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If you think back to the fall, I asked Eruptions readers to submit questions for Dr. Shan de Silva (right) from Oregon State University, who has been in the news for research at the inflating Uturuncu volcano (below) in Bolivia. He is also the resident volcanologist at Volcano World, a website I know many of us use regularly. Well, the answers are here! I offer a big "thank you" to Dr. de Silva for taking the time to tackle some of the great questions you all submitted.
Pieter: Is it true that certain volcanic areas go through 'caldera-forming phases'? A certain period of time in which volcanic activity is high and the caldera-forming eruptions are more common. For example, most of the calderas in the Rift Valley in Africa were formed during the late-Pleistocene, but ever since the Menengai eruption there hasn't been a caldera forming eruption that I know of.
Are so called 'supervolcanoes' regular strato/shield volcanoes before their first major eruption?
Dr. de Silva: These are great questions that deal with something very close to my heart which is the critical importance of heat delivery to a volcanic system. I am going to take these two questions together as they deal with similar issues.
The first issue is that not all calderas are the same. I am going to deal with andesitic to rhyolitic calderas (high silica content) that are formed through explosive volcanic processes and not basaltic calderas like Kilauea that are drainage calderas. Stratovolcanoes or composite cones (e.g. Crater Lake, Vesuvius) and shield volcanoes (Menengai, Newberry) tend to form calderas through collapse of the upper parts of their edifice and are typically quite small <10km in diameter. Larger 20 – 80 km calderas (Valles, Galan, Long Valley, Yellowstone, Toba, etc. getting into supervolcano territory here), form when the entire crust above the chamber collapses to form a depression. Any pre-existing composite cones or shield volcanoes would be swallowed up by this process.
Any individual volcano or volcanic system (temporally and spatially linked magma system) can wax and wane as a function of magma supply which is ultimately a function of the heat being delivered to the system. So small systems like Crater Lake or Vesuvius generally sputter along but then could have an explosive eruption that forms a caldera.
Supervolcanoes are cyclical as well. The key is the rate that heat and magma are delivered to the shallow magma chamber from which eruptions initiate. If heat delivery is too slow then large magma batches can't form because they would solidify after some time, but if heat is delivered rapidly then the magma stored in a chamber can remain "viable" (or eruptible) and grow – this is called the incubation rate. If the incubation rate is low (high heat flux) then each natch of magma does not have time to solidify before the next batch of magma arrives, keeping the system viable. A model that Patricia Gregg here at OSU is developing also shows that this incubation rate is important in keeping the rocks around the magma chamber warm thus allowing chambers to expland without breaking the rocks. So in both large and small systems formation of a viable batch of magma is critical and this is controlled by the rate of heat input (which is through magma delivery). So a caldera forming eruption could be seen as the final signal of increased heat (and magma) input into a volcanic system. This is cyclical.
In answer to your second question, there is a clear difference between composite cones and supervolcanoes in terms of the size of their eruptions. The largest eruptions from the former are <100 km3 while supervolcanoes are >1000 km3. Supervolcanic eruptions occur less frequently and their cycle times are longer – so maybe supervolcanoes are simply composite cone magma systems that simply grow bigger over time. This is not the case because, again the rate of heat delivery rears its ugly head. To grow a supervolcanic chamber requires a much higher (2 to 3 order of magnitude higher) rate of heat delivery to keep the growing volume of magma eruptible. An analogy would be how streams remain flowing in winter….small streams tend to freeze up, while faster flowing larger streams remain unfrozen – the flow rate or discharge is the key. I have dealt with where the heat comes from and why and how the heat flux might vary – that is another story (see later answer to George B). I am talking primarily about what needs to happen in the upper 10km of the crust.
So after that long winded explanation, getting back to your original question, yes, silicic and intermediate volcanoes can go through cycles of caldera forming activity if they are subject to changes in the rate that heat is delivered to the magma storage region. If not they are in what is known as a steady-state where they sputter along with small effusive and explosive eruptions. From my perspective supervolcanoes and composite cones or shields are different systems so they are generally unrelated. If of course the heat flux in a volcanic region changed by orders of magnitude you could technically switch from composite cones to supervolcanic systems, but this requires a major change in the plate geometry or crustal structure (see my later answer to George B).
If you had to put your money on any area, where would you guess for the next 'super-eruption' to occur? Money and intuition are never a good mix (at least in my case). If I were to speculate I would say that barring any major arrangement of plates any future supervolcanic eruption is most likely to happen where there has already been supervolcanism in the last 5 Ma. Next most likely is where there is active volcanism today, but only if there was some major change in the heat flux – that is why places Uturuncu are interesting. It is a composite cone sitting in the middle of all these supervolcanoes, and the deformation there suggests supervolcanic rates of magma/heat input.
Why do the Andes interest you so much compared to other volcanic areas? The Central Andean plateau is one of the most mindblowing landscapes on the planet. You feel like you are on another planet (we use it as analog for Mars) and everywhere you look are volcanoes and volcanic deposits! Millions of years of volcanic history are beautifully preserved waiting to be admired and deciphered. It is a high altitude desert and logistically quite challenging. It is relatively poorly studied, so it is something of an open book, few other groups work there, which has allowed us to really pick and choose some great projects out there. Every place you go to triggers enough questions to fill a lifetime of work for a volcanologist. It is rare to have such a wonderful natural laboratory available.
Alex: With regards to understanding and predicting the time and place of a volcanic eruption: If you could dream up a tool or instrument that currently does not exist, what type of data would you want to collect with that tool and why?
Dr. de Silva: We know a lot about magmatic systems and volcanic eruptions and we are learning more everyday, but there are more unknowns than there are knowns (do I hear Donald Rumsfeld?). The critical questions we still cannot answer today are where, when and how big an eruption will be. Dream instruments would be those that could really address these.
Where? – Some people might argue with me on this, but my point is that we are at the point where we can monitor activity at volcanoes once activity develops, but we are still surprised by some eruptions like Chaiten (above), because we don't have the resources to monitor every possible "volcano". So we are generally reactive rather than predictive or proactive. A global monitoring system would be great. In my mind this would have to be space based – a satellite system. Current systems exist that can detect thermal anomalies once they develop but are not really effective at prediction and are not really real time. Deformation can also be detected from satellites (interferometric synthetic aperture radar systems) but is not global and not real time and very dependant on a few masterly practitioners.
Once activity is detected then we are pretty good at monitoring it and even predicting the course of events to manage risk. The best example is the 1991 eruption of Pinatubo (there is an excellent NOVA production about this eruption). However, I would argue that we are still challenged to predict whether signals of unrest will lead to an eruption, the type of eruption, when that eruption will occur, and how big it will be. We can lean on past activity at a volcano to limit the probable range of type and size of future eruptions, but when and how big remain challenges.
How big? – Estimating this requires understanding of how much viable or eruptible magma is available. A dream (and I emphasize this, as it is not realistic with current knowledge) seismic tomography system like VIRGIL in the Discovery Channel movie Supervolcano would be amazing but would need to be portable and deployed at the volcanic hotspot.
When? – This is probably the toughest question. Even if we know how much eruptible magma is present, and we could characterize its state, when it might erupt requires knowledge of what might trigger the eruption. This at least requires knowledge of the pressure state of the magma, the evolution and distribution of that pressure and the response of the rocks surrounding the rock to that pressure distribution. All this very dynamic and dream instrument or suite of instruments would have to measure the key variable and integrate all this in real time. VIRGIL remains the closest fantasy instrument I can think of.
So in answer to your questions, a global system that can monitor the surface signals in real time would be a major step forward to identifying the next volcanic hotspot. Once the hotspot is identified we need portable VIRGIL's that can deployed rapidly and broadly to monitor and predict the impending eruption, tempered by a heavy. dose of real geological knowledge about previous activity. But as Jock Galvin in Supervolcano noted VIRGIL is nothing more than a "video game".
Mark T Burns: How difficult is it to get funding to study and monitor a volcano like Uturuncu?
Volcano monitoring is woefully underfunded. Beyond rare industry sponsored efforts in aviation impacts and geothermal energy, volcano monitoring (and funding) falls under three main funding models (maybe more, but these are the main ones I can think of).
1) International efforts where a few instruments and experts are deployed to a volcanic hotspot (hazardous volcano showing signs of elevated activity) – there is a US based and government funded like the USGS VDAP program. Other international efforts include political and socially challenged situations like Goma in the Congo that are developing but are not as mature.
2) National programs that have developed observatories and programs at hazardous volcanoes – government funded (Iceland, Italy, Japan, US, Indonesia, Philippines, West Indies, Chile etc).
3) Unless a volcano is deemed to be hazardous and threatening to a population or infrastructure there is little direct agency or government funding. So the third funding model is through academic research efforts. These projects range from "SWAT "teams of professors and students that rush out to the latest eruption volcano and do a smash and grab studies, long term multi-year studies of volcanoes like Erebus and Etna, or global remote sensing of volcanism, and occasional really interesting volcanic signals like Uturuncu.
Our funding for Uturuncu comes from the National Science Foundation as well as partner funding from the National Environmental Research Council of Britain. We had to compete over a period of two years to get our proposal accepted – success rate for proposal is about 25%
Is this a volcano that really needs to be scrutinized immediately or just be aware that it's here?
At present what we know is that there is anomalous activity here in an area that we thought was dead. That in itself is intrinsically interesting as actual signals of new activity are rare. The fact that the inferred rate of magma intrusion is as high as required for supervolcanic activity is really interesting as we may for the first time be catching a supervolcanic system in its infancy…or it could lead to nothing…or a small eruption. We just don't know. The data we will gather over the four years of this project will be a start and will give us a baseline to compare future data to. Where this will go we don't know, but this volcano should be continued to be monitored.
Why the wide range of date given for the last eruption?
One you get to a few hundred thousand years the precision of the age dating technique (40Ar-39Ar) starts degrading because the amount daughter isotope produced in such a short time is extremely small – more difficult to detect, signal to noise is very low. Additionally Uturuncu lavas do not contain the best minerals to use for the age dating technique. Finally the existing data is quite sparse…more ages allow better resolution. These three factors combine to give imprecise ages for the last eruptions from this volcano.
If you could set up an observatory at Uturuncu, what instruments would be a must have? Gas monitoring? Core samples? A mule?
If you added a distillery, microbrewery, a hot tub, and good sushi to all of the above and threw in VIRGIL (see above), I'd be a happy camper!
George B: Was there any change in the nature of the inflation after the fairly recent large earthquake in Chile?
Dr. de Silva: With respect to the 27th February 8.8 mag Maule earthquake, as far as I know no change in deformation has been detected, but Jennifer Jay and the Cornell team have reported in a recent article that seismicity increased: Jay, J.A. et al., 2011. Shallow seismicity, triggered seismicity, and ambient noise tomography at the long-dormant Uturuncu Volcano, Bolivia. Bulletin of Volcanology, in press. DOI:10.1007/s00445-011-0568-7
The seismicity is very shallow – near sea level and therefore much shallower than the inflation source. So it probably related to the changes in the hydrothermal system rather changes in any magma body.
I read recently that the volcanism around the area of Uturuncu changed about 1 million years ago and that the area stopped erupting. This would imply to me that there were fairly frequent eruptions in the area until about that time. Are there any ideas floating about which might explain what happened a million years ago that shut down what seems to have been a very active area?
Lots of ideas … I explain above that changes in the magnitude or intensity of volcanic activity can be related to the rate at which heat is delivered to the system. Between 10 and 1 Ma the region was characterized by many large caldera for "supervolcanic" eruptions and since then activity had settled down to steady state composite cone building activity along the chain of volcanoes that forms the crest of the Central Andes. This change signals the rate at which heat was being introduced into the crust changed about a million years ago.
What controls the heat influx into the crust? This is very complex, but I will give you the essence without delving too deeply into details – just the facts. Remember that the Andes and it's magmatism is part of the Ring of Fire produced by convergence of plates. At convergent margins there is a downgoing (subducting) plate and an overriding plate – in this case the downgoing Pacific or Nazca plate and the continent of South America. Heat is advected into the South American plate crust from the mantle in the form of magma primarily and the rate of magma (and therefore heat) being produced is controlled by the rate at which the mantle can melt. The rate at which the mantle melts is related to a variety of factors related to the volume of mantle under the crust that is primed and ready to melt and how that mantle can be induced to melt by causing it to rise (de-pressurising) or adding water to it. These factors are controlled by the geometry of the plates – the angular relationship between the downgoing (subducting) plate and the overriding continental plate. We believe between 10 and 1 Ma years ago the angle of the downgoing plate changed from shallow to steep and this resulted in a rapid increase in the rate at which the mantle was melted and heat was introduced into the crust – think of it as mantle moving upwards into the area opening up between the downgoing and the crust. As it moves upwards the mantle melts and so more heat is being introduced into the crust. Once the downgoing plate settled into its current configuration (steep) about 1 Ma, the flow of mantle ceased and no extra melting occured and a normal heat flux returned – the volcanism settled down to the steady state "dribble" or "sputter" seen today.
Peak VT: Do large emplacements of magma usually erupt? Or, if we cut off the top 10,000 feet of the Andes or a similar mountain range, would we find large blobs solidified magma all over the place?
Dr. de Silva: Ah, another favourite topic. I subscribe to the view that most large volcanic eruptions only erupt a relatively small portion of the entire magma chamber, but there is a lot of debate. The evidence that sways me is that there are strong spatial, temporal, chemical and geophysical similarities between volcanic systems and plutonic suggest that suggest they are complementary. Deeply eroded mountain belts cored by granitic rocks like the Sierra Nevada (above), and the Eastern Cordillera of the Central Andes probably had volcanoes sitting on top of them at one time but have been eroded away.
Angelo: So what happens if this is a supervolcano and it blows up?
Dr. de Silva: We are a long way from knowing what will happen. But "supereruption" scenarios are based on what we have inferred from other such eruptions. Remember we have never witnessed on of these event (thankfully). The Supervolcano movie, in my opinon does a credible job of presenting the impacts. Locally within 100 km, total devastation (but nothing much is there beyond a few small settlements), regional ash fall for 100's of kilometers north, south and west and 1000's of km east wreaks socioeconomic paralysis and rapid degeneration of life support and communications infrastructure (days to weeks). Multi-year scale agricultural impact and maybe hemispheric climate perturbation. Most of the impact would be in South America to the east of the volcano but ash in the atmosphere could impact hemispheric and global air traffic and airports. All this is speculation but based on what we know.
Jon Frimann: What are the chance of volcano like Uturuncu to erupt in near future, since it is a old volcano. Iceland has few of this old volcanoes, so it would give me some idea on how they behave when a volcano becomes this old.
Dr. de Silva: The short answer is that we simply don't know. As I said above just because you have a signal of magmatic activity does not mean there will be an eruption. The age of a volcano is not necessarily a guide for what might happen there. The devastating 1600 eruption of Huaynaputina occurred at the site of volcano that hadn't erupted in 5 million years! The Chaiten eruption of 2008 occurred in what was considered to be a dormant volcano for thousands of years. If the region is volcanically active then the potential for activity is always there and the location could be any previously active volcano.
Chris Reynolds: What are the odds of a VEI=7 or higher in the next two decades?
Estimating the probability of eruptions of different magnitudes is notoriously difficult to do. It depends on how complete our record of eruptions is and how good a sample we have to work with. A key issue is to know the repeatability of such eruptions through time. Once you get to VEI 7 the sample is extremely small and probabilities are fraught with error. This notwithstanding it is generally accepted that VEI 7 eruptions happen on a 1000 < or < 10,000 year time scale. The only historic VEI 7 we know of is the Tambora eruption of 1815 (although the size is debated). If we take that as the most recent, then the probability of a VEI 7 in the next two decades is vanishingly small. The probability of anything larger is not worth losing sleep over at the moment.
Is it possible to make man-made vents to dissipate or control lava flow especially in shield volcanoes?
Making man made vents to dissipate or control lava flow (presumably you mean from chamber to surface rather than lava flow on the surface which has been successfully done) is a popular remedy in the blogs and chatter world. Notwithstanding the accidental intersection in Hawaii (very special situation and lucky) it is not very practical and not a good idea to try and bleed off a pressurized magma chamber.
Matt Mabus: Is a lack of the erosional qualities one finds in the Central Oregon Cascades a help or a hindrance in the dating of Central Andean volcanics?
Dr. de Silva: The lack of deep dissection in general can limit going back in time, but allows the geology to be preserved intact. So there is a trade off – on the one hand you may get to sample older rocks inside the volcano, on the other you get a well preserved surface record with great morphological features. Fortunately, gravity and ice can reveal the interiors of some Central Andean volcanoes through sector collapses and glaciation.
Angie Shoaf: Which volcano in this region has given you your most memorable field trip, why, and what did you learn from it?
Dr. de Silva: All the field work in this region is memorable. Favourites will always be my first ever visit to the area in 1983, Sabancaya (Peru) eruptions in the early 1990's, Huaynaputina (Peru) in the mid to late 90's where the work was done with mules, working inside the big calderas like La Pacana and Galan. In the last 20 years or so the greatest pleasure has been taking students out to do their research in this remarkable area.
TG McCoy: What is considered a "super eruption" by a shield type system?
Dr. de Silva: The term supereruption is generally used for explosive eruptions which are of higher silica magma. Shield volcanoes are typically basaltic, low silica, and non explosive. However, volcanologist Stephen Self in particular argues that we should consider individual flood basalt eruptions, which can be multiple 1000's of km3 in volume, as supereruptions.
Of course this is a pure "earthling" perspective. On Jupiter's moon, Io, there maybe explosive eruptions of basalt of supervolcanic proportion. The Medusa Fossae Formation on Mars has been suggested to be ash flow tuffs, most likely basaltic. These would dwarf explosive eruptions on Earth.
GeoLurking: Is there a general upper and lower bounds that the magma 'chamber' forms for "Sortabig" volcanoes?
Dr. de Silva: If you mean is there a limit to dimensions of magma chambers…yes we think there is. At any given depth and shape of chamber there is a limit imposed by the strength of the roof above the magma chamber. As you grow the magma chamber it tends to grow laterally more than vertically. The roof will be progressively thinned – think of a growing bubble on the surface of a thick liquid. Eventually that roof will be extended to the point it would collapse under its own weight thus limiting the size of the magma chamber.
Does previous ring faulting tend to promote the piston effect?
Previous faults certainly may pre-condition where failure might occur whether it would be as organized as a piston or whether it would be more piecemeal would depend on the integrity of the roof.
Is the phenomena generally started from a periphery eruption and then progress/ramps up as the system depressurizes?
Yes, this is certainly one mode of failure. Supported by the evidence that the Long Valley caldera "unzipped" during the eruption of the Bishop Tuff, about 740,000 years ago.
Stefan: Regarding the triggers of supervolcanic eruptions: If such an inflated dome was present somewhere at this time, would we able to detect it? Would it be obvious?
Dr. de Silva: If we can deconvolve the "dome" from any regional topography and neotectonics and we can say definitively that the uplift is magmatic then we have a shot at this.
Jill D: Was any uplift noted prior to 20 years ago or was no equipment in place at that time? Do you expect this trend to continue?
Dr. de Silva: We do not know if the signal was there prior to 20 years ago as it was only recognised recently with InSAR. There is no data before then as far as I know. We have tried to use older lakes around Uturuncu to see if they record any tilt (they should be horizontal so any departure from horizontal should be the result of uplift) but those observations have been unsuccessful. It is not possible to predict if the trend will continue.
Me: How much of the inflation/deflation we see at volcanoes likely "business as usual" that we only now notice because we have the technology to do so?
Dr. de Silva: Clearly our ability to detect signals is improving over time. We don't have enough of a record to know what is "business as usual" but it is quite possible that all these signals are simply background. We need to define that background, so we can identify the anomalous signals.
What signs do you think we should expect if a volcanic system was headed towards a large (VEI 7+) eruption in the near future?
There is no silver bullet, but we have a toolbox we can use, and we would look for the usual suspects for now until our science . If it is a pre-existing volcano, clear evidence that the thermal structure under the volcano has changed, that magma is accumulating or has accumulated at appropriate rates, yery rapid inflation, other pre-eruption signs like changes in gas chemistry, seismicity, petrological indicators.
Why do you suppose that so many people have the impression that we're seeing more volcanic activity now than in other times in the Earth's past?
I would speculate that we humans are more numerous and more widely distributed and connected than before. Reports of volcanic activity are more efficiently available from a wider area of the planet and are seen by more people faster than ever before. This goes along with the trend for seismicity, number of reports of fireballs (a very interesting trend in the last 6 years) and UFO sightings.
Image 1: Uturuncu in Bolivia. Einalem/Flickr
Image 2: Chaiten erupting in 2008. Macha.cl/Flickr
Image 3: University Peak, California. Feverblue/Flickr
Image 4: Postcard showing an eruption of Sabancaya. Leonora Enking/Flickr
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When I first heard word of a new grey Nintendo World Championship cartridge being put up for auction on eBay, I didn't think much of it. True, the game is one of the rarest in existence, as it was given out only to 90 lucky winners of a nationwide contest in 1991. One only appears for sale publicly once every couple years or so. Other copies of the grey NWC cartridge have gone for over $10,000 at auction, placing it among the rarest and most valuable video games in existence.
Still, this version of the game is less collectible than the "holy grail" gold version (which was only given to 26 winners of a Nintendo Power contest), and the cart on offer is only in merely "acceptable" condition with a badly torn label. I figured that condition explained why the cartridge hadn't even seen a single bid at its $5,000 asking price when I first stumbled onto it earlier this week.
What a difference a few days makes. With about seven hours to go, the auction has now attracted over 300 bids and an current asking price of over $98,000. That obliterates the previous record price for the sale of a single video game, which was set
when a seemingly one-of-a-kind Legend of Zelda prototype cart sold for $55,000 in 2012 (Update: a sealed-in-box copy of Stadium Events actually set the new record when it sold for $75,000 a few months ago).
The meteoric bid price increase for this auction is more than a a little bit suspect at this point, considering it's currently going for more than five times as much as the record $18,000 record price for a rarer, gold NWC cart sold privately in 2010 (one that was in much better condition, it should be noted). The bidding history shows the first bid didn't come in until yesterday morning, and the semi-anonymized bidder tracking shows only a dozen or so potential buyers being responsible for the majority of the price increase, most of whom only have moderate eBay histories in video game bidding.
Previous video game auctions have been outbid to absurd prices by suspected shill bidders, and there is some suspicion that it is happening again with this auction. It would take some coordination to get such price inflation among many different bidders, though, and all of those bids are considered binding contracts by eBay (unless they're retracted at the last minute as sometimes happens).
Others are questioning the authenticity of the game on offer; it wouldn't be that hard to stick a reproduction cartridge in a new casing and slap a fake, "torn" label on there. The seller, for his part, says he acquired the game in 2004 or 2005 from a collector going by the handle DreamTR, and traces its lineage before that to a collector in Norway.
While it's not impossible that this auction has just been the subject of a bidding frenzy after attracting wide-ranging media coverage earlier in the week, some caution is warranted until the auction actually ends and a sale is actually confirmed. Still, the seller doesn't seem too concerned about the suspiciously high price his auction is getting. "As high as this is going, my guess is the buyer and I will have to do an escrowed check or involve banks wiring money," the seller writes. "Not sure Paypal is a secure enough method of transfer."


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Tony P. is a 33-year old accountant who lives in Washington State.
When did you first start having back pain? How often do you get back pain?
I was 26 (7 years ago) when I had my first experience with severe back pain. I herniated a disk in my lower back. Ever since, I have had severe back pain about every 2 years. I have moderate back pain more frequently, 3 - 4 times per year.
What were you doing the very first time you developed back pain?
As strange as this may sound, I was standing at the stove cooking an omelet. I fell to the floor from the pain. I assume that the real cause for the pain was 2 days of heavy yard work.
What treatments have you used?
After herniating my disk, I was prescribed Motrin and physical therapy. Physical therapy included electrical impulse therapy (unsure if this is the actual name -- 2 - 3 pads were adhered to my lower back, which were attached to a device that sent a mild electrical current) and stretching/strengthening exercises.
What has not been effective?
Applying heat has never been effective for me.
What makes your back pain worse?
Heavy lifting like shoveling snow, repetitive motions like raking leaves, and running and jumping on hard surfaces, like playing basketball.
What makes your back pain better?
To treat my back pain, Motrin and ice packs work best. To prevent back pain, I exercise and stretch. Also, my back feels better in the morning if I have slept on my back or side versus my stomach.
Have you had to take time off work?
Yes, I was out of work for 2 weeks when I herniated my disk.
How much work have you missed altogether?
I have missed 2 - 3 weeks in the past 7 years. As mentioned above, 2 weeks when I herniated my disk and a day or two every couple years.
What do you do at work to make it better?
Taking Motrin and using ice packs at work. I also purchased a cushion specifically for lower back support, which makes my back feel better.
Have your employers been accommodating if your pain affects work and work affects your pain?
Work has been supportive when I have needed to take time off. My work doesn't seem to bring on back pain. I generally sit working at a computer for most of the day.
Do you exercise? How often?
I exercise sporadically. I will exercise regularly (3x per wk) for 2 - 3 months and then due to work, other life events, or lack of motivation, I will not exercise for a few months.
What types of exercises do you do?
In the past few years, I have focused on cardiovascular training (low impact - stairmaster and elliptical machine) and very limited strength training. My only strength training is focused on abdominals.
Does exercise help?
Yes, low impact exercise and stretching seems to help most.
What happens with your back if you don't exercise?
My back generally feels stiff and achy when I don't exercise. I move a bit slower in the morning. I don't feel my age -- I feel older.
Do you have any advice for other people with back pain?
Exercise regularly, know the catalysts of your back pain, and pay attention to some of your body's early warning signals. I have become fairly astute at knowing what activities will cause me back pain, as well as some of the early signals of on-coming severe back pain. Taking preventive actions such as exercising regularly, applying ice for the times that I have gone too far, and a day or two of rest may prevent a week or two weeks of severe, incapacitating pain.
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From the Fleet: Commissioners Unfit for Service
'From the Fleet' is intended to allow individuals and organizations the opportunity to express their opinions on commercial fishing-related issues and concerns. The views expressed herein are the opinions of the author, and do not reflect nor represent those of Fishermen's News staff and/or any related constituents.
Hobe Kytr sent a letter to members of the Senate Natural Resources and Parks Committee last month:
"I read the bios of the members of the Committee, and none has any experience with or knowledge of commercial fisheries, so I adjusted my arguments accordingly. I bet they all eat in restaurants, and might like a nice salmon dinner now and then. And maybe, just maybe, they might care more about the redirecting of Washington's share of an important public resource to Oregon than the Fish & Wildlife Commission. And maybe they might expect the public's business to be done in public, and conflict of interest laws to be obeyed. It was worth a try."
Dear Senate Natural Resource & Parks Committee Members:
salmon For All is a nonprofit trade association of Columbia River commercial fishermen and processors, representing the Columbia River non-Indian gillnet fishery. Our member processors are residents of both Washington and Oregon. Our member fishermen and processors in both states have been severely affected by a radical reallocation plan undertaken by the Fish & Wildlife Commissions of both states at the behest of Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber. The resulting fishery "reform" will dramatically redirect the percentage of the Columbia River's public fishery resource available to consumers away from the public to the small percentage of the population who participate in the Columbia River recreational salmon fisheries. No longer will the finest varieties and grades of Columbia River salmon be made available for sale in the fine restaurants of Seattle and Olympia, or Portland and Salem, for that matter. It is patently unfair to the majority of those of us who as taxpayers and ratepayers pay for fish production costs to be denied a fair share of these beautiful fish.
Not only is the decision by the Washington Commission contrary to the interests of Washington commercial fishermen and consumers, by redirecting the Columbia River gillnet fishery into "off-channel enhanced fisheries," most of which are in Oregon, the reallocation plan effectively transfers Washington's share of the Columbia River fishery resource to Oregon.
I write to you today on a matter of importance and urgency. Coming before your committee for Senate confirmation are four members of the sitting Washington Fish & Wildlife Commission who are now eligible for reappointment, none of whom has ever been confirmed previously by the Senate. The four are Commissioners Conrad Mahnken, Larry Carpenter, David Jennings, and Jay Kehne. I write with particular concerns about Commissioners Mahnken and Carpenter.
Washington law with respect to appointments to the Fish & Wildlife Commission is codified in RCW 77.04.040, which states "…In making these appointments, the governor shall seek to maintain a balance reflecting all aspects of fish and wildlife, including representation recommended by organized groups representing sport fishers, commercial fishers, hunters, private landowners, and environmentalists." At present, the Washington Fish & Wildlife Commission has several members strongly supported by recreational interests, but none supported by commercial fishing interests. The resulting imbalance in representation on the Commission has coincided with massive allocation transfers of the public's fishery resource from commercial fisheries, acting as the surrogates for the fish-consuming public, to recreational fisheries – in effect, privatizing the resource. These transfers have included 800,000 lbs. of Puget Sound crab from the commercial fishery to the sport fishery, the elimination of the Puget Sound commercial spot prawn fishery, and the radical reallocation of the Columbia River salmon fishery resource from the commercial to the sport fishery.
I personally have had a chance to witness the performance of Commissioners Mahnken and Carpenter during this process. Neither seems capable of, or inclined to, fair and objective decision-making when it comes to the interests of commercial fishing communities. Neither shares any sympathy for the public's access to its public fishery resource.
Commissioner Mahnken was a Washington member of the Columbia River Fish Working Group in 2008, which ruled upon allocation issues for Columbia River spring and summer Chinook for the 2009-2012 fishing seasons. After three long days of public testimony and discussions of fishery access matters spread out over a three month period, the three members of the Washington Commission and three members of the Oregon Commission retired behind closed doors, only to emerge over an hour later with a set of recommendations to their respective full Commissions that bore no resemblance to anything discussed in public. A dissenting member of the Oregon delegation described it as carefully prepared coup carried out with premeditated intent by the members of the Washington Commission. The public's business most definitely was not conducted in public on this occasion.
More recently, the Columbia River Fishery Management Workgroup, similarly comprising three Commissioners from each state's Fish & Wildlife Commission, met three times in the waning months of 2012 to discuss Governor Kitzhaber's policy directive to establish a sport priority over Columbia River mainstem fisheries, in so doing, creating a management construct which treats Columbia River salmon as a game fish, in apparent violation of the food fish statutes of both states. Commissioners Mahnken and Carpenter were two of the three Washington Commissioners appointed to the workgroup. Their actions, statements, and policy decisions were openly prejudicial to any commercial fishing interests, and consequently to the public at large.
Commissioner Carpenter, as the owner of a large Skagit County sport fishing boat dealership, has had a material interest in recreational allocation issues facing Puget Sound fisheries. At minimum, he has had an ethical obligation to declare a conflict of interest in these matters when they come before the Washington Commission. It is my understanding that he has failed to do so, which is a clear indication he is unfit for confirmation.
I strongly urge you to reject both of these candidates. Not only are they undeserving of Senate confirmation, their prejudicial records dictate their removal from the Commission.
Hobe Kytr
salmon For All
Astoria, OR


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CHICAGO (STMW) –Two people were killed and 12 people were injured during shootings across the city since Friday afternoon.
A 17-year-old boy was shot and killed early Sunday in the Albany Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side, police said.
The teenager was standing on the sidewalk about 1:20 a.m. in the 3700 block of West Lawrence Avenue when two male offenders approached and fired shots, police said.
The boy was shot in the upper back and was unresponsive at the scene, police said. Police believe the attack was gang-related.
Saturday evening, a 39-year-old man was killed while standing on an Auburn Gresham neighborhood sidewalk.
Fredrick Ollie, of the 8900 block of South Union Avenue, was fatally shot about 6:20 p.m. in the 600 block of West 89th Street, according to police and the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
He was shot in the back of the head after a group of males approached him and one of the males pulled out a gun and opened fire, police said.
Ollie was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was pronounced dead at 7:11 p.m.,according to the medical examiner's office.
The most recent non-fatal shooting occurred during a robbery shortly after midnight Sunday in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
Three suspects approached a 33-year-old man on the sidewalk in the 5500 block of West Huron Street about 12:05 a.m. and robbed him of an unknown amount in money, police said. One of the suspects then took out a handgun and shot him in the mouth.
The man's brother took him to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, where he was listed in "stable" condition, police said. The injured man was later transferred to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County.
Saturday evening in the Morgan Park neighborhood on the Far South Side, a 24-year-old man refused medical treatment after he was grazed by a bullet in the right forearm, police said. The shooting happened about 11:30 p.m. in the 11500 block of South Racine Avenue, police said.
About 90 minutes earlier, a 15-year-old boy was shot during a gang-related dispute in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side, police said.
The teenager was walking in an alley in the 3200 block of West Wabansia Avenue about 10:05 p.m. when several males approached, shouted gang slogans and fired shots, police said. The boy was shot in the left leg and taken in "stable" condition to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County.
Earlier that night in the South Side Woodlawn neighborhood, a 23-year-old man was shot in the head in the 800 block of East 63rd Street about 6:20 p.m., police said. He was taken in good condition to University of Chicago Medical Center.
Roughly two hours earlier and about a mile away on the South Side, a 20-year-old man was critically wounded when he was shot once in each leg in the 6100 block of South Kimbark Avenue about 4:18 p.m., police said. He was taken in critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Outside the Altgeld Gardens housing project on the Far South Side, a 19-year-old man was shot in the leg Saturday about 7:15 p.m. near 131st Street and Langley Avenue, police said. The man was listed in good condition.
In the Park Manor neighborhood on the South Side, a 34-year-old man was shot in the backside about 9:30 p.m. while standing in the 400 block of East 73rd Street, police said. The man was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County in "stable" condition.
Early Saturday in Little Village, an 18-year-old woman was shot in the leg about 3:50 a.m. in the 1700 block of West 21st Place, police said. She was taken in good condition to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County.
Less than one hour prior on the Northwest Side, a 17-year-old boy was critically wounded during a shooting in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood that also injured his 53-year-old relative, who was struck by a stray bullet.
The teenager was outside in the 2100 block of North Mulligan Avenue about 3:10 a.m. when a suspect approached and started shooting, police said.
The teen ran into the backyard of a home, but the shooter chased him and shot him in the back, police said. The boy ran into the house where he collapsed, police said. During the chase, a bullet went through the window and hit an older man inside, who is related to the teen, police said. The older man was shot in the leg and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition.
Late Friday a 16-year-old boy was injured during a gang-related shooting in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side, police said.
The shooter fired at the boy after an exchange of words about gang affiliation in the 6600 block of South Bell Avenue about 9:15 p.m., police said. The teen, who was shot in the backside, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was listed in "stable" condition.
A 16-year-old boy was arrested and charged for that shooting, police said. He fled the scene of the shooting, but was arrested about 9:53 p.m. in the 6700 block of South Damen Avenue, a Chicago Lawn District police officer said.
The wounded teenager identified the boy who shot him. He now faces felony charges of aggravated battery with a firearm, police said.
On the North Side, a 17-year-old boy was shot in the knee while riding a bike in the Uptown neighborhood Friday evening.
The teen was riding the bike east in the 1100 block of West Wilson Avenue when a shooter got out of a car and opened fire about 7:15 p.m., police said. He was taken in good condition to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2013. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)


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But, I can not find SDK used in Visual Studio 2005 to build binaries -- only for ARM4 series.
So, I am wondering the two questions,
1. whether there are any SDK for Visual Studio 2005 to make build for ARM 5 platform?
2. whether ARM 4 is 100% compatible with ARM 5 (if it is, I could use existing Windows Mobile 2005 SDK's ARM 4 toolchain to make the build and run on ARM 5).
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Sixteen years after the introduction of Groovy Girls, visitors to The Manhattan Toy Company's booth at the American International Toy Fair can be the first to see three new Groovy Girls Special Edition Sweet 16 Dolls: Skylar, Fuchsia, and Lilia. These limited edition dolls are each dressed in bright fashions and sport colored hair to match their names; for example, there's sky blue hair for Skylar and raspberry pink locks for Fuchsia.
There will also be new B-Line "Core" Dolls consisting of four dolls that start with the letter "B": Brooklyn, Bailey, Bayani, and Breanna. These poseable dolls arrive with distinctive outfits, hairstyles, and grins.
Other additions for next spring include Princess Ella, who has golden blonde hair topped by a jeweled tiara that makes her look taller than her 13 inches; the Royalty Ritzy Bed, which has a quilt with satin lining, tulle trim, and a satin pillow with tassels; and the Totally Tentastic tent with zippered mesh door, nylon flaps, and dimensions that fit up to three dolls. All products are suitable for kids ages 3 and up.


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WRESTLING: Terryville gives strong showing at Class S Championships
HIGGANUM >> State wrestling power Windham, which moved from Class M to Class S this year, clinched its third state championship this century Saturday afternoon before the finals even began.
Seven of eight Windham semifinalists won their matches early Saturday afternoon, moving into the evening finals at Haddam-Killingworth High School.
At that point, the Whippets had a commanding 208.5-135.5 lead over Haddam-Killingworth, with Terryvillle (127), Oxford (127), Montville (122.5), Derby (120) and Nonnewaug (118) all vying for second place moving into the final rounds.
"I had mixed emotions about coming down to Class S," said veteran Windham coach Pat Risley, whose teams won Class M Championships in 2004 and 2006 and finished second five more times.
"We've been comfortable battling with the M's," Risley said. "I thought we could have competed and possibly won Class M this year."
The rest of the S schools had to deal with the new power.
"Windham is the class," said Nonnewaug coach Dave Green, whose Chiefs have long ranked high in Class S. "Now, it's just getting the kids to do what you want them to."
Windham's arrival was especially unfortunate for Berkshire League champion Terryville. The Kangaroos wear gthe BL crown for the first time in 24 years. The strong team had high hopes for a Class S crown as well.
"We're in the hunt for second place," said Coach Peter Veleas. "We have two finalists and five places (top six). We were hoping for eight."
The Berfkshire Leage had five finalists altogether - Elliott Wilion (120 pounds) and Avery Ellegard (138) from Terryville; Kieran Duggan (113) and John D'Agostino (160) from Nonnewaug; and Rigon Gilani (152) from Thomaston.
Haddam Killingworth won the fight for second place. Terryville and Oxford tied for third; Montiville, fifth; Derby sixth and Nonnewaug seventh.
Individual state champions were Khamri Thomas, Windsor Locks, 160 pounds; Devyn Petsa, Windham, 170; Spencer Hill, Windham, 182; Kyle Foster, Somers, 195; Nick Poulin, Windham, 220; Wolfgang Fiasconaro, Windham, 285; Sebby Ruffino, Windham, 106; Mike Ruffino, Windham, 113; Elliott Wilion, Terryville, 120; Mason Rambarose, Portland, 126; Jake Caskey, Montville, 132; David Colvin, Old Saybrook, 138; Josh Fontanez, Portland, 145; Streve Perrson, Oxford, 152.


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Your power platform
To get the most from your driver, you need to be in the best possible position at address. Get the set up right and you'll be able to make a powerful, balanced swing that delivers consistently long, straight drives.
Shoulder angle
The ideal ball position with a driver is forward in your stance, just inside your left heel. This will create a small amount of shoulder tilt - your left will be higher than your right. This will help you strike the ball slightly on the upswing optimising your ball flight for maximum distance.
Posture and alignment
Now concentrate on two of golf's most important fundamentals - posture and alignment. Take care to line the clubface up with your target first. Once you have done that, set your stance - your feet, hips and shoulders should all be parallel to your ball to target line. One common mistake is to aim your feet at the target but this simple error will lead to a closed stance.
For an athletic posture, set your upper body in position by bending from the hips, keeping your back straight. Letting your back hunch over will affect both the swing path and the quality of your ball striking. Allow for some flex in your knees and set a little more weight on your left side. In the ideal position you should feel both balanced and athletic.
You should now be in the perfect position to hit a powerful, accurate drive. Any small mistakes here can have a big impact on the shots you hit. For more advice don't hesitate to come into the pro shop and book a lesson.
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University of Hawaiʻii Regent Chuck Yim Gee has been named to the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Gallery of Legends for his lifetime achievement in establishing an important human legacy for the worldwide travel industry through education, training, and research. PATA bestowed this extraordinary honor on Gee at its 63rd Annual General Assembly in Zhuhai, China on May 18, 2014.
In its announcement, PATA noted, "The Gallery of Legends honour is not awarded every year and, as a rule, not conferred on a living person. Dr. Gee will be joining other pioneers and visionaries who have helped to define and shape the development and growth of travel and tourism in the AP region in their respective fields—airlines, hotels, architecture, culture and environment, aircraft design, literature, theme parks, as well as human resource development.
"As a pioneer in tourism education, Dr. Gee will be joining such prominent names as Juan Trippe, founder of Pan Am; Thomas Cook, travel pioneer; Conrad Hilton, hotel entrepreneur; Sir Edmund Hilliary, environmentalist; James Michener, novelist; Joseph Sutter, father of the 747 series of aircrafts; Walt Disney, 'imagineer;' and others whose name plaques are mounted on the PATA Gallery of Legends exhibit located in the central breezeway of the Honolulu International Airport."
Gee served as dean of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Travel Industry Management from 1976 until his retirement in 1999. Gee has received numerous awards, including the Award of Excellence for Tourism Education from the National Tourism Administration of the People's Republic of China, Pacific Asia Travel Association's Presidential Award and Grand Award for Individual Educational Accomplishment, Academy of Tourism Organizations' NOAH Award and Travel Industry Association's America Hall of Leaders Award. The State of Hawaiʻi honored him as State Manager of the Year in 1995 and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin in 1999 named him one of the 100 people who made a difference for the State of Hawaiʻi during the 20th Century. In 2011, Taiwan President Ma Ying-Jeou presented Gee with the Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes outstanding professionals' contributions to Taiwan's tourism industry. He joined the University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents in 2009.
UH Board of Regents Chair John Holzman said, "What a pleasure it is to see Chuck named to the PATA Gallery of Legends. Chuck just keeps bringing honor to our community as a UH leader, donor, regent, and now as a pillar of his profession and our most important industry. His induction into the PATA Gallery of Legends is testimony to the wisdom he has accumulated and shared during a life of extraordinary service and achievement."
Interim President David Lassner said, "It's an incredible source of pride when a member of the UH community is honored at the very pinnacle of his profession. We couldn't be prouder of Chuck being recognized as a Legend alongside other absolute giants of tourism."
PATA, whose birthplace was in Hawaiʻi in 1951, serves as the leading voice and authority of travel and tourism in the Asia Pacific region. PATA has 41 chapters and thousands of members around the world. Its membership includes 90 government, state and city tourism bodies, nearly 50 international airlines, airports and cruise lines, as well as hundreds of private sector corporations. PATA's mission is to enhance the sustainable growth, value and quality of travel and tourism to-from-within the region.


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Waldner (Waltner) family
A Hutterite family name, Waldner was originally found in the area of Aemlach, Carinthia, Austria. Jörg Waldner was one of the Lutheran Carinthian exiles who were expelled to Hungary in 1755 because they refused to accept Catholicism. He was sent to Transylvania, and there became part of the Hutterian Brethren at Alwinz. His son Johannes Waldner, a preacher, was the chronicler of the Klein-Geschichtsbuch. He died in Russia on 14 December 1824. During this time the Hutterites abandoned their practice of community of goods. Michael Waldner, also a preacher, reinstituted community of goods in 1859, and joined the immigration to the United States in 1874, where the first North American Bruderhof was established at Bon Homme, 20 miles west of Yankton, SD. The name is now found in many Hutterite communities in the United States and Canada. In 1959 there were 34 Hutterite ministers with this name. The name (Waltner) as found in the General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM) is of Hutterite origin. Erland Waltner was the president of the Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, IN, and Lena Waltner was an art instructor at Bethel College. Harris Waltner and James Waltner were both GCM pastors in Kansas.
Zieglschmid, A. J. F. Das Klein-Geschichtsbuch der Hutterischen Brüder.Philadelphia, 1947: 269.
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LeBron eyes Game 2 adjustments
AP Basketball Writer
MIAMI — If LeBron James played for the San Antonio Spurs, Gregg Popovich might have a message for him.
It's the same one he's occasionally delivered to Tim Duncan.
Selfless play is great. Moving the ball to open teammates is usually the right idea. That belief has carried the Spurs to four NBA titles.
Sometimes, though, it's best if the superstar takes on more himself.
"I've talked to players before about being more aggressive," Popovich said Friday, after the Spurs practiced following their 92-88 victory over the Miami Heat in Game 1.
"Opportunities might be there that they didn't take advantage of. That happens with Timmy now and then. He's so unselfish, if he shoots three jumpers in a row, he feels like he shouldn't shoot more sometimes, because he wants the ball to move and he wants to involve everybody. I think unselfish players think like that. Once in a while I've got to tell him, no, I don't care if you get 20 of those shots, you have to take them."
Maybe James will in Game 2.
"We'll see what type of game plan I come out with on Sunday," he said. "It will be dumb of me to reveal it today."
James had 18 points, 18 rebounds and 10 assists in Game 1, but, as can be the case with the game's greatest talent, there was a feeling he could have done more. And the Heat needed it.
About the time the game was slipping away from the Heat midway through the fourth quarter, the league MVP had attempted fewer shots than Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, and only three more than Mario Chalmers. Bosh took more shots in the final period (5) than James (4).
The more they missed — as Wade and Bosh did six times in seven attempts over the final 12 minutes — the louder the cries for James to stop giving them the ball and keep it for himself.
Yet that just doesn't seem natural for him.
"I've got this far with them, I'm not going to just abandon what I've been doing all year to help us get to this point," James said. "So I know those guys will be ready to shoot again once they're open."
The Spurs appeared to retain at least part of the schemes they used against James in 2007, when they swept his Cleveland Cavaliers for their most recent title. A help defender was ready to slide over and make James give up the ball or shoot a jumper if he had beaten his man, rather than have a lane to the basket.
"We obviously understand that he's extended his range and he's a much different player than he was then. We're trying to make it as difficult as possible," Duncan said.
"We're not going to hold him to 18 every game. Every game we know he's going to come out real aggressive, especially this coming game, and be aggressive to score, but we're going to try to make it as difficult as possible, show as many bodies as possible and make his plays so he doesn't rack up on the ones going right to the basket and try to get the easy stuff."
Some of the few easy looks the Heat got in their seven-game series against Indiana in the Eastern Conference finals came when James went into the post. But even if he does that now, the strategy only pays off if his shooters make open looks when he's double-teamed.
So it will be up to James to determine what he thinks will work.
"He'll do whatever it takes," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "He's as cerebral a player as there is in this league. He'll read the game as necessary. I wouldn't bet against our open shooters. So we just need to make sure we're getting the shots that we want to."
It's hard to imagine that includes four 3-point attempts from the 6-foot-11 Bosh — the same amount taken by Ray Allen, the NBA's career leader in 3-pointers made. Bosh missed all of them, but the Heat wouldn't second-guess the shot selection or criticize their slumping All-Star forward.
"We just want Chris to mix it up," Wade said. "Chris is one of the best shooters, especially big-man shooters in this game. He hasn't found the fine line of mixing it up, and that's now always easy because of the dynamic of how many players we have on the court that's live at all times."
The Heat aren't in bad shape, having won both the 2006 and '12 championships after losing Game 1. But the difficult series against the Pacers took a toll, with both James and Wade saying the team looked fatigued in the fourth quarter Thursday and James even having to ask for a break at the beginning of the period.
A lengthy rest seemed to pay off for the Spurs, fresher at the finish after having nine days off following the West finals sweep of Memphis. They committed only four turnovers in the game — fewer than the Heat had in the fourth quarter.
Plus, San Antonio seems to have an understanding of how to play James, though the Spurs don't make it sound like a complex one.
"It's basketball. There's nothing tricky really about basketball. There are only so many things you can do," Popovich said. "So we try to do a little bit of everything. Sometimes it means getting up into him. Sometimes it means backing off. Sometimes it means fronting him. Sometimes it means playing behind. It's just important to show a little bit of variety so somebody doesn't get used to one thing."
Now it's up to James to figure out how to deal with all that.
"I don't really predetermine what I'm going to do," he said. "I kind of let the game flow for itself. We'll see what happens."


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Holy Cross Hospital Cafeteria Banana Nut Bread
This is a wonderfully dark, rich and dense quick bread with just a hint of cinnamon.
* 1 1 / 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 teaspoon baking powder
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
* Large pinch salt
* 1 cup firm-packed light brown sugar
* 3 medium eggs
* 1 / 4 cup vegetable oil (we used canola)
* 3 large ripe bananas, peeled and well mashed (1 1 / 2 cups mashed)
* 1 / 2 cup chopped nuts (we like
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease well a 9-by-5-by-3-inch loaf pan. Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Transfer to a piece of wax paper.
In the same bowl, beat the sugar, eggs and vegetable oil with an electric mixer on medium speed about
3 minutes.
Add the dry ingredients alternately with the mashed bananas beginning and ending with the dry ingredients. Stir in the nuts.
Transfer the batter to the prepared pan and bake in the center of the oven 55 to 60 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.
Let cool in the pan about 5 minutes, then transfer the bread to a wire rack to cool completely before slicing. For even easier slicing, wrap and refrigerate the bread several hours or overnight. Makes 18 slices.
Per slice: 157 calories, 34 percent calories from fat, 6 grams total fat, .6 gram saturated fat, 31 milligrams cholesterol, 24 grams carbohydrates, 1 gram total fiber, 15 grams total sugars, 23 grams net carbs, 3 grams protein, 130 milligrams sodium.


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It's time once again to purchase your season tickets for the 2012 Central Connecticut football season, which begins at Arute Field on Saturday, September 8 vs. Lehigh. The seating capacity of Arute Field was expanded by 2,500, with the addition of the new East Side Bleachers.
The Blue Devils will host five home games this fall, in the quest for their third Northeast Conference Championship in the last four seasons. Head coach Jeff McInerney will open the season on the road on September 1 at Stony Brook, before returning home to host Lehigh on September 8.
Current season ticket holders have been mailed a 2012 brochure which you can fill out and send back to the ticket office.
Packages start as low as $25, and you can secure a chairback seat for all five home games for just $45. Order now!


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Program Type: Discretionary/Competitive Grants
Children with disabilities are now included in state academic assessments under the No Child Left Behind Act, as well as other state and local assessment systems that are used for accountability purposes. This program addresses questions related to how assessments, measures of progress, assessment standards, and accountability provisions should be designed to capture and represent growth in high priority skills among children with disabilities. The overall goal of this program is the design and implementation of assessment systems that are valid and that provide information that can be used to promote the highest levels of achievement for all children.
(This program was run under CFDA Number 84.324A in 2006)


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In this alternative to the traditional book report, students report on their novel choices using Facebook-like pages.
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Using Animoto, a free Web 2.0 tool, students can develop short digital videos that include music, photos, video clips, and text as well as share their creations electronically.
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Students "step into the shoes" of their favorite author by reading several of their books, conducting research, and preparing displays and presentations for the class.
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Children's publisher John Newbery was born in 1713.
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Defense Mechanisms I: Splitting
Although this post will look at splitting as one of the defense mechanisms, I'd like to begin by noting that splitting also represents a normal and constructive part of our mental processes. We couldn't think or process our experience without it. To understand the useful functions that splitting serves, we need to go through the same kind of imaginative exercise I presented in my recent post on post-traumatic stress disorder — that is, to try to envision the emotional life of an infant.
For centuries, philosophers and scientists have debated whether human beings enter the world with some kind of a priori knowledge, but for this exercise, let's just imagine a clean slate. Nearly everything the newborn experiences is thus brand new and unfamiliar; a central need is to make sense of it all, to attempt to understand the environment and its powerful effects. From the beginning, maybe even in utero, the infant divides its experiences into those that feel "good" or gratifying vs. those that cause pain and/or frustration and feel "bad". Good vs. bad (though not in a moral sense) is therefore the first organizing principle. It depends upon the infant splitting the confusing mass of its experience into good and bad, dividing it up so that it becomes more understandable and predictable.
The accumulation of "good" experiences, linked to repeated sensory gratification, eventually gives rise to the idea of "mother"; the bad ones (a bit later) give rise to the idea of her absence or failure to appear. An important developmental milestone occurs when the infant can understand (on a very primitive level) that the "good" experiences largely occur when this mother-entity appears and tends to it, and the bad ones (hunger, cold, etc.) tend to occur when she is absent. At this point, the infant becomes aware that other people exist, and if you're a parent, you know that there's a noticeable difference when this occurs. (I'm not going to talk about the good mother/bad mother issue just now; I'll save that topic for another post.)
Splitting as a mental process thus enables us to makes distinctions. Throughout life, splitting serves this exact function: it allows us to take an undifferentiated, confusing mass of experience or information and divide it into categories that have meaning. Without splitting, nothing would make sense to us. We wouldn't be able to understand because we couldn't divide the mass of sensory input into meaningful categories. Projection likewise has valuable and normal functions, as do other so-called defense mechanisms.
Splitting can also serve the exact opposite function: that is, it can remove meaning by separating parts of a whole that actually belong together. This is where it becomes a defense mechanism and is used to ward off unbearable feelings and emotions. Although they're not actually separate experiences, as I'll discuss below, it's useful to think about splitting either (1) the self or (2) the other person.
So far, this has been fairly abstract and I think it's time for an example. Let's say that I have a hard time bearing my anger and aggressive feelings; maybe they were unacceptable in my family of origin and I was expected to be "nice". In truth, I'm a nice and also a not-so-nice person, with a mixture of loving and hating impulses; when the anger and hatred can't be tolerated, however, I will split them off: The loving and socially acceptable feelings — those are ME — and the hostile aggressive ones are NOT ME. Thus I have split myself (more accurately, my awareness of myself) into parts and disowned one of them, which almost always goes hand-in-hand with projecting it outside. (For a more in-depth discussion of the disowned "shadow" self, see Marla Estes' post on the film 'Wolf' starring Jack Nicholson, or mine on 'Black Swan', both available on 'Movies and Mental Health'.)
When we split off a part of our experience and project it outside, the disowned aspect of ourselves often leads to a distorted perception of reality, in particular the misperception of other people. Nearly everyone understands this phenomenon: it's what we mean when we say, "Oh, stop it, you're just projecting." Splitting also enfeebles the self. As Marla Estes and I both point out in the above posts, aggression is a powerful and often useful force; ridding ourselves of it (our awareness of it) makes us weaker even if by doing so, we avoid some of the conflicts that come up when we feel aggressive.
We may also split the other person, which sounds strange; what actually occurs is that we split our perceptions of that other person. Again, it's our own self that we split. It's easiest to see this process at work in idealization, especially when it occurs in romantic love. We've all known someone who has fallen in love and we wonder, "What does she see in him?" Or, "Is he blind?" The person in love, often craving the drug-like feelings associated with infatuation, may want to avoid any inconvenient personality traits in the loved one that might deflate the feelings of love. So the awareness of faults and flaws is split off; it often winds up in (is projected into) friends or family members, who then have to carry all the doubts. The infatuated person may then avoid or even turn against those people so he or she won't have to confront the split-off perceptions.
Excessive or overly rigid splitting may lead to black-and-white thinking. When splitting and projection are extreme and predominate, it makes people's personalities, along with their perceptions of other individuals, highly unstable. One minute, they may love and revere you, the next, turn on you with vicious anger. Grandiose feelings of self-importance may suddenly give way to self-loathing. These are the hallmarks of individuals who suffer from borderline personality disorder. The attempt to split off and discard the damaged self lies at the heart of the bipolar disorders and also concerns highly competitive people who are preoccupied with winners and losers. To some degree, splitting (and its companion defense, projection) plays a role in most psychological disorders.
Finding Your Own Way:
Can you think of ways in which you resort to defensive splitting? As I discussed in my piece about how to tell if you're projecting, it's extremely difficult to identify our defenses at work. On the other hand, because of our innate tendency toward integration, the splitting-and-projection always threatens to come undone; keeping the split in place therefore involves some extra mental effort and that's where where you can spot splitting at work. Justifying certain opinions or actions to yourself, arguing with other people in your thoughts, or dwelling on a particular point when there's no obvious reason to do so — these are all examples of ways we exert effort to preserve a split.
A dear friend of mine who "came out" in his mid-20s used to tell himself over and over again during his teen years, "Boy, am I glad I'm not gay. That's the last thing that'll ever happen to me!" He obviously understood on some level that he was homosexual but split off that awareness and kept it "outside" of himself with such repetitive thoughts.
Here's a way I notice it in myself: I'll be carrying on an internal argument with someone who (in my distorted fantasy) believes I made a mistake or misbehaved. That other person holds my own split-off perception of error so that I don't have to experience my guilt or shame. Maybe you do something similar. Or maybe you tend to become critical, overly so, around certain issues. Take a look at those issues and see if they resonate with something inside you'd rather not recognize.
People who have disowned their anger and aggression often make a display of their nice-ness. Such people can sometimes be irritating to be around; they actually make me feel hostile, which is how I know they've split off their own hostility and placed it outside. Does that describe anyone you know?


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EMMITSBURG, MD – The sixth-ranked Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse team had 11 different players score goals and 13 players had at least one point as the Blue Jays topped host Mount St. Mary's, 17-2, at Waldron Family Stadium Monday afternoon. Johns Hopkins moves to 8-3 on the year with its third straight win, while the Mountaineers slip to 0-14.
Playing less than 48 hours after an emotional 11-6 win over rival Maryland, the Blue Jays led just 2-0 at the end of the first quarter as the Mount stayed in a tightly packed zone defense. Back-to-back goals in the first three minutes of the second quarter doubled the lead as junior Wells Stanwick found seniors Brandon Benn and Kevin Interlicchio alone on the crease in a 48-second span to push the lead to 4-0.
Johns Hopkins controlled a majority of the possession in the first half by winning 8-of-10 faceoffs and slowly began to find seams in the Mount zone. Benn added his second of the first half on a quick-stick from the doorstep less than four minutes after Interlicchio's goal and freshman John Crawley had a hand in two straight late in the period, scoring an unassisted goal on a wing dodge and then getting the helper on Benn's third with 1:02 left. A transition goal by freshmanNick Fields off the ensuing faceoff accounted for an 8-0 Blue Jay lead at the half.
The lead swelled to 12-0 by late in the third quarter as freshman Cody Radziewicz, junior Brady Faby, Interlicchio andHolden Cattoni all scored in a span of less than eight minutes to build the 12-goal lead.
The Mountaineers finally broke through in the final seconds of the third quarter as Bubba Johnson beat Blue Jay goalie Eric Schneider with a low shot off an assist from Kyle McDonough and the Mount made it two straight at the 10:29 mark of the fourth quarter when Clayton Wainer scored from the wing.
Both teams substituted liberally in the fourth quarter with Johns Hopkins freshman attackman Jack Grass doing most of the damage with three goals and one assist in the final nine minutes of the game. Sophomore Liam Giblin and senior Greg Edmonds also scored in the final quarter for the Blue Jays, who played a total of 45 players in the game.
Johns Hopkins held decided advantages in shots (57-14), ground balls (47-19) and faceoffs (18-5) and matched a season high with 12 caused turnovers. Mount St. Mary's goalie Chris Klaiber played well in goal for the Mount as his 19 saves were just one shy of his career high.
Stanwick paced the Blue Jays with a career-high-tying six assists, while Benn and Grass both added hat tricks. Four Blue Jay goalies combined for six saves with Schneider playing 45 minutes and stopping three shots.
Johns Hopkins will return to action on Friday, April 18 when the Blue Jays hit the road again at Navy. Faceoff is set for 7 pm.
Notes: Johns Hopkins has not allowed a first-quarter goal in the last three games • Stanwick's six assists give him 36 on the year, the ninth-highest single-season total in school history and the most by a Johns Hopkins player since Dan Denihan had 40 in 2000 • JHU is now 65-8 under head coach Dave Pietramala against teams from the state of Maryland.
#6 Johns Hopkins (8-3) 2-6-4-5/17
Mount St. Mary's (0-14) 0-0-1-1/2
Goals: J: Grass-3, Benn-3, Cattoni-2, Interlicchio-2, Crawley, Guida, Giblin, Radziewicz, Faby, Fields, Edmonds. M: Johnson, Wainer. Assists: J: Stanwick-6, Crawley-2, Dismuke, Grass, Guida. M: McDonough. Saves: J: Schneider-3, Ryan-2, Feit-1, Fitts-0. M: Klaiber-19. Shots: J-57, M-14. EMO: J: 3-for-4. M: 0-for-1. Attendance: 468.


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News & Notes: Game 129
Buffalo Bisons
70-58, 2nd(-6.5)
LHP Michael Antonini 1-1, 4.50
Pawtucket Red Sox
56-74, 4th(-21.5)
RHP Adam Mills (2-9, 5.31)
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Coca-Cola Field – Buffalo, NY
Radio: WWKB AM 1520, bisons.com
TODAY'S GAME: Tonight, the Bisons host the Pawtucket Red Sox in the fifth game of a six-game in five-day series at Coca-Cola Field (7:05 p.m.). The Herd evened the series at 2-2 with a 12-4 victory last night. The Bisons are now 41-24 (.631) at home and 37-27 (.578) against IL North opponents. After this series the Herd starts a five-game roadtrip on Thursday in Syracuse.
WILD RACE: With last night's win, the Bisons kept pace with the Clippers in the IL Wild Card race. Buffalo is two games behind Columbus, as the Clippers beat Toledo on Monday, 4-3. Louisville also won last night, to stay a half game up on Columbus in the IL West division race.
vs. PAWSOX: The Bisons are 8-6 against Pawtucket this season. With last night's win, the Herd is now 8-3 in its last 11 home games against the PawSox. The Bisons are hitting .300 with 72 runs scored (5.1/game) against Pawtucket this season, led by INF RUSS ADAMS (.440, 11-25, 2HR, 8RBI), OF LUCAS DUDA (.367, 11-30, 2HR, 8RBI) and INF MIKE CERVENAK (.340, 17-50, 1HR, 5RBI).
HOT HITTER: INF RUSS ADAMS hit two home runs last night for the second time this season. Adams also went deep twice on June 28 in Charlotte. In 12 games since August 2, he has 12 extra-base hits and a 1.108 slugging percentage. His 26 doubles and 41 extra-base hits for the season lead all Bisons.
WELL CERVED: INF MIKE CERVENAK had two doubles and three runs scored in last night's contest. The veteran is hitting .333 (20-60) in August, with six doubles, two home runs, nine RBI and 13 runs scored in 17 games. Cervenak leads all Bisons players with 95 games played and is second with 24 doubles.
MY HOUSE: C J.R. HOUSE is the seventh Bisons player to reach 10 games with a hit streak this season. House enters tonight's game with a .333 (13-39) average, two home runs and nine RBI in his 10-game stretch. House has also driven in a run in each of his last five games.
DOMINATING: LHP MIKE O'CONNOR has been spectacular of late. The reliever has tossed 13.0 consecutive innings of scoreless relief for the Herd over his last six-plus outings. The southpaw has 61 strikeouts in 61.0 innings this season and 15 punchouts in his last 8.2 innings of work.
METS UPDATE: The Mets (62-62) begin a six-game homestand tonight with the first game of a three-game series against the Florida Marlins (7:10 p.m.). Tonight's game features a great pitching match-up as former Bisons RHP R.A. DICKEY (8-5) is slated to go against the Fish's RHP Josh Johnson (11-5).
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