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GOP Congressman Doug Lamborn and his Democrat challenger Irv Halter are neck and neck in campaign financing for the 5th Congressional District election in November.
Lamborn reported Friday in the fourth quarter raising $56,658, spending $13,624 and having $113,674 cash on hand.
Halter reported raising $55,213, spending $28,640 and having $109,739 cash on hand.
The newcomer to the race, Democrat Leslie Summey, didn't report any contributions in the last months of 2013.
Halter's campaign manager Ethan Susseles said they are satisfied with their contributions in the difficult fourth quarter filled with holidays.
Lamborn said it's too early to be consumed by politics.
"I am making steady progress, but up until now I've been concentrating much of my energy on just doing a good job for the people as a representative," Lamborn said. "As we get into the political season I will gear that up even more."
Lamborn has held the office since 2006. He has handily won re-election every two years against both primary and general election opponents.
Susseles believes now is the right time to challenge Lamborn.
"We've done internal polling that shows that the electorate knows who he is and has an unfavorable opinion of him," Susseles said. "We think that makes him especially vulnerable, particularly because of the government shut down."
Lamborn said his electorate, while unhappy with the shut down and the gridlock, know him.
"I am not a part of Washington," Lamborn said. "I tend to be part of the solution."
Susseles said Halter's military record - he's a retired two-star Air Force general - and his history with the Colorado Springs business leaders will also give him a boost in the election.
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Anti-Corruption Bodies Call for Closer CollaborationMay 26, 2014
Anti-corruption bodies in Kosovo are often not well connected and integrated, due to their wide diversity, overlapping mandates, competing agendas, and a general institutional lack of clarity. Establishing effective inter-institutional cooperation and coordination is a necessity. For this purpose, the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA), representatives of the Chief Prosecutors Office and seven Regional Basic Prosecutions Offices, and the Kosovo Police - Economic Crimes and Corruption Investigation Directorate, organized for the very first time a joint two day workshop to strengthen their cooperation in all stages of investigations on suspected cases of corruption, with the aim of increasing efficiency in the fight against corruption in Kosovo.
Facilitated by UNDP's Anti-Corruption Programme with the generous support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, officials of the anti – corruption bodies have discussed on current challenges (practical issues) between these institutions and ways to enhance cooperation to achieve results in preventing and combating corruption.
Speaking on the current problems, Director of the Anti-Corruption Agency, Mr. Hasan Preteni, noted that "institutions cannot interfere in each other's mission, but the cooperation must improve in order to strengthen the national system."
The immediate need to strengthen cooperation between the Agency and Prosecutions was emphasized. "When ACA submits a criminal report, the prosecutor of the case has never called Agency's investigators to cooperate with them in the investigative process. It would be good if the prosecutor of the case invites investigators to collaborate with them and build the capacities of the Agency's staff on one side, but also ensure progress in investigations on the other, and ultimately ensure that we produce qualitative criminal reports" – said Preteni.
Meanwhile, Shqipe Neziri, UNDP Anti-Corruption Programme Manager, said that the aim of UNDP, through this programme, is to build sustainable and functional capacities in Kosovo, supporting efforts for a greater visibility and effectiveness among anti-corruption mechanisms in order to strengthen the institutional trust of citizens.
On the other hand, heads of Basic Prosecutions agreed that cooperation between prosecutors handling cases submitted by the Agency and the Agency's investigators must take place.
"To ensure a better functioning of the chain, the triangular communication between the Agency, the Police, and Prosecution must be continuously strengthened. It would be desirable to also have more discussions on serious cases, prior to drafting a criminal report. This is because we know what preparations must be done to go to court", said Agron Qalaj Chief Prosecutor of the Basic Prosecution in Ferizaj/Urosevac.

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Successful entrepreneur A. Leon Linton will receive an honorary degree and give the commencement address at Lawrence Technological University's 82nd commencement exercises on May 10.
LTU will hold indoor ceremonies beginning at 1 p.m. at the Ultimate Soccer Arenas in Pontiac. The university is awarding more than 850 degrees this academic year.
Linton will receive an honorary doctor of engineering. He founded Southern Systems, Inc. (SSI) in 1968 to design, manufacture, and install conveyor systems, automation equipment, and electrical controls on a turnkey basis. The company serves manufacturers of heavy trucks, construction equipment, military tanks, oil field pipe, aircraft, furniture and appliances.
Projects at SSI range from small system modifications to multimillion-dollar green-field programs. SSI conveyors are used in the manufacture and processing of small products, weighing only several ounces, to unit loads of over 100,000 pounds, and almost every shape and size in between.
SSI, with two facilities in Memphis, Tennessee, and a branch in Ft. Smith, Arkansas, is also one of only a few companies in the nation capable of slipform continuous pour concrete construction of massive silos and related equipment associated with ethanol production, cement manufacturing, pet food processing, and coal handling and storage.
Linton's many achievements include pioneering innovations that have become industry standards.
Linton, a 1962 graduate in mechanical engineering, is one of Lawrence Tech's most generous supporters. In 2008, the University's Department of Mechanical Engineering was named in his honor, reflecting his outstanding professional contributions and support. He is a member of LTU's Capital Campaign Steering Committee. He is a previous winner of the Alumni Achievement Award.
Linton attended night classes at Lawrence Tech while working in the millwright trade in construction and installation of conveyor systems, machinery, and automation equipment. While still a student, he joined Jervis B. Webb Company where he expanded his skill set for manufacturing. His evening courses at LTU paid dividends quickly on the job.
He has fond memories of his college instructors. "These teachers took a real interest in helping me, and others, 'get through school,' Some professors would stay, even at the end of a late night class, to help me and others understand a particular problem," he said "This dedication was especially meaningful to young, would-be engineers, as we all needed encouragement."
Linton's family had moved from the South when he was 12 and he returned after completing his degree. He opened a one-man office for Webb in Memphis, where he did engineering sales in the region and continued to serve other Webb offices and facilities nationwide. He founded his own company six years later.


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This Washington Post-ABC News poll was conducted by telephone May 11, 2006 among 502 randomly selected adults.
Here's a statistic for you, 100% of people polled by telephone said they were "willing to participate in telephone polls"!
Here's another statistic for you: 100% of those people were also "willing to have the call recorded"!
So, the only people who were asked if the approved of the NSA recording phone calls were the people who were both willing to have the phone call recorded, and willing to participate in a telephone poll. The people who objected to having the phone call recorded were not asked the third question.
This isn't funny. It is just an abuse of statistics.
No, they used a Diebold AccuVote-TSX touch screen system...
Then they'll have neither.
If the murderer isn't there now but the police say one might show up at some point today, are you still as willing to surrender your priva
This morning on NPR [npr.org], they interviewed a guy from the CATO institute [cato.org] (not exacty a bastion of left-wing liberalism) who said that while the NSA program, on initial review, appeared to meet the letter of the law, it certainly wasn't implemented in the "spirit" of the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution [wikipedia.org].
I completely agree with this thought. It may or may not be a legal program, but whatever the legality, it is wrong on so many levels.
46. If you found out that the NSA had a record of phone numbers that you yourself have called, would that bother you, or not? IF YES: Would it bother you a lot, or just somewhat?
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What we did to ourselves in response, however, is far more impressive.
I'm appalled at how President Bush has gotten away with extending Presidential Power to such limits that he has effectively put himself above the law. The administration has refused to answer specific questions about the NSA Spying program, while denying Congress the right to question administration officials in an open forum, thus effectively putting the spying program beyond ANY oversight. How scary is that?!
And this... from a President from the Republican party?! This is the party of less government? HA! This party has so enraged traditional Republicans and terrified Americans of every other stripe that I'm inclined to believe (hope), that the neo-cons are banished once and for all in 2008.
"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company."


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Good system. Fit without significant modification to system or vehicle (minor tweaks required). Surprising how well it fit, considering how inconsistently built these old Vettes are. Recommendation: offer an h-pipe (instead of x-pipe) option, some of us prefer the old rumble sound instead of the "new v8" sound.


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If I had gone in front of any committee and said, "I need booze, ciggies, massages or ???????"
I would have been laughed out of the room.
I think that it was a fluke for her to even be let into the room.;)
Not because she DIDN'T have anything important to say, it was her crusade.
While I do think sex is fun? To ask a company/school to pay for me to have "fun" while I should be working or studying shows just how dumb some of the people who have a voice and the chance to make a difference, then make it all about them.
Yes, I do know all the medical applications of BCPs and how they help some women's illnesses and conditions, to openly complain about a school not providing you with the means to go out and get some "fun" to be funny to the point of making me want to puke.
She didn't deserve to be called anything more than a misguided soul - Had she come to the table with the arguement that SHE HERSELF needed BCPs for anything more than having sex?
I'd buy that all day.
I had to laugh yesterday about a speech I heard on the tubular.
I heard this 'exec' used a term that made me laugh.
He was talking about "having the back" of another entity.
WTF was that all about.
When people start using 'street slang' to get a point across, It make me cringe and want to laugh at the same time.
Having someone's back
It is what It is.
They are on crack have, to be some of the dumbest phrases that have made it into the public domain.
Especially when uttered during a speech that has to do with world peace.:rolleyes:


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If you did not attend the Gladbrook-Reinbeck fall play this year, you really missed out. Once In A Lifetime proved to be funny and entertaining all at the same time. Even though the play stretched to two and a half hours, the high school cast made it more than tolerable. Being a stage help in the play this year was also a joy. The cast was not only awesome on stage, but off stage they're still wonderful. They worked so hard on this play in the morning before school, and every night after school as well. There was so much dedication and hard work put into this play, and they definitely pulled it off. Alyona Strohbehn was a part of this fall's play. Since the cast was so small, and there were so many parts in the play, Alyona, as well as a few others, had to play two parts in the play. "We have a really great cast," commented Alyona, "Everybody worked hard and were good troops in the morning practices. Overall we had a lot of fun." Both nights, the crowds seemed to turn out pretty well, filled with parents and friends of the cast. Hearing their laughs from backstage just showed how fantastic this play turned out to be. Miss Ellen Wagner was, of course, the director of this play. "Honestly, I thought it was one of our most polished plays," Ellen said, "The acting came so far from the beginning of the rehearsal process to the final product. I am still learning what type of show I need to pick to get people in the door. I would love nothing more than to pack the auditorium for every single show, but all of the students involved worked very hard and put forth a quality piece of theater."
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Beginning tonight, the first weekend of the new Missouri State High School Activities Association football playoff system kicks off having first round play of district tournaments, a single elimination format leading up to the 2012 state championships being held Nov. 23-24 at the Edwards Jones Dome in St. Louis.
The basics of the setup included a nine-game regular season, where schools, divided into districts in six classifications, accumulated points toward seeding within those districts.
The seeding then would determine first-round matchups beginning in Week 10, which in the past had been the final week of the regular season and also the last week of round-robin-style district play. MSHSAA had the objective of trying to assign 8 schools located within a close geographic area of one another into the same district.
However, due to the odd number of teams listed as Class 5 schools there are 14 teams having first-round byes. Those schools await the winners of this weekend's games and will play in the district semifinal round set for Oct. 31.
The nature of the new playoff format sometimes will have schools playing one another twice during the season.
Such is the case Friday with Moberly hosting Class 4 District 6 foe Marshall, and Westran of Huntsville (8-1) entertains its Week 1 regular season opponent North Shelby of Shelbyville (0-9) in a Class 1 District 5 matchup of No. 1 vs. No. 8 teams tomorrow night.
Westran cruised to a 60-6 victory against the Raiders during the season opener for both schools on Aug. 24.
Moberly vs. Marshall
For the second time in a month, the fourth-seed Spartans (7-2) and fifth-seed Owls (5-4) of the North Central Missouri Conference will wage battle here Friday at Dr. Larry K. Noel Spartans Stadium.
However, unlike their Sept. 28 meeting during Moberly's homecoming, the wages of this encounter are much higher.
It's first round of the new MSHSAA state playoffs format when the Spartans host Marshall and it's win or go home time.
"Our kids and coaching staff are focused and are preparing for this game more seriously because we understand this situation is totally different than when we last played. We are going about preparing for this one as if we hadn't played Marshall yet this season," said Moberly football coach Jason Ambroson. "Playing the same team twice in a season makes it easy to second guess as to how you want to prepare a game plan. You have to decide whether because we won is it best to basically stick to what you did last time but execute better, or do you change things because the other team already knows what you did last time and would be preparing for some of that, or do you put different plans in place and test what is working and not working during the game."
"Since that particular game, both Marshall and ourselves have been doing some things differently during our football games, so it will be interesting to see what kind of adjustments each of us go through this Friday."
Four weeks ago both teams entered the contest having identical 4-1 records. However, with that defeat, the Owls have lost three of its recent four games and Marshall has been outscored 124 to 32 during that stretch.
On Sept. 28, Moberly was the benefactor of five Marshall turnovers (3 INTs, 2 fumbles) and the Owls also had about 125 yards worth of penalties assessed against them during the Spartans 41-12 rout of Marshall.
"We will not be taking Marshall very lightly, and we do not want to overlook anything. They are a good football team, and if they were to get a little momentum going their way it can change the course of the game. We can't let that happen and we must continue to be disciplined on the football field," said Ambroson.
Spartans junior quarterback Justin Connaway threw for 112 yards against the Owls previously, completing 11-of-19 passes including one TD and an INT. Gregg Bain, Joe Galaske and Connaway all rushed for about 61 yards during that game.
Meanwhile, Alex Maupin and Marc Plummer hogged the football most of the time for Marshall. Maupin, the quarterback, rushed for 128 yards and two TDs and he threw for 78 yards completing 7 of 21 passes, while Plummer gained 93 rushing yards and caught five passes.
Of the 1,936 total rushing yards of team offense, Plummer is Marshall's leading rusher with 929 yards on 180 carries this season, and Maupin has 641 yards.
Maupin has completed 41-of-93 passes for 664 yards this season, including 10 INTs and 7 TDs. His three primary receivers are Plummer (12 for 114 yds), Tyler Cott (10 for 161) and Brandon Johnson (10 for 156).
Winner of Friday's game advances to the Oct. 31 district quarterfinal to play against the winner of the Hannibal vs. Mexico match up.


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Let's Get Physical: Bloodtype Versus a De-Biologizing ModernityOctober 17th, 2008 , by Sante
Modernity -- industrialization, technologizing, virtualizing, pharmacologizing -- has perpetrated a divorce between our biological state and our lifeviews. I deal with this gap as a standard part of my work with first-time postpartum careerwomen in a major American city. And we all manifest it insofar as we are ignorant of our deep genetic ancestry. Medicine's established ignorance of the central role of such genetic markers as ABO bloodgroup has been but one example of this phenomenon. We are embedded in biological realities, yet the cultures and individuals we deem successful are those most alienated from those very realities.
For my clients, successful transition to motherhood usually entails a period of disorientation, as years of competent breadwinning and progeny-free sexuality are suddenly completely replaced by the sheer physicality of childbirth, breastfeeding, and the waste products of a tiny bundle of pure need. It comes as a shock to the modern woman, whose past contact with such matters has usually been limited to the mediation of movies, photos and jokes. Pregnancy, with its out-of-control body expansions, its nausea, olfactory sensitivities and gustatory cravings, is but a mild foretaste of the utter immersion of the puerperium and "fourth trimester", especially as pregnancy is usually loaded with such distractions as outfitting the nursery, buying the layette, finding obstetrician and then pediatrician, arranging for maternity leave, etc. Suddenly and starkly, it's all about Biology.
Similarly, we who study bloodtype anthropology and/or who take an interest in our DNA geneology, find ourselves confronting our long lost biological identities. And we wonder, "How could I have lived so long without knowing this? How can we as a society have ignored this?" much as new moms often feel anger toward a zeitgeist that had heretofore duped, or anesthetized, them.
My work with new mothers involves, among other things, facilitating an optimal psychological and physical passage to a state of acceptance of, and joy in, their new identity, an identity which ushers them to a level of reality upon which society has always been based, depsite their former lifestyle's blindness to it: Good Morning!
I see Dr. D'Adamo's having publicized blood type medicine and anthropology as quite similar: Assisting the public's transition from biogenetic ignorance to our understanding of ourselves within the vast and ever-present human story. People of all ABO bloodgroups are changed in profound ways when their psychological features and medical histories are perceived as genetic imperatives, sourced in the adaptations of their hitherto unrecognized ancestors. Just as the new mom thrills to discover her community of mothers, the bloodtype-anthro student is often excited to profoundly understand his lifelong fascination with, say, Plains Indians, Mongolian horsemen, Gypsies, or things Japanese, which he now studies with more personal urgency. He furthermore connects his high-acid stomach with all Os and their hunting prehistory; she understands the link between her vulnerability to stress and all As, with their community-building/maintaining forebears.
The Physical has immediacy. It appears to reign in this life and is in fact ignored at our medical and social peril. There is, however, that which trumps the Physical -- in the spiritual realm. Understanding what we are raises the question of what we, mere humans, aren't. Coming to terms with the lesser reality, ephemeral and limited as it is, leads some to seek the Greater and eternal one. Good morning indeed.


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Pocket Chef Review
We're all for games that expand the marketplace. There's only so much racing and shooting that you can do in videogames before you want to take a break and just cook a nice gazpacho. However, Pocket Chef provides such tedious and irrelevant minigames that it may turn you off to the concept of eating.
In Pocket Chef, you're given dozens of dishes that you can construct using a series of minigames for chopping, stirring, sauteing, and more. Some of these are perfectly decent, like flipping hamburgers and removing them from the grill when they're cooked just right. Others are incredibly annoying, like stirring by moving your finger around the screen until a small callus develops.
Kiss the cook.
Every minigame is repeated over and over, and there's no way to skip the more tedious tasks. Whether you're cracking eggs for a quiche or French toast, it's still the same simple egg-cracking minigame. The game never seems to become more challenging; it's just more of the same from the first ten minutes on.
Plus, several of the minigames have no connection to reality. When you put a dish in the oven in real life, you don't have to fiddle with the knobs every few seconds to adjust the temperature. You just leave it in there, and watch TV or play an iPhone game that's better than Pocket Chef.
Or take the game's approach to adding ingredients. Called "memorization" minigames, these require you to add salt, then pepper, but never the other way around. While getting the order of ingredients right might make sense if you're building a cheeseburger or kabob, we can not wrap our brains around being penalized for adding dry ingredients in the incorrect order based on completely arbitrary guidelines.
Meat and greet.
As bad as the minigames are, you have to complete all of them in a row before the game saves your progress. If you exit out of the app or receive a phone call, you have to start from scratch. When you're cooking in real life and receive a phone call, it's an inconvenience. Here, it restores all your ingredients back to their original grocery-bag state.
Some of the dishes look tantalizing, and you might be tempted to use Pocket Chef as a recipe book instead of a collection of minigames. Even with the nice graphics and recipe extras, we think it's possible to make a much better cooking game for the iPhone. If you can't stand the boredom, stay out of the kitchen.


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Two new studies shed light on another exciting benefit of whey—it accelerates glucose uptake and glycogen synthesis after exercise. Glycogen is the storage form of carbohydrate in the body and plays a role in preventing fatigue and enhancing performance.
In the first set of experiments, researchers studied animals that performed exhaustive exercise to deplete muscle glycogen. Control animals received carbohydrates only after exercise, whereas four other groups received carbohydrates plus different forms of protein including whey, whey hydrolysates, branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) and casein hydrolysates. Muscle glycogen levels measured two hours after exercise revealed the groups fed whey and whey hydrolysate had dramatic increases—nearly two-fold greater than the carbohydrate-only and casein hydrolysate groups.
To better understand why whey outperformed the other proteins, the researchers studied specific BCAA dipeptides—two amino acids linked together—from beta-lactoglobulin, one of the main proteins in whey. They showed several dipeptides that included leucine increased glucose uptake into muscle and glycogen storage.
Whey protein, specifically certain BCAA dipeptides present in whey positively impact glucose metabolism by increasing glucose uptake and accelerating glycogen synthesis after exercise. These studies also indicate that whey may be useful for both athletes and those with insulin resistance.


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The Oak Hill Cemetery Association will meet on Friday, Feb. 8. Hostess will be Anne Michael. Roll call will be answered by, "Who was your first sweetheart, (Can be a childhood sweetheart)? Where did you meet, and why was he your sweetheart?" We will meet at the King Tower Caf at 2 p.m. on the above date.
The purpose of our association is to," beautify, adorn, and keep in as good order as possible, the cemetery situated in the eastern part of Tama, and known as the Oak Hill Cemetery." The previous quote is from the Tama City Ordinance. Have you noticed that the shelter house at the cemetery has a new roof? When the ice is off the ground and the trees are budding out, drive through the Oak Hill Cemetery and notice that some of the drives that needed repair have been repaved and -widened by the city. When you see some of our city workers, thank them for a job well done. Those are recent changes. You will be hearing about a new improvement needed in the near future. Stay tuned.
The Oak Hill Cemetery Association meets once each month, has a business meeting, a visit and dessert. This organization was formed when our city was young and our cemetery was in need of advocates.
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Club America goalkeeper Moises Munoz was the hero as he scored the dramatic late equaliser to send the second leg into extra time, and then saved the first Cruz Azul penalty as America stole the Liga MX crown despite being down to ten men.
Teofilo Gutierrez increased the size of the task for America with the opener on the night for Azul which gave them a two goal lead on aggregate. Jesus Molina was also dismissed early on which made it an uphill battle for the hosts.
But after Aquivaldo Mosquera's 89th-minute goal had given them a glimmer of hope, Munoz sent the capacity crowd into hysteria with the last minute equaliser. After a goalless extra time period Miguel Layun converted the fourth successful penalty to give America the title.
Christian Giménez's 19th-minute goal in the first leg sent Cruz Azul into the Laguilla second leg with a slight advantage over America, although the home side knew they would be backed by a capacity crowd at Estadio Azteca.
Things did not go according to plan in the early stages though, as Jesus Molina received a straight red card, leaving the home side to play over three quarters of the match with ten men. Gutierrez broke the deadlock to silence the home faithful as the visitors extended their aggregate lead to two.
After fluffing their lines on numerous occasions throughout both halves, Azul were made to pay late on as Mosquera pulled a goal back in the last minute of normal time. The scene was set for Munoz as he ventured forward in one final flurry and as the ball came off of his diving head and rippled the net, the Azteca went wild in celebration.
A goalless extra-time period ensued, as both teams battled with tired legs but America held on despite their numerical deficit and the tie went to penalties.
Javier Orozco, normally so reliable for Cruz Azul, saw his first spot kick saved by the hero Munoz as Raul Jimenez gave America the lead. Alejandro Castro slipped and saw his effort sail over the crossbar allowing Christian Benitez to give the hosts' a 2-0 advantage.
Despite Rogelio Chavez and Gerardo Flores converting their kicks for Cruz Azul, Osvaldo Martinez and then Layun maintained their cool as America boasted a perfect penalty record to win 4-2 which saw them crowned Liga MX champions.
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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - Playing between high-profile home games against No. 3 Connecticut and archrival No. 23 North Carolina, No. 5 Duke got an easier assignment against Wake Forest and passed it with no trouble Thursday night.
Haley Peters had 18 points and 11 rebounds for the sophomore's first career double-double, leading four players in double figures as the Blue Devils walloped the Deacons 75-43.
Elizabeth Williams added 16 points, Chelsea Gray 12 and sophomore Richa Jackson her first career double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds in Duke's 27th straight ACC win at home. Duke (18-3, 9-0 ACC) had a 34-game home-court winning streak snapped in Monday's 61-45 loss to Connecticut and hosts the Tar Heels Monday night.
"I liked our aggressiveness,'' Duke coach Joanne P. McCallie said. ''We're getting more aggressive, which is a good thing. Rebounding-wise I really liked Richa and Haley and Elizabeth (nine rebounds). We were trying to get three double-doubles and we were practically there. That speaks to aggression and that's really, really important to us. . It was pretty painful to watch that (Connecticut) video. It was not a very pleasant experience and I don't think you learn them all for the next game. I think you apply some of them.''
It was Duke's 37th straight win over the Deacons (12-10, 2-7), now tied for the second-longest active streak between a pair of conference foes. The longest is Stanford's 52-game streak over Washington State, and the previous second-best of 40 by Tennessee against South Carolina was snapped Thursday night in Knoxville, Tenn.
Chelsea Douglas led Wake Forest with 11 points while Lakevia Boykin added 10. Secily Ray had 12 rebounds with six points.
Duke shot 43.9 percent from the floor to 25.0 for the Deacons, won the rebound battle 54-39 and committed 23 turnovers to Wake Forest's 27.
"Master of the obvious -- you can't shoot 25 percent from the field and 50 percent from the line and get outrebounded by 15 and beat a ranked team,'' Wake Forest coach Mike Petersen said. "I thought in the first half we had some pretty good looks that we didn't make, and they forced that some. They're long and they speed you up a little bit. We've got to shoot the ball better and we didn't shoot the ball very well.''
Duke, which beat Wake Forest 76-58 on Jan. 6 in Winston-Salem, led 36-19 at halftime behind 13 points from Peters.
After a three-point play from Brooke Thomas at 18:07 left tied the score at 5-5, Duke went on a 10-2 run including seven points from Peters.
"Any time you play like you did last game offensively, I just wanted to be focused on both ends of the floor,'' Peters said. "Neither half was great with turnovers because a lot of them were unforced and stupid stuff. We need to take steps forward with these things.''
Williams had three blocks, stretching her ACC freshman record with 79.


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I thought the name of the thread was a typo... Shrinkage ryu.
That's how out of it I am tonite
It's a little known, actually quite well hidden, which is really in plain sight, that there are two schools practicing deadly ancient marital arts: Mucho shrinkage ryu and Mucho no-shrinkage ryu. They both have internal practice of yin yang, in yo ho, often out yo ho, and sometimes hi dee ho. They also practiced kitadama by chanting "hi ho! hi ho! off to work we go!" What has not been known, which is to say of acknowledging made up facts, that these two schools have been waging a secret war since the beginning of time, which meant yesterday, or closer to the day before today when i read this post. The conflict started when phi the barbarian, wearer of religious short, which has been of late very holes, accidentially, so he claimed, dried a load of delicates internal gi of the Mucho no-shrinkage ryu's high priestess that also known as the wife, bearer of bad tiding during the games, holler of taking out the garbage. The high priestess voice had increased several octave to the level of shattering nerves that produced major wincing affects on the high priest of the other ryu which also happened to be phi, the wearer of holy short, which soon be the wearer of crapping in my short.
"What did you do to my expensive Victoria Secrets stuffs ?!!!" High priestess holler.
"Look at this! Look at this!" continued the priestess in stuck record fashion. At which point the high priest made the mistake of openning his yap,
"I am looking! What is it?"
"It's my favorite Victoria Secrets! It cost $100! You shrank it, you idiot!" high priestess still at extreme range of sonics boom.
At which point the high priest made another tactical error and replied,
"$100 for that?! and you yelled at me for the palm size hand twisted activating cordless screw driver for $50!" the high priest also wondered how did she knew his secret middle name "yuidiot".
While too busy with his own thoughts, he did not noticed the high priestess employed an ancient thermic technique which sucked the head from the room, and drop the temperature to the hell-freeze-over degree Celcius. The high priest, for whatever reason, is denser this time which cuased him to keep open his yap, and said thing along the dmz line,
"I thought most women want their Victoria Secrets small to the point of disappearing!" The high priest continued lamenting why called Victoria Secrets when most the stuffs exposed a great deal, the kind of which should be, in many cases, hidden and thrown away the key, lest visage counternance of such things caused men to go mad at first sight. At which point the high priest's thought was rudely interupted by a pitcher of ice water which the high priestess has deposited down the high priest's holy short. This water boarding action, aye violating certain Geneva convention, thus caused unholy terror to the high priest where he loudly used high level kotodama "AAAIIIIEEEEOOOOO...." and realized that his unholy staff of priestly office had shrunk to nothing. However, true to his priestly nature, he yelled out, "what about our schedule duel of unholy alliance tonight?!" to this the high priestess reponded, still at extreme sonic boom, "You can duel with Rosie the priestess of Palms!"
The high priest groaned loudly, "AGAIN?!!!"
"budo is putting on cold, wet, sweat stained gi with a smile and a snarl" - your truly
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A section of fence and eight 55-gallon garbage pails with lids, total value $588, were damaged at Indian Wells Beach on the night of Aug. 16. Richard Webb, an East Hampton Town Parks Department employee who reported the damage, said a large vehicle may have been responsible.
Veyontac Riley of East Hampton said a man came to G.H. Bass & Co. in Amagansett Square, where she works, on Saturday and yelled at her for parking in his spot at his house. A physical altercation ensued. Ms. Riley told police that the man pushed her and she fought back, kicking and scratching him. No charges were filed.
East Hampton
An iPod, car keys, a G.P.S., Versace perfume, and Guess cologne, together valued at $470, were taken from Esteban Amayais's parked car at SL East on Three Mile Harbor Road on Aug. 6.
A Dell Inspiron laptop, a MacBook, and a pair of Nike Air Jordans, size 9, total value $1,930, belonging to Kenelm Hughes of Poplar Street, were stolen from his unlocked house on Aug. 16. Mr. Hughes found a can of Goya juice that was not his on the kitchen counter, and a pair of men's sneakers by his fence. His Nikon camera and a small flashlight were found nearby on the grass.
Two debit cards, a driver's license, and a Social Security card were taken from a locked car owned by Gustave Papas Sr. of Oakview Highway on the night of Aug. 15.
Lane Brandenburg of Floyd Street said his mailbox, valued at $70, was knocked off its base and broken during the night of Aug. 17.
East Hampton Village
Mark Smith reported a large sinkhole on Aug. 15 on Newtown Lane near Race Lane. Police coned off the area and informed the Village Department of Public Works.
Kira Cohen of Georgica Road reported suspicious activity near her house on Aug. 15. Police found a vehicle on Darby Lane that appeared to be having trouble. The driver, Luis Estrada of Flushing, said it had broken down and he was waiting for a tow.
Also on Georgica Road, Jennifer Berkeley complained of a dog barking incessantly for a week, from Aug. 10 to Aug. 17. The owner, Devon Federicks,promised to try to keep her puppy under control.
Shirley Farber of Main Street said a car was shining a spotlight into her house on Friday. The car left before police could arrive.
A six-foot shark was reported by Merideth Ogilvy in the shallow waters of Egypt Beach on Saturday. Police canvassed the area but saw nothing.
Edward McDonald, manager of Main Beach, told police that a black Mercedes-Benz was parked in a 15-minute spot for too long a time on Saturday. The owner of the car told a traffic control officer that he was there on "official business." When police arrived, the car was gone. The T.C.O. was advised to ticket the vehicle if it returned.
Lee Felty said that Christopher Daish of Montauk Highway was intoxicated and verbally abusing the restaurant staff and patrons of the Huntting Inn on Saturday. Mr. Daish was standing on Huntting Lane when police arrived, and they advised him that he was no longer welcome on the restaurant property. It was determined that Mr. Daish was intoxicated, but he said he would find his own way home.
Henry Quiroz of Amagansett Drive said that someone stole his wallet between last Thursday and Sunday from his pickup, which was unlocked with the windows rolled down. The truck was parked on Railroad Avenue.
Two Nirve beach cruisers, total value $1,400, belonging to Richard Parkoff of Lily Pond Lane and Lawrence, were taken last Thursday night.
A gray mountain bike valued at $2,000 vanished from Debbie Kuntz's unlocked basement on Second House Road between July 27 and Aug. 10.
Joseph Parisi, pesident of Environmental Services Incorporated, a kitchen waste-oil recycler, told police a competitor stole 200 gallons of his waste oil from Gurney's Inn on Aug. 9, and he has video to prove it. Mr. Parisi said this was an ongoing problem and he has reported it to the Suffolk District Attorney's office.
A locked Santa Cruz bicycle and a bicycle rim, total value $3,100, were snatched from the bike storage area at the Driftwood Motel between Aug. 16 and Aug. 18. Renee Munoz of Mount Kisco, N.Y., reported the theft.
A black mailbox worth $20, belonging to Leyla Marchetto of Old Montauk Highway, was removed from its post overnight on Saturday.
An unlocked black Cannondale bike with red tape on the handle bars, valued at $1,200, was lifted from the deck area at the Oceanside Beach Resort on the night of Aug. 18. Steve Goldman of Sloatsburg, N.Y., reported the loss of his bike.
Katherine Molina of Panama City Beach, Fla., found a slash in the back awning and wall of her tent at the artists' show on The Plaza last weekend. It will cost $400 to repair it. Also, Tracy Levine of Manhattan said the canopy of her tent, along with two other canopies were slashed, and will cost $600 for repairs.
Sag Harbor
A GT Outpost mountain bike belonging to John Nelson was stolen from the parking lot at the post office on Aug. 17.
Walter Garcia-Serrano said a town beach sticker was removed from his parked vehicle on Meadow Street last Thursday.
Two sliding back-door glass windows were shattered on Bridge Street on Friday, according to Stephanie Cahill. She said she found lawnmower tracks in the ground, and a landscaping company was nearby. Ms. Cahill told police one of the workers had looked at her "suspiciously."
An iPhone 4 belonging to Julie Albano-LaSalla disappeared from the dinner table at The American Hotel while she was saying goodbye to her family on Monday.
A $300 black iPod was taken from Todd Carberry's car, parked at Wolfie's Tavern, on Aug. 13. He told police the car might not have been locked.
Green lounge chairs, a seven-foot blue and white umbrella, and a chair upholsetered in green fabric, together valued at $267, were stolen from Sammy's Beach between Aug. 13 and Aug. 16. Jessie Phillips reported the theft.


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Guest Author - Vannie Ryanes
This Christmas why not let your children or child make his or her own personal clay Christmas ornaments. The child will even make the clay himself. This clay has no harmful ingredients and will not cause harm if your little one is tempted to taste it. It is made from a mixture of natural kitchen food items, salt, flour and cooking oil.
This is a perfect project to make family Christmas ornaments that will last for years to come. Allow each child to make his own ornament and perhaps a special ornament for mom, dad, grandma, etc. These salt clay ornaments are made to last but should be handled with care.
To make a batch of salt clay you will need the following ingredients:
1-1/2 cup salt
2 cups flour
1/2 cup Crisco cooking oil
1 cup cold water
Food coloring*
2 or 3 cookie cutters in different shapes (optional)**
1 plastic drinking straw
Preheat oven to 300 degrees
Mix salt, flour and oil in large mixing bowl. Stir to blend well.
Divide mixture into 3 batches for coloring. Food coloring* usually comes in primary colors; red, blue and yellow. If you want additional colors follow this formula: Red + yellow = orange; blue + red = purple; yellow + blue = green.
Divide the cup of water evenly by three. Then, let your child add one color to each small bit of water and mix. Next, slowly add the colored water to each batch of salt-flour mixture and knead the dough until the color is even.
Roll clay with a rolling pin or bottle. It should be a little thicker than pie crust dough. Use cookie cutters to cut different shapes; stars, bells, or a gingerbread man, etc. Or let child make his own free-hand design. Add initials and date to the back. Don't forget that the ornament will need a hole for stringing. That is easily done with a plastic drinking straw. Then bake ornaments at 300 degrees for 1-1/2 hours in your oven.
**If you do not have cookie cutters, you can cut the clay into different shapes or use different sized jar tops to make an ornament. You can also cut a square of clay 2 X 2 inches and press buttons, a fork or different sized coins into the soft clay, use anything that has a design.


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The Waynesville-St. Robert Chamber held the 5th Annual Frog Race in conjunction with Frogtober Fest in Waynesville Park on October 6, 2012. This year was the largest race with 175 adopted frogs racing down the Roubidoux and the Chamber raised over $1,500 to continue their community service projects. First place, winning $75, was Christina Joy's, "Seemji." Second place, winning $50, was Rita Castillo's, "Stinky." Third place, winning $25, was Mandi Woolley's, "Froggie." The winners of both first and third place were present to see their frogs compete in the championship race. Cash prizes were donated by First State Bank and the Frog Race sponsor was Sonic Drive In.
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This is hilarious. I saw Huff Post mention this earlier and well to put it succinctly
Fact and Fox News collide
Fox News had what can only be described as an insane argument with itself over whether or not President Obama had won Ohio, and the presidency.
The network seemed quite confident in its projections at first, but suddenly, pundit Karl Rove who, as leader of a huge conservative Super PAC has something of an interest in the outcome of the race began to pour cold water on the call.


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We never stop improving and that's why we're successful. See how we're improving facilities, programs, patient safety and patient satisfaction.
We're the most recognized community hospital in the state and it's our people who make us great. See hospital and staff awards.
Winchester Hospital was the first community hospital in the state to achieve Magnet designation, recognition for nursing excellence. Learn why.
Our tremendous staff gives back to our community by coordinating free health screenings, educational programs, and food drives. Learn more.
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The lacrimal sac helps drain excess tears from the eye. The sac starts near the inner corner of the eye and runs along the side of the nose. Tears move through tear ducts into this sac. The tears are then passed out into the nasal passages.
Dacryocystitis is swelling and irritation of this sac.
Dacryocystitis is caused by a blocked tear duct. Tears become trapped in the sac and form a pool. Bacteria can then begin to grow in the tear pool and create an infection. Both the trapped tears and infection will cause swelling and irritation.
Dacryocystitis is most common in infants with blocked tear ducts. Other factors that may increase your chance of dacryocystitis include:
Dacryocystitis may cause:
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. Your eye will be examined. The diagnosis can be made by appearance. Fluid samples may be taken from the eye or sac. The fluid will be examined for bacteria. This test will help determine which antibiotic may work best.
If you have a tear duct blockage but no signs of infection your doctor may recommend:
Antibiotics may be prescribed if there is an infection caused by bacteria. They usually given orally. Severe infections may need IV antibiotics.
The cause of the tear duct blockage may need to be investigated. This may require additional procedures or treatment such as:
There are no current guidelines to prevent dacryocystitis.
American Medical Associationhttp://www.ama-assn.org
Nemours Kid's Healthhttp://www.kidshealth.org
Health Canadahttp://www.hc-sc.gc.ca
Healthy Albertahttp://www.healthyalberta.com
University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center website. Available at:
http://www.kellogg.umich.edu/theeyeshaveit/red-eye/dacryocystitis.html. Accessed November 4, 2015.
Dacryocystitis and canaliculitis.
Patient UK website. Available at:
http://patient.info/doctor/dacryocystitis-and-canaliculitis. Updated January 14, 2015. Accessed November 4, 2015.
Nasolacrimal duct obstruction. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at:
http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T113767/Nasolacrimal-duct-obstruction. Updated February 15, 2011. Accessed September 28, 2016.
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Penn Physician Urges Greater Recognition of How "Misfearing" Influences Women's Perceptions of Heart Health Risks
Teaching women about the realities of heart disease "needs more than facts"
Article ID: 613767
Released: 13-Feb-2014 12:00 PM EST
Source Newsroom: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
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New England Journal of Medicine
Newswise — PHILADELPHIA - While more women die from heart disease each year than all forms of cancer combined, many are more fearful of other diseases, particularly breast cancer. This phenomenon, referred to as "misfearing," describes the human tendency to fear instinctively and according to societal influences rather than based on facts. This trend may be a contributor to the reasons why many women fail to take enough steps -- such as changing diet and fitness habits or risk-taking behaviors -- to guard against heart disease. In a Perspective column today in the New England Journal of Medicine, Penn Medicine cardiologist and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar Lisa Rosenbaum, MD, notes that although the first decade of educational campaigns to inform women about heart disease "led to a near doubling of women's knowledge about heart disease, in the past few years, such efforts have failed to reap further gains." Moreover, "persistent gaps in perceptions remain among minority women, who are often at greatest risk." Simply reinforcing the facts about the prevalence and potential prevention of heart disease among women is likely not enough to improve on these results, says Rosenbaum. Instead, physicians and others in health care need to develop an understanding of the misfearing paradigm and how "social values" and "group identities" affect patients' perceptions of disease. "The big, the dramatic, and the memorable occupy far more of our worry budget than the things that kill with far greater frequency: strokes, diabetes, heart disease," she writes. "But interacting with many of these fear factors is another force we rarely associate with our individual health perceptions: our commitment to our cultural groups." Women's focus on breast cancer may be tied, according to Rosenbaum, to "intuitions about female identity" that shape their interpretation of health-related information and relevant behavior. Because breast cancer "attacks a body part that is so fundamental to female identity," she asks if "to be a woman, one must join the war on this disease," and consequently focus less on heart disease (which is often linked to such perceived anti-feminine contributing factors as cigarettes and obesity). Additionally, Rosenbaum asks, "Are we held up by our ideal of beauty? We can each summon the images of beautiful young women with breast cancer. Where are all the beautiful women with heart disease?" While acknowledging the very real threat of women's cancers, Dr. Rosenbaum advocates physicians taking a different approach to conversations with female patients about cardiovascular health. To "make it easier for women in our society to feel like women" and yet acknowledge they're at risk for heart disease, she advocates several steps. These include: • emphasizing that, like cancer, heart disease can result from bad luck and not simply one's unappealing habits • "creating communities of women in which stories about living with heart disease are as celebrated as stories of surviving breast cancer"• prioritizing the study of how values and group norms affect health perceptions and associated behaviors.
"Whether we're aware of our group commitments or not, we cannot shed our deeply rooted herd mentality nor change our visceral allegiances to our tribe," Rosenbaum writes. "Developing an understanding of how such factors inform our perceptions of disease is critical to improving the health of our population. Certainly, understanding of one's risk for any disease must be anchored in facts. But if we want our facts to translate into better health, we may need to start talking more about our feelings." ### Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $4.3 billion enterprise.The Perelman School of Medicine has been ranked among the top five medical schools in the United States for the past 16 years, according to U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $398 million awarded in the 2012 fiscal year.The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -- recognized as one of the nation's top "Honor Roll" hospitals by U.S. News & World Report; Penn Presbyterian Medical Center; Chester County Hospital; Penn Wissahickon Hospice; and Pennsylvania Hospital -- the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751. Additional affiliated inpatient care facilities and services throughout the Philadelphia region include Chestnut Hill Hospital and Good Shepherd Penn Partners, a partnership between Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network and Penn Medicine.Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2012, Penn Medicine provided $827 million to benefit our community.


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"Some souls are too beautiful for earth, and before long they fly — as if heaven hungered for them and they for their true home." — Laurence Edward Schell, survivor. Lisa Michelle Greene-Schell, 44, radiant, then married these 22 years, gave birth to six children into whom she poured all the gold of her heart: Hannah E., Emily A., Levi Jonathon, Joseph S., Micaiah S., and Laurence M., ages 7 to 21, all survive along with husband Laurence E.
The Greene family, which brought her forth, includes William "Chip," Ginger Rose, father and mother, and siblings Leslie, Holly, Heather, Alex, Ginny and Julia.
Lisa lived and died the finest example of faith and love. She formed a deep connection with many. More radiant now than when she walked toward me 22 years past, she faces full toward the great light while whispering yet in our hearts.
The family will announce memorial arrangements in a timely fashion and as needed on the River of Grace Tonasket Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/pages/River-of-Grace-Tonasket/1399195840313112.
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Western Wishes
Mikala Reiswig, Glass Half FullIn my column this week, I would like to draw your attention to a wonderful organization in our area that you may not be familiar with. A young girl that I grew up with is the West Texas director of Western Wishes, a non-profit organization that makes dreams come true for children and young adults who face adversity in their lives and love the western way of life. The organization has been going since 1994, and they have made hundreds of wishes a reality.Jessi Schmidt of Morse has battled cystic fibrosis since she was a toddler. She has beat all the odds, and is a thriving young adult now, although there are still struggles with her disease. She has competed in rodeos all her life despite the setbacks cystic fibrosis throws at her. In 2000, because of Western Wishes, she got to spend a day with rodeo legend and mentor Charmayne James. In 2001, Jessi got to meet country legend George Strait, where he surprised her with a cake and gifts for her 13th birthday. (She also graciously got my mom and I autographed pictures.) In April 2012, Jessi was asked to be the West Texas Director, and she graciously accepted. She is trying to get the word out in this area and find donors, sponsors, support, and volunteers to help these kids in need of a little inspiration.What makes Western Wishes different is highlighted on their website, "contrary to other organizations who accept only terminally ill children, Western Wishes has a been able to serve victims of severe spinal cord and head injuries as well as survivors of cancer, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, and heart afflictions. Many of them would have been turned away from traditional 'wish' organizations because they only select terminal children under the age of 18. Western Wishes is different."Also highlighted on their website are the inspirational stories of the wish kids that have had their dreams come true. There are so many stories that will tug at your heart strings. One of my favorites is the story of the sweet little Tallen from Arizona. In 2010, when he was five years old, a horse that he was leading spooked and dragged him over 20 yards. He was severely injured and underwent many invasive surgeries at Phoenix Children's hospital. He came out of a coma and sedation, and he went through a very intensive rehab. After 150 days in the hospital, he was able to go home. Although Tallen is alive, he has lost the ability to walk or talk. He is always happy and determined and communicates through sign language. Tallen has always loved rodeos, and was becoming quite a little roper before his accident. Tallen was able to spend the day at the Tucson Rodeo with the likes of rodeo clowns Kelly Jennings, Wacey Munsel, and Andy; as well as World Champion Bareback Rider Will Lowe (who is from Canyon, TX) because of Western Wishes.Western Wishes encourages their wish kids to focus on their goals and aspirations instead of their affliction, which gives them a postive outlook on life. Amazingly, most of these kids already have this positive outlook on life, although they are facing a tough road. Many of them still compete in rodeos and chase their dreams despite their physical challenges. They are described as having a "fierce competitive spirit." I think that is something all of us can learn from!


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Mount Union Presents "Green Raider" Awards
October 18, 2012
ALLIANCE, Ohio — "Bleed purple, live green," is the motto members of the University of Mount Union's Sustainability Management Advisory Committee thrive for. Through educating and communicating Mount Union's campus on the importance of sustainability, the group seeks to make the campus and community environmentally sound.
Each year, the committee receives nominations for the "Green Raider" award, an honor given to a faculty member, staff member and student who have promoted sustainability through social, financial or environmental responsibility.
This year's recipients include Zachary Suhar, Lorie Miller and Deborah Boyd-Kimball. During a ceremony held Friday, October 12, a tree was planted in honor of the award winners. A tree-shaped wooden plaque with the winner's engraved names will hang in the MAAC.
Zachary Suhar, a senior environmental science minor of Cedarburg, WI, was nominated for the award by Dr. Chuck McClaugherty, professor of biology and director of the Huston-Brumbaugh Nature Center. Zachary has worked closely with Dr. Steve Kramer, faculty emeritus, on the student group of the Sustainability Management Advisory Committee. He is responsible for the Eco-rep handbook which residence halls are basing their Eco-Rep program around. According to his nomination form, Zachary can always be counted on to voice ideas and offer help related to going green.
Lorie Miller, director of community educational outreach at Mount Union, was nominated by staff members of the Regula Center for Public Service and Civic Engagement. According to her nomination letter, Miller has gone above and beyond to create a sustainable community on campus. She has been a figurehead in organizing sustainable events such as Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, Women's History Month and National Neighborhood Day. Miller also raises awareness about waste and recycling on campus through the Trash to Treasure Sale, allowing community members to purchase gently used items at low cost and donating unsold items to nonprofit organizations. Through her events, students and community members have been brought together to raise sustainable awareness.
Deborah Boyd-Kimball, associate professor of chemistry and director of the honors program, was nominated by Dr. Steve Kramer. According to her nomination letter, Boyd-Kimball has shown great interest in sustainability throughout her teaching career at Mount Union. She taught the campuses' first course devoted entirely to sustainability. Through her work, sustainability is closer to a realization on campus. She is committed to sustainability and increasing students' knowledge on the topic.


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Serves 6
|large Yukon Gold or Yellow Finn potatoes, peeled and cut into 2-inch pieces
|Salt and pepper, to taste
|head cauliflower, cut into florets
|tablespoons butter, cut up
|tablespoons milk, or more to taste
1. In a large pot, combine the potatoes, a generous pinch of salt, and water to cover by 2 inches. Bring to a boil, lower the heat, and set on the cover askew. Simmer the potatoes for 10 minutes.
2. Add the cauliflower and continue cooking for 5 to 8 minutes or until the cauliflower and potatoes are both tender. Total simmering time is 15 to 18 minutes.
3. Drain the potato mixture into a colander and transfer to a bowl. Scatter the butter on top. Add, salt, pepper, and 2 tablespoons of the milk. Mash with a potato masher until the mixture is smooth, adding the remaining milk 1 tablespoon at a time. Taste for seasoning and add more salt and pepper, if you like. Sheryl Julian


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Sprint and Mitel inked a deal whereby Sprint will start carrying Mitel's hosted PBX solutions as part of its broader Cloud Wholesale Services portfolio, both companies confirmed Tuesday.
Sprint channel partners will now be able to resell Mitel's cloud-based voice and UC solutions, particularly within the SMB space, where Mitel and Sprint said demand for low-cost and hosted voice, UC and collaboration solutions is especially soaring.
"Organizations worldwide are turning to cloud services that support their business requirements in a timely and cost-efficient manner," said Matt Carter, president of Sprint Emerging Solutions and Global Wholesale, in a statement. "This agreement with Mitel augments our Wholesale Cloud Services offer with the industry's leading unified communications solution ... [and] ensures we continue to enable our resellers with easy-to-use, affordable and high-performance cloud solutions that they can quickly take to market without the expense and hassle of having to create their own services."
[Related: Former ShoreTel Channel Head Lands At Mitel]
The deal also gives Mitel and its channel the ability to start offering some of the non-Mitel Software-as-a-Service solutions found in Sprint's Cloud Wholesale portfolio, explained Jon Brinton, president of NetSolutions, Mitel's CLEC arm.
Mitel has had this sort of partnership in place with Sprint for some time, Brinton said, but this new agreement will extend that partnership and help Mitel and its partners round out their cloud offerings with applications outside the UC space.
"We offer Sprint services today through our Mitel [NetSolutions] division, and now we are adding some more components that are within the Sprint Wholesale Cloud portfolio that we can offer through our channel or to our end users," Brinton said. "So when you have clients that want some additional application -- whether it's storage, security or other cloud-based software components that are outside of [Mitel's] normal market space -- it gives us an easy way to have that application attachment for those clients."
Sprint's Wholesale and Emerging Solutions business unit introduced the cloud services portfolio in April. The suite includes a range of cloud-based services, including those for Web hosting, Web security and online backup.
The agreement between Mitel and Sprint represents the latest in a series of partnerships between UC vendors and service providers aimed at taking their solutions to the cloud. Cisco, for instance, has signed on 40 partners -- including, most recently, distributor Ingram Micro -- to offer its Hosted Collaboration Solutions (HCS) platform, while Avaya this week said that Verizon would start carrying its new UC- and video-as-a-service solutions.


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I am trying to write a filter function for my application that will take an input string and filter out all objects that don't match the given input in some way. The easiest way to do this would be to use String's contains method, i.e. just check if the object (the String variable in the object) contains the string specified in the filter, but this won't account for accents.
The objects in question are basically Persons, and the strings I am trying to match are names. So for example if someone searches for Joao I would expect Joáo to be included in the result set. I have already used the Collator class in my application to sort by name and it works well because it can do compare, i.e. using the UK Locale á comes before b but after a. But obvisouly it doesn't return 0 if you compare a and á because they are not equal.
So does anyone have any idea how I might be able to do this?
Make use of
java.text.Normalizer and a shot of regex to get rid of the diacritics.
public static String removeDiacriticalMarks(String string) {
return Normalizer.normalize(string, Form.NFD)
.replaceAll("\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}+", "");
Which you can use as follows:
String value = "Joáo";
String comparisonMaterial = removeDiacriticalMarks(value); // Joao


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Photo of Harvard varsity eight courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications.
PRINCETON, N.J. - The Harvard lightweights
competed at the annual Princeton Chase Oct 25 at Lake Carnegie.
Eight boats competed at the event. The varsity teams raced in three
eights and four fours. Highlighting the Chase for the Crimson was
the freshman A team who won its race easily.
The Princeton 3-Mile Chase is an invitational head-race hosted annually by Princeton for both men and women collegiate crews. The event is composed of races for lightweight women, open women, lightweight men and heavyweight men.
In the freshman lightweight eights, Harvard won with a time of 13:58.086, a decisive 15.84 seconds ahead of the second-place Navy boat. The Harvard A team placed second in the varsity lightweight eights with a time of 13:23.708, a little more than four seconds behind the first-place Princeton A team. In the varsity lightweight fours event, Harvard's A boat placed second with a time of 14:48.045, only .437 behind the first-place Princeton A team.
Harvard's lightweight men's team will return to action at the Tail of the Charles, Nov 21.


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Just a few tidbits in the aftermath of Cal's 47-38 victory over Arizona State …
–I talked to a few bowl officials from around the Pac-12 today and they all had really good things to say about Cal. I'll have a story about that in tomorrow's paper. The Bears could land in a game as high as the Alamo Bowl – the No. 2 Pac-12 bowl behind the Rose Bowl – although lots of factors come into play here. First, Stanford and Oregon would each have to get invited to Bowl Championship Series games, which boost other Pac-12 schools a little higher on the bowl ladder. The Alamo Bowl would then likely be choosing between Cal, Utah and Washington. The Holiday Bowl, which picks third, also likes Cal very much. And if the Bears slip past them, I'd be very surprised if they don't get chosen by the Sun Bowl, in which Cal has never played. The Las Vegas Bowl is looking unlikely, and the chances of Cal playing in front of the local fans at the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl appear pretty remote, though Gary Cavalli, the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl executive director, is confident in landing a quality team from the conference.
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Cal has played very well late in the season and that makes a strong impression. Rick Hill, the Alamo Bowl's director of marketing and communications, also noted that the Bears have been on ESPN the past two weeks against Stanford and Arizona State, so the San Antonio market (where the Alamo Bowl is played) has been exposed to Cal and the team has put up strong showings. But Hill also added that Washington has been televised in San Antonio even more this season.
Mark Neville, the Holiday Bowl's director of communications, said his bowl places heavy emphasis on the "football" aspects for choosing a team – win/loss record and head-to-head matchups, as opposed to how many fans will travel, the potential for TV ratings, etc. Besides, Neville said Pac-12 (or Pac-10) schools traditionally travel well to the Holiday Bowl no matter who is chosen.
The Alamo Bowl, which pits a Big 12 school against a Pac-12 school, looks for a good built-in storyline when pairing up two teams. Since the Big 12 regular season doesn't finish until next weekend, the Alamo Bowl won't be extending any invites until then, which means other Pac-12 bowl selections also will have to wait in the trickle-down effect.
–Isi Sofele now ranks sixth on Cal's single-season rushing list with 1,266 yards: The next back ahead of him is Marshawn Lynch, who gained 1,356 yards in 2006.
–No word yet on the seriousness of freshman cornerback Stefan McClure's injury on Friday night. Obviously his health is pretty big for this team looking to the future.
–Friday's late kickoff was absolutely brutal from a deadline standpoint, which is why I really didn't get a chance to blog during or after the game. I was writing for our various print editions as the game was unfolding. Glad to see the spirited dialogue carried on regardless …
–Cal is taking most of next week off. We don't know when they'll resume practice just yet, so blogs may be light in the coming days.
That's all for now …


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Studio is a 'one-stop shop' for musicians
Combine a California business, two brothers and a husband and wife, along with artistic talent by the truckloads and you have Down to Hear Studios.
Brothers Michael and David French moved to Hickory two years ago from Burbank, Calif., and the heart of of "studio city," where every street corner had a music studio for artists. However, the brothers found a different discovery in Hickory.
"There was a need for this facility," said Michael French. "There is all of this creativity ready to explode. We needed this place for it to happen."
Just when the crew was about to give up on a search for a building to house their studio, a location on Highland Avenue became available.
"When you decide to stop and give up, something comes up," said David French.
To add to the brothers' business of music production, comes Jeff and Carol Anne Hartman, of Hickory. The Hartmans met the French brothers two years ago through the Hickory area's various art circles. With Jeff's professional musical abilities and Carol Anne's photography and graphic design skills, Down to Hear Studios became a "one-stop shop."
The two-story studio house, located at 1717 Highland Ave. in Hickory, includes a large room that will soon become Hickory Motor Books. The upstairs is equipped with a control room, a vocal voice-over booth, a live room for bands, Jeff's composing suite and Carol Anne's photography studio. Even though the group has occupied the house for about four weeks, they are working hard creating an artistic atmosphere to welcome area talent.
From painting to scraping glue off the floor and installing new features to characterize the musical needs of incoming artists, Down to Hear Studios has the potential to be any artist's answer to prayers.
"People do record (in Hickory), but not professionally," said Jeff Hartman.
Carol Anne, who is originally from Burke County, agreed.
"People (record) in their basements," she said. "We will be a one-stop shop for musicians and artists."
Recently, the studio held a master songwriting class with singer and songwriter Kyle Vincent. Registration for the class was full in three days after advertising.
"(The class) is filling a need in the community," said David French. "It is a good thing and something that will continue."
By organizing a master songwriting class at the studio, David said they will share music written by area residents with publishers, singers and music attorneys. This is an opportunity hard to come by, according to the studio owners.
"Hickory and the surrounding areas have support for the arts," Carol Anne said. "This will be a place for artists to go and play. This will be huge because it's something they don't have."
Jeff Hartman said Down to Hear Studios is simply feeding the community's need.
"I picture a bird's nest," Jeff said. "All of the birds' heads are up, and they are wanting to be fed. We are feeding them."
At the end of the one-day songwriting class, Michael French said five new songs were written from groups formed in the class.
"On every street corner there is someone playing a guitar," Jeff Hartman said, adding some artists do not know the application behind the music being performed.
In addition to assisting artists with professional recording of their music, educational classes, such as acting and performing and songwriting classes, will be taught by Jeff Hartman. Also, Michael French will teach the art of recording music, and Carol Anne is considering hosting photography classes.
"Participants are getting an education from a place that does the work," said David French.
Like the studio's name presents, what is recorded in the studio has to be heard to be understood.
"Music is all about listening and geared to technique," said Michael French. "We all love this and do it because it's inside of us. We all like teaching it as much as we like doing it."
For more information on the careers of the French brothers and the Hartmans, as well as upcoming events at the studio, visit www.downtohear.com. You may also call (828) 638-7373.


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10:35pm Fridays, starting February 8th (12 episodes)
In the 1950's, America had broken free from the shackles of wartime economics. It was a time for innovation, when scientists learned to harness nuclear energy and jet-propelled airplanes were breaking speed records. Where scientific innovation met consumerism, the result was the concept car – a prototype made to showcase a concept, new styling and new technology. MYSTERY CARS is a fascinating series that finds these one-of-a-kind vehicles and tells their story.
2/8 – 1956 Buick Centurion / 1954 Plymouth Explorer
How air travel inspired the design of the 1956 Buick Centurion and how the 1954 Plymouth Explorer combined the very best of American and European styling.
2/15 – 1953 Gm Xp-21 Firebird / 1955 Mercury D528
How aircraft technology inspired the design of the 1953 GM XP-21 Firebird and the 1955 Mercury D528.
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The design secrets of the 1961 Ford Thunderbird and the 1963 Chrysler Turbine.
3/1 – Cadillac Cyclone Xp-74/ 1977 Buick Phantom
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How America's love affair with Italian design and craftsmanship produced sensational concept cars such as the 1953 Alfa Romeo BAT 5 and the 1954 Dodge Fire Arrow II.
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The aerodynamic design of the 1954 Alfa Romeo BAT 7 and find out how America's passion for all things Italian inspired the 1954 Dodge Fire Arrow IV.
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Provence, known for its soft light and fierce wind, is as loved by Americans as it is by the sun. We climb Roman ruins in Nimes, explore a papal palace in Avignon, and savor vivid views immortalized by van Gogh in Arles. Crossing acres of wispy vineyards, we explore the Cotes du Rhone and more wonders of the South of France.
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LAKE PLACID - Organizers of the Lake Placid/North Elba Half Marathon will add a 10-kilometer race this year and look to get more youth involved.
Rick Preston spoke about some of the changes to the event at a village Board of Trustees meeting April 29. This year's half marathon, set for Sept. 7, is the 43rd installment of the race.
"Last year, Art Devlin and I co-organized the half marathon," Preston said. "We considered it a huge success. It was a huge learning experience. We had about 225 runners sign up, and we were able to donate - not as much as we had planned - some funding to the Lake Placid Youth (Athletic) Association."
The LPYAA received $1,500 from last year's race. Preston said the goal is to have profits from the race benefit the community's youth.
This year, the event will raise funds for the Lake Placid-Wilmington Connecting Youth and Communities Coalition, Preston said.
"They're going to assist us with the race, and hopefully we can get the youth of the community involved in the race and moving this race forward," he said.
This year's race course will be the same as last year: runners will start at the Olympic Skating Oval on Main Street and finish at the North Elba Show Grounds.
"We feel we've worked out any discrepancies and some difficulties we had last year," Preston said.
The 10k race will start at the same time as the half marathon and also finish at the Show Grounds.
"We're hoping to attract the spouses of some of the half marathoners," Preston said.
Adirondack Health, where Preston works, will provide liability insurance for the race.
The village board voted unanimously to endorse the event.


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As the clouds gathered over the small village house in the Liberian bush early on Tuesday morning where John Humphrys was preparing to co-anchor the Today programme, little could he have known that a Twitter Storm was about to rain down on his head.
BBC radio's flagship had chosen to focus attention on the new opportunities opening up across the continent with a year-long series of broadcasts from the West African nation. It's a good place to start. There are green shoots of recovery there, though their problems, not long after the end of a vicious civil war, are still numerous.
It's with this in mind, that Today had prepared a whole programme's worth of coverage - interviews, packages and features - with Humphrys anchoring from Bong County, four hours drive from the capital, Monrovia.
Within minutes of going on air, the Twitter- and blogospheres were alive with comment - much of it complimentary, but a lot, particularly from Africaphiles, most certainly not.
Paul Vallely, the respected Independent journalist, told his Twitter followers that the programme was a "disgraceful concatenation of patronising, prejudiced, negative sneering stereotypes".
Another Africa expert, columnist Ian Birrell described the BBC's view of the continent as "myopic" and "tosh". He added: "Sadly, this is the view of Africa perpetrated by charities - and this is what happens when the BBC acts as promotional tool for their causes".
The Director of the Royal African Society, Richard Dowden, wrote an open letter to Humphreys turning some of the broadcaster's comments during the programme on its head.
"'You can't come here with European eyes', you say. But that is precisely what you and the rest of the British media have been doing all this time", Dowden wrote.
Whilst generally praising the ambition behind the programme, he added that the BBC could do more for Africa than any amount of international aid by reversing their decision to cut the number of reporters in the region.
"£1 spent on a good BBC World Service does more for development in Africa than £100 spent on aid".
Loyal BBC staff indulged in a spot of soul searching after reading Dowden's letter. Foreign correspondent Andrew Harding asked if they were getting Africa wrong. News Channel Controller Kevin Backhurst admitted there was "food for thought".
There were also plenty of positive comment. Channel 4 News's Jon Snow called the programme "brilliant" and "sensitively reported". David Aaronovitch called it "lovely stuff". Many members of the public were equally supportive.
Let me declare an interest here. It was from our office in Bong County that John Humphrys anchored the initial broadcast, though we had no influence on the content.
We are, however, tremendously excited to support the project, because it was, and will be, a fantastic opportunity to give a rare, on the ground account of the exciting changes and challenges in one country in Africa. Through African eyes.
Today has a certain style, a style that attracts millions of listeners every morning. To change that combative, opinionated, way of broadcasting just because they were reporting from Africa would have been wrong - and far more patronising than anything Humphrys said this week. I liked Today's focus on both the progress in Liberia and the more difficult issues, like secret societies and female genital mutilation, that are often seen as too sensitive to mention.
Today's millions of listeners are intelligent enough to cope with nuanced debate - that's why the programme is so successful. There will always be positives and negatives. As Richard Dowden said in his letter, we need to cover both if we are to reflect fairly African diversity.
We heard African voices, lots of them, from all walks of life. This is what's needed, because people at home can identify with and understand the problems they face - and because these are the voices we don't normally get to hear.
Yes, perhaps we could have heard more about the country's many successes as it lifts itself up from the terrible civil war, but hopefully this will come in later visits.
The key learning from Wednesday's broadcast is that we don't have to portray Africa as hopeless to raise money or engage listeners. Inspiration and personal stories are enough, and from the many calls we took at our offices, they reach people in a different and more profound way than easy stereotypes.
So Today should keep its nerve on this, despite the dissenting voices. We want the show to be honest about telling Africa's story in the same way that it reports everywhere else in the world. If that means being critical, sceptical or even occasionally flippant, then so be it.
I'm thoroughly looking forward to hearing the next instalment from Liberia. The challenge for BBC radio and its listeners is to give this experiment a chance to change the way we think about Africa.


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A global problem will get close examination at the local level on Sunday when the University of Colorado hosts a day-long summit on climate change and resulting environmental distress, with the goal that the day's deliberations and discussions can culminate in action.
Called IMPACT: A Summit on Climate Change, the event is free to the public and will take place in Room 235 of CU's University Memorial Center from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
One early highlight on the agenda, slated for 10:10 a.m., is "Climate Change Now: The Reality," presented by James White, director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.
The program is broken into seven separate installments, ranging from "Human Factors" to "Setting the Agenda for Change," a community dialogue featuring several policy makers including U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, to "What's Now & What's Next? Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change Together."
Organizers said in a news release that the program will bring together local scientists, influential community leaders and activists, all working in the field of climate change and the environment, who will focus on the steps that society "can and must take to address this greatest challenge of our times."
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Friday, March 30, 2007
Epstein Feels Good About Shape of the Sox
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- With six weeks of evaluation time under his belt, does the general manager have any grand predictions for the 2007 Red Sox?
"Ask me in six months," quipped Theo Epstein.
However, the GM was more forthcoming on a variety of other issues surrounding his club as the season draws near.
Epstein seemed to give his team about an "A" rating for chemistry during camp.
"I think the thing I liked best about the club is there were no real egos on display," said Epstein just a few hours before the club left Fort Myers for a pair of exhibition games in Philadelphia.
"As much as any camp I've been around, this had a real team feel from Day 1 and put winning as the real top priority," continued Epstein. "Everyone got their work in and it seems like it was as cohesive a unit as you can have when there's 55 guys around. That should bode really well for the chances of us coming together as a 25-man unit quickly in April."
Epstein added that the other big positive was that, aside from Mike Timlin's strained oblique, there were no significant injuries during Spring Training.
Though Curt Schilling, Josh Beckett and Daisuke Matsuzaka certainly represent an imposing front three to the rotation, Epstein isn't ready just yet to anoint it as the best starting staff he's had in his five years as general manager.
"I don't like assessing teams on paper," Epstein said. "On paper, it's got as high a ceiling as any team we've had. We got it going pretty good towards the end of 2004. Those guys made all their starts. That's an important thing.
"Often times, you look at the end of the year, the team that won the pennant is the team that had a rotation that made the most starts and stayed the healthiest, the top five guys. They can take the ball and not miss starts, that's a good sign. That's a pretty important factor for us and for all of our competitors as well."
In the past, Epstein has admitted that building a bullpen is an art he has struggled at. How does he like this year's bullpen now that Jonathan Papelbon is back in the closer's role?
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"It's always wait-and-see [approach] for every team," Epstein said. "I think we have some veteran talent in the big leagues right now. I think we have the best depth we've had in Triple-A in a long time. That's a pretty good Triple-A bullpen that we have right now, and starting rotation. Considering that we usually use at least 20 pitchers to get through the season, I think we're built better for the long haul."
On to other matters, the GM wasn't losing any sleep over the .103 batting average that captain Jason Varitek left Florida with.
"If you look back at his history, '03, '04, '05, he hit over .250 maybe once in those springs" Epstein said. "In 2003, he hit [.190] or something like that and had a pretty feeble spring from an offensive standpoint. First game of the year in Tampa Bay, it might have been his first at-bat, he took a great swing on a pitch from Joe Kennedy and lined it off the wall and get locked in right after that. His history is as a guy who doesn't hit much in Spring Training."
Then, there's rookie second baseman Dustin Pedroia, who had an unimpressive six-week stint with the team at the end of last season and an inconsistent exhibition season. Still, Epstein is confident that Pedroia can hold down the starting job and just needs a little more time to get comfortable.
"I think, for him, the light is going to go on one day where he can just relax and be himself," Epstein said. "I think what you saw last year was a guy pressing and trying to do too much. That's pretty typical of young players and can sometimes carry over into the second year a little bit. Usually there's a moment, whether it's a big hit or a good defensive play or just a deep breath, that helps a guy relax and be himself.
"I think we've seen some signs of that this spring. As Tito [manager Terry Francona] said, it hasn't been a great spring for him. I think that moment will come and where he kind of clicks in and is able to be himself at the big-league level. He could become a real asset for us."
Of course, no wide-ranging Red Sox discussion would be complete these days without some Matsuzaka talk. Epstein is thrilled with the way Matsuzaka and fellow Japanese lefty Hideki Okajima have made the transition to a new culture over the last few weeks.
"I'm very happy with the transition process," Epstein said. "I think both pitchers deserve a lot of credit for their great attitudes towards integrating themselves into the clubhouse and into the Major Leagues, and I think the rest of our players deserve a great deal of credit for turning something that could be a distraction and turning it into a positive. And there are a lot of people in the organization who went out of their way to make this work as well, including the specific support staff for these players."
The 25-man roster that will open the season in Kansas City basically became set earlier this week when Kyle Snyder and Javy Lopez were informed they had landed the final two pitching spots. Could there be any modifications?
"We could be set, but I think we told the last couple of guys that this is baseball, there's always the possibility ... but I expect we're all set," said Epstein. "There's always the possibility of some sort of roster maneuvering. Other teams are trying to sneak guys through waivers this time of year and we have that one almost free spot with Timlin out for a week."
Epstein is aware that he doesn't have a defensive outfielder in the mold of Gabe Kapler or Jay Payton to play in the late innings. But Alex Ochoa and Bobby Scales, both of whom got a lot of time during Spring Training, will be just a short car ride away at Triple-A Pawtucket.
"We'll have that guy when we need him, later in the year," Epstein said. "We have multiple candidates at Pawtucket. Right now, we need to carry 12 pitchers just to keep guys rested and in a good rhythm early in the season. Our bench right now, even with just four guys, takes care of every concern except outfield defense. If we ever go back to 11 pitchers, that 25th spot would be a pinch-runner/defensive-specialist type."
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