows on WSCR 670-AM The Score. Follow him on Twitter @ChrisRongey and at chrisrongey.com.


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Oct. 13, 2006
The Bisons soccer team was hoping to go to Jacksonville, Fla,, and return with a pair of Atlantic Sun victories as souvenirs.
They will have to settle for a shot at s split after losing Thursday night to North Florida 1-0. They are back in action Saturday at 6 p.m. at Jacksonville University.
It was the first A-Sun win of the season for North Florida.
"We didn't come in overconfident," said Lipscomb assistant coach Kevin Burk. "The game was ours to have, but we didn't come out as sharp as we would have liked. We were not as intense as we needed to be. It was a big letdown."
Chris Merritt scored the only goal of the game at 58:10 in the second half.
North Florida made 11 shots with three shots on goal.
"The chances they had were from our making mistakes instead of North Florida creating them," said Burk. "They did a great job finishing their shots."
The Bisons had 16 shots including four shots on goal, but could not find the open net.
Michael Spencer led the Bisons with five shots and also had two of the four shots on goal. Ben Page and Josh Inglebright each had one shot on goal.
"We had some amazing opportunities to get the lead," said Burk. "Michael had three one-on-ones. Benj Lance had a couple of good chances. Ben Page had one from the 18-yard box that went wide. It was a sign of our immaturity that we couldn't finish our chances."
Lipscomb goaltender Danny Prichard made two saves. UNF goaltender Taylor Unsinger made four to earn the shutout.
The Bisons are 5-6-2 overall, 1-2-1 in the A-Sun. North Florida is 3-8-1, 1-3 in the conference.

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With retail brick-and-mortar sales of new video games down 30 percent year to date, few analysts — and even fewer investors — have much faith that things will rebound into positive territory this year.
Even with heavyweights like "Halo 4" and "Call of Duty: Black Ops II" hitting stores this holiday season — and the launch of a new Nintendo console system — the hole seems too big to escape. But when it comes to 2013, things are a bit more optimistic.
The video game industry will roll out some of its biggest guns next year — and the expected launch of new console systems from Microsoft and Sony could make a big year even bigger.
Here are some of the biggest games expected to hit shelves in 2013.
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Sharon Stone has been issued an odd challenge by the boy she babysat as a teenager.
Stone revealed she was asked to host the WWE's SummerSlam TV spectacular for his 50th birthday in 2012.
Jim Burkhart, who was born with Down Syndrome, has always maintained a close friendship with his famous former babysitter and now he wants her to do something special for him.
"He wants me to host the SummerSlam wrestling show for his birthday next year," Stone told news show Extra.
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Jennifer Aniston has turned her Mexican getaway with fiancé Justin Theroux into a star-studded gathering by inviting along fellow Hollywood couple Emily Blunt and John Krasinski.
The British actress and her funny man husband joined Jimmy Kimmel and his writer fiancée Molly McNearney on a flight to Cabo San Lucas from Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday.
The group then met up with Aniston and Theroux, who have been enjoying the sun in Mexico since before Christmas.
A source tells Us Weekly, "They spent the afternoon lounging around and having drinks (at Aniston's house). They seemed to all be really good friends and comfortable around each other. Emily was lying in John's lap, and Jen had her arms around Justin. They were there all afternoon until sunset, laughing and having great conversation. … The group looked very excited to be vacationing together."


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Arthropodcast is a new weekly podcast looking for an eye-catching logo. My hope is potential subscriber and visitors of the website will be able to identify with this logo. That is why I would like the final design to have some scientific relevance with the topic of Arthropods.
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If you enjoy watching someone deteriorate with age, I have a series of personal photos from 2011, 2007, 2005, 2003, 2002, 2001, 1998, 1993, 1989, 1986, 1981, 1977, circa 1976, 1971, and 1969. The obsessive-compulsive reader can peruse some boring credentials on my curriculum vitae. Some brief movie reviews of mine are posted on the Internet Movie Database, and I have book and video reviews on my member page at Amazon.com. If you're interested in the Uthman family genealogy, check out the Charles Uthman page, dedicated to the memory of my uncle and other departed kin.
I have some videos (including musical performances) on my YouTube channel.. I keep publicly downloadable files on Wuala.
I am the co-owner of PATHO-L, founded in 1994 by Vijay Varma, MD. It is the oldest continuously active pathology-oriented online discussion group. This is an international mailing list ("listserv") for individuals interested in the practice of anatomic pathology and laboratory medicine. We welcome not only pathologists, but also histo- and cytotechnologists, histologic technicians, practice administrators, risk managers, quality managers, and students looking into pathology as a career. To subscribe, visit the Web interface and fill in the blanks there
I enjoy photography and post most of that work on my Flickr account. Some of my images have been edited into Wikipedia. Many of those can be found in my Wikimedia gallery.
You can also follow me on Twitter and Facebook.
Autopsy Tools is is photo gallery and glossary of the instruments used by prosectors in performing autopsies.
Lab Test Interpretation is an encyclopedic resource aimed at health professionals. It lists the major routine clinical lab tests offered in a chemistry profile and complete blood count and gives many of the diagnostic possibilities for abnormal values of each.
Gross Specimen Photography is an introduction to photography in general and is aimed at junior pathology residents who are confronted for the first time with having to take gross photographs of specimens. There are also a few links to other good photography Web resources.
Exotic Infections is a companion piece to my sophomore med student lecture covering Lyme disease, non-venereal treponematoses, plague, cholera, typhus, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, rickettsialpox, and ehrlichiosis, with extensive historical notes.
Forensic Pathology is a companion to an introductory lecture on the subject for medical students. It is very basic.
Forensic Pathology Careers: Frequently Asked Questions is something I put together in response to all the folks who have written me about their desire to look into a career in forensic pathology. Be warned: these are my opinions only. You may also wish to check out the Web site of the National Association of Medical Examiners.
The Biopsy Report: A Patient's Guide is a patient education piece for those who would like to try their hand at understanding their biopsy report. It deals with types of biopsies, tissue processing and examination, and gross and microscopic descriptions. It also has a glossary of pathologic terms.
Tips For Making Good Pap Smears is a brief piece on how to get a good smear and minimize the number of smears unnecessarily classified as atypical. This is aimed at gynecologists, primary care physicians, midwives, nurses, and others who collect Paps.
The Red Cell and Anemia is a series of 5 HTML documents. For the downloadable .PDF version see below.
Hematopathologic Phenotypes Made Mockingly Simple: A Remedy For CDphobia, by Margaret Uthman, MD (artwork and layout by me) consists of two flow charts that attempt to impose some order on the cacophony of cluster designators used in the diagnostic evaluation of lymphomas and leukemias. This is aimed at pathology residents, general pathologists, and flow cytometry lab staffers.
Understanding Anemia, my first book, is now available in hardback and paper. The publisher has graciously allowed me to post the full text of Chapter 1 online. You can access it through the book outline at this link.
Longevity of U.S. Presidents. Did 20th century health care help modern presidents live longer than their 19th century counterparts? You may be surprised.
Elemental Composition of the Body is a simple table that lists, in descending order of abundance, all 59 chemical elements present in measurable amounts in the human body. For each element, the table shows 1) the weight of element present in a 70-kilogram person, 2) the volume occupied by that much of the purified element, and 3) how big a cube made up of that quantity of purified element would be.
"The Red Cell and Anemia" is a companion to a sophomore med student lecture I give on this subject. It is 51 pages long, 19000 words, and has line drawings and tables. It is just about everything you would need to teach red cell diseases to med students and medical technology students. 228K.
"Hematologic Infections", co-written with my wife, Margaret, is a lecture syllabus covering granulomatous lymphadenitis (fungal and bacterial), cat scratch disease, toxoplasmosis, Epstein-Barr virus (including infectious mononucleosis, Burkitt's lymphoma, and post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder), visceral leishmaniasis, malaria, lymphatic filariasis, parvovirus B19, HTLV-1, and a little bit on HIV. 11 pages, 4200 words, 34K.
"Bacterial Sepsis" is the syllabus for a lecture on bacterial sepsis aimed at second-year medical students. 8 pages, 3300 words, 27K.
"Pathology For Colon & Rectal Surgeons" is much more than that. Written by my erudite partner, Gerry del Junco, MD, this 73-page formatted document is the ultimate pathology Board-review resource in intestinal pathology. Just add photos, and you've got the equivalent of a $200 subspecialty textbook for free (non-commercial use only, please). This is the 2002 revision. 393K.
"Surgical Pathology Quality Assurance Score Sheet" is a weighted scoring form for reporting QA case reviews in surgical pathology. Every case starts with a "zero" score and gets points deducted for various deficiencies. Guidelines are given for how many points to deduct for each peccadillo. There is also a native version of this 8K file in Microsoft Word format, for those who wish to edit it.
"Beyond the Paraffin Curtain: The Pathologist As Laboratory Director" is a printed companion for a talk I gave to the Texas Society of Pathologists Young Pathologists Section in 2012. These are my thoughts on how to approach the job of serving as a clinical laboratory medical director.
RhoGam Flowchart is an algorithm for working up parturient mothers for treatment with Rh(D)-immune globulin (RhoGam). This is used to prevent hemolytic disease of the newborn in subsequent pregnancies in Rh(D)-negative women.
Timeline of Human Evolution is a one-page crib sheet covering salient points in the pre-history of our species, from our divergence from the ancestors of the chimpanzee to about 12,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens was left as the sole hominin on the planet.
Since my ISP limits my space here severely, I have begun to add specimen images to a section in my Flickr account. The images there have much higher resolution than those here.
"Placenta" is a downloadable Stuffit archive containing my spreadsheet for calculating normal ranges of placental weights and plotting an individual patient's placental weight on the resulting nomogram. The spreadsheet can be modified with your institution's logo and your personal signature line by anyone who has a bit of working knowledge of Microsoft Excel. There are two files in the archive. PLACENTA.XLS is the spreadsheet template itself, and PLACDOC.TXT is documentation on how to use the spreadsheet. Public domain, 15K.
"Grouper" (version 2.1) is a Microsoft Excel worksheet that accepts up to 1000 numerical datapoints, calculates descriptive statistics of the sample, collates the data into a user- specified number of groups, and draws a histogram of the grouped data. It can also accept user-specified exclusion criteria, allowing outliers to be filtered out of the dataset before the histogram is constructed. I developed it as an aid to determine lab test reference ranges. This is a Stuffit archive containing the spreadsheet, GROUPER.XLS, and the documentation, GROUPER.TXT. Public domain, 56K.
"A Taxonomic Guide to the Pathology Kingdom" is a PowerPoint presentation on pathology as a career, comparing the world of academic pathology with that of private practice. This will be pretty obscure for anyone who is not fascinated by scientific names of biological species. You have been warned. 44K.
What would a home page be without rants? The following are short opinion pieces on various subjects, mostly concerning pathology and laboratory medicine:
This is a trashcan section that I will be using as a depository for stuff that I write that has nothing to do with medicine.
Abolish the Electoral College? Dream On. So, you think we should elect the US president by direct popular vote? I've done the numbers. Read 'em and weep.
Interesting Facts About the Byzantine Emperors came from some reading I was doing about ten years ago. At that time, I concluded (correctly, as it turns out) that I would never remember any of it unless I took notes.
Commencement Address, 1994 Medical Laboratory Technician Class, Wharton County (Texas) Junior College. OK, so maybe this does have something to do with medicine, but it's really just my first attempt to write a semi- serious inspirational/motivational speech. Was I successful? Decide for yourself.
Voltaire Timeline is a summary of important events during the life of Voltaire (1694-1778) juxtaposed on events in his personal life.
Newton's Times is a one-page Microsoft Word document that shows a timeline of scientific and technical advancement during the life of Isaac Newton (25 Dec 1642 - 20 Mar 1727). This is the handout from a brief talk I gave on Newton.
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Golf Tidbits: Good timing for the Memorial
Philadelphia, PA – The PGA Tour is done with its Texas two- step and the European Tour has finished its flagship event, where many of the top names played miserably.
The best players in the world, well 17 of the top 25 anyway, will be in Ohio for the Memorial this week. And the tournament can't come at a better time.
The luster from Tiger Woods' win at the Players Championship has worn off, and the last couple weeks have been dotted with old and worn stories that were dissected and bisected from every conceivable angle.
I don't know about you, but I was sick of hearing about the anchoring ban about an hour after it became officially official. Thankfully, that talk got blown off the map. But that happened for all the wrong reasons.
Sergio Garcia tried to make a joke at Wentworth last week, and it went horribly wrong. He quickly apologized, but what he said should have never happened in the first place.
And if his remarks weren't enough, European Tour chief George O'Grady had to add his own foolish comments to the banter.
Finally, Colonial took center stage over the weekend, but it has lost some of its luster. Fewer and fewer big names are playing there on a yearly basis, but it helped get the focus back on the action inside the ropes, especially with 18 of the top 21 on the final leaderboard being American.
Speaking of which, the rhetoric for the year's second major is really starting to pick up, and this week's stop at Jack's place will do nothing but help increase the talk of the U.S. Open.
Woods heads to Muirfield Village having won four times this season. Though nine of his last 16 rounds have been in the 70s, Woods has won three of his last four starts.
It would come as no surprise if tournament host Jack Nicklaus was greeting Woods on the 18th green as the winner for a sixth time come Sunday.
That would make Woods an even greater favorite at Merion. As of two weeks ago, Woods was the clear betting favorite at 7-2. A win this week would drop Woods closer to the 5-2 or 3-1 range entering the year's second major.
Will any of that help him this week, or in three weeks at Merion? Of course not, but it's always fun to speculate.
The Memorial will help narrow the focus heading toward the U.S. Open, and it should serve as a good battle, too. In the last eight Memorials, the winner has had a winning margin of three strokes or less.
Will the winner at the Memorial go on to win at Merion as well? It isn't likely, but for a few select players, it is certainly possible.
One other bonus for the top Americans in the field this week? They'll get to scout the course that will host the Presidents Cup in October.
If the final leaderboard this week looks like it did last week, Presidents Cup captain Fred Couples will be ecstatic about how well his potential team members are playing.
For this week, let's enjoy watching Tiger try to win the Memorial for a sixth time, and enjoy watching everyone else try to take the title from his grasp.
In his early years on tour, most outside the golf community thought Boo Weekley was just a country bumpkin from the panhandle of Florida.
It took a few years, and a pair of wins at the Heritage, for those people to realize Weekley had some serious game.
Weekley won the Heritage in back-to-back years (2007 and '08), and that helped him earn a spot on Paul Azinger's Ryder Cup team. Weekley went 2-0-1 at the '08 Ryder Cup and seemed destined to be a star on future teams.
Since his magical 2008 campaign, Weekley has battled a litany of injuries. In no particular order, he has battled cysts, a pulled rib cage muscle and a torn labrum.
Back to full health this year, Weekley has already tallied a pair of top-five finishes and four top 10s. In the last four injury riddled seasons, Weekley combined for only two top fives and seven top 10s.
Two key stats that have helped him achieve those finishes this season - he ranks fifth on tour in total driving and is seventh in greens in regulation.
If you hit a lot of fairways, and a lot of greens, that is a recipe for success. And Weekley is mixing those well this year.
* The LPGA finishing a 36-hole event last week by playing three 12-hole rounds was a miracle after a foot of rain fell in eight hours last Tuesday evening. According to tournament officials, 45 million gallons of rain water were pumped off the course. That is enough water to fill over 68 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Kudos to the grounds crew for their work, the tour for the ingenuity and the players for their patience.
* Matteo Manassero won the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth last week, and upped his victory total to four on the European Tour. So what you say? He still can't enter a bar legally in the United States since he's only 20 years old. He became the youngest-ever champion of the tour's flagship event.


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Anatomy of the HandAnatomy Of The Hand - Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
The hand is composed of many different bones, muscles, and ligaments that allow for a large amount of movement and dexterity. There are three major types of bones in the hand itself, including the following:
Phalanges - the 14 bones that are found in the fingers of each hand and also in the toes of each foot. Each finger has three phalanges (the distal, middle, and proximal); the thumb only has two.
Metacarpal bones - the five bones that compose the middle part of the hand.
Carpal bones - the eight bones that create the wrist. The carpal bones are connected to two bones of the arm, the ulnar bone and the radius bone.
Numerous muscles, ligaments, and sheaths can be found within the hand. The muscles are the structures that can contract, allowing movement of the bones in the hand. The ligaments are fibrous tissues that help bind together the joints in the hand. The sheaths are tubular structures that surround part of the fingers.


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A dozen states file early HIX blueprints
July 14, 2012 in Medical Technology
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has already received letters from 12 states declaring their commitment and plans to create a health insurance exchange.
States must provide a summary blueprint by Nov. 16 of how they intend to operate their online insurance marketplace, on their own or within a federal-state partnership.
The states include California, Colorado, Massachusetts and Washington, according to a July 11 blog by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
The Supreme Court upheld most of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including the creation of the exchanges, where individuals and their families and small businesses may search for, compare and choose affordable health coverage options starting in 2014.
"HHS is committed to flexibility in our support of the states' progress in whatever route they choose, as well as providing planning and implementation funds to help the states to establish the marketplace that suits their residents' needs," wrote Sebelius. States may build their own exchange, work with other states or partner with the federal government.
The governors of New York and Rhode Island, both of whom sent letters of intent, issued executive orders to begin work on their exchanges. Other governors were able to initiate the establishment of exchanges through bi-partisan legislation, such as Washington's Christine Gregoire.
[See also: Insurance exchange rule unveiled.]
In particular, the recently awarded $128 million Level II establishment grant will support the staffing and IT infrastructure necessary to complete the remaining design and development work, and the subsequent operation of the Exchange through December 2014," Gregoire said in her state letter.
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley said that his state-based exchange is "well underway, and we continue to make significant progress with strong support from the state's political leadership and broad-based stakeholder community."
Other states that have also submitted letters summarizing their plans include Connecticut, Hawaii, Minnesota, Oregon and Vermont.
The 12 states that are moving ahead of schedule are all led by Democratic governors, except Rhode Island, whose Gov. Lincoln Chafee is an Independent.
[See also: HIX deadline 'less than 600 days'.]
States that waited until after the Supreme Court ruled to start thinking about their exchanges will find it challenging to complete their blueprint work by November. Information technology systems that are integral for exchange operations require long lead time to arrange contracts, and legislative sessions for the year are over.
As a result, those states, who participated in the lawsuit to strike the health reform law, may have to rely on the federal government for their exchanges.
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Kids! And not kids! It's that time of the night. The time when we gather around those glowing portals you call screens and listen to music. Together!
That's right, it's time for Soundtrack. Tonight, we have Lou Reed's live rendition of "Sad Song" from the classic Berlin album.
This live version appeared on Reed's 1975 Lou Reed Live album, which features Lou Reed...live.
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by Elizabeth DePaul
While most eighth grade girls are gearing up for high school, finishing up spring season sports and picking out their graduation dresses, five eighth graders at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy have a distinctively different priority on their minds; they're busy collecting donations for animal shelters as part of their school project on puppy mills.
Every eighth grader who attends the school is required to spearhead a yearlong project on a cause of their choice, and for Federica Cristofanili, Nicole Novo, Maia Brown, Londyn Harry and Taylor Harris, their focus became educating the public about the appalling cruelty of puppy mills, a cause unknown to many people. (All of the girls are 14 except for Maia, who is 13.)
Since March the five teenagers have been working on their school project with help from project advisor Ellen Koenig. Puppy mills are inhumane places where dogs are overbred, abused, undernourished, shipped off to pet stores and sometimes even killed. Most puppies sold in pet stores throughout the country were purchased from puppy mills.
By educating the community about this topic, the girls hope to raise awareness and support local shelters and organizations that have been campaigning against puppy mills. Many puppy mills exist in Pennsylvania, including many in Lancaster County and among Amish farmers, but if these girls had their way, these canine concentration camps would not exist at all.
According to Sonja Meadows, executive director of Animals Angels, of Hagerstown, MD, one of many organizations that have exposed puppy mills, "Our investigation of the puppy mill industry shows widespread abuse of the puppies who are sold malnourished, sick and full of genetic disorders. Frankly, they are the lucky ones.
"The real victims are the 'puppy mill moms' who are confined to life in cages where they give birth on average to 140 puppies in their lifetime. Large puppy mills can have over 1,000 breeding dogs that produce cute 'purebred' puppies, primarily for pet stores. These dogs sit in their own feces all day in a small cage — often a chicken coop. Their feet never touch grass. They are not socialized.
"They are bred until they can't produce any more puppies. Then when they are no longer useful, they are shot or killed with a rock or hammer. A few lucky ones go to rescue groups; others are sold to medical labs … One way to help is never buy a dog from a pet store. Visit your local shelter or contact breed-specific rescue organizations to adopt."
Setting out with a main goal of making puppy mills illegal, the five Chestnut Hill students hope to someday start a petition to do just that. But for now, as Londyn Harry stated, "We just want to make a difference and make people aware of the dangers of puppy mills."
As dog and animal lovers, the five teens picked the cause to inform people in our area of the cruelty of puppy mills through going door to door handing out brochures, putting up posters, setting up donation boxes in local businesses such as Cake and Bone Appetit, and recently holding a bake sale at their school. All the money raised was donated to Francisvale Home for Smaller Animals in Radnor, with whom the girls have met to discuss their project, the Humane Society of the U.S. and the ASPCA.
"People should start caring more and being more aware," said Nicole Novo. Through their ongoing efforts, the girls are continually informing people of the dangers of buying a dog from a pet store or even from a large chain like Pet Smart. Unless a pet store can prove with documentation where a dog came from, which many stores do not even know (or want to know), the dog was almost certainly bred at a puppy mill. Many dogs from puppy mills have physical and social problems from being in close quarters with numerous other dogs and don't like being outside because they are so accustomed to being in a cage at all times.
The teenage girls will cover all of this in their end-of-the-year presentation to their entire class. They hope that by enlightening their peers and the community, word will spread to make more people aware of the horrors of puppy mills, the collaboration of pet stores and the almost unbelievable inaction by public officials to do anything to halt this epidemic of cruelty.
As the school year is set to wrap up, their project will continue well beyond the classroom; they hope to organize events, have a school assembly and continue to raise money for experienced organizations that can help them with their efforts.
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Police are looking for help to catch two men who are believed to have robbed an 82-year-old customer of the Chestnut Hill Weavers Way Coop, 8434 Germantown Ave. on Wednesday, June 19.
According to police, who reviewed surveillance video captured by the Coop, the two men appeared to be targeting the woman, and at one point one of the men bumped into her. The police believed the men used a blue and white garment bag to conceal the theft of a black deposit bag containing an undisclosed amount of cash, checks and credit card receipts.
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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College is world-renowned for its summer Language Schools and the Bread Loaf School of English. Starting next year, the college will add one more intensive summer program to its portfolio: a six-week, interdisciplinary, "full-engagement" School of the Environment, which will bring students, faculty and guest speakers from around the world to Vermont.
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BRANDON — A pillar of the Brandon and Forest Dale communities was tragically killed last week, but hundreds of people who knew and loved Maxine Thurston put aside their grief to celebrate her life on Sunday.
Thurston, 81, co-owner of New England Woodcraft in Forest Dale, was killed on Thursday, June 13, in a head-on collision while driving on Route 7 near Otter Valley Union High School.
FERRISBURGH — The Ferrisburgh Recreation Committee has undertaken a $35,000 fundraising effort to support the first phase of building a year-round facility near Ferrisburgh Central School that would serve as a covered skating rink in the winter and a basketball court in the summer.
MIDDLEBURY — As administrative secretary at the Middlebury Department of Public Works, Verna Watson has often helped direct work crews to local roads in need of repairs.
But after 33 years on the job, Watson, 69, is herself ready to hit the road. She'll be retiring at the end of this month with plans to explore the country with her husband, Al, on their Spyder three-wheeler as members of the Blue Knights Motorcycle Club.
BRANDON — The town of Brandon will begin fiscal year 2014 without a budget.
The proposed $3,201,842 municipal budget (with $2,385,642 to be raised by taxes) was voted down on Tuesday by fewer than 50 votes, 371-326, sending the selectboard back to the budget workshop table again.
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The man who gave voice to "Aladdin's" Genie to create one of Disney's most beloved characters was paid a touching tribute Tuesday night in a rousing audience singalong of "Friend Like Me" at the Broadway musical.
As the show ended, the cast of "Aladdin" invited the audience to sing one more song in honor of Robin Williams.
"Yesterday, we lost one of the greatest -- not comedians, but one of the greatest entertainers of all time," said James Monroe Iglehart, the actor who plays Genie in the stage musical.
"First and foremost, we want to give our hearts and our thoughts and prayers to his family because he's a husband and a father first, and entertainer second," he said.
"But for tonight, I would want us to sing just a little bit of 'Friend Like Me' before you go," he said, pointing to a lyric sheet inside the programs.
Iglehart and the rest of the cast clapped and snapped their fingers as they led the theater in a singalong of Genie's signature song.
The audience broke into applause and stood and cheered as the song ended: "You ain't never had a friend, never had a friend / You ain't never had a friend like me."
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PayPal president David Marcus said his credit-card information was swiped by hackers who used the information to rack up a handful of fraudulent charges.
On Monday, Marcus tweeted that the hackers likely cloned his credit card and "went on a shopping spree," despite the fact his card had EMV chip technology, which is harder to hack.
And of course, Marcus used it as an opportunity to push PayPal:
Credit-card skimming can be nearly impossible to detect since the card itself is never stolen. Counterfeit skimmers are often tucked inside legitimate card readers commonly used at ATMs, restaurant, bars and gas stations. When a credit card gets run through the skimmer, the card's information is stored on a magnetic strip. The data can be downloaded to a PC and then burned onto a blank card or used to place orders online or over the phone.
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Many of the hall's specimens were discovered by the Museum's in-house Dinosaur Institute (DI), whose staff, volunteers and grad students are under Chiappe's direction. The DI's ambitious field research program has located key specimens all over the world, from the dinosaur-rich badlands of the American West to remote parts of South America and Asia. Take a look at where our team has explored the earth to discover the wonder that is dinosaurs! Learn more >
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This last November SCARPA athlete and polar explorer Eric Larsen completed his Save the Poles expedition – and epic trip involving reaching both the North and South Pole and the summit of Mount Everest in a calendar year to raise awareness of Global Warming.
He placed himself in the some of the world's most remote, and otherwise most inhospitable environments to show why they're worth saving. Through his efforts he's garnered attention on the world stage. Now, months after his journey, we got him to answer a few questions about what it means to realize a major life goal.
Q – You've successfully completed the expedition. You've been interviewed and celebrated in the media. Was it what you expected? Do you feel you drew the kind of attention you sought for regarding global warming?
EL – Honestly, I expected I would be able to promote more climate change initiatives—solutions to the problem of global warming. Instead I spend a lot of my time simply verifying that, yes, these places are indeed melting. I had substantial media coverage, but there is definitely more I can do. This story isn't finished yet.


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Video released by Hamas purportedly shows militants running through tunnels beneath the Gaza strip on Friday. The Wall Street Journal cannot verify the content, date or location of the video.
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by Tom Utescher
After starting their 2011-2012 basketball season with a 2-1 record in three very lopsided contests, the girls of Penn Charter had their two games last weekend decided by a total of just four points.
In the first of these two battles at Germantown Academy's Make-A-Wish Showcase, the Quakers captured a 45-42 victory on Friday afternoon, beating Shipley School on a last-second lay-up. The next day at GA, Charter made up a huge early deficit against Archbishop Ryan, but lost 44-43, heading home with an overall record of 3-2.
Commenting on the close outcomes of the recent outings, first-year PC coach David Bass said "I think that's going to be the way it goes with our tough schedule. Our team is young, and as we gain experience with these tight games, the hope is that we'll come out on top in more and more of those situations."
The first few days of Penn Charter's season had been a study in contrasts. The PC players weren't truly tested as they easily captured the championship at the Germantown Community Tournament on the second weekend of the month, then on December 13 they entered the den of the Cardinal O'Hara Lions and got mauled, 69-27. It was a blunt wake-up call for the Quakers; the cakewalks were behind them.
At the beginning of the 2010-2011 season, Penn Charter routed Shipley in a non-league match-up, but a few months later the Gators ended Charter's season by upsetting the Quakers in the Pa. Independent Schools Tournament. PC had received 22 points from All-American Brianna Butler in that game, but Butler transferred to a New York school at the beginning of the current academic year.
Shipley appeared to be the favorite for Friday's meeting, but the Quakers showed themselves during the first half that they could hang with the Gators, only trailing 25-24 at the break. PC had gained a one-point edge by the end of the third period, and seven minutes later it appeared that the contest could be headed for overtime at 42-all.
Shipley had possession, but launched an errant shot with 10 seconds to go, giving Charter one more chance to decide the issue in regulation. Senior point guard Marykate O'Brien took the ball right to the hoop, hitting a lay-up and drawing a foul in the process. Knocking down the free throw, she sealed a three-point victory for PC.
O'Brien and eighth-grader Ayanna Matthews each came away with eight points, while senior Danielle Sienko scored 10 points and Matthews' eighth-grade classmate Hannah Fox added a free throw. The game-high 18 points belonged to the Quakers' big senior center, Hofstra signee Dianna Thomas-Palmer.
"Dianna's getting a lot of attention from everybody we play," Bass observed. "She's getting double and triple-teamed, and we're learning to play off of that."
The two double-digit scorers for Shipley were sophomores Aja Ellison (13 points) and Tamesha Alexander (10).
Charter's Thomas-Palmer produced 12 points and 11 rebounds against Archbishop Ryan the following day. She drew a lot of fouls as the Ragdolls tried to stop her; PC was already in the double bonus less than 10 minutes into the action. The Quakers' defense, on the other hand, was lit up by Ryan's junior sharpshooter, Kalene Coffey, who fired four three-pointers and hit two free throws to give her club a 14-0 lead over the first five minutes.
"Their number 32 [Coffey] was a real good shooter, and I didn't see that as much last night," said PC's Bass, who had scouted Ryan's game against Germantown Academy on Friday.
Coffey canned another trey before the first round ended, accounting for all of the Ragdolls' points in a 17-4 opening quarter. It didn't help that the Quakers had missed each of their first five foul shots.
"Yesterday against Shipley, we were able to hit more shots from the floor, and we did a better job from the foul line," Bass pointed out. "We only went seven-for-17 from the line today."
The Quakers seemed emotionally flat at the outset, perhaps still basking in the afterglow of the Shipley win. They were still down by a dozen approaching the intermission, but their two eighth-graders hooked up on the last basket of the half, with Matthews feeding the ball ahead for a fast-break lay-up by Fox. That made it 25-15 at the break.
It was in the early phase of the third quarter that Charter truly got back in the game. Ryan's Coffey popped from the perimeter to draw first blood, but then Thomas-Palmer and Sienko each scored a lay-up and a basket off an offensive rebound. A short jumper by Sienko completed a 10-0 surge for Charter, who now trailed 28-25.
After some give-and-take during the remainder of the period, PC was still behind by three points, 34-31, for the start of the final round.
From a few steps to the right of the top of the key, the Quakers' Fox tied the game with a three-pointer on the first shot of the fourth quarter. Ryan quickly recaptured the lead on a drive by guard Megan Wolf, who scored all of her seven points in the second half and pulled four rebounds.
O'Brien had been hit with her fourth personal foul near the end of the third frame, and she returned to the Charter line-up with a little under four minutes left to play in the game, when the Ragdolls led, 41-37. The tally seesawed to 43-39, then O'Brien nailed both ends of a one-and-one with 41 seconds remaining. Next, Ryan's Taylor Adair made the first of two tosses from the line, and PC's Thomas-Palmer grabbed the rebound of the second attempt. The clock dipped under 20 seconds with the score now 44-41.
Thomas-Palmer rebounded a missed jumper by one of her teammates at the other end, going back up to score. It was now a one-point game, but the clock showed only 1.7 seconds, and the encounter ended on a long inbounds pass by the Ragdolls.
With seven three-pointers and a total of 23 points, Ryan's Coffey led all scorers, and Sienko (four rebounds, two assists) paced PC with 15 points. Fox furnished nine points for the Quakers, and Matthews had five points and five rebounds.
"I hope we've learned that you've got to come prepared to play from the start," said Bass. "I would rather have had two wins up here at GA, but I'm okay with the performance. We've just got to make sure that we're a little more consistent, and that we play the right way for longer periods of time."


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AMERICUS - The No. 3 Hurricane Highlight of the 2013 women's tennis season came off a set of Peach Belt Conference season-best performances by a pair of Lady Hurricanes.
Senior Taylor Jones and sophomore Victoria Ondo tied the current conference season singles wins record of six set by current Southwestern senior Melinda Vansant (2011) and former GSW standout Leady Cuellar (2010).
Jones, a native of Warren Robins Ga., played her final season at Georgia Southwestern after transferring from Georgia Southern.
Jones' most notable conference victory came against No. 11 Francis Marion (6-4, 6-0).
Ondo, a native of Athens Ga., earned GSW's only win against Flagler (6-3, 3-6, 10-8).
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"Those Old Memories" will include stories, photographs, genealogy, scrapbooking, recipes, and interesting history of my family. Some family surnames: Troyer, Gardner, Moore, Hopkins, Allen, Amsberry, McPherson, Wyatt, Godfrey, Lee, Henley, Cutbirth, Tudor, Gustafsson, Larson, Hellgren, Farley, Harshbarger, Harvey, McComsey, Johnston, Hyndman, and Buchanan.
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My Easter Parade!
With the traditional celebration of Easter about to dawn this coming Sunday, I have been thinking of many of the Easter Sunday's from the past. As a child in Alliance, Nebraska; I remember that my family was always together for that special day. Our gatherings always included Grandma and Grandpa and often my aunt and uncle with their children. The day always started with an early morning Easter egg hunt. I usually got to do that in the house as the weather was often cold or rainy. To this day, over fifty years later, I can still taste the candies and hollow chocolate eggs. I always got lots of those colored hard shell eggs with a soft center that were wrapped in cellophane- pure sugar but they were really good! It was great fun and because my brothers were gone from the house by then, the Easter bunny was always very generous to me. I could even go so far as to say I was spoiled! Candy and goodies were plentiful. The city always had a big egg hunt in the city park later in the day which was great fun too. We lived right across the street so I had the added advantage of seeing all the "bunnies" hide the elusive eggs ahead of time. My cousins would come and we scoured the park with our bags in hand. That was during the 1950's and the park was full of children and parents.
Attending Easter Sunday church services was always on the agenda. After the big egg hunts, we all got dressed up in our finest to go to church and celebrate the resurrection of Jesus on that special day. My Dad was a railroad conductor and we got free passes to ride the passenger trains. Mom and Dad and I usually made a trip on the train to Denver in the weeks before Easter, as it was a fun tradition for all of us to shop for our new Easter outfits there. We always went to the big Montgomery Ward store, riding the bus was out to the south side of Denver. Next stop was downtown to the May D & F, and to the Three Sisters Store where Mom and I liked to shop(I also got my wedding dress at that store many years later). All of us would come home with new outfits for the upcoming Easter Holiday but I think most of mine were worn out by the time Easter Sunday came as I spent days just dressing up and modeling before hand! The memories of those trips and spending time with my Mom and Dad will always be associated with Easter time for me. If the weather happened to be nice we would walk to church and back, about the only time I remember doing that rather than driving.
Our family always had the traditional Easter Sunday feast with family. Most of the time there were lots of family gathered, usually at our home but I do remember at least once at Grandma and Grandpa's house and one Easter at the home of my cousins, but it seems like we were usually at our house. We had a large extended family and my Mom was always a great host for meals of any kind. She knew how to cook for a crowd and loved doing so, Easter was a special gathering for her and she loved all the family around. All the kids could play in the park and go to the egg hunts from our home after church and the big feast.
My Easter parade photos which are all over fifty years old now, include several from my childhood, all with special memories attached to them. We never missed taking new pictures as each Holiday rolled around. One of the special Easter scrapbook pages is of our twin granddaughters which was taken in 2006 while they visited Grandpa and I. That too was a special day and was added to my album of Easter Memories! I was so lucky to have had a wonderful family to celebrate with and cherish the memories with them. Looking to the future generations for new memories and being thankful for them is part of what Easter means to me. I hope you enjoy my short Easter Parade of photo memories.
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Wonderful photos! And I remember a couple of "big family" Easters with Mom's family like the ones you write about - good memories.ReplyDelete
Fantastic - what great pics, and scrapbook pages! This is one example of why I have nominated your blog for the Ancestor Approved Award - Come by AncestorSoup.blogspot.com to pick it up, and learn more.ReplyDelete
Keep up the great work, Cheri!!
- AnonymousApril 7, 2010 at 1:18 AM
Great photographs and happy memories.ReplyDelete
I just stumbled on your blog through Blogcatalog. I love the historical photos! Aint history grand?ReplyDelete


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MALMÖ, Sweden (Sinclair Broadcast Group) - As many people sought a new home in Sweden during the refugee crisis, leaders of the Jewish community and Muslim faith are fighting back against hate.
Built in 1903, Fredrik Sieradzki, spokesperson for the Jewish community said it remains the only synagogue in Malmö, Sweden.
Taking a closer look, one can see the historic building is equipped with shatterproof windows, a sturdy fence, steel barrier bars and security cameras.
In some respects, it looks more like a fortress as opposed to a house of worship.
"To be Jewish in Malmö is both fun, interesting, engaging... and sometimes frightening," said Sieradzki.
The spokesman says the level of security is needed because over the years, Jews have been targeted here.
Most recently, some took to the streets, chanting death to Jews after President Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel.
"We're a small but very active community, but also there are of course problems here in Malmö in terms of anti-Semitism."
"I mean people will shout 'F****** Jews.' and uh 'support Hitler' and things like this," journalist Niklas Orrenius, who documents such events in Sweden, told Inside Your World.
His theory for the increase: "I've covered a lot of stories about anti-Semitism in Malmö. Because many of the refugees, and immigrants from the Arab countries come from cultures that are, um where anti-Semitism is basically mainstream."
With more than a quarter million refugees in the past few years applying for asylum in Sweden - most hailing from Middle Eastern countries - Sieradzki said some have brought with them anger and hatred.
"In terms of people who are coming in now, of course that's a challenge, because you don't check out your preconceived ideas, your prejudices just because you check into a new country, I mean you bring them with you."
So the Jewish community is working with Muslim church leaders to bring the two groups together to promote peace and understanding.
"We are always working together with the Jewish community here in Malmo, to fight anti-Semitism, anti-Islamism," said Imam Roland Vishkurti.
"We call it faith and tolerance, and we meet up every Monday."
The harsh reality however, is that some believe tensions over the years have contributed to the shrinking Jewish community in Malmö.
In the 1960's, the synagogue had 3,500 members. Sieradzki said their numbers are now around 450.
While some decline include member deaths, he knows families have moved to Stockholm where the community seems to be growing, while others left for Israel.
When asked how he sees the future of Judaism in his city, the spokesperson said it's hard to tell.
"It's very hard to tell something especially about the future. I would say there's a possibility that the community could die out."


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House-Senate conferees approved three major initiatives for the 2008 farm bill this week although they seemed to be making little progress toward passage of the full legislation, congressional sources said.
The three initiatives include: federal crop insurance provisions, the Commodity Reauthorization Act and new support for growers of fruits and vegetables. Staff for committee members continued to try to work to resolve the remaining issues in each title of the farm bill.
Conference committee members were getting closer to passage of the farm bill, said Sen. Tom Harkin, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee and of the conference committee appointed to resolve the differences between the House and Senate bills.
"Each conference meeting brings us closer to a new farm bill," he said, "including today's (April 23) shoring up of resources for crop insurance, growers of fruits and vegetables, and in increasing security and regulation over commodity trading."
Highlights include:
Crop Insurance: The first attempt to fix the federal crop insurance since 2000 produced the following changes:
Clarifies rebating rules and treatment of farmers as crop insurance agents under Federal Crop Insurance statute.
Allows groups developing new crop insurance products to get up to 50 percent of their estimated expenses in advance.
Authorizes the USDA Risk Management Agency to renegotiate the Standard Reinsurance Agreement in the 2013 reinsurance year, or earlier, if adverse circumstances arise.
Repeals authority for the Premium Reduction Plan.
Requires the Risk Management Agency to conduct studies or undertake research and development on a number of issues and potential commodity insurance policies, including organic crop insurance premiums and price election, crop insurance policies for beginning farmers, skip-row cultivation practices, dedicated energy crops, aquaculture, poultry production, and policies for beekeeping operations.
The CEA Reauthorization Title updates the Commodity Exchange Act: — Provides greater transparency and accountability for energy markets that influence the prices that consumers and businesses pay (the Feinstein-Levin Bill).
Extends the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) fraud authority to include principal-to-principal futures transactions.
Expands the civil and criminal penalties for violating the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA).
"This new language ensures the Commodity Exchange Act will provide greater transparency and accountability in our energy markets, provide the public with greater protection from fraud, and increase the monetary penalties for violations of the Act to help deter people from attempting to game energy markets or other markets," said Harkin.
In the fruit, vegetable and horticulture provisions included for the first time in a farm bill, the legislation:
Promotes organics: The Specialty Crops title includes a provision authorizing greater funding levels for the National Organic Program in order to ensure proper compliance and oversight.
Provides greater transparency in USDA purchasing processes: This provision mandates an independent evaluation of the purchasing processes used by USDA.
This evaluation will bring greater transparency to the processes that the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) at USDA uses under its Section 32 authority to buy perishable commodities.
Initiates a grant program to improve the movement of specialty crops: The title includes a provision that strengthens our national transportation infrastructure for specialty crops by authorizing the secretary to make grants to state and local governments, grower cooperatives, and producer, shipper and carrier organizations in order to improve the cost-effective movement of specialty crops throughout the United States.
Provides a food safety education initiative: This provision authorizes a new program at USDA to educate the fresh produce industry and the public about ways to strengthen food safety by reducing pathogens in fresh produce, and implementing sanitary food handling practices.
"This farm bill is a tremendous achievement for the specialty crop industry, which faces unique challenges in today's competitive global marketplace," said Harkin.
"It provides fruit and vegetable growers with the tools they need to address those challenges. The investment for these growers is historic, and greatly expands the nationwide reach, benefit and importance of this legislation."


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I took a look at the games ahead and Washington still had a large enough cushion to still qualify if they dropped a couple to the Cubs. Looks like a possible C game for the Nats tomorrow down 6-5 in the 8th. Go Nats!
EVERYONE..YOU ARE WELCOME. I am happy to assist. Hopefully the NHL doesn't have some kind of contract dispute because I have a system for that now. NBA, still a no-go. See yall mo fo's next year!!!
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This neck-snapping hit from Wanganui Collegiate player Ruslan Casey will go down as one of the most brutal hits in the history of rugby, despite happening at school level.
The victim, Kip Fawcett from St. Paul's Collegiate, cuts through Wanganui's line and heads towards the try line, handing off smartly to his centre with no thought of the explosion of violence about to meet him.
What looks to be one of the Wanganui wingers, out of shot at the start of the move, flies across and launches at the unprotected ribs of Fawcett, almost separating head from body with the force of the huge, albeit slightly late, hit.
Unfortunately the fullback can't come close to replicating his teammate's brutality and delivers a poor attempt at a tackle, allowing the opposition to score the try anyway, rendering Casey's efforts in vain.
Despite the hit, Fawcett appears to be back on his feet quickly afterwards and hopefully isn't suffering from any long term damage.
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Head coach Kevin Murray still feels like the Bishop Hendricken lacrosse team has a ways to go, but if Monday's rematch with Portsmouth is any indication, the Hawks have already come a long way.
On April 28, the Hawks traveled to Portsmouth and lost 16-7, falling to 1-3 on the season. On Monday, just over two weeks later, the Hawks welcomed Portsmouth to town and took control immediately on their way to a 14-4 victory.
It was the third win in four games for the Hawks, who improved to 4-4 and looked capable of putting things together in time for a playoff run.
"They stuck it to us the last time we played them," Murray said. "I think we had that in our minds a little bit. The guys came ready to play tonight. We played with some intensity, which was good to see. I think when we play with intensity, we can be alright."
The loss to Portsmouth on April 28 could be labeled as the season's low point. Before that, the Hawks had lost close games to Barrington and La Salle, but they were blown out of the water by the Patriots, who were 1-2 at the time.
Since then, the Hawks have started to find their way. They bounced back from the loss with an 8-7 victory over Moses Brown and then beat Barrington 9-5.
On Saturday, they lost to first-place La Salle by an 11-7 score, but Monday's victory represented another step in the right direction.
"We had figured it out a little bit, and then I think we took a little step back the other day against La Salle," Murray said. "I give La Salle credit, but we didn't play well. Today, we didn't play well in the first half again. The defense played well. I think the offense didn't play well. The good thing is, they're a good team and they gave us a beating last game. We were able to take it to them today."
The Hawks took control quickly against the Patriots, dominating possession in the early going and taking a 1-0 lead on a goal by Conor Garrahy with 7:15 left in the first quarter. Tyler Williams assisted.
Just 13 seconds later, Portsmouth went a man down and Hendricken took advantage. Garrahy scored again with 6:38 left, taking a pass in front and burying a shot for the 2-0 lead.
Later in the quarter, Jack Hendrickson scored on a bounce shot from near the edge of the box. Then, with 22 seconds left, Chris McKay carried the ball past the front of the net and whipped a left-handed shot past goalie Jacob Towers to make it 4-0.
While the Hawks were happy to have the early lead, they also felt it could be a lot bigger based on how many looks they were getting.
That's where junior standout Alex Perreault came in. After Hendricken's C.J. Marrinan and Portsmouth's Brian Hillenbrand traded goals to make it a 5-1 game, Perreault torched the Patriots for three goals in a 44-second span.
The first came after Andrew Fera scooped the ball off a draw and found Perreault. He sprinted into the zone at full speed and ripped a shot on net that Towers had no chance to stop, making it 6-1 with 6:24 left.
Perreault then won the ensuing draw, carried the ball ahead, faked a pass and buried another goal just eight seconds after his previous tally. Then, with 5:40 left, Perreault sniped a shot between Towers and the near post to make it 8-1.
Just like that, the Hawks were firmly in control.
"When we make the extra pass, when we move the ball, we're successful," Murray said. "When we put the head down a little bit, then we're not successful. If we make the passes, that's where we excel. When we don't have a lot of assists in games, we don't win."
Portsmouth made it 8-2 just before halftime, but the Hawks continued to stay in control. Playing with a two-man advantage early in the second half, the Hawks made it 9-2 on another goal by Garrahy. Later in the third, Hendrickson cut across the middle, took a pass from Scott Henry and scored for the 10-2 lead. Henry made it 11-2 with a goal at the 2:30 mark.
Dakota Hersey added two goals in the fourth quarter and Paul Trask had one as the Hawks put it on cruise control.
"It's a nice win," Murray said. "I'm not a celebrator at this point with the record we've got. I'm a realist. We've got some work to do. We've still got some young guys finding their way, but we're getting better."
Garrahy and Perreault led the offense with three goals each. Hersey had two goals and two assists, and Hendrickson also scored twice. Marrinan and Henry had a goal and an assist each, while McKay and Trask each scored once. Fera had two assists, while Williams, Jon Finelli, Dan Nolte and Billy DiGiuseppe had one apiece.
In net, Jon Petteruti made nine saves, and Chris Cesario came off the bench to make two saves in the late going.
The win kept the Hawks in third place in Division I, behind La Salle and Moses Brown. They were scheduled to play Moses Brown on Wednesday, with results unavailable at press time. After that, the Hawks host North Kingstown on Saturday at 1 p.m. in the season finale.
"If we win out, we probably end up in second, so we've still got it all in front of us," Murray said. "We're still a work in progress, but we tend to be there at the end, so we'll see what happens. All you've got to do is give yourself a shot."
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That you've given me
The memories are all in my mind
And now that we've come
To the end of our rainbow
There's something
I must say out loud
You're once, twice
Three times a winner."
-- Commodores Fight Song
[Photo: Coach Martin has the Dores playing like Wild and Crazy Guys]
But after consecutive 2 win seasons in 2002, 2003 and 2004, things looked very bleak. Even by Vandy standards. In all reality, the only reason that Vanderbilt had not already fired Martin was a procedural issue. When the university's president burned down the athletic department, fired the athletic director and made football an intramural sport, the forms for terminating head coaches were probably lost.
This mix up gave Martin an additional year to turn things around. Today, Vandy's 6-30 start is in the program's rear view mirror, and the Commodores look to have their best season since Lionel Richie went pro early to focus on his solo career.
[Photo: The Commodores pose for team picture. I think Jay Cutler is the guy in the middle.]
[Photo: Ole Miss' Coach O throws a nutty.]
In fact, the speech must have been spectacular because Ole Miss scored 20 unanswered points in the 2nd half before Vandy's special teams unit showed why they truly are a BrickHouse in blocking the Extra Point to preserve the win.
Richmond is the next scheduled victim for the Vandy Steamroller. As Charles Barkley and the Auburn Tigers know, Richmond's program has killed big dreams before. If Vandy focuses, they should be 5-0 when LSU rolls into town.
Photo: Lionel Richie IS the Commodores. Bring him back for the streak. Don't do it for us. Do it for the children.]


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Utilizing the bully pulpit in an attempt to push down stubbornly high oil prices, President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced five steps to strengthen oversight of the financial markets where contracts for future delivery of crude are traded and proposed increased funding for regulators to monitor these markets.
The president made remarks in the White House Rose Garden, flanked by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Attorney General Eric Holder and the heads of agencies that monitor oil trading and combat price-gouging of consumers. Obama suggested that financial speculators were running up the price of oil at the expense of American motorists.
"We can't afford a situation where speculators artificially manipulate markets by buying up oil, creating the perception of a shortage and driving prices higher, only to flip the oil for a quick profit," Obama said. "We can't afford a situation where some speculators can reap millions, while millions of American families get the short end of the stick."
Calling for "more cops on the beat to monitor activity in energy markets," Obama also proposed an increase in civil and criminal penalties for illegal energy market manipulation and other activities. As a means of discouraging speculation, he proposed having Congress require that Wall Street traders put more money aside to pay off the bets made on oil contracts. And he called for toughening financial penalties tenfold and imposing penalties for every day a violation occurs.
The high oil prices _ above $104 a barrel on the New York Mercantile exchange at Tuesday's close _ are politically damaging to the president's re-election chances. Gasoline prices on Tuesday averaged $3.904 nationwide for a gallon of unleaded gasoline _ within 21 cents of the all-time high set in 2008.
While pump prices make up a small percentage of the spending of most American families, they carry heavy psychological weight on consumer sentiment. Motorists have few alternatives to gasoline and visit the filling station weekly.
In a briefing for reporters ahead of the president's Rose Garden statement, a senior White House official refused to say whether the new effort would have any effect on oil prices. In fact, if everything the president proposed was enacted by Congress, it isn't clear it would necessarily make a difference in price. That's because the president's plan seeks to attack illegal manipulation of prices, while experts think much of today's high prices has to do with excessive but legal financial speculation.
"We welcome additional funding for the (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) and more cops on the beat," Dennis Kellher, president of the advocacy group Better Markets, said in a statement. "But the problem with rising oil and gas prices is excess speculation. Claiming to 'crack down' on manipulation and 'single traders' will do nothing to stop Wall Street speculators from running amok in the commodity markets. Wall Street pours hundreds of billions of dollars into the commodity markets every month to speculate, and that is causing prices to jump."
Obama acknowledged that the "none of the steps by themselves will bring gas prices down overnight." But, he said, "it will prevent market manipulation and make sure we're looking out for American consumers."
Opponents of the president weren't inclined toward new curbs on Wall Street, and Republicans accused him of grandstanding.
"If I were to guess, I'd say today's proposal by the president probably polls pretty well. But I guarantee you it won't do a thing to lower the price of gas at the pump," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said in a scathing statement. "It never has in the past. White House officials admit as much. Why it would it now?"
Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney accused Obama of governing "by gimmick" and favoring regulations over energy production.
McClatchy documented in a series of reports last year how the futures markets _ where contracts for future delivery of commodities ranging from oil to coffee to cotton are traded _ have been overrun by financial speculators. Historically, end users of these products, who are hedging against price shifts, made up 70 percent of trading activity in these commodities. Speculators traditionally played an important but secondary role in what economists call "price discovery," the market finding the rational price for a product based on supply-and-demand fundamentals.
In recent years, the ratio flipped, with oil speculators who have no intent of taking delivery of oil now making up 70 percent or more of trading activity. Critics such as Michael Greenberger, the former head of the trading division of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission _ which regulates the futures markets_ contend that this flood of financial-sector speculation has pushed up the price of oil and is divorced from underlying market fundamentals of supply and demand.
"People, including the administration and others, are coming to realize that money moves these markets, and money sloshing around in the crude oil market, or any other market, is going to move the price," said Michael Masters, a hedge fund manager whose repeated testimony before Congress highlighted the "financialization" of oil markets.
Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis determined in a March 13 report that speculation was the second-largest contributor to rising oil prices, accounting for about 15 percent of the rise. Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has said speculation is driving up oil prices, and Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi last month complained that current oil prices are "unjustifiable" given that there are not global supply shortages, a view he repeated last week.
Fears that tensions with Iran over its nuclear ambitions might lead to a conflict that disrupts oil supplies is the most often stated explanation on Wall Street for rising oil prices. But the Paris-based International Energy Agency said Thursday that world oil demand is sluggish and oil supplies are more than ample to offset a loss of Iran's oil exports of 1 million barrels per day. The IEA said global oil inventories rose by 1.2 million barrels per day over the first three months of 2012. Additionally, China's torrid pace of growth has slowed sharply, parts of Europe are in recession, and U.S. demand for oil and gasoline remains weak. There is little in the fundamentals to justify today's high prices.
Advocacy groups such as Better Markets argue that what's needed is to limit how much speculation can take place. The landmark revamp of financial regulation in 2010, shorthanded as the Dodd-Frank Act _ empowered regulators to impose speculative limits called position limits on individual traders and companies, not just on Wall Street but across global trading platforms.
But Big Finance, which is earning huge sums in the trading of contracts for oil and other commodities, has fought back, suing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in federal court in a bid to thwart the imposition of any speculative limits.
In an unusual move, 19 U.S. senators late last week filed a friend of the court brief in support of the CFTC, pushing back on the suit filed by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. The senators _ 18 Democrats and one independent _ all sit on committees with jurisdiction over oil trading, finance and Wall Street. They said in their brief that they intended to assist the court in understanding what the legislative intent was on speculative position limits called for in the revamp of financial regulation.
"After seven years of Congressional studies finding excessive speculation and price manipulation in the commodities markets due in part to regulatory loopholes and CFTC waivers of position limits, Dodd-Frank was designed and intended to make those position limits mandatory," the senators said in their brief. The waivers they referred to were granted to Wall Street banks such as Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, treating them as if they were an airline or some other large user of oil.
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To the Editor:
I have been wondering about the street lights on Route 14.
Quite a bit of extensive work was done over the past two years, and now when I look at the lights, almost half of them are missing. The ones that have been replaced are not the same style as what was originally in place.
Did someone during the night come in and take them? Did someone not notice this or did I miss the article mentioning that they were being removed?
Is this part of going green? Just wondering.
Kenneth Martin
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New Life NZ needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 5 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
We are looking for a designer with an interest in New Zealand who can design a DVD cover that will be included in a New Zealand Immigration DIY pack to be sold online and mailed out initially to the UK and then all over the world.
New Life New Zealand Limited http://www.newlifenewzealand.com
New Life New Zealand is a New Zealand based Immigration Consultancy that specialises in assisting overseas migrants, paticularly from the UK to migrate to New Zealand. We help with the visa process, provide assistance getting a job and help with resettlement on arrival. This DIY pack is aimed at people who want advicce and guidance on completing the process themselves without paying for a full Immigration consultancy Service.
- Item 1...New Life New Zealand Logo
- http://www.newlifenewzealand.com
- New Zealand images including scenery, Auckland skyline
- A New Zealand passport, NZ immigration forms etc
- Multi zone - DVD
- Presented by Paul Goddard - Star of the BBC TV Series "Get a New Life"
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What movie is this?
"Loved Vice, Mary Poppins Returns. Admired Ben is Back for it's two lead performances although second half is kind of preposterous, they carry it off. Loved On The Basis of Sex. The audience I saw it with cheered. Kidman is pretty amazing in Destroyer but movie is definitely not for everyone. Admired Boy Erased and glad someone made this film for all those unfortunate people who might be in similar situations. Adore Lucas Hedges, but now he needs to do a comedy. Was impatient with Beautiful Boy. Impatient with If Beale St Could Talk and found it a bit self indulgent."--- An Anonymous reader shares their thoughts on 2018's many end-of-year contenders -- what are you liking? Head on over to this post and let us know!


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Please download the Your Rights as a Hospital Patient in New York State Booklet.
Keep this booklet for reference. Review it carefully and share the information with your family and friends involved in your care.
The state and federal governments require that all hospital patients in New York State be given certain information and materials when admitted to a hospital. This booklet collects that information in one place, explains the rights of each hospital patient and contains advice for the patients on how best to get assistance.
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International search for professor of Native Hawaiian HealthUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Tina M Shelton, (808) 692-0897
Dir of Communications, Office of Dean of Medicine
Dir of Communications, Office of Dean of Medicine
Posted: Dec 18, 2009
The University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) is in the process of recruiting a new senior faculty member for the Department of Native Hawaiian Health, and is seeking interested applicants.
The opening, for Associate or Full Professor of Native Hawaiian Health is a full-time, tenure-track position that will be filled when the search process has ended. The search is being conducted locally, across the U.S. and internationally. The person selected may also be eligible to be appointed Chair of the department.
"We look forward to being able to recruit an outstanding senior faculty for the Department of Native Hawaiian Health at the John A. Burns School of Medicine," said Dr. Jerris Hedges, JABSOM Dean. "It is expected that the successful candidate for the position will lead the medical school in addressing the health needs of the Native Hawaiian community."
JABSOM's Department of Native Hawaiian Health is the only medical school department in the U.S. dedicated to the health of a native population.The department educates students from diverse backgrounds to become physicians who will work with medically underserved communities in Hawai'i and the Pacific region. The department conducts scientific studies, trains researchers and provides clinical teaching and patient care in Hawai'i. Key areas of research include multi-million dollar studies funded by the U.S. government addressing health disparities, such as why diabetes and cardiovascular disease are more prevalent among Native Hawaiians, and how to best combat those diseases.
A search committee comprised of university and community leaders has been formed to screen applicants and recommend candidates for the faculty position to Dean Hedges. Chaired by Dr. Satoru Izutsu, JABSOM Vice Dean, the search committee includes Dr. Chiyome Fukino, Director of the Hawai'i State Department of Health; Dr. Michael Chun, Kamehameha Schools President; Amy Agbayani, Director, Student Equity, Excellence & Diversity, University of Hawai'i Mānoa; Marla Berry, Chair, Department of Cell and Microbiology, JABSOM; Maenette Benham, Dean of the School of Hawaiian Knowledge, UH Mānoa; Richard Paglinawan, MSW, Consultant; Dr. Irwin Schatz, Professor of Medicine, JABSOM; Todd Seto, Associate Professor, Medicine, JABSOM; and Jon Matsuoka, Dean & Professor of the School of Social Work at UH Mānoa.
Interested applicants should visit the Work at UH website for a full description of the position at the following link:
or contact Marga Stubblefield at 692-0882.
For more information, visit: http://jabsom.hawaii.edu