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On May 8th 2010 ORTEMA as official partner of the German Hockey Federation and the Hockey World Cup 2010 will host a symposium for physicians, trainers, managers, physiotherapists and equipment managers. The venue is Gelsenkirchen where the opening game Germany/USA is played in the Veltins Arena on Schalke one day before.
After visiting the game together the following day will be used to discuss themes like modern medical treatments, orthopedic technical treatments and many other current themes concerning Hockey.The Swabian Orthopedic Technology company has been an important partner of the German Hockey Federation, the German Hockey League and various Hockey clubs for many years. ORTEMA treats players after injuries but also has lots of expertise concerning protective gear and the prevention of injuries. This is done by fitting the players with state of the art and individually manufactured orthoses and protectors.The symposium`s patrons are the German Hockey Federation and the DEB Partner CITY MED. Munich.
Further information such as the application form(German) for the 4th ORTEMA Hockey World Cup Symposium can be obtained at www.ortema.de


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And, better yet, know that you still use virtual pets?
How did/do they react? (if you have had the guts to tell anyone).
One of my good friends that i have known since gradeschool (with a small hiatus in between) just admitted to each other, that we actualy both still use them! I mentioned using them in the past (high school project for parenting lol). and she was actually the first to admit that she still uses hers today. I dont think she collects them but she has looked around on ebay as well lol.
So, we connected my V3 and her V2 last time we were together. we were 12 again and were actually 26... but thats okay! lol
Im just wondering what other similar stories you all have?

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ATH Mykal Moody of Conway will take an official visit to East Carolina this weekend, his first. Moody has East Carolina and Marshall as his top two but will not visit Marshall. "I was supposed to go last weekend but I couldn't make it so I've just been talking to the coaches," said Moody. Moody did not disclose a leader but says he will make his decision Wednesday. As for East Carolina he said, "I talked to the coaches last night and now I'm going up to see what it's like. We'll see how it goes."
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Prepare for the worst: Motter says village school should be ready for shooting
WAYNESFIELD — Waynesfield Police Chief Nathan Motter told Waynesfield Village Council members it was time to develop a contingency plan in case of a violent school event.
Motter said he contacted Waynesfield-Goshen High School Principal T.J. Winkler Monday after a gunman opened fire inside a high school cafeteria in Chardon at the start of the school day, wounding three students, two of whom later died. A suspect, now reported as being a 17-year old student, was arrested a short distance away. The school is approximately 30 miles east of Cleveland.
Motter said that after talking with the principal, they had decided it was best to meet with Wayne Township Fire and Rescue personnel and other first responders to develop a plan should a similar event happen in Waynesfield.
"We received several phone calls and e-mails today after the event happened," Motter said.
"Our schools are the most susceptible places to this."
Motter said he would be willing to meet with a representative of the school and the fire department as well as other agencies to develop a plan in case an event would take place.
"We want to discuss pertinent issues for these entities and the roles they would assume should a violent school event take place," Motter said.
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent a letter of findings to the village saying improvements needed to be made to the village's sanitary sewer system.
Fanning/Howey and Associates representative Craig Mescher said it was possible that improvements could be made to the village's current system, helping the village financially.
"I have taken a look and it is possible that changes be made without replacing the sewer system," Mescher said, "but the EPA is saying you need to tell them what action you are going to take."
Mescher said the main problem has been with the two lagoons only being approximately 6 feet deep, which has prevented enough room for the lagoons to not have enough room for its three levels The shallowness of the lagoons is not allowing the sludge to be processed by bacteria and other natural agents.
Mescher said that zero percent loans are available to do a study for the improvements. The money used for the study can be rolled over to pay for the sanitary sewer improvements after a plan is put in place, he said.
"We are not going to be able to get grants to pay for the entire project," Mescher said.
Councilors tentatively planned to apply for the loan after further investigation and develop a n improvement plan.
While water levels are easily testing at safe levels, Village Administrator Fred Rowe told councilors now was the time to replace the iron filter for the village's water system.
The current filter was installed in 1993. The life expectancy is approximately 12 years. The new filter is expected to cost approximately $24,000.
"It is just a normal part of maintenance," Rowe said.


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Finding Legal Help
You are not required to hire an attorney, but legal matters can be complicated. Consider talking to an attorney to go over your options. See the Finding Legal Help page for information about free and low cost ways to get legal help.
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Usted no está obligado a contratar un abogado, pero los asuntos legales pueden ser complicados. Considere la posibilidad de hablar con un abogado para hablar de sus opciones. Para información sobre cómo obtener ayuda legal vea nuestra página Como encontrar ayuda legal.
Drug Court Program - Weber County
What is Drug Court?
Drug Court was developed for first-time misdemeanor juvenile drug offenders and second-time alcohol offenders as an alternative to the mandatory penalties for such offenses. A fundamental component in the design of Drug Court is its ability to provide a comprehensive package of services to the drug offender which includes drug treatment services, counseling, and other kinds of support related programs. Hence, the purpose of Drug Court is to assist the juvenile offender in addressing their current substance abuse habits as well as preventing the continuation of those habits in the future.
Parental involvement and support in the adolescent's decision to participate in Drug Court is absolutely critical. However, the child must choose to join the program by his or her own free will. Inappropriate parental pressure or compulsion is not conducive to promoting a successful outcome for their son or daughter. Hence, the juvenile is expected and required to make the final decision to participate in Drug Court for themselves.
Qualifications For Participating in Drug Court
A set of general guidelines are in place to sift out those individuals who are best suited to succeed in Drug Court. The guidelines are:
- The offender must be between the ages of twelve and seventeen at the time of the offense.
- The referral must be either a first drug offense or second alcohol offense.
- He or she may not have any other delinquent offenses included in the episode.
- The juvenile may not have committed, or have pending, any prior criminal acts.
- The juvenile must not have any outstanding fine or unserved community service hours.
- The juvenile must admit to the allegations of the charge.
Advantages to Participating in the Drug Court Program
The Drug Court Program was started in Weber County in the summer of 1998. At that time it was only a pilot project administered by a Probation Officer who still maintained a full probation caseload. Only very select cases were taken into the program. This ensured maximum compliance with the program. In the summer of 1999, the program was reevaluated and it was decided that because of the very high success rate and overall satisfaction with the program that all cases that meet the eligibility requirements would be offered a chance to participate. Thus far the program's success rate of juveniles not reoffending is nearly double compared to those who do not participate in the program. For the juvenile the two factors that tend to convince them that the program is a good idea are: 1) They do not lose their driver's licence, which is manditory on all drug and 2nd alcohol charges, 2) If they complete the program successfully their charges are dissmissed and do not go on thier record. For parents it offers an opportunity to take an active roll in correcting their child's behavior.Although this may include reporting violations of the rules which could result in possible detention time, it shows the juvenile that thier bad behavior will not be accepted.
Description Of The Drug Court Program Rules
Juvenile Drug Court is designed to last for of six to eight months.
The first step in initiating the program begins with the offender and aparent meeting with a court officer. If after the program has been explained, the juvenile agrees to enter the program, both juvenile and parent sign a contract which binds him or her to the rules and parameters dictated by the program. The rules are in turn dictated by the Standard Orders of the Drug Court which include, but are not limited to:
- Sixty hours of community service.
- A substance abuse evaluation.
- Appearing in court every two months.
- Participation in a treatment program.
- Voluntary compliance with random drug testing.
- Regular school attendance.
- Services tracking.
- Completion of various reading and writing assignments.
- Attendance at educational group programs.
- 5 days in detention that can be ordered if the rules are violated during the program.
For more information and questions
Call: Kurt Ledford, Probation Officer, at 626-3887 (T-F)
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
The Utah State Courts mission is to provide the people an open, fair, efficient, and independent system for the advancement of justice under the law.


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In May of 1934, outside of Hugo, Oklahoma, a homeless man and his 13 year-old daughter are befriended by a Texas drifter newly released from the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. The drifter, Clint Palmer, lures father and daughter to Texas, where the father, Dillard Garrett, mysteriously disappears, and where his daughter Lucile begins a one-year ordeal that culminates in four Utah killings and Palmer's notorious Greenville, Texas "skeleton murder" trial of 1935.Chuck Greaves' historical novel "Hard Twisted" tells the true story of Lucile "Lottie" Garrett.
The novel imagines Palmer and Lottie's flight through New Mexico and Colorado and their eventual appearance in Blanding, Utah, where "they rode side by side on the main street like thin and ragged heralds of some coming apocalypse." The outlaws seek employment herding sheep for Monument Valley trading post impresario Harry Goulding, only to find themselves thrust into a range war with Mormon cattleman William E. Oliver, the last of the legendary frontier lawmen. Chuck Greaves says that Lottie Garrett's true saga of survival and redemption is one of the great, untold stories of the American West. It is also an intensely personal tale of a young girl's coming of age in a brutal world "in which she herself was but a thing adrift . . . like some speck of flotsam that rose or sank at the whim of forces beyond human sense or reckoning." Chuck Greaves joins Tom Williams for the hour today.


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Chelsea FC have announced that they have dismissed manager Roberto Di Matteo in the wake of their 3-0 UEFA Champions League Group E defeat at Juventus on Tuesday night.
A club statement reads: "The team's recent performances and results have not been good enough and the owner and the board felt that a change was necessary now to keep the club moving in the right direction as we head into a vitally important part of the season. The club face a difficult task ahead in qualifying for the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League as well as maintaining a strong challenge at the top of the Premier League while competing in three other cup competitions. Our aim is to remain as competitive as possible and challenge strongly on all fronts."
The Swiss-born Di Matteo, 42, represented S.S. Lazio, Chelsea and Italy as a midfielder and returned to take charge of the west London outfit – initially as caretaker – in March, guiding them to glory in the 2011/12 UEFA Champions League. The Chelsea statement adds: "The owner and the board would like to thank Roberto for all he has done for the club since taking over in March. Roberto helped us to a historic Champions League victory and a seventh FA Cup. We will never forget the huge contribution he has made to this club's history and he will always be welcome at Stamford Bridge."
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Monique Boekhout of Lake Wylie and founder of Kenya Orphanage Project called the Oct. 10 lake cruise "a smashing hit."
About 75 people jumped aboard nine pontoon boats taking an evening ride to raise more than $5,000 for the project."I have been involved in many fundraising projects in my life, but this was definitely of the nicest," Boekhout said. "Everything clicked - perfect weather, great boat captains, enthusiastic participants, outstanding food and very generous sponsors, not to mention a team of dedicated volunteers to work with."The event also included a dinner provided by Jo Jo China Bistro of Charlotte and a silent auction.
"It was a dream event," Boekhout said, "and we must do it again next year."
Again, she said, the community was generous.
"As the Kenyan children always say, `Asante sana,' or `Thank you,'" Boekhout said.http://www.lakewyliepilot.com/2010/10/26/898747/cruise-for-kop-dream-event.html
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text: After two years of speculation of being the next Marlins, Orioles and other team's managers, Bobby Valentine has found a home. It's being reported that the Boston Red Sox and Valentine have agreed to terms that would make Valentine the Red Sox's 45th manager in team history. The 61-year-old Valentine is currently in Japan for personal business but should return soon.


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Does the "orchid-dandelion" metaphor work for you? My duel with David Shenk
Posted by David Dobbs on December 14, 2009
Dear Readers, here's your chance to weigh in: Over at the Atlantic, David Shenk, a sharp writer who keeps a blog there called "The Genius in Us All," has posted a gentlemanly smackdown ("Metaphor fight! Shenk and Dobbs square off") that he and I had via email last week regarding the "orchid-dandelion" metaphor I used…


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The Chef: Colleen
The Menu: A fan-freakin'-tastic stir fry of broccoli, zucchini, carrots, ginger, kale, shiitake mushrooms, and tofu. Served over yummy curry-flavored udon noodles, Colleen's Asian-inspired creation was a one-dish meal to die for. We've been a little burrito and mac 'n' cheese heavy recently, so this savory stiry fry was a welcome, veggie-packed change of pace.
The Goods: Okay, this is big. Are you ready? Voting is open for our 2008 Veggie Awards! This is the largest survey of its kind in the world, and is one of our most-favorite features every year since we get to find out what our readers really love. Make sure and vote for your favorite restaurants, blogs, bakeries, cookbook authors, and more! Last year 20,000 people voted, and we hope to make that 30,000 this year with new categories like Favorite Animal Sanctuary and Favorite Online Forum. Polls are open now and will be open until August 31. Congrats to all of our amazing nominees!
Friday, August 1, 2008
Sensational Stir Fry
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Labels: basil, broccoli, carrots, ginger, kale, shiitake mushrooms, stir-fry, Veggie Awards, zucchini
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- Mansi Desai said...
hi there! I was wondering if a new veg blog can be nominated for the 2008 category, or you are not accepting any new nominations? I'd like to propose my food blog if there's still time, though I'm thinking I might be too late:(
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If you want an LI home with a steam shower
Check out this week's look at Long Island homes with a notable feature. If you want to sell or rent a unique, historic or famous home, or one with a special feature, call Lisa Doll Bruno phone: (631) 843-2793, fax: (631) 843-5459, email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
119 Rutland Ave., Rockville Centre; the nine-room, 2,238-square-foot Colonial sits on a 60-foot by 75-foot secluded, landscaped property with a stone paved driveway. In February 2013, it was being listed for sale for $699,000 by Deborah Gerbore of Coach Real Estate Associates.
119 Rutland Ave., Rockville Centre; the home has four bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, including one with a steam shower.
119 Rutland Ave., Rockville Centre; the living room features a fireplace and inlaid oak floors.
119 Rutland Ave., Rockville Centre; there's also an eat-in-kitchen with new granite countertops and stainless steel appliances.
3172 Sound Ave., Riverhead; when this 5,500-square-foot Mediterranean-style house was custom-built on one acre overlooking Long Island Sound, the spa area with its indoor pool and steam shower was incorporated into the design. Exterior features include Brazilian wood wraparound decks and retractable awnings. It's being listed in February 2013 for $1,650,000 by CeeCee Flanigan of Shawn Elliot Luxury Homes & Estates in Woodbury.
3172 Sound Ave., Riverhead; the spa -- as well as any area in the house with tile floors -- has radiant heat.
3172 Sound Ave., Riverhead; this includes the master bathroom, which has a walk-in shower, tub overlooking the water and dual vanity. Other features include wood floors, oversized windows, sliding-glass doors, two fireplaces and a three-level mahogany elevator.
3172 Sound Ave., Riverhead; other features include wood floors, oversized windows, sliding-glass doors, two fireplaces and a three-level mahogany elevator. The chef's kitchen is outfitted with white cabinets, high-end stainless- steel appliances and a center island. Since the house is set high, the water views are year round, says the listing agent, noting flooding is not an issue.
3172 Sound Ave., Riverhead; there are four bedrooms and five bathrooms.
29 Wesley Dr., East Rockaway; originally a ranch, this eight-room house, located on a 171-by-150-foot lot, was renovated and expanded about 10 years ago. It was being listed in February 2013 for $739,000 by Ronnie Gerber of Douglas Elliman Real Estate in Merrick.
29 Wesley Dr., East Rockaway; it has four bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms, including the master suite.
29 Wesley Dr., East Rockaway; the tiled master bathroom features a steam shower with Starfire Glass. It also has a Jacuzzi tub, a double sink and radiant heat floor. Wood and radiant heat floors are found throughout the house.
29 Wesley Dr., East Rockaway; the main level includes a two-story entrance foyer, den with a fireplace, living room, dining room and eat-in kitchen. The kitchen has wood cabinets, granite countertops and stainless-steel appliances. The deck, overlooking the yard and a basketball half-court, is accessible from the eating area.
11 Dune Rd., Quogue; the home sits on a manicured 1.1-acre parcel that is landscaped with hydrangeas as well as with a heated in-ground pool, hot tub and pool house. Judith King of the Corcoran Group in Westhampton Beach was listing the home for $3,895,000 in February 2013.
11 Dune Rd., Quogue; the master suite in this 3,600-square-foot beach house offers ocean views from the bedroom and bay views from the bathroom.
11 Dune Rd., Quogue; the master is one of five bedrooms and has a fireplace with private balcony, while the bathroom is set up with a double steam shower with benches and a spa tub. It also features his and hers sinks and a water closet.
11 Dune Rd., Quogue; the home also features a top-of-the-line chef's kitchen.
11 Dune Rd., Quogue; as for common spaces, the living room with fireplace and dining room each have tray ceilings and sliding-glass doors that open to a double-tiered mahogany deck with bay views.
11 Dune Rd., Quogue; amenities include a deeded right of way to the ocean beach.
773 Harrison St., West Hempstead; the owner of this seven-room Colonial completely remodeled the home in 2009 and had a Royal SSWW steam shower installed in the master bathroom. In February 2013, the home was being listed for $599,000 by Phyllis Beitler and Claire Sidi of Douglas Elliman Real Estate in Syosset.
773 Harrison St., West Hempstead; the shower, with multiple jets and settings -- including rainfall, has two folding seats and a control panel to operate mood lighting, radio and more. The bathroom also boasts a Jacuzzi tub and Toto Neorest toilet with functions that include lid operation, and seat heating and cooling. There are another 2.5 bathrooms in the house, as well as three bedrooms.
773 Harrison St., West Hempstead; the kitchen has granite countertops and stainless-steel appliances, including a Viking stove and wine refrigerator. Surround Sound, a fireplace and central air-conditioning are among the amenities. The lot size is 57 by 100 feet.


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4chan Launches '$20 Bug Bounty' After Hackers Ruin moot's Day 79
mask.of.sanity (1228908) writes "4chan's founder Moot has launched a bug bounty for the site after it was hacked, but is offering a meager $20 in 'self-serve ad spend' for all bugs. The bounty program was launched after the website and Moot's Amazon accounts were hacked. The intrusion spelled the end for DrawQuest which was closed after Moot decided it was not worth spending money to ensure the unprofitable but popular drawing platform was secure."


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What about building the cars itself? Battery production pollutes quite a bit.
So does lead-acid production yet we've gotten a handle on that. And nobody seems to care about battery pollution when it's for PCs, smartphones and flashlights.
It'll be a while until EVs start increasing that by a significant fraction.
I'm not saying there aren't problems but they are manageable - if the environmental standards are strong and enforced.
In some places, that's a big if, at the moment.
more than oil refining? more than shipping oil, with the inevitable spills? I'm all for taking the total cost of a system into account, but half estimates on one side of the discussion results in decisions made on incomplete or downright wrong information.
Stipulating that at present *every* method does not include all the externalities, the actual cost of any product, method or system reflects the environmental cost to the extent that the cost has been de-externalized. One way that happens is that, increasingly, cleanup costs are charged to and paid for by the producer/shipper and their insurance companies. And reporting is at least one, maybe two orders of magnitude better than it was 30 years ago. That _should_ be true for oil, for wind, for solar, etc. And it is increasingly true. At this point it's probably more true for oil than for any of the others (I suspect coal is still getting a break but I dunno.)
One example of externalities not presently charged to the electric vehicle industry is the lack of cleanup and mitigation in Canada and Russia around the big nickel mining areas, where according to legend 100s of square miles of territory are devoid of living vegetation. (/.ers: is this true? I keep hearing it...)
As it turns out, shipping the oil is not one of the bigger costs of oil. IIRC from two-three years ago, the cost of shipping is only about 18c per gallon (US cost). I think the actual bulk-carrier-tanker-ship part of that is only two or three cents - my memory may have failed me on that but Wikipedia agrees. That includes the cost of insurance and the overall amortized risk to the companies involved (if it were not, the companies would have been out of business long ago). Which means that it includes the costs to the companies including fines and mitigation costs, of all the oil spills and other pollution. It also includes the costs of the newer double-hull ships with additional spill prevention and mitigation equipment that is now required. One cost that isn't being included yet is the smokestack pollution from the tankers, and all other shipping.
To the extent that externalities of all the methods are included, that cost demonstrates that pollution is actually not a very large problem for oil _compared to total production_, so electric vehicles and their power sources (wind, whatever) will have to work hard to match the true cost/benefit of oil.
Discussion: people don't realize the sheer volume of oil that goes through the system every day - counting fuel and products, around 150 million barrels (6+ billion gallons, 24+ billion liters) per day. As of 2000, the total amount spilled in 20 years in the US from causes was about 300 million gallons (about 1/576000 over 20 years), and had decreased by 50% in that 20 years. The rate has continued to decrease since then. This is equivalent to about 2/100 of one cc out of a barrel - or an invisible speck that pops out of a bubble when you open a carbonated beverage and little bubbles pop.
note: some of this data was loosely adapted from this analysis [epa.gov]. Also, a USA Today article followed that trend - from 2005 to 2009, there were an average of 22 spills per year of more than 50 barrels (down from some 8000 in 1980. This is not to excuse, but to provide perspective. Interestingly, the New England states had the highest number of spills per square mile 1980-2002.
Regarding your contention about nickel mines. 100s of square miles of bare earth should easily be visible from google earth, no?
I'm too lazy too look, but someone should...
I think hybrids are a good option. It's essentially a highly efficient fuel vehicle even before they add the batteries, and the batteries smooth out the variations in engine work rather than acting as pure electric motors, plus regenerative braking, plus the feedback to the driver to encourage better driving. So you're still getting all the power from gasoline instead of the power grid, but it uses it more efficiently.
I think the greatest off-set is in the research. It might not be the electric car itself but the research into power storage and efficient electric motors will at least further engineering and give more options to engineers and scientists in the future.
In the end a green car is probably going to be a small, few-thrills, high-miles per unit energy vehicle no matter what fuel/unit energy you're using, at least for long-distance single person transport.
Real efficiency will come from mass transit.
Also, electric cars and hybrids can use regenerative braking. So you can theoretically get back a substantial portion of the energy you put into accelerating, so it's down to a fight against just friction and air resistance. In a gas powered car, 100% of the kinetic energy you manage to build up goes up in waste heat from your brake pads.
The DragTimes YouTube channel claims the Tesla Model S uses 1.1 kWh for a 12.3 second 1/4 mile drag race but recaptures 0.5 kWh through regen braking. That's very impressive.
This isn't necessarily true. You can have a regenerative braking system [wikipedia.org] in essentially any vehicle, electric or not.
Unless we switch to solar, wind and/or nuclear for the bulk of our electricity generation, all electric cars do is concentrate where we burn the hydrocarbons to power them.
The central power station is not making its emissions a few feet from the sidewalk. Its pollution controls aren't restricted by weight or the need for portability.
It's also way more efficient.
Electrifying the vehicle fleet is like modularizing your code. Instead of being tied to petroleum, with an electric fleet you can snap in nuclear, tidal, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, or whatever else turns out to be a good idea.
Even if we don't make the switch to cleaner sources, it's still a win. Collecting or cleaning up the emissions at a few thousand power plants should be easier, more efficient and cost-effective than doing it at tens of millions of tailpipes.
Plus, it means that you don't get the smog-forming exhaust and ground-level ozone in your population centers. You also get some noise reduction since EVs are quieter and there's no engine idling.
That's a pessimistic point of view.
All other things are equal, one could argue that concentrating the hydrocarbon production might be a good thing, because it at least gives us the opportunity to efficiently process those emissions in one place instead of spewing it from millions of cars (or installing millions of scrubbers). I'm not saying that they WILL do better -- just that they could, and that it would likely be more efficient than anything you could slap onto a few million cars.
Similarly, we would have the ability to start switching everyone to green power if everyone has an electric vehicle. Seen that way, keeping everyone on fossil fuels has a very high opportunity cost, because you can't switch a gasoline motor to solar/wind/nuclear.
Unless we switch to solar, wind and/or nuclear for the bulk of our electricity generation, all electric cars do is concentrate where we burn the hydrocarbons to power them.
and that's a good thing because the concentrated hydrocarbon cremation facilities can generate energy with >80% efficiency, while a car burning the same hydrocarbons generates energy with only 20% efficiency. This means you need to burn about three times as much hydrocarbons if you burn it in the car instead of at a power plant.
The portable power plant you find in a car (internal combustion engine) does not even come close to the efficiency you find in a stationary power plant. The car simply wastes most of the fuel's energy as heat, and then wastes even more energy to get rid of all that heat it by swirling liquid around in a "radiator": a device whose sole purpose is to waste as much energy as possible to prevent the engine from melting itself. What's more, is when you step on the brakes all of the car's kinetic energy is wasted as even more heat. The whole thing is hugely wasteful and inefficient.
Perhaps it isn't any cleaner, but I'd rather have my car using power from natural gas or nuclear than other sources that are more likely to come from outside my country. The geopolitics of sending our dollars to Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, or elsewhere unfriendly isn't a good idea, so even if the pollution level is the same, electric is superior to gasoline/petrol.
Most of the US oil imports come from Canada.
Even if ALL of the electricity to power EVs was generated from the dirtiest coal plants, it would STILL be cleaner than every single car carrying around its own heavy, petrol burning, ICE. Also you have the benefits of localizing pollution somewhere less populated. This smells like a big oil hit piece.
Now, there is a separate conversation about other forms of transportation being even better than personal automobiles. Trains and even airplanes might be better in some scenarios than everyone racing around pell-mell with their own car, but that's a different issue. If we, as a society, have decided that everyone will be driving their own vehicle, the question is how to make that scenario least damaging; and the answer is electric vehicles.
Are you sure? The studies I've seen suggests that with a lot of power generation mixes, hybrids can be better than electrics.
ICEs are not heavy, they weigh a lot less that batteries. The comparison is between central plant -> transmission losses -> battery losses, vs. auto ICE. With the same fuel the electrics usually win, but coal generates a lot more CO2/energy than gasoline so I suspect it doesn't win.
Part of the problem of this theory is that polluting is free. You don't pay for polluting the air, or the soil, or whatever. While I agree that the cost of a product is a measure of how much energy it takes to produce, it does not take into account the pollution it causes - during production, use, and disposal.
It is possible to account for energy use during normal use of the product (which is what makes a CFL cheaper than a traditional incandescent bulb). It is not possible to account for cost of pollution
According to my "the cheapest thing is the best for the environment" theory, this was easily predictable.
You must be an economist. Only an economist could hold on to a theory completely in contradiction to easily observable facts and keep promoting it as a predictive technique and a way to reason about the world.
"Should environmentally minded people really revere electric cars?"
I'm environmentally minded. Guess what I revere. Yep, you got it, since it's a no-brainer: bicycles. Best machine humans have ever created. Good for the body and good for the earth. I've never owned a car, and I don't want to. I use car sharing programs when I need to drive and bicycle or use public transportation (or both) otherwise.
And before anyone says "Well, but bicycles don't work for everyone: kids, job, blah blah," let me just squash that fallacious argument. Bicycle advocates *never* are saying we *all* have to ride bicycles. Just more of us. Everyone who wants to should feel they can. I bet you want to. Wind in the face, endorphin high, the feeling of doing things with your body, the joy of not destroying the earth to do the daily drudge: who doesn't want that?
Watch out, you're harming the environment by breathing too much when you ride a bike to get that endorphin high.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/03/04/1238258/state-rep-says-biking-is-not-earth-friendly-because-breathing-produces-co2 [slashdot.org]
The best solution is to just stop breathing, which would eventually result in death (if not the other way around). Then the problem would be that your dead, rotting corpse is probably not 100% environmentally-friendly either... I guess it all depends on what organisms and s
While charging your electric car with coal power sounds like a bad deal in the short term. The electric doesn't care where that power comes from, so in the long term that gives us the flexibility to operate an energy economy that is based on a wide range of sources. Also, diversity in the market also means stability and theoretically fair prices. (but we'll probably cock that up)
Right, the electricity does not care where it came from. There are still considerable issues in the environmental impact in the rare earth metals used in their construction, the disposal of the heavy metals in the batteries at the end of their useful life, and the poisonous materials released in the process.
There are also other issues with electric cars. Their range is limited. This limited range may not be an issue for most if the "refuel" time took minutes like an internal combustion engine instead of
The linked article takes you to a 1-page analysis. They must have put a lot of time into that! Corporate mission-statements frequently use more ink.
By comparison, the union of concerned scientists made a more robust, and likely more earnest attempt at understanding total fuel consumption using the "well-to-wheels" benchmark. You can read about it here: http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/clean_vehicles/electric-car-global-warming-emissions-report.pdf
Page 11 (of 48) gives at least an approximation of CO2 consumption as measured in equivalent MPG for EVs, depending on what what's being used to push the electrons to the car in the first place. Coming in first place is geothermal, with an eMPG or 7600, and coal comes in last at 30 eMPG.
Whether somebody involved in this study or that study has erred or has been disingenuous is hard to say, but my guess is that the union of concerned scientists probably followed an actual scientific process where their work is available for full scrutiny by the rest of the scientific community.
Yeah, yeah, get your mu-metal hats on. But think about it. How many choices for gasoline are within driving distance? Half a dozen or more? How many choices for electric power? Most likely one. What happens when that one source decides to restrict your usage? And then what happens when usage restriction become geographic?
Basically we keep looking for "green" alternatives that don't require us to be even slightly inconvenienced or to change our lifestyles at all - and it's probably not possible.
Pollution from drilling for oil, manufacturing the gas, getting the gas to the station, using electricity to power the pumps etc. and lets throw in some accidents once in a while where we waste more gas powering the machines that clean up the spill. Right....
I'll admit I didn't read every word of TFA, but my antennae went up when the author spent lots of time comparing the environmental impact of gasoline engines to electric autos supplied by coal-generated electricity. Then, comparing different types of generation, he matches up nuclear and natural gas rather than either of those two relatively-clean alternatives and coal. Completely absent is any mention of thorium-fueled reactors, though several countries are at the testing stage with such generators, and unless some major problems emerge, they seem likely to take over from uranium-fueled reactors in the next generation.
Maybe I'm wrong, but it seemed to me that the author was most interested in raising his profile by generating controversy. It's an old academic trick when ideas are scarce and the bosses are hinting that it's time to get a few papers out there...or else.
When looking at comparative efficiencies and pollutants, you have to look at the whole chain. From hole in the ground to rotating wheel. Even burning "Dirty" coal, Electric Vehicles have a distinct advantage. The losses and energy use involved in drilling/mining, transporting, burning and generating, transporting (considerably less loss) and finally turning wheels pales in comparison to the ICE requirements of drilling/pumping oil, transporting crude, upgrading/refining to petroleum (Which takes HUGE amounts of energy and is almost never mentioned), transporting petroleum, burning it and finally using it to turn wheels. For an ICE, you can generally only find information about the latter stages, and that is less than 40% efficient. Electric cars are 90%+ efficient with power from the wall, and the whole chain comes in at around 60-75% (So far, this is getting better all the time). Electric cars don't have, or need, cooling systems (in fact, the opposite is often the case, where heaters have to be installed as there is no "Waste" heat generated to warm the passenger cabin).
But, even if that wasn't the case, and pollution from both methods was exactly equal, it's much MUCH easier to introduce measures to clean up the products from 1 smokestack (recirculation/sequestration etc) than it is to do the same thing with hundreds of thousands of tiny, mobile, tailpipes.
Of course, as renewable resources come online in the power grid, the Electric car gets greener automatically (as it's power is being produced in a more green manner) without the owner having to do a thing about it, and that's also not considering engine oil changes, transmission fluid etc. Try doing that with your gas-guzzler.
Batteries for electric cars aren't perfect, they do require some digging in the ground and a little bit of chemical work to make them (Though ICEs also need batteries, along with the odd and rare elements they require for durability and longevity) but once made they are 99% recyclable. And even with that, they're still cleaner than the parts and ancillary equipment needed for ICEs
Two of the biggest benefits to an electric car are:
(1) When you're stopped, your motor doesn't keep running. Think of all the fuel you've wasted either letting your car warm up, or sitting at a light, or stuck in traffic.
(2) Regenerative braking technology converts your momentum back into usable power instead of just wasting it as heat.
These, combined with the fact that your car doesn't care where it gets electricity from, and that a coal plant is still more efficient overall than thousands of independent engines, is precisely why this article is probably OPEC propaganda.
Start with the math
Now let's look at some of the statements
"Solar cells contain heavy metals"
SOME solar cells contain heavy metals. Those are the CdTe thin-film models which were in vogue for a while but largely out of the market today. In these, the metals are locked in compounds which make them no less safe that the poisonous chlorine gas or flammable sodium metal in your salt. The panels people are actually buying today, pSi and mSi, do not contain heavy metals. They consist almost entirely of silicon, with a small amount of silver, aluminum and copper wiring.
"and their manufacturing releases greenhouse gases such as sulfur hexafluoride"
Their manufacture USED TO release GHG's, but the industry has reduced leakage to just about zero since about 2007.
"For instance, Richard Pike of the Royal Society of Chemistry provocatively determined that electric cars, if widely adopted, stood to lower Britain's carbon dioxide emissions by just 2 percent, given the U.K.'s electricity sources."
Now think about this for this statement to make any sense whatsoever, Pike is saying that if we all switched our cars, an astonishing technological change, that the generation would *not* change.
In fact, the opposite is much more likely. As I type this wind turbines are going up all across the UK, and they are lobbying to be the European end of the Iceland-Europe undersea HVDC link. The first of these, especially, is a perfect counterpart for electric cars or PIH's.
By the time significant numbers of electric cars are on the road, the generation mix will have already been radically altered.
"Last year, a U.S. Congressional Budget Office study found that electric car subsidies "will result in little or no reduction in the total gasoline use and greenhouse-gas emissions of the nation's vehicle fleet over the next several years.""
Well *duh*. With very few electric cars on the road, it's pretty obvious to everyone they'll have little impact.
"The lifetime difference in greenhouse-gas emissions between vehicles powered by batteries and those powered by low-sulfur diesel, for example, was hardly discernible"
Considering that adding batteries to a diesel engine decreases it's GHG emissions by about 1/3rd, this seems unlikely unless you select places in the world where the majority of the power comes from crappy coal plants. Like the US, or China. You know, like this
"University of Tennessee studied five vehicle types in 34 Chinese cities"
Argue all you want, the math, as noted in the link above, is clear.
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Dear Family of Jerry, Several great golfers and many fine people have hailed from Emmetsburg and Jerry was the best. I was a Freshman at Emmetsburg Public HS in 1962 when Jerry was on the golf team and played the number one position. I made the golf team as a Freshman that year playing number four. Jerry went onto bigger things in golf and life but as I got better as a Sophomore and he as a senior I will never forget the encouragement and friendship he shared with a skinny kid that couldn't break 80. He went off to play golf in College at Division 1 level and I hooked of with Jerry and John Hand the summer of 1967 traveling to local tournaments on Sunday. The three of us would go with John or Jerry driving very early and what impressed me about Jerry and John is they made every attempt to worship their god on his day along with playing in the tourney. By the way neither one of those guys needed God's help. With great sadness Dr. James J. Geertsema
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Virginia Catholics had a chance to view second-class relics of St. Gianna Molla in late March during a special night in honor of the saint at Our Lady of Angels Church in Woodbridge.
A story on the event reported by the Arlington Catholic Herald said that participants, including several families with young children, took turns fingering the fabric from St. Gianna's wedding dress and holding her leather gloves.
Participant Mary Cuellar said handling the relics gave her a feeling similar to electricity and left her shaky. Together with her husband, she encouraged her daughter to hold one of the gloves to her throat, while praying for a cure for her heart and thyroid problems.
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Although my current cats all have their claws, I've had cats declawed. A doctor's excellent surgical techniques coupled with a modern pain protocol—both of which should be requirements of any procedure—allowed my declawed kitties to enjoy quick, pain-free recoveries with no adverse effects. These cats lived long, happy lives.Why did I declaw? Even with frequent nail trims and multiple scratching posts, my cats clawed up my roommate's things. My landlord warned that I faced eviction if the cats damaged the rented living space. Neither willing to turn my cats into a meal for the hungry coyotes lurking in my neighborhood nor to give them to a shelter, I had them declawed.
These are two of the many valid reasons why owners declaw. Arbitrary bans only confuse these clients. And they increase the risk of cats being relinquished. Shelters are already inundated with cats. How can euthanasia be more acceptable than living without claws that a cat doesn't even know are missing? Instead of banning declawing, veterinarians and pet owners who morally object to the surgery can choose not to perform it. Prohibiting certain procedures could land veterinarians and their staff in jail for performing services the profession has deemed acceptable. If these bans continue, look for my mug shot on America's Most Wanted.
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There is increasing competition for places within the Wales squad following the return of Alun Wyn Jones but Coombs is determined to hang onto his starting spot.
"I just want to keep my game going, play as I have in the first two games and retain my jersey," he said.
"My form is good at the moment and if I can keep the jersey for this campaign then there is a tour of Japan in the summer.
"I am just looking to win as many caps as I can.
"There's a lot of pressure on me this week and thankfully they have put the trust in me to go back out there and hopefully put another performance in."
"I've just got to go there and work hard, if I do that then hopefully things will happen for me," Coombs added.
"I always base my game on work rate, I'm not the sort of player that is going to set the world on fire or make 60-yard breaks.
"I'm there to work hard, hit rucks, carry ball and tackle. That's what I am trying to do."
But Coombs is well aware of the talent within the Wales squad and in particular those of Jones.
"Alun Wyn is a fantastic player and I have always enjoyed watching him," said Coombs.
"His work rate is phenomenal. He is a class act, has won 67 caps, been a British Lion and has been there and done it.
"The coaches will probably want to get him back on the field to see what sort of form he is in."
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One thing I learned while abroad: I learned how to be responsible and plan a trip. In the past I had never before been the one to take the initiative to plan things. As I settled into Dalkeith I quickly realized that if I wanted to do anything, I would have to plan it myself. It's intimidating at first but once I got the hang of it and learned from my mistakes from the first few times, it became like a second nature. Before long you learn how to get to where you want to go, how to pack, and how to budget your money and time. You also learn how to do all of this on your own.
One piece of advice I would give to future WIS students: Never waste time. When I first got to the house, everyone told me that life would go by fast and it was hard for me to believe-especially after that awful long plane ride! Sadly, like most words of wisdom, they were right; time flew by in a blur! My main advice therefore is to budget your time wisely. You plan what you want to do and do not let your friends hold you back. If you want to see a play, but none of your friends do, go alone! It might feel strange at first but you will not regret doing something you wanted to in the end. Another piece of advice is to be open-minded! Sure haggis does not have the best reputation, and sure you have never hiked a day before in your life! I promise you, you will tell the stories about the new and interesting things you did rather than of the days you sat at the palace with a cheese sandwich. There is always something to do for any price range so keep your mind as open as your eyes and you will find countless new stories to tell.
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Shelby County's housing rebound continued in the second quarter, with key indicators showing improvement over the same period last year.
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Shelby County netted 4,226 home sales in the second quarter, an 11 percent bump from 3,821 in the second quarter of 2012, according to real estate information company Chandler Reports, www.chandlerreports.com.
Total sales volume in the second quarter was $597.1 million, up 21 percent from $494.1 million in the second quarter of last year.
The average sales price was $141,303, up 9 percent from $129,316 in the second quarter of last year.
"We started this year out and we projected we would have moderate, steady improvement over the year and that's what we're seeing," said Regina Hubbard of ERA Legacy Realty and president of the Memphis Area Association of Realtors. "It is absolutely good news."
Collierville's 38017 ZIP code saw the highest number of sales in the second quarter, with 290 homes taken off the market. Next was Cordova North's 38016 ZIP code, which recorded 251 sales. The University of Memphis' 38111 ZIP code came in third with 246 sales.
Collierville led the way in total sales with $85.9 million, followed by Arlington's 38002 ZIP code at $47.9 million. Eads' 38028 ZIP code – which recorded 10 sales in the quarter – had the highest average sales price at $692,210, followed by Germantown East's 38139 ZIP code at $405,264.
The number of existing home sales increased 10 percent, to 3,998 in the second quarter from 3,624 in 2012. The average sales price for an existing home in the second quarter was $134,438, up 9 percent from $123,019 last year.
Doug Collins of Prudential Collins-Maury said the moderate improvement in housing numbers was bound to happen after the slump the market has endured since 2006.
"I think it's a result of having been so bad for about six years," Collins said. "We bottomed in 2011 and we saw an increase in 2012 but that increase was off such low numbers it was nothing to write home about.
"We're getting back to around 2001 levels. The heydays of 2005 and 2006 were not sustainable levels. They were created by Wall Street and led to the housing crash, and that wasn't good for anybody."
New home sales totaled 228 in the second quarter, up 16 percent from 197 over the same period last year. The average sales price for a new home was $261, 693, up from $245, 161 last year.
Non-bank sales in the second quarter totaled 3,401, up 23 percent from 2,771 last year, while bank – or foreclosure – sales dropped to 825 in the quarter, down 21 percent from 1,050 last year.
Hubbard said the reduction in foreclosure sales was having a trickle-down effect.
"It's affecting our inventory, which affects the sales price," said Hubbard. "We do not have much of that inventory out there."
Hubbard said the decrease in foreclosure sales should excite homeowners who have been considering selling but have been holding off because of worries over the housing market.
"My word to sellers out there who have been thinking about it and want to make that move is now is the time," she said. "I encourage them all the time, let's move forward."
For the year, Shelby County has recorded 7,608 homes sales, up 9 percent from 7,000 sales over the same period last year. Total sales volume tipped the scales at $1 billion, up 20 percent form $839 million last year. The average year-to-date average sales price in Shelby County was $132,153, up 10 percent from $119,948.
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Pinky & The Brawn: Roller Derby Re-cap
October 26: Reynoldsville Roller Dome Halloween-themed event
Northern Allegheny Roller Derby put together a huge Halloween-themed roller derby event. In the Reynoldsville Roller Dome on Oct. 26, two roller derby bouts took place.
The bouts took place at 1 and 3 p.m. with six different roller derby leagues represented. Teams came from all over western PA and New York.
The skaters registered early and were assigned to teams based on their experience and skills in the sport.
All skill sets from just passed minimum skills to the three-year derby veterans participated in the Monster Mash Up. The skaters picked out their favorite scary boutfits, and rolled onto the track.
In bout one, the Sugar Skulls took on the Scream Queens. The first jam was cautious, like two boxers feeling each other out in the first round.
Hunter S. Stomps 'Em (NARD) of the Queens forced Stitch Her Up (SCAR) to call off the jam when she only scored one point.
The Queens took their only lead of the bout in the next jam when NunCrusher (J-Town) scored four points to take the lead 4-1.
After that the Skulls took off and kept scoring. The Skulls used a three-skater rotation at jammer. Those three jammers racked up 5-point passes and 6 jams with at least 15 points scored.
Stitch Her Up(SCAR), Misfit Sally (Corry) and BruiseHer BeatHer (Corry) slashed through the pack with serial killer efficiency to score 173 points. Green White Check Her (Corry) led the scoring for the Queens in the first half. With all of the work, the Skulls led the Queens 173 to 38.
Things improved for the Queens in the second half. They got together at halftime and made adjustments. They reduced the amount of 0-point passes in the second half to four, as compared to the nine they had in the first half. The skulls did not let the scoring phase them.
They kept going and the first-half rotation kept hacking the pack. A few new jammers donned the star helmet cover to score points, but Stich, Bruise, and Misfit scored a majority of the points. The Skulls carved up the Queens's defense and won 318-155.
Hunter S. Stomps 'Em led the scoring for the Queens when the final horn sounded. She had 55 of the 155 points, and NunCrusher chipped in with 21. Hunter lead the Queens in points per jam average (PPJ) with Green white Check Her close behind at 4.75 PPJ (38 points).
Teams were reshuffled, new players came on to the track, and the second bout began. Some of the skaters played in both bouts to show the stamina of a derby girl.
The second bout was much closer and competitive. The bout was the Rolling Dead Girls versus the Ghouls Next Door. The Ghouls' Hunter S. Stomps 'Em opened the scoring in the first jam but the Dead Girl's Misfit Sally scored eight points in jam three to take the lead 8-4.
Playing conservative derby (scoring a few points then calling off the jam), the Dead Girls increased their lead 34- 16 in the 10th jam. The Ghouls would start chopping away at the lead and lead by Giggidy Girl (ERG) and Green White Check Her the lead shrank to 52-45 by the end of the 14th jam.
In the 15th jam of the half, the Ghouls would re-establish their lead by Green White Check Her scoring 18 points, 63-57. The Dead Girls combination of Lucky Hammer (J-Town) and Granarchy (SCAR) scored 17 points in the last two jams to take the lead back at the half, 95-84.
Slow but consistent out-scoring to begin the second half would extend the lead of the Dead Girls over the Ghouls. By the end of the sixth jam, the Dead Girls' lead was 132-100.
The Ghouls would go on a scoring drought in the next three jams, and the Dead Girls jammers took advantage. The 36-0 run opened up the scoring wounds, and the Ghouls would never recover. The Dead Girls won the bout with a haunting 210-163 final score.
The Ghouls were led in scoring by Hunter S. Stomps 'Em. She had 56 points (6.2 PPJ) and Green White CheckHer had 47 (5.22 PPJ). The Honey Badger (ERG) chipped in with 36 points (3.27 PPJ). The Rolling Dead Girls' leading scorer had 56 points also — she is Misfit Sally (4.3 PPJ). Granarchy scored 52 points in four jams and led the bout in points per jam at 13. BruiseHer BeatHer continued her great jamming and had 47 points in the second bout.
Many roller derby leagues award a Most Valuable Player award to a deserving jammer and blocker. Northern Allegheny Roller Derby did not deviate from that tradition and handed out some hardware.
For the Sugar Skulls, The Most Valuable Blocker was Jungle Fevah from Enchanted Mountain Roller Derby and Misfit Sally of Corry was the Most Valuable Jammer. Awards for the Scream Queens were: Most Valuable Blocker Pinky Balboa of SCAR, and Hunter S. Stomps 'Em of NARD was most valuable Jammer.
In the second bout the Rolling Dead Girls' Most Valuable Jammer was BruiseHer BeatHer of Corry, and the Most Valuable Blocker was Nard's Sharp ShootHer. The Ghouls Next Door Most Valuable Blocker was SCAR's Bash'n LaSassin, and NARD's Ripper Hardout was the Most Valuable Jammer.
October 19: SCAR vs. New Jersey Roller Girls
Roller derby bouts are generally high-scoring affairs. Teams have won bouts with 400-plus points.
The winning margin can be very high as well. With the disparity of teams either in the age, playing ability of a team, or the amount of time a team can practice leads to some leagues being considerably better than their opponents.
It is not uncommon for a newer league in its rookie season to lose by a wide margin to a better-established team by 200-plus points.
My first bout I refereed, back in October of 2012, was Westco versus the B team of Pittsburgh. Westco lost 400-and-something to 44. This bout was different.
On Saturday night, Oct. 19, the New Jersey Roller Girls (NJ) traveled Interstate 80 to State College, where they took on the State College Area Rollers (SCAR). The travel team for SCAR is called the Happy Valley Dolls, and they laced up their skates to play the blue-and-gold-clad Jersians.
The bout started off in the normal way. The head referee blew the opening whistle, and both teams went at it. Hits were hard, and Jammers flew around the track. Most jams were short and called off early by the lead jammer. In this bout, both halves had 22 jams in them. That is a lot of jams in one half. Most bouts have around 15 per half.
In the second jam of the night #N0N0 Access Denied kept the jam going and scored 24 points for SCAR. That jam turned out to be the highest scoring jam of the game.
With the NJ offense spinning its wheels in the first two jams, SCAR jumped out to an early lead of 28-0. SCAR kept the accelerator down and got 13 points from #36 StitchHer Up to increase the lead to 41-2 by the end of the 4th jam.
NJ would start to chip away at the SCAR lead. In the next jam, #5 Chase Windu would score 15 points and #10 Miss USA-hole would follow that up with another 12 points to cut the deficit to 45-29 SCAR.
Over the next four jams, SCAR would start playing conservatively. Score 4 points as lead jammer and call off the jam before the NJ jammer had a chance to score any points. By using this strategy, SCAR increased its lead to 57-32. NJ came roaring back to score 17 points by #10 Miss USA-hole to edge closer to SCAR 58-49.
Low jam scoring would continue for the rest of the half with no team scoring more than 4 points in a jam. The halftime buzzer would sound with SCAR holding on to an 83-64 point lead over New Jersey.
Early in the second half, SCAR opened up the scoring on NJ. A penalty on the NJ jammer Pixie Bust allowed SCAR's NanBearPig to get a 17-point jam. That increased the lead to 104-68.
New Jersey would not roll over and die and began chipping away at the lead. Over the course of the next 11 jams, NJ jammers #7 Miss Corpse, #10 Miss USA-hole, #21 Pixie Bust, #12 Shanni-Gunz, and # 5 Chase Windu outscored the SCAR jammers 37-19. That cut the lead to 18 points 123-105.
In jam 18, the NJ team gave the jammer helmet cover to Miss USA-hole, and she scored 17 points and reduced SCAR's lead to one point, 123-122.
In jam 19 of the second half NJ took the first lead of the game over SCAR 125-123 with 3 minutes left on the clock. Both teams exploded with points.
The jam was one of a few that went the full two minutes as each jammer took a turn in the penalty box. N0N0 Access Denied of SCAR scored 24 points while Shanni-Gunz scored 25 points for NJ. The score was 154-147 with NJ leading and 40 seconds left to go in the bout.
The next jam was going to be the last of the bout. Access Denied stepped up and scored 16 points, while the NJ jammer was in the box and called off the jam for SCAR to win the bout 163-158 in comeback fashion.
SCAR head coach Chris Brace referenced the penalty post-game "I've always told my team to play to the end, to give it all you've got and leave it on the track. When their jammer went to the box, I knew we would finish strong"
All throughout the night the SCAR team made great efforts to knock the NJ jammers out of bounds. In the rules, the skater who is hit out of bounds has to come back inside the track behind the person who knocked her out.
The tactic of extending the pack backwards is called bridging. Head coach Brace talked about it and said, "If I had to pick one thing I thought worked really well during the game, it would be bridging. We work hard on bridging at practice, and it showed in this game."
Endurance and having something left at the end of the bout helped SCAR to score points in the end.
Brace reported, "New Jersey was definitely similar in skill, which is evident by the score, but I think the time we spend at practice working on endurance puts our whole team over the top in the second half."
September 21: Westmoreland County Roller Derby Intra-squad bout
Hot Shots Sports arena in Mt. Pleasant PA hosts a lot of events. They have two roller hockey rinks plus a jungle gym and concessions. It hosted the Westmoreland County Roller Derby (Westco) intra-squad bout on Sept. 21.
The Westco Derby Team divided itself up into two teams and went at it for some hard-hitting roller derby action. The skaters from Westco were split into teams based on their support of the felines or the canines.
The cat lovers were on the "Crazy Cat Lady" team, while the puppy lovers went on the "Die Hard Dog Lovers." The bigger beneficiary of this bout was the Animal Friends of Westmoreland County. A portion of the ticket sales, bake sale profits and animal food donations went to help this worthy cause. In the arena watching the action were some four-legged animals looking for a good home.
The Crazy Cat Ladies (Cats) jumped out to 20-point lead in the opening jam thanks to the skating of #914 Skitzo Fitzo. She sliced through the pack getting five point passes while the Die Hard Dog Lovers (Dogs) jammer was stuck in the pack on her initial pass.
The Dogs' Heather Scissorhands (#31) skated hard to close the gap on the score with a 19-point jam a few minutes later. The teams were able to keep it close up until the middle point of the first half.
In Jam 10, while the Dogs were nursing a 54-44 point lead, Skitzo donned the star helmet cover to jam for the Cats and took advantage of a forearm penalty to Dogs' Queen of Hurts and scored 24 points. Cats opened up the lead to 68-59 over the Dogs.
The Cats' coach Code Red noticed, "Our jammers showed that they have endurance and great speed. They were able to take advantage of the opportunities presented to them, get low and skate clean, which is crucial in today's derby."
For the rest of the first half, the Dogs again began to chip away at the Cats lead. The Dogs worked hard and scrounged points to close the gap to 87-80 with one jam left to go in the half.
In that last jam, the Cats Jammer #333 Malice Chalmers had a 25-point performance and cracked the bout wide open. As the Dogs scored no points in the last jam, the score was 112-80 going into halftime.
To start the second half of action, the Dogs regrouped and went on a 20-4 run in the first three jams of the second half. No. 4 Problematic Peanut fetched the jammer helmet cover and scored all the points for the Dogs in that run. The gap was closed to 116-100 in favor of the Cats but that was as close as the Dogs would get.
In the next three jams, the Cats would take advantage of the Dogs' jammer penalties and go on a run of their own. Malice Chalmers, Skitzo Fitzo, and Chick of Destiny (#420) scored the 40 points the ferocious felines needed, and the Cats would not look back. The Cats would maintain that 40-point lead throughout the rest of the bout, and the Crazy Cat Ladies would take the victory over the Die Hard Dog lovers, 184-123.
The Cats had 12 five-point passes in the second half, as compared to the Dogs only mustering six. With only 15 scoring passes in the second half, 80 percent of the Cats' points were off five-point passes.
Between penalties to the jammers and blockers, the Dogs had 8 out of 12 jams in the second half with 0 points.
The Dogs' coach Pits McGee reported, "(Penalties) as in any sport they hurt not just the player but the whole team. In such a fast-paced game being short handed is very hard to manage. They are the most detrimental to the score when you get right down to it."
The Cats also were able to attain lead jammer status 17 out of 29 jams, or 58 percent of the time.
Code Red was happy about that stat and said, "earning lead jammer status was critical to our success as a team. Given that we were competing with a small roster, it enabled us to control the clock and get off to an early lead."
That lead was never relinquished, and The Crazy Cat Ladies secured a hard-skated victory.
Until the next bout, roll on....
Pinky & the Brawn


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Forestry panel warns of Arkansas wildfire danger
By The Associated Press
This article was published March 13, 2014 at 7:08 a.m.
LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Forestry Commission is asking property owners to take precautions to help prevent wildfires.
Officials have classified the state as being moderate a moderate risk of wildfires.
The agency said that with milder weather, many residents will be inclined to burn trash or debris. High winds that came in with cold front this week have increased the risk level for wildfires.
Winds above 10 mph and humidity levels below 30 percent make it easier for a fire to spread out of control.
Anyone burning should have tools, such as rakes and shovels, and adequate water on hand to ensure a fire doesn't spread.
The commission said there were twice as many wildfires in January and February this year over last year.
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RAVENSWOOD – There were plenty of pleasing aspects to the recently completed 2012 track and field season for the Ravenswood Devilettes.
For starters, Ren
There were plenty of pleasing aspects to the recently completed 2012 track and field season for the Ravenswood Devilettes.
For starters, Renee Swisher's program had a presence at the 98th Annual West Virginia State High School Track and Field Meet.
Freshman Hailey Miller just missed scoring in the 400 meters with a seventh place finish (the top six score). She was also on the ninth place 4x800 unit. The squad also featured fellow freshman Taylor Treadway and seniors Ingrid Foslund and Morgan Webb.
Miller, Foslund, Webb and Kirsti Babylon made up the 4x400 relay that placed 12th. Foslund was 13th in the 800 meters.
Some other highlights from the season included Miller placing in the 400 at both the the Region 1 Meet (second) and the Little Kanawha Conference Meet (third). She was first in the 400 at Ripley's Viking Classic and the Holzer Clinic Sports Medicine Invitational at Point Pleasant.
The 4x800 team also captured first at the meet in Point Pleasant. Miller, Foslund, Scritchfield and Treadway made up the unit.
Babylon and Treadway started the year with wins in the 100 meters and 3200 meters, respectively, at Roane County High School's Early Bird Invitational.
As far as big meets are concerned, Ravenswood's best showing was in the Point Pleasant meet. The Devilettes scored 47 points to place fourth overall.
Ravenswood's squad was youthful in 2012 with Miller, Treadway, Scritchfield, Charity Martinez and Brittany Jones being involved as ninth graders. Mariah Currey and Kaitlyn Titus competed as sophomores while Emily Bolinger was the lone junior.
"I felt we were pretty successful," said Swisher. "I was real pleased with the drop in time of our 4x800 team (10:49 LKC Meet to 10:33 Region 1 Meet). "Emily Bolinger got injured but was a real cheerleader and motivator for us. Hailey did anything. She would do whatever to help the team. We've got a good nucleus returning."
As always, Swisher got emotional when talking about her seniors – Babylon, Foslund and Webb.
"Kirsti had an up and down season with physical things. She was my captain. She would try to do what was best for the team. Ingrid was such a good role model. Morgan would come and work and she would do anything and run anything I asked."


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BRISTOL, Conn. – Point guard Anjale Barrett and center Lynetta Kizer of the Maryland women's basketball team were both selected in the Top 30 of the WNBA Draft Monday afternoon.
Barrett was selected 26th overall and went to the Washington Mystics and will join former teammate Crystal Langhorne in Washington. Kizer went to the Tulsa Shock two picks later.
Barrett finished her senior season second in the ACC in assists (4.9) and assist/turnover ratio (1.8) this season and ended her four-year career fifth in Maryland history in assists with 486.
Kizer was a three-time All-ACC Team honoree and the league Sixth Player of the Year in her senior season. Her 1,621 career points put her at No. 8 in school record books and her 958 career rebounds makes her No. 4 in Maryland history in rebounds.
Barrett spent a total of five seasons in College Park and was a member of three NCAA Elite Eight teams and two ACC title teams. Kizer helped lead Maryland to three NCAA Tournament appearances, two Elite Eights and two ACC championships.
Maryland (31-5) ended its 2012 season winning 10 of its last 11 games. The Terrapins won the program's 10th ACC title earlier this month and notched the fourth 30-win season in school history. They advanced to their ninth Elite Eight and fourth in head coach Brenda Frese's 10 years.


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Running out of gas.....
Posted 17 November 2011 - 01:33 AM
Posted 17 November 2011 - 02:12 AM
Posted 17 November 2011 - 02:20 AM
I suggest fixing the gauge, then adding some gas.
Thats the obvious which im planning on doing. Its just unusual since ive been using milage for about a year now for refueling.
Edited by subinewby, 17 November 2011 - 02:23 AM.
Posted 17 November 2011 - 02:57 AM
Usually I go 65 mi on 4 gallons of gas and put another 4 or 5 galons in but ive ran out at about 45_55 mi recently.
Colder temperatures and winter blend gas?
One suggestion for not running out of gas is to simply not plan on running your tank completely empty! If you start with an empty tank, and a car which gets 20 mpg, you shouldn't fill it up with 4 gallons of fuel and expect to pull into the gas station 79.9 miles later to re-fill. You need to have some extra, so that fluctuations in MPG won't leave you stranded.
Second, why are you only putting 4 gallons in at a time and filling twice a week? That would drive me crazy!
Try this for a new technique. Estimate your MPG, look up your tank size in gallons, and then go fill the tank completely full until the pump clicks off. Reset your trip counter, and drive until you've gone enough miles that you've used an estimated 80% of your tank. Then, go fill up again completely until the pump stops, recording the amount (in gallons) that it took to fill it. You can now compute your exact MPG.
For your next tank, and all future tanks, continue filling completely full until the pump clicks off, and drive 90% of a tank full based on your actual MPG from the previous tank.
From here on out, just keep repeating the cycle. It might take a small scrap of paper to keep the running tallies, but you won't be caught off guard by changing MPG over the season, you will make the most use of your fillups, and most importantly - you will always have a good idea how much gas you actually have in your tank. Something which is impossible to know for sure if you keep filling partial tanks without letting the pump stop.
Well, unless you run out of gas that is.
Posted 17 November 2011 - 07:24 AM
Posted 17 November 2011 - 12:25 PM
Posted 17 November 2011 - 12:35 PM
Posted 17 November 2011 - 01:03 PM
Running out of gas probably sucked up some gunk from the bottom of the tank, which is probably clogging up your fuel filter a little bit and also gunking up your carb, which is leading you to get less miles to the gallon than you initially thought you get.
which is why the tank/sender/gauge being fixed was my first suggestion.
if I came off as a jerk, I apologize. but not knowing how much gas you have almost always eventually leads to running out. which is bad with an old fuel system.
Edited by zukiru, 17 November 2011 - 01:03 PM.
id instead of is
Posted 17 November 2011 - 02:22 PM
You should have plenty of good tanks to choose from being in the NW.
they will probbaly include the sender in the price.
Posted 17 November 2011 - 05:13 PM
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|White Oleander
|Monday, 10 March 2003
"White Oleander" doesn't easily fit any genre category. Broadly speaking, it's a drama with many coming-of-age and mother/daughter issues, but its perpetual sense of underlying menace – the use of poisonous flowers in the title is extremely apt – gives it an uncommon edge. On the other hand, the film is far too elliptical, character-driven and free-wheeling to be classified as a thriller. Danger lurks in some unexpected places for Astrid (Alison Lohman), but while the effect is cumulative, there isn't a villain with a scheme, or indeed any malicious figures with long-range plans. Fatal havoc is wrought here by people who are desperate rather than evil.
Lohman's Astrid is a Los Angeles teenager who has long ago adjusted to life with her ultimately loving but awesomely self-involved artist mother Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer). When Ingrid is arrested for murdering her boyfriend (Billy Connolly), Astrid is cast upon the seas of the foster care system, where every household has its own agenda. First stop is a couple (Robin Wright, Cole Hauser) who are already fostering two little boys and an adolescent girl in full rebellion. The lady of the house is a manically cheerful born-again fundamentalist who talks Bible nonstop, even though she's not married to her mate. The situation takes some drastic turns and Astrid winds up back in a group home, where she suffers abuse at the hands of her fellow wards of the state but is also befriended by a kindred spirit and fellow artist (Patrick Fugit), whose goodwill she accepts with great wariness. Then Astrid is placed in another foster home with a wealthy, lonely woman (Renee Zellweger) whose husband (Noah Wyle) is absent much of the time. The situation would seem ideal, but Ingrid's reach is very long.
"White Oleander" started life as a novel by Janet Fitch. In one of this DVD's best innovations, Fitch is recruited for the audio commentary track, along with director Peter Kosminsky and producer John Wells, so there is much discussion of changes in both broad strokes and specifics between book and movie. The conversation will be of interest to anyone who's curious about the adaptation process, especially when Kosminsky and Fitch (very cordially and respectfully) compare notes on their different views of how the characters feel in key scenes.
The filmmakers, working from a perceptive script by Mary Agnes Donoghue, create an authentic, identifiable sense of how weird it is for a teen to recognize that a parent is not merely fallible but actively striving to impart a toxic outlook. Lohman is perpetually fascinating, Pfeiffer is tough to the point of being chilling and the story is compelling, all of which makes "White Oleander" extremely effective. Lohman convinces us that Astrid is guarded while still allowing us to read her intimately at all times – we see dismay, love, hopelessness and resentment with enormous clarity through the implacable façade she presents to the world much of the time. Zellweger is especially affecting as the failed actress/would-be mom who is profoundly eager for Astrid's friendship (and the filmmakers have managed to procure a clip of Zellweger in "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation" as a sample of her character's career). Penn has a field day as the colorful Star, masking panic with sunny babble as she tries to maintain what she thinks of as a normal life.
Donoghue's dialogue is almost always refreshingly natural and spare – she does succumb to the temptation to get talky near the end once or twice – while director Kosminsky makes striking use of color to influence the moods of scenes, giving us an artist's perspective on what's happening without becoming self-consciously arty.
Use of sound is subtle but effective, with some especially astute use of ambient noise, like the low buzz of a light filling in a silence, or the combination of a spare piano and ambient air as Astrid heads to yet another new abode. While this doesn't exactly qualify as reference disc sequences, there are some impressively realistic door poundings in Chapters 4, 6 and 7 – if for some reason you've turned your back on the monitor, you may automatically check to see if you've got a visitor – a persuasive gunshot in Chapter 9 and startling, dimensional objects hitting the floor in Chapter 19. Sheryl Crow sings the appealing and apt closing credits ballad "Safe and Sound" in Chapter 28.
Besides the audio commentary track, there are two similar and agreeable if fairly standard making-of featurettes, and a collection of very good deleted scenes that all work very well – presumably they were cut for running time rather than any fault of with the scenes themselves.
"White Oleander" explores matters that few American films about women delve into in this depth. While the film doesn't plunge into all-out horror, it does an uncommonly involving job of illustrating what it's like to try to put yourself together as a person while coping with the uneasy sense that everything you've learned so far is wrong.


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J.R.R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 Bloemfontein, Orange Free State – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, philologist and university professor, best known as the author of several influential fantasy books such as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
He had a lifelong interest in and love of language, and also created several constructed languages. Tolkien also created the Middle-earth legendarium, a fantasy world with a detailed geography, history, and inhabited by Men, Elves, Dwarves, and Hobbits.[1]
Early Life
Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, to British parents, Arthur Reuel Tolkien and the former Miss Mabel Suffield. At the age of three he returned to England with his mother and younger brother, Hilary Arthur Reuel. His father died in Africa before he could rejoin them. Tolkien spent his early childhood in Sarehole, a Worcestershire village, which later influenced him in the creation of the Shire. Now living in Birmingham, Mabel Tolkien and her children were received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1900. This enraged staunch Protestants on both sides of the family and Mabel Tolkien subsequently left without any financial support. She died in 1904 of diabetes, leaving her sons in the care of Father Francis Morgan, a priest of the Oratorian Order.
Marriage and World War I
Tolkien grew up in the industrialized Edgbaston district of Birmingham and attended King Edward's School. The polluted sprawl of Birmingham is believed to have influenced his creation of Mordor. In 1916 Tolkien married Edith Mary Bratt, with whom he had four children: John, Michael, Christopher (who served with the RAF in Africa during WWII), and Priscilla. In October of the same year he was sent to the Western Front to serve as a signals officer at the Battle of the Somme. After coming down with trench fever, he was invalided home and spent the remainder of the war as an emaciated patient in various military hospitals. His affliction was almost certainly caused by the flea bites suffered in captured German trenches at Thiepval Ridge.
Later Life
Tolkien became a professor of Anglo-Saxon and English literature at the University of Oxford in 1925 and remained in the post until his retirement in 1959. After his death, the masses of his literary work he left behind were left in the care of his son Christopher Tolkien, who continues to organize and publish his father's writings.
He and several other writers (among them C. S. Lewis) were members of a literary club called the Inklings. Tolkien and Lewis were very close friends, and Tolkien had a major role in Lewis's eventual conversion from Atheism to Christianity[2]
- The Hobbit (1937)
- Leaf by Niggle (1945)
- Farmer Giles of Ham (1949, a medieval fable)
- The Lord of the Rings, in three volumes:
- The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
- The Two Towers (1955)
- The Return of the King (1955)
- Smith of Wootton Major (1967)
- The Father Christmas Letters (1976)
- The Silmarillion (1977)
- Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth (1980)
- The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)
- Mr. Bliss (1982)
- The Monsters and the Critics (1983, a collection of essays)
- The History of Middle-earth (1983–1996 in twelve volumes)
- Roverandom (1998)
- The Children of Húrin (2007)
- The History of The Hobbit (2007, in two volumes)