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The Unbearable Lightness of Greenland
A behind-the-scenes, on-the-ground look at climate change research
- 06-04-2012
- By Joshua E. Brown
University Communications science writer Joshua Brown traveled with geology professor Paul Bierman and graduate student Alice Nelson as they conducted climate change research in Greenland in early June. Read on for a week's worth of updates from the field — and view photos from the trip here.
Saturday, June 2, 2012
It's our second day on the coast of southeastern Greenland, and I'm thinking of Manhattan. A sea fog is rolling in over the settlement of Tasiilaq, perched on the edge of a still-frozen bay, surrounded by mountains, about 60 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
I'm here with four geologists — Paul Bierman, Alice Nelson, Jeremy Shakun and Dylan Rood. It's 10:36 p.m., but the sky is still bright. The sun, above the fog, has gone behind a mountain, but it is mostly going sideways, sliding not setting. The scientists, still at work in our hotel's dining room, drink tea and study maps of glaciers and deltas that they plan to visit in a few days.
They're trying to find rocks and sediments that will help them solve a most important climate change question: how fast will Greenland melt in a warming world? "We want to know: how stable is the ice sheet?" Nelson told me. That's why I'm thinking of Manhattan: if the whole Greenland ice sheet — that covers most of this not-green island — were to melt, sea level would rise more than 20 feet, inundating coastal cities around the world.
The scientists, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, want to help get a clearer picture of how quickly such a melt-off could happen. And to auger the future with greater precision, they look to the past, collecting rocks and sediment that, back in Bierman's lab at UVM, let them measure how extensive the ice was here thousands of years ago.
I'll tell you more about that method — it's new and a potentially transformative way to get a sense of the pulsing growth and total melt-off of Greenland that has happened over the past 5 million years or so — in another post soon.
I'm here, an embedded science reporter (armed with skis and a camera, instead of body armor, thank goodness), to write a story about the scientists' adventures, scientific and otherwise, that will appear in the fall issue of Vermont Quarterly.
There are no roads that lead to Tasiilaq — we arrived by helicopter. It seems another world from Wall Street. But what happens in Greenland over the next centuries seems likely to affect the whole world.
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Sea fog, lit from within, moves in a long band across the fjord. Behind, the mountains remain visible like pencil marks on a white sheet. Sky and water bound the fog in blue. It's our second day in Tasiilaq, Greenland, population 2,000, where the houses perch in a pleasing jumble on the hills, brightly painted in red, yellow and electric blue. Patches of snap-white snow, umber rocks, gray rocks, and golden grass — and, everywhere, searingly jagged mountains — make a background. It's like the landscape was done by a god of elements and the houses by Crayola.
The geologists are in a stream. Well, Shakun stands in the stream, nearly overtopping his Muck boots, dipping his hands into the "32.1 degree water," he says, collecting sand from the bottom.
The rest of the team perches on melting snow mounds and rocks nearby, pouring the sand into plastic bags, entering GPS data into a notebook, taking photographs of a magnetic number board that will let them identify the site when they're back in the lab — and making fun of Shakun. Pairs of sled dogs — tied up in a field full of sleds and sled-dog crap — look on curiously to this curious scientific enterprise.
In the sand the scientists have collected is quartz, and in the quartz an element called beryllium, and in one form of the beryllium hides information about how long Greenland and how much of Greenland has been covered with ice. That's why the scientists are here: to take the measure of Greenland and its prodigious ice sheet, enough water to fill the Gulf of Mexico — one isotopic atom of beryllium at a time. In a warming climate, how long will the ice last? This research promises to give the world a clearer answer.
Monday, June 4, 2012
Time is a strange master when traveling with geologists.
Arriving here three days ago, Paul Bierman and I were looking out the window of the plane, as the gray mountains of Greenland went ripping along below. Paul pointed to a flatter, gravelly place just above sea level and said, "There was a beach there a hundred years ago, maybe two hundred." In one frame of mind, for geologists, a hundred years is less than a rounding error. Their imaginations, by professional habit, travel often in the howling expanses of geological time, where thousands of years pass in a footstep.
Now we're preparing to fly in a helicopter to the outwash of six or seven glaciers and Paul is a bit concerned — about minutes. The flight is scheduled for 2:45 p.m., but the last two afternoons a fog has rolled in, and the helicopter pilots can't fly if they can't see where to land.
The team hunches over their maps in the hotel (no surprise, geologists spend a lot of time looking at maps) trying to decide what the most important sampling sites are, if the itinerary must be curtailed, and how many minutes each stop will take. "We can just grab the sand and go," Paul tells the team. "No need to sieve it til we get back." The fuel and money burn rate of a chartered Air Greenland helicopter makes thousands of dollars tied into this few-hour trip.
But the day remains clear and shockingly bright, and at 3:10 the helicopter lifts, thudding and whining, while we all stare out the windows, suddenly ripped from the ground. It is loud — and an incredible,visual riot of geologic delights for the next five hours.
First the village of Tasiilaq comes fully into view, handsome red boats in the harbor, a tumbling dump of rusted snowmobiles, debris, and old plastic toys on the edge of town. Then the sage, tan and lichen-covered closer hills. Then the vast stretches of the formidable island of Greenland: far-off ragged huge ranges, blocky icebergs with azure pools on top, vertiginous peaks that remind me of Wyoming — but in an elongated funhouse mirror — plates and panels of intersecting sea ice, huge glaciers spilling down valleys.
The helicopter banks and all the world is now on its side, we circle, the machine slows, descends, its rotors so powerful that water on the ground sprays like a hurricane and rocks roll away. Down again. On ice. Here a rushing stream pours out of a glacier, milky and frothing. The landscape, transected by abstract lines of white and grey, makes the helicopter look puny and gaudy, resting, incongruous, in a ponderous snowfield.
We clamber over boulders and down to where the stream slices along a wall of snow, old gray below, fresh white above. There is a loud cheerful rushing of water.
The scientists quickly dig with a trowel in the sand on the stream edge, dump it in a plastic bag, label it with a marker, then take photos of the location. We're about to hustle back to the helicopter. There are more sites to visit, more samples to collect that will provide months of work back in the lab and thousands of years of perspective on what is happening here.
"Listen," says Bierman, pausing for a few seconds, "that's the sound of Greenland melting."
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Jeremy Shakun lifts a small sledgehammer and slams it down on a chisel. No rock comes free.
On this raw, gravel-covered hill, overlooking a frozen sea, the colors pop. Rust, mustard, purple-blue puddles, and shocking snow — super-saturated in an overwash of Arctic light. We can hear the wavering howl of many sled dogs, rising up the slope from the tiny settlement of Kusuluk. It makes a haunting noise backdrop to the metronomic clinking of metal on metal.
Shakun hits again and again, legs splayed out on a rounded lump of bedrock. "You have to be patient," Paul Bierman says, laughing. Dylan Rood offers a stream of bogus advice about Shakun's technique, most of it unfit for print.
Bierman, 50, has some twenty years on both Rood and Shakun, but they've all smacked plenty of rocks before: Shakun is a post-doctoral researcher at Harvard; Rood, a Californian, recently moved to Glasgow to take a post at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre; and Bierman has been a professor of geology at UVM since 1993.
Next to where Shakun is working, the geologists have erected a high-sensitivity GPS antenna and receiver. It gathers satellite information with enough precision to pinpoint our location and elevation to within two or three feet.
The rock that they collect here will travel back to Bierman's shop in Vermont, one of the few cosmogenic isotope laboratories in the world, where it will be painstakingly dissolved to yield nearly pure quartz. "I was working on samples for twenty-five straight days," Alice Nelson says, with the rueful head-shaking characteristic of graduate students.
From the quartz, Bierman and his students will extract the element beryllium and then ship it to Scotland, where Rood will test the beryllium in a specialized mass spectrometer, capable of detecting a single atom out of a million billion atoms. It's like having a machine capable of finding a misplaced grain of sand on a very large beach.
Despite all this technological gee-whiz-ness, for these geologists trying to collect a few good field samples, there seems to be no advanced tool better than a hammer.
Shakun makes a huge, grunting hit and, finally, a chip, the size of a quarter, comes free. Rood gingerly picks it up and drops it in a bag.
Why, you may be asking, would four geologists — interested in understanding climate change — want to collect chips of ancient metamorphosed granite in order to count the atoms of beryllium in its quartz?
Because of cosmic rays. Really. This radiation, born at the beginning of the universe, rains down on you, me, sled dogs and rocks. It penetrates the top few meters of the earth's surface. And where it does, ever so rarely, it smashes into oxygen within the quartz, knocking a chunk off.
What remains from the busted oxygen is a special form of beryllium, the rare isotope 10Be. The longer the quartz is exposed to the sky, bombarded by cosmic rays, the more 10Be accumulates within its crystals.
But buried under snow and ice — shielded by, say, the Greenland ice sheet — no 10Be accumulates in the quartz. So the amount of beryllium in a grain of sand can reveal how long it was exposed, versus how long buried under ice. Collect enough of these grains, from enough spots in Greenland, and you could begin to sketch a picture of when and where ice rested here in the past.
That's why Jeremy Shakun keeps clinking away with a sledgehammer, while the rest of us eat granola bars and wait for him to prize out a tiny chunk of knowledge.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
We wake to bad news. Air Greenland has called to say our flight to Nuuk, the capital, is cancelled.
I can see why: white on white, a heavy fog sifts over the snow. Or, rather, I can't see the airport that is only a few hundred yards from our hotel. The combo freight/passenger Dash 7 propeller planes that ferry people across the ice sheet are well-suited to descending steeply over the mountains to land here — but this ain't O'Hare. The runway is dirt.
We're stuck in one of the most remote airports in the world and the next scheduled flight to where we need to go isn't for three more days.
Not only does this jeopardize the scientists' several days of planned field work, but it means we may not be able to catch our military flight back to the U.S. on Saturday, from Kangerlussuaq, with the NY Air National Guard. "We might not get home until next week," Paul tells us as we sit in the dining room.
I'm working my third cup of coffee. The forty Taiwanese tourists who arrived here yesterday make the dining room as loud as it was quiet last night — when I could hear the snuffling of three arctic foxes that came poking out from under the melting ice and went prancing around outside the hotel, wrestling in the 12:30 a.m. sunset.
The hotel is pleasant and clean. It's run by tall, blond men from Denmark who serve delicious food: tender pork loin, warm chocolate cake, pickled herring (ok, Paul doesn't think this is delicious), and lots of other pickled stuff, including one item that we debated whether it was an onion or pear, but agreed was tasty.
In front of the hotel, a rutted dirt track leads in one direction to the airport and in the other through a fifteen-foot deep canyon of snow to the village of Kulusuk. I read in Smithsonian Magazine that only 75 miles of roads have been built in the entire 836,000 square miles of Greenland. I doubt if this counts as one of them, but, in any case, neither direction goes nearly as far as we'd hoped to go today.
This, it seems, is how polar science often works: months of intensive careful planning from the comfort of home, followed by frantic calls on a satellite phone from the field. At least that is what Bierman is doing right now — to the National Science Foundation contractor in charge of logistics. He's hoping to fend off chaos, and discussing the possibility of returning to Iceland on the same flight as the tourists, to get at Nuuk by another route — but that doesn't look promising.
Alice Nelson, Jeremy Shakun and I play a round of Scrabble, using the set in the hotel. Except it's a Russian edition, so we use the Cyrillic letters as best we can to proxy for our alphabet. Dylan Rood and Bierman feverishly sketch and re-work numerous scenarios about how they might get some of the geology fieldwork done on an interrupted schedule. Perhaps a return trip later in the summer?
Hours later, we still don't know what's going to happen. The fog has cleared — but it's also clear we're not getting on the Iceland flight and that no trip to Nuuk is happening today.
"Let's go skiing," Bierman finally says. I've been skiing with him every day since we arrived in Greenland. Our daily outings have put him over a hundred days on skis for the year — making it to 100 for twelve years in a row. Alice Nelson, who captained the Williams College cross-country ski team, decides she's going to walk the road to Kulusuk with Rood and Shakun. Her boots are still wet from yesterday.
An hour later, we all re-gather in the village of Kulusuk, population 300. Local people, with coppery Inuit complexions, push their babies in baby joggers. A dead seal sits in a wheelbarrow. A giant Volvo forklift trundles by. Piles of candy-bar wrappers and Tuborg beer cans litter the snow and dirt paths that wind between the red houses. Then a man shouts, and I can see his sled dog team huffing past the grocery store where I just paid about eight dollars for two bananas. The dogs pass between a traditional wooden sled and a snowmobile resting on the edge of the frozen bay, and disappear behind distant icebergs.
"There is a lot international attention to climate change," Jesper Krough, 29, told me. "People are concerned about Greenland because they're worried about their end of the world — not this place." Krough is the Danish manager of the hotel, who has lived in Kulusuk for four years, overwintering alone in the hotel. "It's easy to forget," he says, "there are actually people living here in Greenland."
Krough talks to us from a jeep as we come down the road out of the snow canyon. Air Greenland called, he says, to tell us our flight to Nuuk has been rescheduled for tomorrow at noon. Phew. Things haven't completely melted down yet.
Thursday June 7, 2012
Paul Bierman and I are heading uphill on skis toward a mountain that overlooks Kulusuk. He's looking for the beach. At least he thinks this gravelly spot might have been a beach about 8,000 years ago. He picks up a rounded rock, eyeing it quizzically. Was this dumped here by a glacier or tossed by the sea?
Prior to this trip, my sense of Greenland came largely from the schoolroom maps of childhood. The traditional Mercator projection stretched Greenland into a huge blank white wedge, larger than Africa -- a timeless fortress of ice resting at the top of a rectangular world.
But Greenland is smaller, more complex -- and its ice, perhaps, more fragile than those old maps suggest.
A few days ago Alice Nelson patiently walked me through a PowerPoint about the research she and the team are doing here. They're trying to get a sharper picture of how the extent of the Greenland ice sheet has changed over the last six million years.
They know it has had distinct chapters of melting and growth as global and regional temperatures rose and fell. But how big did the ice sheet get? Where did it grow first? When did it melt? "It may have been totally gone 100,000 years ago," she said.
"It's really hard to study ice sheets from the past," she told me. "If it melted, it melted."
"So the information we have on Greenland is limited," she told me, "We know there was ice, and we can date that pretty well, but we don't know how much ice."
Bierman and I don't know how much ice is under our skis as we gingerly skirt around some rotten snow near the water's edge. Even in the few days we've been here, the landscape has changed. New pools form on the surface and a sudden four-foot wide torrent sliced through the road.
We make it back to the hotel and a few hours later, we're rising above the "big ice," as people here call the ice sheet, breathing sighs of relief. Our delayed plane got off the ground from Kulusuk. We're on our way to Nuuk.
The team has had to abandon one leg of the trip, to Narsarsuaq, where they planned to collect elevation data. I'm disappointed we won't get to visit Viking ruins there. (You know, Erik the Red named this place "green" land to attract settlers from warmer climes. It might be the first great real estate scam.) But the second day of helicopter work tomorrow should be do-able, if the weather holds.
As we're flying along, the flight attendant passes around a basket of homemade cookies while Jeremy Shakun tutors me on a paper he published in Nature this April. It shows clearly that as global carbon dioxide levels rose at the end of the last ice age, global temperatures followed.
"It's pretty hard to explain that -- if it's not causal," he says.
And I'm thinking about how all this is more than an academic exercise.
The probable effects of global warming are largely predicted by computer models. And these forecasting models look to the future by benchmarking from the past. If past climates — that were two or three or four degrees warmer than today — didn't have a Greenland ice sheet, there is good reason to think that future ones won't either.
All I can see out the window are clouds, but beneath, I know the big ice rises in some spots to a 10,000-foot thickness. Some climate models project that local warming over Greenland will go up at least 5 degrees Fahrenheit and perhaps as much as 16 degrees during the next century. Melting here and in West Antarctica could very plausibly push sea level up several feet before my young children are old people.
"Carbon dioxide can end an ice age. It's clear today, by instruments, that the climate is changing," Shakun says, sketching a pair of rising curves in my notebook. "Exactly where and when we're going to feel it is not that clear."
And how many centuries it would take Greenland to retreat back to bedrock is a tough modeling problem. Some scientists are concerned that the climate — and Greenland with it — is near a tipping point where the entire ice sheet will begin to melt unstoppably, vanishing in about 2,000 years. "But it's very complex," Shakun tells me. These geologists I'm traveling with would like to clarify the picture.
Happily or not, there is only one earth. N=1, the scientists might say. And so the changes that people have wrought on the planet, pouring out vast quantities of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from our fossil-fuel and jet-plane-loving ways of life represent an experiment with no control group. We can't run it again with a bigger sample.
Which is why scientists try to understand how past warm periods affected things — like Greenland's ice sheet — as a way of guessing what will happen next. Based on what we know, buying real estate in Greenland might not be such a bad idea.
Friday, June 8, 2012
Kangerlussuaq is home to huge flying things — and not much else. A former World War Two U.S. military airfield, it's now Greenland's largest commercial airport, where inbound 757's from Copenhagen touch down. Fat-bellied C-130 US military propeller planes, equipped with skis for landing on the ice sheet, sit in a motionless row on the tarmac.
And then there are the mosquitos. They're big enough to serve an inflight meal. We drag our train of backpacks and gear — including a cooler nearly full with 150 pounds of rocks and sand, double bagged, carefully labeled, and wrapped with duct tape — out to the parking lot. The mosquitoes are on us immediately, landing with military precision all over backs, wrists and Paul's, apparently delicious, bald head.
It's warm and sandy here on the southwest edge of Greenland. The snow is gone. A silty river sweeps by, and the landscape looks more like Yosemite or Afghanistan than a land of ice. But the silt is a clue that, not far from here, the ice sheet remains, melting and calving, pouring down water bound for the sea.
The buildings in the villages we visited in East Greenland are in a style Paul called "permafrost utilitarian": simple wooden houses raised on high foundations for the snowy times of year. Here, the single, desolate row of buildings look like modular Army barracks. That's because they were.
"Heading for KISS," Bierman says. At the Kangerlussuaq International Science Station — identical, except for its sign, to the nearby Polar Bear Inn — we dump our gear in dormitory rooms, amidst a small stream of wandering American scientists.
But no rest. We've got to get ready for our next outing: a head-bumping hour in a pick-up truck to make a river delta crossing in the most godawful foot-sucking mud on the planet. Results: one more sand sample, minus one boot (temporarily) and one sock (permanently). Mine.
Now we're wolfing down musk ox pizza, hustling again to our main mission: a second afternoon of "helo time" as the scientists say. Still chewing, we cram in the back of a small AStar helicopter and float into the air. Our Norwegian pilot, with a chin worthy of Hollywood — and a job worthy of a marriage proposal, Alice later jokes — listens on his headset to Paul's directions as he looks at his handheld GPS, trying to match the landscape to the map. The Watson River passes underneath. We're going toward the ice sheet and the river, carrying a massive load of sediment toward the deep ocean.
And it's from the deep ocean that the most important insights of this research project will come.
Sediment, washing off Greenland, has sifted to the ocean bottom and piled up there, in intact layers, for millions of years.
In 1993 and 1995, a large international effort collected two long cores of these sediments, drilled from the sea floor, off the southeast coast of Greenland. This year, Jeremy Shakun traveled to Germany to get samples of these cores stored in a huge refrigerated hangar there.
In the deepest — and therefore oldest — of these samples, the team expects to find high levels of beryllium in the sediment, revealing a time when much of the bedrock was exposed to cosmic radiation — a time before glaciers had covered Greenland with an ice sheet.
Moving up the core, the scientists expect to find decreasing beryllium concentrations as the ice sheet grew. But, punctuating this big downward trend, they expect to find short up-pulses during brief interglacial periods ("brief" to geologists being in the neighborhood of every 100,000 years) when the ice sheet was reduced.
To make better sense of these ocean core data, the team collects samples from today's Greenland. That's what this whole trip is for. Contemporary erosion rates, sediment transportation, ice coverage — and associated beryllium levels — provide a good picture of the recent geologic past, roughly the last 10,000 years. This picture will serve as an analogy to the deeper past, Nelson tells me, guiding interpretation of the records drawn from far down the ocean core.
In short, beryllium concentrations in ocean sediments will be a yardstick of the ice sheet stretching back six million years.
It's a method that has worked for Bierman in studying other landscapes — but has never been tried before on ocean cores, which is a large part of why the National Science Foundation is investing in flying these four geologists out to places in Greenland where, in all likelihood, no person has ever stood before.
The helicopter hugs the terrain, roaring through a narrow rock opening with enough speed to make George Lucas happy. We turn on a bank of nothingness, and there it is. The Greenland ice sheet. Black and pale grey and brooding and dripping. A wall on a different scale than everything else I've seen here. We stop and collect sand, like lycra-clad ants at its base. Then the helicopter rises again, over the lip, and the ice sheet stretches, white and pocketed, a whole landscape of frozen water, toward an end that can't yet be seen.
Saturday, June 9, 2012
On the runway at Kangerlussuaq, a half-circle of scientists, many bearded and baggy-eyed, gather around a clean-shaven officer from the New York Air National Guard. We're getting final instructions — I guess — about what to do if our transport plane has to ditch over water. A generator nearby is so loud I can't hear a thing he's saying. The scientists smile and nod and then slowly, happily, climb the steps into the hold.
The C-130 — flown here to train soldiers in cold-weather combat and to aid scientific expeditions — is dark inside and full of red webbing, gray metal boxes, plastic-wrapped pallets of gear —and tired people. Some soldiers wrestle with hooks and straps in the back. Others, boy-faced in olive drab, already doze on the nylon bench seats.
Our ears stuffed with plugs, the plane lifts off. Cranium-thudding, loud experiences are getting to be a habit on this trip. Paul Bierman and Dylan Rood work on their laptops, preparing data, and writing each other notes on-screen, tired of shouting over the engines. Alice Nelson reads a novel, her third this week. Jeremy Shakun scrolls through science papers on his iPad.
Inside one of the pallets is a blue cooler, now full with dozens of bags of sand and small rocks from Greenland. They're going to Vermont. And they're quite heavy. These four geologists hope they'll tell us something useful about the ways the ever-so-much-more-heavy ice that rests on this island, now passing away beneath us, is getting lighter — becoming, perhaps, for coastal parts of the world, an unbearable lightness.


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TORONTO — J.P. Arencibia hit two solo homers, Edwin Encarnacion added a three-run shot and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Cleveland Indians 10-8 tonight, avoiding their first 0-3 start since 2004.
Jose Bautista hit a two-run homer and Colby Rasmus also connected as the Blue Jays went deep five times.
Arencibia had three hits with two RBIs. He had a second-deck drive to center in the second and a tiebreaking shot to left in the sixth, his seventh career multihomer game.
Carlos Santana and Mark Reynolds replied with solo homers for the Indians, who were trying to start a season with three straight road wins for the first time since 1998.
Steve Delabar (1-0) got two outs for the win and Casey Janssen finished in the ninth for his first save.
Consecutive doubles by Jason Kipnis and Nick Swisher gave the Indians a 1-0 lead in the first, but Toronto answered in the bottom half when Bautista drilled a two-run homer to left, his second in two days.
Arencibia's leadoff drive in the second put Toronto up 3-1, but the Indians tied it in the fourth on back-to-back homers by Santana and Reynolds, whose 11th inning blast decided Wednesday's 3-2 win for the Indians.
Encarnacion lined a three-run shot that just cleared the left field wall in the fifth, putting the Blue Jays up 6-3, but Cleveland answered again in the sixth. Santana hit an RBI double and Lonnie Chisenhall chased Mark Buehrle with a two-run double to left, tying it at 6-all.
Buehrle allowed six runs and seven hits in 5 1-3 innings. He walked one and struck out four.
Arencibia broke the tie with another second deck drive to begin the bottom of the sixth, bringing Cody Allen out of the Cleveland bullpen to replace Brett Myers. One out later, Rasmus hit a solo drive to right.
Emilio Bonifacio followed with a groundball double to center, then scored on a throwing error by Reynolds, giving Toronto a 9-6 lead. Back-to-back walks loaded the bases for Adam Lind, but he flied out to end the inning.
Myers (0-1) gave up seven runs and seven hits in five-plus innings. He walked two and struck out none.
Reynolds hit an RBI single off Esmil Rogers in the seventh and Kipnis cut it to 9-8 with an RBI double off Darren Oliver in the eighth. Cleveland loaded the bases with two outs but second baseman Bonifacio ended the inning by ranging into shallow center to throw out Santana.
Toronto added an insurance run off Matt Albers in the eighth when Reyes scored from second on Bautista's fielder's choice grounder.
NOTES: Cleveland placed LHP Scott Kazmir Indians on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right ribcage muscle, retroactive to April 2. Rookie RHP Trevor Bauer is expected to start in Kazmir's place Saturday at Tampa Bay. ... Toronto's Jose Reyes was shaken up after sliding headfirst into the shin of SS Asdrubal Cabrera on a steal of second in the fifth, but stayed in the game. ... The Blue Jays host former manager John Farrell and the Boston Red Sox on Friday night. Toronto RHP Josh Johnson will start against Red Sox LHP Felix Doubront.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) Dirk Nowitzki had 27 points and nine rebounds, and the Dallas Mavericks strengthened their hold on a playoff position with a 107-95 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night.
The Mavericks, back at Staples Center one night after beating the Clippers, played their first road game against the Lakers since beating them 99-91 on opening night of last season. They have won all three meetings with the Lakers - the first time they swept the season series since this rivalry began in 1980-81.
Nowitzki increased his career points total to 26,778, overtaking Dominique Wilkins for 11th place and putting him within 32 of Oscar Robertson.
Brandan Wright added 23 points on 10-for-10 shooting off the bench.
Jodie Meeks had 25 points for the Lakers, who have dropped 13 of their last 17 and are 25-51 - their most losses since finishing a franchise-worst 30-52 in 1974-75.
Pau Gasol was sidelined for the sixth time in seven games because of a severe case of vertigo. Xavier Henry is done for the season because of residual pain from an injured right knee and a torn ligament in his left wrist that has limited him to 43 games, and he will undergo surgery in the near future.
Coach Mike D'Antoni, who hasn't had a full deck to work with for most of this injury-jinxed season, sent out a starting lineup consisting of Meeks and four others who had started a combined total of 23 NBA games entering this season: Jordan Hill (20), Kendall Marshall (three), Kent Bazemore (none) and rookie Ryan Kelly.
Despite that, the Lakers led 54-52 at halftime against another team on the playoff bubble that took them a bit too likely at the start. The Lakers beat the York Knicks by 31 points and the Phoenix Suns by 16 within a span of six days at the end of March. Until then, Los Angeles had won only one game this season by a margin of more than 15.
Dallas concluded a contentious 10-game stretch in which four games were settled in overtime and four others were decided by margins of six points or fewer. Three of the overtime games resulted in losses to Minnesota, Brooklyn and Golden State.
The Mavericks opened the fourth quarter with a 9-0 run, which Wright capped with a short jumper that extended their lead to 91-78 with 10 minutes to play. The Lakers got no closer than 10 the rest of the way.
NOTES: Dallas F Shawn Marion recorded his 1,725th career steal, breaking a tie with Magic Johnson for 17th place, when he intercepted a pass by Wesley Johnson with 3:02 left in the first quarter. ... Umpires Joe West, Marty Foster and Alan Porter, who are in town to work the Dodgers-Giants series, attended the game. ... The Lakers haven't been under .500 this deep into a season since 1993-94, when they were 21-35 after 56 games and finished 33-49. That was the first of only two times that they didn't make the playoffs during the 34 seasons that the franchise was owned by the late Jerry Buss. ... Steve Nash had seven assists in 18 minutes and increased his career total to 10,330, four shy of Mark Jackson for third place. ... Vince Carter, who was 0 for 8 from 3-point range, needs one more 3-pointer to become the seventh player in NBA history to make at least 1,800 of them. ... The Lakers face the Clippers for the final time this season on Sunday, after losing six of their last seven meetings with their Staples Center co-tenants. The only win was on opening night. Since then, the Clippers have humiliated them by margins of 36 and 48 points. ... The Mavericks have to win four of their final five regular-season games to record their 14th 50-win season in club history and 12th in 14 years.


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Many of the welfare benefits people claim to sustain a livelihood in the performing arts are being abolished by the government's welfare reforms. Universal Credit will replace income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, Housing Benefit and many other benefits. Join us for this free session on Universal Credit to find out about entitlement under the reformed system, how it will work and what will happen to the benefits you claim now.
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Aspen Hills Inc,. Peanut Butter Recall
Peanut Butter Recall; Due to Salmonella Outbreak; Recommend notification to distributors that may carry these products via phone, fax or e-mail.
From the information provided by FDA, the products being recalled were distributed in the State of Indiana. The products are sold nationwide in 3 lb. pails, and 3 lb. corrugated boxes to distributors who are involved in fund raising. Please notify this office at 317-233-7360 if any recalled product is found.
Aspen Hills, Inc. Announces Voluntary Product Recall of Certain Cookie Dough Products
Aspen Hills, Inc.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Garner, IA, January 22, 2009 – Aspen Hills, Inc. is announcing a voluntary recall of certain cookie dough products because the dough may have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. The recalled cookie dough contains peanut butter supplied by Peanut Corporation of America, which is the subject of the ongoing investigation concerning the recent Salmonella outbreaks. Neither Aspen Hills nor its customers have received any reports of illness connected to any of these products.
Salmonella is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections (i.e., infected aneurysms), endocarditis and arthritis.
The company has already notified all of its customers who have received the products in question and directed them to remove the affected products from their distribution. The products are sold nationwide in 3 lb. pails, and 3 lb. corrugated boxes to distributors who are involved in fund raising.
The following products with the codes listed below are subject to this recall. No other products are impacted.
• Baker Jo's Peanut Butter, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk, and Monster 3 lb. pails – Date codes: 08273, 08281
• Ovens of Ashley Monster 3 lb. pails – Date code: 08273
• Gourmet Cookie Dough Peanut Butter, and Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk 3 lb. pails – Date code: 08273
• Gigi's Peanut Butter 3 lb. pail – Date code: 08281 Gigi's Peanut Butter 3 lb. corrugated box – Date code: 08277
• Arizona Gold Peanut Butter, and I love Peanut Butter 3 lb. pails – Date code: 08281
• ABC Dough Peanut Butter 3 lb. pails – Date codes: 08261, 08263, 08268, 08277, 08288, 08297
This immediate voluntary action is being taken out of Aspen Hills' commitment to provide high quality products, always placing the health and safety of its consumers as its first priority. Consumers should dispose of the product listed above. Consumers with questions regarding this recall may contact 888-273-0302.


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"Flory up the wing. Passes inside to Halliday. Swings it back out to Meierbachtol. Kicks it outside the arc to Benjamin for the shot -- good!"
Sound familiar?
The names maybe, but the playing surface has drastically changed, from grass to hardwood. And instead of keeping track of goals, the stat sheet will chart the number of field goals.
It's basketball season, and although more than half the HRV girls varsity roster was also on the soccer team, this veteran team also features two of HRV's top volleyball players, Lesley Betts and Lindsey Sanguras.
"This group has a lot of experience and an attitude that they can compete with anyone," said first-year head coach Tracy Norton. "The entire varsity squad is extremely hard working and we should win a lot of games."
Two of the most determined players on the team, junior point guard Becca Meierbachtol and senior forward Mickie Halliday, recently finished their state playoff run with the soccer team, and will carry that emotion into the starting lineup for the Eagles.
Meierbachtol will manage a similar role on the court as she did on the pitch, guiding the team's offense with her savvy ball skills, leadership and court awareness.
Halliday, who will rotate with Betts in and out of the starting five, is one of the team's fiercest rebounders and will use her aggression and size to help control the middle for the Eagles.
"Mickie is an extremely hard worker on the boards and will improve her playing time with her rebounding skills," Norton said.
Starting shooting guard Lindsay Benjamin and first-string center Meghan Merz were also part of the soccer girls' playoff run and hope to infuse the same energy into the hoop team.
The sharpshooting Benjamin led the team in scoring last season and will carry much of the scoring load for HRV in her senior season. Merz, a 5'10" senior, is the team's most imposing physical force and Norton will rely on her heavily to keep the oversized Central Catholic and Barlow girls from dominating the glass.
Sanguras, also a senior, rounds out the starting lineup at wing (shooting guard/small forward), and along with Benjamin and Becki Flory, is one of the Eagles' best outside shooters.
Flory will be the first guard off the bench and Norton believes she will make a big difference in the Eagles' offense with her quick first step and moves to the hoop. Susie Benton will also see extensive time at the two-guard, but is more of a passer than a shooter.
Backing up Merz at the center spot will be 5'9" senior Meghan Stintzi and 5'11" junior Brittany Reed, who will float between the JV and varsity squads.
"Our depth up front is going to be a question mark at the beginning of the season," Norton said. "We don't have a lot of height and it's going to be important for us to put pressure on the other teams' ball handlers so they don't have a chance to get the ball in low.
"But if we can use our speed and quickness to our advantage, I think we're going to surprise some people," she said.
The Eagles will employ a half-court man-to-man defense and use their aggressive style to frustrate opposing teams before they can send the ball inside.
On offense, they will try to get the ball up the court quickly and utilize the fast break whenever possible. Norton said the emphasis this year will be on the open shot, regardless of which player has it, then crashing the boards.
The Eagles will have their work cut out for them in the size-dominated Mt. Hood Conference, but Norton is confident that if they play their aggressive, up-tempo style, they can sneak up on the second-tier teams such as Gresham, Centennial and Reynolds.
"I'm not really sure we fit in right now," Norton said. "We could be anywhere from second to sixth in the conference "But my goal is to get to state, and I know if the girls believe in themselves, we can accomplish that goal."
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Abshir Boyah, a pirate who says he has hijacked more than 25 ships off the coast of Somalia, says he will give up this career if certain terms are met.
What economic, cultural and political circumstances in the 21st century would allow for piracy to exist? What are the impacts of piracy on Somalia?
The concept of piracy is a scary one. Their illegal ways cause corruption throughout their society. However, it seems as if they do not have much choice. Yes, it is morally wrong, but look at the money they are making. The prirates are willing to cease illegal activity if their demands are met. Their demands are not out of the ordinary-- they want their oceans protected from toxic waste, job creations, and a fair government. Somalia has a long road ahead of them to acheive any sort of unity. Elizabeth Allen
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Start by mounting the dispenser. Most are designed to fit in the extra hole in a sink top, as shown, but if this hole is already occupied, youll have to drill another in the sink or countertop. Follow the manufacturers directions for the location and size of the hole. Drill only into stainless-steel or porcelain cast-iron sinks; if you have an all-porcelain sink, drill for the dispenser through the countertop.
Tap into the existing cold water supply line via a saddle valve, as shown. To install a saddle valve, first turn off the water supply and then open the faucet to drain the line. Following the manufacturers directions, drill a small hole in the supply line. Turn the handle on the valve to expose the lance thats designed to puncture the pipe, and position the valve over the pipe so that the lance fits in the hole. Attach the back plate of the valve and tighten the nuts to lock it in place, and then screw in the lance.
Position the cartridge filtration unit roughly between the cold water line and the dispenser. Be sure to leave the specified clearance between the system and the cabinet bottom to allow for cartridge replacement. Secure the device to the cabinet back or wall with the screws provided.
To hook up the device, start by cutting a length of plastic tubing to reach between the saddle valve and the system. Make it short enough not to kink, but long enough to allow for installing a new compression fitting (the connector shown at the end of the tubing) later, if needed. Press the tubing into the compression fitting and thread it onto the saddle valve; tighten with an adjustable wrench.
Insert the opposite end of the tubing into another compression fitting and thread it onto the inlet port of the filtration unit. Tighten the nut with your hand, and then make another turn or turn and a half with an adjustable wrench.
Finally, cut a piece of tubing to run from the outlet port of the system to the water dispenser. Insert compression fittings on both ends and thread the nuts onto the dispenser and the system. Turn on the water supply and open the water dispenser. Let the water run for about five minutes to flush out any carbon particles or air pockets. Most manufacturers recommend allowing the water to run for about 20 seconds before using.


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In all the hubbub Texas Tech generated with the hiring of Kliff Kingsbury as head coach, one group might have felt overlooked: the Tech defense.
That unit made its presence felt before a record crowd at the spring game.
Rewarded with points for achievements such as turnovers, sacks, missed field goals and three-and-outs, the defense defeated the offense 34-28 Saturday in the ender to a month of Red Raiders spring practice. Repeatedly bowing up at key times, the defense rolled out to a 23-0 lead as an announced crowd of 16,116 looked on at Jones AT&T Stadium.
Key weapons such as Eric Ward, Bradley Marquez and DeAndre Washington were held out of the scrimmage. The defense showed resolve nevertheless.
"We wanted to see guys step up and make plays in the red zone and we weren't making plays," Kingsbury said. "To the defense's credit, they buckled down and stopped us. We had a bunch of our playmakers out, and the defense stepped up and shut us down, predominately in the first half. It's good to see them play that way."
The defense didn't score any touchdowns, but a scoring system in place for the game credited them three points apiece for turnovers, missed field goals and fourth-down stops, two points for a sack and one point for a three-and-out. That made for a competitive game as it turned out.
"It felt good knowing that we were not just playing to get off the field, knowing that they were going to (keep) score and see how we progressed since last season," said strong safety J. J. Gaines, who made an interception. "It was pretty cool having a scoring system."
Part of the offense's failure to cash in stemmed from kicker Ryan Bustin missing three field goals, all inside of 40 yards.
Michael Brewer completed 26 of 43 passes for 282 yards, and Davis Webb was good on 17 of 30 for 224 yards. However, the offense didn't convert any chances until Brewer's 15-yard touchdown pass to tight end Jace Amaro narrowed the gap to 23-7 just before intermission.
Six times in the first half, the defense was credited with points for stopping the offense in plus territory. Defensive end Dartwan Bush and outside linebacker Chris Payne broke up third-down passes deep in the defense's end, and Bush and safety Austin Stewart crunched Kenny Williams for no gain on a fourth-and-1 from the 5.
On the first series of the second half, walk-on defensive tackle Jordan Hamilton caused a Quinton White fumble and Stewart recovered at the defense's 6.
"That's (a result) of just playing hard. Don't stop until they cross that goal line," said end-outside linebacker Pete Robertson, who logged six tackles and a sack. "We've got this trend on defense where we never give up, playing a hundred percent. We're attacking everything like lions."
In all three spring scrimmages that were open to the public, defenders deflected several passes around the line of scrimmage. Linebacker Will Smith and defensive end Chris Knighton also batted passes, Smith's coming on a third-and-3.
From day one, Kingsbury has harped on improving a defense that ranked next-to-last in the nation in turnovers gained.
"Coaches preach every day: Get four turnovers a practice or more," Payne said. "With that, you try to get ball disruptions and stuff like that - a lot of pass deflections and INTs or strip-fumbles and stuff like that. We try to emphasize four turnovers each practice."
All the successes by the defense meant the Goin' Band from Raiderland was having a quiet afternoon - at least until late in the game. The score was 31-7 defense before Derreck Edwards scored on an 83-yard touchdown pass from Webb with 3:44 left in the third quarter.
Edwards ran a fly pattern, beat his man for the catch around midfield and took it on in.
In the fourth quarter, Brewer threw a 5-yard touchdown pass to Jakeem Grant at the 7:25 mark and third-team quarterback Clayton Nicholas found Brent Mitcham for a 17-yard TD pass with 1:36 to go.
Nicholas had the offense hurrying downfield again in the final minute, but walk-on cornerback Dawson Gamble swiped Nicholas' pass into the end zone as time expired.
With the game being televised, defensive coordinator Matt Wallerstedt didn't want to reveal much of the Red Raiders' defensive package. He played only one defensive front and a few coverages.
Wallerstedt said he was glad to see "the guys go out and execute and be as aggressive as we played within the scheme and have as much success without having to scheme."
"We addressed that going into this game," Wallerstedt said. "We just wanted to see guys run and hit, play your assignment, be aggressive, play with emotion and take the football away. I think we accomplished those things."
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RUSHING: Williams 16-68, White 14-62, Hall 8-46, Nicholas 3-17, Brewer 5-5, Talbott 2-5, Grant 1-3, Foster 1-(-1), Webb 3-(-43).
PASSING: Brewer 26-43-0-282, Webb 17-30-1-224, Nicholas 8-10-1-99.
RECEIVING: Amaro 11-80, Mitcham 8-98, Pearson 6-60, White 5-33, Grant 4-26, Edwards 3-101, Davis 3-43, Fisher 3-24, Corker 2-74, Williams 2-23, Foster 1-19, Blakemore 1-21, Hall 1-7, Davis 1-5.


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'Help!' followed the Beatles' first film, 1964′s 'A Hard Day's Night,' into theaters at the height of Beatlemania. Directed by Richard Lester, who also was behind the camera for 'A Hard Day's Night,' 'Help!' — the Beatles' first color movie — focuses on Ringo and a special ring that gets stuck on his finger. The Fab Four are then chased across Europe by various sinister parties.
The movie features some of the Beatles' best songs, including 'You're Going to Lose That Girl,' 'You've Got to Hide Your Love Away,' 'Ticket to Ride' and the title track, all of which are performed like the '60s version of music videos.
In addition to featuring a newly remastered 5.1 soundtrack, the Blu-ray includes a 30-minute documentary about the making of the film. Director Lester shares some memories and behind-the-scenes footage. Other extras include an outtake from the movie, some trailers, radio spots, remembrances from the cast and crew and a look at the restoration process. Renowned director Martin Scorsese also penned a new appreciation in the Blu-ray's booklet.
'Help!' follows two other recent Beatles features on Blu-ray, the animated 'Yellow Submarine' and the terrible 'Magical Mystery Tour.' Now if they can only somehow wrangle the rights to the long-missing 'Let It Be.'


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First Look: H-Squared tvTray for Apple TV Second-Generation
Company: H-Squared
Website: www.H-sq.com
Model: tvTray
Price: $30
Compatible: Apple TV 2G
To say that second-generation Apple TV accessories are few and far between would be a major understatement: the original Apple TV saw only a handful of third-party add-ons, and this is really only the second accessory we've seen that was designed specifically for the new version. H-Squared's tvTray ($30) is a glossy black plastic wall mounting bracket designed to hold the Apple TV somewhere other than in the typical entertainment center, enabling the device to be mounted with its back ports facing upwards -- or conceivably sideways, depending on how you use the included screws and wall taps. While the Apple TV's Infrared sensor will likely be facing away from direct exposure, enough light could radiate from Apple's Infrared-based Apple Remote to work anyway, and iOS devices can obviously use the free Remote application to control Apple TV over Wi-Fi, as well.
Editors' Note: iLounge only reviews products in "final" form, but many companies now change their offerings - sometimes several times - after our reviews have been published. This iLounge article provides more information on this practice, known as revving.


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Freshman Yogi Ferrell scored 14 points in the first 6 minutes, as top-seeded Indiana built a 33-point lead and slam dunked its way to an 83-62 win over James Madison in an East Regional game Friday in Dayton, Ohio.
Not taking any chances with a No. 16 seed, the Hoosiers (28-6) started fast against the Dukes (21-15) and opened the tourney with a statement that they intend to be around for a while.
Ferrell finished with 16 points, eight rebounds and six assists, and Cody Zeller had four dunks for Indiana. Freshman Andre Nation led James Madison with 24 points.
No. 9 Temple 76, No. 8 N.C. State 72: Khalif Wyatt scored 31 points, finishing the game with an injured left thumb that had him grimacing before his clinching free throws, and the Owls won in Dayton.
Temple (24-9) opened a 17-point lead before Wyatt – the Atlantic 10's player of the year and top scorer – hurt his left thumb and left the game briefly, returning with black tape on the non-shooting hand.
Every shot was an adventure, but he made enough – including six painful but perfect free throws in the final 32 seconds – to help Temple aadvance.
Richard Howell had 14 points and 15 rebounds for N.C. State (24-11), which trailed nearly the entire game.
No. 2 Miami 78, No. 15 Pacific 49: Durand Scott had 21 points, and the Hurricanes put the game out of reach with a 14-0 first-half run.
Shane Larkin added 10 points and nine assists for Miami (28-6), which won in its first NCAA tourney game in 5 years. The 'Canes play Illinois on Sunday.
Travis Fulton hit six of his 10 3-point attempts for 18 points for Pacific (22-13). Khalili Kelley added 11 points and 10 rebounds.


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Scandal can add the First Lady to its long list of fans.
Though Michelle Obama didn't watch the ABC political fixer drama from the beginning, she admitted to Ryan Seacrest on his radio show Thursday that she recently binge-watched the series' entire run thus far.
President Obama likes Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire
"You know what? I hadn't watched it until this past vacation — we went to Hawaii so I had a long flight — so I watched all the seasons," she said. "I caught up on Scandal. I never watched it. ... I love Kerry Washington. She is amazing, so it makes the show fun. It really does. It was fun to watch."
For his part, President Barack Obama has said in the past that he enjoys Homeland, The Wire, House of Cards, Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire.
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Romney to business leaders: tell employees how to vote
We talked the other day about some business leaders using heavy-handed election tactics, pressuring their employees to support Mitt Romney, even going so far as to suggest the workers' jobs are on the line. What we didn't know is what the Republican candidate has done to encourage these efforts.
In These Times published this audio clip yesterday, and our pal James Carter isolated the relevant portion:
For those who can't listen to clips online, here's a transcript what Romney said during his June 6 conference call with the far-right National Federation of Independent Business:
"I hope you make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in the best interest of your enterprise and therefore their job and their future in the upcoming elections. And whether you agree with me or you agree with President Obama, or whatever your political view, I hope, you pass those along to your employees. There's nothing illegal about you talking to your employees about what you believe is best for the business, because I think that will figure into their election decision, their voting decision."
We know, of course, that plenty of Romney allies have taken the advice to heart, including David Siegel, the CEO of a large timeshare company, who sent a lengthy written tirade to his workers, telling them President Obama's re-election would "threaten your job." There have been similar incidents involving Arthur Allen, CEO of ASG Software Solutions; Bob Murray, CEO of coal company Murray Energy; Richard Lacks, CEO of Lacks Enterprises; and of course, the Koch brothers.
As for whether Romney's correct about the legality, this isn't my area of expertise, but The Atlantic's Adam Clark Estes wrote, "It's not technically illegal for employers to tell their employees how to vote. That doesn't mean that it's ethical or understandable or even acceptable to connect people's livelihoods with their political beliefs. There's a fine line between an employer telling an employee, 'Vote Romney!' and a boss telling a subordinate, 'Vote Romney, or else!' At least, in the eyes of the inevitably subordinate employees there's not."


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All this week, the AFC North blog has taken a look back at the 2009 draft for each team in the division. For Friday, we'll wrap up the draft reviews with the Pittsburgh Steelers:
First round: Ziggy Hood, DE
Third round: Kraig Urbik, G, Mike Wallace, WR, and Keenan Lewis, CB
Fifth round: Joe Burnett, DB, Frank Summers, RB
Sixth round: Ra'Shon Harris, DT
Seventh round: A.Q. Shipley, C, and David Johnson, TE
Thumbs up: The Steelers came away with one of the steals of the 2009 draft by getting Wallace at the 84th pick. He was the 11th wide receiver taken in this draft after the likes of Darrius Heyward-Bey (Raiders), Mohamed Massaquoi (Browns), Brian Robiskie (Browns), Derrick Williams (Lions) and Brandon Tate (Patriots). Wallace's 3,206 yards receiving are the second-most by an active wide receiver in his first three seasons (ranks only behind Anquan Boldin). Hood has quietly stepped up as a starter the past two years when Aaron Smith was injured. Some suggest he's been a disappointment. Hood was the lowest graded 3-4 defensive end, according to Pro Football Focus. The Steelers have gotten some use out of Johnson, who could become the team's fullback this season.
Thumbs down: Urbik was a bust for the Steelers, getting cut after one full season when he lost the backup job to Ramon Foster. But Urbik proved to be one of the top pass-protecting guards in the NFL after making 13 starts last season for the Bills. Maybe the Steelers gave up on Urbik too quickly. Lewis, the last of the Steelers' three third-round picks in this draft, has been a role player behind William Gay and Bryant McFadden. With those veterans gone, this year will tell a lot about Lewis and his future with the Steelers. Burnett is now playing for the CFL's Edmonton Eskimos after playing 15 games and recording no interceptions for Pittsburgh.
Hensley's grade: B-minus. The only established starter in this draft has been Wallace, who happens to be the AFC North's best player from this draft. It's not even close. Hood has been adequate as a fill-in starter, and Lewis has yet to make a significant impact. Johnson has provided production as a seventh-round pick, which is a pleasant surprise.


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Even a three-time Olympian can be nervous, especially when competing in one of the 12 new events that will debut in Sochi in less than a month.
Women's luger Erin Hamlin is excited for another chance at a medal with the addition of the mixed team relay. But she also feels some nerves taking the world stage in an unfamiliar event.
"It is an interesting concept," she said. "I am not sure how they will do it to be honest. The reaction time will be critical."
The new event resembles a track relay with a running clock. To start, a women's single sledder starts her run and must hit a pad at the end, alerting the men's single racer to start his attempt. He hits the same pad to alert the doubles team, which must hit the pad for the final combined team time.
A missed pad - like a dropped track baton - disqualifies the team. A delayed start for the man or the team will likely make the difference between a medal and finishing well back in the pack.
"It would be so hard to make that time up," Hamlin said. "The last thing you want to do is miss the pad. Lifting your arm too early could slow you down pretty drastically. It shakes things up big time in the luge world."
A lot of sports were stirred up by this Olympic opportunity. The other new sports are: biathlon mixed relay; figure skating mixed team, women's ski jumping; and men's and women's competition in ski halfpipe, ski slopestyle, snowboard parallel slalom and snowboard slopestyle.
"It's an exciting year for us and our sport," U.S. ski slopestyler Tom Wallisch said. "It's like a skate park in the snow and I think it will attract a whole new audience to the Games."
It already has a youthful following.
"They may see someone do something they have never done before or see them land on their head," Wallisch said of the challenging 565-meter course with rails and a variety of jumps. "There are some tricks that are easier on snowboards than skis because some tricks could end up splitting your skis and you getting hit in the groin with a rail."
Another sport that should benefit greatly from more exposure is women's ski jumping. It took a decade of legal battles for International Olympic Committee officials to ratify the sport, considering the event too dangerous for females.
It promises to be a competition - along with the new skiing and snowboarding events - in which Team USA can expect to pick up medals.
Jessica Jerome won the U.S. trials last month over Lindsey Van, who won the first world championship in 2009. Reigning world champion Sarah Hendrickson, 19, is expected to join the team later this month after a summertime crash tore up her right knee. She is expected to make the Olympic team based on past results.
"We have great depth and newcomers and Hendrickson is a definite medal threat if she is healthy," USOC winter sport high performance director Scott Riewald said. "We have a real opportunity to do well in all of them. We have depth and strength in all of them."


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Here's a brief look at some of the area's bike trails, their history and what they have to offer. Many have cafes and other restaurants along the way to stop for a bite. And you'll get a peek at McHenry County's wildlife scene. This guide will tell you what to be looking for.
Morraine Hills State Park Trail
Where: Moraine Hills State Park, 1510 S. River Road, McHenry. Pick up the trail from the Northern Woods parking lot and picnic area of the park. In McHenry, connect through the River Road trail, which starts at Miller and River roads and takes you to the main entrance of the park.
Length: 10 miles with three separate loops
History: Trails, as well as picnic areas, were already put in place when the park opened in 1977. Construction of the park took place two years earlier after the State of Illinois acquired the Lake Defiance area. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources oversees the roughly 2,200 acres of park, half of which is composed of wetlands and lakes.
What you'll see: Rolling woodland, wetlands, ponds, prairies, the Fox River
Rest stops: A concession stand at the McHenry Dam offers drinks and snacks.
Tidbits: A few years ago, the trail became one-way only to help bicyclists avoid collisions.
Prairie Trail
Where: Stretches from the Kane County line in Algonquin to the Wisconsin state border. Main access points located north of Algonquin near Meyer Drive, along Main Street in Crystal Lake, at Petersen Park in McHenry and in Glacial Park north of Ringwood.
Length: 26 miles with access to more than 100 miles of trail network. Algonquin to Ringwood is 19 miles; Ringwood to the Wisconsin line is 7 miles; Prairie Trail to Hebron Trail is 7 miles.
History: Follows the former Chicago and Northwestern rail line that ran from Kane County to Wisconsin. The McHenry County Conservation District built the trail along portions of the corridor that were abandoned by the railroad.
What you'll see: Sterne's Woods, Glacial Park, Nippersink North Branch Conservation Area, Crystal Lake, Algonquin, McHenry, Ringwood and Richmond.
Rest stops: Numerous cafes, restaurants and ice cream shops as you travel through the cities.
Tidbits: "Glacial Park is just beautiful," said George Mann, member of the McHenry County Bicycle Club. Encountered at 19.2 miles, the park is full of marshes, savanna and prairie. Nippersink Creek is a must-see, bikers say.
Hebron Trail
Where: Runs from Church Street in Hebron eastward through North Branch Conservation Area and links with the Prairie Trail in Richmond.
Length: 7 miles
History: It was constructed on the former K.D. railroad line.
What you'll see: The first mile is dominated by cropland with patches of woodland. You might hear the honking of sandhill cranes as the trail winds through wetlands. A trailside viewing platform at Streets Lake offers a view of cattails, waterbirds and muskrat lodgers.
Rest stops: Trail ends in Hebron, a village known for its 1952 basketball championship team, and by cyclists, for its Dari ice cream shop.
Tidbits: A camp-by-bike area is located in North Branch for bikers on longer trips.
Huntley-Union-Marengo (HUM) Trail
Where: Join the trail on Prospect Street behind Marengo Middle School. Trail runs from East Street in Marengo to Vine Street in Union.
Length: 3.5 miles
History: Grew out of the conservation district's purchase of 104 acres from the Chicago Northwest Railroad, now Union Pacific. This portion is the first phase of a proposed 17-mile trail that one day could take bicyclists from Boone County to Huntley along the tracks.
What you'll see: Mostly prairie, wildflowers, and of course, the railroad tracks.
Rest stops: In Marengo, Mr. Freeze is nearby, while Union has a Checkers II restaurant.
Tidbits: As for the expansion, "It's a concept that would be great if it could ever get funded," district spokeswoman Wendy Kummerer said, adding that right now, "It's so far in the future."
Ridgefield Trace
Where: From Oak Street in Crystal Lake to McHenry County College along Route 14.
Length: 2 miles
History: Runs within a Com-Ed right-of way. Work is underway for a second phase of the trail that would extend it eastward to Veteran Acres Park. That project should be completed next year.
What you'll see: Trail follows Route 14.
Rest stops: McHenry County College, along with various businesses along the highway
Tidbits: There are plans to extend it to Route 47 in Woodstock once Route 14 is widened.
Stone Mill Trail
Where: Located between Lawrence Road in Harvard and Maxon Road in Chemung.
Length: 1.5 miles
History: A saw mill, grist mill and then a flour mill all existed on the Chemung end of the trail dating back to 1845.
What you'll see: A view of the rural towns and area along a flat route that, as Mann says, "is just smooth as silk."
Rest stops: Found mostly on the Harvard end, where numerous restaurants and cafes are within riding distance.
Tidbits: Future phases would connect Milky Way Park in Harvard to Boone County Conservation District's Long Prairie Trail.
Looking to start riding?
Members of the McHenry County Bicycle Club hope to draw new members. To do so, Anne Lunk is heading up a weekly ride on the Prairie Trail. Starting Aug. 5, riders will meet at 6 p.m. Fridays to ride from Algonquin to East Dundee, which will take them to various points along the Fox River.
Riders will go anywhere from 10 to 12 miles an hour during the roughly 13- to 15-mile round trip, Lunk said.
"We're trying to target new people, people that might be afraid of riding on the road, but want to get out there," she said.
For information on the ride or the club, go to www.mchenrybicycleclub.org.
More information on the area's bike trails can be found at www.mccdistrict.org.
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ahh ill never get sick of for an angel.
10 hour session last night makes it ok then =P
And here come the classics!
we are true fans!
i was there on sat from 930 pm to 630 am.
and today from 10 to 4.
body gave up!
I wouldn't call someone who saw 16 hours of Schulz in a weekend "not a true fan"
Kudos to you who attended both nights - your body gave up but brain and ears didnt!
Studio set now?
Last edited by caesarinho; 20-02-12 at 02:00 PM.
Definitely would say Saturday night's set was better then Sunday's, although Sunday has much more energy from the crowd. I didn't miss a minute from either set, 9:30-8 Saturday and 9:30-6 Sunday. Body is so worn day and tired, it's unbelievable.
Markus Schulz vs. Arnej
35. Rex Mundi vs. Ronski Speed vs. ID - The Perspective Space vs. ID
Christian Cambas & Spektre - Rebel Without A Cause
Rex Mundi vs. Ronski Speed - The Perspective Space
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Does the phone number to Marie Callendar count as a recipe? :o
"I am of the opinion that one of the things that make America such a great country is the regional variations in the type of Turkey stuffing y'll make for Thanksgiving and Christmas !"
Stuffing just for laughs, Beth Lee sent in the recipe she says her mother gives out when people ask for her secret:
3 cups cornbread
1 cup celery
Salt & pepper to taste
1 cup onion
3 cups popcorn, washed
3 cups uncooked rice
Mix well. Stuff turkey and cook until the popcorn pops and blows open the oven door and the hind end off the turkey!
Sausage Dressing
1 1/2 lbs. ground beef
1 lb. ground pork sausage
1 medium onion, chopped
1 cup celery, chopped
2 tbsp. butter
2 potatoes
1 onion
5 carrots
1 stalk of celery
2 loaves day-old bread crumbs
2 eggs, slightly beaten
Brown and drain the ground beef and sausage; set aside.
Sauté the medium onion and chopped celery in the butter.
Boil and mash the potatoes, other onion, carrots and celery
Mix ingredients with bread crumbs, add salt and pepper,
then add eggs. Stuffing should be moist, not gooey.
Stuff neck and cavity.
Slider Stuffing
10 Krystal burgers with no pickle or mustard, but just
onions (about one burger per pound of turkey)
1 1/2 cup celery, diced
1 1/4 tsp. ground thyme
1 1/2 tsp. sage
1/2 tsp. black pepper
2-3 carrots, boiled, drained and mashed
In a large bowl, tear (or cut) the burgers into pieces. Add
diced celery, mashed carrots, and seasonings. Toss well. Stuff
cavity and neck before roasting.
Makes about 9 cups, enough for 10-12 lb. turkey.
Mississippi Dressing
4 batches of cornbread made according to Vintage
Vicksburg recipe (included)
1 qt. homemade chicken stock chicken stock (see note)
4-5 bunches green onions (including tops), chopped
5 stalks celery, chopped
2 pieces of white bread
Salt and pepper
Vintage Vicksburg cornbread:
1 cup white cornmeal
1 Tbsp. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 cup buttermilk
1 egg
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
Make the cornbread: Mix all ingredients and stir well.
Heat a small amount of oil in the bottom of a black skillet
until sizzling. Pour in batter. Bake at 425 degrees about 20
minutes. (The black iron skillet is crucial to a good crust.)
To make the dressing, put the broth, onion and celery in a
deep skillet. Cook until celery is soft. Meanwhile, crumble
cornbread completely in a large bowl. Add the broth
mixture. Tear and add white bread. Mix all well. Get in
with your hands if you need to! Add salt and LOTS of black
pepper. (I just taste it until I like it.) Put in 2 greased
9-by-13 casserole dishes. I usually keep out a small amount
to mix with oysters and a little of the oyster broth for a
small casserole. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes.
Note: Use homemade stock. Don't shortcut here!
Homemade broth makes a big difference. This can be done
in advance and the broth can be frozen. Boil a whole
chicken with an onion, celery with leaves, and a carrot. Add
salt and pepper. Cook until the chicken is done (the leg will
move easily). Remove the chicken and strain the broth. This
recipe is not for sissies, but definitely worth the effort! I
make the cornbread on Monday, chop onions and celery on
Tuesday, and put the dressing together on Thanksgiving
morning. You could do it ahead, but I like the way kitchen
smells while watching parades.
1 large onion, minced
1 stick of butter
1 bunch of celery, chopped
4 large boxes of Ritz crackers
2 tbsp. sage
Pinch of poultry seasoning
Pinch of celery seed
Hot water
Place the onion, butter and celery in a large pot and saute.
Use blender or food processor to ground up the crackers so
they are fine in consistency. Put crackers in pot, add
seasonings and hot water to make the dressing blended and
of a thick consistency. You want to adjust the sage to your
taste preference.
Not Philly's Mother's Dressing
1/2 cup butter
1 cup finely chopped celery
2 medium onions, chopped
6 cups cornbread crumbs
6 cold biscuits, crumbled
1 1/2 tsp. poultry seasoning
1 tsp. black pepper
3 hardboiled eggs, chopped
3 raw eggs, lightly beaten
2 or more cups chicken broth
Melt butter in heavy skillet, add celery and onion; saute
until vegetables are soft. Mix vegetable mixture,
seasonings, bread crumbs, and biscuits, and toss until well
mixed. Add eggs and stir to mix. Pour on enough chicken
broth to moisten the cornbread without making it soggy.
Spread 2 inches deep in greased baking dish. Bake 400
degrees until lightly browned on top and cooked through.
Serves 12.
Cornbread Dressing
6 cups cornbread, crumbled
4 slices white bread, crumbled
3 eggs, lightly beaten
2 (10 3/4 oz.) cans cream of chicken soup
1 tbsp. poultry seasoning
2 1/2 tbsp. sage
1 tbsp. black pepper
1 medium onion, finely chopped
2 ribs celery, finely chopped
3 (14 1/2 oz.) cans chicken broth or equivalent
stock/drippings from turkey
1/4 cup butter, melted (see note)
Mix all ingredients together and pour into greased 13 x 9
baking dish. Bake at 350 degrees for approximately one
hour or until lightly browned on top.
Note: If using homemade stock or drippings from turkey,
omit butter. This is the basic recipe that was used by my
mother, who is 90 years old. Instead of the white bread, she
used leftover biscuits and boiled a whole chicken to get the
stock. The chicken was taken off the bones and was mixed
into the dressing before cooking.
Dressing to Die For but don't .
6 cups of cornbread made with buttermilk (three round cake
6 slices toasted bread
1 can of 10 biscuits
1 bag Pepperidge Farm herb stuffing mix
1 large hen (save broth)
1 medium onion chopped into tiny pieces (use food processor)
2 stalks of celery chopped fine (use food processor)
1 stick butter
5 to 6 raw eggs
3 hardboiled eggs
1 can cream of chicken soup
Cook cornbread, biscuits and toast bread, then crumble into
tiny pieces (no large pieces). Add stuffing mix and put all in
a large pan. Boil the hen until falling off bone. Chop up
into tiny pieces, using only lean chicken. Reserve chicken
Saute onion, celery, and 1 stick of butter. Add 5 to 6 raw
eggs, and one can of cream of chicken soup.
When mixing dressing to cook, mix bread mix with lots of
(hot) chicken broth from hen (or use 6 to 10 cans), add 3
chopped boiled eggs and chopped chicken. Add enough broth
for dressing to be soupy. Stir in sauteed mix, mixing well.
Bake 30 to 45 minutes at 350 degrees until firm and lightly
Makes about 4 or 5 pans.Good for a church thanksgiving
supper !
Melrose Dressing
4 cups corn meal
2 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. soda
4 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. poultry seasoning (or to taste)
1 tsp. sage (or to taste)
1 tsp. thyme (or to taste)
1/4 tsp. parsley
1/2 tsp. red pepper (or to taste)
1 tsp. black pepper (or to taste)
1 tsp. onion powder
2 tbsp. dried onion flakes crumbled
1 tsp. minced garlic (or a shake of garlic powder)
1 cup diced celery
1 cup diced onion
1 cup diced bell pepper
2 eggs
4 cups buttermilk
4 tbsp. bacon fat that you've heated in a large black skillet
1 stick butter
A few slices loaf bread, or left over hot dog or hamburger
buns, crumbled
5 cups or more warm chicken or turkey stock
3 eggs
Mix ingredients through the bell pepper. Add eggs,
buttermilk and bacon fat; pour back into the large iron
skillet (might need two).
Bake in 400 degree oven 50 minutes-1 hour or until done
(toothpick comes out clean).
Turn out of skillet into large mixing container. Add a stick
of butter and let melt into cornbread. You do not have to
refrigerate this at this point. You can even let it sit a day.
When ready to cook, add remaining ingredients until soupy.
Pour into what ever you want to cook this in: turkey,
skillet, sheet pan, etc. Bake 350 degrees until done. This will
probably mean at least 1 hour, longer if you have
refrigerated the raw dressing
I cook our turkey in a clay pot. Basically it's just a stuffed turkey marinated in butter and wine but it's absolutely delicious. No basting or fooling around for me.
Sage stuffing, mashed potatoes, real gravy, and succotash. The usual sides: sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, real rolls, various snacky things.
No recipes since everybody can make this stuff. :)
Crockpot Dressing
8-inch pan cornbread, cooked
8 slices of day-old bread
4 eggs
1 med. onion, chopped
1/2 cup chopped celery
1 1/2 tsp. sage
1 tsp. salt
2 cans cream of chicken soup
2 cans chicken broth
2 tsp. butter or margarine
2 to 4 hardboiled eggs
Mix all ingredients, except butter and eggs. Pour into
Crockpot. Dab butter on top and cook on high for 4 hours
or on low for 8 hours.
When it is almost done, add chopped boiled eggs on top.
Ma's Squash Dressing
2 lbs. yellow squash, cut into bite size pieces
1 medium onion, chopped
4 stalks celery, chopped
1 lb. mild or hot sausage, cooked and drained
1 pan of cornbread, crumbled
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 can cream of chicken soup
1/2 can chicken broth
Poultry seasoning, salt and pepper to taste
Cook squash, celery & onions until tender. Drain well. Cook
sausage; drain well. Add all items together & mix well. Put
into a 9-by-13 dish. Bake at 350 for about 35-40 minutes.
Mushroom-Celery Stuffing
1 lb. mushrooms, sliced thin
1 to 1 1/2 cups chopped celery with leaves (4-5
medium-size ribs)
1 large onion, chopped fine
1 cup butter or margarine
7 cups soft bread cubes
2 tsp. poultry seasoning
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
In large skillet sauté mushrooms, celery and onion in
butter until mushrooms are tender. Toss with bread cubes,
poultry seasoning, salt and pepper. Makes about 9 cups
stuffing, enough for 10 to 12 pound turkey.
Stuffing can also be baked in greased covered baking dish or
casserole in 325 degree oven 45-60 minutes or until heated
through. For drier, crispier stuffing, uncover last 15
minutes. This can be made and frozen up to 1 month ahead.
Not Philly's Mother's Dressing
Oh, thank god...no giant pieces of giblets in there. But lose the hard boiled eggs please.
Thanksgiving Test Recipe: Bacon-Wrapped Turkey Roulade...picture .
Some people might say theres something missing at our Thanksgiving table. They might say that the conspicuous absence of a large, roasted bird means that its not Thanksgiving at all. But my family would disagree. I dont remember the last time my mom roasted a whole turkey. Theyre difficult to carve, easily dry out and everyone fights for the white meat. My mom tried a Turkey Roulade one year, and we havent looked back since.
Usually, we make a prosciutto and sage-stuffed turkey breast, wrapped in peppered bacon and basted with pear jam. Its absolutely delicious. The bacon and jam keep the turkey nice and juicy, and the pepper is a perfect contrast to the sweet jam. My moms been doing this turkey for years, and we decided to change it up a little this year. We picked our filling ingredients and I volunteered to make a test turkey.
Instead of prosciutto and sage, I stuffed it with caramelized onions and figs, goat cheese, cranberries and chopped toasted pecans. I still wrapped it in bacon how could I not wrap it in bacon? but I did skip the pear jam and I couldnt find peppered bacon.
The new filling was a definite success. It was rich, tart and sweet without being overpowering. I had skipped the pear jam because I thought the filling would be too sweet, but the sweetness actually mellowed out while the turkey roasted and the bacon didnt caramelize as well as Id hoped, so the pear jam will be back on Thanksgiving day. I also missed the spicy kick from the peppered bacon to counteract the rich filling, so Ill redouble my efforts to find before the big day.
Its not a traditional turkey, but its delicious, easy to slice, easy to serve. I already cant wait to hit up the leftovers in my fridge!
Bacon-Wrapped Turkey Roulade
For the brine:
1/3 cup salt
6 cups water
3 tbsp. unsalted butter
2 large yellow onions, thinly sliced (or 24 red pearl onions, peeled but whole)
2 medium shallots, thinly sliced
3/4 cup dried figs, chopped
2 tbsp. water or stock
1 whole, boneless turkey breast, butterflied (usually around 4 - 6 pounds)
2 tsp. sea salt
20 slices peppered bacon (like this one)
6 oz. goat cheese, crumbled
1/2 cup fresh cranberries
1 cup chopped toasted pecans*
1 1/2 cups pear jam (use apricot jam if you cant find pear jam)
Butchers twine for wrapping
Start by brining the turkey. Mix the salt and water together in a very large bowl or dish. Rinse the turkey and place in the brine for about 1 hour. You can brine while you caramelize the onions and figs. When youre done brining, remove the turkey, rinse it thoroughly and pat it dry with paper towels. Discard the brine.
Caramelize the onions and figs. Place a skillet over medium heat. Once its hot, add the onions and shallots. Saute for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the onions and shallots turn translucent. Add the figs and water (or stock) and continue to cook for another 15 minutes, until everything is a golden, caramelized color. Remove from heat.
Preheat the oven to 325°.
Line a rimmed cookie sheet with parchment paper or foil, then set aside. Now, lay your bacon out length-wise on your work surface. You want each piece to slightly overlap the piece before it. Place the butterflied turkey breast on top of the bacon, with the butterflied, split portion perpendicular to the bacon. You want the bacon to wrap around the turkey when you roll it up.
Sprinkle the turkey with salt. Layer the caramelized onions and figs, goat cheese, cranberries and pecans on the turkey, making sure to spread the filling out in an even layer, or your turkey will be hard to roll.
Using both hands, start rolling the turkey onto itself like a fruit roll-up, stuffing the filling back in if it escapes. Wrap your butchers twine around the turkey breast. Place the turkey on the prepared cookie sheet, seem side down, and spread the pear jam all over the bacon.
Bake for 1 1/2 - 2 hours. Its done when the bacon is brown and caramelized. Remove from oven and let cool for 10 minutes, then slice into 1 1/2 - inch rounds and place on your serving dish. Drizzle with any drippings and serve immediately.
Makes 6 large servings.
*Toast the pecans by spreading them out on a cookie sheet (whole) and placing in a 325° oven for 20 minutes. Let cool, then chop coarsely.
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- Jena Economic Resea...
- Volume 3
- Dealing with ignore...
- Autor
- Erschienen
- 2. November 2009
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
- Schlagwort(e)
Choice experiment
environmental quality objectives
follow-up question
ignoring attributes
- Zusammenfsg.
Using a choice experiment, this paper investigates how Swedish citizens value three environmental quality objectives. In addition, a follow-up question is used to investigate whether respondents ignored any attributes when responding. The resulting information is used in the model estimation by restricting the individual parameters for the ignored attributes to zero. When taking the shares of respondents who considered both the environmental and the cost attributes (52-69 percent of the respondents) into account, then the WTPs for each attribute change if the respondents who ignored the attributes have a zero WTP. At the same time, we find evidence that not all respondents who claimed to have ignored an attribute really did. However, the most commonly ignored non-monetary attributes always have the lowest rankings in terms of WTP across all three environmental objectives. Thus, our results show that instead of ignoring, respondents seem to put less weight on the attributes they claimed to have ignored.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- article research fields JER
- experimental economics
- JEL-Classification for JER
- D61 - Allocative Efficiency; Cost–Benefit Analysis ; Q50 - General ; Q51 - Valuation of Environmental Effects


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Welcome to the Yale Sailing Association!
The purpose of this association is to provide alumni and friends of Yale Athletics
information about Yale Sailing as well as creating a support network for current
student athletes. Through the offering of career networking and job placement,
hosting of special events including receptions, alumni/alumnae games, golf outings,
and the raising of money to support Yale Athletics, the Yale Sailing Association
enhances the experience between Yale Athletics and the alumni community.
Coming Soon!
To join the Yale Sailing Association or to make a gift please CLICK HERE and follow the instructions below:
- You will be directed to Yale's online giving mechanism - Giving to Yale. This is the website which allows for online enrollment in athletic team associations as well as donations to Yale for other purposes.
- Follow the instructions to Make a Gift or Pledge Payment By Credit Card Now
- You will then be asked to designate your gift type (i.e. New Gift)
- Next you will be asked to designate what you would like your donation to Support. If you are making a donation for the purpose of joining an association or simply making a donation to a specific Sport, select "Specific Sport" - this will prompt a drop down menu for you to select the specific sport you would like to support.
- Note: If your donation falls within the thresholds designated by your association, you will automatically be enrolled in the association. If your donation qualifies for parking or other benefits, you will be contacted by a member of the athletic association to specify these aspects of your membership.
Checks should be made payable to Yale University and should include the sport association you wish to have your contribution directed towards. Gifts or pledges can be made by calling (203) 432-1434 or mailing payment to:
Yale Athletic Association
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New Haven, CT 06508-1844
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CLICK HERE to access the Yale Athletics Sport Association Facebook Page!
HOST THE TEAM! Give back to your favorite team by hosting them for a meal
on the road! For more information please email firstname.lastname@example.com .
CLICK HERE to learn about the different ways you can give to the Yale Sailing Association!
Board Members
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Just powered down and tried to reboot my lemur3 and am continually given the message: package power limit notification, for each cpu - total events = 1
The mouse is operational, I can access other tty but I cannot boot into unity...?
EDIT: 12.10 - Linux lemur 3.5.0-18-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 19 10:26:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Note I am able to boot into Unity without the error if I have no power connected to the laptop?
also (although this maybe a red-herring) I was unable to connect to my local wi-fi until I disconnected my power cable..


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Live racing will run Wednesday through Sunday each week as well as on three Mondays: January 19, February 16, and March 16. Other Mondays and all Tuesdays are dark.
The highlight of the winter meet is the 38th running of the $500,000 Lane's End Stakes (G2) on March 21. A mile and an eighth for three-year-olds, the Lane's End Stakes is a major prep for the Kentucky Derby and is annually run six weeks before the first Saturday in May.
The Lane's End undercard features the $150,000 Bourbonette Oaks (G3) for three-year-old fillies, a one-mile prep for the Kentucky Oaks. Also on the undercard are the $100,000 Rushaway, 1 1/16 miles for three-year-olds; the $50,000 Hansel, a six furlong sprint also for three-year-olds; and the $50,000 Queen, six furlongs for older fillies and mares.
At $175 per seat, the party in the Maker's Mark VIP Tent is again the top ticket on Lane's End day. Other reserved seating from $25 to $80 is available throughout the grandstand. General admission is $10 on Lane's End day. Tickets are on sale now.
Admission is free every day of the meet except Lane's End day, and parking is free every day. Valet parking is available.
The winter/spring meet also offers a dozen other stakes races, each with a $50,000 purse except as noted. The complete stakes schedule is:
January 3 Turfway Prevue Stakes, first local prep for the Lane's End Stakes
January 10 Wishing Well Stakes
January 17 Cincinnati Trophy Stakes, first local prep for the Bourbonette Oaks
January 24 Forego Stakes
January 31 WEBN Stakes, second local prep for the Lane's End
February 7 Likely Exchange Stakes
February 14 Dust Commander Stakes
February 21 Valdale Stakes, second local prep for the Bourbonette
February 28 $100,000 John Battaglia Memorial Stakes, third local prep for the Lane's End
March 7 Wintergreen Stakes
March 14 Tejano Run Stakes
March 21 Lane's End Stakes, Bourbonette Oaks, Rushaway, Hansel, and Queen
March 28 Fairway Fun Stakes
In conjunction with the WEBN Stakes, Cincinnati rock radio station WEBN and Turfway will host the 8th annual WEBN Stakes Party on January 31. Tickets are required but free on-air from WEBN and at Turfway Park on Dollar Fridays.
Turfway's popular Dollar Fridays, named "Best of the City 2008 – Best Cheap Date" by Cincinnati Magazine, will continue throughout the winter meet. Featuring Bud and Bud Light draft beer, hot dogs, and bets for one dollar each, Dollar Fridays also offer giveaways, games aimed at novice players, and, on most Fridays, live music.
Events in the near future include 96 Rock Pony Keg Night on January 17 and Intimidation Cage Fighting bouts on January 24. Complete information on all events will be posted throughout the meet at http://www.turfway.com.
Complementing its live racing schedule, Turfway is open for simulcast racing Wednesday through Sunday each week and additionally on Mondays in January and February. Gates open at 11:15am ET daily except as announced.


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Last night I drinked up my lastest bottle o' that Hundson's Bay rum.
"following all others," from Old English latost (adj.) and lætest (adv.), superlative of læt (see late). Cognate with Old Frisian lest, Dutch laatst, Old High German laggost, German letzt. Meaning "most recent" is from c.1200. The noun, "last person or thing," is c.1200, from the adjective. Last hurrah is from the title of Edwin O'Connor's 1956 novel. Last word "final, definitive statement" is from 1650s. A dying person's last words so called by 1740. As an adjective, last-minute attested from 1913. Last-chance (adj.) is from 1962.
"endure, go on existing," from Old English læstan "to continue, endure," earlier "accomplish, carry out," literally "to follow a track," from Proto-Germanic *laistjan "to follow a track" (cf. Gothic laistjan "to follow," Old Frisian lasta "to fulfill, to pay (duties)," German leisten "to perform, achieve, afford"), from PIE *leis- "track, furrow."
Related to last (n.), not to last (adj.). Related: Lasted; lasting.
"shoemaker's block," from Old English læste, from last "track, footprint, trace," from Proto-Germanic *laist- (cf. Old Norse leistr "the foot," Middle Dutch, Dutch leest "form, model, last," Old High German leist "track, footprint," German Leisten "last," Gothic laistjan "to follow," Old English læran "to teach"); see last (v.).