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Alan Watts was a British-born philosopher, writer, and speaker. Best known for making Eastern philosophy digestible to Western minds, his radio broadcasts, books and talks turned people on to new ways of thinking. He introduced the youth culture to The Way of Zen, he put forward the idea that Buddhism could be seen as a form of psychotherapy rather than a religion, he engaged with and explored ideas of human consciousness as well as man's relationship with nature…to me at least he embodies the world-thinker, astride cultures, taking what is relevant or useful and leaving the dogma. He died in 1973 at the age of 58, at his cabin on Mount Tamalpais. Recently though, people have been setting extracts from his lectures to animations and montages, uploading them to YouTube where his words are enjoying a renaissance.
He was bright, exploring various types of meditation as a teen – he even met D.T. Suzuki – and then moved to America in 1938, just before war broke out. He became an Anglican priest, his thesis at the seminary attempting to blend contemporary Christian worship, mystical Christianity and Asian philosophy. Leaving the ministry after an affair, he went back to academics, teaching at the American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco, and bouncing around various other places in following years as he toured the lecture circuit, travelled in Europe, had a TV show and wrote more books.
He expanded his studies into cybernetics, Vedanta and more; experimented with psychedelics in the early 1960s; and for several years was a Fellow at Harvard. He was enjoyed by intellectuals, but had a harder time with academics. Perhaps because – as Watts said himself – he was more "philosophical entertainer" than academic philosopher.
The excellent Wikipedia entry on him, which includes tonnes of links as well as the following:
Watts did not hide his dislike for religious outlooks that he decided were dour, guilt-ridden, or militantly proselytising — no matter if they were found within Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism….he has been criticised by Buddhists such as Philip Kapleau and D. T. Suzuki for allegedly misinterpreting several key Zen Buddhist concepts. In particular, he drew criticism from those who believe that zazen can only be achieved by a strict and specific means of sitting, as opposed to a cultivated state of mind available at any moment in any situation. In his talks, Watts addressed the issue of defining zazen practice when he said, "A cat sits until it is tired of sitting, then gets up, stretches, and walks away." [he also said about experimenting with drugs: "if you get the message, hang up the phone".]
Though known for his Zen teachings, he was equally if not more influenced by ancient Hindu scriptures, especially Vedanta, and spoke extensively about the nature of the divine Reality Man that Man misses, how the contradiction of opposites is the method of life and the means of cosmic and human evolution, how our fundamental Ignorance is rooted in the exclusive nature of mind and ego, how to come in touch with the Field of Consciousness and Light, and other cosmic principles. His books frequently include discussions reflecting his keen interest in patterns that occur in nature and which are repeated in various ways and at a wide range of scales – including the patterns to be discerned in the history of civilizations.
And so on with the quotes…
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."
"Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair."
"You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up."
"We therefore work, not for the work's sake, but for money—and money is supposed to get us what we really want in our hours of leisure and play. In the United States even poor people have lots of money compared with the wretched and skinny millions of India, Africa, and China, while our middle and upper classes (or should we say "income groups") are as prosperous as princes. Yet, by and large, they have but slight taste for pleasure. Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy."
"What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is."
"Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it "objective," that is, separate from "I."
"I owe my solitude to other people."
"Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves – mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering."
"To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet."
"The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity."
"Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation."
"Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they'll say you're crazy and you're blasphemous, and they'll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, 'My goodness, I've just discovered that I'm God,' they'll laugh and say, 'Oh, congratulations, at last you found out."
"If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go."
"Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal saviour."
"And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words… As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning."
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."
"Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know."
"Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality."
"Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick. "
"A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter."
"It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt"
"What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money … but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth … In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things."
"I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium"
"A successful college president once complained to me, I'm so busy that I'm going to have to get a helicopter! Well, I answered, you'll be ahead so long as you're the only president who has one. But don't get it. Everyone will expect more out of you."
"The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless."
"The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion."
"Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence."
"Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."
"You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing."
"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves."
"The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive."
"Advice? I don't have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you're writing, you're a writer. Write like you're a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there's no chance for a pardon. Write like you're clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you've got just one last thing to say, like you're a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God's sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don't. Who knows, maybe you're one of the lucky ones who doesn't have to."
"For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now."
"We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society."
"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."
"It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it's dense, isn't it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer and finer and make more complicated patterns, see? So in the same way, there was a big bang at the beginning of things and it spread. And you and I, sitting here in this room, as complicated human beings, are way, way out on the fringe of that bang. We are the complicated little patterns on the end of it. Very interesting. But so we define ourselves as being only that. If you think that you are only inside your skin, you define yourself as one very complicated little curlique, way out on the edge of that explosion. Way out in space, and way out in time. Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are. Depends how you define yourself. You are actually–if this is the way things started, if there was a big bang in the beginning– you're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. When I meet you, I see not just what you define yourself as –Mr so-and- so, Ms so-and-so, Mrs so-and-so– I see every one of you as the primordial energy of the universe coming on at me in this particular way. I know I'm that, too. But we've learned to define ourselves as separate from it. "
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The Chill Zone
"Time doesn't exist when you're... just chilling!" Topping an administrative page on the site of curatorial collective Jstchillin, this slogan rephrases a familiar bit of folk phenomenology: Time flies when you're having fun! But in denying time's existence, rather making its perceived acceleration a metaphor for losing yourself in the moment, the slogan suggests a swap of the trinity of past-present-future for something else -- a sense of time that (until the end of this essay, at least) I will call "chill time." Jstchillin is concerned with the internet, and my description of chill time will be, too. It entails an awareness of parallel threads of messages, ordered by clock-time sequence and subjective assignments of importance (cf. Facebook's feed settings: "Top News" and "Most Recent"), and the knowledge that these messages will wait until you find them (in your e-mail, in your RSS aggregator, etc.) but might be irrelevant when you do if you wait too long. Chill time is simultaneity of the recent past and lagging present, the sum of attempts to track some threads into the past and push others toward the future. Awareness of physical surroundings tends to be fuzzy as you sift through old layers of digital sediment and deposit new ones. Jstchillin founders Caitlyn Denny and Parker Ito describe it like this: "[T]o chill is to live in a constant state of multiplicities, a flow of existence between web and physicality."
Jstchillin encompasses a number of initiatives, including the gallery show "Avatar 4D," but its flagship project is "Serial Chillers in Paradise," an online exhibition that has featured a different artist every other week since October 2009. Chill time, I think, is the central theme of "Serial Chillers," one that many commissioned artists have approached through conventional associations with chilling. Video games were the subject of an illustrated short story/film treatment by Jon Rafman, and Jonathan Vingiano's browser add-on Space Chillers was a game. Ida Lehtonen's contribution folded soothing ocean sounds into a video of exercises that computer laborers can do to stay limber during breaks, while Eilis Mcdonald's sent you scrolling through bits of pat, New-Agey advice and then to a page with equivalent visuals; both artists drew on packaged relaxation. Zach Schipko and Tucker Bennett's feature-length movie Why Are You Weird?, parceled into YouTube uploads, is a story of art-school students who spend almost all of their onscreen time at parties or hanging out in their dorm rooms, rehashing crits.
The Object Whisperer: Shana Moulton's Whispering Pines
Found objects have had a place in art for nearly a century, but the practice has seemed particularly pervasive in recent years, as approaches from both contemporary and historical perspectives have attempted to redefine it as appropriation, nonmonumental, unmonumental, or "combining crap with crap." Fascination with old or overlooked marginalia could be regressive melancholia spawned of the Bush era's resigned cynicism, or sympathy for the poor objects in spite of high-tech consumption. Whatever the case, the sensibility saturates Shana Moulton's Whispering Pines, a series of videos and performances. While sculptural assemblage clusters objects in space, Moulton spreads her thrift-store and gift-shop finds over time. Rather than tracing the artist's web of references through stationary contemplation, the viewer of Whispering Pines is led through the process as Cynthia, the heroine, interacts with the things she has chosen to surround herself with. A Magic Eye 3D poster transports her to a zone of free movement. A swamp-colored facial mask opens a green-screen gateway to a forest clearing. If, in a readymade or sculptural assemblage, the artist endows objects with totemic power by isolating and emphasizing their formal properties (or the subjective associations they evoke for her), then Moulton gives that principle a radically literal interpretation in Whispering Pines, where objects' properties and associations acquire the power to shape the narrative.
Drone Machines
The ambient noise of common machines and the unexpected sounds that come from familiar objects have been a part of music for some time, but over the last fifteen years French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot has been joining the two, using instruments and objects to construct complex, apparently self-sufficient systems that play music without any beginnings, endings, or performers. Videodrones (2001) isolates and amplifies the hum that all video signals make when hooked into audio systems. From Here to Ear (1999) now showing at the Barbican in London, is an aviary that resonates when its finches alight on electric guitars. In Harmonichaos, which was on view at Paula Cooper Gallery until this weekend, Boursier-Mougenot affixes the grooves of harmonicas to the mouths of vacuum cleaners, and the staggered grid of thirteen pairs produces an undulating, reedy drone.
The set-up of Harmonichaos could only be the product of a playful mind, even though its appearance deflects suggestions of human involvement. Both the vacuums and harmonicas have an assembly-line sameness, and while they perform according to design, their functions have been diverted away from the needs for clean homes and entertaining song that they were intended to meet. As a viewer and listener, you're made to feel like a confused outsider: a system of switches modulates the intensity of the air flow, as well as the sound emanating from the vacuum cleaners, but it's nearly impossible to identify the source of these fluctuations. False clues are sent by a randomized blinking of bulbs on the vacuums' bodies. As usual, Boursier-Mougenot brings a sense of humor to his work, from the irony of the hokey harmonica becoming eerie when forced to drone (like the accordion in the music of Pauline Oliveros) to the punning title. He finds both harmony and chaos in ...
Use Your Illusion
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Grey upset the purpose of portraiture--rather than preserving the memory of its subject in his best light, the painting of the title grew gradually uglier to record Grey's sins, even as he kept the beauty that facilitated his sinning--but left intact art's status as an attribute of rich, leisured living. The arch moral tale is invoked twice in "Virtuoso Illusion: Cross-Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde," an exhibition currently on view at MIT's List Visual Arts Center. Michelle Handelman's hour-long, four-channel video Dorian, 2009, loosely retells Wilde's novel with club kids standing in for opium eaters. In her ghoulishly lit self-portrait Dorian Grey, Manon appears messily caked in makeup, wearing a baggy gray suit, like the corporate conscience of a hedonist spirit. Both of these works introduce to drag a story about beauty, representation, and pleasure, and the anxieties that attend them. This suggests there's more to "Virtuoso Illusion" than an exercise in gender studies; as exhibition curator Michael Rush writes, "[i]n each major historical advancement of experimental art, cross dressing has been present as a strategy that has expanded the possibilities of the perception-bending intentions of artists (as opposed to merely gender-bending)."
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mr. Danny Snelson
Google's mission "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" centers around faith in the power of the keyword to unlock its bottomless treasure chest and put the right answer in one window. Years have passed since the company's ranking algorithm outpaced the approach of human navigators filing information into channels -- an approach that Yahoo has been trying to keep alive by farming the digital labor to users themselves. But even as search algorithms make dinosaurs of the Dewey decimal and other brain-powered systems, it might be worth considering the benefits of staying open to a plurality of variously scaled methods.
These issues converge in Danny Snelson's work as a writer, editor, and archivist. His titles increasingly overlap in the internet's library without walls--an environment that often embodies the Foucauldian idea that "one never archives without editorial frames and 'writerly' narratives (or designs)," as Snelson put it in an email. As an archivist, he has made substantial efforts to preserve endangered cultural artifacts -- making them universally accessible and useful, you might say -- on behalf of PennSound, an audio archive specializing in recorded poetry, and UbuWeb, where, at the suggestion of founder Kenneth Goldsmith, he scanned out-of-print titles and reformatted them as PDFs for free distribution via the site's /ubu channel. The PennSounds and UbuWebs of the internet undertake preservation projects that small presses and recording labels can't touch due to financial reasons, thus ensuring that experimental work will continue to reach audiences in years to come. Distribution networks like these matter in an environment where the internet (for those without access to academic libraries, at least) is often the first and last stop for research -- a realization that impelled Goldsmith to formulate a radical ontology in the title of his 2005 essay, "If it doesn't exist on the internet, it doesn't exist."

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The City saves energy to save both the environment and money at the same time. Little measures add up and are difficult to track. But the larger measures we take add up even more, actually a lot more: annual savings of 807,825 kWh, 53,370 therms and 926 tons of CO2.
Renewable Energy:
Since 2007, the City has installed 11 solar hot water systems on all the fire stations. In addition 4 solar electric systems have been installed on the Engineering Service Building, the Alicia Ashman Library, Demetral Landfill and Greentree Landfill. In total, the City will save 30,648 kWh and 3,426 therms every year. This will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 43 tons annually. The systems perform extremely well and demonstrate the viability of solar energy in Wisconsin. Most systems have energy monitoring and some are accessible via the internet. In 2009, the City will install 4 more PV systems with 10 kW each.
The city has retrofitted many facilities with modern lighting technology. Highest efficiency fluorescent lighting, LED and induction lighting make sure high quality light is delivered at the lowest possible power consumption. Modern lighting controls make sure the lights are only on when needed. Lighting has been modernized at two parking ramps, the Engineering Service Building, the East and West Streets Maintenance Facility and several fire stations. In total, the City will save 501,616 kWh every year. This will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 399 tons annually. Another benefit of new lighting is better lighting quality, for added security and comfort, and less maintenance. In 2009, the City will retrofit lighting in at least five more large facilities.
Adding insulation and air sealing the building keeps the heat inside in winter and the heat outside in summer. Insulation was added to the Traffic Engineering Operations Center and the East and West Streets Maintenance Facility. Two fire stations have been air sealed and partially insulated. In total, the City will save 5,952 kWh and 39,141 therms every year. This will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 212 tons annually. In 2009, the City will add insulation to and air-seal 5 more buildings.
Water Heaters:
While typical water heaters have efficiencies of less than 60% and won't last long in commercial applications, the city uses high efficiency (96%) water heaters that are built to last. Recent installations include five fire stations and the East Streets Maintenance Facility. In total, the City will save 5,568 therms every year. This will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 tons annually. In addition, repair and replacement cost is reduced significantly.
HVAC (Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning):
Inefficient buildings typically have inefficient HVAC systems. Therefore the buildings with the highest energy usage will be upgraded. Currently, the North Police Station is being upgraded and in 2008 the boiler at the East Streets Maintenance Facility was replaced. In addition, the City is installing destratifying fans in the Engineering Service Maintenance Facility vehicle storage. Those fans will reduce heating cost and improve comfort. The city will save 36,614 kWh and 10,128 therms every year. This will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 81 tons annually.
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Matthew 4:17-5:2 English Standard Version (ESV)
17 From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."[a]
Jesus Calls the First Disciples
18 While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 19 And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."[b] 20 Immediately they left their nets and followed him. 21 And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. 22 Immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.
Jesus Ministers to Great Crowds
23 And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people. 24 So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, those having seizures, and paralytics, and he healed them. 25 And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.
The Sermon on the Mount
5 Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.
The Beatitudes
2 And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:
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Connecticut high court to hear arguments in Avon Mountain truck crash case
HARTFORD >> The Connecticut Supreme Court will hear arguments in two lawsuits filed over a 2005 crash at the bottom of Avon Mountain that killed four people and injured 19 others.
Justices are scheduled to hear the cases Wednesday.
The widow of one of the victims who died and a survivor are suing the state Department of Transportation seeking money awards. They allege there were design flaws in Route 44 including a too-steep grade and inadequate warning signs.
A dump truck lost its brakes going down the 500-foot-tall hill and crashed into 19 vehicles at the bottom in Avon.
Lawyers for the state deny there were design flaws and argue the lawsuits should be dismissed because of government immunity.
The state added a runaway truck ramp and other improvements after the crash.


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0.9% SODIUM CHLORIDE Injection, USP
0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection, USP is sterile and nonpyrogenic. It is a parenteral solution containing sodium chloride in water for injection intended for intravenous administration.
Each 100 mL of 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection, USP contains 900 mg sodium chloride in water for injection. Electrolytes per 1000 mL: sodium (Na+) 154 mEq; chloride (Cl−) 154 mEq. The osmolarity is 308 mOsmol/L (calc.).
The pH is 5.6 (4.5 to 7.0).
This solution contains no bacteriostat, antimicrobial agent or added buffer and is intended only as a single-dose injection. When smaller doses are required, the unused portion should be discarded.
0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection, USP is a parenteral fluid and electrolyte replenisher.
Sodium Chloride, USP is chemically designated NaCl, a white crystalline powder freely soluble in water.
Water for Injection, USP is chemically designated H2O.
The flexible plastic container is fabricated from a clear multilayer polyolefin plastic film. Exposure to temperatures above 25°C (77°F) during transport and storage will lead to minor losses in moisture content. Higher temperatures lead to greater losses. It is unlikely that these minor losses will lead to clinically significant changes within the expiration period.
When administered intravenously, these solutions provide a source of water and electrolytes.
Solutions which provide combinations of hypotonic or isotonic concentrations of sodium chloride are suitable for parenteral maintenance or replacement of water and electrolyte requirements.
Isotonic concentrations of sodium chloride are suitable for parenteral replacement of chloride losses that exceed or equal the sodium loss. Hypotonic concentrations of sodium chloride are suited for parenteral maintenance of water requirements when only small quantities of salt are desired. A hypertonic concentration of sodium chloride may be used to repair severe salt depletion syndrome.
Sodium chloride in water dissociates to provide sodium (Na+) and chloride (Cl−) ions. Sodium (Na+) is the principal cation of the extracellular fluid and plays a large part in the therapy of fluid and electrolyte disturbances. Chloride (Cl−) has an integral role in buffering action when oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange occurs in the red blood cells. The distribution and excretion of sodium (Na+) and chloride (Cl−) are largely under the control of the kidney which maintains a balance between intake and output.
Water is an essential constituent of all body tissues and accounts for approximately 70% of total body weight. Average normal adult daily requirements range from two to three liters (1.0 to 1.5 liters each for insensible water loss by perspiration and urine production).
Water balance is maintained by various regulatory mechanisms. Water distribution depends primarily on the concentration of electrolytes in the body compartments and sodium (Na+) plays a major role in maintaining physiologic equilibrium.
Intravenous solutions containing sodium chloride are indicated for parenteral replenishment of fluid and sodium chloride as required by the clinical condition of the patient.
Solutions containing sodium ions should be used with great care, if at all, in patients with congestive heart failure, severe renal insufficiency and in clinical states in which there exists edema with sodium retention.
Excessive administration of potassium-free solutions may result in significant hypokalemia.
In patients with diminished renal function, administration of solutions containing sodium ions may result in sodium retention.
The intravenous administration of these solutions can cause fluid and/or solute overloading resulting in dilution of serum electrolyte concentrations, overhydration, congested states or pulmonary edema.
The risk of dilutional states is inversely proportional to the electrolyte concentrations of administered parenteral solutions. The risk of solute overload causing congested states with peripheral and pulmonary edema is directly proportional to the electrolyte concentrations of such solutions.
Clinical evaluation and periodic laboratory determinations are necessary to monitor changes in fluid balance, electrolyte concentrations and acid-base balance during prolonged parenteral therapy or whenever the condition of the patient warrants such evaluation.
Caution must be exercised in the administration of parenteral fluids, especially those containing sodium ions to patients receiving corticosteroids or corticotropin.
Do not administer unless solution is clear and container is undamaged. Discard unused portion.
Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Impairment of Fertility:
Studies have not been performed with Sodium Chloride Injection, USP to evaluate the potential for carcinogenesis, mutagenesis or impairment of fertility.
Teratogenic Effects
Pregnancy Category C. Animal reproduction studies have not been conducted with sodium chloride. It is also not known whether sodium chloride can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman or can affect reproduction capacity. Sodium chloride should be given to a pregnant woman only if clearly needed.
Nursing Mothers:
Caution should be exercised when Sodium Chloride Injection, USP is administered to a nursing woman.
Pediatric Use:
The safety and effectiveness in the pediatric population are based on the similarity of the clinical conditions of the pediatric and adult populations. In neonates or very small infants the volume of fluid may affect fluid and electrolyte balance.
Geriatric Use:
Clinical studies of 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection, USP did not include sufficient numbers of subjects aged 65 and over to determine whether they respond differently from younger subjects. Other reported clinical experience has not identified differences in responses between elderly and younger patients. In general, dose selection for an elderly patient should be cautious, usually starting at the low end of the dosing range, reflecting the greater frequency of decreased hepatic, renal, or cardiac function, and of concomitant disease or other drug therapy.
This drug is known to be substantially excreted by the kidney, and the risk of toxic reactions to this drug may be greater in patients with impaired renal function. Because elderly patients are more likely to have decreased renal function, care should be taken in dose selection, and it may be useful to monitor renal function.
Reactions which may occur because of the solution or the technique of administration include febrile response, infection at the site of injection, venous thrombosis or phlebitis extending from the site of injection, extravasation and hypervolemia.
If an adverse reaction does occur, discontinue the infusion, evaluate the patient, institute appropriate therapeutic countermeasures and save the remainder of the fluid for examination if deemed necessary.
In the event of overhydration or solute overload, re-evaluate the patient and institute appropriate corrective measures. See WARNINGS, PRECAUTIONS, and ADVERSE REACTIONS.
The dose is dependent upon the age, weight and clinical condition of the patient.
Drug Interactions
Additives may be incompatible. Consult with pharmacist, if available. When introducing additives, use aseptic technique, mix thoroughly and do not store.
Parenteral drug products should be inspected visually for particulate matter and discoloration prior to administration, whenever solution and container permit. See PRECAUTIONS.
Check for leaks by squeezing container firmly. If leaks are found, discard unit as sterility may be impaired. If supplemental medication is desired, follow directions below before preparing for administration.
To Add Medication
(Use aseptic technique)
Preparation for Administration
(Use aseptic technique)
NOTE: See appropriate I.V. administration set Instructions for Use.
WARNING: Do not use flexible container in series connections.
0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection, USP is supplied in single-dose flexible plastic containers as follows:
Store at 20 to 25°C (68 to 77°F). [See USP Controlled Room Temperature.] Protect from freezing.
Covered by one or more of the following US patents: 4,368,765, 4,344,472.
Revised: July, 2008
Revised: 04/2009 Hospira, Inc.
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Today is a rare opportunity for The Prospector to play Santa Claus, sorta, and so it is time to dole out some much deserved gifts to the prospects of Central Florida.
It would be nice for several members of this year's Sentinel Central Florida Super60 to receive some gifts from the scholarship Santa under the tree this morning.
One of the prospects who first comes to mind is Malik Smith, one of the most deserving players of college attention in the Orlando area. It was nice to see him in the Central Florida All-Star Game two weeks ago, running around the field with all of the other top players, a big smile on his face like he had finally arrived.
Smith, who is ranked No. 54 in the Super60, has been mired in obscurity at Orlando Cypress Creek, a program that has gone 2-28 over the past three seasons and has struggled to even keep a decent number of players on the roster in recent years. He could have transferred to another school. Freedom High was even in the back of his mind. His friends go there. Freedom was district runner-up and made the playoffs this past season. But Smith stayed put.
The 6-foot-2, 240-pound defensive end/tight end has but one Football Bowl Series school offering a scholarship in Indiana, but it would be nice to see a few more scholarship offers under the tree today for Malik. He's one of the good guys and a gifted athlete with whom someone is going to be quiet happy at the next level.
UMass could be close to offering and Smith is expecting more communication with the Minutemen staff.
Probably the best two players on the board without FBS scholarship offers, ranked Nos. 30 and 31, are tight end Trey Hendrickson of Apopka and safety Chris Board of Orlando Timber Creek. Hendrickson (6-4, 225) got his opportunity to shine in the state playoffs, helping the Blue Darters to the Florida Class 8A crown and he's started gaining attention slowly with offers from such schools as Weber State, Portland State, Wofford, Furman, Eastern Kentucky and Florida Tech, according to his father Collie Hendrickson.
Board, however, whose season was ended by Hendrickson's Apopka team, has not gotten the attention he deserves, perhaps partly because he transferred his senior season from Orlando East River and also because this was his first year playing safety. The 6-foot-2, 205-pound Board had a phenomenal year. He ended up with four interceptions and 109 tackles, an average of almost 10 tackles per game.
FAU and FIU were close to offering but he has still yet to receive his first FBS tender. Vanderbilt has also come into the picture, but so far he still has just FCS schools Jacksonville U. and Bethune-Cookman, which are good programs and nothing to be ashamed of should he end up at one of those schools. BC-U is a perennial MEAC contender and JU was a couple of plays away from being 9-2 this past season, during which the Dolphins went 7-4.
Board was named the West squad Defensive MVP for the Central Florida All-Star Game. He will make an FBS coach happy, if one of those coaches could just send in a nice little Christmas gift.
"I'm just waiting. We'll see what happens," said Board, who will visit JU on Jan. 18 and B-CU on Jan. 25.
The other remaining Central Florida Super60 players without FBS offers this holiday season are Orlando Lake Highland Prep TE Casey Irish, Kissimmee Gateway RB Zach Smith, Daytona Beach Mainland ATH Cameron Hadley, South Daytona Warner Christian RB Marcus Dixon, Orlando First Academy LB Colten Plante, Apopka C Dazzie Morris, Orlando Edgewater TE-DE Keith Dilley, Orange Park Spruce Creek WR Michael Colubiale and Orlando Evans QB Levar Robinson.
A lot of prospects will still be waiting this Christmas, like all those before them and all of the many to come in the future. No matter what, players are always overlooked. The hard work many of these players have already put in was just the beginning. It doesn't come easy for everyone and for some, it never will.
Here's to hoping that at least a better portion of those deserving get to realize their dreams. Unfortunately for many, their dreams are left up to others to fulfill.
Chris Hays is the Sentinel's recruiting coverage coordinator and can be reached at email@example.com. Follow us on Twitter at @Os_Recruiting and Facebook at Orlando Sentinel Recruiting and now on Pinterest at Orlando Recruiting.


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HOTSEAT- Roots music: Harris explores African beginnings
Mississippi To Mali was easily one of Corey Harris's most ambitious projects. The 2003 record was an outgrowth of his involvement in a Martin Scorsese documentary that featured the New Orleans-born blues guitarist collaborating with several top Malian musicians.
The project paired the slave music that has evolved into a quintessential American art form with the ancient musical traditions from which it came. Things didn't go so well at first.
"The record company actually originally didn't want to put it out, and it was quite a fight, because the sound quality wasn't up to their standards," says Harris. "I had to go back and clean up a lot of that noise. It's a field recording, recorded very inexpensively."
But the disc was subsequently released to widespread critical acclaim.
Although Mississippi To Mali came out several years ago and Harris followed it up last year with the decidedly more domestic Daily Bread– complete with full pre-production efforts, much to the label's relief– his reverence for traditional West African music isn't yet spent. Lately, his interest has been further stoked by the visit of Guinean guitarist Mohamed Kouyate, who arrived stateside in early March and began playing shows with Harris shortly thereafter. The duo will likely continue to perform until Kouyate's departure in late May.
"We've been doing a lot of jazz, a lot of reggae, and a lot of Malian traditional griot music, done in an electric way," says Harris. "When I first heard him, he had never been to Mississippi, but he could play Mississippi blues perfectly."
Naturally, they took a trip to the Delta. "What has been most interesting to me is seeing his reaction to the history of America and the history of Charlottesville," says Harris. "I was surprised about the things that he did and did not know about the history of black people in America– slavery and segregation and so on."
Harris describes taking Kouyate to visit the storefront on which Emmett Till was standing when he whistled at a white woman, leading to his brutal lynching by white murderers whose subsequent acquittal sparked the national civil rights movement in the 1960s.
That event still weighs heavily on Harris's mind, even though the trip is over. "Even Charlottesville is a plantation town," Harris says. "People don't talk about it; they really like to revere one side of it– Thomas Jefferson and all that– but they have yet to deal with who really built this town."
Harris and Kouyate's joint performance at the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar late last month briefly opened a window into the interchange, with Harris dedicating a song to recently deceased Malian guitarist Ali Farka Toure while Kouyate zipped around his own fretboard with slick jazz licks copped from George Benson.
Harris won't take credit for that one. "I'm really along for the ride," he says.
Age: I am 37.
Why here? Sent by Jah
What's worst about living here? Widespread denial of Charlottesville's true history (slavery, Jim Crow)
Favorite hangout? Home
Most overrated virtue? That I look "just like" Scotty, Whit, Bif, Darrell, or Abba
People would be surprised to know? I renovate houses for sale (check out 807 Orangedale Ave.).
What would you change about yourself? Nothing
Proudest accomplishment? Working as a contributing writer for Living Blues magazine while the C-ville editor rejected my application and suggested I deliver papers for them instead
People find most annoying about you? That I know that I am not annoying
Whom do you admire? Walter Rodney
Favorite book? And the Truth Shall Set You Free (David Icke)
Subject that causes you to rant? Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, Andrew Jackson, George Washington, the flag, slavery, Trail of Tears, The War... don't get me started!
Biggest 21st century thrill? Impending oil crash (more bike riders)
Biggest 21st century creep-out? Impending oil crash (economic collapse)
What do you drive? Ford Van/Honda Accord
In your car CD player right now? Burning Spear
Next journey? Casablanca, Morocco (Gnawa Festival)
Most trouble you've ever gotten in? I didn't get caught!
Regret? New Orleans will never be the same.
Favorite comfort food? Coconut rice, spinach, curried channa
Always in your refrigerator? Fresh papaya and soy milk
Must-see TV? Tuned out
Favorite cartoon? Maus (Art Spiegelman)
Describe a perfect day: Read Psalm 68, practice guitar scales, take a long walk, cook an Italian meal, kick it with the kids
Walter Mitty fantasy? I don't know who he is....
Who'd play you in the movie? Dave Chappelle
Most embarrassing moment? Realizing my zipper was down for a whole gig
Best advice you ever got? Never give up.
Favorite bumper sticker? "If you can read this, thank a teacher"
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It's been awhile since I've done an update, but that's partly because I don't know how much there is to update. In the game not a ton has changed. I mean, some things have, but mostly things are the same. However, there are a few things that I'd like to say, and I figure this is as good a place as any to say them.
I Love My Guild
As I often tell the guild, this is something I don't think I say enough. So I'm going to just say it. I have the privilege to raid with a group of people that for the most part I genuinely enjoy spending time with. Maybe some of them stand in the fire more than I'd like, but as a whole there is no one in my guild that I just can't stand. And I believe that is a pretty rare thing.
Why am I telling you this?
Well, it's kind of two fold. Firstly, anytime I use my blog as a brain dump/stress relief/dear diary therapy I invariably get that one comment about how maybe I need a break, or need to find a different community for my raid time. I'm just going to put it out here: I don't. One of the reasons I started this blog was to get thing out of my head. To put my stress in a medium that isn't me screaming at my raid.
And you know what? It's worked. I'm a significantly calmer raid leader because I have a venue where I can dump my thoughts and stresses, and where I can get feedback (or commiserate) on the struggles that I may be facing. I'm pretty open about everything that happens, and I like that. So, I wanted to let people know that I really do love where I am and the people I am with.
The second reason I feel the need to share this is because of something that cropped up last week after I questioned if fights like heroic Rag were good game design, not because of the inherent difficulty of the mechanics, but because of the length and flow of the fight. There were some things said by people who don't know me, don't know the Rag fight, and don't know my guild. Borsk set people straight (which, honestly, overwhelmed me), but I want people to hear it from me.
Maybe we struggle with standing in the fire from time to time, but we are no stranger to hard work. Our guild history shows that. Our progression record shows this. And it's something I'm damn damn proud of being a part of; not everyone finds a community that they love, and I feel lucky that I have.
So, I'm going to say it again: I love my guild.
On Progression
We are still working heroic Rag (somewhere around 360 pulls). We are so close that I can all but feel the room getting colder as Rag is extinguished. Last night we had our next breakthrough – we managed to down a meteor (and more than once!). We had a new low on the fight (26%). And our delugers were kicking some serious ass. We are almost there, and even though I question if this fight was well made and placed well in this expansion, I am going to feel so proud when he finally goes down.
I won't lie, I've probably felt like ringing 2/3 of my raid's neck at some point and time, for a variety of reasons, during this push. But in the end, as we are staring down the home stretch, I'm proud of the team. And I'm going to be even more proud when we finish. And honestly, that's not something anyone can take away.
Almost. There.
On Alts
I'm still putzing along with my alts. I haven't pushed any new ones to 85, but I've been doing my weekly alt run with my current 85's. I almost didn't even put in a section about my alts, but I had a funny story that I now anted to share. You see, this week on the 25 alt run, we had a little bit of trouble with Staghelm. In fact, it took us like 5 pulls to get the kill. As we approached Rag I was pretty open with the raid.
"I've been wiping on this fight for the past 7 weeks. I really don't have a lot of patience for more wiping on it. If we could focus, and not screw up, it would be appreciated".
And we one shot it. I don't know if it was the fact that people were seriously worried I was going to crack, if it was the 5 moonkins in the raid, or if it was good placement on the engulfing flames. Whatever it was, we mercifully finished it out in one pull, and everyone in the raid had a good laugh that we one shot Rag and fell all over ourselves on Staghelm . Made my night!
On Other Games
I'm still (slowly) working my way through Diablo II. I'm really enjoying the gameplay, and find myself looking forward to D3. Additionally, my copy of the original Diablo arrived. I've not installed it yet, but I'm looking forward to the old schooled goodness that it promises to bring 🙂
On Reading
I finished the new J D Robb book. It was really good. However, that means that I've started A Feast for Crows. I went into this book knowing that a lot of people didn't like it. So I tried really hard to have an open mind, so that I could judge for myself. And you know what? I'm really enjoying it"!
I don't mind that there are new characters. I don't mind that he totally cliffhanger'd the end of Storm of Swords. I still feel immersed in the world. I still feel that the story has momentum. And I find that I'm still excited when I have time to read.
Maybe I'll feel differently as I get further into the story, but for now I'm still really enjoying it 🙂
On New Toys
I bought an iPad this weekend. I've been looking at it for awhile, but never wanted to make the commitment to purchasing one. The final breaking point for me was a conference that i needed to attend this week. I didn't want to take my (very large) gaming laptop that I traveled with, so I was considering purchasing a netbook. Just something small that I could easily carry around and remained connected.
As I was talking it out with Brade, we ultimately decided that an iPad would probably be the better option for me, as I wanted one anyways. Yes, it was significantly more expensive than a net book, but in the end, I was probably going to buy an iPad anyhow. So we decided to just cut to the chase and go with what I really wanted anyhow.
Today is the first day that I've really gotten to utilize it, and so far I'm in love. But I'd love to hear if anyone has any app or accessory suggestions!
How about you? How was your week? Reading anything good? Get any new toys? Playing any interesting games?


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This homemade costume for men entered our 2011 Halloween Costume Contest.
A word from Jesse, the 'Hills Creeper' costume creator:
Jesse Pringle is wearing the Hills Creeper costume. The idea for the costume was from the movie, Hills Have Eyes. Custom fitted contact lenses, self applied makeup, and glued on human hair. The bloody overalls and shirt were purchased at a second hand store. The entire costume excluding contacts priced at $20.


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McClendon wins challenge on transfer rule
Hamilton irked by error after catch call on Hart's drive is overturned
SEATTLE -- Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon is officially 1-for-1 in challenging calls under Major League Baseball's expanded instant replay rules after successfully contesting an out call during Tuesday night's 5-3 win over the Angels at Safeco Field.
With Seattle up, 4-3, with one out in the fifth inning and Justin Smoak on second base, Corey Hart lined an offering from Angels reliever Michael Kohn into left field.
Josh Hamilton backtracked a few steps and appeared at first to make the catch, but the baseball fell to the ground when he moved his glove toward his throwing hand. Third-base umpire Seth Buckminster initially signaled Hart out, ruling the drop came on the transfer.
McClendon emerged from the dugout and initiated a challenge. After a two-minute, 51-second review, the call was overturned and Hamilton was charged with an error. Smoak remained at second base, and Hart took first.
However, the Mariners couldn't take advantage. The next batter, Kyle Seager, walked to load the bases, before Stefen Romero popped out to shortstop and Dustin Ackley flied out to left to end the inning.
After the game, Hamilton was still upset, pointing to the fact he always flips the baseball into his throwing hand instead of reaching in his glove and grabbing it.
"That's terrible," Hamilton said. "You can see the replay. I catch the ball, I come down, then I come back and I'm looking to see what's going on."
The ruling dealt with another rule variation this year regarding "secured possession."
Rangers manager Ron Washington on Monday was not successful in challenging a safe call when his fielder, shortstop Elvis Andrus, similarly dropped a ball while moving the ball to his throwing hand. Expecting an out call on the transfer like baseball has seen in years past, Washington asked for clarification from the league postgame.
On Tuesday, MLB officials issued the following explanation to the Dallas Morning News:
"Umpires and/or replay officials must consider whether the fielder had secured possession of the ball but dropped it during the act of the catch. An example of a catch that would not count is if a fielder loses possession of the ball during the transfer before the ball was secured by his throwing hand."


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(by Associated Press at NY Post) SLOVYANSK, Ukraine – Ukraine is launching a "large-scale anti-terrorist operation" to resist attacks by armed pro-Russian forces, Ukraine's President Oleksandr Turchynov said on Sunday in a televised address.
The authorities in Kiev will use the army in order to prevent Russian troops from moving in as they did in Crimea, Turchynov said as he pledged amnesty to anyone laying down arms by Monday morning.
"The [Ukrainian] Security Council has made a decision to begin a large-scale anti-terrorist operation with participation of army forces," he said. "We're not going to allow Russia to repeat the Crimean scenario in Ukraine's east."
Ukrainian special forces exchanged gunfire with a pro-Russia militia in an eastern city Sunday morning, with at least one security officer killed and five others wounded. It was the first reported gunbattle in eastern Ukraine, where armed pro-Russia men have seized a number of government buildings in recent days.
Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has described such attacks as "Russian aggression." He said in a Facebook post Sunday that special forces of up to 12,000 people will be drawn from volunteers in their local areas in a bid to resist attacks from pro-Russian forces.
Russia's Foreign Ministry was quick to dismiss Turchynov's decree as "criminal" and accused Ukrainian officials of using radical neo-Nazi forces.
Turchynov said a Security Service captain was killed and two colonels wounded in a gunbattle outside Slovyansk, where the police station and the Security Service office were seized a day earlier. …
Unrest has spread to several municipalities in eastern Ukraine, including the major industrial city of Donetsk, which has a large Russian-speaking population.
Donetsk was also the support base for Viktor Yanukovych, the Ukrainian president ousted in February following months of protests in Kiev, the capital, that were ignited by his decision to back away from closer relations with the European Union and turn toward Russia. Ethnic Russians in Ukraine's east widely fear that the new pro-Western Ukrainian government will suppress them.
The regional administration in Donetsk issued a statement, confirming one dead and saying nine were wounded. It did not identify them, but said one person was shot outside Slovyansk.
Ukraine's Foreign Ministry issued a statement late Sunday afternoon accusing "the Russian special service and saboteurs" of fomenting unrest and pledging to present "concrete evidence" of Russia's involvement at the Ukraine summit in Geneva on Thursday.
Ukrainian lawmaker Oleh Lyashko said Sunday afternoon that Ukrainian forces in Slovyansk had managed to take control of the city hall, the Security Service's branch and the police station in Slovyansk. This could not be immediately verified.
Earlier in the day, the police station was surrounded by a reinforced line of barricades, but unlike on Saturday the men patrolling were largely unarmed. On the main road into the city, a checkpoint was guarded by armed camouflaged men.
In a phone call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry "expressed strong concern" that the attacks "were orchestrated and synchronized [by Russia], similar to previous attacks in eastern Ukraine and Crimea," according the State Department.
The Russian Foreign Ministry denied Kerry's claims, while Lavrov blamed the crisis in Ukraine on the failure of the Kiev government "to take into account the legitimate needs and interests of the Russian and Russian-speaking population," the ministry said. Lavrov also warned that Russia may pull out of the Ukraine summit if Kiev uses force against "residents of the southeast who were driven to despair."
Two rival rallies in another regional capital in eastern Ukraine, Kharkiv, turned violent. At the end of both rallies, a group of pro-Russian protesters followed several pro-Ukrainian activists, beating them with bats and sticks, Interfax Ukraine reported. A video on Espresso TV showed one activist with blood on his head and hands waiting for paramedics on the steps of the underground passage. Several men and women came up to him and started kicking him.
Interfax quoted Kharkiv authorities saying that 10 people were injured at the rallies.
In Slovyansk, the mayor said Saturday the men who seized the police station were demanding a referendum on autonomy and possible annexation by Russia. Protesters in other eastern cities have made similar demands after a referendum in Crimea last month in which voters opted to split off from Ukraine, leading to annexation by Russia.
The interior minister also reported an attack on a police station in the nearby city of Kramatorsk. A video from local news website Kramatorsk .info showed a group of camouflaged men armed with automatic weapons storming the building. The news website also reported that supporters of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic have occupied the administration building, built a barricade with tires around it and put a Russian flag nearby.
Regional news website OstroV said three key administrative buildings have been seized in another city in the area, Enakiyeve. In Mariupol, a city south of Donetsk on the Azov Sea and just 30 miles away from the Russian border, the city hall was seized by armed masked men. Local news website 0629 .com .ua said 1,000 protesters were building a barricade around it while unknown armed men raised the Russian flag over the building.
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J.R. Smith scores 36 but can't hit shot to win it as Knicks fall to Thunder
J.R. Smith seemed as if he couldn't miss for the first three quarters of the game and had the Knicks -- without Carmelo Anthony -- on the verge of an upset of the Oklahoma City Thunder.
But although Smith scored a season-high 36 points, he misfired twice in the closing seconds. On his last try, a turnaround, step-back jumper over Russell Westbrook, Smith shot long with 1.8 seconds left and the Thunder escaped the Garden last night with a 95-94 victory.
"I just tried to get the ball to go in no matter what," Smith said. "I really had the whole middle and didn't really have that much room on the baseline. I feel the left side is my best side and I feel more comfortable with it."
Smith has been successful from that spot this season and in similar situations. He hit buzzer-beating game-winning jumpers from the left side in Charlotte and Phoenix. But it didn't fall this time, spoiling what would have been a terrific night for him and the Knicks.
They battled without Anthony, who missed his second consecutive game with a sore/stiff right knee that Mike Woodson said has some fluid in it. Woodson said Anthony is day-to-day. The Knicks' next game is Saturday night against Utah.
After Kevin Durant missed a jumper with nine seconds left, the Knicks called timeout and drew up a play. Woodson designed it for Smith to create. But Woodson wasn't happy with how the Knicks ran it or the shot Smith took.
"We got the movement, but it was so sluggish the way we got into it," Woodson said. "We didn't fire off of it like we should have. I was trying to get guys to go in a different direction. The play was for J.R. But once he actually caught it, he looked up at the clock and when he caught it and faced, he could have just gone with it because everybody was plugged into their guys.
"He could have ripped through it and went to the rim. But he didn't and settled for the jump shot. He's made a couple of those here in the past that have won games for us going that way.
"It was a hell of a game. They played their hearts out and played one of the best teams in the league.''
Smith also missed a potential go-ahead three-pointer with 32 seconds left.
This loss stung the Knicks (37-22) because they had the defending Western Conference champs on the ropes. The Knicks ended the third quarter on a 21-10 run and led 81-75 on a night the Thunder (45-16) wasn't at its best.
But the Knicks missed having their closer, Anthony, in the fourth quarter. They made only four field goals in the quarter, the last one a layup by Raymond Felton with 2:58 left. They didn't score in the final 1:50 after two free throws by Amar'e Stoudemire put them up 94-93.
"We just didn't make a shot," Stoudemire said. "It boils down to that. We played great defensively. We made the stops that we needed. We just didn't follow through."
Durant finished with a quiet 34 points, eight rebounds, six assists and seven turnovers. He scored 12 in the fourth, including two foul shots with 1:38 left that were the final points of the game. Westbrook had 21 points, but just six in the final three quarters.
Stoudemire, who led the Knicks to wins in the previous two games, missed 10 of his first 12 shots and finished with 16 points and eight rebounds. Felton also had 16 points.
Smith was on fire in the middle two quarters, scoring 18 points in the second to lead the Knicks back from 10 down and adding 13 in the third.
He shot 14-for-29 overall (6-for-13 from outside the arc) but was 2-for-9 in the fourth.
"That's a great team and we were a man down," Smith said. "If we play with that type of effort and intensity, it's going to be tough for a lot of teams to beat us."


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DETROIT – Kia showed off a dramatic and aggressive concept car Monday at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
The car is the GT4 Stinger and everything about it screams performance. Under the hood of the low and wide body is a 2-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine good for a hefty 315 horsepower.
Inside, the car is more about performance than luxury. While there's no carpeting, there is plenty of aluminum and the pillars around the windshield are transparent to give the driver a better view of what's ahead.
Kia executives say they have no plans to bring the car to production, but it was a fun styling exercise.
"It's a totally selfish design. The design team at KCDA is full of gearheads and enthusiasts, and the GT4 Stinger is the perfect car for that kind of crowd," said Tom Kearns, the chief designer at Kia Design Center America.


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Cardinal Dolan Offers Pro-Life, Pro-Liberty Prayer at Democratic Convention
The archbishop of New York's prayer was similar to the one he prayed at the Republican National Convention. However, his prayer at the Democratic gathering was more explicit about the need to defend life.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan's final benediction at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night called for blessings on the delegates, asked God for the "courage" to defend life and prayed for the renewal of "a profound respect for religious liberty."
"Bless all here present and all across this great land who work hard for the day when a greater portion of your justice, and a more ample measure of your care for the poor and suffering, may prevail in these United States," the archbishop of New York said Sept. 6. "Help us to see that a society's greatness is found above all in the respect it shows for the weakest and neediest among us."
At the close of a convention where many speakers had stressed support for legalized abortion, the cardinal prayed that God bless "those waiting to be born," as well as the sick and the elderly.
Cardinal Dolan also touched on the controversy caused by the Obama administration issuing a rule that will require many Catholic institutions and secular businesses to pay for health plans that cover contraception, sterilization and abortion-causing drug, regardless of their beliefs.
In his prayer, the cardinal called respect for religious liberty "the first, most cherished freedom bequeathed upon us at our founding."
He also prayed for guidance for President Obama, Vice President Joseph Biden, Congress, the Supreme Court and President Obama's Republican political rivals.
"Make them all worthy to serve you by serving our country," he said. "Help them remember that the only just government is the government that serves its citizens rather than itself."
He thanked God for life and liberty, saying happiness is found "only in respecting the laws of nature and of nature's God." He asked God for help in resisting the temptations to "replace the moral law with idols" or to "remake those institutions you have given us for the nurturing of life and community," an apparent reference to attempts aimed at redefining marriage.
Cardinal Dolan asked God to remember those who are not free, those who are poor, unemployed, needy, sick or alone, as well as those who are persecuted for their religion or are suffering war.
"And most of all, God almighty, we thank you for the great gift of our beloved country," the cardinal said.
The benediction was largely similar to the cardinal's prayer at the close of the Republican National Convention in Tampa Aug. 30. However, his prayer at the Democratic gathering was more explicit about the need to defend life.
His prayer at the Republican gathering referenced immigration in alluding to "families that have come recently ... to build a better future, while weaving their lives into the rich tapestry of America." He prayed for "all those who seek honest labor" and thanked God for the "spirit of generosity to those in need."
Both prayers asked God to make those in public office worthy to serve their country and stressed the need for a government that "serves its citizens rather than itself."


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Description: Now that I have that sunrise uploaded finally, I will move onto something a bit different. How long has it been since I submitted a lesson on a different dinosaur species? A long while, that's how long. Anyway, this next tutorial has been sitting in my folder for exactly one week. I didn't submit it because I wasn't in the mood to write out a description about another dinosaur species. To tell you the truth, I'm still not feeling like it today either. Nonetheless, I still have to do my job which means you will now get a lesson, on "how to draw a spinosaurus", step by step. For those of you that have questions about this dinosaur species, I will try and be as specific and helpful as possible. For one, these creatures are given the name "spinosaurus", because of their numerous spines that they have on their backs. This large meat eating lizard lived during the Cretaceous period, which was around ninety six million years ago. Most of their remains or fossils have been found in the surroundings of Africa. The spines that these dinosaurs had on their backs, was about six feet long, and it also looked like a boat sail. Some researchers believe that the fin like shell, was used in mating rituals, and also as a defensive mechanism. It is also believed that the raised sail like spin, was also used as a heating or cooling temperature gauge, if you will. If this species was to get into a fight with another carnivore, the spinal fin would act as a shield so that a lethal or deadly bite to it's body can be prevented or blocked. Like the T-Rex, and Velociraptor, the spinosaurus was also a bipedal standing creature with small arm limbs. How big was this beast anyway? Well, it's reported that this animal was about fifty feet long, and weighed around four to eight tons. The spinosaurus comes from the family "spinosaurid", and amongst it's other relatives, it's considered to be the biggest out of the family. This dinosaur is also seen in Jurassic Park III when it tries to munch on the people inside of the crashed airplane. What about the dinosaurs teeth? The teeth of a spinosaurus, was very large, sharp, and long. The species fed on large ocean fish, and other dinosaurs like the sauropod, which is another breed of a long necked dinosaur. Anyway, ever since I watched Jurassic Park III, I have been a fan of this amazing lizard. I do believe that you will have fun learning "how to draw a spinosaurus", step by step. The awesome thing about this lesson, is how easy it's going to be to tackle. When you're done, you should submit your work, so everyone else can have a glance at what you have created. Well, adios amigos, and be sure to come back real soon to join me for another fun filled tutorial.