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Conger, Mount Activated at Rancho Cucamonga
Just got back from the Quakes game … Hank Conger and Ryan Mount were activated tonight and were in the starting lineup. Conger DH'd and Mount played 2B. Nothing official on when Conger might catch; scuttlebutt around the park seemed to be he might be given the medical okay to catch in the next month or so.

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Anti-doping pioneer Don Catlin spent a quarter century trying to catch athletes using performance-enhancing drugs, snaring many of the world's biggest cheaters — but he never caught Lance Armstrong.
Catlin figures he must have analyzed about 50 of Armstrong's urine samples at his UCLA lab over the years, and the seven-time Tour de France winner, the most scrutinized athlete on Earth, always turned up clean.
"That's fairly disturbing," Catlin said a couple of days before Armstrong's doping confession was to air on prime-time television. "We thought we had a good program."
Going after dopers is an exercise in endless frustration, because unscrupulous athletes will always find new drugs and new methods to beat tests, and sports organizations have too much to lose by allowing stringent inspections. That is why Catlin, a chemist, has moved beyond the endless game of cat-and-mouse, and thinks the rest of the world should, too.
Testing holds a necessary place in anti-doping efforts, he says, but science alone can't solve sports' problems. The chase will never be won — and sports will never really be cleansed — unless the focus shifts toward a voluntary system that rewards honest athletes while pressuring the dirty ones to change their ways.
Kind of like peer pressure for jocks.
"That's what it's been criticized for, and to that I say, 'Nothing much works these days,'" Catlin said.
Case in point is Armstrong, who fooled authorities for a decade before the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency released a mountain of evidence against him last year and accused him of running "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen." A month earlier, his former U.S. Postal Service teammate, Tyler Hamilton, published a book about how they got away with it.
"Very scary stuff," Catlin said.
Catlin got out of the testing business six years ago, ending a 25-year career at UCLA's Olympic Analytical Lab, which he built into one of the world's premier testing facilities. The lab broke open the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative, which was linked to many elite athletes, including track star Marion Jones and San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds, by discovering the designer steroid THG. Catlin later developed a test that was used to catch Olympic gold medal sprinter Justin Gatlin with unnatural levels of testosterone.
His lab also specialized in detecting the blood-oxygen booster EPO, which Armstrong is accused of using.
Catlin left his lab in 2007 to develop the nonprofit Anti-Doping Research Institute in Los Angeles.
"The cause is good, but after 25 years you know everything about the field, and you don't see it going away," Catlin said. "You see doping staying forever and that's frustrating. You try to figure out, as I'm doing now, better approaches to take the problem from very different ways."
University of Texas doping historian John Hoberman doesn't know Catlin, but, he, too, believes that the only way to save sport from doping is to reform its culture. He advocates for a refocusing on "the human chemistry" of the scourge.
The most formidable obstacle to clean competition, Hoberman says, is a kind of institutional corruption in which members of groups that profit from the "sports entertainment industry" are implicitly or explicitly allowing doping to happen. To these organizations, the "appearance of compliance" with World Anti-Doping Agency codes is enough.
"The other aspect of this is the many national and international sports officials who should be good guys, and aren't," Hoberman said.
That is why Hoberman hopes that Armstrong — who arguably knows more about doping than any of his accusers — will implicate top cycling officials in his confession. That could help spark an unprecedented reform effort.
"If you can get everything out of him, you can make extraordinary inroads in improving the culture," Hoberman said.
But even with Armstrong's confession, neither Hoberman nor Catlin is idealistic enough to believe that doping is ever going to end.
"This is not the last they're going to see of (someone like) Armstrong," Catlin said. "Look at his story and ask: Could this (still) be going on today? The answer is yes."


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"I always tell people that if they don't like the way I vote, they can rank teams how they please. Thanks to you, they can." – Sports Illustrated's Andy Staples
The Mumme Poll is an ongoing experiment to construct a viable method to rank the best Division-1/FBS college football teams, absent the bias and potential conflicts of interest that affect other polls, in particular the USA Today Coaches Poll. The poll is jointly sponsored by two college football blogs, Get The Picture and 3rd Saturday in Blogtober.
We attempt to accomplish this by conducting the voting in two very different ways from other football polls:
- The first vote does not take place until after the games of Week Six have been played. Voters are not asked to evaluate teams based on preseason expectations and are not expected to use those as a baseline from which to rank teams for the rest of the year.
- Rather than being required to rank twenty five D-1 teams in order of preference, Mumme Poll voters submit ballots which consist of their top ten teams in the country, without ranking (other than to designate a single best from those ten, for use as a tiebreaker). The poll rankings are then compiled by means of approval voting; that is, the teams are ranked in the order of the total number of times they appear on voters' ballots. (For more on approval voting as a means of addressing bias in the Coaches' Poll, see this post.)
The inspiration for the Mumme Poll came from the final 2007 regular season Coaches Poll and Tony Barnhart's post breaking down some of the more curious ballots cast. (You can read that post here.) The poll is named in honor of perhaps the most questionable vote of that Coaches Poll – Hal Mumme's ballot listing Hawaii as the number one team in the country.
In response, the initial Mumme Poll ran at Get The Picture for the 2008 season. (Florida finished first at season's end.) With the 2009 season, the poll moved to a new home at this site. The move allowed for a web interface that made the voting process much more user friendly. For 2010, the site was tweaked in order to allow for greater feedback from voters.
We're (small "d") democrats here. Mumme Poll voting is open to any knowledgeable, enthusiastic college football fan. That's part of the fun of it.
There aren't many, but what few there are matter.
- Registration. To cast a ballot, you'll need to register at the Mumme Poll site. Registration each season is limited to the week leading up to and through the games of week five.
- Voting period. In most weeks, balloting takes place at any time between 9:00 A.M. on the Sunday following the games and 9:00 P.M. on the following Monday. On those rare weeks when a Sunday game is played, the voting is pushed back 24 hours.
- Ballot format. A ballot must contain votes for ten schools and a top team selected from those schools.
- The one commandment. Don't try to game the system. Don't subvert the vote by submitting a ballot with your favorite school and the nine worst teams in D-1, for example. The ballots are monitored and if something questionable comes up, a voter will be given a chance to explain. If we're convinced there's a deliberate effort to muck things up, we'll toss the ballot and the voter.


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My question has to do with the frequency of the distribution of the Lord's supper. Of the many times that I have asked this, I have never gotten a definitive answer. Some say this, some that, but all skirt around the issue without a definite commitment. What I inquire about is:
1. Why does the church practice this but once a month, generally?
2. When did this first begin to be observed in this way?
3. Why is it allowed in the first place, seeing as it is a most wonderful experience to take part in?
Concerning the frequency of observance of the Lord's Supper, my understanding of passages like Acts 2 and 1 Corinthians 10-14 lead me to conclude that the Lord's Supper was a regular part of every gathering of the church and that was at least once per week. And weekly observance was apparently the practice of the early post-Apostolic Church.
The Reformers determined to restore the Supper to its rightful place both in terms of the communing congregation and in the congregation's sharing in the cup. During the Middle Ages, congregants were required to commune only once per year and that without partaking of the wine. The Reformers changed that. I believe that the Reformers without exception promoted and/or practiced weekly observance. Calvin devotes two subsections to the discussion in book IV of the Institutes. Although the city council of Geneva would not permit Calvin to institute a weekly observance in his congregation, they did allow that the Supper could observed in one congregation or another every week. So the Supper was observed weekly albeit in a different church.
A very thorough treatment of Reformed worship may be found in the book Worship: Reformed according to the Word of God by Hughes Oliphint Old. If you can find it, read Mr. Old's book, The Patristic Roots of Reformed Worship (1974). These are great resources. Hughes Old spent seven years researching primary sources in order to write the latter.
Finally, concerning your three questions:
1. Monthly observance may go back to Calvin's practice. Though he argued for weekly observance, he compromised. Many issues divided the church then, as now. I do not believe that the frequency of observance is commanded. The statements regarding observance are indefinite, i.e. "whenever" you eat this bread or drink this cup. This leaves the matter open to discussion. Monthly observance was a significant improvement over the Middle Ages.
2. As I said, I think monthly observance goes back to Calvin, but I could be mistaken. My research on this is not complete, but, so far, that is my conclusion.
3. I am unclear regarding your last question. However, I think you ask this: why is monthly observance allowed in the first place, since partaking more frequently is a most wonderful experience? To that I would answer that the issue is not whether frequent observance is a wonderful experience. The issue is whether a more frequent observance has scriptural and theological warrant. Is this what God desires in our worship? That is the only issue.
I hope that my answers help. You are free to write for clarification. May our Lord bless you.
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Whether it's The Lion King, Werner Herzog's "Grizzly Man", or the last kitten video you saw on Youtube, we are constantly inundated with stories about animals. Wilderness has taken a deep hold on our collective imaginations. And at a time when conservation science is making gigantic leaps, while dozens of species are disappearing every single day, the narratives that humans weave about animals have never had such drastic consequences.
It's this phenomenon that inspired Jon Mooallem to write his new book, Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America. Mooallem is interested in how people see, and have seen, wild animals. Focusing on three specific endangered species--the Polar bear, the metalmark butterfly, and the whooping crane--the book explores the intricacies and the repercussions of America's relationship with the wild. Mooallem has contributed to New York Times Magazine, This American Life, Harper's, Wired, The New Yorker, and Radiolab.
Jon tells us about North American dire wolves (yes, dire wolves), America's strange relationship with Humphrey the humpback whale, and the philosophical questions that conservation scientists must ask themselves while donning giant bird costumes.
Black Prairie, a Portland-based band featuring members of The Decemberists, recorded a soundtrack for the book called Wild Ones: A Musical Score for the Things That You Might See in Your Head When You Reflect on Certain Characters and Incidents That You Read About in The Book. They will begin touring with Jon Mooallem next week.
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Comedian Kurt Braunohler thinks he can make the world a better place through stupidity, absurdity, and fake Hallmark cards.
His new stand-up album, How Do I Land is available now.
Nathan recommends A Band Called Death, a look at the rise, fall, and eventual resurrection of a band of three black brothers from Detroit who played punk music in the early 1970s.
Tasha recommends Stories We Tell, directed by Oscar-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley. Stories We Tell explores the nature of truth, memory, and family secrets, as Polley tries to uncover her own family's history through personal interviews that start seeming more and more like myth than fact.
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Author Elmore Leonard died last month. To honor the great pulp fiction writer, we are airing an excerpt from our interview with him from 2007.
Leonard had a style, a story schema, and a voice of which he was truly a master. His characters got into trouble, the problems grew larger, and they spoke to each other with honed dialogue that influenced readers, writers, and filmmakers for decades. His novels inspired such films as Get Shorty, Out Of Sight, Jackie Brown, and 3:10 To Yuma.
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antipodean @ Jul 24 2010, 01:07 AM wrote: Sorry Simon, I can't ever recall a plane crash happening at exactly the same time as an earthquake :lol:
"Are the "earthquakes" you point out in the Naudet 1st hit footage the underground bombs, do you think?"
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D.Duck @ Jul 25 2010, 09:45 PM wrote: Come on Simon, dont be silly, there was no earthquake.
The reason is that hurricane Erin was just outside New York blowing powerful catastrophic and horrific winds over New York that very sad day.
You can clearly see all the smoke move in one cluster to the left and there is no way the smoke behaves that way without the powerful hurricane Erin.
You can also see the tower swaying to the left and that's why you can see the crack in the tower starting to appear to the right of that of that gasping hole.
Simon, do you think the hijackers intentional plan was to scare us and do a flyby to the right of the towers "Obama style" but something went wrong and the powerful winds blew that Boeing 767 in to the north tower.
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Brutal Metal @ Jul 26 2010, 01:25 AM wrote: Was it named for Erin Andrews? That chic played such a victim but she loved knowing that the country saw her flaunting that ass...And Wow look at all the exposure she has now..
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Ok, so today I'm starting this little summergame for allcomers - enjoy! It's called :
And today's clue for allcomers to debunk is... :P :
Some people still believe that the Naudet 1st hit is REAL FOOTAGE.
So today's challenge (N?1) is...
Show us any real footage featuring similarly bopping buildings!
"Firstly, The heat from the sun expanded the concrete, and when the wind came along it reduced the size of the concrete."
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La Fontana Pizzeria & Italian Restaurant
The fun and the fellowship at La Fontana's is of course a huge part of the reason why people visit. Family gatherings, birthday celebrations, romantic dinners take place at La Fontana's every day of the week, to enjoy our delicious italian food. La Fontana's savory italian food menu offers a variety of selections of authentic, homemade Italian cuisine such as: pizza, pasta, panini, piadine, appetizers, meat & fish, seafood, italian beverages and wines, italian desserts & gelateria. Our wood oven made pizza, our italian yummy pasta, our meat, fish and seafood cooked to perfection, out italian wines and beverages and our extremely friendly staff are only some of the reasons that make La Fontana a perfect Italian Restaurant in Coral Springs. Call for reservation or take out 954-575-5502 or e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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text: SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Chowderheads from far and wide crowded the city Saturday, shutting down streets and lining up for blocks to get their hands on the tens of thousands of $1 cups of chowder handed out during the 15th annual Chowderfest. Most of the 70 bars, restaurants, stores and organizations serving their take on chowder were downtown, where jovial throngs waited patiently in the cold. "There's such a huge variety," said Judy Lloyd, who was visiting from Queensbury with Casey Lloyd for their first Chowderfest. After sampling the chowders, the two said it would be an annual event for them. Like many festival-goers, they had trouble choosing a favorite recipe. "Stadium Cafe was excellent," Casey Lloyd said. "Cantina's southwest chowder was particularly good -- it had carrot slices on top or something to give it a little crunch." Lines ran back and forth across and along Caroline, Phila and Henry streets, which were shut down for the event that drew more people this year than last, according to Saratoga Convention and Tourism Bureau President Todd Garofano. He said attendance of this year's Chowderfest exceeded the 20,000 mark set at the 2012 event, when it was sunny and temperatures were in the 50s. "This year it was cold and snowy and we still had great numbers," he said. Garofano also said more bowls of chowder were served this year than last. The convention bureau expects to have concrete figures on Monday. At Esperanto's on Caroline Street, where the line wrapped around the block for much of the five-hour event, owner William Pouch said he noticed the increased attendance. Scooping cup after cup, Pouch said he had dished out about 2,000 cups by about 2 p.m. "I think we'll put out about 3,000 or 3,500 when it's all done," he said, adding that the festival seems to grow every year. "It used to be that you had until 11:30 or 12 to get set up," he said. "This year, every place had a line at 11 a.m. I bet people are going to sell out early or sell more than ever this year." Pouch had two chowder concoctions Saturday: a southwest barbecue pork corn chowder and a vegan vegetable tofu chowder. "We had a lot of people asking us for a non-cream based chowder, so we decided to listen," he said. "We took an alternative route, which is kind of our way." Of course, many took an alternative approach to chowder. The Irish Times had a reuben chowder; Bookmakers at the Holiday Inn served crawfish and andouille sausage chowder with a Bayou sauce; and Henry Street Taproom, one of the new contenders this year, served a Caribbean curry chowder with swordfish and coconut. "I think we're at about 60 gallons served," Taproom chef Ali Benamati said. Not only was it the tavern's first Chowderfest, it was also Benamati's first. "It's a little overwhelming, but fun," she said. Even D'Andrea's Pizza got in on the action with a clam chowder pizza. Rory Wilson, the shop's owner, said his business partner, Bob Fuller, came up with the idea and he sold 30 of the pizzas Saturday. "It's great to see so many familiar faces," he said. "Chowderfest gives it that small-town feeling." The chowder fiends in the crowd of tens of thousands in the Spa City usually come prepared. Some came with their own spoons, others with "Chugs" (Chowderfest mugs), and others with a strategy. "You've got to get two, especially going from line to line," said John Bonheim, coming out of Hattie's with his cup and spoon in hand. Another man's take was the "divide-and-conquer" strategy of sending some from his group to one line and some to another only to meet back in the middle and swap chowders. Most, though, just came for some chowder and some camaraderie. "It's a lot of fun," said Mark Levine with a group of people, a baby smiling in his stroller. "It's great to get everyone out here." Up the road, Chris Taylor touted the Seven Horse Pub and Lillian's chowders. His friend, Stephen Slaughter, though, emphasized the sentiment shared by seemingly every Chowderhead in Saratoga Springs. "We really didn't have a bad chowder today," he said.


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Hello and happy Friday!
It's an extra special weekend too!
We have our friends visiting from Boise, it's Thankgiving and hockey season officially starts!
I created this card below using Teresa's Viva La Verve October Week 2 sketch.
I cut the heart using the Verve Jotted Heart Die. The sentiment comes from the All About You stamp set.
Designer Paper is from October Afternoon.
Stamps: All About You; Cardstock: Vanilla, Riding Hood Red, October Afternoon DP; Inks: Black; Accessories: Circle Nesties, Verve Jotted Heart Die, MFT First Place Award Ribbon Die, Twine, Sewing, Dimensionals, Buttons
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I can only imagine the howling if Canon or Nikon could, and did, suddenly demand a subscription to access all of the RAW files everyone has ever made with their cameras.
... demanding continuous payments to maintain access to their own proprietary formats.
You can still use that old PS you previously used to create those files.
You can still use that old PS you previously used to create those proprietary formats.
As for the new PS CC subscriptions, what do you think is the difference between what you describe as "maintain access"/"access to the adjustment layers for later tweaking" and actually using PS ?
The point is that once CS6 becomes incompatible with your OS and/or hardware, continuous payment of a subscription is the only way to access or use any of your proprietary Adobe files. Previously one could update or purchase only when necessary to maintain compatibility with computer operating systems and hardware. Under the new plan when your subscription runs out your files become useless until you renew. [edit] I'd think "access" means opening, viewing , printing, and anything that doesn't modify a file and "use" would mean things like "tweaking", adjusting, or anything that modifies a file. I'll admit it's a minor distinction and "access" might be provided by some 3rd party applications. Semantics aside, the problem is that you must subscribe if your files are to remain useful in any meaningful way after CS6 becomes incompatible with your OS and/or hardware. That could take one year or five years, but it will definitely happen.
The point is that once CS6 becomes incompatible with your OS and/or hardware...
Under the new plan when your subscription runs out your files become useless until you renew.
Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? Maybe it's just me but I've found advances in application software such as PS where a new release drives an upgrade to the OS to be the norm instead of the reverse where adoption of a new OS drives upgrading old application software. I typically go through multiple application upgrade cycles for each single OS upgrade cycle. In my own case the fact that Lightroom 4 required Windows 7 or later was the final push to replace Windows XP with 7. It would be very rare for me to upgrade to a new OS unless there were new applications or application features that required it. It would be very unlikely that current CS5 or 6 (or older versions, for that matter) would refuse to run under any future releases of Windows (can't comment on Mac) as support for legacy apps has traditionally been a MS priority. Much more of a concern is whether you'd be able to reinstall it after a hardware or OS upgrade due to the required activations - if Adobe turns off the activation servers for older versions, users trying a fresh install would be out in the cold. In any case, the PSD file format is so widely used that finding support for it in third party applications in the event you jump the Adobe ship is not likely to be a problem.
Yes, without working PS software "your" proprietary Adobe files should be regarded as useless; and more generally "your" proprietary Adobe files should be regarded only as short term assets.That was always the case; as we would have discovered if Adobe stopped selling PS, or Adobe went out of business, or...Why would you only have been using an Adobe proprietary file format, when you could additionally archive your work as TIFF?
I know this goes against the grain but there are a lot of ways of dealing with this(just so much easier to hate adobe than look at the fact there are a lot of positives to this.)1 Tif is a standard format. If you have selected ""Maximize Compatibility" in preferences any software that opens tifs can open it. You may not get your layers but you will have your images with all your retouching on it.2 You got import them all into lightroom and export them in any format you want.3 Any program that comes along to seriously compete will make opening a layered tif a priority. It may not be able to adjust them but the files will be openable and changable.I promise you if you think about this, for a lot of people here, the CC is a godsend(not everyone)Change messes with your head but it's not always bad


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BP's Civil Fines Could be 10 Times Larger than Record Criminal Penalty
Update: In a further move towards holding BP accountable for past negligence, the Environmental Protection Agency announced on November 28 that the company will be debarred from new federal contracts until they can demonstrate improved responsibility. BP's existing government contracts will not be affected.
The BP Deepwater Horizon settlement of $4.5 billion announced Thursday may be the highest criminal fine in U.S. history, but some citizen advocates and environmentalists still say it's not enough. The 2010 oil spill along the Gulf Coast was the largest single environmental and industrial disaster in the United States and the responsible party is a corporation with one of the worst safety and environmental records on the books.
Compared with its massive profits ($25.7 billion in 2011, according to the BP's website), the fine is not likely to result in any change in business as usual for the company.
"This settlement contains nothing that addresses the institutional problems of BP and its callous treatment of its employees and the environment," said Tyler Slocum, Director of the Energy Program at consumer advocacy group Public Citizen. The fine can be paid out over five years and is well within the company's abilities to manage financially.
Slocum says federal sanctions against BP would more effectively deter the kind of negligence that resulted in the Deepwater spill. Sanctions could include preventing BP from earning money via federal contract and forbidding them from leasing federal land. Though it is now a admitted felon, the company remains the largest fuel contractor for the Department of Defense and will earn more through those contracts in the next year than it will pay out in the current settlement.
Jacqueline Savitz, deputy vice president of international ocean advocacy group Oceana, pointed to a lack of progress in legislative protections against the dangers of offshore drilling. "Nothing in this settlement, and no law passed since the spill, prevents the next major offshore spill from happening," she said in a press release dated November 15.
While many say more remains to be done to hold BP accountable, environmentalists seemed to agree that the company's financial resources will play an important role in the recovery. The good news here is that BP has yet to face civil claims for its violations of environmental legislation such as the Clean Water Act and the Oil Pollution Act. These civil claims could be more than ten times higher than the criminal fines the company has just agreed to pay. Public Citizen calculates that civil claims against BP could total $51.5 billion, while Oceana put the figure as high as $90 billion.
Attorney General Eric HOlder announced last Thursday that his office is prepared to go to trial in February on the Clean Water Act violations, which various estimates put at between $10 and $21 billion. It is unclear at this time if further violations will be prosecuted.
The civil trials will make public much of the yet-to-be released data on the extent of the spill's environmental impact. According to James Ialeggio, a field biologist who helped to conduct post-spill damage assessment, reports of the devastation have been intentionally understated. "My overwhelming impression of the cleanup effort I saw was that it was driven by two things: BP's desire to minimize its own culpability, and the Gulf region's effort to minimize the impact on their tourism," he said.
Ialeggio was with the first out-of-state nonprofit teams to be given access to the area, some two months after the spill. By that time, much of the oil had been hidden by controversial chemical dispersants used for the first time in the Deepwater Horizon spill. The dispersants minimized the appearance of oil slicks by separating them into miniscule particles. Some researchers found that the combination of oil and dispersants had toxic effects.
Meanwhile, oil continues to be discovered. This summer, the Times Picayune reported that a 30-by-30 foot mat of solidified oil had washed up on Louisiana's Grand Isle Beach, not long after BP had declared the area clean. Ialeggio says that whenever there is any kind of storm or disturbance in the weather, tar balls wash up on the beach, though he can't be sure they are connected to the Deepwater Horizon incident.
BP has indicated it is prepared to fight upcoming civil charges on two major points: They will contest the government's figures on the gallons of oil spilled, and they will argue for charges of negligence rather than gross negligence, which carries higher penalties. The outcome of the upcoming trial will indicate more about whether financial punishment is adequate in this case.
"The government says that the biggest fine in history equates with justice being served," said Allison Fisher, Outreach Director of the Energy Program at Public Citizen. "To maintain that narrative, they will really have to come through with the civil charges."
Signe Predmore wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. Signe is an editorial intern at YES! and is currently on leave from studying international politics in Sweden.
When an oil spill coated birds in San Francisco Bay 40 years ago, he quit driving. Then he quit speaking. Madeline Ostrander asked him what he learned in that process that can help us deal with the BP oil spill.
Indigenous leaders from Ecuador visited Louisiana gathered to share what they learned in a decades-long battle with Texaco.
On April 28, the news headlines offered a stark comparison between two possible futures for energy production in America.


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A hammer toe occurs when a toe (usually the second toe) bends down
at the middle toe joint (proximal interphalangeal joint, or
PIP joint). The toe may bend up at the joint where the toe and foot meet
(metatarsophalangeal joint, or MTP joint), causing the middle toe joint to be
raised slightly. There may also be a deformity at the distal interphalangeal
joint (DIP joint).
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Claw toe often affects all toes at the same
time (except the big toe), causing them to bend downward at both the middle joints (PIP joints) and the joints nearest the tip (distal interphalangeal joint, or DIP joint), so
that the toes curl down. The toes bend up at the joints where
the toes and the foot meet (MTP joint).
A mallet toe often affects the longest toe (generally the second
toe), but it may affect the other toes as well. The toe bends down at the joint
closest to the tip (DIP joint).
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Microsoft will offer its upcoming Office 2010 office suite in the form of a product key card for new purchases and a downloadable click-to-run offering for existing PCs.
Office 2010, the next iteration of the company's popular office suite, is expected to be available in the first half of 2010. In July, Microsoft released a "technical preview" of the suite, and the company expects a "broad beta" of the product later this year.
When Office 2010 does hit retailers' shelves, users buying new PCs will have access to a product key card that activates Office on computers that have been pre-loaded with the suite. "The product key card is a single license card (with no DVD media) that will be sold at major electronic retail outlets," Takeshi Numoto, corporate vice president for Office at Microsoft, said in a blog post.
The card will be available for the three full versions of Office - Office Home & Student 2010, Office Home & Business 2010, and Office Professional 2010.
For new PC buyers who are not sure about also purchasing Office, new PCs will come equipped with Microsoft Office Starter 2010, a replacement for Microsoft Works.
This version has reduced-functionality and is advertising supported, Microsoft said.
"Office Starter 2010 will include Office Word Starter 2010 and Office Excel Starter 2010, with the basic functionality for creating, viewing and editing documents," Numoto wrote.
It will include the option to upgrade to full-featured versions from within the product, but Starter 2010 does not expire and does not require you to upgrade.
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Tina Fey tells The Associated Press that she'll probably reprise her impression of Sarah Palin when she hosts "Saturday Night Live'' in April.
The comedian's portrayal of the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate generated some of the funniest, most watched episodes of the iconic show -- and viewers are likely thrilled at the chance to see Fey assume the pitbull-esque role again.
Fey said this week that "it's inevitable that we'll try it, at least.'' She says "we'll see if it makes it to air.''
Officials at the NBC show aren't talking. "SNL'' generally doesn't discuss upcoming sketches because plans change often.
Fey's performances of Palin were an icon of the 2008 campaign and drew huge ratings for "SNL.'' They also helped earn her the title of 2008 AP Entertainer of the Year.
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DENVER – Colorado set a single-day record for gun background check requests the day after the Connecticut mass shootings.
The Denver Post reported Monday that there were more than 4,200 requests to buy guns in Colorado on Saturday. That figure surpassed the 4,028 background checks processed on Black Friday this year, said Susan Medina of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, which was still totaling the requests Monday.
The surge in applications came after a gunman on Friday killed 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
So many background checks were submitted that the bureau had to call in extra staff. Wait times exceeded 12 hours for a process that generally takes minutes, Medina said.
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LUNENBURG — The father of Lunenburg eighth-grader Isaac A. Phillips is calling for Lunenburg High School's football coaches to step down for allegedly allowing football players to haze his son for weeks, leading to the spray painting of racist graffiti on their home.
On the foundation of the Phillips' family ranch-style home on Chase Road, the phrase "Knights don't need n******!" was spray-painted in blue letters after dark one evening last week, Isaac's father, Anthony J. Phillips, said.
Isaac plays football on Lunenburg High School's freshman and junior varsity football teams. Lunenburg's team is nicknamed the Blue Knights.
Isaac's mother, Andrea J. Brazier, discovered the racial slur Friday morning after Isaac had left for school, Mr. Phillips said, and called her husband and the police.
Isaac was pulled out of class Friday and that evening's football game against Oakmont Regional High School was canceled because of it, according to a collective statement by Lunenburg officials..
Isaac's parents, who have lived in their home for 15 years, said their son will not return to Lunenburg's school system.
"Andrea called me upset and then called the police," Mr. Phillips said. "The thing that bothers me the most is that the coaches haven't reached out or called us. We've received phone calls of support from a lot of people in Lunenburg. We figured the coaches would reach out and say, 'How you doing?' It is almost like it's acceptable."
Lunenburg High School Athletic Director Peter McCauliff would not comment on the issue and said the matter is under investigation.
Lunenburg High School Football Coach Steven Boone did not immediately return calls for comment.
An angry Isaac said he is confused why anyone would write that on his home.
"I just like didn't understand why anyone would do that," Isaac said, whose mother is white and father is black. "I don't even look black. This is my home where my family lives."
The incident was a culmination of weeks of bullying, Mr. Phillips said, including the theft of several of his son's jerseys and cleats that were later found in a trash bin, apparently filled with water before they were tossed.
"I told him he is not even a freshman yet and he's a good football player and some people are going to mess with him and to just keep going," Mr. Phillips said. "I told him it was kind of like paying his homage — you're the young kid and next year you won't be."
Then, the back tire of Isaac's bicycle that he frequently rides a few miles to school and home after practice was slashed.
Isaac and Mr. Phillips believe football players were acting out of jealousy.
"Isaac is a great player and there is going to be jealousy," Mr. Phillips said. "But when you destroy somebody's property and there are racial slurs, it is a whole different ballgame and is escalated to a whole different level."
He said when the school was notified his son's bike tire was slashed, they asked questions and looked at recordings from the school's surveillance cameras, but could not determine who did it.
They told the football coaches, Mr. Phillips said, but were told by them, "I highly doubt it was a football player," he said.
"The coach should try to get to the bottom of it," he said. "I don't care who it is. You get to the bottom of it and hold them accountable. That wasn't done. When there is property damage done, you have to draw a line as a coach or football organization and say this is not tolerable."
Mr. Phillips said he believes the inaction of the coaches emboldened the bullies, who felt they could then trespass on his property and deface his home.
Isaac is hoping he can attend school in Leominster, where he plays on the wrestling and lacrosse teams.
"I don't want to go to this school anymore," Isaac said. "I haven't really liked Lunenburg for a few years now. I want to go to Leominster."
A collective statement was issued Saturday by Police Chief James Marino, the town manager and school superintendent.
In it, officials say they are aware of the issue and give their deepest support to Isaac and his family. Moreover, they say the incident is not behavior they foster or tolerate and it has deeply impacted the school, the football team and the entire community.
The matter is still under investigation, police said, and the FBI and district attorney's office were notified.
"We want to assure you we are taking this very seriously," the statement said.
Police are asking anyone with information to call (978) 582-4531.
Mr. Phillips said he and his wife are trying to shield Isaac's three younger siblings from it as much as possible.
"My 8-year-old doesn't even know what that word means and he doesn't understand why they would call him that because he doesn't even look black," he said. "Unfortunately, I have to explain to them what the word means and that people are that hateful still. It is not an easy conversation to have that people feel that way about his brother."
Mr. Phillips said he feels the school should cancel the Thanksgiving game until someone comes forward.
"I want more awareness that stuff like this still exists," Mr. Phillips said. "People should step in early and intervene. There were plenty of red flags and they still played three more games after his tire was slashed. Then, they felt the courage to come here at nighttime and write this on the back of the house.
"I really think they shouldn't play until they find out who it is. Then, whoever it is, it will come out and the coaches should be held accountable, step down and have someone else step in. The boys on the team are a reflection of them."
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With the addition of 6-foot-9, 260-pound Tony Parker on Monday, UCLA basketball may go from 2011-2012 disappointment to a national factor in the upcoming hoops season.
Parker, from Miller Grove (Ga.) HS, is ranked among the nation's top prospects by Rivals.com at No. 27. He joins a Bruins class that features top-ranked Shabazz Muhammad (6-5, Las Vegas) and No. 3 Kyle Anderson (6-9, Jersey City, N.J.).
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About CME
FAQ about CME
What is "CME"?
Continuing medical education (CME) is sometimes used as a generic term for any educational activity for health care providers. More often, "CME" or "CME credit" refers to the most common type of physician continuing education credit, the AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. For the purposes of this FAQ, CME refers to the latter type of credit.
What is AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM (CME credit)?
CME credit is a continuing education credit owned by the American Medical Association. Physicians earn CME credit by attending events sponsored by an accredited provider and use the CME credit towards re-licensure, re-certification, and renewal of hospital privileges.
Can non-physicians use CME credits?
Non-physicians can receive a certificate or transcript verifying their hours of attendance at a CME event. Certain health provider organizations may accept these contact hours; individual health care professionals should check with their licensing body to ensure that the contact hours at a CME event will be accepted. CPD does not guarantee that contact hours will be valid for non-physician health care professionals and is not responsible for changes in license requirements.
What is an accredited provider?
An accredited provider has been approved to sponsor activities for CME credit, either through the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) or through a State Medical Society. CPD holds national accreditation from the ACCME.
How does an accredited provider sponsor an activity for CME credit?
Accredited providers must comply with all ACCME criteria and AMA policies on CME. For details on these criteria, please see the Links page. For specific CPD policies, please refer to the Policies and Forms page. For additional information on CME and/or CPD policies, please contact Doug Hudson via email or phone (919-537-3811).
Are there other types of physician credit?
- Category 2 credit is "physician-initiated" credit; that is, the physician claims credit for any educational activity that is not sponsored by an accredited provider for Category 1 credit. The NC Medical Board recently ruled that physicians do not need to track or report Category 2 credit for re-licensure. For other purposes (re-certification, renewal of privileges), individual physicians should check with the appropriate organization. CPD does not offer or support Category 2 credit.
- American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) credit is a type of credit used specifically by Family Physicians. It does not convert to AMA credit. CPD does not generally offer AAFP credit, although we would consider doing so if it would be beneficial to a CPD sponsored activity. For more information, please refer to the AAFP CME FAQs (link goes to external site.)
- Maintenance of Certification (MOC). While not a CME credit per se, MOC is an important part of physician continuing development. All 26 specialty boards require members to fulfill the requirements of MOC for re-certification. Individual physicians should refer to their particular specialty board for details. CPD can offer assistance with MOC activities.


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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update
On 3 June 2014, the National IHR Focal Point of Saudi Arabia reported 113 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), including 34 deaths. These cases and deaths were identified through retrospective review of hospital records, dating between 5 May 2013 and 6 May 2014.
The majority of the cases (84) occurred after 1 March 2014; and the rest of cases (29) occurred between 5 May 2013 and 28 February 2014.
The 113 cases are residents of the following regions: 49 from Mecca (including 44 from the city of Jeddah, 2 from the city of Mecca, 2 from Taif and 1 from Shamyah), 47 from Riyadh (including 21 from the city of Riyadh, 12 from Kharj, 9 from Delam, 2 from Wadi Addawaseer, 2 from Aflaj and 1 from Hanakia ), 9 from Medina (including 8 from the city Medina and 1 from Yanbu), 4 cases from Ash Sharqiyah (including 2 from the city of Hassa, 1 from Dammam and 1 from Hafr Al Batin) 2 from Asir(including 1 from the city of Khamis Mshet and 1 from Bisha), 1 case from Tabuk (Tabuk city) and 1 case from Jawf (Jawf city).
Of the 113 cases, 69 are Saudi nationals, while 44 are non-Saudi nationals.
The median age of the cases is 41 years (ranging from 3 months to 89 years) and 57% (64) are males.
Information on the symptoms was reported for 111 of the 113 cases. Of these, 32 cases had no symptoms of illness (asymptomatic), while 79 were reported to have symptoms. Of the cases with symptoms, 70 were reported to have been hospitalized. No information was provided on existing underlying medical conditions.
Information on the final outcome was provided for 113 cases as follow: 76 recovered, 3 were still hospitalized and 34 died.
Information on possible source of infection was reported for 72 out of the 113 cases. Of these 18 cases acquired infection from a non-human source at the community level and 54 cases acquired infection from another person. Of the infections acquired from another person: health care acquired infection was reported for 41 cases and household infection was reported for 13 cases.
Thirty-seven percent (42 out of 113 cases) are health care workers. Among these, 19 were reported as asymptomatic and 23 were reported to have symptoms. Information on the severity of these symptoms was not reported. The final outcome for the health care workers was provided as follow: 39 recovered, 1 still hospitalized and 2 died.
The characteristics of the 113 cases are similar to those previously reported. The pattern and dynamic of the epidemic and the risk assessment remain unchanged.
Globally, 820 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with MERS-CoV including at least 286 related deaths have officially been reported to WHO. This global total includes all the cases in this update.
WHO advice
Based on the current situation and available information, WHO encourages all Member States to continue their surveillance for acute respiratory infections and to carefully review any unusual patterns.
Infection prevention and control measures are critical to prevent the possible spread of MERS-CoV in health care facilities. It is not always possible to identify patients with MERS-CoV early because like other respiratory infections, the early symptoms of MERS-CoV are non-specific. Therefore, health-care workers should always apply standard precautions consistently with all patients, regardless of their diagnosis. Droplet precautions should be added to the standard precautions when providing care to patients with symptoms of acute respiratory infection; contact precautions and eye protection should be added when caring for probable or confirmed cases of MERS-CoV infection; airborne precautions should be applied when performing aerosol generating procedures.
Until more is understood about MERS-CoV, people with diabetes, renal failure, chronic lung disease, and immunocompromised persons are considered to be at high risk of severe disease from MERS‐CoV infection. Therefore, these people should avoid close contact with animals, particularly camels, when visiting farms, markets, or barn areas where the virus is known to be potentially circulating. General hygiene measures such as regular hand washing before and after touching animals and avoiding contact with sick animals, should be adhered to.
Food hygiene practices should be observed. People should avoid drinking raw camel milk or camel urine, or eating meat that has not been properly cooked.
WHO does not advise special screening at points of entry with regard to this event nor does it currently recommend the application of any travel or trade restrictions.


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Jorge Seidi is a citizen of Guinea-Bissau in western Africa. Economic conditions are quite difficult there, and Jorge has been doing what he can to promote solar cooking in the area. He has experimented with information he has gathered from this website, to make a few solar panel cookers from local materials he has been able to salvage. According to Seidi, 90% of the country relies on charcoal as the primary cooking fuel. He would like to be able to work with a youth group to make more cookers, encouraged by the projects underway in Somalia and Chad.
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While much has been written about some of the Gold Coast's older suburbs, little is known about some of the newer destinations such as Robina. When Singapore estate developer Robin Loh purchased some 20 square kilometres of land west of Broadbeach back in 1980, few could have predicted how the suburb of Robina would grow and flourish.
This master-planned community boasts some of the most impressive shopping and recreation facilities in the state including the Robina Town Centre and Bond University, both build around expansive lakes which are sympathetic to the laid-back lifestyle here. A little-known highlight is the Robina Dogway Dog Park which some consider the most exciting place for pooches to play on the Gold Coast due to its innovative design with hurdles, jumps and tunnels.
For a different sporting slant on Robina, this suburb is also home to the Gold Coast Titans Rugby League Team who train and play their home games at Skilled Park - Queensland's newest rectangular sporting and entertainment venue. Robina is also home to a railway station linking it to Brisbane, such are the benefits of being the new kid on the block.
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Although many baby sleep trainers claim there is no evidence of harm from practices such as controlled crying, it is worth noting that there is a vast difference between 'no evidence of harm' and 'evidence of no harm'.
A policy statement on controlled crying issued by the Australian Association of Infant Mental Health (AAIMHI) advises, 'Controlled crying is not consistent with what infants need for their optimal emotional and psychological health, and may have unintended negative consequences.' According to AAIMHI, 'There have been no studies, such as sleep laboratory studies, to our knowledge, that assess the physiological stress levels of infants who undergo controlled crying, or its emotional or psychological impact on the developing child.'
Despite the popularity of controlled crying, it is not an evidence-based practice. In a talk at the International Association of Infant Mental Health 9th World Congress held in Melbourne in 2004, Professor James McKenna, director of the Mother–Baby Behavioural Sleep Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and acclaimed SIDS expert, described controlled crying as 'social ideology masquerading as science'.What this means is that despite a plethora of opinions on how long you should leave your baby to cry in order to train her to sleep, nobody has studied exactly how long it is safe to leave a baby to cry, if at all.
Babies can indeed be 'brand new and blue' with an actual diagnosis of clinical depression. Often the predisposing conditions for depression in infants are beyond our control, such as trauma due to early hospitalisation and medical treatments. However, if we consider the baby's perspective, it is easy to understand how extremely rigid regimes can also be associated with infant depression and why it isn't worth risking, especially if your child has already experienced early separation. You too would withdraw and become sad if the people you loved avoided eye contact, as some sleep training techniques advise, and repeatedly ignored your cries.
Leaving a baby to cry evokes physiological responses that increase stress hormones. Crying infants experience an increase in heart rate, body temperature and blood pressure. These reactions are likely to result in overheating and, along with vomiting due to extreme distress, could pose a potential risk of SIDS in vulnerable infants. There may also be longer-term emotional effects. Babies need our help to learn how to regulate their emotions, meaning that when we respond to and soothe their cries, we help them understand that when they are upset, they can calm down. On the other hand, when infants are left alone to cry it out, they fail to develop the understanding that they can regulate their own emotions. There is also compelling evidence that increased levels of stress hormones may cause permanent changes in the stress responses of the infant's developing brain. These changes then affect memory, attention, and emotion, and can trigger an elevated response to stress throughout life, including a predisposition to later anxiety and depressive disorders. English psychotherapist, Sue Gerhardt, author of Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain, explains that when a baby is upset, the hypothalamus produces cortisol. In normal amounts cortisol is fine, but if a baby is exposed for too long or too often to stressful situations (such as being left to cry) its brain becomes flooded with cortisol and it will then either over- or under-produce cortisol whenever the child is exposed to stress. Too much cortisol is linked to depression and fearfulness; too little to emotional detachment and aggression.
Stress levels in infancy may have implications for learning, too. While it seems fairly obvious that a calm baby will be available for learning, studies have shown that children with the lowest scores on mental and motor ability tests were those with the highest cortisol levels in their blood. There is also research showing that children with anxiety disorders have a higher level of sleep difficulties as infants. Although these studies weren't about controlled crying and I am making no direct connection, my point is that perhaps some of the babies who are presenting with sleep difficulties are infants who need extra help to regulate their emotions or are more sensitive to stress, so it is possible that these little people would be more at risk if they were exposed to controlled crying.
One of the arguments for using controlled crying is that it 'works', but perhaps the definition of success needs to be examined more closely. In the small number of studies undertaken, while most babies will indeed stop waking when they are left to cry, 'success' varies from an extra hour's sleep each night to little difference between babies who underwent sleep training and those who didn't, eight weeks later. Some studies found that up to one-third of the babies who underwent controlled crying 'failed sleep school'. A recent Australian baby magazine survey revealed that lthough 57 per cent of mothers who responded to the survey had tried controlled crying, 27 per cent reported no success, 27 per cent found it worked for one or two nights, and only 8 per cent found that controlled crying worked for longer than a week. To me, this suggests that even if harsher regimes work initially, babies are likely to start waking again as they reach new developmental stages or conversely, they may become more settled and sleep (without any intervention) as they reach appropriate developmental levels.
Controlled crying and other similar regimes may indeed work to produce a self-soothing, solitary sleeping infant. However, the trade-off could be an anxious, clingy or hyper-vigilant child or even worse, a child whose trust is broken. Unfortunately, we can't measure attributes such as trust and empathy which are the basic skills for forming all relationships. We can't, for instance, give a child a trust quotient like we can give him an intelligence quotient. One of the saddest emails I have received was from a mother who did controlled crying with her one-year-old toddler.
"After a week of controlled crying he slept, but he stopped talking (he was saying single words). For the past year, he has refused all physical contact from me. If he hurts himself, he goes to his older brother (a preschooler) for comfort. I feel devastated that I have betrayed my child."
It is the very principle that makes controlled crying 'work' that is of greatest concern: when controlled crying 'succeeds' in teaching a baby to fall asleep alone, it is due to a process that neurobiologist Bruce Perry calls the 'defeat response'. Normally, when humans feel threatened, our bodies flood with stress hormones and we go into 'fight' or 'flight'. However, babies can't fight and they can't flee, so they communicate their distress by crying. When infant cries are ignored, this trauma elicits a 'freeze' or 'defeat' response. Babies eventually abandon their crying as the nervous system shuts down the emotional pain and the striving to reach out.
One explanation for the success of 'crying it out' is that when an infant's defeat response is triggered often enough, the child will become habituated to this. That is, each time the child is left to cry, he 'switches' more quickly to this response. This is why babies may cry for say, an hour the first night, twenty minutes the following night and fall asleep almost immediately on the third night (if you are 'lucky'). They are 'switching off' (and sleeping) more quickly, not learning a legitimate skill.
Whether sleep 'success' is due to behavioural principles (that is, a lack of 'rewards' when baby wakes) or whether the baby is overwhelmed by a stress reaction, the saddest risk of all is that as he tries to communicate in the only way available to him, the baby who is left to cry in order to teach him to sleep will learn a much crueler lesson – that he cannot make a difference, so what is the point of reaching out. This is learned helplessness.
This is an edited extract from "Sleeping Like a Baby" by Pinky McKay (Penguin). Pinky is am International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Certified Infant Massage Instructor and mother of five. For more tips to help your baby (and you!) sleep, read Pinky's best-selling book Sleeping Like a Baby. Visit Pinky's website www.pinky-mychild.com


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Written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
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THE MYSTERY PLAYS is two interrelated one acts, loosely based on the tradition of the medieval mystery plays. In the first play, THE FILMMAKER'S MYSTERY, Joe Manning, a director of horror films, survives a terrible train wreck—only to be haunted by the ghost of Nathan West, one of the passengers who didn't survive. As the police investigate Joe, he investigates Nathan, desperate to understand why he survived and what Nathan's specter could possible want. In the second play, GHOST CHILDREN, Joe's attorney and friend, Abby Gilly, travels to a small town in rural Oregon to make peace with the man who brutally murdered her parents and younger sister sixteen years earlier. The man—the murderer—is her older brother. Like the original medieval mystery plays, THE MYSTERY PLAYS wrestles with the most profound of human ideas: the mysteries of death, the afterlife, religion, faith, and forgiveness—in a uniquely American way.
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