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Nation-Building was founded by Aziz Poonawalla in August 2002 under the name Dean Nation. Dean Nation was the very first weblog devoted to a presidential candidate, Howard Dean, and became the vanguard of the Dean netroot phenomenon, raising over $40,000 for the Dean campaign, pioneering the use of Meetup, and enjoying the attention of the campaign itself, with Joe Trippi a regular reader (and sometime commentor). Howard Dean himself even left a comment once. Dean Nation was a group weblog effort and counts among its alumni many of the progressive blogsphere's leading talent including Jerome Armstrong, Matthew Yglesias, and Ezra Klein. After the election in 2004, the blog refocused onto the theme of "purple politics", formally changing its name to Nation-Building in June 2006. The primary focus of the blog is on articulating purple-state policy at home and pragmatic liberal interventionism abroad.


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Joshua Freed, The Associated Press, November 19, 2013
United Airlines said that it will cut costs, overhaul its website, and shift flying from Asia to Europe as it aims to keep shareholders happy.
An airline spokeswoman said the plan, announced in a presentation to investors, does not include furloughs.
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United says it is aiming to burn less fuel, make workers more productive, and improve its maintenance processes. It has been working with its mechanics' union to revamp which maintenance jobs are done by the 2,000 workers at its San Francisco maintenance center, said Greg Hart, who runs the airline's technical operations.
United said it will overhaul its United.com website in phases starting next year.
The airline has been struggling to run smoothly and produce consistent profits since merging with Continental in 2010.
S&P Capital IQ analyst Jim Corridore wrote in a note that he's "very positive" on United's goals, but the airline hasn't consistently executed its plans. "We would like to see some traction on these plans," he wrote.
United is also adjusting where it flies. In March it will stop flying between Seattle and Tokyo under intense pressure from Delta Air Lines Inc. United will instead add a second daily flight to Tokyo from its biggest hub, Houston.
United partner All Nippon Airways still flies Seattle-Tokyo.
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Delta is United's archrival on Asia flying. It has two daily flights from Seattle to Tokyo, including a recently-added flight to Haneda airport, which is popular with business travelers because it is closer to Tokyo's downtown.
United is also dropping some flights within Asia, including Tokyo-to-Bangkok, and using a smaller plane for Tokyo-to-Seoul. It will still connect passengers on those routes through partner ANA.
Those planes that had been used in Asia will be shifted to new flights from Houston to Munich, and new seasonal flying from Washington to Madrid and Chicago to Edinburgh, Scotland.
United expects to boost overall 2014 flying capacity by 1 percent to 2 percent.
Investors have been watching for United to catch up with Delta in providing reliable profits.
So far this year United posted a first-quarter loss, then two quarterly profits. It's expected to break even during the fourth quarter. Delta has been profitable all year, and is expected to be in the fourth quarter, too.
United said it will begin returning cash to shareholders by 2015. The company didn't say how, but returning cash typically involves paying a dividend or buying back shares. Delta reinstated a dividend in September.
Shares of Chicago-based United Continental Holdings Inc. rose $1.81, or 5 percent, to $38.19 in morning trading. The stock is up 28 percent over the past three months.

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Wall Street wants Facebook to find a new source of aggressive growth, and the social network appears to have done just that – with ads that follow you from site to site and remember you for lengthy periods of time.
Facebook publicly launched its Facebook Exchange ad-bidding network less than three months ago and has been testing it only since June. But the system is already shaking up the ad business, say partners who have been on the exchange since the beginning, delivering a huge volume of users with a strong propensity to click on ads and helping advertisers follow those users for longer periods of time than is possible under competing systems. In the process Facebook is giving Google, long the undisputed leader in the so-called "retargeting business," a run for its money.
"It's huge," says Zach Coelius, whose ad-bidding company Triggit today announced it raised a $7.4 million series B round led by Spark Capital and Foundry Group at what Coelius describes as a "significant step up" in the company's valuation. "We literally have been growing exponentially since FBX launched. We've grown more than 300 percent both in the size of the community and the revenue the company is doing."
The success of Facebook Exchange appears to already be helping to lift Facebook stock, even though the social network has been careful not to publicly discuss the exchange's performance. Facebook shares rose 8 percent after upgrades from BTIG Research and from Carlos Kirjner, the Sanford Bernstein analyst who distinguished himself by setting an early, accurately bearish price target on Facebook. "The early success of Facebook's mobile monetization efforts and of the Facebook Exchange has changed our view," Kirjner wrote, raising his price target on Facebook shares to $33 from $23. (The stock is trading at $26 today.)
'Facebook is finding more people one week from the retail visit than DoubleClick; it has lasting effects for the industry.' —Josh McFarland
CEO, TellApartAs recently as last month, Wall Street was still trying to make heads or tails of Facebook Exchange. In an Oct. 23 quarterly earnings call with the company, a JP Morgan analyst asked about early results from the exchange, and whether they might help offset declines in desktop U.S. Facebook usage. COO Sheryl Sandberg answered only that it was "really early" and that the exchange was still a small portion of revenue.
But it's growing fast, partners say. And Wall Street isn't the only sector keenly interested in that growth. Advertising retargeters, who follow web surfers as they travel away from shopping and other sites, say Facebook Exchange is breathing new life into the business of putting ads in front of the users the retargeters stalk. It's also opening a new range of possibilities, letting the retargeters point their ads at users over a longer period of time and in a new context where they are more likely to notice the ad.
"Nine months ago, it seemed patently clear to me as a longtime participant in this industry that [Google's] DoubleClick was just running away with the opportunities; they were just leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else," says Josh McFarland, CEO of ad targeting company TellApart. "There was no other game in town, and then suddenly Facebook came on the scene and then literally in about three months became an exchange that is almost as powerful and almost as highly performing as the oldest, best ad exchange out there, which is DoubleClick."
TellApart's business is to help e-tailers like Drugstore.com and Diapers.com bid in real time to reach former and would-be customers on other sites. Six months ago, Facebook received none of that business; now it's getting 20 percent.
McFarland, who spent five years at Google managing various ad platforms, thinks that's partly because Facebook has an edge in its ability to identify users over time, thanks to the cookies set by Facebook.com. Because users visit Facebook directly and frequently, McFarland says, its cookies are treated more benevolently in many browsers than those set by doubleclick.net, the domain Google's ad exchange uses and one that no ordinary person would want to visit directly.
"As soon as you're one week away from the last time we saw that person on a retailer's site, Facebook is finding more of those people than DoubleClick; it's really interesting and I think it has lasting effects for the industry," McFarland says. "Over time, Facebook actually does a better job of maintaining consistency with those users."
Facebook could not be reached for comment on its cookies.
Ad retargeters also like Facebook Exchange because users are more engaged with the ads served there. Retargeted ads in general are already more relevant and clicked on by users, since they "know" about some of your previous web surfing. This relevance helps take the edge off a retargeted ad's inherent creepiness. On Facebook, retargeters say, clickthrough rates are further amplified, because the site is relatively conservative in the number of ads it shows and because users there tend to be more open to being distracted.
"On Facebook your ad is always above the fold," says Adam Berke, president of the retargeting platform AdRoll. "There aren't accidental clicks and things like that; users are used to where the ads are. We've been impressed by the quality of the audience. If someone clicks, they are likely to complete the action that you were hoping for."
Berke said the exchange has been "huge for us," opening up a "massive" new audience.
Despite the promising growth spurt, there are worries about how sustainable the growth of Facebook Exchange will be. Bernstein's Kirjner, for example, says the exchange is handicapped by shrinking use of Facebook on the desktop in the U.S. On mobile devices, it's harder to follow and retarget users as they routinely switch from browser to apps and back again, and from one device to another. Kirjner also raised regulatory concerns about Facebook Exchange; Google was slapped with a $22.5 million fine over its ad exchange practices.
No one is accusing Facebook of the sort of shenanigans that got Google in trouble in that case. And debates over mobile use patterns in America don't change the fact that Facebook Exchange is seeing more and more business from overseas. Coelius plans to use his new capital to open offices in Asia and Europe. "Literally every day we're signing new customers overseas," he says. Whether it's by luring international advertisers, helping e-tailers follow their users onto Facebook, or connecting users, it seems Facebook is always intent on making the world a smaller place.
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Kerala lawmaker faces flak over boat race visuals
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 2 (IANS) Popular Malayalam film actress Swetha Menon Saturday said let "visuals speak" after TV channels showed a lawmaker trying to cosy up to her during a boat race. The parliamentarian has denied the charge.
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 2 (IANS) Popular Malayalam film actress Swetha Menon Saturday said let "visuals speak" after TV channels showed a lawmaker trying to cosy up to her during a boat race. The parliamentarian has denied the charge.
Menon stopped short of naming the politician.
"I have not denied the incident. Your visuals in the news itself clearly show what happened and I am sure it has happened.
"Let the visuals speak...I could have reacted instantly but since I am not interested in creating news, I did not," said Menon while answering a reporter's question whether the politician was Kollam Lok Sabha member and Congress leader Peethamabara Kurup.
Kurup told reporters that he has been in public life for several decades. "I am not such a character and very soon I will come out with all the pictures," said Kurup, a first time Lok Sabha member.
The alleged incident took place Friday evening while Menon was one of the guests of honour at a boat race in Kollam.
TV visuals show Kurup on more than one occasion getting close to the actress.
Women activists cutting across political affiliations condemned the incident and demanded action against the lawmaker.
Former CPI-M legislator and Democratic Mahila Association state secretary K.K. Shylaja said that this is a shame.
"The visuals speak the truth and authorities should start initiating action against him," said Shylaja.
CPI-M central committee member P.K.Sreemathi described it as a blot on Kerala and "the need of the hour is state Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan should immediately direct police for action to be taken".
Lissy Jose, state womens' commission member, said her personal opinion is that a case should be registered against the person who did this.
Menon has not yet made any official complaint.
Congress leader Bindu Krishna said that Kurup is known to be a very caring person and "what I am told is that there are more pictures and once that also comes out, it would be clear what has happened".
"A detailed probe will reveal everything and at the same time we are not discounting Menon's statements," said Krishna.
Actors body AMMA is expected to discuss this issue shortly and her future course of action would depend on the outcome of the meeting.
Leader of opposition V.S.Achuthanandan said what happened to Menon is most shameful.
"We have the recent law that has been passed in the parliament and it states that the victim's response is only needed for action to be taken. She is reported to have told the Kollam district collector after the incident happened and so far no action has be taken. All are waiting to see what the government under Oommen Chandy is going to do," Achuthanandan told reporters at a hurriedly called press conference here Saturday.
However Chandy kept mum when reporters asked him about the incident.
Kollam district collector B. Mohan said that he has not received any complaint.


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It is our goal here at Born on Third to educate Cubs fans on the talent that sits at the minor league level. With the way that Theo Epstein has molded this franchise it's clear that the goal is to have as much talent as possible come from the draft and the farm system. Wouldn't you hate to be that one person that has no idea who just got called up to the Cubs? It makes you look stupid, so don't look stupid, and learn about the future of the Chicago Cubs here. Today we feature Kevin Rhoderick.
Kevin Rhoderick , or "K-Rod" is a 23-year-old right-handed pitcher from Scottsdale, Arizona. Rhoderick was originally drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 18th round of the 2007 MLB June Amateur Draft from Horizon HS (Scottsdale, AZ). Rhoderick was a stand out at Horizon High for head coach Eric Kisler as he was a three-time all region member and earned all-state honors twice. Kevin's senior year was a special one as he was named an All-American as he led his Horizon team to the State Championship where they won it all. Instead of signing with the Tigers Rhoderick decided to go play baseball for Oregon State University.
K-Rod made an immediate impact as a Beaver as he was named to the NCBWA Freshman All-American first team, the Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American team, the Baseball America Freshman All-American Second team, and received All-Pac-10 honorable mention, not bad for a Freshman. Rhoderick didn't have the same success he had as a Freshman during his Sophomore season, although he did have strong conference numbers. Kevin recaptured the magic during his junior year as he once again received All-Pac-1o honorable mention while going 2-2 with a 3.13 ERA with four saves. After his Junior year the Cubs selected Kevin in the 9th round of the 2010 MLB June Amateur draft.
On April 8, 2011 Rhoderick made his Chicago Cubs professional debut out of the bullpen for the Daytona Cubs. Rhoderick was stellar out of the pen for the D-Cubs as he tossed 14.1 innings giving up only two earned runs on seven hits. He was missing bats as well as he registered 19 strike outs over those 14.1 innings. The Cubs were also impressed with his performance as they promoted Rhoderick to the Double-A Tennessee Smokies at the beginning of May. The Smokies got much of the same results from Rhoderick as the D-Cubs were enjoying, although Kevin struggled just a bit. This was to be expected as he was only one month into his professional career and already pitching at Double-A. Rhoderick's biggest issue was command, as he walked 37 guys in 57 innings of work. That was the only issue for K-Rod as he finished the season at Tennessee with a 7-0 record and a 3.47 ERA. I'm not sure Kevin knows what it feels like to get hit hard, as he only allowed 38 hits in those 57 innings of work. The final numbers for K-Rod for 2011 were a record of 9-0 with a 3.03 ERA, with 77 strikeouts in 77.1 innings, and he only allowed a total of 45 hits. After the season baseball america awarded Rhoderick with the "Best Slider" in the system award.
Kevin started this year in Tennessee, and is still currently pitching for Tennessee in Double-A, but if he continues pitching the way he has he might have a spot in the Iowa Cubs bullpen or even the Chicago Cubs bullpen by September. Un-hittable might be an understatement when describing Rhoderick's 2012 season so far. In 25.2 innings he has only given up two earned runs on 13 hits, he has a 0.70 ERA, and has seven saves. Beyond impressive right now, what's more impressive is he seems to be cutting down on the walks as he has only walked 12 guys so far this year compared to 24 strike outs. In those 25.2 innings he has only given up one home run, in fact over his entire professional career to date (97 innings) he has only given up four home runs, four! That is a valuable stat for a late inning guy, when he comes in you don't have to worry about the long ball.
I'm really excited to see Kevin's progress this year as I think he has a great shot to help this organization and very soon too. One of the Cubs biggest weaknesses is organizational pitching depth, and the bullpen has struggled this year as well. This could be the perfect opportunity for Rhoderick to really get noticed by Cubs brass if he hasn't already.
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There's no question that the East Side will be getting shafted—it's just a question of where and for how long.
The Department of Environmental Protection, along with the Department of Design and Construction, is currently scoping out sites for the location of Shaft 33B, the latest infrastructure project for the long-awaited Water Tunnel No. 3, the 50-year, $6 billion project to update the city's water system. But residents in the East 50's are alarmed that the excavation, tentatively planned for the northwest corner of First Avenue and 59th Street, will disrupt their lives for the years it takes to complete the project.
Community Board 6, in response to these worries, passed a resolution last Wednesday that objected to the selection of any location for Shaft 33B by the D.E.P. "without a consolidated presentation of both the proposed location of 33B and the complete routing plans of the associated water mains … and full community participation in the decision of the routing of those mains."
At a public hearing on Dec. 5 at the High School of Art and Design, nearly a thousand people packed the auditorium to oppose the D.E.P. plan, and the board's resolution is another salvo in the ongoing contretemps that threatens to disrupt the project. At the heart of the matter isn't so much the location of the shaft (although some people are opposed to that), but rather the location of the water mains that will connect the shaft to Water Tunnel No. 3 under Third Avenue.
The D.E.P. is responsible for the location, design and construction of both the water tunnel and Shaft 33B, but the D.D.C. is responsible for the water mains that will connect the two—and that's where the problems begin. Once the D.E.P. makes a decision where the shaft will be excavated, then the D.D.C. will decide where the water mains should run. And in Manhattan, ripping up the streets to install those water mains will have an enormously detrimental impact on the neighborhood involved, project opponents say.
"We're opposed to it because they will not tell us the water-main route," said Linda Saputelli, the chair of the East 50's Neighborhood Coalition. According to Ms. Saputelli, the site for the water shaft shouldn't be finalized until the D.D.C. makes public exactly where the water mains will run, how long the construction will last and how the neighborhood will be affected. Ms. Saputelli said that if work on Shaft 33B is approved, the water-mains component of the project will be a fait accompli, without any public oversight of a project that could adversely affect the neighborhood for years to come.
State Assemblyman Jonathan Bing has been working with the East 50's Neighborhood Coalition to demand answers from the D.E.P. and the D.D.C. "Right now, the big issue is trying to make sure the entire project—both the water shaft and the water main—are viewed as one project," Mr. Bing told The Observer.
According to the D.E.P., excavation of Shaft 33B could begin as early as the spring of next year and would continue until 2010. Construction of the water mains would begin concurrently and continue after the shaft is completed, finishing up sometime in 2011.
The D.E.P. has released a draft version of the environmental-impact statement for Shaft 33B, and comments were accepted until Dec. 22. The department will now finalize the environmental-impact statement, and responses to comments will be incorporated into the final document.
Ms. Saputelli told The Observer that she is currently contacting elected officials with her group's concerns to force the D.E.P. and the D.D.C. to open up their selection process for water-main routes. A lawsuit to stop the project is possible, Ms. Saputelli said, if the city continues with the project without community input.
And she has support. "If the D.E.P. does not adequately provide information to the community about why this site has been chosen and why other sites weren't chosen—and, more specifically, how the water shaft is going to be connected to the main water tunnel—certainly I would support efforts to gather that information, up to and including a lawsuit," Assemblyman Bing said.
Calls to the D.D.C. were referred to the D.E.P. Ian Michaels, a spokesman for the D.E.P., said: "We've been very open to the with the community and Community Board 6. We're not concealing any information from them …. We've done more outreach on this site than any other shaft site related to Water Tunnel No. 3."
Downtown Barhoppers Beware
In its ongoing battle to curb bar noise and the proliferation of nightclubs within its district, Community Board 3, on Dec. 20, passed a resolution supporting Assemblywoman Deborah Glick's Dec. 12 letter to Governor George Pataki requesting that the recently vacated commissioner's position in the State Liquor Authority be filled by a New York City resident.
In November 2005, S.L.A. chairman Edward F. Kelly announced his retirement after a decade with the authority, shortly after State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer began an investigation into pricing practices in the state liquor industry. A week before, Mr. Pataki had announced the creation of a chief executive post with the S.L.A. to run its day-to-day operations.
A spokesperson for the Governor wouldn't comment on the selection of the new commissioner, saying only that "the Governor always looks for the most qualified and capable individuals when making appointments." Joshua Toas, a former Assistant Secretary of State and Assistant Counsel to the Governor (and frequent contributor to Mr. Pataki's campaign fund), was appointed to the chief executive position of the S.L.A. shortly after it was created.
Critics of the S.L.A. have long said that the authority ignores community input when granting new liquor licenses in New York City, especially in the bar-saturated neighborhoods of the East and West Village and Chelsea. The three neighborhoods have the greatest number of liquor licenses in the city (3,055, 1,866 and 944, respectively), according to a 2005 report prepared by the office of then–City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz.
Because the commissioners of the S.L.A. all live outside the city, critics contend that the S.L.A. is unaware of the acute noise problems and disruption to the community that this proliferation of bars causes. Lately, Board 3 conducted a public hearing to discuss the feasibility of converting Avenue B into a one-way street. Proponents contend that the change would ameliorate traffic noise on the busy weekend nights, but others are concerned that it would irrevocably alter the character of the neighborhood. Other groups have called for a complete moratorium on new liquor licenses for certain neighborhoods in the city.
"We are looking for greater sensitivity from the S.L.A. regarding the impact of granting the large number of licenses in a concentrated area," Ms. Glick told The Observer. "I think that commissioners that infrequently visit the city—who may not come into some of the downtown areas—they may not have a full understanding of how many people live in the area, and in what proximity to these establishments they live."


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Tony Way (born Tony Paul Way on 7 October 1978) is a British actor. He is best known for his role as Dave in the film Ali G Indahouse.
Tony Way and several friends formed a comic collective while still in college in Wickford, Essex. They made several videos, one of which was seen by Charlie Higson, who was impressed enough to cast Way in an episode of The Fast Show. Way went on to appear in several comedy programmes, including Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), Black Books and Spaced. In film he has appeared in Finding Neverland and the American remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
In Game of Thrones, Way is playing the role of Ser Dontos Hollard. His casting was confirmed on 30 September 2011.[1] He joined the cast as a guest star in the second season.
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The Dodgers have changed Dominguez from optioned to the 15-day disabled list with a left quad strain.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers today selected the contract of right-handed reliever Carlos Marmol from Double-A Chattanooga and optioned right-hander Jose Dominguez to Triple-A Albuquerque. Marmol, 30, was acquired along with cash considerations from the Chicago Cubs on July 2 in exchange for right-hander Matt Guerrier. The Dodgers also acquired international signing bonus slot No. 92 valued at $209,700 from the Cubs as part of the deal.
Marmol, who will wear No. 49, has made five minor league appearances (0-0, one save, 3.60 ERA) since being acquired by Los Angeles, allowing two runs in three appearances with Single-A Rancho Cucamonga (3.0 IP) before being promoted to Double-A Chattanooga on July 18, where he tossed 2.0 hitless, scoreless innings. The native of the Dominican Republic last pitched on Sunday, striking out one and throwing 17 pitches (nine strikes) in a scoreless frame at Birmingham (White Sox).
Prior to being designated for assignment by the Cubs on June 25, Marmol was 2-4 with two saves and a 5.86 ERA in 31 relief appearances. In eight Major League seasons (all with Chicago), Marmol posted a 23-32 record with 117 saves and a 3.50 ERA in 483 games (13 starts). Since 2007, Marmol leads Major League relievers with 644 strikeouts, 117 more than his closest competitor (Jonathan Papelbon, 527), and ranks fourth with a .174 opponents' batting average. The 6-foot-2, 215-pounder was selected as a 2008 NL All-Star and has posted 20 or more saves in each of the last three seasons, including a career-high 38 saves (4th, NL) in 2010.
Dominguez posted a 2.16 ERA in 8.1 innings in nine relief appearances with Los Angeles in his first big league experience. Dominguez, 22, had his contract selected from Triple-A Albuquerque on June 29.
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Backyard Gardens: Seeds and Starters to Companion Plants and Wonder Bugs
With the effort you will put into creating the perfect environment for growing food, you will want to make sure you get quality seeds in order to grow the healthiest plants. The most coveted of seed varieties are heirloom or heritage seeds. These seeds are sourced from plants whose lineages have consistently produced fruits or vegetables with the fullest flavor and color, without being genetically engineered or modified. When buying seeds, don't be afraid to ask questions about them and their source. Honest people won't hesitate to share this information with you.
If you prefer starter plants to seeds, Mulberry Creek Organic Herb Farm on Bogart Road in Sandusky is the place to go. Not only do they have an enormous selection of organically certified herbs and miniature perennials but they have some of the most reasonable prices in the country for quality culinary, ornamental, medicinal and crafting plants. You can view their full catalog online to plan ahead or go and be pleasantly surprised at their seemingly endless selection. They offer profiles on each of their plants with information on growing and usage, including recipes.
Also consider saving the seed from year to year in order to pinch pennies from your annual garden budget. Here is an explanation about seed saving from the Rodale Institute.
Garden Planning: Companion Planting
Did you know that if you plant basil with your tomatoes, then you will end up with a bigger, juicier harvest? Or that if you border your garden with a variety of marigolds then you'll avoid the blight of many garden pests? There are methods to the madness of gardening, and companion planting is your ticket to successful crops without the use of chemicals. The Native American Indians understood companion planting even thousands of years ago. They grew the Three Sisters together, consisting of corn, beans and squash with great success. Even the Mayans passed down the socio-agronomic tradition of Milpa farming, which is the practice of a community-based planting of crops that are nutritionally and environmentally complementary. It is said that the "[building] of a milpa culture is the central, most sacred act, one which binds together the family, the community, the universe…[it] formed the core institution of Indian society in Mesoamerica and its traditional religious and social importance often appear to exceed its nutritional and economic importance." A deep lesson can be learned from naturally-occuring symbiotic relationships.
One of the best explanation resources we found is The Rodale Institute's Companion Planting Made Easy guide. Here is an excerpt from the experts to explain the concept:
In the simplest terms, companion planting is the technique of combining two plants for a particular purpose. If your crops are regularly attacked by insects, you can use companions to hide, repel, or trap pests. Other companions provide food and shelter to attract and protect beneficial insects. And some plants grow well together just because they don't compete for light or rooting space. Expanding the diversity of your garden plantings and incorporating plants with particularly useful characteristics are both part of successful companion planting.
Creating Diversity
In contrast to the wide diversity of natural systems—like forests and prairies—our gardens and farms tend to contain neat, identical plantings of just a few different plant species. These large groups of similar plants, called monocultures, are prime targets for insect and disease attack. Increasing the diversity of your garden plantings is a natural and effective way to avoid a monoculture and minimize pest and disease problems. Technically, adding diversity could be as simple as increasing the number of different plants in your garden. Sounds simple—until you realize that you have a limited amount of room in your garden, which is taken up by your favorite crops. But, if you create a planned diversity, you can still have good (or even better) yields from the same amount of space. For instance, instead of growing the same vegetable cultivars in thesame beds every year, try changing their positions each year, or at least try different cultivars. To get even more diversity, try open-pollinated seeds instead of hybrids. The plants from open-pollinated seed are all just a little different genetically, so even if pests or diseases attack some of the plants, the rest of the crop may be spared. An easy and pleasant way to add diversity to the vegetable garden is to add flowering plants. Mix annual flowers and herbs in the beds or rows of vegetables, or create permanent beds nearby for perennials and bulbs. Besides looking good, flowers provide a source of food and shelter for spiders and beneficial insects that eat or parasitize plant pests.
Enriching the Soil
All plants withdraw some nutrients from the soil as they grow, but some actually return more nutrients than they consume. Legumes—plants like peas, beans, and clover—have a mutually beneficial relationship with nitrogen-fixing rhizobium bacteria. These bacteria colonize legume roots, absorbing up to 20 percent of the sugars the plants produce. The bacteria use this energy to capture atmospheric nitrogen (nitrogen gas) and convert it into nitrogen compounds that plants can use. Some of this nitrogen goes directly back to the host plant. Another part of the nitrogen trapped by the rhizobium bacteria is released into the soil as the nodule-bearing roots die off and decompose. This nitrogen is available during the season to boost the growth of any companion plants growing nearby. The big bonus comes when you turn the foliage and roots of the legumes into the soil. When they decay, they can release enough nitrogen to feed the next crop you grow.
Repelling Pest Insects
A key part of creating effective crop combinations is using the natural abilities of the plant to attract, confuse, or deter insects. Some plants produce repellent or toxic compounds that chase pests away or stop them from feeding. In other cases, the aromatic compounds released by plants can mask the scent of companion crops. Summer savory, for example, may help hide your bush beans from pests, while tansy is said to repel Colorado potato beetles from a potato planting. Garlic releases deterrent aromas into the air that may chase away insects such as bean beetles and potato bugs. Mint may keep cabbage loopers off cabbage plants, while basil can discourage tomato hornworms on tomatoes. Try pungent plants as an edging around garden beds, or mix them in among your crops. Or, if you can't grow the repellents close enough to your crops, try spreading clippings of the scented plants over garden beds for the same effect.
Luring Pests from Crops
Some plants have an almost irresistible appeal for certain pests. Nasturtiums, for instance, are an excellent attractant plant because they're a favorite of aphids. Colorado potato beetles find black nightshade (Solanum nigrum) more alluring than even your best potato plants. Attractant plants can protect your crops in two ways. First, they act as decoys to lure pests away from your desirable crops. Second, they make it easier to control the pests since the insects are concentrated on a few plants. Once pests are "trapped," you can pull out the attractant plants (cover them with paper or plastic bags first, if the pests are small or fast-moving) and destroy them along with the pests, or apply some other type of control measure to the infested plants.
Sheltering Beneficial Insects
Not all insects are garden enemies. Many actually help your garden grow by eating or parasitizing plant pests. You can encourage these beneficial creatures to make a home in your garden by planting their favorite flowering plants. Growing dill, for example, can attract pesteating spiders, lacewings, and parasitic wasps, which will help control caterpillars on cabbage, beetles on cucumbers, and aphids on lettuce. Plants that produce large quantities of easily accessible pollen and nectar— like yarrow, fennel, and goldenrod— provide shelter and supplemental food for hungry beneficials.
Here are several other websites that give great companion plant lists. When selecting what must-haves that will be in your garden or food plot, look to see what else grows well with them as you plan your garden layout. Be sure to also look at what won't work well with what you've chosen.
National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
Garden Toad Companion Plant Guide
Within your garden, there should be many beneficial life forms working instinctively together to create a diverse ecosystem. However, if you do have a problem with a blight of any kind, we recommend some organically approved, perfectly legal integrated pest management tactics. The National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service offers advice on insect pests, weeds and plants diseases. Because the majority of plant problems thrive in degraded environments, an article at Thrifty Fun on organic pest control reiterates the point that a healthy garden begins with healthy soil.
Be wary of using petroleum-based chemical fertilizers and weed killers when getting space ready for your garden. Chemical applications can kill off the soil biology; altering the energy cycle with the chemicals being absorbed into your bloodstream, keeping you from benefiting from the essential vitamins and minerals that naturally occur in your fresh food.We encourage you to read Local Food Sandusky's article on Composting for more on soil health.
Flower Power and Wonder Bugs
Managing your garden for pest control not only cuts down on your workload, but it also reduces the amount of insecticides that you use in your garden. And fewer insecticides means more good bugs, which in turn means help in controlling bad bugs. By planting certain herbs and flowers near your food plants, you can keep insect and rodent pests from invading your garden while attracting native pollinators, like bees and butterflies, and garden guardians, such as ladybugs and praying mantis. We recommend some of these old reliable garden tricks:
- Marigolds – French marigolds repel whiteflies and kill bad nematodes. Mexican marigolds are said to offend a host of destructive insects and wild rabbits as well. If you choose marigolds for your garden they must be scented to work as a repellant. While this plant drives away many bad bugs, it also attracts spider mites and snails.
- Chrysanthemums – Also known as mums are beautiful flowers that can help control things like roaches, ticks, silverfish, lice, fleas, bedbugs, and ants in certain parts of your garden. White flowering chrysanthemums are said to drive away Japanese beetles.
- Nasturtiums – Plant with tomatoes and cucumbers as a way to fight off wooly aphids, whiteflies, squash bugs, and cucumber beetles. The flowers, especially the yellow blooming varieties, act as a trap for aphids.
- Petunias – These repel asparagus beetles, leafhoppers, a range of aphids, tomato worms, and a good many other pests.
- Sunflowers – These will draw aphids away from other plants and ants move their colonies onto sunflowers. The sunflowers are tough enough that they suffer no damage. Their big, beautiful blooms will attract plenty of pollinators to your garden.
- Hyssop – great for attracting honeybees to the garden
- Lavender – a favorite among many beneficial insects and also repels fleas and moths.
- Basil – Repels thrips, flies and mosquitoes. Plant basil along side tomatoes for larger, tastier tomatoes.
- Borage – Repels tomato hornworms and cabbage worms and attract beneficial bees and wasps. Borage also adds trace elements to the soil. This is an annual, but readily comes back each year from seed.
- Catnip – Repels just about everything, except for cats. Use it to keep away flea beetles, aphids, Japanese beetles, squash bugs, ants, and weevils. The cats it may attract will control the rodents that may eat your food plants. Use sachets of dried catnip to deter ants indoors.
- Dill – Attracts hoverflies and predatory wasps, and its foliage is used as food by swallowtail butterfly caterpillars. Tomato hornworms are also attracted to dill, so if you plant it at a distance, you can help draw these destructive insects away from your tomatoes. Dill also repels aphids and spider mites. Sprinkle dill leaves on squash plants to repel squash bugs. Dill is best planted with cucumbers and onions. During the cool season, try planting along with lettuce.
- Chives – Repel Japanese beetles and carrot rust flies. It has also been said that chives will help prevent apple scab when planted among apple trees.
- Garlic – Great taste and health benefits and when planted near roses, it repels aphids. It also deters codling moths, Japanese beetles, root maggots, snails, and carrot root fly.
Remember, lady bugs and praying mantis are signs of a healthy garden! Lady bugs, both adults and larvae, feed on aphids (plant lice/green bugs), but are also known to scavenge on wide variety of other pesky soft-bodied insects, mites & eggs. Each ladybug can consume as many as 5,000 aphids during their one year life span. For more information on how to attract lady bugs to your garden, visit here. Praying mantis will eat any bug of a size they can catch and are considered to be very beneficial to the organic gardener. Each year, tens of thousands of mantis egg cases are sold in some garden stores for this purpose.
Backyard Orchards
If your garden space can afford it, fruit trees may offer a better return on effort than anything in your garden. There are many different varieties of fruit trees that grow well in the climate of Northern Ohio. For example, one semi-dwarf apple tree, can produce up to 500 apples in a season, producing up to 15 to 20 years. If you plant several trees with different harvest times, you can eat freshly picked fruit for eight months out of the year.
Although in Ohio, we attribute our apple trees to the legend of Johnny Appleseed, the only native fruit to Ohio is that of the pawpaw tree. The fruit tastes like a combination of bananas and mangoes and grows well in most midwestern and northern states. Other fruit trees that grow well in our area (depending on variety and season) include apples, pears, tart cherries and European plums. Although they can be grown successfully, late spring frost tends to damage peaches, nectarines and apricots making them more challenging to grow.
The following fruit tree varieties are said to grow well together:
- peaches and nectarines
- apricots and pluots
- apricots and plums
For more general information on Backyard Orchards and other Ohio Fruits, check out the following links:
Ohio Master Gardeners: Ohio Fruit
Growing Fruit Trees is Earth Easy!
National Sustainable Agricultural Information Service: Backyard Orchards
For more information about Urban Agriculture and food options that will save you money, keep you healthy and build community, visit The Erie Wire and the websites of our partners. We would also recommend listening to Deconstructing Dinner, one of our most celebrated resources for local food security.
Written by The Erie Wire
February 3, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Posted in Urban Agriculture
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Composed in Spring
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Extempore on some commemorations of Thomson
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Farewell to the Highlands
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Frae the friends and land I love
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My Nanie, O
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News, lassies, news
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No Churchman am I
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O aye my wife she dang me
O bonie was yon rosy Brier
O can ye Labour Lea
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Of a the Airts the Wind can Blaw
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O Tibbie, I hae seen the day
Out over the Forth
O wat ye whas in yon town
O were I on Parnassus Hill
O were my love you lilac fair
O wert thou in the cauld blast
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Phillis the Fair
Phillis the Queen o the fair
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Poem on Sensibility
Poor Mailies Elegy
Poortith cauld and restless love
PrayerO Thou Dread Power
Pretty Peg, my dearie
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Rantin, Rovin Robin
Rattlin, Roarin Willie
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Saw ye Bonie Lesley
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Sic a Wife as Willie had
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Stay my Charmer
Steer her up and haud her gaun
Strathallans Lament
Such a parcel of Rogues in a Nation
Suppressed Stanzas of The Vision
Sweet Afton
Sweet Tibbie Dunbar
Sylvander to Clarinda
Talk of him thats Far Awa
Tam Glen
Tam o Shanter: A Tale
Tam Samsons Elegy
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The Authors Earnest Cry and Prayer
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The Banks o Doon (
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The Banks o Doon (
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The Banks of Nith
The Banks of the Devon
The Bannocks o Bear Meal
The Bard at Inverary
The Battle of Sherramuir
The Belles of Mauchline
The Birks of Aberfeldy
The Bonie Lad thats Far Awa
The Bonie Lass of Albany
The Bonie Moor-hen
The Bonie Wee Thing
The Bookworms
The Braes o Killiecrankie
The Braw Wooer
The Brigs of Ayr
The Calf
The Captains Lady
The Captive Ribband
The Cardin ot, the Spinning ot
The charming month of May
The Charms of Lovely Davies
The Chevaliers Lament
The Cooper o Cuddy
The Cotters Saturday Night
The Country Lass
The Day Returns
The Dean of Faculty: A new Ballad
The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie
The Deils awa wi the Exciseman
The Deuks dang oer my Daddie
The Dumfries Volunteers
The Epitaph on Captain Matthew Henderson
The Fête Champêtre
The Fall of the Leaf
The Farewell
The Farewell to the Brethren of St. Jamess Lodge, Tarbolton
The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm versified
The Five Carlins: An Election Ballad
The Flowery banks of Cree
The Gallant Weaver
The Gardener wi his Paidle
The Gowden Locks of Anna
The Henpecked Husband
The Highland Balou
The Highland Widows Lament
The Holy Fair
The Humble Petition of Bruar Water
The Inventory
Their groves o sweet myrtle
The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata
The Kirk of Scotlands Alarm: A Ballad
The Laddies dear sel
The Lad they ca Jumpin John
The Lament
The Lass o Ballochmyle
The Lass o Ecclefechan
The Lass of Cessnock Banks
The lass that made the bed to me
The last time I cam oer the Moor
The Libellers Self-reproof
The Lovely Lass o Inverness
The Lovers Morning Salute to his Mistress
The Mauchline Lady: A Fragment
The Minstel at Lincluden
Theniel Menzies Bonie Mary
The Ordination
The Ploughmans Life
The Poets Progress
The Posie
The Rantin Dog, the Daddie ot
Therell never be Peace till Jamie comes hame
The Rights of WomenSpoken by Miss Fontenelle
The Rigs o Barley
The Ronalds of the Bennals
The Slaves Lament
The Soldiers Return: A Ballad
The Solemn League and Covenant
The Song of Death
The Tarbolton Lasses
The Tear-dropWae is my heart
The Twa Dogs
The Twa Herds; or, The Holy Tulyie
The Vision
The weary Pund o Tow
The Whistle: A Ballad
The Winter it is Past
The Winter of Life
The Wounded Hare
The Young Highland Rover
Thine am I, my faithful Fair
Third Epistle to J. Lapraik
This is no my ain lassie
Thou Fair Eliza
Thou Gloomy December
Thou hast left me ever, jamie
To Alex. Cunningham, Esq., Writer, Edinburgh
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To a Mountain Daisy
To a Mouse
To Daunton Me
To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, recommending a Boy
To John Kennedy, Dumfries House
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Willie Chalmers
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Yonder pomp of costly fashion
Yon Wild Mossy Mountains
Young Jamie, pride of a the plain
Young Jockie was the Blythest Lad
Young Peggy Blooms
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Walter Koenig, Mike Grell, Bill Sienkiewicz, David Mack, Phil Jimenez Panels, Costume Contests Also On Tap For October 22-23 At Greater Columbus Convention Center
NEW YORK and COLUMBUS, Ohio, September 13, 2011 – Wizard World (WIZD.PK) Mid-Ohio Comic Con today announced its huge programming schedule, featuring unique celebrity Q&A's, film screenings and discussions, artist schools, contests and more for the event, set for Saturday and Sunday, October 22-23 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. Sessions featuring Billy Dee Williams, James Marsters, Claudia Christian, Adam West and Burt Ward are among the highlight attractions.
Some of the top sessions include:
- Q&A sessions with the legendary Billy Dee Williams (STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, BATMAN), James Marsters ("Buffy: The Vampire Slayer," "Caprica"), Claudia Christian ("Look," "Babylon 5"), Walter Koenig ("Star Trek," "Babylon 5")
- Original 1966 "Batman" TV show reunion of Adam West and Burt Ward
- Wizard Art School and Q&A's featuring leading creators like Mike Grell, Bill Sienkiewicz, David Mack, Phil Jimenez and others
- Screenings of the "Family Guy: Blue Harvest," the acclaimed parody of STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE, and the first episode of the final season of "Buffy: The Vampire Slayer"
- The popular adult costume contest and fun kids costume contest with great prizes
Unless noted, Mid-Ohio Comic Con programming will take place in the designated panel room at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, and is included with admission to the event. Seating for panels is strictly limited and available on a first come first serve basis and the room will be cleared between panels. The full schedule can be found at http://www.wizardworldcomiccon.com/programming-midohio.html and below:
Saturday 10/22
Breaking Into Comics With Pasqual Ferry And Phil Jimenez
Fan favorites Pasqual Ferry (Thor; Ultimate Fantastic Four) and Phil Jimenez (Amazing Spider-Man; Wonder Woman) team up to give out their tips on refining your art and pitching to publishers.
Billy Dee Williams Q&A
Lando lands at Mid-Ohio Comic Con! The coolest guy in the universe sits down to take fan questions about the blockbuster series that has taken the world by storm.
Family Guy Screening – "Blue Harvest"
Don't miss the Griffin clan in this hilarious parody of STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE, where America's favorite dysfunctional family puts their own spin on the greatest sci-fi saga in history. Let the laughs be with you. (Note: for mature audiences only – may contain adult references.)
To be announced
Claudia Christian Q&A
"Babylon 5" beauty Claudia Christian shares the secrets to her multi-faceted success, and previews a sneak peek of her new Showtime series "Look."
Batman Anniversary Q&A with Adam West and Burt Ward
The '60s Dynamic Duo teams for the 45th anniversary of the original hit show. Don't miss this one-of-a-kind Q&A, where Batman and Robin drop their masks and talk about their lady co-stars, the villains they faced and the wild nights after the show!
Storytelling With Michael Golden
No matter if you're a writer, artist or a reader of comics, come for this sit-down with one of the most renowned storytellers in the business, Michael Golden, as he tells you a few tricks of the trade that will help you no matter what type of story you tell or enjoy, in whatever medium. It's a rare opportunity to talk with the co-creator of X-Men Rogue, and groundbreaking penciler on such projects as Bucky O'Hare, The 'Nam, Micronauts, G.I. Joe, and much more.
Digital Art School With Greg Horn
Superstar Marvel and DC artist Greg Horn (Blackest Night covers) leads a discussion on the future of digital art, and takes you through his creative process in creating all of your favorite pieces.
Costume Contest
Get your best costume together and come on down to Wizard World's Mid-Ohio Comic Con costume contest for fun prizes and some of the craziest outfits you'll see during the weekend.
Sunday 10/23
James Marsters Q&A
Best known for his role as Spike – the platinum blonde vampire on hit shows "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel," – James Marsters answers questions about everything from his evolution from acting to music and back, and the projects he plans to conquer in the next few years.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Screening – "Lessons"
Don't miss this special screening of "Lessons" – the first episode of the final season of the hit show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" – which features Mid-Ohio Comic Con guests James Marsters as Spike, and Mark Metcalf as The Master.
Walter Koenig Q&A
Formerly known as Pavel Chekov from the original "Star Trek" series, Koenig beams into this Q&A where he'll answer all question from the Trekkies at Mid-Ohio Comic Con.
Mike Grell Q&A
The legendary comic icon behind classic Legion of Super-Heroes Tales and Warlord talks about his tips of the trade, and shares his secrets for making it in comics.
Kids Costume Contest
Bring kids 10 and under for this special event with fun prizes just for families and the youngsters.
Bill Sienkiewicz and David Mack Q&A
Legendary artists and long-time friends David Mack (Kabuki) and Bill Sienkiewicz (Batman: The Widening Gyre covers) unite for this insiders' look at their art processes, and give advice and their personal do's and don'ts of the trade to new creators interested in sequential storytelling.
About Wizard World:
Wizard World produces Comic Cons and pop culture conventions across North America that celebrate graphic novels, comic books, movies, TV shows, gaming, technology, toys and social networking. The events often feature celebrities from movies and TV, artists and writers, and events such as premieres, gaming tournaments, panels, and costume contests. Wizard World also produces Wizard World Digital, an online publication covering new and upcoming products and talents in the pop culture world, and is distributed on a weekly basis to online and iPad users worldwide.
The full event schedule can be found at www.wizardworld.com.
October 22-23 – Mid-Ohio Comic Con
November 11-13 – Austin Comic Con
January 28-29, 2012 – New Orleans Comic Con
March 24-25, 2012 – Toronto Comic Con


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Canucks' biggest issue not Cory Schneider or Roberto Luongo in wake of Game 3 loss
Another post-season opportunity has come and (almost) gone
Vancouver Canucks goalie Cory Schneider takes a water break during Sunday's 5-2 loss to the San Jose Sharks in Game 3 of their NHL Western Conference quarter-final series at HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif.
Photograph by: Christian Petersen , Getty Images
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Cory Schneider's "body injury" has healed. His other wounds, apparently not.
And worst of all, his goal-scoring drought continues.
Schneider, re-inserted as the starting goalie for Game 3 by coach Alain Vigneault for no other reason than because he thought it was the right thing to do, was lit up for three early third-period goals -- two of them by the amazing Logan Couture -- to seal the Vancouver Canucks' fate, both for the evening and for another abbreviated Stanley Cup playoff run.
Perhaps "run" isn't the right word.
Because, of course, they are done now. Down 3-0 in the series, with Game 4 here at HP Pavilion on Tuesday, they don't look remotely able -- certainly not mentally -- to handle what the San Jose Sharks are throwing at them.
The Sharks poured three quick ones past Schneider in the first five minutes of the third period to take a 5-1 lead, bringing Roberto Luongo off the bench in relief, but that was only a mercy hook on Vigneault's part.
The home side was carving up the Canucks' team defence with impunity, and Schneider, who had been terrific through two periods -- but as always in the playoffs, with negligible offensive support from his teammates to offset the two basically unstoppable Joe Pavelski goals that had got past him -- seemed to lose his focus and, shortly after, his stomach for the battle.
Couture's first goal from the deep left wing, five seconds before a penalty to Jannik Hansen would have expired, had no business going in.
"Just missed it. Just whiffed on it," said Schneider. "I wish I could give you a better explanation. It's not a good feeling to let your team down like that."
"That third goal, we almost had the penalty killed there, is probably one that Schneids would like to have back," said Vigneault, looking pretty despondent in defeat.
Patrick Marleau's third of the series, nine seconds later, after waltzing into the clear unmarked, beat him through the five-hole, and then Couture uncorked another wrist shot from an angle that most NHL goalies routinely eat up. Schneider didn't.
"I felt good to start. No excuses. You play in the playoffs, you gotta perform, you gotta execute. I didn't do it," he said. "I got caught leaning."
And so, another opportunity has come and (almost) gone for the Canucks, and for Schneider, who seems unable to get past questions about his cramping up in Game 6 of the Chicago series, two springtimes ago. The past doesn't seem to want to let go.
And now there's more of it, piling on.
What he did in the playoffs against the Los Angeles Kings last April, three terrific games in goal despite little run support, was not sufficient.
Taking the starting job from Luongo and leaving no doubt whatsoever, by this regular season's end, as to his ability to be the Canucks' future in goal, apparently hasn't yet wiped the slate clean.
Hence a question asked of him in the Canucks' room after Sunday's game-day skate — when he was declared fit to start Game 3 — about unattributed suggestions that he might not have the proper mental makeup to play the biggest games.
How's that for a kick to the solar plexus?
Schneider, a stand-up guy and articulate to boot, only hesitated for a second, but he must have felt as though he'd been hit by sniper fire.
"Right," said Schneider, his eyes flashing. "Sure — the injury just can't be an injury. You tell somebody you're hurt and they don't believe you. We don't view it as a distraction or speculate, that's your (media) job. I played last year in the playoffs and played in tough games, so I'm not sure where that would come from. It's not an issue."
The Canucks had other issues. Goaltending wasn't among them. At least, it wasn't until now. It wasn't before Schneider started Game 3, and it won't be next season, but Vigneault has a decision to make on Game 4.
Should Luongo have started, based on his work in the first two games? Maybe. Would it have mattered?
The Canucks have now scored a grand total of 17 goals in their last 13 playoff games, 11 of them losses. That is the issue.
It had to change, or they could kiss their season goodbye.
It didn't. They can.
The Canucks were feisty and willing Sunday, and as strong on the puck as it was possible to be while outweighed by as much as the Sharks outweigh them, but they rarely threatened to score a goal.
In fact, Alex Burrows' second-period knuckleball that the Sedin twins set up was such an isolated occurrence, it seemed to startle all the Sharks, including goalie Antti Niemi.
And the second one probably ought to have been blown dead for a slashing penalty on Derek Roy before he set up Dan Hamhuis. In any case, it was the kind of goal surrendered by a team, and let go by a referee, that knows the game is already over.
Schneider's selection to replace Luongo on Sunday was no more mysterious than anything else surrounding his injury, certainly no stranger than his practising three straight days before Game 1, declaring himself fine, then not even backing up when the series began.
"I felt like I could play (Game 1). But I took some time off and that seems to have helped," he had said at the morning skate, still coy about the exact nature of his injury. "Fortunately we had the luxury of a guy like Roberto here who made it so I wasn't pressed into action, and that's not something every team has — and I think Louie's probably been our best player in the first two games."
So good, in fact, that Schneider might easily have been left out, if not for the fact that their two home losses (now six of them in a row in the playoffs) seemed to require a shakeup.
A terse, tense Vigneault made the decision to play Schneider sound like a no-brainer.
"He's good to go," said the coach. "Cory lost the net to an injury and prior to that his play was real good. We were going to start with him in the playoffs."
Schneider's play, his four shutouts down the stretch, the calming influence he seemed to have on the team in front of him — which has occasionally looked jumpy trying to defend a late lead with Luongo in goal, as if it's expecting an ambush — was more than good.
So he came in for Luongo, exactly as he did a year ago, when the Canucks trailed the Kings 2-0 after a pair of home-ice losses. Both situations were fraught with desperation.
Just once, you'd think, Cory Schneider wouldn't mind coming into a series when the Canucks weren't completely backed into a corner.
But he's never had that luxury, and he didn't have it Sunday — and he certainly won't on Tuesday, even if Vigneault sticks with him.
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About the book: Crazy Dangerous By: Andrew Klavan
"You probably want to hear about Jennifer and the demons and how I played chicken with a freight train and-oh yeah-the weird murder . . . you're definitely going to want to hear about that."
Sam Hopkins is a good kid who has fallen in with a bad crowd. Hanging around with car thieves and thugs, Sam knows it's only a matter of time before he makes one bad decision too many and gets into real trouble.
But one day, Sam sees them harassing an eccentric schoolmate of his named Jennifer. When Sam finds the courage to face the bullies down, he loses a bad set of friends and acquires a very strange new one.
Because Jennifer is not just eccentric. To Sam, she seems downright crazy. She has terrifying hallucinations involving demons and the devil and death. And here's the really crazy part: Sam is beginning to suspect that these visions may actually be prophecies--prophecies of something terrible that's going to happen very soon. Unless he can stop it.
With no one to believe him, with no one to help him, Sam is now all alone in a race against time. Finding the truth before disaster strikes is going to be both crazy and very, very dangerous.
My Thoughts:
Crazy Dangerous is a youth adult mystery novel featuring demons and thugs. The book is about good vs. evil and it has a Christian theme. I connected with the main character Sam Hopkins because he is the preacher's child who is torn between living up to everyone expectations of how perfect he thinks he has to be. As a society, we tend to forget they are human just like anyone else. The book had a great lesson and storyline that I think teenagers and adults can relate to. Bullies and thugs are present and they try to lead Sam down the wrong path into becoming just like them. Sam wants desperately to fit in with the tougher kid's crowd and to be accepted, and little by little, he tells himself that he is in control of the situations. Most people tend to keep telling themselves they can stop and say no to peer pressure at any time. But the truth of the matter is we keep reasoning with ourselves and lying to ourselves and so normally we keep doing it. People at school change and start defining Sam by the people he starts to associate with. In life, we have to choose our friendships wisely or we run the risk of heading down a path that could possibly lead to trouble. This book shows the impact of making bad and good decisions and the consequences that we have to face. The book contains a brilliant message about judging others too quickly as if we know everything. Jennifer had visions and hallucinations about demons planning on doing something to harm and manslaughter many people's lives. But only one person believed her and that was Sam. Everyone judged her into being schizophrenic and claimed that she didn't know what she was talking about. A slogan for the book is "Do Right, Fear Nothing". I realized the importance of choosing and making the right choices, especially when I don't feel like it. I also have to face my fears and not fear the unknown. I immensely enjoyed reading Andrew Klavan's new book because it had an awesome exciting adventure plot that unfolds many lessons we must learn. This book is not only for teenagers, adults would benefit from reading it too. If you enjoy mystery and action overflowing novels then this book is for written for you! This book brought many lessons to life in my own life that I have to learn. I learnt to watch who I judge, don't associate with people who are doing to bring you down, always do the right thing, and don't let fear control you and stop you from living!
"I received this book for free from Litfuse Publicity Group/ Thomas Nelson for this review".
About Andrew Klavan:
Andrew Klavan was hailed by Stephen King as "the most original novelist of crime and suspense since Cornell Woolrich." He is the recipient of two Edgar Awards and the author of such bestsellers as True Crime and Don't Say a Word.
His books and screenplays have been turned into films directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Michael Douglas, Ed Burns, Michael Caine among others.
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November 16, 2012 - Compressus announced the integration of M*Modal's Speech Understanding technology with the MEDxConnect suite of healthcare interoperability and workflow solutions from Compressus. Specifically, the integration brings a next-generation speech platform to MEDxConnect users, providing flexible reporting capabilities and superior clinical documentation functions that increase productivity and produce cost savings for customers.
The unique interoperability solution provided by M*Modal and MEDxConnect was developed for initial installation at Outpatient Imaging Affiliates (OIA) in Franklin, Tenn., to meet the requirements of their progressive business model. As a result of this first phase of the implementation, OIA has been rapidly trending down in report turnaround time from 10 hours to less than two hours from the time the patient checks in to delivering the final report to the referring physician. The M*Modal-Compressus partnership has afforded OIA the opportunity to continue to stay competitive in the midst of the ongoing challenges in healthcare and imaging.
Hospitals and health systems continue to be faced with the challenge of increasing documentation requirements. The integration of M*Modal's Speech Understanding gives radiologists using the Compressus unified worklist a speech recognition tool that adapts to their workflow and offers many time-saving features that result in higher reporting throughput, better documentation, and enhanced profitability. Speech Understanding also automatically creates structured, encoded data in addition to electronic text, enabling many downstream uses and actions to be triggered such as documentation improvement alerts, critical test result alerts and more.
"Speech understanding technology is all about improving physician productivity, giving them a platform that's both intuitive and accurate in capturing clinical narratives," said M*Modal President Michael Finke. "M*Modal's expertise in speech recognition and cloud For technologies provides radiologists using Compressus solutions with incredible flexibility, accuracy and time savings in creating workflows and reporting."
Designed to improve physician productivity, reduce Enterprise expansion costs and improve patient care and safety, MEDxConnect offers a vendor-neutral way to address interoperability and workflow simultaneously, so physicians can access critical information and images from anywhere in the enterprise and act on them with unprecedented efficiency and ease of use. MEDxConnect serves as an information hub that facilitates the easy exchange of patient information between data acquisition, medical imaging and clinical systems. Compressus has expanded on its user preference approach and MEDxConnect's flexible, vendor-neutral platform allows users to connect third party systems as a plug in. For example, billing systems, voice recognition, peer review, and other third party services easily plug into the MEDxConnect Enterprise Service Bus through web services and other methods of connectivity.
"Optimizing workflow efficiencies in a comprehensive way demands the best technologies that are intelligently integrated," said Janine Broda, Chief Marketing Officer of Compressus. "M*Modal gives us not only the best speech and natural language understanding technology, but also strong skills in integration and partnering that we require."
The MEDxConnect System supports best of breed subspecialty solutions and worklist customization. Using a vendor-neutral, highly scalable architecture, healthcare providers in virtually any department or subspecialty can access all of the patient information they need to make accurate diagnoses, including medical records, images, lab results, medications and more - from anywhere in the Enterprise - using a single worklist. The worklist shows and sorts orders according to priority, modality and other search criteria, enabling users to customize workflow and improve efficiency. It includes all relevant patient and order information, such as electronic notes and scanned documents, as well as prior studies and reports for comparison. The solution also enables workload balancing, allocating studies among available physicians according to user-defined rules, such as body part, modality, exam status or time.
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The Bellator 94 card is complete with eight preliminary-card bouts ahead of three main-card fights that include two tournament finals.
Bellator 94's main event is a 155-pound Season 8 tournament final between Saad Awad (14-4 MMA, 2-1 BFC) and David Rickels (13-1 MMA, 7-1 BFC). The co-feature is the light heavyweight tournament's final between Emanuel Newton (20-7-1 MMA, 3-1 BFC) and Mikhail Zayats (21-6 MMA, 2-0 BFC).
Bellator 94 takes place March 28 at Sun Dome at the University of South Florida in Tampa. The main card airs on Spike TV following prelims on Spike.com.
Awad reached the finals on the strength of back-to-back quick first-round knockouts of Guillaume DeLorenzi (31 seconds) and heavy favorite Will Brooks (43 seconds) at Bellator 87 and 91, respectively. He comes into the finals with a six-fight win streak – all stoppages since his most recent loss, which came nearly two years ago for Strikeforce.
Rickels' path to the finals came courtesy of unanimous decision wins over Lloyd Woodard and Jason Fishcher, giving him three straight wins since the lone loss of his career, a split-decision setback against eventual tournament winner Karl Amoussou at Bellator 69.
Newton picked up a pair of stoppages in the opening round and semifinals to get his shot at the $100,000 total prize in the light heavyweight tourney. In the opening round, he submitted Atanas Djambazov in the second round. And at Bellator 90 this past month, he scored easily the upset of the year so far with a spinning backfist knockout of heavy favorite Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal.
Zayats also has back-to-back tournament stoppages. At Bellator 85, he shut down Renato "Babalu" Sobral with a first-round TKO with just 11 seconds left in the frame. And at Bellator 90, he forced Jacob Noe to tap to an armbar in the first round. Overall, he has seven straight wins in a little more than a year.
Also on the main card, Trey Houston (10-1 MMA, 1-1 BFC) will take on Luis Melo (28-11-3 MMA, 0-0 BFC) in a welterweight bout to open the Spike TV broadcast.
Among the highlights on the preliminary card are a pair of women's bouts between Heather Clark (5-3 MMA, 0-0 BFC)) and Felice Herrig (8-4 MMA, 2-0 BFC), plus Jessica Aguilar (14-4 MMA, 4-1 BFC) meets Patricia Vidonic (7-4 MMA, 0-1 BFC) in a rematch from a 2012 meeting that Aguilar won by unanimous decision.
The preliminary card also includes a featherweight fight between Shah Bobonis (15-8 MMA, 1-0 BFC)) and Joe Taimanglo (17-4-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC)); heavyweights Rob Horton (0-0 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Augusto Sakai (3-0 MMA, 0-0 BFC); Strikeforce and EliteXC veteran Edson Berto (16-10-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. DREAM vet Bruno Carvalho (8-2 MMA, 0-0 BFC) in a lightweight bout; Ivan Devalle (0-0 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Rory Shallcross (2-5 MMA, 0-0 BFC) at welterweight; 155-pounders Patrick Cenoble (9-2 MMA, 0-0 BFC) and UFC, WEC and Strikeforce vet Tony Fryklund (14-9 MMA, 0-0 BFC); and Kenny Moss (5-3 MMA, 0-1 BFC) vs. Julien Williams (3-1 MMA, 1-0 BFC) at 170 pounds.
The complete Bellator 94 card includes:
MAIN CARD (10 p.m. ET, Spike TV)
- Saad Awad vs. David Rickels – lightweight tournament finals
- Emanuel Newton vs. Mikhail Zayats – light heavyweight tournament finals
- Trey Houston vs. Luis Melo
PRELIMINARY CARD (8 p.m. ET, Spike.com)
- Shah Bobonis vs. Joe Taimanglo
- Heather Clark vs. Felice Herrig
- Jessica Aguilar vs. Patricia Vidonic
- Rob Horton vs. Augusto Sakai
- Edson Berto vs. Bruno Carvalho
- Ivan Devalle vs. Rory Shallcross
- Patrick Cenoble vs. Tony Fryklund
- Kenny Moss vs. Julien Williams
For more on Bellator 94, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.
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text: Edward Michael Freeman, born September 1955 in Dallas, Texas. Frequent sojourner in contemplative monasteries, occasional poet, singer, nurse practitioner, and fool for Christ. Usually self-identified with renegades and "sparse-"identity politics, often I do not know what I want in advance of entering a situation. But I find a way to improvise with others who show up at the same time. Even though I have many degrees to my name and a gaggle of titles, these sweet monuments are made of "...unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time" (Sonnet 55, Shakespeare). Nothing can compare with "the rhyme" of the Holy Trinity in the liturgy (allusion Son. 55); no career can substitute, and no gratification can deter this devotion. Raised Lutheran and Roman Catholic, and educated in a seminary, I have been received into my home in Orthodoxy as of 24 June 2007. The name that I received at the time of chrismation is Ioannis, for the Forerunner of the Lord Christ. This desire to enter Orthodoxy is paradoxical, because I often do not know what I want in advance, as I said above. Nevertheless, into every life a little paradox must fall. Call me "Ed," please; and visit (a site about) my patron and friend, St Edward the Martyr (Old English spelling "Eadweard"), at http://www.saintedwardbrotherhood.org/StEdwardMartyr.pdf.


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Harry Pearce
|About the Book
Conundrum is a mind-stretch. Encrypting idioms into their typographic equivalents, Harry enlivens our everyday language and challenges readers to see that time after time after time or, at least, more often than not the writing is on the wall. For fans of word puzzles, sudoku, crosswords, and all manner of mind games, Conundrum offers an artfully packaged, cleverly designed new challenge.Drawing upon, literally in this case, graphic puzzles that he began creating as a child, Harrys developed over 100 witty conundrums for this book that will stretch the mind as well as delight the senses. A member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale, a frequent lecturer and contributor to design discourse, an internationally recognized leader in design, and a founder of Lippa Pearce, one of the UKs most respected design agencies, Harry refines the way we see and communicate. Conundrum achieves nothing less than changing how we understand and interact with language.